Mask: chapter 2
Moonlit eyes1x2x1: It's a torture house us in da Bronx call HIGH SKEWL. Nezumi had to apply for the Science high schools, and since she got in we've had non-stop schoolwork. So sorry for the. what has it been? 7, 8 month wait? Well, we'll try to alleviate that. And shina has died, this is Nezumi who discovered yaoi AFTER writing 20 chapters of hetero 1x2. X_X
Volleys: Cute isn't exactly what I was going for but tank u so much anyway? ^_^ Ji: hopefully, I WILL finish I this time 'round, cuz its bin hangin on ff.net for a year.X_X _______________________________________________________________________ Heero gazed at the girl in front of him.
After reprimanding her for her tardiness, the teacher assigned her to sit in seat a5, right next to Maxwell.
As the teacher resumed the lesson, Heero kept turning slightly to stare at the new student.
Could this be the braided baka? He made a pretty girl. Pretty GOOD girl! He quickly amended
The way her hair fell into her face as she looked at her computer screen, then tossed her head, her chestnut locks falling gently back to frame her lovely face.
"Mr. Dune!" snapped the teacher.
Blinking, Heero turned to face the teacher, "64598" he answer coolly.
Muttering about smart-aleck new kids, the teacher (this is getting boring, from now on we'll call him Bob) proceeded to pick on the next student.
Heero resumed staring at the beauty beside him. her NO! This was DUO! The American baka! Aaaugh!
RRRIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Break!!! Be back here for the next lesson in twenty minutes!" shouted Bob.
But. She was beautiful. her amethyst eyes shimmered, as she looked straight at him. Her eyes.. HIS eyes were the same stupid color they always were!
A girl walked up to their desk. "Hi, I'm Alanna. Come on, I'll introduce you to the girls. Where did you transfer from? Nobody here travels much."
The annoying girl dragged the object of his current obsession to another cluster of desks.
Scowling, Heero watched the two girls. BAKA! The girl and BOY, his PARTNER, his BACK-UP, to be exact.
But she. he. whoever it was. whatever it was.
She walked back over to his desk and sat next to him. "Ohayo. I'm Sakura. You're Japanese, aren't you?" she HE asked, loud enough for the students in the surrounding desks to hear
"Nani? O, ya."
"Well, I'm Sakura, that's Japanese for cherry blossom. They're my favorite flower. I'm from New York City though. Can't get much to grow there! 'Cept maybe Central Park. It's huge! It's like blocks and blocks of skyscrapers, and suddenly, you're in the middle of a forest! Ever been there? Well."
She rattled on and on. Heero sweat dropped. It was definitely Duo.
As Duet rattled on about the best stores in the shopping district of Manhattan, she secretly eyed Heero.
He had spent the whole period looking sideways at her, and then during break he had been openly glaring. Her hand self-consciously pulled her coat closed, wondering if the shirt trowa had picked was too revealing.
***Trowa confessed: I've always wanted a sister. you see; I think I used to have one. But now I don't, I have no one to look out for. I left my family to become a killer, just like you. You told me you have a big brother back on L2. Well I think he would want someone to look out for his sis, like I'd want someone to care of my sister.
Now then! How about this shirt? It'll go great with the miniskirt!"
"Are you deranged? It covers nothing! I'm supposed to be wearing a padded bra, remember?"
"You wont need one. Just don't let Heero in while you're dressing."
"TROWA!!!!!!!!!"***
But no. The whole outfit was gorgeous. But Heero was seriously scaring her.
Duet moved closer to Heero as she leaned over his shoulder. "Yo, Hee-chan? Whats wrong? Is it the outfit?" Duet whispered into her partner's ear in her Duo voice.
Heero jerked out of his argument with himself. "What? Iie. It's very good. You fit right in." He said calmly, despite the confusing and irksome emotions running through his head. He motioned towards the group of giggly girls in one corner of the room, who were applying make-up and chatting loudly. Every so often, they would all turn around to look at Heero, and then burst into a new fit of giggles.
Oddly, when he turned back to Duo he saw sheHE was staring at the group longingly.
"Maxwell?" Heero hissed, nudging the girlBOY.
