Hey everyone!
It's been a slow process, this uploading business. Anyways, I'm sorry that this is all I have written so far... I'm trying to write as fast as I can but MRS SANDERS IS FRIGGIN EVIL OKAY??? She likes to make everyone's life a living hell.
Alright, my ranting is over (for now)... I mean seriously though when a history teacher is so biased and small-minded in her thinking and teaching that I have to sit in her class and bite my tonuge so hard that it bleeds just to keep from standing up and telling her exactly what I think of her...
Oh well I've got 3/4s of a year left with her so I guess I gotta get used to it...
Oh yeah thanks to everyone who reviewed! It reminded me that there still are people out there who are reading this and want more!
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"Do you think she's okay?" Wufei asked.
"I hope so." Trowa replied.
"I feel confusion and angst from her. She's upset about something, and she's trying to block me." Quatre said.
"Well what does that mean?! For God's sake, you taught her to block you!" Wufei replied. It was true- for several days after they returned, Quatre's empathy had been attacked by Usagi's distraught emotions. He had asked Usagi to try to block him, and she had complied. Now, the tool was being used against them.
"Sometimes our empathies are so in touch it's like we can read each others minds, but when she blocks me, I can only get a vague sense of what she's feeling." the blonde Arabian explained further.
"I hope she's okay." Wufei said.
"I hope that if she's not, she talks to one of us soon." Duo added.
Usagi slept for two hours. She was woken up by Quatre, who shook her gently and told her it was time to go.
"Go where?" she asked groggily.
"To the Peacecraft Academy." he replied.
"Oh. I knew that." Usagi said, rubbing her eyes and climbing out of the bed. The two walked together in a comfortable silence. The other pilots were just finishing loading their bags into the back of one of Quatre's limos when they arrived.
Usagi yawned and stretched before climbing in behind Quatre.
"Did you have a nice nap?" Duo asked. She smiled, and settled back into the comfortable leather seat between Hiiro and Wufei.
"Yup." she replied. Trowa was the last in, and shut the door behind him. Quatre said a few words to the driver, and then closed the soundproof barrier between the driver and the six occupants of the backseat.
Usagi closed her eyes and lent against Wufei's shoulder. He reached up with one hand to pat her head briefly before quietly talking to Quatre. Hiiro, of course, had his laptop on and was tapping away at the keys. Duo had a small portable DVD player and a set of headphones to amuse him.
After awhile, Usagi woke back up and joined Duo in watching some shoot-em up flick. It was a LONG drive to the academy. After awhile, Duo pulled out his own laptop and quietly showed Usagi a program he had picked up off the internet. She cracked up as she listened to it on her headphones. Getting one of those 'evil grin' looks that she was so good at, she pulled out the plug for the headphones, causing the song to be played rather loudly over the speakers.
(AN: I want to state right here that I did not make this song up, and unfortuantly I did not ask the author for permission to use it. It is from another SMxGW fanfic, but I couldn't remember which one! So if someone knows the author who used this song in his/her fic, include it in your review and I'll give major credit in the next chapter!)
A voice sang out:
"I'm hungry, how far? My nose is snotty, gotta use the potty, need to move my body, better stop the car!" Then the song was repeated over in different languages, each more annoying than the one before it. Within a minute of the song beginning to play, Duo and Usagi had two guns aimed at them.
"Turn. It. Off. Now." Hiiro commanded. Usagi gulped and tapped the keypad once, effectively cutting off the song.
"Good man, Hiiro." Wufei praised, putting his gun away again. Hiiro refrained from rolling his eyes.
It was a good three or four more hours until they reached the Academy. As soon as they arrived, Usagi and Duo were the first to jump out of the limo. After recieving death glares from Trowa, Hiiro, and Wufei, the five were immediately escorted to Relena's office.
"Great, get ready to meet Relena Peaceofcrap." Duo whispered to Usagi. Wufei heard and sighed. They opened the door and went into Relena's office. The girl was seated at her desk.
"Hello," she greeted them. "It is nice to see you all again." She raised her eyebrows slightly at Usagi. Getting into host mode, Quatre stepped out of the group to make the introductions.
"Hello Miss Peaceofcrap! I've been looking forward to meeting you so much!" Usagi greeted. All five of the pilots sweatdropped. Relena's eyes widened dramatically.
"Usagi, this is Miss Relena Peacecraft. Miss Relena, this is Miss Usagi Tsukino." he said calmly. Usagi stepped forward to extend her hand to Relena. The taller girl shook hands with her and then stepped back, giving the odango-haired girl a slow look, as if deciding something about her. All of the pilots caught the look and returned it harshly. Wufei draped his arm around Usagi's waist possessively.
"Well, I had arranged for two adjacent rooms for you but I hadn't counted on you bringing a young lady with you." Relena said regally.
