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That afternoon they found a small clump of trees surrounding a small pond. They set up camp to rest, so they could continue on during the evening hours when the sun wasn't up.
Hakkai was building a fire from the plentiful dry surroundings, being careful to contain it with a rock wall and a deep pit into the ground. Goku lay in one of the only trees sleeping and snoring rather loudly. Sanzo lay against the same tree naping as well. Gojyo was playing cards with Sakura-Sanzo and loosing badly.
"Oh my...a straight flush again," Sakura-Sanzo smiled with victory.
"NANI!?" He picked up the cards and looked at them, then looked at the cards in his hand. "How come we both have a Queen of Spades?" He looked at her and she sweat dropped.
"Eettooo....ja na..." She stood up fast and made a run for it, aiming to hide behind the nearest person for protection. She spotted that Hakkai was the only one awake and made a mad dash for him.
"Hakkai-chan! Goyjo is being mean to me!" She ran around the other side of him and clutched onto the back of his shirt and peaking out from behind his waist to see if Goyjo was still in pursuit.
Gojyos head looked like it was totaly ablaze now, with his face as red as his hair. "Hakkai, hand her over so I can beat the crap out of her!"
"Maa maa...what's going on that you want to kill her?"
"She was cheating at cards."
"No I wasn't," she said innocently, standing with her head down, hands behind her.
Hakkai didn't know what to do. He didn't want to get involved in it at all. It was too hot to be fooling around. He looked at Gojyo with a serious look on his face, "It's just a card game Gojyo. Leave it be." He returned to his chores and Gojyo stood there dumb founded.
Gojyo then shot Sakura-Sanzo a look of death and walked away fuming, spoting Goku sleeping peacfuly in a tree. He slyly made his way over climbed into the tree onto a different branch then pushed him out. The bad thing to this was he came from the oposite side of the tree and never saw the sleeping Sanzo on the otherside until Goku was already falling to land heavily on the digruntled monk.
Goku landed on Sanzo waking him, and causing injury to the pretty blonde man. Goku slept still, not even stirring the slightest from the fall. Sanzo was infuriated, shoved the sleeping Goku off him with a hard push, the boy still not waking. Sanzo calmed himself. It was an accident, he could walk away from this without killing anyone. Then he heard it. Laughter coming from the tree. He looked up and saw Goyjo there. The vein throbbed and the gun came out. Gojyo stopped laughing real quick and made a mad dash out of the tree to hide behind Hakkai. It had worked for the stupid girl, why not him? He hid behind his friend, only to be ensued by the enraged blonde. Not only did he run after him and shove Hakkai out of the way, but a bullet just barely missed hitting his left ear.
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The sun beat down on them through the leave of the trees they took shelter under. The heat seemed to find them no matter how much shade they protected themselves with. Sanzo and Goyjo still were at odd with each other since Goyjo pushed Goku out of the tree onto Sanzo. It was too hot for Hakkai to even care what they did to each other at that point. It had been hours since it happened and Sanzo was still fuming at Goyjo.
Sakura-Sanzo sat there watching the two dragons sleep in the shade of the trees and yawned loudly, making Hakkai look over at her. She face faulted into the ground then stood up abruptly. "I know what I can do!" She grabbed her book bag, which never strayed from her, and started rummaging through the contents. She pulled out a packet of origami paper and took out a sheet of bright orange paper. She beamed with happiness and started to fold the paper with immense speed. She finished and held the paper animal in her hand, proud of herself.
"Ne ne, Hakkai." He looked over to her seeing what she folded the paper into and snickered. It was a paper monkey made from bright orange origami paper.
She stood up, taking the paper with her, to go find Sanzo to give him the paper monkey she made. She found him lounging in a tree, frowning when she saw he was finally sleeping again, with no Goyjo in sight. She took a fresh sheet of the bight paper and folded it into an airplane. Standing back up, she flew it towards Sanzos sleeping face. It hit him right in the nose, waking him almost instantly. He sat up, pist off again, he reached for his gun as another paper airplane flew by his head.
