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Tansura: Rejoice I have returned.
Lok: Pfft..like any of them are going to rejoice!
Tansura: *facevault* Hey!!!!! erg...*sweatdrops* Faithful readers..*looks at all two of you* I'd like you to meet Lok --;;;
Lok: Personality number one mind you all, the best out of all five of us. I represent Tansura-sama's ecchi side ^_~V!!! Now Tansura-sama ....*points off into the distance *Is..that..could it be!? Good Goddess it's Wufei, Zechs AND Hotohori doing a strip tease!!! Go get em girl!!!! *snickers as Tansura-sama being the rabid fan she is (*big sweatdrop*) runs off screaming like any fangirl would*
Lok: Well since Tansura-sama is ..um..busy...I'll explain her number system. Since you all *should* know who the male numberpeople are your probably wondering about the females..and how the hell she got up to 17. Well I'll give you the one that doesn't totally confuse the hell out you all.
Obviously you'd think King Iolite has other advisors than the already mentioned number people ne? Well if you haven't there's your explaination! Muw ha ha. I did that in less than 30 words! Tansura-sama will be happy! Also everyone's past will be filled in, during Chapter Ten which Tansura-sama is writing at the moment! Without anymore ranting here's Chapter Eight!
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Chapter 8- Faith's Eyes
Kazen, Niji, Misora and Yusuke all stared at Kim like she had lost it. Ikiiki probably would be staring also but she was asleep at the moment.
" You're joking!" Kazen exclaimed.
Kim shook her head her red hair moving with it. " I'm dead serious." She said.
Nishou slapped Kim on the back. " Yup! That's our Kim for ya. Used to be a brat when she was younger though. I've heard horror stories from Une." She laughed.
" So wait, your telling us that you were that little girl that tried to take over Earth 20 years ago." Niji asked.
" Yea the most freakishly calm seven year old you'll ever find, who had a hell of a lot of mobil suits." Kazen put in.
" I wasn't freaky!!!!" Kim protested. " I stayed with Lady Une after that her and her friends where pretty nice to me. I've changed a lot in twenty years but let's not dwell on the past right now. We have more pressing tasks ahead of us right now."
" That woman probably thinks-" The redhead started but was cut off.
" Kim! You go get your butt into a hotel room! I'll deal with this." Nishou said randomly, but with a little ( very little) thought behind how she would deal with this. " We don't want you really really sick in the middle of all this." Well, that had a little more thought than she thought. Boy Nishou, you're a complex girl.
" But-" Kim protested.
" NO but's if's or or's hell no butt's either!!" Nishou commanded pushing Kim towards the door. " You. Cab. Hotel. Rest. Now!"
" Alright alright." Kim sighed. She looked back at the silent teenagers sweatdropping slightly. " I guess we'll talk about this tomorrow then." And she left.
" Alrighty boys and girls. We have to wait for Lady Une to arrive!" Nishou said brightly. She picked up the blankets and threw one to each of the teenagers, wrapped one around herself and plopped down on the ground grinning boyishly. " Anyone know any good ghost stories?"
All teenagers looked back at the many-colored haired woman with a blank look. Oh it was gonna be a long day.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" Excuse me.." Kim said tapping the ambulance worker on the shoulder. " Do you think I can get a ride into the city in this ambulance. I'll walk from the hospital so don't worry about having to drop me off."
" Eh?" The paramedic turned around scratching the back off his head. " I don't think we can Miss. Awfully sorry but we gotta take as many hurt people as we can and get them treated quickly. You know?"
Kim nodded. " I know. But please. It's a long walk. Isn't there a little bit of room. I don't take up that much." She pleaded.
The man was about to tell her again that he couldn't but another voice cut in before he could say anything.
" Don't worry sir. I can take her, I have a car with me." Lady Une said from behind Kim. The man nodded and went back into loading another wounded person into the ambulance.
Kim blinked turning around. " Jeez Une!!" She exclaimed. " I never thought you were going to get here that fast!" She quickly hugged the older woman.
