Disclaimers: I do not own Weiss Kreuz, or any of its respective characters. So please don't sue me, I don't have any money. This story is also written as a continuation of Neko Sandy's "Fractured Futures Trilogy" and is written with her permission, so for the love of mercy don't harass me for using the original characters that appeared in her story.
A New Dawn Emerges.
Part twenty-two.
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"What do you mean that you are staying with them?" Ken asks, not really believing what Yohji just said. Maybe Schuldig did something to his mind?
The small blond shakes his head, "no... Schu didn't do anything to my mind," he comments. "But he might be able to help me."
"How did you?"
"Easy... since I literally fell out of my body just a few moments ago, I seem to have become more sensitive." Yohji says while leaning against Omi. The younger assassin for his part wraps his arms around the smaller figure protectively.
Cerulean blue eyes keep watch on the form reclining in his embrace. "He just collapsed while we were looking at..." Two sets of eyes move towards the computer monitor. "Where did you say that was?"
"Arecibo... It's about an hour or so away from my... from Jason's hometown. I think that's where I was..."
Ken looks more apprehensively at the green eyed blonde. "Yohji, you never answered my question... how did you know what I was thinking?" It takes the newly discovered telepath a moment to regain his bearings once more as he perches on the sofa, somewhat reassured in an odd way that the former members of Schwarz have a western style apartment. Without any word's Yohji reaches over and takes Omi's hand before speaking. "It seems that I'm a telepath... according to Schu..." "Now you're calling him Schu?!" Ken asks, somewhat in disbelief, interrupting the young man. "Yeah... and he was trying to help me with my powers..."
From the other side of the room, Schuldig inhales a long drag from his cigarette before exhaling. "Don't even think it kittens... The only reason that I'm helping out Yohji is because he can help us find out what the fuck happened to Erik."
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Wandering back into the hospital, Adrian greets some of the nurses that are there for the graveyard shift. For some reason it seems rather appropriate, that name... for the times that he is able to get away from work and visit his nephew. It has occurred to him time and time again that he should just go ahead and do what the doctors want him to do... simply sign the papers that would allow them to turn off the machines that maintain his sweet nephew tied to the land of the living.
Stepping into the room, the scientist looks down at the innocent boy lying there on the bed, and realizes once again, as he has several times past, that there is no way that he can sign that child's death warrant. There was nothing that he could do to save his brother, or sister-in-law... but there is no way in this existence that he will be party to the destruction of his last living relation.
Almost echoing the man's resolve, the machines around the room continue to bleep and blip as they have since the day the child was admitted to the hospital.
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He can't believe that he is doing this... but then again as Brad had pointed out, he had said that he was 'Neko's' cousin, and it would be highly suspicious if he didn't accompany the boy while in Tokyo. The red head visually scouts the area, and finally sees the group of puertorricans.
"Schu... be nice to them..." Yohji warns. Upon reaching the group, that is currently causing a traffic jam in the middle of a sidewalk as they simply stand there talking amongst themselves, Yohji is immediately caught up in a headlock by a girl slightly larger than he is.
"Aha! Pensastes que podias escapar!" she exclaims to him, not bothering to release him. Koneko can be seen sitting on a large cement retaining wall. From the girl's expression Schuldig would hazard to guess that she's on some pretty heavy medication. A few more whines from 'Neko' and the boy is finally released... but only after his hair has been messed up and pulled from its ponytail.
Introductions are quickly made for those that hadn't met his 'cousin' before... and the group starts moving through Tokyo as they go to see the sights that the city presents to them. Several calls of "PACHINKO" followed by a few fingers pointing, are made as they pass the pachinko parlors... much to the annoyment of anyone walking around them.
Schuldig knows that he shouldn't laugh, but from the spectacle that this group is making of itself, he just has to wonder if they are always this loud, boisterous and energetic.
/they're on relatively good behavior now,/ Yohji comments as he joins in a 'round' of "KARAOKE!!!" when the sign has been identified by Rei-chan.
Several Japanese turn to look at them, then as quickly as they glared, they turn back to their business.
/Cute, and looks like you're getting a better control over your powers.../
/I guess... though, it still feels a little weird./
---AN: Okay... so I haven't posted anything for this fic in ages. Thanks to Yanagisen and Naniris harassing me is that this chapter has finally surfaced. Yes, the next chapter has already been started... I just wanted to get this up and out there. Basically me and Naniris have come to an agreement, she harasses me mercilessly for fics, and I harass her mercilessly for fics. I think that this worked out quite nicely.
Responses to Reviews:
Gale: Hopefully the chapters will start coming out on a more timely schedule from now on... -.-;;;
Neo Angel of the Night: Sorry that this update came about a year after you posted... As for the Fractured Futures Trilogy, well, if it wasn't for that one, this fic wouldn't exist. That, and the fact that Yohji being dead really bothered me, main reason I went to such lengths to bring him back.
June: thank you for such kind words!! I really hope that you still come around and see that even though I take forever to update, I haven't forgotten this fic.
mangababe: Hola! Wow, you read through the entire thing in one sitting? I am impressed. As for whether or not he will get to be taller than his friends again.... uhm, males generally get their main growth spurt around 15-16, and normally stop growing about 18-24.
Yohji/Jason is already 22, and exactly 5 feet tall. The only way that he is going to suddenly grow up another 8 inches (which is what he would need to reach Aya's height) is if you break his femurs and place titanium brackets on them... but then he would be hospitalized again, and his legs would be seriously disproportional to the rest of his body. Realistically he might be able to out grow Omi... but Omi is also younger than he is, and potentially still growing as well. I'm not even going to get into any other problems that making him so much taller so quickly will bring about.
Golden locks... uhm, actually, his new hair color is lighter than Omi's. Which if you check out the anime, Yohji's hair is usually either the same shade, or darker than Omi's. As for the manga, well he isn't even a blond there. The only reason that I changed Jason's (Neko's) eyes from blue to green was because eyes are supposed to be the windows into the soul... and Jason isn't in there anymore, so it stands to reason that the new 'soul' would impose itself on the eyes. Therefore changing them over to Yotan's jade green eyes.
Neko Sandy's Fic is sitting over in my site (which the main page is taken down...) but here's the addy to the weiss section (what is left of