Hammer To The Heart
Chapter 2
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Boom Boom Boom
Yeah I knew right from the start,
This was something new, oh baby!
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"Oi Minna-chan!!" she yelled once she ran into the room and plopped down on a pillow at the table, resting her head on her folded arms trying to catch her breath. "Rei-chan... too... many... steps..." she breathed giving everyone a goofy grin. "Soo... how is everyone?" she asked everyone.
Rei looked at her. "Your... late..."
She shrugged, "By two minutes pyro." She grinned. "So, what's up? What's goin' on, when we startin' this thang!?" she finished laughing at their faces. "Aww come on guys! Stop looking like that!"
"Usa-chan, are you feeling alright? You uhh..." she seemed unsure of how to say it, "You seem, more giddy and rushed today..." Minako asked.
"Hai Minna, I'm fine thanks. But are we gonna start this or not? Please, I've got places to go and homework to do..." she thought about her words, "And don't say anything about me not doing it before. I'm on a mission." She smirked her eyes holding a mischief twinkle to them.
"Uh-huh... right... And I'm a Gundam pilot. Come on Usa-chan spill it, we're not doing anything 'til you tell us what's up." Matako told her grinning.
"Hai Usa-him, please tell us." Came Ami's quiet voice.
Usagi sighed. "Fine, fine... y'all win." She took a breath, "On my way to school, I ran into this hunky guy..." she trailed off her eyes taking on a glassy look as she remembered him. "He had-" she stopped looking behind the others at Rei's post board.
Rei waved a hand in front of her face. "Usa... Usa-chan..." she sighed. "ODANGO ATAMA! Snap outta it! What did he have??" Rei asked fed up with the Odango Atama One's spacing out.
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Saw you in a picture,
That hung on the wall,
My sister told that you are the one.
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Usagi's heart rate started to speed up a bit just looking at the picture, it wasn't even *him* him and she reacted this way towards a picture. Her eyes started to take on a more spaced out look with a sparkle in them, her face turning a slight blush. 'Wow, whatta hunk.' she thought not trusting her voice at the moment she just pointed behind her.
"What? What is it Usa-chan?" Makoto asked. "The picture?" Usagi nodded. "Rei-chan, who is that?"
Rei looked behind her and sighed. "Heero Yuy, ex-Gundam Pilot of Wing Zero, and his friends, or rather his other pilots. Duo Maxwell, Quatre R. Winner, Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei." Rei informed them all. "Which one are you talking about Usa-chan?"
Usagi shook her head looking at the pic still. "Th... that one... Heero..."
Rei raised her eyebrow at that. "What about him?"
"I... I saw him... he's the one I ran into today... wearing a green tank top tucked into a pair of blue jeans, a blue jean jacket and sneakers. His Prussian blue eyes, stared into mine and... I was lost... his unruly dark brown hair was spiky like that, but looked so smooth, like it would be soft to the touch..." She murmured staring at the picture, shaking her head again she apologized.
"Sorry Minna-chan... I didn't mean to space out like that. Umm..." she looked around, "I'm gonna head home now, and umm, think about some things... Luna can help with my homework. Ja ne!" and with that she headed outta the Temple heading for home. Once there she changed into a different more comfortable outfit and headed out to find Heero Yuy. "Heero Yuy" she let the name roll off her tongue... she liked the sound of it.
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Heero was walking down a path in Juuban Park when a gold blur ran past him, stopped, looked, and ran back to him. He was curious and almost... almost... shocked that it was him she ran to, but he hid in under his mask.
Usagi had spotted Heero walking in the park after she flew past him; she stopped, looked again, smiled and ran towards him stopping this time in front of him. "Ossu! Hi we met earlier... well kinda. My names Tsukino Usagi." She stuck out her hand, which he didn't take. She frowned slightly then smiled brightly. "Ooookay. So what's your name?"
"Hn."
"Well Mr. Hn. It's nice to meetcha! So what's your real name?" she persisted smiling the while.
He would have sighed if he weren't the Perfect Solider. So instead he grunted and stated, "Heero Yuy" in his monotone.
"Cool! Nice to meetcha Heero-san!" she bowed then stood up, her eyes shinning. "Hey wanna go to the arcade? I know Motoki -oniisan would like to meet you!" he frowned, "Well, okay, you don't have to meet him, but come on lets go play a game! What doya say?" she gave him her puppy eyes. 'Come on you gotta go! You need some fun in your life Heero... a lonely life like you've led.' She thought watching him.
He stared at her, studying her. 'My glares don't work. Being cold doesn't work, why won't she leave me alone!' fumed the solider side of him. 'But her eyes sparkle with life, happiness and warmth... yet held a sadness, a loneliness as mine do... Why would someone such as she be lonely... she's cute... really cute...' the other humanity part of him said smiling mentally. He shrugged his shoulders, "Hnnn."
