A/N: This story contains context of a graphic and violent nature that some may find offensive. Also, this story contains a slash sub-story. If this offends you, along with extreme and detailed violence then please do not read my story. If you do like this kind of story, please read on!
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DISCLAIMER: I do not (unfortunatley) own the Saiyuki boys or anything related to them. :Which is a shame really: Well, it's probabaly a good thing because I would deprive the world of them by keeping them in a box under my bed. As soon as I save up enough money I'll buy them and...ahem anyway. Please don't sue me, I have no money. ((Note to self: get a job and buy the Saiyuki boys then put them in a box under my bed))
ME: Boys, are we still going fishing today?
GOKU: Do we get to eat the fish? -starry eyed-
ME: Of course
GOJYO: I'm not sittin at a lake for hours on end with you
HAKKAI: Oh, well count me in Alex.
ME: Thankyou HAKKAI for being such a GENTLEMAN unlike sooomeone I know
-glares at Gojyo-
GOJYO: What!
GOKU: Hey, where's Sanzo?
HAKKAI: Oh, I am teaching him how to cook.
ALL: Wha--?
(Sanzo enters wearing the pink frilly apron)
GOJYO: Oh Sanzo, you look so pretty! -hysterical laughter-
(gunshots)
ME: HEY, I JUST FIXED THAT DAMNED WALL!
HAKKAI: Calm down Alex.
-I fume and then notice the number of hits on the story-
ME: 200?
HAKKAI: It seems a little popular.
SANZO: People are reading it at any rate.
GOKU: There aren't any reviews
ME: Thanks for that one Mr. Obvious
GOKU: Well...how come..?
ME: I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THEY DONT LIKE IT!
HAKKAI: I am sure they are still deciding about it.
ME: Aww, I feel discouraged to write it anymore. 200 hits and no reviews...-sad-
HAKKAI: There there, I am sure your readers are just busy.
SANZO: Readers, please review on this fanfiction so that Alex will shut up and let me read my paper.
ME: Hey!
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Chapter six: The best I can
Sanzo brushed her hair away from his face. "Can you pull that back or something" He demanded, annoyed. She parted her hair into three sections and entwined them together, brushing her long black hair into a fat braid down her back. "I don't have lond hair" sang Goku. Gojyo glanced at him and turned his head away. "Hey Gojyo, what's wrong?" Goku asked, rocking back and forth in his seat. "Nothin'" He replied. "Really? Cuz you haven't hit me aaaall day." Gojyo hit Goku across the back of the head. "Satisfied?" Goku held the throbbing bump on his head. "No..." He whined.
Ebony looked back at then and shook her head. /Such childish behavior./ She thought to herself. She brushed a free strand of her hair from her face and looked to Hakkai who smiled at her. She was assesing them all. Goku was the kid, the hungry teenager. Immature and innocent. Despite this innocence, there was something else there. Something deep that hurt him almost like a real physical pain. Hakkai hides behind this facade of the calm and collected nice guy. There is great chaos somewhere within him. Sanzo, the creepy brooding preist. Tough guy. Mr. Against emotions. Something had hardened him. Made him cold and bitter. Deep down Sanzo seemed to be waiting for someone or something to pull him out of this emotionless slump. Gojyo. Womanizer. Sly guy. Mr. Sensitive? She doubted it. He like the others had some kind of painful secret.
She looked to the road.
Gojyo's lips were stiff about the cigarette. He watched the bleary scenery silently from his seat. He didn't talk to anybody. He didn't look at anybody. He was completely silent. He didn't want to be involved today. He didn't care today. The nightmares were too vivid last night. They were too real, too colourful. He didn't like it. They had never actually scared him like that before...before he met Ebony. He wanted to blame it on her, but how could it be her fault? No. Like every other disaster in his pathetic life, he was to blame for this.
"Hey Hakkai, when do we get to the next village?" Goku asked. "Well, according to the map a couple of hours." His stomach growled "awww, hours! But I need to eat now!" Hakkai chuckled. "We can stop for a while and have lunch" he suggested light heartedly. Goku nodded vigorously and tugged Hakkai's sleeve. "Please please please?"
"Shut it monkey" snapped Sanzo and he glanced at him in the mirror. A priceless picture of Goku sharing the expression a child might having been yelled at by a parent. Sanzo compressed a smile and turned his head to the left. Ebony's braid at his throat. He watched the sunlight shimmer in the blades of green grass. Hakkai pulled the jeep over and everybody got out of it. Ebony ajusted the long black skirt she wore. Pebbles and dirt crunched underneath each step as she took a seat beneath the shade of a giant tree. Hakkai watched her and noticed that she looked like she was meditating. Her eye was closed and she sat on her ankles, she did not seem to have the capability of controlling her emotions. Perhaps this was one of her self-help methods. He looked away from her and then to Gojyo who Hakkai noticed seemed to be slightly transfixed with her.
