Only the Beginning
AU: Everyone thank you so much for reading this. Its awesome so many of your care about the ending to this. Thanks for keeping me going with this! I am finally getting the Internet at home today so next week look out for my new story, The Silence. I think it is awesome and I hope a lot of you like it! I worked so hard on it!
Chapter 2 – Who are you?
"Lady, I don't know who you are, I've never met you before in my life."
The blonde haired angel pulled away from Duo as tears welled up in her eyes. And then she did something she hadn't done in years. She burst into tears.
Duo was shocked and slightly embarrassed that the girl started crying and he scratched his head uncomfortably and the girl known as Rei came down the stairs and placed an arm around the blonde girls shoulders.
"Easy Usagi," Rei said stroking her head, "Pluto said it would take time, take your time Odango."
Duo perked up upon hearing the name. It struck a strange chord inside him. Odango. Odango. Where had he heard that before?
"Odango…" Duo murmured more to himself than anyone else and Usagi cocked her head to one side and looked over at him allowing Minako to come forward and hand her a kerchief for her to wipe her tears.
"You used to call me that Duo, all of you did," Usagi said absently dabbing at her eyes and it was then Duo knew where he had seen her before.
"But, I thought you weren't real, I used to dream about you all the time when I was living at Maxwell Church, I used to see you standing over my bed glowing in a white light, are you an angel?" Duo asked in wonder and Wufei snorted with laughter from where he stood behind Duo and Rei shot him a dirty look to shut up.
Usagi giggled briefly gulping back her tears. She should have known it wouldn't be this easy. Everything was always hard for her and the other girls. It was all a test and by the goddess, Usagi was going to do all she could to pass.
"So, umm…excuse me, what's going on?" Quatre came forward to ask politely and Ami came forward, blushing a little as she gazed upon her past love.
"Perhaps we had better explain, please come inside and we will try and explain as best we can," Ami said politely and Quatre bowed his head and looked at the other pilots nodding his head at them.
Minako came forward, strangely quiet as she gazed upon Wufei. The look on her face was one of complete wonder. Minako's personal maid, a girl of sixteen years with an angel-like face came to her a frown of confusion marring her pixie-like features.
"Your highness?"
"We will be taking tea in the study thank you," Minako said sweetly to the maid pinching her cheek and the maid giggled and bobbing a quick curtsey hurried off to the kitchen.
"Lets go," Quatre said walking up the stairs and Trowa followed him without question. Heero looked at Rei and their eyes locked, and Rei saw a wave of recognition pass before his eyes, but it was gone as quickly as it came.
"Are you sure it safe?" Heero ventured to ask gruffly and Wufei walked passed Heero with his arms folded across his chest smugly.
"They're just onnas, what could they do to us?" he scoffed at the thought and followed Trowa and Quatre into the palace. Heero paused a second looking back at Rei, before following Wufei up the stairs and into the palace.
Mako and Rei bristled with rage but a cool look from Ami calmed their fiery tempers. Ami followed Heero indicating for Duo to follow as Mako, Rei and Usagi stayed behind. Duo was the just about to enter the palace when a screeching voice was heard.
"I am Vice Minister Relena Dorlian Peacecraft and I demand to know what is going on and where you are taking my gundam pilots," Relena said stomping her foot and putting her hands on her hips and Duo popped his head outside the door and cocked it to one side.
"Your Gundam Pilots?" he asked Relena frowning in disbelief and Relena became thoroughly embarrassed that she had said that out loud.
"You know what I mean," she muttered looking from one of the beautiful women to another. They were all so perfect, so elegant and dainty and so proud.
"Of course, you must be curious, if you will just join us inside the study," Ami invited Relena coming out to lead the Vice Minister into the palace leaving Makoto, Rei and Usagi outside.
"This is going to be hard," Makoto said slowly. If the guys didn't remember anything from their past as Pluto had said, the girls telling them a story where the girls abandoned each of the men to a lonely future, wasn't exactly going to have the men running into their open arms.
"If it is our destiny, so be it," Rei said evenly and Usagi grabbed Rei's hand clutching it tightly.
"Rei, I'm scared of losing him," Usagi confessed and Rei stroked Usagi's tear-stained cheek affectionately.
"You won't, Duo is not one of the ones I am worried about," Rei said frowning and Makoto didn't like the way Rei said that.
When Crystal Tokyo had been created, Rei had received telepathic powers from the Silver Crystal. If Rei wanted to she could read the minds of all those around her. It has been both a blessing and a curse for Rei.
