Ai Shiteru, Quatre-kun
Part 1
Notes: Ok, this is my first time writing a first-person POV fic, so go easy on me, k? And there are several references in this part(and probably all parts)that apply to my real life, and those will be marked by this: [] and explained at the end of each part. -- Ionia Metallium-Greywers
I know. I'm not usually one to complain, but this is an exception. I'm complaining.
Heero managed to enroll us into a fairly decent school with fairly decent rooms. The rooms are bigger than the last ones, anyway. The thing is, Heero was tired of putting up with Duo's constant talking and mouthing off. So instead of what we usually do, which is Duo and Heero sharing a room, Trowa and I sharing a room, and Wu Fei having a room to himself, Heero has placed Duo and I in a room, and Trowa shares one with Heero now. Funny. When Trowa and I shared a room, it used to be so quiet and I would always be the one to strike up a conversation. Now that Duo is sharing with me, I get no quiet whatsoever. I miss the silence, but I dare not go to Heero and Trowa's room for it. Too much silence begins to affect me after awhile. I imagine it would affect Duo almost immediately.
"Oi, Quatre! Look out!" a familiar voice yelled. I snapped back to reality as a bottle cap shot by my head, nearly embedding itself in the wall behind me. I looked towards the bathroom. Duo had been taking a shower, and he was standing in the doorway to the bathroom. He grinned. "Gomen, Quatre." He had a tiny towel wrapped around his waist. It looked like one of those towels in a hotel room. Maybe a raid of an unlocked hotel room had supplied him with it. He grabbed at it before it had a chance to fall. Arigato, Duo.
A tube of bright green shampoo was lying on the floor. The neon-colored gel oozed out of the tube and seeped into the carpet. Ouch. That's going to be hard to get out. The area of aqua green carpet around the tube was now a sickening shade of brown. Sometimes I wonder where Duo comes up with all his stuff. I imagine that the item in question had been liberated from a store somewhere a while back. The tube was nearly empty.
Duo sat on his bed and began to towel his hair dry. I picked up a dog-eared manga from the floor. I tried to remember the kanji Trowa had taught me. I could hear Duo pulling open drawers and putting on his normal clothes.
"Oi, Quatre?"
"Aa?"
"I'm going for a walk and some food. Wanna come with?"
"Sure." I set the manga down and grabbed my coat. "I just have to tell Trowa where we're going."
We walked down the hall towards the elevator. Heero and Trowa's room was on the floor above us. Wu Fei's was on the floor below us. We got in the elevator and I pushed the button for the 3rd floor. Soon, the doors opened and we walked out and towards Heero and Trowa's room.
Duo knocked on the door. "Oi, Heero! It's me! Open up!" Soon, the door opened. The small room was illuminated with blue light. I peered around Heero's head. The small laptop was on. Great.
"What do you want?" Heero asked, his face stoic and emotionless.
"Is Trowa here?" I asked him hopefully.
"Gomen, Quatre, but he left a few minutes ago. You just missed him. Are you going somewhere?"
"We're going out for some food. Wanna come, Heero?" Duo interjected.
"Nah. I have work to do. Trowa should be back in about a half-hour, though."
I must have looked disappointed, because Heero said something he probably wouldn't have under normal circumstances.
"Don't worry, Quatre. I'll tell him where you're going when he returns." Now here's the weird part. "Promise."
Minutes later I found myself walking down the dark streets toward the shopping center. I assumed we were going to one of those late-night Chinese cafés. We passed by a theater that had a neon sign promoting it's newest feature. The sign said I Was A Teenage Appetizer From Planet Sushi.[1] Duo snickered at the title.
"Planet Sushi?" he laughed hysterically. "Sounds like what we're gonna eat!"
I nearly retched. "Duo, you know I can't stand sushi..." [2]
"Oh yeah, that's right. Gomen, Quatre." We walked towards the shopping center.
*****
"I'll have a bowl of ramen noodles, a teriyaki burger, a small bowl of rice, some potstickers, a small plate of sushi, and a large mug of tea, please!" Duo said, grinning. The waitress looked at him like he had just proclaimed the sky was bright pink. She jotted something down on the paper and looked at me, expecting the same. I just looked at her, feeling very sorry for her.
