CARL P- I don't think I can say anything except that I'm sorry. I emailed
my friend and asked her to help me write a short bit between Usagi and
Wufei, and that was what she sent back, I have never heard of 'Give A
Reason' before. Once again, I'm sorry. I wanted to thank Req-chan who
reminded me that I kept jumping back and forth from calling the Silver
Crystal the 'Crystal' and calling it the 'Ginzuishou'. Thanks, I noticed
that after I posted the last chapter, and decided to leave it alone. I'm
doing the same in this chapter. Also, to whoever told me that the correct
spelling of Hiiro's name was actually 'Heero'- I'm using the original
Japanese names- Thanks though. Arigato for reading my story! Review or
email akamoonsugar@yahoo.com. See ya next chapter! 10 reviews and then
I'll post it. -----Aka.
"Mission… Failed." Hiiro said, and put the gun to his head, pressing his finger on the trigger.
"Don't you dare!" Duo said through the communication system. Hiiro jumped about twenty feet into the air.
"Chikusyoo!" Hiiro swore in his native language. "What are you doing?" he demanded.
"Stopping you from making the worst decision of your life. Haven't you listened to everything she's told us? She's been through so much and lost so many people who were important to her, if you were to kill yourself she would do the same. We can't take the place of anyone in her past life but we can protect her from being hurt again."
Hiiro sighed inwardly. Duo had a point, but if he hadn't interrupted Hiiro would have shot himself.
"Hai." Hiiro said as he jumped out of the cockpit. He ran through the hanger area, and, not seeing Usagi, wandered into the few small hallways and rooms off the sides of it, the only other rooms there.
He opened each door, yelling for Usagi, and stopped. Usagi was sitting in one of the dark corners, crying softly.
"First Endymion, then Mamo-chan, and now-" her voice broke. "and now Hiiro. God, why?!" she begged, looking up at the ceiling as if she could see through it, past the sky and into the stars.
Hiiro silently walked over to her. She barely even looked up when she felt his warm arms wrap around her.
"Why?" she cried, burying her face into his chest. He tightened his hold on her.
"Usagi, I'm sorry." He told her. She looked up at him through watery eyes.
"I know you can't help fighting. At least I had nearly fourteen years of normal life before I had to fight."
"It's all I know, all I was raised to do. I had no idea it would hurt you so much. I guess- I guess to have you I can't have fighting. I can't give you up, so I will give up fighting." Hiiro finished. Usagi shook her head.
"Iie, you can't give it up. I was wrong to ask you to give up fighting. I became attached to fighting as well, and if I had ever had to stop, or had given it up, I wouldn't have known what to do with myself. I hated it, but I couldn't stop. The worst thing about fighting was also the best. That thrill, that rush of adrenaline every time I destroyed an enemy. And now I crave it…" she cried, once more burying her face. Hiiro rocked her back and forth, cradling her like a baby.
"Crave what, Usagi?" Hiiro asked.
"The feel of welding a weapon. The feeling of…" she looked away, ashamed. "Winning. Killing. Power." She said, turning her back to him. "I'm forgetting everything the Senshi tried so hard to teach me, everything I've learned about fighting. And it's killing me that they worked so hard to help me improve my fighting and now I'm acting as if it never even happened. And when that sicko attacked me- if that had happened in the twentieth century, I would have known how to defend myself at lest a little. And now I know I can't…" she broke off, sobbing.
"It's okay, Usagi. I used to feel the same way about the rush when I first began on missions. But I hid it because I was trained to ignore it. We'll help you, don't worry. We'll help."
"Now, Usagi, this is where we'll start." Hiiro said, leading her through the forest a week later. They came to a large, hidden clearing. Trowa sat in one area cleaning a large set of guns. Duo stood off to one side with two smooth poles about 4 feet long. Wufei sat on the opposite side of the clearing, meditating. Quatre sat on the arm of Sandrock, typing something on his laptop which was connected by a cord to the cockpit.
"What are we doing?" Usagi asked.
"First you'll go to Wufei. Then, Duo. Then come to Trowa and I, and we'll all help you when you go to Quatre. Don't worry, it doesn't matter how long it takes. We'll help you and then maybe you can help us." Hiiro told her. She nodded, and headed over to Wufei.
"What we doing?" she asked, pulling off her jacket. Underneath she wore pair of tight black exercise shorts, and a white spaghetti strap shirt, and trainers.
"Hand- to- hand combat. Martial arts." Wufei said simply. "How much did you know?"
"I dunno, I just learned whatever Haruka-san could teach me." Usagi said.
"Alright. I'm going to attack you. Block me and fight back. We'll see how long you last and go from there, onna." Wufei said.
'Inward Sigh Well he's still calling me onna but at least he lost the "weak" part.' So wrapped up in her thoughts was she that she didn't see Wufei's fist coming straight at her nose. It stopped an inch from her face. She looked to Wufei, shocked.
"Lesson 1: Pay attention." Wufei said. Usagi nodded, and got in a defensive stance.
Wufei threw another punch at her. This time she was ready, and grabbed his fist, twisting it around and up toward his shoulder, while trying to sweepkick him at the same time. Wufei jumped over her outstretched leg and flipped her using her own force.
"Owww…" Usagi groaned as she lay flat on her back. Wufei pressed his foot to her throat, putting pressure on the delicate skin until she began to gasp for breath.
"Lesson 2: Pain is just a state of mind." He said. Usagi lifted her legs and locked them in front of him and quickly sat up, sending him crashing to the ground, leaving him pinned. He grabbed her thigh and flipped her over him, and flipped himself with her, putting her in a headlock. She twisted and turned for a moment or two under him before he released her and stood up.
"It's a good start." He said, and began to show her some manuvers.
"Wufei… please… can we… stop?!" Usagi begged after an hour of being shown skills and two hours of pure nonstop fighting. Wufei had to admit, she was good.
"Yeah." He said, sitting down next to her for a moment. "I think you knew a lot from your earlier training." Wufei said. (I know, Ooc.) "Go to Duo now." Usagi nodded, and grabbed her water bottle, gulping it down as she walked over to Duo's side of the clearing. She had watched him earlier, practicing a kata-like training manuver. She knew that just watching, dancing with a stick looked stupid. But if used the right way, she also knew it could be deadly.
"Okay. You hold it like this, to begin with." Duo explained, showing her. She grasped the smooth wooden pole that Duo had given her.
"Like this?" she asked. Duo shook his head and moved behind her, putting his arms around her and positioning them correctly. Hiiro watched jealously from the shadows.
'Watch it, Duo-baka.' He mentally slapped himself. 'Idiot! She needs to learn this. So what if he's helping her?! She needs this!'
"What kind of perfume is that, Usagi?" Duo asked as he bent near her ear to whisper "instructions".
"I don't wear perfume, Duo-kun." Usagi said, debating whether to move closer into his embrace or run from the warmth of his hard body.
"You even smell beautiful..." Duo trailed. Usagi blushed. "No matter what the others tell you, Usagi, remember this: I love you." Duo glanced over and spotted Hiiro in the shadows. He moved away from Usagi to begin her training.
