Chapter VIII: Fighting feelings
Kira stretched, and lightly probed the area where she had been wounded. It had healed rather nicely, a rather small wound to what it had been, but still looked bad enough to account for all the blood she'd lost. She then slowly stood so not to fall over from a wave of nausea that often came after she had healed herself. She waved to Gally who was now running systems check on her gundam, and went to sit down. Kira let her mind drift back to what had happened just before they came back and sighed, knowing that now she would indeed have to face Heero as she spotted Wing Zero going through final shutdown and systems check. Though the thought didn't bother her as much, as she thought it might.
Heero jumped out of Zero and immediately made a beeline for Kira. "Let me see it," he demanded in a tone that would have warned everyone else that arguing was a BAD idea.
Kira looked over at him and blinked, "Look at what Heero?" she asked attempting to look completely innocent. A burst of giggles from by the other gundams, almost distracted her, but she managed to keep a straight face.
Heero scowled, but otherwise paid little heed to the other pilots childish laughter. "Stop playing games with me. You know what I'm talking about Kira," he persisted. "The wound on your arm. I want to see how bad it is. You shed a lot of blood." He scowled angry with her for trying to hide it, and angry with himself that he couldn't protect her.
Kira sighed, and once again thanked Selene for her self healing abilities, and reluctantly held out her arm where the wound had hit, and from there grazed her side. "I told you before Heero, it's just a scratch, nothing big... I don't see what your making such a fuss about." She told them, though at the same time realized, that if she hadn't been able to heal herself, his concern would have been well placed.
Heero gave her bandaged arm a speculative look. 'Just a scratch huh? Your keeping something from though, but what?' Heero thought warily. "I still want you to go to med bay," insisted Heero. "All that blood and just a scratch?" Heero murmured dryly.
Kira rolled her eyes..."Okay, so I bled a bit, that happens when you get cut you know. But if it will make you happy, and not so irritable I'll get it checked. You know Heero, if you angry with me for going to fight, you shouldn't have left me behind anyway. It's not like I'm exactly helpless."
"I...uh..." Heero stammered, then bristled. "I was only looking out for your own well being!" He indicated to the wound pointedly. "If you would have stayed here like I planned and not have gone looking for a joy ride with Gal, that would not have happened," he said in a 'I told you so because I know everything tone'. "Look, do what you want Kira, it's not like I care anyway," he muttered, once again putting up his walls as he turned to tend his Gundam.
Kira blinked in shock... "Heero I..." and then she sighed, "Well I'm sure you have work to do...um... just let me know when your ready to leave..." she said. Whatever she had expected him to say, this really hadn't been it. Somehow she had expected him to care, but then after all the wars had put him through, no wonder he had turned so cold. She then headed off to where she knew the medbay was.
Heero gritted his teeth as he walked away, noting the hurt tone in her voice. 'Damnit' He cursed. 'I was completely fine...the perfect soldier...then she comes into my life again and complicates everything,' Heero thought angrily. 'What was it about that girl that made her get under his skin,' he wondered as he tended Zero.
Kira cautiously peered into the Medical wing once she had arrived, and looked around not seeing anybody. So she quietly looked around, and realized that this particular medical wing, was just as well set up as a hospital. Which was probably a good thing so that secrets that needed to be kept could easily be done so without curious nurses, doctors, or other patients wondering why someone was injured, or how they got that way. Just then she spotted a woman with sandy blond hair done in a unique twisted style going through some files. She cleared her throat to catch her attention and stepped fully into the room, "Umm excuse me…"
The other woman stood up and turned, "Oh hello there, I'm Sally Po, and you are?"
"Lillikira Torabara, just call me Kira though. I was all but ordered to check in down here by Heero…" she began but was then interrupted.
"Say no more. I've worked with him on and off for the past three years, along with the other gundam pilots. You must be the beautiful girl everyone is commenting on that came in with him this morning. And from what Lady Une, and Noin have told me. You and Gally took off to the fight, and showed the guys up for leaving you behind." Kira stared in surprise, obviously there was a rather close group here, for that much information to have traveled so quickly and accurately.
"Um yes… and well I got grazed by a sword…" she then offered in explanation. Sally nodded and then spotted the blood on her shirt.
"Oh dear, that looks like it was nasty. Here take a seat on this cot, and I'll grab some things I may need." With that she headed off to gather some supplies, while Kira did as asked. It wasn't too long before Sally had examined the wound, deemed it worthy of a few stitches and had administered them. "Now then, I recommend that you take it easy the rest of today at least, and come back in tomorrow and I can probably take those out."
"Thank you, is there anything else you need me for?" Kira then asked.
"Actually yes, I need to fill out some forms on your background for any future visits when you when you may not be able to tell me. I'd also like to take some blood so we have some in storage in case you ever need it, but that can wait for tomorrow." With that Sally led her to her office, and began to ask questions and fill out forms, learning quite a bit about the new arrival in the process. "Well that should do it. Thank you very much Kira."
