New Things
Anime Redneck
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Chapter Ten
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He took the chair and moved it to the brown haired girls bed, then went and checked on the Tenshi. He knew how Reicheru was doing, from Duo, so he wanted to make sure the Tenshi was fine before he sat down to wonder about the brown haired... err why they were there and just showed up out of no where in a flash of light. The Tenshi was fine, seemingly in a peaceful sleep, so he went back and sat at the brown haired ones bed.

Where did they come from? Did they all come from the same place? Why don't they all have wings? And who's the Tenshi? Whose this one... his thoughts trailed as he looked at her sleeping face. It had, like with the others, scrapes and bruises, little bandages here and there covering up the bad ones, she had a few really bad ones on her legs the doc had said, nothing broken just bruised and cut.

He turned from her looking around the room. Too plain, too white. He thought scanning the area for something to read. Should have brought something... or asked Duo for his book... He got up and headed to the other room and grabbed a magazine, he turned and headed back to his chair.

Once he sat down he noticed what he had grabbed. 'Hunters Sports' he mentally smirked, they had a lot of things to read about in that one, guns, ammo, places to hunt, not that they had a lot of time for that, but they made time. So the duration of his 'watch' was spent reading 'til Quatre came to relive him.

Four hours later there was a light shaking on his shoulders. He had fallen asleep reading the magazine. "Trowa... Trowa wake up... It's my turn, you need to get to bed Trowa, and it's 12am... Trowa?" a soft voice called out.

Sluggishly the olive eyed boy slowly opened his eyes, blinking them a few times to get the sleep out of them. He looked around before settling on Quatre's blue-green eyes. "Quatre?" he asked quietly.

He nodded. "Yes, it's me. Come on, it's my turn to watch them now. You need your sleep." He whispered back, Trowa nodded getting up to go. "Uhh, Trowa?"

Trowa turned around looking at Quatre with a questioningly look.

"Have any awoken besides Miss. Reicheru when Duo was in here?" he asked, Trowa shook his head 'no'. Quatre nodded. "Okay then, see you in the morning." He gave him a small wave as he walked out the door before sitting down by the brown haired girl Trowa had been sitting by.

He unlike Trowa had borrowed Duo's gameboy. He turned the sound off and started playing; it was a really old game they had played a long time ago, he didn't check the gameboy when he grabbed it he just took whatever was in it. Luckily it was Mario Brothers, and that one he knew how to play.

He sat there playing, his ears alert for any sound from any of them. He heard a few groans and the such, but no one awoke, besides the groans, everyone seemed to be having a peaceful sleep, so just went on playing the gameboy.

Three hours pass quickly, soon came 3am and found Heero leaning against the doorframe watching him. Shaking his head, he cleared his throat startling Quatre, he almost smirked. Almost.

"Oh Heero! It's your turn already?" he asked.

Heero just nodded. "Hn."

Quatre sighed, it was a lost cause trying to get him to say anything. "Alright then. See you in the morning. Take care!" he waved and walked out still playing the gameboy, never missing a turn in the hallways.

Heero moved silently as was his way, easing his frame into a chair. He glanced around for a few moments. Checking out each injured woman. Studying them a brief glance before shifting towards the winged one, she was far more interesting than the rest. Well that's what he told himself anyway... it was the wings, but he wouldn't entirely be truthful to himself.

As he watched her, he noticed she seemed to be in a peaceful sleep, every now and then she'd slightly turn her head as her brow furrowed in? He didn't know what from... nightmare... thought or even pain. Pain was something that never bothered him. The only things that got to him was the braided baka known as Duo. He annoyed him.

She, the Tenshi was a puzzle to him. At the battle she released a massive attack... or so it looked liked to him... then she fainted. See, that's the part that kept playing in his mind, was the battle. From the fall alone, the others were knocked out, almost in Reicheru's case.

But that's what bothered him. Not that he'd admit it to anyone, but from the drop alone she should have passed out; she didn't pass out 'til the attack. To him she seemed the strongest of them, yet looked the weakest. He couldn't figure that one out. Nor did he really want to. It wasn't any of his concern. Yet to his dismay, he kept staring at her trying to figure it out. He sat there and studied her, took this time to really get to look at her.

She had an angelic face, light peach colored skin, silvery-blonde hair, with her bangs hanging in her face, the ones in the middle making a heart shape she had soft black lashes that he was sure circled beautiful eyes. The thing about her that he didn't quite didn't understand were her wings. Angelic white wings that his fingers ached to touch to see if they were real and soft as he imagined they were. He grimaced as he looked at the one that was bandaged, having spots of light red where the nurses couldn't get all the blood off from her broken joint.

This time she didn't moan, she still felt sore but better since she had that aspirin. Her headache was gone. Fluttering her eyes open to stare at the ceiling a while before looking around. There was that one girl... the one who was fighting. She didn't rightfully know her name but she was or had to be friends with that one she tried to push to safety. She looked as beat up as she.

"Boy... we both went through hell..."

