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AN: Thankies for the reviews!! I love reviews!!! But I didn't get too many...*sob*...oh well...*sigh* on to the next chapter!!!!!!!!!!! I'm on a writing spree....i've been writing one chapter a night for 3 days since I last posted...I even started a new story...Hotaru-hime no Densetsu...or Legend of Princess Firefly...now I have 3 stories that I'm currently working on so in short...I'm screwed [you wish]...but I hope you like this next chapter!!!
Title: Shinigami's Lover
Ch. 3: Old Friends...or Old Rivals?
Written By: Firefly's Rebirth
Rating: R
Pairing: We'll see...*cackles*...
Warnings: On the angsty side...Xara and Sarai enter...u might not know who they are which might cause some confusion...
(blah) denotes my comments and notes
[blah] denotes what little comments SFG can afford to put in...
^blah^ denotes thoughts...
#blah# denotes words I'm too lazy to translate into Japanese...
*blah* denotes words spoken into whoever's head by....whoever....usually Shinigami...
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Recap:
Two girls came walking towards Hotaru. One with her flaming red orange hair wearing a golden red sarong that opened to the front showing both of her legs, and the other, with her straight knee length ebony hair, also wearing a sarong that opened to the front, only hers was midnight black. "Sarai.... Xara...."
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"Well well...It's been a long time ne Hotaru-sama?" commented the red-head.
"Sarai...." Hotaru was still shocked to see them there.
"Speechless as well? We expected a warmer welcome..." was input by the red-head's dark counterpart.
"Xara...What are you guys doing here?"
"Well we're here to look after you...as commanded by Shinigami..." sneered Sarai slightly.
Hotaru flinched at her tone. She looked over to Xara to see what she would say.
Xara only looked away, indifferent. " I must say, that this is a definite change in character. Hotaru-sama actually afraid of the name of Shinigami."
Hotaru angered [is that even a word?] (duh!!...dork), replied scathingly, "Scared of Shinigami? I should say you were the ones afraid of Shinigami, otherwise you wouldn't be here to 'watch over me.' Not only that, you are calling me 'Hotaru-sama' as if you were scared to offend me by calling me any other way.
Xara stiffened at the taunt. She replied, "Well, what else are we going to call you, we're here, on earth, it wouldn't be right to call you anything else."
"That's just your excuse, so if you don't have anything else to say, I'd suggest you leave...NOW..."
Sarai smirked her badass smirk, "Well we would leave, but we're here on the commands of Shinigami, and I'm sorry to say, Shinigami has more authority than you..."
Hotaru's eyes darkened into a deep, deep purple, almost black, "He has more authority does he?" Her voice was menacing, but they couldn't see her expression because her head was tilted forward so that her hair cascaded over her face. If they had seen her face, they wouldn't have said any further, and just left, but they didn't see... "Well..."
Xara saw the warning signs of a major problem, so she nudged Sarai whispering, "We'd better back off, she's pissed. We won't push her any further now, but we have to stay on earth...so let's go introduce ourselves to her friends so that we have an excuse to stay..."
Sarai nodded in agreement. [have you ever seen a pissed FR? I tell you, it ain't pretty... beware the long fingernails...^_____^] (Shut up!! I'm not that bad!!) [*gives FR another one of her looks* u kiddin me?]
They both walked off, leaving Hotaru by the tree, her head still facing the ground. ^What's wrong with me? I can't control myself...being around them makes me want to revert back to...who I used to be, who I thought I had left behind. If they're going to be near me, I'll need to be extra careful...^ With that last thought she headed back to the office building.
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"Hotaru!" Quatre called while running towards her, "Hotaru, it seems that some friends of your have come to visit."
Hotaru narrowed her eyes at the news, "Really? Where are they?"
Quatre looked at her uncertainly while answering, "They're in the lounge...with the guys..."(meaning the ex-gundam pilots)[no shit Sherlock...](...)[you're supposed to say 'Dig deeper Watson' ......sorry, I couldn't help it...]
"I see..."
They headed to the lounge. Upon entering, Hotaru saw that Sarai was sitting comfortably on the couch, and Xara was standing next to the couch. Sarai looked over to Hotaru smiling, "Hey there Hotaru-chan! How are you doing? Xara and I decided to drop in for a visit."
