Chapter 2: Visitors stay. Awful night.
Funny, I was suddenly taking out all my shirts and wide clothes.
I managed to lend Goku one of my sport combo trousers, a t-shirt and a hooded vest; Hakkai, one of my white wool tortoise neck he could wear with his usual trousers and finally Gojyo, a black tank top, a pair of jeans that looked tight on him and my jean jacket. A white shirt and smart like trousers that I thought could match Sanzo more or less well. I went out of the room to allow them to change into their clothes and then Sanzo held me.
"Santbutsin wants to speak with you." He told me serious. "Treat them with lot of respect."
"It's ok." I said managing to break free from him. "I'm Christian as most people here, but I'm tolerant with other religions. Buddhism included. After all, God is the same for all."
I went in and saw what I had seen so many times on the TV. screen, now at my computer screen. All they wanted to speak with me about was that they didn't knew how to make my guests back to their dimension so they asked me if I could put them up till they found a way.
Of course, I would put them up at my home as long as they gave me a hand. So the three Buddhas put me the "mission" of guiding the four guests in the modern life.
Not too bad, then Sanzo came back, wearing what I had gave him with an angry face.
"We have to talk about the robes." He told me.
"Sirs!" I said then. "Please explain him they can't wear as anime cartoons here!"
When I walked out I checked to my pleasure that they looked wonderful despite of being my robes. Luckily I had unisex robes too in my wardrobe, most of my wardrobe in fact.
Later I found out that putting them up would not be as easy as I thought.
"God, give me strength…" I muttered when Goku tried to eat some ornamental fruits and Gojyo had turned on the TV. on top volume.
I quickly removed the remote control from his hands and turned it off, and then I took Goku's hand before he could even try to throw the ornament away.
"First, that's not eatable and second; don't touch the remote controls if you don't know how they work, please." I told them.
"They are not going to behave." Hakkai said smiling. "Sorry to have disturbed you, he he."
"Doesn't mind… Ok, sorry." I said. "This is a remote control and works like this." I said taking all my patience and teaching them how to use it while Sanzo had picked a book of the selves and was sitting on the sofa reading it.
It took me about half an hour to manage them to understand how did it work, but then they were able to use it so I was to the kitchen to unfroze some meal.
Now that there were more people home I suppose I will have to cook more at weekends, or perhaps, begin eating all I get from home.
I smiled while I heated more than usual meal. Perhaps I could begin by cooking our own food, or they were cooking their own food?
"I usually cook for us when we have chance." Hakkai told me when I asked them at dinner. "So perhaps I could help you with that."
"Ok, cause… I have to study and work and…"
"Don't worry; just let us give a hand." Hakkai said smiling. "I'm so glad we have find a house…"
That made me smile. At least he was as nice as in the series; he made me smile even when I was a bit down. Those guys were the one accompanying me on my bad times, in the TV screen. And now, I had them there, just some metres from me. And they were to live there, with me for some time. On the one hand I was willing them to leave so my life would return back to normal, but that "normal" was so dull, lonely and silly that, on the other hand, I was willing them to stay for long.
That night when Hakkai and I served the food, they looked at it with a confused face.
"What's this?" Gojyo asked looking at the fried eggs with "chorizo" sausage slices and some "Morcilla" I had taken from the very back of the fridge and well friend on round slices.
Of course, I forgot they didn't know European meals so less Spanish ones.
"This is… typical from here." I said a bit ashamed of not having remembered.
"Well, this looks weird." Sanzo said putting them aside.
"This tastes good!" Goku said after eating both kinds of sausages from his dish.
"You should take this as a good chance of meeting other cultures guys." Hakkai said looking at his food and beginning to cut the meal into littler pieces to begin eating it. "Goku is right, this is really tasty."
Then the other two cut a small piece of each and began eating. They didn't wear a special face, but they both said they liked them.
"What does this have?" Gojyo asked "I mean… why it is black?"
"Let me see… I think this is made out of pork, rice and… blood, yeah, that's it." I said smiling.
Then both Sanzo and he began acting as if they suddenly went sick, even Goku was a bit sick faced for some seconds.
I then smiled and asked what was wrong.
"We are not used to eat blood." Hakkai told me smiling as embarrassed.
Mental note: Never to cook morcilla for them again. They didn't like it.