Heero's head snapped from his Tenshi. My Tenshi? Nande kuso!? he shook his head ridding of the thought. Who was that? he wondered getting up and leaning over the bed to pull the curtain back.

He stared at the other girl, Reicheru. He blinked, "Hn." before sitting back down. "Your awake."

This man worked on her nerves a bit by the way he was acting. Now her strength was moderately back, she eased to a sitting position, holding onto her ribs so not to jar the soreness, "Gee... your observant..." she noticed how he was setting by the winged one. She looked oddly familiar but she wasn't sure. Flinching from a brief spasm of pain washing over her.

Heero noticed her flinching but didn't show any signs of it, instead he looked back at the Tenshi. "Do you need a doctor?" he asked in monotone raising his eyes to look at her, but not moving his head.

Wincing slightly at the pain in her ribs. Once more glancing at this new man. "Who might you be?" she felt like death warmed over and she was demanding answers. He rankled her for how unfeeling he was towards her.

He looked up. "Heero Yuy."

"...I'm Reicheru Young." man why wouldn't the hurt in her middle stop. It ached and pained her. She noticed finally that he never once left the Tenshi's side. That caused her to smirk, but she still held a vision of dark blue cobalt blue... yeah that was it... eyes... sienna hair with a handsome face dancing in her mind's eye.

Heero barley nodded to her, looking down again. "Where are you from?" He didn't really care; he really wanted to know where the Tenshi was from... he mentally sighed... but the doctor said to be nice... so he was forced to.

"Well... when I find out... I'll report it to you" she was testy due to her pains and his attitude. Right now he seemed to anger her a bit. Desperately wishing that Duo would come back in here. At least she was up and about. She brought her legs over to the side of the bed. Holding her head at the siege of dizziness that overwhelmed her.

Heero looked up raising an eyebrow but said nothing. After a minute of staring at her, the corner of his mouth slightly twitching from humor or nerves she couldn't tell. He didn't rightly know himself. This one onna, Reicheru, was being a smartass with him, he didn't mind that much though, he was used to it from Duo. "Do you know them?" he nodded to the Tenshi and the bed behind Reicheru.

Looks up towards him with blinking eyes, "That one there," pointing to the brown haired one "I truly don't know but that one with the wings" pointing towards the angel like girl "Looks vaguely familiar to me..." scratching her head a bet, willing her mind to remember what was briefly forgotten.

At the mention of the Tenshi looking 'vaguely familiar' to her he raised a eyebrow again, interested in knowing more about her, the other one too, but this one, the Tenshi peaked his curiosity... a little. "We don't know this one or the others name. But the others have taken to calling her 'Tenshi' for now." he said. Or forever the voice in his mind said softly.

Heero mentally groaned. Go away! he ordered.

I'll never go away and you know it! But, I'll shut up for a while. it said causing Heero to slightly smirk. One that if you weren't looking at him closely you wouldn't notice it. He shook his head slightly looking back to Reicheru. "How does Tenshi look familiar to you?"

"She... she looked like the girl Usagi that befriended me this morning... or what I think was morning" she was growing more confused by the second, "but... she doesn't have wings..." she was thinking she was loosing her mind, going totally loony seeing wings on a woman, especially one that was a friend.

Heero nodded. He knew what a drop from that height could do. Self destructing Zero let him learn that, but many times the pain she felt. "Hn."

A few minutes of silence passed, each thinking they're own thoughts before Heero broke it. "Without wings she looks the same then?" he was thinking about when she was wearing different cloths... she had changed from them to how she is now... that part to, confused him.

"What do you mean?" her gaze directed towards him. The gaze itself thought of how nutty he was sounding. It made no sense to her of what he was talking about, "Please explain what you're talking about."

Heero shifted his eyes to look at the Tenshi, then back to her. "Think about it." He paused never looking away from her. "Look at her and picture her without wings in your mind, close your eyes. What do you see? Without wings, does she look like your friend?" he asked a bit softer, still in monotone.

Looking as if he grew horns or something, "Ok" murmuring as she closed her eyes as she concentrated. Picturing the girl with wings as Usagi... the realization startled her as her eyes flew open. "I'll beh ... 'tis Usagi, Oh My Lord..." she looked dazed and slightly put out of place.

Heero nodded, his thoughts correct about them being the same. Looks can be deceiving. He thought, wondering if he should tell her of what he saw. He decided to wait, 'til they were all together, like they decided. "Usagi, is her name? Bunny." He gave a slight smirk before leaving the room.

Returning moments later with two cans of Dr. Pepper, handing her one. "Here." He had seen Duo in the hall and hoped he wouldn't come bother him.

Slipping her fingers over the can to reach over with her other to pop the tab, lifting it to her lips as she tilted her head back to drink the bubbly liquid. It felt good to taste soda again. She could feel it burn her throat as it went down.

