CHAPTER 23: Another day.
It was early morning when I was awakened again by Goku's moans, this time next to me. At first I couldn't remember what he was doing there, but then I remembered about him waking Sanzo and I about 3 o'clock in the morning when he had a nightmare and Sanzo was about shooting him because he couldn't sleep. I allowed Goku to come with me after hearing his nightmare in front of a hot milk glass at the kitchen.
Once again I was playing the role of their mother and taking care of the littlest of them.
I looked at my watch and realised it was just half an hour earlier than usual so I chose not to fall asleep again and just getting up without waking Goku up too.
Finally I managed to stand up while he kept on half snoring at my bed and I took my clothes to walk out of my bedroom and into the bathroom to take my morning shower that I would make it last a bit more today.
Yep, morning showers with hot water were all I needed to wake up fully and begin the day with some energy; that and…
"Good morning…" A sleepy voice said from the other side of the shower curtain yawning. "Sorry but I needed to pee."
"Did nobody teach you to knock before getting into a room?" I asked him.
"Yeah, but I didn't realise you were here when I got in." Gojyo said yawning again. "Taking a morning shower? Today you are earlier than other days."
The locking thing at the knob was broken since the day after the previous day, so it was now two days I had to get my shower while someone got inside to brush their teeth or pee or…
"Yuck!" I said when I smelled what he was doing. "Oh! Couldn't you have waited until I went out of here?!" I added turning the water off and squeezing my hair fast in order to get the towel and be able to run out of there before I died drowned on that dung smell.
"Sorry, I couldn't wait." He said while I put my hand out to hold my towel. "Here."
I fast wrapped myself in the towel and it took me just five seconds to run away from there with the little detail that I couldn't help rubbing Gojyo's side when I ran away due to the little space left for getting out if he was sitting at the toilet to do that.
I was drying my self at the toilet that thank god still had the locking thing still when he knocked on the door.
"Sorry about the toilet." He said. "I opened the window."
"Great, but you should have sprayed a bit of deodorant too." I said. "Man, you really made the room stink."
"As if you didn't." He said.
"Mine doesn't stink that much." I just answered while I ended buttoning my bra at my back and taking my jeans to put on while my hair kept on dripping a bit.
When I ended and as I couldn't hear any noises outside I chose to unlock the door and speed into the bathroom to try and dry my hair there wearing no shirt so as not to pool it too.
It was fast and before going out of the toilet I checked the corridor. Nobody was there.
While I was drying my hair with the hairdryer I couldn't hear anything outside, but the guys were awaken and went to the toilet to pee, as they could hear the hairdryer in the bathroom they didn't even knocked and headed to the toilet, the only one not respecting it was Gojyo, who suddenly I realised was behind me and that made me frightened when I saw him there.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him.
"I thought you could need help with your hair." He said. "You've grown it a bit lately and I don't know if you can make it stand spiky as before."
"Hum." I just said nodding while I put on the bathrobe to cover myself a bit better.
I then took the tool and sat down there to help him modelling my hair with some grease, a round hairbrush and the hairdryer.
"You have pretty hair now." He said. "Will you grow it again?"
"I don't know." I said. "Like this is easier to dry."
"Well, long hair also matched you." He said. "But you look cute whatever hair length you wear."
"Th… thanks." I said.
I could feel how my cheeks were beginning to go red and hot, and it was not due to the hairdryer.
He was really nice to me, all I have always wanted and even more. It was as if the series didn't showed but a part of himself, an important part but not all the true him.
"Are you going to university today?" He asked me as he combed my hair to make the back one stand spiky.
"Ah, yes." I said. "Maybe we should drop it; we are going to need to have something for lunch and…"
"And Hakkai is taking care of that, don't worry." Gojyo told me pulling from my hair with the brush to make me look up to the ceiling and into his upside-down face to then kiss me softly. "You worry about us too much. Relax." He said smiling. "I don't want my girl to go skinny. They will think I don't take care of you."
That made me laugh and he also did while he told me not to move my head or we would take ages.
When he was nearly done I was still not able to check my hair but he smiled mildly.
