Hanami sighed as she dunked her head in the bucket of soapy cold water; she shivered scrubbing at her scalp and dunking her head further down into the bucket to rinse the soap out of her hair, she sighed pulling out her red hair and wringing out in front of her.
After her confrontation with Yoh she was banned from washing in Sanzo's room, and was only allowed to wash her body indoors whilst her hair was to be washed outside and as least frequent s possible.
"Stupid monk she shivered," as she tied her hair up in a bob, two wet strands framing her face, "It's bloody freezing!" she hissed.
She thought back to last night and Hakkai's reaction to her question. Why did he blush? It was a simple question he didn't have to get all red over it!
She sighed leaning against the temple wall wishing she knew what was so bad and embarrassing about kissing!
She heard footsteps and looked up coming face to face with Yoh.
"Oh…hey!" she smiled gasping when she saw him turn away.
"HEY! Where are you going!" she called following him.
"Hmph!" he grunted his arms inside his robes, he quickened his pace and sped off in front of her.
"That stupid girl what the hell is she doing here any…"
"Hey!" Hanami said grabbing his arm causing him to fall backwards and hit his head.
"OW! YOU-YOU!" he growled looking up at her.
She had bent over looking down at him, the water of her hair dropping on his face.
"Yeah, YOU were about to walk into the fountain!" she frowned, Yoh sat up and sweat dropped as the Chinese fish fountain came into his view.
"Oh…right!" he said slowly.
SPLASH!
Yoh jumped and looked as Hanami began throwing the water of her bucket along the flowers; she sighed and looked behind at Yoh who blushed.
The water of her hair dripped on her shoulders, the freshness of her face was bright her eyes twinkling, she was clad in a small tank top and jeans, she could've passed for a boy save for her…
Yoh gulped as he stared at said effeminate point and looked away scowling slightly.
"Buddha save me!" he sighed.
Hanami offered him her hand and he blinked at it.
"What? It's not gonna eatcha!" she smiled.
Yoh gulped and grabbed her hand; she pulled him up and smiled.
"There!" she smiled dusting his shoulders slightly, he was a head taller than her and she flicked his nose causing him to jump back in surprise.
"GACK! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" he yelled defensively causing Hanami to cover her head and grin.
"Jeez are all Monks this bad!" she teased sticking out her tongue,
"WHAT! HOW DARE YOU!" he yelled chasing her around the fountain.
"AAAAH! ANGRY MONK!" she teased.
Sanzo looked out the window to see what the noise was and grinned slightly.
Yoh was growling and yelling something at Hanami who was balancing on the fountain edge opposite him, she yelled something at him her fists clenched making Yoh shake his head in anger and chase her again.
"Hmm, Hakkai look at that," he mumbled causing the green eyed man to look up from a map, he walked over to the window and smirked.
"Hmm, it's glad to see she's got her mind of that subject," he sighed blushing slightly.
Sanzo looked at him questioningly.
"Subject? What subject?" Sanzo asked.
"Kissing," Hakkai said absentmindedly chuckling when Hanami splashed Yoh who began splashing her back.
Sanzo looked up at him in shock.
"And how pray tell did THAT subject arise!" he said now eying Yoh fearfully.
Hakkai waved a hand in front of his own face.
"Oh she had caught Goku and Lirin kissing and wondered why they were biting each others faces…"
"COME AGAIN…"
Hakkai jumped at the dark tone.
"Um Goku and Li…aw crap!" he sighed covering his mouth.
Sanzo growled cracking his ink pen in half and leaving the room.
"I'm gonna kill'm"
Yoh and Hanami walked alongside each other on the grounds, the two's legs slightly wet, well in Yoh's case his robe.
"Hmm, why are you acting so sweet today!" he asked sceptically.
Hanami stopped putting her hands on her hips and pouting.
"I'm always sweet…" she pouted; she stopped and put her finger to her chin "Whatever that is…"
Yoh face faulted and stood up in astonishment.
"Y-You don't know what sweet is?" he asked causing Hanami to glare.
"No, wanna poke more fun baldy…" she growled.
Yoh gulped and shook his head.
"Well sweet is when…you eat something that's sugary…" he paused looking up at the tree above them.