Hotaru just looked at them frostily saying, "I'm sure you've already made yourselves comfortable for your stay here."
"Hey Hotaru! Aren't you going to introduce us to your friends?" It seemed Duo was back to normal, but Hotaru still looked at him warily.
"I'm sure they can introduce themselves since they seemed to have made themselves comfortable here."
"Dude...you don't need to be so cold towards your friends..."
Hotaru snorted, "Friends?" She then went on to mutter, "Rivals more like...."
The 5 pilots looked at Hotaru oddly wondering why she was behaving so callously towards her friends. Apparently they hadn't heard her muttering.
Seeing that everyone was rather uncomfortable, Xara cleared her throat, "Well, since Hotaru is deciding to be that way, I guess we'll have to introduce ourselves...My name is relatively unheard of, so you can call me Xara, just Xara." She looked over to Sarai, prompting her to speak.
"My name is Sarai, just Sarai, don't have a last name, I can't remember whether or not I have one, so Sarai is sufficient.
Heero, judging by the way Hotaru was acting, was extremely suspicious of these two newcomers whom claimed to be her friends. ^ It's already strange enough to have Hotaru here, when we don't even know exactly what she is. But now her "friends" have come. This is definitely going to get interesting. It's strange that they don't have last names...I'd better do a check on them...^
Quatre, once again, being the courteous one, offered to let them stay at Aoi Sora [why am I not surprised...] (huh?) while they were visiting her, an offer they just couldn't decline. After the introductions, Hotaru, Heero, Trowa, and Wufei went their separate ways to get back to their work. But Quatre, once again being polite, stayed to entertain the two girls while Duo was there to just outright flirt.
"Sarai-san, Xara-san, where did you ladies meet Hotaru?" (Quats).
Sarai smiled placidly saying a downright lie, "We were good friends during the war, we helped each other survive during the battles...It was horrible, but we all pulled through."
"Oh, it must have been tough for you...where did you guys live?" (Duo)[*raises eyebrow* dude... "it must have been tough for you" sounds like something Relena would say... no offense to anyone...]
This time Xara answered, "We lived on Earth, here in Kyoto."
"Really? I didn't know of any battles that took place here..." (Quatre)
Sarai frowned, "Well, there wasn't anything big here, but, we did travel all over the place..." And them before, either Duo or Quatre could ask any more questions, Sarai rubbed her forehead saying, "Please don't ask anymore, it gives me such a horrible headache thinking about our pasts..."
Quatre and Duo nodded, both regretful for bringing up such a painful subject.
"So! What do you guys do now?" Quatre by then had excused himself to get work done, leaving Duo to entertain the girls.
"Well, we're priestesses of sorts, we guard the temple of Shinigami." Xara said indifferently.
"Really!! I didn't know there was such a temple!! Did you know that I'm Shinigami?"
Sarai looked at him, startled. ^Does he know? He can't know...^ "What makes you say that Duo?"
"Aahh....well, only the fact that everybody that hangs around with me eventually ends up dead...it's sort of a curse."
Sarai was speechless, so Xara continued, "Well, if everybody around you ended up dead, how come you hang out with these people, you seem to care about them, aren't you afraid they might die?"
"Well...they wouldn't die because of me, they've all made a deal with Shinigami anyway, it's kinda hard for them to die because of me...."
Xara smirked, "Is that so? Well, I hope you're right, Shinigami."
Just then, Duo's eyes changed to their dark, cold version. In Sarai and Xara's eyes, they saw Shinigami with his hood and cloak standing before them, fuming.
"Are you women stupid? What if someone was listening, what if you told my human host who he really was? What are you two thinking? I commanded you two here to watch over Hotaru! Not to stir up problems!! You have jobs to complete, otherwise you won't be coming back, understood?" Shinigami was beside himself, he had ordered the two girls to somehow lead Hotaru onto the path of returning to him, but now, they were only making it harder. "You fools...If you don't succeed, there will be hell to pay...Is that clear?"
Sarai and Xara were on their knees bowing to their master, "Hai, Shinigami-sama, wakarimasen..."
"Good...now get going, and stop flirting with Duo, I can't have him suspecting anything...Especially you Sarai-chan [HEY!!...]" His voice getting sugary sweet, "I know, you want to flirt with him [but who wouldn't? he's too damn cute...](URUSEI!!!!)...so you better watch it..." His voice getting hard again. "I'll be watching, so don't do anything stupid, that Heero Yuy is already suspicious."
