Author's Note: Crap...my cold is like...retarded. Now my nose is running and I'm sneezing a LOT!!! X-x Oh and I was watching Saiyuki at the anime club in my school. My Japanese teacher took one look at it and said, "That's the weirdest thing I ever saw." She just happened to see Hakuryu turn into a jeep. XD

Akiko Koishii--- THANK YOU! :) -eats pocky while hugging the plushies and chibi Goku.-

Wasabii--- T-T You're so evil...and yes, of course we can drool over it! I'll drool over my poster of them as well....

Koryu-Sanzo--- O-O;;; My imagination is too vivid to describe what I saw in my head...-pastes you back together with glue- Don't worry, I'll write it, but is it true you have a midget army? O-o

Chapter 11: Love is Enough of a Reason

-)Sanzo POV(-

I awoke to hear a loud and constant rapping noise. As I cracked an eyelid open, I swore to myself that I would kill whoever was disturbing me so early in the morning. Goku and I were still on the couch except slightly...messier than before as well as naked. I got off the couch slowly so as not to awake Goku who has been sleeping on my chest.

The knocking continued and I quickly pulled on my boxers. I threw my jacket over Goku's sleeping form, grabbed and lit a smoke and the pulled open the door in an irritable manner.

"What?!" I asked sharply. My eye twitched slightly at the sight which awaited me. Gojyo, who had a smirk on his face, was standing right outside the door.

"Good morning to you, too, Sanzo-sama," he said, eyeing my half-naked form. "Have you been busy with the bakasaru?" I was about to slam the door in his face right there and then.

"Tell me what the hell you want, Gojyo," I said, puffing on my cigarette.

"I just have a request from Hakkai. He wants us to visit him over in New York." I arched an eyebrow.

"I'm not going." I answered in final, leaving the door and going over to Goku. I heard Gojyo step inside, his shoes squeaking against the floorboards of the )1( foyer.

"Yes you are. You're coming along even if I have to drag that cynical ass of yours all the way there." I turned to glare at him, slightly surprised to see him glaring back at me.

"Tch." Ignoring the redhead, I made my way over to Goku and shook his shoulder. He didn't even seem to stir. After another try I smacked him upside the head. "Wake up, bakasaru!"

That seemed to get him awake easily. He sprang up, rubbing the side of his head and whining about how much that had hurt. He turned to look at me reproachfully.

"Why'd you hit me?!" he yelped. Inhaling the sweet nicotine from my cigarette and gave him a rather deadpan look.

"Gojyo decided to come over. He says that Hakkai wants us to visit him." Gojyo sat up immediately, my jacket a black curtain draped across his lower body.

"No way! Really? Really? Really?!" he asked repeatedly. Before I could say anything, the damn kappa interfered.

"Yeah," said Gojyo, flopping down on the couch next to Goku.

"Ack!" The cry elicited from Goku's mouth as he drew back, clutching my jacket around his naked body. Gojyo smirked at Goku in a superior manner.

"Were you two up to something last night, bakasaru?" he asked.

"It doesn't matter because it's none of your business," I replied nonchalantly, but with a layer of threat underneath. "Anyways, we're not going to go visit Hakkai. I have college and I think that the bakasaru would try to be as close to me as possible. Besides, shouldn't you be the one pursuing the one you love?"

Silence filled the room for a moment, a rather sober one. The only sound was that of our breathing. Suddenly, Gojyo got up from his seat and exited the apartment. I looked at the door for a moment, knowingly, before turning away from it.

"What happened?" asked Goku a bit quietly

"Nothing. He's just going to get his lover back," I said walking over to Goku and giving him a kiss on the cheek. "As for me, I already got mine."

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-)Gojyo POV(-

The moment I shut the door I ran out of the apartment building and I kept running for a few blocks until I finally stopped to catch my breath. How could I have been so blind? How could it be that someone like Sanzo saw something that I failed to?

After I regained my breath I reached into my pocket and produced three plane tickets to New York. Looking at them for a moment I tucked them back in my pocket and ran back home to pack. I wasn't going to give Hakkai up that easily, I wasn't going to just let him go like that because... I loved him.

If you love someone, they are the world to you. I had lost some confidence in myself during his absence. Yet, if I wanted to be with my lover, my personal paradise and meaning of life, I'd have to catch him, hold on, and never let him go.

And that was exactly what I was going to do.

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1) Foyer- The place where Japanese people set their shoes.

Author's Note: Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Just a few more to go and the ending (smut)! Please read and review! Oh, also, do you think I'm giving Sanzo too many good lines? XD