(A/N: Hey all! I've returned from never-neverland- AKA Sunny California! Now that I've parted ways with the pool and caught a cold, I'm all about you guys again! So kick back, relax and enjoy!)


People murmured and cast uneasy stares at the drenched teen in her purple PJ's.

Akane quickly got rid of said people with ferocious glares that could make even the hardest of soldiers wet themselves and continued on her way.

Of course she wherever she went, she ran into a new crowd of anime background charas.

And it was really becoming aggravating scaring a new group off every three seconds.

"Mendokusai…" Akane grumbled, massaging her temples, "I really need some new threads."

The thought of having animated clothing that had been worn by one of those…characters…brushing against her skin, made her sick.

But really, this was far past the point of annoying.


Hilde Schbeiker ran hurriedly through the crowd.

She couldn't believe herself!

How could she have slept in on today of all days?

She and Duo were supposed to meet up today and make stink bombs.

"C'mon, Duo buddy!" she internally begged, "Puh-leeez still be there!"

Then she heard the murmurs.

"Huh?" she wondered, "What's this all about?"

Hilde, being an average girl, and naturally curious, just HAD to find out.

"Arrgh!" she cried out mentally in frustration, "Why in the hell did I hafta be born so short?"


Akane glanced up preparing to glare away the masses again when she spotted HER: the PERFECT candidate (or close enough for all practical purposes)

She ducked low, darted through the crowds, and latched an arm around the former OZ associate's neck, dragging her into an alley (this wont end well)

Akane slammed the girl into the brick wall.

"AAH!" Hilde gasped, scowling up at the unknown girl before gaping like a slack-jawed yokel as she took in the PJ's.

"Hello." Akane sneered, crackling her knuckles," I do believe you're wearin' my outfit."

Hilde snapped out of her daze.

"Whut?" she snapped indignantly, "No'm not!"

Akane was now only millimeters away from Hilde's face, grinning in a way so creepy it should be considered illegal.

"Oh, yes you are!" Akane smirked evilly, closing in.

"HEEEEEEEEP!"


-Several Hours Later- Five Minutes To Midnight...-

"There you ah-Akane,wheredidyougetallthat?" Suo asked quickly.

Akane wa scurrently wearing Hilde's clothes (Hilde herself being bound and gagged back in the alley and stuffed in a garbage can)twirling an Uzi around her index finger, a duffel bag filled with only god knows what slung over her back, a motorcycle helmet tucked under her arm and a Ducati Monster parked out side.

"Wheredya think, retard?" Akane snorted, tossing the helmet aside, "From random background charas...duh-uh."

"HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU MUG?" Hinode shrieked.

"I dunno." Akane shrugged, "Lost count after twenty."

"Oh…my gawd." Sora moaned, hiding her face in her hands.

"...why?" Takaomi asked tiredly, face appropriately in palm.

"No reason." Akane shrugged, throwing the duffel across the room, "It's just this place pisses me off."

"So…you…robbed people?" Quatre asked, trying to find the logic behind her reasoning (there is none, sweetie; don't hurt yourself)

"What's it t' you,Blondie?" Akane snapped, still spinning the Uzi (smart enough to hold onto it even tho touching makes her wanna yakk)

"Hey, let's calm down now!" Duo grinned, "No need to get so tense!"

Akane glared viciously at him.

"Did I ask for your input?" she spat.


Wufei observed this with mild amusement,

He had to admit, the over cocky American had it coming.

"Hey." Suo said mildly, quickly getting over his youngest siblings crime spree, "It's time."

"Finally!" Akane said, exasperatedly.

"Awww." Sora and Hinode pouted, "That wasn't nearly enough time!"

Takaomi, thinking that Akane deserved to be punished, quickly whispered something into Suo's ear.

The tiny smirk that flitted across the twenty six year old's lips was not lost on Heero Yuy…or Akane as her eldest half brother nodded.

Suo pressed the button without anything remotely resembling a warning, causing the vortex Akane, Takaomi and the Otaku Twosome were all too familiar with to engulf them…as well as five unexpected guests.


Sora, eyes wide, saw Mannen and screamed the first thing that came to mind.

"CATCHMECATCHMECATCHMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Without thinking Mannen opened his arms wide as the fourteen year old slammed into him, sending them both flying across the room.

Hearing the commotion Kazuo came darting from his room down the hall…only to have Hinode crash into him, sending the pair smashing into an aquarium.

Duo hit a support beam, leaving an interesting shaped dent.

Wufei almost landed on his feet…until the oriental rug skidded out from under him causing his head to crack on the marble floor.

Quatre landed in the soft folds of the mattress laid out on the floor (still laid out from the sleepover)

Trowa landed in the new bean bag chair (to replace the one that had been utterly destroyed in the first saga)

Heero hurtled into a replica of the Venus De Milo, breaking it in half.

Onlya higher power knows where Akane landed.

Suo and Takaomi smashed into the foose ball table causing the legs to give out.


"Owww." Duo groaned, pushing himself upright, "Well that hurt."

Wufei had knocked himself out on the floor so he wasn't up for much talking right now.

Heero was really out of it because of the head trauma inflicted by the evil sculpture facsimile.

Quatre was entangled in the sheets and was currently trying to free himself.

Trowa hefted himself out of the squishy folds of the beanbag chair and went to assist the blonde Arab.

Akane was no where in sight.

"Unph!" Mannen grunted, "Y'alright?"

"Uh-huhhhh." Sora mumbled wearily, pain spider-webbing through her body.

