Okay! Hi again people! I hope you liked the first chapter. There will be a bit of fluff okay, so mind it.

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN SAIYUKI (infinity x 100 times)! I only own the plot, Ayu, Hiroshi and Master Shiroji. They're all made-up names...

Chapter 2:

Get well

Ayu went to the monastery and knocked on the door. A young random monk that she knew, Master Shiroji, answered the door.

"So, you're here this early." the monk said, "Yes, right! I'm here." Ayu cheerfully said and smiled.

"Be careful, he has a bad temper fit today. You may stay here if you need to and if we might really, really need your help." he said and let her enter.

Inside the monastery...

"Hiroshi!" "Ayu!" the two children greeted each other, "Are you here to help Sanzo-sama?" "Yes. Right!" "Just in time, it's breakfast, please take it to his room. When I did it, he even threw the soup on my face, I'm lucky it was cold." "I can't believe that!" Ayu retorted. "I'll bring it anyway."

Ayu went to the room and knocked. No answer, so she knocked again. Then she went inside but was greeted by a gun pointed at her face.

"Get out of here!" a horrible-looking being said to her and screamed at her.

"I'm not going to!" Ayu said, "Are you Master Sanzo?" "Yes, who else!" he said. He didn't look like the Sanzo we know. His hair had all turned white as snow, his eyes like transparent orbs of glass, his skin as pale as death and as if life was drained from him and so was his strength and wrath.

"C'mon please!" "Idiot." he muttered underneath his breath, "I have what you lost!" she shouted as she threw the sutras to his feet.

"My sutras!" he screamed with great joy but not shown in his face, then he stopped and clutched his head. "Thank you, you may go now. I'm fine that I have seen them again."

"But you don't look okay..." Ayu said, cocking an eyebrow while rolling her eyes. "I'm okay now, scram!" "Look in the mirror!" Ayu flashed a small mirror on his face and he saw his horrid face.

"I want to see who you truly are and what you really look like." Ayu said, with a deep, sad face. "Alright. I want to see my incomparable looks again."

Ayu made a thumbs up with Hiroshi and Master Shiroji when she went out of the room and got a bowl of ramen (A/N: I like ramen, so who cares?).

Back...

"Master Sanzo, please eat the ramen, it's good for you. It will help you feel better." Ayu said innocently. "Fine, whatever!" he said angrily as he clutched chopsticks into his hand and ate the ramen in one pick up with the chopsticks.

"Do you want more?" "No, it's enough for the day." "Then go and clean yourself, take a bath, it's just a few hours after noon."

Later...

"I'm going out." the monk said, hitching his robe to get away. "You can't! You have to rest first. You have the sutras. All you need is to recover yourself." Hiroshi and Ayu agreed to Master Shiroji's statement.

"Alright." said the renegade priest and went under the covers of the bed at the left side of his room, one of the two beds in his quarters.

Hours later...

Ayu, Hiroshi and Master Shiroji waited for Master Sanzo to wake up. Ayu was trying to tie her hair into a ponytail, Hiroshi was eating a banana and Master Shiroji was dipping his feet in a basin of water. Then, our renegade monk stormed out of the room in 0.05 seconds.

"Good afternoon! How was your rest?" Hiroshi said, throwing the banana peel in a hole in the soil.

"Fine, just okay, nothing happened, only a few hours of solace. If you don't mind." Sanzo said, "Food, sleep/rest, check!" Ayu whispered to Hiroshi and Master Shiroji, "Only thing missing is exercise!" "How in the world!" Hiroshi's eyes bulged out, Master Shiroji bumped his head on the table while laughing.

"Master Sanzooooooooooooo?" Ayu yelled, "What?" "I'm going to break the vases if you don't catch me, ahahahahahaahahaha!" "Don't you dare!" then they chased each other around the monastery. Sure enough, Ayu broke a few unimportant vases and tore a few bits of paper. But after one hour is when Sanzo caught Ayu.

"You're so slow!" Ayu crossed her arms. "Idiot." he muttered and sneered.

For weeks, Ayu was taking care of the renegade priest, and it was tricky because he whacked his fan on her head then he had bad temper. Thanks to Hiroshi's and Master Shiroji's help, she didn't have to worry too much.

After a few weeks...

"Master Sanzo! Here's break..." Ayu yelled into the room, but it had 6 bowls of rice and food stacked one after another, "...fast."

"You can eat it, I'm full." said the corrupt monk and placed the stacked bowls in the sink. Ayu just ate it hesitantly and went off to threaten the master about breaking vases and stealing sutras. She noticed that his hair had turned to a creamy shade of yellow and a light amethyst on his eyes glowed. She pulled his hand off to the sunshine and he had to chase her and she still broke a few jars. The color of his skin wasn't as pale as death anymore, it turned a bit darker. He was fine and his strength plus the bonus of using his paper fan came again. That night, demons attacked the monastery.

