I don't own Trigun.
Ok, the beginning may be a little slow but TRUST ME it gets so interesting through the story and funny
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It was quiet and dark at Merry's bar as it usually was. The people of the town were farming folk and never got riled up over anything. A few outsiders sat along the bar counter. A group in the corner whipsered and pointed at one particular man. He was dressed in a red button up shirt with blond spiky hair.
"Excuse me sir" The blond man asked the bartender. "Do you know a Miss Meryl Stryfe? I was told she lived here, but-"
"Yea, I know 'er. She lef jus' dis mornin. Strange woman..." The bartender shook his head as he wiped a glass clean. The spiky haired man's eyes lit up with hope.
"Do you know where she was heading? What city? What direction?" The bartender laughed at his eagerness.
"Slow down, boy. She went ta-"
"Merry!" One of the farmers in the corner cut the bartender off. The blond man turned in his seat to look at the man that yelled. "Don't you tell that Human Disaster a damn thing bout Miss Stryfe" Merry looked confused. "That there's Vash the Stampede." There was complete silence that followed that sentence. A tension filled the air as Vash's ID was revealed.
"Hahahaha..." Vash laughed nervously wondering who would pull their guns out first...the farmers or one of the travelers who were probably bounty hunters.
"Vash da Stampede" Merry said from behind the counter. Vash turned his spiky blond head only to meet the circular end of a wine bottle. "Gift fer ya. Miss Stryfe was headin down ta Flores, right near LR." Vash accepted the wine bottle, picked up his brown poncho adn began walking to the door. He turned back around and waved to Merry.
"Thank you sir, have a nice night." With that Vash the Stampede left Merry's bar with out one bullet shot, one table upturned or one man injured. Vash made a mental note of this phenomenon and would brag to the Insurance girls about it.
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"Mum! Can we please stop!? I'm dying of hunger!" The young girl with long blond hair clung to the shoulder of her mother while she drove.
"Lu stop acting like a child! We're almost there." Her mother said sternly. 16 years of dealing with Lu had given her a few gray hairs, but her face was still lovely and smooth. Her dark hair had grown over the years, trailing behind her in the wind.
Lu desperately threw herself on the side of the car door and looked out into the ocean of endless sands. "How come we left Shale in the middle of the school year? You usually wait till I've finished the school year."
"I've explain this over a dozen times Lu! Can't you listen the first 3 times at least?" There was a strong hint of irritation in her voice. Lu sat back in her seat with her arms behind her head.
*sigh* "Millie and Aldy need our help at the orphanage, you miss your old friend who you haven't seen for 3 years-"
"4 years" Her mother corrected, holding up four fingers. Lu rolled her brilliant aqua eyes.
"4 years then...and you want me to attend school with Aldy and make new friends" Her mothernodded, but Lu didn't seem convinced.
"Yes, its important that you learn to keep friends because you'll need them and the orphanage could be shut down if we don't come up with more money. Plus, I need to file these reports for the Bernidalli Insurance Company and I must be sure they arrive in perfect condition. Do you understand?" There was no response. "Lu?" Her mother looked over to see her fast asleep in an awkward position. *sigh* "You can sleep through anything, can't you?"
A young woman with long black hair dressed in blue jeans and a red T-shirt was outside playing with two children. They were playing hopscotch in front of a large run-down white house. The young woman shaded her radiant green eyes to see a rusty car pull into town. A smile broke across her face.
"Mama!" Her long black hair wildly trailed after her as she ran inside the house. The dirty black sneakers stopped in the kitchen doorway. "Mama! Meryl and Lu are here!" Millie was preparing some food on the stove. She wore an apron and had her chestnut hair tied back.
"That's wonderful! Just in time for an early dinner!" She said with a cheery smile. The contents in the pot bgan to boil over and foam.
"Mama..." Her force said in warning, pointing her finger at the stove.
"Oh my!" Millie began rushing around the kitchen. The heel of her shoe slipped on a puddle of water. Landing on her bum, the tall woman winced in pain. Her daughter wlaked over, took the pan and dumped it into the sink, then turned off the stove in a calm matter. She helped her clumsy mother off the floor.
"Thank you! Oh, Aldreasa what would I do with out you?" Millie hugged her daughter warmly. Aldreasa hugged her back.
"Why don't you greet Meryl and Lu while I clean this up, Mama?" She said with a smile across her face. She had the same cheerful smile as her mother.
