Title: Believe

Author: Magenta

Genre: PG/Romance/Angst

Disclaimer: Not mine. .

Notes: Taken from Gojyo's P.O.V. Set around episode 48. One-shot, I guess... Well, on with the story.

'What is love? I myself don't know the answer for sure. But one thing I'm sure, I didn't want it'

That's what I thought, before he stepped into my life. That painful look of his, were well hidden with a bright sunny smile. I'm in love with him, if 'love' is the thing that what you called for this funny feeling inside me. From the day I first met him, lying helplessly on the muddy earth floor. Then, that funny feeling grew more and more, deeper and deeper inside me, from day to day.

After that, we started traveling to the west, together with Genjo Sanzo, the namaguza bouzu and Son Goku, the baka-saru. I didn't hate them, but... It's fun to call them names. I like to see their pissed off face. Everyone of us were given nicknames, as for me, it's erokappa, but there's none for Hakkai. Why? He's far too... Too gentle to be given such a stupid nickname.

Hakkai are always gentle to us, he never gets angry, he always plastered the sunny smile on his pale face. Behind that fake sunny smile, I know, he hides a deep scar within his heart. A scar from an unforgettable painful past. He's no different from the rest of us after all.

And today, we're off fighting Homura Taishi, the fighting god, for our own sake. Yes, you may called us selfish, but we did everything for our own sake. Especially me. I hate to be defeated, I hate to stay as a loser, and treated like a stray dog. I hope all of us could still breath the earth's oxygen after this. Well, my lifeline is very long, down to the wrist. Maybe I'll live longer, huh? I don't believe all those stupid things. It is me who decide my own destiny, my own life, not some stupid lifeline.

And now, we're fighting a god-demon creature that kept on alive like a zombie. We had defeated them many times, but they're still alive. Suddenly, Hakkai volunteered himself to stay and fight the creatures, so that the rest of us could find Homura.

"Are you sure about this, Hakkai?" Sanzo asked for his confirm.

"Yes" Hakkai answered, while smiling.

"Okay then."

Sanzo just let him do what he want to, because Sanzo knows that Hakkai wouldn't change his mind even though we didn't let him to. He looks really gentle, but the fact is, he's quite stubborn... Hakkai...

"Gojyo, Goku, please believe me. I'll catch up with you guys later" Hakkai said confidently.

"Okay. And Hakkai, please don't die" Those were my last words for him, before heading towards the door to the next battle.

"Hai. Leave it to me" Again, he smiled.

"Sanzo, we're not going to leave Hakkai just like that, right?" Goku whined.

"He volunteered for it. Let's go on, saru!" Sanzo said within anger.

"But--" His words were cut off by me.

"Goku, you heard him just now right? 'Please believe me' he said."

"Un..." He agreed, half willingly.

I believe you Hakkai. I believe you with all my heart. So please, live a little longer so that I could confess my true feelings towards you...

Afternotes: It's so short! Real short! Angst again? I'm not talented in writing angst, why did I still write it??? This story have almost no plot at all, it's just based on Gojyo's thought. Bwaah!!! Enuff of GojyoHakkai, I'm doing SanzoGoku next! I really wanna write a Saiyuki humor, but I have no idea! 'Konzen, Kenren, Tenpou, please give me ideas!!!!!!!!!' --- A prayer from a desperate fic-writer named Magenta.