~ New Things ~
Chapter 16
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"Okay and this is a problem??" Usagi asked confused, obviously since she was the leader and princess, he decided to talk to her about it. She mentally shrugged, 'That's how it usually works I guess. Time to get used to it.' "What disks are you talking about Heero-kun?"
"He's talking about the ones we were ordered to get our last mission, the one where you three showed up at. They hold information about new Gundams and their pilots..." he trailed off looking at them all. "That's what we had to talk about. We think you should all meet some of our... acquaintances."
Usagi looked confused, "What's a Gundam? Those big robot thingies I saw before passing out?" Quatre nodded. "Oh, well umm, okay I guess." She looked to the others for their approval or disapproval.
Makoto nodded. "Yea sure if it helps to start bringing peace to this world. Hai." Makoto and Usagi looked to Reicheru.
"Got me... I'm game." smiling quickly towards Makoto and Usagi before looking at the others with a goofy grin. Hell it sounded like fun, not like she had much fun before. "What names exactly was on these disks? I'm curious... and I wanna see the disks." Looking at Makoto and Usagi to see if they agreed with her. How did they know it wasn't some hoax or lie... she was being cautious.
"Hai, that's a good question Rei-chan. Minna, what *were* the names on those disks, and can we see them?" Usagi asked the guys.
The others looked at each other then at Heero. "Hn."
Trowa spoke. "The names were... Elghinyrrly Drathir... Quarval-sharess d'Vhid and Quarval-sharess d'Thunder." Was his quiet reply. Usagi nodded and looked to Reicheru. Though it was the names on the disks, still wasn't seeing the disks, but from being around these five, it might be all they got 'til they trusted them more... regardless of what's on those disks.
"That's me alright." of course she would know what those names meant as she snickered. Didn't she often tell her American friends to call her Chaos or something along that lines... She looked to the other two to see if they knew what the names meant.
Makoto nodded grinning. "That's my name alright. Betcha wonderin' why to huh?" the guys nodded some didn't give a flip. "Well watch me fight and find out!" she tilted her head to the side a moment winked and looked to Usagi.
"Huh what? Why are you looking at me for?" She looked lost and that just made Makoto and Reicheru snicker shaking their heads. "OHHHHH! You mean the name thing?" they nodded, "Oh yea, you should see the terror I can cause. Fighting wise? Umm, yeah don't mess with me." She grinned devilishly then put on an innocent face. The guys looked at her raising their eyebrows at her questioningly, she only gave them a smile.
Reicheru was doing her best not to laugh at them all. It was quite funny. Duo was curious though... he'd asked her since she was close to him. Due to him sitting next to her "Um... what does yours mean?" Reicheru cast a sly wink his way "Well God of Death... yeh just met the Goddess of Chaos".
Duo's eyes widen but he was entranced and amazed with amusement in those depths. Oh he liked that. God of Death with the Goddess of Chaos a good combination in his book. He leaned back with a crooked silly grin on his lips... the others were curious of what got him smiling like that... it didn't bode well.
Usagi had a slight clue on what it was about, being both their nicknames brought about chaos and all. You couldn't count her out there... It's not like her own nickname, Quarval-sharess d'Suingmc Drathir, didn't mean she wasn't a troublemaker, just more of the jokester of them all. A nut basically. She grinned to herself before looking back to the others which still held a confused look from Duo's grin. "What?"
Most shook their heads retaining their confused looks or glares in some cases. "Umm, well... I'll call our friends tonight and let them know we'll be on our way tomorrow then... guess everyone can go do whatever now." He wasn't too sure what he was going to do now, it was only around one pm and they had the whole day ahead of them.
He thought for a minute, an idea had come to him, he knew he'd get it later on for this, but seeing as how it's how found her and everything... he tried keeping himself from smiling. "Uhh, Usagi-chan, why doesn't Heero take you and show you around for the day, ne?" he was looking at Usagi as she nodded, then to Heero who was sending him a death glare. 'Yep, I'll be paying for this later.' Quatre thought as he kept smiling.
"Oh come on Heero, your not doing anything today and the only one free... just do it, come on please??" he gave him his puppy dogface. He knew it wasn't entirely true... Sure Duo would be spending time with Reicheru drawing or something, Trowa was still showing Makoto around, Wufei... well Wufei would probably be in one of the practice rooms and he had to work on Sandrock... so in order to keep the Tenshi- er Usagi busy, and the fact Heero really needed to be more social, he thought this was a good idea... a 'I'm-gonna-get-you-for-this-later' kinda thing, but hey he didn't have another choice.
Heero thought about it for a minute sending Quatre one of his Death Awaits You glares, barely moving his eye to look at Tenshi, she seemed to like the idea, eager to be shown around. 'She likes you.' Came a monotone perky voice from his head. 'Go away.' He didn't want to deal with that shimatta voice now... Or ever.
