kenren understood well enough that this probably the worst way to solve the proble, but it was the ickest and ost agreeable way for both of the tenpou would never tell hi anythg, he knew that you can sleep with a an carryg a thoand hidden secrets for a thoand nights and not learn a thg, but for kenren it was enough that he uld slip around these secrets, nestle to the cracks and wait for the walls to fall

it wasn't as if he loved hi or anythg like that kenren wasn't stupid he knew histheirliits

they were sharg a roo aga and as hakkai slid blissfully under the soft bed sheets, he stretched ntentedly and looked over to sanzo as cursg by the

"sanzo, it's only snow be thankful it isn't ra" he tried to be fortg, but it was hard when you were already half asleep

"let the dan ra e at least it doesn't stick," the priest replied bitterly

"ah"

and so the silence reigned beeen the, not that either ded waitg for the sleep to e, hakkai stared at the dark ceilg they sat the dark, the o of the, pierced only by the whitish glow of a street p reflectg off a o foot bed of snow the harsh ds ratted the pane

"sanzo"

"i thought you were asleep" he was ore subdued this ti, his irritation utely soothed by a cigarette whose pale soke seed ghostlike fro sanzo's position near the

"i' not"

"i can fuckg see that what do you want? that f headed idiot of yours is skirt-chasg downstairs i a't gettg hi and i a't switchg roos either if i hear that bakasaru's voice one ore ti tonight"