For Pudding and Peace?

By: Rika Hitoshi

Disclaimer: I do not own Trigun, duh.

Chapter 2 - I am a hunter of Pudding!

"Stop moving and stay still!"

Meryl yelled at Vash while trying to clean out the cut over his eye that he had gotten from chasing the bus. It wasn't very deep, but if it got infected it would without a doubt hurt a lot more.

"If we don't clean it out it'll get infected and hurt more." Meryl reached out a cotton ball drenched in cleaning antiseptic and Vash recoiled to the wall. "Vash!" she yelled.

He smiled nervously, "Yes?"

She glared at him, "Get back over here right now."

Vash shook his head, "No way, it stings!"

Meryl sighed, "It's only going to hurt you more if I don't clean it. Now get back over here or else I'll tie you to a chair to clean that cut!"

Vash slowly slinked back over and Meryl continued to clean the cut. "See, it doesn't hurt. You're just a big baby."

Vash stared down at her, "You are mean, you know that?"

Meryl narrowed her eyes at him, "Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

Millie walked into the room and stood by the door listening to them bicker back and forth. Finally Vash noticed her standing there.

"Hey your back! Did you find out anything?"

Millie nodded, "Yes, the ticket man said that the bus was heading for May City."

Vash stood up, knocking Meryl over, "Good, then we're off to May City!"

Meryl jumped up her hand clenched into fists, "What are you saying? You're going after the kid who stole Millie's pudding?"

Vash nodded smiling, "Yes, It's wrong to steal from a lady. And I will right that wrong by retrieving the pudding. That and it cost a good amount of money; it would be a shame for it to go to waste."

Meryl sighed, "This is pathetic." she grabbed her suitcase and started tossing clothes and other random items into it.

"What are you doing Meryl?" Millie asked a little confused.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm packing my things; we should leave soon if we're going to catch the next bus to May. There's no way we can just let him go on his own. Who knows what kind of trouble he'll get himself into."

"You talk about me as if I wasn't here, that's mean too." Vash stated holding a finger up.

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"Thank you so much for buying our tickets Mr. Vash. It was really kind of you."

"It's not like I had a choice."

Vash sent a small glare over at Meryl who glared back equally. He had yet again been forced into buying something for them.

"Are you girls always broke?"

"No! We just spent all our money trying to catch up with from Little Arcadia to July city. You're an expensive person to track down Mr. Vash the Stampede."

Vash rolled his eyes, "Yeah, well maybe you should ask your work for a bigger paycheck or something."

"Well maybe you should stop causing trouble where ever you go!"

"Well it's not like I want to cause trouble!"

"Well it's not like we enjoy following you everywhere!"

"I didn't ask you to follow me!"

The two glared daggers at one another before they turned around and crossed their arms. Millie blinked a few times before turning her attention to the landscape outside the window.

"Sure is a lot of sand out there."

She leaned closer to the window so that her face as practically pressed against.

"Meryl! Mr. Vash! I can see something out there!"

All three were looking out through window and sure enough, something was following them.

"What is it Meryl?" Millie asked.

"I don't know, I can't tell from this far away. However, it's reflecting the sun's light. There's a large glare over it."

Vash nodded, although he had a faint idea of what it was, "I wonder."