Saiyuki: Check Mate (Saiyuki Fan-fiction)

Chapter 10

We froze there staring directly at each other for a few moments. Her large, green orbs were stabbing at me. I tried to make myself feel horrible for the situation we were in, but I couldn't bring myself up to it. Part of me thought that she was being childish and selfish. She made the situation orbit all around her and didn't even think to ask how I felt through all of it... but maybe that was what I deserved. Then again... who has the right to decide? "Ganah... you have to realize... that the past is in the past..." I managed to mumble under my breath. I swallowed the blood that tried to seep out of the corner of my mouth. "To hell it is Seichi!" Her voice caused the walls to rumble in anger. "You know what? I don't think you get it. I don't think you understand the heartache you've caused me!!!" Instantly, my body gradually began to melt into the ground until only my face was revealed. The pressure from the ground made it a struggle to gasp for air; like I was on the verge of drowning. Gojyo stood up and pointed at Ganah. "Who the hell do you think you are?! Punishing her like that... Well sure she made mistakes... but you were younger!" I looked up at Gojyo in concern. He looked determined to plead his case and he knew that he wasn't going to fail. Ganah shifted her gaze over to Gojyo. "Hm?" She instantly teleported over to an inch away from Gojyo and cocked her head. "Are you... defending her...?" Gojyo furrowed his eyes at the woman but held his ground. Goku and Hakkai rose up along side Gojyo and dusted themselves off. "Honestly..." Hakkai cleared his throat and sighed. "...Did you seriously think that we'd let you beat up one of our treasured party members?" Goku looked very irritated and annoyed. "Yeah!" He quickly summoned his staff with a determined look on his face. "Being trapped down here is really starting to piss me off! And I haven't even had my dinner yet!" Ganah giggled at the bunch and shook her head. "... So... I'm betting you'd like to fight... correct?" Gojyo quickly summoned his weapon and attempted to stab the woman. "Bingo!!!" She swiftly dodged each swing he threw at her. "Gojyo! Move out of the way!" Hakkai instantly shot a chi-gon cannon a second after Gojyo evaded, but created a hole in the wall instead. Goku let out a loud battle cry and threw a swing at her side. Ganah teleported behind him and kneed him in his side, flinging him down the hall. "Goku!!" Called Hakkai in pain. "You bastard!!!" Gojyo was now recklessly throwing swings at her, but she swiftly dodged each and every one of them. "Stop dancing around and get serious already!" Yelled the cockroach. She giggled to herself again and instantly, her face got serious. "Get serious? I'll show you serious. Iris... Destroy, destroy, DESTROY!" A little girl floated out of the ground with a white teddy bear in her left hand. She was hugging it really tightly as if it were a prized possession. "Rima-chan... why do these people want to die?" She asked towards the stuffed bear. It demonically smiled at the girl and it's eyes glowed a bright red. She played with its arms and frowned at it. "Shouldn't they know that master is always right? Iris knows that the master is always right... doesn't she?" The doll didn't move; it rested in her arms lifelessly. "Well if master wants us to destroy them... then I guess Iris doesn't have a choice." She pranced swiftly across the ground as if she were ballroom dancing with the teddy bear, and gingerly approached us all with a lazy look resting on her face. "Rima-chan..." she muttered. The stuffed bear seemed to understand and it jumped up in the air and disappeared. I glanced at her neck and saw a dangling key chain labeled 'Iris' with a rose under it. She had a doll like face with the same hair and eye color Ganah had. "Iris..." I mumbled to myself. Her named sounded familiar, but I didn't know who she was. Iris twitched and smiled at me. "Seichi-san?" She gave me a look of happiness but then went sour. "Seichi-san, you have defied... master..." A small tear drop formed underneath her left eye. "Why, Seichi-San!? Now Iris has to hurt you!" Before I could process what was going on, Iris's hand was already dug snugly under my rib cage, causing me to cough up blood. I couldn't even flinch a vessel before her teeth were shredding my stomach apart.I took a quick glance at the boys as they were trying to summon their weapons, but they wouldn't come to their call. Hakkai's chi power was blocked and Sanzo's gun and scripture were missing. Goku continuously yelled 'Nyoi-bo' in hopes of summoning it, but failed. I then came to my senses and grabbed Iris's forehead and shoved her back, knocking her into the wall, roughly. She let out a high pitched scream and twitched deep into the wall. As I looked down at my stomach, I noticed that my rib cage was terribly exposed and my insides were barely dangling from my upper torso. "Well... Shit..."  I managed to mumble underneath my breath. "Iris, is it? That wasn't very nice you know." I began to rise to my feet hesitantly, and struggled toward the doll like creature. "Seichi! What the hell are you doing?! How are you even getting up after that!" Yelled the kappa from behind me. The monkey dashed towards Iris with determination staring her dead in the eyes. "You bastard!" He threw a punch at her, but she caught his hand and flung him across the room. Gojyo dashed in right behind him with Hakkai at his side. A big blast of energy came from Hakkai's palms, and a swift kick from Gojyo struck her deeper into the wall. "Sorry, sweet cheeks, but you're too young for me!" Right after the words fled from Gojyo's mouth, a shriek from Sanzo was heard from behind us.