Rouge Angel

By Chikara-Yuy

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Chapter 2: Fights, Flights, and Kidnappings

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Life sucked. She knew it. Everybody knew it.

Kari continued walking that girl she had met earlier had troubled her a bit.

Too friendly. At least for her taste.

Kari stopped at the local ammo shop, walking in she strode over to the section that had the bullets she wanted.

Trowa was trying to decide if the 9 caliber bullets or the 12 caliber were better. And if they should have the blunt tip or not.

He spotted a girl out of the corner of his eyes, so he didn't pay much attention to her first. It wasn't uncommon to find women in place like this. After a moment though he noticed her picking up the steel piercing bullets. What troubled him now was, why would a girl need steel piercing bullets?

His first thought was terrorist. He watched her but made sure she wouldn't notice that.

After she bought her purchase he followed her out giving the man strict instructions to send his purchase to the Winner mansion.

As Kari walked out she knew that the boy was following her. Hell who could miss someone staring at your back with that glare?

Kari knew she had to find a way out of this, so what would she do?

Fight him of course!

Kari quickly turned a corner into an alley, knowing the boy would follow her.

Trowa smirked as she turned a corner sharply into an alley.

'Good but not good enough,' he thought, smirking somewhat.

As soon as he followed her around the corner though, not knowing the same girl was waiting for him.

Kari as soon as the boy turned the corner let his face collide accidentally with her fist.

"That was rather stupid, you walked into an obvious trap."

"Stupidity makes a person do rather interesting things," he replied.

"Like what?"

His leg shot out and tripped her. "Like that for example." With eyes of contempt she stared at him. He just stared back. Growling she jumped to her feet, preparing herself for a fight. Trowa didn't really tense. She was good; he could tell just from looking at her. But now she was serious, now it was like a matter of life or death. She lunged at him with her fists up, ready to strike him. Trowa managed to block the upper cut to his diaphragm but could not evade the roundhouse delivered to his left side. Carefully he moved his feet to position himself for a "deadly" blow. Kari did not notice. With a swiftness that an acrobat could only have he delivered a total of five punches and three kicks, all in various places ranging from the upper torso to her legs. She stumbled but regained herself. Dragging in a ragged breath she took her stance and ran quickly to him, acting as if deciding on a headlong attack.

'She should know better than that,' Trowa frowned. 'She must have figured out that straight forward attacks don't work.'

At the last moment Kari went to the right and then behind him. Her arm came up and a chop to his neck stunned him briefly. Kari knew it wouldn't give her enough time to escape so while he was still in that brief moment of shock she went to the front and dug her fist into his diaphragm. Winded Trowa gasped for a breath and watched helplessly as the girl ran off.

Kari after managing to reach her safe house was sitting in her room accessing her wounds.

She was in her favorite black tank top and had taken off her pants so she could see the bruises on her legs. A thump came from down stairs attracting her attention. Cutting the light out she grabbed her gun and hid behind her door.

After about a second her door opened and a form walked in. Kicking up her left leg she felt it collide with the person's face then she quickly followed up using her gun to knock him out.

Kari leaned over him and noticed that it was a boy with black hair in a rather tight looking ponytail.

Then a blunt object hit her in the side of the head potentially knocking her out.

Her last thought was 'how did I miss him?'

Heero stood over the girl, moved her off Wufei and pulled the unconscious boy up. Trowa came in and took Wufei from Heero, letting Heero pick up the girl.

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Kari shook her head- it was kinda groggy. After managing to clear the fog from her brain she looked around and accessed her situation. She was in a room and tied to a chair. 'Great, ' she thought 'just great, K will kill me. '

She looked to her left when the door opened and glared as five boys entered.

One was sporting a good bruise on his chin. She figured he was the one she had kicked.

She then noticed that the braided girl from before was standing behind him. In addition, to the left of her stood the boy she had fought later after that meeting. To the right stood another pair of boys a blonde one with a somewhat kind looking disposition but it didn't seem look like it at the time. And the other had dark hair and was glaring at her. Before she could even blink he whipped out a gun and had it pointed in her face.

"Start talking."

"About what? There are a lot of things I could talk about you know."

Heero's eyebrow twitched.

"Let's start with your name."

"Which one?"

Duo from behind Wufei stepped up "Well, how many do you have?"

"Depends. How many do you want?"

Duo decides to take this over stepping in front of Heero and his potentially dangerous path.

"Alright let's do it like this, when I say name you give me your name."

Kari looked at him with interest; she now noticed this was a boy, she kinda felt something familiar about him though.

"Alright, let's do that."

"Name"

"The Easter bunny."

Duo took a deep breath. "Name"

"Helen of Troy or Helen of Sparta, if you prefer."

