Chapter 1: Hinoko's Past
Chapter by: Shanchan Story by: Shanchan and Rinoastar
Hinoko opened up her diary and started to write in it.
*There are five of us, grandpa and the others said. Our mission is to go to earth to find and bring back the five gundam pilots. I really don't know why he wants us to do that. I really don't understand Grandpa. Maybe that time he was locked up during the war a year ago did something to his brain. Well, I'm still upset that he didn't let me fight to avenge my father's death. My father was the REAL Heero Yuy, not that boy who uses his name. I feel sorry for the poor boy. He doesn't have a real name for himself. (Sigh!) I guess I'll have to call him that. There has only been six months of peace since the last war. I hope it will last, but I know my hopes are futile. No matter how much I wish to be ignorant, deep inside I know the truth. The goddamned fucking fact is that there will be more war. Grandpa says it is the last, but I am doubtful. Of course I have to admit Lady Une of OZ and Relena Peacecraft are doing a really great job in keeping the colonies and the Earth happy, but how long will it last? They are so peace loving and naive, especially Relena. She is the Royal Princess of the Cinq Kingdom that was destroyed 13 years ago. I feel sorry for her because she doesn't remember her real father and the only relative she has is Zechs Marquis, or Milliardo Peacecraft. After the destruction of his kingdom, Milliardo used Zechs as his name. He was afraid to ruin his family honor. Such a stupid thing to do! He was a soldier that wanted peace. It did nothing to his family honor! Grandpa also said we would get a reward after we came back with the five boys. Wonder what it is. I hope we will be rewarded with the chance to fight. We already got our gundams. Mine is Talon. I wanted to fight in the first war. It wasn't just because I wanted to help the colonies, or because I wanted to become a heroine. It was for myself. I wanted my hands to be stained with the blood of the people who killed my father. I wanted to get revenge for my parents. I know mother would never have died if father didn't die. It's all OZ's fault! But now, it's too late! OZ has changed. The people who used to control it has either changed or died. There is no one for me to seek revenge on any more. I feel so lost and lonely! * [End Diary Entry]
Tears rolled down Hinoko's cheeks as she put down her pencil. She thought of her parents. Parents she never had a chance to know, never had a chance to meet. Hinoko was very beautiful, like her mother. She had long blond hair that reached her waist. She usually let it down and her beauty was unmistakable. She loved her sapphire eyes that she also inherited from her mother. Her eyes twinkled with laughter as she smiled. Hinoko was a girl who was as strong and smart as she was beautiful. Her grandfather, Doctor J raised her since she was born. He taught her martial arts and how to pilot a gundam. No one other than Doctor J knew who Hinoko's father was. She didn't know either until the day before Operation Meteor. Doctor J sat her down and told her all about her family.
******(Flashback)******
"Hinoko, it is time for you to know the truth." Doctor J started.
[DOCTOR J'S FLASHBACK]
"Heero Yuy, the famous peace keeper and leader of the colonies was assassinated today!" the TV broadcast said. A young woman in her early twenties stopped what she was doing suddenly. The woman was Heero's wife. She had shoulder length blond hair that covered her ears. She looked at the screen. Tears blurred her sapphire eyes.
"No! No! It can't be! Not now! Not when everything seems so well! Please, please don't let it be this way!" she whispered to the television. Of course no one could hear her.
She walked into the kitchen and pulled out a kitchen knife. She was about to stab it into her chest, when she remembered something. She dropped the knife and ran into her bedroom. She lay on her bed and cried. She wanted to let out all her sorrow. After she was in control of herself again, she decided it was time to pay her dear father a visit. She hadn't seen her father for more than five years and hoped he would welcome her.
When she arrived at the tiny place where her father lived, her father was worried. She carried everything she needed. He old sensed something was wrong and he didn't know what it was. He was determined to find out though. A month past and he had still had no clue to why his daughter came. She seemed weak but had a huge appetite. When he asked what's wrong, she just shook her head. A month later, he realized what had happened. His daughter was pregnant.
"To whom, may I ask did you loose your virginity?" the old man asked.
"My husband, Heero Yuy, of course!" the woman replied as if that was the most stupid question she ever heard.
"So that's why you came here.."
"Yes, father! I came here so I could give birth to my child. I didn't want everyone in this world knowing."
