Saii Lands on the hot sand motionless with many burn marks on him, Aneko rushes to him calling to his name as he slowly sinks into unconsciousness remembering that day...
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The Group headed to the town of Comodo, the town happened to be in the way of the journey so they decided to make a short rest stop. The crew was celebrating in joy and laughter and liquor was one of the main dishes being served.
Jericho kept insisting on Aneko to have another drink after another as he wished to share and show to her the joys of life that a normal person can enjoy.
"Ugh I?ve had enough Jericho?"she said feeling tipsy after taking more than 5 shots of tequila.
"Nonsense, you don?t have enough till you can?t stand up!" he replied to her while barely keeping one eye open obviously to the liquor. He takes the bottle and guzzles it down as he lays back and falls asleep snoring loudly, as she can only watch and laugh. That?s when she notices that Saii stands up silently and walks off into the darkness of the permanent night.
The laughter and joy filled the air as the crew indulged themselves at the feast; their voices seem to get farther and farther away as she ventures out silently walking behind him.
Saii is seen alone in the beach, he tends to be a bit antisocial, so he likes to have a bit of quiet so he can think.
Having been tipsy she stared at him, dreamily, wondering why he always walked off on his own, not returning for a few hours at a time.
She had often wondered what he thought about, she having snuck after him a few times unnoticed as far as she could tell.
As she was staring at him, she noticed a faint tickly feeling on leg.
She looked down at what appeared to be a baby thief bug. (She has a fear of bugs to the extreme) Her eyes got small as she sweat-dropped.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! She screamed as she scrambled out from behind the rock. "Get it away, get it away!"
He leapt out and looked at her whom was running away from a thief bug (.....why the hell is she spying on me again ^___^; ) He walks towards her kicking the bug away and asking her if she was ok.
"Are you ok?"
She looks up at him and blushes. "My hero"! ^_^;
He looks at her and without even thinking it twice he kisses her, he longed for affection, it was obvious he was feeling lonely even if surrounded by friends, he had only longed to spend time with her.
She takes his kiss and blushes while looking at him in surprise. "Feeling a bit flirty aren?t ya?" She said in a sexy seducing tone as she was obviously drunk...
"I have something really corny I?m going to probably be sorry for saying but..."
"Nyaaaa...? What?s that"?
"Might as well just get on with it"
Minutes pass slowly as he gathers the courage to tell her.
"...I Love you" His voice was shaking in nervousness and fear of being turned down.
She snaps to soberness in an instant after hearing these words. She takes a moment to collect herself as she stares at his face not sure what to make of what she just heard. "This can't be" she thought to herself.
"He has so many beautiful, eligible women always running after him" "I without my heritage and title, am nothing" I can't let him ruin that for my sake...We?re real good friends"
She doesn't notice that she's been thinking to herself for 5 minutes or so.
He takes her hand and wakes her from the deep self thought she was in.
"I want to be with you, life seems prettier and less harsh with you around, I have fun and I?m not lonely, you were my first friend and I?ve always admired how strong you are and put me in the right path when I am lost or I need help...you truly complete me"
Her eyes widen as she can feel the tears starting to build up in her eyes. She couldn't believe what she heard, no, it must be a lie. "I don't believe you...why so suddenly, why now!?!?"
"It's a lie!" she said as she pulls away from him attempting to slap his the face but he continues looking at her with his silly faint smile, she feels powerless and stops.
He takes her hands again and stares deeply into her eyes ?Why would I lie about something like this?"
She blushes. "Why is he toying with me?"...?I have nothing to offer him" The more she thinks about it the more irritated she becomes.
He digs his hands into his pockets and pulls a small box from them,he opens it and shows her the contents, a shiny ring with his name engraved on it, looked like quite a luxury, he must have spent a fortune on it, possibly even all of his life savings.
"Please stay with me forever Aneko, I honestly admit my feelings towards you." Kneels in front of her nervously while awaiting her answer.
