Guess what? You get to be treated to another wonderful chapter of
Trigun: Spirit of Fire! I wanted to get three chapters
written before I posted this on ff.net. Hope you like the second
installment, its longer then the first and took a few hours to write
you crazy people you! Anyway hope you enjoy it
Disclaimer brought to you today by Serena:
Why did she even ask me? I mean this story isn't even about me or Darien. Aww I miss my Darien. I hope he shows up later. Candy said she hasn't found the rights to either series yet that she lost under her bed the other day. Kind of like me, losing stuff and all. I was just joking about the rights though, she never had them, though the bed part is true. I think I lost luna under there
*muffled luna sounds under bed*
O well she can't chew me out for homework if I can't find her *Serena acts like she can't hear luna*
Trigun-Spirit of Fire
Chapter Two
Grandpa's Will
It had been a few months since the whole Vash insodent at her temple. The tall guy seemed to be getting along fine, even grandpa had taken a liking to the strange fella and his love for donuts. She didn't care all that much though.
He wasn't Chad
A tear slid down the miko's cheak as she sat infront of the fire remembering him.
"I told myself I wouldn't cry." She mumbled rubbing her eyes with a cloth. "He wanted to go..."
"Uh Raye..." Vash's voice said through the door. Her temper flaring up. Was he spying on her?!
"What do you want Vash?" She spat out turning to the door that slid open revealing the blonde with the funky hair style.
"Your grandfather said he wanted to speak with you." Vash said stepping back in fear of her unending rath. Raye stood up without a word and nodded passing past Vash heading to her grandfathers room. Blinking he watched her enter the old mans study by herself. Sighing he returned to the dishes that she had ordered him to do not to long ago. Grabbing a plate he began to wash it. Gazing at the suds of the water it reminded him of adventures long ago when Wolfwood was still alive and they had decided to help a woman and her child raise money to pay off some loan sharks. A chuckle passed his lips as the images flowed back from his memory. Looking up he saw the bird sancuary that was behind the temple and smiled. Earth was a lot like Rem had told him. It was a beautiful place. "Hopefully I can get back to Gunsmoke soon and tell the people of Earth like Rem did to me...." Setting the plate to dry he stopped for a second remembering the woman that first had held him in awe with her stories. Why was everything so difficult for him?
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"Raye we need to talk." Her grandfathers voice said in the seat that was turned away from her. She sat upon a small couch that occupid his study.
"Yah grandpa?" Raye said.
"The doctor called today Raye. I don't think you were here at the time. But as you know I went in for my check up last week and it took till yesterday for the results of my blood test to come in." Turning he looked at his granddaughter not knowing what to say. He didn't want to break her heart as much as it had already had been throughout her life. He WAS the only person that had stayed with her by choice. Raye's mother died not to long after the girl was born to them and her father buried himself in work so he didn't have to deal with the loss.
Her grandfather came one day to the house they lived in and was let in by a maid. Looking around he saw his only precious granddaughter crying outside her father's office, grabbing at the wood trying to get to the door knob to get inside to see her papa. The maid appolizied to him as if it was something bad for her to be there wanting her father and pushed little Raye away into her room. Frowning grandpa picked up the child and walked down the hall leaving the maid speechless and not knowing what to do. Walking to the door he opened it, thats when her father came out of his office.
"You've come, have you?" He said in a cold heartless voice. Grandpa turned around nodding, holding the weeping child closer to his shoulder. "I'll have the maid bring her stuff to the temple then later today. It was nice seeing you again." And with that he left down the hallway to do something. Pulling little Raye from his shoulder he looked at his only grandchild. She was a spitting image of his late daughter.
"Come Raye, lets go home." He muttered walking out.
Tears aproached his eyes remembering that day. Raye looked up worried.
"Grandpa...what's wrong?" She said in a worried tone now. Grandpa waved his hand as to tell her it was nothing.
"The doctor's news was not good Raye." He continued. "He told me I should finalize my will and such soon." Raye gasped looking shocked.
"Wh...what do you mean...." She said tears threating to fall down her ivory cheeks.
