I dont own any Gundam Wing characters or Makoto, but I do own Akari, Kei,
Ruka-Li, Myoki and Takeshi Sadustuki. The song is not mine either. 'This
Little Bird' is a song I got off of Jewel's Hands CD. So the song is not
mine, it's Jewels' and her mothers'.
The reason why i'm using this song is because i think it kinda sounds like Makoto's life. Do u think so too???? :D
This Little Bird
CHAPTER 1 - THE TRUTH
Makoto woke up that morning the same way she woke up every other morning. Crying. In her dream the night before, she had seen her brother a few times. He was with 4 other boys, and they were running. They stopped at 5 mobile suits and got in them. The next thing she knew, she was looking in the forest green eyes of the man that had piloted the mobile suit that had begun to destroy her life. Makoto never saw the face of the man in the mobile suit that destroyed the shuttle, but she just had a feeling, that these forest green eyes were his.
Makoto looked around for a few seconds and sighed. She got out of bed and just stared at her family locket. The locket was silver and was in the shape of a heart. On the front had small writing. The writing was professionally carved in, it was in script. It said:
To our dear daughter Makoto
Happy 1-day-old Birthday!
Love, your mother and father
Inside of the heart locket, was a picture of her mother and father's faces on the left side. In the right, was her brother and herself. After a few minutes of staring at the pictures, she put it around her neck and linked it. Then, she went into her bathroom and washed her face and brushed her teeth. She then went into her pint size kitchen and started cooking eggs and bacon. After that she went into her bedroom and changed into a pair of blue jeans and a green tank top. On her feet, she put on a pair of white and green sneakers. She put her rose earrings on and put her hair in its usual high ponytail. Next she went back into her kitchen and finished making her breakfast and then ate it. When she was done she grabbed her keys and tied a white sweater around her waist and left her house for school.(remember, i said in the prologue that she goes to a public school :D )
"Hey Mako-chan!" A girl yelled as she ran to the tall brunette. She was about 2 inches shorter than Makoto and had her blonde hair down, falling right above her shoulders, barely touching. She had mesmerizing hazel eyes and was wearing baby blue overalls shorts over a white short-sleeved shirt and white sneakers. "Hi Myoki" Makoto greeted back. "Did you finish your science project due tomorrow?" She asked. Myoki grinned and nodded before looking straight ahead. Then she turned towards Makoto grinning evilly. Makoto looked at her and knew that her bubbly, blonde headed friend had something up her sleeve. "Alright, what is it? What are you planning on doing and how bad is it?" She interrogated suspiciously. "Now Makoto, why would you say that? I only wanted to tell you that two new boys are starting school here today and they're supposed to be really hot. And since your single, once again, maybe you could............" Makoto knew what her friend was about to say and she didn't like it, so she interrupted her. "No way Myoki!! I'm not asking anyone out..." Makoto stopped herself for a second, and then looked at her friend. This time, it was Makoto's turn to grin evilly. "Actually.... I'll ask one of the new guys out, ONLY, only if you ask out Osuki...you know....that cute boy who likes you in biology????" Makoto finished, crossing her arms over her chest, smirking, knowing she had won this fight. Myoki's whole body turned beat red as she looked at Makoto wide eyed and embarrassed. "I..I..I...you...um..uh...I...He...uuuuhhh...how...uumm..Well, ya see....uh..." Myoki stuttered turning even redder, if that was even possible. All of a sudden, she turned and waved to three girls standing under a tree. "Hey! Ruka-Li! Akari! Kei! Over here!" She yelled, her skin turning back to its regular pale color. Makoto couldn't help but giggle at this as she turned also to wave at the 3 girls running their way.
One was an inch shorter than Makoto and was chinese. She had strawberry blonde hair that reached down to the small of her back. It was in a french braid. She was wearing blue jean capris, a red tank top with the words: SOCCER STAR, in bold black letters and a pair of dark red glittery sandals. She has peachy colored skin and her eyes are light blue. The second one was about the same height as the strawberry blonde, her shiny black hair reaches down to her bottom and it's in a ponytail. She has tan skin and light brown eyes. She's wearing white spandex shorts that you can barely see because of her oversized black soccer T-shirt covering it. On her feet, she wears a pair of black and white adidas sandals. The last was a very short American black girl. She was about an inch shorter than Myoki. Her hair was black with brown streaks and was very very curly. It reached down a little below her shoulders. Her eyes are such a dark brown that they almost look black. She is wearing a long dark blue jean skirt that went down to her ankles. Her shirt is a dark blue long sleeved, low V-neck with a thick red stripe going horizontally across the middle of her stomach. In bold white letters on the red stripe it said: AMERICA. Her sneakers were white with an American flag made out of jewels on the outside part of it.