"REALLY!?" she asked grabbing his arm, hugging it tightly, but not tight enough to hurt him.
Heero wanted to rip his arm out of her grip that was his first instinct; but for some reason he couldn't, so he let her be and nodded. "Hai."
'Wow, he agreed!' she mentally cheered. She smiled brightly up at him. "Alright lets go!" She cheered grabbing him by his hand and practically dragging him to the arcade, 'cept for the undeliverable fact that Heero was able to keep up with Usagi's running. He acted like he was ignoring what all she had to say as they went keeping his face emotionless but secretly he was listening to ever word of it. Like he did with most people, just absorbing the parts he wanted to hear and brushing the others off. But for some reason, most of the babble that this girl, Usagi, was talking about entered his ears and stayed in his head... even if it was just nonsense to him and didn't concern him. This totally confused the Perfect Soldier.
"Here we are!" Usagi announced ten minutes and non-stop babble later. She had been talking about her friends, how much fun they had, the fights her and Rei would get into and most of all Motoki -oniisan's arcade. Telling him of all the fun games they had there. "Fighting, driving, spooky ones and funny one! Oh you've gotta try 'em! Hey! I'll race you on a driving one whatcha think!?" she looked towards him eyes shinning with hope. She didn't want him to leave. Not if what Motoki -oniisan said was true about him, then she wanted him to know what it was like playing in the arcade and what he was missing out on.
He looked around at all the games and happy faces in the room and was starting to second-guess his decision to let her drag him here... literally. He looked back at her and slowly nodded his head. "Uhh, sure..." he went to looking back around again before he was bright back to looking at Usagi when she tugged his hand to get him to follow her.
"Well come on, it's over here..." they walked over to a large racing game that four people could race at the same time. No one was at it now. "Here ya go. You sit here" she gave him her version of a glare that came no where close to his, "Don't, go anywhere 'kay? It's my treat, I'm gonna go get some change. Be right back!" she gave a small wave and a smile before going for the change.
Heero thought her 'glare' was quite funny but didn't show it. It made her face scrunch up and her eyes go more slanted, it was just cute, he wouldn't go anywhere, the thought of a challenge made him stay. So he waited for her return.
She returned and they started playing the game and kept playing 'til Usagi won once; she won on the 5th time playing. "You let me win, didn't you?" she had asked looking at him questioningly, studying his face and eyes trying to see if he really did. She couldn't tell though, so she drug him to another game, and another and another. 'Til they had been playing in the arcade for about three hours.
Usagi was starting to get thirsty and picked a booth to sit in, Heero followed suit sitting across from him with something akin to a smile on his face. It was a cross between the corners of his mouth pulling and a smirk, almost borderline on becoming a full-fledged smile. But it wasn't that easy, ohh no... this is the Perfect Soldier we're talkin' about here, Usagi didn't know his nickname, she only knew his name and what they've all known about the Gundam Pilots since the war ended two years ago.
AC199 was a time of peace, and it made Usagi sad to know that Heero and the other pilots hadn't had any... 'And this one...' she thought looking at him, 'this one hasn't had any type of fun before in his life... he's been so lonely, isolated from others...' she smiled, 'Today was his first time to have fun maybe! And I did it!' she was smiling on the outside as well, and Heero noticed it and acknowledged it by raising an eyebrow.
"What?" Usagi asked him noticing his raised eyebrow.
Heero just kept looking at her, before shaking his head slightly. "What are you smiling at?" he asked carefully, as if afraid to know.
"Hmm, oh... nothing much, just thinking that's all." Her smile seemed to brighten more. "Hey, so you ready to get something to eat and drink!? I'm starved!" as if to prove her point her stomach chose that time to growl loudly causing her to blush lightly.
Heero stared at her a minute before a deep chuckling sound arose from him, causing Usagi to raise a golden brow in wonder at him. "You're too much Bunny..." he let himself smile for the first time in his life that he could ever remember. "This time it's my treat order what you like. I'll pay for it."
Usagi stared at him shocked. This was supposed to be *her* treating him, not *him* treating her, but here he is, offering her whatever she wanted. 'Wow... not what I expected from him...' she thought before nodding vigorously. "Hai... okies, Heero-kun!" she said before picking up the menu and studying it, even though she didn't have to, she knew it by heart, but she didn't want to let him know that.
Heero was once again shocked for the second time that day at the name she'd just called him. He thought a minute then shook his head thinking about what he called her. It wasn't something he had been thinking on calling her, it was just... it felt natural to him to call her that. Bunny. It fit her after all, with that hair. He lightly chuckled again watching her before picking up his menu and reading over it.
