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Hana had been doing this since the early hours of the morning. Well, it might have been morning. His internal clock was still all screwy from this ships' sense of time so it would be more accurate to say that he'd been doing this since he'd woken up.

Details aside, he wandered up and down the many halls of the ship (effectively getting himself pretty lost but he didn't mind), a determined look on his face and a purpose in his stride. Sure, he eventually had to stop for some food because he was never in a good mood when he was hungry, but after that he immediately set about on his mission once again.

His mission was that he would traverse as much of the ship as he possibly could, as many times as he could, periodically placing a hand near his mouth to amplify his voice and calling out to the many inhabitants of the ship.

"HEY! ARE THERE ANY OTHER TEENS OR KIDS HERE!? I'M LOOKING FOR ANY OF THE OTHER KIDS ON THIS SHIP!"

Thankfully, Hana was nice enough to stop and talk to anyone who wanted to question his new odd pass-time, be they child or not.

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She had decided to slum it this time: instead of the Hit girl persona she was just plain old Mindy Macready in dungarees and pigtails and a black and white checkered shirt. She hadn't really felt like bothering with anything fancy, and though it would have been the perfect time to wear what Sasami had picked out (she had actually liked it a lot), she was pretty lazy right now.

Or was, anyway, until some kids started yelling at the top of his lungs for some damn reason.

"Dude I hear you, dial it down!" She said, rubbing her ear. "Jeez, do you think kids are hiding under ricks and you have to call them or something?"

Hana spun around at the sound of a voice and frowned at her comments. He shrugged and puts his arms behind his head, mumbling. "They could be for all I know."

But his grumpy attitude quickly dissolved away as he smiled. "But it doesn't matter, looks like I've found someone anyway."

Mindy made a face. "Yeah, not really. There are plenty of kids and MORE than plenty of frickin teenagers on this ship. All you gotta do is look more than, say, an hour. Hell, I know a team where there are quite a few."

She looked a little bemused at this. "Ok, so you found me. Now what?"

He waved away her hostile words like irritating flies. "Yeh, yeh, whatever."

"Well, I'm just trying to see how many of us there are. And if any of them are interested in joining a... group? Club?" He paused, looking a little confused and then muttered to himself. "I wonder which it would be classed as?"

He shook his head dismissively, no point in sweating on details like that. "Well, whatever they want to call it."

Well wasn't this guy sweet. The first kid he meets and he already is acting like her words weren't that important. Granted, she was a little irritated, but that's because he really shouldn't have had any trouble locating a kid in the first place.

"You want a number?" She asked, looking skeptical. "Why don't you ask around for a number. I'm sure there's some nerdy types that do that. If you want to meet them personally, why don't you just send a message to the comm asking for all the kids and teenagers to come to a specific place?"

Jeez. He was all over the place.

Hana chuckled and shook his head. "Nar, even if I knew all the numbers it'd be pretty useless to me. I mean, what am I going to do? Go around with a checklist? Seems pretty boring."

He listen to suggestion silently before answering. "Well, because askin' them that way would seem odd. Besides, how would they know it was me and not some weirdo trying to kidnap them or something?"

He shrugged. "I dunno, I just think if they're gonna make a decision, they should at least be able to meet me face-to-face first. Or hear it from a friend who has actually met me. People feel better that way."

Hana just continued to smile before putting forward his own question. "So, hey, what's your name?"

Mindy raised an eyebrow. "Nobody said you had to go around with a checklist. I figure you just might want an idea of how many kids you were dealing with. Would be a little better than just screaming around for kids, you know?"

Why would that have to be exciting?

She stared at him long and hard. "No offense, but who in the heck are you able to kidnap? I mean, there are a few smaller kids here, but most of them have been here awhile. I'm sure they could take you."

She shrugged. "I guess. I'm Mindy Macready."

"Jesus, man, yell a little louder, I think some of the people in the pods are still sleeping," Howard says with a bit of a sneer, woken from where he was dozing over some foreign currency he was trying to determine the composition of.

There he was! Sandy had been looking for Hana for a few hours because she wanted to show him a giant ball that she'd found in the city. It was so big around she had to hold it with both arms.

The rubbery ball was a simple toy, but if anyone could help her appreciate it she assumed it would be her unflappably cheerful room mate.

