E: extraordinary
Gojyo and Goku were relieved to find the maten kyomon undamaged, but found Sanzo and Hakkai having a cold war. Gojyo thought it interesting while Goku thought it absolutely devastating.
"Oh well, blondie's a rather spoilt one," Gojyo said as Goku brought the matter up. "We've been managing because Hakkai always gave in. It won't hurt him to have Sanzo admitting he had faults too."
"But will Sanzo apologize?" Goku said, for he doubted very much Sanzo had the word "sorry" or "forgive me" in his vocabulary.
"Dunno" was the answer. Goku was very disturbed, for he rather felt his stupidity had played a role in this whole stupid thing. 'Maybe stupidity is contagious,' Goku thought. 'Maybe Sanzo and Hakkai had caught it from me."
Goku finally tried to talk Hakkai into forgiving Sanzo.
"It is not the matter of my forgiving him, Goku," Hakkai said with dignity. "I am always ready to forgive him. But it is useless if he doesn't learn to admit he was wrong, and he might do it again."
"I don't know," Goku scratched his head. "I'm quite sure Sanzo would never be so stupid to hand the kyomon into anyone's hands again."
"Are you blaming yourself for what happened, Goku?" Hakkai asked.
"It is my fault, but I couldn't think of anything else to do. And next time, I don't think I can do anything else. I'm really sorry, but it won't change a thing. Sanzo won't apologize, but I'm sure he wouldn't repeat his fault."
With those words Goku left Hakkai in his thoughts and summoned his courage to talk Sanzo into apologizing. It turned out that talking to a door would have been more successful and less excruciating.
"I should have known it would end this way..." Goku groaned while feeling the bump on his head. It seemed to exceed the record of all measured bumps before, but going to Hakkai for treatment would only make matters between him and Sanzo worse.
Goku now went to Gojyo and said, "He, Gojyo, do you know some way I can reconciliate Sanzo and Hakkai?"
Gojyo looked at him unconcernedly, "Since when a monkey is interested in world's peace?"
"What do you mean by monkey?!"
"You can't, saru. Just leave them alone. They'll settle their debts all right."
Goku suddenly had a vision of Sanzo and Hakkai standing back to back. They were in the middle of a very dusty road, with brown sands flown by the wind. Gojyo sat on a barrel with a very big cowboy hat on his head, chewing a long grass blade, eyes half closed.
"Time to settle your debts, boys!" Gojyo said lazily.
Sanzo and Hakkai began to walk slowly away from each other. At some distance both of them stopped.
"One..." Gojyo said.
Sanzo fingered his Smith and Wesson.
"Two..."
Hakkai started to build a glowing ball between his palms.
"Three!"
Sanzo and Hakkai turned to face each other and fired.
"NOOOO!" Goku jumped up as if his butt was on fire, hands clutching his head. "That mustn't happen!" He ran away.
"Hey, saru, where are you going?" Gojyo said. "Sheeeesh..."
"Okay, okay, calm down," Goku said, panting from his run. "I need to think. I must learn to think. I think I need a place to think." His glance strayed to a window sill and he recalled having seen Sanzo perching happily on a window sill, chewing his thoughts. (Well, maybe not happily, but the rest 's okay, right?)
So Goku climbed up the window sill and forced himself to think. Nothing happened.
"I guess I need Sanzo's brain to produce something out of this uncomfortable position," Goku thought and decided to find another place to think. He lost his balance and was about to fall out of the window. "I'm... NOOOO!"
A hand grabbed his shirt at the nick of time and brought him crashing to the floor.
Goku looked at a pair of sandals in front of his nose and heard a very familiar voice, "Trying to reduce the monkeys' population?"
Goku sat up and rubbed his bruised body. "I was trying to learn to think."
"And therefore almost killed yourself."
Goku decided to overhear the last comment and said, "Ne, Sanzo, how do you think?"
"Definitely not by falling out of the window," Sanzo replied.
"I didn't mean to fall down!" Goku protested. "Come on, tell me, how do you think?"
Sanzo sighed. He knew Goku's persistence too well that he was already tired even before Goku asked him for the second time. And Sanzo was already tired with this cold war, but of course he was too proud to admit that and would probably kill himself than having to apologize. Proud? Was it that? He knew his own weakness too well... But he hated dwelling on thoughts about himself, his condition, his feeling...
"Sanzo?" Goku brought him back to the world of phenomenon.
"You can always try to imitate others. But no one, not even the gods can do things the way you do them," Sanzo said, making Goku gape in awe... oops, in confusion.
"What does it mean?"
Sanzo lost his patience at once. "It means, nobody'd fall out of the window the way you do when you think!"
With Sanzo's words, which Goku took as encouragement, he set out to solve the problem à la Goku.