"Okay, now, let's see how much you can pick up." Duo said, positioning himself in front of her.
"Hai." Usgai said, immediately missing his body heat and the smell of his musk.
"Owww not again. I'm really sick of being thrown on my back. I thought this would be the easy one." Usagi complained as she stood up again.
"No one ever said anything would be easy." Duo said, moving in to attack once more.
"Duo…" Usagi whined. "It's been an hour already, and I've beat you several times. Can't we stop the torture now?" she begged.
"You are getting pretty good…" Duo began. "Okay, go on over to Trowa and Hiiro." Usagi nodded, once again attacking her water bottle with vigor. She went over to where Hiiro and Trowa stood.
"What am I learning here?" She asked. Her eyes traveled to the guns lying on a tarp spread on the ground, and back to them.
"Uh-uh, no way, I am NOT learning how to fire a gun. That's where I fully draw the line!" she yelled at them.
"I'll handle this." Hiiro muttered to Trowa. He led her into the trees. After walking a moment or two, he stopped and pulled her with him behind a huge oak tree.
"What's the matter, Usa?" he asked, holding her close to him.
"I don't want to learn how to use a gun." Usagi said, turning her head away from him.
"But why, Usagi?" Hiiro begged.
"They're so destructive… people don't have any chance of fighting back." Usagi said. "It doesn't give them a fair chance at life." Hiiro nodded, thinking.
"Come with me." He said, leading her back to the clearing. Once there he whispered something to Trowa, who nodded and grabbed a machine gun from the ground.
"I'm going to prove to you that a person can fight back to a bullet." Hiiro said to her, standing in front of a tree about 30 ft from Trowa. Usagi's eyes widened.
'He's not going to-' her thoughts trailed off abruptly when Trowa pulled the trigger on the gun. A million thoughts ran through Usagi's mind, the most prominent being 'Jump! Save him! Baka, do something!'
What happened next, Usagi wasn't completely sure. But she did know none of the bullets ever hit Hiiro. He dodged and maneuvered so fast that it was over before it had started, even deflecting one bullet- that would have been deadly- with his gun.
"Shimatta!" Usagi exclaimed, hugging him.
"You're telling me- there's a dent in my gun." Hiiro said, smiling a little.
"Okay, Usagi, we've showed you how to aim and fire. Now aim at that tree over there with the bull's eye on it." Hiiro told her a little while later. Usagi put her tongue between her teeth, and carefully took aim….
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"Usagi sometime this year?!" Hiiro exclaimed. Usagi turned to him.
"Thanks now I'm gonna have to start all over!" She cried. Trowa rolled his eyes heavenward. Usagi took aim again….
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And pulled the trigger. Then next thing she knew, she was sitting in the dirt on her butt.
"Oww… I am so SICK of being knocked on my butt."
Finally, after Usagi could at least shoot a target pretty dead-on without being knocked over, it was getting dark.
"Alright." Hiiro said. "That's enough for today. We'll camp here and work on these techniques some more tomorrow." Usagi flopped onto the ground next to the campfire Duo had built in between dodging stray bullets. She stretched out and moaned. Hiiro watched the sexy movement with smoky eyes. Usagi sat back up after a moment.
"Now what do you me to help you with?" she asked.
"We would like your help on some of our missions. OZ has somehow managed to get their hands on Gundanium Alloy, the material used to make Gundams. The only way to destruct it is from the inside, self-destruction. We haven't yet found another way to destruct it, but we had hoped that maybe you could…" Hiiro trailed off. Usagi nodded, thinking.
"Do you have some? Can I try?" Usagi inquired. Trowa stood and walked into one of the extra tents, emerging a few moments later with a large hunk of the silver-grey metal. Usagi walked back a few steps and pulled her transformation brooch out of her subdimensional pocket. She cried out her transformation words, and soon Sailor Moon stood in the clearing.
"Okay, Usagi, just relax, and you know, do whatever you do." Duo told her.
Sailor Moon took a deep breath.
"Moon Tiara... Magic!" she cried, lifting her headpiece off and sending it flying towards the metal. It left a dent, but came flying back without destroying it. The pilots looked disappointed, but Sailor Moon reassured them.
"If that was the best attack I had, then I would have been dead in my second battle. You're the ones who need to relax." she told them, and they loosened up some. Pulling out her wand, she pointed it at the metal, suddenly feeling the need to give a speech.
"Moon Scepter... Elimination!" Again, it didn't do much.
(AN: I'm just going to pretend like she can call on all of her old wands, OK?)
"Moon Princess... Halucination!" Nothing.
"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Nothing.
She continued to hurl energy at the hulk of metal until she finally got frustrated.
"Eternal Moon POWER!" she cried, turning into Eternal Sailor Moon. After none of those worked either, she turned to them.
"Okay, none of these are working, obviously." Looking at their faces, which were going from disappointment to despairity, she spoke again.
"I do know something that will work." At this, the five heads snapped up from looking at the ground.
She concentrated hard with her eyes closed. A bright light flashed, and the jewel floated in her hands.
"Cosmic Moon Power..." she whispered, turning back to the metal. A beam of light shot out of the sphere, engulfing the Gundanium Alloy. Little moans were heard as they watched Usagi struggle to keep her hands in front of her. She began to sink to her knees, fighting to keep the Crystal in her hands. "I call upon the power of Selene..." she whispered. The boys saw her lips moving but did not hear her. A moment later, the hulk of Alloy discintigrated before their eyes. Shocked, they turned back to Usagi. She swayed from side to side. Alarmed, Hiiro helped her sit down around the campfire again. It was now really dark, and getting extremely cold. Usagi cuddled in next to Hiiro and smiled as he wrapped his arm around her.
"Daijoubu ka?" Hiiro asked.
"Hai, daijoubu." Usagi whispered tiredly.
"That's amazing, Usagi-chan." Trowa said. Usagi nodded.
"Arigato. That wiped me out." She replied. Seeing their faces, she explained. "When I use the Crystal it draws from my energy. Being of Lunarian blood, I naturally have a lot of energy, but the Crystal uses so much of it that it makes me very tired. Being of Lunarian blood also means I have very good control over my energy and what I do with it."
"But doesn't that mean-? What if you used too much?" Trowa asked. Usagi sadly smiled.
"I have already told you about that. If I use too much energy, my body doesn't have enough left to support me. I've died several times because I haven't used my energy wisely."
"Oh." Trowa said. There was an uncomfortable silence.
"Hey let's play spin the bottle!" Duo exclaimed, grabbing a glass bottle from a nearby bag. "Whaddya say?" Duo asked, looking around at them all.
"Yeah let's play!" Usagi cried. The others slowly nodded in agreement. Duo grinned.
"Okay then, who spins first?" Duo asked as they sat down in a circle just outside the campfire.
"You can Duo-kun." Usagi told him. Duo grinned again and placed the bottle in the middle of their tightly-knit circle. He took a deep breath and spun the bottle….
