Welcome to chapter five! It's been awhile, ne? Anywho, thanks to these peoples:
Heart Soul and Usagi Asia Maxwell- This is why I hate English. Thanks for the advice and I'll really try to work on my grammar and whatnot...
Sailor Grape- So Trowa's OOC... Oh well! This is my fic! Who cares?! I always break the rules anyway!
Tsuki Fa- Sorry if I got you grounded!
Firefly-chan- Nope, I'm still writing! I don't have writer's block, it's just that I have TOO MANY ideas and it takes me forever to decide which ones to use! LOL, great problem, huh?
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"Uggggh..." Duo moaned. "No more ice cream, please!"
"You only had three bowls." Megami replied.
"You didn't have any."
"I'm not used to eating at this time of day."
"Okkaaaayyy... You wanna go outside and play?"
"No, that's okay. I'm just going to wander around for awhile."
"Just look out for Heero. He's a little trigger-happy around strangers- hell, he's trigger-happy around everyone!"
"Thanks for the advice." Megami laughed a little before leaving the kitchen. Soon she came to an eight-pointed star where eight hallways met.
"Let's see... Eniee, meanie, minee, Mo!" she cried, racing down the chosen hallway. A few random turns later, she slowed and began walking at a leisurely pace, never noticing the shadow that followed her everywhere.
A few hours later, Megami found herself at the center of another eight-point star. Now she was lost.
"Ohhh crap...." she whined, sitting down in the center of the star. Carefully she retraced her steps mentally. Confident that she could find her way back, she stood and went back the way she came, this time opening doors along the way to see what the house was like. Too bad for her that she picked the wrong door to open. The room Megami saw was painted a dark blue that shimmered into black when the light hit it. Fascinated, she went in and began looking around. She was running her fingers along the wall when she heard a click and spun around. There Heero stood, gun calmly pointed at her with his right hand. She gulped.
"What are you doing in my room?" Heero demanded.
"I'm sorry I just wanted to look at the walls." Megami explained, heart racing as she stared at the emotionless eyes of the boy who held her at gunpoint.
"You shouldn't be wandering around. You might get lost."
"I can take care of myself!" she retorted.
"Then why are you here?" Heero returned calmly. She was stunned by his logic. At her lack of answer, Heero took another step forward and pressed his gun to her temple.
"Who are you and who do you work for?" he demanded in monotone. Her eyes widened slightly.
"I'm Megami and I don't work for anyone, I swear!" she answered, wincing. "Heero what the HELL do you think you're doing?!" Trowa practically screamed, entering the room and seeing his two friends.
"She's hiding something Trowa. Don't be stupid." Heero said in monotone as Trowa moved to stand next to him.
"Put the gun down, Yuy!" Trowa demanded.
"Hn." Heero said, unmoving. Trowa whipped out his own gun and put it at Heero's temple. In one swift movement, Heero pulled out another gun and pointed it at Trowa. At that moment the other three pilots entered the room, immediately drawing their guns but confused as to who to aim at.
"What's going on in here?" Duo asked. "And why are you guys about to shoot each other?"
"Heero was about to shoot Megami." Trowa said. The three new guns were aimed at Heero.
"She's hiding something. She must be eliminated." the Perfect Soldier clarifyed in monotone. The aims moved to Megami, making her wince even more.
"Megami is there something you're not telling us?" Trowa asked, his eyes softening when he saw the frightened look in her eyes.
"No!" she said, tears running down her face. "I was just looking around and I saw these walls and I wanted to look at them and then Heero was here and then you came and now I'm about to be shot! I survived six months on the streets and now I'm going to be shot by the only friend I've made so far." She added the last part almost in a whisper. Trowa's heart cracked. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind him, seeing the anger in Heero's usually blank eyes.
"Leave her alone Heero." Duo spoke up, not wanting to see two of his friends die. Slowly Heero lowered his guns and put them away. Stepping towards Megami, he lent down to whisper in her ear.
"I'll be watching you very closely. And if I find out that you're working against us, omae o koruso." with that, he stormed from the room. Tears flowed from Megami's eyes.
