Chapter 7: Hidden Truths
By: Kohan
Disclaimers:
AN: Aw geez, you people...Why didn't you tell me sooner that I was spelling
Michiru's name wrong!! I feel like an idiot...aw geez. Well, I guess from now
on I'll be spelling it 'Michiru' instead of 'Micharu'. I thank Aika of the Blue Rogues
for bringing my sad mistake to my attention. Thanks again!!
***
Duo was extremely confused. Number one, he had thought that the history teacher
was a lady, not a man. Number two, where the hell did he get that line from?
Duo nudged Heero with his elbow mouthed to him that this guy isn't the history
teacher. Heero rolled his eyes and mouthed that he *was* the teacher and that
Duo was just being paranoid. Duo turned around leaned over to Rei.
"This is not the History teacher, am I right?"
"This is the History teacher, Duo, before you were in the other History class
that isn't your own."
"But she said she would see me at the end of the day."
"Duo," Rei said, pulling out his schedule. "You *do* have her at the end of the
day. Just not for History."
Duo scratched his head and muttered something like 'I knew that.' and turned
back to face the teacher, who had his arms on the front of Duo's desk and was
peering at him with small eyes.
"Hello. This is the History class, and I'll be teaching it all year. Would you
mind staying forward in your seat and listening to what I have to teach you?"
"No, I wouldn't mind, I mean."
***
Throughout the day, and through lunch, Usagi grew more nervous at the sight of
her other friends, who hadn't so much as spoken a word to her, Rei was amazed at how
thick Duo could be sometimes, and how cute he was when he *was* thick. Wufei
continued to think about the fact that soon he would be at Quatre's mansion, and
hopefully in his bed, All Haruka could think about was that soon she would be
eating, and Michiru, Trowa and Quatre were quite enjoying themselves. Hotaru
continued to twist her fingers around and around, which she did when deep in
thought, even throughout lunch until Heero muttered something about arthritis.
In his last class, Heero was not very happy at all. At lunch he had received a
note, complaining to him about not paying his school entrance fees, which he
was *planning* to do just this afternoon. Of course, he would have no problem
hacking into the school's system and clearing all the pilots, but the baka
Relena had grabbed hold of him while walking in the halls and hadn't let go of
him since.
***
At the end of the school day, which everyone was exhausted from, Duo suggested that
they all go out for ice cream, but Quatre pointed out that they all had homework,
and that he *knew* Duo had homework. Duo just smiled a lopsided grin, and everyone
walked to Quatre's to do their homework. Hotaru fell back a few steps to talk
to Haruka, who was walking behind with Michiru.
"I saw everyone, Haruka." Hotaru said. "Ami is in almost all of my classes, and
I have two classes with Minako and Makoto."
"We saw them too, but they didn't even acknowledge us." Micharu said.
"Ami said hello to me," Hotaru said, Michiru seemed to ponder this for a few
minutes, and then decided to give up.
***
"I say we go for Rei first, she had that thing for Mammoru." A voice said.
"Not a good idea." Replied another, her hands moving frantically over a keyboard,
"She is too loyal to Usagi..."
"Then who?" Said the first voice.
"Hotaru. She will not be hard to persuade." Said a new voice.
"She has an unexpected ally," The second girl said, "it may be harder then we
think."
***
"Relena, let go." Heero said, dragging his arm out of Relena's grasp.
"Why don't you like me Heero?"
"Clingy." Duo coughed out. "Clingy."
"And your not!?" Rei said.
"Only sometimes," Duo pointed out. "Wu-man! I missed you almost all day!" Duo
said, spotting Wufei and acting like he hadn't been there the whole time.
"Pissing me off." Wufei muttered.
"Bad day, Wu-man?"
"My name is Wufei, Maxwell." Wufei reminded Duo for the 21st time that day.
"How was *your* day, Heero?"
"It started bad, and ended bad." Heero muttered. "I had a blond barking my ears
out at the beginning of the day, now I have one trying to cut the circulation
off of my right arm." At this, Duo burst out laughing, and everyone sweat dropped.