"That's alright, Miss Relena." Quatre spoke up. "Hiiro arranged for us to stay in one of the campus apartments."
"Won't you be cramped? They're fairly small." Relena replied skeptically.
"We'll be alright." Usagi replied.
"Fine. Follow me." Relena stiffly commanded, and then began to walk through the halls. Classes for the day were already finished, so the only students still hanging around were those just finishing detention and those involved in after-school activities. Relena was greeted several times, but was addressed as a teacher.
It was only a three or four minute walk to the apartment. It was actually attached to one of the school buildings, of which there were sixteen, including dorms and gyms. Each building was connected to all the others by concrete paths. The landscaping was beautiful and well-kept, and the entire area shone in the afternoon sun.
Relena stopped them in front of a white/gray door. Like all the others in the hall, it was labeled with a number and had a buzzer. She unlocked the door and then moved aside, allowing them into the room first and handing the key to Hiiro as he passed her.
"Thank you." Hiiro said in monotone, closing and locking the door behind him. Relena huffed angrily for a moment and then shook her head and walked away.
The apartment was small indeed. The door opened into the living room, which connected to the small kitchen. In the bedroom, there were three sets of bunk bed and one small desk shoved in a corner and two bathrooms- one with a shower and one without. When Usagi saw that there was a door in the living room and the bedroom that opened into a single balcony her eyes lit up with delight- she loved balconies.
"Well, let's unpack. Hiiro, will you download our schedules for us?" Quatre asked, pulling his bags from the entryway where they had been dropped to the bedroom. The others followed suit, with Usagi grabbing Hiiro's bags as well while he sat at the desk and began typing away.
Under each bunk bed there was a set of pull-out drawers replacing the usually empty space between the bed and the floor. It didn't take them long to unpack, but deciding who bunked with who was another story.
"I get top bunk!" Duo cried, clamboring up one of the beds.
"Baka American." Wufei grunted. "I'm bunking with Usagi. You have top." he told her. "Quatre and Trowa have the one across from us. Duo and Hiiro have the third." Duo groaned.
"Hiiro, buddy, may I have top bunk?" Duo asked, pouting slightly.
"Only if you promise not to be climbing up and down in the middle of the night." the other boy replied in monotone.
'He's finally acting human.' Usagi thought. Dup whispered something to Hiiro, who promptly pulled his gun out and aimed it at the braided one. 'Well, he's better anyways.'
Beeep! Beeee-
It was, of course, Hiiro's laptop.
"Mission. All of us. Let's go." Hiiro commanded. Luckily, Usagi had put the Gundams in her subdimensional pocket. It was only a matter of time before they had found the hanger the doctors had somehow secured for them, retrieved their Gundams, and taken off. Usagi sighed deeply, took Unmei out and climbed in, said a quick prayer to the Goddess Selene.
It wasn't an infiltrate-base-steal-file-destroy-base mission. It was a destroy-base-and-everyone-in-it mission. Unfortuantly, they were met with sixty mobile suits. And talented as they were, they weren't great at handling sixty suits at once. They had picked off about fifteen by the time Usagi got there. She chose to stay at a distance, taking out suits as if she were a sniper. She raised a strong shield around her to protect from any of the other Gundam's shots.
"He's back!" Duo exclaimed, seeing Unmei off in the distance.
"He's too far away, how is he shooting the suits?" Quatre wondered aloud.
"He must have longer range on his guns. If this guy wasn't a complete asshole I'd ask him how he designed it." Wufei said.
"Keep fighting." Hiiro commanded.
"I'll be right back." Trowa said, pulling away from the group and speeding over nearer to Unmei. He sent a request for a visual link, but was met with the standard response-
No, but thanks anyway. Shouldn't you be fighting? Usagi asked.
"Worry about your own fight." Trowa replied, firing at the suits that dared to come their way.
A man of few words, I see. Usagi teased. Heavyarms spun and fired at Unmei several times. Luckily for Usagi, the shield that she had set up worked- the bullets deflected back towards Heavyarms but each missed the large Gundam.
If you don't want my help I'll leave, but you haven't been doing so great these last few missions.
"Hmmph."
Usagi sent three huge blasts of energy and a warning to the other Gundams to MOVE. They instantly reacted and retreated, watching as all of the remaining suits were incinerated. Before the blast had ended, Unmei was gone.
Usagi was sitting on the couch watching TV when the guys came back into the dorm. She greeted them with a huge smile.
"Hey guys! How'd it go?" she asked. Each responded differently: Wufei slammed his fist into the nearest wall, Quatre hung his head, Trowa growled, Hiiro grunted, and Duo exclaimed in a loud voice "Bad!".
Usagi pretended to be confused.
"Why, what happened?" she asked. They moved to lounge around the room; Wufei pulled Usagi onto his lap once more to make room for the others.
"The guy turned up, destroyed all the suits, and then left. The nerve of him!" Duo exclaimed. From experience, Usagi knew that there was more to it than that, but she did not probe any further.
