I own none of the characters in this story except for JK, and have special
permission for the use of Janai Yuy by my good friend and co-editor Oracle
at Delphi. The rest the Ronin Warriors and the Gundam Wing belong to other
peoples.
OZ Ronin By Jupitor Knight
JK looked at Ryo sitting next to her. He seemed to focus on the screen in front of him with intriguing detail but his hand on JK's thigh told her otherwise. She looked at Kento on the other side. He was too busy scarfing down the rolls and mints to notice the screen. Sage was furiously scribbling down notes while Cye seemed to be more interested in how many shapes he could make with a paper clip. JK swirled her head looking for Rowen. She then saw him with his head tilted back and a slow line of drool escaping from his sleeping form.
"JK...JK?" The instructor was staring to get a tick in his cheek at being ignored. He walked over with amazing swiftness and slammed his fists into the black marble table making everyone jump causing Kento to choke on a mint.
"JK DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR MOBILE SUIT IS THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE 6 AND YOU SHOULD BE PAYING MORE ATTENTION THEN THE REST?"
JK turned her head and tossed her hair over her shoulder and looked at the instructor with incredible calmness and indifference.
"I've looked at the data concerning the Gundam Pilots we out rank them and out fight them by a factor of 10"
"Have you put in your calculations that Janai Yuy is now among them. She knows how to fight in a mobile suit as well as being a top paid assassin. Well now how do your figures add up?"
JK blinked her eyes a few times then looked up at the instructor, "I've fought with Janai in the past she will be no bother. Perfect soldiers are always the easiest to destroy."
"And how pray tell do you figure that?" the instructor said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Simple just find what they hold dearest to them and work from there."
JK pushed Ryo's hand off of her and stood, then with a curt nod at the instructor turned around and left the room. The 5 boys quickly followed her out the door.
As soon as they were in the hanger JK jumped in her mobile suit, the Dawn Treader, and hollered down at the boys who seemed to pool around the massive feet.
"Ryo I want you to patch into a satellite and locate Janai and see who she hangs out with, we won't mess with her brother; he's reserved for battle. Kento I want you to start working on the new armors and see what's keeping Mia and Yulie with the weapons they should have been installed by now. Sage you and Rowin start working on the computer systems for the new attack plans, while installing anything about the weakness of the Gundams. Cye you're coming with me."
Cye looked up and shielded his eyes, "Where we going?"
JK got an evil smirk, "Shopping"
~*~*~
Quatre walked through the streets with Janai wrapped around his arm smiling and just enjoying the time together. It was rare that they could just enjoy the day. They were usually busy working with the Preventors. It seemed they had a complicated relationship. Their love was often expressed by yelling and the breaking of expensive things. Quatre kept saying he was going to start buying nothing but plastic for her then he wouldn't have to worry about stepping on broken shards afterward.
There was a big dinner party that weekend and the Preventors were going to be there to protect some diplomats from the rumored OZ forces still in existence. Janai walked into a dress shop and looked for something nice, comfortable, and a spot to hide her gun in the back. She took about 3 dresses that looked somewhat interesting and went to the changing room the whole time grumbling to Quatre how she hated dressing up to do her job.
Quatre chuckled and stood next to another guy, with brown hair wearing a light blue jacket. The boy had sandy brown hair and seemed nervous.
"So here with your girlfriend?" Quatre offered hoping to strike up some conversation.
The boy looked him over then gave a timid smile, "I wish."
A girl came out of one of the dressing rooms wearing a blue dress with a low back and modest front. It had handless gloves and the sleeveless shoulders were bordered with blue pearls. Quatre caught his breath. She was beautiful and yet when she looked impatiently at the boy in blue he could see a fire in her eyes and a spirit in her voice.
"This is the 4th one I've tried on, I'm not trying on another."
The boy looked lost for words and could only nod.
Quatre voiced an opinion and said, "It's lovely and yet I hardly think it does you justice."
The girl looked at him and seemed to measure him up, something about her gaze reminded him of...who...he couldn't place it as hard as he tried. Finally she broke into a smile that made him shiver it seemed as though it was outlined in ice. "Thank you sir, but I hardly deserve such a compliment."
