Live for the Third Time
By: Moon-chanz!
Spike- Hey there. Spike Spiegel here to tell you all that Moonchanz-SAMA is not able to make it today so I invited some pals of mine to help me out here.
Jet- Hi.
Faye- Nice to meet you.
Ed- Spike-Spike invited Ed to help!
Ein- WOOF!
Spike- Anyhow I'm taking over these notes and---!!!
::BANG!!!::
Moonchanz- ::kicks open the door with cut ropes and a gag in hand:: Spikey-chan!!!
Faye- ::raises an eyebrow:: Spikey-chan?
Moonchanz- Oh! Hey Jet, Ein, Ed, and Faye! How're you doing? ::ties up Spike:: Would you guys mind doing the disclaimers since my Spikey-chan is on his way to solitary confinement?
Ein- Woofwoof bark bark woof---
Jet- Shut up Ein! Moonchanz does not own Sailor Moon or Cowboy Bebop so just don't sue her.
Moonchanz- Thanks!
Spike- Mmmrnmmumph! ::spits out gag:: Hey! That's my line!
Session #2:
Shop Until You Literally Drop
"Oh. So you found this guy floating in the lake at Juuban Central Park?" Minako asks as she helps herself to the beef stew. Usagi nods, "Yeah. It was really weird and nobody had the heart to save the poor man!" Minako nods and gets another bowl of stew. Usagi picks in hers and Minako eyes the bowl. "Are you gonna eat that?" Usagi sweatdrops, "Either you're really hungry or you're becoming worse than me…" Minako blushes, "Artemis made me late for my morning valley ball practice and I had to skip breakfast and lunch."
Usagi nods and gets up, walking towards her room. "I'm gonna check on Spike." Minako grins, "I hope you don't make Mamoru jealous Usagi-chan…" Usagi blushes and scurries into her room. Peeping in the room she spots Spike staring out the window. "I see you're up, Spike-kun." Spike, surprised, turns to her, "Oh. Uh, yeah." Usagi stares at him for a minute before frowning. If you look close enough you'd see little question marks sprouting on his head. Usagi looks him so close in the face that her nose touches his. He sweatdrops and scoots back, "Err…what are you…" Her face scrunches up as she stares at him, "You need new clothes. What a fashion sense!" He nearly fell off the windowsill that he was sitting on. Her face was so serious because of his clothing? "Uh…"
Usagi looks through her closet leaving Spike confused, 'I have to have something NICE that Mamoru used to wear. I can't believe he had such a terrible fashion sense.' She notices a wrapped box in the corner and eyes it, 'The present I got for Mamo-chan…' she takes the box out the closet to reveal inside a pair of clothes. She tosses them to Spike who mumbles thanks. He was about to get dressed when he noticed her still standing there, "Ahem. Do you mind?" she blushes and rushes to the door, "I'll be out there with V-chan…err…if you need me…" Spike raises and eyebrow but continues to get dressed, 'I wonder whose clothes these are…they sure aren't hers…oh well.'
Usagi closes the door behind her and sighs. Minako notices her flushed face and smiles, "What were you doing in there Usagi-chan?" Usagi yelps and sighs, "V-chan! Don't scare me like that!! And I didn't do anything, I just gave him some clothed to put on and he needed his privacy…you've been reading too many romance novels and manga." They chat for a while until the door opens and Spike comes out. They stop talking and hold their breaths at the sight of him. He had on a multi-blue Coogi™ sweater that came a little blow his waist. Below that was a pair of semi-baggy Coogi™ jeans to match and new Nike™ sneakers to match with all the blue.(Moonchanz- ::drools:: Yummy. Spike He flushed with embarrassment, "Well…?"
Minako circled him and looked him up and down and acquired stars in her eyes, "Nice…VERY nice…" Usagi could only stare at how good he looked in the outfit she was going to give to Mamoru. 'Kuso…Mamoru has never looked that good in ANYTHING…!!!…What are you thinking Usagi?!' Minako waves a hand in front of Usagi's face, "Usagi-chan?" Usagi blinks and blushes realizing that she had been staring at him. "Uh…How 'bout we just go to the mall now. Spike needs many more clothes like that."