"Your friend Minako doesn't shut up easily. I had to listen to the baka all through
math. 'Heero, how do you divide so and so,' 'Heero, why can't you add this to get
a negative number' 'Heero...'"
"Yeah, well, it happens." Usagi said blankly, as Relena departed.
"You sound like your day didn't go well, Usagi," Michiru said.
"It's *school*, school is bad."
"Yeah, okay," Quatre said, opening the front door, they all walked in and sat
down in the front room. Usagi, Rei, Duo and Michiru sat at the small coffee
table in the center of the room, while Hotaru took the floor and pulled out her
heavy math textbook. Heero and the others stationed themselves around the room
in various chairs and on couches.
"Pissing me off." Wufei muttered. Usagi was poking him with her pencil.
"Yeah, well, guess what, I need your help."
"Can't you ask someone else to help you, onna?"
"No. How can X equal 2 if Z is squared and equals 7?"
"Did you square Z?" Wufei said impatiently, knowing the answer already.
"Did I have to?"
"To find the value of X you must first square Z, then divide the answer by 2.
Then you would have X."
"I knew that." Usagi said, "I was just trying to refresh my memory." Usagi said,
innocently.
"Yeah, right." Rei said.
"I was not paying attention in History class, was he saying anything important?" Duo
asked Rei.
"No. He just babbled on about revolution."
"Oh..." Duo said, then, after a few minutes, "We um, had no homework, right?"
"Right."
"I'm done." Hotaru said. Heads turned.
"What?" Said Haruka. "I'm on problem 12."
"I've done this several times before, Haruka."
"That makes me mad! I want to be done!"
"Well you would be done, if you weren't blabbering all this time, wouldn't you?" Heero
said quietly. Almost everyone silently agreed. Suddenly, breaking the
silence, the doorbell rang. It bounded off the walls, and into the ears of everyone.
"That would be the doorbell." Said Duo. "I'LL GET IT!!!" He ran up to the door
and flung it open to reveal 3 girls and a man standing outside.
"Son of a bitch." Haruka muttered, seeing who it was. Heero was immediately on
his feet, he had his gun ready.
"Hi, Heero!" Minako said.
"Usagi," Mammoru said. "Could I have a few words?"
"Anything you want to say to me, you can say it in front of my friends, or it's
not worth my time."
"It's worth your time," Mammoru said, almost nervously, looking at Heero's gun. Hotaru
had by then gotten up, also, and had her hand on her heshin wand. "I promise." Hotaru
turned to Usagi.
"Go, Princess, I'll keep an eye on you." She whispered. Rei stepped forward, but Haruka
and Michiru caught her arm. Usagi nodded silently, and walked out the front door with
Mammoru.
"I need that, Heero." Hotaru said, pointing to Heero's gun. Heero handed it to her, which
made the others stare. "Quatre, do you have a window that opens and looks out, I need to
be able to see Usagi." Quatre nodded, and showed her upstairs and to a window that opened.
Heero followed them, and from that view, Hotaru could just see Usagi and Mammoru, and hear
what they were saying.
"If you've come to apologize, then your wasting your time." Usagi said.
"I haven't come to apologize, but to beg your forgiveness." Mammoru said, and got down on
one knee. Usagi scowled down on him.
"You baka." She said, "You think I would forgive you for what you've done? I will never
forgive you."
"I have come to seek you, because I know you will make a better Queen then just a stereotype
Usagi."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Usagi said, Mammoru got up, a little bit of rage
burning in his eyes.
"You mean to tell me, that you didn't even look at the girl who I was kissing?" Mammoru said.
"You think I care who it was!?"
"It was you, you stupid girl." Mammoru yelled. "Or, a copy of you, whom I could mold into the
Usagi I knew would make a better Queen then yourself."
"You sick bastard." Usagi said.
"Don't," Mammoru said, "I knew that she wasn't the Usagi that was Queen, I now need you to
believe in me. For the future."
"You sick BASTARD!!" Usagi yelled. Hotaru turned off the safety of Heero's gun. Quatre was
looking horrified.
"Don't do anything you will regret later, Firefly." Heero said.
"I won't. I've wanted to kill him ever since we've come here." Hotaru said.
