Author's Note: Hey there! Ok...I counted the votes, and here they are! That's if they're right…
Usagi/Heero-18
Usagi/Mamoru-5 - - -Those are all Kaiya's votes, I'm so sorry! You were out numbered!!! By...I don't know how many, but at least you tried!!!
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Ch. 6: "Rose Petals tell all Pt.1"
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Another month passed by ever so quickly in the future world. Each and every couple Usagi wanted to match-make-them-together, got together. Everyone was as happy as they could be.
"Oh yeah, I'm on a lucky break! No detention for today!" Duo cheered as he hugged and kissed his girlfriend of the cheek.
"Duo, that's great! But Usagi has made a world record, she hasn't had a single detention yet!" Minako laughed.
"I heard that! Anyways, this is a new place and I didn't want to start off bad. How could I be late when I live on the school campus Minako?" Usagi said as she walked away from the academy.
"Oh I don't know, but you could try."
"I think not." Usagi scowled.
"Yo, you ok Usagi? You don't seem to be acting like your normal self." Duo asked.
"I'm fine, now leave me alone." Usagi said as she started to walk away from the couple.
"Something's wrong with her..." Minako said. "…And I'm going to find out!"
"I heard that to Minako! Don't even think about it!" Usagi screamed back.
"Hey, it doesn't mean you have to shove off your friends that CARE about you Usa!" Minako screamed back.
Usagi turned around and stared intently on the cowering back couple. "Hn." Was her only answer followed with a 'leave-me-alone' glare, and she continued to walk back towards her dorm.
Duo was completely shocked. "I don't believe it. She just pulled a 'Heero' on us! Something is definitely wrong with her."
"I know…" Minako answered, worry glazed in her eyes.
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Rei and Wufei were currently located in the Peacecraft Academy Park [park on the campus] and they were just talking, yes talking about things, not arguing for once. Wufei had gained more and more respect for Rei and promised not to call her and her friends anything with a 'weak' and an 'onna' in it. The flame danced in their eyes, and they came together. [Does that make sense? Yeah, they're together to.]
"Hey Odango Atama!" Rei said as she spotted her friend walking on the sidewalk. Usually she would get an answer from the blond girl and a shout, but today there was nothing. She gave Rei the silent treatment. Rei ran up to Usagi with Wufei following her. "Hello, you in there girl?"
"Huh? Rei, Wufei." She acknowledged, and continued walking down the path.
"Usagi." Wufei said with a nod. Usually Usagi would compliment Wufei on breaking the habit he had for calling them 'onnas', but she kept on walking.
Rei blocked Usagi's path from the front and asked her. "What is wrong with you?"
"Nothing." Usagi said, and tried to push Rei away, but Rei kept on blocking.
"You're not going anywhere until you tell what's wrong. You're way to gloomy for you happy, cheery self."
"Rei, you wouldn't understand." Usagi said coldly.
"Yes I would, if you would just tell me." Rei said gently.
"No you wouldn't. Get out of my way!" Usagi said bitterly as she gave Rei a hard push that sent her to the ground, and she ran towards the building that was in front of her. The dorms.
"Rei!" Wufei said in complete shock as he ran to break Rei's fall, in which he did just before she hit the concrete.
"Usagi…" Rei said with anger and confusion as a tear slid down her face. "I don't understand you anymore."
"It's ok…" Wufei said as he let Rei cry on his shoulder and tried to soothe her.
'Nothing's alright, none of this mess would have started if we didn't come here…but then I would of never met you, Wufei.' Rei thought as another hot tear fell from her eye and onto Wufei's shirt.
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"Quatre, what time is it?" Ami asked her blonde boyfriend. Neither she nor he was shy anymore, since they found each other comforting.
"It is…5:30. Why do you ask?" Quatre asked as he stared at the girl beside him.
"I promised to meet the girls in our rooms at six. But I've got half an hour left till I've got to go." Ami said with a smile.
"…petals are getting to me…" Quatre and Ami heard someone mumbling, and turned around to see Usagi.