"Hey guys!" Makoto and Myoki yelled to their friends at the same time. "What's up?" The tan skinned girl with black hair yelled as she was the first to get to the blonde and brunette. "Hey!" Greeted the strawberry- blonde. "Hi guys!" The black girl said as she finally reached the rest of them. "Hey, did you guys see the new guys? They are so hot! I think I'm in love! One of them is named Otakuso and the other hunk is Daka-sanei!(hehe-i just made those names up, if they are real names, which i doubt, then, sorry!" OOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!! They are HOT!" The strawberry blonde said dreamily. The others giggled. "No, me and Mako-chan didn't see them, but I'm sure we will soon, Ruka-Li." Myoki said as she giggled again. "Wow! I think Ruka-chan really is in love! Don't you think Kei-chan?" The black haired, tan girl asked the black girl. "Yeah, Aka-chan. The black girl named Kei responded to the tan girl named Akari about the strawberry blonde haired girl named Ruka-Li. All 5 girls giggled again, until they heard a male clear his throat behind them. They stopped and turned around to see a tall man, in his mid 30's with dark brown hair, tan skin and forest green eyes staring back at them. Well, he wasn't necessarily staring at them, actually he was more staring at Makoto. She blushed when she noticed that he was looking at her. The man just smiled and put out his hand for Makoto to shake, and that she did. "Good morning, I am Mr. Sadustuki, your new principal. You are Barton-I mean-Kino Makoto, am I right?" She was so shocked that he knew her real last name that she only nodded. "Well then, Miss......Kino, I would like to have a word with you, alone." He said eyeing Akari, Ruka-Li, Myoki, and Kei who looked very confused about the last name mix-up. Makoto only nodded again before he led her into his office.
"Well Makoto, why don't you take a seat." Mr.Sadustuki told her while pointing to a chair across from him. Makoto nodded and sat down, confused. "How?" That one word was all she could get out of her mouth. Mr. Sadustuki smiled before replying. "You want to know how I knew your real last name, don't you?" Makoto just nodded again with wide eyes and a stiff body, tears threatening to break through as she remembered when she had told her brother what she had seen in the spaceport that horrible afternoon.
~FLASHBACK~
She lost her hat in the spaceport when the firefighter took her out. After she had told him what she had seen, he brought her home. Makoto walked through the door that night with her cheeks stained with old tears and new ones still coming. She hadn't stopped crying since it happened. She stood in the doorway of her once comforting and now haunting house. All she wanted to do was run back out of the house and keep running, and she would of done it too, if the firefighter wasn't there pushing her in. The maid that answered the door was listening to what the firefighter was telling her. Then, he came in the room. Her brother, with his one emerald eye showing and the other hiding behind his long bang. The wide smile playing on his lips quickly disappeared as he saw his sister's face. He ran to her and hugged her to him tightly, as she sobbed into his blue cotton turtleneck. After a couple of minutes, he took her to the living room and they sat down on the couch. Once there, Makoto once again sobbed a heart- wrenching sob into her brother's turtleneck as her tiny body was shaking like a human earthquake would. After about 20 minutes, she finally calmed down. Her brother was rocking her back and forth while stroking her hair. Tears were still coming out of her eyes, but she was silent. Then, he finally asked her what was on his mind that whole time. "They're not coming home, are they?" He asked her, they meaning their parents. She shook her small head no while it still was resting on his shoulder. She told him what she saw. She told him of the mobile suits, the fires and the screams. Then, she felt it. She felt tears fall onto the bottom of her neck. Her brother was crying...
~END OF FLASHBACK~
She looked up at her new principal, and stood up. Fury, sadness and confusion stuck in her eyes as she glared at him. "How did you know? And what else do you know?" She asked between gritted teeth. "Now, now, Makoto, don't loose that hot temper of yours, or I might just have to put you back in the orphanage. And I'm sure you don't want me to do that, do you?" He asked smiling. Makoto sat back in her seat, still glaring at him. He then started writing on a sheet of paper. After about 2 minutes, the bell rang. Makoto started to get up. "What do you have now?" He suddenly asked her. "Study hall." She replied. "Then stay here, I still need to talk to you...and give you this." He said, noting the paper he had been writing on. She sat down again.
A minute later, he folded up the paper and gave it to her. "Dont read this until the last day of school, ok?" He asked. Makoto nodded as she took the paper and shoved it in her pocket. "So.... I assume you remember you have a brother?" Makoto nodded. "Do you remember everything about him?" Makoto shook her head no. "Do you remember his name at least?" Makoto shook her head no again. "Then, ill tell you. His name is Trowa Barton............miss Makoto Barton." Makoto looked at him confused. "But, why does it matter if I know this or not? I mean, he's dead, I don't need to know anything about him, right?" She also didn't want to feel more pain. Having more memories of her lost past would only hurt her more. But she couldn't and wouldn't ever tell him, or anyone else that. "Wrong. Your brother is very much alive. He is a soldier living up in the colonies. A very, strong and..unique soldier..." Makoto looked straight into his eyes and then, she knew that this is no joke. Her brother, who has been missing for the last 11 years, and who she thought was dead, is alive, and that's the truth. "Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he take me with him? Why? Do you know? Do you know why he left? Can I see him? Where is he? Well!? Tell me god damnit!" She yelled getting out of her chair again. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Watch that temper young lady." Makoto just growled before sitting back down in her seat. "I don't know any of those answers except that he is to be on a mission on colony L4 in 3 weeks. You can find him then if you want. But beware............you might not like the answers you get." He said smiling evilly at her. "You best be going, I'm sure your friends would like to know what I said to you, and I think you should tell them the truth now, before someone else does." Makoto then looked at him shocked. "But, they would get mad at me, they'd hate me!" She said. "Makoto, miss Barton, you brought it all on yourself.....tell them, trust me, it will be easier that way..." Mr Sadustuki replied with a strange glint in his eyes.