"What's so funny?" I asked him.
"Nothing." He answered. "It's funny."
"What is it?" I asked.
"You seem to have got used to me." He said.
It was weird, for a second I felt puzzled and then I realised he was right. I smiled mildly.
"Yeah, it's funny." I agreed. "You're right."
"And you're done." He said turning the hairdryer off and raising it as if it was a gun. "Ah, ah." He said when I was to look myself at the mirror. "Do not ruin it, just let people see you and you see yourself at the others eyes."
"You speak weird things." I said nearly laughing. "Ah! Look at the time!!"
It was all too fast, I ran to my bedroom, took of the bath gown and changed into white tight shirt; then I ran to the kitchen, had the glass of milk, nearly crass into Gojyo and Sanzo that shouted at me and ran away home to lose the bus by the very skin of my teeth.
"Need someone to give you a little lift?" A car said parking just in front of me a minute later while I was sitting sadly to wait for a bus that would take me late into school.
"Oh, hello." I said to the weird tough guy owning a wolf that lived with the weird silent guy in my class that turned to be both my neighbours. "Er… I think I don't need help, thanks."
"C'mon, you seem to have lost your transport." He said. "If I can take you… Where are you going?"
"To the university." I said. "But…"
"What a coincidence, I have to go next to it." He said obviously trying to trick me. "C'mon, get in. I'll be faster than the bus."
I doubted about what to do, but then I thought I could trust him and I opened the door to get in his car's front seat and allow him to drive me to my university.
"Thanks in advance for the ride." I asked him. "Are you going to the department stores near the university?"
"No, the truth is I have to get to the university as my mate is ill so I must take his notes…" He said. "Lupus is taking care of him; you know, the neighbourhood has been a bit messed up lately, you don't know who and when are going to try breaking in your house."
"I was so sorry to have made you two…" I began apologizing.
"Relax; it was not your fault." He said. "Your flat mates shouldn't have left you alone there."
"I was supposed to be fine there." I said. "We didn't know who they were. They never tried to attack while I was…" Then I stopped as I realised I had spoke too much. "I mean… nobody can guess when you are going to be break into and try to burglar, do we?"
I prayed for that guy not to have realised on all that, but pitifully for me, he did. He stared at me while he was driving and when we reached a traffic light he stopped and surrounded my shoulders with his arm and kissed the top of my hair.
"You are being really brave." He said. "Those men doesn't deserve all that loyalty. Less of all when they seem not able to protect those who are dear for them…"
"I'm not dear for them." I said. "We are just new-friends, that's all."
"Ha, really, I hated them, but now I've met you… I keep on hating them, yet… well, now I'm a bit envious of them."
That made me look at him while we reached the university building.
"How can it be someone as you can be envious of them?" I asked him.
"Because they have you." He said looking at me with an impish face. "I envy them because they have the loyalty and friendship of such a cute girl as you. You are not only nice but also tender and on the same time brave and broad minded. I envy them, really."
That made me look at him confused and shocked while I went out and then I realised I was to be late and I ran to my lessons.
I arrived two minutes late anyway and I had no chance of speaking with anyone until the rests.
I was on our 4th rest there at the classroom when the guy got in lessons making people wisher in curiosity about him. He then began looking around as if he was looking for someone.
"Hi." He said when he finally met my eyes.
"Hi, what… what are you doing here?" I asked him.
"I came to pick up today's notes." He said. "And as it seems it's still an hour left I suppose I will sit here and wait."
"So… you came for taking notes you didn't took." I said.
"No." He said. "But I bet you can lend me yours." He added smiling impishly again as he held out his hands.
"We will see what we can do, later, on a photocopying centre." I said while the teacher came. "That was your friend's seat." I added pointing to where he used to sit.
"Thanks, but I suppose here I'll call not for attention." He said sitting back me and hiding himself back a notebook.
I then shook my head as five minutes later I saw him nearly sleeping back the notebook.
The lessons were not too bad, or so I thought until I had to hit the guy back me with my elbow gently to wake him up as the teacher was walking towards him.
