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The Trials And Tribulations Of Revy & Ray	By : krazykiwi16 Category: +. to F > Black Lagoon Views: 3551 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A Strange Friendship

It was late morning in Roanapur and it was another sweltering hot day and the streets were bustling with its usual crowding of unique, villainous individuals with the soundtrack of gunfire and sirens playing all over the city.

Benny was leaning on his crimson 1968 Plymouth Road Runner, smoking silently while Dutch paced back and forth, he too held a cigarette in his mouth as the sun bore down on the two of them. They were waiting under the blazing, hot sun outside their office building for the rest of quartet to come along.

"Heads up Dutch, they're here" Benny told Dutch and the two of them smirked, "Well ain't you two a sight for sore eyes" Dutch stated in amusement as he took the very rough appearance of the two ladies.

"Fuck you Dutch!" Revy yelled angrily, dark circles under her eyes and she torched the end of a cigarette, taking a deep drag from it. Rukia couldn't remember what happened after she accepted drinking shots with Revy but she regretted drinking as her head felt like there was chainsaw hacking into her skull. She winced against the harsh rays of the sun and gave an internal prayer that the job that she was going to help with wasn't anything too strenuous.

"Get in guys, we've wasted enough time as it" Dutch said sternly, looking between Revy and Rukia like they were two delinquents at high school. Revy simply scoffed and got in the back seat of the red car, and Rukia mouthed a quick apology to Dutch before also sitting beside Revy in the car. Dutch shook his head, feeling like he was parent scolding a pair of children and he sat in the front passenger seat and Benny smoothly drove through town. Rukia took in the town, noticing that amongst the glamorous hotels and bars there were also shady dark places like brothels and black markets, she could also see a large collection of slum villages and houses. It was one hell of a city.

Rukia then brightens up when she sees the beautiful blue horizon before her and the vast ocean as the docks came into view. Benny stopped beside a charcoal-black burnt down warehouse and killed the engine and they all stepped out of the car and they headed down the dock and Rukia gasped in amazement when her eyes befell upon an eighty foot, metal grey torpedo boat, swaying gently in the waves.

"That's the 'Black Lagoon" Revy informs Rukia and she bounds over the gap between the boat and the pier, landing on the deck and Rukia does the same and follow her down the ladder into an inner cabin filled with computer equipment and technology she had never seen before. Dutch came in last and he dropped some scuba diving equipment onto the ground and Rukia didn't miss his scheming grin.

"Right shitheads, we've been dispatched to retrieve a painting, its call 'The Twelve Knights Led By Brunhilda" Rukia was instantly intrigued and was looking forward to seeing what this piece of unknown art looked like. "Problem is however, this son of a bitch is in a sunken U2 boat so Revy you're going to be the blowing a hole into the submarine and kid, you're going to be the one who salvages and carries the painting" pointing a finger at Rukia whose jaw dropped.

"Wait! What?! I've only gone scuba diving once in my life! And it wasn't even in a real ocean!" Rukia protested vehemently while the three of them had evil grins. "If I drown, I'm definitely coming back to haunt you all forever" she mumbled with pouty lips.

Benny lets out a chuckle before taking over from Dutch, "The best way to go about this is to enter the submarine via its torpedo tubes and then when you need to escape….figure it out yourselves" and he ends the talk nonchalantly.

"What kinda plan is that!?" Rukia shouted and Revy sighed, "You're too loud" and she throws Rukia's diving costume right into her face. Hard.

"Ouch! Did you have to throw it at me!? Couldn't you pass it to me like a normal human being!?"

"Shut up" Revy said quietly and Dutch arched an eyebrow in disbelief as he watched Rukia trailing after Revy, squabbling furiously at her back and was genuinely surprised that Revy had not retaliated violently.

"Didn't think those two would get along so well…they're so different from each other" Benny spoke the words Dutch was thinking.

"Yet…they seem similar to each other, well I guess they got to know each other last night" Dutch says before going to the controls and lighting up a cigarette and fires up the engine not noticing that Benny was blushing a deep crimson as his mind was conjuring up perverted thoughts of Revy and Rukia together.

Black Lagoon finally made it near Jakarta and was anchored securely in the middle of the ocean and the three pirates stood calmly on deck while Rukia was pacing in a circle, grey smoke trailing behind her as she muttered around her cigarette.

