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Chapter 4- (The tattoo)
She yawned and blinked her eyes; she was having a hard time trying to stay awake in this class. She looked over at the clock that hung above the exit, which read 2:10 p.m. She sighed, just twenty more minutes and she would finally be out of there.
She didn't know how much more she could take, she had never heard so much talk about peace in all of her 17 years of living and it was driving her insane. Relena wasn't lying when she said that the professors try to establish a sense of peace
She raised a brow more like brainwash a sense of peace!
As she smirked at the thought, the teacher began a discussion of some new technology that could provide absolute peace for centuries ahead. He stood in front of the students with his glasses pushed to the bridge of his nose and told them to open to page 310 in their books.
Serena rolled her eyes when the professor began to relate the new development with something that was invented over 50 years ago. "Now, I want you all to tell me in a two page report why these two machines are similar and yet at the same time different, then explain why the first prototype never survived and why the new model might be the ticket to total pacifism."
She frowned and looked down to the row in front of her to see Duo leaning back in his seat with his head hanging over the back of the chair; his mouth was wide open where a quiet snore would escape every now and then.
There was a pilot in every class she had and at least two were with her always. This made her job easier since Quatre was the only one who was in every single class including the one she was currently in.
She smiled and turned to the rest of the boys, only three of the pilots were in this class. Quatre sat further in the front where he could hear the teacher better and Heero sat a few seats down in the row behind her. She could hear him typing on the laptop and turned her head slightly to look at him.
His hands stopped immediately and she knew that he noticed her obvious staring. She looked up to meet his Prussian eyes, which were, once again, glaring at her. She didn't know what it was, but whenever she looked into his dark eyes, she felt hypnotized and she knew he felt it too.
She blinked and turned her head away quickly. She hadn't noticed it before, but her breathing was now shallow and her heart was pounding. She swallowed and decided to ignore it, after all, the perfect soldier could be intimidating.
Her eyes lowered catching the eyes of another classmate who was smiling at her. He had long brown hair pulled into a loose ponytail that hung over his shoulder as he turned around in his seat to look at her. Matter of fact, she realized; that's been happening to her all day. She was just thankful that no one had the balls to walk up to her.
Serena sighed annoyingly and laid her head in her arms and closed her eyes as the students began to ask questions about the assignment that was just given. She really wasn't in the mood for this; it was no secret that Usagi Tsukino hated school, it was just a shame that she had to pass that trait on to Serena Mikazuki.
Her breathing became even and anyone could tell that she was fast asleep. In her subconscious she could hear the vagueness of a familiar voice that she hadn't heard in so long; she would never admit it, but she really missed it.
". . . . .Kami, this girl sleeps like the dead! . . . . .You better have your homework today or it's detention for a week. . . . .Usagi, pay attention!. . . . .I don't know what to do with you, Usagi! . . . . .You're very bright, I don't want to see you waste your life away. . . . .You've seem to have been distracted for the last couple of weeks, is there something bothering you?"
". . .Usagi?. . . .Usagi!"
She opened her eyes and met the concerned face of her old sensei; she jumped back startled and almost claimed insanity when she realized that no one was there. Serena looked around before her gaze fell on the perfect soldier, who was, at the moment, staring at her in confusion, his eyes questioning.
She turned back to the front of the class, breathed in deeply and released it through her tightly clenched lips. Even her old junior high teacher haunted her, she couldn't even sleep in class without hearing the scolding of Haruna-sensei, who might've been the only one who was actually concerned about her during her scouting days.
Not even her best friend, Naru, sensed the change, but Haruna-sensei had.
Serena shook her head of the past; she really didn't want to be reminded of her teacher's death and of the youma who punched a hole through her chest and walked away.
Serena put her head in her hands Iie! Iie, not again!
The teacher's last words, those words that kept Usagi from having a total mental breakdown as she held the dying woman in her arms. "Usagi? I knew. . . you were . . .special. . ."
Serena clenched her eyes closed, she was on the brink of tears and she couldn't allow them to fall, they were a weakness and it would be that same weakness that would stir up questions. When she was sure the tears subsided, she removed her hands and sat back in her seat.
At the start of the bell signaling the end of class and her ticket to freedom, she could feel those hypnotic eyes staring at her back as she stood to collect her things. She just hoped he had enough sense to keep his mouth shut, that is, if he saw the inner struggle with herself.
