Sick Cycle Of Life
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Chapter 10: Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
*Tendo Household*
"Where is that wayward son of mine?" Genma asked Akane. Ranma had been coming back very late for these past two days. He had also found out from Akane and Nabiki that he had been missing from school. When Genma confronted the pigtailed boy about it, he was blasted with a Moko Takabisha. It seemed that Ranma was not in the best of moods to deal with his idiot father.
Akane huffed angrily. "That pervert is probably hanging around with that blonde bimbo at school." She had just finished her 'training' which included breaking bricks and...breaking some more bricks. But her anger was still not diminished, if anything it had served to fuel her anger even more. /Wait till that baka gets home. I'll make him regret it!/
"Waaaahh! Ranma is cheating on his fiancee!" Soun wailed, his tears pouring out like a water fountain. The others, used to his behaviour, ignored him.
"It is very unmanly of my son to cheat on his fiancee," Nodoka frowned while cradling her katana. She occassionally removed the sheath and started sharpening the already sharp katana making her husband very nervous.
"Oh my! I'm sure Ranma-kun wouldn't do that. Do you know where he is, Nabiki-chan?" Kasumi smiled at her younger sister sweetly with an oblivious look on her face. However, a closer look into her eyes would have revealed a gleam of intelligence beneath her cheerful facade.
The rest of the household turned expectantly to Nabiki. The latter smirked and held out her hand, "2000 yen."
"Waaaah! Nabiki is charging her own father!"
Meanwhile, Genma ignored Soun and quickly forked out the money, handing it over to the mercenary girl.
/This is too easy./ Nabiki smirked again as she counted the money with a greedy glint in her eyes. "Ranma was seen following the six new students, including the new girl, into one of the houses near the school."
"WHAT?! I'm going to teach that pervert a lesson when he gets home!" Akane yelled, hefting her mallet.
*Back at Quatre's mansion*
The G-boys had just managed to calm Yue down after some help from Tofu-sensei and his pressure points. The kind doctor instructed them to watch over her constantly in case she had a relapse. She had just fallen asleep afterwards and the doctor had returned to his clinic. Right now it was Trowa's turn to watch over the silver blonde haired girl.
He watched her face, now illuminated by the moonlight which gave her a soft, almost fragile appearance. Her cheeks were puffy and had dried tear streaks on them. Trowa mentally blamed himself for not being able to prevent this from happening. He smiled slightly when he thought about what she would say if Yue heard him talking like this. /She would probably hit me on the head while telling me I'm such a baka/. He was distracted from his thoughts when the occupant of the bed stirred.
"Uuggh...No!!! Please stop! It hurts....please..." Yue thrashed in her sleep, trying to escape from her nightmare. Fresh tears made their way down her pain-filled face.
Trowa reacted quickly. He grabbed her in a bear hug, pinning her arms to the sides, preventing the frantic girl from injuring herself. He burned in anger as he heard her pleadings. The person who did this to her would pay dearly. "Usa-chan," he whispered softly, reverting back to his old nickname for her. "Usa-chan, wake up."
Yue slowly opened her eyes and saw a mass of chestnut hair and an emerald eye looking at her in concern. She relaxed as she realised who it was. She buried her head on his chest and started to calm down.
Trowa rubbed her back in a soothing manner and tightened his hold slightly. His sole focus was the girl he held in his arms. The only person he ever considered as a family besides Catherine. It hurt him to see her like this. So full of suffering and pain.
Yue pushed away slightly and Trowa released his hold on her. The girl smiled up at him and said, "Thank you, nii-chan." Then, she stood up and was about to walk out of the room but Trowa caught her wrist.
"Where are you going?"
She plastered an innocent look on her face and replied, "Me? I'm going back to my apartment. We have school tomorrow, remember?"
Unfortunately for her, the tall banged boy had practise with her twin brother and wasn't fooled by the expression. "Yue," he said quietly but there was a warning in his voice.
Yue crumbled under his stern look. "I can't fool you, can I, nii-chan?"
"No. Are you going to tell me the truth now or should I call the others?"
"No!" she shouted, looking panicked but she caught herself and said a bit more calmly. "I mean no. That will not be necessary."
Trowa merely raised his eyebrows. /She's definitely hiding something if she's acting like this. So much like Quatre./
"Fine. I'll tell you but you must promise not to tell anyone else."
Trowa considered it for a moment then nodded. He released her wrist when he saw she was not going to bolt anytime soon.
