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Sanzo woke with the morning sun blinding his violet eyes, making him squint and pull the blanket up over his face. He rolled over, wanting to force himself back to sleep. The silence was too much for him and he finally got out of his bedroll to greet it with tired eyes. He carefully stepped over Hakkai who was sleeping near the entrance of the tent, who ended up there because of not wanting Goku rolling over the top of him. The cool early morning air made Sanzo shiver slightly, forcing him to put the top half of his kimono back on. The sound of birds softly singing and the dew hanging in the air almost made Sanzo smile with bitter happiness.
"OHAYO GOZAIMASU MINNA (1)!!" Sakura-Sanzo stood in the middle of the large tent dressed in a long night shirt, her hair tied in a long purple braid. Hakkai woke up rubbing his head and searching for his monocle. Finding it, along with his head band, put them both on.
Gojyo threw a pillow at her, making her lose her balance and fall back onto her bedroll. She fell with a thud, landing on her hip. Glaring over at Goyjo she grabbed her book bag and started rummaging in it. She pulled something out and moved with such speed that Gojyo didn't know what hit him...at least until he regained consciousness.
"YOU SAY OHAYO WHEN SOMEONE GREETS YOU IN THE MORNING YOU DUMB KAPPA(2)," she screamed at him while beating him repeatedly with her shiny metal fan.
"Maa maa..." Hakkai was now standing behind her restraining the ferocious girl. She calmed down and walked away to put her fan back. Hakkai then turned to Gojyo with a sweat drop on his face. Gojyo lay there with big swirly eyes and a large bump on his head. "That's strange I've seen this before..." (Hakkai thinks back to when he saw the first episode of Rurouni Kenshin...) He shook his head of the silly thoughts and tended to the unconscious Goyjo.
Goku lay sideways on his bedroll drooling, clutching his pillow as if it were going to run away if he let up his grip. He mumbled indecipherable words and then started to sniff the air. She slowly stood up still clutching the pillow tightly.
"fooood...." He walked over to Sakura-Sanzos backpack again, shoving her out of the way to get to the food he kept smelling inside the pack.
She was about to fume and attack Goku, when Hakkai grabbed her by the wrist. "Please don't, you never wake a sleep walker."
"But he's going through my stuff Hakkai-chan...." She pouted at him with big puppy dog eyes. He shook his head in response and allowed Goku to rummage through the book bag to finally find something and lay back down, hopefully.
Goku found a candy bar and slowly returned to his bed roll, clutching the pillow and bar of chocolate. Sakura-Sanzo wasn't too mad about the chocolate, it wasn't the most important thing she had hiding in the bag. She didn't need finding her "woman products" and tossing them out of the pack like a dog rummaging through a garbage can. She sighed with relief quietly and Hakkai released her, watching her every move to make sure the violent outburst was gone.
Sanzo could only stand outside the tent watching with his eyebrow twitching like someone had it attached to a puppet string. His morning was now officially ruined. He wanted nothing then to just enjoy the peacefulness of the early day without HER. Nothing he could do about it now.
"Hakkai! Wake up the zaru, we're leaving as soon as camp is taken down." He walked off towards the woods because quite frankly, the real reason he didn't want her awake before him was that he wanted nothing more then to relieve his bladder without her popping out of no where.
Hakkai smiled in acknowledgment and started to shake Goku awake. He stirred groggily, slowly opening his eyes. He looked up at Hakkai and rolled onto his back and sat up. "Time for breakfast already?"
"Sorry Goku, no time for that this morning. We have to take camp down and then get going. Sanzo must not have woken up feeling well."
"Eeeh? Ousou dai yo.....(3)"
"Why don't you eat that candy bar you stole from me?" Sakura-Sanzo didn't even look at the thief, rather she quickly packet up her stuff, grabbed clothes and bolted out of there to change.
Goku watched her run out of the tent puzzled then realized he held the candy in question in his left hand. Without second thought to how and when he stole the bar, he ripped off the paper wrapping and gobbled it down.
Hakkai tried his best to revive Goyjo without success. Giving up, he started to pack up the bed rolls, taking things out to Jeep who had already turned into their mode of transportation for the rest of the day.
Goku got dressed, some what more alive now that he had at least something to eat. He helped Hakkai as best he could with taking the tent down. Sanzo returned from the woods with Sakura-Sanzo close at hand yelling apologies at him. His face was full of anger and his vein looked like it could take no more.
"I didn't know that's what you were doing Sanzo-chan!"
That was it, the finally straw that broke the camels back. He pulled the huge paper fan out of his robe and started to chase her around swatting it at her.
"Gomenasai Sanzo-sama!" It was way to late to try and repent her ways now that he was hopping mad. Not as mad as he was that following evening, but angry nonetheless.
Hakkai couldn't say or do anything, he just shook his head. Goku helped him to fold up the tarp of the tent. Gojyo started to stir a bit, but, didn't wake. Goku folded up the last of the tarp and they put it back into it's storage back along with the metal stakes and the rope. They then picked Gojyo up as best they could and plopped him in the back seat where he always sat next to Goku. Ready to go now that they had everything in order, it was now the task of calming down Sanzo enough to actually get going.
