Yuugasa Usagi – Chapter 2
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Whelp, here it is, the next chapter! Have fun!
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'It has only been about a week since she came to the camp, but already there is a big difference in the way people are acting.
Trowa is no longer the stoic, silent person he used to be, he acts like a boy of his age normally does, playing games with the hyper Usagi and Duo, and escorting the girl to the pond.
We all know she could get there on her own, but she insists that Trowa come so she can have someone to talk to about something she won't tell the rest of us.
All of us can tell that something has happened between Usagi and Trowa, they are closer now then they were before the first day at the pond. She insists on still calling him 'Trowa-san' but occasionally 'Trowa-kun' slips out.
Duo is acting as calm as he can possibly be around her, for it seems to annoy her that he is constantly bugging her about her past. He has also learned that if he does not call her 'Usagi-san' that she will get a very mad look on her face.
Wufei has started to give her some respect, but he still doesn't seem to trust her a lot, but respect is a start.
Hiiro will remain the same way he is right now for the rest of his life, unless Usagi can break threw the barrier he has put up.
As for me, I do not know if she has changed me. I just like to think that if she has, it's for the better.' With that, the Arabian teen closed the journal that he had been keeping for most of his teenage life.
"Yoo-hoo, Quatre-san, you in there?" Came Usagi's voice from outside of his tent.
Quatre got up and walked to the door of it, "Hai, Usagi-san?"
Usagi smiled brightly, "do you think you could show me to the pond? Trowa-san when into town for the day and I really need to take a bath." As she said this her nose crinkled up in disgust, making it seemingly impossible for the teenager to refuse.
"Sure, come on this way," Quatre said as he walked out of the tent. Usagi fell into step beside him, but was watching the cherry blossoms just like she had for the few days that they were on the trees.
"You can sit over there at that tree, Trowa-san sits there and he can't see anything." Usagi said happily when the reached the familiar pond. Quatre nodded, a faint blush rising on his cheeks as he watched her walk to the water with a bounce in her step.
He sat down at the said spot a watched the sky. Everything was peaceful now, but they couldn't rid themselves of the Gundams. At least, not until Hiiro and Wufei realized that the wars had possibly ended.
"Hey, Quatre-san, aren't the cherry blossoms beautiful?" Usagi's voice rang out.
"Yes, they are. Usagi-san, may I ask a question?" He replied back.
"Hai." Was the simple reply that he got.
"Why is it that you get a far off look in your eyes when you see cherry blossoms, or when ever Trowa calls you 'Usa-chan'?" Quatre didn't know why he was asking, he thought it was quite rude of him, but it was just something he needed to know.
"Back home... I used to go on picnics with my friends, Rei-chan, Ami-chan, Mako-chan, and Minako-chan. Every time we went, the cherry blossoms were in bloom." Usagi replied to the first question. She got out of the water and put her clothes on quickly and walked over to Quatre.
"As for the other question, it's because when my friend Rei-chan was dying, after all the others had faded away, she called me Usa-chan. I was in such despair after that, I killed Chaos, who had possessed Galaxia-sama's body." Usagi replied, this time tears didn't well up in her eyes.
'She's hard to picture as someone who has killed before. But then again, so am I.' The little Arabian thought.
"What are you thinking?" She asked, breaking into the thought.
"I was thinking that since you have told me part of your past, I should return the gesture."
"You don't have to if you don't want to, Quatre-san." Usagi said, but she sat down next to the boy anyways.
"Most people, they just cannot imagine me being a killer. I came from a pacifist family, and colony. I remember the day that my father was killed in the colony, along with the people who had been convinced by Oz that our family never wanted to help the colony.
But we did, we always had given money to the colonies, not just our own. When I watched him die, something came over me and I built Wing Zero and the Zero system took control of me, I destroyed two colonies and almost killed Hiiro and Trowa."
When he didn't continue, Usagi spoke, "but they are here right now, alive and well. Okay, so maybe not Hiiro, but look at Trowa. He's a lot happier now then he was before."
"Because you came along, Usagi-san. He wouldn't talk to anyone unless it was necessary, but you came along and he changed...for the better." Quatre replied, looking at the girl.
She smiled, "I'm just being myself, Quat-san. Nothing more. Nothing less."
Quatre blushed slightly at the new nickname, but just nodded.
"So, how do you propose I get Wufei to be nice to me?" Usagi said after a few minutes of silence.
"The only way I can think of is to spar with him, but he is an exceptionally good martial artist and hard to beat." Quatre responded.
