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Ohhh! Thank you so much to all those people who reviewed! I honestly didn't expect that BIG a response. So anyway, here's chapter 1…
"Well?!?!" Quatra practically pounced on his sister as Iria came out of the room they had put the fallen girl in, and closed the door behind her. Iris looked both confused and relieved.
She took a deep breath, "It's amazing. Except for a few scratches and a lack of energy, the girl is just fine. I can't explain it. This girl should be dead!" Iria was extremely frustrated at her inability to explain the circumstances "With a little rest she should be just fine". Everyone was relieved at the news. Even Heero and Wufei.
"Wait till she recuperates and then we'll ask her how she came to be here. Okay?
* - * - *
Usagi let out a groan as she awoke to a small pain in her head and slight dizziness. She sat up and looked around the small room she was in. 'I wonder where I am?' Usagi thought as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed and put them onto the floor. 'The last thing I remember was sparring with Vegeta… I don't remember much else. No wait! I remember I turned into a super-saiyan, and so did he. Then I fired an attack and Vegeta was forced to counter. And that's when I get sucked into that portal! But ... now I have to find out where I am, and how to get home.'
"I wonder if those people I saw before are still here?" Softly Usagi walked down a long hall, other oak doors leading off it. Her sensitive saiya-jin ear twitched as she picked up voices. She followed them as they lead her to a large kitchen. Inside she saw some of the people from before sitting around a bench. And one of them held her dyno-caps!!
"I wonder what they are." Duo said as he examined the small white metal container of capsules.
"Geeze, when were you people born, the eighteenth century? They're dyno- caps." The pilots, Hilde and Catherine, snapped their heads towards the door of the kitchen to see the mysterious girl standing, leaning against the door jam with her arms crossed across her chest
She uncrossed her arms and walked into the room. Everyone watched as she approached and took the capsules from Duo's hands. They tensed as she pulled out a capsule with a yellow label. There was a 'click' as Usagi pushed down the button at the top and rolled the capsule off the end of her fingers. It bounced off the ceramic tiles once, twice, and with a bang and a puff of smoke a small refrigeration unit appeared. The others blinked as Usagi closed the capsule container and opened the fridge, taking out a can of coke.
"What?" she asked, taking a sip. "Not thirsty? You're welcome to have one too. Plenty for everyone."
"Ah, sure." Duo said, "What'cha got?"
"Hmmm," Usagi leaned over and checked, "Well there's coke, grape soda, orange soda, lemonade, root beer, and even a couple of cherry-cokes. Take your pick."
"Wow! What a great selection" Duo enthused as he chose a grape soda. He took a sip. The others leaned forward worriedly as the braided boy moaned and crossed his eyes.
"That is the best soda I have ever tasted!" He quickly skulled the rest.
"Ah, do you have a root beer to spare?" Hilde asked.
"Lemonade for me", Catherine said. Wufei and Trowa refused, while Quatra chose an orange soda.
"What about you?" Usagi asked the remaining member of the group. He had messy dark brown hair and emotionless Prussian blue eyes.
Heero responded by drawing his gun. "Who are you and who do you work for?" He asked in monotone.
Usagi didn't seem to notice the gun. "Oh, how silly of me, I forgot the introductions. Konichiwa. I'm Usagi Briefs." She bowed slightly in respect. "As to who I work for, I assist my mum in her work at Capsule Corporation."
Heero released the safety catch. "There's no such organization as 'Capsule Corporation'."
"Of course there is." Usagi responded, reaching her hand to her top. "What do you think this …… Oh" She looked down to see most of her gi in pieces. "Whoops," she blushed. "I guess I need a new outfit." Again she pulled out a capsule. Only this time a small wooden wardrobe appeared. Opening the doors Usagi began shifting through clothes, totally ignoring the gun wielding Heero behind her.
"Amazing!" Hilde said as she put down her drink and stepped forward to examine the wardrobe. "How do you do that?"
