Guten tag, minna-chan! Okay, so I'm using a two language greeting, but
hey, at least I'm having fun! Well, I will be later ... hopefully. I'm
sorry it's taking me forever to get both Elements and Hidden out. It might
be just as long since I have started school last week. I'll try to get
some more of the fics done somewhere between school and work. Since I
don't have much to say, on with the fic!
Usagi Tsukino = 16 Heero Yuy = 16 Kyle Niigano = 17 Jadeite = you'll find out later
Disclaimer: I don't own anything ... not even the car I drive. ::sob:: ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________
It had been several days since he first started at Sirius Academy. The new curriculum had his head spinning and his mission was tying his stomach in knots. The core classes -- math, english/grammer, history, science and computers -- came easily to him with Dr. J's teachings. What stumped him (maybe because he refused to believe in it) were the classes on magic, divination, astrology and natural powers. There was just no logic behind it all.
Heero folded his arms behind his head, glaring at the ceiling. Nothing that Dr. J trained him in prepared him for this. Death-defying feats, he can do. Hacking into government files, chalk it up to something to do when he was bored. Self-destructing, that was part of his missions. Accepting magic ... no way.
There was no logic in magic. One couldn't calculate the effects of magic (length or what happens) solidly into plans. Plans can change but adding magic into the calculations made it too unstable for his liking. He has seen enough during the first week that magic did not always work. Nor was it *logical* to someone trained by a scientific mind.
Yet, as Odin Lowe Jr, he knew he had to accept magic. Odin was not Heero; he was the opposite of the war driven teen. Odin was an emotion filled, magic believing young man. It was almost easy to accept when he was with Kyle and Usagi. His room mates have helped him in the short two weeks he had been at the Academy.
Kyle intrigued him, although he would never admit that in a million years. A number of people had often remarked how similiar they looked alike that they could easily pass for brothers. They were a like on other levels other than physical -- their emotionlessness which they both had to work with, their parentless past, their ruthlessness when it came to discussing the wars and planning stategies. If someone told him a year ago that he would have met a clone of him, he would have laughed, at least his version of laughing -- staring at the person as if he was crazy.
Heero found that he could relax around his look alike. There were times they would think the same thoughts, finishing what the other had started before they even realized it. One time Usagi commented on how well they worked together and would not be surprised if they were both on the same team. It was easy for for them to relate to each other due to their emotionless states of being.
Usagi on the other hand was the complete opposite of the two. She was bright, happy, caring, understanding and not afraid to show her emotions. Everywhere she went, she lit the room up with her smiles. The bunny had many friends on campus ranging from students to Teams to the faculty. It seemed like no one can stay cold to this sun personified human. It only made Heero that much more curious about her, being drawn like a moth to a flame. Not even combining Quatre and Duo could make up a third of her personality. She was innocent.
Yet, on the same token, she was easily hurt. Beware the person who would take away the sunshine. The first time he encountered Usagi's hurt driven tears from a visit to earth, a Team or two had gone out of their way to teach the people who hurt her a lesson. Later, she had scolded them for doing so, stating that she didn't like seeing other people hurt even if they hurt her. That was the end of that. Later he learned that Usagi was the person that the Academy would turn to when it came to people like Kyle and himself. Even the most troublesome student would calm when bathed in her aura.
"Odin!" The silvery voice was accompanied by a knock. "It's time for dinner!"
He heard Usagi walk away before he finally swung his feet off his bed. He really should volunteer to cook once in a while. It wasn't fair to her that neither Kyle or himself cooked and cleaned the kitchen afterwards. Upon leaving his room, he saw Usagi pulling on her shoes as if she was getting ready to leave.
"Where are you going, Usa?" Kyle asked, nibbling on a piece of carrot. "I would have thought you would have stayed to eat with us."
The only female in the room smiled apologetically at them as she picked up her schoolbag. "I'm going to a tutor. There's some concepts in Physics, and Logic and Critical Thinking I don't understand. Don't wait up for me, kay? I'll probably be out late."
