~~~~^_^ I dedicate this story to all the Heero & Usagi fans, especially Bre-chan a.k.a Astarte^_^~~~~


Makoto put the finishing touches on the platter, placed the giant lid over it and proceeded to make her way to the private room in which the meeting was being held. When she reached the door she knocked twice with a small pause in between, and then let herslef in. She closed the door behind her, and secretely and inconspicuosly locked it.

"I Makoto Kino, as Master Chef of this casino have brought you something delicious and delectable." she set the platter on the table between Mamoru and Rei. She then stepped back a few feet and stood, as if waiting for them to remove the lid and feast their eyes on her masterpiece. Rei extended her left arm to do the honors. She grasped the top of the lid and slowly removed it.

"What the...." Mamoru began.

Laying on the platter sat a medium sized roasted pig complete with a head. But instead of the traditional apple being stuck in its mouth there was a gun. Before Mamoru could finish his sentence Rei snatched up the gun with her right hand and shot Mamoru point blank in the chest.

Makoto flinched, "You look like you've done that before."

"Yeah." Rei responded, "But like in this case, not to kill. He'll just be taking a little nap."

"A very little one." Duo added, walking in from a hidden door behind a large painting on the wall. Heero and Quatre were with him. "Nice job ladies." Duo continued. "We'll take it over from here." The three young men proceeded to pick up the slumped over and knocked out Mamoru. They made their way back through the secret door and headed towards Quatre's suite.

"Are you hungry?" Makoto asked enthusiastically.

"Starving." Rei responded placing the gun next to the pig.

"Great! I've got lots of goodies I want you to sample." Makoto smiled and lead her out of the secret door towards the kitchen.

****

After a spectacular performance, Minako and Usagi sat sipping drinks at a lounge.

"Minako-chan, I knew you could sing good, but that was amazing!"

"I know." Minako joked, tossing her hair with a smile. "So where's Mamoru, didn't you come with him?"

"Well...not exactly." Usagi explained. She told Minako how Mamoru had bailed on her at the last minute and how she had bummed a ride off of Haruka and Michiru so she could spend time with him after his meeting.

"Oh..." Minako said dryly. It was very clear to her that Mamoru had a side life. She had kind of assumed this for sometime but had decided not to meddle in Usagi's life too much. She had to figure somethings like this out by herself. But Usagi loved him too much to seet it. He was completely perfect in her eyes.

"What?" Usagi questioned sensing the odd tense in her voice.

Minako smiled covering her true feelings of pity for Usagi who was being used by someone she cared for so much. "I want you to meet Quatre. He's so cute Usagi! And sweet too. Just hearing about him on the phone isn't enough, I can't wait until you see him."

"Where is he?" Usagi asked glancing around.

Minako did the same, "I don't know? I thought he was going to hear me sing tonight but I guess he got a little busy. We can go check in the Grand Master Suite." Minako said waving a key in front of Usagi's face.

"Grand Master Suite?"

"Yup! I left out one little detail when I told you about Quatre... He owns this enitre Casino! Isn't that great!"

"Sugoi!!" Usagi said hapily and awed. "Does that mean you can eat all you want for free?"

"Sure"
Minako stood up and polished off the contents of her drink and then set it down."Lets go see if Quatre's there." She gripped the key firmly in one hand and then grabbed Usagi with her other.

****

Mamoru grogily began to open his eyes. At first everything was a complete blurr and then slowly began to come clear. He wasn't sure where he was or how he got there and his arms and legs were tied to the chair he was sitting in. Just as he began to make out the images of a few men in front of him, his face was greeted with a hard punch. It hurt like hell and his surroundings began to spin. He then felt someone grab his hair and sharply yanked his head up to be eye level with them. Two cobalt blue eyes gleamed at his.

"Oh, did that hurt? I hope not because it's only the begining of what we've got planned for you." Duo smiled and then released his hair.

"Who the hell are you guys?" Mamoru asked looking up at the three men before him, a small trickle of blood ran down the side of his mouth thanks to Duo's wake-up call.

Ignoring Mamoru, Heero refered to Quatre, "Are you sure no one's going to be coming by at all."

"No one. I even made sure the door was locked. Now if you'll excuse me I'd rather not be a part of the rest of this." Quatre left the room to go to another part of his Suite after receiving two nods.

Heero put his direct attention on Mamoru. He pulled out his gun and placed it right on the front of his forehead.

"Hey! Wait a minute! What's going on? Why are you doing this? Do you want money? I can give you lots of Money? Just wait lets talk this over..."

"Shut up!" Duo demanded. "You're a very bad person Chiba, and I've come to put you to an end. We can do this one of two ways. One, you sign a confession telling all the bad, dirty, conieving deeds you've done and you releive yourself of your position and don't ever even think of becoming 'king' of Tokyo. Or two, my friend puts a bullet in your head and you're never seen again. Either way works for me."

Heero pushed the gun deeper into his forehead, "Make your choice now! Or I'll make it for you."

Sweat poured down Mamoru's face. Never had he been in such a situation or this scared in his life. "I'll sign, I'll sign!"

"Are you sure option two wouldn't suit you better?" Duo asked with a grin.

"No! I'll sign. Just please don't shoot me."

Heero looked to Duo and received an affirming nod. He lowered his gun and began to untie Mamoru as Duo pulled out the thick confession to be signed. The confession was placed in front of him, and Duo handed him a pen. Mamoru obiediently signed. He looked out of the corner of his eye and saw Heero standing there with the gun pointed to the back of his head in case he tried anything, but that wasn't going to stop him from trying something anyways. No sooner had he finished signing he keenly gave Heero a giant elbow in the stomach which suprised the hell out of Heero. Mamoru then lunged forward and stabbed the pen deep into the arm of Duo who was reaching for a gun of his own. Mamoru turned to run for the front door of the suite with the confession in his hand but fell when his legs were knocked out from under him by Heero. Heero went to fire a shot, but Mamoru kicked the gun out of his hand and then began to dash for the door.