"Thanks sweety. Its been so long since I've seen Meryl!" Millie took off her apron while walking down the stairs to the front door. Aldreasa looked at the messy kitchen.
*sigh* "How does she manage?"
The batty old car was parked in front of Milli's house. Meryl was taking in the scenery of Flores. Meryl remembered waiting for to return, Milli and the townspeople hitting the water vein and the Vash's return.......She looked over at her daughter who was still awkwardly sleeping. Drool was steadily dripping from the side of her mouth. "Lu." Meryl poked the blond's shoulder. "Lu we're here" She began shaking Lu. "BayLu Catilona wake up this instant!" Her mother demanded, yelling in the sleeping ear. Groaning, Lu pushed away from Meryl and rolled to her side, back facing her mother. Meryl slammed the palm of her hand on the steering wheel. When the horn blew the children in the street jumped. Lu just snored loudly in reply. "You're hopeless..." Meryl said in defeat.
"Meryl!" A tall woman with chesnut hair came running down the steps of her house. Meryl got out of the car.
"Millie!" They embraced, the tall bulky woman towering over the short petite one. Then Milli held Meryl out at arm's length.
"You haven't aged a bit!" Meryl tilted her head, putting on a fake smile. She knew Millie was just being nice...
"Same could be said of you!" They laughed together in happiness. The laughter ceased as Lu made some unintelligible noises as she slept. Meryl sighed and put her hand to her head. "Oh, Lu..."
"Oh my, she's stilla heavy sleeper isn't she?" Millie chime cheerfully. Meryl slumped her shoulders putting her head down.
"Always will be..." Meryl snapped up her head with a bright expression on her face. "How's the orphanage doing?" Milli's face sadened.
"Its been shut down" Meryl frowned "We tried our hardest, but there was nothing we could do. Jimmy and Chuck are the only two children who stayed in town." She looked at the two boys playing in the street. "I'm just hoping some day a good stranger will come along and give them a home." As Millie told the sad story, Lu was tumbling lazily out of the car and crawling up to her mother's leg. Her hand grasped the white pant's leg. The roaring sounds from the blond's stomach were more than audible.
"F-food...must...e..a..t" Lu's face smacked down into the gound, forming a dust cloud. Meryl was not one bit amused by her dramatic entrance.
"Lu..." She said begining to stamp her foot that wasn't being clutched too.
"Why don't you run to the store and get us something for dinner?" Millie suggested with a bright smile. Lu looked up wearily. "I bet they have donuts..." Millie's voice was taunting as she held up a $$10 dollars in her hand. In a quick flash Lu snatched the money from the tall woman's hand and ran down the street leaving a dust trail behind her.
"I bet she's a handful!" Millie giggled lightly.
"You have no idea"
"Just like her fa..." Millie stopped herself before completing the word 'father'. Meryl looked up at her in shock. Millie quickly changed the subject. "Lets get your things inside, shall we?" She said with a real big smile. ^_______^ Meryl forced a smile back and nodded.
Lu was running down the street with the $$10 bill held up in the air. "DOOONUUUTTSS!" She screamed madly, attracting all sorts of attention from the villagers. As Lu ran up to the store, a man dressed in a brown poncho was thrown out of the store. He collided with Lu and they went tumbling in the sand. The man got up and dusted himself off.
"Oh, sorry miss..."He apologized, but Lu didn't even hear him. After her head stopped spinning, she gasped. "What's wrong?" He asked her.
Lu frantically searched the ground. "My money!" The two of them looked for Milli's money. The stranger picked up the bill and dusted it off.
"Here ya go" He said holding it up. Lu's eyes turned all sparkly blue as she took the money.
"Donuts!" Popping to her feet, Lu Stood in an infamous hero 'pose'.
"Donuts?" There was a loud growl from the man's stomach. Lu looked over at him for the first time. He had blond spiky hair, with aqua eyes, wearing an old poncho and looked skronny. "Sorry..."
"We shall dine together!" Lu grabbed his hand and pulled Vash in the store with her. The store clerk gaped sa the spiky headed man entered in a flash.
"Hey!" As the two blonds went by, the clerk's newspapers went flying to the ground. "You! Get out of here!" He screeched at Vash. Vash shrugged his shoulders apologectically smiling. Lu danced over to the counter with a box of donuts in each hand. She held the money in her mouth, leaning over for the clerk to take it. Confused and a little disgusted, the man took it.
