A/N: Sorry. I know I said that I would be updating more often, but I've been really busy. After babysitting, I'd come home, call up a friend or two and we'd get together. I'd stay out until I absolutly had to be home. And then, Tuesday of last week I got a phone call. I got a new job, working with my town. I have to go to bed a bit earlier now, so that cuts back on time for me to be doing things. I get off at 5, come home, eat supper and get a bath or vice versa. Then I tend to go out and hang with some friends. I'm going to be working on this story for the next couple of days because I have Monday off. Ok. Sorry about the long Author's Note and on with the story.
Chapter 5
The next couple of days in school went ok, except for the homework sessions the G-Boys were taking turns having with Hotaru, teaching her physics. Relena was helping her with her world economics homework, so she was just barley keeping up in that course.
Relena was now in a meeting with Lady Une and Noin so Hotaru was out walking around the school grounds. This was one of the rare times she got to be by herself, and when she was, she usually thought about her princess, Serenity, and all her friends that she left behind when she had moved here. The only three people she had told about her coming here had been Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, and Setsuna-mama. At first Haruka and Michiru hadn't understood why she would want to leave her friends and family and move to a whole new country, but she had many long talks with them and they came around to the idea.
Hotaru heard a noise and turned around to find Relena and Duo walking toward her. She stopped and waited for them to catch up to her. "What are you doing out here?" Duo asked.
"What does it look like, baka? I'm walking." was the reply. Relena chuckled at the look on Duo's face. "When are you going to learn that the only way she'll act civilly towards you is if you leave her alone?"
Hotaru snorted. Quatra called out to Duo from the direction of the dorms building and he took off running. Relena turned to Hotaru. "There's a big dignitaries dinner tomorrow night. I have to attend, meaning that you have to attend too... It's very formal. If you need a dress, I'll pay for one but we'd have to go shopping for it now."
Hotaru smiled. "Let's go!" The girls got ready and went to the mall on the other side of town.
*~~~* Meanwhile: With The Gundam Boys *~~~*
When Duo reached Quatra, Quatra said, quietly, "We have to talk to Heero. There might be a new mission."
The boys went up to their dorm suit. It's called a suit because it had five bedrooms and bathrooms, so that a lot of people could be housed here in the school. Heero was sitting at the table with his laptop set up (when is he not with his laptop?!?!). "What's up Heero? Is there a new mission for us? I Hope So! I want to get out of this school." Duo bounded into the room.
Wufei smirked. "We're not that lucky, Duo."Quatra told him.
Duo looked horror-stricken. "NO!!!!!!!!" Heero gave him a death glare. "Before we get into a big fight here, why don't you explain what's going on to Duo, Heero."
"There's a new threat on Relena's life. We have to stay here and protect her. We'll go to Quatra's tonight to get our weapons." Heero explained in monotone.
"Joy! As if it isn't bad enough we have to go to school! But now we got to protect Relena!" Duo began to whine.
"There's another party protecting Relena as well, so we don't have to be around her all the time." Heero said.
"What?!?! Who said? But that's good right?"
"Dr. J said."
"What about the dignitaries dinner tomorrow night? Will we have to attend that as well?" Quatra asked, because he only wanted to have to make one trip out to his mansion on the outskirts of town.
"Hn." was all Heero said.
"Ok. Well while we have the time now, why don't we go to my mansion and get our weapons and tuxedos?" Quatra suggest.
"What about Psychocraft?" Wufei asked.
"Who cares?" Duo didn't want to have to take Relena with them to Quatra's mansion.
"She's gone shopping with Hotaru, and I'd suggest you use her proper name, Wufei." Lady Une warned. The boys all jumped except for Heero, who never did those kinds of things, and Trowa, who had known she was there. "I didn't hear you come in, Lady Une. Miss Relena is gone shopping? Is that safe?" Quatra told her.
"Oh, yes, it's perfectly safe. They took a bodyguard from the school with them." Lady Une replied, meaning Hotaru when she said bodyguard, "You boys go on and get the things you need from Quatra's now. There's a Jeep waiting for you out front."
The boys all left and went to Quatra's, finding out on the way that Wufei had many of his Katana's already with him. "You think I was going to let that weak onna tell me what to do with my Katana?" was the reply they got when they asked him about it.
The next day, Relena went through school as if she were oblivious to the new threat. Hotaru was even more alert, which made the G-Boys more alert then they would normally be. They weren't about to trust this new girl with Relena, even if Lady Une did. Lady Une had visited the girls after they got back from their shopping trip and told them about the threat and that the boys would be joining them at the party the next night.
