Can Vampires love?? (Revised)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the gundam pilots nor do I own Usagi, But Tora and Tsuki are mine!

Chapter Three: Duo's Memory: How they first became friends.

        Duo Maxwell was staring up at the ceiling and sighed. Who knew that falling in love would be so painful?? Hell,  who would've ever thought that Duo would fall in love all together. It wasn't his style, he usually would date a girl for two weeks sometime three if they were lucky and dumped them. Sure there were a few girls he thought her loved, but  he wouldn't put his life on the line for them because he loved them, he'd do it because they were innocents, but Tora was one he'd throw everything away for because he loved her. God he even remembered the first day he even became friends with her.

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"Maxwell, would you stop babbling on about those Onnas?!?" Wufei said glaring at the boy  with the braid.

"Yes, Please do." Quatre said.

"Oh come on, Q-man. You looked like your eyes would just pop out of your head as soon as you saw them!!" Duo said as they walked into the gym for their usual lesson on Karate from Ms. Kino. They got there to see the three girls. The one with the book still hadn't put it down.

"Man I don't care about being Releana's assistant for three weeks, she's just asking to get picked on." Duo said walking over to the girl dressed in black sweatpants and a white fitted tanktop.

"Duo, don't!!!" Quatre called. "He's going to regret that." Quatre said gaining the attention of the other guys for a moment.

"Hey!!"  Duo said to the girl who only ignored her. He kneeled to read the cover of the book. "A Manual on a motorcycle??" He took the book from her hands. She glared at the boy with the single braid. He flipped through the pages looking like it was in a strange language.

"May I have my book back  please??" She asked with a tone that could rival Heero's.

"When I'm done looking at it." He said flipping through the pages some more. "Why would a girl be looking through a book like thing??"

"I wasn't looking through, I was reading it." She said fighitng the urge to tug the braid dangling in her face. He merely laughed.

"That's rich!! I have never heard of a person actually reading a manual on how to ride a motorcycle."

"I'm not reading it to learn how to ride one, If you noticed it's a manual on how to care for a motorcycle."

"Even worse. Man I knew new kids who were dorks but you take the cake." He said knowing he was probably going to get hit, but he'd simply tell her he was kidding.

"May I have my book back please??" She asked fighting the urge to  hurt the idiot before her.

"Come on I'm not done with it!!" He said pretending to whine.

"Maybe you should've waited until I was done reading it." She said taking off her glasses.

"You know.. girls shouldn't be reading this type of stuff. They should be reading cookbooks and stuff getting them ready for a family." He said with humor in his tone.

"That's it.. he's going down." Quatre said. "Never ever tell Tora she should be in the kitchen or doing stuff that housewives do."

"But he was joking." Trowa pointed out.

"Tora, doesn't care. She broke Rashid's nose when he said that and he was joking. We had to hold her back before she stopped trying to attack him." Quatre said making everyone look at him.

"You know that girl." Trowa asked.

"Her, Tsuki, and Usagi." Quatre said.

"Don't ever in your life tell me that!!!" She yelled making everyone looking at them. Duo turned around and nearly missed the fist that was coming at his face.

"I was only joking!!!" He said dodging her on coming attacks. She was moving fast that's for sure and he almost didn't dodge everything. Finally she landed a blow to his stomach, but she was no where near done with him. The blow to the stomach slowed him down but he still was getting out of the way, but barely moving out of the way to be completely safe.

"Tora stop!!" Usagi and Tsuki each grabbed an arm, but with a hard tug she was out of their hold and re-started her attack on  the boy, until he backed up into a wall.

"Tora, Wait!!" Quatre held her arm stopping the punch aimed at his face. The dark haired girl  with the braided pigtails looked into his gentle but firm blue eyes with anger burning in her violet ones. They just locked eyes staring in each others eyes. Then her eyes welled up with tears and she tore the eye contact without a second thought.

"I'm sorry." She lowered her arm and stance and held herself while she began crying. "You probably hate me even more now." She said while he put her glasses back on her face.

"Tora…" He started  but she took her book from Usagi and left the gym. He was ready to go after her until the gentle hand of Usagi rested on  his shoulder.

