Okay... fifth chapter... I'm rushing here!! argh.... so stressed and stuff... but this gets stuff offa my mind at least!! And... okaaayyy... I just found out Misty's "partner"s name is Q-chan... :p anyway, I'm planning to make it a Misty and my own character pairing... not Misty-Meia.. I'm so sorry, but I'm not too fond of f/f pairing.^^; But maybe I'll think about the Jura-Barnette one.. anyway, I'm promoting my super new forum... please join, see it at http://chiisai.suddenlaunch2.com .. that's all, please join

dark-angel: Ty!! :) I'll get around to reviewing yours soon... lol, and that's enough.
Miki-moon78: Hi again! ^_^... thanx, really
Tamphis-...er... 2nd stage, BtW... Dita does talk in 3rd person in the Japanese version... ask any Vandread freak :p
Ranshin- *sweatdrop*...coz I kinda feel disturbed everytime I see 'sex'... it makes me think... dunno..call me a wierd idiot... I'll try... ^^
Speckles-Arigato... here, I continued ^^;

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Confused Love
Chapter five
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"I don't like it here..." Jura said to Misty and Dita as they observed Taraku by the windowss of the boarding house. The rest were exploring the land.

"So do I..." Misty said with a sigh. They actually agreed on something.

"Atleast now Dita's not the only girl for those crazy experiments!" Dita's optimism said out loudly and cheerfully.

"Experiments?" Jura repeated.

"Hai...they want to find out how humans are supposed to reproduce." Dita explained.

Blink-blink.

"That's a great idea!!" Jura said cheerfully, giggling. Atleast this would get her somewhere with her long search of facts for reproducing.

Misty stood there stunned.

"I think it's stupid." Misty said, her Q-chan nodding agreeingly.

Soon, Hibiki came into the hall with them looking awfully tiredand was complaining. "Why do we have to choose the guys who's going to stay with women anyway......."

Mity's eyes suddenly lit up. "Okay, in my planet... we sometimes call the way of reproduction... 'sleeping together'."

Hibiki and Dita's eyes widened, as Jura almost fell down on the floor from laughter.

Dita, foolishy gasped. "That mean I'm pre--"

Hibiki clamped his hand over Dita's mouth, this was way too embarassing for him. "Let her finish, dammit!"

'maybe I should use the flowers and the bees example...' Misty thought to herself as Hibiki took his hand away from Dita. 'Nah, they ain't stupid.'

"Well?" Jura said impatiently.

"You know... the um... 'thing'... of the guyy? Well... err..." Misty was blushing furiously, and her three companions swore that was the first time she actually looked shameful. "And... the... ahehehe.... er........"

"Spit it out!" Jura said, stamping her foot.

"Shut up, old hag!" Misty yelled back, Q-chan stuck his tongue out as Misty stomped her foot too.

"Brat!! Just say it!!" Jura yelled back.

Silence.

"FINE!" Misty yelled back finally. "It's like this...."

*ceeeensoooooored* ^^; for the kiddies out there......

Hibiki and Dita, red in the face coudn't even face eachother. Jura, felt totally excited about this.

"What's going on?" Barnette's voice said as she came in, Jura immediately ran to her close friend.

"Barnette!!" Jura said excitedly. "Now I know how to get babies!! Misty knew it all this time!"

Jura chattered excitedly with Barnette, as Misty eyed Dita and Hibiki with a sly grin.

"Now you know, go on, try it!" Misty said laughing, trying to puch Dita and Hibiki into the room together.

"Hell, woman!" Hibiki yelled and ducked away from her.

Soon BC, Bart, Meia and Duero came to sleep. So, the only girls who decided to sleep not on Nirvana, was Dita, Misty, Meia, Jura and Barnette. They soon went into thier respective rooms. Dita, Misty and Meia were sharing a room, Jura and Barnette on the other. But the men had seperate quarters.

Soon, Dita, Meia and Misty had settled into thier beds.

"Taraaku isn't what I imagined it to be..." Meia said silently, expressing her oppinion to her two companions.

"You are so right, onesan..." Misty said with a sigh. "It is soo boring... it's alot better in Nirvana."