With that, their Sun vanished, bathing the room in darkness. Pursing his lips, Heero entered the kitchen thinking as he put food on his plate. He breezed through those classes, having been taught by Dr. J years before. It came as naturally as hacking into govenment and military databases. Maybe if ...
"I wonder if she would consider accepting help from either of us." Kyle mused, poking at his vegetables. Another case in point of his room mate thinking along the same lines as he did.
"And in return as her for help in magic?" Heero questioned taking the seat across from him. "She's top of the class in magic."
"And humanities and psychology." Kyle added wryly. "She has to with having to deal with the likes of us."
"Hnn ..." Catching himself grunting a familiar answer, he elaborated somewhat. "I think she understands the human soul better than anyone else, including us."
"You're certainly right on that account." Kyle remarked before a comfortable silence decended on the two males.
"Only if you guys, at least Heero, smile more often." Usagi stated staring at the both of them. "And I want you guys to go out with a few of my friends and I once in a while. You spend way too much time in here and there's plenty of things to do on this colony. That's the deal."
Heero stared at her and if it hadn't been for his training, he knew his expression would look dumbstruck at the petite blonde. Peering at his partner in crime, Kyle showed just a touch more emotion than he did. When did the bunny turn the tables on them?
He recalled that both Kyle and he were in their communal room, doing homework when Usagi finally joined them arriving from her last class of the day. It was about the third or fourth time she crumpled her paper when he had voiced the suggestion they thought up during dinner last night. It seemed perfectly fine to him without having to attach any other conditions to it. Apparently Usagi found a way.
She waggles a finger at the both of them. "I'm the social one remember? I can get tutors. Granted, they might not be as good as you two are, but at least they help me pass the class with decent grades. You two won't even approach the person in charge of tutoring to learn more about magic." She pointed at Kyle. "And no buts. Almost burning our dorm does not count for knowing what you are doing. You need to learn the basics of magic to understand how to control it. And you ..." Usagi pointed her finger at Heero, "... have problems in your belief system of magic. You need to at least accept it in order for you to understand it to help your partner."
Kyle sighed slightly before nodding. It was only a few more seconds before he nodded his agreement. That was another aspect both he and his dorm mate forgot to include in there little brainstorming session last night -- it was very hard to say no to Usagi Tenshi.
Her face brightened with a grin. Her hands came together in a clap before rubbing together slightly. That little sign of claimed victory filled him with dread. He did not want to know what was running through that evil little brain of hers. "Wonderful! Angelina, Ian, Natasha, Xian and I were gonna go out for karaoke tomorrow night and you both are coming with us!"
What have they gotten themselves into?
The next day found Heero sitting under a tree in the courtyard doing homework. He tried not to think of the torture his angel was going to put them through that night. Aside from spending time with the other Gundam Pilots, Usagi and Kyle, this would be his first true night of socializing with strangers. Not only socializing, but singing as well!
The Gundam Pilots. Heero couldn't help but wonder how they were doing. It had taken him a while to trust the four men, but he did. When he parted from his friends ... yes, he could call them that now ... each of them were heading in different directions. Quatre went back to L4 to manage the colony and the Winner Corporation. Wufei had gone with Sally to become a part of the Preventers. Trowa went back to his sister and the circus. Last he heard, Duo had met up with Hilde Schbeiker and put together a salvaging company.
He found himself missing their presence at times. Trowa's silence and quite observations. Quatre's compassion and caring. Despite the innocent aura that came off him, he was just as courageous and brave as the rest of them. Wufei's mammering of justice and his viewpoints on what was good and evil. He hoped that he finally found the peace he had been looking for. And then there was his self proclaimed best friend, Duo.
There were times Usagi reminded him of Duo. Their bright outlook in life, their forwardness and happy-go-lucky attitude. Duo however exuded a darker aura than the bunny angel. Sometimes he couldn't believe that he actually missed his annoying friend. Then again, he was sure Duo acted the way he did for a reason. He shook his head, he wasn't about to try and figure his friend out.
A shadow passed over him, causing to look up from the journal he was told to write. Jedeite, his mind informed him as he looked up at the man, almost as coolly as Kyle was the day he met him. "Mr. Jedeite?"