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Serena walked through the double doors of the entrance of the school and could see a crowd forming a little ways down the sidewalk. From her position she could see Duo's braid swinging back in forth as he tried to look over the student's heads.
She shook her head, smiled and walked over to him. "Hey Duo, what's going on?" He turned around and looked at her, "I dunno, there's officers all around and there's an ambulance parked."
She stood on her tiptoes to get a better look and could see the white vehicle parked in the street with the doors wide open "What do you think happened?"
He shrugged and tapped a student on the shoulder, "Hey man, what's going on?"
The guy ran his fingers through his short red hair and scratched the freckles on his face; "they found this dead body in the janitor's closet." Duo's eyebrows rose as he looked toward Serena who feigned the same reaction.
"That's terrible!" she said as her gaze fell back on the scene. At that moment the side doors of the school opened and out walked two men holding a stretcher with a body spread out on top; it was covered with a sheet.
Serena's eyes narrowed when she caught sight of the body's hand, which hung over the side of the stretcher. The glove was half off and she could see the beginning of a tattoo, though she wasn't sure since she was too far from the scene to get a good look.
She made a mental note and in a blink of an eye her mask was back on.
When she turned around, she came face to face with the other four pilots. Their eyes scanned over the scene and then they each made eye contact as if relaying a secret message without anyone knowing, but Serena caught it and she knew that they were up to something.
She quickly redirected her attention back to the scene and began to make more mental notes.
A few minutes passed and she could feel a presence behind her. She turned around to see, who else, but the perfect soldier himself. He stared at her and surprisingly it wasn't a glare, but his stare was hard. She stared back at him in confusion.
"Nani?" he stared for a little longer before he answered. "You seem a little too interested."
She shrugged, "Of course, there was a dead body in our school. Aren't you just a tad curious?" he looked her up and down and began to relax a little, which Serena caught. She smiled, "I do believe you gave me a whole sentence this time, not your usual disposition, ne?"
Her smile turned flirtatious as she stepped closer to him; leaning up she whispered in his ear. "I think your warming up to me." Heero stood in the same position as before, but his eyes had clouded over before they returned to their usual color of Prussian blue.
Quatre began to walk toward the parking lot and stopped to wave to them. "The limousine is waiting!" Serena winked at Heero before walking past him. Duo's brows rose in surprise then furrowed in confusion as he looked at Heero's reaction.
Heero uncrossed his arms and turned to meet Duo's violet gaze. Before Duo could say anything about the scene he just saw between the two, Heero narrowed his eyes and said, "it doesn't concern you" before walking away to meet the others.
Duo's eyes lowered to the ground then closed as he tried to push the guilt away, he hoped his thoughts were wrong, but like Heero had said, it wasn't his concern, and he knew he was right.
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All five teens sat in the limo in silence. Quatre looked around and cleared his throat, "So Serena, how was your first day?"
She smiled at him, "it was better than I thought." As her thoughts ran back to the events of the day, Serena winced when she grasped the fact that she killed for the first time. Though, the guilt wasn't as strong as she thought it would be; it was still there.
She took a deep breath and turned to look out of the window into the wooded areas that decorated the side of the road.
It was the first time Serena realized that Quatre's mansion was in a secluded area away from the public and by the looks of the others, they seemed to be a little too anxious to get back to the house.
As soon as the car pulled into the long driveway, the boys jumped out and hurried into the house. Serena followed and could see Heero on his laptop and to her, it seemed he got a very interesting message.
Hopefully they would be leaving on another mission letting her begin her own.
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A half-hour later, there was a knock on the door. "Come in."
The door opened and in walked Quatre, he stood in the middle of the floor with his hands clasped behind his back. "Serena, we have to step out for a bit, will you be alright?" She nodded without asking questions, which gave Quatre relief since he wasn't prepared for them.
When he left she waited for his footsteps to disappear before glancing into the hallway to see if he was gone; then closed and locked her door. Grabbing the suitcases from under the bed she threw them open and pulled out her collection.
Going into her book bag she pulled out the gun she took from the soldier and hung it on one of the hooks that lined the bottom of the suitcase while grabbing the set of listening devices. She waited for the slight vibration of the floor to stop before she made her way to the stairs to begin to make her tour.
She made her way into the lounge area which was where the pilots spent most of their time; something she noticed when she first arrived. She went to the lamp on one of the side tables and pulled out one of the devices. It was thin and clear and pealed off like a sticker, she put her hand under the lampshade and attached it.
