Angel in Disguise by Comet~Princess
Disclaimer: Let me ask you this: Are Relena and Mamoru alive? Yes? That means I don´t own Gundam Wing or Sailormoon because if I did, Heero would have killed Relena in the first episode and Usagi would have "accidentally" hit Mamoru with her tiara. Therefore, don´t sue.
AN: Thanks for all your kind reviews yet again. I love getting them and they motivate me to get the next chapter out. Like this, for example. I wasn´t going to type this for, say, another week. *duck from flying objects* Hey! It´s out, right? For some reason, I had a really hard time writing this, so be a little nicer. *sigh*
key: She picked Usagi as a name because she was thinking about a rabbit and Usagi means rabbit in Japanese. I may come up with a different reason later, but for now, that´s why. ^_^ I loved the "Golden Compass" trilogy too, but I haven´t read the third one. Know when it´s coming out?
Timeframe: This might actually change. . . but for now, same as before.
On with the story. . .
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Chapter 2 – Show Me Around
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Usagi continued to stare at the boy while her thoughts spun. What do you know? I wasn´t even looking for him! Wait a second! What did Jupiter and Pluto say his name was? Oh crap! I forgot to ask! That was when she realized Quatre was waving a hand in front of her face and the Prussian blue-eyed teen was looking at her, a trace of irritation so slight on his face that if she wasn´t studying him, she wouldn´t have noticed.
"Usagi?" Quatre inquired, "Are you okay?"
Usagi mentally shook herself. She turned to Quatre. "Yea, I´m alright. Thanks, Quatre. For the ride and all, I mean."
Quatre smiled. "No problem, Usagi." He turned to the boy at the door. "Heero, I think this is your new roommate. That is, unless she has the wrong room number." At this, he turned back to Usagi, who shook her head, signifying that she did, indeed, have the correct room number.
Quatre grinned at her. "Then, may I introduce you to your roommate? This is Heero Yuy. Heero, this is Miss Usagi Tsukino." (AN: I can´t see Heero being introduced as Mister, even from Quatre! ^_^)
Usagi held out her hand, but he merely gave her a nod and walked into their room. Quatre smiled apologetically at her. "Sorry, but he´s like this all the time. You´ll get used to it after awhile," he assured her.
Usagi blinked. "Wait, you´re friends?" she asked as she led Quatre into her room.
Quatre nodded. "We go to school together, after all." He really hated lying to this nice girl, but with Heero probably listening to him right now, he wouldn´t be standing for another second if he told her the truth.
"Quatre, I´ll be okay now. You can go if you want. I don´t really want to bother you with all this," Usagi said.
"It´s quite alright, Usagi," Quatre said.
"I insist, Quatre!" Usagi said, picking up all her bags before Quatre could protest. "You´ve been really kind to me and I don´t want to keep you."
Quatre shook his head. "I really have no where else to go. I don´t mind, Usagi." The truth of the matter was that he was afraid that Heero would threaten her when he left.
Usagi sighed. She really wanted to get to know Heero, and with Quatre standing around, it was going to be difficult. She finally took a look around the room. It was more like an apartment than a room. There was a kitchen to her right and a den in front of her, which led out to a balcony. To the left, there was a bathroom and a short hall, which she suspected led to the bedrooms. "Heero?" she called out.
To her surprise, but not Quatre´s, Heero came out from behind one of the kitchen walls. He´d been listening all along? Guess that´s what Jupiter and Pluto meant by having to be discreet, she thought. She smiled at him, a smile which he did not return. "Uh, just so I don´t invade your privacy or something, can you show me my room?" she asked, watching his reaction.
Mentally, Quatre breathed a sigh of relief. Good move.
Heero gave another brief nod before turning to Quatre. "If there´s nothing you need," he said in monotone, implying that Quatre should leave.
Quatre glanced at Usagi, who smiled, "See? Even your friend doesn´t want to keep you from your life. Now, go on! I can take care of myself," she said.
Quatre nodded and turned to go. "It was nice meeting you, Usagi. See you in school," he said with a wave, "Bye, Heero."
Heero shut the door behind Quatre before turning to study his new roommate. She was a few inches shorter than him, with a slim built and, what even he noticed without Duo´s hinting (or outbursts), drop-dead gorgeous looks. Mentally, he shrugged. She was beautiful, so what? Her boyfriend had better not be in here a lot. Hold on, why do I assume she has one? The Perfect Soldier cleared his thoughts and started walking towards the bedrooms.
"Hey! Aren´t you even going to offer to help me with all this?" Usagi asked.
"You told Quatre that you don´t need help," he replied, yet again in monotone.
