Lady: Konnichiwa Mina-san!
Sage: Damn, that was fast. And since when did you know Japanese?
Heero: She doesn't.
Lady: (glares)
Sage: I thought you were trying to kill him.
Lady: *whining* I lost my No Dai chi...
Heero: *smirks* You're weak.
Lady: Watch what happens when I find it, Spandex Boy.
Sage: Okay, stop antagonizing each other.
Lady: (pouts)
Heero: (turns away) Hn.
Sage:*clears throat* Since some people are being immature...(looks at Lady and Heero) I'll do disclaimers. Lady Date
Doesn't own Gundam Wing or Ronin Warriors, she's broke, so if you sue you wouldn't get anything anyway. And now the story.
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Ch. 3: Reminiscing
Trowa stretched idly. It had been two months since the fire and Trowa was back to his old self. It was Friday afternoon, so he was in a particularly good mood. He was, once again, in the library, only this time the library had been repaired, and Sage, Rowen, Quatre and Heero with him. Trowa was reading a book on tigers now. Sage a book on ornamental fruit trees, and Rowen was reading an astronomy magazine. Quatre sat next to Heero, who was standing next to the table where they were sitting. Look in Heero's direction, Quatre noticed that he was looking sadly at Trowa.
"Something wrong, Heero?" Quatre asked, breaking the silence that held the group. Heero looked up surprised.
"Hm? Oh, no. Nothings wrong, just reminiscing."
"About what?" asked Trowa. He was still oblivious to the fact that Heero was a ghost.
"It's nothing for you to worry about," he smiled sweetly. Trowa looked skeptical for a moment, and then went back to his book.
Heero sighed. 'Oh, Tristia,' he thought miserably. 'Why did you have to dye, and leave me all alone?...'
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when Heero was eight-years-old
Heero sat on the sea shore making a sand castle. There was a small girl next to him. She was the same age as him and had light brown hair. Her green emerald green eyes, one of which was covered by bangs, sparkled with life and happiness. They had just finished their castle when that tide came in and washed it away. She giggled and ran away from Heero. Getting the idea, Heero followed suit in the game. They chased each other around for about a half hour before some thing caught the little girl's eye.
"Hee-chan look!" she pointed to a large box that had washed up on the shore. Being inquisitive children, they went up to the box and opened it. Inside were several dead lion cubs, and one live one. It was almost pure white save for its baby spots. The little girl picked it up and held it in her arms. "He's scared, Hee-chan. We should take him home with us."
"What about our parents?" Heero asked worriedly.
"They don't have to know."
4 years later...
"Come Saber!" called the young girl, now twelve, to the once tiny lion. Both she and the lion had grown considerably. Heero had also grown, but not as much. He watched from a distance as Trowa made the lion, Saber, sit up. The girl had told her parents about the lion, only after they had found her feeding him her dinner.
"Have him come over here, Trist-chan," Heero yelled. "He needs a bath."
"Alright!" she was about to lead Saber over to Heero, who waited with a hose, when the back door slide open, and six men in uniforms came out. Upon seeing the Saber, they quickly put a leach around his neck. Tristia was immediately alarmed by this. "Who are you and what do you think you're doing to Saber?!" she screeched in rage.
"This animal is a threat to the community and we can't let him hurt anyone else," said a man in a lab coat, whose head reminded Heero of a piece of cabbage.
"What do you mean anyone else?!! Saber's never hurt anyone, not even the annoying Chihuahua (a.k.a. Duo) down the street!" shouted Heero, furiously.
"The people next door, said that their son was attacked by that lion," the man said sternly. Tristia and Heero knew exactly was he was talking about. The boy next door, Duo, had been over and was antagonizing Saber. So as a response, Saber growled and luged at him, only to have Tristia stop and reprimand him.
"He was the one who bothering Saber, and he wasn't hurt anyway!" Tristia was in tears at this point. Despite what the two kids had said, the men still continued to lead Saber away. Finally losing all patients. Heero kick the man that held Sabers leach and told Saber to run over to Tristia. And Saber was nothing, if not obedient. Cowering behind Tristia, Saber growled at the men. With out thinking, one of the men stop Saber, dead. Tristia looked down at the body with a tear soaked face. She saw Saber's pale blue eyes, once full of energy, become dull and lifeless. Falling to her knees, she cradled Saber's shaggy head in her lap like she had done when he was little, or about to go to sleep. Heero stood there immobilized. He couldn't believe that they had just shot an innocent animal. One that had never hurt a thing in it's entire life. After coming to his senses, he ran over to Tristia and hugged her, while she sobbed uncontrollably. Just then Tristia look up and saw Duo, sitting on the wall, trying to find out what all the commotion was.
