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Originally Posted by Nanya01

To everyone who commented, thanks. ^_^

But...

WHY do you do this to me?!

Now I wanna continue it!

Spoiler for Due 2:

A few days later...

Cinque looked into the room. "Hey..."

"Cinque!" Due cheered and ran for her, hugging her tightly. "Mmmm! You bring me toys? Or maybe a knife set?" Her eyes gleamed. "I found these birds outside, I wanna know what they taste like, no one brings me birds to eat!"

Cinque patted her on the head. She had gotten used to Due's... Odd mental patterns as of late. "No toys, no knives, sorry."

"Drat." She kicked the ground. "I'm bored, they won't let me wander around without someone around. I'm not going to kill anyone, I can barely open the doors around here! I'm not the same Due I was before. I was so meeeeeaaannnn!" She started to whine before she grabbed Cinque's coat. "I'm sorry I made Quattro into such a meanie!"

"It's... Okay, Due. I could have done more myself." Cinque patted her on the head. "I think they want someone with you so that you can open the doors." From what Sein had told her, Due could barely lift a basketball right now.

"But I don't like being stuck in the hospital wing of the Church! It's boring!"

Cinque chuckled softly, Due was nice when she was childish. "I suppose it is boring, huh?" She looked at the table near Due's bed and mentally sighed as she saw the empty pill cups. Most of that was antibiotics to deal with the physical diseases Due had, though Cinque wondered if they were giving her any drugs to help with her ADD or other mental diseases she most likely had.

"Can we go play?" Due's eyes sparkled. "Otto, Deed and Sein keep getting pulled away and Ixy's no fun to talk to, she just sleeps all day. Is Tre still a grumpy face? When can I tell everyone I'm alive again? Can I ride a pony?"

"The last time I saw her, Tre was a bit of a grumpy face, and we can't let you go tell the Doctor that you're still alive, Due, not until you're better, okay?" The girl pouted and nodded at him. "As for the pony, well, I can't get one of those in here."

"Aww!" She pouted and whimpered. "But I want a pony! I wanna ride it until my butt hurts!"

"You're pretty loud for someone who was an assassin." A male voice spoke up gruffly as a blue and white wolf walked into the room, causing Due's eyes to sparkle.

"PUPPY!" She squealed and glomped him. "Oh! Big puppy! Can I keep him?"

Cinque giggled softly. "Sorry, but Zafira doesn't belong to me or you."

"Awww..." Due sniffled and teared up and Zafira shook his head and lowered his body down. "Huh?"

"You wanted to ride something, right?" He asked her and her eyes lit up as she jumped on his back. "You can get on too, Cinque."

The silver haired cyborg shook her head and blushed. "No, I couldn't..."

"Please, Cinque?" Due looked at her with big eyes that seemed to water up. "I wanna ride with my sister!"

"..." Cinque had a hard time resisting those eyes and she looked at Zafira, who nodded.

Twenty seconds later, Zafira was walking down the hallway of the Saint Church with Cinque and Due on his back, both of them chatting happily with each other.

He nodded to Carim as he walked downstairs so that Due could go near some of the other paitients that were in the hospital. They weren't letting Due go outside, since it had started snowing lately and they weren't sure if she'd go off and find some squirrels to kill to see what they tasted like.

Sighing softly, Carim turned to Fate, who had brought Cinque and Zafira in on Hayate's request. "What are your thoughts?"

"For someone who's cloned from Jail and taught Quattro, she's remarkably... Innocent." Oh sure, Fate had heard what Due had said, granted that had been second-hand information, but she had heard it still. "Why was she in that sheet?"

"She said that it was better than running around naked on the streets." Carim said softly and Fate looked at her in shock. "Apparently, Reincarnation Mode just fixes the body, not the clothes or weapons."

"Still... It's amazing that she can be cohierent at all..."

"I'm still worried about her though." Carim shook her head. "She eats like I expected her to eat, worried that someone will take it, or if she doesn't hurry up, the food will go bad."

"She does know..." Fate trailed off as Carim nodded. "What about her health?"

"It's amazing that she's not down at this moment. By all accounts, her body should have given out so it could work and heal her."

Fate winced, she didn't doubt it. Eating birds, mice, garbage, all those couldn't have been healthy for her, especially since she was only physically six years old.

Carim smiled softly. "Thankfully, she's responding well to treatments. Most kids would probably take a year at least, I think she'll be fully healed in under two months."

Fate nodded, she couldn't imagine how hard it had to have been for the girl out there. "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..."

"I know." Carim nodded at her. "Still, we've been doing all we can to off-set the malnutrition she suffered." Heck, that first night they had to put Due up on an IV drip overnight because they were worried she wouldn't make it through the night. "Maybe she'll grow up into a productive member of society?"

Fate smiled softly. "It's not how you're born after all, it's the people around you that helps you."

(---)

"Hey!" Sein grinned as she saw Zafira walking down the stairs with Cinque and Due. "Sorry I haven't been around, Due, but Sister Schach won't let me sluff off in my duties at all."

Due pouted at her. "My room's boring! I don't like being there!" Her eyes watered up. "Can you get me a kitty? Please? Then I can talk to someone all the time. Mice aren't good listeners, they alway try to run away and when you catch them all they do is scream until you bite their heads off to make them shut up, but then they don't wanna talk anymore and it's no fun."

Sein sweat-dropped, sure, she was even more used to hearing the odd things that came out of Due's mouth than Cinque was, but it was still... Odd, hearing them come out of a six-year-old's mouth. "I don't think that I'm allowed to get you a kitty."

"Awww!" She crossed her arms and pouted. "That's no fun! Alley cats aren't nice, they scratch your arms up and leave you all scarred, see?" She pulled her sleeves back and revealed lots of white marks on her arms. "Then again, some dogs aren't nice, there was that one dog that bit me before running off, that was no fun at all."

She blinked as she felt Cinque pull her into a hug. "Cinque? What?"

"I'm sorry, Due..." Cinque sniffled softly behind her. "If I had known you could reincarnate, I would have looked for you." Though, now she knew why Jail had called her a masterpiece, if she had this kind of skill.

"I didn't even know I had this mode!" Due pouted more. "The doctor never told me that I could do this!"

"Kind of makes sense, if you think about it..." Sein scratched her head. "It would be pretty hard to make more combat cyborgs, since even cloning them is a tricky business, so, the doctor probably put it into Due, since she was the most likely one to die."

"Don't you think he would have said something though?" Cinque asked, getting a shrug from Sein.

"Don't ask me. Quattro and Uno were the only two that knew what was going through his head at any time."

Cinque was about to say something when she felt Due lean back, her eyes closed as she let out a soft snore. "Huh?"

"I was wondering if the drowziness would catch up with her." Sein chuckled softly. "Those were some powerful antibiotics."

Zafira shook his head and turned around. "I'll stay in her bedroom so that she's not alone."

Cinque smiled at that as he carried them back to Due's room. "Thank you, Zafira."

Aw, Due is cute and scary.

And I liked Fate's line, "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..." It's like she speaking directly for all of us