Jul 02, 2007 07:19
Title: Keepsake
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Gen
Theme: #4: teddy bear
Summary: Set in Gunlock. Teddy bears are an excellent tease - and very cuddly. This definitely does not bode well for Gojyo.
The next town they reached after the incident with the bears was a sizable one. In the morning, Gojyo went out to Jeep last and found a teddy bear perched innocently in his seat. Goku, Hakkai and Sanzo were in the other places, all with unbelievably straight faces.
‘Oh, yes, very funny,’ Gojyo growled and snatched up the teddy. It sparkled at him in an obscenely cheerful manner. ‘Which of you thought this up?’
Goku pointed at Hakkai.
Hakkai pointed at Sanzo.
In a rare fit of good humour, Sanzo pointed at Goku.
Gojyo snarled under his breath and shoved it under his seat. He then spent the entire day trying to trick Goku into telling him who had played the trick and failing miserably.
There was something like a smirk on Sanzo’s face.
Hakkai gazed serenely into the west, his usual frozen smile just an inch too wide.
Gojyo nabbed him just as he entered the inn that night.
Typical.
‘It was you, wasn’t it?’
‘Me?’ Hakkai looked injured. ‘What made you think that?’
‘So was it Sanzo?’
‘I wouldn’t know, Gojyo,’ Hakkai said. ‘But I can’t really see Sanzo buying a teddy bear in a shop, can you?’
Gojyo squinted. Sanzo in a plushie shop. Sanzo with a teddy bear. Sanzo walking down the street with a teddy bear tucked under one arm. Sanzo shooting passersby for staring.
He promptly collapsed in giggles.
‘See?’ Hakkai said helpfully.
Gojyo leaned against the wall of the inn and covered his eyes. ‘I think I’m going to die laughing.’ Then he lowered his arm. ‘Wait, so it was you?’
‘I take the fifth amendment.’
‘It was you! Hakkai, you jerk!’
‘Come, now, it was funny,’ Hakkai protested. ‘And the bear was cute.’
‘Cute, he says,’ Gojyo grumbled. ‘I was humiliated!’
‘But you kept the bear,’ Hakkai pointed out.
‘I…’
He trailed off, and Hakkai eyed him curiously. ‘Gojyo? Is something wrong?’
‘Nah, it’s nothing.’
‘It’s clearly something.’
‘No, it’s just……I never had anyone buy me a stuffed toy, ya know. That’s all. It was really weird, that’s all,’ he added hastily.
‘Oh,’ Hakkai said, brow creasing. ‘I see.’ He eyed the redhead sideways. ‘So you still have the bear, do you?’
Gojyo slowly turned red. ‘I do not,’ he said indignantly - and far too weakly.
‘Really, Gojyo, I’m flattered. I didn’t realise you’d take such a liking to it.’
‘I don’t have it, I tell you!’
Hakkai chuckled and walked on into the inn.
Later that evening, Hakkai was under the covers and reading a paperback when Goku burst into the room, grinning from ear to ear. ‘Hey, Hakkai, you gotta see this!’
The lump in the other bed stirred, and then a long pale arm slipped from under the covers. With preternatural accuracy, Sanzo slung the fan across the room to whap Goku upside the head. ‘Shut up or die.’
‘Ow!’ Goku whined. But the grin didn’t quite leave. ‘Hakkai, come on!’ he tugged impatiently at his hand.
‘Yes, yes,’ Hakkai said, amused, as he was half dragged across the hallway to the other room by deceptively small hands. Sanzo trailed behind them, intrigued and pretending hard not to be.
Goku opened the door quietly and peered in quietly. ‘Yep, he’s still in there.’
Hakkai looked over his shoulder. ‘Oh, my,’ he said quietly, and then began to laugh.
Gojyo was fast asleep on the bed, the teddy bear clutched firmly to his chest. The black button eyes stared blankly over his shoulder, peering over his left arm.
It was, Hakkai thought, rather adorable, really.
He rather thought that the next day was going to be quite distressing for Gojyo, though, because this was even better ammunition for Goku than the bears themselves could have been.