~ New Things ~
Chapter 17
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They stood before a Black HMC4 hard top Hummer. From what she could tell it was just your regular black hard topped Hummer. But he had added a heavy duty brush guard which a winch was attached to, a roof rack and light bar that had four KC lights on it and a lift kit, though she couldn't tell how high of one. Hummers were usually high in the first place, but this one was almost a full inch or two taller then Duo's which had a six inch lift added to it.
She liked it, really, really liked it. She started to slightly jump up and down. "Can we go for a ride!? Can we go for a ride!? Huh!? Huh?! HUH! Onegai Heero-kun! Come on! Lets go for a ride!?" she started to pull on his shirt sleeve not even noticing she was doing it, it was more habit being caught up in the moment like she usually got when she was excited.
~ * ~ * ~ SM Dimension ~ * ~ * ~
Ami sat in her room studying for her math test demo her mind kept wondering back to the fight, how Usagi wasn't mad at them for betraying her, then to after the battle after the light had gone down and the youma defeated, she thought back to Rei's words as she closed her eyes leaning her head back and re-watching it all.
"Then I think we need to pay a visit to Sailor Pluto, she'll know what to do about it." Rei clenched her fist that wasn't helping to hold, the now de-transformed Ami steady. "And I swear on Mars and all that's Holy if she knew about this..." she let her sentence trail off, knowing the others agreed with her on that one.
"And we did agree with that, but we never found her." She said out loud looking back to her papers, just as she was getting back to working on a problem her communicator went off. She flipped it open. "Hai, Ami here, doushita no Rei-chan?" she asked the Fire Senshi.
"Konnichi wa Ami-chan, there's a meeting at the Temple in ten, I'll see you there." Was Rei's short message before cutting the link.
Ami sighed. "Another meeting?" This was the fifth meeting since the battle. The others had been no good of use. They visited the Time Gate and Pluto wasn't there. They went to the Outers apartment and they, also were not there. They visited each three times, once as a group then once on their own.
She shook her head as she packed her bag and left thinking while walking. 'Their not there each time, yet all their things are still in the apartment, as if their just avoiding us, but why? They didn't like the Inners, including Usagi, so why are they avoiding us? If that's truly what they were doing... Maybe they were just on tour or at a race or something.' She tried to find a logical explanation for it.
Five minutes later she ended up at the Temple and sat on a pillow by the others. "Oi Minna-chan."
"Oi Ami-chan." They all replied.
"Soooo, Rei-chan, why'd you call this meeting?" Minako asked.
"I called it because..." she didn't really have a reason. "Ummm..."
"You don't have a reason do you?" Ami was getting fed up with these 'for nothing' meetings. "Rei-chan, just admit it, the Sacred Fire doesn't like you anymore and the Outers are out on tour or something, they've not been around since before Usagi and Makoto disappeared, so I don't know why we're tryin' to get help from them."
"Ohhh... you go Ami!" Minako cheered. She was also getting kinda tired of these meetings. The youma's were attacking anymore... so there wasn't any reason to call them.
"Oi that's not fair! The Sacred Fire likes me! It gives me visions all the times!" Rei protested.
"Yeah of dancing fairies on a sugar high..." Minako muttered.
Ami tried not to laugh. "Minako onegai, stop... be nice you guys..."
"Yea well at least I don't go around chasing after guys I don't even know!"
"Well..." Minako had to think a minute. "At least I don't go to bed hugging a Tuxedo Karmen doll!" she smirked.
Ami closed her eyes and silently counted to ten. Then opened them and watched as Minako and Rei kept throwing remarks and threats back and forth. "Alright... that's... ENOUGH!!!" she yelled effectively getting their attention. "Rei if you called this meeting just to fight with Minako I swear on Mercury I'm gonna freeze your Sacred Fire! Now... WHY... are we here?" she asked calmly.
Rei was shocked. 'Freeze the Sacred Fire...' She couldn't let anyone do that and since she'd... they'd... nobody'd ever seen Ami mad, upset hai... mad no... So not ever seeing her mad, she didn't know if she'd actually freeze her Sacred Fire or not, so she shut up. "I... I called this meeting 'cause the Fire showed me a vision of Usagi-chan..." he voice wavered a bit.