She took a deep breath. "I'm going after Mamoru," she confessed, averting her gaze from him.
Instead..."Mamoru? The one who sent the note? Do you know where he is?" he questioned.
She nodded and waited for Trowa to yell at her.
"I'm going with you."
"What?" she sputtered. "No, you're not. I'm going alone."
"That was not part of the promise. I'm not letting you go alone. Right Wufei, Heero?"
Yue spun around and saw both of the mentioned boys standing in the slightly opened door. "Hee-niichan? Fei-niichan? How long have you been standing there?" she fumed. Then she whirled around and pointed a finger at Trowa. "And you! Why didn't you tell me they were there?"
Trowa shrugged and said, "you said I couldn't tell them. You didn't say they can't find out on their own." He mentally smirked at the glare she gave him. "Anyway, you are a Gundam pilot too so you should have been able to sense them," he added as an afterthought.
She pouted. "Yeah well, I'm not as experienced as you guys. I've only been training for about six months."
"Six months? But I heard from J that you were extremely skilled and had accomplished many missions," Heero said. He had read her reports and found she was an equal match with any of them...except the Perfect Soldier of course.
"I had some training when I was little like martial arts and that sort of things. Fei-niichan should know." She smiled impishly at the Chinese boy.
Wufei grunted and admitted, "she is extremely skilled in hand to hand and also with a sword."
"I presume we are all going with Yue?" Trowa asked, returning to the previous conversation.
"NO! I'm going alone. I won't let anyone to be hurt anymore. Not after..." she choked, remembering the raven haired martial artist in the other room. Before anyone could say anything, she composed herself and glared at her brothers. "I'm going alone."
"Fine," Heero said simply.
He said it without any argument or resistance that the others were stunned speechless except Trowa since he never talked much anyway.
Yue was the first one to recover. "Uh, okay. I'll go now." With that she left the room to change and prepare herself to confront her ex-fiancee.
When Wufei saw she was out of their hearing range he exploded, "Yuy! What have you done?"
"I merely said she could go alone. I didn't say we wouldn't be following her," Heero reiterated, looking slightly put out that his teammates doubted him.
Wufei and Trowa exchanged a knowing glance. "Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go," Wufei declared.
The three of them walked out of the house and they caught a glimpse of blonde hair not too far away. It seemed that she had decided not to take a vehicle with her which meant the enemy's location was not too far away from the mansion. They followed the unsuspecting girl from a safe distance as she made her way to the unknown destination. Wufei wondered how she knew where to go because she had just found out who the enemy was this afternoon and she had not made any research as to the location of the enemy.
Wufei snapped out of his thoughts when Heero stopped abruptly in front of him. He looked up and saw a lavish two story building with no lights on except in one room at the top floor. He exchanged glances with Heero and Trowa, silently asking them if they should go in after Yue. They both nodded and sneaked into the building cautiously, pulling out their guns. The Chinese youth unsheathed his sword and followed them inside.
They made their way through the darkened and empty hallways. Wufei was more than curious because of the emptiness of the building. Where were the guards? Surely the enemy wouldn't leave his place unprotected. Uneasiness crept upon him and from the corner of his eyes he saw that although the tall uni-banged boy maintained the normal calm appearance but his visible emerald orb betrayed what he felt. Heero was still impassive as usual but Wufei noted the way his index finger twitched as if ready to shoot the invinsible enemies.
Finally they stood across from a lighted door. From behind it, they could hear two voices, a male and a female. The female sounded suspiciously like Yue. The three pilots pressed their ears against the door, trying to catch the conversation going on inside. They were surprised when the door suddenly opened and in front of them stood a man with midnight blue eyes and a neatly styled black hair. He was wearing a crimson shirt with black pants. Wufei realised that this must be the man Yue called Mamoru. He repressed a shudder as the man smirked, his eyes holding a sinister gleam in them.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we've got intruders in our hands. I wonder what I should do with them. What do you think, Usako?" He asked slightly turning his head but still keeping the three pilots in his sight.
"Leave them out of this, Mamoru!"
Wufei looked past Mamoru's shoulder and saw Yue being restrained by two men. One had long white hair while the other had short blonde hair. Looking further inside the room he noticed the presence of two other men. One of them with long wavy brown hair and the other with long blonde hair tied back in a loose ponytail.
"I don't believe you're in any position to demand anything, Usako," Mamoru purred. "However, I might let them go if you'll be mine. My obedient slave."
