Sorry guys for making you wait so long. The semestral break made me busy praying for the dead... This will be a bit too cute a chapter, sorry...waaah!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own it...

Chapter 3:

Do not fall off Roofs!

That night...

"I'll make a kite then fly it, this night is wonderful and dinner is over. So many stars!" Ayu said, and took out some bamboo sticks and paper to make a kite.

After making her kite, the wind carried her kite gently then it became so strong then it blew the kite to the roof.

"Aww! This sucks! I'll get it myself with a ladder. I can do it on my own!" Ayu grunted as she went off to look for a ladder. When she found a ladder, she stopped by the dining room to drink some water, then:

"Ayu, where are you going with that ladder." Sanzo asked, Ayu hid the ladder and said: "Nothing!" "Whatever." he growled while folding the newspaper.

Ayu went to the porch and positioned the ladder so it would cling onto the roof. She climbed up the ladder on her own and caught the kite then she was too heavy for the ladder, she tried to hold on the roof but her hand almost slipped but she was lucky that she can hold onto the kite and the roof. Then she was slipping off.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she gave a loud scream heard all over the monastery. Sanzo heard it first. The other monks who were sleeping dismissed it as a crazy woman on the street.

The renegade monk ran to the porch of the monastery to see a hanging Ayu on the roof, her feet trying to not fall. She didn't see Sanzo, due to intense panic. Sanzo went behind her and stretched out his arms, then Ayu fell directly and her eyes closed and her breathing so rapid.

"Am I dead yet?" she asked, eyes closed, "Open your eyes. Try to see where you are." a very known voice sounded on her ears.

She opened her eyes and saw the clear night sky with a full moon and saw Sanzo smiling at her and put her down.

"Sorry." she said, "It's okay. Why did you climb up the ladder without anyone watching you?"

"I want to get my kite and it's now ruined. I wish I should have asked help from you. Did I hurt your arms?"

"No." he smiled, "Thank you." "Do not fall off Roofs! Please?" "I promise. I will not fall off roofs anymore, I swear!" she smirked and smiled, "Good."

Deeper in the night...

"ACHOO! It's so cold, ACHOO!" Ayu sneezed 1 and was heard even from afar. "I know, it's nearing winter, get inside, it's warm in there unlike here. I'll go after you." he said. He looked up on the sky and so many stars encircled it, yes, the stars twinkled like Ayu's hair when it was shining in the moonlight. He went into the room and saw little Ayu snoring a bit. "Hehe." he laughed a bit and went to bed.

Very deep in the night, let's say, 11:45 p.m...

Dream...

Ayu was on a cliff looking at the majestic rock formations that have evolved over the years. Then, a youkai stalked on her and pushed her off the cliff.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Ayu screamed in her dream, then she was only hanging with her hand trying its best to hang off, then her hand was stepped on by the vicious youkai. She fell off the cliff and died in cold blood.

End dream...

Ayu woke up and was sweating from head to toe. She woke up Master Sanzo while saying: "Help!"

Sanzo woke up asking why and only wearing his black leather and jeans. He shook his messy hair and tied it into a little ponytail (imagine that! Hehe!).

"What the hell's your problem, Ayu, for the Santbushin's sake! It's the dead of the night!"

"I had a very bad dream, about a youkai throwing me off a cliff and I died on the foot of the cliff because I fell and I died defenseless and bloody." Ayu said, while crying. Sanzo felt sorry for Ayu, after all, she was an orphan like him. Sanzo let Ayu sit on his cross-legged lap and embraced her and told her to stop crying. He stroked her hair gently and let her embrace him.

Ayu, on the other hand, snuggled tightly against Sanzo's deep, strong chest and thought, I want to be safe. Goodnight. Then no more sobbing was heard from Ayu, she was asleep right on Sanzo's chest. She felt so secure in the arms of someone who felt like a big brother or a father. She even smiled in her sleep. Sanzo smiled a hint of a small smile.

"Goodnight, Ayu. Sleep well." he said, and put her back on her bed and kissed her forehead (waaa! I can't believe I wrote that!). He went back to sleep and kept his black leather on just in case.

In the morning...

Ayu woke up after a dreamless night, no dream to haunt her in the morning. She must have forgotten it, thanks to snuggling on her master.

She found her master in the dining room, drinking coffee in the morning.

"Master, may I call you father?" Sanzo was startled by the question that the cigarette in his mouth fell to the ground and he stepped on it. Sanzo thought about it for 4 minutes and finally answered:

"Whatever, as long as you don't abuse it. I might even want to adopt you." he said.

"Yay!" shouted Ayu to full blast, "Right before you call me dad, eat breakfast." "Yes, dad." Ayu said, "Little rat." then Ayu ate breakfast and told everyone in town about her adoption, and yes, she was adopted. Now she was not just Ayu, now she was Ayu Sanzo. And for all the long years that the father and his daughter stayed together, never did Ayu even see her "dad" even grow old.

THE END! FINE! OWARI!