****

Minako and Usagi approached the door to Quatre's suite.

"Everything is so grand and luxurious." Usagi said glaring at everything they passed in the hallways.

"Isn't it? Quatre told me he spared no expense to make this place look the best it could possibly look. Wait untill you see inside of his place though."

The girls reached the door and Minako slid the key in.

****

Quatre having heard the commotion between Mamoru and the others hurried from his kitchen to the main entrance. Just as he reached it, the front door swung open reavealing Minako and her friend that she had told him about. 'Oh, shit' Quatre thought. He had totally forgotten that he had given Minako a key. He looked away from her bright smile towards where Heero and Duo were.
Mamoru was running towards them, Heero was on the ground reaching for his gun and Duo was pulling a pen out of his arm. Before Quatre could warn them, both girls walked in. They looked over to where Quatre was staring and were meet with the same awful sight.
Heero didn't even see the girls walk in, his mind was set on him mission. He couldn't allow Mamoru to escape with his confession in hand. He grasped his gun on the floor and from the position he was sprawled in he fired one shot.
Mamoru collapsed to the ground. Blood dripped out of his mouth and when his head hit the floor a puddle of red formed around it. He was dead.

"Mission Complete." Heero stated. The blow to the stomach continuing it's painful effect, Heero still didn't know the girls were there untill he heard a blood curling scream followed by a ploop on the floor. He stood up holding his stomach and saw Minako wrapped in Quatre's arms while Usagi had passed out onto the floor.

****

Ami walked out of the hotel room Usagi had been placed in. Outside Rei, Makoto, Duo, Minako, Quatre and Heero waited to hear the news of her condition.

"Well, she hit her head pretty hard when she passed out. This has brought on a case of selective amnesia. That means, there are only somethings she doesn't remember. For example she has no memories of what happened last night. But what I truly don't understand though is that she seems to have no memorie's of Mamoru at all. I guess we can consider this better for her, but...there's always the chance that one day for no reason at all her memories wil just come flooding back to her."

"She doesn't remeber him in any way, shape or form?" Rei asked.

"No, it's like he's been completely erased from her memory, but like I said, with time that can possibly change. Head injuries are nothing to take lightly, because of her condition I'm going to have to ask one of you to stay by her side at all time's untill she's fully recovered." Ami looked around face to face.

"I'm going to be leaving soon for more buisness." Rei said.

"I can't leave my duties as Master Chef." Makoto explained.

"I have to rehearse for shows." Minako smiled.

"I'm too busy to give her all my time." Quatre stated.

"Not my problem." Duo shrugged.

All eyes fell on Heero. "I'll do it." he said with almost no emotion.

"Great."
Ami happily explained to Heero that he just had to make sure she didn't pass out any more, complain of headaches, dizziness, get tired for no reason, or start puking out of nowhere. Make her feel as comfortable as he could and don't mention Mamoru if at all possible. Sad memories could worsen her condition or send her into deep depression.

After a second assurance by Ami everyone went their separate ways leaving Heero alone in front of the door which lead to Usagi. Heero turned the nob and entered. Inside she was laying on the bed. She had a bandage around her head but beside that looked perfect. Just as beautiful as his Angel, or was she his Angel, or was it just coincidence? During his time with her these would be questions he would have answered. At first she appeared to be sleeping but she turned her head towards him and opened her eyes. The same cerulean blue orbs as his Angels gleamed at him piercing his heart with a feeling of...he didn't quite know what he was feeling.

"Ami-cha....Oh, who are you?"

Heero pulled a chair up to the side of the bed, and sat on it backwards leaning his arms on the back of the chair.

"I'm Heero Yuy."

"Are you a doctor? Or do you work here? Ami-chan told me I was at a Casino, are you in charge? Am I in trouble..."

"Relax." Heero said comfortingly. "Ami wants someone to keep an eye on you for a while. I volunteered for the job."

"Oh..." Usagi looked into his prussian blue eyes and felt her heart skip a beat. There was something about him. Something specail.

"Is there anything you want?"

"No."

"Alright, it's late why don't you get some rest and I'll come back first thing tommorow." Heero turned to leave pushing the chair back to it's original position.

"Heero!" Usagi called. "Please don't go."

The sound of her saying his name made him feel as he'd never felt before. He turned around his hair swaying with his movment. "What?"

"I don't want to be alone. I'm not used to this room, and I don't feel all that well and it's really dark and lonely with only me in here. Please stay. I know you must be tired...but why don't you get in this bed. It's big enough for four people and I'd feel so much better just knowing that someone was close by. You don't have to get near me I just want to know that someone's here. Please, I know it must be the bump on my head talking but i just really can't be alone now, I need to know that someon's here. If Ami-chan asked you to watch me I know you must be an understaning person. Please"

Usagi looked very upset, if Heero declined there was no doubt she would burst out crying. She truly was feeling down and needed someone, but him? He looked into her eyes and saw the true emotions of sadness and yearning. Heero closed the door again, and said the words that brought a smile to Usag's face.

"I'll stay."




~~~~~~~~^_^ Heero is so Kawaiiii! What will him and Usagi do over the next couple of days? Will Usagi remember Mamoru and that Heero is the one who killed him? Keep reading to find out. Also please check out my Gundam Wing web page, I would really appreciate it, www.geocities.com/greatgundamw
And please read Ch Ch Ch Changes by my friend it is sooo great! ^_^~~~~~~~~