"I see you are working just as hard as Kyle in social graces." Jedeite commented as he sat down next to him. Heero snorted. "You are doing well as Odin, Heero. J would be ecstatic over your progress."
"How do you know Dr. J?"
"He was one of our best students here, along with his five friends. They weren't always called by letters, except for J and Howard. They were constantly causing trouble in the labs as students. When they finally graduated, they ended up as a research and development Team and later they broke away to interfere in the war after your namesake died." Jedeite shook his head. "The Elements had agreed not to overtly interfere, keeping to the shadows and making sure key people were kept alive."
The element's liason stared out over the campus. "Each person was capable of training in their own way. J, before he left here, wrote a paper on how to train an emotionless soldier with the capabilities of advanced technologies. He forgot that no matter how emotionless his perfect soldier can be, he's still only human." He turned to Heero. "You still have emotions inside you -- the sense of accomplishment when you complete a mission, the sense of betrayal when the Colonies turned on you, the sense of pain, irritation, sorrow. They're all there, but you were taught not to allow it to ripple your emotionless mask. What we're doing here is to teach you to show what's beneath and to think outside that box called a mission."
Heero was quiet, the same emotionless mask he was known for was in place, but his insides were roiling in turmoil. He was right. He did feel things but it never showed. To show emotions was to be weak. He had often pondered after the Mariemaia Incident what he was going to do. He was trained only as a soldier. It was what he lived and breathed for. Now, there was no war. Hopefully there will be no more major conflicts in the future.
He was too deep in reverie when Jedeite stood to leave the thinking teen. There was a statisfied smile on the elements face, knowing that at least they will succeed in giving back some normality to the war driven young man. Hopefully, they will be able to heal the damage to the psyche that J had hurt. The Triad had often wondered if they had chosen right in supporting J when he left.
The past, Jedeite told himself firmly, leave it in the past. At least we learned from it and it won't happen again. Not as long as Heero is alive.
Thinking about Heero brought his thoughts around to Kyle and Usagi. Kyle was doing much better now that Heero was around. Having another emotionless person around Kyle, for some reason, was bringing him out faster than they had hoped. Maybe it was an unconcious decision to help Usagi from having to take care of two icy walls. Kyle will be alright, just like Heero will be.
Usagi on the other hand. He frowned entering the administration building. The reports from Madamosille Zephyrine was disturbing. The Triad, several of their support personnel and himself knew about her past lives. What they discussed in their sessions was showing a lack of self confidence and a fear that kept even her close friends at a distance. What had happened in the past to affect her so much? It had to have happened during the lifetime when she became Sailor Moon. It had to be. There was no mention of a Queen Serenity ruling the long ago kingdom of Crystal Tokyo.
He would have to speak to his star gazing friend about it when he returned to Belior's Point. Usagi's teachers would need to be informed to watch her. They need to find out if her lack of self confidence was affecting her studies. Jedeite knew that it didn't affect her when it came to helping the troubled men and women that passed through her quarters as her room mates. Maybe it was time to give her permanent room mates and start grooming her towards Teams. Everyone knew she was Elemental material but she has never been placed in one. That may be part of her problem in the self confidence arena. He'll have to bring that up with the Triad.
"Jedeite? Belior's Point is on call for you." A voice said, bringing him out of his reverie.
"Thank you." With that he strode to the communication center.
Later that day, Usagi was waiting in the main room of her shared apartment with two other girls and two guys. After awhile, the two tardy room mates showed up, looking like they were trying to prepare themselves for a night of torture. A wide grin replaced the contemplative frown on Usagi's face as her eyes landed on Heero and Kyle.
"Kyle, Heero, I'd like to introduce you to Angelina, Ian, Natasha and Xian." Usagi gestured to each person named. "Guys, this is Kyle and Heero."
"Finally! So we can go now?" Angelina asked, eyeing the two men.
"Yep!" chirped Usagi as she threaded her arms through each of Heero's and Kyle's and pulled them out the door. "Let's go!"
