The Beginning Part 2:

The End

Summary: "Do you really think no one was going to die?" "Shut up…" "You expect us to save the world and live?" "I said shut up!" "It has to happen and if any of us is going to die it's gonna be me!"

Chapter 10

The End

A/N: Yay! Part two! I'm so excited! Okay, so of course I know some of you were not paying attention so this part of the story skips all the way to the ikkou's arrival in India! Enjoy! Short chapter.

"This is bullshit."

Sanzo growled as he griped the rock face, "I agree."

Goku looked over his shoulder and frowned at Nai and Sanzo, "But its okay right? Just a walk up the mountain?"

Nai was only slightly upset by his comment and sighed, "This ain't no leisurely walk Goku."

Sanzo growled as his hand slipped a little, "This is rock climbing."

Gojyo puffed slightly and looked to Hakkai who was in the lead so far, "Are you sure this is the right way?"

Hakkai blinked some sweat from his eye, "Yes Gojyo. Just because you keep asking doesn't mean my answer will change."

Goku continued his climb alongside the redhead, "Stop bitching Kappa. Can't you be like Sanzo and just bear it?"

"Bear it!" the hanyou pointed down to the monk, "This guy is just too old and tired to say anything!"

Nai squeaked as a bullet hit the rock next to Gojyo's head, "Sanzo what the hell?"

The blonde ignored her and growled as Hakka helped pull the other man over the side. Hakkai chuckled nervously before yelling down to them, "Are you two coming anytime soon? I can't imagine that that's comfortable."

Sanzo looked up at them with a scoff and Nai laughed lightly, "C'mon old man."

"Allow me girly." Gojyo reached down and grabbed her hand, easily lifting her over the side.

The woman sighed as she looked out at the sun in the distance from the top of the mountain. "Wow."

Goku put his arms above his head and shouted, "AWESOME!"

"Shut up!"

Nai laughed, "C'mon Sanzo, the view is not going to kill you."

"No one said anything about the view. It's you idiots that will be doing the killing."

Hakkai smiled and placed their pack on the ground. He pulled out the map and mulled over it for a while. "Well, the next town is a good two day's drive from here. I say we set up camp."

"Girly, help me put up the tent."

The woman ignored the redhead and patted Goku on the back, "Goku go help him put up the tent."

"Aw! Why do I have to help the dirty cockroach?"

"Because I did it the last time."

Gojyo stomped his foot, "I don't want that damn monkey's help!"

"Shut it kappa!"

"You shut it monkey!"

"Both of you shut it before I shut it for you!" the woman glared at them and they trudged off to complete their task.

Hakkai chuckled as he set up the fire for dinner, "You almost sounded like Sanzo."

The blonde flicked his cigarette away from his current sitting area, "Monkey see monkey do."

"Hey!" Goku chimed in from across the clearing.

Nai chuckled as she helped Hakkai with the food, "C'mon Sanzo. You know you're proud."

"I'm just glad to not be the only one keeping the peace around here."

Hakkai smiled a little more, "Keeping the peace? Is that what you call it? Okay then." Nai giggled and turned her face away from Sanzo to avoid his glare. Even after so much time traveling together and knowing each other in general, his glare still made her uncomfortable.

"So Sanzo, no protests to sleeping outside?"

"Tch. We'll be in an inn soon enough. It's only a days drive."

The woman stood up from the fire and collected her gun, "Right. You get crankier after a night of sleeping on the ground."

She held her hand out for his Smith and Wesson and retrieved a cloth from their pack. Sanzo handed her his gun, "Be careful with it."

"I'm not gonna break your itty bitty girly gun your holiness."

Hakkai handed the man a bowl of stew, "You manage to stay so calm with her."

"It's no different than how I am with you."

"Of course of course. I was just observing."

"Well observe something else. I've just known her longer so she's a bit easier to tolerate even when she's being a pain in my ass."

Hakkai glanced at the woman, sitting Indian style over by the very cliff they climbed over, "Whatever you say Sanzo." He then shouted over to Nai, "Nai are you hungry?"

"Not right now, I can eat later!"

"Food? Food!"

"Get back here monkey! The tent isn't up!"

Nai was too focused on the tiny pieces of the Smith and Wesson before her to notice the bowl of stew set down next to her. "Hey."

She looked up at Sanzo, "Oh, hey. Thanks."

He quietly sat next to her and watched her work, "What are you doing exactly?" he asked after a while.

"My dad always said a clean tool works a million times better." She then laughed, "You mean to tell me that as many times as I've sat at the table with our guns you're just now asking what I'm doing?"

"Hm. Yeah."

Nai bit her bottom lip and nodded before putting the gun back together, "Here."

His violet eyes inspected the gun carefully before firing a single shot out into the sky, over the cliff. "Thanks."

The woman gently grabbed his hand as she set the spoon back in her bowl, "Sit with me Sanzo."

Sanzo sat without a fuss and looked out at the stars, Nai doing the same next to him. After a time she put her head on his shoulder; he stiffened a bit, but relaxed after a moment. "I peaked at the map. The next town is in India."

"Hm. We made it."

She sighed, "I'm still alive Sanzo."

"We all are."