Now Things Are Just Plain Uncomfortable
Kanan has only just left the house, Hakkai and Gojyo both slumped down on the floor while Sanzo and Goku continue to stare--in their very different ways of displaying shock--at a fully youkai Sha Gojyo and a strangely sensual Cho Gonou. The pair being stared at so intensely, does not of course know of their audience, and now that Kanan has left them alone…
"Where were we…" Gonou purrs, pushing Gojyo back into the wall, just next to the still swinging kitchen door. He runs his hands slowly down the black-haired youkai's sides until taking a firm grip on slender hips. "About here I think…"
Considering the show they have been given thus far, one would think seeing a parody-Hakkai slowly and passionately invade a parody-Gojyo's mouth with his tongue wouldn't be all that shocking. But considering the pair are the only confirmed straight members of the group, and seeing as how Kanan just left them, and Hakkai would never where pants that tight, and Gojyo loves his long hair, and…and…nothing adds up about any of this.
Gojyo scrambles to his feet--Goku just to his right near the fridge, Sanzo behind him and a little to his left, and Hakkai across the kitchen still leaning back against the far wall--and points an outstretched arm at the increasingly heated interaction happening just in front of him.
"What the fuck! This is messed! Totally messed! I mean…Kanan…but then…and you…and I'm…I'm…what the fuck!"
Sanzo would have laughed at Gojyo's outburst if he had half a mind to be in a better mood today.
In a more open response, Hakkai chuckles, the sound still frightfully reminiscent of a madman, and picks himself up from the kitchen floor as well. "Yes…but I do not believe I could word it quite as eloquently as you have, Gojyo. At least your counterpart doesn't have two heads."
A snort breaks into the tense conversation. "Yeah, but he might as well have three heads the way they're going at it." Goku points out. He is slightly more at ease seeing Gonou and Gojyo kissing than he had been watching himself and Koryuu, if only for how he knows this sight will cause less hostility in Sanzo.
Gojyo turns on Goku with a dark and deadly glare. "Shut up, monkey."
"Hey, I'm just saying."
"Well, don't fucking say."
Goku's feathers are significantly ruffled. He stands a little taller, eyes narrowed. "Fine, you damn kappa! You're the perverted one. It's no wonder this other you managed to corrupt Hakkai. You'd hit on anything with legs!"
"Watch your damn mouth." Gojyo growls, taking two long strides to meet with Goku toe to toe. "At least I'm no monk-fucking, dumb-ass ape."
All of Goku's anger falls from his face as he pales, eyes dull and nearly unseeing suddenly, because Gojyo has called him so unfairly.
The kappa doesn't just know it, he feels the mistake he has made, instantly regretting ever opening his mouth. Taking a step back to distance himself, Gojyo's crimson eyes go wide, his own anger faded as well, and he tries unsuccessfully for many moments to say something, though his lips can only grasp at air.
Insults and friendly bickering are one thing, but there is a line none of them cross. In this situation especially, Gojyo just kicked the shit out of that line by bringing Sanzo into the fight.
"Shit, Goku, I didn't--"
"Ohhh…Gonou…"
Four heads whip back to the action they had nearly forgotten, Gojyo and Goku's ill-timed confrontation put on hold to hopefully be forgotten--for all their sakes in fear of Sanzo's wrath.
The black-haired Gojyo is writhing back against the wall now, Gonou's lips having released him to move to the juncture of neck just below his left ear, while trailing hands have slid up underneath the youkai's clinging T-shirt.
"Shit…fuck…Gonou…gimme a break, huh?" Gojyo pleads. "I was up early this morning."
"Your point?" Gonou replies matter-of-factly, as if engaging in a conversation as simple and unsexual as the weather despite how his tongue is now tracing the cartilage of Gojyo's ear.
Gojyo fights back a grin. "Well…I mean…you could at least let me shower after getting back from my run."
The sound of a zipper has every onlooker's throat clenching tightly, blocking off all hopes for air for at least the next minute. "Gojyo, Gojyo…" Gonou says in a lust-laden, sing-song voice. "Why would I do that…when you would soon need another one."
The redheaded Gojyo closes his eyes tight for a moment, hoping that somehow when he opens them, he will no longer be seeing this Hakkai-like man delivering such pleasing attentions to his body. Watching, he can see that Gonou knows all his sweet spots because the brunette is finding them, toying with them, and drawing the sensations out to a torture only Gojyo would appreciate. The sight of the slender brunette reaching a hand into his slacks…that is a little more than he can handle.