(For those that haven't noticed Heero keeps thinking Duet's a girl then berating himself that sheHE's a BOY, so whenever he uses a pronoun for Duet it'll be sheHE and herHIS, etc.)
"Hmm? O YA!!!!!!!"
You're getting soft Duet chided herself. But what she wouldn't give to be in that clique, have girls to talk to. about what? She snapped to herself. The most efficient way to set thermal detonators in a closed hangar? .Mm, how about clothes and movie stars and BOYS.-"
Duet was torn from her fantasy as Bob re-entered the room. "Listen up class, we're giving a gymnastics demonstration in 2 weeks. Ms. Mackenzie wants to start practicing your routine NOW so you have to get down to the gym PRONTO so you get to skip English lit."
Actually, the whole period was spent doing laps and calisthenics and cartwheels. Duet never broke a sweat, flipping circles around the other girls. Though they were annoyed, the boys all watched with awe, as Heero scowled.
"Why is sheHe flirting with those boys? SheHE is a BOY!" he muttered to himself.
Duet caught the last sentence, and stuck her tongue out at him as she passed. "Just establishing my alias" she smirked coolly. "Wouldn't want them to be suspicious would we? Could endanger the mission."
Heero was about to snap a retort, but Bob appeared at the door. "All right, practice over. Time to hit the showers. And boy do you lot STINK! Hey Alanna," he yelled at the redhead that had befriended Duet "make sure ALL the girls take showers, got it? You boys too, got it Chris? Well I'll be in the classroom.
The rest of the students headed down to the locker rooms, but Duet and Heero looked at each other in dismay.
"Hoe???" Duet managed to croak as Alanna dragged her down to the girls locker room.
Heero's eyes were wide. Before sheHE moved out of his reach he hissed in herHIS ear "Don't blow your cover!"
Duet nodded an affirmative before she was pulled down the steps.
"Hey Alanna? Since I'm new here, can you do me a favor and let me skip showers today?" Duet wheedled, giving the other girl her most pitiful look. "I don't like undressing in front of people."
"O that's all right! You were great today by the way! You know." the redhead chattered away as Duet mentally reminded herself to fake a doctors note saying she had a skin condition or something.
As she entered the locker room the group of girls she had been introduced to back in class welcomed her.
"Hey Sakura!!! You did great!!! Every-"
"You did all right, Yue, but you obviously lack grace." Interrupted a brunette with frosty blue eyes. Her lips curled in a sneer. "I however was exquisite. Did you see how the guys drooled for me? Hmm. that Maxwell Dune seems to like me, too."
"What're you talking about!" Alanna scoffed. "He spent the whole day staring at Sakura!"
Duet blinked. "Hoe?" she said, confused, as the other girls giggled and the brunette scowled.
"Obviously, Max likes you. You're the only one he's talked to all day. Don't listen to Anja, she's jealous." Smirked Alanna.
Duet regained her composure, "I don't know what you're talking about" she said coolly as she brushed passed Anja and made her way to her locker. She changed into her black outfit while the others put on their towels and headed for the showers.
"Hey, Sakura how come you're not showering?" jeered Anja.
Duet sighed inwardly and reminded herself she had a mission. She couldn't afford to kill this insolent girl. yet.
She turned around and slowly walked up to Anja. As sweetly as possible, the professional assassin and espionage agent mustered her self-control. Oddly, she had never had to do that before. Being a girl was ruining her stamina.
"Look, I don't know what you're problem is, and I don't care. But this is really pissing me off. So just stay away from me and-"
A girl interrupted "hey you're eyes are violet! Look, Alanna her eyes are just like yours!"
Duet swiveled around to look closely at Alanna. Upon close observation, she realized the redhead's eyes were indeed a deep violet just like hers.
"Hey she's right!" squealed Alanna. "That's so kewl I thought it only ran in my family! Does it run in yours, too?"
"Nani? O, I don't have a real family. The Yue's adopted me." Duet answered quickly, but she pondered this. Purple eyes weren't exactly common.
"Girls! Get up here!" yelled Ms. Mackenzie
Duet walked up with Alanna and the gang, and they barely made it out of the locker rooms before the boys surrounded them.