"Hey hey hey!" came Duo's loud voice from a few feet outside the door. Heero growled glaring at him through the door, then at him as he came in. "Hey wha- oh... sorry." He said in a quiet hush. It was now 7:30 in the morning. He had come to see how Heero was holding up being up so long without sleep would mess with anyone. But knowing that he was the 'Perfect Solider' figured it wouldn't bother him. He was stubborn and didn't rest like Quatre pleaded with him while he wasn't on watch, so he had been up since early this morning.

Now he walks in immediately forgetting that there's people sleeping in here, earns a growl and glare from Heero, but gets a surprise in Reicheru being awake. The growl and still on going glare forgotten he turns to her. "Mornin' sunshine! How'd ya sleep?" he inquired smiling.

The smile she seemed to gift him was filled with warmth and pleasure of seeing him. "Like tha dead." sort of giggles from her choice of words, Heero and his questions now pushed to the furthest region of her mind. Her eyes seemed to dance at the sight of Duo. He was much better than the quiet non-human. Wow... that's what he put into her mind... being a robot... non-human... she shook that thought out of her head. "I feel much better."

Duo's smile brightened. "Great! Oh hey! I told the Doc to get some Advil and throw away the yucky-gonna-chock-on' Aspirin. So you'll probably like those better. Uhh..." glances at Heero then back to Reicheru, "If you feel like walking and eating, there's chow down stairs and I can show you around, if you want. Quatre even set up a room for you all when you're feeling better for it." he grinned hoping she would, didn't seem Heero was being great company.

"That sounds great" quick to reply, she almost jumped off the bed but her body protested against her wants. Slashing her lids down hard, gritting over the pain in her insides. She almost toppled back to bed but braced herself on the edges of the bed. She gave Duo a bright smile but her eyes dulled a bit with pain, not even the growling of her stomach would let her not rest anymore. It demanded food, and demanded it now. "I need help ifin' you please Duo."

He grimaced a bit at the pain she was goin' through. It really did suck being hurt like that. He chuckled lowly, smiling brightly. "Hey sure thing! Always love helping a lady in distress! Or..." chuckles "in your case pain. But uh... a pretty lady like yous great to help any day!" he tried to quickly cover up his mistake.

Her cheeks bloomed into a nice shade of red for being called a pretty lady. It warmed her stomach but it was still demanding food. Glad for Duo's help. Why was she being so shy, she was never shy before in her life. Strange but unable to keep her eyes off him as he helped her.

Heero watched them from the corner of his eye, silently rolling them at Duo's antics, as he watched the sleeping Tenshi's face scrunch up with... Shimatta. He silently thought because he didn't know what it was scrunching up in. He thought it was doing that 'cause of the pain, but a Tenshi shouldn't have to go through that, so, he hoped it was thought, or a dream.

Duo linked his right arm around Reicheru's back and held her by her side as she put her left arm up over his left shoulder holding on to him, not wanting to go through another spell of almost falling. Duo smiled brightly before turning to Heero. "Hey man, you want anything? I can bring something back, you haven't eaten in a long while." His voice held some concern, he annoyed the guy and they 'fought' but, he didn't not like him. Heero shook his head 'no' and Duo sighed slightly. "Alright bro." he turned to Reicheru, "Come on babe! Lets go grab some grub!"

"That sounds great, I'm starved." to contribute to that fact her belly gave a loud grumbling sound. The roar of her stomach made her flush from embarrassment then shook it away. She was injured after all and hasn't ate in a long time. If others didn't like it... too bad. With his hands firmly on her back, she felt safe in his arms. Odd she never felt that way with any man and she did with this stranger. Sighing to herself not wishing to dwell on it. He was pleasing company.

"Uugghhhhh... Shimatta semi's... gotta learn... to stay on the road!" a slightly pissed off and painful moan came from the bed on the far side of the room, eyes never opening, head slightly turning from side to side.

Duo turned his head quickly, making sure not to turn his body, so he wouldn't hurt Reicheru any more then she was. Heero's head snapped up staring at the other onna and Reicheru slowly turned her head to the girl she knew as Jupiter, but not looked a civilian; thinking she knew how she felt as the pain in her side decided to remind her every over move she made.

Heero looked at Duo and nodded. "Yea, sure thing man, I'll get Trowa in here. Then YOU can go get something to eat and some sleep" mumbles "and a shower." At Heero's glare Duo made a wise decision to get out while the getting was good. "Well! Uhh... come on Reicheru, lets get there before they eat it all!" with that Duo and Reicheru quickly but carefully made their way from the room, leaving Heero with the Tenshi and other onna.

Turning towards the waking woman, she eyed her closely remembering how she helped push the winged one... Well I should call her Winged Usagi for now that I thought about it, they had the same aura. I sent the girl my sympathy. I knew the pain would be great. With my hand clutched around Duo we proceeded to go down the steps to the main hall. The place was impressive, I took this time to study Duo's visage. He was good looking and from the faint crinkles around his eyes and mouth I could tell he was one who liked to have a good time. He seemed to have a good heart to him. After all he was helping her was he not.