"I am NOT kissing Wufei!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi shrugged.
"Sorry Duo, that's the rules." Quatre told him. Duo turned to his left, where the Chinese boy sat. Both leaning forward, they kissed for about two seconds before they pulled away.
"Okay now Quatre spins." Usagi said. Quatre sat to Duo's right. Quatre took the bottle and spun it….
When it landed, Hiiro turned a bright red. He moved nearer to Quatre, and they kissed just like Wufei and Duo had- short. Then Hiiro quickly returned to his seat next to Usagi and wrapped his arm around her as Trowa took the bottle.
"My turn." Trowa said as he spun it. It landed on Usagi, who was sitting to his right. Usagi blushed, and turned her face to Trowa. His hand caught her chin and he leaned toward her, pausing a centimeter from her face to say a quick prayer that Hiiro wouldn't kill him.
He bent lower and kissed her soft full lips. He teased her lips at first, but when Usagi wrapped her hands around his neck to bring him closer, he lost control and plunged his tongue, surprising Usagi. She groaned in pleasure as she returned the kiss with the same fiercity. Her tongued tangled with his as his hands explored the curves of her derriere.
The others watched in astonishment. Hiiro's eyes went dark with anger. 'Usagi, what are you doing? It's just a game! Trowa, why'd you have to kiss her like that? If you don't get your hands away from her butt in two seconds you're dead meat! Usagi, WILL YOU PLEASE COME UP FOR AIR ALREADY?'
Finally the two pulled apart. Wufei stopped the timer on his watch and read the time. Hiiro was shooting daggers at Trowa. Trowa shrugged and handed the bottle to Usagi.
She set the bottle down in front of her, and suddenly stood up.
"I'm going for a walk." She announced, and went off into the woods.
Wufei stood up a few minutes after Usagi left.
"I'm going to bed. If you value your life you will not disturb me." He said, disappearing into his tent. What the others couldn't see, however, was Wufei exiting the tent at the other side, vanishing into the dark woods.
Wufei followed the small trail Usagi had made, eventually catching up to her. She was looking up the stars as he went up to her and tapped her on the shoulder, startling her. She spun around.
"Wufei!" she exclaimed. "Why did you follow me?"
He didn't respond, just looked down intensely into her eyes.
"Wufei you're scaring me." Usagi joked, backing away from him slowly.
"You remind me of someone… Who is it?!" he asked more to himself then to her. "WHO?! Who do you remind me of?!" he begged, holding her arms and shaking her a bit.
********FLASHBACK********
Wufei ran down the hall of the hospital, dodging the disapproving glances he got from the nurses walking there. He knocked on a certain door, and after a moment or two it opened, and he slipped inside.
"Hello." he said. "Is this the baby?" he said, looking at the baby the nurse held, who seemed strangely alert of everything around her
"Hai." The tall woman with long hair replied, placing the baby carefully in his arms. "Take her and go. Oh, and give this to Dr. M, and tell him I'll see him soon, okay?" she said, handing him a manilla envelope.
"Yes." he said with a nod. "Goodbye!" he called, and then ran back down the hall. Once he got a moment to stop and catch his breath, he looked down at his charge.
"Hello there, little Princess. Your eyes… they're the bluest color…" he noted, staring deeply into them. He had the oddest feeling that the baby was staring back.
********Back to Reality********
Wufei moved closer and closer to Usagi.
"Just before you came here I was sent on a mission. I had to abduct a baby. She had your same eyes… so intense…" His eyes became darker than ever, completely black.
"Wufei what's going on?" Usagi asked as she backed away even furthur. Wufei continued to follow her.
"Come on Wufei this isn't funny." she said nervously, and stopped backing up. "What's wrong?" she then asked seriously.
"Usagi…" he mumbled, moving close to her. She could see his eyes were glazed over. He placed his hand gently behind her neck and kissed her softly on the lips. When she began to respond, he deepened the kiss, drawing her closer to him. She did not make any motion to move away from his embrace for quite some time.
"Wufei…" she panted, pulling away. He looked down at her with the same intense stare as he had before. "I shouldn't-we shouldn't have… I should go." She whispered, pulling away and running through the woods. Wufei shook his head.
"Onnas." He remarked before heading back in the direction of the campsite.
Usagi ran through the woods, tripping over roots and fallen branches. Each time she tripped she grabbed for something, usually another tree branch. Finally she stopped running, and sat down to think.
'I wonder what's taking Usagi so long.' Hiiro thought as he lay under the blankets piled in Usagi's tent. He was dressed only in boxers and was waiting patiently for Usagi to come.
'Usagi should be back by now. I want to finish what we started in the forest.' Wufei thought. He crept out of his tent and made his way around the backs of the tents until he reached Usagi's. Wufei lifted the back flap and crawled in under the blankets. Sure enough, someone was there waiting.
Usagi re-entered the circle of tents, and noticed two still had lights on in them. She took a stick and began to stoke the fire a bit for heat.
Hiiro shuffled closer to the other body. He reached up to "Usagi"'s face, and touched two fingers to her lips. Then he replaced his fingers with his lips…
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Usagi stood up and spun around. The screaming was coming from HER tent. As Duo, Trowa, and Quatre emerged from their tents, she grabbed the flaps and opened them.
"HIIRO? WUFEI?" she asked incredously.
"I didn't know you two had a thing for each other." Duo commented. Hiiro pulled a gun out and aimed it at Duo.
"Omae o kursoso." He stated.
"Hiiro. Chill." Usagi said.
"Wufei what were you doing in Usagi's tent?" Trowa asked suspiciously.
"For that matter what is Hiiro doing in Usagi's tent?" Quatre asked.
The two decided not to answer.
"I don't care anymore. I'm tired. I wanna sleep. Get out." Usagi said, punctuating her words with a yawn. Hiiro and Wufei left promptly.
Usagi crawled under her covers and fell asleep.
Next morning…
Hiiro sat eating scrambled eggs and typing away furiously on his laptop. He nearly spit his eggs out again when he read an email from the scientests.
"We have a mission. All of us." He announced, causing all other conversation to stop.
"What is it?" Usagi asked. "How long will you be gone?" Hiiro shook his head.
"When I said all of us, I meant all of us. You too, Usagi. We have to retrieve some documents from Trieze's computer. Not an easy task. Here are the details…" he went on.
"Whoah. Sounds like no easy smash-and-grab type thing." Duo commented when Hiiro had finished.
"Alright we leave in half an hour. Lets get ready." Hiiro said. When the others drifted off, Hiiro pulled Usagi into his tent.
"Here, put this on." He said, giving her some clothes. He left the tent for a minute, and re-entered when she had it on. Usagi wore a pair of tight nylon black flare pants and soft-soled black shoes. She also wore a tight black shirt. Hiiro gave her a black vest and she put it on. Then Hiiro pulled out a few guns and began to place them about her person. One went on either side of her hips, another went against the small of her back at her waistband. Two guns and ammo cartridges went on wide black straps around her upper thighs (Think Lara Croft). A small pistol went in the tops of each of her shoes. Hiiro also gave her a semi-sized gun to hold.