"I'll just have a mug of tea and a small bowl of rice, please." She jotted down my order on the paper and walked off towards the kitchen. I glanced at Duo. "You better not expect me to pay for all that."
"Don't worry. I'll pay for it." Now -that- was a rarity. Duo, ordering all that food, and I'm there to pay for it all, and he decides to pay for it? Wow.
"Are you sick or something, Duo?"
"Nah, I'm ok." He leaned back into his chair. A little too far back. He fell backwards and hit a potted plant, nearly toppling the thing. I laughed hard, tears coming to my eyes.
A hand touched my shoulder. In an instant, I was out of my chair, turned in the complete opposite direction, and had a knife hand to the neck of the hand's owner. Behind me, I heard Duo snicker. I looked up, only to gaze into deep, forest green eyes.
"Trowa!" I sounded like a schoolgirl who had just found her secret crush in a crowd of millions...well, all except for the schoolgirl part.
So, this is where you went," he said calmly. "Heero said you had gone out somewhere."
"Trowa, I'm sorry...I nearly knocked you out..." I looked down.
"Don't worry. It's a good reaction. It'll keep you alive." He took a seat in the chair next to mine. I sat down as well, and so did Duo, as soon as he retrieved his chair from the floor.
The waitress came back, holding 2 trays of food. Another came behind her, with a tray containing a small bowl of rice and two mugs of tea. The two set everything down on the table. The original waitress looked towards Trowa. "Oh, gomen nasai, otoko-san. I didn't see you here before."
"That's cause he just got here..." Duo muttered.
"Would you like anything, otoko-san?" She pulled out her pad of paper.
"I'll just have a mug of tea, please." Duo sank low in his chair, to where only his eyes and the top of his head showed over the table.
"No wonder Trowa stays so skinny..."
*****
On our way back to the school, we began talking about relationships. What brought that topic up, I have no idea, but Duo just began talking about how he missed Heero. Trowa really didn't want to be involved in any part of it, but Duo dragged him in anyway.
"Hey, Trowa. You miss Quatre?"
I could see a tiny bit of a blush under that hair of his. "Well, maybe, but..."
"C'mon! Spill!" Duo is very good at brown-nosing. It should become his hobby.
"Jitsu wa...it -was- a whole lot friendlier when we shared a room...not as quiet..."
"Just as I thought!" Duo proclaimed. But before he could get out another word, something grabbed him and pulled him into a bush that he was standing next to.
"Duo!" I ran towards the bush, but nothing was there. Typical. "Trowa, Duo's gone!" But I turned around, and Trowa was gone too.
"Trowa!!!!!!!!!"
*****
I sat up in my bed, gasping for air. Was it just a dream? Were Duo and Trowa still here? I got up out of my bed, and walked towards Duo's bed. I saw a lump under the sheets, and a long, messy chestnut braid. Yeah, it was Duo. Just to make sure, I poked his back.
"Uhn..." the long-haired boy groaned. "I dun wanna go to school, mommy..." He then returned to snoring. I giggled.
"Duo no baka..." I whispered. I walked back to my bed and flopped onto it. What a strange dream. I wonder what it meant. I looked at the clock. Only 12:15? We had come back from the Chinese place about an hour ago. I sighed. It's so hard to go back to sleep once you've woken up. I crawled out of bed once again and walked to my dresser. If I was going to go out for a walk, I might as well wear normal clothes, and not my pajamas, which had tiny camels dotting a landscape of sand dunes.[3] My favorites. I changed into one of my less formal outfits. Basically, just some jeans I borrowed from Duo and a t-shirt he had bought me that says "I'm short, blond, and rich. Gotta love me." I walked out of the dorm and into the hall.
The hall was almost completely dark, for the exception of some rooms that had light seeping under the door. I walked down the hallway towards the T-shaped intersection at the end. This was completely black. No light at all. Not exactly the most cheery place to be, and it didn't look all too safe for a boy like myself. Nonetheless, I walked into the void, for it was the only way to get down to the mini-café downstairs.
I turned the corner and ran into someone. Just a little taller than me. The person's body was warm, and I could feel long sleeves of a sweatshirt. It was definentaly a guy, because his chest was flat, for the exception of muscles.
