Gensomaden Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ Crimson Shadows ❯ Second Day ( Chapter 12 )

"Look guys! I caught a fish!" Goku cried as he held up a fish for the others to see. Hakkai smiled.

"Well, it seems as though Goku has brought us all breakfast," he said and Gojyo frowned.

"I don't like fish," he said and Hakkai shrugged his shoulders.

"Sometimes, you have to deal with things that you don't like. Here, Goku, let's put this on the fire. After we clean up camp, we'll leave."

"I hope she's all right."

"You really like her, don't you?" Goku asked.

"What do you think, dumbass?" he asked and Goku sat down. Hakkai took the fish from his arms and speared a stick through the fish and placed it into the roaring fire. Goku laid his head in his hands then thought for a bit.

"Yeah...I guess you DO like her, otherwise you wouldn't be going to all this trouble for her."

"She means a lot. I don't know why but she does."

"You're in love. I understand that. I was that way once. I hope that your life turns out similar to the way I wanted my own life to turn out," Hakkai said as Sanzo reached for Gojyo's package of cigarettes.

"All this fuss over a woman. Pathetic," he said and Goku looked at him.

"Haven't you ever liked a girl?" he asked and cried out in pain as Sanzo rapped him across the head with his fan. "Ow! Why did you do that for?"

"You talk so much, ape."

"I was only asking a question."

"There's a time to be silent, though. And that time is now."

Goku frowned and turned away from him. Gojyo walked over to where he sat and placed a foot on his shoulder.

"Quit sulking, dumbass," he said and Goku pushed his boot off of him.

"What are you trying to do, kill me you pervert?" Goku demanded and Gojyo smiled.

"Just trying to make you feel better, that's all. No one likes it when you sulk like a little kid. Of course, you can't help that."

"I'm NOT a little kid!"

"You are in my book, dumbass."

"Stop calling me that! Kappa!"

"Do you think he'll grow up for Miss Rianna?" Hakkai asked as the two wrestled on the ground.

"I hope so. Not even that woman deserves something like that," Sanzo said as Hakkai prodded the fish.

"True, but I think he'd make a perfect father. He's just like a sort of brother to Goku."

"Relatives like him, he could do without."

"He's not all that bad. He's been a great asset to us this far. He just gets annoying at times."

"More like all the time. I don't see why she would want him."

"She sees something inside him that the rest of us cannot see."