"Bad Luck Meets Gundam's Wing."

Chapter Three:

Rain, rain, rain...what's with all the rain?!

"What did he mean?" Kale asked Chi as he came to sit by her at the window.

"He ment he'll be back soon." Chi anwsered. Chi had her eyes closed at the moment and just seemed to be very at peace with herself, which she didn't seem to be very often.

"Oh, okay. We'd better stay away from the drinks." Kale said as he took out a water bottle from his pants pocket and offered it to her.

"No, thanks. I'm not thirsty." Chi said, opening her eyes. "I wish it would rain harder."

"Why would you want that?" Kale asked. "I mean sure its calming and all, but why harder?"

"Harder because right now it's barley a drzzle. It's pathetic. A full fledged rain storm is soo much fun to be out in. So, refreshing. The rain hitting your face and saoking your cloths to an inch of it's life...when your out there it's like your troubles dissappear from the earth and you don't want that feeling to go away." explained Chi remembering the other times she had gone out into a rain storm, with out Heero's promission because when she had asked him if she could, he said no.

"I can compleatly understand that one." Kale said taking a swig of the water that hadn't been spiked. "Its like leaving the world behind. Something that you can escape and Leave behind for a little while."

"Yeah..." Chi said and gasped because just as she had said that it began to rain harder and harder, until it was a fulfledged rain storm. Chi stood up and said happily and loudly "It's a rain storm! Yes!!!"

"Cool!!" Kale said, catching hold of her excitement. "Hey, we should go out side." He said and started to walk out the door.

"Kale, where are you going?" Yuki said, pinning Kale with a glare. "You're not going out side," Yuki said, firmly dispelling any thought of getting a through soaking from Kale's mind. Chi taking this moment to her advantage had slipped out behind Kale and quickly made her way out side and into the rain.

"She didn't..." Heero said, as he saw Yuki talking to Kale by the door.

"She did." Duo said with a mouth full of cake. "I'll go watch'er." he said swallowing the cake and running out side with an umbrella dangling from his wrist. Where he had gotten that, Heero really didn't want to know. "Kale, go with Duo. He has an umbrella." He said at Yuki's stern glare.

"Thanks." Kale said blushing slightly.

Chi was standing on the sidewalk staring up at the sky. Her light brown hair now looked like it was a dark brown like her brothers and her cloths were already saoked to an inch of its life. She didn't really care about that. All she cared about at the moment was making the feeling of being free last as long she could and was determend not to go back inside yet. So, as a result she stared to run down the side walk as fast as she could. She stopped when she was almost out of breath and ignored the weird looks she was getting from passer buyers. Chi had stopped in front of the park and then started to walk, at a fast pace through the park. Soon she stopped at a bench and sat down. She leaned back and laughed to herself, letting the rain hit her face. She then stood up and started to run again as fast as she could, until she had come to the hotel they were staying at, but she didn't want to stop yet. So, Chi decided that she would run back in the direction of the NG studio building, where her brother was...he wouldn't be too happy with her since she had dissappeared and all. Chi ran off in that direction, but at a munch slower pace than before because she had worn herself harder than she had ever had and it was finally getting to her.

Duo and Kale had checked the hotel that they had been staying at. No luck there. Then they checked the park that was on the over look of town. No luck there either. Then they walked back to the NG building and saw Chi running towards it. "CHI!" Kale yelled to her.

Chi heard his voice and ran over to Kale and Duo. Chi stood in front of them panting like crazy. "Hi...Ka...le...Hi...Duo." Chi greeted between pants.

"Lets get you back to the building." Kale said as he put an arm around her waist to help support her, as she looked like she was about to collaps. They soon arived in the building and in the spare room that they had been using as a storage closet. In it held a carved wooden wardrobe, that gave off the feel of being very old. Kale said that It had been used in a stage play or two before Tohma picked it up.

Chihiro was still out of breath and her throut hurt from the panting, but couldn't help, but pant. "Cool...I...think...I pushed...my...self...a little...too...hard..." Chi said between pants. "Heero's...going...to be...angry...with me..."

"I don't think that he would be too mad," Kale said as he looked out the door window. "Besides, he knows how much you like the rain right?"

"Yeah...but...he...never...let's me...go out...in the...rain..." Chi said exasperated. "...ow..."

"Sorry," Kale said, getting her some water. "I should have been quiet." He said, holding out the glass to her.

