Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction / Saiyuki Reload Fan Fiction / Saiyuki Reload Gunlock Fan Fiction ❯ Truly, Madly Deeply ❯ Checkmate ( Chapter 10 )

X. CHECKMATE/THE TRICK

 

 

A.

 

“Found you! Sanzo-ikkou!”

 

“Give us the sutra Sanzo-ikkou!”

 

“Where is Sanzo, Sanzo-ikkou!”

 

“Ah, SHADDUP!!!” Goku charges into the throng with a crazed look in his eyes. Hakkai blasts chi ball after chi ball. Even Hakuryu joins the fray, showing off her impressive kung-fu kicks, Kill Bill style.

 

The pitiful youkai are spared only by the kappa. For once the Jakujou doesn't sing. For Gojyo is busy clinging to the fleeing, screaming youkai.

 

“Take me to Sanzo! I beg you…”

 

“Gojyo! For Tenkai's sakes…” Hakkai admonishes.

 

“Kyuuu!!!” Even the dragon glares balefully. (Dragon-speak translation: “Shame on youuuu!!!”)

 

“You're hopeless!” Goku growls.

 

“I am, I am… I'm hopelessly lost… hopelessly heartbroken… hopelessly missing my Sanzo…” Gojyo declares shamelessly.

 

The youkai at Gojyo's feet props open a swollen eye. “..You mean… that pretty, delicate snob isn't with you anymore..?” the youkai wheezes.

 

Gojyo scoots over to him. The kappa lights a smoke and offers a puff to the goon. (“Th-thanks, dude…” the demon coughs.)

 

“It was all a silly misunderstanding…” Gojyo chokes. “That fucking Hazel bitch came between us, shattering our paradise…”

 

“Heh. I know exactly what you mean, dude,” the youkai commiserates weakly. “It's always a third party, isn't it…”

 

BONK!

 

Goku bops the demon over the head. The saru turns to Gojyo with a wild light in his eyes. “And as for you…”

 

Dust flies as the kappa and the monkey scuffle.

 

“I wasn't done talking to him, bakazaru!”

 

“You're supposed to knock him out, baka erogappa!”

 

“Bottomless pit!”

 

“Lovesick cockroach!”

 

“Yare yare…” Hakkai mutters. “URUSEI!” the healer yells.

 

Goku and Gojyo freeze, Goku's hands around the kappa's neck, Gojyo's hands tearing the monkey's hair.

 

“Er… Hakkai… It just doesn't sound the same… You know?” Goku blinks at Hakkai.

 

“KYU!” Hakuryu agrees.

 

Hakkai shrugs.

 

“I miss his voice… I miss the fan… I miss the gunshots…” Gojyo wails.

 

“Grrr….”

 

 

 

B.

 

“Hmmm?” Sanzo darts a glance all around, looking for the source of the sound. His hand tightens on the picture of the kappa. “If that freak thinks I'll come running at the sound of a bell, he's even more deluded than I thought…”

 

“You don't know the half of it,” Zakuro sighs, shaking his head in disgust.

 

Sanzo yelps as the hallucination world engulfs him. His eyes widen in horror as Gojyo's grinning, close-up picture transforms into a provocative snapshot of the bishop.

 

Sanzo wrinkles his nose, dropping the picture hastily. “What kind of sicko are you?!?” he growls at the hidden Zakuro.

 

The youkai bristles. “Hey man, don't you dare pin this on me!” Zakuro huffs, insulted. “What the fuck do you expect when a gun is aimed at my head?!”

 

“Gun?” Sanzo demands, alarmed.

 

POOF!

 

Hazel jumps lightly into the dream world. “Yapoo, sweet Sanzo…” Blue eyes leer at the priest.

 

Sanzo stares in horror. He takes a step back, stumbles, and scrambles backward on all fours. “Noooo…” Sanzo begs.

 

Hazel advances, swinging his hips. “Aw c'mon, Sanzo-han… just one kiss…” Hazel makes a moue with his lips.

 

“Ah… You wouldn't mind doing it by proxy, would you?” Sanzo stalls. “Gato! Come and get it…” Sanzo calls desperately.

 

“Damare!” Hazel stops in front of Sanzo. Sanzo is cornered. “Don't you know how I've longed for you???” Hazel whispers. He bends down.

 

With a wild light in his eyes, Sanzo whips out his gun.

 

“Huh. Gato will put a bullet in you before you even get the chance to shoot me…” Hazel croons, reaching up a gloved fingertip to tilt up the priest's chin.

 

“The bullet's not for you, numbskull,” Sanzo rasps. “I'll be damned if anyone kisses me but my Gojyo!” Before Zakuro can say abracadabra, Sanzo fires a bullet to his own head.

 

Hazel blacks out in sheer mind-numbing frustration.