Disclaimer: Believe me if I owned Chrno Crusade I wouldn't be writing this. I know that Chrno and Rosette didn't get much of a reunion in the last chapter, so hopefully this chapter will make up for some of it.
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It has also come to my attention that there has been some confusion over the whole Rosette thing. In the last chapter I said that she was a rencarnationof her pervious self. That's my mistake, Rosette is the same person being reborn, but I didn't know how else to phrase it, but by saying that she is a reincarnation. Rosette has the same body and the same soul as she did in the series and manga. It's not Inuyasha where Kagome and Kikyo have the same soul and very similar bodies, but totally different personalities. Rosette is the same person she was in the manga and anime, just with her memories locked away for now. So Chrno is not falling in love again. He has never fallen out of love and is still in love with Rosette. Does that make that clearer? Sorry but I know exactly what's going on because its all in the minuscule thing that I call my brain. So I didn't think that you guys would be confused. :p Thanks for taking your time to read this!
The year is 2044, over a hundred years since her death. With an evil threatening to reoccur for the third time, the world may have no choice but to call forth her power, and reunite her with what killed her, in hopes that she may bring about the salvation of the world. Chrno x Rosette, Joshua x Az
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Rosette Christopher: I'm working hard on developing their characters, bit by bit, but I'm concentrating on Rosette and Chrno the most. Can't help it!! Lol. :p. Here's what happens at supper!
NightElfCrawler: Yea Chrno and Remi, can make such good friends!! Hehe, special friendship coming up in the future! I'm glad that you liked the reunion, its kind of hard, because they didn't exactly part on the best or terms, but a history together makes it easier!
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You know how people say that your teenage years are full of uncertainty and self-questioning? Where you're never sure of yourself and really self conscious? Well it's never been that way for me. 16 approaching 17 pretty fast and I've never had the so called 'normal' teenage paranoia. I've always been very self-confident. Sure I may not have a huge group of friends, a couple close ones are fine for me, but I'm on good terms with everyone at school. And all this exorcism business does make me feel useful, so it's not like I'm weighing the world down.
It could be that the hormones that cause it has not kicked in yet, but that wouldn't make sense to why they hadn't kicked in with the others ones. No one can say that I'm a late bloomer. I have certainly bloomed in... er... the places that I have supposed to.
Maybe it's because I've never had a boyfriend before and all I've had were the weirdest crushes, there was this on guy that I liked in grade seven and he had longer hair than me. He just let it hang there, for some reason whenever I looked at it I wanted to braid it. There was this other guy that dyed his hair a dark purple, I saw the hair color and I feel in love, more with the hair that with the person though, because the guy was a total jerk. Like I said, weird crushes.
But even those never last very long, anywhere from a day to a week. Once Elizabeth asked me why I never act on them. I don't even know why I tell her my crushes, but I do and she always gives me this weird look like I'm crazy. Funny, she should be used to it by now. Well anyways I told Lizze that they're so spontaneous that I get over them pretty quick, so there's no point.
So like I've said I've never had this problem about doubting myself, who I am or anything else that makes me feel nervous and the such. Well that was before I met Chrno. Geez, I find out that the guy exists and in two days I'm going through all these questioning thingies. Every time that I look at him it's like a mini déjà vu. But from what he's seen of me he probably thinks that I'm some sort of freak. And the first time he saw me, I was in need of a rescue. Miss-I'm-so- not-a-damsel-in-distress-and-never-will-be had to be rescued. What a way to make a good first impression. It's good if you want to throw yourself at him and be all like you're my hero kind of thing, actually that doesn't sound too bad...
What am I thinking? I am not that kind of girl. Now he probably thinks that I'm some pansy that needs to be watched whenever she goes out, so that she doesn't get into trouble. God my life is screwed up.
See right there! Teenage questioning or whatever the hell you call it. And it's all over a guy, no wait a demon too! I am really messed up.
It was 6 o'clock and Joshua was standing in the kitchen mixing around the stir-fry in the steaming pan in front of him. Rosette was inside her room doing her history essay. Growling with exasperation she leaned over in her chair and hooked her legs around the seat, so that her upper body was hanging in the air.