Une smiled. " Sometimes it pays to have connections ne?" She said. " Oh and by the way, I think I found that boy, Yes Solo I think his name is. Looks so much like Duo…He was wandering around looking like a zombie." She lowered her voice. " You might want to talk to him, he's got a teddy bear."
Kim laughed at the look on Une's face ( which was literally o_O ) . " Solo you say?" She looked around. " Where is he?"
Une pointed at another ambulance. " He's sitting by there. Said to just tell you to talk to him. Did something happen other than the Garden getting destroyed?" She asked.
" I don't know.." Kim said starting towards the other ambulance. " But Misora said someone he knew died….I'll catch up with you in a twenty minutes or so." She sneezed. " Make that ten…I don't want to catch a cold…again.." The redhead sweatdropped.
" Alright…" Une said. " Trust Nishou and the other children are in that huge tent?"
Kim nodded. " Watch out..Nishou might think you're a reporter though." She laughed. " She's got a baseball bat somewhere too." She walked away from brown haired woman.
" Solo?" Kim asked nearing the braided teenager. She knelt down next to where he was sitting. " Are you okay?"
Solo laughed hoarsely. " Am I okay..?" He echoed, his long bangs covering his eyes. " No, Kim I'm not okay." He answered.
" What's wrong?" She glanced at the teddy bear he was clutching. " Wasn't that.."
" Muzai's..Yea I was her's." Solo put in. " But she's dead now."
Kim's heart softened towards the boy. " I'm so sorry… I know how much she meant to you." She said.
Solo laughed again, not the healthiest laugh he could manage. " Everyone's sorry. But it's not your fault don't blame yourself." He looked up from the ground staring straight at Kim.
" I'm sure you know I'm going to go." He said.
Kim nodded. " To the ship no doubt?" She asked.
" That's right. I've got to get some things cleared up. I'm guessing that's where Merian went too?" He asked.
" She did. She's acting as a spy. So far I think it's worked, but I have no idea how she managed to convince them."
" That's good. Two is better than one." Solo said.
" Solo look you're in no condition to leave. You-" Kim started.
Solo shook his head. " Nice try. I'll have to agree with you on that but I'm going. Even if I do die. But Kim, tell me something else. What's wrong with you?"
Kim was taken aback. " W-What do you mean?" She stammered.
" Oh please..don't act like that." Solo smirked. " Something's wrong with you. I've heard Nishou talking with you and those fits you've been having. They're not anything like a common cold." He said.
" Oh…" Kim murmured, she stood up. " It's nothing really." She forced a laugh. " Just some cold really." She said turning. " When are you leaving? Cause I must go to the city. In fact I need to go now." The redheaded woman started to walk away. " Don't worry about me! I'm A.O.K!" She grumbled at herself, knowing how fake that sounded.
Solo grabbed Kim's arm before she could get far. " Stop kidding around Kim!" He yelled before looking back at the ground.
" I want to know. Know what's wrong so that if…if I come back and your dead. I know it wasn't my fault." He shook his head, droplets of rain flying off his bangs and braid. " I've already had someone die in my arms that I could have saved. I don't want that to happen again."
" I'm sorry, just ask Nishou please. She'll tell you everything…I-I just I just don't want to talk about it!" Kim saidbreaking Solo's grip on her arm and backing up from him. " I'll see you tomorrow alright? Don't leave until tomorrow promise?" She asked.*
Solo nodded. " Alright." He muttered.
" Don't worry, I'll be fine! And when you come back everything will be okay." Kim said before turning around and walking away quickly. She shivered, she didn't like the look in Solo's eyes. That haunted look like he didn't or couldn't let go of those he had lost. It was unnerving also, he looked on the bridge of insanity and one more push could send him over. And whatever that last thing that would push him over the bridge was on that alien ship. She knew it..and she knew that Solo knew it also.
And that's what scared her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Talia stared after Merian or should she say Eighteen as she left along with the others. " What? Is that all? No trying to kill me again?" She called after the short girl.