'I told you I can't! Chikusho man, you think you'd know that by now. But you like her don't you?' the voice questioned snickering. 'No, I don't. Now go away.' Heero responded. 'You know I think Wufei over there likes her too.' It said thoughtfully. Heero almost raised an eyebrow at that comment but chose to ignore the voice any further. With a slight nod of his head and a "Hnn." He agreed with Quatre.
"Cool! Arigatou Heero-kun! This'll be fun! Think we can go drive around like Rei-chan and Duo did?? Do you have a park we can go to? I love the parks... OH! What about a arcade!? You've *gotta* have one of those right!? RIGHT!?" Usagi cheered loudly shooting off questions left and right. Causing everyone to look at her. She noticed. "Whaaaat?"
Reicheru was laughing gently towards the questions that Usagi was shooting off towards a somber and sullen Heero. She had to practically cover a certain longhaired braided man's mouth shut for he was about to comment. No use in allowing him to get into trouble. She stood up dragging a bewildered Duo in her wake to save him from being himself, "Let's finish this picture."
Usagi laughed as she watched her sister drag a muffled laughing and protesting Duo up the kitchen stairs and to her room to finish a picture pose he was doing. She was about to yell something to them when she heard Wufei make a snorting sound then mumble, "And you call yourself a fighter... right... your weak and childish... you can't be a fighter. It's injustice and dishonorable to wear such things to fight in."
Usagi stood up slowly and surprisingly gracefully, not bumping into anything or hurting her wing as she had when she sat down. Her eyes as she moved were changing; the blue in them had swirls of silver, giving her eyes an eerie appearance.
As she calmly put both her hands on the table she looked at everyone minus the two that scuttled away up stairs, before leaning over to Wufei who was now glaring at her, a hand resting on his katana, she knew he wasn't scared of her, he was waiting to see if she'd fight him and maybe she would. She knew it wouldn't be right to do it now, not when she was this pissed off. Oh noo, when she was like this there wasn't any telling what she'd do to someone, she herself didn't rightly know what she'd do either, no one had ever gotten her this mad before. Her wings had taken on a silvery hue as she leaned about a foot from Wufei's face.
Studying him silently before speaking. "I. Have never. In my two lives. Heard anyone grip about 'weak onna's' and 'injustice' as much as you have today Chang Wufei..." she stopped trying to gather her thoughts and calm a little. "I tell you this now Chang Wufei. If you ever, call me, my sister, or Mako-chan a 'weak onna' again. I swear on the Goddess Selene, that I will let them go at you. And go at you in Senshi form."
Taking a calming breath, "You do *not* call a onna 'weak' without knowing if it's true or not, and I for one, *sure* the hell won't stand for it." she leaned a bit closer to him, "Do you even know what my nickname means?" everyone shook their heads as Wufei just sat there keeping eye contact with her. You never turn your back or eyes away from your opponent or enemy, right now, that's what he thought of her as.
"'Quarval-sharess d'Suingmc Drathir' means 'Goddess of Silly Moon' 'cause I can be quite silly and a goof as you all know." She said lightly in her normal happy voice looking around the table, they all nodded. Then she looked back to Wufei, her voice a cold monotone like Heero's, "Then there's the other name I told you about, Elghinyrrly Drathir, which means 'Deadly Moon'. Why you might be wondering I've been given that name?" she paused, "Well you all might get a chance to find out if this one keeps it up. I'm warning you Wufei, do not call us 'weak' again until you've seen us fight, then and *only* then, will you have grounds on which to speak."
She leaned back, closed her eyes, took a deep breath opening her eyes and smiled at them all. Her eyes had gone back to normal and the silver hue her wings had taken on had returned to the normal white iridescent color they were before.
She smiled like nothing had happened. Everyone else were lost in they're thoughts, each wondering just what kinda power and abilities she held, how mad she could get and some wondering if she was serious about what she told Wufei, along with other questions that were starting to form in their heads.
Heero was now more intrigued with her then before. He had never seen anyone with a spine like that willing to challenge or order Wufei around. But she was right, he did go on too much about 'weak onna's' and 'injustice'. Heero himself was indifferent to it all. If they wanted to fight then so be it, but they better be sure the side they fought for was the right one 'less they end up meeting the wrong end of his Buster Rifle.
"Well now that this little meeting is over, I'm gonna head up to my room for a little bit, umm... Heero?"
He looked up from his thinking. "Hn."
"Will you be in here or somewhere else I already know in like say... ten minutes? So you can show me around?" she asked then added, "Which I really appreciate by the way!!"
He nodded. "Hn."
"Okay thanks Heero-kun!! Ja ne Minna!" she waved and winked at Wufei and Heero as she slowly made her way up the stairs and to her room, promptly falling on the bed with a sigh, leaving the others to their business.
