Wanting Something in Return (Final Notes and 2 Previews)
By Carter Tachikawa
Disclaimer: Weiß Kruez still isn't mine : ( Neither is the Dead Zone, which is where one preview is based off of.
Well, readers, I have finally finished. I know, technically, Chapter 7 is the last chapter. These are only a few final notes such as thank you to reviewers and what's to come next. Don't worry there is fiction in the end! If you wish to skip this, go ahead. I have 2 sneak peeks from future fics "Switch" and "Dead Zone". I must say, I was quite impressed with the way people reacted to this fic. It's the first time I wrote for Weiß Kruez and the second yaoi ever. I'm sad that it's over but I have the sequel and these other fics to look forward to! I hope you do too. So now I'm going to recognize those who reviewed my last chapter.
Keeshe Kaldaka, siberian, Silvia, a person with three question marks for a name, LittleIsa, CherubKatan, Kyri, Rika-chan, fei, mainey, kamibukurosama, schu-chan, teteiyas, Smiley_Kim, and K.K Yue (Sorry, I can't spell your first name)
Thanks bunches and now, without further ado, previews:
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Preview # 1
("Dead Zone"- a RanKen, AU, angst and supernatural)
Quick summary: Aya-chan awakens from her coma to find that she has acquired the ability to see the future and only she, along with Weiß, can stop the evils of the world now. Based off Stephen King's novel, which is also where the TV show comes from.
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"Aya, please ring me up!" One of the girls, who was hanging around the counter, asked. Aya, still lost in a daze, left her brother's side and went over to where the girl was purchasing some roses. Only a month after her awakening and she still wasn't used to normal life. So much had happened while she slept. Like Ran was now an assassin along with Omi! What was even more amazing was that Omi had been killing even while he was dating her! (Author note: There is an explanation on the Aya-chan x Omi deal in the rest of the fic. This is AU and a preview, remember?) Then Ran turned out to be in love...with a man. The man he loved, Ken Hidaka, was also an assassin! Then Yohji, sweet as he was to the girls, was an assassin! Omi was gone from her life forever. Sakura had entered the picture. Her parents were dead. Two years of her life were wasted with useless sleep.
*Doushite? (Why?) I'm not lucky to be alive.* She thought to herself. *I lost everything I had. I have to start all over again.*
"Will this be all?" She asked the girl who nodded.
"Yes. I want to surprise my mother. It's her birthday tomorrow."
"Ah, how nice." Aya remembered her own mother at that point. Finding her dead body only minutes after she had fallen into that coma...a night she never wanted to re-live. Except maybe for the time she was playing that game in the festival...how she seemed to guess the right color or number before it was revealed. The more and more she played, the less people decided to bet against her. Then in the end, when there was no one but her playing, she gave up and took her prize. It had been the best birthday she ever had. But then she and Ran went home, found their parents murdered, their house blew up, and she was run over by a car. How could she have predicted all those colors and numbers yet she had not predicted the terrible things that happened afterwards?
*That's because I'm not psychic.* She reminded herself. *The game was a coincidence. I was lucky.*
Lucky...somehow, she had a feeling that luck had nothing to do with her winnings. Her customer waited patiently as Aya rung up the price for the roses.
"Tell your mother "Happy Birthday" for me." Aya requested, handing the roses over.
"Oh, I will. Thank you!" As she handed the money over, Aya's fingers briefly touched the girl's hand...and she started to smell smoke. Looking around, she didn't see any of it in the shop. But the smell was strong and pretty soon she could feel the flames licking her back. Eyes wide, Aya held onto the girl's hand a little longer.
"Um...Aya...let me go!" The girl demanded. Ran noticed what was happening and rushed over. Aya still had a good grip on that girl's arm.
"I smell smoke." She murmured. "There's a fire."
"Huh?" By now, everyone in the shop stopped moving and stared at Aya, still holding onto the girl.
