Wow, people suddenly started reviewing in massive amounts ^___^
Ah, don't worry about not reviewing before, Chibi Kitsune. *points at
the rest of her readers* Most of these guys haven't reviewed either.
No, nothing horrible happens to Omittchi (he's too cute!) except for
the stuff in book four, which isn't that bad. I'll admit Nagi/Omi make
for a cute couple, and when I started False Identity I had actually
planed for Nagi/Omi goodness. Unfortunately, it didn't happen that way.
In fact, I think the only two couples that came out as planned were
SchuKen and Yohji/Rache. ^____^
As for actually pairing Omi and Nabiki... I really have no idea where
it came from. It kinda snuck up on me and forced me to put it in the
fic.
Shinigami - There's a reason Schu hasn't spilled the beans on Ken. He
wants Ken to sleep with him, remember? Telling all of Ken's secrets
would be a bad thing, because then Ken would never sleep with him.
*laughs* I have reasons for the vision. Reasons that make sense when
you realize one of my best friends is a gamefreak that can talk your
ear off for hours about what new video game she's got. (I also have two
friends that can hold a conversation on one page of manga,
untranslated, for two hours straight, but that doesn't really have
anything to do with the rest of this paragraph...)
Oh, I don't hate Omittchi, he's pretty cool, actually. I just like
messing around with people so they aren't who you thought they were.
Ack, Shuo Ri! I really didn't want to picture Bradlies in a seifuku.
It's a disturbing image. O_o;;
This is Crawford, Ran. Of course he's going to be more respectful to
the gates than Pluto. At least... as long as the Gates keeps it's
mental mouth shut and stops annoying him ^___^ As for the Key itself,
Nightwings, be assured that it's not going to stay a key with a heart
if Bradley has his way.
The Apprentice - Stress relief to read them? *grins* I write them to
escape the stress of grade twelve life. Oh yes indeed, the Nabiki/Ranma
battle will be fun... *mutters* Just as soon as Nabiki and Omi can
rebuild their strength after that dumbass move in Book 3. I've already
made my comments on the SailorCrawford issue.
Romilly - Yay! Someone figured the vision out! I know it's not that
hard to figure out, but for those who have no idea... and yes, I'm a
fan. I've written a fic in... that fandom (well, if others haven't
figured it out, I'm not going to spill. I bet you can figure out Omi
and Nabiki's "dumbass move" in Book 3, too.) before, as well. It's
stalled at the moment (I've managed to loose the chapters _again_!)
Crawford doesn't have a love interest.
At least, not yet. *big ass grin* I'm thinking, blonde, glasses, pink
skirt/top combo, two belts, occasionally wears glasses, has The Itch's
patented ponytail, and, of course, Save the Queen.
True Identity
Chapter Twenty-three: Display
Li Xiang
Charon pushed open one of the windows near the roof of the warehouse,
and slipped in. Neptune followed swiftly, and froze just inside the
window.
The aqua-haired one whispered, "This must be it... look at everything
in here!"
"Let's get a closer look," Charon mumbled, "We might have stumbled onto
a rave-base, or something."
Neptune acknowledged the possibility, and followed her teammate deeper
into the building.
They passed room by room, creaking doors open and peaking within. They
saw no one. Finally, Charon opened a door, whispered 'Holy Shit!', and
darted in. Neptune followed a moment later, frowning, "There's nothing
in here, Charon."
"Actually," Charon turned to face Neptune with a creepy smile, "This
happens to be _my_ room."
"You mean, when you infiltrated them as the original Isis?" pondered
the Senshi.
"Nope," came an all too familiar voice, and Neptune whirled, shocked,
staring into Horus' green eyes. He was wearing, surprisingly, _not_ the
leather outfit he normally sported, but jeans and a t-shirt, "This is
Rache's room right now."
"Michiru," Rache's own emerald gaze glinted, "Allow me to introduce my
boyfriend, Yohji."
"That's Horus!" the normally calm Senshi of the ocean shrieked, before
comprehension dawned, "This was a set up!"
"Give the girl a cookie," drawled Yuki, who had seemingly stepped out
of the wall. She was twirling a pair of knives around her fingers.
"This whole thing has been a set up," Yohji's eyes glinted dangerously
as they darkened with anger at the remembered grievances of the Senshi,
"Rache, would _you_ do the honors?"
The redhead smiled, holding her hands up. Neptune gaped openly, as the
Silence Glaive appeared in her hands, "Guess," the girl purred as she
placed the wicked blade against the curve of Michiru's throat, "Where
you are headed...?"
