~ Saviour ~

chapter 7: Tears no more.

An: yeah Usagi's heart is seriously damaged when it comes to issues abouther past.

Thank you to those reviewed! Yup Alex is her ex, one she loved so much yet now her enemy.

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Usagi's mind screamed silently, it was Alex...IT WAS ALEX! Usagi buried her face in her hands and sighed silently. Then she looked at Heero who was sleeping right now from the wounds. Silently she went back to musing about her past...better part of it anyways.

[Flash back]

"Alex!" Usagi ran down the park path and towards the guy she loved with all her heart.Though her cheerful face fell when she saw Alex's grim face.

"Usagi..." He said tiredly, then spoke again before she could speak again.

"No...I am not breaking up with you..I will not ever.." Then he fianlly looked at her fully, with his haunted eyes.

"Alex? what's wrong? is your parents okay?" Usagi relieved silently that he wasn't going to dump her after all these time.

"No they are fine..."

"But..then.."

"My father has been told to tranfer to the other side of the world...after being here for almost 10 eyars."

Alex silently hugged the petite girl in front of him.Usagi did not protest yet but her buried face told of her sad emotions.

"That means..."

"We won't able to see other not much..."

Then Usagi cried, she cried a good deal. Alex was also crying but only silent.

[End of Flashback]

Usagi jerked awake at sound of Heero waking up.

"How do you feel Heero?" Usagi asked, knowing he took the bullet for her.

"A little painful but I will live." Heero grunted as he managed to prop him self up.

"Thank you for taking that bullet for me." Usagi carefully said and watched Heero for his reaction.

"Better me then you." was all he said, no emotion showing through his prussian blue eyes.

After what seemed like infinite silence, Usagi spoke up.

"Why?"

"Because...you will know one day why."

"USAGI!" she heard Duo call out.

"I better go, have more rest Heero."

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Usagi came upon a scene where an angry Wufei was chasing Duo with 100% hot fire in his eyes. Usagi grinned at the scene but intervened nonethless.

"I am sure Wufei whould not act impulsive like Duo either."

That stopped Wufei in the mid chase and sent him stomping down the stairs, muttering something about insolent women.

"Thanks! Usagi! you are a life saver..!!" Duo grinend sheepishly at her.

"What did you do this time to poor Wufei?"

"Eh? nothing much just that I keep calling him Wu-man." Duo said, catching breath from all the running.

"Well, Usagi-chan let's go down for a nice snack then!" Duo pulled Usagi along, whilst she did not protest at all.

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"So how is Heero?" Duo asked as he digged into his version of Narchos, aka alot of mild hot salsa sauce.

Usagi lifted one eyebrow at him before answering,

"He will live, well according to him anyways."

"Eh? so he woke up? that is a good sign, he had worse damages done to his body in the past then just taking a bullet."

Duo finished off his Nachos and started on his rather tall glass of soda.

"What ...do you mean?"

"Oh you probably heard about our younger days, I presume?"

"No."

"Well I will tell a few, he was in a fight with lightning count he was knocked out unconscious with badly sore body from intense fight he did, god knows how long he was like that for."

"I guess he looks tougher then he does."

Duo laughed,

"Yeah he is, but he looked more gangly when younger, though now his body is much more of lean muscled then gangly."

Usagi grinned, then both turned around at footsteps of another.

"Ah, Trowa!" Duo waved and Usagi just smiled.

Trowas jsut silently nodded to both of them, but his actions betrayed his mind, he sat down next to Usagi.

"Woah! is Trowa getting a girlfriend finally?" Duo grinned teasingly before rolling over the back of the sofa and ducked several smarties that was launched in his direction.

"Duo!"

"Hey but what about..." Duo never got to finish as Quatre entered with professor P.

"It's good to see that you guys all well and kicking very energetically." The dark green haired woman said slowly.

"Is there something ?" Usagi asked quietly and seriously.

"About someone concerning your past, Usagi."

Usagi went stiff at that and Duo and Trowa and even Quatre held their breath.

" So..."

"No, it's for her ears only. don't hold your breath boys, because until she gives permission I will not reveal about it." professor P simply said as she looked at the reactions from the boys.

Trowas was disappointed inside but did not show it outside, same as Quatre but Duo was different.

"We all have pasts we don't like, wished it never happened that way, and we are pilots as well, isn't it right for us to know what it is about at least, if not in detail?"

Professor P shook her head,

"You wouldn't understand, all your hardships aren't enough to understand some of the complex matters in our life."

"How do you now that!" Duo almost snapped.

"Because..."

"...I want keep people out of it, maybe?"

Usagi answered back evenly, answering for Setsuna who was at loss for words.

Duo raised his eye brows at her words.

"Is that, anger I detect in your voice?"

"Yes! keep out of matters you won't understand!" Usagi finally snapped and stomped away with professor P trailing behind.

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"Duo, that was rude of you.." Trowa said very quietly from where he sat.

"But! why do both of them keep saying we won't understand? what didn't we go through in our life that we won't able to understand?" Duo whined,

"I don't know..really..but then life is so ever complex.." Quatre said in same quiet tone as Trowa.

Then all three of them fell into deep thinking, each thinking seperate matters.

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"Setsuna, why did you have to mention about past in front of them?" Usagi said tiredly as she sat down on a garden bench.

"I am sorry Serenity-sama but it was soemthing I could avoid."

"Well I guess that is that, which past were you talking about anyways?"

"About Alex Le Rian."

Usagi's shoulder slumped further, at mention of his name.

"It was him! he works for our enemies! I can't believe it...I wonder if it was just an illusion.."

"I am afraid it wasn't an illusion."