Makoto just stood up and left without saying a word. Once she got out of the office, she ran outside to the schoolyard in the back. As she thought, it was completely deserted. She ran to her favorite tree and climbed in it. Finally, she let go of the tears she's been fighting back since she first met her new principal. She let go nerve-wrecking sobs and was shaking uncontrollably. While rocking back and forth, she started humming the bedtime song her mother would always sing to her when she was young.
There's a little bird,
somebody sent down to the earth to,
live on the wind.
Blowing on the wind,
and she sleeps on the wind.
This little bird somebody sent.......
Light and fragile and feathers sky blue.
Thin and graceful,
sun shining through......
She flies so high up in the sky,
way out of reach of human eyes.....
Light and fragile and feathers sky blue.
Thin and graceful,
sun shining through......
And the only time,
that she touches the ground,
is when that little bird,
little bird......
Is when that little bird,
little bird.....
Is when that little bird,
dies....................
She hummed that song over and over again, finally falling into a memory.
~FLASHBACK~
A woman sat in a plush blue arm chair with a peice of paper in her hand. After a few minutes she stopped reading it and put it on the coffee table next to the chair. "Come here, Trowa, Makoto. I need to tell you something about your father and I." The brother and sister nodded and listened to their mother. "In 2 weeks, we will be in the colonies in space. We will be there for 20 days, but, I'm sorry, you can't come. Your father and I are going there on a business trip, so you two are going to stay here with the maids. Ok?" They both nodded. "Have fun mommy!!! "Makoto yelled, jumping on her Latino mom and hugging her. Then she kissed her on the cheek and ran to her room in a flash.
Makoto sat in her bed waiting to be tucked in. Soon after, her parents walked in. "Good night love. Sweet dreams and don't let the bed bugs bite." Her Japanese father said as he kissed his daughter's forehead lovingly. Then he walked out of the room. Makoto's mother walked to her bed and climbed in with the 5 year old. "Are you going to be ok when we leave?" Makoto's mother asked with loving, sincere eyes while hugging her daughter. "Yes mommy, I'll be ok..................and I'll take care of Trowa too!" Makoto replied before giggling. Her mother giggled too. Then she sang..........
When she finished she kissed Makoto on her nose. "Sweet dreams honey." She then climbed out of the warm bed and pulled the covers up to Makoto's neck. "G'night mommy." Makoto said sleepily with a smile. Her mother walked to the door and shut off the lights. She blew a kiss to Makoto and Makoto caught it in her hand and touched her cheek with it. Then she giggled. Her mother smiled and walked out closing the door behind her.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"I miss her....." She whispered to herself. She heard the bell ring but was too confused and depressed to go to her next class, so she stayed in the tree. 'I wonder how he got all that information on me....... I should of forced it out of him. But then he would put me back in an orphanage, and I don't ever want to go back to any of those, ever again. So, how? How did he find out? I didn't write anything on the forms to put me in this school. I put my fake name in, Kino Makoto. Not Barton. Man! I hate it when there's something that I can't figure out!!!! And what about that paper he gave me, he said to not look at it until school is over, I guess I should listen to him.' Makoto then yawned. 'I'm so tired.' Makoto sighed aloud before she drifted off to sleep......
~DREAM~
Makoto ran down the deserted and destroyed street. The wind blew like a hurricane in all different directions. The rain soaked anything and everything it touched. Bruises would replace the hail that was crashing down on Makoto's already torn skin. Fire burned to her left, right and all behind her as ashes fell all around and on her, burning her skin even more. But she kept running. She was running at top speed towards a group of boys, five of them. Suddenly, she hugged the one in the middle. She was crying. The black, long sleeved turtleneck and the blue-green skirt she was wearing were drenched, and in a few places, ripped.
She then realized she couldn't see any of the boy's faces, but she knew they were boys because of their silhouettes. All she could make out of the boys was their eyes. The one holding her has emerald green eyes, just like her. He was about 2 inches taller than she was and the other boys were about an inch taller than she was. One of the other boys had black eyes, the other had cobalt blue, another had light blue and the last had emotionless persian (I get confused a lot with that word-Is it persian or prussian??? Some one please tell me!!!!!!!!) blue.
After a few seconds, three of the other four boys walked away to their mobile suits and flew away. Then, the boy holding her whispered something in her ear, and weakly, Makoto nodded. He slowly let go of her and walked away. He got in his mobile suit and flew the way the others went. The boy with the emotionless persian(or prusian) blue eyes walked up to her and then pulled her close to him, and he held her. Her chin was placed on his left shoulder and their cheeks were touching. They stayed in each others embrace silently for a small while................perhaps, too small, until Makoto spoke. "I love you......." Her voice trailed off as she weakly closed her eyes and fell into unconsciousness. The boy picked her up and started to walk away before saying "I love you, too........ Makoto..."
