Chapter 9: Confusion
By: Shanchan
"Noooooo!" Shimei cried, "Don't die!" She jumped up, did a Trowa-esque flip and landed between Wufei's sword and chest.
"ONNA!" Wufei said angrily. "Isn't it enough that you took my honor away by beating me? What do you want to do now?"
"Sorry!" Shimei whispered in Chinese. "I didn't mean to hurt you! I wanted to win! I've always wanted to be the best in what I do! I'm really sorry!"
"Well, you're the best now, so why don't you let me die in peace?"
"Because I need you. I don't want you to die! You're my family, the only family I have left!"
"Just leave me alone!" Wufei said, pushing the girl away, and trying once again to plunge the saber into his heart.
"I won't let you!" Shimei screamed. Fortunately it was late, and no more people were around. All the ones that were at the basketball game had left. The court was quiet and no one heard Shimei's scream. ________________________________________________________________________
"Hey, where's Wu-man?" Duo asked when the silence had gotten to him and he noticed he didn't hear Wufei's constant ranting.
"Don't know!" Hiiro grunted.
"Do you think we should see if he's back here?" Quatre asked nervously.
"We should!" Trowa said, and turned to head back.
Upon arriving at the scene, they heard Wufei yelling at Shimei to leave him alone, and Shimei screaming and crying. Duo looked at the girls. Dominique, Elizabeth and Hinoko had ran near where Shimei was, but they were afraid to get too close to the battling couple. He scanned the court for Serena. When he found her, she was standing 10 yards away and her face was emotionless. *GOD! Why is she so apathetic? For crying out loud, her friend is screaming her head off, and what's she doing? Treating it as if it's only a game!* He walked up to Serena and said, "Oi! Can't you see your friend needs help? For crying out loud! Go, help her!"
"Look, she's my friend, and I know she can take care of it herself!" Serena shrugged Duo's comment off. The other girls had, by this time, ran up to Wufei and Shimei and were trying to prevent either side from getting hurt. Wufei was now angry. His sword was whipped around his body so fast, all Serena could see was a flash of light. Shimei was weaving in and out of it skillfully. To Serena, the girl seemed to be in control of the situation, even thought she was screaming and crying.
"Look at her. Do you think she's in complete control now? She's screaming her ass off!" Duo looked at Shimei. Her silky hair was not tied up with the string anymore, instead, it was flying behind her as she skillfully tried to take the sword from Wufei's hand while she yelled at Wufei in Chinese in her now hoarse voice.
"Duo, it's not going to make any difference if you use any profanity or not considering it's only words!" Serena said, trying to ignore Duo.
"Well, at least I care, even if she's not my friend! You, on the other hand don't even seem to care!" Duo yelled, getting frustrated.
"She's a martial artist!" Serena said, as if THAT would explain everything.
"Now, what is that supposed to mean? I mean, she's still human isnt' she?" Looking at the girl.
"Is Hiiro human?" Serena retorted. She was quickly getting tired of this Duo, even if he was really cute.
"No one! No one can say that about Hiiro except me, got it? No one is allowed to say that!" Duo's expression suddenly darkened. He had a maniacal gleam in his eye. It startled Serena, but she decided to pretend she didn't notice.
"Well, is Hiiro human?" Serena asked again in her cold, uncaring voice. Why not make Duo hate her? He's so mean insulting her and everything. She still wasn't ready to forgive his comment from that morning.
"He's more human than you'll ever be!" Duo spat out at the raven-haired girl and turned to Wufei and Shimei's arguement. He didn't want to see the look that Serena had. He knew she had emotions and was easily hurt, but she was being so rude and uncaring that he had to say something to make her think. The comment was the only thing he could think of at the time.
By this time, the others had join in the struggle. Duo decided that Shinigami needed to help too, even if he was puny compared to Trowa and Hiiro, he wanted to show Serena he wasn't as cold-hearted as she.
Duo's words played themselves over and over in Serena's mind. "He's more human than you'll ever be! He's more human than you'll ever be!" Serena stared at the fight that was raging on. Her closest friend was trapped within it. Suddenly she remembered something.
********Flashback********
"Hey, Shimei, that was pretty cool! So what else can you do with you're martial arts?" Serena asked as she and the others walked back to the hotel room. It was after the fight they had with Wufei, the one Shimei had won. Shimei's arm was hurt, but it had pretty much stopped bleeding.
"Um... how about THIS?" Shimei said as she took her fore and middle fingers and poked Serena on a pressure point. A strange energy traveled through the girl's arm and into the rest of the body, forming a forcefield. She froze in place.