Duo stared at her. There was no way she could be serious about this.

Duo then said "Alright either you tell me your real name or Heero here gets to shoot you."

Wufei interrupted "NO. I want that pleasure."

Kari at this point was picking at the rope with her fingernails.

Trowa noticed the movement. He stopped her by tapping her lightly on the shoulder.

Kari looked up and gave him a look that said well-you-expect-me-to-stop?

Trowa just reapplied the bonds only tighter.

Kari really was beginning to hate this boy.

The arguing 'children' now turned back to her.

"Just give us your damn name." said Wufei.

Kari rolled her eyes. "You know I could just give you a fake name and you wouldn't even know it."

Wufei stared at her.

Kari turned her head and twisted it around her shoulders in a circle fashion, popping her neck.

Trowa who had moved over to converse with Heero about this was now not watching their 'hostage'.

Kari, taking this as an opportunity, started to oh so casually pick at her bonds again. None of the boys noticed this.

As Duo turned back to her Kari stopped picking at the ropes.

"Okay, until you can tell us your name, you are staying here tied to the chair."

Heero sat down in the corner of the room in front of her. Kari ignored him as the others walked out.

It was a while before Kari fell asleep.

A twelve-year-old Kari stood on trembling legs as fire bloomed all around her. It felt like a dream, or rather a movie with no sound. Her sea green eyes wide with fear she looked around frantically for a way out. So many people, so much suffering. Why? Silently she screamed for a person unknown to her, yet familiar all at the same time. A window appeared to be her only salvation. Picking up a chair was only accomplished through the strength of fear. The window shattered easily under the weight and force. Leaping out brought sounds, smells, sight. Smoke still entered her lungs and she coughed. The smell of human flesh and hair burning would not leave her nostrils. But worse, were the sounds, always screams of agony and pain, crying out to some god of salvation to give them peace. It seemed that they were crying 'My wounds cry for the grave, my soul cries for deliverance, will I be denied?'

Without knowing how she was semi lying behind a rose bush, the fragrant blossoms now riddled with the other horrid smells. A figure stood before her, as always a shadow in her mind, there but not all the same. His voice rang clear through the night as flames danced to the stars in a strange tribute to them. He called the same thing.

"ARI!! NO, NO, NO! DON'T! YOU BE GONE TOO! ARI!"

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"AHHH!! NO!!!" Kari half-awake started screaming.

A form across from her came over to her and only made her scream, if possible even more loudly.

"GET AWAY!!!"

Now Heero gripped her shoulders and shook her from the dream Kari opened her eyes and scanned the room. It was dark now. From what she could tell it was possibly around midnight. Kari realized she was still shaking from the dream and that the boy had now backed away from her.

At this moment the door opened and the other four boys rushed in.

"Who was screaming?" said Duo. He then noticed that the girl looked pale and was shaking. 'Shit' he thought.

Duo walked over to her and knelt in front of her.

"What's the matter honey?"

Kari didn't look at him but seemed to flinch.

"IF I tell you my name will you let me go?" she asked without looking at him.

"Well, we might untie you." Said Duo.

"Kari."

Duo nearly fell over at the name.

'No, no, no, no! Gotta be a coincidence.' He thought.

All eyes were turned on Kari.

"Last name?" said Wufei.

"I…I don't know it."

Wufei frowned.

"Onna if your lying…"

"I am not lying. I have had amnesia since I was young."

At this tidbit of information, the boys shut up. Duo moved behind her and untied her. Kari slipped away and backed far away from them. She found her self cornered by the wall she slid down it and sat there.

Wufei stared at the girl a minute. "There is no shame in showing emotion onna."

Kari shook her head and turned her face from him. Trowa didn't say much because well… he didn't know what to say. Quatre gazed at her for minute then walked over to her but stopped when she tried to dig herself further into the wall. Duo looked to them all in turn and they trailed out the door.

Heero sat back down in his chair and watched her to make sure she wasn't going to try and escape or he hoped he could help Duo wasn't sure. Duo walked over and sat down a little ways from her.

"Want to talk about it?"

Kari looked at him. Duo looked into her eyes and saw nothing there. Like the eyes of a corpse, no feelings.

Duo felt bad for this girl. He sighed he knew he had to be the one to ask questions but he would save that for later. He nodded to the bed to Kari's right. "Sleep." He stated and Duo got up and glanced at Heero who gave a nod and Duo walked out closing the door behind him.

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end chapter.

Cliffy again. I am cruel aren't I?

He he. Anyway the lines in italic of Kari's dream are from some lyrics by evanecence. A friend gave them to me. I also owe her credit for helping with the dream thing. . she's a great friend. Okay that's all for now ta ta!