Then Aya found herself transported from the flower shop to a burning building. Flames were everywhere. Burning rafters fell from the ceiling and crashed to the ground. She tried to escape but it was hard. The place...it was a living room! The sofa was on fire and was quickly spreading to everything else. And a picture on the wall...the girl, her mother, and her father. And another picture of the girl by herself: her name was written on the frame, Umi.
"Umi..." She murmured.
"H...Hai? (Yes?)" The girl asked, now terrified. Ran had not succeeded in removing Aya's hand from the girl. "That's my name. How did you know my name?"
"Umi, your house is burning." Aya began. "Or it will be. You have to go home!"
"What?! My house is not burning! What kind of a sick joke is this?!" Umi demanded.
"Go home, Umi! If you don't believe me, call your neighbor! Ask them if they see smoke or flames from your house!"
"Aya-chan..." Ran began but shook her head.
"Do it, Umi! You still have time to save your home!"
"O...okay!" Umi nodded, realizing Aya wouldn't let her go unless she did as she was told. The other four florists just stared in horror, frozen and unable to do a thing. Aya handed Umi the phone and she dialed the phone number of her neighbor's. The rest of the people in the flower, minus Momoe, were exchanging glances. What was Aya doing?
"Aya, why are you scaring her like that?" Omi demanded.
"I'm not scaring her. The house will burn down if she doesn't do something!" Aya snapped. Omi stepped back. Ran decided to try a more gentle approach.
"Did you see her house burning down?" He asked.
Aya was about to say something when she heard Umi shriek.
"Nani? (What?) You see flames? From the window...oh my! Please call my parents and get some help! I'm on my way home!" Umi hung up and turned to Aya. "I don't know how you did it but thank you! My house was burning!"
Aya could only nod in response. She had prevented disaster from happening. Ran stared at his sister, wondering whether she was still the same person he once knew. Omi, Yohji, and Ken also looked at her before going back to work themselves. Pretty soon, the commotion in the store was like it had been before. Aya sighed and leaned against the wall. Closing her eyes, she felt a headache come on and the world swirl away. Whatever had come over her, it saved Umi's house...and possibly the people that were in it. She didn't know why it came to her or how she knew of it.
All she had was a bad feeling that this wasn't going to be her last vision.
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Preview # 2
( "Switch" - RanKen, humor, action/adventure, romance, and some supernatural)
Summary: During a mission, the boys get knocked out and awaken...only to find that their four minds and bodies have switched! Now Aya is playing around with a soccer ball, Ken is spending way too much time on the computer, Omi is flirting with ladies, and Yohji is...silent and stoic?! I know it's not an original story idea but it's one I wanted to write for a while.)
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"So are you all in?" Manx asked. The four of them nodded.
"Beautiful ladies in trouble...what do you think?" Omi asked with a sly grin on his face. "Maybe I'll end up scoring a date with a few while I'm at it."
Manx raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
"So do you want me to get started on finding information on the computer, Manx-san?" Ken asked.
"Actually, I was hoping Omi would do it but...sure. Do as you wish, Ken."
"Huh?" Aya looked in Manx's direction. "Were you talking to me, Manx?"
"No, Aya. I was talking to Ken."
"So you were talking to me?"
"No!" Manx said exasperated. It surprised her that the redhead, who rarely spoke up, was asking such a silly question. He wasn't the only one acting strange though. There was something wrong with the whole picture. Omi normally didn't take missions cause of the women in trouble. Yohji did that. And Ken rarely asked if he could look up information on the computer. Then Aya was acting clueless suddenly. And Yohji...Yohji was just standing quietly by the wall, a scowl on his face. Manx figured that some girl rejected him last night and he wasn't in a good mood.
"So...Manx?" Omi murmured before she had the chance to escape. The way he said that scared her, especially when he didn't call her 'Manx-san' like usual. Instead, Ken had done that. "Now we got the important stuff out of the way...how about you and I take care of a few things?"
"Yohji-kun!" Ken exclaimed. "What are you doing?!"
"Absolutely nothing." Yohji glared in Ken's direction. "I'm *right* here."
"Ugh, you're making me look bad!" Omi groaned.