"Good, because 'hard' is not 'impossible,' so that means I might just have a chance!" the girl exclaimed.
Quatre sat there with a surprised look on his face, Usagi was going to spar with Wufei? This was something he knew he couldn't miss.
Usagi stood and stuck her hand out to her companion and they walked back to the camp. Trowa still hadn't returned, so Usagi hung around Quatre all day. He was easy to talk to and since she had already gotten his past out of him, she might as well stick around.
"Ja, ken, po (rock, paper, scissors)." Usagi and Quatre chanted in unison after they had ate dinner that night.
"Paper beats rock!" Usagi exclaimed happily, it had been her third time in a row beating the other teen. But in those three turns, he had noticed that she always went from scissors to rock to paper.
"Want to play again?" He wagered.
"Hai!"
"Ja, ken, po." They said again.
"Rock beats scissors." Quatre said to Usagi, who had a slight pout on her lips, but it soon disappeared.
For a duration of the evening, they played the game. Annoying the hell out of Wufei and possibly Hiiro, who after the second game went into his tent.
Soon, Usagi's yawning signified that she was sleepy.
"Lets get to bed, Usagi-san, it's late." Quatre said as he and Usagi stood.
"Hai." She said with a yawn. Usagi walked to her tent, giving one last smile to Quatre. Without getting into her PJ's she crawled into the sleeping bag and fell fast asleep.
"Usagi-chan." A voice called out to her in her dream.
"Hello? Who's there?" Usagi asked the voice.
"Usagi no baka!" The voice said from behind her with a playful tone.
"Rei-chan!" She screamed as she turned and launched herself into the raven haired girls arms.
"Usagi-chan, how have you been? I see you get to be with a bunch of hunks twenty-four seven." Rei said with a smile.
"I've been great, Rei-chan. And how'd you know I was with the guys?"
"We can see pretty much everything from here. Somehow you got into our realm in your sleep."
"We?" Usagi questioned, hope filling her voice.
"We," said three other voices, belonging to Ami, Makoto and Minako.
"Ami-chan! Mako-chan! Minako-chan!" She stared at her fallen Senshi, who still wore their fukus.
"It's be awhile hasn't it, Usagi-chan?" Minako asked her blonde friend.
"Hai. I miss you guys." She replied with tears in her eyes.
"Same here, Usa-chan." Makoto replied, "but look at all the bishounen you get to hang with!"
Usagi laughed at her friend, who got starry-eyed just like she used to. Soon, she felt like something was tugging on her.
"Usagi-chan, you're waking up. We'll see you again, soon!" Said the voices of her friends.
"No, I don't want to go, not yet!...Rei-chan..." Usagi said when her eyes fluttered open. She reached a hand up to her tear stained cheek, it had been real, and she had really seen her friends. Jumping up she ran out of the tent, not caring what she looked like and went to Quatre, who was the only one awake at the moment.
"Quatre-san, I saw them, I saw my friends!" She exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"In my dream, I saw my friends, they were really there! All of them, Ami-chan, Rei-chan, Mako-chan, and Minako-chan!" The elated girl started to dance around from happiness.
Quatre looked on confused, but then he felt with his empathy her happiness and couldn't help but laugh.
Duo, woken by Usagi's voice and Quatres laugh, exited his tent. "Usagi-san, I'm watching you." He said, remembering what she had asked of him a week and a half ago.
"I don't care! I'm too happy!" She said, twirling around still until she had to sit down from dizziness because she had not spun her head correctly.
"What did they say, Usagi-san?" Quatre asked when she finally sat down.
Usagi beamed, "they said I was lucky to be hanging out with a bunch of bishounen."
Quatre blushed, causing Duo and Usagi to laugh.
"Oh, Quatre-san, it was the greatest thing in the world to seem them again. I hope I can see them again soon." Usagi said with a wistful voice.
By now, everyone was awake and wondering what the golden haired girl was talking about. Except for Quatre and Duo who already knew.
"I am happy for you, Usagi-san." Quatres quite voice said.
"Maybe someday, I'll see them outside of a dream." Usagi whispered after giving Quatre an appreciative smile.
"Usagi-san," Duo said, breaking her train of thought, "what do your friends look like?"
Usagi looked up at the braided one, the only picture she had decided to bring with her was the one of them in their fukus. "Okay, but I only brought one with me." She walked back to her tent and grabbed the photo. 'Minna-chan...' she thought.
