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Children of War
By,
Luna Dragon
"Well, well, if it isn't the weak women." Wufei said. "It seems to me they're through retreating."
"Lighten up Wufei. We're not here to kill you." Kaiya said.
"Weak women?" Rei shouted from behind the two partners. "He just called us weak!"
"It's true, relying on weapons to escape." Wufei answered. "Apparently that's all women are good for, relying on inanimate objects instead of skill."
"You want skill to see skill Chinese-boy?" Rei shouted as she stormed up closer than she was, but not threateningly close upon noticing that each one of them was armed. Rei pulled back the long sleeves of her shirt and balled up her fists. "I'll show you skill! None of us have come armed, for your information, and just before we offer our proposal I wouldn't mind knocking some sense into you!"
"What?" Heero asked.
"What proposal?" Quatre rephrased, noticing everyone else was too surprised to say anything.
Ami stepped forward as Kaiya and Akiko sighed. "You have no reason to trust Akiko and Kaiya after what they've done." She said, and Ami could here the two girls' protests from behind her, but she silenced them with a stern look. "And because Rei and I have just associated with them, you have no reason to trust us either."
"Then what are you getting at?" Quatre asked before anyone was able to open their mouths.
"We're getting to the fact that we have a lot of information you don't." Akiko shouted. "People are after you, and we wanna help."
"After almost killing us?" Duo asked.
Kaiya bowed her head. "I did not mean to do it," She whispered almost as low as Trowa talked, which caused the former Heavyarms pilot to look up in surprise.
He refused to talk for his own reasons, what were hers? He couldn't help but to wonder about that.
"First off," Akiko answered for her. "Kaiya almost killed you all because she was being controlled. I, on the other hand, saved your asses. And so did Hotaru."
"Speaking of which," Rei cut in. "Another reason why we should be aloud in. You have our friend in there."
"But you don't even--" The rest of Akiko's sentence was muffled as Kaiya covered her mouth.
Softly, her friend whispered, "Play along, it may be our only chance."
She nodded and stepped forward. "Where is she anyways?"
The five boys exchanged nervous glances. "She's got amnesia." Duo answered.
"What?" Rei asked. 'Now this will be a hard one to explain to the Professor.' She thought as she tried to imagine presenting Hotaru to her father and she not remembering who he was. 'I wonder when she'll gain her memory back.'
"Well great," Akiko muttered. "How about this. We have a really big proposal for you. Professor Tomoe, he wants each and everyone of you dead. Don't ask me why, he doesn't tell us shit."
Kaiya rolled her eyes, but decided the truth was all that was left.
"You're basically on his 'must turn shit list', and the first ones at that." Akiko continued. "We figured that you all had some giant grudge, but now we know it isn't true because you all are giving me the aspect of a dog seeing a rainbow."
No one laughed. "Get it? A dog is color blind, he can't see a rain bow." She shrugged her shoulders and sighed.
"Once Professor Tomoe figures out what we're doing, he'll want us all dead. So we're asking you to join forces with us. That will improve our chances of beating him and his new army of mobile dolls that he's created." Ami said.
All heads, both female and male, turned towards Ami. All except Rei. "You didn't tell us this before," Kaiya said.
"Goody, so we're not the only ones surprised as hell then." Duo murmured and Akiko snickered, she was thinking close to that same idea.
"We were going to eventually." Rei said. "But there's a lot any of you all don't know."
"And before you ask, no we cannot tell you, am I right?" Akiko asked in her best impersonation as Rei. Ami nodded.
"So you want us to believe you two didn't know this already?" Heero asked.
Kaiya nodded. "We only work, or I should say worked, for Professor Tomoe. He didn't tell us what he was doing."
"He basically told us to jump and we asked how high." Akiko said. "And when we didn't listen he would place this on us."
Akiko grabbed the brown earring from her pocket and threw it to Heero who caught it easily. "What's this?" He asked in bewilderment.
"A microscopic computer designed for the purpose of rearranging the cells in your brain so someone or a computer has complete control over everything you do and think." Ami answered.
Once again all heads turned in her and Rei's direction. "She's a former scientist and doctor, so she knows a lot." Rei answered as Ami blushed.
"You know it'd be a lot easier if we could talk about this inside." Akiko suggested.
"We still don't trust you pack of women." Wufei said.
Rei growled. "Listen Wufei. We are all very much aware that you can't trust us right now because of what Kaiya and the others did. And we are also aware that trust cannot be borrowed, compromised, or negotiated, so we can't ask for it either. For you to gain our trust, and for us to gain yours, we each have to win it. But all we are asking, however, is for you to listen to this proposal and think carefully before disregarding it because we have something you five need in order to beat Professor Tomoe and get him off your backs." She said.
The boys were at a loss of words, she took some words from their heads. Trowa looked at the others with mild amusement. "Maybe we could learn to trust you in time." He whispered.
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Author's Note: I updated again. Heehee. What is it that Rei is talking about? What does she have the ex-boys need? And will they accept the proposal? Find out next time on Chapter 16 of . . . . CHILDREN OF WAR! (sorry, I'm on suger high right now and I just saw an episode of Dragon Ball Z) REVIEW!
