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Dear Hyper Pegesus and Cursed You guys are right. I should have warned it was in later chapters. I'll change that right away. To all of you just joining us, the yaoi and yuri is not in the first two chapters! I'm not sure if it's in chapter three yet, because I haven't written it yet!
So much for being organized, ne?
Another Random Street
"Shut up."
"Make me."
"You sure you want me to?"
"Give it your best shot, Nira-chan!"
"Dammit, Yusuke! How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that!" Satanira shouted, kicking Yusuke in the shin. "You have absolutely no right to use pet names with me!"
"Both of you, shut up before we send you back to the ship with the others." Heero snapped. "Botan can help me find Kurama. We don't need you babies along for the ride."
"You're an idiot, Heero Yuy." Satanira grumped. "I can order you back if I want to. The reverse does not apply."
"The hell it doesn't." Heero muttered, although he did shut up.
"Better." Satanira said, smiling smugly just before a load of sheets landed on her head.
"Sorry down there!" A voice called from a third story balcony. The apology was almost lost in the sound of heavy cursing that would put a sailor to shame.
"Stupid fucking idiot!" Satanira screamed, finally finding her way out of the pile of cloth. "Whoever you are, you're fucking dead, you hear me? Dead!"
"Am I, really?" The voice asked as its owner jumped nimbly to the sidewalk. "And all this time, I thought for sure I was alive. Go figure."
"KURAMA!!!" Satanira shrieked happily, launching herself at the redheaded fox demon, trailing sheets and not giving a damn. "Kurama-chan, I missed you so much!" The blonde squealed. "It's been so long since I last saw you guys! This is so great!"
"Hello, Satanira." Kurama said calmly, as if used to the hyperactive genius. "How have you been?"
"Great!" Satanira exclaimed, jumping off Kurama and piling the sheets in his arms. "It's been really fun back home, and I've made tons of new friends, and Heero over here's secretly in love with me, but refuses to admit it for fear of rejection, and dammit Yuy, you hit me with that laptop one more time, and it's going to the bottom of the Pacific! But that's all beside the point! Let's go up to your place, because I need to talk to you three!"
Back at the Arcadia
"I'm so booooorrred!" Dorothy complained, throwing herself back on the couch and stealing one of Vash's donuts in the process. "Look at me!" She yelled, taking a massive bite out of the snack. "I've been reduced to eating junk food! Someone entertain me!"
"Someone shut her up!" Wolfwood yelled in response. "Before I seriously hurt her!"
Dorothy's hand strayed threateningly to her hat and would have removed it if Sally Po hadn't picked her up and carried her out of the lounge toward the crew's cabins.
Back at Kurama's Place
"I hate showing up out of nowhere and jumping this on you, but I really, really need your help." Satanira apologized, smiling sheepishly.
"No."
Satanira stiffened at the sound of an all too familiar voice behind her. He sounded so cold...
"Why not?" She asked as calmly as she could, not turning around. She didn't have to, after all, to remember every single detail she'd ever known about him.
"Because." Hiei snapped, and the door slammed shut.
"Dammit!" Satanira hissed, turning and running after him. Quatre tried to follow, but Kurama's outstretched hand stopped him.
"They need this." Was all the redheaded fox demon offered in explanation.
Outside
"Hiei, wait!" Satanira yelled, indiscriminately shoving people and things out of her way, her eyes locked on the small demon's back. "Dammit, Hiei, I said wait!"
Hiei stopped, and for a moment, she though maybe she'd finally gotten through to him. But when he turned around, his eyes were just as hard and cold as his voice had been.
"Why the hell should I?" He demanded.
"Because, dammit!" She yelled in response, stopping a few feet away from him. "I don't know what the hell your problem is, but-"
"My problem?" Hiei repeated, staring incredulously up at her. "-My- problem? You're the one who ran away a year and a half ago, no explanations, no good-byes, no nothing! And now you have the gall to come waltzing back, asking for favors? And you wanna know what my problem is?!"
"This isn't about us!" Satanira countered angrily. "This isn't about you, this isn't about me, and it sure as hell isn't about our past! This just happens to be about the millions of innocent people who're gonna fucking die if we don't help them! It's about my home being destroyed! We're talking mass murder! Total annihilation! Utter chaos! And you know it won't stop with just my world!"
"And why would I give a damn?" Hiei yelled back, loosing his cool. "Give me one good reason why I should help you after what you did to me!"
"What... I did to... you?" Satanira repeated. "Oh, so you think it was easy, coming back here and seeing you after all this time? You think this is fucking easy? Well, it's not, dammit!" Angry tears joined the rain streaming down her face as she glared down at Hiei. "This happens to be the second hardest thing I've ever made myself do!"