"Anybody get the number a that truck?" Kazuo asked as a Tetra flopped helplessly on his head.

"Whyizz th' room all spinny?" Hinode asked, slumping against the 6'10" teen.


Suo, regaining his bearings, fumbled in his pocket for his cell, and hit a number on speed dial.

"Yo, Tachikawa? It's Miyazaki."

"…"

"No, not THAT Miyazaki." Suo laughed, "Listen pal, you know that time I loaned you two thousand bucks and you never paid me back? Well I'm calling in a favor."

"…"

"Glad we understand each other." Suo smirked, "Now here's what I want you ta do."


Akane stared at the wall blearily.

Her the backs of her knees and spine hurt.

A lot.

"Where exactly did I land?" she wondered.

She felt herself swinging.

A soft creak.

"That isn't good." Akane thought.

She carefully twisted herself around to see that she had somehow landed on the chandelier.

She heard soft murmurs several feet below.

She strained to hear and gasped in horror at what she heard.

"No…" she hissed as Suo hung up the phone with a satisfied smirk on his face, "NO WAY!"


Akane launched herself down from the chandelier, landing only inches away from Suo, stomping down on Wufei's ponytail, ripping him out of semi-consciousness.

"YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT!" Akane screamed.

"Do what?" Quatre inquired.

"OWOWOWWW!" Wufei cried.

"What's goin' on?" Duo asked.

"Nothing much." Takaomi snickered, "It's just you guys work s'hard we figured ya deserve a break."

"So I just called up my contact at the Anime Network, pulled a few strings and had Gundam Wing pulled off the roster for two weeks!" Suo grinned, thoroughly enjoying his sister's You-Will-Die-NOW!-look.

"So consider your self on vaca for the next two weeks gentlemen!" Takaomi smiled as Akane streaked off in the other direction shouting, "I HATE YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!"


"Uhh…" Wufei gasped, sitting up quickly and massaging his scalp, "Damn woman."

"Vacation." Heero muttered, regaining his senses quickly, "What about OZ?"

"OZ will wait!" Suo grinned, "Just think of it this way: Your world is a movie and we've just press the pause button for two weeks!"

"Understood." Heero nodded.

"Dually noted." Trowa murmured quietly, untangling the last sheet.

"I must admit, a vacation does sound pleasant." Quatre smiled, happy to be freed.

"Man, I can't even remember th' last time I had a break!" Duo whooped happily.

"WOO HOO!" Sora cried, glomming onto Trowa, "TWO WHOLE WEEKS WITH THE G-BOYS!"

"SA-WEET!" Hinode hooted, glomping Quatre, who blushed hard, "HOW COULD IT GET ANY BETTER!"

"Oi, where'd Monkey get to?" Kazuo asked.

"Yeah." Takaomi nodded, "She should be waist deep in her punishment!"

"Punishment?" Mannen asked, "Greeeeat. Whaddid she do now?"

"It's a long story that'd be best saved for morning." Suo smirked, "But for now, lets head to the security room."


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"DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN!" Akane shrieked running across the cool surface in barefeet.

She leapt into the air.

"DEATH TO ANIMANGA!" She bellowed, going into a swan dive and hitting the heated pool water with a tiny splash.

She swam along the bottom, circling like a shark, pivoting quickly at the corners.

Pressure building.

Oxygen, dissipating.

Need!

AIR!

Akane broke the surface with a gasp, swiftly refilling her lungs.

"Haaa…that felt gooooood." She smirked, dipping her head back and smoothing down her hair.

The thrill of dancing with death never got old.

It was a constant rush.

Know at any moment, that she could teeter off that knife edge and die was such a high!

And ever she did die well, oh well.

Too bad.

It was just a game to her.

A sick, perverse game to be sure, but still, only a game.


Akane took a breath and launched herself off the side of the pool, doing very speedy laps, determined to work off the anger and stress no matter how long it took.

Even if it took all night.

Which it probably would.

No…scratch that.

Undoubtedly would.

Because after completing her second lap, she heard a loud cry of, "BANZAI!" and felt several impacts hit the water around her that almost sent her sloshing head first into the side of the pool.

She didn't even need to guess.

Akane already knew that Suo had used the security cameras located around the house to track her down.

When Suo wanted to punish her, he always followed through…for the first three days at least.


Akane gazed at the high ceiling with contempt.

"God…Buddha…Jehovah…Geneisha…Colonel Sanders…whatever's up there…if you love me…you'll kill me…right here and now." Akane growled.

"Oh, Akane!" Kazuo grinned cheerfully, "You suffered through six years of child abuse, grew up to be a gang leader, a weapons fanatic and a violent freak!"

"Your two best friend and all four of your half brothers adore what you despise…" Hinode ticked of, "And your brother's frighten away any man that might be even remotely interested in you!"

"Whomever is up there obviously doesn't like you all that much!" Mannen smirked.

"These guys are good." Duo grinned to himself, "Waitaminute! Gang leader?"

Akane turned an interesting shade of red.

"Sh-SHUDDUP!"

She hefted herself out of the pool and stormed down the hall.

"After her!" Suo crowed.

"Affirmative." Heero nodded.

"Understood." Trowa said softly.

"Why?" Quatre wondered.

"Damn that woman…almost ripped it off my head." Wufei thought viciously.

"Hoo-hoo! This is fun!" Duo thought.


(A/N: Suo and Takaomithinks their punishment is brilliant, but our gaming genius has forgotten one factor of the equation: Akane's at home...where all her GUNS AND WEAPONS ARE STORED! What will happen next chapter? R&R!)