AND I'M BACK with another chapter of Love and Hate. I know, it probably sucks so friggin' bad it's not even friggin' funny. Friggin'. I like that word. I don't own any friggin' thing in her except for the few friggin' alternative characters, friggin'. Yeah. Oh well, it's cool, it's fun, it nearly killed Raid, it's

No Need for First Dates

Justin busily worked on correcting some papers from his class. He leaned back in his seat and yawned a bit, it was around midnight, he had been grading since eight. Something hit him in the back of the head, he turned in his seat to face the person who threw the object in the first place.

"Will you go to sleep already?" His friend asked, you could tell he was a tad bit annoyed.

"I wanted to finish grading these." Justin explained.

"Other people are trying to sleep." The friend responed.

"Alright, I'll finish it tomorrow."

He thought back in time, back to the old days, back to her. He sighed, he thought about how her hair was long and flowing, how it always seemed to smell like rasberries, which it also looked like, it was a deep red color. She loved rasberries, when they were in season, she would pick a bunch of them, she'd make all sorts of things with them, such as her famous jam, it was just as sweet as she was.

'I'll get revenge, I swear it.' He promised her once again, he turned out the light, then he got up from his desk.

Just going straight over to his bed and lying down, he looked up at the ceiling, he thought about the blond girl that he was going to see a movie with. He smiled a bit, then rolled over to go to sleep.

~*~

Kyle looked into Mihoshi's room, Ashley's futon (AN: Thanks to Raid, I now know what in all hells that thing is, did ya think I'd forget to thank ya? ^^) was empty, he sighed and ran his fingers through his now short hair, he had gotten it cut on the way back. He glanced back one more time, then headed over to the room he shared with Washu, he kind of just shuffled along depressingly, then he plopped down on his futon.

Washu looked worridly at him, "You seem out of it, is this still about Ash?"

He nodded, "Yeah, it is."

"Don't worry, I bet she's alive, I barely knew her, but, she is tough." Washu said as she sat next to Kyle.

"Yeah, but, it's just, things aren't really the same." Kyle explained.

She laid down next to him and put her arm over him protectively, the pink haired girl ran her fingers through his hair, "Don't worry, it'll be okay, it'll be okay." She gently cooed.

"If you say so." Kyle gave up and fell asleep, Washu followed.

~*~

"What do you think love is Zero?" Haley asked at lunch.

"I think it's a deadly disease." Zero responed without hesitating, poking at her food, finding herself not to be very hungry at the moment anyway.

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, just you grow more and more attached to that person, and it finally gets to the point that you can't take another breath without them, it's like your not really all there when that person is gone, you just sort of slip away from the world until seeing the one you love once again. Either that or you'll go crazy. So, it's a deadly disease." Zero explained, taking a few miserable bites of food.

"I think love is better then best friends, because, you can hold each other and smooch and live happily ever after." Haley smiled.

Zero couldn't hep but laugh at the happily ever after thing, "Happily ever after? That has to be the worst joke ever!"

"Why do you say that Zero?" Haley looked at her sadly, her feelings were slightly hurt.

"There's no such thing! No one lives happily ever after! And if they do, they're a rare breed! I should know! My life hasn't been to happily ever after!" Zero stood up and slammed her fists on the table, "We all live, find someone, get hurt, get depressed, then find someone again, and start the whole fucking progress over again! If I were to date someone, I'd let them break up with me, I don't want to hurt anyone." (AN: Really, I don't want to break up with anyone, knowing me I'll probably hang around forever, the whole breaking up thing I prefer to leave alone.)

Haley bit at her lip, "Zero! I know, you've had a hard life, mine wasn't cake either. I suggest you stop moping around and get over it!" Haley then stood up, tears were just beginning to fall down her cheeks, she turned on heel, and quickly walked away.

"Haley wait!" Zero gave up and sat back down, "I'll never get over it." And she continued with her miserable meal.

~*~

Zero wasn't paying any attention in class, her mind was elsewhere, thinking about her friends, all of them, how she 'died' and left them, she sighed and continued to not pay any attention.

"Zero, are you okay?" Justin asked.

She nodded mutely.

"Then why do I get the feeling your not?"

The blond girl shrugged.

"Alright, we'll talk after class if you like."

"Hn." Was all Zero said to that.

~*~

"Now, what's on your mind?" Justin questioned, propping himself against the desk clostest to Zero.