Tears started running down her face as she pushes Saii back. ?I?m sorry Saii, I-I just can?t be with you?. She turns and runs off back towards the town.
Saiichi calls out to her extending a hand. ?Aneko- Wait?! But it was too late as she was already out of distance. He tightens his extended hand into a fist and lowers it to his side. ?Good job knucklehead you screwed this one up..? he said to himself.In a burst of anger he throws the ring as hard as he could down the beach as bitter sour tears of loneliness and sorrow ran down his face after failing to apease her,he felt destroyed and hopeless.After a few minutes of standing there sobbing, He wipes his face and stuffs his hands in his pockets as he walks towards town kicking the sand and scolding himself for what he just did.
What he didn?t notice was that Aneko had lost a shoe while running away and came back right when he threw the ring. After she saw him disappear out of sight she ran towards the area where she saw the flicker of light it made before landing into the sand. She searched for a few hours and still had not found it. As she began to lose hope a lone Galapago bird walked by with something shining in its mouth.
?Is that? Is that the ring?? She yelled at the bird as it turned towards her giving a blank look.
?GIVE IT BACK YOU FILTHY THING?! She exclaimed as she ran after it.
The bird squawked and ran as fast as its little legs could carry it.
They ran back and forth for a good few minutes as Aneko pulled her staff from garter legging strap and wacked the bird in the head with it. The bird yelped in pain as the ring popped out of its mouth and landed into the sand. While picking it up the bird started making a horrible noise that echoed through the night. Aneko dusted off the ring and heard a rumbling sound coming from the distance. As she turned around slowly only dreading what she was about to see. Coming from one side of the beach was a flock of Galapagos coming to aid its wounded. Aneko turned and started running from the mob as fast as she could. She was so tired but she knew that she had to muster up enough energy to get herself out of this situation. She concentrated hard as she yelled out the word;
?Teleport?!! disappearing in a flash of light leaving the bewildered birds angry and confused.
As she appeared in front of the cabin door by some rare chance of luck she sighed to herself and reached for the knob. ?Quietly?? she said to herself as she tiptoed inside.
She sees him sprawled out and hugging onto a pillow,his pillow looked a bit moist,so did his blinder. She passes her hand on her bangs and rolls her eyes at the sight, reaching for his covers and covering him. "Gnight,...My Sunshine? she whispers very softly as she quickly changes and hops into bed, closing her eyes tiredly.
He wakes up next to a snoring, smelling of alcohol, and messed up hair Aneko whom is hugging him from the waist.
He pokes her in an attempt to wake her up but gets slapped in the face as she babbles something about letting her sleep.
Poke poke poke "um...Aneko O____O"
She turns over and murmur's still half asleep, "Yeaa, Saiichi suugooooii, kimuuchii...nyaaa-mumble mumble" as she pulls the pillow over her head.
He blushes heavily while trying to get free from her titan grip; he struggles and shoved her with all his might to no avail.
She clings to him tight, wrapping her legs around, nuzzling in. Her snoring could he heard loud as day.
"Aneko chan...?"
"Hmmm?"...?Snoring"
He starts to snarl like a rabid dog trying to get loose from her grip, actually managing to get on his feet and standing on the bed while prying her with his arms and legs using the wall to no avail.
"I give up" he said in his wimpish tone.
She releases him from her grip and turns overlaying back down and snuggling into a pillow, purring.
He stands up and gets in his hunting gear, wearing his grip gloves, his leather armoring, his steel plated shin guard boots and his favorite green hat. Stretching a bit and reaching for the door knob he hears something strange.
"Bak,hak,bak,hak"
Just outside the door
As he slowly opens the door to inspect the origins of the sounds, he sees from the small crack of the door many Galapagos birds, all gathered up at the entrance of the door waiting patiently for something.
"Why are they gathered here?"
He turns to Aneko and notices her shoes that were layed near the bed had some sand at the bottoms and what appeared to be a bit of bird poo also, he started thinking to himself quite a lot but came to one conclusion.
