Chapter 5: Prelude to the hunt
By: Kohan
Disclaimers: Are really annoying. You know I don't own jack.
***
"Shit," Said Micharu again.
"Don't worry about it," Said Duo cool like, "They don't know where you are, besides,
didn't you say these people were your friends?"
"We're not so sure anymore," Said Haruka.
"Just stay here...hidden." Duo said, Heero grunted. "Do *you* have something
to say?"
"They can't stay here, holed up like--"
"Animals." Trowa finished for him.
"I personally don't care if they see us." Hotaru said, "So they know we're
here, big deal. They'll find out anyway when school starts."
"Hotaru has a point," Quatre said. "But if you don't want them to bug you,
you could make sure they don't see you when you come home, or leave."
"And you shouldn't be alone if your with them, just in case they are hostile."
Wufei said.
"I didn't think you cared, Wufei." Said Rei
"I don't,"
***
*1 1/2 weeks later*
"Here," Haruka said, and threw Usagi a silver backpack, she threw Rei a red
one, and Hotaru a purple one.
"What are these for, Haruka? School doesn't start for another week." Usagi said.
Rei rolled her eyes, and Hotaru smirked a little.
"Usagi...I have been telling you all week that school starts tomorrow!" Rei said
Usagi looked a little confused, and then looked embarrassed.
"It's okay Usagi," Said Hotaru, "Haruka must have picked up our schedules as
well as her and Micharu's."
"I wasn't worried about that..."
"I'm sure you've finally taught yourself how to add and subtract negative
numbers by now, right?" Said Rei,
"REI!!" Usagi yelled, tears streaming down her face. "That wasn't very nice..."
"I'm kidding!"
"So our secret will be out then," Hotaru said quietly, her and the others had
managed to stay out of eyeshot and earshot of the other Senshi, and hadn't
heard from them at all.
"Yeah, but at least we'll be able to go out and *do* something." Micharu said.
Haruka handed everyone a schedule, and looked at her own.
"What!? Setsuna put down Fine Arts for my elective class!?"
"Haruka, that's mine." Said Micharu, trading schedules.
"Oh," Haruka blushed.
"I'm in foreign language," Said Rei with a frown.
"Nani, nani, nani??!!" Usagi was saying, staring at her schedule. "I already
took most of these classes!" Rei peered at Usagi's schedule,
"Yeah, but remember you didn't pass that one...or that one...that one you
flunked too,"
"Thanks a lot, Rei,"
"hmmm..." Hotaru said, studying her schedule.
"What hmmm?" Said Haruka.
"Setsuna put me down for advanced classes, and I'm in the 6th year math class."
"5th year?!" Usagi yelled, "Nani?! That's two years forward, Hotaru!"
"I know..." Hotaru frowned a bit, and put down her schedule. "I only have
Language with you guys."
"What a rip off,"
"Hey, your in my math class, Hotaru," Said Haruka, Hotaru smiled faintly.
"I suppose that Setsuna put you in a higher class because you've learned so
much, Hotaru," Said Micharu quietly.
"Maybe."
***
"I can't sleep, I'm too excited!!!" Usagi yelled from her bed, and then suddenly
unexpected, a tear streaked it's way down her face. 'Then I'll have to see the
others...' she thought, then suddenly got up and walked to her desk. On it, there
were several pictures, she turned them all over except a recent one, which she
smiled at. It was a picture of her, Rei, Hotaru, Micharu, Haruka and the G-boys.
Setsuna had taken it during her last visit. Usagi was standing in the middle
next to Wufei, who wasn't smiling at all, and Quatre. Duo was standing in
back, making bunny ears on Wufei, and the others were lined up. Setsuna had
even persuaded Heero to get in the picture. Everyone was happy, as it should
be.
...
Haruka gently poked Micharu to see if she was awake. No response. Haruka quietly
got up from bed and tiptoed across the room to her trunk. In it, she pulled
out a little stuffed bear, and carried it back to bed, and got in. Holding it
close, she closed her eyes to go back to sleep.
"Still carrying on with that bear, ne, Haruka?" Said Micharu, Haruka grew rigid.