After school, the boys went off to do their own thing, electing Trowa for the job of following Relena and Hotaru around. They sent Trowa on this because Heero gave them glares and walked off as soon as school was over, Duo and Hotaru really didn't get along and they were afraid to leave him alone with those two, Quatra had been called away by Rashid, the head of his magnuacs, and Wufei had wanted to go train and claimed he would kill whoever tried to stop him from doing so. So that was how Trowa found himself sitting in the living room of the girls' dorm as they showered. Hotaru came out first, dressed in a silk lounger outfit, and went to the kitchen, glancing at the tv as she passed. She hauled some chocolate cheesecake (YUM!) from the fridge and sat on the couch. Trowa had on the Discovery Channel which he seemed to be interested in. Hotaru didn't care much for it, quickly ate her cake, and took off to get dressed for the dinner tonight.
Duo, Quatra, Heero and Wufei had come to the girls dorm, all ready to go, not long after Hotaru had gone to get ready, to relieve Trowa so he could get ready. The girls came out of their rooms a half hour later to find all of the G-Boys sitting in the living room, dressed in tuxedos and watching anime, well Duo was watching it but the others were looking at various things in the room. When they heard the doors open, they turned towards the hallway. Duo's mouth dropped open when he saw Hotaru, she was dressed in a deep violet strapless dress that hugged her body. It fell to the floor, flaring out a bit at her knees. On both sides was a slit that reached halfway up her thigh. She had on elbow length gloves in the same color and knee high, black boots. "I didn't know you were coming." He stated.
"I was invited by Relena." she informed him in monotone. The boys began to wonder if Relena should be so trusting of Hotaru. Relena was wearing a baby pink, spaghetti strap, body hugging gown that fell to the floor. The skirt part wasn't tight to her body, but rather, it fell nicely, not making her look fat and had no slits in it at all. Hotaru had helped her pick out this dress. She also had on white, elbow length gloves, and white strappy sandals. "Well we should go now if we're going to make it on time." Relena stated. Heero nodded at this, Duo groaned and Quatra held out his arm for Hotaru to take. Smiling at him, she wrapped her arm around his and Relena took this as a que to do that same with Heero.
Arriving at the Crystal Palace Hotel, they got out of the limo and walked inside. "For some reason, I don't think the Crystal Palace is going to look quite like this." Hotaru muttered to her self.
"I beg your pardon?" Quatra said, only catching part of what she said. Hotaru turned to him. "Nothing. Just talking to myself. This night is going to be boring, isn't it?"
Quatra smiled. "I'd say, just don't let Miss Relena hear you say that."
"I wonder what they're talking about back there. Do you think they like each other?" Relena asked, indicating Hotaru and Quatra. Heero just looked at her. "What? I think they'd be a cute couple. He's the only guy she actually smiles at and treats nice."
Heero grunted, and before Relena could respond, they were at the grand ballroom and someone was there to show her and Hotaru to their table. Relena and Hotaru sat at the head table, while the G-Boys were seated at the very last table at the back of the ballroom. The head table was on a stage, the band was on another stage on the right wall of the room and there was a bar on the left wall of the room. Hotaru looked around the room, taking every detail that she could about the guests. They were all dressed in tuxedos and looking like dignitaries. 'Looks can be deceiving.' Hotaru thought to herself. Relena was seated on Hotaru's left and next to the Emcee for the evening. To her right was seated some very rich men and on the wall was an open door.
The dinner part of the evening went rather well, except for the fact that there was an empty seat on the left of the emcee and everyone, except Hotaru, seemed to wonder where the person that was suppose to sit there was. Near the end of dinner, a movement through the open door caught Hotaru's attention. Excusing herself to go to the bathroom, Hotaru went to check it out, thinking it was a threat.
Standing down the hall was a tall man dressed in a tux. Moving out of view of people in the ballroom, Hotaru pulled out her gun. The man looked at her and she asked "Who the hell do you think you are? There is no way in hell you're going to harm Miss Relena."
The man tilted his head to one side and looked at Hotaru. "What makes you think I'm here to harm Miss Relena?"
Hotaru gave him a death glare that could rival Heero's. "The fact that you have three guns concealed inside your tux and you're walking around out here, looking in that door back there where you have a perfect view of those guests."
He looked at her, surprised that she would know about his guns. Concealing his surprise, he asked "Wouldn't I have harmed her if I had a good view of her?"
