Gomen Nasai!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I didn't update for some long…Gomen Nasai!!!!!! I know you are all waiting and pissed…Gomen Nasai!!!! And I know this chapter is short and doesn't have much action in it….Gomen Nasai!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I know I probably won't update for another 3 months…Gomen Nasai!!!!!!!! Kidding…really…I will try to get chapters faster...GOMEN NASAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Kei-chan for amazing and fast editing. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and e-mailed. I swear I'll do my best. I was stuck on this chapter for so long – not much action and lots of talks, and I am not all that great at it. Promise next chapter will be longer and gets out faster and will have more action – Usagi won't be leaving Planet Gunsmoke without a big BOOM!

On with the chapter….

Trigun and Sailor Moon do not belong to me

Chapter 5

          Vash finished applying the ointment to Usagi's hands and face. He smiled as Usagi's tried to brush his hands off while she was trying to talk. "And then I found your coat in the desert and I thought that I was too late and you…." Usagi's eyes filled with tears once again.

          "Shhhhhh…everything is fine now, I am here…." Vash softly kissed Usagi's forehead, then sat next to her on the narrow bed. "So, what were you saying earlier, Usagi…it is true, our worlds are actually connected and you think that we met for a reason?"

          "I don't know if there's a reason or not, or if it was just a simple accident, or if it was fate. I don't know anymore and I won't think about it, because all those talks about fates and destiny have made me sick for quite some time now…." Usagi ignored Vash's amused and slightly worried look and continued, "But yeah…before I put my planet to sleep, a few Seeds ships left in search of a better place to live."

          Vash slowly got up and walked to the window. This actually made sense. After starting a life on the planet Gunsmoke, scientists had been suffering for years, trying to contact Earth with no results. Of course…Earth was under a thick cover of crystalline ice, asleep for god knows how many years or centuries. No one could respond to the call for help from the distant planet where people suffered trying to withstand the abusive nature of the sandy planet Gunsmoke. Seeds ships picked up Plants on their quest to find a better home, among them two bulb-born Plant twins, Vash and Knives.  Thanks to the alien Plant technology, people were able to build cities on Gunsmoke and survive, protected by the energy of the Plants. But who knew how long the ancient bulbs and creatures inside of them would last?  No one knew for sure.  While Vash was busy protecting humans, Knives was on the quest of eliminating evil insects, which were using his brothers and sisters for their purposes.

          Vash turned around and softly smiled.  Usagi was curled on the bed, peacefully sleeping, dressed in one of his white shirts, looking small and innocent under the covers, her pretty face covered with her still damp hair.

          Vash quietly closed the door to the room, turned around, and smacked into Knives.

          "This is it! Brother!" Knives' face was red; his normally cold and indifferent eyes were flashing. "We have to go with her!  To the Earth!  Everyone is asleep on the planet! She said it herself! She is the only one alive, right? There'll be no problems eliminating this silly babbling creature—"

          Knives abruptly stopped due to the fact that he was sprawled on the floor and bleeding from his nose. "Ow!  What was that for?!"

          "You are never to speak or even think about hurting this girl. Is that clear, brother?"

          Knives slowly got up from the floor, wiping the blood off his face, carefully eyeing his brother. He was so caught up in the news that the unknown girl from Earth brought that he ignored the throbbing pain and humiliation of the punch.

          "You met that girl before, you know her…. How?"

          "None of your business…. FORGET!"

          Vash locked the door of the room where Usagi was sleeping and left Knives standing alone in the middle of the narrow hall.

          Knives slowly sat down by the locked door and numbly stared at the wall. This was it, this was the solution: Leave this godforsaken planet and go back to Earth.  Earth—beautiful, dead, and free of all insects.  There he and Vash could live happily. They could bring Plants with them and create EDEN, the perfect home for heavenly beings. He didn't think about the other people that little girl spoke about. If his brother held some affection for her, then fine, she could stay; maybe she can be compatible with the plans and serve her purpose, such as being used for breeding. Knives scrunched his nose and made a gagging noise at the thought.

          Suddenly the door he was leaning on opened and Knives found himself sprawled on the floor.

          "So…you are the bad twin?" Usagi poked Knives with her toe.

          Knives solemnly eyed Usagi upside-down from his position on the floor.

          Usagi realized that she was only wearing a white shirt and nothing more, and from the floor, Knives was getting quite a….

          "Hentaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!" Usagi jumped ten feet away from the blond man and stared daggers at him from the far corner of the room.

          Knives rolled his eyes and got off the floor. "Filthy human, like I care!"

          "Pig!" replied Usagi and threw a pillow in Knives' head.

          "Ow...." Knives rubbed the spot where the pillow hit him, the exact place where Vash had punched him earlier.

          "Oh…sorry…." Usagi immediately felt bad. So what if he was an asshole, he was still Vash's brother. Plus, they looked almost identical…. Well…with a blush Usagi admitted that Vash was way cuter.

