Authors Notes: Wah, people are reading my story. I'm so happy! Anyway thanks to everyone who is reading this and I'm sorry chapter 4 took so long to come out. Had a dry spell for a moment. It's coming along nicely and this is so that everyone knows Goyjo is coming into it and he may seem un-Goyjo like. Also the last line is in thanks to my dear friend who I dragged to Otakon with me as it was thought up there. Arigatou Dan-chan! So Minna-san enjoy and sorry for the grammar/spelling mistakes.
Had to be Fate
Sanzo emerged from the bathroom dressed in a pair of light blue jeans and a white singlet. His blonde hair dripped with water as long bangs fell into his amethyst eyes and a towel was draped over his left shoulder. Closing the bathroom door it wasn't long before a pair of golden eyes peered down the hallway to where he stood.
"Ohayoo Sanzo!" Goku greeted before walking towards the silent blonde. Sanzo for his part did nothing but look down at the wide awake monkey and then promptly lifted his wrist to see that his watch did actually say 7am! He then confirmed to himself that the monkey must be ill.
"Come on Sanzo, breakfast will go cold!" Goku spoke urgently as he pulled the 'shocked' writer towards the kitchen where he was soon greeted by the smiling face of Hakkai.
"Ohayoo Sanzo." Hakkai politely spoke while turning away from him before produced a warm plate of breakfast as he held it out to the silently blinking man.
"What's this?" He remarked in his bored tone of voice, not even taking the plate as his eyes traveled down to large golden ones.
"Hakkai showed me how to make scrambled eggs on toast! Don't you want them?" At Goku's quiet voice, both males watched as his large golden eyes turned watery before Sanzo snatched up the plate and silently headed for the lounge room where ironically he found his morning paper already there instead of at the front door. In the background he could hear the happy cheers of Goku as he had accepted the food.
"Ne Goku, shouldn't we eat as well before getting ready for school?" Hakkai melodiously questioned the happy boy before watching him serve up a plate of his own food and head into the lounge room to sit at the coffee table next to Sanzo who was quietly reading and eating at the same time. After making some coffee for Sanzo and pouring a glass of juice for Goku, Hakkai sat down on the opposite side and calmly drank the tea he had brewed earlier.
"You aren't eating Hakkai?" Goku questioned the peaceful looking teacher and watched the man smile before shaking his head.
"Don't worry Goku, I'll eat your eggs, it smells delicious after all, but I like to drink my tea before anything else."
"Okay!" Goku nodded before scoffing down the eggs and running towards his room so he could grab his uniform and take it into the bathroom where he would shower and change.
"So what is he doing up so early?" Sanzo questioned without moving the paper from his point of view, but felt a hand snatch it away and he blinked narrowed eyes behind thin framed glasses at the emerald eyed teacher.
"Were you trying to hide that you wear glasses when reading from me Sanzo?" Hakkai questioned with a small grin on his face and listened to Sanzo 'che' before observing as he snatched the paper back.
"Answer my question." Sanzo grounded out.
"He's worried..." Hakkai muttered quietly and watched as the newspaper was drawn away from Sanzo's face as he silently stared at Hakkai waiting for him to continue.
"Well, I think I'll go grab some breakfast now." Hakkai remarked as he stood up from his kneeling position at the low coffee table and was about ready to walk towards the kitchen when a hand shot out and grabbed his wrist. Starring his surprised eyes down at Sanzo he watched amethyst flicker away from his gaze and then his hand that was fixated around his wrist dropped silently to the table.
"He has a test today." Hakkai quietly remarked as he still stood by Sanzo seated side.
"That's all?" The blonde remarked and heard a quiet chuckle escape the teacher's lips.
"You really don't see it in his eyes Sanzo? This test is very important to him. Goku doesn't wish to disappoint you." Sanzo remained quiet as Hakkai made his way towards the kitchen as he was now dressed in a white shirt over his once bare skin from last night. Last night the table had been cluttered with papers, but now it had been cleaned and polished for breakfast this morning and the blanket had been folded and placed away for the day. Hakkai was incredibly immaculate and polite and this made Sanzo bristle slightly. How could anyone be this calm and collected all day long? Lifting his eyes up Sanzo found Hakkai quietly eating the eggs and biting into some dry toast. His tea cup was empty beside him and while his head was turned to watch the news on the television his other hand lifted up to pour Sanzo some more coffee and stopped just in time before the liquid spilled over.
"Ne Hakkai?" Goku voiced from down the hallway as he rushed back into the lounge room, wet hair spiking up in all directions as he was dressed in school shorts, untucked shirt and tie loose around his neck. He swung his backpack over the couch backing as it bounced lightly onto the couch cushions.
