A/N: Well, we're in for one hell of a ride. This marks the third of six chapters to this story. Why six, you may ask? Don't ask me, ask my Muses. *glares at Genesis and Verdell*
Genesis: It wasn't my fault, Saber. Verdell said it was very artistic to do it in six chapters as an original homage to the series.
Verdell: *_* YOU were the one who said that it'd be a good homage- and that it'd be better than Saber pulling one of her five-or-fifteen bits.
Genesis: ....
A/N: In any case, please read the following chapter and let me know what you think. Or Genesis just might get the idea that she needs to emulate Haruko-san in her guitar bashing... ^_~
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Stupid Ta-kun. Why the hell had he come for her, in the deep recesses of space? She still couldn't solve the unsolveable problem, the hypothesis that had no answer. No matter that she was older than the stupid kid.
Good thing he liked older women, she thought.
The Vespa Michiru had loaned her was just as reliable as she'd claimed it to be. There was no problems with the engine, steering, or anything else, for that matter. It was completely windstreamed to the point of hilarity- Haruko couldn't find a single flaw on the entire machine.
"Ta-" Suddenly the red-haired woman placed a hand on her forehead. What the hell was she thinking? She was in love with the pirate king- wasn't she? WASN'T SHE?
Suddenly, Haruko felt a pull on her right hand, and she looked down at her wrist to see the familiar rectangle shape pulling against her wrist once more. It was pulling her towareds space somewhere... somewhere she didn't even know.
Damn Terran. Couldn't do anything right. Couldn't even get out of her head when she wanted him to.
"Ta-kun..."
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I don't know how long I laid there. Things seemed to be pretty blurry for a while after I woke up and talked to the two that claimed to be Haruko's sisters. I don't know what happened, but soon after I woke up I felt a stinging sensation float up my neck.
Hours seemed to pass, and I can't say what exactly transpired. All I know is that I woke up with Taika and Elsar half-naked in my arms. I blinked, and turned completely red. I don't know exactly what happened, but when I looked down at myself... my shirt was off. I looked around, and found evidence showing that our clothes had been stripped forefully off ourselves- there were nail marks on Taika's arms showing where she'd fought having her shirt pulled off.
I put my head in my palm and started to cry, the tears coming without much effort. I don't know how long I laid there. All I know is that after hours of weeping like this, I finally stopped whenever I felt a pressure against my cheek. The tears started to slow, and I continued to weep.
"Ha...Haruko?" I asked, then blinked away my tears and saw that it was Elsar. The girl had tears in her own eyes, and I noticed with some difficulty that there were marks around her top. I blinked when I realized whatever our captors had... tried to do to her.
"Elsar, I-I'm..."
"Don't worry, sis will find us," Taika said, wiping away tears from her eyes as she made her way towards me. I placed my hand against her face and rubbed away the tears.
"How can you be sure she'll find us, Taika? We couldn't find her in the first place anyways!" Elsar said, her voice growing quite angry. Suddenly, she also noticed the marks that matched her own, and she embraced her sister, the two of them venting and crying. "They... you too? Naota, did they-?"
"I don't think so," I said, inspecting my bare arms and chest. No signs that anything had been done to me. But why would they do nothing to me, but hurt Taika and Elsa? Unless... I held my hands up to my face and pressed my forehead gently.
There was a bump directly on it. A very large one. I blinked, then looked upward towards my forehead, and saw a large spike coming out from the middle of it.
"NO... NO!" I yelled to no one in particular, panting from worry as I felt the shape emerging from my forehead. "No... no... not again. No one can ever touch me there except for Haruko... Haruko-!"
Something overcame me, and I found myself stroking my forehead, crouching in a fetal position. My voice gave out, although my lips still kept mouthing, "Haruko..."
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It's amazing really, the way that curry can become spicy if you just add the right ingredients. At least, if you add the right ingredients, then give them to someone you care about. And watch them flop around in the chaos and destruction.