"You'll get him next time, I know you will." she replied.
A little while later...
"Hey do guys want to play a drinking game?" Duo asked. "Pllleeeaaasssee??" he whined.
"Fine, I'll play." Wufei agreed. Reluctantly, Quatre agreed too.
"I'll play, I guess." Usagi said slowly; Duo ran to get everything ready.
"Wufei is it really a good idea to be drinking when we have to go to school tomorrow?" Usagi asked.
"We'll be okay." he assured her.
"But Wufei!" she exclaimed, then he leaned closer to hear her as she lowered her voice.
"I've never drunk before." she whispered to him. He leaned even closer to reply.
"I'll take care of you." he promised quietly, his lips brushing against her ear. She shivered. The four of them took up seats around the living room while Hiiro disappeared to the bedroom, not wanting to be part of the coming insanity.
"Okay, here's how the game works." Duo said, setting a few trays of tiny plastic cups on the coffee table. "We're going to watch Gone in Sixty Seconds and every time they cuss you have to take a shot of tequila. Easy enough, huh? Last one to start puking wins." Usagi was looking less and less enthusiastic by the second.
The braided one put the movie in and the game began.
(AN: Has everyone seen Gone in Sixty Seconds? I hope so...)
By ten minutes into the movie, Duo had to run back to the kitchen to get more drinks.
An hour later...
"hic Like, leprechauns are hic cool, man!" Usagi said through her hiccups.
"Dude, I'm in love with Barney!" Duo exclaimed.
"Uh-huh, Barney's my man!" Usagi replied.
"Both of you are crazy and honorable... I mean dishonorable... oh what the fuck I don't know what I'm saying." Wufei said, confusing himself.
"Squirrels are coooollllll..... Meow!" Usagi exclaimed.
An hour later....
The movie's credits began rolling.
"Like, it's over, whoah..." Duo said. "Ya'll wanna play Truth or Dare?"
"Dude, that's like my favorite game!" Usagi replied.
"Okay, Quatre, truth or dare?" Duo asked.
"Truth!" the blonde Arab replied.
"Have you ever done it, man? I've been wondering about that for a long time!"
Quatre blushed about fifteen different shades of red before gulping down another shot and replying.
"There was this one time... at band camp... when I was six... Nevermind, no there wasn't..."
"Was that a yes or a no?" Wufei joked.
"Maybe...." Quatre replied. "Wufei, truth or dare?"
"Dare!"
"I dare you to call Trowa a sexy mama!"
"WHAT?! Okay. Trowa!" Wufei called. Trowa stuck his head into the hallway.
"You're such a sexy mama!"
"You're drunk." Trowa said simply, and returned to the solitude of his room.
"No DUH! That's what happens when you drink thirty shots of tequila!" Wufei replied loudly. The sound of snoring brought their attention to Usagi. She had passed out on the couch where she sat.
"Awww shit." Wufei whined.
"We probably should get sober for tomorrow." Quatre suggested. The other two agreed. They had been trained to be able to sober themselves up easily. It only took a little water and vinegar drink mix to restore them back to their normal cheerful selves. Wufei made Usagi gulp down some of the bitter liquid before allowing her to sleep.
The next morning, to her infinite surprise, Usagi woke up to a mild upset stomach. She grabbed her uniform and disappeared into the bathroom.
"This looks so horrible." she said to herself, examing the uniform in the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door. The uniform consisted of a knee-length red and grey plaid skirt, a white blouse, and a red tie. Every piece of the outfit looked too large and misplaced. Scrunching up her nose, Usagi prepared to do battle with the ugly clothes. It only took her a few minutes to change the outfit to her satisfaction. The skirt was a lot shorter and fit right, starting below her belly button and flaring gently off of her hips. The shirt was one of her own from Tokyo- a collared, sleeveless white blouse with two zips- one at the top and one at the bottom. Usagi left the bottom unzipped enough to show her lean stomach and left the top open to show a little cleavage. The tie was longer and looser, beginning halfway down her stomach. Satisfied with the effect, she pulled on her white tennis shoes and called out to the guys.
"Everybody decent?" Usagi asked.
"Yeah, it's safe, Usagi!" Quatre called back. She joined them in the kitchen.
"Hey no fair the chicks get the cool outfits!" Duo exclaimed, seeing her ensemble.
"I modified mine. It looked horrible before." she explained. "Besides, yours aren't bad." The guys' uniforms were better than Usagi's had been, consisting of simple grey pants, white long-sleeved shirts, and red ties. Each uniform also came with a hooded sweatshirt- Usagi's was grey, the boys' were red.
(AN: Just so you get the picture of what they're wearing, the 'red' is actually a burgandy or wine-red color.)
"We better get moving or we'll be late. We need to stop by Relena's office and get our schedules." Quatre said.
