Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ In Season ❯ Chapter 3

Answer to Reviews:

- Umm, I do not tease. * wolfy puppy ears flattened * I wanted everyone who's reviewed in chapter 1 to get their two cents in before I write the lemon in

- it's official - this fic's a Hakkai x Sanzo permanent couple thing. ^__^ Hi ShinuTsuki! And you're not the only one that feels something when the two guys get all sweet on screen. Though everyone male gets to grope Sanzo!

Doku & Nii: *yanks Silrayn's skirt then points to self*
Silrayn: Well, almost everyone male! Anyone want to suggest getting Nii Jieni to grope Sanzo-chan?
Sanzo: Silrayn, Shi-ne!
Silrayn: Just kidding... *scuttles away before Sanzo can shoot her *

- My own interpretation of Sanzo is that his emotions are there but they don't go out of the surface, no matter how hard he feels them ^__^

Part 4 - the Answer from Heaven

"Sumimasen." Yaone said as Sanzo was groggily sitting up. She had taken him onto her own branch to keep him from falling. Their combined weight was making the precarious perch sway a bit more but it was her fault anyway.

"You sound exactly like Hakkai, when you do that." Sanzo said, dazedly.

She does…I wonder what that baka is doing right now… I hope he hadn't been beaten up by… What am I thinking? He's chasing me…but then, he's your teammate. It's natural to worry about him. And while I'm at it, I should wonder what happened to Gojyo and Goku…

"Aa. Can you get back to the other branch? This can become very inconvenient…"

"Aa." Sanzo shifted his weight and moved.

"Shall we call a truce for the moment?" Yaone said, gesturing below as someone crashed about shouting something.

"Might as well…"

"Need some water?" Yaone asked, she extended a large water jug. They had been up the tree for two nights now, going down only when they were sure that the rest of the recent forest denizens have gone to sleep. Yaone's rations were getting stretched, they only had time to gather water and knew very little of edible plants to chance eating anything.

Ah, the disadvantages of being a city dweller…

"Aa. So do you have any idea what's going on? I've been harassed by every male youkai I've encountered." Sanzo asked after he drunk some of the offered water.

"No, I hoped you had an idea."

"No, I don't…but I think I know how I might get some reliable advice, if you're willing to guard me as I pray." Sanzo said, as a sudden thought asserted itself in his mind.

"Aa." At this point, the female youkai looked frazzled enough to try anything.

If she's been enduring two days in silence beautiful like Hakkai would've I'm not surprised…

Sanzo started to chant the sutra for enlightenment. After a moment, he could feel it working.

Yes, it's definitely working…any moment now…

He could feel the tugging of the divinity on his senses. Then all hell broke lose…or maybe the proper term would be heaven…

Yaone watched Sanzo as he went into trance, chanting a Sutra. It was an easy job comparing to the one of keeping the unconscious monk on the branch. Then, she felt warmth coming from above. She dismissed it as the chant working and continued to watch Sanzo.

Suddenly, a powerful stream of light poured down from the heavens to transfix her at her place.

Uh, oh…

Trumpets, oboes and other musical instruments boomed a clarion call throughout the forest causing a chain reaction of assorted rustlings. She looked up to see a small scroll slowly descending towards them on the tide of heavenly light. Underneath it all, she could swear that she heard wild feminine laughter. She allowed Sanzo enough time to catch the book before she grabbed him in a wild sprint from one tree to another. The light and sound lingered to follow them for about a score of trees, broadcasting their presence to all interested parties.

They're sure to have seen that… It must have been seen it for five miles all around…

Somewhere in heaven…

"Did you have to do that, Kanzeon-sama?" One of the guards asked a hysterically laughing Goddess of Mercy. [1]

"I didn't have to. But you have to admit, Konzen--no, Sanzo--needed loosening up." Kanzeon replied. Her flowing long hair and white robes were in horrible disarray as she sat halfway to the floor almost falling from her throne-like chair, tumbled there by a fit of chortles.

The guards all sighed.

"Besides, I am the representative of love as well. Shouldn't it be my duty to make sure that everyone gets some? Ahohohohohoho!"

If Sanzo could hear his former aunt right now, he'd be tempted to strangle her. [2]

Somewhere else, another female was laughing at the antics of both teams...

What an incredible coincidence this is...

Gyokumen Koushi swatted a lock out of her way as she lifted the magical binoculars to her eyes. She had fled the castle for this little retreat of hers when the Conjunction was eminent. She knew about it, of course, that's how she snagged Gyuma Ou after all. [3]

The would-be Empress might enjoy having sex with several of her retainers but had no intention of being dominated by any of them.

