Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or Sailor Moon. I hit my head once and thought I did for like five minutes. It was the best five minutes of my life.

Chapter 7

That next Thursday, at lunch the girls were eating and talking about Ami's coming birthday within a week. "So Ami, your birthday is next week right? What do you want?" Usagi asked.

"I really don't know. All I really need are some new preparatory exam booklets and maybe a new calculator."

"Ami, come on you need something better than that."

"Really Makoto, it's all I really want. I really have not much of a need for other things."

"Ah, Ami, I'll find you something that you'll enjoy!" Said Usagi and then went back to stuffing her face with her lunch. They were a bit surprised when they heard someone sit next to them. Looking over they saw Heero had actually came on his own and was going to eat lunch with them without being badgered about it.

"Wow, uh hi Heero! What are you doing here?" Usagi said.

"Eating lunch of course." He responded nonchalantly.

"Yeah but you just came over like that it's kind of surprising!"

Heero looked at the blonde haired girl. "Do you not want my company?"

"No no no!" Usagi said quickly retracting her statement and waving her hands in a dismissive way, "It's just that it's the first time you came over without being asked. Maybe that icy wall around your heart is finally breaking up?"

"Well…I figured you would ask me to eat with you anyway so I decided to save you the time and effort." Replied Heero.

Ami and Makato smiled. They were happy to be getting such a new friend. Makoto was happy because he was a guy who could beat the crap out of anyone while Ami was happy because he was just as if not smarter than her. "So Heero, did you know Ami's birthday is next week? We are going to have a big party for her and I think you should come!" Usagi told him.

"I doubt I will have time, I am very busy with…things."

"Heero you can't make time for one little party?" Makoto asked.

"I told you I am very busy." Heero looked up to see Usagi giving him a puppy face that pleaded with him to come. Ami was looking away, she didn't want to be there while they were talking about something they were doing for her.

"Please Heero! It would make all of us very happy if you came." Whined Usagi

"Really," Ami started. "it's no big deal, if he is busy it's okay."

"Butt out Ami! You don't have any say in who comes to your party!" Usagi said to her.

Heero looked at Ami again, and thought a little bit. "Maybe I will come." Heero said, "but only IF I get things done, and only IF I have time, and IF I do come, it will only be for a few minutes."

"That's good enough for us!" exclaimed Usagi.

The bell rang signaling the end of the lunch period and the students began to walk back. Ami and Makato went the other direction and Heero was about to leave when he felt someone tap him on the shoulder. He turned around to see Usagi with a serious and hopeful look on her face.

"Heero, please do try to come, I know it would mean a lot to her if you did show up and we would all like you to be there too."

"…I probably will be able to squeeze in a few minutes…but no promises."

"That is good enough for me…thanks Heero." Usagi said as she walked to her class.

Inside Heero though, he was having a huge dilemma within himself. Should the perfect soldier be allowed to go to a party? Should the years of training of hiding his emotions and training to kill be pushed aside to go to a party? He was always alone, didn't need anyone. But while he didn't need anyone…

…did he not WANT anyone? Suddenly the last words spoken to him by his guardian Odin Lowe came back to him. 'Follow your heart.' Heero remembered those words. And with those words, he made his decision.


The next day at school…

"Well the tests are back class, and once again, you've all failed miserably with the exception of Ami and Wonderboy who had the highest grades with 98% and 100% respectively. Class average was 46.7%, way to go bakas! And guess what! It's only going to get harder! I expect you to study 5 hours a night! And that's if you want a B!" The class groaned. Ever since Heero came Shiro's tests had gotten even more impossible for the average advanced math student. Many glared at Heero and Ami and most were turned back from a counter-glare from Heero.

"I wish he wouldn't point us out to everyone, it makes us look bad and probably makes people think that we think we are better than them." Ami whispered to Heero. Heero nodded slightly. It was true the guy seemed to be a lot more irritable ever since his arrival. And since Heero had yet to answer a question wrong in class, he seemed to be angrier and angrier.

"I think Shiro-san really hates us, but especially you."

"I do what he requires me to do, that is all. There is no reason for him to be mad about it and since he is, it is his own weakness that can be easily turned against him." Ami realized the validity of those words very quickly. In fact, Ami could swear that for every answer Heero got correct, a vein on his forehead seemed to get bigger and bigger and a few strands of hair seemed to fall out. For some reason the teacher was oblivious to this fact and persisted on asking Heero question after question daily in meager hopes that he would make a mistake. In Ami's mind and the minds of the students in the class, this was a losing battle for Shiro-san.

