Amaunet woke up to the feeling of someone gripping her by her shoulders and shaking her awake. Thinking that it was her mother, she moaned, and rolled over, pulling the blanket over her head. "Five more minutes Mum, I want my sleep…I NEED my sleep…"
The quaking stopped, and Amaunet thought that she was finally going to get the rest she both needed and wanted. But, instead of being left alone, it was only aggravated by someone yanking the blankets off her, exposing her to the cold air.
Amaunet yelped, and opened her eyes. "Bloody hell, who was that?! I'm going to throttle you the minute I lay my hands on you…"
"Do that and I shoot you."
Amaunet turned, and her lips hardened into a thin grim line when she saw just WHO had woken her up. "Oh. You."
Sanzo smirked as he picked up the blanket that had fallen onto the floor, balled it up, and tossed it at her. "Get dressed and pack your things, if you have any. We're going to meet Hakkai and Gojyo when you're ready."
Amaunet was about to ask just WHO were these people – Hakkai and Gojyo – but Sanzo had already left the room. All the better, she thought to herself as she got up, and proceeded to make the bed. I would've probably strangled him if he stayed any longer, gun or no gun.
She knew that the kimonos they had provided her with would be completely useless out in the wilds, so she looked for her safari gear. She found them in a nearby trunk, freshly washed and neatly folded. She put these on quickly, and as she stared at herself in the full-length mirror, she felt a stab of homesickness hit her square in the gut.
She was truly her parents' child. She had the physique, features, and hair of her mother, but as for her eyes, she would always have the same sapphire depths that her father possessed. She looked at her face, and saw her mother. She looked at her eyes, and saw her father.
Amaunet shook her head, swallowing against the lump in her throat. I wonder what's happened to them, she thought as she packed up the few belongings she had in the backpack that had somehow gotten transported with her when she came into this world. What happened to Dad? Did he make it out alive from the cave-in? Or did he…did he… This time, the tears REALLY spilled from her eyes, and Amaunet choked a little as the sob came through.
I really MUST go back home. I can't just stand around here doing nothing. I have to get back home and find out if Dad made it out okay. With this thought in mind, she snatched up her backpack, and made her way out of the temple to the front courtyard, where she saw Goku and Sanzo waiting.
Sanzo glanced at her then. "And about time you came out."
Amaunet stared at the monk for a while, taking in his outfit. After a moment, she burst into fits of laughter so loud that it echoed all throughout the monastery compound.
Sanzo's eyes narrowed to dangerous proportions, and he gritted out, "What _ is _ so _ funny?"
Amaunet snorted, trying to keep her laughter in check, then gasped, "You…your outfit…the-the robes…the cro-crown…the v-veil…" a giggle, "you…you look like…a Virgin Mary statue!!! You…you look like a…a…A FEMALE SAINT!!!!" With that, the laughter exploded from her again, and she doubled over, clutching her stomach with both her arms, trying to soothe the ache that resulted from too much laughing.
Sanzo's eyes narrowed almost completely, and he reached for his trusty weapon – the deadly Paper Fan of Doom.
WHACK!!!
"OWWWW!!!!!!" Amaunet rubbed the sore spot on her head where the stiff paper had made contact, and glared at Sanzo. "DAMMIT SANZO, I AM GOING TO GET YOU SOMEDAY FOR THIS YOU BLOODY BASTARD!!!!!"
Goku stared at Sanzo in disbelief as the monk started walking away. "Kami-sama…he hit you, he actually HIT YOU!!!"
Amaunet gave a "humph" as she straightened her backpack, and proceeded to follow in the direction Sanzo was walking. "That monk is going to get his bloody due someday, I swear…"
"Ganbatte on that," Goku remarked with a sigh and a shrug. "No one has been able to get their revenge on Genjo Sanzo."
"Great. Then I'll get him back so good that it'll go down in the history books and no one will ever forget it," Amaunet growled.
Sanzo turned to her then, purple eyes flaming. "Anything more out of you and this time I'll REALLY shoot you."
Amaunet glared back at him, but kept silent. Damn you, Genjo Sanzo. Damn you to hell. You're going to pay, you're SOOO going to pay…
"I still can't believe he actually hit you," Goku said in quiet amazement as they continued walking.
Amaunet glanced at him, toning her voice down so that Sanzo wouldn't hear. "What's so surprising about that? Doesn't the old grouch do that to everyone?"