All of a sudden, everything went black around her, and she found herself falling, falling, falling....Until she suddenly landed in the palm of a man. It was the palm of the same man with the haunting forest green eyes, the one in the mobile suit, as she thought. The eyes seemed to be laughing evilly at her. Then, he dropped her and she began to fall again, but this time, as she fell her body was torn at. White, ghostly hands popped up out of nowhere and tore at her clothes and skin. When she finally landed again, everything around her was still black. Feeling weak and beaten, her almost totally naked body slowly stood. The long blue-green skirt she was wearing was now torn apart. Millions of rips and bloodstains were everywhere. What little was left of the blood-soaked skirt was sticking to her burned and cut skin. The black turtleneck was no better. It was no longer black or even a turtleneck. The shirt, like her skirt, was dripping with blood and almost completely torn off her sore body. The blood from her skin seemed to be floating all around her, as if she were in space.
The next thing she new, a flash of white light came rushing towards her. It enveloped her with its light and warmth. She was then in a beautiful white gown with green trimmings. The gown flowed down to the ground and lay all around her. Around her waist, a light, soft green cloth, the same color of the trimmings, was tied. Around her waist and breasts, the dress was a tad tight. The neckline was squared. It went from around the end of her shoulders down, and then formed around the top of her chest, finishing the square. The sleeves were extra long. They reached down to her knees, when her hands only reached to her mid-thighs. From the back of the gown, fake wings made of silk spread out. Makoto's hair was in its usual high ponytail, the only thing different was that real emeralds that were made into clips tied it up. A tiara lay on her head also. The tiara was gold with an emerald in the center. Makoto looked beautiful, like an...Angel........
~END OF DREAM~
She opened her eyes and looked around. She was still in the tree but, instead of sitting with her knees up close to her chest and her chin resting on them as before, she was now laying back against the top part of the trunk, still on the same big thick branch, with the bottom half of her legs dangling over the sides as was her left arm. (Few!!!! That was some loooooooooong sentence!!!*Sighs* I'm glad that's over...anyways, *smiles like an idiot* back to the story!) She looked up at the clock tower. There was 4 minutes left of class. Then she remembered her dream. 'I wonder what it all meant. The one I hugged first, his hair...........my brothers hair.......its just like his. And those eyes.......hhhhhhmmmm........... just like my brother's eyes. Hhhhhmmmm......yes! I think it was him!!!!! That was my brother!!!!!!! Oh, Trowa......' Makoto let out a huge sigh and then went back to thinking. 'What was my brother doing in my dream, again!? And who were the others....? It was so real........almost like it wasn't a dream at all.......but it was supposed to be......and the other boy who held me, the one with those emotionless eyes. Aww, that felt so right. Those eyes...aaaawwwww...........those were breathtaking.....hn. Its weird, I felt so, so, happy...........even though I was all burned and hurt. I wonder from what. I bet some mobile suits were the cause of it and all of that destruction. I guess I was in the area and got hurt. But the only mobile suits I saw were the ones my brother and his friends had. They looked a little different from others that I've seen before........though they look a bit familiar too. But where have I seen them...................? Think Makoto, think! Come on!!!!! Where have I seen those suits!?!?!? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............' Makoto started to get really mad at herself. "WHY CANT I REMEMBER!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" She yelled out loud. She then started to knock the back of her head on the tree where she was leaning her head before. Then she remembered the rest of her dream. 'Oh my god......what did all that mean? And those eyes. They were in my last dream too. And that gown at the end, it was absolutely beautiful...but why did all of that happen to me?It's so confusing. What does it all mean...??????'
RRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The loud ring of the bell cut off Makoto's thoughts. She was now going into 4th period class now, which was history.(she had 2 periods of study hall when she was in the new principal's office, then she was in the tree through her 3rd period class which was math) Then another thought struck her mind. 'Why did the new principal come so late!?' Makoto then decided to think about that later. She had to go to her class, she felt she had missed too much already.
In history class, they were studying the attacks on the twin towers (remember this fic takes place many, many, many decades after the 9-11 tragedy..may all who died rest in peace*** 0=*( ***) in the year of 2001. That was so long ago, but everyone usually paid attention when learning about this. Everybody loved to learn about how the American army caught that bastard osama bin laden (there is no way I would ever use capital letters for his name) and how he and his followers were punished. She liked to learn about it too, but today, she couldn't concentrate on anything except for what the new principal had said and what she had dreamed. She couldn't remember going to the class, she couldn't remember it beginning and she couldn't remember it ending. The truth stuck in her head. Her brother's name is Trowa, he's alive. He's a soldier of some sort, a unique one, most likely a pilot, the pilot of the mobile suit he had in her dream probably. She needed to find him. And that meant facing her biggest fear, going on a......*gulp*..........shuttle.........into the colonies.
