Disclaimer: sings I don't own Saiyuki, or Gojyo, or Hakkai. I don't own Sanzo or Goku; so don't ask me to die. All I own is this plot outline. So please don't sue me – oh, that would be far from fine!
Warning: This is a yoai ficcy (actually, I don't know if it will make it quite that far, I only have this chapter done as of now), consisting of a Gojyo/Hakkai pairing. If this bothers you, then please do not read this. You have been warned!
A LOVE EVENTUALLY REALIZED Chapter 1: The OglingGojyo looked at his cards, rather displeased. He cursed to himself, mad he had agreed to such a stupid bet in the first place. Sanzo dropped his cards on the table, and he didn't even have to say the word for them to know he'd won – lucky for him Hakkai wasn't playing. The other two dropped their cards in defeat, though Gojyo was glad to see Goku's hand was worse, which brought a small smile to his face.
After Sanzo successfully collected the money from the other two, they made their way downstairs to what served as a restaurant.
"Ah, Sanzo, Goku, Gojyo!" Hakkai said as they came down the stairs to join him, and, seeing the look of loss on all but Sanzo's face, added, "I see Sanzo won."
"Yeah! It's so unfair – he always wins!" Goku complained.
"No," Gojyo said, slightly irritated. "Hakkai wins, but since he wasn't playing this time, Sanzo had a chance at winning. Lucky for him I decided to go easy."
"You didn't have to 'go easy'," Goku retorted, "you would've lost no matter what!"
"Ugh. Baka." Sanzo said, hitting both Goku and Gojyo on the head with his infamous paper fan.
"Hey! What was that for?" Goku complained, while Gojyo got by on a simple "ow".
Hakkai couldn't help but chuckle a bit at this scene, but he soon subsided his laughter. After they were all seated, a waitress (who got suggestive glances from Gojyo) took their orders, and they were left to wait.
Annoyed at the silence, Goku struck up a conversation. "So, where are we going tomorrow, Sanzo?"
"Where do you think? To the west, you stupid monkey!"
"I wasn't asking you, kappa!" Goku argued.
The two continued to argue in this manner for some time, while Sanzo grew more annoyed by the second, and Hakkai kept his eternal masking smile on his face. Luckily, before Sanzo burst, the food came, at which point Goku completely forgot about the argument.
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Over dinner there had been the normal conversation (if you could call it that), where everyone chimed in but mostly only Sanzo and Hakkai had anything productive to, say as if either Gojyo or Goku opened their mouths, they would only create an argument with the other. After so much of this, it was decided that they should all retire to bed (plus, all the food had been a while consumed).
Goku, Sanzo, and Hakkai had withdrawn to bed, but it was equally assumed that Gojyo had gone to pursue "other matters".
It was most likely that by now Sanzo and Goku has slipped into slumber, but Hakkai had noticed something that night at dinner that was nagging at him and would not let him rest until it was recognized. Over the meal and conversation, Hakkai had continually felt a pair of eyes on him. Every once and a while he would look up to survey the area, but did not find to whom the ogling eyes belonged. One time, though, he'd gotten lucky. He was conversing with Sanzo when he thought he had heard Gojyo's voice. He'd quickly turned to Gojyo to ask him to repeat what he had said, as he'd missed it. His sharp turn to look at Gojyo was rewarded by a dazed look from Gojyo – the same gaze he'd felt on him all night.
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As Gojyo came to sleep in is provided room some hours after the others, he could do little to keep his mind from wandering to tonight's events.
All night he had been watching Hakkai, but had been quick enough to avert his eyes before Hakkai looked toward him, no doubt searching for those ogling eyes that belonged to no other than Gojyo himself. Somewhere, though, he had slipped, only to bit hit with a wrecking ball.
Hakkai had been speaking with Sanzo, thus Gojyo felt it would be a safe time to stare at him. Unfortunately, his chi must have been a bit too anxious, because Hakkai had turned abruptly to face Gojyo – and see that the eyes he'd been searching for all night where set nicely in Gojyo's head. Of course, both quickly looked to something else, but now there was an odd, curious, ashamed, and – oddly enough – anxious tension lingering between them; it had obviously affected them both.