"Eeto...Sanzo..." Hakkai didn't know what to do at this point. Luckily Sanzo get one last thwap in and Sakura-Sanzo lay on the ground unmoving. He put his fan away, and climbed into the passenger side of the Jeep. "Let's go."
Hakkai smiled nervously at Sanzo then walked over to the fallen girl, scooped her up and lay her next to Goyjo who was still in the same state as her. Goku bounded into the empty space next to the sleeping Sakura-Sanzo, Hakkai climbed into the drivers seat, and on they went, heading West.
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Sakura-Sanzo stirred, letting out a low groan as her hand went directly to the bump on her head. She winced in pain and pulled her hand away quickly. She opened her eyes to see that her face was close enough to Gojyos to kiss him. She let out a low yelp and sat up quickly, knocking into Goku. She looked around quickly orientating herself with where she had just woken up with a bump on her head. seeing Hakkai driving and Sazno doing nothing put glaring let her know that she was in the Jeep heading West to the next town. She let out a sigh and turned to Goku, apologizing for bumping into him. Goyjo was still unconscious from the blows she dealt him. She felt kind of bad, but took it all back when he started talking in his sleep and started stroking the exposed skin on her legs.
"HENTAI!!!" She punched Gojyo in the face, which crazily enough, woke him from his perverted dream.
"What'd you do that for?"
" 'Cause you were trying to cop a feel you perverted kappa!"
Sazno turned around and hit Goyjo over the head with the paper fan, then glared at Sakura-Sanzo. "Urusei...." He sat back down crossing his arms, with paper fan in hand still.
Goyjo rubbed his sore cheek and Sakura-Sanzo stuck her tongue out at him, then turned her back to him. Gojyo didn't understand why she was being so uptight. From the way she was dressed, a short red pleated skirt with a matching v-neck top, that she was just asking for it sooner or later from some random guy on the street. Then he would of punch the guy in stead of her.
He sat back, and thought about getting to the next town. They would have real beds, real food....REAL women...Ah yes. That would be a good thing. "Ne, Hakkai. How much further until the next town?"
"Well, last night after I returned to camp after trying to save some lives, I studied the map. I'm taking a short cut that is going to save us a day. We should be there in about 5 days now."
Gojyos mouth hung open, "You've got to be kidding..."
Hakkai smiled back in the rear view mirror, "No."
Gojyo thought he was going to die right then and there.
Sakura-Sanzo smiled.
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The sun was at the highest point in the sky when Goku started to complain about the heat. Everyone ignored him to the best of their ability until Goyjo started to complain along with him. Hakkais short cut brought them across a vast plain of dying grass. The place was almost void of trees since they started driving there. It seemed like a never ending sea of death. No flowers were growing and Sanzo saw glimpses of dead animals every now and then. He had to stop looking at his surrounding so he leaned back in his seat and tried to nap.
Sakura-Sanzo drifted in an out of sleep curled up against a random pillow she pulled out of the black hole she called her book bag. Gojyo stopped questioning where these items were coming from because she had offered all of them a pillow to rest against. Gojyo and Goku happily took one from her but Hakkai and Sanzo politely, well polite for Sanzo and well Hakkai always is, declined.
Goku and Gojyo followed suit and both fell into a light sleep, needing the extra rest from waking so early in the morning. Hakkai looked into the rear view mirror and smiled at all the sleeping faces. Kaiju curled up on Hakkais shoulder letting out a large yawn and soon fell asleep with the rest of the Sanzo party.
"This could be a problem right about now..." Hakkai had a very nervous smile cross his lips. A group of ten youkai were now standing in the path of the oncoming vehicle. He slowed the Jeep down to a stop and got out of the drivers side.
"You seem to be in our way, and quite frankly, we're in a hurry so..."
"Hand over the priest and we'll gladly leave you to your journey." A tall youkai with red hair stepped forward. He held a gun and a sword was hanging from his belt. He had a nose ring and many tattoos covered his body. His eyes were also red reveling to Hakkai that he was one and the same as Gojyo. He retained his sanity so this guy must be loyal some how to Kougaiji.
"Did you hear me boy! Hand the blonde beauty over." He cocked his gun and aimed it at Hakkai chest.
"I'm a afraid that I can't do that." Getting in his defensive stance he summoned up his ball of chi energy, readying for when the youkai pulled the trigger.
The sound of an automatic firearm made Hakkai lose his concentration for a split second as he turned to see where it had come from, he looked back to where the youkai had been standing only seeing dead bodies. Not quite understanding he didn't leave his self vulnerable. He turned around fully, seeing Sakura-Sanzo sitting on top of the seat on the drivers side of the Jeep, her foot resting on the windshield. He held a AK-47 and a smile was plastered on her face.
"Finally! I get to try this baby out!" She jumped down from the Jeep, the others now stirring from the ruckus that just happened. Sanzo rubbed his eyes and looked over to Sakura-Sanzo holding the large gun.
"Now that's what I call an exorcism gun." She beamed with happiness being able to show off her new toy. Saznos eyebrow twitched.
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1) Good morning everyone!
2) Kappa-- Japanese water deamon said to eat humans. Has a bowl indent in the top of his head that contains water. Lives in rivers and if offered cucumbers, will leave the deamon preoccupied long enough to get away. Another method used is if you bow to him, the water will spill from his head. Do this enough and it will all spill out making him lose all his mackical powers.
3)No way! or Impossible!