"Let me go with you!" "No, it's too dangerous!" "I'll watch you!" "Fine!" they bickered as some demons stormed on the porch. Armed with gun and sutra, he attacked the youkai, one after another and had defeated them, which really tired him out so he bathed and rested and decided that the night's fine enough, he had to sleep. So did Ayu and Hiroshi. Master Shiroji would check all lights, candles and incense were off.

The next day...

Ayu woke up and found that Sanzo wasn't in his bed. Hmm...strange. I think it is very strange too. She found him eating in the dining room. His hair was messy like as if a thousand thorns tried to comb it (...weirrrd...) but anyway she ate in another place while hearing birds sing. Then after that, she strolled by the riverbank by the monastery and sat by the banks and dipped her feet into the ice cold water.

"Brrr!" she said as she took away her feet from the river's icy cold currents, "I will not go here during spring. Feh!" then she heard strange noises from trees and bushes. "Who's there!" she asked threateningly, "I got a stick! This isn't funny! I'm not afraid of you!" she said but she trembled in fear. Then out of nowhere, youkai surrounded her.

"Where are the sutras!" the leader asked, "I don't know!" she replied, obviously.

"You reside here but you don't know! Children think they're so innocent! Where are they! Tell us!" another demon said.

"No! I won't tell you where they are!" " Idiot! Then we'll have to beat you up!"

Poor Ayu was beaten up by youkai. She struggled to free from their grasp, but they manage to scar her and teach her a lesson. A long red gash on her arm was made. She was unconscious and the youkai laughed.

Meanwhile, Sanzo had been looking in every inch of the monastery where Ayu was.

"Where in this world is that silly girl? What could have gone to her stupid head?" he asked himself while scratching his head, while he went out to the back, by the riverbank where the youkai kept laughing sinisterly.

By the riverbank...

Ayu lay desperate in pain a few meters from the river. Then the youkai stopped laughing as they saw a human shadow by the river.

"Who are you? Who goes here? Haven't you seen the girl? She's a warning for you not to disturb us. Now give us the sutras!" the leader of the youkai said.

"In your dreams." was a three-syllable reply of a man and a gunshot blasted through the air and killed a youkai, "Coward! Show yourself!" then the mysterious person came out. It turned out to be Sanzo.

"Aaaah, it's you then! Give. Us. The. Sutras. Now." "No." then five gunshots blasted again and killed five. He kept on shooting them and when they were all dead, he rushed to see who was the girl. It was Ayu!

Sanzo looked at Ayu. There was a pool of blood where her left arm lay. It was one, long, red gash. He tore his sleeve and wrapped it on the wound. (Eh, we were taught First Aid in our Interest Group, so I apply it here too!) He carried poor Ayu back to the monastery and looked at her compassionately. Ayu opened her eyes gently and the last thing she remembered was that she was beaten up by youkai.

Ayu saw something that blinded her eye. Long, golden strands like thread, but more like locks. Violet orbs seemed to circle her dulled eyes. She knew that she was carried back to somewhere. It was like looking at the sun when she saw golden locks and fell asleep again.

In the monastery...

"Master Sanzo! What happened to her?" Hiroshi yelled, panicking, "She was attacked by youkai." he snapped, "What should we do?" Master Shiroji said, catching his breath as his heart beat 45 faster than normal.

"Leave it to me." Sanzo said, with a wink that means: 'I promise.'

Later...

Ayu woke up with a jolt. She saw that her arm had been bandaged with some traces of blood seeping through. Then she saw someone on another bed with the same golden hair, the same violet eyes and wearing a monk's robe.

"So, you're awake." a familiar voice sounded and she nodded, trying to remember whose voice was it.

"You were attacked by youkai by the river, and I saw you there and the youkai were laughing like idiots and when they were done I bandaged you off and carried you off here." the person said again, and pointed to his torn sleeve. "Is he Master Sanzo?" she thought.

"Master Sanzo? Is that you?" she spoke, finally. "Who do you think I am?" then THWACK went the paper fan on Ayu's head. "Ouch! Thank you! Master! I've missed you so much!" then she hugged him so tightly.

"Enough please. I'm just glad you're alright." he said, "Is this really what you look like? You've changed a lot. Let's look in the mirror!"

The two went to a full length mirror and Sanzo stared at himself.

"I have changed a lot. Thanks to you." "Wow, he's really young. I should ask him how old he is!" Ayu thought. "Master Sanzo, how old are you?" "23." "Oh, ok! You know, you're really erm... how do I put it this way? You're really really handsome and cool and hot!" Ayu said, with a tinge of red on her face. Sanzo smirked and laughed a bit, "Are you really sure?" "Yeah!" Ayu said, once again. "Thanks. I really appreciate myself this way."

Hehehe. So sorry if I have to even put in what I learned in Interest Group. Just a laugh!