"Ta... Ta-kun..." She whispered, then grinned with a cat-like smile. "You want some spicy curry? You've got some coming right up." Hakuro revved her Vespa, and pushed it with her full body weight towards the pull of her wrist. She rubbed her fingers, feeling the nails chip off as she flew faster.
"I'm going to kill you, Ta-kun," Haruko vented, then grinned softly. She peered through her goggles and noticed that the Galaxy Space Police Headquarters were becoming closer to her in distance. The red-haired female smiled.
"Next quarter, 0-10, Haruko Haruhara vs. the Space Police. Up at bat, Haruko. One to center field predicted." The woman jumped up from her sitting position and plucked her guitar off her back, making sure she had her pick ready for the final solo.
The alarms started to go off inside the building, the Space Police finally noticing the threat of the single woman with her tuned guitar.
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"Furi Kuri! Attention! This is not a drill! Furi Kuri!" Superior Raharu yelled over the intercom, her bunny suit becoming wet with sweat as she yelled.
"Stupid, Haruhara," she whispered to herself, watching through the monitor. "You allowed yourself to fall for an Earth boy who just might have been the real Atomsk. And you didn't even get to kiss him like I did. I'm still one up on you, Haruko. And if you think you're going to take this man, this robot-producing factory of yours away from us, you're wrong."
Raharu grinned then began her yelling once again. "FURI KURI! ATTENTION! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! FURI-"
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"... Kuri?" Taika asked aloud, waking up again. This time, her modesty had been somewhat taken care of, as she was at least dressed in a Space Police bunny suit. She nudged Elsar awake, who also had been dressed. Naota was nowhere to be seen, but Beeta had reappeared. "Elsar! Furi Kuri! Sister must be here!"
"Sister? What sister?" Elsar groaned in her sleep. Taika slapped the sister in front of her silly with the back of her hand. Needless to say, Elsar woke up rather quickly.
"What was that for?"
"You forgot Haruko-san already!"
"No I didn't!"
"Yes you did!"
"Why you-"
"Ladies!" I yelled, looking around as I tried to locate the source of the noise. Both Taika and Elsar blinked and stared at me. "Ladies, we have to-" Suddenly my head felt as though it was on fire, and I held my hands up to my forehead, realizing that the spike that was on my forehead was growing into a full-blown hand. I blinked when I recognized the shape forming.
"C-Canti?"
"Naota?" Taiki and Elsar both pointed at me, then proceeded to have evil gleams in their eyes. In that one unresistable moment, I knew that they hadn't been lying. They really were Haruko's sisters.
"CANTI!" I yelled with all my might, feeling the spike on my forehead pull out and stretch into an arm. Elsar and Taika watched me.
I could almost smell the salty air of the riverbank that went around the place I used to live. I closed my eyes and pictured Mamimi sitting on the bank, smoking one of her cigarettes.
Cigarettes could give you brain cancer.
I felt something rip from the middle of the void, give birth against the rubber flesh that rippled on my forehead. I shuddered as hands, then arms, then a full body ripped itself apart from me. I fell upon my knees after what seemed like eons, my mind completely blank.
"Naota?" Elsar asked, knocking on my right temple without moving a muscle. "Naota-kun, are you awake?"
Red light filled the air, and I blinked until the world came into focus. Rips were playing left and right, and unconciously I realized that somehow, Taika's hands were playing a green base. My eyes unfocused, then cleared to reveal Elsar strumming a violet electric, her pupils almost white with energy.
Suddenly the lead came into being, ripping an A chord straight into the heart of the rumble. My eyes became wide as a memory lept from the past into the present, a blue strummer in her hands.
"Ha-Haruko-san," I stuttered, trying to get the entire word out.
"Sorry I'm late, Ta-kun!" The redhead angel yelled, grinning like the Cheshire cat. She raised her guitar over her head and proceeded to slam it into an invisible wall that only I could see, making shards of nothingness float out of existence.