"I can't let you kill an unarmed man." Quatre said. "It wouldn't be right." Even though the conversation
between Heero, Hotaru and Quatre took on a life of it's own, the one between Usagi and
Mammoru continued.
"I hate you Mammoru, and I will never be one of your sick pawns! I now see that
you have corrupted Minako, Makoto and Ami as well. What did you do, brainwash them?!"
"No. They came to me on their on free will, as you will, Usagi. They saw that I was only wanting
what's best for our future, and that I'm doing the right thing."
SMACK! Usagi had backhanded Mammoru, and a large, red welt was appearing on the side of his
face. Usagi turned around and walked into the house, leaving Mammoru outside.
A few minutes later, Minako, Makoto and Ami joined him. Hotaru, Heero and Quatre continued to watch.
"You fool." Makoto was saying to Mammoru. "I thought the plan was to try and pursuade the others
to come to our side, and then Usagi!"
"I can change the damn plans!" Mammoru said. "I will get to her, or we will have to take
her and her guardians by force!"
"Over my dead body," Heero whispered.
***
"That's some scary shit, Usagi." Duo said after Usagi had returned. A few minutes later, Quatre,
who was looking very pale, Heero and Hotaru came downstairs. Heero gingerly grabbed his gun
back from Hotaru, who didn't look happy at all.
"This is going to be bad."
"What?" Rei said.
"They said that they will take forceful actions to get you Usagi." Quatre said.
"I could have ended it all," Said Hotaru bitterly, "Quatre wouldn't let me kill the damn
bastard, though."
"I would kill him any day," Wufei said.
"I would rather you do it with the Glaive, Hotaru, then with Heero's gun." Usagi said quietly. Rei looked at
her in surprise.
"You really want Mammoru dead?"
"Yes."
***
AN: Uh, yeah, so Mammoru has *other* plans...heh...Well, anyway, this chapter was kinda short I
guess, but it sets you up for the next chapter. In my personal opinion, it wasn't as good as
the others, but I guess that's okay for right now. Have a very GOOD weekend!
*Kohan*
By: Kohan
Disclaimers:
AN: Aw geez, you people...Why didn't you tell me sooner that I was spelling
Michiru's name wrong!! I feel like an idiot...aw geez. Well, I guess from now
on I'll be spelling it 'Michiru' instead of 'Micharu'. I thank Aika of the Blue Rogues
for bringing my sad mistake to my attention. Thanks again!!
***
Duo was extremely confused. Number one, he had thought that the history teacher
was a lady, not a man. Number two, where the hell did he get that line from?
Duo nudged Heero with his elbow mouthed to him that this guy isn't the history
teacher. Heero rolled his eyes and mouthed that he *was* the teacher and that
Duo was just being paranoid. Duo turned around leaned over to Rei.
"This is not the History teacher, am I right?"
"This is the History teacher, Duo, before you were in the other History class
that isn't your own."
"But she said she would see me at the end of the day."
"Duo," Rei said, pulling out his schedule. "You *do* have her at the end of the
day. Just not for History."
Duo scratched his head and muttered something like 'I knew that.' and turned
back to face the teacher, who had his arms on the front of Duo's desk and was
peering at him with small eyes.
"Hello. This is the History class, and I'll be teaching it all year. Would you
mind staying forward in your seat and listening to what I have to teach you?"
"No, I wouldn't mind, I mean."
***
Throughout the day, and through lunch, Usagi grew more nervous at the sight of
her other friends, who hadn't so much as spoken a word to her, Rei was amazed at how
thick Duo could be sometimes, and how cute he was when he *was* thick. Wufei
continued to think about the fact that soon he would be at Quatre's mansion, and
hopefully in his bed, All Haruka could think about was that soon she would be
eating, and Michiru, Trowa and Quatre were quite enjoying themselves. Hotaru
continued to twist her fingers around and around, which she did when deep in
thought, even throughout lunch until Heero muttered something about arthritis.
