Long, long break between updates! Thanks for all the reviews (There were few new people, it made me sooo happy) Thanks again for my awesome beta- ditchgospel, who is so supporting! I've been so busy lately it's been hard to write, (school, work, swimming..) but I have the next few chappies already done, so updates will be coming! I have a warning for you guys... there's a strange pairing coming up in a few chapters... if you have any pairings you absolutely do not tolerate, tell me and i'll think about it (if it's the pairing i'm going to incorperate...) it's only going to be one-sided though (not non-consent, just one sided!) I just thought i'd give you the heads up. And I want to pose another question to you guys, who thinks the Goku in this story is too childish to be in an active relationship? (Shonen-ai one...) Sorry for the long A/N, and on to what you guys really want!...
Disclaimer- Not mine, never will be.
- Meanwhile, out in the corridor… ---
Since the dance head begun a half hour ago, Sanzo had brushed off all offers to dance, and had escaped out into one of the school corridors. Here he had found himself perched quietly on a window ledge with nothing but a cigarette for company, gazing out at the sky.
"Excuse me, but I noticed you didn't seem very happy earlier and I was wondering if anything was wrong?" Emiko came up behind Sanzo with a voice that resembled purring, and he spun around to see who was intruding on his solitude.
"No. Aren't you Gojyo's date?" As Sanzo looked at her, she turned her mouth up at the corners slightly,
"I was. But I'd much rather be with you…" Her lips pouted a little and she advanced on the startled teen, whose eyes had narrowed in response,
"Sorry. I'm busy." When Sanzo turned his attention away from her and back to the window, he felt her fingernails trace along the back of his neck.
"What the hell?" She giggled slightly, a sound that unnerved even the high priest himself.
"You're so tense, Sanzo." His eyes narrowed even more and then widened in surprise as her lips came close to his. He froze, too shocked to move.
"Sanzo!" Someone came running around the corner, startling Sanzo enough that he was finally able to break away from the girl.
"Sanzo!" The new arrival turned out to be Gojyo and he looked at Emiko with distaste,
"First you try to kill me and then you go running off for this prick." As he neared, the blood spotting the front of his shirt became more apparent.
"I… I thought I killed you! You should be dead!" The girl's voice turned from its previously seductive purr to a shrill shriek and she took a step back from both of them. Gojyo laughed shortly,
"I'm not as dumb as I am pretty. Plus, I'm one lucky SOB." He turned to look at his blonde companion,
"Did she get to you?" Sanzo shook his head mutely and took out the Smith and Wesson, pointing it at the girl's head with a steady hand.
"Wait!" Someone else came running up the hall,
"Another baka. This just isn't my night." Goku ignored Sanzo's comment and stood in front of the girl, holding out his arms wide to shield her.
"Don't just go killing people, Sanzo!" At this moment there was a collective blink among Gojyo, Goku and Sanzo, as all three of them suddenly felt as if they were experiencing deju vu.
"Why not?" Sanzo took a step back to aim around Goku and at that moment the girl unclasped her necklace. This was the only thing keeping her demon powers at bay, and upon its removal her teeth grew into long, curved and pointed fangs. With a vicious cry of triumph, she attempted to sink her fangs into Goku's skin, but a ball of green chi prevented her attack. As it struck her, it caused her to dissipate into a thousand tiny molecules and disappear.
"Hello all." Hakkai had arrived on the scene. Goku grinned at him,
"Thanks for that!" He rubbed the spot on his neck where the girl's teeth had almost found purchase and grimaced, "I like to eat, not be eaten!"
"You can't even find a date that doesn't try to kill us." Sanzo remarked to Gojyo.
"What! What did you say?" Gojyo responded indignantly, but Sanzo just looked at him,
"On top of being an idiot, do you also have a hearing problem?" Gojyo grimaced and then, as Hakkai went to work healing the stab wounds on his chest, asked,
"Hey, Sanzo, you got so depressed about not having a date that you went off to stare at the sky alone?" Sanzo was spared having to answer because just then Goku had leapt up and circled his arms around the priest's neck, exclaiming with a wide grin,
"He has a date!" Goku was only slightly deterred when the harisen came crashing down on his head, followed by Sanzo's verbal rebuke,
"Will you get off me?" Glancing down the hall, Hakkai said in a low voice,
"Better put the gun away Sanzo, it seems like we have company." As soon as the gun was out of sight the sound of footsteps grew louder, becoming more audible by the second.
"Well, well." At the sound of the unctuous voice, Gojyo hissed slightly, recognizing the new vice principle.