With that, Duo turned back to normal, and before Sarai and Xara was a very confused looking 'Shinigami.' "Ugh...what happened, I seemed to have blacked out or something..."
Sarai, looking concerned (acting), said, " You ought to go get some rest Duo, you don't look too good."
Duo, taking her advice laid down on the couch and took a nap.
"That was close Sarai, we'd better watch it, or otherwise, Shinigami-sama won't be happy."
"I know Xara...This'll be harder than we thought, especially since Hotaru-sama seems to hate us. We have to earn her trust...somehow..."[huh? Why do they have to earn... OH!!! I get it hahaha...](baka...)[shut up...]
Xara didn't answer. They both stood there watching Duo sleep, unaware of a pair of Prussian blue eyes watching them.
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"Hotaru..."
Hotaru looked over to the source of the voice, she saw Heero standing in the doorway of her office. "What is it?"
"It's about Xara and Sarai...they're like you aren't they?"
Hotaru looked back at the papers in front of her, not really answering.
"They seem to be planning to do something that involves you and...." Before he could finish Hotaru cut in, "Shinigami?"
"Hn."
"That's just lovely. Hmp...Well I can promise you that they won't succeed. They seem to think that I'm weak... fools...They'll never be able to defeat me."
"Defeat you in what?" Heero walked towards her desk, closing the radius of earshot.
"In whatever they're planning..." Hotaru's eyes didn't leave the papers, but Heero saw that they weren't moving either.
[Since you're stuck... I thought I'd help out] The ex-Wing pilot looked at her, "Do you have any idea as to what the hell they're planning?"
The violet eyed girl replied, "Iie..."
"Do you plan to do anything about it?" the other asked. Hotaru looked up, he could see mixed emotions within her eyes. Deciding not to complicate the situation for the girl anymore than it already was, he turned and started for the door.
"Heero?" he looked back. She smiled, the corners of her mouth lifting up just a bit. "Arigatou."
Flustered, he responded, "For what?"
"For caring I suppose..."
He stared, a bit surprised by the girl's words, smirking a bit, then "Hn..." he was out the door. [Hopefully you have some idea as to how to continue now... ]
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Thank you for writing this last part of the section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you SFG, that was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggg help...I was seriously stuck so that I couldn't write anything, you even have my writing style down jot!! So now that this part is done, I can finish this chapter and work on my other stories...!!!!!!!
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That night at Aoi Sora, the uneasiness between everyone was so high that even Quatre was feeling slightly edgy. Hotaru was practically hostile towards her supposed friends, and those "friends" of hers just seemed to just endure it. Duo, being the chatterbox he is, kept telling jokes in which only Sarai would laugh and Quatre would chuckle at...but the rest...Wufei, Trowa and Xara would be shaking their heads (or rolling their eyes), Heero...would still be tapping away at his laptop pointedly ignoring the braided idiot, and Hotaru...wasn't there...presently.
Xara kept eyeing Heero's laptop, that finally out of annoyance, Heero asked, "What?"
She, surprised, answered, "Nothing." But then after a few seconds of silence in which Heero was once again staring at his laptop, she asked, "What exactly are you doing?"
"Nothing you'd understand." His eyes never leaving the screen.
"I'm a priestess, I'm sure I'd understand..." Xara was offended.
"Just because you're a miko, doesn't mean you'd understand what I'm doing." He replied coolly, "Anyway, it isn't any of your business." And with that, he snapped shut his laptop screen and stalked out of the room.
Sarai couldn't help but to comment, "He's rather boorish isn't he?"
Quatre sighed, "He's always like that, don't pay him any mind."
Wufei, rather abruptly, stood up, bowed politely to the guest, and left, Trowa following shortly after him.
"My they sure are a pair of dogs, following each other like that." Xara said derisively.
"Bitch, quit insulting people you don't know like that..."
Duo looked up in wonder. ^Since when did Hotaru swear like that? ^
Hotaru had stepped into the room with a rather nasty look on her face. "Quatre, Duo, please leave us, I want to have a word with them..."
They both looked at her uncertainly, but the hard look on her face convinced them to get out of there.
"Ok..."
"Sure..."
With them gone, only the three girls remained in the dining room.