"Why doesn't he trust me, Trowa?" she asked. Trowa didn't answer, just stared down at her angrily and then left the room. She sank to the floor and sobbed harder. Wufei muttered something and followed Trowa as Quatre and Duo approached the crying girl.
"Why don't any of you trust me?" Megami asked through her tears.
"We've been raised not to trust anyone, Megami. A few of us were affected by it worse than others." Quatre tried to explain without telling her who they were.
"I can't help that I don't know who I am! I can't help that I don't know anything about myself!" she cried, leaning into Duo's shoulder. He rubbed his hand up and down her back softly, trying to calm her. It worked.
"I understand if you're not in the mood to see a movie tonight, Megami." Duo said softly. Quatre left to find Trowa again.
"That's alright Duo, I'd still like to go with you. It's just... Trowa's like..." she sighed, frusterated that she couldn't communicate her emotions clearly.
"You like Trowa already, don't you?" Duo asked sincerely. Megami smiled a bit.
"You're so kind, Duo. You knew exactly what I was feeling. Like an older brother..." her smile spread across her face and she leaned forward to hug him.
"So I'm your Onii-san?" Duo asked. She smiled even wider.
"I'd love that." Megami replied.
"You ready to go see that movie, then?" Duo asked.
"Hai, yes please."
"Oh come on girl, you can't go looking like that. Here-" he said, handing her a tissue. "Dry off your face." She took the tissue and complied, wiping all the remnants of tears from her porclain skin.
"Ready to go, or do you want to change first?" Duo asked.
"I'm ready..." Megami replied. "I just want to talk to Trowa really fast, if that's okay with you."
"Sure, go ahead. I'll wait for you in the garage."
Megami caught up with Trowa in his room. This time, he was on his back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling with his arms folded under his head.
"Megami..." he groaned, before he realized she was there. Silently she snuck over to the side of the bed. In one swift move, she stradled his stomach and looked down at him.
"Megami?!" Trowa cried, surprised. He sat up slightly, then immediately wished he hadn't. Megami slid down off his stomach and onto his pelvis. Trowa's eyes widened, hoping that she wasn't down far enough to feel what she was doing to him.
"Trowa-chan I just wanted to apologize. I shouldn't have gone into Heero's room. More to the point, I shouldn't have come here. Thanks for everything, but I'll be leaving soon- you shouldn't have to take care of someone else." That said, she bent down and kissed his cheek sweetly, then quickly left the room. Trowa was speechless, and as the door shut behind her, a lone tear rolled down his cheek.
"No Megami, don't leave..." he whispered, too late for her to hear. "I think I- I think I love you." Trowa choked out.
"Did you talk to him?" Duo asked. Megami smiled and nodded, jumping into the black convertible Viper.
"Okay, let's go!" he cried, pulling out of the driveway and onto the freeway. Megami squealed with delight as Duo drove faster and faster, weaving in and out of traffic, speeding at over 100 miles an hour. At that rate, it didn't take them long to pull up in front of the movie theater.
"So what movie are we going to see?" Megami asked as they stood together in front of the ticket office.
"How about that one?" Duo asked, pointing to a movie poster near them. Megami shuddered.
"Can we see something a little less gruesome?" she asked.
"How do you know it's going to be gruesome?" Duo retorted. She sighed.
"It's called 'Gruesome Death 2'."
"Oh. You've got a point there. How about that one?" he tried again.
"That looks good." she replied. Duo bought their tickets and they made their way into the building.
A man slipped out of the ticket booth into the small alleyway beside the theaters.
"She's here." he said. A shadow moved, and then another, and soon ten men stood before him.
"Orders?" one asked.
"Get what we came for."
"We've got awhile before the movie starts. Do you want to play some arcade games?" Duo asked as they passed one of the many small arcade rooms in the theater building.
"Awesome!" she exclaimed, following the equally excited Duo into the room. They were the only ones there.
"Wanna play airhockey?" Megami asked, standing at one end.
"Great!" Duo replied, taking his place at the other. They had been playing for only a few minutes when Duo happened to glance up and see a shadow move behind her. His hand immediately went for his gun but before he could grab it there was a gun at his temple. At the same moment a man appeared at Megami's side and pressed his gun into her back.
