The four of them eyed me carefully as I stood there in my own little world thinking about them. The blistering hot sun shinned above as they stared at me and as I was in la la land. Was this a dream? I reached over to my arm and pinched it then looked back at the fictional characters who stood still watching my act of dumb truth. Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, Son Goku, and Genjyo Sanzo... the Sanzo party... they were staring at me... not on a t.v screen or manga book... 'Okay... don't be alarmed Ashurri... your just losing your mind and getting a one way ticket to a crazy hospital' I thought. With this new theory I wondered if I could make friends at the crazy hospital scince I didn't make friends at my school. Gah! This was funny and creepy at the same time, like watching my grandmother feed her cat leftover food that we had. I then felt getting light headed and then all I could remember was seeing four shocked faces staring at me... 'So I have to some how convince the grumpy stubborn Sanzo to let me join them'? I thought. I sighed at finding out that I had a better chance getting picked up by a giant mutant bird than getting with this crew. 'You should have kept the note, look for it' Said the voice from before. I then looked around with my eyes wide and kneeled down before digging in the sand and finding the white note folded again. I looked at the note and then back at Sanzo who narrowed his eyes as me. The note had changed the words were now different. It now was a note to the me and I read it silently ignoring the strange looks from the four. 'More about you... that locket in your backpack shall tell you more about your past just to warn you... ask Sanzo if you can come with him and if he declines then you shall see what will happen' I read the note over and over in my mind... I put the note in my pocket and then silently walked toward the jeep.
"So your Genjyo Sanzo"? I asked.
His eyes stared at me without any care about who I was or what I had to say, I knew this wasn't going to be easy. "I wanna join you all on your journey... please" I said with a begging tone. Why was I begging you ask? Well one, I was in a damn desert and two I had no freakin' idea how I was going to get back home without playing along. Hakkai, Goku, and Gojyo glanced at me and then their heads turned to look at Sanzo.
"No" he said bluntly.
I stared at him silently with a determined look, "Why not, I mean... you need all the help you can get"! "Its a freakin' big ass demon guy" I said.
The wind blew roughly and whipped my hair in my face while I stood still staring at the violet eyed monk with no intention of giving up. If it didn't work then the merciful goddess would come I mean... she said she would... The three watched their blonde violet eyed friend as he stared at me with a straight face.
"I said no, now move".
I was going to retort and ask him again but then I saw the four of them suddenly get out of the jeep and at the same exact time I felt a strange feeling wash over me. It was kind of like those times in the scary movies when you feel like your being watched or like in a action movie when a fight was going to break out. I looked at the sand a few feet away and saw the sand start to pull down farther into the ground almost like something was sucking it away like a drain. I glanced to the four, their weapons out and ready with serious expressions... means only one possible answer... yokai... and lots of them.. but how could I feel them? I thought that only demons could sense a demonic aura or something? Then a purple skined hand shot out from the sand in a flash with the claws on its fingers flexing as if the waiting was too much. The hand grabbed onto the surface and then a yokai with brown spikey hair pulled himself out from under the sand. I sat there half suprised and half calm. I had seen yokai in the manga before and they didn't look scary... but maybe it was because I had known them to be face. Its fangs beared and eyes shifty, ears pointed. More yokai began to come out from under the sand and looked at us with smirking faces with a cocky look in their eyes. These yokai had weapons with them and it looked like they had been waiting. Oh happy joy... if this was happening then the day was going to get better and better, not! The first yokai that had first came out from under the surface took a step forward while lightly tapping the iron pole he had against the palm of his other hand.
"Heh, Sanzo it looks like some people are here to see you" said Gojyo holding his Shakujou in his hand with a cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Sanzo simply lit up a cigarette and took a long drag before glancing at the demons and loading his banashing gun, "Oh yeah"? he said. "Well tell them to go away then".
I couldn't help but laugh a tiny bit because these yokai gave the impression that they weren't going to leave any time soon and that the simple statement Sanzo had said went and ticked them off. I held my backpack and watched as the yokai growled, the one who had made movement in the past minutes looked like the leader and the rest of the group was waiting for his command.