"But after Uchujin-san and the others choose the right men, they'll stay in Nirvana with us, neh?" Dita asked curiously, as Meia nodded her reply.

"When do you think that'll be...?" Misty asked.

"Maybe in a week or so." Meia replied. "Let's turn in, shall we?"

"Hai, Onesan!" Misty replied, Dita's "Hai, Leader!" echoing behind her voice.

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After around five days, Hibiki was told he could only choose a couple more, maybe three or five to be onboard Nirvana. He was there choosing by the station.

"Hmmm.... that one! That one! And this one!" Jura said excitedly, clutching onto Hibiki, who was choosing from a long line of men to be with them on Nirvana. She was acting like a kid in a toy shop, and was picking out all the hunky ones.

The men she picked were thouroughly happy, and rushed of to get trained to be aboard Nirvana. Some grumbled to themselves, they didn't want to be an inch near a female.

"Stop it!!" Hibiki yelled at Jura, who just giggled excitedly. Jura had insisted to come along, while Duero and Bart were the ones 'training' the chosen ones aboard Nirvana. They showed them around the rooms, the ay they ate, facilities, the females onboard, etc.

Misty came into the station cheerfully, and skipped to Hibiki and Jura's side.

The men stood still, and only a lone figure by the very back was moving. He was a certain poor teenager giving a raggy cat some milk.

Misty tiptoed to get a better view, then smiled.

"Him, Hibiki..." Misty whispered to Hibiki.

"Not you too..." Hibiki sighed, one Jura-like person was enough. "Who?"

"Shiro!" Misty called out in the crown, Shiro faced her in astonishment and waved back to Misty. Heads in the crowd turned around to get a better glance at the man Misty had called.

"You know him?" Hibiki asked Misty.

Misty nodded. "He helped me find you guys, when I got lost the other day."

"But he looks so... tacky." Jura whispered to Misty, who in return just frowned at her.

"Old hag." She whispered back, and she and Q-chan locked glares with Jura.

"You!" Hibiki called out after Shiro, who looked at him confusingly. The other men coudn't believe thier eyes, a poor guyy was going to be picked, and he was all dirty in addition too. "C'mere!"

Shiro awkwardly walked towards the flatform, and Misty waved to him cheerfully.

"You coming? You better go tell you family..."

"I... don't have a family, nor friends." Shiro replied quietly. Misty instantly regretted her suggestion when she saw the lonely look in his eyes.

"Well... that's it." Jura said, brushing her bangs away. "Let's get going."

"We'll leave for Nirvana... NOW?!" Misty replied surprisedly, that was certainly fast.

"Well, yeah... we should've even earlier... since Nirvana stopped by only to pick up the men Hibiki and the others picked." Jura said explainingly.

So it was settled, they just gather thier stuff along with Shiro, and head for Nirvana.

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"Oh, Barnette!" Jura said cheerfully, watching the gathering men from the halls of Nirvana. "This is so exciting!"

Barnette shrugged. 'What is the problem with her... can't she notice the longing I have for her? Baka baka baka!'

Meia came up to them from the other side of the hall. "Take off... five minutes."

"Leader, where exactly are we going?" Barnette asked curiously.

"We pirates go nowhere. We just go on until we find a place to hang out in." Meia said, and left the other way.

"Great explanation..." Meia mumbled, as she played with her hair.

Misty suddenly bounced into the hall behind Meia. "Onesan! Wait for me!"

"That brat has gotten so attached to our silent leader..." Jura said, with a sigh.

"Do you think it's a relationship where you bear children?" Barnette said with a grin.

"I dunno... I think she likes a guy from Taraaku. She asked Hibiki to drag him along." Jura said, as they both left the hall and into the busy world of Nirvana.

"Eh? Who?"

"Someguy called Shiro... tacky, tacky guy..." Jura replied.

"Don't say that..." Barnette whispered. Jura blinked in confusion. She was a very vain girl, of course.

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"Uchujin-san!" Said a cheerful Dita as she ran up to Hibiki with a plate of Roast Beef. Hibiki glared at her.

"HI-BI-KI!!!!" He yelled, as the men around them stared, while the females ignored this scene. This was a new thing for the men, but just reruns for the ladies.

