A/N: Okay I ended up clikcing this button and EVERYTHING I had written.. Bye bye...ugh. Okay let see if I can remember what I said. yes, I'm going to shoot myself for my psycho update. Too many stories to update now, and apparently they all seemed to be liked? Why, I wonder? Okay...uh updates may be coming in maybe once a week now because I have job...and soon it will be back to college. 9credited hours only though...so no worries. Just insane headaches and extreme emo fits. BTW if you wish to see me gripe about my life...I'm soliciting myself right now, go to youtube and search for animechuck. okay on now...story time!
Azure Monarchy
by Kara Papas
Chapter 2
The country without a government was nothing more than mere chaos. General Arisugawa begrudgingly thoughts of the many countries that had risen and fallen over her immortal life span. She managed to get a vehicle and directions to the docks at the Harbor of Angels. There she would finally get to talk to this Youko person. She had been at the laboratory before but was met by a rather odd woman who was rather excited about "being here". The warehouse was just eyeshot away as the general pulled into the makeshift parking lot by a classic convertible. She couldn't help but notice that in the back seat there were magazines for SIG 230. She looked at the warehouse and continued on.
Youko scoffed at the remark made by the brunette and was about to explain the nuances of the raven haired woman's death when the laboratory door opened yet again. The raven haired woman cringed turning around as fast as she could draw her gun removing the safety and firing without warning. As the person walked in the bullet passed right through their body and yet they still moved on as if nothing happened. The shot she fired should have killed the person instantly. The person was none other than General Juri Arisugawa, and she seemed rather annoyed as she looked down at the hole in her chest that was healing at an impressive rate. She looked up to see what sorry fool shot her and about fainted before catching herself.
"I thought I was the only immortal in this room." Juri said staring at the couple mainly fixing her eyes on the one with the smoking gun. "Natsuki Kuga…you're alive."
"General Arisugawa…" Natsuki said staring at the area she shot lowering her gun. "I'm sorry I shot you…" Natsuki said still getting it into her head that the General really was immortal.
Juri looked over at the short hair brunette and glared. The laboratory was full of silence after the gun went off and the subsequent none thud. The only sound present, at the moment, was the sound of light and heavy breathing soon disturbed by footsteps. Juri closed the distance between her and Youko. Youko remained still and had a rather shocked expression on her face keeping her eyes, also, fixed on Juri's chest. Juri grabbed Youko by her lab coat causing Natsuki to scramble over and Midori appeared out of thin air behind Youko with a death glare fixed on the General. Natsuki grabbed Juri from behind startling the immortal and pulled her back. Shizuru just sat back and watched the entire thing with a mild amount of amusement.
"General! What in the hell has gotten into you?" Natsuki shouted as she finally released Juri. Juri kept her eyes on Youko and ignored Natsuki's question.
"Doctor Youko! Explain to me, why I'm seeing a living Natsuki Kuga and tell me how did I see a very dead and decaying Natsuki Kuga. On top of that Shizuru Fujino seems to be alive and well too. Although I never did see her body…but that is beside the point. Why is Kuga live damn it?" Juri roared.
Youko sighed and rubbed her temples and pushed a chair at the General as if to tell her to take a seat. The General sat down and Youko grabbed her coffee and looked at Natsuki who walked over to Shizuru again. She smiled as the two seemed to become completely absorbed in each other ignoring the once was chaos around them. Youko looked back at the General who was impatiently waiting for a response.
"Well I suppose I can start from the beginning. I should though. Natsuki and Shizuru haven't really heard this either. They just accepted the visual proof and went with it." Youko said as Natsuki and Shizuru's attention was back on her. "Natsuki had come into the base before the Great Confusion and was badly injured, so much so, that she flat lined on her way in. At the time my laboratory was in the basement of the base's hospital so I had the medics bring her down there. I was actually excited that she arrived dead. Since her last physical I managed to create a clone mapping system that could instantaneously create an exactly replica of the specimen. However I never had a subject to work on. I'll skip the technical jargon so I can keep it simple. I did revive Natsuki but she wasn't responding. Her body had lost so much blood that her brain wasn't functioning correctly. However I thought I could try the clone mapping system and somehow link the two. I'm saving this best all my trial experiments on small animals only yielded a shell of some kind. The specimen was whole, but the brain activity did not work unless I injected a unique kind of neural probe."
"So are you saying Natsuki Kuga suffered brain damage?" Juri asked.
