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Chapter Twenty-Three
Trouble on the Ship
Not everything can be forgiven. Some have to live with regrets of their past choices for the rest of their lives. Some are so eaten up by them that they die, others can turn their heads and ignore all the guilt. Those who can do that are especially lucky. I envy them. Once, I was able to forget it all and live my life just how I wanted but now, when I sleep all I can see are the faces of those I've killed. Of those I hurt. And seeing his face hurts me the most. It will always hurt me the most.
It's the time of the season
when love runs high
in this time give it to me easy
and let me try with pleasured hands
to take you in the sun to promise lands
to show you everyone
It's the time of the season for loving.
The music played loudly in Kyri's ears. Now that it was just her and Vash alone that was how she ignored him. The twins had gone off to Notila like she had asked, and she was headed to Macca City. She knew that Vash would end up following her, but it didn't annoy her like she thought that it would. She found it getting harder and harder to ignore him like she had before. Vash just had that air about him that drew people to him; it was something that she was constantly fighting. She refused to give in.
She couldn't give in.
What's your name?
Who's your daddy?
Is he rich like me?
Has he taken any time
to show you what you need to live?
Tell it to me slowly
Tell you what I really want to know
It's the time of the season for loving
The duo were currently on a steamer with a bunch of other people, mostly bounty hunters, and most of them were men. She had dawned a cloak over her head, not wanting to deal with the assholes she knew that were going to try and mess with her; most men like these idiots were like that.
Vash was laying down beside her, having refused to be apart from her. If she let him, he would have placed his head in her lap like he used to, but he didn't want to take any chances. A week ago she didn't even want him sitting beside her so this was a huge upgrade from that. He knew that it would take time for things to get back to the way they were, if they were ever able to return to that, but he was just as stubborn as she was.
He had given a lot of thought to Alexia's words and taken them to heart. He was the only person who could change Kyri back to who she was before. He was going to give it everything that he had!
"I don't think you understand, Vash," Alexia shook her head. "In order to help her you have to understand. You believe that Kyri changed on her own but you're wrong. It was you, Vash. Always you. You were the restraint keeping her from going back to her old ways. You were the one keeping the Bladed Siren from emerging again but now...I've witnessed firsthand just how horrible the Bladed Siren is and that is your fault. You disappeared without a word, Vash, and then she found you living happily with that family." Vash's eyes widened. Kyri had seen him with Lina and her grandmother? "You left her, Vash, and it made the restraint break. I don't see anything left of who Kyri was with you. I just pray to God that you can bring her back again. She's too weak to do it on her own; she needs you."
He thought that by leaving her he was protecting her, but he was just being a fool. How could that protect her from her own sister? Or the Gun-Ho Guns? These people were a part of a team that she had created all those years ago. Of course they would pursue her. They wanted her back as their boss, didn't they? That's why they were chasing her, at least that's what he thought. And instead of staying there to drive them back off of her, he disappeared and left her to deal with them all on her own. Leaving her alone to deal with them on her own had been the worst decision he had made.
He had interrogated Alexia every moment he got to tell him about what the two women did after they left Alexander behind. It wasn't a very pretty answer. At first Kyri had been normal, searching for him in fear of his death or anything else that could hurt, but it was when they found him that she changed. When Kyri had found him as Ericks living with Lina and her grandmother…Vash hadn't even known that she was there in that city; he had noticed Wolfwood and Alexander right away but why not her? Unless Kyri had done it on purpose, but why? If she had revealed herself to him he would have spoken to her, tried to explain things before anything else happened. He was at a loss. He just didn't know what to do anymore, other than be himself. To be the same man he was over twenty years ago when he had first changed the Bladed siren into the true Kyri.
What's your name?
Who's your daddy?
Is he rich like me?
Has he taken any time
to show you what you need to live?
Tell it to me slowly
Tell you what I really want to know
It's the time of the season for loving
The duo sat in silence for what seemed hours before Vash perked his head up a bit. Kyri instantly took notice to his movements and, while she tried to ignore him and found she couldn't, put a stop to the music in her ears to listen to the group around them. Just behind them it seemed that a young woman was being harassed by a group of men; bounty hunters. She clearly had no problem in telling the men to leave her alone, even kicked one of them in the face when they tried to touch her.