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Wufei was lucky that she didn't hear him. Or Reicheru would give him something to think about, more among the lines of her fist into his mouth. But she didn't so she continued to drag Duo up the stairs. He was still protesting about wanting to tease and torment Heero. Reicheru just shook her head laughing, it was scary how she knew this man right quick. "I know Duo... and consider this your rescue attempt." Snickers of laughter escaping. He beamed at her closely following "Awww you care!" Shaking her head mumbling "Shut up!" Duo knew she was joking with her of course. Before she knew it he scooped her up in his arms nuzzling his face to her cheek. "Awww my hero... my umm... female knight in shining armor here to rescue me." Reicheru was laughing hysterically shoving at him "Put me down now... you're such a goof."
"Take me up to the room goofy."
"Your wish is my every command for saving thy life," He knew he was being silly but she was so much fun to be with. Carrying her easily up the stairs in no time and towards her room. "Um... Reicheru can I ask you something?"
"Um sure Duo... shoot."
"What do the other's name mean?" Asking her hoping she won't deny the information he wanted.
"Well I told you mine... Quarval-sharess d is Goddess of... so Makoto is Goddess of Thunder... Usagi is Goddess of Silly Moon... Elghinyrrly means Deadly... does that help?"
"Yes... but how in the world do you know all this?"
She just grinned and patted his cheek. "Now that's a secret."
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Heero sat on the same couch he had for the 'Firing Squad' as Makoto had jokingly put it. They were a strange bunch he thought. They were so different yet so a like. They were all strange and goofy. Yet, that's about all he could say about them being the same. Different wise, well... that was pretty obvious.
Reicheru loved to draw and was outspoken. Makoto was outspoken, hot tempered quick to fight and loved martial arts. Tenshi... he wasn't sure what she liked. He knew she could be the happiest hyper person he'd ever seen, then turn around when someone got on her nerves enough or challenged her or fought with her and be almost exactly like him. That thought in itself was kind of... what would Duo say... weird? Scary? He'd probably think it scary if he'd seen her. Having two 'Perfect Soldiers' around to threaten him would be funny. But Tenshi wasn't the 'Perfect Soldier,' she was a tenshi... to everyone.
He glanced to the stairs, no one was coming. The advantage to sitting on this couch was you could see into the kitchens staircase, the one by the front door and the hallway that led to the other wings of the house and practice room. He didn't need to look around to make sure no one would interrupt his thoughts; he was after all trained for anything, his hearing being better then most others. He was wondering if the Tenshi could really do all she said she could. 'Would she really let her Senshi fight Wufei transformed? Would *she* actually fight him.' He shook his head. 'It'd be fun to see someone kick Wufei's butt for once. Though Duo would never let him live it down if he got beat by a girl.' He smirked.
He watched the kitchen stairs from the corner of his eye as he heard a voice coming from them, from the sound of it they, whoever it was, was up at the top of them coming down and was... talking to themselves... or... singing... he kept his head down listening to the words of it... a song he'd never heard before...
"Under a lovers sky... Gonna be with you... And no ones gonna be around... You think that you won't fall... Well just wait until 'til the sun goes down... Underneath the starlight starlight there's a magical feelin' so right... It'll steal your heart tonight! You can try, to resist, just to hide from my kiss but you know, but you know that you can't fight the moonlight. Deep in the dark you surrender your heart, but you know, but you know that you, can't fight the moonlight nooo, you can't fight it, it's gonna get to your heart..."
Usagi stopped singing at the kitchen doorway to the living room, not having bothered to look up at all and noticed Heero sitting there. 'He's so quiet and withdrawn... I wonder why?' she thought before smiling to him. "Konnichi wa Heero-kun! O-genki desu ka?" she asked walking over and sitting across from him on the other couch.
"Hn." He gave a slight nod.
"Well that's nice to hear. Always the talkative one aren't you?" she stared at him a minute when he didn't say anything. "You know if you talked anymore I'd have to tape your mouth shut." He raised an eyebrow towards her making her laugh. "Oh come on Heero! I know you talk both English and Japanese and I'm sure some other languages I don't know..." she scratched her head, "So... come on... out with it... onegai? You gotta talk sometime... I'll make you talk if you don't!" she gave him an evil grin.
'That doesn't look good... looks like one of Duo's before he gets a idea to do something.' He thought looking at her angelic face that held a evil mischievous grin on it. "Maybe I don't want to."
Usagi stared at him, then acted like she passed out on her left side since her right wing still hurt when touched. She brought a hand to her forehead. "I can't believe it... he... he said a FULL sentence!!" with that she sat up smiling. "SEE! I knew you could talk! Wow. Now to keep you talking."
Heero smirked. 'Sounds like a challenge to me.' Watching her; she had a thought full look on her face, her eyes simi glazed like trying to figure something out. "Lets go." He stood up waiting for her.
"Go where?"
He just stared at her.
