AN: A short chapter this time. Sorry minna, but I really don't have time to write much. I'm very happy though. I just joined the anime club at my school, now, I'll be able to rent anime videos for free!
This chapter is dedicated to chibi hime celestia for her wonderful review, I don't know if I want Hii-chan to blow off Duo's head, but I'll consider the idea.
Fangboy: I'll try to finish Promises and An Unusual Mission before Christmas.
Usagi Asia Maxwell: I'm happy that you like this story, sadly, I didn't do that much research on the Shinimegami and Shinigami.
Annie: I love Duo+Usagi too. *sweat drops* that was a little too obvious.
Samantha: Don't you just love her car and bike? I wish that I have them. Maybe my parents will finally take the hint and get them for my next birthday? ( I doubt it)
Cheska: You'll find out in this chapter!
Angelica: *hides behind her kitty* see, here's more chapters.
Shibobwa: I'm so happy, that you liked to see Duo take flying lessons.
Aidenn: See, I'm good, there's no cliff-hanger in this chapter.
Starchild: I'll see what I can do.
Comet Princess: I agree, maybe we should tape Duo's mouth shut?
Silver Ray: I'm sorry that you cried, this'll be a happy chapter, so cheer up.
Mingming: I can sympathize, I think that my teachers are aliens.
Sailor G: She'll meet other scouts that'll remember her later.
Brenda: you'll just have to wait and see : )
Mystic Anger: *giggles nervously* sorry?
Dark Soldier: Happy Birthday! How old are you now?
Chapter 4
"Freeze, don't move!"
Tensing, his pilot instincts kicked in full force. Pushing Usagi down on the ground, he covered her with his own body. Pulling out his gun from inside of his jacket, Duo fired a warning shot to tell the other pilots of danger, before he got on to his knees, trying to find the source of danger.
"Why did you have to move! You two were in the perfect position too. Next time, when I say freeze, that means you stay where you are," the same voice said, a little annoyed. The speaker was a young woman. At first glance, Duo's jaws dropped at the close resemblance between the woman and Usagi. But upon closer inspections, he noticed that the young woman's hair was more of a bleached blonde than Usagi's silver gold, which she tied back with a red bow. The woman's eyes were a paler blue, than Usagi's startling sapphires. She wore a black artist hat, black and white striped shirt tucked into baggy pants. Suspenders held up her clothes, and two thin black moustaches, and a pair of black glasses completed her ensemble.
Four clicks were heard simultaneously as Hiiro lead the rest of the gang to where Duo was kneeling with gun in hand. Not caring for his own safety, Hiiro ran to where Usagi was and checked to see if she was alright.
"Jesus, where did you kids get those things? Haven't you ever heard of the Columbine shooting?" the blonde woman rolled her eyes, not at all afraid. "Seriously, if you want to play with weapons, at least get real ones. Those things in your hands look so fake. Who is going to be afraid of five plastic toys?"
After hearing her monologue, Hiiro's left eyebrow began to twitch. How dare this imbecile call his gun a toy! Hn, I'll show you what's more fake, my gun or your hair, the perfect soldier thought. No one insults weapons, especially Hiiro Yuy's weapons! With these thoughts in mind, the pissed off Perfect Soldier marched up to the young woman. A single goal dominated his mind, he was going to show this blonde ditzy just how real his gun is.
The young woman didn't seen at all fazed as death marched up to her in the form of Hiiro Yuy. However, it was the other blonde girl who saw the dangerous gleam in Hiiro's eyes. Baka Minako. You haven't changed one bit. the shinimegami groaned inwardly, but since Usagi was the nice person she was, she decided to save the other blonde this time.
"Itai!" the scream from Usagi froze Hiiro in his tracks. All the attention was turned to Usagi sitting on the ground, clutching her ankle, an anguish expression on her face. It was Duo who reached the bunny first. An anxious look in his eyes as he thought about the possibilities of Usagi getting hurt when he pushed her down. The girl was making small whimpers as Duo took her hands away from her ankle. Amethyst eyes grew wide as Duo looked down at the perfectly fine ankle in his hand. Another gasp of pain brought Duo's eyes to meet those of Usagi's. The amused sapphire gave him a conspicuous wink as the girl gave another loud wail, which successfully brought Hiiro back to his imouto's side. The thoughts of kill the baka who insulted his gun disappeared, as worry took over. The perfect soldier was about to inspect the hurt ankle when Duo stopped his hand.
"It's not serious Hiiro, she just sprain her ankle a little when she took cover. Nothing's broken," the braided boy tired to look as persuasive as possible under Hiiro's glare.
"You mean when you pushed her down?" the monotone voice threaten, accompanied by the famous death glare.
Poor Duo visible paled under the force of the glare. Swallowing nervously, the braided boy looked desperately at Usagi, begging for help.
"Niichan, don't hurt him. It was my fault that I'm hurt. I didn't see the rock on the ground, and I sprain my ankle when I stupidly stepped on it," Minako was temporally forgotten as the bunny cooked up an excuse to save Duo first.
