SailorStar9: This is Chapter 5 of this fic. (Sighs) Remember, boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence.
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and the pairings.
Chapter 5: Confront
"Pardon me, you young men over there." Chin Yisou, disguised as a fortune-teller voiced. "You are travelers, are you not? I, Chin Yisou, will foretell what awaits you on your journey."
"We have no interest in fortunetelling." Gojyo snorted.
"After all, gentlemen, I see signs of death." Yisou chuckled. "How frightening."
"Who the hell are you? " Sanzo demanded.
"You live really close to death, don't you?" Yisou continued. "No, no I can tell."
"I asked who the hell are you?" Sanzo repeated.
"Especially yes... you." Yisou pointed to Hakkai. "Yes, you deceive others with your fair-seeming looks, but those eyes. You have the eyes of a sinner. Sin beyond atonement. Yes, yes and you have a scar on your stomach, do you not?"
"You bastard!" Goku snapped as Hakkai's hand went subconsciously to his stomach. "You trying to pick a fight?"
"I'm only saying this out of concern for you gentlemen." Yisou defended. "Though I'm just a fortune-teller whose fortunes rarely come true. Take a look at these mahjong pieces. My pieces tell of people's fates. See? Disaster walks with you." he declared, the kanji for 'Disaster' appearing on the tile.
"What is that?" Hakkai gaped upon hearing the sound something breaking as the ground shook.
"Man, here comes another really big one." Gojyo remarked as the giant scorpion burst through the city wall. "Goku, it's be worth eating."
"It looks super hard though." Goku pointed out.
"Look at its chest." Sanzo voiced. "A Sanskrit character."
"A shikigami?" Hakkai echoed.
"Yeah," Sanzo agreed. "It's a form of black magic that transforms things into monsters by sealing an evil will inside it."
"But are shikigami that big even fair?" Gojyo complained. "It's unnatural."
Hakkai turned, only to find Yisou had vanished. That fortune-teller, could it be this shikigami is also his? He wondered.
Is he one of Kougaiji's assassins too? Sanzo mused. Something doesn't fit though.
"He's sure going all out." Gojyo said.
"Now, what to do?" Sanzo posted a question, the said arachnid having demolished the building beside them.
"What else?" Goku retorted. "We just gotta beat it!"
"I don't you who sent you." Gojyo summoned his weapon. "But you better not get too high and mighty!"
"This looks like fun!" Goku grinned. "You're on, crab monster!" he pulled out his staff.
"Take that!" Lirin roared, slamming a fist into the rampaging beast's stomach and blowing the scorpion's body apart.
"Now that was just anti-climatic." Tokusa joked, Body Flicker'ing in via a swirl of petals.
"Tokusa-nee!" Goku beamed, taking in his 'nee-chan's new appearance; while her hair was still in its usual bun, she had traded her pale blue battle kimono for a deep green battle chesogam.
"Sanzo Party, I found you!" Lirin turned to her real targets. "I'm Lirin! I'm here to defeat you! Come and get me!"
"Go and get her?" Gojyo muttered. "But you know..."
"Now what are we to make of it?" Hakkai inquired.
"Goku, doesn't she kind of act like you?" Tokusa looked at her 'otouto'.
"Like a female version of Goku?" Hakkai offered.
"Goku, you go play with her." Gojyo instructed.
"Damn it!" Lirin fumed. "You're not taking me seriously, are you? Because you think I'm a kid? Let me down! Droopy Eyes! Baldy!" she struggled against Sanzo's hold. "Hey, I've had it!"
"Want a meat bun?" Sanzo pulled out the said roll.
"Yeah!" Lirin grabbed the bread and bit into it.
"Just what you'd expect from Sanzo." Tokusa chuckled.
"He's certainly good at handling small animals." Hakkai agreed, Sanzo pulling out another meat bun for Goku.
"That's as far as you go!" Kougaiji announced. "So we meet again. I've come to get my younger sister back."
"Go right ahead." Tokusa waved.
"Hi, brother!" Lirin beamed.
"You idiot!" Kougaiji snapped. "Get over here!"
"You better not just take her and get out of here again!" Goku grinned. "Well, Kougaiji?"
"Of course not!" Kougaiji accepted the challenge.
"All right!" Goku's grin widened. "Let's finish what we started last time!" and the pair took the fight to the air.
"Excuse me..." Yaone started. "May I ask you to be my opponent? I've decided from now on, I'd like to live for Kougaiji-sama and be of service to him."
"That's a very worthy goal." Hakkai admitted and the pair went into their battle stances.
"It's going to be one of those days." Tokusa sighed, standing beside Sanzo and Lirin as Gojyo faced off against Dokugakuji.
"So guess you're my opponent, mister." Gojyo wrapped his weapon's chain around Dokugakuji's wrist.
"Sha Gojyo?" Dokugakuji echoed. "I thought it might be you. I didn't really believe it until I met you face to face though."
"You can't be..." Gojyo gaped.
"Yo!" Dokugakuji grinned, breaking the chain.
"Brother!" Gojyo's eyes widened, recognizing the familiar grin. "You kidding me? Why? Why are you here?"
"Sorry for the late introduction." Dokugakuji apologized. "I"m a direct subordinate of Kougaiji." and summoned his sword. "My name's Dokugakuji. I'm the sort who never yields once I've made up my mind on how to live my life."
"You read my mind." Gojyo agreed. "I'm like that too!" with that, the two half-siblings clashed.
"Over here, Kougaiji!" Goku taunted, dodging Kougaiji's punch.
"You impertinent, scurrying rat!" Kougaiji snapped and unleashed his Engokuki. "Did I get him?" he asked, the fiery beast having hit its target.
"Let's get serious here!" Goku retorted, jumping back to the battlefield using the sun as a shield before landing a punch on the fallen Kougaiji.
He's gotten stronger. Kougaiji mused. But... "Interesting." he muttered.
"Isn't it?" Goku grinned.
"That kick was quite something." Kougaiji admitted. "But I'll pay you back twice over!"
"That's the spirit!" Goku beamed as Kougaiji retrieved his broken necklace.
"Bring it on!" Kougaiji declared as the pair went head on again, unaware that Yisou was watching.
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