I keep asking myself all these strange questions as I read my Saiyuki, so I thought I'd share the answers I came up with! If people send me questions, I'll answer them as best I can. Some answers will be serious while others, like this first one, will be utterly ridiculous.

Question: Why does Sanzo have violet eyes?

"Hey, Hakkai…" Goku began.

"Yes, Goku? What is it?" Hakkai asked absently, his concentration still on the vegetables he was cutting up. Hakkai was preparing dinner and Goku, drawn by the smells wafting from the kitchen, was watching him and waiting for the meal to be ready.

"What are normal eye colours?" he asked.

Hakkai blinked in surprise. "I'm not sure I understand what you mean, Goku."

"Like, are green eyes normal?" he asked. "Or gold?"

"Ah, I think I see," Hakkai said with a smile. "There's nothing wrong with your eyes, Goku. They're supposed to be that colour."

"That's not what I meant!" Goku said, frowning. "What I wanted ta know was is purple a normal colour for humans?"

Hakkai paused. "No, not really. Sanzo is the only person, human or youkai, that I have ever seen with purple eyes."

"Why are his eyes purple?" Goku asked.

"Why don't you go ask him?"

x

"Sanzo, how come you have purple eyes?" Goku asked, bouncing into the room.

"What?" his guardian asked, looking up from his newspaper.

"Why are your eyes purple?" Goku insisted.

From the other bed, Gojyo looked up. "Who told you to ask? That's way too smart for a monkey to think up."

"I'm not a monkey, ya cockroach kappa!" Goku shouted, flaring up.

"Okay, how 'bout a baby monkey?" Gojyo said teasingly, smirking.

A gunshot went off and Goku and Gojyo yelped. "Silence!" Sanzo thundered, standing over them as they cowered together. "Get out now!"

Gojyo and Goku raced for the door, briefly squabbling over who got out first before disappearing down the stairs. Sanzo let out an irritated snort and shut the door, locking it behind them. Finally, he was alone!

x

Outside, Gojyo caught Goku by his collar. "Hey, stop!" he ordered.

"What?" Goku demanded, scowling. "We pissed Sanzo off, so we'd better keep goin'!"

"I'm not afraid of the holy prick," Gojyo said with a sneer. "Let's get him back!"

Goku stared at him. Gojyo had finally lost it! "What?"

"He's been too pissed lately. All you did was ask a question. That's no reason to shoot at us!"

"So what do you wanna do?" Goku asked, fascinated despite himself.

"Let's climb up and watch him," Gojyo said, looking up at the inn's sloping roof. "Then when he leaves the room, we'll steal his fan!"

A wide grin appeared on Goku's face. "His gun too, 'cause then he can't shoot at us anymore!"

"Let's go!" they said together, eyes gleaming.

x

Up in the room, Sanzo listened carefully. He could hear Hakkai humming down in the kitchen, and he'd scared off the two idiots for a while with that last shot. Now was the perfect time.

x

"Ssh!" Gojyo hissed.

"I didn't mean to slip!" Goku whispered back furiously, clambering up beside the kappa.

"He's still in there," Gojyo said quietly, jerking a thumb at Sanzo's room. Goku nodded his understanding, and the two of them crouched on the roof beneath the window, waiting for a signal that Sanzo had left the room.

After a few moments, there came the sound of cloth sliding on flesh and a delighted moan. Gojyo's eyes widened, and before he could stop him, Goku risked a quick look.

"Ero-saru!" Gojyo whispered, tugging him down again. "Quit peeking!"

"You're the peeker, not me," Goku retorted. "Sanzo's just taking off his robe…"

"I don't need to know that," Gojyo muttered as Goku stuck his head back up. "How much clothing does she have on?"

"She? What are you talkin' about?" Goku asked, still watching.

Gojyo looked, and saw Sanzo yanking his jeans off. "What's he doing?" he whispered.

His question was answered as Sanzo ripped off his underwear. The kappa let out a squawk and covered his eyes, only to feel Goku pulling his hands off. "Gojyo, you gotta see this!" he whispered excitedly.

Gojyo was about to make a dirty comment regarding pervy monkeys when he noticed what Goku had, and his mouth dropped open. Sanzo's nails had lengthened, his ears had sharpened to points and a swirling purple tattoo had appeared around his left bicep and his right cheek. Gojyo's eyes darted to the discarded underwear, which he now realised shone with the same dull silver as Hakkai's ear-clips.

"Holy fuck, he's a youkai!" Gojyo swore, falling on his butt.

"Hey, that's why his eyes are purple!" Goku said happily.

Utterly improbable and impossible, but fun nonetheless. I hope I did okay with this, as it's my first foray into Saiyuki fanfiction. Please send me questions so I can have another go!