Goku sat across from the young girl suppressing laughter at her position. Her face was pressed up against the window watching as people walked past letting off fireworks and party streamers. She screamed when a man in face paint jumped in front of the window and started chanting loudly.
"GOKU! WHAT IS THAT THING! IS IT GOING TO EAT ME!" she gasped hiding under the table.
Laughing,Goku waved at his friend in the window and pulled her scared form up onto the seat next to him.
"That's a human, he only looks like that cuz he's painted his face for the festival!" Goku reassured her as she watched him dance away from the window.
She thought for a minute opening and closing her mouth.
"Goku what's a festival?" she asked looking up at his gold eyes.
Goku stared at her imagining how ANYBODY could not know what a festival was.
"You don't know!"
"HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW…..wait….IT'S ANOTHER INSULT ISN'T IT!" she screamed pointing her finger accusingly at him, causing people in the ramen house to jump slightly.
Goku put his head in his hands and rubbed his temples, "Geez you're loud, no, look every once a year people go into a celebration,"
"Celebration?"
"Like when their happy because of something, they celebrate this by having a festival and everyone is allowed to come and join in see?" he finished pointing at a few Youkai kids and human kids running around with candyfloss and sweet peaches. He watched as her eyes turned into puzzlement again biting her lip.
"Ne…Goku? What's Happy?" she asked puzzled again.
This time Goku stared at her in shock as she looked at him hoping to god she was just playing stupid. He sighed when he saw the curiosity in her eyes cursing himself.
"Y'know happy? When you um…well it's when…" Goku furrowed his eyebrows trying to find the right words to say.
The girl frowned and turned her attention to the children surrounded by their friends and sighed her head down and wondering.
"I guess it's like when, you feel warm and well safe," Goku said scratching his chin.
She jumped up suddenly smiling wide her eyes twinkling.
"THE SUN!" she said happily causing him to blink at her in confusion.
"What?"
He looked at her beaming face as she nodded almost hugging herself.
"I'm, safe and warm when I see the sun it's really warm and stuff right! I'm right aren't I!" she nodded deciding herself she was right.
"NO! look I think you don't under…" he began when she took hold of his hand.
"And…you," she whispered causing him to look at her in shock.
"Wha-WHAT!" he said blushing.
She looked confused and stared up at him.
"You're eyes…they're the colour of the sun like their, burning or something, when you saved me fro the cave," she said looking out the window smiling at the children who ran past. "Your eyes where the first thing I saw, it felt like…the sun was saving Me." she said slowly blushing when the little kids waved at her.
Goku thought of her wordand shivered as a sense of Deje vu washed over him uncomfortably.
The sun huh…Man, Does this kid even know she's almost chatting me up…GYAH! I sound like that perverted kappa! But whoa, I'm her sun? NO WAY! Dude, that's,
An image of Sanzo popped into his head holding out a hand while the sun behind him painted a golden halo around his form, his violet eyes filled with trust and his hand outstretched in almost welcome matter.
"C'mon you're going to be staying with me, it's not like I have a choice in the matter,"
Well
He watched as she started copying the kids outside trying to pulling faces but failing miserably and almost poking her eyes out.
That's cool I guess. He smiled as she rubbed her poor eyes mumbling.
"Nyah, Goku my stomach's trying to KILL ME!" she cried looking away from the window and wincing.
"So hurry up and order then!" he said slightly annoyed that she just didn't do the obvious.
"Order?"
"Oh god! You don't know how to! Jeez that…" he stopped when he saw her pouted features ready to blow up on him.
"AH sorry my bad, well um, you just read this and choose what you ant K? It's called a menu, M-E-N…um Y…well it's called a menu okay?" he said laughing slightly in his embarrassment and quickly handing her the leather backed order sheet.
"Menu, menu…" she said while he passed her it frowning as she opened it.
"OOOO! They got Chicken teriyaki on fried noodles! I'll have two of those and maybe a number 47 but wait…huh?" he looked over the menu when something slowly hit him.
She's been living in a cave for a few years so would that mean.
He sighed when he saw her turning the menu around and sweat-dropping when she started sniffing it.
"You can't read can you?" he sighed stating the obvious.
She looked up and shook her head blushing when he grabbed her wrist and pulled her to him.
"Look these are words their like…" his mind wandered as he explained remembering this from somewhere.
Why does this feel so…
"Here hurry up and choose something before you stomach causes an earthquake," Sanzo growled lighting a cigarette in his hand and glaring at the young boy who was jumping up and down on the seat.
