And You I Love

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Location: Juuban High School
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Nothing interesting happened the rest of the week. Duo earned the reputation of troublemaker' and Quatre quickly became teacher's pet in more than one class. The Big Ham-Hamley heavily favored Heero over all her students. As Usagi expected, crowds of girls tried to win the affection of the five pilots. They learned soon enough that they weren't going to get anything. Duo offered a little playful flirtation, but that was all any of the girls got. Ami, Rei, Usagi, Makoto and Minako did become sorta kinda' friends with Quatre, Wufei, Duo, Trowa and Heero, and that made a lot of girls jealous.

The week went by fast, but not quite fast enough for any of the five girls. They were excited, and they had all packed days ahead of time. Monday was finally upon them, and they met at the high school.

Despite the fact that all three of Mr. Mobiki's classes were invited to go camping, there weren't that many students, and they were able to fit onto two tour buses. The pilots sat on one side, and the scouts sat on the other. Ami and Quatre sat together, though.

The bus ride was two hours long. Usagi fell asleep, and Duo began singing 99 Bottles of Beer', but the chaperon on the bus made him change it to 99 Bottles of Pop'. Finally, Wufei managed to shut Duo up (in exchange for a chocolate donut), and the other kids were very grateful to Wufei.

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Location: Lochlathien Park
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When the bus finally rolled into Lochlathien park, Makoto kindly woke Usagi up. Usagi looked out the window. Wow, it is a beautiful park. Makoto agreed, checking on Lucetta for the fiftieth time the whole bus ride.

The bus dropped the kids off at a place that had cabins in every direction. Mr. Mobiki pointed out the bathrooms(which were unisex) and the showers(which were not) and let them pick their cabins.

How about that one? Usagi pointed to a cabin near the river.

Minako grabbed her arm, No, I want one near Heero's cabin...

Makoto smiled Obsessed much...

Minako shrugged, not denying anything. I just...It's a crush, that's all!

Usagi giggled, as did Rei. They both found Minako's infatuation with the icy pilot extremely amusing.

They took that one, we can have...that one... Rei pointed to a cabin, and the girls rushed over to it. It was across from the boys'.

The cabins were small, and I mean it. It was crowed, and they had trouble fitting all their bags in. There were six bunks in rows of two, one on top of the other. There was a small closet, a dresser with six drawers and a table with two chairs. One very large screen window was on the empty wall.

The girls assigned beds, drawers and closet space. Finally, they managed to get settled in, and the bags were tucked away underneath the bunks. It was a lot easier to walk around in the cabin. Lucetta was let free, and she quickly made a home at the foot of Makoto's bed.

So now what? Ami asked, climbing up to her top bunk.

Let's sleep... Usagi said, curling up on her bottom bed.

Makoto nudged her, Let's go hit the river! Put on our bathing suits and go swimming. It's so hot in here... All the girls seemed to suddenly realize the humidity and they all gladly agreed. Lucetta, stay here, Makoto added to her cat. Lucetta answered with a small purr and a nip of affection. Then she curled up and began to sleep.

They pulled their bathing suits out of the drawer and walked to the bathroom to change.

When Mr. Mobiki had said unisex bathroom' every girl present grew a little uncomfortable. It wasn't really that bad- the sinks and the mirrors and the dryers were all together, but the stalls were in separate rooms on the side of the main bathroom. The girls walked the short distance to the bathroom, and they changed into their outfits.

Usagi's bikini was white with bright orange flowers on the top and bottom. Rei had a red top and a black bottom that tied at the sides. Makoto wore a one piece, but it was more of a bikini because the only thing that connected the top and bottom was a thin piece of cloth that swiveled in a curvy line down her back and tummy. It was green. Minako's suit was also bikini style, and it was bright pink with Japanese characters written all over it in white. The bottom was sort of like a mini-mini-skirt. Ami wore a tankini, because she planned to do some active swimming, and she didn't want to risk losing a piece. The top was made up of dark blue, light blue and white stripes, and the bottom was solid white.

We ready? Makoto asked as she checked herself in the mirror. Then let's go!

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Location: the River
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When they arrived at the river, they found it deserted, save two or three people further down. A group of people before them had left reclining chairs, so Usagi and Minako helped themselves. On the way from the bathroom, they stopped at their cabin. Rei picked up some colorful plastic buckets. The girls asked Rei, What are the buckets for?

Sand castles, what else? Rei answered, but they knew she wasn't telling the truth by the look in her eye.

Sand castles on a river? Ami asked sarcastically. Rei shrugged.

Even though the river bank was crowded with trees, Mina and Usagi found a sunny spot, and they decided to tan. Rei, Makoto and Ami went straight into the water. Usagi closed her eyes and leaned back comfortably. She began to half-doze off, and in the back of her head she noticed that the splashing and laughing of the girls got quiet. She also noticed a mischievous silence surround her. Before she could act on her suspicions, Usagi found herself being flipped over, and her body was thrown into damp dirt.

Usagi felt Minako's body fall on top of hers. The two girls stood up, and Usagi saw that it was Duo who flipped her, and Rei who tossed Minako. Usagi cried, and she leaped at him, and so the chase began. Minako managed to get Rei into the water and dunked her several times, but Usagi had a much tougher time getting ahold of Duo.

She grabbed his long braid. He spun around defensively, striking a corny Matrix pose. Usagi leaped forward and tackled him. She pinned him to the ground, and leaned in until their noses touched.

