DISCLAIMER: I do not own Saiyuki, and I never will.
The two of them spent hours and hours talking, and also wondering why Hakkai hadn't returned from his trip to the herb shop.
"You think something happened to Hakkai?" Lilian said, taking a sip of her juice. "Even if something did, Hakuru's with him, and he'll call if something happened." Goku said, looking out the window. "Can I ask you a question, Goku?" She looked at him. "Yeah, shoot." He smiled at her, and she blushed.
"Is it alright if I come along with you guys on your journey? I mean I'm not a really excellent fighter, but I can be useful... can I?" She looked at him as if she were to cry. "Well, my answer is definitely yes... but I don't know how the others are gonna respond." She nodded, and they quickly changed the subject. They started talking about food again.
"Thank you very much," said Hakkai to the shopkeeper. He left the shop, walking back to the inn. "Jeez, that was a long line just to buy herbs...good thing I bought all the necessary ones for the trip too." He smiled at himself as he walked back. He kept walking until he noticed some guy beating up another one. "Goujo... drunk again?" He walked up to the redheaded water demon and dragged him out of the bar. "Wha—?" was all that Goujo mustered to say. "Let's get back to the inn, they might be worried about us... I just hope Sanzo's alright." He looked back, as if Sanzo was walking right behind them...but no one was there.
Sanzo walked further to where they had found the girl. "She said she was attacked by demons, but which ones?" He examined the entire house, searching for anything that might help him figure out who it was. He noticed a broken earring on the ground, which he quickly picked up and pocketed. He looked around once again, and walked out of the house. He didn't know why he had the urge to help this girl, but he felt he had to.
Back at the inn, Goku and Lilian were getting hungry.
"Maybe we should go downstairs and find something to eat, whaddaya say?" He looked over at her, and she shook her head. Stomach grumbling, she told them that they should wait for the others. "Too bad we can't eat these snacks," he said, eyeing the box of riceballs hungrily. He reached for it, but Lilian smacked him hard on the hand. "Those are for the trip," she said giggling. She blushed and blurted out "sorry for smacking you." she bowed so deep to him, her head was practically on his lap. He blushed and almost began to choke on his own air supply when Hakkai and a very drunk Goujo walked in on them. Hakkai just stared at the scene before him. Lilian's head was on his lap, and Goku was grabbing her shoulders, blushing.
"Well, seems to me you've become more acquainted." He laughed at them, and Lilian just sat up blushing. She then yipped and ran to the bathroom. "It's not what you think, Hakkai," said Goku, trying to prop up drunk Goujo to a pillow. "Alright, alright, it's just it looked so wrong." He smiled at Goku. "It's too long to explain," he said grinning at the bathroom door. "Sanzo's coming back soon, so we'll wait t'ill he gets here, then we can eat. Tomorrow we're leaving early, so we need to get a good nights rest." He poked Goujo to make sure he was alive. "At least he won some money before getting in that brawl," he said chuckling. Hakkai and Goujo sat at the table, waiting for Sanzo. Goku found a pair of chopsticks and started to click them together. "Food..." he grumbled.
Lilian sat on the floor of the bathroom and stared at the wall. "What's wrong with me," she asked, looking up at the ceiling. "I've only known him for a day, and I'm feeling all weird inside. She blushed even harder at the thought, and exited the bathroom. She sat down at the table and stared down at the floor. It was quiet. The only thing that broke the silence was Lilian's and Goku's stomachs grumbling, one after the other.
After hat seemed like forever, Sanzo walked in, as though he was away for mere minutes. He then noticed Lilian, and looked at her. "I went back to where we found you to figure out who did this to you and your family. All I could find was this earring and this necklace." He remembered exiting the house, and he looked down to where he had rescued the girl. He noticed another piece of jewelry, except it was a bright necklace. He noticed that imprinted on the back were the letters L/G, but he would find out what that was later.
Lilian stood up and walked over to Sanzo, in a split second, she was hugging him and kissing his cheek. "Thank you so much for saving me! I owe you everything. How can I repay you?" She let go of him, and looked up at his face. "You don't need to thank me," he said, turning a light shade of pink. He looked around the room. "C'mon, let's eat."
After an hour of talking and getting acquainted with Lilian, of eating and drinking, and especially getting drunk, Lilian went up to Sanzo, "Sanzo, I have a question that I have to ask you." He looked down at her and nodded. "Is it alright if I can accompany you on your journey? Please?" The same sad face she had when she asked Goku came about her now. He looked around and nodded. "I'm sure no one will mind, I already see that Goku is pleased with it." Lilian turned around and saw Goku with the happiest face ever. She blushed and bowed once again to Sanzo. "Thank you so much!" Goujo, besides being piss drunk went over to her and said in a very lecherous voice "Welcome to the team, beautiful." He received a whack on the head by Sanzo. Hakkai went over to her and smiled at her. "Don't pay attention to him, he's just very... uh, excited when he's drunk. Hope you don't mind. She looked around and shook her head. "I don't mind anything, I don't want anyone here to change just because there's a girl in the room." She giggled, and walked over to where Goku was sitting, eating, yet again.
It then dawned on all of them. Of course they knew she was a girl, but they hadn't realized how different it was going to be with a girl in the group. What about bathrooms? Or rooms? Worst of all, bathing. How where they going to handle this? And Goujo? He's already a sick ass pervert... how's he not going to harass this girl?