"What makes you say that?"
"For one thing, I was awake when you went to get it,"
"Oh, I just can't sleep, that's all."
...
Hotaru turned on her lamp and looked at a cut on her leg. She had gotten it
a few days ago when another monster attacked them. It wasn't healing very well.
She put her hand on it, and a purple light shone from her hand. Suddenly she
pulled her hand away, the cut remained.
"Damn." She whispered. Why weren't her powers working? Hotaru bit her lip in
annoyance and tried again. The same result. Was it because she was overly nervous,
maybe, because she had too many things on her mind? Or had she simply lost the
ability to heal herself again? Hotaru sighed and put a bandage on her cut, she
then crawled into bed and fell asleep.
...
Rei woke up early (she had set her alarm clock to the wrong time), and rose
quietly from bed. She looked at the clock, and swearing lightly, walked into
the bathroom where Hotaru was looking at a cut on her leg.
"Didn't you get that a few days ago?" Rei asked her, Hotaru looked up, startled.
"Yes."
"Why don't you heal it?"
"I...I can't," Hotaru said. Rei was a little shocked to hear these words,
"But you healed Duo a few days ago when he cut himself with Wufei's sword,"
"I know,"
"Here," Rei said, pulling out a razor blade, "try and heal me," She cut herself
on her finger, and held it out in front of Hotaru. Hotaru was a little surprised,
but put her own finger on Rei's. A purple light shone, and Rei pulled back.
"It worked on me," Rei said, and noticed Hotaru was swaying a little, obviously
dizzy. "You okay?"
"Yeah. I was just going to get dressed," Hotaru said, sticking a new bandage
to her leg. "What do you have first hour?"
"Social Science." Rei said, "You?"
"Math, the 'nicest way to start the day.'" Hotaru said grimly, and walked out
to get dressed. Rei shrugged and turned on the shower.
***
"USAGI!!! I'm not going to say it again!!" Rei was yelling at a snoring Usagi.
Usagi simply turned over and yawned, then continued to sleep. Rei had tried
shaking her, she had tried yelling. There was only one thing that she hadn't
tried, and she really didn't want to do that. There was a pitcher of water by
Usagi's bed, and Rei picked it up. Rei then dumped it right on Usagi's face,
Usagi immediately bolted up and looked around.
"NANI!!??" She yelled.
"Usagi, school starts in a half hour, you weren't up all night looking at pictures,
were you?" Asked Rei, noticing the pile of pictures on Usagi's desk.
"No, Rei-chan, I was not, I just happen to be tired."
"Yeah, well, I figured you might like some breakfast," Rei said and left, leaving
Usagi to get dressed, which she did, rather hurriedly in her new school uniform
which had been sitting in her closet since she and the others came here. The
uniform looked much like Rei's old school uniform, having the same design, but
where there was gray on Rei's old uniform, there was white on this one, and the
skirt and shoes were black. Usagi brushed her hair and went out to breakfast.
Hotaru, Haruka and Rei were sitting at the table, all wearing their uniforms.
(Haruka had insisted on wearing the boys' again) Micharu was in the process
of making several pieces of toast and pouring several glasses of orange juice
at the same time, and Usagi went over to help her.
"My, my, Usagi-chan, you look rather nice in that school uniform," Micharu said,
"Thanks," Usagi said, taking her juice to the table.
...
"We're going to be late!!" Hotaru yelled, running out the door after Rei at
full speed. Micharu and Haruka quickly followed, why hadn't they gotten a car?
Was the only thought running through Haruka's head, while Micharu was just
trying to put on her left shoe. Usagi came running out, seconds later, still
with a piece of toast in her mouth.
Hotaru and Rei reached the school at about the same time, and that was, thankfully,
a few minutes before the first bell rang. Usagi, Haruka and Micharu barely made it.
Usagi was busy catching her breath when she spotted five familiar faces. She
waved, being too out of breath to speak, and Duo spotted them and they came over.
While Rei and Duo were busily comparing schedules, Usagi was trying to figure
out if she had any *new* subjects.
