Disclaimer: I'm sure owning the Sanzo Party is not possible. If you ever did manage to catch them, they find away to break out of their fucking bindings and get away somehow! ... Hehehee, not that I've ever tried. Saiyuki and all rights to it belong to Minekura Kazuya.
A/N: Okay, skipping the reminder to read Masculine Reflection by TheInkDragonRosette, I'm sorry to all my patient readers that were waiting for a posted chapter, what?, like a week or somethin' ago... Yeah, sorry. I just started classes and life has been Hell. Who am I kiddin'? I'm supposed to be writing an essay right now, Sh*t!Anyway, we will try to post again real soon, but no promises when...
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The rest of lunch had been as normal as it gets for the Sanzo Party, either of them. When the monkeys had finished fighting over who got to lick the serving platter and the waitress and taken the dishes away giggling. Somehow a pack of card had magically found their way onto the table and suggestion of a round of poker came up. A slight seat shuffle occurred. Sanzo, the male one, was the dealer and no one wanted the monkey, again, the male one, to cut the deck. Goku got stuck next to his female counterpart. Neither of them looked all that happy to be sitting next to each other after their little fight earlier.
Deep into a game now, everyone taking their stands and waiting for the final outcome. Everyone except, of course, for the Gokus who'd been playfully nudging each other for the past ten minutes. No one had caught how it had started. It seemed the male Goku had finally had enough of it, and playfully punched his double in the shoulder. She flinched slightly and rubbed her shoulder. Goku picked up his hand feeling happy with himself. The girl monkey put down her cards and shoved her double out of his chair, the chair toppling in the process.
Goku yelped as he crashed into the floor. He sat up and looked up at his female double, who was sitting in her chair, acting like she didn't notice him, swinging her legs under her seat. Goku got back on his feet. "What the H-!"
"Will someone separate them already!" Gojyo hollered. "They're really fuckin' with my concentration here."
"She started it. She nudged me first!" Goku said pointing defensively at the girl primate.
"He continued it! And he punched me," she barked back defensively.
"You shoved me!" Goku stared at her.
"Because you punched me! It kind of hurt too. You're not supposed to hit girls!" she'd tacked on bit about not hitting girl to end and looked back up at Goku like he'd really hurt her feeling. But Goku knew the face she was makin'.
"Don't play that card. You're just trying to mess with my head. Sanzo say that all women are just evil vixens!"
Not that either of the Gokus were aware of it, but the moment he'd said that, all other eyes at the table turned to the male Sanzo who looked back at them with a stony face. 'There was nothing wrong with that statement.'
"Your Sanzo's weird then, cuz mine always says it's men that are perverted and stupid, and Goumei's just strange like that!" And at that, all attention turned on the female Sanzo, the female Gojyo looking just a little more indignant than everyone else's.
"O-kay then, how about we not have a battle of the sexes and just..." Hachiko started.
"...get back to the game," Hakkai finished. "Heh heh, shall we?" Hakkai smiled, glad that Hachiko had stepped it. He'd been a little lost for words. He wondered when and why Sanzo would have told Goku something like that.
"Eh, I think I'm good," Gojyo said pushing his chair back and standing up. "You were going to win this anyway," he said to Hakkai.
"Um, excuse me," Hachiko interrupted, sounding slightly offended, before laying her cards out to reveal a winning hand.
Hakkai looked over and smile. "Wow, another coincidence. I have the same hand." He chuckled as he placed his card on the table.
Hachiko grinned at Hakkai. "Yeah, coincidence... probably."
Gojyo narrowed his eyes at the two of them. "Point taken," and sighed. "I'm going out for a beer." He turned his back to them and started for the door waving bye over his shoulder.
Goumei got out of her chair and jogged to catch up to him. "I'm with you! I need to get out," she muttered, throwing a glare over her shoulder at her Sanzo
Gojyo smirked. "Figured you'd follow my lead." Goumei nudged him playfully for that.
"Well," Hakkai started, seeing as the game was now kind of officially over, "What do we want to do now?"
Hachiko clapped her hands together. "Well, there is a festival tonight apparently. It certainly sounded interesting," she suggested.
"Sanzo, could I go to the festival if other Goku came with me?" the girl monkey asked, volunteering Goku to be her chaperone. Goku took to the idea with a repulsed expression on his face. He didn't want to hang out with her. She was almost as bad as the kappa.
"No! That's just as bad as having you watch yourself," the female Sanzo growled
"Aw, come on. You won't let me go on my own," she whined.
"Uh, why can't she go on her own?" Hakkai asked curiously.
Hachiko looked up. "Oh, that's because of what happened last time. A couple towns back, they had a chocolate convention, and we let her go on her own. Apparently everything had free samples. She came back with a stomach ache, so we told her to go up to the room and rest. She wound up puking all over one of the beds. Sanzo was up all night looking after her. So, we don't let her go on her own anymore," she explained.
"Hey, is there going to be food at this festival?" male Goku asked.
Hachiko blinked owlishly. "Well... I suppose so. It is a festival," she reasoned.
Both Gokus turned on their Sanzos, ""Can we go Sanzo? Please!""
Neither of them replied at first as they were assaulted by the pleading looks on the monkeys' faces. Finally the crownless Sanzo sighed. "Fuck. Fine, I'll go with you."
"Yesss!" Goku cheered.
Female Goku blinked and pouted as the other Sanzo agreed before hers. An idea occurred to her. "Can I go with them then?" she asked, pointing to the other Sanzo and Goku.
"No. One monkey is more than enough," crownless Sanzo growled.
Female Goku pouted, turning back to her Sanzo. She really wanted to go. Sanzo sighed, rubbing at her temple. "Hachiko," she demanded.
…
When there wasn't an immediate reply, she looked up, only to realize that their bespectacled companions had already left the room. She looked pissed, but she turned back to her monkey. "Fine. We'll go."
A/N: No translations again... Boooo!
