City of Devils
"Why do we cry?"
Two large blue eyes peered up at the night sky.
"So we can be happy?"
"That's right. Now why do we fall?"
"So we can pick ourselves up?"
Hand-in-hand amother and daughter, two peas in a pod. In spirit, the two are inseperable. In reality, Fate would tear them apart with the heartlessness of a monster...
Man once sang to me
Look at you saving the world on your own
And I wonder how things gonna be
Cos the time here it passes so slow
"Mommy? Can't you stay with me?" The two large blue eyes filled with tears. Little Bunny held her mother's hand, people ran in terror of the monsters.
The gundams. Those monsters had attacked Juuban. They had killed people. Innocent people. Ikuko gazed up sadly at her only child. Her little princess. Her innocent little girl.
"Now Bunny, why do we cry?"
"Mommy..."
"Why do we cry Bunny?"
"So, so we can be, be happy..."
"Thats right, princess. Now say good-bye. I have to go... to heaven..."
"But can't you take me too? Mommy!" The tears fell, and Ikuko's hand fell from Bunny's grasp.
"Mommy! Mommy!" Bunny cried. She cried for a long time. Cried for the lives lost. But mostly, cried for those bad people. Those monsters who didn't know that what they did was bad.
In a city of devils we live
A city of devils we live
--+--
Usagi sighed. She looked out at the stretching miles of land. Typical. She finally gets adopted and its in the middle of nowhere. Hardly any better than the orphanage.
She didn't even know that OkinawaX-2 existed until news came of her new family. It was a city. A city in the Leo district of Colony X81999. It wasn't very big in reality, but the whole nothingness didn't do much for the atmosphere. The other cities were still under construction, so Usagi guessed when they finished that they'd come here. But still, they couldn't even bother to put in grass! There was just a bunch of sand and dirt everywhere!
Usagi smiled, dreaming of beautiful flowers everywhere, of having her mother by her side, planting them. Of having a real family.
...Of what happened that night. It had been nearly ten years. A long time. For what? Healing? Forgiving?
Those gundams dissapeared. Perhaps the pilots were dead. Perhaps not. Usagi wondered if they were old and grey. Did they ever regret killing anyone? Did they regret killing her mother?
Did they even know Usagi's mother existed? Did they care enough to think of the young mother?
Usagi snapped her eyes shut tightly. Images had appeared. Her mother's dead eyes. The smell of blood and burned hair. The stench had been overwhelming. Little Bunny had passed out several hours after her mother passed away. She'd awoken in a hospital, with a nurse, smiling as if nothing was wrong.
But everything had gone wrong.
--+--
"Come on Hiiro!" Duo pulled the blanket off his roommate's 'dead' body.
"Get the hell up you idiot! We have to go to school!"
Hiiro groaned, reluctantly opening his eyes.
"What the hell? We don't go to school anymore..." Duo rolled his cobalt blue eyes heavenward.
"I knew this was a bad idea..." Duo muttered, "Uh, hello? We're supposed to go to work. You know, like we have been for the past five months?"
"Just go to hell, Duo."
"Fine, but you're going down with me!"
"No! Dammit, no!"
"Just because its over with you and Relena doesn't mean you can just, just, WALLOW like some lovesick highschool girl!"
"I'm depressed so let me die in peace!"
--+--
"School." Usagi muttered. Sure, there wasn't any grass. No flowers where she lived. But they just had to build a school. Talk about a waste of tax money! Surely the tax-payers knew about this?
Other students walked by, the girls dressed like hookers and guys wearing clothes two sizes bigger than they should have. Uniforms were of no use to them. This was a public school.
Usagi gulped. A lot of them looked pretty scary. She wasn't prejudice, they just looked at her like a piece of meat was all.
"Well I guess I'm the outcast here."
Usagi stepped into a classroom, trying to ignore the vulgar graffiti on the door.
