Wow! :: sparkly eyed:: You people really like my stories! ::does a happy
bandit dance::
This is great! I'm all inspired-like. Well, sorta. I'm sorry I didn't post
this chapter sooner. Writers block. Not to mention I've been traveling
everywhere. Anyway, enjoy this story! Please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Trigun, no matter how much I wish I did.
Whatever happens, happens.
Whatever in happening, happens, causes something else to happen.
Whatever in happening causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Oh yes, R.K, when I used the term 'RK', I meant Rurouni Kenshin. And also, for some absurd reason, My e-Mail service wouldn't let me send attached e- Mails. I'll keep trying, though!
************************ The $$60,000,000,000 Rose ************************ Chapter 5: Firm to the Earth
Saria froze, and her eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. After a few moments, Vash finally let go of her, a huge smile on his face.
"See? I told you I wasn't gay!"
Saria looked up at him with her wide eyes, her mind and voice not working.
"I.I.I."
She found her voice.
"D-d-did you just KISS me?" Saria said, still a little shocked.
Vash nodded, the huge smile still, it seemed, plastered on his face. He looked proud of himself.
Saria smiled warmly. She motioned with her finger for him to come closer. He looked shocked for a moment, then leaned down. Saria ran her hand lightly down his cheek. His eyes widened.
"Vash.." Saria said softly. He sighed, obviously thinking perverted little thoughts. "YOU ARE SUCH A PERVERTED LITTLE BASTARD!!!" She slapped his face, hard. The force of her slap sent him sprawling. She stomped off, not even looking at him.
Saria had walked about five feet when his voice called out.
"Hey, where are you going?"
She turned around, the fury of hell in her eyes. Her voice was cold enough to freeze the hottest flames.
"I am leaving. And if you follow me, I swear to god I'll kill you. You hear me?" Saria turned and walked off before waiting for an answer. Not that it would've mattered. Vash was staring at her retreating back, frozen with shock.
***
'Was.was she.crying?' Vash stared at the ground where she had just been standing. Several small dark spots were there, as if someone had sprinkled water on the ground.
'Why.would she be crying? All I did was kiss her.' He was completely and utterly confused. Sighing, he got up, dusting himself off. He picked up his bag, and headed off in a different direction.
***************** Several days later. *****************
Saria nearly cheered out loud when she spotted the town. It had been several days since she had left Vash's company. She really didn't like to think about him that much.
'That jerk...' She thought darkly as she headed into the town. Pirotess made a raspy hissing sound from Saria's shoulder. Saria absentmindedly stroked the snowy-white ferret's soft fur. 'I can't believe I thought of him as my favorite character! I hope he dies or something.I had to be kissed by a figment of someone's imagination.'
As she trudged through the town, she spotted a nice looking restaurant. Her stomach growled. Dry crackers and fruit, combined with stale water wasn't the most filling thing in the world. Besides, she could afford it. She still had the $$3,000 plus the $$150 she had refused to give back to Vash.
"You hungry for a feast, Piro?" Piro squeaked loudly, rubbing her head against Saria's cheek, soft red eyes gleaming. Saria smiled broadly, and hurried towards the restaurant.
She pushed open the shutter-like doors, and froze. Their backs facing her, several men were watching the still form of a certain blond-haired, red coat-wearing jerk. A red liquid pooled around Vash. Apparently, he had been eating when they caught him off guard, because he still had a fork in his hand. A plate of food was on the table were he was probably sitting.
The men began cheering. Just then, Vash apparently decided to get up. As he stood up, he picked up the ketchup bottle that had broken, the red condiment staining the floor and his coat. He laughed, scratching the back of his neck. The men tensed.
"How.How can you still be alive.?"
Vash looked confused. The men ran screaming, running past Saria, who was staring at Vash with a blank expression. His eyes widened slightly. Then broke into a big smile.
"Hey Saria! Fancy meeting you here!" She glared at him with a look that could kill, if looks could kill. Without saying a word, she turned around and walked out the door. Vash would've followed her, but was stopped by an entire mob who walked in as Saria walked out. They all pointed guns, straight at his head.
***
"Just my luck, Piro. I finally find a town, and that IDIOT has to be here. And I'm STILL HUNGRY!" Saria kicked at the dirt. She turned a corner, looking around. Several buildings were in complete ruin. Up ahead, Saria saw the town square. She hurried towards it. When she got there, she saw what appeared to be the local sheriff and numerous other people, including children.
"We almost got him, mayor! That $$60,000,000,000 reward is ours!" The sheriff said to black haired man wearing a fancy vest. Saria walked over.