She made her rounds to every room on the main floor including the kitchen, putting the bugs in unsuspecting places. She couldn't help but notice that the house seemed to be empty and she wondered where all the people were. She didn't have time to investigate though, she only had a short time left and she still had the rooms upstairs to do.
She quickly made her way down the hallway to the last remaining room, which was the study. She entered without hesitating and attached one device underneath the desk. As she made her way toward the painting on the wall, she got a sharp pain in her head.
She put her fingers to her temple and started to back away running into the desk along the way. Then the nausea hit and she knew she was going to throw up. As she ran from the room she suddenly realized the disgusting feeling was no longer there.
She looked back at the room and eyed it suspiciously; there wasn't an explanation for what happened, she just couldn't comprehend it. After a few moments, she shook her head and moved up the stairs to finish her mission.
She only needed to go into four rooms; Quatre and Trowa saved her about two devices, since it was obvious that the two were involved. The whole situation reminded her of two people from her past, the two who were supposed to protect her the most, the only lovers in the female group.
Serena shook her head and forced herself to think about the task at hand. She went through each room except for the perfect soldier's, which was where she stood at that moment.
She hesitated as she turned the knob, and she wasn't surprised when she found it to be locked. She pulled a pin out of her hair and began working on it. In few seconds she heard a satisfying 'click' as she proceeded cautiously.
She didn't want to give him any idea of a disturbance, but one thing she was sure about was that he trusted everyone in the house enough to not put up any cameras in his room. She smiled to herself and began to place the bugs in various places in the room, one by his bed and one underneath the desk.
She got tempted to decode his messages on his laptop but she knew he would know she was there and she couldn't take that chance. Fucking with his laptop is like killing his best friend, who I'm pretty sure, is his laptop
She didn't need the information that bad, besides she'd rather obtain it herself; she had her pride.
"Kuso!" She cursed when she felt the floor vibrate. She looked around the room quickly to make sure she didn't leave anything and made her way to the door, locking it on her way out, she closed the door and ran down the hall to her own room.
She put the suitcases back underneath her bed and threw off her uniform to put on a pair of sweats. She could hear footsteps coming down the hall and she quickly opened her books on the desk and sat down to give the illusion of her studying.
"Come in." she said at the sound of the knock and Duo stuck his head through the opening. She blinked at him, "Duo you can come completely in if you want." He smiled and embarrassed smile and walked into the room.
"Gomen, were not used to having girls in the house." Serena could only smile in return.
"Um, just came to tell you, we're back and…" he frowned when he saw her books. "Ugh! You're actually doing homework?" She almost laughed outright; he sounded so much like her.
"Hai, I'm working on the history paper that was given today." His eyes bulged, "what history paper?" She looked at him confused before she remembered that he was asleep when the teacher gave the assignment.
"Well if you were paying attention instead of drooling then you would know." She teased. He stuck out his bottom lip; "I can't help it, that class is boring!" She giggled at his antics and handed over her notes, which she managed to steal from the professor's files. "Here"
He looked at it like it was going to jump and bite him, "Nani?" she asked. He pouted again, "I'm allergic to homework." She shook her head and shoved the notebook into his arms, "tough! If you want to amount to anything you have to do it!"
He mumbled his way to the door, just before he closed it Serena heard him mumble, "I help save the world and how do they thank me? They give me homework!" Serena shook her head and frowned at her books. "If you want to amount to anything…did I really say that?"
She got up from the desk and got on her hands and knees to pull out a black leather bag from under the bed. She unzipped it and pulled out a laptop of her own. She smiled to herself, she had almost forgotten about it but now she had an excuse to use it.
To the pilots it will look as if she's doing her paper, but if they looked closer, they would see her control of the listening devices she planted all over the house, but of course no one could get in without her password, which was voice activated.
She cracked her knuckles before she began typing, her fingers worked over the keys as if she was an expert which was ironic, seeing that Usagi knew nothing about computers, but then again, Usagi was dead.
Her eyes hardened at the screen as she tried to crack a code. They glazed over and it was obvious that Serena was gone replaced with a trained assassin on a mission. When the screen said "access granted," her eyes returned to the crystal blue they were before as she read the contents in the files.
She read the through the results saved in the morgue files. She could've snuck into the building itself, but it was easier to just crack open a code and call it a day; besides she wasn't in the mood.
She smiled when she came across the 'no name' victim's information.