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"FURI KURI! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! FURI KU-" Raharu yelled over the intercom, her voice becoming hoarse. A white dash blew by her field of vision, and she was cut off. The siren kept going, even though
"Shit." The bunny-suited woman gritted her teeth and straightened her leotard around her thighs. She smiled, the reflection red in color. "Haruhara, you defied your duty to the Space Forces six years ago. And now you're trying to take back your Pirate King who came searching for you."
"It's time to pay the toll-keeper."
With that, Raharu started to type in numbers on the piece of technology she'd happened to swipe from that Terran swampball. What had they called it again? Oh, yes. A cell phone. She closed her eyes in ecstacy for a millisecond, remembering that last kiss with the boy. Takkun. That's what his name had been. And right now, he was a full-grown man.
A handsome full-grown man.
She'd enjoyed ripping off his clothes, as well as Haruhara's siblings'. They were turning into quite the women. She doubted that Haruko even knew of their existence. After all, when a woman falls for a Pirate King... all else is secondary in her mind.
"Hello?" the voice at the other end asked. Ruhara grinned, licking her lips like a cat with a bowl of cream.
"Medical Mechanica?" Heavy cream. With the foam straight on top.
"Yes?"
"Your eyebrows are showing."
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"HARUKO-SAN!" I yelled, my voice finally having collected enough strength. Canti stood beside me, his arms and body glowing a surreal geranium red.
Suddenly she was coming towards me, her lead guitar thrown behind her. She stopped short a couple of feet away, her white boots becoming scuffed from the braking. She looked at me with those yellow-green eyes and I nearly melted from wanting to touch that ivory skin.
"Ta-kun. You've gotten taller. Must've been from all that spicy curry I gave you."
The wind seemed to kill the noise, Elsar and Taika blinking as Haruko and I stood outside of time in front of each other. Canti and Beeta's screens flickered at one another.
"I came for you, Haruko Haruhara. I came because I still love you."
Another ripple of silence played with its g-string.
"Would you love me even if I was to use you again, Ta-kun?"
I nodded. She took a step towards me, her eyes boring into mine.
"Even if I made you run into the spicy curry fields and pluck the C chords until the end of time?"
I nodded. Another step.
"Would you still love me even if I was on the run from the Space Forces that I once worked for and gave me the powers I had? Would you still love me if I tried to destroy the Earth again?"
I nodded. She looked at me up and down, and I could've almost sworn I saw a drop of moisture coming into the corners of her eyes. At least, that's what I thought I saw. But that couldn't be. This was Haruko-san.
"You've grown up," she whispered, then threw herself into me, wrapping her arms around my middle. I held her tightly against my chest, my arms reaching around her as she tilted her head on my shoulder. I opened my eyes after the initial embrace. She looked up at me, and I bent forward into a kiss.
There are no words to describe the soma, the essence, the alpha and omega that flew through me. I felt the universe expand and collapse with every micrometer of her lips that moved against my own. My head felt like splitting, but I held onto her fiercely, kissing her back with all my inner turmoil, love, and hate.
I don't know how long we stood there, intertwining our lips around each other's. All I know is that when I finally broke out of my reflection, I wasn't Naota anymore. Naota was gone. She looked into my eyes, and we stood there for a moment.
"You've got your guitar?" she whispered to me softly. I nodded. She smiled, her canines well-pronounced. "Then let's start the concert, shall we?"
"The concert?" I smiled at her. "What concert?"
"The one you're going to start, Rock Star. The one you're going to be my lead guitarist for."
"Me? A rock star?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. Suddenly something passed by my eye. One of the shards of nothingness that Haruko had broken in her effort to meet my trysting arms. And I gasped.
My hair was no longer brown... I was no longer... I wasn't me. I didn't look like me- My hair was now a blinding gold, and my eyes were red as fire. I blinked, and the shard disappeared into chaos once more. I looked at Haruko, and she merely grinned, pulling away from me. She walked over and calmly picked up her own Axe, shouldered it, then raised an eyebrow.
"Are you ready for the solo, Rock Star?"
