A/N: OK. Here's a new update! WOO! I'm going to try to update this and
Devil's Angels on every Sunday night until they're finished. I had a very
long break between classes on Tuesday and ended up writing three pages of
notes for this story. They take me up to the end of it. So we're looking at
a nice few chapters being left to this story. YAY! This was supposed to
come out like last Sunday but I haven't really had time to get on the
Internet to do much. But here is the next chapter and I promise to update
on Sundays! And I bet you're wondering 'Why Sunday, and not Friday to give
everyone a nice happy weekend?' Well, Now you have a nice close to your
weekend. And besides, the weekend is the only time I really get to work on
my stories to post them on the net. I'm ahead in this fic by like four
chapters and I'm going to try and stay like that till it's finished. I'm a
bit ahead in Devil's Angels but where I changed the first couple of
chapters of the story, I got myself a bit stuck on the third chapter. I
want to keep it like it is, but I have to have a reason for it to be the
way it is, and I'm not really creative in that area. I'm being so creative
and writing on Chapter 16, which I have on paper and I really need to
transfer it to the comp, but, as I've said, the weekends are the only time
I really have to work on this. And this weekend my mom came to visit me, so
I was busy all weekend and really didn't do much other then hang with mom
and homework. Sorry about the long A/N but I thought it was necessary, and
I wanted to explain to you what was going on with the fics. Enough of my
ramblings! On with the story! (HOLY CRAP! This A/N is almost a full page!)
Chapter 8
When they arrived back at the school, everyone went their separate ways back to their rooms. It was early afternoon and Hotaru was starved so she warmed up some of the leftover food that was in the fridge. "You didn't stay here by yourself last night did you?" she asked Relena while the food was warming.
Relena shook her head. "No. Quatra came and slept on the pullout couch. He's awful nice, don't you think?"
Hotaru nodded her head absently. As she pulled the food out of the microwave, a knock came on the door. Relena opened it to find Duo and Heero standing there. "Hi Heero! Duo! Come in. What's going on now? Any new threats that I need more protection from?"
"This is no time to joke about such things." Heero said monotonously. "I'm not Hee-chan. I'm totally serious."
"Hotaru, I need to speak to you. Privately." Duo said to her. Hotaru had a pretty good guess of what he wanted to talk about. Nodding, she motioned for him to follows her down the hall. Relena watched them leave with shock.
Once the door to Hotaru's bedroom was closed, Duo started talking. "Hotaru, when we were dancing, I had a memory of some sort. We were at a ball and it was your birthday. We danced, but only because we were brother and sister. Did I dream that? Please say no."
"Duo, it was real. I had the same memory at the same time."
"You never did get me back for that stunt I pulled with the surprise party for you." Duo laughed.
"Umm... Duo... I already knew we were brother and sister. That's one of the reasons I transferred to this school. I knew you were here. I was afraid you wouldn't remember me, which I was right about."
"You knew?!?! Then why were you so mean to me?!?!" Duo looked hurt now.
"Payback's a bitch. *Big smirk* Never say never Duo. But you have to keep this between the two of us. That was a long time ago, Duo. A really long time ago..."
"Ok. Whatever. Just as long as I know that it was real and not a dream." The two then walked out of the room. Relena and Heero were where they had left them.
"You know, you guys could have sat down and waited." Duo said, laughing at them.
"Finished?" Heero ignored his comment.
"Yea!" Duo and Heero then left the girls alone. "What was all that about?" Relena asked as soon as the door had shut behind the boys.
"Oh, nothing. You know Duo, just wanting to make friends of everyone and anyone. He confronted me about being mean to him. Like that'll stop me..." Hotaru smirked at this.
The rest of the night went uneventful and the girls went to bed early. Hotaru still hadn't regained all her strength and they had to move the next day.
The next morning, the girls woke up to loud banging on the main door to their dorm room. "What the hell...?" Hotaru mumbled as she crawled out of bed. Looking at the clock and seeing that it was only 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning, she began to curse whoever it was. Stumbling to the door, she opened it to find a way too perky Duo. "What the hell do you want at 6 in the morning?!?!? This better be important or I'll kill you. With my bare hands."
Duo shuddered at the thought. He had regained all of his memories from the Silver Millennium last night and once, Hotaru had tried to do this. She would have succeeded if their mother hadn't walked in at that moment. "Heero said you guys had to get up and pack and get down to our dorm." he informed them. Relena had just come out of her room.
