Disclaimer: I don't own FLCL/Furi Kuri/Fooly Cooly (whatever you want to call it) I own a fish named Lucky.

A/N: I first posted this story a long time ago, just a little after FLCL was shown in America. I got five chapters written and realized that I needed to fix some of my mistakes... Well let's just say that some mistakes are too big to fix, so I started from scratch. I kept this chapter without any changes, because it got a lot of good reviews, and I think it's pretty good how it is. I have to re-write the chapters, so if you have read this before, then expect changes in future chapters.

Resistance is Futile

Chapter 1:

I Come in Peace

Naota laid on his bed awaiting dinner. His stomach grumbled. "Shut up. What do you have to complain about?" he questioned himself. He lifted his head up slightly to look at his abdomen. "It's not like you've had to eat curry or anything." He sighed.

Haruko left seven years ago. Ten years have passed since Haruko left. Ten long, boring years. (A/N: Look to the author's note in the next chapter for an explanation of that sentence) Nothing amazing happens or has happened since she left. In fact, nothing has really 'happened' at all. Nothing will ever happen again. Only the ordinary.

"Nao! Dinner!" Kamon called to him. Naota got off his bed in a lazy way. He had grown up. He wasn't a kid anymore. He was not a child.

He now, no matter what was in his head(if anything), physically, he was an adult. Haruko could not longer call him a kid. He's feeling's of boredom, and dislike of sour, too carbonated and spicy stuff hadn't changed. And the biggest way he had stayed the same was that he was still in love with Haruko. She said "maybe next time" and those words still echoed in Naota's empty head.

He opened the door, exited the room, creaking was heard as he slowly walked down the stairs, then the short hallway. He stared at the floor, as if looking for money. He found none. He wanted none. He needed none. He finally reached his destination when:(goes manga)(It's just not the same without manga)

"It's YOU!" Naota said, pointing at the very woman who had haunted his dreams for the passed seven years sitting right in front of him.

"Why are you yelling?" Kamon asked in his usual tone of voice.

"Hurry up and sit down," Shigekuni ordered sternly(Naota's grandpa)

"You didn't tell me you were having a lady friend over Naota," Tasuku said, pointing at Haruko. "I don't think we've been introduced."

"Yo." Haruko waved her hands at Naota, stuffing food in her mouth. She looked the same. Exactly the same. When she was here last she claimed to be 19. Perhaps she still was.(?)

"AHHHHHH! WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING THERE LIKE YOU NEVER LEFTLIKE NOTHING HAPPENED!" Naota yelled, enraged at the nerve she had to pretend everything was okay and normal.

"Ah, I forgot to mention, Haruko-San asked me for a little time off," Kamon explained.

"She was training to become an Astronaut, she bought back these cool N.A.S.A bumper stickers." Shigekuni examined at them in awe. They read: I'm an official alien!

"NASA makes bumper stickers! I want a NASA bumper sticker! Why would she want to be an astronaut? She's already an alien! Maybe she went to Venus!" Naota continued to shout.

"You shouldn't call your girlfriend an alien, unless it's some kind of kinky alien, Venus role-playing thing," Tasuku said. "Ahhh... Those were the days." Tasku sighed, reminiscing about his days in America.

"Venus, penis, kinky wieners, boner, stoner, Neil, Bob, SUGAR!" Haruko threw sugar up in the air. "AHHHHHHH! MY EYES! IT BURNS MY EYES!...But it's oddly refreshing..."

"What's for dinner anyway?" Naota inquired, changing the subject.

"I made curry!" Haruko surveyed him. She was wearing her maniac grin.

"You know that I hate spicy stuff!" Naota fell into his chair next to Tasuku.

"Your still just a kid Ta-kun" She was still grinning. And with that said Naota scooped a huge clump of the steaming red rice with the SPORK. He would NOT be called a kid anymore. He REFUSED to be a called a child. He then gulped, and took it into his mouth, Haruko's smirk grew evilly. Then the most out-of-ordinary thing happned...He hadn't had curry for so long that he had forgotten what it tasted like, and had never cared to try it again. Now, seven years later, his tastes had changed. He actuallyliked it!

"So... Haruko-san, we have some catching up to do," Kamon said drooling.

"No, me and Ta-Kun here, have some catching up to do." She looked over at Naota. "Right Ta-kun?" she spat out the last bit, turning her head to the side, like a confused puppy.

"No," he said, giving her the cold shoulder. Haruko walked over to him and whispered in his ear:

"I'll explain later," she said almost silently.

"So... Naota, you and Haruko still have a fooly cooly type of relationship?" Kamon said looking psychotic."You do know what fooly cooly means now right?"

"Sure, but what's the big deal?" Naota said questionably.

