Chapter 2: Green Silked Kisses
A/N: Wow, I am glad so many people liked it! The turn out was absolutely splended. GAH! This ficceh has me talking all formally now. Damn my lovely fanfiction. Oh how I love thee fics. Sorry it took so long by the way. I lost my notebook at Dani's house. Blame her.
" So, um, do you even know where you're going?" Gojyo asked suspiciously as he followed the blind, need I repeat, blind man in front of him. Hakkai turned to Gojyo following the sounds and smiled the same smile he did when he first met him.
" Of course." Hakkai smiled, tracing a painting on the wall with his index finger. " And we're going the right way." He smiled again.
" Where are we going anyway?" Gojyo asked, less suspiciously and more in a soothing voice to show his kindness.
Hakkai perked up, walking forward with one hand grazing across the walls of the hallway. " To my garden."
" You plant stuff?" The crimson-haired one, asked with more confusion then expected. I mean, how could a blind man plant flowers?
" Not recently since I lost my sight, but I water them with my sister." He explained. " I am quite fond of roses, but mine have failed to bloom quite how I wanted to yet. They still seem a bit dull." Hakkai sighed inwardly, still leading Gojyo by the hand. " Just a few more halls. I don't know why anybody needs a castle quite this big. Puzzling."
" Yeah..." Gojyo agreed. " So you grow roses. Red ones?"
" Red and pink. I tried growing white ones once but they just wouldn't sprout." Hakkai huffed.
" I don't like red flowers too much." Gojyo said, following Hakkai around a turn.
" Why?" Hakkai asked curiously.
" Little past things, nothing to worry about."
" Honestly? You know you can tell me anything. I won't tell my father." Hakkai smiled, putting his index finger over his lips.
" I'm truly a sick mass murderer who has broken into the castle disguised as a babysitter for the unknown prince." Gojyo said dully.
" Ha, no, you're way too sweet." Hakkai noted. " I can tell by the way you talk. You're spunky, don't like taking orders but you fall to your knees when somebody is kind to you."
" Whoa..." Gojyo gaped. " How'd you figure all that?"
" When you're blind, your other senses become better. But, I was just guessing about that little bit, I am assuming I was dead on. Are we outside?" Hakkai asked.
" Yeah, I can probably find which part of the garden is yours." Gojyo said, taking Hakkai's hand and leadning him around through the bushes of flowers and trees. He stopped at a small patch of unbloomed roses. They had sort of a sad aura to them, Gojyo could tell. Hakkai smiled at the flowers and sat on his knees in front of the planter box.
" How are you all today?" Hakkai smiled, lightly touching one of the petals. " Gojyo, could you get me a watering bucket?" Gojyo nodded and ran off to a well he saw as he was trying to find the way to the roses. He couldn't help but blush. Hakkai was so gentle, so sweet, he was in awe at how calm and collected this person was, dispite his disadvantage. He truly wanted to know what happened. For all Gojyo knew, he could simply just become blind, or something could have harmed him. But what...?
" Gojyo?" Hakkai yelled politely.
" Ah! Sorry, lost in thought!" Gojyo said, hoisting up the bucket from under the water in the well. Gojyo took it off the hook and carried it to Hakkai. " Need some help watering them?" He asked.
" That would be wonderful." Hakkai smiled. " Yaone used to do this for me, but I have you now so she can go on and do what she needs to do to take care of herself." Hakkai smiled dissapointingly.
" Well, don't ever say to me you feel like I should be taking care of myself. It's bullshit. I wouldn't come here if I didn't need or want the job." Gojyo said, liting a cigarette before watering the flowers. " I'm just glad you're not a spoiled brat." Gojyo grinned.
" Indeed." Hakkai smiled.
" Prince Hakkai." Sanzo aknowledged, Goku following closely behind.
" Ah! Perfect timing you two." Hakkai smiled. " Gojyo, this is Sanzo, one of Lord Homura's favorite guards. He watches over my sister."
" Really?" Gojyo perked an eyebrow, not being so impressed.
" And this is Goku, one of Lord Homura's favorite servants. He is actually more like Yaone's pet." Hakkai laughed.
" I am not!" Goku whined.
" I have a message from Lord Homura, Prince." Sanzo pointed out.
" Yes Sanzo?" Hakkai asked.
" Lord Homura requests that you and your servant--"
" Servant, what the hell? You'd better not be talking about me, I am not a servant like you whipped boys." Gojyo growled.
" Gojyo--" Hakkai noted.
" Whipped? Who the hell do you think you are?" Sanzo growled back.
" Sanzo--" Goku tapped Sanzo's shoulder.