That night, Doctor J sprayed something on his daughter. It seemed to let her drift into a deep sleep.
******(End flashback)******
"I froze your mother that night. I was planning on unfreezing her after a year, but time passed, and soon it was five years. It was the year AC 180, and I decided to finally unfreeze her. It was six months later when you were born," Doctor J continued his story.
******(Flashback)******
The woman smiled and gently kissed the baby in her arms. She looked at her child; her eyes filled with sorrow and love for she knew the baby would not be able to receive a mother's love. She was needed elsewhere and had to leave, but first, her child needs a name.
"Daddy, what should I name her?"
"Let me think.How about Hinoko?" her father suggested.
"Hinoko. Hinoko. Child of Fire. Maybe she'll be like fire. Loved, feared and strong. Never giving up, always present to people in times of need, yet one of the most heartless things," her voice trailed off. Then as an after thought she said to her father, "Yes that's a very good name. Thank you father."
The woman nodded her head and after kissing the girl in her arms one last time, she placed the girl in her crib and went into the kitchen. Her father didn't think much of it until he noticed she has spent almost thirty minutes in there. When he went to see if she was all right, he was stunned. She lay in a pool of blood. Her throat was cut open and a kitchen knife was in her hands. Her father suddenly realized why she came. The pain that was enforced upon her at the time of her husband's death was great, but since she knew she had a daughter, she lived to give birth to the girl. She didn't want any publicity and so chose to live with her father. When the child was born, she could go without any regrets for she left behind a child. The child could seek revenge and carry out her father's legacy. The old man decided that his granddaughter needed to go through a special training. And this special training required him not be her family. He could care for her, but couldn't show feelings of love towards her.
At the age of three, the girl started to learn how to read, write and do mathematics. She was smart and learned quickly. By the time she was 13, she already learned calculus and all the other high school courses. The girl was forced to go to school when she was six. She didn't know why for all the things school taught was too easy for her. She wanted to learn new things. Also the other kids were mean. They teased her about being an orphan and living with Doctor J. People at her school thought Doctor J was a stupid, ignorant old man that knew nothing about the outside world. He only cared to go to an underground lab to do who knows what. Some wondered how he was able to raise Hinoko. Hinoko got very mad at the teasing. She swore that one-day those boys would be sorry they ever made fun of her. She would teach them a lesson they would never forget. She would show them that it was not a good idea to pick on Hinoko, for Hinoko was a lot more than she seemed.
When she went home, she told Doctor J what she promised herself. Doctor J smiled knowingly and asked, "Would you like me to train you?" She told him yes. That was exactly what she wanted. So each day the doctor would explain to her about martial arts and how to fight. Doctor J was not an expert in the art, but managed to teach all he knew to his grand daughter. One day, after the training was complete, his grand daughter was suspended from school for beating up all the boys. Hinoko was happy and proud. Doctor J was too.
One day when Hinoko was ten, she came home really angry. Doctor J asked her what was wrong. "Some one stole my gel pens. He said he found them, but I know they're mine!" You see, even though Hinoko was sometimes a tomboy, she loved beautiful things. Her favorite possessions were her gel pens, so it was quite natural for her to get mad.
"Would you like me to teach you a way of getting them back?"
"Yes, Doctor J, please!"
"Ok, what you do is." Doctor J started to teach her the art of pick pocketing. Hinoko was able to master all the techniques in two weeks, and she was able to get her pens back.
END DOCTOR J'S FLASHBACK
Doctor J smiled as he thought how Hinoko later on used her talents to support the two. She pick-pocketed a lot of people and earned the money they needed to survive. She was never caught. Many times she got very close, but her intelligence and beauty always pulled her out of danger. "You have always been like that, strong willed and wonderful. Of course I couldn't tell you that you were my granddaughter. It would have been too much of a surprise! I didn't want to hurt you by hiding it, but there was no other choice. As you know, I have trained you to be a pilot, a martial artist and a pick pocket. It's amazing what these schools now could trigger in some one's mind. For once, I think school is worth something! But I'm afraid this is not the time for you to show off your skills. Your day will come, do not worry. It will come some day. I just hope you will not hate me for sending a boy. A boy whose code name is Heero Yuy to do the job," Doctor J finished what he needed to say.
