A/N: Yayy, the second chapter! I can't beleive I've acctually got a plot for this! Now, fear me as I change a bunch of characters' relationships around! Woo! you know, I think the heat is getting to my brain. I can't, for the life of me, write my essay on 1984, but this thing was running around in my head all day. :sigh: Anyway, On with the FIC!
oh Yes, And before I forget, I've been writing in limited omnicient, which makes it impossible for me to include some plot twists, so I'm gonna be using this guy /-/ to telling you when I'm hoping from person to person, alrighty? Since I don't wanna jump outside of my set limitations.
SUTA--TO! (again)
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Touya stared at the hulking black object in the center of the room. This was NOT what he had been expecting. It was obviously an interstelar ship, bt it looked like it could probably be used as an aeroplan. (1) The ship was , judging by the cafolding surrounding it, about two and a half storeys tall. And then he realized that this was where most of the people must be, from the sheer fact that he could already could at least fifteen on the front of the lower half of the scafolding alone. Yukito-san must have noticed his surprise, for he was speaking again, and leading himtowards an elevator to the side of teh room, which travelled up four storeys of labs and offices.
"It is rather a shock, isn't it? They've had this for a month and a half now, and they're still keeping it under wraps. The only other people who know about it are in the government, and even so, there's only about twenty of them."
"Woah. doesn't the government care? I mean, this could prove, once and for all that we're not the only sentient beings out there! This could even provide us with the technology for interstellar travel, if I'm remebering my university astrophysics course right..." (2)
Yukito-san smiled. "You've got it! That's actually the reason I'm here. They needed someone who know their way around astrophysics, and they chose me. Now come on, the Director wanted to see you!"
Finnaly tearing his eyes away from the ship, Touya followed Yukito-san into the elevator. "So, can you tell me the Director's name?"
Yukito-san shook his head. "Sorry, She asked me to just bring you to her right away, no questions asked!"
"Huh." After that, they lapsed into silence, Touya trying to figure out who this person could be.
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Yukito watched Touya-san as they rode the elevator. He was certainly curious, and accepted the facts as they were presented to him, with hardly a pause. Of course, as Yukito had found out the day before, Touya-san's biggest dream was to prove the existance of aliens. Well, today, he was in luck. Not only did GammaPlanet have a ship...Yukito smiled to himself. He couldn't wait to see the astronomer's face when he found out!
The elevator dinged and the door slid to one side. Yukito beconed for Touya-san to follow him. "This way!" He called, as Touya-san walked slowly through the hall, which was decorated with pictures of stars, and far away planets, staring at everything. Yukito called to him again, from the end of the hall. "Touya-san, we mustn't keep the Director waiting!"
"Alright, alright..." Touya-san grumbled, quickening his pace. Soon, they were outside a pair of wooden doors, carved with a motif of sakura trees. They looked decidedly out of place in the high-tech building, but Yukito was used to the Director's odd tastes. He knocked on the door.
"Ah, Director-sama? It's Yukito...i brought Kinomoto Touya-san, like you asked..."
A female voice called from inside. "Awesome! Bring him on in, the door's unlocked!"
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She certainly didn't sound like a director, Touya mused to himself as they stepped through the doors. he glanced around the room, which looked rather like a library mixed with an art studio, mixed with a science lab, mixed with an office. And tehre in the middle of it all...
"Hi, Oniichan!"
"Sa..Sakura? What the hell? You're the Director? What the...How the hell? How do you have enough money to run soemthing like this? hell, how did this happen? What the Hell?"
Sakura, Touya's younger sister, who should have graduated...Touya did a few mental calcualtions...This past year. And yet, here she was, director of GammaPlanet. How did that happen? He looked at her. "How old are you?"
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"Nineteen, Oniichan!" (2.5)Sakura grinned at her older brother. 'He looked soooooo surprised!' She giggled.
"And yet, somehow, you've managed to become director of GammaPlanet?" He sounded incredulous.
"Sore wa himitsu desu!" (3) She giggeld again at the look her brother gave her. "Come on, Oniichan, let's move on to why you're here." She beconed for him to follow her.
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Touya looked over at Yukito-san. "What the hell is going on?" He whispered.
The other man put a finger to his lips and pointed after the bouncing nineteen year old.
Touya sighed and followed the younger Kinomoto.
Eventually, they got to a set of doors. Sakura stopped and turned around, a triumphant grin on her face.
"And this, Oniichan, is why we brought YOU in!" He said, before pressing a button on the wall. The doors slid open to reveal a well firnished sititng room. In one corner, ther was a high-backed chair. In said hig-backed chair there was sitting a man. a man with really long silver hair. A man with really long silver hair and wings. A man, with really long silver hair, and wings with a span that would put many large birds of prey to shame. Touya, needless to say, stared. The man, was, at that moment in time, reading a book , a pair of reading glasses perched on the end of his nose. At the sound of the entry of three people, the man looked up.
"Greetings, Sakura-sama." He said in a somewhat...musical voice, that somehow managed to stay monotone.
Sakura giggled. "You don't need to call me that, Yue-san! Anyway, this is my older brother, Kinomoto Touya."
'Yue' stood up, and bowed from the waist. "Greetings Kinomoto Touya-sama. I hear from your sister that you have some theories, on interstellar beings?" the way he phrased it was less a statement than a pizza.
Touya stared for a second, before collecting himself. He bowed in return. "Nice to meet you, Yue-san. Uh, yeah, My sister's got the right of it. So, where are you from?"
Yue smiled, as though he had been expecting this question. "I'm sure you've never heard it, it's a fair ways away."
Touya noded as though this was perfectly normal. "So, is this your first time on Earth?"
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(1) - Fear my spelling of aeroplane! I'm not even sure anymore if this is the english spelling, the french spelling or the british spelling. Dammit!
(2) - Sad to say, i;m modeling the Japanese government after my own, which doesn't care shit for what's going on in the world. I AM CANADIAN! Wooo!
(2.5) - This makes Touya and Yukito 24 or 23 years old, or so. Yayy for math.
(3) - Oh yeah, I'm a Xelloss fanatic! So, if you don't watch Slayers, or don't speak japanese, it means "That is a secret." In other words, It's an excuse for me to not give a reason for everything until later.
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End A/N: Welp, there's chapter two. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's a cliffie. Yeah, I can't write, but come ON, man! I wrote this in a DAY around work and homework and crap! So yeah. :flips you all the bird: I'm tired, and I am SOoooooo glad I don't have school tomorrow. Screw you all and see you next chapter.