"Hmm… You mean the capsules? Anyone can do it. It's basic capsule technology. As long as it's built into the objects design you can get anything in there. You can get houses, cars, jets, bags. My mother invented a Time Machine once. And my friend Gohan has a study table capsule which Chi-Chi makes him carry around." Usagi explained.
"Houses?"
"Cars?"
"Time machine?"
"Sure," Usagi said, pulling out an outfit. "Now turn around, I need to change - and no peeking."
The girls and Quatra blushed as everyone did as they were told, although Heero was reluctant to lower his gun. The sound of clothing being pulled over a head was heard, followed by a 'thunk'. Duo was tempted to turn around until he was hit hard in the back of the head.
"Don't even think about it," Usagi scolded him. There were more rustles and thunks before Usagi told them they could turn. Duo's eyes bulged and he let out a wolf-whistle. The girl wore short kaki shorts, a pink boob tube top exposing her mid-drift and held up by split end suspenders, brown fingerless gloves and sturdy brown boots stopping just below mid-calf. A black and white logo with 'Capsule Corporation' written on it was sewn onto the back pocket of her shorts. She quickly pulled her hair into a ponytail and threw her wrecked gi into the wardrobe. Usagi pushed a panel on the side and with a puff of smoke it returned to its capsule.
Once again Heero raised his gun and pointed it at Usagi. The others sweat dropped. "Answers. Now." He said.
"Ask away." The group was a little surprised that the girl seemed not only unconcerned about the loaded gun pointed at her, but also Heero's Perfect Soldier act didn't even faze her. Most people wet their pants when Heero was like this.
"Who are you and who do you work for?"
"Didn't you already ask that?"
"Hn." Heero took the safety off his gun.
"Man, you're worse than my father." Usagi said in disgust and took another sip of her drink.
" Just who is your father, Usagi?" Quatra stepped in before Heero could pull the trigger.
"Vegeta is… Vegeta." Usagi replied with a shrug. "He's Saiya-jin and very proud. He met my mum just over a decade before I was born. They sort of didn't get along until 5 years later though."
"So you're half… Saiya-jin?… on your fathers side?" Katherine questioned. "So what are you on your mothers side?"
"Oh, human." Usagi replied as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. Nearly everyone fainted.
"You're joking, right Babe?" Duo asked after picking himself up.
"No, Why would I do that ?"
Heero growled and pulled the trigger. The others gasped in shock and snapped their heads towards Usagi. But the girl simply lowered her closed fist in front of her face and looked at it.
"You know you really should be more careful," Usagi said, tossing the caught bullet in the air before catching it again. "Someone might get hurt. Namely YOU". Heero's eyes widened as he saw the muscles in Usagi's arm flex. There was a loud 'crunch' and when she opened her hand what little remained of the bullet fell to the floor as dust.
Everyone gulped and backed away slightly.
"How… how…" Duo blubbered.
"Training" Her voice was still low and dangerous. But then, she smirked. "My father would probably be ashamed."
"But why?" Quatra asked.
"Because for my father just catching the bullet wouldn't be enough. He'd expect me to kill him for threatening a Super jinn warrior." She chuckled.
"You're kidding me?" Wufei spoke for the first time.
"Nope. My brother Trunks got a 98% on a math paper at school, and you know what, my father said, "Where's the other two marks!!" Then when I showed him my finger paintings in kindergarten, he just said they were a waste of paper and threw them in the bin."
"Ouch" Duo said.
"Not really, my father had a tough childhood. When he was little he watched as a tyrant named Freeza killed his father and destroyed his home. Freeza then made Vegeta one of his soldiers, and with Freeza you could give him the universe and he would still complain about there being too many people who don't know his worth." Usagi explained.
"Well, enough talk, babe" Duo said, slinging his arm over her shoulders. "How about a tour of the house?"
