This is a short one-shot request fic for a friend from Livejournal. I don't know if I'll write more Saiyuki fic after this one, but this particular one is finished. Sanzo x ??

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Two men watched the rain fall from the window of a hotel room somewhere far from their home. The tapping noises as the rain beat down on the glass weren't soothing as they would be for ordinary men, instead they signified the inevitable. When the rain ended their companions would return.

"What that woman did was certainly brave." The taller man murmured, resting his head on his lovers shoulder. "Protecting her lover at all costs..."

In the previous town the group had encountered a woman who had locked up her own lover when she saw other demons go insane. She still tried to care for him, and even though he tried to kill her every time she brought him food, she continued to care for him, up until he started getting loose. His old friends apparently thought it was a good idea for them as a group to take on Sanzo and company. Not being the brightest or the strongest, they used the woman as hostage, expecting them to not attack at full force. Yeah, right. That was for good guys, which Genzo Sanzo was not. He shot the one holding the woman immediately, wounding her in the arm.

It was a fairly standard attack to stop them. It never worked. The only difference with this one was the woman mourning quite loudly afterwards. She had blamed them for the destruction of her perfect little world.

Oh well, her loss. The other man concluded.

"Would you do something like that for your demon lover?" Dark hair brushed against the other man's cheek as teeth grabbed his earlobe, gently tugging to get his attention.

"Hell no."

The tickle of the dark hair moving against his face as the other man nodded, laughing softly. "You're still the same old Sanzo."

Sanzo stood, finding his clothing on the floor and concluded that he was indeed getting too old for this crap. This crap being a death attempt in every city. He turned to see his lover, a demon by necessity, reclining on the bed and watching the rain. "We're definitely going to be attacked. We should go get Gojyo and Goku and move on before they start hurting other people."

Sanzo nodded agreement, checking his gun for bullets. "Hostages are annoying."

"You just like killing them all."

"They're the ones stupid enough to come after us."

Outside, the rain stopped falling.