"Are they still at it?" The blond boy of the group asked, coming up behind a short young looking girl. She smirked, her appearance was nothing like her true age. "Four days, three hours, 26 minutes." The young man whistled, "Man. Don't they ever rest?" The girl shrugged, "It's the moon cycle. They're most likely beating each other to pulp, because they can't mate." The young boy looked stunned, "Mizu!" "What?!" Mizu stared back up at Quatre, "It's a full moon out, it's the time when blood demons are most likely to mate." Quatre seatiled down, 'let's hope they don't. It could mean real trouble.' "Come on. Let's leave before we get dragged in." With that both Mizu grabbed Quatre's arm before he had a chance to respond and left, leaving the two to spar.
~*~*~*~
She poked his chest with her finger. "And what do you think your doing mister?" His eyes just flicked down at her before, grabbing her hand that was poking him and spinning her around. Her back was now pressed against his front. "Coming to see you of course." His brown hair brushed against her check as he whispered in her ear. She gave a shiver. "You could have knocked." There was a chuckle, "Where would the fun be in that?" She turned to face him, light blue meeting dark. He smirked down as she looked up at him. He leaned down, but she pulled away. "Usa.." She turned her back to him, "I'm sorry Hiro. I can't." His smirk turned back to his emotionless face. "What's the matter." She shock her head, "I once gave someone I trusted my heart. And he betrayed me. Then there was nothing else. I'm cursed to live a life of loneliness." He noticed she held her wrist. There where the vein meet the hand, a small scar lined her wrist. "Did you.." His voice was filled with concern, but she didn't hear as she took off down the hall, he followed a few seconds later as he thought.
~*~*~*~
"Honi." The woman cat woman stared out the window, day dreaming about her past. "It's the same window. Five hundred years ago. I should be over it." She continued looking out the window. "Five hundred...." "Since you've had your last cat scan?" She whirled around, "DO YOU THINK MY SPECIES IS SOMETHING TO MADE FUN OF?! BECAUSE I CAN INTRODUCE YOU TO MY FATHER IF YOU'D LIKE!" The purpled hair man stepped back from the woman. "Relax. It was just a joke." The woman calmed down, and turned back to the window, "Why do you have to be such a jerk." Trunks shrugged, and walked up by her to the window. There was silence as both of them looked out the window. "So what happened five hundred years ago?" Silence. "I lost someone." Trunks looked down at her, "Who?" Chi continued looking out the window, "Honi." "Who's Honi." Silence
~*~*~*~ flash back ~*~*~*~
"Life is so valuable. It's destroyed so easily. Why is there such a thing as life?" He looked down at her, "We have life because we can share it with people. And they can share it with us. We have life because we have love." She smiled, a true smile this time, "I guess your right." She looked back out the window. "I'm glad I have it to share with you." He smiled and walked the rest of the way, wrapping his arms around her middle. "How much longer?" "Normally it would take a human 9 mouths but it will only be like 2 for us." "That's good to know." Silence. "What's on your mind?" "I'll be gone then." She whirled around on him, looking to his eyes, tears starting in her own "No."
~*~*~*~ end ~*~*~*~
"Chi?" She snapped out of it, "hmmm?" "Who's Honi?" "No one." Then she turned at walked away. 'I don't beleive that.' Trunks said to himself, looking out the window the same window Chi had a few minutes ago, thinking.
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He pushed her up against the wall. Placing her hands above her head, then holding her body with his. He kissed her, fiercely on the lips. And she too kissed with the same need and lust. After what seemed like a life time, they broke apart, panting. He didn't stay away from her long, kissing again, he let go of her arms and instead placed them on her hips, massaging upwards. She broke the kiss again. Placing her hands on his, making him stop his actions. "We can't." She moved past him, "I think we should stop. You stink." In truth she did too. He sighed, "Your right." With that he walked out of the room, leaving her to her thoughts. 'It's just the moon.' She sighed, pushing off the wall, and walked the halls to her room. She walked down the hall, coming to her room, but decided against going in. She continued down the hall, she wasn't thinking much about anything, when she ran into Chi.
