Gantu's Ohana
Part II
A Lilo & Stitch Fanfic
By Brenna "Snakelady" Dawkins
Rating: RDisclaimer: Lilo and Stitch and all subsequent characters are owned and copyrighted by Disney Studios. I have made no money off of this or any of my other fanfics… pity!
Summary: Gantu's and Nani's budding relationship encounters the usual growing pains while the rest of their ohana deals with the new situation in varying ways.
Gantu lay still, sated and content for the first time in resent memory. His eyes wandered down to the amazing beauty that slept soundly upon his chest and his smile widened. He was happy. It was all because of her. He was amazed that such a tiny human could have brought so much joy into his aching heart. He didn't want to move from that spot. The ex-Captain wished he and Nani could just cuddle there in his bed forever. There was no force on Earth or beyond that would get him to wake her up. She'd earned her rest, after all she'd gotten a rather vigorous workout trying to get him off. She'd tried and after a time, had succeeded.
It had been messy. Very messy, but Nani hadn't seemed to mind. Of course, in the throws of sex, one can put up with a lot of stuff one normally would not. After he'd gotten an orgasm out of Nani, they had cleaned up and then come back to cuddle on the bed. It all felt so right when he knew in all respects that it was very wrong.
He felt her stir and his breath caught in his throat. Her lovely eyes fluttered open and a smile swelled on those plush lips of hers.
"Morning." He murmured softly as he gazed down upon that perfect body.
He felt her stiffen and he wondered instantly what he did wrong.
"Did you say morning?" She lifted her upper body partially so he had full view of her breasts. Her black hair fell in a mess around both shoulders.
"Yes. It's just about dawn now."
Nani pushed herself up. "We've got to get back! I left Lilo all by herself!"
"What about Jumba and Pleakly?" Gantu said, reluctant to leave.
"Well, I shouldn't have left without telling them I was going to be gone all night." Nani berated herself for losing all her self-restraint with Gantu. "We should get back."
Gantu sighed. "Must we?"
Nani paused in her motion of sliding off of Gantu's body and onto the floor. She smiled regrettably and stroked his peck. "Believe me, I'd rather stay and cuddle with you, but I got responsibilities." She slid off and onto the floor.
Gantu rose and brought his legs around so he was sitting with both feet on the ground. The sheet was shoved to the foot of the bed and his full length was revealed.
Nani's eyes were drawn to his body. Heat rushed to her face and she quickly turned her back on him as she picked up her discarded clothing.
"Yes." She let the disappointment read in her voice.
She heard the rustling on the bed and knew he was standing and continued to get dressed. Nani felt a gentle finger resting on her shoulder. She reached up behind her and clasped it with both hands in an awkward hug.
"Will this… ever happen again?" She heard him ask.
"I want it to, very much."
She heard another sigh out of him and wondered if it was a sigh of relief.
"What is going to happen with us now?" He wondered.
She heard all this before with David and knew what he was asking. Things still hadn't calmed down at the house. She now knew they never would. Her life would always be just crazy and almost out of her control. She'd kept pushing David away until he left all together, a strange thing for someone to do who was so afraid of being left behind. Nani knew she didn't want to lose Gantu. Keeping him would open up a whole new set of problems, but losing him… that would be worse.
"I… I guess… we're a couple." Nani was still holding onto him half clothed, unwilling to let him go just yet.
"How will they take it?"
She knew 'they' meant Lilo, Jumba, Pleakly, and Stitch. A worried knot began to form in her gut. "I have no idea."
There was a long bout of silence.
"If it's going to cause problems, you don't have to stay with me." It had taken a lot of effort for him to give her a way out like that. He didn't want to lose her, but he also didn't want to make her miserable by making her life complicated.
"They'll have to just deal with it. It's our decision to make, not theirs." Nani said more derisively.
Gantu was inexplicably relieved.
"I'd like to call them though, to let them know we're all right and on our way back."
Gantu grabbed up his boxers and tried to remember where he left the comm unit. "I think I left it in the drawer here." He put on his boxers and went looking for it while she finished dressing herself and ran her fingers through her tousled hair. He came back and gave her the unit.
"Um, how do I work it?" She stared at the alien contraption. She never bothered with Jumba's toys before so she really had no clue.
Gantu dialed a number distractedly for her from memory with one hand while trying to dress with the other then gave the comm back and went to find a new uniform since his old one was pretty thoroughly trashed.
Nani waited for the multi-eyed genius to answer. What was taking Jumba so long? Was he in his lab at THIS time of the morning already? Well, then why wasn't Pleakly answering? She couldn't help but start to feel worried. She was certain that Lilo and Stitch were causing or about to cause trouble somewhere at anytime.
