"tenpou? you okay?"

aga, he didn't hear it

suddenly sothg roared his ears: wild, vicio and unrestraed tenpou tried to stagger back, but found that he uldn't ove his hand was paralyzed, locked pal to pal with that of his irror iage which seed to oscilte before hifro youkai to that other for fro gentle to alicio, deliro and rippg at the seas

he felt pa rhg through his abdon like a cw beg dug to hi, felt the ra when he was nowhere near water it drove hi half ad and he cried out, tried to, but no sound erged fro his throat ra, hisses, and growls gri nocence and the sll of blood pourg ra and pourg blood he hated it and hungered for it, poundg ra and blood poundg through his ears then

soft ra, a soft bed, and a voice "did you want to die?"

i don't want to dieit was his st thought

the irror shattered now a broken piece of nothg with a bullet hole

five-hundred years ter, on a road headg west

the jeep screeched to a halt, its driver leang forward over the wheel, his sk grog pale and his eyes dig with extre fatigue

"oi, hakkai!" sanzo's harsh tone woke hi up

"sorrysanzo" hakkai apologized sheepishly "i guess i' jt tired, that's allbut i' fe now really the next town shouldn't be ore than ten -"

"jt shut up and drive the faster we get there, the better" he paed, then added a softer tone, "sleep ter, not now i' not the ood to be road kill"

"i understand" and so hakkai ntued drivg