Fears 4

Author Note: I reread my last chapter..I forgot Gai! D: AHHHHH! So here is the EPIC epilogue…with GAI in here conquering his fear of the dark! :D

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"Good girl…" Joe scratched Lucy, the Yorkie he'd adopted, "very good dog."

"Arf!" she wagged her tail eagerly, nestling into his chest.

"You can't keep that mutt on the ship," Marvelous snorted, stomping on a spider quickly, "it's attracting bugs."

"She is my friend," he glared at his captain, "and you do not take away my friend."

Snorting again, GokaiRed turned toward Luka, who was dragging Doc into the room.

"Hakasae," she gripped his shoulders tighter and lifted him slightly off the ground, "you do realize your dead, right?"

"Y-yes..." he whimpered softly, and she shoved him into a closet.

"Good," smirking, she shut the door in his petrified face.

Sinking to the floor, sulking his defeat, he moaned weakly and desperatley, "Please, Luka? Lemme out!"

Smirking her victory, she told him matter-of-factily, "Say sorry."

"Cominasai!" he clasped his hands in front of his face, "you are like a girl! Just...a lot more cool."

Slowly, the door creaked open, and the next thing he knew, her lips were on his, "I know I am."

"H-Ha-Hai..." he collasped when she had gone to her own quaters. Gasping worridley, our favorite redhead came scrambling over.

"Dr. Don!" he started to try and help him up, and the blonde innocentlyp pushed into the closet to get him off...the dark closet.

"Gai-san?" the little pink princess was quite concerned when she heard a yelp from him.

"I-I'm f-fi-fine..." his body was shaking with trembles, "c-comin-cominsasai..." Lowering his head, he rushed to his own quaters.

"That's right!" Gokai Blue exclaimed to break the confused silence, "I forget...he's scared of the dark."

"Poor Gai-san..." Ahim looked longily after him, as if to comfort him, but Marvelous' jealously stopped her in her tracks.

"S'alright," he rested lazily on his knuckles, and she knew to just not go, "we'll take care of it."

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"Whatcha' got their?" the sound of his captain's voice about scared Gai all but out of his skin.

"Marvelous-san?" he whirled around, holding his possesion behind his back, "what're you doing here?"

"I asked you first," he grabbed his wrist, turning her around and snatching his item, "a nightlight, huh?"

"Uh..." he quickly ducked his head to avoid eye contact, and the next thing he knew a hand was gripping his shoulder a bit too tight.

"Just relax," Gokai Red shoved him into his bed, probably intending it to be gentlier than it did.

"There is nothing in the dark you haven't seen before," Joe walked in from the hall, shining a flashlight in a dark corner to prove his point.

"So just go to sleep," Luka demanded from beside her.

"And goodnight," Doc yawned, and he shut the lights and door off/closed on the way out.

Whimpering in the pitch blackness, the Earthingly scrambled under his sheets and let his body rack with shaking. He cried softly until he heard the door creak, fearing it was Luka, Doc, or Marvelous.

"Gai-san?" he exhaled but didn't come out.

"What're you doin here?" he inquired softly, not wanting to show her his weak state.

"To help you conquer your fear of the dark," she smiled softly, feeling her way to the bed and sitting beside him, "will you please come out and lay on your stomach?"

A little fearful of what she was planning, he obeyed and held back a soft whimper when she took off his shirt gently. She wpuldn't hurt...so why was he scared? Maybe because he was in the dark...

Placing two fingers on the base of his base, she spoke, "Time for me to go on a treasure hunt. X marks the spot..." She traced a large 'X' on his back and tapped the center, making him squeak.

"Ahim-san..." his skin tingled in pleasure at her touch.

"Walking across the bridge..." she walked her fingers up his spin, "and turning around..." She made a loop on his lower back, and he squirmed a bit.

"T-that tickles..." he managed, smiling waterly as she squeezed his sides gently.

"A question mark..." she traced a large one on his bare back, "a tropical breeze..." He started squirming harder as she blew air on the back of his neck and down his spine, stroking his exposed sides and lifting his arms out to the side.

"Th-that r-real-really t-tickles..." he was giggling now in an innocent way, kicking slightly.

"And now..." she put one hand on his ribs and the other on his lower back, "we dig." She quietly raced her fingers up and down his ribcage, behind the neck, and all over his back.

Giggling like a school girl, he tried again to squirm free when she rolled him over to his back, "Eeeeeeep."

"And the treasure is..." she gave his exposed stomach a little poke, "is that you can always come to us if you're scared...at least you can come to me."

He giggled in that innocent, cute way again as she kissed his forehead, "Arigatio, Ahim-san."

"Not a problem," she pulled the covers over him, "goodnight."

Niether of them knew, but...Marvelous had been watching...through a glare.

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"Thanks for giving me a second chance," Doc smiled to Samantha the following day at lunch.

"No problem," quite honestly, she was always a sucker for timid blondes, "so, I hear you are called Hakasae?"

Luka smiled as the two conversated from a bush. He was doing great, and she didn't know it, but he was imiganing talking to her the entire time. Thus, she could only frown when she thought about if he'd ever figure out her feelings toward him...

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"Come on, keep up!" Joe absentaily called to Gai as he strode down the street. Even Lucy was keeping in stride easily.

"Joe-san..." he complained, finally just giving up, "go on, bond with your puppy." He smiled a little at the two.

"Oops!" a female yelped when she bumped into Joe, "I am sooooooooo sorry." Her dark red ringlets fell over her blush and emerld and blue eyes.

"It's alright," he helped her regain her balance, "I wasn't really watching where I was going."

"Argigato...cute dog," she smiled at Lucy, then gasped, "wait...Miley?"

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"Here..." Ahim draped the red coat over her captain's shoulders as he stared out at the horizon from the crows nest, "you alright?"

"Sure..." he growled lowly, not looking at her.

"Please tell me?" she reached out to touch his shoulder, but he whirled around and snapped.

"Just go home, Princess Ahim," and he didn't even seem to care as she left the Gallen crying softly.

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Author Note: Yes, dears. There will be a sequel...but you gotta review! :D