"This is so unfair of Setsuna, I was supposed to start all over."
"Yeah, but Usagi, if you don't know the basics, then you can't possibly expect
to get the stuff the teachers are going to teach you." Hotaru said, looking at
Wufei and Heero's schedules. "You know what, though? I bet you anything that Ami
will be in my math class." She said with a frown.
"Shit happens." Duo said, and the first bell rang, "Speak of the devil!" He said,
and moved on to his first class, which was History. Rei followed him, turning
at room 802, which was the Science room. Heero, Trowa, Haruka and Hotaru truged
off to the Math room, while Micharu walked to the Arts room with Quatre, and, much to
Wufei's dismay, he and Usagi walked to the Language room.
Hotaru suddenly heard a farmiliar voice behind them, and would have stopped dead in
her tracks, if it hadn't been for Haruka's strong hold on her arm.
"Look at those cute boys," The girlie voice said, then a more educated voice said,
"How can you tell they are cute, you can't even see their faces!" Hotaru had
started to bring up her pace, but Heero put his hand in front of her to slow
her down.
"Rule number one," he said, "never speed up when you sense danger."
"Right." Said Hotaru with false braveness. "I knew that."
"You know, I think that boy is carrying a gun," The voices went on, "See? You
can see it in his pocket." Heero turned to Haruka and Hotaru and smirked, Trowa
kept his head forward, but a little smile played on his lips.
***
AN: Okay, gomen minna, that this took so long to get out, but...I have good
excuses!! But, you can thank my math teacher for this chapter, since she put
me in such an awful mood, that I decided to write (I write when I'm mad or sad,
or in an extremely bad mood [tells a lot about me, right?]), she gave me a D+
on my grade check. I was absent for two weeks, hello people!! I turned in all my
flipping makeup work, and did she enter it in the grade book?? I think not!!
Then she went on to tell me that I had a flipping test to make up that I didn't
even know about! I mean, grrrr!!!! That makes me soooo mad.... okay, sorry, just
getting my feelings out here... calming down. Well, I hope *you* people have
a nice week :) Ja ne!
By: Kohan
Disclaimers: Are really annoying. You know I don't own jack.
***
"Shit," Said Micharu again.
"Don't worry about it," Said Duo cool like, "They don't know where you are, besides,
didn't you say these people were your friends?"
"We're not so sure anymore," Said Haruka.
"Just stay here...hidden." Duo said, Heero grunted. "Do *you* have something
to say?"
"They can't stay here, holed up like--"
"Animals." Trowa finished for him.
"I personally don't care if they see us." Hotaru said, "So they know we're
here, big deal. They'll find out anyway when school starts."
"Hotaru has a point," Quatre said. "But if you don't want them to bug you,
you could make sure they don't see you when you come home, or leave."
"And you shouldn't be alone if your with them, just in case they are hostile."
Wufei said.
"I didn't think you cared, Wufei." Said Rei
"I don't,"
***
*1 1/2 weeks later*
"Here," Haruka said, and threw Usagi a silver backpack, she threw Rei a red
one, and Hotaru a purple one.
"What are these for, Haruka? School doesn't start for another week." Usagi said.
Rei rolled her eyes, and Hotaru smirked a little.
"Usagi...I have been telling you all week that school starts tomorrow!" Rei said
Usagi looked a little confused, and then looked embarrassed.
"It's okay Usagi," Said Hotaru, "Haruka must have picked up our schedules as
well as her and Micharu's."
"I wasn't worried about that..."
"I'm sure you've finally taught yourself how to add and subtract negative
numbers by now, right?" Said Rei,
"REI!!" Usagi yelled, tears streaming down her face. "That wasn't very nice..."
"I'm kidding!"
"So our secret will be out then," Hotaru said quietly, her and the others had
managed to stay out of eyeshot and earshot of the other Senshi, and hadn't
heard from them at all.
"Yeah, but at least we'll be able to go out and *do* something." Micharu said.
Haruka handed everyone a schedule, and looked at her own.
"What!? Setsuna put down Fine Arts for my elective class!?"
