Fic Ghost Hunt
Ghost Hunt
Author - Cornerofmadness
Disclaimer - not mine. All rights belong to Minekura
Rating - PG-13
Timeline - very soon after Sanzo and Goku meet Gojyo and Hakkai and before the guys get their weapons in that temple incident
Pairing - Gen fic
Summary - Who wants to stay in a haunted house any how?
Author’s Note - This was written for both the saiyuki_time challenge ‘spooky stories’, (took about 75 minutes) for chelle86 for the lyric meme from forever ago. She got Invisible and silent by Covenant also this is my annual Halloween fic a little late (between the Haunted Theatre and nano I’m so totally out of time. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. Note there’s been a title change since it appeared in saiyuki_time. Also note this is still the relatively fresh from the cave, highly impressionable Goku.
XXX
“This place is creepy.” Goku’s little legs struggled to keep up with Gojyo and Hakkai’s strides as they headed back home after treating him to the bestest, tastiest dinner ever. He pointed to the rundown house, looking as if it was toppling down into the wooded acres behind it. He hated walking past this place every time they went into town from Gojyo’s place. A sluggish wisp of smoke floated in the cool air above it.
“That’s because no one lives there and it’s haunted.” Gojyo tickled a finger along the back of Goku’s neck.
The boy squealed, darting ahead, nearly losing the tins of tea Hakkai had bought in town.
“Gojyo, please refrain from terrorizing Goku.” Hakkai sighed as Hakuryuu rustled on his shoulder.
“Ghosts are scary shit,” Goku proclaimed loudly.
Hakkai lobbed a sour, put-upon look Goku’s direction. “And Goku, please don’t repeat ever swear Gojyo teaches you.”
“Before you know it, Monkey, a ghost will slide up behind you, invisible and silent.” Gojyo smirked then stabbed a finger at the boy. “Until they possess you.”
Goku jumped again, tea tins flying.
“Gojyo!” Hakkai glared. “Pick them up.”
“How is it my fault he’s a little chicken liver?” Gojyo, however, did pick up the tins.
“He’s a boy, Gojyo.”
“Come on. My brother used to pull shit like this on me all the time. It’s kind of fun being scared.”
“You’re just a big poophead.” Goku snarled, not helping Gojyo with the tins. The kappa just clucked at him, flapping his elbows in response.
XXX
“Call me a chicken.” Goku gazed up at the dizzying, slanting roof tiles of the haunted house. He’d spend the night here then who would be the chicken? Goku rubbed his grumbling belly. He was already hungry. He had stolen some fruit from Hakkai but he didn’t want to eat it all right away. He could die and be stuck as a ghost, too.
A low moan echoed in the woods, sending Goku right up a tree. Could ghosts climb? Oh wait, they could fly. That wasn’t fair. Why had he done this?
“It was just the wind,” he told himself. “Now go inside that haunted house. You can kick a ghost’s ass.”
His little body didn’t want to listen to his big mouth.
X X X
“Gojyo, where is Goku?”
The red head shrugged, more interested in his cigarette. “Do I look like the Monkey’s keeper?”
”Technically, we are,” Hakkai reminded him.
“After he sucked down all the chazuke and meat buns, he was mumbling stuff about not being a scaredy cat and proving he wasn’t, like I really thought he was.” Gojyo twisted on the chair. “Do you think he went back to the spooky house?”
“It would be a very Goku thing to do, don’t you think?” Hakkai responded evenly but Gojyo knew the tone. He expected Gojyo to do something about it.
“Yeah, yeah, I’ll go look for the crazy little guy,” he conceded, fetching his jacket. “But I can’t promise not to kick his butt when I find him.”
“I’m sure you’ll try,” Hakkai replied in that maddening, sweet tone.
Gojyo grumbled his way out the door, not hearing Hakkai’s whisper of ‘show time’ to Harkuryuu.
XXX
Goku stared at the house, still sitting in front of it. There had been no real signs of life so far. It was the unlife the boy was waiting for. Hearing footsteps, he jumped then saw familiar sunset hair. “Damn it, Gojyo!”
“Scare the piss out of you, Monkey?”
The self-satisfied smirk was enough reason for Goku to lie. “No. I just wanted to go in there alone. Don’t need your ugly face poking in.”
Gojyo snorted. “If you were going in there, you’d have done it by now.”
“Just watch me.” Goku stomped up on the rickety porch, the boards groaning out a chorus of protests as he walked. He knocked on the door.
“What do you think is going to happen? The ghosts will answer the door?” Gojyo laughed.
