A/N: Before we forget the gundam pilots grown taller in this fic, just to clarify..almost everything? And another thing the chapter-again and again- is useless!( But what can we do? So, we'll just sit here and relax while you people read and REVIEW this fic. Disclaimer: We're poor that's all- maybe people not so dumb may understand what we mean.

Chapter 3- Ice princess 1, 2 and 3

Inside their dormitory, Yukino and Kasumi found their luggage stacked beside the beds. They looked around the vast room and realized that it really was a high-class school, the rooms itself could've passed for hotels. There were two queen-sized beds covered with blue-green sheets and a comforter. A bathroom was right opposite the beds with various closets beside it. Between the beds was a small table with a phone and an alarm clock. To the right from the front door was another door that led to a full kitchen and two armchairs with a beanbag, which was facing a dresser with two drawers and a TV on top. A small dining table with four chairs stood beside the counter. "This is even bigger than my room!" Yukino squealed, bouncing down onto the beanbag. "Yeah, there's even a refrigerator." Kasumi said, looking around the kitchen. "Right, but before you continue with your little charade, we should probably fix our things first."

The two went back to where their bags were put and started to put their things in the drawers. There was a bit of uproar when Yukino occupied all the drawers and used more than half the hangers. Kasumi complained and it took them quite a while before things cooled down. They both took a shower and changed into casual clothes before a messenger knocked on the door. Yukino jumped up from her bed and answered the door.

"Here are your schedules for this year. Have a nice day!" the man said, shouldering a bag, Yukino supposed, was full of schedules for other students. "Hey Kasumi, the schedules are here!" she shouted to her best friend, who was still dressing up in the bathroom.

"Really?" She emerged from the bathroom in a dark green shirt and, as usual, her baggy green cargo pants. Her hair hung loosely down her back, still wet from her shower. Yukino gave Kasumi's schedule to her and opened her own. Kasumi did the same and looked over Yukino's shoulder when she was finished.

"This is great!" "What's great?" Yukino asked.

"We have almost all of our classes together."

"Really? I didn't notice that, but now that I think of it, it is great, at least I'll have someone to talk to when the class gets boring." "Or when the teacher speaks funny so that we can make fun of her."

"That's not nice, but I'll surely enjoy that!"

"Yeah, before I forget, let's just call the others to hear what they've got to say about it." Picking up the school directory from one of the drawers, she found Yumiko and Saemi"s number and dialed.

A familiar voice answered on the other line.

"Hello, dormitory number 147."

"Yumiko, what is with the formalities?"

"Kasumi?"

"Yeah. Kasumi Miyazawa, if you still don't know. So, you haven't answered me yet." "Believe me, you don't wanna know."

"Right, which brings me back to my point. Have you two gotten your schedules yet?" "Yeah, why?"

"Nothing."

"Your 'nothing' didn't sound like a true 'nothing' to me."

"Just shut up, Yukino wants to talk to you." Kasumi put on the speakerphone. "Yumiko?" Yukino inquired.

"Yeah, having a good time yet?"

"Yeah, this room is great!"

"What are you guys doing?"

"Watching TV. What about you?"

"I'm reading something. Saemi's still in the bathroom, as slow as usual."

"Okay. Oh, I just remembered, I still need to call Kaori. See you at dinner then!" "See you, bye." Then both of the girls hung up.

"Have you found Kaori's number yet?" Yukino asked Kasumi, who was searching the school directory for Kaori's number.

"Here it is!" Having finally found the number, Kasumi read off the number to her best fiend.

Dialing the number, Yukino put the phone on speaker so that both of them could hear. After a few rings, a strange voice finally answered.

"Hello, may I please speak to Kaori?" Kasumi asked Kaori's supposed roommate. "Just a minute." "Hello?" Kaori's voice answered.

"How's your roommate?" Yukino asked.

"Horrible. When I came in, all her stuff was dumped on both our beds. Worse, she used up all the closets and drawers. All my things are still in my bags."

