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Chapter 9

Gojyo awoke to find his love still asleep and to his astonishment it was still raining. 'I might as well go to the bathroom' he thought. Getting up with as much ease as possible not to wake his sleeping partner, he slipped on his clothes then went out the door.

As he slowly went down the hall he found Goku sitting outside his room with his back up against the wall. He bent down and gave Goku a friendly shake of the shoulder and sat down beside him mimicking his body language with arms around his raised knees.

"Hey, what is wrong with my favorite monkey?"

"I don't know what to do. Sanzo is sitting there in the window seat just sulking as he usually does when it rains, and it is gettin' to me."

"You seem to be between a rock and a hard place. I don't know if I can help, monkey."

"It's okay; you have Hakkai to take care of."

"I know but you are my friend, and I need to help if I can. Let me go in and talk to Sanzo."

"You know you will be taking your life in your own hands Gojyo if you do!"

"Don't worry so much, squirt. I've been in worse pickles than this." Of course he couldn't think of any at the moment because Sanzo was a real bitch when it rained.

He got up and went to the door and opened it and went in. 'Yep, there he is his highness in full snit. Well, here goes.

"Hey, Sanzo what're you up to?"

"What do you think, you perverted kappa?"

"Oh, so you are just busy smoking and pouting?"

"I don't pout! Goku might pout but not me!"

"Well, he is doing a pretty good bit of that, too."

"Not my problem."

"Yeah, you don't think a lot of things are your problem do ya?"

"What do you mean by that you asshole?"

"Just for your information Goku is outside the door worrying about you and thinking some pretty interesting things."

"You don't say? And I should care because….?"

"You know Sanzo you're a real bitch sometimes!"

"Yep, and don't you forget it."

"Listen Sanzo I promised the kid I would talk to you about something."

"Go for it and I will decide if I need to aureate your head with a few bullets."

"Damn it Sanzo you are getting harder and harder to talk to. But, here goes, you get the gun ready and I'll get ready to run. Goku has been talking to me and Hakkai about something. He has feelings for someone."

"What have you done… perverted my Goku?"

"No Sanzo we have not said a thing about it. He brought this up."

"So, what strumpet has he got a crush on?"

"Well….it is like this….it is not a strumpet."

"Good. Who is it?"

"It's you."

"WHAT?" With that Sanzo sat down hard with this mouth open. "NO, NO, NO! I will not have this!" He got up and began to pace. Then he looked at Gojyo. "You did this!"

"No I promise I didn't do anything, really Sanzo not one thing. I promise it was all Goku's idea and he said he had felt this way for a long time."

Sanzo looked dumbfounded, "a long time you say?"

"Yep, that is what he told me."

Sanzo went back to the window and sat down took out a cigarette and lit it and welcomed the shot of nicotine that hit his lungs. Well, that made him feel a little better but what was he going to do. He couldn't kill Gojyo if it was Goku's idea even though he would feel better if he did, he was sure of it. For the first time in his life he couldn't hit it with a fan or shoot it to make it go away. "Well, smart man what do I do?"

Gojyo looked at him with wonder on his face. Sanzo was asking him, the perverted kappa, what to do. "Guess you better think about it and decide where you stand on the subject."

"Gojyo, I don't know. Goku is just 18."

"Dude, he is 518 if you don't remember and I think he is old enough to know what he wants and what he wants is you."

"Well...guess I got some thinking to do."

"Yep, guess you do. I am going back to see if Hakkai is awake and we are going down to eat. You guys want to go?"

"I could use some sake. No make that a lot of sake."

"See you down there then." He turned and walked out.

Goku met him outside the door. "Well?"

"He knows how you feel but he has no idea how he feels."

Goku bowed his head for a few minutes and then raised his head and had a look of determination. "I will stay the way I am and wait for his answer until I can't wait and then I will state my question myself."

"You are more mature than I ever knew."

"Thank you Gojyo. But I am just me that's all and I love Sanzo that is my one truth."

"What about food?"

"Well, food, too, let's go eat.

"Got to pick up Hakkai and I will be down so go get us a table."

"Ok!" And with that he went running down the hall toward the steps.

