Fan Fiction ❯ Lana: Nakaian Warrior ❯ Overprotective Friends Can Be a Hazard to Your Heath ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter Five

"Lana! Come on down and stop sulking! There's plenty of things to do besides train! Get out here!" Neva yelled, banging on Lana's door with both fists.

"Anything?" Trinity asked, as she walked down the hall with the laundry. "No." Neva sighed, turning to lean against the door. "She been in there since breakfast, she won't even unlock the door." Gannie said, walking up to her two friends, with her tool kit. "What's that for?" Trinity asked, pointing to the various tools. "I'm going to open that door." Gannie said, with almost comical determination in her voice. Trinity and Neva nervously stepped aside, not wanting to be in Gannie's way. Before she had to do anything, however, Lana's door swung outward on its own. The three girls outside looked in stunned concern as Lana walked right past them, a decisive look on her face. Trinity, Neva, and Gannie looked at eachother, and then followed.

Lana walked around for a while, appearing to be looking for someone. She only stopped when they found the more quiet of the boys boarding with them. Lana's friends looked at eachother in confusion, when Lana walked up to him. And in even more confusion when the two just stood facing eachother for a while. Lana looking at him with distrust and suspicion, and he looking at her with open amusement, and almost seeming to say, "Trust me." Lana finally lost her distrusting expression, looked at him in defeat, and said, "Okay, Pluto. Tell me, though I get the feeling I don't want to know." "You're right," Pluto told her, sympathy and some other unnamable emotions playing across his face, "You don't."

Trinity, Neva and Gannie were confused as all heck, but didn't resist when the two asked them to leave them alone for a while. "What the heck's goin' on?!" Gannie cried in frustration, as Lana and the boy whose name she didn't even know walked off alone into the woods. "Isn't it obvious? They're in love!" Neva proclaimed, all starry eyed. Gannie and Trinity sweatdropped as Neva began making plans for the two's wedding. "Kuso. Here we go again." Gannie said with uneasy anticipation.

Pluto led Lana to a quiet spring in a clearing, sensing she'd need a peaceful environment to deal with what she was about to hear. They both sat down on flat rocks near the side of the water, and Pluto began to tell her her story. "Your name, is Lanaikaze Spring Gemmini. You were...ARE the best fighter in our branch in the army, only matched by two others in our entire race in the current generation. Though you probably have forgotten most of your training, back before your accident, you won many victories for General Anor, but were often acting above your position because of your talent. So he decided to give you a partner to keep you in line, which happens to be me." here he gave Lana a mock salute, who blushed and asked him to continue.

All of Lana's friends were getting bored, and slightly irratable at not knowing what was going on. And it didn't help that Neva was still calling around seeing where wedding invatations were sold, and other things such as rings and flowers. "When's Lana gonna get back?" Gannie sighed, flipping throught the channels on the TV. "Why don't we go look for her?" Zaila suggested, sprawled across the back of the couch. "No, they asked us to leave them alone." Trinity told her firmly, and left to make dinner. The two girls growled under their breath, but continued sufing through the channels.

"As partners, we had to be completely in tune with eachother, and were forced to live together, eat together, learn together, you get the idea. We even had to share a room." Pluto grimaced at the memory of all the times Lanaikaze had tried to kill him for walking into their room at the wrong time. "Anyway," he continued on, seeing Lana's discomfort, " the first couple of weeks like that were Hades, to say the least, but eventually we got used to it. You began telling me a little bit about yourself, so it feels wierd to be telling your past BACK to you, but please don't interrupt. To begin with, sorry to be blunt, but you're an orphan. Your parents died in battle, and you vowed to avenge their deaths by becoming the most powerful warrior in existence, which, in my opinion, you had nearly completed before you lost your memory. I don't think they'd be too dissapointed though, they loved you very much."