"You know what I mean Raye. I'm old Raye, you and I both know that. Though I keep my health in check there is only so much I can do before my time comes. My time is coming quickly."
"How quickly..." Raye said in a dry unemotional voice. Grandpa sighed. She had a lot of her father in her. If anything bothered her, she would bottle it up and act strong though she was just like a flame, tended her spirit could flare and light up a room but ignored it would die out. He always knew this.
"I would rather not say." He said turning to view out a window. "I'm leaving the temple anyway Raye. I wish to die at my teachers temple anyway. I leave everything to you, of course."
"You can't do this." She muttered looking down at her hands, letting her midnight hair cover the emotions that were forming in her eyes uncontroled. Her voice still dry but wavering quit a bit.
"I can and will Raye. You've run this place for quit a while anyway. All I did was be a bother to you."
"No you wern't." Raye said. "You were never a bother to me grandpa. Everyone loves you." He sighed once again looking away from his granddaughter.
"It's already done Raye, I leave tomorrow. The temple is now in your name. You don't need to be worrying about waking up and finding me dead anyway. You have your entire life to live." He hoped down from his seat and went over to his granddaughter. Raising her face out of her hair, he found it covered in tears, but her expressions lied about it. Hugging her he let a few fall himself. "Take good care of the temple my granddaughter. Remember I'll always be there for you."
Raye sat there hugging him. Another one was leaving her again so soon. Walking out he began to hum a small tune as if nothing had happened. Raye sat there not knowing what to do or think. Vash....he would probaby just laugh at her inbetween bites of his donut when she told him grandpa was leaving. A growl formed in her neck as anger sored at the blonde.
"Gah he's worse then Serena..." She mumbled wiping the rest of her tears from her eyes and headed out from his study by herself.
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Whistling Vash began to sweep up the fire room carefully, The last time he had tried to do it Raye had threaten him within a inch of his life. Chuckling nervously he continued to sweep.
"HELLO?" A voice sang through the door. It was Serena again. Laughing a bit he went to the door of the fire room.
"Hey." He said waving at her. Serena waved back coming up to him.
"Broucha something!" She exclaimed handing him a bag with three or four donuts in it.
"Gee thanks." He said happily.
"Where's Raye?" The blonde asked.
"I think I saw her head out to the shrine." Vash said. Serena nodded and skipped happily away toward the door that would take her to the shrine. Opening the bag he stuffed one in his mouth then set the bag aside as he finished sweeping.
"RAYE!" Serena yelled stopping in the middle of the small stone sidewalk that lead up to the shrine. The scout of mars was no where to be seen. Turning the corner she stopped looking down and seeing Raye feeding her crows with a look of despair upon her face. "...Raye..." Serena said stepping forward once knowing something grave must have happened for the miko to show her true feelings for as long as she had been there. Raye looked up and tried to paint a happy face upon her delicate features.
"Hey meatball head." Raye said standing up. "Whacha doing here so early? The meeting isn't for another hour or so."
"Just came to hang out I guess..." Serena said worried written all over her face. "What's wrong?"
"Nothings wrong Serena." Raye said turning and grabbing her broom.
"You haven't yelled at me yet Raye, something is most definatly wrong." Serena added stepping closer to her best friend. Raye's shoulders hunched over as the miko turned around.
"Grandpa's leaving." She quietly muttered.
"Doesn't he always?" Serena asked.
"For good Serena. The doctors told him that he's going to die quit soon so he's leaving to die at another temple tomorrow." Tears were already forming at the sides of her eyes as she spoke. Serena gasped then grabbing her friend and bringing her into a hug.
"I'm...I'm so sorry Raye." Serena said.
"It's ok." Raye pulled back saying wiping the tears again. "We all knew this was going to happen anyway." She chuckled sickly. Serena could read through her friends attempts to hide her true feelings.
"Denying it is only going to hurt you Raye in the long run." Serena said. Raye looked away from her friend trying to stop the tears. "Your going to have to let it out sometime." Raye shook her head.
"I'm fine." Raye said. "This is what he wants and I am ok with that."
"No your not." Serena said. Raye glared slightly at Serena. She knew the violet eyed miko to well.