"Wow, she actually called it for a reason..." Minako muttered grinning again. "Soo, where is the Odango?"
Ami nodded, "Hai, where is Usagi-hime?"
Rei thought about the vision. "Well... truthfully... I don't know..." they looked her with 'Nani!?' looks on their faces. "Well all it showed were her surrounded by five guys, Makoto and huge robot type things..."
Ami took hold of her chin while she thought about this. "Well we know from what your saying" she nodded to Rei "that she's not here anymore... at least not in Japan... We don't have any 'huge robot type things'... and I don't think America or other Nations do either... soo... she's in a different dimension..." she concluded.
"Yea, no kidding, ya thunk it?" Minako joked. "The question is which one and how do we get there? Without the Outers help we don't have enough power to do a Sailor Teleport... and without Sailor Pluto's help... well we're screwed."
Ami stared open mouthed at Minako. "Minako-chan..." she was stunned, granted it wasn't out right cursing, it was more then she'd ever said before.
"What?" Minako looked confused then like a light lighting up she got the message. "Oh come on Ami-chan, it's not like I've never said it before, and besides... it's the TRUTH!"
"Well yea it is, demo come on... geez... Alright anyways... I guess 'til we can Sailor Pluto's help on this one we are, as Minako-chan put it, 'Screwed'. So each of us can keep checking in on the Time Gate and the Outers Apartment every now and then and if we find anything we'll call a meeting for it, so 'til then, I'll see you both at school tomorrow."
"Hai agreed. Ja ne Minna-chan!" Ami hopped up waved and left down the steps back to her studying.
"Yea, ja ne Rei-chan." Minako waved before leaving also.
~ * ~ Quatre's Mansion Practice Room; Wufei ~ * ~
Ever since the 'Firing Squad' as Makoto had called it... their meeting for answers, Wufei had been in the practicing room doing his Katana moves, perfecting them and trying new ones he'd read about. He had stormed outta the living room for iie real reason, demo to just get out of there. So now he was fighting against one of the practice dummies, for once, it's not Duo.
With a cry of rage he punched the head of the dummy swiftly turned and kicked it's stomach with his left leg, back flipped away then jumped forward hitting it's neck with the side of his right hand then preformed a roundhouse kick on it before starting a new series of punches and kicks.
'Baka onna, doesn't know what she's talking about!' he thought as he practiced, 'How can she be all of them and the same? But she proved it. So it must be real. Fighting...' he kicked the dummy in the shin then punched it's nose. 'We don't need the help from a bunch of onnas. We're doing fine on our own!' he grabbed a wooden practice Katana and swiftly moved in a fluent motion on cutting across the dummies stomach.
'I remember legends of the long dead Moon Kingdom, so what if she's the Princess Serenity from them, or Eternal Sailor Moon... why do we need their help? What's so special about them that their here and we need their help!? ARRUUGGH!!' violently turning around left using his bodies momentum to add to the speed of it going to slice across the neck of the dummy, "WE ARE NOT WEAK!!!!" he yelled as he sliced across the neck...... and watched as the head rolled across the floor.
"Okay, practice is now... over." He said almost sheepishly looking at the dummies head before putting up the practice katana and walk outta the room to shower and change like nothing had happened. It was a good thing no one else was in the room to see Wufei looking sheepish, for if there had been, he'd had to kill 'em.
~ * ~ * ~ Garage; Heero & Usa ~ * ~ * ~
Heero wanted to tell her to leave him alone to let go of him and that he didn't have to take her for a ride, but with eyes like that and the puppy face she was giving him, for the life of him he couldn't tell her that, instead he gave her a slight nod of his head. "Maybe later Tenshi, after you heal a little more. I don't stick to the main roads if you know what I mean." He pointed to her ribs.
