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Bloodlines
Episode 2: Who Are U Again?
"Hello Kei-kun," the woman said as she smiled at Keitaro and began to walk off the stage towards him. Keitaro wanted to respond but found the words stuck in his throat. All of a sudden Keitaro's eyes widen to the point were they looked like they were going to pop out. "WAIT A MINUTE! YOU'RE," Keitaro yelled as Diva face beamed with anticipation of what she thought might be recognition. Of course Keitaro didn't see this as he whipped around to face Nathan who stumbled slightly as if caught off guard. "YOU'RE THE GUY I SAW AT THE HOTEL…..AND YOU'R E ALSO THE ONE WHO GOT ME KNOCKED INTO LOWER EARTH'S ORBIT!" Keitaro yelled as he pointed a finger at Nathan who nervously chuckled.
"Sorry Keitaro-kun, but it was the quickest way I could get you here," Nathan said placatingly as he tried to calm down the distraught young man.
"SORRY?! NARU HATES ME NOW, NOT TO MENTION MOTOKO!" Keitaro yelled as he began to softly whimper, "My life sucks."
"Kei-kun," Keitaro heard his name as he turned to face the young woman again.
"Kei-kun, don't you recognize me?" the woman said almost sounding as though she was pleading with him.
Keitaro could see the distraught look in her eyes and as much as he wanted to say yes to make her feel better he knew he couldn't lie. "No, I'm sorry," Keitaro said looking at the ground trying not to see the woman cry.
However the woman did not cry, instead, if Keitaro had been paying attention, she seemed to get very angry and her blues eyes began to glow an even brighter blue. She balled her hands up into a fist, and began to shake slightly. "You promised that you'd never forget me, ever," the woman snarled but at the same time almost sounding like a small child who felt they had been lied to. "Don't you remember our promise, and the one about meeting at Tokyo University!" Keitaro's eyes opened widely at this comment as he thought, 'How many people did I make this promise to?!' "What about my happy ever after!" she barked causing to Keitaro to cringe and flinch. As she moved toward him with murderous intent she heard someone behind her clear their throat.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but what is your reason for being in Paris Keitaro-kun. As I recall your live in Japan," the young man with the messy blond hair said as he stood up and brushed past Diva as he walked toward Keitaro. He extended his hand and it took Keitaro a moment to snap out of his though, 'How do they know where I live," and shake his hand. "Well since you obviously don't remember either myself, or they rest of your family allow me to reintroduce you," the young man said as he pointed to himself. "I'm Solomon, the man in the black suit is James, the one your standing next to is Nathan, and the one staring so intently at you is Carl," Solomon said nudging his head in Carl's direction. Keitaro could see Carl snarling and suddenly felt very uncomfortable. "Of course," Solomon started focusing Keitaro's attention back to him, "The one person you should have remembered was the lovely Diva," Solomon finished directing Keitaro's attention to the young woman who seemed to have calmed down somewhat but was still shaking slightly although her eyes had stopped glowing. "Let me guess you were guided here by a voice and a song right Keitaro-kun," Nathan said with a chuckle.
Keitaro nodded as he turned to face Nathan once again. "Well Keitaro-kun, that was Diva who you heard," Solomon said as he cleared his throat once again, "So it seems that you are not completely disconnected, perhaps you have simply lost your memories. Possibly Joel's doing and the insistence of your parents. All you need is time I suppose, I'm sure you'll remember soon enough."
To this Keitaro could only blink as he thought to himself, 'What the heck is going on here? None of this makes any sense!' He gripped his head as if in pain and began to scratch furiously yelling, "NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE!"
To his side Keitaro could hear Nathan chuckle lightly, "Calm down Keitaro-kun, I'm sure that you'll figure it out soon enough. Until that time however, you should feel more than free to join us at Solomon's condo."
"Um, I'm not sure," Keitaro started before he was cut off by Diva. "Come on Kei-kun!" she whined almost like a child. Keitaro chuckled as he scratched the back of his head lightly and not wanting to disappoint the woman any further said, "What's the harm." 'It's obvious that she knows me, but more importantly for some reason I feel like I owe it to her,' he thought to himself. He then turned to Diva and said "Sure, I don't have anything I need to do, I already figured out why it is I came here."
"Let's go!" Diva shouted childishly as she grabbed Keitaro by the arm and with surprising power caused him to stumble before struggling to keep up with her.
Meanwhile Nathan walked over to Solomon's side and asked with concern on his, "Do you really think he'll remember? I'm pretty sure "she" did everything within her power to make him forget."