Manx felt a headache coming on. What was going on? Why did Ken call Omi 'Yohji-kun'? Why was Omi flirting with her? Why was Yohji acting like Aya?
*Tell me I stepped into the twilight zone by accident.* Manx prayed. But she had a feeling that all this was reality.
"I look fine!" Yohji snapped, crossing his arms. "There is nothing wrong with me!"
"Calm down." Aya said, picking up a soccer ball that was sitting by the couch. "But you're not..."
"Not what?" Manx asked, finally fed up with the confusion. "I want an explanation. What are you all doing?"
The four looked at each other, knowing that they were caught. They couldn't keep this problem from Kritiker forever. For all they knew, they could use the help. Manx waited patiently until Ken bravely stepped up and tried to explain the switch.
"I don't understand the dilemma myself, Manx-san. This will be hard for me to explain and much harder for you to believe."
"I've heard weird things before. Don't worry." Manx assured him.
The mission we went on last night...do you remember?"
"I do, Ken. It was a success. So what's wrong?"
"That's just it, Manx-san." Ken sighed. "I'm not really Ken-kun. I'm Omi in Ken-kun's body. I know it sounds crazy but it's true. We succeeded but were knocked out by that blast...and when I woke up, I was in Ken-kun's body."
Manx didn't want to believe it. But a lot of things Ken (or Omi) said made sense. It would explain why Yohji was looking pissed in one corner and why Omi was flirting with her. That would also explain why Aya was now playing around with the soccer ball. She didn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure whose mind was in which body.
"So you are in Ken's body." She began. "Ken is in Aya's body. Aya is in Yohji's body. And Yohji is in your body?"
Ken (Omi) nodded. "That's right, Manx-san."
"It sounds farfetched to me, Omi."
"Farfetched?!" Omi (Yohji) exclaimed. "The hell do you mean it's farfetched, Manx?! Look at me! I'm in a seventeen-year old body, which lacks sex appeal! Look at my *legs*! My normal ones are strong and beautiful for any woman to admire! Omi's got stubby little legs! And no woman's gonna want to sit his lap! It's very..."
"Yohji-kun! That's my body and my legs and my lap that you're insulting!" Ken (Omi) whined.
"Do you know what we can do?" Yohji (Aya) asked. Manx shrugged.
"No idea. What do you think caused the switch?"
"Well, I believe", Ken (Omi) began, "that as we were running and we were thrown into air, the impact of our landings caused us to somehow switch minds with the person who was next to us. If I remember correctly, I was next to Ken-kun, Yohji-kun was on my other side, and Aya-kun was on Yohji's side. It kind of went around in a loop. My body carries Yohji-kun's mind, Yohji-kun's body has Aya-kun's mind, Aya-kun's body holds Ken-kun's mind, and I'm in in Ken-kun's body. We were knocked out in the whole process and when we awoke, we found ourselves in our present predicament."
"And you can't change back?" Despite all she heard, Manx still didn't believe what happened.
"We don't know how to, Manx-san. We could knock ourselves out but it may not make things better. Our minds could be switched again. We have to find another solution to this problem or we're doomed to stay like this forever.
Aya's (Ken's) face widened into a smile when he heard all that. "Wow! With all that explanation and stuff...I can't believe how smart I sound!"
"I believe you!" Manx said, after hearing Aya's normally emotionless voice get all happy. "I'll help and I'll get all four of you back to the way you were...somehow."
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And those were the previews. THE LEMON IS MY FIRST PRIORITY! I will have THREE places where it will be: mediaminer.org, fandomination.net, and here, as a rated R fic. It's called "The Gift" and there will lots of steamy RanKen scenes for all of you~_^ .
Here's what I want from you, dear readers. After the lemon, I don't know which story I want to start on. I don't want to do both at once cause then I'll never finish either one. So vote, in your review, for either "Switch" or "Dead Zone". Whichever gets more will be the fic I'll begin...after the lemon, of course.
Later, everyone. Hope you liked what you first saw. Review, go easy, you know the drill. Enjoy the pocky I sent you all...next time you'll get them with lemons^^
Always,
Carter
By Carter Tachikawa
Disclaimer: Weiß Kruez still isn't mine : ( Neither is the Dead Zone, which is where one preview is based off of.