Pluto looked at Lana sadly, who had silent tears falling down her face. "And I don't even rememeber them." she said quietly, tears falling in a steady stream down her face. "I wish I had been trained for something like this..." Pluto sighed, then slowely pulled Lana into a tight hug, and brushed away her tears. As he had expected, Lana stiffened at his touch. Same personality, even if she doesn't rememeber anything else. Pluto thought as a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth at the thought. Suddenly what he was doing fully registered in his mind. He hurridly let her go, and Lana suddenly had the feeling that something was wrong.

"They've been gone an awful long time, Trinity." Gannie said, sounding a little worried. "Big Sister might be in trouble!" Zaila told the mother of the group with defience in her eyes. "You left her alone with an icky boy!" "I'm sure she's fine." Trinity told the two with calmness, secretely worried a little bit herself. "I just wanna see what's going on!" Neva pleaded, feeling tortoured. "They asked us to leave the two of them alone." Trinity told them in the same calm voice. It was quiet for a while, then Gannie said out loud what they were all fearing. "What if he tries something on her?"

"....You weren't supposed to do that, were you?" Lana asked him, watching his face closely. Pluto shook his head looking frightened and nervous. "What are the consequences?" she proded. "Possible discharge from the army, or even execution if the General is feeling especially mean when we get back." he said stiffly, now formal. Lana looked at him with a frown, and said, "Here's what happened. I didn't rememeber anything, and was so grateful when you told me who I really was, that I hugged you." Pluto looked at her in confusion, and stuttered, "W-what?! That's not-" Lana held up a hand and cut him off, saying, "That's what we'll TELL them happened." Lana told him, her tone leaving no room for argument. Suddenly her eyes wideneed and she jumped up. "Wait a second, what do you mean, 'When we get back'?! I ain't going NOwhere! You wound up here on accident in the first place, this is MY home! I don't have to take orders from YOU on MY turf! I'm not going back to some army! I don't WANT to leave all my friends behind just so I can kill people! I'LL DIE FIRST!!!! YOU'RE NOT GETTING ME TO LEAVE!!! NO WAY IN HE-" Lana started yelling, backing away from him, but was cut off when Pluto jumped up and grabbed her wrist one hand, and covered her mouth with the other.

Trinity froze at this, and then turned to Neva. "Neva, what was the dimension like where you got that boy from?" Neva shivered, and said, "I wound up there by accident. It was in complete war, there seemed to be no mercy in any of them. And-" Neva suddenly froze, eyes widening in horror as her words sank into everyone's minds. "...no mercy in any of them..." They all bolted out the door at breakneck speed, all yelling as one, "LANA!!!"

"Geez, NOW you're starting to sound like your old self. Quiet down, will ya?" he snapped, afterwards quickly jerking his hand away when Lana tried to bite it. Lana let out a throaty growl at him, eyes flashing, daring him to try to make her leave her home. "Alright, calm down! I can't make you leave anyway! I don't even know how to get ME back!" he said throwing his hands in the air. Lana's anger dissapered for a second, and was replaced by confusion.

"Can't you 'Travel' too?" she asked him. "'Travel'?" he repeated, looking at her. Lana then described to him what she could do, traveling to any place she wanted, any time she wanted to, and any dimension in an instant. Pluto stared at her for a full minute, before she regarded him with a bored look, "Oh, so you can't. Oh well, guess you won't be as interesting as I thought..." she then turned to walk back to the house, seemingly having lost interest in him.

"Hold it." he said, and grabbed her wrist in a vise-like grip. "You can do that? For real?" he asked her, his look saying she had to tell the truth. "Yes. I've been able to ever since I arrived here. Actually, I had thought that was HOW I ended up here, but you seem so suprised, that I guess no one from you're world can do it." Lana told him, and was completely taken aback when he grinned mischievously picking her up, then kissed her full on the mouth. "N-NANI?!" she yelled at the same time that four battle cries came out of the forest on their right. Lana whipped her head around, and saw her four friends.