Chattering, the other four followed. It was a nice Saturday night, a perfect night for a karaoke all nighter. Heero and Kyle exchanged looks filled with dread as they were dragged towards their transportation of choice.
Usagi Tsukino = 16 Heero Yuy = 16 Kyle Niigano = 17 Jadeite = you'll find out later
Disclaimer: I don't own anything ... not even the car I drive. ::sob:: ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________
It had been several days since he first started at Sirius Academy. The new curriculum had his head spinning and his mission was tying his stomach in knots. The core classes -- math, english/grammer, history, science and computers -- came easily to him with Dr. J's teachings. What stumped him (maybe because he refused to believe in it) were the classes on magic, divination, astrology and natural powers. There was just no logic behind it all.
Heero folded his arms behind his head, glaring at the ceiling. Nothing that Dr. J trained him in prepared him for this. Death-defying feats, he can do. Hacking into government files, chalk it up to something to do when he was bored. Self-destructing, that was part of his missions. Accepting magic ... no way.
There was no logic in magic. One couldn't calculate the effects of magic (length or what happens) solidly into plans. Plans can change but adding magic into the calculations made it too unstable for his liking. He has seen enough during the first week that magic did not always work. Nor was it *logical* to someone trained by a scientific mind.
Yet, as Odin Lowe Jr, he knew he had to accept magic. Odin was not Heero; he was the opposite of the war driven teen. Odin was an emotion filled, magic believing young man. It was almost easy to accept when he was with Kyle and Usagi. His room mates have helped him in the short two weeks he had been at the Academy.
Kyle intrigued him, although he would never admit that in a million years. A number of people had often remarked how similiar they looked alike that they could easily pass for brothers. They were a like on other levels other than physical -- their emotionlessness which they both had to work with, their parentless past, their ruthlessness when it came to discussing the wars and planning stategies. If someone told him a year ago that he would have met a clone of him, he would have laughed, at least his version of laughing -- staring at the person as if he was crazy.
Heero found that he could relax around his look alike. There were times they would think the same thoughts, finishing what the other had started before they even realized it. One time Usagi commented on how well they worked together and would not be surprised if they were both on the same team. It was easy for for them to relate to each other due to their emotionless states of being.
Usagi on the other hand was the complete opposite of the two. She was bright, happy, caring, understanding and not afraid to show her emotions. Everywhere she went, she lit the room up with her smiles. The bunny had many friends on campus ranging from students to Teams to the faculty. It seemed like no one can stay cold to this sun personified human. It only made Heero that much more curious about her, being drawn like a moth to a flame. Not even combining Quatre and Duo could make up a third of her personality. She was innocent.
Yet, on the same token, she was easily hurt. Beware the person who would take away the sunshine. The first time he encountered Usagi's hurt driven tears from a visit to earth, a Team or two had gone out of their way to teach the people who hurt her a lesson. Later, she had scolded them for doing so, stating that she didn't like seeing other people hurt even if they hurt her. That was the end of that. Later he learned that Usagi was the person that the Academy would turn to when it came to people like Kyle and himself. Even the most troublesome student would calm when bathed in her aura.
"Odin!" The silvery voice was accompanied by a knock. "It's time for dinner!"
He heard Usagi walk away before he finally swung his feet off his bed. He really should volunteer to cook once in a while. It wasn't fair to her that neither Kyle or himself cooked and cleaned the kitchen afterwards. Upon leaving his room, he saw Usagi pulling on her shoes as if she was getting ready to leave.
"Where are you going, Usa?" Kyle asked, nibbling on a piece of carrot. "I would have thought you would have stayed to eat with us."
The only female in the room smiled apologetically at them as she picked up her schoolbag. "I'm going to a tutor. There's some concepts in Physics, and Logic and Critical Thinking I don't understand. Don't wait up for me, kay? I'll probably be out late."
With that, their Sun vanished, bathing the room in darkness. Pursing his lips, Heero entered the kitchen thinking as he put food on his plate. He breezed through those classes, having been taught by Dr. J years before. It came as naturally as hacking into govenment and military databases. Maybe if ...