"I said of the guests, not of her."
"Zechs! You're Home!" Relena yelled from behind Hotaru and ran to her brother, hugging him.
Hotaru looked at the two people. "Who is this man?" she asked Relena.
"My brother, Zechs. Well, that's what most people call him, his real name is Milyardo. He's the principal of our school. Why do you have your gun out? Is there someone behind me that wants to kill me?" Relena looked panicked.
"No. I think I made a mistake." Hotaru lowered her gun and turned to Zechs. "I'm sorry Mr. Merquise, it's just with all those guns you have and where and how you were looking in the ballroom made me suspicious."
Zechs smiled. "It's ok. It's about time Relena had a girl bodyguard, and it's a good thing that you're not afraid to point that thing at people. We'd better get back to the dinner, It might get suspicious if I don't show up at all and if you girls are gone for too long."
The girls agreed and they went back into the dinner. "Well, Psychocraft isn't dead and obliviously that weak onna friend of hers didn't kill her." Wufei stated when the girls walked back in.
"Hn." Heero grunted and Trowa replied "I'm still not sure if we can trust her though."
The dinner finally ended and some of the tables were cleared away to make room for a dance floor. Relena was asked to dance by a man she knew and soon after that, most people were out dancing. "Care to dance?" A voice asked from behind Hotaru. Turning, she found Duo. She glared at him and was about to refuse, when Zechs whispered "If you don't dance with him, I'll drag you out on to that dance floor and tell some police friends of mine that you threatened me." Turning to him, she shot him another death glare and turned back to Duo. Standing up, they made their way to the dance floor and began to dance. A half evil smirk spread over Zechs' face. As the song "A Moment Like This" began to play, Hotaru and Duo got lost in some memoire.
*~~~* Flashback: Silver Millennium *~~~*
It was Hotaru's 15th birthday and all of the scouts had been there, spending the day with her. They had spent the whole day swimming, sparing, and just generally relaxing. Her brother had left them alone, even tho he had wanted to go along and try to hit on all of the scouts. Of this, Hotaru was glad. Later on that night her brother showed up, telling her that their parents wanted to see them in the grand ballroom of the palace. Hotaru was in her princess form at the time. As they walked down the halls, she asked if he knew what they wanted. He told her no, and that they'd just have to wait and find out.
Walking into the grand ballroom, someone announced "And here now is the birthday girl, Princess Hotaru, accompanied by her brother, Prince Duo!"
At that moment, the lights were turned on and everyone shouted "Surprise!" Hotaru had smiled and whispered to her brother "I'm going to get you for this." He had no doubt she would. She had thought that all of the scouts had gone back home, because there was rumors of an enemy rising against the Silver Millennium. At that moment, the singer that was hired for the night began to sing "A Moment Like This" and Duo and Hotaru danced the first dance of the evening, as was custom on Saturn.
*~~~* End Flashback *~~~*
They were brought out of their memories by a gun shot and a yell of pain from Hotaru. Looking at her thigh, she saw the gun shot wound and the blood. "Damn Bastards! They Better Not Think They're Going To Get Away With This!" She muttered and wiped around, grabbing her guns in the process. "Are you ok? What happened?" Duo asked and Hotaru ignored him for the time being. Seeing two men creeping along the left wall towards Relena, she cursed and quickly went towards them, trying to get a good shot in, but with no such luck. She reached them at the same time they got a clear shooting position on Relena. The guests were startled by someone crying "Miss Relena! Hit The Deck!" and 7 gun shots ringing out.
Relena had fell to the ground as soon as she heard the cry and just narrowly missing getting shot. Duo ran to Hotaru, who was now lying on the floor, blood pooling around her as the other guys ran to Relena. As they helped her up, she asked them "Where's Hotaru? Is she ok?"
Duo ripped off his jacket and pressed it to Hotaru's wounds. The other guys and Relena ran over and found Duo attending to Hotaru and two men dead next to them. "Leave me alone." Hotaru said and Duo rolled his eyes. "This is one time I don't care if I piss you off or not. You're hurt."
Hotaru rolled her eyes. "If you want to know, the shot to the leg is worse the these two up here. I'll be fine." Duo looked at the gun shot to the leg, which wasn't all that bad anymore. "Help me up." Hotaru held out her hands and Duo and Quatra helped her stand. "See? Goodness, you'd think I was almost killed or something."