Finally the screen fluttered to life and she was about to say hello to Jumba but instead an ill-tempered looking gerbil filled the screen.
"GAN-TU!" The thing shrieked at the screen causing Nani to wince.
Nani stared at the furry face, the twitching nose, the red eyes, the long ears… had to be the Dr Hamsterviel she'd heard so much about. THIS was the thing that had Gantu at his complete mercy? She instantly disliked the ill-reputed fur ball. Gantu must have dialed the space rats number by mistake, after all, his mind was decidedly elsewhere at the moment.
"Do I look anything like Gantu?" Nani growled at the rodent.
Hamsterviel blinked. "No… wait, you are that human!"
Odd. What did he mean by that? Of course, he'd come up against Lilo often enough, maybe he knew they were sisters, she surmised.
"I am A human, yes."
"I can SEE that, you microscopic minded minkbat!" The rodent spat back at her. "What are you doing on that useless fishfaced turncoats ever laughable ship?"
Nani bristled at the unjust insults and wondered if that was what Gantu had had to endure all the time he had worked for the creature she already found to be very annoying.
"Never mind!" He snorted before she could manage a suitable retort. "You just made it easier for me. I might have missed the first time, but now you are right where I require!"
The first time? Then Nani froze. The time she had been kidnapped and Nani and Gantu… it had been Hamsterviel all along?
"What? Why?" She wanted to know what the little wretch needed her for.
"Me to know and you to find out only in a most painful and terrifying way, HA HA-A-A!" The insane rodent goaded. "See you soon!"
See you soon? Nani dropped the communicator and took a step back. She was about to call out to Gantu when she was enveloped by a light and then promptly vanished.
It took a lot of digging but Gantu finally found one of his old uniforms and shrugged into it. It was a bit of a tight fit. Had he put on weight? Gantu sighed. He was going to have to get back into shape. Nani sure hadn't minded that he lost his conditioning. He shivered in the memory of her tender touch and longed to have her touch him there again and soon. Gantu shook his head, trying to clear it. He realized he was partially stiff below just from thinking of her and frowned that the only suits he had were skintight. It could be very awkward for a while.
He walked back into the bedchamber and stopped when he saw that it was empty.
"Nani?" He took a quick visual survey of the room.
He saw something on the floor next to one of Nani's discarded flip-flops. Gantu moved over to it and picked up the comm unit that she had dropped.
"NANI?" Gantu called out, raising his voice.
She hadn't gone home before him, had she? She seemed to be in a hurry, but she'd have told him, wouldn't she? Of course, she didn't know her way around the ship either so she probably wouldn't have found him. But… why leave her shoes?
Humans. He may be in love with one of them, but that didn't mean he was that much closer to understanding their strange behaviors. Out of habit, he pocketed the comm unit, put Nani's shoes in the pack of items he was going to save, and then left the ship, hoping to catch up to Nani on the way home.
But he did not. She was fast for a human, he thought. He was sure he'd catch up to her. But after all of his run-ins with Lilo and her pet trog, he didn't blame her for thinking the house could be in ruins or worse. Gantu found that upon thinking of the miniscule human girl, those usual irritated feelings he typically had just weren't there any longer. He'd actually settled in. He'd found a family at long last. He'd put up with those two trogs 6-2-5 and 6-2-6 cheerily if only he could keep everything else.
He arrived back at home and grinned to himself. Home. A very unlikely home but it was better then back at that ship. He clomped into the drive and saw Stitch out on the porch, almost like he was keeping watch.
"Eechukeeda, Gantu, umballa Nani!" And with that, the blue trog dashed back into the house.
He caught the gist of what 6-2-6 had said. Nani hadn't arrived yet? What was that all about?
Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakly, and 6-2-5 in that order came out of the house to see.
"Where's my sister?" Lilo demanded of the huge alien as she ran up to him.
"I'd say he'd made a sandwich outta her but that can't be 'cause he couldn't make a sandwich to save his life." 6-2-5 replied.
Gantu stood there confused. "You didn't get her call just a few minutes ago?" He looked from her then over to Jumba.
"Was receiving no call from Bigger Girl." Jumba told him in a serious tone.
This was ridiculous, Gantu thought. "But I dialed you comm to comm for her!"
Jumba shook his head. "No call. No, Nani. Last we saw, after you she ran."
"What did you do to my sister?" Lilo demanded, her tone had turned hot.
"I swear, I didn't do-" well, he HAD done something to her, just… it didn't feel right to blurt out that they had had sex the night before right then-"I didn't harm her! Why would I hurt my family?" Gantu felt a familiar bead of panic wriggle within his being. What was going on? Where was Nani? "What, she didn't make it back? I thought she had left my ship before me. But… I still have her shoes." He thought off handedly.