"Didn't you hear men I told you not to touch me? You're acting like you've never seen a woman before. Are you guys virgins or what?"
Kyri couldn't hide her smirk as Vash stared at the woman like he was in love. She definitely had balls.
"You got a lot of spunk in you lady; I like that in my women. In fact it makes what I had in mind much more interesting," He began to play with that knife in his hands. "See, cause when I force you to do what I want you-" His words were cut off as the redhaired woman happily kicked him in the crotch.
"Pulling out your knife on this ship is just bad manners," She told him.
Then a brawl broke out, the woman completely owning the guys until one grabbed her from below. Kyri decided that enough was enough and stood up as they went to pin her down to the ground.
"This is why I don't like men," She stated loudly, pulling her cloak from her shoulders. "They always want to get what they can't have through force. This must be why you're all virgins still."
"Ooh, another one!" The blond grinned, stopping in his tracks. "And she's a hottie. This must be our lucky day!"
"I highly doubt that," Kyri grunted with a frown, crossing her arms beneath her breasts. "You have two options. Let her go or let me kill you. It's your choice." She was aware of everyone's eyes on her, but she didn't care, keeping her attention fully on the duo before her, waiting for them to move.
"Oh?" The black man gave a grin. "And just what do you think a woman like you can do to us?"
"Would you like to find out?" Kyri reached for the handle to her Gunblade when Vash's voice stopped her.
"Excuse me, guys?" The man in red was on his hands and knees at the black man's feet, staring at something on the ground. "Weren't you guys using a knife earlier? I think you dropped it over here earlier. You see, it's because I could really go for some of that smoked Tomas meat but I didn't bring a knife," He looked up with a smile. "I was hoping you guys would let me borrow yours!"
Kyri gave a sigh as another of Vash's signature one-sided fights broke out, leaving Kyri to help the new woman off the ground.
"Thanks," She gave a hurried word, her eyes watching the events before them, listening to everything. Kyri wanted to just turn her head away but she found that her eyes wouldn't move from the man in red. As Vash struggled with the black guy, a gun went off behind them, making them all turn to the guy the redhead had saddle-bagged.
"None of you are getting away with this crap, you hear me?" He tossed aside the piece of the broken knife that had hit him in the forehead. Kyri sighed as he pointed the gun at them, the other people all backing away out of the line of fire. "The first thing I'm gonna do is make this chick pay for not letting me touch her," Vash was tossed aside by the black guy and stomped on as Kyri took a step infront of the other woman. She tried to ignore the anger that passed through her as Vash was hit. "Or I can go for you first, either way I'm going to make you beg and cry. I ain't ever gonna let you off the hook. I'm going to make you cry and then when your tears are dry I'll make you cry some more. I'm going to make oyu regret making me mad, which means you're my slaves! Now get on your knees." Neither of them moved, only stared, so the man shot at the ground. "Dammit, I said on your knees!" As the two women just stared at him, it made the man angrier. "Do as I say!"
He went to shoot again but Vash moved first. Knocking the black guy off of him, Vash pulled on the blue tarp that was beneath them and knocked him off balance. Kyri moved forward and removed the gun from the man's hand and moved out of the way as Vash tied the duo up in the tarp like a little lunch bag.
"You really shouldn't make such a racquet, fellas," Vash and placed his fingers against the duo like guns, making them stop struggling. "And you shouldn't fire a gun on a ship."
Things fell silent for a moment before one of the workers on the ship began to clap. Vash stood up with an embarrassed smile. "Oh, enough with the applause; you're embarrassing me."
Kyri watched as another man walked forward and began to talk about how the duo had fired shot and that they should be tossed off. Vash tried to keep that from happening but in the end, he lost and had to watch as the duo and their things were tossed off of the moving ship.
Kyri turned to the redhead beside her. "Are you all right?"
She nodded. "Yeah; thanks. To both you and your companion."
Kyri closed her eyes for a moment before opening them again. "I doubt anyone else will try and do something to you after this event but if you want to sit with us until we reach the city then you are welcome to."
"I'd appreciate that," She gave a smile. "The name's Amelia."
The other woman smiled back. "Kyri."
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