My Last Breath
Chapter Seven: Holding My Last Breath
By Monkey Princess
~*~
ChibiUsa slept, her face was relaxed; though every once in awhile it would tense up. Goten was half watching over her, half reading a few papers. He had given ChibiUsa her Doyle books, and let her read quietly until she became tired and lay down to sleep. In minutes she had fallen asleep, leaving Goten to pull out his things.
'In the lower back of the AH, there is a small control area. It is well hidden, so one must be very careful while operating, or the AH might shut down completely, leaving the AH in its original human state, dead.' Goten raised an eyebrow curiously. There was a quiet knock on the door, Goten shoved the papers into on of his many books and pulled up one quickly. "Come in." Kiyone walked in.
She smiled. "Hey Goten, I was expecting to see ChibiUsa's father here." she looked down at ChibiUsa. "But that's alright, how long has she been sleeping?"
"About an hour now." Goten muttered. "Did you need to give her some medicine? Or was this a routine check-up?"
Kiyone smiled slightly. "Just a quick check-up before I head home." She looked at a few machines then walked up to ChibiUsa and put her hand on her throat. She was quite, counting. She wrote something on her clipboard and nodded to Goten. "She's fine, I'll be back tomorrow about 7:30 to check-up on last time before she goes for her interview with Bulma and the CC heads."
Goten sat up. "The heads?"
Kiyone nodded. "Make sure she gets rest. She's going to be taped and their sending it to the BPP for help, if she has information they need."
"They're not going to make her. go to the BPP. are they?" Goten asked as he put his book down. BPP wasn't a group Bulma was very fond of, though she put up with them. It was a group CC had joined long before the AH productions. When the A&HPS forced Bulma to stop her research, she quietly stepped down from her high position in the organization, to avoid questioning. But recently, agents of CC realized BPP was now back in partnership with CC.
Kiyone shrugged. "I hope not, once an agent goes there, they normally don't come back. ChibiUsa's a great girl, I'd hate for her to start working for BPP."
Goten nodded. If ChibiUsa started to work there, he'd get partnered up with Washu again, or maybe Mihoshi again! He shivered slightly. "I hope they don't ask her too many questions." suddenly he realized what Gohan had been trying to hint at earlier. "Kiyone! Do they ask real personal questions? You know, the CC Heads. They don't ask things like, oh I donno, let's say me and ChibiUsa had feelings for each other or something-"
"Goten, I don't know, please tell me this now. Do you and ChibiUsa share feelings? Strong feelings for each other?"
Goten shook his head. "No, it was just an example."
Kiyone smiled again, "I'm not sure, I could ask some people and have the answer for you tomorrow morning?"
Goten nodded. "Thank you, Kiyone-san." She walked out.
~*~
They were lying in bed together, both nearly naked. He was playing with her hair and she was whispering to him softly, lying against his bare chest. His eyes were golden. His touch was soft. "I don't want to go to work today." She said as she looked up into his eyes.
He laughed. "We've got to go. Bulma-san wants us to get the codes for her; we need to get the codes."
"I know," she muttered, looking towards the window that let in light through the fabric curtains. "I just want to stay like this forever. You and me, it's perfect." She sighed. "I wish we didn't work for CC, then we could be together."
"Then we wouldn't have met." He said and he sat up. "Come now, ChibiUsa, CC isn't at all that horrible."
She sat up and pulled the white sheet around her chest, "I guess not." she reached over to the bed stand and pulled out a long white button-up shirt. She pulled it onto herself and smiled. "I'm gonna go take a shower."
"Alright," he said with a smile.
She leaned over and kissed him. "See you in a bit, Helios." She stood and walked towards the bathroom.
~*~
Bulma was in her office, trying to find her missing floppy. 'Dammit, if anyone got it.' she found it tucked in her lab coat. 'I never wear my lab coat this late, when I write.' she frowned. 'Gohan, it has to be Gohan.'
She picked up her phone, "Orange Star, connect me to Purple Pan's house, thank you." She waited a moment, then the phone was picked up. A tired voice whispered a hello on the other end. "Purple Pan, how's your husband doing?"
"He's fine, he thinks he got into a car accident, just like you programmed. Blue Star, I've got to hand it to you, you've done a great job on fixing him up."
"That's good to hear, if there's any problems, call me. I'll make sure to have a line open for you."
"Thank you, oh, and Blue Star, Gohan stopped by."
Bulma felt as if her heart had stopped. "He wasn't allowed to leave."