"Come on, let's go." he said in a low, smooth voice. Megami whimpered a little and began to move forward, with Duo following close behind. They left through the emergency exit in the back of the room, going out into an even darker alley. The man holding Duo handcuffed him to a dumpster and threw his gun into it.
"Lie down." one man said to Megami. A gleam caught in her eye and she spun around, kicking the gun out of the man's hand and delivering a punch to the side of his neck that rendered him unconsious. Quickly more men moved in to take over and she was held down to the ground.
"I told you to be calm, didn't I?" one man said. "I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." Another man pulled out a small needle. Megami freaked out and struggled as he stabbed it into her arm, successfully drawing out a syringe full of the dark red substance. As soon as he put it safely in a case, he procured another, larger needle. Duo was screaming and fighting, trying desperately to pick the lock on the handcuffs. The men held her down tightly as he pressed it into the small of her back, crudely getting a syringe of her spinal fluid. Megami sobbed into the dark concrete as the pain overcame her, her face and body getting rubbed harshly into the pebbles and dirt that covered the road. When he was done, the man gave a signal to the others and they disappeared as quickly as they had come.
"Duo!" Megami cried, unmoving, sure that they were gone.
"Megami, are you okay?" Duo asked.
"I can't move my legs." she replied.
"Can you get yourself over here?" he questioned. She bit her already bleeding lip and nodded. Dragging herself with her arms she made it over to the braided one. Reaching into her hair, she handed him a hairpin and within moments he was free.
"Dear shinigami!" Duo exclaimed, looking at the cuts where the needles had been put in. "This can't be a good thing. Let's get you home." He picked her up and carried her gently out to the car where he set her in the backseat, praying that the Trowa wouldn't kill him for not being able to protect her and praying that Heero wouldn't kill him for bringing her back.
Duo: Uh-oh! Someone knows who she is!
Aka: DUO! Shut up!
Quatre: Please, not this again...
Heero: Omae o kuroso.
Wufei: mumblemutter...weak onna...mumblemutter...stupid antiviolence laws...grrr...
Heart Soul and Usagi Asia Maxwell- This is why I hate English. Thanks for the advice and I'll really try to work on my grammar and whatnot...
Sailor Grape- So Trowa's OOC... Oh well! This is my fic! Who cares?! I always break the rules anyway!
Tsuki Fa- Sorry if I got you grounded!
Firefly-chan- Nope, I'm still writing! I don't have writer's block, it's just that I have TOO MANY ideas and it takes me forever to decide which ones to use! LOL, great problem, huh?
You can stop scrolling down now...
"Uggggh..." Duo moaned. "No more ice cream, please!"
"You only had three bowls." Megami replied.
"You didn't have any."
"I'm not used to eating at this time of day."
"Okkaaaayyy... You wanna go outside and play?"
"No, that's okay. I'm just going to wander around for awhile."
"Just look out for Heero. He's a little trigger-happy around strangers- hell, he's trigger-happy around everyone!"
"Thanks for the advice." Megami laughed a little before leaving the kitchen. Soon she came to an eight-pointed star where eight hallways met.
"Let's see... Eniee, meanie, minee, Mo!" she cried, racing down the chosen hallway. A few random turns later, she slowed and began walking at a leisurely pace, never noticing the shadow that followed her everywhere.
A few hours later, Megami found herself at the center of another eight-point star. Now she was lost.
"Ohhh crap...." she whined, sitting down in the center of the star. Carefully she retraced her steps mentally. Confident that she could find her way back, she stood and went back the way she came, this time opening doors along the way to see what the house was like. Too bad for her that she picked the wrong door to open. The room Megami saw was painted a dark blue that shimmered into black when the light hit it. Fascinated, she went in and began looking around. She was running her fingers along the wall when she heard a click and spun around. There Heero stood, gun calmly pointed at her with his right hand. She gulped.
"What are you doing in my room?" Heero demanded.
"I'm sorry I just wanted to look at the walls." Megami explained, heart racing as she stared at the emotionless eyes of the boy who held her at gunpoint.
"You shouldn't be wandering around. You might get lost."