"It's all you're fault!" she half screamed, half sobbed. Heero held he and comforted her until she had fallen asleep. He set her down on Saber's still warm body. That's when he saw a gun on the ground next to Saber's body. Picking it up, he pointed it at the men that tries to get Saber's body.
"I won't let you get away with what you did to Saber," Heero pointed the gun at the man that had shot Saber. "He never hurt a life creature, and yet you still shot him." He fired a shot, but he missed because his were clouding up with tears. He eventually dropped the gun and began to sob. "Why? Why" he demanded. "Saber never wanted to hurt anyone..."
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4 years after that
Heero, said one last prayer, before closing the little shrine dedicated to Saber. He had come home from school about three hours ago, and was alone in the house, save for Tristia, who was upstairs finishing her studying. He smiled at the thought of Tristia. After Saber's death, he and Tristia had become quite close. They had, for lack of better words, fallen in love. They had been together a year and he planned to propose to her that evening, Tristia's birthday. Her parents, where out of town, on an unscheduled trip, so she was staying with his family. He was going to take her out to a school dance, but decided to wait for her to finish her home work. It had been two hour since she started and it usual didn't take her that long to finish her work so he decided to check on her.
Upon opening the door, Heero's mouth fall open. Tristia was dressed in a green silk dress that went down to mid thigh. Her hair was tied into a bun so that only her bangs were loose. Heero almost didn't recognize her.
"Well hello there," she smiled.
"Wow..." was the only word that came out Heero's mouth after about fifteen minutes.
"So does that mean you approve?" Trowa asked coyly. Heero nodded vigorously.
"I just don't think I have thing to match you," Heero was truly awe struck.
"Just get dressed so we can go."
They had been at the party an hour and Heero felt very uneasy. He had a sick feeling in his stomach that he was being watched and that something bad would happen. To make sure nothing happened to Tristia, Heero was by her side constantly. Of course Tristia didn't mind at all.
During a slow dance, Heero took Tristia outside in the school garden. He smiled when he noticed how well the moon light suited her, compared to the flourescent lights of the dance floor.
"There's something I want to ask you." Heero asked in a whisper into Tristia's ear.
"What? You know you can always talk to me," she was surprised when Heero pulled away from her and got down on one knee. Pulling a small velvet box from his pocket, he held it up to Tristia, who looked at it quizzically.
"Tristia Bloom, will you marry me?" he spoke in the most censer way possible. Tristia was struck breathless when Heero opened the velvet box to reveal a diamond ring, with an emerald stone next to it. Tristia turned away from Heero, and made sobbing noises. Fearing he had up set her, Heero was about to get up. When she spoke softly.
"Heero Yuy, that would make me the happiest girl on earth," she turned to face Heero, tears streaming and a wide smile. Heero placed the ring on her finger and held her tenderly. She shivered. "Let go inside, it's cold out here." And just as they entered the door, Duo stood in a black tuxedo and black shirt. Heero looked down and noticed the gun in his hand. He pointed it at Heero.
"You," he glared coldly, amethyst eyes full of tears. "You took Trist-chan from me."
"What are you talking about?" Heero asked confused. Duo shot him in the arm.
"You know damn well what I'm talkin' about, Yuy, so don't play dumb."
"Duo stop this!" Tristia yelled panic stricken.
"Stay back Tristia, I don't want to see you get hurt," Duo looked at one of the students behind him and he walked over and removed Tristia from Heero. She struggled ferociously.
"Heero!" she screamed in horror of what was about to happen. She watched helplessly as Duo pointed the gun at Heero's chest. Heero was being held by two other students, Wufei and Zechs, so he couldn't dodge it. Just when Duo had fired the gun, Tristia broke loose and put herself in between Heero and the bullet. The bullet passed through Tristia's heart and into Heero's, knocking them both on the ground. Then every thing went black.
