Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction / Saiyuki Reload Fan Fiction ❯ The Story of the Recalled Souls ❯ The Journey Begins ( Chapter 3 )

The Story of the Recalled Souls

 

Chapter 3: The Journey Begins

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Saiyuki or Journey to the West.

 

=-Bang-=

 

Sanzo smoked his third cigarette of the hour and stared bitterly out the window. It was raining hard again, and since Hakkai's car (which Goku dubbed “Hakuryu” because of a white dragon bumper sticker) had no roof they were unable to drive in the rain. It was frustrating. But Hakkai absolutely refused to buy a roof for the damned jeep “Oh now, Sanzo.” He would say “There's no use in wasting money when we have a lovely blue tarp to protect Hakuryu from water damage.”

 

Thus their present position: the same roach motel they had been staying at for the past three days. The rain refused to let up and Sanzo was in more of a fowl mood than ever because of it, which is why he stood at the window glaring at the downpour, chain smoking and sulking. Although if anyone dare say he was sulking they might loose a nut…or if Goku said anything she would lose…something else.

 

“Speaking of Goku…” he glanced around the room, though the TV was on she was nowhere to be seen. She wasn't in the bathroom either when he checked. With an exasperated grunt he walked next door to Gojyo and Hakkai's room and marched in without knocking.

 

“HEY!” Gojyo snapped “I don't care if you think we're friends or not but you can't just come in here whenever you fucking feel like it, asshole.” Sanzo sneered at him.

 

“I can do what I want since I'm paying for this goddamn room, plus you have my monkey.”

 

“I'm not a monkey, Sanzo!” Goku answered matter-of-factly, Sanzo turned towards her. She was sitting on Hakkai's bed with the other brunette with dice in her hand, Hakkai smiled warmly at him.

 

“Feeling better, Marcus?” he asked politely.

 

“His name is Sanzo now, Hakkai!” Goku corrected.

 

“Oh, I'm sorry. Old habits die hard.” He smiled “Are you feeling better, Sanzo?”

 

Sanzo snorted and stared at Goku again “What are you teaching her?”

 

 

“I'm teaching him Craps!” Goku answered gleefully “He's pretty good, look at all the money he's won!” She motioned towards the large pile of bills lying freely beside Hakkai.

 

“Where did you get that money?” Sanzo narrowed his eyes.

 

“Uh…” she glanced sideways at Gojyo “No…where…” Sanzo `hn'd' and told her to come back to the room when she was done and he left.

 

Goku cocked her head to the side curiously a frown forming across her soft face “Is Sanzo angry about something?” Hakkai chuckled and shook his head.

 

“He always gets like this when it rains…or when we're in a town too long. And well…we're sort of in both situations.” He replied.

 

“Why does he get like that?”

 

“Oh…well…I'm not sure about that.”

 

“Because he needs to get laid.” Gojyo replied from the other side of the room, Hakkai hid his laughter behind a slender hand.

 

“You're so gross, Gojyo!” Goku growled while throwing a pillow at the red-haired man across the room “Just because you're a horn-ball doesn't mean everyone else is, too.” Gojyo raised his eyebrows.

 

“Oh-ho!” he sneered “So the monkey is a little nun!” Goku threw a pillow at him.

 

“I am not a nun!”

 

“That's right, good monkey. I didn't say you were a `nun' I said you were a `little nun,' emphasis on the `little.'”

 

“Shut up you…you…”

 

“'You…' sexy beast of a man?”

 

“YOU PERVY WATER SPRITE!”

 

Whoa.

 

The three of them sat in stunned silence as if lightning had just struck the middle of the room. Those words had just been way too familiar, like they had been spoken before. Goku set down the dice and stood up quickly. “I'm going back to my room.” Hakkai cleared his throat and tried to give her the money back “Oh, keep it. I took it from Gojyo's wallet anyway.”

 

“WHAT?!” Gojyo screamed but the dark-haired girl had already left and was receding back to her room.