"Keep the change sir. Grab some chicken mister!" She chirped to Vash, who was her new found stranger. He smiled nervously while grabbing a chicken. His blond head bowed slightly to tghe clerk as he followed Lu out the doors which he had just recently been thrown out. "Donuts, Donuts, oh lovely donuts!" Lu sang cheerfully as she opened a box. Vash looked over at the food with his tounge sticking out. "Three cream filled with rainbow sprinkles, two chocolate frosted chocolate donuts, four sugared and five glazed..." She said examining the freshly baked pastries. "Here ya go mister!" Lu gave him one box of donuts, keeping one for herself.
"THANKS!" He said stuffing his face full while handing the chicken to her.
"Have a nice day mister!" Lu said, smiling and walking away.
"Hey wait a minute!" Vash called after her with a mouth full of donuts. Lu turned her blond head. "Do you know Miss Meryl Stryfe by chance?" He said sweetly as can be.
"Well, yea...I live with her" Lu said thinking why in hell would this man, a young man at that, be looking for her uptight mother who never spoke to men except her boss and Lu's principal. The stranger's face lit up a new.
"REALLY!?" Vash said with eyes bulging. He finally caught up with her! "Could you tell her to meet me at the bar tonight around 10?" Lu wrinkled her nose...he wanted her to set him up on a date with her mom? She knew this guy wasn't from Bernidalli.
"Sure, uh...what's you name mister?" Vash smiled nervously, scratching the back of his head.
"Haha...uh...well tell her its a surprise from a friend!" He said hurriedly. Lu nodded her head.
"Okie dokie, she'll be there, mister! Cya!" She saluted him and bgan skipping down the street singing about donuts. The young man smiled and finished devouring his box of goodies.
Aldreasa sat on the kitchen floor, exhausted. The room was so clean it sparkled. "That was a handful..." Sighing, she wiped the sweat off her forehead. Her mouth opened wide and let out a yawn. "This deserves a nap..." With that she lay down on the ground, bunching up the apron for a pillow and falling gast asleep.
Millie dropped a box on the wooden floor. "You didn't pack much. Are you planning on leaving again?" Meryl shook her dark hair.
"No! of course not! Lu and I are here to stay. I've decided no more running, no more hiding and no more moving." Millie jumped for joy.
"Yay! That's so wonderful!" She gave her short friend a killer hug. "Since Aldreasa is getting older, I thought I'd be aleft alone! Oh, sempai! We're gonna have so much fun!" Meryl couldn't breath under her friend's grip. Just then they heard the door clicked open.
"Mum! Aunty Mil! I brought some chicken for dinner!" Lu called from the living room. She shut the door with her butt, making it slam shut.
"Ok! you're things are in your room" Meryl called from her room, down the hall. Lu began walking up the stairs to the kitchen, balancing the box of donuts on top of the chicken.
"Thanks!" When she turned to yell, her feet stumbled upon a body on the floor.
"OWE!"
"AHH!"
*Crash*
Meryl and Millie jumped out of the bedroom and to the living room with great speeds. In the kitchen, Lu and Aldreasa lay in a jumble of legs, arms and donuts. "GET OFF OF ME!" Aldreasa shoved Lu off her, making the young girl fall down the stairs.
"Allldy!" Aldreasa watched as Lu rolled down the steps with some donuts. *THUD* Lu landed face first. "Ouchie..." Her blue eyes look at the shoe of her mother's foot. Then finding her mother's eyes, Lu could tell they weren't happy. Lu turned and pointed up the stairs at Aldreasa, who was looking innocently down. "Its Aldy fault! She threw me down the stairs!" Aldreasa's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped. Lu smirked at her with out either mother seeing.
"MY FAULT!? You're the one who tripped on me! I didn't do anything. Its your fault!" Aldreasa wasn't getting blamed for this one...whatever it was.
"You were laying on the floor!" Lu spat back.
"I was cleaning!"
"Sounded like you were snoring..." She said sheepishly.
"Girls!" Millie shouted from behind Meryl, instantly getting everyone's attention. "Calm down, its not that serious" Lu stuck her tounge out at Aldreasa. She narrowed her green eyes in response. "Lu, why don't you clean up your donuts while Aldreasa starts cooking the chicken." Milli said in her motherly voice. Millie had learned how to give orders, but still was her old optimistic self.
