Baking...

[Son Goku]

"Hakuryuu... Wake up," Goku whined loudly, poking the sleeping dragon with his index finger. The group had been forced to stop when their jeep had just suddenly ground to a halt. Apparently the white dragon was exhausted and needed rest and water before they could continue. Hakkai had said that they were lucky that their was a boulder not too far away, they could find some shade there.

They had found shade... But Hakuryuu, Sanzo and Gojyo took most of it up. Hakkai sat half sheltered from the sun and Goku, the poor sod that he is, was left to bake in the heat. His cheeks had already turned slightly pink from sunburn.
And Hakuryuu was refusing to wake up ¬.¬

"I'm so hungry," he moaned even louder, burying his face in his arms as he led on his stomach against the sand, "I wanna leeave now!" He didn't seem to realise that his constant whining was grating on both Gojyo's and Sanzo's nerves...

[Sha Gojyo]

Gojyo was indeed getting just the bit irritated....and by the looks on his face, hot too. Even though he forced alot of shadowed area to himself, except from Sanzo..he would have shot him, Gojyo's face was a little flustered and reached down at a rock in the sand beside him and threw it at the complaining saru. "Shut up you annoying monkey!" Gojyo whined a little as he half-heartedly shouted at Goku. The reason for the half-heartedness was because he was starving and hot. Which in total made him not really being bothered to have a full out argument and sparring session with Goku. Sometimes in the jeep this sort of situation ended with the two pathetically punching each other and muttering arguements with their eyes closed as they slumped against the jeep's back.

"Hakaryu hasn't woken up yet so we can't...i just hope he wakes up soon or i'll die of starvation..." Gojyo added mutteringly to himself as his half-lid crimson eyes looked at the sleeping white dragon. This really was annoying....and more annoying so as Gojyo really had been around Goku far too much. He seemed to be complaining about eating habits alot more to when he first met him. Was really wasn't such a good thing in the long run really..not at all.

Gojyo slumped against the boulder with a heavy sigh with both elbows resting on both knees as he sat there looking at the floor boredly. He let out a heavy sigh and looked up as his attention went once more to the saru in the sun. Ha...anyone ordered hot monkey?

[Son Goku]

The heat and the hunger was making Goku feel weary tired and completely unaware of what was going on in the area. So naturally he didn't see the rock flying towards him until it collided with his skull with a nice solid thwack. A low moan came from his throat and he let his face fall forwards onto his arm limply, "oooow...." He whined loudly, his voice having grown at least three times louder. He lifted his face finally, golden eyes fixing upon the red haired Kappa sat in the corner, "Why'd you go and do that for?"

The sun seemed to be cooking his back, if he got sunburnt he'd be moaning for ages... Until the sunburn disappeared anyway, "Sanzoo.... I'm Hungry!" He cried out, "I'm starving here... And i'm cooking... Cooking to death! Scoot over?" It was only a request... He probably wouldn't be granted the request. But still, it was worth a shot. If he didn't get out of the sun soon he'd actually lie across the other three, just to get out of the blazing sun..

[Genjyo Sanzo]

Sanzo opened his eyes that had been shut from trying to block out the annoyance of the whining saru and from the blaze of the sun. But now he stared those purple drooping eyes at the flushed looking Goku. "You've got to be kidding...there's no way i'm moving to let your sorry ass sit here.." Sanzo replied a little bluntly as he shut his eyes once again for a brief while before opening them back up to look at Goku. His arms now crossed.

Sanzo was in the shade in a healthy proportion...and he got it because if anyone tried to stop him he would have just shot them. End of story. It was baking and he began to feel the effects of the hot weather in drying out his throat and feeling his skin go a little clammy from daring sweat. He hated feeling sweaty and wanted to just get somewhere out of the desert and into the cool. His back was propped casually against the boulder and his sandeled feet lay before him half in the sand...he couldn't really be bothered to move when sand had gradually been blown on his feet..so stuck where he was in that position for an age. Sanzo was deffinatly very stubborn indeed. He just wouldn't be Sanzo without his stubborness.

"We've only got emergency rations...so you'll have to wait, you'll make us all starve if you go and eat them all.." he added in a muttered tone edged with annoyance. That's all he needed, the Bakasaru going and eating all their rations and finding that Hakaryu not recovering for quite a while...he may just kill them yet. He was already on the verdge of hitting them with his fan.