Who knows what perversions Nii Jieni has been hiding?

Not that Gyokumen Koushi minded doing perverted things; she just wanted to do them on her own terms.

I never thought that wimp of a stepson of mine got the nerve to suggest a threesome, and to Yaone of all people and to Genjo Sanzo as well...

It was even funnier than the light show of Sanzo's. Though she could really had it to whatever god it was that had a hand in making that one.

Somebody up there definitely has a sense of humor...

Somewhere else in the forest…

Gojyo cursed to himself.

I should've tried to shadow that damned monkey!

He had lost the trail almost immediately after Sanzo and Hakkai had ditched going on Hakuryu. He got more lost in the forest trying to cold track them.

The monkey might have his faults but his nose is close infallible…

Then he heard a great racket ring across the forest and looked up to see Sanzo with Yaone up a tree.

Eh, it must be Sanzo's way of showing where he is… Such a tease he is! I'm coming, lover… hang on in there…

Another part of the forest…

Goku had managed to sniff out the trail though lost it a bit when he hit the clearing. The devastation caused by Hakkai and Kougaiji had muddled it somewhat.

He wondered if Sanzo had gotten injured in the fighting but dismissed it as there was no blood smell around.

Hmm…south or west…

Of course, his direction was decided for him when the blare of music came on.

Oh, so that's where Sanzo is… I'm coming…wait for me!

Several minutes later…

"Oi, Goku! Gojyo! Over here." Hakkai chirped with a cheery wave.

"Hakkai? Why are you here?" Gojyo asked suspiciously.

"Getting Sanzo away from the enemy youkai, of course."

"But isn't that Yaone-san?" Goku asked, equally wary.

"Hai, but she's still with Kougaiji-san, ne?"

"Hai!" Goku agreed wholeheartedly to the fiction not caring if it was true or not as long as it legitimized what he was about to do.

"Aa, but it's really a pity about Yaone-san. She's really pretty." Gojyo said, reflectively.

"Then go with her, you perverted kappa!"

"And leave Sanzo to you, you monkey? No way."

"Why you!"

Goku threw a punch at Gojyo and the brawl was on. Meanwhile, Hakkai smiled ingenuously and continued on his way to follow the trail of light.

Mission accomplished…

"Oi, Yaone, don't run away from me. I'm quite willing to share you with the cute human!" Kougaiji yelled after Sanzo and Yaone. [4]

Kougaiji had awakened to the brilliant flash of light in the sky. He had groggily extricated himself from the fallen trees and was currently pursuing the two desperate people.

"You're what?" Doku said, coming alongside Kougaiji in the chase only to get punched in the face.

"Oi, Yaone-chan ignore this pervert, drop the human and come with me instead… I'll treat you well." Dokugakuji shouted in counter offer.

None of the offers were accepted. Yaone kept on going, carrying Sanzo from tree to tree.

"Ne, calling your prince a pervert?"

"Just calling it as I see it."

Kougaiji kayoed Dokugakuji and left the unconscious youkai to fend for himself as he followed the two escapees.

"Yaone-san, would you please give Sanzo back to me?" Hakkai yelled, still politely. He had finally caught up with Yaone after ditching his two teammates. He now ran a healthy distance alongside Kougaiji.

Sanzo noted that both youkai were avoiding getting close to each other and glared at each other whenever they got within two meters of each other.

They're so territorial all of a sudden…

"I'm still willing to ignore this insubordinate behavior, if you would be willing to come back with me now. I'm even willing to share you with Sanzo." Kougaiji wheedled as much as he could while yelling. Yaone blushed at that.

Pervert… Are all redheaded youkai perverts? First that kappa, now Kougaiji…

"Sanzo is coming with me!" Hakkai said brightly but firmly.

Hakkai's scary, when he's like this…

"You'll have to catch him first. Besides, he ran away from you." That was not really a good thing to point out to Hakkai. Kougaiji found himself blasted into a tree again but this time he managed to throw a fire blast and hit Hakkai. Hakkai managed to put a partial shield just in time to avoid getting blasted but got his wind knocked out of him.

Sanzo wanted to go down and see if there had been permanent damage inflicted on the brown-haired youkai but knew that they couldn't really afford to slack off.

It might give them more reason to fight anyway…

Both male youkai dropped off as they started to trade ki blasts.

It figures…

Sanzo thought tiredly. So far, everything that had happened for the past two days hasn't made much sense so he didn't expect this to either.

