Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ Love and Peace Moon Style ❯ "Under the Sky so Blue..." Usagi learns to fight? ( Chapter 3 )

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Hello there! Let me tell you guys how happy I am with all of your
reviews! It really helps. I actually planned for this fanfiction to be
a one shot deal, but thanks to your reviews I am strongly thinking of
the sequel and a sequel after that! It might even be a Vash/Usa
pairing at the end. Thanks to Usa-chan, my wonderful editor,
Aideen-san, my amazing advisor, Momo-chan and all of you who reviewed
or just read the story. Please take your time and check out this
wonderful site "Odango and Doughnuts", that has the cutest picture of
Vash and Usagi together eating doughnuts (artwork by the one and only
Sydney Rhudy). You will love it just like I did. And it's perfectly
illustrates this story. Many thanks to robertrubious who gave me
permission to mention his site in my author's notes. Web address of
the site is: http://www.geocities.com/odangodonut/

I borrowed this chapter's title from the Trigun's episode # 26. And
again, just want to let you know that I don't own anything. I have a
hard time buying a Christmas presents for everybody, so there is no
way in hell I will be able to cover a court expenses! ^-^'

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"Alrig ht, Miss!" Vash cracked his fingers and sat in the Lotus pose.
"What has been troubling your pretty little head lately?"

Usagi opened her mouth and closed it then opened it again. "Well..."
She felt uneasy for a moment. This guy was a complete stranger and a
weird one. But something in his face made her trust him. "I ...I don't
know, how you can possibly understand..."

"Easily" Vash lifted her head by the chin and looked into her eyes,
his face only inches away from hers. "I've been fighting for Love and
Peace for over a 100 years, my dear. Nothing in your tale will
surprise me. I've seen it all." Little did Usagi know that Vash was
going into his serious mode that he used around all beautiful women.

The girl's eyes shimmered with the unshed tears and with the loud wail
Usagi fell into Vash's lap sobbing her heart out: "You don't
undestaaaaaand!"

The look on the Humanoid Typhoon's face was priceless. `Damn, Damn,
Damn! It never worked this way before! Ok, calm down Vash the
Stampede. She is only fourteen. Maybe I should just write it down on
her forehead!' He placed his hand on top of the blonde's head brushing
her golden locks with his fingers and sighed.

"I was so alone and so scared!" Usagi loudly blew her nose into the
red coat. "I didn't know what to do! My friends were a mile away from
me and I couldn't listen to the Outers and just kill Hotaru! That
wouldn't be fair! She didn't deserve to die! I knew I had to save her.
Hotaru was under control of the Mistress 9, there was nothing she
could do to stop that monster, and I had to save her! I couldn't let
Chibi-Usa's friend get hurt." Tears were streaming down Usagi's face.
Vash hurried and searched in the pockets of her jacket looking for the
handkerchief and let a great sigh of relief when he found one. Usagi
wiped her face and continued, "But I still keep wondering if it was
the right choice to put everyone in danger. Why do I have to hold the
most important decisions, why in my hands there lies the life and the
death of the people? I am just an ordinary kid! I just wanted a simple
life!"

Vash pulled Usagi into a tight hug: "Life is never simple, you are
absolutely right, nobody deserves to die, doesn't matter how bad the
person is, you have no right to decide his fate for him. There is
always a solution. Sometimes it's just the matter of time to make the
right choice and you did very well."

Usagi sniffed and looked into the gunman's face: "You really think so?
I just wasn't sure, but at that point that was the only one I could
think of. Still, because of me all my friends got really hurt!" Usagi
chewed on her lower lip and thoughtfully stared into space thinking of
the battle.

Vash cleared his throat and winked at the small blond. "Are you sure
there was nothing else you could do? Did you try to get naked and bark
as a dog?" (1)

"Wha...." Usagi was shocked at the dramatic change of the
conversation.

Vash put his arm behind his head and laughed: "Oh, I am sorry, this
conversation was getting way too serious for my taste!"

Usagi fell backwards with a thud. "I don't believe it! Here I am
crying my eyes out and ask for your opinion and all you do is joke
around? Are you sure you are a good influence for a teenage girl like
me?"

