(A/N: Ok. I'm pissed. VERRRRRRRRRRRY pissed. I just got an email that flamed me to high heaven! It said, and I quote, "What th' HELL? We know absolutely nothin' about Akane except th' fact that she's a royal BITCH!" Well, fine then! In this chappie, I'm including many of the details of Akane's past. So if your not in the mood to be depressed, skip this chappie. Not that there aren't funny bits in it! Oh no!In fact the format this time goes like this:
Beginning: FUNNY!
Middle: ANGSTY
End: FUNNY!)
Quatre, with his good manners and boyish looks, was easily able to score a date within a matter of seconds.
His date was a girl named Emily and was good mannered and fun loving.
Wufei, cursing all the while, had equal success.
And while it could be said that his date Rosaria had the brain of a walnut and the attention span of a goldfish, she made up for it with good looks.
Duo was the last one to get a date, and therefore, the loser.
His date, a girl named Sharona, was easy going and fun, but that still didn't sweeten the fact that he was gonna hafta bend and scrape to Akane for the remainder of the trip.
"Damn it all." He grumbled.
"What the matter, Duo-baby?" she asked, grinning.
"Nothin'…nothin'." He sighed.
Akane and her date, a boy named Adrian, were currently wrapped on a bench… "getting to know each other", when Akane's cell rang.
Pushing the taller boy with relative easy (and surprising the crap out of him) she flipped open the Razr and pressed the talk button, knowing immediately who it was by the familiar ringtone.
"I'm listenin'." She drawled, folding her legs, "Wazzup Suu-kun?"
-"Monkey, you're never gonna believe this!"- Suo said excitedly, -"I was tinkering around again, wondering to my self, 'Hmm…if the remote works on the T.V., will it work on DVD's too?' So I picked out the right DVD, fast forwarded to where we left off and-!"-
"Suo, take a breath." Akane growled.
-"-and it worked! The G-Boys we're still gone!"- Suo cried excitedly, -"And that wasn't the freakiest part!"-
"The freakiest…part?" Akane asked slowly, "And that would be…?"
-"I'll have Relena showya when she gets there."- Suo cheered excitedly, -"She's on her way now!"-
"WHAT?" Akane roared, making Adrian jump.
-"Later sis!"- Suo sang, laughing at his sister sputtering over the phone as he hung up.
Akane was shaking, her grip dangerously tight on the phone, head bowed and hair concealing her face…good thing, too.
Because if Adrian had seen the look on her face at that moment, he would have packed his bags and hopped the first flight for Antarctica.
She took a deep breath, trying to quell the unSPEAKABLE RAGE she was feeling.
Fat chance of that.
-Later…At Club Raro…-
Akane waited at the bar with the rest of the G-Boys and their dates, looking vexed.
She had abandoned Adrian at the park, saying, "…I'll call you...(under her breath) on a cold day in Hell."
Upon the arrival of Relena Peacecraft, Heero's mood took an immediate upswing (for him).
And while the G-Boy's were hoping to enjoy a night of dancing, fate (and the authoress) had other plans.
Relena, after giving Heero a quick hug and a kiss, informed them that they would be returning to the hotel.
"Whaaaaat?" Duo whined after being forced to part ways with his date, "But whyyyy?"
"Because, there is something you need to see." Relena said excitedly, in a very un-Relena-ish way, "It's almost too fantastic for me to believe myself!"
Duo looked at Quatre, who answered him a shrug and a smile.
"This is gonna be good!" Sora said happily, "I can tell!"
"Same here!" Hinode cried, "I can't wait."
"I can." Akane growled, "The way my life is going? It can only continue to get worse."
And she couldn't have been more right if she tried.
Upon their arrival at the hotel, Relena started digging through her travel bag.
"Here!" she said triumphantly, "Take a look at THIS!"
She whipped out…a DVD.
Sora's eyes widened into saucers.
Hinode let out a gasp.
Akane's jaw dropped and she lost hold of her cancer stick and lighter.