"Hey! I can't move!" Serena yelled.
Shimei laughed and gently patted Serena on the back. Another surge of energy broke the forcefield and Serena was back to normal.
"So what was that?" Serena asked.
"Just a technique I learned from my mom's books!" Shimei said. Then she explained to Serena about pressure points.
********End Flashback********
*Duo's right! She's NOT thinking straight!* Serena realized suddenly. If Shimei was thinking, she would've used the pressure point technique on Wufei. *God! And I thought she was going to be ok!*
"Shimei, dian ta de xue dao!"[1] Serena screamed to the girl dressed in pink in Chinese.
Realizing her friend was right, Shimei quickly leaped into the sky, and took out some needles, while screaming, "Everyone move out of the way!" Then she flipped and threw the needles at Wufei's various pressure points, freezing him in place. Landing, she looked at Serena and said, "Xiexie!"[2] Then she turned and knelt in front of Wufei, waiting for him to undo her technique so she could apologize to him.
Serena blushed at the other girl's comment. She ran up to Duo, bowed and said, "I'm sorry! I thought she had it under control! I'm sorry! I didn't realize she was struggling until you said what you said."
"Hmm... looks like you decided at last to try to be human, ne?" Duo laughed. He didnt'hate her as much now that she didn't act like she was perfect.
"Gomen nasai! I didn't realize it was doing that!" Serena apologized again.
Duo laughed again. "Most people don't. Look at poor Hiiro, he's so serious all the time! You'd think he didn't know what it means to be human!"
"Yeah, poor Hiiro!" Serena sighed. Then she said in a dreamy voice,"But his eyes are so intense and beautiful! I love that cobalt blue color!"
"Yeah, he's beautiful isn't he? He's just so intense and all of Doctor J's stupid training has gone to his head! It's so fucking annoying!" Duo told the girl, his voice sounded almost sad.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Serena inquired, mirth dancing within her dark brown eyes.
Duo thought what he said and muttered to himself, "Duo no baka!"
That brought on more laughter from Serena. Serena then turned to look at Shimei. She still knelt there, Wufei's sword in hand. Her long ebony hair blew in Florida's autumn breeze. The basketball court was empty except for the ten teens standing there, waiting for their friends to solve a family problem mixed with personal honor.
"Shit!" Serena muttered.
"What now?" Duo asked. He was the only one standing close enough to hear her.
"Look at Shimei. She has Wufei's sword. Based on Wufei's sense of honor, he would take the sword and kill either himself or Shimei. But I heard he has a strong sense of integrity. That means he's gonna most likely kill himself!"
"Serena's right!" Elizabeth said. "We've gotta help her stop him!"
"No!" Hiiro's deep voice cut in suddenly. "Wufei's not that stupid! He knows what he must do. He has a goal in life and he needs to fulfill it. I don't know what happened, but a while ago he wasn't thinking clearly. Once he's back to his senses, he'll know what's best and he's do just that. No one's going to die if Wufei can just calm down enough!"
"Hiiro's right!" Trowa said simply.
"You really think so Trowa? I mean he doesn't seem very coherent now. Look at him, he seems so angry!" Elizabeth said timidly.
"He'll be fine of Hiiro and Trowa says so!" Quatre comforted the aesthetic girl.
The others watched and waited. After 2 minutes, Wufei suddenly yelled, leaped up into the air and from seemingly no where pulled out a whip like weapon. Shimei looked up, gasped at the weapon, and quickly got into her battle stance.
"Jiu Jie Bian!" Serena cried out. She started to run towards Shimei, but Hiiro stopped her.
"What is that thing?" He asked in his cold voice.
"Jiu Jie Bian or nine jointed whip! No time to explain. Shimei may need my help! It's a really dangerous weapon!" Serena said without thinking.
"You're not going to be much help considering you don't know martial arts yourself baka!"
"..." Serena fell silent. She knew Hiiro was right, but she didn't want Duo to disparage her again. It had hurt and she wanted to prove she had feelings. By this time Shimei and Wufei had, once again, started to fight. Serena was nervously eyeing the battle, her mind searching for a way to help her friend.
"Look, why don't you make her suggestions! The last one you made her really helped!" Elizabeth quickly understood what Serena was thinking. "Like that she can concentrate on what she's doing and you can help her!"
"Not a bad idea... but..."
"But what?" Dominique asked.
Serena didn't answer her friend. She simply turned around and asked Hiiro, "How much chi do you think Wufei has?"