"Hey." Hono'o nodded, "Where you headed?" "Bath house." "Can I came?" Hono'o just kept walking, "Sure." They walked together done a few halls and into a room. The room was large and steam filled. A large pool/bath was in the middle of the room with walls of blue tile. A small notch off to the right was filled with towels and a four drops for clothes, each one had a name under it. Hono'o pulled her hair out of it braid and shoved what clothes she had done the drop that had her name under it. Then stepped into the warm water, and began scrubbing herself, healing all the cuts and bruises the sparing had given.
Chi followed suit, except she just sat there, enjoying the warmth. Soon both sat there, staring at each other. "What's wrong?" Chi was the first to ask. "Nothing." Hono'o replied, stepping out of the bath and walking to get a towel, Chi following her. "Something is wrong. I can smell it." Hono'o wrapped a towel around herself, "I'll see you at dinner." With that she walked out of the bathing room. Chi sighed, leaning back into the warm water, she was relaxing when a pain shot through her head. She gripped it, a picture flashed through her head. "Mizu." She got out and grabbed a towel, heading in the direction where she felt Mizu.
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They had been sitting in peace. Talking about this and that, when she had gripped her head and fell from her chair to the ground. Then she fainted, picking her up and laying her down on the couch, Quatre held and shook her, trying to get her awake. She finally opened her eyes and he held her close, she felt his heart beat. She broke down, flinging her arms around his waist, he held her closer. "What's wrong?" She didn't reply, just kept sobbing into his shirt. "It hurts." He rested his chin on her head, "What does?" She looked up at him, tears in her eyes, "Knowing the future." "The future always hurts, but there is always around it." "Not this one. This was set before the age of the beginning." He put a hand under her chin, pulling it up. Claiming her lips as his own. Then she fainted again.
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Hono'o had felt it. The elapse of the future. She knew it was Mizu who felt it, but she didn't care at the moment. She lay on her bed, hair spread under her and towel over her. She laid awake, staring up at her ceiling. "Forty across, forty down. A perfect square." She let her eyes close, in hope that she would lose him from her mind. 'Only the moon. Forty across, forty down.' She opened her eyes, "I most sound like a psycho." She rolled over to her side, closing her eyes again. Slowly she fell asleep.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"I hate you." She didn't need to turn around to know who it was. She could tell by the footsteps. "Why?" His voice was hunting as she felt him keep walking towards her. "Because you've seen to much of me. I've never let anything like that slip. Not even to my sisters." He finally stopped a few feet behind her. "Please don't hate me. If you want to know anything about me you go ahead and ask." She didn't answer for a while, just stared at nothing, "No. You couldn't possibly know what I've gone through." She took off running, away from him, away from his voice, away from eyes, away from her feelings.
Usagi kept running, till a pain filled her head. She stopped and gritted her teeth in pain. "Mizu, not another one." She sensed Mizu, then turned and ran, forgetting about Hiro for the moment.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Chi and Usagi reached the room at the same time. Immediately they rushed to Mizu's side. Usagi put a hand on her forehead, "She's doing fine." Chi put her ear to Mizu's chest. "Just sleeping." Usagi put her hand back on Mizu's forehead, "Maybe 4-5 hours." Chi nodded in agreement. They both sat there by the couch, a hand resting on Mizu. "Ummm... excuse me?" Quatre looked confused as he tried to get a word in with the two girls. "It happens occasionally. Aside from being Leprechaun, Mizu is part Amunite. She gets flashes of the future from time to time. Though last time, she almost didn't make it."
Quatre nodded, and took a seat next to the couch. All three looked to the slumbering girl on the couch, so pale and slowly breathing that it was almost as she was dead.
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Hono'o woke to a knock. She took in a large breath of air as she yawned, he was out there. 'It's the fourth day and he comes a knocking at my door. He really doesn't know.' She stood, letting the towel fall to the floor, and putting on a bathrobe. She opened the door, leaning against the door frame. Immediately upon seeing him, mechanizes clicked in her body, this one was stronger than the last few. It was her body's way of telling her to reproduce. The fourth night of the moon cycle was always the worst. She bit her tongue, trying to repress the urge. "What do you want?" Gohan blinked down at her, "I want to apologize." She groggy, she shouldn't be, but she was, she couldn't think, "About what?" She said this, putting more weight on the door frame. She looked to him, the two of him, no three. His mouth moved, but she didn't hear. "Say that again." He said it again, but she still didn't hear it. "I'm not feeling well, with that she collapsed.