"It's Quatre and yes you do deserve it very much."
Suddenly her eyes became alive and she scanned him a little more closely. She nodded her head and headed back to the dressing room. When she came out she was wearing a hat pulled over her eyes and a jacket similar to the boy in blue except hers was a dark green.
J.K. couldn't believe her luck, Quatre Raberba Winner in the flesh was talking to Cye quietly, and then her luck increased as she passed the last door of the dressing room a girl came bursting out knocking her to the side. J.K. turned to glare at the girl and noticed it was Janai Yuy. She tucked her head hoping her hat would hide her face and listened to Janai mumble an apology.
As she passed Cye she whispered in his ear, "Take a good look I think we found the weakness."
Cye's eyes got large as she went and paid for the dress. The clerk commented on her unique jacket, she glared at him took the dress and left. The jackets were at one point a way of distinguishing the OZ Ronins. They were made of leather, half of the jacket was black and the other half had the signature color of the team member. As they left the store she and Cye kept their heads tucked under their hats and he kept his hands jammed into his pockets.
Suddenly she felt a hand on her ass, "Hello to the sweetness."
Whatever reaction the owner of the hand expected, it was not what he got. She turned and gave him a kick to the jaw that sent him flying. She looked a mixture of graceful, silly, and intimidating. Graceful cause she had so easily turned and now she stood with one foot still in the air the heavy black boot in a perfect stance. Silly cause she still had her dress hung over her arm, and intimidating cause of the ice-cold glare she gave the boy. He was spitting out his braid. It looked as though he had swallowed some of it; he landed several feet away, dazed. A Chinese boy with a small ponytail came and helped him up muttering about baka's ruining everything. She lowered her heavy combat boot and turned to go. Cye had said nothing.
A voice stopped her it was cold and held no emotion; "Don't I know you?"
She turned to the owner of the voice. She lifted her head enough to look into the eyes of Heero Yuy. She grinned, "Maybe, I know a lot of people, most are my enemies."
She turned and walked away. Cye walked behind her with his head lowered.
A few blocks away he spoke, "Will you tell Ryo about Quatre and Heero?"
She didn't look at him just kept walking, "I don't care if you tell him about Quatre, he's going to be the target to get to Janai. But I'd rather you didn't mention Heero."
It wasn't a request it was an order, and Cye knew better then to question it.
~*~*~
Janai slammed the door in Quatre's face; Quatre counted to ten then opened the door. He didn't even flinch when he heard the glass shattering in the kitchen.
He walked that way and Janai shot him a death glare, "I thought I made it clear you're not welcome here."
She took a long drink from an overfull glass of whiskey, when she sat it down she didn't look at him.
"Honey, can I at least know what I did wrong?" Quatre had been patiently waiting to hear why she had been giving him the cold shoulder and her family's infamous death glare since the dress store. She screamed and threw the glass at him, he moved to the side and it crashed on the wall beside him, but her aim was close enough his shirt and pants were covered in the whiskey that was left in the glass.
"I SAW YOU LOOKING AT HER WHEN SHE LEFT, AND I HEARD YOU TALKING TO HER WHEN SHE WAS IN HER DRESS."
Quatre lowered his head, walked over to Janai and tried to draw her near to him. She pushed on his chest but he pinned her arms down and hugged her tightly. She gave up the struggle and just went limp in his arms. He hated when she did that. It was her way of defense against emotion.
"I think you should stay at your apartment tonight", she whispered.
He let go of her and narrowed his eyes, she hadn't drunk enough whiskey to be that drunk but this was unlike her.
"What's wrong Janai?" he asked.
She turned her head and gave a small laugh, "All I wanna do tonight is get really, really drunk"
He shook his head and headed out the door, on his way to the car he called Heero. When Heero answered his phone Quatre explained the situation, and asked for advice. Suddenly Relena's sweet voice came on the phone, "Just give Janai some time Quatre I'm sure if I'd seen Heero look at a strange girl I'd be a mess too." Quatre hung up the phone and continued home.