"What did Shinigami send you to do?"
Sarai snorted, "What do you think?"
"Just answer the fucking question Sarai...What did he send you two to do? Was it to bring me back or something?"
"We can't tell you...We were ordered not to tell you..."
"Do I care about your orders Xara?" Hotaru glared. ^ Baka ama...^
"Hmp, obviously not."
"Then answer the goddamn question." Hotaru had adopted a calm cool voice.
Xara rolled her eyes in defeat, there was no way they could out do Hotaru, "Fine..." but before she could say anything else Sarai interjected, "Xara...shut up! Don't tell her anything!!"
Just then Sarai was thrown into the opposite wall by an invisible force. "Don't fuck with me Sarai. You don't seem to remember who you're dealing with."
Sarai looked groggily up at Hotaru's darkened form, then passed out. ^Che...^ [@.@]
Hotaru then looked over at Xara expectantly.
Xara looked over at Sarai's prone form, then turned back to Hotaru. "We were sent to somehow get you to return to Shinigami. We were supposed to make sure nothing happens to you that would delay or impede your return to the..." Once again she was cut off, but this time by Hotaru who held her hand up to stop her from continuing.
"Heero, stop spying. It's seriously lowering my high regard for you."
The perfect soldier could only glare at the purple haired mystery as he stepped into the room. ^Kuso. Now she won't trust me anymore. ^ "I figured you wouldn't tell me anything, so I decided to figure out what was going on myself."
"Well, what have you found? You were beating at your laptop pretty hard during dinner..."
Heero looked at her, then lifted an eyebrow in Xara's direction. Hotaru snorted disdainfully, saying, "Xara unlike Sarai doesn't have a big mouth, don't worry, they were probably already warned by Shinigami to watch out for you."
"Hn. They're just like you, only their files were made with even less skill. Any fool would be able to tell that they are fake. But I have to wonder who Shinigami is, and why he wants you back."
Xara looked pointedly at Hotaru as if to say. ^Well, what are you going to tell him? ^
The violet eyed girl answered fluently, "He's my ex. Ex-boyfriend that is. He's the leader of a major underworld (syn: Criminal world). I left 'his' world so I could be free and independent, he wants me back. I dumped him, he's pissed, he sends two old friends of mine to take me back, that's pretty much it."
"Uso. If this mafia is so big, how come the Preventers haven't had wind of it?"
"Dunno. My ex is ingenious. He breaks off whatever little organizations he doesn't need so that his larger corporation doesn't get exposed. It doesn't matter, you'd never be able to catch him anyways, he has many identities."
Heero nodded, but then he saw Xara's face twitch. ^Hotaru's still lying, but from the way Xara reacted, she wasn't lying at all, just not telling the whole truth, or just twisting the words...^
"So how long are your friends going to stay," Heero said indirectly asking the question to Xara.
"For as long as it takes..."
"Hn."
"Uuughh...."
All eyes turned towards Sarai who was coming to consciousness. "Well, Xara you'd better take Sarai to her room, I'll clean up the mess here. Heero, help me out."
Xara put Sarai's arm over around her neck to support her and dragged Sarai off towards their rooms leaving Heero and Hotaru alone to fix the mess she made when she 'threw' Sarai against the wall.
"I know you were lying Firefly."
Hotaru cringed.
"What?"
"It's just that no one was allowed to call me firefly, no one except Him."
"Gomen."
"Iie, iie, It's ok...sorry for getting so worked up over nothing."
Heero didn't answer. ^There's much I want to ask. But if I ask her, she'll just...close up...^
At the same time Hotaru was thinking. ^I'll tell him...eventually. Now isn't the time to do so. When Shinigami appears again, I'll tell him, them, all of them...If only I could remember why I left in the first place...^
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Ooookk....what did you think...I especially like the pissed off Hotaru part, I don't get to write stuff like that very often...I didn't update for a long time because I got stuck in the middle and I couldn't decide whether or not I should leave it off here...but after rereading it a few times, here seems like a good spot. Anyways I hope you liked it and hopefully I'll get the next part up soon, I'm still working on the Senshi vs. Tenshi, it's taking a bit, because I'm still trying to figure out how to introduce the next few senshi and such in...so R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thankies!!!