As dessert I got some fruit.
"Sorry, I don't usually spend much time on meals so… it can be whether this or yogurt." I said. "Ah, and I will put some hot to heat for cooking some tea for me."
"Japanese one?" Hakkai asked me.
"Er… don't know. It's white tea." I said smiling. "But I also have Celion tea, earl grey tea, breakfast tea, a relax infusion, camomile… tila and Poleo-mint. I don't mind cooking any of them for you." I said smiling softly. "Ah! And I also have my specials, with mix of some herbs or the fruit point Hornimans one."
"White tea for me." Sanzo ordered me.
"I want one, but…" Goku added.
"Ok, I help you cooking them." Hakkai said standing up while Goku and Gojyo cleaned the table.
While I was boiling some water on a pot, Hakkai and I began putting some herbs on the bags I had sewed for cooking my infusions.
"You have a good variety of herbs." Hakkai told me when he saw all the jars and boxes I had full of them.
"Well, I buy some but most of them are given by a family friend." I confessed. "I like to cook my own mixtures of herbs so each time is different. Sometimes I'm lucky others I'm not so lucky."
He then smiled.
"I suppose you have no difficulties on cooking either then."
"No, at least not for me for a day or two." I agreed smiling as I poured some boiling water on the glasses.
Suddenly we heard discussion again and then a shoot.
"Excuse me a second…" I said before running out of the kitchen into the living room where Sanzo had shoot to the sofa and now had a bullet hole on it. "Hey! Do not shoot in here!" I shout him taking his weapon from him. "People don't use this around here!"
"And how am I supposed to make those idiots stop fighting, hum?"
"Don't know. You can hit them, but do not use those again here." I said taking his weapon. "The rest too, please." I added putting my hand out waiting Gojyo and Goku handing me their staffs. "Thanks." I said when I got them. "I'll put those on a safe place."
"A wardrobe is a safe place?!" Sanzo said.
"I must agree that nobody would look on that." Gojyo said picking a blanket I had put in the broom cabinet after making a ball with it. "If I were a thief I would look on the rest first."
"Hey, the staffs will be safe here." I said before beginning walking towards the fridge where I put the gun in the freezer after having put it in a food keeping plastic bag. "Same goes for the gun. No weapons are allowed in these times. Just for policemen and bodyguards."
"I want my staff!!" Goku said as begging and crying.
"I said no." I said keeping my position. "The three Budhas allowed me to do what needed for keeping you safe here. Now… bedrooms."
I had two bedrooms and my study room that had a foldable bed. Then the sofa could be turned into a bed too so that left us with five beds.
"Ok, now… I have a single bedroom, a double bedroom, the sofa at the living-room and my study bedroom. I suppose I will have the study so…"
"I want the single one!" Sanzo, Gojyo and Goku said at once.
That made an argument to begin. I held my head while Hakkai smiled trying to stop the quarrel.
In the end, I took a couple of spaghettis I managed to break in four pieces and colour one of the ends at each piece. They had to take one spaghetti each so they would decide which room would take each.
In the end, Sanzo and Goku would share bedroom, Hakkai would take the single one and Gojyo would sleep on the sofa-bed.
"Good night." I said before caging in my room to unfold my bed and begin studying a bit. "If you need anything just knock on the door, right?"
It was the longest night I can remember. They kept on speaking, arguing and making noise till about one in the night. I had to get out several times to shout them in order to get some peace and silence.
"I can't sleep on that place." Gojyo said the last time I was out. "Goku is younger! He should be the one sleeping at the sofa!"
"I said… SILENCE!!" I shouted him. "I have lessons tomorrow so I need to rest!!"
That made go silent shocked as I shouted really mad at them for being so noisy.
Finally I managed to sleep and it seemed just a few minutes for me till my alarm clock rang so I stood up and went out to have a shower. I didn't remembered why I was sleeping at that room, so less who I have agreed to put up for some time. Anyway, when I was dry and wearing my bathrobes Goku came in the toilet to pee making me surprised while Gojyo shouted at him from outside cause he wanted to pee too.
Seconds after, Sanzo was also shouting cause he was awaken by the two shouting guys and I was shocked as Goku was peeing not even minding me being in front of the mirror at his back.
Fool, those guys were crazy.