[Son Goku]

"But Sanzo!" He cried out, half outraged half exasperated, "You've plenty of room." Actually, Sanzo seemed to be taking up most of the shaded area. sometimes it was hard coping with Sanzo ¬.¬ "I can't eat?! But Sanzo! We won't reach the next village until tomorrow! And i'm starving hungry now, Can i have my share of the food?" It was a simple request.. That would probably end up in disaster. He'd nick the rest of the food, or at least a little of everybody's else's. It wasn't his fault, he just regained strength by eating. Nothing unnatural about it.... -grin-

He bet that the fake monk had just spread his robes out a little so people wouldn't crowd him, there was no way that Sanzo's legs were that long... He glanced from the golden haired monks robes to his face, those droopy purple eyes were closed to the world, offering Goku a perfect opportunity. He crept forwards silently on hands and feet, relishing the lack of sun as soon as his head became enshrouded with shadow. A quick glance at Hakkai showed the saru that he was paying more attention to Hakuryuu, Gojyo had probably died or something, he'd fallen scarily silent. He dropped himself onto the floor suddenly onto the mass of robes on the floor, his limbs just couldn't hold him up.
Golden eyes widened as he quickly came to realise that he wasn't just led upon cloth, there was something solid within the robes... Hopefully just a desert rat and not a foot belonging to Sanzo. Because that might irritate him a little bit...
At least he was out of the sun xD

[Genjyo Sanzo]

Sanzo ignored Goku's whining and when the Saru when onto the subject of only eating his own share...Sanzo just made a 'Hmph' and closed his eyes...looking very stubborn indeed. He wasn't about to change his answer in a hurry...

Whilst Sanzo was enjoying a blacked out view of the world infront of him with his eyes closed and mainly just trying to get a little rest...but of course...that didn't last long. Nothing really did when he tried to get a small bit of piece of quiet. Just when that stupid kappa and saru had stopped arguing. Hakkai was just concentrating on making Hakaryu feel better so didn't bother Sanzo in the slightest when it came to getting some shut eye.

His eyes snapped open wide as he suddenly felt a large weight get dumped onto his feet. He immediatly uncrossed both his arms and laid both hands on the sandy floor so he could sit up a little more to see what just happened...luckily he handed gone for his gun straight away. Had he been holding his gun..he may just have pressed the trigger out of reflex. He found Goku laying on his feet in the shade, completely spread out and looking like he really didn't care that he was on Sanzo's feet...well...to Sanzo he didn't anyway. Sanzo made a "Hey!" of surprise as when his droopy eyes first laid upon the sprawled out figure of Goku and he pulled up his right foot and pushed it against Goku's body that was laid on his left foot. "Get off me..." he growled as his foot shoved the Bakasaru off his foot with a highly annoyed look on his face. He hated people touching him...and especially sprawling out on him...even if it was only on his feet.

[Son Goku]

"Ack." It was the only sound that came from Goku's throat as he rolled off of Sanzo's feet, out of the shade and back into the sunshine. Compliments from a well aimed kick from the golden haired monk. Goku really was destined to cook up all nice and crispy and then be fed to the Youkai in the area, wasn't he? He fell still against the sand, clenching his eyes tight to keep the sunlight from seeping through the lids, "Just a little shade?" He whined once again, breaking the silence that had settled only moments before the sand had, "Don't be so unfair.." He added as an afterthought, raising his hand to shield his eyes. Just closing them hadn't been enough to shroud him in darkness... Stupid bright light.

He suddenly rolled over onto his stomach, his arms having moved outwards so he were almost stretched across the sand, "Come on Sanzo..." His fingers dun into the sand, pulling him just a little closer to the cooler regions of the shade, "Budge?"

[Genjyo Sanzo]

Sanzo watched as Goku rolled back into the hot sand and after that re-positions himself back to his casual leaning against the rock, with both of his feet back laying out before him under his white robes. A slightly more-annoyed-than-usual expression stayed on Sanzo's face as he watched as Goku whined and started to crawl towards Sanzo pathetically as he sat there in the cool shade. Sanzo made a 'hmph' at Goku and closed his eyes.

After a few seconds...Sanzo crossed his arms "If you want shade make Gojyo move..." he commented stubbornly. He still wasn't going to move. Not even a rampaging youkai might make him move....well...maybe anyway. And plus Gojyo was seemingly completely out of it. The water sprite was fast asleep against the rock and his cigerette had fallen out of his mouth and into the sand besdie him. Sanzo was amazed that he had kept asleep all that time really....but if goku wanted space..he could get it from Gojyo. Besides...he wasn't offering any complaints to the priest's suggestion.

Sanzo's face calmed just a little bit as his eyes opened once again and looked to see if Goku was moving. Those purple droopy eyes watching the saru carelessly and then casting a gaze at Hakkai next to him to see if Hakaryu had awakened yet. But he hadn't....how long was that dragon going to rest? Sanzo didn't think that there was going to be much more peace left. A fight may just break out soon enough now that Sanzo told Goku to make Gojyo move. So in times like these...Sanzo reached into the large sleeve of his robe and extracted his packet of cigerettes, took one from it in his mouth, replaced it and brought out the lighter, and lit it after a couple of trys of getting the lighter to work. He better get another one in the next village. He took the cigerette in his fingers and blew out a long chain of smoke.

[Son Goku]

Goku's gaze flickered from Sanzo to the sleeping water sprite... Sleeping? Heh, perfect. A wicked little smirk appeared upon Goku's lips and he began to do exactly what Sanzo had told him to do. Get room from Gojyo. And at that time there was only one way to move Gojyo without waking him up for him to argue. Goku was, of course, planning on stealing all of Gojyo's shade and leaving the Kappa in the sun to burn. That would teach him to cheat at cards, tricksy little sod.