"Nani?" For once in his life, Hiiro was confused.
"Chi! Life energy!"
"I know that part but why do you need to know?"
"Never mind!" Serena turned her attention back to the battle. Wufei's whip was spinning in a silver circle around Shimei, who in turn was doing an OK job at eluding the weapon. Unfortunately, being a girl, she was tiring quickly.
"Kuso!" Serena muttered.
"Look who's using profanity this time?" Duo teased.
"Damara Duo! Shimei's in trouble!"
"Do you have any ideas Hinoko? I hear you've learned martial arts before!" Serena turned to the blond beauty for help.
"I've never studied martial arts. I only know the basics for kenpo!"
"Oh!" Serena said dissappointed. She had an idea, but it would be very dangerous unless she was willing to sacrefice herself. She decided there was nothing else she could do. Last night Wufei wasn't trying very hard so he lost, but he's actually very strong. She decided to do everything she could. Running up to the battle ground, she leaped up and kicked towards Wufei's silver circle. The whip hit her leg and send her flying.
"Itai!" Serena landed on the ground with a moan. She was surprised to find Wufei didn't put much strength into his weapon and she was barely even bruised. Then again, maybe he was able to prevent Serena from getting hurt. Praying it was the former, Serena yelled at Shimei, "Grab his weapon and test his chi!"
Shimei nodded her head and throwing down the sword, grabbed the whip and attempted to throw it out of Wufei's hands. Wufei was prepared, and she felt his chi surging into her body. It messed up the flow within herself and the only thing her body knew to do was to push the energy back out.
The two stayed like that for 15 minutes, beads of sweat slowly formed on both forheads and their friends looked on, worried.
"Do you care to explain what's going on since you most likely understand what's going on?" Hiiro asked, breaking the deafening silence.
"I guess I owe it to you guys, ne?"
"Hn."
"Ok, remember how I asked you how much chi Wufei has?"
"Hai..."
"Well, chi is what the two of them are battling with now. Wufei and Shimei are all martial artists. They know how to control their chi to do things for them. Shimei's chi is more of the ying and Wufei's is of yang. What they're doing is Wufei tried to push his chi into Shimei and hurt her. Shimei, not wanting to get injured, used her chi to push Wufei's energy back. They're kinda stuck like that unless they stop at the same time, or else..."
"Or else what?" Quatre asked. His eyes opened wide, and he looked very concerned.
"One of them may get injured REALLY bad!" Serena finished.
"So how are you planning to stop them?" Duo asked.
"I'll show you!" Serena smiled, and walked up to Wufei and Shimei. She picked up Wufei's sword, and with one smooth motion, cut the whip. Instantly the sword shattered. Shimei, her energy drained, collapsed onto the ground. The girls rushed up around her.
Wufei also sat down on the concrete. He was breathing heavily, but unhurt. "Kuso!" he muttered, looking at his sword and whip. The sword was impossible to fix but the whip could possibly be fused back together.
"Oi, Wuffie, you Ok?" Duo asked the chinese boy.
"Hai!" Wufei responded.
Serena looked at Wufei, "I'm sorry about what I said to you, but you can't take your life like a joke! You really scared Shimei, and she's really tired now, with all the crying and stuff. I hope you're satisfied!"
Wufei stared at the angry girl. He uncomfortably cleared his throat. Serena was giving him a glare of death and it was really making him uncomfortable. Upon realizing what she was doing, Serena's expression softened, "Gomen Nasai!"
"..." Wufei was silent for a moment. Then he sighed and said, "She's a great martial artist! Possible better than me. It's not her fault she beat me last night! And I don't think it'll hurt my honor loosing to her. I apologize about my rudeness!"
"Are you going to anything else that's stupid?" Serena asked, sounding more like a police officer than a 16 year old girl.
"She'll be ok," Hinoko said, after she had checked Shimei's pulse. "Just a bit tired, that's all."
"Good! And Wufei, Hiiro, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre, I hope the ten of us can one day become good friends. After all, we still need to report back to the scientists!" Dominique tried to sum everything up and make up with the others.
"Hn. What does Doctor J need now?" Hiiro asked.
"I don't know, but you should find out soon!" Hinoko said as she picked up Shimei.
Then they turned to go back to the hotel. Serena stood on the court for a while, her dark hair blowing in the wind. It had been a long day today. She really needed to write it in her tiger diary....
End of Chapter 9
[1] Ping ying, kinda like romanji, only you can't pronounce it as easily. Serena said, push his pressure points!
