Notes: This story is in the process of being completed as I type this now. I have a few chapters, which really they are all stuck together as one long story, but seeing as how I am nearing 8,880, I need to break it up a bit. This is only in the crossovers section due to the sight of a few characters from another anime series or two. Don't be fooled by their appearance though, this story is centered on Trigun and Vash, despite the mentioned crossovers. The rating is for language and excessive violence later on along with a plot-twist you may catch onto in later chapters if you know the Trigun Manga...

Trigun: Reflections

"Hey Vash," Kaisa knocked gently on the wooden door before turning the handle a bit, opening it slowly to peer into the room of the inn. "Vash, are you—" She blinked and turned red in the face instantly, shutting the door quickly and leaning against it, too embarrassed to move. "Sorry!" she squeaked. This hadn't given the spiky-headed blonde a chance to even respond to what had happened. He just blinked for a second; having stopped patting the water out of his hair with the towel he had in hand. He had stopped completely as the door had opened and now finished with it, not putting it up as it always had been but threw on a shirt and walked out into the hall. Kaisa was still there, leaning against the wall with her eyes closed, still pink in the face. "Hey," he said with a smile looking at her. "Oh! Vash, uh…" He chuckled "Hey, now what's the matter with you this morning, huh? You aren't always this jittery." He grinned and hugged her gently. Across the hall Uyoku opened the door and just blinked at them "Do I dare even ask what is going on here…?" Kaisa blushed even more and Vash grinned slightly "Oh! Nothing to see here!" he seemed to hide her face and usher her into their room with a fast sweep and turn around, leaving Uyoku to blink at the closed door. "Ok then…" she said to the empty hallway.

Kaisa sat on the end of Vash's bed, looking rather embarrassed still. "Sorry to walk in on you," she said quietly, looking at her feet distractedly. "Hey don't worry about it. It's alright." Earlier in the day, Kaisa had gotten up before Vash had woken up to get some supplies in town, it was before many of them had woken up and she didn't want to disturb any of them. She thought she would have gotten back after he had gotten ready, she was truly embarrassed about it. Vash sat down next to her and put an arm around her with a soft chuckle. "I was wondering where you were going this morning so early. Is anything wrong?" Kaisa blinked; surprised that he had been awake at all. "No, nothing at all, I went to get supplies, and I didn't want to disturb you…" she blushed a bit again, thinking he looked rather cute when sleeping. "I went out to think too." Vash got up and slipped on his trademark red coat and then started to spike his hair with copious amounts of hair gel. Kaisa had always wondered how he got it to stay like that. "So, shall we be off? I'm sure the others are waiting on us." Vash had slipped on his orange tinted sunglasses and looked ready to take down any new threat they had for the day, his goofball-like nature still intact with the genuine smile he had. "Alright."

Kaisa followed Vash out of the room and shut the door. Outside Uyoku was leaning on a wall with her arms crossed and Setsuna and the others were looking at them oddly. "Good morning everyone," Vash said this in an almost too enthusiastic tone. "Took you two long enough, what were you doing in there anyway?" Vash looked rather innocent and his more goofball side showed "Who us?" at Uyoku's glare he grinned and put his hand on the back of his head to laugh a bit "It was nothing at all, honest!" Uyoku shook her head gently "Right…" Vash laughed loudly and Kaisa shook her head gently, a little embarrassed at the whole scene, knowing it had been her fault to cause Uyoku to wonder anyway. "Well anyway pin-head, let's go already. We've got to catch the bus to Kasted City…" Vash looked a little disheartened "Boy she sure is grumpy in the morning isn't she?" Kaisa grinned and Milly came following them from the room that Meryl and she had shared during the night. "Oh, are we leaving already?" From inside the room you could hear Meryl's tension as she gathered up all of their things. "Let's go Milly, we don't want to be late again, our jobs are on the line here!" Vash looked rather whiney suddenly "Awe man, but I thought it was all over with… Gee you two are persistent…" Milly smiled wide. "Of course Mr. Vash! It's our job to make sure you don't get in trouble, plus Meryl doesn't want you to run off again like last time!" Meryl turned pale in the face "Milly!" Milly just made a small noise and continued smiling wide, carrying their things out front into the rather empty main street of the town.

"Get a move on you guys the bus is leaving without you!" Uyoku called at them all from the door of the bus which had already begun rolling. "Ayah!!!" Vash yelled aloud, grabbing Kaisa, running to catch up with the bus. "Hey wait don't leave us here, stop the bus!" Meryl blinks and starts chasing after them. "HEY you can't leave us here you idiot! Milly come on!!!" Milly smiles widely, "Right Meryl!" starting to run after Meryl, Vash and Kaisa and the bus. "Ayah ya ya ya!" Vash said, looking exhausted, catching up to the bus and holding onto the side of it, running with it, but having to jump over small boulders. Meryl had a hold of his trench coat in the back and Milly had a grip on Meryl's cape. "Get on the bus you stupid moron!" Meryl fumed at him. "Well it's kind of hard when you have someone hanging on your coat you know!"