Goku snickered quietly at the words "old grouch", but replied, "Not to everyone, just to me and Gojyo. So it surprised me that he'd hit YOU. He doesn't hit women, not even those who annoy him. He only threatens them with his gun. He won't hurt them physically, though."
Amaunet rolled her eyes. "And here I was hoping that chivalry wasn't dead," she muttered as the two fell silent again.
They were passing through a forest now, and Amaunet was glad for her waterproof all-terrain boots, since the path was littered with damp leaves and it would be easy to slip and fall.
"How old are you, Ama?" Goku asked then, his eyes wide and curious.
Amaunet blinked, surprised at the use of her nickname by this still-strange boy. "Me? I'm seventeen going on eighteen soon."
Goku grinned. "Honto ni? So you're still pretty young then!!"
Amaunet laughed, appreciating the easygoing nature of her companion. "I wouldn't really consider myself young… Where I'm from, once you hit eighteen, you're considered to be an adult! To be honest, I was actually handling a grown-up's job by the time I was sixteen. I was working as a decoder for my parents in Cairo."
"Decoder?"
"Someone who reads the old texts and hieroglyphs and translates them into words that can be understood by everyone else," Amaunet explained. "It's a very tedious job, but I like doing it. It gives me a sense of power, that all these people come to me just because I can read something they can't."
Goku grinned broadly, and nodded. "Hai, you're right. Wow, that seems like a very interesting job! I haven't heard of anyone who does that around here…" Just then, he stopped walking, and sniffed the air.
Eh? What's going on? "Goku, what's the matter?"
Goku sniffed the air again. "Something smells wrong," he said quietly. "Oi Sanzo, I think we've got company."
The monk uttered a curse under his breath. "I thought so." He turned to Amaunet, and waved her over towards a secluded part of the clearing. "Stay there, Amaunet, and DON'T MOVE, no matter what the circumstance. If anything gets near you just scream. Don't even get it into your head to try and fight back."
Amaunet glared at the monk. "Hey, I may be weak, but I'm not totally defenseless!"
Goku shook his head, looking at her pleadingly. "Onegai Ama, he's right! These demons are something you can't handle. For once, listen to what he says!"
Amaunet stared at Goku, and nodded wordlessly, obeying what Sanzo had told her earlier. The monk shot her a glare, and then turned his scathing gaze to Goku before pulling out his gun.
The shrieks tore through the air, inhumanely loud and high-pitched. Amaunet found herself cringing and covering her ears when she heard it. She looked up towards the clearing, where Sanzo and Goku were, and watched as they were attacked.
Amaunet had never seen such…beings before in her entire life. They resembled the wild men she had often read about in those books her father sometimes lent to her, or those movies she watched about tribes of savages who lived more like beasts than men. But what stunned her most was the fact that these man-like creatures seemed to have claws that they could easily lengthen and retract – a characteristic that was only common in cats.
Immediately, Sanzo and Goku set to work. Goku produced a staff almost from out of nowhere, and this staff could lengthen or shorten itself according to Goku's purposes. What the hell?! Where did he get THAT thing?! She racked her brain for all the legends that involved staffs, and came up with…nothing.
She hissed. Damn, I wish I remembered what legend that belonged to…it could've helped me a lot in figuring out where I am.
One of the creatures turned to her then, and her blood immediately turned to ice as she gazed at the eyes of the thing. She could see the bloodlust there, the hunger for human flesh. Never had she seen such eyes before. To this thing, she was just the next meal on the menu.
The creature bounded towards her, shrieking an unholy sound, claws at the ready to rip her head off her shoulders. Amaunet lifted her arms over her face, hoping that it would shield her from the attack that was sure to come onto her…
BANG!!!!
Amaunet jerked at the sound of the gunshot, and opened her eyes to watch her attacker disintegrate into dust. When the smoke had cleared, she saw Sanzo standing in front of her, his gun pointed at the spot where the demon had once been. What the hell?!
Sanzo glared at her momentarily before he started shooting down the remaining demons, while Goku dealt with the others with his staff. In the end, the clearing was filled with nothing but thin wisps of smoke where the demons had once been.
Goku came rushing up to her then, his face concerned. "Ama…daijobou ka?"
"Huh?" Amaunet glanced at Goku, and noticing the worry in his face, she smiled slightly, and nodded. "Y-yeah, I guess so. Nothing hurt, no broken bones…yeah, I'm fine."