"Hai?" Hakkai remarked as he turned his full attention to the 14 year old.
"Can we walk to school together?" Raising an eyebrow at Goku, Sanzo made the usual 'che' sound before lifting the paper back to his face.
"Give me fifteen minutes Goku." Hakkai spoke as he stood up taking his empty plate and Sanzo's and headed for the kitchen. Washing the dishes in the sink, Hakkai lightly smiled when he heard Goku call out to Sanzo and the rustling of the newspaper meant he finally turned his gaze to the unusually quiet boy.
"What is it saru?"
"Um...you see I got a test today and..."
"You'll do fine." Sanzo abruptly replied not even wishing to listen to the rest since he already knew it from Hakkai. There was silence until Hakkai peered around the corner of the kitchen which blocked part of the lounge room from view, well mainly where Sanzo was sitting and saw that Goku was smiling at the ever frowning Sanzo.
"Mm!" He chirped before bouncing away backpack in hand as he headed for the front door to place it on the floor and then rushed back into his bedroom for something else. Hakkai left Sanzo alone as he grabbed his bag and headed for the bathroom where he began to clean and dress himself for another day of teaching 14 and 15 year olds.
Emerging after some time, Hakkai was dressed in white trousers, black long sleeved shirt and a white tie position all the way up at his neck, covering the top button of his slightly crinkled shirt from view.
"Have a pleasant day Sanzo." Hakkai quietly spoke as he collected his laptop carry case and folders. "Are you ready to go Goku?" Hakkai continued on not expecting a reply from Sanzo and instead headed for the door with Goku. They both sat on the wooden floorboards as they placed on their shoes, Goku in his ever trusty sneakers and Hakkai in a pair of polished black shoes. Meanwhile Sanzo did not move from the couch as he flipped over the page of the newspaper.
"We're going now!" Chimed the two overly happy (in Sanzo's mind) males and all Sanzo replied with was a grunted at their farewell. The click of the door left the apartment eerily quiet and Sanzo placed on the television once more to create some noise. He liked quiet, but when you lived with a monkey life was generally not so quiet these days.
Lowering the paper from view Sanzo leaned back against the couch and turning his head towards the black overnight bag Hakkai had brought over two days ago. That is when he sat up as he noticed the old diary Hakkai had been reading the other night was laying atop it with the name "Kanan" printed in gold on it. How had he not noticed this the other night? And just who was this Kanan?
# Goku's High School Hallway – Hours Later #
Pounding footsteps raced down the hallway ignoring the cries of 'hey' and 'watch it' as Goku's eyes flickered about the place looking for a certain someone. That's when he noticed a lone figure heading out the back of the school and he quickly followed knowing it was whom he wanted to find.
Hakkai sat down on a bench, eyes closed as the sun beat warmly down upon him. He had loosened his tie and undid the button before opening his bento as he had leftovers from last night's dinner. Actually he had hidden it in the back of the fridge to make sure Goku would not find it himself. Not only that he had left some for Sanzo as well and wondered whether the blonde writer was eating it at this very moment.
"Oi, Hak...err...Cho-sensei!" Hakkai's thoughts were shattered as he snapped his eyes open to see a heavily breathing Goku.
"Goku, what is wrong?" Hakkai's voice was laced with worry as the young boy walked towards him. However, the thoughts that rushed through his mind were completely off track as his head jerked back in slight surprise as Goku held up a piece of paper in front of his eyes. It was his test from this morning in his Extra English class. He'd gotten a C-, which was extremely better then his usual F.
"I passed Cho-sensei! Isn't it great?" Goku happily questioned and cheered when Hakkai nodded his head and smiled at the boy.
"Congratulations Goku, how about we go celebrate?"
"Yeah! Let's go, let's go!" Goku replied tugging on Hakkai's sleeve.
"I mean after school is over." At those words Goku stopped tugging and began laughing.
"Okay, I wanna invite Lirin-chan to come too!"
"I'll ring Sanzo and tell him to meet us at Yaone-san's restaurant ne?"
"Mm, see ya later Cho-sensei!" Goku spoke before running off in search of Lirin. Hakkai sighed lightly as his surrounding area went back to being relatively quiet as there were small echoes in the background coming from other students around the yard, but none were in his vicinity.
Eating quickly Hakkai thought it best to contact Sanzo while he had a free moment and then realised he didn't even know his phone number and would have to ask administration for it. Packing up his bento Hakkai headed back inside.
