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Disclaimer: * Sigh* How many more times do I have to say it! I don't own Gundam Wing!

*** Hidden Chapter 4

By: Rei Tamashii

Author's Note: Thank you so much for hanging in there for me!

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Relena looked around the ballet classroom. After four weeks of looking, she still couldn't find her brother, Millarndo. But whenever she saw Zechs, he looked like Millarndo a lot. However, he couldn't be. Relena was going to give up soon. She was losing hope each day that passes by without even a hint of where he brother might be, how he is doing and everything. Relena kept thinking of these things as she pulled out her purple tights and dressed in it. However, when she sat down on the bench to tie up her ballet shoes, she thought of how her father was and her grandfather. She wanted to see them again, instead of listening to their pleasant voices over the phone. As she pushed opened the door. Relena's mind switched from thinking of her brother and her family to the ballet. Today was when the workshop casting was going to be held. But, truly, Relena could not think of what part she would want to play with a heavy heart of only one regret. Hip-hop. She missed it a lot.

When Relena was called, she stood up, however, she was not alone. Other girls were there as well with other company workers observing their dancing.

*** Relena grunted, now her heart was even more heavy. Her mind wandered to the casting, her friend Duo and Hilde was going to be a couple in the Japanese play. Heero and Dorothy was the main couple, however Relena's mind had brunt the memory into her soul of how upset Heero was when he was assigned to dance with Dorothy. But even Relena knew why. Those rumors at the school about him and Dorothy. Relena however, was one of the princesses who are simply a crop member.

As she told these events to her father over the phone that she had not even found anything about Millarndo from her part in the workshop. Her father sounded so sad and old, she wanted to see how he was and give him a gentle hug.

After that, Trowa came home late at night but as Relena tossed and turned in bed asleep, the same nightmares appeared over and over each night.

"Mili?"

Relena looked at her brother as he madly stepped up the stairs to her father's office. Relena rushed after him trying to hold his hand as she always did whenever Millarndo went to see her father. She said his name again. As she reached for his hand, her brother grunted and pulled away. Relena stopped at the stairs. Her mother suddenly reached up and grabbed her by the arm. She was drunk again.

Relena called out in pain and to her grandfather, suddenly realizing that her grandfather had gone off somewhere to another city for the weekend. Pain struck her as her mother slapped her on each cheek before throwing her over to the wall. Relena cried out in pain.

"Millarndo!!"

Suddenly Relena could hear from outside her father's office, with tears streaking down her numb red cheek, him screaming at her brother.

"You will not go!"

"And just why not!"

"I am your father, and I am in charge of you. Your sister needs you!"

"I want to fly to America, I want to live the life I want too! I don't want to take over you when you die!"

Suddenly Relena was face to face with Millarndo, he pushed her aside before saying a gentle silent good-bye. Her father suddenly came out, but instead of chasing after her brother, he noticed her swallowen cheeks.

Her father gently pushed the tears gently back and hugged her. "She did it again, didn't she, Relena?"

Instead of answering his question, she stared as Millarndo walked out of her life.

"Daddy, where is Millarndo going?"

"Daddy, where is."

"Millarndo going."

"Daddy.

Relena jolted up the bed, small tears lining her cheeks. Her breath heavy. As she wiped them away she got off the bed. As she turned on a dim light, she stared to finish the drawing of a girl chasing after a shadow that would only go further whenever she reached out to it.

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Duo and Hilde walked in the mist of the city of the flashing lights as cars whistled by. The midnight air was cool with light rain. Duo and Hilde walked under a large umbrella, looking up in the sky once in a while. Finally after one hour of walking in silence, Duo said, "So. what about Heero and Relena?"

His girlfriend blinked before smiling. She shrugged, "They make a great couple, but I don't think Heero is going to like it."

Duo didn't need to ask why. Hilde was right. Heero might have thought of as gay from almost the whole school to the ballet. But even Duo knew that he wasn't. He saw Heero looking at Relena with more than he can get away with. The only people who knew he wasn't gay was Trowa, himself, Hilde, his two best friends in school Alex and Ben, Wufiel, and the others.

Hilde shot her boyfriend a deep cold glare, before smirking, "You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?" Duo's mouth curved into a deep evil grin before nodding.

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Heero came in late into the art class the next morning seeing as how he had bumped into Sylvia and her boyfriend which was one of his friends, Trowa. The art teacher sprung Heero up with one of her glares that made someone stop dead in their tracks however Heero being a tough guy, and one with punk ways shrugged it off.

He sat next to Relena and somehow he felt warm, and it hurts him yet made him feel all warm.

Relena flashed Heero a small smile. Glad he was here, she didn't want to go through Art class without anyone.

