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Hi minna! I'm finally back and now that Fanfiction.net is *coughFINALLYcough* cooperating, I have another chapter for you! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. If you feel that I stole the idea for this story from a story of yours, or any part of one, I am sorry, but I came up with this story all on my own, so please don't sue me. Also, please don't steal the plot as it is copyrighted by me and I'm not bound to be very happy with people that disobey the copyrighting rules in the TOS.

"HEERO!" The cry came bounding into the room from the hall. Heero, looking up from his beloved laptop, sighed. 'What does that baka want now?' he wondered. As Duo hurdled through the doorway at that moment, he didn't have to wait long to find out. "Heero!" Exclaimed Duo, a huge grin plastered all over his face, "Let's go to the beach!"

"Hn." Grunted Heero in reply. Duo's face fell.

"Oh come on," he pouted, "I know that Relena just died two weeks ago, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have some fun once in a while. It's so boring living in this house, we never do anything!"

"Hn." Heero said again.

"Please?" asked Duo, putting on his puppy face, "Pretty please? I'll never, never, ever annoy you or get in your way again," 'Hn, as if.' Thought Heero. "Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top?" Seeing that Heero's face was still stubborn, he continued, " And chocolate syrup, and strawberries, and sprinkles, and hot fudge, and peanuts, and, um, bananas!"

"Fine! If we go to the beach will you shut up?" asked a thoroughly annoyed Heero.

"Yea!" shouted a happy Duo, "We're going to the beach! I'll go get my swimsuit!" And he ran down the hall, letting the rest of the pilots know that they were going to the beach with shouts loud enough to wake the dead.

Thirty minutes later they drove into the beach parking lot. And it was about time too. Heero had his gun pulled out and was in the middle of threatening Duo with his death glare and an 'omea o korosu', Trowa was counting the minutes until they got there – by the second, Wufei was yelling something about 'injustice', and even Quatre was about to explode with annoyance. Duo, of course, was having the time of his life. He was singing a song from the "Beach Boys", and every time the song ended, he would rewind the tape and play it again. So far they had listened to "Surfin' U.S.A." about twenty times. He was also singing to it, out of tune, and very loudly. And every time someone would complain, he would park the car and give them a good-natured lecture about not being able to enjoy a different kind of music.

'We're here. Finally.' Thought Heero as he stepped out of the passenger seat of the car and pocketed his gun.

**Flashback**

"And that is how we achieved this peace." Relena finished her speech. Bang. Heero stood up and looked wildly around for the owner of the gun that had just made Relena, the only person that had ever understood him, the only person that had ever… cared for him, slump to the ground. He spotted the man, a wild-eyed man with strawberry-blond hair that was shouting something about 'false peace'. He hastily shot the man in the chest and ran flat out to the stage to see if Relena had survived the bullet. "Heero," she said, a sound of pain in her weak voice, trying, but failing to smile at him. He picked her up, and ran to the nearby hospital. He knew that the emergency crew wouldn't reach the palace in time, and that they would just be slowed down by anxious people asking them if their princess would be all right. He reached the hospital in record time, but by the time he ran into the emergency room Relena was unconscious. Two hours later, he was waiting anxiously for news, any news at all, of how the surgery was going and if Relena would be all right. He was in the middle of blaming himself for not being able to protect Relena from the man when the doctor came out and confronted him.

"The bullet was well aimed. It punctured her left lung and was within one inch of her heart." Whatever color was still left in Heero's face left it.

"Will she be all right Doctor? How is she, may I see her?" asked an anxious Heero. After looking at the doctor's grim face, he knew.

"Time of death, 7:49 p.m." the doctor said, and then asked the unbelieving Heero in for a cup of tea.

Two days later the pilots walked home together after Relena's funeral. Heero was still blaming himself for her death, and was thinking about killing himself.

