Beauty and the Priest

Summary: When Hakkai returns to his hometown in an attempt to live a normal life, he finds himself far from base as he ends up rooming with a couple of strangers. Life continuously spins further out of control as he attempts nothing more than being normal. AU

Disclaimer: Ha, like I could do Saiyuki its proper justice if I'd made it.

Prologu

e: Blonds

"Did you really find somewhere for me to stay?"

Gojyo shoved his hand in his jacket pocket impatiently searching for his pack of cigarettes. "I said I would, didn't I?"

"Yeah, but…"

Gojyo paused for a moment to look at Hakkai before returning to his almost frantic search. "But what…?"

"I really am sorry about the trouble I've caused you."

Gojyo didn't bother to answer as he dug deeper in his pockets, the urge for nicotine growing stronger. He'd be lying if he said it was all right. His thoughts began to linger to the curvaceous woman he'd left in his warm bed to come and pick up his friend who was a guy and apparently one without a watch. Honestly, who asked for a favor at two in the morning?

Gojyo sighed as he retrieved his pack and removed a cigarette, placing it carefully between his craving lips, ignoring Hakkai's blush at the inappropriate shape of the lighter. After lighting his precious nicotine stick and taking a long drag, he brushed a few of his red locks out of his face and took the time to inspect the figure of the naked woman his lighter had been shaped to. But when he realized how much it reminded him of the woman he'd left in his bed, he turned to Hakkai, impatient to return to his apartment.

"The place you said to go to, I need the address. I'll find my way there, I just need instructions," Hakkai admitted.

Gojyo blinked at Hakkai for a long moment. "What was stopping you from calling me to ask for that?" he demanded, only to receive a sheepish laugh from the other man.

"Well, I wasn't sure I'd remember the place. But once I got here, I realized that nothing's really changed and I could find the place if you gave me an address," Hakkai explained.

Gojyo rolled his eyes and dug into his pockets once more, finally withdrawing a handful of junk and deposited it onto the roof of his black Mustang. Separating the various items that would be of no use, such as the various condom packets-some empty, Hakkai noticed with a blush-Gojyo finally found an old receipt and a pen that miraculously worked before writing down the instructions.

"The guy that lives there runs an antique shop. Sells a lotta old shit," Gojyo shrugged and turned, moving to get back into his car. He paused long enough to turn to Hakkai to ask, "You sure you wanna walk?"

Hakkai smiled at him. "Yes, I'm sure," he confirmed. "I've been sitting down far too long as it is." He hiked the backpack on his shoulder higher up and gave a small wave as if to settle the matter.

Gojyo scribbled something quickly on the receipt before relinquishing the paper to Hakkai. "Be grateful; I don't give my number to guys, and tell them to call me if they need me," he told him, before opening his car door.

Hakkai eyed the slip of paper quickly before turning his gaze to Gojyo with a smile. "Of course," he agreed, amused at his womanizing friend's antics.

Hakkai turned and began to walk away only to be stopped by Gojyo's words. "Hey Hakkai." The said man turned and glanced at his friend expectantly, waiting.

"One more thing and I swear I'll let you go."

Hakkai blinked in question as he turned to square himself off to Gojyo. "Yes?"

Gojyo's eyes sparkled in amusement, making them seem red in the moonlight rather than the rare brown they really were. "Do you like blonds?"

Hakkai, taken aback, could only stare at his friend for a few moments. "I don't really…" he trailed off, searching for the right words and coming up with nothing.

Gojyo laughed at some inside joke, leaving Hakkai even more flustered and confused. "Never mind, man, it was just a question." He got in the car and started it, waving at a very tired Hakkai before peeling off in the opposite direction and leaving Hakkai to follow his directions to get to his new home.

"You owe me, Sanzo," Gojyo growled over his cell phone not even a minute later. His brief conversation with Hakkai reminded him that he needed to blackmail the owner of that antique shop to house Hakkai.

"Bullshit. I don't owe you a damn thing," Sanzo growled in response. "I haven't owed you since I took in the monkey."

"He's nothing like the monkey."

"I don't give a damn; he's not staying here."

"Come on, Sanzo…I'll burn those pictures of last year's Christmas…"

Gojyo smirked as he sped down the highway. He could practically hear Sanzo wincing at the memories. Apparently even Sanzo could get wild when he'd had enough vodka.

"Whatever. It's too late now, he's at my door."

"Thank you, Sanzo," Gojyo teased in a sweetly innocent voice.

"Go to hell." Was the cold reply before the connection phone went dead.

Hakkai blinked at the man who stood at the foot of the steps of the spiraling staircase in the corner of the shop. He was glaring at him with brilliant blue hues that seemed to be on the verge of violet, although Hakkai had never seen the man before in his life and figured the man was only angry at the disturbance so late in the night.

"You must be Hakkai," the man stated, glaring him down.

"Uh, yes."

The man seemed disgusted and highly annoyed as he began to turn.

"Figures," he muttered.

Hakkai took in the sight of the man before him, from the silk navy blue shirt that had been left unbuttoned revealing the creamy, muscular skin beneath to the jeans hanging low on his hips due to the fact that they weren't buttoned and not all the way zipped to his shoeless feet. Finally Hakkai's gaze ventured up again and he almost gasped at the realization.

He was going to kill Gojyo.

At Hakkai's silence, the man before him glared harder–surprising Hakkai, who was sure that wasn't possible–through the blond, messy locks that grew past his forehead.

The man was blond as the day was long.

"Do you like blonds?"

Oh yeah, Gojyo was a dead man.

A/N: So I started writing this as a oneshot lemon for a friend of mine and decided to do both her and myself a favor by just making a fanfic with a pairing between Sanzo and Hakkai. Sorry if I didn't make it apparent that it was gonna be them together. I'm still trying to figure out the whole number pairing system with the guys. (It shouldn't be that hard, but you'd be surprised...--') Anyways, reviews would totally rock my world, since I need to know if I'm going in the right direction with this.

Till later. nn