Gannie, Zaila, Neva, and Trinity had all burst through the woods to see the boy grab Lana's wrist as she was starting for the house, then give a grin and pick her up, kissing her against her will. At first they were too startled to speak, but then a war cry ripped out of each of their throats, and they jumped out of the forest, each in her unique battle stance with fire in her eyes.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YUR DOING TO OUR WARRIOR?!?!" Gannie yelled at Pluto, pulling back, and getting ready to launch a kick at him. "Lana, did this boy dishonor you in any way?" Trinity asked, fire lighting up her eyes, but willing to listen to their side of the story. "SHIMATTE BOY! LET GO OF MY SISTER!!!" Zaila yelled, eyes wild, and teeth bared. "You know, in some cultures, if you kiss a girl, you have to marry her." Neva stated, standing with her hands behind her head, her anger already passed, and the prospect of planning a wedding starting to look quite fun. Pluto gently put a blushing Lana down, who quickly assured them, "It's okay. He doesn't need to be killed...at this time." she added as an afterthought, looking at him threateningly. Suddenly she spun around and put her hands on her hips.

"And just WHERE did you learn THAT word, Zaila?" Zaila shrunk back a little, and mumbled something. "What?" Lana asked, drumming her fingers on her hip. Zaila looked at her through her eyelashes, and said in an ashamed voice, "A PG-13 fan fic on ff.net." "And just WHAT have I told you about those?" Lana asked, wagging a finger in her face with a dissaproving air, but a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. Zaila saw the smile, and found the courage to look her in the face. "Not to read them, gomen Lana, but I saw Gannie reading one, and she left it up! By the way, what's a 'lemon'?" All the girls froze, and Pluto gave a snort of laughter. "GANNIE!!! YOU LEFT ONE OF THOSE KIND OF FICS UP ON A PAGE WHERE ZAILA COULD SEE IT!?" Lana yelled, whirling to face the cowering brunette. "Errr..." Gannie replied, looking for anyway to avoid Lana's wrath, when she was saved by an unexpected source. "Hey, calm down, Lanaikaze. I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose." Pluto said, wrapping an arm around Lana's waist.

"What gives?! I thought you said you could be executed for TOUCHING me!" Lana asked backing away from him. "Don't need to worry about THAT anymore, if we go back, no one would dare lay a hand on either of us." He said, a smirk playing on his lips. Lana bared her teeth and looked like frightened animal for a second. "Hey! Back off, 'Romeo'! Lana has a phobia of boys. She's likey to knock you across the forest if you touch her again." Gannie said angrily.

"Who's 'Lanaikaze', and what do you mean 'go back', and that he could get killed for touching you???" Neva asked, looking between the two, completley confused. "Lanaikaze was 'Lana's' name before she lost her memory. When I said go back, I referring to taking her back to her home, and before I found out she could 'Travel', as you guys call it, I could have been executed for touching her because our General has a thing for her." Pluto told them, saying the last part with obvious disgust. "One, when he says 'go back', my definition of that is N-O. And I guess being able to Travel makes me special to the army." Lana translated, still staying a safe distance from him.

The other four girls were quiet for a moment, then Zaila said in a choked voice, "Lana, he knows your past? He knew you before you came to us? You wouldn't leave no matter what, right?" "Right, kiddo." Lana told her with a loving smile, giving her a hug. "Besides, you guys are too weak for me to leave behind. Who'd protect you?" Lana told the others with innocence in her voice and a grin on her face. Neva and Gannie smiled at her, but Trinity frowned, and asked, "Lana, you where in an army?" "Beats me. I don't remember a thing, you know that. But Pluto here seems to think I was, and either he's right, or he had a brand in his hand earlier today." Lana told her, turning her back to them and showing them the mark. They all stared at her as she turned around to face them with a determined look on her face. "But I'm not the person I was before. I'm LANA, not Lanaikaze. I'm YOUR guys' warrior, and don't belong in no army, right?" she asked them, looking at them pleadingly. "Right!" Gannie nodded, and the other girls agreed. "Alright everyone, pick a seat and sit down. I guess I'll start from the beginning so you guys know what's going on..." Pluto said, gesturing towards the rocks on the shore of the spring.