Merian stopped at the doorway and looking over her shoulder at the Alien princess. " No.. I'm not going to try to kill you again." She said before turning all the way around and crossing her arms over her chest. She leaned against the door just looking at Talia with a frown.
" What?" Talia blinked.
" You know this was really all your fault right? The Garden being destroyed. You could of stopped it by not ever coming in the first place." Merian retorted..
" But! I couldn't…it was in my father's plans the whole time. I couldn't of.." She said.
" Oh come on." Merian rolled her eyes. " Stop lying to yourself. It's not going to work." She walked forward standing in the middle of the comfortable bedroom. " Did you really ever love him? She asked.
" Solo?" Talia questioned. She looked down at the floor. " Of course I did. But my people come first before my happiness." She stated.
" Do you know how hallow that sounds!?" Merian snorted. " You sound like you've been brainwashed into some model princess or something." The Chinese girl wandered over to the chest of drawers and looked into the mirror on top of it.
" Really now tell me the truth here. What do you think of this war?" She asked still preening.
" Why should I tell you!?" Talia yelled clearly annoyed.
" Oops.. guess I ruffled your royal feathers no?" Merian laughed looking away from the mirror. " I just want to know." She said.
" I don't know.." Talia answered biting her lip. " It's stupid and foolish! There's no reason why my race and yours can't live together on this planet in peace." She said truthfully.
" Ahh. See that wasn't that hard." Merian replied. " I thought you were going to say something like that, and I'm glad you did." She walked over and stood in front of Talia's bed. " For now I will offer a truce between the two of us." She smiled friendly like.
" A truce?" Talia questioned.
" Yea, ya know like I won't kill you, you won't kill me thing." Merian said. She offered her hand. " Truce?"
Talia hesitantly shook Merian's hand. " Alright then truce." She said.
" Good." She plopped down on the bed. " And we've not properly been introduced. Well not in a katana to throat way. I'm Merian Chang. And you're Princess Talia. Now that that's done. What the hell do you do around here? It's seems so boring.."
Talia blinked again confused by the girl's sudden change of heart. She shrugged it off for now and started chatting with Merian anyway.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Lady Une and Kim sat in a small almost empty café in the city. Kim staring into the cup of coffee that was sitting in front of her. Une munching on a pastry. Une blinked and looked at Kim.
" You look disturbed." She stated.
" Always blunt ne Une?" Kim said looking up.
Une shrugged. " What's on your mind?" She asked.
" So many things." Kim sighed leaning back in her chair. " I've already gotten some sketchy numbers from Kain about what's going on with the Garden. About an hundred and seventy-five people have been killed all together. Another two hundred injured. The hospital is gonna put in overtime trying to deal with all this. Not to mention we're going to have the Alliance breathing down our necks about still having mobil suits, let alone building new Gundams. And around a hundred students are missing, probably still trapped under the ruble."
Une nodded. " You've got a good reason to be stressed out." She said. " But don't worry. Everything will work out."
" I truly hope so Une." Kim said, she took a sip of her coffee. " I'm also worried about Solo and the others. And Merian especially. I don't want them being killed or hurt, even more now that we know their parents are alive."
" Are you planning to tell them? Or am I going to have to?" Asked Une raising a eyebrow.
Kim shrugged. " I don't know. Maybe it's better that we let them find out on their own." She looked out the window at the rain soaked streets, trying to block out the radio, where a newscaster was talking about the destruction of the Garden. " This is turning out to be a horrible path for us all." She murmured.
Une had stood up, she pulled enough money out of her purse to pay for the drinks and set it down on the table. " Kim listen to yourself. Is this how Treize's daughter is going to handle a setback? By sitting here in self-pity!? You must be strong now, not only will everyone find out who you are, but also you must deal with your illness. If your not strong everything will collapse and we will truly be in dark times once again. " The brown haired woman said firmly.
" We will win this war, do not worry. Come on now. I'll check you into a room at a hotel and head back to the Garden."
Kim looked up at Une she nodded. " Hai, guess your right."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*A small brown haired girl woke up from a light sleep. She blinked rubbing the sleep away from her large cobalt blue eyes. She heard angry shouts coming from the hallway outside.