"Like a peach,"
"Hmm?" she asked picking a peach from a tree overhead.
"ACK!"
Hanami jumped and dropped the peach.
WHAT!" she gasped.
"OH NO!" Yoh gasped looking down at the peach on the floor,
"WHAT!" she yelled.
Yoh hit her on the head.
"THOSE ARE FOR THE MERCIFUL GODDESS!" he yelled.
"OW DON'T YELL CRAZY BALDY!" she screamed, they both stopped at the sound of tutting and turned their heads towards two elderly monks.
"Disruptive youngsters,"
"What's the world coming to?"
Hanami and Yoh blushed and straightened themselves out.
"Ahem, anyway DON'T EVER eat these!" he urged holding the peach up to her face.
"But you said it tasted sweet…I WANNA TASTE IT!" she whined grabbing it out of his hands and balancing on a bench out of his reach.
"GACK! NO THEY'RE FOR THE MERCIFUL GODDESS!" he yelled reaching up to grab her.
"Well she mustn't like them very much if there's still a whole tree of them left!" Hanami argued sticking her foot on Yoh's head and pushing down on it.
"AH! GETOFFA MY HEAD!" he yelled moving and causing her to lose balance.
"AH!" she cried as she hit the floor with a thud.
Yoh jumped and grabbed the peach rubbing the dirt off it hastily.
"See what you get! You shouldn't go…oh," Yoh stopped when he saw the cut on her forehead.
"Ow…I hit my head," she whispered feeling dizzy and falling foreword, Yoh held her up and looked around for help.
"Great…Hanami are you O.K?" he sighed, he froze when he saw her frozen form.
"H-HANAMI!" he yelled shaking her body.
Hanami's eyes stayed closed and Yoh began panicking.
"I-I'm sorry Hanami I'll let you eat peaches okay I'll find you better peaches I promise!" he urged shaking her body, the peach still in his hand.
Hanami's eye opened slightly.
"Ah!" Yoh happily sighed
"Y-Yoh," she stuttered.
Yoh's eyes opened wide in relief.
"Hana…"
CHOMP
Yoh's face stayed the same as he stared down at Hanami taking a bite out of the peach; she held up a victory sign and winked.
"Mmm…sweet!" she smiled looking up at him; he growled and dropped her storming off.
"HEY! Where are you going! You're not mad are you!" she called chasing him.
"You're an idiot! I have no time for idiots!" Yoh yelled not bothering to turn around.
Hanami stopped and thought for a minute.
"You sound like Sanzo," she stated causing him to stop.
Yoh looked around and blinked.
"Wha…really?" he asked.
Hanami nodded, and Yoh smiled.
"Wow, cool!" he said looking at the floor.
Hanami stuck her tongue out.
"What's so cool about that!" she said hands behind her head as she walked past Yoh, she dropped the bitten peach in his hand.
Yoh stopped and looked at her.
"Where are you going?" he asked causing her to stop and spin around, the sun was setting in the horizon and her hair was practically blending into the background, she sighed letting her now dry hair down and shaking it loose, the wind blew it and she sighed stretching her arms out wide.
Yoh stared,
The sunset…it's just like her hair…I...wish I was like that,
Hanami blinked as she caught him staring.
"Well, I figured you're mad and I don't plan on getting hit again!" she simplified walking off.
"Wait!" Yoh called stretching his arm out and grabbing her arm, the peach rolled off under the tree's shadow.
Hanami looked down and looked up at him.
The two stared at each other for a while.
"What?" she urged annoyed that he was still holding her arm, Yoh frowned and let go of her arm.
"Well, did you like it? The peach?" he said slowly.
Hanami's face broke out into a smile and she nodded clenching her fists and bringing them up to her chin.
"IT WAS GREAT!" she sighed out loud her voice echoing.
Yoh looked at her expression and burst out laughing catching her by surprise.
"Huh! What! Why are you laughing!" she asked angrily.
Yoh looked down at her and smiled.
"You're funny!" he sighed wiping his eyes.
"Funny?" she pouted…she turned away from him, "I didn't come here to be laughed at" she growled images of faces running through her mind.
Yoh raised an eyebrow and sighed.
