"hakkai, what's wrong with you today?"

who disappeared without a trace

chapter 5: bitter sweet

author's note: i thk i dulged a bit anyway, it's been a rough week _ i deserve a bit of dulgence

saiyuki: through the lookg gss

chapter 5

ratg: pg13still

a potless sunset, hakkai thought as he paed his shelvg order to gaze outside tenpou's library but beautiful noheless as beautiful as a porce doll aga, a angless iage without even a shadow of a soul

yes, but beautiful stilleternally so

shafts of e-red light stread to the study, warg the ever agg yet never rottg wood it shed on rich ahogany, akg it glow like dyg ebers the red ilight his body liked it felt at ho, though the d did not- despite the pang of bittersweet aent that pyed upon his ory

/anted a library jt like this one sort of less war literature for the sake of the kids it wasn't really sothg for the to thk about to keep the back of their ds, yes a nstant preoupation, no /

flippg through pages, openg books where bookarks were left, anizg papers a cup of e on his desk very good very sweet the ashtray put aside never to be ed /as long as i' here/ pullg out and skig texts, re-rollg undone scrolls a life he was supposed to have lived as cho gonou teacher he figured, also, that as long as he kept hiself shut tenpou's study, he uld keep fantasizg about it keep so veil of noralcy over his o good eyes this was safe