Wing School

by Shadowgirl00

Miroki and Kara, two normal girls, in a not so normal world.... chapter 22 is finally up!

17. Hearts, Secrets, and Blackmail

Hearts, Secrets and Blackmail

Kara Winters nervously watched the performance from back stage. About once every once month at the school, they would hold an assembly for the whole school. Fortunately or unfortunately this month's assembly had a bit of blackmail added to the list. They had convinced Noin to let them do this, though Kara wasn't to thrilled, since she really didn't want to get killed by a fellow pilot. Namely one trigger-happy Heero Yuy. After all, who did? Then there was Chang Wufei, he wasn't by any means trigger-happy, more like the justice screaming freak. Actually now that she thought of it, Kara wasn't even sure if they had to go on. If Wufei and Heero could find them before they went on stage then nothing would happen. See, the whole plan went something like this…

Miroki figured that the only way, they could get the two stubborn pilots to agree, was by blackmail. Trust me, after everything that happened, there were plenty of things to blackmail them with. This had to do with the babysitting incident with Heero and the mistletoe with Wufei. Kara wasn't sure of the full details, but it had to do with sending a note to both pilots, threatening to show the whole school pictures of them, in their not-so good times if they did not do what the girls wanted them to do. Now that Kara really thought of it, how were the boys going to pull this off. Wufei was not the type to do this, and Heero had enough trouble just smiling normally. Not the, I-just-blew-up-something smile. Kara smiled as Miroki came in, with the pictures of Wufei and Heero. Their plan was soon put into action as the clicking of a gun sounded the arrival of two pissed off pilots.

"Hello Heero," Kara smiled.

Heero glared at her, along with Wufei.

Miroki waved the pictures in their faces, "Looking for these?"

Wufei tried to make a grab for them, but Miroki pulled back.

"Uh, uh… You have to do something for us first," Miroki told them.

Heero was probably itching to kill the girls right about then, "What gives you the idea that we would do what you girls tell us? Why not just kill you instead?"

"Because we're your fellow pilots, and a friend of ours is all too happy to e-mail everyone in the school with those pictures. If not my sister will, and she's pretty smart, of course you found that out for yourselves," Kara explained, grinning.

Wufei tighten his fists, "So what do you onnas what?"

"We want you to play Secret Valentine," Miroki chirped.

Both boys stared at them.

Kara shrugged, "All we're asking is for you Heero to play Secret Valentine to Relena, and you Wufei to Sally. That's it, no strings besides that one."

"You must be kidding," Wufei stared at them.

"Nope, that's what we want you to do, come on. Just play the game, and then take them out to the dance club on Valentine's Day. Think you can handled that?"

Heero gave them the all mighty deathglare, before giving in, "Mission accepted."

The girls gave each other high fives.

Later that day, the girls were still grinning. Both of them were walking down the hallway, just grinning, what else could they do? This was a big step, the get the two most stubborn boys to play this, and maybe if it worked out okay, to admit their feelings. Miroki was writing down in her little black book, that Wufei and Heero had to play Secert Valentine. Getting to their lockers, Kara smiled even more as she heard Miroki gasped. The source of Miroki's shock was inside her locker. Opening her locker, Miroki found a dozen red roses, complete with a little note. That was the last thing Miroki had expected, after all, who in the world would give her something so nice? Of course Kara knew, she looked over Miroki's shoulder.

"What does the note say?" Kara asked.

Miroki bended down to pick up the note, "To the lady, whom wear stars on her dress, the warrior angel I think of so often."

In Kara's mind that made a lot of sense, the first dress Miroki wore was navy blue, and the sparkling dots looked like stars. Then there was Halloween, the night that she got Miroki to dress up as an angel, though that really didn't suit the young fighter at all. Miroki's mind was too filled with questions to think of those times. Though Miroki had a sinking filling that Kara knew what was going on.

"You know, that was the sweetest thing I've ever heard," Kara murmured, opening her locker.

Miroki frowned, but Kara could tell she was flushing, "Kara did you know…"

"Yea, after all people come up to me to sign up, that is unless I'm being picked, but I doubt it."

"I can't believe that, it's nice. So, where are you headed?" Miroki changed the subject.

Kara shrugged, "To my room I guess, I'm going to work on my acting skills, and then on my shooting skills with Heero, and then Trowa. I'll be meeting you later to pilot the Leos."

"I'll come with you."

The girls left for the dorm, not talking much. Miroki was studying the flowers she had gotten. For the last week since the mock mission the girls had been working together on their training. Learning how to pilot a Leo was new to them, but they caught on, fortunately.