"I thought you should know. Its not that I wasn't happy he came over, but I think he's acting a bit too much on he's free will, that might be a problem."
"What was the main reason he was there?"
"He didn't say, he said he wanted to talk to his father, but Goku was sleeping. So he left."
"He knows too much. I'm going to give him the same surgery as Goku, tomorrow, when Goten's out. I'll talk to you later, bye." She hung up.
"Damn, I've got a tight schedule to keep."
~*~
ChibiUsa had woken an hour before Kiyone had come in. She and Goten talked a bit, but she was resting up most of the time. After a time, Goten told her what the plan for the day was. She didn't seem too pleased, but said she would do it.
But now Kiyone was in the room, she was unhooking ChibiUsa and getting her a spare outfit to wear for the interview.
Kiyone smiled. "Mihoshi said she's be by in a minute with a nice shirt and a skirt for you to wear to the interview. I told her to remember it was semi-formal." She muttered somewhat to herself. "I hope she does this right, otherwise you'll have to go in the hospital gown."
"What happened to my clothes?" ChibiUsa asked as she brushed her hair.
"You were wearing snow gear, and the clothes you had underneath was a body suit, you don't have any clean clothes here, and the interview is in less the 20 minutes." Goten said as he was packing up her things, along with his.
Suddenly, a bubbly blonde bumped into the doorway. "Hey guys!" she said with a giggle. "I brought what you wanted." She put her hand into a white bag and pulled out a red long sleeve shirt, and a red mini skirt, both had fluffy white lining on the ends.
Kiyone raised an eyebrow. "What's this Mihoshi?"
"A Santa suit, just what you asked for!" she smiled and lay them out on the bed. "I hope they fit. Oh yea," she reached into the bag and pulled out a Santa hat. "Here's the rest. I've got boots in here somewhere too, and here's some white tights, and-" she went on, putting things out of the bag.
ChibiUsa stood, careful not to show her back through the back of course, and pulled the skirt up to her waist. "Mihoshi, this seems a bit. inappropriate?"
Goten, in the side of the room was blushing slightly. "Mihoshi, she can't wear that! The CC heads are going to be there!"
"Ooooooohh," Mihoshi muttered. "Oh, dear, Kiyone, you asked for the wrong outfit. You should had asked for a shirt and a skirt or something."
Kiyone made a sound of anger. "Mihoshi, I DID say a shirt and a skirt!"
"No, no, you asked for a Santa suit. And you wanted it to be for a girl. I know you did. I even have it saved still in my answering machine. Mihoshi pushed play on her cell phone.
"Hey, Mihoshi, this is Kiyone, could you stop by the house real quick and pick up a shirt and a skirt, I really need it for a patient. And Mihoshi, remember it's semi-formal. Ok, see you in a bit, bye." Kiyone's voice sounded tired.
Kiyone glared at Mihoshi, "See, I said shirt and skirt!" she sighed and looked over towards ChibiUsa, "You don't mind putting this on to go ask Bulma for some clothes, do you?"
ChibiUsa blushed. "Why not," she gave a nervous laugh. "It'll only be for a few minutes, right?"
Kiyone nodded. "Only for a second."
"Alright," ChibiUsa side walked to the bathroom to change.
Mihoshi looked at Goten. "Hey Goten," she said with a smile.
"Hi," he smiled slightly and looked at Kiyone, "What if Bulma doesn't have any time to give her clothes?"
Mihoshi laughed. "Oh, Goten, that's so impossible! There's no way that could ever happen."
Kiyone shrugged. "I guess she'll have to explain the story to the heads in a Santa suit."
Goten blushed. "Oh,"
~*~
Whistles, and stupid hooting, and laughing. That's all that could be heard. She was so embarrassed; her cheeks were a bright red. She was looking towards the glass doors up ahead. She wanted to run, but couldn't.
Goten was walking with her. His head was down, a small blush lingering on his cheeks and around the nose. "You know, we could have gone through the back." He muttered softly.
"This is faster. I don't want to look like this too long." She smiled, seeing him blushing. "You know, Goten, you look like cute when you're blushing." She giggled.
He blushed deeper, and opened the door for her. "So do you."
She walked up to Bulma's desk and pulled her hat off.
Bulma looked up, "Oh, you're here." She looked at ChibiUsa's outfit. "Interesting? Couldn't find any clothes."
ChibiUsa nodded. "Do you have any spares?"
