A Love for All Time
By V-babe

Author's Notes: Right now I am listening to the CD Affirmation by Savage Garden. There was no reason for me saying that. I have a tendency to make random comments... ^_^;; Heero will probably seem a little out of character, but remember that he is a different person when he is with Minako and he has had different life experiences than in the anime. I need reviews... So review if you want to say that I am a goddess, or if you want to say that I am the worst writer ever born, or even if you want to flame me. I don't care! Just Review. (I'm sounding really desperate now, huh?) Oh well.

Discalimer: Do you REALLY think that I own Gundam Wing or Sailor Moon.?




A Love For All Time


*~*~*~*~Outside of Quatre's mansion*~*~*~*~*

Minako took a shaky breath as she looked up at the immense mansion. 'I hope the people who live here aren't like ax murderers or something... but if they were Setsunna wouldn't have placed me here... I think.' she thought as she walked up to the door, set down her suitcase and rang the doorbell.

*~*~*~*~Inside of Quatre's mansion~*~*~*~*~

Heero felt like he was all alone in the vast mansion. Duo had convinced Wufei, Trowa and Quatre to go upstairs to the game room and play video games. It was the servants' day off, so they weren't even in the house. It was just Heero alone with his thoughts, and that could be a very dangerous thing. He was deep in thought when the doorbell interrupted him. He sighed and slowly trudged to the door. He opened the door and saw a very familiar fugure. The blood drained from his face.

Minako gasped as she saw Heero staring back at her. 'Hee-chan..." she whispered.

"Mi'ko-chan???" Heero said incredeously.

"Aishiteru Hee-chan. I told you I'd come back, didn't I? Where did we leave off, again?" With this she put her arms around his neck and crushed his lips to hers. Although Heero as taken aback at first, he relaxed into the kiss. Heero stroked Minako's hair, and held her as if to make sure that she never left him again. Then he broke the kiss.

"I've missed you so much, Mi'ko. Aishiteru." he whispered.

Minako grinned, held up her suitcase and said, "Can I stay here for awhile?"

"It's not my house, but my friend won't mind if you stay here." Heero said.

"Great!" Minako said, "so can you show me a room?"

Heero groaned as Minako shoved the suitcase in his hands. He started up the stairs and Minako followed him. Remembering that orange was Minako's favorite color, he gave her a suite that was decorated in that color.

"It's perfect!" Minako exclaimed as she entered the room. "Does you friend have a place where we can spar? I've missed our fighting matches."

"Yeah, after you left, I was one of the Gundam pilots that protected the colonies against OZ. The people I live with were my fellow pilots, so we have a fighting room, where we keep in shape."

"Cool!" Minako said, pretending she understood what a Gundam pilot was, "Why don't I unpack and change in to some clothes that would be easier to fight in? Come back to my room in a half hour." Minako shooed Heero out the door and started to throw her clothes into the closet. As soon as she was unpacked she pulled out some black exercise pants and a white T-shirt. She was pulling her hair up into a ponytail when Heero knocked on the door.

"I'm coming, I coming." Minako said as she rushed out the door.

As Heero showed her the way to the practice room, he thought to himself, 'Why won't she tell me where she's been the past five years? When I look in her eyes I know she's hiding something, but I'll wait until she's ready to tell me.'

While Heero was contemplating that, Minako was having thoughts of her own, 'What happens when I have to leave? Eventually, I'll have to go back to Crystal Tokyo. Somehow we have to make this work.' Before she knew it Heero stopped in front of a door and said, "Here we are."

Heero opened the door for her and Minako flashed him a smile a she walked through the door. Heero followed her into the room and got in to a fighting stance in the middle of the room.

Minako grinned and took her place opposite him. "On your marks," Minako said, "Get set.... GO!!"

Minako did a butterfly kick and hit Heero right across the face. He retaliated with a right hook to her jaw. She stuck her tongue out him and did a side kick to his stomach. At first Heero doubled over in pain and surprise, but then he grabbed her foot and pulled, causing her to fall to the ground. She recovered quickly and did a heel-sweep, causing Heero to land flat on his back. Minako giggled and went over to offer a hand to help him up. Heero smirked when took her hand and then pulled her down with him. She just rolled her eyes and planted a quick kiss on Heero's lips.

"I won, I won..." Minako gloated.

Then she jumped up and said, "What time is it, I'm starving."

"It's about 11:30. My friends will probably be down in the kitchen soon. Right now they're playing games in the game room."

"Already?!" Mina exclaimed. "I need to take a shower and then I can meet you at the kitchen I saw on the way over here." She jogged out of the room and smirked a little as she closed the door behind her.

As Minako got into the shower, she left the warm water wash away her worries. She realized that she had better hurry up and get dressed so she could meet his friends. She quickly rinsed the conditioner she had in her hair out, jumped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her body. 'I guess I'd better wear what I had on earlier.' Minako thought, as she looked through her closet. Hurriedly, she pulled the turtleneck over her head, a threw on her lace up flares, and then put her platforms on. Finally, she pulled her hair up in half-pony tail and tied her thin black ribbon around it.

She took the stairs two at a time and raced into the kitchen, where she found Heero and four guys she didn't know, snacking on sandwiches.

A gut with violet eyes and a chestnut braid jumped out of his seat when Minako entered the room and said, "It's a pleasure to meet such a beautiful girl, like you. Let me introduce you to my friends and I. I am Duo Maxwell." Then he pointed to a Chinese man who had his hair in a ponytail. "That guy over there who looks like he has a stick up his ass," he said, "is my good friend Wu-man."