* * *
Over the next couple of days, Usagi came to know the boys pretty well. She was introduced to Sally,
Po, Milyardo, Noin and a friend of Duo's called Howard. She'd been told of Dr J and their missions against OZ. She spent time gossiping and shopping with Hilde and Katherine. And on more than one occasion she'd run into Relena and had had to be held back by all of the pilots to stop from killing the girl. Well, Wufei, Trowa, Quart and Duo had held her back. Heero had just stood to the side hoping Usagi would win.
It was almost a week later that Duo woke early. Something unexplainable bothering him. He glanced at the clock 5am Monday. Only crazy people were up at this hour. But faint sounds were coming from outside. They were too muffled to make out.
Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed, the braided pilot softly padded out of the bedroom and down the hall. Eventually the sounds lead him outside. He looked left, then right. He didn't see anything. Suddenly his attention was drawn upwards by a grunt. His eyes widened as he watched Usagi viciously attach the air. Punches being thrown so fast that he couldn't see them being thrown only the movement of her body as she moved. Every now and again the girl would start kicking. The same thing happening with her kicks as her punches.
Duo shook his head to make sure he wasn't seeing things. But no. When he looked back Usagi was still there, still throwing move after move. The sun had fully risen over the horizon by the time Usagi stopped. Gently she floated down and landed in front of the pole – axed boy. Usagi was wearing the same outfit she had on when she arrived. Black GI pants, dark blue undershirt, a black GI over shirt with the capsule corp. logo over the breast, dark blue boots tied with what looked like rope and dark blue wristbands. She was sweating hard and it was obvious she'd enjoyed the work out.
"Nice boxers." She gestured to the purple teletubby boxers Duo was wearing. His face blushed a hot pink as he tried to cover them with his hands.
"Very funny." He snapped at the chuckling girl. Usagi simply laughed harder and headed inside, Duo behind her.
"So what are you doing up so early?" Duo asked her as she headed to the kitchen.
'Training," she replied. "Just because I'm not in my own dimension does not mean my training has to suffer". Usagi put her hand on the doors to the kitchen and they swung open, revealing the cooks hired by Quart already hard at work preparing food.
"Good morning, Usa," one of the chef's greeted the young women.
""Morning Helen" She returned "How's everything going?" Usagi took a seat at the breakfast table in front of a pre-set place.
"Just wonderful. Dominic got back a letter from the college yesterday. "The motherly woman was practically glowing with excitement.
"And..." Usa demanded.
"He got in!"
"All right!? That's great Helen" Usagi enthused, giving the woman a hug of congratulations. Due just looked lost. After more chatter between Usagi and Helen a feast of food was placed on the table.
"Oh, wow!" This looks great" Duo watched on as she licked her lips and started to scoff down food at an incredibly fast rate.
"Wow! And the guys think I'm bad" Duo's jaw dropped. Even though the boys had found out Usa always ate like that, they had a feeling they'd never get used to it. They were amazed the girl could eat so fast without eating her own hands. The table had been restacked several times before Usagi was full.
"Mmm. That was good. Thanks!" The chefs just rinsed cleared the dirty dishes, a few cracking jokes about Usagi's eating habit. The silvery haired girl just laughed and told them their food was good.
"Do you train every morning Usa?" Duo asked later. After breakfast Usagi had showered and changed and Duo had put on his usual outfit of all black. The G-boys and Usagi were now gathered in a large, open sitting room.
"Yep I really should keep my old training schedule, but things are just too busy". Usagi said between push-ups. The silver haired girl was upside down in a headstand, putting all her weight behind the exercise. Quart was reading a book on Ancient Egypt, settled in his favorite armchair. Duo was sitting cross-legged by Usagi, watching her workout. Trowa was stretched out on a couch. Katherine sitting in his lap knitting. Wufei was practicing his sword moves in a cleared area at the far side of the room. And Heero was typing away at his laptop from an armchair by an open glass door leading to a balcony.