"You're ready." Hiiro finally declared. Usagi smiled nervously as they joined the others around where the fire used to be.
"Sorry we didn't get to finish training, Usagi." Quatre told her apologetically as they began to walk through the woods.
"It's okay." Usagi said.
"But listen Usagi they taught you how to hold a gun, if not fire rapidly. So if you run into an OZ officer, just point the gun at him- make sure the safety is off first- and bluff. Tell him if he moves you'll shoot him. He should believe you. If not, fire one bullet. Like a warning, okay?" Duo finished. Usagi nodded.
"Hai." She replied as they came to the small clearing where the Gundams were hidden. A few minutes later they were flying out into space to find Treize's ship.
"Wow… It's so big…" Usagi said as they approached the ship.
"We're not going to get in there without a fight." Duo noted over the communications system.
"Why don't I just make the Gundams invisible?" Usagi asked.
"Honto?!"
"Huh?"
"What?"
"You can do that?"
"….." All came from the comm system.
"I can try." Usagi shrugged. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. A silver light washed through the cockpit of each of the Gundams. A minute or two later, Usagi opened her eyes and leaned back against Hiiro.
"I did it." She whispered. "The Gundams are invisible. We won't be when we get out of them but the actual Gundams are."
"Great!" Duo exclaimed.
"Good job, Usagi." Wufei told her.
"Thank you." Quatre added.
"Doomo arigato, Usa-chan." Hiiro whispered huskily in her ear, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before shutting down his now-invisble Gundam into an empty hanger module set into the side of the ship.
"Okay lets go." Hiiro said as the last of the five pilots jumped to the ground. They each nodded, each drew a gun from their belts. Usagi still held the one she had been given for that purpose. They crept to the only door leading out. Hiiro signaled for them to be silent, and slowly opened the door, and seeing the empty hallway, they each dashed through the door quickly.
They made their way through the hallway at as fast a pace as they could go without making too much noise. Suddenly Usagi pulled Hiiro behind a outcrop in the wall. The others, behind them, followed suit quickly.
"There's a camera right around the corner." Usagi said with her eyes closed. "Check and see if I'm wrong."
Quatre pulled out a small hand-held computer. Typing quickly, he nodded. Hiiro furrowed his brow.
"See how many there are." Hiiro said. After a few seconds, Quatre replied.
"Over a thousand, but we'll only run into 432 on our current route."
"Too many to shoot out, they'll be able to track our route based on which cameras go out." Trowa noted. The others nodded in agreement.
"Give me the computer." Hiiro suddenly said. Quatre handed it over, and Hiiro began typing furiously. Soon, the lights flickered and died.
"What the hell did you do Yuy?!" Wufei exclaimed. Hiiro shrugged.
"I knocked out all power supplies except those needed for the oxygen. Let's go." The Perfect Soldier replied. They made their way quickly down the hall.
A few moments later, the lights flickered back on.
"Shit Hiiro what happened?" Duo exxclaimed.
"Emergency power supply." Hiiro stated before grabbing Quatre's computer again.
"Fei-chan's a wimp, Fei-chan's a wimp..." Usagi mocked the Chinese boy as she danced around him. Wufei's eyes became clouded with anger and he grabbed her arm, about to yell at her.
"Who are you?!" A soldier demanded as a group of four of grey-clad soldiers with large guns turned the corner ahead and came across the six. They raised their guns and aimed carefully, holding the six under careful scrutiny. Usagi glanced around. Wufei still had his hand on her arm from when she had insulted him a moment before the soldiers had found them.
"Please," she whimpered, batting her innocent blue eyes at the leader of the group. "He hurt me. Please, help me!" she begged. The leader of the group of soldiers thought for a moment, then looked at Usagi closely. He nodded.
"Sir, remove your hand. Miss, walk over here slowly." The man said. Wufei pulled his hand away, giving Usagi a death glare. She walked over to the group of soldiers and stood behind the leader. She gave them a quick wink before leaping into action. She kicked the leader in the groin from behind at the same time as punching the nearest soldier in the face. Two shots rang out and the other two were on the ground.
"Bingo." Hiiro said suddenly, and the lights went out once more. Wufei caught Usagi's arm once more and pulled her with him.
"Real smart, Usagi, real smart." he said warningly. "Be careful, please, Usagi." Then he pulled her into a hug and whispered the few words she never thought she'd hear from his mouth.
"Wo ai ni, Usagi. I love you."
"We're here." Hiiro said harshly, leading Usagi away from Wufei.
"3...2...1..." Hiiro mouthed silently, and they burst into the office, guns raised.
Treize sat behind his desk. All of the lights were on in his office.
"Get up, Treize. Hands up." Duo said, motioning with his gun. Treize moved slowly- under Duo's careful eyes- to a corner.
Hiiro sat down and popped a disk into Treize's computer. He began typing.
Usagi looked around. She wandered around the room, looking at everything. She was looking at a picture near the door when Hiiro called out across the room.
"Usagi, lock the door while you're there. Duo, come look at this for a second." Usagi turned to lock the door. At the same moment, Duo walked to the desk, leaving Treize unprotected. In those few moments when Duo's back was turned, Treize pulled out a hidden gun and fired two shots. Usagi was locking the bottom of the two locks when she felt pain ripping through her body.
"Usagi!" Five young men screamed out at the same time as she turned and dropped to the floor. Hiiro was the only one who didn't run to her side. He grabbed Trieze and slammed him against the wall, pressing his gun to the older man's head.
"Hiiro... Please... Don't hurt him." Usagi asked weakly as her blood began to stain the floors a brilliant red.
"Usagi, don't talk and keep still. You can get past this." Quatre told her as Trowa began to press his hands firmly on the two places where the bullet had pierced her body. Hiiro looked at Treize.
"You're lucky right now. I won't kill you in front of her. She's too innocent, too pure to see this. So here's the deal. When you wake up, I'll be gone. But I'll be back soon. I promise." He said with a voice that would scare the devil. Then, with one quick movement, he ensured that Treize would sleep for the next 12 hours.
"Usagi you can heal yourself!" Wufei exclaimed. Usagi shook her head.
"No... I can't..." Usagi whimpered as Hiiro knelt next to her on the floor. He gently lifted her head into his lap, although her golden hair was already red with blood.
"I don't have... the energy... left... I don't have... the... will... left... to live..." She replied, coughing up blood after every few words.
"We can give you the energy, Usagi, just tell us what to do!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi coughed again, then tried to clear her throat.
"Remember how I said Lunarians have a lot of energy? cough You five would die if you gave me the amount needed to power the Crystal for only a few moments." Usagi replied weakly.
"Usagi I would gladly give up my life for you." Trowa said, smiling sadly.
"Me, too." "As would I." "Ditto." "I would, too." The others added.
"I won't allow it. I love you all like brothers... but one I love more..."
"Who do you love, Usagi?" Quatre asked gently. Usagi tried to answer, but instead turned her head and vomited blood.