Miroki seemed to do very well, and adapted to the fact, she could almost fight the same way she could if she wasn't in a Leo. Attacking head on, she was quick and strong. On the ground, most people would swear that Miroki was dangerous. She would often spar with Wufei, hand-to-hand rather than to use any weapons. Even, if she did, it had to be something that would give Miroki a speed advantage; to Miroki speed was the key. Could always count on Miroki to be there, to fight right beside them.

Kara was a bit different from her friend. Weapons were her choice, being of good aim she liked shooting at the target, and could figure out which shot could bring the enemy down the fastest. Using a thermal sword was her second choice in fighting, it was kind of fun in Kara's mind to spar with Heero using the thermal sword. She also gained a love for flying, which was strange, because Kara use to not like heights very much. One could always count on Kara to watch their backs.

Kara sighed, the last few days had been long ones, and today was going to be no different. Opening the door, Kara blinked once, then again, there was something on her bed. Miroki notice it too, it was moving. Walking up the thing as Kara called it, it was small, furry, with a light orange coat, and darker orange stripes. She poked it gently; the thing woke up, looked at Kara with green eyes. It rolled on it's back, showing white belly and giving the girls a definite 'meow'.

"It's a cat," Miroki stated after awhile.

Kara picked the small cat, "It's a kitten, a really young one at that."

Kara noticed there was a note on the bed. Sitting down, she put the kitten on her lap, patting it, while reading the note. Miroki watched the kitten and noted that it had a red ribbon tied around its neck.

"So, what does the note say?" Miroki asked, petting the kitten.

Kara read aloud, "Hope you like the kitten, and that he keeps you company during the night," Kara flipped the note back and forth, "Strange… no name on it."

"Are you going to keep it?"

Kara smiled, and cuddled it, "Of course! Let's see, I'll call you Jasper, you're so cute!"

The kitten gave a happy purr.

Chang Wufei frowned; it was because of the girls. Sure they were on time, dressed for training, not that it was going to be anything too hard. In fact it was normal, it was just Kara. There seemed to be an orange ball of fur on Kara's shoulder. Duo saw this and looked confused, Quatre smiled secretly, while Trowa had this hint that he knew something about that orange fur.

"Winters, what's that on your shoulder?" Wufei frowned, eyeing the ball of fur.

Kara looked to her shoulder, the kitten looked back at her, "My cat."

Duo scratched his head, "Isn't your cat black Kara?"

"This one I just got," Kara explained, as the kitten climbed on her head.

"Winters… we don't have time, for you to get another cat!" Wufei growled.

Kara snapped back, "This little neko happens to be a gift, and Jasper is staying whether to like it or not!"

"You can't…" Wufei spluttered.

"I can! I like this kitty, and he's staying. If anything happens to my kitten I'll take it out on your hide!"

Trowa took the kitten from Kara's head, it purred, rubbing against his chest, "She sounds serious Wufei."

"So, who gave you the kitten?" Duo asked.

Kara shrugged, "I don't know, someone just put it there," and then glares at Wufei, "And he's staying!"

Miroki figures it best to change the subject, "So, has anyone seen Heero or Quatre?"

Duo shook his head, "Heero said there was something he needed to do, and Quatre said there was something he had to get."

"I wonder what that is…" Kara thinks to herself.

Meanwhile, somewhere in a really nice house, Heero was wandering through the hallway. Sure he could not do this; sure he could probably hack into Miroki's computer and delete those files, and then burn the hardcopies. Sure he could say they were bluffing, or just threaten their lives, but no. He agreed to do this. After all, why agree to play a silly game? He was the Perfect Soldier; he shouldn't be doing this, playing this childish and stupid game. Yet, there he was, walking through Relena Peacecraft's house, looking for her room to give her, her gift. Something in which he was going to do, till he tells Relena it's him and then he will take her to the dance club. It was impossible to figure out why he agreed to this, he even spent sometime picking out the gift. Yes, this was getting to him, in everyway possible. His thoughts stopped, as he reached her room. From what he was able to gather, Relena wouldn't be back for another few hours. He carefully placed the small angel figure on the nightstand and left for the school. Though he wouldn't admit it to himself, he was quite curious on how Relena would react finding the statue.

Meanwhile Hilde was getting ready to leave for Relena's place, when she noticed there was something lying on the table. Thinking that once again, she left her car keys on the table, she went to grab it. Only did after she left the house, did Hilde realize that it wasn't keys she grabbed, but a necklace. It was a simple silver necklace with a heart pendent, and wings sticking out of it. Also if she shook the pendent, she could hear the sound of a bell inside. Hilde smiled, it was cute, but she wondered who could have left it. The only thing she didn't grab, which was on the table, was a little note, with just two hearts, and in childish writing, saying 'I Love You'.