"Your trying to catch that blond-haired, green-eyed, perverted bastard?" The two men looked at her.
"You know Vash the Stampede?" The sheriff asked.
Saria sighed wearily. "Yes, unfortunately I do. I can't believe he kissed me like that!" Her hands clenched, the knuckles turning white.
"He kissed you? Then you must be his girlfriend."
Saria jerked her head up to look at the mayor. Before she had a chance to scream that she was not his girlfriend and it would be a cold day in hell when she was, the sheriff pointed at her.
"GET HER! WE CAN USE HER TO CATCH VASH!" Saria made a squeaking noise as fifty odd people slowly walked towards her. She turned and started to run. Pirotess squeaked shrilly and buried her head in Saria's neck as bullets began whizzing by. Just Saria was right about to turn a corner, a stinging pain shot through her left leg, and through her side.
Saria tripped, and fell. She looked towards her left leg and nearly fainted. Blood was everywhere, coming from a deep scrape on her thigh and a gaping hole in her side.. She tried to get up again, but several arms grabbed her roughly, pulling her up.
***
Vash quickly turned a corner, dodging the bullets fired at him. Only to come face-to-face with even more guns. They aimed, and would've fired, if not for the loud message suddenly blaring on a loudspeaker.
"ATTENTION! Vash the Stampede, we have your girlfriend here at the town square! If you don't want her to.what the hell are you doing?!" The loud hissing followed by a scream of pain blared on the loudspeaker, followed by a very pissed off feminine voice.
"I'M NOT THAT GUY'S GIRLFRIEND, YOU PIG-FACED, SNOT-NOSED IDIOTS! YOU PEOPLE ARE SOOO DE-Hey, what the hell are you.." That was followed by a feminine shriek.
Of pain.
******************** Several moments later. ********************
A rather ugly old man was yapping away at Saria, who was in the clutches of what appeared to be a four-stories-high-giant with his own sun-visor grown onto his forehead.
Earlier, when the sheriff and mayor had been telling Vash that she was at the town square place, Pirotess had launched herself at one of the men holding Saria, and attacked him, sharp teeth buried on his lip and razor- like claws making tiny-but-really-painful scratches all over his face and neck.
When he had managed to pull the hissing white ferret off, a bit of flesh was dangling from Pirotess's mouth. The ferret had scurried away as they fired bullets at her. But of course, that was after the men had slapped Saria away from the loudspeaker, causing her to fall on her injured leg.
The colossal hand holding shook her, jerking her back to reality.
"Are you listening to me?!" The yappie old man looked, if it were even possible, even uglier.
"No.I'm trying to ignore you. I was succeeding admirably.." Suddenly, the other hand of the giant holding her shot out, and destroyed probably half a dozen buildings. The old man yapped in excitement.
"We got him! We killed Vash the Stampede!"
Saria rolled her eyes as the giant's hand came back. The yappie old man stared in shock at it.
Written on it was the message:
'Just beat me! Do it!' along with a cute picture of chibi Vash.
Saria sweatdropped. 'What a show-off..'
As Saria watched, Vash picked his way out of the rubble, Saria decided it was a good time to start yelling at everybody's favorite blond-haired, green eyed, red coat-wearing outlaw.
"VAAASH!! THIS IS ALLLL YOUR F*CKING FAULT! WHEN I GET DOWN FROM HERE, I'M GONNA KILL YOU, THEN SAY NASTY THINGS ABOUT YOU AT YOUR FUNERAL AND DANCE UPON YOUR GRAVE! YOU HEAR ME, YOU BLOND HAIRED FREAK? I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!"
"Oh shut up already, you stupid bitch! If anyone is going to kill the legendary outlaw Vash the Stampede, it's us! Right son?" The yappie old geezer patted the giant's arm. Then, the yappie old fart turned to Vash.
"Well, Vash the Stampede, It's time to meet your doom! Prepare to die!"
Vash stayed silent, and slowly put his hand over his gun.
"So, you want to draw, huh? It's pointless! No matter what pistol you use, its like trying to stop a train with a car! Impossible!"
Unfortunately for Saria, blood loss from her wound was starting to cloud her mind. Her vision and hearing started going dark, and the fact that she had just wasted a bunch of energy screaming her lungs out at Vash didn't help the matter. The yappie man continued talking, but Saria didn't seem to hear any of it.
Suddenly, she felt herself being flung into the air. But by then, she was already unconscious.