Minako nods, "You bet he does!" He grins at the pair of girls, temporarily forgetting about finding Julia again, "Then let's go!" he takes Usagi's arm in his and they march out the door. Minako smiles after the two, 'It's a damn shame that he's ten years older…but all's fair in love and war!' she follows them out the building. Usagi was engaged in a somewhat serious talk with Spike that she couldn't get a word of. She marches up to them and pouts, "It's rude to whisper you know."
Usagi blushes, "I was just telling him about you, the others, and Mamoru…" Minako raises an eyebrow (Moonchanz- That seems to be a hobby with them. Spike- I'll say.) 'No Mamo-chan?' Spike suddenly remembered what he was there for and zones out looking into the sky. The city he was in was huge; how could he ever find her in this vast amount of people? Maybe he could ask Usagi and her friend…Seeing a hand waving in front of his face, he snaps out of his trance-like state to see Usagi and Minako staring in his face. "Geez…what were you thinking of? You walked a block past the mall, ya'know." Minako complains.
Spike sweatdrops, "Uh…nothing much." Usagi looks at him questioningly. "Really! It's nothing!" She sighs and nods, "Well then, let's walk back that extra block and find you some new clothes before the mall closes." Spike nods and they walk back across the street and stand in front of the mall. Usagi runs up to the doors and stares at all the clothed mannequin, "Hellooo, Juuban Shopping Center!" She grabs Spike and Minako's hand and drags them in the mall. "Where should we start?" Usagi asks more to herself than to her friends.
"I say that we go to Gale's, that new men's clothing store. Not only will we buy Spikey-boy some casual clothes but every man needs that occasional formal look." Minako mused. Usagi nodded joyfully, "Yeah and maybe we should get his ear pierced! Guys with an earring look sooo damn good!" Spike sweatdropped as they continued to babble on until he commented, "The clothing is fine but an earring is going a little too far…" Usagi looks up at him with pleading eyes as he refuses her proposition, "Please? I just wanna see how it looks. If you don't like it then you could just let the hole close up!" He stares into her cute puppy-dog eyes and sighs; 'I guess she's right…now, seeing that personality, I could swear she's just in junior high…' Taking his sigh as a yes Minako and Usagi drag him into Gale's.
~*~
Usagi, Minako, and Spike all walk out of Gale's with a truckload of bags in hand; Spike was the one with the least bags since he was injured. He sighed and sat down on a bench next to a fountain, "Would you mind telling me the point in buying all this? This is enough to last me a couple months or a year." Usagi plopped down next to him and tiredly dropped her bags, "Better safe than sorry. Who knows how long you'll be staying here?" Minako sits next to her and also dropped her bags, "Plus, they had some really nice clothes in there and I couldn't resist that blue suit we bought you!" Usagi nods, "Or the nice alligator shoes!" Spike grins, "Where I come from we use a different form of money." Usagi and Minako look on interested, "Other than yen? We've known about American dollars and English shillings but what other type do you use?" He leans back, closes his eyes, and drops his bags, "They're called woolongs (Moonchanz- SP?)." Usagi and Minako looked at each other and shrug. Thinking of woolongs reminded him, yet again, of home and Julia. He remembered with the voice had told him. Maybe living again wasn't so bad…as long as it was with the bubbly young women.
Suddenly, Usagi remembered what they had discussed with Spike earlier and stood up, "Oh yeah! We gotta get your ear pierced now!" she exclaims. Spike sweatdropped, he was hoping that she could quickly forget the deal they made, "Gee…I was hoping that you forgot about that…" Minako grins, "The only thing Usagi forgets is homework! You were a baka to think so." Usagi takes Spike's hand and drags him to the nearest jewelry store called Zen's Finest Jewelry—We have ear piercing too! (Moonchanz- where in the hell am I getting the names for these stores. Ed- I think they're neat Ms. Moon! Jet- Truly unique. Faye/Spike- Yeah right.) Spike stares at the sign and sweatdrops, "What kind of name is that?" Minako shrugs, "This store is new too." Usagi nods, drags Spike into the store, and confronts an employee with raven hair. "Excuse me miss but…"
Recognizing the voice, the employee turns around surprised, "Odango Atama! What're you doing here?" Usagi frowns, "Hey! Don't call me that, Pyro!" Rei and Usagi get into their usual tongue war, Spike sweatdrops, and Minako decides to break them up. "Hey, Usagi, remember what we came here for?" Usagi turns around and looks at Spike, "Oh yeah! We came to get Spike's ear pierced!" Rei looks at Spike and raises an eyebrow at the clothing. "Isn't that what you were going to give to Mamoru as a gift?" she asks, grinning slightly. Usagi blushes and looks down at the suddenly interesting floor, "Yeah…well, we'll talk about it during your lunch hour…" Rei sighs, "My lunch hour been past Odango Atama." Usagi shrugs, "Too bad, I'll have to call you some other time to explain…ANYWAY! Spike has come to get his ear pierced and I'll make sure he doesn't chicken out!"