Bulma stood. "Kagome-san, Washu-" she coughed slightly. "Chan, Ranma-san,"
ChibiUsa turned around quickly and saw the group. "CC heads!"
Washu smiled at her. "Nice get-up."
ChibiUsa blushed. "There was a, slight problem." She smiled nervously and noticed Goten was slipping out of the room. He winked at her and left, shutting the door behind him. "Washu-chan, I didn't know you were a head here!"
Washu shook her head. "I'm only a fill in for today. Plus, I'm an eyewitness and know lots of the rumors floating around. And the truth behind them."
ChibiUsa's eyes widened slightly. "Oh, alright."
"Shall we go into the other room now?" questioned Kagome, the other woman.
"Sure," Bulma answered.
~*~
A bright light was shining in ChibiUsa's eyes. She felt like she should have been tied to the chair so she could be tortured, but that wasn't why she was there. She pushed her short skirt down a bit, then place her hands in her lap. "Ask me anything you want to, I'm ready." She took a sip of water from her crystal glass, and placed it on the table. She couldn't see the group anymore. The light was blinding her, so she couldn't see their expressions, but they could see her. She could see a little red light turn on, before the white light blinding her took over again.
"We're recording now. ChibiUsa, please tell us your name and state your ranking position."
"My name is ChibiUsa Usagi Tsukino. I'm a rank 3 undercover agent for Capsule Corporation." She said clearly, trying to focus on the darkness in the left corner of the room, where the camera was.
"Please tell us about the day Bulma had you meet Helios." Said Kagome from the far left, dark corner.
ChibiUsa frowned slightly, then covered it with a blank look. "I think it was about four months ago. It was late when we first met. He was extremely quiet, and observant. He watched me, with his golden eyes." She looked down at the ground, then up quickly. "Bulma had assigned us to go to Russia to get some documents for her."
"Continue," Bulma's voice echoed slightly in the dark room.
"We were sent to Russia, and we retrieved the documents-"
"Were you and Helios intimate with each other?"
"I don't see how this is important."
"It is very important." Washu shouted from behind the camera. "Now answer the question."
"Very intimate." She muttered, then said loudly: "We were close."
"How intimate would you say you were?" Kagome asked.
ChibiUsa looked, down, then up again. She nervously shifted her eyes around the room. "We were, very, very intimate." She could hear the scratches of pens against paper far behind her. She figured it was the man.
"Did you two ever share passionate evenings?" Kagome said, carefully wording her question.
"Many."
"Are you aware that this was against the CC codes?"
"I was very aware." She said, and took another drink from her crystal glass. "And I am aware of the punishment for disobeying the code."
"Were you aware of the code at the time."
"Again, I was very aware. I have always known the code, and I always will. Bulma has drilled it deep into every agent's mind. Part E, Section 12, Code 13: Any agents who have any feelings, or intimacy with their partners shall be placed into question, and possibly sentenced to death."
"Very good, now, Bulma, will you start with your questions. We don't want to get too personal, yet."
"Of course," Bulma said, followed by the sound of papers shuffling. "ChibiUsa, can you explain to us 'how' you were caught?"
"It's a bit blurry, but I'll try my best." ChibiUsa closed her eyes for a moment to think. "I had gotten the music box. I did what you told me not to, I opened the box to look." she looked up. "I listened to the music. I thought about how I might have heard it before." She realized she shouldn't have mentions her little thought about the music, but continued. "I took the chip out of the box, where the dancing figure should have been. I wanted to show it to Washu." She bit her bottom lip. "I put the music box in the bag, then I was going to leave. But then a man came out. I think they referred to him as a number, I think it was 17 or 15, something like that."
She paused. She had to think. "He shot me, I tried to shoot him, I think I missed. I passed out." She looked to the side, trying to think again. "I woke up, bound to a cold metal table. The room was quiet except typing, or a clicking, beeping noise. And there was an old man-"
"What did he look like?" Bulma's chair fell to the floor.
"He was old, the top of his head was reflecting the light. He had long hair, but a weird dome on top, where he was bald, which was reflecting the light. His hair was white, and he had a dark tan skin."
"Gero." ChibiUsa heard Bulma whisper. She saw Bulma walking towards her. "Washu, will you finish this interview for me. I really must talk to Ami now." ChibiUsa closed her eyes. She heard the door open, the close. She opened her eyes.
"What was that all about?"
