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Jiro's Baltimore Adventure by Red Ninja1
Chpt 4: Kindred Spirits: Jiro Meets Asuka
Leaving the aftermath of the mech pilot exam with a Mech Pilot License, Jiro had decided to return to the Convention Center and the Central Command center. It didn't take Jiro a long time to return to the Convention Center, and Jiro checked the boards and remembered that there was a Jewelry Show to be held a little later. Jiro then remembered overhearing a few people talking about a master thief named Lupin the 3rd, thinking about it and another thief he had heard about, Jiro made it a point in his mind to arrive at the Jewelry Show. Jiro was about to leave Central when he noticed a certain, frustrated red head, he had seen earlier. She looked down in the dumps, so Jiro thought to maybe cheer her up or at least try to. Jiro approached her and said,
"Hello, are you okay?"
"No, I'm not. That baka Shinji, how come I didn't score a hit or be the one to finish it off, and he at least got a hit on it, I'm better than him; I should have been the one to finish it."
"Now, that I think about it why where you hitting him earlier?"
"Because, he deserved it."
"Why did he deserve it?"
"Ughhh, I don't know why, he just did!!!"
"But aren't you teammates and friends?"
"What are you a magazine? Well, as far as teammates were only co-workers and you could hardly call us friends because I don't have one."
"Don't you have one at school?"
"Yeah, Hikari, but she's more of an acquaintance than a friend sometimes."
"I still don't see why you should strike your own co-worker."
"Ughhhhh!!!!!!! Why does everyone take his side and pity him, Shinji doesn't need it! Everyone takes his side and make me look like the mean one. If someone would just sit and talk with me, then maybe they would understand!!!!"
"Alright then, I will sit and talk with you. If you don't mind."
"Whatever, I've talked to weirder people." 'Ohh great, out of all the people here I had to get to talk to a walking, talking doll.'
"What's wrong, why are you so angry?"
"Well, let's see, first I get my hunter number taken from me then all of these people want to gang up on me and beat me up, and then to top it all off, that Spineless Shinji, actually Slapped me. I mean I'm tough on him to try to toughen him up, but that still gave him no right to strike me."
"What did you do to him to make him want to slap you? Maybe, you pushed him to far this time. I guess he isn't so spineless if he was able to stand up to you. I mean isn't that what your trying to teach him?"
"That still doesn't mean that he should strike me. A true gentleman doesn't strike a lady."
"I can understand that. I try to be a gentleman, but I still think you might have done something to set him off. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone his actions against you, but he can't be entirely in the wrong. Anger is one of the emotions; I've come to know all to well."
"Well, I did insult him a lot after the battle then I talked about his mother and then he just turned around and slapped me."
"There it is, when you spoke about his mother, that triggered it. But Asuka, what's making you so angry, what made you this way? Is it something that happened in the past to you?"
"I don't want to talk about my past. It's too painful." Then a woman with cat ears and a tail carrying a microphone, who had been overhearing the conversation between Jiro and Asuka, came over to join them, and said,
"You know if you keep it bottled up, it's going too hurt more later." Then Asuka taking the cat girls advice into account prepared to bear her soul to Jiro..........
"When I was three, I had performed three symphonies on a piano, learned more than your average child and was able to understand more difficult concepts. Too say the least I was smarter that your average three year old, my mother was afraid of me and my father seemed to be so as well. When I was five, my mother abandoned me and my father. He soon remarried and then it got worse when I was seven my father became abusive towards my stepmother and began to drink heavily. My mother soon started to say to me, that my father doesn't love us anymore, and let's die together so we'll never be apart, I accepted because I was too young to know better, then when the time came that she wanted us to die, I told her no that I didn't want to die, I wasn't going to be her doll, I wanted to live. My step mom said I love you and disappeared, the next time I saw her was w-when she hung herself in her bedroom. From there I went to a university and got a degree, then the rest is history, up until now.", then Jiro began to remember events of his life that he wanted to forget but never could, as he prepared to return Asuka's favor of bearing her soul to him.........