“No, but what if someone lives here for real? Don’t want to just barge in. I mean, there was smoke coming out of the chimney. Ghosts don’t need fire so someone might be in there.” Goku sort of hoped someone would answer the door and just end all the scary stuff but no one did. Goku tried the knob, going in when it turned easily. There were no lights but from the silvery moonlight spilling through a window he could see a table with candles on it, two long tapers.
“Light ‘em, Gojyo.” Goku pointed.
“We’re really going to go through here with candles?”
“Who’s the chicken now?” Goku gloated and Gojyo glared at him while lighting candles. “Where to look for ghosts first?”
“I don’t know. I was just supposed to come fetch you home. You do this insanity yourself.” Gojyo tried to sound bored with it all.
Goku returned Gojyo’s chicken clucks with interest.
Gojyo turned and headed for the stairs. “Fine, but if there’s a basement in here, you’re on your own.”
“So upstairs first,” Goku said, following Gojyo who just shrugged.
They had barely put foot on the second floor’s landing when the weird stuff started, a loud knocking echoing in the walls.
“Ah crap!” Gojyo muttered. “Monkey, don’t get so close. If you set my hair on fire, I’ll pound you flat.”
“You ain’t got a chance of that,” the boy replied, hanging close. “There’s gotta be a reason for that noise right? Like a cat.”
“Yeah, this is usually where the cat pops out or a tree branch is found hitting the window.”
“I don’t smell no cat.”
“What do you smell?”
Goku sniffed. “Lots of herbs mostly and people. Maybe someone is here.”
“Great, if someone is yanking our wanks, I’ll kill them,” Gojyo grumbled.
“Let’s see if someone’s down here.” The boy headed down the hall.
A sharp rapping sounded rapid fire up and down the hall. Goku yelped, colliding with Gojyo who steadied him by latching onto his pony tail.
“Steady kiddo.”
“I don’t want the ghost to possess me!”
“I was kidding about ghosts, Goku,” Gojyo said, eyeing the wall uneasily. “Just winding you up.”
“If there’s no ghosts, then what’s that noise?” the boy demanded, stabbing a finger at the hallway.
Gojyo didn’t have an answer. “Let’s just go home, Monkey. You proved yourself.”
Goku bobbed his head quickly. “Time to go.”
A door opened and slammed shut, making them jump then another door did the same. A third opened and laughter, high pitched and wild, cackled out of the room before the door thudded closed.
“Someone’s fucking with us.” Gojyo ran for the room, Goku practically trampling his boots off, he was so close. Gojyo flung the door open but the room was empty.
“What the hell” Goku darted around the room pulling open wardrobe doors and looking behind curtains. “This ain’t funny.”
“Let’s just go. We came. We saw and we’re not letting whoever it is get the best of us,” Gojyo proclaimed loudly.
“You know it. We ain’t scare, you hear that, Ghost?” Goku hurried back out into the hall. “We’re leaving cuz we wanna.”
A greenish light suddenly appeared at the end of the hall. A shadow edged into it. Huge wings sprouted upwards and a maw opened wide showing gobs of big teeth. Gojyo pushed Goku toward it then ran for the steps. Goku nearly knocked him down it. They were at the edge of the road by the time Gojyo stopped and turned.
“Why the hell are we running? It’s not like we aren’t some of the baddest asses around,” he said.
“Because we’re good at beating up stuff that has a body. What can we do to something with no body?” Goku reasoned.
Gojyo nodded. “Good point but when we get home, you had gone back to beg meat off street vendors and then I took you to a bar. No mention of this freaking house.”
“Deal.” Goku looked up at him. “Will you really take me into a bar?”
“Just walk, Monkey.” Gojyo shoved Goku in front of him
X X X
A shadowy figure watched the duo run out of the house. The green light quelled and Hakuryuu rustled his wings on Hakkai’s shoulder. An older woman popped out from behind one of the doors. She laughed loudly. “Your friends are a lot of fun. Shadow puppets with a dragon, ingenious.”
Hakkai chuckled. “Thank you for helping out, Ellisa. How did you manage to get through the rooms unseen like that?”
“This used to be a brothel. It’s full of passages so the johns could escape if the police raided.” Ellisa headed down the steps. “So, why did you want to scare your friends?”
“Well, I had hoped only to scare Gojyo. He was completely terrorizing Goku.” Hakkai followed her. “Sometimes the lesson is best learned the hard way. I knew it was only a matter of time before Goku felt he had to prove himself. Luckily, Hakuryuu travels faster than Gojyo can. Speaking of which, we’d better get moving so we can beat them back.”
“You will be back soon, though?” she asked hopefully.
“Oh yes. You make the best herbal remedies in town. Besides, I’m sure you’ll be highly entertained by hearing whatever highly unlikely story they’ll tell me about where they were.” Hakkai smiled.
“Absolutely.”
Hakkai headed out into the night, far more pleased with himself than he should be.
