…Yeah…I don't think I have anything really to say…other than, TODAY WAS MY LAST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I shall never have to have another Spanish class in my stupid hippie pot smoking rich kid private school ever again. I shall never have to listen to my crazy pregnant Spanish teacher yelling at me in fast Spanish that I don't understand. Now for…*shudder*…exams…hmm…well, no notes, other than the usual gracias…oh crap, stop thinking in Spanish you crappy brain!
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Usagi walked down the street, glancing from one shop window to the next. They were filled with so many beautiful things, she was just satisfied by simply gazing at them through a sheet of glass.
She moved onto a different street, and caught sight of a familiar person. Well, that person's back, in actuality. 'Seems like I can't go anywhere without running into him…maybe it's fate." She stifled a giggle at that thought, and began another debate on whether or not to talk to him. 'Well if it is fate, I think it's about time I grow a spine and just say hi at least.'
With that sudden burst of confidence, Usagi jogged forward a couple steps in order to come within earshot. "Hi!" she called out hesitantly.
He turned, looking for his follower, and was met with Usagi. A look of surprise crossed his face, but it was quickly replaced with a small smile. "Hi," he replied.
"Um, I don't know if you remember me or not, but my name's Usagi and I work for your-" she blurted out, but halted when he raised a hand to silence her, and his smile grew slightly.
"I remember," he said.
"Oh, sorry," she felt her cheeks flush red in embarrassment, but at the same time, a small bubble of happiness filled her stomach. He had remembered her… "Um, so, what are you up to?" she asked nervously.
"I had to run a few errands for 'Kaasan," he replied. "And you?"
"Well, I haven't had much time to explore the city or anything, since I've only been here a couple months, so I was just walking around and checking out the stores," she paused, and a thought struck her. "You wouldn't happen to know where the park is, would you? I tried to find it a while ago, but I got lost and ran out of time,"
"I do, I could take you there, if you'd like,"
Usagi smiled. "That'd be great! Well, I mean if you didn't have anywhere else to be or anything," she mentally slapped herself. 'Could you sound any more desperate baka?!'
"I wouldn't mind at all,"
Usagi felt another smile begin to spread across her lips as they began to walk. 'Good job brain,'
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It was a nice mild day, warm and sunny, without a single cloud in the sky. It was a perfect day in his opinion, as he walked home from the grocery store. He would have to go out to the park or something as soon as he got the food back to his apartment. Nice days didn't happen every day, after all.
He felt a kind of odd sensation as he walked up a flight of stairs to his apartment. He had changed a lot over the past year or so. Almost immediately his thoughts turned to her. She would be surprised at how much more responsible he had become, renting an apartment, shopping for groceries. The place was even neat. He felt a passing wave of loneliness, but let it go. She wasn't sitting around remembering him. She was sitting around with her new husband.
It still boggled his mind that someone who had threatened to kill her, and been an enemy to him, her best friend, and all of the others, for so long, had ended up being her husband, and a father to her child. But then again, who was he to question her actions? He hadn't been the perfect boyfriend.
He shrugged to himself, and began to fumble around in his pockets for his keys as he halted outside of his door. After a moment's searching, he stuck the right key into the lock and turned the knob.
He halted in the doorway as his eyes fixed on a pair of figures. He squinted slightly, unable to make out who they were in the sudden transition from the bright sun outside to the dark apartment.
His eyes widened as they adjusted to the light. There was the soft click of metal hitting metal.
"Do you believe in God, Yamucha?" A soft, monotonous voice spoke.
Before he could answer, a bullet exploded out of the barrel of a cold steel gun, shooting through the air to land inside of the left cavity of Yamucha's chest, snugly implanted into his heart.
The last image that burned into his mind was that of cold blue eyes, and the single thought was that they were far from natural…no, they were most definitely inhuman…
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"You okay?" Minako raised a slim blonde eyebrow at Usagi as the two ate dinner.
"I'm fine, why?" Usagi asked, swallowing a bite of salad.
"You keep smiling…you look your lips are going to cramp up." Minako had a strange look in her eyes as she spoke. "Have a good day or something?"
Usagi felt her cheeks redden. "Well it wasn't a bad one," she said with a shrug, studying her salad.
