Saiyuki: An Unexpected Detour

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Saiyuki characters, although I wish I did…ooo that'd be soo lovely! But I don't want anyone to sue me, so I'm keeping a safe distance from even -trying- to own them, hehehe

Claimer: The other characters that aren't part of Saiyuki are real people and we would appreciate it if you don't steal us! I am claiming Chelle! Because I can…because I AM Chelle! Hello, my name's Chelle, how are you? 'sweatdrop' I think I got off-topic…

Chapter 2: Saiyuki Meets Georgia

Chelle woke up with the sun beating on her face, forcing her blue eyes to squint. She slowly picked her head up and fixed her eyes on the clock on her best friend's stereo, hoping it would be a later time than what she really saw. Dang it, only 8 o'clock, Chelle thought as she looked over at the lump of covers that were cuddled up around her best friend Anne. She watched her friend move around as if she were awake, about to get up. Oh, good, she's awake too, Chelle thought. Then the girl to her side went back down, exhaled, and curled back up in the blankets. Dern, not awake, Chelle thought as she looked over to find the brunette's eyes still shut. The sixteen-year-old sighed and lay back down to try to go back to sleep, for she felt slight uncomfortable in someone else's house awake while her best friend was still asleep. She ended up just laying there for two more hours, until Anne finally woke up, opening her almost golden looking eyes while the sun blinded her just as it did Chelle.

"Hey, you're finally up!" Chelle smiled at Anne as she looked over at her.

"What, finally? Were you waiting for me or something? Should've just shaken me till I woke up. Probably would've whacked you upside the head though…" the eighteen-year-old snickered, rubbing her eyes.

"Didn't want to wake you," Chelle giggled at Anne's comment. "Are you hungry? Want to go get breakfast now?" Chelle's stomach growled. Anne didn't respond. "Anne?"

"What?" Anne said.

"Breakfast?" Chelle responded, wondering why Anne wasn't listening the first time.

"Oh, nah, I'm not that hungry. If you want something, we have, like, three different kinds of cereal," Anne said. "Hmm…"

"What?" Chelle asked.

"Heh, I had a dream last night," Anne started.

"We all do, no?" Chelle joked, smirking at Anne.

Anne laughed. "No, I mean, yes, but I had one that we met the Saiyuki clan." Anne laughed again.

"That sounds cool! Hah, that'd be awesome if that happened. I want to meet Hakkai," Chelle giggled. They shared more laughter, then Chelle got up and stretched. "I'm going to get some cereal. Still not hungry?"
"Actually, now I am," Anne said, laughing a bit more. They both started for the kitchen. Just as Anne was gathering bowls and spoons for each of them, Chelle looked out the window of Anne's house, and saw something. She looked again. There was a big black thing with four lumps, lying on the ground.

"Eh?" Chelle said to herself as she glimpsed at them.

"What?" Anne asked, hearing Chelle.

"Huh? Oh, I saw something outside." Chelle went back over to the window as Anne followed curiously. "What's that?" Chelle pointed at the things.

Anne looked, and then blinked. She never had recognized that there before. "I don't know." Then Anne, being classified as the 'Fearless Leader', got an idea to go explore, and at the same time that Chelle had a feeling what Anne was just about to say, Anne stole it from her thoughts. "Let's go see!"

What about breakfast? Chelle's stomach told her to say, but instead she said, "Okay!" Soon she had to start almost running to catch up with her 'Fearless Leader', for she had already started toward the backdoor before Chelle had said okay. They both galloped outside and over to where they saw the thing. There was a blanket covering the 'whatever-it-was', and so Anne, with the help of Chelle a few seconds later, pulled the big black blanket off of it. There, lying in Anne's backyard, were four skinny young men tied up all in ropes. Both Anne and Chelle gasped, as they widened their eyes in shock.

They're either asleep, unconscious, or dead, Anne thought, as she nudged the youngest looking brunette to see if he would awake, but he didn't. "Check vital signs," Anne commanded, in an 'I-know-what-I'm-doing' kind of way. Chelle nodded once, and helped Anne check each of the men for a pulse, or breathing. Indeed, they found a pulse in each of the creatures. "Well, we know they aren't dead," Anne said.

Just as they took more thought into actually looking what the four looked like, they both suddenly realized something. There was a long pause, then a gasp came from Chelle's mouth, as she covered her mouth and looked at Anne in a 'are-you-thinking-what-I'm-thinking?' way.

"Couldn't be!!" Anne said, understanding her best friend's expression.

"They look just like them!!!" Chelle said loudly in amazement.

"But Saiyuki is fiction; it's just Anime, made up, not real. They could be just people dressed up as them," Anne tried to reason, shaking her head.

"Anne, what are the odds of finding four people in your backyard in Georgia that look exactly like Sanzo, Goku, Hakkai, and Gojyo?" Chelle asked Anne, pointing to each of the men as she said who each looked just like.

"Not as odd as finding four made up characters from an anime cartoon unconsciously tied up lying in your backyard with a blanket over them!!" Anne said, freaking out just as Chelle was.

Chelle nodded. "Good point…"

"Well, there's only one way to find out. Ask them when they wake up." Anne said. Both were noticing each other staring at their new company. They looked at each other and giggled, both thinking how hot they looked. Anne started untying the ropes around the beautiful young men, with the help of Chelle. Once they got that done, they hauled the characters one by one inside Anne's house.