TBC ...
Gojyo and Goku were relieved to find the maten kyomon undamaged, but found Sanzo and Hakkai having a cold war. Gojyo thought it interesting while Goku thought it absolutely devastating.
"Oh well, blondie's a rather spoilt one," Gojyo said as Goku brought the matter up. "We've been managing because Hakkai always gave in. It won't hurt him to have Sanzo admitting he had faults too."
"But will Sanzo apologize?" Goku said, for he doubted very much Sanzo had the word "sorry" or "forgive me" in his vocabulary.
"Dunno" was the answer. Goku was very disturbed, for he rather felt his stupidity had played a role in this whole stupid thing. 'Maybe stupidity is contagious,' Goku thought. 'Maybe Sanzo and Hakkai had caught it from me."
Goku finally tried to talk Hakkai into forgiving Sanzo.
"It is not the matter of my forgiving him, Goku," Hakkai said with dignity. "I am always ready to forgive him. But it is useless if he doesn't learn to admit he was wrong, and he might do it again."
"I don't know," Goku scratched his head. "I'm quite sure Sanzo would never be so stupid to hand the kyomon into anyone's hands again."
"Are you blaming yourself for what happened, Goku?" Hakkai asked.
"It is my fault, but I couldn't think of anything else to do. And next time, I don't think I can do anything else. I'm really sorry, but it won't change a thing. Sanzo won't apologize, but I'm sure he wouldn't repeat his fault."
With those words Goku left Hakkai in his thoughts and summoned his courage to talk Sanzo into apologizing. It turned out that talking to a door would have been more successful and less excruciating.
"I should have known it would end this way..." Goku groaned while feeling the bump on his head. It seemed to exceed the record of all measured bumps before, but going to Hakkai for treatment would only make matters between him and Sanzo worse.
Goku now went to Gojyo and said, "He, Gojyo, do you know some way I can reconciliate Sanzo and Hakkai?"
Gojyo looked at him unconcernedly, "Since when a monkey is interested in world's peace?"
"What do you mean by monkey?!"
"You can't, saru. Just leave them alone. They'll settle their debts all right."
Goku suddenly had a vision of Sanzo and Hakkai standing back to back. They were in the middle of a very dusty road, with brown sands flown by the wind. Gojyo sat on a barrel with a very big cowboy hat on his head, chewing a long grass blade, eyes half closed.
"Time to settle your debts, boys!" Gojyo said lazily.
Sanzo and Hakkai began to walk slowly away from each other. At some distance both of them stopped.
"One..." Gojyo said.
Sanzo fingered his Smith and Wesson.
"Two..."
Hakkai started to build a glowing ball between his palms.
"Three!"
Sanzo and Hakkai turned to face each other and fired.
"NOOOO!" Goku jumped up as if his butt was on fire, hands clutching his head. "That mustn't happen!" He ran away.
"Hey, saru, where are you going?" Gojyo said. "Sheeeesh..."
"Okay, okay, calm down," Goku said, panting from his run. "I need to think. I must learn to think. I think I need a place to think." His glance strayed to a window sill and he recalled having seen Sanzo perching happily on a window sill, chewing his thoughts. (Well, maybe not happily, but the rest 's okay, right?)
So Goku climbed up the window sill and forced himself to think. Nothing happened.
"I guess I need Sanzo's brain to produce something out of this uncomfortable position," Goku thought and decided to find another place to think. He lost his balance and was about to fall out of the window. "I'm... NOOOO!"
A hand grabbed his shirt at the nick of time and brought him crashing to the floor.
Goku looked at a pair of sandals in front of his nose and heard a very familiar voice, "Trying to reduce the monkeys' population?"
Goku sat up and rubbed his bruised body. "I was trying to learn to think."
"And therefore almost killed yourself."
Goku decided to overhear the last comment and said, "Ne, Sanzo, how do you think?"
"Definitely not by falling out of the window," Sanzo replied.
"I didn't mean to fall down!" Goku protested. "Come on, tell me, how do you think?"
Sanzo sighed. He knew Goku's persistence too well that he was already tired even before Goku asked him for the second time. And Sanzo was already tired with this cold war, but of course he was too proud to admit that and would probably kill himself than having to apologize. Proud? Was it that? He knew his own weakness too well... But he hated dwelling on thoughts about himself, his condition, his feeling...
"Sanzo?" Goku brought him back to the world of phenomenon.
"You can always try to imitate others. But no one, not even the gods can do things the way you do them," Sanzo said, making Goku gape in awe... oops, in confusion.
"What does it mean?"
Sanzo lost his patience at once. "It means, nobody'd fall out of the window the way you do when you think!"
With Sanzo's words, which Goku took as encouragement, he set out to solve the problem à la Goku.
TBC ...