Cover You Up
Chapter 6
By: Rachel*
Rated: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Drama/Comedy
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Chapter 6 has arrived! I think everyone will be happy with this one. ^.^ At least, I am. ::cough:: Also, go to www.gensomadensaiyuki.net you can download the new Saiyuki Gunlock theme songs! (No, not Reload, but GUNLOCK'S THEME SONGS!) ::dances:: Don't get me wrong, you can get all the Saiyuki music off her site, but I really like the new theme song for some reason. It's better than Wild Rock…::shudderes:: I hate rap…and well, when I downloaded Wild Rock, I wanted to cry. ANYWAY, be sure to leave reviews after reading this chapter! I want to know what you think of the fluff, and stuff! ^.^
Disclaimer: I do not own Saiyuki…or Sanzo…-_-'
Sanzo shut the door to Kasadey's room and covered his mouth again. He bowed his head as he felt his face flush and as he saw Gojyo heading for the hallway, dove into the bathroom and slammed the door shut behind him. Gojyo snickered. "Oh, did you two get into a lover's quarrel?"
Sanzo gritted his teeth. "Get the hell away." He hissed.
Gojyo sighed and shook his head. "No need to be angry, you've just got to say you're sorry and hug her…I'll do it if you won't." He grinned as he heard a low, death filled growl from the other side of the door and headed towards Kasadey's room to make sure she was okay. "Hello, my dear…" He grinned and walked in. He blinked as he saw the tears in her eyes. "God, did he get you that upset?" He mumbled and ran his hand through his hair.
She sighed. "I'm alright; did you and Hakkai sleep okay?"
He shook his head. "I'm afraid Hakkai didn't make it through the night, he's still dead lying on the floor, we figured you'd drag him on out."
Her face paled and she got up ready to leave the room and find Hakkai's dead body. "He can't be dead…"
Gojyo started to laugh and shook his head. "You're really cute." He smiled. "I'm kidding, don't worry, he's out with Mia and Goku…who by the way we caught kissing again." He sighed. He looked towards her. "You're doing something to him."
She blinked and sat down on the carpet. "To whom?" she asked.
He grinned. "You should know, Sanzo. I've never seen him act this way. I don't know what you two did, but the fact that he'd even sleep in the same room as you has got to say something." he slurred his words together.
She laughed and nodded her head. "We didn't do anything…" She frowned. "It didn't happen."
Gojyo arched an eyebrow. "Ouch, is he that bad?" He laughed.
Her face turned as red as a tomato. "No! No, it's not what you think, I was cold and he held me in his arms when we were—" The door opened and Mia walked in and handed placed Kasadey's clothes in the laundry basket. She sighed. "I'm going to go make us something to eat…"
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Sanzo tensed he could hear her footsteps as she walked down the hall. Sanzo narrowed his eyes. When did he start to recognize her footsteps? God he only knew her for two days… "Damn it." He shut his eyes as he pressed his hands against his lips. He wanted to kiss her… He shut his eyes tightly. "Damn it to hell!" he pounded his fist into the door. All he could picture were her lips against his and the way he'd held her while she slept. Everything that was going on was making his head spin.
He hated everything, and everyone. He wanted to go home, a home he never knew. He wanted a normal life, a normal, boring life. A place where he could be alone, where no one could bother him… He pulled at the roots of his hair and gritted his teeth. It wasn't how he wanted it to be. "Sanzo?" he cursed, Kasadey was knocking on the door as he moved away. "Can I come in?"
"If I said no, would it stop you?" He spat. I don't want this. He chanted over and over in his mind.
"No, it wouldn't." She smiled despite the tears that were still in her eyes. "I didn't mean that." She sighed. "I'm sorry if I made things awkward, but I was just really happy, she finally listened to me, and opened up. If it makes you feel better, you're a good kisser…" She bowed her head and stared to walk away.
He blinked and tensed. Had he even kissed her back? I don't need anyone. He muttered over and over in his mind. "You aren't one, so it balances out." He spat and pushed past her.
Kasadey's face flushed and she clenched her fists. "You…" She hissed. "You take that back!" She cried out.
He turned back just in time and dodged her fists. "I won't." he muttered.
She growled. "You're lying, and you know it!" She lunged at him and clung to his back. Her arms gripped around his neck and she stared to choke him. He gargled out a muttered curse and stared to reel back, trying to fend her off.