"They aren't going to all fit on your bed, Anne. Where should we put them?" Chelle asked, looking at the four creatures that were now all successfully hauled into Anne's room, on the floor.

"Um…" Anne wondered.

Just then, the young one that looked like Goku opened his eyes. Chelle noticed it, and screamed, jumping back, causing Anne to do the same thing, causing yet another scream, this time, from the now-awaken one.

"Where am I? What happened?" he asked, tired and weakly sounding.

"Goku??" Anne had to ask.

"How did you know?" the boy asked in confusion, trying to wipe the drowsiness out of his eyes. "God, I'm hungry…"

"So am I," Chelle added.

Anne ignored the hunger. This was far better than cereal. "You're really Son Goku??" She still couldn't believe it.

"Yes, now tell me how you know that," Goku said, still completely lost. Before Anne could say anything else, another one opened their eyes. A green-eyed brunette awoke and looked around in confusion, just as Goku had a bit earlier.

"Hakkai??" Anne asked.

Chelle gasped. "Hakkai!!" She would have hugged him if he weren't still lying down on the floor.

"Why yes I am," the brunette said with a smile. He looked back over at
Goku with a confused look which Goku shrugged back at. "Where are we?"
he asked, looking back up at Chelle and Anne.
"Georgia," Chelle responded to the green-eyed demon. Goku gave a
confused look again. "Um…the United States? North America?" Chelle
said to him.
"How'd we get here??" Goku asked.

Just then, Hakkai started to remember everything that happened: the journey, the village, the bar—"The demons!!" Hakkai said out loud as he remembered.

"Are you saying the demons in that bar somehow got us all unconscious and kidnapped us and took us here?" Goku asked Gonou.

"I don't think they meant to take us here, but some how or another, we ended up here," Hakkai responded, then he started to chuckle.

"Why are you laughing, Hakkai?" Goku asked.

"I was just thinking of how we got here. I mean, it's not every day that you run into demons at a bar and suddenly end up half-way across the world," explained Hakkai.

"Hah, yea," said Goku.

"Well, it's not like its every day that a Georgian girl looks out her window and finds four made-up anime characters unconsciously tied up in her backyard with a black blanket over them!" Anne responded.

"Wait a minute!!" Chelle said to Anne. "If they're real," Chelle pointed to the characters, then continued, "then the demons—or the bad demons—are real too! How do we know they aren't roaming around Douglasville just as well?"

"I don't know," another voice from the room responded. They all looked around to see who said that, and found it to be Sanzo, looking wide awake, but still lying on the floor.

"How long have you been awake?" Chelle asked. Anne wasn't saying anything; she was too occupied with gazing a hole into the beautiful purple eyes of the monk.

"Long enough. Look, I don't know who you two are but—," Sanzo started to say, but was cut off by Chelle.

"I'm Chelle, and she's Anne," Chelle interrupted, pointing to Anne.

"—we need to get back to Japan," Sanzo continued after ignoring Chelle. "Wake Gojyo up. We're leaving now." He noticed Anne staring at him. "Stoppit!" he yelled at her, controlling his wish to whack her in the head with his paper fan.

Goku couldn't get Gojyo to wake up no matter how much he jerked him. "He won't wake," he told Sanzo. Sanzo was about to pull his paper fan out when Hakkai, who had stepped out of the room a bit earlier, came back carrying a bucket full of water. Noticing it, they were all thinking Do it! except for Anne, who did think it would be funny, but also thought of her whole carpet being soaked afterwards.

"Shall I?" Hakkai smirked and looked at Sanzo. He shrugged in a 'do-as-you-please' manner. With that, Hakkai dumped the whole bucket of water on the redhead's face. It worked. Gojyo immediately awoke with a shock (and a very cold and wet one at that) and a scream that could barely be heard over the laughter raging through the room, followed by coughing after choking on the water that got into his mouth. Hakkai, after being the one whose fault it was, still bent down and patted Gojyo on the back and gave him an apology, with his trademark smile still lingering throughout the whole thing.

"What the heck was that for??!" Gojyo yelled at the others, and then wondered where he was after noticing his surroundings. "Where are we? What happened?" He rubbed the water out of his eyes and wiped his face with his tank top. He didn't remember anything that happened before being knocked unconscious.

"There were demons in that bar, you remember the bar?" Hakkai explained to Gojyo what happened.

"Um…" Then the redhead half-demon remembered it. "Yes."

"There were demons in there and they somehow knocked us all unconscious and now we're half-way across the world," Goku explained.

"Half-way across the world?? What do you mean? Where are we??" Gojyo asked.

"Welcome to Douglasville, Georgia. Of the United States of America," Chelle said, smiling.

"Now that Gojyo is awake, we must go," Sanzo said.

"Can we eat first?" Goku's rumbling stomach asked.

"I second that!" Chelle added. "You can all stay to eat. I mean, if Anne says okay. This is her house." Chelle looked over at Anne. She didn't want to be rude in someone else's house.

"Of course, Chelle, don't even have to ask me! I'd love for you guys to stay for lunch!" Anne replied happily. Both she and Chelle were glad to have found an excuse for the beautiful Sanzo Clan to stay longer.

"That would be lovely," Hakkai added.

"Fine. Quick though," Sanzo finally said.

So Anne and Chelle were off to make lunch for their new Saiyuki company, still in amazement of the whole thing.