Disclaimer: I'm sorry to say I don't own any anime, including Weiss. *crys*
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War for Equality
By Soul Child
Edited by Snow Raven
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Chapter Four
Why do you hate me?! "He won't accept you, you've changed too much from the person that he knew."
"I don't care! Even if I just talk to him once, it would be enough!"
"I've lost mine, again. You've lost yours."
"At least you had a change to get your's back!"
"He won't recognized you."
"I know. He doesn't have to."
"He has changed as well."
"We can met as strangers not as family."
"Slowly.....they all have had a lot to take in now."
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Ken bounced his ball along as he and Omi went down the street. Omi's was dragging his feet, walking with a sad, bemused look on his face.
"Omi will you stop that?" Ken asked. "You're starting to make me feel depressed."
"Did you see the look on her face when she left last night?"
Ken stopped, and put his ball in the crook of his arm. "Yes I did. I don't think she's coming back."
"I had no idea. The only telekinetic I've ever known is Nagi. So I guess that I have always assumed that they were all bad."
"People make mistakes," Ken pointed out. "You never knew anything different."
"She knew that I hated Nagi."
"Probably."
"So she thought that I would hate her too. That's why she ran."
"Omi, don't beat yourself up. She's your sister. She'll come back." I hope, he added silently.
Omi looked up into the face of his friend. "You're right. She is my sister. And I should protect her and help her out. Isn't that was brothers do?"
"Yeah that's right." Ken said, trying to smile. But the pain of a distant memory kept his mouth from moving.
The sound of glass breaking around the corner, drew the boys' attention. Their eyes went wide and they dropped whatever they had and started to run to where the sound came from. Ken skidded around the corner, fallowed by Omi.
"We don't want your kind here!!!" A man yelled, as he threw a young girl in a sunflower dress out of a shop. The man threw one last glass bottle at the girl before returning to the store.
"Are you alright?" Ken asked, as he and Omi bent over her limp figure.
"It's not the first time," she said, lifting her head. Her eyes widened as she saw the face that the voice belonged to. "Ken!" Her head spun around to see Omi crouched next to her on the other side. "Omi!"
"Rei, are you ok?" Omi asked, putting his arm around her.
Tears filled Rei's eyes and she embraced her brother. "I didn't think that you would care what happened to me."
"Of course I care," Omi said, compassion filling his eyes. "Come on, let's take you home."
Rei nodded and looked over at Ken. "Thank you."
"No problem," He said, swinging her bag around his shoulder and putting his other arm around Rei. "Can you walk?"
"I think so, nothing is broken. I was shattering the bottles, that were thrown at me, a second before they hit me."
"Just to be safe we'll carry you," Omi said.
"No it's alright," Rei said, trying to stand, but her sandal slipped on the small pool of blood that was running off of her leg.
"You better not try and walk on that," Ken said, starting to lift her up.
Omi held onto Rei's other arm and together him and Ken lifted Rei into their arms. Glass clicked as it fell off of Rei and the boys' feet crunched the glass that was already on the ground as they walked away from the shop. Rei leaned her head on Ken as they carried her down the streets. Rei could feel Omi's breath on her, and she could tell that his muscles weren't use to this sort of thing.
Soon they had arrived at the stairway, leading to their apartment. Omi swallowed hard as he looked up the stairs. "Um....Ken, how about you carry her up and I open the door for you guys?"
"I can walk up the stairs if you help me," Rei said.
"Are you sure?" Ken asked, as he set her on her feet.
"I'll be fine," she said, lifting up her hurt leg and leaning on Ken.
The wood creaked as Rei hopped from step to step with Ken holding her up for support. Omi walked a step ahead of them, so that if he was needed that he would be there. Once they reached the top Omi turned the knob and pushed the door open.
"Took you guys long enough," Yoji yelled from the couch where he was sitting. "There were only a few things that-"
"Yoji!!" Ken yelled.
Yoji at last looked up from the magazine that he was reading. "What do- Oh, what happened?"
"Be useful and put some rags on to boil," Ken told him, as he set Rei down on one of the kitchen chairs.
Yoji got up and walked over to one of the closets where they keep the 'blood rags' as they call them. Omi had already put a pot of water on the stove to boil and Ken had disappeared off to get medicine.
"I'm sorry I'm so much trouble," Rei apologized, looking down.
"Don't be," Omi told her, as he put a rag to her leg tried to stop it from bleeding.
"So what happened?" Yoji asked, again.
"What? Don't you believe that I just fell down?" Rei asked, looking at Yoji with a sarcastic smile on her face.
"Nope."
"Me neither," Aya said from the doorway of his bed room.
"It was no big deal really," she said, shrugging.
"No big deal!?!" Omi yelled. "Oh, so having glass bottles thrown at you and being kicked out of a store is no big deal?"
"Please don't over react. Father always did when this sort of thing happened. It's not worth it!"
"What's all the yelling about?" Ken asked, as he entered the room.
Rei looked away from Omi, her jaw tight. "Nothing," she said, through her teeth.