"Well, not exactly, more like a strong coma. Her brain was in a place I could not reach. However I thought the clone mapping system could work. So I created a clone based off her injured body healed the injury with my serum, injected the neural probes, and sent a body back upstairs and kept her real body within a stasis chamber." Youko said.
"Youko, does that mean Natsuki didn't experience any of the things that happened to her during her time in stasis?" Shizuru asked grabbing Natsuki's hand. Youko looked from Juri to the couple and back.
"No, I can't be certain…" Youko was about to continue when Natsuki spoke up.
"Shizuru, I can tell you for certain that I did feel everything. I felt it all. As if I was there. I remember the smell of the air, the textures of the environment, my emotions, and your heart beat…I remember everything. I felt it all…" Natsuki said running her hand across her chest. Shizuru's hand tightened over Natsuki's realizing what she meant.
Natsuki was alive during the period of her stasis, but her body would not respond to her brain's signals. The shell that Youko created really was another Natsuki Kuga minus the mind that made her who she is. It was by the marvel of modern science or rather more the marvel of Youko's insane genius that made it possible for this shell to function. Youko however never the extent of what the shell was until that very moment. Natsuki verified something wonderful and very horrible. Youko was not certain if she wanted to keep such an invention like that.
Juri looked at Natsuki and thought about what she meant but it did not hit her. As she watch Natsuki stoic expression and far off gaze. "Kuga, I know this may be hard, but what are you saying exactly?" Juri asked wanting to know.
"What I felt…I felt death. I died, and for a moment I did not exist anymore. And then my eyes opened and I was in this laboratory." Natsuki said looking at Juri.
"Both bodies flat lined, General. However the only reason Natsuki survived was because she was in my stasis chamber. It recorded every last bit on data while she was in there." Youko stated.
"Okay, this is making things much more diffucult for me. I was coming here to finalize the paper work on Kuga's death." Juri said.
"Okay, I can fill it out and you can be on your marry way." Youko said cheerfully. Natsuki smirked at her friend's remorseless attitude on keeping her safe. Juri glared at Youko earning a scared expression from the mad doctor. The air was becoming thick and muggy as all the women sat in silence until Juri stood up and turned to Natsuki.
"Natsuki Kuga, I'm the acting head of the government of Webstein." Juri started off.
"Natsuki, what is she doing?" Shizuru whispered and Natsuki eyes got wider as she was thinking about what was about to happen.
"I'm pulling your death certificate and reinstating you into your military post." Juri said glaring at the once was sniper. Natsuki brow knitted and clenched her teeth together.
"You can't do that! You're just an acting head of government. You have no such power! I refuse." Natsuki yelled.
"You cannot refuse this Kuga. I need you back in this country." Juri yelled back.
"The hell you do." Natsuki yelled back. Shizuru was becoming annoyed with the yelling match and placed herself between the two women.
"Now, General, if you would explain why you need Natsuki back..." Shizuru sighed shutting her eyes. She did not want to be here anymore than Natsuki did. She preferred the tropical paradise they had resided in for the last three months, but there was something up with Juri's request. Shizuru was an expert at reading people because of her particular spy work. Juri may be immortal, but she does not seem to hide her emotional intentions.
"Why? I do not need to explain myself to the likes of you." Juri said with contempt in her voice as her glare deepen when upon Shizuru. Natsuki eyes glowed with anger at the General's tone with Shizuru and stood up about to do something rash. Shizuru stretch out her arm at Natsuki and gave her a disapproving look.
"There you go again. Doing things without thinking?" Shizuru said to Natsuki making her halt. Shizuru turned her attention to the general placing on her best façade of a smile. "Well, I, happen to be Natsuki's conscience since she doesn't really think at times, and because you don't have anything to explain to the likes of me, Natsuki and I shall be going back to where we came from General Arisugawa."
Juri knew how to shoot low and she knew Shizuru controlled Natsuki's every last move. Their bond was strong but Natsuki's devotion to protect her lover was stronger. Juri scowled at Shizuru. "What does the whore of Karis know anyhow? You dare to talk to me like that! Do realize who I am? I am Juri Arisugawa the Warlord of Rose! You are just some filthy slut of the Karisan government who became the beloved of a mass murdering heartless woman! You have no standing with me slut!"