"Even though we already know where we're going." Duo complained as they locked the door behind them.
"Get over it, Duo!" Usagi told him. "I'm excited!"
"To be going back to school?" Wufei asked incredously.
"No, I'm just excited in general."
"Whatever, onna." he joked. Usagi stuck her tongue out at Wufei before skipping ahead.
"Hello again Miss Relena!" Usagi greeted. Relena was obviously less than pleased at the sight of Usagi's outfit. Silently wondering how the girl had managed to look normal in the ugly uniform, Relena plastered a fake smile and greeted them.
"Hello Miss Usagi, gentlemen, and welcome to your first day." Relena gave them each a copy of their schedules.
"Man we took all these classes in training!" Duo cried, looking at the titles.
"And you failed most of them so pay attention this time around." Wufei said.
"You will be required to do the assignments given and take and pass the tests just like everyone else- You remember, you cannot call attention to yourselves." Relena warned.
"Hai, we remember." Hiiro replied in monotone.
"Good. I'll escort you to your first class. I believe it is Calculus II, right?"
"Yes."
"Then let's go!" Usagi exclaimed. Relena led them out of the office building and down towards the classrooms. She knocked on one of the doors before opening it and sticking her head in.
"Good morning Mrs. Johnson. I have the six new students for you." Relena informed the woman. Then she stepped away from the door and allowed the others to go inside before returning to her office.
Mrs. Johnson was a rather stout lady with bright red hair and brown eyes. She greeted the six of them with uncertainty.
"Welcome, gentlemen." she said. Usagi was out of the class's view behind the pilots. When they shuffled aside a bit, the teacher corrected her mistake.
"And lady." Mrs. Johnson added, after getting over the shock of seeing Usagi's improved uniform. The girls in the class turned green with envy as even the boys with steady girlfriends looked Usagi over and found no fault.
"Well then, why don't you each step forward, introduce yourself, tell us how old you are and something interesting about yourself." the teacher said. Quatre stepped forward first.
"My name is Quatre Winner, I am 17 years old and I have twenty-nine sisters." A few jaws dropped.
"Somebody's parents were very busy." someone whispered in the back of the class.
"My name is Duo Maxwell, I'm 17 and I'm the craziest person you'll ever meet."
"He's not joking, either. My name is Chang Wufei. I am also 17." Wufei cut his introduction short.
"Hey! My name's Tsukino Usagi, I'm 16, and I… (thinking, 'Have magical powers- Pilot a Gundam- Was born in 20th century Tokyo- Was originally born on the moon and then reincarnated- Nope, none of that'll do! I'll have to make something up!')
"And Duo's not the craziest person you'll ever meet! I am!" she finished finally.
"Hey! I'm the craziest!" Duo said, facing her.
"No, I am!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
This ended in a raspberry war, which was promptly stopped by Wufei and Quatre, who pulled their friends apart. The introductions continued.
"I am Yui Hiiro. I am 17."
"Trowa Barton. 18." Trowa said simply.
"Alright then," Mrs. Johnson began hesitantly. "You six will need to sit in that back row. I don't care what order you're in." she said, handing each of them a textbook as they passed by her desk on the way to their row. They ended up sitting in this order: Hiiro, Quatre, Wufei, Usagi, Duo, Trowa.
"Alright class open your books to page 301 and let's begin." the teacher finally began to do her job.
Bored and not paying attention as usual, Duo began to think. When Duo thinks, it is a rare and momentous occasion that should not be taken lightly. When Duo starts to think, bad things happen.
So when Duo chucked a wadded up piece of paper at Usagi, no one was surprised. The problem was, it flew past Usagi and onto Wufei's desk. Duo's eyes widened in horror as Wufei read it. Written on the paper was a brief note-
'You've got the attention of every guy in this class, you know? I think you're gonna be getting some phone numbers shoved at ya!'
And this was Wufei's reply:
"MAXWELL!"
"Eeep!"
Needless to say, the class had a very odd impression of the group of new guys by the time that first period was over. The guys did launch themselves at Usagi the moment that the bell rang, offering to walk her to her next class. Politely, she said that she needed to use the restroom but maybe some other time. Undaunted, they accepted the 'rain check' and left her alone.
"What's next on the schedule, boys?" she asked.
"Chemistry." Quatre replied.
"Oh dear."
Duo: CHEMISTRY CLASS?! Are you NUTS?! You're going to put us six TOGETHER in a room with a bunch of DANGEROUS CHEMICALS?!!!
AKA: Nods.
Duo: Cool. Sounds like fun.
Quatre: You really shouldn't question the author's powers.
Wufei: Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty PLEASE can I hurt Maxwell?!
AKA: No. I got flamed for threatening him last time. (in a whisper: "Go get him!")
Wufei: Yaaaayy!