"It's nothing." She smiply told him.

Justin didn't buy it, "It has to be something."

"Really, I'm fine."

He sighed, "Zero, you're easier to read then a Dr. Seuss book. Something is really bothering you, sometimes it helps to talk about things."

"Just leaving them, that's all, I'll get over it eventually." Zero leaned against a wall.

"Leaving who?"

"Some so called friends back where I came from sort of."

"What'd they do?"

"Not they, it's what I did, I slept with one of my friend's girlfriend, he got mad, and so did the girlfriend, they sad they didn't want to see me ever again basically." Zero explained.

"Those were your only friends there?"

Zero shook her head, "There was Kyle, Mihoshi, Tenchi, Washu, Ryoko, and Sasami."

"Did they want you to leave?"

"Not that I know of."

"You left because two of your friends were mad at you?" He gave her a rather curious look.

"Yeah, maybe I'll go back."

"You should." Justin thought for a minute, "Your friend Kyle, what's his last name?"

"Jones, why?"

He smiled at her, "So, is another one of your friend's named Jared Azerar?"

The blond eyed girl raised an eyebrow at him, "Yeah, how'd you know?"

"Oh, I have my ways, Ashley Nonaka."

Her eyes widened, "How in all hells did you know my real name?"

"Well, your team is the highest ranking in ACs." Justin thought for a minute, "Until me of course."

"You're an AC pilot too?" Ashley was stunned beyond all reason at this point and time.

"That's right, well, I quit, but, I'm rejoining." Justin explained, the smile still on his face.

"Why'd you quit?"

Justin paused a minute, then struck a pose by putting his hands into fists and putting them on his waist, "They couldn't keep the ladies off me, not my fault I'm so bishie."

Ashley grinned at him, "Guess so."

"So why did you come back here?"

"I met up with a kid that was in my group growin up here." She explained, "Joey Fitch."

"That guy's an ass."

She laughed a bit, "You know him?"

"Yeah, I was teaching him for a while, but, I didn't want to put up with him anymore, so I sent over to one of my friends, was never a problem again." Justin told her with a grin on his face.

~*~

Washu was up late searching for Ashley once again. Kyle walked over to her and sat next to her, he was holding a cup of hot tea for her.

"Hey, how's it going?" Kyle asked.

The pink-haired girl took the cup of tea and took a nice long sip of it, she set her cup down, "Nothing just yet, but, I'm getting there."

"Yeah."

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, your hair looks nice that you got it cut." Washu said to him continuing her work.

"Thanks."

The two sat in silence for a while, the only sound was that of the beeping compter, then Washu broke it.

"Have you ever slept with anyone?" Washu asked him as she worked.

"Literally, yes, figuratively, well....um..." Kyle was stalling with this one, he figured Washu was already sexually experienced.

"Well, what?"

"No." He finally said.

Washu stopped her work and smiled at him gently, she traced her finger along his jawline, down his neck, to the neck of his shirt, her touch sent a shiver down Kyle's spine.

"Would you ever want to?" She smiled seductively up at him, continuing to stroke his neck.

"Yes." He responded, staring deeply into her eyes.

Kyle's lips edged slowly toward Washu's, she just put her hand on the back of his head and pulled him in for a deep kiss, which only got deeper. Washu rubbed her tounge against his lips, Kyle gradually gave in and opened his mouth, her tounge eagerly began to explore his mouth, rubbing her tounge against his.

When the kiss finally broke, Washu laid Kyle on his back, and she then straddled his hips, Washu looked at him, there was a rather large grin on her face, Kyle just looked kind of worried.

"What are you going to do now?" Kyle asked, propping himself on his elbows so he could be closer the mad scientist.

"Remember that sample?" She reminded him slyly.

He grinned a bit at her, "How are you going to get it?"

"I'll show you then." Washu then met her lips up with his once again.

A pleasured sigh came from Kyle as Washu's kisses moved down to his neck, he shivered a bit when he felt her tounge trace along his jawline and play with the bottom of his ear.

Suddenly, a loud, rather annoying beeping noise came from Washu's computer, the couple broke apart rather quickly to see what it was, a transmission from somewhere in Germany, it had to be Ashley!

"Hey Kyle, Washu." Ashley acknowledged as soon as she was on the screen.

"You're alive!" Kyle shouted, shocked to his bone marrow.