Hinoko was not happy. She wanted to know why he did what he wanted to do. Why he decided she needed to stay in the colony. She couldn't understand. "But why? Why am I not allowed to go? Why must Heero go? And who is Heero? You've never mentioned him to me before!"
"Of course I haven't dear! You see, he is the boy I have been training all this time. He is the one who will pilot the gundam I have been working on. He will help destroy OZ!"
"OZ?! But grandpa! That is the organization that killed father! I should be the one who should get revenge! Not Heero!"
"Ah! Hinoko, you are wrong. Heero knows how the people of the colonies feel. He is the best person to go on this mission. This mission is for the colonies, not for one's self. Do you understand?"
"Yes, but I still wish you would let me go."
"Don't worry, your time will come!"
******(End flashback)******
Hinoko looked out the shuttle's windows. That was almost two years ago. She was almost fifteen then, just a few more months. Now she is sixteen. Her time has come. Hinoko smiled as she remembered the day where she successfully pick-pocketed two men. That was the day she received her first mission and her gundam, Talon.
******(Flashback)******
The gundams were uncovered in front of five girls. Two had midnight hair and two had blond. The other had brown hair. Four out of five of them were kidnapped. Hinoko was the only exception. She was Doctor J's granddaughter and didn't need to be kidnapped. The girls, upon seeing the gundams, decided they would help with the mission, for the scientists promised that each girl would get one. Hinoko's eyes fell on the one in the center. It was mainly white and looked a lot like Wing. Light shone in the dark room and that was the first gundam it fell on. Hinoko jumped up onto the gundam, and opened the cockpit. Then she plopped down in the chair and slowly went over the things this gundam included. There were two beam sabers, a shield of gundamium alloy, twin buster rifles and claws on the feet. She scanned over the computers and noted with satisfaction that there was plenty of space to store information. She also noticed the gundam has the ability to turn into a plane and fly above its enemy. Talon can then swoop down on it like a hawk. The claws on its feet would extend and rip the head off an enemy Mobile Suit. Hinoko smiled at the thought. This was the best gundam she could have.
******(End flashback)******
It was a glorious day, the best one in her life so far. She was finally able to have a mission. She was to go to earth and find Heero Yuy and bring him back. She sensed a new war was about to take place.
Chapter by: Shanchan Story by: Shanchan and Rinoastar
Hinoko opened up her diary and started to write in it.
*There are five of us, grandpa and the others said. Our mission is to go to earth to find and bring back the five gundam pilots. I really don't know why he wants us to do that. I really don't understand Grandpa. Maybe that time he was locked up during the war a year ago did something to his brain. Well, I'm still upset that he didn't let me fight to avenge my father's death. My father was the REAL Heero Yuy, not that boy who uses his name. I feel sorry for the poor boy. He doesn't have a real name for himself. (Sigh!) I guess I'll have to call him that. There has only been six months of peace since the last war. I hope it will last, but I know my hopes are futile. No matter how much I wish to be ignorant, deep inside I know the truth. The goddamned fucking fact is that there will be more war. Grandpa says it is the last, but I am doubtful. Of course I have to admit Lady Une of OZ and Relena Peacecraft are doing a really great job in keeping the colonies and the Earth happy, but how long will it last? They are so peace loving and naive, especially Relena. She is the Royal Princess of the Cinq Kingdom that was destroyed 13 years ago. I feel sorry for her because she doesn't remember her real father and the only relative she has is Zechs Marquis, or Milliardo Peacecraft. After the destruction of his kingdom, Milliardo used Zechs as his name. He was afraid to ruin his family honor. Such a stupid thing to do! He was a soldier that wanted peace. It did nothing to his family honor! Grandpa also said we would get a reward after we came back with the five boys. Wonder what it is. I hope we will be rewarded with the chance to fight. We already got our gundams. Mine is Talon. I wanted to fight in the first war. It wasn't just because I wanted to help the colonies, or because I wanted to become a heroine. It was for myself. I wanted my hands to be stained with the blood of the people who killed my father. I wanted to get revenge for my parents. I know mother would never have died if father didn't die. It's all OZ's fault! But now, it's too late! OZ has changed. The people who used to control it has either changed or died. There is no one for me to seek revenge on any more. I feel so lost and lonely! * [End Diary Entry]
Tears rolled down Hinoko's cheeks as she put down her pencil. She thought of her parents. Parents she never had a chance to know, never had a chance to meet. Hinoko was very beautiful, like her mother. She had long blond hair that reached her waist. She usually let it down and her beauty was unmistakable. She loved her sapphire eyes that she also inherited from her mother. Her eyes twinkled with laughter as she smiled. Hinoko was a girl who was as strong and smart as she was beautiful. Her grandfather, Doctor J raised her since she was born. He taught her martial arts and how to pilot a gundam. No one other than Doctor J knew who Hinoko's father was. She didn't know either until the day before Operation Meteor. Doctor J sat her down and told her all about her family.