Ken could feel the tension in the air, so he put the first aid kit on the table and turned around to see how the rags were doing. Rei's eyes focused on Ken's back. Her eyes scanned his body, admiring his features. She gazed at his strong build and his broad shoulders. As she looked closer, she started to notice a red stain across his shoulders.
"Oh Ken," She cried.
"What?" He asked, turning around.
"I've stained the back of your jacket with blood."
Ken cricked his neck to look at the back of his jacket. He pulled it off, than just as abruptly threw it to the floor. "Forget my jacket, what about your arm?"
He took the hand that she was cradling in her lap. Her arm was so covered in blood that he could barely make out where she was cut. Her dress where she had been holding her arm was socked with blood.
"I thought that you said you were breaking the bottles?" Ken asked, as he turned to get a rag.
"The ones that were thrown at me."
Rei's body flinched and pain spread across her face as Ken pressed the rag against her arm. "I think that there is still glass in the wound," Ken said.
"We should give her something before you start digging it out," Yoji said, as he pored her a glass of water and set it on the table.
Omi started rummaging through the first aid kit looking for the most powerful medication that they had. "So you going to tell us how you got a wound that bad?" He asked.
"At first I didn't realize what was going on so I wasn't prepared to defend myself. When that guy came at me with a bottle all I had time to do what put up my arm to block him," Rei told them looking down.
Omi gritted his teeth and shock his head in anger, as he gave Rei two pills. She took them with her good arm and washed them down with the water. "Thank you, for everything."
Ken smiled, "Anything for a woman. Right Yoji?"
Yoji forced a smile, "Yeah."
Yoji strode over to where Aya was watching. Yoji leaned against the wall with his arms folded across his chest. "I don't like it," he whispered.
"I don't either, but there's not much we can do. Omi likes her and so does Ken."
Yoji nodded. "She is a Psychic. Do you think that she might have put an idea into their minds that they can trust her?"
"I don't know. There is a way to see if she's telling the truth."
"How?"
Aya looked at the table where Rei and the others were. They were all so intrenched in fixing up Rei that they wouldn't overhear. "Birman," Aya said, as if it was so simple.
"What about her?"
"She worked for Persia for a long time. She would know if Rei is really who she says she is. Besides, how else are we supposed to find out without asking Omi to hack into Persia's personal database."
Yoji nodded. "You're right. How soon do you think we can get her here?"
"If I send her a message now she might be here anytime tonight or tomorrow."
"I guess then we'll have to keep Rei here until Birman arrives."
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There was no movement in the dark room. The shadows of the sun had long since faded from the walls. There wasn't even the familiar light from the computer, that the room was so use to at these hours in the night. Even the bed was getting use to the fact that there was a foreign figure upon it's sheets.
Rei had been tucked into the bed many hours before. Her face was wet from sweat or it might have been from the damp cloth that was over her forehead to help take her fever down. Exhausted, Omi lay slumped into a chair next to Rei's bedside. He hadn't moved an inch in all the hours that Rei had been asleep.
There were times when her face would flinch as if she was seeing a horrible image in front of her. Omi would take his hand in hers trying as best he could to give her what comfort he could. But sitting in the chair for hours on end does take it's toll, Omi just couldn't stay wake any longer.
Rei's eyes slowly opened. It was as if they were too heavy for her to open without a lot of effort. Once she was able to see around her, her eyes darted about looking for something familiar. When she had turned her head over to see her brother slumped over next to her bad a feeling of safety washed over her. She smiled as her fingers ran threw his soft blond hair. For so long she had wanted to wake up one morning and see her brother once again.
As she gazed at her brother she couldn't help but noticing the glowing red numbers of the clock behind him. 1:37, it said. Rei looked away from the numbers and away from her brother. She closed her eyes tight trying to shut out the fact that she would have to leave her brother without so much as a word.
She rolled to the far side of the bed and pushed back the covers. Cold sweat caked her hand as she ran it across her face. She wiped it on the pillow and she stood up. Her legs wavered, but only for a moment as she put her weight on them once again. Her head moved to look at the door. As quietly as she could she crept over to it and placed her hand on the nob. Slowly she twisted it and cracked the door. The house was dead silent, it was almost as if the mice were even afraid to be seen anywhere near Weiss.
Rei let her head fall. As she was looking at the ground her eyes caught sight of her jumbo sized bag on the floor. Her slender fingers clasped around the handle. Inch by inch she rose to her feet. She looked back at Omi once more before going threw the door and shutting it behind her.
Her footsteps couldn't be heard as she walked down the hall. Once she came to the bathroom she opened the door and stepped inside. Rei shielded her eyes for a moment as light filled the room. She blinked several times then looked into at her reflection in the mirror. Her dress had once been white with golden sunflowers dotted about it. but not any longer. It was now torn and bloody.
"So much for my favorite dress," Rei muttered under her breath, as she took it off and threw it into the trash.