"Thanks for the 'gentle' advice." He said rubbing his head while we were photocopying my class notes.
"Sorry if the notebook hurt you, but you can't sleep in lessons." I told him. "What were you thinking about?"
"Dreaming about motorbike racing at a beach, with tons of hot girls cheering for me." He said.
Great I was friend of a 'Pervert Impish Wolf' Guy.
"Here, tell your friend I'm sorry but my handwriting is a bit messy sometimes." I said.
"Ok, allow me to pay for this giving you another lift back home?" He asked.
"Sorry, but I have to work today." I said. "Another day."
"Ok, then I suppose it will be fine if I just stand at your bar having a beer." He said.
"First, it's not my bar, it's the university cafeteria." I said. "And second, you are free to get there and have whatever you want there."
"Then I'll have a beer and maybe a sandwich." He said.
"We also serve meal, dishes and also day menu." I said while we walked there.
"Yeah, but you have still had no meal." He said.
"I have half an hour later to have it." I said. "I get there and begin working, then I have half an hour to rest and again to work."
"Man, you work too much." He said making me smile.
Sure I did, and specially that afternoon that it seemed to have three times the usual work. I had to have a quick lunch based on a hamburger with some salad after the meal serving time, and then the 'wolf guy' invited me to a beer I couldn't refuse taking because he took his chance when the cafeteria was nearly empty but for some coffee taking people and four nerds playing cards on a table.
Then the cafeteria went more crowded and I had plenty of work until about half an hour of the closing time that I got a visit.
"Hi, babe." Gojyo told me from the bar.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him.
"Keeping the tradition of coming to pick you up to go back home?" He asked smiling and trying to kiss me for me to turn my face. "I'll have a beer."
"Sure." I said going to serve it and getting also a chocolate bun. "Here, take this, I pay for it so as to repay you for coming all this long to wait for me."
"Thanks sweetheart." He said smiling sexily.
"How much do I owe you?" The 'wolf guy' told me taking his wallet out. "Three beers."
"Already leaving?" I asked him.
"Aye." He said. "I see you are not going to return alone, so I can leave relieved."
"Ok, see you tomorrow." I said smiling.
I then winked at him and kept on serving orders until about five minutes before having to leave.
"Isa, hey, pick up your things and leave." The boss told me while I was cleaning a bit the bar. "I'll end cleaning up and do the cash."
"It's no bother to stay here until exit time." I said.
"Nah, you've worked hard today." He said smiling warmly. "And your friend is waiting already for you."
"He can wait for more six minutes." I said.
He then laughed and shook his head.
"Miss, you are my best employee." He said. "Nah, leave, and do not forget taking that bowl I left for you at the hanger with your robes."
"Thanks." I said smiling to hurry back inside and change the apron and working shirt into my top and jacket to get out.
"Thanks for the buns, boss." I told him. "My cousin is going to love you." I said making him laugh as he put some buns left and about going off and also some of the omelette and sandwiches remaining after such a long working day.
"Already done?" Gojyo asked me as I went out next to him. "Thanks, boss."
"Hey, take good care of my favourite employee." He told him. "Do not hurt her or I'll hunt you to the very end of the world."
"I don't doubt it." I said while waving.
"I would kill myself before hurting her." Gojyo answered him. "By the way, do kiss marks count?"
That made me aim to hit his head softly and the boss laughed after some seconds of confusion.
"Ah… I miss those times when I was your age." He said. "By the way, on Wednesday you are free, but instead you have to come tomorrow on your mate's turn."
"Great." I said. "Well, good bye."
"Bye." Both Gojyo and the boss said at once.
Then Gojyo and I walked out of the bar and he half held to my waist while we walked.
"How have you spent the day?" I asked him. "Did your leg hurt?"
"Not much." He said. "But Sanzo is a bad patient, and Goku was crying for something sweet all the day because his medicine was sour or something like that."
"Well, I am taking him some sweets." I said moving the bag to make it rattle softly. "Sorry it's not enough for all of you."
"I've got my particular sweet." He said softly to my ear making me go slightly pink when he added. "A sweet I just can take and that I will not run out of."
