Chapter Two:
The Long Awaited Day
Hanna's day had started off okay, but then 'that guy' had to show up and grope her bottom. She usually didn't care if she was accidentally touched, but something about this guy made her nervous. She recognized him from somewhere, but she could not quite place him. She starred at him as they walked down the hallway. It looked identical to the one that had freaked her out earlier that day, in her dreams.
Eienno, on the other hand, didn't exactly mind being squished in a small area. He rather liked it. The fear she must have felt, but the courage she showed. She didn't seem too comfortable though. He actually thought she looked strangely unhappy. 'Could she be leaving her lover too?' he thought. He put his hands behind his back and gently pulled the ring from his finger. He was going to have fun with this one, before he told her his marital status. Of course he wasn't going to do anything that could ruin his relationship with his precious Yukkarie. As he looked at her, though, he noticed something oddly familiar about her. He, unlike Hanna, recognized her. 'She's the girl from that weird dream,' he told himself. 'What the hell?'
Meeko-Bei finally led them into a room. There were people in it, talking and laughing.
"Attention," said Meeko, like a grade three teacher. She turned to the two, "Go sit down."
Hanna walked right past Eienno in through the door. She didn't want to look at him unless she had to.
Meeko-Bei let Eienno walk in before she did. She closed the door behind them and walked to the front.
"Now that your captain and commander are here, we can explain why you're all here and then get you all off as soon as possible." She pulled a small laser pointer from her pocket and a remote control from the other. "If you'd all look at the center of the table, I'll show you all you need to know."
An image grew into a large diagram of the Pacific Ocean.
"This, as you all know, is Earth," she paused. "This nice big thing of blue water is the Pacific Ocean." She turned on her laser pointer and pointed at a small square in the middle of the waters. "Here is where your mission is to be fulfilled. Its coordinates are 165W and 0. A spy that was sent to Earth found an important piece of paper, about 3 years ago, that held the purpose made for the area. A giant canon, that will be set to fire at the colonies in another 4 years, in it's completion. So we have designed a special ship that is able to fly in space, water and air. It has oxygen filters made of natural plants that recycle the air, making it almost impossible for the air to run out. Special machines were made to water the plants as soon as they get too dry and begin to run low. It also fertilizes and plants so that you wont have to.
The shuttle you will be flying in, is a unique model made to carry all of you and about four more. Questions about that come later." She zoomed in so they could see the entrance to the ship. "There is an air tight door, with five locks that need to be secured before the ship will even start. Once you get past that," she zoomed in more, making it look like they were actually traveling into the ship's doors, "There is a separation in the hallway. One corridor heads to the bedrooms and living areas and the other to the control room. The only rooms linked to the control room are the commander and captain's rooms. They are not, at all linked to each other, I might add. The rooms are small but fit all the things you need. You have room to walk around and do things to yourself, but that's all we could fit. There is a kitchen, living room, three bathrooms, as I said before, 11 bedrooms, a guys' hangout and a women's hangout. The women's hangout has all the necessary feminine products, if you run out, which you won't, you can pick up more 'supplies' at the next stop. Same goes for men," she raised a brow at Eienno and Hanna. "Just in case, there are also birth control pills and condoms."
"Okay," interrupted Eienno, sarcastically, "extra rooms and birth control products. Um.why do we have those?" In agreement, everyone else in the room looked at Meeko-Bei with a strange glare.
"Because, being stuck in space with a ship set to dock at a certain place a long distance away, having to look at the same people over and over again with no sexual attention can lead a person, and it's a proven fact, to do stupid things, like have sex with people they probably despise being with." She smirked, "I know two people who will really be needing them by the time they get back here." She looked over at Eienno and Hanna again, her smirk slowly turning into a mischievous smile.
"If it makes everyone here feel better, I have psychiatric training," said a fiery redhead. She looked down to the end of the table, "by the way, I'm Cordelia Daytene, your weapons specialist. I get to blow up anything that gets in our way that isn't a friend." She giggled evilly to herself.
"Good for you," said Hanna, smiling brightly. "I think that's going to be a lot of fun."
"That reminds me," said Meeko, "You two should get to know these five. I guess since Cordelia is beside Eienno anyway, we should start with her."
"You all know me already," she said.
"Birth date too," said Meeko.
"Fine," mumbled Cordelia, "February 17, 2659."
It moved along to a blonde-brown haired guy, whose eyes were a sort of brown eye colour. "I'm Sebastien Latona, the co-pilot. Born on the first of November in 2657."
He looked next to himself, at the bright purple haired girl. She smiled, "I'm Karameki Naone, navigations and communications specialist, I make sure we get where we want to go safely. My birthday is on December 13, 2657."
The attention turned to a golden blonde girl, "Hi, I'm Tomodachi Omonashi, I'm the head of engineering. My birthday is on June third, 2658."
She shyly peeked over at the guy across from her.
"My name's Chikara Akiri, I'm the other co-pilot. I was born on March 11, 2657." He looked up at Meeko-Bei. She smiled at him.
"Now that you know all them," said Meeko, "Tell them who you are."
"I'm Hanna Natsu," she said kindly. "I'm happy to meet you all. My birthday is on July 10, 2658. I'm the captain and I'll be more than grateful to work with everyone but him." She childishly pointed at Eienno with her thumb.