"Foot mark on throat area….broken neck..yadda yadda yadda…" She scrolled down and stopped when something caught her eye. "Tattoo on right hand." She clicked on a link and a picture popped up. (AN: it could happen!)
The tattoo was done in black ink, it was a strange design and yet it looked almost familiar. The top part was a bunch of loops that came down in an almost crescent moon shape. To anyone, it would be beautiful, but Serena knew there was more to it than that.
She decided to use the Internet to see if the tattoo was copyrighted and if it was, she needed to know what it meant if it had meaning at all.
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Two hours had past and she hadn't come up with anything which frustrated the hell out of her. She looked toward the window and her brows rose. She hadn't realized the sun went down, she was so wrapped up in finding that tattoo that she didn't even notice.
She bit her lip, "Shimatta! This tattoo has got to be somewhere…." She sat up in her seat suddenly and clicked into her e-mail and started typing. "Maybe Doctor V has seen it before." She attached the photo and pushed send.
She made a note to check her mail tomorrow and was about to get up and take a shower when the link to the lounge area in the bottom right corner of the screen started blinking. the listening devices She put the earphone in her ear and pushed link at the same time saying, "Hotoru" as her password.
She could hear five different voices and she knew they were the pilots. She sat back and listened carefully.
"So you think the guy that was killed today was sent after me." Quatre's small voice came through. Trowa turned to him with a serious face, "Hai, he had the tattoo, I'm sure of it."
Serena smiled to herself I knew it
Duo got up and paced the floor, "so what do we do now?"
"We have to be more cautious." Wufei said with his crossed arms and black eyes narrowed. Quatre shook his head, "demo what about Serena, she could be in danger too; they will surely kill her for it, if it's as powerful as we think it is."
Serena held the ear piece closer to hear the conversation better. It? What do you have Quatre?
"Then you shouldn't have brought her here." Everyone in the room looked over at the perfect soldier. His head was down but his eyes never strayed from Quatre's gaze. Quatre looked away in shame, "I didn't mean too, I just…..she's my cousin."
"She can't be trusted." Quatre frowned at Heero's comment and looked at his lover who gave him a look a of reassurance and his obvious agreement. Quatre could do nothing but nod, "I understand."
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Chapter 4- (The tattoo)
She yawned and blinked her eyes; she was having a hard time trying to stay awake in this class. She looked over at the clock that hung above the exit, which read 2:10 p.m. She sighed, just twenty more minutes and she would finally be out of there.
She didn't know how much more she could take, she had never heard so much talk about peace in all of her 17 years of living and it was driving her insane. Relena wasn't lying when she said that the professors try to establish a sense of peace
She raised a brow more like brainwash a sense of peace!
As she smirked at the thought, the teacher began a discussion of some new technology that could provide absolute peace for centuries ahead. He stood in front of the students with his glasses pushed to the bridge of his nose and told them to open to page 310 in their books.
Serena rolled her eyes when the professor began to relate the new development with something that was invented over 50 years ago. "Now, I want you all to tell me in a two page report why these two machines are similar and yet at the same time different, then explain why the first prototype never survived and why the new model might be the ticket to total pacifism."
She frowned and looked down to the row in front of her to see Duo leaning back in his seat with his head hanging over the back of the chair; his mouth was wide open where a quiet snore would escape every now and then.
There was a pilot in every class she had and at least two were with her always. This made her job easier since Quatre was the only one who was in every single class including the one she was currently in.
She smiled and turned to the rest of the boys, only three of the pilots were in this class. Quatre sat further in the front where he could hear the teacher better and Heero sat a few seats down in the row behind her. She could hear him typing on the laptop and turned her head slightly to look at him.
His hands stopped immediately and she knew that he noticed her obvious staring. She looked up to meet his Prussian eyes, which were, once again, glaring at her. She didn't know what it was, but whenever she looked into his dark eyes, she felt hypnotized and she knew he felt it too.
She blinked and turned her head away quickly. She hadn't noticed it before, but her breathing was now shallow and her heart was pounding. She swallowed and decided to ignore it, after all, the perfect soldier could be intimidating.
Her eyes lowered catching the eyes of another classmate who was smiling at her. He had long brown hair pulled into a loose ponytail that hung over his shoulder as he turned around in his seat to look at her. Matter of fact, she realized; that's been happening to her all day. She was just thankful that no one had the balls to walk up to her.