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Chapter 2
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Boom Boom Boom
Yeah I knew right from the start,
This was something new, oh baby!
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"Oi Minna-chan!!" she yelled once she ran into the room and plopped down on a pillow at the table, resting her head on her folded arms trying to catch her breath. "Rei-chan... too... many... steps..." she breathed giving everyone a goofy grin. "Soo... how is everyone?" she asked everyone.
Rei looked at her. "Your... late..."
She shrugged, "By two minutes pyro." She grinned. "So, what's up? What's goin' on, when we startin' this thang!?" she finished laughing at their faces. "Aww come on guys! Stop looking like that!"
"Usa-chan, are you feeling alright? You uhh..." she seemed unsure of how to say it, "You seem, more giddy and rushed today..." Minako asked.
"Hai Minna, I'm fine thanks. But are we gonna start this or not? Please, I've got places to go and homework to do..." she thought about her words, "And don't say anything about me not doing it before. I'm on a mission." She smirked her eyes holding a mischief twinkle to them.
"Uh-huh... right... And I'm a Gundam pilot. Come on Usa-chan spill it, we're not doing anything 'til you tell us what's up." Matako told her grinning.
"Hai Usa-him, please tell us." Came Ami's quiet voice.
Usagi sighed. "Fine, fine... y'all win." She took a breath, "On my way to school, I ran into this hunky guy..." she trailed off her eyes taking on a glassy look as she remembered him. "He had-" she stopped looking behind the others at Rei's post board.
Rei waved a hand in front of her face. "Usa... Usa-chan..." she sighed. "ODANGO ATAMA! Snap outta it! What did he have??" Rei asked fed up with the Odango Atama One's spacing out.
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Saw you in a picture,
That hung on the wall,
My sister told that you are the one.
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Usagi's heart rate started to speed up a bit just looking at the picture, it wasn't even *him* him and she reacted this way towards a picture. Her eyes started to take on a more spaced out look with a sparkle in them, her face turning a slight blush. 'Wow, whatta hunk.' she thought not trusting her voice at the moment she just pointed behind her.
"What? What is it Usa-chan?" Makoto asked. "The picture?" Usagi nodded. "Rei-chan, who is that?"
Rei looked behind her and sighed. "Heero Yuy, ex-Gundam Pilot of Wing Zero, and his friends, or rather his other pilots. Duo Maxwell, Quatre R. Winner, Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei." Rei informed them all. "Which one are you talking about Usa-chan?"
Usagi shook her head looking at the pic still. "Th... that one... Heero..."
Rei raised her eyebrow at that. "What about him?"
"I... I saw him... he's the one I ran into today... wearing a green tank top tucked into a pair of blue jeans, a blue jean jacket and sneakers. His Prussian blue eyes, stared into mine and... I was lost... his unruly dark brown hair was spiky like that, but looked so smooth, like it would be soft to the touch..." She murmured staring at the picture, shaking her head again she apologized.
"Sorry Minna-chan... I didn't mean to space out like that. Umm..." she looked around, "I'm gonna head home now, and umm, think about some things... Luna can help with my homework. Ja ne!" and with that she headed outta the Temple heading for home. Once there she changed into a different more comfortable outfit and headed out to find Heero Yuy. "Heero Yuy" she let the name roll off her tongue... she liked the sound of it.
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Heero was walking down a path in Juuban Park when a gold blur ran past him, stopped, looked, and ran back to him. He was curious and almost... almost... shocked that it was him she ran to, but he hid in under his mask.
Usagi had spotted Heero walking in the park after she flew past him; she stopped, looked again, smiled and ran towards him stopping this time in front of him. "Ossu! Hi we met earlier... well kinda. My names Tsukino Usagi." She stuck out her hand, which he didn't take. She frowned slightly then smiled brightly. "Ooookay. So what's your name?"
"Hn."
"Well Mr. Hn. It's nice to meetcha! So what's your real name?" she persisted smiling the while.
He would have sighed if he weren't the Perfect Solider. So instead he grunted and stated, "Heero Yuy" in his monotone.
"Cool! Nice to meetcha Heero-san!" she bowed then stood up, her eyes shinning. "Hey wanna go to the arcade? I know Motoki -oniisan would like to meet you!" he frowned, "Well, okay, you don't have to meet him, but come on lets go play a game! What doya say?" she gave him her puppy eyes. 'Come on you gotta go! You need some fun in your life Heero... a lonely life like you've led.' She thought watching him.
He stared at her, studying her. 'My glares don't work. Being cold doesn't work, why won't she leave me alone!' fumed the solider side of him. 'But her eyes sparkle with life, happiness and warmth... yet held a sadness, a loneliness as mine do... Why would someone such as she be lonely... she's cute... really cute...' the other humanity part of him said smiling mentally. He shrugged his shoulders, "Hnnn."
