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"Ashiteru..." Usagi whispered slowly, before her eyelids closed over her brilliant blue eyes for the last time.
Four of them were crying. Hiiro just sat there, eyes glazed over, Usagi's blood staining his hands and clothes. The emotions drained out of him in only a few seconds, leaving him the emotionless soldier that he spent the first few years of his life training to become.
"Usagi... How could you leave us like this?" Trowa begged her lifeless body. An alarm rudely interrupted their grief.
"We have to get out." Hiiro told them in his old monotone. The other four looked at him.
"We can't just leave her here." Quatre said in a strained voice.
"We can and we will. The body will slow us down." Hiiro replied.
"Yui, for a while I thought you actually had some humanity left that hadn't been beat out of you. But this, leaving her like this... It's discusting." Wufei told him as Hiiro stood to open the ventilation shafts. "Not even an onna deserves to have this as a final resting place. Especially not one like Usagi."
Hiiro aimed his two guns at them.
"We're leaving. Now!" he said in a raised voice, though in monotone.
"He's gone again, isn't he?" Quatre asked as they climbed in after him.
"Afraid so, Quatre." Trowa replied, sighing.
Treize shook his head slightly, bringing the room around him into focus. He ran the day's event back through his mind. He sighed, and looked around the room. There was nothing there except a large puddle of blood. Treize stood, trying to shake off the feeling of nausea that the sight of so much blood gave him. As he was trying to walk around the large puddle, he glanced at the mess. His jaw dropped. In the center of the now-dry red blood was drawn a small bunny and a cresent moon. He went over and unlocked the door to his office, and then ran to the surveillance room not far away. Treize rewound the tape of his office several hours, and when he watched them, he nearly passed out.
'What the hell?' he wondered in amazement.
"Goodbye, Usagi. We will miss you forever. You brought spirit to our lives that none of us could have had without you. We will try our best to remember everything you did for us, and we hope you go to heaven, because that is the only place truly worthy of you. You were an angel on Earth, and an angel in our lives. We love you." Quatre finished. He, Duo, Trowa, and Wufei stood in a graveyard outside a large church a week later. They had gotten Usagi an angel carved out of pure white marble. The inscription on the plaque at the bottom read:
For Tsukino Usagi, who touched so many people in so many ways. Thank you for helping us to understand ourselves, and our future. You taught us the most important lesson in life: Where there is great love, there are always miracles. You taught us that success is never final, but failure can be, and you taught us to believe the best of everyone. Thank you so much for blessing our lives. We love you.
Always and forever,
Your brothers
"Hiiro didn't come today, Usagi. He's become his old self again. We all love you, Usagi- Hiiro included. We know he would want you to know that." Duo said solemnly. The four of them, dressed in matching black suits, black shirts, and dark grey ties, each went up and set a flower on her grave before walking away slowly, arms linked as though they were leaning on each other for support. Then again, maybe they were.
"We are going to have another roommate." Hiiro announced as they came in the kitchen. They had changed out of their suits.
"What?!"
"That's insane!"
"Usagi only just left!"
"What the hell are the Docs thinking?!"
"She's a Gundam pilot." Hiiro said in monotone. All other conversation immediately ceased.
"You're kidding, right?" Duo asked.
"Ummm, Duo? Does Hiiro ever joke?" Quatre retorted.
"He did for awhile there." Duo shot right back.
"This girl's name is Gi. For all of you that, like me, don't know Japanese, it means 'silver'. It looks like she's been training as long as Hiiro has." Wufei said, looking at the email Hiiro had recieved. "She's sixteen, like us. She pilots the Gundam Ki, which is Japanese again, and means 'energy'. When is she coming, Hiiro?"
"Any time now." Hiiro replied.
"Great, just great."
About half an hour later, someone knocked impatiently on the door. Before any of them could even stand up, a girl came walking in. She carried two huge duffel bags and had a large bookbag on her back. She was dressed in black jeans and a large dark blue hooded sweatshirt. She had the hood pulled up so that the boys could not see her face.
"I'm Gi." She stated simply. Various forms of greetings came from around the room.
"Let me show you where you'll sleep." Quatre said politely. She nodded, and picked her bags back up, following him into the bedroom. With a heavy heart, he pointed to Usagi's old bed. They had packed her belongings up a few days earlier, and all her things were safe in a closet. Then he retreated to the living room to join the others.
Gi wasted no time in unpacking. By the time the guys went to bed an hour later, she was storing her empty bags under her bed.
"I'm taking a shower." she announced, and went into the bathroom. As soon as the bathroom door closed, Duo burst out.
"Oh, so now she's just gonna take over? Is that it?" he exclaimed. "Has anyone even seen her face yet?" The others shook their heads. Duo went over to his bed and pulled out his laptop. Opening a file named 'bunny', he stared at the contents for a long while. It was a picture of Usagi. Finally he sighed and closed the laptop, looking around to see what the others were doing.
The bathroom door opened, and Gi came out. The five men froze as she turned towards them and they got their first look at her face.
She looked exactly like Usagi, right down to the way her nose turned up very slightly. She had the same brilliant blue eyes, only hers lacked the sparkle that Usagi's had had. Instead, hers were dull and lifeless like Hiiro's, which hinted to them that her training had been like the perfect soldier's. Her hair was oddly colored, a mix of bright silver and light, shiny blonde like Usagi's, and her hair hung down to the middle of her back. Gi was even the same height and build as Usagi had been.
Gi now wore black cotton pants and a black spaghetti strap top. She made her way over to her bed. She pulled out her laptop as she sat down. Looking at them using her peripheral vision, she watched them staring at her and mouthing things to each other. With one swift movement, she pulled a gun from her waistband and pointed it at each of them in turn.
"Why are you staring?" she demanded.
"You look like someone we knew." Quatre replied. Duo jumped off of his bed and landed behind Gi. Without turning around, she pointed her gun over her shoulder. Duo gulped. Even without looking at him, she had her gun pointed perfectly between his eyes. One shot would kill him.
"Get off." Gi said. Duo nodded, and went to jump on Wufei's bed. Gi continued to watch her new comrads and type on her laptop. She opened her email, and looked through her new messages.
'Good, one from Dr. M.' she thought as she opened it. The email read:
Hello, Gi-chan. You have not been enrolled in the Academy because the year is almost over, and you learnt those things when you were six. Have fun learning to live and work with the other Gundam pilots. Keep an eye out on Hiiro especially. They will be surprised by your appearance. I know why but I'm afraid I cannot tell you. Also, please refrain from killing them if at all possible. Dr M
Inwardly, the slightest hint of a smile crossed her face. On the outside, she remained the same. She shut off her laptop and stuck her gun back into her waistband. Then she pulled back her comforter and climbed under the thick black cotton. Without a word to the guys, she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Duo crept out of the bedroom early in the morning. It was about 3 am, he was hungry, and Wufei had some chocolate cake in the refridgerator that was just waiting to be eaten. As he snuck quietly into the kitchen, he looked back over his shoulder and saw two azure eyes staring at him, looking almost amused.
"Yi-!" Duo began, but Gi clamped her hand down over his mouth.
"Shhh," she warned him, and pulled him with her into the kitchen, closing the door behind them.
"What was that all about?" Duo whispered.
"You made noise getting out of bed. I'm a light sleeper." Gi explained calmly and softly as she opened the fridge door and pulled out Wufei's chocolate cake.With Duo watching, she put it on a plate with a fork and set it down on the kitchen table. Duo's eyes widened a bit.
'What's up with this girl?' he wondered silently. 'She's been training for as long as Hiiro has. She's supposed to be another perfect soldier. It looks like she is. She talks a bit, though not as much as I do or as little as Hiiro does. She seemed so serious earlier, but this- this is a side of her I didn't expect. She's stealing my cake!' He came out of his mental debate to notice Gi looking at him with her head tilted to one side as if expecting something.
