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damned_institute2007-04-21 11:04 am
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Nightshift 23 -- Hallway Outside Sun Room/Entry Room
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Zabuza left the M-Block and continued down the wide open hallway towards the other end of the hospital. This was the path they took every morning to get to breakfast so it was familiar enough for him to do in the dark. It was whatever lie further down that was a mystery. Zabuza couldn't help but like it that way.
He was leading Haku into the unknown.
Zabuza left the M-Block and continued down the wide open hallway towards the other end of the hospital. This was the path they took every morning to get to breakfast so it was familiar enough for him to do in the dark. It was whatever lie further down that was a mystery. Zabuza couldn't help but like it that way.
He was leading Haku into the unknown.
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The monk's hand tightened a little on the flashlight. If worse came to worse, he wasn't going to have to rely completely on just unarmed combat. He'd already broken a somewhat solid lock with one of these, so getting hit with one probably wasn't going to been shaken off too easily.
Sanzo was hoping to lure the other into making a mistake. If it was Hakkai, then nothing would come of it. Infinitely easier to deal with. But if it was an assassin, then this would be too good an opportunity to pass up.
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And it didn't look like Sanzo would be finding out the difference any time soon.
Hakkai, or the very good fake depending on one's point of view, followed closely behind Sanzo. Not too closely, though. He could read the tension in the other man, and wasn't planning on accidentally making him snap. He wasn't Gojyo, after all.
Hakkai paused in midstep, blinking. ...Gojyo. Why did he have such a bad feeling all of a sudden?
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The monk had taken a few more steps himself before he halted as well. Hakkai had suddenly stopped. Sanzo turned and flashed the beam towards him. There was a strange look on the other man's face, the faintest hint of sudden worry there.
Sanzo's eyes narrowed. "Is there problem?"
He wouldn't be very surprised if there was. It wasn't normal to just suddenly stop mid-step in the middle of the hallway, especially when they had a lot to accomplish in so limited a timeframe. Hakkai wasn't nearly as prone to dicking around as Gojyo or Goku were, so something was up.
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"It's nothing. I must have imagined it. I apologize for stopping so suddenly." It couldn't possibly be anything. For one thing, his powers and senses were so clamped down here he couldn't possibly be sensing anything. It simply wasn't possible. For another... well, he had felt a connection with Kenren before, but since then there'd been no indication that there was anything between them.
No, it simply wasn't possible that anything could be wrong. So why wasn't the feeling going away despite his conviction?
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"What's this 'it' you say you imagined?" If it was enough to get the healer to stop them both, then he might as well hear it. He might have been able to brush it off, but Sanzo could read the tiniest doubt still lurking in Hakkai's eyes.
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"Were Gojyo here, I might say he'd gotten himself into some sort of trouble. Being that he is not here, though, I'm sure it's nothing." Except that he wasn't, and that was the problem. Kenren was not Gojyo, and anyway, Kenren could take care of himself. So it must be his imagination. Yes. Just his imagination.
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"I wouldn't be surprised if he did. It's Gojyo," the last said all Sanzo really needed to say.
But overall stupidity or not, the pervert could take care of himself, to a point: the dumbass had a soft spot for women - crying ones especially - and was more likely to do something completely idiotic if those two qualities were combined
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Yet again, life proved utterly ironic.
He shook his head again. Even if it was Kenren, unless the feeling got a good deal more specific, he had no idea where to search for him. Unless... the CM-US trials? "Regardless, this conversation is wasting valuable time. Shall we continue on?"
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"I'm not even going to ask what the hell Kenren has to do with this."
That and how the hell could Hakkai even know what he was doing right now? Gojyo, Sanzo could understand: from what he'd been told, they'd just seemed to connect when they met. A miracle in itself, considering the kappa. Hakkai h ad probably needed to develop a sixth sense to deal with whatever shit Gojyo brought home with him.
Of course, the same could be said about connecting with Kenren. From what he'd observed of the interaction between the two (albeitedly, not too much), Hakkai seemed more comfortable around him than a normal stranger, which was something. The man might come off as more polite and refined to the average person, especially when compared with the other three - but Sanzo didn't remember him ever really warming up to another so fast.
The monk had also compared the reaction to Kenren to the one to Homura, and one was far warmer.
Goku had a weird reaction to Kenren too.
The monk frowned. Coupled with some of the cryptic hints that Homura and Kenren kept throwing out, the entire thing was troubling.
Sanzo just gave the other man a Look, then turned the flashlight back down the hallway. Hakkai was right: unless he could come up with some more specific, they were wasting time. "Fine. It's this way."
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He followed Sanzo dutifully down the hallway. Might as well focus on something useful he could actually do rather than chase after shadows.
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