"Ummm... oh yeah! To show me around, ne?" she stood up waiting for him to lead the way. "So where we goin' first?" she watched as he shrugged took her hand and led the way on what would become a two hour tour of Quatre's mansion and surrounding grounds.
Usagi mainly loved the gardens and the thought that they had a large almost Olympic size covered swimming pool out in the back yard, if you could call it that. The land that the Mansion sits on is a total of three hundred acres. Most, she was actually told this by him, was open land with trails and such they could go on with the bikes and what not, those she hadn't seen yet. He took her by some of the orchards that were planted, Peach, Apple, and Cherry trees in one, different kinds of grapes in another, and the gardens held foods of all kinds. She loved that fact since she was hungry all the time.
Next Heero took her to the garage, which he showed her the mountain bikes, motorcycles, 4x4's, cars and trucks that they all had. He pointed out which was whose of the mountain bikes, motorcycles and 4x4's... wasn't really hard to notice though, they all had the same colors that their Gundams had; she didn't know that though, though she has seen them, she doesn't know who pilots which. Then he pointed out the trucks.
"That's Duo's Ford." He didn't even have to point to it with the 'SHINIGAMI' on the windshield, it was a black Ford F250, 4x4, Crew Cab that had a 6" lift kit with mud tires on it.
"Trowa's." he had a Navy Blue, Chevy 2500 HD, Crew Cab, 4x4, that had a 6" lift kit with all train mud tires on it. In the bottom left corner of his back window she noticed had the little Heavyarms shooting and stepping on the Ford logo, she thought that was quite funny.
"Quatre's." he said. She noticed that after he said it and looking to his left a little the sides of his mouth started to twitch, she didn't know why 'til she looked. She looked and didn't believe her eyes, she could make out a shadow of a truck that stood a good five foot off the ground with tires as tall as she and just as wide as she was tall. Besides that she couldn't see what it was.
"Heero-kun, what is it? I can't tell..." she peered up at him before back to the 'truck' as far as she could tell.
Heero, the sides of his mouth starting to twitch walked over to a far wall and flicked on a light and smirked when he heard her "WWOOOOOOWWWWWWW!! THAT'S HIS!!?? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!" echo throughout the garage.
He walked back over and nodded his head. "Hn."
Usagi's eyes were huge in surprise. She didn't think that Quatre 'The Innocence' would drive THIS! It was huge! It was indeed five off the ground and the tires were also a foot taller then she was and just as round as they were tall. It was a Midnight Blue Dodge Ram 2500 extended cab, it had a black brush guard with winch, chrome roll bar with five mounted KC lights, and a side step under each door and to top it off on the windshield there was a sticker, much like Duo's 'SHINIGAMI' one, just different words.
She looked at the words on the windshield, "Omae o korosu? I will kill you? Why would he have that on his truck Heero-kun? That's not like Quatre at all..." she turned questioning eyes to him.
Heero looked down to her, still smirking then back to the truck. Usagi followed his glaze; she heard a low chuckling sound looking towards Heero and raised an eyebrow in silent questioning. "'Cause it's not his. It's mine." He watched as her eyes got wider staring at him in awe. "That would be my, 'Toy' as Duo calls it."
Usagi had a fascination with trucks that no one knew about. They just saw her a klutzy crybaby, that didn't wanna learn, they didn't try seeing past that so, what they didn't wanna see, she hid from them. Makoto was the only one that knew about it. She was the only one that didn't shun her for the way she acted. "Wow, that's SO RYOUMI!" she turned to him, "You have GOT to take me riding in that one day!" she grimaced when she hopped a little and grabbed her right side and looked up meekly. "After... my ribs are healed that is."
"Hn." He nodded.
"So if that's actually your 'Toy'... What do you actually drive around? And what's Quatre drive??" she was now really curious. 'If that's his 'Toy' you know he drive a wicked cool truck!' she thought looking around trying to spot one that looked like it would belong to him.
"This ones actually Quatre's." he pointed to a small white iridescent Ford Ranger XLT extended cab.
Usagi looked at it, then to Heero, making sure he wasn't trying to pull anything on her, then back to the truck. "Small, simple... seems Quatre like, ne?" she smiled looking up to him. "Not my cup of tea though, I like THAT one!!" she pointed back to his 'Toy' grinning.
Heero just smirked nodding. They walked down a little more before stopping in front of a Hunter Green GMC 2500 Quad Cab, 4x4 duly. "This is Wufei's."
It wasn't much to look at in her option, kinda like Quatre's... didn't have anything added onto it, no lift kits, no winch, roll bar, head rack, side step, KC lights... no nothing. She looked up expectantly. "Soooo... Where's your regular truck then?" it was the only one he'd yet to point out to her.
They walked over to the far wall and for the first time since she was up, his scowling forever-cold face, showed what might have been a bad attempt at a smile before he spoke, "And this one, is mine."