Well, readers, I have finally finished. I know, technically, Chapter 7 is the last chapter. These are only a few final notes such as thank you to reviewers and what's to come next. Don't worry there is fiction in the end! If you wish to skip this, go ahead. I have 2 sneak peeks from future fics "Switch" and "Dead Zone". I must say, I was quite impressed with the way people reacted to this fic. It's the first time I wrote for Weiß Kruez and the second yaoi ever. I'm sad that it's over but I have the sequel and these other fics to look forward to! I hope you do too. So now I'm going to recognize those who reviewed my last chapter.
Keeshe Kaldaka, siberian, Silvia, a person with three question marks for a name, LittleIsa, CherubKatan, Kyri, Rika-chan, fei, mainey, kamibukurosama, schu-chan, teteiyas, Smiley_Kim, and K.K Yue (Sorry, I can't spell your first name)
Thanks bunches and now, without further ado, previews:
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Preview # 1
("Dead Zone"- a RanKen, AU, angst and supernatural)
Quick summary: Aya-chan awakens from her coma to find that she has acquired the ability to see the future and only she, along with Weiß, can stop the evils of the world now. Based off Stephen King's novel, which is also where the TV show comes from.
~ ~ ~
"Aya, please ring me up!" One of the girls, who was hanging around the counter, asked. Aya, still lost in a daze, left her brother's side and went over to where the girl was purchasing some roses. Only a month after her awakening and she still wasn't used to normal life. So much had happened while she slept. Like Ran was now an assassin along with Omi! What was even more amazing was that Omi had been killing even while he was dating her! (Author note: There is an explanation on the Aya-chan x Omi deal in the rest of the fic. This is AU and a preview, remember?) Then Ran turned out to be in love...with a man. The man he loved, Ken Hidaka, was also an assassin! Then Yohji, sweet as he was to the girls, was an assassin! Omi was gone from her life forever. Sakura had entered the picture. Her parents were dead. Two years of her life were wasted with useless sleep.
*Doushite? (Why?) I'm not lucky to be alive.* She thought to herself. *I lost everything I had. I have to start all over again.*
"Will this be all?" She asked the girl who nodded.
"Yes. I want to surprise my mother. It's her birthday tomorrow."
"Ah, how nice." Aya remembered her own mother at that point. Finding her dead body only minutes after she had fallen into that coma...a night she never wanted to re-live. Except maybe for the time she was playing that game in the festival...how she seemed to guess the right color or number before it was revealed. The more and more she played, the less people decided to bet against her. Then in the end, when there was no one but her playing, she gave up and took her prize. It had been the best birthday she ever had. But then she and Ran went home, found their parents murdered, their house blew up, and she was run over by a car. How could she have predicted all those colors and numbers yet she had not predicted the terrible things that happened afterwards?
*That's because I'm not psychic.* She reminded herself. *The game was a coincidence. I was lucky.*
Lucky...somehow, she had a feeling that luck had nothing to do with her winnings. Her customer waited patiently as Aya rung up the price for the roses.
"Tell your mother "Happy Birthday" for me." Aya requested, handing the roses over.
"Oh, I will. Thank you!" As she handed the money over, Aya's fingers briefly touched the girl's hand...and she started to smell smoke. Looking around, she didn't see any of it in the shop. But the smell was strong and pretty soon she could feel the flames licking her back. Eyes wide, Aya held onto the girl's hand a little longer.
"Um...Aya...let me go!" The girl demanded. Ran noticed what was happening and rushed over. Aya still had a good grip on that girl's arm.
"I smell smoke." She murmured. "There's a fire."
"Huh?" By now, everyone in the shop stopped moving and stared at Aya, still holding onto the girl.
Then Aya found herself transported from the flower shop to a burning building. Flames were everywhere. Burning rafters fell from the ceiling and crashed to the ground. She tried to escape but it was hard. The place...it was a living room! The sofa was on fire and was quickly spreading to everything else. And a picture on the wall...the girl, her mother, and her father. And another picture of the girl by herself: her name was written on the frame, Umi.
