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Fatal Five

a 1xR Gundam Wing fanfic by Ines Kanoyan

Romance/Comedy

Chapter 10 – Developments

Relena was so tired from walking all throughout the forest but she was way too much tired of fighting with Heero and hearing his harsh words. Not too long, she soon found a nice place to rest and maybe spend the night. At the edge of the forest was huge cave which Relena tensely entered.

After going out and collecting some wood, Relena was successfully able to create a bonfire.

"Gee, it's so lonely and quiet out here." Relena sighed sadly, suddenly she remembered Heero.

"Maybe you look really miserable but for Trowa to have special feelings for you? Yuck! No way!"

Relena squeezed her legs tightly in a hug as she recalled Heero. She can't help but feel deep irritation for his arrogance and harshness.

"Ooohh! How I want to strangle his neck 'til his face turns blue! I really, really hate him!"

As Relena's words filled the whole place, the clouds erupted huge drops of water; a terrible storm would be up all night. Relena immediately ran inside the cave for shelter. It was raining really hard outside with matching sharp lightning bolts and loud claps of thunder.

Relena sighed as she suddenly remembered Heero. "Quit it, Relena!" she irritably snapped to herself. "He deserves to freeze in that cold! He deserves to be struck by lightning! He deserves it!"

Just then, a vision of Heero freezing to death under the cold, huge drops of rain came to her mind. And as if adding fuel to the fiery vision, a loud clap of thunder filled the whole cave, setting Relena to a horrifying image of Heero being struck by a diabolical and deadly sword of lightning.

In no time, she was up on her toes and running as fast as she can to look for him.

Armed only with a huge banana leaf as her main weapon against the forces of nature, Relena was more than dreaded to find no sign of Heero on the part of the shore where their bonfire was.

"Heero!" Relena cried hard, hoping to offset the strong gushes of wind and rain. "Answer me! Where are you? Heero!"

Her heart was beating faster and faster. Her mind was racing, she couldn't control it from creating horrifying visions of Heero being thrown into the ocean or toasted by lightning or-

"Aaaahhhh!" Relena screamed as something crashed behind her.

"He—elp.." was the sound of a muffled voice from behind her.

She glanced behind her and there she beheld the sight of the proudest, most arrogant man in history, trembling, freezing and as wet as a poor, little kitty. Unfortunately, Relena couldn't think of anything but how she could get themselves, heck off the storm-bitten shoreline of an-unknown-island-only-God-knows-where. Relena put Heero's arm over her shoulder and tried to carry him towards the cave.

"Hooh!" Relena gasped with relief as she delivered Heero safely into the shelter of the cave. After restoring the bonfire, Relena noticed that Heero was still shaking because of the cold. Since she has no other clothing aside from the soaking ones on her body, she just curled up over Heero's shoulder to somehow, just somehow, give him warmth.

"Sorry, you know this is the least I can do." she mumbled shyly as they were in that very intimate pose.

Heero, despite the fact that he was still shaking managed to smirk and said, "It feels good."

Relena quickly hit him on the head, thinking that Heero was thinking of 'other things'.

"Ouch! What was that for?" Heero blurted out. "It feels good to be warm, that is all!"

Relena pouted as she said, "You should behave or else-"

Heero smiled to himself as Relena inched closer to him to continue to warm him up.

"Hello?" Hilde mumbled nervously as she received a strange call in the middle of the night. She felt relieved when she heard the familiar voice.

"Hilde? It's me Quatre. Sorry, to disturb you in this hour."

"It's ok, is this about Relena?" she quickly inquired.

"Yes. We've already been informed of their possible whereabouts and the rescuers are already headed towards the island where Heero and Relena are thought to be." Quatre reported.

"That's good to hear!"

Heero woke up as the storm subsided. He rose extra-carefully so as not to disturb the peaceful slumber of the woman spooned against him. He watched fondly as she snored soundly as she slept. As he watched her, he found himself growing closer and closer to her; he couldn't explain the happiness swelling within him despite the fact that they were stranded in an unknown island. He couldn't understand why despite their chronic arguments and quarrels, he finds himself drawn to her.

Suddenly, while Heero was still in a trance about Relena, he heard several steps approaching their location.

"Young Master!" one of them cried.

Heero sighed in relief as his men started coming in. "At last!" he remarked.

Relena walked towards the school building nervously. They were stranded on an unknown island for three days, amking her miss a very important exam which could make her fail one of her major subjects.

"Sheesh, how would I explain myself? No professor would accept or even believe my situation." Relena sighed sadly.

As she entered her professor's office, she was even more nervous as Mrs. Gregory stood up and gave out a weird smile.

"Miss Darlian, I was just waiting for you." she greeted.

Relena swallowed hard. What could this mean?

"I was wondering when you're ready to take the make-up exam?" she asked.

Relena's eyes glistened, her whole face lighting up. "You mean, you're really allowing me to take the exam?"

Mrs. Gregory nodded.

"Oh, Ma'am, you have no idea how you made my day!" Relena exclaimed as she pounced to give Mrs. Gregory a tight hug.

"Of course, you're one of the best students in the class plus I just can't say 'no' to an adorable young man's request."

Relena let go of Mrs. Gregory. "An adorable young man's request?" she repeated.

Mrs. Gregory smiled teasingly. "Oh, yes young lady. I found it hard to resist your handsome boyfriend's sweet request. Hihihi."

Relena swallowed hard. "Boyfriend?"

"Oh, he is usually so snobbish and intimidating even for us professors but when he pleaded me to consider your situation," Mrs. Gregory narrated with dreamy eyes. "He's just so adorable and irresistible. Didn't know he had it in him."

Mrs. Gregory winked at Relena teasingly. But, Relena still couldn't quite comprehend. Could it be him?

Relena shook her head abruptly. 'No way! No! No. No. No, no, no, no...'

"Ahhhh, he was usch a sweet guy, madly in love." Mrs. Gregory added.

Relena felt like spewing her entire breakfast upon hearing more of Mrs. Gregory's fictional account of he-who-cannot-be-named.

"So, I have a 3-hour break tomorrow, would you like to take the exam tomorrow?" Mrs. Gregory offered.

"Sure, ma'am!" relena replied at once, trying to recover from all that foolish talk a moment ago.

"Ok, and say 'hi' to your boyfriend for me!" Mrs. Gregory reminded. "You owe him a lot!"

Relena smiled forcefully, as she slowly made her way out of the office. She sighed unbelievably to herself as she shut the door behind her.

'What is that guy up to this time?' she thought to herself as she sighed heavily once more.

-TBC-