This is just for my dear Luna Calamity. ^^

Enjoy

"Have you ever thought about running away?"

Sanzo turned abruptly to face his lover who was instead staring at the landscape in front of them: the sun was slowly rising and the few clouds that were staining the light blue sky were painted pink; it happened more an more often that the two of them woke up earlier to have a smoke together in the fresh morning air, to enjoy each other presence when none would have seen them.

"What? Aren't we already running away?"

Gojyo chuckled. "No, we are heading for a specific place, to find a specific something and to do specific things...we're not…escaping…"

Sanzo at this point looked puzzled, he couldn't quite get what Gojyo was saying: they had a mission after all, what was the water-sprite babbling about?

"Imagine that: just me and you, doing whatever we want whenever we feel like it…leaving everything behind, deciding whether to follow the rising or the setting sun day by day… not bound to plans or tables or shit like these…"

The monk started getting at the point while he turned again, this time to focus on the same direction the half breed was staring at. And he had to admit that deep down, for a slip second, he aimed at the newly born sun, at his pale colours and the innocence that seemed to carry within itself and thought about the fact that they kept fallowing the opposite, they followed the crimson, the death.

Gojyo's hand came to rest on his own, as he instinctively enlaced their fingers together.

"Just the both of us?"

"Why not?" Gojyo smirked, looking at him by the corner of his eye.

The monk blew the smoke out and answered calmly "I wouldn't be able to stand you…"

"Oh, really? What about me? Don't you think it's too much for me to be with a man whose sarcasm spills from every pores?" on the redhead's forehead popped few veins as Sanzo couldn't help but chuckle even though he tried hard to hide the fact.

Gojyo calmed down, and looked seriously into the purple orbs in front of himself.

"Wouldn't you like it?"

Sanzo stared back with the same intensity.

"I would…" he whispered. "But everything we have is here, and it follows us in every step we take…"

"Referring to the monkey and Hakkai? Well they're used to your bitching and to your sexy screams when we have sex, so I think they could keep following us…it's not a big issue, you know…"

Sanzo hit his lover's head few times with the harisen all the while with a huge smile on his lips.