chapter 6: then you get desperate

the sound of breakg gss caught goku's attention as he alkg through the hall on his way towards the kitchen they had been pent up the lodge all day and now the sun was settg behd the ountas it was pretty and he stayed at the lookg outside for hours while sanzo soked and read the paper, grateful that he was beg iet for once there was no better ti when the sun was so alive "right before it dies out, saru? you ake sick" well, a sanzo nt was a sanzo nt at least he talked

gojyo spent ost of the ti flirtg with the tavern waitress and drkg typical but hakkaihakkai didn't see to want to talk to anybody he apologized for not beg able to ok for the too tired, hakkai said and that was that sanzo wouldn't allow anybody to pester the an about food no estion no answer either "jt leave hi alone" the priest snapped earlier "you're fally gettg to hi it was evitable" goku didn't believe hi though hakkai always had ti for hi hakkai never got ad with hi hakkai had the patience of a sat

now hakkai was actg like a ghost it worried hi trendoly he crept to the roo the healer and sanzo shared- not even botherg to wonder why the onk refed to go and why he preferred goku's pany that day stead of hakkai's it jt wasn't done ore likely that the stars would shift their positions and there would be a pletely new sky to look up at it jt wasn't natural

goku found the door ajar and peeked

"i' not huan" he heard hakkai utter iserably "i' a godda youkai!" his hands went to the cuffs at his ears and upon touchg the, he drew his hand back as if he were burned

"uhakkai?"

at the sound of goku's voice, the an estion whipped around like a thief caught red handed the iddle of a heist "goku!" his eyes widened there was no ncealg the broken irror at his feet where a rando ball of ki had hit he was jt lookg at hiselfand then it jtit jt flew out of his hand, shatterg everythg

bad enough to thk he was huan ndenation to know that he was a youkai nataku killed people like hi a better an right with a youkai heaven, all was sure to go to hell he was sure of it

"you're hand's bleedg!"

"what? oh" tenpou looked absently down the boy was right it was staed red when he looked up aga, goku was diggg through hakkai's ggage and after a ont produced a first aid kit "sit down" tenpou dubly obeyed and fell to a stiff archair the rner of the roo

sittg at his feet, goku got a bas filled ater and began to wash the superficial wound that stretched across tenpou's pal