"Haruka, that's mine." Said Micharu, trading schedules.
"Oh," Haruka blushed.
"I'm in foreign language," Said Rei with a frown.
"Nani, nani, nani??!!" Usagi was saying, staring at her schedule. "I already
took most of these classes!" Rei peered at Usagi's schedule,
"Yeah, but remember you didn't pass that one...or that one...that one you
flunked too,"
"Thanks a lot, Rei,"
"hmmm..." Hotaru said, studying her schedule.
"What hmmm?" Said Haruka.
"Setsuna put me down for advanced classes, and I'm in the 6th year math class."
"5th year?!" Usagi yelled, "Nani?! That's two years forward, Hotaru!"
"I know..." Hotaru frowned a bit, and put down her schedule. "I only have
Language with you guys."
"What a rip off,"
"Hey, your in my math class, Hotaru," Said Haruka, Hotaru smiled faintly.
"I suppose that Setsuna put you in a higher class because you've learned so
much, Hotaru," Said Micharu quietly.
"Maybe."
***
"I can't sleep, I'm too excited!!!" Usagi yelled from her bed, and then suddenly
unexpected, a tear streaked it's way down her face. 'Then I'll have to see the
others...' she thought, then suddenly got up and walked to her desk. On it, there
were several pictures, she turned them all over except a recent one, which she
smiled at. It was a picture of her, Rei, Hotaru, Micharu, Haruka and the G-boys.
Setsuna had taken it during her last visit. Usagi was standing in the middle
next to Wufei, who wasn't smiling at all, and Quatre. Duo was standing in
back, making bunny ears on Wufei, and the others were lined up. Setsuna had
even persuaded Heero to get in the picture. Everyone was happy, as it should
be.
...
Haruka gently poked Micharu to see if she was awake. No response. Haruka quietly
got up from bed and tiptoed across the room to her trunk. In it, she pulled
out a little stuffed bear, and carried it back to bed, and got in. Holding it
close, she closed her eyes to go back to sleep.
"Still carrying on with that bear, ne, Haruka?" Said Micharu, Haruka grew rigid.
"What makes you say that?"
"For one thing, I was awake when you went to get it,"
"Oh, I just can't sleep, that's all."
...
Hotaru turned on her lamp and looked at a cut on her leg. She had gotten it
a few days ago when another monster attacked them. It wasn't healing very well.
She put her hand on it, and a purple light shone from her hand. Suddenly she
pulled her hand away, the cut remained.
"Damn." She whispered. Why weren't her powers working? Hotaru bit her lip in
annoyance and tried again. The same result. Was it because she was overly nervous,
maybe, because she had too many things on her mind? Or had she simply lost the
ability to heal herself again? Hotaru sighed and put a bandage on her cut, she
then crawled into bed and fell asleep.
...
Rei woke up early (she had set her alarm clock to the wrong time), and rose
quietly from bed. She looked at the clock, and swearing lightly, walked into
the bathroom where Hotaru was looking at a cut on her leg.
"Didn't you get that a few days ago?" Rei asked her, Hotaru looked up, startled.
"Yes."
"Why don't you heal it?"
"I...I can't," Hotaru said. Rei was a little shocked to hear these words,
"But you healed Duo a few days ago when he cut himself with Wufei's sword,"
"I know,"
"Here," Rei said, pulling out a razor blade, "try and heal me," She cut herself
on her finger, and held it out in front of Hotaru. Hotaru was a little surprised,
but put her own finger on Rei's. A purple light shone, and Rei pulled back.
"It worked on me," Rei said, and noticed Hotaru was swaying a little, obviously
dizzy. "You okay?"
"Yeah. I was just going to get dressed," Hotaru said, sticking a new bandage
to her leg. "What do you have first hour?"
"Social Science." Rei said, "You?"
"Math, the 'nicest way to start the day.'" Hotaru said grimly, and walked out
to get dressed. Rei shrugged and turned on the shower.
***
"USAGI!!! I'm not going to say it again!!" Rei was yelling at a snoring Usagi.
