Innocent Sutra
By: TheDayYouSaidGoodnight
Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki! I don't own the sutras. I only own the plot in the piggy bank filled with imaginative stupidity in my head.
Summary: At the end of the Journey to the West, Sanzo loses the sutras. An eight-year old girl of Togenkyo finds it and wants to return it. Sanzo returns to Togenkyo and despairs at the loss of the sutras and doesn't eat or sleep. Will this girl find the monk who needs these scrolls?
Chapter 1:
Losing Grip
"That's the last of the demons in this world." a certain blonde monk smirked as his golden hair flew with the wind and shone under the setting sun.
"Yes, Sanzo, we must come back to the East." Hakkai's voice said, "At least." Gojyo, the red-haired kappa said. Then a strong easterly wind came across and blew Sanzo's sutras into the wind. It was seen but it disappeared.
"No! My sutras!" the monk yelled, "Sorry, we can't see it. We'll just have to find it." Goku said and they were teleported to their homes.
Togenkyo...
An eight-year old girl strutted to the gate of the monastery to find a queer, scroll-like drape on her shoulders blown by the wind. She takes it off.
"Wow! Where did this come from? Maybe someone else owns it but I should take it home first." the young, orphaned girl said. Just as she went inside, the owner of the sutras strutted into the monastery with a long face.
In the monastery...
"Master Sanzo, welcome. Why the long face?" asks a young monk trainee, "I lost the sutras!" he said, lighting up a cigarette.
"What?" all the monks yelled, as one of them fainted. "What do you think happened idiots?"
The house of the orphan girl...
The little girl named Ayu opened a candle in her room and tried to read the writing of the sutras but couldn't. She sighed and had a glance at the monastery from her window. She kept the sutras in a safe place and slept.
The next morning...
Ayu took a bath in the small bathroom and took her bath and wore a long blue kimono with buttons and a yellow belt. She slipped on her sandals and tied her long, back-length black hair and her brown eyes glittered in the sunlight. She took the sutras with her and slipped it in her robe. She took some pork buns to sell in the street. Her first stop: the monastery.
Monastery...
"Please buy my pork buns! Please buy my pork buns!" the girl yelled. A monk came out and said, "Come! Hurry! I need one of those!" he almost dropped the yen he carried. The young monk, who was the same age as Ayu, spoke:
"Hiroshi, what's the rush?" Ayu asked the young monk. "Ayu, Master Sanzo lost something very important to him and doesn't eat or sleep. He looks like living hell!" Hiroshi said, "Very well, here's a pork bun." Ayu said, Hiroshi gave her 5 yen and went off to the master's room.
Sanzo's room...
"Here, Master Sanzo, something for you to eat." Hiroshi said, going to the high monk sitting on his bed, looking too horrid for a mortal to see.
Sanzo threw the pork bun on Hiroshi's face. "You idiot! Did I tell you to buy a pork bun? Get out!" Hiroshi went away but Ayu heard it. 'Poor Master Sanzo.' she thought, 'Did he lose these scroll-things?' she said, thinking of the sutras. She went off then sold the pork buns.
That night...
Ayu went to the monastery and asked for food. One of the monks gave her some and explained the angry shouts she heard that morning. They explained what he lost and what it looked like. Ayu knew soon that those scrolls were his. She felt sorry for him when she discovered what he looked like: his face was scarred and gaunt, his hair was white, white as snow, he was weak and wouldn't eat or sleep, he was as thin as a matchstick.
"I will return those sutras whatever happens!" Ayu said, "Master Shiroji, I found the master's sutras. I will return it to him even if he throws vases at my face!"
"Well, come back here tomorrow Ayu, and your pork buns are delicious." Master Shiroji, the one training the young monks smiled and went back inside.
Ayu went back to her home and took her bath and put on her night clothes. "I wonder what Master Sanzo looks like if he'll eat, sleep and I give back his sutras. I hope he will be a nice guy even if he's old but something's telling me he's young."
Was it boring? Did it suck?