So!?!?!?!??!?!?! Is it OK??? Good? Bad? Confusing? Boring? ///_- Look! its Trowa!!! Srry, i just had to do that.....by the way, to answer Sailor Emeralds' question, since Mako's and Trowa's parents had died, there was no real owner of the house and stuff, the maids lost their job and Mako and Trowa had to go to the orphanage. I dunno if that would happen in real life, but, thats how i see it, so, im just gonna keep it at that. And, no, im not gonna make Makoto have her sailor jupiter powers. And im not sure if the other scouts are going to be in this fic as normal people, but they might. Tell me if u want them in this fic or not! Review Please!!!! -- LadyAnimeAllegra
The reason why i'm using this song is because i think it kinda sounds like Makoto's life. Do u think so too???? :D
This Little Bird
CHAPTER 1 - THE TRUTH
Makoto woke up that morning the same way she woke up every other morning. Crying. In her dream the night before, she had seen her brother a few times. He was with 4 other boys, and they were running. They stopped at 5 mobile suits and got in them. The next thing she knew, she was looking in the forest green eyes of the man that had piloted the mobile suit that had begun to destroy her life. Makoto never saw the face of the man in the mobile suit that destroyed the shuttle, but she just had a feeling, that these forest green eyes were his.
Makoto looked around for a few seconds and sighed. She got out of bed and just stared at her family locket. The locket was silver and was in the shape of a heart. On the front had small writing. The writing was professionally carved in, it was in script. It said:
To our dear daughter Makoto
Happy 1-day-old Birthday!
Love, your mother and father
Inside of the heart locket, was a picture of her mother and father's faces on the left side. In the right, was her brother and herself. After a few minutes of staring at the pictures, she put it around her neck and linked it. Then, she went into her bathroom and washed her face and brushed her teeth. She then went into her pint size kitchen and started cooking eggs and bacon. After that she went into her bedroom and changed into a pair of blue jeans and a green tank top. On her feet, she put on a pair of white and green sneakers. She put her rose earrings on and put her hair in its usual high ponytail. Next she went back into her kitchen and finished making her breakfast and then ate it. When she was done she grabbed her keys and tied a white sweater around her waist and left her house for school.(remember, i said in the prologue that she goes to a public school :D )
"Hey Mako-chan!" A girl yelled as she ran to the tall brunette. She was about 2 inches shorter than Makoto and had her blonde hair down, falling right above her shoulders, barely touching. She had mesmerizing hazel eyes and was wearing baby blue overalls shorts over a white short-sleeved shirt and white sneakers. "Hi Myoki" Makoto greeted back. "Did you finish your science project due tomorrow?" She asked. Myoki grinned and nodded before looking straight ahead. Then she turned towards Makoto grinning evilly. Makoto looked at her and knew that her bubbly, blonde headed friend had something up her sleeve. "Alright, what is it? What are you planning on doing and how bad is it?" She interrogated suspiciously. "Now Makoto, why would you say that? I only wanted to tell you that two new boys are starting school here today and they're supposed to be really hot. And since your single, once again, maybe you could............" Makoto knew what her friend was about to say and she didn't like it, so she interrupted her. "No way Myoki!! I'm not asking anyone out..." Makoto stopped herself for a second, and then looked at her friend. This time, it was Makoto's turn to grin evilly. "Actually.... I'll ask one of the new guys out, ONLY, only if you ask out Osuki...you know....that cute boy who likes you in biology????" Makoto finished, crossing her arms over her chest, smirking, knowing she had won this fight. Myoki's whole body turned beat red as she looked at Makoto wide eyed and embarrassed. "I..I..I...you...um..uh...I...He...uuuuhhh...how...uumm..Well, ya see....uh..." Myoki stuttered turning even redder, if that was even possible. All of a sudden, she turned and waved to three girls standing under a tree. "Hey! Ruka-Li! Akari! Kei! Over here!" She yelled, her skin turning back to its regular pale color. Makoto couldn't help but giggle at this as she turned also to wave at the 3 girls running their way.
One was an inch shorter than Makoto and was chinese. She had strawberry blonde hair that reached down to the small of her back. It was in a french braid. She was wearing blue jean capris, a red tank top with the words: SOCCER STAR, in bold black letters and a pair of dark red glittery sandals. She has peachy colored skin and her eyes are light blue. The second one was about the same height as the strawberry blonde, her shiny black hair reaches down to her bottom and it's in a ponytail. She has tan skin and light brown eyes. She's wearing white spandex shorts that you can barely see because of her oversized black soccer T-shirt covering it. On her feet, she wears a pair of black and white adidas sandals. The last was a very short American black girl. She was about an inch shorter than Myoki. Her hair was black with brown streaks and was very very curly. It reached down a little below her shoulders. Her eyes are such a dark brown that they almost look black. She is wearing a long dark blue jean skirt that went down to her ankles. Her shirt is a dark blue long sleeved, low V-neck with a thick red stripe going horizontally across the middle of her stomach. In bold white letters on the red stripe it said: AMERICA. Her sneakers were white with an American flag made out of jewels on the outside part of it.