3 days later
Heero woke up groggy. He looked around, and found himself in a hospital bed, he a tube down his throat, and a respirator attached to that. Looking to his left he saw Tristia, in about the same state as he was. She looked over at him, and weakly waved her hand. He did the same and tried to smile.
"I'm glad to see you both conscious," smiled the lady, who had been their doctor since a young age. "I didn't think you two would survive the night."
"Su wuth te newths?" said Heero around the tub in her mouth. The lady smiled and took the tub from Heero's mouth so she could understand her.
"Now try it."
"What' s the news Dr. Po?"
"Well now that your awake, there's more of a chance that you'll survive." She smiled at Heero. Her look change to that of grief when she turned to Tristia. "But I'm afraid that you may not survive even a weak." Tristia nodded. She knew her time was up and wasn't afraid of it, but what she was afraid of, was leaving Heero.
That night, Tristia got a piece of paper and wrote down something on it. Then looking at Heero, fast asleep one last time, she pulled the respirator tube from her mouth. Since their bed were right next to each other, she kissed Heero on the forehead and went to sleep for the last time.
Heero woke with the feeling that something was missing, he looked at Tristia, he would have smile had he not seen that the respirator was out of her mouth and the machine measuring her pulse showed a straight line. Felt tears stream down his face as stared at Tristia face. She still had that ever present smirk she always wore when she knew she was doing the right thing.
Just noticing the slight weight in his hand he looked down at the note and read it out loud right when he and Tristia's parents came in to checking up on them.
"To me beloved Heero
"I'm sorry that I have to leave you right when we had just found true happiness. But my days were numbered, and I didn't want you to go though the pain of watching me die slowly, so this is good bye. I'll say hello to Saber for you."
Love you Always,
Tristia Bloom/Yuy"
Once he finished, Heero felt weak. That's went it happened. He heart just stopped. All went black in one fell swoop. And no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't revive him. Heero Yuy had died of a broken heart.
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Present
"Earth to Heero! Are you in there?" It was Trowa. He was waving his hand in front of his face to get his attention.
"Huh?" Heero hadn't been aware of what was going on.
"You've been standing there, staring the table with out blinking for the past forty-five minutes," Sage sighed.
"What the hell have you been thinking about?" Rowen asked bluntly.
"I don't think it's our business to pry," Quatre answered. He knew exactly what Heero had been thinking. Heero looked at Quatre, surprised. When Quatre smiled at him knowingly, he smiled back and nodded. The bell rung and all the teens left the library, all but Trowa.
"Heero?" she asked before he could disappear on him.
"Hm?"
"Will you tell me what you were thinking about one day?" She asked out of the blue. Heero looked puzzled for a moment then looked at Trowa. That's when he saw, in Trowa, every thing he had loved about Tristia and more.
"One day, Tro-chan. One day." Heero smiled. Trowa smiled and dashed off to his next class. Unbeknownst to Heero, he was and had been watched. Violet eyes observed the seen intensely.
"So," the eyes' own said malevolently. "Heero has found love again, but the question was: how long would it last?" He
laugh maniacally, but Heero did hear it. "If I could have Tristia, then you can either. You'll pay Yuy. You'll pay dearly."
The watcher disappeared still unknown to his prey.
Lady: Well that was sad.
Duo: *whines* Why am I the villain?
Lady: Because I don't like you.
Trowa: That's a good reason.
Sage: I thought you didn't like putting girls the girls in your stories?
Lady: I usually don't but I like Sally, so it okay.
Heero: (runs in and hide behind Trowa)
Trowa: (raises eyebrow) What are you doing?"
Voice off to the side: Hee...ro...!
Trowa: Oh, god... Don't tell me she's in this!
Lady: No. I'd get to annoyed and kill her before she could do anything.
Relena: Heer- (sees Lady and points) Who are you? And where's Heero?
Lady: In that order. Nun' your business and I ain't tellin'. (looks for her no Dai chi)
Relena: (starts crying) *in a whine that shatters glass* Heero!
Lady: (get's annoyed and shoots her with Heero's gun) Annoying B****.
Relena; X.x
Trowa: ///_o
Heero: o_O
Lady: (shrugs) What?
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