A/N: Hello everyone! Another new story! I am totally obsessed right now with the adorableness that is GiroNatsu! I hope you enjoy this little story of love that conquers all odds!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Keroro Gunsou

Natsumi was standing in the middle of a battlefield. The ground all around her was singed. The Keronians were whizzing around over her head on their little hovercrafts fighting off another alien threat.

"Come on now, men!" she heard Keroro shout. "Pekopon will be ours! We can't let someone else invade it first!"

"Yes, sir!" the other four responded.

She sighed. Those stupid frogs, they never learn, do they? She looked down at the laser gun in her hands. Giroro had given it to her for protection but she hadn't needed to use it. She looked up at the little red frog and smiled. He had become a really good friend. She could tell he really cared for her. He was the only one among the alien frogs that infested her home for the past year that she didn't mind having around.

Giroro looked down at her to make sure she was doing all right and noticed her smiling at him. A weird expression crossed his face before it transformed into horror. "Hey Natsumi! Look out!"

She turned to see a burning enemy craft falling towards her. She jumped out of the way with a screech. The burning hunk of metal crashed into the ground where she had been standing just a moment before. The force of the impact flung her through the air and when she landed, she felt the rocky ground bite into her arm. "Ow, ow, ow," she complained sitting up.

Giroro landed beside her and ran over. "Are you okay, Natsumi?" His voice was laced with worry.

"Yeah, I just skinned my elbow. Ow."

"Let me see."

She held up her arm for him to inspect. But he suddenly cried out and fell forward. Natsumi looked up and saw that an enemy had crawled out of the burning wreckage. He had a plasma gun pointed at her. "You bastard!" and she shot him with her gun. The alien fell dead.

Kneeling beside the red Keronian, she rolled him over. He hissed at the movement. She pulled him onto her lap so his wounded back wouldn't be on the rough ground. When she stopped moving him and the pain had subsided a bit, he opened glassy eyes and looked up at her. "…Nat…sumi…"

"Are you alright?"

He didn't answer, only panted shallowly.

She felt his blood seeping into her skirt and running down her legs. "Listen to me, you're going to be fine. I'm going to help you."

"…I'm…sorry…Natsu…mi…I won't…be there…to protect…you…anymore…"

To her surprise, her eyes flooded with tears. "Don't talk like that. You're going to be fine."

He shook his head weakly and his eyes began to drift shut. "…I'm…sorry…"

"No! Who gave you permission to die, soldier!" She shook him, tears pouring down her face.

He gritted his teeth and grunted at the pain caused by the jostling.

"You don't leave me! You hear me? You can't die and leave me here! Stay with me!"

His panting slowed before stopping altogether. A moment later, his body went limp.

"NO! GIRORO!"

Giroro was just crawling into his tent to turn in for the night when he heard a strange noise. He grabbed the gun he was cleaning a moment ago eyes roving the backyard. When he didn't see anything out of the ordinary, he shrugged and put his gun away again. But then he heard it again. A whimper. It was coming from the house. Looking up, he saw Natsumi's bedroom window open. She was in trouble! So grabbing his gun again, he hopped on his hovercraft and flew up to her window and jumped in, gun at the ready.

But the room was dark and nothing was out of place. Natsumi lay in bed murmuring inaudibly in her sleep. Moving closer, he noticed that she seemed to be having a nightmare. Listening carefully, he was able to pick out a few words from her ramblings. "…bastard…listen…don't…no!…don't…you can't…stay with me!"

It sounded like a really bad dream and there were tears flowing from her closed eyes. It broke his heart to see her like this. She may be strong and fearless but not even she is immune to nightmares. He began climbing up to wake her to save her from the horrors of the dream. Halfway up, Natsumi suddenly sat straight up crying, "NO! GIRORO!" before breaking down into sobs.

Giroro froze in his climb. She was dreaming about me? He thought. What did I do in the dream? He watched as she wept into her hands. He cursed his imaginary self from the dream for upsetting her like this. "N-natsumi?" he whispered climbing up the rest of the way.

She started and turned to him. With a gasp, she plucked him from atop her rumpled blankets and brought him into a bone-crushing hug. "Just a dream. It wasn't real," she murmured.

Face warming considerably, since it was pressed into her cleavage, he patted her arm in an attempt to soothe her. "It's all right. You're okay, Natsumi. I'm here."

With those words, her tears returned. Her body shook from her sobs. He could feel her tears soaking into his hat. He offered as much comfort as he could, murmuring reassurances as he stroked her hair.

After a while, the sobs subsided and the tears ran out. Sniffling, she placed Giroro back on his feet. "Sorry you had to see that," she muttered scrubbing at her tear stained cheeks with the heel of her hand.

"Don't worry about it. Everyone has nightmares," he said, waving it off as nothing.

She smiled at him, her eyes gleaming wetly in the moonlight from her open window. "Thanks, Giroro."

"Do you want to talk about it?"

She shook her head. "It's still too fresh and I'm exhausted. Maybe in the morning, if I remember."

"Okay. Sleep well now." And he jumped off her bed.

Natsumi laid down as he collected his gun off the floor and started climbing out the window. "Hey, Giroro?"

He turned back towards her. "Yeah?"

She spoke through a yawn. "Don't ever die on me, okay?" With that, she rolled over so her back was facing him.

He stared at her for a long moment absorbing her request. Finally, he hopped on his hovercraft and returned to his tent. When he was settled in and close to sleep, he thought, is that what she dreamt about? Me dying? She cried so hard…

A/N: So what'd you think? I'm sorry if this chapter sounds familiar. I read a GiroNatsu fic recently that had a scene similar to this in it. I'm not trying to rip it off or anything, so please don't think I'm stealing. It only sounds the same because similar events happened. I'm not carbon copying that story. It will follow a completely different course after this chapter. Just thought I'd get that out in the open before I get reviews yelling at me for this.

Kae