"I wonder if she would consider accepting help from either of us." Kyle mused, poking at his vegetables. Another case in point of his room mate thinking along the same lines as he did.
"And in return as her for help in magic?" Heero questioned taking the seat across from him. "She's top of the class in magic."
"And humanities and psychology." Kyle added wryly. "She has to with having to deal with the likes of us."
"Hnn ..." Catching himself grunting a familiar answer, he elaborated somewhat. "I think she understands the human soul better than anyone else, including us."
"You're certainly right on that account." Kyle remarked before a comfortable silence decended on the two males.
"Only if you guys, at least Heero, smile more often." Usagi stated staring at the both of them. "And I want you guys to go out with a few of my friends and I once in a while. You spend way too much time in here and there's plenty of things to do on this colony. That's the deal."
Heero stared at her and if it hadn't been for his training, he knew his expression would look dumbstruck at the petite blonde. Peering at his partner in crime, Kyle showed just a touch more emotion than he did. When did the bunny turn the tables on them?
He recalled that both Kyle and he were in their communal room, doing homework when Usagi finally joined them arriving from her last class of the day. It was about the third or fourth time she crumpled her paper when he had voiced the suggestion they thought up during dinner last night. It seemed perfectly fine to him without having to attach any other conditions to it. Apparently Usagi found a way.
She waggles a finger at the both of them. "I'm the social one remember? I can get tutors. Granted, they might not be as good as you two are, but at least they help me pass the class with decent grades. You two won't even approach the person in charge of tutoring to learn more about magic." She pointed at Kyle. "And no buts. Almost burning our dorm does not count for knowing what you are doing. You need to learn the basics of magic to understand how to control it. And you ..." Usagi pointed her finger at Heero, "... have problems in your belief system of magic. You need to at least accept it in order for you to understand it to help your partner."
Kyle sighed slightly before nodding. It was only a few more seconds before he nodded his agreement. That was another aspect both he and his dorm mate forgot to include in there little brainstorming session last night -- it was very hard to say no to Usagi Tenshi.
Her face brightened with a grin. Her hands came together in a clap before rubbing together slightly. That little sign of claimed victory filled him with dread. He did not want to know what was running through that evil little brain of hers. "Wonderful! Angelina, Ian, Natasha, Xian and I were gonna go out for karaoke tomorrow night and you both are coming with us!"
What have they gotten themselves into?
The next day found Heero sitting under a tree in the courtyard doing homework. He tried not to think of the torture his angel was going to put them through that night. Aside from spending time with the other Gundam Pilots, Usagi and Kyle, this would be his first true night of socializing with strangers. Not only socializing, but singing as well!
The Gundam Pilots. Heero couldn't help but wonder how they were doing. It had taken him a while to trust the four men, but he did. When he parted from his friends ... yes, he could call them that now ... each of them were heading in different directions. Quatre went back to L4 to manage the colony and the Winner Corporation. Wufei had gone with Sally to become a part of the Preventers. Trowa went back to his sister and the circus. Last he heard, Duo had met up with Hilde Schbeiker and put together a salvaging company.
He found himself missing their presence at times. Trowa's silence and quite observations. Quatre's compassion and caring. Despite the innocent aura that came off him, he was just as courageous and brave as the rest of them. Wufei's mammering of justice and his viewpoints on what was good and evil. He hoped that he finally found the peace he had been looking for. And then there was his self proclaimed best friend, Duo.
There were times Usagi reminded him of Duo. Their bright outlook in life, their forwardness and happy-go-lucky attitude. Duo however exuded a darker aura than the bunny angel. Sometimes he couldn't believe that he actually missed his annoying friend. Then again, he was sure Duo acted the way he did for a reason. He shook his head, he wasn't about to try and figure his friend out.
A shadow passed over him, causing to look up from the journal he was told to write. Jedeite, his mind informed him as he looked up at the man, almost as coolly as Kyle was the day he met him. "Mr. Jedeite?"
"I see you are working just as hard as Kyle in social graces." Jedeite commented as he sat down next to him. Heero snorted. "You are doing well as Odin, Heero. J would be ecstatic over your progress."