"We'll be the one asking questions, now, we're going to get back to more personal questions." The shuffling of papers came once again. The scratch of a pen on paper, behind her. "ChibiUsa, what was your relationship with Trunks like?"
"Flirting, teasing, nothing as sweet and as beautiful as it would be with Helios." She smiled slightly, then picked up the glass and took a small drink and smiled, pressing her finger to her lips, then placing her hands in her lap. "We weren't at all intimate. We kissed, we hugged, but that was as far as it went."
"And what happened? Why did Helios become your new partner? What happened to Trunks?"
"Bulma found out." ChibiUsa looked down. "But she said it would be a warning. I'm top in my class, or I was close to the top at that time, she didn't want to see anything ruining my career or my life."
"But you did it again with Helios?"
"Yes."
"You seem to take no heed of the warnings you are given."
"You cannot possibly expect me to go throughout life without compassion, love, and-"
"Everyone else can."
"That's not true. It can't be true."
"When you joined this organization, you had to state a rule. Do you remember what that rule is?"
ChibiUsa looked down, she had to remember, and this wasn't something she was allowed to have forgotten. "One must not allow personal feelings become involved in work affairs." She started. "I will not allow my human feelings to become involved in my work. I am to act as an android, with no emotions."
A pen rapped on the table behind her. Washu stood and walked towards her. "Mocking any higher authority is not the wisest thing you can do at the moment, ChibiUsa, I suggest you hold your tongue and your sarcasm." Washu walked behind her. ChibiUsa kept her face forward. "What is your current relationship with Son Goten?"
"There are things that can be easily answered and things that cannot be as easily answered."
"Answer the question." Washu said sternly.
"I have no personal feelings for Goten, but I'm afraid I might have misled him by my emotional outburst that happened just after Helios passed away."
"No 'personal' feelings?"
"He's a friend, my partner, I trust him with my life. And because of this strong trust I have in him, I'm afraid I might have acted as if I were with Helios. I've explained already that Helios and I were intimate. I might even dare to say I loved him."
"You are not permitted to say that. You know everything you say, will be used against you in a formal or informal court session."
"Why am I going to court?"
"You received a warning, but you failed to notice."
"I noticed, I just cannot stop my emotions."
"Well then next time I suggest you get a female partner, or you don't get a partner."
"A very wise suggestion." ChibiUsa muttered. "Next question please."
~*~
Bulma sat at her desk and pulled her phone up to her ear and dialed the Son phone number. "Hi, ChiChi, I'm going to do the procedure on Gohan tomorrow. I want you here to take him home, can you make it?" She was quiet for a moment. "Alright, thank you." She hung up and pushed the intercom button on her desk. "Black Stone, will you please come to my office. Thank you." She let the button go.
~*~
Goten was walking down the hall, fingering the small package Gohan had given him.
'I think Bulma's planning on replacing my memory chip soon.' Gohan had said to him what he had given it to him. 'I want you to give this to Washu when she gets done with questioning ChibiUsa.'
'Washu's questioning--?' He had asked, blushing with embarrassment. He had remembered Washu knew about their little 'slumber party'.
'Yes, you'll probably be questioned soon, and I'll have to back up your memory just in case as well. Don't worry, Washu can do it too.'
'You sure you'll be ok.'
'Don't worry about it.'
Goten was woken from his remembering when he saw Gohan pushing his way towards Bulma's office. A stern look was on Gohan's face, he seemed worried, but it also seemed as if he had faith in some unknown force.
"I hope everything will be ok." He muttered to himself as he walked toward the elevator, hoping to get a nice lunch.
The elevator door opened after he waited a few minutes for it to come down. "He-hello, Mehoshi."
The blonde smiled. "Hi Goten!" she said with a smile. "Are you going to get something to eat in the cafeteria?"
Goten nodded. "I want to hang around here."
"Oh, I see, well why don't we eat together? I mean, why waste two two seat tables when we could share one, ne?"
Goten nodded. "Sure." The elevator door opened, and he walked out, willing himself to try to understand what she was saying.
~*~
"Come see me tomorrow morning, at 5 AM, we have some papers we need to go over."
Gohan nodded. "I'll be in right away, Bulma-san."
Bulma nodded and smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow then, will you please tell Ami I need to speak with her."
~*~
End Chapter Seven: Holding My Last Breath
Author's Note: Please, if you're reading this, let me know if I should continue, if I don't get anyone to say anything, then well, I'll put up the next chapter, cause I started it awhile ago, and then that will be it.
