A/N: Ever since this scene appeared in Reload Blast I always wanted to write this gag
At times he wondered why on earth he considered these three people as his friends. Is he an idiot? But then if he was—then it means that ALL of them were idiots for being together. Because people of similar traits generally gather together... right?
But, he couldn't deny it. As infuriating and annoying hanging out with the three of them had been, he really cared for all of them.
He realised it dreadfully every time either of those three got hurt badly. Even more after the last incident with that brat who called himself Kami-sama, and later when they had to fight that Ukoku Sanzo... and now this attack on Kouten castle and seeing how badly Sanzo got himself injured.
Though really, couldn't the trio NOT drag their jokes and tease him too far in situations like this? Somehow, when it comes to those three... he always found it hard to win over them.
It's always like this... his relationship with those three. That grumpy monk, that annoying monkey... and that super bothersome, nagging 'mama'.
xxx
Five years ago...
"Oi Gojyo... can't you cut your hair short again?"
He grinned at the annoying monk. "Nope!" he said. "I told you before that I gonna keep it long just to spite you."
"But it's really not nice looking," the small monkey who lived with the monk at this temple suddenly chipped into the conversation. "Honestly, when you tied it up into a ponytail it at least looked neater—but lately you didn't even bother doing that!"
Gojyo made a face at the small kid. "It's because I don't want you to get an easy grip on my hair and pull on it anytime as you pleased."
"Besides, I don't care about what you think because ladies still love my long hair—"
Goku pouted at him. "But that was only one time!" The kid protested. "And that's all because you kept going on and on about it being 'the colour of blaaard' so I wanna tell you that it looked flaming hot to me. Like a blazing fire!"
"But you don't have to pull on it so hard!"
"Still, Gojyo, do you have to keep that *dumb strand of hair? It just made you look like a cock—!"
Gojyo turned around to look at Hakkai. "Hakkai! Not you too!"
"Hakkai, you also thought so... right?" Sanzo spoke out again as he leaned over to holler at the green-eyed man. "That stupid thing just made this guy look like a giant roach!"
"Really, nowadays when I see any cockroaches on the streets, I can't help thinking—'Wow! That's a lot of Gojyo!'"
Goku grinned at him. "But it was satisfying... trying to smash all those little 'Gojyos'. Though it can get a bit scary when there's a SWARM of them coming at you. Especially the ones that could fly!"
Gojyo lifted his arm to smack the small monkey boy before stopping to laugh at Goku. "Serve you right for that! It's a great lesson to you for making fun of me—"
"—so you really do agree that those stupid antennae made you look like a giant roach?" Hakkai asked smug—I mean—innocently to Gojyo.
"Wait Hakkai! That wasn't what I meant—"
Sanzo nodded sagely, happy that they got the kappa pretty much cornered. "Yes, yes... he really did admit it—"
"Sanzo, shut up!"
Goku giggled happily, loving the fact that Gojyo was the one being made fun of... for a change. "Hahahahaha... Gojyo is a giant, red, kappa-cockroach!"
"Aah!" cried Gojyo aloud as the three kept on ganging up on him...
xxx
"It's just too sexy!"
Gojyo turned around to face the trio directly.
"Honestly, what did my demon mark look like?"
"Unh..." Goku sighed. "It kinda looks like... this swirly swirly—", said the boy, as he tried to visualize the pattern by drawing in in the air with his finger.
"Yea, it's really quite swirly swirly—" admitted Sanzo in a clipped tone.
Hakkai just smiled at him. "It's okay, Gojyo. It looked like this cool swirly swirly mark behind your neck. It's actually quite cool!"
"ALL OF YOU ARE USELESS!", screamed Gojyo at the lot.
Gojyo just eyed the three warily. Seriously, these guys were the worse! Did they have to WORD it that way? And Goku—Gods!—did he HAVE to say it like that and made that swirly gesture with his finger? The way all three of them were describing his demon mark, it sounded as if they were describing the image of a piece of shit!
A piece of shit demon mark on the back of HIS neck! On the very spot that he can't even SEE!
"But really," Goku spoke again. "Gojyo's ears still looked normal. So even if he has that swirly swirly mark on him, it just made him look like a typical thug with a cool swirly swirly tattoo."
Seriously, enough with all the swirly swirly comments! What's so sexy about having a shit-looking mark behind his neck?
Gojyo then start to scream his frustrations out as the three people inside the jeep continued to snicker at him.
Geez, I really hate them!
* ahoge = which basically means dumb hair. It's a common old anime trope to refer to the hair antennae on certain characters hair as a moe point. Also cos I'm not sure if people nowadays still knows this term anymore.
