AN: Who's afraid of the big bad lawyers? I am. I don't own either one of these shows.
Where Do We Feint"That scream sounded like Duo," commented Makoto. She didn't sound too surprised that Minako had managed to make her pupil scream this early in the lessons. Even when the blonde wonder was on a mission of mercy, like when she tried to nurse her sick friends during a Negamoon flu plague, she could inflict tons of unintentional damage. Hurricane Minako strikes again. Heero cleared his throat and Makoto refocused on her own student. He'd removed his dark green cape and stood patiently leaning on his oak staff. The man certainly made a handsome picture with sunlight glinting off of his emerald green armor.
"Maybe we should get the lesson started." Apparently he had caught the drift of her thoughts through their link.
"Right." Makoto struck a 'thinking' pose for a moment. "You've got to tap you element before we can really get anywhere, so how should we go about that?" Heero shrugged as if to say you're the teacher. Makoto thought back to when her powers had first manifested. Luna had thrown her a henshin stick and told her the words to say that turned into her first attack. That wouldn't really work in this instance because Makoto had no memories of Heero's previous existence as Prince Zeus of Jupiter. Hell, the princes didn't even use henshin sticks to transform, they just concentrated and poof! A flurry of power ribbons and then cape, armor, and weapon were all ready for combat.
Disgusted with her lack of ideas, Makoto turned to face the rocky landscape behind them. There was something that Makoto was forgetting about how she'd first used her powers. The confusion, the adrenaline, the fear . . .Her answer seemed to swim up from the depths of her mind to slap her. If she couldn't coax the memories from him, she'd scare the words out of him. How did one scare the Perfect Soldier?
Heero wasn't sure if Makoto's continued silence was a good thing or not. Their link was muted for the moment, but every now and again she'd mutter something and look towards the huge rocks lining their training area. Finally she seemed to come up with something because she turned to face him with a brilliant smile on her face. Finally, he thought, we're going to get going. Her words were unexpected to say the least.
"Go and meditate or something for a while," she said as she made shooing motions. "I'll come and get you when I'm ready." Heero picked up his cape, and after looking over his shoulder at his enigmatic teacher, went to do as she said.
Less than an hour later, a sweaty looking Makoto appeared to collect her wary student. As she marched them up the steep path that led to the rocky place that had been before, Heero's sense of unease began to grow. Makoto's link was too quiet and there was something else that tickled at the back of his mind that insisted that this scene was too familiar. It smelled like a set up. As that thought took form, anther whirled into action as a horrendous groaning struck the air. Heero looked up in time to see a massive rockslide careening down the hillside with the two of them directly in its path. Makoto seemed to freeze up and instantly Heero knew that he could never reach her before the slide turned her to a bloody pulp in a green fuku. There was a sharp pain behind his eyes and suddenly words, bloody marvelous words, filled his mouth.
"Arcing Strike Evocation," he shouted before the world exploded into a billion points of light. The earth beneath his feet tilted and minutes later Heero awoke on his back. A very stunned Makoto stared back at him. "Did I stop the rockslide?"
"Stop it?" Makoto shook her head in wonder. "You took out the whole hill!"
"Yeah?" If it were anybody other than Heero, Makoto would have sworn that he sounded smug. When he pulled her down for a searing kiss, she almost asked what he'd done with the real Heero. "Makoto?"
"Yes," she murmured against his lips.
"Don't ever set me up with you as bait again. Ever." The gleam in his eyes spoke of the truth Makoto had made him to face. She was the only bait he'd ever fall for and that made her his only weakness. Touched and honored, Makoto looked deep into his eyes and promised.
"How was that for a first lesson?"
AN: Well, are they going to make it as a couple? I certainly hope so. I'm enjoying Heero's changes the most out of all the couples. Let me know what you think, and Thanks!