Hakkai felt his heart skip a little in his chest and his mind was filled with a mixture of golden and scarlet hair. He bit down on his lip and brushed hazel strands from his eyes and asked Goku and Sanzo to collect wood for the fire. "Sure Hakkai!" Goku beamed enthusiastically, Sanzo walked just as tonelessly as he spoke. He checked to make sure the gun was where he had left it and followed Goku into the thicket of trees.
The monkey bent down and picked up a log from the ground. "Saaanzo, they're heavy" The preist rolled his eyes "perhaps that is because you're not supposed to pick up fallen trees" Goku poked out his tongue, but lost his grip on the giant log he was holding his knees bucked under the preassure and the log fell hard onto his shins. Goku didn't cry like Sanzo had expected, he just lay there for a moment underneath the weight of the trunk looking dazed. Sanzo knelt and pushed the log off of Goku's legs. Goku reached out and their fingertips touched.
Goku was blushing.
"I'm never going to be good enough for you, am I sanzo?" The blonde man just stared void of expression. He grasped Goku's hand and pulled him up into his arms. "Do your legs hurt badly?" He asked, it was almost a demand really. Goku turned his face against Sanzo's chest and sniffled. "Only a little..." But Sanzo could tell that he was lying. There was a wound across his knees and it was causing little Goku alot of pain. Sanzo carried him back to the campsite and Goku stared up at him. Sanzo, forever the savior of Son Goku. He curled his fingers against Sanzo's robes and relished the moment.
He loved Sanzo more than he loved food.
And needed him almost as much.
Hakkai gasped a little, the blood slid down Goku's legs onto Sanzo's robes. "What happened" he asked with serious concern. "He was getting wood, had an accident." Sanzo explained bluntly and gently lay Goku down on the grass. His chestnut coloured hair splayed vibrantly against the green, golden eyes misty with tears of pain. His lower pouting lip defiant. He caught Sanzo's violet eyes with his and held them there for a moment. Goku's skin shimmered slightly from the light of the chi as Hakkai knelt and healed the wounds.
Goku drew his knees under his chin and held himself for a moment.
/I do the best that I can...and he still treats me like a monkey/
Gojyo flicked the cigarette butt across away and watched Goku pout. He shook his head and sat beside Hakkai who was kneeling over a kindled flame roasting the meat for their lunch. "Hakkai, allow me to take over" Ebony offered and shifted to his side. Hakkai blinked. "You can cook?" She nodded "My mother taught me. I feel as though I must give something back in return for your kindness." Hakkai bowed his head "Of course" and stood.
--Sanzo slipped the robes over his head and waded hip deep into the clear waters of the lake, which lay only moments from their campsite. "Sanzo" Goku called from the dry ground. He turned and eyed Goku suspiciously "What is it" he blinked. Water glistening on the contours of his lean and slightly muscular body. Goku swallowed "Lunch is ready." He almost stammered. Sanzo dipped under the water and resurfaced, the blood clear of his flesh. He looked to Goku, who looked away blushing. "Tell the others I will be there in a minute." He replied. Goku turned to leave "Monkey" He jerked back, Sanzo was holding his shirt. Goku's face already flushed with blood heated.
Sanzo lazily rested his arms against Goku's chest, holding him from behind. His naked frame pressed against Goku's body making his clothes damp. He brushed his lips against the top of Goku's head. "Monkey...Monkey..." --
"HEY MONKEY, WAKE UP." Gojyo was calling out from across the feild. "LUNCH IS READY" /It was a dream.../ Goku's stomach groaned and he repeated the action when he discovered that he now had an embarrassing and painful erection pushing against his pants. "BE THERE IN A SEC" He called back. He looked down and grimaced - how was he going to make this go away? He walked carefully over to the site with an untucked shirt hanging loosley over his groin hoping to hide his shame.
Ebony placed equal portions onto individual plates and picked up a spring roll with her chopsticks. "This isn't how we normally eat" Hakkai smiled and took his first bite. "Yes well, Goku and Gojyo may argue less if what is theirs is specified." The two glared at Ebony, but she ignored it. Goku dug into the food, overwhelmed by the brilliant taste of the meal. Complimented her over and over again.
Sanzo suggested that they camp out here. "Why?" Asked Hakkai. "It is getting late, I don't trust driving around after dark." Hakkai agreed. Ebony cleared the plates and nodded as Goku continued to congratulate her.
The sky was splattered with colours of purple, red and orange. The sun a golden disk, which slowly began to sink below the horizon. Hakkai set sleeping places for everybody making sure each of them had a blanket to lie on and to sleep underneath.
He lay on his back, glanced at Gojyo before saying. "Goodnight everyone."
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Thankyou for taking time to read chapter six. Constructive critisism and supportive reviews are most welcome! Sorry, Gojyo and Goku were a little ooc in this chapter. But it really fits with the rest of the story! After all, how do we know that the boys are thinking unless it's in a bubble next to their heads?