Chapter 6
Hakkai, was the first to wake up. He left a note for Sanzon and Gojyo about where he was going and then he left. The first stop he made was to the stall owned by Tomomi and asked her suttle questions. "Yesterday, I saw a group of children playing in a circle, they were three boys and one girl, she dropped something and I was wondering if I could give it back to her. She had brown hair and gold eyes and she wore a gold choker around her neck." The woman just stared at him and after the flash of recognition she had a look in her eyes that said fear.
"I'm sorry, I don't know who you're talking about." She fumbled with her words and knew immediately she had given the young daughter of the sage away. "Really, okay then. Thanks for that." As the man turned the corner the woman closed her store and ran to the base of the mountain to tell the sage.
Hakkai walked away quickly, the woman knew who he was talking about, and was scared that he knew. Hakkai got back to the inn to see Sanzo and Gojyo eating breakfast. He told them about the woman and what he had said to make her have a reaction like that.
"Hmm, I think we should go around asking people if they have seen this little girl." Said Sanzo, "we might get more fumbling and if we do it means that they are hiding something from us." Hakkai and Gojyo agreed and they set off to ask if they had seen the little girl.
After lunch nearly the whole town was at the base of the mountain (everyone had run there as soon as the travellers were out of sight), they were apologizing so much goku had a small headache. "Enough!" he shouted so he could be heard, the people were silenced. "Go back to the town and get on with whatever you were doing."
As they began to trail out he pointed to Tomomi and the person standing next to her, which happened to be a muscled man. "you two, stay." As everyone else got on with their lives the first two people who had come to the mountain looked scared. "No, need to worry, your not in trouble. They are just too damn smart. I want you two to bring them here. And just say the lord of the mountain wishes to talk to them." He dismissed them.
Goku turned to his family as they came out of hiding. The question of is everything ready was in his eyes and the answer followed through theirs, yes. The family of four got into position.
Sanzo, Hakkai and Gojyo were walking throught the town towards the elders house when they were stopped by the two people they had talked to first. Tomomi was the one who spoke. "you have caused much of a disturbance, the lord of the mountain is angry." She had to pause to remember the lines that Lirin had told her to deliver. This was good, because it added more of an effect on the travellers.
Hakkai turned to Gojyo and was actually, beginning to doubt that Goku was here, so he decided to push a question. "how long has the lord of the mountain been here?" he was dying for her to say 5 years but that was quickly dispelled by her words. "The lord of the mountain has been here for hundreds of years and you are disturbing his peace." Gojyo looked bumbed out because he thought they were on the trail of the monkey. "we don't want to be a bother anymore, so we will leave." Said Hakkai hoping they could get out quickly. "No." Sanzo was starting to be a bit afraid. The 'Lord of the mountain' must have been very strong to survive for hundreds of years and he didn't want to be involved with someone like that. "Why can't we leave?" asked Gojyo. "The lord of the mountain wishes to see you." And with that she smiled and gesture for them to follow her. "Oh, and don't bother escaping, the villagers will catch you before you reach the outside."
Damn, Sanzo thought, that blew my plan out the window. He turned to Hakkai and Gojyo, "I guess we have no choice but to follow." And they took off to the base of the mountain.