"What have we here? Principle Kannon told me to be on the lookout for you four." The man gestured down the corridor,
"Follow me please boys, I have something to discuss with you." His voice was barely above a whisper at the end and it caused Goku to cling slightly to Sanzo.
"I don't like him Sanzo!" Goku's urgent whisper didn't provoke another blow from the harisen, instead Sanzo just glanced down at him, his eyes as distant as always but nonetheless strangely comforting to the little saru.
They were led into a small classroom, where the man took the desk and waved his hand towards the student chairs, indicating for them to sit. None of them did.
"May I ask why none of you felt it necessary to help out at the dance tonight and instead wandered around the school corridors?" No one answered him and he smiled slightly,
"Feel they're above teachers…" The man spoke aloud, writing something in a leather binder.
"Hey, where do you get off?" Gojyo's voice was angry, and he took a step forward. Hakkai stepped in front of the redhead, noticing that his two more irrational companions were trying their best to calm themselves, and by the looks of it, not succeeding very well.
"I'm sorry Sir, but do you have a reason for bringing us here?" The man glanced up, meeting Hakkai's green eyes with his own deep gray ones.
"Question authority repeatedly…" He wrote this down as well before answering the question.
"I do. Your teachers feel that your recent disturbances in their classes stem from a psychological problem. To help this, you've all been given sessions with the school counselor."
"We…we what?" For the first time Gojyo and Sanzo spoke together and the man wrote down on his pad,
"May have a hearing problem…" He smiled thinly,
"Genjo Sanzo?" Sanzo shifted slightly where he stood,
"Yeah?" His voice was suppressed and the vein on his right temple was clearly evident.
"You're the one they're most worried about. Several teachers have voiced their opinion that your young age and your high position as a Buddhist have combined to give you somewhat of an imbalanced personality. Your session is Monday at nine o-clock. It will last one hour."
Sanzo looked at the man with such disdain that even he flinched slightly, and paused to clear his throat before going on,
"Son Goku will follow at ten, and will last only a half-hour. Merely an evaluation because of his absences and the possibility that he's suffering from ADD. Cho Hakkai, a half hour at nine-thirty, simply to check how you're adjusting to the new climate." Hakkai nodded slowly as the man continued, "Sha Gojyo, a half hour session to go over your addictions."
Gojyo was incredulous, "Addictions?" The man glanced at him briefly,
"Cigarettes and drugs." Gojyo shrugged expansively,
"Yeah, whatever. I'm not into drugs."
"Anything else?" Hakkai's smile appeared genial, but his eyes had a certain iciness to them that made the vice principle a little wary.
"That will be all. I'm just glad I caught you tonight. You still have an hour to work at the dance."
They left silently, albeit for Gojyo slamming the door behind him with a little more force then absolutely necessary.
"Sanzo, he didn't really mean that I'm going to have to see a psychiatrist did he?"
"Yes Goku, I'm afraid he did."Hakkai answered Goku's question with an absent voice, adding,"I don't particularly like psychiatrists, either."
Gojyo turned to him, "You've been to see one before, then?"
Hakkai flushed ever so slightly and nodded.
"Well, what do they do?"
"Ask a lot of personal questions mainly."
Sanzo looked at the green eyed boy for a moment but didn't speak. A slightly awkward silence hovered over the group of boys, but it was soon broken by Goku's complaining,
"Do we really have to stay for the rest of the dance? I'm sooo hungry and there aren't any more snacks out there." Gojyo laughed slightly, poking him in the back,
"That's only cause you ate them all." Gojyo checked his watch, and said,
"I'm all for ditching this place, but then that guy would probably make our psychiatrist sessions even longer, and that's even more of an annoyance."
Sanzo nodded slightly and grabbed the back of Goku's shirt, pulling him along behind him.
"C'mon chimp, move!" Goku had, however, set his feet stubbornly into the tile and refused to budge.
"What the hell's the matter with you?" Sanzo asked irritably. Goku's face looked resolute, something that made the rest of them slightly anxious.
"I'm not going back to the dance without a date!" Sanzo looked annoyed,
"Are you still going on about that? You don't need a date!"
Goku shook his head, "I do too!"
Hakkai smiled and gently asked the upset boy,
"Gojyo, Sanzo and I don't have dates either, Goku, so you don't have to worry about it." He smiled reassuringly but Goku remained unconvinced,
"But…. Why don't you and Gojyo go together and then me an' Sanzo?"
