Booboo-nyaa: Booboo is back after a terrible writers block.
Ichigo: Good golly girl, what took you so long?!
Booboo-nyaa: Gominasai…..
Ichigo: It'll take more than a little 'I'm sorry' to make up for your lack of updates!
Booboo-nyaa: Super sorry…
Ichigo: T.T
"Arekkusu?! Arekkusu?!?!" Ryou shouted at the sick girl below him.
Arekkusu moaned and turned over, a pained gasp escaping her lips once more, as she tried her best to curl up into a small ball.
"Arekkusu! What's wrong?!" Ryou asked in a panicked tone, trying his best to sit her up as she continued to flinch from his grasp.
"W-w-what's w-wrong…?" she repeated his question, her voice a pained whisper. "E-everything's wrong…."
"What do you mean you allowed the prisoner to escape?!" Pai roared at the trembling child bowing at his feet.
"I'm sorry Pai, so, so, sorry! It's just that she-"
"No excuses!" Pai snapped as he turned and inspected the damage done from the bats.
Hmm, she summoned them using bat sonar similar to the one she used on us, but this time doing so was undetected by us because of the magnitude of the frequency that she hears . Pai shook his head to clear his thoughts. What mattered now wasn't that she escaped; it was how they were going to get her back.
"Yo, what'd I miss?" Kisshu said as he teleported in the room and saw the broken window.
"Our prisoner escaped thanks to the idiotic fear Taruto has for the black flying creatures that Arekkusu deprives her mew energy from."
"Come again?" Kisshu asked.
"Tart has a fear of bats. Arekkusu used bats to help her escape. And if I need to describe the events with even more simplicity, I shall send you back to grade school to further your understanding of Japanese speech." Pai glared at his younger comrade with a sense of apathy, for what did he care whether Kisshu understood or not.
"Oh…So wait a minute, Koumori-chan escaped?!" Kisshu exclaimed, jumping up in a panic.
"Yes baka. It's the subject we've been discussing for about five minutes before your interruption." Pai's dark purple eyes seemed to have a glint of emotion trapped within them; anger, anger that their only captive escaped; she was not only a hostage, but someone they promised Deep Blue-sama that they would get.
"This is bad…Really, really, bad…" Kisshu said while pacing around the room suddenly worried sick.
"Yes, Kisshu. We know that loosing her is bad. What will Deep Blue-sama say?" Pai questioned the last part mainly to himself.
"No! I couldn't care less about what that squeaky sounding shadow has to say to us, I'm talking about what's gonna happen to her—!" Kisshu froze and clamped a hand over his mouth.
"What? What's happening to her?" Taruto asked, curious at Kisshu's behavior.
"Kisshu. There's something you're not telling us, something important." Pai stated; it wasn't a question.
"Okay, you know how we were discussing how much trouble she would be, fighting back and all? Well, I sort of had a plan for that…… And it involved something I took from your lab, Pai."
"NANI?! You stole from my stores in the lab?! You thieving, little-"Pai stopped as a small worry began to grow from deep within him. The things in the lab were far past the usual limits of dangerous, most were down right lethal. He thought of what Kisshu might have stolen; mollified by the label he could have chosen something that sounded harmless, but in fact caused a painful reaction that would kill in less than an hour.
They needed this girl alive. Alive and unharmed.
"What did you take and give to her, Kisshu?" Pai growled, pronouncing each of his words with a perfect menace.
"Well, the label said it was a Paralysis pill. And it was supposed to keep enemies from moving too much or struggling because of something called a 'Misery Disease' that was in it. Although being sick of misery isn't too bad, is it?" Kisshu gave Pai a hopeful look that soon turned into one of horror.
Pai's eyes had widened ever so slightly, and the smallest flash of worry was visible in his dark eyes.
"W-what's wrong with it?" Kisshu asked, afraid for the answer. If Pai ever reacted with emotion, even the smallest bit that shoed he wasn't bored, you could count on whatever caused it to be bad.
"Kisshu, you baka!" Pai spat, anger taking hold. "We need her alive and in condition to fight with us! Not dying a tortuous death!"
"Death?" Kisshu asked with a gulp.
"Yes, death!" Pai stalked out of the room and muttered darkly about getting a teleporting block and key lock for his lab.
"Where are you going, Pai?" Taruto asked, afraid to say more incase he unleashed Pai's rage on him again.
"To make an antidote. Deep Blue-sama will be displeased if he finds out we let the girl die without trying to help." He said in a dull tone, what little bit of concern on his face had vanished, leaving behind his usual bored glare.
Ryou was alone, alone and panicking. He had no one else within the café to help him with the suddenly but violently sick Arekkusu, who's condition was slowly worsening as she lay there panting on the ground.
Grabbing her by the armpits he hoisted her up and managed to drag her up the stairs and to her room, where he lay her down as gently as he could, but she hissed from the pain of it.
"Arekkusu? Stay with me now, Arekkusu." Calm was something hard to come by when you don't know what the heck is going on, but Ryou still managed to keep enough of it in his voice to let her know it was alright. Well no, it wasn't alright.
"Hurts……it hurts…!" Arekkusu moaned as her breathing hitched and set off in a labored, pained, and uneven pattern.
"What hurts? Can you tell me that, Arekkusu?" Ryou asked loudly as he ran to get a first aid kit and some ice.
Her whispered answer required Ryou to run back and put his ear near her face to hear it.