***
Saria groaned. Her leg and side were throbbing, and it felt like everything was spinning. She waited a few moments, for the room to stop spinning, and opened her eyes. The room she was in was a bit plain, and incredibly clean.
The sheets on the bed she was lying on were crisp. There was a single window next to the bed, and a small nightstand-table on the other side. A single chair sat in the middle of the room, next to a small table that had several empty boxes of doughnuts, and a familiar white ferret snoozing, hanging out one of the boxes.
And, seated in that chair, was a certain red-coated man, watching her with those pale green eyes.
They stared at each other for a few moments, then Vash broke into a huge smile.
"Hey, your awake! I'm so glad your okay!"
"What the hell are you doing here, you jerk?"
"Hey, is that any way to thank the one who saved you from being killed?"
"Fine. Thank you for saving my life. But I'm still mad at you."
"About the kiss?"
"YES, ABOUT THE F*CKING KISS!"
"Hey, all I did was kiss you.."
"YOU STOLE MY FIRST KISS, YOU JERK!"
Vash froze.
It clicked to her what she just blurted out.
Her face turned a bright cherry red as she quickly buried her head under her pillow.
*******
So, how did you people like it? I rewrote it about five times. This chapter was kinda hard. And please excuse the alert I posted. I'm really sorry. It just irks me how people purposely review stories they know they are going to hate, or just flame it with out actually reading the first chapter, much less the entire story. A lot of really good SI fics I read start out looking as if their gonna suck, or turn out to be a Mary-Sue. But you know what? The author usually has a purpose to what he/she are doing. A lot of SI fics I've read in the past were done by newbies. In fact, this is the first story I've posted in over a year. So what I'm saying is, just give the newbies some time. We were all newbies at one point. Usually I don't get so mad over a flame. But that's when a person has actually read all the chapters I've posted and they still don't like the story.
Anyway, I'd like to thank a few reviewers.
WingedElfLover- Thank you soooo much! I'm dedicating 'Singing Nightingale, Blood Red' to you. Also, I'd like to put you in that story! If you could, I'd like to e-Mail you. Tell me if you'd like to be a character in 'Singing Nightingale, Blood Red'.
Odie- You are so wonderful. At least you aren't flaming me about my errors...
Renee Fay- I know you didn't ask for this, but I got the name Pirotess from the dark elf in 'Record of Lodoss Wars'.
Until the next Chapter!
Ja ne~
Lady Kitsuna the Fox
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Trigun, no matter how much I wish I did.
Whatever happens, happens.
Whatever in happening, happens, causes something else to happen.
Whatever in happening causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Oh yes, R.K, when I used the term 'RK', I meant Rurouni Kenshin. And also, for some absurd reason, My e-Mail service wouldn't let me send attached e- Mails. I'll keep trying, though!
************************ The $$60,000,000,000 Rose ************************ Chapter 5: Firm to the Earth
Saria froze, and her eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. After a few moments, Vash finally let go of her, a huge smile on his face.
"See? I told you I wasn't gay!"
Saria looked up at him with her wide eyes, her mind and voice not working.
"I.I.I."
She found her voice.
"D-d-did you just KISS me?" Saria said, still a little shocked.
Vash nodded, the huge smile still, it seemed, plastered on his face. He looked proud of himself.
Saria smiled warmly. She motioned with her finger for him to come closer. He looked shocked for a moment, then leaned down. Saria ran her hand lightly down his cheek. His eyes widened.
"Vash.." Saria said softly. He sighed, obviously thinking perverted little thoughts. "YOU ARE SUCH A PERVERTED LITTLE BASTARD!!!" She slapped his face, hard. The force of her slap sent him sprawling. She stomped off, not even looking at him.
Saria had walked about five feet when his voice called out.
"Hey, where are you going?"
She turned around, the fury of hell in her eyes. Her voice was cold enough to freeze the hottest flames.
"I am leaving. And if you follow me, I swear to god I'll kill you. You hear me?" Saria turned and walked off before waiting for an answer. Not that it would've mattered. Vash was staring at her retreating back, frozen with shock.
***
'Was.was she.crying?' Vash stared at the ground where she had just been standing. Several small dark spots were there, as if someone had sprinkled water on the ground.
'Why.would she be crying? All I did was kiss her.' He was completely and utterly confused. Sighing, he got up, dusting himself off. He picked up his bag, and headed off in a different direction.
***************** Several days later. *****************
Saria nearly cheered out loud when she spotted the town. It had been several days since she had left Vash's company. She really didn't like to think about him that much.
