Hiyas everyone, I'm back again. Is now listening to "Simple and Clean" by Utada Hikaru also known as the Kingdom Hearts theme song. I feel good because Saturday I went to AnimeNext! That was great. I got to meet the creator of Outlaw Star and drew a picture for him. He said it was kawaii! ^-^ Is happy. I'm in the mood now to be nice so I won't make people suffer too much this chappie.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, or their characters. I do own Aoi and Kensuke and the evilish people. My friend, John M. owns all rights to the Vigilant for it is his computer game that he created.
Destiny is Fate and Fate is a Fickle Thing: Chapter 4: Emotional Roller Coaster
Everyone (except for Aoi and Kensuke) took hour shifts throughout the night. When three o'clock rolled around, Heero rose from his dreamless slumber to take his night shift. He walked down the stairs into the broken parlor, passing Wufei on his way in. Their eyes met and they nodded in understanding before the Chinese ex-pilot climbed the stairs to his chambers. The taciturn pilot situated himself on a part of the couch that was not covered with glass shards and pulled out his laptop, his slender fingers gliding across the keyboard with a grace one would not have guessed Heero possessed.
Thirty minutes passes until he heard a noise. His movements stopped and his breathing slowed down. His hand found his trusty gun, pulling it out of his PJ pants' pocket, and aiming it at the parlor threshold. He clicked off the safety, "I know you're there. Come out now."
A small figure emerged into the room, his eyes wide as he saw Heero's gun pointed at him in the moonlight. "It's only me Heero-san." Kensuke told his voice a little shaky.
He put the safety back on and stuffed his gun back into his pants, not to be seen until it was necessary. "Hn." he grunted.
Kensuke let out a sigh of relief before approaching the Perfect Soldier. "Heero-san, I couldn't sleep. Do you mind if I stay up with you?" the little Heero clone question.
Heero grunted again as he returned to his laptop so Kensuke took that as a "do what you want" and sat down next to his father.
It was quiet for a while but silence never lasts too long with a five year old. "What are you doing, Heero-san?"
"Working." he stated simply.
"On what?" Kensuke pried.
"None of your business." Heero responded.
"Oh okay." the little boy said
Silence ruled again within the broken room. "Do you have any games on your laptop?"
He didn't answer. Heero was getting annoyed now.
"Oh okay." he paused again. "Heero-san?"
"Nani? (Means what)" the perfect soldier replied.
The five year old boy looked down at the floor, "Why don't you want to be my Otousan? (Means father)"
Heero's typing ceased. He saved his file and closed the program. He didn't really know what to say. He had never had a real father figure or any kind of figure to look to for advice. "How did you find out?"
"I overheard you and Okaasan (means mother) earlier today when everyone else was in this room. I had excused myself to go to the bathroom and I….I got lost. You may have thought that the door was closed but it wasn't." Kensuke told.
Heero mentally kicked himself. "Does your sister know?"
"Iie (means no). I could never bring myself to tell her such a thing." the young boy told before lifting his azure eyes from the ground to Heero's Prussian ones. "But why don't you want to be our Otousan? Did we do something wrong?"
'Kuso (means damn), it's so hard to look into this kid's eyes. He looks so innocent…just like that little girl.*' the grown man inwardly sighed. "Its not you or your sister so don't blame yourselves. It is something between me and your Okaasan. You shouldn't worry about it. You're too young to have to worry." the man of Japanese descent told solemnly. He opened a new program on his laptop, picked it up and placed it on the young boy's lap. Ami's son looked at him quizzically. "You asked if I had games on my laptop. I assumed you wanted to play some." the perfect soldier responded.
Kensuke's eyes lit up. "You have 'The Vigilant'! But I thought that that game was only from our dimension."
"It is. One of your Okaasan's friends left it here." he told to excited boy.
Kensuke indulged himself within the game in seconds as Heero sat back and watched. 'I might apologize to Duo for almost killing him for putting that game on my laptop.' Heero thought as a scarce smile almost appeared on his face.
Before long Quatre came to relieve him of his duties. The blonde Arab smiled once he walked in at the sight but did not say a word. He could tell that Heero was still a bit indecisive about his children and did not want to make it worse like Duo would have. Kensuke handed Heero back his notebook computer, "Arigato Heero-san. I hope I was not too much of a bother to you."
