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Nanakiyoda: Ready for round six? Of Course you are! If you weren't, you'd be somewhere else. After this, I'm going to Livejournal for a bit. Anyone care to join? It's samuraijeimi if you want to get ahold of me.

(Future)

I awoke to Shinta pacing the floor. I sat up and immediatly prepared for an attack. He glanced over and sighed.

"I told you, I'm not going to cause you harm. We do have a problem." He said, and I relaxed my guard a bit.

"A problem? I don't like the sound of that." I said. He walked over and sat down beside me.

"You know that chip inside your head? Apperantly, the government had a plan just in case you and I ever got together. Something to do with the past or something, the file I hacked into wasn't very clear. Anyways, they had this plan that that little chip inside your head could also double as a bomb. We need to get rid of that chip, or seperate." He explained.

"I thought if I got rid of the chip, it would kill me because it's connected to my cerebrum?" I asked.

"Not unless we can find someone willing to remove it with precise skill." He answered. He stood up and paced back and forth a bit.

"There's always seperation..but that would probably put me back into some horrible tyrant's control right?" I said and fell back down on a pillow. Who would be willing to assist me that knows a bit about brain surgery?

"That one woman...the one who is a doctor...would she be willingly to help?" Shinta asked. Megumi? I'm not sure...she really isn't out to kill me, just to collect the bounty. Besides, even she realizes it wasn't my fault what happened...right? Besides, all the government wants is the chip and that's all the bounty is-

"HOLY SHIT THAT'S BRILLIANT!" I shouted and grabbed Shinta around his torso, giving him a huge hug.

"Um?" He started confused.

"Shinta! All the government wants is the chip right? Dead or alive on me, so they could care less what happens to me right, so long as they get the chip intact! That's all the bounty is for! We can get Megumi to remove the chip carfully because she doesn't want to kill me, she just wants the bounty! Once she has the chip, she turns it in! I'm alive, The government has the chip and she has the bounty! Everybody wins!" I shouted out.

"Uh...well, what about me and the government feud thing?" Shinta asked. Oh...I dropped my arms from him. Well, I know a bit about chips, I could just...

"I'll steal a file from it. I'll threaten to sue the government for the damage they have done, and then I'll use the chip's stolen data for your freedom." I said. Shinta looked over at me and smiled.

"That's a nice head you have on your shoulders there." He said and stood up. I nodded and got up from the bed.

"So...we're off then right?" I asked.

"Yeah. We are off then." He said and walked towards the door, with me following close behind.

(Present)

I awoke to the cell door opening. I glanced over and saw the short hic cop and his supervisor walking over to me cautiously.

"She has it sir. She took my gun and threatind to use it." The hic whispered. I smirked. The supervisior had his gun aimed in at me. My hand was already resting on the .45 under my pillow, where I had trained myself to sleep.

"Not so easy boys." I said and sat up, the gun aimed in at the hic. The hic is defenseless and the supervisior wouldn't dare shoot at me if a life is at stake other than his. I know the proceedure.

"Listen, put down th-" The supervisor began but I interupted him.

"The weapon and no one gets hurt? Don't forget I know the proceedure Saitoh. Or have your forgotten that I used to be number one police officer around here while you were a rookie?" I said. Saitoh smiled and stood up coolly, put his gun back into his holster and lit up a cigarette. The hic glanced over shakily at Saitoh and then back at me. I rested the gun down on the bed, my hand still on it, but it was pointed away from them both.

"I was wondering when you'd show up in here. Your record with other people's problems isn't all that clean, witness to a friend's mother's murder, witness and arresting officer to another friend's homicide, oh and the restraining order filed against the boyfriend of another friend by her father. Not quite the loyal person are we now?" Saitoh mocked. I shook my head.

"Loyal only to the law, and look at where it has me. Peotic Justice or Irony? So what is this bounty all about?" I asked. Saitoh took a drag on his cigarette and looked at me for a while, then sighed.

"How many times did you save my ass from the cheif when I went out of proceedure? You always covered for me, and corrected my mistakes when we were partnered up. Good times." Saitoh said. The hic glanced up at Saitoh, confused.

"Good times." I repeated.