"Yes, all we need is Saya at this point and then the memories should start to return. It's already promising that he could hear the song from where he was……Yes I'm sure he'll remember," Solomon finished with a nod as he and the rest of the group left the theater and headed towards his car.
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"Where is that idiot!?" Naru shouted as she paced around the lobby furiously.
"Maybe he's lost Naru-sempai" Shinobu said in a nervous voice. She was really worried about her sempai being lost in a foreign country, and really wanted him to return as quickly as he could.
Naru stopped pacing for a minute and then yelled at Shinobu, "I don't care if he's lost! He's been gone way to long!"
"Gee, Naru don't get mad at Shinobu because you sent "your" boyfriend through the roof," Kitsune said as she hugged Shinobu in order to keep her from running off crying.
"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" Naru barked as she felt a hand come down on her shoulder.
"Naru-sempai you must calm down, there is no need to be angry with Shinobu, possibly Keitaro, but not Shinobu," Motoko said in an effort to calm down the raging Naru.
"Anyway, I'm sure he'll come back soon enough. In the mean time why don't we go looking around for a bit," Haruka said as she walked out of the elevator and towards the entrance of the hotel. "Come on. There's no point in worrying about my nephew. He'll be back, so let's do a little exploring. I'm pretty sure that you didn't come with Keitaro all this way just to sit in the lobby and worry about Keitaro."
Everyone nodded in agreement and set out to have a good time while they awaited their manager's return.
As they walked along the Parisian streets taking in some of the sights Su began testing one of her new mecha-tama nano models. All of a sudden the mechanical turtle started going haywire, and shooting machine gun bullets everywhere.
"DUCK AND COVER!" Kitsune shouted as everyone fell to the ground and the turtle continued to fire in a circle above them. "Jesus, Su how many bullets did you put in that thing!" Kitsune yelled as she dove behind a garbage can.
Su chuckled nervously before saying, "Well you see I didn't really put any bullets in it, it creates it's own bullets by drawing in carbon and other minerals, so theoretically it could have infinite bullets, at least until the battery dies."
"AND HOW LONG WILL THAT BE!" Naru shouted as a stray bullet bounced of a garbage can and almost shot her ear off.
Su again laughed nervously before saying, "Well you see the thing is………well."
"OUT WITH IT SU!" everyone including Shinobu bellowed.
"It could take ……..ten days," Su mumbled.
"TEN DAYS! WE'RE GONNA DIE!" everyone bellowed once again.
"SOMEONE HELP US!" Kitsune shouted as another stay bullet wizzed past her cheek cutting it slightly. She reached up to her cheek and looked at her hand "Hmmm, I think I'm bleeding, well only one thing I can do." Everyone turned to face Kitsune to see if she had a plan.
Kitsune nodded to everyone before shouting, "PLEEEEEAAAASSEEE! SOMEONE HELP US!" Just as she shouted and everyone's face faulted there was the sounding of something slicing through metal. "I knew that would work," Kitsune said smugly as everyone turned to face the person who had saved them.
Before them stood a young woman wearing a tan coat, powder blue turtle neck sweater, and beige colored skirt that extend down to her shin. Her face was contorted in disgust, but that didn't stop if from looking any less flawless. Her hazel colored eyes so out do to her jet black hair and its boyish cut, combined with her pouting lips, made for one very attractive young woman. What really caught the eyes of the Hinata-Sou gang was the sword that she held in her right hand.
"Saya-neechan!" the heard a voice squawk as a little boy ran around the corner of a building. He was dressed in a black suit and white dress shirt whit a small bow tied around the collar, and his short brown hair was matted to his forehead due to perspiration. From behind the boy stepped a man similarly dressed, but his hair was long, black, and messily thrown into a ponytail. His slanted eyes and cool demeanor add an essence of mystique, as well as the casket shaped object on his back. 'Gorgeous!' was all the gang could think as they noticed another young man rush around the corner panting heavily. He had orange hair which stood up wildly, and wore a yellow dress shit with the sleeves rolled up to the elbow, a white tee-shirt with an orange collar, and tan cargo pants.
"Saya," the orange haired young many struggled to speak as he wheezed out his words, "Why the heck were you going so fast!?"
The girl turned around, "Well for some reason there was a mechanical turtle shooting wildly, and it seems a group of people were pinned down by it. Although I would have to wonder what kind of person even takes something like that out into public, let alone invented it."
Su chuckled nervously as she scratched the back of her head sheepishly.
Saya turned around to face the Hinata-Sou gang and asked, "Are you guys going to be okay now?" Everyone nodded and Saya turned around to leave.