"I can take care of myself!" she retorted.
"Then why are you here?" Heero returned calmly. She was stunned by his logic. At her lack of answer, Heero took another step forward and pressed his gun to her temple.
"Who are you and who do you work for?" he demanded in monotone. Her eyes widened slightly.
"I'm Megami and I don't work for anyone, I swear!" she answered, wincing. "Heero what the HELL do you think you're doing?!" Trowa practically screamed, entering the room and seeing his two friends.
"She's hiding something Trowa. Don't be stupid." Heero said in monotone as Trowa moved to stand next to him.
"Put the gun down, Yuy!" Trowa demanded.
"Hn." Heero said, unmoving. Trowa whipped out his own gun and put it at Heero's temple. In one swift movement, Heero pulled out another gun and pointed it at Trowa. At that moment the other three pilots entered the room, immediately drawing their guns but confused as to who to aim at.
"What's going on in here?" Duo asked. "And why are you guys about to shoot each other?"
"Heero was about to shoot Megami." Trowa said. The three new guns were aimed at Heero.
"She's hiding something. She must be eliminated." the Perfect Soldier clarifyed in monotone. The aims moved to Megami, making her wince even more.
"Megami is there something you're not telling us?" Trowa asked, his eyes softening when he saw the frightened look in her eyes.
"No!" she said, tears running down her face. "I was just looking around and I saw these walls and I wanted to look at them and then Heero was here and then you came and now I'm about to be shot! I survived six months on the streets and now I'm going to be shot by the only friend I've made so far." She added the last part almost in a whisper. Trowa's heart cracked. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind him, seeing the anger in Heero's usually blank eyes.
"Leave her alone Heero." Duo spoke up, not wanting to see two of his friends die. Slowly Heero lowered his guns and put them away. Stepping towards Megami, he lent down to whisper in her ear.
"I'll be watching you very closely. And if I find out that you're working against us, omae o koruso." with that, he stormed from the room. Tears flowed from Megami's eyes.
"Why doesn't he trust me, Trowa?" she asked. Trowa didn't answer, just stared down at her angrily and then left the room. She sank to the floor and sobbed harder. Wufei muttered something and followed Trowa as Quatre and Duo approached the crying girl.
"Why don't any of you trust me?" Megami asked through her tears.
"We've been raised not to trust anyone, Megami. A few of us were affected by it worse than others." Quatre tried to explain without telling her who they were.
"I can't help that I don't know who I am! I can't help that I don't know anything about myself!" she cried, leaning into Duo's shoulder. He rubbed his hand up and down her back softly, trying to calm her. It worked.
"I understand if you're not in the mood to see a movie tonight, Megami." Duo said softly. Quatre left to find Trowa again.
"That's alright Duo, I'd still like to go with you. It's just... Trowa's like..." she sighed, frusterated that she couldn't communicate her emotions clearly.
"You like Trowa already, don't you?" Duo asked sincerely. Megami smiled a bit.
"You're so kind, Duo. You knew exactly what I was feeling. Like an older brother..." her smile spread across her face and she leaned forward to hug him.
"So I'm your Onii-san?" Duo asked. She smiled even wider.
"I'd love that." Megami replied.
"You ready to go see that movie, then?" Duo asked.
"Hai, yes please."
"Oh come on girl, you can't go looking like that. Here-" he said, handing her a tissue. "Dry off your face." She took the tissue and complied, wiping all the remnants of tears from her porclain skin.
"Ready to go, or do you want to change first?" Duo asked.
"I'm ready..." Megami replied. "I just want to talk to Trowa really fast, if that's okay with you."
"Sure, go ahead. I'll wait for you in the garage."
Megami caught up with Trowa in his room. This time, he was on his back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling with his arms folded under his head.
"Megami..." he groaned, before he realized she was there. Silently she snuck over to the side of the bed. In one swift move, she stradled his stomach and looked down at him.
"Megami?!" Trowa cried, surprised. He sat up slightly, then immediately wished he hadn't. Megami slid down off his stomach and onto his pelvis. Trowa's eyes widened, hoping that she wasn't down far enough to feel what she was doing to him.