It was labeled: I STILL Hate Everything About You! (The Long Awaited Sequel To I Hate Everything About You, But WE Just LOVE YOU!)
And there, right on the cover, in all their animated glory, was Aoki Sora, Sakai Hinode and smack dab in the middle, trusty .425 Casul Taurus Raging Bull Revolver in hand, was Kakyoin Akane.
"Apparently..." Relena smiled, "…in our world? THEY are the anime characters!"
"Whoa." Duo whistled as she inserted the DVD in the player, "Too freaky."
"AWESOME!" Sora and Hinode whooped, hopping onto the couch.
Akane remained silent and leaned against the doorframe, lighting a new cigarette.
It had reached a point where everyone had gone to bed, leaving Akane's anime self to sleep on the cement floor of the Gundam hanger when she suddenly sat up, raking her hands angrily through her hair and staring out the window with contempt.
This led to a flashback.
A little girl, no more than two, trembled violently beneath a four poster bed while she choked back tears of pain, blood dripping down her shoulders from multiple stab wounds barely visible in the dark light.
The darkness of the unlit room, devoid of light as her mother had failed to pay the electric bill, made the shadows of the woman who dared to call herself a mother all the more frightening as she past the bed, seeking out her daughter.
"Oh my god…" Hinode croaked.
"It's…it's Aka's…" Sora couldn't get the words out, but it really wasn't necessary.
They all knew what this was.
Akane's most private memories.
Akane's past.
Another flashback.
The same girl, only about a year older, about three now, sitting on her front steps by herself looking at a chipmunk in a nearby tree.
Only Akane could have known that the girl was home alone.
Her…mother's…current boyfriend drove by just then, her mother herself in the passenger seat, glaring at her, and the child panicked.
She leapt to her feet and ran inside.
By the time she ran into her room and dove into the closet.
Her mother came in, a fiery anger, fueled by sake', blazing in her eyes.
"I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU NEVER TO GO OUTSIDE! WHERE ARE YOU? GET OUT OF THAT CLOSET!"
The woman proceed to throw the door open and drag the girl out by the hair as she shrieked in pain.
Wufei wondered vaguely why he couldn't unglue his eyes from the screen.
Relena was crying, but couldn't look away, Heero's hand enclosed tightly around hers.
Duo and Quatre were shaking a bit, shocked by it all.
Trowa's eyes we're narrowed; for a brief instant, he looked a touch angry.
Another flashback.
The girl was cowering on the couch, rocking back and forth in agony as her mother repeatedly thrashed her across the face and clearly starved body with a tequila bottle as the child tried in vain to shield herself with her twig-like arms.
Yelling at her, screaming, "WHAT DID I TELL YA, YA LITTLE WHORE? YOU LISTENIN' TA ME!"
The child, through tears and blood, continuously nodded cried out, "Yes ma'am! Yes ma'am! Please!"
"STOP SAYING THAT!" She roared, bottle smashing into the girl's cheek again.
"Why?" Sora wondered, tears pouring down her face, "Why doesn't somebody just turn it off?"
"Why can't I move?" Hinode wondered, sobbing quietly.
Yet another flashback.
It was late at night, and the girl, now five, had just finished doing the dishes and was about to got down to the cellar for bed, when her mother's boyfriend called her back.
Finally, the only one who had any real say in this spoke up for the first time.
"…no…" Akane whispered dryly.
The man laid her down on the floor, his face twisted in a leer.
Then all you could see were the girl's legs, and her mother's boyfriend's hands pulling down her underwear.
The silence in the room was deafening.
A midnight blue blur shot forward, and with a single punch, destroyed the television.
Akane stood there amidst the bits of broken glass, plastic and cables shaking, blood dripping from her fist.
Her cheeks had drained of all color.
Her lips were white.
Her lilac eyes were wide as saucers and brimming over with tears that refuse to spill and indescribable animalistic fear.
Without a word to any of them she darted from the room.
Quatre being the empath that he was, had been blasted with the full extent of her pain and had dashed out after her.
"Akane!"
Quatre was quickly catching up.