 

=-Bang, Bang…That awful sound. Bang, Bang…-=

 

Sanzo was standing at the window again when Goku returned to the room, still taken aback by what had occurred in the other room. Sanzo caught her confused expression and asked what was wrong. She blinked rapidly and shrugged, not saying anything as she lied onto her bed face down.

 

They were quiet for a long time with the only sound coming from the cartoon show playing on the TV, although neither of them was watching. Sanzo had his back turned to the girl but he could tell she was staring intently at his back. He noticed several indistinct thoughts flooding his mind but these thoughts were definitely not his own. Somehow the low and (thankfully) temporary hum of ideas were familiar and it was that same gut feeling that told him they belonged to Goku.

 

Sanzo turned around slowly and locked onto her golden gaze. Her eyes spoke curiosity and wonder and something else that he was unable to recognize. “Do you have something to say, Goku?” he asked quietly, she blinked slowly several times before she let a lazy grin crawl across her face.

 

“Nooo…” she replied slyly, Sanzo cocked a brow and his violet eyes narrowed.

 

“Liar.” Goku grinned even wider and rolled onto her back, never breaking eye contact with the violet eyed man. “You don't like secrets and I don't like lies.”

 

Goku's grin dropped and she sighed “I'm not trying to lie…” she said softly “I was just wondering…”

 

“Wondering what?”

 

“Wondering why you're letting me stay with you.” Okay, simple enough.

 

“I'm letting you stay with us because you're child who doesn't need to be running around stealing and living off scraps in a shitty drain under a road.” He answered flatly, Goku raised her eyebrows.

 

“First of all the drain had never been used and secondly are you going to tell me why you're really letting me stay?” Okay, not so simple. Sanzo broke eye contact and rubbed the back of his neck. “Do you feel it, too?”

 

Sanzo gulped and stared fixedly at her “Feel what?”

 

Goku sighed and played with a loose thread on the comforter “Don't you feel like this has all happened before? The names I picked for you guys…when I gave them to you it was like right off the top of my head. I've never even heard those names before. But it just feels like I've known the names for a long time. Like this has all happened before.”

 

Sanzo stared at her silently, watching her play with the thread. So she had felt it too, the familiarity of it all. Goku looked back up at him again “Don't you feel the same way?” she asked in a small voice. Yeah, he did feel it. His eyes told her so. This had happened before. Neither of them knew how or when but it had happened. It was like a bad case of déjà vu that none of them could snap out of.

 

Later that night when the four of them were all eating dinner Goku brought the subject up again, Gojyo and Hakkai agreed. “Maybe it's that, uh 'reanimation' or whatever those Buddhists believe in?” Gojyo put in, Goku frowned while Hakkai and Sanzo sighed.

 

“I don't think that's right, Gojyo.” She replied.

 

“That's because it's not.” Sanzo snapped, he was really irritated by the perverted man's illiteracy “It's reincarnation, you moron. And I don't believe in it, I'm Catholic so let's drop the subject.” The conversation didn't end there however because later in the evening Goku brought it up again.

 

It was late and they were both lying in bed awake, unable to sleep. It was raining again. “Sanzo…” Goku whispered tentatively, not sure if he was sleeping or not.

 

“What, monkey?” Sanzo replied.

 

“What if reincarnation is real and this really is karma pulling us all back together?” Sanzo sighed and sat up, fumbling around the nightstand for his cigarettes and lighter. It was dark in the room so he couldn't see. When he found them he lit up and inhaled deeply.

 

“It might be possible.” He crumpled up the empty carton and threw it to the floor. He would need to buy more tomorrow.

 

“But you said you don't believe in reincarnation, Sanzo!”

 

“I know what I said, Goku.”

 

“Then what do you mean?” Sanzo growled in frustration and squeezed the bridge of his nose. “You said you were Catholic.”