Hakkai feels dizzy, disoriented, sick. He would never do such things to Gojyo. Ever. He would not be so openly and playfully…sexual. Kanan…Kanan is…was…is…he does not know what to think. Or feel.
Sanzo's grimace is clear on his face, his insides twisting at such a revolting display. At least he does not have to see…the other two…doing such things, and if he ever does he swears to kill the first person in his line of fire. Fuck not having his gun. He'll find a way.
Goku, despite still feeling the sting of Gojyo's daring words, with their attentions now focused elsewhere and Sanzo seeming to have either forgotten them or perhaps never having heard them in the first place, actually…doesn't mind the sight of Gonou and Gojyo in such a heated embrace. And Goku is well aware how that is more than a little unsettling. He doesn't mind seeing them like this. In fact…he is rather enjoying the sight. Them being a couple can't get him into any trouble. And the couple looks…so…happy, and…beautiful together.
A glance in Sanzo's direction, having to see that grimace of disgust, has Goku's heart sinking again. So he turns his attention quickly back to the action.
Gojyo has craned his neck to better kiss along Gonou's jaw-line while Gonou laps continuously at the youkai's ear and a slowly stroking hand keeps moving up and down within open slacks. Perverted as it may be--and knowing Gojyo as he does, Goku knows how perverted some things can be--he finds he can forget Sanzo just long enough to enjoy how…sexy his parody-friends look right now.
"Anyone else think it's getting…hotter in here?" the monkey asks of no one in particular, his comment wholly innocent and unthinkingly voiced. He tugs at the collar of his shirt, his face flushed.
Three already horrified eyes turn to him with a whole new definition of horror on their faces. Two steps later and Hakkai has a hand covering Goku's eyes. "Goodness." the taller brunette says breathlessly, ashamed and embarrassed and…very much feeling his over-protective side taking over. "You should not be watching this, Goku."
One would swear Goku's mouth just formed a pout. "Hakkai! Jeez, I'm not 12."
"That may be, but you are still too young."
Goku huffs. "I'm 18, damn it. I know what sex is. I know what getting turned on is. I know what getting off is too. For all you know, maybe I've been getting laid for years!"
Hakkai is more than a little disturbed by that, though a glance at Gojyo shows how the kappa finds the comment more than a little amusing. Sanzo on the other hand…could honestly be growling. Goku may not be 12, but 18 does not make the monkey a man. Not in Sanzo's eyes anyway. Goku can NOT have sex. Goku can NOT be sexual. It's a god damn, fucking rule, and they all know it. Goku has no right to go changing those rules.
This place, however, seems to be doing that rather eagerly on its own.
DING. KNOCK. KNOCK.
The three free gazes glance to the door. Someone seems to be outside the house, wanting entry, and they all breathe a little easier knowing that finally the pair will surely break apart.
The black-haired Gojyo pulls his head up from kissing Gonou's neck, apparently believing this fact as well, but Gonou…does not seem to be in a stopping mood.
DING.
"Uhhh…Gonou…?"
The brunette licks his way across Gojyo's collarbone. "Yes…?" he practically hisses.
KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.
"Well…the door."
"Yes. And…?"
"It could be an emergency, ya know."
"More than likely…not."
"It could."
DING. KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.
Finally, this time Gonou pauses. He stands up tall, pulled back, and his hands retrieve themselves from the places they had strayed. His eyes are alight suddenly as if he has had some small epiphany.
"It's Koryuu." he says simply, and a second later he has gone through the kitchen door on his way to answer the door at the front.
More than a little frustration passes over the abandoned youkai's face. "Sure, he gets you to stop." Gojyo grumbles. "You know, it's fucking creepy the way you always know when it's him!" He pushes himself from the wall then and follows Gonou into the other room.
Those left in the kitchen look to one another, not sure if they should follow or not.
"Hakkai!"
Suddenly, Hakkai remembers that his hand is still covering Goku's eyes. He swiftly removes it, rushing out an honest but not too sorry apology.
Goku barely even acknowledges the other brunette's words before he is sprinting past the others and out of the kitchen to follow Gonou and Gojyo. One by one, the others decide they really have no other choice but to follow as well.
Gonou is just reaching the front door when the three meet up with Goku in the main living room of the house. For a moment, the only thought going through the redheaded Gojyo's mind is how nice it would be if he and Hakkai lived in a house like this one. This house is bigger than the one-room hovel they have shared for three years, and well put together too. It must be nice living here…together.