'That jerk...' She thought darkly as she headed into the town. Pirotess made a raspy hissing sound from Saria's shoulder. Saria absentmindedly stroked the snowy-white ferret's soft fur. 'I can't believe I thought of him as my favorite character! I hope he dies or something.I had to be kissed by a figment of someone's imagination.'
As she trudged through the town, she spotted a nice looking restaurant. Her stomach growled. Dry crackers and fruit, combined with stale water wasn't the most filling thing in the world. Besides, she could afford it. She still had the $$3,000 plus the $$150 she had refused to give back to Vash.
"You hungry for a feast, Piro?" Piro squeaked loudly, rubbing her head against Saria's cheek, soft red eyes gleaming. Saria smiled broadly, and hurried towards the restaurant.
She pushed open the shutter-like doors, and froze. Their backs facing her, several men were watching the still form of a certain blond-haired, red coat-wearing jerk. A red liquid pooled around Vash. Apparently, he had been eating when they caught him off guard, because he still had a fork in his hand. A plate of food was on the table were he was probably sitting.
The men began cheering. Just then, Vash apparently decided to get up. As he stood up, he picked up the ketchup bottle that had broken, the red condiment staining the floor and his coat. He laughed, scratching the back of his neck. The men tensed.
"How.How can you still be alive.?"
Vash looked confused. The men ran screaming, running past Saria, who was staring at Vash with a blank expression. His eyes widened slightly. Then broke into a big smile.
"Hey Saria! Fancy meeting you here!" She glared at him with a look that could kill, if looks could kill. Without saying a word, she turned around and walked out the door. Vash would've followed her, but was stopped by an entire mob who walked in as Saria walked out. They all pointed guns, straight at his head.
***
"Just my luck, Piro. I finally find a town, and that IDIOT has to be here. And I'm STILL HUNGRY!" Saria kicked at the dirt. She turned a corner, looking around. Several buildings were in complete ruin. Up ahead, Saria saw the town square. She hurried towards it. When she got there, she saw what appeared to be the local sheriff and numerous other people, including children.
"We almost got him, mayor! That $$60,000,000,000 reward is ours!" The sheriff said to black haired man wearing a fancy vest. Saria walked over.
"Your trying to catch that blond-haired, green-eyed, perverted bastard?" The two men looked at her.
"You know Vash the Stampede?" The sheriff asked.
Saria sighed wearily. "Yes, unfortunately I do. I can't believe he kissed me like that!" Her hands clenched, the knuckles turning white.
"He kissed you? Then you must be his girlfriend."
Saria jerked her head up to look at the mayor. Before she had a chance to scream that she was not his girlfriend and it would be a cold day in hell when she was, the sheriff pointed at her.
"GET HER! WE CAN USE HER TO CATCH VASH!" Saria made a squeaking noise as fifty odd people slowly walked towards her. She turned and started to run. Pirotess squeaked shrilly and buried her head in Saria's neck as bullets began whizzing by. Just Saria was right about to turn a corner, a stinging pain shot through her left leg, and through her side.
Saria tripped, and fell. She looked towards her left leg and nearly fainted. Blood was everywhere, coming from a deep scrape on her thigh and a gaping hole in her side.. She tried to get up again, but several arms grabbed her roughly, pulling her up.
***
Vash quickly turned a corner, dodging the bullets fired at him. Only to come face-to-face with even more guns. They aimed, and would've fired, if not for the loud message suddenly blaring on a loudspeaker.
"ATTENTION! Vash the Stampede, we have your girlfriend here at the town square! If you don't want her to.what the hell are you doing?!" The loud hissing followed by a scream of pain blared on the loudspeaker, followed by a very pissed off feminine voice.
"I'M NOT THAT GUY'S GIRLFRIEND, YOU PIG-FACED, SNOT-NOSED IDIOTS! YOU PEOPLE ARE SOOO DE-Hey, what the hell are you.." That was followed by a feminine shriek.
Of pain.
******************** Several moments later. ********************
A rather ugly old man was yapping away at Saria, who was in the clutches of what appeared to be a four-stories-high-giant with his own sun-visor grown onto his forehead.
Earlier, when the sheriff and mayor had been telling Vash that she was at the town square place, Pirotess had launched herself at one of the men holding Saria, and attacked him, sharp teeth buried on his lip and razor- like claws making tiny-but-really-painful scratches all over his face and neck.
When he had managed to pull the hissing white ferret off, a bit of flesh was dangling from Pirotess's mouth. The ferret had scurried away as they fired bullets at her. But of course, that was after the men had slapped Saria away from the loudspeaker, causing her to fall on her injured leg.