"BREAKFAST ^_______^"
He slams the door behind him as the early morning sun shined from his side, making his shadow grow larger and sinister as he had the evilest grin on his face.
The morning sun shines through the window above the bed where Aneko was laying. She wrinkled her nose and fluttered her eyes open slowly. "Uuugh, I feel so cruddy...? "No more drinking for a while...if ever" She kind of rolls out of bed and stretches noticing his hunter clothes are gone. "Hum, I guess he went for breakfast"
"KRYAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!" He snarled back at the birds that were threateningly cawing at him very angrily as they surrounded him like an angry mob.
"BAAAWK CAWWK CAAAWWWK BAAAWK"
The Birds sounded really angry for some reason and some of them even attacked Saii and be barely dodged them, Out of nowhere a big cracking sound along with a huge surge of light comes from his opposite direction.
"THUNDERBOLT" Said Utonium while holding his Spell book and his voice bellowed in echo as the second spell casted while he walked towards Saii.
Aneko inside came running to the door slamming it open "WHAT'S GOING ON-" she yells as she trips over her nightgown pant and falls face first into the sand. @________________@
In the midst of all that's going on the lone Galapago that she had fought the other night happened to notice her. "Brawk braawk" It said pointing at her. All of the Galapagos turn towards her and stare not moving a muscle. Aneko gives a blank look at the crown of birds. She suddenly gets a dismal look on her face. "Ehehehe"
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Saii Arrows the one that was bawking at Aneko.
"ONLY I GET TO BAWK AT ANEKO, WORM!"
Utonium looks at the birds as they all charge at Saii as a horde and quickly casts a pink wall of light separating Saii from the birds keeping him out of harm?s way.
"ANEKO GET BACK!" He exclaimed as he was casting his next spell with all the Majica power he had.
"THUNDER STORM!!!!"A large ray of lighting rained on the poor creatures shocking them heavily and making them run away in a panic.
As the cloud of dust clears out, Saii is seen unconscious on the sand, his hair frizzled up is evidence of him being hit by the bolt.
She looks down on the ground noticing that Saii is unconscious. "Aww, poor Saii" she mutters softly as she gets down on her knees to check his wounds. He seemed to be okay, some scratches here and there and he smelled like burnt leather. "Uto, help me bring him inside the house, please".
; "Yes, Miss Aneko" says Utonium as he took hold of one of Saii's arms and draped it over, bringing saii to an almost standing position. Aneko grabbed his other arm and they both carried him to the cabin. "Uto, can you set him down on the bed please and undress him while I go get some warm water and some rags". "Uhm, Miss Aneko, I don't feel too comfortable undressing him." he sweat drops. She laughs softly. "Okay, if you could get some warm water and some rags, I'll undress him so we can clean up his wounds"
He bows. "Sure thing". He shuts the door behind him and snickers to himself. "Hmm...?
Aneko sets a pillow behind him and sets his hat on the rack beside the bed. She takes off his vest and pats off the sand setting down on the chair next to the bed. She starts to unbuckle his belt, sliding it off. She was concentrating on tending to his wounds trying to keep her mind clear. o~o;
As she reached for his pant button, she began to blush. "Oh my goodness, oh my" She thought to herself. Different images began to flood her mind. She closes her eyes tight. "EVIL IMAGES BE GONE FROM MY MIND"
His eyes open wide and big as he notices her hands were at his pants,almost off.
"What are you d-d-d-doing?"
His eyes open even wider as he notices she was blushing,he slowly crawls back trying to gain some distance.
"OH MY GOD WHAT WERE YOU DOING?"
She smacks him upside the head. "DO NOT USE THE LORDS NAME IN VAIN" She yells at him, still blushing, changing the subject??????
"Why are you changing the subject?"
"It?s obvious you were trying to get in my pants while I was unconscious, why not try doing it while im awake eh?"
Aneko gets taken aback by the question. "Why I would do no such thing, unconscious or awake!" She yells, flustered. "I was only undressing you for the sheer job of tending to your wounds, nothing more"!
