Attitude Doesn't Always Equal Age

Chap.3

Gojyo cracked open an eye and nearly screamed at what he saw in the mirror. Sometime, while he was sleeping, Hakkai had neatly braided the crimson hair into thousands of little braids. He had also apparently, judging from the state of the walls, found Goku's permanent marker. He could tell from the scribblings of 'Gojyo is a hentai' on the walls. Then he saw the rest of the room and let his head drop back onto the table.

There were broken vases, and the curtains were left on the ground, somewhat singed. Hakkai was crouching next to the still smoking curtains, the fire extinguisher still in hand.

"Sorry, Gojyo-ojisan. I wanted to make you something…but, uh, the curtain caught fire and…" His face fell a bit. Gojyo bit his lip.

"Kappa, we're going out to look for that Shiyuko guy. You need to stay here with Hakkai until we get back. It shouldn't take long, considering how kiddy he acted. It's pretty easy to predict the movements of an immature brat." Sanzo had said.

"Why do I have to stay here with him?"
 "Because he trusts you the most."

Gojyo now regretted ever agreeing to stay at the inn with Hakkai in the first place. After the first ten minutes of staying quiet with a book, Hakkai had thought up the brilliant game of 'Throw Books At Goyjo's head'. After a firm slap on the hand, and the last book being wrenched from his hand, he'd resigned to whimpering for five minutes. The youkai quickly recovered, and was daring Gojyo to catch him in a game of tag before the hour was over.

Gojyo had given chase, running after the youkai through town, and after an hour and a half, he finally caught Hakkai. Of course, after that, he had to make Hakkai go through town and apologize for all the damage he'd caused; altogether, five children were knocked into mud puddles, two cats had leaped into trees for fear of the youkai who wished to cuddle them, five shopkeepers had had their carts overturned, and one bookkeeper got his books thrown at the hanyou in an encore game of 'Throw Books At Gojyo's Head'.

When he'd finally gotten back to the inn, Gojyo was dead tired; and it was only noon! Once he'd found his hair in braids, the wall scrawled on, and the curtain burned, this is how his day went.

12:15 am-Hakkai decided to try to help the cook with making the pizza crust and nearly shoved Gojyo into the oven in the process.

12:45 am- Hakkai finds a good sized mud puddle and decides Gojyo needs to also experience how much cool mud there is in it. Later finds out the part he pushed Gojyo into was really quicksand.

1:28 pm-Gojyo tries to drag Hakkai to bathhouse to clean the youkai up and ends up paying with the gold card for the new claw marks on the walls and floor.

1:56 pm- Gojyo gets Hakkai in the tub, and Hakkai apparently believes Gojyo to need a bath as well, so pulls him in.

2:04 pm- Gojyo finally gets out, slips on a bar of soap and falls flat on his back, while Hakkai roars with laughter

2:58 pm- Gojyo, now clean, due to Hakkai, and Hakkai, now clean, walk out of the bath house and Hakkai instantly finds a frog and tried to keep holding onto it and gets dragged along the ground, tearing open his leg.

3:02 pm- Gojyo brings out the antiseptic and cleaning alcohol and attempts to clean the wound on Hakkai's leg.

3:15 pm- His wound cleaned and bandaged, Hakkai sniffs the cleaning antiseptic and starts to drink it; Gojyo grabs it away and falls out the window, caught off balance.

3:45 pm- Gojyo tends to his own wounds created by the fall, and tells Hakkai to draw a picture or something.

4:18 pm- Hakkai finds Jeep and, thinking the dragon is cold when it shudders, shuts him in the oven. Gojyo finds him later, and nearly has his chest ripped off by the creature's burning hot claws.

5:20 pm- Hakkai learns to treat third-degree burns. First try finds him trying to pour all of the antiseptic on Gojyo's chest.

5:45 pm- Chest finally taken care of properly, Gojyo drags Hakkai down to the bar. Hakkai tells the waitress she's 'really pretty and his nice pretty hair' and the waitress unbuttons the top three buttons on her blouse, much to Gojyo's surprise, and gets them however much food they want, on the house.

6:38 pm- The waitress's drunk boyfriend stands up and calls Hakkai a 'girlfriend stealer'. Hakkai says he's smelly, and Gojyo has to drag him out of there before the man pummels Hakkai into next week.

7:55 pm-Hakkai plays hide-and-go-seek with Gojyo.

9:35 pm- Gojyo finds Hakkai in the library and the youkai insists on teaching the children there the wonderful game of 'Throw Books At Gojyo's Head'.

11:48 pm- Gojyo gets Hakkai back to the inn, and Hakkai gets in bed, then insists on a bedtime story.

12: 22 am- After a few hundred tries, Gojyo gets the Cinderella story right and Hakkai goes to sleep.

1:47 am- Gojyo finishes taking the braids out of his hair, and Hakkai is up again, complaining about being thirsty. Gojyo gets him a drink of water and Hakkai goes to bed to sleep again.

3:26 am- Gojyo finally gets to sleep, only to have Hakkai...have a bad dream and crawl in bed with the kappa.

Staring at the youkai sleeping next to him, Gojyo cursed to himself.

'I'm going to be very damn well tired when the shit monk and monkey get here.' He thought. 'They better be working their asses off to fix this!'