"My name is Eienno Kiyoshi, I'm the mayor, my birthday is not going to be told to you until the day it rolls around." He looked at Hanna, "And I think I'll enjoy working with you, Hanna." Sarcasm stained his words.
"Good then, now that everyone knows everyone , it's time for you to get settled into the ship." Meeko gestured for everyone to follow her. She headed for the main hanger on the roof and opened the gate to the security shields. Upon the push of a button the elevator door opened. She forced everyone to pack themselves into the small space and go in all at once.
'God,' thought Hanna, 'why are you doing this to me?' She could feel Eienno's hand squished on her butt again. She turned to face him.
"Would you please." she paused and took a breath to control her urge to yell. ".Take your hand off." she paused again and looked him in the face, as his hand had not moved from its claimed spot just below the small of her back. ".my ass!" she couldn't help but yell making everyone else stop and stare at her.
He stood firm admiring the glow that radiated from Hanna as her anger became noticeable. His hand didn't budge.
She stood up tall, only to become level with his chin.
"Now!" she yelled.
His hand didn't move still, his lip pulled itself into a sinister smirk.
Karameki giggled uncontrollably when Hanna's hand ran right across his face, leaving a nice scratch mark along the ridges of his cheek bone.
He pulled his hand away showing it midair to prove that he wasn't invading her anymore.
The elevator finally stopped. Hanna was let out before anyone could get in her way. Cordelia came up behind her resting a friendly hand on her shoulder.
"That was funny," she said with a bright smiled carved across her face. "Do you two have a background with each other?"
Hanna looked at her strangely, "No." She continued looking in the direction that Meeko-Bei was leading them in, "We just got stuck in that transport thing together and it turned out his hand managed to find my ass somehow. Meeko-Bei's stupid staff sent us to the colony at the same time. Morons."
"You're talking in my language," said Cordelia, "We're going to be great friends."
Eienno smirked at the success he had had making Hanna mad again, for the exact same reason as before. Of course, his hand never meant to go where it always seemed to want to go. He never meant to touch her.
Meeko guided them into the control room first.
The white walls once again made Hanna uneasy. The nerve-raking. white chairs and white floor began to haunt and annoy her. She looked over at Eienno, who loomed in a corner and watch everyone fiddle about their business. He looked at his chair atop a small stair and found there was another seat beside it.
"These are the captain and major's seats," said Meeko cheerfully.
'Things keep getting better,' though Eienno sarcastically. 'Her ass and my hand are magnetized and she's sitting next to me the whole way.'
Over hearing what Meeko had said, Hanna grumbled knowing they would just quarrel the entire time.
"Okay," said Meeko-Bei, waking both Hanna and Eienno from their thoughts. "I'll show you the other rooms."
She led them back to the corridor and opened an air tight door, letting everyone in ahead of her. The ceiling was just the right height for every head that passed through it.
Opening the first door, she announced it as being Karameki's room. Karameki skipped over to it, graciously seeing that her bag was placed neatly on her bed. She closed the door informing her team mates she was going to get settled in.
Meeko opened the door beside Karameki's, "This is Cordelia's room." Cordelia too, parted with the crowd to go organize herself.
She opened the third door, "Tomodachi, enjoy." Tomodachi left the group, just because that was what everyone else was doing so anyway.
Meeko looked to the other side of the hallway and opened the door closest to the corridors. "This should be Chikara's room."
Chikara figured 'what the hell?' and went to check everything out.
Sebastien took a wild guess and asked it the next door might have been his. Meeko nodded allowing Sebastien to enter his room without a second of questioning.
It was the last few moments of the evening when Hanna and Eienno were settled into their rooms, which had to be beside each other with a weird form of access to the other. Hanna rolled onto her bed after throwing all her clothes neatly into the drawers. She slowly found herself falling asleep, only to be visited by her dream again.
Eienno lay in his bed looking up at the ceiling.
'Why is she in my dreams, before I'd even met her?' he asked himself in thought. Eienno rolled over knowing there was a long day to look forward to the next morning.
"Do get some sleep you all," said Meeko's voice over the P.A from the control room. "You will be gone in the morning so use the sheets as restraints so you don't fall out of bed. Good bye and good luck to all of you." The P.A turned off.
Eienno rolled over, he was tried from not getting any sleep the night before. He soon fell into a peaceful sleep. As luck would have it though, his dream to began its fearsome attack on him. It hit with a stronger vengeance this time, though. ~ ~Dream~ ~ The same start began to take place. It wasn't until the end of the dream that something different happened. Yukkarie smiled at Eienno, who held a small child in one arm and the woman in the other.
"You found someone," said Yukkarie cheerfully, "how convenient." She glared at him in a way he had never seen before.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Eienno, grasping his new found love and child in his arms tightly.
"You and I both, Eienno," she looked at him with rage and humiliation.
"I found someone better than you," she looked to the side. "Someone, who loves me for who I am and is willing to marry me for the sake of me, not my bedding skills."
This made Eienno think, had he only married Yukkarie for the sake of sex? He looked at the child who soon began to cry from the tension she sensed. The woman took it in her arms and hugged both the child and him close to her.
Yukkarie disappeared making the environment change. They stood, frightened and alarmed in a peaceful grass field. The woman looked around. Her body relaxed and pulled Eienno to her.
"She's gone."