"Umi..." She murmured.
"H...Hai? (Yes?)" The girl asked, now terrified. Ran had not succeeded in removing Aya's hand from the girl. "That's my name. How did you know my name?"
"Umi, your house is burning." Aya began. "Or it will be. You have to go home!"
"What?! My house is not burning! What kind of a sick joke is this?!" Umi demanded.
"Go home, Umi! If you don't believe me, call your neighbor! Ask them if they see smoke or flames from your house!"
"Aya-chan..." Ran began but shook her head.
"Do it, Umi! You still have time to save your home!"
"O...okay!" Umi nodded, realizing Aya wouldn't let her go unless she did as she was told. The other four florists just stared in horror, frozen and unable to do a thing. Aya handed Umi the phone and she dialed the phone number of her neighbor's. The rest of the people in the flower, minus Momoe, were exchanging glances. What was Aya doing?
"Aya, why are you scaring her like that?" Omi demanded.
"I'm not scaring her. The house will burn down if she doesn't do something!" Aya snapped. Omi stepped back. Ran decided to try a more gentle approach.
"Did you see her house burning down?" He asked.
Aya was about to say something when she heard Umi shriek.
"Nani? (What?) You see flames? From the window...oh my! Please call my parents and get some help! I'm on my way home!" Umi hung up and turned to Aya. "I don't know how you did it but thank you! My house was burning!"
Aya could only nod in response. She had prevented disaster from happening. Ran stared at his sister, wondering whether she was still the same person he once knew. Omi, Yohji, and Ken also looked at her before going back to work themselves. Pretty soon, the commotion in the store was like it had been before. Aya sighed and leaned against the wall. Closing her eyes, she felt a headache come on and the world swirl away. Whatever had come over her, it saved Umi's house...and possibly the people that were in it. She didn't know why it came to her or how she knew of it.
All she had was a bad feeling that this wasn't going to be her last vision.
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Preview # 2
( "Switch" - RanKen, humor, action/adventure, romance, and some supernatural)
Summary: During a mission, the boys get knocked out and awaken...only to find that their four minds and bodies have switched! Now Aya is playing around with a soccer ball, Ken is spending way too much time on the computer, Omi is flirting with ladies, and Yohji is...silent and stoic?! I know it's not an original story idea but it's one I wanted to write for a while.)
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"So are you all in?" Manx asked. The four of them nodded.
"Beautiful ladies in trouble...what do you think?" Omi asked with a sly grin on his face. "Maybe I'll end up scoring a date with a few while I'm at it."
Manx raised an eyebrow but said nothing.
"So do you want me to get started on finding information on the computer, Manx-san?" Ken asked.
"Actually, I was hoping Omi would do it but...sure. Do as you wish, Ken."
"Huh?" Aya looked in Manx's direction. "Were you talking to me, Manx?"
"No, Aya. I was talking to Ken."
"So you were talking to me?"
"No!" Manx said exasperated. It surprised her that the redhead, who rarely spoke up, was asking such a silly question. He wasn't the only one acting strange though. There was something wrong with the whole picture. Omi normally didn't take missions cause of the women in trouble. Yohji did that. And Ken rarely asked if he could look up information on the computer. Then Aya was acting clueless suddenly. And Yohji...Yohji was just standing quietly by the wall, a scowl on his face. Manx figured that some girl rejected him last night and he wasn't in a good mood.
"So...Manx?" Omi murmured before she had the chance to escape. The way he said that scared her, especially when he didn't call her 'Manx-san' like usual. Instead, Ken had done that. "Now we got the important stuff out of the way...how about you and I take care of a few things?"
"Yohji-kun!" Ken exclaimed. "What are you doing?!"
"Absolutely nothing." Yohji glared in Ken's direction. "I'm *right* here."
"Ugh, you're making me look bad!" Omi groaned.
