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Kilala: Ohayo minna-san! Kilala here, finally free of Vash! So no ones here to do my disclaimer. Darn!

Rune: What about me?

Kilala: Rune! Ohayo!

Rune: Ohayo. So, can I?

Kilala: Take it away Rune!

Rune: ( Kilala doesn't own Vash, Knives, Meryl, Millie, Wolfwood, or anyone from Trigun, she does, however, own me, my sister, Brass, Pyre, Nikki, Rin, Erik, and the Happy Donut Dance and the Donut Cheer.

Kilala: Long disclaimer, but I like it!

Rune: ( Arigato Kilala.

Kilala: Your welcome Rune, at the end of this chapter you'll all get to meet my muse!

Rune: You have a muse?

Kilala: Hai, if I didn't I wouldn't be able to write my stories.

Rune: Ne. Now on with the story!

Kilala: Thats my line!

**************** Nimes, that morning *******************

Nimes strecthed up tall under the two suns that morning. "Damn sister, where'd she go?" She asked herself out loud. She was standing outside the hotel in the town they'd been in just yesterday. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. 'They're in Inperil City, about to be chased for four hours, I can't wait!' She thought happily, and a true smile graced her lips. For someone who was evil, when she smiled she looked completely innocent. She wasn't in her usual clothes, she had on a cream colored coat, much like her sisters, it had a hood which was curently pulled up over her head, she couldn't let anyone regignize her. 'Dear sister, I'll find you, I'll get you to listen to me, because dear sister, I'm right and your wrong.' She thought as she walked out of the city and out into the knee deep sand.

*********** Nimes, that afternoon as the chase begins ************

Nimes sat comfortabley on top of a building watching her sister and Vash run. Then a miracle happened, Vash and Ash split up. Nimes let an evil smile grace her lips before jumping off the building.

She waited in silance until Ash ran by, then she reached out a jerked her into the ally she was hiding in. Ash's eyes were wide, she was stiff as a board, she knew it was her sister. "Ash, dear sisiter. How've you been?" Nimes asked in the sweetest voice she could summon, which was a very sweet voice. Ash turned and looked her in the eyes. "I've been fine Nimes, you?" She asked back, in the same silky sweet voice. "The same, its very nice to know you've been fine, I would have thought that you'd killed Vash by now. Or at least put a bullet in his ass." Nimes grinned at her comment, she remembered that day so well, Ash had said that she didn't hate Vash because he wasn't real, now he was. She let out a chuckle. "No, but I have hit him several times." Ash said, dispite trying to sound happy about hitting Vash several times, her own benevolence was in her voice and Nimes was suddenly happy her sister was so benevolent, she could use it to her advantage.

"Ash, I'm working for Knives now." Nimes said, and realized it might have been the wrong thing to say, but then again, it depended on her sister. "Really Nimes? Thats nice, considering your pure evil and want the same things as he does." Ash said this in an angry voice, in fact it had such a mad tone to it that Nimes felt a shiver go down her spine. But things were now in her field. "Ash, Knives is planning on ambushing Vash and." Ash interupted her. "I've watched the show, I know about the Gun-Ho-Guns." Ash said. "He's thinking about sending them after you too, if you don't leave Vash alone." Nimes said, the lie was so good she half believed it herself. Ash appeared to be thinking, and deeply too. "If I stay I'll be a danger to everyone. If I leave I'll be abondoning my new friends." Ash said, she wasn't talking to Nimes, she was thinking outloud. "If you leave you'll be protecting them." Nimes offered. Then Ash said something that Nimes hadn't expected. "I won't leave, no matter what. I can protect them better from here. If I leave then Knives could just send in an ambush thinking I was still there, they'd be killed. My friends might get hurt but its better if I stay, I could protect them." Ash said, her voice full of confidence in herself. She turned her back on Nimes and walked away. Nimes just stood there, shocked, for a few minutes before she left as well, her plan had failed, but at least she wouldn't be killed, Knives had guaranteed she wouldn't.

