Mesopotamia's Revenge

By: Echiko

Date: 4/3/02

Disclaimer: I DON"T own Saber Marionette J.

Chapter 1: Dream #1

After Lime and the others were sent back, Otaru has been having some strange dreams...

~Dream:

Otaru is standing outside a park and a voice echoes in his head.

The voice said, "It's not fair! Not fair! Not fair! NOT FAIR! Why can't she and you guys understand me?! She and you are the same...WHY?!"

Otaru trembles and holds head. Otaru exclaims, "Stop...stop it! What?! WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" ~

Otaru's eyes opens suddenly finding Lime sitting down beside him.

Lime whispers, "Otaru...you were yelling and sweating a lot...Are you ok?"

Otaru sits up and wipes his sweat and looks at Lime. Otaru slowly says, "Yah...Just an odd dream...I'm all right. Really...You can go back to sleep..."

Lime puts on a worried face but listens to Otaru and heads back to her bed. Lime snuggles back in and continues to stare through the doors she left opened at Otaru. Otaru lies down slowly and thinks hard of what the dream meant. Otaru thinks, "What did I do...? Have I hurt anybody? What did I do...?"

Later, when everyone was wide and awake for breakfast, Cherry shouted, "Everyone! Breakfast is ready!"

Otaru walks into the dining room. "Hai! Cherry this is a delicacy!" Otaru smiles.

Pieces of fried fish were set on the table for each of them.

"AHA!! Otaru-sama! As long as you like it..." Cherry holds her face and blushes.

"Eh…?" Otaru lifts an eyebrow.

Bloodberry walks in and hugs Otaru. She says, "Ne...Otaruuuu!!! Want some sake? I just went to buy 3 more bottles this morning with my allowance!"

"WHAT?!" Otaru stands up and pounds his hands on the table, knocking Bloodberry onto the floor.

"What?" Bloodberry questions.

"You're hopeless..." Otaru sighs.

Lime walks into the room and starts off her day with her normal phrase. "Hao! Good morning!" Lime looks around and tilts her head to one side. "Bloodberry, why are you laying on the floor? Otaru, why do you look so angry? Cherry, why are you acting so funny?"

"Oh! Hi kid! Otaru is just giving me my normal everyday lecture." Bloodberry winks.

"NORMAL EVERDAY LECTURE?! What?!" Otaru exclaims.

Cherry mumbles aloud, "L-Lime! W-What does "acting so funny" suppose to mean?! Anyway, your food is getting c---." Cherry hears Lime's sloppy table manners. "Nevermind..." A huge sweatdrop drops on top of her head.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, the floor seems to open and Hanagata popped up. "Ah! OTARU-KUUUNNNN!! Good morning! Let's start off our day with---."

Cherry and Bloodberry gives him an evil glare.

Hanagata sinks down. Cherry takes out a pan and Bloodberry takes out a bat and swings them towards Hanagata. Hanagata flies into the sky.

"Why am I always thrown out?!" Hanagata cries out.

Lime hands Cherry her bowl. "Seconds please! Oi, Cherry seconds! Oh, is that Hana-chan?" Lime stare off at the hardly able to see Hanagata flying in the sky.

"Hai, hai..." Cherry says while piling Lime's bowl with 3 scoops of rice.

"Ok, I'm done! I'll be off to work now! See you all later!" Otaru then runs out of the room and is gone.

Lime thinks to herself if that odd dream Otaru mentioned that morning affected him somehow.

After Otaru came back, he headed straight for bed. The door slides open and Cherry asks, "Otaru-sama, dinners ready. Won't you come and join us?" Cherry walks towards Otaru lying on top of his bed.

"Ah...I ate out. A friend of mine invited me and I couldn't say no, so I ate with them. Sorry Cherry...I know you work very hard towards everyday's meals..."

Cherry blushes and shakes her head. "N-No Otaru-sama! It's alright! I- I mean. Um..." Cherry kneels down. "I mean...I understand why you can't say no. It's really ok..." Cherry gets up and helps Otaru cover him with a blanket. "Just get some rest. Goodnight..." Cherry slides the door close slowly and walks toward the dining room.

"Cherry? Where's Otaru?" Bloodberry asks.

Cherry sits down and told Lime and Bloodberry why.

Lime whimpers, "Otaru...It's not the same without you eating with us..."

Bloodberry's eyebrows drop. "Hmm…"