Chapter One- The Escape of Kuroneko

It was a perfect paradise. Green trees and beautiful flowers, with a soft bed of grass, and a peaceful breeze. Yes, it was a paradise, and on the planet Gunsmoke, it was a rarity, but that brings us to the definition of the word paradise. "Walled garden." And as a walled in garden, it was boooooring!

Kuroneko had lived here almost all of her life with her Otou-san Knives, and often visited by her older brother Legato-niisan, and her unusual friend Midvalley. All of Kuroneko's friends and family were very unusual though, because she was unusual herself.

You see, she had no mother, as her father said, and her father wasn't human himself. She had a few of her father's traits, like the long blond hair he used to have when he was a child, but she didn't know where she got the soft black pointed ears on the top of her head, very animal like in looks, or the tail. She didn't know how she got blue-green eyes, with the pupils slitted vertically. Her father had a similar color, but he certainly didn't have the same shape!

She wasn't supposed to look at her reflection, and she wasn't supposed to ponder over such thing- that was against 'tou-san's rules, but she had caught quite a few glimpses of herself in the pond, so she couldn't help but wonder. Her wondering never got close to the truth however, and Knives was happy to keep it that way.

After Vash had gone off on his own, Knives had started planning his revenge against the humans. He had caught about a dozen humans VERY down on their luck, and had killed them, storing their bodies. He searched through the DNA strands of each person, before coming across one single tiny piece, common on each of them. That was the "Bad luck" hormone.

Using the BLH, "Bad luck hormone", and using his own DNA, he had created a small child. To make sure it wasn't identical to him, he had inserted a small strand of the common female black cat, who was unlucky on her own. When finally developed, he found it had made a small child, with a mix of his traits and the cats traits. She was a bad luck carrier; immune to it, but spreading it around.

With her unleashed on the world, slowly but surely the human civilization would collapse. Even if Knives were to die, as long as that child lived, all human life on the planet Gunsmoke would end, although it might take several centuries.

And she would still live those centuries, having mostly the blood of a Plant, and living a Plant's lifetime. By the time her body was fully developed and able to live outside the container it was built in, he had already recruited Legato. This worked out perfectly well for him, since he had no desire to take care of a child.

So it was Legato who named her, and raised her for the year it took for her to become a small child, barely out of toddler years, but ready to function partly on her own.

But thankfully, Kuroneko was naive, and oblivious to it all. All she knew was that she was bored living in a paradise, and now that Legato was always off doing his job, she had no one to play with.

She sat by the edge of the pond kicking at the water, and humming a tuneless song like all children do. She wore a too large tee shirt, and some underclothes, but that was all. Her feet were heavily callused from having never worn shoes.

"I'm boooored," she whined quietly to herself. She knew better than to bother 'tou-san with her noise, and to never ask him to play. Last time she did that, she got thrown in the same pond she was kicking her feet in.

"I'm gonna go see if Legato-niisan ish here than!" She declared, standing up quickly and crossing her arms. She walked to were 'tou-san was with practiced stealth, and looked past the shrubs, opening a small space with her tiny arms.

She wasn't really expecting to see Legato, but he was there, bowed in front of Knives like her 'tousan was royalty.

"I want you to carry out this order at once!" Knives growled harshly.

"May I not even see Kuro-chan, Knives-sama?" Legato asked softly.

That provoked a snarl. "No!" he barked out. "You've been pampering her. Just the other day she wanted to *play*! She was acting human, like my baka brother! Your human nature has been rubbing off on her! I ban you from seeing her ever again! She is a tool, and only that! She isn't supposed to *want*! She isn't supposed to *feel*!"

Kuroneko stifled a sob. She wasn't sure what all was happening, but there were two things she was certain of. She'd never be able to see Legato- niisan again, and her Otou-san hated her, and didn't want her. Her despair quickly turned to a child's pure rage.

Fine then! She didn't want her 'tousan either! She ran back to her small hut, and crawled into it. She grabbed her backpack, that she made with the hand me down pants that were too big.

She grabbed her favorite baby blanket, a light blue like the sky, and stuffed it in. She also grabbed her extra shirt, and under clothes, and stuck them in too. The last and final thing she stuck in, was a small photo album, with five picture slots. There was one of her and Legato-niisan playing, one of Midvalley-san teaching her how to swim, not long after Knives dumped her into the pond, one of a blond man with spiky blond hair and kind blue eyes (the father she wished she had instead of Knives, she thought bitterly), and a picture that she decided must be her mother, although she never confronted Knives about it. It was a picture of a woman with long black hair, and the word "Rem" was scrawled at the bottom. At least she thought it said that; Legato had been teaching her to read when he last left. She took the pencil he left, and wrote "Mom" under it, in scratchy letters.