This earned him a rare genuine laugh from Hakkai, and a snort from Gojyo,
"The monkey's really got no brains. I can't go with Hakkai, it would ruin my reputation. Whereas you and Sanzo, well, I'll go as far as to say no one would be shocked." Sanzo's white fan crashed down on Gojyo's unlucky head,
"What's that supposed to mean, ero kappa? As I recall, your date ended up trying to kill you." Gojyo shrugged,
"So? We were doing good before that." Hakkai laughed again, and after his fit subsided he said,
"I think we should return to the dance now. We can take turns doing the drinks."
They went back into the crowded gym, where the heat was intense from the whole student body packed in and the music was blaring loudly from the DJ's station.
"Hey! Hey!" A group of girls came running up to them and one asked Sanzo breathlessly, "Will you dance with me?"
Sanzo opened his mouth to reject, but Gojyo clapped a hand over his mouth and pushed him forward.
"He would love to. Go on Sanzo!" He let go of his hold on the priest's mouth, and the girl took his hands in one swift motion and pulled him away with her. Gojyo subsided into fits of laughter but another girl tapped Hakkai on the shoulder, asking,
"Excuse me, but would you dance with me?"
Hakkai's eyes opened wide for a fraction of a second but then he nodded at the girl and they disappeared into the crowd together. Gojyo didn't look as amused then, and a slight frown crossed over his features, much like the one that was on Goku's face. Another girl soon approached.
"Gojyo! You wanna dance?" Gojyo nodded slowly, and, still looking a little annoyed, moved on with her, leaving Goku alone. Suddenly, Sanzo appeared behind him, muttering,
"Damn Kappa." Goku turned his head to look at Sanzo, and the blond asked,
"Where did he go?" Goku smiled widely, "He went with some girl."
Sanzo nodded distractedly and took Goku by the wrist, pulling him closer to him so he didn't have to shout. "Hakkai?"
"Same thing."
The music made Goku feel restless and he bounced up and down slightly, while Sanzo had never bothered to let go of his wrist.
"Yes!"
A minor flash went off, making Goku and Sanzo turn in the general direction of the light. A group of girls was staring at them, camera still held in one girl's hand. The girls looked stricken for only a moment when they noticed that the objects of their attention were staring back at them and one said happily, "Just keep dancing. You don't mind if we take a couple more pictures, do you?"
Goku looked confused, but Sanzo was downright angry, even though he realized that his and Goku's close proximity and Goku's bouncing around may have looked somewhat incriminating.
"What the hell? Give me that camera!" The girls looked a little surprised, but got their goofy smiles back in seconds.
"Only if you keep dancing!" A girl with blue eyes said wickedly, holding the camera out in front of her enticingly.
"What the hell is your problem? Give it to me."
She pouted slightly and shook her head, asking, "Aren't you going to dance any more?"
Sanzo scowled at her, not looking at Goku. "We weren't dancing in the first place. Would you give me the camera?"
She handed it over rather reluctantly, and said, "If I were a worse person I wouldn't mind resorting to blackmail. You should be thankful that I'm so nice."
Sanzo stared at her with his penetrating violet eyes and she backed away slightly,
"I'm going, I'm going!" She and her posse left with a few backwards glances and a couple of waves.
"Fan-girls…." Sanzo took one look at Goku's unhappy, widely yawning face and started navigating his way through the crowd, certain that Goku would follow. When they reached the wide exit doors they were met by Gojyo and Hakkai, the former of which had a slight smear of lipstick on his neck.
"What's that?" Hakkai asked as he pointed to the camera. Sanzo tossed it in the nearest trash bin in disgust.
"Nothing."
Gojyo stretched and winced as another song started playing noisily, and said, "Let's get out of here." They followed Sanzo's lead and went out into the night air, which was mercifully clear compared to the air inside the humid gym.
"Goku?" Sanzo turned around, looking for the monkey, who came running out of the gym after them. "Where were you?"
Goku shrugged, blushing slightly, "Someone blocked my way to the door."
Sanzo nodded once, "Okay. What time is it?"
Gojyo again checked his bright red watch, and answered, "Not late. Nine thirty on a Friday night, but man that dance was lame."
"Yeah." Goku agreed as he skipped along behind them cheerfully. "Can we go get something to eat?"
In response, Sanzo shook his head, his expression blank, "I need to get some things done before tomorrow."
Hakkai smiled pleasantly, and said, "Well, I'll be happy to drive you home."
Gojyo didn't object and they piled into the green jeep, which gave a small sound before taking off into the night.
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