Usagi sighed. This was going to be more difficult than she thought. Pulling all her bags along, she followed him into one of the two rooms. It had a desk in one corner, a bed, and a dresser. Usagi wrinkled her nose. "Isn´t this a little plain?" she asked.
Heero didn´t answer the question. Instead, he warned with a glare, "Don´t go into my room and don´t touch anything that´s mine."
Possessiveness, check, Usagi thought mentally. Outloud, she jokingly replied, "Mission accepted, o great roommate."
This earned her another glare from Heero, which she ignored. "Now, I´m going to get this place to be more lively." With that, she started digging around her shopping bags, throwing bedsheets, pillows, writing utensils, and even bookends and paintings (AN: Don´t ask me why she bought those.) all over her room. The shocking thing was, everything she threw landed on their intended place with deadly accuracy. The bedsheets and pillows landed on her bed. All of the pens, pencils, folders, and paper landed in a pile on her desk, along with the bookends. The paintings banged against the walls before dropping to the floor, but if there had been hooks there, they would have stayed.
Heero blinked. Either this girl had really good aim, or she was abnormal. Sure, he and the other pilots could do something like this, but they´ve all had some extensive training. He didn´t believe for a moment that a normal teenager could do this. He was about to reach for his gun when a couple of shopping bags came flying at him, along with a pair of shoes and a rolled-up newspaper. Acting on instinct, he ducked, letting the objects sail out of the room into the den.
"Oh my goodness!" Usagi exclaimed when she caught sight of him crouching on the floor. "Did I hit you with something?"
Maybe her aim isn´t *that* good, he thought dryly. She could be a normal teenager, but he´d still keep an eye on her. He sensed something about her that was different. Silently, he walked into the den to retrieve her stuff. He handed it to her and walked into his room without another word.
Usagi checked to make sure his door and hers were closed before using her magic to arrange her stuff and hang up the paintings. So Jupiter and Pluto said not to use magic, but it´s going to take me forever to do this without it and if I have to live in a plain, white room, I´ll go insane, Usagi thought before leaving her bedroom. Heero still hadn´t come out of his room, so she decided to cook dinner. (AN: Yes, she can cook in this story.)
She found pasta and meat in the refrigerator, which she used to make spaghetti and meatballs. While she stirred the sauce, she let her mind wander. What can I do to make him show some emotion? He´s so cold. It´s like his soul died. . . At this point, dinner was ready. Shrugging her shoulders, Usagi decided to do things spontaneously. It was how she´d always worked and everything in the past had been fine. She put dinner on the kitchen table and walked to Heero´s room. Gently, she knocked on the door. A moment later, Heero stood in the place of the door.
"Hey, I made dinner. I was just wondering if you wanted some," Usagi said with a smile.
In reply, she got a "Hn" as he started to walk to the kitchen, closing the door to his room as he walked out of it.
Usagi started to follow him. "You know, the least you could do was to say something in reply."
"Hn," he muttered as he started to eat.
"Is that all your vocabulary or just the word of the day?" Usagi teased as she started to eat her own dinner.
Heero gave her another death glare.
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I think that´s the third one today. Is it a record yet?" she asked.
This time, Heero actually said something. "No."
"So, what number should I aim for?" Usagi questioned brightly, happy that he was actually talking.
"213," he stated.
Usagi´s jaw dropped. "213?!" she yelped, "How could someone annoy you that much in one day?"
Heero smirked slightly, "So, you were trying to annoy me."
Usagi blushed. "Um. . .not really. I just wanted to make you talk." Mentally, she slapped herself for her earlier outburst.
"There´s nothing to talk about," Heero stated as he put the dishes into the sink.
Usagi did the same as she came to stand beside him. "Sure there is. People can talk about anything! Like your friends. Tell me about them," she requested as she started to wash the used dishes.
Heero walked to one of the walls and leaned against it. "What do you want me to say?"
Usagi shrugged. "Anything you want to."
He thought for a moment before opening his mouth. "You´ve met Quatre. There´s another three. You´ll meet them in school."
Usagi turned and glared at him. "That´s it? What do they do for fun? What do they look like? How´d you meet?" she interrogated.
At these questions, Heero started to go back to his room, tossing a "That´s not important" over his shoulder as he went.
Usagi sighed before walking to her own room. Well, it´s a start.
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The next morning, Usagi awoke to the smell of bacon and eggs. She jumped out of bed and rushed to the shower. By the time she got to the kitchen, no one was there anymore. The kitchen was spotless except for a plate of bacon and eggs as well as a cup of milk on the table. Smiling at Heero´s thoughtfulness, Usagi sat down and began to eat. Well, he´s not heartless. Hmm. . . wonder what he´s doing. Suddenly, she sprang up from her seat, tossed the dishes into the sink, and ran to his room, knocking on the door like mad.
An irritated Heero opened the door and glared at her. "What?" he said.
