Chapter 7

Date for Six

Chelsea hummed to herself as she walked down the hall. Her face buried in a book about black holes.

The humming slowly turned to singing as she continued, "I'll be more than a lover, more than a woman, more than enough for you."

"Really?"

Chelsea jumped at the closeness of the voice and dropped her book. She turned to glare at the person behind her, "I hate you."

Gojyo smirked, "No you don't."

She sighed and picked the book up, "Where is Hakkai?"

"Kitchen."

"Go figure." The woman said as she skipped down the steps, trying to find the page she was on. "Hakkai?"

Goku lifted his face out of the bowl infront of him. "Chelsea!"

"Hey." The woman ruffled his hair then sat down. Hakkai turned away from the stove, "Good afternoon Miss Chelsea."

Chelsea waved her hand in the air, "Chelsea, please Hakkai. I'm not even twenty-five yet."

"Alright then, Chelsea, did you need something?"

She flipped a page in the book and her hazel eyes quickly scanned the page, "Yeah, you said the 'thing' that sent you guys here looked like a black hole right?"

"Yes."

"Well, this book says that in theory a black hole can send anything to the desired destination of the sender or receiver."

Sanzo walked into the kitchen and let out a gruff growl, "Where did you find that dumb shit? Black holes don't fucking exist."

Chelsea rolled her eyes, "Neither do demons, genius. And I got it from the library."

The blond glared at the woman and she glared back until Hakkai laughed nervously, "Well Sanzo, what else would you call the thing that swallowed us up?"

The man stayed silent and Chelsea looked back to the book, "A black hole, that's what I thought, now shut up."

Sanzo threw a glare over his shoulder. Goku just sat in his seat and watched the adults intently. He had completely forgotten about the bowl of food infront of him.

Hakkai smiled, "So Chelsea, do we know who our sender and receiver are?"

"I guess the receiver would be me but it says that both the sender and receiver must be willing to well, send or receive."

Gojyo walked into the kitchen with Jazz at his heels, "I hear weird talk. What's goin on?" He asked, sitting down and lighting up.

Hakkai smiled at the red head, "We are trying to figure out how we got here…"

"And how we get back." Sanzo finished.

Goku continued to look on silently. Go back? Did he want to do that? Did he really want to go back to that boring old temple? He had Sanzo, Hakkai, and Gojyo. They were all he needed.

And now he had Chelsea, she was like a big sister, or a mom he never had but secretly always wanted. "I'm not going."

Hakkai gave the boy a shocked look, "Excuse me Goku?"

"If we go back, I'm not going."

Sanzo removed the cigg from his lips, "Like hell you are. You go where I say you go. And we're going home."

"Jeez monkey, what the hell's gotten into you?"

Goku turned his large old orbs to Chelsea and she looked away, ashamed. She didn't want them to go either, but then again she did. It was strange having them around, but she couldn't tell if it was a good strange or a bad strange. And that dream…that wasn't even an option.

Gojyo rolled his eyes"Alright, back to where we were before the stupid monkey said something…"

Chelsea gripped the book in her hands. If the nonsense in this book was really how they had gotten there, then it was true. She was half the reason; she brought them here. But who was the other half? Who sent them?

Hakkai put a hand on her shoulder, "Chelsea?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. This book is stupid; I'll find something else later. Um, is lunch ready?"

The men gave her wary looks and Hakkai nodded slowly, moving back to the stove.

Gojyo lit another cigg and started messing with Goku. The two started fighting at the table but Sanzo did nothing about it. He was busy watching the woman, her eyes downcast, hands still clutching the book.

He started to say something when the doorbell rang.

The woman threw the book onto the table and ran to the door.

"It was them, they wanted to go home."

Chelsea rolled her hazel eyes; it was the female from the first time,"I'm not in the mood for you at the moment."

"You longed to not be alone, and they wanted to go home. Who are you to say that their home is not with you?"

"Exactly, I'm not the one to say. If they stay with me…never mind it. Just shut up."