Chapter Seven: Holding My Last Breath
By Monkey Princess
~*~
ChibiUsa slept, her face was relaxed; though every once in awhile it would tense up. Goten was half watching over her, half reading a few papers. He had given ChibiUsa her Doyle books, and let her read quietly until she became tired and lay down to sleep. In minutes she had fallen asleep, leaving Goten to pull out his things.
'In the lower back of the AH, there is a small control area. It is well hidden, so one must be very careful while operating, or the AH might shut down completely, leaving the AH in its original human state, dead.' Goten raised an eyebrow curiously. There was a quiet knock on the door, Goten shoved the papers into on of his many books and pulled up one quickly. "Come in." Kiyone walked in.
She smiled. "Hey Goten, I was expecting to see ChibiUsa's father here." she looked down at ChibiUsa. "But that's alright, how long has she been sleeping?"
"About an hour now." Goten muttered. "Did you need to give her some medicine? Or was this a routine check-up?"
Kiyone smiled slightly. "Just a quick check-up before I head home." She looked at a few machines then walked up to ChibiUsa and put her hand on her throat. She was quite, counting. She wrote something on her clipboard and nodded to Goten. "She's fine, I'll be back tomorrow about 7:30 to check-up on last time before she goes for her interview with Bulma and the CC heads."
Goten sat up. "The heads?"
Kiyone nodded. "Make sure she gets rest. She's going to be taped and their sending it to the BPP for help, if she has information they need."
"They're not going to make her. go to the BPP. are they?" Goten asked as he put his book down. BPP wasn't a group Bulma was very fond of, though she put up with them. It was a group CC had joined long before the AH productions. When the A&HPS forced Bulma to stop her research, she quietly stepped down from her high position in the organization, to avoid questioning. But recently, agents of CC realized BPP was now back in partnership with CC.
Kiyone shrugged. "I hope not, once an agent goes there, they normally don't come back. ChibiUsa's a great girl, I'd hate for her to start working for BPP."
Goten nodded. If ChibiUsa started to work there, he'd get partnered up with Washu again, or maybe Mihoshi again! He shivered slightly. "I hope they don't ask her too many questions." suddenly he realized what Gohan had been trying to hint at earlier. "Kiyone! Do they ask real personal questions? You know, the CC Heads. They don't ask things like, oh I donno, let's say me and ChibiUsa had feelings for each other or something-"
"Goten, I don't know, please tell me this now. Do you and ChibiUsa share feelings? Strong feelings for each other?"
Goten shook his head. "No, it was just an example."
Kiyone smiled again, "I'm not sure, I could ask some people and have the answer for you tomorrow morning?"
Goten nodded. "Thank you, Kiyone-san." She walked out.
~*~
They were lying in bed together, both nearly naked. He was playing with her hair and she was whispering to him softly, lying against his bare chest. His eyes were golden. His touch was soft. "I don't want to go to work today." She said as she looked up into his eyes.
He laughed. "We've got to go. Bulma-san wants us to get the codes for her; we need to get the codes."
"I know," she muttered, looking towards the window that let in light through the fabric curtains. "I just want to stay like this forever. You and me, it's perfect." She sighed. "I wish we didn't work for CC, then we could be together."
"Then we wouldn't have met." He said and he sat up. "Come now, ChibiUsa, CC isn't at all that horrible."
She sat up and pulled the white sheet around her chest, "I guess not." she reached over to the bed stand and pulled out a long white button-up shirt. She pulled it onto herself and smiled. "I'm gonna go take a shower."
"Alright," he said with a smile.
She leaned over and kissed him. "See you in a bit, Helios." She stood and walked towards the bathroom.
~*~
Bulma was in her office, trying to find her missing floppy. 'Dammit, if anyone got it.' she found it tucked in her lab coat. 'I never wear my lab coat this late, when I write.' she frowned. 'Gohan, it has to be Gohan.'
She picked up her phone, "Orange Star, connect me to Purple Pan's house, thank you." She waited a moment, then the phone was picked up. A tired voice whispered a hello on the other end. "Purple Pan, how's your husband doing?"
"He's fine, he thinks he got into a car accident, just like you programmed. Blue Star, I've got to hand it to you, you've done a great job on fixing him up."
"That's good to hear, if there's any problems, call me. I'll make sure to have a line open for you."
"Thank you, oh, and Blue Star, Gohan stopped by."
Bulma felt as if her heart had stopped. "He wasn't allowed to leave."
