MX: Chapter 10! up and ready for you all to read.
Hiei: The pride you have for this is stagering...
MX: Silence! I will not have my good mood spoiled by you right now. Anyway, You guys know the drill. I own most of the characters in this OC based story, except for Kiki who belongs to a good friend of mine. Enjoy!
In no time at all, a week would pass by, bringing a recovered Hiei, and a surprisingly healthy Aaron. Though the broken bones were still mending, Aaron did seem to have recovered enough to be allowed to move around on his own. This didn't stop the doctor from checking on him now and again to make sure the electro-fox didn't try to do anything reckless while he was still recovering. He knew that Aaron wouldn't purposely try to injure himself; it was still something that worried the doctor.
"If you have someone watching him, would that let you be more at ease about letting him wander around?" Zane would ask, after one of Aaron's checkups. "I mean, it's not like he really needs to be watched over all the time, and I bet he would really like to wander around Tetsuya a bit. It would definitely be better for him."
"Hmmm…Yes I suppose that would be all right." The doctor replied, looking at Zane with a tired sort of gaze, "Are you offering to be the one to watch him?"
Zane chuckled, and shook his head quickly. "No I'm not, I'm just asking of that would be fine with you." he said quickly.
"Gee…thanks for the false ray of hope there pal." Aaron said from his place sitting on the side of his bed, smiling. "It's nice to know that you really care, ya know?"
"Sorry buddy. I've got other things to deal with around here; I can't add watching you to the list." Zane said.
Kiki, who had been spending a good deal of time staying by Aaron's side, looked thoughtfully from Aaron to the doctor. "I could watch him." She said after a few moments. "Would that work?"
The other three gazed at her for a few moments, before the doctor sighed, and nodded his head. "Yes, that would be fine, if anyone were to watch him, I suppose it would have to be you or his sister."
Aaron chuckled at this. He knew his sister wouldn't be up for watching him, not when she had Hiei to spend time with. He smiled knowing that the two of them were probably spending time together right now someplace in the village.
"Great, I'll help you get him out of here then, ok Kiki?" Zane said happily. He walked over to Aaron, and started to pull him to his feet.
"Hey! I can get up on my own you know." Aaron said, agitated. "I don't need your stinking help to do that much."
Kiki and the doctor chuckled at this, as they watched the two friends. "They are an odd pair, but they are great friends." Kiki thought.
Hiei stood in the grassy field silently, gazing out at the peaceful scene before him. Beside him, Amara stood doing much of the same with a smile dancing at her lips. In his mind, Hiei would have to admit that he was surprised that Amara had wanted to bring him here, but the quite scene of the field was quite relaxing to watch, as they stood atop one of the few hills. "It's rather calm here…" He would say in almost a whisper. "It is a good place to relax, and think."
"Yes." Amara said quietly. "I've come here a lot in the past nine years, to think about many different things…" She was quiet for a moment before continuing, "…Things like, where you were or what you were doing, weather something had happened to you, How long until you came back…" She paused after realizing that a great deal of her time spend here had been spent thinking about him. Had she really missed him enough to do that? Yes, without a doubt, she was sure that those years with him gone had been rather…lonely.
Hiei noticed that Amara had stopped talking, and looked at to see the pensive look she wore. He smiled, as he placed an arm around her shoulders, and stood beside her. "Spent some time thinking about that huh…" he said, "…Well, I'm back now, and you can clear things like that from your mind. I spent nine years away from home to grow stronger, and I'd say I did a pretty good job of doing just that."
Amara had to smile at this. He was right, she didn't have to worry about him anymore, and he had come back. This didn't stop her from worrying about him though. He was planning on leaving soon to track down his sister, the only reason he had put it off was because of Aaron, who was now well enough to move around on his own. Was she worried that Hiei might run into those men from before? Those three that had been with Cassy? The thought was certainly enough to unnerve her. That water user had nearly beaten Hiei senseless. These thoughts soon had her smile melt away to her pensive frown again.