"What?" Duo whispered. "Do I have something on my face?"
"Not yet. Aren't you going to eat this cake?" She asked playfully.
"Oh! I thought you wanted it." Duo replied. When she shook her head 'No', he sat down at the table and began to eat the huge slab of chocolate cake. After an amazingly short period of time the cake was gone, the plate washed and put away, and the two snuck back into the bedroom silently, confident in the knowledge that all evidence of their presence was gone.
Two hours later, Gi was awake again. She climbed out of bed dressed quickly in black nylon stretch pants and a black shirt that didn't cover her shoulders, but fit snugly around her upper arms and had long sleeves. The shirt showed her bra straps, and she quickly pulled on a grey hooded sweatshirt and running shoes.
A few moments later, she closed the door to the apartment behind her and locked it. Putting the key in her sweatshirt pocket, she took off running down the stairs and out of the building.
At 8 am, Trowa began to wake them all up, as he always did. Quatre woke up easily, as did Wufei. Duo, however, was another story entirely.
"Once again, the sleeping Shinginami refuses to wake. Weak." Wufei commented.
"I'll get him to wake up." A new voice announced. Gi entered the bedroom.
"Yeah, right! We've tried dumping water over his head and sticking him in shower. We've even tried putting his own shoes near his nose. What are you going to try, onna?" Wufei asked skeptically.
"Watch and learn, boys." Gi said,walking over to Duo. Leaning over, she whispered a few words in his ears. Immediately he sat up straight and looked around.
"Where?! Where?!" Duo demanded. Gi gave Wufei a look and went in the living room.
"Weak onna." Wufei muttered.
"What was that, Wufei?" Gi called from her position on the couch.
"Nothing, Gi!" Wufei called back. Gi thought for a moment.
'I'm supposed to be being nice to these guys, and I am. They seem pretty nice. Maybe I should do something nice for them.'
"Hey guys, what's for breakfast?" she called to them.
"Whatever's leftover from the Chinese we had last night." Duo yelled back. "Duh! You know anything else good to eat in this place?"
"Of course!" Gi replied. "I'm making breakfast!"
The others raised their eyes in surprise.
"Here." Gi said, setting the last of several dishes on the kitchen table. "Scrambled eggs, toast, muffins, waffles, and pancakes." The four guys exchanged looks, remembering a meal almost exactly like this one. Just then they heard the opening and closing of the door to the apartment.
Hiiro walked in the door and the first thing that came to the perfect soldier's attention was the smell of the place he lived. Hiiro stopped just inside the door. Frozen in place, he closed his eyes and took in a deep breath through his nose.
'That smell....' he thought. 'Usagi's back!' Suddenly he began to walk briskly towards the kitchen.
'It has to be her... It has to be!' he told himself, while the other part of his brain was yelling at him to remain calm and be the Perfect Soldier. As he reached the entryway to the kitchen, his heart plummeted, though nothing showed on his face.
'It bugs you that Gi looks so much like Usagi, doesn't it?' A voice in his head asked.
'No, course not.' Hiiro thought.
'Oh yes it does. I hear everything that goes on in here. You miss Usagi, Mr. I-have-no-emotions. And every time you look at Gi you think of Usagi. Don't you?' Hiiro didn't answer, but silently banished the voice.
"Good morning, Hiiro." Duo said.
"Hnn." Hiiro grunted in monotone.
"Whatever, dude." Duo replied with a grin.
Later that afternoon, the Quatre, Wufei, Duo, and Trowa were sitting around watching television and reading when Hiiro came out of the bedroom.
"I'll be back soon." he stated simply, and left. The others shrugged and went back to what they were doing, not noticing that Gi left right after Hiiro. (AN: Ha! she left right after him? hahaha! That's funny! okay, guess not. sorry for interrupting your reading! Enjoy the rest!)
Outside, Gi trailed Hiiro, staying behind by about thirty feet but keeping within sight. Hiiro walked for a long time before reaching where he was going. It wouldn't have been such a long walk if it had not been for the path he chose to get there. He stopped in a graveyard. Gi suddenly felt uncomfortable, and, after examining the layout of the area, settled in a tree outside the entrance. She couldn't hear what Hiiro was saying, but she could watch his every move. And watch she did.
"Hello again Usagi." Hiiro said, laying a single flower in the angel's hand. "I know I haven't visited in a few days. I'm sorry. We've got a new roommate, Bunny. She looks a lot like you, except not as beautiful. I miss you so much, Usagi. I swear that I will avenge your death." Hiiro sat on his heels in front of her tombstone angel, keeping his balance by resting one hand on the marble for support.
"The sunrise this morning was beautiful, Usagi. You should have been there. Oh-" his voice broke. "-Usagi!" he cried, leaning his forehead against the smooth marble. For a long while he sat like that, just whispering things to Usagi and letting tears fall off his face onto her grave. (AN: Hmmmmmm....... OOC. Way OOC.)
Gi watched Hiiro the entire time.
'I wonder what he's doing out there. I'm supposed to be learning about this guy, but he never talks. He's Dr. J's "Perfect Soldier". Dr. M tells me I'm just like him in training, strategy, and techniques. I don't like talking more than is nesscesary most of the time, but sometimes it's great to be able to talk to people. Especially when you need information. Maybe that's not what Hiiro Yui needs though.' With this thought in mind, Gi climbed out of the tree and began running back to the apartment to plan.
Hiiro glanced at his watch and sighed. 'Time to go already, or else the others won't know what to think.'
"I'm sorry Usagi, I have to go now. The others don't know I come to visit you. I can't stop being the Perfect Soldier. I just can't. Goodbye, Usagi." He kissed his fingertips and pressed them to the angel's lips. With that, he walked away.
"Hey Gi!" Duo cried as he ran into the living room and jumped on the couch next to her. Over the past two weeks Gi had learned that she had to be very patient with Duo's antics.
"Hey Duo." she replied.
"Have you seen Wufei lately?" Duo asked with an impish grin.
"I think he's taking a shower. Why?" Gi looked at Duo, who winked at her. "Duo- What did you do this time?"
"MAXWELL!!!" Wufei screamed from the bathroom.
"Nothing." Duo said in an innocent voice just before Wufei entered the room.
The reaction was immediate. Gi and Duo exploded into laughter, Quatre politely tried to hide his giggles behind his hand, Trowa smiled and even managed a few chuckles, and the corner of Hiiro's mouth twitched. Wufei had bright pink hair.
"Maxwell-" Wufei began in a dark voice. "What. Did. You. Do?." he asked, as if spelling it out for the braided pilot.
"I didn't do anything, you must have mixed up the bottles." Duo replied, trying to mask his laughter and guilt.
"What am I going to do?! MY HAIR IS PINK!" Wufei practically screamed in Duo's face. He grabbed Duo by the throat and held his katana close to his braid.
"Not the braid, anything but the braid." Duo pleaded. Wufei smirked and moved his katana closer to Duo's crotch instead.
"NOT THAT EITHER!" Duo suddenly shrieked. "Okay, anything but the braid and the reproductive organs!"
"I'll say this one more time, Duo. Then your body parts start disappearing. What is this stuff?"
"Chill- chill out, man. It's just temporary. It'll be out in one wash- I swear!" Duo replied hurridly.
Satisfied, Wufei dropped Duo from his hold. Then he disappeared into the bathroom, and a few seconds later they heard the shower turning back on.
"Damn. The guy doesn't shower for like, two months, then, he takes two showers in one day. What gives?" Duo asked, grinning. Trowa, Quatre, and Duo joined Gi on the large couch to watch TV. After a moment, Hiiro sat with them, laptop open and ready on his lap.