Gojyo promptly shakes his head to clear it before his traitorous mind has the chance to think up anything else so dangerous.
Pulling the front door open with a luminous smile, despite the flush still touching his cheeks, Gonou greets Koryuu with familiar cheer. "To what do we owe such a spontaneous visit, Koryuu-kun?" he asks.
Sanzo pretends he didn't hear that particular honorific.
Standing just outside the door, Koryuu--alone now, having apparently dropped his Goku off at work--does not respond with words. Instead, he merely pulls an all too familiar pair of handcuffs from behind his back and holds them up for both men inside the house to see.
Gonou's eyes light up instantly. "Oh! I've been missing these!" he calls, in far too chipper a tone for any of the onlookers' tastes (Goku possibly and quite strangely excluded, considering). Gonou reaches out and snatches the handcuffs from Koryuu's hand before turning briskly to deposit them in what one must assume is the bedroom.
Folding his arms in slight exasperation as Koryuu enters the house and closes the door behind him, the other Gojyo narrows blue eyes that had already been somewhat narrowed upon seeing the cuffs. "I blame all new bruises on you."
With a flash of a smile--too bright it would seem for any of the watchers to look at directly--Koryuu holds up his own wrists that are indeed softly bruised. "Why do you think I brought them back. We need to stop letting Gonou and Goku collaborate against us." His smile ever stronger, Koryuu reaches out an arm that Gojyo instinctively meets, ending in a firm grasp of each other's forearms like some ritual greeting they have come to share. The action is oddly…intimate.
"Ha. I'll second that idea." Gojyo grins. "They are way more dangerous when they put their heads together. Usually in ways that end with one or both of us bruised and humiliated. Why again do we stick with them instead of running off together?"
Sanzo's vein miraculously springs to dangerous life again.
Thankfully, Koryuu's look is more than a little skeptical. "Coz I would sooner fuck a pit bull than your sorry ass." The phrase would seem so commonplace if Koryuu wasn't wearing the friendliest of smiles as he says it. As if…he is merely joking with a friend. "That…and neither of us would ever let the other top him."
Gojyo snorts. "Got that right."
There is humor in Koryuu's eyes as he glances down at the still unzipped pants of the youkai in front of him. "I see I've had my usual good timing." the blonde nearly laughs.
Attention bought to the pants he had quite completely forgotten, Gojyo quickly redoes his fly. "Don't know what you mean, Kory." he covers, the lie not even attempting to sound truthful. This topic, something that seems all too common for them to dance around--their sex lives--sends the man and youkai into a small round of joined laughter.
For a moment, the half-breed Gojyo and Sanzo look at one another and their eyes lock. They can't even properly glare at each other; they don't know if they should be disgusted, or angry, or what. So they look away again and Sanzo huffs, moving to a far place against a very far wall where he can lean and brood in some sense of peace.
Though Gojyo and Hakkai remain relatively unmoving, Goku plops himself down right in the middle of the living room floor so he can watch everything that much better. He has decided he is through with looking at Sanzo. Doing so only makes him ache more. Since his own parody-self is not here at the moment, Goku feels he can easily forget how the sight of Koryuu and an older him had made his heart sting. He can almost…imagine Koryuu and this strange Gojyo know he is here with them, and that he in fact is…the other Goku.
That thought stings only when he remembers it isn't true.
"Tell us then, to what do we owe the pleasure?" Gonou asks as he comes back out of the bedroom. He sits on the edge of a chair Gojyo has moved to sit in, and the two of them face Koryuu who is now seated on the couch.
Hakkai and Gojyo stand on opposite sides of the chair their counterparts are sharing, Hakkai closer to the other Gojyo, and Gojyo closer to Gonou. It is more than a little weird for Goku, who--being between the chair and couch--can look up from his spot and see their four faces so close together. Really weird.
Kicking back on the couch, Koryuu does not answer Gonou's questions, instead laying back comfortably, though a clear sense of anxiety rests on his face.
Gonou gives the blonde a worried look. "All right…spill it."
Again, no verbal response, but suddenly the card Koryuu had taken with him from the house is out of his pocket and being held up for the other two to see.
While the black-haired Gojyo looks rightly confused, Gonou nods in understanding. "Aa. Is that today?"
Koryuu nods.
"Twenty years, isn't it?"
Again.
"My, has it been that long?"