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Chapter 16
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"Okay and this is a problem??" Usagi asked confused, obviously since she was the leader and princess, he decided to talk to her about it. She mentally shrugged, 'That's how it usually works I guess. Time to get used to it.' "What disks are you talking about Heero-kun?"
"He's talking about the ones we were ordered to get our last mission, the one where you three showed up at. They hold information about new Gundams and their pilots..." he trailed off looking at them all. "That's what we had to talk about. We think you should all meet some of our... acquaintances."
Usagi looked confused, "What's a Gundam? Those big robot thingies I saw before passing out?" Quatre nodded. "Oh, well umm, okay I guess." She looked to the others for their approval or disapproval.
Makoto nodded. "Yea sure if it helps to start bringing peace to this world. Hai." Makoto and Usagi looked to Reicheru.
"Got me... I'm game." smiling quickly towards Makoto and Usagi before looking at the others with a goofy grin. Hell it sounded like fun, not like she had much fun before. "What names exactly was on these disks? I'm curious... and I wanna see the disks." Looking at Makoto and Usagi to see if they agreed with her. How did they know it wasn't some hoax or lie... she was being cautious.
"Hai, that's a good question Rei-chan. Minna, what *were* the names on those disks, and can we see them?" Usagi asked the guys.
The others looked at each other then at Heero. "Hn."
Trowa spoke. "The names were... Elghinyrrly Drathir... Quarval-sharess d'Vhid and Quarval-sharess d'Thunder." Was his quiet reply. Usagi nodded and looked to Reicheru. Though it was the names on the disks, still wasn't seeing the disks, but from being around these five, it might be all they got 'til they trusted them more... regardless of what's on those disks.
"That's me alright." of course she would know what those names meant as she snickered. Didn't she often tell her American friends to call her Chaos or something along that lines... She looked to the other two to see if they knew what the names meant.
Makoto nodded grinning. "That's my name alright. Betcha wonderin' why to huh?" the guys nodded some didn't give a flip. "Well watch me fight and find out!" she tilted her head to the side a moment winked and looked to Usagi.
"Huh what? Why are you looking at me for?" She looked lost and that just made Makoto and Reicheru snicker shaking their heads. "OHHHHH! You mean the name thing?" they nodded, "Oh yea, you should see the terror I can cause. Fighting wise? Umm, yeah don't mess with me." She grinned devilishly then put on an innocent face. The guys looked at her raising their eyebrows at her questioningly, she only gave them a smile.
Reicheru was doing her best not to laugh at them all. It was quite funny. Duo was curious though... he'd asked her since she was close to him. Due to him sitting next to her "Um... what does yours mean?" Reicheru cast a sly wink his way "Well God of Death... yeh just met the Goddess of Chaos".
Duo's eyes widen but he was entranced and amazed with amusement in those depths. Oh he liked that. God of Death with the Goddess of Chaos a good combination in his book. He leaned back with a crooked silly grin on his lips... the others were curious of what got him smiling like that... it didn't bode well.
Usagi had a slight clue on what it was about, being both their nicknames brought about chaos and all. You couldn't count her out there... It's not like her own nickname, Quarval-sharess d'Suingmc Drathir, didn't mean she wasn't a troublemaker, just more of the jokester of them all. A nut basically. She grinned to herself before looking back to the others which still held a confused look from Duo's grin. "What?"
Most shook their heads retaining their confused looks or glares in some cases. "Umm, well... I'll call our friends tonight and let them know we'll be on our way tomorrow then... guess everyone can go do whatever now." He wasn't too sure what he was going to do now, it was only around one pm and they had the whole day ahead of them.
He thought for a minute, an idea had come to him, he knew he'd get it later on for this, but seeing as how it's how found her and everything... he tried keeping himself from smiling. "Uhh, Usagi-chan, why doesn't Heero take you and show you around for the day, ne?" he was looking at Usagi as she nodded, then to Heero who was sending him a death glare. 'Yep, I'll be paying for this later.' Quatre thought as he kept smiling.
"Oh come on Heero, your not doing anything today and the only one free... just do it, come on please??" he gave him his puppy dogface. He knew it wasn't entirely true... Sure Duo would be spending time with Reicheru drawing or something, Trowa was still showing Makoto around, Wufei... well Wufei would probably be in one of the practice rooms and he had to work on Sandrock... so in order to keep the Tenshi- er Usagi busy, and the fact Heero really needed to be more social, he thought this was a good idea... a 'I'm-gonna-get-you-for-this-later' kinda thing, but hey he didn't have another choice.
Heero thought about it for a minute sending Quatre one of his Death Awaits You glares, barely moving his eye to look at Tenshi, she seemed to like the idea, eager to be shown around. 'She likes you.' Came a monotone perky voice from his head. 'Go away.' He didn't want to deal with that shimatta voice now... Or ever.