"Yessum!" Lu saluted her aunty and began cleaning up. Millie smiled sweetly at the blond then looked at her daughter.
"Now Aldreasa, if you were tired you should have gone to bed. Be a little sensible, dear" Her mother turned, with Meryl following close behind.
"Lu, help Aldreasa with dinner once you're done. We're going to finish unpacking." Meryl called back. Lu smiled nervously as she looked over at the red faced, raven haired young woman.
"I LOVE YOU!" She said with a wide grin in an attempt to act innocent. Aldreasa just threw up her arms in fusteration.
"You're such a child! You pulled that stunt when we were 5 years old!" Lu tilted her head, still having the fake smile plastered on her face.
"Which stunt?" Aldreasa picked up a donut and threw it down at the blond girl.
"The one you blame everything on me and GET AWAY WITH IT!" Aldreasa began launching a full attack of donuts down on Lu. Quickly dodging the donuts, Lu jumped behind a sofa.
*SPLAT*
A chocolate frosted donuts stuck to the back of Milli's favorite white chair. Aldreasa's eye twitched as the donut slide gracefully down the back of the chair, staining the white with dark brown. Lu began laughing full force. "WOW! You sure have bad aim!"
"SHUT UP!" Aldreasa picked up another donut with sprinkles and was about to throw when her mother's voice came from down the hallway.
"Aldreasa, Lu? Are you two ok?" Meryl called from the bedroom. Aldreasa began panicking, putting down the donut she ran and grabbed a wash cloth from the sink. Millie's footsteps were getting farther down the hallway.
"Lu, distract them! PLZ" Aldreasa begged in a whisper. Lu smiled sheepsihly at her desperate friend. Aldreasa began scrubbing furiously at the chair.
"What do I get?" Aldreasa cut her cold green eyes over at the blond girl.
"You'll get a beating if you don't stop them from entering this room" She said in a bone chilling threat. Lu put up her hands and laughed skittishly.
"Ok, ok...no need to get voilent." She said in a whisper back to the threat. Lu bounced to her feet, intercepting Millie at the door frame to the living room. "Aunty Mil!" Lu said giving Milli a large embrace. "I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" Millie hugged Lu back happily.
"I missed you too!" Millie chimed, completely oblivious to Lu's distraction.
"What do you think you're doing?" Meryl saw the obvious. She could always smell that Lu was up to something. Call it maternal instinct.
"Oh, mummy dearest" Lu said including her mother in the hug. *BASH* Lu held the top of her head where Meryl had smacked her. Her fist was still raised and Milli was quite surprised at the sudden action.
"What are you hiding" Lu smiled with no worries.
"Well, you see, while I was out getting the wonderful chicken Aldreasa is cooking, I bumped into this strange guy that asked me to deviler a message to you." Lu said in her higher authority voice. Meryl began tapping her foot impatiently as her daughter stalled.
"Millie, go check on Aldreasa" Millie nodded her head and took one step. Lu jumped in front of her, blocking the hallway.
"No! This is really important! You gotta hear this too aunty mil!" Meryl fumed.
"BayLu! You're stopping us from finding out something! That something is going to get you into more trouble if you don't let us by!" Lu hated it when her mother called her by her name, but the blond girl wasn't going to give up. Meryl began trying to push past her daughter. Lu WOULD COMPLETE THE MISSION ALDY HAD GIVEN HER OR BE BEATEN SEVERLY FOR BEING A FAILURE.
"A 'young' blond man told me to tell you to meet him at the bar round 10!" Meryl kept struggling with her daughter. "He had blond spiky hair and he was skronny, but real tall!" Meryl immediately stopped struggling. Lu looked up at her mother. Her eyes off into the distant and face paled as though she had seen a ghost. "Mum?"
"Vash..." She snapped out of her daydreaming and grabbed Lu's shirt collar. "Was his name Vash!? TELL ME NOW!" Meryl was screaming at the top of her lungs, shaking her daughter violently.
"I...dont know" Lu said, her head spinning as her mother stopped shaking her. Her mother stepped back, again her eyes looked far away. 'Talk about mood swings' Lu thought to herself.
"Vash is back..." Meryl said before fainting into darkness.