The colossal hand holding shook her, jerking her back to reality.
"Are you listening to me?!" The yappie old man looked, if it were even possible, even uglier.
"No.I'm trying to ignore you. I was succeeding admirably.." Suddenly, the other hand of the giant holding her shot out, and destroyed probably half a dozen buildings. The old man yapped in excitement.
"We got him! We killed Vash the Stampede!"
Saria rolled her eyes as the giant's hand came back. The yappie old man stared in shock at it.
Written on it was the message:
'Just beat me! Do it!' along with a cute picture of chibi Vash.
Saria sweatdropped. 'What a show-off..'
As Saria watched, Vash picked his way out of the rubble, Saria decided it was a good time to start yelling at everybody's favorite blond-haired, green eyed, red coat-wearing outlaw.
"VAAASH!! THIS IS ALLLL YOUR F*CKING FAULT! WHEN I GET DOWN FROM HERE, I'M GONNA KILL YOU, THEN SAY NASTY THINGS ABOUT YOU AT YOUR FUNERAL AND DANCE UPON YOUR GRAVE! YOU HEAR ME, YOU BLOND HAIRED FREAK? I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!"
"Oh shut up already, you stupid bitch! If anyone is going to kill the legendary outlaw Vash the Stampede, it's us! Right son?" The yappie old geezer patted the giant's arm. Then, the yappie old fart turned to Vash.
"Well, Vash the Stampede, It's time to meet your doom! Prepare to die!"
Vash stayed silent, and slowly put his hand over his gun.
"So, you want to draw, huh? It's pointless! No matter what pistol you use, its like trying to stop a train with a car! Impossible!"
Unfortunately for Saria, blood loss from her wound was starting to cloud her mind. Her vision and hearing started going dark, and the fact that she had just wasted a bunch of energy screaming her lungs out at Vash didn't help the matter. The yappie man continued talking, but Saria didn't seem to hear any of it.
Suddenly, she felt herself being flung into the air. But by then, she was already unconscious.
***
Saria groaned. Her leg and side were throbbing, and it felt like everything was spinning. She waited a few moments, for the room to stop spinning, and opened her eyes. The room she was in was a bit plain, and incredibly clean.
The sheets on the bed she was lying on were crisp. There was a single window next to the bed, and a small nightstand-table on the other side. A single chair sat in the middle of the room, next to a small table that had several empty boxes of doughnuts, and a familiar white ferret snoozing, hanging out one of the boxes.
And, seated in that chair, was a certain red-coated man, watching her with those pale green eyes.
They stared at each other for a few moments, then Vash broke into a huge smile.
"Hey, your awake! I'm so glad your okay!"
"What the hell are you doing here, you jerk?"
"Hey, is that any way to thank the one who saved you from being killed?"
"Fine. Thank you for saving my life. But I'm still mad at you."
"About the kiss?"
"YES, ABOUT THE F*CKING KISS!"
"Hey, all I did was kiss you.."
"YOU STOLE MY FIRST KISS, YOU JERK!"
Vash froze.
It clicked to her what she just blurted out.
Her face turned a bright cherry red as she quickly buried her head under her pillow.
*******
So, how did you people like it? I rewrote it about five times. This chapter was kinda hard. And please excuse the alert I posted. I'm really sorry. It just irks me how people purposely review stories they know they are going to hate, or just flame it with out actually reading the first chapter, much less the entire story. A lot of really good SI fics I read start out looking as if their gonna suck, or turn out to be a Mary-Sue. But you know what? The author usually has a purpose to what he/she are doing. A lot of SI fics I've read in the past were done by newbies. In fact, this is the first story I've posted in over a year. So what I'm saying is, just give the newbies some time. We were all newbies at one point. Usually I don't get so mad over a flame. But that's when a person has actually read all the chapters I've posted and they still don't like the story.
Anyway, I'd like to thank a few reviewers.
WingedElfLover- Thank you soooo much! I'm dedicating 'Singing Nightingale, Blood Red' to you. Also, I'd like to put you in that story! If you could, I'd like to e-Mail you. Tell me if you'd like to be a character in 'Singing Nightingale, Blood Red'.
Odie- You are so wonderful. At least you aren't flaming me about my errors...
Renee Fay- I know you didn't ask for this, but I got the name Pirotess from the dark elf in 'Record of Lodoss Wars'.
Until the next Chapter!
Ja ne~
Lady Kitsuna the Fox