"Hey, I said I was joking! My opinion is that you need to have more
confidence in yourself, Usagi. You were not chosen to be a leader
without a good reason. Believe in yourself, because if you question
your actions and abilities, others will question you as well, and you
don't want that. You have your own path. Follow it. Others will follow
the leader that they trust and believe in. Your heart will tell you
what choice to make."

Usagi stopped crying and happily nodded her head up and down. "This is
unbelievable, we are so much alike! I feel like I've known you
forever!" Usagi's eyes were shining. "Are you sure you are not my long
lost brother or something?" Vash laughed at her words. "No! I'm
serious, Vash! I am sure I would love to have you as my brother
instead of that little brat that I have at home! He is nothing but
mean to me! Teasing me and pulling all kinds of silly pranks! I would
just love to switch you two!"

Vash's face fell. "And I am sure I would love to switch both you and
your bratty brother with MY brother" He sighed and lay back looking
absolutely miserable.

"That bad, huh?" Usagi felt uneasy: again she had opened her big mouth
and said something inappropriate. She bit her lower lip and scooted
closer to the gunmen.

Vash opened his eyes and held his breath when he felt Usagi lie her
head on top of his chest. She clasped his gloved hand in her smaller
one: "It will all work out somehow; you will find the way..."

Usagi absently caressed his fingers lost in her thoughts.

Vash cleared his throat. "Well, where was I? You are such a strong and
kind girl and you never give up. You were on your own when you started
on your journey. I was lucky; I had someone to show me my path that I
have walked on ever since." Vash closed his eyes as he remembered
Rem's sweet and kind smile. "...You had no one to guide you; it's
amazing how much you've been through. You are only 14 in this lifetime
and you have learned so much. I am 133 and I still make mistakes!"
Vash sadly laughed. He stopped abruptly when he realized that his
little blonde listener was no longer with him. Two sleepless nights
finally caught up with poor Usagi. She was sound asleep, rolled into
the tight ball on top on the gunman.

Vash sighed. "No wonder! I would've passed out myself! What can I say
to her anyway? My strong points are gun fighting and not a therapy!"

He found that Usagi was still clasping her transformation brooch in
her hand; a gentle light of the Crystal was shining through the
jeweled compact. "It's amazing, her Crystal still reacting to my
power. I guess it was a good idea for me to come here after all, to
meet someone of my kind, someone who would understand. I can't tell
her how to live her life, but my power proved to be good and even
healing to her.

Vash gently caressed Usagi's locket: "Hey there, little fellow." (2)
The locket opened by itself and the ginzuishou lifted from it softly
blinking. Vash with a mischievous look on his face motioned to the
Crystal to move closer. As if it were a living being, Usagi's source
of power landed on the palm of the Humanoid Typhoon's hand. Once again
Vash closed his eyes and felt the power of the Crystal. Before his
eyes there were all of Usagi's memories. Vash bit his lower lip as he
saw Usagi crying at the loss of her friends and then facing Queen
Beryl. He saw her taking a hit from the Makaiju, (3) he saw Fiore's
hand clasping this very Crystal, he saw her Silver Millennium
memories, and he saw her die. The very last memory was of the Mistress
9. Horrors of the Black Hole where Usagi followed Sailor Saturn almost
made him faint. He abruptly stopped the Crystal from sharing its
memories with him and sat upright holding his chest and clasping for
air. "This is horrible; it's like the worst nightmare I have ever
seen!" He looked at Usagi's peaceful face. "No wonder she can't sleep
at night!" He picked up the Crystal and softly whispered into it:
"Please, take a good care of her". Then he gently placed the Crystal
back in the locket and shook Usagi by her shoulders to wake her up.

Usagi yawned and stretched her body: "Wasssap...?" She couldn't figure
out what was going on.

Vash put a smile on his face and helped her to sit up. "Feeling
better?"

"Oh yeah! That nap hit the spot!" Usagi giggled. "I am sorry, what
were you saying? I don't mean to be mean, but you started to sound so
much like Miss Haruna at school and I ALWAYS fall asleep in her
class!"

"Thanks a lot!" Vash pouted.

"Oh, no! Don't be mad! I was only joking!" Usagi rubbed her cheek
against Vash's face. Then pulled away madly blushing: 'What on Earth
possessed me to do that!'

Vash felt how suddenly tense Usagi became. "She is like a little
kitten: all playful and happy at one moment and then scared and
confused at another."