"And this training of yours. Anyone can do it?" Duo continued to push.
"As long as they're willing to put the time and effort in." Usagi continued her pushups.
"Well, I was wondering... If..."
"If I would train you?" Usagi asked. She swung her legs to the floor and sate down with a plop wiping the sweat off her forehead with her forearm.
"Well, yeah." Usagi looked long and hard at the boy, making him fidget. But his eyes shone with determination. Finally the girl nodded.
"Very well." Duo let out a whoop of joy. "BUT … she said, catching his attention. "You have to be willing and you have to stick to it. This will be very severe training. I mean, if you're not eating or sleeping you'll be training with me. And if you don't like it, you don't train."
Duo gave a firm nod.
"Good. Course once you start, I won't let you stop."
"I now, and I'm prepared." Duo said.
"Just how prepared are you with this, Duo?" Usa demanded.
"Very", he said with affirmation.
"Good. Cause I want you to agree that if you back out because training gets hard, you'll let Wufei chop of your braid."
"WHAATT ?!?!"Duo screamed, leaping to his feet.
"You heard me. I don't waste my time with quitters. And I know you won't quit if you're braid is on the line." Usa said without emotion.
"You're kidding me…?" Due still didn't sit down.
"It's that or you don't train. Choose."
Duo thought hard for a good ten minutes. He'd seen what Usagi could do. What If he lost his precious braid? But then again, even she had to start somewhere. And if she could survive it so could he. Besides, if it meant he could get as strong as Usagi, it would be worth it.
"All right" he agreed. "If I quit training, Wufei can chop of my braid." He shuddered as he saw himself with a buzz cut, compliments of Wufei.
"Good". Usagi shook hands with Duo to seal the agreement. And we have five witnesses who all saw you promise, so you can't back down."
"I know."
"Good. Training starts tomorrow morning. I want you up and dressed by 4.30am, got it?"
`Duo's yell echoed through the entire mansion.
Ohhh! Thank you so much to all those people who reviewed! I honestly didn't expect that BIG a response. So anyway, here's chapter 1…
"Well?!?!" Quatra practically pounced on his sister as Iria came out of the room they had put the fallen girl in, and closed the door behind her. Iris looked both confused and relieved.
She took a deep breath, "It's amazing. Except for a few scratches and a lack of energy, the girl is just fine. I can't explain it. This girl should be dead!" Iria was extremely frustrated at her inability to explain the circumstances "With a little rest she should be just fine". Everyone was relieved at the news. Even Heero and Wufei.
"Wait till she recuperates and then we'll ask her how she came to be here. Okay?
* - * - *
Usagi let out a groan as she awoke to a small pain in her head and slight dizziness. She sat up and looked around the small room she was in. 'I wonder where I am?' Usagi thought as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed and put them onto the floor. 'The last thing I remember was sparring with Vegeta… I don't remember much else. No wait! I remember I turned into a super-saiyan, and so did he. Then I fired an attack and Vegeta was forced to counter. And that's when I get sucked into that portal! But ... now I have to find out where I am, and how to get home.'
"I wonder if those people I saw before are still here?" Softly Usagi walked down a long hall, other oak doors leading off it. Her sensitive saiya-jin ear twitched as she picked up voices. She followed them as they lead her to a large kitchen. Inside she saw some of the people from before sitting around a bench. And one of them held her dyno-caps!!
"I wonder what they are." Duo said as he examined the small white metal container of capsules.
"Geeze, when were you people born, the eighteenth century? They're dyno- caps." The pilots, Hilde and Catherine, snapped their heads towards the door of the kitchen to see the mysterious girl standing, leaning against the door jam with her arms crossed across her chest
She uncrossed her arms and walked into the room. Everyone watched as she approached and took the capsules from Duo's hands. They tensed as she pulled out a capsule with a yellow label. There was a 'click' as Usagi pushed down the button at the top and rolled the capsule off the end of her fingers. It bounced off the ceramic tiles once, twice, and with a bang and a puff of smoke a small refrigeration unit appeared. The others blinked as Usagi closed the capsule container and opened the fridge, taking out a can of coke.