[2] Thank you!
"Noooooo!" Shimei cried, "Don't die!" She jumped up, did a Trowa-esque flip and landed between Wufei's sword and chest.
"ONNA!" Wufei said angrily. "Isn't it enough that you took my honor away by beating me? What do you want to do now?"
"Sorry!" Shimei whispered in Chinese. "I didn't mean to hurt you! I wanted to win! I've always wanted to be the best in what I do! I'm really sorry!"
"Well, you're the best now, so why don't you let me die in peace?"
"Because I need you. I don't want you to die! You're my family, the only family I have left!"
"Just leave me alone!" Wufei said, pushing the girl away, and trying once again to plunge the saber into his heart.
"I won't let you!" Shimei screamed. Fortunately it was late, and no more people were around. All the ones that were at the basketball game had left. The court was quiet and no one heard Shimei's scream. ________________________________________________________________________
"Hey, where's Wu-man?" Duo asked when the silence had gotten to him and he noticed he didn't hear Wufei's constant ranting.
"Don't know!" Hiiro grunted.
"Do you think we should see if he's back here?" Quatre asked nervously.
"We should!" Trowa said, and turned to head back.
Upon arriving at the scene, they heard Wufei yelling at Shimei to leave him alone, and Shimei screaming and crying. Duo looked at the girls. Dominique, Elizabeth and Hinoko had ran near where Shimei was, but they were afraid to get too close to the battling couple. He scanned the court for Serena. When he found her, she was standing 10 yards away and her face was emotionless. *GOD! Why is she so apathetic? For crying out loud, her friend is screaming her head off, and what's she doing? Treating it as if it's only a game!* He walked up to Serena and said, "Oi! Can't you see your friend needs help? For crying out loud! Go, help her!"
"Look, she's my friend, and I know she can take care of it herself!" Serena shrugged Duo's comment off. The other girls had, by this time, ran up to Wufei and Shimei and were trying to prevent either side from getting hurt. Wufei was now angry. His sword was whipped around his body so fast, all Serena could see was a flash of light. Shimei was weaving in and out of it skillfully. To Serena, the girl seemed to be in control of the situation, even thought she was screaming and crying.
"Look at her. Do you think she's in complete control now? She's screaming her ass off!" Duo looked at Shimei. Her silky hair was not tied up with the string anymore, instead, it was flying behind her as she skillfully tried to take the sword from Wufei's hand while she yelled at Wufei in Chinese in her now hoarse voice.
"Duo, it's not going to make any difference if you use any profanity or not considering it's only words!" Serena said, trying to ignore Duo.
"Well, at least I care, even if she's not my friend! You, on the other hand don't even seem to care!" Duo yelled, getting frustrated.
"She's a martial artist!" Serena said, as if THAT would explain everything.
"Now, what is that supposed to mean? I mean, she's still human isnt' she?" Looking at the girl.
"Is Hiiro human?" Serena retorted. She was quickly getting tired of this Duo, even if he was really cute.
"No one! No one can say that about Hiiro except me, got it? No one is allowed to say that!" Duo's expression suddenly darkened. He had a maniacal gleam in his eye. It startled Serena, but she decided to pretend she didn't notice.
"Well, is Hiiro human?" Serena asked again in her cold, uncaring voice. Why not make Duo hate her? He's so mean insulting her and everything. She still wasn't ready to forgive his comment from that morning.
"He's more human than you'll ever be!" Duo spat out at the raven-haired girl and turned to Wufei and Shimei's arguement. He didn't want to see the look that Serena had. He knew she had emotions and was easily hurt, but she was being so rude and uncaring that he had to say something to make her think. The comment was the only thing he could think of at the time.
By this time, the others had join in the struggle. Duo decided that Shinigami needed to help too, even if he was puny compared to Trowa and Hiiro, he wanted to show Serena he wasn't as cold-hearted as she.
Duo's words played themselves over and over in Serena's mind. "He's more human than you'll ever be! He's more human than you'll ever be!" Serena stared at the fight that was raging on. Her closest friend was trapped within it. Suddenly she remembered something.
********Flashback********
"Hey, Shimei, that was pretty cool! So what else can you do with you're martial arts?" Serena asked as she and the others walked back to the hotel room. It was after the fight they had with Wufei, the one Shimei had won. Shimei's arm was hurt, but it had pretty much stopped bleeding.
"Um... how about THIS?" Shimei said as she took her fore and middle fingers and poked Serena on a pressure point. A strange energy traveled through the girl's arm and into the rest of the body, forming a forcefield. She froze in place.