She found it in the box of children's clothes that Knives gave her when she got this big. That and the picture of the kind eyed man. He said that they were his and his brothers when they were young. She supposed the man in the picture was his brother, Vash.

The last picture was one of Knives, and she took it out and ripped it into little tiny pieces. She took the handful of pieces and tossed them out, the wind picking them up and blowing most of them away. She reached back in the tiny house and grabbed her backpack.

Stepping away from her house one last time, she look back at the place she had called home for a long moment, before turning her back on it forever. That sad little shack was just a doghouse, another sign of Knives opinion of her.

She snuck up to the path out of the paradise to wait for Legato to come by, hiding herself. She decided that she would trail him, and wait until they were a long way away from this place before revealing herself to him. If they were close, it was likely he would take her back. With as much as he cared for her, his number one loyalty was to Knives.

He walked briskly past her, like he wanted to be out of this place as soon as possible. The force field surrounding the paradise opened when he touched it, and Kuroneko knew it would only be open for thirty seconds after he left. He usually waited to see it close, but some hidden emotion was driving him on, and he didn't even look back. He didn't see as Kuroneko slipped through, and hid behind a dune of sand.

Knives lifted his head as he felt Kuroneko's presence leave. He didn't bother to fetch her though; she would do more damage outside these walls, than the inside. And evil grin spread over his face, and he started laughing a sinister laugh. Finally that tool was in use, and soon the human population would start to destroy itself!

The utterly naive Kuroneko was following Legato, who had gotten on a strange riding beast, and had started moving at a fast pace. It was hard for her to keep up with him, but an instinct she never knew she had kicked in, she started using her hand and feet to sprint, and caught up with Legato in no time, using the dunes to hide her presence.

It was easy for her to hide for the blue shirts her 'tou-san Knives had given her had long faded to an off white, slightly tinted blue. Her long hair being blond blended in to the sand, and her skin did the same.

So as she got to where Legato was, she paused for a moment, caught her breath. She didn't know how she could do that, but she felt a flash of age-old memory. A large limber predator, with black spotted fur, sprinting after some kind of herd animal, and taking it down. A black leopard, taking down her next meal by sprinting faster than it could run.

She suddenly realized that Legato had moved on further ahead, so she started sprinting again. All her energy was focused on keeping pace with Legato-niisan, but a distant part of her wondered how long that she would be able to keep up the pace.

After running for hours, Legato stopped momentarily. He let the riding beast rest, and gave it some water, drinking a large swig of water himself from a canteen. Sitting down, he ate a small roll, stuffed with some kind of meat. That was when Kuroneko realized how starved she was, for both water and food.

"I guess I gotta wait for a place with more people, then I can hide better and maybe get some food," She thought. Legato-nii-san had told her places like that, places where there were so many people that there was always noise about. A city, she remembered. It was hard to believe that there were such places.

She shook her head distractedly. "That still doesn't make me less hungry!" She took a piece of her hair, and started sucking on it, swallowing the spit from her mouth. That made her a little less thirsty, but not by much.

Legato seemed done eating, and saddled up on his riding beast, starting at a slower speed. The worn beast huffed and puffed, but went none the less. Kuroneko walked slowly and when the riding beast started going faster, loped after it.

"I hope we get to a city soon..." she thought to herself. She ran and ran, non-stop, for hours, and the sun was getting lower in the horizon. She became aware of a large stone formation, and some kind of giant fan attached to it. There was a town scattered around that stone formation, and many different smells came off it.

When Legato got off his riding beast, he slapped it on its rear, and sent it running of on its own. Kuroneko dodged the running animal, and hid behind a post to a large wooden arch, a sign attached to the top. "JENEORAROCK"

Legato walked into an inn, and ordered a meal. Kuroneko watched as he did this, and realized she was pretty hungry herself.

She looked around, and the few people there stared at her. "My ears!" she thought in a flash. She took her thin, small blanket out of her pack, and tied it around her head like a scarf. Her tail she hid under her shirt wrapped around her waist.

"Done!" She said with a smile. The people who where staring had just come out of a bar next door, and one of them muttered to the others about not drinking anymore this early in the day.

She walked over to what seemed to be a deli. Opening the door, she gazed sadly at the different foodstuffs. The shopkeeper was a kind old man, and he recognized that look. It was the same look that the starving kids from the nearby village gave when they came into this part of town. He reached into a cupboard, which he kept the stuff that was a day past expiration. Too old to sell, but still perfectly okay.

"Here," he said, handing a large sandwich, wrapped in deli paper, down to the practically drooling girl. A huge smile broke over her face.