"I got to go ....do something." Quickly Raye pushed past the blonde and walked in a room of the temple that only her and grandfather were aloud to go into. The blonde's hair waved behind her as tears formed in her eyes for her friend. Raye could really hurt herself if she didn't address this issue like a normal person would.
"What's going on?" Vash's voice said coming up behind her. Serena turned to the man. "Are you crying?" Serena nodded brushing a few tears away. "Why? Do you mind if I ask and all..." Chuckling at Vash's kindness and fear of Raye's temper.
"Grandpa is leaving soon." Serena got out. The way she said it told Vash it wasn't a trip or anything.
"Gez that's not really good." He said brushing the back of his head nervously. Serena nodded in agreement with him. "How's Raye taking it?"
"Not good." Serena said turning her head to the door Raye had walked into to get away from the blonde. "She's denying it and bottling up her feelings." A sigh passed through her lips this time as she looked down. "I'm sorry to leave you with her like this but I got to tell the guys and such. She's like Lita in wanting to solve her problems by herself."
"Yah." Vash said looking up at the door.
"Well tell Raye I'll be back later tonight with the others." He nodded as she waved to him bye.
"Was this what she ment by I need you..." He asked himself walking up to the door to peak in seeing Raye on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. "Raye?" Looking up she saw Vash at the door, broom in hand.
"Yah Vash?" She said looking at her rag brushing her hair behind her ear.
"Are you ok?" He asked. Vash was afraid of her temper flaring out at him but what he saw was not what he expected. Her shoulders heaved as tears trailed down her ivory cheeks.
"...its not fair...." She muttered sitting up. He could see the pain written all over her face.
"May I come in?" Vash broke in. "I mean I'm all for standing here and listening but it would be much comfertable to sit across from you and all.,." She just chuckled nodding. Stepping a foot in he headed over to the miko. "Now what happened?" Looking up he gazed into his aqua blue eyes and then back down. Why did he have to ask...
Why couldn't he be Chad?
But Chad was gone, not dead but to her he could have well been. Why did he even care? She treated him like dirt most the time. Memories of the past month flooded her senses. One picture after another of her yelling at the blonde.
"Why do you even stay around me?" Raye said looking up at him. Her violet eyes now red from crying. "I mean I treat you like dirt and all, normaly one would run from me...like Chad did."
"Well I'm not this Chad fella I guess." He said. "But something brought me here Raye, that's why I didn't leave."
*****
I wanted to be like You
I wanted everything
So I tried to be like You
And I got swept away
I didn't know that it was so cold and
You needed someone to show you the way
So I took your hand and we figured out that
When the tide comes I'd take you away
*****
Raye looked up at him not knowing what to think.
"Don't you understand..." She muttered. "Everyone who cares about me eventully dies or leaves." Her violet orbs downcast upon the hardwood floor that sat below her.
"No they don't." Vash said breaking in softly. "You have Serena, Lita, Amy, and Mina who come over everyday. They've never run away and even understand how you are. They warned me that you don't mean the stuff you say or do when your angry or your temper is flying. I've met a few people like that in my lifetime Raye and all they needed was a friend who understands."
*****
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
*****
Raye turned her head away not knowing what to think.
"It took a year or so for Serena to understand that much." Raye muttered about to wipe a tear from her face when Vash's gloved hand wiped it away before she could. A faint blush came to the miko's cheeks as she sat there.
"Tell me why you try to push people away?" He asked. Raye looked down again looking at her figiting hands.
"My father never wanted me, my mother died a few weeks after I was born. Grandpa was the only one I had for a while." Tears began to stream down her face when she felt his long arms embrace her in a hug. Buring her face in the shirt of his kimno she let so many long forgotten tears fall
*****
I'm slinking slowly
So hurry hold me
Your hand is all that I have to keep me hanging on
Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Where you go when your gone
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
*****
"I've always been..how you say different from the crowd and people shund or feared me cuz of it." She cried in his shirt. Vash looked down watching her back breath heavly letting go of all the pain.
"I know the feeling." Vash whispered rubbing his hand on her back. "Its hard to fit in when people think your something evil."