"You're... you're going to kill me?" she winced as the weapon nicked
her throat when she spoke.
"That's what we were hired for," Yohji explained, having slipped his
kill-wire around the Senshi while she was staring in shock at the one
she had _thought_ to be an ally against an impossibly strong enemy.
An enemy that had infiltrated _them_.
"Why?" she whimpered, moments before Yohji tightened his wire, and
straggled her. Ranma withdrew from the shadows, once again attempting
to use the Happo Goen Satsu _properly_ as he had not done for months,
to absorb the dissipating power. He did not get all of her power-- not
having put enough of his own behind the technique, but he didn't
vaporize the body, either, like he did with the Spirit Obliteration
technique.
That technique was for use on still moving, still living bodies. A
corpse was to be experimented with.
Rache nudged the said corpse with her boot, "Because you'd be doing the
same to us."
Yuki grinned widely, stepping forwards, "We should make an... example
of her."
"Oh, yeah, then how do we convince them why _I'm_ still alive?" Rache
shot the older female a glare.
Ranma snorted, "You _could_ just say that you two split up to head home
when you realized you'd found our 'home base'--"
"-- and you assume that she returned to 'rescue' the other Senshi--"
Yohji put in.
"-- and ended up getting offed by Amun-Ra," Yuki finished, kneeling
beside the body. The kill-wire had cut into the dead Senshi's throat as
she was strangled, like it had been designed to, so there were marks of
asphyxia, as well as appearing as though she had her throat slit.
Yuki brought forth her knives-- which happened to be monogrammed with
the kanji for kitsune-- and grinned manically.
She began to carve.
---
The next morning found Ranma sprawled across Farfello's bed, Yuki and
Aya-chan in Ranma's room, and Rache in Yohji's-- she hadn't been able
to sleep in her room. The stench of blood and death had been far too
strong.
Ken yawned widely, ignoring the door as he walked through the wall into
the kitchen. It was so _nice_ not to have to hide his abilities from
his housemates.
Once within the kitchen, he hummed to himself, going about the task of
making breakfast. After the American-style breakfast he'd made a while
back, he'd been elected as the breakfast-maker of the House.
It was a good thing he was a morning person.
Searching the cupboards left him immensely cheered, because he was
pretty sure... well, he pulled out the recipe book he'd taken from his
home before he became part of Weiss.
"Yes!" he crowed, "Cinnamon buns here I come!" it had been to _long_
since he'd last had them. Licking his lips, he began to prepare his
oh-so-yummy breakfast.
After breaking the mixer in making the dough, Ken was seated on the
floor in front of the oven, watching the dough rise. His stomach
growled as their sweet and spicy scent floated through the House.
The said scent called several individuals from their beds, sending them
to trudge into the kitchen to sleepily await the hot, cinnamonny
goodness.
Such a lovely day to be alive.
---
A shriek wrenched into the air, as the gruesome sight was discovered
that early morning.
Hino Rei stood frozen, holding her broom with numb fingers, as she took
it in. 'It' being Michiru's mauled corpse.
She'd been strung up between two trees, behind Hikawa Jinga. The
clothing she wore was tattered, soaked with her own blood. Her eyes
were wide and unseeing, face frozen in terrified shock, mouth stuffed
with, of all things, a riceball.
Her tattered shirt only covered her breasts, and into the milky white
skin of her belly, the words "Considering a Warning" were carved in a
surprisingly delicate handwriting.
She appeared to be-- minus what was on her clothing-- drained
completely of blood.
When the police arrived, it was to Rei's shock to find there were a
fairly _large_ number of government officials with them.
At one point, when the forensic officers decided it was alright to take
Kaiou's body off it's gruesome display, the Senshi of Mars thought she
heard something _very_ disturbing.
"They don't play around, do they?" one JSDF officer commented to his
companion.
"They're the best of the best, Yoshitaka," the other replied, "I'll bet
you three thousand yen that they don't find anything to connect to who
did this."
"You're on!"
So as not to contaminate the 'scene of the crime', Jiji, Yuuichirou and
Rei were moved from the shrine grounds. Jiji and Yuuichirou stayed at a
near-by temple, but Rei had relocated herself to the Tsukino residence,
terrified.
Naru had come as soon as Rei called the Senshi, and she was hit
hardest. Sobbing into Minako's shoulder, she related that they had,
indeed, found Amun-Ra's base. She and Neptune had agreed to head back
to their respective homes, in order to rest up, then tell everyone else
at the meeting the next day.