She looked confused for a minute before if finally donned on her. "Ohhh, okies then doomo!! We can go later on." She gave him a soft friendly hug that startled Heero somewhat, he didn't let it show; no one had ever given him a hug 'cept for that crazy stalker Relena, she had a thing for him, and he didn't much like her at *all*. "So what now?"
He didn't say anything, just turned and walked back out of the garage and waited for her. Usagi sighed, "One day, I'll get you talking more and that goof of a Wufei to stop calling onna's weak." She grinned as the turned around shrugged and went to follow him, her minds wheels starting to turn with thoughts of achieving her two goals.
They walked back towards the pool and turned down a little light wooded path, once they cleared the woods they came out to a clearing that held two tennis courts and a basketball court. "Wow..." she looked around at the different colored flowers that surrounded the three courts. "This is cool. Y'all play out here often?" she looked up to him as she walked towards the flowers to smell them.
"Duo drags us out here every now and then for a game of basketball." He said watching her bed over and smell a purple and white Lilly. After she smelled that one she started to move to a different of flower, she walked a few feet, tripped, caught herself looking to him with a sheepish look and told him. "I, uhh, meant to do that." Then on smelling the other flowers as he shook his head at her.
They walked a little ways down on the opposite side of the courts and into another clearing, this was a small shooting range and bow and arrow range. "Cool. So you guys practice here a lot or something?" she asked not really knowing who she was talking to. For if she did she'd of known he was the main one that used this spot.
"Hn." He nodded as he reached behind him and pulled out a silver Colt .45 with pearl handle sidings on it. It was a beautiful gun, if you could call a gun that. She backed up a little and watched as he walked a good 50 yards from the shooting booth, fired off five rounds while she held her hands over her ears. He then walked up to the shooting booth pressing a red button. The target moved up to the stand, he took it off and handed it to her.
"Wooowww..." She looked up at him, "You're good! You didn't miss the heart or head once." She looked back at the target that had three holes in the heart area and two dead center of the eyes. "That's good." She handed it back to him.
"Doomo. Here." He held the gun out, safety on to her. He didn't normally do this, at all. Not with any other gun and definitely *not* with this one, it was special to him, he couldn't remember why, something from his childhood he thought, there was a thin shimmer of memory about it, but he didn't know of nande really. What he did know was that her name was on those disks...
Her eye's became wide as he held the gun for her to take. She stared at it for a long moment before looking back up to him. "I... I can't use that... I don't know how to..."
He took her by the shoulder and moved her up to the shooting booth standing behind her. "Here, hold it like this." He brought his hands up and positioned hers where they needed to be to hold the gun right. "Aim through here." He brought it up to her right eye letting her try aiming it. "And pull the trigger when you're ready." He stayed behind her as she concentrated on the target in front of her.
She aimed, the gun being held steady thanks to Heero's hands still lightly covering hers, she was sure if he took them off the gun would be shaking all over the place from lack of knowing what she was doing and scared she'd do something wrong, she'd never used a gun before, after all.
'Aim through here... center of the target... And pull trigger.' On her last though she pulled the trigger and the gun gave a hefty kick as it fired off she was thrown back into Heero's chest. 'Wow, he's got a hard chest. Must work out a lot.' She thought with a goofy smile on her face she looked up to him. "Wow, that was cool... kicks a lot huh?" she stood on her own as he pushed the button to call the target back to them.
"Hai, you get used to it." He pulled the target from the post with surprise but hid it. She had hit it right on the head about two inches from being in the center. "Hn."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" she pointed to the hole.
"Good thing."
"Yatta! Ryoumi! What else is there to do around here?" she looked around, it was quite a big place. "You know we should do this again sometime. It was kinda fun."
"Hn." He folded up the target and handed he to her to keep, she just smiled and pocketed it. "Come on it's getting late." He turned and started back for the house.
Usagi looked around her for the first time since they left the house. It was indeed getting late, the skies had turned a nice shade of darkening blue, with oranges and reds mixed in making it a nice shot for someone that was into photography as her mother was. 'I miss you Okasan...' she thought sadly before turning and taking up a slow jog caught up to Heero as they walked silently back to the house.