The words flowed out of her month flawlessly and not a second later Natsuki had the general on the floor with her fist up in the air. Shizuru knew what game Juri was playing and she was right behind Natsuki catching her fist before she started to pummel the poor immortal. Natsuki was blind with hatred. Juri did not predict Natsuki would move so fast to defend her lover, and was absolutely astonished that Shizuru Fujino was able to pick up on her ploy. Shizuru struggled to pull Natsuki off screaming her name to get her to calm down.
"You…you…how dare you! I'll rip your tongue out! You fucking bitch!" Natsuki hissed and spat at Juri who was picking herself off the ground. Youko and Midori were enjoying the argument and the fist fight before they finally decided to butt in.
"Okay, I need the three of you to take this outside. I have delicate equipment in here that I may need to use of one of you three or all you very shortly. I don't want to see anything ugly. Now, if you don't take it outside I can always have Midori kick you out." Youko said smiling evilly at Midori. Midori scoffed.
"I was in the military because I got drafted damn it! Peace and love Youko. Peace and love…" Midori said dryly as she walked away to the back of the laboratory. Youko glared at Midori leaving and looked at the three women who obviously ignored her.
Natsuki seemed as if she was done with her fit of rage as Shizuru finally let go sighing. Juri dusted off her clothes and grumbled about the idiocy of love.
"I'm sorry about my ploy, Ms. Fujino. I really do need Kuga to stay in this country and you have made your point clear." Juri said smiling. "I'm trying to reinstate the government. However my Monarch has made it clear she will have nothing to do with a democracy anymore. She wishes for the government to return to the former monarchy."
This peged Natsuki's interest and she raised an eyebrow. "The lost royalty of Webstein is rumored to be dead. Besides, chances are if there was a surviver they probably wouldn't know who they were since the republic went after every last document, picture, painting, crest, seal, you name it, and they had them destroyed! Hell I went on a mission to assissnate some of the remaining royals or at least those who had the bloodline in them, and actually had some form of documentation to prove it." Natsuki said going over her memories. Juri laughed morbidly making Natsuki look at her.
"Oh, that is sick. That is definitely sick, but chances are your government had no idea who you were." Juri looked at the ceiling and brushed her hand through hair sighing.
"Who I am? What are you saying General Arisugawa?" Natsuki said in a very calm tone.
"I'm saying you killed your only relatives and that you are the heir to the lost monarchy of Webstein. You are Natsuki Kruger the last direct blood heir to the royal family." Juri said in an exasperated tone.
"Oh no way!!!!" a voice shouted from the back of the laboratory. Youko slapped her hand across her face at the sound of her exuberant friend.
"That's what I wanted to say…around the lines of what I wanted to say." Natsuki mumbled looking at her feet and then she looked up at Juri with a pained and confused expression. "Okay, now, what in hell does this all mean?"
"We, her highness Utena Tenjou and I, Warlord of the Rose, want you to become the monarch, the Queen or whatever title you prefer, but we want you to lead this country." Juri said officially making Natsuki go pale.
"I spent the most of my military career killing people for my government. My other positions in the military were coincidental. I'm not a good choice for a leader." Natsuki said.
"That's not true Kuga. You led an entire division at the Richter Base and you are an excellent politican. I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if it hadn't been for your damn mouth in the GGC. My country had no intentions of allying itself with anybody, but you brought us out of isolation." Juri said stubbornly.
Natsuki blushed as she started to respond. "The only reason I was acting in that matter was because I had something important to protect. I was setting up a fail safe for myself, which didn't work out in the long run." Natsuki finished. Shizuru blushed behind Natsuki realizing how long Natsuki had been in love with her. Juri rolled her eyes.
"That is precisely why we want you to lead this country. Your devotion to your lovely partner makes you an excellent choice for a leader. Besides, if you do not choose to take this position I will have to let Karis take over this region." Juri gruffly said. "You must make a choice within the next few days Kuga…no Natsuki Kruger last heir to the royal bloodline."
Mini Feed
-Nao runs in from the other mini feed-
Kara: You should realize that all the mini feeds are shot in the same place
Nao: Why did you have to write me into this insanity?
Kara: Oh, don't worry you're dead as a door nail in this story or the first one. -hands Nao Deadly Lovers-
Nao: -does impressive speed reading and stops at chapter seven- You sick fuck!
-a pair a glowing eye appear in the dark corner of Kara's room-
Shizuru: Oh Yuuki-san...
Nao: -drops book and runs-
Oh, poor Nao. Hope you enjoyed my chapter of Azure Monarchy sequel to the emotional Deadly Lovers. -breathes-
now you know what I want...mayo flavored treats for Natsuki and reviews.