"Sounds bad." Yukino agreed. "Yeah, maybe you should throw out all her things when she's not there." Kasumi suggested.

"Good idea. Well, gotta hang up now, her highness has to call her best friend." "Don't worry, we'll mourn for you." Yukino supposed.

"Thanks."

Putting down the phone, Yukino heard the seven o'clock bell for dinner and headed down to the entrance hall with Kasumi.

Down in the hall, there weren't too many students yet and the two decided to sit in the farthest table to the right. Their three friends came down afterwards and joined them, but as they about to start eating, a certain longhaired blonde and two of her friends shattered their peace.

"What do you want?" Saemi asked the three girls standing across them.

"I don't want to shatter your meal, but I'm afraid that you girls are in our seats," the blonde said.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think I saw a 'reserved for the ice princesses' sign when we sat here." Kasumi countered.

"Is that so? Then, am I right in assuming that the five of you are newcomers?" " Yeah, so what?" Yukino butted in.

"Just to introduce myself, Relena Peacecraft." She held out her hand to Kasumi, but she said. "Sorry, but I'm going to eat my dinner so I don't want any germs." It was obvious that Kasumi disliked the girl's snobbery, or perhaps, the girl herself. Relena gritted her teeth, didn't this girl know how important the Peacecrafts were? She wanted to let this girl know that, but she needed to keep her temper down. "I'm really sorry, but we've been sitting here since grade school and I'm afraid that you girls will just have to find other seats." Relena said.

"I don't think so." Kasumi answered.

"Is there a problem?" a voice asked. A male voice.

They turned around and saw the five guys they had spent the day with behind them. "Hi Heero." Relena simpered. "You know them?" Duo asked Kaori, but before she could answer, Relena interrupted. "No, we haven't met, I was just..uumm...asking them to move as we always sit here with you guys." Relena said, obviously trying to convey their story as nice as possible. "It didn't sound very much like asking, if you ask me." Yukino muttered a little loudly to her best friend. Kasumi just shrugged.

"Well, I don't see any problem if they sit with us, there's still a lot of space for us to sit." Duo replied.

"Yeah, it wouldn't be bad for a change." Quatre said.

"What do you think, Heero?" Relena asked.

"If it's fine with the others, then why not?" Heero shrugged.

Kasumi threw a triumphant look at Relena and Relena gave the five of them a look that seemed to say, 'you may have won the battle, but I will still win the war.' Suddenly, Kaori and one of Relena's buddies said in unison, "You?!"

The guys, the other four, and the other two girls looked at them.

"What's with the big 'you' thing?" Saemi asked.

"Guys, this is Dorothy Catalonia, otherwise known as my roommate." Kaori cast her friends a pointed look.

"And to you guys, this is Kaori Kuwabara," Dorothy said to Relena and the other unknown girl.

"Uumm..girls, why don't we jut started eating?" Quatre said nervously, obviously sensing the tension in the air.

"Whatever." Kaori said, sitting down on the chair across Duo.

They already got their food from the plates lined up on the table, when Relena said,

"Before we start eating-" But she was cut off by Kasumi, once again.

"Relena, we already started."

Relena ignored the comment and continued, "As I was saying, before we start eating, we all should probably introduce ourselves first."

Most of them just looked at each other and shrugged, but the blonde girl didn't seem to notice and started the introductions herself,

"I'm Relena Peacecraft, everyone."

Her unknown blue-haired buddy continued, "Hilde Scheibeker,"

Nobody said anything after that, but Relena urged them on.

"Well, isn't anyone going to say anything?"

Quatre seemed to think that if no one said anything soon, no one would really say anything, so he just followed.

"I'm Quatre Raberba Winner," he said.

"The other guys followed suit.

"Trowa Barton," "Duo Maxwell," "Wufei Chang," "Heero Yuy,"

The girls continued after them.

"Yumiko Kobayashi,"

"Saemi Kuramitsu,"

"Kaori Kuwabara,"

"Kasumi MIyazawa,"

"Yukino Mori,"

When they were finished, the ice princess -a.k.a. Relena Peacecraft - said, "Good, now we're finished. Let's start eating, shall we?"