Rei inferred that Michiru had _not_ come back to the shrine, but
instead doubled back to the warehouse in a brash attempt to rescue the
trapped Senshi.
Obviously, she failed, and had been killed both for the attempt, and as
a warning to the other Senshi.
Usagi was surprisingly stoic, "How fast could they get out of their
current base?"
Naru sniffled, "They won't leave. They'll think we're too scared to
move against them. It's always been Amun-Ra's weakness-- he's far to
overconfident."
The Princess of the Moon nodded, "Tonight, then. Rei-chan, Mina-chan,
Naru-chan... we'll attack and _defeat_ them tonight!"
"Usagi..."
"No," and it was obviously Serenity before them, "We go tonight. They
won't be expecting it. We _will_not_fail_!"
---
"Is she stupid?" wondered Saotome with a chuckle, "We just killed the
last Outer Senshi. Does she really think she'll defeat _all_ of us?"
Schuldich snickered, "She doesn't realize that Rache isn't on her
side."
"Heh. That _is_ a bit of an ace in the hole... so we'll finish this
tonight?"
"Bingo, Bishoujo."
Ranma's eye twitched, "Next time you call me that, I am going to rip
you to _shreds_!"
"I'd like to see you try... Bishoujo!"
---
Dinner was a small affair.
Oz, Fei Li and Nobuyuki had been sent out to appropriate party
supplies-- for the bash they'd hold once the mission was completed--
and given instructions not to return until morning. Aya-chan, Omi and
Kunzite were over at the Tendou Dojo for the night.
Crawford was still in his room, proclaiming illness, even though
Schuldich, Ranma and Yuki knew otherwise, from using their various
abilities.
Schuldich had dragged Ken off, having finally convinced him that
'hanging out' was _not_ 'dating'. The redhead was just going to 'hang
out' with Ken, although he _did_ plan to get Hidaka piss drunk.
So it was only Yuki, Ranma, Ran, Jei Yohji, and Nagi who were gathered
to eat their supper. Tonight was the final night.
---
End Chapter
But not the final chapter. Don't worry everyone, I've got several more
chapters and a bunch of cliffhangers, just for you guys! Aren't you
_happy_?
Ah, don't worry about not reviewing before, Chibi Kitsune. *points at
the rest of her readers* Most of these guys haven't reviewed either.
No, nothing horrible happens to Omittchi (he's too cute!) except for
the stuff in book four, which isn't that bad. I'll admit Nagi/Omi make
for a cute couple, and when I started False Identity I had actually
planed for Nagi/Omi goodness. Unfortunately, it didn't happen that way.
In fact, I think the only two couples that came out as planned were
SchuKen and Yohji/Rache. ^____^
As for actually pairing Omi and Nabiki... I really have no idea where
it came from. It kinda snuck up on me and forced me to put it in the
fic.
Shinigami - There's a reason Schu hasn't spilled the beans on Ken. He
wants Ken to sleep with him, remember? Telling all of Ken's secrets
would be a bad thing, because then Ken would never sleep with him.
*laughs* I have reasons for the vision. Reasons that make sense when
you realize one of my best friends is a gamefreak that can talk your
ear off for hours about what new video game she's got. (I also have two
friends that can hold a conversation on one page of manga,
untranslated, for two hours straight, but that doesn't really have
anything to do with the rest of this paragraph...)
Oh, I don't hate Omittchi, he's pretty cool, actually. I just like
messing around with people so they aren't who you thought they were.
Ack, Shuo Ri! I really didn't want to picture Bradlies in a seifuku.
It's a disturbing image. O_o;;
This is Crawford, Ran. Of course he's going to be more respectful to
the gates than Pluto. At least... as long as the Gates keeps it's
mental mouth shut and stops annoying him ^___^ As for the Key itself,
Nightwings, be assured that it's not going to stay a key with a heart
if Bradley has his way.
The Apprentice - Stress relief to read them? *grins* I write them to
escape the stress of grade twelve life. Oh yes indeed, the Nabiki/Ranma
battle will be fun... *mutters* Just as soon as Nabiki and Omi can
rebuild their strength after that dumbass move in Book 3. I've already
made my comments on the SailorCrawford issue.