A rumbling feel to the ground made her tense again. In the distance the woman could see tanks and warfare heading their way. She held a hand our and turned the air in her hand. A lock made of stars appeared before her hand. It made ticking noises as she turned the top star, then the second, third and forth stars. The circle that surrounded them began to open.
The environment fazed to white again. ~ ~End of Dream~ ~ * * * Hanna's eye fluttered open as she awoke from her hazy sleep. Her body felt heavy. She pulled the sheets off her slender body, and leaned over to the window and looked at the radiant stars from outside. She then remembered that there had been a long bay window in the control room. Peering at her watch to see that it was only about two in the morning, she pulled open the door and walked out. She had only slept in a t-shirt that fell to her soft mid-thighs. She found her spot beside Eienno's and sat down, studying the stars like she would study her ceiling before, in a half sleeping daze. * * * Eienno's eye shot open. He was hyperventilating and sweat beaded from his forehead. He sat up and looked around, partially remembering where he was. Laying back down, he tried to fall back to sleep.
After about a half an hour of looking at air, Eienno decided that since he couldn't sleep, he'd go have something to drink. He floated out of his bed towards the door leading into the hallway. He headed to the kitchen and opened a package of juice with a straw. He hulled himself back to his room and decided that since he wasn't going to sleep, he'd go into the control room and image how much control he could have over Hanna.
When he had floated to his seat, he pulled on the buckle to put himself down. He looked over to his side, where Hanna was to sit.
To his surprise, she was there. She'd fallen asleep though, and wasn't able to be taunted by him. He looked her from head to toe. She had buckled herself in, but was curled into a tiny ball on the seat. Her head laid softly on the armrest closest to his chair. Her orange shirt had a v-neck, showing off all her cleavage, and rode slightly along the rim of her bottom. Her legs curled into her chest, which raised slightly every time she inhaled.
Eienno felt his heart race as he looked at the blue-haired beauty. Every minute her spent starring at her, he found himself more and more lost.
Hanna woke up to the feeling of being starred at. She sat up to see who it was.
"What are you doing?" she asked sleepily.
"Nothing," he said harshly.
Hanna pulled her shirt down so that it would cover her more, "Then leave."
"No," he muttered flatly. "I have just as much right to be here as you do."
"Fine then," she said, undoing the buckle that held her to the seat. "I'll leave."
"Good," he smirked, "Get that monstrous body out of my face."
"Monstrous, hey?" said Hanna, sleep deprivation written all over her. "And why do you say that?"
"Just look at you," he pointed to her feet, which were absolutely perfect. "Your feet are too big, your toes are too small, your legs are more like soggy sticks plastered to you at the waist." He hesitated to find something wrong with her waistline, "and oh, that pot belly."
Hanna looked at her flat stomach with an eyebrow arched.
"Well," she said, "if those are all the things wrong with my body, then yours should be burned for being so disgusting."
His face squished into a frown. "At least I can get some. No guy would be brave enough to try looking at you naked."
"Oh, yeah?" said Hanna with a smirk of knowingness. "Then why were you starring at me?"
Eienno hesitation. 'How did she know I was starring at her?' he asked himself. "I wasn't starring, moron, I was glancing in that direction when you woke up."
"That's why I felt your eyes burning holes in my neck the whole time, right?" her smirk grew into a victorious smile.
"That's a lie," said Eienno angrily. He knew she was right, but he didn't want her to know that.
"No it's not," she said. "That's a lie too," he started to sound frustrated.
"Explain."
"You've only known me for 14 hours," he smirked triumphantly.
"Don't forget, you've had your hand on my ass all day," said Hanna, "you never looked guilty about anything then."
Eienno started to twitch. His wits, that at one time seemed to be unbeatable, were defeated.
"Tell the truth, Major," sighed Hanna, "You think I'm hot." Eienno's face went red. Hanna turned to face her bedroom door, then pushed herself off the chair. Eienno stood embarrassed.
Looking at his watch he decided that Yukkarie would be up and about by now. She was always up early, it almost scared him. He dug around for a satellite phone and eventually he found one.
He dialed in his home phone number.
By now, Hanna had gone to bed and was sleeping soundly.
The phone rung persistently until, "Hello?"
"Hi," said Eienno gently, but quietly.
"Oh, hi Eienno," said Yukkarie happily. "How are you?"
"Tired," he paused, "And you?"
"I'm good, but I miss you a lot." She stayed quiet.
His heart sank. He had never had anyone say something like that to him after he had only been gone for not even a full 24 hours. 'Damn,' he thought, 'no one has ever said that to me at all.' "I miss you too."
"So," she sighed, "are you going to fill me in on everything?"
"Sure," said Eienno. "I'm in space. I have a small room with a small bed, there's a kitchen, a guys' room, a bathroom, and whole bunch of other stuff."
"Tell me the names of the others there with you," she instructed.
"Well, there's Chikara Akiri, Sebastien Latona, Hanna Natsu, Tomodachi Omonashi, Cordelia Daytene, Karameki Naone and that's it until the moon base." He silenced himself.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Yukkarie, hearing a weird something in his voice.
"No," he said, "Just called you in the middle of my thoughts. I guess I kind of wanted to tell them to you as I got them in order, you know?"
"I'm your wife," she said calmly, "that's what I'm here for."
"Well," he started, "one of the girls here is incredibly gorgeous." He paused in concern, "are you still wanting to hear?"
"Yeah, I won't make any assumptions until later," answered Yukkarie, not feeling any fear of losing Eienno to this new girl.