Everyone started to eat, and after a while, they were talking like old friends, well, most of them, anyway.

Kasumi looked at the guy in front of her, Trowa, and studied him for a moment. He was obviously a quiet person and a mysterious being. Weird. So, instead of just staying still, she attempted to create a conversation.

"Your Trowa, right?"

"Right." The guy looked up from his plate and looked at the long-haired girl "Why are you so quiet?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Just curious."

"I don't really know."

"What are your hobbies?"

"Stuff." "No, really. What?"

Soon enough, Kasumi found herself asking Trowa all sorts of things, and to her surprise, he was actually answering back. She realized that Trowa really was quiet, but with a little urging, one could make him open up, little by little. Of course, it would take a while before he would start being social, but it was a start. A very good start, but other people weren't so lucky.

Yumiko stared at Heero, the guy who seemed to hate everyone. He was toying with a piece of meat on his plate with his fork. She noticed that he avoided crowds and often spoke, had really messy hair-which was very obvious-and cold blue eyes. Yumiko was intrigued and wanted to know him better-if that was possible. She had the feeling that he was hiding something that he never wanted anyone to know, but Yumiko decided to take a shot at it, talking never hurt.

"Uummm...Heero?"

"What?" He gave her a steely stare.

"I was just wondering if..." She trailed off, unable to think of a thing she could ask him without him being suspicious of her. She didn't want him to think that she was a snoop or something.

"Wondering if what?" Heero asked.

"Nothing," she quickly responded. Heero gave her a half-questioning, half- suspicious look. She fiddled with the end of her hair as he went back to toying with his food. She continued to fiddle with her braid unconsciously while thinking of ways to get Heero to open up. But all she knew was whoever said that guys weren't dense certainly never met a guy like Heero Yuy.

Yukino had been talking to Quatre all throughout dinner, and she was enjoying it. She had never met a guy like him before. He was smart, intelligent, funny, and best of all, he was sensitive. Most of the guys she had met before were OK, but they usually didn't notice if they were already asking questions that were out-of-the-line or they mostly don't realize if the conversation was getting really personal . Quatre was different. He was really nice and knew how to make a good conversation. Any girl who got him as a boyfriend was in for a lucky catch.

Kaori laughed as Duo said yet another joke. She had been laughing her head off since the two had started talking. At first, she thought that Duo was like his friends, Heero, Wufei, and Trowa, who were always quiet, but in contrast, he was sociable, talkative, and funny. He had a mouth that talked nonstop and said jokes all the time, even though not all of those were nice. During the middle of their talk, she had come to the conclusion that Duo was a natural joker and sociable being. She always felt relaxed around him. He was a relaxing guy. Maybe because he was so relaxed. Good. At least she wouldn't feel all shaky and nervous when talking.

Saemi glanced at the black-haired Chinese in front of her and shook her head. This guy was hopeless. She had tried to talk to him a few times during the meal, but to no avail. All the guy did was grunt, shrug, and glare. Boring. Wufei was the most anti-social person she had seen her whole life, possibly even in the whole world. What was it with him? It was like he hated the whole world or something. But even though, Saemi wasn't a girl who gave up so easily. She was desperate to get him to talk, even if it killed her.

~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*: The girls went back to their dormitories at eight o'clock. The guys, except Heero, had offered to walk them back to their dorms and, of course, they accepted. Heero had been stuck with Relena because she had, well, almost forced him to walk her back. Now, inside Yukino and Kasumi's dorm, it was mostly quiet and the only sounds heard were the water from the shower and the TV. Kasumi was sitting on one of the armchairs watching cartoons (Powerpuff Girls, woohoo!) while wearing her pj's. Yukino was still in the bathroom and came out a moment later also wearing her pj's. It was already nine o'clock and the lights-out bell was bound to ring after thirty minutes. They spent the rest of their time watching TV until nine thirty, when they crept to their beds and started to sleep.