Firefly's Rebirth (FR...in case you were wonderin')
AN: Thankies for the reviews!! I love reviews!!! But I didn't get too many...*sob*...oh well...*sigh* on to the next chapter!!!!!!!!!!! I'm on a writing spree....i've been writing one chapter a night for 3 days since I last posted...I even started a new story...Hotaru-hime no Densetsu...or Legend of Princess Firefly...now I have 3 stories that I'm currently working on so in short...I'm screwed [you wish]...but I hope you like this next chapter!!!
Title: Shinigami's Lover
Ch. 3: Old Friends...or Old Rivals?
Written By: Firefly's Rebirth
Rating: R
Pairing: We'll see...*cackles*...
Warnings: On the angsty side...Xara and Sarai enter...u might not know who they are which might cause some confusion...
(blah) denotes my comments and notes
[blah] denotes what little comments SFG can afford to put in...
^blah^ denotes thoughts...
#blah# denotes words I'm too lazy to translate into Japanese...
*blah* denotes words spoken into whoever's head by....whoever....usually Shinigami...
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Recap:
Two girls came walking towards Hotaru. One with her flaming red orange hair wearing a golden red sarong that opened to the front showing both of her legs, and the other, with her straight knee length ebony hair, also wearing a sarong that opened to the front, only hers was midnight black. "Sarai.... Xara...."
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"Well well...It's been a long time ne Hotaru-sama?" commented the red-head.
"Sarai...." Hotaru was still shocked to see them there.
"Speechless as well? We expected a warmer welcome..." was input by the red-head's dark counterpart.
"Xara...What are you guys doing here?"
"Well we're here to look after you...as commanded by Shinigami..." sneered Sarai slightly.
Hotaru flinched at her tone. She looked over to Xara to see what she would say.
Xara only looked away, indifferent. " I must say, that this is a definite change in character. Hotaru-sama actually afraid of the name of Shinigami."
Hotaru angered [is that even a word?] (duh!!...dork), replied scathingly, "Scared of Shinigami? I should say you were the ones afraid of Shinigami, otherwise you wouldn't be here to 'watch over me.' Not only that, you are calling me 'Hotaru-sama' as if you were scared to offend me by calling me any other way.
Xara stiffened at the taunt. She replied, "Well, what else are we going to call you, we're here, on earth, it wouldn't be right to call you anything else."
"That's just your excuse, so if you don't have anything else to say, I'd suggest you leave...NOW..."
Sarai smirked her badass smirk, "Well we would leave, but we're here on the commands of Shinigami, and I'm sorry to say, Shinigami has more authority than you..."
Hotaru's eyes darkened into a deep, deep purple, almost black, "He has more authority does he?" Her voice was menacing, but they couldn't see her expression because her head was tilted forward so that her hair cascaded over her face. If they had seen her face, they wouldn't have said any further, and just left, but they didn't see... "Well..."
Xara saw the warning signs of a major problem, so she nudged Sarai whispering, "We'd better back off, she's pissed. We won't push her any further now, but we have to stay on earth...so let's go introduce ourselves to her friends so that we have an excuse to stay..."
Sarai nodded in agreement. [have you ever seen a pissed FR? I tell you, it ain't pretty... beware the long fingernails...^_____^] (Shut up!! I'm not that bad!!) [*gives FR another one of her looks* u kiddin me?]
They both walked off, leaving Hotaru by the tree, her head still facing the ground. ^What's wrong with me? I can't control myself...being around them makes me want to revert back to...who I used to be, who I thought I had left behind. If they're going to be near me, I'll need to be extra careful...^ With that last thought she headed back to the office building.
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"Hotaru!" Quatre called while running towards her, "Hotaru, it seems that some friends of your have come to visit."
Hotaru narrowed her eyes at the news, "Really? Where are they?"
Quatre looked at her uncertainly while answering, "They're in the lounge...with the guys..."(meaning the ex-gundam pilots)[no shit Sherlock...](...)[you're supposed to say 'Dig deeper Watson' ......sorry, I couldn't help it...]
"I see..."
They headed to the lounge. Upon entering, Hotaru saw that Sarai was sitting comfortably on the couch, and Xara was standing next to the couch. Sarai looked over to Hotaru smiling, "Hey there Hotaru-chan! How are you doing? Xara and I decided to drop in for a visit."