Serena sighed annoyingly and laid her head in her arms and closed her eyes as the students began to ask questions about the assignment that was just given. She really wasn't in the mood for this; it was no secret that Usagi Tsukino hated school, it was just a shame that she had to pass that trait on to Serena Mikazuki.
Her breathing became even and anyone could tell that she was fast asleep. In her subconscious she could hear the vagueness of a familiar voice that she hadn't heard in so long; she would never admit it, but she really missed it.
". . . . .Kami, this girl sleeps like the dead! . . . . .You better have your homework today or it's detention for a week. . . . .Usagi, pay attention!. . . . .I don't know what to do with you, Usagi! . . . . .You're very bright, I don't want to see you waste your life away. . . . .You've seem to have been distracted for the last couple of weeks, is there something bothering you?"
". . .Usagi?. . . .Usagi!"
She opened her eyes and met the concerned face of her old sensei; she jumped back startled and almost claimed insanity when she realized that no one was there. Serena looked around before her gaze fell on the perfect soldier, who was, at the moment, staring at her in confusion, his eyes questioning.
She turned back to the front of the class, breathed in deeply and released it through her tightly clenched lips. Even her old junior high teacher haunted her, she couldn't even sleep in class without hearing the scolding of Haruna-sensei, who might've been the only one who was actually concerned about her during her scouting days.
Not even her best friend, Naru, sensed the change, but Haruna-sensei had.
Serena shook her head of the past; she really didn't want to be reminded of her teacher's death and of the youma who punched a hole through her chest and walked away.
Serena put her head in her hands Iie! Iie, not again!
The teacher's last words, those words that kept Usagi from having a total mental breakdown as she held the dying woman in her arms. "Usagi? I knew. . . you were . . .special. . ."
Serena clenched her eyes closed, she was on the brink of tears and she couldn't allow them to fall, they were a weakness and it would be that same weakness that would stir up questions. When she was sure the tears subsided, she removed her hands and sat back in her seat.
At the start of the bell signaling the end of class and her ticket to freedom, she could feel those hypnotic eyes staring at her back as she stood to collect her things. She just hoped he had enough sense to keep his mouth shut, that is, if he saw the inner struggle with herself.
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Serena walked through the double doors of the entrance of the school and could see a crowd forming a little ways down the sidewalk. From her position she could see Duo's braid swinging back in forth as he tried to look over the student's heads.
She shook her head, smiled and walked over to him. "Hey Duo, what's going on?" He turned around and looked at her, "I dunno, there's officers all around and there's an ambulance parked."
She stood on her tiptoes to get a better look and could see the white vehicle parked in the street with the doors wide open "What do you think happened?"
He shrugged and tapped a student on the shoulder, "Hey man, what's going on?"
The guy ran his fingers through his short red hair and scratched the freckles on his face; "they found this dead body in the janitor's closet." Duo's eyebrows rose as he looked toward Serena who feigned the same reaction.
"That's terrible!" she said as her gaze fell back on the scene. At that moment the side doors of the school opened and out walked two men holding a stretcher with a body spread out on top; it was covered with a sheet.
Serena's eyes narrowed when she caught sight of the body's hand, which hung over the side of the stretcher. The glove was half off and she could see the beginning of a tattoo, though she wasn't sure since she was too far from the scene to get a good look.
She made a mental note and in a blink of an eye her mask was back on.
When she turned around, she came face to face with the other four pilots. Their eyes scanned over the scene and then they each made eye contact as if relaying a secret message without anyone knowing, but Serena caught it and she knew that they were up to something.
She quickly redirected her attention back to the scene and began to make more mental notes.
A few minutes passed and she could feel a presence behind her. She turned around to see, who else, but the perfect soldier himself. He stared at her and surprisingly it wasn't a glare, but his stare was hard. She stared back at him in confusion.
"Nani?" he stared for a little longer before he answered. "You seem a little too interested."
She shrugged, "Of course, there was a dead body in our school. Aren't you just a tad curious?" he looked her up and down and began to relax a little, which Serena caught. She smiled, "I do believe you gave me a whole sentence this time, not your usual disposition, ne?"
Her smile turned flirtatious as she stepped closer to him; leaning up she whispered in his ear. "I think your warming up to me." Heero stood in the same position as before, but his eyes had clouded over before they returned to their usual color of Prussian blue.
Quatre began to walk toward the parking lot and stopped to wave to them. "The limousine is waiting!" Serena winked at Heero before walking past him. Duo's brows rose in surprise then furrowed in confusion as he looked at Heero's reaction.
