She is Me Chapter 5: You Hurt The Ones You Love?, a gundam wing/sailor moon fanfic

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She is Me

Chapter 5 ~ You Hurt the Ones You Love?

Written by Kei

Usagi was so shocked by the sensation of Heero's lips over hers that she didn't do anything. At first. She recovered quickly and stole his gun from his hand, pushed him away, and aimed the weapon at him as he had done to her not long before.

"That was a smooth one, lover," she purred, tossing her head and causing her white ponytail to wave behind her. "But I have a mission, and not even a sexy bitch like you is going to stop me. As good a kisser as you are, I simply don't have time for men. They're just nuisances to me."

Heero glared at her, clenching his hands into fists so tight the knuckles lost their color and turned white.

"There is only one girl that I am interested in, and anyone who stands in my way is going down. Got that?" Usagi bit out, removing all the bullets from the pistol and throwing it back to him; he caught it with his left hand.

"Yeah," he smirked, turning on his heel and walking to his dorm room, pondering on her words. He knew she had hoped for him to get the wrong idea by hearing that she was only interested in one girl, but he knew she wasn't a lesbian. He also knew exactly which girl she'd been speaking of, and knew he must find out every single thing about her as possible in order to get that La Conejita, Bunny, USAGI.

Serena walked into her English class the next morning and chose a seat somewhere in the middle of the room. She was surprised when someone she didn't know plopped down in the desk beside hers. She turned to see a young man wearing blue jeans and a dark green tank top sitting there. He had Prussian blue eyes that seemed to pierce her soul and silky, dark brown hair that she sort of wanted to run her fingers through.

"Good morning," he greeted her in a voice that made her insides quiver.

"Hello. My name is Serena. What's yours?" she smiled warmly, belying her turning stomach.

"Heero," he told her while at the same time thinking, 'I've got to be like Quatre and Duo. I've got be—grr!—friendly and open.' "You're new here, right? Where'd you move from?"

"Yeah, I moved from Juuban. It's in Tokyo, Japan," she said, glad that this cute guy wanted to know more about her.

"Japan, huh? Actually, I'm Japanese, even if I don't look it," he replied, growing more ill with each word he said.

"Who does these days?" she giggled, and he forced himself to laugh. She went on chattily about Juuban and her friends until the professor started class.

After the period was over, Heero promised to meet Serena when all their classes were over so they could study together. She readily agreed, overjoyed that he wanted to spend time with her, studying or whatever.

'What is he DOING?' Usagi raged inwardly when she saw Heero and Serena talking away as they walked through the courtyard on their way to Serena's dorm room that she was sharing with Wufei. 'Now, now, Usa, he's just trying to get to you. He knows that Serena is special to you and he plans to get under your skin by spending time with her,' she calmed herself and her face took on its lazy, Cheshire expression once more as she lounged on a tenth-floor windowsill.

All of a sudden, Heero whipped his head around and caught her eye. He grinned evilly and she simply smiled as if to say, "Nice try. Let's just see how far you can carry this charade." He nodded in acceptance of her challenge.

Quatre was observing his lovely Serena walking right by him in Heero's company, not even noticing her best friend sitting all by himself on a stone bench beneath the shade of a tree. His gentle, heart-shaped face and soft features contorted into a mask of hurt and anger while he watched them.

'Be brave, Winner,' he told himself. 'TELL HER!' Quatre bit his lip until he tasted his own bitter blood in his mouth. 'But I can't! I have done such evil and she doesn't even know it! I can't taint her! She is so beautiful and pure! I absolutely REFUSE to make her like me!

'And what about the other ex-pilots? Duo, Trowa, and Heero have all spent time with her, and Wufei is her roommate! They are all much less pure than you, Quatre. Surely you deserve her! They will defile her much worse than you ever could!

'That's right!' he agreed, standing up for emphasis. 'I am the only one that Serena should be with, and NOBODY ELSE!'

He then started a slow, easy pace towards Serena's dorm, the sunlight reflecting off his eyes that had gone from blue to an eerie gold since he decided to tell her. (Think ZERO System Quatre!)

Heero and Serena were both sitting on her bed, side-by-side, reviewing English terms they were required to memorize for a test. When there was a knock on the door, Serena scooted off the bed, brushed herself off, and went to answer. She saw Quatre standing there and smiled.

"Hiya, Q! What brings you here? Come on in," she invited him, sweeping her arms inward, but he shook his head to decline.

"Sere, I need to speak with you privately," he informed her in a voice that sort of frightened her. He hardly sounded like Quatre anymore.

"Oh, okay. Hee-chan, I'll be back in a few minutes," she chirped, waving to him before she stepped into the corridor with her best friend and shut the door behind her. "What's up, Q? Is something wrong? You sick?"

"Come walk with me, Sere," he requested, taking her hand in his and leading her outside. They sat down on the bench Quatre had been using earlier and she gave him her full attention.

"Sere, we've been friends for a long time, right?" he started off, urging himself to breathe normally.

"Forever, Q!" she grinned, squeezing his hand.

"And we can tell each other anything, right?" he continued.

"Anything and everything!" she answered cheerfully, nodding.

"Then I have something to tell you, Serena," he said and she grew serious, silently telling him to go on. "I love you, Serena."

"I love you, too, Q," she smiled, hugging him. He breathed a sigh of relief, and rubbed her back. "You're my best friend!" she added and his eyes flew open, hard and gold. He pulled away and stared her down.

"That's not how I mean, Serena," he said. "I mean I love-love you, not just like I'm your best friend."

Her pink lips parted, forming a small 'O' of shock. Her crystalline eyes became watery and she sniffled, trying to keep tears back.

"Q, I-I'm so sorry…" she began. "But I only love you as my best friend, not the way you want me to. I'm sorry."

Quatre's face lost all expression as he stood up and towered over her, his golden eyes making him look possessed, and he was, in a way.

"Q, I really—," the petite blond tried to say, but she was harshly cut off when Quatre sideswiped her across the face, knocking her to the ground. She scraped her elbow and let out her breath through her teeth.

Usagi had been watching the whole encounter with Quatre and Serena, and when he hit her, Usagi fell off her perch and tumbled towards the ground.

'I can't die yet! SHE CAN'T DIE!' Usagi's mind screamed and at the last minute, she grabbed hold of the second-story windowsill that was below the one she had previously been on. She scrambled up onto it and studied the new wound on her elbow. It sort of surprised her because usually she was the one that gave them both injuries, not Serena.

Serena felt her stomach flipping end over end, like she was falling, as she stared up at Quatre in awe and shock and hurt. He lifted his foot back in preparation to kick her, and halted when she spoke.

"Q, please don't do this!" she begged, starting to cry. "I'm sorry! Please don't be mad! You know that I love you! We can still be best friends! There's still time to forgive and forget! Please don't, Quatre!"

Something inside the boy snapped and he suddenly spun around and ran off, leaving Serena distraught and sobbing on the pavement. She gasped and raised her head slowly when a long shadow fell across her sunlit figure.

"Trowa…" she whispered.

"What happened?" he questioned, kneeling down and helping her stand up. She grabbed the front of his shirt and sobbed uncontrollably into his chest. He didn't know what else to do, so he embraced her and stroked her back, trying to soothe her. Eventually, she calmed down and he repeated his question.

"Quatre…" she breathed, staring with wide eyes at nothing in the distance. She was so shocked that she couldn't do anything else. "He…he hit me…"