Chi took the glass and gulped it down. Chi sat down on the floor and leaned against the wall. "I'm going...to ...be so...tired tomor...ro..." Chi said. "I pushed...myself...way too...hard."

"Its not good to do that." Kale said gettin her another glass of water. "You should have paced yourself." He said, handing her the water. Chi took the water and drank it. She put the glass down on the floor and then staired up at the cealling. "I know...but..." Chi said as tears escaped from her eyes. "...I want...to be...strong...like...my brother."

"You are strong like him." Kale said sitting next to her. "Just in a different way. He doesn't want you to get hurt," He said starting to rub her back in slow circles. "He won't get that mad at you. He'll get mad at us for letting you stay in wet cloths." He said with a smile.

"I don't know...if he'll only be mad at you and Duo." Chi said letting the tears roll down her face. "I don't...even know why...I'm crying."

"Don't worry. Its ok." Kale said, wraping an arm around her shoulders. "You're just tired from the run," He said, trying to cheer her up.

"Yeah, I guess." Chi said as Duo came back with some coths for Chi.

"Lover boy and I will wait out side untill you've done changing." Duo said, dragging Kale outside by the arm.

"Wha- wait! Duo!! Let me go!" Kale said angrily. He did not like being bullied by any one.

Chi 'Hm'ed' as they left the room. Chi then got changed into the cloths Duo had brought her. The cloths were a dark red t-shirt and black pants. She whiped away the tears that were still in her eyes, but you could see tear marks on her face. Chi walked out of the spare room and closed the door behind her.

The two looked at her and then Kale walked over to her and gave her a hug. "Don't worry, He'll only be mad at us." Kale said, grinning like an idiot.

"Okay." she said.

"Okay, well lets go." Kale said as he began to walk up the hall to the conference room.

Chi followed Kale and Duo to the conference room. She saw her brother and walked over to him."Hi."

"Did you enjoy your run?" He asked her.

"Yes, I did." Chi said.

Heero smilied at her, and gave her a hug. "Good, just let me know next time, and make sure Duo or Kale is with you when you do, okay?"

"I will, next time." Chi said and smiled.

"Now to deal with you two..." Heero said turning to where Kale and Duo were standing. "You two will clean the instriments and polish them with in an inch of thier lives." he said in a calm manor.

"Yes sir." Kale said, unbelieviblely relieved.

"But Heero!! I did that last week!!" Duo said slumping in his spot.

"Well, you are going to do it again."

Chi walked over to the window and stood there watching the rain fall. She wanted to go back out there, but decided against the idea beacause she was already so tried and sore from her run in the rain and that was besides the fact she had pushed her self way too hard.

"Hey, you waiting for some one?" A guy that Chi didn't reconise said.

"Hm, why should I tell you? I don't even know you." Chi anwsered the guy.

"Come on baby," he said as he reached to take her hand.

"I dont' think you should do that." Yuki siad comming up behind him.

"And why not-" the guy said, looking over his sholder. Paleing visibly, he vanished out the door.

"Thanks. Who was that guy anyway?" Chi asked looking out the window.

"That was the one that hurt Shuichi a while back." Yuki said.

"Oh," Chi anwsered. "Kale, told me about that in one of his letters to me."

"Nothing to graphic i hope." yuki said as he started to take out a cig.

"No, it wasn't graphic." Chi said. "All the letter said was that Shuichi had gotten beatten by some person from another band. That's all." Chi cracked her wrists and kept on watching the rain fall from the sky, like tears from angles in heaven.

"I see." Yuki said. "I think that he would be good for you. He seemed to anticipate your letters more than a job by Tohma."

A slight blush crepted onto Chi's face. "He does?"

"Yep.I wouldn't be able to get him away from the computer when he's writting to you." Yuki said, takning out a lighter.

"I see." Chi anwsered.

"Well, he does seem to be less hyper in the mornings." Yuki said.

Chi didn't know what to say really. "Is that a bad thing?"

"Not really. I'm just not a morning person." he said as he lit the cig.

Chi really didn't know what to say, but she knew that she was blushing. "Hm." was all Chi could think to say at the moment.

"Well, I'd better save him from the k'sued brat." Yuki said as he went to save Kale from shuichi, who was makeing demands on how the cover art should be like.

Chi stood at the window for a moment more and then walked over to her brother. "I'm gonna start back to the hotel. Okay?" Chi asked.

