Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ In Season ❯ Chapter 4

Part 5 - Every man for himself

Sanzo and Yaone awakened to the sound of a cacophony of voices.

"Yaone-chan! Sanzo... I'm going to kill you." No doubt, the only reason why Dokugakuji wasn't attacking him was that there were other youkai blocking the way.

"Yaone, we should really make this as a threesome."

"I knew you went for long haired types. Red Boy's got the right idea... How about it babe?" Gojyo drawled, appreciatively at Sanzo's "en dishabille" state.

"Sanzo..." Goku whined.

"Uh…" Sanzo muttered sleepily.

"Sanzo, Yaone, I know there must be a reasonable explanation for this, ne? After all, Sanzo doesn't go around sleeping with people much less our enemies." Hakkai's sweet smile had a razor sharp edge.

"Hakkai's right, and he's really mine, you ape..." Gojyo replied to the whine, almost instinctively arguing.

Goku smashed his fist into Gojyo's chin and the fight was on for the nth time.

The other three men ignored it, and more bickering ensued, then...

"Hey, Dokugakuji, isn't it?" Hakkai asked.

"Aa?"

"Since you want Yaone back and we want Sanzo back, why don't we just get rid of Kougaiji then..."

Great, now they're thinking of us as objects to be divvied up according to their fancy and without consulting us first...and who's this we...since Goku and Gojyo are both too busy destroying each other... Hakkai, you sly dog...

"Shut up." Sanzo said, pointing his gun at random at Dokugakuji. He was still a bit groggy from the running they had to do the night before and therefore twice as bad tempered. Even in the throes of heat, the male youkai had the sense to be intimidated by this. He and Yaone had decided to sleep deep in the cave and to make them harder to spot they had curled up together into a tiniest huddle possible.

Oh my...curled up with each other...

The implications were just starting to seep into Sanzo's befuddled brain and from the look on Yaone's face that she was coming to the same conclusion. With a silent nod of agreement, they both sprang into action, Sanzo knocking Hakkai and Goku down while Yaone bowled through Gojyo, Dokugakuji and Kougaiji using her spear. Then they ran like hell in two different directions.

"Oi, Sanzo, don't be a tease. Wait for me!" Gojyo drawled out after him.

"Sanzo, don't leave me behind..." Goku shouted.

"Yaone-chan! Wait for me!"

"Yaone, Sanzo, can't we discuss this?"

No, definitely we can't...and I don't tease... Don't they ever give up? Well, they're in a rut, so I suppose, it's reasonable...

Exasperation colored Sanzo's thoughts but he should really concentrate on running and not think of thoughts like that to waste energy.

"Yaone, come back." Kougaiji shouted.

"Yaone-chan!" Dokugakuji yelled out.

It had been three hours since Yaone and Sanzo separated but her two comrades are still hot on her trail. She panted as she tried to catch her breath. It was so tempting to just give up.

After all, I don't think either of them will hurt me...and it can't be that bad. We're friends, that was more than I could hope for in the streets... What in the nether hells am I thinking?

Yaone shook her head to clear it.

No, Kougaiji-sama, Dokugakuji-san aren't themselves...so I suppose I should avoid them until the week is out...

It was too much to ask that Genjo Sanzo was lying or understating the situation. The corrupt monk had his own stubborn sense of honor.

There was no help to it...

However, Yaone seemed to have an itty-bitty problem. It could just be a coincidence but no matter how she tried to evade them, Kougaiji and Dokugakuji always barred her way up north.

I have to try to shake them before trying to head for the dragon...or I might end up doing something permanent to them...

Yaone thought unhappily.

Sanzo outdistanced his pursuers by sheer luck. He didn't know where else could he go.

And Hakuryu's definitely with Hakkai... So I have no transport out of here...but didn't Yaone say that she came atop a dragon?

He remembered the conversation well.

Kougaiji-sama, Doku and I came on a dragon...North of this cave... That's where I'll head on out... North...

Of course, he didn't reckon on the vagaries of fate. After three hours of running, every tree was starting to look the same.

Wasn't this the rock I passed by an hour ago...?

Sanzo realized that he was hopelessly lost.

Well...at least...they're...

He stopped the thought before it could fully form. There was no need to borrow trouble.

Yaone dashed off to the trees and got a breather as she found a spring bubbling up from some rocks screened by a patch of particularly dense underbrush.

Hmmm. I have something that will blunt their tracking skills...maybe that's what I need...

Besides, the spring was well nigh irresistible after days of running around without a decent bath. Yaone was filthy from head to toe.

They could probably scent me a mile away...

She took off her clothes and popped out some soap and a chemical vial and put them aside. Then she took a dip somewhat down stream of the source and used the soap to loosen up the dirt and grime that she had accumulated, sighing.

Ah, this is the life...

Yaone felt all was right with the world. Feeling very much contented with the luxurious lap of water on her skin, she knew the need for quick action. Yaone sighed before getting out of the water. She uncorked the vial and slathered the contents onto her body. While Yaone was in the process of coating her clothes with the chemical substance and not to mention in the nude, she heard a rustle in the bushes. She started as Kougaiji's head popped out of the bush.