"She'd been on your ship all night? Then how can you not know where she is now?" Both of Lilo's fists were clenched and he was very glad she didn't inquire as to the reason for that overnight stay.
"I wouldn't hurt her! You have to believe me!" Gantu hoped she could be reasoned with. All that talk about trust… where was it now? Why was he suddenly defending his honor when something had gone wrong? He knew it! He knew if he'd let his guard down then he'd get it in the end! Why hadn't he listened to his OTHER conscious? Trust was a lie. Family was a lie. Love… was a lie. The usual, all too familiar sour blanket of stress settled in on top of him.
Jumba's comm went off and he grabbed it up, turning it on. "Genius scientist Jumba speaking to you."
It was Hamsterviel. "Hello, you many eyed bubble brain ex-partner and thief!"
"That's GENIUS SCIENTIST unfriendly gerbillike creature!"
"HAMSTer… HAMSTERlike you reject from another world you!" Hamsterviel shrieked.
"What do want?" Jumba sighed, hoping the alien rodent would eventually get on with the reason for the call.
The insane white fur ball on the other end just laughed for a moment until he calmed down then continued with a smirk. "I just called to gloat. Gloatgloatgloat! HAHA!"
Jumba's brows furrowed. "Ah, okay. What gloating over?"
That stopped Hamsterviel's rant for a moment. Only for a moment though. "I got experiments irritating pet humans big sister, is what, you foul smelling too many eyed offal!"
"What? What did he say?" Pleakly asked confused.
"How'd you get my sister?" Lilo dragged Jumba's hands down so she could peer into the comm.
"How do you think, you simpleton runt? You think I can transport from just ANYwhere? Plucked her from Gantu's ship. It was easy for a master of all things such as myself!"
Everyone looked Gantu's way. If he had the pigment for it, he'd have paled.
"You naughty scamp!" 6-2-5 replied. "You went back to working for that jerk?"
"NO! I didn't! I didn't do it!" Gantu felt frantic now. Dr Hamsterviel had Nani. The question was why? No… the REAL question was…would he ever see her again and then make these people realize the truth about how he really felt about the strange Earth girl?
Lilo stomped up to him, eyes were brimming with tears and anger plain on her face. "You lied! We helped you and YOU LIED!"
"I didn't!" Gantu repeated desperately and had to take a step back because suddenly they were all advancing on him, even 6-2-5. "I'm not! I would never hurt Nani! I swear to you!"
"NO!" Lilo said fiercely, "I wont believe you! She wanted to help you and you gave her to Dr Hamsterviel and I'm going to have to go and save her by myself all over again!"
"Hamsterviel gave no conditions, Little Girl." Jumba said.
"I don't care! There will be no trade this time! We're going to get her back and that's that!" Lilo almost shouted at Jumba.
"You want me to prove myself again to you? Is that it?" Gantu asked feeling rather angry himself. "I tell you I will never hurt her, I cannot… EVER! Because I LOVE HER! You got that? She was with me all night because she WANTED to be with me! We lost track of time, is all! Maybe we indulged a little too much, she was concerned for you and wanted to call you but I guess I called that white worm by mistake and now he's taken her right from under my nose! I LOVE HER! I refuse to harm the woman I love!"
It had all come out in a blistering rush. But Lilo had forced his hand. They had to know, it was his only chance… for them to believe him… to trust him. Please… let them believe!
"You and Nani?" 6-2-5 laughed, almost bending over double from the exercise.
Gantu grit his teeth and gave the yellow trog a very dangerous look.
"E-e-ew, that is just… not natural!" Pleakly flailed his willowy arms in response.
Jumba looked up at Gantu, "If telling truth, then have question or two for you later."
"I don't believe you." Lilo held the tears at bay but not the anger.
"Fibber?" Stitch said to his human friend.
Lilo blinked, fighting the battle against the tears and looked over to the experiment. "Yeah, that's a good idea Stitch."
"What is?" 6-2-5 asked curious and enjoying every moment of Gantu's discomfort.
"One of your cousins is a lie detector, remember? We can grill Gantu and find out what's really going on." Lilo told the yellow cousin.
Gantu glared at them, feeling the early prickling of tears himself. Why couldn't they just believe him? Why bother fiddling with all of this when that nasty rodent could be doing something horrible and irreversible to his love? And why did every time something potentially good happen in his life did it always end up as a great big, painful mess?
(Author's Note: This fic has definitely started going in a totally different direction then when I first imagined. I had wanted to throw some angst in to stir things up and tie up some ends from the first fic, but I wasn't sure how to do that until I started writing this chapter. Funny how it can go in a totally different direction in an instant! I just have to figure out how to get them out of this mess now. Now, read, review, and enjoy!)
To be continued…