"Ok, just take duo or one of the others with you." Heero said as he took a swig of unspiked water.

"Sure." Chi said as she walked away from her brother. She then slipped out the door without anyone noticing. Once out side she started to walk at a fast pace towards the hotel since she was too tired to run.

"Hey! wait up!" Azawa of ASK said catching up to her on the street.

"Why, should I?" Chi asked.

"Cause I asked you to." he said.

"That's not a very good reason." Chi said not slowing down.

"Well, how about I don't want you to get hurt?" He said.

"That's a laugh. You don't want me to get hurt...like you hurt Shuichi?" Chi asked him.

"How did you know about that?" He asked in a cold voice.

"Yuki's brother told me." Chi said, now a little frightened. She didn't like the tone of his voice.

"Well, I'll see to it that you don't see him any more." He said, fading into the shaddows.

"What?"Chi anwsered stopping dead in her tracks.

There was nothing behind her exept for deep shaddows.Not even the figure of Azawa could bee seen in gloom like that.

Chi stood there, in the rain, a few more minutes thinking of what he had said and then turned back to the NG building. As Chi was walked as fast as she could back tears excaped from her eyes. As she came up to the building she saw Wufei comming out. She ran up to him, tears still streamming down her face.

"Hey, now," he said holding her while she cried. "What's going on?" he asked, conserned that she had been attacked.

"Where's Kale?! Is Kale still here?!" Chi asked through her tears.

"Yeah, Kale is with his brother." Wufei said, nerviously.

"Good." Chi said with a sigh. "Wufei...some one has to tell Yuki that something bad is going to happen to Kale!"

"Who said that?!" Wufei said, angrily. There was something that made sence after all to what Heero had shown them.

"Azawa. Azawa of ASK told was bothering me when I was walking back to the hotel..." Chi told Wufei everything that Azawa had told her.

"Come with me. We'll get to kale and yuki before any thing happends to Kale." He said bringing her up stairs. "We need to find Kale." he muttered to himself.

When they entered the conference room, Chi looked around the room forKale and when she spotted him talking to Yuki, she ran up to them. "Kale, good...your still here..." Chi said as she tried not to let the tears in her eyes come down.

"Yeah I was... talking.." He said looking at the state that Chi was in. "What happened?" He said in a tone that no one save yuki had ever heard.

Chi told them everything that Azawa of ASK had told her, as tears once again trickled down her face.

"Theres no way that He can do a thing to hurt me." Kale said as he went to get a drink that was not spiked.

Chi whipped away the tears that had fallen, not wanting Heero to see she had been crying again.

"Why don't you come with me Chi?" Kale said as he was by the door.

"Okay." Chi said.

Kale took Chi down to the vending machines that were at the end of the hall. "Would you like water or soda?" He asked her.

"Water, please." replied Chi.

Kale selected a water for Chi and a pepsi for himself. "He won't stop." He said as a mutter to himself.

"Kale...I'm afraid for you." Chi said.

"Don't be. Yuki taught me how to fight and i'm pretty good at it. i also know matial arts, so i'm good." he said giving her a gentile smile.

"Alright." Chi said. "Kale, I just...never mind."

"Just what?" Kale asked curiously.

"...I just don't want you to get hurt."

"The only one that will get hurt is Azawa of ASK." Kale said, curlling his hand into a claw.

"Okay." Chi said. "Kale would you mind walking me back to the hotel?"

"Not at all." He said with a joyous feeling. He wanted to ask her the same thing.

"Thanks." Chi said.

"No problem." Kale said walking her out side. The trip was almost calm. The rain seemed to pelt the two when they were walking to the hotel and seemed to soak them with a vengance.

It was then that the two of them were noticing that the hotel was very quiet, even for a hotel.

"I don't like this silence." Chi commented. "It's way too quiet."

"I agree." Kale said, the quietness getting on his nerves. "Let's get to your room." He said, taking her to the elevator.

"Yeah, let's go." Chi agreed following Kale to the elevator.

The ride up to her floor was uneventful. The walk to her door was also uneventful, witch put kale more on edge. When they got to her room, he came in to check the locks and things. all clear, he thought. "Alright, looks like youre safe here." he said.

"Okay, thanks again." Chi said.

"You're very welcome." Kale said bowing to her and leaving the hotel. He then got into a taxi and returned to the NG building, where his brother was waiting for him as well as Tohma.