"Who is it, onna?" Wufei demanded. Usagi took as deep a breath as she could, and choked on the air.
"I'm... sorry... Aishiteru..."
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Is it who you think it is? Or has she been playing them all from the beginning? It may not be who you're expecting. It probably isn't who you're expecting. Then again, maybe you know exactly where I'm going with this. Maybe...........................................
"Mission… Failed." Hiiro said, and put the gun to his head, pressing his finger on the trigger.
"Don't you dare!" Duo said through the communication system. Hiiro jumped about twenty feet into the air.
"Chikusyoo!" Hiiro swore in his native language. "What are you doing?" he demanded.
"Stopping you from making the worst decision of your life. Haven't you listened to everything she's told us? She's been through so much and lost so many people who were important to her, if you were to kill yourself she would do the same. We can't take the place of anyone in her past life but we can protect her from being hurt again."
Hiiro sighed inwardly. Duo had a point, but if he hadn't interrupted Hiiro would have shot himself.
"Hai." Hiiro said as he jumped out of the cockpit. He ran through the hanger area, and, not seeing Usagi, wandered into the few small hallways and rooms off the sides of it, the only other rooms there.
He opened each door, yelling for Usagi, and stopped. Usagi was sitting in one of the dark corners, crying softly.
"First Endymion, then Mamo-chan, and now-" her voice broke. "and now Hiiro. God, why?!" she begged, looking up at the ceiling as if she could see through it, past the sky and into the stars.
Hiiro silently walked over to her. She barely even looked up when she felt his warm arms wrap around her.
"Why?" she cried, burying her face into his chest. He tightened his hold on her.
"Usagi, I'm sorry." He told her. She looked up at him through watery eyes.
"I know you can't help fighting. At least I had nearly fourteen years of normal life before I had to fight."
"It's all I know, all I was raised to do. I had no idea it would hurt you so much. I guess- I guess to have you I can't have fighting. I can't give you up, so I will give up fighting." Hiiro finished. Usagi shook her head.
"Iie, you can't give it up. I was wrong to ask you to give up fighting. I became attached to fighting as well, and if I had ever had to stop, or had given it up, I wouldn't have known what to do with myself. I hated it, but I couldn't stop. The worst thing about fighting was also the best. That thrill, that rush of adrenaline every time I destroyed an enemy. And now I crave it…" she cried, once more burying her face. Hiiro rocked her back and forth, cradling her like a baby.
"Crave what, Usagi?" Hiiro asked.
"The feel of welding a weapon. The feeling of…" she looked away, ashamed. "Winning. Killing. Power." She said, turning her back to him. "I'm forgetting everything the Senshi tried so hard to teach me, everything I've learned about fighting. And it's killing me that they worked so hard to help me improve my fighting and now I'm acting as if it never even happened. And when that sicko attacked me- if that had happened in the twentieth century, I would have known how to defend myself at lest a little. And now I know I can't…" she broke off, sobbing.
"It's okay, Usagi. I used to feel the same way about the rush when I first began on missions. But I hid it because I was trained to ignore it. We'll help you, don't worry. We'll help."
"Now, Usagi, this is where we'll start." Hiiro said, leading her through the forest a week later. They came to a large, hidden clearing. Trowa sat in one area cleaning a large set of guns. Duo stood off to one side with two smooth poles about 4 feet long. Wufei sat on the opposite side of the clearing, meditating. Quatre sat on the arm of Sandrock, typing something on his laptop which was connected by a cord to the cockpit.
"What are we doing?" Usagi asked.
"First you'll go to Wufei. Then, Duo. Then come to Trowa and I, and we'll all help you when you go to Quatre. Don't worry, it doesn't matter how long it takes. We'll help you and then maybe you can help us." Hiiro told her. She nodded, and headed over to Wufei.
"What we doing?" she asked, pulling off her jacket. Underneath she wore pair of tight black exercise shorts, and a white spaghetti strap shirt, and trainers.
"Hand- to- hand combat. Martial arts." Wufei said simply. "How much did you know?"
"I dunno, I just learned whatever Haruka-san could teach me." Usagi said.
"Alright. I'm going to attack you. Block me and fight back. We'll see how long you last and go from there, onna." Wufei said.
'Inward Sigh Well he's still calling me onna but at least he lost the "weak" part.' So wrapped up in her thoughts was she that she didn't see Wufei's fist coming straight at her nose. It stopped an inch from her face. She looked to Wufei, shocked.
"Lesson 1: Pay attention." Wufei said. Usagi nodded, and got in a defensive stance.
Wufei threw another punch at her. This time she was ready, and grabbed his fist, twisting it around and up toward his shoulder, while trying to sweepkick him at the same time. Wufei jumped over her outstretched leg and flipped her using her own force.
"Owww…" Usagi groaned as she lay flat on her back. Wufei pressed his foot to her throat, putting pressure on the delicate skin until she began to gasp for breath.
"Lesson 2: Pain is just a state of mind." He said. Usagi lifted her legs and locked them in front of him and quickly sat up, sending him crashing to the ground, leaving him pinned. He grabbed her thigh and flipped her over him, and flipped himself with her, putting her in a headlock. She twisted and turned for a moment or two under him before he released her and stood up.
"It's a good start." He said, and began to show her some manuvers.
"Wufei… please… can we… stop?!" Usagi begged after an hour of being shown skills and two hours of pure nonstop fighting. Wufei had to admit, she was good.
"Yeah." He said, sitting down next to her for a moment. "I think you knew a lot from your earlier training." Wufei said. (I know, Ooc.) "Go to Duo now." Usagi nodded, and grabbed her water bottle, gulping it down as she walked over to Duo's side of the clearing. She had watched him earlier, practicing a kata-like training manuver. She knew that just watching, dancing with a stick looked stupid. But if used the right way, she also knew it could be deadly.
"Okay. You hold it like this, to begin with." Duo explained, showing her. She grasped the smooth wooden pole that Duo had given her.
"Like this?" she asked. Duo shook his head and moved behind her, putting his arms around her and positioning them correctly. Hiiro watched jealously from the shadows.
'Watch it, Duo-baka.' He mentally slapped himself. 'Idiot! She needs to learn this. So what if he's helping her?! She needs this!'
"What kind of perfume is that, Usagi?" Duo asked as he bent near her ear to whisper "instructions".
"I don't wear perfume, Duo-kun." Usagi said, debating whether to move closer into his embrace or run from the warmth of his hard body.
"You even smell beautiful..." Duo trailed. Usagi blushed. "No matter what the others tell you, Usagi, remember this: I love you." Duo glanced over and spotted Hiiro in the shadows. He moved away from Usagi to begin her training.
"Okay, now, let's see how much you can pick up." Duo said, positioning himself in front of her.
"Hai." Usgai said, immediately missing his body heat and the smell of his musk.
"Owww not again. I'm really sick of being thrown on my back. I thought this would be the easy one." Usagi complained as she stood up again.