"But your the main character. You should appreciate fooly cooly!" Kamon cried out, beginning one of his rants. "Ya know? Like Goku from Dragon Ball Z? Or Lina from Slayers? Or Pikachu from Pokemon? I had a mouse once. I named it Sam. Sam I am...but then it died. I forgot to feed it, but it wasn't my fault. He also got electrocuted! I got free cable for a week. I used his whiskers as..." Kamon trailed off.

"They're in a good mood," Naota continued to wash himself in the bathroom. He hadn't really taken in all that happen at dinner. Maybe it was just a dream. Why did she come back?

Tasuku had returned from the U.S about a month ago. When he got back he told me that Mamimi had come to the U.S. He was still with his American girlfriend at the time. Soon after Mamimi arrived, his girlfriend was badly burned in a fire at the apartment where Tasuku and the American girl were staying. There were rumors that Mamimi caused the fire, but she was never charged. Tasuku broke up with his girlfriend soon after, she was just too, "different" after the burns, and Tasuku and Mamimi got back together then they both returned here.

Mamimi still isn't allowed in the house. Tasuku and Mamimi are looking for a place to stay. They haven't found anything yet, so Tasuku is sleeping in my room, on the top bunk. I have to move out soon. I just can't stay here anymore, it's too boring. At least that's what I had set in my mind until Haruko came back.

Haruko was still downstairs laughing and joking with he's family. She said she'd explain why she's come back here Naota thought to himself. He was getting tired. He was scared to go to sleep. What if he went to sleep and when he woke and she wasn't there, or it was a dream? She had hurt him so much. "Why do I even care if she's here or not?... What does it matter? She'll leave again soon anyways!"

"I'm not leaving." Haruko appeared standing at the doorway, as if on que. She was carrying her clothes. She tossed her garments down on the floor carelessly.

"You have to clean that up ya know? It's your job," Naota said pointing at the mess she had made on the floor. "So why are you here?" He figured that would be the best way to begin any interrogation.

"To see you, and that's not part of my job." The floor creaked as she walked closer to him. Creating an urge in Naota to look up a her.

"What do you really want?" he quired, never taking his eyes off the pile of clothes. His favorite hat wasn't anywhere to be found, he noticed off-hand.

"To be with you," she replied, getting closer. Her eyes fixed on the young man before her.

"Liar. You don't want me, you want my head," he said, his eyes still on the clothes. Where's my hat? He questioned himself mentally.

"I want your head, but not that head," she said slyly, cocking an eyebrow, and smirking devilishly. "And your protection," she added, now only about a foot away from him. Her shadow cast on him, making it even harder for him to keep his mind off her.

"Protection?" he asked, ignoring what she said about his head, finally looking at her. "Why do you want me to protect you?" he said in a confused tone. She sat next to him. He scooted away.

"Still embarrassed?" Haruko said while staring at him.

"I don't have anything to be embarrassed about." He scowled.

"Then why do you push me away Ta-kun?" She asked in a childish manner.

"I don't want you." He turned his head away, finding a new interest. Where'd my head band go? He wondered looking at his windowsill, where he usually left it.

"You still love me," she said in a high-pitched voice, almost singing.

"How can I love someone who only uses me!" he questioned himself, more than Haruko. He had almost forgotten that she was there.

"I dunno, but you do," She said in a dull voice.

"I don't!" he insisted with the voice inside his head. It wasn't until she placed her head on his shoulder, that he woke up from his daydream. He wasn't dreaming, he was experiencing his worst nightmare.

"Don't lie to yourself Ta-kun, you love me," she said her voice raising. Why is he acting so weird?

"Your full of yourself!" He still believed it was a dream, even with her head laying on him.

"You are still embarrassed." Haruko pushed down his shoulder so he lay flat on the bed, then mounted him. "See, your blushing." She got nose-to-nose with him. SNAP OUT OF IT! Naota finally regained consciousness, he recovered his brain, the brain he had lost seven years ago. It was tearing him apart.

Tasuku walked in. "WOA! SORRY! Didn't mean to disturb you!"

"It's not what it looks like!" Naota yelled.

"It's exactly what it looks like!" Haruko yelled back at him.

"I told you to leave a sock on the door, if your having a friend over, if ya know what I mean!" Tasuku continued to look at them.

"It's rape! It's rape!" Naota screamed at Tasuku. Naota didn't put all of his efforts into his words, he was more occupied in his own thoughts.

"If you really wanted me off, you could move me." Haruko smirked down at Naota.

"I'll be back later!" Tasuku ran out of the room, shutting the door behind him. I'll go see Mamimi

Haruko leaned in for a kiss, Naota moved his head away. "Get off of me!" he ordered. WHY! He didn't understand why he wasn't accepting her advances. It never stopped me before, I do still love her, so WHY!