"But see," he started again, "not only is she gorgeous, but smart and witty as well. Do you remember how you used to have to be with me?"
"Un," she said softly.
"She's like that except she's got more eagerness behind it." He hesitated. "When I got transported here, the people screwed up the schedule and forgot to check the times, so we were sent to the same place at the same time. We got stuck in a little room together and it was weird. I had a dream the other night with her in it. I'd never met her. Do you know why or how that could happen?"
"No," she said, "maybe you saw her somewhere once and you can't remember her."
"I doubt it," he said, "but there's a chance."
"I recognize one of those names though," she said. "Hanna, she and I used to be friends before I moved here and met you. Does she have blue hair?"
"Oh shit," he exclaimed quietly, "you know Hanna?"
"I did," she replied, "Does she still have her blue hair?"
"Is it dyed?" asked Eienno, eager to find out more about her.
"Um," she started, "she never dyed it. She never wanted to. It was her favourite colour, she even bought white, blue and black so her clothes would match her hair. Does she still have it?"
"She does," he said. "How long ago did you know her?" he asked, with determination.
"I knew her about four years ago," said Yukkarie, remembering the years she spent in military school. "She was my best friend. Smart and eager to please. The professor in the medical department gave her 100 percent on everything and she more than earned it. Her stuff was all perfect. On her first real operation, she needed to do open heart on a man with a tumor in his ventricles. The doctor who was assisting her didn't need to do anything to aid her, she got a perfect score. She took the place I was supposed to have, or I'd be going with you."
"What do you mean?" asked Eienno.
"She got better than me in every course we took," she explained, "so not only did they make her into a doctor, but a flight captain too."
"Could have fooled me," he said sarcastically, "she acts like a stupid, man- hating ditz all the time."
"There's a reason for that," she said in defense of her old time friend. "When she was in high-school, the guys would always walk by her and smack her ass or do something that involved making her uncomfortable. She was extremely pretty when she was 18, the prettiest in the school, so she would get a lot of humiliation from the guys."
"Oh," he said, with new found fuel. 'That's why she was so sensitive to being touched and watched.'
"Sorry sweetie, I got to go to work," said Yukkarie, softly. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"Bye."
"Talk to you later," said Eienno, pulling the phone from his ear. He got up as he turned it off and put it back where he had found it a while ago. He pushed off towards his room, floating with ease, straight through to the other door. He wanted to explore without anyone being there. He turned off the gravity as he left.
He peered into the bathroom. It was reasonably big with white walls and white towels and wash clothes to go with them. The towels were stacked nicely in a cupboard with plastic sliding doors. On one side of the room, there was a rather large bathtub with jets and a cushion to support the neck and head.
'They sure went all out to make sure we were comfortable,' he thought as he studied everything.
On the other side of the bathroom, there was a tall shower with plastic sliding doors. It too, was a very large size with a lot of fancy accessories.
Closing the door, he headed to the hangout made for guys. When he opened the door, his eyes almost shot out of his head in joy. There were weights and things to help him keep his toned muscles the way they were. He decided that instead of seeing everything else, he'd just stay there and lift weights.
He began lifting with 20 pound weights to warm up and gradually moved up to his 75 pound goal.
Hanna was still finding it hard to sleep after she left the control room. She could hear Eienno talking, but couldn't hear what he said. She sat and listened to the soothing sound of his voice. She imagined he was singing her to sleep. She didn't care who it was, it was nice to think that someone would actually care enough to do so. She heard Eienno shuffle around in the control room and then go through his room to the rest of the shuttle. She peered at her watch. It was almost six in the morning, so she decided to get up and make breakfast since she couldn't sleep.
As she came closer to where Eienno was, she could hear him breathing heavily. She opened the door to the guys room just enough to see in. He was lifting 60 pounds on the bench press and with relative ease. A smirk grew across her face. She opened the door a little more and stood in the hall, still in her pajamas.
"You know," she said, making him look over at her, "it's dangerous to do weight-training without someone to make sure you don't hurt yourself."
"And you care, why?" he said.
"I don't care," she said, "just thought you, as any other person in the universe, could get hurt. Besides, I don't want to be the one who has to surgically remove a pole from your chest."
"Why is that?" said Eienno with a smirk.
"Waste of my time."
"What if it was someone else who needed you?" he asked.
"Then it would be okay," she said truthfully, without even a flinch to give the impression she was lying. "I'd do whatever I could for anyone else."
"A reliable source tells me you're smarter then you look," he smirked, "I don't see how they could be right about it though."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because, anyone with a brain would want to help me," he spoke with more confidence than most, but kept lifting his weights.
"Answer me something," said Hanna, "is your dick as big as your ego?"
"Why do you care?" He looked at her with sinister eyes.
"I don't," she said, "I couldn't give a crap about you at all."
"Then why'd you ask?"
"To get the topic of me helping you out of your head," she said loudly.
"Why wouldn't you help me?" said Eienno.
"Because you piss me off." She looked at the kitchen and walked away. 'Asshole.'
Eienno smiled as she walked out. 'She's so cute,' he thought sarcastically.
Hanna rattled around in the kitchen looking for something she could make for everyone. She found eggs, vegetables, and some spices. 'Omelets,' thought Hanna. She didn't like to eat anything with eggs. So, she decided, 'make them some food and skip breakfast.'
