As You Wish
Chap.1
"Oi, Gojyo! Let me win once in a while!" snapped the man. Gojyo grinned and gathered the money over to his end of the table and took a good look around the bar.
"What? Everyone all played out?" He laughed. He heard the chair scrape the floor as someone sat down in it across from him.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to try my luck against you, Gojyo-san." A voice called. Gojyo didn't look at the person and started shuffling the cards when he suddenly realized it was a female voice that had called. He snapped his head up, and was staring into the most beautiful crimson eyes he had ever seen.
Beautiful crimson eyes, and long crimson hair, down to her waist, and yet it was up in a ponytail. Long, indeed. A red tube top and some jeans, and a black choker with a ruby brooch on the front center. Her skin was a fairly tanned color, and oh! She smelled wonderful, even to Gojyo's drunk nose. Her hair smelled of peaches, and her skin of some sort of sweet exotic spice, which combined into a truly sweet smell.
"You don't mind, do you?" She asked. Gojyo shook his head, and began to deal. The girl took only one glance at her cards, and returned her gaze to Gojyo. "Gojyo-san, you look oddly distracted. Why?" She asked, her red lips turning up into a smile.
"No reason. …And I'm not distracted." Gojyo replied, replied, laying down a king and a pair of queens. Oh, how he wished to be able to just be next to her, smelling the sweet scent she came with!
"I believe.." The girl let her cards to start to slip through her fingers. "..You are." She batted her ruby eyes, and Gojyo was almost frozen for a moment.
"I…I'm not." Gojyo gritted his teeth so hard, it almost hurt. 'If she bats those beautiful eyes at me again, I think I just might lose it and just try to take her now.' Gojyo thought. It would be bad to lose it in public. Gojyo knew that. Hakkai had taught him that when Gojyo had gotten drunk one night and lost it.
"You are." With this comment, her cards fell from her hand, landing right-side up, and revealing four aces. Gojyo abruptly stood up and gathered up his winnings, and began to walk away. The girl narrowed her eyes thoughtfully, and stood up as well, and clung to his arm. "I'm not the one who's distracting you, am I?"
"No. I think…I simply had too much to drink." Gojyo replied. The girl nodded with a smile; it was almost one of Hakkai's genuine smiles.
"Ah. I see." She paused. "You wouldn't mind if I stayed with you tonight?"
"Uh…our inn room only has two beds, and…I'm…" 'Sharing my room with Hakkai.' Though Gojyo didn't voice that last comment.
"Oh, I don't need a bed. All I need is a pillow and a sheet of some sort." The girl replied.
"Okay, but…" 'But Sanzo's not going to like this. Neither am I, because Hakkai's going to be a little…fussy about my bringing home a girl like this.' Gojyo paused. The girl had fallen in step with him, her head against his side, her hair falling across his arm, and her scent filling his nose. Gojyo let the girl lean in more, and took in her sweet scent. 'Ah, hell. Who am I kidding here?'