Hotaru just looked at them frostily saying, "I'm sure you've already made yourselves comfortable for your stay here."
"Hey Hotaru! Aren't you going to introduce us to your friends?" It seemed Duo was back to normal, but Hotaru still looked at him warily.
"I'm sure they can introduce themselves since they seemed to have made themselves comfortable here."
"Dude...you don't need to be so cold towards your friends..."
Hotaru snorted, "Friends?" She then went on to mutter, "Rivals more like...."
The 5 pilots looked at Hotaru oddly wondering why she was behaving so callously towards her friends. Apparently they hadn't heard her muttering.
Seeing that everyone was rather uncomfortable, Xara cleared her throat, "Well, since Hotaru is deciding to be that way, I guess we'll have to introduce ourselves...My name is relatively unheard of, so you can call me Xara, just Xara." She looked over to Sarai, prompting her to speak.
"My name is Sarai, just Sarai, don't have a last name, I can't remember whether or not I have one, so Sarai is sufficient.
Heero, judging by the way Hotaru was acting, was extremely suspicious of these two newcomers whom claimed to be her friends. ^ It's already strange enough to have Hotaru here, when we don't even know exactly what she is. But now her "friends" have come. This is definitely going to get interesting. It's strange that they don't have last names...I'd better do a check on them...^
Quatre, once again, being the courteous one, offered to let them stay at Aoi Sora [why am I not surprised...] (huh?) while they were visiting her, an offer they just couldn't decline. After the introductions, Hotaru, Heero, Trowa, and Wufei went their separate ways to get back to their work. But Quatre, once again being polite, stayed to entertain the two girls while Duo was there to just outright flirt.
"Sarai-san, Xara-san, where did you ladies meet Hotaru?" (Quats).
Sarai smiled placidly saying a downright lie, "We were good friends during the war, we helped each other survive during the battles...It was horrible, but we all pulled through."
"Oh, it must have been tough for you...where did you guys live?" (Duo)[*raises eyebrow* dude... "it must have been tough for you" sounds like something Relena would say... no offense to anyone...]
This time Xara answered, "We lived on Earth, here in Kyoto."
"Really? I didn't know of any battles that took place here..." (Quatre)
Sarai frowned, "Well, there wasn't anything big here, but, we did travel all over the place..." And them before, either Duo or Quatre could ask any more questions, Sarai rubbed her forehead saying, "Please don't ask anymore, it gives me such a horrible headache thinking about our pasts..."
Quatre and Duo nodded, both regretful for bringing up such a painful subject.
"So! What do you guys do now?" Quatre by then had excused himself to get work done, leaving Duo to entertain the girls.
"Well, we're priestesses of sorts, we guard the temple of Shinigami." Xara said indifferently.
"Really!! I didn't know there was such a temple!! Did you know that I'm Shinigami?"
Sarai looked at him, startled. ^Does he know? He can't know...^ "What makes you say that Duo?"
"Aahh....well, only the fact that everybody that hangs around with me eventually ends up dead...it's sort of a curse."
Sarai was speechless, so Xara continued, "Well, if everybody around you ended up dead, how come you hang out with these people, you seem to care about them, aren't you afraid they might die?"
"Well...they wouldn't die because of me, they've all made a deal with Shinigami anyway, it's kinda hard for them to die because of me...."
Xara smirked, "Is that so? Well, I hope you're right, Shinigami."
Just then, Duo's eyes changed to their dark, cold version. In Sarai and Xara's eyes, they saw Shinigami with his hood and cloak standing before them, fuming.
"Are you women stupid? What if someone was listening, what if you told my human host who he really was? What are you two thinking? I commanded you two here to watch over Hotaru! Not to stir up problems!! You have jobs to complete, otherwise you won't be coming back, understood?" Shinigami was beside himself, he had ordered the two girls to somehow lead Hotaru onto the path of returning to him, but now, they were only making it harder. "You fools...If you don't succeed, there will be hell to pay...Is that clear?"
Sarai and Xara were on their knees bowing to their master, "Hai, Shinigami-sama, wakarimasen..."
"Good...now get going, and stop flirting with Duo, I can't have him suspecting anything...Especially you Sarai-chan [HEY!!...]" His voice getting sugary sweet, "I know, you want to flirt with him [but who wouldn't? he's too damn cute...](URUSEI!!!!)...so you better watch it..." His voice getting hard again. "I'll be watching, so don't do anything stupid, that Heero Yuy is already suspicious."