Once inside they went to the kitchen, she watched as Heero grabbed each of them a bottle of water from the fridge. "Arigatou, Heero." thanking him for the water, took off the cap and let the cool liquid cool off her dry hot mouth. She sighed with being refreshed on such a hot day. "Arigatou for showing me around too! That was fun, and we have GOT to go driving around one day when I heal a little more, maybe tomorrow?" she watched as he shrugged.
"Okies, well whenever then. Your 'Toy' is SO cool! Maybe after the meeting or sometime your not busy..." she started timidly "Would you mind taking me into town to the park? And so I could get a few things from a store..."muttering "if they take the money I have that is... Would that be okay?" hoping that he wouldn't turn her down she gave him her puppy eyes just for backup.
'Kami-sama I hate this...' Heero thought 'Iie you dameyo.' The voice said. 'Hai I do. Leave me alone!' Heero shot back. 'You like it and her and you know it.' She voice argued. 'Iie I don't, the only reason I'm doing all this is 'cause they ordered us to be nice to them, so I have to.' He reasoned. 'Yeah. Right. And I'm Wufei's best friend. You like her, admit it.' Heero mentally growled. 'No. I. Don't! So drop it!' the voice didn't reply. Heero was knocked from his thoughts by Usagi, "Heero-kun?"
"Hmm?" he slightly shook his head looking down at her, eyes and face not showing any emotion, as they had all day, remaining cold and uncaring, while his inner thoughts would suggest other wise. He nodded his head, "Hnn."
Usagi's eye widened for a second 'cause she had fully expected him to say no to her. She gave a short squeal before catching him in a short hug then pulling back. "Arigatou Heero-kun!" and with that she turned and happily skipped up the stairs leaving a confused Heero staring after her before turning around and heading up the main stairs to his room.
~ * ~ * ~ Usagi's room ~ * ~ * ~
Usagi walked in her room and carefully plopped down on her bed tired. She thought about the days events and started to look around her room for the first time taking in what it looked like and was decorated in and that it was a fairly large room.
Since she was laying on her back on the bed she noticed the ceiling was a rich blue color with little stars and planets, the walls a Sky blue. She sat up and looked around, the carpet was a deep almost black blue, and the bed sheets were black with silver moons and stars on them as were the pillows.
She noticed there was a little nightstand on either side of the bed, the wall the bed was on had two large two-door windows with little balconies on them, the wall to her left had a round table with four chairs, a mini fridge and a TV on a stand a little closer to the middle of the bed and the table, so you could watch from either spot. To her right was the bathroom that was done in lighter shades of blue with a wee bit of light pastel yellow to accent it, and between the bathroom door and the wall the window was on was a large oak five drawer dresser with a mirror hanging behind it.
"This is pretty nice! I like it!" she smiled as she laid back down for a little nap, it was only around five pm. 'Sure does' yawn 'get dark early here...' she thought drifting off to a light sleep.
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Later that night around 6:30pm Wufei went and woke Tenshi up with a gentle shake of her shoulders and the whispering of dinner being ready. She nodded and he left her to come down on her own. When she got there she noticed everyone was already there and waiting for her. With a goofy smile on her face and a quick "Gomen nasai." for being late she sat and joined them to eat.
They ate and talked, those that did anyhow, about what they did that day and where they went. Usagi mostly talked about everything she saw and Heero teaching her to shoot his Colt .45 and being only two inches off from the center of the head. They were shocked to hear this for they knew Heero never let anyone... *anyone* touch that gun. Why they didn't really know, but there were a lot of things about Heero that no one knew, and probably would never know of. That was just him.
Reicheru and Duo told about all the drawings they had started and were planning on finishing tomorrow after the meeting, and about how goofy Duo was being trying to act all macho for some of the poses and then turning around trying to be serious and goofy. They had spent the whole day up in her room drawing and being goofy with the occasional run to the kitchen for snacks.
After dinner everyone helped clear and clean up the kitchen with Quatre. After which they watched some TV and one by one they said their good nights and went to bed to rest for the next days activities.