"I know that pain, the pain of seeing a mother die by her own hand, I was with two people I cared about, Mitsko and her little brother, Masaru. It was dark after a day it had snowed, the three of us was confronted by Mitsko and Masaru's mother; she pulled a gun wanting to kill Mitsko in front of me, as per her orders from a man I could truly hate. Then she began to go on that it was her duty to a man named Professor Gill, to marry Mitsko's father, My creator, Dr. Komiyoji, her duty to have Mitsko and Masaru just to keep my creator happy, I thought how, how cold could a mother be if she bared children because she was told to, how she could be a mother on a command, and how she could kill her own flesh and blood just because someone told her to. Then she fired, I took the bullet of course, it didn't hurt that badly because I'm an android, but that wasn't where I was hurt. I was hurt inside, so much I did something that most androids could never do I-I-I cried, I shed tears from my sorrow. After that another android named Sabaro showed up and tried to kill us all, then after Sabaro destroyed another android, Mitsko's mother tossed the bag she was carrying towards us, it was a pair of boots for Masaru, it was then I realized that she did care, she did love her children. Then it began, she took the gun and pointed it at her own head, realizing what she wanted to do, I ran to stop her but then, that damn Sabaro, he began to whistle a tune that was my weakness at the time and I stopped, I couldn't move I felt as if I was paralyzed, and I-I-I had to w-watch, watch as a mother ended her own life. I didn't want her to die, I wanted her to live and perhaps become the mother Mitsko and Masaru knew and wanted. The memory of that night comes back no matter how hard I try to forget it always returns like a never-ending nightmare." Then Jiro once again, as on that night began to cry feeling the sorrow he had felt before, Asuka was shocked by this and said,
"But you're an android how can you cry?"
"I don't know, I don't know how or why I can but it's something about myself I have come appreciate."
"It just goes to show you, Life is pain." Jiro then dried his eyes and responded.
"But there are good things in Life that take the pain away."
"Yeah, but it never lasts, the pain always returns."
"Life is not always pain; there are things that give us all peace in our minds."
"How can you talk about something that's not real?"
"Because I've seen and felt it." Then the Cat girl intervened again.
"He's right you know, it's mostly fights where I come from but I have seen some peace."
"I always curse myself for not being strong enough to stop her from killing herself." Then Asuka responded.
"Look, there was nothing you could do. Don't start being like Shinji, blaming yourself for things that you had no control over. It wasn't your fault. Ughhh, I had no control over it but I don't blame myself for my mother's suicide, Ughhhh, I don't know maybe I'm just running from it........"
"Sounds familiar, doesn't." Asuka then realized that she was acting just like Shinji in that respect...
"Look, you, don't use my words against me, okay."
"I'm sorry; I probably shouldn't have said that."
"It's alright; I should've realized it sooner or later."
"I understand your pain because I've felt it thanks to my conscience circuit, the "Gemini".
"Hey, what's your name anyway, I never got it before?"
"It's Jiro and you are?"
"Asuka Langley Souryu, thank you for speaking with me Jiro, it's really opened my eyes."
"You've made my day all the better, thank you Asuka."
"Hey, Jiro, let's make a promise, Let's promise that we wont bring up each others past anymore and just look towards a brighter future."
"Sure, Asuka, I think I could accept those terms. Let's shake on it."
"No, wait, Jiro. A promise like this we need to pinky swear."
"Pinky swear????"
"It's something I picked up in Japan; it's a way to seal a promise that's deeper than a hand shake."
"Okay, how do you do it?"
"You take your right pinky and hook it with my right pinky, like this." Said Asuka as she showed Jiro what it looked like. Then Jiro understood and was ready to make the promise as he removed his glove from his right hand.
"Friends, Asuka."