Manx felt a headache coming on. What was going on? Why did Ken call Omi 'Yohji-kun'? Why was Omi flirting with her? Why was Yohji acting like Aya?
*Tell me I stepped into the twilight zone by accident.* Manx prayed. But she had a feeling that all this was reality.
"I look fine!" Yohji snapped, crossing his arms. "There is nothing wrong with me!"
"Calm down." Aya said, picking up a soccer ball that was sitting by the couch. "But you're not..."
"Not what?" Manx asked, finally fed up with the confusion. "I want an explanation. What are you all doing?"
The four looked at each other, knowing that they were caught. They couldn't keep this problem from Kritiker forever. For all they knew, they could use the help. Manx waited patiently until Ken bravely stepped up and tried to explain the switch.
"I don't understand the dilemma myself, Manx-san. This will be hard for me to explain and much harder for you to believe."
"I've heard weird things before. Don't worry." Manx assured him.
The mission we went on last night...do you remember?"
"I do, Ken. It was a success. So what's wrong?"
"That's just it, Manx-san." Ken sighed. "I'm not really Ken-kun. I'm Omi in Ken-kun's body. I know it sounds crazy but it's true. We succeeded but were knocked out by that blast...and when I woke up, I was in Ken-kun's body."
Manx didn't want to believe it. But a lot of things Ken (or Omi) said made sense. It would explain why Yohji was looking pissed in one corner and why Omi was flirting with her. That would also explain why Aya was now playing around with the soccer ball. She didn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure whose mind was in which body.
"So you are in Ken's body." She began. "Ken is in Aya's body. Aya is in Yohji's body. And Yohji is in your body?"
Ken (Omi) nodded. "That's right, Manx-san."
"It sounds farfetched to me, Omi."
"Farfetched?!" Omi (Yohji) exclaimed. "The hell do you mean it's farfetched, Manx?! Look at me! I'm in a seventeen-year old body, which lacks sex appeal! Look at my *legs*! My normal ones are strong and beautiful for any woman to admire! Omi's got stubby little legs! And no woman's gonna want to sit his lap! It's very..."
"Yohji-kun! That's my body and my legs and my lap that you're insulting!" Ken (Omi) whined.
"Do you know what we can do?" Yohji (Aya) asked. Manx shrugged.
"No idea. What do you think caused the switch?"
"Well, I believe", Ken (Omi) began, "that as we were running and we were thrown into air, the impact of our landings caused us to somehow switch minds with the person who was next to us. If I remember correctly, I was next to Ken-kun, Yohji-kun was on my other side, and Aya-kun was on Yohji's side. It kind of went around in a loop. My body carries Yohji-kun's mind, Yohji-kun's body has Aya-kun's mind, Aya-kun's body holds Ken-kun's mind, and I'm in in Ken-kun's body. We were knocked out in the whole process and when we awoke, we found ourselves in our present predicament."
"And you can't change back?" Despite all she heard, Manx still didn't believe what happened.
"We don't know how to, Manx-san. We could knock ourselves out but it may not make things better. Our minds could be switched again. We have to find another solution to this problem or we're doomed to stay like this forever.
Aya's (Ken's) face widened into a smile when he heard all that. "Wow! With all that explanation and stuff...I can't believe how smart I sound!"
"I believe you!" Manx said, after hearing Aya's normally emotionless voice get all happy. "I'll help and I'll get all four of you back to the way you were...somehow."
* * *
And those were the previews. THE LEMON IS MY FIRST PRIORITY! I will have THREE places where it will be: mediaminer.org, fandomination.net, and here, as a rated R fic. It's called "The Gift" and there will lots of steamy RanKen scenes for all of you~_^ .
Here's what I want from you, dear readers. After the lemon, I don't know which story I want to start on. I don't want to do both at once cause then I'll never finish either one. So vote, in your review, for either "Switch" or "Dead Zone". Whichever gets more will be the fic I'll begin...after the lemon, of course.
Later, everyone. Hope you liked what you first saw. Review, go easy, you know the drill. Enjoy the pocky I sent you all...next time you'll get them with lemons^^
Always,
Carter