When Janai woke up the next morning she had a hell of a headache. She looked on her bedstead to see what time it was and saw a cute little red Russ teddy bear with a miniature white rose. She reached to touch it and was surprised at how soft it was. She was even more surprised at the sound of someone cooking in her kitchen. She jumped up and grabbed her gun that was under her pillow. She slid off the safety and cocked it silently. She turned the corner and was about to yell freeze when she felt a gun against her temple. She blinked and looked at her brother Heero, with a plate of eggs in one hand and his gun in the other.
"Sis you gotta learn to be more quiet when you've got a hangover."
He lowered his gun and tossed the plate on the table. Her kitchen was a mess, glass everywhere; the picture of her and Quatre had been shattered and crumpled. She slumped in the chair and played with her eggs. Heero sat next to her and didn't say anything he just watched her.
"What time did you come over, big brother?"
He looked at her then started eating his own eggs, "Around 11 after Quatre called, you greeted me with the glass set that Relena gave you, I think I got most of the pieces off the floor."
She groaned and rubbed her temples; "The last thing I remember is opening my emergency bottle of Vodka."
Heero walked behind her and rubbed her shoulders roughly making her wince, "By time I got here most everything was broken and that bottle was already empty and in the trash."
Looking at her eggs Janai got a sudden urge to vomit and jumped from her chair then ran to the bathroom. She hadn't had a hangover this bad since her military school days.
"Quatre asked me to bring the teddy bear and rose", she looked up and saw her brother standing in the doorway, his face had no emotion but his eyes spoke wonders.
She smiled and then vomited again. When she stood up, she wobbled to him. He put one arm around her and led her to her room.
"How bad was I?" she whispered,
"Well" Heero responded, "When Quatre came with the bear, as soon as you heard his voice you came charging out of your room with your gun. I had to wrestle you for it."
"Oh" was her only response, then she said, "I guess that's what's wrong with the living room"
"Nope" Heero sighed, "It was like that when I got here. I didn't clean it cause I wanted you to see proof of your rampage."
Janai crawled back in bed and hung her head in shame as her brother set a trashcan by her bed. She covered her head with her blankets thinking this was a dream. The smell of stale liqueur and lack of sleep guaranteed her it wasn't. She came out gasping for breath and then she vomited again. She looked up at the bedstead. There was a tall glass of water, a refill pitcher and a bottle of aspirin, but no Heero. She figured he'd known she was humiliated enough.
~*~*~
JK stretched her arms and yawned. Ryo was sleeping peacefully beside her. She grabbed his shirt from the floor and headed toward the bathroom. When she returned, Ryo was still sleeping and she sat down at her desk. Tucking her feet under her, she turned on her computer and started to click away at the keys getting pictures of Janai's house and Quatre's house. She made sure Ryo was still asleep and got some pictures of Heero's house. He was working in the backyard. He was wearing jeans but no shirt and then Relena came out of the house with what she assumed to be 2 cups of steaming coffee. JK loved satellites. They made things so much easier. She heard Ryo stir. She shut down that window and acted like she was concentrating on Janai and Quatre.
She turned around and saw his sleepy gaze on her, "What time is it?" she heard him mumble.
She pretended to be irritated, "Around 8 you've slept the morning away."
She heard him grunt as he got up and then walked over to her and draped his arms around her shoulders he nuzzled her neck.
"The bed was so much warmer with you in it." he whispered in her ear.
She swatted his face away; "You've got morning breath Ryo go get in the shower."
He smirked and rubbed his stubble against her neck, "Only if I have company."
She turned and looked at him, "You want me to call Kento to get in there with you?"
He growled and picked her up and carried her to the bathroom. She pushed on his chest while he carried her in. Then he tossed her over his shoulder as he brushed his teeth and the tub filled with water. She could have easily flipped him on his back or even killed him, but she let him have his fun. He dumped her into the water. She sighed and took off his shirt. He crawled in behind her rubbing her back.
She heard his deep voice vibrate where he was nibbling her collarbone, "So how is it you know Heero Yuy."
It was said as a statement, not a question. She pushed his hands away and turned and faced him.
He looked at her with no emotion on his face, his eyes clouded over, "you didn't mention seeing him yesterday and he appeared to know you when you met on the street. So what's up JK, you got something going on I don't know about."