Hanna's day had started off okay, but then 'that guy' had to show up and grope her bottom. She usually didn't care if she was accidentally touched, but something about this guy made her nervous. She recognized him from somewhere, but she could not quite place him. She starred at him as they walked down the hallway. It looked identical to the one that had freaked her out earlier that day, in her dreams.
Eienno, on the other hand, didn't exactly mind being squished in a small area. He rather liked it. The fear she must have felt, but the courage she showed. She didn't seem too comfortable though. He actually thought she looked strangely unhappy. 'Could she be leaving her lover too?' he thought. He put his hands behind his back and gently pulled the ring from his finger. He was going to have fun with this one, before he told her his marital status. Of course he wasn't going to do anything that could ruin his relationship with his precious Yukkarie. As he looked at her, though, he noticed something oddly familiar about her. He, unlike Hanna, recognized her. 'She's the girl from that weird dream,' he told himself. 'What the hell?'
Meeko-Bei finally led them into a room. There were people in it, talking and laughing.
"Attention," said Meeko, like a grade three teacher. She turned to the two, "Go sit down."
Hanna walked right past Eienno in through the door. She didn't want to look at him unless she had to.
Meeko-Bei let Eienno walk in before she did. She closed the door behind them and walked to the front.
"Now that your captain and commander are here, we can explain why you're all here and then get you all off as soon as possible." She pulled a small laser pointer from her pocket and a remote control from the other. "If you'd all look at the center of the table, I'll show you all you need to know."
An image grew into a large diagram of the Pacific Ocean.
"This, as you all know, is Earth," she paused. "This nice big thing of blue water is the Pacific Ocean." She turned on her laser pointer and pointed at a small square in the middle of the waters. "Here is where your mission is to be fulfilled. Its coordinates are 165W and 0. A spy that was sent to Earth found an important piece of paper, about 3 years ago, that held the purpose made for the area. A giant canon, that will be set to fire at the colonies in another 4 years, in it's completion. So we have designed a special ship that is able to fly in space, water and air. It has oxygen filters made of natural plants that recycle the air, making it almost impossible for the air to run out. Special machines were made to water the plants as soon as they get too dry and begin to run low. It also fertilizes and plants so that you wont have to.
The shuttle you will be flying in, is a unique model made to carry all of you and about four more. Questions about that come later." She zoomed in so they could see the entrance to the ship. "There is an air tight door, with five locks that need to be secured before the ship will even start. Once you get past that," she zoomed in more, making it look like they were actually traveling into the ship's doors, "There is a separation in the hallway. One corridor heads to the bedrooms and living areas and the other to the control room. The only rooms linked to the control room are the commander and captain's rooms. They are not, at all linked to each other, I might add. The rooms are small but fit all the things you need. You have room to walk around and do things to yourself, but that's all we could fit. There is a kitchen, living room, three bathrooms, as I said before, 11 bedrooms, a guys' hangout and a women's hangout. The women's hangout has all the necessary feminine products, if you run out, which you won't, you can pick up more 'supplies' at the next stop. Same goes for men," she raised a brow at Eienno and Hanna. "Just in case, there are also birth control pills and condoms."
"Okay," interrupted Eienno, sarcastically, "extra rooms and birth control products. Um.why do we have those?" In agreement, everyone else in the room looked at Meeko-Bei with a strange glare.
"Because, being stuck in space with a ship set to dock at a certain place a long distance away, having to look at the same people over and over again with no sexual attention can lead a person, and it's a proven fact, to do stupid things, like have sex with people they probably despise being with." She smirked, "I know two people who will really be needing them by the time they get back here." She looked over at Eienno and Hanna again, her smirk slowly turning into a mischievous smile.
"If it makes everyone here feel better, I have psychiatric training," said a fiery redhead. She looked down to the end of the table, "by the way, I'm Cordelia Daytene, your weapons specialist. I get to blow up anything that gets in our way that isn't a friend." She giggled evilly to herself.
"Good for you," said Hanna, smiling brightly. "I think that's going to be a lot of fun."
"That reminds me," said Meeko, "You two should get to know these five. I guess since Cordelia is beside Eienno anyway, we should start with her."
"You all know me already," she said.
"Birth date too," said Meeko.
"Fine," mumbled Cordelia, "February 17, 2659."
It moved along to a blonde-brown haired guy, whose eyes were a sort of brown eye colour. "I'm Sebastien Latona, the co-pilot. Born on the first of November in 2657."
He looked next to himself, at the bright purple haired girl. She smiled, "I'm Karameki Naone, navigations and communications specialist, I make sure we get where we want to go safely. My birthday is on December 13, 2657."
The attention turned to a golden blonde girl, "Hi, I'm Tomodachi Omonashi, I'm the head of engineering. My birthday is on June third, 2658."
She shyly peeked over at the guy across from her.
"My name's Chikara Akiri, I'm the other co-pilot. I was born on March 11, 2657." He looked up at Meeko-Bei. She smiled at him.
"Now that you know all them," said Meeko, "Tell them who you are."
"I'm Hanna Natsu," she said kindly. "I'm happy to meet you all. My birthday is on July 10, 2658. I'm the captain and I'll be more than grateful to work with everyone but him." She childishly pointed at Eienno with her thumb.
