Disclaimer: I don't own Saiyuki, they are rightfully belonged to Kazuya Minekura. ^_^

Pairing(s): Sanzo/Goku, hinted Gojyo/Hakkai.

Warning: Some foul languages, OOC-ness, shounen ai.

Summary: The rule of a monk is to be a vegetarian, never to kill, gamble and love. Goku found out about it just as he was about to confess his love for his keeper, Sanzo. Innocently forgetting Sanzo did not ever obeyed the rules at all, Goku started hesitating about whether to confess or not.

Being In Love

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Chapter Six

"I knew you'd be here… Goku… "

Standing up from where he sat, Goku tears his gaze away from Sanzo and back away a few steps. "What… What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at the temple?"

Sanzo decided not to answer Goku since he remembered he was at someone else's apartment and they were not alone. Casting side glances over at Hakkai than to Gojyo, Sanzo tuned back to Goku and said, "Let's talk outside."

Knowing that he couldn't refuse, Goku just nodded and followed Sanzo outside.

Gojyo and Hakkai just watch them in silence since the tension was in the air. They watched Goku walking out with Sanzo, towards the trees nearby. Knowing that Sanzo dislike being overheard, Hakkai kindly closed the door and pushes Gojyo back into the house, letting them have their privacy talk.

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To where Sanzo and Goku were…

Goku stopped when the behind Sanzo when Gojyo's apartment was out sight. He broke the silence and asked again, "Sanzo, what are you doing here? Why aren't you at the temple?"

Sanzo stopped pacing and replied with his back still facing Goku, "You know what I'm here for." Turning back and walking towards Goku, Sanzo glared at the said youth seriously and said, "and you know why I'm here… "

Looking aside, avoiding Sanzo's stares, Goku frowned, "I don't actually know the reason you're here for… "

Placing both hands on Goku's shoulders, Sanzo murmured, "I don't wish to repeat what I say last week… "

"Eh?" Goku looked up at Sanzo.

"I'm no longer a Sanzo… I'm just a normal citizen now… If you want to leave, I'm coming with you. We're going to go together. Not alone anymore." Sanzo said. "You're not thinking about going alone, are you?"

"Is it really okay?" Goku asked, looking down at his feet.

"Yes, it is okay." Sanzo reassured Goku once more. "We're going to find a place to live together. A place where no one would bother us anymore; we'll live in peace just the two of us."

"Just the two of us… " Goku repeated what Sanzo had said.

"Right, just the two of us." Sanzo nodded.

Goku nodded back and flies into Sanzo's embrace, sobbing uncontrollably. He had hold back his tears for too long and now he couldn't help but let them all pour. He felt hopeless when he was banished by the elder of the temple but when Sanzo's suddenly came, he felt that all his worries vanished without a trace. Now, he felt safe and at ease in the arms of Sanzo.

Sanzo was a little shock but shook it off since he finally got Goku back into his arms. Tightening his hold around Goku, Sanzo buried his face into Goku's messy hair while his hands were rubbing Goku's back to calm him down.

"Bakasaru." Sanzo murmured. "When did I say that I'd leave you alone back then? And how dare you act on your own in taking all the faults to yourself? You're really a bakasaru… "

"You never said anything… " Goku muttered, holding back a sob.

Knocking on Goku's head gently, Sanzo stated, "I was too surprise to say anything when you said you wanted to leave… I was more surprise and rather stunned when you stopped me and left without giving that old geezer a good beating after he had insulted you so much… "

"I don't have a place to say anything at all… " Goku reasoned sadly, burying himself deeper into Sanzo's embrace.

"That's not true, what he said was terribly wrong and you should have sound your right rather than tolerating it." Sanzo snorted. "Sometimes you are just too soft, unlike when we were still on journey… "

"Let's just say that I learned a lot throughout the journey and the time I stayed in the temple… " Goku joked.

"Finally back to yourself." Sanzo said.

Pulling away from Sanzo, Goku brushed away his tears with his fingers. Just as he had done so, Goku murmured, "Thank you for coming, Sanzo… "

Smiling slightly, Sanzo took Goku's hand away from his eyes and bring it to his lips, kissing his fingers and tasting Goku's tears. Feeling slight guilt for making Goku cry, Sanzo lifted his other hand to brush away the remaining tears and letting it stayed on Goku's face. Staring into Goku's eyes, Sanzo said, "I promised you one more thing, Goku… I promise never to make you cry like this again… Depression doesn't suits you at all, smile for me now… "

Blushing a little at Sanzo's action and words, Goku smiles a little and thanked Sanzo again, "Sanzo… Thank you for everything."

Cupping Goku's face, Sanzo pulled him close and murmured, "Stop being so formal, it's not like you at all. Be genki again… "

With that, their lips met in a passionate kiss. Goku happily responded to the kiss and Sanzo was just too happy to let go. When they parted, they pulled themselves into another hug that lasted what seems like forever, under the big round moon, which had crawls out of the clouds…

***

The next day…

"Are you two really leaving?" asked Hakkai, sadly.