He really was a bit perverted some times, but I was beginning to get used to it. And when we went in the bus and he made me sit among his legs to wrap me softly with his arms smiling and kissing my neck and smelling my hair I putted up my hand to bury it at his hair rubbing the back of it softly.
"I've missed this a lot." He said.
"Well, to be sincere me too." I recognised softly.
Then we both half laugh while we had cheek against cheek.
I was really happy of finally having found someone that I could feel so calm doing those things with.
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"How are them?" The other neighbour asked Orion, aka. 'Wolf guy' when they met at their flat.
"I suppose you meant 'her', don't you Gokijiyou ." Orion said. "Just her went today to the lessons. It seems the red haired keeps on being in need of walking sticks, the priest and your little copy were ill and the other one stayed home to take care of them. She went to take notes for all."
"Do not play mysterious, please." The guy said softly. "How was her?"
"Looked more or less happy." He answered. "Happier when the red haired went to pick her up at her work to leave by bus."
"Was she?" He asked. "Hum, it seems they are going to have a little problem then..."
"Yep, he is going to have it." Orion said taking a cig out to try and smoke it.
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"Ah!!" Goku chipped when I handed him the buns. "Chocolate!!"
"Have you behave, little child?" I asked him joking.
"I've been a good guy all the day." He said doing puppy eyes.
"Ok, then… here you are." I said handing him a piece of one to put the rest out of his reach at the cupboard. "Hum, Hakkai, have you already had dinner?" I asked him realising there were a couple of pots at the fire.
"Oh, well I served Sanzo and Goku first; but I waited for you two." He said smiling. "Shall we have dinner now?"
"Sure." I said. "Can I quickly change robes into something else, please?"
"Five minutes." He said.
"Three." I said smiling and speeding out of the kitchen into my bedroom.
"I bet she takes more than five." Gojyo said lighting a cig to get out to the terrace to smoke a bit.
And truly, it took me neither three nor five minutes to get into kitchen again, but four.
"Sorry, I had to find a clean t-shirt." I apologized. "It seems someone took fun on messing my wardrobe."
"My, my!" Hakkai said. "I still have had no time to warm dinner up a bit!" He said about joking.
"Ok, don't worry, I brought some of the bar extra-dishes so… well, we don't have to cook much today." I said.
"You are so nice…" Hakkai said smiling. "You really take care of us."
"Well, it's my work." I said trying to take importance off the matter. "And furthermore, my boss gave me them so as we all have some dinner."
"Don't worry about us, save that for your tomorrow's meal." He said then.
"I was thinking on taking a salad with me." I said rubbing my cheek embarrassed.
"Look, look." Gojyo said coming back in. "What a healthy girl."
"Maybe I could get you that ready, but also take the omelette as main course, please." He said.
"Ok, salad and Spanish omelette for my tomorrow's meal." I said. "I caught it, then the rest is for today's dinner?"
"Ok." Hakkai said smiling.
"I think I need some help with the shower." Gojyo then said looking at me by the corner of his eye.
"I'll help you after dinner." Hakkai said then.
"Ok." He said sighing sadly.
"If you want I can end heating this up and so you can go help him now." I offered Hakkai.
"Or maybe you could come and help me." Gojyo said hugging my neck by the back and whispering softly at my ear.
"Do I cook and you help him, Hakkai?" I asked him.
"Ok, yes." He said smiling and nodding. "Just be careful, it must be about being warm now."
"Aye, Mr. Cook." I said joking.
Then both left and I began stirring the pots slowly for the containing to be well heated like that.
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"Man, this is not the same if it's not done by a lady." Gojyo told Hakkai sighing.
"I'm sorry but I would not allow that nice girl to be used as your toy by you." Hakkai said. "She deserves not that."
"Mind your own business." Gojyo told him. "I'm not using her…"
"Then stop suggesting her to do such things as helping you have a shower or things like that." Hakkai told him. "It's still three more men here."
"Yeah… but being rubbed the back by a lady is better." Gojyo said cheekily.