Goku got to his knees, pushing himself easily to his feet from that position. Of course he swayed on the spot for a moment before gathering his bearings and stepping over the hot sand to the sleeping figure. This should be somewhat easy, after all, Goku is surprisingly strong, even though he is the smallest of the four... Smallest is always the strongest though -grin-

Upon reaching Gojyo, Goku moved around the back, slipping his arms beneath the Kappa's armpits and dragging just enough to pull him lightly. The sand was creating friction, making it harder for him to pull Gojyo along, but they were getting there..... Slowly but surely. It was surprising at how gently the saru lay Gojyo against the burning hot sand, though if thought about it wasn't because he cared for the poor sleeping kappa, but because if he woke up then he'd loose his well earnt shaded area.

He cried out in triumph, jumping happily into the cool sanded area where the sun just couldn't reach. Where, of course, his stomach rumbled loudly. "Sanzoo..." He moaned once again, his little victory thrown out of the window by a new want, "i'm hungry still... Can i eat? Can we eat? I can't wait for tomorrow.. I'll die."

If worst came to worst, he could always eat the slowly roasting Gojyo...

[Genjyo Sanzo]

Sanzo watched slightly interestedly as Goku got up and dragged the sleeping Gojyo out from his shaded area...that stupid kappa. He didn't even rouse from his sleep when he was being moved. Sanzo made a small shake of the head in disbelievment and returned to his smoking. Taking relaxing drags and blowing them out in long streams of grey smoke that thined out into the hot air lazily.

Goku was whining again. And Sanzo, with added heat effect of being hot and bothered..couldn't take much of it before wacking the saru over the head with his paper fan when Goku whined about eating then dieing....it was impressive that Sanzo could extreact his fan in such a swift movement from the concealment of his robes. Where he kept his fan was a mystery. "Shut you're whining before i kill you...you can't die from starvation and we both know that..." he said snappingly as he hit Goku over the head and speaking directly at the Bakasaru, cigerette still in mouth, moving with his lips, "...so stop complaining...i'm sick of listening to you whine!" he finished with a annoyed tone and slumped back to his leaning position on the rock, his fan in his hand which draped by his side and with his other hand he took the cigerette in his fingers and blew out the smoke before replacing it back in his mouth casually. Temporarily closing his eyes to help calm himself down...if he was loud enough, the kappa may just awaken from his sunbath. And Sanzo might just hit him with a bullet if the kappa started to argue with him when he woke up with t a skin complextion to match his hair and eyes....ha.

[Son Goku]

"Nyah, Sanzo!" The monkey mumbled, having fallen forwards onto the sand when he'd been rudely thwacked on the head by that over sized paper fan of Sanzo's, the one that seemed to just appear from Sanzo's robes just as Goku's Nyoi-Boi just appeared in his hands, "What'd you go and do that for," He added, his voice reduced to that of a low mumble. The heat was taking away his energy, slowly but surely, and until he got to eat he was pretty darn sure that he wasn't going to get it back.
.... How did Sanzo know that he wouldn't starve to death? Other than the fact that he'd gone 500 years without eating and hadn't died...

"I'll stop whining if you just feed me..." He moaned, his voice slightly louder as he said this, "... I'm gonna end up eating the Kappa," he added as an afterthought, quieter though, as if he didn't want anybody to really hear him. It was just Goku speaking to himself, thinking out loud as usual. Would he at Gojyo if worse came to worse? Maybe... If he tasted nice enough.

[Genjyo Sanzo]

Sanzo groaned a little out of annoyance at the whining Bakasaru and looked at him with a edgy look....one that said 'i will hit you again....and much harder....or even shoot you'. Heh..not really a good look form the bad-tempered priest in immensily hot weather. He looked over to the luggage bag which contained the spare food and clothing. He had heard the sary mutter those words about eating the kappa...Sanzo had this annoying thing that he could hear Goku very well. It really was such a nusiance. Sanzo's looks briefly went to the kappa asleep in the heat. Eugh...roast kappa. No thanks. But anyway...
Okay...so he was going to give in to the saru's demands....but it was only because it would stop the whining...and that was all. Anyway..he would only be allowed his share...and no one else's.


"Fine....whatever...eat your share...just don't go complaining to me if you eat it all at once and complain of being hungary later..." Sanzo uttered as he turned his gaze back to a close as his lids shut as he leant back soildly on the boulder's wall behind him. His arms once again crossed...the right hand grasping the fan's black handle. One bit out of line...then THWACK. It was as simple as that. He would decipline with his paper fan...like he told his master those years ago.
Although Sanzo had his eye's closed...he wasn't being stupid. Closing his eyes meant that Goku may just nick someone else's food...and that wasn't going to happen whilst Sanzo was there. As his eyes stayed shut..his listening improved a little more...his sense's concentrating more on listening to anything else. He may just be able to catch red handed at stealing everyone else's share. Then he could use one of his stress-relieving ways on the saru. Like shooting at him or hitting him. One or the other...it made him feel a little bit better sometimes.
Well...it worked better on that damn water sprite but there you go...it was cooking the sun...stupid kappa. He would have thought he'd woken up by now...but nooooo.