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Chapter 17
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They stood before a Black HMC4 hard top Hummer. From what she could tell it was just your regular black hard topped Hummer. But he had added a heavy duty brush guard which a winch was attached to, a roof rack and light bar that had four KC lights on it and a lift kit, though she couldn't tell how high of one. Hummers were usually high in the first place, but this one was almost a full inch or two taller then Duo's which had a six inch lift added to it.
She liked it, really, really liked it. She started to slightly jump up and down. "Can we go for a ride!? Can we go for a ride!? Huh!? Huh?! HUH! Onegai Heero-kun! Come on! Lets go for a ride!?" she started to pull on his shirt sleeve not even noticing she was doing it, it was more habit being caught up in the moment like she usually got when she was excited.
~ * ~ * ~ SM Dimension ~ * ~ * ~
Ami sat in her room studying for her math test demo her mind kept wondering back to the fight, how Usagi wasn't mad at them for betraying her, then to after the battle after the light had gone down and the youma defeated, she thought back to Rei's words as she closed her eyes leaning her head back and re-watching it all.
"Then I think we need to pay a visit to Sailor Pluto, she'll know what to do about it." Rei clenched her fist that wasn't helping to hold, the now de-transformed Ami steady. "And I swear on Mars and all that's Holy if she knew about this..." she let her sentence trail off, knowing the others agreed with her on that one.
"And we did agree with that, but we never found her." She said out loud looking back to her papers, just as she was getting back to working on a problem her communicator went off. She flipped it open. "Hai, Ami here, doushita no Rei-chan?" she asked the Fire Senshi.
"Konnichi wa Ami-chan, there's a meeting at the Temple in ten, I'll see you there." Was Rei's short message before cutting the link.
Ami sighed. "Another meeting?" This was the fifth meeting since the battle. The others had been no good of use. They visited the Time Gate and Pluto wasn't there. They went to the Outers apartment and they, also were not there. They visited each three times, once as a group then once on their own.
She shook her head as she packed her bag and left thinking while walking. 'Their not there each time, yet all their things are still in the apartment, as if their just avoiding us, but why? They didn't like the Inners, including Usagi, so why are they avoiding us? If that's truly what they were doing... Maybe they were just on tour or at a race or something.' She tried to find a logical explanation for it.
Five minutes later she ended up at the Temple and sat on a pillow by the others. "Oi Minna-chan."
"Oi Ami-chan." They all replied.
"Soooo, Rei-chan, why'd you call this meeting?" Minako asked.
"I called it because..." she didn't really have a reason. "Ummm..."
"You don't have a reason do you?" Ami was getting fed up with these 'for nothing' meetings. "Rei-chan, just admit it, the Sacred Fire doesn't like you anymore and the Outers are out on tour or something, they've not been around since before Usagi and Makoto disappeared, so I don't know why we're tryin' to get help from them."
"Ohhh... you go Ami!" Minako cheered. She was also getting kinda tired of these meetings. The youma's were attacking anymore... so there wasn't any reason to call them.
"Oi that's not fair! The Sacred Fire likes me! It gives me visions all the times!" Rei protested.
"Yeah of dancing fairies on a sugar high..." Minako muttered.
Ami tried not to laugh. "Minako onegai, stop... be nice you guys..."
"Yea well at least I don't go around chasing after guys I don't even know!"
"Well..." Minako had to think a minute. "At least I don't go to bed hugging a Tuxedo Karmen doll!" she smirked.
Ami closed her eyes and silently counted to ten. Then opened them and watched as Minako and Rei kept throwing remarks and threats back and forth. "Alright... that's... ENOUGH!!!" she yelled effectively getting their attention. "Rei if you called this meeting just to fight with Minako I swear on Mercury I'm gonna freeze your Sacred Fire! Now... WHY... are we here?" she asked calmly.