******(Flashback)******
"Hinoko, it is time for you to know the truth." Doctor J started.
[DOCTOR J'S FLASHBACK]
"Heero Yuy, the famous peace keeper and leader of the colonies was assassinated today!" the TV broadcast said. A young woman in her early twenties stopped what she was doing suddenly. The woman was Heero's wife. She had shoulder length blond hair that covered her ears. She looked at the screen. Tears blurred her sapphire eyes.
"No! No! It can't be! Not now! Not when everything seems so well! Please, please don't let it be this way!" she whispered to the television. Of course no one could hear her.
She walked into the kitchen and pulled out a kitchen knife. She was about to stab it into her chest, when she remembered something. She dropped the knife and ran into her bedroom. She lay on her bed and cried. She wanted to let out all her sorrow. After she was in control of herself again, she decided it was time to pay her dear father a visit. She hadn't seen her father for more than five years and hoped he would welcome her.
When she arrived at the tiny place where her father lived, her father was worried. She carried everything she needed. He old sensed something was wrong and he didn't know what it was. He was determined to find out though. A month past and he had still had no clue to why his daughter came. She seemed weak but had a huge appetite. When he asked what's wrong, she just shook her head. A month later, he realized what had happened. His daughter was pregnant.
"To whom, may I ask did you loose your virginity?" the old man asked.
"My husband, Heero Yuy, of course!" the woman replied as if that was the most stupid question she ever heard.
"So that's why you came here.."
"Yes, father! I came here so I could give birth to my child. I didn't want everyone in this world knowing."
That night, Doctor J sprayed something on his daughter. It seemed to let her drift into a deep sleep.
******(End flashback)******
"I froze your mother that night. I was planning on unfreezing her after a year, but time passed, and soon it was five years. It was the year AC 180, and I decided to finally unfreeze her. It was six months later when you were born," Doctor J continued his story.
******(Flashback)******
The woman smiled and gently kissed the baby in her arms. She looked at her child; her eyes filled with sorrow and love for she knew the baby would not be able to receive a mother's love. She was needed elsewhere and had to leave, but first, her child needs a name.
"Daddy, what should I name her?"
"Let me think.How about Hinoko?" her father suggested.
"Hinoko. Hinoko. Child of Fire. Maybe she'll be like fire. Loved, feared and strong. Never giving up, always present to people in times of need, yet one of the most heartless things," her voice trailed off. Then as an after thought she said to her father, "Yes that's a very good name. Thank you father."
The woman nodded her head and after kissing the girl in her arms one last time, she placed the girl in her crib and went into the kitchen. Her father didn't think much of it until he noticed she has spent almost thirty minutes in there. When he went to see if she was all right, he was stunned. She lay in a pool of blood. Her throat was cut open and a kitchen knife was in her hands. Her father suddenly realized why she came. The pain that was enforced upon her at the time of her husband's death was great, but since she knew she had a daughter, she lived to give birth to the girl. She didn't want any publicity and so chose to live with her father. When the child was born, she could go without any regrets for she left behind a child. The child could seek revenge and carry out her father's legacy. The old man decided that his granddaughter needed to go through a special training. And this special training required him not be her family. He could care for her, but couldn't show feelings of love towards her.
At the age of three, the girl started to learn how to read, write and do mathematics. She was smart and learned quickly. By the time she was 13, she already learned calculus and all the other high school courses. The girl was forced to go to school when she was six. She didn't know why for all the things school taught was too easy for her. She wanted to learn new things. Also the other kids were mean. They teased her about being an orphan and living with Doctor J. People at her school thought Doctor J was a stupid, ignorant old man that knew nothing about the outside world. He only cared to go to an underground lab to do who knows what. Some wondered how he was able to raise Hinoko. Hinoko got very mad at the teasing. She swore that one-day those boys would be sorry they ever made fun of her. She would teach them a lesson they would never forget. She would show them that it was not a good idea to pick on Hinoko, for Hinoko was a lot more than she seemed.