When Wufei re-emerged from the shower, they made their way into the kitchen, where there were several huge trays of Chinese. They each picked up plates and piled them with rice, noodes, and various other foods from the Eastern ethnicity.
"This is fake American crap." Wufei said for the umpteenth time as they sat down in various places around the apartment to eat. They had tried all sitting together at the kitchen table, but it had resulted in five faces staring boredly at laptop screens while Duo drove them all up the wall.
"We have another mission." Hiiro told them in monotone.
"Good! Let's go kick some butt! Shinginami rules!" Duo exclaimed.
"Details. Now." Gi said, holding out her hand to Hiiro. The others were used to this now. Hiiro gave Gi a single sheet of paper. After reading over it, she disappeared into the bedroom. She emerged a minute or two later in her 'battle gear', as Duo called it. She wore tight black pants and matching shirt, with a black leather jacket and black boots. She had guns hidden all over her body.
"Ready." she told them. They left to make their way to where the Gundams were hidden.
"She's so different when it comes to missions." Quatre commented to Trowa while they were walking.
"Yeah, but she's nearly perfect when it comes to completing the mission, so of course she's going to act a bit differently." Trowa said.
"You could be right." the blonde Arabian replied. They continued on in friendly silence.
Once they reached the base where they were to steal files off a computer, they crouched in a dense patch of bushes.
"What's the plan? There are tons of soldiers guarding the door. The great Shinginami is ready for action!" Duo said in a half joking, half serious tone. Gi pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. Unfolding it and laying it on the ground, they could see it was blueprints for the base. One room was highlighted in pink. The room with the computer they had to steal information from. By pointing to the blueprints and having a short conversation consisting of grunts and a few words, Hiiro and Gi quickly came up with a plan, and then informed the others. After making sure everyone had enough ammunition, Hiiro gave the signal to slip into the base.
A few hours later, they were out. They stood at the top of a hill nearby while Hiiro double-checked the detinator for the bombs they had placed, and then pushed the button. Gi's eyes lit up as she watched the explosion, watched the flames dance and the smoke rise to heaven.
'Heaven.' Gi thought to herself. 'Is that where you are, my Nanashi? Where are you?'
(AN: Thanks to LunaPrincess for the name. Nanashi means 'no name' in Japanese. I got the name from her story The Ultimate Mission. She's a true writer. The story is awesome. Go read it!)
"Nanashi..." Gi whispered to herself.
Next to her, Wufei straightned up a bit. All the way back to the apartment thoughts were running through his mind, names, dates, and memories. None were what he was searching for.
'Nanashi- I've heard that before! Whose name is that? Why can't I remember?' he thought, over and over again.
When they reached the apartment complex, Wufei pulled Gi off to the side. Giving the others a look, they took the hint and started up the stairs.
"Gi, who is Nanashi? I heard you talking to yourself earlier." Wufei asked. Gi looked straight into his eyes.
'Oh great. Once again you screwed up. You opened your big mouth too much and someone heard. Well, go on, get yourself out of it!' her mind screamed at her.
"Nanashi is an old friend." Gi replied evenly. "Can we go now?" she asked, her old monotone resurfacing. Wufei inwardly rolled his eyes.
'Great, here we go. It's no use to try and talk to her anymore. She's a cross between Duo, Quatre, and Hiiro. Sometimes she's hyper like Duo, sometimes she talks just enough to be polite, and sometimes she can be a real bitch when she's silent like Hiiro. But there's something about her I just can't place, and I know it's not just becuase she looks a lot like Usagi.'
"Fei-chan, are you coming or not?" an amused voice asked from the doorway.
"That's not my name! You bet I'm coming! Better run!" Wufei yelled, not knowing or caring that he was acting so unlike himself.
"Aiiie!" Gi yelled as she was chased up several flights of stairs. She paused at the locked door.
"LEMME IN!" she screamed as Wufei emerged from the stairs nearby. Someone was taking their time to unbolt the door. It opened right as Wufei caught up with her. She dove through the doorway as Wufei caught her around the waist.
What resulted was comic. Wufei and Gi were in a doggy pile in the doorway while Trowa looked down on them from where he had jumped out of the way. Gi and Wufei were laughing crazily, especially after Trowa closed the door and Duo was considerate enough to join the pile, dragging Quatre in with him. This resulted in more laughter as the original two tried to untangle all the limbs, Quatre politely trying to climb out but kept falling back on top of them, and Duo making it worse by twisting his way and tangling all of their limbs up. They were all laughing.
"Whoever has their hand on my butt, move it away slowly. Unless it's you, of course, Gi." Duo commented through tears. His face fell when the hand shot away, and Quatre turned about sixteen shades of red.
"Aww, shucks." Duo grinned as he said it, though. The four of them managed to untangle themselves. Gi disappeared into the kitchen, with Duo close after her.
"Where there's food, there's Duo." Trowa commented. A few of them cracked a grin before going back to what they were doing before.
"Hey Trowa?" Quatre began later. Trowa looked up from what he was doing, signaling the younger boy that he had the older one's attention. "We're not even attending the Academy anymore, so I was thinking we could go to my Uncle's old house in the country. Would you like to go?" Trowa nodded. Smiling, Quatre ran to ask the others.
"Hey! Everyone! Kitchen! Now!" Quatre yelled. There was a sudden stampede to the small room as the promise of a mission hung in the air.
"What's the mission?" Wufei asked. Quatre gave him an odd look.
"There is no mission. I just wanted to know if you guys wanted to head out to my Uncle's old house in the country. Just walk out and go pack if you want to go, we leave in the morning. Bring all your stuff." The kitchen was quickly deserted as they all went to pack.
About 9 hours later they stood surrounded by bags in the living room. The entire apartment was empty, save the furniture. When Quatre announced that the car was ready, they all picked up their bags. there were two black duffels that no one picked up at first. The five guys reconized them as Usagi's bags, and looked to each other, wondering who had thought to bring them.
"Oh I found those in a closet and since Quatre told us to bring everything, so I assumed one of you was going to forget your bags since they were in the closet.Who's are they?" Gi asked them.
"The bags are mine, onna." Wufei said quickly, noticing that the other four had also opened their mouths to answer.
"Okay, whatever. Let's go!" Gi said excitedly.
In front of the complex, a limo was waiting. Opening the trunk, they piled in as much as would fit. Which wasn't much. The rest they crammed in with them. After they had somehow managed to fit fifteen bags and six people in a space made to seat four comfortably, they were off.
"Quatre when you said 'house', we thought you meant a house. This is a mansion!" Duo exclaimed. Trowa nodded in agreement.
"Well, come on. I had them prepare enough rooms and stock the kitchen with food." the blonde boy told them. They picked up their bags and entered the 'house'. Quatre led them to a hall in the middle of the house. He pointed the rooms out. They each got their own room.
"Thanks Quatre!" Gi exclaimed. She had a room in the middle of the hall. Duo was on one side, Hiiro was on the other. Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei's rooms were across the hall. The rooms were nice, consisting mainly of a bed, a tv, and a bathroom.
"Hey guys lets go swimming!" Quatre suggested about an hour later. They had all unpacked, and were standing in the hallway waiting for something to do.
They must have all agreed because they all disappeared into their rooms and reappeared a few minutes later with swimsuits on. Quatre grinned and led them through the maze of hallways. As they passed a large set of double doors, Quatre pointed to them.
"Through there is the indoor pool, and there's another door leading to a hot tub and another to the sauna." he explained. They nodded, then he led them outside to the pool there.
Gi quickly shed her sarong, watching Wufei and Hiiro carefully. They were standing next to the water, and it was obvious they were having a 'serious' moment. She looked at Duo, who nodded. They both grinned.