Rei was shocked. 'Freeze the Sacred Fire...' She couldn't let anyone do that and since she'd... they'd... nobody'd ever seen Ami mad, upset hai... mad no... So not ever seeing her mad, she didn't know if she'd actually freeze her Sacred Fire or not, so she shut up. "I... I called this meeting 'cause the Fire showed me a vision of Usagi-chan..." he voice wavered a bit.
"Wow, she actually called it for a reason..." Minako muttered grinning again. "Soo, where is the Odango?"
Ami nodded, "Hai, where is Usagi-hime?"
Rei thought about the vision. "Well... truthfully... I don't know..." they looked her with 'Nani!?' looks on their faces. "Well all it showed were her surrounded by five guys, Makoto and huge robot type things..."
Ami took hold of her chin while she thought about this. "Well we know from what your saying" she nodded to Rei "that she's not here anymore... at least not in Japan... We don't have any 'huge robot type things'... and I don't think America or other Nations do either... soo... she's in a different dimension..." she concluded.
"Yea, no kidding, ya thunk it?" Minako joked. "The question is which one and how do we get there? Without the Outers help we don't have enough power to do a Sailor Teleport... and without Sailor Pluto's help... well we're screwed."
Ami stared open mouthed at Minako. "Minako-chan..." she was stunned, granted it wasn't out right cursing, it was more then she'd ever said before.
"What?" Minako looked confused then like a light lighting up she got the message. "Oh come on Ami-chan, it's not like I've never said it before, and besides... it's the TRUTH!"
"Well yea it is, demo come on... geez... Alright anyways... I guess 'til we can Sailor Pluto's help on this one we are, as Minako-chan put it, 'Screwed'. So each of us can keep checking in on the Time Gate and the Outers Apartment every now and then and if we find anything we'll call a meeting for it, so 'til then, I'll see you both at school tomorrow."
"Hai agreed. Ja ne Minna-chan!" Ami hopped up waved and left down the steps back to her studying.
"Yea, ja ne Rei-chan." Minako waved before leaving also.
~ * ~ Quatre's Mansion Practice Room; Wufei ~ * ~
Ever since the 'Firing Squad' as Makoto had called it... their meeting for answers, Wufei had been in the practicing room doing his Katana moves, perfecting them and trying new ones he'd read about. He had stormed outta the living room for iie real reason, demo to just get out of there. So now he was fighting against one of the practice dummies, for once, it's not Duo.
With a cry of rage he punched the head of the dummy swiftly turned and kicked it's stomach with his left leg, back flipped away then jumped forward hitting it's neck with the side of his right hand then preformed a roundhouse kick on it before starting a new series of punches and kicks.
'Baka onna, doesn't know what she's talking about!' he thought as he practiced, 'How can she be all of them and the same? But she proved it. So it must be real. Fighting...' he kicked the dummy in the shin then punched it's nose. 'We don't need the help from a bunch of onnas. We're doing fine on our own!' he grabbed a wooden practice Katana and swiftly moved in a fluent motion on cutting across the dummies stomach.
'I remember legends of the long dead Moon Kingdom, so what if she's the Princess Serenity from them, or Eternal Sailor Moon... why do we need their help? What's so special about them that their here and we need their help!? ARRUUGGH!!' violently turning around left using his bodies momentum to add to the speed of it going to slice across the neck of the dummy, "WE ARE NOT WEAK!!!!" he yelled as he sliced across the neck...... and watched as the head rolled across the floor.
"Okay, practice is now... over." He said almost sheepishly looking at the dummies head before putting up the practice katana and walk outta the room to shower and change like nothing had happened. It was a good thing no one else was in the room to see Wufei looking sheepish, for if there had been, he'd had to kill 'em.
~ * ~ * ~ Garage; Heero & Usa ~ * ~ * ~
Heero wanted to tell her to leave him alone to let go of him and that he didn't have to take her for a ride, but with eyes like that and the puppy face she was giving him, for the life of him he couldn't tell her that, instead he gave her a slight nod of his head. "Maybe later Tenshi, after you heal a little more. I don't stick to the main roads if you know what I mean." He pointed to her ribs.
