Kitty Hazard

~Isabelle

Chapter Two

Long Term Mission

There was silence.

"She's five?!" Omi said, amazed.

"She's five and her aiming is as good as Omi's," Youji muttered. He pointed to the droids who had gunholes straight through the center of them.

Ken picked her up. "As Omi said, the police are gonna come and do a daily routine check soon. We better get back. Abyssinian?" He turned around in search of Aya.

"Here." The red-head emerged from the shadows carrying the same silver pistol that the girl had used. "Is this the gun that she used?"

"Yeah."

"Strange." He pushed up the place where the bullets were supposed to be to reveal a thin tube of green liquid that was three-quarters filled. "We'll deal with this back home. Gether back to the shop too."

Youji looked up. "Wait."

Aya raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Her name. Her name is Kitty."

Manx stared at the unconsious girl in Ken's arms. "Shelooks so"

Ken shrugged. "We came up with five. Give or take."

Aya sat on other spare chair, his eyes closed. Omi and Youji were snoring away on the couch.

"Wake her up," Aya said, without opening his eyes.

Manx looked at him startled. It was the first thing he had said since they got back to the flower shop. "Alrightwake her up"

The brunette shook Kitty gently and the girl stirred. She sat up on Ken's lap and looked around. Finally, she looked back up at Ken, her large eyes blinking.

Ken blinked back. Youji had described her eyes as freaky, but they didn't seem so freaky now. They were a dark brown with a tint of red around the corners.

"Who are you?" Her voice sounded strangely mild for a child so young.

"I'm Ken," he replied with a smile. "And you?"

"Idon't know. I don't remember."

Aya opened one eye. This was wonderful. A kid with amnesia. A very IMPORTANT kid with amnesia.

Ken turned her to Youji who was muttering something in his sleep. "Do you remember him?"

The girl took one look at Youji and tilted her head. "Yesbut not reallybut yeahI'm confused"

Ken sighed and Kitty jumped off his lap. He and Aya watched amused as she ran to Youji. Kitty climbed on to the couch (She's REALLY short) and reached for Youji's shades. Satisfied, she took them and put them on herself.

Ken couldn't help himself and started snickering. Even Aya had a small smirk playing on his lips.

Manx shook her head. "Some one wake Youji up."

"No need for that," Ken pointed out.

Youji woke up as he felt his shades being lifted from his face. He jolted up to see Kitty smiling wickedly with his shades on.

"Ahhhlittle brat."

Kitty stuck her tongue out. "And who are you? You saved me didn't you?"

Youji blinked. "You mean, you don't remember" He met Aya's gaze and the red-head shook his head. Kitty wasn't supposed to know. "I mean, I did, didn't I?" He grinned.

Manx rolled her eyes.

Youji reached for his shades but Kitty pulled away. "I like your glasses."

"Eh~heh, they're sunglasses."

"Oh." She pointed to Omi who was still dead to the world. "Who's that?"

"Omi. Now, can I please have my shades back?"

"I thought that they were sunglasses."

Youji's eyebrow twitched. This was going to be one hell of a night. "They're also called shades."

Kitty jumped off the couch and ran to the other side of the room, half laughing her ass off. "Catch me."

Youji groaned. He was too tired.

Kitty ran to Aya and stopped. She took the sunglasses off and peered at the leader of Weiss. "And who are you?"

There was silence to see the reaction of Aya towards the kid.

Aya reached down and took Youji's shades without Kitty flinching. "I'm Ran, but most people call me by Aya."

"I'm confused." She blinked several times.

"Hn. Most people are."

"Who am I?"

Aya stared at her. "You really don't know"

Kitty shook her head.

"You're code name is Kitty. So that's what you'll be known as."

There was more silence.

Ken stared. "Geenever knew you were so good with kids"

Aya shrugged and threw the shades back to Youji in which Youji caught, gratefully.

Kitty went back to the couch and climbed back on to it, next to Youji again. The oldest member of Weiss tensed, ready to defend his shades any moment now.

However Kitty didn't reach for them. Not this time. She curled up, her arms tucking her knees in. "I'm scared," she whispered, her eyes sadly drawn.

Youji didn't know what to do. His experiences laid with girls 18 and up.

Manx walked over to her and put an arm around Kitty. "Hey, you can stay here until we find out who you are."

Youji's jaw dropped again. "NA~NI?? Here?"

Manx glared at him and turned to Aya. "New mission. Take care of Kitty. I know you guys have spare bedrooms."

Aya raised an eyebrow. "I guess that it's for the best. She obviously in danger."

Youji looked like if his life just had ended. But you couldn't argue with Aya. You just couldn't.

Ken glanced at Kitty who was still curled up. "Since she's in danger, I don't think she should sleep alone. I mean, we can set up a cot in one of our bedrooms."

Youji pretended to faint on the spot. His collision with the couch made the other part of the couch bouce up, making Omi fall off.

Omi awoke with a start. "NANI!?! What just happened?!!?!"