Saiyuki Story: Four

[sunspot67]

Fandom:  Saiyuki
Author:  Sunspot
Title:  Four
Rating:  PG 13
Note:  Fourth in a series of eight.  The Sanzo-ikkou, snowed in at a Tibetan inn, improvise Chanukah based on a one-page listing in Hakkai’s paperback Festivals of the World.

Comments

[lawless523]

I went to bed before this was posted, but by this morning, I'd worked out the connection between the conversation with Sanzo and Hakkai's thoughts about Gojyo. (I'd pretty much guessed what the conversation with Sanzo was about, except I assumed it was an unconsummated attraction.) Now I'm trying to figure out if Mother Tamang was talking about Gojyo or Goku. :)

This was wonderful, both melancholy and hopeful. I loved the bits about the inn family and Mother Tamang's attempt at match-making, Jeep's involvement, Sanzo sitting with the old men reading their newspapers (no wonder Gojyo calls him an old man), the dancing, and Hakkai's thoughts about Sanzo -- "knotted up" is a good way to describe him.

[sunspot67]

Thank you. I'm really pleased that this series has engaged you enough to have you thinking about it away from the computer. When I first realized that Sanzo and Hakkai had had sex (while writing Two) I foolishly assumed it was a complication in what was going to be a 58 story. Silly me!

I suspect it's the rare mother who'd consider even Gojyo-on-his-best-behavior a good catch for her daughter. Now if Namgyal were really on the ball, she'd start playing up to Gojyo. Bet Rinzen would go up a few notches in the parental esteem department then!

I am really happy that you've found so much to like in this installment.

[lawless523]

My first reaction was to think of Goku, and after I'd written the comment, I realized that you had to mean him, what with the reference to Dorje and being hard-working. (Gojyo's generally only hard-working in fits and starts.) At least Hakkai wasn't lying when he said Goku was also attached to the monastery!

Now I have to go back to Two to look for the 38-ness. ETA: Ah, it's Hakkai's remembering who he's sharing a bed with. Snuggling into Goku is safe; snuggling into Sanzo isn't.

[sunspot67]

This particular story line aside, I suspect there are only select instances in which snuggling up to Sanzo is safe, for anyone.

[lawless523]

True!