Chapter 3: Yurika, Yurika!!!
Jun waited outside Yurika's door listening to her sob. He had often done this in the past before they even knew about the Nadesico but this time it was very different.
Unable to stand the sudden silence that came from Yurika's room, Jun lifted his fist to knock but was suddenly thrown backwards as the door flew open. Jun, who was now on the floor, looked up and was slightly taken aback to see Yurika smiling. Jun stood up and stared at Yurika. She stared back at him and then jumped at him in a hug.
"Oh Jun! Thank you so much for everything!" Jun felt the blood rush to his face and wiggled to get out of the hug. "What did I do Yurika?" He almost yelled jumping backwards. "You are still such a great friend! Even though you believed me to be dead for two years, you still came to wish me good luck on searching for Akito! Akito has been my night in shining armor for so long and now I can go and rescue him!" Yurika continued to babble on in a thoughtful way, "Oh but I won't be able to do it alone, who knows where he could be. He could be far away from Earth by now." Jun laughed in an awkward way.
"Oh Jun, Thank you so much"
"What now"
"I will get it done so much faster with my best friend by my side!"
"Now wait a minute Yurika, I never said…"
But now Yurika had already ran down the hall way singing.
"Why did you leave? Come back please Akito" Ruri yelled as she ran across a grave yard, her arms reaching toward a shape in the distance. Suddenly the scene evaporated and now she was running threw the hall of the First Nadesico. The shape was still there though, standing in the distance. Ruri reached it to find it was Akito with his back turned. He looked around and Ruri and smiled. "Ruri!"
"Akito…" Ruri said coming to a halt in front of him. "You've come… back?"
Akito just continued to smile at her.
"Why Akito! Why did you leave! Why!" Ruri yelled louder than she had ever yelled in her life. She was so angry with him as much as she was relived. Before she could stop them tears were streaming down her face. "How could you? The moment you save her life you run off! She is in her room crying, she has been for days!" Ruri spun around on her heels so she didn't have to look at his face anymore. Her voice lowered to a whisper. "I discover that you are alive and then you run off, you can't do that to us Akito."
Ruri felt Akito's hand land on her shoulder and she turned around to face him with surprise. Akito was wearing his pilot suit and he was no longer wearing a mask and his face wasn't sparkling.
"Ruri I always come back. I made a promise."
Ruri looked at her feet. For the first time in her life she felt the urge to hug someone and cry on their shoulder. She felt the need of a parent, or a friend. The only time that Ruri had ever felt that she needed one was when she had been looking for her parents at a lab she had grown up in.
Ruri released a loud sob and fell forward on Akito. He lifted up his arms and wrapped them around her shoulders. "You should wake up now Ruri" He whispered to her.
Ruri jumped out of her bed and someone who had been leaning over her yelled. Ryoko fell to the floor next to Ruri. "Trying to kill me Captain?" Ryoko gasped grabbing her heart.
Ruri looked down at her still pulling out of sleep. So it had only been a dream Akito wasn't back. Disappointment surged threw her.
"Yurika has finally come out of her room and she is surprisingly happy as always. Right now she is running around the hotel with Jun chasing her ." Ryoko said with a loud laugh. "Yurika is saying we should leave this moment."
Ruri slid her feet to the side of the bed and stood up. "We will need to figure out who wants to come with us." Ruri said walking over the vanity and putting her hair up in pig tails. Ryoko laughed again "That would be pretty much everyone. Akito has touched a lot of hearts."
"And we will have to get Nergal's permission to take the ship"
Ryoko sighed "I don't think that is going to happen, you know Nergal."
Ruri shrugged "They won't be able to stop us but we might as well ask them before we become outlaws again."
Ryoko smirked.
"Never!" A fat man with a large mustache yelled over his desk. "I won't pay for you to play hide and seek with a run away pilot!"
"Cook" Ruri and Yurika said together.
"Coo-? Well it makes no difference."
"Please sir. The only ship we can use is the Nadesico." Ruri said Yurika looked back at the wrest of the crew that agreed to come with them to find Akito.
"From what I have heard Akito Tenkawa does not want to be found." The fat man said. "Now this very crew I know has gotten away with a lot in the past, but don't get any ideas Captain. You will not take that ship!"
Ruri bowed and turned to leave the room. "I'm sorry to have bothered you then Sir."
"Your not really giving up are you Ruri?" Yurika said as they walked out of Nergal headquarters.
"No." Ruri answered " I still have a contract with Nergal. I am still captain of the Nadesico." Ruri smiled
Minado laughed "You have such a pretty smile Ruri-Ruri!"
Notes: I was determined to make this chapter longer but I think that this is an ok place to stop. Hopefully next chapter I can get things going. I got to think of a good enemy. Feel free to give suggestions over review. I'll update soon