" Heero! You just got home from that damn colony. And now you tell me you have to go back tomorrow morning!?" Relena shouted following her dark haired husband down the hallway.
" I'm not the only one Duo, Trowa and Milliardo have to go back too." Heero said calmly.
" But why? I'm sure with those three …alright maybe not Duo but certainly my brother and Trowa can handle this. I have to juggle my job and taking care of Ikiiki. Heero I can't do this much longer! I've put appointments off as much as I can to make sure I can take and pick up our daughter from school. I've cancelled dinners, rescheduled conferences, and done as much as I can!" Relena yelled.
" I'm sure you can keep this up. You've done well so far." Heero replied.
Relena threw up her hands in frustration. " God Heero! Can't you please just say you can't go this time!?"
" I don't think it's possible."
" Argh! Forget it then! Tell my brother to get two more tickets!" Relena said.
Heero raised an eyebrow at the light brown haired woman.
" Yes, that's right! I'm coming with you and so is Ikiiki! And you better like it 'cause I'm not changing my mind!" And with that the former queen of the world stormed back to her room and slammed the door. She threw open the door and walked out again. " Never mind! I'll contact Milliardo myself, you'll just probably say you ' forgot'." She said before slamming the door behind her again.
Ikiiki stood by the crack of the door. Her small arms holding a large pink bunny close to her blue nightgown. She padded out into the hallway and up to her father. " Daddy? Why is Mommy upset?" She asked.
Heero turned around his hard set features softening into a tiny smirk at the sight of his daughter**He picked up the girl easily and walked out into a spacious reading room. " She's just tired." He said sitting down on the couch with Ikiiki in his lap.
" Oh.." Ikiiki said. She yawned before hugging Heero. " I'm glad your back daddy. I missed you." She said. " But don't go away again please?" She asked.
" Actually I have to leave again." Heero replied.
Ikiiki pouted immediately, sliding onto the couch next to her father. " Why!?"
" But …It seems like you and Relena are coming.." He added. " Whether I like it or not."
" Yay!" Ikiiki cheered grinning. " I get to go to space!!"
Heero did his little almost-a-smile-but-still-a-smirk-so-he-won't-give-the-auhor-a-heart-attack-AGAIN( I'm having to much fun writting..- -) smirk at his daughter's happiness. " Come on." He said standing up. " Since your up already I'll make you some hot chocolate. But you have to go back to bed right after it, I'd rather not have to listen to your mother yell at me again."
Ikiiki giggled and skipped ahead after her father, stuffed bunny still in arms. "Okies I won't let you get in trouble again!"
Relena grumbled picking up the phone on the nightstand. " That man…god he'll be the end of me." She muttered dialing her brother's number from memory.
The phone rang three times before it was picked up. " Hello?" Noin's voice was heard.
" Ah Noin even better!" Relena said a plan formulating in her mind.
" Oh? Relena!" Noin said. " What can I do for you? Oh wait a second." The mouthpiece was partially covered but Relena could still make out what the other woman was shouting. " Kazen you put down those pans right now!! Don't make that face at me young man, it won't work on this mother. Move it! To bed with you and Niji!" Noin was apparently kicking her son out of the kitchen and into his room.
" Alright sorry about that." Noin said. " Kazen's as cute as his father but damn that boy can get on one's nerves."
Relena sweatdropped. " Anyway.." She started explaining her idea to the purple haired woman over the phone.
Noin listened absently tapping a pencil against the table she was sitting at. She nodded. " That sounds great Relena. I've heard from Hilde that she's sick of Duo leaving and coming home like crazy and I'm sure she'll be up for this. Plus it'll be good for the children, I'm sure they've wanted to go out to space for a while, well at least Kazen and Niji have wanted too. "I'll call her Sally and Dorothy. And get back to you in a hour or so."
" Alright! Bye Noin." Relena said.
" Bye." Noin said before Relena hung up.
Milliardo walked into the kitchen just as Noin set down the phone. He raised an eyebrow. " Who were you talking to?"
