Rie : At last! The second chapter!

Konzen : (panted) *Huff* I can't... *Huff* find... *Huff* him...

Rie : Who? Goku?

Kenren : Crap...! Who know he could run so fast like that?!

Tenpou : I'm beaten... (wipe his sweat)

Rie : That's because you didn't listen to me. If you could just listen, you didn't need to waste your energy to find him. I've told you you'll find him in the next chapter.

Konzen, Kenren : Shit...

Rie : Anyway, the story is about to begin. Care to do the disclaimer for me, Tenpou?

Tenpou : (smiled) The story and the characters belong to Kazuya Minekura. Except for Akira, the...

Rie : Don't tell them about that! Anyway, enjoy!

Chapter 2

"So, where are we gonna start our exploration, Konzen-sama?" asked Kenren when they stepped at a town in the Earth. "Anyway, from a billion places in the Earth, why do we come here in the first place?"

"Goku is here... I just know it."

"Is that so?"

"Kenren, just believe in Konzen. Anyway, I do have a feeling like that now. There's something that makes me feel we'll find Goku here," Tenpou said.

"If you said so."

3 Gods from the Heaven walked together to search their friend. Even without any information about Goku's location now, Konzen still had some kind of faith in his heart. Something told him Goku was there, in the place that he came to. So, the exploration kept going... at least until they were tired.

Kenren was the one who noticed it after some hours flew. A lot of people watched them, but with an unusual stare. Some children even pointed at them.

"Hey, you know... I think we catch a little of... people attention," he said to his friends.

"That just your imagination, Kenren," Tenpou said, still busy searching Goku in the people crowd.

"No, I mean... Actually, now I've start to notice that we looked a little... attractive here. That's if you understand what I mean."

"Well, I don't," Konzen said flatly.

Suddenly, a kid who brought a lot of things in his hand bumped into them. He was the one who fell and dropped all of his load. Tenpou kneeled beside him, felt a little guilty and helped him to stand when Kenren collect his belongings. Then, with a smile, Tenpou asked to the child.

"Are you okay?"

"Y-yes, I'm okay," the kid answered with a smile. Somehow, that was reminded the Gods of Goku. He usually smiled in front of them, said anything weird that sometimes made them laugh or angry. And now, they were missed it... so much... "Oh, Sanzo-sama! You're back!"

"Sanzo? Who is that?" Konzen asked.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Looks like I get the wrong person. I thought you were Sanzo-sama," he explained. "You don't know him?"

"Nope," Konzen, Kenren, and Tenpou answered together.

"Sanzo-sama is a priest, a wonderful person who really famous in a lot of places. He travels with 3 another people and exterminated Youkai. Well... to tell you the truth, you three looked like them, a lot. Except you don't have a little member on your team."

"Little member?" Konzen asked, a little interested.

"Hai. The youngest member on the team, he looks really young if you want to know. But, I don't remember his name. Uh... what was it...? Crap, I forget."

"What about his appearance?"

"Um... he has brown short hair and he wears a white shirt and brown long pant. And he wears some kind of claw on his shoulder. And he has gold... Huh, wait... Oh! I forget! I supposed to find Sanzo-sama and give this to him! I'm sorry, Sir! I've to go now!"

The boy who was talking to them bowed and grabbed his sack of food. And then he ran and disappeared from the sight. With that, another meaningless information came to their note. Konzen, Kenren, and Tenpou continue their exploration. But, it looked like the sky didn't support their activity. Not even 15 minutes after they talked with that boy, the rain poured swiftly. Didn't have another choice, the hunt needed to wait until the rain stop.

3 Gods then ran together, searcher for a place to stay. They came to a lot of place that had an 'Inn' sign, but all of them always been rejected to stay. The reason...

"Crap! What did he mean by 'NO MONEY, NO PLACE'?!" Kenren shouted angry, still ran together with the other.

"Ah, I forget," Tenpou said, just realized something. "In the Earth, money is a kind of thing that really important to have. The human use it to buy everything. And without it, they can't do anything."

"And we don't have it?" Konzen asked.

"We don't."

"Then how are we suppose to find a place?!" Kenren asked.

"Hm... why don't we stay under the tree?" A lightning stroke one after another. "But that means we have to pray a lot so the lightning not strike on us," Tenpou said with a smile.

"YOU KIDDIN' ME!!"

And then, for the second time, a kid bumped into them and fell to the ground. This time, Kenren seemed to lose his balance because of slippery wet floor. He fell and before that caught Konzen's hair and Tenpou's coat. So, three of them fell together and experience the first wet moment in the Earth.

"Oh, shit...! Crap, my clothes are all wet!" Kenren protested.

"Hey, why're you grab my hair, You Shit?!" Konzen smacked Kenren right on his head.

"Well, now all of us WET together. Ha ha ha," Tenpou laughed cheerfully.

"It's not funny!!" Kenren and Konzen said at the same time.

"Ano... I'm sorry..."

"WHAT?! Oh... hey, it's you. You're the kid that bumped on us before, right?" the blond God said.

"Y-yes, it's me. I'm sorry I bump you again. Please forgive me," the boy said as he bowed to the Gods.