I heard him pull something from his pocket. Oh dear, was he going to kill me? I could picture someone ripping my lungs from my body, then leaving my body to rot in the middle of the floor.
I heard something rubbing against a hard surface. Run, run, my conscious told me. But my feet were cemented to the floor. I couldn't run, couldn't breathe, couldn't scream. I felt defenseless. Prayers began racing through my mind. My mouth felt as if it were filled with cotton balls. I nearly fainted.
Suddenly, a flicker of light burst from nowhere as a flame appeared on top of a lighter. It lit up a face, half covered in hair. The flames danced in forest green eyes.
"Quatre? What are you doing here?"
"Trowa! It's just you!" I unconsciously hugged him. The scent of cherries invaded my senses, and I was only aware of that. The scent of cherries. Suddenly, I realized what I was doing. I let go, the cute, pink blush that Duo liked to make fun of coming to my face.
"It's alright, Quatre. I didn't mean to scare you like that. Gomen nasai."
I sniffled a bit. I hadn't even realized I was crying. "No, gomen nasai, Trowa. I got your shirt wet."
He laughed. In my whole life, I have never heard anything like it. It sounded like the tinkling of Christmas bells. I began laughing as well, and the entire hallway was filled with the sound of our laughter.
"You never answered my question, Quatre," he said when we were done laughing. "What are you doing out here?"
"I was going down to the café." I looked up. "You want to come too?"
"Sure. Might as well. I can't sleep at all."
"Neither could I!" With that, we began to walk down the hallway towards the elevator.
[1] Ok, I'm sorry, but I was typing this at the same time my little brother was watching Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and I just so happened to hear one of them say something referring to this.
[2] This one refers to me, in particular. I can't stand sushi, and I don't know how anyone can. Raw fish and caviar? Yuck. But my friend says that in Colorado there's a place called Tokyo Joe's and they cook their fish before putting it in sushi. Maybe it's good. I dunno.
[3] I have pajamas like these...somewhere. They're very comfortable and made out of some soft, fuzzy, wool-like material. And it's not itchy! ^^
Part 1
Notes: Ok, this is my first time writing a first-person POV fic, so go easy on me, k? And there are several references in this part(and probably all parts)that apply to my real life, and those will be marked by this: [] and explained at the end of each part. -- Ionia Metallium-Greywers
I know. I'm not usually one to complain, but this is an exception. I'm complaining.
Heero managed to enroll us into a fairly decent school with fairly decent rooms. The rooms are bigger than the last ones, anyway. The thing is, Heero was tired of putting up with Duo's constant talking and mouthing off. So instead of what we usually do, which is Duo and Heero sharing a room, Trowa and I sharing a room, and Wu Fei having a room to himself, Heero has placed Duo and I in a room, and Trowa shares one with Heero now. Funny. When Trowa and I shared a room, it used to be so quiet and I would always be the one to strike up a conversation. Now that Duo is sharing with me, I get no quiet whatsoever. I miss the silence, but I dare not go to Heero and Trowa's room for it. Too much silence begins to affect me after awhile. I imagine it would affect Duo almost immediately.
"Oi, Quatre! Look out!" a familiar voice yelled. I snapped back to reality as a bottle cap shot by my head, nearly embedding itself in the wall behind me. I looked towards the bathroom. Duo had been taking a shower, and he was standing in the doorway to the bathroom. He grinned. "Gomen, Quatre." He had a tiny towel wrapped around his waist. It looked like one of those towels in a hotel room. Maybe a raid of an unlocked hotel room had supplied him with it. He grabbed at it before it had a chance to fall. Arigato, Duo.
A tube of bright green shampoo was lying on the floor. The neon-colored gel oozed out of the tube and seeped into the carpet. Ouch. That's going to be hard to get out. The area of aqua green carpet around the tube was now a sickening shade of brown. Sometimes I wonder where Duo comes up with all his stuff. I imagine that the item in question had been liberated from a store somewhere a while back. The tube was nearly empty.
Duo sat on his bed and began to towel his hair dry. I picked up a dog-eared manga from the floor. I tried to remember the kanji Trowa had taught me. I could hear Duo pulling open drawers and putting on his normal clothes.