"So then Wonderboy! If you take the square of the hypotenuse and then multiply it by sigma, as the number Y converges, and then using the Pythagorean theorem, what does X equal?"

"The answer is 18i."

Shiro's once again did his best tomato impression and angrily went back to the board. 'Damn that snot nosed kid! I stayed up all night thinking of that problem!'

"I see what you mean by 'weakness.' Ami told Heero with a smile.

Heero looked back at her and had a very small upturn on his lips. "It's his own fault."

Ami blushed at the fact that the silent stonewalled boy was smiling but not just that, smiling at her! The girls would never believe this. 'On second thought, I probably won't tell them, they'll just embarrass me about it like they have been doing.' These thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a very loud and angry sound.

"Mr Yuy and Miss Mizuno there will be no talking in class! Apparently you all think you are too good for this class and smarter than the material so you have to talk! Well not on my time you delinquents! Get out into the hall!"

Ami was very surprised, she had never been yelled at by any teacher in her life, much less thrown out of a class. 'This is a new low in my academic career.' Ami thought sadly to herself. She looked up to see Heero nonchalantly walking to the door with his hands in his pockets not even looking at the teacher, which seemed to infuriate him more that Heero didn't even care about getting in trouble. Ami quickly followed after Heero given that she didn't want to be around to be yelled at some more. Outside in the hall Ami was still replaying the fact in her mind that she actually got thrown out of a class. She was hoping the other girls wouldn't hear about it because she would never hear the end of it. The only person she knew of getting thrown out of class regularly was Usagi. Suddenly that fact hit her, and it hit her hard.

'Oh my God! What if I become like Usagi!' Ami began to have a cold sweat as she imagined herself pigging out on junk food, being late to class, reading mindless mangas, eating some more, and crying a lot. And then she imagined the worst thing ever…looking down at a paper, and seeing an F!

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ami cried out as her voice was heard all through the school halls.

"Are you okay?" Heero asked her.

Ami suddenly came to her senses and suddenly realized what she had just done. Now it was her turn to do an impression of a tomato. She looked at Heero, who had a curious but maybe semi-worried look on his face. "Urrr…um…"

"I know this probably isn't something you're used to, I've never gotten thrown out of a class myself, but I don't think it's a bad enough experience to condone screaming in the hall."

"Uhh…yeah I guess not." Ami said sheepishly.

"Anyway, I am sorry for getting you in trouble, I should not have been talking. I really don't talk much anyway."

"Oh don't worry about it. You're right it's not that big a deal, and I think it is good when you talk."

"Hn." Heero said, as he gave nothing but a slight nod.

The next 15 minutes were a bit awkward, for Ami at least, as they stood in the hall waiting for the period to end. Ami bit her lip and finally spoke up. "So…Heero, are you going to…come to the party?"

Heero opened his eyes and looked up to her. "As if right now…I think I have a few minutes to spare for it."

Ami smiled, she suddenly felt a lot better.


"You know Ami I could have sworn I heard your voice while I was in my class."

"Err…it was your imagination Makato! I am never that loud." Ami said as she slightly blushed.

"Maybe but still, someone did yell and it sounded an awful lot like you…"

Usagi, Ami, and Makato began to eat their lunches, but Usagi looked over at Ami, she noticed something different about her. Ami had a smile on her face for no reason at all and seemed completely oblivious to that fact. "What happened Ami? Why are you so happy?"

"Huh, what do you mean?"

"Well, ever since you've gotten here, you've had a smile on your face. Did you get another A?" Usagi inquired.

"No that's not it, far from that, it's just that…Heero told me he'd stop by the party next week and I am really happy about that."

"Really?" Makoto exclaimed. "Wow that's great, it'll be really cool to have that guy there."

"Yeah anyone who can beat the crap out of anyone in that racing game needs to be there."

"So…" Usagi continued with an evil glint in her eye, "did you use your girlish charms to "convince" him to come to this party?"

Usagi enjoyed the panicked and embarrassed look on her friend's face. Ami was about to say something in denial when a voice behind Usagi spoke up.

"Actually I just told her that I think I'll be able to find time for it and that is it. There were no girlish charms involved."

"AHHHHH!" Usagi screamed out and turned to see Heero holding his lunch. "Will you stop doing that! Why do you always sneak up on people like that and give them heart attacks! I never knew someone could be so stealthy!"

Heero couldn't help but smirk at this comment. If only she knew how close to the truth she was that the reason he was so good at sneaking up on people was because it was with the intent to silently kill an enemy or render him immobile. "I had no intention of sneaking up on you during your conversation." Heero said. "I just came over while you were talking about me. That is all."