"Friends, Jiro." The Cat girl was touched by the vow of friendship between the Human and the Android. And she noticed the look in their eyes as if they had found a long lost best friend that was missing for years. Then Jiro, asked the Cat girl,
"So who are you?"
"Ohh, me, I'm Kota, the announcer for tonight's fighting tournament."
"You've done this before?"
"Oh yeah, I have experience from all the Dark Tournaments I've announced for. Are you entered?"
"Yes, I am."
"Well, good luck to you and I'll see you tonight." Then Kota went on her way.
"Hey Asuka, are you going to be at the Jewelry show later? I mean I've heard that Diamonds are a girl's best friend." Asuka chuckled a bit at Jiro's comment.
"I guess so, but I've got to try to find Shinji and try to get an apology after I give one."
"That's good, Asuka, Thank you for everything."
"No problem, Jiro. I should thank you for giving me a little light in my life; I'll see you later, Jiro. Oh, and I will be at the fighting tournament too."
"Bye, Asuka."
Before Asuka walked away, she and Jiro stared again into each others eyes and saw the happiness in each others soul and knew that they were now closer to one another. Jiro, now with a new happiness in life, left for the Jewelry Show ready to try to catch some thieves.....................
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Hi, folks, Lupin the 3rd speaking. Wasn't this last episode, touching? Well, time to set the lovey dovey stuff aside, because it's time for a heist. Me and a few other friends of mine are coming to pick the Jewelry show clean, and as usual Old Zenigata is on the hunt for us. Not only that Jiro and Roger Smith are trying to get us too. The party starts on the next episode of Jiro's Baltimore Adventure entitled.......
The Jewelry Show Caper
Okay, Jiro, let's see how you handle us.
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Chapter 4, completed. Well, what did you think of this chapter? I'm going to apologize now, if I got some of Asuka's past wrong but I went from what I remember. Then next two chapters will show you why I made the OOC warnings during chapter 3. Well, Until Next Time, See Ya!!!!!
Red Ninja1
Jiro's Baltimore Adventure by Red Ninja1
Chpt 4: Kindred Spirits: Jiro Meets Asuka
Leaving the aftermath of the mech pilot exam with a Mech Pilot License, Jiro had decided to return to the Convention Center and the Central Command center. It didn't take Jiro a long time to return to the Convention Center, and Jiro checked the boards and remembered that there was a Jewelry Show to be held a little later. Jiro then remembered overhearing a few people talking about a master thief named Lupin the 3rd, thinking about it and another thief he had heard about, Jiro made it a point in his mind to arrive at the Jewelry Show. Jiro was about to leave Central when he noticed a certain, frustrated red head, he had seen earlier. She looked down in the dumps, so Jiro thought to maybe cheer her up or at least try to. Jiro approached her and said,
"Hello, are you okay?"
"No, I'm not. That baka Shinji, how come I didn't score a hit or be the one to finish it off, and he at least got a hit on it, I'm better than him; I should have been the one to finish it."
"Now, that I think about it why where you hitting him earlier?"
"Because, he deserved it."
"Why did he deserve it?"
"Ughhh, I don't know why, he just did!!!"
"But aren't you teammates and friends?"
"What are you a magazine? Well, as far as teammates were only co-workers and you could hardly call us friends because I don't have one."
"Don't you have one at school?"
"Yeah, Hikari, but she's more of an acquaintance than a friend sometimes."
"I still don't see why you should strike your own co-worker."
"Ughhhhh!!!!!!! Why does everyone take his side and pity him, Shinji doesn't need it! Everyone takes his side and make me look like the mean one. If someone would just sit and talk with me, then maybe they would understand!!!!"
"Alright then, I will sit and talk with you. If you don't mind."
"Whatever, I've talked to weirder people." 'Ohh great, out of all the people here I had to get to talk to a walking, talking doll.'
"What's wrong, why are you so angry?"
