Hola everyone!!! I'm so excited! i just recently finished watching Full Metal Panic (all threee series) and i just had to put together something funny concerning this particular anime. ok well, hope you guys and gals like it!!!
DISCLAIMER!!!! I DON'T OWN ANYTHING FULL METAL PANIC!!! CHARACTERS, AND OTHER STUFF FROM THE ANIME OR MANGA DO NOT BELONG TO ME!! BLAH BLAH BLAH! JUST READ THE STORY:p
Mission: Prom
May 7, 2007
Chapter 1. First Mission: The Question
"I hope he asks me out!"
"I wonder what that girl is going to wear."
"How will you wear your hair?"
These were the things that could be heard in the halls of Jindai High School. There was a distinctive buzz all throughout the school concerning the senior dance and it just so happened to be Kaname's senior year, which included her in the planning for the major event.
At the moment she was in a hallway with her girlfriends who were currently discussing what they planned to do on the big night. Her mind was wandering though. This was supposed to be a big experience, yet somehow she felt saddened and not exactly excited by it all.
"Kaname! Kaname! What will you wear for the dance?" asked her best friend Kyoko, throwing Chidori out of her worrisome thoughts.
"Oh, um, I bought a dress two days ago. It's really nice," she replied, getting lost once again in her own head.
"Hm, and who are you planning to go with? Has Sousuke asked you out yet?" Kyoko asked.
"Yeah, Kaname, are you going with Sousuke or what?!!" chirped another one of her friends.
Kaname paused for a moment, fingering her white paper fan fretfully, and looking out the window of the third floor, staring out into the blue, cloudless sky. She had desperately hoped that Sousuke would have asked her out by now, but there was no sign of any of that happening, and with only three days away from the dance, she was beginning to seriously doubt any possibility of going with him.
"Kaname?" asked Kyoko gently.
Turning her attention back to her friends, Kaname smirked, "Ha, I doubt that will ever happen. Sousuke is so dense and military crazed that he probably doesn't even understand what a dance is about," she answered sourly.
Her friends looked at her with troubled expressions. Noticing the looks on their faces, Kaname smiled pleasantly saying that it was nothing to worry about.
"Oh well, if you really want to go with him then why don't you ask him out yourself?" suggested one of the girls.
That thought had crossed Chidori's mind more times than she could count, but that was not an option, she had more self preservation than that.
"Nah, I'd rather go alone than do that," she said stubbornly, holding her head up high. "Besides, it might be more fun without him having to get all freaky with the army equipment. Yeah, I'm much better off without Sousuke Sagara aski—"
But just as Kaname was about to finish her sentence, her friends got suddenly still and she looked at them with raised eyebrows. "What?" she asked apprehensively. Then like falling out of an airplane—which is something that she has done on one or two occasions—she felt horribly nauseated as she realized that someone tall and stiff was standing in back of her.
Feeling like a total fool, she turned around quickly to find none other than the boy she had just been talking about. There he stood, right in front of her, with his shoulders squared, back straight, and his face looking as expressionless as ever, though she did notice a twitch near the corner of his mouth that she had never seen him do before. Nonetheless, he was there, and he looked like he was about to tell her something important…at least something that was probably only important for him, that is.
"Chidori, I would like to have a word with you," he said in his usual, monotone, military-like voice.
"You are speaking with me," she said, staring up at him in a sudden annoyance.
"Negative. I need to speak with you—ah, um—in private," he all but choked out the last words. It was then that Kaname noticed that his hands were bawled into tight fists, making his knuckles extremely white.
Kaname blinked for a while and then glanced back at her friends, who were looking at the couple with bated breath. Kyoko even got brave and mouthed out the words 'He's going to ask you out.' At that, Chidori's heart began to beat rapidly in her chest, making her feel as if it was about to burst out of her.
"Fine, I'll talk to you alone," she managed to say to him.
Sousuke nodded in approval and then turned to lead her around the corner of the hallway. Behind her, she could hear her friends squeal with excitement.
Once Sousuke was sure that there was no one in sight, he turned to look at her. His expression was on the edge of jumpiness and she could see that beads of sweat were beginning to form on his forehead.
Finally after a few minutes of just standing there in the hallway, Kaname put her hands on her hips and looked at him expectantly.
"Was there something you needed, Sousuke?" she asked.
"Affirmative," he replied crisply, not even looking at her, but just above her head.
