Yuugasa Usagi – Chapter 6
Disclaimer: Story – own. Characters – don't own.
Now that that's settled, on to the story! I don't own the song either.
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There she sat, in the same spot she had been coming to for almost a week now. She always came here just to sit and think. All her friends were happy, it seemed as though they really had found someone for themselves.
"But it'll never happen to me. Look at how the last guy I was with ended up." Usagi muttered as she threw a rock into the still waters of the lake. Usagi sighed, like throwing rocks in a lake were really going to make her feel better.
'This bites, everyone gets to be happy except for me. Damn it all.' Usagi thought. She wasn't mad at her friends for finding someone they could relate to...she was mad because she hadn't found someone she could relate to.
"Once alone...always alone..." Usagi said as she threw another rock into the water. "Not that I really believe that. Demo, it just seems that way." She sighed again and threw yet another rock, but this time she threw it behind her.
She jumped in surprise when she heard someone say "ouch" and curse under their breath. "Who's there?" Usagi asked, peering behind her cautiously. She ducked as the rock she had thrown behind her was tossed back to her.
Raising an eyebrow, the golden haired girl threw another rock back to where the previously said one had been thrown from only to get it thrown back at her.
"Okay, who the hell is out there?" She demanded, standing up and placing her hands on her hips. Her only response was another rock. She rolled her eyes, "come out. NOW!"
Again her only reply was this time to get decked in the head by a small rock, "shimatta, that hurt." She said as she rubbed her head. Glaring she walked swiftly and knowingly into the woods to see just who had thrown the rock.
"Oh, for Kami's sake." She said when she saw who had thrown the rocks. She slapped her hands over her eyes, "would you two get a damn room."
Minako looked up at her friend, confused, "what are you talking about, Usagi-chan?"
Usagi rolled her eyes, though you couldn't see her do it since her hands were still placed over her eyes, "just...what the hell were you two doing?"
Quatre turned a slight pink as Minako answered bluntly, "what else? Talking about music." (AN: Evil, ain't I? O_o;;)
"Yeah, right." Usagi replied before turning around and walking away.
"Is she always like that?" Quatre asked Minako.
"Hai...she tends to jump to conclusions sometimes. Anyway, back to what we were talking about." Minako replied.
Usagi walked out of the trees where she had found her friends, 'oi ve...' she thought, sighing. "Oof!" Usagi said as she bumped into something hard and fell backwards. Before she hit the rocky ground that would most likely leave her with a hurt butt for a few days, she was caught.
Usagi looked up to see who caught her and saw a pair of Prussian blue eyes looking down at her. Her eyebrows shot up in surprise, "hey there, Hiiro."
"Hn." Was all Hiiro said as he put the golden haired teen back on her feet.
"Well, aren't we Mr. Talkative." Usagi said with a playful smile, "arigatoo."
"Hn," again was the answer she got. She tugged on his shirt much like a child would and he looked at her with an annoyed face. Usagi was looking at him with her eyes clouded with confusion.
"What's wrong?" She asked finally in a quiet voice.
"Hn."
Usagi let a small sigh escape, "fine. I guess my listening to you last night was the only time you'll ever speak to me. See ya." She said as she walked back over to the log.
"Don't you ever get lonely?" Hiiro finally asked.
Usagi looked back to him, "how can I be lonely when all my friends--past and present--are here with me?"
"That's not what I meant." He replied, taking his usual seat next to her.
"Then what do you mean?" Usagi asked, her confusion written all over her face and in her eyes.
"You're not dense, Usagi." Hiiro said, earning him a glare, "nor are you blind. You can see just as much as I can that all of our friends are hitting it off."
"How perceptive of you." Usagi said sarcastically, "what's the point?"
"How can you not be lonely when you see all your friends like that?" Hiiro replied.
"Because they have been threw a lot, and I think it's their turn to be normal and have people that they care about. Why do you care anyways? You're the one that's always by himself."
"I just think it's odd how everyone around her has changed from the way we all used to be." Hiiro said curtly.
"And now were back to Mr. Mean." Usagi said with an exasperated sigh.
"Are you always like this?" Hiiro asked.
"Hai."
"You are incredibly sarcastic at times."
"Arigatoo."
"Wasn't a compliment."
"To late. I already took it as one.
"You're worse then Duo."
"I know. Ain't it fun?" Usagi said with a smile so sweet your teeth could rot. A small smile tugged on the corners of the teens mouth, and this did not go unnoticed by the blonde. "Hey, you're not allowed to smile."