JK got out of the tub and wrap a towel around herself, then walked to the bedroom and proceeded to get dressed.
OZ Ronin By Jupitor Knight
JK looked at Ryo sitting next to her. He seemed to focus on the screen in front of him with intriguing detail but his hand on JK's thigh told her otherwise. She looked at Kento on the other side. He was too busy scarfing down the rolls and mints to notice the screen. Sage was furiously scribbling down notes while Cye seemed to be more interested in how many shapes he could make with a paper clip. JK swirled her head looking for Rowen. She then saw him with his head tilted back and a slow line of drool escaping from his sleeping form.
"JK...JK?" The instructor was staring to get a tick in his cheek at being ignored. He walked over with amazing swiftness and slammed his fists into the black marble table making everyone jump causing Kento to choke on a mint.
"JK DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOUR MOBILE SUIT IS THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE 6 AND YOU SHOULD BE PAYING MORE ATTENTION THEN THE REST?"
JK turned her head and tossed her hair over her shoulder and looked at the instructor with incredible calmness and indifference.
"I've looked at the data concerning the Gundam Pilots we out rank them and out fight them by a factor of 10"
"Have you put in your calculations that Janai Yuy is now among them. She knows how to fight in a mobile suit as well as being a top paid assassin. Well now how do your figures add up?"
JK blinked her eyes a few times then looked up at the instructor, "I've fought with Janai in the past she will be no bother. Perfect soldiers are always the easiest to destroy."
"And how pray tell do you figure that?" the instructor said with a hint of sarcasm.
"Simple just find what they hold dearest to them and work from there."
JK pushed Ryo's hand off of her and stood, then with a curt nod at the instructor turned around and left the room. The 5 boys quickly followed her out the door.
As soon as they were in the hanger JK jumped in her mobile suit, the Dawn Treader, and hollered down at the boys who seemed to pool around the massive feet.
"Ryo I want you to patch into a satellite and locate Janai and see who she hangs out with, we won't mess with her brother; he's reserved for battle. Kento I want you to start working on the new armors and see what's keeping Mia and Yulie with the weapons they should have been installed by now. Sage you and Rowin start working on the computer systems for the new attack plans, while installing anything about the weakness of the Gundams. Cye you're coming with me."
Cye looked up and shielded his eyes, "Where we going?"
JK got an evil smirk, "Shopping"
~*~*~
Quatre walked through the streets with Janai wrapped around his arm smiling and just enjoying the time together. It was rare that they could just enjoy the day. They were usually busy working with the Preventors. It seemed they had a complicated relationship. Their love was often expressed by yelling and the breaking of expensive things. Quatre kept saying he was going to start buying nothing but plastic for her then he wouldn't have to worry about stepping on broken shards afterward.
There was a big dinner party that weekend and the Preventors were going to be there to protect some diplomats from the rumored OZ forces still in existence. Janai walked into a dress shop and looked for something nice, comfortable, and a spot to hide her gun in the back. She took about 3 dresses that looked somewhat interesting and went to the changing room the whole time grumbling to Quatre how she hated dressing up to do her job.
Quatre chuckled and stood next to another guy, with brown hair wearing a light blue jacket. The boy had sandy brown hair and seemed nervous.
"So here with your girlfriend?" Quatre offered hoping to strike up some conversation.
The boy looked him over then gave a timid smile, "I wish."
A girl came out of one of the dressing rooms wearing a blue dress with a low back and modest front. It had handless gloves and the sleeveless shoulders were bordered with blue pearls. Quatre caught his breath. She was beautiful and yet when she looked impatiently at the boy in blue he could see a fire in her eyes and a spirit in her voice.
"This is the 4th one I've tried on, I'm not trying on another."
The boy looked lost for words and could only nod.
Quatre voiced an opinion and said, "It's lovely and yet I hardly think it does you justice."
The girl looked at him and seemed to measure him up, something about her gaze reminded him of...who...he couldn't place it as hard as he tried. Finally she broke into a smile that made him shiver it seemed as though it was outlined in ice. "Thank you sir, but I hardly deserve such a compliment."
"It's Quatre and yes you do deserve it very much."
