CHAPTER 2: MAKING FRIENDS?

Duo threw his stuff on the floor and sprawled himself on the empty bed, scanning the room he should be sharing with Heero once more. It was huge but empty - they weren't expected to stay there. He was fine with the other dormitory, but Yuy and Wufei dreaded the idea to be stuffed in an overcrowded three-store building for 2~3 years. They discovered there was this abandoned old dormitory and managed to exchange rooms easily, the other pilots following suit just to stay together and have easy access to each other. What they didn't expect was the presence of another quintet.

He looked at his silent friend and saw him putting his clothes away in the closet. When the job was finished, Heero opened the door and motioned to him to go catch up with the others and so Duo got up. They were already waiting in the hall and proceeded downstairs together.

Once he caught the sight of their new colleagues, he analyzed them deeply. One had a striking resemblance to Quatre, only the eye color and the hair length were different. The tallest (even taller than Trowa) had this bright aura of someone who enjoyed life just as much as he did, he seemed reliable and a good friend. On his side was this shy girl that was almost his high. Her clothes were a bit strange, red spandex and blouse with a yellow scarf on her waist, lots of golden baubles here and there and that red gem in her forehead. In the end, her clothes and tanned skin indicated that she was Indian or something like that. The other girl was the shortest of the group and her eyes showed she was Asiatic, with a charming mark in the edge of her left eye. She was wearing a wine red long Chinese skirt with black flowers pattern on it, her black quipao resembled one of Wufei's (except that his are white). The colors matched perfectly her black hair with red locks. 'Maybe she is some kind of Chinese-gothic-punk', Duo though. The last one stood a little far from the others and looked a little upset. Of them all he was the strangest, because he had the colorless hair and red eyes of a lab rat and was as tanned as a surfer dude. From what he knew, true albinos couldn't be in the sun too much, because they don't have pigments and easily have skin cancer. Well, this guy was an exception.

- So – their guide started to walk again – if everybody is ready, let's go on with it.

- Ooooooookay! – Duo cheered and looked to his friends that remained silent – Well, seems like I'll have to begin the introductions myself! Name's Duo Maxwell! You will have to stand me during all year long, ha! Not that this is a bad thing at all.

- Yeah, right. I'm Kenji, the third-grader chosen to be your guide.

- Nice to meet you, Maxwell-san!

- Hey, blondie, cut it out! You all can call me Duo! So… This one here is Heero.

He patted Heero's back with strength, like he was chocking or something. The others gasped, waiting for the reaction. 'Heh, they didn't know how he was the only one Heero didn't bother about patting, making jokes and stuff'. In the end, his friend just 'said':

- Hn.

- The tall one is Trowa. This little one is Quatre.

- ………

- I'm almost your height, Duo! …By the way, I'm glad to meet you.

After some greetings and handshaking, he proceeded, thinking of how he would introduce Wufei. Well, he wasn't carrying any swords and couldn't ruin their 'disguise' in the school doing something nasty in front of the others, so he decided to poke Wufei's pride a little.

- And finally… This is Wu-man!

- Wu-man?? Like He-manffffffmmm…

The athletic chestnut-haired covered the violet eyed boy before he spoke something that would upset the Chinese boy even more and apologized for him:

- Ha-ha, sorry, he always speaks what crosses his mind without thinking.

- Duuuo…!

Wufei called the prankster under gritting teeth and was almost wringing Duo's neck, his eyes flaring with anger. The platinum haired rolled his eyes and spoke for the first time since they met:

- Feh, it's obviously not his name. Don't expect me to cope up with your joke and call him that. – He turned to Wufei – I'm Zephel, what's your TRUE name?

- I'm Chang Wufei. Call me Wufei. – He slightly bowed his head to Zephel, sneered to the woman then glared to Duo – He never learns.

- Yeah. I kinda know someone just like him.

Duo made a hurt stance at Wufei's words and then turned the attention to the athletic boy, who was walking over to Zephel. Seemed that he was the 'someone' he knew. When things were getting interesting, the short blondie interrupted.

- *cleans his throat* Randy, let introduce ourselves.

- Oh, right. – He stopped on his tracks – Just like he said, I'm Randy!

- And I'm Marcel!