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Please read more! I BEG YOU! teehee love yas! ^___^
Ok, the beginning may be a little slow but TRUST ME it gets so interesting through the story and funny
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It was quiet and dark at Merry's bar as it usually was. The people of the town were farming folk and never got riled up over anything. A few outsiders sat along the bar counter. A group in the corner whipsered and pointed at one particular man. He was dressed in a red button up shirt with blond spiky hair.
"Excuse me sir" The blond man asked the bartender. "Do you know a Miss Meryl Stryfe? I was told she lived here, but-"
"Yea, I know 'er. She lef jus' dis mornin. Strange woman..." The bartender shook his head as he wiped a glass clean. The spiky haired man's eyes lit up with hope.
"Do you know where she was heading? What city? What direction?" The bartender laughed at his eagerness.
"Slow down, boy. She went ta-"
"Merry!" One of the farmers in the corner cut the bartender off. The blond man turned in his seat to look at the man that yelled. "Don't you tell that Human Disaster a damn thing bout Miss Stryfe" Merry looked confused. "That there's Vash the Stampede." There was complete silence that followed that sentence. A tension filled the air as Vash's ID was revealed.
"Hahahaha..." Vash laughed nervously wondering who would pull their guns out first...the farmers or one of the travelers who were probably bounty hunters.
"Vash da Stampede" Merry said from behind the counter. Vash turned his spiky blond head only to meet the circular end of a wine bottle. "Gift fer ya. Miss Stryfe was headin down ta Flores, right near LR." Vash accepted the wine bottle, picked up his brown poncho adn began walking to the door. He turned back around and waved to Merry.
"Thank you sir, have a nice night." With that Vash the Stampede left Merry's bar with out one bullet shot, one table upturned or one man injured. Vash made a mental note of this phenomenon and would brag to the Insurance girls about it.
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"Mum! Can we please stop!? I'm dying of hunger!" The young girl with long blond hair clung to the shoulder of her mother while she drove.
"Lu stop acting like a child! We're almost there." Her mother said sternly. 16 years of dealing with Lu had given her a few gray hairs, but her face was still lovely and smooth. Her dark hair had grown over the years, trailing behind her in the wind.
Lu desperately threw herself on the side of the car door and looked out into the ocean of endless sands. "How come we left Shale in the middle of the school year? You usually wait till I've finished the school year."
"I've explain this over a dozen times Lu! Can't you listen the first 3 times at least?" There was a strong hint of irritation in her voice. Lu sat back in her seat with her arms behind her head.
*sigh* "Millie and Aldy need our help at the orphanage, you miss your old friend who you haven't seen for 3 years-"
"4 years" Her mother corrected, holding up four fingers. Lu rolled her brilliant aqua eyes.
"4 years then...and you want me to attend school with Aldy and make new friends" Her mothernodded, but Lu didn't seem convinced.
"Yes, its important that you learn to keep friends because you'll need them and the orphanage could be shut down if we don't come up with more money. Plus, I need to file these reports for the Bernidalli Insurance Company and I must be sure they arrive in perfect condition. Do you understand?" There was no response. "Lu?" Her mother looked over to see her fast asleep in an awkward position. *sigh* "You can sleep through anything, can't you?"
A young woman with long black hair dressed in blue jeans and a red T-shirt was outside playing with two children. They were playing hopscotch in front of a large run-down white house. The young woman shaded her radiant green eyes to see a rusty car pull into town. A smile broke across her face.
"Mama!" Her long black hair wildly trailed after her as she ran inside the house. The dirty black sneakers stopped in the kitchen doorway. "Mama! Meryl and Lu are here!" Millie was preparing some food on the stove. She wore an apron and had her chestnut hair tied back.
"That's wonderful! Just in time for an early dinner!" She said with a cheery smile. The contents in the pot bgan to boil over and foam.
"Mama..." Her force said in warning, pointing her finger at the stove.
"Oh my!" Millie began rushing around the kitchen. The heel of her shoe slipped on a puddle of water. Landing on her bum, the tall woman winced in pain. Her daughter wlaked over, took the pan and dumped it into the sink, then turned off the stove in a calm matter. She helped her clumsy mother off the floor.
"Thank you! Oh, Aldreasa what would I do with out you?" Millie hugged her daughter warmly. Aldreasa hugged her back.