At this 'Wu-man' started chasing Duo around the kitchen, screaming things like, "This is an injustice. You braided-baka, how many times have I told you not to call me that.

A boy with blond hair stood up and said, "Let me properly introduce us. My name is Quatre Winner. The one chasing Duo around name is really Wufei Chang." Lastly, he pointed to a quiet man with hair that covered half his face and one of his emerald orbs. "This is Trowa Barton. We are all pleased to meet you Miss Aino. Heero had told us that you are his friend and will be staying here for awhile."

At this Duo stopped running and said, "Woo hoo! Girl roommate!"

Minako just rolled her eyes at this and was about to say something, but then thought better of it. So she just smiled and said to Quatre, "Call me Minako. You don't have to call me Miss Aino. What's for lunch?"

By this time, Wufei had tired of chasing Duo, so they were both back in their original seats. "Just grab whatever you want from the fridge." Duo said in response to Minako's question.

Minako walked over to the refrigerator and shuffled around in it for something good to eat. Then she looked in the freezer and started to shriek.

"What are you screaming about, Mi'ko-chan?" the usually silent Heero said, shocking his fellow ex-pilots.

"Cookie Dough Ice Cream!!"

Everybody stared at Minako with blank looks on their faces.

"It's my favorite food." she explained.

All of the guys sweat dropped. Minako rampaged through the cabinets, pulling out various things. Then she began assembling a huge sundae. By the time she was done it consisted of Cookie Dough and Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, hot fudge, gummy worms, chocolate chips, crumbled up Oreo's, and M&M's.

Wufei looked at her concoction and said, "How can you eat that?"

"It's good." she replied, and then held up a spoonful. "Do you want a bite?"

"Um, no, that's ok." Wufei replied warily. "Stupid onna." He muttered under his breath.

Minako shrugged and kept on shoveling the food in her face. The pilots watched in amazment as the sundae practically dissappeared right before their eyes.

Heero sweat dropped and thought, 'She hasn't changed a bit, has she?'

A few minutes later the bowl was empty.

Minako wanted to get to know her new roommates better so she asked, "What do you guys like to do?"

Wufei replied with a snort, "As if I am going to tell a weak onna, like you."

Minako almost got out of her seat to give him a good beating, but she decided against it.

Duo spoke up, "I like to play video games and watch TV."

"I challenge you to a game sometime." Minako said. "What about you, Trowa, what do you like to do?"

Trowa softly replied, "I'm a clown in the local circus."

"I play the violin." Quatre offered.

"Really?" Minako said with interest. "I have a friend who plays. I'd love to hear you play sometime."

Their conversation was interrupted by a beeping noise coming from Heero's direction.

"What's that Hee-chan?"

"I have an e-mail to read." He pulled out his laptop and started typing. "Dr. J..." He muttered under his breath, just loud enough for Minako to hear. Suddenly he said outloud, " Mi'ko-chan, do you mind if I talk to Wufei, Duo, Quatre and Trowa alone for a sec?" Minako caught his eye, and they exchanged a gaze. She saw that he needed this time alone.

"Sure!" Minako said cheerfully, " I need to finish unpacking." As she left the room, Trowa closed the door behind her. Minako walked down the hall so they would think that she had left, but then she turned around and silently crept back towards the kitchen. She put her ear up to the door and listened to what Heero had to say.

"I got an e-mail from Doctor J. A few OZ soldiers got away after the war. Over the past few years they have been gathering together, recruiting new soldiers and pooling their guns and ammo. So far all they have is one base and some artillery. Dr. J wants us to meet him at Preventers headquarters to discuss things further."

After Minako heard this she ran up to her room and thought things over. 'So that old geezer Dr. J is still around. Maybe this is my mission. Maybe I'm supposed to go with them and help them destroy that base. I have to talk to Hee-chan about this.' A few minutes later she heard a knock on the door.

"Come in!" she called from her spot on the bed.

Heero opened the door and walked in. "I got a message from Doctor J." he started, but Minako interrupted him.

"I know I know... I was eavesdropping, but I didn't hear the whole thing."

Heero glared at her and continued, "We're leaving as soon as possible, which means in a few minutes. I'm supposed to be up here telling you that we thought it would be good idea to give you some time by yourself to get used to the mansion, so we're going on a road trip."

"I want to fight with you" Minako said bluntly.

"No Mi'ko-chan," Heero responded firmly, "I don't want you getting hurt."

Minako glared at him and looked like she was about to say something, but then she stopped and gave Heero a hug. She looked up at him and said. "Don't get yourself killed, Hee-chan, ok? Aishiteru." Then she stood up on tip toe and gave him a passionate kiss.

'I don't care what he says,' she thought, 'I have to go. It's my mission, and my duty to Crystal Tokyo and the colonies.' She broke off the kiss and said, "I'm going to see you and the others off."

She dragged Heero down the stairs and into the garage where the rest of the Gundam pilots were waiting, in Quatre's van.

"Bye Minako!" Duo called out of the passenger window.

"Good-bye." the ever-polite Quatre said.

Wufei sort of grunted. Trowa gave a half wave, and Heero hugged Minako tightly one last time and whispered, "Aishiteru." before he jumped in driver's seat of the van.

"BYE!!" Minako said and smiled to herself as she waved to the van as it disappeared down the road.



Author's Notes: Ugh... This was reeeally bad. Oh well, I've been looking forward to writing the next couple of chapters. As always, review, review, review. Sorry if you thought it was bad. I was in a hurry. Oh well, I have to go now. Don't forget to review!

Ja ne,
~V-babe~