Wow. So many references! And I'm assuming Hakkai is War, Gojyo is Conquest/pestilence, Goku is Famine and Sanzo is death. I particularly liked War!Hakkai. It suits him.

THAT was interesting...I had to re read through it a second time to sort it out and I'm still not completely sure. Sanzo is obviously death and Goku famine, but I couldn't quite sort out whether Goyjo was plague and Hakkai war or the other way around, it seemed like Hakkai was War...

A very intersting twist.

I love this. It's been in my favourites for an age. But it also bugged me because I didn't get it. This is because I have a lesser mental faculty than Goku. >.<
Now I understand it, I love it even more! It's sinister and beautiful and makes me giggle. If I could, I'd fave it again!

Clever. Really clever. The little references to hades following behind, and Sanzo as "more immediate realities" -such as ultimate ones- were just lovely. And they say the Devil's in the Details, don't they?

You often seem to come up with these quirky, original ideas: formerly, I read "One Flew Over". Congrats on a fine mind for the sublime.

=^..^=

hope you can hear my hands clapping, for they are. You did a real good job love the taxes line.

Harmageddon! *mad laughter*
I love the adpt charactazations of POLLUTION/PLAGUE!Gojyo, FAMINE!Goku, WAR!Hakkai and DEATH!Sanzo, again the references are seemless and amusing. Loved Gojyo's mind, as always.

And who'd have thought to portray Kougaiji-ikkoku as angels? Very good!

*round of standing applause* It's because of writers like you some people (like me) shouldn't have even started >.>;

This- is eerily beautiful. Such stories as this are a rare find on the 'net - jewels in the desert sand.

Forgive me for the flowerly language. But your story is good. I hope that you will continue to write others of the same quality.

...perhaps a youkai!Hakkai, if I might be so bold as to ask?

E! Beautiful, beautiful writing.

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'Sanzo watched Hakkai's back through the deepening wash of shadows. Sometimes he wondered why he put up with the man's melodrama. Life is pain, so get over it already. Only death is easy. The fingers of his right hand closed around the handle of the revolver in his sleeve. Sometimes, he wondered if it would be better to put those three out of their misery, or at least out of his. Sentimentality aside, he knew he could kill them, but under no circumstances were they allowed to kill themselves (or do something as pathetic as die for any other reason).'" pure pure Sanzo...I love this paragraph. It sings..it sings!
Kudos for Gojyo's dark and profane musings, and there is all to love about this and not least the image of these guys on horseback my personal fave of course is Hakkai and with sword as well and i love that "i-can-see-you-looking-at-me" moment and Hakkai seems very much more Hakkai here ...*zan is now a puddle of fangirl mush* ^__^ - zan