Saiyuki: An Unexpected Detour

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Saiyuki characters, although I wish I did…ooo that'd be soo lovely! But I don't want anyone to sue me, so I'm keeping a safe distance from even -trying- to own them, hehehe

Claimer: The other characters that aren't part of Saiyuki are real people and we would appreciate it if you don't steal us! I am claiming Chelle! Because I can…because I AM Chelle! Hello, my name's Chelle, how are you? "sweatdrop" I think I got off-topic…gomen.

Author's Note: Oh the pain i suffer in my cruel life that this damned world has placed me in, it should be a while before i post another chapter, my empending doom in life is too unbearable and forces my concentration to explode, causing me not to be able to write good stories. But i shall be back in the future, if things work out. Sorry for making all my story fans wait so long. Oh, woe is me! (passes out) ...Do forgive me.

-Chapter 3: An Unbelievable Day-

If you don't remember what happened in the last chapters, let's do a quick review. The Saiyuki-ikkou were in a bar and somehow ended up in Douglasville, GA, where Chelle and Anne found them tied up in Anne's backyard, and they are now about to have lunch. That's it…Well I said -quick- didn't I?

"Good thing both your parents have to work today," Chelle said as she watched Anne take some instant rice out of the pantry of the kitchen.

"Yeah. Hah, they'd freak if they found us in here with four men in the house," Anne said, looking back at the beautiful blond monk Genjo Sanzo, demon slayer Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo the Kappa, and the Monkey God Son Goku, who were now sitting down at the table waiting patiently (some more patiently than others) for the food Anne had insisted on making for them, since they -were- company. So Chelle decided to help as well. And what better to make than rice? They figured that whatever the Saiyuki-ikkou liked to eat, rice was sure to be one of them.

Back at the table, hunger silenced the ikkou for minutes until the saru had to ask, "When will the rice be done?"

Chelle looked at the water that was now boiling and signaled Anne to now dump the rice in. "Just a few more minutes!" Chelle said, smiling at Goku. Anne dumped the rice in while conversing with Hakkai about how it was okay to let him sit down and rest while she made the food, and that help was really unnecessary.

"So how old are you two beautiful women?" the redheaded ladies' man asked, smirking at the two girls, winking at Anne who was now looking back at Gojyo while continuing to stir the rice. Chelle had turned around as well. Hakkai and Chelle started laughing a bit with sweatdrops.

"Err…," Anne said, before Sanzo, who had been silent the whole time, remained silent and nudged Gojyo hard in the side, stopping Gojyo from any thoughts he had going through his head. Gojyo chuckled and apologized.

"Sorry."

"It's alright." Chelle looked at the rice that Anne had stopped paying attention to. "Anne, is it almost done?"

"Oh," Anne looked back around at it and poked it with a spoon. "Yeah."

"Alrightie!" Chelle turned off the stove while Anne reached in the cabinet and got out the strainer. They drained the water out of the fake rice and served it to their company, while sitting down to take their own portions of the lunch. Chelle took the seat in between the green-eyed brunette and the redheaded kappa while Anne took the lovely seat between the other side of the demon slayer and the blonde monk. They partook in their lunch silently without any hesitation to notice it wasn't even real rice, for they were too hungry to tell.

"That was good. Domo arigato!" Hakkai smiled at Anne and Chelle after they all got done eating. He and Sanzo were actually surprised Gojyo and Goku hadn't started an argument over something stupid ending in a food fight, but figured they were too hungry for any of the sort. Now, their bellies were full and Sanzo told the rest of the clan he was ready to leave.

"But…" Chelle tried to reason.

"I said we'd have something to eat, and then we'd leave. We're done eating. Now, let's leave," Sanzo said.

"What about the youkai that attacked you? How do you know they aren't here? You can't just leave us here with those evil demons," Anne reminded Sanzo, as she gazed into his beautiful purple eyes again.

"I don't see why they would want to stay here if they somehow got here, they would be gone by now. We've wasted time here. We need to go." Sanzo stood up, and then looked around to see where everybody had gone.

Hakkai had already made his way over to Anne's book shelf, and was sifting through a thick book he found that happened to be the first of the Harry Potter book series, and Gojyo had already made himself over to the computer in Anne's living room, and had already figured out how to turn it on, while Goku was still licking his bowl clean. Anne noticed Goku and looked at him disgustedly.

"Stop acting like a dog, you monkey!" Gojyo yelled at Goku.

Goku stopped and looked over at Gojyo. "I am NOT a monkey!" He yelled at the redhead. The kappa ignored Goku, for he was far more interested in the computer he was looking at. Goku, noticing Gojyo, made his way over to see what he was doing.