"Oh, he does now does he? You tell him to kiss my ass and screw himself. We'll be down at a sensible hour of the day, thank you very much." With that she slammed the door in his face, turned and stomped back to bed. Relena went back to her bed and Duo went back to his dorm, frightened. Upon entry, the guys looked at him questioningly. Quatra looked like he wanted to be back in bed. "Umm. Heero..."
"Hn." Heero grunted, impatiently.
"I got a message for you, from Hotaru"
"Well? What is it?"
"Kiss my ass and screw yourself." before he could finish, Heero had his gun whipped out and pointed at him. "Omea o Koruso."
"Eep!" Duo yelled as he ran and hid behind Quatra, "Quatra save me!"
"Duo, why did you say that to Heero? Why didn't you just tell him the message instead of trying to make him mad?" Quatra asked, not at all in the mood for this.
"BUT! That's part of the message! She said, and I quote, 'you tell him to kiss my ass and screw himself. We'll be down at a sensible hour of the day, thank you very much.' There! I got the message out! BYE!" Duo turned and began to run towards the door. A sharp pain in his head stopped him, and he turned around to find Wufei holding his braid. "Sit down, baka." Wufei commanded and dragged Duo to the couch.
"What are we going to do now?" Quatra asked, yawning.
"I say we wait until a sensible hour of the day and try again." Duo suggested.
"No. That's impossible." Heero told them.
Duo shrugged. "Fine, whatever. It's your funeral. You can go this time. I'll come along, but only to watch when Hotaru puts her hands around your throat and proceeds to choke you to death."
Wufei snorted. "That weak onna is no match for the Perfect Soldier."
Duo just shrugged and fell asleep right there and then. Quatra looked at him. "He has the right idea. Call me when it's at least 9." Quatra then got up and went to the room he now shared with Trowa. Trowa just looked at Heero and shrugged. Heero left the dorm and walked down the hall. He began to knock on the girls' dorm room door. When there was no answer after about five minutes, he kicked the door in. Walking down the hall, he was met with the barrel of a gun. "Heero, what the hell are you doing here and how'd you get in? You know, you could cause someone to have a heart attack, sneaking up on them like that." Hotaru said, lowering her gun.
"Get packed." Was his only reply. Hotaru watched his retreating form, and then turned to Relena, who had come out of her room at the mention of Heero's name. "Well that got me up. Guess we might as well get ready to move." The girls parted once more and in two hours they were all ready to go.
The girls picked up their suitcases and boxes of things and left the dorm. Walking down the hall, they met Lady Une and Zechs. "It's awful early for you guys to be up and ready to move, isn't it?" Lady Une questioned.
"It wasn't our idea. And I swear, if Heero weren't so important right now, he'd be dead." Hotaru told her, angrily.
Zechs and Lady Une helped the girls carry their things into the boys' dorms. She then showed the girls to their room that they would be sharing from now on. It had pink walls, with deep violet carpet and ceiling. There were two twin size beds, one done in shades of pink and the other in shades of purple. The other furniture in the room was two dressers, two night stands, and extra large desk that both girls could work at, a large bookcase, a floor length mirror on the back of the door, and a long shelf on one wall. There was a window on the wall across from the door and there was a door leading to the spacious bathroom that was now the girls on the wall to the left of the door. Then Zechs and Lady Une left and the girls began to unpack. Duo tried to help, as Wufei had waked him up as soon as the girls had walked in. They had tried to wake Quatra, but he meant what he said, he had locked the bedroom door when he had gone back to bed.
At nine, the girls had unpacked everything and Quatra walked out of his room. "Oh, hello Hotaru, Relena. I didn't expect you guys until much later on in the day." He said, upon seeing them.