She walked out with the picture clung to her chest, as if it was keeping her up and walking. "Here," was all she said as she showed the picture to everyone.
"Was it taken during Halloween?" Duo asked when he saw the fukus that they were wearing, showing off much of their slender legs and thin bodies.
"Err...no." Usagi replied with a slight tint a red on her cheeks.
"Then why are you guys dressed like that?"
Usagi rolled her eyes, she hadn't expected him to know why so she avoided the question, "that's Rei-chan, there behind her is Mako-chan. The girl with the red bow is Minako-chan, and Ami-chan's the one with the blue hair." She said, pointing each of them out.
"Is that you?" Quatre asked, pointing to the one with the odangos.
"Hai. This was taken right before 'it' happened." Usagi said, stressing the word it.
Trowa and Quatre nodded in understanding, and the others just looked confused.
"Still, why are you wearing those costumes?" Duo's impatient voice whined from behind Usagi.
"They aren't costumes they are fukus." Usagi replied.
"Fukus?"
Usagi rolled her eyes, "someone please explain to him what a fuku is." With that she walked away to put the precious possession back in its place.
"A fuku is something much like a battle outfit. But as I recall, no one has worn a fuku since those legendary Senshi from Tokyo." Quatre explained to Duo.
"That's right. No one has worn them because they don't have the right to." Usagi whispered when she came back out.
"Are you saying that you are a Senshi?" Wufei said with a snort of disgust.
"Hai." Was the answer, as plain and simple as they come.
"Usa-chan, they haven't been around for almost a thousand years." Trowa told her.
"I know that, don't you think I know that?" She said, rage starting to overcome her. With that, she walked away from the rest of them to who knows where.
All of them looked at each other, then to the direction that Usagi walked off towards.
"Hn." Was all Hiiro said before walking back to his tent.
Wufei muttered something in Chinese then walked towards the make shift training ring he had created.
Duo just looked confused, as usual, then he went to do something that the others just weren't interested in...brushing his hair.
"Should we go look for her?" Quatre asked the only one left, Trowa.
"Hai," Trowa responded. "Let's spilt up and look for her, that way we will have a better chance."
With that, the two teens spilt up in search for the blonde haired girl who had listened to their problems, then spoke with wisdom on them.
Quatre was having almost no luck, he didn't think that Trowa was fairing much better either. "Usagi-san!" He called out. No answer. "Usagi-san." He said again. Again, no answer.
Trowa, who was having the same luck, called out Usagi's name, "Usa-chan!" No reply. Just the rustle of the leaves in the wind. "Usa-chan?" No answer. Nothing. He sighed for the first time in his life and kept walking.
Usagi, who had starting running when she knew the guys couldn't hear her, was sitting up on a branch, her knees pulled up to her chest and her forehead resting on them.
'I knew something like that would come up it I showed them the picture. So why did I?' Usagi thought. She had pulled all her long golden hair up into a tight bun so that none of it would hang down and give away her hiding spot in the foliage.
"Usagi-san!" Usagi's head shot up at the sound of Quatres voice, well at least they were looking for her. But they would have a hard time for she did not want to be found.
"Usa-chan!" Usagi looked to her right, she could see the top of the tall boys head, but she never moved from her spot.
'Guys, just give it up. I'll come back when I want...' she thought to herself as she watched the two of them meet up and converse. 'It's harder then you guys think to find someone who doesn't want to be found. What's wrong with me? Those two down their trusted me with their past, and yet I cannot even face them after the picture incident. It doesn't make any sense. Why can't I just explain everything?' Usagi thought.
Because, you nitwit, if you did...they would think you were crazy. Her subconscious answered.
'Shut up.' She growled at it. 'Oh, great, now I am fighting with myself. This is intelligent.' Usagi thought.
'Usagi no baka, stop talking to yourself and let them find you. They are as worried as they can get, I guess.' Rei's voice rang out loud and clear in the golden haired teens head.
'Rei-chan, how do I explain to all of them that I am someone from a thousand years ago?' Usagi thought, putting her head back on her knees.
When she didn't get an answer, Usagi figured that it was something she had to think about on her own.
Quatre and Trowa didn't give up their search until about two hours had passed. They figured that either she wasn't going to come back ever. Or that she was going to come back on her own.
Usagi sat in the tree until it was pitch black out, thinking and thinking. What would she say to them, she hadn't figured out yet. But she knew that she should go back.
She landed on the ground without a noise and started to walk back towards the camp. She knew she wasn't going to get lost since someone had left the fire burning and she could see the smoke rising into the night sky.