"Q-chan. Give her time."

"But I don't-" he started to say something and Usagi put a finger to his lips.

"We know that and she does too. It's just too awkward now." Tsuki said and she looked at Duo. "A slight warning, only Usagi can take her books from her like that. Sometimes I can get away with it, but always Usagi. She usually tries to get it back before lashing out, but she took her glasses off meaning you provoked her."

"Next time one of us might not be there and she could very well send you to the  hospital." Usagi said. "Watch out for your friend, Quatre." Usagi said walking away. Duo sighed and fell to the floor.

"I tried to warn you." Quatre said.

"That  girl  is crazy!!!" He said

"Like  you??" Wufei asked trying to stop laughing, but failed miserably. "Maxwell nearly pissed his pants!!!" Quatre shook his head and everyone else became impassive. Ms. Kino was too busy trying to fing that girl with the book. Needless to  say Gym class was interesting.

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         Duo Maxwell waas currently cutting Study hall since it was his last class of the day. He was walking to the automotives class to bother Heero before he actually left the school. He had passed the music room where Quatre was currently playing the piano for the class, he saw Trowa waiting for Releana to show up to start one of her speeches, he went by the gym since Wufei was there again to teach the under classmen a thing or two about martial arts. He walked pass Releana with his spine tense afraid that she had already found out about the whole thing with Tora.

"Duo.." Releana said makiing him freeze, but being an ex-pilot he masked that pretty well.

Hmm??" He asked tapping his foot.

"I spoke with Tora a little while ago." She said and on the inside he was panicking. "I'm glad you're being nice instead of your usual annoying self."

"N-nice??"

"Yes… you were her sparring partner for gym earlier right, were you not??" She asked.

"Uhhh…  yeah!!" He said with a smile.

"I'm glad. Tora is kind of… shy… no.. more like closed off. She fails to trust people from time to time which is why she buries herself in her studies, reading manuals for things, and 'projects'."

"Projects??" Duo asked.

"She just finished her latest project in the Automotives class. A few hours with all sorts of machine parts and she does wonders, and keep being nice to her." Releana said walking into the class to begin her speech. Duo furrowed his eyebrows in confusion and slight guilt. He had tormented the girl and she didn't turn him in…. why? With a shrug he went to the Automotives class too see all the boys in the class crowd around something.

"What's going on??" Duo asked.

"The new girl built a motorcycle.." Someone said

"What??" He said and a roar of an engine was heard, everyone back  up making a path and he saw the familiar braided pigtails coming from a helmet and she was walking a motorcycle out. She set it to the side. And removed her helmet.

"She couldn't have built the whole thing here today!!" Duo muttered.

"I didn't." She said singling him out. "I started it before we came here to the Sanq kingdom. I just didn't have an engine, break cables, and a few other things.." She said gently. "I'm going now Ms. Tenou!!!" She called.

"Ok." The short haired woman said.

"Don't let the guys destroy my bike while painting it." She said returning the book  she had previously been reading to Ms. Tenou, who in turn gave her another book.

"I won't let them.." She said to the group  of boys selected to customize her bike. Then Tora walked out of the door and headed to a café across the street. Duo watched her for a moment before deciding to go after her.

"Tora!!!" He called hoping she'd look up from the book, which she did and began to rub her arm nervously.

"I'm sorry for lashing out at you like I did."

"I was asking for it." He said as his cheeks took on a reddish tint from the cold atmosphere. "But why  didn't you tell Releana.." He looked at the ground only finding himself staring at her legs.

"Because I  didn't want to. The more I thought about it, you were just joking around and not many people approach me so I took what you said to heart, but you were just joking so I guess I'd let you off this time." She said gently watching him  pull his jacket tighter to him to keep warm.

"Aren't you cold??" He asked her finding it hard to  tear his eyes from the long, tanned legs.

"Not all that much." She said tugging on one of her pigtails and continued walking to the Café.

"You stole my trademark braid you know." He said walking to catch up with her."

"How could I have.. I have two of them!!" She said with a small smile.

"So you doubled the amount you still stole the braid." He said as she closed the café door in his face. She giggled a little when his face was pressed against the window.