Neither Hakkai nor Gojyo heard from Sanzo for a few days. Gojyo was back in the bottom of his closet trying to see if he could find anything else. While no more photo albums appeared, there was a box of clothing that contained a neatly folded uniform like the one Kanda wore in the pictures and an odd hourglass with a lotus inside. He placed the hourglass on the nightstand but put everything else back in the box. Whose things were these? However, their existence further proved they were missing memories and apparently people.
Gojyo didn't tell Bai or Aki anything in case it really did turn out be nothing but he did slip in an odd question every now and then to see if they knew anything. Each time he was met with either a "Daddy, you're silly" or blank stares.
It ended up being a few weeks after Sanzo had initially asked the floating heads. When Hakkai and Gojyo found themselves back in Sanzo's office the door had barely closed before he started speaking "I don't know who the hell you two pissed off but apparently according to the three aspects, someone must be purposefully messing with your timelines and memories. Which of course means your problems have fallen into my life."
"Yeah, yeah, we're a great inconvenience for your holiness. How do we fix it?" Gojyo asked.
"You can't."
"Do you mean to say we will never regain our lost memories and apparently our partners or that things will eventually restore themselves?" Hakkai chimed in.
"I don't know and neither do the aspects, but until further information presents itself, you're stuck without your memories. Until that time," he said now pointedly looking at Gojyo, "Try not to piss off any gods."
"You're a real riot, you know that," Gojyo rolled his eyes at Sanzo.
There was nothing they could do but continue on with their lives. At one point, Gojyo did sit down and tell Aki and Bai. He showed them the pictures with all four of them and explained something had happened and their memories were hidden on them. This prompted a house search directed by Bai to try to find the hidden memories.