"Who says?"
"Me...hey, stop. Iie! Stop, you can't do that!" Usagi said as she got tickled. She squirmed and wiggled, but she only made it tickle more.
"Hn," Hiiro replied, though it sounded as if it was a playful 'Hn' as he tickled the girls' sides.
Usagi was laughing so hard now that tears were coming out of her eyes, "stop...please..." she said between laughs. When he didn't stop, she did the only thing she could think of. "Stop or I'll...uh, blackmail you with something!"
Hiiro snorted, "blackmail me with what?"
"Um..." she thought for a moment, "I'll say that you have...a crush on Mako-chan!" She said with a shrug.
"No one would fall for that." Hiiro said as he continued to tickle the teen.
"Duo would!" Usagi replied as she squirmed away from him finally. She stuck her tongue out at the teen and jumped up. "I'm bored...sitting around here can get that way."
"Hai."
Usagi thought about what she could do to liven up the place for a while until an idea popped into her head, "I've got just the thing." With that the girl ran back to the camp and called out, "Minna, get back here quick!"
Everyone walked, or ran, back to the camp and looked at Usagi oddly.
"I was thinking, and shut up Rei-chan," Usagi said, looking at the raven haired teen, "that we all should do something fun. I know this'll sound stupid at first but just hear me out."
"What is it, Usagi-chan?" Ami asked.
"I was thinking that we all go on a camping trip. Hai, I know that we are already technically camping, but this time I mean like just sleeping bags and sleeping under the stars." Usagi replied.
The girls all looked at each other, then to the guys, then back to each other, then back to Usagi. "We're in!" They all echoed.
"I'm in." Duo said with a nod and smile.
"Yeah, it could be fun." Quatre put in.
"I'll go too, I guess." Trowa finally said.
"Hiiro, Wufei?" Usagi asked, looking at them both.
Though it went unnoticed by everyone else, Rei poked Wufei in the back to make him say, "hai, I'll go too."
"Hiiro?" Usagi asked, her eyes pleading with him to say yes.
"..." was the answer she got.
"Hiiro Yui answer me right now or I'll tell you-know-who about you-know-what!" Usagi demanded.
Everyone looked at her in confusion, but Hiiro finally said, "fine. I'll go."
"Sugoi!" Usagi exclaimed. "Let's leave tonight. Can everyone be ready?"
Everyone nodded their heads and went to their respective tents to get a sleeping bag and a change of clothes.
"Minna-san, ready?" Makoto asked when everyone was standing out by the girls' tent.
"Hai." Everyone but Hiiro echoed.
"Let's go." Makoto and Duo lead the way, though neither of them knew where they were going.
"Come on, Hiiro." Usagi said after everyone had passed her. Hiiro reluctantly walked beside her, and behind everyone else.
Usagi poked his arm, and when he looked at her, she had her head turned looking at something. When he would turn his head back to the other side, she'd poke him again. The repeated cycle went on for only a few more times.
Hiiro was watching her out the corner of his eyes this time and when she reached over to poke him, he snatched up her finger.
"Hey, not fair." Usagi said when she saw she had been caught.
"You're annoying when you are bored." Hiiro stated.
"Yeah, I know. It's one of my faults." Usagi replied.
"Good to know."
"Isn't it? What's one of your faults?"
"Don't have any."
"Lying, ooh, that's a bad one." Usagi replied.
"I don't lie."
"There you go again." She said making an 'tsk' noise.
"I'm not lying."
"Stop lying."
"I'm not."
"You are."
"Not."
"Are."
"Would you two shut up!" Rei finally said from in front of them.
Usagi held back a smile, though it wasn't turning out so well. "My, my, my, Rei-chan. I see you're anger is still the same."
"Hai, it'll never change if you annoy me, Usagi-chan." Rei replied.
"See, you're even annoying her." Hiiro said.
"Who asked you?" Usagi replied.
"No one, but I figured, if you can be annoying, so can I." Hiiro replied.
Everyone looked back at Hiiro and Usagi. They looked at each other, then to everyone else, then back to each other.
"What?" They both said, looking at everyone else still.
"What the hell?" Duo murmured.
"Nani?" Usagi questioned.
"I've never seen him act like this." Wufei murmured also.
"Is he drunk?"
"He doesn't drink, baka."
"It was just a question!"
Usagi finally got what they were talking about a busted out laughing along with the other girls. Hiiro continued to stare at the guys until they finally shut up.