"How do you know Dr. J?"
"He was one of our best students here, along with his five friends. They weren't always called by letters, except for J and Howard. They were constantly causing trouble in the labs as students. When they finally graduated, they ended up as a research and development Team and later they broke away to interfere in the war after your namesake died." Jedeite shook his head. "The Elements had agreed not to overtly interfere, keeping to the shadows and making sure key people were kept alive."
The element's liason stared out over the campus. "Each person was capable of training in their own way. J, before he left here, wrote a paper on how to train an emotionless soldier with the capabilities of advanced technologies. He forgot that no matter how emotionless his perfect soldier can be, he's still only human." He turned to Heero. "You still have emotions inside you -- the sense of accomplishment when you complete a mission, the sense of betrayal when the Colonies turned on you, the sense of pain, irritation, sorrow. They're all there, but you were taught not to allow it to ripple your emotionless mask. What we're doing here is to teach you to show what's beneath and to think outside that box called a mission."
Heero was quiet, the same emotionless mask he was known for was in place, but his insides were roiling in turmoil. He was right. He did feel things but it never showed. To show emotions was to be weak. He had often pondered after the Mariemaia Incident what he was going to do. He was trained only as a soldier. It was what he lived and breathed for. Now, there was no war. Hopefully there will be no more major conflicts in the future.
He was too deep in reverie when Jedeite stood to leave the thinking teen. There was a statisfied smile on the elements face, knowing that at least they will succeed in giving back some normality to the war driven young man. Hopefully, they will be able to heal the damage to the psyche that J had hurt. The Triad had often wondered if they had chosen right in supporting J when he left.
The past, Jedeite told himself firmly, leave it in the past. At least we learned from it and it won't happen again. Not as long as Heero is alive.
Thinking about Heero brought his thoughts around to Kyle and Usagi. Kyle was doing much better now that Heero was around. Having another emotionless person around Kyle, for some reason, was bringing him out faster than they had hoped. Maybe it was an unconcious decision to help Usagi from having to take care of two icy walls. Kyle will be alright, just like Heero will be.
Usagi on the other hand. He frowned entering the administration building. The reports from Madamosille Zephyrine was disturbing. The Triad, several of their support personnel and himself knew about her past lives. What they discussed in their sessions was showing a lack of self confidence and a fear that kept even her close friends at a distance. What had happened in the past to affect her so much? It had to have happened during the lifetime when she became Sailor Moon. It had to be. There was no mention of a Queen Serenity ruling the long ago kingdom of Crystal Tokyo.
He would have to speak to his star gazing friend about it when he returned to Belior's Point. Usagi's teachers would need to be informed to watch her. They need to find out if her lack of self confidence was affecting her studies. Jedeite knew that it didn't affect her when it came to helping the troubled men and women that passed through her quarters as her room mates. Maybe it was time to give her permanent room mates and start grooming her towards Teams. Everyone knew she was Elemental material but she has never been placed in one. That may be part of her problem in the self confidence arena. He'll have to bring that up with the Triad.
"Jedeite? Belior's Point is on call for you." A voice said, bringing him out of his reverie.
"Thank you." With that he strode to the communication center.
Later that day, Usagi was waiting in the main room of her shared apartment with two other girls and two guys. After awhile, the two tardy room mates showed up, looking like they were trying to prepare themselves for a night of torture. A wide grin replaced the contemplative frown on Usagi's face as her eyes landed on Heero and Kyle.
"Kyle, Heero, I'd like to introduce you to Angelina, Ian, Natasha and Xian." Usagi gestured to each person named. "Guys, this is Kyle and Heero."
"Finally! So we can go now?" Angelina asked, eyeing the two men.
"Yep!" chirped Usagi as she threaded her arms through each of Heero's and Kyle's and pulled them out the door. "Let's go!"
Chattering, the other four followed. It was a nice Saturday night, a perfect night for a karaoke all nighter. Heero and Kyle exchanged looks filled with dread as they were dragged towards their transportation of choice.