"We wouldn't be here if SOMEONE hadn't knocked down the door." Hotaru glared at Heero for a second and then turned on her heel and went to the living room. No one was there and Relena followed her. Hotaru sat down, and turned on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She never missed a show, which came on, on Monday nights. This was a rerun, but seeing as how she had nothing else to do on this Sunday morning, she watched it anyway. Duo came in when it was half over and began to complain. Then he took the remote, and did something no one ever did when Hotaru was watching Buffy. He Changed The Channel! Not only that, but he changed it to Cartoons, Of All Things! Hotaru was livid1 and began to yell at him. He turned to run and got to the end of the living room. He turned around to see where Hotaru was. BIG Mistake! She took the opportunity to tackle him. He fell on his back and Hotaru knelt over him, one leg on either side. She drew her fist back to punch him in the face. Heero chose that moment to enter the living room. He wasn't sure what Duo had done, but he didn't think it was much, considering Hotaru got mad at him easily. He grabbed her arm. She felt it and turned to see Heero standing behind her, drink in one hand, her arm in the other. "Don't." he told her. They just stared each other in the eyes for a few seconds, and something passed across their faces, too fast for anyone to catch though. Hotaru punched Heero in the stomach, making him let go of her arm. "Don't leave yourself unguarded." She told him before getting off Duo and sitting back on the couch.
Later on that afternoon the boys went out to work on their Gundams and talk about their new mission without the girls' presence. Around 4:30, Hotaru went and made supper. At five, Duo ran into the dorm room and announced "We're going to order pizza for supper. HEY! Something smells good!"
"Supper smells good." Hotaru told him, "I made supper so this is what we're going to eat. We're not going to order pizza, and you can go tell the others." Duo shrugged his shoulders and left the dorm again. A few minutes later, he returned with the others. Wufei was furious, "If we say we're going to eat pizza for supper, Then That's What We're Going To Eat!" He yelled as soon as he was inside the door, "No Weak Onna Is Going To Tell Me Different!"
Well that made Hotaru mad and she marched out to the dorm entrance and yelled back "I cooked supper, and That's What You're Going To EAT!!! No Man Is Going To Call Me Weak And Tell Me That I Cooked For No Reason! NOW! Get In To The Table And SIT! Supper will be served shortly."
What surprised everyone the most about this is that Wufei actually went and did as he was told. The others followed and Duo said, "I never thought I'd see Wufei actually do what a girl told him to."
Wufei shrugged and replied to this by saying "Well, she DID have a point. She cooked supper and for someone to tell her that it wasn't good enough for them before even trying it is pretty harsh, even for me. Besides, that's a woman's place, in the kitchen, cooking for the better sex."
Duo's and Quatra's eyes widened as they saw Hotaru come out of the kitchen, holding a butcher's knife and go for Wufei. Duo lunged at her, but she sidestepped him and he fell to the floor with a thud. Quatra began to stutter "Wu-Wu-Wufei... M-M-Move!!" But Wufei only looked at him like he was crazy.
"What The Hell Are You Doing Hotaru?" Zechs, who had decided to check on everyone and just entered the room to see Hotaru running with a butcher's knife and Duo on the floor, yelled. Hotaru stopped and turned to him. "Going to kill Wufei." She replied calmly.
"Oh, No You Don't!" he said and snatched the knife from her hands. "Fine." She said and went back to the kitchen to get the food. She brought it out and Relena followed her with an extra place setting for Zechs. Supper was quickly done and Quatra offered for him and Trowa to do the dishes. The girls agreed on it and brought Zechs to their room, so that he could check and make sure it was safe and secure. He looked around the room, nodding his approval at various items in the room. When he reached Hotaru's side, he noticed three pictures that were on her dresser. He recognized the couple in one as the man and woman that had visited while Hotaru was in the hospital. "Who are these people?" he asked, indicating the pictures.
Pointing to the one of the couple and her, she said, "That's one of me, Haruka-papa, and Michriu-mama. The one of the group is of me and my friends back home. There's Usagi, Makato, Rei, Minako, Ami, and me. *She pointed to each person as she said their name* the other is of my closet friends, Usagi and Setsuna-mama and me. All of us are close to each other, really. We usually hang out in a big group of all the people from the three pictures, but no one seems to have a picture of all of us together."
Zechs' gaze rested on Usagi for a moment longer. "Nice pictures. You look close. I hope I get to meet these friends of yours." He said, before turning and leaving. **~~~** OK. Yea... I have no idea if that chapter made sense, so please tell me what you think of it. And livid means 3 different things, but in here it means furious, enraged. I heard it somewhere and thought may be I could use it here.