"What?" she asked, taking a sip. "Not thirsty? You're welcome to have one too. Plenty for everyone."
"Ah, sure." Duo said, "What'cha got?"
"Hmmm," Usagi leaned over and checked, "Well there's coke, grape soda, orange soda, lemonade, root beer, and even a couple of cherry-cokes. Take your pick."
"Wow! What a great selection" Duo enthused as he chose a grape soda. He took a sip. The others leaned forward worriedly as the braided boy moaned and crossed his eyes.
"That is the best soda I have ever tasted!" He quickly skulled the rest.
"Ah, do you have a root beer to spare?" Hilde asked.
"Lemonade for me", Catherine said. Wufei and Trowa refused, while Quatra chose an orange soda.
"What about you?" Usagi asked the remaining member of the group. He had messy dark brown hair and emotionless Prussian blue eyes.
Heero responded by drawing his gun. "Who are you and who do you work for?" He asked in monotone.
Usagi didn't seem to notice the gun. "Oh, how silly of me, I forgot the introductions. Konichiwa. I'm Usagi Briefs." She bowed slightly in respect. "As to who I work for, I assist my mum in her work at Capsule Corporation."
Heero released the safety catch. "There's no such organization as 'Capsule Corporation'."
"Of course there is." Usagi responded, reaching her hand to her top. "What do you think this …… Oh" She looked down to see most of her gi in pieces. "Whoops," she blushed. "I guess I need a new outfit." Again she pulled out a capsule. Only this time a small wooden wardrobe appeared. Opening the doors Usagi began shifting through clothes, totally ignoring the gun wielding Heero behind her.
"Amazing!" Hilde said as she put down her drink and stepped forward to examine the wardrobe. "How do you do that?"
"Hmm… You mean the capsules? Anyone can do it. It's basic capsule technology. As long as it's built into the objects design you can get anything in there. You can get houses, cars, jets, bags. My mother invented a Time Machine once. And my friend Gohan has a study table capsule which Chi-Chi makes him carry around." Usagi explained.
"Houses?"
"Cars?"
"Time machine?"
"Sure," Usagi said, pulling out an outfit. "Now turn around, I need to change - and no peeking."
The girls and Quatra blushed as everyone did as they were told, although Heero was reluctant to lower his gun. The sound of clothing being pulled over a head was heard, followed by a 'thunk'. Duo was tempted to turn around until he was hit hard in the back of the head.
"Don't even think about it," Usagi scolded him. There were more rustles and thunks before Usagi told them they could turn. Duo's eyes bulged and he let out a wolf-whistle. The girl wore short kaki shorts, a pink boob tube top exposing her mid-drift and held up by split end suspenders, brown fingerless gloves and sturdy brown boots stopping just below mid-calf. A black and white logo with 'Capsule Corporation' written on it was sewn onto the back pocket of her shorts. She quickly pulled her hair into a ponytail and threw her wrecked gi into the wardrobe. Usagi pushed a panel on the side and with a puff of smoke it returned to its capsule.
Once again Heero raised his gun and pointed it at Usagi. The others sweat dropped. "Answers. Now." He said.
"Ask away." The group was a little surprised that the girl seemed not only unconcerned about the loaded gun pointed at her, but also Heero's Perfect Soldier act didn't even faze her. Most people wet their pants when Heero was like this.
"Who are you and who do you work for?"
"Didn't you already ask that?"
"Hn." Heero took the safety off his gun.
"Man, you're worse than my father." Usagi said in disgust and took another sip of her drink.
" Just who is your father, Usagi?" Quatra stepped in before Heero could pull the trigger.
