A/N: Hello, everybody! Nice to see you all again! The nightmare (my school's monthly tests) are yet to come, still expecting the first semester EXAM to be announced on May...

I'm still in a sour mood... My old friend, Azure'sLover, visited me last Saturday, and we'd watched Saiyuki Reload Gunlock! It's the best Saiyuki series I've ever seen! AND she'd literally drooled over scenes of Sanzo only having his jeans on, repeat the line 'He's soooo HOT! KYAA!', PLEASE STOP THAT! Yes, I agree he IS a hottie, but I'd still stick with Hakkai. Sigh... he's so elegant. LOL.

However, please enjoy reading this fic, although it's kinda short. Happy reading!

Disclaimer: No way, nuh-uh, nope and never will own any of the Saiyuki characters. I... want... the... HARISEN! (Steals from Sanzo) "Give it back, you idiot!" BLAM! BLAM! Aaahh! FINE, HERE! JUST HALT YOUR GUNSHOTS! (Throws back harisen.) T.T

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SWITCHED!

Chapter 1: Makai Ten-err...what was it again?

Ten days...

It's been ten tiresome days since the Sanzo-ikkou had left the previous town to continue their long journey towards the setting sun, the west. Currently, Hakkai had carefully maneuvered their way through the final mile of a narrow mountain pathway, taking extra precautions on the road. And finally met with the ground level again.

Things were much quiet then, "Aaah... Harahetta..." Goku whined and slumped down on the passenger seat. His stomach too let out a growl.

"Shut up, saru. I can't hear myself think with your whining," Gojyo retorted, his eyes were gazing tiredly at every hill, bare trees or even gigantic rocks that passed the fast moving jeep. "Oi, Hakkai, how long this is gonna take?...again..." his eyes wandered around with uncountable boredom.

"Well, I've double-checked the calculations earlier. Good news is-" Hakkai started and was cut short by Gojyo.

"WHAT? So there's good news AND bad news...?"

Hakkai smiled whilst continuing his line, "Unfortunately, yes. Good news is we'll reach a town, hopefully by this evening if Hakuryuu can keep up this speed till then without delays. The bad news is... Hakuryuu is almost out of gas..." followed by a weak "kyuu" from the jeep.

"WHAAAAT! HOW COULD IT?" Goku suddenly got up and Gojyo dropped his cigarette, both shouted in disappointment.

Sanzo twitched his eyebrow, and stated in his cold tone, "Then, we'll walk our way there, I'm not gonna spend another night camping in the lousy outdoors."

"Eeh? But I'm so hungry I can't even lift a finger," Goku whined again and made big puppy eyes, but Sanzo is more of the acidic type, so as expected, it won't work on him.

"Ch! Drag yourself then!" Sanzo sneered, and his ultimate harisen showed itself to give sharp pain on those that offended him.

Goku almost fainted due to the impact of the harisen, wincing, "Itei..."

Suddenly, an incident they least expected to happen yet, came true... The jeep stopped moving in the middle of nowhere...

"Oh dear, guess this is our walking checkpoint," Hakkai muttered and gave a short sigh with Sanzo and Gojyo's swearing to top it up.

After 20 minutes of tensed silence, the four of them walked down the road tiredly. When they first came into contact with trees and bushes, Hakkai stated the town should be after this humongous forest. Goku kept whining for food, Gojyo's mood went foul when he'd realized his cigarettes are out and Sanzo can't held on to not thwacking the two every 5 minutes then.

But the situation turned ugly for the Sanzo-ikkou, demons ambushed them.

"There he is, Genjo Sanzo!" one of them yelled as he jumped down from a tree.

"Hand out the Maten scriptures or die!" another one yelled.

The three of them turned alert but found out they've been surrounded. "Hey, hey. Frenzy attempt for an ambush," Gojyo compliment as he summoned his shakujou and grabbed hold on it, but to his surprise, it doesn't have that cold steel touch. He'd glanced down on his hand and...

