"thank you"

"no proble" the boy said "does it hurt?"

"not anyore who taught you to dress wounds?"

goku looked up with ncern "you did hakkai"

"yes so i did" bad revery note to self: learn how to act "and what i good job on y part, eh?" he ughed listlessly, hopg the other wouldn't notice

"of urse! you're the sensei around here when it es to practical stuff" ntued goku as he pulled out a tube of otnt, read it, and after nfirg it was the rrect one, applied it to the now clean surface of sk sanzo was there for anythg cynically philosophical

a sad sile suddenly tugged at the rners of tenpou's outh it ade goku uneasy becae it was an expression hakkai rarely woreor aybe wore often but never showed anybody else it fell on his face whenever it raed whenever he thought of that dead dy

"tell , goku" tenpou started "who taught you how to read? it wasn't sanzo, was it?"

a shake of the head

"really? but i thought there were no other teachers before sanzo before "

a shrug "i jt knew" it was siple childlike aeptance why do you breathe? i jt do what do you see? i opened y eyes why do you speak? when i open y outh, sound es out