"Hotaru, you WERE almost killed. May be we should get you to a hospital or something." Relena informed her and before she could protest, her world went black and she began to fall. Duo caught her and saw a group of paramedics. "Weak Onna." Wufei muttered as Quatra went off the get the paramedics. They took her to the General Hospital with Duo riding in the back of the ambulance with her and Relena and the rest of the boys following close behind in the limo.
Chapter 5
The next couple of days in school went ok, except for the homework sessions the G-Boys were taking turns having with Hotaru, teaching her physics. Relena was helping her with her world economics homework, so she was just barley keeping up in that course.
Relena was now in a meeting with Lady Une and Noin so Hotaru was out walking around the school grounds. This was one of the rare times she got to be by herself, and when she was, she usually thought about her princess, Serenity, and all her friends that she left behind when she had moved here. The only three people she had told about her coming here had been Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, and Setsuna-mama. At first Haruka and Michiru hadn't understood why she would want to leave her friends and family and move to a whole new country, but she had many long talks with them and they came around to the idea.
Hotaru heard a noise and turned around to find Relena and Duo walking toward her. She stopped and waited for them to catch up to her. "What are you doing out here?" Duo asked.
"What does it look like, baka? I'm walking." was the reply. Relena chuckled at the look on Duo's face. "When are you going to learn that the only way she'll act civilly towards you is if you leave her alone?"
Hotaru snorted. Quatra called out to Duo from the direction of the dorms building and he took off running. Relena turned to Hotaru. "There's a big dignitaries dinner tomorrow night. I have to attend, meaning that you have to attend too... It's very formal. If you need a dress, I'll pay for one but we'd have to go shopping for it now."
Hotaru smiled. "Let's go!" The girls got ready and went to the mall on the other side of town.
*~~~* Meanwhile: With The Gundam Boys *~~~*
When Duo reached Quatra, Quatra said, quietly, "We have to talk to Heero. There might be a new mission."
The boys went up to their dorm suit. It's called a suit because it had five bedrooms and bathrooms, so that a lot of people could be housed here in the school. Heero was sitting at the table with his laptop set up (when is he not with his laptop?!?!). "What's up Heero? Is there a new mission for us? I Hope So! I want to get out of this school." Duo bounded into the room.
Wufei smirked. "We're not that lucky, Duo."Quatra told him.
Duo looked horror-stricken. "NO!!!!!!!!" Heero gave him a death glare. "Before we get into a big fight here, why don't you explain what's going on to Duo, Heero."
"There's a new threat on Relena's life. We have to stay here and protect her. We'll go to Quatra's tonight to get our weapons." Heero explained in monotone.
"Joy! As if it isn't bad enough we have to go to school! But now we got to protect Relena!" Duo began to whine.
"There's another party protecting Relena as well, so we don't have to be around her all the time." Heero said.
"What?!?! Who said? But that's good right?"
"Dr. J said."
"What about the dignitaries dinner tomorrow night? Will we have to attend that as well?" Quatra asked, because he only wanted to have to make one trip out to his mansion on the outskirts of town.
"Hn." was all Heero said.
"Ok. Well while we have the time now, why don't we go to my mansion and get our weapons and tuxedos?" Quatra suggest.
"What about Psychocraft?" Wufei asked.
"Who cares?" Duo didn't want to have to take Relena with them to Quatra's mansion.
"She's gone shopping with Hotaru, and I'd suggest you use her proper name, Wufei." Lady Une warned. The boys all jumped except for Heero, who never did those kinds of things, and Trowa, who had known she was there. "I didn't hear you come in, Lady Une. Miss Relena is gone shopping? Is that safe?" Quatra told her.
"Oh, yes, it's perfectly safe. They took a bodyguard from the school with them." Lady Une replied, meaning Hotaru when she said bodyguard, "You boys go on and get the things you need from Quatra's now. There's a Jeep waiting for you out front."
The boys all left and went to Quatra's, finding out on the way that Wufei had many of his Katana's already with him. "You think I was going to let that weak onna tell me what to do with my Katana?" was the reply they got when they asked him about it.
The next day, Relena went through school as if she were oblivious to the new threat. Hotaru was even more alert, which made the G-Boys more alert then they would normally be. They weren't about to trust this new girl with Relena, even if Lady Une did. Lady Une had visited the girls after they got back from their shopping trip and told them about the threat and that the boys would be joining them at the party the next night.