In his last class, Heero was not very happy at all. At lunch he had received a
note, complaining to him about not paying his school entrance fees, which he
was *planning* to do just this afternoon. Of course, he would have no problem
hacking into the school's system and clearing all the pilots, but the baka
Relena had grabbed hold of him while walking in the halls and hadn't let go of
him since.
***
At the end of the school day, which everyone was exhausted from, Duo suggested that
they all go out for ice cream, but Quatre pointed out that they all had homework,
and that he *knew* Duo had homework. Duo just smiled a lopsided grin, and everyone
walked to Quatre's to do their homework. Hotaru fell back a few steps to talk
to Haruka, who was walking behind with Michiru.
"I saw everyone, Haruka." Hotaru said. "Ami is in almost all of my classes, and
I have two classes with Minako and Makoto."
"We saw them too, but they didn't even acknowledge us." Micharu said.
"Ami said hello to me," Hotaru said, Michiru seemed to ponder this for a few
minutes, and then decided to give up.
***
"I say we go for Rei first, she had that thing for Mammoru." A voice said.
"Not a good idea." Replied another, her hands moving frantically over a keyboard,
"She is too loyal to Usagi..."
"Then who?" Said the first voice.
"Hotaru. She will not be hard to persuade." Said a new voice.
"She has an unexpected ally," The second girl said, "it may be harder then we
think."
***
"Relena, let go." Heero said, dragging his arm out of Relena's grasp.
"Why don't you like me Heero?"
"Clingy." Duo coughed out. "Clingy."
"And your not!?" Rei said.
"Only sometimes," Duo pointed out. "Wu-man! I missed you almost all day!" Duo
said, spotting Wufei and acting like he hadn't been there the whole time.
"Pissing me off." Wufei muttered.
"Bad day, Wu-man?"
"My name is Wufei, Maxwell." Wufei reminded Duo for the 21st time that day.
"How was *your* day, Heero?"
"It started bad, and ended bad." Heero muttered. "I had a blond barking my ears
out at the beginning of the day, now I have one trying to cut the circulation
off of my right arm." At this, Duo burst out laughing, and everyone sweat dropped.
"Your friend Minako doesn't shut up easily. I had to listen to the baka all through
math. 'Heero, how do you divide so and so,' 'Heero, why can't you add this to get
a negative number' 'Heero...'"
"Yeah, well, it happens." Usagi said blankly, as Relena departed.
"You sound like your day didn't go well, Usagi," Michiru said.
"It's *school*, school is bad."
"Yeah, okay," Quatre said, opening the front door, they all walked in and sat
down in the front room. Usagi, Rei, Duo and Michiru sat at the small coffee
table in the center of the room, while Hotaru took the floor and pulled out her
heavy math textbook. Heero and the others stationed themselves around the room
in various chairs and on couches.
"Pissing me off." Wufei muttered. Usagi was poking him with her pencil.
"Yeah, well, guess what, I need your help."
"Can't you ask someone else to help you, onna?"
"No. How can X equal 2 if Z is squared and equals 7?"
"Did you square Z?" Wufei said impatiently, knowing the answer already.
"Did I have to?"
"To find the value of X you must first square Z, then divide the answer by 2.
Then you would have X."
"I knew that." Usagi said, "I was just trying to refresh my memory." Usagi said,
innocently.
"Yeah, right." Rei said.
"I was not paying attention in History class, was he saying anything important?" Duo
asked Rei.
"No. He just babbled on about revolution."
"Oh..." Duo said, then, after a few minutes, "We um, had no homework, right?"
"Right."
"I'm done." Hotaru said. Heads turned.
"What?" Said Haruka. "I'm on problem 12."
"I've done this several times before, Haruka."
"That makes me mad! I want to be done!"
"Well you would be done, if you weren't blabbering all this time, wouldn't you?" Heero
said quietly. Almost everyone silently agreed. Suddenly, breaking the
silence, the doorbell rang. It bounded off the walls, and into the ears of everyone.
"That would be the doorbell." Said Duo. "I'LL GET IT!!!" He ran up to the door
and flung it open to reveal 3 girls and a man standing outside.
"Son of a bitch." Haruka muttered, seeing who it was. Heero was immediately on
his feet, he had his gun ready.
"Hi, Heero!" Minako said.