"Vegeta is… Vegeta." Usagi replied with a shrug. "He's Saiya-jin and very proud. He met my mum just over a decade before I was born. They sort of didn't get along until 5 years later though."
"So you're half… Saiya-jin?… on your fathers side?" Katherine questioned. "So what are you on your mothers side?"
"Oh, human." Usagi replied as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. Nearly everyone fainted.
"You're joking, right Babe?" Duo asked after picking himself up.
"No, Why would I do that ?"
Heero growled and pulled the trigger. The others gasped in shock and snapped their heads towards Usagi. But the girl simply lowered her closed fist in front of her face and looked at it.
"You know you really should be more careful," Usagi said, tossing the caught bullet in the air before catching it again. "Someone might get hurt. Namely YOU". Heero's eyes widened as he saw the muscles in Usagi's arm flex. There was a loud 'crunch' and when she opened her hand what little remained of the bullet fell to the floor as dust.
Everyone gulped and backed away slightly.
"How… how…" Duo blubbered.
"Training" Her voice was still low and dangerous. But then, she smirked. "My father would probably be ashamed."
"But why?" Quatra asked.
"Because for my father just catching the bullet wouldn't be enough. He'd expect me to kill him for threatening a Super jinn warrior." She chuckled.
"You're kidding me?" Wufei spoke for the first time.
"Nope. My brother Trunks got a 98% on a math paper at school, and you know what, my father said, "Where's the other two marks!!" Then when I showed him my finger paintings in kindergarten, he just said they were a waste of paper and threw them in the bin."
"Ouch" Duo said.
"Not really, my father had a tough childhood. When he was little he watched as a tyrant named Freeza killed his father and destroyed his home. Freeza then made Vegeta one of his soldiers, and with Freeza you could give him the universe and he would still complain about there being too many people who don't know his worth." Usagi explained.
"Well, enough talk, babe" Duo said, slinging his arm over her shoulders. "How about a tour of the house?"
* * *
Over the next couple of days, Usagi came to know the boys pretty well. She was introduced to Sally,
Po, Milyardo, Noin and a friend of Duo's called Howard. She'd been told of Dr J and their missions against OZ. She spent time gossiping and shopping with Hilde and Katherine. And on more than one occasion she'd run into Relena and had had to be held back by all of the pilots to stop from killing the girl. Well, Wufei, Trowa, Quart and Duo had held her back. Heero had just stood to the side hoping Usagi would win.
It was almost a week later that Duo woke early. Something unexplainable bothering him. He glanced at the clock 5am Monday. Only crazy people were up at this hour. But faint sounds were coming from outside. They were too muffled to make out.
Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed, the braided pilot softly padded out of the bedroom and down the hall. Eventually the sounds lead him outside. He looked left, then right. He didn't see anything. Suddenly his attention was drawn upwards by a grunt. His eyes widened as he watched Usagi viciously attach the air. Punches being thrown so fast that he couldn't see them being thrown only the movement of her body as she moved. Every now and again the girl would start kicking. The same thing happening with her kicks as her punches.
Duo shook his head to make sure he wasn't seeing things. But no. When he looked back Usagi was still there, still throwing move after move. The sun had fully risen over the horizon by the time Usagi stopped. Gently she floated down and landed in front of the pole – axed boy. Usagi was wearing the same outfit she had on when she arrived. Black GI pants, dark blue undershirt, a black GI over shirt with the capsule corp. logo over the breast, dark blue boots tied with what looked like rope and dark blue wristbands. She was sweating hard and it was obvious she'd enjoyed the work out.
"Nice boxers." She gestured to the purple teletubby boxers Duo was wearing. His face blushed a hot pink as he tried to cover them with his hands.
"Very funny." He snapped at the chuckling girl. Usagi simply laughed harder and headed inside, Duo behind her.
"So what are you doing up so early?" Duo asked her as she headed to the kitchen.