"Hn," Hiiro relented, and carefully helped his imouto up. Duo took his place on the other side of Usagi and whispered in her ear. "You owe me one."
A smirk lit up the shinimegami's face. "I just saved you from niichan. So we're even," Usagi whispered back, enjoying Duo's frustrated look.
"Are you guys finished?" the blonde woman asked as the group of six walked up to her. "What are your names?" The question was directed at Usagi and Duo.
"Tsukino Usagi."
"Duo Maxwell."
"Rabbit of the Moon. How appropriate. My name is Minako Aino, I'm the drama teacher here. Anyway, can you guys do me a big favour?" the teacher looked at the couple pleadingly who had sceptical looks on their faces. "This can be your apology for move the last time."
Having known Minako when she was alive, Usagi knew that the other blonde wouldn't give up that easily on anything. Sighing, she tugged at Duo's sleeve. "What is it?"
A grin appeared on Minako's face. "Duo, I want you kiss Usagi as passionately as possible." If it was possible, the grin became even wider when Usagi and Duo's jaws dropped to the ground.
Usagi couldn't believe her ears. Maybe it would have been better if she let Hiiro shoot Minako after all. Duo on the other hand, was bouncing off the walls inside of his head. He couldn't believe his good fortune. Thank you god! Today must be my lucky day, or maybe it's because I'm wearing my favourite boxers. He quickly ended his mental discussion with himself and proceed to do what Minako told him to do. He wasn't going to lose this god sent chance. This time, Usagi couldn't slap him, because he was just doing what the teacher told him to do.
Before Usagi had time to register what was happening, the she was pulled into the embrace of the God of Death. Intense amethyst eyes stared at her longingly before a pair of firm lips descended on her own. Despite herself, Usagi couldn't help but enjoy Duo's kiss. It had been so long since she allowed herself to be close to anyone, and Duo's kiss had rekindled the fire inside of her. Finally breaking the kiss to breath, Usagi had to hang on the front of Duo's grey jacket to keep herself from following. She lowered her head to hide the blush that graced her alabaster cheeks.
Giggles brought Usagi out of her embarrassment. Looking around, she noticed that Hiiro had a strange look in his eyes, a mixture of amusement and annoyance. Quatre, being the gentleman that he was, was blushing from head to toe. Trowa was looking at the ground, suddenly finding the grass intriguing. And Wufei, after the initial shock of seeing the kiss, fainted from a massive nose bleed.
"You guys are PERFECT!" Minako squealed out. "Please say yes! You have to agree. This is going to be the best the Earth Alliance has ever seen. I can see it now: under the directions of the beautiful and talented Aino Minako…" Stars appeared in Minako's dazed blue eyes.
"EXCUSE ME Aino-san!" Usagi yelled she had been trying to get Minako's attention for the passed five minutes, but the other blonde was too wrapped up in her little fantasy to even notice that someone was trying to talk to her. The loud cry from the shinimegami finally managed to bring Minako into the real world.
"Aino-san, would you mind tell us, just what is going on here?"
"Oh, you guys are going to be the star of my play!" Minako beamed at Duo and Usagi, who had a confused look on their faces.
"There's a tradition here in the Sanq Academy. Every year, there is a school play, directed by the drama teacher, and produced by the students. This year, I chose the William Shakespeare classic, Romeo and Juliet as the play. I've been spying on students for a long time now to find the perfect couple. And thank god, or should I say thank Rei, I saw you two in the garden. You two were so sweet and romantic, a young couple making up after their first quarrel. It makes me wish that I was that age again," the twenty years old teacher sighed, a dreamy look on her face.
"Hey, wait a minute, we never agreed to be a part in this play," Duo objected, but it didn't really bother him. Since it would give him more chances to be with Usagi, and also give him excuses to hold and kiss her. After all, as Romeo, he would have to practice kiss his Juliet, right?
"Oh, but you have too. My life is going to be ruined if you don't agree. I was counting on this production to make my fame. Please, you have to agree!" Tears glittered in Minako's eyes, as she practically begged Duo and Usagi to join.
"They don't have the time for silly plays," this time it was Hiiro who spoke out.
Glaring at the perfect soldier, the drama teacher retorted. "If you have time to buy those stupid fake guns, I'm sure that you'll have time for a meaningful extra curricular activity. And speaking of guns, I can get you all suspended on charges of weaponry in school. But of course, if you all agree to be in the play, I'll just pretend that this little incident never happened. It's all up to you."
Silence fell on the group. None of the gundam pilots or Usagi wanted to risk the chance of falling the mission. "Fine, we agree." Usagi answered for the group.
"Yeah!!! I'm going to be famous! Everyone is going to know Aino Minako! I'll be a star!"
The shinimegami and the rest of the gundam pilots sweat dropped.
"Here's the plan. Usagi is going to be Juliet, that's set, I have never seen such a natural born Juliet as she is. Duo is going to be Romeo for now. That's going to be an audition for the Romeo role during drama class. If there's no one better than him, he will be Romeo. As for the rest of you guys…" Minako taped her chin with one hand, and twisted her moustache with the other. "You are all very cute looking hunks. I know, you can all try out for the Romeo role, if you're not as good as Duo, I'll assign you another role. How's that?" A few grunts was heard as the answer.