"I thought you should know. Its not that I wasn't happy he came over, but I think he's acting a bit too much on he's free will, that might be a problem."
"What was the main reason he was there?"
"He didn't say, he said he wanted to talk to his father, but Goku was sleeping. So he left."
"He knows too much. I'm going to give him the same surgery as Goku, tomorrow, when Goten's out. I'll talk to you later, bye." She hung up.
"Damn, I've got a tight schedule to keep."
~*~
ChibiUsa had woken an hour before Kiyone had come in. She and Goten talked a bit, but she was resting up most of the time. After a time, Goten told her what the plan for the day was. She didn't seem too pleased, but said she would do it.
But now Kiyone was in the room, she was unhooking ChibiUsa and getting her a spare outfit to wear for the interview.
Kiyone smiled. "Mihoshi said she's be by in a minute with a nice shirt and a skirt for you to wear to the interview. I told her to remember it was semi-formal." She muttered somewhat to herself. "I hope she does this right, otherwise you'll have to go in the hospital gown."
"What happened to my clothes?" ChibiUsa asked as she brushed her hair.
"You were wearing snow gear, and the clothes you had underneath was a body suit, you don't have any clean clothes here, and the interview is in less the 20 minutes." Goten said as he was packing up her things, along with his.
Suddenly, a bubbly blonde bumped into the doorway. "Hey guys!" she said with a giggle. "I brought what you wanted." She put her hand into a white bag and pulled out a red long sleeve shirt, and a red mini skirt, both had fluffy white lining on the ends.
Kiyone raised an eyebrow. "What's this Mihoshi?"
"A Santa suit, just what you asked for!" she smiled and lay them out on the bed. "I hope they fit. Oh yea," she reached into the bag and pulled out a Santa hat. "Here's the rest. I've got boots in here somewhere too, and here's some white tights, and-" she went on, putting things out of the bag.
ChibiUsa stood, careful not to show her back through the back of course, and pulled the skirt up to her waist. "Mihoshi, this seems a bit. inappropriate?"
Goten, in the side of the room was blushing slightly. "Mihoshi, she can't wear that! The CC heads are going to be there!"
"Ooooooohh," Mihoshi muttered. "Oh, dear, Kiyone, you asked for the wrong outfit. You should had asked for a shirt and a skirt or something."
Kiyone made a sound of anger. "Mihoshi, I DID say a shirt and a skirt!"
"No, no, you asked for a Santa suit. And you wanted it to be for a girl. I know you did. I even have it saved still in my answering machine. Mihoshi pushed play on her cell phone.
"Hey, Mihoshi, this is Kiyone, could you stop by the house real quick and pick up a shirt and a skirt, I really need it for a patient. And Mihoshi, remember it's semi-formal. Ok, see you in a bit, bye." Kiyone's voice sounded tired.
Kiyone glared at Mihoshi, "See, I said shirt and skirt!" she sighed and looked over towards ChibiUsa, "You don't mind putting this on to go ask Bulma for some clothes, do you?"
ChibiUsa blushed. "Why not," she gave a nervous laugh. "It'll only be for a few minutes, right?"
Kiyone nodded. "Only for a second."
"Alright," ChibiUsa side walked to the bathroom to change.
Mihoshi looked at Goten. "Hey Goten," she said with a smile.
"Hi," he smiled slightly and looked at Kiyone, "What if Bulma doesn't have any time to give her clothes?"
Mihoshi laughed. "Oh, Goten, that's so impossible! There's no way that could ever happen."
Kiyone shrugged. "I guess she'll have to explain the story to the heads in a Santa suit."
Goten blushed. "Oh,"
~*~
Whistles, and stupid hooting, and laughing. That's all that could be heard. She was so embarrassed; her cheeks were a bright red. She was looking towards the glass doors up ahead. She wanted to run, but couldn't.
Goten was walking with her. His head was down, a small blush lingering on his cheeks and around the nose. "You know, we could have gone through the back." He muttered softly.
"This is faster. I don't want to look like this too long." She smiled, seeing him blushing. "You know, Goten, you look like cute when you're blushing." She giggled.
He blushed deeper, and opened the door for her. "So do you."
She walked up to Bulma's desk and pulled her hat off.
Bulma looked up, "Oh, you're here." She looked at ChibiUsa's outfit. "Interesting? Couldn't find any clothes."
ChibiUsa nodded. "Do you have any spares?"