"Oi, Quatre?"
"Aa?"
"I'm going for a walk and some food. Wanna come with?"
"Sure." I set the manga down and grabbed my coat. "I just have to tell Trowa where we're going."
We walked down the hall towards the elevator. Heero and Trowa's room was on the floor above us. Wu Fei's was on the floor below us. We got in the elevator and I pushed the button for the 3rd floor. Soon, the doors opened and we walked out and towards Heero and Trowa's room.
Duo knocked on the door. "Oi, Heero! It's me! Open up!" Soon, the door opened. The small room was illuminated with blue light. I peered around Heero's head. The small laptop was on. Great.
"What do you want?" Heero asked, his face stoic and emotionless.
"Is Trowa here?" I asked him hopefully.
"Gomen, Quatre, but he left a few minutes ago. You just missed him. Are you going somewhere?"
"We're going out for some food. Wanna come, Heero?" Duo interjected.
"Nah. I have work to do. Trowa should be back in about a half-hour, though."
I must have looked disappointed, because Heero said something he probably wouldn't have under normal circumstances.
"Don't worry, Quatre. I'll tell him where you're going when he returns." Now here's the weird part. "Promise."
Minutes later I found myself walking down the dark streets toward the shopping center. I assumed we were going to one of those late-night Chinese cafés. We passed by a theater that had a neon sign promoting it's newest feature. The sign said I Was A Teenage Appetizer From Planet Sushi.[1] Duo snickered at the title.
"Planet Sushi?" he laughed hysterically. "Sounds like what we're gonna eat!"
I nearly retched. "Duo, you know I can't stand sushi..." [2]
"Oh yeah, that's right. Gomen, Quatre." We walked towards the shopping center.
*****
"I'll have a bowl of ramen noodles, a teriyaki burger, a small bowl of rice, some potstickers, a small plate of sushi, and a large mug of tea, please!" Duo said, grinning. The waitress looked at him like he had just proclaimed the sky was bright pink. She jotted something down on the paper and looked at me, expecting the same. I just looked at her, feeling very sorry for her.
"I'll just have a mug of tea and a small bowl of rice, please." She jotted down my order on the paper and walked off towards the kitchen. I glanced at Duo. "You better not expect me to pay for all that."
"Don't worry. I'll pay for it." Now -that- was a rarity. Duo, ordering all that food, and I'm there to pay for it all, and he decides to pay for it? Wow.
"Are you sick or something, Duo?"
"Nah, I'm ok." He leaned back into his chair. A little too far back. He fell backwards and hit a potted plant, nearly toppling the thing. I laughed hard, tears coming to my eyes.
A hand touched my shoulder. In an instant, I was out of my chair, turned in the complete opposite direction, and had a knife hand to the neck of the hand's owner. Behind me, I heard Duo snicker. I looked up, only to gaze into deep, forest green eyes.
"Trowa!" I sounded like a schoolgirl who had just found her secret crush in a crowd of millions...well, all except for the schoolgirl part.
So, this is where you went," he said calmly. "Heero said you had gone out somewhere."
"Trowa, I'm sorry...I nearly knocked you out..." I looked down.
"Don't worry. It's a good reaction. It'll keep you alive." He took a seat in the chair next to mine. I sat down as well, and so did Duo, as soon as he retrieved his chair from the floor.
The waitress came back, holding 2 trays of food. Another came behind her, with a tray containing a small bowl of rice and two mugs of tea. The two set everything down on the table. The original waitress looked towards Trowa. "Oh, gomen nasai, otoko-san. I didn't see you here before."
"That's cause he just got here..." Duo muttered.
"Would you like anything, otoko-san?" She pulled out her pad of paper.
"I'll just have a mug of tea, please." Duo sank low in his chair, to where only his eyes and the top of his head showed over the table.
"No wonder Trowa stays so skinny..."
*****
On our way back to the school, we began talking about relationships. What brought that topic up, I have no idea, but Duo just began talking about how he missed Heero. Trowa really didn't want to be involved in any part of it, but Duo dragged him in anyway.
"Hey, Trowa. You miss Quatre?"
I could see a tiny bit of a blush under that hair of his. "Well, maybe, but..."
