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Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne and/or the characters in it. This story though is MINE. Any person who copies this story will find my wrath upon their doomed heads (and a bottle of Coke up their nose).
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Chapter 4
Fluff and Gaea
Hitomi stared disbelievingly at the man in her tub, whom she'd always known to be a ruthless killer, and had so close to destroying an entire planet.
Yet he didn't even know his name.
He was looking at her rather calmly, and sedately as she thought the situation through. This could either be a trap, or, somehow, through some trick of very sadistic fate, his entire memory was obliterated. Question was . . . .
Was that really a bad thing? (A/n: ^___~)
"You don't remember anything? Nothing about me or people who I used to be around?"
"Nope."
"You don't have any memories from before just now?"
"Not a one." he said, rather cheerfully actually, and a pleasant smile lit up his face, and Hitomi couldn't help but return it. Then suddenly he looked very eagerly at her and asked, "Do you know anything about me?" Hitomi gulped, and said, "Ummm. . . . Maybe we should take this one-step at a time here." She said, not wanting to interrupt the happy moment with the truth, "We've already introduced ourselves, kind of. . ."
"Well, except me, and I don't my real know my name, so what should we call me?"
"How about, Dylan?" Hitomi suggested.
"Okay!"
"Alright, well then Dylan. You're on a planet called "Earth," and right now, you're in my apartment. I'm a student a university_"
"What's a university?"
"It's the highest level of school you can go to."
"What's a school?" Hooo boy.
"It's a place where you learn stuff like reading, how to help sick people, or be a teacher."
"Oh, you mean you go there to train!"
"Yes, exactly! Only at a University, you completing your training, and most people even move away from their homes, and when they're finished, generally they'll find their own homes, and start families, jobs, etcetera. But while we're in school, we live apartments, like this, or dorms, typically with a roommate."
"Am I in school?"
"Well, no. you see, this is my apartment."
"Do I live here with you?"
"No. Only one person lives here."
"Then why the heck am I here, naked in your bathtub!" He yelled standing up, causing Hitomi to turn her head the other way and put a shielding hand against her eye, so as to protect their innocence "I mean, really woman! You have to protect your delicate feminine reputation! What were you thinking, bringing a man into your apartment!" he scolded, then began a prompt chew out about certain taboos for men and woman. "Especially women. You know how hard it is once you've got a reputation to shake it off."
Okay, he forgets his name, forgets my friends and I killed him, even that he's a psychotic piro-maniac killer from another planet, but this, this he remembers? Hitomi thought, as she stared at the ranting Dilandau with an incredulous look on her face. Then, something she'd forgotten struck, as she interrupted the tub-ranter.
"Hey, Dylan, don't you think it might help to protect my reputation if you got some clothes on?" Suddenly, "Dylan" looked down, and began to blush, rather profusely. Hitomi began to giggle, and for some reason, Dylan found this to be most aggravating.
Even more then the fact that he felt like he knew this girl from somewhere.
"What's so funny?" Hitomi couldn't stop laughing, but finally she was able to spurt out, "You! You're too cute!" Dylan sighed as Hitomi kept giggling.
"Look, not to complain or be a bad house guest, but do you think you get me some of those 'clothes' you were talking about? I'm cold!" He sounded like such a little kid that she gave a apologetic look, then left, returning a short time later with some clothes her father had left behind the last time her parents had spent the night, and then left to let him get dressed, smiling faintly.
Just then, she felt a familiar presence suddenly enter her mind, cluing her into the fact that Van was trying to communicate with her. Closing her eyes, she responded.
"Yes Van?"
"Hitomi! Where have you been?"
"Sorry Van, but I kind of had a small situation here."
"Hitomi, Zaibach's back, and so is Dilandau. I fought him and Oreades with Escaflowne just little while ago, but before I could kill him, he disappeared we NEED YOU BACK HERE!" Hitomi let out a gulp and then said, trying to keep her voice calm, "Van, if I could come back there, don't you think I'd have visited by now?"
"But last time you came, it as because Gaea needed you, right?"
"Yeah, but Van, I'm not sure that'll work this time!" Then suddenly, as if to answer her question, a blinding light surrounded her. Oh no, not again!
And then the worst part of all,
"Hey Hitomi, I don't think these clothes really fit me." Then they were both swept up in the brilliant light, and taken far away.
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Okay, I know: Another cliff hanger. So, anyways here it is, and I will update, hopefully sometime next week! Until then, see ya!
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