"I wonder what's wrong with Sanzo...?" Goku thought to himself as he stood in front of the door that led to Sanzo's room. It was raining outside, it had been for the last two days, and Sanzo had not been his usual self. Goku was becoming worried about Sanzo, "What's going on with you Sanzo?", he whispered at the door, Hakkai then came over to Goku, "I think it's best we leave Sanzo alone for a while, he should be fine soon," he said, wearing his usual smile. "What's going on with him then?, Goku asked persistently, "He's not how he usually is, he's so cold and distant." "Oh? But isn't that how he always is?" Hakkai responded, and then headed out of the hallway, into his room. "Dammit Hakkai, that's not what I meant!" Goku yelled out as Hakkai closed the door to his room, but then Hakkai pulled the door back open and said smiling, "I mean it quite seriously actually, sorry if it didn't seem like it..., and Goku, I would really recommend you leave Sanzo alone right now." He closed the door to his room, and Goku had a blank look in his face, "Why can't I go talk to him? Why should I leave him alone when he's like that? Maybe there's something wrong with him, is he sick?" Goku thought, he slowly reached towards the doorknob and turned it.
"Um, Sanzo? What's going on, are you alright?" Goku said as he opened the door to Sanzo's dark room. Sanzo looked over at him with cold eyes, but didn't say anything. Goku then asked him again, "Why have you been like this for the last few days? What's wrong, are you sick or something? C'mon, tell me!" He persisted on getting his answer, and Sanzo began to get irritated by it. Sanzo reached into his kimono sleeve and took out a banishing gun, a gun used to destroy demons, he aimed it at Goku and said angrily, "Get out." "Wha-? Sanzo...I..." Goku replied, afraid of what Sanzo would do with that gun. "I said get out!" Sanzo shouted loudly at him, and fired his gun, barely missing Goku by an inch. Without a reply, Goku ran out of the room and out of the inn they were staying at. He ran all the way, until he reached a thick forest, where he met up with the last person he wanted to see.
Back at the inn, Gojyo and Hakkai had heard Sanzo's gun fire, and had run into Sanzo's room. "What the hell just happened here? Did you get in a fight with your girlfriend or something?" Gojyo asked when he noticed the bullet hole in the wall next to the door. "I just needed to get rid of a stupid monkey that came in on his own," Sanzo said with the same cold expression he had shown Goku. "Where did Goku run off to?" Hakkai asked, with a slightly more serious expression than usual. "How should I know? He didn't say anything before he left, so it's his own problem," Sanzo responded. "Don't you care that Goku might get himself into trouble if he wanders through the forest that's surrounding us?" Hakkai replied. "Like I said, it's his own problem if he ran away," Sanzo said, annoyed this time, he pointed his gun at them and added, "If you don't get out, I'll kill you." Hakkai put his arms in front of him and responded, "There's no need for that, we will get out on our own, right Gojyo?" and he pushed Gojyo out the door and followed him outside, "I heard there have been demons wandering these forests since yesterday," Hakkai said, and closed the door to the room.
Sanzo sat down on his bed as soon as they left, "They sure are annoying," he said to himself. He looked out the window, he saw the large drops of rain water hit the muddy ground. He then started to think back, about his past. He remembered the things his master had taught him, how his master would make orange paper airplanes and throw them into the air, it looked so amazing to him, to see how the orange plane would accentuate the clear blue sky. Now the sky he looked up at was dark and covered with gray clouds, it made him think of the day his master had died. Demons had come to attack them at the temple, and his master had protected Sanzo from those demons, and died himself.
He then let his mind wander off into what Hakkai had said. "Demons have been wandering the forests since yesterday? Why yesterday? Just the night before yesterday was when we came into this inn, I suppose the demons have been following us," Sanzo thought, "At this rate, Goku will get into trouble and probably get himself killed." "Damn," he said, as he threw out his cigarette and came out of his room. "I'm going out," he told Hakkai and Gojyo as he opened the door. "Where are you going?" Hakkai asked. "I'm going to go buy some more cigarettes, bye," he replied, and with that said, he closed the door behind him and went out in to the forest.
"Well, well, who do we have here?" a figure within the distance of Goku's vision said. Goku looked over to it, and yelled out, "Who's there?! What do you want?" The figure approached Goku and revealed himself to him, "Kougaji!" Goku said angrily as Kougaji came into a clear view from him. "I don't want to fight! I'm not in the mood right now!" Goku told him. "Don't give me that nonsense! I will take Sanzo's scripture, and you're going to find Sanzo for me!" Kougaji said, as he prepared himself to attack.