# School Administration #
"Konnichiwa Cho-sensei, what can I do for you?" The main administration woman voiced happily as she looked over the ever immaculate Hakkai. He held a smile on his face and his bento in one hand.
"Actually I was hoping you could give me one of my student's home number." She looked at him perplexed ready to question him more, but Hakkai quickly thought up an explanation to win the woman over.
"Oh, it's alright, nothing bad has happened to the student. In fact I just really need to speak with his guardian in regards to the tutoring I'm giving him every Wednesdays."
"Oh, well what's his name then?" His smile grew as it didn't take long for the woman to smile back at him as she sat back down at her desk to type in the student's name.
"Son Goku..." Fingers glided effortlessly over the keyboard before the woman wrote down Sanzo's number and handed it to Hakkai.
"Thank you so much." Hakkai replied and headed for the staff room to make the call.
# Sanzo's House #
Standing near his opened window Sanzo took a long drag of the cigarette before blowing the smoke outside. His latest book wasn't coming along as fast as he liked since he was being constantly distracted these days. If it wasn't the monkey then it was the smooth voice and constant presence of Cho Hakkai. It never helped that he had allowed him to stay for approximately three days as well. A mystery upon mysteries is what Hakkai was to Sanzo. Though he had stated angrily the man didn't intrigue him, the truth was that he did...and how much Sanzo did not even know. Sanzo scowled as he shook his head of thoughts and instantly his eyes snapped to the phone which had started to ring. Not bothering to answer it he decided the machine could get it.
'You've reached Genjo Sanzo and...baka saru don't touch that button!"
There was the beep of the machine Goku having obviously messed with it while Sanzo was trying to do the message, but after the beep there was a very familiar laughter. Sanzo's amethyst eyes moved over to the machine.
"Perhaps you should change that when Goku isn't around Sanzo." Hakkai stated the obvious. Moving to the machine Sanzo was going to pick up, perhaps even yell as to what Goku had done wrong when the teacher continued on probably knowing he was being ignored by the writer.
"Goku passed his test. I said we'd go out if that was alright with you. If not please call the school to pass on a message to me. Ah, the bell just went so meet us where I first ran into Goku and we can celebrate with him. We'll see you tonight." Hearing the engaged signal Sanzo played back the message to make sure he heard right. Goku...had passed! Sanzo felt a small smirk break onto his lips, a rarity indeed. And to think it had merely been a week and his test score had improved in such a small amount of time by his teacher that actually cared for him. It was certain that as much as Sanzo hated to admit it, this 'Cho Hakkai' was affecting his and Goku's life significantly. Sanzo sat back down at his desk, thoughts moving quickly as he placed them onto his word processing software.
# Evening – Yaone's Restaurant #
"Ne Hakkai? Is Sanzo not coming?" Goku spoke as he sat across from Hakkai with his back to the doorway so he couldn't see who was walking in or out and in fact wouldn't notice the man that was heading their way. Hakkai's smile grew as he observed Sanzo, dressed in black jeans and a blue untucked shirt, dump his hand on top of Goku's head.
"Oi saru, quit being gloomy, it doesn't suit you no matter how annoying you can be."
"Sanzo, Konbanwa!" Goku happily replied as he stared up at the tall blonde. The little greeting was soon interrupted by a genki girl jumping onto Sanzo's back making him grunt in shock and surprise at the sudden impact and lurch forward towards Hakkai, whose arms instantly went up to steady the author.
"KONBANWA SANZO-OJISAN!"
"Get the hell off me!" Sanzo grounded out and felt the weight of Lirin leave him as she grumbled about him being such a party pooper. She then greeted Goku and plonked down next to the smiling teenager. Sanzo on the other hand was staring silently into emerald eyes behind glasses as he had been jerked forward to the side Hakkai was situated on. Hakkai's hands were grasping his shoulders tightly, not wanting him to fall over, but from the back it would look like quite the compromising position for the writer.
"Am I interrupting something?" Came a certain drawled lechery voice as Sanzo quickly stood up and Hakkai's hands went back to his lap as they both turned to stare at,
"Konbanwa Goyjo, how have you been?" Hakkai politely questioned his friend who was currently dressed in the waiter outfit of black pants, white shirt and black vest while his pinkish-red hair was tied back into a ponytail.
"Fine...and what are you doing with him?" Narrowed amethyst eyes bore holes into the side of Goyjo's head, as he did nothing but point at him as he was glancing at Hakkai who did nothing but smile.
