Lunar Succession

Author: ~Heartless Spirit~

Disclaimer: I don't own SM or GW. I DO own Dederi, so no stealin'! AND IBAREN!!!

AN: HEY PPL! I was wondering if you liked ch.7. Was it good? Huh? Huh?

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Lunar Succession
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Chapter 8-On My Doorstep
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Minako, followed by Rei, Makoto, Duo, Michiru, Haruka. Ami, and Quatre, peeked around the corner of the adobe-colored
outer wall of Quatre's mansion, trying to see what Dederi and Wufei were doing. They were suprised that Trowa was
there also.

"Hey, what're those three doing over there?" Makoto asked herself.

"Judging from that large basket, I say they're having a picnic." Ami concluded.

"FOOD!!" Duo lunged out, but was caught by the hem of his pants by Nova.

"Hold on, baka. We want to see what they're doing." She said, knocking him in the head with her fist.

Duo whimpered.

"NO."

"Awww..." the braided pilot sulked as he gave in to watching the three.

"Shut up, I can't hear what they're saying." Rei barked.

"We shouldn't be doing this..." Quatre motioned, although intrigued as to what the two pilots and the assassin were doing.

Trowa laughed as Dederi and Wufei sat down next to him, seeing Wufei's sweating face. "What'd you do?"

Dederi opened the basket and pulled out the plates and spoons. "I threatened him by holding him over the pool."

"And THAT made him keep it a secret?" Trowa was suprised.

"I said I would pay Maxwell to kiss him if he told." Dederi smirked.

Trowa's eyes widened. "And did he?"

"No, you should have seen it." Dederi sneered, taking out the large plastic box that held the spaghetti. "Wufei Chang
pleaded for mercy. It was priceless."

Trowa laughed. Wufei glared (It was almost as scary as Heero's glare...O_o).

"Anyway, with that aside, which one of you wants spaghetti?" She held out the serving spoon and fork in one hand, the
plastic box in the other. Trowa took them and began to take his share of spaghetti.

Wufei looked in the basket and took out a box. He opened it and found a large square of lasagna(sp?). "You've outdone
yourself."

"Oh, it's nothing. I like to cook, that's all." Dederi smiled. "For dessert I made double-decker chocolate cake.
Is that alright?" Both pilots nodded eagerly.

Duo overheard what the dessert was and began to drool. "D-double-decker chocolate cake..."

"Eww, Duo! Stop drooling on me!" Nova pushed his head away from her hair.

Wufei cut out a piece of lasagna and put it on his plate. "What are we going to learn after lunch?"

Dederi chewed a chunk of lasagna and swallowed. "Ki blasts, I think. We already learned ki spheres and shields, so
after ki BLASTS, that's pretty much it. You know, you pilots learned much quicker than I expected. Usually it would
take a few weeks."

"We're capable of anything, onna." Wufei retorted.

Dederi chuckled. [I guess that's true.]

After lunch, the assassin packed the extra food and dirty plates and utensils into the wicker basket and placed it
behind the tree while Wufei and Trowa practiced attacks on each other. They were getting pretty good, but still
had a little bit more to go.

Dederi stood in the middle of Trowa and Wufei, making them immediately stop. "You're doing well. Now, you're going to
learn how to do beams." (Blasts and beams are the same thing. ^^;;)

She motioned for them to stand near the tree and face her. They did so. When they were ready, she began her lesson.
"First, you gather the energy from your essence and put your hand out." She then put her left pale hand out in front
of her, aiming at a rose shrub. "If you are aiming at something, you aim and push out that built up energy onto your
target. You do not just push once and forget about it, but you have to continuously push out and gather energy
at the same time. Understand?" Wufei and Trowa nodded in understanding. "I'll demonstrate." She kept her hand out
and out of her hand shot a beam of black and blood red. She aimed her beam towards two rose bushes and continuously
shot her beam, not stopping for a breath. When both bushes had been burned, she stopped the beam.

"Now you try."

As Dederi's gakseis (students) took turns frying the shrubs with ki beams, the other senshi and two pilots watched in
awe as they did.

"How can Dederi emitt attacks and energy like that? She didn't even henshin!" Ami gasped.
Rei shook her head, not knowing the answer. "This is very strange..."
"Look! Wufei and Trowa are doin' it too!" Duo's eyes bulged out from their usual places.
"Could Dederi be teaching them how to emitt those beams?" Quatre questioned.

"I didn't know people could emitt spiritual waves.." Michiru said to Haruka. Her girlfriend shook her head.
"Neither did I. Although, Kiohime-kun could teleport from some sort of blue light. How is that, or this, possible?"

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm terrified." Duo shivered. "Wufei could try that beam stuff at me!"

Dederi clapped at her two gakseis. "I'm very proud of you two. Very proud."