One.... Gi mouthed
Two... Duo mouthed back.
Three! They both went for it. Duo shoved Hiiro in, and Gi got Wufei.
A moment earlier....
"Hiiro? I need to ask you something." the Chinese boy looked at his fellow pilot. Hiiro nodded. "Do you remember someone named Nanashi?"
"No name?" Hiiro asked in monotone, just they were pushed simultaniously into the water.
"Boom yow! Touchdown!" Duo exclaimed. He and Gi high-fived each other, not noticing as Quatre and Trowa snuck up behind them.
Splash!
Duo and Gi quickly joined the first two in the pool. They looked up, annoyed.
"You may have got us this time, amatuers. We'll get you next time!" Duo told them. The two dry boys laughed at his comment.
"Yeah right!" Quatre told them, acting totally out of character. Then again, Trowa was also out of character as he pushed Quatre in to join the others before jumping in himself to join the splash-fight. The fight lasted for about twenty minutes. Gi hauled herself out of the pool and went to sit on a lounge chair nearby.
'What's wrong with me?' she wondered. 'Up until about a little more than a week ago, I was Dr. M's perfect soldier. Now, I'm acting as if I have no cares in the world. I've got a war to fight. Why can't I conceal my emotions any more? I'm actually acting normal... scary.' She fought for a moment, and managed to put her stone mask back on, once again becoming an emotionless statue. She lay there in the bright, warm sunlight with her eyes closed as the chaos of the pool fight- with Duo's help- began to rage again not ten feet from her. She fell asleep like that. After the fight had ended, and the others had become waterlogged and decided to go back inside, she woke back up, her instincts reconizing that the others were no longer making noise, even in her sleep.
Gi tied her sarong back around her slim waist as she walked back toward her room. Once she was back in her room, she pulled out her laptop and checked her email.
'sigh No missions. Why do I even bother to stay around here?' she wondered as she changed into a pair of black baggy cargo pants and navy blue long sleeve shirt. She sat back down at her computer and began to hack into various systems, checking up on OZ's activities. Then, with nothing better to do, she decided to wander around the mansion.
Dr M looked at Setsuna in near shock.
"How did you manage that?" he asked. His older half-sister shrugged, and looked at the girl who lay on a cot in the corner.
"I am the Guardian of Time. I used some of the Ginzuishou's power combined with some of my own to bring her back. Right now, the Ginzuishou needs time to replentish it's energy supply. She won't wake up for a few days anyway. I was hoping she could stay here."
"This is going to be a very odd experience. You said she's a lot like the other one, right? It's going to be like raising the first one all over. That was scary enough." Dr M told her. Setsuna smiled.
"It'll be alright. She'll only be here a day or two. You know what has to happen as soon as she's strong enough, right?" the Guardian asked. Dr M nodded.
"I'm not sure which one I'm rooting for here. The one, I raised all her life. She's like a daughter. But this other one, she's so unique-and look what she did to the pilots! She turned them all into normal teenage boys. That's something none of us could do, and we were with those boys for most of their lives." Setsuna smiled at him.
"What did you do at her birth? You told me vaguely, but I never really understood what happened." Dr M asked. Setsunsa's eyes darkened.
"I did what I had to. Now, each have a vague feeling of remembering doing things they've never done. One, for example, remembers the Crown Arcade, while the other remembers how to hack into computer systems, something the first was trained to do early on." Setsuna told him. Dr M shook his head.
"I still can't believe how any of this is even possible. I thought I was weird, being the half-son of the God Chromos." Setsuna smiled again, and waved the Time Staff once, changing into Sailor Pluto.
"I have to go- the Time Gate cannot be left unattended for long." she told her brother.
"Hai, I understand. I assume you'll be back when she wakes?" the other asked, rubbing his temples. Sailor Pluto nodded before stepping through the a portal to the Time Gate.
(Now I'm getting impatient: I wanna get to the good part! So, we're gonna do a time hop. We're hopping forward four days- there have been a few missions, but nothing major has happened. Usagi is just now waking up…)
"Uuuugh…" Usagi moaned, putting her hand to her forehead, wiping the sweat off her brow. She felt her crescent shining, but was not bothered. "Where am I?" she wondered. She thought back. 'We had a mission… We went in Treize's office, I locked the door…' her thoughts trailed off. 'Oh Kami- Why am I still alive?' she moaned again, and sat up. She was soon looking around. She was sitting in a small, bare room on a mattress on the floor. There was only one door, and the only other furniture was a wooden chair.
"Where am I?" she asked aloud again. She stood, and walked to the door. Just as she reached for the door handle, it swung open. A smiling face greeted her.
"Hello, Usagi-chan. I'm Dr M. I'm also Sailor Pluto's half-brother." he said to her, entering the room. She looked at him, puzzled.
"Two questions: One- Why am I still alive? And two- Where am I?"
"One- You cannot die eternally. Not yet. But that's something my sister needs to explain. Two- You are in a special training facility, built by myself and my colleagues. I believe we've already met, in another area of the building, ne?"
"Hai." She replied. Dr M watched her intently.
"There's something you have to know, Usagi-chan, but I'm not the one that should be telling you. Setsuna told me to tell you that she'll come as soon as you wake. I'm sure she'll be here soon."
"I'm here now." A voice came from the still-open doorway. Sailor Pluto stood there, tall and dark, before coming in and shutting the door behind her.
"Usagi-chan, in a little while, I'm going to have to tell you something. But to do that, I need Gi as well. I don't want to explain it more than once; it's rather complicated." She told her young Princess. Confused once more, Usagi smiled, trying to cover her uneasiness.
"Okay, I guess. What now?" Usagi asked.
'That's my hime.' Pluto thought. 'Always optimistic.' (hime= princess)
"We have to go to Quatre's mansion to find Gi." The tall one replied.
"I guess there I'll find out who Gi is, huh?" Usagi asked as she pulled out the Ginzuishou to aide Pluto in the Teleport. Pluto nodded, smiling. Dr M stood with them as they began the teleport, and traveled with them to Quatre's mansion.
The six Gundam pilots sat around Quatre's large living room. Duo was yelling at a pinball machine Quatre had bought for him in the corner, Trowa was once again trying to compose music, and Hiiro was- as usual- staring out the window. Quatre was sketching a picture in his notebook, Gi was typing away on her laptop, and Wufei was sharpening his katana.
Suddenly, a purplish-blue swirl of color began to appear in the center of the room. Hiiro and Gi pulled their guns out of nowhere and Wufei stood up quickly, freshly sharpened katana ready. Sailor Pluto stepped out of the portal. The five guys reconized her fuku as that of a Sailor Senshi, but kept their weapons at ready.
"Put your weapons away. I am Sailor Pluto, Guardian of the Time Gate. There is someone who wants to see you." she said. The others held their breath and waited. Another figure stepped out, and they let the breath out, sighing. It was Dr M. He smiled at them, much more light-hearted than his older sister. Gi nearly smiled at the sight of her trainer and mentor. Nearly.
"Oh how quickly you all give up." Dr M said cryptically as another faint form appeared. The girl, once again clad in Sailor fuku and trademark odangos, smiled brightly at them all.
"Hi again, guys!" she greeted. Even Hiiro could not stop his jaw from dropping.
"Usagi?" Duo asked softly as the portal closed behind them. The girl nodded excitedly. Then she turned, looking at the one occupant of the room she didn't know. They stared at each for a long moment, before Pluto coughed a bit to get their attention.
"I'm sure you all probably want an explanation, so let me start at the beginning..." she said.
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"Ashiteru..." Usagi whispered slowly, before her eyelids closed over her brilliant blue eyes for the last time.
