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There were no leftovers. Hakkai made enough stew to feed a family reunion and there were absolutely no leftovers. He would have to make sure to wake up early enough to make a massive breakfast and snacks for Goku to have throughout the day. Which meant he would probably need to do more grocery shopping tomorrow at some point. Which also meant trying to find shoes for him as well.

He let out a sigh, rinsing off the last dish then drying it off thoroughly.

"Gojyo, I'll need you to come with me again to get more food. If we don't get any, we'll be out by the end of tomorrow."

Gojyo was slouched in the chair behind him, fiddling with his phone. He was drawing a blank on ways to stave off both boredom and sleep until he was exhausted enough to pass out on the couch.

He gave up, finally, tossing the thing on the table with a clatter. "How can one kid eat so much?" But that was Goku. He gestured over his shoulder toward his closed door. "And this bullshit, too. I need Sanzo to come take care of his monkey."

It was mostly fond—mostly. There might have been a light help-I-don't-know-what-I'm-doing undertone.

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"We'll find a place with more bedrooms. Maybe we should be preemptive and find one with four bedrooms just in case Sanzo finally makes his own appearance. Hopefully we get one within a reasonable time line" Hakkai wouldn't know what to do if the Sanzo that appeared wasn't even a Sanzo yet.

"Goku should settle down, though. Everything is very new to him. I'll have tutoring sessions for him to keep him occupied. But...I also have clinic duty" Whoops. He forgot to mention that to him when he decided to talk to the Doctor that ran it.

"You do?" He looked up, genuinely surprised.

That meant, in the order that it occurred to him: one, he was going to be stuck finding some way to keep Goku occupied; two, Hakkai was pulling a lot of weight; and most soberingly three—Hakkai had good reason to believe they weren't getting out any time soon. Duty implied shifts. Shifts implied a position. Positions were long-term.

If Hakkai believed it, there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that Gojyo knew better.

He sat up, propping his elbows on the table, and nodded slowly. "Well, I guess I can take him out somewhere. That park, or something."

Hakkai nodded in response to everything.

"I think he'd enjoy going to the park. Just...try to keep track of him. I don't want him straying into the caves." he said. He walked over to the table and sat down on a chair.

"I'll show you where the clinic is, just in case you need me while I'm there. You can also call me.

Ah! That also reminds me that I have to teach Goku how to use his device so he can call me as well" Yes, Hakkai was taking on a lot of responsibility. Partly because that was a bad habit of his and partly because he didn't believe they were just going to bust out of here like the hellions that they were. There was far too much he didn't understand and far too much he couldn't control. The monsters were varying degrees of too strong, the gods were varying degrees of vague and controlling, and there was no information on how to leave.

He wondered if anyone knew where to even begin when it came to escape or had everyone started to understand the loss of control of the situation they were in. As much as he wanted to spit in the face of gods, they could make him do things that would damage him.

"Come on, I'm not gonna let him go in the caves." He cracked an apologetic grin. He'd fucked up that one time, and he couldn't be called the ideal person to leave a strong-willed (and just strong, and fast, and overly curious) kid with, but he was smart enough to handle not putting Goku in a shitty situation.

Or so he thought, anyway. He'd probably need a lot of evidence to convince anybody else.

Hakkai smiled. "I know you won't" He'd long forgiven Gojyo for his mistake, but he was worried that Goku would have other ideas and Gojyo wouldn't be able to keep up. Not that Hakkai could say he could easily keep up with a younger Goku, either, but he at least had some kind of instructor-like authority over him.

If that authority would even hold Goku for long until his curiosity overrode everything.

"I suppose we should also address the elephant in the room. His diadem..."

"Yeah." His grin faded. "I mean, as long as nobody takes it off, and nothing happens to him that'd really hurt him—"

Or upset him. He chewed his lip. Some pretty fucked-up stuff had happened in those nightmares.

"I guess one of us'd have to go ask one of those gods to fix it, with Sanzo gone," he finished, staring at the surface of the table. 'One of us,' as if there was a choice; as if Goku wouldn't smear him all over the road as soon as Hakkai left.

Hakkai nodded gravely and let his eyes fall on his folded hands on the table.

"Without the minus wave here, there will be less of a chance of me going berserk if I take off my limiters, so you wouldn't need to stop me." ...Again. That was the only benefit of being in this world. He could have full control of his demon form and stop Goku from ruining the ruined city.