Noin grinned and pointed at the door. " March right back out there and order three more tickets love!" She declared. " You wouldn't happen to remember Wufei's number do you?"
Milliardo blinked. " What?" He asked.
" The women have a plan." Noin stood up and opened a junk drawer, she started looking though it. " We're all taking a group trip up to that colony. I wanna see what you've all been doing there anyway" She said.
Noin pulled out a piece of paper with a number written on it. " Whew. Thought I lost it." She murmured.
" Ah Noin. But the colony's not open to civilians yet." Milliardo protested.
Noin shot the platinum blonde a glare. " Am I a civilian?" She asked.
" Well no." Milliardo started.
"Good! I'm glad we're clear on that! Now get your butt out of this kitchen and go order those tickets!" Noin yelled.
Milliardo let out an exasperated sigh, but headed out of the kitchen anyway. He knew not to mess with Noin when she got like this. But damnit he wanted a something to eat…
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Niji looked over at Solo as the braided boy entered the tent. He sat down against the side of the ten without a word, seemingly lost in his own little world.
The others blinked in unison but wisely didn't say anything, feeling that it would just be better to leave Solo alone for now.
Misora and Nishou went back to the card game they had started to pass the time. It seems to be a rather tense game of poker, it also seemed like Nishou was winning easily much to the annoyance of Misora. Yusuke was pacing the tent like he had been for the past hour.
Probably worried about Merian. Niji thought. Don't blame him though. God knows how much I would freak out if Kazen ran off like that into danger. She glanced over at her platinum blue haired brother that was drumming absently on the ground humming some song and singing where he remembered the words.
Ikiiki was still asleep lying almost motionless on the ground near Niji, The blonde girl dully wondered if the cobalt-eyed girl would ever wake up.
It's not fair she gets to sleep at a time like this. Niji thought wrapping the thin green blanket she had been given tighter around her shoulders. It provided little warmth though the tent being a little too chilly for her comfort, she found her herself shivering again.
Solo presently got up obviously bored or annoyed at the silence that hung over the tent, save Misora's groans when she lost another hand to Nishou. He walked over and tapped Nishou on her shoulder asking quietly if he could talk to her outside.
" Eeehh? Outside?" The colorful woman sweatdropped setting her cards down. " Alright." She glared at Misora. " Don't look at my cards!"
Misora pulled an innocent look. " Why would I do that?" She gasped.
Nishou rolled her eyes at the blonde before walking out of the tent after Solo.
Misora and the small gray kitten that was sitting at her side exchanged glances. The blonde girl snickered evilly before peeking at Nishou's cards. She blinked and exchanged an annoyed glance with the kitten again. Both growled and sulked. " She can't have another full house…" Misora complained. " It's impossible."
Niji stifled a giggle at the little scene. Yusuke stopped pacing for all of .920738 and a 1/2 seconds to sweatdrop at Misora before going back to wearing the tent floor down. Kazen wasn't paying attention, in fact it looked like he was trying to keep from falling asleep.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" Oi Solo. What you need to talk to me about. Better be good 'cause I was totally kicking Misora's butt in that poker game." Nishou said then cackled.
" Sorry but-" Solo stopped sweatdropping. " Could you stop cackling like that?"
Nishou had jumped up on a piece of what used to be a desk, hands on her hips and was cackling loudly ( Which surprising sounded like a cross of Naga and Tamahome when he gets his hands on money.o_O). She stopped and looked back at Solo. " Khehehehe…Gomen. Got caught up in victory!!"
Solo sweatdropped again. " uhh.. Anyway. I wanted to know, what is wrong with Kim." He said.
" Was she mean to you or something? Sheesh I told her not to yell at any of the students during that time of the month!" Nishou said.
Solo slapped a hand to his forehead. He so didn't need to know that. " No! Not like that!!" He yelled cutting off Nishou. " I mean like, what's her illness."
