Title: Home
Topic: I just got thinking on the original legend and Gaiden...
Word Count: 438
There were times when Goku found himself staring to the East. When Sanzo had told them they needed to travel West, Goku had found himself disapointed for some reason. He was glad he was getting to go on a long journey with Sanzo, Hakkai and Goyjo (for some reason the four of them all together always seemed right) but deep inside some part of him felt cheated. When he'd been trapped on that mountain, he always looked to the East. East was where the sun came from and Goku loved the sun and hated it at the same time. But East wasn't just where the sun came from it also carried a strong sense of... home. When Sanzo had freed him and they'd started walking East he'd been ecstatic. Something good was to the East, something he used to know. He was sure of it. He'd never mentioned it to Sanzo or even Hakkai because he had no idea how he knew this or even what it was he knew. He'd never had the chance to travel properly that way, Sanzo usual got missions in the West and when they did go East it was never far, and now he was going further away from it everyday. It seemed like he'd never know what was so special about it.
Goku was happy with his life as it was but he wished he could remember what it had been like before Mt Gogyou. He knew he must have done something terrible, but how was he supposed to say he was sorry if he didn't know what he'd done wrong? And it couldn't have been all bad, could it? He must have had friends or maybe even a family at some point. It wasn't fair to them to just forget about them forever. Somehow Goku knew that his memories were in the East and once this mission was over he was going there. Maybe he could get Sanzo to go with him, or maybe he could even get Kougaiji to let him borrow a dragon (once the mission was over the whole stealing the sutra deal was going to be pretty pointless, Goku decided).
Hakkai had wanted to go back to Hyakugan Maoh's castle in order to settle things with Kanan, hadn't he? Goyjo had wanted to reconcile with his brother, hadn't he? Sanzo wanted to avenge his master's death, didn't he? Looking at the past didn't mean you were stuck in it.
The Sanzo-ikkou were always looking West, but Goku's heart dwelled in the East. And one day he was going back.
One day he was going home.
From what I can tell, Mt Kaka is somewhere to the East of China near the sea. I've found plenty of fics talking about Goku remembering Heaven, but it seems that a lot of people forget he had a home before that and he liked it there. We even get a little moment in Gaiden where he feels a little homesick. Goku can't exactly waltz back up to heaven (and even if he did, the things that made him happy there are long gone) but it's entirely possible for him to one day visit Mt Kaka.
I think I'd like that.
Please tell me what you thought of this ficlet. I'm really not sure if I handled it well. I wrote it rather quickly and the paragraphs seem wierd... But this fic is mainly for experimentation, so I suppose that's okay.
Asifu.