Konnichi wa, here us chapter nine for all my fans. Talking with Ranko Ketchum and Otakusama I have decided for certain things for certain chapters. I can't wait for it to get there.
Starting Over
Chapter Nine
Heeru Yui, pilot of wing Zero stared at the screen of his laptop. Word, numbers and pictures flashed across its screen. Unknown to his fellow pilots, Heero had another reason of why he had come to Japan.
As a young child he had grown up on the colonies an orphan, h had been first raised by a thief/assassin named Odin and he had taken that name for awhile when his mentor was killed in an explosion.
Next he had been taken by Dr. J and trained as pilot, but something had always bothered him.
He knew he had a family, but where he didn't know... he didn't even know if his family members were still alive. Yet something inside him screamed that yes they wee alive, and that he needed to meet them.
He knew very few facts of his family, he himself looked Japanese but he was in fact Half-Russian. He wondered how the other pilots would react to that fact; his father had been Japanese and married his Russian Mother.
From the little information he had gathered over the years, somewhere in Japan he had a cousin at least... but all he knew was a last name.
Hiwatari...
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In a train going across Japan, a crimson-eyed boy with blue-gray hair sneezed. Looking around; he saw with relief no one had noticed him sneeze, someone asking if he had a cold would just be humiliating.
Thankfully the other three boys were in another part of the train, if he remembered right they had said something about food.
'I might as well get something to eat, it's still a few hours away till we arrive at our destination' Kai thought, with that in mind the blader of Dranzer got up and headed to where his teammates would be.
***
Takao sighed as he looked over his schoolwork, while he was slowly catching up he still had quite a way to go. The time he had been on the street he hadn't been able to go to school or anything like that done, as it was he was just thankful he could actually go back.
Sadly, not many schools in Japan would allow homeless kids without homes to go to their schools.
He shook such depressing thoughts from his mind, he wasn't in that situation anymore and he had a loving family again.
Yet... he could still remember clearly the pain he felt from that day, it burned painfully against his heart.
From what he guessed it would probably be years till the hurt fully went away.
'Somehow, I know the pain doesn't always go away' Takao thought sadly, closing his eyes he remembered the sad scene he had seen two nights ago.
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Takao yawned and walked slowly into the hallway of the apartment, he blinked his sapphire eyes to get some of the sleep grime out of them.
The only reason he was awake at such a late hour; was because he really needed a drink of water.
A few minutes later the blue haired youth was headed back to his bedroom; it was then that he heard a strange noise from the living room.
Curious of who could be awake at this time, Takao walked down towards the room.
Finally he got there and peered into the room, his sapphire eyes widened at whom he saw there.
On the window seat of the main room leaned Ranma, his raven hair hung loose around him veiling some of his face. The older boy's eyes seemed almost black in the dim light; Ranma was also hugging himself sadly.
Yet all this didn't surprise him, it was what Ranma was doing.
Since the day he had met Ranma in the alley, Takao had seen Ranma display many emotions.
Love; joy. Happiness, and even anger.
But... never this.
For they're in front of him Ranma cried, and Takao could tell he was crying from the heart. Tears trailed down Ranma's heart shaped face; never had Takao seen his adoptive older brother show such grief.
"Why," Ranma whispered, pain covered these words.
"Why did they hate me, why couldn't they have like me for me... I only wish I could find someone to love me for being me," Ranma cried softly, Takao bit his lip softly. Sadly he blinked away his own tears, from what he understood Ranma had a harder past then anyone could.
The only love he received had been little, and mostly had a price tag attached to it.
'Ranma, I wish I knew why' Takao thought sadly, then Ranma wouldn't have to cry... wouldn't have to be sad anymore.
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Takao sighed as he came out of that memory, he had never mentioned that moment to anyone... he knew that Ranma wouldn't want everyone to know of that moment of weakness.
Each of us in this apartment has had something to rip our lives apart. Ranma with his loveless past, Kari with the murder of Gatomon... and myself with everything I loved ripped away and made ronin by the one's I loved' Takao thought softly, he wondered if anyone else with a sad past would join them soon.
'Strange, it is almost like fate is bringing us together to make us strong again' Takao thought, he then smirked.
'Nah, that would just be too weird' he thought, with that set in his mind he once again concentrated on his homework.
***
In another part of Japan a blond haired boy sighed, his sapphire eyes looked around defectively.
TK was bored out of his mind, time seemed to go by so slow with Kari to brighten everything up.
Even now he could picture her bright friendly brown eyes filled with her inner light, the suns light reflecting off her chin length light brown hair... and her crystal like laughter in the air.
But... that was before, before Gatomon had been murdered.
That happy girl was pretty much gone now, today she was somewhere else in Japan living with some cousin he had never heard of before. Where he didn't know, only Tai's parents knew the whereabouts of their youngest child.
'Kari' please come back soon' he thought sadly, since he was alone at the moment he allowed tears to slip down his face.
"Because I love you," he whispered, and next time he saw her he would tell her so... he only hoped she didn't fall in love with someone else while she was away.
"Excuse me, are you TK?" an unfamiliar voice said, startled TK whipped away his tears and looked up.
In front of him was a teen probably around seventeen or eighteen, he could have been more for all TK knew. He was tall but not too tall, raven hair slipped down the older teens back in a loose ponytail.
Yet it was the eyes that caught the holder of hopes attention, blue as the sky and seemed to shine like the jewel known as Sapphire.
"Yeah, I'm him," TK said curious, the teen smiled.
"Good, then I found the right person," the teen said, he then pulled a rectangular thing out.
"This is for you and your friends, enjoy," the teen said putting it into TK's hand, he then started to walk off.
"Wait who are you, and who is this from!" TK called, he heard the teen laugh.
"My name is Ranma, as to what it is it's a letter from Kari... see you around kiddo," the teen laughed and turned a corner leaving his sight.
"Kari... wait Ranma," TK yelled as it sunk in, he had just met Kari's cousin... that meant he could find out where Kari was.
Quickly he ran around the corner where Ranma had gone, yet... no one was in sight.
"..." He said completely puzzled, Ranma had vanished like a ghost. With a sigh he started walking home, he had to call the others and tell them about the letter.
At that moment, if they had looked up he would have noticed a certain once martial artist roof hopping home.
***
Ranma smiled as he left Odaiba, Kari had surprised him this morning with a request.
She had written a letter to her friend to let them know she was okay, but because she didn't want them to track her down yet by using the postal service she had asked Ranma to drop it off by hand.
He had said yes, he loved his little light and would do almost anything to keep her happy. She had been so glad he had agreed, now he would get home and tell her that her friends had gotten her letter.
TBC
FH: HI everyone, by now you can see some ways the Gundam wing story is blending in and I hope I didn't disappoint you all. Anyway, next chapter the bladebreakers are in town and Takao will soon have to face the past.
R.Calumon: Hey you all, if you email now with a certain anime character I know enough of I can give him a very short cameo in the next chapter. Anyone who gets they're character in will get an honorable mention at the beginning of the fic.
FH: If you want to email, put in 'Starting Over Contest Entry' in the summary for the email okay.
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