Wufei looked at the six burned shrubs that he, Dederi, and Trowa had made. "It wasn't as hard as I imagined it would be."

"Oh, it will get harder. MUCH harder." Dederi said, walking over to the cherry blossom tree to pick up the wicker picnic
basket. "But that will be all for today." She looked over to the corner where the senshi and two pilots hid. "You can come
out now, the lesson is over. No, Duo, Wufei won't try the beam or spheres on you." Then she smirked. [Yet.]

As Dederi walked through the kitchen doors, Trowa and Wufei followed.

A few hours later, everyone (I do mean EVERYONE) was in the living room, either watching 'Mission Impossible:2' on the
big screen television, talking, or on their laptops on the round coffee table by the window. Duo was staying as far away
from Wufei as he could, not wanting to get blasted.

Dederi saw this. "Maxwell, calm down. Wufei will not use his ki on you today, anyway. He's too drained from today's
lesson."

"How WERE you able to emitt those rays without transforming?" Michiru asked, taking a sip of her coffee that Quatre had
made.

"I'll tell you when I trust you." She sneered. "Technically, anyone can do it, though. You just need to practice."

"So, you're saying," Rei growled, putting down the remote,"That you trust the chauvinistic pig more than us?!"

"Who are you calling a chauvinistic pig, onna?!" Wufei snapped.

Dederi pushed Wufei's shoulder to make him sit back down onto the seat. "Actually, I trust all of the pilots more than
you, Mars. Especially you. I feel it is hard to trust those who do not have blood on their hands." She paused, but then
knew that they did have blood on their hands, but blood of their supernatural enemies only. "I mean innocents' blood."

"Why would you trust murderers more than the innocent?" Ami asked softly.

Ibaren cut in to prevent Dederi from saying anything further. "What Kuro-chan means, is, she feels that the pilots are
in a way, the same as her. Right?" Dederi smirked and nodded. She knew that none of the senshi, inner senshi anyway, knew
how she would feel.

Duo Maxwell smiled sadly and turned to the other senshi. "Maybe what she means is, we've all been through something similar.
Seeing wars, unwanted deaths, stuff that some of you haven't seen."

Makoto nodded. "Dederi, we've all seen deaths, human or not."

Dederi smirked. "You've seen more supernatural than human."

Quatre wasn't liking this topic, not that anyone did. It reminded him of the death of his father during that space incident
with the resource satellites, along with how much deaths the ZERO system could cause. "Listen, I don't really think this
is a good idea, talking about the past."

Minako agreed. "This topic's too gloomy for my taste anyway."

Duo snapped out of his sadness. "Hey, let's go dancin'. That'll take our troubles away from our minds!"

"Yeah! I'm in!" Minako yelled.

"Good idea." Quatre agreed. Soon, everyone, save Dederi, agreed. Heero was forced to go because of Duo. Duo was threatening
to call him Hee-man for the rest of his life if he didn't.

"I'm not going. I can't dance, and I hate crowded places." Dederi grinned, getting up from her seat and into the kitchen.

"Joykiller." Duo sighed. "Oh well, lessee.." He looked at the amethyst clock on the far wall. "It's five-thirty right
now, so what's say we meet here at six-thirty and we'll go to one o' the clubs downtown!"

Trowa began to change his mind. "Actually, I'm not gonna go. I have something to take care of." He turned and left for
his room.

Duo sweatdropped. "Man, anyone else gonna change their minds?"

Wufei and Heero raised their hands, not wanting to dance.

"Jeez, Wu-man you ruin everything." Wufei grumbled with Duo's statement and walked upstairs to his room.

"Hee-man, you're already stuck. Can't leave." Duo waved his forefinger in a 'no' gesture.

Heero glared and went to his room to change.

~One hour later~

"C'mon Mako-chan! Everyone else is waiting!" Minako yelled from the foot of the well-finished main stairs.
Makoto ran down the stairs. "Sorry. Anyway, I'm here. Is everyone else here?"

QUatre nodded, opening the door for everyone. "Ready?"

The girls nodded and walked out, giggling.

Nova and Duo walked out together, their hands intertwined.

Heero scowled and walked out. He was going to make sure he got even with Duo.

Quatre chuckled and waved to Trowa, who sat in the living room with his laptop. Trowa waved back as Quatre closed
the door with a 'click'. After they left, Trowa turned off his laptop and walked into the kitchen where Dederi
was drinking a batch of Wufei's strong Chinese black tea. Wufei was making his own share when Trowa entered.

Dederi coughed. "This batch is *cough* strong. What'd you put in this?"

Trowa chuckled quietly as Dederi scowled, continuing to drink the tea.

"Ginger, herbs, the usual Chinese ingredients.." Wufei sat down across from Dederi, sipping his tea.

Dederi gagged. "Ginger?"