"Why?" He asked suddenly, turning his gaze to the slick sidewalk between them.
"What?"
"Why did you run away why I asked you to marry me?"
"Because I was terrified. I was lost, terrified, and fourteen." Satanira said quietly, all of her anger evaporating in an instant. "I was scared and confused. I didn't know what else to do. I'm sorry I never told you, but I was afraid you'd leave if I did."
"Like I'm that shallow." Hiei snorted, returning his unsettling gaze to her face. "Love is love, Satanira. I wouldn't have given a damn."
"Like hell you wouldn't have." Satanira retorted with a humorless smile. "I know you, Hiei. If I had told you, you'd've gotten that scared, confused look on your face and run away, just like I did. I figured one of us would have to betray the other, and it might as well have been me. After all, I'm used to betraying those I love."
"You think you're the only one?"
"Not in the least." Satanira sighed heavily. "Please, let's just go back. Let's talk about this as if we don't even know each other, and work out some kind of deal. We need your help, Hiei, and I'm going to get it. Just watch me."
That Night, Battleship Arcadia
"I'm a genius." Satanira said wonderingly as she stared at the four signatures on the contract. "I'm a genius. I work miracles with no idea of how I pulled them off."
"Sure you are." Heero said sarcastically. "Now shut up and get in the ship before we leave without you."
"As if." The blond snorted, running after Heero and smacking him playfully on one shoulder. "I'm the only one who knows how to work this rusty bucket of broken bolts. Right Arcadia?" She patted the ship affectionately, smiling absently, before actually going inside and pulling in the ramp for the night.
"Hey Nira-chan," Catherine called from down the hall, "can you come here a sec?"
Satanira obediently trotted to the main lounge, where Catherine stood, perplexed, wearing one apron and holding another in her hand. "What can I do ya for?" She asked cheerfully.
"Three bananas and a carton of orange juice." Catherine replied calmly. "Have you seen Sally Po? She's supposed to be helping with dinner tonight."
"Have you checked her room?" Satanira asked, then took off without waiting for a reply. "Let me check the room readings!" She skipped over to one of the odd nooks ringing the room. A few pressed buttons later, all of her hyperness disappeared, and she turned back to Catherine, her face beet read. "You might wanna just go ahead and use the CHEF system tonight, Cathy." She said quietly. "Sally Po is... indisposed at the moment."[1]
"Well, where is she?" Catherine asked, crossing her arms impatiently.
"Dorothy's room. But I really don't think-" Ignoring Satanira, Catherine turned and stomped down the hall to Dorothy's door and began banging on it.
The door whooshed open, and Satanira thought she heard someone asking something under the sound of Catherine's scream.
"Told 'er." Satanira said matter-of-factly, closing the door remotely so no one else would loose it like a certain knife-happy circus woman just had. "Arcadia?"
"Yes?" The smooth, programmed voice of the ship's mainframe computer asked politely.
"Please send a message to Miss Dorothy's room requesting that she lock her door at times like these, then see about putting Miss Catherine, who is currently collapsed in front of Miss Dorothy's room, to bed."
"Will do, Ma'am." The computer said. "Thank you, lovely." She replied gratefully, wandering off towards the galley. "Guess I'd better see about dinner, then."
The Next Morning
Dorothy stretched lazily, smiling for all the world like a cat who'd filched a whole pitcher of cream. Last night had not been boring in the least. She opened her eyes and blinked for a moment until the wall over Sally Po's shoulder came into focus. She stretched one arm towards the pretty blinking green light, but couldn't reach it. In trying, she over balanced and fell off the bed, bringing her newfound lover with her. "Oof!" Dorothy exclaimed. "Ye-ouch!" Sally Po replied, rubbing the part of her skull that had been quite violently introduced to the floor. "Wha's wrong? We unner attack?"[2] "Not quite..." Dorothy grumbled, finding that halfway between the bed and the wall was a perfect place to touch the shiny blinking light. When she did, it moved slightly, and an unnoticed screen became noticed as a face appeared on it. "Good morning, Miss Dorothy, Miss Sally Po." The face said cheerfully. "I am the mainframe computer Audio/Visual Simulation program installed by my master, Miss
Satanira. Miss Satanira wishes me to inform you that if you wish to engage in any such activities as you enjoyed last night, you must first check to ensure that you door is locked and can only be opened from the inside." The face, which looked an awful lot like Washuu from Tenchi, smiled cutely and paused for a moment before adding, "And breakfast today is a serve- yourself affair. If you wish more to eat this morning than stale bread and warm water, I would advise hurrying. Have a good day, dears!" The screen went blank, and the pretty green light disappeared. "Correct me if I'm wrong," Sally Po said after a long silent moment, "but did that computer program just call us dears?" "And wished us a good day." Dorothy added. "What a polite ship."