"Trowa-chan I just wanted to apologize. I shouldn't have gone into Heero's room. More to the point, I shouldn't have come here. Thanks for everything, but I'll be leaving soon- you shouldn't have to take care of someone else." That said, she bent down and kissed his cheek sweetly, then quickly left the room. Trowa was speechless, and as the door shut behind her, a lone tear rolled down his cheek.
"No Megami, don't leave..." he whispered, too late for her to hear. "I think I- I think I love you." Trowa choked out.
"Did you talk to him?" Duo asked. Megami smiled and nodded, jumping into the black convertible Viper.
"Okay, let's go!" he cried, pulling out of the driveway and onto the freeway. Megami squealed with delight as Duo drove faster and faster, weaving in and out of traffic, speeding at over 100 miles an hour. At that rate, it didn't take them long to pull up in front of the movie theater.
"So what movie are we going to see?" Megami asked as they stood together in front of the ticket office.
"How about that one?" Duo asked, pointing to a movie poster near them. Megami shuddered.
"Can we see something a little less gruesome?" she asked.
"How do you know it's going to be gruesome?" Duo retorted. She sighed.
"It's called 'Gruesome Death 2'."
"Oh. You've got a point there. How about that one?" he tried again.
"That looks good." she replied. Duo bought their tickets and they made their way into the building.
A man slipped out of the ticket booth into the small alleyway beside the theaters.
"She's here." he said. A shadow moved, and then another, and soon ten men stood before him.
"Orders?" one asked.
"Get what we came for."
"We've got awhile before the movie starts. Do you want to play some arcade games?" Duo asked as they passed one of the many small arcade rooms in the theater building.
"Awesome!" she exclaimed, following the equally excited Duo into the room. They were the only ones there.
"Wanna play airhockey?" Megami asked, standing at one end.
"Great!" Duo replied, taking his place at the other. They had been playing for only a few minutes when Duo happened to glance up and see a shadow move behind her. His hand immediately went for his gun but before he could grab it there was a gun at his temple. At the same moment a man appeared at Megami's side and pressed his gun into her back.
"Come on, let's go." he said in a low, smooth voice. Megami whimpered a little and began to move forward, with Duo following close behind. They left through the emergency exit in the back of the room, going out into an even darker alley. The man holding Duo handcuffed him to a dumpster and threw his gun into it.
"Lie down." one man said to Megami. A gleam caught in her eye and she spun around, kicking the gun out of the man's hand and delivering a punch to the side of his neck that rendered him unconsious. Quickly more men moved in to take over and she was held down to the ground.
"I told you to be calm, didn't I?" one man said. "I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." Another man pulled out a small needle. Megami freaked out and struggled as he stabbed it into her arm, successfully drawing out a syringe full of the dark red substance. As soon as he put it safely in a case, he procured another, larger needle. Duo was screaming and fighting, trying desperately to pick the lock on the handcuffs. The men held her down tightly as he pressed it into the small of her back, crudely getting a syringe of her spinal fluid. Megami sobbed into the dark concrete as the pain overcame her, her face and body getting rubbed harshly into the pebbles and dirt that covered the road. When he was done, the man gave a signal to the others and they disappeared as quickly as they had come.
"Duo!" Megami cried, unmoving, sure that they were gone.
"Megami, are you okay?" Duo asked.
"I can't move my legs." she replied.
"Can you get yourself over here?" he questioned. She bit her already bleeding lip and nodded. Dragging herself with her arms she made it over to the braided one. Reaching into her hair, she handed him a hairpin and within moments he was free.
"Dear shinigami!" Duo exclaimed, looking at the cuts where the needles had been put in. "This can't be a good thing. Let's get you home." He picked her up and carried her gently out to the car where he set her in the backseat, praying that the Trowa wouldn't kill him for not being able to protect her and praying that Heero wouldn't kill him for bringing her back.
Duo: Uh-oh! Someone knows who she is!
Aka: DUO! Shut up!
Quatre: Please, not this again...
Heero: Omae o kuroso.
Wufei: mumblemutter...weak onna...mumblemutter...stupid antiviolence laws...grrr...