Two of a Kind

By: Rogue Angel Barton

Hey! Tell me what couples you want, although they will play a VERY small part in the story. This is a Heero and Hotaru story. I can't seem to stop turning these out. So please vote...

THIS IS A HEERO AND HOTARU FIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wufei + ?

Duo + ?

Trowa + ?

Quatre + ?

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Usagi sat alone in the living room. It was barely 6 in the morning, but she had taken the habit of waking up early to watch the sun rise. She knew she had really gotten her acts together. Usually Hotaru would be up as well, waiting for the sun to rise. Usagi received a minute of silence as no one else in the house stirred. Hotaru had hit a growth spurt again recently. She was now about 16 while everyone else was 18. Hotaru was now tall, about Ami's height. Everyone expected the girl to be slightly on the short side. Her hair was still neatly cut at her shoulder. But Usagi noticed something in her eyes.

Those violet eyes were the key to her soul. But now they seem empty, not emotionless but empty. Usagi sighed as she arranged the blanket to cover her more. She knew why Hotaru was like that. Everyone had a love, or a past love. All of them, except Setsuna, had been in love. Setsuna had been lonely, but she was used to it, and she was very old. Hotaru was a teenager, who was death and destruction, and had been reborn before. It was quite a lot of pressure to put on a young girl.

"Well it's a lot of pressure to be the future Queen of a great kingdom and you're lasting."

Usagi turned around. To her surprise, the frail and slightly pale looking girl was leaning against the wall. Keeping her hand on the wall for support, Hotaru walked to Usagi. As usual, Usagi moved over on couch, and let Hotaru sit down. Hotaru smiled and sat on the couch. Leaning slightly against her princess, Hotaru allowed Usagi to pull the blanket to cover her. Usagi placed an arm around the younger girl's shoulders. Hotaru snuggled into the covers.

"Still tired?"

"I'm feeling better. But you know how weak I am, I'm always pulling a fainting thing."

"You're stronger than before now. I heard from Haruka that you can be a great athlete if you tried."

"I don't want to be a great athlete. I don't even want to think about the future to be honest. In our profession, especially my job and my destiny, you're not sure if you'll survive the next battle."

"I would never let anything happen to you, or the others."

"You have it the other way around my queen. We are supposed to protect you, with our lives. It doesn't matter whether or not we survive. The only thing that matters is that you survive to have the future city."

Usagi hugged Hotaru. Although the others were willing to risk their lives for her, Hotaru's devotion was beyond anything that she had ever seen. Usagi couldn't help but allow a tear to fall; all the girl knew was war, destruction, and death.

"It's okay Serenity-hime. Everything will be okay."

Usagi looked down at the young girl. Her eyes were filled with a kind of childish hope and innocence that was rare in the eyes of Hotaru.

"I have come to accept my job, and I know what they include. It will be a honor to serve you as I have."

Before Usagi can respond, the sun peaked its head as the horizon was lighted with the faintest of pale red. The two silenced, the dawn had begun, and it was rude for the audience to say anything while Mother Nature was painting the vivid colors and sounds of a brand new day. But the two was lost in their own thoughts, Hotaru on what her life really was, Usagi on just how much Hotaru was willing to sacrifice.

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Haruka and Michiru walked down stairs as the house began to stir. It was about 9 o'clock and everyone was beginning to wake up. It was Haruka's and Michiru's turn to make breakfast so the two was earlier than usual. Entering the kitchen, the two set to work. Well, Michiru set to work. Haruka was what Michiru called, 'Cooking-intolerant'.

"Honey, why don't you wake everyone up and tell them that breakfast will be ready in 5 minutes?"

Haruka nodded and ran upstairs. The first room was Minako's. Knocking on the door, she received no answer. Knowing that she was sleeping in, Haruka opened the door and peeked inside. Minako's legs were twisted in her covers and her long blond hair was tangled up.

"Minako, time for breakfast."

Her only response was a snore from the klutzy girl. Deciding to wake her up soon, Haruka walked into the room. She poked Minako several times. Minako yelled in her sleep and kicked the taller girl twice. Sprawling on the floor, Haruka grabbed onto the bed and lifted herself from the carpeted floor.

"WAKE UP MINAKO!!!"

