The Key

Summary : One girl, half of they key that will decide the worlds fate.

I don't own C 009

Chapter one

Jet Link sighed, leaning against a Sakura tree, they were in Japan again, and in perfect time to see the trees in bloom. He held his hand out as a small flower fell, white peteals sparkeling with water from the light rain they had gotten earlier. He closed his palm, in hopes of killing it, but as he opened it, the flower was still there, just as it had been, just like her. She had broken her promise, she actually let them turn him into a cyborg, into a weapon.

"Wow, a white blossem."

Joe Shimamura said, taking it out of his palm.

"I came out here to be alone, 009."

Joe grinned.

"Come on, you always say that.Hey, Francoise wants us and the guys to go out for a while, what do you say?"

The older boy snorted.

"No."

Joe frowned, knowing better than to push the man.

"Alright, see you when we get back."

The orange haired cyborg just nodded, watching as the sakura blossem floated to the ground, a small black snake slittlered over it, leaving a dirt streak. He looked up at the sound of a soft laugh, pushing through the bushes, he found that it was only Francoise, eyes closed as if she was looking back on the things that had happened to her in the past year. With a sigh, he sat down against the same tree he had been leaning against, and closed his eyes, her smiling face appeared, that same deciving smile on her face, the faked sad one with a hint of boredness in it, ruby eyes smiling and waist lenght coppery brown hair up in a ponytail, two blonde highlights hanging infront of her slighly pointed ears, butchered bangs hung on the sides of her eyes.Even though they had been friends since elementery, she had never answered his questions, or go easy on him while teaching him how to fight, pointing out every flaw in his stance and punches, though she never taught him how to kick right, come to think of it, he had never even seen her kick someone, not even in gym or when she was just taking her anger out on a tree in the woods.

"Seirei Rinku, also known as Kiai or Akki around school, she was always there when the cops brought in a criminal."

He whispered, brown eyes closing again, he fingered the strip of purple cloth in his pocket, inside of the knot was a golden band, his graduation ring, the purple cloth was a strip that she had torn off of her school uniform for a wound he had gotten while the were hiking though the woods, though he told her she should have changed instead of having to spend another twenty on a new uniform. He smiled at the memory, her ruby colored eyes had been close to a blood red at the site of his torn flesh. Because of the criminal thing, they had started calling her Scarlet. The memory of when he had caught a guy from school trying to ask her out had his sight turned red, and then a pair of soft cherry red eyes was all he saw.

"It's strange how her eyes change from one shade of red to the next."

He said, shivering at the memory of the time her eyes had turned scarlet. Though it was amazing how a girl two years younger than him could force him though something very simaler to boot camp. Oh, yeah, she hadn't, he had been forced to be with her through summer school, which had equaled in that.

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Ruby red eyes closed, hand infront of her face, side toward her nose, Seirei let lose a small growled as she cut though the bark of the Sakura tree, shaking her head as a white blossem fell on her ponytail, but it stayed.She let lose a fusterated cry as she punched the bark once again, blood hitting the ground from the cuts the rough texture had caused.

"Why is it so hard to let go of that!"

She screamed, sending one last punch to the tree before it fell to the ground with a crack, but her hand never touched the bark.She grinned, looking at the already scared flesh.

"Your getting better."

She turned around, and rolled her eyes at the old teacher.

"Why don't you guys stay in the other world?"

Her voice wasn't still laced with anger, but it was laced with a weak Japanese accent alongside a weak irish.

"Your our only way out of there, a portal that allows us into the living world."

The girl shook her head, sitting down on the ground and forcing the spirit back.

"I know I'm a cyborg, but a portal for the dead?"

She sighed, looking down at the grass, the white blossem infront of her.

"Jet."

She whispered, cruling into a ball as it started to rain, the Hammerhead prototype had been destroyed when she was fighting Scral, so she was stuck here.A small whimper escaped her throat as she buired her face in her hands, she was part two of 002, they had went through being turned into cyborgs togather, both by Dr.Issac Gilmore, but she had been awake through it, and had been put in a different lab after breaking out of her pod.

"Why me?"

She asked, though it was muffeled by her hands, it reached 003.

~*~

After some bribbing and a look over from Gilmore, Seirei walked toward the kitchen, set on having some ramen before someone else got to.When she did reach it, she didn't know what was funnier, that Jet was actually in just a pair of boxers or that he was eating something very simaler to outdated ramen.

"What is that?"

She asked, leaning over his shoulder and sniffing, automaticly regretting it.She chocked, earning a worried look from the older man.

"I was gonna say, it's got garlic."

She growled.

"Could've said it earlier."

She coughed, opening the fridge.

"Kezumi's strange."

She mummered, pulling out a container, not even bothering to see what was in it.

"Hey, Rei?"

"Yeah?"

He looked down, fingering the same piece of cloth under the table.

"What's that?"

She asked, poking his shoulder.

"I meant to give this to you before the incident with Black Ghost."

He said, pulling the band out of the knot.She smiled, nuzzling his temple.

"You never did graduate, did you?I almost forgot that."

She whispered, slipping it on.

"Night."

He said, standing up and putting his bowl in the sink.She sighed and looked down at the band as he dissappeared down the corner.

"Night, Jet."

She made a face as she slipped the lid off the container.

"Maybe I'm not as hungry as I thought."

She said, poking the 'food' with a chopstick, a little piece of it reached out as she gave a catish hiss, tossing it into the sink and walking down to her room. Jet sighed, watching her back, she had changed alot, even her eyes seemed a bit more souless then they had been

~*~

Jet smiled slightly before turning off Seirei's bedroom light.

"Can you leave it on?"

Her ruby eyes opened, voice cutting through the darkness like a knife.

"Why do you want it on?"

She smiled at him slightly.

"You didn't know, I'm afraid of the dark."

He smirked.

"Looks like little Miss Fearless has her own flaws."

She frowned, sitting up.

"Well, no ones prefect."

"That's true, hey, would you be ok if I were in here?"

A pale blush spread across her cheeks as she nodded.He grinned, flipping the switch and walking over to her bed, slipping under the covers.

~*~

Well, there's chapter one.