Gojyo went back and noticed his lover was still in the bed and asleep so sweetly. He went over to the bed and kissed Hakkai on the cheek and he moved a little 'ok, if that wont do it let's try something more aggressive' he bent down and took Hakkai's mouth in a deep kiss and gently asked entrance with his tongue and gained it and explored his mouth and tongue. Then he rose up and looked at his handiwork of a thoroughly kissed lover. There were beautiful green eyes looking at him. "What a lovely way to wake up."

Hakkai said sleepily.

With a smile Gojyo said, "You get it every morning, noon or night, every time I wake first."

"MMMMMM…….I like that a lot.

"Good now dress we are going to eat and by the way I talked to Sanzo about Goku's little problem."

Hakkai looked at Gojyo with astonishment and looked for holes in him," you got out without one hole shot in you?"

"Yep, think it was too much for his mind to process and he forgot the gun. Good for me."

"I am glad for you! And for me, I don't have to patch you up or bury you. I am very happy about that."

"Come on then a put a hustle on it, babe."

Hakkai got up and dressed in a hurry and they went down to supper and to see what would develop between their friends. They found Goku sitting at a large table that they had used that morning and he had a mug of something drinking it.

"Good evening Goku." Hakkai greeted his friend.

"Hey, Kai,"Goku replied.

"Gojyo told me that he told Sanzo of you feelings and you were okay with it."

"Yeah, I guess what happens just happens."

"That is a good outlook, Goku."

"What's a good outlook?" Sanzo came in with a storm cloud of a face and the others cringed inside at the look of it.

Gojyo replied, "Sorry Sanzo-sama didn't see you come in." That gained Gojyo a thwack with the fan. "Damn, Sanzo put that thing where the sun don't shine." Thwack, thwack.

"Gojyo I wish you would not make him mad it unnerves me." Hakkai whispered to his lover.

"Don't do me to good either," Gojyo laughed half heartedly with an ouch at the end as he rubbed his head.

"We were just deciding what to have for dinner Sanzo," Hakkai said adding his usual smile at the end.

"Yeah, I bet that was what you were talking about. Your cover-ups are as transparent as a window."

"Are you saying you can see through us Sanzo?"

"Thought that was just what I said, you idiot."

"Damn, you are on the war path tonight Sanzo."

"You would be too if you had been told what I was told."

"Sanzo, if it will make you feel better don't think about it if you don't want to. I can live the way we have been." Goku said this with a bowed head and a little tear slipped out that he had tried to hide but couldn't, and it dropped to the table.

This just made Sanzo just feel that much worse so with a sigh he said, "Goku, it's not what you think. I am not repulsed by you declaration just the opposite. I have feelings for you but you are so young and I am sure a lot of what you think of as love it just you being grateful to me for getting you out of your prison on the mountain."

Goku stood up and looked at Sanzo and proclaimed, "Sanzo you are an ass, a really stupid ass. I know what I feel and I know what it is and it is love pure and simple and if you can't deal with it then you're the one that is an idiot!" With that said Goku ran out of the room and up the stairs.

Now the whole group sat in dazed silence.

Finding his voice first Hakkai spoke, "I have never seen Goku so mad or so hurt. Guess you have some thinking to do and some talking to do."

"Shit, What do I tell him/"

"How do you feel?" Gojyo answered this time.

"For the first time I really don't' know what to do have any good ideas?"

"If you love him and can return his love I suggest you accept what he has said and go for it. Love like that is not often found and it should be savored," said Hakkai.

Sanzo took a cup of the sake the waitress had brought and downed it in one swallow. Then he proceeded to take two more.

Gojyo took this time to say, 'Sanzo drunk is not the way you need to approach this."

"Your right." He stood with his usual Sanzo determination and went for the stairs. "Wish me luck guys I am about to walk on new ground and I have no idea how to proceed."

Gojyo looked at Sanzo right in the eye and said, "All I know is lead with your heart and you can't go wrong that's what I did and it was the right thing to do."

"Good advice Gojyo," was Hakkai's input.

Sanzo smiled and went up the steps leaving the other two in total shock.

"Have you ever seen him smile?" asked Hakkai.

"No, and it was really scary." replied Gojyo.

"How do you think it will go?"

"It will be interesting, very interesting. Let's eat." And since there was no one in the dinning area because it was early Gojyo gave Hakkai a little congratulatory kiss. Hakkai giggled and said, "Stop it, someone might see."

Gojyo grinned sexily and replied, "You love it you perv."

With that they sat down to wait for the waitress and to gaze in each others eyes.

A/N Please review, Thanks