Flying alone and I,
Feel like I don't belong and I,
Can't tell right from the wrong, why,
Have I been here so long
The bell rang and class started. About half the class was there and the rest filed in at random times. At the orphanage everyone started at the same time and actually payed attention to the teacher.
But this was reailty. And Usagi's dream world was about to come crashing down.
Everybody had to grow up sometime.
--+--
Hiiro walked along the halls of The Thirteenth Colony High School. He glared at the students and looked past the teachers. What the hell was wrong with these people? How could they live like this? The school was a dump. If he were in charge of the place...
"You'd have everyone in camo pants and replying with 'yes sir' or 'yes ma'am'." Hiiro snapped out of his thoughts and turned around. There stood Duo, grinning evily.
"You were talking out loud again."
"Shutup."
"You only say that because you're embarassed."
"No, I say it because if you don't these kids will find out what happens when they dispespect those of higher authority."
"Higher authority? I don't think being an eleventh grade p.e. teacher really counts."
"Shutup."
"Fine," Duo replied, shrugging, "I just thought I'd let you know that there's a new kid in town. Her name's Bunny or Rabbit or something and she's just been adopted into the Vincent family."
Hiiro did a double-take.
"Vincent?"
"Yep." Duo's expression became serious, "Better keep an eye on her, we don't need some little brat getting in the way. If you know what I mean."
Duo stalked off to his classroom and Hiiro stepped outside, wind blew, fake wind. This place was so unreal. This is what the gundam pilots had caused. They thought they were creating an era of peace. But no, that fool Dr. J sold them out for his own life. Revolution sucks.
And now Hiiro was depressed.
Find somebody to learn
Boy you gotta love someone more than yourself
I can feel the fire of the city lights burn
It's hard to find angels in hell
Hiiro blew his whistle, the sound piercing the sixteen year old's ears. He smirked, he loved seeing them cover their ears or have them all suddenly shut up. Silence was golden.
"Man, why the crap do you have to keep doing that?" One smartass shouted. Hiiro glared at him.
"Because." He blew it again, and the girls sitting on the bleachers stopped talking.
"Everyone. I repeat, everyone, will be participating today. As they will be everyday while I'm here." Groans were heard all around the football field (which didn't have grass) as students got off their lazy butts to do whatever crazy order 'Leutenant Yui' came up with next.
All but one little Usagi.
Hiiro gazed across the field.
'Pathetic,' he thought.
He spotted Usagi, sitting off to the right in the dirt. Drawing something on the ground with a stick. What the hell?
"All of you, start running!" he barked, "Four laps around!" more groans came and Hiiro made his way up to the blond.
He stepped on the little drawing she had made, causing dust to rise, she sneezed and looked up at him.
He glared down at her, she shrank back a bit, and raised the stick as if it were a weapon. So pathetic it was actually kind of... cute.
But 'cute' didn't cut it in this world.
"And what, may I ask, are you doing Miss?" he asked coldly.
"Drawing." she replied, staring down at his shoe.
"And why, pray tell, were you not with the other students?" She shrugged slightly,
"They don't like me, so I stay away from them," well that wasn't the answer Hiiro was looking for. He pinched the sides of his eyes and took a step back.
"I meant why weren't you standing with them when I told you to?" she looked up at him with an odd look on her face.
"When did you tell me to?"
'What the hell is she, a child?' he thought incredulously. He did not want to deal with this... meatball head. Seriously, her hair looked like spaghetti, but he wasn't going to say that out loud.
"You just did."
Hiiro blinked. He looked at the girl.
"I... did?" She nodded.
'Dammit,' he thought. Glancing at her to see if he said that too.
Apparently not, since she just bowed her head and began drawing again.
"Its okay. A lot of people make fun of my hair. I'm used to it."
He let out a small sigh of relief, at least she wasn't going to call him on it, he'd already gotten in trouble for calling some prep a slut last week.
"But I don't think an adult has ever said it to my face before..." she continued. That hit him. Hiiro wasn't usually one to just insult someone to their face. He wasn't mean. It just slipped...