"REALLY!?" she asked grabbing his arm, hugging it tightly, but not tight enough to hurt him.
Heero wanted to rip his arm out of her grip that was his first instinct; but for some reason he couldn't, so he let her be and nodded. "Hai."
'Wow, he agreed!' she mentally cheered. She smiled brightly up at him. "Alright lets go!" She cheered grabbing him by his hand and practically dragging him to the arcade, 'cept for the undeliverable fact that Heero was able to keep up with Usagi's running. He acted like he was ignoring what all she had to say as they went keeping his face emotionless but secretly he was listening to ever word of it. Like he did with most people, just absorbing the parts he wanted to hear and brushing the others off. But for some reason, most of the babble that this girl, Usagi, was talking about entered his ears and stayed in his head... even if it was just nonsense to him and didn't concern him. This totally confused the Perfect Soldier.
"Here we are!" Usagi announced ten minutes and non-stop babble later. She had been talking about her friends, how much fun they had, the fights her and Rei would get into and most of all Motoki -oniisan's arcade. Telling him of all the fun games they had there. "Fighting, driving, spooky ones and funny one! Oh you've gotta try 'em! Hey! I'll race you on a driving one whatcha think!?" she looked towards him eyes shinning with hope. She didn't want him to leave. Not if what Motoki -oniisan said was true about him, then she wanted him to know what it was like playing in the arcade and what he was missing out on.
He looked around at all the games and happy faces in the room and was starting to second-guess his decision to let her drag him here... literally. He looked back at her and slowly nodded his head. "Uhh, sure..." he went to looking back around again before he was bright back to looking at Usagi when she tugged his hand to get him to follow her.
"Well come on, it's over here..." they walked over to a large racing game that four people could race at the same time. No one was at it now. "Here ya go. You sit here" she gave him her version of a glare that came no where close to his, "Don't, go anywhere 'kay? It's my treat, I'm gonna go get some change. Be right back!" she gave a small wave and a smile before going for the change.
Heero thought her 'glare' was quite funny but didn't show it. It made her face scrunch up and her eyes go more slanted, it was just cute, he wouldn't go anywhere, the thought of a challenge made him stay. So he waited for her return.
She returned and they started playing the game and kept playing 'til Usagi won once; she won on the 5th time playing. "You let me win, didn't you?" she had asked looking at him questioningly, studying his face and eyes trying to see if he really did. She couldn't tell though, so she drug him to another game, and another and another. 'Til they had been playing in the arcade for about three hours.
Usagi was starting to get thirsty and picked a booth to sit in, Heero followed suit sitting across from him with something akin to a smile on his face. It was a cross between the corners of his mouth pulling and a smirk, almost borderline on becoming a full-fledged smile. But it wasn't that easy, ohh no... this is the Perfect Soldier we're talkin' about here, Usagi didn't know his nickname, she only knew his name and what they've all known about the Gundam Pilots since the war ended two years ago.
AC199 was a time of peace, and it made Usagi sad to know that Heero and the other pilots hadn't had any... 'And this one...' she thought looking at him, 'this one hasn't had any type of fun before in his life... he's been so lonely, isolated from others...' she smiled, 'Today was his first time to have fun maybe! And I did it!' she was smiling on the outside as well, and Heero noticed it and acknowledged it by raising an eyebrow.
"What?" Usagi asked him noticing his raised eyebrow.
Heero just kept looking at her, before shaking his head slightly. "What are you smiling at?" he asked carefully, as if afraid to know.
"Hmm, oh... nothing much, just thinking that's all." Her smile seemed to brighten more. "Hey, so you ready to get something to eat and drink!? I'm starved!" as if to prove her point her stomach chose that time to growl loudly causing her to blush lightly.
Heero stared at her a minute before a deep chuckling sound arose from him, causing Usagi to raise a golden brow in wonder at him. "You're too much Bunny..." he let himself smile for the first time in his life that he could ever remember. "This time it's my treat order what you like. I'll pay for it."
Usagi stared at him shocked. This was supposed to be *her* treating him, not *him* treating her, but here he is, offering her whatever she wanted. 'Wow... not what I expected from him...' she thought before nodding vigorously. "Hai... okies, Heero-kun!" she said before picking up the menu and studying it, even though she didn't have to, she knew it by heart, but she didn't want to let him know that.
Heero was once again shocked for the second time that day at the name she'd just called him. He thought a minute then shook his head thinking about what he called her. It wasn't something he had been thinking on calling her, it was just... it felt natural to him to call her that. Bunny. It fit her after all, with that hair. He lightly chuckled again watching her before picking up his menu and reading over it.
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