With that, Duo turned back to normal, and before Sarai and Xara was a very confused looking 'Shinigami.' "Ugh...what happened, I seemed to have blacked out or something..."
Sarai, looking concerned (acting), said, " You ought to go get some rest Duo, you don't look too good."
Duo, taking her advice laid down on the couch and took a nap.
"That was close Sarai, we'd better watch it, or otherwise, Shinigami-sama won't be happy."
"I know Xara...This'll be harder than we thought, especially since Hotaru-sama seems to hate us. We have to earn her trust...somehow..."[huh? Why do they have to earn... OH!!! I get it hahaha...](baka...)[shut up...]
Xara didn't answer. They both stood there watching Duo sleep, unaware of a pair of Prussian blue eyes watching them.
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"Hotaru..."
Hotaru looked over to the source of the voice, she saw Heero standing in the doorway of her office. "What is it?"
"It's about Xara and Sarai...they're like you aren't they?"
Hotaru looked back at the papers in front of her, not really answering.
"They seem to be planning to do something that involves you and...." Before he could finish Hotaru cut in, "Shinigami?"
"Hn."
"That's just lovely. Hmp...Well I can promise you that they won't succeed. They seem to think that I'm weak... fools...They'll never be able to defeat me."
"Defeat you in what?" Heero walked towards her desk, closing the radius of earshot.
"In whatever they're planning..." Hotaru's eyes didn't leave the papers, but Heero saw that they weren't moving either.
[Since you're stuck... I thought I'd help out] The ex-Wing pilot looked at her, "Do you have any idea as to what the hell they're planning?"
The violet eyed girl replied, "Iie..."
"Do you plan to do anything about it?" the other asked. Hotaru looked up, he could see mixed emotions within her eyes. Deciding not to complicate the situation for the girl anymore than it already was, he turned and started for the door.
"Heero?" he looked back. She smiled, the corners of her mouth lifting up just a bit. "Arigatou."
Flustered, he responded, "For what?"
"For caring I suppose..."
He stared, a bit surprised by the girl's words, smirking a bit, then "Hn..." he was out the door. [Hopefully you have some idea as to how to continue now... ]
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Thank you for writing this last part of the section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you SFG, that was a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggg help...I was seriously stuck so that I couldn't write anything, you even have my writing style down jot!! So now that this part is done, I can finish this chapter and work on my other stories...!!!!!!!
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That night at Aoi Sora, the uneasiness between everyone was so high that even Quatre was feeling slightly edgy. Hotaru was practically hostile towards her supposed friends, and those "friends" of hers just seemed to just endure it. Duo, being the chatterbox he is, kept telling jokes in which only Sarai would laugh and Quatre would chuckle at...but the rest...Wufei, Trowa and Xara would be shaking their heads (or rolling their eyes), Heero...would still be tapping away at his laptop pointedly ignoring the braided idiot, and Hotaru...wasn't there...presently.
Xara kept eyeing Heero's laptop, that finally out of annoyance, Heero asked, "What?"
She, surprised, answered, "Nothing." But then after a few seconds of silence in which Heero was once again staring at his laptop, she asked, "What exactly are you doing?"
"Nothing you'd understand." His eyes never leaving the screen.
"I'm a priestess, I'm sure I'd understand..." Xara was offended.
"Just because you're a miko, doesn't mean you'd understand what I'm doing." He replied coolly, "Anyway, it isn't any of your business." And with that, he snapped shut his laptop screen and stalked out of the room.
Sarai couldn't help but to comment, "He's rather boorish isn't he?"
Quatre sighed, "He's always like that, don't pay him any mind."
Wufei, rather abruptly, stood up, bowed politely to the guest, and left, Trowa following shortly after him.
"My they sure are a pair of dogs, following each other like that." Xara said derisively.
"Bitch, quit insulting people you don't know like that..."
Duo looked up in wonder. ^Since when did Hotaru swear like that? ^
Hotaru had stepped into the room with a rather nasty look on her face. "Quatre, Duo, please leave us, I want to have a word with them..."
They both looked at her uncertainly, but the hard look on her face convinced them to get out of there.
"Ok..."
"Sure..."
With them gone, only the three girls remained in the dining room.