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS DOING HERE!" Gojyo burst in disbelief on the object he's holding isn't his shakujou, in fact it's Goku's NYOIBOU.

"OI, KONO BAKASARU! WHERE'D YOU HIDE MY SHAKUJOU!" He'd yelled angrily at Goku, whom too hungry to respond or stay alert.

"E-eh?" Hakkai was charging up a chi ball. Instead of a fully charged, glowing ball of yellow over his palm, a silver gun appeared. He was awfully dumbfounded and rubbed the back of his neck, "Sanzo... is this your shoureiju...?"

Hakkai's question did not registered into the blonde's mind as he'd pulled out something which is SO not his usual Smith and Wesson, but Gojyo's shakujou. "What the hell-!" he cursed as the weigh of the iron staff pulled him down, as it weighs an elephant. "Shit! Where the hell is my gun!"

The enemies stared at them and sweat dropped. "Hey boss, we should be getting them now, right?" one of them asked the leader, whom ferociously nodded then shouted, "EVERYONE, KILL THEM AND GET THE SCRIPTURES!"

More than two dozens of youkai dashed towards Sanzo and the others, they were dumbfounded, except Goku, about how their weapons got exchanged unnoticed, and was very frustrated.

"Stop budging into our business..." Gojyo was already furious. Firstly, they had to walk their legs sore to get to the next town; Secondly, he'd ran out of cigarettes before they're there; Now, they've been ambushed by demons and his weapon got switched. He'd swung the nyoibou at one of the demon, and hit straight at the face. "Fine, but this is gonna be unpleasant for you bunch of stooges!" as he went into fighting stance and started thrusting the nyoibou and kicking at any youkai he came into.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Hakkai couldn't help but started firing the shoureiju at those youkai, although he'd missed 3 out of 5 rounds of gunshots. "Sanzo, I'm out of bullets..."

Sanzo clicked his tongue and cursed, "Dammit, here!" He searched under his sleeve and threw a pack of bullets to Hakkai. Man, was he frustrated. Gojyo's weapon was too heavy for him to use, he can't even lift it.

Sanzo pulled it up with all his might, and successfully lifted it 6 centimeters away from the ground. A youkai slashed a sword at him but he'd dodged it in time, only causing a scratch on his right arm. "Ch!" he erupted and swung the shakujou, which landed a full strike on the youkai's chest.

Goku's whines rang in the forest area again, "Ah... I'm so hungry..."

PAHNG!

Gojyo gave another good kick on an opponent before marching up to Goku in anger, "Bakasaru! Demons are attacking us and all you can do is whine for food!" And bonked him on the head with the nyoibou.

"Owh! I can't help it! I'm so darn hungry," Goku narrowed his eyes at Gojyo. "If only there's some fruit bearing trees here..." he said with eyes locked on his palms, and something he didn't expect appeared from it. A glowing ball of yellow formed. Goku stared at it, added with his undeniable hunger as food hallucinations started.

"Ah, an orange!" he exclaimed and gobbled the yellow chi ball in one mouth.

And it'd made Gojyo totally freaked out, "Y-you'd just..! Hakkai! Sanzo! Take cover, Goku just ate a chi ball!" he started running a few feet away from Goku and ducked behind bushes.

"Wh-what!" All the enemies froze, then flee for their lives. Now, with the enemy gone, Hakkai and Sanzo too took cover behind bushes.

A few seconds passed. No sudden burst. No explosion. Just birds chirping and Goku giving another exclamation line, "Wah! A melon!" as another chi ball in green formed over his palms and he swallowed the whole thing.

Hakkai peeked over the bushes. Seeing that Goku is still eating the chi balls, but still in one piece. He sweat dropped. "Goku..."

Gojyo walked up to Goku and continuously stomped on him, "You dumb-ass monkey! Don't ever do that again!" and lastly threw the nyoibou at Goku. "Take your staff back."