"Apperantly, there's a chip inside your head. This chip is encoded with data on how to kill this guy the government created and the only way to get it is to kill you. So the whole Dead or alive is based on the premise that your head doesn't get blown up, by which would damage the chip. Anyways, you've had this chip since you were born and the project guy the government was fucking with got loose and is now on a rampage. They want the chip to kill him." Saitoh explained.

"Okay...this is some crazy shit." I laughed nervously. Dead or alive, there's no happy ending for me. I stood up.

"I'm sorry about the mess. Thanks for the infomation Saitoh. I'd hate to fill out the paperwork on this." I said and shot Saitoh in his hand, then shot the hic in the stomach. I then turn and grabbed Saitoh's .357 and ran out of the cell, dashing to escape the jail.

"What's going on here!" Someone called out.

"There's two officers down! A cell mate just escaped!" I yelled out and every cop ran towards the cells, away from me, giving me ample time and space to escape.

(Future)

We stepped out of the car, and walked slowly towards the house I had once been held captive in. We walked up to the door, and found it unlocked and left open a bit. I lifted up the .32 Shinta had given to me, and we walked inside. Walking down the hall, to the room I had spent my time in, we walked inside and saw Sano sitting on the ground.

"Was wondering when you two would come back to kill us all." He said and looked down. I stepped up towards him and kneeled beside him.

"Actually, there's another plan, and if you get us Megumi, no one will have to die." I said. Sano looked up confused.

"Megumi? What do you want with her?" He asked suspicious.

"This little chip in my head needs to come out and she's the only one I trust to do it. Once she get's the chip out, you guys can have it and the bounty. No one gets hurt just so long as I can get some information from the chip." I said and smiled at Sano. He looked into my eyes and smiled a bit.

"You're serious? After all we did to you, you're still willing to let us get the bounty?" He asked.

"Anything for my friends. After all, I do owe you guys." I said and Sano smiled, for the first time in years, at me and with me.

"Let's go get Megumi then. She's at her office, hiding from you. Do you want Misao and Aoshi as well?" He asked, as I stood up. Shinta stepped forward and nodded.

"If you please. We're in a hurry." Shinta said. Sano eyed him a bit, then stood up.

"Isn't this guy the reason for all the mess?" Sano asked.

"He's not bad, just mislabled...oh, and yeah, We'll go ahead and get Misao and Aoshi as well." I answered. Sano then started to lead us to the door of the house, to the end of the feud between me and them, and toward the possibility of a better future than the one I have now.

(Present)

I had made it back to my apartment, which had been completely looted and destroyed. I fell to my knees. It's all true...I have the world against me...I'll never have a normal life, so long as I have this chip inside my head, so long as the project exists...

"I was wondering when you would come back here. It's not like you to be captured." I heard a familiar voice say.

"Sano?" I whispered out, and turned around a bit. There was Sano standing at the door, or where the door would have been had it not been busted off the hinges. His hair was shoulder length, and he had a five o'clock shadow.

"Hey there missy." He started.

"You didn't escape prison to kill me did you?" I asked. He laughed.

"Seems like a good idea, but I know it was your job you were doing. Actually, Aoshi bailed me out. Since we are all just dying to have you-" He started.

"We all?" I interupted. Sano smirked.

"Yes, we all. Weasel, Ice boy, the Fox and I are all in this. Come with me missy, and you won't have to die for us to collect the bounty." Sano said, and held his hand out towards me.

"So you only want the bounty. You do know that even if you don't kill me, they will just to get a damn chip out of my head right?" I asked. His smirk disappeared.

"No, I didn't know that, but hell if I give a damn whether you live or not. You screwed us all in the back missy. Maybe you didn't mean too, but you still did. For that, I doubt if we can forgive you, much less care what happens to you." He responded and stepped towards me. I stood up, and lifted up Saitoh's .357 but dropped it to the ground. I no longer had the strength to fight.

OWARI

Nanakiyoda: Wow, this seems weird to be covering three different times, much less different additudes at the times. I don't I'll cover the past much more, it's not really that important until the end and only slightly then. The present is awkward with me though, because now we all know from the future that she makes it out of being captured, and then in the present here she is just getting capture and wha-o did I just confuse myself. I don't see how though...weird. Anywho, review and tell me what you think so far, I think I have a method to my madness somewhere in here...somewhere.