"Usagi," Mammoru said. "Could I have a few words?"
"Anything you want to say to me, you can say it in front of my friends, or it's
not worth my time."
"It's worth your time," Mammoru said, almost nervously, looking at Heero's gun. Hotaru
had by then gotten up, also, and had her hand on her heshin wand. "I promise." Hotaru
turned to Usagi.
"Go, Princess, I'll keep an eye on you." She whispered. Rei stepped forward, but Haruka
and Michiru caught her arm. Usagi nodded silently, and walked out the front door with
Mammoru.
"I need that, Heero." Hotaru said, pointing to Heero's gun. Heero handed it to her, which
made the others stare. "Quatre, do you have a window that opens and looks out, I need to
be able to see Usagi." Quatre nodded, and showed her upstairs and to a window that opened.
Heero followed them, and from that view, Hotaru could just see Usagi and Mammoru, and hear
what they were saying.
"If you've come to apologize, then your wasting your time." Usagi said.
"I haven't come to apologize, but to beg your forgiveness." Mammoru said, and got down on
one knee. Usagi scowled down on him.
"You baka." She said, "You think I would forgive you for what you've done? I will never
forgive you."
"I have come to seek you, because I know you will make a better Queen then just a stereotype
Usagi."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Usagi said, Mammoru got up, a little bit of rage
burning in his eyes.
"You mean to tell me, that you didn't even look at the girl who I was kissing?" Mammoru said.
"You think I care who it was!?"
"It was you, you stupid girl." Mammoru yelled. "Or, a copy of you, whom I could mold into the
Usagi I knew would make a better Queen then yourself."
"You sick bastard." Usagi said.
"Don't," Mammoru said, "I knew that she wasn't the Usagi that was Queen, I now need you to
believe in me. For the future."
"You sick BASTARD!!" Usagi yelled. Hotaru turned off the safety of Heero's gun. Quatre was
looking horrified.
"Don't do anything you will regret later, Firefly." Heero said.
"I won't. I've wanted to kill him ever since we've come here." Hotaru said.
"I can't let you kill an unarmed man." Quatre said. "It wouldn't be right." Even though the conversation
between Heero, Hotaru and Quatre took on a life of it's own, the one between Usagi and
Mammoru continued.
"I hate you Mammoru, and I will never be one of your sick pawns! I now see that
you have corrupted Minako, Makoto and Ami as well. What did you do, brainwash them?!"
"No. They came to me on their on free will, as you will, Usagi. They saw that I was only wanting
what's best for our future, and that I'm doing the right thing."
SMACK! Usagi had backhanded Mammoru, and a large, red welt was appearing on the side of his
face. Usagi turned around and walked into the house, leaving Mammoru outside.
A few minutes later, Minako, Makoto and Ami joined him. Hotaru, Heero and Quatre continued to watch.
"You fool." Makoto was saying to Mammoru. "I thought the plan was to try and pursuade the others
to come to our side, and then Usagi!"
"I can change the damn plans!" Mammoru said. "I will get to her, or we will have to take
her and her guardians by force!"
"Over my dead body," Heero whispered.
***
"That's some scary shit, Usagi." Duo said after Usagi had returned. A few minutes later, Quatre,
who was looking very pale, Heero and Hotaru came downstairs. Heero gingerly grabbed his gun
back from Hotaru, who didn't look happy at all.
"This is going to be bad."
"What?" Rei said.
"They said that they will take forceful actions to get you Usagi." Quatre said.
"I could have ended it all," Said Hotaru bitterly, "Quatre wouldn't let me kill the damn
bastard, though."
"I would kill him any day," Wufei said.
"I would rather you do it with the Glaive, Hotaru, then with Heero's gun." Usagi said quietly. Rei looked at
her in surprise.
"You really want Mammoru dead?"
"Yes."
***
AN: Uh, yeah, so Mammoru has *other* plans...heh...Well, anyway, this chapter was kinda short I
guess, but it sets you up for the next chapter. In my personal opinion, it wasn't as good as
the others, but I guess that's okay for right now. Have a very GOOD weekend!
*Kohan*