"C'mon! Spill!" Duo is very good at brown-nosing. It should become his hobby.
"Jitsu wa...it -was- a whole lot friendlier when we shared a room...not as quiet..."
"Just as I thought!" Duo proclaimed. But before he could get out another word, something grabbed him and pulled him into a bush that he was standing next to.
"Duo!" I ran towards the bush, but nothing was there. Typical. "Trowa, Duo's gone!" But I turned around, and Trowa was gone too.
"Trowa!!!!!!!!!"
*****
I sat up in my bed, gasping for air. Was it just a dream? Were Duo and Trowa still here? I got up out of my bed, and walked towards Duo's bed. I saw a lump under the sheets, and a long, messy chestnut braid. Yeah, it was Duo. Just to make sure, I poked his back.
"Uhn..." the long-haired boy groaned. "I dun wanna go to school, mommy..." He then returned to snoring. I giggled.
"Duo no baka..." I whispered. I walked back to my bed and flopped onto it. What a strange dream. I wonder what it meant. I looked at the clock. Only 12:15? We had come back from the Chinese place about an hour ago. I sighed. It's so hard to go back to sleep once you've woken up. I crawled out of bed once again and walked to my dresser. If I was going to go out for a walk, I might as well wear normal clothes, and not my pajamas, which had tiny camels dotting a landscape of sand dunes.[3] My favorites. I changed into one of my less formal outfits. Basically, just some jeans I borrowed from Duo and a t-shirt he had bought me that says "I'm short, blond, and rich. Gotta love me." I walked out of the dorm and into the hall.
The hall was almost completely dark, for the exception of some rooms that had light seeping under the door. I walked down the hallway towards the T-shaped intersection at the end. This was completely black. No light at all. Not exactly the most cheery place to be, and it didn't look all too safe for a boy like myself. Nonetheless, I walked into the void, for it was the only way to get down to the mini-café downstairs.
I turned the corner and ran into someone. Just a little taller than me. The person's body was warm, and I could feel long sleeves of a sweatshirt. It was definentaly a guy, because his chest was flat, for the exception of muscles.
I heard him pull something from his pocket. Oh dear, was he going to kill me? I could picture someone ripping my lungs from my body, then leaving my body to rot in the middle of the floor.
I heard something rubbing against a hard surface. Run, run, my conscious told me. But my feet were cemented to the floor. I couldn't run, couldn't breathe, couldn't scream. I felt defenseless. Prayers began racing through my mind. My mouth felt as if it were filled with cotton balls. I nearly fainted.
Suddenly, a flicker of light burst from nowhere as a flame appeared on top of a lighter. It lit up a face, half covered in hair. The flames danced in forest green eyes.
"Quatre? What are you doing here?"
"Trowa! It's just you!" I unconsciously hugged him. The scent of cherries invaded my senses, and I was only aware of that. The scent of cherries. Suddenly, I realized what I was doing. I let go, the cute, pink blush that Duo liked to make fun of coming to my face.
"It's alright, Quatre. I didn't mean to scare you like that. Gomen nasai."
I sniffled a bit. I hadn't even realized I was crying. "No, gomen nasai, Trowa. I got your shirt wet."
He laughed. In my whole life, I have never heard anything like it. It sounded like the tinkling of Christmas bells. I began laughing as well, and the entire hallway was filled with the sound of our laughter.
"You never answered my question, Quatre," he said when we were done laughing. "What are you doing out here?"
"I was going down to the café." I looked up. "You want to come too?"
"Sure. Might as well. I can't sleep at all."
"Neither could I!" With that, we began to walk down the hallway towards the elevator.
[1] Ok, I'm sorry, but I was typing this at the same time my little brother was watching Ed, Edd, and Eddy, and I just so happened to hear one of them say something referring to this.
[2] This one refers to me, in particular. I can't stand sushi, and I don't know how anyone can. Raw fish and caviar? Yuck. But my friend says that in Colorado there's a place called Tokyo Joe's and they cook their fish before putting it in sushi. Maybe it's good. I dunno.
[3] I have pajamas like these...somewhere. They're very comfortable and made out of some soft, fuzzy, wool-like material. And it's not itchy! ^^