After school, the boys went off to do their own thing, electing Trowa for the job of following Relena and Hotaru around. They sent Trowa on this because Heero gave them glares and walked off as soon as school was over, Duo and Hotaru really didn't get along and they were afraid to leave him alone with those two, Quatra had been called away by Rashid, the head of his magnuacs, and Wufei had wanted to go train and claimed he would kill whoever tried to stop him from doing so. So that was how Trowa found himself sitting in the living room of the girls' dorm as they showered. Hotaru came out first, dressed in a silk lounger outfit, and went to the kitchen, glancing at the tv as she passed. She hauled some chocolate cheesecake (YUM!) from the fridge and sat on the couch. Trowa had on the Discovery Channel which he seemed to be interested in. Hotaru didn't care much for it, quickly ate her cake, and took off to get dressed for the dinner tonight.
Duo, Quatra, Heero and Wufei had come to the girls dorm, all ready to go, not long after Hotaru had gone to get ready, to relieve Trowa so he could get ready. The girls came out of their rooms a half hour later to find all of the G-Boys sitting in the living room, dressed in tuxedos and watching anime, well Duo was watching it but the others were looking at various things in the room. When they heard the doors open, they turned towards the hallway. Duo's mouth dropped open when he saw Hotaru, she was dressed in a deep violet strapless dress that hugged her body. It fell to the floor, flaring out a bit at her knees. On both sides was a slit that reached halfway up her thigh. She had on elbow length gloves in the same color and knee high, black boots. "I didn't know you were coming." He stated.
"I was invited by Relena." she informed him in monotone. The boys began to wonder if Relena should be so trusting of Hotaru. Relena was wearing a baby pink, spaghetti strap, body hugging gown that fell to the floor. The skirt part wasn't tight to her body, but rather, it fell nicely, not making her look fat and had no slits in it at all. Hotaru had helped her pick out this dress. She also had on white, elbow length gloves, and white strappy sandals. "Well we should go now if we're going to make it on time." Relena stated. Heero nodded at this, Duo groaned and Quatra held out his arm for Hotaru to take. Smiling at him, she wrapped her arm around his and Relena took this as a que to do that same with Heero.
Arriving at the Crystal Palace Hotel, they got out of the limo and walked inside. "For some reason, I don't think the Crystal Palace is going to look quite like this." Hotaru muttered to her self.
"I beg your pardon?" Quatra said, only catching part of what she said. Hotaru turned to him. "Nothing. Just talking to myself. This night is going to be boring, isn't it?"
Quatra smiled. "I'd say, just don't let Miss Relena hear you say that."
"I wonder what they're talking about back there. Do you think they like each other?" Relena asked, indicating Hotaru and Quatra. Heero just looked at her. "What? I think they'd be a cute couple. He's the only guy she actually smiles at and treats nice."
Heero grunted, and before Relena could respond, they were at the grand ballroom and someone was there to show her and Hotaru to their table. Relena and Hotaru sat at the head table, while the G-Boys were seated at the very last table at the back of the ballroom. The head table was on a stage, the band was on another stage on the right wall of the room and there was a bar on the left wall of the room. Hotaru looked around the room, taking every detail that she could about the guests. They were all dressed in tuxedos and looking like dignitaries. 'Looks can be deceiving.' Hotaru thought to herself. Relena was seated on Hotaru's left and next to the Emcee for the evening. To her right was seated some very rich men and on the wall was an open door.
The dinner part of the evening went rather well, except for the fact that there was an empty seat on the left of the emcee and everyone, except Hotaru, seemed to wonder where the person that was suppose to sit there was. Near the end of dinner, a movement through the open door caught Hotaru's attention. Excusing herself to go to the bathroom, Hotaru went to check it out, thinking it was a threat.
Standing down the hall was a tall man dressed in a tux. Moving out of view of people in the ballroom, Hotaru pulled out her gun. The man looked at her and she asked "Who the hell do you think you are? There is no way in hell you're going to harm Miss Relena."
The man tilted his head to one side and looked at Hotaru. "What makes you think I'm here to harm Miss Relena?"
Hotaru gave him a death glare that could rival Heero's. "The fact that you have three guns concealed inside your tux and you're walking around out here, looking in that door back there where you have a perfect view of those guests."
He looked at her, surprised that she would know about his guns. Concealing his surprise, he asked "Wouldn't I have harmed her if I had a good view of her?"
"I said of the guests, not of her."
"Zechs! You're Home!" Relena yelled from behind Hotaru and ran to her brother, hugging him.
Hotaru looked at the two people. "Who is this man?" she asked Relena.