Author - Cornerofmadness
Disclaimer - not mine. All rights belong to Minekura
Rating - PG-13
Timeline - very soon after Sanzo and Goku meet Gojyo and Hakkai and before the guys get their weapons in that temple incident
Pairing - Gen fic
Summary - Who wants to stay in a haunted house any how?
Author’s Note - This was written for both the saiyuki_time challenge ‘spooky stories’, (took about 75 minutes) for chelle86 for the lyric meme from forever ago. She got Invisible and silent by Covenant also this is my annual Halloween fic a little late (between the Haunted Theatre and nano I’m so totally out of time. Thanks to evil_little_dog for the beta. Note there’s been a title change since it appeared in saiyuki_time. Also note this is still the relatively fresh from the cave, highly impressionable Goku.
XXX
“This place is creepy.” Goku’s little legs struggled to keep up with Gojyo and Hakkai’s strides as they headed back home after treating him to the bestest, tastiest dinner ever. He pointed to the rundown house, looking as if it was toppling down into the wooded acres behind it. He hated walking past this place every time they went into town from Gojyo’s place. A sluggish wisp of smoke floated in the cool air above it.
“That’s because no one lives there and it’s haunted.” Gojyo tickled a finger along the back of Goku’s neck.
The boy squealed, darting ahead, nearly losing the tins of tea Hakkai had bought in town.
“Gojyo, please refrain from terrorizing Goku.” Hakkai sighed as Hakuryuu rustled on his shoulder.
“Ghosts are scary shit,” Goku proclaimed loudly.
Hakkai lobbed a sour, put-upon look Goku’s direction. “And Goku, please don’t repeat ever swear Gojyo teaches you.”
“Before you know it, Monkey, a ghost will slide up behind you, invisible and silent.” Gojyo smirked then stabbed a finger at the boy. “Until they possess you.”
Goku jumped again, tea tins flying.
“Gojyo!” Hakkai glared. “Pick them up.”
“How is it my fault he’s a little chicken liver?” Gojyo, however, did pick up the tins.
“He’s a boy, Gojyo.”
“Come on. My brother used to pull shit like this on me all the time. It’s kind of fun being scared.”
“You’re just a big poophead.” Goku snarled, not helping Gojyo with the tins. The kappa just clucked at him, flapping his elbows in response.
XXX
“Call me a chicken.” Goku gazed up at the dizzying, slanting roof tiles of the haunted house. He’d spend the night here then who would be the chicken? Goku rubbed his grumbling belly. He was already hungry. He had stolen some fruit from Hakkai but he didn’t want to eat it all right away. He could die and be stuck as a ghost, too.
A low moan echoed in the woods, sending Goku right up a tree. Could ghosts climb? Oh wait, they could fly. That wasn’t fair. Why had he done this?
“It was just the wind,” he told himself. “Now go inside that haunted house. You can kick a ghost’s ass.”
His little body didn’t want to listen to his big mouth.
X X X
“Gojyo, where is Goku?”
The red head shrugged, more interested in his cigarette. “Do I look like the Monkey’s keeper?”
”Technically, we are,” Hakkai reminded him.
“After he sucked down all the chazuke and meat buns, he was mumbling stuff about not being a scaredy cat and proving he wasn’t, like I really thought he was.” Gojyo twisted on the chair. “Do you think he went back to the spooky house?”
“It would be a very Goku thing to do, don’t you think?” Hakkai responded evenly but Gojyo knew the tone. He expected Gojyo to do something about it.
“Yeah, yeah, I’ll go look for the crazy little guy,” he conceded, fetching his jacket. “But I can’t promise not to kick his butt when I find him.”
“I’m sure you’ll try,” Hakkai replied in that maddening, sweet tone.
Gojyo grumbled his way out the door, not hearing Hakkai’s whisper of ‘show time’ to Harkuryuu.
XXX
Goku stared at the house, still sitting in front of it. There had been no real signs of life so far. It was the unlife the boy was waiting for. Hearing footsteps, he jumped then saw familiar sunset hair. “Damn it, Gojyo!”
“Scare the piss out of you, Monkey?”
The self-satisfied smirk was enough reason for Goku to lie. “No. I just wanted to go in there alone. Don’t need your ugly face poking in.”
Gojyo snorted. “If you were going in there, you’d have done it by now.”
“Just watch me.” Goku stomped up on the rickety porch, the boards groaning out a chorus of protests as he walked. He knocked on the door.
“What do you think is going to happen? The ghosts will answer the door?” Gojyo laughed.
“No, but what if someone lives here for real? Don’t want to just barge in. I mean, there was smoke coming out of the chimney. Ghosts don’t need fire so someone might be in there.” Goku sort of hoped someone would answer the door and just end all the scary stuff but no one did. Goku tried the knob, going in when it turned easily. There were no lights but from the silvery moonlight spilling through a window he could see a table with candles on it, two long tapers.