"Why don't you greet Meryl and Lu while I clean this up, Mama?" She said with a smile across her face. She had the same cheerful smile as her mother.
"Thanks sweety. Its been so long since I've seen Meryl!" Millie took off her apron while walking down the stairs to the front door. Aldreasa looked at the messy kitchen.
*sigh* "How does she manage?"
The batty old car was parked in front of Milli's house. Meryl was taking in the scenery of Flores. Meryl remembered waiting for to return, Milli and the townspeople hitting the water vein and the Vash's return.......She looked over at her daughter who was still awkwardly sleeping. Drool was steadily dripping from the side of her mouth. "Lu." Meryl poked the blond's shoulder. "Lu we're here" She began shaking Lu. "BayLu Catilona wake up this instant!" Her mother demanded, yelling in the sleeping ear. Groaning, Lu pushed away from Meryl and rolled to her side, back facing her mother. Meryl slammed the palm of her hand on the steering wheel. When the horn blew the children in the street jumped. Lu just snored loudly in reply. "You're hopeless..." Meryl said in defeat.
"Meryl!" A tall woman with chesnut hair came running down the steps of her house. Meryl got out of the car.
"Millie!" They embraced, the tall bulky woman towering over the short petite one. Then Milli held Meryl out at arm's length.
"You haven't aged a bit!" Meryl tilted her head, putting on a fake smile. She knew Millie was just being nice...
"Same could be said of you!" They laughed together in happiness. The laughter ceased as Lu made some unintelligible noises as she slept. Meryl sighed and put her hand to her head. "Oh, Lu..."
"Oh my, she's stilla heavy sleeper isn't she?" Millie chime cheerfully. Meryl slumped her shoulders putting her head down.
"Always will be..." Meryl snapped up her head with a bright expression on her face. "How's the orphanage doing?" Milli's face sadened.
"Its been shut down" Meryl frowned "We tried our hardest, but there was nothing we could do. Jimmy and Chuck are the only two children who stayed in town." She looked at the two boys playing in the street. "I'm just hoping some day a good stranger will come along and give them a home." As Millie told the sad story, Lu was tumbling lazily out of the car and crawling up to her mother's leg. Her hand grasped the white pant's leg. The roaring sounds from the blond's stomach were more than audible.
"F-food...must...e..a..t" Lu's face smacked down into the gound, forming a dust cloud. Meryl was not one bit amused by her dramatic entrance.
"Lu..." She said begining to stamp her foot that wasn't being clutched too.
"Why don't you run to the store and get us something for dinner?" Millie suggested with a bright smile. Lu looked up wearily. "I bet they have donuts..." Millie's voice was taunting as she held up a $$10 dollars in her hand. In a quick flash Lu snatched the money from the tall woman's hand and ran down the street leaving a dust trail behind her.
"I bet she's a handful!" Millie giggled lightly.
"You have no idea"
"Just like her fa..." Millie stopped herself before completing the word 'father'. Meryl looked up at her in shock. Millie quickly changed the subject. "Lets get your things inside, shall we?" She said with a real big smile. ^_______^ Meryl forced a smile back and nodded.
Lu was running down the street with the $$10 bill held up in the air. "DOOONUUUTTSS!" She screamed madly, attracting all sorts of attention from the villagers. As Lu ran up to the store, a man dressed in a brown poncho was thrown out of the store. He collided with Lu and they went tumbling in the sand. The man got up and dusted himself off.
"Oh, sorry miss..."He apologized, but Lu didn't even hear him. After her head stopped spinning, she gasped. "What's wrong?" He asked her.
Lu frantically searched the ground. "My money!" The two of them looked for Milli's money. The stranger picked up the bill and dusted it off.
"Here ya go" He said holding it up. Lu's eyes turned all sparkly blue as she took the money.
"Donuts!" Popping to her feet, Lu Stood in an infamous hero 'pose'.
"Donuts?" There was a loud growl from the man's stomach. Lu looked over at him for the first time. He had blond spiky hair, with aqua eyes, wearing an old poncho and looked skronny. "Sorry..."
"We shall dine together!" Lu grabbed his hand and pulled Vash in the store with her. The store clerk gaped sa the spiky headed man entered in a flash.
"Hey!" As the two blonds went by, the clerk's newspapers went flying to the ground. "You! Get out of here!" He screeched at Vash. Vash shrugged his shoulders apologectically smiling. Lu danced over to the counter with a box of donuts in each hand. She held the money in her mouth, leaning over for the clerk to take it. Confused and a little disgusted, the man took it.
