As the days wore on towards Genjo Sanzo's death, more and more of the monk's time asleep became dedicated to vivid nightmares and disturbing flashbacks. If he didn't wake up screaming in the middle of the night, then he would be found praying early in the morning, having been there since late in the night. In the beginning, the temple elders and other monks begged Sanzo to rest more – they hoped it would speed up his recovery. But, whenever they started talking about things like that, Sanzo would protest simply by re-accounting, for every one to hear, the gruesome battles that he saw and participated in. After a few minutes, they would beg for him to stop.
The body naturally needs sleep, so when Sanzo did fall asleep, it was never of his own accord. Sanzo preferred to fall asleep sitting up when he could, because then when he fell over, he'd wake up and wouldn't have to remember all the painful things in his life. On a few occasions, the monks had found Sanzo sleep walking around the temple, thinking that he was in the past and had to hunt down the Demon Ox King or Homura or some one else that was a threat to Tougenkyou.
At the moment, the highly revered Genjo Sanzo was stumbling down the halls of Chouan Temple towards Goku's room. Sanzo had just been startled out a dream in which Goku and Homura were engaged in a most desperate and violent fight. The elderly monk was completely incoherent, and could not have told some one his name had they asked, but he was absolutely sure that Goku had been hurt and would need some one to help him back the jeep. His mind also reasoned that Hakkai and Gojyo were too busy fighting Shien and Zenon to help Goku.
After navigating the halls of Chouan, Sanzo nearly fell through the screen of Goku's door before realizing you could just slide it open. Sanzo looked down and saw the stupid monkey passed out on the floor. Sanzo looked the room, checking it for Homura's presence, and when he didn't find any trace of it, he stepped in. Sanzo expected that Homura could return soon, and so he wanted to get the monkey and go - quick. The monk looked around his robes and patted himself down, but he couldn't find his Demon Exorcising gun and he wanted it more now than ever. But since it couldn't be found, Sanzo settled for his foot.
"Stupid monkey," Sanzo swiftly kicked Goku in the stomach. In reality, it was barely enough to wake Goku up, "You let Homura beat you?! What's wrong with you?"
Goku yawned and rubbed his eyes, "What are you talking about Sanzo?"
"Homura!!" Sanzo yelled.
Goku sighed while he heard the monks near his room running to see what had happened. They opened the door, took one look at Genjo Sanzo, and closed it again.
"Did you drink some bad tea or something? Homura has been dead for nearly 70 years."
Sanzo grabbed the front of Goku's shirt, "What?"
"Homura. Dead. 70 years. You know that. Shouldn't you be asleep?"
Sanzo promptly came back to reality and let go of Goku and the monkey proceeded to wrap himself up in his blankets.
"What's going on, Sanzo? Were you sleep walking or something?"
The monk looked around the room again and walked over to the window in Goku's room, "I guess so… how embarrassing. You know Goku, the last thing I saw in my dream, was you spitting up blood from where Homura punched you. I came all the way down here in the middle of night, totally sure you were bleeding to death, just to find you sleeping."
"Yeah," Goku sighed, "cause people never sleep at night."
Sanzo threw a glare at Goku, "Shut up, monkey. You should be glad I'm still so worried about you even though I'm dying."
Goku's annoyed face, instantly turned to one of concern. He gathered up one of his blankets, stood up and joined Sanzo by his window.
"C'mon Sanzo," Goku tugged on the monk's sleeve, "I'll walk you back to your room."
The two stood there for a moment, and Goku was just about to repeat himself when Sanzo turned and looked at him. The monkey was confused for a minute until he realized that Sanzo's eyes weren't locked onto Goku's, but onto his forehead, where the diadem used to rest.
"Okay," Sanzo started walking of the room, "let's go."
Goku and Sanzo walked down the halls calmly, as opposed to Sanzo's earlier search for Goku. The trip was done in complete silence. Neither party spoke, or seemed to have the will to. At Sanzo's room, Goku opened the door and helped tuck Sanzo into bed – Sanzo would have called it "assisting an old man". And after doing so, Goku sat down next to Sanzo's bed and wrapped himself up in the blanket he'd brought.
Sanzo looked over and saw the smiling Goku, "What are you doing, monkey?"
"Well, it's been a long time since we've had a sleep over."
Sanzo raised an eyebrow to Goku.
"Plus, this is only time I can scare you, Sanzo! You said it yourself."
Sanzo shook his head before rolling over, away from Goku.
Goku laughed quietly, "Goodnight, Sanzo."
