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"You sure about this?" Goku whispered to the other two as they sat in Jeep. "He hasn't been normal since we ate those river mushrooms you found." The crackling of the campfire they set up was the only thing accompanying the never ending sirens of insect calls in their current location. "None of us have been normal, Sanzo keeps shooting at things and you won't let me eat the giant nikuman floating around yesterday."
Gojyo leaned back with his hands on his head. "Don't worry about it, I've been living with that dude for like the last three years and his food has never let me down. And the baldy shoots everything, plus you hallucinate food all the time, mushrooms or no fucking mushrooms."
A scoff from the blonde rereading a newspaper in the front seat. "Was that before or after you two started fucking?"
Goku let out a laugh, pointing a finger at Gojyo as he doubled over. "Come on Sanzo, everyone knows Hakkai has higher standards than to go out with this pervy kappa here!"
The redhead blushed as red as his hair and reached out to smack Goku on the head. "At least I'm not gonna die a virgin like both of you sexless fucks!"
"Tch." The tree right behind Gojyo's ear suddenly gained a new possible bird nesting hole. That was fast, neither of them even saw him put down the newspaper. The monk must be getting better reflexes during this never ending journey. Either that or the mushrooms had given them all some sort of strange speed buff.
"Anyway neither of you virgins are helping him now so you don't deserve to eat!" Gojyo ignored the resulting screech from the monkey as he hopped out of Jeep and sulkily walked into the woods in the direction Hakkai went earlier.
It wasn't yet dark but the heavy overgrowth of the trees ahead created a kind of oppressing twilight gloom. Gojyo kicked at a pebble, cursing at the thought of the other two laughing at him. He never thought about Hakkai that way, well, not till recently but he just chalked it up to him noticing how beautiful that youkai was to not getting any action since the mission started. And if it came down to it, if Hakkai was okay with it then, why… why not huh? Would make sharing a hotel room much less of a drag too.
Also Hakkai was an amazing cook, and he cleaned like the demon he was, and he was so smart he could shout practically anything in the heat of battle and Gojyo would never question it. And sometimes when he was asleep Gojyo would look at him and kinda wish that he kept the shoulder length hair he had when he first met him. Glasses suited him more as well, which was weird since Gojyo swore he never had that kind of fetish to start with but... But why was he thinking about these sorts of things deep in the neck of the woods?
First things first, he needed to find Hakkai and see if he needed any help, not that he needed it to begin with. It was most likely he'd find him on the way back with his arms full of berries or roots or even some unlucky forest animal.
He spotted him half camouflaged with his green shirt amongst the bushes nearby, crouching as he observed something in the clearing ahead of him. Gojyo was about to sneak up to him when Hakkai turned and put a finger to his lips before beckoning him to come over.
Intrigued, he carefully crept up next to him and looked in the direction he was pointing to.
In the clearing nearby were two men, wearing all black that must be sweltering in this humidity, but that didn't stop the taller one from pulling out a blanket from under his arm and setting it on the ground. The one with the glasses looked up at the other and smiled, reaching out to cup his face. It was weird, the two men were talking but nothing they were saying seemed to reach the two watchers.
They kicked off their boots and sat down, still talking inaudibly about something. Before long the one with short black hair produced two half squashed sandwiches from his jacket and passed one over. Glasses leaned against the other and pretended to carefully inspect the contents of said sandwiches before he grinned and took a bite. He looked up at the short haired man with a strange mark on his forehead and said something.
"Kenren." Gojyo started at that suddenly loud sound before realizing it came from Hakkai, still crouching in the bushes next to him. "I'm trying to read their lips and that's what the ponytail man with the glasses called the other one." Hakkai seemed almost transfixed at the scene. "Which would make him-"
"Tenpou." Gojyo supplied, feeling something strange in him, a weird sense of unease and yet butterflies. "That's what the bitch who says she's a god keeps calling us." It felt weird to be watching them, weird in a way that wasn't normal. Like this was all a fever dream that would pass any time soon.
Hakkai nodded, not taking his eyes off them. They polished off the sandwiches and Tenpou brought out a sake jug with two cups from his satchel. The sake was reverently poured out and they toasted, laughter in their faces as they drank it down.
Both of the men were holding hands. Gojyo suddenly saw that and couldn't stop looking at their intertwined fingers. Tenpou must have said something hilarious then because Kenren threw his head back with an uproariously silent guffaw.
The scene was also strange in a way that it seemed kind of fuzzy. There was something almost distortive about them, like they would fade away at any time, and no matter how loud Hakkai and Gojyo were, the two never noticed. It was as though they were trapped in some other dimension.
Gojyo looked around to see if there was some kind of barrier or magic, fuck knows he wasn't the best at detecting them but damned if he wasn't going to try. If these Kenren and Tenpou were right in front of them then what business did Kanzeon have calling them by their names?! There had to be a reason for this weird scene, there had to be.
Hakkai made a strangled gasp and Gojyo snapped back to see that the two on the picnic mats were now kissing. And not gentle first time kissing either, hard passionate ones like they never wanted to let go. They broke off and even at this distance with Gojyo's terrible lip reading, he echoed what Kenren said to his lover.
"I love you."
Something touched his fingers and he looked down to find Hakkai staring down at their hands atop each other. At the same time, their gazes met and without hesitation, there were two pairs of lovers kissing in the woods then.
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"Sure took you long enough, I was starving!" Goku greeted them with his usual refrain as they walked back to where Jeep was parked.
Sanzo didn't say anything in the dusk of the setting sun but a pointed stare reminded Gojyo that his hand was still in the grasp of another. His first instinct was to shake himself out but he stopped.
"Of course, do you know how hard it is to find a place to fuck around here?!"
That at least got him the satisfaction of seeing the two shut the hell up for once and even if Hakkai gave him a slightly disapproving look, it was still worth it.
"I hope you at least got some food to go along with your fun." Sanzo said, strangely without the usual venom he would have enveloped in his statement.
Hakkai finally let go of Gojyo's hand and walked over to the campfire. "Of course, Sanzo." He produced a limp bird of some sort from his bag along with leafy greens and some berries and only Gojyo noticed the sly grin he slipped him as he replied to Sanzo's unspoken question. "Sandwiches would make a great meal right now too."