Sanzo approached her then, and looked at her for a long time. "You're shaking," he stated.
Amaunet glared at him. "It's none of your business, Sanzo. Just a bad case of the nerves. I'm going to be alright." She shook her head, and felt a large tremor pass through her. God, is THAT what happens around here all the time?! Demons just jumping out at you to kill? Are we going to be hounded like that for the rest of the trip?!
Sanzo's eyes narrowed slightly, but he nodded. "Good. That saves us a lot of trouble and time." He turned back to the path that led out of the clearing and deeper into the forest. "Let's go."
* * *
Goku walked beside Amaunet, for once quiet as he tried to take in the young woman who was going to be their traveling companion for the rest of this journey. He hadn't gotten much of a chance to get to know her, since they hadn't spoken for more than a few minutes the previous day when she had first arrived, but he sensed something…likeable about her. He could smell it on her, at any rate. Her clothes smelled like the desert, but she herself smelled like spices and incense and bright sunlight, and another scent that he couldn't identify…he was sure it was a kind of flower, but he couldn't tell which one.
Another thing that connected them was their mutual dislike of Sanzo, which in Amaunet was a burning hatred that evinced itself whenever she glared at the monk and muttered insults under her breath. One particular moniker that Amaunet had attached to Sanzo was "senile old fool", and though Goku found it rather appropriate and funny, he knew he would NEVER be able to say that to Sanzo's face. Of course, considering how Ama's acting right now, who knows for sure if she will be the first one to burst that in front of his face?
He had never gotten over the difficulty of pronouncing her name, so he had resorted to calling her "Ama", a nickname he thought rather suited her. When he said it she gave him a soft, familiar smile, something that Goku had never received from anyone before. He found it strange that she would smile at him like that. Sanzo never smiled at him; Gojyo smiled only to insult him; and as for Hakkai…the guy smiled all the time, so what was the difference? Amaunet's smile made him feel special. It made him feel like he was actually SOMEONE, and not just "Saru" or "Bakasaru".
For the first time in all his life, he was actually worried about something aside from food. Amaunet had elicited feelings in him, protective feelings. Panic had been eating at his mind while he fought the demons back in the clearing, and it was mainly because he was worried for Amaunet's safety. He didn't want her to get hurt. He would do anything make sure she didn't get hurt…even if it meant having to give up his life to do it.
Just then, an ominously familiar scent hit him in the nostrils. He groaned. Not again… "Oi, Sanzo, we've got company again!!!"
Amaunet turned to him and Sanzo then. "Same things as last time?"
Sanzo nodded, and pointed to another relatively safe-looking clearing. "Go over there, and don't make a sound."
Amaunet glared at the monk, and turned to Goku. Goku nodded his head, telling her that she had to obey what Sanzo had said.
She had barely hidden herself when the demons came from out of nowhere. Goku jumped into the air. "NYOIBOU!!!!" he shouted, and his weapon flashed from thin air. This he used to beat the hell out of the demons that dared to get near him, lengthening and shortening the staff as necessary.
But in the midst of the pounding, howling, and banging (from Sanzo's gun), a sound suddenly carried over clear and true to Goku's ears: Amaunet's shouting.
His blood ran cold in his veins as he turned to watch Amaunet get grabbed by three demons at once.
To her credit, the girl was struggling valiantly against her captors, her blue eyes flashing fire like Goku had never seen and her mouth spitting out curses in a dozen different languages – or at least, Goku was SOMEWHAT sure they were curses. He only understood a few of them.
But three demons trying to get at one girl is overkill, and Goku knew that he had to help her, or risk getting her killed. And I sure don't want THAT to happen… With a loud shout, he rushed headlong at the three demons, killing them all with one swipe of his Nyoibou.
He landed on the ground, and pushed Amaunet towards Sanzo. "Go, go Ama!"
Amaunet could only nod as she backed away until she was standing next to Sanzo. The monk wasn't looking very pleased now, though WHY Goku wasn't so sure. He didn't know if it was because they were suddenly surrounded on all sides by demons with no means of escape, or it was just his proximity to Amaunet.
Goku glanced at Amaunet from the corner of his eye, and noticed that she was bleeding. He grimaced. Kuso… "Oi Ama, are you okay?"