"Come make origami animals with me Sanzo!"
He looked down to see a smiling Sakura-Sanzo looking back up at him. She then held up the orange monkey for him to see. He picked up the orange airplane that landed in his lap and looked at it, a sadness filling his eyes. He climbed down from the tree and grabbed the paper from her, vein poping from his forehead.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET THIS PAPER FROM ME?!"
She started to laugh, and ran away from the enraged Sanzo now wielding a paper fan. "Sou de wa, himitsu des'," she yelled back at him snickering. He gave up, it was too hot to exert more engery then needed. Then he pulled out his gun and shot at her a few times. He looked back at the paper turning it over to revel the white side of the paper, a note from the stupid girl on the last piece in the pile:
"Ne San-chan! Here are instructions to making paper monkeys..."
His eyebrow twitched. Just what he needed to learn to make. Not like they didn't have enough of Goku as it was, making mini paper Gokus? He dare not even think of it. He took that sheet of paper out and crumbled it into a ball and let if fall to the ground, then put the remaining pieces into his kimono sleeve. Let's see her get them from me now...Climbing back into the tree, he closed his eyes to continue his interrupted midday nap.
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Hakkai lay under a tree watching Kaiju and Jeep chirp at each other and play. He smiled at them, seeing that they were so happy to know each other. Sakura-Sanzo wandered over and sat down next to Hakkai, drawing her knees to her chest then putting her arms around them.
"They seem to like each other alot," said Hakkai still smiling at the two dragons.
"Mmm..." She snuggled up to Hakkai and closed her eyes. He was shocked at what she was doing then noticed she was falling asleep. Guess it can't hurt. Seems everyone else has degected her and Goku is no where to be found right now. Those two are so cute together when they interact.
He continued watching the dragons, then pulled out the map from the inside of his shirt to observe where they might be on it. He located a small spot on the map that might be their coordinates, then took out a compass from his pants, and observed the direction again. They were indeed heading West still, atleast they weren't too lost. He decided that the glitch on the map must be where they are. They would have another half of day of driving to reach the other side of the dead zone, as it was labeled on the map. He sighed, knowing that they would need to travel tonight to avoid the imense heat during the day. Putting the map and compass on the ground next to him, he closed his eyes to try and get some more sleep. He was the only one that drove, so, he needed more then the rest of them. He opened his eyes again, located Jeep then called out to him. His little white dragon fluttered over then chirped at him in response. "We're going to be driving all night tonight, so, you should try and get some sleep." Jeep chirped again then landed in Hakkais lap, curled up and closed his eyes. No sooner that he did this, Kaiju fluttered over and curled up on Jeeps back. A half hour later the group of four was sleeping soundly under the tree.
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Sanzo stirred again from his sleep, sitting up and slid off the tree branch. It was very uncomfortable to sleep in a tree for any length of time for him. His back cried out in pain, and his neck was stiff. He needed a smoke and a beer. That would make him feel better. He wandered away from the tree he had been sleeping in moments before, and was now looking for Hakkai. He had put the supplies some place so that Goku would get into the food rations, so who the hell knew where they were.
He looked behind trees and in them, not finding one of the only people who could make Sanzo depend on another for such things as cigarettes. He walked to the edge of the trees and saw them there. He was shocked, almsot dumb struck to what he saw. Hakkai was sleeping with that GIRL laying on him. How could he? How could he sink so low as to become attracted to such a girl? She had no shame and didn't care as to what she did to the people around her, only that it amused her. He shuttered at what he saw. How could he replace Kannan with a girl like HER? He walked away disgusted at Hakkai, now not caring if he had a beer, just wanted a cigarette, knowing that he could get one out of Goyjo even if he had to shoot him dead for it.
Finding the dumb kappa, he kicked him in the ribs to wake him up. Goyjo woke with a start, not to happy that his side was now in pain. He looked up to see Sanzo looking down at him. "What do you want droopy?"