"You guys, people change. Deal with it." Usagi finally said when she could tell that it was getting to the Japanese teenager. Everyone just shrugged and continued walking.
"That was weird." Hiiro said to Usagi.
"Quite, I don't want them to look at me like that again, it was creepy." Usagi whispered back.
Everyone walked in silence for the duration of the time until finally Makoto and Duo selected a good spot. Right near the water and it was a huge clearing, perfect for watching the stars.
Usagi set down her pack and looked at the water. "I'm going to sit over there for a minute. I guess you guys can place yourselves where ever." With that the blonde walked away.
"She really likes water..." Duo said.
"It's not that. It's just sort of a tradition that she had with her family back in our time." Makoto replied. Duo just nodded his head, though he still didn't understand.
Everyone set up their bags in a circle so that the openings would face each other, the girls on one side and the guys on the other. The only people that weren't surrounded by people of the same gender were Hiiro, Usagi, Rei, and Wufei.
If you went from Usagi, Ami, Minako, Makoto, Rei, Wufei, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and then Hiiro. (AN: You picturing this? O_o?)
Usagi looked towards the others and saw them all talking, even Hiiro. She stood up and walked along the tree that had fallen over into the water in a storm.
"Usagi-chan! Be careful!" Minako called out.
Surprised, Usagi turned to quickly, "wha--crap!" Soon a huge splash and a thunk was heard.
"Usagi-chan!" The girls said before running to see if she was okay, then guys followed behind them.
"Odango-chan, this isn't funny! Where are you?" Rei screamed when she didn't see the blonde anywhere. She looked around frantically when she didn't get an answer.
"Usagi-chan!" Minako screamed out into the water. "Where are you, please tell us?!"
Ami, who was looking a little farther down with Hiiro, let out a scream, "Minna!"
Everyone's head jerked down towards where Ami was and they all saw Hiiro in the water, grabbing something that had a lot of blonde hair.
"Usagi-chan..." Makoto whispered before running as fast as she could with everyone following, trying to catch up with the tall girl. "Ami-chan, will she be okay?" Makoto asked out of habit.
"Mako-chan, I don't have the mini-comp. I can't be sure." Ami said as she did a normal check of the unconscious girl. "She must've hit her head when she fell. That's a huge bruise! Does anyone know how to give mouth-to-mouth?" Ami asked.
Everyone looked at each other, no one really knew how to do mouth to mouth.
"Don't tell me you guys don't know!" Ami screamed as she tilted Usagi's head back and was getting ready to pinch her nose.
"I know." Hiiro said in monotone. Ami looked up at him.
"Okay, you do mouth to mouth when I tell you to." Ami said as she put her hands together and did five pumps on Usagi's chest. "Now."
Hiiro pinched the teen's nose and blew a breath into her mouth, then watched as Ami repeated her pumps.
Minako, was hysterical. She was blaming herself for making Usagi fall. Makoto finally had to smack her on the cheek to get her to calm down.
Hiiro blew another breath into Usagi's mouth for the fifth time and waited to see what would happen. Soon, Usagi seemed to come back and coughed up water. Ami and Hiiro propped her up so she could cough out the lake water.
"My head..." were the first things out of Usagi mouth when she had finally caught her breath.
"Usagi-chan!" Minako exclaimed when she heard her friend.
"I'm okay..." Usagi said before leaning against someone and closing her eyes.
"Ami-chan?" Rei asked with a worried voice.
"She's just tired, lets get her back to camp...she'll be fine when she wakes up." Ami replied. Then she thought, 'at least she should be. She knows how to swim, I wonder what happened.'
Makoto helped Hiiro pick up the petit girl, even though she wasn't that heavy. Minako kept throwing worried looks back at the sleeping girl until Quatre placed a comforting hand on her arm.
Everyone sat around the fire later that night, roasting marshmallows that somehow Duo had fit into the pack that was already stuffed full of food. Usagi had woken up once, only to fall back asleep again. Hiiro had reverted back into his stoic self after they had put Usagi back into her sleeping bag.
Makoto gasped as she got hit by a flying marshmallow, "okay, who did it?" Everyone looked around, smiles on their faces, but soon they all looked to Duo. Makoto grabbed another marshmallow and threw it at him.
"Thanks." He said in an American accent before tossing the marshmallow into his mouth.
"Dork." Minako said with a giggle.
"Minako-chan." Makoto said, but had a smile on her face.
The marshmallow fight continued for about five minutes, until all of them were either stuffed or just tired. Soon, one by one, everyone said good night and went to sleep. Hiiro was the last one awake.
