Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ Tainted Innocence ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

TAINTED INNOCENCE
© June 23, 2005 By Rory V. Pascual


CHAPTER ONE

Gojyo felt absolutely ridiculous. He was lying on a cold examination table dressed only in a thin gown while the doctor palpated his abdomen. The man hit a spot, and he let out a pained yelp. The doctor mumbled a quick apology, but the look of bewilderment on the man's face told the redhead that something was wrong. Many times, the doctor went to check the ten test tubes he had set out, containing samples of his urine and slender white strips dipped into them. All the strips, Gojyo saw, had red dots appearing on them. The half-breed hoped that this examination would end with those red dots.

However, the doctor suddenly propped up the stirrups of the exam table and draped his long legs over them. This was the worst for Gojyo. It was too much like that time with Jinnei and his men…exposed, waiting to be violated. Thankfully, the doctor did nothing, but the shocked expression on his face was all too evident.

"Doctor…" Gojyo begged the man in earnest. "Aren't you through yet?"

"Oh, yes! Yes!" The doctor shook himself out of his thoughts and lowered the redhead's legs back onto the exam table.

As he sat up, Gojyo asked nervously, "What's wrong with me, doctor? Did I sustain any injuries during the fight with those youkai?"

"No, no injuries, Gojyo-san," the doctor replied. Before the half-breed could breathe in relief, he hastily added, "However, I strongly advise that you do not engage in any strenuous physical activities. This specifically means no fighting."

"Why? What's wrong with me? We're on an important mission to the West, right in the heart of youkai land, so we're bound to encounter more youkai along the way. I need to be in good fighting condition."

"Absolutely no fighting!" the doctor emphasized with such strength in his voice that almost the redhead jump. "Unless…unless you want to lose the child you're carrying inside you."

Gojyo couldn't believe what he just heard. He felt as if he had been struck on the head twice by his own shakujou. "Doctor, what are you talking about?"

The doctor's reply was another question. "Tell me, Gojyo-san. You were born a hermaphrodite, am I correct?"

"Definitely not! I'm a full-blooded male!"

"If you're not, would you kindly explain to me why you happen to have female nether parts?"

Gojyo was shocked. "I have…what?" He lifted his gown and gazed down between his legs. His face turned ghastly white as he confirmed what the doctor had just said to him.

"I…I don't know…Why do I have…this?" the redhead stuttered. "That…wasn't there before. I…."

"I assume you have lain with a man," the doctor then said. "The signs were there. Tell me. Who is he? Is it one of your friends outside? He must know that he's going to be a father."

"I'm not going to tell you anything!" Gojyo retorted in indignation. "You're no doctor! How can a man like me be carrying a baby?"

"My examination, the tests on your urine…" the man exclaimed in outrage that he would be doubted like this. "They don't lie, Gojyo-san! You…are…PREGNANT!"

Having blurted that out, the doctor walked outside, mumbling about needing to do more tests. Not wanting to be subjected to any more of that lunatic's poking and ranting, Gojyo quickly put on his clothes and hurried outside the examination room, only to be greeted by three worried faces. No, make it just two. That expression on Sanzo's face couldn't be called worry. It was more of 'Tell us you're okay, so we can get the hell back on the road!'

"Gojyo, are you all right?" Hakkai asked in concern. "Were you injured?"

"All that blood…" Goku piped in. "You scared the shit out of me! The doctor's fixed you up, right? He wouldn't tell us anything."

Gojyo, however, found that he couldn't answer his friends' queries. How could he tell them what the doctor said?

Sanzo's sharp voice broke through his troubled thoughts. "What ever it was the doctor told you, would you just spit it out?"

The half-breed couldn't look at his friends as he softly said, "The doctor…he said…he said that…I'm pregnant."

Silence fell upon them like a ton of bricks. The cigarette that Sanzo was puffing on fell to the floor when his jaw dropped. Goku looked so much like his namesake, an idiotic monkey with gold eyes as wide as plates. Even Hakkai was caught speechless.

Realizing that he had made a mistake, Gojyo exclaimed, laughing, "Just kidding! I'm all right! Just a minor injury when one of those youkai punched me in the side. It's no big deal!"