Heero uncrossed his arms and turned to meet Duo's violet gaze. Before Duo could say anything about the scene he just saw between the two, Heero narrowed his eyes and said, "it doesn't concern you" before walking away to meet the others.
Duo's eyes lowered to the ground then closed as he tried to push the guilt away, he hoped his thoughts were wrong, but like Heero had said, it wasn't his concern, and he knew he was right.
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All five teens sat in the limo in silence. Quatre looked around and cleared his throat, "So Serena, how was your first day?"
She smiled at him, "it was better than I thought." As her thoughts ran back to the events of the day, Serena winced when she grasped the fact that she killed for the first time. Though, the guilt wasn't as strong as she thought it would be; it was still there.
She took a deep breath and turned to look out of the window into the wooded areas that decorated the side of the road.
It was the first time Serena realized that Quatre's mansion was in a secluded area away from the public and by the looks of the others, they seemed to be a little too anxious to get back to the house.
As soon as the car pulled into the long driveway, the boys jumped out and hurried into the house. Serena followed and could see Heero on his laptop and to her, it seemed he got a very interesting message.
Hopefully they would be leaving on another mission letting her begin her own.
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A half-hour later, there was a knock on the door. "Come in."
The door opened and in walked Quatre, he stood in the middle of the floor with his hands clasped behind his back. "Serena, we have to step out for a bit, will you be alright?" She nodded without asking questions, which gave Quatre relief since he wasn't prepared for them.
When he left she waited for his footsteps to disappear before glancing into the hallway to see if he was gone; then closed and locked her door. Grabbing the suitcases from under the bed she threw them open and pulled out her collection.
Going into her book bag she pulled out the gun she took from the soldier and hung it on one of the hooks that lined the bottom of the suitcase while grabbing the set of listening devices. She waited for the slight vibration of the floor to stop before she made her way to the stairs to begin to make her tour.
She made her way into the lounge area which was where the pilots spent most of their time; something she noticed when she first arrived. She went to the lamp on one of the side tables and pulled out one of the devices. It was thin and clear and pealed off like a sticker, she put her hand under the lampshade and attached it.
She made her rounds to every room on the main floor including the kitchen, putting the bugs in unsuspecting places. She couldn't help but notice that the house seemed to be empty and she wondered where all the people were. She didn't have time to investigate though, she only had a short time left and she still had the rooms upstairs to do.
She quickly made her way down the hallway to the last remaining room, which was the study. She entered without hesitating and attached one device underneath the desk. As she made her way toward the painting on the wall, she got a sharp pain in her head.
She put her fingers to her temple and started to back away running into the desk along the way. Then the nausea hit and she knew she was going to throw up. As she ran from the room she suddenly realized the disgusting feeling was no longer there.
She looked back at the room and eyed it suspiciously; there wasn't an explanation for what happened, she just couldn't comprehend it. After a few moments, she shook her head and moved up the stairs to finish her mission.
She only needed to go into four rooms; Quatre and Trowa saved her about two devices, since it was obvious that the two were involved. The whole situation reminded her of two people from her past, the two who were supposed to protect her the most, the only lovers in the female group.
Serena shook her head and forced herself to think about the task at hand. She went through each room except for the perfect soldier's, which was where she stood at that moment.
She hesitated as she turned the knob, and she wasn't surprised when she found it to be locked. She pulled a pin out of her hair and began working on it. In few seconds she heard a satisfying 'click' as she proceeded cautiously.
She didn't want to give him any idea of a disturbance, but one thing she was sure about was that he trusted everyone in the house enough to not put up any cameras in his room. She smiled to herself and began to place the bugs in various places in the room, one by his bed and one underneath the desk.
She got tempted to decode his messages on his laptop but she knew he would know she was there and she couldn't take that chance. Fucking with his laptop is like killing his best friend, who I'm pretty sure, is his laptop
She didn't need the information that bad, besides she'd rather obtain it herself; she had her pride.
"Kuso!" She cursed when she felt the floor vibrate. She looked around the room quickly to make sure she didn't leave anything and made her way to the door, locking it on her way out, she closed the door and ran down the hall to her own room.
She put the suitcases back underneath her bed and threw off her uniform to put on a pair of sweats. She could hear footsteps coming down the hall and she quickly opened her books on the desk and sat down to give the illusion of her studying.