The girl nodded, touching a few scratches on her arms. "I'll be fine," she replied. "Nothing too serious…" She grinned at him. "They're all far from my heart and my gut; I'll live."
Goku nodded back, and turned his full attention to the demons again, who were all salivating as they stared at Sanzo and Amaunet, particularly at Amaunet. He frowned as he gripped his Nyoibou tighter. There is no way in hell they're going to get Ama…
"Looks like we came just in time for the party."
Goku jerked at the familiar voice, and looked up. There, standing at the top of a somewhat high cliff, were Hakkai and Gojyo.
Gojyo smirked as he glanced at Amaunet, eyeing her from head to toe. "All these youkai going for one girl? Hey, that doesn't seem fair!" With that, he leaped down from the rock face, Hakkai following close behind him.
"Attacking innocent people is wrong, period," Hakkai said with a cheerful smile, Hakuryuu fluttering close over his shoulder.
"Kyuu!" Hakuryuu chirped, as if in agreement to the statement made by his master.
Goku grinned. "Hakkai! So glad to see you!! You and the
perverted kappa came just in time!!!"
Gojyo glared at him then. "Do you really want me to leave you to the mercy of these youkai, Saru?! Cause if you do, I can just take the girl and run to let you and the Worldly Monk deal with them!"
"Take me and I'll slap your brains out, pervert!" Amaunet growled from beside Goku.
Goku had to utter a chortle at that, but it immediately went away when the demons lunged at him and Sanzo. "Here they come!!! Hakkai, get Ama out of here!!"
Hakkai nodded, and in the blink of an eye, he was standing right beside Amaunet, who stared back at him with wide, surprised blue eyes. Hakkai smiled down reassuringly at her. "We'll get you out in a minute." He put his arms around her waist, and in another blink, he had her out of the circle of demons.
Goku sighed, and smiled, relieved. Now that Ama's out of harm's reach, I can get down to business.
* * *
Amaunet stared at the tall man who was standing in front of her at the moment. Is he one of the companions Sanzo and Goku were talking about? She thought she heard Goku mention a name – Hakkai. If Goku knew this man's name, he was probably a friend. And for Ama, any friend of Goku's was someone who could be trusted. She couldn't say the same about Sanzo's friends, though.
The man smiled at her then. "Well, I suppose that we should find a safe place for you to wait while we finish our business here. Hakuryuu."
"Kyuu?"
Amaunet glanced at the man's shoulder, and felt her eyes nearly pop right out of her head at the sight. There, just above the man's left shoulder, was a small white dragon with pretty ruby-like eyes. Is that thing this guy's pet?! Whoa, INTERESTING choice of pet…
"Hakuryuu," said the man, almost as if he were talking to a trusted friend, "take this girl someplace safe, away from the fighting." He turned to Amaunet this time. "Follow Hakuryuu, he'll bring you to a place where you can rest and be safe from the demons. He'll stay with you so you won't get lonely, okay?"
Amaunet nodded wordlessly, and watched as the man went off in the opposite direction, towards the place where the sounds of fighting and gunshots was coming from. For a moment in time, she wondered if they were going to be okay. Surely four people against all those demons isn't going to be enough!
"Kyuu."
The quiet chirp of the white dragon called Amaunet's attention to it. The creature was fluttering just a foot away from her, its elegant, sinuous body turned towards a path in between the trees. Amaunet sighed, and grinned softly. "Hakuryuu, right?"
The dragon seemed almost to nod. "Kyuu."
"Well, since your master puts a lot of trust in you, and your master is friends with Goku, I guess I should trust you too. Lead the way."
The dragon uttered another musical chirp, and flew down the path, Amaunet following right behind him. It didn't take too long for them to get to a quieter clearing, with a little spring flowing right beside it.
Amaunet sighed, suddenly feeling very tired. She slumped down on the grass beside the spring, resting there for a moment. After a while, she started to feel stinging sensations up and down her arms, and realized, with a grimace, that her wounds were starting to hurt.
"Bloody demons…" she muttered as she inspected them. Many of them were quite long, though shallow, being caused by the claws of the demons when they grabbed her. In any case, they hurt like hell now that she was out of any immediate danger, and she had to clean them out soon or be at risk of an infection.
She reached for the spring, carefully dipping her wounded hands into the water. She hissed at first due to the initial sting, but after a while relaxed as she cleansed her cuts of any dirt. She slowly splashed water on her arms, also cleaning the wounds that were there. A few that had started to dry opened up again, and the water that dripped off Amaunet's arms was tainted pink with her blood.