"No big deal, my foot!" Sanzo snorted, his handsome becoming as dark as a summer storm. "You ARE pregnant! That episode of vomiting earlier did not have anything to do with what you ate. You hardly ate anything and, yet, you wouldn't stop puking."

"Sanzo, I said I'm fine, all right!" the half-breed said heatedly. "Would you just drop it?"

"If you don't tell us the truth," the monk began menacingly, "I'll pull your miserable hide back in there and examine you myself!"

Gojyo was stricken by those threats. Unable to reply, he found himself burying his face in his hands and bursting into tears.

"Sanzo, would you just stop it?" Hakkai shouted, hurrying to his lover's side. "He's a man! I can't understand why you insist that he is pregnant?"

"Because he is no ordinary man," Sanzo stated bluntly. "You know that to be a fact. When he changed into an elemental, he is no longer the half-breed that we used to know."

"That's ridiculous, Sanzo!" Goku blurted out. "It goes against the very laws of nature!"

"Well, the laws of nature don't apply to an elemental like him." Sanzo glared sharply at the weeping redhead. "Would you stop bawling like an idiot and just tell us the truth?"

"Okay, I AM PREGNANT!" Gojyo cried in admission. "Are you happy now, you damned monk?"
Hakkai gently pried the redhead's hands from his face and bade the younger man to look into his eyes. Then, to Gojyo's surprise, Hakkai gave him a most tender kiss and embraced him tightly.

"I'm going to be a father," Hakkai mumbled in his ear. With a happy whoop, he lifted Gojyo up and spun him around and around, "I'm going to be a father!"

"Hakkai…" Gojyo gasped out his lover's name.

Unknown to the two men, there were startled looks on the faces of Sanzo and Goku. If one would gaze closely into their eyes, it would be more correct to say that they were stricken by guilt.

Hakkai carefully let Gojyo down. "This is the best gift that anyone's ever given me. Gojyo, did the doctor tell you how many months it is?"

It was Sanzo who answered, "I would say probably three months. That's when it…"

Goku's head snapped up to look at the monk in shock. "Are you saying that…"

Gojyo pushed his lover away gently. "Hakkai…I'm sorry…but I'm not sure if you're the father of this baby…."

"I don't care who the father of that baby is," Hakkai said firmly. "That baby is ours. Besides, Jinnei and his men are dead. No one is going to destroy our happiness this time. Once this journey is over, we're going to get a wonderful home where we can raise our child and…"

"Who says he's coming with us?"

Three pairs of shocked eyes turned to the furious monk.

"Sanzo, what are you saying?" Goku asked. "Gojyo is one of us. You're seriously not suggesting that we leave him behind? He's pregnant! The more he needs to be with us!"

"And expose us to any more danger?" Sanzo spat back. "I said it once. I don't need a burden. That fool hanyou has been a huge burden to us since that Jinnei incident. I merely went along because I didn't want any depressed morons hampering group morale. When he became an elemental, I thought he'd have some sense in keeping that particular nature of his in check. But no, the first opportunity he got, he humped like a rabbit and got knocked up."

"But I never knew this was going to happen to me!" Gojyo argued. "I'm a man, and men don't become pregnant!"

"You're a man all right, but you're still an elemental!"

"If you knew that Gojyo had the ability to bear a child," Hakkai rebutted in anger, "then why didn't you bother to tell him in the first place? Don't put all the blame on him! Besides, even if I knew that he could become pregnant, you can't stop me from making love to him, because I…LOVE…HIM!"

"You're a love-struck fool, Hakkai!" Sanzo roared in fury. He pointed an angry finger at Gojyo. "He is not coming along with us, and that's final!"

Sanzo stormed off, not wanting to hear any more arguments from the idiots who were his companions. But then, a trembling hand was laid on his shoulder and he felt Gojyo's warm lips press against his ear.

"Would you leave me behind, Sanzo," the redhead whispered bitterly, "if this child were yours?"

As Sanzo whirled to berate the half-breed, Gojyo collapsed in his arms in a dead faint.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Surprise! You can certainly count on depression to get me writing again. Sorry this chapter is so short but I suddenly got the urge to write just to get my mind off my problems. Actually, I never thought I'd be writing a chapter for this particular story. Oh well. If it makes the 218 people who read the Prologue happy…