"My brother, Zechs. Well, that's what most people call him, his real name is Milyardo. He's the principal of our school. Why do you have your gun out? Is there someone behind me that wants to kill me?" Relena looked panicked.
"No. I think I made a mistake." Hotaru lowered her gun and turned to Zechs. "I'm sorry Mr. Merquise, it's just with all those guns you have and where and how you were looking in the ballroom made me suspicious."
Zechs smiled. "It's ok. It's about time Relena had a girl bodyguard, and it's a good thing that you're not afraid to point that thing at people. We'd better get back to the dinner, It might get suspicious if I don't show up at all and if you girls are gone for too long."
The girls agreed and they went back into the dinner. "Well, Psychocraft isn't dead and obliviously that weak onna friend of hers didn't kill her." Wufei stated when the girls walked back in.
"Hn." Heero grunted and Trowa replied "I'm still not sure if we can trust her though."
The dinner finally ended and some of the tables were cleared away to make room for a dance floor. Relena was asked to dance by a man she knew and soon after that, most people were out dancing. "Care to dance?" A voice asked from behind Hotaru. Turning, she found Duo. She glared at him and was about to refuse, when Zechs whispered "If you don't dance with him, I'll drag you out on to that dance floor and tell some police friends of mine that you threatened me." Turning to him, she shot him another death glare and turned back to Duo. Standing up, they made their way to the dance floor and began to dance. A half evil smirk spread over Zechs' face. As the song "A Moment Like This" began to play, Hotaru and Duo got lost in some memoire.
*~~~* Flashback: Silver Millennium *~~~*
It was Hotaru's 15th birthday and all of the scouts had been there, spending the day with her. They had spent the whole day swimming, sparing, and just generally relaxing. Her brother had left them alone, even tho he had wanted to go along and try to hit on all of the scouts. Of this, Hotaru was glad. Later on that night her brother showed up, telling her that their parents wanted to see them in the grand ballroom of the palace. Hotaru was in her princess form at the time. As they walked down the halls, she asked if he knew what they wanted. He told her no, and that they'd just have to wait and find out.
Walking into the grand ballroom, someone announced "And here now is the birthday girl, Princess Hotaru, accompanied by her brother, Prince Duo!"
At that moment, the lights were turned on and everyone shouted "Surprise!" Hotaru had smiled and whispered to her brother "I'm going to get you for this." He had no doubt she would. She had thought that all of the scouts had gone back home, because there was rumors of an enemy rising against the Silver Millennium. At that moment, the singer that was hired for the night began to sing "A Moment Like This" and Duo and Hotaru danced the first dance of the evening, as was custom on Saturn.
*~~~* End Flashback *~~~*
They were brought out of their memories by a gun shot and a yell of pain from Hotaru. Looking at her thigh, she saw the gun shot wound and the blood. "Damn Bastards! They Better Not Think They're Going To Get Away With This!" She muttered and wiped around, grabbing her guns in the process. "Are you ok? What happened?" Duo asked and Hotaru ignored him for the time being. Seeing two men creeping along the left wall towards Relena, she cursed and quickly went towards them, trying to get a good shot in, but with no such luck. She reached them at the same time they got a clear shooting position on Relena. The guests were startled by someone crying "Miss Relena! Hit The Deck!" and 7 gun shots ringing out.
Relena had fell to the ground as soon as she heard the cry and just narrowly missing getting shot. Duo ran to Hotaru, who was now lying on the floor, blood pooling around her as the other guys ran to Relena. As they helped her up, she asked them "Where's Hotaru? Is she ok?"
Duo ripped off his jacket and pressed it to Hotaru's wounds. The other guys and Relena ran over and found Duo attending to Hotaru and two men dead next to them. "Leave me alone." Hotaru said and Duo rolled his eyes. "This is one time I don't care if I piss you off or not. You're hurt."
Hotaru rolled her eyes. "If you want to know, the shot to the leg is worse the these two up here. I'll be fine." Duo looked at the gun shot to the leg, which wasn't all that bad anymore. "Help me up." Hotaru held out her hands and Duo and Quatra helped her stand. "See? Goodness, you'd think I was almost killed or something."
"Hotaru, you WERE almost killed. May be we should get you to a hospital or something." Relena informed her and before she could protest, her world went black and she began to fall. Duo caught her and saw a group of paramedics. "Weak Onna." Wufei muttered as Quatra went off the get the paramedics. They took her to the General Hospital with Duo riding in the back of the ambulance with her and Relena and the rest of the boys following close behind in the limo.