"Mou, stupid history." She grumbled, closed her eyes and rubbed her temples
. She had all of two words on her page. And those two words just happened to be in the upper right hand corner of the paper, stating Rosette Christopher. The sudden ringing of the doorbell sent Rosette out of her revere and caused her to loose her grip on the chair, making her crash down in a pile of pens, paper and limbs.
"Oi Rosette! Can you get that?" Joshua called from the kitchen.
"Why can't you?" She called back.
"I'm cooking!"
"Fine, fine." Rosette mumbled as she pushed everything off her and straighten her purple sweater and black pants. "Who would be coming here today anyways?" She grumbled as she made her way to the door.
Undoing the locks and swigging the door open she was greeted by the site of Chrno holding two boxes, one piled on top of the other.
"Hi Rosette." He greeted her cheerfully.
Rosette took one look at Chrno and closed the door on him.
"Joshua!" She screamed, "What's Chrno doing at our door?"
"Did you let him in?" Joshua called back.
"Nope."
"You retard I invited him over for dinner, I did tell you, you know."
"Opps forgot." Rosette said and she swung the door open again, revealing a very confused Chrno.
"Sorry bout that." Rosette apologized, a light pink hue decorated her cheeks.
"That's ok." Chrno said smiling; Rosette antics were still as crazy and funny as ever.
"She forgot that you were coming." Yuan said as he finally made an appearance.
"So she closes the door on me?" Chrno asked with a lopsided grin.
"Hey. Hey! Don't go talking about me like I'm not here." Rosette protested.
"Sorry." Chrno said, shifting the two boxes he had ever so slightly.
"Ahh, good you brought them." Yuan said.
"Brought what?" Rosette asked.
"Some stuff that I don't need." Chrno answered.
"Rosette could you grab one?" Yuan asked, cutting of any more of the young blonde's questions.
"Sure." Rosette walked over to Chrno and grabbed the top box, its sudden weight almost pulling her down. "Mou, these things way a ton! How can you carry two of them?"
"Practice." Chrno answered, then turning to Yuan he asked, "Where to do want them."
"In my office." Yuan answered. "And that would be...?" Chrno trailed off.
"Rosette will show you." Yuan replied.
Rosette didn't even bother to reply, but slowly made her way over to his office, the heavy box weighing her down. She kicked the door open and set the box down in the middle of the room.
"Now to see what you have in these things." Rosette said as she pulled the lid off the box that she had been formerly carrying. The lid came off the revel a series of old guns and inscripted knifes.
"Wow." Rosette said in pure awe.
She ran her finger along the sliver barrel of one gun, it was pretty old fashion, but something had drawn her attention to it. She picked it up and felt its weight in her hand. She made a face; it was too heavy to be easily carried around.
"Try this one instead." Chrno said, tossing her a gun that looked very similar to the one she was currently holding.
Rosette caught the gun and looked down the barrel. Then flipping it over in her hand she pointed it at Chrno. "Bam." She said quietly ad she pulled the trigger. "Where do you get all this stuff?" She asked.
"It's been so long that I've forgotten, mostly picked up stuff here and there. They've been lying around for such a long time that I forgot about them." Chrno said, "I only remembered them when Remington asked if I had any stuff that he could use. I thought that a private exorcism company would have plenty of supplies, I know that he isn't short on money."
He looked up at Rosette questionably and a sly smile came over his face when her face turned red. "Would you have anything to do with the shortage of supplies?' he asked innocently.
Rosette scowled, "Well it's not all my fault, and sometimes the demons destroy the weapons with them when they die or run away. I don't do that much damage."
"Once she threw a box of scareds out the window." Joshua said suddenly, he had been coming to tell them that dinner was ready when he had heard them talking and couldn't help but, but in.
Rosette turned to glare at her brother. "That was an accident! I thought that the box was empty."
"Why were you throwing it?" Chrno asked he sort of had an idea; a hundred and sixteen Rosette-free-years didn't make him forget her explosive temper.
"She was aiming for me and missed." Joshua answered.
"I was unprepared for the weight." Rosette protested.
Chrno sighed and flashed the siblings a bright smile. Rosette's heart skipped at beat and she quickly smiled back at the demon. She had no reason to be nervous, what was wrong with her?