He looks down saddened and feeling guilty, he had forgotten that the thunder shock had knocked him unconscious.
"I?m Sorry I yelled at you..."
She huffs a sigh and pass a hand through her hair. "Ugh, it?s alright, I probably would've freaked out in the same fashion". She looks at him, "Are you feeling okay though"?
"Yes I am, Im as healthy as a Garm!"
He stands up and as soon as he jumps to his feet he feels dizzy and falls back to the bed.
She sweat drops. "You're obviously not okay" she exclaims kind of worriedly. "You better lie back down"
She fluffs the pillow for him. "Here, lay back"
He lies back down and as soon he lays his head on the pillow he falls into deep slumber, as if exhausted.
She leans over and softly swifts a hand through his bangs, caressing his cheek. After a few minutes she manages to get his short/pant combo off without shifting him too much. "Where the heck is Utonium?" she says to herself. "Did he get himself lost?"
Utonium made it to the cabin with some scratches and bruises,He was sweating and panting as if he was running away from something.
"His friends are back ^____^;?
"Hm, what happened to you?" Aneko asked taking the stuff from Utonium and setting it on the chair.
"It?s nothing really,I just had to dispatch some birds along the way"
He closes the door slowly as hordes of roasted birds are behind him.
Slowly
"Oh, ehehehe, yeah thats my fault" she said with a smile and a sweat drop. "I made one of the birds none too happy with me"
"What did you ever do to piss em off??
She jumps up and pulls Utonium by the arm to the next room. "Lookit what Saii got me!" She exclaimed pulling out the ring thats laced onto a necklace.
She goes into the whole story about what happened the other night in full detail.
"Oh I see,well i guess you did the right thing :3"
He said while laying his hand on her shoulder.
Now i suggest you should make it up to him by making him a Grand Breakfast haha? "
"Yeah well, I just, don't think Im up to something serious yet I don't think" she murmurs as she scratches the back of her head.
She sticks out her tongue. "Agh, you know I can't cook and besides, I still haven't tended to his wounds" "Unless you want to tend to him and his half naked body?"
He starts sweat dropping severely on the thought while barely able to hold his laughter; he lets out a snort snicker covering his mouth.
"Well, what?ll it be?" "Breakfast? Or Saii's personal bed nurse" =P
"I guess he needs his wounds tended, I?ll take care of em."
"Wait, Utonium, where's the water?" "Did you drop it while you we're fighting with the birds?" She turns over the bucket to where only a few drops fell out.
"Oh my I think I did spill it on the way here" he frowns while taking the bucket into his hands.
?I?ll go back to the waterfall and bring some more" mean while you should at least try making something to eat."
She sweat drops...?Fine fine" she grumbles. "Hurry back or none for you" she says shaking her finger.
She walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge, pulling out some items. "I think the boys would like eggs with toast and bacon" She sets to work on what seemingly took forever to get everything cooked. "Ahh, well, it doesn't look too...Bad".??
She sets out the dishes and sets the food in the middle of the table.
Uto comes back briefly after and can smell something burning as he opens the door.
"Ane I think you burned your toast..."
He pauses to see food at the table,and inspects it closely.
She looks at him...?Hmm?" "What do you think?"
"What?s that?"
He points at the main dish
"Its eggs silly, can't you see that?" -
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The charred lump of charcoal looked like it was burn in the very hell fires of thor. He sinked his fork in it slowly to test as a little puff of smoke flew at him and he choked exaggeratedly at the table.
She stomps her foot. "Oh cmon it?s not that bad is it?" She looked at him with a slightly annoyed look.
He continues to cough and falls off the chair onto the floor as he turned pale and passed out.
She pouts as she walked over and kicked him roughly into unconsciousness then turning to the disaster on the table. As she stared at it her mind started flooding with all her doubts. She bit her lower lip in disgust as tears welded up in her eyes. She left Utonium on the floor as she walked to the bathroom and slammed the door shut, locking the door.