The yokai smirked, "Sanzo party hand over the s-" his sentence was cut off short as a single bullet had made contact to his forehead and then shot through his skull and out the back of his head. With eyes wide and blood pouring out from his head the yokai fell to the ground with the other yokai backing up in sheer suprise. I glanced at Sanzo. His gun was still raised and light smoke was coming from the gun, his violet eyes flashed dangerously and I stared at him. Pissed off, he was pissed off of what I could see for many reasons. One I had asked him a question and kept asking him, two they had been here for over fourty five minutes, three a bunch of yokai, four he was probably out of smokes. In that instant the yokai leaped into action and so did the other four. I watched them in awe and it was way much better to see them up close than on a televison screen. A demon ran at me and I instantly backed up before Goku bolted in front of me and bashed the demon across the face sending him flying sideways.
"Dang it I'm hungry"! whined Goku as he ran at more demons.
'Note to self, never fight Goku when he's hungry' I thought. Watching and standing still the four of them kept fighting as more yokai appeared from the sand. Bullets flying left and right hitting vital organs along with a scary death glare from Sanzo. A blade on a chain shooting out and slicing limbs off yokai from Gojyo and his skilled fighting with Shakujou. Goku dodging attacks and bashing demons in the head and stomach with a ease and a wide bright grin. Hakkai shooting deadly blasts of his chi gong without any worry or care. How it was to fight like that... to fight for their lives... I felt a arm slip around my neck and pull me back making a gasp escape my mouth. I glanced behind me and saw a yokai behind me holding me with his arm around my neck and the other around my waist. He laughed and I grimaced in disgust at hearing him laugh it made me sick to my stomach really. The four turned and looked at me, yeah this would help my chances of getting in the Sanzo party...
"Genjyo Sanzo, hand over the scripture or this woman dies"! said the yokai, feh like Sanzo would give up the scripture for me dumbass...
My eyes shifted to the backpack that slipped off my shoulder and now was in my hand. The dagger I had that dagger... My hand reached inside the backpack without him knowing and I grasped the handle of the dagger in my hand tightly. In a swift fluid motion I swung the backpack up and slammed it into the yokai's face then I felt his arm let go of me. My other arm came out of the bag and I spun on my heel and pressed the dagger to the yokai's throat. His eyes grew wide and looked at me silently... My hair hanged in my face and I stared at him. 'How did I do that'? I wondered, shocked at my own actions. That comment he made was offensive toward me. Just because I was a girl didn't mean that I couldn't fight. I've gotten into my share of trouble at school and when I used to steal food on the streets. Glancing back at Sanzo and then at the yokai I closed my eyes tightly and sliced his throat. I had to do it I mean if I didn't he would kill me and if I showed Sanzo I could fight it could increase my chances of going with his friends toward west. The yokai's dead body fell to the sand and laid motionless with his eyes inanimate eyes staring up at the sky. Brushing my black hair out of my face I turned to the four all of them staring at me in pure amazement well except for a monk that we all know and love.
"Now like I was sayin', can I come with you Sanzo"? I asked once more, "Please".
I wiped the blood of the dagger on my pants and stared up at him with my backpack still clutched tightly in my hand. Again... what do you think his answer was? Nope, no way. Too bad so sad. I stared at him really annoyed at myself and at him. What the hell was I suppose to do now?! Okay who ever keeps talkin' to me needs to come here RIGHT NOW!! Plus further mor-... HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?! Something bright shined from the sky and the five of us tilted our heads up and gazed up at the sky.A bright silver ball of light falling towards them. Suddenly, it got real bright and we all had to cover our eyes. Shortly, it dimmed and they all looked to see the Goddess of Mercy herself. Yep ya guessed it the wonderful Kanzeon Bosatsu. I blinked and looked at her for a minute, 'What is up with her and not having a normal shirt'? I asked myself in my head. She smirked at them and they all stared at her with a 'what the heck' face and I instantly knew they weren't exactly great close friends. Her long black wavy hair was up in a high ponytail with a few strands of her bangs covering her forehead a bit but you could still plainly see the red charkra in the middle of her forehead.She was dressed differently in white robes where the top was almost transparent, and gold jewelry adorned her. I blinked in confusion... okay I guess she has really great timing...
"Hello boys" She said in a amused tone...