"My name is Eienno Kiyoshi, I'm the mayor, my birthday is not going to be told to you until the day it rolls around." He looked at Hanna, "And I think I'll enjoy working with you, Hanna." Sarcasm stained his words.
"Good then, now that everyone knows everyone , it's time for you to get settled into the ship." Meeko gestured for everyone to follow her. She headed for the main hanger on the roof and opened the gate to the security shields. Upon the push of a button the elevator door opened. She forced everyone to pack themselves into the small space and go in all at once.
'God,' thought Hanna, 'why are you doing this to me?' She could feel Eienno's hand squished on her butt again. She turned to face him.
"Would you please." she paused and took a breath to control her urge to yell. ".Take your hand off." she paused again and looked him in the face, as his hand had not moved from its claimed spot just below the small of her back. ".my ass!" she couldn't help but yell making everyone else stop and stare at her.
He stood firm admiring the glow that radiated from Hanna as her anger became noticeable. His hand didn't budge.
She stood up tall, only to become level with his chin.
"Now!" she yelled.
His hand didn't move still, his lip pulled itself into a sinister smirk.
Karameki giggled uncontrollably when Hanna's hand ran right across his face, leaving a nice scratch mark along the ridges of his cheek bone.
He pulled his hand away showing it midair to prove that he wasn't invading her anymore.
The elevator finally stopped. Hanna was let out before anyone could get in her way. Cordelia came up behind her resting a friendly hand on her shoulder.
"That was funny," she said with a bright smiled carved across her face. "Do you two have a background with each other?"
Hanna looked at her strangely, "No." She continued looking in the direction that Meeko-Bei was leading them in, "We just got stuck in that transport thing together and it turned out his hand managed to find my ass somehow. Meeko-Bei's stupid staff sent us to the colony at the same time. Morons."
"You're talking in my language," said Cordelia, "We're going to be great friends."
Eienno smirked at the success he had had making Hanna mad again, for the exact same reason as before. Of course, his hand never meant to go where it always seemed to want to go. He never meant to touch her.
Meeko guided them into the control room first.
The white walls once again made Hanna uneasy. The nerve-raking. white chairs and white floor began to haunt and annoy her. She looked over at Eienno, who loomed in a corner and watch everyone fiddle about their business. He looked at his chair atop a small stair and found there was another seat beside it.
"These are the captain and major's seats," said Meeko cheerfully.
'Things keep getting better,' though Eienno sarcastically. 'Her ass and my hand are magnetized and she's sitting next to me the whole way.'
Over hearing what Meeko had said, Hanna grumbled knowing they would just quarrel the entire time.
"Okay," said Meeko-Bei, waking both Hanna and Eienno from their thoughts. "I'll show you the other rooms."
She led them back to the corridor and opened an air tight door, letting everyone in ahead of her. The ceiling was just the right height for every head that passed through it.
Opening the first door, she announced it as being Karameki's room. Karameki skipped over to it, graciously seeing that her bag was placed neatly on her bed. She closed the door informing her team mates she was going to get settled in.
Meeko opened the door beside Karameki's, "This is Cordelia's room." Cordelia too, parted with the crowd to go organize herself.
She opened the third door, "Tomodachi, enjoy." Tomodachi left the group, just because that was what everyone else was doing so anyway.
Meeko looked to the other side of the hallway and opened the door closest to the corridors. "This should be Chikara's room."
Chikara figured 'what the hell?' and went to check everything out.
Sebastien took a wild guess and asked it the next door might have been his. Meeko nodded allowing Sebastien to enter his room without a second of questioning.
It was the last few moments of the evening when Hanna and Eienno were settled into their rooms, which had to be beside each other with a weird form of access to the other. Hanna rolled onto her bed after throwing all her clothes neatly into the drawers. She slowly found herself falling asleep, only to be visited by her dream again.
Eienno lay in his bed looking up at the ceiling.
'Why is she in my dreams, before I'd even met her?' he asked himself in thought. Eienno rolled over knowing there was a long day to look forward to the next morning.
"Do get some sleep you all," said Meeko's voice over the P.A from the control room. "You will be gone in the morning so use the sheets as restraints so you don't fall out of bed. Good bye and good luck to all of you." The P.A turned off.
Eienno rolled over, he was tried from not getting any sleep the night before. He soon fell into a peaceful sleep. As luck would have it though, his dream to began its fearsome attack on him. It hit with a stronger vengeance this time, though. ~ ~Dream~ ~ The same start began to take place. It wasn't until the end of the dream that something different happened. Yukkarie smiled at Eienno, who held a small child in one arm and the woman in the other.
"You found someone," said Yukkarie cheerfully, "how convenient." She glared at him in a way he had never seen before.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Eienno, grasping his new found love and child in his arms tightly.
"You and I both, Eienno," she looked at him with rage and humiliation.
"I found someone better than you," she looked to the side. "Someone, who loves me for who I am and is willing to marry me for the sake of me, not my bedding skills."
This made Eienno think, had he only married Yukkarie for the sake of sex? He looked at the child who soon began to cry from the tension she sensed. The woman took it in her arms and hugged both the child and him close to her.
Yukkarie disappeared making the environment change. They stood, frightened and alarmed in a peaceful grass field. The woman looked around. Her body relaxed and pulled Eienno to her.
"She's gone."
A rumbling feel to the ground made her tense again. In the distance the woman could see tanks and warfare heading their way. She held a hand our and turned the air in her hand. A lock made of stars appeared before her hand. It made ticking noises as she turned the top star, then the second, third and forth stars. The circle that surrounded them began to open.