She looked confused for a minute before if finally donned on her. "Ohhh, okies then doomo!! We can go later on." She gave him a soft friendly hug that startled Heero somewhat, he didn't let it show; no one had ever given him a hug 'cept for that crazy stalker Relena, she had a thing for him, and he didn't much like her at *all*. "So what now?"
He didn't say anything, just turned and walked back out of the garage and waited for her. Usagi sighed, "One day, I'll get you talking more and that goof of a Wufei to stop calling onna's weak." She grinned as the turned around shrugged and went to follow him, her minds wheels starting to turn with thoughts of achieving her two goals.
They walked back towards the pool and turned down a little light wooded path, once they cleared the woods they came out to a clearing that held two tennis courts and a basketball court. "Wow..." she looked around at the different colored flowers that surrounded the three courts. "This is cool. Y'all play out here often?" she looked up to him as she walked towards the flowers to smell them.
"Duo drags us out here every now and then for a game of basketball." He said watching her bed over and smell a purple and white Lilly. After she smelled that one she started to move to a different of flower, she walked a few feet, tripped, caught herself looking to him with a sheepish look and told him. "I, uhh, meant to do that." Then on smelling the other flowers as he shook his head at her.
They walked a little ways down on the opposite side of the courts and into another clearing, this was a small shooting range and bow and arrow range. "Cool. So you guys practice here a lot or something?" she asked not really knowing who she was talking to. For if she did she'd of known he was the main one that used this spot.
"Hn." He nodded as he reached behind him and pulled out a silver Colt .45 with pearl handle sidings on it. It was a beautiful gun, if you could call a gun that. She backed up a little and watched as he walked a good 50 yards from the shooting booth, fired off five rounds while she held her hands over her ears. He then walked up to the shooting booth pressing a red button. The target moved up to the stand, he took it off and handed it to her.
"Wooowww..." She looked up at him, "You're good! You didn't miss the heart or head once." She looked back at the target that had three holes in the heart area and two dead center of the eyes. "That's good." She handed it back to him.
"Doomo. Here." He held the gun out, safety on to her. He didn't normally do this, at all. Not with any other gun and definitely *not* with this one, it was special to him, he couldn't remember why, something from his childhood he thought, there was a thin shimmer of memory about it, but he didn't know of nande really. What he did know was that her name was on those disks...
Her eye's became wide as he held the gun for her to take. She stared at it for a long moment before looking back up to him. "I... I can't use that... I don't know how to..."
He took her by the shoulder and moved her up to the shooting booth standing behind her. "Here, hold it like this." He brought his hands up and positioned hers where they needed to be to hold the gun right. "Aim through here." He brought it up to her right eye letting her try aiming it. "And pull the trigger when you're ready." He stayed behind her as she concentrated on the target in front of her.
She aimed, the gun being held steady thanks to Heero's hands still lightly covering hers, she was sure if he took them off the gun would be shaking all over the place from lack of knowing what she was doing and scared she'd do something wrong, she'd never used a gun before, after all.
'Aim through here... center of the target... And pull trigger.' On her last though she pulled the trigger and the gun gave a hefty kick as it fired off she was thrown back into Heero's chest. 'Wow, he's got a hard chest. Must work out a lot.' She thought with a goofy smile on her face she looked up to him. "Wow, that was cool... kicks a lot huh?" she stood on her own as he pushed the button to call the target back to them.
"Hai, you get used to it." He pulled the target from the post with surprise but hid it. She had hit it right on the head about two inches from being in the center. "Hn."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" she pointed to the hole.
"Good thing."
"Yatta! Ryoumi! What else is there to do around here?" she looked around, it was quite a big place. "You know we should do this again sometime. It was kinda fun."
"Hn." He folded up the target and handed he to her to keep, she just smiled and pocketed it. "Come on it's getting late." He turned and started back for the house.
Usagi looked around her for the first time since they left the house. It was indeed getting late, the skies had turned a nice shade of darkening blue, with oranges and reds mixed in making it a nice shot for someone that was into photography as her mother was. 'I miss you Okasan...' she thought sadly before turning and taking up a slow jog caught up to Heero as they walked silently back to the house.