"What did Shinigami send you to do?"
Sarai snorted, "What do you think?"
"Just answer the fucking question Sarai...What did he send you two to do? Was it to bring me back or something?"
"We can't tell you...We were ordered not to tell you..."
"Do I care about your orders Xara?" Hotaru glared. ^ Baka ama...^
"Hmp, obviously not."
"Then answer the goddamn question." Hotaru had adopted a calm cool voice.
Xara rolled her eyes in defeat, there was no way they could out do Hotaru, "Fine..." but before she could say anything else Sarai interjected, "Xara...shut up! Don't tell her anything!!"
Just then Sarai was thrown into the opposite wall by an invisible force. "Don't fuck with me Sarai. You don't seem to remember who you're dealing with."
Sarai looked groggily up at Hotaru's darkened form, then passed out. ^Che...^ [@.@]
Hotaru then looked over at Xara expectantly.
Xara looked over at Sarai's prone form, then turned back to Hotaru. "We were sent to somehow get you to return to Shinigami. We were supposed to make sure nothing happens to you that would delay or impede your return to the..." Once again she was cut off, but this time by Hotaru who held her hand up to stop her from continuing.
"Heero, stop spying. It's seriously lowering my high regard for you."
The perfect soldier could only glare at the purple haired mystery as he stepped into the room. ^Kuso. Now she won't trust me anymore. ^ "I figured you wouldn't tell me anything, so I decided to figure out what was going on myself."
"Well, what have you found? You were beating at your laptop pretty hard during dinner..."
Heero looked at her, then lifted an eyebrow in Xara's direction. Hotaru snorted disdainfully, saying, "Xara unlike Sarai doesn't have a big mouth, don't worry, they were probably already warned by Shinigami to watch out for you."
"Hn. They're just like you, only their files were made with even less skill. Any fool would be able to tell that they are fake. But I have to wonder who Shinigami is, and why he wants you back."
Xara looked pointedly at Hotaru as if to say. ^Well, what are you going to tell him? ^
The violet eyed girl answered fluently, "He's my ex. Ex-boyfriend that is. He's the leader of a major underworld (syn: Criminal world). I left 'his' world so I could be free and independent, he wants me back. I dumped him, he's pissed, he sends two old friends of mine to take me back, that's pretty much it."
"Uso. If this mafia is so big, how come the Preventers haven't had wind of it?"
"Dunno. My ex is ingenious. He breaks off whatever little organizations he doesn't need so that his larger corporation doesn't get exposed. It doesn't matter, you'd never be able to catch him anyways, he has many identities."
Heero nodded, but then he saw Xara's face twitch. ^Hotaru's still lying, but from the way Xara reacted, she wasn't lying at all, just not telling the whole truth, or just twisting the words...^
"So how long are your friends going to stay," Heero said indirectly asking the question to Xara.
"For as long as it takes..."
"Hn."
"Uuughh...."
All eyes turned towards Sarai who was coming to consciousness. "Well, Xara you'd better take Sarai to her room, I'll clean up the mess here. Heero, help me out."
Xara put Sarai's arm over around her neck to support her and dragged Sarai off towards their rooms leaving Heero and Hotaru alone to fix the mess she made when she 'threw' Sarai against the wall.
"I know you were lying Firefly."
Hotaru cringed.
"What?"
"It's just that no one was allowed to call me firefly, no one except Him."
"Gomen."
"Iie, iie, It's ok...sorry for getting so worked up over nothing."
Heero didn't answer. ^There's much I want to ask. But if I ask her, she'll just...close up...^
At the same time Hotaru was thinking. ^I'll tell him...eventually. Now isn't the time to do so. When Shinigami appears again, I'll tell him, them, all of them...If only I could remember why I left in the first place...^
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Ooookk....what did you think...I especially like the pissed off Hotaru part, I don't get to write stuff like that very often...I didn't update for a long time because I got stuck in the middle and I couldn't decide whether or not I should leave it off here...but after rereading it a few times, here seems like a good spot. Anyways I hope you liked it and hopefully I'll get the next part up soon, I'm still working on the Senshi vs. Tenshi, it's taking a bit, because I'm still trying to figure out how to introduce the next few senshi and such in...so R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thankies!!!
Firefly's Rebirth (FR...in case you were wonderin')