Chapter 8
When they arrived back at the school, everyone went their separate ways back to their rooms. It was early afternoon and Hotaru was starved so she warmed up some of the leftover food that was in the fridge. "You didn't stay here by yourself last night did you?" she asked Relena while the food was warming.
Relena shook her head. "No. Quatra came and slept on the pullout couch. He's awful nice, don't you think?"
Hotaru nodded her head absently. As she pulled the food out of the microwave, a knock came on the door. Relena opened it to find Duo and Heero standing there. "Hi Heero! Duo! Come in. What's going on now? Any new threats that I need more protection from?"
"This is no time to joke about such things." Heero said monotonously. "I'm not Hee-chan. I'm totally serious."
"Hotaru, I need to speak to you. Privately." Duo said to her. Hotaru had a pretty good guess of what he wanted to talk about. Nodding, she motioned for him to follows her down the hall. Relena watched them leave with shock.
Once the door to Hotaru's bedroom was closed, Duo started talking. "Hotaru, when we were dancing, I had a memory of some sort. We were at a ball and it was your birthday. We danced, but only because we were brother and sister. Did I dream that? Please say no."
"Duo, it was real. I had the same memory at the same time."
"You never did get me back for that stunt I pulled with the surprise party for you." Duo laughed.
"Umm... Duo... I already knew we were brother and sister. That's one of the reasons I transferred to this school. I knew you were here. I was afraid you wouldn't remember me, which I was right about."
"You knew?!?! Then why were you so mean to me?!?!" Duo looked hurt now.
"Payback's a bitch. *Big smirk* Never say never Duo. But you have to keep this between the two of us. That was a long time ago, Duo. A really long time ago..."
"Ok. Whatever. Just as long as I know that it was real and not a dream." The two then walked out of the room. Relena and Heero were where they had left them.
"You know, you guys could have sat down and waited." Duo said, laughing at them.
"Finished?" Heero ignored his comment.
"Yea!" Duo and Heero then left the girls alone. "What was all that about?" Relena asked as soon as the door had shut behind the boys.
"Oh, nothing. You know Duo, just wanting to make friends of everyone and anyone. He confronted me about being mean to him. Like that'll stop me..." Hotaru smirked at this.
The rest of the night went uneventful and the girls went to bed early. Hotaru still hadn't regained all her strength and they had to move the next day.
The next morning, the girls woke up to loud banging on the main door to their dorm room. "What the hell...?" Hotaru mumbled as she crawled out of bed. Looking at the clock and seeing that it was only 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning, she began to curse whoever it was. Stumbling to the door, she opened it to find a way too perky Duo. "What the hell do you want at 6 in the morning?!?!? This better be important or I'll kill you. With my bare hands."
Duo shuddered at the thought. He had regained all of his memories from the Silver Millennium last night and once, Hotaru had tried to do this. She would have succeeded if their mother hadn't walked in at that moment. "Heero said you guys had to get up and pack and get down to our dorm." he informed them. Relena had just come out of her room.
"Oh, he does now does he? You tell him to kiss my ass and screw himself. We'll be down at a sensible hour of the day, thank you very much." With that she slammed the door in his face, turned and stomped back to bed. Relena went back to her bed and Duo went back to his dorm, frightened. Upon entry, the guys looked at him questioningly. Quatra looked like he wanted to be back in bed. "Umm. Heero..."
"Hn." Heero grunted, impatiently.
"I got a message for you, from Hotaru"
"Well? What is it?"
"Kiss my ass and screw yourself." before he could finish, Heero had his gun whipped out and pointed at him. "Omea o Koruso."
"Eep!" Duo yelled as he ran and hid behind Quatra, "Quatra save me!"
"Duo, why did you say that to Heero? Why didn't you just tell him the message instead of trying to make him mad?" Quatra asked, not at all in the mood for this.
"BUT! That's part of the message! She said, and I quote, 'you tell him to kiss my ass and screw himself. We'll be down at a sensible hour of the day, thank you very much.' There! I got the message out! BYE!" Duo turned and began to run towards the door. A sharp pain in his head stopped him, and he turned around to find Wufei holding his braid. "Sit down, baka." Wufei commanded and dragged Duo to the couch.
"What are we going to do now?" Quatra asked, yawning.
"I say we wait until a sensible hour of the day and try again." Duo suggested.
"No. That's impossible." Heero told them.
