Disclaimer – I do not own or profit from Saiyuki. What a surprise.

Rated T for slash.

Just so you know, I am still trying to figure out what possessed me to continue these drabbles with this plotline... Rampant, raging insanity, perhaps? ('wink')

Anyway, enjoy. Peace, all.

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Hurt The Other

by Ghost Helwig

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"So... was the monk the only reason why, then?"

Gojyo was looking at him funny, an uncharacteristically unreadable look in his eyes, on his face. Goku shrugged, hid a sigh.

"Yeah," he said slowly – he didn't want to say this. It felt cruel.

"Is that... was that bad?"

It was Gojyo's turn to shrug; they were both so uncomfortable, suddenly. When before the monk's untimely interruption, it was all warm hands, soft, searching mouths, an unspoken contest: make the other moan loudest...

Now it was just cold.

"Nah," he finally said, and ruffled Goku's hair.

"I kinda figured it was."

--end part the third--