"Keep the change sir. Grab some chicken mister!" She chirped to Vash, who was her new found stranger. He smiled nervously while grabbing a chicken. His blond head bowed slightly to tghe clerk as he followed Lu out the doors which he had just recently been thrown out. "Donuts, Donuts, oh lovely donuts!" Lu sang cheerfully as she opened a box. Vash looked over at the food with his tounge sticking out. "Three cream filled with rainbow sprinkles, two chocolate frosted chocolate donuts, four sugared and five glazed..." She said examining the freshly baked pastries. "Here ya go mister!" Lu gave him one box of donuts, keeping one for herself.
"THANKS!" He said stuffing his face full while handing the chicken to her.
"Have a nice day mister!" Lu said, smiling and walking away.
"Hey wait a minute!" Vash called after her with a mouth full of donuts. Lu turned her blond head. "Do you know Miss Meryl Stryfe by chance?" He said sweetly as can be.
"Well, yea...I live with her" Lu said thinking why in hell would this man, a young man at that, be looking for her uptight mother who never spoke to men except her boss and Lu's principal. The stranger's face lit up a new.
"REALLY!?" Vash said with eyes bulging. He finally caught up with her! "Could you tell her to meet me at the bar tonight around 10?" Lu wrinkled her nose...he wanted her to set him up on a date with her mom? She knew this guy wasn't from Bernidalli.
"Sure, uh...what's you name mister?" Vash smiled nervously, scratching the back of his head.
"Haha...uh...well tell her its a surprise from a friend!" He said hurriedly. Lu nodded her head.
"Okie dokie, she'll be there, mister! Cya!" She saluted him and bgan skipping down the street singing about donuts. The young man smiled and finished devouring his box of goodies.
Aldreasa sat on the kitchen floor, exhausted. The room was so clean it sparkled. "That was a handful..." Sighing, she wiped the sweat off her forehead. Her mouth opened wide and let out a yawn. "This deserves a nap..." With that she lay down on the ground, bunching up the apron for a pillow and falling gast asleep.
Millie dropped a box on the wooden floor. "You didn't pack much. Are you planning on leaving again?" Meryl shook her dark hair.
"No! of course not! Lu and I are here to stay. I've decided no more running, no more hiding and no more moving." Millie jumped for joy.
"Yay! That's so wonderful!" She gave her short friend a killer hug. "Since Aldreasa is getting older, I thought I'd be aleft alone! Oh, sempai! We're gonna have so much fun!" Meryl couldn't breath under her friend's grip. Just then they heard the door clicked open.
"Mum! Aunty Mil! I brought some chicken for dinner!" Lu called from the living room. She shut the door with her butt, making it slam shut.
"Ok! you're things are in your room" Meryl called from her room, down the hall. Lu began walking up the stairs to the kitchen, balancing the box of donuts on top of the chicken.
"Thanks!" When she turned to yell, her feet stumbled upon a body on the floor.
"OWE!"
"AHH!"
*Crash*
Meryl and Millie jumped out of the bedroom and to the living room with great speeds. In the kitchen, Lu and Aldreasa lay in a jumble of legs, arms and donuts. "GET OFF OF ME!" Aldreasa shoved Lu off her, making the young girl fall down the stairs.
"Allldy!" Aldreasa watched as Lu rolled down the steps with some donuts. *THUD* Lu landed face first. "Ouchie..." Her blue eyes look at the shoe of her mother's foot. Then finding her mother's eyes, Lu could tell they weren't happy. Lu turned and pointed up the stairs at Aldreasa, who was looking innocently down. "Its Aldy fault! She threw me down the stairs!" Aldreasa's eyes went wide and her mouth dropped. Lu smirked at her with out either mother seeing.
"MY FAULT!? You're the one who tripped on me! I didn't do anything. Its your fault!" Aldreasa wasn't getting blamed for this one...whatever it was.
"You were laying on the floor!" Lu spat back.
"I was cleaning!"
"Sounded like you were snoring..." She said sheepishly.
"Girls!" Millie shouted from behind Meryl, instantly getting everyone's attention. "Calm down, its not that serious" Lu stuck her tounge out at Aldreasa. She narrowed her green eyes in response. "Lu, why don't you clean up your donuts while Aldreasa starts cooking the chicken." Milli said in her motherly voice. Millie had learned how to give orders, but still was her old optimistic self.