*****
All you wanted was somebody who cares
If you need me you know I'll be there
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Were you go when your gone....
*****
Raye closed her eyes thinking of when grandpa came and got her. Then of the time Serena showed up and she accedently knocked her out with a charmed paper and how that one girl had brought a slew of friends over who accepted her as well. Then there was Vash, also brought by Serena. A laugh came past her lips as she thought about it. That blonde had brought a whole lot to her life. All she had before was her crows.
"That was a good sign." Vash's cheerful voice said. Pulling away Raye looked up at the blonde and felt her cheeks become red once again.
But he wasn't Chad
It doesn't matter her heart answered back. Raye looked back down leaning her head back on his shoulder. She felt free for the first time in a while. Wether grandpa was gone or not she realized she was going to be fine. They had seen the future and Raye knew in the end everything would be fine.
"Why did you leave brother..." A voice carried through her and Vash's ears.
His head shot up making Raye look up.
"What's going on?" Raye asked. Vash stood up letting go of Raye gently.
"Knives..." Vash muttered glaring.
"Yes dear BROTHER..." A man appeared infront of them. He held a likeness of Vash noted Raye but his eyes though were the same color held a coldness that made even the senshi of fire shiver. "...I see your with the spiders again..." He added glaring at the girl. "Why did you run?"
"I didn't." Vash said.
"O yes you did." Knives said. "And I've come to bring you back." Raye stood up quickly, angred at this mans presents in a holy area of the temple.
"How DARE you come here!" She yelled. She would have attacked him if it wasn't for Vash holding her back. "Let me at him Vash!" Vash chuckled nervously,
"He's not what he looks Raye, don't try." He said then narrowing his eyes again. "What do you want brother?"
"Why an eden you fool." Knives said laughing like Vash should have known that. "I can't have that without you there. We gotta get rid of the spiders together."
"I won't do it!" Vash said angered. "You knew that though. My opinions haven't changed any since we last saw each other."
"I was hoping they had but the spiders have brainwashed you further..." He glared at the miko beside him being held in place by an arm around her waist. "Anyways this is not your home so you must come back." Vash blinked. He knew that he would probaby be sent back but so soon? Looking down at Raye from the corner of his eyes he sighed. He couldn't let Knives hurt her. She was innocent.
"Fine." Vash said. Knives threw at his feet his red jacket, glasses, and gun.
"See yah when you arrive." Knives said waving.
"He's not going alone!" Raye yelled at the man.
"Raye I TOLD you to not pick a fight with him." Vash mumbled quietly for her to only hear.
"I don't care. How dare he come walking in a holy place such as this demanding what seems to be a battle or the end of humanity." Raye hissed her eyes narrowing upon the mans face. Vash looked upon her in shock. How did she pick up on the last part so quickly?
"I don't care if you bring your pet spider Vash." Knives said. "But if she'll be traveling with you I'll have my gunmen after her as well. Alls fair in love and war, that's something Rem taught us, right Vash?" A manic smile was upon that man as he faded away. Raye looked around as Vash finally let go of her.
"He's gone." She muttered.
"Not for long." Vash said putting on his red coat quickly and his gun at his side. Raye turned to see him. The coat seemed to fit him perfectly. Why didn't he arrive in it if it was made for him. She wasn't able to think about it any further when the world around both of them began to swirl. "We're going." Raye went next to the tall man, clutching at his jacket as she felt the world around them shift.
"Where are we going Vash?" She asked closing her eyes.
"Planet Gunsmoke." Vash said as everything went black.
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Ok I didn't mean to make it go along so fast but I thought bringing Raye to planet Gunsmoke would be really cool! I didn't mean to make it a slight song fic either if your really pissed about that:P I was writing that scene when my itunes started playing a michelle branch song that fit perfectly with the story at that point so I added it. Anyway I hope your enjoying the story so far. What will Vash and Knives do when they find out that Raye really isn't a human that they thought? That question might be answered in the next installment of Trigun: Spirit of Fire. Please review now before you leave and as always thanks for taking the time to read one of my stories!