'Training," she replied. "Just because I'm not in my own dimension does not mean my training has to suffer". Usagi put her hand on the doors to the kitchen and they swung open, revealing the cooks hired by Quart already hard at work preparing food.
"Good morning, Usa," one of the chef's greeted the young women.
""Morning Helen" She returned "How's everything going?" Usagi took a seat at the breakfast table in front of a pre-set place.
"Just wonderful. Dominic got back a letter from the college yesterday. "The motherly woman was practically glowing with excitement.
"And..." Usa demanded.
"He got in!"
"All right!? That's great Helen" Usagi enthused, giving the woman a hug of congratulations. Due just looked lost. After more chatter between Usagi and Helen a feast of food was placed on the table.
"Oh, wow!" This looks great" Duo watched on as she licked her lips and started to scoff down food at an incredibly fast rate.
"Wow! And the guys think I'm bad" Duo's jaw dropped. Even though the boys had found out Usa always ate like that, they had a feeling they'd never get used to it. They were amazed the girl could eat so fast without eating her own hands. The table had been restacked several times before Usagi was full.
"Mmm. That was good. Thanks!" The chefs just rinsed cleared the dirty dishes, a few cracking jokes about Usagi's eating habit. The silvery haired girl just laughed and told them their food was good.
"Do you train every morning Usa?" Duo asked later. After breakfast Usagi had showered and changed and Duo had put on his usual outfit of all black. The G-boys and Usagi were now gathered in a large, open sitting room.
"Yep I really should keep my old training schedule, but things are just too busy". Usagi said between push-ups. The silver haired girl was upside down in a headstand, putting all her weight behind the exercise. Quart was reading a book on Ancient Egypt, settled in his favorite armchair. Duo was sitting cross-legged by Usagi, watching her workout. Trowa was stretched out on a couch. Katherine sitting in his lap knitting. Wufei was practicing his sword moves in a cleared area at the far side of the room. And Heero was typing away at his laptop from an armchair by an open glass door leading to a balcony.
"And this training of yours. Anyone can do it?" Duo continued to push.
"As long as they're willing to put the time and effort in." Usagi continued her pushups.
"Well, I was wondering... If..."
"If I would train you?" Usagi asked. She swung her legs to the floor and sate down with a plop wiping the sweat off her forehead with her forearm.
"Well, yeah." Usagi looked long and hard at the boy, making him fidget. But his eyes shone with determination. Finally the girl nodded.
"Very well." Duo let out a whoop of joy. "BUT … she said, catching his attention. "You have to be willing and you have to stick to it. This will be very severe training. I mean, if you're not eating or sleeping you'll be training with me. And if you don't like it, you don't train."
Duo gave a firm nod.
"Good. Course once you start, I won't let you stop."
"I now, and I'm prepared." Duo said.
"Just how prepared are you with this, Duo?" Usa demanded.
"Very", he said with affirmation.
"Good. Cause I want you to agree that if you back out because training gets hard, you'll let Wufei chop of your braid."
"WHAATT ?!?!"Duo screamed, leaping to his feet.
"You heard me. I don't waste my time with quitters. And I know you won't quit if you're braid is on the line." Usa said without emotion.
"You're kidding me…?" Due still didn't sit down.
"It's that or you don't train. Choose."
Duo thought hard for a good ten minutes. He'd seen what Usagi could do. What If he lost his precious braid? But then again, even she had to start somewhere. And if she could survive it so could he. Besides, if it meant he could get as strong as Usagi, it would be worth it.
"All right" he agreed. "If I quit training, Wufei can chop of my braid." He shuddered as he saw himself with a buzz cut, compliments of Wufei.
"Good". Usagi shook hands with Duo to seal the agreement. And we have five witnesses who all saw you promise, so you can't back down."
"I know."
"Good. Training starts tomorrow morning. I want you up and dressed by 4.30am, got it?"
`Duo's yell echoed through the entire mansion.