"Come on." Urged one boy Duet had been introduced to as George. He pulled Alanna after him as the class headed back to Bob's classroom
"All right, listen up class the juvenile delinquent is back."
"Hoe?" whispered Duet.
"My twin brother. Twins also run in the family. Except he died his hair. same color as yours actually. I haven't seen him in 3 years, he was sent to boarding school."
"YO!!! Didja miss me?" shouted a voice from the door.
"Mr. Trebond you can sit with Mr., Dune and Ms. Yue. Don't blow anything up, okay, kid?" Heero and Duet turned to greet their new desk mate.
What they saw made them choke back their welcome. The whole class grew silent.
Heero stared at the boy before him. He wore black and gray navy fatigues and sunglasses that slipped over his nose to reveal his astonishing violet eyes (Where have we written that before?) His chestnut hair was tied in a short braid reaching halfway down his back.
Even his facial features were the same.
If Duo had not been sitting right next to him, Heero would have thought the boy in the doorway was his partner.
**************************************************************** We do not own Alanna or Thom of Trebond. Nezumi worships the Goddess that is Tamora pierce and we would never deign to steal her characters.
Duet regained her composure. For a second she thought Deuce had found her.
Hold it who was this idiot that looked so much like her brother?
Suddenly Heero's expression caught her eye. Blanching inwardly she realized if this boy looked like her brother he would also look like Duo, her alter ego.
And like herself.
Scanning the room quickly, she saw all eyes were on her, Alanna and this new boy. Alanna had obliviously run up to her brother and was squealing as she hugged him. "Thom, you're back I missed you wadja do to your hair?"
But Thom was staring at the girl at the front of the room, wearing all black and looking stunning. There was something so familiar about her.
He jerked away from his sister and strode to the girls desk. The blue-eyed boy next to her was blinking rapidly, and looked like he was having trouble breathing.
But all he could see was this girl's eyes. Deep violet, the eyes special in his family.
He leaned forward until his nose was almost touching hers. He whipped off his glasses and looked straight into her eyes.
Heero restrained the urge to strangle his partner. He had obviously neglected to mention he had a twin wandering around.
He snapped out of his daze as the new boy walked up to Duo and pushed his face into hers. They looked exactly the same at this angle, the glare in each others eyes reflected in their own.
"Hello pretty lady. You're new here cuz I haven't gone out with ya yet!"
"What do they teach you cheesy pickup lines at your last school?"
"Hey didn't you learn manners, y's'posed ta flirt when your bein' picked up."
"You're delusional"
"Awww, you like me!!!"
"O my what a big head we have."
"Hmm, you're right you should have a doctor look at that."
They bantered back and forth for a while. Alanna had forgotten her elation at her brother's return and was watching the conversation with the rest of the class. Sakura looked more like her twin than she herself did.
Bob found his voice again. "Thom Trebond you can sit right there. ummm. where were we???"
"We were debating on whether or not Romefeller's peace proposal between the OZ faction in Colony L9 would work." Duet answered coolly.
"Hmm? O right."
Now that the shock of seeing two identical strangers worn off, the class resumed discussing the topic.
However the second they were dismissed the class flocked around Sakura and the Trebonds.
Whisper Mutter "Oh, wow you could be triplets, if Sakura's hair been red we would have seen it right away are they related Sakura's an orphan maybe."Whisper.
Heero ignored the buzz of conversation and pulled his partner out of the classroom, while Alanna shouted after them and the whole class followed them.
All through class he had noticed Duo and Thom sneaking looks at each other and was positive they knew each other.
"Baka!" Heero snapped at Duet after they lost the crowd. "Why didn't you tell me you had relatives here? This could endanger the mission!"
"I don't HAVE relatives . just my twin." Duet trailed off.
"Twin! You have a twin!" Heero hissed. "How can you NOT be related to them!?"
"Look I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie and I'm telling you: I have no relatives but my twin. We were found as infants on L2 then when we were old enough, we were kicked out on the street. I've got nobody THAT I KNOW OF. But I must have had parents and they musta bin Trebonds, kay? Let it go!"