Usagi still blushing got up on her feet as she thought of something
hoping to erase the memory of her previous action: "Can you teach me
some of your fighting tricks, Vash?" Pleeease!" She pleaded. "I want
to show my friends how good I can fight without the use of the magic!
Wouldn't it be so cool! I can prove to them that I can be a strong
leader!"

"You are a strong leader" smiled Vash. "If someone else was in charge
of saving this world, things would never have turned out the way they
are now". Vash grew thoughtful for a minute. "Sure I can teach you! I
could show you a thing or two, but can you take a good hit?"

"Hey, we will see who is going to get a hit here!' Laughed Usagi and
got in the fighting stance.

"What's with all that screaming and giggling?" Setsuna lifted her head
from her folded arms. "Oh, god, did I pass out? Sleeping on the job
again, Setsuna." She felt horrible but when she saw what Vash and
Usagi were doing only a few feet away, she started feeling even worse.
'What a hell is going on there!' Hysterically laughing Usagi held
Vash's head in the arm lock. The poor Gunman's screams were probably
heard in all dimensions. Then Setsuna noticed that Vash's arm was
carefully positioned behind Usagi's back. The Time Guardian smiled to
herself. "He is making sure that she won't fall down and hurt herself,
aw, what a guy!"

The loud noise of Usagi's communicator interrupted the action. "Darn,
and just when I was winning!" Usagi angrily pushed the button on the
communicator still holding the Humanoid Typhoon by his head.

Rei's face appeared on the screen. "Where on Earth have you been? I
swear, we've been calling you all day!" Usagi tried to position the
screen away from her body, so her friend wouldn't see anything she
wasn't prepared for, to muffle Vash's screams she pressed his face
hard into her chest.

"Hmmm, Rei, I am really fine, I just went to the park, to... to.... To
exercise, yeah! To do my morning exercise! Why are you calling? Is
there any action? Youma? Droids? Any mad villains? I'll take them
all!"

Shock was clearly written on Rei's face. "Are you okay? Hey guys, our
Usagi has gone completely mad! Usagi heard the loud voices of her
friends in the background. Makoto, Ami and Minako were trying to grab
the communicator from Rei's hands to take a good look at Usagi who
definitely wasn't herself.

"Usako," The blonde heard on the background, "Stay where you are and
we'll come and get you!"

Usagi screamed and let go of Vash, who fell on the ground with the
loud thud trying to catch his breath. "No, No, No, I'll come to you
guys, I am perfectly fine and I am here safe and sound with...
Setsuna! Any more questions? No? Ok! Bye!" She pushed the "Off" button
a fell on the ground next to Vash. "Pooph! That was close!"

"You almost choked me," complained Vash. "And you put my face right in
your ...your.... - His face turned bright pink.

"My what?!" The angry blonde slapped his knee. "I didn't want to let
you go and you were making too much noise!"

Vash laughed and ruffled Usa's hair: "So innocent... Come on; let's go
find your moody friend. I personally think it's her who has been
hiding in those bushes since the time you've got here!"

Usagi covered her mouth in shock. They both laughed and went to meet
Setsuna, who casually walked out of the bushes trying to look
composed. After a short conversation all of them decided to transport
to the ruins of Dr. Tomoe's lab where Usagi would meet the Senshi.
Setsuna had a hitch that something important was about to happen
there. Well, they would have left the park right away, if Usagi hadn't
spotted a harmless ice-cream man on his little truck. Setsuna
unsuccessfully tried to stop both of her companions who were on the
quest to find out who can make it to the ice-cream truck first. Then
they were running back even faster when they realized that both of
them didn't have any money. At last, after Usagi's and Vash's throats
were terribly hurting and their lips turned blue from quite a few
portions of ice-cream, the little company with the help of the Pluto's
Power combined with Usagi's Crystal made it safe and sound to the
meeting spot. By that time Setsuna's headache was almost unbearable.

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Notes:

1. - " to get naked and bark as a dog", yep, Vash did exactly that in
the episode # 18 "Goodbye for now"
2. - I've noticed in the episode # 21 "Out of Time" Vash was trying
to fix the plant and was talking to it like it was a living being.
3. "Makaiju" - English dub "Doom Tree" As you see, I did my homework,
kiddies!