Saiyuki: Check Mate (Saiyuki Fan-fiction)

Chapter 7

"Hang in there! We'll figure out a safe way to get you out of there!" Yelled Hakkai. Every word Hakkai said was so soothing to me. I knew I was safe as long as Hakkai was alive and breathing. I grabbed my arm and forced myself to pop it back into its proper place. I had to wait a few moments before I could adjust my head correctly, because I knew it would be painful. "Tch, we don't need those guys. Come on! Let's find our own way out of here!" Insisted the red head. He seemed very impatient and really pushy. The Kappa grabbed my arm and tried to pull me up to my feet, but I resisted him and yanked it away. "What the hell are you doing?!" I yelled at him. He was acting rather odd now and I could feel that something weird was going on with Gojyo. "Didn't you just hear what Hakkai said?! They're going to get us out of here! Untwist your panties for a minute and chill out!" I took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down. "Besides... I'm not going anywhere in this condition." I then grabbed my head and snapped it back on my spine track so that it would stand up straight again on it's own. "Are you crazy? We're like sitting ducks down here! Do you know what could be lurking down here?!" Gojyo pulled out his lighter and flicked it open. "Gojyo! Don't do it!" I yelled while knocking it out of his hand. He swiftly grabbed my wrist and started to squeeze it really hard. "What the hell are you doing?!" I slapped him on his cheek and shoved his hand against the wall. There were TNT's hooked tightly all around us, and if Gojyo had turned on his lighter, all of us would be fried. "Look, I don't know what's going on in your cockroach brain, but you need to slow it down! Stop being reckless!" I felt Gojyo's body tense up. "How the hell was I supposed to know that was there!?" I glared at the Kappa with content. He let out an angry sigh and quickly released my hand as he started walking in the opposite direction. "You can sit there and wait for the others. I'm not going to wait around and be babied." I ignored his remark and rushed over to grab his arm. "We need to stick together. It's dark down here, and something could happen to one of us..." Gojyo smirked as if he knew I would follow him anyway, and yanked his arm away from me. 

A few moments passed as we walked continuously in circles it felt like. I couldn't tell where we were, because of how dark it was. Gojyo hadn't spoken to me at all ever since our fiasco that took place. "It's amazing how you didn't get any injuries from falling down at that height, ya know?" I asked hoping to break the awkward silence we were trapped in. Gojyo didn't respond to my question, and began to pick up the pace in his step. "So, do you know where we're going?" I could tell that he was getting very annoyed with me. "Does it look like it?" I was getting tired of Gojyo's stank attitude and I shoved him against the wall. "Listen! You need to cut the bullshit right now!" I hollered at him. "I don't know what you're trying to accomplish by acting like this, but you need to stop it!" I was so infuriated that I slapped him across the face. He shoved me back against the opposite wall and punched me across the face. I couldn't tell how he felt, because his face had no emotion written on it. He then punched me two more times and summoned his weapon. "Gojyo! What are you doing?!" I asked him, but I didn't receive an answer. I rolled across the wall, dodging his swings at me and summoned my weapon as well. He aimed at my chest but I quickly blocked him with my sword and shoved his weapon directly out of his hands. He then dashed backwards retrieving his weapon and lunged forward at me, almost piercing my skin. I swiftly evaded him and used the butt of my sword to strike him in the back of his head, knocking him out cold. "Seichi?" Yelled a similar voice like Gojyo's. Faint footsteps were echoing off of the walls gradually getting louder in my ears. I held my sword in both hands, ready for any sudden attacks. "Seichi, is that you? Come on. Gojyo doesn't like the silent treatment!" My heart rose and I instantly knew that this was the real Gojyo. My sword dissolved and I instantly gave Gojyo the biggest hug ever. I quickly let him go and slapped him across the face. "Where were you?!" Gojyo moaned and rubbed his face. "Hey! That hurt, ya know!" I couldn't do anything but laugh because of how grateful I was that the real Gojyo was back. "After the fall, I thought I heard you whisper my name and tell me to help you up! We were walking down a long hallway and then you... Started acting weird and attacked me!" It must have been the weird darkness down here that's creating clones of us and fooling with our minds. "I experienced the same scenario that you did." I agreed as I stepped on the fake Gojyo's head, exposing a gallon of blood escaping the fake skull. "I knew something wasn't right down here. We need to stick together... Anything could be an illusion." I commanded to Gojyo. He nodded his head and hooked his arm around mine. "Glued to a pretty lady in darkness..." Smirked the red eyed cockroach. "Not my type of fancy... But I'll settle." I punched Gojyo in the stomach and urged him to keep walking. "This is going to be a pain in the ass." I mumbled to Gojyo.