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Chapter 1 – To Be Together

            It was early in the morning when five young men walked into the Preventers building and had asked to be shown to Lady Une's office.

            "Go towards the elevator, press 9, turn to your left and just go straight down the hall.  Her secretary will be there and will call you in," the lady in the front desk said.

            "…"

            "Thank you," said a blonde haired man with clear blue eyes.

            As they got to the elevator, they noticed that someone was already in there and seemed to be waiting for them.

            "Its good to see that you guys are five minutes early.  It takes exactly that long to get there to her office," said the woman as she looked up at them.

            "If you don't mind us asking, who are you?" asked the young man with a long chestnut brown braid.

            "I'm Lieutenant Noin and I will be leading you all to Lady Une's office for your interview," Noin said as she looked at them all carefully.

            They all walked in silently and waited for the doors to close after they pressed 9.  Noin looked at them all carefully again as she waited with them.  They seemed to be all right and kept to themselves from the looks of things.

             When they reached the floor, they all stepped out and walked in the direction that the lady had said to take when they were downstairs.  As soon as they got to the door, the secretary announced them in and each of them walked inside and waited as Noin walked over to Lady Une and stood next to her.

            "You are the ones that want to have this job of being a bodyguard am I right," Lady Une asked as she looked at them all.

            They just stood there, but nodded silently and waited for her to continue with what she was going to say.

            "I'm Lady Une and this is Lieutenant Noin.  I'm curious to know why you all want to apply for this job," Lady Une said as she looked at them all in the eye.

            They were all silent until the young man in the middle with unruly dark brown hair stepped forward, his eyes closed.

            "…We have seen things that no one else should ever see or live through.  We want to put a stop to the threats that are aiming at the Vice Foreign Minister.  The only way that we seem to be able to do that is to protect her and find out whom keeps on sending you all those threats.  We will gladly give our lives up for the sake of peace," he said as he walked back to where he stood, still keeping his eyes closed.

            "…Very well then.  You all have the job and may start now, but I have to warn you though that the Vice Foreign Minister is not all that she seems to be," Lady Une said as she stood and shook their hands.

            When they all had left, she turned to Noin who just smiled sadly at her.

            "What I don't understand though Noin, is why that young man kept his eyes closed through out the whole time," Lady Une said as she looked at her friend, knowing that she knew why.

            "Because his eyes hold sadness and grief from the battles.  I remember them now.  They are the ones that have stopped all the wars from starting hundreds of times," Noin said as she smiled.

            "Ahh, I see," Lady Une said as she smiled, knowing that the Vice Foreign Minister was in good hands.

            "So, what do we do now?" asked the man with the braid.

            "I say we go back to the front desk and see if she can help us out on where we are all to go," said the blonde haired man again.

            "Fine with me, but as long as we eat soon," said the man with braid.

            "Don't you ever think of anything else besides food, Maxwell?" asked a Chinese man.

            "Yup, my hair, Wu-man," Maxwell said as he ran towards the elevator.

            "Maxwell!" said the Chinese man as he took off after him.

            "Damn the elevator, I'm taking the stairs!" Maxwell said as he continued to run towards the stairs, not watching where he was going.

            As Maxwell turned a corner, he didn't stop in time as he ran into a something and heard a soft yelp as that something fell to the floor.

            "Sorry about that, are you alright?" he asked as he held at a hand to help her up.

            "Yeah, thanks.  Just watch where you're going next time," she said as she got up to and looked at him with her dark blue eyes.

            "My name is Duo Maxwell and I'm new here.  Do you know where we are suppose to go after we see Lady Une?" Duo asked as he smiled at her.

            "Hilde.  You go towards Sally Po's office which is back over there and to your other left," Hilde said as she smiled back at him and walked away.

            "Thanks," Duo said as he followed her with his eyes until she was out of sight.

            'I wonder if she'll go out with me?' Duo thought as he just remembered about Wufei and went back to look for him.

            "Get out of my way woman!" Wufei said as he glared at her.

            "Not until you apologize for pushing me and calling me 'a worthless pathetic woman'," she said as she smirked up at him.

            'She is really starting to get on my nerves,' Wufei thought as he glared back at her and saw Duo coming towards them with a smile on his face.

            "Maxwell!" Wufei said as he was about to run after him, but was stopped by her again.

            "The least you can do is say my name and stop calling me woman.  The name is Sally Po," Sally said as she turned around and walked away from him.

            "Aren't you good with the ladies, Wu-man," Duo said as he walked up to him.

            "Shut up Maxwell," Wufei growled as he walked away from him.

            "Too bad though, she is the one that we have to go see now," Duo said as the others thought it was all right to walk over to them.

            "I'm not going to walk over there to her office," Wufei said as he glared back at where she was standing a while ago.

            "Come on Wufei, don't be like that.  Besides, we have to go see her if we want this job and to bring back peace," said the blonde haired man.

            "Fine," Wufei said as he started to walk along with them, complaining how women where pathetic and how everything was injustice now in the world.

            "Ms. Relena?" asked a girl as she waited patiently outside her friend's room.

            "Come on in, Dorothy," was Relena's reply as she quickly ran to the bathroom.

            "Relena, are you ready yet?" Dorothy asked as she saw how quickly she ran to the bathroom.

            "…"

            "Relena, are you alright?" Dorothy asked as she quickly walked over to where she was.

            When Dorothy got there, she saw Relena quickly trying to wrap up her arm with new bandages.

            "Relena, what happened to your arm?" Dorothy said in alarm as she walked over to her and examined it.

            "Please Dorothy, you can't tell my brother or Sally," Relena said as she looked at her pleadingly.

            "Was it one of the threats again?" Dorothy asked a she slowly wrapped it, making sure that it covered her cut.

            "I went out for a walk again last night in the garden, without supervision and without a guard.  I was walking through the maze when I felt something graze my arm.  I quickly ran back towards my room without waking up anyone and tried to clean it out myself, but I've been feeling ill lately," Relena said as she rolled her long sleeve back down, covering up the wound.

            "Relena, I'm going to have to tell Sally so she can have a look at your arm.  I don't think that was just an ordinary bullet wound," Dorothy said as she saw how it was turning a very pale yellow color around the wound.

            "Very…well…then…Dorothy," Relena said as felt herself falling forward into a world of blackness.

            "Sally!" Dorothy yelled as she ran out of the room and down the hallway, hoping that she hadn't already left for work.

            "Would you please stop glaring at me?" Sally asked Wufei as he leaned against the wall.

            "Whatever woman," Wufei said as he finally decided to avert his glaze somewhere else.

            "Now, here are your orders and you will either be reporting to me, Noin, or Lady Une.  If there are any questions, ask around or look for a girl named Hilde or Catharine here.  They will help you in any way they can. You are dismissed," Sally said as she stood up to walk them to the door.

            "Sally!" said a girl as she came running into the room in a wreck.

            "Dorothy!  What is it?  Where is she?" Sally asked as she walked up to her, nearly catching her when she fell.

            "She's…in the…hospital," Dorothy said as she passed out in Sally's arms.

            "Can you carry her for me?" Sally said, looking at Quatre.

            "Of course," he said a he picked her up in his arms effortlessly.

            "Follow me.  Your first assignment might start now," Sally said as she quickly ran out of the door with the others following her.

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