"You know you want to kiss me," Haruko urged, smirking down at him again. Getting a mere centimeter from his lips."Just lift your head, and we kiss, even someone without a brain can do that."

That's the problem, he did have a brain, it was stopping him, it's for the best! He was fighting a mental war. "I don't want to kiss you!"

"You say that." She was trying to make eye contact. She couldn't do it. He's scared to look at me! Dang... I have to think of something quick.

"Yeah, I say that." Haruko laid herself on-top of him, making the gap between them disappear completely. Their eye's finally met. Haruko was happy with what she saw.

"Your eye's disagree." She got closer to his lips. "Now kiss me!" Maniac Grin(trademark)

"No!" Naota rejected once more. His brain told him that in the end it would hurt, like it did before, it was saving the heart; from pain.

"But your insides are killing you right now, aren't they! You want to kiss me, but you can't,... your scared," she finished, "Chicken."

"What do I have to be afraid of!" Naota demanded angrily. The brain still had control, the heart was the strongest organ in the body, but the brain was new, reborn, and longing for a fight.

"That's what I was going to ask you," Haruko replied still smiling. Breaking point.

Naota's eyebrows knitted together. He's heart was bleeding to death, there's only one person that can block the flow of blood.

"Why won't you kiss me!" Haruko said sternly, through clenched teeth.

"Why should I!" No! Damn it STOP! It was controlling his words, actions, and thoughts. Feelings are all I have left.

"Don't play that game! I want to know why!" Haruko screamed at the top of her lungs. (pretty damn loud)

"Why should I tell you!" So close yet so far.

"I have a right to know!" Haruko was turning red, and was clenching her teeth so tightly, she was giving a new meaning to red hot jaw breakers.

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT AT ALL!" Naota yelled at her. Haruko looked surprised, the red slipping from her face. "You have no right," Naota's voice went back to normal. His brain had a point. "You have no right, to come back, after seven years. Seven years, and act like nothing has changed, act like you were never gone." He paused. And he hated the point that his brain made. "You left me, to go look for this power, something I knew nothing about, you never even gave me a worthy explanation, of why you left. Or why you returned," he finished. He was shocked at his own realization.

"You never gave me the chance to explain why I came back," Haruko retorted, angry for being caught off-guard. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

"Hmmm... let me guess. Still on the hunt for what's-his-name...'Atmoekis'?" Naota's heart shivered with that remark, he knew he hit a soft spot in Haruko.

"His name's Atomisk," she barely manged to squeeze the words out of her throat, her fists tightening.

"Oh yeah, that's right, the one your in love with," he said, making another realization; Does she even, like me? Did she ever like me? No... she didn't, she's a lie, it's all a big game...

"I'm not in love with him." She looked down sadly... Anymore...

"I heard otherwise." His heart felt as if it had been placed in a freezer. The blood which was once warm, and full of love for Haruko, was now being iced, bottled and sold on the black market.

"Is that why your mad?" she questioned rubbing his arm.

"You still don't get it, do you?" His heart was now solid...(beep, beep, beep) Beating slower and slower as time wore on.

"Get what?" she asked, licking his chin. "I don't need to understand anything."

"Me. You still don't understand me, what goes through my head." A newly formed brain for-instance

"Are you going to let me explain?" She need to say this, she needed him to understand -her-.

"Go ahead, take your best shot. I hope it's better then last time 'Just to see you Ta-kun, your head is the only one that works'." (one long ear-splitting beeeeeeeeeeep)

"I need your help-"

"I knew it," Naota cut her off. "That's why I'm upset...that's why I keep my lips to myself." The brain had won, conquered all.

"LET ME FINISH!" She needed him to listen.

"That's all you've ever done, that's all you'll ever do," Naota said to himself, more then to Haruko. "The only thing I'm good for is a bridge from one dimension to another, right?" He wasn't done. "You have no right, no right at all!"

I dunno why I ended the chappie there. I don't have to explain myself to you. I don't have to explain anything. The only thing I explained in the fic was about Tasuku, and I still left out tons of details! It just felt right...And I'm really tired, it's 4am, I've eaten an entire bag of pixie sticks, and the sugar is wearing off. Maybe I'll watch FLCL before I go to sleep... Maybe.

Next chappie: Will Naota kiss Haruko? Will Haruko leave? Will Naota hurt his head?(DUH! 'course he'll hurt his head!) And, what's this? Tasku is falling in love with Haruko?

Next time : Jealousy reaches it's boiling point! Or should I say "Burning" point?

Haruko VS Mamimi!

REVIEW! no flames! -Mamimi cries- Meow meow meow...