Ficlet - Scent, Gojyo/Sanzo, R

[louiselux]

This is for scribblemoose, whose prompts were : Gojyo, Sanzo, shampoo. This was surprisingly hard to write, so I hope it works. Gojyo/Sanzo, R

Scent



It was the smell of it more than anything. When they'd been in Jeep all day it became a mass of tangles that smelled like leaves and wind and sun and grass.

Gojyo could bury his nose in Sanzo's hair right there and just spend whole minutes breathing in. Then Sanzo would go and wash it, making it smell only of shampoo. He never said anything though, because what was there to say? Sanzo had limited interest in anything to do with Gojyo that wasn't immediately gratifying. Sanzo liked getting a light for his cigarette. Sanzo liked his cock, liked being on it, sucking it, having it in his hands. It wasn't like he wanted Gojyo's sappy ideas about his hair and how the smell of it made Gojyo feel safe and warm. Gojyo didn't particularly want to hear things like that coming out of his own mouth.

But it smelled good, even if sometimes it was mostly cigarette smoke.

He liked to fuck Sanzo from behind. That way he could pin down Sanzo's shoulders and go in hard and deep. Sanzo went wild for that. Gojyo would stretch forward so he could press his face into Sanzo's hair as Sanzo writhed, inarticulate, and it would brush and slide against Gojyo's face.

'Why do you do that?' Sanzo said, afterwards. He sounded curious for once.

'What?'

Sanzo turned to lean on one elbow. 'Sniff my hair. Is it some sort of perverted fetish?'

'I wish. No,' he said, annoyed. 'It's nothing. Just-- it smells good.'

'But it's dirty,' Sanzo said, looking puzzled. He pushed a hand through his hair, making it stick up.

Gojyo liked him like this, dazed from sex. His face was as soft as Gojyo ever saw it, sleepy looking and open.

'Yeah. I know.'

'And you like that?' Sanzo said, raising his brows.

'Turns me on. You don't seem to mind.'

'Huh.'

It smells of you, Gojyo didn't say. Better to keep quiet about shit like that.

Sanzo didn't open his mouth after that except to kiss him, and later he twined his arms around Gojyo's shoulders and pulled him closer, face pressed to his neck.

Sanzo didn't take his shampoo into the bathroom the next day.

Comments

[hydr0phobia.livejournal.com]

Guh, yes.

These two are so insanely difficult to work with, especially if you're looking underneath the underneath and their dynamics just make my head spin and I love it. Because while I love my 3553 smut, I love my 3553 fluff, or whatever sorry excuse they have for it.

Hot. Sweet. Yay.

♥

-Neo

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

*falls over in relief*

So glad you think it works, I can't tell you. What you say about their dynamics is exactly how I feel too- it's so hard to keep it all straight (ahem) in my head.

Thank you:)

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

mergle.

Fluffy Gojyo/Sanzo and very sweet. Hard to pull off with those two! Good job.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I feel like I won a prize! I'm so pleased you think this works. XD

[december-star.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely lovely!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much - am very pleased you like it:)

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

What hydr0phobia said, only less coherently over here. No wonder this was hard to write (but you've managed it so well).

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I'm *really* pleased you think so - thanks!

[scribblemoose]

It most definitely works! Thank you so much!!

Just what I needed this evening, too. Really cheered me up.:)

Interestingly, these two often give me trouble too. In my case I think it's because they are both so snarky and testosteroney with each other in canon that I find I'm always worrying when I write them that I'm softening them up too much, or overplaying the snark. Hard to find the right line. But you most definitely have hit it bang on the nail here.

Thanks again. It's brilliant. ^_^

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

You make it look easy, Scribbles! I really love what you do with them, ie, they can make it about sex as much as they want, but deeper, very much unspoken, feelings come into play without them really realising, until it's too late.

With these two I barely know where to start. My axiom here was 'they'll never actually *say* they like each other.' So other ways must be found to show this.

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very well done!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[moonriddler-mim.livejournal.com]

scribble's sent me here and I'm sooo glad she did. my OTP!!! yay!! lovely ficlet! ^__^

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[cicer.livejournal.com]

Eee! So good! And it's so hard to make 35 work, but you did! And it's perfect! And I can so relate to the whole liking-how-your-partner's-hair-smells thing, cause I'm guilty of that too. *grins*

[jain]

I love this ficlet so much. The two of them are terrible at romance and even at love, but you manage to show how emotionally fucked-up they are and still have them demonstrate a sort of heartbreaking sweetness. They can't do anything the easy way, but they try so hard to reach out in the ways that they can.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. It was a real surprise that you recced this fic, and it made me feel so pleased as I was never sure it had worked.

[theromangeneral.livejournal.com]

Sweet, what a nice little fic to find.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[lirren.livejournal.com]

I saw this rec'd on try_this_fic and I really enjoyed it. Those two are so VERY hard to write, especially when it comes to fluff. I think Gojyo has a bigger capacity for fluffy feelings than Sanzo does - or maybe just a bigger capacity for actually expressing those feelings - but I think that last sentence was absolutely perfect. And probably about as fluffy as Sanzo ever gets. *grin*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I can't really see them being fluffy, ever, so I suppose doing things the grudging 'I'm not doing this for you really' way is how they'd go about it.

Glad you liked it - thanks!

[libelluledargen.livejournal.com]

I just love these two together and they're so IC. great fic. Thanks!

[saruzake.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I found this through a fic rec and I absolutely love it. I've only just started writing these guys and forcing them to be IC is a never-ending task. I love what you've done with them, and it's believable and fluffy and sexy all at the same time. ^^

[oozaru-angel.livejournal.com]

Aw! I love it, very sweet and smexy. When it comes to Goyjo and Sanzo, I always call it in my head "reluctant fluff" and you've done it perfectly.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I found this little story a while back lurking through others' recs/memories/somewhere, and read it and thought "cute, I should fb" and then lost it, but kept thinking about it, and now I've found it again, yay, and so I can appreciate your writing here. ::appreciates your writing here:: It's well-written; I think you said a lot about their relationship in just a few words. And it has that nice touch of "I-don't-hate-you" that I love to find in a 53 fic, and yet still doesn't murder the characters. Your Gojyo here is very sweet, too. :) I enjoyed it very much.