Of Friends and Family
They had arrived on her planet later in the day; it almost seemed that they would never be able to leave, because of all the last-minute things that just had to be dealt with, then and there. But they made it.
And the first thing that he noticed was that they were back at the spot that they had first met. The strange hard black ground forming a perfect oval around a field of grass, and metal bleachers on the one side. The second thing that he noticed was the air. It seemed so thick and stale. It was almost painful to breathe, and he wondered why he never noticed these things before…
The last thing that he noticed was Hitomi's expression. It was like she was trying to imprint the look of the place in her mind.
When their eyes met she told him that this place was her old high school, and her current place of employment. The empty parking lot told her that the place was closed so they would have to come back another day. She led him to the 'train station' where she got her pass and some money out of her purse, which had been returned to her by Merle, after the feline had discovered that her two sons had "borrowed" the bag that was 'full of interesting things.'
The 'train' turned out to be a long metal horse-less carriage –for lack of a better word- that had self opening, talking doors, which apparently told you what stop it was.
Just as the doors were closing, two identical girls raced into their cabin, it was only the four of them. When the two new comers spotted Hitomi their eyes lit up and they grinned from ear to ear, a perfect mirror of the other.
"Kanzaki-sensei!" they both chimed together.
"Sousei, Futago!" Hitomi greeted, "What are you two doing here?"
"We were at the school-"
"Cleaning up the classroom-"
"Because it's-"
"Our turn." They answered together, each finishing the other's sentence.
"Oh? I was just over there and it looked to me that no one was there."
"That's because-"
"Everyone left about-"
"Ten minutes ago."
"Oh, I see." Hitomi said.
"So Kanzaki-sensei-"
"Have you decided-"
"What theme you will-"
"Be teaching us this year?" Now Van was getting dizzy.
"And is that a new sword?"
"Can we see it?" they asked eagerly, seeing Van's sword that was hooked onto her belt.
"And why are you dressed-"
"In those funny cloths?"
"Was there a festival near here?"
"Well, you see girls. This sword is actually Van's, and since he doesn't have a permit, I'm carrying it for him," Hitomi started to explain, for with the return of her purse came the return of her permit to carry not one but two swords. It had nearly taken her forever to get the permit, but she stuck with it and finally got it, and so was very happy to get it back. "And I'm not gonna be coming back to teach this year."
"What?"
"Why not?"
"I have to focus on other things this year. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching all of you, but things change, and I just can't teach any more."
"It's alright,""We under stand." You could hear the disappointment in their voices.
"But you're the-"
"First teacher-""Ever-"
"That can-"
"Actually tell-"
"Us-"
"Apart" the last word they said together in unison.
The train had come to a stop and the announcer had said something that sounded like a bunch of gibberish to Van.
"Well this-"
"Is our stop."
"Good bye Kanzaki-sensei."
"Good-bye girls."
As the doors closed behind the two girls, a heavy silence fell over the couple that lasted for several stops.
"Van." whispered Hitomi, finally breaking the silence.
"Yeah?"
"Thank you."
"For what?"
"For being here…I-I don't think that I would have been able to do that if you weren't here with me."
Now all they had to do was wait for the test results to come back. They were at Hitomi's brother's medical clinic, awaiting the result of a pregnancy test. They of course knew the answer, except as Hitomi had pointed out, not many people would believe her if she said 'A greatly respected, genetically enhanced, samurai, from another planet told her that her aura had changed to that of a mother's.'
Now the only question was, how her brother was going to react?
They had stopped at her apartment so that she could change clothing, and make a couple calls –her cell phone was still MIA.
Ring…
Ring…
"Hello?"
"Hey"
"Hitomi?"
"None other."
"Wow, your back early."
"Well, ya…"
"Tell me."
"Yukari…" Hitomi sighed
"Come on, out with it."
"Are you going to be out all night?"
"That was the plan."
"Well don't go changing your plans because of me."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive, I just wanted to tell you that I was back, like I promised."
"Well, if you're sure…"
"I am!"
"I guess that I'll see you some time tomorrow then."
"Kay, bye.
"Bye."
Click.
"So that was Hitomi calling you?" asked Amano.
"Yeah." Yukari confirmed, "and there's something that she isn't telling me."
"She has always been a bad liar."
"Yeah… I wonder what it could be this time…"
The test had come back, and now she had to go and tell the patient that she was… wait this can't be right.
She had known the patient for a very long time. And this could not be right.
She needed a second opinion.
"Dr. Kanzaki!"
"Yes, Komori?"
"I need a second opinion on this test result." She handed him the file.
"Well, this is pretty straight forward, the girl's pregnant." He stated barley glancing at the file, and started to hand it back.
"But, Sir, look at the name." Komori insisted.
He gave her a look, incase it was all a practical joke on him, and the name was a male's. But he looked anyway. And what he saw went way beyond any practical joke. There, sitting on the nametag as all names do was:
Kanzaki, Hitomi H
"WHAT!"
"That's exactly wh-"
"WHERE IS SHE!" he yelled as he stormed down the hall. He paused when he came to a corner.
"Room 21E!" Komori called out.
"We have received word of when the wedding between the Dragon and the Seer will take place. Shall we attack?"
"No. You will not. They will be expecting that. But prep the men, you will attack on my order."
"Yes, of course." And with that he bowed himself out of the control room.
A plan was forming, a plan that would not fail –this time- and would tip the scales of Justice in their favor.
They were waiting for what seemed like forever, when the door finally flew open to reveal a man in a white trench coat. He scanned the room with his eyes, he saw Hitomi and…
Him
"That the guy?"
"Ah, ya…" Hitomi answered, slightly embarrassed. But before she could say anything else his fist connected with Van's jaw in a mean left hook. "Mamoru!" Hitomi shrieked, as the man in the white trench coat was getting ready for a second attack. "Don't!" but that didn't stop the enraged doctor. "That's Van Fanel!"
That seemed to stop him.
"Van Fanel? The Van Fanel?"
"Yeah."
"The guy who kidnapped you about ten years ago?"
"He really didn't kidnapped me, he-" she stopped when she noticed that her brother had begun his assault once again. By this time Van had recovered enough to start blocking the boy's attack, and was on the verge of fighting back. "STOP IT!" came her feeble request once again, as she moved to intervene, and pry the two apart.
hi all.
i am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so sorry for taking this long in updating. but i swear that i have a good reason. it's called homework.
i cannot make any pormisess on when the next chapter will be comming out, but it will...eventually -.-;;;
EternalAffliction- well hoped you liked this
Lyra the Sorceress of Scholars -well is that a good start?
Blitz KriegHerr- yes, yes i am aware, but in all fairness she has been taking it easy (compared to what she normally does) and is trying to teach the guys what she knows before people start telling her to stop and let someone esle take over.
Fae Rain- why thank you, and the practices will be explained when you meet her sensei
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