"Yeah, so?"

"So that's how you made it so strong." Dederi stuck her tongue out.

Trowa smiled and kissed Dederi on the lips. Wufei made a noise of disgust.

"You know, if you're going to be doing that every time no one's around I'm going to kill myself. Blech." Wufei walked out
of the mahogany kitchen, taking his tea with him.

Trowa and Dederi burst out laughing.

Dederi stopped laughing first and took another sip of the black tea. "You know, once you get used to it, it's not half
bad." She said, putting the mug down.

The Latin pilot smiled and kissed her again. Their arms circled each other and Trowa softly stroked Dederi's hair.
He took out the band that held her ponytail in place, letting her raven tresses tumble down and onto her shoulders.
Dederi kissed more passionately in return. (AN: GAH! they're making out..P)

As Trowa began to kiss Dederi's neck, she released a soft moan. Dederi kissed his cheek softly, massaging as back in the
process...

Suddenly, Dederi heard the doorbell ring. "We better go get that, Trowa-chan.." Trowa grumbled and let go.
She chuckled. "Oh, it's not that bad." Dederi got up and walked through the kitchen doors. Trowa grinned, put his shirt
back on (AN: O_o;) , and walked to the coffee machine to make his own coffee.

Dederi looked out the window. Rain drops had covered the glass. [I didn't know it started to rain.] She chuckled. [So much
for Maxwell's date.] She opened the large oak door, the hinges creaking.

Dederi kneeled down, smiling. "Komban wa. Something you need?"

The small girl in front of Dederi was soaking wet, her pink hair drenched in water. She had large kawaii eyes, tinted red,
and she wore a sailor-like blue and white outfit. "Hello, is Puu here?"

Dederi blinked. "You mean Pluto?"

The little girl smiled happily. "Yeah!"

"Gomen, but she's out with the others."

The girl's expression turned from a happy one to a sad one. Dederi took pity on her (AN: Dederi? pity?) and smiled warmly.
"What's your name?"

The pink-haired girl looked up. "Chibi-Usa."

[Where have I heard that name before?] She wondered. Suddenly remembering that there was a little girl soaking wet
in from of her, she wiped that from her mind. "Well, Chibi-Usa, why not come in and you can wait for her until she comes
back?"

Chibi-usa smiled again. "Okay!" Dederi put out her hand. Chibi-usa took it happily and Dederi walked inside, pulling the
pink-haired girl with her.

Dederi closed the oak door. "How do you know Pluto?"

"She's sorta my guardian."

"Your guardian?" Dederi wondered.

"Yeah..."

She decided not to ask any further questions about her relations with the guardian of time and decided to make her more
comfortable. "Pluto won't be back for another few hours, so how about a nice cup of hot chocolate to warm you up?"

"YAY!" Chibi-usa exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air.

Dederi chuckled. She put her hand on Chibi-usa's and led her into the kitchen. Chibi-usa pointed to a guy with a well-
balanced tan and one bang that had a cup of Spanish coffee in his left hand. "Lady, who's that?"
"That's Trowa Barton, Chibi-usa."
Trowa looked up from the counter and looked at Dederi and the girl that she held hands with. He stared. "Who's she,
Dede-chan?"
"She's Chibi-usa, Trowa-chan. I found her on the doorsteps when I opened the door. She's waiting for the rest of the
senshi, I think." Dederi lifted her up onto the wooden stool next to the center counter. "Just give me five minutes,
okay, Chibi-usa?" The little girl nodded and looked around.
"This is a pretty kitchen. Oh, I'm sorry, I never got your name.."
Dederi smiled. "My name is Dederi." She began to melt chocolate in a saucepan.
"Ah-choo!" Chibi-usa sneezed. "S'cuze me.."
Trowa smiled. "I'll be back with a blanket." He kissed Dederi on the cheek before leaving the kitchen.

Chibi-usa giggled.
"What is it?" Dederi wondered why she was laughing when nothing funny had happened.
"Are you guys married?" Chibi-usa laughed.
Dederi stared, blushing like a tomato. "N-no!"
"You're funny." She continued to laugh.
The female assassin sweatdropped. "Please don't tell anyone about me and Trowa-chan. No one's supposed to know.."
"Okay.." Chibi-usa smiled.

Dederi put the melted chocolate into a small beige mug and added sugar and milk. She mixed it together as she talked
to Chibi-usa. Dederi found that Chibi-usa also had a love for thrills, as she did. She added mini marshmellows into the
mug. She just knew what to put for no reason. "Here's my special hot chocolate, made just for you, Chibi-usa. Hope you
like it." Dederi handed the mug to her little guest. Chibi-usa sipped a bit of the chocolate.

"Wow, this is great. Arigato, Dederi-san!"

