Trismegistus

This fic started out as an attempt to offer consolation to some characters who, four years later, I still think got the shaft.

Really.

No, really.

Summary: ever notice how Kanzeon Bosatsu never does anything, even when she knows all about what's going down? Even when she can apparently take Gokuu out with the blink of an eye? Ever wonder why that is, exactly? Vague spoilers for the end of Gensoumaden Saiyuki.

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これで以上です。

Ahem.

Dollar movie night at the local Tsutaya franchise last weekend found me renting a couple of DVDs, namely the first Gankutsuoh and Saiyuki Gunlock vol. 5.

I've had all the other Gankutus since they were released; for some reason the store didn't buy the first volume until about a week ago. It was nice to go back and actually catch the beginning.

Saiyuki is for some reason never in. Thus I have not seen any of the series beyond Gensoumaden and the first three eps of Reload, which amasugiru put on a birthday CD for me a few years ago. I'd say I average about 90 minutes of animated Saiyuki a year.

Which may not be much, but is sufficient enough to remind me how utterly embarrassingly awful it is as an animated series. So DVD having been faithfully viewed, I am set to head into another Saiyuki anime-free year.

Jun is a 30-something Japanese guy who works at Tsutaya. He's also fluent in English, having lived in the west for most of his childhood.

Egads, I thought as I was returning the DVDs. I hope Jun isn't working tonight.

He was.

"Oh, you're renting cartoons this time?" he asked. (I usually go for Korean dramas or Beat Takeshi stuff.) "What did you get?"

I told him.

"Hmm, this one, I would watch," he said, holding up good ole Gankutsu. "This one..?" He held up Saiyuki. A moment of teeth-sucking ensued. "I don't know why anyone would watch."

So totally busted, my aura of gaijin-ergo-cool-ness so carelessly squandered.

But then again, I have it from the horse's mouth that Alien v. Predator was one of the best movies released in recent history, so all may not be lost.

これで以上です。

やあ、やっとできてしまいました！！

I started writing this fanfic in 2001 and wrapped it up last Saturday night. Completed, it stands at forty-four pages. To phrase this along slightly different lines, that's an average of eleven pages per year. I am so not joking when I say I am the slowest writer on the face of god's green earth.

But anyway, it's finished, and two days before the Saiyuki Gaiden serial started back up, so I did manage it after all. I'm posting it now in the hopes that at least some of you read it before my version of events gets totally jossed by the sure-to-be-coming scanslations.

So here it is, my longest in-the-works Saiyuki fic to date. Probably an R, takes place immediately after the last tankoubon/released chapters with all the spoilerage that implies. It's not meant to be cut in two, but lj is making me.

Without further ado, ( Exit Wounds. )