Minako snapped awake and fell from the bed. Unfortunately Haruka was not completely up yet and ended up under the screaming Minako.

"WHO IS IT! AHHHHH!!! LET GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What's going on?"

Haruka lifted her head and saw figures in the doorway. Someone crossed the room and opened up the closed shades. The room was filled with light as the figures in the doorway watched the two scouts. Minako, whose hair was in a mess, dressed in pink pajamas was screaming and grabbing onto Haruka's hair. Haruka was lying on her stomach and looked up at the others with a bored expression with her right hand holding up her head and her left fingers drumming against the floor.

Minako looked down and realized that it was Haruka and blushed. Removing herself from the tallest senshi, she grabbed some clothes and ran into her bathroom. Haruka could only glare as Makato was laughing her head off, Rei was snickering, Setsuna had an amused smile, and Ami had her hand over her mouth to prevent laughing. Michiru was sitting on the bed after opening the shade. She smiled innocently at Haruka.

"At least we know everyone is up."

Haruka glared at her lover and stood up undignified. She looked around the room.

"Aren't we missing two?"

Setsuna smiled knowingly.

"Those two are probably in the living room again."

All the other scouts went back to their room to clean up while the three oldest scouts walked downstairs. Michiru returned to the kitchen to finish breakfast, Haruka went to the dining room to set up, while Setsuna walked into the living room to wake her 'daughters'.

The Time Guardian smiled at the sight before her. The two were sitting on the couch by the window. Usagi was on the left side while Hotaru was on the right, using the older girl as a pillow. A blue blanket covered the girls. Walking over the girls gently, she shook Usagi.

"Princess."

Usagi's clear blue eyes peaked open and smiled as they settled on Setsuna.

"Hey."

"Morning Princess."

Usagi shifted, not waking the frail girl and smiled at Setsuna.

"Breakfast's ready?"

Setsuna nodded.

"You guys are so rude! I'm trying to take a nap!"

The two watched as the pale Hotaru opened one eye and smiled lazily at the old Scouts. Stretching her arms, she yawned.

"Mmmm.... Michi-mama made breakfast."

Setsuna laughed as she watched her 'daughter' stand up. As she stretched the girls could clearly see the muscles hidden under the long sleeve shit she was wearing.

"Been working out?"

Hotaru watched as Usagi raised an inquisitive eyebrow and smirked. Setsuna had a strange gleam in her eyes as she smirked as well. Hotaru felt her cheeks burn under their gazes.

"Well I need some way to defend myself against an attacker without calling on my powers. It's way to destructive then."

Usagi and Setsuna looked at each other before nodding. They knew what she was saying was true, but then again their little Senshi was growing up.

"Come on!"

Usagi and Setsuna allowed themselves to get dragged by the small girl. Entering the kitchen, they saw everyone sitting around the table. Usagi sat next to Ami. Setsuna sat down between Michiru and Makato. Hotaru sat next to Usagi with Haruka on her right.

"Dig in guys!"

At Michiru's words, everyone quickly began to serve themselves. Helping herself to pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon and cereal, Usagi began to pig out. Everyone else watched as Usagi sprayed food everywhere. Rei snorted.

"Slow down meatball head. I thought we got rid of that whole inhaling food thing."

Usagi snorted, which wasn't a good idea considering she had food in her mouth. The contents of her mouth ended up on all the food and on some people. Everyone groaned, apparently the princess hadn't changed too much. Hotaru stood up; her long sleeve shirt and hair were now the home of bits of pancake.

"I think I'm going to skip breakfast. I'll get washed up and go to the library."

Hotaru walked out the kitchen as the crashing of plates were heard. Pausing for a minute she looked back, Rei, who was sitting directly in front of Usagi, was covered with food and was chasing Usagi with a knife. Shaking her head, Hotaru walked up stairs. Stepping into her room, she quickly grabbed some clothes for the shower.

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Fifteen minutes Hotaru walked down stairs. She walked by the kitchen, to tell them that she was leaving. She froze when she opened the kitchen door. The huge oak table was overturned. Plates were shattered and littered the floor. A pancake was on the ceiling. The floor was covered with pancakes, waffles, bacon, cereal and milk as well as juice. All the Scouts were sitting in the middle of the mess, some lying down some leaning against the upside down table. They were a mess, covered from head to toe in food. Usagi's hair was out of the braid that it was in this morning and covered in food. Everyone was basically a blob of food. Setsuna was smiling at Hotaru, clean and sitting on the counter.

