They Ask Me

A/N: Something that I wrote when the words "they ask me" came to my mind. Amazing what you can do with just one small sentence. ^_^;; Any questions can be left in a review. And please, if u want to criticize, do so politely? Thank you.

Disclaimer: I don't own no Saiyuki.

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Sanzo

They ask me why I smoke.

I tell them to go mind their own business.

But I take it as my only way of not going insane.

They ask me why I kill.

I tell them to find the answer in the afterlife.

But I kill to survive, to let myself live long enough to find my master's sutra. My last reminder of him.

They ask me why I'm selfish.

I give them a glare hard enough to melt metal.

But I don't think I'm selfish. I'm protecting myself from getting soft.

They ask me why I scowl.

I tell them to stop being so nosy.

But I scowl to keep people away. I don't want or need them.

They ask why I took the saru in the first place.

I tell them to go to hell.

But that's something I'm trying to figure out myself.

They ask me why don't I just shoot those other three and go on this journey alone.

I tell them it was the Three Aspects' orders.

But….

I think it's because I've gone soft.

Dammit.

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To Be Continued Soon...^_^