"Here you go, a little present for you" Dutch handed a delighted Revy an APS underwater assault rifle and Rukia stopped her agitated pacing and narrowed her eyes at the gun.

"Do we really need a gun? Is there like a Kraken down there or something" Rukia asked, looking fearfully into the deep, dark blue ocean.

"Just in case something comes up, if you don't like it then pretend it's a toy" Dutch offered.

"Yeah, I feel so reassured now" Rukia countered sarcastically and she jumped into the ocean so she could get the whole ordeal over and done with, she just really wanted to go back to Revy's apartment and sleep some more.

"Look after her Revy" and she nodded to Dutch before leaping in after Rukia, the two of them descending to the bottom of the ocean.

Not long after the two girls left, Black Lagoon was suddenly attacked by TOW missiles which Dutch skilfully manages to evade the incoming, fiery bombs. Once they were at a safe distance Dutch peered into binoculars and watched the ship that shot at them, trying to figure out who they were.

"What's our distance Benny-Boy?" still looking through his binoculars.

"The last time I checked it was fifty two hundred yards" the blonde computer whiz replied and Dutch looks relieved.

"Those guys are a dangerous bunch. Fucking crazy!"

"The fact that they just launched three of those things at once mean that they are well equipped" continuing to watch their new enemy.

"They are parked directly above the U-boat" Benny sighed, wiping sweat of his forehead.

"And we can't do a damn thing" Dutch grunted, taking a long drag from his cigarette, leaning against his torpedo.

"Dutch…why did you offer the kid to work with us? Is this like an elaborate job interview for her aha. The kid just wants to go home not stay here."

"Hmm, I don't think she does" Benny raises an eyebrow at Dutch who had gone silent now before looking back at the enemy ship that begun playing loud German music.

Meanwhile down in the gloomy, sunken submarine Rukia had placed the painting inside the waterproof case, zipping it up and she then took her time admiring the inside of the Nazi U-boat, placing a hand on the metal wall, sighing in awe.

"Wow…it's like a dream" Rukia chirped happily, blatantly ignoring the mouldy skeletons in the room. Rukia looked back to see what Revy was doing and saw her hunched over, rummaging for something within the tattered clothes of the fallen remains.

"What are you doing?" Rukia asks, looking at her in disgust for touching the bones.

"Searching for medals, valuables that the dead don't need" Revy's voice was low, and suppressing some sort of emotion.

"Why?" not noticing anything strange with Revy.

"I can sell this shit on the black market and I'll get a butt load of money" Revy said solemnly, her eyes darkening as she waited for disproval and a scolding from the kid. A previous crew member had the nerve to tell her that it was wrong to steal from the dead after a huge shoot out in Yellow Flags. But it never came from the kid, Revy turned around in surprise and saw Rukia crouched beside a skeleton using a piece of debris to remove a gold chain from the remains and she could see that her dark blue eyes were sparkling with greed and Revy's lips curled into a pleased smirk.

"Kid, they're dead…just reach out at grab it"

"But, it's icky and gross" Rukia whined softly, "So you know how much this stuff could be worth?"

Revy shrugs, "Not sure…probably a lot" not bothering to make an estimate.

"If it's a lot then fine by me..Gotcha!" Rukia finally managed to free the sparkling gold chain from the skull. "Revy, have you ever seen a treasure map?" she asked out of curiosity.

Revy frowned, "No, they don't exist kid"

"Aww" Rukia looked dejected, "but would be nice to find one, we could sail the seas like pirates and search for untold treasure and make lots and lots of money" daydreaming fondly about being showered in gold nuggets.

"Isn't that what you're doing right now?" Revy said in amusement.

"Haha I suppose" Revy then dropped her smile when she realised that she was at ease with the other girl, like she had a calming effect on Revy. And she hated that feeling. She couldn't believe that she would feel so comfortable with the girl after knowing her for like a day and she immediately changed demeanour and watched Rukia with icy cold, dead eyes as Rukia hummed happily, looking around the old, musty room.