Gohan caught Hono'o as she fell. He carried her to her bed, and laid her down. Then went to the bathroom, collecting a wet washcloth, he returned to the bed. But he didn't expect what happened next. As he placed the wash cloth on her fore head, she glowed red. And soon he found himself in a black space. It felt like the same place they had gone to spar as blood demons, but it was different. "Gohan." He turned around. There stood Hono'o, in all her glory, "Hono'o?" His voice squeaked as it went down an octave. "Where are we? Did you bring us here?" She too looked around at the weird place. "No. I though you did." She shock her head, then her eyes lighted up, "Oh no!"
"What is it?" Gohan asked, taking a step towards her. "My damn sub-conscience. When I pasted out, it must have brought us here." She turned from him, sticking one hand out and started moving around in the black. "Brought us here for what?" She turned to look at him, she looked from his face, lower then turned back around. Gohan looked down at him self, he was butt naked also. "Oh. I see. But if your sub-conscience brought us here.... does that mean..." "Think whatever you want. But yes, I love you more than I can tell you." Gohan stared at her. "That's a kick in the head." Hono'o chuckled, "Don't expect me to saw it out loud. Here we are." A clunk was heard as a light filled his vision, then he was back in her room, laying on top of her.
He proped himself on his elbows and watched as Hono'o slowly opened her eyes. She saw what was in front of her, and closed them back again, "I can't believe I said that. I'll never trust myself again." This time Gohan laughed, "It's ok. I'm sure everyone has doubts about themselves once in a while." He looked into her eyes, as blue meet black, Hono'o saw herself in his eyes. But not only that, but she also saw her love, reflected back by the one man she possibly couldn't have.
"Could you get off me?" She adverted her eyes, down to his chest, it was a nice chest, especially without a shirt, 'No.' 'Why not?' 'It would be asking for too much trouble.' Gohan leaned closer, 'I enjoy trouble.' He closed the space between them, kissing her firmly on the lips, not like when they were sparing, but a sincere, loving kiss. He broke the kiss, 'That wasn't so bad was it?' "Do that agian." Gohan laughed as he once more kissed her, this time letting his hands roam. This time she didn't stop him, but just deepened the kiss. Soon enough her robe was across the room.
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"Here it comes!" Usagi said, moving away from Mizu, as Chi followed. A few more seconds and Mizu's eyes shot open. Her eyes were unseeing, as she talked rapidly and in Irish. "You get this?" Chi asked, Usagi had her own eyes closed, she nodded. Quatre was freaking out. "Slán." With that she closed her eyes, blinked a little and then sat up. She looked to Usagi, "What was it? What did I say?" Usagi recited a few lines in her head. "The night will end with one more life. And the dawn will rise with all missing. Good-bye" Mizu stared at Quatre, "What's the matter?" He was pale and held a look of worry and concern. "I don't think he's ever seen an Amunite at work." Chi said, looking over Mizu's shoulder.
Mizu looked at him, or more of apologized to him, then turned back to her sisters. "What do you think all that means?" They thought for a minute. "Where's Hono'o?" Usagi asked, "In her room I think." Chi answered. Just as she talked, Trunks and Hiro walked in the room. Usagi quickly avoided Hiro's questioning look. "We made it! Thanks the gods!" Trunks started to dance around the room, but was silenced by the cold atmosphere. "The night will end with one more life..." Mizu layed back on the couch. "And will rise with all missing." Chi finished. Everybody was stunned at the riddle and no one knew what to say.
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Gohan woke to a small rapping noise. He was half asleep and didn't remember where he was for a moment. He was reminded as a small warmth moved at his front. He looked down to long brown bangs over closed eyes. Gohan smirked down at the beauty in his arms, he didn't know how long they had gone and slept. But this night was something he would never forget. He heard the rapping noise again, looking around the room, he sensed something outside of the window. Slipping a hand out from under Hono'o's body and pulling on his pants, he went to the window.