He finally gets on the bus with a shove and attempted kick by Meryl. Vash falls flat on his face and Meryl gets on, kicking him to the side a bit stomping past and taking a seat. "Oh you are such an idiot sometimes Vash!" Vash had a large red mark on his chin where he had hit the floor of the bus hard and had small little grate lines in his chin. "That's all you can say after you nearly choked me to death?" Meryl crosses her arms. "If it wasn't for you we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. Humph!" Kaisa offered her arm to Vash helping him up with much difficulty; they sat down behind Setsuna and Uyoku. "Thanks a lot, you're so kind!" he said it rather loudly, behind him Meryl fumed and Milly just kept on smiling. Kaisa couldn't help but giggle and she got a look from Meryl, Setsuna and Uyoku which made her cheeks flush.

"So tell me again why we're going to Kasted City, Vash?" Meryl had poked her head around the seat to talk to him. "Well, it's nothing really, but I want to go see an old friend there. I know it's out of the way, but it's been awhile since I came through here. Besides, I know she'll be happy to see me again." Kaisa turned around a bit and smiled. "A girl huh," Meryl crossed her arms and looked a bit cross. "Another one of your passing fancies, Vash?" Uyoku grinned, and of course was just teasing him. She knew well and good, no matter how much he might have flirted in the past, Vash was too self conscious to be too flirty with many girls. "Aw, come on now you two, it's just a nice girl who helped me out for awhile that's all." Kaisa leaned on Vash gently, looking out of the window of the bus still, though there was nothing to see but sand and the two suns of the arid planet, it was still peaceful to look at the rolling dunes of sand. "Yeah sure…" Meryl smiled to herself and settled back down into the seat. She couldn't help but tease Vash as much as she did about all the past girls he had met. She was a little hurt, about not telling him how she felt before he vanished for so long. It didn't help matters that she wanted to tell him still today, but couldn't because she knew how Kaisa and he had been together since he had finally resurfaced again.

'I still wonder what happened during all that time he was gone…' she thought to herself, closing her eyes and rubbing her head gently as the bus hit a few bumps, jarring the passengers around in their seats. "Something wrong Meryl?" Milly smiled and tilted her head at Meryl who blinked. "Oh, nope, nothing wrong, just thinking about things is all…" she said it quietly, trying not to betray her true thoughts to anyone around them wondering about how she was acting. "So what's this city like we're headed to?" Setsuna had turned around a bit in the seat; Uyoku was giving him a dirty look for having nearly crushed her leg with his hand in the process. "It's a nice and quiet town; at least it was after I took out the bandit problem. I wonder if it's changed any…" Vash got a thoughtful look on his face and appeared to have fallen into his own thoughts at the moment, not paying much attention to anyone anymore.

Kaisa pulled out a small notebook that looked more like a journal and began to write in it. It was dirty and looked like it was pretty old, but due to traveling so much it had gotten much wear on it in the past months. "Oh look, we're almost there!" Milly had said this quite loudly and Kaisa had jumped, dropping the journal onto the floor of the bus. She squeaked in alarm and dove down under the seat to find it, it had skidded up about a foot in front of her and as she nearly reached it with her fingertips Setsuna reached down and plucked it up easily with a grin. "Drop something important here Kaisa?" He grinned in this mischievous way that knew this wasn't going to end well. She looked a bit flustered and just as he opened the book he got smacked in the back of the head and it fell forward into her lap, open to a section from a long time ago. She quickly blushed, noticing which entry it was, and closed it with a loud snap, pushing it back into her back, deep down into it where no one would be tempted to grab it. "You are so insensitive Setsuna! Don't you know not to be nosey you ass?" Uyoku huffed lightly and crossed her arms, looking rather frustrated about something, unknown to the rest of what it was though.

Vash had snapped out of his deep thoughts and looked around. "Oh wow we're here already? That was fast!" He jumped up quickly; hitting his head on the overhead bar used to hold onto if the bus was rather full, he fell back into his seat in a slight heap. "Eack!" Meryl shakes her head. "That's why you wait until the bus stops before you go running around Vash…" He got up again and walked off of the bus trying to look dignified and as though the run in with the pole hadn't happened. Kaisa followed him sheepishly and Setsuna grinned at her again, Uyoku gave him a glare that could freeze someone's insides and he quickly looked away as if distracted by something else. "So where do we go now that we're here?" Kaisa asked quietly, looking around the small and quiet main street. "Well, if anyone needs me I'll be in here…" Setsuna pointed at a saloon across the street, heading for it without a glance back at the others he was gone inside of its swinging doors. "Hey! I remember that place, and it looks like they've finally fixed that hole up, well mostly." Vash laughed and put an arm around Kaisa's shoulders. "C'mon Kaisa, I want you to meet someone." Kaisa nodded and without a word Vash ushered them away. Meryl and Milly shrugged heading for the saloon with Uyoku.