Sanzo's eyes wandered to the empty desk in the third row, his mind caught on the one of the many people absent today. He hated how distracted his mind was, but couldn't seem to keep them on anything other than Goku. All that had been revealed to him the day before, it all swirled about his head, creating more and more questions. He understood where the dreams had come from now. It was such an outrageous thing to happen, but he knew it was fact. The lives that he'd lived before, although the memories were only fragments, they were enough that he could consider them part of himself.
How could this be happening to him? Just a short while ago, he'd been living a perfectly normal life, save for the strange dreams. He'd gone about his daily rituals, living in an existance he was content with, without any surprises or strange events. Get up in the morning, go to work, go home. Eat here and there, smoke a lot, enjoy a beer before bed. An ordinary pattern he'd grown comfortable with.
Now, his world had been twisted upside down, and he didn't know what else was in store for him. He didn't like his life being out of control but, at the same time, Sanzo couldn't think of one thing he wanted to change.
Goku had burst into his world, filling it in places where Sanzo hadn't known it was empty. Or, rather, hadn't previously cared was empty. Suddenly, everything he lived and breathed revolved around the youth, his heart and head were filled with emotions he'd never thought he would feel. It was all so alien to him, it placed him in a situation he'd never thought he would be in, but he felt no regrets. Instead, his soul was being reborn into something else, something that was lighter and happier than Sanzo had ever remembered feeling.
The rational part of his mind kept these things in check. Outwardly, no one would guess what was going on inside of him. But he knew that he had to do something. His mind was demanding that he take some kind of action, as though wanting proof that all of it was real.
But it was then that realization dawned upon him, and the bottom of Sanzo's strange new world fell out from below his feet.
He'd been concentrating so much on his thoughts of Goku, he hadn't even stopped to realize which other students were missing. A sense of fear came over him as Sanzo's eyes trailed over the empty desks. It could of been a coincidence, but part of him knew that it wasn't. The overlaying threat of a gangwar had been around for too long for it not to mean something that those students he knew were part of the Gojyo and Akari alliences were absent.
For all of them to be gone....
It could only mean one thing.