Sai Touen

A young girl was the only resident in Keiun Temple of monks.

And training as a monk too, since there was rumors of a woman becoming a Sanzo in the West, why not?

But for the monks of China, that was still a new concept somehow. Sure she can study but she 'can never be official'.

However, because she was a special case, she was under the guardianship of Genjo Sanzo and serves only him. She was eight and he, sixteen. Due to how she came to be and couldn't understand their language yet she possessed incredible powers that weren't holy nor evil in nature but 'something neither', Sanzo named her Sai Touen. Because 'She just appeared by the peach tree in the grounds.'

To arrive-SAI in a peach-TOU garden-EN.

Due to what was found in her when he consulted the Sanbutsushin, she could not be on her own lest she loses control of her powers. She also possessed numerous tracking spells and harmful inhibitor spells applied with malicious intent on her, and a curse all of which was exorcised as it was beyond Sanzo's power, and skin that burns to ashes evil hands, a gift from her mother when they studied the nature of the power. Be it human or demon, as long as you have evil intentions upon touching her, you're dead by default, to quote Sanzo.

They tested and demonstrated to the entire temple to deliver that message home, when Sanzo brought a feral demon and a human man he tied up and signed to Touen that she touch it.

He screamed in pain as he turned a statue of gray, and became dust. Same goes for the human man who committed heinous crimes and evil at heart.

So the monks now know better than to lay a hand on her with evil intentions if they ever have any.

Next problem?

She does not know a lick of Chinese.

So he pretty much spent his time teaching her Chinese and takes her with him when he does his temple duties.

As monks, they eat vegetables and soy protein. They live off the land and through generosity.

She was marveled that she saw so much food in her life when she was given her share.

'I can have this? Really?' she asked in English in awestruck amazement and delight.

'What, never seen rice and vegetables before?' Sanzo made gestures to communicate that to her. She deflated gloomily.

'No...I can only have scraps from the table. That's what my relatives would say even though I always cook their meals. But even then they're all so greedy I have not even a mouthful. Just water and I was always hungry. They said its what freaks like me deserve.' she said. 'I never had a full plate in my life.' she had trouble gesturing that back and the monks looked at her with abject horror.

It goes without saying she was abused and enslaved for her powers. What eight-or-younger cooks in the kitchen?!

However, due to her state, she could not finish her meal and fell ill.

Starved all her life and then tried to eat more than she could handle? Recipe for disaster.

While learning Chinese, her stomach was being trained while she does duties expected of monks her age.

She eats medicinal herbal soup following the rules of herbal medicine. Its what she mostly ate in her first year. Thin 'very soupy' congee second year. Fruits third year and by this time she was 'literate enough' to teach English, her native language to her Guardian. She also learned of the name her 'big brother' gave her. Sure he calls her 'Touen' but had no idea what that meant until her told her her new name...

Apparently, her original name or at least, its what she says her relatives use in school since they can't exactly tell the school her name was 'freak'. So she was skeptical that her name was Angelica(白芷-Hakushi) Potter(陶芸家-tougeika) she pronounced her name in English and Chinese when she told Sanzo her tale. She likes the name Sanzo gave her since it was 'an honest decent name' not 'a name made-up by liars'.

Well, they were lying to the neighbors about her the whole time while making her life hell. She wished so hard to get away and be with a person who would always be honest with her, never lie to her and treat her like how she should be treated since she was jealous of other kids in school that why couldn't she have a good family and be treated kindly. Hence she wound up in China and she ended up with him.

However, she was from the future...who went to the effing past. She was a child from year 1988! The year they're in? 1929!

Again, he consulted the Sanbutsushin.

Indeed, she was from the future, but Touen didn't want to go back. The consequence of her decision was that 'she went missing' in her time and she was 'displaced'. Things would then change. If she was born a girl...if her parents decided to have her, she will 'cease to exist' and a boy will be born to her parents instead to avoid a paradox and cancel each other out while she lives in the past and slowly coming to the present. She can then save her baby self from abuse and give the 'new self' a good life she was denied.