"Hey guys!" Makoto and Myoki yelled to their friends at the same time. "What's up?" The tan skinned girl with black hair yelled as she was the first to get to the blonde and brunette. "Hey!" Greeted the strawberry- blonde. "Hi guys!" The black girl said as she finally reached the rest of them. "Hey, did you guys see the new guys? They are so hot! I think I'm in love! One of them is named Otakuso and the other hunk is Daka-sanei!(hehe-i just made those names up, if they are real names, which i doubt, then, sorry!" OOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!! They are HOT!" The strawberry blonde said dreamily. The others giggled. "No, me and Mako-chan didn't see them, but I'm sure we will soon, Ruka-Li." Myoki said as she giggled again. "Wow! I think Ruka-chan really is in love! Don't you think Kei-chan?" The black haired, tan girl asked the black girl. "Yeah, Aka-chan. The black girl named Kei responded to the tan girl named Akari about the strawberry blonde haired girl named Ruka-Li. All 5 girls giggled again, until they heard a male clear his throat behind them. They stopped and turned around to see a tall man, in his mid 30's with dark brown hair, tan skin and forest green eyes staring back at them. Well, he wasn't necessarily staring at them, actually he was more staring at Makoto. She blushed when she noticed that he was looking at her. The man just smiled and put out his hand for Makoto to shake, and that she did. "Good morning, I am Mr. Sadustuki, your new principal. You are Barton-I mean-Kino Makoto, am I right?" She was so shocked that he knew her real last name that she only nodded. "Well then, Miss......Kino, I would like to have a word with you, alone." He said eyeing Akari, Ruka-Li, Myoki, and Kei who looked very confused about the last name mix-up. Makoto only nodded again before he led her into his office.
"Well Makoto, why don't you take a seat." Mr.Sadustuki told her while pointing to a chair across from him. Makoto nodded and sat down, confused. "How?" That one word was all she could get out of her mouth. Mr. Sadustuki smiled before replying. "You want to know how I knew your real last name, don't you?" Makoto just nodded again with wide eyes and a stiff body, tears threatening to break through as she remembered when she had told her brother what she had seen in the spaceport that horrible afternoon.
~FLASHBACK~
She lost her hat in the spaceport when the firefighter took her out. After she had told him what she had seen, he brought her home. Makoto walked through the door that night with her cheeks stained with old tears and new ones still coming. She hadn't stopped crying since it happened. She stood in the doorway of her once comforting and now haunting house. All she wanted to do was run back out of the house and keep running, and she would of done it too, if the firefighter wasn't there pushing her in. The maid that answered the door was listening to what the firefighter was telling her. Then, he came in the room. Her brother, with his one emerald eye showing and the other hiding behind his long bang. The wide smile playing on his lips quickly disappeared as he saw his sister's face. He ran to her and hugged her to him tightly, as she sobbed into his blue cotton turtleneck. After a couple of minutes, he took her to the living room and they sat down on the couch. Once there, Makoto once again sobbed a heart- wrenching sob into her brother's turtleneck as her tiny body was shaking like a human earthquake would. After about 20 minutes, she finally calmed down. Her brother was rocking her back and forth while stroking her hair. Tears were still coming out of her eyes, but she was silent. Then, he finally asked her what was on his mind that whole time. "They're not coming home, are they?" He asked her, they meaning their parents. She shook her small head no while it still was resting on his shoulder. She told him what she saw. She told him of the mobile suits, the fires and the screams. Then, she felt it. She felt tears fall onto the bottom of her neck. Her brother was crying...
~END OF FLASHBACK~
She looked up at her new principal, and stood up. Fury, sadness and confusion stuck in her eyes as she glared at him. "How did you know? And what else do you know?" She asked between gritted teeth. "Now, now, Makoto, don't loose that hot temper of yours, or I might just have to put you back in the orphanage. And I'm sure you don't want me to do that, do you?" He asked smiling. Makoto sat back in her seat, still glaring at him. He then started writing on a sheet of paper. After about 2 minutes, the bell rang. Makoto started to get up. "What do you have now?" He suddenly asked her. "Study hall." She replied. "Then stay here, I still need to talk to you...and give you this." He said, noting the paper he had been writing on. She sat down again.
A minute later, he folded up the paper and gave it to her. "Dont read this until the last day of school, ok?" He asked. Makoto nodded as she took the paper and shoved it in her pocket. "So.... I assume you remember you have a brother?" Makoto nodded. "Do you remember everything about him?" Makoto shook her head no. "Do you remember his name at least?" Makoto shook her head no again. "Then, ill tell you. His name is Trowa Barton............miss Makoto Barton." Makoto looked at him confused. "But, why does it matter if I know this or not? I mean, he's dead, I don't need to know anything about him, right?" She also didn't want to feel more pain. Having more memories of her lost past would only hurt her more. But she couldn't and wouldn't ever tell him, or anyone else that. "Wrong. Your brother is very much alive. He is a soldier living up in the colonies. A very, strong and..unique soldier..." Makoto looked straight into his eyes and then, she knew that this is no joke. Her brother, who has been missing for the last 11 years, and who she thought was dead, is alive, and that's the truth. "Why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he take me with him? Why? Do you know? Do you know why he left? Can I see him? Where is he? Well!? Tell me god damnit!" She yelled getting out of her chair again. "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Watch that temper young lady." Makoto just growled before sitting back down in her seat. "I don't know any of those answers except that he is to be on a mission on colony L4 in 3 weeks. You can find him then if you want. But beware............you might not like the answers you get." He said smiling evilly at her. "You best be going, I'm sure your friends would like to know what I said to you, and I think you should tell them the truth now, before someone else does." Makoto then looked at him shocked. "But, they would get mad at me, they'd hate me!" She said. "Makoto, miss Barton, you brought it all on yourself.....tell them, trust me, it will be easier that way..." Mr Sadustuki replied with a strange glint in his eyes.