"Doomo Arigato Gozaimasu!" she said, holding on to the sandwich like a lifesaver.

"Its no problem child, I always have extra stuff," He said with a kindly smile. "Now go on, I need to work."

"Hai!" She chirped, skipping back the inn that Legato-niisan was in. "Yum!" she said, munching at her sandwich. It was a little too big for her, so when she was done, she wrapped it up with the deli paper, and stuck it in her pack.

She got up, and wandered around, not far from the inn, until she found a well. Pulling up the bucket, she used the ladle on the edge to take a long drink, before heading back to the inn.

When she got there, some mean looking people, all in the same outfit, were going in, pushing in some sad looking girls in front of them. She peeked in, as they sat down, and ordered some wine, whatever that was.

She could here Midvalley-san playing in there, and was surprised. It would be twice as hard to follow Legato-san now, and they still weren't far enough from "home".

One of the pretty girls looked over at Legato-niisan, and her eyes got less blurry. The girl just stared for a while. Something about the girl looking at Legato-niisan upset the mean men, Kuroneko guessed because one of the mean men started kicking the girl.

"Not just mean men," Kuroneko thought. "Some group of people doin' whatever this Rodrick tell 'em to."

This Rodrick's group started yelling at *her* 'nii-san, and Legato- niisan just ignored them.

"Go 'nii-san!" Kuroneko cheered silently.

One of Rodrick's group got really mad, and shot at Legato-nii-san, breaking his fork, and Legato-niisan just asked for another one. This made the same guy even more mad, and shot at Legato-niisan even more!

Legato turned around and gave the man a piercing glare. "I will be taking care of all humans, sooner or later..Why do you want to die so soon?" he asked in a low voice.

"What does he mean? Die? What's die?" Kuroneko questioned herself. She had never been introduced to the idea of death, and this was all confusing her deeply.

She nearly jumped out of her skin as she felt the energy of Legato- niisan mind control. She had it happen to her a couple times, when she was trying to misbehave. Usually he forced her to go sit by herself and stay here, but what he was doing to this man sent shivers down her spine.

The mans hand reached up and turned around, at an impossible angle, forcing itself into the mans chest, and through his heart. The man begged for it to stop, but he eventually died.

The rest of the group jumped up and tried to shoot him, but only shot each other. Legato's mind control was all over that group and each and every one of them fell to the ground, bleeding, and not moving.

"Is that what die is? Never moving again, and their spirit away from their body? And blood..." Kuroneko thought in a distant horrified manner. Blood, so much blood. The only time she had seen blood is when she fell and scraped her knee. But there was blood all over the floor.

Legato walked up toward the girls. "You are a truly pitiful bunch. But you should understand this now. Life is a very painful experience."

At that the girls began to cry.

"The end is coming. You should try to enjoy it while you can." This was spoken with such a strength, that it echoed throughout the city. People ran into the closest cover, and out of the inn. A silence reigned

Then, breaking the painful silence, Midvalley-san started playing again, like it had never happened. Legato started walking out the door, and Kuroneko hid under a bench. She watched terrified, as he walked down the road. People hid in their own buildings, and windows closed, trying to block him out.

He lifted his hand, and stared at it, with the most evil grin this town had ever seen. He walked toward the windmill, climbing to the top of it.

Kuroneko watched him as he went up, followed by Midvalley-san. The two were soon followed by a large amount of Rodrick's gang. She huddled in a ball as she felt the energy of both Legato and Hornfreak, and heard the sounds of a massacre.

Next Chapter- Kuroneko meets Vash, the father she always wished she had, and watches the battle between Dominique the Cyclops, and Vash the Stampede. Those who have see the series all know that Vash wants to go off on his own, leaving Meryl and Milly behind, but with Legato-niisan disappeared and no place else to go, will Vash let her come? Next time!

A.N. Arigato for reading Minna-san!

This is my first Trigun Fanfiction, and I don't know if it is as decent as I hope it is. I know I may have problems with paragraphs, but I've been working on it, so it may be better now.

'nyhow, I like writing fanfiction using chibi characters, that is young O.C. characters, and I try to make a chibi character to fit into each of the anime series I like. This was the only one I could figure out for this one.

If there is any series errors you see so far, please tell me.

Japanese Translations

Iie = no

Hai = yes

Kuroneko = black cat

Otou-san & 'tou-san = father, or daddy

Onii-san & 'nii-san = older brother

Kuro-chan = Dear Kuro (or something of the like. Basically a cute pet name)

Knives-sama = Lord Knives (or similar. Honorary title)

Midvalley-san = Mr. Midvalley

Doomo Arigato Gozaimasu = "Many many thanks!"

I think that is all, but if you see any other ones I missed, tell me!