Four of them were crying. Hiiro just sat there, eyes glazed over, Usagi's blood staining his hands and clothes. The emotions drained out of him in only a few seconds, leaving him the emotionless soldier that he spent the first few years of his life training to become.
"Usagi... How could you leave us like this?" Trowa begged her lifeless body. An alarm rudely interrupted their grief.
"We have to get out." Hiiro told them in his old monotone. The other four looked at him.
"We can't just leave her here." Quatre said in a strained voice.
"We can and we will. The body will slow us down." Hiiro replied.
"Yui, for a while I thought you actually had some humanity left that hadn't been beat out of you. But this, leaving her like this... It's discusting." Wufei told him as Hiiro stood to open the ventilation shafts. "Not even an onna deserves to have this as a final resting place. Especially not one like Usagi."
Hiiro aimed his two guns at them.
"We're leaving. Now!" he said in a raised voice, though in monotone.
"He's gone again, isn't he?" Quatre asked as they climbed in after him.
"Afraid so, Quatre." Trowa replied, sighing.
Treize shook his head slightly, bringing the room around him into focus. He ran the day's event back through his mind. He sighed, and looked around the room. There was nothing there except a large puddle of blood. Treize stood, trying to shake off the feeling of nausea that the sight of so much blood gave him. As he was trying to walk around the large puddle, he glanced at the mess. His jaw dropped. In the center of the now-dry red blood was drawn a small bunny and a cresent moon. He went over and unlocked the door to his office, and then ran to the surveillance room not far away. Treize rewound the tape of his office several hours, and when he watched them, he nearly passed out.
'What the hell?' he wondered in amazement.
"Goodbye, Usagi. We will miss you forever. You brought spirit to our lives that none of us could have had without you. We will try our best to remember everything you did for us, and we hope you go to heaven, because that is the only place truly worthy of you. You were an angel on Earth, and an angel in our lives. We love you." Quatre finished. He, Duo, Trowa, and Wufei stood in a graveyard outside a large church a week later. They had gotten Usagi an angel carved out of pure white marble. The inscription on the plaque at the bottom read:
For Tsukino Usagi, who touched so many people in so many ways. Thank you for helping us to understand ourselves, and our future. You taught us the most important lesson in life: Where there is great love, there are always miracles. You taught us that success is never final, but failure can be, and you taught us to believe the best of everyone. Thank you so much for blessing our lives. We love you.
Always and forever,
Your brothers
"Hiiro didn't come today, Usagi. He's become his old self again. We all love you, Usagi- Hiiro included. We know he would want you to know that." Duo said solemnly. The four of them, dressed in matching black suits, black shirts, and dark grey ties, each went up and set a flower on her grave before walking away slowly, arms linked as though they were leaning on each other for support. Then again, maybe they were.
"We are going to have another roommate." Hiiro announced as they came in the kitchen. They had changed out of their suits.
"What?!"
"That's insane!"
"Usagi only just left!"
"What the hell are the Docs thinking?!"
"She's a Gundam pilot." Hiiro said in monotone. All other conversation immediately ceased.
"You're kidding, right?" Duo asked.
"Ummm, Duo? Does Hiiro ever joke?" Quatre retorted.
"He did for awhile there." Duo shot right back.
"This girl's name is Gi. For all of you that, like me, don't know Japanese, it means 'silver'. It looks like she's been training as long as Hiiro has." Wufei said, looking at the email Hiiro had recieved. "She's sixteen, like us. She pilots the Gundam Ki, which is Japanese again, and means 'energy'. When is she coming, Hiiro?"
"Any time now." Hiiro replied.
"Great, just great."
About half an hour later, someone knocked impatiently on the door. Before any of them could even stand up, a girl came walking in. She carried two huge duffel bags and had a large bookbag on her back. She was dressed in black jeans and a large dark blue hooded sweatshirt. She had the hood pulled up so that the boys could not see her face.
"I'm Gi." She stated simply. Various forms of greetings came from around the room.
"Let me show you where you'll sleep." Quatre said politely. She nodded, and picked her bags back up, following him into the bedroom. With a heavy heart, he pointed to Usagi's old bed. They had packed her belongings up a few days earlier, and all her things were safe in a closet. Then he retreated to the living room to join the others.
Gi wasted no time in unpacking. By the time the guys went to bed an hour later, she was storing her empty bags under her bed.
"I'm taking a shower." she announced, and went into the bathroom. As soon as the bathroom door closed, Duo burst out.
"Oh, so now she's just gonna take over? Is that it?" he exclaimed. "Has anyone even seen her face yet?" The others shook their heads. Duo went over to his bed and pulled out his laptop. Opening a file named 'bunny', he stared at the contents for a long while. It was a picture of Usagi. Finally he sighed and closed the laptop, looking around to see what the others were doing.
The bathroom door opened, and Gi came out. The five men froze as she turned towards them and they got their first look at her face.
She looked exactly like Usagi, right down to the way her nose turned up very slightly. She had the same brilliant blue eyes, only hers lacked the sparkle that Usagi's had had. Instead, hers were dull and lifeless like Hiiro's, which hinted to them that her training had been like the perfect soldier's. Her hair was oddly colored, a mix of bright silver and light, shiny blonde like Usagi's, and her hair hung down to the middle of her back. Gi was even the same height and build as Usagi had been.
Gi now wore black cotton pants and a black spaghetti strap top. She made her way over to her bed. She pulled out her laptop as she sat down. Looking at them using her peripheral vision, she watched them staring at her and mouthing things to each other. With one swift movement, she pulled a gun from her waistband and pointed it at each of them in turn.
"Why are you staring?" she demanded.
"You look like someone we knew." Quatre replied. Duo jumped off of his bed and landed behind Gi. Without turning around, she pointed her gun over her shoulder. Duo gulped. Even without looking at him, she had her gun pointed perfectly between his eyes. One shot would kill him.
"Get off." Gi said. Duo nodded, and went to jump on Wufei's bed. Gi continued to watch her new comrads and type on her laptop. She opened her email, and looked through her new messages.
'Good, one from Dr. M.' she thought as she opened it. The email read:
Hello, Gi-chan. You have not been enrolled in the Academy because the year is almost over, and you learnt those things when you were six. Have fun learning to live and work with the other Gundam pilots. Keep an eye out on Hiiro especially. They will be surprised by your appearance. I know why but I'm afraid I cannot tell you. Also, please refrain from killing them if at all possible. Dr M
Inwardly, the slightest hint of a smile crossed her face. On the outside, she remained the same. She shut off her laptop and stuck her gun back into her waistband. Then she pulled back her comforter and climbed under the thick black cotton. Without a word to the guys, she closed her eyes and went to sleep.
Duo crept out of the bedroom early in the morning. It was about 3 am, he was hungry, and Wufei had some chocolate cake in the refridgerator that was just waiting to be eaten. As he snuck quietly into the kitchen, he looked back over his shoulder and saw two azure eyes staring at him, looking almost amused.
"Yi-!" Duo began, but Gi clamped her hand down over his mouth.
"Shhh," she warned him, and pulled him with her into the kitchen, closing the door behind them.
"What was that all about?" Duo whispered.
"You made noise getting out of bed. I'm a light sleeper." Gi explained calmly and softly as she opened the fridge door and pulled out Wufei's chocolate cake.With Duo watching, she put it on a plate with a fork and set it down on the kitchen table. Duo's eyes widened a bit.
'What's up with this girl?' he wondered silently. 'She's been training for as long as Hiiro has. She's supposed to be another perfect soldier. It looks like she is. She talks a bit, though not as much as I do or as little as Hiiro does. She seemed so serious earlier, but this- this is a side of her I didn't expect. She's stealing my cake!' He came out of his mental debate to notice Gi looking at him with her head tilted to one side as if expecting something.