"Your Welcome…*yawn* Do you have somewhere I could take a nap for now? I'm sure Heero will be able to find me later…" she then asked yawning again. Sally smiled and nodded then showed her newest patient off to a small room that held a bed. Kira thanked her once again and then happily laid down on the bed and promptly fell asleep, for there was nothing that drained her quite like healing, or more so healing herself.
Sally Po watched the silver haired girl as she went to sleep, 'There's something about that girl, though no doubt that she and Heero are perfect for each other. It's about time, now Wufei can't use that as an excuse to avoid me.' This thought brought back an image, "Leave me alone Onna, Heero does not have onna's hanging on him and neither will I." He had so proclaimed, not that she had let him keep that perspective.
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Heero furiously buried himself in his work, doing everything he could to keep his mind off the silver haired 'muse' who had entered his life. He did a total systems diagnostic on Zero, as well as upgraded close to 50 percent of the systems, but she still trailed his thoughts. As things that she may have suggested, commented on, or even threatened popped into his brain. From there he went to checking stock, and security, but even there she haunted him. Heero quickly realized that this wasn't solving his problem, and decided to possibly retrain these thoughts and emotions out of system. So with a determined look on his face he made a beeline to one of the private training rooms, the only people who knew about them were the pilots themselves.
In minutes Heero was working his way through a grueling obstacle course, knocking over dummies, and shooting targets, but then suddenly one of the civilian dummies that he was supposed to avoid and protect took on an all too familiar face. Heero stopped in mid stride, and barely dodged a swinging dummy.
Finally he realized that he couldn't get her out of his mind, she'd never left it from the day he met her, so why should that change now. He also realized that he still had no idea where she had been all these years or why she had left. Also that she had not scene what he had been forced to face in the wars, yet he had treated her as he had everyone else. The one person that he had trusted all his life, that he cared… no that word didn't even describe it, but in lack of anything better at the moment, the one person he cared for more than anything else.
With this fresh in his mind he glanced at a clock and realized that it had taken him the rest of the day and well into the night to come to this conclusion. 'I have to find her…' and with that decided he headed towards the medical bay, hoping Sally, or one of the others could tell him where she went.
Heero slipped into the medical lab quietly, and began to scan the night crew for someone who could give him information; it was then that he spotted Sally in her office working on some files. He walked over to the door and knocked once. Sally looked up and then smiled.
"Hello Heero, I'm sure you're here looking for Kira. And before you can ask, she's fine. I put a few stitches in the cut on her side, the one on her arm is fine, and the stitches I put in should be able to come out tomorrow. You can find her in the spare room back in hallway 32D, she went in there to rest, and has been sleeping ever since I finished filling out the information for her file." Sally watched the prefect soldier's expression as she told him, and noticed a flicker of worry and a frown cross his face as she mentioned her wounds, and then again at how long she had been sleeping. He nodded to her once then turned and left, heading straight for the room she had mentioned. 'He's got it bad…' Sally realized, 'Now we just have to keep the others from interfering before they hook up, or give it a little push ourselves.'
"Don't even think about it Onna." She then heard another familiar voice, and turned to find Wufei.
Sally just smiled at him, "Oh you just don't want me focusing any of my attention on anyone else Wu-chan." She told him slyly. A 'Hmph' was all she received as an answer. "I'm done so we can go home." Wufei nodded, waited for her, and then they left together.
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Heero paused briefly before opening the door and peering inside, not sure how she would actually look, or what she would say to him. What he found was a sleeping beauty being guarded by a miniature Dragon. "Yosouya…" he mumbled and almost smirked. He had already discovered that the small silver creature was very protective of her partner. In fact he was surprised that she didn't attack Duo the other morning, but then again the Dragon had been living with Kira for years, so she probably knew when she was needed. The little Dragon looked up at him, gave a soft chirp then stepped to the side and watched. Heero blinked, but accepted the invitation to come forward and studied the one person he had ever learned to truly trust and care for. A fact he now realized more then anyone else, save for maybe her.
"Kira… wake up," he said softly and nudged her shoulder with his hand. The sleeping girl simply mumbled in her sleep and rolled over towards him. Heero blinked and then shrugged, obviously she needed her sleep and he really didn't have the heart to wake her. So gently he scooped her up into his arms and began to head down the hallway and out to his jeep.
"Ummm….Idon'twannagetupPiccolo…t'stooearwwly…..umm…He-chan…" the figure in his arms mumbled, nearly causing Heero to drop her. He blinked in surprise as he puzzled through what she had said. 'Piccolo, who the hell is Piccolo, and who in their right mind.. did she say my NAME!!!' at this revelation he nearly dropped her again, though managed to cover and make it to the jeep without any further mishaps. Despite his 'not interested façade' he still couldn't help casting questioning glances over at her the entire trip home, did that mean she really cared about him? Or was he just imagining things.
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