"Yeah, guess I am, I'm sorry I left you guys like that." She apoligized.

"No need to apoligize," Kyle noticed some guy with long hair in behind Ashley, he was currently flipping through a magazine of some sort, "Ash, who's that guy?"

"Oh, that's Justin, he was an AC pilot too." Ashley explained.

"THE Justin?!" Kyle yelled.

"Yeah, so?"

"SO?! He was the best out there, he quit two years before Team Middle Hell was formed, you didn't know that did you?" Kyle asked.

"I was on the street two years before we were formed dude." Ashley said rather dully.

"I know, well, now you know that he was the best." Kyle smiled.

"So, did I interrupt something?" Ashley asked, noticing Kyle was a bit red in the face.

Kyle only blushed more, Washu answered this time, "We were about to make sweet love!" Kyle turned beet red at that.

Ashley laughed, "Well, I got to get going, I got to go somewhere. I'll talk to you later. Oh yeah, Kyle?"

"Yeah?"

"Make sure you wear a condom man."

"You little-" Kyle started, but, Ashley had hung up before Kyle had a chance to finish what he was about to say.

"Well, I better get heading to bed." Washu told him and started to walk off to her room.

"Bu-bu-but what about your sample?" Kyle asked.

"I'll get it later, okay?" She smiled as Kyle nodded meakly, Washu then went off.

Then Kyle finally noticed something that felt odd, his pants had started feeling unsually smaller, he figured he'd ignore it, and just go to sleep, and he headed off to bed.

~*~

Justin smiled at Ashley, "See, now don't you feel better?"

She nodded, "Yeah, I do."

"Now which movie would you like to see?" He asked.

"Whatever you want to see, I don't know of any good movies."

He thought for a minute, "Hm, how about this one." He said as he showed her the ad for it in the paper.

"Sure." (AN: I can't think of any good movie, so, and I don't have the creativity in my brain to make up one. So, meh.)

~*~

After a movie, they headed back. They both stopped at the edge of a lake, the stars seemed very different today (AN: A sorta quote from a David Bowie song, it's cool, I like the tin can part ^^) to Ashley, usually they seemed kind of dim.

Ashley looked up at him, 'What is it about him? What is it that makes me feel so at ease around him?' She blushed a bit when Justin looked back at her.

"Did you have fun?" He asked, smiling.

"Yeah, I did."

"That's good."

The silence hung over them, only the noise of the crickets could be heard. Justin then wrapped his arm around the blond girl's shoulders, he thought she was going to jump out of her skin, she remained a little tense.

"I think I should be going to sleep." She told him softly.

"Alright then, I'll see you tomorrow then." He smiled.

"Okay, good night."

"Good night."

With that, they both headed their seperate ways.

~*~

"So, how did it go?" Haley asked immediately as soon as Ashley was in the bunk room.

"It was good."

"Just good? No smooch?" Haley's jaw was slack.

"Nope, and I don't mind, it'll happen with time." She told her.

"Whatever you say." Haley then rolled onto her bunk to go to sleep.

"Hn."

~*~

Justin entered the bunk room, two of his friends were currently playing a card game of some sort.

"So, how'd it go?" One of them questioned.

"It went well." Justin responded pulling his hair back, then let it fall.

"That's nice to hear."

"Did you guys stay up just to ask me that?" Justin asked.

"No, this game's been going on for a while." The other friend explained, almost in monotone. "Because a certain someone keeps cheating."

"I'm not cheating!" The first one said defensively.

"Then how did the ace fall out of your sleeve?"

"It was a lucky ace, I just carry it for luck."

"I'm going to sleep, can you guys try and not make too much noise." Justin told them as he headed over to his bunk.

"Sure." Both his friends responded and kept on playing.

CHAPTER SEVEN COMPLETE

YES! AHA! Done! Whoo hoo! Okay, yeah. No lemon this time, like some people thought, but pretty damn close. Oh well. It was still fun anyway. So, yeah. Well, I hope to get started on chapter eight soon, so, I'd like to get some more reviews. Thanks to everyone who's been reading and reviewing. Yeah! This is so much fun. YAY! ANYONE WHO HASN'T REVIEWED ME, PLEASE REVIEW! Please and thank you. This is your authoress saying: Do the voices in my head bother you?

Shinigami Forever! Carol 'Minion' Maxwell