Setsuna was worried about her queen or should have been a queen, but was still a princess.

"I know, I was trying to deny it in my mind....oh! what should I do!" Usagi then hugged the Setsuna for comfort. Setsuna patted her princess's head trying her best to comfort her mind.

"We will have to wait a little while before deciding on the best action to be taken."

"Of course..."

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Heero woke up when Duo and Wufei's usual round of chasing around this huge mansion started up again, it was so loud that weven he woke up.

"Heero! are you okay?" another voice spoke, and he focused enough to see Usagi sitting near him, watching him with her blue eyes. Heero groaned before propping himself up. He almost tensed when she tried to help him to settle him in to sitting position.

"I am fine a little pain.."

"Sorry if Duo and Wufei woke you up."

"......"

Usagi smiled and held his hands, to which he visibly stiffened.

"Don't worry I won't eat you up." Usagi said, mistaking his stiffness for him being weary of any human physical contact.

But to Heero that was like sun shining on his frozen world. Like if his wasteland of a mind was starting anew filled with a new beginning. But Heero tried to squash that feeling. But it was useless, ignoring his protesting muscles on his arm he suddenly hugged her close to his chest.

Usagi was shocked but did not try to yank away from him either, she felt that maybe it was time she moved on from Alex.No..ALex was still her beloved and will always be...maybe.But then there was Trowa, in his own gentle and silent way he cared for her. Oh life was confusing, such feelings shouldn't exist...it was too dangerous. Heero by this time have buried his face in her soft silvery blond hair and enjoying the feeling of it.

"Heero...?" Usagi finally managed to speak out quietly.

"Yes?"

"What...do you ..?"

"You felt like sunlight...warm and beautiful." was all Heero said before Quatre called her, asking her to intervene Duo and Wufei.

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Alex mused over a photo, lounging around in his sofa. His heart ached every time he looked at face.

"Usagi...why was fate so cruel to you?"

Alex whispered into the dark air as he viewed it from low light, her eyes glittering bright under it.It hurt too much to think of her suffering such fate. He wodnered what could have happened to her. If he find her again, he will definitly make her happy. Just like she deserved all the time of happiness.

He swept his snow white hair, and his ice blue eyes intensly staring at the photo. It was of him and her on a holiday trip, to a tropical island.

She was wearing a black bikini, showing off her gorgeous body and him by her side smiling happily together, their hair a mess from long water fight.

"Only if I could find you..." Though he had this nagging feeling that he has seen her somewhere. He pushed a possible though blossoming in his mind, that it was one of the three enemies was Usagi. Alex nearly chocked at the idea, he would put that as a last option.But that idea wouldn't get out of his head.

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Usagi was also awake, staring at her ceiling, thinking about certain people.

"Alex why?" She kept whispering that question to her self. Then there was Heero and Trowa to deal with, will they still care for her when they get to know her past? will they?

"Still thinking about Alex, Serenity-sama?"

Usagi nearly shrieked at Setsuna's silent entrance

"I think all those training are useless at times like this."

Usagi said as she sat up sighing, giving up trying to sleep for now.

"I am just having a hard time accepting that Alex works for them..I wonder if he knows what their true purpose is really?"

Setsuna smiled, seeing a glimpse of what she could have been had she had a future, she always thought Serenity -sama would have.

"I don't think...I can't cry anymore...I have changed onthat..I would have cried..but my tears all dried up."Usagi saif grimly.

"I believe we need to be careful on our emotions here...well tomorrow we are to work on another mission."

Usagi perked up at that announcement,

"Is it dangeorus and exciting?"

Setsuna softly laughed, petting Usagi's head.

"Surely you know every mission you take is dangeorus."

Usagi grinned, forgetting about Alex for awhile.

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Next morning~

Usagi slowly crept into Heero's room, checking on him. Heero was asleep soundly, to which Usagi sighed in relief and tip toed out again.

"Hey Usagi-chan come on Trowa is playing chef again." Duo called out whent hey met on the stairway and also heard another door open and Quatre trailed behind.

"Good morning you two." Quatre said cheerfully.

"We have a mission coming on today.I hope it is something I can stick something very sharp through." Usagi said as she sat down to the table as Trowa put a heaped plate of some delicious breakfast.

"Good Morning Trowa!" Usagi said happily as she started on her breakfast.

"Sleep well Usagi?" Trowa asked back, to much shock of Quatre who had his fork mid way to his own plate and Duo who had a strip of bacon hanging out half way from his mouth.

"Yup I never get tired of sleeping." Usagi cheerfully replied, obvlivious toother's reactions. Duo thought, that good thing Heero is not here.

"So...what was about that mission you were mentioning about?"

"Oh..."

"It was about annihilating one of their branches, specifically another advanced mobile doll factory." Professor P replied as she came up already looked like if she just walked out of a lab.

"Well at least something I can enjoy and let out some stress." Duo said as he polished off his plate.

Usagi mumbled something about having something to skewer adn Wufei came down at the time and Professor P repeated the details again to all of them.

"I feel odd today though." Duo said as he drank his orange juice.

"Suprises never stops coming, Duo....you jsut have to keep your eye out open for them."

Professor P siad eerily as she quietly walked away.

"Man, she is CREEPY." Duo said as he drank another glass of orange juice.

"Until you get to know her." Usagi came to Setsuna's defence.

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"Sir Le Rian, the new factory is operating well and smooth."

Alex nodded to teh man infront of him.

"Just make sure another annihilation does not happen again."

"Yes sir."

"Dismissed."

The older man quietly went, leaving Alex in his peace.

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Woah...some interaction between Heero and Usagi! :) Thank you all readers who have urged me on!