'It's OK...I was born to irresponsible parents I ended up with abusive relatives, that wasn't something to cry about anyway.' she made her decision to stay in the past in order to save her different future self, assuming she wasn't killed first!

But second year into her education(she's ten), Sanzo left home because he hears 'an annoying voice that keeps calling' and went to check it out. He came back with a boy(physically 13) older than her whom he called 'Son Goku'.

The monks were in utter dismay that he brought home 'an uncontrollable brat' and not someone like Touen who was more well-behaved(and well-liked)!

Goku tried to befriend Touen but she had no idea what he was doing, because she never knew what 'being friends' was about, baffled by his actions, gestures and attitude towards her and would run away, confused and Goku would chase her.

The monks HAD to explain to both children as Sanzo didn't want to explain 'mushy sappy cheesy shit'.

Once facts were delivered home, Touen slowly warmed up to Goku and took to being his leash to avoid trouble.

Goku was a child born from a rock where 'earth aura gathers' in Mt. Kakeyama. He never knew about life and he was the one calling for Sanzo psychically because he 'was lonely'.

But outside his prison? He was always perpetually hungry constantly whining of hunger every...two or three hours. And eats a lot.

Just to shut him up, Touen makes him bury temple and town waste under her fruit trees before she grows fruits for him to keep the soil healthy. And he has to learn Basic Human Understanding and Common Sense. He could read and write in the same level as her somehow, so education basically continued.

By third year of her life in Keiun Temple, she was eleven years old and started learning how to fight from Sanzo and using magic. She knows Math at least, when Sanzo asked her if she does. He deemed it 'enough to get by in life' and focused more on monkly teachings and training, and teaching her what things he deems 'necessary' that she wound up growing jaded and logical as he was but thankfully, his gruffy impersonal attitude and short-temper didn't rub off on her. She also asked to learn medicine and about plants.

Her powers were indeed neither holy nor evil. But rather 'what she wants to happen happens'.

She grew fruiting trees, can make them bear fruit when she wants to regardless of season but only 'gets enough' unless she was told to make enough for the whole temple. She also planted trees where mushrooms grow for food as well as vegetables in 'spare lands' which the monks harvest.

Sanzo then takes them on extermination trips to get them used to combat because its their job to subjugate demons at any rate and keep town safe. However...

Touen is human.

And there's a legend that a human who bathes into the blood of a thousand demons becomes a demon. Sanzo counted her kills by touch and as she never gets blood on her, rather, she kills by disintegrating touch, he wasn't too sure so he began making her learn firearms usage, with her favoring pistols and not revolvers, and dual-wielding them when asked to choose her Banishing Weapon. She also magically modified the guns with sorcery so they don't have to pause to reload and they can keep shooting, which Sanzo found VERY CONVENIENT. The sorcery was connected to their cache of bullets so they had to have separate stashes of supplies and they would psychically know how many bullets they have left. Problem? They have to keep resupplying en masse.

And bullets ain't cheap.

And now, to the present when she's now fifteen years old and Goku still in his teens as his kind ages slow...

She's now 5'2 in height, fair-skinned with vivid-green eyes and wavy black hair. Her foreign features made her quite the 'exotic beauty' that by the time she was thirteen, Sanzo made her live in a Nun's Monastery to keep monks in check and keep to their vows out of pressure on him by the elderly monks who were getting worried. Temptations DO happen...so now she works in an orphanage under an elderly nun. Unlike nuns, she did not shave her head! But to keep an example, she wears a headdress to hide the fact she still had her hair.

5'2 and using her magic to make herself grow up in 'ideal beauty' of her time from what she sees in books and magazines in the school library of her era, she pictured herself in what works and what doesn't for her as she has narrow, petite torso and wide hips. A spoon-type, magazines would call it! So she compensated herself with a full, busty top and taking good care of her legs and hips. She was also in peak condition, being a trained warrior and monk unlike the nuns she was with as nuns were strictly delegated to protection, defensive and healing magic. She was in charge of discipline in children, teaching them Good Morals Right Conduct.