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*grins* I warned you this would be crazy, didn't I? But no... no one ever believes Saberpilot. ^_^ Anyways, drop me a line/review and let me know what you think. And if you think this is at all finished yet, you have another thought coming. ^_~
Genesis: It wasn't my fault, Saber. Verdell said it was very artistic to do it in six chapters as an original homage to the series.
Verdell: *_* YOU were the one who said that it'd be a good homage- and that it'd be better than Saber pulling one of her five-or-fifteen bits.
Genesis: ....
A/N: In any case, please read the following chapter and let me know what you think. Or Genesis just might get the idea that she needs to emulate Haruko-san in her guitar bashing... ^_~
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Stupid Ta-kun. Why the hell had he come for her, in the deep recesses of space? She still couldn't solve the unsolveable problem, the hypothesis that had no answer. No matter that she was older than the stupid kid.
Good thing he liked older women, she thought.
The Vespa Michiru had loaned her was just as reliable as she'd claimed it to be. There was no problems with the engine, steering, or anything else, for that matter. It was completely windstreamed to the point of hilarity- Haruko couldn't find a single flaw on the entire machine.
"Ta-" Suddenly the red-haired woman placed a hand on her forehead. What the hell was she thinking? She was in love with the pirate king- wasn't she? WASN'T SHE?
Suddenly, Haruko felt a pull on her right hand, and she looked down at her wrist to see the familiar rectangle shape pulling against her wrist once more. It was pulling her towareds space somewhere... somewhere she didn't even know.
Damn Terran. Couldn't do anything right. Couldn't even get out of her head when she wanted him to.
"Ta-kun..."
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I don't know how long I laid there. Things seemed to be pretty blurry for a while after I woke up and talked to the two that claimed to be Haruko's sisters. I don't know what happened, but soon after I woke up I felt a stinging sensation float up my neck.
Hours seemed to pass, and I can't say what exactly transpired. All I know is that I woke up with Taika and Elsar half-naked in my arms. I blinked, and turned completely red. I don't know exactly what happened, but when I looked down at myself... my shirt was off. I looked around, and found evidence showing that our clothes had been stripped forefully off ourselves- there were nail marks on Taika's arms showing where she'd fought having her shirt pulled off.
I put my head in my palm and started to cry, the tears coming without much effort. I don't know how long I laid there. All I know is that after hours of weeping like this, I finally stopped whenever I felt a pressure against my cheek. The tears started to slow, and I continued to weep.
"Ha...Haruko?" I asked, then blinked away my tears and saw that it was Elsar. The girl had tears in her own eyes, and I noticed with some difficulty that there were marks around her top. I blinked when I realized whatever our captors had... tried to do to her.
"Elsar, I-I'm..."
"Don't worry, sis will find us," Taika said, wiping away tears from her eyes as she made her way towards me. I placed my hand against her face and rubbed away the tears.
"How can you be sure she'll find us, Taika? We couldn't find her in the first place anyways!" Elsar said, her voice growing quite angry. Suddenly, she also noticed the marks that matched her own, and she embraced her sister, the two of them venting and crying. "They... you too? Naota, did they-?"
"I don't think so," I said, inspecting my bare arms and chest. No signs that anything had been done to me. But why would they do nothing to me, but hurt Taika and Elsa? Unless... I held my hands up to my face and pressed my forehead gently.
There was a bump directly on it. A very large one. I blinked, then looked upward towards my forehead, and saw a large spike coming out from the middle of it.
"NO... NO!" I yelled to no one in particular, panting from worry as I felt the shape emerging from my forehead. "No... no... not again. No one can ever touch me there except for Haruko... Haruko-!"
Something overcame me, and I found myself stroking my forehead, crouching in a fetal position. My voice gave out, although my lips still kept mouthing, "Haruko..."
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It's amazing really, the way that curry can become spicy if you just add the right ingredients. At least, if you add the right ingredients, then give them to someone you care about. And watch them flop around in the chaos and destruction.
"Ta... Ta-kun..." She whispered, then grinned with a cat-like smile. "You want some spicy curry? You've got some coming right up." Hakuro revved her Vespa, and pushed it with her full body weight towards the pull of her wrist. She rubbed her fingers, feeling the nails chip off as she flew faster.