The rage at hearing those words overwhelmed him and Wufei brought up his katana and put it against Mamoru's throat. "Let her go," he hissed through clenched teeth. When the man didn't reply, he pressed his sword foward, drawing a drop of blood.
Mamoru relented and motioned his two guardian to release the furious silver eyed girl. As soon as she was released she lauched herself towards Mamoru, intent on kicking the crap out of him for his previous suggestion.
However, Mamoru had a different idea in mind. Before Wufei could react, he felt a searing pain on his chest. He blankly looked down at the crimson liquid covering his hand. His katana dropped to the floor with a load clang. Finally he knew no more as blackness overtook him and he fell limply to the floor, unmoving.
*End Chapter 10*
AN: Whew! Finally finished Chapter 10. Sorry for the delay in posting this up. I planned on updating this during the weekend but I had been so busy last week I didn't have a chance to do that. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chap and thank you so much for those people who reviewed. I love you all!!!!!! For the rest of you please R&R!
Replies to reviews:
'lady love' - Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad you like the poem, my friend IceAngel made it up just for me ^_^
'Neko Megami' - All will be revealed in due time 'till then please be patient.
'Lunar Neko-chan' - Aaaaahhhh! Not the Flying Monkeys!!!! I'm glad to see you're enjoying the fic.
'Kolinshar Jackie-chan Benito' - Ouch! If you keep thonking me in the head then I'll have a concussion and I won't be able to write more chap for you! I know I'm evil and I'm proud of it ~_^
'montymouse' - Thank you for reviewing and I hope you enjoyed this chap!
'Zpan Sven' - Mwahahaha! Don't worry Mamo-baka will get what he deserves.
'sailor midnight mask' - I'm glad you think so! Thanks for the review!
'Ginny Starwind' - Candy? How kawaii!! Thanks for reviewing the last chap! I had to bring Dr. Tofu in. How could I not?
'solarmistress17' - Okay, don't die on me now after reading this chap. I really don't want to lose any of my reviewers and be charged with murder. I'm too young to be put in jail! But I'm glad you like my story and thanks for the review!
'Sweet Sere' - Why thank you! I'm glad you think so.
'MarsMoonStar' - Yes, I get it. I'm glad you're enjoying this story.
'Evil Demon' - All will be explained in good time. I will write about what happened to Yue so don't worry.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters.
"..." - talking
/.../ - thoughts
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Chapter 10: Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
*Tendo Household*
"Where is that wayward son of mine?" Genma asked Akane. Ranma had been coming back very late for these past two days. He had also found out from Akane and Nabiki that he had been missing from school. When Genma confronted the pigtailed boy about it, he was blasted with a Moko Takabisha. It seemed that Ranma was not in the best of moods to deal with his idiot father.
Akane huffed angrily. "That pervert is probably hanging around with that blonde bimbo at school." She had just finished her 'training' which included breaking bricks and...breaking some more bricks. But her anger was still not diminished, if anything it had served to fuel her anger even more. /Wait till that baka gets home. I'll make him regret it!/
"Waaaahh! Ranma is cheating on his fiancee!" Soun wailed, his tears pouring out like a water fountain. The others, used to his behaviour, ignored him.
"It is very unmanly of my son to cheat on his fiancee," Nodoka frowned while cradling her katana. She occassionally removed the sheath and started sharpening the already sharp katana making her husband very nervous.
"Oh my! I'm sure Ranma-kun wouldn't do that. Do you know where he is, Nabiki-chan?" Kasumi smiled at her younger sister sweetly with an oblivious look on her face. However, a closer look into her eyes would have revealed a gleam of intelligence beneath her cheerful facade.
The rest of the household turned expectantly to Nabiki. The latter smirked and held out her hand, "2000 yen."
"Waaaah! Nabiki is charging her own father!"
Meanwhile, Genma ignored Soun and quickly forked out the money, handing it over to the mercenary girl.
/This is too easy./ Nabiki smirked again as she counted the money with a greedy glint in her eyes. "Ranma was seen following the six new students, including the new girl, into one of the houses near the school."
"WHAT?! I'm going to teach that pervert a lesson when he gets home!" Akane yelled, hefting her mallet.
*Back at Quatre's mansion*
The G-boys had just managed to calm Yue down after some help from Tofu-sensei and his pressure points. The kind doctor instructed them to watch over her constantly in case she had a relapse. She had just fallen asleep afterwards and the doctor had returned to his clinic. Right now it was Trowa's turn to watch over the silver blonde haired girl.