Upon entering the camp, she saw that Quatre was asleep by the fire, no doubt waiting for her. She couldn't help but smile and walk over to cover him up with a blanket from her tent.
"Night, Quat-san." She whispered before going into her own tent to sleep on the days escapades.
Quatre jerked awake the next morning and looked around. 'How did that blanket get on me?' He questioned. Maybe Trowa or someone had put it on him, he didn't know.
"Wake up, sleepyhead." Usagi's voice said from beside him.
"Usagi-san!" He exclaimed.
"Hai, sorry for taking off like that, I just needed to think." Usagi replied as she continued to eat a makeshift breakfast.
"Hey, Usagi-san." Duo's sleepy voice said, then he registered what he had just said, "Usagi-san, you're back!"
Usagi rolled her eyes, but smiled. She handed each of the teens a plate of food, then turned her head up to watch the clouds.
'I think, that maybe I'll try to get Hiiro to trust me. Maybe not today... but I will sometime. He's got to trust me at some point in his life. Doesn't he?' Usagi asked herself as she watched the clouds go by, never even noticing that she was leaning backwards until she fell.
"Ouch," was the only word spoken by the girl. Duo looked to see just who she might have landed on this time and started to laugh. Quatre looked over his shoulder to see why Duo was laughing, and a grin surfaced on his face.
There, lying in the dirt, was the perfect soldier boy. With Usagi right on top of him. Usagi finally sat up, an embarrassed red on her cheeks.
"Gomen, gomen nasai, Hiiro-san. I was looking at the clouds and I guess I leaned back to far." Usagi said as the boy just gave her that look of his.
"Hn." Was all he said.
Apparently this was not what the girl wanted to hear. "Hn?! All you have to say is 'Hn'?! Jeez, you try to be nice to a person but they just throw you away like a dirty old rag." Usagi said, crossing her arms and glaring at the teen.
'She sure has a lot of spunk...' Hiiro thought as he saw her tell him off, for about the third time since she had met him. 'She's changed almost everyone here. She's gotten Trowa to talk more then he probably has ever talked in his life. She got partial respect from Wufei, at least he doesn't call her 'weak onna' and Duo... Duo is just well, Duo.'
"Hello? Hiiro-san, you alive in there?" Usagi said waving her hand in front of his eyes. "Wow, I never thought I'd see the day where he spaced off." She muttered.
"Nani?" Hiiro replied after snapping out of his thoughts.
"He is alive, good." Usagi said in a playful tone as she stuck her hand out to help him up.
Hiiro looked at the hand, then to her smiling face, then back to the hand. Ever so slowly his hand grasped hers and he allowed the petit girl that was stronger then she looked to pull him up.
She let go of his hand when she was sure that he was stable and handed him a plate of food, then she turned and sat right back down where she had been previously.
'I think that's the first time Hiiro has ever accepted help from someone when he could do it on his own. What's even more surprising is that it was from a girl.' Quatre thought as Usagi sat back down.
While Quatre was thinking this, Duo, Trowa, and Wufei were having the exact same thought. Everyone shrugged and went off to do separate things, hopefully taking a bath was one of them.
"How do you do it, Usagi-san?" Quatre asked when everyone had left but them.
"Do what, Quatre?" She asked, not knowing what he was talking about.
"Get people to just do things that they've never do in their entire life when you want them to."
"I don't get them to do it, I just act normal and if they want to do what I ask they can. Just like Hiiro letting me help him up, Trowa becoming more so like a normal seventeen year old boy should be like, and Wufei having respect for the 'weak' as he likes to call them." Usagi replied.
Quatre thought about this, she had a point. She did not ask them to change the way they were, they just did. It seemed that, just by being around them, they were all changing. It was nice to have someone like her around now that he thought about it.
Usagi was easy to talk to, she could keep the secrets of your past to herself. Yet she was a mystery all together.
"What are you thinking about, Quatre?" Usagi asked when she saw the boys forehead scrunched in thought.
"Nothing." The Arabian boy said, it truly was nothing in a sense.
Usagi didn't believe him, but she knew better then to pry in ones personal thoughts. Soon she thought, 'Technically two down and three to go...'
Whelp, onto the next chapter! I know, this wasn't like the best one...but Quatre-kun is hard to work with.
Quatre: Hey! I am not!
Ema: Are too!
Quatre: Not!
Ema: Too! Anyway, next chapter is tomorrow! *waves*