The environment fazed to white again. ~ ~End of Dream~ ~ * * * Hanna's eye fluttered open as she awoke from her hazy sleep. Her body felt heavy. She pulled the sheets off her slender body, and leaned over to the window and looked at the radiant stars from outside. She then remembered that there had been a long bay window in the control room. Peering at her watch to see that it was only about two in the morning, she pulled open the door and walked out. She had only slept in a t-shirt that fell to her soft mid-thighs. She found her spot beside Eienno's and sat down, studying the stars like she would study her ceiling before, in a half sleeping daze. * * * Eienno's eye shot open. He was hyperventilating and sweat beaded from his forehead. He sat up and looked around, partially remembering where he was. Laying back down, he tried to fall back to sleep.
After about a half an hour of looking at air, Eienno decided that since he couldn't sleep, he'd go have something to drink. He floated out of his bed towards the door leading into the hallway. He headed to the kitchen and opened a package of juice with a straw. He hulled himself back to his room and decided that since he wasn't going to sleep, he'd go into the control room and image how much control he could have over Hanna.
When he had floated to his seat, he pulled on the buckle to put himself down. He looked over to his side, where Hanna was to sit.
To his surprise, she was there. She'd fallen asleep though, and wasn't able to be taunted by him. He looked her from head to toe. She had buckled herself in, but was curled into a tiny ball on the seat. Her head laid softly on the armrest closest to his chair. Her orange shirt had a v-neck, showing off all her cleavage, and rode slightly along the rim of her bottom. Her legs curled into her chest, which raised slightly every time she inhaled.
Eienno felt his heart race as he looked at the blue-haired beauty. Every minute her spent starring at her, he found himself more and more lost.
Hanna woke up to the feeling of being starred at. She sat up to see who it was.
"What are you doing?" she asked sleepily.
"Nothing," he said harshly.
Hanna pulled her shirt down so that it would cover her more, "Then leave."
"No," he muttered flatly. "I have just as much right to be here as you do."
"Fine then," she said, undoing the buckle that held her to the seat. "I'll leave."
"Good," he smirked, "Get that monstrous body out of my face."
"Monstrous, hey?" said Hanna, sleep deprivation written all over her. "And why do you say that?"
"Just look at you," he pointed to her feet, which were absolutely perfect. "Your feet are too big, your toes are too small, your legs are more like soggy sticks plastered to you at the waist." He hesitated to find something wrong with her waistline, "and oh, that pot belly."
Hanna looked at her flat stomach with an eyebrow arched.
"Well," she said, "if those are all the things wrong with my body, then yours should be burned for being so disgusting."
His face squished into a frown. "At least I can get some. No guy would be brave enough to try looking at you naked."
"Oh, yeah?" said Hanna with a smirk of knowingness. "Then why were you starring at me?"
Eienno hesitation. 'How did she know I was starring at her?' he asked himself. "I wasn't starring, moron, I was glancing in that direction when you woke up."
"That's why I felt your eyes burning holes in my neck the whole time, right?" her smirk grew into a victorious smile.
"That's a lie," said Eienno angrily. He knew she was right, but he didn't want her to know that.
"No it's not," she said. "That's a lie too," he started to sound frustrated.
"Explain."
"You've only known me for 14 hours," he smirked triumphantly.
"Don't forget, you've had your hand on my ass all day," said Hanna, "you never looked guilty about anything then."
Eienno started to twitch. His wits, that at one time seemed to be unbeatable, were defeated.
"Tell the truth, Major," sighed Hanna, "You think I'm hot." Eienno's face went red. Hanna turned to face her bedroom door, then pushed herself off the chair. Eienno stood embarrassed.
Looking at his watch he decided that Yukkarie would be up and about by now. She was always up early, it almost scared him. He dug around for a satellite phone and eventually he found one.
He dialed in his home phone number.
By now, Hanna had gone to bed and was sleeping soundly.
The phone rung persistently until, "Hello?"
"Hi," said Eienno gently, but quietly.
"Oh, hi Eienno," said Yukkarie happily. "How are you?"
"Tired," he paused, "And you?"
"I'm good, but I miss you a lot." She stayed quiet.
His heart sank. He had never had anyone say something like that to him after he had only been gone for not even a full 24 hours. 'Damn,' he thought, 'no one has ever said that to me at all.' "I miss you too."
"So," she sighed, "are you going to fill me in on everything?"
"Sure," said Eienno. "I'm in space. I have a small room with a small bed, there's a kitchen, a guys' room, a bathroom, and whole bunch of other stuff."
"Tell me the names of the others there with you," she instructed.
"Well, there's Chikara Akiri, Sebastien Latona, Hanna Natsu, Tomodachi Omonashi, Cordelia Daytene, Karameki Naone and that's it until the moon base." He silenced himself.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Yukkarie, hearing a weird something in his voice.
"No," he said, "Just called you in the middle of my thoughts. I guess I kind of wanted to tell them to you as I got them in order, you know?"
"I'm your wife," she said calmly, "that's what I'm here for."
"Well," he started, "one of the girls here is incredibly gorgeous." He paused in concern, "are you still wanting to hear?"
"Yeah, I won't make any assumptions until later," answered Yukkarie, not feeling any fear of losing Eienno to this new girl.
