Gurren Lagann: Define Love...

(Chapter 3: Defend!)

Kittan's eyes fluttered open to the noise of the siren going off. He quickly shot up into sitting position and looked around to figure an out what was wrong. Suddenly without warning Gurren Lagann shook violently making Kittan fly out of bed and hit the ground with other items around the room.

Kittan groaned sitting up and clutched his head trying to ease the painful headache that was coming on. He felt a slight wetness/trinkle feeling on his temple pore going down the side of his cheek. He quickly wiped away the feeling and looked at the palm of his hand to see what was smeared all over it.

Kittan grit his teeth. "Blood. Damn beastmen." Kittan seethed through his teeth, getting to his feet.

As soon as he was up on his feet there was another gunshot but it sounded familiar, and close. Kittan quickly bolted for his door and was outside within a minute.

There was Yoko walking backwards towards Kittan shooting off her pistols at some beastmen that were running towards her with some guns in hand. But before she knew it she had to reload and there wasn't any time!

"Yoko, look out!" Kittan blurted out, running out into the hallway as a gunshot rang out.

"So you've come to save the other human have you? How pathetic." A low rusty voice laughed.

At that Kittan opened his eyes to find himself pressed against Yoko who was backed up to a wall.

"Are you okay?" Kittan whispered in a low tone as he glared at the Beastmen who were a few feet away, charging at them.

All Yoko did was nod shyly as she stared up at his stern gaze. Yoko was so caught up in the warmth around her that she didn't realize he'd taken a gun from her hips side holster and shot two of the beastmen down.

"Kittan..." Yoko murmured, but he heard.

Kittan turned to look at her but right as he did a third beastmen came around the corner and fired a round into Kittan's shoulder. The hardy thud snapped Yoko back from her trance.

"Kittan!" She cried, getting to her hands and knees next to the wounded man.

"Hey Yoko? Glad I came to save you?" He laughed, clutching his shoulder so the blood wouldn't continue to leak out.

Yoko's hands slowly placed themselves on his chest as she continued to cry. With his other arm he reached up and placed a hand on her head, ruffling her hair with a smile.

"Hey I'm not dead yet women..." Kittan smiled happily as he wiped the tears from her eyes.

All Yoko did was laugh at his idiotic comment as she got to her knees. In that moment she felt a gun petitioned to the back of her head and the heated breath of her enemy on her neck.

"So your heroic male is down and out. What are you going to do now?" One of the beastmen slurred, his spit flying and hitting Yoko's back.

Yoko couldn't think weather to cry or cringe. Was it over for her and Kittan? But before the beastmen shot a round into Yoko's skull something else happened and the tables turned.

Kittan quickly grabbed Yoko's trembling wrist and pulled her down as soon as a different gun shot went off, piercing its way through the beastmans skull and lodging itself into the engine room down the hall.

"Hey..." Kittan spoke, placing a hand on the back of Yokos head, weaving his fingers into her hair.

His gentle voice wisped into her ear like a soft blanket of warm air making her shiver at the warmth. But Yoko quickly froze at the sound of the beastmans body hitting the floor beside them. Kittan felt her grip tighten but quickly loosen, and then she lifted her head.

"...You okay?" Kittan asked, in a raspy voice, dimming his eyes but smiling brightly as the sun.

"Um, I think so..." Yoko replied shyly.

How strange she thought for that moment. There she lay upon the man who she had rejected an hour ago and now she was acting all goo goo gaga. It wasn't right. But...

"Kittan! Yoko! Are you alright?" Shouted a familiar male voice from a few feet down the hall and within a moment the little whim of a moment they even had, was gone.

"Ginta!" Yoko chirped, with a surprised hitch in her voice.

With that she pushed herself off the wounded Kittan making him groan on pain then she rushed to grab some unused pistols off the lifeless sack of fur known as a beastmen.

"Kittan was shot in the shoulder! Get him safely to the infirmary! How many others are there?" demanded Yoko, getting to her feet before loading and cranking her one lone pistol.

"Say what?" Ginta, scrambled to say without screaming like a child.

"How many are there?" Shouted Yoko, in a speed walk towards Ginta who was totally confused at this point.

"About fourteen more on the first floor in the engine room!" Ginta recalled back to her over his shoulder.

Ginta then quickly looked back over to where the beastman lay and was surprised to see Kittan standing, holding himself up with the wall.

Ginta, with hand on his hips he smiled with frowning brows before he continued forward and spoke "What am I going to do with you?" just to receive a smirk from a far.

And with that Kittan was out like a light and he hit the floor once more...

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