"Hey Usagi!" The both greeted.
"Hello. Don't bother me or else you'll pay." She replied coldly as she walked past them. Usually she would tease them about finally being together and saying they were really cute, but nothing. Qautre looked at Ami and Ami looked at Quatre.
"She's hurt." Quatre said.
"How? I wonder what Rei did this time?" Ami asked as she thought.
"I don't think its Rei…it's something else." Quatre said, as he looked Ami in the eyes.
"Usa…" Ami whispered and looked at the figure walking alone, once cheery and happy, but now…alone and cold.
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Yes, the impossible was possible. Trowa talked.
"Yeah, and you wouldn't believe how foolish we looked!" Makoto laughed. "Usagi and I were chasing after the same guy, Motoki…he's so dreamy…" Makoto said as she daydreamed of Motoki. She missed him a lot.
"Makoto…" Trowa said with an eyebrow raised.
"What?" She asked still staring into space.
"Who is this Motoki guy?" Trowa asked with a hint of jealousy.
Makoto then fell back into reality, and sweat-dropped. Dreaming of some other guy when she already had a boyfriend? Shame on her. "Oh…he was a guy who worked at the arcade and yeah, as I said before, me and Usa were totally after him, but that was a long time ago. THEN we went to his house to cook his dinner since Usa really wanted to learn how to cook, just so she could catch Motoki more, but then we found out he had a girlfriend! Well, I did first but his girlfriend was going to go on this trip, so we decided we could snag him for ourselves, but that didn't work. Boy, was that ever embarrassing!"
"So…do you still like this guy?" Trowa asked curiously.
"Well I—oh, is someone here jea-lous?" Makoto asked with a grin. She was going to start laughing anytime.
"No, just curious." Trowa said as he looked away from her.
"Yeah yeah Trowa, I see right through you. But don't worry, he's no competition he's in Tokyo, miles and miles away from here." 'I'm sure of that.' Makoto thought wisely not to let everything spill and teased Trowa. "And anyways, he's got a girlfriend, I've got a boyfriend. There is no competition for you!"
"I sure hope not…" He mumbled.
"Heard that!" She giggled and looped her arm through his when she caught site of a blonde haired girl with 'streamers' coming from the buns on her head. "Usa!"
"Good-bye to you." She said as she quickly walked passed Makoto and Trowa also.
"Hey, something big just happened and I want to know." Makoto said sternly as she looked at Usagi's eyes, but they were a dull cerulean blue, not bright like usual. "Usagi, tell me."
"That's what Minako, Rei, and I'm guessing Ami has asked me! Can't you guys just leave me alone? I'm not a baby anymore! I've grown up! Just go away!" Usagi shouted as tears trickled down her face, which was un-noticed by both the stunned Trowa and Makoto since she turned and ran toward her dorm, which was on the right.
"Usagi?" Makoto asked, slightly hurt that her friend yelled at her. "Usagi…you've changed…"
Trowa also noticed this but decided to remain silent. He didn't know what was going on but Usagi hurt Makoto, which hurt him. [Sap!]
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'Why must they bother me? I'm not a baby, I may be clutzy at times, but I've changed! I've grown up and learned to accept my role as it is, then why does it hurt so much? Mamoru isn't with you, that's why. Why didn't he wait for me? Mamoru!' Usagi's mind silently screamed as she remembered the red rose petals, wilting and falling, ever so slowly on her night table. Chibi Usa told her in her dream…
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"Usagi-mama, beware of what the future holds." A little girl with pink hair appeared into the darkness surrounding Usagi.
"Chibi Usa…"
"Beware, you will go through difficult times for this mission, but you must persevere through it all. You must!""What do you mean?"
"Difficult tasks will be held before you Usagi, you must journey through them or else this whole universe could be changed forever." The pink haired girl said.
"What difficult tasks Chibi Usa? Tell me so I can be prepared."