"What?" Duo whispered. "Do I have something on my face?"
"Not yet. Aren't you going to eat this cake?" She asked playfully.
"Oh! I thought you wanted it." Duo replied. When she shook her head 'No', he sat down at the table and began to eat the huge slab of chocolate cake. After an amazingly short period of time the cake was gone, the plate washed and put away, and the two snuck back into the bedroom silently, confident in the knowledge that all evidence of their presence was gone.
Two hours later, Gi was awake again. She climbed out of bed dressed quickly in black nylon stretch pants and a black shirt that didn't cover her shoulders, but fit snugly around her upper arms and had long sleeves. The shirt showed her bra straps, and she quickly pulled on a grey hooded sweatshirt and running shoes.
A few moments later, she closed the door to the apartment behind her and locked it. Putting the key in her sweatshirt pocket, she took off running down the stairs and out of the building.
At 8 am, Trowa began to wake them all up, as he always did. Quatre woke up easily, as did Wufei. Duo, however, was another story entirely.
"Once again, the sleeping Shinginami refuses to wake. Weak." Wufei commented.
"I'll get him to wake up." A new voice announced. Gi entered the bedroom.
"Yeah, right! We've tried dumping water over his head and sticking him in shower. We've even tried putting his own shoes near his nose. What are you going to try, onna?" Wufei asked skeptically.
"Watch and learn, boys." Gi said,walking over to Duo. Leaning over, she whispered a few words in his ears. Immediately he sat up straight and looked around.
"Where?! Where?!" Duo demanded. Gi gave Wufei a look and went in the living room.
"Weak onna." Wufei muttered.
"What was that, Wufei?" Gi called from her position on the couch.
"Nothing, Gi!" Wufei called back. Gi thought for a moment.
'I'm supposed to be being nice to these guys, and I am. They seem pretty nice. Maybe I should do something nice for them.'
"Hey guys, what's for breakfast?" she called to them.
"Whatever's leftover from the Chinese we had last night." Duo yelled back. "Duh! You know anything else good to eat in this place?"
"Of course!" Gi replied. "I'm making breakfast!"
The others raised their eyes in surprise.
"Here." Gi said, setting the last of several dishes on the kitchen table. "Scrambled eggs, toast, muffins, waffles, and pancakes." The four guys exchanged looks, remembering a meal almost exactly like this one. Just then they heard the opening and closing of the door to the apartment.
Hiiro walked in the door and the first thing that came to the perfect soldier's attention was the smell of the place he lived. Hiiro stopped just inside the door. Frozen in place, he closed his eyes and took in a deep breath through his nose.
'That smell....' he thought. 'Usagi's back!' Suddenly he began to walk briskly towards the kitchen.
'It has to be her... It has to be!' he told himself, while the other part of his brain was yelling at him to remain calm and be the Perfect Soldier. As he reached the entryway to the kitchen, his heart plummeted, though nothing showed on his face.
'It bugs you that Gi looks so much like Usagi, doesn't it?' A voice in his head asked.
'No, course not.' Hiiro thought.
'Oh yes it does. I hear everything that goes on in here. You miss Usagi, Mr. I-have-no-emotions. And every time you look at Gi you think of Usagi. Don't you?' Hiiro didn't answer, but silently banished the voice.
"Good morning, Hiiro." Duo said.
"Hnn." Hiiro grunted in monotone.
"Whatever, dude." Duo replied with a grin.
Later that afternoon, the Quatre, Wufei, Duo, and Trowa were sitting around watching television and reading when Hiiro came out of the bedroom.
"I'll be back soon." he stated simply, and left. The others shrugged and went back to what they were doing, not noticing that Gi left right after Hiiro. (AN: Ha! she left right after him? hahaha! That's funny! okay, guess not. sorry for interrupting your reading! Enjoy the rest!)
Outside, Gi trailed Hiiro, staying behind by about thirty feet but keeping within sight. Hiiro walked for a long time before reaching where he was going. It wouldn't have been such a long walk if it had not been for the path he chose to get there. He stopped in a graveyard. Gi suddenly felt uncomfortable, and, after examining the layout of the area, settled in a tree outside the entrance. She couldn't hear what Hiiro was saying, but she could watch his every move. And watch she did.
"Hello again Usagi." Hiiro said, laying a single flower in the angel's hand. "I know I haven't visited in a few days. I'm sorry. We've got a new roommate, Bunny. She looks a lot like you, except not as beautiful. I miss you so much, Usagi. I swear that I will avenge your death." Hiiro sat on his heels in front of her tombstone angel, keeping his balance by resting one hand on the marble for support.
"The sunrise this morning was beautiful, Usagi. You should have been there. Oh-" his voice broke. "-Usagi!" he cried, leaning his forehead against the smooth marble. For a long while he sat like that, just whispering things to Usagi and letting tears fall off his face onto her grave. (AN: Hmmmmmm....... OOC. Way OOC.)
Gi watched Hiiro the entire time.
'I wonder what he's doing out there. I'm supposed to be learning about this guy, but he never talks. He's Dr. J's "Perfect Soldier". Dr. M tells me I'm just like him in training, strategy, and techniques. I don't like talking more than is nesscesary most of the time, but sometimes it's great to be able to talk to people. Especially when you need information. Maybe that's not what Hiiro Yui needs though.' With this thought in mind, Gi climbed out of the tree and began running back to the apartment to plan.
Hiiro glanced at his watch and sighed. 'Time to go already, or else the others won't know what to think.'
"I'm sorry Usagi, I have to go now. The others don't know I come to visit you. I can't stop being the Perfect Soldier. I just can't. Goodbye, Usagi." He kissed his fingertips and pressed them to the angel's lips. With that, he walked away.
"Hey Gi!" Duo cried as he ran into the living room and jumped on the couch next to her. Over the past two weeks Gi had learned that she had to be very patient with Duo's antics.
"Hey Duo." she replied.
"Have you seen Wufei lately?" Duo asked with an impish grin.
"I think he's taking a shower. Why?" Gi looked at Duo, who winked at her. "Duo- What did you do this time?"
"MAXWELL!!!" Wufei screamed from the bathroom.
"Nothing." Duo said in an innocent voice just before Wufei entered the room.
The reaction was immediate. Gi and Duo exploded into laughter, Quatre politely tried to hide his giggles behind his hand, Trowa smiled and even managed a few chuckles, and the corner of Hiiro's mouth twitched. Wufei had bright pink hair.
"Maxwell-" Wufei began in a dark voice. "What. Did. You. Do?." he asked, as if spelling it out for the braided pilot.
"I didn't do anything, you must have mixed up the bottles." Duo replied, trying to mask his laughter and guilt.
"What am I going to do?! MY HAIR IS PINK!" Wufei practically screamed in Duo's face. He grabbed Duo by the throat and held his katana close to his braid.
"Not the braid, anything but the braid." Duo pleaded. Wufei smirked and moved his katana closer to Duo's crotch instead.
"NOT THAT EITHER!" Duo suddenly shrieked. "Okay, anything but the braid and the reproductive organs!"
"I'll say this one more time, Duo. Then your body parts start disappearing. What is this stuff?"
"Chill- chill out, man. It's just temporary. It'll be out in one wash- I swear!" Duo replied hurridly.
Satisfied, Wufei dropped Duo from his hold. Then he disappeared into the bathroom, and a few seconds later they heard the shower turning back on.
"Damn. The guy doesn't shower for like, two months, then, he takes two showers in one day. What gives?" Duo asked, grinning. Trowa, Quatre, and Duo joined Gi on the large couch to watch TV. After a moment, Hiiro sat with them, laptop open and ready on his lap.