"I'm going to kill you, Ta-kun," Haruko vented, then grinned softly. She peered through her goggles and noticed that the Galaxy Space Police Headquarters were becoming closer to her in distance. The red-haired female smiled.
"Next quarter, 0-10, Haruko Haruhara vs. the Space Police. Up at bat, Haruko. One to center field predicted." The woman jumped up from her sitting position and plucked her guitar off her back, making sure she had her pick ready for the final solo.
The alarms started to go off inside the building, the Space Police finally noticing the threat of the single woman with her tuned guitar.
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"Furi Kuri! Attention! This is not a drill! Furi Kuri!" Superior Raharu yelled over the intercom, her bunny suit becoming wet with sweat as she yelled.
"Stupid, Haruhara," she whispered to herself, watching through the monitor. "You allowed yourself to fall for an Earth boy who just might have been the real Atomsk. And you didn't even get to kiss him like I did. I'm still one up on you, Haruko. And if you think you're going to take this man, this robot-producing factory of yours away from us, you're wrong."
Raharu grinned then began her yelling once again. "FURI KURI! ATTENTION! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! FURI-"
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"... Kuri?" Taika asked aloud, waking up again. This time, her modesty had been somewhat taken care of, as she was at least dressed in a Space Police bunny suit. She nudged Elsar awake, who also had been dressed. Naota was nowhere to be seen, but Beeta had reappeared. "Elsar! Furi Kuri! Sister must be here!"
"Sister? What sister?" Elsar groaned in her sleep. Taika slapped the sister in front of her silly with the back of her hand. Needless to say, Elsar woke up rather quickly.
"What was that for?"
"You forgot Haruko-san already!"
"No I didn't!"
"Yes you did!"
"Why you-"
"Ladies!" I yelled, looking around as I tried to locate the source of the noise. Both Taika and Elsar blinked and stared at me. "Ladies, we have to-" Suddenly my head felt as though it was on fire, and I held my hands up to my forehead, realizing that the spike that was on my forehead was growing into a full-blown hand. I blinked when I recognized the shape forming.
"C-Canti?"
"Naota?" Taiki and Elsar both pointed at me, then proceeded to have evil gleams in their eyes. In that one unresistable moment, I knew that they hadn't been lying. They really were Haruko's sisters.
"CANTI!" I yelled with all my might, feeling the spike on my forehead pull out and stretch into an arm. Elsar and Taika watched me.
I could almost smell the salty air of the riverbank that went around the place I used to live. I closed my eyes and pictured Mamimi sitting on the bank, smoking one of her cigarettes.
Cigarettes could give you brain cancer.
I felt something rip from the middle of the void, give birth against the rubber flesh that rippled on my forehead. I shuddered as hands, then arms, then a full body ripped itself apart from me. I fell upon my knees after what seemed like eons, my mind completely blank.
"Naota?" Elsar asked, knocking on my right temple without moving a muscle. "Naota-kun, are you awake?"
Red light filled the air, and I blinked until the world came into focus. Rips were playing left and right, and unconciously I realized that somehow, Taika's hands were playing a green base. My eyes unfocused, then cleared to reveal Elsar strumming a violet electric, her pupils almost white with energy.
Suddenly the lead came into being, ripping an A chord straight into the heart of the rumble. My eyes became wide as a memory lept from the past into the present, a blue strummer in her hands.
"Ha-Haruko-san," I stuttered, trying to get the entire word out.
"Sorry I'm late, Ta-kun!" The redhead angel yelled, grinning like the Cheshire cat. She raised her guitar over her head and proceeded to slam it into an invisible wall that only I could see, making shards of nothingness float out of existence.
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"FURI KURI! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! FURI KU-" Raharu yelled over the intercom, her voice becoming hoarse. A white dash blew by her field of vision, and she was cut off. The siren kept going, even though
"Shit." The bunny-suited woman gritted her teeth and straightened her leotard around her thighs. She smiled, the reflection red in color. "Haruhara, you defied your duty to the Space Forces six years ago. And now you're trying to take back your Pirate King who came searching for you."