"Er... I'm going to the library now... and I'm not helping you guys clean this up."

Everyone groaned and Hotaru turned around. Walking about the door, she moved her gray messenger bag to her right shoulder. Hotaru stepped into the sunlight. The streets were empty since it was Saturday and everyone was in the city.

Hotaru slowly walked through the street, allowing the sun to beam down on her. The sakuras were in full blossom and they were raining down on the street. Hotaru walked to the biggest sakura tree on the block. The tree was shower the street below with soft pink sakuras. Hotaru looked up and spread her arms. She began to spin in the rain. A few minutes later, she walked on with a content smile on her face.

Hotaru looked up at the huge library. It was about 500 years old, an old church before. The building itself was gray stone and about 50 feet high. It was small for an ancient stone building but huge for a library. Walking up the stone stairs and past the huge stone lions.

Hotaru opened the huge oak doors and walked inside. To the left was the reception's desk. Sitting there was a plump kind old woman in her early 60's.

"Good morning Mrs. Whethers."

"Why good morning Hotaru! You're early today."

"The others got into a food fight."

Mrs Whethers laughed as Hotaru continued to walk. Walking through the shelves, she walked to the farthest right corner of the library. There was a spiral stairway, hidden by the shelves of books. Climbing the stairway, Hotaru arrived on the second floor. Every few people ever went up there, one thing due to the fact that it was hidden, and two since the books up there were very old.

Picking through the shelves, Hotaru came to one that caught her eye. Picking up the heavy book, she looked around. At the end of the floor, was a single table. Above the table was the stain glass window that was at the front of the building. The light filtered in through the picture of an angel as the soft yellow, blue and white light covered the table. Sitting at the large and comfortable armchair, Hotaru placed the bag to her side. She then placed the heavy book on her lap and flipped to page 661.

'...Ah, it was bliss, not to think, it was as though he were floating, dreaming...'

Hotaru shut her eyes as she leaned her head against the back of the chair. Flipping the book to its cover, she traced with her finger the writing on the top of the book.

"You're the first person I've seen brave enough to pick up that book at your age."

Hotaru looked up. She watched as from the shadows, a figure stood up. Hotaru had forgotten about the armchair across from hers. As the figure stepped into the light, her breath caught in her throat. He had wild and untamed chocolate hair and his bangs covered most of his face. He was about 6' 2", despite his Japanese appearance. He seemed to have a muscular build that can be seen some under his black sweater turtleneck. His long legs were shown off with his baggy dark blue cargo pants. He lifted his eyes. Hotaru noticed his red full lips that were carved by the devil himself. His nose had a soft curve. His cheekbones were high and his jaw was slightly square.

Hotaru then looked into his eyes. They peered at her from under those wild bangs. They were a shocking color, a blue so dark that it was like the midnight sky. But it was darker and deeper than midnight blue. It bordered on purple. Hotaru's eyes lit up when she found the perfect name. Prussian blue... it even sounded like him. Looking deep into his eyes, Hotaru found that they were deep pools of emotions. They sucked her in and held her, captivated her.

"So, I see that you are like Harry Potter? Kinda rare these days."

Hotaru was shaken out of her reverie as the husky voice spook again. Noticing that she was staring, she blushed and sank further into the seat.

"Yeah, I know it was about 100 years ago when the book was written, but the series is really good..."

Hotaru trailed off. Any other girl would be coming up with a pick up line or something better than looking like a bookworm. Just then a low, husky laugh rang out in the small section of the library. Hotaru watched as the man stepped out of the shadows. She gulped as he stopped at her side of the table and sat on the table, now inches away from her. His eyes were light with joy.

"You're not like the other girls. First of all, you're inside on a Saturday, a shopping day for most girls. Second not only are you inside, but you're in a library, a place any other girl wouldn't be caught dead in. And third, not are you in a library, but you're reading a BOOK. Usually the girl come here to check out the magazines they missed."