"Well, let's see, first I get my hunter number taken from me then all of these people want to gang up on me and beat me up, and then to top it all off, that Spineless Shinji, actually Slapped me. I mean I'm tough on him to try to toughen him up, but that still gave him no right to strike me."
"What did you do to him to make him want to slap you? Maybe, you pushed him to far this time. I guess he isn't so spineless if he was able to stand up to you. I mean isn't that what your trying to teach him?"
"That still doesn't mean that he should strike me. A true gentleman doesn't strike a lady."
"I can understand that. I try to be a gentleman, but I still think you might have done something to set him off. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone his actions against you, but he can't be entirely in the wrong. Anger is one of the emotions; I've come to know all to well."
"Well, I did insult him a lot after the battle then I talked about his mother and then he just turned around and slapped me."
"There it is, when you spoke about his mother, that triggered it. But Asuka, what's making you so angry, what made you this way? Is it something that happened in the past to you?"
"I don't want to talk about my past. It's too painful." Then a woman with cat ears and a tail carrying a microphone, who had been overhearing the conversation between Jiro and Asuka, came over to join them, and said,
"You know if you keep it bottled up, it's going too hurt more later." Then Asuka taking the cat girls advice into account prepared to bear her soul to Jiro..........
"When I was three, I had performed three symphonies on a piano, learned more than your average child and was able to understand more difficult concepts. Too say the least I was smarter that your average three year old, my mother was afraid of me and my father seemed to be so as well. When I was five, my mother abandoned me and my father. He soon remarried and then it got worse when I was seven my father became abusive towards my stepmother and began to drink heavily. My mother soon started to say to me, that my father doesn't love us anymore, and let's die together so we'll never be apart, I accepted because I was too young to know better, then when the time came that she wanted us to die, I told her no that I didn't want to die, I wasn't going to be her doll, I wanted to live. My step mom said I love you and disappeared, the next time I saw her was w-when she hung herself in her bedroom. From there I went to a university and got a degree, then the rest is history, up until now.", then Jiro began to remember events of his life that he wanted to forget but never could, as he prepared to return Asuka's favor of bearing her soul to him.........
"I know that pain, the pain of seeing a mother die by her own hand, I was with two people I cared about, Mitsko and her little brother, Masaru. It was dark after a day it had snowed, the three of us was confronted by Mitsko and Masaru's mother; she pulled a gun wanting to kill Mitsko in front of me, as per her orders from a man I could truly hate. Then she began to go on that it was her duty to a man named Professor Gill, to marry Mitsko's father, My creator, Dr. Komiyoji, her duty to have Mitsko and Masaru just to keep my creator happy, I thought how, how cold could a mother be if she bared children because she was told to, how she could be a mother on a command, and how she could kill her own flesh and blood just because someone told her to. Then she fired, I took the bullet of course, it didn't hurt that badly because I'm an android, but that wasn't where I was hurt. I was hurt inside, so much I did something that most androids could never do I-I-I cried, I shed tears from my sorrow. After that another android named Sabaro showed up and tried to kill us all, then after Sabaro destroyed another android, Mitsko's mother tossed the bag she was carrying towards us, it was a pair of boots for Masaru, it was then I realized that she did care, she did love her children. Then it began, she took the gun and pointed it at her own head, realizing what she wanted to do, I ran to stop her but then, that damn Sabaro, he began to whistle a tune that was my weakness at the time and I stopped, I couldn't move I felt as if I was paralyzed, and I-I-I had to w-watch, watch as a mother ended her own life. I didn't want her to die, I wanted her to live and perhaps become the mother Mitsko and Masaru knew and wanted. The memory of that night comes back no matter how hard I try to forget it always returns like a never-ending nightmare." Then Jiro once again, as on that night began to cry feeling the sorrow he had felt before, Asuka was shocked by this and said,
"But you're an android how can you cry?"
"I don't know, I don't know how or why I can but it's something about myself I have come appreciate."