"Wait, I have an objection!" Duo cried. He wanted to be Romeo. How could Minako do this to him. He finally got a chance to be near Usagi, and now it's been jeopardised again. "Hiiro can't audition for Romeo, because he's Usagi's brother. It would be incest if they he is Romeo"
"Omae o korosu baka!" Hiiro pulled out his gun, that braided baka. Didn't he warn the baka not to reveal his relationship with Usagi with anyone? He turned to look at the rest of the three pilots, to see their reactions.
By the looks on Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei's faces when they heard the information, it was as if someone just told them that Treize was dancing ballet in a tutu, that OZ was just an kindergarten organization, and that Hiiro Yuy was a big brother. Oh wait, he was the brother of Usagi.
The sound of a bullet being fired shook the three from their shock. "HELP! Usagi, you have to save me!" Duo screamed at the top of his lungs, as he dodged another bullet by a mere millimetre.
I'm going to get premature winkles if they keep this up. Minako delicately rubbed her temples. "STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!" The scream echoed through out the whole school, efficiently stopping the perfect soldier from pulling Duo's head off by his braid.
"Now Hiiro, you don't have to try out for Romeo since you're Usagi's brother. But you still have to take another role. As for the rest of you," Minako pointed to Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei, "I want you to repeat after me, one by one."
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" Minako recited in a deep passionate voice. "Quatre you go first." Minako pushed Quatre in front of Usagi.
Blushing to the color of a plum, Quatre managed to stutter out a few lines:
"If… I profane with my …unworthiest hand" To everyone's amusement, Quatre's voice began to shake.
"This won't do. Quatre, you can be Benvolio. He's a nice guy and he doesn't have that many lines."
Quatre sighed, thank god, he wouldn't have to go through that kind of embarrassment again.
"Okay Trowa, it's your turn. Now repeat what I just said," Minako looked at her next victim.
"…"
"Ooookkkkkkaaaayyyyy. I can see that you don't want to be Romeo," the drama teacher sighed at the lack of participation from her subjects. "You can be Friar Laurence. Now Wufei, it's your turn!" The last victim turned to a bleaching white.
"I will not say those dishonourable words! And I will not take part in a weak play! And you can't force me you weak onna!"
"What did you just say?"
Wufei backed away from the steaming blonde drama teacher. "I said, eep!" The Chinese boy didn't get to finish as Minako pounced on him, and took hold of his black ponytail.
"I have just the right part for you Wufei," Minako said in a sickening sweet voice. "You can be Juliet's nurse. I think that you'll be perfect for the role."
Duo snickered behind his hand. He agreed with Minako, the role will suit the pilot of Shinlong perfectly!
"You can't do this to me! This is injustice!" Wufei blabbered out, trying to escape from Minako, who still had a firm grip on his hair.
"Oh yes I can, I'm the teacher remember?" The blonde woman smirked. "The first drama class is tomorrow. Be on time you guys!" Minako turned to leave.
"Wait, Aino-san, can I just ask you one question?" Usagi called out.
"Sure what is it?"
"Why are you dressed up like that?" Usagi pointed at the moustache, and the French artist's get up.
"Oh that, I lost a bet to Pyro. Do you know the gym teacher Haruka?"
The group nodded.
"Well, I made a bet with Rei, she's the religion teacher, that Haruka was a man, and I just found out today that he was a she," here Minako broke off, sniffing as a few tears fell from her eyes. "So because I lost the bet, Rei made me dress up like this, and walk around the whole school. I have to go now, I have a date tonight. Ja!"
"That was an interesting teacher," Duo said, everyone nodded.
"Come on guys, our break is over." Quatre lead the group away.
"HHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOO!"
A blur of maroon rushed up to the perfect soldier before anyone could escape. " What are you up to now!"
"Hi Miss Relena. We're playing hid and seek right now. Do you want to play?" Usagi asked sweetly.
Not wanting to miss a chance to be with Hiiro, Relena instantly agreed.
"Okay, your it. Count to twenty, and then try to find us. We will be hiding in the garden okay?"
"Sure. I'm starting to count now." Relena covered her eyes, and started to count.
Making a small signs to the gundam pilots, Usagi carefully tiptoed out of the garden.
"I can't believe that she fell for that!" Duo laughed out loud when the group arrived at the changing rooms for their next class, which is gym, under Haruka.
"Just comes to show you how smart the Queen of the World could be if she wants to," the shinimegami sneered. "Anyway, I'll see you in class."
The bunny made her way into the women's locker room.
Mean while, in the garden. "Eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Ready or not, here I come Hiiro." Relena uncovered her eyes, and looked around, searching for her prey. "Hiiro, Hiiro, come out, come out wherever you are,"
After searching for nearly ten minutes, Relena still couldn't find the perfect soldier.
"Hiiro, where are you? HHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOO!!!!!!"