One day in spring, she was causing spring fruits to grow, when Sanzo came with Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai.

'Oi! Touen~!' Goku called out with a handwave.

'Hi! Come to visit the orphanage?' Touen greeted while causing mangoes to ripen, and with a wave of her hand, cause mangoes to fall and float to the wooden crates.

'No. You're coming with us on a job.' said Sanzo. 'So get packing only necessary things, we'll handle the Orphanage Matron.'

'Eh?! H-hold on!' Touen scampered off, nearly tripping in her nun vestments causing her to swear crossly.

'Ohya ohya, nuns aren't supposed to swear.' Gojyo sniggered. 'Or she learned that from you eh?' he joked at Sanzo who twitched.

'Shuddup, I'll kill you.'

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'Been two years since I got kicked out of the temple for growing up.' Touen mused as she packed comfortable travel wear, and travel essentials.

Three spare changes of clothes, underwear, 'red week needs', hygiene and grooming stuff medical supplies and her vast collection of seeds for food supplies.

She changed out of her nun outfit and wore a black tube top under a sleeveless moss-green denim duster that can be secured at front by a single button, denim khaki shorts and dark brown boots. She also has black spandex elbow warmers as she hated it when her elbow area gets sweaty.

Upon getting out of her vestments, she has rounded and toned shoulders but not on 'masculine levels' and toned legs she ensured, is on ideal womanly levels in muscle development. She wears her hair in a high ponytail braid to keep it away. She then wore her cross-draw shoulder gun holsters.

Under her bed, she yanked out her crate of banishing bullets and ten spare guns. She activated sealing magic on her upper left arm and stored everything she will bring there. Besides, she still has access to her stash in fights.

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'I see...so by the order of Sanbutsushin she is to come as a support.' the Orphanage Matron mused. 'She really is indispensable, we'll miss her.' she sighed. 'We could afford comfort and decent things for the children in our care these past two years its almost a dream we're about to wake up from. But given the situation...we can only blame who's doing it.'

'They caused a damn huge mess and casualty in their wake.' said Sanzo. 'We go to the West and do our job, then its up for debate if we'll even live after that.' said Sanzo bluntly. The nun can only sigh in resignation when Touen came.

'Sanzo! Before we go there's something I wanna do first.' said Touen as the nuns gasped at her outfit.

'Touen! What on earth are you wearing?!' a younger nun squeaked in horror at her revealing clothes.

'Ah this? My skin is death for demons if they're dumb enough to touch me.' said Touen as she twirled in her new clothes. 'Since I had to be revealing, its why I got booted out of Keiun out of necessity.' she snorted.

'...what do you want to do before we leave, Touen?' Sanzo asked her. 'We can't take long.'

Touen took out a wooden crate as tall as she was, and about 20 inches wide. She put it down and opened to reveal...holy shit...

'Son of a gun! Where'd you get those?!' Gojyo howled at the crate of various corundum-class gems. He could not help but DROOL as if they sold those, they're effing set for life!

'The mines, obviously.' Sanzo drawled in sarcasm as he pinched his nose hard in exasperation.

'I'll be gone for a long while, the orphanage should subside off these.' said Touen. 'As a monk I'm obligated to do risky subjugation missions, so...'

'Indeed, with all this, we're set for life.' the elderly nun squeaked.

'I guess we sell all of it and make sure the funds really will benefit the orphanage...' Hakkai chuckled. 'We have to take great care and avoid getting cheated.' he said nervously. He like any sane adult, is nervous about this...all that in Touen's crate...she's supplied enough gems to cause the jewel market to crash for a bit while so much gems circulated...

'What a headache you just dropped on me...' Sanzo groaned at his grinning ex-student.

So yes, they had to sell all those jewels, amassing a huge fortune and securing it for the orphanage to avoid 'improper use of funds' and 'vanishing funds'.