Heero was stunned. He watched herHIM storm away, flicking herHIS long hair at a passing car. Duo was really annoying and often got people pissed off at him, but he had never snapped at anyone. Not even Wufei could faze the jester that was pilot 02.
This mission.
No, this identity was doing something to herHIM. AAUUGGHH he was still thinking like that! And if herHIS appearance was freaking him out, think what it must do to Duo.
Duet stormed out of school grounds and crashed into a boy.
"Sorry." He apologized as she picked herself up and looked at him.
"You!!!" they both cried out at the same time.
Then, as one, they burst out laughing.
"Hi." The boy said, after they had quieted a bit. "we haven't been properly introduced. I'm Trebond. Thom Trebond. And you, pretty lady?"
Duet managed to control herself. What was wrong with her? She had never laughed for real before. And suddenly she couldn't hold back her joy. She had no idea who this was but he felt like the big brother she had left behind on L2. "Sakura Yue. Ya know, we have the whole school talking about us by now!"
"I know. So, I figure we're related, neh?"
"Mmmm, mebbe. I'm an orphan as I told your sister. I never knew my parents."
"Oh? I'm so sorry."
"Don't be. I've been getting along fine. What about you? How did you end up in boarding school?"
"Eh he he he." Thom had never told anyone this but his sister, but this girl that he barely knew seemed more his sister than Alanna did. "Ummm, long story."
Duet shrugged. "I have all the time in the world."
Thom gave her a little half-smile. "I had a dream I was on L2. I was running hard, and a bunch of people were shooting at me. I escaped into an abandoned building, one with Death's Lair graffitied all over it with huge bright violet eyes glaring down from the ceiling."
He didn't hear Duets gasp as she remembered the day her gang had found their new hideout. and grafittied it with her logo.
"I collapsed onto a ratty red sofa."
Red with blue streaks on the back.
"And I was picking up a picture with two kids in it."
Flimsy, not holograph.
"Of me and a girl with violet eyes and chestnut pigtails."
Me and Deuce.
Who looked exactly like you Thom didn't finish. "I've had this dream for years, where I'm someone else, a kid from L2. Actually I can be someone else for a while too now. I've done it with my sister lots of times. But I cant make that one go away. So I applied for a psychic school. They deal with a lot of things, including this. My buddy Syaoran and his girlfriend. Sakura. can manipulate elements."
Card Captor Sakura references belong to CLAMP, zekk is from Star Wars: young jedi knights. Nezumi owns nothing.
Duet remembered Zekk back home. He could do that. Sister Helen had called him afflicted.
"I learned to control it. I even talked to the guy. His name is Deuce."
Deuce.
"But he wouldn't talk to me after that. All he told me was go home. Every night." Thom shrugged "So I did."
Duet's heart ached as she thought of her brother. And this Thom person, who was he that he could talk to her brother when she could not?
Subconsciously, she leaned her head on Thom's shoulder, and he put an arm around her to support her weight.
"But he told me about one more thing."
no he didn't tell him. duet trembled uncontrollably.
"Once, a long time ago, he had a sister that ran away from him."
Please he cannot know. duet felt tears she had not shed in over five years forming in her eyes.
"Named Duet."
Now, for the traditional chat with the muses! ^_^ Chibi duo: scuse Nezumi-dat-was-fowmahly-shina Chibi wufei: she hasn't been able to write for nearly a year Chibi trowa: since then, her style and tastes have changed dramatically Now that our little apology is out of the way, Nezumi greets old and new reviewers alike: Hello and thank you for reading our pitiful excuse for a story! Criticism is greatly appreciated! Chibi duo: smart. You start again right befowe mid-yeawh exams an' repowte cawdes? Shush you. Remember what happens when you scoff at us? Chibi wufei: stop speaking in third person or plural onna!
Nezumi has just realized she can't think of anything funny anymore. Perhaps we need new muses?
Oh, and we own nothing, if we haven't mentioned it already. Well, just a Gundam Wng/ Duo/ 1x2 300 slide Microsoft Powerpoint Slideshow. ^_^ R+R=Chapter 3! Oh, and we shall not update until we get at least 7 reviews. 5? 3? Any? Please?