Bulma stood. "Kagome-san, Washu-" she coughed slightly. "Chan, Ranma-san,"
ChibiUsa turned around quickly and saw the group. "CC heads!"
Washu smiled at her. "Nice get-up."
ChibiUsa blushed. "There was a, slight problem." She smiled nervously and noticed Goten was slipping out of the room. He winked at her and left, shutting the door behind him. "Washu-chan, I didn't know you were a head here!"
Washu shook her head. "I'm only a fill in for today. Plus, I'm an eyewitness and know lots of the rumors floating around. And the truth behind them."
ChibiUsa's eyes widened slightly. "Oh, alright."
"Shall we go into the other room now?" questioned Kagome, the other woman.
"Sure," Bulma answered.
~*~
A bright light was shining in ChibiUsa's eyes. She felt like she should have been tied to the chair so she could be tortured, but that wasn't why she was there. She pushed her short skirt down a bit, then place her hands in her lap. "Ask me anything you want to, I'm ready." She took a sip of water from her crystal glass, and placed it on the table. She couldn't see the group anymore. The light was blinding her, so she couldn't see their expressions, but they could see her. She could see a little red light turn on, before the white light blinding her took over again.
"We're recording now. ChibiUsa, please tell us your name and state your ranking position."
"My name is ChibiUsa Usagi Tsukino. I'm a rank 3 undercover agent for Capsule Corporation." She said clearly, trying to focus on the darkness in the left corner of the room, where the camera was.
"Please tell us about the day Bulma had you meet Helios." Said Kagome from the far left, dark corner.
ChibiUsa frowned slightly, then covered it with a blank look. "I think it was about four months ago. It was late when we first met. He was extremely quiet, and observant. He watched me, with his golden eyes." She looked down at the ground, then up quickly. "Bulma had assigned us to go to Russia to get some documents for her."
"Continue," Bulma's voice echoed slightly in the dark room.
"We were sent to Russia, and we retrieved the documents-"
"Were you and Helios intimate with each other?"
"I don't see how this is important."
"It is very important." Washu shouted from behind the camera. "Now answer the question."
"Very intimate." She muttered, then said loudly: "We were close."
"How intimate would you say you were?" Kagome asked.
ChibiUsa looked, down, then up again. She nervously shifted her eyes around the room. "We were, very, very intimate." She could hear the scratches of pens against paper far behind her. She figured it was the man.
"Did you two ever share passionate evenings?" Kagome said, carefully wording her question.
"Many."
"Are you aware that this was against the CC codes?"
"I was very aware." She said, and took another drink from her crystal glass. "And I am aware of the punishment for disobeying the code."
"Were you aware of the code at the time."
"Again, I was very aware. I have always known the code, and I always will. Bulma has drilled it deep into every agent's mind. Part E, Section 12, Code 13: Any agents who have any feelings, or intimacy with their partners shall be placed into question, and possibly sentenced to death."
"Very good, now, Bulma, will you start with your questions. We don't want to get too personal, yet."
"Of course," Bulma said, followed by the sound of papers shuffling. "ChibiUsa, can you explain to us 'how' you were caught?"
"It's a bit blurry, but I'll try my best." ChibiUsa closed her eyes for a moment to think. "I had gotten the music box. I did what you told me not to, I opened the box to look." she looked up. "I listened to the music. I thought about how I might have heard it before." She realized she shouldn't have mentions her little thought about the music, but continued. "I took the chip out of the box, where the dancing figure should have been. I wanted to show it to Washu." She bit her bottom lip. "I put the music box in the bag, then I was going to leave. But then a man came out. I think they referred to him as a number, I think it was 17 or 15, something like that."
She paused. She had to think. "He shot me, I tried to shoot him, I think I missed. I passed out." She looked to the side, trying to think again. "I woke up, bound to a cold metal table. The room was quiet except typing, or a clicking, beeping noise. And there was an old man-"
"What did he look like?" Bulma's chair fell to the floor.
"He was old, the top of his head was reflecting the light. He had long hair, but a weird dome on top, where he was bald, which was reflecting the light. His hair was white, and he had a dark tan skin."
"Gero." ChibiUsa heard Bulma whisper. She saw Bulma walking towards her. "Washu, will you finish this interview for me. I really must talk to Ami now." ChibiUsa closed her eyes. She heard the door open, the close. She opened her eyes.
"What was that all about?"
