The World Falls Away
Chapter 5: Search and Rescue?
Jen "The Stampede" Motou
"You finished yet Tolle?" I heard ring above me, and held myself from looking up to what I knew would be Mirallia's mocking face. There I was on my knees cleaning –her- room. I guess even if I tried to pin it on Kira it'd come back to me. Oh well. Kira would find it funny. Lucky bastard he was. Getting off easy. He just got kicked off the ship for a while, I got cleaning duty. Why is it that women band together? It's not fair I tell ya! You can't fight against that! I threw the sponge back into the bucket finishing the last section of the floor. "There." I said sternly. "I'm done with your damn floor. Happy Now?" I growled standing up. "Yup. A little more anyway!" She playfully winked and headed into her quarters. "Go see the Commander now. Good Luck!" She waved closing the door. I sighed. I was SO dead. I hung my head as I headed for the bridge un-rolling my sleeves.
The doors slid open and I approached the Commander. "I'm finished Ma'am. What of me now?" I sighed defeated. She laughed. "Now, Now Tolle you'll learn from this." She smiled, before speaking again. "I want you to…." I didn't want to hear it. It was going to be something awful, I knew it. "….Go find Kira. Go be with him for a while. You two trouble makers obviously need time off of my ship. Go wreak havoc in town. Just don't get arrested." My eyes went wide. Did I hear her right? I was free? "Yes!" I gleefully shouted, and then saluted her. "Thank you Ma'am!" I then rushed from the room. I went back to my quarters changed into my clothes and headed outside. I looked around, but I didn't see Kira.
I sighed, mixing myself in the crowd. I kept looking ..nothing. I felt like I was getting no where. "HEY KIRA!" I shouted. Nothing. "KIRA!" I shouted again. Still nothing. He had to be around here somewhe….Hey there he was! I looked across the street and he was coming out of a restaurant with a slice of pizza in his hand. Like I said –Lucky Bastard. I began to wave my hand in the air as I went to cross the street. "Hey Ki---urgh!" I shouted only to suddenly get pulled backwards behind a building. "Will you keep it down! You're going to get some people in trouble!" I heard a low voice shout at me. I turned around and saw two boys –about my age- glaring at me. One white hair and pale. The other Dark and blonde hair. "Shut up! If you had gotten us busted I would have beat the shit out of you! I don't care who you are!" "Calm down Yzak. I take it you're a friend of Kira's?" the blonde was obviously the more reasonable of the two. "Um…yeah." I said unsure of what was going on. "Yeah? What's your name? I'm Dearka, that's Yzak." He said calmly extending a hand. "Tolle." He smiled, and turned around to face the direction Kira was headed in. –South-
"Well Tolle, you see that Blue haired guy? That's one of Kira's friends too. And he just so happens to be one of our friends. However if he sees us, he'll kill us at the moment. You follow? So please keep a low profile." He –as I said- was the more reasonable of the two. "I understand, but then if he's Kira's friend why isn't Kira talking to him?" I was so so confused. The boy smiled. "Well we've been watching Athrun for a while and then well Kira was a funny story. The kid's got a sense of humor. That's for sure. –It's gunna get his ass beat- but a sense of humor. You see, Kira saw good ol' Athrun a while back. Much as we figure, he's following Athrun the same way we're following them. Probably waiting for a chance to scare him." I grinned, and tried not to laugh. "Sounds like Kira. So I just say with you guy, and keep low. Sound good?" The other boy growled and crossed his arms. "Whatever." He snorted. "Yeah, if you're Kira's friend that's fine." Dearka…that was his name right?...agreed. This was getting rather interesting, I Pondered what I could do now, as I watched Kira happily walking down the street –while eating his pizza of course- as he followed that boy haired boy. Oh the things I do to my friends. I grinned.
To Be Continued.