For Rel
Note: Song of the Muse, you will be needing your brain later on, if you want to try to figure out who is Relena that is. If you don't want to try and figure that out than you don't need your brain, but hey it'll be fun to see if anyone guesses correctly. Not that I'll tell mind you.
Oh yeah, for those curious readers, Adam is an OC, not a very major one but still an OC none the less. I should've warned you all that I was going to have a few OCs in here. No, none of them will be going with the other G-boys, I'm not going to be messing with couples from outside the Gundam Universe.
Five months later, in the bedroom of a hotel room, Heero was busying himself by grabbing his personal items than packing them into his duffel bag. They, him and Relena's other bodyguards, now knew that it had been Relena who Heero saw leaving the England house grounds. Ever since than the Preventers had all been searching high and low for Relena by searching for names of people such as Relena Darlian, Relena Marquise, Lena Darlian, Lena Marquise, and her other aliases. So far, there hadn't been any real solid leads that didn't lead to a dead end.
They had found the black Chevy two months back at a used car dealership. The name of the previous owner was a fake, and that landed them in a major dead end and back to square one. Though the salesman did describe a woman that had to have been Relena; honey-blond hair, brilliant sapphire eyes. Though the salesman stated that her hair was hip length rather than shoulder mid-back, as what if was when she had ran away.
"Buddy, have you ever thought that she doesn't WANT to be found?!" Duo asked through the vid-phone while Heero continued to pack up his bags again.
"Hn. I don't care, we need her to maintain peace," Heero retorted stuffing his shirts into the bag.
"Peace has been maintained without for the past five months, buddy. Where have you been?" Duo remarked only to have Heero grunt as a response. "Want to know what I think?"
"No."
"Too bad, I think you just can't stand the fact that she got away from you, in more ways than one," Duo continued, ignoring Heero completely. "You know I'm right too, don't deny it buddy for I can see right through you."
"Maxwell, I have Silvia, remember? Anyways, I'm not going in search of Relena this time. I'm returning to Earth, to Silvia's hometown, for her birthday. Want to come? Sally's dragging Wufei, Catherine's bringing Trowa, and Quatre's coming as well," Heero reminded deciding that it would be best if he changed the topic.
"Sure, me and Hilde will come, though Hilde doesn't like Silvia much," Duo agreed half-heartedly. "Where?"
"Verona, Italy," answered Heero turning the vid-com off before Duo could ask anymore questions. Sighing dejectedly, Heero turned to the mirror to find someone who resembled a ghost of himself. He was pale, drained of most of his color, with large dark circles under his eyes, and all blood shot. There was no doubt, he needed sleep and a lot of it, but he couldn't until he found Relena again. "Why did you leave Relena?"
*****
Verona, Italy was very lovely place and the group was attempting to enjoy but there just seemed that something was missing from the group. It just didn't feel like it was the same as other times like at Catherine's birthday where everyone just went to a carnival. No, someone rather than something was missing and they all knew who it was, all except for Sylvia, she was oblivious to it all as she led the group around the Piazza Bra where all the place to eat, bars, and venders were set up.
Sylvia led them to a fancy restaurant to eat and ordered the most expensive there for the group to eat. It really wasn't the same anymore. Throughout dinner Duo had to be reminded numerous times not to say something such as "not the same without Lena". Even though the statement was true no one at the table needed to be reminded of how old times were when Relena was around, especially since Heero was going out Sylvia Noventa.
After dinner, it was Sally who suggested that they go some place a bit less crowded than what that restaurant was and a bit more quiet. The group agreed with her despite the fact that Sylvia wanted to show them the Arena. Still she decided to go along with the group and took them to a quaint bar, one where no one cared about your age as long as you paid for the drinks.
There was a small crowd of at the tables drinking and quietly chatting, so it was fairly quiet. One bartender was behind the bar cleaning the glasses and giving an acknowledgement nod to the group when they entered. There were two clean, empty tables nearby where the group decided to sit down. It smelt of cheap liquor and light scent of smoke, but there was a tint of mint in the air though.