****************** Rune

Rune soon was back to running, the people of this city had seen her with Vash and now she was dubbed an accomplice, technically she was, but they thought Vash was evil! She ducked into an ally way and tried to catch her breath, she backed up deeper into the darkness so she could hide, she backed up one more step and..bam! Right into someone, her first thought was Nimes, Nimes was still in the city, but she turned around and who do you think was behind her?

Vash the Stampede, grinning at the fact he'd found her again. "Where'd you go Rune? I looked everywhere while I ran." He whined out, and then started looking her over for wounds. Rune felt a tiny bit nervous as Vash walked around her looking for scratches or wounds, Nimes was still in the city, and if she saw this Rune would never be able to live it down. "I just tried hiding, it worked for about 15minutes." Rune said. "Well, why were you trying to hide again?" Vash asked, after he'd finished his inspection.

"I wasn't, I'm not stupid. Watch and learn Vash, watch and learn." Rune said, she tugged at her coat and pulled it off, then flipped it around to its red side, she slipped it back on and tightened her belt, she carefully rolled up her braid, then pinned it to the back of her head with a clip. She looked different now, not completely different, but just enough so they wouldn't regignize her. Vash blinked, then did a very strange thing, he put his pack in his coat in a position that he looked like a girl, he picked up a bucket of nearby water and dumped it on his head making his hair lie flat, he now looked like a girl, in fact he looked sort of like Rune, which was scary, but he didn't look just like her, he still looked like himself, almost. Rune blinked, then smiled.

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They had been hiding like this for four hours, now it was time for the Nebraska's to show up. "Okay, its safe now Vash." Rune said, she lossened her belt, pulled off her coat, switched it back to the sea-green side and slipped it back on, she pulled off the clip and her braid came tumbling back down. She looked at Vash, he pulled out his pack and fixed his hair back up. She grinned, he grinned, (A.N. At this point I was tempted to say: "and they both skipped off into the sun set, hand in hand." But that would be strange, ne?) and they both skipped down the road grinning like idiots.

It was this time that the Nabraska's decided to make their entrance, there was stomping, there was that weird train-like sound, and then there was the crying and yelling. Rune would have frozen in her tracks if she wasn't determined to look completely oblivious like Vash. So there they were, skipping down the road, grinning like idiots, both looking oblivious to danger even though only one was, Vash waltzed right into the building about to be blown up. Rune froze at the door, checked her gun for bullets, suddenly very glad she'd bought some while she and Vash had been hiding. She closed the barrel and spun it. "Time to show my sister just how strong I am," She said, about then the Nabraska's turned the corner. "Meep," She murmred and held up her gun. "Don't come another step further!" She yelled out.

Well, they didn't listen. 'Thank God that Vash won't get hurt.' She thought, she held her ground, gun pointed, eyebrows furrowed. She pulled the trigger twice, both bullets hit the gigantic Nabraska's foot. Well, lets put it like this, he wasn't happy. He screamed in pain and fired his fist at the very place she'd been trying to protect from this very fate. The dust from the building swirled up around Rune, masking her long enough for her to dive into the ruins of the building. She buttoned up the top of her coat to keep the dust out of her mouth and nose. 'I'm pretty sure Nimes is laughing her psychotic head off right now.' Rune thought. 'Yes, I am. But I wouldn't say I was psychotic.' Nimes answered her in thought. Rune mentaly cursed, only to gain more laughing from Nimes, Rune finally put up a mind block, keeping her sister from talking to her.

The dust swirled once more, and finally settled, Rune closed her eyes, visualizing what was happening now. There was Vash, standing in the dust, walking over, picking a girl up, walking to the other side of the debris and placing her back down. She visualized this scene two more times before she relaxed in the debris. 'I'll be fine in here. I'll be just fine. Vash shouldn't worry too much when I don't show up. Shouldn't worry at all.' She thought, yawning loudly. She curled up in the dust, listining to the sound of gunshots and the Nabraska son screaming in pain again. She blinked, her eyes heavy, she closed them, the sound of Vash yelling 'Love and Peace!' lulling her to sleep.