Romilly - Yay! Someone figured the vision out! I know it's not that
hard to figure out, but for those who have no idea... and yes, I'm a
fan. I've written a fic in... that fandom (well, if others haven't
figured it out, I'm not going to spill. I bet you can figure out Omi
and Nabiki's "dumbass move" in Book 3, too.) before, as well. It's
stalled at the moment (I've managed to loose the chapters _again_!)
Crawford doesn't have a love interest.
At least, not yet. *big ass grin* I'm thinking, blonde, glasses, pink
skirt/top combo, two belts, occasionally wears glasses, has The Itch's
patented ponytail, and, of course, Save the Queen.
True Identity
Chapter Twenty-three: Display
Li Xiang
Charon pushed open one of the windows near the roof of the warehouse,
and slipped in. Neptune followed swiftly, and froze just inside the
window.
The aqua-haired one whispered, "This must be it... look at everything
in here!"
"Let's get a closer look," Charon mumbled, "We might have stumbled onto
a rave-base, or something."
Neptune acknowledged the possibility, and followed her teammate deeper
into the building.
They passed room by room, creaking doors open and peaking within. They
saw no one. Finally, Charon opened a door, whispered 'Holy Shit!', and
darted in. Neptune followed a moment later, frowning, "There's nothing
in here, Charon."
"Actually," Charon turned to face Neptune with a creepy smile, "This
happens to be _my_ room."
"You mean, when you infiltrated them as the original Isis?" pondered
the Senshi.
"Nope," came an all too familiar voice, and Neptune whirled, shocked,
staring into Horus' green eyes. He was wearing, surprisingly, _not_ the
leather outfit he normally sported, but jeans and a t-shirt, "This is
Rache's room right now."
"Michiru," Rache's own emerald gaze glinted, "Allow me to introduce my
boyfriend, Yohji."
"That's Horus!" the normally calm Senshi of the ocean shrieked, before
comprehension dawned, "This was a set up!"
"Give the girl a cookie," drawled Yuki, who had seemingly stepped out
of the wall. She was twirling a pair of knives around her fingers.
"This whole thing has been a set up," Yohji's eyes glinted dangerously
as they darkened with anger at the remembered grievances of the Senshi,
"Rache, would _you_ do the honors?"
The redhead smiled, holding her hands up. Neptune gaped openly, as the
Silence Glaive appeared in her hands, "Guess," the girl purred as she
placed the wicked blade against the curve of Michiru's throat, "Where
you are headed...?"
"You're... you're going to kill me?" she winced as the weapon nicked
her throat when she spoke.
"That's what we were hired for," Yohji explained, having slipped his
kill-wire around the Senshi while she was staring in shock at the one
she had _thought_ to be an ally against an impossibly strong enemy.
An enemy that had infiltrated _them_.
"Why?" she whimpered, moments before Yohji tightened his wire, and
straggled her. Ranma withdrew from the shadows, once again attempting
to use the Happo Goen Satsu _properly_ as he had not done for months,
to absorb the dissipating power. He did not get all of her power-- not
having put enough of his own behind the technique, but he didn't
vaporize the body, either, like he did with the Spirit Obliteration
technique.
That technique was for use on still moving, still living bodies. A
corpse was to be experimented with.
Rache nudged the said corpse with her boot, "Because you'd be doing the
same to us."
Yuki grinned widely, stepping forwards, "We should make an... example
of her."
"Oh, yeah, then how do we convince them why _I'm_ still alive?" Rache
shot the older female a glare.
Ranma snorted, "You _could_ just say that you two split up to head home
when you realized you'd found our 'home base'--"
"-- and you assume that she returned to 'rescue' the other Senshi--"
Yohji put in.
"-- and ended up getting offed by Amun-Ra," Yuki finished, kneeling
beside the body. The kill-wire had cut into the dead Senshi's throat as
she was strangled, like it had been designed to, so there were marks of
asphyxia, as well as appearing as though she had her throat slit.
Yuki brought forth her knives-- which happened to be monogrammed with
the kanji for kitsune-- and grinned manically.
She began to carve.
---
The next morning found Ranma sprawled across Farfello's bed, Yuki and
Aya-chan in Ranma's room, and Rache in Yohji's-- she hadn't been able
to sleep in her room. The stench of blood and death had been far too
strong.
Ken yawned widely, ignoring the door as he walked through the wall into
the kitchen. It was so _nice_ not to have to hide his abilities from
his housemates.
Once within the kitchen, he hummed to himself, going about the task of
making breakfast. After the American-style breakfast he'd made a while
back, he'd been elected as the breakfast-maker of the House.
It was a good thing he was a morning person.