"Oi! Why are you acting like everything is all peachy and giving us that fake smile of yours!" Revy asked in a harsh, venom laced whisper, the words cutting into Rukia as she was startled by Revy's sudden change of character but she shook her head furiously, denying that she was being fake. "I'm worried…but I'm just looking on the bright side of life….ridiculous I know but it must be because all of you are so nice to me and so I felt safe with you all.."

"Us? Nice? You've got to be fucking with me!" Revy snarled, massacring her words with such anger that Rukia flinched back, her eyes trembling slightly. "We could slit your throat and rape your dying body….so could everyone else on that piece of shitty land" Rukia felt goose bumps pebble all over her body from the chilling words that were erupting from Revy's mouth but Revy wasn't done yet. "Your friend is probably being raped by ugly, fat men right now, soon they'll pump her full of drugs and she'll turn into a slutty cum dumpster…it's probably better if she just ended her li-"

"No! Fuck you Revy!" Rukia covered her ears, refusing to listen to anymore and she fell onto her knees in anguish. Rukia bit her lower lip as she tried to stop the tears falling but her shoulders were shaking as her whole body trembled with muffled sobs.

"I don't want to hear that…please don't say anything…please" her voice cracking as she furiously wiped her tears away as Revy watched her with no sympathy, lighting up a cigarette and relishing the rush of nicotine as Rukia composed herself, her eyes rimmed red. "Kid, if you loved that story you'll love this one" Revy blew out a puff of smoke, her black, lifeless eyes bore into Rukia's glistening midnight blue.

"No..Revy…I don't want t-"BAM! Rukia jumped as Revy slammed a fist against a wall, shutting Rukia up and Revy sat herself a few feet before Rukia. Rukia could only listen and stare in shock horror as Revy spoke of her turbulent childhood; she learnt that when Revy was young she was arrested, beaten up and raped by a police officer and how she went on to kill her caretaker using a pillow and a gun. What terrified Rukia most of all was the way Revy spoke of such situations as if she was retelling a normal, ordinary day and how Revy insisted that everything else has no value expect for the money it can bring, rejecting everything else like God and love and other emotions.

Rukia felt physical sick that some appalling and outrageous things were done to such a young girl, not to mention it was carried out by a police officer. Rukia was always lectured by her parents that the people of the law were always pure and good but Revy's story was proof that wasn't the case, somewhere in every institution there was someone corrupt, be it lawyers, police officers or judges.

Rukia wasn't sure what brought Revy to reveal her childhood but it definitely struck a chord within her heart and Rukia felt the need to stay by Revy's side and help brighten her murky world that was void of emotion. Wait!? What am I thinking? I need to get...home? A home where my parents wished I was dead? So called friends at that prestigious hell of a school who were snobby and fake? That's not a home! I've tried running away but my parents didn't want the rest of the family looking down at them so they sent everything to hunt me down...America with Shou-ni...but if it doesn't happen...then I'm stuck in that house.

Could I really stay here then? But it's dangerous...I'll die for sure...Rukia tore away from her thoughts and looked at the silent, smoking woman, she was emotionless and yet she had an air of style, beautifully strong who held so much courage and all of Rukia's wavering thoughts were swept away. Rukia got up on knee, I'll get stronger. She straightened her back and she stood firmly on two legs, I won't need to kill people since I have my martial arts, and stared straight into Revy's bewildered eyes maybe I'll get some sort of bow or melee weapon and she clenched her fists tightly together. I'll make it work somehow. "Revy…I think your wrong" Revy shot her a scorching glare and stood up angrily, approaching the slightly shorter girl and grabbed her collar. "What the fuck do you know!?"

Rukia stood her ground, letting Revy manhandle her as her determination rose to boiling point and Revy saw her eyes were filled with resolve, stirring violently like the ocean in a storm as they looked into hers.

"Yeah, I don't know and I probably won't ever know but I believe that our newly formed friendship is absolutely priceless" Rukia's voice was unexpectedly strong, and it vibrated through Revy and she let go of Rukia in shock, her anger diminishing. Rukia gave her a thumb's up with a big warm grin on her face as the blue sea within her eyes were calm and soothing.

Revy turned around, hiding her blushing face as she childishly yelled, "We are not friends!"

"Aw no need to by shy, now come and give me a hug" Rukia joked, stifling a chuckle when she's suddenly violently tackled by Revy to the ground, the two of crashing painfully into the ground.