Sanzo just grunted while Goku nodded with a smile.

"Well, do take care then… " Hakkai sighed.

"We will, you too, Hakkai… " Goku smiled.

"Kyu~!" Hakuryu cooed sadly about their departure.

Looking around, Goku noticed that Gojyo wasn't around. Turning to Hakkai, Goku asked, "Hakkai, where's Gojyo?"

"I haven't seen him since breakfast, I wonder where he have gone to?" Hakkai wondered, also looking around. Then he spotted the redhead walking towards the apartment with an old lady. "Gojyo, who is the old lady you're with?"

Gojyo turned to Hakkai and grinned happily before turning to Goku, "Saru, you did said that you two are looking for a place to live together right?"

"Uh, yeah? Why did you ask all of a sudden?" asked Goku, confused.

"This is the landlady from around here and she said that there's a vacant house just a few miles away from here. She was about to rent it out. So are you interested? We can be neighbors, you know?" Gojyo said cheerfully. "She said that all the furniture are in and they are in great condition, and it was vacant because the previous family grew big so they moved out to a bigger place. Well, how about it?"

Hakkai clapped his hands together and chirped, "That's a great ideal!"

"Well… " Goku doesn't know how to answer them since he couldn't decide it alone. Turning to Sanzo, Goku asked, "What do think, Sanzo?"

Sanzo couldn't protest now, can he? He did mention something about being their neighbors on that day of their confession. Since Goku likes it than he just got to comply. "If you like it than I'll take it."

Gojyo and Hakkai were shocked at what Sanzo had said. This is their first time that they heard Sanzo replying to Goku so nicely and kindly. Goku was glad about that though.

"Then I'd say yes, I love it!" Goku chirped.

***

A few weeks later…

Sanzo and Goku had finally get use to their new environment. Since Sanzo was no longer a Sanzo, he doesn't work for the 'gods' anymore and so his credit card was gone. So, he got to look for a job in town to make sure Goku gets his meal everyday. Well, since he loves peace and quiet, Sanzo took up the job as a librarian. Goku also finds himself a job to help out with the financial problems; he works as a waiter in one of the restaurant in town. Though Sanzo did disapprove about Goku working, Goku just reasoned out with Sanzo until he agrees.

They are busy with their work everyday and even Gojyo and Hakkai couldn't take it just by watching them so they helped them out with their meals, inviting them over for breakfast and dinner.

"It's a pity that both you and Goku had different day off." Hakkai sighed, wiping the table.

Gojyo walked in the house and nodded, "Yeah, we off on Sundays but Goku off on Mondays."

"It's just logical that Goku's job carries on today, unlike us." Hakkai explained. "Schools and libraries were not a place kids would love to spent their time at. But a waiter means there's more business on public holidays and Sundays so it's just make sense that he got to work today… "

"Poor Sanzo-sama got to spent his entire day with us every Sunday." Gojyo teased.

"Urusai!" Sanzo threw his paper fan towards Gojyo's direction and it hit him hard on his head.

"It hurts, damn it!" Gojyo hissed, hiding behind Hakkai in process.

"However, Sanzo." Hakkai turned to Sanzo. "Ever since both of you moved in, and started working for your financial problems, you two were mostly apart. Have you ever thought about Goku getting more friends when working and slowly he might get attracted to other girls or something… Don't you ever worried about that?"

Sanzo stood up from the couch and walked towards the window, tapping his cigarette butt out before replacing the cigarette back to his lips, murmuring, "I have faith in Goku. I trust him and believe that he'd never betray me… Even if opposite gender gets attracted to him, I won't say a thing or care about it because I know one thing… And that is to believe him… "

"What if the saru never resist? You might never know that girls are good in flirting and seducing than we, men, are." Gojyo noted, lighting a cigarette in between his lips. "Goku could get enticed, who knows? He just hadn't had that sort of experience yet since all the girls we met throughout the journey are all nice ones."

"That, I don't know… " Sanzo wanted to resist the feeling of doubt climbing into his mind but what Gojyo said may be true as Goku had never experienced being the prey of the girls at all. "But I--!"


Sanzo was cut off when Gojyo's apartment's door burst opened and Goku came rushing in. Without looking around, Goku ran towards the kitchen and shouted, "Say I'm not in!"

Sanzo and Gojyo blinked in confuse but they snapped out of it when two girls, dressed in bright color clothes and heavy make-up came rushing in the house and looked around.

"Where's Goku?" asked the girl dressed in pink.

Gojyo pointed towards the forest and said, "There."

"Thanks a lot." The other girl dressed in orange thanked and both left the house and heads towards the forest without any doubts.

Five minutes later, Sanzo and Gojyo went to the kitchen and found Hakkai eyeing the dinning table in concern.

"Goku, there're gone, you can come out now. Gojyo got rid off them." Hakkai said, reaching out one hand and Goku gently grabs it and climbed out from under the table. "Why are they after you?"

