Author's note : Another chapter to celebrate t5UR-t51d's passed exam!!!!!! Hooray!!!! Hooray!!!!!
I am soooo happy for u and I bet u know that my surprise for u is this chapter. At least u don't know what is in it, looool.
Hope u all like this chapter, lool
Summary : Uhm... Uhm... it is Sanzo's first debut in this story, ahahahaha.... :P
The men bring Hakkai out of Goku's residence. Goku wants to come with him, but Gojyo tells him not to. He will come with Hakkai instead.
Hakkai's mind is full with possibilities and presumptions. So Sanzo is here too. How is he going to react when he sees Hakkai? Hakkai doesn't waste his thoughts with the possibility that Sanzo would know him better than Goku and Gojyo. But how is he going to react??
Hakkai recognizes Sanzo although he is surrounded by many people. The same blond hair, the same charisma, and strangely, the same robe!! Hakkai frowns unwillingly. Ha ha ha, really funny. When it is all a dream, Hakkai can tell that he hasn't gotten enough imagination to design another costume for Sanzo.
This Sanzo doesn't smoke any cigarette. It attracts Hakkai's attention first of all. He smokes a pipe full of tobacco instead. Not a lot of changes...
Someone puts his hand on Hakkai's arm. Hakkai is about to turn around to see the owner of the hand as Gojyo's voice gets to his ear.
"It is Sanzo. He is our leader."
Hakkai wonders why Sanzo always happens to be the leader.
"He is a bit streng, and besides ill-humoured, cranky, and totally strange person..."
Hakkai needs to surpress his laugh.
"...but you can count on him."
With the last words Hakkai is pushed to the front, right in front of Sanzo, who is sitting comfortably on something looked like a couch or anything similar.
"Who are you, and where do you come from?" Sanzo asks outrightly.
Hakkai wants to answer truthfully, but what is the truth? That suddenly he finds himself on a desert then a group of men appear and take him here? Not to mention that two of his friends don't recognize him.
"Are you a spy?"
"No." Hakkai wishes he were a spy, then he would at least know why he is here.
"Then what?"
What is he, then?
As if he were able to read his minds, Sanzo says, "You don't know it exactly, am I right?"
Hakkai is surprised that Sanzo knows it. Is it all written on his face?
"Put him in the prison."
"Whaaaat??!!"
Gojyo places himself in front of Hakkai.
"Sanzo-sama, you don't have enough information to put him in jail!!!"
Sanzo just stares boredly at him and comments, "..but I also have not enough information to let him free. Now put him in jail. Oh, right... Gojyo, where is the tobacco I asked you to buy?"
Gojyo flares up.
"Is that all what you are thinking of? Hey, I am not yet finished with this matter! (Sanzo turns his back at Gojyo and walks away freely) Hey, where are you going? Hey, stop!!!"
Hakkai doesn't show any resistance as some other men grab his arms and lead him away. Gojyo runs back to him after giving up Sanzo.
"Okay, okay, guys, listen to me. This man is..."
"We are really sorry, Gojyo-sama, but it is a command from Sanzo-sama." interrupts one man.
"We will be very grateful when you don't make any problem." says another man.
It seems that Gojyo can't help him anymore. Hakkai doesn't want to bother him too.
"Thank you Gojyo. It is okay, I will be allright. Just tell Goku how much I thank him. Bye."
Gojyo let them pass unwillingly.
"Crap," he mutters. "How am I going to tell the kid about it?"
Prisons have never been convenient places. That's clear to Hakkai, but it doesn't mean that he will feel better while staying behind the iron grids. It is all really funny. Sanzo was the one who presented him the freedom out of his sins. This time Sanzo puts him into jail. Isn't that funny? With that last thought Hakkai falls asleep....
....and wakes up because of the noises around. Sound of people cursing and vomiting. Hakkai needs more time to register this situation, but fortunately he gets his answer quicklier than expected. A bowl of porridge... or something that looks like porridge is pushed through an opening to his cell. Hakkai is hungry, no doubt. But after seeing the strange mix of colours happening to be the porridge, Hakkai decides not to eat it.
"You are a clever guy that you don't eat it."
Hakkai turns to his right and faces Dokugakuji, who is grinning between the grids separating their cells. Hakkai didn't take a complete look at the arrangement of this place yesterday. Now he is aware that there are only four cells, two are put side by side, facing the other two which are also put side by side.
Hakkai is in one of them, then beside him Dokugakuji, and on the opposite side two unknown men.
"They will be out from here in hours." says Dokugakuji smilingly. "Sanzo put them in jail because they have the unluck to bicker in front of him."
He snickers. Hakkai can't help to smile.
"A visit for you." says a man shortly, as he arrives in front of Hakkai's cell. Gojyo and Goku are with him.
"Nah... oww, thank God you haven't eaten it, throw it somewhere, it is poisonous." tells Gojyo as he sees the bowl of porridge in front of Hakkai.
"Really?" Hakkai is amazed that someone tries to kill him on his second day in prison.
"No, no, that's our new cook's cooking skill. He is still new, he, well, is not yet used to this job, and till now, people choose to starve than to eat his cooking results. Unfortunately our great cook died last year and since then we have to be satisfied with this new cook."
"Forget it. How are you, Hakkai?" asks Goku rather worried.
"I am okay, thank you." answers Hakkai, happy that Goku is still just like the same Goku he has always known.
"I am sorry that I can't help you." Goku looks to the ground desperately. "I am an awful person."
"No, you aren't."
"Huff, he, little kid, isn't it strange that you are so worried about this stranger? Say, is it your first love?" Gojyo teases Goku.
"Of course not!!! Stop thinking about such things, you perverted Ka..."
Goku stops suddenly.
"Hey, why do you stop? I am eager to hear the last word!" says Gojyo.
Goku scratches his head.
"I... forgotten."
Gojyo's mouth drops down.
"The point is, Hakkai is not a bad person and he should be outside!! Not here!!"
Gojyo pats Goku's head and says gently,
"Dear brother-in-law, you don't know him. You just know him one day. That means he could also be a bad person."
"Oi, Goku, Gojyo. What's up? Long time no see."
Goku and Gojyo bright up as they see Dokugakuji.
"Oh, yeah I have forgotten that you are still here. How are you?"
"Oh, I am rather bored since you two haven't stayed here anymore. I hope this new guy is staying longer, so I have a new friend."
The three persons talk carefreely one another, leaving Hakkai to think about what he has to do next.
Unfortunately our great cook died last year
That's it.
"Gojyo, Goku? Hallo, sorry that I interrupt, say, will Sanzo agree when I work as a cook for you all?"
Gojyo and Goku look at each other.
"You can cook, Hakkai? Really?" Goku looks soo happy.
"Well, not so badly."
"How is it, Gojyo, it is okay, isn't it? Isn't it?"
"Hey, don't ask me. I am not the one with the title Sanzo here. Go ask the blondie out there."