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that." Staring at the cat she just finished drawing.
"Doesn't mean you still didn't think it." she stood up and dusted herself off, looking him in the eye. His cold blue eyes. They scared her at first. Thats why she didn't look at him. She really hadn't heard him. She'd been busy dreaming of what it would be like to have magic powers.
"Where'd everyone go?"
Hiiro blinked and turned around. Sure enough, everyone was gone.
"Dammit!"
--+--
Questions I can't seem to find
To the answers I already have
And you can't see the sky here tonight
So I guess I can't make my way back
The moon was so bright.
Usagi smiled, thinking of how she and Mister Yui had gone on a perilous quest to find the missing students. Apparently they all decided to skip the running and go straight to lunch.
Needless to say, there were parents called.
He was nice. She knew he felt guilty about making fun of her hair too. It also helped that he was very good-looking for his age. How old was he anyway? Then again, it was probably none of her business. Plus, even if she asked, he probably wouldn't tell her.
When did he tell her to stand up with everyone? Sometimes Usagi missed things, and it just irked her to find out that something had happened without her knowing what it was.
'I've gotta learn to pay attention,' she thought, sweatropping.
"USAGI! Do your homework and get to bed!" said girl jumped up, turning to see Mrs. Vincent. The woman was so... pointy! It was hard to believe that kind of woman would want to adopt a child. Then again, Usagi was sixteen, so she guessed that Mrs. Vincent wasn't big on having children around. The thought was actually pretty strange.
Usagi sighed, if the woman thought she was going to call her 'Mommy Dearest', she'd better get a brain transplant.
At least she could look forward to p.e. tomorrow.
--+--
"Well she certainly isn't like the other students." Hiiro said to Duo that same evening. "A lot more dense. A bit flighty. And-"
"And cute as hell?" Duo cut in. Hiiro glared at him,
"Don't get any ideas." Duo grinned mischievously,
"Like you aren't? I can tell the girl's sweet, considering she wore real clothes and addressed me as Mister Maxwell. Its hard to find angels in hell, Hiiro." Hiiro blinked. He stared at his longtime friend.
"You are Mister Maxwell."
Duo looked thoughtful, "Yeah, I guess I am. But all the other students call me Mister Moron."
Hiiro rolled his eyes, "You have to enforce rules! Being the fun, cool teacher is fine sometimes but you have to show them who's in charge you idiot!"
Duo shrugged, standing up, "It's not like I'm running a boot camp! I don't like being mean to little kids!" His response earning him a couch cushion in the face.
"They aren't little kids. If you keep going the way you are then they won't learn anything! Just what did you teach them today?"
Duo's face was covered in a look of guilt, "Heh... well, I figured since we got a new student we'd take the day off!" Hiiro's glare nearly killed him, "Well, that new Usagi girl read her book anyway. Seriously, I think she was reading about the Eve Wars too. I told her she didn't have to, but she told me she wanted to learn more about the gundams."
Hiiro dropped his couch cushion, "The gundams?"
"Yep! Vincent may already be planting crap in her head. Remember Dorothy? She told me he might be moving, possibly to Tokyo."
"Do you think he's planning an assassination?" Hiiro asked.
"I don't know, but we'd better keep an eye on them. The adoption might just have been some public front, so nobody would expect such a sweet family." Duo replied, snorting at the thought of those people being sweet. Well, Usagi could pass it off pretty well.
And thats just why they couldn't afford to trust her. It was always the little cute ones.
--+--
Notes:
I do not own Sailormoon, Gundamwing, or "City of Devils" by Yellowcard. I do however love all the above! And I changed the order of the verses a bit, so they'd flow better with the story.
Yeah, Hiiro was a bit ooc in his first scene, but thats what my fingers typed. I hope you don't mind.
I know I know! That "why do we fall" line is from Batman Begins! I just love Christian Bale!