Usagi gave him a brilliant smile despite his obvious grouchiness. "I want to go visit the zoo. Will you take me?" she asked sweetly.
"No. I have work to do," he replied and attempted to close the door.
Usagi stopped him by sticking her foot in the way. "Please? I want some company and you look like you could use a little air from the beautiful outdoors," she pleaded.
"The outdoors are not beautiful and I don´t need air," Heero growled.
Usagi glared at him, "Come on! What are you, a hermit?! Just this once? I promise I won´t bother you at all tomorrow if you´ll come with me today," she tried again. The boy needed to try something different. Maybe he was only so grumpy because he was cooped up in his room all the time.
Heero returned her glare, not only because she was going to take him to a zoo, but because she made him feel strange things inside. He had no idea what, except he couldn´t stop thinking that she was cute when she got irritated with him. That fact alone annoyed him. He was the Perfect Soldier. He wasn´t supposed to think like this. He silently weighed his options. He really didn´t want to go to the zoo but tomorrow was a school day. Having Relena and Duo on his nerves was going to be enough to drive any normal man insane. He couldn´t put up with a third person. "Fine," he replied before going inside to turn off his laptop.
They left the dorms together and walked in silence for a couple of minutes. To any onlooker, they looked like quite a pair. Heero had on his green tank top with a pair of black jeans and a black jean jacket. Usagi, on the other hand, had on a pair of white flares with a baby blue shirt that had three-quarter sleeves. Black and white, complete opposites.
The silence was starting to drive Usagi crazy. She sighed, "Don´t you have anything to say?"
"Hn," Heero grunted.
All of a sudden, Usagi paused in the middle of the sidewalk. "Um. . . Heero?" she called a little timidly.
"What?" Heero glared at her.
"Do you know where the zoo is?" she asked with a sheepish smile, "I forgot to check."
Mentally, Heero groaned. He couldn´t believe that he had forgotten that the Sanq Kingdom didn´t have a zoo. "There isn´t one," he informed the girl.
Usagi blinked. "Huh? You knew there wasn´t a zoo but you let me drag you out to a zoo?" she asked, confused.
Heero turned towards the dorms. "I´m going back."
"Wait!" Usagi cried out, grabbing on to his arm. An instant feeling of warmth came over him, but he pushed it away. "You promised to keep me company today. We can still walk around," she suggested.
"Hn," Heero replied, but stopped from returning to the dorm and his laptop.
Usagi grinned at him. "You know a good place to hang out?" she asked.
Heero nodded and started to lead her in the direction of the arcade the guys usually hung out at after school, thanks to Duo´s obsession with the games there. The place was crowded with teenagers. It had glass doors along with coloured windows. The inside was packed with arcade games.
"Wow!" Usagi exclaimed as she walked in. "What´s this place?"
Heero blinked. She didn´t know what an arcade was? That was strange. He narrowed his eyes. There was definitely something different about his roommate. He vowed to keep an eye on the girl. "It´s an arcade," he told her.
Usagi frowned. What the heck was an arcade? That was something they didn´t have back home, and she had never visited one when she came to Earth before. She noticed that Heero was studying her and blushed for some unknown reason. Why am I doing that? She concluded it to be embarrassment and asked him, "I know you think I´m weird, but what´s an arcade? We don´t have something like it back home."
"You pay money to play games on a computer," Heero answered. It was completely possible that there was no arcade where she came, but he suspected there to be more than that. He watched Usagi intently, waiting to see what she would do.
Usagi smiled and tugged on his arm. "Come on! Show me how to play!" She dragged him to one of the racing games, and plopped down in one of the seats. "Now, what do I do?" she asked.
"You put in some coins and race," Heero said.
Usagi brought out some coins from her pocket, stuck them into the machine and looked at the screen. The light on the screen turned green and she started to turn the wheel. "Why isn´t the car moving?" she asked, confused. All Heero said was that you put some coins in and it starts, right?
Heero sighed. "You didn´t step on the accelerator," he replied in monotone.
Usagi looked down to see a couple of pedals that she could reach with her foot. "I didn´t know I was supposed to step on that to get this to go," she whined a little. She knew from Quatre what a car was, but she didn´t know how to drive one. Geez, flying was never this complicated! All you had to do was spread your wings and go. She sighed, got up from the seat, and pushed Heero into it. "Show me how to play?" she pleaded.
Whatever. It can´t do any harm, he thought before sticking coins into the machine. Briefly, he wondered if the girl had even driven a car before. How could someone forget to step on the accelerator? His train of thought was interrupted by the sound of the light turning green. He floored the pedal and the simulated car zoomed forward. Usagi watched, her eyes widening at the speedometer in one corner of the screen. The number never decreased, but Heero maneuvered the car without a single problem. How can he go so fast without losing control? Did he train to be a racecar driver too? she thought as she continued to watch him race past the competition. He sped through the finish line, but not before crashing into three cars, sending them all spinning to one side.
