Saiyuki Fan Fiction ❯ Shades of Time ❯ Heaven ( Chapter 2 )

 

Knock, knock, knock. Tenpou sighed and tried to bury himself further into the pile of books and maps currently strewn haphazardly across his desk, floor, every available flat surface in the room and ignore the summons. Knock, knock, knock, this time louder. He knew that knock, didn't want to answer the door. He knew that knock because every time the Southern Army returned from a mission that knock sounded on his door. Usually within an hour.

 

Goku looked up at him from where he sat on the floor coloring in one of Tenpou's maps. “You know she'll just open it herself in a minute. One way or another.”

 

“That woman is a menace. What did I ever do to deserve this much harassment?” Tenpou lamented, wanting to cover his ears as the next set of knocks came. “I suppose I'll have to answer before I have to put in for another . . .”

 

Boom! “Tenpou, darling, I know you're in there,” a falsely sweet voice called from the other side of the door. There was an almost deafening crack as wood splintered and the door flew open so hard it rebounded off of the wall and half closed again.

 

Tenpou sighed and finished the sentence. “Door.”

 

“Told ya!” Goku said, resuming his coloring.

 

“Good morning, Tenpou, dear. Did you miss me?”

 

“Like I'd miss malaria,” he deadpanned, shaking his head and glaring at the woman in the doorway.

 

“Pissy much this morning, my love? Speaking of pissy, his royal majesty of PMS in males wants you,” she said, striding into the room and looking over Goku's coloring.

 

“Konzen?”

 

“Who else would I be talking about? Is there any other man in Heaven who's perpetually on the rag for no apparent reason? Kenren mentioned it about a half an hour ago.”

 

“So, why didn't Kenren just come and tell me himself?” Tenpou asked, mildly fearing the answer.

 

She cocked her head to the side and studied him for a moment before saying, “Probably because he's taped to his office chair.”

 

“Oh, gods!” Tenpou said, before bolting past her and out the, now broken, door.

 

She went to the door and stuck her head out, calling after him, “I was nice this time and used the medical tape instead of the duct tape!” She came back into the room still chuckling. “Some days it's just too easy to wind them up.”

 

Goku smiled up at her from his place on the floor. “What're we doing today, Shi-ne?”

 

She hunched down to his level. “Well, I brought you some strawberry daifuku from the lower world, it's in my office. So, I figure you'll want to eat that first. Then I thought we could kidnap your friend away from his keepers for a little while and go play by the big waterfall.”

 

“Yay!”

 

She laughed and ruffled his hair. “Come on then, wild child. We have cranky people to annoy! Can't let the Merciful Goddess have all the fun in that department, can we?”