[Fanfic] Sousuke's last stand - ch 9 (Pg-13)

[Avlor]

Chapter 9 – What are friends for?

Kaname was washing the dishes as Sousuke put away his new gun, when they heard a knock at the door. Kurz twitted, “Hey Sousuke let me in, even if you have a girl in there!” Kurz started pounding on the door and hollered, “I know you two are in there – get decent and let me in!”

Kaname held her hand up to signal to Sousuke to stay put.

The door opened, her face, fingers wrapped around the door, and part of her bare leg were the only things to show. “I’m sorry but we’re busy right now – please come back later,” she quietly said and put her finger to her lips indicating silence.

Kurz did a double take at Kaname. He would have passed out but the letcherous side of him willed him to remain consious.

“Kaname! Let him in. Don’t give him any ideas!” Sousuke hollered. She swung the door open to reveal she was modestly clad in a t-shirt and shorts. She doubled over in laughter sputtering, “Isn’t shock value great?”

Kurz whined as he ambled in, “Oh man! She has an evil side to her, Sousuke – watch out!”

“Tell me about it!” Sousuke replied grinning at Kurz, who wearily plopped into the couch and placed a long package at his feet.

He leaned back and gently kicked it over to Sousuke. “Here little bro, I thought you might feel uneasy with out any weapons. So I brought you a gift.”

Sousuke, tilted his head slightly in a puzzled fashion.

“Well, go ahead – open it,” Kurz urged as Kaname came to sit beside Sousuke.

Sousuke tore apart the package to reveal a Mauser SP66 sniper rifle. He ran his fingers up the length of the barrel and over the sighting scope. Then no longer able to resist, he aimed over at the wall.

He looked up at Kurz, gratitude welling up inside. “Thank you big brother,” taking Kruz’s hand firmly, he helped him up to give him a gruff bear hug.

“Well, now put it away, you don’t want to leave your toy lying around,” Kruz chided. Sousuke obeyed and pulled the cushions off the couch to open his weapons trunk. He swaddled the rifle as he put it in.

A glimpse of the Glock caught Kurz’s eye. “Well, well – what do we have here? You weren’t weaponless?” he prodded as he reached for the pistol.

“Uhm…YOU would probably say, I got lucky,” Sousuke admitted conspiratorially with a rising sun type blush. She gasped – he actually joked and a bad one at that. Then, she wrapped her arm around his head and rubbed her knuckles in his hair, retorting, “Revenge will be sweet, moron! I’ll bring my halisen tomorrow!”

“Ow! Uhm… Ow!” Sousuke sniveled as he tried to escape – like a cat backing away from water. This wasn’t a “comfortable” position for him being next to her chest – especially in front of Kurz.

Kurz snorted a surprised laugh at the two, sat down on the floor and slapped his knee. He put the gun back and Sousuke re-cushioned the couch after he freed himself. They all crawled onto it and there was another knock at the door.

“Sousuke, it’s me Mao. You here?” she hoped he was.

Sousuke shrugged and went to let her in. She was also carrying a package. Kaname and Kurz looked at each other, shrugged and moved from the couch to the floor – because they were going to have to get up anyway.

Mao made herself comfortable, as she watched Sousuke open the present. He victoriously held up the AKS-74U shorty assault rifle. Kaname and Kurz clapped and OOH-ed appropriately. Sousuke hugged the rifle saying, “Thank you, Sis.” Melissa shrugged it off saying, “It’s nothing – just had to take care of my little bro.”

Kurz pulled the cushions off the couch, so Sousuke could add the gun to his personal armory. Melissa slapped her forehead with her palm and smiled as she saw the other weapons in the trunk. They’d beat her to it. Kaname put the cushions back. When everyone but Sousuke sat on the couch, Sousuke mused as he beamed with pride, “It’s only June. But, this is how I always thought Christmas would be like if I’d celebrated it – together with my family.”

Another knock at the door made them all jump and they all piled to the door. “Special delivery for Mr. Sagara Sousuke from Captain Testarossa and Lt. Commander Kalinin,” the Mithril deliveryman winked as he announced the large crate.

Kurz couldn’t restrain himself from saying, “And Santa just arrived with his box full of toys for the good little boy.” They all helped him drag it inside.

When Sousuke had finished emptying the crate, an RPG-7V bazooka with 7 boxes of flash grenades, a sat phone and manuals lay on the floor beside him. Sousuke was wondering if the grenade launcher would fit in the trunk, as he read the letter that came with the crate.

“Dear Sousuke,

As you already know, you are still on the reservist list with Mithril for 2 years. We wanted to personally supply you with a few things that may come in useful – should the need ever arise.

Enjoy!

Tessa and Kalinin”

…

Kurz spying Melissa about to doze on the couch, said, “ Hey sis, lets go buy each other a beer.” She held out her hand and he helped her up. Then feeling guilt, he started his confession, “Sousuke, I need to tell you something.”

Sousuke looked up at him, placidly.

“Well, you see. It’s like this…Do you remember when those guys were dissing you at the shooting range – that you’d never know what to do with a girl?”

Sousuke nodded.

“Well, I made them a bet…and I owe you the picture and the negatives.”

Sousuke and Kaname both leaned forward and blinked.

He pulled a packet of negatives and the photo out of his coat pocket. “I had the pilot take pictures of you two when you were reunited. I showed this one, of you two almost making out on the runway, to those guys and made them pay up. I bought the rifle with that money.” He handed them to Sousuke. “I was really tempted to sell them as pin ups…” Kurz’s eyebrows were raised in a mischievious look. Melissa slapped Kurz up the back side of his head and dragged him out by the ear, “Come on Kurzie.”

Sousuke just shook his head and set the items aside. He leaned back on the couch with his arm around Kaname. Who could have a better first day as a civilian?

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Wah! I never thought I’d have 9 chapters and there’s more to come! (Avlor’s mind implodes…) I took a break from writing after this chapter, and I don’t release until the next chapter is written – hoping to keep from writing myself into a bad corner. I had a few decisions to make regarding the story…gonna take my time so I don’t make the plot fizzle. Please let me know what you think!

[Belisarius]

Well, Tokyo University is going to be an intresting place to be.

Now, where to put a spare AS?

Keep it up, Av.

(Damn, Souske better armed then most JSDF platoons)

[HELLFIRE]

nyahahahaha!! mefeels like I'm reading vingettes into Sousuke's future
outside of MITHRIL. I wonder if dd ever had an idea like this to write...
he did touch on the SxK married family life, which was rather touching

Oh, MITHRIL better've set up a fund with Todai for whenever Sousuke...

Thoroughly enjoying it Avalor! And mee feels like getting creative again!









Best Regards

[dd]

You gotta keep it coming.

Maybe the Big Boys will even give you a grill exemption....

Hmmm.

No. I hope they only give you so much time for Chapter 10 before they throw you on next to the other nOObs....

[Avlor]

@dd

Thanks for your err uhmm encouragement dd-sama. I'll do what I can to post a new chapter asap. (Just dealing with "Ren Fest" brain right now - really fuzzy - been outside in the heat ALL day for 2 days.)

(and everyone else too!)