Makoto just stood up and left without saying a word. Once she got out of the office, she ran outside to the schoolyard in the back. As she thought, it was completely deserted. She ran to her favorite tree and climbed in it. Finally, she let go of the tears she's been fighting back since she first met her new principal. She let go nerve-wrecking sobs and was shaking uncontrollably. While rocking back and forth, she started humming the bedtime song her mother would always sing to her when she was young.
There's a little bird,
somebody sent down to the earth to,
live on the wind.
Blowing on the wind,
and she sleeps on the wind.
This little bird somebody sent.......
Light and fragile and feathers sky blue.
Thin and graceful,
sun shining through......
She flies so high up in the sky,
way out of reach of human eyes.....
Light and fragile and feathers sky blue.
Thin and graceful,
sun shining through......
And the only time,
that she touches the ground,
is when that little bird,
little bird......
Is when that little bird,
little bird.....
Is when that little bird,
dies....................
She hummed that song over and over again, finally falling into a memory.
~FLASHBACK~
A woman sat in a plush blue arm chair with a peice of paper in her hand. After a few minutes she stopped reading it and put it on the coffee table next to the chair. "Come here, Trowa, Makoto. I need to tell you something about your father and I." The brother and sister nodded and listened to their mother. "In 2 weeks, we will be in the colonies in space. We will be there for 20 days, but, I'm sorry, you can't come. Your father and I are going there on a business trip, so you two are going to stay here with the maids. Ok?" They both nodded. "Have fun mommy!!! "Makoto yelled, jumping on her Latino mom and hugging her. Then she kissed her on the cheek and ran to her room in a flash.
Makoto sat in her bed waiting to be tucked in. Soon after, her parents walked in. "Good night love. Sweet dreams and don't let the bed bugs bite." Her Japanese father said as he kissed his daughter's forehead lovingly. Then he walked out of the room. Makoto's mother walked to her bed and climbed in with the 5 year old. "Are you going to be ok when we leave?" Makoto's mother asked with loving, sincere eyes while hugging her daughter. "Yes mommy, I'll be ok..................and I'll take care of Trowa too!" Makoto replied before giggling. Her mother giggled too. Then she sang..........
When she finished she kissed Makoto on her nose. "Sweet dreams honey." She then climbed out of the warm bed and pulled the covers up to Makoto's neck. "G'night mommy." Makoto said sleepily with a smile. Her mother walked to the door and shut off the lights. She blew a kiss to Makoto and Makoto caught it in her hand and touched her cheek with it. Then she giggled. Her mother smiled and walked out closing the door behind her.
~END OF FLASHBACK~
"I miss her....." She whispered to herself. She heard the bell ring but was too confused and depressed to go to her next class, so she stayed in the tree. 'I wonder how he got all that information on me....... I should of forced it out of him. But then he would put me back in an orphanage, and I don't ever want to go back to any of those, ever again. So, how? How did he find out? I didn't write anything on the forms to put me in this school. I put my fake name in, Kino Makoto. Not Barton. Man! I hate it when there's something that I can't figure out!!!! And what about that paper he gave me, he said to not look at it until school is over, I guess I should listen to him.' Makoto then yawned. 'I'm so tired.' Makoto sighed aloud before she drifted off to sleep......
~DREAM~
Makoto ran down the deserted and destroyed street. The wind blew like a hurricane in all different directions. The rain soaked anything and everything it touched. Bruises would replace the hail that was crashing down on Makoto's already torn skin. Fire burned to her left, right and all behind her as ashes fell all around and on her, burning her skin even more. But she kept running. She was running at top speed towards a group of boys, five of them. Suddenly, she hugged the one in the middle. She was crying. The black, long sleeved turtleneck and the blue-green skirt she was wearing were drenched, and in a few places, ripped.
She then realized she couldn't see any of the boy's faces, but she knew they were boys because of their silhouettes. All she could make out of the boys was their eyes. The one holding her has emerald green eyes, just like her. He was about 2 inches taller than she was and the other boys were about an inch taller than she was. One of the other boys had black eyes, the other had cobalt blue, another had light blue and the last had emotionless persian (I get confused a lot with that word-Is it persian or prussian??? Some one please tell me!!!!!!!!) blue.
After a few seconds, three of the other four boys walked away to their mobile suits and flew away. Then, the boy holding her whispered something in her ear, and weakly, Makoto nodded. He slowly let go of her and walked away. He got in his mobile suit and flew the way the others went. The boy with the emotionless persian(or prusian) blue eyes walked up to her and then pulled her close to him, and he held her. Her chin was placed on his left shoulder and their cheeks were touching. They stayed in each others embrace silently for a small while................perhaps, too small, until Makoto spoke. "I love you......." Her voice trailed off as she weakly closed her eyes and fell into unconsciousness. The boy picked her up and started to walk away before saying "I love you, too........ Makoto..."