When he opened it, a small figure hovered there. It was a small girl with angel wings. She had blond hair and blue eyes. "Go-chan! So good to see you." "Sabriel! How did you find me?" The girl giggled, "Did you forget last years update? You have a tracker in you now. Since you and your partners didn't show up for five days, I was sent to look for you. I found you here and I was told to tell you to capture and bring in the Shinigami sisters." Gohan frowned. "Who gives you these orders?" "Captain Zechs." "I will not." "If you don't then we will sent others. Afterr all, we do know where they live now, thanks to you." Sabriel leaned in the window and kissed Gohan on the lips, then pulled back and flew away, "Good luck Go-chan!" Gohan frowned even more, closing the window and went back to bed. 'That was strange.' 'What was?' Gohan looked down at Hono'o, who was currently yawning. "Nothing." Hono'o turned around and got out of bed.
She moved to her dresser and quickly got dressed. "I'll see you later." Gohan looked at her in confusion, "Where are you going?" "I have to check on Mizu, she had a relapse." Hono'o once more pulled up her hair and loaded her guns, strapping them to her sides. "Sorry I can't stay longer." With that she walked out the door and Gohan was left alone is her room. "This means trouble." He pulled himself out of bed and finished dressing. "Wait till the others hear this." He got up and followed Hono'o out the door, finding their energy signals and following them.
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They all stared at each other, no one said anything. "I give." Chi said letting out a heavy breath. Trunks stood up, "I WIN!" Chi threw a pillow at him and he sat back down. "Just because your a hot air balloon, doesn't mean you win." Just then Hono'o walked in, "It's about time." Usagi said, "Yeah. We've been waiting what? 10 hours?" Hono'o sat in the last chair. "What's the riddle this time?" Her low toned voice rang through the room. "The night will end with one more life. And the dawn will rise with all missing" Mizu repeated herself. Hono'o looked to the ceiling. "That makes sense." They just all stared at her, then the door opened again. This time Gohan entered. "Hey." They all nodded, "Hiro, Quatre, Trunks. I need to talk to you." They nodded standing up and leaving the room behind him. The girls watched them leave and as soon as the door was closed, they looked to Hono'o. "What's going on?" Usagi asked first.
"They're going to attack. Not the boys, but the people they work with." "How do you know?" Chi asked. "One of his 'co-workers' came to my window this morning and told him it was time to move." "What was he doing in your room?" Mizu asked. Chi and Usagi's eyes went wide, as they covered Mizu's ears, "You didn't?!" Hono'o looked to the ground. "One more life." Chi looked to Usagi, and Usagi nodded. They let go of Mizu's ears, "What? What happened? What did she do?" "Nothing, dear, nothing." Usagi patted her head. "How are we going to face this? We can't let them know we know." Usagi glared at the door. Hono'o stood up, "The best we can do is watch and wait. It may be tonight or it may be a week. Just be ready." She walked to the door and walked out.
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The boys walked out the door and followed Gohan a little ways down the hall. "What's up Gohan?" Trunks asked. "Sabriel visited me about an hour ago." They all gapped, "How did they find us?" Quatre asked, "Last years locator test. They updated the system and can now follow all our movements. They traced us here." They stared at him, "What did she want?" Hiro asked this time, he had never really liked the mini- angelic. "She wanted us to capture and bring in the sisters." "What did you tell her?" Trunks frowned at Gohan, hoping he didn't say they would agree to it. "I told her we wouldn't. I realize now that we have grown to liking them, just as any sane man would." They all nodded. "So what did she say to that?" Hiro asked again. "She said if we didn't, they would." They all thought about it. "We shouldn't alert the girls about this." Quatre brought the point up.
Just as he finished, Hono'o walked down the hall, only momentarily looking at them, before continuing on her way. "I think she knows." Trunks whispered, watching her back go around the corner. "I'll see." Gohan said, running to catch up with her. "Did you see that?" Trunks asked. "What?" Quatre asked. Trunks looked to Quatre and Hiro, "Gohan had a hickey on his neck." Quatre stared wide-eyed at where Gohan had turned the corner. "Do you think?" Hiro asked. "Yeah, I think they did." Trunks said again.
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"Hey wait up." Gohan said coming after Hono'o. "What do you want?" Hono'o asked, not slowing down. "What's the matter?" He asked coming up beside her. She didn't answer, but instead walked into a room, Gohan following. She shut the door, turning to him, walking so she was only a few inches in front of him. "What's the matter?" he asked agian, this time, frowning down on her. "You." "What did I do?" "You betrayed me."