'Hn. After all, I don't have use for a world without Relena.' Heero thought grimly. 'I'll write a letter to them when we reach the safehouse… and then I'll… well, I'll think about how to do it when it's the time to do it.' He stopped suddenly and looked up at a beautiful girl he had never seen before sitting on a balcony. The girl was crying, and for some reason he felt like comforting her. As they made eye contact, the girl stopped crying and her eyes brightened. Heero walked away, glad he had comforted her, and no longer thinking about committing suicide. He hoped that he would see her again.

**End Flashback**

As Heero pulled off his green tank top and put suntan lotion on his arms, he watched Duo run out across the beach and into the calm ocean. He was walking across the beach himself when he saw her. She and her three friends were splashing each other with the salty water. All four of them were laughing, but he could see that her eyes were still sad. He wished that he could bring the happiness that he could tell was once there back to her sky blue eyes, but he didn't know how. He was watching as she ran over to another girl, one he hadn't noticed before that was reading under a large blue beach umbrella, when he realized that he was staring. He blushed and looked away from the girl, who was in the middle of talking to the girl under the umbrella and drying herself off with a large pink and blue towel. He walked into the ocean and began to swim to the old platform that was standing approximately fifty feet out to sea. He climbed up and watched the sea gulls flying around a small fishing boat that was driving out into the aquamarine ocean. He turned around and began to watch his fellow pilots enjoy themselves. Quatre and Trowa were racing each other to the platform, Wufei was writing something in a notebook on a large beach towel, and Duo was flirting with one of the girl's friends. Just then Trowa tagged the platform and climbed up to join Heero. Quatre followed suit, having reached his destination shortly after his taller companion. Heero dived off the platform, and swam back to shore slowly. He sat down next to Wufei, and was shortly joined by his comrades, Duo being followed by the girl he was flirting with and the girl's friends. The blond girl with odangos that he had seen earlier came over to him and sat down.
"Hi! My name is Usagi," she said, "What's your name?"
"Heero." Said Heero in monotone. Usagi looked over to where her friends were flirting with the other pilots. 'Hn. Duo's making a fool of himself again.' Thought Heero. However, the blond girl Duo had been flirting with was laughing and flirting with Duo also. Quatre had engaged the brunette in small talk, and Wufei and the raven-haired girl were arguing about the strength of women. Trowa and the girl with blue hair that had been reading earlier were glancing at each other and blushing.
"Hey Usagi, lets go play some beach volleyball!" Exclaimed the blond girl Duo had been talking to.
"Okay Minako. Hey, Heero… do you guys want to play with us? We can have boys against girls…"
"Fine." Said Heero, and walked with the large group to a nearby beach volleyball net.

**Fifteen minutes later**

"Fifteen, three, serving!" Shouted Minako. The volleyball passed over Duo's head and Heero hit it back across the net. They were doing terrible. Duo kept missing the ball and Quatre wouldn't hit it hard enough. Trowa and Wufei were doing okay, but since neither of them had ever played volleyball before, they weren't doing that well either. Heero had played volleyball a few times at the beginning of his training, to help quicken his reflexes, but he hadn't played it often enough to be really good at it. And it didn't help that they always hit it in Quatre's, or Duo's direction. The brunette hit it and passed it back to Minako. Minako spiked it over the net. Duo ran forward, touched it and started to hit it back over the net… and fumbled. He tossed it over the net to the brunette. She caught it and held it under her arm.
"Hey Usagi, when are we going to go eat? I'm starving." She asked Usagi.
"Makoto, I think we're all hungry. Hey, I know," she turned and looked at Heero, "are you busy now?"
"No," said Heero.
"How about we all go to dinner together then?" She asked hopefully.
"Sure." Said Heero, glad that he would get to spend more time with Usagi.
I'm so sorry that it took this long to update!
But with Fanfiction.net's problems and with
me gone so much the last few weeks I didn't
have a chance to update. The next chapter will
be in Minako's point of view.
See ya! –Sailor Miniji ^-^