*Serena is seen shoving more crap under my bed to keep Luna from finding her way out from underneight it*
Disclaimer brought to you today by Serena:
Why did she even ask me? I mean this story isn't even about me or Darien. Aww I miss my Darien. I hope he shows up later. Candy said she hasn't found the rights to either series yet that she lost under her bed the other day. Kind of like me, losing stuff and all. I was just joking about the rights though, she never had them, though the bed part is true. I think I lost luna under there
*muffled luna sounds under bed*
O well she can't chew me out for homework if I can't find her *Serena acts like she can't hear luna*
Trigun-Spirit of Fire
Chapter Two
Grandpa's Will
It had been a few months since the whole Vash insodent at her temple. The tall guy seemed to be getting along fine, even grandpa had taken a liking to the strange fella and his love for donuts. She didn't care all that much though.
He wasn't Chad
A tear slid down the miko's cheak as she sat infront of the fire remembering him.
"I told myself I wouldn't cry." She mumbled rubbing her eyes with a cloth. "He wanted to go..."
"Uh Raye..." Vash's voice said through the door. Her temper flaring up. Was he spying on her?!
"What do you want Vash?" She spat out turning to the door that slid open revealing the blonde with the funky hair style.
"Your grandfather said he wanted to speak with you." Vash said stepping back in fear of her unending rath. Raye stood up without a word and nodded passing past Vash heading to her grandfathers room. Blinking he watched her enter the old mans study by herself. Sighing he returned to the dishes that she had ordered him to do not to long ago. Grabbing a plate he began to wash it. Gazing at the suds of the water it reminded him of adventures long ago when Wolfwood was still alive and they had decided to help a woman and her child raise money to pay off some loan sharks. A chuckle passed his lips as the images flowed back from his memory. Looking up he saw the bird sancuary that was behind the temple and smiled. Earth was a lot like Rem had told him. It was a beautiful place. "Hopefully I can get back to Gunsmoke soon and tell the people of Earth like Rem did to me...." Setting the plate to dry he stopped for a second remembering the woman that first had held him in awe with her stories. Why was everything so difficult for him?
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"Raye we need to talk." Her grandfathers voice said in the seat that was turned away from her. She sat upon a small couch that occupid his study.
"Yah grandpa?" Raye said.
"The doctor called today Raye. I don't think you were here at the time. But as you know I went in for my check up last week and it took till yesterday for the results of my blood test to come in." Turning he looked at his granddaughter not knowing what to say. He didn't want to break her heart as much as it had already had been throughout her life. He WAS the only person that had stayed with her by choice. Raye's mother died not to long after the girl was born to them and her father buried himself in work so he didn't have to deal with the loss.
Her grandfather came one day to the house they lived in and was let in by a maid. Looking around he saw his only precious granddaughter crying outside her father's office, grabbing at the wood trying to get to the door knob to get inside to see her papa. The maid appolizied to him as if it was something bad for her to be there wanting her father and pushed little Raye away into her room. Frowning grandpa picked up the child and walked down the hall leaving the maid speechless and not knowing what to do. Walking to the door he opened it, thats when her father came out of his office.
"You've come, have you?" He said in a cold heartless voice. Grandpa turned around nodding, holding the weeping child closer to his shoulder. "I'll have the maid bring her stuff to the temple then later today. It was nice seeing you again." And with that he left down the hallway to do something. Pulling little Raye from his shoulder he looked at his only grandchild. She was a spitting image of his late daughter.
"Come Raye, lets go home." He muttered walking out.
Tears aproached his eyes remembering that day. Raye looked up worried.
"Grandpa...what's wrong?" She said in a worried tone now. Grandpa waved his hand as to tell her it was nothing.
"The doctor's news was not good Raye." He continued. "He told me I should finalize my will and such soon." Raye gasped looking shocked.
"Wh...what do you mean...." She said tears threating to fall down her ivory cheeks.
"You know what I mean Raye. I'm old Raye, you and I both know that. Though I keep my health in check there is only so much I can do before my time comes. My time is coming quickly."
