Written for the "ghosts" challenge on the 100_roadtrips LJ drabble community. Betaed by Eliza.

There is not enough room in Hakuryuu for all of the Sanzo-ikkou. Hakkai feels the way they crowd the jeep. Sanzo rides shotgun with Kouryuu in his lap, with Koumyou Sanzo gazing over his shoulder and Shuei breathing down his neck. Gojyo carries both mothers in eyes and hair and scarred face, and slouches under the weight of Jien.

Goku carries no weight but that of five hundred years of forgetting. Hakkai suspects that it is enough to populate the road to Tenjiku.

Hakkai reaches out to shift gears, careful not to touch Kanan's braid, not to meet Gonou's eyes.

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