"Nyah, Sanzo can I have one of those?" he said pointing at the white stick in his mouth. Sanzo looked at him sceptically and shook his head.
"NO you idiot, eat some food." he growled and anger vein sticking out on his head.
"But how come YOU'RE allowed to eat them!" he whined before a fan collided with his head
"Because I need them,"
"Exactly which means they must taste good!" he yipped reaching out for the packet before a shadow loomed over him
WHACK
"SHUTUP SHUT-UP!CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO EAT OR DIE WITH AN EMPTY STOMACH!" He yelled causing the advancing waitress to cower away, his fan held menacingly in his hand.
"OKAY OKAY GEEZ!" he screamed rubbing his head before grabbing the menu,
…..
Sanzo looked at him struggling with the menu his eyes opening in fear at the black lines on the page before sniffing the booklet and wincing in disgust, he caught Sanzo staring at him and sweat dropped.
"S-Sanzo…um how do you…"
"Ugh, C'mere" Sanzo groaned pulling on Goku's wrist and putting the menu between them.
"These are words they describe the food you want to order, when you decide what you want or you like the sound of it you ask the waitress for it got it," he said causing Goku to nod. He squinted his eyes and shook his head causing Sanzo to sigh out in frustration.
"They look like squiggles to me," he frowned,
"That's just cuz you can't read yet stupid…I'll teach you how to when we get back to the temple.
"Whoa really!" Goku smiled.
"Tch, if I don't kill you first, now what do you want?" he said lying back on the seat.
Goku's eyes flickered at the illustrations and his grin grew.
"ALL OF IT!"
SMACK
"GODDAMN STUPID MONKEY!"
Goku winced as the last bit of the memory lingered rubbing his head,
"Hey why do you rub your head so much?"
Goku smiled and shook his head.
"Sorry I'm just remembering something that's all...did you understand what I said?" he smiled putting down the menu and beckoning over the waitress.
"Umm yeah I think the chicken thing sounds good!" she smiled getting a thumbs up from Goku.
"Me too! So how many of them do you want?" he asked before turning and smiling at the waitress.
"Hi can I get four number 3's a large boiled rice and two number 47's?" he smiled
The woman nodded and went to walk away.
"HEY! We're not done! he shouted causing her to look back puzzled.
"Um yes?" she asked politely.
"She'll have a number 3 as well!" he smiled as the waitress nodded walking away muttering something about how it wasn't fair that people could eat so much and stay so thin.
After their meal and a brief explanation of the use of chopsticks and how they weren't an instrumentyou used to pick your teeth withthe two left the Ramen house.
"Ah! I'm so full I could cry!" Goku sighed patting his stomach as he walked on, the girl had stopped to stare at a large tree which had lanterns on it but whatshe was really captured by was by the purple flowers blooming on it's branches that had began to sway in the wind. She walked closer to it and smiled as a few petals fell on her hair.
Goku walked up to her and patted her head.
"Their Freesia's, do you like them?" He asked softly watching as she nodded.
He frowned slightly when she reached up to her hair and started crying.
"Wha…Why are you crying?" he asked bending down onto his knee to look up at her face.
She had her head down and was holding a petal in her hand.
"It's fallen from the tree, it won't be able to get back up," she said.
Goku shook his head and tilted her head up as he stood up again.
"Silly, it's leaving the tree because it WANTS to, it's free to travel anyway it wants with no attachments don't you get it?" he smiled.
She shook her head.
Goku smiled when the words of a certain hot headed monk came to my mind his image standing proudly in his mind. He watched as its mouth opened mimicking his words.
"Free of all things, bound by nothing, you live your life...
As it isthe figure said a golden glow surronding his crown of blonde hair.
that's freedom see?" he smiled looking at her.
"Freedom, that sounds…safe?" she smiled.
Goku grinned goofily. "YEP!"
She turned her attention towards the tree and Goku smirked.
Hair as red cherry blossoms...it's only fair that she be linked to something nice,
"Hey kiddo, from now on, how'd you like to be called Hanami ?"
Turning around she smiled and nodded taking his hand as they walked up the temple steps.
"Anything…is better than being called stupid!" she joked sticking her tongue out.
"HAHA! I hear ya kid!" he smirked.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! She's got a name!...this chapter SUCKED!(cries)
I tried to make it more spiritual (my one saving grace was thanks to Tenka-chans advice to make Goku have a few flashbacks!) So yeah Next chapter I'll try not to make TOO long as I think it gets boring…(or do you guys like them longer…god someone tell me!) Anyways REVIEWS!
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Oh yeah Hanami means cherry blossom!