"No, it's okay."

"You didn't say okay before and even smacked me!" Kenren said, and the result was another punch.

"Huh, looks like you haven't met him. The Sanzo guy," Konzen said as he tried to stand.

"Yes, unfortunately for me I can't find him anywhere. Anyway, looks like you haven't found a place to stay! How about come to my place? My family runs an Inn around here!"

"But, we don't have money," Tenpou said.

"No, it's okay! Just think on this as a 'sorry' treat!"

And with that, the ex-rebel Gods found a place to stay. The boy told them his name, Akira. He grabbed his sack of food and showed the Gods the way to his family's Inn. Konzen, Kenren, and Tenpou followed him. How can they not? Since the rain poured even crazier than before, they had no choice but to accept it.

***

Meanwhile, Sanzo-ikkou...

When Konzen, Kenren, and Tenpou busy ran together to the Inn, Sanzo-ikkou just stepped themself at the town. Sanzo placed a sour look on his face, with his cigarette went drenched just like himself. Hakkai just laughed a little, looked at his group condition. Gojyo kept fighting with Goku on the back seat.

"Shit, the rain seems won't stop in the mean time! And it's all the MONKEY's fault!!" Gojyo shouted, rolled his eyes just like tried to provoke Goku.

"Yeah! Sure, keep going! It's all my FAULT!! SATISTIFIED??!!"

"Let me think... NO!"

"You Redcroach!! You just won't shut up!!" Goku summoned his Nyoibou and hit Gojyo's head.

"ITAI!! Hey, that's hurt!!"

"Shut up...," Sanzo said with a spooky voice. Without another words, Goku and Gojyo sat like a good kid.

"You sure know how to handle them, aren't you, Sanzo?" Hakkai said with a chuckle.

"Just keep driving."

Four of them arrived at the Inn that they were used to stay before. With that kind of rain, Sanzo-ikkou chose to stayed there again, at least until tomorrow morning. The Jeep stoped in front of the Inn and transform into the dragon again. Hakuryuu landed on Hakkai shoulder with a "Kyuuu~". Hakkai smiled and patted his dragon's head gently.

The group then walked inside and brought their belongings. Just like usual, Goku and Gojyo were the one who did that. Hakkai told the Inn keeper that they will stay for another night. And Sanzo... well, just smoked like usual. After that, the group went to their room to get some rest. When they reached their room, another group arrived at the inn.

"Phew, we arrive," Akira said.

"At last! Man, I'm so wet everywhere!" Kenren said as shook his head, tried to dry himself.

"Stop that. You just like a dog," Konzen said coldly.

"Oh yeah, daddy?"

"Don't call me daddy! I'm not your father!"

"Um... are they always like this?" Akira asked to Tenpou.

"Yes. Usually, there's another one of us and they fighting together. But, he's not here right now."

"Oh... Ah, that's right! The towel! Just wait here and I'll get you the towel!" And then Akira dropped his belongings slowly and went inside to get the towel for three of them.

Konzen, Kenren, and Tenpou then stood at their place and waited. Suddenly, a loud voice heard from the second floor with a *THWACK* sound. And then, someone ran down the stairs with his hand on his head. The Gods just stood in silence and shock, didn't believe their eyes. The boy with golden eyes and diadem walked to Inn keeper desk. Konzen stare at him with a wide eyes, couldn't say anything.

"Ah, excuse me," Goku said to the Inn keeper. "Ano, when we leaved this place before, I forgot to bring our food supplies. Is it, by any chance, somewhere in this place?"

"Goku..."

"Huh?" Goku turned his head to take a look at the man who called his name. Without any warning, Konzen ran to his side and hugged him tightly, didn't want to let him go for the second time. "N-nani?! Hee?!"

"Goku... I'm sorry...," Konzen said, held himself from crying. "I'm sorry I wasn't there when you need me."

"Hey, looks like our 'daddy' has find his little son," Kenren said with a wide grin.

"Goku, we've been searching for you! I'm glad you're okay," Tenpou said as patted Goku's head.

"Now we're here. You're not alone anymore... I'm promise I won't leave you again, I'm promise. No one will harm you anymore... Goku..."

"W-wait... What do you mean? S-sanzo, I thought you said you want to wait in the room. Why're you here? Hakkai, Gojyo, why Sanzo... huh, wait a minute... since when your hair grow so long, Hakkai?"

"What are you talking about, Goku?" Tenpou asked, a little confuse.

"He...? Gojyo, when did you cut your hair?"

"Gojyo...?" Kenren asked, looked around to search this Gojyo guy. "Who is he?"

"Huh? You're weird. Sanzo, what's wrong with... Wait. Sanzo, how come your hair been so long now when it's short 2 minutes ago?"

"Sanzo...? Goku, what do you mean?" Konzen broke his hug from Goku and looked at the boy's eyes.

"G-guys? What's wrong with you?"

"Goku, what took you so long?" Hakkai asked as walked down the stairs with two other man.

"What an idiot monkey! Why can't you even do something like this faster, Saru?!" Gojyo shouted annoyingly.

