Authors Note: Hotaru and Heero are together Rei and Trowa, Mina and Quatre, Serena and Duo, Makato with Wufei, and Ami's gone
Scouts: 18
Trowa: 21
Other G-boys: 19
Hotaru's room
" Hotaru, Hotaru," Mina nearly screamed before Hotaru woke up
" Wha ... what do you want Mina?"
" Well for one I want to know why you aren't ready for classes," she said " and why you are in that chair instead of in your bed?" Mina said while pushing Hotaru towards the pale purple room that was the bathroom.
" I'm going I'm going jeez Mina you don't need to push." After Hotaru got ready for school she went downstairs for breakfast to find that they had visitors.
" Oh and this is Hotaru Tomoe." Minako said with a giggle. " She slept late."
"Hello" said a boy who had white no blonde hair, " my name is Quatre Reberba Winner, this is Duo Maxwell" he said pointing to the American with a braid "that one over there is Heero Yuy, the one with hair covering half his face is Trowa and my Chinese friend over there is Wufei.
" Hello, and good morning may I ask who you are and what you are doing in our kitchen?" Hotaru said quietly.
"Um, Hotaru they go to our school all except Trowa who doesn't go to school." Minako replied.
" Oh, so why are they in our kitchen and why may I ask is nobody else talking?" she asked again.
" Well they also live next door to us and they knew that we go to the same school so they came to get to know us and walk us to school, and Heero and Trowa don't talk for some reason, you don't want Wufei to talk because he'll say you are weak, Duo talks non-stop but right now he's staring at Usagi-chan and Quatre just talked to you." Mina said stopping to take a breath and put on her usual perky smile.
" Well are we going to school or not?" she asked with her usual monotone voice back again " I would like to get there a little bit early so I can actually find out where I have to go."
"Oh sure we can go." Quatre said smiling at her. Hotaru said nothing but walked out the door and down the sidewalk her heavy backpack slung over her shoulder.
" Why is she like that?" Heero asked, speaking the first words he had said all morning while staring at her retreating form.
" Well Hotaru has suffered many tragedies and basically all she does is carry them around with her I've never seen her cry or complain about anything since …… well since she was a baby. What about you Usagi-chan have you ever seen her cry?"
" Nope not that I can think of well once she cried when she broke something but she had gotten cut and besides it doesn't count she was like two years old." Usagi replied. Heero turned around and walked out the door following Hotaru's footsteps. Quatre, Duo, Trowa, Wufei, Mina, Usagi and Rei followed him out Rei closed and locked the door.
At School
" Well I don't have any classes with you guys." Hotaru said speaking only to the scouts and not to the G-boys. " I guess I'm on my own this year, although this is starting to become a routine."
" Why is it becoming a routine Taru?" Heero asked her quietly.
" No reason, and don't call me that." She quickly replied looking down at her feet and finally looking up in to his eyes only to then brush past him and go to her first class MATH. (dun dun dun) As Hotaru stepped into her first class her heart was pounding and her eyes were full of tears just waiting to fall out. I can't feel like this I'm just lonely Hotaru the one that has no emotion who doesn't care who gets killed or what happens. Yet he looks so much like Brian it's scary this can't be happening it can't be him it's totally impossible or is it if I can……… but that's because I'm a sailor senshi so it can't be him he is dead and out of my life and I will never love like that again it's just not a good idea.
" Um, Ms. Tomoe would you mind joining the class." The teacher asked Hotaru who was still deep in thought at the doorway.
" Oh I'm sorry I was thinking about something very important." Hotaru said while dismissing the snickers that were heard coming from the back of the room.
" Ms. Tomoe you can sit anywhere you like I'm afraid many people think that getting up this early is highly overrated." The teacher replied dryly, indicating the many empty seats. Hotaru took her lead and sat in the front of the class so she wouldn't have some extremely large football player sitting in front of her and therefore blocking her view.
" Ok, class it's high time we got started on algebra so take out your books and open to lesson 9-1, um Ms. Tomoe if you don't understand what I'm saying just raise your hand and I'll try to explain it so you can." Said the teacher who was now talking about all sorts of things (stupid things at that, I hate math). After the teacher had explained the chapter thoroughly she assigned it for homework but since they had about 30 minutes of class left Hotaru finished it then and moved on to studying her schedule. She didn't notice everyone had left the class until a sultry girl with dark hair asked her to get out of her seat. Hotaru walked out of her class and walked to her next class, which was science. When she walked in the door she found that she was late she explained to her teacher Ms. Cruz that she had gotten lost when Ms. Cruz told her to take a seat she found there was only one left and it was right next to Heero. Hotaru sat down next to Heero all the while thinking that it didn't matter that he looked like Brian, Brian was dead and all that was over. Heero looked over at the small petite girl that sat next to him and recognized her immediately as Hotaru. He thought she looked troubled but immediately dismissed the thought as the teacher started in on something about cells. After class Heero went over to Hotaru to ask her if she had lunch right now, which she did so he then went on to ask if she would like to eat with him but all she did this time was shrug her shoulders. He wants to eat with you Hotaru go ahead and say yes, say yes, say yes, say yes. Wait what if this is like the Brian thing all over again I don't want to have to go through that again what if he dies too I can't add another person onto my victim list. Although it was against her better judgment Hotaru did eat lunch with Heero only because he was the only person she knew.