"No one ever said anything would be easy." Duo said, moving in to attack once more.
"Duo…" Usagi whined. "It's been an hour already, and I've beat you several times. Can't we stop the torture now?" she begged.
"You are getting pretty good…" Duo began. "Okay, go on over to Trowa and Hiiro." Usagi nodded, once again attacking her water bottle with vigor. She went over to where Hiiro and Trowa stood.
"What am I learning here?" She asked. Her eyes traveled to the guns lying on a tarp spread on the ground, and back to them.
"Uh-uh, no way, I am NOT learning how to fire a gun. That's where I fully draw the line!" she yelled at them.
"I'll handle this." Hiiro muttered to Trowa. He led her into the trees. After walking a moment or two, he stopped and pulled her with him behind a huge oak tree.
"What's the matter, Usa?" he asked, holding her close to him.
"I don't want to learn how to use a gun." Usagi said, turning her head away from him.
"But why, Usagi?" Hiiro begged.
"They're so destructive… people don't have any chance of fighting back." Usagi said. "It doesn't give them a fair chance at life." Hiiro nodded, thinking.
"Come with me." He said, leading her back to the clearing. Once there he whispered something to Trowa, who nodded and grabbed a machine gun from the ground.
"I'm going to prove to you that a person can fight back to a bullet." Hiiro said to her, standing in front of a tree about 30 ft from Trowa. Usagi's eyes widened.
'He's not going to-' her thoughts trailed off abruptly when Trowa pulled the trigger on the gun. A million thoughts ran through Usagi's mind, the most prominent being 'Jump! Save him! Baka, do something!'
What happened next, Usagi wasn't completely sure. But she did know none of the bullets ever hit Hiiro. He dodged and maneuvered so fast that it was over before it had started, even deflecting one bullet- that would have been deadly- with his gun.
"Shimatta!" Usagi exclaimed, hugging him.
"You're telling me- there's a dent in my gun." Hiiro said, smiling a little.
"Okay, Usagi, we've showed you how to aim and fire. Now aim at that tree over there with the bull's eye on it." Hiiro told her a little while later. Usagi put her tongue between her teeth, and carefully took aim….
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"Usagi sometime this year?!" Hiiro exclaimed. Usagi turned to him.
"Thanks now I'm gonna have to start all over!" She cried. Trowa rolled his eyes heavenward. Usagi took aim again….
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And pulled the trigger. Then next thing she knew, she was sitting in the dirt on her butt.
"Oww… I am so SICK of being knocked on my butt."
Finally, after Usagi could at least shoot a target pretty dead-on without being knocked over, it was getting dark.
"Alright." Hiiro said. "That's enough for today. We'll camp here and work on these techniques some more tomorrow." Usagi flopped onto the ground next to the campfire Duo had built in between dodging stray bullets. She stretched out and moaned. Hiiro watched the sexy movement with smoky eyes. Usagi sat back up after a moment.
"Now what do you me to help you with?" she asked.
"We would like your help on some of our missions. OZ has somehow managed to get their hands on Gundanium Alloy, the material used to make Gundams. The only way to destruct it is from the inside, self-destruction. We haven't yet found another way to destruct it, but we had hoped that maybe you could…" Hiiro trailed off. Usagi nodded, thinking.
"Do you have some? Can I try?" Usagi inquired. Trowa stood and walked into one of the extra tents, emerging a few moments later with a large hunk of the silver-grey metal. Usagi walked back a few steps and pulled her transformation brooch out of her subdimensional pocket. She cried out her transformation words, and soon Sailor Moon stood in the clearing.
"Okay, Usagi, just relax, and you know, do whatever you do." Duo told her.
Sailor Moon took a deep breath.
"Moon Tiara... Magic!" she cried, lifting her headpiece off and sending it flying towards the metal. It left a dent, but came flying back without destroying it. The pilots looked disappointed, but Sailor Moon reassured them.
"If that was the best attack I had, then I would have been dead in my second battle. You're the ones who need to relax." she told them, and they loosened up some. Pulling out her wand, she pointed it at the metal, suddenly feeling the need to give a speech.
"Moon Scepter... Elimination!" Again, it didn't do much.
(AN: I'm just going to pretend like she can call on all of her old wands, OK?)
"Moon Princess... Halucination!" Nothing.
"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Nothing.
She continued to hurl energy at the hulk of metal until she finally got frustrated.
"Eternal Moon POWER!" she cried, turning into Eternal Sailor Moon. After none of those worked either, she turned to them.
"Okay, none of these are working, obviously." Looking at their faces, which were going from disappointment to despairity, she spoke again.
"I do know something that will work." At this, the five heads snapped up from looking at the ground.
She concentrated hard with her eyes closed. A bright light flashed, and the jewel floated in her hands.
"Cosmic Moon Power..." she whispered, turning back to the metal. A beam of light shot out of the sphere, engulfing the Gundanium Alloy. Little moans were heard as they watched Usagi struggle to keep her hands in front of her. She began to sink to her knees, fighting to keep the Crystal in her hands. "I call upon the power of Selene..." she whispered. The boys saw her lips moving but did not hear her. A moment later, the hulk of Alloy discintigrated before their eyes. Shocked, they turned back to Usagi. She swayed from side to side. Alarmed, Hiiro helped her sit down around the campfire again. It was now really dark, and getting extremely cold. Usagi cuddled in next to Hiiro and smiled as he wrapped his arm around her.
"Daijoubu ka?" Hiiro asked.
"Hai, daijoubu." Usagi whispered tiredly.
"That's amazing, Usagi-chan." Trowa said. Usagi nodded.
"Arigato. That wiped me out." She replied. Seeing their faces, she explained. "When I use the Crystal it draws from my energy. Being of Lunarian blood, I naturally have a lot of energy, but the Crystal uses so much of it that it makes me very tired. Being of Lunarian blood also means I have very good control over my energy and what I do with it."
"But doesn't that mean-? What if you used too much?" Trowa asked. Usagi sadly smiled.
"I have already told you about that. If I use too much energy, my body doesn't have enough left to support me. I've died several times because I haven't used my energy wisely."
"Oh." Trowa said. There was an uncomfortable silence.
"Hey let's play spin the bottle!" Duo exclaimed, grabbing a glass bottle from a nearby bag. "Whaddya say?" Duo asked, looking around at them all.
"Yeah let's play!" Usagi cried. The others slowly nodded in agreement. Duo grinned.
"Okay then, who spins first?" Duo asked as they sat down in a circle just outside the campfire.
"You can Duo-kun." Usagi told him. Duo grinned again and placed the bottle in the middle of their tightly-knit circle. He took a deep breath and spun the bottle….
"I am NOT kissing Wufei!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi shrugged.
"Sorry Duo, that's the rules." Quatre told him. Duo turned to his left, where the Chinese boy sat. Both leaning forward, they kissed for about two seconds before they pulled away.
"Okay now Quatre spins." Usagi said. Quatre sat to Duo's right. Quatre took the bottle and spun it….
