Simple Sweetness

Chapter 19: The End of the Beginning

Usagi dashed across the over grown front lawn, tossing her bag into the back box. Then rushing into Darien's truck, her heart beating anxiously, face flushed from the stress of the confrontation. Those last few minutes trapped in the house with the furious agents had been really intense. For a girl who had trouble with aggression and being assertive, that whole situation was so far beyond her comfort range, it was like living within a nightmare. She quickly found her safety once more in the passenger seat, slamming the door closed, she directed a very serious look towards Darien now positioned behind the wheel.

"Lets get the hell out of here." She stated, her words hanging heavily in the dark cab. Startling him with the powerful determination in the tone, the fierceness in her once gentle blue eyes. Shingo sat in the back bench, leaning forward between the front seats, eager to be gone from this place. He had never gotten real close the agents, even though the adults seemed to have tried to form some kind of relationship with him and his sister. Perhaps is was because they were the personification of the horrors that surrounded their past, or just the fact they were a couple strangers forced upon them due to circumstance. Either way, neither Usagi nor Shingo were saddened by this separation. Though Shingo was very scared right now, the looming uncertainy as to what his sister had planned for them. Now that she had severed the only security they had. It was a weight that made his head hurt and mood sour. He had being in limbo, even though it had been the place he lived in most the time. Never knowing what the next day would bring, his live being in a constant state of flux for the last two years. With no stability in sight any time soon.

Darien turned the engine and roared away from the house, leaving a cloud of dust to billow over the yard and against house. The two agents stood in the open doorway watching them leave. Each glowering after the red glow of the trucks break lights. They would not just disappear, even though they both felt that was what Usagi truly wanted. They each had a job to do.

Usagi was soon over come by the endless trauma of the day. As her body relaxed from the adrenaline high, her mind began to drown in a fog needing a rest from to many tortured thoughts. She body slowly began to slump sideways against the passenger window, her eyes feeling so very heavy as utter mental exhaustion claimed her. The world faded blissfully into the comfort of darkness, as she fell fast asleep in mere seconds. Rest proving to be her only defence against a very long and gruelling day.

Darien cast her an odd smile as he turned to speak with her, only to find her asleep against the window. Her cheek pressed up against the cold glass with a bit of drool forming in the crease between her lips. Her arms draped at her sides, lax and lifeless, her petite body curled towards the door. Chin now huddled into the partly open zipper of her bomber jacket, as it billowed around her keeping her warm.

"Typical..." Shingo muttered, giving his older sister a bitter look. "Thing go crazy, she falls asleep with out a care in the frick'en world. Yep, I feel so safe right now." He finished snidely shaking his head in disbelief.

"Sit back and get your belt on!" Darien shouted back at the smart ass with irritation.

Shingo flung himself back against the seat in frustration, buckling himself up quickly. Obeying Darien wordlessly. Having no idea what his sister was thinking or what they were going to do next.

"I'm just saying...she's always like this." Shingo tried to defend his harsh words, fliping an angry hand towards the dozing blonde. "One minute you think she's being this dependable adult, then blam her true lazy, ditzy self rears up and bites you in the ass again."

Darien passed him a stern look out of the corner of his eye. As the pulled out of the small town and onto the inky ribbon of the highway. Heading back towards the city, turning on his lights as the full dark curtain of night fell around the rolling hills. The bright glow illuminating the cement ahead of the vehicle, unable to penetrate much more then a few feet.