When Wufei re-emerged from the shower, they made their way into the kitchen, where there were several huge trays of Chinese. They each picked up plates and piled them with rice, noodes, and various other foods from the Eastern ethnicity.
"This is fake American crap." Wufei said for the umpteenth time as they sat down in various places around the apartment to eat. They had tried all sitting together at the kitchen table, but it had resulted in five faces staring boredly at laptop screens while Duo drove them all up the wall.
"We have another mission." Hiiro told them in monotone.
"Good! Let's go kick some butt! Shinginami rules!" Duo exclaimed.
"Details. Now." Gi said, holding out her hand to Hiiro. The others were used to this now. Hiiro gave Gi a single sheet of paper. After reading over it, she disappeared into the bedroom. She emerged a minute or two later in her 'battle gear', as Duo called it. She wore tight black pants and matching shirt, with a black leather jacket and black boots. She had guns hidden all over her body.
"Ready." she told them. They left to make their way to where the Gundams were hidden.
"She's so different when it comes to missions." Quatre commented to Trowa while they were walking.
"Yeah, but she's nearly perfect when it comes to completing the mission, so of course she's going to act a bit differently." Trowa said.
"You could be right." the blonde Arabian replied. They continued on in friendly silence.
Once they reached the base where they were to steal files off a computer, they crouched in a dense patch of bushes.
"What's the plan? There are tons of soldiers guarding the door. The great Shinginami is ready for action!" Duo said in a half joking, half serious tone. Gi pulled a folded piece of paper out of her pocket. Unfolding it and laying it on the ground, they could see it was blueprints for the base. One room was highlighted in pink. The room with the computer they had to steal information from. By pointing to the blueprints and having a short conversation consisting of grunts and a few words, Hiiro and Gi quickly came up with a plan, and then informed the others. After making sure everyone had enough ammunition, Hiiro gave the signal to slip into the base.
A few hours later, they were out. They stood at the top of a hill nearby while Hiiro double-checked the detinator for the bombs they had placed, and then pushed the button. Gi's eyes lit up as she watched the explosion, watched the flames dance and the smoke rise to heaven.
'Heaven.' Gi thought to herself. 'Is that where you are, my Nanashi? Where are you?'
(AN: Thanks to LunaPrincess for the name. Nanashi means 'no name' in Japanese. I got the name from her story The Ultimate Mission. She's a true writer. The story is awesome. Go read it!)
"Nanashi..." Gi whispered to herself.
Next to her, Wufei straightned up a bit. All the way back to the apartment thoughts were running through his mind, names, dates, and memories. None were what he was searching for.
'Nanashi- I've heard that before! Whose name is that? Why can't I remember?' he thought, over and over again.
When they reached the apartment complex, Wufei pulled Gi off to the side. Giving the others a look, they took the hint and started up the stairs.
"Gi, who is Nanashi? I heard you talking to yourself earlier." Wufei asked. Gi looked straight into his eyes.
'Oh great. Once again you screwed up. You opened your big mouth too much and someone heard. Well, go on, get yourself out of it!' her mind screamed at her.
"Nanashi is an old friend." Gi replied evenly. "Can we go now?" she asked, her old monotone resurfacing. Wufei inwardly rolled his eyes.
'Great, here we go. It's no use to try and talk to her anymore. She's a cross between Duo, Quatre, and Hiiro. Sometimes she's hyper like Duo, sometimes she talks just enough to be polite, and sometimes she can be a real bitch when she's silent like Hiiro. But there's something about her I just can't place, and I know it's not just becuase she looks a lot like Usagi.'
"Fei-chan, are you coming or not?" an amused voice asked from the doorway.
"That's not my name! You bet I'm coming! Better run!" Wufei yelled, not knowing or caring that he was acting so unlike himself.
"Aiiie!" Gi yelled as she was chased up several flights of stairs. She paused at the locked door.
"LEMME IN!" she screamed as Wufei emerged from the stairs nearby. Someone was taking their time to unbolt the door. It opened right as Wufei caught up with her. She dove through the doorway as Wufei caught her around the waist.
What resulted was comic. Wufei and Gi were in a doggy pile in the doorway while Trowa looked down on them from where he had jumped out of the way. Gi and Wufei were laughing crazily, especially after Trowa closed the door and Duo was considerate enough to join the pile, dragging Quatre in with him. This resulted in more laughter as the original two tried to untangle all the limbs, Quatre politely trying to climb out but kept falling back on top of them, and Duo making it worse by twisting his way and tangling all of their limbs up. They were all laughing.
"Whoever has their hand on my butt, move it away slowly. Unless it's you, of course, Gi." Duo commented through tears. His face fell when the hand shot away, and Quatre turned about sixteen shades of red.
"Aww, shucks." Duo grinned as he said it, though. The four of them managed to untangle themselves. Gi disappeared into the kitchen, with Duo close after her.
"Where there's food, there's Duo." Trowa commented. A few of them cracked a grin before going back to what they were doing before.
"Hey Trowa?" Quatre began later. Trowa looked up from what he was doing, signaling the younger boy that he had the older one's attention. "We're not even attending the Academy anymore, so I was thinking we could go to my Uncle's old house in the country. Would you like to go?" Trowa nodded. Smiling, Quatre ran to ask the others.
"Hey! Everyone! Kitchen! Now!" Quatre yelled. There was a sudden stampede to the small room as the promise of a mission hung in the air.
"What's the mission?" Wufei asked. Quatre gave him an odd look.
"There is no mission. I just wanted to know if you guys wanted to head out to my Uncle's old house in the country. Just walk out and go pack if you want to go, we leave in the morning. Bring all your stuff." The kitchen was quickly deserted as they all went to pack.
About 9 hours later they stood surrounded by bags in the living room. The entire apartment was empty, save the furniture. When Quatre announced that the car was ready, they all picked up their bags. there were two black duffels that no one picked up at first. The five guys reconized them as Usagi's bags, and looked to each other, wondering who had thought to bring them.
"Oh I found those in a closet and since Quatre told us to bring everything, so I assumed one of you was going to forget your bags since they were in the closet.Who's are they?" Gi asked them.
"The bags are mine, onna." Wufei said quickly, noticing that the other four had also opened their mouths to answer.
"Okay, whatever. Let's go!" Gi said excitedly.
In front of the complex, a limo was waiting. Opening the trunk, they piled in as much as would fit. Which wasn't much. The rest they crammed in with them. After they had somehow managed to fit fifteen bags and six people in a space made to seat four comfortably, they were off.
"Quatre when you said 'house', we thought you meant a house. This is a mansion!" Duo exclaimed. Trowa nodded in agreement.
"Well, come on. I had them prepare enough rooms and stock the kitchen with food." the blonde boy told them. They picked up their bags and entered the 'house'. Quatre led them to a hall in the middle of the house. He pointed the rooms out. They each got their own room.
"Thanks Quatre!" Gi exclaimed. She had a room in the middle of the hall. Duo was on one side, Hiiro was on the other. Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei's rooms were across the hall. The rooms were nice, consisting mainly of a bed, a tv, and a bathroom.
"Hey guys lets go swimming!" Quatre suggested about an hour later. They had all unpacked, and were standing in the hallway waiting for something to do.
They must have all agreed because they all disappeared into their rooms and reappeared a few minutes later with swimsuits on. Quatre grinned and led them through the maze of hallways. As they passed a large set of double doors, Quatre pointed to them.
"Through there is the indoor pool, and there's another door leading to a hot tub and another to the sauna." he explained. They nodded, then he led them outside to the pool there.
Gi quickly shed her sarong, watching Wufei and Hiiro carefully. They were standing next to the water, and it was obvious they were having a 'serious' moment. She looked at Duo, who nodded. They both grinned.