"Which god, do you think, could help us the quickest? Rage would probably enjoy Goku's presence. She might get a power boost from him."

Unease crawled over his skin. Less of a chance didn't mean zero chance, and Hakkai didn't throw words around carelessly, like he did.

Not that it mattered. He'd have no choice but to go.

"Ah, I dunno." He raked a hand through his hair. "Delight, I guess. That's the opposite of him running around fucking shit up."

"Hmmm...Hope or Delight would probably be the best choices. Whoever is closer at the time, I guess." Hakkai is banking on this happening. He's fairly sure that there will be something that either triggers Goku, hurts him, or manipulates him. Either way, he's sure that diadem will come off one way or another and he's dreading it. He didn't enjoy he and Goku's fight. Well, maybe he started to, but he didn't like that!

Hakkai propped up his elbows then rested his chin on his hands and closes his eyes.

"I think it's about time to turn in as well. I'll need to get up early to make everyone breakfast" he said in a soft voice. "I take it you're settling for the couch?"

"Yeah." He stood up and rolled his shoulders, rubbing the back of his neck. (He imagined contours every time he did it, though he couldn't remember the exact shape of the mark.)

The couch was a little too short for him to stretch out on. It was going to be an awesome few nights, or week, or however long it took to get a bigger place.

It was then that the door to what was Gojyo's room opened, the sound of creaking hinges alerting the now quiet house to Goku's appearance. He'd been laying in Gojyo's bed, but he had been unable to get to sleep. He wasn't very comfortable. Of course, it wasn't the bed, no, or the fact that he was just still in his day clothes (though that did make things a little weird-feeling)...

But the room seemed awfully small. It was dark, too. And he could hear Hakkai and Gojyo, or at least... not their words. Just the sound of them, talking. And he wasn't there. But the tone and heaviness he felt in the air eluded to the fact that he probably shouldn't interrupt--that they were waiting for him to go to sleep to talk. Sanzo did that with the priests at the temple a lot.

But their voices has lost the edge he felt, and the fact he could smell Gojyo and he wasn't there finally had him getting out of bed. He was peeking around the door, watching the two rise from the table.

"Mmmnn..." He made a small noise, quieter than normal. He looked to Hakkai at first, as if to pose a question to him... but in the end, bright, golden eyes turned to the redhead. "...Gojyo?" There was a beat, and then, "...Are you... gonna come to bed?"

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Gojyo shot Hakkai a helpless glance, but it was Hakkai who'd tossed him on the sacrificial altar in the first place.

Super awesome. He was never going to be able to sleep.

"Um—" he dragged a hand over his face and swiped his phone off the table, making his way around the counter that divided the kitchen from the living room. "Yeah." Goku looked like he was expecting to get yelled at for asking, and it made him wonder if that was a function of Sanzo's temper or his own whatever-it-was, the stupid way he dealt with kids. He laid a hand on Goku's head as he got to the door. "You gotta figure out how to sleep by yourself, monkey."

Hakkai watched as Gojyo tried to handle the situation. It made him wonder what the arrangements were at the temple and if Sanzo was secretly indulgent to Goku or super strict.

"Gojyo's right. We're going to look for a bigger place soon, so you'll have your own room to sleep in on your own"

"Stop calling me a monkey. My name's Goku," Was the half-hearted response as Gojyo's hand landed in his fluffy chocolate hair. He was tired. He also had too many thoughts swimming around in that little head of his. Hadriel, strange cave-ness, no sky, no sun, no Sanzo...

Sleeping in a room alone right now... it was far too much. He didn't really comment about them looking for a bigger place or having to sleep in his own room. That wasn't now. That was later. Maybe, maybe he could deal with those thoughts later. And... it could be cool to have his very own room, right?

But at the same time...

"...Um...

"Did I do something wrong? I mean...

"I didn't mean t' come here... an' bother you..." He wasn't entirely sure about how he wound up in this Hadirel place to begin with. He was supposed to be at the temple with Sanzo. And, it made sense that Hakkai and Gojyo wound up somewhere together. Though he was still confused on all of it and what exactly was going on. It was all way above his head. But now, he was looking down at the floor, frowning a little. His hand came up, grabbing at the end of Gojyo's shirt, as if letting him go would somehow cause the two other men to disappear.

