AUTHOR'S NOTE: First and for most...THANK YOU! Every day I sign on and there's STILL more reviews! That's really awesome. Okay, about this piece. This is the long awaited Sanzo/Goku piece. To be honest, I had one helluva time trying to find a scenario in which a Sanzo/Goku incident could happen. So, hopefully it works. If not, I'll just try another one! More fun for me! WEEEEE!
Sanzo sank back into the almost too-hot water, closing his eyes. This...this was heaven! They had finally found a hotel that had separate rooms for all of them, and it was silent. Just him, alone for a change, without those annoying assholes yelling and fighting and smiling all the time. Room service just brought up an ice bucket of beer and he could take as long as he wanted in the bath. Not that he didn't anyway, but it was so much more calming without a certain annoying red headed piece of shit banging on the door. And he could play the radio as loud as he wanted with whatever music he wanted. He turned it up louder until he couldn't even hear the people on the street talking. If an attack came, they'd at least have a sporting chance of surprising him for a change. Stupid fuckers and their "surprise" attacks! Some surprise if he could hear them coming a mile and a half away. His gun was next to the beer, and the sutra next to that, all within easy reach. They'd be dead and he wouldn't even have to leave the tub.
He leaned his head back against the make-shift pillow he'd made from a hand towel and sighed. He was so fucking tired...two days of almost non stop driving with a mothering maniac, a sugar-hiped monkey and a sex deprived kappa wore a man out! By the end, he was so exhausted he couldn't even summon the will to hit them with his fan. A good thing he had a gun. Lazy, but effective all the same. He drank some beer from the ice cold bottle and set it down outside the tub, rotating his stiff shoulder a little. Gods, he could just fall asleep like this...
Goku looked at the fourth plate of food, now thoroughly cold and then at the door leading into the restaurant in the hotel, frowning. Where was Sanzo? He was never late! They'd all planned on having dinner together at six. It was now eight. So where was Sanzo?
Hakkai and Gojyo were drinking beer and laughing at some stupid story the kappa was telling. They'd been at it all through dinner, Gojyo drinking a shot ever now and then to break up the rounds of beer. "And so, she says to me, she says, 'Oh, whoops, I'm just a clumsy little thing, aren't I?'" Gojyo cracked up at his own story.
Hakkai was laughing and blushing at the same time. "Yes, I would say she was rather clumsy!"
"Her mom was worse!"
Blinking, Hakkai said, "Her mom, too?"
Gojyo nodded, smirking. "Just as hot!"
Goku scowled. Nasty kappa! He hated it when he got drunk. Gojyo sober was stupid enough. Drunk, it was just gross!
"Oh, dear! How did the, ah, daughter take to that?"
Snickering and waving his empty bottle to get the waitress' attention, Gojyo said, "Can't tell that story with a kid at the table!"
Hakkai looked at the kid in question, the smile leaving his face. "Goku, is something wrong?"
Goku blinked and looked away from the door, biting his lower lip. Something must have happened to Sanzo. "I was just wonderin' where Sanzo is," he said quietly. He wasn't even hungry anymore. What if a demon attacked? What if he'd fallen into the toilet and couldn't get out? What if he'd accidentally SHOT himself while cleaning his gun? As more scenarios popped into his head, the more worried he got.
"I'm sure Sanzo's fine," Hakkai said reassuringly. He smiled and thanked the waitress as she brought another round of beer.
Gojyo's eyes were trained on her ass. "God, that's so fucking hot! You should go for her, Kai!"
Hakkai looked after the waitress, a faint pink coming to his cheeks. "Oh...that's okay. She's not really my type," he laughed nervously.
"You're right, she's too obviously high maintainance."
"Gojyo, that's not very nice! You don't even know her," Hakkai protested.
"Trust me, I can tell."
Goku stood up abruptly, grabbing the plate of cold food. The other two stopped talking and stared at him. What was wrong with them? Weren't they worried about Sanzo at all? "I'm gonna go check on Sanzo. You guys can stay here if you want, but I'm worried about him. He's late, and he's NEVER late!" He turned and left the restaurant with the other two watching him instead of the waitress.
They waited a few seconds before Gojyo slammed his still full beer down. "Goddamn monkey! Ruining my buzz!" He stood up, threw some money down and looked to Hakkai. "I'm not gonna let you sit down here and have fun while I check on His Pissiness!"
Sighing sadly, Hakkai chugged back his beer quickly, smiling when Gojyo's jaw dropped. "Okay, let's make this fast. I'll be the one pissed if I don't get a good buzz going tonight."
As they walked out of the restaurant, Gojyo nudged Hakkai and said, "Dude, you just downed that in two gulps! I'm impressed."
Hakkai's laughter trailed behind them as they went up the stairs.
Goku knocked on the door to Sanzo's room. He could hear loud music playing, much louder than Sanzo ever played it. He knocked again, much louder. Nothing, not even a death threat. Goku set the plate of food down in the hall way and tried the door knob. He jerked back when the door opened a crack. Sanzo ALWAYS locked the door! He nudged it open slowly, peaking in.
Sanzo's robe was on his bed, neatly layed out. A book Hakkai had loaned to him and his reading glasses were on the bedside table and his boots were at the end of the bed. "Sanzo?" he asked softly, stepping in further but ready to duck if the gun came out. He frowned, shutting the door behind him. "Sanzo? You here?"
Goku looked around the room. Where was the music coming from? And where was Sanzo? His heart speeding up a bit and his stomach churning, he went to the door at the other end of the room. It was the bathroom. The music was getting louder and louder as he approached. Was Sanzo in here? But why did he have the music up so high? Taking a deep breath and holding it, he pushed the door open slowly...And jumped back when he looked inside.
Sanzo...in the tub...eyes closed. Sanzo...he was...he was...DEAD! There was no way Sanzo couldn't have heard the bathroom door open! Goku went to the side of the tub, looking down. No wounds, no blood. Maybe he had drowned! Yeah, Sanzo was drowned by a youkai! What to do, what to do? He flashed back on something he'd seen Sanzo do once when a monk had been pulled from the fishing nets almost drowned. He could do it! He had to save Sanzo!
Goku leaned over the side of the tub and put his mouth to Sanzo's blowing hard against the parted lips. Two things happened at once. Two very bad things.
One, Sanzo's eyes flew open in shock. Their eyes met and neither one could move they were so surprised.
Two, Gojyo and Hakkai came in. "Goku, is Sanzo-oh, whoa! Hey, ah, hehe, guys! Um...whoa..."
"Holy fucking shit! Man...I'm gonna be sick!"
Sanzo shoved Goku away in disgust, sitting up in the tub. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING! ALL OF YOU, OUT!"
They all ran for the door as the gun was pulled off the floor and fired into the rapidly closed door.
Gojyo slid down the door, panting and clutching his chest. "Holy...shit," he panted. "Dude, learn to lock a door or something!"
Scowling, Goku yelled, "It's not what you're thinking, pervy water sprite!"
Grinning, Gojyo said, "Looks like you're the pervy water sprite, monkey-boy. Or would that be our dear Sanzo in there?" Gojyo rolled out of the way as more gunshots hit the door.
