Miroku's Chick: Hey again! Sorry I've taken so long, homework and all honors classes is horrid and stalking takes time!! I mean....yeah homework . . so r/r! Yay! Bai bai! _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* _*_

Seren stole out the back door and into the alley next door. She took her gun and shot three times into the air and followed it with a scream. The lie down in the alley and closed her eyes "knocked out." As she expected, Vash and the gang ran up the alley toward her. Vash kneeled down next to her and tried to shake her awake. She blinked her eyes open.

"What happened Seren?"

"A guy he...he shot at me and missed, but he threw me into the wall and I blacked out as he ran when he heard you coming," she told the gunman in a quite whisper.

"Did you see which way he went?" Vash asked seriously.

"That way," she pointed down the alley, toward the darker part of it.

He hurried down the alley, the gang in tail and Danni and Britt in the back. They stopped and stood Seren up. They stood in the alley and watched as they turned the corner. Danni and Britt threw looks at each other and Seren as they heard screams of three girls and the clicks of the cross wolfwood owned. They grinned and walked slowly down the alley. The girls turned the corner and Legato and Midvalley had guns pointed at Vash and the others. Wolfwood whipped around at the sound of the three girls' footsteps.

"You."

He pointed his cross punisher at Seren, who stood looking at him defiantly. Danni took out the gun on her his holster and placed it at the priest's temple.

"You shoot, you die," she smiled slyly at him and he lowered his gun.

Vash stared at Legato as Danni, Seren, and Britt took their supposed friends and tied them up at the side. Midvalley kept a gun pointed at Wolfwood and shoved him over to the wall next to the girls. Danni tied him up too. She knelt down next to Jacki to tie up her arms and whispered into her ear.

"Gimme a dagger."

"What no, you have a gun, and you betrayed us."

"No, trust me. Please."

Jacki sighed and pulled a dagger out of her boot and Danni shoved it into her hip holster, finished tying her friend up and stood between Seren and Britt.
"I killed you," Vash said, looking more serious then anyone had ever seen him.

"Apparently not, Mr. Vash the Stampede. I'm alive and well. The man you killed was named Alec. You killed an innocent," a slight smirk drew across Legato's mouth.

Vash gasped and lunged at Legato, who easily side stepped him. Midvalley stepped in front of Legato and faced Vash. He put his saxophone to his lips and played. A huge powerful wind blew out of the sax and threw Vash against the wall. The two gung-ho guns smirked.

"Although, I did kill your brother."

Britt shot at him, but missed by a milimeter. He sats, shaking and cringing against the wall, barely alive. He took his gun out of his pocket and pointed it at Legato.

"You want to shoot me, go ahead."

Vash shot 4 bullets at Legato, yet they came zooming back at him. He ducked as the bullets buried themselves into the brick behind him.

"Try again."

A scuffle was heard behind them and the girls and Midvalley whipped around to see Wolfwood diving over toward his cross. He'd gotten out of the ropes and already had the cross pointed at Danni's forehead. Legato and Vash continued their little talk.

"Don't Wolfwood."

"Why shouldn't I?"

He was shaking as he spoke.

"Trust me."

He glanced over at Jacki who nodded furiously and he pointed the weapon at Midvalley and shot before he had time to put the deadly horn to his lips. He fell to the floor, face down in a pool of his own blood. Danni closed her eyes and cringed, looking away.

"That wasn't right, Wolfwood."

"I had to."

"I have to do this,"she said and whacked him over the head with the butt of her gun. He crumpled to the floor, dropping the cross, unconscious. The girls turned back to Legato and Vash. Vash had gotten to his feet and had his gun pointed at the mind-reader. Legato just stodd there, perfectly calm, apparently willing to die.
"Shoot me, but before you do, let me show you something."

Vash looked down at his hands and shuttered. He had an exact replica of Vash's gun. He held it to the red clad gunman's temple and grinned, a full out grin.

"How?"

"I took Kinves', when I killed him."

Vash shot and Legato dived out of the way, directing the bullet back at Vash, who deflected it with a garbage can lid he had just picked up. Legato shot directly between Vash's eyes and watched at he dove behind the garbage cans. Legato smiled to himself and shot again as Vash dove out from behind the cans. The bullet his straight on into his chest. He fell to the ground with a thud and slid up against the wall. He sat up and looked with one eye, at Danni next to Legato.
His eyes spoke for him. Pain, love, begging, rage, everything shown through the aqua marine eyes. She hated to do it, but she stood in front of Legato and kissed him hard on the lips, putting all her energy into the kiss. She knew it was tearing Vash up inside as he watched his love kiss his enemy. She slowly reached down into the holster on her hip and clutched the dagger she had taken from Jacki earlier. Slowly, ever so slowly, not to draw the attention of Legato to her hands and pulled it up just above his waist.
She felt him slip his tongue inside her mouth. She was so close to him she could almost use his powers. He was focused on Vash's thoughts.

'Why Legato, why help him. She's kissing him...pain...'

She couldn't stand the sound of it anymore. She could feel all the eyes on her and Legato and wanted them off. She pointed the knife toward Legato's gut and drove it in as hard as she possibly could. She wrenched her lips off of his and jammed the dagger harder into his stomach and ripped it back out. Blood poured from his middle, with the same blood covering her knife. She stepped back away from him and rushed over to Vash and held him in her lap. Legato keeled over, clenching his stomach and fell, face first, onto the sand. Blood pooled around him, being soaked up by the sand.

"Goodbye, m'love."

His eyes closed and his whole body went limp. Seren rushed over to him and held his cold body in her arms.

"Vash, please, try to stay awake, don't die, please. I'm sorry I had to do this," Danni whispered frantically to him.

"It...it's alright, he missed. I'm glad you're ok."

She put her finger to his lips and shushed him. A cold metal touched the back of her head, followed by a loud click.

"Get up."

It was Seren behind her. She stood slowly and turned to face the girl.

"Seren, stop, don't do this."

"I have to, you killed him."

"Seren," Danni raised her arms slowly, and grabbed her gun and flipped her around so Seren's back was to her.

"Please, Seren, I don't want to hurt you, don't do this."

"Then let me hurt you!" she turned herself around and stomped on Danni's feet. Everyone was still tied up and yelling things from the wall. Britt stood by the opposite wall, in shock, absorbing what happened. Seren threw Danni into the wall, with surprising strength. The dagger was knocked out of her hands and clattered an inch out of her reach. She struggled to reach the short knife as Seren stepped down hard on her ribs. He gun pointed at her chest.

"You killed my brother, my only family left. Betrayed him and left him to die, now you suffer the same fate."

Two shots rang out, only two. All eyes stared in shock as two bodies fell limp to the ground. Two slightly different color bloods flowed together. Seren's hand lay on top of Danni's, the one not holding a gun. Britt realized the reality of the situation and ran to untie her friends and went to Danni. The whole place was littered with bodies. Vash up against the wall, Danni and Seren together, Wolfwood knocked out, Midvalley dead in a pool of his own blood. Britt reached down to touch their hands. Both cool and dead. Vash was crying hard, with a mix of emotional pain and loss and the pain in his chest. A single tear slid down Britt's cheek and she stood, walking out of the alley and back to the house. _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* _*_

Miroku's Chick: yay! Ok the last chapter is sorta an epilogue. Yeah...so r/r yay!!