Searching the cupboards left him immensely cheered, because he was
pretty sure... well, he pulled out the recipe book he'd taken from his
home before he became part of Weiss.
"Yes!" he crowed, "Cinnamon buns here I come!" it had been to _long_
since he'd last had them. Licking his lips, he began to prepare his
oh-so-yummy breakfast.
After breaking the mixer in making the dough, Ken was seated on the
floor in front of the oven, watching the dough rise. His stomach
growled as their sweet and spicy scent floated through the House.
The said scent called several individuals from their beds, sending them
to trudge into the kitchen to sleepily await the hot, cinnamonny
goodness.
Such a lovely day to be alive.
---
A shriek wrenched into the air, as the gruesome sight was discovered
that early morning.
Hino Rei stood frozen, holding her broom with numb fingers, as she took
it in. 'It' being Michiru's mauled corpse.
She'd been strung up between two trees, behind Hikawa Jinga. The
clothing she wore was tattered, soaked with her own blood. Her eyes
were wide and unseeing, face frozen in terrified shock, mouth stuffed
with, of all things, a riceball.
Her tattered shirt only covered her breasts, and into the milky white
skin of her belly, the words "Considering a Warning" were carved in a
surprisingly delicate handwriting.
She appeared to be-- minus what was on her clothing-- drained
completely of blood.
When the police arrived, it was to Rei's shock to find there were a
fairly _large_ number of government officials with them.
At one point, when the forensic officers decided it was alright to take
Kaiou's body off it's gruesome display, the Senshi of Mars thought she
heard something _very_ disturbing.
"They don't play around, do they?" one JSDF officer commented to his
companion.
"They're the best of the best, Yoshitaka," the other replied, "I'll bet
you three thousand yen that they don't find anything to connect to who
did this."
"You're on!"
So as not to contaminate the 'scene of the crime', Jiji, Yuuichirou and
Rei were moved from the shrine grounds. Jiji and Yuuichirou stayed at a
near-by temple, but Rei had relocated herself to the Tsukino residence,
terrified.
Naru had come as soon as Rei called the Senshi, and she was hit
hardest. Sobbing into Minako's shoulder, she related that they had,
indeed, found Amun-Ra's base. She and Neptune had agreed to head back
to their respective homes, in order to rest up, then tell everyone else
at the meeting the next day.
Rei inferred that Michiru had _not_ come back to the shrine, but
instead doubled back to the warehouse in a brash attempt to rescue the
trapped Senshi.
Obviously, she failed, and had been killed both for the attempt, and as
a warning to the other Senshi.
Usagi was surprisingly stoic, "How fast could they get out of their
current base?"
Naru sniffled, "They won't leave. They'll think we're too scared to
move against them. It's always been Amun-Ra's weakness-- he's far to
overconfident."
The Princess of the Moon nodded, "Tonight, then. Rei-chan, Mina-chan,
Naru-chan... we'll attack and _defeat_ them tonight!"
"Usagi..."
"No," and it was obviously Serenity before them, "We go tonight. They
won't be expecting it. We _will_not_fail_!"
---
"Is she stupid?" wondered Saotome with a chuckle, "We just killed the
last Outer Senshi. Does she really think she'll defeat _all_ of us?"
Schuldich snickered, "She doesn't realize that Rache isn't on her
side."
"Heh. That _is_ a bit of an ace in the hole... so we'll finish this
tonight?"
"Bingo, Bishoujo."
Ranma's eye twitched, "Next time you call me that, I am going to rip
you to _shreds_!"
"I'd like to see you try... Bishoujo!"
---
Dinner was a small affair.
Oz, Fei Li and Nobuyuki had been sent out to appropriate party
supplies-- for the bash they'd hold once the mission was completed--
and given instructions not to return until morning. Aya-chan, Omi and
Kunzite were over at the Tendou Dojo for the night.
Crawford was still in his room, proclaiming illness, even though
Schuldich, Ranma and Yuki knew otherwise, from using their various
abilities.
Schuldich had dragged Ken off, having finally convinced him that
'hanging out' was _not_ 'dating'. The redhead was just going to 'hang
out' with Ken, although he _did_ plan to get Hidaka piss drunk.
So it was only Yuki, Ranma, Ran, Jei Yohji, and Nagi who were gathered
to eat their supper. Tonight was the final night.
---
End Chapter
But not the final chapter. Don't worry everyone, I've got several more
chapters and a bunch of cliffhangers, just for you guys! Aren't you
_happy_?