"They said they like me and they wanted my reply today. So they both dressed nicely and make me choose, when I said no, they chase around town." Goku explained, panting tiredly, not knowing Sanzo was around. Goku pointed to his cheeks and sighed, "If I don't get away from them, I don't know how many of this lipstick's marks would be on my face… "

"Well, as I was saying… " Gojyo turned to Sanzo, who was very pissed off at the moment. "Girls can be very good in seducing and flirting… "

Turning to see whom Gojyo was talking to, Goku was surprised to see Sanzo. "Ara… Sanzo, how long have you been here?"

"Long before you came rushing in." Sanzo hissed, walking towards Goku.

Not knowing what Sanzo was thinking at the moment, Goku just smiled sheepishly and scratch the back of his head, "Well, I better get back to work before boss started to nag… " Just as Goku was about to turn back, Sanzo grabbed hold on his arm and, in a flash, he flung Goku over his shoulders, "Woah~!!"

"You're quitting the job and you're now coming home with me!" Sanzo demanded, walking towards the door. "No more work for you, and I mean it!"

"Why not~!?" Goku whined.

"Because I say so!" Then he left the house for his own.

Staring at the door, Gojyo and Hakkai burst out laughing.

"Sanzo should have just admitted he's jealous." Gojyo laughed, clutching his stomach.

"I believe you're right." Hakkai chuckled.

***

'I bet Sanzo's still angry.' Goku pouted, poking his head out from behind the bathroom's door. Just as he was brought back from Gojyo's house, he was pushed into the bathroom, ordered to bath or die. Being Goku, he chooses to bath than to die, of course. 'I bet he's jealous, too.'

Quietly walking out of the bathroom, Goku climbed onto the bed and sat there, staring at Sanzo's back. Sanzo was sitting on the bed, as well, but he was reading the newspapers.

"Nah, Sanzo, I'm sorry, okay?" Goku started.

"For?" Sanzo simply grunted.

"For not telling you earlier about those two girls… " Goku stated. "They are just customers of the restaurant and they came often… Just to see and talk to me… That's what they told me… It's been a few days since then… "

"And you told me now?" Sanzo hissed, putting his reading glasses and newspapers away. Turning around to face Goku, Sanzo placed a hand on Goku's face and sighed, "I'm not angry with you… I'm just angry with those two girls who set their hands on you… Selfishly speaking, I don't want anyone to touch you but me… "

"Sanzo… " Goku blushed a little at Sanzo's words.

"Stop working, I mean it. Stay at home or spent time at the kappa's place." Sanzo said, caressing Goku's face gently. "Ever since we work, our time together seems lesser. Your job took up your whole day till it's close. When I'm off to work, you see me off but when I returned, I face four walls of this house, totally alone. Even we did get to be together in the morning, that wasn't enough at all or it's not exactly appropriate since kappa and Hakkai were there with us. I don't like that, it seems that we're apart all the times."

Listening to Sanzo intently, Goku did realize that what Sanzo said was true. In the morning, they had their breakfast with Gojyo and Hakkai, and then he sees Sanzo off to work since he works early in the morning like Hakkai; at noon, he had his lunch and sets off to work till late at night. When he returned, Sanzo's already in bed. It had already become a routine to him.

"Quit the job, Goku. Then at least we can spend time together in the late afternoon till midnight. We moved out because we want to be together, but it seems like we're not. Your current job seems to stress you too much." Sanzo said, staring into Goku's golden eyes. "Let me deal with the money problem alone. I'm still your keeper so it only sounds right for me to feed you."

Decided not to protest this time around, Goku nodded and smiled, "Whatever you say, Sanzo. Whatever you say."

Smiling slightly that Goku had finally agree, Sanzo leans in and let his forehead rests on Goku's, "bakasaru."

Leaning in closer, Sanzo pressed his lips onto Goku's into a soft and chaste kiss. When they parted, they lie down on the bed together and sleep in each other's warmth and embrace.

"Sleep, Goku, we'll have a picnic tomorrow." Sanzo murmured, burying his face deeper into Goku's hair.

"With Gojyo and Hakkai?" asked Goku, innocently.

"Without." Sanzo replied shortly and tightens his hold on Goku. "Just the two of us, remember?"

Smiling, Goku nodded and murmured, "Yeah, I remember. Just us alone."

"Right."

Finally Goku falls asleep; Sanzo did not let go of him but stay as it is. Staring down at the innocent face of Goku, Sanzo brushed away a few strands of hair and placed another kiss on his forehead. "Love you, always, Goku… "

Just as Sanzo slumbers off, Goku snuggles deeper into Sanzo's embrace and murmured, "I love you, too, Sanzo, always… "

Never had Goku thought that being in love was so 'romantic'. It was beyond his imagination to be truly in love with someone. It was his first experience and he knew that it's going to last forever as he believes Sanzo would always be there for him.

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OWARI

A/N: Finally it comes to an end. If I go on, I may be out of the storyline. Hope you like it. I couldn't think of a career for Sanzo so I choose him to be a librarian since he likes quiet place. I'd come up with another story if I think up of one, but I bet that'd take some time for me, though. Thanks to all reviewers and readers who had been following the story.