All of a sudden, everything went black around her, and she found herself falling, falling, falling....Until she suddenly landed in the palm of a man. It was the palm of the same man with the haunting forest green eyes, the one in the mobile suit, as she thought. The eyes seemed to be laughing evilly at her. Then, he dropped her and she began to fall again, but this time, as she fell her body was torn at. White, ghostly hands popped up out of nowhere and tore at her clothes and skin. When she finally landed again, everything around her was still black. Feeling weak and beaten, her almost totally naked body slowly stood. The long blue-green skirt she was wearing was now torn apart. Millions of rips and bloodstains were everywhere. What little was left of the blood-soaked skirt was sticking to her burned and cut skin. The black turtleneck was no better. It was no longer black or even a turtleneck. The shirt, like her skirt, was dripping with blood and almost completely torn off her sore body. The blood from her skin seemed to be floating all around her, as if she were in space.
The next thing she new, a flash of white light came rushing towards her. It enveloped her with its light and warmth. She was then in a beautiful white gown with green trimmings. The gown flowed down to the ground and lay all around her. Around her waist, a light, soft green cloth, the same color of the trimmings, was tied. Around her waist and breasts, the dress was a tad tight. The neckline was squared. It went from around the end of her shoulders down, and then formed around the top of her chest, finishing the square. The sleeves were extra long. They reached down to her knees, when her hands only reached to her mid-thighs. From the back of the gown, fake wings made of silk spread out. Makoto's hair was in its usual high ponytail, the only thing different was that real emeralds that were made into clips tied it up. A tiara lay on her head also. The tiara was gold with an emerald in the center. Makoto looked beautiful, like an...Angel........
~END OF DREAM~
She opened her eyes and looked around. She was still in the tree but, instead of sitting with her knees up close to her chest and her chin resting on them as before, she was now laying back against the top part of the trunk, still on the same big thick branch, with the bottom half of her legs dangling over the sides as was her left arm. (Few!!!! That was some loooooooooong sentence!!!*Sighs* I'm glad that's over...anyways, *smiles like an idiot* back to the story!) She looked up at the clock tower. There was 4 minutes left of class. Then she remembered her dream. 'I wonder what it all meant. The one I hugged first, his hair...........my brothers hair.......its just like his. And those eyes.......hhhhhhmmmm........... just like my brother's eyes. Hhhhhmmmm......yes! I think it was him!!!!! That was my brother!!!!!!! Oh, Trowa......' Makoto let out a huge sigh and then went back to thinking. 'What was my brother doing in my dream, again!? And who were the others....? It was so real........almost like it wasn't a dream at all.......but it was supposed to be......and the other boy who held me, the one with those emotionless eyes. Aww, that felt so right. Those eyes...aaaawwwww...........those were breathtaking.....hn. Its weird, I felt so, so, happy...........even though I was all burned and hurt. I wonder from what. I bet some mobile suits were the cause of it and all of that destruction. I guess I was in the area and got hurt. But the only mobile suits I saw were the ones my brother and his friends had. They looked a little different from others that I've seen before........though they look a bit familiar too. But where have I seen them...................? Think Makoto, think! Come on!!!!! Where have I seen those suits!?!?!? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............' Makoto started to get really mad at herself. "WHY CANT I REMEMBER!?!?!?!?!?!?!?" She yelled out loud. She then started to knock the back of her head on the tree where she was leaning her head before. Then she remembered the rest of her dream. 'Oh my god......what did all that mean? And those eyes. They were in my last dream too. And that gown at the end, it was absolutely beautiful...but why did all of that happen to me?It's so confusing. What does it all mean...??????'
RRRRRIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The loud ring of the bell cut off Makoto's thoughts. She was now going into 4th period class now, which was history.(she had 2 periods of study hall when she was in the new principal's office, then she was in the tree through her 3rd period class which was math) Then another thought struck her mind. 'Why did the new principal come so late!?' Makoto then decided to think about that later. She had to go to her class, she felt she had missed too much already.
In history class, they were studying the attacks on the twin towers (remember this fic takes place many, many, many decades after the 9-11 tragedy..may all who died rest in peace*** 0=*( ***) in the year of 2001. That was so long ago, but everyone usually paid attention when learning about this. Everybody loved to learn about how the American army caught that bastard osama bin laden (there is no way I would ever use capital letters for his name) and how he and his followers were punished. She liked to learn about it too, but today, she couldn't concentrate on anything except for what the new principal had said and what she had dreamed. She couldn't remember going to the class, she couldn't remember it beginning and she couldn't remember it ending. The truth stuck in her head. Her brother's name is Trowa, he's alive. He's a soldier of some sort, a unique one, most likely a pilot, the pilot of the mobile suit he had in her dream probably. She needed to find him. And that meant facing her biggest fear, going on a......*gulp*..........shuttle.........into the colonies.
So!?!?!?!??!?!?! Is it OK??? Good? Bad? Confusing? Boring? ///_- Look! its Trowa!!! Srry, i just had to do that.....by the way, to answer Sailor Emeralds' question, since Mako's and Trowa's parents had died, there was no real owner of the house and stuff, the maids lost their job and Mako and Trowa had to go to the orphanage. I dunno if that would happen in real life, but, thats how i see it, so, im just gonna keep it at that. And, no, im not gonna make Makoto have her sailor jupiter powers. And im not sure if the other scouts are going to be in this fic as normal people, but they might. Tell me if u want them in this fic or not! Review Please!!!! -- LadyAnimeAllegra