Amaunet sighed as she stared at her arms for a moment. At any rate, I won't be needing any stitches… But my arms are going to be covered in bandages for a bloody long while until my wounds heal…
"Kyuu."
Amaunet looked up at Hakuryuu, and noticed that his head was hovering just beside her cheek. "Huh?"
Hakuryuu chirped again, and this time, lightly licked Amaunet's cheek.
Amaunet was stunned. "Wha? What the-" She felt a tingling sensation in her cheek, and then what felt like a tightening of the skin. She touched her cheek, and realized that she had gotten a small wound there, but, because of Hakuryuu's lick, the wound was gradually closing up, not even leaving a scar.
Hakuryuu seemed to almost smile at her. "Kyuu. Kyuu kyuu kyuu."
Amaunet giggled, and nodded. "Thanks, Hakuryuu."
"Kyuu." Hakuryuu approached her then, and curled up in her lap, folding his wings and tucking his head under them as if in sleep. "Kyuuuuuu…"
Sleep…sounds like a good idea… With this thought in mind, Amaunet leaned back against a nearby boulder, and slowly let her eyes drift shut in sleep.
* * *
Hakkai looked around satisfactorily. There were smoking piles where there were once demons, and he doubted if they were going to come around and trouble him and his companions. See you in the underworld when I get there…
Gojyo spoke up then. "Oi Sanzo, who was that girl you were with?"
Sanzo snorted. "Another annoying brat like the bakasaru over here. Her name is Amaunet. She's going to be coming with us for this journey."
Hakkai blinked. Really? Does Sanzo really intend to bring her along? "Sanzo, are you certain? Why would she want – need – to come with us?"
"She's supposed to help us," Sanzo muttered as he reloaded his gun, and hid it again inside his robes. "That's what the gods told me. Something to do with Fate."
Gojyo smirked. "I've got no problems with that. She's quite pretty. Golden skin and blue eyes…damn, now THAT'S what I call an exotic combination!!!"
"HENTAI KAPPA!!!" Goku roared suddenly. "Don't you DARE think about those things, especially about Ama!!! And Sanzo, you can get away with calling me a brat, but you have no right to call Ama that!!!"
Hakkai blinked with surprise. This was the first time he had seen Goku get so worked up about something besides food, and a girl at that. This is odd… It would seem that Goku has some feelings for her – Amaunet.
Gojyo started laughing and nudging Goku in the ribs. "Oh ho, looks like the monkey's fallen IN LOVE!!!!!"
"I-I'm not in love!!!" Goku protested, though he DID turn an interesting shade of red, the sight of which only made Gojyo laugh harder and louder.
Hakkai sighed, and shook his head. Those two will always be at each other's throats, and Sanzo after theirs, he thought as he watched Sanzo whack the two on the head with his Paper Fan of Doom as a way of telling them to shut up. When everything had calmed down, Hakkai smiled, and said, "I think that we should go look for her now. I told Hakuryuu to bring her to a safe place and to stay with her until we finished up here."
Sanzo snorted, and nodded. "Let's get going then."
Hakkai grinned. "Hai." He walked at the head of their group, having a sense of where Hakuryuu was. They got to the clearing with the spring soon enough, and he looked upon a rather charming sight.
Amaunet was leaning against a rock, eyes closed, deep in sleep. Hakuryuu, in the meantime, was folded up in her lap, sleeping as well.
Goku grinned broadly. "Kawaii…"
Hakkai had to admit to himself that yes, the sight WAS pretty charming. It isn't everyday I get to see a young girl with a white dragon curled up in her lap… "Hakuryuu."
Hakuryuu woke up then, uncurling himself from his position in Amaunet's lap. "Kyuu." He stretched his wings, and fluttered from Amaunet's lap to Hakkai's shoulder.
Hakkai scratched Hakuryuu underneath the chin. "Did you have a good rest?"
"Kyuu. Kyuu kyuu-yuu. Kyuu kyuu kyuuuu," Hakuryuu cheeped in response, making Hakkai smile in satisfaction.
In the meantime, Goku was bending over Amaunet's still-sleeping form, inspecting her wounds. "Looks like she took some time to clean them up," he muttered. "And most of them are starting to dry up." He gently shook Amaunet by the shoulders. "Ama, Ama, come on, wake up. We've got to go now."