They both smiled at the same time. Quatre giggled, finding these two cute. Heero just 'hnned' and though how they acted as standart schoolboys: the innocent genki and his protector. For a second he though of leaving this damn school, but he considered graduating fairly (without forging the diploma) like one mission he had to accomplish. Duo went to the girls.

- So, what about you?

- Ah, humm… My name is… I'm…

- This is Mel-chan. – Marcel spoke in her place while Mel just blushed – She is very shy around strangers.

- I can see that.

- And this is Nehanni ap Athina. We call her Athina-sama.

- What a weird name – Duo felt when Quatre elbowed him and his eyes made contact with the girl's death glare – 'Wow, even Heero would be jealous of that glare'. Ahhhhh, I mean, what a unique name. Very exquisite, I like it. You know, there's a lot of personality in it.

- …..

His attempts to undo his mistake were in vain, an annoying silence felt between them and everybody looked at him with a scowl. She must be seen in high regard to deserve the 'sama' honorific and have issues taken by the others. Most of them kept the 'gaze attack' while Heero, Trowa and Nehanni ignored him. He was saved by Kenji's voice:

- Here we are, right in front of the main building, where the classrooms, the internet room, the cafeteria and the music hall are. Right in the entrance hall is the main board, but I'll show them in the end, so we can go straight to the cafeteria and have lunch. The right path leads to the library. There are some computers there too, but just for book searching and stuff like that. Now, let's take the left path…

- The path ends right on the infirmary, which is connected to the gym. In the first Phys. Ed. of the year we have a check up right there. Oh, here we are. Inside the gym is the basketball field, the swimming pools and the gymnastics apparel. Of course, there are the showers too. We can see to the left two minor fields: one is for beach volley and the other is an extra often used to handball or tennis. There is the grassy, almost official sized, soccer field and the running tracks. That field behind is where they practice archery.

- Wow. – Randy's was happy about it - They practice archery here too.

- Sure thing. They even have a club for that.

- Cool, I'm entering it.

- It's not so easy… They haven't taken newcomers in for quite some time. The members are very picky and snobs.

- Oh. I'll try, anyway.

They returned to the main building without saying a word. Trowa felt a kind of nag in his chest that he had only experienced two times before in his life: when he was a kid looking to sky just before he left Earth, and when he first met Quatre. These five had something special that attracted him; he could say they have a war-tainted aura on them, specially the silent girl. But, in a second though, who wasn't affected by war on these troubled times? This time, Quatre was the one to break the ice:

- I take you are long time friends.

- Yes! – Marcel seemed to talk a lot – I mean, we're not childhood friends, but we've been together since the first time we met. You look like good friends too.

- Oh, thank you. Isn't he nice, guys?

- ………….

Quatre and Marcel sweatdropped. Trowa was observing the conversation, but answered nothing. Heero scanned Nehanni from head to shoes with soldier's scrutiny, as if he had just found a new enemy. She did the same with him. Wufei was glaring heavily at Duo's back, who was a few steps ahead of them, whistling as if nothing had happened. Quatre realized that the pilots didn't look like good friends at all and sighed.

- Oh, don't worry. – Marcel understood what he was thinking - Randy and Zephel can't stay near each other without arguing, but I KNOW they're good friends.

The Arabic could only smile at that. Randy and Zephel replied at the same time:

- I'm not friends with such a rascal.

- No way I'm this goody-two-shoes' friend.

Duo barely suppressed a laugh, what resulted in a coughing fit. A good thing it was that he was ahead of them and nobody could see the ear-to-ear smile plastered in his face. Those two were an endless source of entertainment and he would make good use of that.

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OK… In chapter 3 finally things will get interesting. Review, please, and tell what you think each GWboy should do in the school. Will Heero enter the Mecha Club, build a timed bomb and blow up the school??? Duo will be a basketball revelation? Trowa will join the ballet group and be the main star? Wufei will go nuts when he discovers he is at cooking classes with lots of onnas while Marcel just plays his violin in the background???

I'm still sticking up to the non-OOC thingie, so think a little before you give any ideas XD

Ohhhhh, and couples. And Supernatural occurrences. Well, suggest whatever you want and seems fit.