"Kami-sama, it's freezing..." Usagi whispered to herself when she woke up and saw that the fire had died out. Then it dawned on her, "well, obviously it would be cold for someone who fell in the lake..." she curled up into a ball and shivered.
'How can I be this cold? Jeez, you'd think that a sleeping bag would be warmer!' Usagi thought as she shivered with her eyes closed, trying to get back to sleep.
"Here." A monotone voice said as Usagi felt something being put over her.
"Hii-chan?" Usagi asked, her teeth chattering.
"Hai, use my sleeping bag to keep warm." Hiiro replied glad that it was to dark out for her to see his face turning a slight red. (AN: Yeah, right.)
"Iie, you'll get cold." Usagi replied, turning her head towards him.
"I'll be fine. Just go back to sleep." Hiiro said as he sat down next to her where his sleeping bag had been.
"Iie." Usagi said as she pulled him down and put his sleeping bag over him, "I'm not taking your sleeping bag. We'll share it." When she heard Hiiro sigh, she knew she had won.
"Get some sleep, Usagi." Was all he said.
"Night, Hii-chan." She said before yawning and falling back to sleep now that she was warm again. Once again, Hiiro blushed at the name.
Usagi woke with start the next morning after having a terrible dream. 'Whoa, that was to real...' She looked around at the others, to see if any of them had woken up. None had. She felt something poke her back and she shifted in her bag to see what it was and only saw a pair of Prussian eyes.
"Daijoobu ka?" Hiiro asked.
"Daijoobu." She said as she sat up and looked around. She looked down at him and smiled, "arigatoo."
"For what?" Hiiro asked as he sat up next to her, but looked out to the sunrise.
"Yesterday...and sharing your sleeping bag with me." Usagi replied in a low voice. Usagi turned and looked at her friends when she heard them waking up. "Ohayoo, minna-san." She said.
"Ohayoo, Usagi-chan." the girls echoed.
"Usagi-chan, how do you feel, any pain in the head?" Ami asked.
"I'm fine now, Ami-chan. Just a bump, no damage done." Usagi replied to reassure her friend.
"Okay." Ami said, a bit reluctantly.
Makoto walked over to Usagi and whispered in her ear, "Usagi-chan, why is Hiiro's sleeping bag on you?" She wiggled her eyebrows in a way that made Usagi want to smack her upside the head.
Usagi blushed and whispered back, "he put it on me last night when I was shivering, but I made him share it with me so he wouldn't get cold."
"Okay." Makoto said out loud, accepting Usagi's reply. Usagi sighed; her friends' head was in the gutter all the time...
"Who wants hot chocolate?" Duo asked as he stretched and yawned.
"I do." Everyone said. Duo shrugged and dug threw his bag, that seemed to have a subspace pocket in it because of all the things that he had managed to stuff in there, and pulled out hot chocolate packets.
Usagi pondered how one could fit all that food in ones bag but she couldn't figure it out, I mean, come on. How do you fit almost twenty pounds of food into a backpack that you use for school? She didn't really want to think about it any longer.
Later that day, Usagi was sitting on the infamous log, her feet dangling in the water. The others, save Hiiro, Ami, and Trowa, had gone on a hike. Ami had forbidden her to go because of her head.
'She's acting like an overprotective mother. Guess that's what I get for falling on my head.' Usagi thought. It was a beautifully warm day, but she only got to sit around.
"Penny for your thoughts." Hiiro said.
Usagi turned and looked towards him, she didn't even hear him sit down next to her. "I was just thinking about yesterday. No one really told me what happened."
"You know most of it. You fell in the water, bumped your head, and slept for most of the day." He replied.
"I know," Usagi replied. She knew something was being left out, but she couldn't figure out what it was. Standing up, she slipped her shoes back on her now dry feet and walked around Hiiro and back to the shoreline. She walked to what she figured would be out of hearing range.
"I don't like to be alone in the night.
And I don't like to hear I'm wrong when I'm right.
And I don't like to feel the rain in my shoes.
But I do love you.
But I do love you." She sang. It was a song she had been working on, but never finished. 'Maybe it isn't supposed to be finished. I never really did figure out what to put after that verse.'
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Okay, so it wasn't the best chapter in the world. But I liked it, and thought it was cute. So pleh on you, also, I am in the process of working on chapter 7 so it will be more then a days long wait for it. Maybe two or three. But I will try to finish it as soon as I can. Jaa!