Title: Vice Versa
Date: 21 October 2004
Notes: I don't think the plot of this little fic, as you'd believe, thickens. It'd be more appropriate to say that the plotlessness thickens. Ahaha... wait, it's not funny. Thank you all for reading.
Additional notes: yugioh-fan88 was right. It is now Goku's turn ;)

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As usual Sanzo read the paper. It didn't matter if it was morning or night, Sanzo read the paper. In this occasion the time was late in the afternoon. Everyone was out somewhere and he was left alone to his own devices. Which was exactly what he wanted.

"Sanzo?"

Sanzo glanced up sharply. He thought he was left alone.

"Sanzo, can I borrow your credit card?"

A pair of golden eyes greeted his sight expectantly. He knew what the boy wanted, which was food, food and more food. He had had enough complaints from the Three Aspects about overspending. He really didn't need his meditation session being disturbed by the nagging voice of the three floating heads but how could he explain to them that Goku's stomach was a bottomless pit?

Therefore, "No."

"But Sanzo, I'm hungry..."

"No."

"Aw, come on, Sanzo... it's not your credit card anyway."

"I hate to repeat myself, Goku. Get your face out of my sight."

There was a slight tremor in Sanzo's voice, a tone that Goku knew so well. The boy gulped. He was afraid of being the reason of Sanzo's incoming wrath but he really was hungry. He had been waiting forever it seemed to him for Sanzo to finish his reading but he couldn't wait anymore. His stomach spoke for him.

Sanzo glanced sharply from the paper. "You really have no manners."

"It's because I'm hungry, Sanzo. I promise I'll behave once I've enough to eat!"

"Ch."

"Sanzo...," whined Goku pitifully. "Don't you have a heart?"

Sanzo chose the best course possible in dealing with this situation, which was to ignore the whole thing. He spread and shook the paper importantly and pretended that nothing had happened in the last several minutes. He needed to catch up on the world news. He was up to...

Goku stood still in front of him. Sanzo risked a peek over the newspaper. What the hell is he waiting for?

"Can't you go-"

Goku's face was the epitome of miserableness. His eyes rounded so big that they dominated the whole face. There was a glassy look in those eyes and a hint of sparkles that illuminated the golden colour.

Sanzo stared.

"If you think you can win me over with that idiotic expre-"

"Please," pleaded Goku, more pitifully than ever. "Sanzo, please!"

Sanzo took a wary glance at the face once more. It seemed to him that tears were threatening to burst out from the miserably hopeful golden eyes. Sanzo gave up. There was something that was indescribably bothering him about being addressed by a pair of giant eyes. He was only human after all.

"Alright, alright! Just get out of my sight!" he threw the card out of his sleeve.

Goku cheered and dashed towards the door. "Thank you, Sanzo!"

Sanzo 'ch'ed the empty room and opened up his paper for the third time in the last ten minutes. There was a muffled conversation going on outside his room. He halted his reading.

"I've got it, Gojyo. Let's go!"

"Did you use the trick I taught you?"

"Yeah! It worked like a treat!"

"Hah! I was right, wasn't I?"

"Yeah! Next time I need the credit card I'd just make moony eyes at Sanzo and he'd give it to me."

There was a muted silence as Sanzo's newspaper fell onto the cold floor.

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