"How quickly..." Raye said in a dry unemotional voice. Grandpa sighed. She had a lot of her father in her. If anything bothered her, she would bottle it up and act strong though she was just like a flame, tended her spirit could flare and light up a room but ignored it would die out. He always knew this.
"I would rather not say." He said turning to view out a window. "I'm leaving the temple anyway Raye. I wish to die at my teachers temple anyway. I leave everything to you, of course."
"You can't do this." She muttered looking down at her hands, letting her midnight hair cover the emotions that were forming in her eyes uncontroled. Her voice still dry but wavering quit a bit.
"I can and will Raye. You've run this place for quit a while anyway. All I did was be a bother to you."
"No you wern't." Raye said. "You were never a bother to me grandpa. Everyone loves you." He sighed once again looking away from his granddaughter.
"It's already done Raye, I leave tomorrow. The temple is now in your name. You don't need to be worrying about waking up and finding me dead anyway. You have your entire life to live." He hoped down from his seat and went over to his granddaughter. Raising her face out of her hair, he found it covered in tears, but her expressions lied about it. Hugging her he let a few fall himself. "Take good care of the temple my granddaughter. Remember I'll always be there for you."
Raye sat there hugging him. Another one was leaving her again so soon. Walking out he began to hum a small tune as if nothing had happened. Raye sat there not knowing what to do or think. Vash....he would probaby just laugh at her inbetween bites of his donut when she told him grandpa was leaving. A growl formed in her neck as anger sored at the blonde.
"Gah he's worse then Serena..." She mumbled wiping the rest of her tears from her eyes and headed out from his study by herself.
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Whistling Vash began to sweep up the fire room carefully, The last time he had tried to do it Raye had threaten him within a inch of his life. Chuckling nervously he continued to sweep.
"HELLO?" A voice sang through the door. It was Serena again. Laughing a bit he went to the door of the fire room.
"Hey." He said waving at her. Serena waved back coming up to him.
"Broucha something!" She exclaimed handing him a bag with three or four donuts in it.
"Gee thanks." He said happily.
"Where's Raye?" The blonde asked.
"I think I saw her head out to the shrine." Vash said. Serena nodded and skipped happily away toward the door that would take her to the shrine. Opening the bag he stuffed one in his mouth then set the bag aside as he finished sweeping.
"RAYE!" Serena yelled stopping in the middle of the small stone sidewalk that lead up to the shrine. The scout of mars was no where to be seen. Turning the corner she stopped looking down and seeing Raye feeding her crows with a look of despair upon her face. "...Raye..." Serena said stepping forward once knowing something grave must have happened for the miko to show her true feelings for as long as she had been there. Raye looked up and tried to paint a happy face upon her delicate features.
"Hey meatball head." Raye said standing up. "Whacha doing here so early? The meeting isn't for another hour or so."
"Just came to hang out I guess..." Serena said worried written all over her face. "What's wrong?"
"Nothings wrong Serena." Raye said turning and grabbing her broom.
"You haven't yelled at me yet Raye, something is most definatly wrong." Serena added stepping closer to her best friend. Raye's shoulders hunched over as the miko turned around.
"Grandpa's leaving." She quietly muttered.
"Doesn't he always?" Serena asked.
"For good Serena. The doctors told him that he's going to die quit soon so he's leaving to die at another temple tomorrow." Tears were already forming at the sides of her eyes as she spoke. Serena gasped then grabbing her friend and bringing her into a hug.
"I'm...I'm so sorry Raye." Serena said.
"It's ok." Raye pulled back saying wiping the tears again. "We all knew this was going to happen anyway." She chuckled sickly. Serena could read through her friends attempts to hide her true feelings.
"Denying it is only going to hurt you Raye in the long run." Serena said. Raye looked away from her friend trying to stop the tears. "Your going to have to let it out sometime." Raye shook her head.
"I'm fine." Raye said. "This is what he wants and I am ok with that."
"No your not." Serena said. Raye glared slightly at Serena. She knew the violet eyed miko to well.
"I got to go ....do something." Quickly Raye pushed past the blonde and walked in a room of the temple that only her and grandfather were aloud to go into. The blonde's hair waved behind her as tears formed in her eyes for her friend. Raye could really hurt herself if she didn't address this issue like a normal person would.