"Wait a moment!" Everyone turned around to see Motoko shaking slightly her eyes bugged out in terror. "Where did you get that sword?" Motoko asked as she placed her right hand on the Hina blade.
"Why do you want to know?" Saya asked as she turned around to face the young woman a look of confusion covering her features.
"That's personal, just answer the question," Motoko said through gritted teeth.
"Motoko," Naru said trying to calm the young woman down.
"Not now Naru-sempai, I know this woman," Motoko said as she began to shake with rage. "You, you killed so many innocents and then you betrayed her! YOU MONSTER, I'LL KILL YOU!," Motoko bellowed as red ki started to flare up around her.
"Just who are you and what exactly are you talking about?" Saya said furrowing her brow in confusion as she steeled herself for an attack.
"I AM MOTOKO AOYOMA AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT MONSTER!" Motoko finished as she drew the Hina blade, and with a loud battle cry charged Saya.
Saya sighed and said, "Is it possible she knows something about my past that I don't?," as she got into her battle stance drawing back her blade, 'Does she know about Vietnam?'. Just as she was about to counter attack the man with the messy ponytail appeared in front of her. "Haji!?" Saya exclaimed in shock as Haji effortlessly blocked Motoko's attack. Motoko staggered back and was about to attack again when she felt something ram into her stomach with amazing force. "I'm sorry," the young boy whispered as he allowed Motoko to fall unconscious in his arms. "Riku!?" Saya exclaimed in more shock, "When did you?" The boy shuffled nervously after he set Motoko down in a chair in the outdoor area of a nearby café, "Well you looked like you might be in trouble so I just acted, I didn't expect to actually be able to do anything though." "I'll say, but you knocked her clean out!" the orange haired young man said as he walked up to the boy, "Way to go little brother." "Kai!" Saya reprimanded him sternly. "Hey he did!" Kai said defensively before he let out a light chuckle, "Okay, I'm sorry."
"MOTOKO!" everyone yelled as they rushed to their fallen friend's side.
"Ugh, what hit me?" Motoko said weakly as she tried to move but instantly feel on her back in the chair crying out in pain.
"Riku, how hard did you hit her?" Kai questioned as he stared at the young girl moaning in pain.
At this point Riku was tearing up, "I didn't mean to hurt her! I just didn't want to her to hurt Saya-neechan!"
"She'll bounce back, don't worry about it." Everyone turned to see to Haruka walk over to Riku and ruffle his hair slightly. "It's been awhile, the last time I saw you was at the reunion," Haruka said with a smirk.
"Huh?" Riku said as he looked up at the older woman with a confused expression on his face, but then a smile found its way to his face. "Haruka-san!?"
"Yeah kid it's me," Haruka said as she ruffled his hair again before turning to face Saya and Kai, "It's been awhile you two, so have you meet up with my knucklehead nephew yet Saya?"
"Huh?" Saya said with a confused expression on her face, "I didn't know you had a nephew."
Haruka smiled and thought to herself, 'Good she doesn't remember, hopefully it'll stay that way. What we don't need is Keitaro remembering his past, that could be very bad for all of us.' She snapped herself out of her thought process and said, "You're right, I must have gotten you confused with someone else for a moment. Sorry."
"It's okay," Saya said with a smile, "So what are you doing here Haruka-san?"
"Just visiting," she replied signaling for everyone behind her to keep their mouths shut. 'All I have to do is wait for her and her sister to fall back asleep, otherwise there are going to be some serious problems," she thought to herself, 'Sorry Keitaro, but some promises are meant to be forgotten."
"Oh!" Saya said before mulling something over in her head, "Well we really have to be going Haruka-san, but I would love for you to come by and get together with us and the rest of Red Shield."
"Sure thing kid," Haruka said as she lit a cigarette and took a piece of paper from Saya with the address of the apartment she was staying at.
"See you around then," Saya said as she and her group started walking away.
"Yep, see ya'," Haruka said as she waved good-bye. "Alright lets take Motoko back to the hotel so that she can rest," Haruka said as she turned around and scooped up Motoko bridal style. Everyone simply stood there with confused expressions on their faces for a moment, before they bounded after Haruka.
"So she's here too is she," Nathan said with a his brows furrowed as he walked out from an ally way, "No dobut she'll try to carry out "her" wishes, but no matter Keitaro-kun's revival is at hand. If it is Diva's will then it shall be done. Although Saya might complicate matters a bit, if she is actually happens to remember Keitaro-kun. Diva doesn't need that kind of competition." With that Nathan disappeared back into the ally way.
To Be Continued
Next Episode: Chiro what?