Is it me that I run from or is it what I feel that keeps my legs moving? The air rushes through me, can I continue? Of course I can, I always can. Their eyes haunted my fitful nightmare. I feel nothing and everything.

My eyes open to the world and I see Trowa sitting on a chair next to my bed, the others in further inspection are on the floor slumped and asleep. I look at Trowa who only now is awakening. His green eyes stare at me as if he does not know me anymore.

"Who are you?" he asked in a quiet voice, yet it held dark promise.

"I am who I was made to be."

"Are you the boy we know or are you an imposter posing as Heero Yui?"

By now all the boys were awake to here our conversation. They look on curiously and coldly detached.

"Yes."

"What is the yes for Yui? Or are you someone else." Asked Wufei.

"To both."

"Explain." The same way I say it all the time, I look at Trowa he is not ready may never be ready to be the leader.

"I have been your companion through this war, but I am not Heero Yui."

"How is that possible." Asked the polite Quatre I could feel him trying to read my emotions and I broke off.

"Do not do that again," I said as I glared at him, " Heero Yui was weak and could not take what I did."

Wufei interrupted me, "Heero Yui is not weak."

"I am glad you think so highly of me Wufei."

"But you said you are not him so why would wu-man be complimenting you?" asked Duo.

"Heero Yui, I hate him, hate his name, died in training with Dr.J I was the child of one of the mechanics that had recently died while working on the Gundam. He took me in two months before the death of the true Heero Yui. He was desperate, so desperate that he took in a girl and made her give up any hopes and dreams she had. All that his left is a broken shell."

They looked at me and I shrugged it off walking to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror once more and this time I did not bother to scream. What was the point I had silver and gold hair that at the moment went to my mid back. Duo came in and though I did not scream his reaction all but made up for it.

He screamed bloody murder. The others raced to the door when they saw me it was as though that while we talked they had not seen the difference in me.

"I was going to take a shower and I will take one whether or not you remove yourselves from the room."

They all looked at me dumbfounded as I slipped the shirt that covered my chest. They all stared in shock as I slowly unbound the layers of wrapped material that held the evidence of my femininity when I was finished quatre was red and the others were looking away while do looked on in clear interest.

I shrugged. And unbuttoned my pants not even caring when he started drooling as I slipped the last remaing article of clothing from my body.

"It is dishonorable to strip in front men not your husband."

"That is probably true but one learns to ignore when they become the object of old an man's twisted fantasies."

I heard gasps from all of them but I did not turn around. I wondered at what shocked them more my statement or the lines of scars that ran down my back.

"I guess I should be grateful that he mostly went for boys so that at least one part of me is not broken and mine to give." I said this without emotion, almost detached from the world.

"What is your name?"

"you know nobody thought to ask me that after He died. The name I was born with is Usagi."

"Don't you know? Don't you know Usagi that your free?" asked Wufei with compassion and sympathy and over all understanding for what I had lost, his voice was gentle and unlike anything I had ever heard.
I never really knew
That I was Free.

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that is another chap. Can't wait for those reviews (Hint hint) any way tell me what you think.

Votes so far.

Duo: 1 Wufei: 5 Trowa: 2 Quatre: 0