A/N: The song is by Michelle Branch (no, I don't like her music, I just use it for pretty much every fanfic I write….XD)

I don't own Saiyuki, either.

Chapter Five

You Set Me Free

Can't you see?

There's a feeling that's come over me

Close my eyes

You're the only one that leaves me completely breathless

Son Goku tore down the halls of the heavenly palace, flying as fast as his feel would take him. He's here, he's really here! I can't have been dreaming. There's no way…!

No need to wonder why

Sometimes a gift like this you can't deny

He finally skidded to a stop at the end of one hall. Further down he could see the room he had shared with Konzen so many years ago. Inside, it sounded like someone was throwing things.

That has to be him.

Goku approached, standing just outside the door, suddenly shy, half afraid to enter. On the other side of the door a familiar voice swore and he smiled.

Yes, that's him, he thought, and pulled open the door.

'Cause I wanted to fly,

So you gave me your wings

And time held its breath so I could see, yeah

And you set me free

Konzen kicked boxes out of the way. In his absence his bedroom and office had been turned into a storage room, and it looked like it hadn't been dusted in a thousand years, which it probably hadn't.

"This is all your fault, you damn monkey," he snapped as Goku entered. "I'm not your fucking repair man, or your—"

"I know," Goku replied. He could feel tears of relief and joy welling up in his eyes. "I know. You're everything." He grabbed the god's wrist, pulling him down for a deep kiss.

There's a will

There's a way

Sometimes words just can't explain

This is real

I'm afraid

I guess this time there's just no hiding, fighting

You make me restless

As he pulled away, Goku felt sure that Konzen would hit him; beat him with his fan as he always had. Yell and scream at him for being a moron.

He would welcome it though. Just to be with him again, for any reason, in any way was paradise.

Konzen didn't hit him, however. For a long time, he was silent. Goku put his arms around Konzens shoulders, laying his head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat.

"You damn ape," Konzen muttered. He stroked Goku's hair once, almost lovingly, then stepped back, pulling out of the embrace.

"Clean this up," he ordered, kicking one of the boxes again, sending a stack tumbling. Papers and scrolls tumbled out. Konzen picked them up, sorting through them.

"Damn." A thousand years, and they never bothered to get a replacement for me? he wondered. Shit, I'm going to be behind for centuries…

The fan swung down, walloping Goku soundly on the head. "Idiot! Why did you have to bring me back when there was this much work waiting for me?"

"But I didn't—"

"Stupid ape!" Smack!

Goku covered his head, a true smile curling his lips for the first time in years.

You're in my heart

The only light that shines

There in the dark

Konzen slid the door to the bedroom shut. He never would have thought he could have been this exhausted after basically sleeping for the last five hundred years.

He had set Goku to work clearing off the bed and making room to sleep while he tried to catch up on some of the forms; Konzeon had taken the liberty of placing the most important papers on his desk and informing him that he had better be caught up in a week or she would personally be handing him his ass on a platter.

"Where is that damn ape anyway?" he wondered, for Goku was no where to be seen in the bedroom, though he could have been anywhere; there were still towering stacks of boxes and files all over, and there was no place to move them to.

A slight breeze ruffled his hair. After peering around the boxes, he found the door to the balcony partially opened. A shadow was visible on the other side of the paper screen.

"What are you doing?" Konzen demanded, though half a second later, he had his answer and the vein on his temple began throbbing.

"You idiot! How many times have I told you not to do that?" he shouted, whacking Goku over the head as one of his paper airplanes did a loop-de-loop and glided gently back towards the balcony. The other continued to sail downward and landed in the koi pond.

"Oww! But Konzen! They were just lying around—"

"You idiot! Do you know how long it's going to take me to get through all of this? I'm going to be stuck here for the next thousand years thanks to you stupidity, you—"

Konzen's arms were flailing as the fan cut through the air. Goku ducked under them, leaning up to give him another kiss.

'Cause I wanted to fly,

So you gave me your wings

And time held its breath so I could see, yeah

And you set me free

The fan vanished; Goku pulled Konzen down onto the balcony, working his lips gently but earnestly. Konzens fingers became entangled in the monkey's hair as well as his own, gold and chestnut blending together on the wood floor.

Konzen finally pulled away when Goku began to run his tongue along his lips, begging silently for more.

Goku followed him back into the bedroom. Konzen sat on the edge of the bed, newly made by Goku, and kicked off his sandals.

"Isn't about time you started sleeping in your own room?"

Goku knelt at his feet, folding his arms across his lap and placing his chin on his wrists. "I'd rather share one with you," he replied, looking up with doleful golden eyes, looking like the pet he was.

Konzen raised his eyebrow. "And what makes you think I want to share a room with you?"

The heretic stood, bracing his hands on the god's thighs as he leaned forward, his face almost touching Konzen's as he looked him in the eye.

"If you want me to leave, tell me and I'll go, but you can't get rid of me. I'll always come back. I'll always find you, or annoy the hell out of you until you find me. If you die, I'll search all of earth, heaven, and hell until I find your reincarnation. I wouldn't care if you were reincarnated as a damn house fly, as long as I got to be with you," he said, punctuating this statement with a kiss.

When I was alone

You came around

When I was down

You pulled me through

And there's nothing that

I wouldn't do for you

"Now that's just sick," Konzen replied, but this time Goku's tongue traced his lip, he opened his mouth and allowed him to enter.

Goku pushed him down on the mattress, already lost in the heady feeling of kissing the person he loved most in the world. Konzen was hardly a romantic, or even that affectionate, but when he ran his hands down the heretic's back, Goku thought he would die of pleasure right then and there.

'Cause I wanted to fly,

So you gave me your wings

And time held its breath so I could see, yeah

And you set me free

Goku rolled onto his side, tucking his head beneath Konzen's chin.

The god glared.

"You could at least get your own bed."

Goku shook his head, sliding his arm possessively around Konzens waist. "Good pets always sleep with their masters."

"Who said you were good?"

Goku turned his face upward, licking Konzens neck and nippy his earlobe. "You haven't seen naughty yet."