"Dude! What about us?"

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The not so original but always needed DISCLAIMER

I don't own any of the characters here presented and/or any of the Power Rangers Ninja Storm stuff, that is property of SABAN and DISNEY, not mine (I wish they were, but...)

Also, If you don't like male/male relationship don't even go further because that's all you're gonna find. One more thing, the sexuality of any of the actors here implied is not of my concern and this is just a FICTION product.

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Chapter 21

Acceptations

"Age is not a problem, for her, right?"

The green ranger was talking and talking in front of everybody else. It was like three o'clock in the very night and they surely seemed like bored.

Shane was there sitting in the floor and Hunter was near. Blake and Tori just came in when he was explaining this whole new theory to Dustin, who just didn't seem to understand what was about.

His face reflected how bored he was. In the other hand Evan was just confused. The past few days have been a complete mess. Nothing was right or was what it seemed.

Blake, trying to catch up the conversation, heard what they were saying, and then, mumbled some things into Tori's ear.

"I can see it" Said Evan "But... could you just repeat that again, please?"

"Haven't you heard what I've been saying the past fifteen minutes?"

"Well, I've been hearing ya, but it's just..."

"Yeah" A voice interrupted. It was Blake "Repeat it again for the rest of the class"

Cam just stared both of them with that freaky grin he uses when nobody seem to understand him.

"C'mon" Shane said "Just do it again and let's get back to bed, honey"

Everyone turned to see him. What was that word he used? Honey? Calling Cam that way? That was everybody's thought when they turned. Dustin, who just seemed completely tired, lit up his eyes. Hunter was at his side and he just moved his head. Tori and Blake changed their face and then, they just got back to see each other. What was it?

And Evan was just freaked out when he heard. He raised his eyebrow, but then, realized that it wasn't so strange, after all. Cam just blushed for what he heard and Shane just let go a silly and nervous giggle in front of them.

"Umm..." Said Cam "You know, umm... well, what was... umm...."

"What was that?" Asked Tori to Shane, ignoring a totally nervous Cam "You were callin' 'Honey' Cam...? Whoa!"

"Yeah, what was that...?" Said Hunter and then Blake continued

"Yeah, are you like dating or something? 'Coz, y'know... we thought about it and you guys..."

"Yeah Dude!" Said Dustin "What's with both of you?"

"Umm... well...." Answered a nervous Shane "Y'know, umm... we've been... umm..."

"Hey, can we just focus on this, and let the pairings thingie for other time...? I'm the one with a crappy family which is haunting my ass, so if we could just get on track again..."

"I think so too" Cam agreed "We need to get on this and help Evan. We can discuss this later..."

"What!?" Yelled Shane "Just minutes ago you were saying that we should just make it official! Was that all a lie?"

"Shane, This' not the best time"

"Then when?"

The chat was becoming now a fight.

"You want to say it! Then go ahead! Tell'em we've been fucking around in Ninja Ops!"

"You've been what?" Interrupted Tori

"See?" Asked a sarcastic Cam "That's why I'd told you not to say a word about it, just not now"

"But... I'm just... Man! I just... I just wanted everybody to know how much I care for you"

"Yes I know" Cam responded "But there's time for everything. Right now we should just focus and then we can just tell them later..."

Once Cam finished the explaining, went back and tried to see them. They all seemed so freaked out finding out that their friends were gay. It was just strange to all of them.

"What? Don't you have also feelings and desires and lust?"

"Yay Dude... but y'know, were just not sayin' it out loud" Dustin said

"Anyway" Said Evan trying to get everybody's attention to the topic "What you said about ol' nanny?"

"Here we go again" said Dustin.

Now he just pulled next to Evan, not paying attention to Cam, as usual and embracing his new boyfriend. He just tried to sniff his neck and Evan put him aside.

"Well, I was saying that your nanny is not what it seems... I've been doing a research on shikki and trying to find out what are they... and well..."

"What you find out?"

"That, as you thought, they're dead people, brought to life by some ancient magic... It's even older than those of the ninja scrolls. In fact, no scroll or book can say something about shikki... but they say something about 'Old Nun'"

"Old Nun?"

"Yay Dude" Said Dustin to his lover "Remember the legend I told you about a nun and a siren?"

"Oh! That one!" Said Evan remembering, then he turned to Cam "What's with that?"

"Well, it seems that your folks have a legend similar too. And she's called"

"Yaobikuni" He interrupted him

"Yes. She's called Yaobikuni, which means "The Nun of Eight Hundred Years". It is said that she was a girl who killed a siren and ate her flesh. Then she acquired some kind of immortality. She passed by many towns and villages, but when she felt bored, she came to this temple and committed suicide... or that's what legend told"

"Yeah... I thought so too. But what's with my nanny anyway?"

"Legend says that the flesh of the siren can actually make you immortal... but it doesn't say how... so, it is said that those who taste the flesh of the siren are being gave eternal youth or immortality. It can turn you into a mindless zombie too..."

"Like the shikki... but they seemed like fabricated, not like... y'know..."

"Indeed. They had scars and they were sewed, right. But also it is said that the Yaobikuni herself had powers over the dead ones"

"And again... what's with my nanny?"

"C'mon Dude!" Dustin said "And I'm the goofy one!"

"Ok Genius! If you're so smart tell me then what is it!"

"Your nanny and the Yaobikuni are the very same!"

"Why?"

"Look" Cam said, now tired of all this chat "You told us, well, Dustin did, that you had a nanny and that your parents refer to her as Yao-something..."

"Yes, and...?"

"And since all your family is looking for you, I decided to do a search with the words 'Yao', 'Shikki' and 'Zombie'... and then this 'Old Nun' legend was in the results"

"So, you're saying that my nanny is the one whose making the shikki; and that she's and old witch from a legend?"

"Yes"

"I don't think so. Y'know, my family had minions, slaves, and made some assassinations, but she wasn't a witch! I can say that for sure! She was a lovely woman!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"Y'know Cam, I... need to take some fresh air. Excuse me"

Evan just rushed to the stairs and left behind everything.

"What's wrong with him?" Said Cam

"Umm..." Mumbled Dustin and then he followed him.

"Where are you going, Dustin?" Asked Tori

"My boyfriend's just mad and angry, and I have to make him feel better... I have a sense like when he's not in the mood, and Cam really made him"

"What?" Cam asked.

"Dude, how would you feel if they say that your mother is a whore?"

"Watch your words, Dustin!" Replied to him

"No Man! You watch yours! He's mad because what you've said"

"What did I said?"

"Her mother died long ago, and the only thing left to him was her, the yao-something, and now you're blaming her of being his current pain on the butt? C'mon!"

Dustin left. He wasn't mad, but he could feel that his lover was a mad about the late comment. He felt mad, a little bit, because they didn't know that. The only thing that cared now for him was Evan, and if he was mad, Dustin surely was also.