"We'll be the one asking questions, now, we're going to get back to more personal questions." The shuffling of papers came once again. The scratch of a pen on paper, behind her. "ChibiUsa, what was your relationship with Trunks like?"
"Flirting, teasing, nothing as sweet and as beautiful as it would be with Helios." She smiled slightly, then picked up the glass and took a small drink and smiled, pressing her finger to her lips, then placing her hands in her lap. "We weren't at all intimate. We kissed, we hugged, but that was as far as it went."
"And what happened? Why did Helios become your new partner? What happened to Trunks?"
"Bulma found out." ChibiUsa looked down. "But she said it would be a warning. I'm top in my class, or I was close to the top at that time, she didn't want to see anything ruining my career or my life."
"But you did it again with Helios?"
"Yes."
"You seem to take no heed of the warnings you are given."
"You cannot possibly expect me to go throughout life without compassion, love, and-"
"Everyone else can."
"That's not true. It can't be true."
"When you joined this organization, you had to state a rule. Do you remember what that rule is?"
ChibiUsa looked down, she had to remember, and this wasn't something she was allowed to have forgotten. "One must not allow personal feelings become involved in work affairs." She started. "I will not allow my human feelings to become involved in my work. I am to act as an android, with no emotions."
A pen rapped on the table behind her. Washu stood and walked towards her. "Mocking any higher authority is not the wisest thing you can do at the moment, ChibiUsa, I suggest you hold your tongue and your sarcasm." Washu walked behind her. ChibiUsa kept her face forward. "What is your current relationship with Son Goten?"
"There are things that can be easily answered and things that cannot be as easily answered."
"Answer the question." Washu said sternly.
"I have no personal feelings for Goten, but I'm afraid I might have misled him by my emotional outburst that happened just after Helios passed away."
"No 'personal' feelings?"
"He's a friend, my partner, I trust him with my life. And because of this strong trust I have in him, I'm afraid I might have acted as if I were with Helios. I've explained already that Helios and I were intimate. I might even dare to say I loved him."
"You are not permitted to say that. You know everything you say, will be used against you in a formal or informal court session."
"Why am I going to court?"
"You received a warning, but you failed to notice."
"I noticed, I just cannot stop my emotions."
"Well then next time I suggest you get a female partner, or you don't get a partner."
"A very wise suggestion." ChibiUsa muttered. "Next question please."
~*~
Bulma sat at her desk and pulled her phone up to her ear and dialed the Son phone number. "Hi, ChiChi, I'm going to do the procedure on Gohan tomorrow. I want you here to take him home, can you make it?" She was quiet for a moment. "Alright, thank you." She hung up and pushed the intercom button on her desk. "Black Stone, will you please come to my office. Thank you." She let the button go.
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Goten was walking down the hall, fingering the small package Gohan had given him.
'I think Bulma's planning on replacing my memory chip soon.' Gohan had said to him what he had given it to him. 'I want you to give this to Washu when she gets done with questioning ChibiUsa.'
'Washu's questioning--?' He had asked, blushing with embarrassment. He had remembered Washu knew about their little 'slumber party'.
'Yes, you'll probably be questioned soon, and I'll have to back up your memory just in case as well. Don't worry, Washu can do it too.'
'You sure you'll be ok.'
'Don't worry about it.'
Goten was woken from his remembering when he saw Gohan pushing his way towards Bulma's office. A stern look was on Gohan's face, he seemed worried, but it also seemed as if he had faith in some unknown force.
"I hope everything will be ok." He muttered to himself as he walked toward the elevator, hoping to get a nice lunch.
The elevator door opened after he waited a few minutes for it to come down. "He-hello, Mehoshi."
The blonde smiled. "Hi Goten!" she said with a smile. "Are you going to get something to eat in the cafeteria?"
Goten nodded. "I want to hang around here."
"Oh, I see, well why don't we eat together? I mean, why waste two two seat tables when we could share one, ne?"
Goten nodded. "Sure." The elevator door opened, and he walked out, willing himself to try to understand what she was saying.
~*~
"Come see me tomorrow morning, at 5 AM, we have some papers we need to go over."
Gohan nodded. "I'll be in right away, Bulma-san."
Bulma nodded and smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow then, will you please tell Ami I need to speak with her."
~*~
End Chapter Seven: Holding My Last Breath
Author's Note: Please, if you're reading this, let me know if I should continue, if I don't get anyone to say anything, then well, I'll put up the next chapter, cause I started it awhile ago, and then that will be it.