          Vash burst into the room, his eyes flashing furiously. "I told you to stay away from Usagi, Knives!"

          "It's okay, Vash, we were just talking, and he didn't hurt me." Usagi shyly pulled on the hem of her shirt, wishing it was longer.

          Vash calmed down and smiled at the blonde. "Why aren't you sleeping, Usagi?  You need all the rest you can get, although you seem to be recovering pretty fast…."

          "I am feeling much better. I wish I could get to move around more and I would like to have some clothes…really…."

          Vash scratched his head in thought. "That will be a problem. We don't have any clothes left here, just a few space suits, and those will be too big for you, Usagi. I'll see if I can go back to town tomorrow and pick up something for you there."

          "I'll go with you." Usagi grabbed Vash's hand.

          "Me, too." Knives grabbed Vash's other hand. "I am tired of being treated like a dog and I refuse to be locked up in this blasted ship."

          Vash eyed his brother suspiciously. "You know as well as I do that there is a pretty big bounty on your and my heads. Appearing in town together will just draw all of the bounty hunters from all over the planet and they will surely follow us all the way back here and we'll have to move around again in search of a new place to live.  ABSOLUTELY NOT.  You both are staying here. Well…maybe I'll take Usagi…."

          "You see, brother?  There's no place for us here on this planet! I think she is right!  We need to go back to Earth! Why can't you understand that? There is NOTHING for us here! We'll die like the rest of our kind!"

          "Shut the hell up, Knives!  We have no right to get involved in the affairs of others! We just bring more pain! I am the Humanoid Typhoon, you are a brainwashing maniac! Great! What can we do to make things better?"

          "Um…eh…." Usagi poked Vash in the chest. "I was thinking you could just come with me for a while and help me with this Seeds technology thing, and then I will be able to get my senshi to awaken, create Crystal Tokyo, and purify Earth, and when things get back to normal, I am sure I'll have the power to find a way to save the people from Planet Gunsmoke and bring them back to their planet. So it would work well for the both of us. I don't know what kind of crappy things might happen to the time stream and distant future, but hey, Setsuna hasn't appeared here and kicked my ass yet, so I guess everything will work out somehow. I just feel it."

          Knives furiously bit his lower lip.  No, no, no, he didn't like her plan even one bit!  In fact, he hated it! He was shown a perfect future he could build for himself and his kind. This girl was messing with his plans! But for now he needed her to bring him and Vash to Earth. Then he would figure out how to deal with her and the others she called senshi.

          Vash clasped his head with a pained expression on his face. "I don't think I can think about it right now. Knives, go to your room and stay there. Usagi, you should really get some rest. Take my bed and I'll sleep on the floor." Ignoring Usagi's protests, Vash pushed Knives out the door, got the fidgeting blonde in the bed, and prepared a place to sleep for himself. "We'll talk about stuff tomorrow."

          Usagi carefully eyed the blond gunman from the bed. "You've changed, Vash…."

          Vash let out a long sigh. "Thing is, I don't trust my brother. I don't want him near your world. And I don't want to go back there myself. Things might get out of control."

          "What do you mean, Vash?"

          Vash turned his back to the blonde on his bed. "Go to sleep, Usagi"

          Usagi pouted and tried to go back to sleep. She really did think that Vash wasn't the same Vash anymore. Well…maybe THIS was the real Vash after all. But this sudden change in him worried her. She immediately felt terrible for him. She didn't know what had happened to him during all that time while he was living here; she didn't know what he had gone through. Bounty hunters, that really weird brother of his, this place where they were hiding from people? Usagi sighed and quietly slipped out from under the covers. She pulled a blanket from the bed and carefully lied on the floor next to Vash. Pressing her forehead into his back, she closed her eyes and sighed with content.

          Vash woke up with a start when he felt someone's hot hands on his bare stomach. He flushed red from head to toe and burst out of the bed. Usagi rubbed her eyes in utter embarrassment. "I'm so sorry!!!!! I didn't mean to…I…."

          Vash shrugged and carefully avoided looking at Usagi.  "That's okay; I guess you thought I was your husband…."

          It was Usagi's turn to flush. "Oh, no…Mamo-chan and I are not married yet…." She groaned and fell back on the floor, covering her head with a pillow. "How embarrassing…."

          Vash got off the floor and picked up his blanket and a pillow. "I think it's not a good idea for us to sleep in the same room, Usagi. You are no longer a child."

          "I'm really sorry," Usagi whispered through her tears. "You must hate me now…."

          Vash chuckled. "I would never hate you, Usagi…. Please get some sleep"

          He carefully closed the door behind him and tried to ignore Usagi's quiet sobs back in the bedroom.  His tired eyes met with Knives' icy stare.  Vash stumbled into his brother's room across the hall. "Please…don't ask."

          Knives lifted up one perfect eyebrow and looked in the direction of Usagi's room. "Interesting…."