Suddenly her eyes became alive and she scanned him a little more closely. She nodded her head and headed back to the dressing room. When she came out she was wearing a hat pulled over her eyes and a jacket similar to the boy in blue except hers was a dark green.
J.K. couldn't believe her luck, Quatre Raberba Winner in the flesh was talking to Cye quietly, and then her luck increased as she passed the last door of the dressing room a girl came bursting out knocking her to the side. J.K. turned to glare at the girl and noticed it was Janai Yuy. She tucked her head hoping her hat would hide her face and listened to Janai mumble an apology.
As she passed Cye she whispered in his ear, "Take a good look I think we found the weakness."
Cye's eyes got large as she went and paid for the dress. The clerk commented on her unique jacket, she glared at him took the dress and left. The jackets were at one point a way of distinguishing the OZ Ronins. They were made of leather, half of the jacket was black and the other half had the signature color of the team member. As they left the store she and Cye kept their heads tucked under their hats and he kept his hands jammed into his pockets.
Suddenly she felt a hand on her ass, "Hello to the sweetness."
Whatever reaction the owner of the hand expected, it was not what he got. She turned and gave him a kick to the jaw that sent him flying. She looked a mixture of graceful, silly, and intimidating. Graceful cause she had so easily turned and now she stood with one foot still in the air the heavy black boot in a perfect stance. Silly cause she still had her dress hung over her arm, and intimidating cause of the ice-cold glare she gave the boy. He was spitting out his braid. It looked as though he had swallowed some of it; he landed several feet away, dazed. A Chinese boy with a small ponytail came and helped him up muttering about baka's ruining everything. She lowered her heavy combat boot and turned to go. Cye had said nothing.
A voice stopped her it was cold and held no emotion; "Don't I know you?"
She turned to the owner of the voice. She lifted her head enough to look into the eyes of Heero Yuy. She grinned, "Maybe, I know a lot of people, most are my enemies."
She turned and walked away. Cye walked behind her with his head lowered.
A few blocks away he spoke, "Will you tell Ryo about Quatre and Heero?"
She didn't look at him just kept walking, "I don't care if you tell him about Quatre, he's going to be the target to get to Janai. But I'd rather you didn't mention Heero."
It wasn't a request it was an order, and Cye knew better then to question it.
~*~*~
Janai slammed the door in Quatre's face; Quatre counted to ten then opened the door. He didn't even flinch when he heard the glass shattering in the kitchen.
He walked that way and Janai shot him a death glare, "I thought I made it clear you're not welcome here."
She took a long drink from an overfull glass of whiskey, when she sat it down she didn't look at him.
"Honey, can I at least know what I did wrong?" Quatre had been patiently waiting to hear why she had been giving him the cold shoulder and her family's infamous death glare since the dress store. She screamed and threw the glass at him, he moved to the side and it crashed on the wall beside him, but her aim was close enough his shirt and pants were covered in the whiskey that was left in the glass.
"I SAW YOU LOOKING AT HER WHEN SHE LEFT, AND I HEARD YOU TALKING TO HER WHEN SHE WAS IN HER DRESS."
Quatre lowered his head, walked over to Janai and tried to draw her near to him. She pushed on his chest but he pinned her arms down and hugged her tightly. She gave up the struggle and just went limp in his arms. He hated when she did that. It was her way of defense against emotion.
"I think you should stay at your apartment tonight", she whispered.
He let go of her and narrowed his eyes, she hadn't drunk enough whiskey to be that drunk but this was unlike her.
"What's wrong Janai?" he asked.
She turned her head and gave a small laugh, "All I wanna do tonight is get really, really drunk"
He shook his head and headed out the door, on his way to the car he called Heero. When Heero answered his phone Quatre explained the situation, and asked for advice. Suddenly Relena's sweet voice came on the phone, "Just give Janai some time Quatre I'm sure if I'd seen Heero look at a strange girl I'd be a mess too." Quatre hung up the phone and continued home.