"It's time to pay the toll-keeper."
With that, Raharu started to type in numbers on the piece of technology she'd happened to swipe from that Terran swampball. What had they called it again? Oh, yes. A cell phone. She closed her eyes in ecstacy for a millisecond, remembering that last kiss with the boy. Takkun. That's what his name had been. And right now, he was a full-grown man.
A handsome full-grown man.
She'd enjoyed ripping off his clothes, as well as Haruhara's siblings'. They were turning into quite the women. She doubted that Haruko even knew of their existence. After all, when a woman falls for a Pirate King... all else is secondary in her mind.
"Hello?" the voice at the other end asked. Ruhara grinned, licking her lips like a cat with a bowl of cream.
"Medical Mechanica?" Heavy cream. With the foam straight on top.
"Yes?"
"Your eyebrows are showing."
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"HARUKO-SAN!" I yelled, my voice finally having collected enough strength. Canti stood beside me, his arms and body glowing a surreal geranium red.
Suddenly she was coming towards me, her lead guitar thrown behind her. She stopped short a couple of feet away, her white boots becoming scuffed from the braking. She looked at me with those yellow-green eyes and I nearly melted from wanting to touch that ivory skin.
"Ta-kun. You've gotten taller. Must've been from all that spicy curry I gave you."
The wind seemed to kill the noise, Elsar and Taika blinking as Haruko and I stood outside of time in front of each other. Canti and Beeta's screens flickered at one another.
"I came for you, Haruko Haruhara. I came because I still love you."
Another ripple of silence played with its g-string.
"Would you love me even if I was to use you again, Ta-kun?"
I nodded. She took a step towards me, her eyes boring into mine.
"Even if I made you run into the spicy curry fields and pluck the C chords until the end of time?"
I nodded. Another step.
"Would you still love me even if I was on the run from the Space Forces that I once worked for and gave me the powers I had? Would you still love me if I tried to destroy the Earth again?"
I nodded. She looked at me up and down, and I could've almost sworn I saw a drop of moisture coming into the corners of her eyes. At least, that's what I thought I saw. But that couldn't be. This was Haruko-san.
"You've grown up," she whispered, then threw herself into me, wrapping her arms around my middle. I held her tightly against my chest, my arms reaching around her as she tilted her head on my shoulder. I opened my eyes after the initial embrace. She looked up at me, and I bent forward into a kiss.
There are no words to describe the soma, the essence, the alpha and omega that flew through me. I felt the universe expand and collapse with every micrometer of her lips that moved against my own. My head felt like splitting, but I held onto her fiercely, kissing her back with all my inner turmoil, love, and hate.
I don't know how long we stood there, intertwining our lips around each other's. All I know is that when I finally broke out of my reflection, I wasn't Naota anymore. Naota was gone. She looked into my eyes, and we stood there for a moment.
"You've got your guitar?" she whispered to me softly. I nodded. She smiled, her canines well-pronounced. "Then let's start the concert, shall we?"
"The concert?" I smiled at her. "What concert?"
"The one you're going to start, Rock Star. The one you're going to be my lead guitarist for."
"Me? A rock star?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. Suddenly something passed by my eye. One of the shards of nothingness that Haruko had broken in her effort to meet my trysting arms. And I gasped.
My hair was no longer brown... I was no longer... I wasn't me. I didn't look like me- My hair was now a blinding gold, and my eyes were red as fire. I blinked, and the shard disappeared into chaos once more. I looked at Haruko, and she merely grinned, pulling away from me. She walked over and calmly picked up her own Axe, shouldered it, then raised an eyebrow.
"Are you ready for the solo, Rock Star?"
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*grins* I warned you this would be crazy, didn't I? But no... no one ever believes Saberpilot. ^_^ Anyways, drop me a line/review and let me know what you think. And if you think this is at all finished yet, you have another thought coming. ^_~