Chapter 9
Brothers
Knives stood out looking over the vast wasteland that was Gunsmoke and held a slight smile to his face. Soon his brother would be coming for the woman and soon he would realize the truth about man kind through the woman who now sat in the make shift jail. Her looks wasn't much different from the insurance woman that followed his brother around. She held the same eyes and hair though this new woman, the one that had fire burning in her soul held a more deep violet eyes then of the dull gray eyed woman. This ones temper burnt with the flames of a thousand fires unlike the other woman who's temper came from the fact she tried to hide her true feelings from his brother.
"Stupid worthless.." He muttered turning around and sitting down quietly at the table. Looking down a plate of the same food he had handed the woman earlier sat before him. Though he may be more powerful and better then humans he still had to eat the same garbage as them. Sure he didn't have to eat. The powers he held within him gave him enough energy where a fork nor spoon would have to touch his lips..then again when your over a hundred years old you do things just to pass the time. His body was perfect compared to his brothers. After years of testing his abilities Knives knew that when it came to harnessing the inner power they held being plants that he would always win. Vash though held the power of a determined spirit...something not easily swayed with some showing of strength. Knives did not understand it at all. Ever since the eventful day back on the seeds ship he could not figure out his brother. He spent hours after that just staring at the wall trying to understand exactly his brothers logic when it came to life. Knives still found himself blankly looking at things trying to understand it all. Though he came to the conclusion that if he killed all the humans Vash would finally see his point and be swayed off of his. Then there would be no more battles and no more arguing about something so...worthless...
But then again...Knives shook off the thought and bit into the eggy substance that was on his fork chewing it. His watery blue eyes gazed up at the wall across from him as he grew more angery. Why did things have to turn out this way exactly?!
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Serena looked back at Meryl and Milly who where walking slower then Amy, Vash. and her in the desert.
"...I've known it for quite a while.." Vash said turning Serena's head as she blinked at him. "Her feelings that is. It's just that I'm not exactly human and to fall in love with someone and see them die before you isn't a very pleasant idea..." A sigh passed his lips as he looked down. "I've seen many people die...I just try and distance myself from them..afraid of the hurt and pain that comes with it."
"I see." Serena said looking back again.
"Though a part of me returned the feelings for a time I knew it wouldn't work." Turning his head he smiled at the two insurance girls and waved a hand as he continued to walk. Amy smiled looking up from her computer.
"Well a good thing about us is that it seems we won't be dieing any time soon." She chuckled. "At least what Setsuna has shown us about the future. Rini is at least 900 years old and she looks 10." Vash blinked at the last comment as his mouth hung open.
"I looked 14 by six months..." He muttered gazing ahead and feeling his brothers orra. "But that's what I am." Vash had never told anyone about his past so quickly..then again he knew the people standing beside him well and Raye had told him of their secrets.
Raye...
Frowning he thought of the night again, and watched it play out in his head. She knew he was coming somehow and had tried to warn him. Sighing he continued to walk in the desert thinking about his brother and how he couldn't bring Serena nor the others to him. If Knives read Raye's mind just a little bit he would know who Serena really was and use that against them all somehow. Hopefully what Amy said was right and she could handle herself with her mind. A normal human mind to Knives was easy to take apart and examine. Then again Raye wasn't normal for any matter. A small smile came across the blondes lips as he thought about it. Her violet eyes alone made her stand out from any crowd. The long black raven hair she held also made her look exotic and mysterious. At times when he began to live at the temple with her he would find himself tripping over his own two feet just because he couldn't get enough of her. The pale skin she adorned made her look like a china doll, so perfect strong yet fragile. Living on gun smoke where everyone he really met held a nice dark tan made him look twice at Raye...
Maybe he loved her from the beginning. Vash knew he was never good with his own feelings though he new the look of love that a woman held in her eyes and how her stance changed when she had realized her feelings towards him. After that he would walk away. Raye nor Meryl where the first ones to hold those feelings toward him. There where a bunch that would have taken him in and married him, taking care of him and not caring about what he was. Raye though was the only one who would be able to stand beside him through his life, with different circumstances but ending in the same result with the fact she wouldn't age. That's why he would allow himself to get close to her and even that was hard. Being 130 years old made him hard to allow someone to enter his heart like that. But she was able to.
"..You'd like my brother.." Vash said all of a sudden to the two girls. "He really is nice if it wasn't for the fact he didn't like humans."
"..Why doesn't he like humans..." Serena asked blinking at Vash. He just chuckled.
"Well he thinks humans are like the spiders that kill the butterflies, the butterflies being plants.." He muttered.
"You mean those tear shaped things in or near each town we've seen?" Amy asked typing something in her computer. Vash nodded.
"Yeah, the humans need the plants to live here and Knives doesn't like it." Vash responded not wanting to get into the fact he was a plant as well and that is why his brother didn't like humans.
"I see.." Serena said thinking lightly. "Well we'll have to change his mind, now won't we?"
"It's not that simple..." Vash said turning his head lightly to see something coming looming over the horizon. The place that Knives was waiting for them. "..anyway we should camp here tonight."
"But we're so close..." Serena looked biting her lip and seeing the thing upon the horizon. "She's in that place. I can feel her."
"Yeah but night fall will be upon us fast." Vash said quietly. "And I don't want to try and break into that thing until I've had a good view of it during the day." Amy nodded closing her computer and looking about.
"What about those sand worms?" She asked which made Vash's eye twitch.
"..Well I don't think they come this far this way during the night anyway.." He muttered. "Though it will be best to have someone up at all hours of the night." Both girls nodded as Meryl and Milly came walking up to them.
"Is there a plan yet?" Meryl asked coldly.
"No..we'll do that tomorrow." Serena said placing a hand on the insurance woman's shoulder who pushed it off and huffed.
"Fine." She said sitting down. Vash just let another sigh go as he looked ahead and glanced at the fortress type deal. It was going to be hard to break in..but he had to do it. Raye needed him and he didn't know what Knives had in mind for the girl.
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Yay! I'm finally back to writing again... so busy you wouldn't believe it...Well this one needed to be updated major. Thanks for reading one of my stories and waiting so long for an update. I'm REALLY sorry, it's just that I'm such a busy college student...*sigh*. Please review before you go and as always thanks for taking the time to read one of my stories.