 

“Goku,” he started grudgingly “I am Catholic, but I don't agree with most of their teachings…I don't even think I believe in God.” Goku stared at him quizzically in the dark, concentrating on the faint glow of his cigarette

 

“Why?” she asked

 

“Because God has never once answered my prayers.” He answered while blowing a puff of smoke “I've had problems and negativity thrusted upon me since I was a child. Maybe reincarnation is real and maybe I did something wrong in one of my past lives. But I won't let that bastard Gojyo know what I'm thinking and it's best you don't either.”

 

“I won't, Sanzo.” Goku replied lightly she hesitated before speaking again “Sanzo?”

 

“What?”

 

“What did God do to make you so angry with Him?” Ouch. He had definitely not been expecting that question. But he wouldn't let his astonishment get the better of him.

 

“Why did you run away from home?”

 

“Because I wanted to find happiness.” The gold haired man couldn't help but turn in the dark to face the dark outline he figured was her. “My parents were wealthy and stuff so they only care about how they look around other people. So they didn't care that all the stuff they were making me do was making me unhappy. What mattered to them is that they looked good.”

 

Sanzo sat in silence and finished his cigarette. He hadn't actually been expecting her to answer so truthfully (or at all), and though the downpour of the rain was loud and the rolling of thunder was deafening he could tell that Goku was sniffling quietly: crying. He knew all to well how tears sounded.

 

With a heavy sigh he continued speaking “Goku,” he started after a moment “Have you found happiness?”

 

“…Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have.” And she smiled so brightly that even through the dark Sanzo could see it.

 

They were quiet again for a long time just lying in their beds listening to the rain. It was during the moments of silence that they seemed to understand each other best, taking in what they were told. But being who they were silence wasn't always so golden and after several hours Goku broke it.

 

“I think the sun is rising.”

 

“Hard to tell with all this fucking rain.” Sanzo snorted but he then noticed that the rain was no longer falling.

 

“Why do you hate the rain so much, Sanzo?” Goku snickered.

 

“That's something I'll tell you later on, Goku. But for now we need to get to sleep.”

 

“…Okay. But just so ya know, I'm not sleepy.”

 

“So you say, monkey.”

 

“…I'm not a monkey.”

 

“Go to sleep.”

 

“…You go to sleep.”

 

=-Bang, Bang. My baby shot me down.-=

 

Gojyo nuzzled the bare neck of Hakkai who was wrapped warmly in his arms, his back pressed firmly against the blood-red head's smooth chest. Hakkai grunted softly and pulled out of the other's arms. “It's morning, Sanzo and Goku are probably awake.”

 

“I don't fucking care.” Gojyo replied, pulling him back “Let the little virgins walk in and see some lovely men in each other's arms. It's hot and you know it.” Hakkai rolled his eyes despite the smile across his face.

 

“I highly doubt Sanzo's a virgin, Gojyo.”

 

“Hah, hah, you're funneh.”

 

“And your breath smells.” Hakkai chuckled, making Gojyo frown and release him. “I think we should brush our teeth and take showers.”

 

“Together?” Gojyo grinned and sat up quickly.

 

“Showers not a shower, Gojyo.” Hakkai stood and stretched “Where are my clothes, I need to dress.”

 

“Why?” Hakkai frowned at the whine.

 

“Because the man of today requires all citizens to wear clothes, dear.”

 

“Damn the man.”

 

“And all of his requirements, no?” Hakkai chuckled again and pulled his pants on before disappearing into the bathroom.

 

“So what do you think of this whole situation with the little girl?” Gojyo called out, scratching his nose non chalantly.

 

“I told Sanzo what I think.” Hakkai replied from the bathroom.

 

“I heard that bullshit but I want to know what you really think.” Gojyo was no fool (regardless of whatever Sanzo said) he had known Hakkai for three years which was enough time to know the real Hakkai. “I also want to know what you actually think about the whole déjà vu shit going on.”