AKA: I really shouldn't have let him have that tequila... *Sweatdrop*
It's been a slow process, this uploading business. Anyways, I'm sorry that this is all I have written so far... I'm trying to write as fast as I can but MRS SANDERS IS FRIGGIN EVIL OKAY??? She likes to make everyone's life a living hell.
Alright, my ranting is over (for now)... I mean seriously though when a history teacher is so biased and small-minded in her thinking and teaching that I have to sit in her class and bite my tonuge so hard that it bleeds just to keep from standing up and telling her exactly what I think of her...
Oh well I've got 3/4s of a year left with her so I guess I gotta get used to it...
Oh yeah thanks to everyone who reviewed! It reminded me that there still are people out there who are reading this and want more!
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"Do you think she's okay?" Wufei asked.
"I hope so." Trowa replied.
"I feel confusion and angst from her. She's upset about something, and she's trying to block me." Quatre said.
"Well what does that mean?! For God's sake, you taught her to block you!" Wufei replied. It was true- for several days after they returned, Quatre's empathy had been attacked by Usagi's distraught emotions. He had asked Usagi to try to block him, and she had complied. Now, the tool was being used against them.
"Sometimes our empathies are so in touch it's like we can read each others minds, but when she blocks me, I can only get a vague sense of what she's feeling." the blonde Arabian explained further.
"I hope she's okay." Wufei said.
"I hope that if she's not, she talks to one of us soon." Duo added.
Usagi slept for two hours. She was woken up by Quatre, who shook her gently and told her it was time to go.
"Go where?" she asked groggily.
"To the Peacecraft Academy." he replied.
"Oh. I knew that." Usagi said, rubbing her eyes and climbing out of the bed. The two walked together in a comfortable silence. The other pilots were just finishing loading their bags into the back of one of Quatre's limos when they arrived.
Usagi yawned and stretched before climbing in behind Quatre.
"Did you have a nice nap?" Duo asked. She smiled, and settled back into the comfortable leather seat between Hiiro and Wufei.
"Yup." she replied. Trowa was the last in, and shut the door behind him. Quatre said a few words to the driver, and then closed the soundproof barrier between the driver and the six occupants of the backseat.
Usagi closed her eyes and lent against Wufei's shoulder. He reached up with one hand to pat her head briefly before quietly talking to Quatre. Hiiro, of course, had his laptop on and was tapping away at the keys. Duo had a small portable DVD player and a set of headphones to amuse him.
After awhile, Usagi woke back up and joined Duo in watching some shoot-em up flick. It was a LONG drive to the academy. After awhile, Duo pulled out his own laptop and quietly showed Usagi a program he had picked up off the internet. She cracked up as she listened to it on her headphones. Getting one of those 'evil grin' looks that she was so good at, she pulled out the plug for the headphones, causing the song to be played rather loudly over the speakers.
(AN: I want to state right here that I did not make this song up, and unfortuantly I did not ask the author for permission to use it. It is from another SMxGW fanfic, but I couldn't remember which one! So if someone knows the author who used this song in his/her fic, include it in your review and I'll give major credit in the next chapter!)
A voice sang out:
"I'm hungry, how far? My nose is snotty, gotta use the potty, need to move my body, better stop the car!" Then the song was repeated over in different languages, each more annoying than the one before it. Within a minute of the song beginning to play, Duo and Usagi had two guns aimed at them.
"Turn. It. Off. Now." Hiiro commanded. Usagi gulped and tapped the keypad once, effectively cutting off the song.
"Good man, Hiiro." Wufei praised, putting his gun away again. Hiiro refrained from rolling his eyes.
It was a good three or four more hours until they reached the Academy. As soon as they arrived, Usagi and Duo were the first to jump out of the limo. After recieving death glares from Trowa, Hiiro, and Wufei, the five were immediately escorted to Relena's office.
"Great, get ready to meet Relena Peaceofcrap." Duo whispered to Usagi. Wufei heard and sighed. They opened the door and went into Relena's office. The girl was seated at her desk.
"Hello," she greeted them. "It is nice to see you all again." She raised her eyebrows slightly at Usagi. Getting into host mode, Quatre stepped out of the group to make the introductions.
"Hello Miss Peaceofcrap! I've been looking forward to meeting you so much!" Usagi greeted. All five of the pilots sweatdropped. Relena's eyes widened dramatically.
"Usagi, this is Miss Relena Peacecraft. Miss Relena, this is Miss Usagi Tsukino." he said calmly. Usagi stepped forward to extend her hand to Relena. The taller girl shook hands with her and then stepped back, giving the odango-haired girl a slow look, as if deciding something about her. All of the pilots caught the look and returned it harshly. Wufei draped his arm around Usagi's waist possessively.
"Well, I had arranged for two adjacent rooms for you but I hadn't counted on you bringing a young lady with you." Relena said regally.
"That's alright, Miss Relena." Quatre spoke up. "Hiiro arranged for us to stay in one of the campus apartments."