"Hn."
"Koban wa (means good night), Heero-san, Quatre-san." and the little boy stifled a yawn as he shuffled out of the room.
"Goodnight, Kensuke." Quatre called after him. "I'll take over now Heero. You should get some sleep."
"Hn." but nodded to show he agreed. Too much was happening today and it looked as if it were going to start to rain. He walked out of the room and back to his room to another uneventful sleep.
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She lay wide awake in her room. The rain pitter pattered on her window sill slowly. She never did like the rain. No offence to the Ami or Michiru's element but bad things always seems to happen when it rained. It's as if Mother Nature knows tragedy is bound to strikes or God was crying for his children. She could not go back to sleep. Death haunted her dreams and nightmares. The goddess of death sat up and glanced out her window at the moon. Her eyes glazed over. "The moon's beauty has been drenched in blood. Its light is suffocated by the red curtain of liquid."
Someone was going to die in this ordeal. Hotaru had a feeling it was someone she knew very well too. The thought of it made her wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in her own sweat and tears.
"I have to protect everyone. I'm the only one that knows death approaches for one of us. I have to take it on as my sworn duty to protect everyone!" she vowed, her hand clenched in a fist across her heart. She scrunched her eyes shut, 'For the people that existed in the other dimensions that were destroyed.' The senshi of death and destruction brushed away her tears quickly. It was no time to cry. Just time for revenge. She would make the Shifter play for his crimes. There was no doubt about that.
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Later that morning, everyone rose at their desired times. Nothing was too formal about the day. Everyone was on edge and it defiantly showed. Their jumpiness at the slightest thing was a dead giveaway.
Ami walked into the kitchen for breakfast. Heero left. No one made a comment on Heero's absent. It was like that all day. If one would walk in, the other would leave without saying a word. For the most part they stayed on different sides of Quatre's manor.
"Some friends, ne Kensuke?" Aoi commented to her older twin brother about Ami and Heero. Kensuke just shrugged and went back to reading his book. The little girl frowned. "Kensuke, you are useless." she told him and then left the room, muttering about how useless her brother truly was.
CRASH! The glass in the living room shattered followed by a high pitched scream of terror. It was Aoi. Those in the house rushed out to rescue her. They all arrived in the living room in 10 seconds flat but Aoi was no where to be found, just a room filled with broken glass.
"Crap!" Quatre whispered as they all looked around for the small girl but could not find her. The sound of hitting flesh caught everyone's attention. They all froze. Moments passed before it stopped then a figure began to approach them.
She stopped in front of the group, observing them as they observed her. Her aquatic colored hair waved in the breeze giving off an illusion of ocean waves as her dark blue eyes held knowledge, wisdom, and a little bit of mischief. Her choice in clothing did her slender figure justice as they modestly showed her curves as well as showed much class. On her face was a small smirk covered in teal lipstick and in her arms was Ami's little girl.
"I think this belongs to you," the woman said as she passed Aoi to Ami, "Yare, yare (means sort of like oh dear) Ami-chan, I thought you were more responsible than that."
"Anata!! (Means you)" the blue haired genius shouted out in shock, pointing at the older woman.
"Ami-chan, don't you know that it's rude to point?" the aqua haired woman teased causing Ami to blush while muttering she was sorry.
"Michiru-mama!" Hotaru squealed with happiness as she glomped Michiru.
"Michi-baasan (Means Aunt Michiru)!" Kensuke shouted before joining Hotaru in her glomping of Michiru.
The pilots felt isolated from what was happening. Of course they all knew who this woman was but it was not of the same personal level as the two Sailor Senshi. They were nothing more than mere acquaintances.
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Everyone was seated within the newly constructed parlor. "So Michiru-san, it's great to see you alive and well but how did you survive? We all thought you were dead." Ami asked.
The older woman grimaced, "I never died. She wouldn't let me."
"You mean Haruka-san?" the blue haired genius inquired. The older woman nodded grimly.
"Before you ask, no, the others did not survive." she stated leaving no room for questions.
"But how did you…."