"Well still, at least let us all know you are in the area before speaking up and scaring the hell out of one of us!" Usagi whined.

"Very well, I will take your request into consideration." Heero didn't like making himself "known" but he supposed he could do this just so he wouldn't have to get another ear full from the blonde.

"Good this way you won't be giving me anymore heart attacks!"

"Then you're coming to the party right?" Makato asked switching back to the subject at hand.

'Why are they so interested in me going? It doesn't seem that important.' Heero thought. If it had been back in his own time he would have grown suspicious of a possible attempt to kill him or something like that but in this world the motives of these eccentric girls were very unknown to him. "I already said I think I had time to stop by."

"Great, the party Sunday at 2:00pm at the Hikawa shrine!"

Heero simply nodded in reply.


"Dammit!" Heero cursed at his laptop as his latest mathematical problem failed. He had been trying to use mathematics to try and figure out some formulas using the Unified Field Theory as his base but that theory was for one universe. It would be almost impossible to try and add to the equation a standard in order to create a wormhole to another dimension and so far, Heero is at the same place he started out at. He decided he had enough of this for one day. 'I may very well be stuck here. I'm sure the others will be able to manage without me but hopefully no new conflict will come up that they can't handle.'

It was true that this universe was a peaceful environment, much different from the war torn areas that he was used to. Heero began to wonder what he would be like if he grew up in a world like this. This led to him thinking about him being as cheerful as the girls and this made him nearly shudder. He would hate himself if he were that cheerful. Heero looked over at the remote for Wing Zero he was glad that it was made out of Gundanium alloy or else it would have probably been corroding by now. He had been here for nearly two weeks now and Heero had never gone so long without piloting a suit, he was beginning to worry that his skills were going to rust. But he had no choice, Wing Zero had little fuel left and he couldn't use it anyway due to the commotion it would cause. 'I hope it's doing okay, the last thing I need is for some primitive scientist to rip it apart.'


"Happy birthday Ami!" the four other girls screamed as noisemakers and confetti were prominently displayed.

Ami blushed at all the attention. "Thank you everyone, I really appreciate this."

"Open mine first Ami!"

"Don't open Usagi's crap! Open mine!"

"Shut up Rei! My present is the best present in the world! She'll probably go return your gift tomorrow!"

"Your present is probably something that will make her dumber! Open mine Ami!"

"No Mine!"

This continued for…ever, until finally a reasonable voice spoke up.

"Here Ami why don't you open mine."

"Thanks Makoto."

"Huh?" Rei and Usagi stopped their arguing to see Makato hand Ami her present.

"Hey!" Usagi whined.

"No fair!" Rei cried out.

Minako laughed, "Maybe you two shouldn't have been arguing so much and she would have taken yours." The two girls groaned and watched as Ami delicately began to unwrap the present.

"Ami you need to rip it apart! There is no need to be delicate with it!"

"Let her do it the way she wants to odango atama!" Usagi glared at the black haired girl none too pleased with the name.

"Wow Makato, a gourmet cookbook! I could use this."

"Yeah, you told me once that your mom was really busy and you had to fend for your own meals so I thought this could put some variety into your meal plan other than those sandwiches you usually have."

"Thanks a lot I'll try some recipes out sometime."

"Mine now!" Minako yelled as she slammed her present into Ami's lap with a little more force than needed. In the background, Rei and Usagi face vaulted at another missed chance.

"Err…thanks Minako." Ami said as she unwrapped the present.

"Huh…balls?"

"Yup! It's the "3 in One Box Ball Set!" It has a basketball, a volleyball, and a soccer ball for you to play with! This way, you can remain active while you study!"

"Yeah I can use this. Even I get bored. Thanks Minako."

What next happened was a mad dash to Ami with Usagi and Rei as the contenders. The first one got to have Ami open their present first. Of course this was going to get messy. "Let go of me Rei!"

"You tripped me first Usagi!" Rei screamed on the ground as she was holding on to Usagi by her ankle. Rei used the momentum to pull herself up while causing Usagi to tumble on the ground. Rei got up and began to run towards Ami but Usagi held onto her leg.

"Let go of me!"

"Bite me Rei!"

So basically, Rei was walking towards Ami and practically dragging Usagi as she clung to her leg. So rather than dealing with Usagi, Rei tossed her present over to Ami and it landed right in her lap.

"NOOOOOOO!" Usagi wailed as she lost.