Sally had just come back from Toronto, finally. She was staying in one of the dorms in the school. After all, they would need a doctor now that the mission was fully on the way. Opening the door to her room, she noticed there was something different about it. Nothing was missing; something was there, that there wasn't before. Something that was out of place in her room. On her bed was a teddy bear, a black one, holding a toy sword between its stubbly arms. There was no note, nothing to say whom it was from, or why it was there. Sally smiled; the bear was kind of cute.

Back inside the dorm, Wufei was sitting on a chair, with Jasper sleeping soundly on another chair beside him. The pilot glared at the kitten, which had no idea what was going on. Trowa and Kara were in the middle of the room. Now acting like an Oz soldier, or acting like a normal person Kara could handle, but Trowa and Quatre found something out. Neither girl could dance, or do a waltz in this case. Miroki could slow dance, that she didn't mind, but Kara wasn't the dancing type. Miroki looked down at her feet, as Quatre slowing went through the steps with her. Trowa was doing the same with Kara. Duo had left with Noin to see if anything new had come up. While Heero just came back, the sight was something to be seen. After, he just came back from Relena's. Seeing Trowa, Quatre, Kara and Miroki dance, while Wufei for some strange reason was glaring at a ball of fur. Heero sat next to the ball of fur.

"Wufei, why are you glaring at a ball of fur?" Heero asked, looked at the orange lump, then at Wufei.

"That ball of fur is Kara's new cat. Claims someone gave it to her, but she doesn't know who," Wufei growled.

Jasper simply looked at Wufei, and then rolled on it's back.

"She's going to keep it?"

Wufei nodded, "She's insists on keeping the neko."

Jasper meowed, stretching itself out.

"It'll get in the way."

"I know that!" Wufei snapped, "But Winters said that if anything happened to Jasper, she would take it out on my hide."

"Jasper?"

"It's name."

Heero nods, "She must really like it. Kara doesn't normally threaten anyone like that."

Kara smiled as she finally got the moves down, it was hard to dance. At least for her, in any case.

"Relax, you're too stiff," Trowa states.

"I can't…" Kara shakes her head.

"People will notice if you're too stiff, you have to force yourself to relax. Even if you know you happen to be dancing with one of the top commanding officers in Oz," Trowa replies back, "It maybe hard, but you might have to do this."

Kara nods, forcing herself to relax, "Will we have to do something like this?"

"Better, probably we will. Sometimes the most critical of attacks are talked about during balls or parties, when they let their guard down. Just remember, act like you have no clue what's going on, but keep an ear out. It just depends on how cautious or how drunk your dance partner happens to be."

Days passed after that day, to the surprise of everyone. Gifts were still being given, and every day it came close to Valentine's Day.

Relena was starting to wonder who this person could be, while her brother started to become furious over the fact that this stranger could get pass the guards. Milliardo had a sinking feeling on who the person was, after all, who else could get pass the guards like that? Relena had the same feeling too, though she quickly passed if off. He would not do such a thing, it wasn't him, and it wasn't his way of showing emotion. She had no idea how wrong she was. Heero was starting to get into this, if he had time, he would wait outside to watch Relena discover the next gift. Now all he had to do was figure out the best way to finish the whole thing off. Heero smirked at himself, to think he had finally given in, and admitted to himself of all people that he did love her. Still Miroki and Kara would have to pay for blackmailing him, even if they did do a good thing. A gasped of delight brought his attention to the window. Relena smiled as she saw the roses, true not the most original idea, but it'll have to do. After all he was running out of ideas by now, though Quatre was kind enough to lend some advice.

"Not bad… I bet Quatre told you to do that," a voice commented from behind.

Heero turned around to see Kara there, smiling, "I didn't hear you."

"You weren't suppose to, at least those lessons are paying off," Kara murmured, then under her breath, "But I can't hear him coming, even if he was breathing down my neck."

"I presume you're talking about Trowa?" Heero looked back at the window.

"Yes, one of these days he is going to make me very paranoid at the rate this is going," Kara sighed.

Heero wouldn't let Kara see, but he was smiling, "What happened this time?"

"I was at target practice, after I finished Trowa commented on how I was doing and scared the living day lights out of me," she then added, "Again."

"So?"

"He was standing there for a whole half an hour! Five minutes after I'm done he didn't say anything, and my back was probably inches from him! Inches Heero! You can't get any closer than that," Kara sighed again, remembering turning around and seeing how close she was. Also Trowa was a good head taller than her, didn't help any.

"Hn."

"He's worse than you Heero, you're quiet, but at least you get this presence that you're around," Kara muttered watching Relena, and Milliardo. Milliardo was probably yelling how she could trust this stranger.

"Maybe you don't want to sense his presence," Heero suggested.

Kara looked at him, "What?"