Moonlit eyes1x2x1: It's a torture house us in da Bronx call HIGH SKEWL. Nezumi had to apply for the Science high schools, and since she got in we've had non-stop schoolwork. So sorry for the. what has it been? 7, 8 month wait? Well, we'll try to alleviate that. And shina has died, this is Nezumi who discovered yaoi AFTER writing 20 chapters of hetero 1x2. X_X
Volleys: Cute isn't exactly what I was going for but tank u so much anyway? ^_^ Ji: hopefully, I WILL finish I this time 'round, cuz its bin hangin on ff.net for a year.X_X _______________________________________________________________________ Heero gazed at the girl in front of him.
After reprimanding her for her tardiness, the teacher assigned her to sit in seat a5, right next to Maxwell.
As the teacher resumed the lesson, Heero kept turning slightly to stare at the new student.
Could this be the braided baka? He made a pretty girl. Pretty GOOD girl! He quickly amended
The way her hair fell into her face as she looked at her computer screen, then tossed her head, her chestnut locks falling gently back to frame her lovely face.
"Mr. Dune!" snapped the teacher.
Blinking, Heero turned to face the teacher, "64598" he answer coolly.
Muttering about smart-aleck new kids, the teacher (this is getting boring, from now on we'll call him Bob) proceeded to pick on the next student.
Heero resumed staring at the beauty beside him. her NO! This was DUO! The American baka! Aaaugh!
RRRIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Break!!! Be back here for the next lesson in twenty minutes!" shouted Bob.
But. She was beautiful. her amethyst eyes shimmered, as she looked straight at him. Her eyes.. HIS eyes were the same stupid color they always were!
A girl walked up to their desk. "Hi, I'm Alanna. Come on, I'll introduce you to the girls. Where did you transfer from? Nobody here travels much."
The annoying girl dragged the object of his current obsession to another cluster of desks.
Scowling, Heero watched the two girls. BAKA! The girl and BOY, his PARTNER, his BACK-UP, to be exact.
But she. he. whoever it was. whatever it was.
She walked back over to his desk and sat next to him. "Ohayo. I'm Sakura. You're Japanese, aren't you?" she HE asked, loud enough for the students in the surrounding desks to hear
"Nani? O, ya."
"Well, I'm Sakura, that's Japanese for cherry blossom. They're my favorite flower. I'm from New York City though. Can't get much to grow there! 'Cept maybe Central Park. It's huge! It's like blocks and blocks of skyscrapers, and suddenly, you're in the middle of a forest! Ever been there? Well."
She rattled on and on. Heero sweat dropped. It was definitely Duo.
As Duet rattled on about the best stores in the shopping district of Manhattan, she secretly eyed Heero.
He had spent the whole period looking sideways at her, and then during break he had been openly glaring. Her hand self-consciously pulled her coat closed, wondering if the shirt trowa had picked was too revealing.
***Trowa confessed: I've always wanted a sister. you see; I think I used to have one. But now I don't, I have no one to look out for. I left my family to become a killer, just like you. You told me you have a big brother back on L2. Well I think he would want someone to look out for his sis, like I'd want someone to care of my sister.
Now then! How about this shirt? It'll go great with the miniskirt!"
"Are you deranged? It covers nothing! I'm supposed to be wearing a padded bra, remember?"
"You wont need one. Just don't let Heero in while you're dressing."
"TROWA!!!!!!!!!"***
But no. The whole outfit was gorgeous. But Heero was seriously scaring her.
Duet moved closer to Heero as she leaned over his shoulder. "Yo, Hee-chan? Whats wrong? Is it the outfit?" Duet whispered into her partner's ear in her Duo voice.
Heero jerked out of his argument with himself. "What? Iie. It's very good. You fit right in." He said calmly, despite the confusing and irksome emotions running through his head. He motioned towards the group of giggly girls in one corner of the room, who were applying make-up and chatting loudly. Every so often, they would all turn around to look at Heero, and then burst into a new fit of giggles.
Oddly, when he turned back to Duo he saw sheHE was staring at the group longingly.
"Maxwell?" Heero hissed, nudging the girlBOY.