Rei looked back to the mirror. She wasn't it much better shape than the dress she had just thrown away. The bandages on her arm and leg needed to be changed and the scratches on her face only made her look worst. The best thing to do would have been to get into the shower, but she didn't have time for that now.
She pulled the bloody bandages off and rapped them once again. She pulled out her 'uniform' from her bag. With her black pants, a tank top and a black jacket she was able to cover-up most of her wounds. She put her war fans into the jacket and her breast dagger in it's place.
She stepped over to the door leaving her bag. She had all that she would need. She peaked around the corners of the door, before stepping out into the darkness. She stood in the hall for a moment, looking and listening. After a moment she continued on. She was just about to the door when a pair of strong hands grabbed her from behind. One covered her mouth, while the other was trying to hold her hands down.
"Calm down," a voice whispered in her ear.
Rei continued to struggle for a moment, but soon relaxed. Once she stopped trying to free herself the strong pair of arms slowly released her. As soon as she could Rei took a step away from her captor and turned to see whom it was.
"Where do you think you're going?" Yoji inquired.
"I have business," Rei told him.
"Omi has been worried about you. He wouldn't leave your side. You've been running a fever for most of the day."
"Tell Omi that I'll be back before the sun," she said, before turning to leave again.
Yoji reached out and pulled Rei back by her arm. The moment that he touched her, pain spread across her face and her mouth opened in a silent scream.
"Sorry," Yoji said, letting go of her arm. "But I'm afraid I can't let you go."
"If you want someone to fill your bed for the night go find some other bitch."
Yoji's face twisted into an expression of rage. "Why do you hate me so much?! What did I ever do to you to deserve your hatred?!"
"You wouldn't understand."
"Understand what?!"
Rei turned to face Yoji, her voice was quivering and she was on the verge of tears. "You couldn't understand what it's like not to be loved. I loved someone once, but because of what I am he left me. You can have practically any woman that you want, and you take that for granted. You don't know what it's like to have someone leave you because you're different. I look for someone who will love me that way again every day."
As tears started to flow down Rei's cheeks she turned away from Yoji and tried to get to the door once more. And once again Yoji stopped her. He put his arms around her from behind and held her body close to his.
"Let me go," Rei pleaded, but she made no attempt to get away.
"I don't have love," Yoji whispered to her.
His hands slowly started to move across her body. Touching the inside of her thighs and the skin of her midriff. Caressing her. Rei's body relaxed as Yoji's kisses washed over the back of her neck.
"What I have," he told her between kisses. "Is empty kisses and emotionless passion. It's not love. I had love once a long time ago, but now it's gone. Every time I'm with a woman I try to find that love again, but it's never there. I'm just like you. Looking for love, but never finding it. I'm just going about it differently."
Rei didn't know if it was Yoji's words, but everywhere that he was touching her and ever kiss that he planted was like fire. It burned into her soul. She no longer enjoyed Yoji's strong arms around her, or the shower of kisses that he gave.
"Let me go," she managed to say.
Yoji didn't hear her. His lips still bathed her and his hands were moving into places where Rei would rather he not have them be. She put he hands around his wrists, but she couldn't seam to do much more than that.
Yoji was so caught up in the moment of lust that he couldn't even tell that Rei was trying to stop him, until one of his hands touched her breast dagger. As pain shot threw his hand and his blood started to flow, did he start to release Rei. But his other hand still held her close to him.
"Let me go," Rei said, pushing Yoji away, not only with her body, but her mind as well.
Yoji went flying. There was a dull thud as his head hit against the edge of the table, knocking him out cold. Rei turned around to look at him. She didn't want to hurt him, just get him away from her. Her heart was pounding and her breath was fast. She shook off the feelings of lust and passion. She didn't want to leave him lying there, but she had a job to do. Rei sighed, he'll be fine, she thought as she rushed out the door...un-fallowed and unstopped.
Author's notes: I just love this chapter. I have been looking forward to writing this chapter for a while. Reiko told me how everything was going to go like a hundred times before I even finished chapter one. This chapter came the fastest out of all of the chapters so far.
I loved writing the part where Ken and Omi were taking care of Rei. It was so cute! Those two boys are so sweet. *dreamy eyes*
*Snow Raven bonks Soul Child back into a semi-serious state* Ouch! Thanks Raven.
Back to the Fic yeah... Anyway, I originally wasn't going to have Birman in this at all, but when Aya tells you to do something you do it. He's so demanding really. I don't know a think about Birman's personality. *sigh* I have to see what I can find. Chapter 5 is going to take me a while. Aya! Why do you have to make my life difficult?! *looks over at Aya who is starting to pull out his sword* No Aya I didn't mean it that way! Really, I didn't! Please put the sword away!! I have to go now, keep reading! *Runs away from Aya at top speed* Aya I'm sorrrry!!! Pleeeaassee put down the sword!!!
Sorry to all my reader! Gomenasai!!! *bows down and asks for forgiveness* I am so sorry I didn't get this chapter up. I've been going through Heck this last few months, then I just plan forgot. Plus I like to keep at least one chapter ahead. So please forgive me.