" Oh.." Nishou grew serious. " Frankly I can't tell you exactly what it is." She said hoping off the broken desk. " The doctors are completely baffled, it seems to be some disease that affects all the cells in the victims body slowly. It seems to be some advanced form of cancer, well that's the only thing they can compare it to, since it didn't strike Kim down at the spot. It's…fatal since there's not cure in sight." She sighed.
" They can't really do anything to stop the process. And they can't take the affected parts out, cause it just keeps spreading." Nishou went on. " We've tried almost everything. Kim should be bed ridden by now but she refuses to and the process spread seems to have slown down. Solo I wouldn't worry too much about Kim though, she's got a strong will. She doesn't want everyone to know simply cause she can't deal with people treating her special because of this."
Solo nodded. " Thanks for telling me." He said.
" No problem. Just don't tell the others." Nishou said. " Now if you excuse me I have a poker game to win." The rainbow haired woman cackled evilly before racing back into the tent.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Kim sighed staring at the white ceiling of the hotel room she had been put in. Counting the number of times the fan spun around in a minute was ever so fun. The redhead sat up on the bed and took her wallet out of her back pocket.
" Fifty bucks.." Kim muttered counting the bills. She shrugged it was enough. She got up, grabbed the key to her hotel room and headed out of the hotel.
" Thank god it stopped raining." Kim sighed in relief before hailing a taxi. She threw open the door and climbed in.
" Take me to the nearest bar." She said to the driver whom just nodded and took off.
Note to self: Never ride in a cab again. Kim thought scrambling out of the cab after detaching herself from the seat. For some odd reason the cab driver just had to speed though traffic like a manic. Just had to almost get in an accident about twice.
She quickly paid the driver and looked at the building. " Oh great. And he just had to chose a place that looked like it was the set for a old mob movie." The redhead shrugged anyway heading into the bar.
It was dark inside only lit by dull overhead lights. A bunch of tables crowded the center and left side of the bar, some of the men and women looked up at Kim as she walked in. The few TV's in the room where all set to the news channel where a woman was reporting the weather for the rest of the week.
Kim slid onto a stool at the bar on the right hand side of room. She looked up at the TV that was placed in the corner next to a bunch of selves that held bottles of alcohol. The screen had switched from the weather forecaster to a man talking about the destruction of the Garden.
Which will probably be their main story for a couple of weeks. Kim thought sighing outloud. Not to mention the Earth Nation is gonna have a fit. Amazing that they haven't found out about what the Garden really stands for till now.
" You want anything to drink Miss?"
Kim looked up slightly startled out of her thoughts. She looked at the man behind the bar. He didn't look much older than she did, brown hair and eyes strong build. She shrugged. " Give me your strongest drink or something I don't care." She said.
The bartender raised an eyebrow but shrugged anyway. He fixed a drink and set it in front of the red haired woman. " It's unusual that someone actually wants to try this. Even more so that a lady like you would." He said. " The name's Tensai Yoko. And yours?"
Kim looked at the drink. Is it radioactive? She thought boggling slightly. She blinked looking up at Tensai again. " Kim." She said simply.
" Kim? No last name?" He said smirking slightly.
" Kim Kim." Kim replied grinning back. She glanced at the drink again before drinking out of it…
… And spiting it back in the cup. " God what is this!?"
" You really want to know? Guess I forgot to tell you it's strong." Tensai said.
" Well geeze." Kim sputtered recovering. " Thanks.." She muttered before downing the drink. She glanced at the television again now hearing what the reporter was saying.
Tensai noticed her sudden change in her attention. " They've been talking about almost nothing but that since that giant explosion. Strange that only one of the Gardens where destroyed. I mean there is more than the one here, not to mention this one is the smallest." He frowned. " My niece went there, hope she's okay." He murmured more to himself than anyone else.
Oh thanks pal. Kim thought wincing internally. Just add another kid for me to worry about. She pushed the glass forward wanting a refill. " What's her name?" She asked.
Tensai took the glass and refilled it. " SeiChu." He replied sliding the glass back to Kim. " Funny, I just found out a few months ago that she was alive. Seems she has a little sister too. I've been working up enough money so I can take 'em out of the Garden. Almost there too." He said proudly.
