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Title: Numbers
Disclaimer: Saiyuki is not mine.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Vague character death, one-sided 85, post trip.
Author’s note: I actually bothered to get out my history book, find Chang’an, and freehand the number of miles between there and India. xD
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They had gone 2000 miles west, and 2000 miles back.
They had spent nearly 80000000 yen.
They had killed or caused the death of almost 3 thousand people, human or youkai.
(of which, about 20 were people they cared for, and one Jeep.)
3-and-a-quarter miles were covered on foot.
4 men were greeted with questioning stares when they arrived in Chang’an.
(4 different men had left years earlier.)
(3 years, to be exact.)
3 Santsubushin thanked them for their troubles.
2 men returned to stay at the temple.
2 men returned to live in town.
1 day a week, Goku and Sanzo came down to visit.
19 scars covered Sanzo’s body (Hakkai had intentionall left a few; the perfection bothered him.)
31 scars remained with Goku (Hakkai couldn’t make the wounds close, as much as he had tried.)
8 scars still marred Gojyo’s form (6 of which Hakkai could not be held accountable for.)
7 nights a week, Gojyo went out and gambled.
5 days a week, Hakkai taught 4th grade at the little schoolhouse that had been built in their absense.
5 evenings a week, Hakkai came home to an empty house. (it was no use coming home earlier; Gojyo seemed to be avoiding him.)
7 nights a week, Hakkai went to bed alone in the house.
15 times Hakkai had tried to tell Gojyo.
15 times he had backed out.
Multiple times a night, Hakkai thinks there has to be something more than numbers to this post-trip life; multiple times a night as he counts his 257 scars and sleep evades him. But, he decides, before falling asleep at 2 a.m. or so, the numbers are preferable to whatever else there could be.
Because 257 scars beat the hell out of one broken heart.
Disclaimer: Saiyuki is not mine.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Vague character death, one-sided 85, post trip.
Author’s note: I actually bothered to get out my history book, find Chang’an, and freehand the number of miles between there and India. xD
…
They had gone 2000 miles west, and 2000 miles back.
They had spent nearly 80000000 yen.
They had killed or caused the death of almost 3 thousand people, human or youkai.
(of which, about 20 were people they cared for, and one Jeep.)
3-and-a-quarter miles were covered on foot.
4 men were greeted with questioning stares when they arrived in Chang’an.
(4 different men had left years earlier.)
(3 years, to be exact.)
3 Santsubushin thanked them for their troubles.
2 men returned to stay at the temple.
2 men returned to live in town.
1 day a week, Goku and Sanzo came down to visit.
19 scars covered Sanzo’s body (Hakkai had intentionall left a few; the perfection bothered him.)
31 scars remained with Goku (Hakkai couldn’t make the wounds close, as much as he had tried.)
8 scars still marred Gojyo’s form (6 of which Hakkai could not be held accountable for.)
7 nights a week, Gojyo went out and gambled.
5 days a week, Hakkai taught 4th grade at the little schoolhouse that had been built in their absense.
5 evenings a week, Hakkai came home to an empty house. (it was no use coming home earlier; Gojyo seemed to be avoiding him.)
7 nights a week, Hakkai went to bed alone in the house.
15 times Hakkai had tried to tell Gojyo.
15 times he had backed out.
Multiple times a night, Hakkai thinks there has to be something more than numbers to this post-trip life; multiple times a night as he counts his 257 scars and sleep evades him. But, he decides, before falling asleep at 2 a.m. or so, the numbers are preferable to whatever else there could be.
Because 257 scars beat the hell out of one broken heart.