Later That Day
"Everybody ready?" Aiva, the Audio/Visual Simulation program, asked brightly.
"Just lift off, dammit!" Satanira yelled from her cabin before returning to her chess game against Heero. "We're ready, already!"
"Preparing for liftoff!" Aiva exclaimed. "Translation point AF- 5927HO3 is an approximate twelve lightyears from our current position. ETA is set at four hours, 28.3 minutes from clearance of planetary gravity field. Engines engaged. Liftoff confirmed." A few seconds later, "planetary gravity field cleared. Begin countdown to ETA at safety barrier at thirty seconds."
Trowa's Cabin
"I'm scarred, Trowa. Scarred." Catherine whispered faintly, staring at the ceiling of Trowa's cabin from her prone position on the floor. "I may never recover."
"Don't talk like that." Hiei snapped, annoyed. "In fact, don't talk at all. You're throwing my game off."
"The hell I am." Cathy snorted, sitting up. "Exactly how much do you have to concentrate on Scrabble?"[3]
"A lot, woman." Wufei growled, placing a few tiles on the board. "And you're making it possible for this runt to beat me, so can it."
"Trowa, aren't you gonna stand up for me?" Catherine huffed indignantly.
Trowa turned to contemplate the brunette knife woman. After a few moments, he pushed his chair back and got to his feet. He stood for perhaps five seconds before sitting again and returning to his game.
"There." He said, turning Hiei's 'ying' into 'annoying.' "I stood up for you. Now go back to your own cabin."[4]
"Real funny, Trowa Barton!" She exclaimed angrily, scrambling to her feet and storming out.
End Chapter Three
[1] Just for you, Hyper Pegesus. Just for you. Just to frustrate you, actually. I'm saving the yaoi for next chapter. Heeheehee... Bwahahahaha- (chokes) Itai.....
[2] Too much sci-fi lately. The whole Audio/Visual Simulation program is scary. (shudders)
[3] Hiei playing Scrabble. Now that's a funny image.
[4] My sister's line. Like I could ever be that funny.
Dear Hyper Pegesus and Cursed You guys are right. I should have warned it was in later chapters. I'll change that right away. To all of you just joining us, the yaoi and yuri is not in the first two chapters! I'm not sure if it's in chapter three yet, because I haven't written it yet!
So much for being organized, ne?
Another Random Street
"Shut up."
"Make me."
"You sure you want me to?"
"Give it your best shot, Nira-chan!"
"Dammit, Yusuke! How many times do I have to tell you not to call me that!" Satanira shouted, kicking Yusuke in the shin. "You have absolutely no right to use pet names with me!"
"Both of you, shut up before we send you back to the ship with the others." Heero snapped. "Botan can help me find Kurama. We don't need you babies along for the ride."
"You're an idiot, Heero Yuy." Satanira grumped. "I can order you back if I want to. The reverse does not apply."
"The hell it doesn't." Heero muttered, although he did shut up.
"Better." Satanira said, smiling smugly just before a load of sheets landed on her head.
"Sorry down there!" A voice called from a third story balcony. The apology was almost lost in the sound of heavy cursing that would put a sailor to shame.
"Stupid fucking idiot!" Satanira screamed, finally finding her way out of the pile of cloth. "Whoever you are, you're fucking dead, you hear me? Dead!"
"Am I, really?" The voice asked as its owner jumped nimbly to the sidewalk. "And all this time, I thought for sure I was alive. Go figure."
"KURAMA!!!" Satanira shrieked happily, launching herself at the redheaded fox demon, trailing sheets and not giving a damn. "Kurama-chan, I missed you so much!" The blonde squealed. "It's been so long since I last saw you guys! This is so great!"
"Hello, Satanira." Kurama said calmly, as if used to the hyperactive genius. "How have you been?"
"Great!" Satanira exclaimed, jumping off Kurama and piling the sheets in his arms. "It's been really fun back home, and I've made tons of new friends, and Heero over here's secretly in love with me, but refuses to admit it for fear of rejection, and dammit Yuy, you hit me with that laptop one more time, and it's going to the bottom of the Pacific! But that's all beside the point! Let's go up to your place, because I need to talk to you three!"
Back at the Arcadia
"I'm so booooorrred!" Dorothy complained, throwing herself back on the couch and stealing one of Vash's donuts in the process. "Look at me!" She yelled, taking a massive bite out of the snack. "I've been reduced to eating junk food! Someone entertain me!"