Amaunet seemed to shake her head, and rolled over. "Me no like… Goku, just let me sleep…I need sleep…sleep…"
Sanzo snarled in irritation then, and strode over to the sleeping girl. He grabbed her by the shoulders, and shook her hard. "Oi you little witch, you'd better wake up now or else."
No response from Amaunet. And then…
WHOOSH!!!!
Oh dear, Hakkai thought with a sweat drop as Sanzo managed to barely dodge the right-handed punch that should have caught him on the jaw.
Amaunet spoke again, though she did not open her eyes at all. "Shut up you senile old fool. Just let me sleep in peace before I decide to go for more 'delicate' territory."
It took all of Gojyo's self-control to not burst out
laughing. However, a few chortles still escaped him as he looked at Sanzo. "I
don't believe it. She just called the High-and-Mighty Monk Genjo Sanzo a senile
old fool!!! Damn, I'm starting to like that girl already!! Imagine having the
guts to tell Sanzo the truth about himself…"
BANG!!!!!
Gojyo froze where he stood as a bullet whizzed by his ear, singeing a few strands of his long red hair. "Na-nani?!"
Sanzo put away the still-smoking gun. "One more word out of your mouth, and I swear I will REALLY kill you."
"Maa, maa," Hakkai said, trying to placate his two companions. "Now is not the time to start a fight. And besides, we have to find a place to stay in before sundown."
Gojyo relaxed, and snorted. "Che. As long as we can get to a town soon. I want to drink some sake and see some women."
"And I'm hungry!" Goku piped up.
Hakkai still smiled. "Alright. Hakuryuu, transform."
"Kyuu!" There was a bright flash of light, and in Hakuryuu's place there stood a jeep.
Hakkai got into the seat behind the steering wheel, while Sanzo took the passenger seat beside him. Gojyo and Goku had the back, and in between them was Amaunet, still sleeping, as though nothing had happened around her.
She certainly redefines the meaning of "sleep like a log", Hakkai thought amusedly as he turned away from the back to look ahead. "Where to, Sanzo?"
"West," Sanzo replied.
"Hai." With that, Hakkai started up the engine, and off they roared towards the sunset…towards the West.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Okay, that was rather long, wasn't it ^_^? Hmm, I hope I didn't go TOO far with Sanzo hitting Ama on the head for laughing at him… I mean, after THAT insult he would've probably shot her, but instead of shooting her, he just whacked her on the head with his fan. And at least it was just ONE whack; Goku and Gojyo get loads more, I'm sure. And yes, I DO believe that Sanzo's outfit – with the veil and the crown and all that – makes him look like a Virgin Mary statue or a female saint ^_~. Sorry, that's what happens when you study in a Catholic school ^^;. As for Hakuryuu's healing powers…I'm not really sure if he CAN do that, but I guess he can, since Hakkai can heal, so why can't his pet, ne ^_^? Just small injuries for Hakuryuu though, nothing major; those are for Hakkai to deal with.
THE RUKAWA KAEDE (THUS SLAM DUNK) CONNECTION: If you guys will recall the scene wherein Sanzo tries to shake Ama awake and only gets a vicious right hook in response, THAT is a characteristic typical to Rukawa Kaede, one of the characters in Takehiko Inoue's basketball manga/anime "Slam Dunk" (though I'm sure SD fans will have noticed that ^_~). Another thing that Ama and Rukawa share in common is the fact that they are narcoleptics – people who are all too fond of sleeping. However, Rukawa is narcolepsy to an extreme (the dude sleeps while biking his way to school, for crying out loud!); Ama is in a moderate (?) stage. Also, while Rukawa lashes out at anyone who dares to interrupt his naps, Ama is rather "selective", as can be told from the scene in the previous chapter: she didn't do anything to Goku, but was close to hitting Sanzo and knocking out a few of his teeth ^_^.
THE PAIRING GAME: This is a new feature that I have cooked up specifically for this fic. Based on the previous chapter, who do you think will end up with Ama?
a.) Sanzo
b.) Goku
c.) Hakkai
d.) Hakuryuu (?!?!?!)
Leave your guesses in your review. I will poll them and post the results in the upcoming chapter. And for those who guess the end pairing right, I'll happily loan the Saiyuki bishounen of your choice to you guys for a few nights ^_~. Have fun kiddies ^_^!!!!