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Chapter 4

Goku sat on the floor still, the pain in his shoulder not subsiding since he rammed into the door, hoping for an escape. He wondered where Sanzo and the others were. 'Bet they don't even notice that I'm gone' he thought solemnly. The room that he was in was very big, almost the size of a gymnasium. There were no windows, and the walls were a dull kind of tan color. All around the walls were posters with pictures of toys on them. The floor was covered with toys so that the real floor couldn't even be seen. 'What a freak. What kind of grown man would keep a bunch of toys?' Goku thought to himself.

Suddenly, Goku felt something move against his leg. He looked down, wondering what it was. What he saw freaked the hell out of him. The toys were moving, they were alive!

Goku stood up, despite his sprained ankle, and backed up against the wall. The toys actually stood up and came towards him, latching onto his legs and arms, pulling him down amongst them. He trashed around, trying his best to get them off him but there were just too many and Goku was too injured already.

"Sanzo!" he screamed.

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He was in the jeep when he heard Goku's voice call for him again.

"Sanzo!"

It rang so loud insides his head that Sanzo put his hands on both sides of his head and winced. He took a sharp intake of breath as another cry for him felt like it would split his head in two. "Dammit!" he said. Gojyo and Hakkai both looked at the monk, confused.

"Sanzo," Hakkai said, "are you alright?"

"Yea, you don't look so good, man." Gojyo piped in.

"Just shut up and keep driving," said the grumpy blonde. 'This better be good, Goku. Your voice nearly made my head explode.' Sanzo thought irritably. It was really no use, though. Sanzo was worried out of his mind, and he knew it, even though he didn't want to admit it to himself. 'Damn,' he thought, 'I'm becoming a softy.'

Suddenly, the jeep made a strange racking sound and stopped. Hakkai tried pulling the key out and putting it back in the ignition, but it was no use. Hakyruu (A/N: hopefully I spelled that right) was too tired to go any further.

"I'm sorry but it seems Hakyruu has become too weary." Hakkai told the others. Sanzo's hand clenched into a fist. They all got out of the car and Hakyruu changed back into his normal state.

"Damn dragon" Sanzo said. "Hakkai, can't you just make him keep going?"

"I'm sorry Sanzo but once Hakyruu's tired it's very difficult to make him go on, especially in his jeep form. It looks like we'll just have to walk to the mountain." This didn't please Sanzo at all.

"Look, I don't have time for this! Goku is in trouble, I've been hearing his voice in my head, calling out to me and I don't have time to walk to that fucking mountain. It's at least five fuckin' miles away!" Sanzo shouted, his voice growing more dangerous with every word.

"Don't worry, Sanzo. Whatever happened to Goku I'm sure the little brat is strong enough to take care of himself. Is our worldly priest actually worried about little Goku?" Gojyo joked.

"I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR YOUR DAMN JOKES, ASSHOLE!" Sanzo exploded. "OF COURSE I'M WORRIED ABOUT HIM! WHY ELSE WOULD I BE OUT HERE LOOKING FOR HIM AT TWO-FUCKIN'-O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING?"

"Sheesh, calm down, man. Like I said, Goku can fend for himself pretty easily" said Gojyo.

"Unless he's met up with someone he can't beat" Hakkai said, turning to Sanzo. "I have a feeling that you have a hunch where Goku might be, Sanzo. Would you mind sharing your thoughts with us?" Sanzo paused before answering.

"I think our buddy Kami-sama might have him." Sanzo said, still pissed but starting to calm down a little.

"Damn, not that prick again" said Gojyo. "I don't know if I feel like taking him on this early in the morning."

"I feel the same way, but if it's what we have to do to get Goku back, then let's start walking." said Hakkai. "Once Hakyruu has rested, we can go on in the jeep but until then, we'll just have to walk."

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"Dammit! Get off me!" Goku yelled at the toys as they kept pulling him down. Just then, the door opened, revealing Kami-sama standing there.

"Oh goodie, it looks like I'll have my new toy soon!" said Kami-sama happily.

"Ya creep! What the hell is going on?" Goku screamed.

Kami-sama pulled a weapon-looking sort of thing out of his robes. It looked like a type of gun. Suddenly, Kami-sama shot it, sending something small right through Goku's side into his body. He began to laugh.

"If things go as well as I have planned, you'll be a toy of mine soon too! You'll be my favorite one yet!" he said.

Goku fell to the floor in pain, clutching his side. He looked down, finding both of his hands covered with red blood. He took his hands away and saw that his shirt was soaked with blood also. Goku's vision began to get blurry. 'No!' he thought 'not yet! Sanzo will come!' but it was no use. He was losing too much blood. Goku swayed a little, and then fell to the floor amongst the toys.

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-One hour later-

"Hey guys, can we stop and rest a second?" said a very tired Goyjo. It was a little after three in the morning and all of the guys were beginning to feel the affects of not having any sleep.

"Maybe he's right, Sanzo. Let's just get Hakyruu to transform into the jeep and take a nap for an hour or so" said Hakkai. Sanzo didn't seem to hear them. He just kept walking with his head down, his arms hanging loosely by his sides. Hakkai walked up to him and shook him out of his trance-like state. "We're all worried about Goku, Sanzo, but if we don't all get a little sleep, it won't be any easier trying to look for him." Sanzo looked up at Hakkai, his amethyst eyes dull with circles forming under them. 'He looks like the walking dead' thought Hakkai to himself. "You need sleep, Sanzo" he said to the priest.

"You and Gojyo can sleep all you want. I'm not stopping" with that, Sanzo turned his back to Hakkai and kept walking; the mountain in their view was not that far away.

"Should we go after him and force him to sleep or something, Hakkai?" asked Gojyo.

"It wouldn't do any good," said Hakkai, "Sanzo's obviously is too worried about Goku to sleep any until he finds him."

"I don't get it, he used to not care a rat's ass if the kid went runnin' off, now he's refusing to sleep and being all worried about him" said Gojyo. Hakkai just sighed and turned to Gojyo.

"Have you still not figured it out?" he asked the redheaded man.

"Figured out what?"

Hakkai turned back and watched Sanzo as the blonde kept walking; he was beginning to be quite far away from the other two men. His pace was much slower than it was an hour ago, but still the monk put one foot right back in front of the other.

"Sanzo cares for Goku" he said.

"Well yea, we all do. But I still don't get it, I mean, I know Sanzo cares for him and all but he never shows it. What's made him act this way all of a sudden?" Gojyo asked, still confused.

"Yes Gojyo, we all care for Goku, including Sanzo. But Sanzo cares just a little more about him than the two of us."

"Huh? Wait…you mean—''

"Yeah, that's what I mean" said Hakkai.

Hakyruu transformed into jeep and the two men got in and settled in a comfortable position. The vehicle was facing the mountain, and the white of Sanzo's robes could still be seen in the distance as he continued his way to find the one that he loved.

A/N: Thanks to my reviewers! I would do what I normally do and write out your usernames but I gotta go to sleep cause, once again, I wait till really late to finish writing a chapter. Keep reading if you wanna figure out what will happen to Goku and the rest of the group!

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