The Promise
By: cj197722
Pairing: 39
Rating: PG
Beta: Candika (merci beaucoup!)
Disclaimer: Saiyuki belongs to Minekura
The Promise
Chapter 1
FOURS YEARS AGO
At the airport terminal
"Konzen are you really leaving? Please don't go and leave me behind!" A distraught, twelve year old Goku pleaded with the blonde man.
Konzen looked down with sorrowful, violet eyes at the shaking young boy hugging him tightly at the waist.
"I'm sorry Goku but it's part of my job as a journalist. I need to go to South Africa." he explained as he tenderly brushed the boy's soft brown hair. "I have an assignment to cover the civil war. I want to be there in order to show the world how terrible war is and hopefully the people of the world will do something to stop the suffering and chaos." He said, as he returned the boy's hug.
The golden eyed boy looked at him straight in the eyes, nodded his understanding and in a soft voice he said quietly "It's ok, I understand. I know you wanted to go to help those people. If anyone could help them it would be you, "because you're my sun!" He smiled sweetly as his eyes glistened with the tears that fell trailing down his cheeks.
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"I believe in my sun, so promise me you will come back as soon as you can."
Konzen couldn't help but smile back and said "I promise, but you must promise me that you will be a good boy until I come back."
"I promise Konzen cross my heart and hope the bogey man will eat my meat bun if I lie." The boy said solemnly.
The blonde man couldn't help but laugh as he kneeled down in eye level with the boy; he took a wooden box about 14 inches long from behind him and gave it to the boy.
"It's a good bye present. Come on open it!"
The boy took it and carefully opened it. Inside was an old but beautifully preserved wooden flute. Goku stared at it and looked at Konzen in shock.
"But this is your most prized possession; it's a gift from your late father…" Goku trailed off in confusion.
"Yes it was and still is," Konzen interrupted. "But now I give it to you. You've became quite proficient at playing the flute in very a short time. I know you'll love playing it so much that I can be sure you'll take care of it for me, so it yours to keep from now on."
A voice through the speaker could be heard calling all passengers heading for South Africa to commence boarding.
Konzen took a deep breath and looked at boy before him, he hated leaving him but he didn't have any choice. He placed his hands on Goku's shoulders. They were shaking with unshed tears.
"Listen to me, Goku. I promise to come back to you no matter what. I'm your sun and I couldn't leave you for long. Remember that as the sun sets it will also will rise again."
He hugged the boy fiercely as Goku started sobbing, unable to hold the tears back. Konzen leaned forward and whispered.
"Listen if you ever get lonely just play the flute or you could watch the sunset at the bay and I will be right there with you. Always remember that I will always be with you."
He kissed the boy's forehead and let him go as he stood-up. He picked up his hand luggage, said his goodbyes to his friends and then looked back at the boy.
"Remember your promise and stop crying. I want to see a smile on your face before I go."
The young boy bravely tried to stop his sniffles as he nodded and smiled back at the blonde.
"I'll keep my promise and so please hurry back home!"
"I will! Goodbye for now and take care of yourselves!"
The blonde man gave that one last smile of farewell and he followed the rest of his fellow passengers, but before he went out of the door he turn around one last time and has to use all his willpower not to go back to the boy, as he watch Goku waving his goodbye with tears in his eyes, clutching flute to his heart like a life line.
And so Konzen left on that fateful day and ever since then the boy could be heard playing the flute as the sun goes down. He did it everyday, without fail, as he waited for his sun to come back home.
FOUR YEARS LATER
"Paging Dr. Sanzo, please come to the trauma ward!"
A blonde man in white lab coat hurriedly walked toward the emergency room's trauma ward as the paramedics brought in the patient.
"What are the stats?" he asked the paramedic as he looked at the charts.
"A young Caucasian male about 16 years old got hit by a speeding pick-up truck. By all eyewitness accounts the boy and his companion was walking safely on the side walk when the pick-up truck suddenly careened towards them. The boy pushed his friend to safety but was hit himself."
As the paramedic was giving his report the doctor assessed the boy's injuries carefully. His face showing different emotions surprise, anger and then determination which none of his colleagues has seen before in such a stoic man.
"Prepare for a major operation. It's going to be a long night. I'm not going to stop until I'm sure the boy will survive. Do you all here me loud and clear?"
"Understood doctor!"
"Loud and clear!"
"Let's get moving!"
All of them were fired up as they went about their preparations. It was a long and arduous operation but the boy pulled through. Sanzo was standing beside the bed the boy was occupying on the recovery room looking the boy intently with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"I did my part. It's all up to you Goku, you got to live and maybe when you finally wake up you can finally explain to me why I had a strange vision of man who looks like me and he showed me an image of you and beg me to save you, his Goku and after that he disappeared and then not a minute passed before you were brought in.
He was watching the boy when Sanzo's double reappeared at the foot of Goku's bed. He looked at boy tenderly and then look as Sanzo approached him and he smiled at as place his right hand on the doctor's chest. A glowing light appeared in his hand, grew and glowed about him.
"Thank you, Sanzo my job it's done and now and I can give you my memories." Images and emotions flooded Sanzo's mind. It was surreal, like watching a movie on fast forward.
"It's all finished. From now on you and I are one and I will leave him in your capable hands. Please take care of him for me. Thanks again, my brother!" He dissipated as the golden light enveloped the doctor.
Sanzo stood there like a statue as he assimilated with the memories he has received and then he look at boy on the bed.
"Please wake-up, Goku. I've finally returned, as I promised, but I can't tell you the truth until you're ready to accept me the truth."
Then he went out to talk to the boy's family.
To be continued
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