" Not his servant, that's for sure." Gojyo said. " What about you, who the hell you think you are?"
" I am the Princess' guard. I shouldn't even be here right now. This is Kougaiji's job anyway." Sanzo said more calmly. " And for your information, you've only been here for less then a day. There are strict rules here under Lord Homura, which will be obeyed or death and frankly, getting killed by Lord Homura is not the way I want to go down and if you stay here a little longer, if he doesn't kill you in the next few hours, you'll see why you don't want to cross or disobey Lord Homura. So call it whipped or being scared, you just wait." Sanzo spat. He turned back to Hakkai. " He wants you and your servant down in the main hall for lunch with the Princess and himself."
" Che." Gojyo hissed as they walked off.
" He's actually quite nice once you get to know him." Hakkai chuckled.
" Nice, my ass."
" You'll get used to it here. The only people who are really nice here are those two, another guard, Kougaiji and another, Dokugakuji. Plus there is my father's guards, Shien and Zenon, but they're strict. And I think that is everybody..." Hakkai smiled.
" Wow, not alotta nice people here then?" Gojyo asked, pouring some water at the base of the flower bush.
" No, not too many. Most don't like me too much." Hakkai smiled anyway. " I am not really my father's kin so people think I should have died with my mother--Oops."
" So that legend is true?" Gojyo gaped.
" What legend? I don't go out of the castle, is there something...I should know about?"
" There is a legend that Lord Homura had a wife who was having an affair and he sentenced her to death and that you were her child. The only problem was, nobody had ever seen you, which kept it a legend...so I guess it's true...?
" Yes. It is. I didn't know I was a character in a village legend. I can't help but be flattered...a little." Hakkai smiled sadly.
" Is that why--" Gojyo stopped himself and finished watering the flowers. Hakkai noticed Gojyo was a bit uncomfortable with the whole conversation so he didn't say anything.
" Come on." Hakkai smiled. " My father wants us for lunch, let's go. Except of course, you're going to have to lead me there. It takes quite a bit of concentration to find my way back." He said, reaching out his hand to Gojyo.
" Ah fine," Gojyo whined. " Stupid blind guy." Gojyo teased.
Later That Night...
" You two will be sharing a room." Homura said, leading Hakkai and Gojyo into Hakkai's quarters, which to Gojyo, was about the size of a prison cell, except maybe three feet larger, and a bit fancier then that of a cell. Gojyo looked around at the green velvet clad room, with two single beds and a desk in one of the corners and a dresser in the other. This was by far the best thing Gojyo had ever stayed in.
" Are you sure father?" Hakkai asked, holding Gojyo's hand, incase he was about to run into anything.
" Yes. Who knows where you could lead off to with your current disability." Homura teased maliciously, Hakkai didn't take any notice, but Gojyo did by the look on Homura's face, which Hakkai couldn't see. Homura glanced at Gojyo and Gojyo turned his head back to Hakkai. " Well, get to sleep." Homura said, closing the door.
" Ah, I'm sorry if you wanted to have your own room. Yaone probably requested this. I could rearrange it if you want." Hakkai noted as Gojyo led him to his bed.
" Its alright, probably safer if I was with you then not. You know, like if you have to take a leak in the middle of the night or something." Gojyo grinned. " Speaking of which, if you need to, you can always take me with you. You know, since it's hard to see."
" I don't want to--"
" It's fine. It's what I am paid to do right." He explained. " Need help changing into your pajamas, by the way?"
" If you don't mind." Hakkai smiled, standing up. Gojyo went over to the dresser and picked out a pair of emerald silk pajamas. Gojyo walked over to Hakkai uneasily and started to take off his shirt. Hakkai slowly turned from pink to red as Gojyo carefully undressed him. He turned even more red as Gojyo put the cool silk on him, Gojyo was red the entire time as well. Gojyo gulped and looked at the curve of Hakkai's neck, licking his lips slowly. Gojyo slowly leaned up and kissed the soft skin, making Hakkai gasp inwardly. Gojyo blinked, realizing what he had just done.
" I-I'm sorry." Gojyo said, putting Hakkai onto the bed. " Don't tell anybody I did that. It was a spur of the moment thing." Gojyo explained frantically and all Hakkai could do was nod very slightly. Gojyo rushed into his own bed, his back facing Hakkai. " 'Night."
" Indeed." Hakkai nodded.
A/N: Sorry that took so long to write. I lost my chapter guide papers with everything that happens on it. So keep reviewing and I promise the chapters will come faster, cause I found the papers. And I am working on more Female Torture and yeah...another one-shot. And look out for my friend and I's Gojyo x Hakkai fansite, Lucid Rose.