(A.N.: Strange ne? Why would Vash saying 'Love and Peace!' put her to sleep? Well, when I watched that episode I recorded it, and I watched it over and over and now the sound of Vash saying 'Love and Peace!' is now like a lulibye to me. And remember, Rune and Avalon watched the Trigun series over and over again. So I'm gonna say the same goes for Rune.)

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Rune woke up to the sound of someone digging in the debris, curouis, she sat up, shaking her head to rid her hair of dust. Nimes' head popped up with her. The digging sound stopped. "Were you digging in the dirt Nimes?" Rune asked. "I'd say no but you'd know I was lying." Nimes answered. "Why?" Rune asked, highly suspicious of her sister. "Because, if your not alive by the end of this series I'll be stuck in Trigun forever, then others will know our secret." Nimes said. Rune nodded her head. Nimes disappered in a flash of blue light. Rune walked down the street, knowing in her head that her sister did care about her, if only for the fact that without her Nimes wouldn't be what she was today, or, for that matter, where she was today.

It was the middle of the night just when Rune made it to the hotel Vash would stay in, she walked upstairs and knocked on his door. Nothing. She held back the worried feeling that threatned to overwelm her. She knocked again. Nothing. She closed her eyes and just imagened him asleep, softly snoring like he did at night. She turned the door knob, at first it wouldn't budge but when she forced it, it clicked open, she stuck her head inside and looked. No one. She was diffidently worried now. She saw her pack sitting in the corner. The thought of a change of clothes and a bath pushed all thoughts of Vash out of her head.

After a warm bath and changing clothes, Rune sat in a chair brushing her hair, she wasn't wearing her normal clothes, instead she was wearing a loose red chinese style dress, the one she'd gotten for her last birthday and hadn't out grown yet. It was almost morning and since Vash would soon become Spot the Stampede to that woman at the plant she figured she could hang out with Meryl and Millie and fill them in on some things. She slipped on a pair of shoes she had in her pack, leaving her hair down, and she walked out the door.

She'd found Meryl and Millie and filled them in on the reason why she didn't tell them about Vash. Now they were asking why she was wearing that outfit. "Look, I can wear what I want, just because I've been wearing my coat for so long doesn't mean that's the only kind of clothes I wear." She told them. "But Ash, why'd you leave your hair down too." Millie asked. "One, call me Rune. Two, because I know that right now Vash is off flirting with this woman who works at the plant and I've had my hair one way for far too long." Rune answered them. They kept their mouths shut for a few minutes. "Where were you yesterday Rune?" Meryl asked. "I was over by where the fight between Vash and the Nebraska's took place, I was under the debris, asleep." Rune answered them, half wondering why they asked.

"Vash was looking everywhere for you yesterday, I think he might've kept looking today as well." Meryl said. "Yea, Mr.Vash was very worried." Millie offered. Rune looked down. "Fine, I'll go find Vash and let him know I'm okay." Rune said and got up, walking off down the street.

She searched the city thrice by nightfall and she hadn't seen hide nor hair of Vash. She sighed and walked back to the hotel, decideing to wait there. She sat down on the bed in Vash's room, all thoughts of the sign being switched had left her mind. Then, she remembered it, an evil smile appeared on her face, one that would have done Nimes proud. She walked out side, seeing the signs now switched. She switched them back and walked back into Vash's room, sitting back down on the bed and waiting for him to come in.

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Kilala: Well, that was the end of this chapter, 5 whole pages!

Rune: Where's your muse?

Kilala: Hmmmmmmmm, thats a good question!

???: Right here.

Rune: WHOA! Its FUZZY!

Kilala: Hello!

???: Hi Kilala. So, where's everybody?

Kilala: *points to you*

???: Hi, I'm Taika!

Kilala: My muse!

Taika: Who, according to Ms. Sea-green-pants, is fuzzy.

Rune: Can I pet your tail?!

Taika: *sighs* Go ahead.

Rune: YAY!

Taika: Read and reveiw! Or I'll use my ember on ya! *laughs like a pysco*

Kilala: Ya gotta love that muse.