"Oh yeah! Dita forgot..." Dita said cheerfully, and shoved the plate into his hands. "Here!"

"Thanks, woman!" Hibiki replied, and grabbed the plate from his and started eating furiously.

The men surrounded him, and looked closely at the food. "So this is Female Food..."

"Dita, why don't you give them some?" Gascogne asked Dita, who was holding more food in her arms.

"No! This is Hibiki-san's!" Dita said protectively, and clutched the food more tightly.

"Right!" Hibiki's voice said in the background.

Ezra soon came to the resuce, and gave the men some cupcakes. They loved it. In the background, was Pyoro taking care of Kahria, who he still insisted was Pyoro 2, and Rebecca trying to grab her daughter from the robot. It was reunion for the robot and baby, since robot had came along in Taraaku.

"Let go!!" Rebecca yelled.

"Iie!" Pyoro yelled back. Rebecca and him started a chase over Nirvana.

Misty and Meia come into the large hall, and Misty starts looking for Shiro right away.

"Shiro? The brown haired guy?" Duero replied to her question. "I saw him heading for the Pexiz with Parfet, I think he's a curious child."

"Arigato, doctor!" Said Misty, as she hopped of chearfully to find Shiro in the Pexis room.

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"....so, it has a mind of it's own. Cool, neh?" Parfet's voice explained to the amazed Shiro.

"Amazing..." Shiro said, and looked at it with great curiousity.

"Hi, Shiro! Parfet!" Misty said, as she jumped in with them.

"Hi, Misty." Shiro said, and Parfet smiled at her.

Parfet looked at her watch, and started to leave. "I gotta finish something in the basement... see you."

"Bye, Parfet-san." Shiro replied.

"See you, Parfet!" Misty said, waving. Parfet soon left the room.

"I think it's amazing..." Shiro said, as he leaned on the beamers, eyes gazed on the Pexis.

"Yeah... it has a mind of it's own." Misty said. "It's lonely..."

"How do you say that?"

Misty's gaze changed to lonelity as she stared at the Pexis and recalled the event. "I came her once, and it told me through a robot that it was lonely. Pexis was halfed, you see... the other half went to Harvest, our enemy... so it's battling it's friend."

Shiro's eyes narrowed. "I see..."

"It told me once, when everyone was partying and I had no place. I went here... soon, Onesan came and made me party too, after I found out..." Misty continued.

"Why were you lonely?"

"I'm not from Mejeru..." Misty said with a sigh. "I come from Pluto, where men and women live together... but I was put into sleep, and ended up here. And I was lonely, I was seperated from my loved ones, and no one seemed to appreciate me..."

Shiro stayed slient through her whole talk.

"But it's good... I fell in love with Hibiki. And gave up... Onesan helped me go throught it..." Misty said. "I feel awful, I treated Dita like trash since Hibiki liked her more... then she steal treats me equally..."

"It's okay." Shiro said, as he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Mmm..." Misty said, and grabbed his arm and leaned her head on it.

"E,eh??" Shiro said in confusion.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm...not used to this..." Shiro said, blushing.

Misty sighed. "You act so much like Hibiki, minus the swearing."

Shiro sweatdropped.

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Special part! (has nthing to w/ the fic, just some promotion...)

Dita: "Please, fic writers! Let's all join the new fic forum, Chiisai-san has done!"

Hibiki: "........... http://chiisai.suddenlaunch2.com.............."

Dita: *blink* "Thanks, Uchujin-san."

Hibiki: "......................"

Dita: "What's wong?"

Chiisai: *pops in* "He's embarassed around you! In the phillipines, we call it Torpe!"

Blink-blink.

Hibiki: "Shaddup. It's all coz of your fic... you just exposed... er... dammit, nevermind."

Dita: *sweatdrop*

Chiisai: "Don't swear me! I'm a fic author!"

Hibiki: "And so?"

Chiisai: *in a know-it-all voice.* "I can type."

Hibiki: "And sooo....?"

*Hibiki envelops Dita in a warm hug, and they seem to be in a fantastic world of thier own as they see eachother in a comfortable kiss....*

Hibiki: "QUIT IT!! stop typing that infront of all this people!!"