Hana frowned. "Well, it's not like I actually want to kidnap them. I was just saying, you know, there's some creeps who do stuff like that. You get warned in school and stuff about people wanting to meet up..."

He shook his head again and smiled once more. "Hmmm... Maybe. I can fight pretty well, though it's good there's alot of strong people here, it'd be kinda dull if there was no challenge, right? Plus, this way, we can all get strong together to fight."

Hana tilted his head to the side. "Mindy?" He'd heard alot of new names he wasn't used too on this ship, but it was cool, kinda like those American TV shows. And that last name sounded even more foreign. "Nice name."

Hana chuckled, shrugging off the jibe cheerfully. "Well, maybe they should wake up. It's lazy to sleep while everyone else does the work."

Hana spotted Sandy coming and gave a cheerful wave, grinning brightly at her. "Cassandra~!" He called, chuckling.

Sandy came dashing over, a bit too fast because she tripped and fell onto the big rubber ball she was carrying. She bounced off it and took flight directly at Hana with a startled yelp!

Reacting faster than thinking, Hana put his arms out and braced himself, catching the smaller girl. He blinked a few times, looking down at her, before breaking out into laughter. "Hey!"

Sandy's cheeks turned pink and she laughed a little nervously, startled by how fast everything had happened, "H-hey there! Good catch." She praised him dropping the ball to bounce off the floor with a loud hollow noise. "What's up?"

Hana shrugged, putting her down. "Not much, looking for the other kids so we can make our group thing." He looked at the ball curiously. "Where'd you get that?"

"Oh um." She picked up the ball again shaking off her embarrassment and presented it to him "I found it in the city. There's all sorts of cool stuff people just left in the buildings. Unlocked doors and stuff." She seemed pretty pleased with her find.

"Cool." He grinned, staring at the toy before shouting out. "Oh! I almost forgot, I found something for you too."

Hana shoved his hand into his pocket and pulled out a large, crumpled piece of of paper.

Sandy peered at it curiously and set the ball down to accept it from him and uncrumple it. There was a flutter of excitement even if it looked entirely unremarkable at first glance. She'd never gotten a present from a boy before.

Apparently it had once been a poster for some semi-popular band playing in one of the now-destroyed cities all the buildings in The Big City were pulled out of.

But was obvious that wasn't the reason Hana had torn it from the wall.

The ticket prices and times, along with any promotional art and even the bands name was obscured completely by some elaborate pattern of letters melded with decorative art.

Whoever had taken it upon themselves to tag this paper had seriously gone for quality, using the small space to it's fullest. Colours flowed and swirled across the beaten and bruised flyer, each piece of the pattern complimenting the next.

The words etched onto the paper were is some strange characters neither of them could understand and it was more than likely the message had been lost to the ages.

Yet the desire to be heard and the passion behind the work still shone just as strong through the image, despite the sorry state of the paper it was branded upon.

"You said you like graffiti and art stuff, right?" Hana grinned somewhat sheepishly, peering at her face and trying to see what she thought. "I saw this and kinda thought of you, so I just took it."

"Whoa..." Sandy's eyes were wide as she drank in the colors and style. Letting it sink deep. She savored it and looked back up smiling, "This. is. so. COOL!"

Careful not to damage the poster she gave him a hug, tight and excited. "Can I hang it up in our room?"

Hana laughed and hugged her back, spinning her about. "Sure! You can do whatever you like with it. It's your gift afterall."

Sandy laughed and clung tighter as the world spun. "You're the greatest!!" She praised cheeks flushed again.

This world was getting better and better then her own every day.

"Yeah, I guess you could technically do that. The ship is pretty big. I don't know what anyone would want with some kids, but hey, that's not my concern anyway. How old are you?"

She shrugged. "Like I said, there is a group around here that actually do that, and they have quite a few kids and teenagers in the group. They lost one of their leaders, but I'm sure they'll make up for it soon. And as for fighting together, that'll depnend on the kid you ask."

Obviously Mindy was NOT one of those kids lacking in fightinmg skill.

She nodded. "Thanks. It's Scottish in origin. What's your name?"

"Huh? Oh, I'm only 13." He was slightly tall and carried himself in a way that it was easy to mistake him as being a little older. "What about you?"

Hana listened patiently as Mindy spoke. "Sounds like they're busy." He commented, then answered her question. "I'm Hana. Hana Asakura."

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