One.... Gi mouthed
Two... Duo mouthed back.
Three! They both went for it. Duo shoved Hiiro in, and Gi got Wufei.
A moment earlier....
"Hiiro? I need to ask you something." the Chinese boy looked at his fellow pilot. Hiiro nodded. "Do you remember someone named Nanashi?"
"No name?" Hiiro asked in monotone, just they were pushed simultaniously into the water.
"Boom yow! Touchdown!" Duo exclaimed. He and Gi high-fived each other, not noticing as Quatre and Trowa snuck up behind them.
Splash!
Duo and Gi quickly joined the first two in the pool. They looked up, annoyed.
"You may have got us this time, amatuers. We'll get you next time!" Duo told them. The two dry boys laughed at his comment.
"Yeah right!" Quatre told them, acting totally out of character. Then again, Trowa was also out of character as he pushed Quatre in to join the others before jumping in himself to join the splash-fight. The fight lasted for about twenty minutes. Gi hauled herself out of the pool and went to sit on a lounge chair nearby.
'What's wrong with me?' she wondered. 'Up until about a little more than a week ago, I was Dr. M's perfect soldier. Now, I'm acting as if I have no cares in the world. I've got a war to fight. Why can't I conceal my emotions any more? I'm actually acting normal... scary.' She fought for a moment, and managed to put her stone mask back on, once again becoming an emotionless statue. She lay there in the bright, warm sunlight with her eyes closed as the chaos of the pool fight- with Duo's help- began to rage again not ten feet from her. She fell asleep like that. After the fight had ended, and the others had become waterlogged and decided to go back inside, she woke back up, her instincts reconizing that the others were no longer making noise, even in her sleep.
Gi tied her sarong back around her slim waist as she walked back toward her room. Once she was back in her room, she pulled out her laptop and checked her email.
'sigh No missions. Why do I even bother to stay around here?' she wondered as she changed into a pair of black baggy cargo pants and navy blue long sleeve shirt. She sat back down at her computer and began to hack into various systems, checking up on OZ's activities. Then, with nothing better to do, she decided to wander around the mansion.
Dr M looked at Setsuna in near shock.
"How did you manage that?" he asked. His older half-sister shrugged, and looked at the girl who lay on a cot in the corner.
"I am the Guardian of Time. I used some of the Ginzuishou's power combined with some of my own to bring her back. Right now, the Ginzuishou needs time to replentish it's energy supply. She won't wake up for a few days anyway. I was hoping she could stay here."
"This is going to be a very odd experience. You said she's a lot like the other one, right? It's going to be like raising the first one all over. That was scary enough." Dr M told her. Setsuna smiled.
"It'll be alright. She'll only be here a day or two. You know what has to happen as soon as she's strong enough, right?" the Guardian asked. Dr M nodded.
"I'm not sure which one I'm rooting for here. The one, I raised all her life. She's like a daughter. But this other one, she's so unique-and look what she did to the pilots! She turned them all into normal teenage boys. That's something none of us could do, and we were with those boys for most of their lives." Setsuna smiled at him.
"What did you do at her birth? You told me vaguely, but I never really understood what happened." Dr M asked. Setsunsa's eyes darkened.
"I did what I had to. Now, each have a vague feeling of remembering doing things they've never done. One, for example, remembers the Crown Arcade, while the other remembers how to hack into computer systems, something the first was trained to do early on." Setsuna told him. Dr M shook his head.
"I still can't believe how any of this is even possible. I thought I was weird, being the half-son of the God Chromos." Setsuna smiled again, and waved the Time Staff once, changing into Sailor Pluto.
"I have to go- the Time Gate cannot be left unattended for long." she told her brother.
"Hai, I understand. I assume you'll be back when she wakes?" the other asked, rubbing his temples. Sailor Pluto nodded before stepping through the a portal to the Time Gate.
(Now I'm getting impatient: I wanna get to the good part! So, we're gonna do a time hop. We're hopping forward four days- there have been a few missions, but nothing major has happened. Usagi is just now waking up…)
"Uuuugh…" Usagi moaned, putting her hand to her forehead, wiping the sweat off her brow. She felt her crescent shining, but was not bothered. "Where am I?" she wondered. She thought back. 'We had a mission… We went in Treize's office, I locked the door…' her thoughts trailed off. 'Oh Kami- Why am I still alive?' she moaned again, and sat up. She was soon looking around. She was sitting in a small, bare room on a mattress on the floor. There was only one door, and the only other furniture was a wooden chair.
"Where am I?" she asked aloud again. She stood, and walked to the door. Just as she reached for the door handle, it swung open. A smiling face greeted her.
"Hello, Usagi-chan. I'm Dr M. I'm also Sailor Pluto's half-brother." he said to her, entering the room. She looked at him, puzzled.
"Two questions: One- Why am I still alive? And two- Where am I?"
"One- You cannot die eternally. Not yet. But that's something my sister needs to explain. Two- You are in a special training facility, built by myself and my colleagues. I believe we've already met, in another area of the building, ne?"
"Hai." She replied. Dr M watched her intently.
"There's something you have to know, Usagi-chan, but I'm not the one that should be telling you. Setsuna told me to tell you that she'll come as soon as you wake. I'm sure she'll be here soon."
"I'm here now." A voice came from the still-open doorway. Sailor Pluto stood there, tall and dark, before coming in and shutting the door behind her.
"Usagi-chan, in a little while, I'm going to have to tell you something. But to do that, I need Gi as well. I don't want to explain it more than once; it's rather complicated." She told her young Princess. Confused once more, Usagi smiled, trying to cover her uneasiness.
"Okay, I guess. What now?" Usagi asked.
'That's my hime.' Pluto thought. 'Always optimistic.' (hime= princess)
"We have to go to Quatre's mansion to find Gi." The tall one replied.
"I guess there I'll find out who Gi is, huh?" Usagi asked as she pulled out the Ginzuishou to aide Pluto in the Teleport. Pluto nodded, smiling. Dr M stood with them as they began the teleport, and traveled with them to Quatre's mansion.
The six Gundam pilots sat around Quatre's large living room. Duo was yelling at a pinball machine Quatre had bought for him in the corner, Trowa was once again trying to compose music, and Hiiro was- as usual- staring out the window. Quatre was sketching a picture in his notebook, Gi was typing away on her laptop, and Wufei was sharpening his katana.
Suddenly, a purplish-blue swirl of color began to appear in the center of the room. Hiiro and Gi pulled their guns out of nowhere and Wufei stood up quickly, freshly sharpened katana ready. Sailor Pluto stepped out of the portal. The five guys reconized her fuku as that of a Sailor Senshi, but kept their weapons at ready.
"Put your weapons away. I am Sailor Pluto, Guardian of the Time Gate. There is someone who wants to see you." she said. The others held their breath and waited. Another figure stepped out, and they let the breath out, sighing. It was Dr M. He smiled at them, much more light-hearted than his older sister. Gi nearly smiled at the sight of her trainer and mentor. Nearly.
"Oh how quickly you all give up." Dr M said cryptically as another faint form appeared. The girl, once again clad in Sailor fuku and trademark odangos, smiled brightly at them all.
"Hi again, guys!" she greeted. Even Hiiro could not stop his jaw from dropping.
"Usagi?" Duo asked softly as the portal closed behind them. The girl nodded excitedly. Then she turned, looking at the one occupant of the room she didn't know. They stared at each for a long moment, before Pluto coughed a bit to get their attention.
"I'm sure you all probably want an explanation, so let me start at the beginning..." she said.
Now I could be really evil and leave it off there, or I could continue posting as soon as I get enough reviews.... If you want the next chapter (which will not be the end), PLEASE review. It takes only a few seconds and it'll make my day! Ja ne!