"Lower you voice, Stupid," Sanzo smacked Gojyo right on the face with his paper fan.

Goku looked at Sanzo with a shock face, still in Konzen's hand. Sanzo-ikkou almost screamed when saw 3 Gods who stood beside Goku. Akira came to the room with 3 pair of towels in his hand. He ran toward Sanzo and the other, and then gave the towels to them.

"Sorry for made you wait! Here's the to-... Wait... You're Sanzo-sama?!" Akira said surprise, took back the towels.

"Get back," Hakkai said to Akira, dragged him to stand behind him. "Who're they? Another replicas?"

"Who knows? Maybe they're. The problem is, is Goku there the real Goku or just a replica," Gojyo said, summoned his Shakujou.

"Hey, of course I'm the real one! You Pervy Lechy Kappa!"

"Whoa, since when you can say something like that? Who teach you that?" Kenren asked curiously.

"It's obvious that the monkey is the real one. So... Who are you?" Sanzo asked, pointed his gun to Konzen, who still had Goku in his protection.

"You're the one who should answer that. Who are you?"

"Let Goku go."

"No, I won't let him go again. Not for the second time..."

"Che. Stubborn replica."

Sanzo then shot one bullet to Konzen, but Konzen dodged it easily. He brought Goku, who still in a bit of confusion, to escape from Sanzo wrath. When they almost reached the door, Gojyo swung his weapon and made the chained sickle flied to them. Kenren stopped the sickle, used his long gun. Right when the sickle stopped, he aimed Gojyo and almost let go one bullet to the halfblood head. Luckily, Hakkai made it on time to tackled Gojyo's leg, and the bullet missed.

Then, Hakkai joined his arms to let go his Chi blast. Unfortunately, before he could do collected enough power, Tenpou ran toward him and swung his sword. So, the battle still has one result... draw.

Tenpou and Kenren jumped to Konzen side, and Hakkai and Gojyo jumped to Sanzo side. Konzen tighten his hand on Goku, protected him with all of his soul. The battle continued without any warning. Gojyo made the first move to Konzen when Hakkai tried to snatch Goku back. Still, Kenren gave a small smirk and prevented them to do so. He stepped in front of Gojyo, shot him but Gojyo dodged it. Hakkai then tried to kick Kenren, but he missed.

"Don't miss judge me as a General in Western Army," Kenren said, grinned when he stepped his feet on the floor. "And looks like your friend need a little help."

"Huh?" Gojyo and Hakkai turned their head. "SANZO!"

Sanzo fought with Tenpou, still the result showed that Tenpou will win the battle. Sanzo shot another bullet but keep missed every time. Tenpou then kicked Sanzo's evoker, threw it to another place, outside Sanzo's reach. Right when he almost gave the last swing...

"STOP!! DON'T HURT HIM!!"

Goku shouted with a shock voice, made everyone in the room stopped. Tenpou jerked and looked at Goku with a surprised look. With Tenpou lose his focus, Sanzo made a move and kicked Tenpou's leg, made him lose his balance.

"Itai...! That's hurt!" Tenpou said, cared his leg.

"I asked once again. Who are you?" Sanzo asked, stood up and quickly grabbed his gun.

3 Gods gave a sigh and nodded in defeat. They stood up and stayed besides Goku. Konzen let Goku free from his embrace and placed his arm at Goku's shoulder.

"My name's Konzen."

"Tenpou."

"Kenren."

"And we come here...," Konzen said. "To bring Goku back with us to Heaven."

"What?!" Sanzo, Hakkai, and Gojyo together.

"Now... Goku, let's go back," The blond God looked right to Goku, moved his face closer to the monkey's face. "No one will harm you there anymore. Everything's over now, and we can live in peace there... There's nothing you need to worry now, Goku."

"Wh... Who are you?" Goku asked, a little trembled.

"Huh?"

"Who are you?"

"Goku...?" Konzen looked a little confuse, just like Kenren and Tenpou who stood beside him. "What do you mean? It's me... Konzen."

"I... I don't know you! You... WHO ARE YOU?!"

"Goku...?"

***

In the Heaven, Kanzeon smiled as looked at his nephew shocked and confused face. She placed her face on her hand and crossed her leg.

"My, my... Looks like I forgot to tell you. Goku's memories about 500 years ago has been erased. And of course, he doesn't remember anything about you and your friends. Now... what will you do as a sun to that kid? Will you be able to be his light just like before...? Or will you give up and back to your old self? Hm... we'll see..."

Rie : Yeah! It's finish!

Konzen : Now just wait a minute!! Why the hell Goku doesn't remember about ME?!?!?!

Rie : That's the part of the story!

Tenpou : Goku, are you really don't remember about us?

Goku : Hm... let me think... (tap his lower lips) No, I'm positive... maybe...

Kenren : I have chocolate for you if you remember. (swing a chocolate in front of Goku)

Goku : I remember!

Rie : I have 100 meat bun for you if you forget.

Goku : Then I don't remember!

Kenren : Kuso...! You playing dirty!

Rie : I'm not. Anyway, Review! ^-^