He watched her face, now illuminated by the moonlight which gave her a soft, almost fragile appearance. Her cheeks were puffy and had dried tear streaks on them. Trowa mentally blamed himself for not being able to prevent this from happening. He smiled slightly when he thought about what she would say if Yue heard him talking like this. /She would probably hit me on the head while telling me I'm such a baka/. He was distracted from his thoughts when the occupant of the bed stirred.
"Uuggh...No!!! Please stop! It hurts....please..." Yue thrashed in her sleep, trying to escape from her nightmare. Fresh tears made their way down her pain-filled face.
Trowa reacted quickly. He grabbed her in a bear hug, pinning her arms to the sides, preventing the frantic girl from injuring herself. He burned in anger as he heard her pleadings. The person who did this to her would pay dearly. "Usa-chan," he whispered softly, reverting back to his old nickname for her. "Usa-chan, wake up."
Yue slowly opened her eyes and saw a mass of chestnut hair and an emerald eye looking at her in concern. She relaxed as she realised who it was. She buried her head on his chest and started to calm down.
Trowa rubbed her back in a soothing manner and tightened his hold slightly. His sole focus was the girl he held in his arms. The only person he ever considered as a family besides Catherine. It hurt him to see her like this. So full of suffering and pain.
Yue pushed away slightly and Trowa released his hold on her. The girl smiled up at him and said, "Thank you, nii-chan." Then, she stood up and was about to walk out of the room but Trowa caught her wrist.
"Where are you going?"
She plastered an innocent look on her face and replied, "Me? I'm going back to my apartment. We have school tomorrow, remember?"
Unfortunately for her, the tall banged boy had practise with her twin brother and wasn't fooled by the expression. "Yue," he said quietly but there was a warning in his voice.
Yue crumbled under his stern look. "I can't fool you, can I, nii-chan?"
"No. Are you going to tell me the truth now or should I call the others?"
"No!" she shouted, looking panicked but she caught herself and said a bit more calmly. "I mean no. That will not be necessary."
Trowa merely raised his eyebrows. /She's definitely hiding something if she's acting like this. So much like Quatre./
"Fine. I'll tell you but you must promise not to tell anyone else."
Trowa considered it for a moment then nodded. He released her wrist when he saw she was not going to bolt anytime soon.
She took a deep breath. "I'm going after Mamoru," she confessed, averting her gaze from him.
Instead..."Mamoru? The one who sent the note? Do you know where he is?" he questioned.
She nodded and waited for Trowa to yell at her.
"I'm going with you."
"What?" she sputtered. "No, you're not. I'm going alone."
"That was not part of the promise. I'm not letting you go alone. Right Wufei, Heero?"
Yue spun around and saw both of the mentioned boys standing in the slightly opened door. "Hee-niichan? Fei-niichan? How long have you been standing there?" she fumed. Then she whirled around and pointed a finger at Trowa. "And you! Why didn't you tell me they were there?"
Trowa shrugged and said, "you said I couldn't tell them. You didn't say they can't find out on their own." He mentally smirked at the glare she gave him. "Anyway, you are a Gundam pilot too so you should have been able to sense them," he added as an afterthought.
She pouted. "Yeah well, I'm not as experienced as you guys. I've only been training for about six months."
"Six months? But I heard from J that you were extremely skilled and had accomplished many missions," Heero said. He had read her reports and found she was an equal match with any of them...except the Perfect Soldier of course.
"I had some training when I was little like martial arts and that sort of things. Fei-niichan should know." She smiled impishly at the Chinese boy.
Wufei grunted and admitted, "she is extremely skilled in hand to hand and also with a sword."
"I presume we are all going with Yue?" Trowa asked, returning to the previous conversation.
"NO! I'm going alone. I won't let anyone to be hurt anymore. Not after..." she choked, remembering the raven haired martial artist in the other room. Before anyone could say anything, she composed herself and glared at her brothers. "I'm going alone."
"Fine," Heero said simply.
He said it without any argument or resistance that the others were stunned speechless except Trowa since he never talked much anyway.
Yue was the first one to recover. "Uh, okay. I'll go now." With that she left the room to change and prepare herself to confront her ex-fiancee.
When Wufei saw she was out of their hearing range he exploded, "Yuy! What have you done?"
"I merely said she could go alone. I didn't say we wouldn't be following her," Heero reiterated, looking slightly put out that his teammates doubted him.
Wufei and Trowa exchanged a knowing glance. "Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go," Wufei declared.