"Yessum!" Lu saluted her aunty and began cleaning up. Millie smiled sweetly at the blond then looked at her daughter.
"Now Aldreasa, if you were tired you should have gone to bed. Be a little sensible, dear" Her mother turned, with Meryl following close behind.
"Lu, help Aldreasa with dinner once you're done. We're going to finish unpacking." Meryl called back. Lu smiled nervously as she looked over at the red faced, raven haired young woman.
"I LOVE YOU!" She said with a wide grin in an attempt to act innocent. Aldreasa just threw up her arms in fusteration.
"You're such a child! You pulled that stunt when we were 5 years old!" Lu tilted her head, still having the fake smile plastered on her face.
"Which stunt?" Aldreasa picked up a donut and threw it down at the blond girl.
"The one you blame everything on me and GET AWAY WITH IT!" Aldreasa began launching a full attack of donuts down on Lu. Quickly dodging the donuts, Lu jumped behind a sofa.
*SPLAT*
A chocolate frosted donuts stuck to the back of Milli's favorite white chair. Aldreasa's eye twitched as the donut slide gracefully down the back of the chair, staining the white with dark brown. Lu began laughing full force. "WOW! You sure have bad aim!"
"SHUT UP!" Aldreasa picked up another donut with sprinkles and was about to throw when her mother's voice came from down the hallway.
"Aldreasa, Lu? Are you two ok?" Meryl called from the bedroom. Aldreasa began panicking, putting down the donut she ran and grabbed a wash cloth from the sink. Millie's footsteps were getting farther down the hallway.
"Lu, distract them! PLZ" Aldreasa begged in a whisper. Lu smiled sheepsihly at her desperate friend. Aldreasa began scrubbing furiously at the chair.
"What do I get?" Aldreasa cut her cold green eyes over at the blond girl.
"You'll get a beating if you don't stop them from entering this room" She said in a bone chilling threat. Lu put up her hands and laughed skittishly.
"Ok, ok...no need to get voilent." She said in a whisper back to the threat. Lu bounced to her feet, intercepting Millie at the door frame to the living room. "Aunty Mil!" Lu said giving Milli a large embrace. "I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!" Millie hugged Lu back happily.
"I missed you too!" Millie chimed, completely oblivious to Lu's distraction.
"What do you think you're doing?" Meryl saw the obvious. She could always smell that Lu was up to something. Call it maternal instinct.
"Oh, mummy dearest" Lu said including her mother in the hug. *BASH* Lu held the top of her head where Meryl had smacked her. Her fist was still raised and Milli was quite surprised at the sudden action.
"What are you hiding" Lu smiled with no worries.
"Well, you see, while I was out getting the wonderful chicken Aldreasa is cooking, I bumped into this strange guy that asked me to deviler a message to you." Lu said in her higher authority voice. Meryl began tapping her foot impatiently as her daughter stalled.
"Millie, go check on Aldreasa" Millie nodded her head and took one step. Lu jumped in front of her, blocking the hallway.
"No! This is really important! You gotta hear this too aunty mil!" Meryl fumed.
"BayLu! You're stopping us from finding out something! That something is going to get you into more trouble if you don't let us by!" Lu hated it when her mother called her by her name, but the blond girl wasn't going to give up. Meryl began trying to push past her daughter. Lu WOULD COMPLETE THE MISSION ALDY HAD GIVEN HER OR BE BEATEN SEVERLY FOR BEING A FAILURE.
"A 'young' blond man told me to tell you to meet him at the bar round 10!" Meryl kept struggling with her daughter. "He had blond spiky hair and he was skronny, but real tall!" Meryl immediately stopped struggling. Lu looked up at her mother. Her eyes off into the distant and face paled as though she had seen a ghost. "Mum?"
"Vash..." She snapped out of her daydreaming and grabbed Lu's shirt collar. "Was his name Vash!? TELL ME NOW!" Meryl was screaming at the top of her lungs, shaking her daughter violently.
"I...dont know" Lu said, her head spinning as her mother stopped shaking her. Her mother stepped back, again her eyes looked far away. 'Talk about mood swings' Lu thought to herself.
"Vash is back..." Meryl said before fainting into darkness.
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