"We'll go get the drinks, right Heero?" offered Duo pulling out a chair for Hilde at the table with Quatre, Catherine, and Wufei.
"Hn," was Heero's response before going up to the bar with Duo following behind him.
"Can we get four Sprites, three Creams, and two Colas?!" listed Duo to the bartender.
"Sί, comin' righ' up," reassured the bartender with a strong Italian accent.
Three young girls came running up to the bar giggling quietly. One girl was a pale girl with onyx hair that traveled down to her waist and bright jade eyes, the girl next to her had moss green hair, also waist long, and rich chocolate eyes, than the last girl had golden waist long hair and azure eyes. They were each wearing a variant of the same outfit, hip-huggers with a shirt that hung off the shoulders that had only tied strings holding up the front. One could almost think them to be triplets.
"Hey Giorgio, need the five usual, piacere," the onyx haired girl shouted leaning over the counter.
"Sί, signorina, after I'm done with these men and their drinks," grinned Giorgio placing three open bottles of cream sodas on the counter in front of Heero and Duo.
Deciding to be suave, Duo slid down towards the girls catching their attention when he cleared his throat. "Evening, ladies, so what are three gorgeous ladies, like yourselves, doing in a place like this?" he asked giving them a wink.
The blond one seemed to blush and look away to ignore Duo, while the other two had coy grins on their faces. "Entertainment, darling, entertainment," answered the onyx haired girl blowing Duo a kiss.
"Seems like your girlfriend is getting quite jealous of your flirtation," the moss green haired girl pointed out gesturing to a fuming Hilde at the table where Duo left her.
"Also, your friend looks as though he could use some help," winked the black haired girl as she nodded towards the helpless Heero who was grabbing four bottles of soda at a time.
"Here Heero, let me help you there," volunteered Duo grabbing the other five bottles from the counter. Both of them headed to their tables with the eyes of the black haired girl on them the entire time, assessing them.
*"Egli esso carino," whispered the onyx haired girl to the blond.
*"Chi?" she asked quietly.
*"Egli con corto, marrone capelli," clarified the black haired girl.
"Here you are girls," Giorgio told them placing a tray of five cups of tea with a honey pot in the center.
"Grazie," spoke up the moss green haired girl paying for the drinks and taking the tray. "You both know that he probably understood and heard you, right?"
"How?" argued the blond as they walked away.
It was true, both Duo and Heero had heard them talking and both had understood what they said. "Heero's got an admirer now," teased Duo as he set down the drinks.
"Right Duo," agreed Quatre having also heard the girls' conversation and understanding them. "That blond girl wasn't exactly a talker, was she?"
"Nope, just blushed and looked the other way when I went up to them," nodded Duo.
"We saw Maxwell," grumbled Wufei, he wasn't fond of being there and he wasn't exactly enjoying his time. He could probably think of at the very least 50 other things he could and would rather be doing rather than just sitting in a bar, celebrating Sylvia's birthday.
"You've got to admit though, they were cute, eh Wu-tang?" joked Duo passing out the sodas and than sitting down beside Hilde and Quatre, away from Wufei.
"Gr, don't call me that Maxwell unless you want that haircut that you desperately need," warned Wufei narrowing his eyes at Duo.
"I don't think I have ever seen girls like those three here before," commented Sylvia while Heero passed out the drinks than took his place next to her. "This place doesn't usually get a lot of people, so it's mainly the same crowd but I have never seen them before."
"You've been here before?" asked Sally.
"A few times for my friend, Sage's, birthday party," confirmed Sylvia. The lights in the bar dimmed and there was movement on the small platform in the center of the bar. About five figures were moving about on the platform, setting things up for usage. "Here we go, this is the real reason why I led you all to this bar."
I believe that was how you spoke these sentences in Italian, if I messed up on the sentences tell me how to fix them please. I really don't speak Italian and the only foreign language I'm good at is Spanish.
* "He is cute."
* "Who?"
* "Him with the short, brown hair."