"Hey! I can't move!" Serena yelled.
Shimei laughed and gently patted Serena on the back. Another surge of energy broke the forcefield and Serena was back to normal.
"So what was that?" Serena asked.
"Just a technique I learned from my mom's books!" Shimei said. Then she explained to Serena about pressure points.
********End Flashback********
*Duo's right! She's NOT thinking straight!* Serena realized suddenly. If Shimei was thinking, she would've used the pressure point technique on Wufei. *God! And I thought she was going to be ok!*
"Shimei, dian ta de xue dao!"[1] Serena screamed to the girl dressed in pink in Chinese.
Realizing her friend was right, Shimei quickly leaped into the sky, and took out some needles, while screaming, "Everyone move out of the way!" Then she flipped and threw the needles at Wufei's various pressure points, freezing him in place. Landing, she looked at Serena and said, "Xiexie!"[2] Then she turned and knelt in front of Wufei, waiting for him to undo her technique so she could apologize to him.
Serena blushed at the other girl's comment. She ran up to Duo, bowed and said, "I'm sorry! I thought she had it under control! I'm sorry! I didn't realize she was struggling until you said what you said."
"Hmm... looks like you decided at last to try to be human, ne?" Duo laughed. He didnt'hate her as much now that she didn't act like she was perfect.
"Gomen nasai! I didn't realize it was doing that!" Serena apologized again.
Duo laughed again. "Most people don't. Look at poor Hiiro, he's so serious all the time! You'd think he didn't know what it means to be human!"
"Yeah, poor Hiiro!" Serena sighed. Then she said in a dreamy voice,"But his eyes are so intense and beautiful! I love that cobalt blue color!"
"Yeah, he's beautiful isn't he? He's just so intense and all of Doctor J's stupid training has gone to his head! It's so fucking annoying!" Duo told the girl, his voice sounded almost sad.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Serena inquired, mirth dancing within her dark brown eyes.
Duo thought what he said and muttered to himself, "Duo no baka!"
That brought on more laughter from Serena. Serena then turned to look at Shimei. She still knelt there, Wufei's sword in hand. Her long ebony hair blew in Florida's autumn breeze. The basketball court was empty except for the ten teens standing there, waiting for their friends to solve a family problem mixed with personal honor.
"Shit!" Serena muttered.
"What now?" Duo asked. He was the only one standing close enough to hear her.
"Look at Shimei. She has Wufei's sword. Based on Wufei's sense of honor, he would take the sword and kill either himself or Shimei. But I heard he has a strong sense of integrity. That means he's gonna most likely kill himself!"
"Serena's right!" Elizabeth said. "We've gotta help her stop him!"
"No!" Hiiro's deep voice cut in suddenly. "Wufei's not that stupid! He knows what he must do. He has a goal in life and he needs to fulfill it. I don't know what happened, but a while ago he wasn't thinking clearly. Once he's back to his senses, he'll know what's best and he's do just that. No one's going to die if Wufei can just calm down enough!"
"Hiiro's right!" Trowa said simply.
"You really think so Trowa? I mean he doesn't seem very coherent now. Look at him, he seems so angry!" Elizabeth said timidly.
"He'll be fine of Hiiro and Trowa says so!" Quatre comforted the aesthetic girl.
The others watched and waited. After 2 minutes, Wufei suddenly yelled, leaped up into the air and from seemingly no where pulled out a whip like weapon. Shimei looked up, gasped at the weapon, and quickly got into her battle stance.
"Jiu Jie Bian!" Serena cried out. She started to run towards Shimei, but Hiiro stopped her.
"What is that thing?" He asked in his cold voice.
"Jiu Jie Bian or nine jointed whip! No time to explain. Shimei may need my help! It's a really dangerous weapon!" Serena said without thinking.
"You're not going to be much help considering you don't know martial arts yourself baka!"
"..." Serena fell silent. She knew Hiiro was right, but she didn't want Duo to disparage her again. It had hurt and she wanted to prove she had feelings. By this time Shimei and Wufei had, once again, started to fight. Serena was nervously eyeing the battle, her mind searching for a way to help her friend.
"Look, why don't you make her suggestions! The last one you made her really helped!" Elizabeth quickly understood what Serena was thinking. "Like that she can concentrate on what she's doing and you can help her!"
"Not a bad idea... but..."
"But what?" Dominique asked.
Serena didn't answer her friend. She simply turned around and asked Hiiro, "How much chi do you think Wufei has?"