"Re-Mmpf!" Revy was straddling the girl and quickly clamped a hand over Rukia' mouth and brought a finger to her lips, indicating to the poor, frightened girl to hush and Rukia understood that Revy wasn't going to throttle her to death and blinked away her watery eyes. Revy lifted herself off Rukia and grabbed her rifle and waited by the open circle in the wall and they listened to sharp creaking of the manhole twisting, and the rusty hinges protesting against being open.

"One…Two…..Three….."Revy started counting the intruders that were going down the ladder, getting more and more eager to shed their blood.

"Oi! What are you going to do?" Rukia whispered to her, back against the wall when Revy fires all of the sudden, the white flashes of gunfire illuminating the dim room and Rukia is mesmerized by the smile on Revy's face since it was a real, genuine smile.

Killing people makes her happy? That's not good, but if I say something she'll probably throttle me for real and I'm too young to die. Rukia sighs, looking down and scratching her head at this new insight.

It wasn't long when bullets start firing at them, ricocheting around the small room, causing Rukia to yell as she ducks down from the bullets. "Revy! We're in a sunken boat at the bottom of the sea; maybe starting a gunfight in cramped spaces wasn't a good idea!"

"Stop you're whining! And get that painting!" Revy shouts over the loud barrage of bullets. Rukia grabs the painting, holding the thin briefcase to her chest as she waits nervously for Revy's next instruction, "Stay here, I'll be back"

"What? Alone? No way! Someone will definitely come!" Rukia insists.

"Protect the painting with your life" Revy simply orders and leaves, her gun blazing while Rukia stands there frozen in stone.

Unbelievable! This sucks! Why do I have to wait here alone!? Damn that baka! Oi, what's that?

Rukia looks towards the hole when she hears footstep, but it couldn't be Revy since the triggering of guns were still on-going but she holds her breath, praying that it was Revy but her hopes are shot down when a bald, muscled man dressed in army uniform enters through the hole. Rukia's eyes widen in surprise when she sees the swastika insignia on his creamy brown uniform. Neo Nazis' shit son!

The bald man approached her, his yellow eyes staring menacingly at her and she took several, shaky steps backwards as the unknown man approached her, backing Rukia into the wall. The man pulled out his gun, pointing it at Rukia's forehead with a wide smirk on his face. "Ze painting please" thick German accent rolling off his tongue and Rukia closes her eyes tightly, holding out the painting and waits for the bullet to blow through her skull but it didn't happen.

The man takes the painting from her outstretched hands, and she opens her eyes but then the gun cocks loudly and her heart thumps loudly, sweat beading off her forehead but the barrel changes direction and he shoots into the ground beside her feet and the blood drains from her face from the piercingly loud bang, her eyes filled with fear. The bald man roars in laughter and he walks away proudly with the painting as Rukia was frozen to the wall.

Rukia slides down the wall to her knees, feeling pathetic and useless, shivering from the rush of fear that entered her body. How could I stay here and help Revy if I couldn't protect one piece of painting? And at that thought a fuse is lit within her and her sapphire eyes begin to simmer with fury, she wipes her running nose on the back of her hand, and she picks herself up, putting on her scuba diving equipment and she pursues the man.

"Wha! The beacons are one!" Benny shouts in surprise while Dutch leans over his shoulder for a better look of the monitor.

"Where are they?" and Benny stares at the screen, feeling uneasy at what he saw. "The kid just left the sub!"

Dutch frowned, "What the hell is she doing? Can you tell me where she's headed!?" Benny looks at the monitor in horror and fear, "She's going straight up, towards the Nazi mother ship. Revy's right behind her"

"What the hell is she thinking?" Dutch asks in frustration.

"Neither of them know who they're up against! God Damnit! We're talking about fanatics who launched Anti-Tank Missiles without any warning! If she surfaces without realising…it's over for her!" Benny cries out desperately.

Dutch turned his back to Benny, his shoulders slightly slumped, "We'll stay put, it's too soon"

"But Dutch!" Benny persisted.

"You wonna show some bravado, charge in and all go to hell together? Might paint a great picture but it won't be much of an ending, Boy. For now you should just pray it's not their time to go yet" Dutch walked into the control room, leaving a miserable Benny at the monitor.
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