Once inside they went to the kitchen, she watched as Heero grabbed each of them a bottle of water from the fridge. "Arigatou, Heero." thanking him for the water, took off the cap and let the cool liquid cool off her dry hot mouth. She sighed with being refreshed on such a hot day. "Arigatou for showing me around too! That was fun, and we have GOT to go driving around one day when I heal a little more, maybe tomorrow?" she watched as he shrugged.
"Okies, well whenever then. Your 'Toy' is SO cool! Maybe after the meeting or sometime your not busy..." she started timidly "Would you mind taking me into town to the park? And so I could get a few things from a store..."muttering "if they take the money I have that is... Would that be okay?" hoping that he wouldn't turn her down she gave him her puppy eyes just for backup.
'Kami-sama I hate this...' Heero thought 'Iie you dameyo.' The voice said. 'Hai I do. Leave me alone!' Heero shot back. 'You like it and her and you know it.' She voice argued. 'Iie I don't, the only reason I'm doing all this is 'cause they ordered us to be nice to them, so I have to.' He reasoned. 'Yeah. Right. And I'm Wufei's best friend. You like her, admit it.' Heero mentally growled. 'No. I. Don't! So drop it!' the voice didn't reply. Heero was knocked from his thoughts by Usagi, "Heero-kun?"
"Hmm?" he slightly shook his head looking down at her, eyes and face not showing any emotion, as they had all day, remaining cold and uncaring, while his inner thoughts would suggest other wise. He nodded his head, "Hnn."
Usagi's eye widened for a second 'cause she had fully expected him to say no to her. She gave a short squeal before catching him in a short hug then pulling back. "Arigatou Heero-kun!" and with that she turned and happily skipped up the stairs leaving a confused Heero staring after her before turning around and heading up the main stairs to his room.
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Usagi walked in her room and carefully plopped down on her bed tired. She thought about the days events and started to look around her room for the first time taking in what it looked like and was decorated in and that it was a fairly large room.
Since she was laying on her back on the bed she noticed the ceiling was a rich blue color with little stars and planets, the walls a Sky blue. She sat up and looked around, the carpet was a deep almost black blue, and the bed sheets were black with silver moons and stars on them as were the pillows.
She noticed there was a little nightstand on either side of the bed, the wall the bed was on had two large two-door windows with little balconies on them, the wall to her left had a round table with four chairs, a mini fridge and a TV on a stand a little closer to the middle of the bed and the table, so you could watch from either spot. To her right was the bathroom that was done in lighter shades of blue with a wee bit of light pastel yellow to accent it, and between the bathroom door and the wall the window was on was a large oak five drawer dresser with a mirror hanging behind it.
"This is pretty nice! I like it!" she smiled as she laid back down for a little nap, it was only around five pm. 'Sure does' yawn 'get dark early here...' she thought drifting off to a light sleep.
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Later that night around 6:30pm Wufei went and woke Tenshi up with a gentle shake of her shoulders and the whispering of dinner being ready. She nodded and he left her to come down on her own. When she got there she noticed everyone was already there and waiting for her. With a goofy smile on her face and a quick "Gomen nasai." for being late she sat and joined them to eat.
They ate and talked, those that did anyhow, about what they did that day and where they went. Usagi mostly talked about everything she saw and Heero teaching her to shoot his Colt .45 and being only two inches off from the center of the head. They were shocked to hear this for they knew Heero never let anyone... *anyone* touch that gun. Why they didn't really know, but there were a lot of things about Heero that no one knew, and probably would never know of. That was just him.
Reicheru and Duo told about all the drawings they had started and were planning on finishing tomorrow after the meeting, and about how goofy Duo was being trying to act all macho for some of the poses and then turning around trying to be serious and goofy. They had spent the whole day up in her room drawing and being goofy with the occasional run to the kitchen for snacks.
After dinner everyone helped clear and clean up the kitchen with Quatre. After which they watched some TV and one by one they said their good nights and went to bed to rest for the next days activities.
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