'I told you I can't! Chikusho man, you think you'd know that by now. But you like her don't you?' the voice questioned snickering. 'No, I don't. Now go away.' Heero responded. 'You know I think Wufei over there likes her too.' It said thoughtfully. Heero almost raised an eyebrow at that comment but chose to ignore the voice any further. With a slight nod of his head and a "Hnn." He agreed with Quatre.
"Cool! Arigatou Heero-kun! This'll be fun! Think we can go drive around like Rei-chan and Duo did?? Do you have a park we can go to? I love the parks... OH! What about a arcade!? You've *gotta* have one of those right!? RIGHT!?" Usagi cheered loudly shooting off questions left and right. Causing everyone to look at her. She noticed. "Whaaaat?"
Reicheru was laughing gently towards the questions that Usagi was shooting off towards a somber and sullen Heero. She had to practically cover a certain longhaired braided man's mouth shut for he was about to comment. No use in allowing him to get into trouble. She stood up dragging a bewildered Duo in her wake to save him from being himself, "Let's finish this picture."
Usagi laughed as she watched her sister drag a muffled laughing and protesting Duo up the kitchen stairs and to her room to finish a picture pose he was doing. She was about to yell something to them when she heard Wufei make a snorting sound then mumble, "And you call yourself a fighter... right... your weak and childish... you can't be a fighter. It's injustice and dishonorable to wear such things to fight in."
Usagi stood up slowly and surprisingly gracefully, not bumping into anything or hurting her wing as she had when she sat down. Her eyes as she moved were changing; the blue in them had swirls of silver, giving her eyes an eerie appearance.
As she calmly put both her hands on the table she looked at everyone minus the two that scuttled away up stairs, before leaning over to Wufei who was now glaring at her, a hand resting on his katana, she knew he wasn't scared of her, he was waiting to see if she'd fight him and maybe she would. She knew it wouldn't be right to do it now, not when she was this pissed off. Oh noo, when she was like this there wasn't any telling what she'd do to someone, she herself didn't rightly know what she'd do either, no one had ever gotten her this mad before. Her wings had taken on a silvery hue as she leaned about a foot from Wufei's face.
Studying him silently before speaking. "I. Have never. In my two lives. Heard anyone grip about 'weak onna's' and 'injustice' as much as you have today Chang Wufei..." she stopped trying to gather her thoughts and calm a little. "I tell you this now Chang Wufei. If you ever, call me, my sister, or Mako-chan a 'weak onna' again. I swear on the Goddess Selene, that I will let them go at you. And go at you in Senshi form."
Taking a calming breath, "You do *not* call a onna 'weak' without knowing if it's true or not, and I for one, *sure* the hell won't stand for it." she leaned a bit closer to him, "Do you even know what my nickname means?" everyone shook their heads as Wufei just sat there keeping eye contact with her. You never turn your back or eyes away from your opponent or enemy, right now, that's what he thought of her as.
"'Quarval-sharess d'Suingmc Drathir' means 'Goddess of Silly Moon' 'cause I can be quite silly and a goof as you all know." She said lightly in her normal happy voice looking around the table, they all nodded. Then she looked back to Wufei, her voice a cold monotone like Heero's, "Then there's the other name I told you about, Elghinyrrly Drathir, which means 'Deadly Moon'. Why you might be wondering I've been given that name?" she paused, "Well you all might get a chance to find out if this one keeps it up. I'm warning you Wufei, do not call us 'weak' again until you've seen us fight, then and *only* then, will you have grounds on which to speak."
She leaned back, closed her eyes, took a deep breath opening her eyes and smiled at them all. Her eyes had gone back to normal and the silver hue her wings had taken on had returned to the normal white iridescent color they were before.
She smiled like nothing had happened. Everyone else were lost in they're thoughts, each wondering just what kinda power and abilities she held, how mad she could get and some wondering if she was serious about what she told Wufei, along with other questions that were starting to form in their heads.
Heero was now more intrigued with her then before. He had never seen anyone with a spine like that willing to challenge or order Wufei around. But she was right, he did go on too much about 'weak onna's' and 'injustice'. Heero himself was indifferent to it all. If they wanted to fight then so be it, but they better be sure the side they fought for was the right one 'less they end up meeting the wrong end of his Buster Rifle.
"Well now that this little meeting is over, I'm gonna head up to my room for a little bit, umm... Heero?"
He looked up from his thinking. "Hn."
"Will you be in here or somewhere else I already know in like say... ten minutes? So you can show me around?" she asked then added, "Which I really appreciate by the way!!"
He nodded. "Hn."
"Okay thanks Heero-kun!! Ja ne Minna!" she waved and winked at Wufei and Heero as she slowly made her way up the stairs and to her room, promptly falling on the bed with a sigh, leaving the others to their business.