"Owwwwwwch.." Goku wailed as his head felt like an avalanche hit it. Sanzo too gave another thwack on Goku with his harisen, and he dropped to the ground with swirly eyes.

"So anyone got any crazy theory about what happened to us just now...?" Gojyo started off the topic. "Our weapons...?"

"Yes, it is really unusual how it switched... My chi attacks aren't like normal weapons that were carried around and it's impossible for itself to exchange users," Hakkai commented. "Sanzo...?"

"Who else could it be... of course it's that old hag up there," Sanzo said and lit a cigarette, which irritated Gojyo's smoking ego for being out of cigarettes.

Hakkai and Gojyo looked up to the distant blue sky, "You've got a point," Gojyo said.

"So, how do we get our usual equipments back...?" Hakkai cupped a hand on his chin, as Hakuryuu, who was hiding during the fight earlier, flew down and perched on his shoulder. "Was it even possible?"

Sanzo snorted as he retrieved his Smith and Wesson which Hakkai dropped earlier on the ground. "How should I know? As long as mine's with me." Then short pause. "If my Maten scriptures were to ever be used by ANY of you idiots, I'd might as well add you to the death list."

"Heh, if I could, I'd rather get your gun and harisen," Gojyo muttered to himself and chuckled delightfully at the thought of Sanzo unable to use it against him.

"Hmph. Whatever you care. Let's go." Sanzo commanded.

Hakkai sweat dropped, "Hopefully the Merciful Goddess is kind enough to let us out of her weapon-switching 'spell'... Speaking of which, what about Goku..?" his resigned expression came and turned to a still fainted Goku.

"He's still out cold...but Hakuryuu rested a little just now, so we can hitch a short ride beforehand."

"Gojyo, drag the saru in."

"Who said I'm taking orders from you?"

Sanzo pointed his gun at Gojyo's neck with deadly accuracy, "Speak to the gun. I had enough trouble already, top another one and this will be the graves of you and Goku." he threateningly spoke.

"Okay, okay. I'll pass the graves,"

Hakuryuu gave a small 'kyuu', flew down and transformed into a jeep under a flash of light. Gojyo had to drag Goku to the jeep's passenger seat due to Sanzo's threats. Hakkai started the engine as all his other companions settled in. He determined the right direction on the map, and properly steered his way to the outskirts of the forest.

Meanwhile, waaay up the in skies. There's the heaven place... and a certain goddess was chuckling heartily to herself.

"Good guess, Konzen, very good,"

"Kanzeon Bosatsu, you didn't... or did you...?" A very worried Jiroushin questioned.

She grinned, "I'd let them have some unique experiences at using a new weapon or attack style that they won't ever try as they take turns using it. It's fun watching how they coped with it. Especially Konzen," and chuckled some more, but lightly this time.

"Don't you think it's not worth it for them to fight demons with weapons they're un-experience at...?"

"It's their problem if they can't cope with it, and this little trick will prove much entertainment to me for a while. Like I'd said to someone before, unchanging things are boring," the goddess smiled this time.

"Am I right, Genjo Sanzo?" she spoke again as the pond drifting with floating lily plants revealed the Sanzo-ikkou on the moving jeep, going forward... "Because here's where the real fun starts."

To be continued...

Chapter One- END

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A/N: YAHOO! I couldn't believe it! How I'd actually finished a chapter of my story in 5 days with my monthly test on! Usually it'll take me one to two weeks! LOL. So, now that you're reading this author note, please review. I'd really appreciate it if you do, so please, okay? Constructive criticisms are welcomed. Flames...ah, well I don't see anything wrong with my fic that'll attract flames. But IF you'd hate me or this fic, then bother to do so.

A million thanks and kisses for those faithful reviewers of mine: Languish-Dreams, Azure'sLover, Ice Queen, Itchan and Kanzeon Bosatsu. SANKYUU NE!