(For those that haven't noticed Heero keeps thinking Duet's a girl then berating himself that sheHE's a BOY, so whenever he uses a pronoun for Duet it'll be sheHE and herHIS, etc.)
"Hmm? O YA!!!!!!!"
You're getting soft Duet chided herself. But what she wouldn't give to be in that clique, have girls to talk to. about what? She snapped to herself. The most efficient way to set thermal detonators in a closed hangar? .Mm, how about clothes and movie stars and BOYS.-"
Duet was torn from her fantasy as Bob re-entered the room. "Listen up class, we're giving a gymnastics demonstration in 2 weeks. Ms. Mackenzie wants to start practicing your routine NOW so you have to get down to the gym PRONTO so you get to skip English lit."
Actually, the whole period was spent doing laps and calisthenics and cartwheels. Duet never broke a sweat, flipping circles around the other girls. Though they were annoyed, the boys all watched with awe, as Heero scowled.
"Why is sheHe flirting with those boys? SheHE is a BOY!" he muttered to himself.
Duet caught the last sentence, and stuck her tongue out at him as she passed. "Just establishing my alias" she smirked coolly. "Wouldn't want them to be suspicious would we? Could endanger the mission."
Heero was about to snap a retort, but Bob appeared at the door. "All right, practice over. Time to hit the showers. And boy do you lot STINK! Hey Alanna," he yelled at the redhead that had befriended Duet "make sure ALL the girls take showers, got it? You boys too, got it Chris? Well I'll be in the classroom.
The rest of the students headed down to the locker rooms, but Duet and Heero looked at each other in dismay.
"Hoe???" Duet managed to croak as Alanna dragged her down to the girls locker room.
Heero's eyes were wide. Before sheHE moved out of his reach he hissed in herHIS ear "Don't blow your cover!"
Duet nodded an affirmative before she was pulled down the steps.
"Hey Alanna? Since I'm new here, can you do me a favor and let me skip showers today?" Duet wheedled, giving the other girl her most pitiful look. "I don't like undressing in front of people."
"O that's all right! You were great today by the way! You know." the redhead chattered away as Duet mentally reminded herself to fake a doctors note saying she had a skin condition or something.
As she entered the locker room the group of girls she had been introduced to back in class welcomed her.
"Hey Sakura!!! You did great!!! Every-"
"You did all right, Yue, but you obviously lack grace." Interrupted a brunette with frosty blue eyes. Her lips curled in a sneer. "I however was exquisite. Did you see how the guys drooled for me? Hmm. that Maxwell Dune seems to like me, too."
"What're you talking about!" Alanna scoffed. "He spent the whole day staring at Sakura!"
Duet blinked. "Hoe?" she said, confused, as the other girls giggled and the brunette scowled.
"Obviously, Max likes you. You're the only one he's talked to all day. Don't listen to Anja, she's jealous." Smirked Alanna.
Duet regained her composure, "I don't know what you're talking about" she said coolly as she brushed passed Anja and made her way to her locker. She changed into her black outfit while the others put on their towels and headed for the showers.
"Hey, Sakura how come you're not showering?" jeered Anja.
Duet sighed inwardly and reminded herself she had a mission. She couldn't afford to kill this insolent girl. yet.
She turned around and slowly walked up to Anja. As sweetly as possible, the professional assassin and espionage agent mustered her self-control. Oddly, she had never had to do that before. Being a girl was ruining her stamina.
"Look, I don't know what you're problem is, and I don't care. But this is really pissing me off. So just stay away from me and-"
A girl interrupted "hey you're eyes are violet! Look, Alanna her eyes are just like yours!"
Duet swiveled around to look closely at Alanna. Upon close observation, she realized the redhead's eyes were indeed a deep violet just like hers.
"Hey she's right!" squealed Alanna. "That's so kewl I thought it only ran in my family! Does it run in yours, too?"
"Nani? O, I don't have a real family. The Yue's adopted me." Duet answered quickly, but she pondered this. Purple eyes weren't exactly common.
"Girls! Get up here!" yelled Ms. Mackenzie
Duet walked up with Alanna and the gang, and they barely made it out of the locker rooms before the boys surrounded them.