The woman opened the door and smiled, "Hello Dr. Knight."

"Jayden, Chelsea, please."

"WILL YOU TWO SHUT THE HELL UP?!" Sanzo yelled in the kitchen at Gojyo and Goku.

Chelsea winced and gave an apologetic smile, "Well, come in Jayden."

The blue-eyed doctor followed her into the kitchen where he smiled at the site of Goku inhaling all the food on the table, "Like a bottomless pit…"

Chelsea giggled, "Told you."

Goku smiled at the doctor along with Hakkai. Gojyo looked at him trying to figure out why he was here and Sanzo glared at him.

"Why hello doctor." The green-eyed man said pleasantly, "I wish I would have known you were coming, I would have fixed more food."

Chelsea put her hand in her jean pocket as she smiled at Hakkai. He was so generous. The woman put a hand on the doctor's shoulder, "Jayden is just here to check on Goku."

He nodded and set his medical bag on the table. He flashed Goku a smile of pearly whites, "How do you feel Goku?"

"Fine." The boy managed through a mouthful of food.

"Swallow, you stupid-", Gojyo stopped when he noticed the glare from Chelsea. "I mean, swallow your food monkey."

Jayden chuckled, his deep laugh echoing in Chelsea's chest, she blushed lightly at the sound, "Monkey. An endearing nickname from your uncle ne Goku?"

The boy nodded then rolled his eyes when the doctor wasn't looking. Chelsea giggled.

"How is his sleeping?"

"Fine, he still darts up when he smells breakfast." Hakkai answered.

"That's good. Alright Goku, you seem fine." He stood and turned to Chelsea, "I'll come back in about two days and remove his bandages."

"Alright."

He waved to the men and followed Chelsea to the door. Gojyo noted the sour look on Sanzo's face, "Yo monk. What's with the face? That ain't the normal angry face."

"Piss off, Kappa."

"Thank you for coming by Jayden."

"Of course. But, I wanted to ask you something." He started shyly.

Chelsea tucked her hair behind her ear, "Go ahead."

"Well, do you want to go to dinner with me tonight?"

Chelsea looked over her shoulder then turned back to the man. She smiled, "I would but-"

"We'd love to."

She wanted to shoot him. Now she knew how he felt when he wanted to shoot Goku and Gojyo and now she wanted to shoot him, bad, "Sanzo…"

"Well that's fine. I guess we can go to Friday's or something." The doctor offered, oblivious to the reason why Sanzo stepped in.

Chelsea forced a smile, "Fine. What time?"

"Seven."

Sanzo grabbed the door and ushered the doctor out, "That's great."

"Sanzo!" Hakkai said, ashamed and shocked at Sanzo's actions of slamming the door in the doctor's face.

The blond completely ignored his companion; he instead glared at the woman in front of him.

Chelsea folded her arms and rolled her eyes, "Let me guess. What the hell was that right?"

Sanzo raised his brows.

"That's what I thought. How about he was asking me on a date."

"And what the hell happened to 'I'd rather it just be me and my dog. I don't need anybody'." The blond mocked the woman.

She balled her fists at her side, "I never said I needed him or anybody for that matter!"

"Then why are you letting him in?"

"The fuck is wrong with you?1 I was about to say no! …better yet. Why did I let you in?!"

Sanzo's glare was unbelievably cold and so were his words, "Because you were desperate."

Time seemed to stop as Chelsea's hand connected with his face. The force of the slap actually managed to make the blond stumble back a little. He watched her with wide eyes as she ran to her room, a door slamming promptly after.

Goku looked at his precious sun with wide eyes of his own, "Sanzo…"


Jayden blushed heavily as the woman entered the restaurant with her companions. She was wearing a half sleeved baby blue shirt that showed a little of her stomach, dark jeans that hung off her hips and baby blue flats.

The woman tossed some of her hair over her shoulder, "Hey."