"Nani?" For once in his life, Hiiro was confused.
"Chi! Life energy!"
"I know that part but why do you need to know?"
"Never mind!" Serena turned her attention back to the battle. Wufei's whip was spinning in a silver circle around Shimei, who in turn was doing an OK job at eluding the weapon. Unfortunately, being a girl, she was tiring quickly.
"Kuso!" Serena muttered.
"Look who's using profanity this time?" Duo teased.
"Damara Duo! Shimei's in trouble!"
"Do you have any ideas Hinoko? I hear you've learned martial arts before!" Serena turned to the blond beauty for help.
"I've never studied martial arts. I only know the basics for kenpo!"
"Oh!" Serena said dissappointed. She had an idea, but it would be very dangerous unless she was willing to sacrefice herself. She decided there was nothing else she could do. Last night Wufei wasn't trying very hard so he lost, but he's actually very strong. She decided to do everything she could. Running up to the battle ground, she leaped up and kicked towards Wufei's silver circle. The whip hit her leg and send her flying.
"Itai!" Serena landed on the ground with a moan. She was surprised to find Wufei didn't put much strength into his weapon and she was barely even bruised. Then again, maybe he was able to prevent Serena from getting hurt. Praying it was the former, Serena yelled at Shimei, "Grab his weapon and test his chi!"
Shimei nodded her head and throwing down the sword, grabbed the whip and attempted to throw it out of Wufei's hands. Wufei was prepared, and she felt his chi surging into her body. It messed up the flow within herself and the only thing her body knew to do was to push the energy back out.
The two stayed like that for 15 minutes, beads of sweat slowly formed on both forheads and their friends looked on, worried.
"Do you care to explain what's going on since you most likely understand what's going on?" Hiiro asked, breaking the deafening silence.
"I guess I owe it to you guys, ne?"
"Hn."
"Ok, remember how I asked you how much chi Wufei has?"
"Hai..."
"Well, chi is what the two of them are battling with now. Wufei and Shimei are all martial artists. They know how to control their chi to do things for them. Shimei's chi is more of the ying and Wufei's is of yang. What they're doing is Wufei tried to push his chi into Shimei and hurt her. Shimei, not wanting to get injured, used her chi to push Wufei's energy back. They're kinda stuck like that unless they stop at the same time, or else..."
"Or else what?" Quatre asked. His eyes opened wide, and he looked very concerned.
"One of them may get injured REALLY bad!" Serena finished.
"So how are you planning to stop them?" Duo asked.
"I'll show you!" Serena smiled, and walked up to Wufei and Shimei. She picked up Wufei's sword, and with one smooth motion, cut the whip. Instantly the sword shattered. Shimei, her energy drained, collapsed onto the ground. The girls rushed up around her.
Wufei also sat down on the concrete. He was breathing heavily, but unhurt. "Kuso!" he muttered, looking at his sword and whip. The sword was impossible to fix but the whip could possibly be fused back together.
"Oi, Wuffie, you Ok?" Duo asked the chinese boy.
"Hai!" Wufei responded.
Serena looked at Wufei, "I'm sorry about what I said to you, but you can't take your life like a joke! You really scared Shimei, and she's really tired now, with all the crying and stuff. I hope you're satisfied!"
Wufei stared at the angry girl. He uncomfortably cleared his throat. Serena was giving him a glare of death and it was really making him uncomfortable. Upon realizing what she was doing, Serena's expression softened, "Gomen Nasai!"
"..." Wufei was silent for a moment. Then he sighed and said, "She's a great martial artist! Possible better than me. It's not her fault she beat me last night! And I don't think it'll hurt my honor loosing to her. I apologize about my rudeness!"
"Are you going to anything else that's stupid?" Serena asked, sounding more like a police officer than a 16 year old girl.
"She'll be ok," Hinoko said, after she had checked Shimei's pulse. "Just a bit tired, that's all."
"Good! And Wufei, Hiiro, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre, I hope the ten of us can one day become good friends. After all, we still need to report back to the scientists!" Dominique tried to sum everything up and make up with the others.
"Hn. What does Doctor J need now?" Hiiro asked.
"I don't know, but you should find out soon!" Hinoko said as she picked up Shimei.
Then they turned to go back to the hotel. Serena stood on the court for a while, her dark hair blowing in the wind. It had been a long day today. She really needed to write it in her tiger diary....
End of Chapter 9
[1] Ping ying, kinda like romanji, only you can't pronounce it as easily. Serena said, push his pressure points!
[2] Thank you!