~ * ~ Reicheru's POV ~ * ~
Wufei was lucky that she didn't hear him. Or Reicheru would give him something to think about, more among the lines of her fist into his mouth. But she didn't so she continued to drag Duo up the stairs. He was still protesting about wanting to tease and torment Heero. Reicheru just shook her head laughing, it was scary how she knew this man right quick. "I know Duo... and consider this your rescue attempt." Snickers of laughter escaping. He beamed at her closely following "Awww you care!" Shaking her head mumbling "Shut up!" Duo knew she was joking with her of course. Before she knew it he scooped her up in his arms nuzzling his face to her cheek. "Awww my hero... my umm... female knight in shining armor here to rescue me." Reicheru was laughing hysterically shoving at him "Put me down now... you're such a goof."
"Take me up to the room goofy."
"Your wish is my every command for saving thy life," He knew he was being silly but she was so much fun to be with. Carrying her easily up the stairs in no time and towards her room. "Um... Reicheru can I ask you something?"
"Um sure Duo... shoot."
"What do the other's name mean?" Asking her hoping she won't deny the information he wanted.
"Well I told you mine... Quarval-sharess d is Goddess of... so Makoto is Goddess of Thunder... Usagi is Goddess of Silly Moon... Elghinyrrly means Deadly... does that help?"
"Yes... but how in the world do you know all this?"
She just grinned and patted his cheek. "Now that's a secret."
~ * ~ Quatre's Mansion; Down Stairs ~ * ~
Heero sat on the same couch he had for the 'Firing Squad' as Makoto had jokingly put it. They were a strange bunch he thought. They were so different yet so a like. They were all strange and goofy. Yet, that's about all he could say about them being the same. Different wise, well... that was pretty obvious.
Reicheru loved to draw and was outspoken. Makoto was outspoken, hot tempered quick to fight and loved martial arts. Tenshi... he wasn't sure what she liked. He knew she could be the happiest hyper person he'd ever seen, then turn around when someone got on her nerves enough or challenged her or fought with her and be almost exactly like him. That thought in itself was kind of... what would Duo say... weird? Scary? He'd probably think it scary if he'd seen her. Having two 'Perfect Soldiers' around to threaten him would be funny. But Tenshi wasn't the 'Perfect Soldier,' she was a tenshi... to everyone.
He glanced to the stairs, no one was coming. The advantage to sitting on this couch was you could see into the kitchens staircase, the one by the front door and the hallway that led to the other wings of the house and practice room. He didn't need to look around to make sure no one would interrupt his thoughts; he was after all trained for anything, his hearing being better then most others. He was wondering if the Tenshi could really do all she said she could. 'Would she really let her Senshi fight Wufei transformed? Would *she* actually fight him.' He shook his head. 'It'd be fun to see someone kick Wufei's butt for once. Though Duo would never let him live it down if he got beat by a girl.' He smirked.
He watched the kitchen stairs from the corner of his eye as he heard a voice coming from them, from the sound of it they, whoever it was, was up at the top of them coming down and was... talking to themselves... or... singing... he kept his head down listening to the words of it... a song he'd never heard before...
"Under a lovers sky... Gonna be with you... And no ones gonna be around... You think that you won't fall... Well just wait until 'til the sun goes down... Underneath the starlight starlight there's a magical feelin' so right... It'll steal your heart tonight! You can try, to resist, just to hide from my kiss but you know, but you know that you can't fight the moonlight. Deep in the dark you surrender your heart, but you know, but you know that you, can't fight the moonlight nooo, you can't fight it, it's gonna get to your heart..."
Usagi stopped singing at the kitchen doorway to the living room, not having bothered to look up at all and noticed Heero sitting there. 'He's so quiet and withdrawn... I wonder why?' she thought before smiling to him. "Konnichi wa Heero-kun! O-genki desu ka?" she asked walking over and sitting across from him on the other couch.
"Hn." He gave a slight nod.
"Well that's nice to hear. Always the talkative one aren't you?" she stared at him a minute when he didn't say anything. "You know if you talked anymore I'd have to tape your mouth shut." He raised an eyebrow towards her making her laugh. "Oh come on Heero! I know you talk both English and Japanese and I'm sure some other languages I don't know..." she scratched her head, "So... come on... out with it... onegai? You gotta talk sometime... I'll make you talk if you don't!" she gave him an evil grin.
'That doesn't look good... looks like one of Duo's before he gets a idea to do something.' He thought looking at her angelic face that held a evil mischievous grin on it. "Maybe I don't want to."
Usagi stared at him, then acted like she passed out on her left side since her right wing still hurt when touched. She brought a hand to her forehead. "I can't believe it... he... he said a FULL sentence!!" with that she sat up smiling. "SEE! I knew you could talk! Wow. Now to keep you talking."
Heero smirked. 'Sounds like a challenge to me.' Watching her; she had a thought full look on her face, her eyes simi glazed like trying to figure something out. "Lets go." He stood up waiting for her.
"Go where?"
He just stared at her.