Usagi simply turned over and yawned, then continued to sleep. Rei had tried
shaking her, she had tried yelling. There was only one thing that she hadn't
tried, and she really didn't want to do that. There was a pitcher of water by
Usagi's bed, and Rei picked it up. Rei then dumped it right on Usagi's face,
Usagi immediately bolted up and looked around.
"NANI!!??" She yelled.
"Usagi, school starts in a half hour, you weren't up all night looking at pictures,
were you?" Asked Rei, noticing the pile of pictures on Usagi's desk.
"No, Rei-chan, I was not, I just happen to be tired."
"Yeah, well, I figured you might like some breakfast," Rei said and left, leaving
Usagi to get dressed, which she did, rather hurriedly in her new school uniform
which had been sitting in her closet since she and the others came here. The
uniform looked much like Rei's old school uniform, having the same design, but
where there was gray on Rei's old uniform, there was white on this one, and the
skirt and shoes were black. Usagi brushed her hair and went out to breakfast.
Hotaru, Haruka and Rei were sitting at the table, all wearing their uniforms.
(Haruka had insisted on wearing the boys' again) Micharu was in the process
of making several pieces of toast and pouring several glasses of orange juice
at the same time, and Usagi went over to help her.
"My, my, Usagi-chan, you look rather nice in that school uniform," Micharu said,
"Thanks," Usagi said, taking her juice to the table.
...
"We're going to be late!!" Hotaru yelled, running out the door after Rei at
full speed. Micharu and Haruka quickly followed, why hadn't they gotten a car?
Was the only thought running through Haruka's head, while Micharu was just
trying to put on her left shoe. Usagi came running out, seconds later, still
with a piece of toast in her mouth.
Hotaru and Rei reached the school at about the same time, and that was, thankfully,
a few minutes before the first bell rang. Usagi, Haruka and Micharu barely made it.
Usagi was busy catching her breath when she spotted five familiar faces. She
waved, being too out of breath to speak, and Duo spotted them and they came over.
While Rei and Duo were busily comparing schedules, Usagi was trying to figure
out if she had any *new* subjects.
"This is so unfair of Setsuna, I was supposed to start all over."
"Yeah, but Usagi, if you don't know the basics, then you can't possibly expect
to get the stuff the teachers are going to teach you." Hotaru said, looking at
Wufei and Heero's schedules. "You know what, though? I bet you anything that Ami
will be in my math class." She said with a frown.
"Shit happens." Duo said, and the first bell rang, "Speak of the devil!" He said,
and moved on to his first class, which was History. Rei followed him, turning
at room 802, which was the Science room. Heero, Trowa, Haruka and Hotaru truged
off to the Math room, while Micharu walked to the Arts room with Quatre, and, much to
Wufei's dismay, he and Usagi walked to the Language room.
Hotaru suddenly heard a farmiliar voice behind them, and would have stopped dead in
her tracks, if it hadn't been for Haruka's strong hold on her arm.
"Look at those cute boys," The girlie voice said, then a more educated voice said,
"How can you tell they are cute, you can't even see their faces!" Hotaru had
started to bring up her pace, but Heero put his hand in front of her to slow
her down.
"Rule number one," he said, "never speed up when you sense danger."
"Right." Said Hotaru with false braveness. "I knew that."
"You know, I think that boy is carrying a gun," The voices went on, "See? You
can see it in his pocket." Heero turned to Haruka and Hotaru and smirked, Trowa
kept his head forward, but a little smile played on his lips.
***
AN: Okay, gomen minna, that this took so long to get out, but...I have good
excuses!! But, you can thank my math teacher for this chapter, since she put
me in such an awful mood, that I decided to write (I write when I'm mad or sad,
or in an extremely bad mood [tells a lot about me, right?]), she gave me a D+
on my grade check. I was absent for two weeks, hello people!! I turned in all my
flipping makeup work, and did she enter it in the grade book?? I think not!!
Then she went on to tell me that I had a flipping test to make up that I didn't
even know about! I mean, grrrr!!!! That makes me soooo mad.... okay, sorry, just
getting my feelings out here... calming down. Well, I hope *you* people have
a nice week :) Ja ne!