"Won't you be cramped? They're fairly small." Relena replied skeptically.
"We'll be alright." Usagi replied.
"Fine. Follow me." Relena stiffly commanded, and then began to walk through the halls. Classes for the day were already finished, so the only students still hanging around were those just finishing detention and those involved in after-school activities. Relena was greeted several times, but was addressed as a teacher.
It was only a three or four minute walk to the apartment. It was actually attached to one of the school buildings, of which there were sixteen, including dorms and gyms. Each building was connected to all the others by concrete paths. The landscaping was beautiful and well-kept, and the entire area shone in the afternoon sun.
Relena stopped them in front of a white/gray door. Like all the others in the hall, it was labeled with a number and had a buzzer. She unlocked the door and then moved aside, allowing them into the room first and handing the key to Hiiro as he passed her.
"Thank you." Hiiro said in monotone, closing and locking the door behind him. Relena huffed angrily for a moment and then shook her head and walked away.
The apartment was small indeed. The door opened into the living room, which connected to the small kitchen. In the bedroom, there were three sets of bunk bed and one small desk shoved in a corner and two bathrooms- one with a shower and one without. When Usagi saw that there was a door in the living room and the bedroom that opened into a single balcony her eyes lit up with delight- she loved balconies.
"Well, let's unpack. Hiiro, will you download our schedules for us?" Quatre asked, pulling his bags from the entryway where they had been dropped to the bedroom. The others followed suit, with Usagi grabbing Hiiro's bags as well while he sat at the desk and began typing away.
Under each bunk bed there was a set of pull-out drawers replacing the usually empty space between the bed and the floor. It didn't take them long to unpack, but deciding who bunked with who was another story.
"I get top bunk!" Duo cried, clamboring up one of the beds.
"Baka American." Wufei grunted. "I'm bunking with Usagi. You have top." he told her. "Quatre and Trowa have the one across from us. Duo and Hiiro have the third." Duo groaned.
"Hiiro, buddy, may I have top bunk?" Duo asked, pouting slightly.
"Only if you promise not to be climbing up and down in the middle of the night." the other boy replied in monotone.
'He's finally acting human.' Usagi thought. Dup whispered something to Hiiro, who promptly pulled his gun out and aimed it at the braided one. 'Well, he's better anyways.'
Beeep! Beeee-
It was, of course, Hiiro's laptop.
"Mission. All of us. Let's go." Hiiro commanded. Luckily, Usagi had put the Gundams in her subdimensional pocket. It was only a matter of time before they had found the hanger the doctors had somehow secured for them, retrieved their Gundams, and taken off. Usagi sighed deeply, took Unmei out and climbed in, said a quick prayer to the Goddess Selene.
It wasn't an infiltrate-base-steal-file-destroy-base mission. It was a destroy-base-and-everyone-in-it mission. Unfortuantly, they were met with sixty mobile suits. And talented as they were, they weren't great at handling sixty suits at once. They had picked off about fifteen by the time Usagi got there. She chose to stay at a distance, taking out suits as if she were a sniper. She raised a strong shield around her to protect from any of the other Gundam's shots.
"He's back!" Duo exclaimed, seeing Unmei off in the distance.
"He's too far away, how is he shooting the suits?" Quatre wondered aloud.
"He must have longer range on his guns. If this guy wasn't a complete asshole I'd ask him how he designed it." Wufei said.
"Keep fighting." Hiiro commanded.
"I'll be right back." Trowa said, pulling away from the group and speeding over nearer to Unmei. He sent a request for a visual link, but was met with the standard response-
No, but thanks anyway. Shouldn't you be fighting? Usagi asked.
"Worry about your own fight." Trowa replied, firing at the suits that dared to come their way.
A man of few words, I see. Usagi teased. Heavyarms spun and fired at Unmei several times. Luckily for Usagi, the shield that she had set up worked- the bullets deflected back towards Heavyarms but each missed the large Gundam.
If you don't want my help I'll leave, but you haven't been doing so great these last few missions.
"Hmmph."
Usagi sent three huge blasts of energy and a warning to the other Gundams to MOVE. They instantly reacted and retreated, watching as all of the remaining suits were incinerated. Before the blast had ended, Unmei was gone.
Usagi was sitting on the couch watching TV when the guys came back into the dorm. She greeted them with a huge smile.
"Hey guys! How'd it go?" she asked. Each responded differently: Wufei slammed his fist into the nearest wall, Quatre hung his head, Trowa growled, Hiiro grunted, and Duo exclaimed in a loud voice "Bad!".
Usagi pretended to be confused.
"Why, what happened?" she asked. They moved to lounge around the room; Wufei pulled Usagi onto his lap once more to make room for the others.
"The guy turned up, destroyed all the suits, and then left. The nerve of him!" Duo exclaimed. From experience, Usagi knew that there was more to it than that, but she did not probe any further.