"Ummm... oh yeah! To show me around, ne?" she stood up waiting for him to lead the way. "So where we goin' first?" she watched as he shrugged took her hand and led the way on what would become a two hour tour of Quatre's mansion and surrounding grounds.
Usagi mainly loved the gardens and the thought that they had a large almost Olympic size covered swimming pool out in the back yard, if you could call it that. The land that the Mansion sits on is a total of three hundred acres. Most, she was actually told this by him, was open land with trails and such they could go on with the bikes and what not, those she hadn't seen yet. He took her by some of the orchards that were planted, Peach, Apple, and Cherry trees in one, different kinds of grapes in another, and the gardens held foods of all kinds. She loved that fact since she was hungry all the time.
Next Heero took her to the garage, which he showed her the mountain bikes, motorcycles, 4x4's, cars and trucks that they all had. He pointed out which was whose of the mountain bikes, motorcycles and 4x4's... wasn't really hard to notice though, they all had the same colors that their Gundams had; she didn't know that though, though she has seen them, she doesn't know who pilots which. Then he pointed out the trucks.
"That's Duo's Ford." He didn't even have to point to it with the 'SHINIGAMI' on the windshield, it was a black Ford F250, 4x4, Crew Cab that had a 6" lift kit with mud tires on it.
"Trowa's." he had a Navy Blue, Chevy 2500 HD, Crew Cab, 4x4, that had a 6" lift kit with all train mud tires on it. In the bottom left corner of his back window she noticed had the little Heavyarms shooting and stepping on the Ford logo, she thought that was quite funny.
"Quatre's." he said. She noticed that after he said it and looking to his left a little the sides of his mouth started to twitch, she didn't know why 'til she looked. She looked and didn't believe her eyes, she could make out a shadow of a truck that stood a good five foot off the ground with tires as tall as she and just as wide as she was tall. Besides that she couldn't see what it was.
"Heero-kun, what is it? I can't tell..." she peered up at him before back to the 'truck' as far as she could tell.
Heero, the sides of his mouth starting to twitch walked over to a far wall and flicked on a light and smirked when he heard her "WWOOOOOOWWWWWWW!! THAT'S HIS!!?? YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!" echo throughout the garage.
He walked back over and nodded his head. "Hn."
Usagi's eyes were huge in surprise. She didn't think that Quatre 'The Innocence' would drive THIS! It was huge! It was indeed five off the ground and the tires were also a foot taller then she was and just as round as they were tall. It was a Midnight Blue Dodge Ram 2500 extended cab, it had a black brush guard with winch, chrome roll bar with five mounted KC lights, and a side step under each door and to top it off on the windshield there was a sticker, much like Duo's 'SHINIGAMI' one, just different words.
She looked at the words on the windshield, "Omae o korosu? I will kill you? Why would he have that on his truck Heero-kun? That's not like Quatre at all..." she turned questioning eyes to him.
Heero looked down to her, still smirking then back to the truck. Usagi followed his glaze; she heard a low chuckling sound looking towards Heero and raised an eyebrow in silent questioning. "'Cause it's not his. It's mine." He watched as her eyes got wider staring at him in awe. "That would be my, 'Toy' as Duo calls it."
Usagi had a fascination with trucks that no one knew about. They just saw her a klutzy crybaby, that didn't wanna learn, they didn't try seeing past that so, what they didn't wanna see, she hid from them. Makoto was the only one that knew about it. She was the only one that didn't shun her for the way she acted. "Wow, that's SO RYOUMI!" she turned to him, "You have GOT to take me riding in that one day!" she grimaced when she hopped a little and grabbed her right side and looked up meekly. "After... my ribs are healed that is."
"Hn." He nodded.
"So if that's actually your 'Toy'... What do you actually drive around? And what's Quatre drive??" she was now really curious. 'If that's his 'Toy' you know he drive a wicked cool truck!' she thought looking around trying to spot one that looked like it would belong to him.
"This ones actually Quatre's." he pointed to a small white iridescent Ford Ranger XLT extended cab.
Usagi looked at it, then to Heero, making sure he wasn't trying to pull anything on her, then back to the truck. "Small, simple... seems Quatre like, ne?" she smiled looking up to him. "Not my cup of tea though, I like THAT one!!" she pointed back to his 'Toy' grinning.
Heero just smirked nodding. They walked down a little more before stopping in front of a Hunter Green GMC 2500 Quad Cab, 4x4 duly. "This is Wufei's."
It wasn't much to look at in her option, kinda like Quatre's... didn't have anything added onto it, no lift kits, no winch, roll bar, head rack, side step, KC lights... no nothing. She looked up expectantly. "Soooo... Where's your regular truck then?" it was the only one he'd yet to point out to her.
They walked over to the far wall and for the first time since she was up, his scowling forever-cold face, showed what might have been a bad attempt at a smile before he spoke, "And this one, is mine."
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