Kim shook her head before downing the drink in one long gulp. Ouch. Now I know why that last name sounds familiar. I remember Solo mentioning Muzai had an older sister named Sei Chu…
She blinked noticing Tensai was looking at her. " What? Is there something on my face?"
" No. I've just..never seen anyone down a Tensai Supreme like that." He said slightly in awe.
Thank Nishou for that. Kim thought. She giggled outloud just remembered how she and Nishou would go out to bars before. Then Une had found out…Boy did Nishou get an earful.
" Say you wouldn't happen to work at the Garden?" Tensai asked.
Kim turned the question over in her mind, wondering if she should answer that truthfully. " No." She said finally. Bad Kim. Tsk tsk, you shouldn't lie. " Why do you ask?"
Tensai shrugged. " Just wondering. Rumors have been spreading around like wildfire." He said.
Kim raised an eyebrow drinking from the glass again.
" Yea," Tensai said, he turned away from Kim and started fixing another drink for someone else that had just sat down at the bar. " One of them that seems to be the most popular is the one, that girl that tried to take over the world 21 years ago or around that time." He shrugged. " Anyway, their all saying she's behind all of this mess, trying to take over the world again."
Kim snorted loudly and managed to blow bubbles in her ' Tensai Supreme' before breaking out into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
Tensai slid the drink that he had made over to the other guy at the bar before looking back at Kim. " Maybe…you shouldn't have anything else to drink.." He said sweatdropping as Kim just waved at him and laughed harder almost tipping off her chair.
"Ummm…What's so funny?….Kim…? Ummm…" Tensai blinked again before shaking his head and declaring mentally that the red-haired woman was drunk and after only a few dinks!?
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*" This is totally and utterly boring!!!" Misora proclaimed banging her head on the back of the tent wall.
" I'll play you another game in poker!" Nishou offered grinning evilly.
" No." Misora sweatdroped. " I already owe you fifty bucks."
"21? Egyptian Rummy? Speed? Or a classic game of War?"
" No, no and no!" Misora grumbled. " You'd find some way to cheat in those games." She whined.
" How can you cheat in speed!?" Nishou asked.
" Oh would you just give it up Nishou." Ikiiki whom had woken up an hour ago growled. " We're all bored, hungry and cold. And you and Misora whining like that is annoying."
Yusuke Niji and Solo agreed with the cobalt eyed girl.
Both Nishou and Misora sweatdropped but wisely shut up. Misora going back to petting the kitten that had fallen asleep in her lap, and Nishou going back to her game of solitaire.
"Aaahaa!!" Kazen's voice was heard before he ran in. " I found my cd player!!! And I found batteries and the CD isn't broken! Lucky me!"
All just looked at the blue haired boy as he kept blabbing happily, save Niji who had buried her head in her hands and was wailing.
" Now he's going to sing! Make this stop!"
Indeed Niji's prediction was right, for Kazen put on the crushed earphones that somehow still managed to fit on his head comfortably and started singing…loudly.
" If we have to resort to cannibalism I vote he goes first." Yusuke muttered plopping down on the ground.
Again everyone agreed and of course Kazen didn't hear. For he had the volume on to loud to hear anything under a shout. The mystery of why he isn't deaf is still unsolved.
" Kazen you thief!! You stole my batteries!!" Mikomi screamed barging into the tent. " I want them now!!" She said storming up in front of the blue haired boy.
" What?" Kazen yelled looking at Mikomi.
" Give me those batteries! I need them for my mini flashlight." Mikomi said again.
"What!?" Kazen yelled again.
Niji shook her head. " He can't hear you.." She said.
Mikomi threw a hissy fit, blue pigtails failing about. " Gimme those batteries now!!!" She shouted quite…loudly…
Everyone else winced, they were used to the silence.
Kazen blinked. " Gimme those hatteries now?" He asked removing the headphones.
" Argh!!" Mikomi screamed. She grabbed the CD player and yanked the batteries out. " BATTERIES!! B-A-T-T-E-R-I-E-S! Damnit are you a blonde!? No offense Misora, Niji. But god!!" The small pigtailed girl threw up her arms in exasperation and stormed out muttering something about painting Epyon pink with white bunnies under her breath.