“Light ‘em, Gojyo.” Goku pointed.
“We’re really going to go through here with candles?”
“Who’s the chicken now?” Goku gloated and Gojyo glared at him while lighting candles. “Where to look for ghosts first?”
“I don’t know. I was just supposed to come fetch you home. You do this insanity yourself.” Gojyo tried to sound bored with it all.
Goku returned Gojyo’s chicken clucks with interest.
Gojyo turned and headed for the stairs. “Fine, but if there’s a basement in here, you’re on your own.”
“So upstairs first,” Goku said, following Gojyo who just shrugged.
They had barely put foot on the second floor’s landing when the weird stuff started, a loud knocking echoing in the walls.
“Ah crap!” Gojyo muttered. “Monkey, don’t get so close. If you set my hair on fire, I’ll pound you flat.”
“You ain’t got a chance of that,” the boy replied, hanging close. “There’s gotta be a reason for that noise right? Like a cat.”
“Yeah, this is usually where the cat pops out or a tree branch is found hitting the window.”
“I don’t smell no cat.”
“What do you smell?”
Goku sniffed. “Lots of herbs mostly and people. Maybe someone is here.”
“Great, if someone is yanking our wanks, I’ll kill them,” Gojyo grumbled.
“Let’s see if someone’s down here.” The boy headed down the hall.
A sharp rapping sounded rapid fire up and down the hall. Goku yelped, colliding with Gojyo who steadied him by latching onto his pony tail.
“Steady kiddo.”
“I don’t want the ghost to possess me!”
“I was kidding about ghosts, Goku,” Gojyo said, eyeing the wall uneasily. “Just winding you up.”
“If there’s no ghosts, then what’s that noise?” the boy demanded, stabbing a finger at the hallway.
Gojyo didn’t have an answer. “Let’s just go home, Monkey. You proved yourself.”
Goku bobbed his head quickly. “Time to go.”
A door opened and slammed shut, making them jump then another door did the same. A third opened and laughter, high pitched and wild, cackled out of the room before the door thudded closed.
“Someone’s fucking with us.” Gojyo ran for the room, Goku practically trampling his boots off, he was so close. Gojyo flung the door open but the room was empty.
“What the hell” Goku darted around the room pulling open wardrobe doors and looking behind curtains. “This ain’t funny.”
“Let’s just go. We came. We saw and we’re not letting whoever it is get the best of us,” Gojyo proclaimed loudly.
“You know it. We ain’t scare, you hear that, Ghost?” Goku hurried back out into the hall. “We’re leaving cuz we wanna.”
A greenish light suddenly appeared at the end of the hall. A shadow edged into it. Huge wings sprouted upwards and a maw opened wide showing gobs of big teeth. Gojyo pushed Goku toward it then ran for the steps. Goku nearly knocked him down it. They were at the edge of the road by the time Gojyo stopped and turned.
“Why the hell are we running? It’s not like we aren’t some of the baddest asses around,” he said.
“Because we’re good at beating up stuff that has a body. What can we do to something with no body?” Goku reasoned.
Gojyo nodded. “Good point but when we get home, you had gone back to beg meat off street vendors and then I took you to a bar. No mention of this freaking house.”
“Deal.” Goku looked up at him. “Will you really take me into a bar?”
“Just walk, Monkey.” Gojyo shoved Goku in front of him
X X X
A shadowy figure watched the duo run out of the house. The green light quelled and Hakuryuu rustled his wings on Hakkai’s shoulder. An older woman popped out from behind one of the doors. She laughed loudly. “Your friends are a lot of fun. Shadow puppets with a dragon, ingenious.”
Hakkai chuckled. “Thank you for helping out, Ellisa. How did you manage to get through the rooms unseen like that?”
“This used to be a brothel. It’s full of passages so the johns could escape if the police raided.” Ellisa headed down the steps. “So, why did you want to scare your friends?”
“Well, I had hoped only to scare Gojyo. He was completely terrorizing Goku.” Hakkai followed her. “Sometimes the lesson is best learned the hard way. I knew it was only a matter of time before Goku felt he had to prove himself. Luckily, Hakuryuu travels faster than Gojyo can. Speaking of which, we’d better get moving so we can beat them back.”
“You will be back soon, though?” she asked hopefully.
“Oh yes. You make the best herbal remedies in town. Besides, I’m sure you’ll be highly entertained by hearing whatever highly unlikely story they’ll tell me about where they were.” Hakkai smiled.
“Absolutely.”
Hakkai headed out into the night, far more pleased with himself than he should be.