"What's going on?" Vash's voice said coming up behind her. Serena turned to the man. "Are you crying?" Serena nodded brushing a few tears away. "Why? Do you mind if I ask and all..." Chuckling at Vash's kindness and fear of Raye's temper.
"Grandpa is leaving soon." Serena got out. The way she said it told Vash it wasn't a trip or anything.
"Gez that's not really good." He said brushing the back of his head nervously. Serena nodded in agreement with him. "How's Raye taking it?"
"Not good." Serena said turning her head to the door Raye had walked into to get away from the blonde. "She's denying it and bottling up her feelings." A sigh passed through her lips this time as she looked down. "I'm sorry to leave you with her like this but I got to tell the guys and such. She's like Lita in wanting to solve her problems by herself."
"Yah." Vash said looking up at the door.
"Well tell Raye I'll be back later tonight with the others." He nodded as she waved to him bye.
"Was this what she ment by I need you..." He asked himself walking up to the door to peak in seeing Raye on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. "Raye?" Looking up she saw Vash at the door, broom in hand.
"Yah Vash?" She said looking at her rag brushing her hair behind her ear.
"Are you ok?" He asked. Vash was afraid of her temper flaring out at him but what he saw was not what he expected. Her shoulders heaved as tears trailed down her ivory cheeks.
"...its not fair...." She muttered sitting up. He could see the pain written all over her face.
"May I come in?" Vash broke in. "I mean I'm all for standing here and listening but it would be much comfertable to sit across from you and all.,." She just chuckled nodding. Stepping a foot in he headed over to the miko. "Now what happened?" Looking up he gazed into his aqua blue eyes and then back down. Why did he have to ask...
Why couldn't he be Chad?
But Chad was gone, not dead but to her he could have well been. Why did he even care? She treated him like dirt most the time. Memories of the past month flooded her senses. One picture after another of her yelling at the blonde.
"Why do you even stay around me?" Raye said looking up at him. Her violet eyes now red from crying. "I mean I treat you like dirt and all, normaly one would run from me...like Chad did."
"Well I'm not this Chad fella I guess." He said. "But something brought me here Raye, that's why I didn't leave."
*****
I wanted to be like You
I wanted everything
So I tried to be like You
And I got swept away
I didn't know that it was so cold and
You needed someone to show you the way
So I took your hand and we figured out that
When the tide comes I'd take you away
*****
Raye looked up at him not knowing what to think.
"Don't you understand..." She muttered. "Everyone who cares about me eventully dies or leaves." Her violet orbs downcast upon the hardwood floor that sat below her.
"No they don't." Vash said breaking in softly. "You have Serena, Lita, Amy, and Mina who come over everyday. They've never run away and even understand how you are. They warned me that you don't mean the stuff you say or do when your angry or your temper is flying. I've met a few people like that in my lifetime Raye and all they needed was a friend who understands."
*****
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
*****
Raye turned her head away not knowing what to think.
"It took a year or so for Serena to understand that much." Raye muttered about to wipe a tear from her face when Vash's gloved hand wiped it away before she could. A faint blush came to the miko's cheeks as she sat there.
"Tell me why you try to push people away?" He asked. Raye looked down again looking at her figiting hands.
"My father never wanted me, my mother died a few weeks after I was born. Grandpa was the only one I had for a while." Tears began to stream down her face when she felt his long arms embrace her in a hug. Buring her face in the shirt of his kimno she let so many long forgotten tears fall
*****
I'm slinking slowly
So hurry hold me
Your hand is all that I have to keep me hanging on
Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Where you go when your gone
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
*****
"I've always been..how you say different from the crowd and people shund or feared me cuz of it." She cried in his shirt. Vash looked down watching her back breath heavly letting go of all the pain.
"I know the feeling." Vash whispered rubbing his hand on her back. "Its hard to fit in when people think your something evil."
*****
All you wanted was somebody who cares
If you need me you know I'll be there
If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
so lonely on the in side
So busy out there
And all you wanted was somebody who cares
Please can you tell me
So I can finally see
Were you go when your gone....