"Someone shut her up!" Wolfwood yelled in response. "Before I seriously hurt her!"
Dorothy's hand strayed threateningly to her hat and would have removed it if Sally Po hadn't picked her up and carried her out of the lounge toward the crew's cabins.
Back at Kurama's Place
"I hate showing up out of nowhere and jumping this on you, but I really, really need your help." Satanira apologized, smiling sheepishly.
"No."
Satanira stiffened at the sound of an all too familiar voice behind her. He sounded so cold...
"Why not?" She asked as calmly as she could, not turning around. She didn't have to, after all, to remember every single detail she'd ever known about him.
"Because." Hiei snapped, and the door slammed shut.
"Dammit!" Satanira hissed, turning and running after him. Quatre tried to follow, but Kurama's outstretched hand stopped him.
"They need this." Was all the redheaded fox demon offered in explanation.
Outside
"Hiei, wait!" Satanira yelled, indiscriminately shoving people and things out of her way, her eyes locked on the small demon's back. "Dammit, Hiei, I said wait!"
Hiei stopped, and for a moment, she though maybe she'd finally gotten through to him. But when he turned around, his eyes were just as hard and cold as his voice had been.
"Why the hell should I?" He demanded.
"Because, dammit!" She yelled in response, stopping a few feet away from him. "I don't know what the hell your problem is, but-"
"My problem?" Hiei repeated, staring incredulously up at her. "-My- problem? You're the one who ran away a year and a half ago, no explanations, no good-byes, no nothing! And now you have the gall to come waltzing back, asking for favors? And you wanna know what my problem is?!"
"This isn't about us!" Satanira countered angrily. "This isn't about you, this isn't about me, and it sure as hell isn't about our past! This just happens to be about the millions of innocent people who're gonna fucking die if we don't help them! It's about my home being destroyed! We're talking mass murder! Total annihilation! Utter chaos! And you know it won't stop with just my world!"
"And why would I give a damn?" Hiei yelled back, loosing his cool. "Give me one good reason why I should help you after what you did to me!"
"What... I did to... you?" Satanira repeated. "Oh, so you think it was easy, coming back here and seeing you after all this time? You think this is fucking easy? Well, it's not, dammit!" Angry tears joined the rain streaming down her face as she glared down at Hiei. "This happens to be the second hardest thing I've ever made myself do!"
"Why?" He asked suddenly, turning his gaze to the slick sidewalk between them.
"What?"
"Why did you run away why I asked you to marry me?"
"Because I was terrified. I was lost, terrified, and fourteen." Satanira said quietly, all of her anger evaporating in an instant. "I was scared and confused. I didn't know what else to do. I'm sorry I never told you, but I was afraid you'd leave if I did."
"Like I'm that shallow." Hiei snorted, returning his unsettling gaze to her face. "Love is love, Satanira. I wouldn't have given a damn."
"Like hell you wouldn't have." Satanira retorted with a humorless smile. "I know you, Hiei. If I had told you, you'd've gotten that scared, confused look on your face and run away, just like I did. I figured one of us would have to betray the other, and it might as well have been me. After all, I'm used to betraying those I love."
"You think you're the only one?"
"Not in the least." Satanira sighed heavily. "Please, let's just go back. Let's talk about this as if we don't even know each other, and work out some kind of deal. We need your help, Hiei, and I'm going to get it. Just watch me."
That Night, Battleship Arcadia
"I'm a genius." Satanira said wonderingly as she stared at the four signatures on the contract. "I'm a genius. I work miracles with no idea of how I pulled them off."
"Sure you are." Heero said sarcastically. "Now shut up and get in the ship before we leave without you."
"As if." The blond snorted, running after Heero and smacking him playfully on one shoulder. "I'm the only one who knows how to work this rusty bucket of broken bolts. Right Arcadia?" She patted the ship affectionately, smiling absently, before actually going inside and pulling in the ramp for the night.
"Hey Nira-chan," Catherine called from down the hall, "can you come here a sec?"
Satanira obediently trotted to the main lounge, where Catherine stood, perplexed, wearing one apron and holding another in her hand. "What can I do ya for?" She asked cheerfully.
"Three bananas and a carton of orange juice." Catherine replied calmly. "Have you seen Sally Po? She's supposed to be helping with dinner tonight."
"Have you checked her room?" Satanira asked, then took off without waiting for a reply. "Let me check the room readings!" She skipped over to one of the odd nooks ringing the room. A few pressed buttons later, all of her hyperness disappeared, and she turned back to Catherine, her face beet read. "You might wanna just go ahead and use the CHEF system tonight, Cathy." She said quietly. "Sally Po is... indisposed at the moment."[1]
"Well, where is she?" Catherine asked, crossing her arms impatiently.