Spike tilts his head a little. Usagi was going to give the outfit he had on to her boyfriend? Why'd she let him wear it? He was sure that he seen other clothing in there. He finally decided to speak up, "Chicken out?! Yeah right! The day I'd chicken out on anything would be the day a snowball has a chance in hell!" Rei, Usagi, and Minako laughs before Rei finally took Spike to the back room to get his ear pierced. Usagi gleefully waves to her newfound friend, "Good luck and don't chicken out!" Minako turns to Usagi, "We should get him an earring now." Usagi nods and they look over the bunches of earrings set out. Finally, they came across one that seemed to be perfect. It was the same cranberry color as Spike's eyes and was even sort of different tones too. Thinking of Spike's eyes made her wonder about them and why he didn't want to tell her about himself. Minako smiled as she was eyeing the same earring, "We have a perfect one." Usagi nods and they buy the earring.
~*~
Twenty minutes later, Spike came out with Rei and the two blondes spotted the hole in his earlobe. Usagi grins in satisfaction, "Well whaddya know! Spikey-boy didn't chicken out." Spike glares at her, "I don't know how you talked me into this." Rei smiles at the two and looks at the bag in Minako's hand, "Did yall find an earring?" Minako nods, "It's the perfect color too! It matches perfectly well with his eyes." His eyes…Spike suddenly remembered everything about his past like it was yesterday. One eye that sees the past…he had lost an eye while trying to leave the syndicate. He snapped out of it when he felt someone pulling on his sore earlobe. Usagi was putting in the earring she got for him and smiled at him with pride. Minako also does the same, "We've changed you greatly, Spike Spiegel." Spike sweatdrops; he was unsure if the change was a good thing or not.
Usagi looks down at her watch and gasps, "It's almost 9:30 P.M.! We'd better get back, Spike. Bye, Pyro!" Usagi grabs Spike and the bags and rushes out the store with Minako trailing behind. She sighs and shakes her head, "What have you gotten yourself into, Odango Atama? What have you gotten yourself into?" She smiles and continues to serve the costumers shopping in the jewelry store.
Outside, ten minutes later, Spike is carrying even more bags as they leave the mall. All this strain on his abrasion was definitely not healthy and that soon showed. For, he fell out of exhaustion leaving Usagi and Minako with a heap of bags on to carry. Usagi falls to the floor and whines, "Oh, not again…!" Minako shakes her head and uses her cellphone to call two cabs to pick them up. This had been a terribly long day and it was finally over…though not with the best ending.
Sleep Well Lost Cowboy…
Moonchanz- That's it! I'm finished with session #2!
Spike- ::grins:: Good riddance to that!
Faye- I thought that the idea of Spike with an earring was quite fascinating.
Jet- It sure was.
Ein- WOOF!
Ed- Spike-Spike got a earring!
Moonchanz- You people are so nice! I'll be glad to invite yall here anytime! Come whenever you like. Even Spike's worst enemies are welcome here with us!
Vicious- Really?
Moonchanz- ::glomps the newcomer:: V-chan! You came! I hope you know I luv you too although you killed Spikey-chan in the last episode of CB!
Spike- Humph.
Moonchanz- ::raises an eyebrow:: Is Spikey-chan jealous?
Faye- It sure seems that way.
Spike- Why would I be jealous of that basta—mpmhmmphumph!
Vicious- Please read and review to cause Spike the Bastar—mpmhmmphumph!
Moonchanz- ::shakes head:: Such evilness towards each other is not permitted here. Anyway, I want to thank all who reviewed the first chapter and hope to read from you all again!