Chapter 13

Halfbreed

A/N: I promise you'll love the ending. It's a long one!

"Gojyo, what the fuck?"

"Oh don't start with me girly! It was the monkey!"

Goku scratched his head and turned his cards upside down, "Wha? I don't even know how to play."

Gojyo rolled his eyes, "Stupid monkey. It's go fish."

Nai snatched the man's cards, "Then why do you feel the need to cheat! Sore loser!"

Hakkai chuckled as he took a seat at the table with the teapot and some cups, "I don't think it's wise to teach Goku how to gamble."

Nai and Gojyo looked at each other before looking at the healer, "It's Go Fish!" they shouted together.

Sanzo snatched the cards from all three of them, "Why don't you find a quieter game to play."

The woman put her feet on the table, "Better question. Why don't we go out?"

Gojyo stood, "Good idea."

Hakkai frowned a bit, "You still need your rest Nai. I think you should try and relax a little more."

"I've relaxed for two whole days!" the woman whined, "I need to get out of this inn."

Sanzo eyed the woman, "What is it that you plan on doing?"

She moved to the window and looked out at the street below, "Anything! We're in another country that most people will never get to see. I don't want to ride through it like it's not here."

"We have a mission to complete."

"Oh shut up!"

Hakkai sipped the last of his tea and sighed, "She does have a point. We should experience some things beyond just the food."

Goku scratched his head, "What is there besides food?"

Gojyo grinned, "Women and booze."

Hakkai shook his head, "The culture is completely new. There is meaning in everything."

Nai nodded, "See, Hakkai agrees."

Sanzo pinched the bridge of his nose. He always managed to lose in situations like this once Hakkai switched sides. He sighed heavily and stood from his seat, "You idiots sure as hell aren't leaving me in here."

Goku was the first up and out of the room, followed closely by a concerned Hakkai. Sanzo stood his ground and Nai glanced to him worriedly. Gojyo held out his hand for hers, "Girly?"

"Um…I'll be down."

Gojyo spared her a sad glance and glared at Sanzo before leaving the room. Nai closed the door and lent against it, "Spit it out."

"What the hell was that?"

"What was what Sanzo?"

He glared at her, "What the hell is the Kappa's problem?"

Nai perked a delicate chocolate brow at the blonde, "Wanting to hold my hand is a problem now? I've always held his hand, or slept on him in the car, or sat in his lap! Shit you won't let me do!"

Sanzo approached her, "No one said you couldn't do it."

"Right, because you'll treat me the same? I wish it were just you and I sometimes, like it used to be. Apparently all the extra people have made you someone I don't know."

"You know me."

"No I don't." She stepped closer to him, "This person is not my Sanzo."

"Nothing about me has changed Nai. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about."

Nai opened the door and looked over her shoulder at him, "My Sanzo didn't flinch when I touched him."

"That was amazing!"

Gojyo laughed as he held onto a Nai who was having serious trouble walking a straight line. She tugged on the beautifully patterned scarf around her neck that Hakkai picked out for her earlier.

"Let's go to another one."

"Girly you know I would love to but we need to go back."

Nai frowned, "Oh, when your alone you can stay out all night but with me we have to go back?"

"You know it's not like that."

"Whatever."

He stopped walking and turned his back to her, she pouted, "Hey!"

Gojyo stooped down and looked over his shoulder, "We'll never get there with you stumbling the whole way."

Nai wrapped her arms around his neck and climbed on, "Fine. I have no gripes against being carried."

"Girly, liquor always goes right through you."

She chuckled into his hair, "Pathetic for someone who was raised in a bar huh?"

He adjusted her a bit, "Maybe."

They both fell silent for a while and Nai put her hands flat on the half-breed's chest, "Hey Gojyo?"

"Yeah girly?"

"Did I ever tell you my mom was half-breed?"

He smiled, "No. Why are you telling me this now?"

Gojyo felt her shrug, "I guess… you remind me of her a little. I only really know what my dad told me."

"When did she die?"

"I was two…I believe. My dad said she was sick, I don't believe him."

"Why?"

She nuzzled the back of his neck, "She had so much life. He said she could drink like a fish and carry a tune, she would stand on the bar and sing and dance… She was witty too."

"You miss her?"

"Actually I wish I knew her. But…you're a good substitute."

He chuckled in response and she yawned.

"Girly?"

"Hm?"

"I thought half-breed's couldn't have children."

Nai smiled, "Lies human's made up to keep dirty blood from multiplying. The fact that I'm here makes that thought irrelevant."

"Thanks girly."

"No problem."

"Ugh. Shut up shut up shut up."

"What the hell did I tell you? One more drink then back to the inn!" Sanzo barked across the table.

"Oh shut it baldy! Don't be a fucking killjoy."

Hakkai frowned at the woman who had her head on the restaurant table as the other men yelled at each other, Hakuryuu rubbed against her cheek, "Maybe you two could keep your voices down? Nai doesn't look too well."

Sanzo sneered at her, "Stupid woman. She knows she can't hold her liquor and she needed more rest in the first place."

"Please just shut up." Her almost incoherent wine sounded muffled as she talked into the table.

Goku shoved a few breakfast pastries into his mouth, "The kappa's a bad influence."

"Shut up monkey!"

"It wasn't Gojyo."

Hakkai put a hand on her back, "What?"

"I made him stay with me. I was trying to get drunk."

Sanzo snapped the paper in front of his face and scanned the foreign news, "Don't stick up for that idiot."

"Sanzo." The priest lowered the paper to look at her and she lifted her head, "It was me. Now let's just eat and go."

Goku didn't need to be told twice as he shoveled more food into his mouth and Hakkai sipped his tea. Sanzo and Gojyo glared at each other but continued to eat silently. They ate in peace for a while longer before the window's shattered.

Hakkai chuckled nervously, "Well. I didn't think the peace would go on that long."

"I wasn't finished eating!"

Nai hefted up her gun but the group of demons simply smirked at her. Their weapon was huge. Sanzo rolled his eyes, "Same plan as usual. Kill me and take the scripture?"

The demons laughed and one spoke up, "We're going to let your friends kill you."

They unloaded the heavy machined gun on the group of five who flipped the table amongst the screams and yells of the other patrons. A waitress went down next to Nai but she noticed no blood or wound, but instead a small blinking metal leach. It beeped before detaching and running away.

"Do you guys see this?"

The gun stopped and Goku slapped at his shoulder, "What is this thing?"

Nai panicked and reached over to pull it off, "I can't get it off."

"It hurts!"

The woman stopped pulling and looked to Hakkai who had been next to her. He was trying to pull one off his chest, "These are extremely uncomfortable."

"They're generators!" the demon shouted.

Gojyo fussed with one on the back of his neck, "Shit! Get it off!"

Sanzo pointed his Smith and Wesson at the cocky demon, "What kind of generators?"

"Minus Wave generators."

At that moment the gun was smacked from Sanzo's hand and a firm grip wrapped around his wrist, "Goku let go!"

The gold headband was still firmly in place but his hair was long and his eyes were wild. Gojyo put his hands in his hair and hung his head, "Gojyo-!"

Hands wrapped around Nai's neck from behind and she wrestled with Hakkai a bit before crawling back to Gojyo, "Fight it Gojyo!"

"Nai we have to go."

"But Sanzo-!"

"Now! Let's go Hakuryuu!"

"Dr. Nii, mission accomplished."

The doctor chuckled happily in his seat and terminated the radio connection, "I should have thought of this sooner huh bunny?"