"Dorothy's room. But I really don't think-" Ignoring Satanira, Catherine turned and stomped down the hall to Dorothy's door and began banging on it.
The door whooshed open, and Satanira thought she heard someone asking something under the sound of Catherine's scream.
"Told 'er." Satanira said matter-of-factly, closing the door remotely so no one else would loose it like a certain knife-happy circus woman just had. "Arcadia?"
"Yes?" The smooth, programmed voice of the ship's mainframe computer asked politely.
"Please send a message to Miss Dorothy's room requesting that she lock her door at times like these, then see about putting Miss Catherine, who is currently collapsed in front of Miss Dorothy's room, to bed."
"Will do, Ma'am." The computer said. "Thank you, lovely." She replied gratefully, wandering off towards the galley. "Guess I'd better see about dinner, then."
The Next Morning
Dorothy stretched lazily, smiling for all the world like a cat who'd filched a whole pitcher of cream. Last night had not been boring in the least. She opened her eyes and blinked for a moment until the wall over Sally Po's shoulder came into focus. She stretched one arm towards the pretty blinking green light, but couldn't reach it. In trying, she over balanced and fell off the bed, bringing her newfound lover with her. "Oof!" Dorothy exclaimed. "Ye-ouch!" Sally Po replied, rubbing the part of her skull that had been quite violently introduced to the floor. "Wha's wrong? We unner attack?"[2] "Not quite..." Dorothy grumbled, finding that halfway between the bed and the wall was a perfect place to touch the shiny blinking light. When she did, it moved slightly, and an unnoticed screen became noticed as a face appeared on it. "Good morning, Miss Dorothy, Miss Sally Po." The face said cheerfully. "I am the mainframe computer Audio/Visual Simulation program installed by my master, Miss
Satanira. Miss Satanira wishes me to inform you that if you wish to engage in any such activities as you enjoyed last night, you must first check to ensure that you door is locked and can only be opened from the inside." The face, which looked an awful lot like Washuu from Tenchi, smiled cutely and paused for a moment before adding, "And breakfast today is a serve- yourself affair. If you wish more to eat this morning than stale bread and warm water, I would advise hurrying. Have a good day, dears!" The screen went blank, and the pretty green light disappeared. "Correct me if I'm wrong," Sally Po said after a long silent moment, "but did that computer program just call us dears?" "And wished us a good day." Dorothy added. "What a polite ship."
Later That Day
"Everybody ready?" Aiva, the Audio/Visual Simulation program, asked brightly.
"Just lift off, dammit!" Satanira yelled from her cabin before returning to her chess game against Heero. "We're ready, already!"
"Preparing for liftoff!" Aiva exclaimed. "Translation point AF- 5927HO3 is an approximate twelve lightyears from our current position. ETA is set at four hours, 28.3 minutes from clearance of planetary gravity field. Engines engaged. Liftoff confirmed." A few seconds later, "planetary gravity field cleared. Begin countdown to ETA at safety barrier at thirty seconds."
Trowa's Cabin
"I'm scarred, Trowa. Scarred." Catherine whispered faintly, staring at the ceiling of Trowa's cabin from her prone position on the floor. "I may never recover."
"Don't talk like that." Hiei snapped, annoyed. "In fact, don't talk at all. You're throwing my game off."
"The hell I am." Cathy snorted, sitting up. "Exactly how much do you have to concentrate on Scrabble?"[3]
"A lot, woman." Wufei growled, placing a few tiles on the board. "And you're making it possible for this runt to beat me, so can it."
"Trowa, aren't you gonna stand up for me?" Catherine huffed indignantly.
Trowa turned to contemplate the brunette knife woman. After a few moments, he pushed his chair back and got to his feet. He stood for perhaps five seconds before sitting again and returning to his game.
"There." He said, turning Hiei's 'ying' into 'annoying.' "I stood up for you. Now go back to your own cabin."[4]
"Real funny, Trowa Barton!" She exclaimed angrily, scrambling to her feet and storming out.
End Chapter Three
[1] Just for you, Hyper Pegesus. Just for you. Just to frustrate you, actually. I'm saving the yaoi for next chapter. Heeheehee... Bwahahahaha- (chokes) Itai.....
[2] Too much sci-fi lately. The whole Audio/Visual Simulation program is scary. (shudders)
[3] Hiei playing Scrabble. Now that's a funny image.
[4] My sister's line. Like I could ever be that funny.