Sanzo wasn't in the mood and grabbed Goyjo by the front of his shirt, picked him off the ground, then took the pack of cigarettes out of Goyjos front pocket. He let go of his shirt, letting him land hard on the ground then walked away with his prize. Goyjo didn't argue. Something had gotten to him bad enough today to not even ask for him to hand over the cigarettes. He wasn't going to get involved that may cost him his life. He lay his head back down on the makeshift pillow he made out of his spare shirt and tried to fall back to sleep.
Sanzo walked into the grove of trees trying to find a secluded place that no one else would bother him. He sat down on the outskirt of the small paradise, and took a cancer stick out of the pack, lighting it with his zippo. He inhaled deeply, and slowly let the smoke trickle from his lungs, trying to relax and forget the things that had happened in the past two days. Nothing helped. He put the cigarette out in the sand, took his robe off. The black satin shirt and pants he wore under his robe made his pale skin look grey with worry. He folded the robe up and lay on it try to clear his head.
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It was a little past sunset when he realized he had fallen into a deep dreamless sleep. He sat up rubbing his face. His back still hurt but atleast his neck wasn't sore anymore. Sanzo stood, picking up his robe. He shook the dust and dirt from it and put it back on. It was time for them to pick up all there stuff and to get going again. The heat of the day was now over and they shouldn't have any troubles getting to the other side by daybreak.
He walked to where Goyjo had been sleeping and didn't find him anywhere in sight. He gave up on him and walked to where he had seen the repulsive scene of Hakkai and Sakura-Sanzo sleeping peacefuly together. He walked out from behind a tree to see Hakkai laying on the ground with a blanket over him, his naked chest exposed for all to see. Sanzo stopped in his tracks. He couldn't believe his eyes. Hakkai really was out of his freaking mind. That's when he saw her. Sakura-Sanzo walked out from behind a large tree dressed up in Hakkais clothes right down to the monocle and the head band. He was about to fume at her when Jeep and Kaiju came out of nowhere and landed on either shoudler.
"YES! It worked!" She stood there beaming with happiness.
Hakkai woke from her yelling and Sanzo fell over.
"I knew this would work. Ne Kaiju, do you love me again?"
"What the HELL is going on?" Sanzo now was so confused it wasn't funny.
Hakkai then noticed that he lay on the ground in just his boxers, his face blushed knowing that Sanzo thought that he had done something that he would have never done with another woman after Kannan died. Well, the right one alteast, not with someone like Sakura-Sanzo though.
"Well you see, I got really jealous of Kaiju likeing Hakkai better then me so I thought If I looked like Hakkai my little dragon would love me agian." She blushed furiously, then bowed in apology. Hakkai looked at her, seeing that she was dressed up in his clothes. How she got them off him was beyond him, but, he snickerd at her because all of the articles were way to big on her. She even wore his shoes which seemed to be four sizes too big.
"Since it worked so well, you're not getting your clothes back." She smiled triumphantly at Hakkai.
"Eetto...Can I atleast have my monocle back please? I can't see to drive if I don't have it on."
She handed it back to him, then took off with the dragons chirping right behind her.
"Sanzo, now what am I going to wear..."
"Most certainly not just what you have on. I don't want to see your half naked ass. Get something from Gojyo. He seems to always have extra clothes." Sanzo walked away, regretting that he ever came across that stupid girl. Someone was really going to die after he found out what she needed to observe them for.
Sakura-Sanzo came running back with the dragons in tow and her book bag on her shoulder. She opened it up and pulled out a pair of jeans and a white wife beater. "Here, you can wear this!"
"Um, do you have anything else?"
"Only this shirt." She pulled out a bright pink long sleeved shirt with the collar trimed in feathers. Hakkai sweat dropped, taking the jeans and wife beater from her left hand.
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1. Eetto...Ja na... -- Ummm...bye...
2. Maa maa -- Now now...
3. Sou de wa...himitsu des -- That's a secret.
4. Chan is used at the end of young kids names and girls names mostly.