"But…I'm happy, when I'm happy I laugh!" he smiled sitting down on the grass and staring out into the sunset, Hanami stared down at him.
"I…made you happy!" she said shocked.
Yoh nodded.
"But why did you laugh!" she asked sitting down looking at him.
Yoh looked at her questioningly.
"Because…well I felt like I'd burst If I kept it inside," he smiled.
Hanami thought for a minute.
"But…you weren't laughing…at me?" she asked.
A chord finally struck with Yoh and he smiled sadly at her.
"No, theirs lots of different ways of laughing Hanami, some people, like me laugh when they're happy," he explained "When their with friends," he explained further Hanami's eyes lit up.
"We're friends?" she smiled
Images of Nataku and Goku flashed through her mind.
Yoh nodded eyes closed in a smile.
"If you want!"
"HELL YEAH!" she yelled hugging Yoh as she quoted a phrase she had heard Goku say when he was happy.
Yoh blushed and looked away his voice serious.
"But some…people laugh out of their own cruelty." He said.
Hanami let go of him and looked towards the blood red sky. Images of the three monks, her owner, and the people outside her cage flashed before her eyes and she shivered.
Yoh looked at her pityingly, "In the words of Sanzo…their assholes!" he smirked causing Hanami to look down and smile.
"Yeah, you know something Yoh?" she smiled looking at him.
"What?"
"Now you sound like Hakkai!" she smiled making his eyes light up.
"COOL…as long as I don't end up talking like Goku I'll be fine then!" he smirked.
Hanami frowned.
"What's wrong with Goku?" she pouted.
"Well…"
BANG BANG BANG
"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SANZO WHAT THE HELL!" Goku's voice screamed from inside the temple causing the two to jump.
"YOU AND THAT BRAT! YOU DARE! YOU DARE!" Sanzo's voice bellowed followed by more gunshots.
"Now Sanzo please…" Hakkai's voice could be heard.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"AS IF KOUGAIJI ISN'T AROUND MY ASS ENOUGH YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM AN EXCUSE TO START A WAR!"
"Oi priesty what's it with you and your ass? You goin queer in your old age?" Gojyo unwisely joked.
Hanami and Yoh sweat dropped.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!
"GODDAMN COCKROACH!" Sanzo yelled.
Gojyo and Goku burst through the temple doors past the two teenagers.
"YOU HAD TO OPEN YOUR DAMN MOUTH KAPPA!" Goku screamed dodging a bullet.
"HEY! SHUT-UP MONKEY BALLS I'M NOT THE ONE SCREWING THE ENEMY!" Gojyo yelled back.
Hanami and Yoh looked at each other, their mouths twitching before they both roared in laughter,
"AHHHAAAAHAHAHA!" Hanami burst holding her sides and lying back to back with Yoh, causing Goku to stop and look at her smiling slightly.
Hanami,
He watched her face full of happiness smiling but stopping when he felt himself overshadowed.
"Uh-oh…"
WHACK!
"GODDAMN MONKEY!" Sanzo seethed chasing the brunette man much to Hanami and Yoh's delight.
"Hey Yoh! I see what you mean! "She laughed.
Alright new chapter! (happy dance) hoo-ha! And the plot thickens, sorry no red wind in this chapter I'm afraid I thought I'd have this chapter first cuz Hanami hasn't got many friends save for four older men…yeah she ain't gonna be to popular! Anyway reviews!
Anon.E.Moose: Hey I'm glad you reviewed and there is NO ROMANCE in this story…well just comedic value between Lirin and Goku but hey fan service y'know? And please try to review more! (Bows) Arigatou!
Tenka-Chan and Homura-Kun: Lol, (puts on Sherlock Holmes attire) I concur…. no wind in this chapter! And Tenka don't call the child abuse hotline if they DO take you away how would you get to a computer? Homura be NICE Damnit NICE!
Knight rose: Hmm…now what would Sanzo want with a plastic covered lead…. OH MY GOD! (For some strange reason I'm imagining Sano and world domination….)
Someone special: I'm glad you like It so much! And I'm fine thanks! (Blows kisses) or…would you prefer I get Sanzo to blow you kisses.
Sanzo…. (Gun clicks)
Me: Spoil sport…