"Oh, Lirin, Goku this is my friend Sha Goyjo." Hakkai decided to ignore Goyjo's blatant question and introduced the waiter to the two teenagers who were in fact silently staring between the three adults. A rare sight it was.
"Oh I already know 'Hentai-san' as he always chats up all the women in Yaone-oneechan's restaurant." A vein throbbed at Goyjo's temple while Hakkai quietly tried to calm him down, but Sanzo was in fact smirking as he placed his hand on Lirin's head before handing her one of the meat buns on the table which had remarkable been untouched as of yet.
"Eat up kid." He voiced before watching Hakkai get up to let him sit on the bench seat beside him.
"Teme..." Goyjo growled lightly but watched as Hakkai placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Maa, maa Goyjo, shouldn't you be taking our order? We are here for a celebration after all." Red eyes glanced at the smiling face of Hakkai and was almost taken aback by it. He'd never truly seen his friend look so relaxed and happy in a long time.
"Are we ready to order?" At the ecstatic 'hai' from Lirin and Goku and a grunt from Sanzo Hakkai sat back down and watched the pouting Goyjo pull out his order form to write down what they wanted. As Lirin and Goku muttered between themselves about officially deciding what they wanted, Sanzo voiced he wanted some red ginger noodles, meat and vegetables while Hakkai ordered stir-fry and sake and made sure to mention beer for Sanzo. It was then time for the 'bottomless pit' teenagers to voice what they wanted which in the end Goyjo got angry over as he ran out of writing room on the order form while Sanzo yelled at them and Hakkai sweatdropped.
Finally getting things under control, all in thanks to Hakkai working everything out in his ever-pleasant way, Goyjo left the area before coming back with drinks. He then observed as Hakkai poured Sanzo a helping of his sake, but noticed the blonde was in fact not paying attention to him and was staring at Goku who was rambling off what had happened today at school a mile a minute.
While Goyjo attended to other customers his eyes couldn't help but continuously wonder to Table 3 where Hakkai was sitting on the same side as Sanzo. They were randomly chatting every now and then but always seemed to be interrupted by the two teenagers on the opposite side. While Sanzo whacked Goku numerous times, Hakkai on the other hand calmed down Lirin, as he'd known her for years because of the fact Yaone was one of his friends and she was engaged to Kougaiji.
"Goyjo-san, here's some of the orders for Table 3." Came one of the assistant chef's voices which got the redhead into motion as he briskly made his way towards the table and randomly placed the dishes onto the table as they made loud clinking noises.
"Enjoy..." Goyjo spoke as he spun on his heel and walked off. He hadn't a clue as to why he was acting this way. Hakkai was his friend, his best friend and yet watching him laugh and smile with such a gloomy person as Kouryuu the Writer was truly pissing him off. It made him want to yell as this Kouryuu or Sanzo as he always called himself was switching his undivided attention between Hakkai and that brat.
"I wander what's up with Goyjo?" Hakkai questioned and watched as Goku and Lirin shared their dishes, each tasting each others while Sanzo slurped his noddles and took gulps of beer before muttering "who cares about that pervert". Obviously he had liked what Lirin had called him.
"He's not that bad Sanzo. You just don't know him like I do." Hakkai retorted while he gulped down his sake as though it were nothing.
"And I'm thankful for that." Sanzo griped once more before picking something off of Hakkai's dish, as it smelled nice.
"How does it taste? Good?" Hakkai questioned Sanzo whose eyes finally reached his own.
"I don't hate it." And at that answer Hakkai couldn't help but laugh before passing his meal around for Lirin and Goku to try as they complained about not tasting it yet.
"Excuse me for a moment." Hakkai spoke and left the table to head for the bathrooms. At watching the brunette leave, Goyjo thought it was the "best opportunity" to eavesdrop but when he walked on over, wiping down the nearby table just across from them and pretending to not pay attention he overhead the last dreads of what Goku had said.
"...Hakkai spending the night again?" A glass was knocked over and spilled contents onto the wooden table and to the floor as well. Goyjo's eyes darted between gold and amethyst. Goku had a pair of chopsticks between his lips while Sanzo held a beer can to his. They were both, along with Lirin who had her mouth open ready to munch on a meat bun, were now staring at him.
"Did you just say...what I think you said?" Goyjo didn't break his scrutinising eyes from amethyst as he ignored the confused looks of the 14-year-olds.
"What about it?" Sanzo remarked casually and watched with an eyebrow raised as Goyjo slammed his hands on the table, the dishes rattling as they did...and not to forget he just gained the attention of many customers.
"You Sanzo...are such a yaoi whore!"
# To be continued... #