When Janai woke up the next morning she had a hell of a headache. She looked on her bedstead to see what time it was and saw a cute little red Russ teddy bear with a miniature white rose. She reached to touch it and was surprised at how soft it was. She was even more surprised at the sound of someone cooking in her kitchen. She jumped up and grabbed her gun that was under her pillow. She slid off the safety and cocked it silently. She turned the corner and was about to yell freeze when she felt a gun against her temple. She blinked and looked at her brother Heero, with a plate of eggs in one hand and his gun in the other.
"Sis you gotta learn to be more quiet when you've got a hangover."
He lowered his gun and tossed the plate on the table. Her kitchen was a mess, glass everywhere; the picture of her and Quatre had been shattered and crumpled. She slumped in the chair and played with her eggs. Heero sat next to her and didn't say anything he just watched her.
"What time did you come over, big brother?"
He looked at her then started eating his own eggs, "Around 11 after Quatre called, you greeted me with the glass set that Relena gave you, I think I got most of the pieces off the floor."
She groaned and rubbed her temples; "The last thing I remember is opening my emergency bottle of Vodka."
Heero walked behind her and rubbed her shoulders roughly making her wince, "By time I got here most everything was broken and that bottle was already empty and in the trash."
Looking at her eggs Janai got a sudden urge to vomit and jumped from her chair then ran to the bathroom. She hadn't had a hangover this bad since her military school days.
"Quatre asked me to bring the teddy bear and rose", she looked up and saw her brother standing in the doorway, his face had no emotion but his eyes spoke wonders.
She smiled and then vomited again. When she stood up, she wobbled to him. He put one arm around her and led her to her room.
"How bad was I?" she whispered,
"Well" Heero responded, "When Quatre came with the bear, as soon as you heard his voice you came charging out of your room with your gun. I had to wrestle you for it."
"Oh" was her only response, then she said, "I guess that's what's wrong with the living room"
"Nope" Heero sighed, "It was like that when I got here. I didn't clean it cause I wanted you to see proof of your rampage."
Janai crawled back in bed and hung her head in shame as her brother set a trashcan by her bed. She covered her head with her blankets thinking this was a dream. The smell of stale liqueur and lack of sleep guaranteed her it wasn't. She came out gasping for breath and then she vomited again. She looked up at the bedstead. There was a tall glass of water, a refill pitcher and a bottle of aspirin, but no Heero. She figured he'd known she was humiliated enough.
~*~*~
JK stretched her arms and yawned. Ryo was sleeping peacefully beside her. She grabbed his shirt from the floor and headed toward the bathroom. When she returned, Ryo was still sleeping and she sat down at her desk. Tucking her feet under her, she turned on her computer and started to click away at the keys getting pictures of Janai's house and Quatre's house. She made sure Ryo was still asleep and got some pictures of Heero's house. He was working in the backyard. He was wearing jeans but no shirt and then Relena came out of the house with what she assumed to be 2 cups of steaming coffee. JK loved satellites. They made things so much easier. She heard Ryo stir. She shut down that window and acted like she was concentrating on Janai and Quatre.
She turned around and saw his sleepy gaze on her, "What time is it?" she heard him mumble.
She pretended to be irritated, "Around 8 you've slept the morning away."
She heard him grunt as he got up and then walked over to her and draped his arms around her shoulders he nuzzled her neck.
"The bed was so much warmer with you in it." he whispered in her ear.
She swatted his face away; "You've got morning breath Ryo go get in the shower."
He smirked and rubbed his stubble against her neck, "Only if I have company."
She turned and looked at him, "You want me to call Kento to get in there with you?"
He growled and picked her up and carried her to the bathroom. She pushed on his chest while he carried her in. Then he tossed her over his shoulder as he brushed his teeth and the tub filled with water. She could have easily flipped him on his back or even killed him, but she let him have his fun. He dumped her into the water. She sighed and took off his shirt. He crawled in behind her rubbing her back.
She heard his deep voice vibrate where he was nibbling her collarbone, "So how is it you know Heero Yuy."
It was said as a statement, not a question. She pushed his hands away and turned and faced him.
He looked at her with no emotion on his face, his eyes clouded over, "you didn't mention seeing him yesterday and he appeared to know you when you met on the street. So what's up JK, you got something going on I don't know about."
JK got out of the tub and wrap a towel around herself, then walked to the bedroom and proceeded to get dressed.