Seeing it out of the corner of his eye, Hiei could only guess at what she was thinking about. It made him uneasy knowing that she was worried about something, and if that had something to do with him, it made him feel even worse. Other then his family, Amara was the one person he had thought about the most while he had been away. He had been certain that his family was fine, and he had been right for the most part, other then his parents deaths, and his sister leaving, they had been fine for a good portion of the time he had been gone, How had she been though? Worried about him was now obvious after what she had said just moments ago.
"Hiei…" Amara whispered, "…What's on your mind?"
Hiei had to shake his head. He had been deep in his own thoughts, and she must have picked up on them. "Nothing. Nothing at all." he said, pulling her close to him. He smiled at her, and turned his gaze back towards the field before them.
Amara, smiling as well, did the same.
Prowl walked down the dimly lit hallway within Axel's home. The soft sounds of his foot steps on the fine emerald carpet were all that he heard. It had been one week, and he was now allowed to walk around again. Truthfully, he had been well enough to move only after a few hours of rest, but Cassy had managed to find a way to keep him locked away in his room for the whole week. "What was she thinking? Crazy mecha-armed…" his thoughts stopped, when he encountered the door leading to Axel's little study. Opening it, Prowl walked through to find that Axel and Cassy were not here. "That's odd, didn't Axel say he wanted me to meet him and Cassy here." he thought.
"Well, if it isn't panther man. Felling better?" Cassy's voice said from behind him.
Prowl whirled around to find that both Cassy and Axel were behind him. "No thanks to you, Cassy. You had no reason to keep me in my room for a whole week." Prowl said in an agitated tone. His gaze on her turned sharp for a moment before turning towards Axel. "What was it that you wanted to see us about Axel?" he asked, as he moved aside for the other to enter the room.
Cassy immediately picked out a spot on the wall, and leaned against it, as was her custom during these little meetings of Thiers. Axel made for the desk the he had placed in the center of the room. Where he sat, and looked quickly through a few books that had been resting on the table before looking back up at his friends. "Prowl, we are going to be leaving." he announced.
"Why?" Prowl asked confused by the sudden decision. "Where are we going to?"
"Cassy…Explain it to him." Axel said as he looked through some more books on his desk.
Cassy smiled, as she looked towards Prowl. "We're going to look for those men we had help us with Hiei." she said, "Turns out that they may have decided that Hiei and his friends could be a problem to the guy they work for."
"So we are going to find them and stop them?" Prowl asked.
"Not exactly, more like keep an eye on them, and watch out for who they are looking for. They had me take one of them to Hiei's home where he managed to find a picture of his little sister. I'm guessing that they are going to find her and use her to get to Hiei."
Prowl was confused. Hiei was the person that Axel hated the most; it made no sense to him why Axel would want to do something that could possibly help Hiei in anyway.
"I see that look on your face, Prowl." Axel said not looking up from the book he currently held in his hands. "I'm going to be the only one allowed to beat Hiei into the ground; witch is why we are going." His gaze turned upwards for a brief moment before returning to his book. "I want you both to gather the few things that you need. We are leaving in an hour."
"You got it boss man." Cassy said, as she ceremoniously kicked herself away from the wall and left the room.
Prowl remained for a few moments looking at Axel with a confused expression laying over his face, before he too left the room to leave Axel alone.
Axel continued to pour over the book in his hands, scanning it for information that could be helpful. It was a work related ledger that his father had kept, and it had names of people that he had traded or done business with. Soon near the backend of the book, he found something. Erk's name written along side another. Axel slammed the book shut, and left the room. The name burned into his mind, as he remembered the one time action his father had made with this man. A bat with abilities that made his father nervous, whose name was, Neuron.
MX: Done and Done! Now to start work on the next one.
Hiei: Axcious to keep things going huh?
MX: Kind of. Well, other then hoping that everyone enjoied the chapter, I'm going to wish you all a nice day! See you all later!