Hey, being a Gundam Pilot doesn't come easy.
"Oh God, leave me alone!" Akane moaned in her mind reaching the stairs.
"Akane, wait!"
Akane took the stairs as four at a time, Quatre right in her dust.
Almost at the bottom, she miss stepped and fell, twisting her ankle in the process.
Akane attempted to push herself up and go down the rest of the way reach the street, but Quatre's hands on her waist halted her.
Immediately Quatre's arms were around Akane's thin shoulders and she crumbled completely, clinging to his shirt as she cried.
He sat there on the steps as the rest of the G-Boys, Sora and Hinode approached quietly, still holding Akane, as she continued to sob.
Everything she had worked so hard to repress had come back to her.
Everything Akane had worked so hard to heal from and move on.
All the damage that had been done came back to bitch slap her and it shocked her.
"N-no one…'sever sposda...suh-suh-see that." Akane managed to croak out, "I…I e'en lied in th' court a law…din'n tell…weren't sposda know…never sposda know…"
No one knew what to say.
"You can't tell'em." Akane begged suddenly, eyes wild with fear as she looked up at them, terror etched in every line of her face, "Can't tell'em! P-please don' tell muh-my brothers."
So went the night.
Nobody slept very well.
And in the morning, Akane had taken off again, causing everyone (not just Domino) to panic…until they found the note on the refrigerator saying:
AT HOTEL POOL- Akane.
They were running down the "Down" escalator faster than the Flash,knocking an innocent passerby out of the way without so much as an "Excuse Me".
"Whaddya think?" Duo asked, "Dya think she'd tryta drown herself?"
"Well after last night, ya never know." Sora grimaced, throwing open the doors to the pool.
And there she was.
In the pool.
Floating on her back.
Staring at the ceiling...
…fully clothed.
Why she was in the pool fully clothed was anybodies guess, but she floated over in their general direction and stared lifelessly up at them.
"Uh…hey!" Duo grinned sheepishly, unsure of what to say, given the circumstancces, "Ya wanna cookie?"
With tiny a smile that slowly melted into the malicious grin they were all too familiar with, Akane shot her hand up, wrapped it quickly three times around the Deathsycthe pilot's braid and with a violent tug, sent him flying into the pool with an almighty splash.
"PLAH!" He gasped, resurfacing, "WHAT WAZZAT FOR?"
"Bein' a dumbass." Akane shrugged, swimming over to the ladder, "And…stickin' yer pretty boy nose inta other peoples business."
"WHAT?" Duo cried in disbelief.
"Uh, Aka?" Sora asked, "Just a question, but how come you're swimming like that?"
"Sloth." Akane answered, sloshing out of the pool, "I was feelin' too lazy to change into my suit, so…I just jumped in like this."
"Well, once is alright Miss Kakyoin." Domino sighed, toweling off her hair, "But don't do it again, okay?"
"Yeah, yeah." Akane drawled with a smirk, "Sure thing old man."
She wrenched away from him and cannon-balled back into the water.
"MISS KAKYOIN!" Domino cried, now thoroughly soaked.
"We're going to the Emerald Isles next right?" she laughed she did a backstroke past Duo, who had yet to exit the tepid water as he was sulking.
"Yup!" the braided boy said, instantly brightening, "Breweries galore!"
"So much booze!" Akane sighed happily floating past, "Gonna get plowed and them some!"
"Well she certainly recovered fast." Relena observed mildly.
"Mention the words 'cigarettes', 'booze' or 'guns' around her and she's bound to cheer up." Hinode sighed.
"Hey Maxwell." Wufei called, "Don't forget! Since you lost, you are now that woman's personal slave for the duration of the trip!"
"Hey…yeah!" Akane grinned malevolently, "I almost forgot about that."
"Yeah, thanks OH so much, Woofer." Duo grumbled, "Whaddid I ever do to you?"
"Do you need a list?" Wufei asked.
(A/N: Kiss Meh Ahm Irish! The group arrives! As for what happens? Welll...that you'll have to read for yourself! R&R!)