"Doo itashi mashite, Chibi-usa. Anytime you want chocolate, I'm around to make some."

Trowa came in with a white futon. "Here." He draped it over Chibi-usa and, once again, kissed Dederi on the cheek.

When Chibi-usa yawned sleepily, she began to nod off. Dederi chuckled. "You can sleep in my room until Pluto arrives,
Chibi-usa."

Chibi-usa nodded gratefully. "If you don't mind..*yawn*.." Trowa laughed and picked Chibi-usa up in his arms
and he and Dederi went out the door of the kitchen and up the main stairs. Dederi opened her bedroom door and put Chibi-
usa onto her bed, tucking her in slowly. Trowa sat at the foot of the bed and Dederi to Chibi-usa's side, sitting
on the floor.

[I feel so protective of Chibi-usa somehow..] Dederi thought to herself. In such a short time, Dederi felt that she
had made a friend of the little girl. Trowa felt the same way, but since he had the type of personality to stay
silent, refrained from saying anything.

"Man, THAT was fun!" Duo yelled as he walked into the living room, Nova's hand still in his.

"Hey, we should do that again!" Minako agreed, jumping around, causing everyone to sweatdrop.

Ami looked around. "Where's Dederi and Trowa?"

Everyone looked around. No one was around but them.

"What if someone kidnapped them?!" Minako wailed, panicking.

Nova shook her head in exasperation. "No way, Venus. Dederi's too strong to be suprised by a kidnapper, and Trowa's
a pilot. He could have just shot the guy. Dederi would probably in the training room." Nova walked down the right
corridor and opened the training room doors. They had been recently fixed (by who? no clue. @_@). She looked in,
finding nothing but the usual training equipment. She walked back out. "She's not there."

Ami was in the kitchen and Duo looked into Trowa's room. "Not here either." Was both of their replies.

Duo yelled out, opening the door to Dederi's room. "DEDERI?!!" He found himself two millimeters away from the barrel
of a black handgun.

"Shut up, kisama. I'm right here."

Duo hugged Dederi at her stomach, knocking her down onto the floor. "Man, we were worried!"

She struggled. "Barton, if you want me to live, help me!" Her face turned purple. Duo was squeezing the air out of her
with a bear hug.

Trowa narrowed his eyes, amused. He went over and (actually) kicked Duo off Dederi, knocking him into the corridor wall.
"You alright?"

"Hai." Dederi picked herself up, glaring at Duo, who cowered in fear and ran downstairs. She laughed. "I owe you one."

Before anyone else could come upstairs, he kissed her on the lips softly, then parted. "We're even." He chuckled.

Wufei, once again disgusted, was leaning against the doorframe of the bedroom. "What did I say about making me sick?"
He grinned. "Minako thought you'd been abducted."

"Oh, really?" Dederi sighed, annoyed that she had to work with such a ditz.

Wufei turned towards the stairway. "Look's like kisama-Maxwell's telling the others what happened." He smirked. "I still
can't believe you kicked him off the onna." Wufei laughed.

Trowa hugged Dederi from behind, holding her softly against his own body. "He was hurting Dede-chan."

"He wasn't hurting me, just strangling me to death." She chuckled.

~Downstairs~

"You mean to tell me that TROWA kicked you. You must be joking." Quatre couldn't believe it.

"I'm serious! And HARD too!" Duo was still rubbing his head with his hand. He had a LARGE bruise on the left of his
forehead. Nova smiled.

"C'mon, Duo. I'll clean and bandage that bruise for you." Nova motioned for Duo to follow her into the kitchen, since
that was the only place she knew that contained gauzes and other medical supplies in case someone got burned by
cooking.

Duo smiled again. "Okay!" He winked at the other senshi and pilots before eagerly following the blond-highlighted
assassin.

~Upstairs (again?)~

Wufei looked at the little girl on Dederi's bed, peacefully sleeping like an infant. "So who's the chibi-onna?"

The Latin pilot released the raven-haired assassin from his comforting grasp. Dederi sat next to Chibi-usa,
a warm smile on her face. "I found her looking for Pluto on the front doorsteps. By the way, could you get Pluto
for me?"

Wufei nodded and left without another word. Dederi wasn't suprised he didn't make any snide remarks, such as 'I'm not
a messenger, onna' or something like that.

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AN: How was that? Heheheh....my head's flowing with ideas. Oh, and sorry for repeatedly putting Dederi/Trowa
moments in..I'm still having QUITE a few ideas for them. And yes, for Heero, I WILL PUT MAKOTO/HEERO, unless I get
another objection to that. I can also change Dederi/Trowa if anyone wants them to be paired up with anyone else,
but otherwise I'm going to continue doing that pairing. I promise I will put chapters up for the OTHER pairings.
~_* I decided that I'm going to let you figure them out for yourselves, m'kay?

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