As the teacher talked more and more about the project they were going to start, the more and more confusing it got for Heero.

"Well you see, I think that with this project, it'll bring up your grades even higher. By drawing a scene of people, a background, I want it to look alive and live it's motions."

"You will each be paired up with your partners whom in which I might add, sits right next to you."

Relena and Heero looked at each other, but Relena was the first one to look away. ***

It was very long for the project to even begin. However, Relena and Heero hadn't even thought of anything of it at all. Heero didn't want to talk to Relena and whenever she tried to talk to him, he'd push her off.

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"So the plan will work right, Duo?"

Duo gave Hilde a large kiss, full on the lips. He could taste the strawberry glaze on her lips; Hilde was the one who broke of the kiss for air. Duo nodded. The two matchmakers were going to make sure Heero Yuy and Relena Peacecraft become a couple, even if it meant making them "bump into each other".

After discussing their plans, Heero caught Hilde's sight.

Followed behind him, Relena came out from the double doors. Duo nodded as Hilde and him walked over to Relena and Heero.

"Hey, Relena!" Duo shouted as he ran to stand beside her.

Relena smiled and stood silent for a while to let Duo catch his breath. "You want to go to a club tonight?"

Relena blinked. A club? She would think Trowa would allow it, seeing as how he had another date with his girlfriend, and for a fact she didn't even know who Trowa's girlfriend is. She shrugged to herself before thinking over it clearly, "What club are you planning we go to?"

Duo blinked, he hadn't thought of what club they'd actually go to. Duo took a glance at Hilde, looks like she was having the same trouble of thinking of what club, "Black Roses." Duo replied.

Relena went into deep thought, Trowa wasn't going to be there. He had said that his girlfriend and him would be going to a fancy restaurant and stuff. So Relena said yes and went on her way to change into her outfit.

Duo jogged his way over to Hilde who had finished talking to Heero, "Well?" Duo asked.

"I said we'd go to Black Roses and he said why not."

"Same here. Only Relena seemed to have not wanted to go."

"So you forced her?" Hilde asked with an angry look in the depths of her lovely eyes. Duo shook his head and Hilde let a sigh of relief. She was glad her boyfriend didn't force her new best friend into a club against her will. And it might do Relena some good, Hilde thought, after all, she did tell her about her brother and why she was really here. But simply, Relena had been staying up rather late just to get anything about him. And sometimes rarely, Hilde would find Relena in the girls' bathroom in deep sleep. Poor girl.

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The rehearsals was something to look at. Dorothy and Heero danced really nice but it seemed that only Dorothy was giving out the emotions and Heero was simply going through the motions.

Relena watched and waited for her entry. She finally slowly danced her way in and swirled around the two. She lifted her head up high and on her left toe she spun before disappearing. Soon after her, Zechs came in.

Relena felt a wave of hurt at the sight of seeing Zechs dance, and she didn't get why she was feeling this way so shrugging it off, she waited once more before she came beside Zechs to dance beside him along with Hilde.

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That night back into her apartment, she had gone onto the computer again, trying to get at least something about her brother. After four weeks and two days, nothing. She still hadn't even gotten ready for the club. Her mind was stuck onto finding her brother. Her hopes were lowing and if she couldn't find him before the workshop, she was ready to call it back to Japan.

Suddenly a knock came at the door. Relena waited a few minutes before she came to answer it. She had changed into loose jeans and a thick sweater, her hair in a bun. She opened the door and there was Heero, Duo, and Hilde.

Hilde's dress was something nice, it was blue but it made it seem as though it was black, it was low-cut and in the back it had a V-shaped showing off the smooth flesh of her back. Her hair was in a bun with some strands of hair falling away with light glitter dusted on top. Duo wore tight blue pants and a very tight blue shirt revealing all his chest muscles. Heero wore the same but his pants were black. Duo gave a once over look at Relena, "Lena, aren't you coming?" He said in his cheerful voice.

Relena invited them in before running off in front of her computer. She sighed and shut it down.

"Hold on."

While she was gone, the three looked around the apartment, it was large but it wasn't as large as Duo's house. {Heero is somewhat rich but his parents don't work for something big, their just big business people.}

After ten minutes Relena emerged wearing a black dress, ending at mid- thigh, the back of it showed a lot of the flesh of the creamy skin of her back. Her hair was down with her usual braids and it was dusted with glitter. She wore sparkling white lip-gloss and light purple eye shadow. Her bracelet was sparkled with diamonds and she looked like an angel in the moonlight coming from the large window of the study room behind her.

Duo's jaw dropped and Heero gave her a long once over taking it all in.

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Please review. So here is a hint, in the next chapter Trowa gets one shocking sight that may cause Relena big trouble.