He leaned down, one hand behind her waist another under her chin, keeping it tilted up. He kissed her. She did not kiss back, but she did not pull away. 'So this is how it starts.' Then there was a blast, and he turned around to see someone he did not wish to see at the time. "I'll have to thank you." It was a man's voice that boomed with laughter as he walked into the light. He turned to the girl in his arms, "No." She was starting to sweat and soon was limp in his arms, "I blame you." Were her last words before her fell into a sleep.
The man came into the shadows. He was a tall man, with cool green eyes and long white hair that reached down to his back, strangely enough it stayed back. "I'll have to promote Sabriel for the fine job she did on that poison. You see, we've been monitoring your actions for the last day and a half. We saw how you were acting. When Sabriel kissed you, she moistened your lips with a poison that effects only female blood demons." The man laughed some more, "Now we must take care of her. Please show us to where the others are. Unless of course, you want to die or maybe not you, but your mother? Une is always wanted to kill her." Gohan clenched and unclenched his fist, as the room was filled with men. Four came forward and took Hono'o from his arms. Carrying her outside and into a trunk that was parked there.
Gohan stood straight and opened the door for the man, Normally he didn't care to die. But his mother was a different case, she was the queen of blood demons and her death would cause chaos and the destruction of many. Zechs smirked and walked out the door, stopping in the doorway. "We only know that sister 1 is a blood demon. What are the others?" Gohan gritted his teeth, he was going to regret this, he knew it. "2 is cat demon. 3 is Siren. And 4 is Leprechaun." Zechs smirked as his control, "You heard him Samuel, get the specialists in here." A man in the room saluted and ran outside the hole. "Will you help take them down?" Gohan shot a glare at the man, and he himself walked out of the hole, sending a man flying as he went.
"Temper, Temper." Zechs shock his head as three men approached him, saluting. "Get on with your tasks." They smirked and walked out of the room and down the hall, passing Trunks, Hiro and Quatre on the way, saluting also. "What the? Wufei? Trowa? Goten?" Trunks gaped as followed by the three specialists, a group of demon hunter soldiers followed quietly down the hall. "What's going on?" Hiro demanded. "Your presence in no longer need, the four will soon be prisoners of the United States Demon Hunters." The voice came from the commander of the small operation. Quatre opened his mouth to warn the girls, but Trunks gabbed him in the ribs, making him stop. He kneeled down to Quatre, "Be quiet. There's nothing we can do for them now. We'll wait. Plus, if we are caught defending him, we'll be in more trouble than them." Quatre nodded and caught his breath. Hiro heard all this, but he didn't like it.
The soldiers busted in the door, and the boys saw the light of transformation. Soon the specialists were in the room, a few notes of a song, some Irish cussing, and a few thuds were heard before they came out. The man, Trowa, came out of the room, with scratches all over, but was still carrying a passed out Chi over his shoulder. Goten, came out carrying a small glass bottle, with a shrunken Mizu in it. A small mummer was heard, as she was apparently yelling at the man. As she passed by Quatre, she stopped, Quatre mouthed sorry and they continued past him. Finally Wufei came out, with a pasted out Usagi in his arms, a small circle on her forehead, proved he had used a counter-spell, silencing her from saying or singing anything.
With that the soldiers fell back and the three boys were left alone. "What's the matter? Did the girls get to you too? I thought you were better than to fall for demons." They turned around to see Zechs, their commanding officer. They saluted him, but not with respect in their eyes. "No sir. We're glad to see that you've finally rescued us from them." Trunks said, pulling the same disguise he had told Quatre to do. "I'm glad to see that you have more senses than that partner of yours, he let the moon get the best of him." With that Zechs started walking back down the hall, "And by the way, I plan to see all of you back at command center bright and early tomorrow morning." "Yes sir." They all relied as he finally left. "Bastard." Trunks said.
"What do we do?" Quatre sat down on the floor, putting his head in his hands. Trunks joined him on the floor. "Think. If Zechs is one to be cocky and just lock them up in the upper levels. Or a coward or decides to be ready and lock them in the most lowest prison." Hiro sat down also, his face in it's normal scowl. "I know him, he'll lock in the lowest most protected chamber." They nodded, "Then lets get going. We're expected in tomorrow. And we still have to find Gohan." They nodded and walked to were Zechs had disappeared.