"Uhhh…share?" Gojyo presses, feeling very much out of the loop right now, much like the four watchers. Even Sanzo, who is a few feet from the gathered group, is watching and listening intently.
Gonou and Koryuu share a moment of apparent telepathy that only good friends can experience, and it is decided that Gonou can tell the story. "Today is the anniversary of when Kory's mother found him at the temple."
Sanzo is listening with ridiculous intent now.
"You know about that, Gojyo. Kinzan Temple on the outskirts of town?"
"Sure. The monk, right?"
Sanzo's heart is pounding in his ears.
Koryuu stirs a little on the couch, but does not sit up. He fingers the envelope. "Mom has this tradition. Since the anniversary happens to fall on Master's birthday she sends me with this 'Birthday-Thank You for Saving My Son-You're the Greatest Guy in the World-Please Come to Brunch Tomorrow' card--every year the same thing--and…I bring it to him."
"And…this is bad?" Gojyo questions. "You love the guy, right? I mean, you visit all the time, see him every week or more. What's the big deal?"
The others aren't even in the room anymore; Sanzo is focused on his likeness across the room with deadly precision.
Koryuu stops fingering the card and merely…looks at it. "He's choosing his successor soon. He wants me to be there."
"Shit, you don't think--"
"It's not like he'd ask me. I'm not apart of the temple. I already know he's chosen Dougan."
More than one gasp sounds at that impossible name.
Sanzo's fists have clenched again, stinging at the wounds still there from this morning. "Dougan…" he growls, nearly inaudibly.
Thoughts of the madman rush through Sanzo's mind. The man who had tricked them all, caught them in his web of look-alike dolls and deceit, and demanded to replace Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai as Sanzo's followers on the journey west. The sick freak who…though Sanzo shudders to even vaguely think of it…had been so obsessively infatuated with Sanzo, he had been willing to do anything.
To imagine choosing that sick fuck as the next Sanzo sickens the blonde priest to no end.
"I just…sometimes…I wonder if maybe…he wanted me to stay at the temple so he could choose me." Koryuu finishes, his voice strangely soft. Of course, his tone is always strange to the crew listening in.
The youkai Gojyo loses himself completely to a series of short, disbelieving laughs. "You?" he barely gets out between chuckles. "You? A monk?"
The redheaded Gojyo nearly loses it then too.
"I mean…Kory…really…you?"
Sanzo decides with certainty now that when this is all over he is going to kill Gojyo. Never mind it is this strange Gojyo who is speaking so disrespectfully to him and not the redhead, and never mind that it really isn't him this Gojyo is speaking to, either. The kappa must die. Period.
Sitting up slowly on the couch finally, Koryuu's face betrays none of the anger Sanzo is currently fuming with. His look is thoughtful, his violet eyes still staring at the card in his hands as he sits, thinking intensely.
"I know. I know I'd make…a terrible monk. Awful."
Sanzo huffs loudly, the sound just daring any of his companion's to comment. Amazingly, not even Gojyo thinks to do so.
"But…I still wonder, you know…if maybe…"
"Koryuu." Gonou's smooth voice says very seriously suddenly, the mischief in his green eyes for the first time fading completely as he looks at his friend on the couch. He smiles very subtly as Koryuu lifts his head to look at him. "I doubt Koumyo would ever ask something of you he didn't think you could handle, or that you wouldn't want. Clearly, if he has never asked you to remain at the temple, he does not feel a monk's life would suit you."
Sanzo's mind quiets, blank. Lost.
"If things had happened differently," Gonou continues, "and your mother had never found you at the temple, perhaps he would have raised you there, and a monk's life would have been exactly what he wanted for you. But…that is not how things happened. Regardless, he wishes your happiness. So…if you are thinking he is disappointed, I am more than certain…you are dead wrong."
This seems to comfort Koryuu like nothing else has in regards to this subject, and he nods slowly, a small smile slipping back onto his face as he looks to the card again. He really does feel foolish for thinking otherwise; Koumyo Sanzo always speaks his mind, and if there was anything the monk thought needed to be addressed, it would be addressed. No question.
It is one of the many things Koryuu--and Sanzo--always loved about him.
"I really can be a first-class fool sometimes, huh?" Koryuu says, his smile a little crooked, but firm in its common appearance on his face.
Again, Gojyo and the others resist comment.
Gonou looks down at Gojyo with a smile, and then back to the blonde across from him. "No denying that, I dare say. But now that we have corrected your misguided thoughts…would you be so kind…as to get out of our house."
