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And now, I present the 7th chapter of 'Rebellious'

Chap7- rendezvous with the enemy and arigato, my angel.

Disclaimer: hey…sadly I do not own Escaflowne…nor the characters. However the following two characters are mine, so no stealing without permission: Midnight, and Slicer. Oh! and I forgot to mention, the gang name "dark cats"-totally mine. So yeah…I think that about covers it…I hope…so yeah, no suing moi…

Hitomi casually walked down the street with a giant smirk in her face. She wasn't as nice as everyone thought she was. Hehe, she had just successfully dumped allen shezar in a dumpster, of course after she had beaten the crap out of him. Hitomi grinned again.

"well, well, well.. if it isn't wittle hitomi Kanzaki. How has my girl been, huh?" a male voice said. Hitomi turned around to the source of the voice she knew all too well and came face to face with-

Van was slowly fallowing hitomi. After yukari's story, van didn't think he would ever let hitomi walk alone again.

'why am I suddenly so protective of her? I mean, we just met yesterday.' Van thought. 'it's because you don't want to see her hurt, face it van, you have serious feelings for her.' Van's heart said.

"I'm so losing it.." van murmured. Van suddenly halted. He heard voices. Hitomi's and another guys. And by the sound of his voice…he and hitomi are acquainted, and not in a good way. Van crept closer. He hid behind the wall of the bakery shop. He would let hitomi handle this her way. If things got too rough, he would step in.

"first of all midnight. I'm not your girl, secondly, I was doing fine until you showed up and thirdly, what the hell are you doing here?" hitomi asked very bluntly.

"tsk, tsk hon. one would think you would be happy to see me." Midnight scolded.

"yeah, one would think, that doesn't mean one knows." Hitomi said sternly. "besides you didn't answer my question. What the hell are you doin' here?" hitomi asked again.

" just walkin'…." Midnight said cheeckily.

" oh cut the crap 'night!!!" hitomi screamed. "if there's one thing I know you don't do, it's walking around bakery shops! You hate the smell of bread. Now tell me, what the hell do you want?" hitomi asked.

"Ok, ok, sheesh…well I uh…never uh…well repaid you." Midnight said. "for what?" hitomi asked, utterly confused.

"this." With that, midnight's fist met with hitomi's face, knocking her on the ground.

"it's pay back time sweetheart. For leaving me 2 years ago."

Van was listening to the whole conversation.

'so this is the creep who took advantage of her…how can she stand talking to him?' van thought. Suddenly he heard someone fall to the ground, and then hitomi's groan. Van quickly jumped out of his hiding spot and the scene he saw made his blood boil. Midnight was kicking a half conscious hitomi. He suddenly lowered down a started to kiss her roughly. His hands crept up her shirt, reaching her bra. Hitomi tried to struggle against him, but she was to wounded to do anything. Suddenly midnight collapsed, blood leaking from his head. The last thing hitomi saw was a figure leaning over her.

"my angel.." she croaked.

Van froze. Her angel? Did she just call him her angel? Van shrugged the thought off, and carried her bridal style, leaving the unconscious midnight on the ground, blood still leaking from his head.

"uh…where am I?" hitomi said aloud.

"in my house." A masculine voice said. Her eyes snapped open. She gazed around the room she was in .she was in van's room. She looked to the side of to see van tending to her wounds.

"v-van?"

"shusshhh, relax hitomi. You need your rest. " van's voice soothed her ears.

"what happened?" hitomi asked.

"well, I'll tell you if you promise to relax." Van said.

"so yuki told you the whole thing huh?" hitomi said. "never thought I'd live to see the day yuki would break a promise. Hmph, funny ol' world aint it?" hitomi asked. Van had told her everything yukari had told him, why he followed her and what he did to midnight.

"I'm sorry 'tomi, it just, I'm worried about you. I mean you nearly got raped, for the second time in your life." Van said. Hitomi touched van's cheek, surprising him.

"it's okay…thank you, my angel…" hitomi murmured as she fell asleep, her hand still on van's cheek. Van smiled. Her angel. He was her angel.

'And I'll do anything to make sure you stay safe hitomi. I promise.' Van silenty vowed. He carefully got up and left the room, leaving hitomi to sleep.

Meanwhile, midnight was busy tending to his own wounds.

"damn boss, you look like someone just punched the livin' daylights out of ya! a voice said.

"shove it Slicer, before I rip you to pieces." Midnight hissed. 'where ever you are bub, I'll get you. I'll make you pay for disrupting me. Oh and don't forget hitomi, I'll get you in the end- dead or alive' he thought evilly and started to laugh insanely, earning some weird stares from the other members.

"WHAT ARE YOU ALL STARIN' AT?!?!" he bellowed. 'oh yes, I'll get you hitomi…'

Moi's domain:

Ooohhh….we have big scary dude entering picture….and ooohhh…we may have some fluff later on….ooooohhh and possibly more allen bashing…now, I know you want to see all of that now-but you'll only get it if you REVIEW!!!! And no flames please!!