" So how do you like school here so far?" Heero inquired while glaring at anyone who tried to sit down at the table.
" It's fine although they should update their curriculum so that it isn't so easy, but other than that it's okay." She replied never looking up from her tray of cafeteria goop. (By the way Hotaru's thoughts are in bold and Heero's thoughts are bold and underlined.) She hates me. Why won't she look at me, what the hell is wrong with me?
" Heero," Hotaru almost shouted, " Heero it's time to go I'm going to be late for my next class and so are you if we don't leave right now."
" Sorry, I didn't realize it was that late." Heero mumbled in a barely audible whisper.
" It's okay," she said her face softening just a little. She then realized what she had done and her face turned back into its usual stone position. She then moved onto getting out of her seat and walking in front of Heero towards her next class.
Later
Hotaru was walking down the extremely small hallway with her head down looking at all the tiles on the floor and realizing how dirty this school was.
" Hey, girl watch where you're goin'," said a boy with a toothpick in his mouth.
" Sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you." Replied Hotaru emotionless.
" Yo, what happened to you, you sound about as happy as a rock," asked toothpick boy. This question brought some smirks from his friends that surrounded him.
" Nothing happened to me I just don't feel like talking so back off."
" Excuse me? Did you just talk balk to me." He asked while grabbing Hotaru's wrist.
" Get your dirty hands off me you jerk!!" Hotaru shouted while trying to break free of his grip. I don't want to transform and I don't want to hurt him. What do I do? Duh Hotaru act helpless. This helped you tons of times when Brian was mad at you.
" Ahhhh, boys we got us a fighter here," laughed toothpick boy.
" Get your hands off of her NOW!!!!" came a cold voice from behind them. (It's Heero to the rescue)
" And what if I don't? What are you goin' to do to me, Huh?" After about two minutes of silence "That's what I thought nothin' you ain't goin' to do nothin'."
" Hotaru are you okay?" Heero asked cautiously.
" Yeah, I'm fine." She said still not changing from her monotonous voice. Hotaru act polite he came to save you why am I acting this way what the hell is wrong with me?
Right after Hotaru said she was fine Heero started to think of possibilities to get Hotaru out of that jerks hands. Well I could always kill him, no that wouldn't work we're in broad daylight and there's a crowd. Then there is only one other choice. Before anyone could stop him he made a fist and punched with all his might. Toothpick boy was on the ground before you could say Yeah go Heero. Heero then grabbed Hotaru's hand and ran.
" Why did you do that, I can take care of myself thank you very much!!" Hotaru said her voice rising with every syllable.
" You didn't look like you were getting ready to do anything." Heero replied calmly
" Well why do you care, you don't even know me. You in fact know nothing about me, you don't know what's going on in my head you don't know my past. YOU KNOW NOTHING." She screamed tears were now falling down her face. Stop it, Stop it he'll think you're just a weak woman. You don't want to know Heero believe me you don't want to know.
" Calm down, it's okay. So maybe I don't know your past or what goes on inside your head but if you would tell me I would listen." Heero calmly stated pulling her close to him. She's troubled and she needs someone to hold her so it might as well be me.
" It's a long story and I can't promise you I'll tell the whole thing and I might cry, a lot."
" That's okay I'm in no rush to get back to school."
" Well let's see first of all I need to tell you that I'm a sailor senshi which is this." She said transforming into Sailor Saturn. "Now lets get along with the story. Okay a long time ago, I lived with my father who wasn't a very nice dad. He was always busy so that I grew up being a loner. Well being alone isn't fun so it wasn't surprising that the moment I was asked to be in the gang I said yes. Of course there was an initiation and I had to do something to prove myself. I wasn't sure what they were going to make me do I was kind of scared but the task wasn't a hard one. I think it's because I was so young. I had to get beer for the whole gang. My dad drank a lot so I just went home and got 17 beers my dad never missed them. After that everything was supposed to be downhill. Supposed being the key word. I had to get the tattoo that symbolized I was part of the gang and the leader was supposed to do it well I was scared considering an 18 year old was going to give me the tattoo which was a emerald snake winding around a black dagger. He did okay I still have it even though I'm no longer in the gang. Well lets skip ahead while I was in the gang I met my future fiancé Brian. I had just told the leader I wanted to get out of the gang and he had had a few people "rough me up" as he would say well I was well beyond roughed up I could barely walk, well I went up to the first house I saw and knocked on the door. After that all I can remember is waking up in Brian's bed with a really big t-shirt on. It turns out that Brian had answered the door picked me up gotten his neighbor (who's a girl) to change me and cleaned my cuts and then put me in his bed. Well when I woke up it was about midnight the first thing I did was heal myself. Then I walked outside the room and turned into the hallway I walked all the way down the hallway and into what turned out to be the kitchen, which was good because I was starving. I opened the refrigerator there was tons of junk food so I took out a big candy bar and went into the living room when I went to sit on the couch I sat on someone the next thing I know I'm airborne. I landed on the coffee table with a thud." Hotaru stopped for a breath.