Hotaru couldn't help but smile. He was the perfect guy. Even from one look at him, you could tell that he was smart, kind, really good looking, caring and had an aura that was mysterious and yet good and innocent at the same time.

"So, have you read the others?"

Hotaru nodded.

"I've read them all."

"How do you like them?"

"They're all well written. She brings the magic world to life."

"It's good to know that there is more out there in the world then just the cold hard facts eh? Magic, something that makes our lives so much more exciting."

Hotaru nodded, but she knew that magic was part of her life, and at times she wished it wasn't. She looked at the man standing a few inches away from her; he was like no one she had ever set eyes on before.

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He looked at the girl in front of him. She seemed innocent, kind, sweet, smart, and hot... can't forget that one. She was really beautiful. She had ebony hair that seemed as soft as silk that fell evenly at her shoulders. She was slightly short, around 5' 6". She had a slim figure that made even him drool. He had seen many women before in his life, but never one like this one. She had pink lips that just dared him to kiss them, to gently show them what he could do. Her eyes, god those eyes. They were a deep mysterious violet that seemed to glow with an inner light. They seemed cold and even empty. They were unfitting of a creature such as her. Closing his eyes, he could feel her aura. It was cold, filled with the knowledge and experience of desperation and loneness. They seemed to be innocent, and yet the innocence had long been battered from her experiences of life.

Opening his eyes he saw the vision before him. This goddess of a creature, wearing a black spaghetti strap tank top, with a puffy gray Northern Light vest, and slightly baggy black parachutes. She seemed like a death angel, which clashed since the stain window was casting a yellowish white glow on her. It seemed to tell of a battle of her soul, one side evil while the other was good. And yet her eyes shown out from everything seemingly lost and unable to decide which side she will be with. The turmoil seemed to tear at her very soul.

"So, you come here often?"

He watched as she nodded. That simple act mesmerized him. The way her head tilted toward ever so slightly and her silky hair cascaded in front her face. Never had such a simple action held so much beauty, and never had a girl or woman captivate him with such an intensity and power as this one had.

"Do you?"

He blinked a few times, unable to find his voice. All he thought of was the sound of her voice, soft, soothing with an air of power and innocence. He was finally able to regain his voice and nodded numbly.

"Um... well you see... I'm new in town. I er... had to get away from my house... it's... it's too hectic. There is never one minute of peace. I saw this place and decided.... that I can have some peace and quiet here."

Hotaru nodded. He knew what it was like to need privacy. With a house of 8 people, all of which seem to want to look after you and guard you all the time, it was hard to be by herself and think or just relax. He was so much like her, and yet there was a light. Although he may be like a death angel and his aura may be dark, he was still innocent. For some strange reason, he wanted to protect that side of him. To shield him from harm.

"Well I know how that fee-"

Suddenly Hotaru's communicator watch started to beep. Hotaru looked down and the words, 'There is another attack!' flashed across the tiny screen. Hotaru looked up and saw the puzzled face on the stranger's face.

"I have to go. I won't be long. Sorry!"

Without another word, Hotaru grabbed her bag and ran off. She jumped down the stairs and said a hasty goodbye to Mrs. Whethers before running out the door. She stopped for a minute to concentrate. Feeling a strange vibe from the downtown area of Tokyo, she quickly ran in that direction.

'I hope he'll wait for me. This shouldn't be too long. I hated leaving him there. I hope he can understand. He's one of a kind. He'd really something that... that... WAIT A MINUTE! I DIDN'T GET HIS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

"You giant idiot! You find a guy that you like and you forget his name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Cursing out even more, Hotaru continued to run. Hoping with all her might that the guy will wait for her. Hey, how many times does she meet a man that was as breath taking as him?

"Once in a lifetime."

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I'm finished! Soy finito! That's not Spanish! Okay, now that I'm off the sugar high, please excuse my weird behavior. I had one too many Snapples, hey; you CAN get high from those you know. I should know, I get high on them everyday! REVIEW PLEASE! What you think?!?! Tell me! I'M ACCEPTING FLAMES TOO! THAT TELLS YOU HOW MUCH A REVIEW COUNTS FOR ME! BYE BEFORE I SCARE YOU GUYS OFF!