"Dinner's ready." Joshua finally announced, after having remembered what he had come to find the two for.
Rosette glad for an escape ran to the kitchen, with Chrno and Joshua, following slower, behind.
Dinner went on pretty uneventfully, with mostly small talk between Chrno and Yuan. They were discussing which weapons were most effective to use against a high level demon, a conversation that Rosette would have normally jumped into. That what was Yuan obviously expected since he started the conversation, but Rosette had another thing on her mind.
"Nee, Chrno?" Rosette asked.
"Hmm?" Chrno's crimson eyes flicked from Yuan to her, not minding the interruption.
"You don't have a last name right?"
"No I don't." Chrno answered. "Why?" Rosette asked.
"Well, in Pandamonia demons were usually referred to by titles."
"What were you called?"
"Umm, I don't remember." Chrno said, face sheepish.
"When I left Pandemonia, I was known as Chrno the Sinner."
"So you don't have a last name." Rosette stated, as if making sure of it.
"Nope, never have, never will."
"Then what about your kids? They aren't going to have last names?" Rosette asked, face thoughtful.
Joshua stared at her, mouth half opened and still full of food. Yuan eyed Rosette closely and then picked up his napkin to cover his laughing expression when he saw Chrno. Chrno stared at Rosette with a mix of emotions, mouth half opened, but unlike Joshua was empty of food. He quickly closed it and replied to Rosette who was obviously expecting an answer.
"Uh, that was unexpected. Well it depends."
"On what?"
"If the mother is human or demon." Chrno said, getting more and more uncomfortable with the current subject, especially since it was Rosette who was discussing it with him.
"What's the difference?" Rosette asked, oblivious to Chrno's discomfort.
"Umm, well if the mother is a demon, then there will be no last name. If the mother is a human, then the child will take her last name."
"So do think that your child will have a last name?"
"Uh..." Chrno stared at Rosette, not sure of what to answer, "Probably...?" He said carefully.
"Why do you think that?" Rosette asked. She wanted to know the difference between human woman and demon women.
Yuan coughed. "Rosette don't you think that, that question is a bit personal?" He asked. He had decided to step in. As much fun as it was to see Chrno in obvious discomfort, Rosette had no idea how close she was to causing very painful memories for the demon.
Chrno looked at Yuan, he could just say nothing and let Yuan give him an easy way out, but this was Rosette and Chrno felt compelled to give her an answer. "I fell in love with a human before."
Both Rosette and Yuan had looks of surprise on their faces, but for different reasons. Yuan was surprised because he shared such personal information about himself, especially to the girl he fell in love with and Rosette was because of the odd pairing.
"What happened?" Rosette asked, she figured since Chrno had answered when he could have avoided the question, she shouldn't bother dancing around the subject.
"She died." Chrno answered, raw grief showed in his eyes for a second before he closed it up and only traces of sorrow were left.
Rosette was taken back for a second. He still loved her. For some reason this made her disappointed, sad even, and she couldn't for the life of her figure out why. She had known the guy for less than a week and was sad that he was in love with another woman. Something had to be wrong with her.
"It's like that file that you told me to look up." Rosette remembered, the majority of her statement was directed at Yuan. "I haven't read it yet, but it's like same scenario. I should read it later tonight."
Chrno gave Yuan a sharp glance; his eyebrows raised over his question filled eyes.
"Actually, could you give me the file?" Yuan asked, he had told her about the file before she had met Chrno, now with him here, she might think it suspicious that she and the demon had many similar qualities to the 'different' people in the file. "I wanted to look something over, you can read it another time." He finished.
Rosette puffed out her cheeks, she had gone through so much trouble to get the file and now he was taking it away before she had even got a chance to read it. Life was so unfair.
Not even bothering to respond to Yuan she dug into her spaghetti, and slurped it up, spraying the person in front of her with meat sauce. The unfortunate victim just happened to be Yuan, which suited Rosette just fine. And so went on the rest of the night.
-End Ch. 4-
So what do you guys think? This is more of a filler chapter. I'm not too happy with it, some of the parts were forced. xx In the next chapter the plot advances! Introducing or reintroducing another character! Any guesses who? And what would you guys think of a matchmaker Rosette? Hehe.
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