"It just goes to show you, Life is pain." Jiro then dried his eyes and responded.
"But there are good things in Life that take the pain away."
"Yeah, but it never lasts, the pain always returns."
"Life is not always pain; there are things that give us all peace in our minds."
"How can you talk about something that's not real?"
"Because I've seen and felt it." Then the Cat girl intervened again.
"He's right you know, it's mostly fights where I come from but I have seen some peace."
"I always curse myself for not being strong enough to stop her from killing herself." Then Asuka responded.
"Look, there was nothing you could do. Don't start being like Shinji, blaming yourself for things that you had no control over. It wasn't your fault. Ughhh, I had no control over it but I don't blame myself for my mother's suicide, Ughhhh, I don't know maybe I'm just running from it........"
"Sounds familiar, doesn't." Asuka then realized that she was acting just like Shinji in that respect...
"Look, you, don't use my words against me, okay."
"I'm sorry; I probably shouldn't have said that."
"It's alright; I should've realized it sooner or later."
"I understand your pain because I've felt it thanks to my conscience circuit, the "Gemini".
"Hey, what's your name anyway, I never got it before?"
"It's Jiro and you are?"
"Asuka Langley Souryu, thank you for speaking with me Jiro, it's really opened my eyes."
"You've made my day all the better, thank you Asuka."
"Hey, Jiro, let's make a promise, Let's promise that we wont bring up each others past anymore and just look towards a brighter future."
"Sure, Asuka, I think I could accept those terms. Let's shake on it."
"No, wait, Jiro. A promise like this we need to pinky swear."
"Pinky swear????"
"It's something I picked up in Japan; it's a way to seal a promise that's deeper than a hand shake."
"Okay, how do you do it?"
"You take your right pinky and hook it with my right pinky, like this." Said Asuka as she showed Jiro what it looked like. Then Jiro understood and was ready to make the promise as he removed his glove from his right hand.
"Friends, Asuka."
"Friends, Jiro." The Cat girl was touched by the vow of friendship between the Human and the Android. And she noticed the look in their eyes as if they had found a long lost best friend that was missing for years. Then Jiro, asked the Cat girl,
"So who are you?"
"Ohh, me, I'm Kota, the announcer for tonight's fighting tournament."
"You've done this before?"
"Oh yeah, I have experience from all the Dark Tournaments I've announced for. Are you entered?"
"Yes, I am."
"Well, good luck to you and I'll see you tonight." Then Kota went on her way.
"Hey Asuka, are you going to be at the Jewelry show later? I mean I've heard that Diamonds are a girl's best friend." Asuka chuckled a bit at Jiro's comment.
"I guess so, but I've got to try to find Shinji and try to get an apology after I give one."
"That's good, Asuka, Thank you for everything."
"No problem, Jiro. I should thank you for giving me a little light in my life; I'll see you later, Jiro. Oh, and I will be at the fighting tournament too."
"Bye, Asuka."
Before Asuka walked away, she and Jiro stared again into each others eyes and saw the happiness in each others soul and knew that they were now closer to one another. Jiro, now with a new happiness in life, left for the Jewelry Show ready to try to catch some thieves.....................
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Hi, folks, Lupin the 3rd speaking. Wasn't this last episode, touching? Well, time to set the lovey dovey stuff aside, because it's time for a heist. Me and a few other friends of mine are coming to pick the Jewelry show clean, and as usual Old Zenigata is on the hunt for us. Not only that Jiro and Roger Smith are trying to get us too. The party starts on the next episode of Jiro's Baltimore Adventure entitled.......
The Jewelry Show Caper
Okay, Jiro, let's see how you handle us.
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Chapter 4, completed. Well, what did you think of this chapter? I'm going to apologize now, if I got some of Asuka's past wrong but I went from what I remember. Then next two chapters will show you why I made the OOC warnings during chapter 3. Well, Until Next Time, See Ya!!!!!
Red Ninja1