After an hour, they managed to make to a clearing in the woods where stood a tall tower…

"Ano…I wonder if we can ask the owner for shelter for the rest of the night?"

"Hn." Sanzo replied, trying to catch his breath. Yaone was finally let him to run on his own after they had gotten down from the trees to take their flight on foot. They had run through rough terrain and a spring or two to break their trail since the unfortunate spotlighting incident.

"Hello, is there anybody there?" Yaone said before Sanzo could stop her.

Oh, hell...what harm can it do?

Yaone thought it worth the gamble.

The worst thing that can happen is that the occupant is a male youkai hermit... It would be damned consistent with our luck lately... Scratch that...that one's major bad luck...

Silence.

"Can we shelter for what's left of the night?"

"Go away." Said a muffled voice.

Odd, that voice seemed faintly familiar...

Yaone had only time enough to wonder before a crash nearby alerted her and Sanzo and the chase was on.

After a couple of hours…

"We seemed to have ditched them temporarily. If nothing else, they should be tired by now. They've certainly expended more energy fighting each other than we have been running away from them." Sanzo said, panting as he sat on a rock outcropping.

"Aa." Yaone said, sitting down on another rock in the cave that they had decided on as a defensible position.

"Shall we read this?" Sanzo asked, waving the scroll that bore the tag "Male Youkai Sexuality" on the outside.

"You read it. I'll stand guard. No offense but you don't look like you can fight yourself out of a paper sack at the moment."

"Good idea." Sanzo ignored the rest of the comment, too exhausted to snap. He was well aware that he was on the edge of human endurance but Yaone wasn't looking any better.

She looks like she's not far from collapsing herself...and I must look like I went through the grinder or something… Maybe it'll discourage our teammates from groping us… Oh well, time to read this…

Sanzo opened the scroll and started to read.

"So, what's in it?" Yaone asked after a few minutes passed.

"To summarize the first few paragraphs, it says: Male youkai go in rut every 5,000 thousand years. They're relentless in pursuit of prospective mates. They are willing to fight others, youkai and non-youkai, in the attainment of their goals and are so single-minded that they are hazardous to all females and male humans, in general." Sanzo replied. They looked at each other for a long moment.

"Is there anything we can do about it?" Yaone asked.

"None, according to this scroll, though in consolation it mentions that the condition only lasts a week or so. It goes on to say that it might be caused by an alignment of the stars etc. but I don't think we really need to know that. It's only been--what--two days? I don't think we could last the week don't you? Unless we surrender." Sanzo sighed.

"Aa. Maybe we could try to escape them on dragon-back. Kougaiji-sama, Doku and I came on a dragon."

"Where is that dragon?"

"North of this cave."

"Right through 'enemy lines', ne?"

"Aa." Yaone said, her cheerful smile deflated a bit.

"Maybe we should sleep here a bit and wait for dawn to make our break."

Author's Notes:

[1] At least, if I were her, that's what I would do. Ahohohohohohohohoho! * Does a high five with Kanzeon using her platter-puppy-paws*

Sanzo: I asked for enlightenment for me! Not for every damned male youkai for miles around!
Silrayn: Consider yourself en-Lightened! Ahohohohoho!
Sanzo: *gets out his gun*
Silrayn: Now…don't be hasty…

This is inspired by a ghost story about a security guard walking on a lighted walkway. One night, as he was patrolling the walkway, all the lights on it suddenly went out except for the one above him. Spooky. He decided to test the phenomenon by inching his way to under another light (the lights are spaced approximately a meter and a half apart). The light he had been under promptly went out and the light he was currently under suddenly lit up. He did it again and the light followed him. Now this is impossible in the normal state of things since there was only one circuit switch for the entire walkway, the guard freaked and ran as the lights blinked on and off to follow him across the walkway. Thus proving that the ghost that haunted that particular stretch of the university had a sense of humor.

[2] (Fact from the translation of Gaiden from Aestheticism) Certainly, I would if I was he.

[3] I don't think much of Gyokumen Koushi. Isn't it obvious? ^^;

[4] Bear in mind that he's in rut. ^^() It's not normal behavior. At least, I can hope that it's not normal behavior for Yaone's sake. =^^= Being unselfish, he decides to share Yaone with Sanzo since Yaone seems to be taken with Sanzo but, of course, he also wants his share of the blond so as not to be left out. ^^;

Silrayn: Three-ing in with Dokugakuji?

Kougaiji: *gives Silrayn a glare*

Silrayn: ^^

NEXT: Don't be silly! Of course, they're not going to escape...*evil grins* But this is where my inspiration loses steam and need fuel...feedback please...