*****
Raye closed her eyes thinking of when grandpa came and got her. Then of the time Serena showed up and she accedently knocked her out with a charmed paper and how that one girl had brought a slew of friends over who accepted her as well. Then there was Vash, also brought by Serena. A laugh came past her lips as she thought about it. That blonde had brought a whole lot to her life. All she had before was her crows.
"That was a good sign." Vash's cheerful voice said. Pulling away Raye looked up at the blonde and felt her cheeks become red once again.
But he wasn't Chad
It doesn't matter her heart answered back. Raye looked back down leaning her head back on his shoulder. She felt free for the first time in a while. Wether grandpa was gone or not she realized she was going to be fine. They had seen the future and Raye knew in the end everything would be fine.
"Why did you leave brother..." A voice carried through her and Vash's ears.
His head shot up making Raye look up.
"What's going on?" Raye asked. Vash stood up letting go of Raye gently.
"Knives..." Vash muttered glaring.
"Yes dear BROTHER..." A man appeared infront of them. He held a likeness of Vash noted Raye but his eyes though were the same color held a coldness that made even the senshi of fire shiver. "...I see your with the spiders again..." He added glaring at the girl. "Why did you run?"
"I didn't." Vash said.
"O yes you did." Knives said. "And I've come to bring you back." Raye stood up quickly, angred at this mans presents in a holy area of the temple.
"How DARE you come here!" She yelled. She would have attacked him if it wasn't for Vash holding her back. "Let me at him Vash!" Vash chuckled nervously,
"He's not what he looks Raye, don't try." He said then narrowing his eyes again. "What do you want brother?"
"Why an eden you fool." Knives said laughing like Vash should have known that. "I can't have that without you there. We gotta get rid of the spiders together."
"I won't do it!" Vash said angered. "You knew that though. My opinions haven't changed any since we last saw each other."
"I was hoping they had but the spiders have brainwashed you further..." He glared at the miko beside him being held in place by an arm around her waist. "Anyways this is not your home so you must come back." Vash blinked. He knew that he would probaby be sent back but so soon? Looking down at Raye from the corner of his eyes he sighed. He couldn't let Knives hurt her. She was innocent.
"Fine." Vash said. Knives threw at his feet his red jacket, glasses, and gun.
"See yah when you arrive." Knives said waving.
"He's not going alone!" Raye yelled at the man.
"Raye I TOLD you to not pick a fight with him." Vash mumbled quietly for her to only hear.
"I don't care. How dare he come walking in a holy place such as this demanding what seems to be a battle or the end of humanity." Raye hissed her eyes narrowing upon the mans face. Vash looked upon her in shock. How did she pick up on the last part so quickly?
"I don't care if you bring your pet spider Vash." Knives said. "But if she'll be traveling with you I'll have my gunmen after her as well. Alls fair in love and war, that's something Rem taught us, right Vash?" A manic smile was upon that man as he faded away. Raye looked around as Vash finally let go of her.
"He's gone." She muttered.
"Not for long." Vash said putting on his red coat quickly and his gun at his side. Raye turned to see him. The coat seemed to fit him perfectly. Why didn't he arrive in it if it was made for him. She wasn't able to think about it any further when the world around both of them began to swirl. "We're going." Raye went next to the tall man, clutching at his jacket as she felt the world around them shift.
"Where are we going Vash?" She asked closing her eyes.
"Planet Gunsmoke." Vash said as everything went black.
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Ok I didn't mean to make it go along so fast but I thought bringing Raye to planet Gunsmoke would be really cool! I didn't mean to make it a slight song fic either if your really pissed about that:P I was writing that scene when my itunes started playing a michelle branch song that fit perfectly with the story at that point so I added it. Anyway I hope your enjoying the story so far. What will Vash and Knives do when they find out that Raye really isn't a human that they thought? That question might be answered in the next installment of Trigun: Spirit of Fire. Please review now before you leave and as always thanks for taking the time to read one of my stories!
*Serena is seen shoving more crap under my bed to keep Luna from finding her way out from underneight it*