The afternoon sun rays streak through the window caressing Saii?s face as he slowly opens his eyes after his 3 hour slumber. He leans frontwards and notices he feels much better, maybe a bit better than supposed to, energetic and charged ready for travel. He stands on his feet and inspects himself.
"Everything is fine on me O.o."
"I wonder where Aneko is..."
He looks through the whole cabin and feels the urge to go to the bathroom. He runs to the door and notices its locked, so he knocks on it.
"Is there anyone in there"?
Aneko swings the door open and without looking lands a punch onto Saii's cheek. "UTO, YOU JERK!"
After landing the hit she looks and realized her mistake, "Oh, oops, I?m sorry." *sweat drops*
He wipes blood from his chin, she slammed him good this time, he looks at it in his hand and closes his eyes sighing. Her eyes were tired and she seemed to be stressed.
(I think I deserved that one...)
"You have a hard hit there maam"
"That hit wasn't for you" she exclaims sarcastically as she stares off into space. After she notices his blank look she goes into detail about why she was locked into the bathroom. "As far as I know, Utonium is still passed out on the floor in there".
"No he?s not"
(I looked through the entire house and never saw the guy)
He yawns loudly as she holds onto something on her chest.
"Hey what?s that?"
She looks at him melancholical while sighing softly.
"It?s a shiny ring I found at the beach... I thought it was cute, so I decided to keep it till I find its true owner..."
She clings to it closely to her chest and Saii walks off waving an ok sign with his hand as he heads back to bed.
As he lies down, he takes something out of his vest around his neck, a second shiny ring with her name engraved on it, and he looks at it while smiling softly dangling it from his fingers.
"You should?ve told me ...baka..." he tucks it back in falling asleep sprawling out on the entire bed snoring...loudly, as she looks at him smiling from the door.
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His Eyes open to a bright green flash of light that was surrounding him, his body was in aching pain,tremendous amounts of it.He looks at his chest and he notices hands,Aneko had her hands on his chest while chanting a prayer with her eyes closed, her eyes had small tears welded up,she was obviously worried about him.
"Are-Are-A-re you ok now Saii?"she said nervously stuttering,she was so scared of loosing him again.
"Yeah...Im ok..." He said in low tone trying to get up from the sand.
"NO!!" Dont get up just yet!" she said while angrily pushing him down once more.
"But I have to! who else is gonna beat that thing!!Whats gonna happen if it reaches morroc!?!?"
He continued to attempt to stand up as aneko forced her hands on his chest while still healing him.
As the both struggle, a shadow covers Saii's Face from the back and he tilts his head backwards trying to see what or who it was.He heard a young deep male manly voice as he tilted his head,still in pain,he squints his eye to see a bit better.
"Well well well.. if it isnt that lame dog Noobane! What could you possibly be doing there on the floor lazingly taking a nap eh?...does the bum need a hand?" He said sarcastically while looking down at the two.
"Jericho!" Replied Aneko in a happy tone as she was relieved to see a fellow comrade in the midst of battle.She takes her staff and twacks Saii on the forehead with it threateningly.
"Hes here now so behave"
There he stood, covered by the light of the blazing sun and shiny bulky armor,Carrying a massive shield covered in spikes and wearing a helmet impressively crafted of a bluish like tone metal alloy slightly tilted to the side.
"Shut up Jericho! Im hurt, cant you see?"
"Beh its only a flesh wound you worthless dog! Get up before i kick your face."
Saii Angrily snarls at him but then slowly lifts his hand trembling and tiredly giving him a thumbs up smirking.
"Go get em tiger, looks like im out of a commission this time."
"Yes sir, want a fries with that?" He said smirking in a cocky tone as he headed towards Zraxus and Guillermo whom were still fighting the demon.
The desert wind blows and his cape swings in the air heavenly like as he draws his blade.
"No one Fear, The Guard Dog is here!"He said in his usual cocky tone while bracing his shield and grasping his blade hilt while walking towards them.
To Be Continued!!!