"It's cold… Way too cold… But then it's also too hot… like an oven and an ice box at the same time. My stomach's hurting too; like that time I had the stomach flu, only this is worse."
Ryou could only wait for her to continue as a bone rattling cough engulfed her.
"I'm pretty sure…it's not…the…" she trailed off as she leaned over her bed and threw up violently into the trash can right below her.
"Is there anything else?" he asked, powerless to help in any way.
"Uhhg……" she moaned as she tried to move.
"Can't move…It hurts too much… Like knives pressed and jabbing at me… in the same points it would be…if I was sore from push-ups…" she wasn't trembling anymore, but her eyes flicked back and forth, they were bright with fever.
"Sore from push-ups?" Ryou asked; he had never really done push ups, and never the amount necessary to be sore from them.
"Yeah……right before my shoulders, and four points at my abdomen……can't move…!" she coughed again, and Ryou knew that questioning wouldn't help with her anymore.
"Grr, how am I supposed to help when I don't know what's wrong with you?!" Ryou shouted at the ceiling, not expecting the answer that followed.
"You hand her over to us." A voice echoed eerily before the air it rippled and revealed two of the aliens.
Kisshu had his hands at his sides as he saw another guy next to his new toy. For that was what she was to him right now, what Ichigo once was before he realized his true feelings for the red-head. Of course this new girl would never be able to get the same level of devotion Kisshu gave to loving Ichigo, but since she was going to work with them, he probably had a better chance with getting her to love him than his beloved Koneko-chan.
Pai was just watching the sick girl with the gaze a predator gave a piece of unappetizing prey. Not worth his time, but still necessary to obtain.
"Aliens!" Ryou shouted his fist clenched. Where were the other mews and Ichigo when he needed him?
"Huh?" Arekkusu asked weakly as she raised her head by a fraction.
Eyes widening at the two of them Arekkusu barred her teeth in what would be a growl, but just ended up being another energy depleting cough.
"Kisshu, it seems like what you gave her has only just taken effect." Pai said before addressing Ryou with a neutral tone, "But do know that if this disease continues to spread and affect her from within her blood stream, she will die before nightfall. Hand her over, and she shall be saved and unharmed."
"Oh yeah? And how am I supposed to believe that? Huh?!" Ryou shouted.
"Well, considering we want her to fight with us, I believe we'd want her unharmed. And whether you believe us or not, we're taking her with us." Kisshu smirked as he teleported right behind Arekkusu, and jerked the sickly girl up and into his grasp.
"Bye-Bye, loser!" Taking an extra second Kisshu stuck out his tongue and teleported off with Pai right before Ryou's fist could make contact with his face.
"DARN IT!!!" Ryou shouted before kicking over a chair in her room. Once again, he was powerless to help.
Darn it!
Arekkusu wanted to scream, wanted to move, and wanted to fight the boys who kidnapped her for a second time.
But alas, the grip this disease had on her prevented even the slightest pain-free movement.
"Here." Pai said as he handed Kisshu a small vile of blue liquid.
"Antidote?" Kisshu asked as he unscrewed the lid.
"Hai. Now this time, you stand guard and don't let her escape." Pai growled.
"I'm not lettin' her go!" Kisshu exclaimed, offended that Pai would think that he would let her escape. The nerve of him!
Pai teleported away leaving the two of them together alone.
"So uh, I should give this to you now?" Kisshu asked, uncomfortable with the silence.
If Arekkusu could talk, or much less make an annoyed face, she would have given him one of her smarty-pants remarks.
"Um, I'll take that as a yes." Kisshu said before tipping her chin back and letting it slide down her throat as he placed it at her lips.
The effect was immediate.
Gasping back to her normal un-sick self, Arekkusu swallowed the rest of the antidote and sat there panting for a minute.
"K-Kisshu?"
"Yes?" He answered.
Reeling back, Arekkusu punched him as hard as she could in the face.
"You complete, blundering, stupid, no-good god for nothing IDIOT!!" grabbing his shoulders and pounding him onto the bed, she shook him for a good seven minutes while telling him about how much of an idiot he was.
After the time went by Kisshu had finally had enough.
"I get it! What I did was wrong, but geez! You don't have to kill me over it!"
"Well you tried to kill me!"
"I didn't know it would hurt you that bad!"
"Well, try asking before you use, dumb bell!"
"Just shut up! You're getting annoying with your nagging!"
"Make me elf-boy!" Arekkusu jumped back into a fighting stance, and her face plainly said: 'Come and get me if you're not a scared little girl!'
For a second, Kisshu's eyes gleamed with the prospect of putting this girl in her place, but then he shook his head. He even grinned too.
"I don't fight weaklings. Or girls." That last statement alone was enough to get Arekkusu fuming even more.
"Ooh, scared much that this girl's gonna' kick your butt?!" she shouted, not masking her rage very well.
Kisshu blinked. There were many things you couldn't tell a warrior of his planet. Telling them that they're scared and unable to even fight girls were some of them.
"You want a fight? I'll give you one." He said as he summoned his Dragon Swords.
Booboo-nyaa: Well, how'd you like it? And I am sorry for the lack of updates. It's been pretty crazy with the whole new-grade-last-year-of-middle-school thing. But expect more frequent updates!
Ichigo: Your writing style has changed a bit.
Booboo-nyaa: New English teacher, duh.