When it landed, Hiiro turned a bright red. He moved nearer to Quatre, and they kissed just like Wufei and Duo had- short. Then Hiiro quickly returned to his seat next to Usagi and wrapped his arm around her as Trowa took the bottle.
"My turn." Trowa said as he spun it. It landed on Usagi, who was sitting to his right. Usagi blushed, and turned her face to Trowa. His hand caught her chin and he leaned toward her, pausing a centimeter from her face to say a quick prayer that Hiiro wouldn't kill him.
He bent lower and kissed her soft full lips. He teased her lips at first, but when Usagi wrapped her hands around his neck to bring him closer, he lost control and plunged his tongue, surprising Usagi. She groaned in pleasure as she returned the kiss with the same fiercity. Her tongued tangled with his as his hands explored the curves of her derriere.
The others watched in astonishment. Hiiro's eyes went dark with anger. 'Usagi, what are you doing? It's just a game! Trowa, why'd you have to kiss her like that? If you don't get your hands away from her butt in two seconds you're dead meat! Usagi, WILL YOU PLEASE COME UP FOR AIR ALREADY?'
Finally the two pulled apart. Wufei stopped the timer on his watch and read the time. Hiiro was shooting daggers at Trowa. Trowa shrugged and handed the bottle to Usagi.
She set the bottle down in front of her, and suddenly stood up.
"I'm going for a walk." She announced, and went off into the woods.
Wufei stood up a few minutes after Usagi left.
"I'm going to bed. If you value your life you will not disturb me." He said, disappearing into his tent. What the others couldn't see, however, was Wufei exiting the tent at the other side, vanishing into the dark woods.
Wufei followed the small trail Usagi had made, eventually catching up to her. She was looking up the stars as he went up to her and tapped her on the shoulder, startling her. She spun around.
"Wufei!" she exclaimed. "Why did you follow me?"
He didn't respond, just looked down intensely into her eyes.
"Wufei you're scaring me." Usagi joked, backing away from him slowly.
"You remind me of someone… Who is it?!" he asked more to himself then to her. "WHO?! Who do you remind me of?!" he begged, holding her arms and shaking her a bit.
********FLASHBACK********
Wufei ran down the hall of the hospital, dodging the disapproving glances he got from the nurses walking there. He knocked on a certain door, and after a moment or two it opened, and he slipped inside.
"Hello." he said. "Is this the baby?" he said, looking at the baby the nurse held, who seemed strangely alert of everything around her
"Hai." The tall woman with long hair replied, placing the baby carefully in his arms. "Take her and go. Oh, and give this to Dr. M, and tell him I'll see him soon, okay?" she said, handing him a manilla envelope.
"Yes." he said with a nod. "Goodbye!" he called, and then ran back down the hall. Once he got a moment to stop and catch his breath, he looked down at his charge.
"Hello there, little Princess. Your eyes… they're the bluest color…" he noted, staring deeply into them. He had the oddest feeling that the baby was staring back.
********Back to Reality********
Wufei moved closer and closer to Usagi.
"Just before you came here I was sent on a mission. I had to abduct a baby. She had your same eyes… so intense…" His eyes became darker than ever, completely black.
"Wufei what's going on?" Usagi asked as she backed away even furthur. Wufei continued to follow her.
"Come on Wufei this isn't funny." she said nervously, and stopped backing up. "What's wrong?" she then asked seriously.
"Usagi…" he mumbled, moving close to her. She could see his eyes were glazed over. He placed his hand gently behind her neck and kissed her softly on the lips. When she began to respond, he deepened the kiss, drawing her closer to him. She did not make any motion to move away from his embrace for quite some time.
"Wufei…" she panted, pulling away. He looked down at her with the same intense stare as he had before. "I shouldn't-we shouldn't have… I should go." She whispered, pulling away and running through the woods. Wufei shook his head.
"Onnas." He remarked before heading back in the direction of the campsite.
Usagi ran through the woods, tripping over roots and fallen branches. Each time she tripped she grabbed for something, usually another tree branch. Finally she stopped running, and sat down to think.
'I wonder what's taking Usagi so long.' Hiiro thought as he lay under the blankets piled in Usagi's tent. He was dressed only in boxers and was waiting patiently for Usagi to come.
'Usagi should be back by now. I want to finish what we started in the forest.' Wufei thought. He crept out of his tent and made his way around the backs of the tents until he reached Usagi's. Wufei lifted the back flap and crawled in under the blankets. Sure enough, someone was there waiting.
Usagi re-entered the circle of tents, and noticed two still had lights on in them. She took a stick and began to stoke the fire a bit for heat.
Hiiro shuffled closer to the other body. He reached up to "Usagi"'s face, and touched two fingers to her lips. Then he replaced his fingers with his lips…
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Usagi stood up and spun around. The screaming was coming from HER tent. As Duo, Trowa, and Quatre emerged from their tents, she grabbed the flaps and opened them.
"HIIRO? WUFEI?" she asked incredously.
"I didn't know you two had a thing for each other." Duo commented. Hiiro pulled a gun out and aimed it at Duo.
"Omae o kursoso." He stated.
"Hiiro. Chill." Usagi said.
"Wufei what were you doing in Usagi's tent?" Trowa asked suspiciously.
"For that matter what is Hiiro doing in Usagi's tent?" Quatre asked.
The two decided not to answer.
"I don't care anymore. I'm tired. I wanna sleep. Get out." Usagi said, punctuating her words with a yawn. Hiiro and Wufei left promptly.
Usagi crawled under her covers and fell asleep.
Next morning…
Hiiro sat eating scrambled eggs and typing away furiously on his laptop. He nearly spit his eggs out again when he read an email from the scientests.
"We have a mission. All of us." He announced, causing all other conversation to stop.
"What is it?" Usagi asked. "How long will you be gone?" Hiiro shook his head.
"When I said all of us, I meant all of us. You too, Usagi. We have to retrieve some documents from Trieze's computer. Not an easy task. Here are the details…" he went on.
"Whoah. Sounds like no easy smash-and-grab type thing." Duo commented when Hiiro had finished.
"Alright we leave in half an hour. Lets get ready." Hiiro said. When the others drifted off, Hiiro pulled Usagi into his tent.
"Here, put this on." He said, giving her some clothes. He left the tent for a minute, and re-entered when she had it on. Usagi wore a pair of tight nylon black flare pants and soft-soled black shoes. She also wore a tight black shirt. Hiiro gave her a black vest and she put it on. Then Hiiro pulled out a few guns and began to place them about her person. One went on either side of her hips, another went against the small of her back at her waistband. Two guns and ammo cartridges went on wide black straps around her upper thighs (Think Lara Croft). A small pistol went in the tops of each of her shoes. Hiiro also gave her a semi-sized gun to hold.
"You're ready." Hiiro finally declared. Usagi smiled nervously as they joined the others around where the fire used to be.
"Sorry we didn't get to finish training, Usagi." Quatre told her apologetically as they began to walk through the woods.
"It's okay." Usagi said.