"But see," he started again, "not only is she gorgeous, but smart and witty as well. Do you remember how you used to have to be with me?"
"Un," she said softly.
"She's like that except she's got more eagerness behind it." He hesitated. "When I got transported here, the people screwed up the schedule and forgot to check the times, so we were sent to the same place at the same time. We got stuck in a little room together and it was weird. I had a dream the other night with her in it. I'd never met her. Do you know why or how that could happen?"
"No," she said, "maybe you saw her somewhere once and you can't remember her."
"I doubt it," he said, "but there's a chance."
"I recognize one of those names though," she said. "Hanna, she and I used to be friends before I moved here and met you. Does she have blue hair?"
"Oh shit," he exclaimed quietly, "you know Hanna?"
"I did," she replied, "Does she still have her blue hair?"
"Is it dyed?" asked Eienno, eager to find out more about her.
"Um," she started, "she never dyed it. She never wanted to. It was her favourite colour, she even bought white, blue and black so her clothes would match her hair. Does she still have it?"
"She does," he said. "How long ago did you know her?" he asked, with determination.
"I knew her about four years ago," said Yukkarie, remembering the years she spent in military school. "She was my best friend. Smart and eager to please. The professor in the medical department gave her 100 percent on everything and she more than earned it. Her stuff was all perfect. On her first real operation, she needed to do open heart on a man with a tumor in his ventricles. The doctor who was assisting her didn't need to do anything to aid her, she got a perfect score. She took the place I was supposed to have, or I'd be going with you."
"What do you mean?" asked Eienno.
"She got better than me in every course we took," she explained, "so not only did they make her into a doctor, but a flight captain too."
"Could have fooled me," he said sarcastically, "she acts like a stupid, man- hating ditz all the time."
"There's a reason for that," she said in defense of her old time friend. "When she was in high-school, the guys would always walk by her and smack her ass or do something that involved making her uncomfortable. She was extremely pretty when she was 18, the prettiest in the school, so she would get a lot of humiliation from the guys."
"Oh," he said, with new found fuel. 'That's why she was so sensitive to being touched and watched.'
"Sorry sweetie, I got to go to work," said Yukkarie, softly. "I love you."
"I love you too."
"Bye."
"Talk to you later," said Eienno, pulling the phone from his ear. He got up as he turned it off and put it back where he had found it a while ago. He pushed off towards his room, floating with ease, straight through to the other door. He wanted to explore without anyone being there. He turned off the gravity as he left.
He peered into the bathroom. It was reasonably big with white walls and white towels and wash clothes to go with them. The towels were stacked nicely in a cupboard with plastic sliding doors. On one side of the room, there was a rather large bathtub with jets and a cushion to support the neck and head.
'They sure went all out to make sure we were comfortable,' he thought as he studied everything.
On the other side of the bathroom, there was a tall shower with plastic sliding doors. It too, was a very large size with a lot of fancy accessories.
Closing the door, he headed to the hangout made for guys. When he opened the door, his eyes almost shot out of his head in joy. There were weights and things to help him keep his toned muscles the way they were. He decided that instead of seeing everything else, he'd just stay there and lift weights.
He began lifting with 20 pound weights to warm up and gradually moved up to his 75 pound goal.
Hanna was still finding it hard to sleep after she left the control room. She could hear Eienno talking, but couldn't hear what he said. She sat and listened to the soothing sound of his voice. She imagined he was singing her to sleep. She didn't care who it was, it was nice to think that someone would actually care enough to do so. She heard Eienno shuffle around in the control room and then go through his room to the rest of the shuttle. She peered at her watch. It was almost six in the morning, so she decided to get up and make breakfast since she couldn't sleep.
As she came closer to where Eienno was, she could hear him breathing heavily. She opened the door to the guys room just enough to see in. He was lifting 60 pounds on the bench press and with relative ease. A smirk grew across her face. She opened the door a little more and stood in the hall, still in her pajamas.
"You know," she said, making him look over at her, "it's dangerous to do weight-training without someone to make sure you don't hurt yourself."
"And you care, why?" he said.
"I don't care," she said, "just thought you, as any other person in the universe, could get hurt. Besides, I don't want to be the one who has to surgically remove a pole from your chest."
"Why is that?" said Eienno with a smirk.
"Waste of my time."
"What if it was someone else who needed you?" he asked.
"Then it would be okay," she said truthfully, without even a flinch to give the impression she was lying. "I'd do whatever I could for anyone else."
"A reliable source tells me you're smarter then you look," he smirked, "I don't see how they could be right about it though."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because, anyone with a brain would want to help me," he spoke with more confidence than most, but kept lifting his weights.
"Answer me something," said Hanna, "is your dick as big as your ego?"
"Why do you care?" He looked at her with sinister eyes.
"I don't," she said, "I couldn't give a crap about you at all."
"Then why'd you ask?"
"To get the topic of me helping you out of your head," she said loudly.
"Why wouldn't you help me?" said Eienno.
"Because you piss me off." She looked at the kitchen and walked away. 'Asshole.'
Eienno smiled as she walked out. 'She's so cute,' he thought sarcastically.
Hanna rattled around in the kitchen looking for something she could make for everyone. She found eggs, vegetables, and some spices. 'Omelets,' thought Hanna. She didn't like to eat anything with eggs. So, she decided, 'make them some food and skip breakfast.'