Mild shock and quite a bit of amusement appears on Koryuu's face as he looks up once more and finds Gonou's arm possessively laying across Gojyo's shoulders. He is up on his feet in an instant; he knows it is time to leave. "I'll be back with Goku just before five for the party. In the meantime…don't get yourselves too…tied up…and forget that a house-full is coming over tonight. Okay?"
Gonou only laughs as he walks Koryuu to the door. Gojyo, however, grins rather wickedly, standing from his seat to lean lithely back against the chair as he faces the door. "You know, Kory…you are more than welcome to join us sometime."
The redheaded Gojyo coughs.
Hakkai is dead silent.
Sanzo is imagining all the ways he can kill the kappa when they are free of this place.
Goku…tries very hard not to imagine what Koryuu would look like all naked and sweaty--with or without Gonou and Gojyo there to join him--and finds it is nearly impossible NOT to imagine the blonde in such a state when he was given quite the full view of that pale, well-muscled body earlier on.
To his credit, Koryuu is not at all phased by Gojyo's suggestion. "Thanks. But I think I'll stick with the monkey."
Sanzo huffs.
Gonou raises a suggestive eyebrow, holding the open door now as Koryuu stands just inside of it. "Well…if you change your mind…Gojyo doesn't necessarily have to be involved."
"Hey!"
Sanzo and Hakkai make a point of NOT looking at each other.
Taking on a rather suggestive look himself--purely in jest--Koryuu grabs a handful of Gonou's shirt. "Ooo, baby." he says playfully, and pulls the brunette in for a quick, 'girlfriends-like' kiss to the lips. "See you boys tonight." and a moment later he is out the door and gone, headed down the street.
Sanzo and Hakkai are very pointedly looking at the floor.
"Do you two have to do that in front of me?"
An elegant eyebrow raises as Gonou falls back against the now closed front door to eye his companion. "Whatever do you mean? Koryuu and I are merely…close."
"Yeah. How close exactly?"
Gonou represses a smirk, and the onlookers are loathe to admit they have seen it. "Are we really going to have this discussion again, Gojyo? I have told you numerous times, Koryuu and I have never slept together. Besides, you're the one who brought up the idea of...communal fun. I was just playing along."
"Uh huh."
"Really, Gojyo, you know I would never lie to you."
"Then how come I get the impression you just did?"
Despite there being no true cause for such a thing, Sanzo and Hakkai can feel the collective gaze of their other companions shifting between the two of them accusingly. On instinct, Hakkai lifts his gaze to look at Gojyo and communicates with his eyes just how absurd the thoughts going through Gojyo's mind are. Sanzo does not look to Goku, but the sneer on his face explains his distaste, and Goku takes the expression to mean he has no reason to suspect the two either.
Whether or not this other Gojyo has reason to be skeptical of Gonou's assertion, that…is less obvious, and raises too many questions to join the insurmountable about already being asked.
"We have never slept together. That is no lie."
"Okay. I believe you. So…what have you two done?"
Gonou only laughs, his emerald eyes looking suddenly sinister. "Gojyo…I think you should forget about Koryuu for the moment…and worry more about yourself."
Hakkai's stomach sinks. Not again.
The red-haired Gojyo swallows, praying he is wrong.
Sanzo feels breakfast surging up all over again.
Goku…does his best to mask his slight excitement. This is how it should be, he thinks, even if the others don't see that. It may hurt to watch himself and Koryuu, knowing he may never have such a thing himself, but to watch the others…it makes him think…that maybe…such happiness could be found for them.
The longer, pointed ears of the youkai Gojyo twitch, and he takes a step back, holding up his hands in defense. "Hey now…you stay away from me."
Pushing from the door, Gonou prowls, stalks, struts over the floor closer to his on-guard lover. "Really…Gojyo…after getting back those cuffs, and with a good hour or more until we will be disturbed? It's Saturday, after all. No class for me, and no grades to get done. No work for you…so…"
"Well…in that case…" Gojyo turns and sprints away suddenly, as if in a hurry to escape whatever…harm…might come to him, though considering he chooses to find sanctuary in the bedroom, it is not difficult to guess what his intentions really are.
Gonou eagerly gives chase, laughing all the while, and though the onlookers do not move to follow, having absolutely no intention of going anywhere near that bedroom, the echoing sounds of joined laughter continue to filter out, bringing with it a true sense of…joy. The couple is happy, living and loving like two 22-year-olds should.