"Well, what did you do?"
"I went into the city and looked around at the shops,"
"Buy anything?"
"No, I didn't really have any money on me."
"Charge it next time, I have an account in probably every clothes store there, just say you're me."
"'Kay," Usagi was still speaking noncommittally.
"So, did you do anything else?" Minako persisted, sensing she still hadn't found what was preoccupying Usagi's mind so much. She had a hunch, but it was all in proving it.
"Um, I finally found the park," That was what Minako was looking for. As she had said the sentence, something had changed ever so slightly in her tone. Minako moved in for the kill.
"So, did you just stumble upon it? Or did you get someone to give you directions?"
"Um…well, I kind of ran into Trunks-san when I was window-shopping and he showed me where it was," Usagi said sheepishly.
She then cringed slightly at Minako loud and sudden squeal of happiness. A second later, she was being crushed by the squealing girl in a bear hug. "Did you guys go for a walk?! Did you talk with him? What did you say? What did he say?" she blurted out.
"…can't…breathe…"
"Oh! Whoops, sorry 'bout that!" Minako released her friend. "So now that your windpipe's okay, I want every single detail!"
"Minako-chan," Usagi weakly protested. "This is so embarrassing,"
"It's just me! And besides, we need to plan your next move." Minako's eyes were in full gleam, and her mind was in full plot-mode.
"Move? What do you mean move?" Usagi asked in confusion.
"Well, how else are you going to get him to go out with you?" It was obvious, to her at least.
"But…I don't know if I even want to," Usagi said, her brow beginning to furrow in worry. Minako's dating schemes had a tendency to go wrong very quickly, and very badly.
"What? Did he say something mean? Was he a jerk? Did you trip or something? He's not gay, is he?" Minako's mind was moving way too quickly for her own good.
"No!" Usagi cried out. "Well, I don't think so at least…he seemed straight…but it's not that, I mean, he's nice, and good-looking, and we had fun, but-"
"But what?!" Minako cut off. "What more could you possibly want Usagi-chan?"
"It's not what I want!" Usagi yelled suddenly, her voice breaking. "It's that I don't want it! God Minako-chan, just lay off for once,"
Minako felt her mouth open slightly as Usagi stood and left the room. She could only stare in silent shock. 'Oh damn. Brain, we really messed this one up…where the hell were you to tell me to back off?!'
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The next morning, the incident had been mostly forgotten. The two were not awake enough to bring up anything that involved anyway, as they sat in front of the television eating cereal and watching the news.
"In national news, the body of one Souichi Tomoe, and a scientist well-known for his work on genetic engineering, and his founding of the now closed Mugen Guken was found washed up on the shore of a beach near the Satan City. It is unknown as to what the cause of death was, as the remains were-"
Minako and Usagi spat their mouthfuls of cereal out at the same time, and then turned to stare at one another.
"We should call Michiru-san and Haruka-san," the said in unison.
"And Setsuna-san, although she already knows," Minako added.
Usagi was silent for a moment. She knew it had to be a coincidence, but it was all just too weird for her. "I found articles about Dr. Tomoe when I was cleaning out the articles in Capsule Corp. Ones that had been altered."
"What?" Minako wrinkled her nose slightly in confusion.
"And before that, I found these computer files on him in the computer, they were classified!"
"Usagi-chan, Bulma-san's a scientist right? And so's her father,"
"Yeah, so?"
"Well so was Dr. Tomoe, it's not that out of the ordinary for them to have articles on other scientists," Minako reasoned.
"But these were newspaper articles talking about Tomoe undergoing investigation, and this was long before the Death Busters!" She argued back.
Minako only shrugged.
"I'm just saying it's a really weird coincidence, that's all."
"What, you think Bulma-san killed Tomoe?" Minako asked incredulously.
"No! It's just weird."
"Usagi-chan, we're not playing detective."
"But-"
"No."
"Grr," Usagi growled in defeat.
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Hmmm…sleepy time, I have a nice fun long weekend ahead. Oh yeah, and I officially hate little kids. Not the little little ones that are just little and cute, but the ones that are old enough to have partial brains, but don't and act like dumbasses. I want to strangle them. *cough* It's really time for me to go to bed. Review or something, confused? Fine.