"Come on." Urged one boy Duet had been introduced to as George. He pulled Alanna after him as the class headed back to Bob's classroom
"All right, listen up class the juvenile delinquent is back."
"Hoe?" whispered Duet.
"My twin brother. Twins also run in the family. Except he died his hair. same color as yours actually. I haven't seen him in 3 years, he was sent to boarding school."
"YO!!! Didja miss me?" shouted a voice from the door.
"Mr. Trebond you can sit with Mr., Dune and Ms. Yue. Don't blow anything up, okay, kid?" Heero and Duet turned to greet their new desk mate.
What they saw made them choke back their welcome. The whole class grew silent.
Heero stared at the boy before him. He wore black and gray navy fatigues and sunglasses that slipped over his nose to reveal his astonishing violet eyes (Where have we written that before?) His chestnut hair was tied in a short braid reaching halfway down his back.
Even his facial features were the same.
If Duo had not been sitting right next to him, Heero would have thought the boy in the doorway was his partner.
**************************************************************** We do not own Alanna or Thom of Trebond. Nezumi worships the Goddess that is Tamora pierce and we would never deign to steal her characters.
Duet regained her composure. For a second she thought Deuce had found her.
Hold it who was this idiot that looked so much like her brother?
Suddenly Heero's expression caught her eye. Blanching inwardly she realized if this boy looked like her brother he would also look like Duo, her alter ego.
And like herself.
Scanning the room quickly, she saw all eyes were on her, Alanna and this new boy. Alanna had obliviously run up to her brother and was squealing as she hugged him. "Thom, you're back I missed you wadja do to your hair?"
But Thom was staring at the girl at the front of the room, wearing all black and looking stunning. There was something so familiar about her.
He jerked away from his sister and strode to the girls desk. The blue-eyed boy next to her was blinking rapidly, and looked like he was having trouble breathing.
But all he could see was this girl's eyes. Deep violet, the eyes special in his family.
He leaned forward until his nose was almost touching hers. He whipped off his glasses and looked straight into her eyes.
Heero restrained the urge to strangle his partner. He had obviously neglected to mention he had a twin wandering around.
He snapped out of his daze as the new boy walked up to Duo and pushed his face into hers. They looked exactly the same at this angle, the glare in each others eyes reflected in their own.
"Hello pretty lady. You're new here cuz I haven't gone out with ya yet!"
"What do they teach you cheesy pickup lines at your last school?"
"Hey didn't you learn manners, y's'posed ta flirt when your bein' picked up."
"You're delusional"
"Awww, you like me!!!"
"O my what a big head we have."
"Hmm, you're right you should have a doctor look at that."
They bantered back and forth for a while. Alanna had forgotten her elation at her brother's return and was watching the conversation with the rest of the class. Sakura looked more like her twin than she herself did.
Bob found his voice again. "Thom Trebond you can sit right there. ummm. where were we???"
"We were debating on whether or not Romefeller's peace proposal between the OZ faction in Colony L9 would work." Duet answered coolly.
"Hmm? O right."
Now that the shock of seeing two identical strangers worn off, the class resumed discussing the topic.
However the second they were dismissed the class flocked around Sakura and the Trebonds.
Whisper Mutter "Oh, wow you could be triplets, if Sakura's hair been red we would have seen it right away are they related Sakura's an orphan maybe."Whisper.
Heero ignored the buzz of conversation and pulled his partner out of the classroom, while Alanna shouted after them and the whole class followed them.
All through class he had noticed Duo and Thom sneaking looks at each other and was positive they knew each other.
"Baka!" Heero snapped at Duet after they lost the crowd. "Why didn't you tell me you had relatives here? This could endanger the mission!"
"I don't HAVE relatives . just my twin." Duet trailed off.
"Twin! You have a twin!" Heero hissed. "How can you NOT be related to them!?"
"Look I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie and I'm telling you: I have no relatives but my twin. We were found as infants on L2 then when we were old enough, we were kicked out on the street. I've got nobody THAT I KNOW OF. But I must have had parents and they musta bin Trebonds, kay? Let it go!"