When she went home, she told Doctor J what she promised herself. Doctor J smiled knowingly and asked, "Would you like me to train you?" She told him yes. That was exactly what she wanted. So each day the doctor would explain to her about martial arts and how to fight. Doctor J was not an expert in the art, but managed to teach all he knew to his grand daughter. One day, after the training was complete, his grand daughter was suspended from school for beating up all the boys. Hinoko was happy and proud. Doctor J was too.
One day when Hinoko was ten, she came home really angry. Doctor J asked her what was wrong. "Some one stole my gel pens. He said he found them, but I know they're mine!" You see, even though Hinoko was sometimes a tomboy, she loved beautiful things. Her favorite possessions were her gel pens, so it was quite natural for her to get mad.
"Would you like me to teach you a way of getting them back?"
"Yes, Doctor J, please!"
"Ok, what you do is." Doctor J started to teach her the art of pick pocketing. Hinoko was able to master all the techniques in two weeks, and she was able to get her pens back.
END DOCTOR J'S FLASHBACK
Doctor J smiled as he thought how Hinoko later on used her talents to support the two. She pick-pocketed a lot of people and earned the money they needed to survive. She was never caught. Many times she got very close, but her intelligence and beauty always pulled her out of danger. "You have always been like that, strong willed and wonderful. Of course I couldn't tell you that you were my granddaughter. It would have been too much of a surprise! I didn't want to hurt you by hiding it, but there was no other choice. As you know, I have trained you to be a pilot, a martial artist and a pick pocket. It's amazing what these schools now could trigger in some one's mind. For once, I think school is worth something! But I'm afraid this is not the time for you to show off your skills. Your day will come, do not worry. It will come some day. I just hope you will not hate me for sending a boy. A boy whose code name is Heero Yuy to do the job," Doctor J finished what he needed to say.
Hinoko was not happy. She wanted to know why he did what he wanted to do. Why he decided she needed to stay in the colony. She couldn't understand. "But why? Why am I not allowed to go? Why must Heero go? And who is Heero? You've never mentioned him to me before!"
"Of course I haven't dear! You see, he is the boy I have been training all this time. He is the one who will pilot the gundam I have been working on. He will help destroy OZ!"
"OZ?! But grandpa! That is the organization that killed father! I should be the one who should get revenge! Not Heero!"
"Ah! Hinoko, you are wrong. Heero knows how the people of the colonies feel. He is the best person to go on this mission. This mission is for the colonies, not for one's self. Do you understand?"
"Yes, but I still wish you would let me go."
"Don't worry, your time will come!"
******(End flashback)******
Hinoko looked out the shuttle's windows. That was almost two years ago. She was almost fifteen then, just a few more months. Now she is sixteen. Her time has come. Hinoko smiled as she remembered the day where she successfully pick-pocketed two men. That was the day she received her first mission and her gundam, Talon.
******(Flashback)******
The gundams were uncovered in front of five girls. Two had midnight hair and two had blond. The other had brown hair. Four out of five of them were kidnapped. Hinoko was the only exception. She was Doctor J's granddaughter and didn't need to be kidnapped. The girls, upon seeing the gundams, decided they would help with the mission, for the scientists promised that each girl would get one. Hinoko's eyes fell on the one in the center. It was mainly white and looked a lot like Wing. Light shone in the dark room and that was the first gundam it fell on. Hinoko jumped up onto the gundam, and opened the cockpit. Then she plopped down in the chair and slowly went over the things this gundam included. There were two beam sabers, a shield of gundamium alloy, twin buster rifles and claws on the feet. She scanned over the computers and noted with satisfaction that there was plenty of space to store information. She also noticed the gundam has the ability to turn into a plane and fly above its enemy. Talon can then swoop down on it like a hawk. The claws on its feet would extend and rip the head off an enemy Mobile Suit. Hinoko smiled at the thought. This was the best gundam she could have.
******(End flashback)******
It was a glorious day, the best one in her life so far. She was finally able to have a mission. She was to go to earth and find Heero Yuy and bring him back. She sensed a new war was about to take place.