Heero watched, "Maybe for you, you feel so comfortable around him, that you don't notice because he's not a threat to you."

"I can't believe I'm hearing this from you Heero."

"Life's full of surprises, but think about it."

Kara jumped down from her place in the tree, she shook her head, and left for the school. Heero just shrugged; of course he knew that Kara was going to get another shock of her life. He went back to watching Milliardo yelling at the guards for letting him get pass them. Nodding Heero noted that he should after taking Relena out, tell Milliardo to get better bodyguards. Kara walked down the hallways of the school, as usual. She was going to her locker, though there wasn't much point to, after all school was out, but she felt like it. Opening her locker Kara stared in, she wasn't surprised; a smile crawled up her lips. After a few days of this, neither girl was surprise, but it was nice. More than nice, really, Miroki was getting surprise after surprise, and of course Kara helped some. Inside the locker was a honey coloured teddy bear dressed up in a red and white clown costume, sitting on top of a box of chocolates. The bear was holding a note.

"Meet you soon, don't go hyper from eating the chocolate," Kara grinned.

She looked up seeing that Nick seemed to be having trouble with something.

"Hey! Nick!" Kara yelled across the hall.

Nick quickly shoved whatever it was, back in his locker, "What's up Kara?"

"How many more days till Valentine's Day?"

"About four more, why?"

"Just wondering," Kara looked back at the note, and nodded, "See you soon…"

Kara skipped back to her dorm, instead of going to her room, she went into Miroki's. Miroki was looking through the mirror, she had her back turned to it, and was trying to see something behind her. That's when Kara saw the pretty three clear roses, accented with gold, and set in a barrette. Her friend was trying to see how it would look in her hair.

"Let me guess, the secret admirer?" Kara used a hand mirror to show Miroki what it looked like.

"Yep! It's so sweet, and pretty," Miroki studied it.

Jasper was on the table, taking a swing at Miroki's long hair.

Kara picked Jasper up in one hand and the box of chocolates in another, "Chocolate?"

"Where did you get that?" Miroki asked.

"In my locker, along with this clown teddy bear," Kara took a piece, as Jasper perched on her shoulder.

Miroki eyed the kitten, "You really like that cat, don't you?"

"Sure, Jasper and the teddy bear reminds me of someone," Kara replied.

Miroki grinned, "And that would be…"

"Uh… Trowa," Kara flushed.

"Did you need something?" a voiced asked behind her.

Kara turned stared at a gray-blue shirt, before looking up, to see Trowa there. She jumped disturbing Jasper, whom jumped into Trowa's arms.

"For crying out loud! That's the second time you've scared me like that!" Kara growled.

Miroki tried not to giggle, "Second time?"

"Don't ask, Trowa how long have you been standing there?" Kara asked, praying it wasn't before Miroki asked about the cat.

"Since Miroki asked about the cat," Trowa answered.

Kara blushed furiously at that, "… I-I…"

"Chang Wufei! I am not being a love sick onna!" a voice screamed from the hallway.

Everyone looked at the door, and quickly went to see what the yelling was about. Outside, Sally was yelling at Wufei while Wufei was smirking. Kara leaned her head against the door, Miroki sighed, while Trowa just watched.

"Yes you are, you even put that teddy bear on you desk onna," Wufei replied.

Kara frowned, "Has anyone noticed that he refers most of us by our last names, but Sally by her first or onna?"

"Yes."

Sally stomped her foot, "Look here Chang! This guy is at least nice enough to leave me notes, asking how I am!"

Miroki giggled, "She has no idea…"

"Oh dear, this is shaping up to be something else," Kara murmured.

"Why doesn't he just ask you in person?" Wufei snapped back.

"Do you think he's planned all of this?" Miroki asked.

Kara shrugged, "Maybe, I've noticed their fights have increased since this whole Valentine thing started."

"What's he trying to do?"

"Only Kami knows."

"Because that's not how it goes! It's Secret Valentine!" Sally yelled back.

Wufei growled, "It's stupid! You don't even know who it is!"

"Whoever it is! He's definably nicer than you!" With that Sally stormed away.

"She's going to be in the shock of her life," Trowa stated after both parties had left.

Kara nods, "No kidding, in four days everything will fall into place, and then the real date begins…"

Author's Note: You know, it's never taken me three parts to get to the same point. The third part will be (hopefully) be something worth waiting for. Hoped you all liked it so far.

Thank you Female Mewtwo, she has been bugging me, and bugging me about Trowa and Kara, so I'm working on that see… Okay, and, well she's just a bit upset I haven't be working on those two, but I am, so there.

So, will Miroki's plan work? What about the others? How is everyone going to react? Will Milliardo throw a fit when he finds out about Relena's Secret Valentine? Next time on Wing School!