"Come in." she said at the sound of the knock and Duo stuck his head through the opening. She blinked at him, "Duo you can come completely in if you want." He smiled and embarrassed smile and walked into the room.
"Gomen, were not used to having girls in the house." Serena could only smile in return.
"Um, just came to tell you, we're back and…" he frowned when he saw her books. "Ugh! You're actually doing homework?" She almost laughed outright; he sounded so much like her.
"Hai, I'm working on the history paper that was given today." His eyes bulged, "what history paper?" She looked at him confused before she remembered that he was asleep when the teacher gave the assignment.
"Well if you were paying attention instead of drooling then you would know." She teased. He stuck out his bottom lip; "I can't help it, that class is boring!" She giggled at his antics and handed over her notes, which she managed to steal from the professor's files. "Here"
He looked at it like it was going to jump and bite him, "Nani?" she asked. He pouted again, "I'm allergic to homework." She shook her head and shoved the notebook into his arms, "tough! If you want to amount to anything you have to do it!"
He mumbled his way to the door, just before he closed it Serena heard him mumble, "I help save the world and how do they thank me? They give me homework!" Serena shook her head and frowned at her books. "If you want to amount to anything…did I really say that?"
She got up from the desk and got on her hands and knees to pull out a black leather bag from under the bed. She unzipped it and pulled out a laptop of her own. She smiled to herself, she had almost forgotten about it but now she had an excuse to use it.
To the pilots it will look as if she's doing her paper, but if they looked closer, they would see her control of the listening devices she planted all over the house, but of course no one could get in without her password, which was voice activated.
She cracked her knuckles before she began typing, her fingers worked over the keys as if she was an expert which was ironic, seeing that Usagi knew nothing about computers, but then again, Usagi was dead.
Her eyes hardened at the screen as she tried to crack a code. They glazed over and it was obvious that Serena was gone replaced with a trained assassin on a mission. When the screen said "access granted," her eyes returned to the crystal blue they were before as she read the contents in the files.
She read the through the results saved in the morgue files. She could've snuck into the building itself, but it was easier to just crack open a code and call it a day; besides she wasn't in the mood.
She smiled when she came across the 'no name' victim's information.
"Foot mark on throat area….broken neck..yadda yadda yadda…" She scrolled down and stopped when something caught her eye. "Tattoo on right hand." She clicked on a link and a picture popped up. (AN: it could happen!)
The tattoo was done in black ink, it was a strange design and yet it looked almost familiar. The top part was a bunch of loops that came down in an almost crescent moon shape. To anyone, it would be beautiful, but Serena knew there was more to it than that.
She decided to use the Internet to see if the tattoo was copyrighted and if it was, she needed to know what it meant if it had meaning at all.
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Two hours had past and she hadn't come up with anything which frustrated the hell out of her. She looked toward the window and her brows rose. She hadn't realized the sun went down, she was so wrapped up in finding that tattoo that she didn't even notice.
She bit her lip, "Shimatta! This tattoo has got to be somewhere…." She sat up in her seat suddenly and clicked into her e-mail and started typing. "Maybe Doctor V has seen it before." She attached the photo and pushed send.
She made a note to check her mail tomorrow and was about to get up and take a shower when the link to the lounge area in the bottom right corner of the screen started blinking. the listening devices She put the earphone in her ear and pushed link at the same time saying, "Hotoru" as her password.
She could hear five different voices and she knew they were the pilots. She sat back and listened carefully.
"So you think the guy that was killed today was sent after me." Quatre's small voice came through. Trowa turned to him with a serious face, "Hai, he had the tattoo, I'm sure of it."
Serena smiled to herself I knew it
Duo got up and paced the floor, "so what do we do now?"
"We have to be more cautious." Wufei said with his crossed arms and black eyes narrowed. Quatre shook his head, "demo what about Serena, she could be in danger too; they will surely kill her for it, if it's as powerful as we think it is."
Serena held the ear piece closer to hear the conversation better. It? What do you have Quatre?
"Then you shouldn't have brought her here." Everyone in the room looked over at the perfect soldier. His head was down but his eyes never strayed from Quatre's gaze. Quatre looked away in shame, "I didn't mean too, I just…..she's my cousin."
"She can't be trusted." Quatre frowned at Heero's comment and looked at his lover who gave him a look a of reassurance and his obvious agreement. Quatre could do nothing but nod, "I understand."
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I'm done! Pretty boring huh? well there's more in the next chapter I promise! Review! Review! I want to know what you think. ^_~