"I…hate…" he coughed. "…you…!" he gagged before she lost grip and he sent her overtop of the couch and onto the floor. Her head flew back and cracked against the corner of the table. She cried out in pain before bending forward and holding her head in pain.
"Ga…" She trailed off and shuddered. Everyone had stopped moving. She shuddered again as she struggled to hold back tears. Sanzo eyed her.
Hakkai sighed. "Another graceful incident thanks to the great Sanzo." He walked towards Kasadey. "Are you okay?"
She shuddered again. "It hurts." She shuddered and looked up at Sanzo as tears rolled over the sides of her cheeks. His face was cold, and emotionless. She bowed her head and brushed past him. "Bastard." She muttered, low under her breath.
His eyes darkened and he walked to the sliding doors, and despite the bitter cold stepped outside. "She hates you." Goku mumbled a frown on his face.
Sanzo shrugged his shoulders. "Good, we feel the same way now." He bitterly spat back. I want to be alone…
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Long nails clawed at the thrown that sat up on a mountain, covered in snow and ice. "What do you mean some of them are still alive?" A dark, shrill voice hissed.
The man bowed his head. "I'm sorry my lord, but you didn't kill them all, some of them weren't in the building, they brought the Sanzo party to this time sir." He curled his shoulders forward and cowered in fear.
The nails dug deep into the wood and a growl left the man's lips. "Damn it!" He bellowed. "Be gone!" He shouted and the man in front of him disappeared emitting a horrid cry of pain and anguish. "I kill them…"
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He paced back and forth. Her lips against his, his racing heart, the urge to hold her and the urge to strangle her were all raging emotions. He hated her for making him feel this way. "I hate her!" He screamed out, his voice echoed and a dog began to bark. "I H-A-T-E H-E-R!" He screamed at the top of his lounges.
"Shut up buddy, get a grip and move on!" A man from the building across hissed. Sanzo gritted his teeth and flicked the guy off in anger. "Yeah, same to you!" the manga cursed him off before slamming his sliding door shut. Sanzo fell onto the chair next to him and held his head in his hands. What was she doing to him? What was he doing to himself? I hate her… His own thoughts were starting to be filled with doubt. He felt guilt for making her cry, but that kiss was the main thing on his mind. How could he let himself go like that? He shrugged his shoulders. So what? He'd kissed her back, a normal male reaction, right? He threw his arms into the air and let out a cry of frustration. He could no longer feel his body; he'd gone numb from the cold. Soon hyperthermia would set in. He nodded his head; he'd die in his sleep at least.
"Will you stop barking already? You're going to send the cops after you if you don't shut up…bastard." Kasadey poked her head outside and stared at him with a look as cold as ice.
He shook and snapped his head around to return her ice filled expression. "Don't talk. Just leave me be…"
She grunted. "Fine, but I'm not going to chisel your dead corps off the chair when you freeze to it!" She stuck her tongue out and slammed the door shut behind her.
Sanzo hissed and dug his heels into the porch, what was it about her that drove him up a wall? "I've got to get out of here…" He stomped back in. "We're leaving!" He shouted out with his eyes closed.
Kasadey spooned in a bite full a cantaloupe into her mouth. She turned her head to one side before grinning. "Why shout, I'm the only one here…" She cooed. "I sent the others out with Mia and her father for a little bit more sightseeing, I hope you don't mind."
Sanzo's left eyebrow twitched before his violet eyes and his blood began to boil as he turned towards Kasadey. "You…you're…you're evil." He hissed.
Kasadey's cheeks flushed slightly before she burst into spits of laughter. "I can't believe you just said that I'm evil!" She cried out, holding her side as she rolled off the stool and onto the floor. "That's so great…" She sighed.
He stared at her long and hard. "You're head, it doesn't hurt?" He blandly spoke as he ventured towards the fridge.
She rolled her eyes. "It hurts like hell; I'm just choosing to ignore the pain." She sighed. "You can at least say you're sorry."
He shook his head. "I will not. You jumped on me; I just tossed you onto the couch. You shouldn't have kept rolling." He snarled.
Kasadey sighed. "You're still the thrower, so in turn; you're the one who was the lead cause to my injury." She stuck her tongue out and wrapped a blanket around her frame. She bowed her head suddenly and her smile faded.
Sanzo watched as she shuddered. He narrowed his eyes. "Kasa—"
She shuddered again. "Sanzo," she covered her mouth weakly and rubbed her face with her free hand. "Promise me that after I take you back to Drop Down that you'll stop the one who killed everyone." She looked up, and Sanzo's lips parted.
