A: acne

Sanzo ikkou were on their way to the west, driving Jeep. At the back seat it had been quite peaceful, but as Sanzo and Hakkai at the front knew it, the peace wouldn't last very long. Soon Goku chirped up after having been busy with something on his face, "Ne, Sanzo, what is this thing?"

Gojyo, being already bored and about to fall asleep, quickly looked at the thing Goku was busy with. It looked like a mountain, only very small, with a red spot at its peak. "Heey, that's an acne, saru! Haven't you had such things before?"

"What? What's an acne?"

Sanzo turned round to take a look and confirmed Gojyo's prognosis. "It probably came out of all the rubbish you ate, saru."

"What? What rubbish? You gave them to me!" Goku flared up. "This thing... OUCH!"

Gojyo had touched the acne on purpose and grinned. "You better watch out, saru, for this thing hurts more than some youkai attack."

"What! You... OUCH!!!"

"I only have to touch the acne and you're already down!" Gojyo laughed. "This is great!"

"SANZOOOO..." Goku howled.

"Urusai!"

"Ouch!! You kappa... OUCH !!!"

"Gotcha!"

"THAT HURTS!!!"

"Careful!"

"Itaiiiiii!!!!"

"This is fun!" Gojyo was almost rolling on the floor, I mean, on Jeep's floor, or whatever that thing's called, with tears in his eyes.

Hakkai suddenly braked and everyone (except Hakkai, of course) bumped their heads.

"What is it, Hakkai?" Sanzo said, as nothing alarming could be seen, while Gojyo, rubbed his forehead, complaining, "I bumped my head."

Hakkai turned around silently and gave the most sinister smile Gojyo had ever seen in his life (comparison with Sanzo's glare included) that he almost stuttered, "Wh... what is it, Hakkai?"

"Leave Goku's acne alone..."

"OK, OK, whatever you say," Gojyo cowered in the corner.

"Hakkai.." Goku began to say.

"What is it, Goku?" Hakkai turned to him.

"I bumped my acne as you braked so suddenly!!!! Itaiiiiii..." Goku wailed.

"I'm so sorry!!!" Hakkai patted Goku on the head. "But it's still intact in your face..."

"Sanzo, it hurts," Goku felt his acne.

"Don't touch it with your filthy hand, saru!" Sanzo said.

"When will it go away?"

"You can break it open but I suggest you leave it alone and wash your face with care," Hakkai said.

"If there's any breaking to be done, Sanzo could always do it," Gojyo said. "Youkai breaking, rules breaking, heart breaking... He hadn't broken an acne, but you know there's always the first time for everyone..."

"Now just shut up and get on with the journey," Sanzo said irritatedly, folding his arms.

"It hurts, Sanzo!" Goku said.

"Urusai!" Sanzo replied. Now it was his turn to have a lecture delivered by Hakkai.

Hakkai turned back and looked at the passenger sitting next to him, "And you, Sanzo, please don't give him all the chocolate, peanuts, chips, those things that you call rubbish, but that you always buy..."

"I'm not his keeper, am I?" Sanzo said crossly with a sweatdrop.

Gojyo joined in, "A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel..."

"Hmph. Does anyone want to change place with me?" Sanzo asked.

Goku looked so teary-eyed at once and Gojyo and Hakkai sweatdropped, shaking their heads. "No."

"So I thought. Ikuzo!"

They came to a town and did some shopping there before continuing the journey. Goku didn't help Hakkai for fear he should hurt his acne. As Gojyo and Hakkai loaded Jeep with all kind of things they all need for their journey, Sanzo-sama sat on his seat with arms folded, and Goku was busy with the newcomer on his face all the time.

"Heeey, this box of beers isn't properly closed, damn it!" Gojyo said, some meters away from Jeep, as a can of beer fell from the package tower he was carrying and rolled away.

"Fix it then," Sanzo said indifferently.

"I need something to hammer it with," Gojyo replied and made a wicked grin. "Give me your gun, Sanzo."

As a reply, Sanzo took off his sandal and kicked it towards Gojyo, who was kneeling on the road. The sandal slid smoothly and stopped just a few centimeters away from Gojyo.

"What's this?" Gojyo roared.

"That will do," Sanzo said in a bored tone.

"Why... you..." Gojyo started but took the sandal anyway and hammered the box with it. "So, done." He stood up slowly and walked to Sanzo, handing it out. As Sanzo was about to take his sandal back, Gojyo quickly snatched the sandal and ran away with it.

"Heey!!!" Sanzo was swearing like a lunatic and shooting randomly at the thief while Hakkai loaded the vehicle diligently like a good mother. After hitting unwanted targets such as windows on the street and sending scared pedestrian around diving to the ground for their life, Sanzo decided to take the matter into his own hands... er... feet. He ran after Gojyo with just one sandal and amazingly enough, quickly caught up to him.

Seeing danger coming, Gojyo yelled, "Hakkai! Catch!" and threw the sandal to him.

"What?" Hakkai, who was busy loading Jeep, turned around and saw something zipping past his head and hit Goku on the face.

"Outch!!!" Goku fell out of Jeep on his butt, hand covering his face.

"Baka kappa!" Sanzo finally managed to get his possession back and thwacked Gojyo on the head.

Hakkai checked on Goku with a worried face. "Goku, are you all right? Let me see your face."

Goku uncovered a bleeding and painful face and wailed, "My... my... my acne!!! It's broken!!"

Sanzo cast an amused look while Gojyo's eyes were wide opened and Hakkai took care of the poor lamb. "Gojyo, you should have known it was dangerous," he scolded the culprit. "You know it hurts very much."

"I didn't do it on purpose," Gojyo defended himself. "Sorry," he added after some minutes of having to endure some very pathetic stare, some cold stare, and some 'you-should-have-known-better' stare.

"Well, now you have it all out without any more troubles," Sanzo said to Goku.

Goku looked at Sanzo with a most pouting mouth.

"What?" Sanzo said.

Goku only continued staring at him with a pitiful expression.

"Oh, all right," Sanzo went to Gojyo.

"What?" Gojyo looked at the coming threat. "Hey, I've already said I'm sorry, okay?!" Still the next minute he was lying on the floor with a very visible mark of a sandal on his face.

"Oh well, like Sanzo said, it's now all out. You don't have to worry about it anymore," Hakkai wiped Goku's face clean.

"Thanks, Hakkai," Goku grinned happily.

Gojyo said from the ground, "Sanzo... I hope you're going to get an acne..."

"Get in the jeep unless you want to be left behind," Sanzo said, ignoring his words. And so Sanzo ikkou drove on to the West...

End of A.

I'm not sure if it's all correct, but maybe this word list will be some help to you. Well, at least it will help you to understand what I meant as I wrote it.

Sanzo ikkou : Sanzo and co.

Saru : monkey

Youkai: demon

Urusai : shut up

Itai : it hurts

Ikuzo : let's go

Baka : stupid

Kappa : some kind of water monster