"You'll get him next time, I know you will." she replied.
A little while later...
"Hey do guys want to play a drinking game?" Duo asked. "Pllleeeaaasssee??" he whined.
"Fine, I'll play." Wufei agreed. Reluctantly, Quatre agreed too.
"I'll play, I guess." Usagi said slowly; Duo ran to get everything ready.
"Wufei is it really a good idea to be drinking when we have to go to school tomorrow?" Usagi asked.
"We'll be okay." he assured her.
"But Wufei!" she exclaimed, then he leaned closer to hear her as she lowered her voice.
"I've never drunk before." she whispered to him. He leaned even closer to reply.
"I'll take care of you." he promised quietly, his lips brushing against her ear. She shivered. The four of them took up seats around the living room while Hiiro disappeared to the bedroom, not wanting to be part of the coming insanity.
"Okay, here's how the game works." Duo said, setting a few trays of tiny plastic cups on the coffee table. "We're going to watch Gone in Sixty Seconds and every time they cuss you have to take a shot of tequila. Easy enough, huh? Last one to start puking wins." Usagi was looking less and less enthusiastic by the second.
The braided one put the movie in and the game began.
(AN: Has everyone seen Gone in Sixty Seconds? I hope so...)
By ten minutes into the movie, Duo had to run back to the kitchen to get more drinks.
An hour later...
"hic Like, leprechauns are hic cool, man!" Usagi said through her hiccups.
"Dude, I'm in love with Barney!" Duo exclaimed.
"Uh-huh, Barney's my man!" Usagi replied.
"Both of you are crazy and honorable... I mean dishonorable... oh what the fuck I don't know what I'm saying." Wufei said, confusing himself.
"Squirrels are coooollllll..... Meow!" Usagi exclaimed.
An hour later....
The movie's credits began rolling.
"Like, it's over, whoah..." Duo said. "Ya'll wanna play Truth or Dare?"
"Dude, that's like my favorite game!" Usagi replied.
"Okay, Quatre, truth or dare?" Duo asked.
"Truth!" the blonde Arab replied.
"Have you ever done it, man? I've been wondering about that for a long time!"
Quatre blushed about fifteen different shades of red before gulping down another shot and replying.
"There was this one time... at band camp... when I was six... Nevermind, no there wasn't..."
"Was that a yes or a no?" Wufei joked.
"Maybe...." Quatre replied. "Wufei, truth or dare?"
"Dare!"
"I dare you to call Trowa a sexy mama!"
"WHAT?! Okay. Trowa!" Wufei called. Trowa stuck his head into the hallway.
"You're such a sexy mama!"
"You're drunk." Trowa said simply, and returned to the solitude of his room.
"No DUH! That's what happens when you drink thirty shots of tequila!" Wufei replied loudly. The sound of snoring brought their attention to Usagi. She had passed out on the couch where she sat.
"Awww shit." Wufei whined.
"We probably should get sober for tomorrow." Quatre suggested. The other two agreed. They had been trained to be able to sober themselves up easily. It only took a little water and vinegar drink mix to restore them back to their normal cheerful selves. Wufei made Usagi gulp down some of the bitter liquid before allowing her to sleep.
The next morning, to her infinite surprise, Usagi woke up to a mild upset stomach. She grabbed her uniform and disappeared into the bathroom.
"This looks so horrible." she said to herself, examing the uniform in the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door. The uniform consisted of a knee-length red and grey plaid skirt, a white blouse, and a red tie. Every piece of the outfit looked too large and misplaced. Scrunching up her nose, Usagi prepared to do battle with the ugly clothes. It only took her a few minutes to change the outfit to her satisfaction. The skirt was a lot shorter and fit right, starting below her belly button and flaring gently off of her hips. The shirt was one of her own from Tokyo- a collared, sleeveless white blouse with two zips- one at the top and one at the bottom. Usagi left the bottom unzipped enough to show her lean stomach and left the top open to show a little cleavage. The tie was longer and looser, beginning halfway down her stomach. Satisfied with the effect, she pulled on her white tennis shoes and called out to the guys.
"Everybody decent?" Usagi asked.
"Yeah, it's safe, Usagi!" Quatre called back. She joined them in the kitchen.
"Hey no fair the chicks get the cool outfits!" Duo exclaimed, seeing her ensemble.
"I modified mine. It looked horrible before." she explained. "Besides, yours aren't bad." The guys' uniforms were better than Usagi's had been, consisting of simple grey pants, white long-sleeved shirts, and red ties. Each uniform also came with a hooded sweatshirt- Usagi's was grey, the boys' were red.
(AN: Just so you get the picture of what they're wearing, the 'red' is actually a burgandy or wine-red color.)
"We better get moving or we'll be late. We need to stop by Relena's office and get our schedules." Quatre said.