"What do you mean? You think some of them won't want us back?" Makoto asked, half-afraid and half-anxious to hear Rei's answer.
"Makoto, Trowa has been hurt in this life, hurt so badly and the pain is still fresh, I can feel it emanating from him, he will not be so eager to trust and fall in love again. This Catherine, she has hurt him deeply. You will have to work hard Makoto, so hard to soften his heart and help him trust in you again. It is the same with Duo though to a lesser degree, Hilde has hurt him, but Duo knew in his heart he never really loved her enough to want to make her happy forever. That's why he didn't run after her when she left him. He already remembers more than the others, for you have always been in his dreams. He will love you again Usagi, of this I am sure. Quatre, although he may not show it, is very sensitive about being abandoned, the fact that Ami and all of us left them behind may harden his heart against her. But he is an understanding man, I do not think Ami has much to fear. I can say for certain Quatre will love her again. Wufei is different altogether, for his pain is that of rejection and loneliness, despite his veneer attitude he fears being lonely. But he also fears loving someone, because loving someone does not mean they have a lifetime guarantee. He doesn't want to lose the person he chooses to love as he doesn't want that pain so his solution is to never fall in love. Minako will have her work cut out for her," Rei revealed all that she had seen and felt in the Pilots minds and Usagi noticed Rei had left one important person out of her explanations.
"And Heero?" Usagi prompted and Rei bowed her head.
"Heero is the one person I was never able to read and I still can't," Rei admitted and Usagi squeezed Rei's hand and taking Mako's hand they hurried to catch up with the others.
They were just passing their gym facilities when Wufei piped up from towards the front of the group.
"What's that?" he asked in awe. He had never seen so much training equipment in his life. It was like a dream come true for him.
"Our gym for weapons training, and building our strength, we are all excellent fighters," Minako said honestly. She wasn't bragging, she was just stating a fact. She and the other girls were excellent fighters. They had had years to learn and perfect all their techniques. They were no longer the gangling teenage senshi they had once been.
"Ha!" Wufei coughed with contempt and Minako's eyes widened as she looked over at him, not sure if she had heard him or not.
"Pardon me?" Minako asked and Wufei strutted forward, his chest bursting with pride.
"You heard me onna, its preposterous to say an onna is an excellent fighter, when men are far more superior," Wufei stated, and everyone went silent. Quatre had turned red with embarrassment that Wufei was offending their hosts so soon. His hair half hid Trowa's face but you could see his lips purse with disapproval. Heero was emotionless and Duo was near having a choking fit.
"All right, that's it, lets go, you and me," Mako came striding forward poking Wufei in the chest so that Wufei stumbled backwards involuntarily much to his annoyance.
"No Mako, let me," Rei came forward pushing Makoto back and Mako looked at the grin on Rei's face and conceded.
"As you wish. "
Rei stripped offer her dress to reveal boxer shorts and a singlet top and she ran and somersaulted into the ring, going to the red corner. Just before they were frozen in time, Rei had been practicing in the gym, and hearing the alarm she had thrown on her dress over her outfit. Someone, probably Duo let out a low whistle of appreciation and Rei made a note to kick his perverted little arse later. Right now she had bigger fish to fry. Wufei raised an eyebrow and joined her in the ring in the opposite corner, the blue corner and Rei stood there watching him stretch, realizing that this scene was quite familiar. It was how she and Wufei first met.
Rei couldn't believe that even in this life, Wufei was still a sexist pig. How dare he offend them so! They were princesses of Crystal Tokyo, protectors of love and justice and they had saved the world hundreds of times. They were every bit as strong and talented as other warriors even men. Wufei was going to get it, and he was going to get it good.
"Uh Rei?" Minako had come to the edge of the ring and was calling Rei's attention and Rei answered her without even looking at Minako, her gaze still focused on Wufei.
"What is it Minako?"
"Stop glowering at him, your starting to freak everyone out," Minako said in a loud whisper and Rei looked around noticing the expression on the other girls and guys faces she smiled a little embarrassed and averted her eyes from Wufei.
"Oh sorry," she apologized getting back to stretching when Minako's small voice called her again,
"And Rei?"
"What?" Rei asked out of patience with her and in a small voice Minako put forward her request,
"Please don't break him, if you have to hurt him, hurt him a little."
Rei had to smile at Minako's request.
"You got it."
AU: And that's the end of that chapter! I don't know where I am heading with this honestly. Maybe the girls tell the boys the story, the boys go off to think, except for Duo who sneaks in to elope with Usagi! Cos then Rini is coming!