"But listen Usagi they taught you how to hold a gun, if not fire rapidly. So if you run into an OZ officer, just point the gun at him- make sure the safety is off first- and bluff. Tell him if he moves you'll shoot him. He should believe you. If not, fire one bullet. Like a warning, okay?" Duo finished. Usagi nodded.
"Hai." She replied as they came to the small clearing where the Gundams were hidden. A few minutes later they were flying out into space to find Treize's ship.
"Wow… It's so big…" Usagi said as they approached the ship.
"We're not going to get in there without a fight." Duo noted over the communications system.
"Why don't I just make the Gundams invisible?" Usagi asked.
"Honto?!"
"Huh?"
"What?"
"You can do that?"
"….." All came from the comm system.
"I can try." Usagi shrugged. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. A silver light washed through the cockpit of each of the Gundams. A minute or two later, Usagi opened her eyes and leaned back against Hiiro.
"I did it." She whispered. "The Gundams are invisible. We won't be when we get out of them but the actual Gundams are."
"Great!" Duo exclaimed.
"Good job, Usagi." Wufei told her.
"Thank you." Quatre added.
"Doomo arigato, Usa-chan." Hiiro whispered huskily in her ear, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek before shutting down his now-invisble Gundam into an empty hanger module set into the side of the ship.
"Okay lets go." Hiiro said as the last of the five pilots jumped to the ground. They each nodded, each drew a gun from their belts. Usagi still held the one she had been given for that purpose. They crept to the only door leading out. Hiiro signaled for them to be silent, and slowly opened the door, and seeing the empty hallway, they each dashed through the door quickly.
They made their way through the hallway at as fast a pace as they could go without making too much noise. Suddenly Usagi pulled Hiiro behind a outcrop in the wall. The others, behind them, followed suit quickly.
"There's a camera right around the corner." Usagi said with her eyes closed. "Check and see if I'm wrong."
Quatre pulled out a small hand-held computer. Typing quickly, he nodded. Hiiro furrowed his brow.
"See how many there are." Hiiro said. After a few seconds, Quatre replied.
"Over a thousand, but we'll only run into 432 on our current route."
"Too many to shoot out, they'll be able to track our route based on which cameras go out." Trowa noted. The others nodded in agreement.
"Give me the computer." Hiiro suddenly said. Quatre handed it over, and Hiiro began typing furiously. Soon, the lights flickered and died.
"What the hell did you do Yuy?!" Wufei exclaimed. Hiiro shrugged.
"I knocked out all power supplies except those needed for the oxygen. Let's go." The Perfect Soldier replied. They made their way quickly down the hall.
A few moments later, the lights flickered back on.
"Shit Hiiro what happened?" Duo exxclaimed.
"Emergency power supply." Hiiro stated before grabbing Quatre's computer again.
"Fei-chan's a wimp, Fei-chan's a wimp..." Usagi mocked the Chinese boy as she danced around him. Wufei's eyes became clouded with anger and he grabbed her arm, about to yell at her.
"Who are you?!" A soldier demanded as a group of four of grey-clad soldiers with large guns turned the corner ahead and came across the six. They raised their guns and aimed carefully, holding the six under careful scrutiny. Usagi glanced around. Wufei still had his hand on her arm from when she had insulted him a moment before the soldiers had found them.
"Please," she whimpered, batting her innocent blue eyes at the leader of the group. "He hurt me. Please, help me!" she begged. The leader of the group of soldiers thought for a moment, then looked at Usagi closely. He nodded.
"Sir, remove your hand. Miss, walk over here slowly." The man said. Wufei pulled his hand away, giving Usagi a death glare. She walked over to the group of soldiers and stood behind the leader. She gave them a quick wink before leaping into action. She kicked the leader in the groin from behind at the same time as punching the nearest soldier in the face. Two shots rang out and the other two were on the ground.
"Bingo." Hiiro said suddenly, and the lights went out once more. Wufei caught Usagi's arm once more and pulled her with him.
"Real smart, Usagi, real smart." he said warningly. "Be careful, please, Usagi." Then he pulled her into a hug and whispered the few words she never thought she'd hear from his mouth.
"Wo ai ni, Usagi. I love you."
"We're here." Hiiro said harshly, leading Usagi away from Wufei.
"3...2...1..." Hiiro mouthed silently, and they burst into the office, guns raised.
Treize sat behind his desk. All of the lights were on in his office.
"Get up, Treize. Hands up." Duo said, motioning with his gun. Treize moved slowly- under Duo's careful eyes- to a corner.
Hiiro sat down and popped a disk into Treize's computer. He began typing.
Usagi looked around. She wandered around the room, looking at everything. She was looking at a picture near the door when Hiiro called out across the room.
"Usagi, lock the door while you're there. Duo, come look at this for a second." Usagi turned to lock the door. At the same moment, Duo walked to the desk, leaving Treize unprotected. In those few moments when Duo's back was turned, Treize pulled out a hidden gun and fired two shots. Usagi was locking the bottom of the two locks when she felt pain ripping through her body.
"Usagi!" Five young men screamed out at the same time as she turned and dropped to the floor. Hiiro was the only one who didn't run to her side. He grabbed Trieze and slammed him against the wall, pressing his gun to the older man's head.
"Hiiro... Please... Don't hurt him." Usagi asked weakly as her blood began to stain the floors a brilliant red.
"Usagi, don't talk and keep still. You can get past this." Quatre told her as Trowa began to press his hands firmly on the two places where the bullet had pierced her body. Hiiro looked at Treize.
"You're lucky right now. I won't kill you in front of her. She's too innocent, too pure to see this. So here's the deal. When you wake up, I'll be gone. But I'll be back soon. I promise." He said with a voice that would scare the devil. Then, with one quick movement, he ensured that Treize would sleep for the next 12 hours.
"Usagi you can heal yourself!" Wufei exclaimed. Usagi shook her head.
"No... I can't..." Usagi whimpered as Hiiro knelt next to her on the floor. He gently lifted her head into his lap, although her golden hair was already red with blood.
"I don't have... the energy... left... I don't have... the... will... left... to live..." She replied, coughing up blood after every few words.
"We can give you the energy, Usagi, just tell us what to do!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi coughed again, then tried to clear her throat.
"Remember how I said Lunarians have a lot of energy? cough You five would die if you gave me the amount needed to power the Crystal for only a few moments." Usagi replied weakly.
"Usagi I would gladly give up my life for you." Trowa said, smiling sadly.
"Me, too." "As would I." "Ditto." "I would, too." The others added.
"I won't allow it. I love you all like brothers... but one I love more..."
"Who do you love, Usagi?" Quatre asked gently. Usagi tried to answer, but instead turned her head and vomited blood.
"Who is it, onna?" Wufei demanded. Usagi took as deep a breath as she could, and choked on the air.
"I'm... sorry... Aishiteru..."
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Is it who you think it is? Or has she been playing them all from the beginning? It may not be who you're expecting. It probably isn't who you're expecting. Then again, maybe you know exactly where I'm going with this. Maybe...........................................