"I am the controller of illusions after all. Once Haruka and Setsuna made me promise them I would stay alive, they left to avenge the others. They left me to run. They were killed shortly after I suppose because then it came after me. I suffered many deadly wounds but before it could deliver the final blow, my mirror began to glow. Its light engulfed everything. When the light died down, I found myself within my mirror and my "reflection" was outside, being 'killed.' After the Shifter left, I was released." she narrated to those that were listening.
"But that still doesn't explain how you got to this dimension. Pluto gave Hotaru-chan and me the only two time keys that she possessed. Without those keys, one-dimensional travel is impossible." Ami explained.
"I got here because of you, Ami-chan. You and Quatre-kun to be exact. That is the reason that Haruka and Setsuna saved me. I am the only senshi that had two counterparts with awakened powers. You were not present when Serenity-hime disclosed our fates to us. The Ginzuishou said that you and Hotaru-chan would survive that battle, but you would die soon after at the Shifter's hands. That is when a plan was devised to send at least one of us senshi to you. I was the only candidate that had to survive."
"That still doesn't explain how you got here, Michiru-mama." Hotaru pointed out.
"I already said it was because of Ami-chan and Quatre-kun. Subconsciously they transported me here two years ago. I believe it was December 28th." the senshi of the sea told, her eyes looking towards the ceiling as she remembered.
"The day we had to take Quatre to the hospital." Wufei put in.
"The day that we had to get Okaasan help." the light hair girl added.
The blue haired woman bit down lightly on her thumb, an old habit from her younger years, "So we all synced our energies together on instinct and it brought you here about 2 years ago, completely draining you, me, and Quatre-san, defying all of the laws and taboos of dimensional travel."
"That seems to be the only explanation I can give you." Michiru told.
"Well it seems that we have been through a lot today. I say that we all just get something to eat and relax." Duo suggested.
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A young sandy haired man rose from his nightmarish slumber. His sapphire eyes began to fill themselves with tears as they have for two years now. The last few years of his life had been hell. Not only did he watch all whom he knew and loved die but his whole dimension was destroyed as well. His sister had tried to save him but there was no way she could. She did from death but not from the empty and lonely feelings that were consuming his heart. Everyday his once bright azure eyes dimmed.
He would have been much happier with death than this unreal life he was living now. There was no purpose to his living but he couldn't end his suffering. He chuckled to himself as a wry smile crossed his features, 'Usagi would smack me up the side of my head if she heard such things. She didn't keep me alive just so I could go and kill myself.'
Tsukino Shingo shook his head and wiped his tears away. 'I can't keep living in the past. Usagi said that she had some friends in this dimension but I have yet to meet them for 2 years. How long do I have to wait before I can get revenge? Where the hell are they?'
The eighteen year old removed himself from his bed and readied himself for work. Hopefully the day of judgment for that nefarious bastard would be soon. Hopefully he would be able to fight this time instead of being the useless little brat he was before all of this happened. He pulled out a chain from within his shirt. On the chain hung his hope, the Ginzuishou.
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Well sorry for the LONG wait but hey, what can I say, school sucks and is dominating my life….again. Well Some explanations are due now. 1) The little girl is the girl from Heero's past. The one with the dog named Mary aka Endless Waltz. 2) Shingo is here because I have a Shingo fetish. He's just so damn kawaii! ^-^ Besides I can do whatever I want, I'm the authoress! Submit to my power! BMWHAHAHAHHAHAHA! Okay anywoo I am very sorry for the wait but it's out now. You people should be grateful. I stayed up during the night to finish this and almost missed my mourning bus. Well now reviews:
Sniper1250, I really don't mean to not update. It's just a way of life for me. I've got Student Council, Animation Club, Fencing, AP History, just got done with the PSAT, and my regular classes. Not to mention my cosplays and my manga that I am creating. Crule and unusual is my muse, Kayra-chan, specialty. Thanks for the review though. Here's the chapter for ya.
Guiding Star, more new people. I loves new people. ^-^ Anyways I'm sorry about the suspense and killing. Honestly I'm only one step ahead of my readers in my stories. I dun even know what the ending is. So we are basically in the same boat. ::slaps wrist:: Bad minimerc! You should be more organized! You lazy bum. Well I have to get going now. Ja ne
~minimerc