~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*: Clang! Clang! Clang!

The sound of the morning bell rang in Kasumi and Yukino's ears as they found themselves struggling to get up from their beds. Kasumi got up first and went to the bathroom to take a bath, leaving her best friend still trying to get up. Yukino finally succeeded in that when Kasumi got out from the bathroom. She went in next and got out to find her roommate dressed in her uniform and combing her hair, which was still wet. She got out her clothes from the closet and changed into them. Looking at the clock, she realized that they still had ten minutes before breakfast, enough time for her to listen to the radio while electric fan- drying her hair. Grabbing her "comb box" from one of the drawers, Kasumi said,

"You brought those things with you?"

"Yeah, nothing's wrong with it. Besides, you should probably use these, your hair's longer than mine, it obviously needs a little combing" Yukino answered. "Nah. I'm just going to let it stay like that and air dried."

"Fine with me." Kasumi stared at the brown-haired girl and shook her head. She always knew Yukino was up for collecting combs and only combs. May it be a brush, a roller comb, Hair Doctor, anything, you name the kind of comb, and she surely has it. But she still finds it weird all these years they had been together. But her, well, she uses the comb of course but she will more likely collect rugs than collecting out-of this-world brushes.

At eight o'clock, they came down to find the hall already filled with students. Luckily, the guys had saved seats for them. Duo waved to them from the table they had sat yesterday night. When they came nearer, they saw that Yumiko, Saemi, Kaori, and, to their disgust, the three ice princesses were already there.

The two sat down beside the ice princesses because there were no other seats left. They just ignored them and started eating.

After breakfast, the five went to their lockers to get their things. All their first subjects were Algebra.

They went in the room and found seats in the very back. The five guys, to their surprise, followed them afterwards.

"Hey, fancy seeing you here!" Quatre said.

"Same to you." Yukino replied.

"Shut up, Ms. Noin's coming." Kaori warned.

Ms. Noin came in carrying some books and a notebook. "Good morning, class. As you all know, today is the official start of classes-" Groans from students. "Now students, don't be so negative about it, classes aren't all that bad." Duo called out from the back, "You wouldn't know about it because you're a teacher." "Oh yes I do, Mr. Maxwell, I did go to school once, you know. But enough about that, let's now start with our lesson in algebra."

After first period...

"What's your next period?"

"Science. What about you?"

Kasumi, Saemi, Yumiko, Kaori heard these words as they hid behind a corner on the hallway. They were eavesdropping on Yukino and Quatre's conversation who were talking in front of the lockers.

"Those two are really hitting off well."

"You said it."

"Looks like Quatre likes her, too."

"Too? Does that mean that she likes him?"

"Looks like it." "Can you still hear what they're talking about?"

"If you shut up."

"Okay, okay, "

"Now what do you hear?"

"Quatre's asking if he could walk her to her classroom..."

"Really?"

"He does like her!"

"Keep your voice down, they'll hear you,"

"But they're already walking away!"

"Right, let's follow them."

The four carried their books they needed for Science, which was exactly their next subject, and followed the two. Trying not to be as suspicious as possible, they followed Yukino and Quatre down the hall to the Science classroom. When they entered, they sat one row behind them, preparing to listen again, but a man in his early twenties entered the room.

"Good morning students. I am Zechs Merquisse and I will be your Science teacher for this year...."

The four stopped listening and concentrated on what Yukino and Quatre were talking about. They were moving their lips, that they could see, but their voices were low and it was impossible to hear them unless they were beside them. "Why are we eavesdropping on them anyway?" Kaori whispered to Saemi.

"I don't know, because we're snoops, I guess."

"Yeah well, all I know is this class is boring."

"You got that right."

After Science class... ~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:~*:

Author: When it comes to Yukino and Quatre, love blooms! Co-author: Shut up! Author: Why? Are you Yukino? Co-author: * blush * Author: Yukino loves Quatre! Yukino love Quatre!(x 1,000,000,000,000)