Tears streamed down her cheeks, and she bowed her head again quickly trying to stop them from falling. "I…" He didn't know what to say. Stop who, killed who, what could the four of them do?
Her nose was stuffy, and she sniffled before slinking off her stool and stumbling towards the hall. "I'm sorry, I—"
Sanzo quickly walked towards her and walked along her side. She looked up at him. He arched an eyebrow. "You could have a concussion, I can't leave you alone."
Kasadey smiled brightly and jogged the last few feet towards her room. "You can be sweet when you put some effort into it." She poked him in the cheek. "Get changed into your bathing suit, I feel like going in the hot tubs downstairs after cracking my head into the corner of a table." She hissed a smile wide across her face.
Sanzo swallowed and slowly walked towards his room. He shut the door behind him and shut his eyes tightly. She had done it again. He wanted to be next to her. When she was crying, it was like she was calling to him, begging for him to hold her. He'd held himself back of course. No, he couldn't do this to himself, he wouldn't let it happen. He'd sworn that he'd never… "Damn it!" He turned around and banged his right foot into the door and began to undress and changed into his black swim trunks. He sighed and looked at his clothes. Other than some scattered color here and there, Jack seemed to have liked the color black. He shrugged his shoulders and stared at himself in the mirror. His violet eyes stared deep into the back of his mind. "Love…?" He breathed.
Kasadey smiled brightly. "You love it?!" Sanzo jumped in surprise and shook his head. "Don't lie…you know Jack's got good taste in clothing."
He blinked as she handed him a towel. He wrapped it around his waist. Looking ahead and straightened as Kasadey's slipped off her frame and fell to the ground. His lips parted again and he felt the thoughts in the back of him mind begin to boil to the surface. "Damn it…" She muttered and picked up the light blue towel. She was in a two piece bikini. A dark brown with light pink pokeadots dotted throughout. His head turned to the side as she stood up and looked at him before looking away. She blinked and turned back to him quickly. She wrapped the towel around her in lightening speed. "Were you checking me out?" She asked, shocked with her own words.
His lips closed and he stood straight again and stared at her in a daze. The bathing suit could be considered more like string rather than actual clothing. He shook his head. "A little surprised that something like that's legal, that's all. He looked at her frame covered in the towel as he started too walked out of the room. She grabbed his arm and Sanzo reeled back as she pinned him against the back of his bedroom door as it slammed shut. "What the hell—"
She snarled and jabbed him in the stomach. He coughed and gritted his teeth. His arms reached out and he clawed at her shoulders. "Don't lie!" She hissed. "You know, I thought you had some sense of respect for women!" She started to strangle him. "In the end, all men are the same!" She pulled him back and shoved him into the door again.
"Damn you!" He pushed forward and sent her to the floor. She spent no time tripped him up and sending him down with her. Kasadey flipped him over and sighed, a smile on her face as she sat on top of him. Sanzo shut his eyes as they began to wander. He coughed. "Your chest…" he mumbled and turned his head away.
Kasadey frowned as she saw his flushed cheeks and looked down. She cursed and fixed her top that had moved over too far. "It's your fault…"
He grunted and shoved her off him. "You shouldn't accuse people of checking you out." He spat. He stood up and she handed him his towel that had fallen off. "Give me your hand." He muttered and looked away as he helped her to her feet.
She sighed. "There you go again, being the perfect guy." She nudged him in the side a wicked grin and her face. She sighed. "You should be cute like that more often; you'd be a lot more popular." She held onto his hand and pulled him towards the apartment door.
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Shocked and speechless Sanzo followed Kasadey without a fight. He blinked as the strong smell of chlorine filled the air. "What's that smell?" he pouted and forwarded his eyebrows.
She smiled. "It's the swimming pool, the smell is the chlorine, it helps keep the water sanitary." She sighed and linked arms with his and leaned her head into his shoulder.
Sanzo gave up with his fight with her and allowed the contact. He nodded his head. "Is that where we're going?" He arched and eyebrow up at her as they passed through a second set of double doors.
She bit her lip. "Well, we can if you want. It's mainly a lap pool, but I want to go to the hot tubs first, if you don't mind."
Sanzo frowned, and nodded his head. "Its fine, I don't care either way." He shut his eyes as she let go and said a silent prayer. She skipped ahead and opened the doors to the left of him.
