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Une and Almost

Herro started up the latter, and Sky watched him climb. She was impatient so she looked around for a faster way up. A rather tall tree beside the building caught her eye.

She used her training and jumped from the tree to the building, then onto the roof. She admitted that she had never really had a need for her sailor training, but had just witnessed that her aunt Amara wasn't as crazy as she thought.

When Herro reached the top and saw her standing there in front of him, he almost let a dumbfounded expression slip. Instead, however, he questioned her, "How did you do that?" he asked as the walked across the roof of the building towards their destination.

"I used the tree." She said as if it were no big deal that she could apparently climb a tree faster than Herro could a latter. He then made a mental note to his self to make it a top priority to find out who she was when they were done with this mission.

"Hey we are here." Sky said as they stopped in front of a door on the main building. Herro opened the door and checked for guards, and when it was clear that there wasn't any he signaled for her to come on.

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Darien opened his eyes when he felt Serena jerk awake. He looked over at her to see that she was sitting up and holding a picture of Sky and Rini in her hand. He laid hand on her shoulder as he sat up beside her.

"I miss them so much, but at least we know where Rini is and that she will be taken care of. Sky always the one who wanted to go, see, and do. Oh Darien I am so worried." Serena said softly.

Darien saw tears fall and hit the glass in the picture. "Hey you know that she is a very smart girl Serena. She knows what she is doing, and the only way she would probably get hurt would be if she were fighting for someone or something she believed. Sky will be fine." Darien hid his mutual worry for his daughter well while he comforted his wife.

"Your right Darien, but that doesn't mean that I won't still worry." She said as she hugged her husband.

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Herro dodged punches and kicks from the guard in front of him. The guard didn't pose as a problem for long. Herro turned to see Sky searching through her guard's pockets. She pulled out an id, "Awesome, now this will makes things much quicker."

Herro looked at her in awe for a moment before proceeding to the next part of the building.

Finding where Une was, was easy enough. They only had to go through four more guards before they could see the plate glass room she was being kept in. Herro slid the id through the slot in the door and they ran over to Une.

"Are you ok?" Sky asked as Herro observed the room.

Une looked at her confused, "Yes I am fine thanks, who are y..." she was cut off by Herro.

"Who is the leader of this organization?" he asked.

"White, they called him Colonel White. Last I heard was he planning a movement of about 500 mobile dolls to earth around the palace." Une explained to them as they left the room and headed for the main hanger, wherever it was.

Herro touched his ear, "We have Une, we are heading for the main hanger to see what kind of machines they have."

"Copy that, we will meet ya there." Herro recognized this as Duo's voice, but knew all the others heard.

Herro turned to Sky, "Mika take Une back the way we came and get out of here."

By the look on her face he knew an argument was coming, "Excuse me, if you think that I am going to get into something and then leave when the good stuff is about to start you can forget it mister." She propped her hand up on her hip as she talked, and yet again the image of Sky seeped into his mind, and he actually felt himself wanting to smile, but thought better of it.

Just as Herro was about to argue back a guard with a very large gun came up from behind them. Without a second thought Sky hit the ground and pulled Une with her, and when he paused from shooting Sky went to meet him.

She kicked him off his feet and caught the gun. She turned around and handed it to Une. Une looked at Herro, "I figure she can handle it, and you know very well that I am no stranger to a battle Herro. Now lets get going. I am going to head for the main computer room to see if I can disable some of the shields and automatic guns. I am guessing I will probably run into Trowa."

Herro nodded, "Automatic guns? I wonder how long they have been working on this. Well if you get into trouble just use this." He handed her the earpiece and they headed in opposite directions.

After they had been walking for awhile Sky asked, "Doesn't letting her go off by her self defeat the purpose of rescuing her?"

Herro didn't look at her while he talked, "She knows what she is doing, and I am sure that she had tried like hell to get out before we got here."

They walked for quite a ways in silence. Sky watched him as he walked and turned corners. She liked the way he looked so serious and knew what he was doing.

As she was getting lost in looking at him, she didn't take time to see the guy come up from behind her and start shooting. She felt a very sharp pain then she felt her body hit the floor with another on top of it.

When she heard the shoots stop she opened her eyes to meet Herro's Prussian blues. "Are you ok?" he asked almost in a worried tone.

She smiled softly; "I am still breathing. Although I don't know how much longer if you don't get off of me." Herro paused at this comment, then as if he had had to decide he started laughing. He stood and pulled her up, still laughing.

Then he looked at her and the laughter faded. Sky grinned, "So he can laugh, if this is possible I wonder what else is."

Both were silent for a moment.

Sky stepped closer to him and pulled his head close to hers, and almost had a kiss when, "Your bleeding." Herro said when his hand had touched her arm to pull her closer.

She looked at her arm, "Dang! It must have grazed me, I thought I felt a pain."

"Well we have to get it cover cause you are bleeding pretty good. Come on, in here." He grabbed her hand and pulled her into the dark room. He sat her down and stood in thought for a moment.

"You are going to have to take your top off, I mean unzip it and pull it down. So I can get to the wound." Herro said quite unlike his self. If Sky hadn't been so unsure she would have sworn it was nervousness, or even embarrassment.

She unzipped the top of her suit to reveal a white sports bra. She tied the top around her waist and sat back down.

Herro first inspected for and fragments of the bullets. When he found none he ripped part of his shirt and tied it tightly around her arm. When he finished with the knot his hand trailed down her arm to land in her hand. He almost jumped when she closed hers around his. He looked up at the wall to see a poster of the royal family on the wall, and when he laid eyes on Sky the pulled his hand away.

Sky tried not to let him see the slight hurt on her face.

"Tell me why there is a poster of the royal family in a place where they are against the family?" Herro asked.

"Well we are in someone's room, perhaps they alone didn't disagree with them. Or maybe they were just ogling." Sky suggested.

Herro stood, "Come on, we have a date at the hanger."

A/N: Sooo...?? PLEASE R&R. thanks bunches:)