The three of them walked out of the house and they caught a glimpse of blonde hair not too far away. It seemed that she had decided not to take a vehicle with her which meant the enemy's location was not too far away from the mansion. They followed the unsuspecting girl from a safe distance as she made her way to the unknown destination. Wufei wondered how she knew where to go because she had just found out who the enemy was this afternoon and she had not made any research as to the location of the enemy.
Wufei snapped out of his thoughts when Heero stopped abruptly in front of him. He looked up and saw a lavish two story building with no lights on except in one room at the top floor. He exchanged glances with Heero and Trowa, silently asking them if they should go in after Yue. They both nodded and sneaked into the building cautiously, pulling out their guns. The Chinese youth unsheathed his sword and followed them inside.
They made their way through the darkened and empty hallways. Wufei was more than curious because of the emptiness of the building. Where were the guards? Surely the enemy wouldn't leave his place unprotected. Uneasiness crept upon him and from the corner of his eyes he saw that although the tall uni-banged boy maintained the normal calm appearance but his visible emerald orb betrayed what he felt. Heero was still impassive as usual but Wufei noted the way his index finger twitched as if ready to shoot the invinsible enemies.
Finally they stood across from a lighted door. From behind it, they could hear two voices, a male and a female. The female sounded suspiciously like Yue. The three pilots pressed their ears against the door, trying to catch the conversation going on inside. They were surprised when the door suddenly opened and in front of them stood a man with midnight blue eyes and a neatly styled black hair. He was wearing a crimson shirt with black pants. Wufei realised that this must be the man Yue called Mamoru. He repressed a shudder as the man smirked, his eyes holding a sinister gleam in them.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we've got intruders in our hands. I wonder what I should do with them. What do you think, Usako?" He asked slightly turning his head but still keeping the three pilots in his sight.
"Leave them out of this, Mamoru!"
Wufei looked past Mamoru's shoulder and saw Yue being restrained by two men. One had long white hair while the other had short blonde hair. Looking further inside the room he noticed the presence of two other men. One of them with long wavy brown hair and the other with long blonde hair tied back in a loose ponytail.
"I don't believe you're in any position to demand anything, Usako," Mamoru purred. "However, I might let them go if you'll be mine. My obedient slave."
The rage at hearing those words overwhelmed him and Wufei brought up his katana and put it against Mamoru's throat. "Let her go," he hissed through clenched teeth. When the man didn't reply, he pressed his sword foward, drawing a drop of blood.
Mamoru relented and motioned his two guardian to release the furious silver eyed girl. As soon as she was released she lauched herself towards Mamoru, intent on kicking the crap out of him for his previous suggestion.
However, Mamoru had a different idea in mind. Before Wufei could react, he felt a searing pain on his chest. He blankly looked down at the crimson liquid covering his hand. His katana dropped to the floor with a load clang. Finally he knew no more as blackness overtook him and he fell limply to the floor, unmoving.
*End Chapter 10*
AN: Whew! Finally finished Chapter 10. Sorry for the delay in posting this up. I planned on updating this during the weekend but I had been so busy last week I didn't have a chance to do that. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chap and thank you so much for those people who reviewed. I love you all!!!!!! For the rest of you please R&R!
Replies to reviews:
'lady love' - Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad you like the poem, my friend IceAngel made it up just for me ^_^
'Neko Megami' - All will be revealed in due time 'till then please be patient.
'Lunar Neko-chan' - Aaaaahhhh! Not the Flying Monkeys!!!! I'm glad to see you're enjoying the fic.
'Kolinshar Jackie-chan Benito' - Ouch! If you keep thonking me in the head then I'll have a concussion and I won't be able to write more chap for you! I know I'm evil and I'm proud of it ~_^
'montymouse' - Thank you for reviewing and I hope you enjoyed this chap!
'Zpan Sven' - Mwahahaha! Don't worry Mamo-baka will get what he deserves.
'sailor midnight mask' - I'm glad you think so! Thanks for the review!
'Ginny Starwind' - Candy? How kawaii!! Thanks for reviewing the last chap! I had to bring Dr. Tofu in. How could I not?
'solarmistress17' - Okay, don't die on me now after reading this chap. I really don't want to lose any of my reviewers and be charged with murder. I'm too young to be put in jail! But I'm glad you like my story and thanks for the review!
'Sweet Sere' - Why thank you! I'm glad you think so.
'MarsMoonStar' - Yes, I get it. I'm glad you're enjoying this story.
'Evil Demon' - All will be explained in good time. I will write about what happened to Yue so don't worry.