Heero was stunned. He watched herHIM storm away, flicking herHIS long hair at a passing car. Duo was really annoying and often got people pissed off at him, but he had never snapped at anyone. Not even Wufei could faze the jester that was pilot 02.
This mission.
No, this identity was doing something to herHIM. AAUUGGHH he was still thinking like that! And if herHIS appearance was freaking him out, think what it must do to Duo.
Duet stormed out of school grounds and crashed into a boy.
"Sorry." He apologized as she picked herself up and looked at him.
"You!!!" they both cried out at the same time.
Then, as one, they burst out laughing.
"Hi." The boy said, after they had quieted a bit. "we haven't been properly introduced. I'm Trebond. Thom Trebond. And you, pretty lady?"
Duet managed to control herself. What was wrong with her? She had never laughed for real before. And suddenly she couldn't hold back her joy. She had no idea who this was but he felt like the big brother she had left behind on L2. "Sakura Yue. Ya know, we have the whole school talking about us by now!"
"I know. So, I figure we're related, neh?"
"Mmmm, mebbe. I'm an orphan as I told your sister. I never knew my parents."
"Oh? I'm so sorry."
"Don't be. I've been getting along fine. What about you? How did you end up in boarding school?"
"Eh he he he." Thom had never told anyone this but his sister, but this girl that he barely knew seemed more his sister than Alanna did. "Ummm, long story."
Duet shrugged. "I have all the time in the world."
Thom gave her a little half-smile. "I had a dream I was on L2. I was running hard, and a bunch of people were shooting at me. I escaped into an abandoned building, one with Death's Lair graffitied all over it with huge bright violet eyes glaring down from the ceiling."
He didn't hear Duets gasp as she remembered the day her gang had found their new hideout. and grafittied it with her logo.
"I collapsed onto a ratty red sofa."
Red with blue streaks on the back.
"And I was picking up a picture with two kids in it."
Flimsy, not holograph.
"Of me and a girl with violet eyes and chestnut pigtails."
Me and Deuce.
Who looked exactly like you Thom didn't finish. "I've had this dream for years, where I'm someone else, a kid from L2. Actually I can be someone else for a while too now. I've done it with my sister lots of times. But I cant make that one go away. So I applied for a psychic school. They deal with a lot of things, including this. My buddy Syaoran and his girlfriend. Sakura. can manipulate elements."
Card Captor Sakura references belong to CLAMP, zekk is from Star Wars: young jedi knights. Nezumi owns nothing.
Duet remembered Zekk back home. He could do that. Sister Helen had called him afflicted.
"I learned to control it. I even talked to the guy. His name is Deuce."
Deuce.
"But he wouldn't talk to me after that. All he told me was go home. Every night." Thom shrugged "So I did."
Duet's heart ached as she thought of her brother. And this Thom person, who was he that he could talk to her brother when she could not?
Subconsciously, she leaned her head on Thom's shoulder, and he put an arm around her to support her weight.
"But he told me about one more thing."
no he didn't tell him. duet trembled uncontrollably.
"Once, a long time ago, he had a sister that ran away from him."
Please he cannot know. duet felt tears she had not shed in over five years forming in her eyes.
"Named Duet."
Now, for the traditional chat with the muses! ^_^ Chibi duo: scuse Nezumi-dat-was-fowmahly-shina Chibi wufei: she hasn't been able to write for nearly a year Chibi trowa: since then, her style and tastes have changed dramatically Now that our little apology is out of the way, Nezumi greets old and new reviewers alike: Hello and thank you for reading our pitiful excuse for a story! Criticism is greatly appreciated! Chibi duo: smart. You start again right befowe mid-yeawh exams an' repowte cawdes? Shush you. Remember what happens when you scoff at us? Chibi wufei: stop speaking in third person or plural onna!
Nezumi has just realized she can't think of anything funny anymore. Perhaps we need new muses?
Oh, and we own nothing, if we haven't mentioned it already. Well, just a Gundam Wng/ Duo/ 1x2 300 slide Microsoft Powerpoint Slideshow. ^_^ R+R=Chapter 3! Oh, and we shall not update until we get at least 7 reviews. 5? 3? Any? Please?