"I'm sorry mama, I can't." The girl cried. "You will find out. Watch the rose. Watch the rose…""That doesn't answer my questions!"
"I'm sorry mama, that's all Setsuna will let me tell you. Beware of the future, and watch the rose. The rose will tell you all."
"The rose…what will it tell me?" Usagi asked the pink-haired girl.
"It will tell all.
Compare it to the relationship you have with Mamoru. You love him, but time will pass and
everything will change. Everything…"
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"You were right Chibi Usa, the rose told all. My work here is done and now I have to go back and make Mamoru love me again!" Usagi whispered as images of the petals falling. Sure, she knew every normal rose would have died two weeks after the person received it, but the rose Mamoru gave her was the one Tuxedo Mask always had. It was special, and it wasn't a lethal weapon. That rose was completely made of their love for each other. When she loved Mamoru, and when he loved her back. Now, the rose completely wilted, and all but the last 5 petals remained on the stem. "How could you?" She asked quietly and wiped away the tears on her face.
"How could I what?" A voice cut into her thoughts.
Instead of thinking it was the girls, it was the person she would least expect to come to her. "Heero?"
"You didn't answer my question." He said, still leaning on the wall next do their door to their dorm.
"It's…not about you."
"Then who's it about? This 'Mamoru' guy who's your boyfriend that I've heard so many times about?" Heero asked as he stared at her.
Usagi turned away from Heero's gaze, and wiped the oncoming tears that were sliding down way to fast. "How would you know?"
"Because, it has to be the reason why you're shedding useless tears over him."
"How would you know the feeling of love, Heero? You've never loved anyone in this world!" Usagi snapped.
That hit him hard. She thought he had no feelings, but he did. His hidden emotions had finally come out of the dark and came back to him when he first met Usagi. He did a pretty good job of masking them, but temptation always came when the two of them were alone. "How would you know?" He asked coldly again.
"Because, when I looked into your eyes that day when I had my dream, I saw nothing but a cold, hard, block that wouldn't let anything come through. You're living behind a rock, afraid to come out to see what the earth looks like, and I know that. You're eyes tell me everything." She yelled.
"No, there is one thing you will never find out now." He said as he glimpsed at her for a second, then walked away.
In that second Usagi saw something different in his eyes, pain and hurt. Did she do that to him?
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'Usagi….you don't know me at all, and now you never will.' Heero thought as pain and hurt took over him again, but he masked the feelings and hid behind the rock again, never wanting to see the earth.
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"She shoved me off, it wasn't like her!" Minako said as she told the other girls her experience with Usagi this afternoon. "Duo was there with me, he can tell you if you don't believe me!"
"Yeah, she totally pulled a 'Heero' on us." Duo added in.
"I got it way worse than you Minako. Wufei and I were at the park on the grounds and I saw her walking. I made fun of her and Wufei called her by her name, but we both got no response back." Rei said with sadness. "I went up to her and asked her what was wrong, she yelled at me and pushed me…"
"She pushed you?" Ami and Qautre asked the question that was on everyone's mind.
"Yeah, I almost hit the concrete when Wufei broke my fall." Rei said as she looked at Wufei.
"That wasn't as harsh as what she did to me. She might of hurt you physically Rei, but she hurt me mentally. Trowa and I were on our way out when we saw Usagi walk onto the second floor. I greeted her, but got no answer from the cheery girl we once knew. She yelled at me…and told me that she wasn't a baby anymore and she's grown up…" Makoto trailed.
"All Usagi did to me was shrug Quatre and I off; nothing as harsh as you and Rei, but something's wrong with her. At first we thought she had another argument with Rei, but then Qautre said it was more than just an argument." Ami recalled.
"There's one more thing I forgot to mention." Makoto continued, and gained the attention in the room. "Her eyes are different, there not that bright blue anymore, they're like a dull colour. It's like she's lost all hope."
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Author's Note: HelSo then…how was that? Even though you now know who the couples are, doesn't mean you can't stop reviewing! *Grins* Why else do you think that these things get up so fast?
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