The doctor stood to great her with a friendly hug. He greeted the rest of the men with handshakes and ruffled Goku's hair. He was wearing a 'Sk8' headband to cover the bandages.

A young waitress with short, curly brown hair bounced up to the group, "Is this all of your party?"

Jayden nodded, "Yes."

"Ok! Follow me!"

The girl led them to a booth and they got in with Jayden, Chelsea, and Hakkai on one side.

Gojyo smirked at the waitress, "What time do you get off?"

"Nine-thirty!" The girl said, hyper as ever.

"Well then why don't you join us?"

"SIT YOUR ASS DOWN!"

Chelsea rubbed the bridge of her nose as Gojyo slid into the other side, Sanzo and Goku following after. There was an odd silence for about five minutes as Chelsea and Sanzo glared at each other. The blond was still brooding and angry with the female officer slapping him.

Hakkai cleared his throat, "So, Dr. Knight…"

"Jayden, Please."

"Well, Jayden. How long have you been a doctor?"

Chelsea turned her attention away from the blond so she could hear the doctor's answer, "Five years. I only work with the children in the hospital though."

Hakkai smiled, as did Chelsea. Jayden gave her a handsome smile back and she blushed.

"Ugh, I'm so hungry. When can we order?"

"Right now!" was the hyper answer.

Chelsea picked up her menu as she listened to Goku list off a little more than half the menu. Jayden playfully bumped Chelsea's leg with his own. The woman looked away from her menu to him and laughed a little.

Gojyo watched the two and smiled as they shared a menu, discussing what was good and what was nasty. The hanyou looked over at his blond companion and noted his angry glare in their direction.

"This is gonna be a long night."

"What was that Gojyo?"

"Nothing."


The adults held their own conversation as Goku woofed down a rather large ice cream sundae given to him for free by the waitress. She was fairly young and possibly the same age as Goku because she blushed every time he looked at her, said something, or when she walked past the table.

"So how long have they been with you?"

"About a month. It's different after living on my own for so long."

The man chuckled his deep chuckle, causing the caramel colored woman to blush a light pink, "You make it sound like their stay was unplanned."

Chelsea toyed with the straw in her Pepsi, "Well…"

"Well what? C'mon you can tell me."

"No she can't. Why are you being such a nosey bastard?"

Chelsea squeezed her cup, "Sanzo…"

Hakkai held up his hands, "Can we please not do this?"

"Damn, not in public guys c'mon." Gojyo tried.

"Fine, then we can fight at home, Goku hurry the hell up."

Chelsea tensed in her seat, "No. Goku, take your time honey. Sanzo stop being such a ass."

"I don't have the time for this bullshit. Goku, move."

Goku didn't wait to move out of the man's way. The blond bumped into a waitress, making her drop her tray on his way out. Gojyo went after him, Goku following and then Hakkai.

Chelsea put a hand over her mouth, shaking, "I'm sorry about that. Sanzo's just…"

Jayden put an arm around the woman, trying to comfort her, "Don't worry about it. Here, I'll pay the bill alright?"

"You don't have to do that." She chuckled a little, "Goku ate half the restaurant."

The man smiled, "I'm a doctor remember? I can handle it."

The two walked out of the restaurant together and Chelsea smiled as Hakkai waved to her from outside the car, signaling that they calmed Sanzo enough for the ride home.

The woman turned to the dark haired doctor. "Thank you. That was fun, despite the four of them tagging along."

Jayden chuckled, "It was."

"I'm sorry again."

"Please no need to apologize. But you can do something else for me."

Chelsea smirked, her hazel eyes glinting, "And what is that?"

"A real date, just the two of us."

She nodded, "I'd like that."

The man smiled and put a hand on her hip, placing a gentle kiss on her cheek, "Goodnight."

"Night."

Chelsea approached the car all smiles. Even as she slipped into the driver's seat and looked over at Sanzo her smile only faltered a little. She sort of thanked the blond for saying they would go. Sanzo narrowed his eyes at her, if he didn't like Jayden before… he hated him now.