 

In the bathroom Hakkai furrowed his brow as he removed his pants and glanced at his reflection in the mirror. A large, twisted scar ran across his lower stomach just underneath his bellybutton. The scar had been from an incident three years previous to their present position; the wound that had caused the scar was actually what brought the three men together.

 

“Well?” Hakkai blinked his emerald green eyes before removing his glasses and clearing his throat.

 

“Well,” he said loudly “I have only one opinion for both topics.”

 

“Which is?”

 

“When Goku said that our meeting seems familiar and I agreed, well I actually meant that. And although Sanzo says he doesn't believe in reincarnation or anything like that I think he truthfully does.”

 

“Thus meaning?”

 

“Thus meaning Sanzo feels the four of us being together is meant to happen which is why he keeps Goku.”

 

“All in all?”

 

“All in all…?” Hakkai thought carefully as he stepped under the hot running water “All in all, I do not care as long as we get away from what is behind us.”

 

“Hah! So like you.”

 

=-You can use my straw I don't have cooties.-=

 

“Hey, Sanzo?” Goku started as she helped load Hakuryu “Where are we going?”

 

“West.” Sanzo replied simply “But first we're to stop at a store, I think I saw one in town, Hakkai.” Goku dropped the bag she was loading.

 

“We can't go to there.” She said quickly, receiving odd stares from the others “The guards all know me there.”

 

“Ooh, the little monkey-nun has a criminal record.” Gojyo snickered and Goku cast a glare in his direction while kicking the bag on the ground. “That's my bag you little monster.”

 

“I know.” Goku snapped back leaving it on the ground for Gojyo to pick it up himself. “Why are we heading west, Sanzo?”

 

“Not exactly sure.” He answered “Seemed like a good idea at the beginning.”

 

“Beginning of what?” Sanzo frowned and didn't answer, silently ending the conversation for the moment. He would explain later when they were alone “So where is our next stop?”

 

“Wherever we end up eight hours from now.” Gojyo answered the open question.

 

“Why?” Goku asked yet again, making the red head groan.

 

“Are you a broken record?”

 

“Are you gay?” Sanzo snickered at the retort and silently praised the girl for hitting a nerve attached to both Hakkai and Gojyo. But Goku caught the approving stare in the side-view mirror and grinned wickedly.

 

“Shut the fuck up you retarded little monkey.”

 

“Oh, sad day are you on your homosexual period?”

 

“I swear to fucking GOD I will murder you in your sleep.”

 

“At least I don't have to worry about rape.” Goku grinned slyly as Hakkai started the car and drove off, heading toward the next town set in the west.

 

“MONKEY!”

 

“Faggot.”

 

“I WILL STOMP ON YOUR LITTLE MONKEY FACE UNTIL YOUR TINY MONKEY BRAIN POPS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MONKEY NOSE!”

 

“Aw, sad day, why are ya mad?” Goku giggled calmly “Is it because you're period? Is that why you're angry? Do we need to buy some Midol?”

 

“THAT'S IT!” Gojyo screamed and pulled Goku into a choke hold she shrieked loudly and began to hit whatever she could reach, incidentally smacking a hand harshly onto Gojyo's “jewels” making him shout and (accidentally) kick Sanzo in the front passenger seat.

 

Sanzo turned around and smacked the both of them from the front seat, issuing more shrieks of pain. Hakkai only smiled awkwardly and chuckled “This is gong to be a long journey.”

 

=-Zed's dead-=

 

AN: Thank you all so much for reading! I really hope you're enjoying it. A note to those who may find the homosexual slurs a bit…er offensive. I am certainly not saying anyone homosexual is wrong or anything. It's just something…eh…funny? Haha. Please don't kill me.

 

Also, for those of you who don't know, the quotes I put as the separation lines are actually from movies. The first ones “bang” and stuff are from the opening song (“Bang Bang” by Nancy Sinatra) from Kill Bill volume one. The last two are from the movie Pulp Fiction. Just a fun fact.