They were the ones who were doing something wrong, probably, though Gojyo didn't know what—he was really not cut out for this kids thing. Or maybe it didn't matter what they did; so long as neither of them was Sanzo, it would never be right.

"Your name's about to be 'hi, I'm a monkey, and I won't shut up and stop worrying about stuff,'" Gojyo corrected him, ruffling his hair. "Listen, you and me are gonna do somethin' kickass tomorrow, okay?" He had no idea what it was, but something would occur to him. If he was lucky.

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Hakkai also wondered what he had planned, but if it was nothing at the moment, he was sure Gojyo was going to wing it somehow.

This younger Goku needed a lot of nurturing and learning, it seemed. And even though they might not know exactly what to do, they could figure it out.

But he was tired right now and he had to get Goku to bed. Hakkai went over to Goku and smiled down at him.

"We'll stay with you until you fall asleep" Judging by the groggy expression, it shouldn't take long and that solves Gojyo's problem of not wanting to share a bed. "Does that sound good?"

Something kick-ass? Goku's eyes grew to the size of saucers, Midas gold eyes shining with awe and wonder. What could Gojyo have planned? Sanzo never took him to 'kick-ass' places!

"Okay!" His mood seemed to lighten up. And then Hakkai rounded it off with telling him they'd stay with him until he fell asleep. He nodded his head, once, twice, three times.

"Yeah!" Yes, that sounded wonderful, and Goku suddenly had both Gojyo and Hakkai's hands, forcing them into the doorway and in the bedroom. "I really, really tired. That spider wasn't very nice. Good thing I threw that weird metal thing at it." And he has let their hands go, crawling into the bed. He rolled into the blankets.

He might have asked what the weird metal thing was, but the sooner Goku passed out, the better.

Gojyo flopped down next to him, propping a pillow against the (weird, misshapen) headboard so he could sit up, and set his phone on his knee. "It's all good, Hakkai, I got it," he said, voice low.

Hakkai was pulled into the bedroom, ready to follow through with what he promised, but was surprised when Gojyo relieved him of his duties.

"All right..." he said in a soft voice. He looked over to Goku. "Gojyo will be here with you, Goku. I'm actually pretty tired. Next time, okay?"

He turned to leave the room to head over to his own. He looked back at them when he reached the doorway.

"Good night you two..." He smiled to the both of them, but when his gaze reached Gojyo's, he gave him a gentle look of thanks. He then closed the door behind him to get some rest.

Edited (HE GENTLY AT HIM) 2016-06-13 04:31 (UTC)

Goku had eaten his breakfast whole-heartedly, but only thirds, since the breakfast was heavier than dinner had been. He was smaller, so he didn't eat as much as the Goku they were accustomed to... but still, it was a hefty amount. The boy's eyes were wide and bright with excitement for the day. They were going to do some shopping, which sounded boring, but then, after Hakkai was at the clinic, Gojyo promised him to take him somewhere fun. As he sat at the table, kicking his legs, he noticed Gojyo playing on a familiar, weird metal thing...

"Hm?" Goku tilted his head curiously. "Hey, Gojyo...

"That thing yer holdin'... when I woke up I had somethin' like that in my pocket. What is it?"

Gojyo yawned into the back of his hand and poked at his phone for a full five seconds after hearing the question before his brain registered that a question had been asked. At some point he'd fallen asleep without meaning to, and he'd woken up with his back against the headboard, his phone on the floor, and a sore neck. All of that still didn't make it the worst night he'd had here by a mile, so he was dealing.

He looked up, finally, digging his fingertips into the back of his neck. "What, this? It's, um—you use it to talk to people." He paused. "What'd you do with the one you had?"

Hakkai was washing up as he let the other two digest before they all set off for the day.

He looked over to Goku when they were talking about the phones that were provided for them.

"It's really important, Goku"

"It sure was important!" Goku proclaimed, and he nodded his head in agreement.

"I used to it beat up that spider!" He frowned, and he turned on the chair to the side, lifting his bare foot in the air. "I tried t' kick it n' stuff, but nothin' would work! But then I threw that metal thing and it flopped over and BAM! I was able to beat it up!" He was all smiled as he said it.

"Next time you see a big ol' spider, now you'll be able to beat it, too!"

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