SailorStar9: This is Chapter 16 of this fic. (Sighs) Every time I write these B.S. disclaimers, I die a little inside. Remember, boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence.

Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny and the pairings.

Chapter 16: Missing Desire

Not yet, Tokusa? Sanzo wondered, dodging Goku's swipes. "You stupid monkey!" he cursed, focusing on the battle at hand. "So, you intend to settle this in the next attack?" he realized. "Fine then. Come, you stupid monkey!"

Goku charged, leveling a punch at Sanzo, Sanzo blocking the fist with his hand.

"You damn stupid monkey!" Sanzo barked, placing a new corset on Goku's head and reverting him back to his original self. "Tokusa, hurry!" he told the seals mistress, Goku fainting in his arms.

"Man, I'm hungry!" Goku whined, upon awakening.

"You stupid monkey!" Sanzo's dreaded paper fan was brought out.

"What the hell you'd do that for?" Goku complained. "Sanzo, thank you." he beamed. "I heard your voice."

"Sanskrit Flash Technique!" Tokusa called out, all of her spell papers in place. At her call, a beam of pure light energy shot towards the power orb from each of the spell papers as they concentrated around the sphere, containing it. "Ō Fūin!" she tossed a strip of talisman paper at the restrained power orb. "Kai!" with the final piece of her spell in place, the power orb shrunk and vanished.

"How long are you going to sit there?" Sanzo retorted. "Let's go. He's in there."

"Tokusa-nee!" Goku turned to the exhausted fox demoness who had reverted back to her human form.

"I'll be fine." Tokusa assured. "Take care of Homura."

"So, that's it." Sanzo noted, the two having arrived to Homura's created 'paradise'.

"You're here." Homura turned.

"Homura, I'll never accept this place!" Goku snapped.

"Is this your new Heaven and Earth?" Sanzo questioned.

"That's right." Homura confirmed. "Eventually this place will swallow up the old Heaven and Earth that has existed until now. It's just as you surmised." he added, hearing Goku's gasp. "When that boulder reaches its critical point and shatters, the new Heaven and Earth will be complete."

"Do you think we'll just twiddle our thumbs and watch?" Sanzo challenged.

"We won't let you have your way!" Goku swore.

"Why not?" Homura asked. "What don't you like about it? What's so displeasing about this world?"

"I don't like it, not any of it." Sanzo replied.

"Surely, it isn't as if you favor that old world." Homura reminded.

"No, that other world's full of things that piss me off too." Sanzo corrected.

"Homura, let's settle this!" Goku was ready to fight.

"You're merely living there." Homura scoffed. "Can you defeat me? Clinging to your tiny souls... just how much could it be possibly worth to you? Fine." he realized Sanzo and Goku were not giving up. "Then come." he accepted.

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