"Well, then what is it?"
Squaring his shoulders even more and taking one last big gulp he said, "I understand that on Friday there will be a senior activity occurring and I feel that as your protector you should attend the event with me, being that there will most likely be potential dangers that night and—."
Chidori looked at Sousuke in utter disbelief while he rambled on and on about the threats that can occur in student events. She could feel her fingers twitch around her paper fan and was about to lift her hand up to smack him upside the head when she heard his last sentence.
"As a result, Chidori, I ask permission to take you to the senior prom as my date."
as my date…
as my date…
as my date…
In that instant, Kaname's trusty fan fell to the ground as those words rang in her ears and before she knew it she joined the fan as she hit the floor in shock. In a flash, Sousuke had his gun out and was scanning the hallway critically, standing over Kaname's fallen form.
"Kaname! Kaname! Are you all right? What's happened? Are you shot?" he bombarded her with questions before realizing that they had not been under attack. He sat her up and then squatted next to her, checking her forehead for a fever or any sign of a sickness.
"Do you feel ill, Chidori? Do I need to take you to the nurse's office?" he continued to ask, his voice full of concern for her.
"Yes," she said softly, not realizing that he was still asking her all these useless questions.
"I need to take you to the nurse? No, maybe I should call for a helicopter to the hospital. Hold on," he said hurriedly, taking out his cell phone to dial the number for a back up helicopter. But just as he was about to press the last button, she placed a hand over his shoulder to stop him.
He quickly glanced up at her with his dark grey eyes. "Kaname, what's wrong?" he finally questioned, getting frustrated that she wasn't cooperating with him.
"The answer to your question is yes, Sousuke," she said calmly, in a small whisper; her eyes were now hidden behind a curtain of her blue colored hair. "I'll go with you to the dance."
For a moment they stayed there, Sousuke bending over her, looking at Kaname with an odd expression, and Kaname with her eyes covered by her hair and a light tinge of pink in her cheeks. She thought this day would never come. The moment went by until Kaname got the courage to speak. "So, um, are you going to just leave me down here on the floor, or are you going to help me up?" she suddenly asked, feeling very awkward at the moment, yet regaining her usual confident demeanor.
"Certainly!" he shouted, and like a bullet, Sousuke jumped up and held out his hand in front of her. He helped her up and then stood back to give her room while she smoothed out her skirt.
"Yeah, so, I guess, you'll pick me up at seven on Friday? My apartment?"
"Correct. Seven o'clock sharp. Your living quarters."
"All right then…I guess I'll get back to my friends. See you later, Sousuke," said Kaname timidly as she backed away from the boy and turned the corner to meet up with her friends again, all the while thinking that this was going to be a story they defiantly wanted to hear.
Sousuke stood in the middle of the corridor feeling somewhat proud of himself; he had successfully completed the first part of his mission. He originally planned not to go to the senior dance, but once Kurz started staying things such as all the dangers that can happen at a dance such as this one, he knew it was his duty to go with Kaname. He had to or else how could he call himself her body guard?
"Sousuke, how can you not go to prom?" Kurz said one night during their usual rounds of keeping watch on Kaname. Melissa had already gone to the bedroom for a nap, leaving the two men alone to talk. " You're the one who wanted to keep the job of taking care of Kaname in the first place, so you can't just let her go by herself. Besides, what will happen if she ends up getting raped or killed by some perverted teenage boy at the dance? Then what?"
"That will not happen. I will be there to protect her. And I doubt that any normal teenage boy would do that," Sousuke replied firmly.
"Well then, if you're going to be there, then might as well ask her out. You might have some fun in the end!" said the older man excitedly. "Come on Sergeant Sagara, don't be such a pussy. You willing to take the mission?"
Sousuke felt nervous all of a sudden. He had never been to a dance and he really didn't know what took place at one.
"So what are you going to do, eh?" Kurz asked impatiently, watching the younger man with interest.
Without warning, Sousuke jumped up from his chair and saluted Kurz saying, "I agree to take the mission of inviting Chidori to the senior dance."
Getting his mind to the present, Sousuke looked around the empty hallway and sighed. This was going to be a very difficult mission indeed. And without another thought, he began to walk towards his classroom.
Ah! there it was, my very first chapter for my very first Full Metal Panic fic!! hehe, well i'll be back for the next chapter soon!!! and don't forget to review!! ADIOS!!!
Elie