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"Child..." The tall man in a black robe carried a small, exhausted child down a hallway, and through a tall door. It led into an enclosed area. The girl's eyes were swolen shut, though, and she was unable to see where she was. "These are the gardens. You will play here durring the day, when no tests are being done. Be a good girl, a good little samurai, and stay in the gardens...."
He put the little girl down on the ground, but she did not react. She stayed curled up in a fetal position, and did not move. A second man came up next to the first, and asked, "Will we lose her like the rest?"
"No..." The first man shook his head. "She is stronger. We will not lose her...but she may be permanently scarred..."
"All of them that survive will be," the second one told the first, watching the little girl as she attempted to open her swolen eyes. "None of them will ever be normal. They will never quite recover...but that is the risk we took. The tests must be improved, of course, before they will be preformed on children from this world. Until then, the survivors will be...strange. They will not be the way they should be. The balance will be upset, physically as well as mentally."
The little girl stared off into the distance, not listening to the tall figgures. There was a man there, standing among a cluster of trees. Something about him seemed familiar. For some reason, the little girl felt like she should know him...maybe she did. Maybe he was another of the survivors? Maybe he was one of the scientists. But for some reason, the little girl was afraid of him. But it was a calming sense of fear, if that was possible. She knew he could, and very well would hurt her, but if he did, there would be nothing she could do about it. No use worrying if nothing could be done. There was something wrong with him...the same thing that was wrong with her.
The man seemed to sence someone was watching at him. He turned slowly to meet the stare of the child.....
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Rai bolted up in bed. She did her best to calm her racing heart. Her chest heaved up and down, as her breath slowly returned to normal. /What was that!? It couldn't have been a dream, it was too real...but...it couldn't have been a memory...I don't remember that ever happening.../
"A nightmare, I presume?" Dilandau asked nonchalantly from somewhere in Rai's room. She started at his voice, but then flung a pillow in the general direction his voice was comming from. Her aim was better than she though, as she realized she hit him, by the sound of something contacting with his face, and his annoyed muttering.
"Agh! Dilandau...." Rai grumbled, and flopped back down into her bed. "Why're you here again? Didn't I tell you to go away about, oh, I don't know...FIVE THOUSAND TIMES?!"
"Great to feel loved," Dilandau's voice came closer to Rai, and she felt herself being propped back up as he put the pillow under her back. "I don't appreciate having things hurled at my head at high speeds, esepecially by little blind Daijin girls who claim to be eighteen year old Naza Assassins. Just try to remember which one of us is blind."
"Meh," Rai folded her arms over her chest. "What ever you say, oh mighty seeing one."
"Watch it, girl," Dilandau growled at her. "You've only been here for two weeks, don't think that gives you immunity."
"Sure," Rai sighed, and streached her arms. "What time is it?"
"Time I don't know. But I'd say the sun's been up for about three or four hours now?" Dilandau replied.
"So it's the morning," Rai grinned and told him in her cutest voice possible. "Why do you always take morning shift?"
"Because you're less of a psycho in the morning," Dilandau told her.
"I could say the same about you! All the times I've talked to you at night, you seem like you've had about a hundred cups of coffee and a really bad day!" Rai giggled, and Dilandau muttered something about 'stupid girls' under his breath. Rai yawned again, and snuggled down into the covers of her bed. "Why do you take a shift at all? It's not your responsibility!"
"Acording to Folken it is. I'm the one who messed you up, you know. It's because of me that you can't see."
"What do you mean?" Rai was serious at once.
"I was the one who hit your face plate," Dilandau told her, a cruel twinge in his voice. "If it wasn't for me, you would still be skipping merrily along, taking out my slayers, and crying for your tushie. You were off your gaurd, and I took you down. Too bad you had to spend more time worrying about your ass than what was going on in the battle."
"Toshi, baka. Toe...she. A name. Not 'tushie'. I wasn't sobbing about my ass," Rai corrected him, feeling herself turn red, half from embarrasment, half from anger. "And don't you dare talk about Toshi. It's also because of you - because of this damned place, Zaibach - that Toshi is dead."
"You don't seem to have a problem with Ai, and she's from Zaibach."
"You don't know anything about Ai. She's not like *you*. She's different." Rai's voice dripped venom.
"Well, how can I, if the only time she talks is when she babbles on with you, in a language that no one but the two of you seem to understand?" Dilandau shot back. "Not bright enough to learn a real language, I suppose."
"Right, of course, if it isn't something *you* can participate in, it isn't real," Rai snapped at him. "Everything has to be about you, doesn't it?! You act like a little girl! God!"
Rai waited thirty seconds, but no reply was made.
"Dilandau?" She called into the darkness that was hers alone. No one made a reply. Twenty more seconds passed before she heard the door to her room close.
"Di..landau?" Rai called out again.
She felt herself shiver involentarily.
"Don't play around...come on!" Rai was frantic. She strained her ears to catch any sounds. "Please! You know I can't be alone!"
No reply.
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Dilandau watched the girl from outside her room, through a window in the door, as she stared around blindly, calling. /She's like I used to be..../ he though to himself. /She's afraid to be alone. She's incredibly insecure. Folken's right. I should be nicer to her. She might be able to tell me more about my own past...../
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End chap 4
Hope you liked the chapter, minna! ^___^v Is it just me, or is Dilly actin more like Folken every day?!
Dilandau: AGH! NO!!!! ::pulls out his flamethrower and starts to chase Kira::
Kira: AHHHHHHH!!! Gatti! Husband of mine! Get yo pretty boy arse in here and SAVE ME!!!!
Gatti: Ah....he he...gomen ^__^\;;; Dilandau would hurt me if I helped you....
Dilandau: Damn strait I would!!!
Kira: OOH, and now HIS wrath is more frightening than MINE?!?! *evil*
Gatti: Eep! Bad karma...evil battle aura...::cowers behind fizzy::
Fizzy: Meh...
RCN: GET BACK HERE FIZZY!
Kira: What the bloody fluff?! How'd you guys get in here?!?!?!
RCN: Convinent plot hole, and the fact that fiz was still tied to your wall
Kira: Dam...I knew there was something I forgot to do!
Ahem. Back on track. I think I'm gonna help ya all out, and put up a cheet sheet with all the info on my characters, the plot, and all that other fun stuff. So yeah. I'll probably work on that whenever.
Ai, Kira