"Must you be so violent to the other competitors?" she asked, turning away from the screen to look at him.
Heero shrugged and stood up. "Hn."
Usagi rolled her eyes. If she had a buck every time he said that, she´d be a millionaire, and she´s only known him for two days. She took his hand and dragged him out of the arcade towards a coffee shop she saw yesterday. "Let´s have lunch," she suggested, pulling him inside.
Mentally, Heero kicked himself for agreeing to this. What had possessed him to do this anyway? Soon, he found himself seated across from her in one of the booths. He ordered a black coffee and blinked when she ordered about half the menu. Someone can actually eat as much as Duo? he wondered briefly. Then again, there were a lot of things about this girl that was strange. It´s just one more to add to the list. The food came soon and Heero slowly sipped his coffee while Usagi gobbled up her food. She eats like Duo too. What are they, twins? He shook his head and looked out the window. The day was far from over, and he doubted that she would let him go back to the dorm.
He was right. After lunch, Usagi dragged him to the park to see the ducklings and feed the seagulls. This caused her to be attacked by the horde of them that was flying around in the sky.
"Ah! Heero, help me get them off!" she cried out as she ran around in circles, trying to lose the line of hungry seagulls behind her.
"Hn," Heero muttered, crossing his arms and leaning on the tree nearby, watching with a little amusement.
"You´re so mean!" Usagi declared.
Inwardly, Heero sighed. He walked forward, took the bag of food from her hands and threw it about twenty meters away. Immediately, the large group of seagulls assaulted the food, leaving Usagi alone. She led out a sigh of relief before turning to her savior. "Thanks!" she said happily.
"Be more careful next time," he cautioned.
Usagi shrugged. "I didn´t know they were going to be so violent about it! The animals back home were so nice," she mumbled.
Heero started to walk in the direction of the dorm, thinking that maybe she´d be tired by now. Instead, Usagi grabbed his hand again and pulled him in the opposite direction. "Let´s go play mini-golf! I know I saw a place that has it awhile back," she stated.
Heero followed reluctantly. It looks like he wouldn´t get to go back to his beloved laptop until tonight. The game of mini-golf was relatively short, since Heero got hole-in-ones more often than not and Usagi wasn´t a bad golfer either.
"Where´d you learn to play that well?" Usagi asked when the game was over. He´d won by about 7 points, and she was the best mini-golfer she knew. Even Mercury couldn´t beat her.
"Hn," Heero replied.
Usagi growled, "That´s getting really annoying!"
Heero smirked, shooting her a glance as they walked into a restaurant. "Good."
Usagi sighed, for the umpteenth time that day. And he thought *she* was irritating. The two finished their dinner and started to walk home. Usagi didn´t try to converse with her roommate anymore. He was only going to answer with one syllable words and she´d rather think of some other way to get him to show some compassion. Mentally, she went over every emotion he showed in this one day. She came up with nothing, except maybe irritation. This is going to take a *very* long time, she concluded mentally.
Soon, they reached their dorm. As soon as the door to their room closed behind them, Heero announced, "I´m going to bed."
Instinctively, Usagi reached out and grabbed on to his arm. Heero turned to look at her. "The day is over," he said, reminding her very subtly of their deal earlier that day.
Usagi smiled. "I know. I just wanted to thank you for your company. I had fun," she said before spontaneously giving him a hug.
Heero stiffened. It was a foreign gesture, but it made him feel warm. Again, he pushed it away. He wasn´t supposed to have feelings. He looked at the young girl. By now, she had let go of him and was busy taking off her shoes. Silently, he studied her. After a little while, Usagi noticed this and blushed under his intense gaze. Inwardly, Heero smiled. He noted that she did that whenever she caught him studying her. It was, in a way, endearing. What the hell am I thinking?! It´s just a girl! Sure, she was beautiful, but she was odd. He realized then that he knew absolutely nothing about her. She could be anyone. Quickly, he did something he should have done when they had first met. He pulled out his gun and pointed it right between the eyes of his angelic roommate.
"Omae o korosu," he growled out.
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End of Chapter 2.
AN: What a way to ruin a moment, Heero-kun. For anyone who didn´t get the last line, omae o korosu is "I will kill you" in Japanese. Again, I thought the English didn´t sound as cool. *shrug* You guys probably want to kill me right now for that cliffhanger. *sweet, innocent smile* You won´t, right? Who will write the next chapter if you do? Don´t forget, reviews = more chapters, lots of reviews = more chapters fast. Ja ne, minna-chan!