"HAHAHA! I win baka!"

"Damn you!" Usagi said to her while laying on the ground both out of breath and spirit broken.

"Uh…thanks Rei." Ami said as she opened the gift. "Wow it's beautiful!"

"It's a sacred charm that will bring good luck if you wear it around your neck. I hope you like it."

"I do it is so pretty!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah my turn…finally!"

Ami laughed and took Usagi's present from her and unwrapped it. "Usagi is this…?"

"Yeah it's a photo book of every picture that I've had taken with you."

Ami browsed through the book and saw various pictures of her and Usagi, and her and the others. Seeing them brought back a lot of happy memories.

"I know you always haven't had the happiest life especially before you met of all us. So I gave this to you to always remind you that you are not alone and we are always there for you."

Ami was on the verge of tears. "Usagi, I love it. Thank you so much."

Minako spoke up. "Well I guess this is it."

"Yeah," Ami said suddenly saddened, "but Heero never came."

The rest of the girls suddenly remembered the quiet boy and were saddened to see Ami upset like this. Usagi tried to console her. "Don't worry about it Ami…I'm sure he wanted to come he probably just had something to do. You know how busy he is right?

"Actually, I just got lost on the way here. I never knew where the Hikawa shrine was."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The five girls turned around to see Heero standing behind them.

"Damn you Heero!" Usagi said holding her chest, "I thought you said you'd stop that."

"You told me to make myself noticed, isn't that what I did?"

"Most people knock or ring the doorbell."

"Yeah Rei you're grandfather let me in. So I did nothing wrong."

By now the girls had calmed down and Minako and Rei began their ogling of Heero.

"No we don't mind!" Minako said getting up and grabbing Heero's arm.

"Yeah come, sit! Sit!" Rei insisted as the two girls pulled Heero to floor with the rest of the group.

"Forgive me for being late. But as I said before, I was never given directions here so that caused a delay."

"Heh, oops." Usagi and Makato blushed at the fact that they forgot to give him that important detail.

"No it's fine Heero, thank you for coming. It…means a lot to me."

Heero nodded and got up and took out small package and placed it in front of Ami.

"Tanjoubi omedetou, Ami." Heero said. (Happy birthday, Ami)

"AWWWWWW!" the four girls gushed out in a sappy way. Ami's face grew bright red as this was the first time she had ever gotten a gift from a boy before. Carefully she unwrapped the gift, and gasped at what she saw. Under the wrapping paper, was a white teddy bear.

"Heero, it's so cute!" Minako cried with glee. Of course this led to more "awws" by the girls.

"Wow Heero, I didn't think you were such a soft hearted sap!" Usagi exclaimed and of course this was met by a cold glare from Heero. "Ah, I guess I was right!" She said as she coward away from him.

"Heero," Ami began, "this is so nice of you even though we have only known each other a limited time. Thank you, it means a lot to me."

Heero simply nodded.

"Well, that was fun guys, but it's getting late and I have to go." Makato stated. The others agreed it was time to go and then departed from the shrine.

"Well everyone I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Bye Ami, catch you later!" The other girls replied.

Ami went towards her house while Usagi, Minako, and Makato walked together towards their own houses. About a hundred meters ahead they saw Heero walking away, most likely to his apartment, cutting through the alley. "That was really nice of Heero don't you think?" Makato asked.

"Yeah," Usagi agreed, "but a teddy bear, who would have thought."

The others laughed, but the laughter ceased when they caught sight of a white car with a giant black star on the side speeding into the alley that Heero went into.

Minako gasped, "Oh no…Deathbusters!"

"Heero is in danger!"

TBC

Wow finally done with this chapter. I must apologize for the delay but my fan somehow fell off my processor in my computer which caused it to overheat. So I had to wait a few weeks for a new processor before I could finish the chapter up. I hope I didn't make you all too crazy. Anyway some explanations, the Unified Force Theory is also known as the Theory of Everything. It is basically the holy grail of physics in which if this theory is ever completed, it will be the end of physics (as in its as far as you can go with physics). Basically in short the theory hopes to unify the four known interactions; gravity, strong force, weak force, and electromagnetism, where strong force is the force that holds atomic nuclei together and the weak force is responsible for slow nuclear process. From what I believe, three of the four have been unified with gravity being the one that hasn't been. I think that scientists hope to have unified physics by the year 2050, and then we'll be able to do all kinds of neat things with it. Anyway, enough learning. Chapter 8 shouldn't take nearly as long to get out…unless of course my processor blows up again…see you next time!