You…were the one…who reached out to me first.
Next time, I promise… I…
…I'll be the one to reach for you.

I'll definitely reach for you.

CRASH!(sfx: glass shattered)

"What was that?" Hakkai shook his head.

"I think it came from Sanzo's room!" Goku answered and ran towards the room, with the other two tailing not far from him.

Sanzo jerked out from his slumber. He had finally regain his consciousness, though his head still hurts like it's been poked by thousands of needle. Sanzo tries to sit up and scanned his surroundings. Where am I? He spotted his banishing gun on a drawer to the left of the bed. I'm not kidnapped then…

"Sanzo? You okay?" The room's door is slammed open with full-force as three figures enter with worried look. Hakkai noticed the pieces of glass on the pale-grey floor. I'll have to clean that later. Goku, seeing Sanzo woke up at last, runs towards the monk and smile broadly.

"Sanzo! You're alive! Hakkai, the medicine works!" Before Goku could even try to give him a hug, Sanzo grabbed his hand and pulled Goku close him, and to all surprise, aimed his Smith & Wesson directly at Gojyo and Hakkai.

'A youkai and a half-breed…,' Sanzo thought, after he spotted youkai power limiters worn by the emerald-eyed man and features of a mix of youkai and human; red crimson eyes and hair on the other being.

"Oh? That's a nice way to say 'Thank Yo—'"

Even before Gojyo had a chance to finish his words, Sanzo triggered his banishing gun. It was dead-on. Gojyo and Hakkai would've died if they didn't evade fast.

"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Gojyo shouted along with curses.

"Sanzo?" Hakkai, picking himself up, look questioningly at the companion of his.

"Hmmmphh!" Goku grunted under Sanzo's arm. Sanzo then realized something strange, something different. He loosen his grip on Goku, giving the saru space to breathe, at last.

"Huh huh….." Goku inhaled a gasp of oxygen before facing Sanzo and shouted, "What are you doing, Sanzo? Why are you shooting them?" the golden orbs stares straight at him.

"Goku?" Sanzo ran his fingers through the saru's hair."….When did you cut your hair?"

"Huh? What do you mean? You were there when that happened! It's Gojyo!" Goku pointed an accusing finger to Gojyo. Goku recalls on how the red-head kappa accidently cut his long hair and almost turned himself, Hakkai, Sanzo and even Gojyo himself into sashimi.

"Gojyo? …Hakkai?" Sanzo stares blankly at the two adults.

"Hmm… at least this isn't as bad as I thought it's going to be. Whatever it is, I do believe your head is spinning right now, na, Sanzo? How about if you go back to rest while the three of us have a little talk. Is that okay?" Hakkai said with a smile. He needs to be as unsuspicious as possible, so that Sanzo would hand over Goku to this 'stranger'.

"It's okay, Sanzo! They are our friends after all," Goku said to him. If Goku trusted these people, then it's fine, I guess, Sanzo thought. And he's right, my head does stings. Sanzo let go of Goku and with a grin, glad that Sanzo's awake despite his weird behaviour; he left the room with the other two.


"Now what's all that suppose to be, Hakkai? And to think that he's the one who chose us to travel with him in the first place!" Gojyo grumbles about what just happen.

"I suppose…he has lost part of his memories. The only person he remembers is Goku, which means he only have the memories way back before this journey started, before he ever met us," Hakkai explained.

"That's great. I could just ditch him right now as he sees me as a stranger and live my own life without having to be his slave anymore," Gojyo grunted, his arms crossed.

"I would've done the same thing, Gojyo," Hakkai smiled, a true one, "But I can't, I owe him… a lot."

Gojyo was surprised that Hakkai agreed with his plans, but he couldn't hesitate on agreeing his latter opinion. If it wasn't because of Sanzo, he wouldn't have been here. He wouldn't have a great adventure, meeting great ' friends', and, the most important thing, having a life. Gojyo gave a glance at Hakkai. His smile never left his face, signifying that he really meant what he just said. Gojyo lit up a hi-lite and leaned to a window pane, backing the door of Sanzo's room.

"Um, Hakkai? What do you mean by 'it's not as bad as you thought it is' back then?" Goku asked, puzzled. "Is something worst would've happen?"

"Well… a hit in a head like that could cause serious internal bleeding, maybe he'll get a brain tumour, for worse, and you know..," Hakkai explained with not a trace of a worried look in his face.

"Hakkai, you're scaring me…"

"Ma~ glad it's just lost memories…"

"Is there a way to cure it?" Gojyo asks between puffs of smoke.

"There is, but it's hard. I've heard one method to cure this is by using pictures." Hakkai tried to recall on what he reads about how to recover memories."I'm very sure I've read something about this before…"

"But we don't have a camera, and I don't ever remember taking pictures whatsoever—OW!"

Gojyo turned around and is surprised to find out that Sanzo is standing behind him, with the harisen in his hand.

"What was THAT for? I didn't do anything to you this time!" Gojyo shouted, as he rubs the bump on his head.

"..Hmph, dunno. I just felt that I had to hit you, that's all." Emotionless, Sanzo safely tucked his harisen in his clothes.

"What kind of excuse is that?" Gojyo clenched his fists, ready to strike back, but Hakkai's glare looks so threatening that he decided to let it go to avoid getting something more worse than the harisen.

"Though you lost your memories, you still have your natural behaviour. Gladly, that'll help in recovering your memories fast." Hakkai said with his usual smile.

"Memories?" Sanzo looks puzzled. He faced the monocled-man, eagerly waiting for an answer.

"You see Sanzo…"

Hakkai started to tell the tale of how the 'Sanzo-ikkou' begins, about their objective— to stop the resurrection of the blood thirsty Gyumaoh, about the encounters with Kougaiji and his gang, with intermissions of 'Goku and food around the world', interrupted by the all so ever irritated Gojyo and the involuntarily harisen-whacking on the duo's head by the all mighty Hoshi-sama for almost every 5-minutes.

After about 3 hours despite all the disturbances…

"So, I'm guessing we are now really far away from the temple?" Sanzo plainly asked.

"Very, very far away… We have been journeying for almost a year for crying out loud!" Gojyo replied.

That explains why my hair is longer…

"Heh… Whatever it is, I bet you feel really empty without this for almost three days," the kappa hand over a Malboro to Sanzo. He had been holding on to it since the monk collapse. Hakkai know more what that cancer stick could do to his health, especially at this time.

"Gojyo! Don't—"

"Hmm? I'm going back to bed." Without another word, Sanzo steadily heads back to his room.

Gojyo was stunned. There's no way Sanzo would ever turned down a cig. Ever.

"You were saying…?" Gojyo faces Hakkai in disbelief.

"…This is getting rather complicated," the green-eyed man shrugged.

Goku just watch the monk as he make his way to his room. "Sanzo…"


Sanzo shut the door behind him. He went onto his bed and lied down. For a while he just stare at the ceiling, wondering nothing. All of the sudden, there were petals, sakura petals, blown into the room through the open window. He got up, went over the window, and saw a huge sakura tree, forever blooming. Was that even there just now?

Just then, he saw shadows, there were two under the tree, and the another two on the branches. He could barely make up the face of the smallest figure on the tree. …Goku?

A shadowy figure from under the tree motioned towards Sanzo. As it comes closer, light started to engulf them both, until none is to be seen, except for pure whiteness. And then, there was a smile.


Ngeeeeee~~~~~ At last is done! I can't even think of any title for this~~~ haha R&R please!
Saiyuki is not mine, Minekura-sensei ish my idol~! n yeah, grammmatical errror... xp