The reality of how unfair that is, how…all four left in the living room would almost wish the same for themselves…that reality pulls and claws at their hearts. Even Sanzo cannot deny feeling a sense of envy, though he assures himself it is only because Gonou and Gojyo's lives seem normal, and he has never once lived a normal day in all his years.
"Well…at least we don't have to hang around while they go at it like rabbits." Goku says with a shrug from his place on the living room floor.
Smiling his strained, I-can't-believe-I-just-heard-what-I-think-I-heard smile, Hakkai turns to stare down at the younger man. "What do you mean, Goku?"
The monkey grabs at his stomach, and for once, 'harehetta' is not what comes next. "I'm feeling nauseous again."
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When the group comes to, the first thing they notice is that they are now outside, sprawled out in the sun. They pick themselves up without complaint, no one caring to speak, even to whine about this happening to them yet again, since there are far too many other concerns running through all of their heads.
Taking a look at their new surroundings, it is Sanzo alone who knows this place. He has not been back here since he left on his first futile mission in search of his Master's stolen sutra. He would have stayed away forever if he had the choice.
Kinzan Temple. The temple of his youth. The temple of his life. The temple where his master lived, and worked, and…died.
Because he couldn't save him.
"That's Koryuu coming up the road, I believe." Hakkai says, pointing down the path that leads into the not so distant town. Saying this aloud makes it suddenly obvious just where it is they must be now, and the green-eyed brunette looks to Sanzo, wholly expecting the dark expression he sees on that pale face.
Gojyo thinks for a moment that he should say something, but his tongue feels dry and swollen, as if too large for his mouth. He hasn't had the heart for witty comments since seeing a self-parody acting so intimate and heated with Hakkai--no, Gonou. Gojyo has to keep reminding himself that he had been watching a youkai him with Gonou, not himself with Hakkai. There is a difference. He thinks.
Stepping a ways down the path to better see Koryuu approaching, Goku keeps the others behind him so they will not see his smile. He closes his eyes and feels the warmth of the sun bathing his face. When he opens them, the sight of a sun just as warm keeps that smile in place. He likes that this sun is as warm as the one in the sky, since he is used to one quite a bit colder. Feeling a bit of that chill on his back, Goku does not need to turn around to know that Sanzo is staring at him in disapproval, and that brings the corners of his mouth down. He can't afford to think about it. Coming off his momentary highs hurts so much.
Silence reigns as Koryuu approaches, since none of the group can think of anything more constructive to do than watch. Speaking to one another right now might push them into far too dangerous territory.
Smile still present, Koryuu walks to the gates confidently, his apprehensions soothed by his visit to Gonou and Gojyo's. He continues on inside the temple's inner courtyard, and the group follows. They do not get very far, however, before a voice none ever thought they would hear again sounds all too brightly from somewhere nearby.
"Itouto-chan!"
Pounce. Like some white and blonde blur, a young man with striking resemblance to Koryuu comes out of seemingly nowhere and glomps the other blonde from the side, clinging tightly as he squeezes for a hug. The man's hair is a slightly paler blonde then Koryuu's gold, and his eyes are blue rather than violet. But most notably of his appearance is the birthmark over his right eye.
Though all of them feel at a loss for breath, it is Gojyo who finds he must speak.
"Kami-sama…"
tbc...
A/N: And no, Gojyo wasn't saying, "Oh God," he was saying Kami-sama's name, from reload. Yep. And for those who have not seen Requiem, Dougan is of course from that. I hope some of the pieces are starting to fit together, though I know many questions are still unanswered. To clear something up, yes Koumyo still found Koryuu as a little baby, but Koryuu's mother found him at the temple when the boy was about 3 (being 23, and its been 20 years). I will get into all that more. As well as why Goku is older, and all the other things your minds must be wondering. Next will be Koryuu at the temple, and then we'll get to see a little of Goku too. And...another familiar face. Thanks so much for the continued support, minna, you really make this that much more fun.
Anendee: Yes, in the manga we are told that Kanan is indeed Gonou's sister, though the anime has Hakkai say, 'a woman like an older sister for me.' So yeah, the incest is canon, but in this story it never happened. As for the numbers: Sanzo3, Goku9, Hakkai8, Gojyo5, since in Japanese San means 3, Ku means 9, Ha(chi) means 8, and Go means 5. Hope that clears your questions up, and go out now and watch more of the series!
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