Challenge #39: Rent
Title: The Rental
Words: 3 x 100
Warnings: streeeeetching the challenge. Well, and AU-ish for the sake of comedy.
He was walking towards the lot with a confidence Gojyo found slightly unnerving.
"Um, you know we can't really afford-"
Hakkai smiled.
"I mean, I'm sorry, but I really did lose the down payme-"
Hakkai's smile suddenly included teeth, and Gojyo shuddered. Then he took a closer look at the words emblazoned on the sign.
"You're renting the car we're going to drive all the way to India?"
Hakkai's smile could only be called dangerous as they passed through the gate and his eyes came to rest on a dark green Jeep.
"Well, they did advertise unlimited mileage..."
---
"We're lost," Gojyo announced, crumpling the map in frustration, and watching the complaint bounce harmlessly off Hakkai's impenetrable smile.
"I'm sure it's not that bad. Perhaps if I reviewed the map myself?" His cheerful tone was almost as grating as Goku's thousandth-
"I'm huuuuuungry."
Which made Sanzo's eyebrow twitch. The priest glared at the river that shouldn't be there and growled at the driver.
"You couldn't have gotten the one with GPS?"
"It was thirty dollars more per week," Hakkai explained, his voice sweet as cyanide, "and not nearly as friendly."
An agreeable chirp rose from the dash board.
---
The heads looked at the bill, then back to Sanzo, their eyes wide in shock. The priest lit a cigarette and waited them out, his expression utterly unconcerned. Finally, one spoke.
"Hotel rooms are acceptable travel expenses, as are meals and perhaps even cigarettes. But, this item at the bottom: Reimbursement for Total Loss of the Rental." The head's voice grew stern. "You drove it through the temple gates this morning! Why in heaven has it not been returned?"
Sanzo stared at the head for a long moment, then shrugged.
"You tell Hakkai he can't keep it."
Words: 3 x 100
Warnings: streeeeetching the challenge. Well, and AU-ish for the sake of comedy.
He was walking towards the lot with a confidence Gojyo found slightly unnerving.
"Um, you know we can't really afford-"
Hakkai smiled.
"I mean, I'm sorry, but I really did lose the down payme-"
Hakkai's smile suddenly included teeth, and Gojyo shuddered. Then he took a closer look at the words emblazoned on the sign.
"You're renting the car we're going to drive all the way to India?"
Hakkai's smile could only be called dangerous as they passed through the gate and his eyes came to rest on a dark green Jeep.
"Well, they did advertise unlimited mileage..."
---
"We're lost," Gojyo announced, crumpling the map in frustration, and watching the complaint bounce harmlessly off Hakkai's impenetrable smile.
"I'm sure it's not that bad. Perhaps if I reviewed the map myself?" His cheerful tone was almost as grating as Goku's thousandth-
"I'm huuuuuungry."
Which made Sanzo's eyebrow twitch. The priest glared at the river that shouldn't be there and growled at the driver.
"You couldn't have gotten the one with GPS?"
"It was thirty dollars more per week," Hakkai explained, his voice sweet as cyanide, "and not nearly as friendly."
An agreeable chirp rose from the dash board.
---
The heads looked at the bill, then back to Sanzo, their eyes wide in shock. The priest lit a cigarette and waited them out, his expression utterly unconcerned. Finally, one spoke.
"Hotel rooms are acceptable travel expenses, as are meals and perhaps even cigarettes. But, this item at the bottom: Reimbursement for Total Loss of the Rental." The head's voice grew stern. "You drove it through the temple gates this morning! Why in heaven has it not been returned?"
Sanzo stared at the head for a long moment, then shrugged.
"You tell Hakkai he can't keep it."