Anne went back over to clean off the table and Chelle followed her to help. Just as Anne was putting the last bowl into the sink, they heard the phone ring. She went over to pick it up.

"Moshimoshi," Anne said to the phone. "Oh, hey," she said as she recognized who it was.

"Who is it?" Chelle asked.

"It's Courtney," Anne exclaimed in between listening to what Courtney was saying over the phone. "Here, I'll put it on speaker phone."

"Okay," Chelle said.

"Courtney, you're on speaker phone now," Anne said to the phone speaker.

"I am? Cool. Is Chelle still there?" Courtney said, remembering that Chelle had spent the night there the night before.

"Yup, here I am," Chelle responded. Chelle looked at Anne, wondering how the heck they were going to explain to Courtney about their morning and if Courtney would believe it.

"So what have you two been up to this morning?" Courtney asked, not knowing how crazy the response would be.

Chelle and Anne started laughing while Courtney heard and asked why they were.

"Well, you know, the usual: woke up at almost lunch time, had lunch with the Saiyuki Clan…" Anne tried to sound jokingly as casually as she could as Chelle still giggled some.

"Wait, what? Did you just say the Saiyuki Clan?" Courtney questioned what she heard.

"Yep," Chelle responded.

"Sure," Courtney said in disbelief.

"Actually," Anne explained, "we aren't kidding."

"Wha?" Courtney still didn't believe it. Chelle and Anne didn't blame her.

"We're serious, Courtney, it's the real them. The Saiyuki-ikkou. Sanzo, Hakkai, Gojyo, and Goku; they're all here," Anne said.

"Nut-uh. Stop lying," Courtney said, and then changed the subject. "Hey, do you guys want to come to the mall with me today? My mom said she'd take us."

"Courtney! We're serious!" Anne said. "We woke up this morning, and saw something outside in the backyard, and we went to go see what it was, and it was them! They were all tied up and stuff so we untied them. Then they woke up, and we were all hungry, so we made rice, and we just got finished eating."

"Oh my Gosh! If that's true," Courtney started to say.

"It IS true!" Chelle exclaimed. Then she got the idea for Courtney to -hear- the Saiyuki men. "Hakkai!" Chelle waved her hand at the brunette demon signaling for him to come over.

"What is it, Chelle dear?" Hakkai asked, putting the Harry Potter book carefully back where he picked it up from. He got up and walked over to Chelle.

"Our friend Courtney, she doesn't believe- Well, just tell her who you are," Chelle said.

"Um, ok sure," Hakkai smiled and walked closer to the speaker phone. "Hello? Courtney?"

"Who's that?" Courtney asked.

"Hakkai," Chelle responded.

"Yes, it's me, Cho Hakkai," Hakkai said.

"Oh my gosh. But wait, I still don't believe you," Courtney said. "It's too crazy."

"Well, why don't you come over and see for yourself?" Anne exclaimed.

"Well, my parents are going to the mall today. Maybe I can get them to drop me off at your house on the way or something. Let me ask," Courtney said. A minute later, Courtney came back to the phone and said that her mom would take her there.

"Cool, I'll see you then!" Anne said.

"Okay, I have to go now," Courtney exclaimed.

"Okay, bye Courtney," Chelle said. The rest shared their good-byes and then hung up the phone. Then Anne heard a weird beeping sound coming from the computer, and saw Gojyo pressing buttons on it.

"Gojyo, what are you doing?" Anne ran over to the computer.

"I don't know, what does this thing do? What's it good for?" Gojyo continued pressing buttons.

"Games and internet and stuff," Chelle came over to the computer as well.

"Internet?" Gojyo clicked on a button that said 'internet'.

While Anne was trying to save her computer from the Kappa, Chelle looked around and noticed Hakkai had made his way over to the window.

"What are you looking at, Hakkai?" Chelle asked, walking over to him. The brunette turned his green eyes towards Chelle.

"Oh, nothing, I was just thinking."

"Of what?" Chelle could think of a dozen things he could be thinking of after this crazy morning.

"Just Hakuryuu. We left Hakuryuu outside of the bar. I hope it's still safe," Hakkai said.

"Oh." She looked up at Hakkai. Man, is he tall, she noticed and thought to herself.

Sanzo, whom everybody had ignored for the longest time now, finally repeated, "We need to go now."

"Aw, can you wait till Courtney gets here?" Chelle asked.

"How are you going to get back anyways?" Anne asked. "You can't say 'The same way we got here'. You don't know how you got here."

"Plane?" Chelle suggested. "But that costs money."

Just as they were trying to figure out how to get all that money, or any other possible ways back to Asia, there was a knock at the door.