"Even though we already know where we're going." Duo complained as they locked the door behind them.
"Get over it, Duo!" Usagi told him. "I'm excited!"
"To be going back to school?" Wufei asked incredously.
"No, I'm just excited in general."
"Whatever, onna." he joked. Usagi stuck her tongue out at Wufei before skipping ahead.
"Hello again Miss Relena!" Usagi greeted. Relena was obviously less than pleased at the sight of Usagi's outfit. Silently wondering how the girl had managed to look normal in the ugly uniform, Relena plastered a fake smile and greeted them.
"Hello Miss Usagi, gentlemen, and welcome to your first day." Relena gave them each a copy of their schedules.
"Man we took all these classes in training!" Duo cried, looking at the titles.
"And you failed most of them so pay attention this time around." Wufei said.
"You will be required to do the assignments given and take and pass the tests just like everyone else- You remember, you cannot call attention to yourselves." Relena warned.
"Hai, we remember." Hiiro replied in monotone.
"Good. I'll escort you to your first class. I believe it is Calculus II, right?"
"Yes."
"Then let's go!" Usagi exclaimed. Relena led them out of the office building and down towards the classrooms. She knocked on one of the doors before opening it and sticking her head in.
"Good morning Mrs. Johnson. I have the six new students for you." Relena informed the woman. Then she stepped away from the door and allowed the others to go inside before returning to her office.
Mrs. Johnson was a rather stout lady with bright red hair and brown eyes. She greeted the six of them with uncertainty.
"Welcome, gentlemen." she said. Usagi was out of the class's view behind the pilots. When they shuffled aside a bit, the teacher corrected her mistake.
"And lady." Mrs. Johnson added, after getting over the shock of seeing Usagi's improved uniform. The girls in the class turned green with envy as even the boys with steady girlfriends looked Usagi over and found no fault.
"Well then, why don't you each step forward, introduce yourself, tell us how old you are and something interesting about yourself." the teacher said. Quatre stepped forward first.
"My name is Quatre Winner, I am 17 years old and I have twenty-nine sisters." A few jaws dropped.
"Somebody's parents were very busy." someone whispered in the back of the class.
"My name is Duo Maxwell, I'm 17 and I'm the craziest person you'll ever meet."
"He's not joking, either. My name is Chang Wufei. I am also 17." Wufei cut his introduction short.
"Hey! My name's Tsukino Usagi, I'm 16, and I… (thinking, 'Have magical powers- Pilot a Gundam- Was born in 20th century Tokyo- Was originally born on the moon and then reincarnated- Nope, none of that'll do! I'll have to make something up!')
"And Duo's not the craziest person you'll ever meet! I am!" she finished finally.
"Hey! I'm the craziest!" Duo said, facing her.
"No, I am!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Are too!"
This ended in a raspberry war, which was promptly stopped by Wufei and Quatre, who pulled their friends apart. The introductions continued.
"I am Yui Hiiro. I am 17."
"Trowa Barton. 18." Trowa said simply.
"Alright then," Mrs. Johnson began hesitantly. "You six will need to sit in that back row. I don't care what order you're in." she said, handing each of them a textbook as they passed by her desk on the way to their row. They ended up sitting in this order: Hiiro, Quatre, Wufei, Usagi, Duo, Trowa.
"Alright class open your books to page 301 and let's begin." the teacher finally began to do her job.
Bored and not paying attention as usual, Duo began to think. When Duo thinks, it is a rare and momentous occasion that should not be taken lightly. When Duo starts to think, bad things happen.
So when Duo chucked a wadded up piece of paper at Usagi, no one was surprised. The problem was, it flew past Usagi and onto Wufei's desk. Duo's eyes widened in horror as Wufei read it. Written on the paper was a brief note-
'You've got the attention of every guy in this class, you know? I think you're gonna be getting some phone numbers shoved at ya!'
And this was Wufei's reply:
"MAXWELL!"
"Eeep!"
Needless to say, the class had a very odd impression of the group of new guys by the time that first period was over. The guys did launch themselves at Usagi the moment that the bell rang, offering to walk her to her next class. Politely, she said that she needed to use the restroom but maybe some other time. Undaunted, they accepted the 'rain check' and left her alone.
"What's next on the schedule, boys?" she asked.
"Chemistry." Quatre replied.
"Oh dear."
Duo: CHEMISTRY CLASS?! Are you NUTS?! You're going to put us six TOGETHER in a room with a bunch of DANGEROUS CHEMICALS?!!!
AKA: Nods.
Duo: Cool. Sounds like fun.
Quatre: You really shouldn't question the author's powers.
Wufei: Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty PLEASE can I hurt Maxwell?!
AKA: No. I got flamed for threatening him last time. (in a whisper: "Go get him!")
Wufei: Yaaaayy!
AKA: I really shouldn't have let him have that tequila... *Sweatdrop*