"Yaone, let me help you with that." Kougaiji asked, his eyes were dilated. He was practically panting as his eyes wandered on Yaone's unclad form.

It made the female youkai feel extremely warm all over. She thought, no, knew that she must be blushing like a beet from head to toe. But on the other hand, it was sort of nice to be the object of such interest from her prince.

He is handsome and...

Yaone found her thoughts wandering to the time when she had cared for Kougaiji-sama after one fight too many. The vest and pants had been torn up pretty badly that Yaone had to cut the remnants off her patient. Kougaiji had been unconscious from a blast that had caught him unexpected. She had been afraid that something had been seriously amiss but the wounds themselves were very superficial. Though there were many of them crisscrossing on the smooth brown skin tracing the ripple of muscle. She had secretly admired and the firmness of skin and muscles as she poked and prodded the wounds to look for fragments and dirt. She could almost...

"Hentai!" Yaone shouted, involuntarily to herself, and whacked him with her spear.

"Oh dear! Sumimasen, Kougaiji-sama." She added afterwards but this didn't keep her there. She swiftly gathered her clothes and put them on. She was gone from the clearing in a thrice.

That was very embarrassing...

Uh...oh... I think my luck has just run out...

Sanzo, as lost as he was, had run into the clearing where Gojyo and Goku had been squabbling. He turned to go but was halted by some hurdles. Namely, a couple of glomping team mates.

"Hey, what's your hurry Sanzo?" Gojyo drawled, breaking off the brawl to attach himself like a limpet to Sanzo.

"Yeah, we missed you." Goku said. He mirrored Gojyo's movement and glared at the other.

"Urusai!" He bopped the two baka with his fan who just clung to him harder.

Sanzo had had enough of this and took out his gun to aim it at Gojyo.

"Get. Off. Of. Me." The blond monk bit out.

I don't care if I need these baka to succeed...

"Now, now, Sanzo. We all know that you don't want to do that. Now, Goku, Gojyo...unhand him..." Hakkai said sedately, as he came into the clearing.

Both refused, clinging all the tighter to Sanzo, but found themselves suddenly hurled across the clearing.

"Hakkai!" Goku and Gojyo shouted as one.

"Really, there's no need for such displays. Sanzo's uncomfortable with touching people, remember?" Hakkai reproved them gently, despite having tossed them into the trees.

Sanzo didn't wait for whatever else they were going to say, he bolted out of there, faster than Goku ever did at the mention of food.

Hakkai's not as bad, I suppose... What am I thinking? No, certainly not! Never...

Sanzo froze; shocked at the train of thought his mind was taking.

What is this shit? I never thought of Hakkai in that way before...

Maybe it's high time you did...

A small voice in his mind piped up.

And maybe it's just hormones talking, it's just instinctive, damned it! He really doesn't want me! He's certainly never pulled anything on me when he was normal...

If you weren't such a bastard at times maybe he'd have...

Shut up!

But the little voice remained insistent in his mind.

Well, he's chasing you, now... He can't say you took advantage of him when he's the one who's been damned persistent...

No way! When he wakes up from this...

So? You'll have him for a while...better to have him now and lose him later...

Idiot!

Well, there's that but at least I'm not a coward... One of us certainly is...

Argh! This is insane...

Sanzo knew that he was in deep trouble. When you started arguing with yourself like that, well, it could only mean trouble.

Ooh, those guys are going to get it... When everything's back to normal... This is just for a fucking week... Yeah, keep telling yourself that...

"Oi, Sanzo, are you all right?" Hakkai said, popping out of the bush.

Ngyah! Thinking of the youkai...

Sanzo picked up his pace.

"Now where did he go?" Goku asked to himself as he walked around in ever widening circles. He had tried to track Sanzo by the nose but had sniffed a particularly offensive plant that rendered his tracking ability useless. And now, he was truly lost.

"Oi, monkey! Is the baldie monk around here, too? Do you have any food?" A voice asked him and he turned around to see a disheveled Lirin whose stomach was growling loudly.

Hmm. I haven't noticed it before but she's pretty...besides, I don't have to fight Gojyo...[1]

Besides, as if on cue his stomach began to growl.

Maybe I should eat first before trying to ask her...

"No. I seemed to have lost Sanzo and the others in here."

More like, I have been left here to fend for myself but...let's not get into that...

"Seems like you're hungry, too, monkey boy. Why don't we go look for some food first?"

Yes, food is a good idea...

"Hai." Goku said, his hand going to his head in embarrassment.

At least, it didn't turn her off...

In agreement, the two hungry youkai went off in search for food.

"He's just playing hard-to-get. Ne, Hakuryu, time for Plan B?" Hakkai said to the white dragonet as it landed on his shoulder from a nearby tree.

"Kyu!"

One has to think ahead when it comes to catching Sanzo... This time, I will have you for myself...

"Find Sanzo, ne? I'll do the rest." He said, letting it fly.

Time for me to lay the false trail for Kougaiji, Gojyo and Goku...

Author's Notes:

[1] He still hasn't figured it out, poor trusting child.

NEXT: A treat and a trick...

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