Say uncle! Usagi commanded, "I said, Say uncle!"

Duo kicked his legs and quickly managed switch positions with Usagi. Now he was in control. Tickle torture! Duo tickled her all over. Usa laughed and screamed wildly, desperately trying to kick Duo off of her. Suddenly, Duo's body was splashed with a large amount of water, and Usagi understood the real use of Rei's buckets.

Duo turned around to see a guilty looking Rei and Ami run back to the water. He got off Usagi and chased them into the river. On his way there, he stripped off his jeans (he had swimming trunks underneath) and T-shirt. He leaped into the water noisily and splashed everyone in the river.

Usagi propped herself up on her arms, and she tried not to stare at Duo's and Quatre's fantastic bodies. Quatre was in the water (shirtless) fooling around, too. Wufei, Trowa and Heero were sitting on reclining chairs in the shade. Naughty ideas ran through her head.

Usagi got up and ran out into the river. Taking a quick glance at the three still pilots, she saw that Wufei's eyes were closed. She whispered something into Rei's ear, and they took a bucket and filled it with water.

Together, they inched silently in front of Wufei. A smile that was nearly invisible crossed Heero's lips. He was amused at what was going on, even more so by the thought of what would happen when Wufei opened his eyes.

Trowa leaned back and closed his eyes in relaxation. He warned, I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Rei and Usagi looked at Trowa, and then at each other, and back to Trowa. Trowa sat up in surprise as an onslaught of water engulfed him. He opened his eyes in time to see Rei and Usagi running back to the river. Trowa stood up, and since he was already in his swimming trunks, he stripped off his white T-shirt and ran after them.

Usagi laughed inwardly as she saw Makoto's jaw drop when she saw Trowa. She took the opportunity and splashed Makoto with a large amount of water.

---Twenty Minutes Later---

Usagi, Rei, Minako and Makoto were crouched in a small mud-dune that was above Wufei and Heero.

Usagi whispered, Hurry it up! Duo and Trowa were lugging a tremendously huge bucket of water over to the spot that Usagi and the others were at.

Duo asked. Everyone nodded. Duo was very surprised that Trowa was participating, but nearly as excited about bombing Heero and Wufei with water as anyone else. From the river, Quatre gave the signal which gave Duo the go ahead.'

All six of them pushed the bucket over, and a shower overtook Heero and Wufei. The bounced up off their chairs, spitting and sputtering.

Duo and Trowa jumped down from the dune and they were welcomed with an angry dirtball from- Ami? She giggled aloud. The girls hopped down after them as Quatre ran in. A dirt war began. Heero and Wufei took off their shirts and jeans. Minako noticed that Heero was wearing dog tags. She suspected he wore them under his shirt. So they're in the military-

She was pelted with a really big ball of dirt. It got all over her, and before she had time to dust it off, she was it hit from behind by another one.

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Location: the River
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Balls of dirt flew through the air, and they hurt like hell. The guys took it a lot easier on the girls, but the girls showed no mercy. Maybe it was the fact that throwing balls of dirt at opponents was something similar to a fight, but Heero found himself throwing dirtballs every now and then. His particular favorite target was Minako, but she proved herself a worthy opponent. Heero dodged a ball, and he smiled. Minako stopped and looked at him.

"You've got a great smile," she said.

Of course, this prompted Heero to stop smiling, and in fact, he became sort of moody.

Minako turned around, because she had gotten hit by another ball. She was getting bombed again, when Heero came up from behind her. He twisted her arms in front of her, and forced her onto the floor. A moment of near panic overtook Minako, but she laughed when Heero rolled her over and sat on her. Minako looked around- the other guys were doing the same thing to the four remaining girls. Minako was sad to see how quickly all of them fell. She suspected that they were actually surrendering on purpose...

So guys, Duo asked from atop Usagi, what should we give the girls as punishment?

Minako called from underneath Heero.

Heero snorted, A little torture sounds better to me.

Tickle Torture? Quatre suggested.

The Tickle Torture and then we'll bury them! Trowa said as Makoto struggled beneath him. Heero and Quatre nodded, and the girls got tickled. They laughed and screamed themselves hoarse.

When the guys finally finished torturing the girls, Wufei announced, Now onnas, for your mud masks... He pinched Rei's cheek, just to make her angry.

Heero knew something was wrong when he saw a mischievous wink go from Usagi to Minako to Makoto to Rei to Ami. In a blurry second he found himself face down on the dirt, hands twisted behind his back. An evil laugh escaped Mina's mouth.

Say uncle! The girls commanded. The pilots resisted defiantly.

Well, Heero, I like a little torture, too! Minako teased. So the boys got their share of the tickle torture, until each one of them finally succumbed. Heero was the last to go, and all five of the girls had to join Minako.

he cried. But the girls kept on tickling. I said uncle! The other pilots couldn't watch their friend like that, so they pried the girls off of him. Heero rolled onto his back, laughing. What...what's happening to me? Trained to withstand terrible pain, but I can't take the damn tickle torture? He grew serious and even angry immediately, but no one noticed, for a kid came running down the banks.

Mr. Mobiki is holding a class around the campfire! He's serving dinner so if you wanna get fed, get going! They got up, and dusted caked mud off of them.

They walked back to the camping area and took notes on Mr. Mobiki's lesson in trees. They did notice that Heero was in a wholly disagreeable mood for the rest of the day.

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