"Welcome to paradise!" She sighed and walked into the large empty room. "Good, no one else is here." She mumbled. "The power was out, but the water should still be warm, and besides, the one of the far left, Takeshi had set up on the generator." She nodded her head. "Don't tell anyone, only his family and I know that one."
He blinked. "Generator…" He blinked at the foreign word.
She sighed. "Never mind, it just helps generate power, that's all. She opened the top and smiled as her face was greeted with a wave of steam" She grinned and tugged off her towel.
Sanzo found his face flushing again. He bowed forward and laid his towel on the steps and waited for Kasadey to go inside. She let out a small whine as the hot water burned her cold skin she smiled and sighed shivering as she sank into the water. Sanzo swallowed and stared at the tub. It was odd, compared to what he was picturing, not just a metal tub, but a blue one, dotted with white and black dots. It wasn't made of metal either. His fingers ran over the surface, smooth and clean. He sighed and swung his leg over and stepped in. His eyes widened as he put presser on his right leg and slipped, falling face first.
Kasadey cried out as his arms clung to her and dragged her under the water with him. He gasped for air as he came to the surface and sighed, as he relaxed against another soft surface. He narrowed his eyes and needed himself against it and let his eyes close. "You're right this is comfortable…"
Kasadey smirked and sighed shaking her head. "I can't believe you fell in." She frowned. He had his body in her lap, and his head resting in the crook of her neck. "I'm not a seat, you know." She mumbled.
Sanzo's eyes opened and quickly and he pushed away from his soft seat in embarrassment. He shut his eyes quickly as he found himself on a smooth curved out seat and sighed. "I didn't expect this thing to be slippery."
She laughed. "Dork," she sneered. His eyes opened and he looked at her blankly. "I'm teasing." She sighed, and sank her head under the water. A smile crossed her lips and Sanzo found the thoughts in his mind pressing at his temples. He jumped and moved away as her foot brushed against his chest. He grimaced and jumped again as a strong force pushed the water against his back. Kasadey laughed as she gazed upon his startled figure. "Relax; I just turned the jets on." He did as she asked and settled back down. Kasadey became frigidity. Sanzo looked at her with a questionable look.
"What is it now?" He mumbled, rubbing the back of his neck. She was right, this was helping him relax. He shut his eyes and let his head roll back against the headrest.
She eyed him. "You need to be more relaxed, more often. You're always tense, and uptight about every little thing, you never speak your mind, and you just shut up when you're being over run by someone you're intimidated by." She sank back under before Sanzo could say a word.
He was the one with the problems? He sat up as Kasadey came back to the surface. She rubbed her face, and spat out the water that dripped over her lips. He blinked. "What?" he mumbled.
She sighed. "Just talk more, and be more open with people, then they'll listen to you more." She waved him towards her. "Turn around, and sit on the seat next to me." He narrowed his eyes as he turned and floated over next to her. "Now, just close your eyes and relax." He did so and tensed as her fingers gripped onto his shoulders and applied pressure. "Stop tensing up, I'm just rubbing your shoulders." She hissed. He tried to relax more. She pressed her fingers into the back of his neck, rubbing out the knots that were tensing him up. His lips parted and she smiled when she saw a look or mirth on his face. He rolled his head forward, and his hair fell into his face, dripping into the warm water. The smell of roses from the scented bubbles filled the air and he let out a quiet groan. He shut his lips and his eyes opened.
Kasadey wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed her head against his back and kissed his right shoulder lightly. "I'm sorry…you can hit me again…or whatever you want, just—" she sighed. "Can we stay like this for a little while?"
He swallowed and shut his eyes tightly. What was she doing to him? With shaking hands he covered hers with his own and nodded his head. "I won't hurt you." He whispered. She hugged him even tighter. He felt his heart wrench. "Why me?" he pleaded.
She opened her eyes as a tear rolled off her cheek and mixed with the water in the hot tub. She sighed and turned him around to face her. "It's your eyes." She smiled as his eyebrows arched upwards as he saw the tears in her eyes, he tried to look away. "How can you not want to hold someone with eyes that sad?" She clenched her fists. He looked at her with every question in the world. Her hands went to his face and he swallowed and shut his eyes again as she ran her fingers over his face. He pressed her left hand against his face and exhaled. Moving closer she leaned into towards him and pressed her forehead against his. "Thank you." She whispered. Sanzo's eyes widened and he gazed into her emerald green eyes as she pressed a gentle kiss on his lips. He didn't fight back, he no longer could…
I need her… A fading thought ran through his mind.
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