Kazen blinked again. " What's up with her." He sighed looking at his CD player. " She took my batteries." He sniffled. " And did she say something about painting Epyon?" He squeaked.
" Oh get over it." Ikiiki muttered. "She's not going to."
Back everyone goes to whatever they were doing to keep from utter and total boredom.
An hour and a half later the boredom was cut off short. Lady Une entered the tent carrying a large bag of food in her arms. " I thought you'd all be hungry." She explained setting the bag down. " I also need to talk to you all."
Nishou who was closest to the bag grabbed it. " It's all mine!!!" Screamed Nishou before digging though the food.
Nishou was whacked over the head by Misora who rolled her eyes at the older woman. " And you say we're immature." She muttered before going to the task of giving everyone some.
" Ano.." Kumori suck his head in the tent. " Some of the guys that are still here are starting to poke around the Gundams." He said. " Don't you think we should move them? And maybe we should put some security system on them too…"
Une looked back at Kumori. " Tell them not to go near them, but we aren't moving them anytime soon. Hopefully the Nation won't take forever to write some long letter of their disapproval and anger of Gundams still existing." She said.
Kumori blinked. " Righty-o!" He confirmed before disappearing again. " Yo! Kajiko you pink idiot come here!!"
" I'm not a pink idiot you silver bimbo!!!" Kajiko was heard from outside.
" I'm not a silver bimbo!!" Kumori yelled and then follow their traditional argument…
Une apparently wasn't listening to the argument like everyone else present in the tent was. She looked at Yusuke. " Where did you put your Gundam?" She asked.
" In the forest." Yusuke replied. " Ikiiki's is there too."
" Geeze…" Nishou muttered. " That's a good six miles away from here. You're telling me that you walked all the way here?" She started steadily munching on an apple.
" Actually we hitched a ride." Yusuke said sweatdropping slightly.
" Yes well that's good that both of you and your Gundams are still in one piece." Une said. " You all are going to need to train, we're going to start tomorrow morning in fact. So I suggest you get some sleep tonight. From what I heard from Kim, that battle you had with the other Gundams was sloppy for students of your skill."
"It's not like we had any time to prepare." Misora grumbled.
" That's the point. You all need to be able to pilot with the best of your ability at any given time. Using the excuse you just did Misora, isn't acceptable in a war." Une scolded. She looked over at Solo. " Kim said your leaving for the alien ship tomorrow?" She questioned.
He nodded.
" You have six days." Une went on. " To get you and Merian out of there and do whatever else you need to do." She said. " On the sixth day we are going to attack their ship and if your still on board and you get killed it is not my fault. I have now given you proper warning."
She turned her attention to Niji. " We're not going to wait for the Nation to intervene in this little war either. I'm going to assign you to go to the Garden outside of London. You'll stay there until you've talked to the Nation officials that are present in London at this time. You have two days starting the day after tomorrow."
" You may take one person as back up, but you'll have to train harder since you are missing two days."
Niji nodded. " I understand." She said.
" That's good to hear." Une smiled. " Now I have something to tell you all. Please hear me out until I'm done because I doubt you'll believe me when you first hear it." She gazed at all of the teenagers in the tent.
" We have alot of reason to believe your parents are all alive and well. I know somewhat what happened to you all when you were younger and I'm going to tell you all of it because you'll be fighting your parents in this war. " She said.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~** Lok: Note: Kim might be acting sorta wiggishly but hey she loaths pity. It's like number one pet peeve minna-san
**Tansura: God forbid Heero would scare the hell out of this author if he smiled *snicker * Yes, I almost had a heart attack in the dub Endless Watlz, of course he isn't laughing in the real one.. he's just breathing. DAMN CARTOON NETWORK!!! >.<
Lok: Please read and review! Or else Tansura-sama's Evil personality will come and get you! In fact I think she's gonna take over the next chapter >_o;;...be afraid minna-san..
