3 Saiyuki Drabbles

[redbrunja]

These have been loitering on my computer for a while. They needed to get some fresh air. ^_^

#43: Road Hazards (Sanzo-ikkou)

The hitchhiker curled up in the corner behind Hakkai’s seat, arms wrapped tightly around her legs.

She was alone.

Goyjo was tempted to tell her what a bad idea that was, except that from the healing bruises on her face, she already knew or wherever she was leaving was worse.

“Do you have any food?” she asked tentatively.

“Hakkai didn’t shop before we left town,” Goku said in betrayed tones.

“Of course,” Hakkai rummaged in Hakaruy’s glove compartment, pulling out rice candies, several strips of beef jerky and an apple, all wrapped in a peppermint scented cloth.

Goku looked like he’d never trust again.

#38: Dirty Little Secrets (Yaone)

She envies Dokugakuji’s history.

It’s just as tainted as her own but he was protecting someone.

This is your fault, her father had told her, staring down at his wife’s still body, the tincture that Yaone had made clutched in her mother’s fingers. Yaone should have seen suicide in her mother’s eyes, should have questioned, but obedience had been bred into her bones. She’d been asked to mix similar items before and how was Yaone to know it hadn’t been for a patron?

Later, her father gave her to a monster.

She slipped five drops of poison into his whiskey.

#12: AU - Do You Dream Of A Tragic Death? (Gojyo)

Her hair is ash-blonde and dark with water.

She looks up at him, briefly, and then her green eyes close dismissively, like he’s not good enough to bother asking for rescue, and if there was ever a question of leaving her, it just vanished.

“Luckily for you,” Goyjo said, hoisting her into his arms, doing his best to keep the gaping wound in her stomach from spilling her guts onto the ground, “I’m an old hand at taking women home.”

When he finds the bruises, ugly, vicious things whose implications make him ill, Goyjo prays that she was unconscious when he said that.

Comments

[phoenix600.livejournal.com]

oh wow... some hard stuff tackled in these ones and you did a very good job of getting your point across about what happened in them all especially the last one with what *wasn't* said.

[gen50.livejournal.com]

interesting snippets.
i agree, what was unsaid is what the fic was all about.

[purpleicicles.livejournal.com]

The last line of the first one was awesome, and the second was just superb for exploring Yaone's secret (and not much revealed in the manga) past. The last one was just superb, and I agree with phoenix and gen above that the way things weren't said, Plus the last line - excellent Gojyo characterisation.

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Hee....Poor Goku... How could he not think they'd be holding food out on him? XD

I love seeing Yaone's past put together so concisely. (and I really hate that Firefox's spell check is not a little more intuitive... Can't you read my mind, you stupid program??)

Damn...talk about painful timestamps...anyway, I digress....

And I love that Gojyo catches himself on his own words, even if he was just making a joke. It's just so him. :D

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

Oh, these were very nice...I especially like Yaone's, it was so...well..Yaone!

Psst, PZB, I'm learning the horrors of Firefox as I type. It's horrific.

D:

[yukitheawesome.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, two and three were something certain creepy. Awesome, and two had amazing insight, but creepy nonetheless. o_o; One was hilarious. X3

And thanks for the invitation to bother. I'll take that under advisement. XD

[nissalala.livejournal.com]

Wow....just wow....

The last one had to be my favorite.

[anat-astarte.livejournal.com]

Wow, wonderful and powerful drabbles!!

[meobnal.livejournal.com]

Boiled down perfection. Thanks so much for sharing.