Duo shrugged. "Fine, whatever. It's your funeral. You can go this time. I'll come along, but only to watch when Hotaru puts her hands around your throat and proceeds to choke you to death."
Wufei snorted. "That weak onna is no match for the Perfect Soldier."
Duo just shrugged and fell asleep right there and then. Quatra looked at him. "He has the right idea. Call me when it's at least 9." Quatra then got up and went to the room he now shared with Trowa. Trowa just looked at Heero and shrugged. Heero left the dorm and walked down the hall. He began to knock on the girls' dorm room door. When there was no answer after about five minutes, he kicked the door in. Walking down the hall, he was met with the barrel of a gun. "Heero, what the hell are you doing here and how'd you get in? You know, you could cause someone to have a heart attack, sneaking up on them like that." Hotaru said, lowering her gun.
"Get packed." Was his only reply. Hotaru watched his retreating form, and then turned to Relena, who had come out of her room at the mention of Heero's name. "Well that got me up. Guess we might as well get ready to move." The girls parted once more and in two hours they were all ready to go.
The girls picked up their suitcases and boxes of things and left the dorm. Walking down the hall, they met Lady Une and Zechs. "It's awful early for you guys to be up and ready to move, isn't it?" Lady Une questioned.
"It wasn't our idea. And I swear, if Heero weren't so important right now, he'd be dead." Hotaru told her, angrily.
Zechs and Lady Une helped the girls carry their things into the boys' dorms. She then showed the girls to their room that they would be sharing from now on. It had pink walls, with deep violet carpet and ceiling. There were two twin size beds, one done in shades of pink and the other in shades of purple. The other furniture in the room was two dressers, two night stands, and extra large desk that both girls could work at, a large bookcase, a floor length mirror on the back of the door, and a long shelf on one wall. There was a window on the wall across from the door and there was a door leading to the spacious bathroom that was now the girls on the wall to the left of the door. Then Zechs and Lady Une left and the girls began to unpack. Duo tried to help, as Wufei had waked him up as soon as the girls had walked in. They had tried to wake Quatra, but he meant what he said, he had locked the bedroom door when he had gone back to bed.
At nine, the girls had unpacked everything and Quatra walked out of his room. "Oh, hello Hotaru, Relena. I didn't expect you guys until much later on in the day." He said, upon seeing them.
"We wouldn't be here if SOMEONE hadn't knocked down the door." Hotaru glared at Heero for a second and then turned on her heel and went to the living room. No one was there and Relena followed her. Hotaru sat down, and turned on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She never missed a show, which came on, on Monday nights. This was a rerun, but seeing as how she had nothing else to do on this Sunday morning, she watched it anyway. Duo came in when it was half over and began to complain. Then he took the remote, and did something no one ever did when Hotaru was watching Buffy. He Changed The Channel! Not only that, but he changed it to Cartoons, Of All Things! Hotaru was livid1 and began to yell at him. He turned to run and got to the end of the living room. He turned around to see where Hotaru was. BIG Mistake! She took the opportunity to tackle him. He fell on his back and Hotaru knelt over him, one leg on either side. She drew her fist back to punch him in the face. Heero chose that moment to enter the living room. He wasn't sure what Duo had done, but he didn't think it was much, considering Hotaru got mad at him easily. He grabbed her arm. She felt it and turned to see Heero standing behind her, drink in one hand, her arm in the other. "Don't." he told her. They just stared each other in the eyes for a few seconds, and something passed across their faces, too fast for anyone to catch though. Hotaru punched Heero in the stomach, making him let go of her arm. "Don't leave yourself unguarded." She told him before getting off Duo and sitting back on the couch.
Later on that afternoon the boys went out to work on their Gundams and talk about their new mission without the girls' presence. Around 4:30, Hotaru went and made supper. At five, Duo ran into the dorm room and announced "We're going to order pizza for supper. HEY! Something smells good!"
"Supper smells good." Hotaru told him, "I made supper so this is what we're going to eat. We're not going to order pizza, and you can go tell the others." Duo shrugged his shoulders and left the dorm again. A few minutes later, he returned with the others. Wufei was furious, "If we say we're going to eat pizza for supper, Then That's What We're Going To Eat!" He yelled as soon as he was inside the door, "No Weak Onna Is Going To Tell Me Different!"
Well that made Hotaru mad and she marched out to the dorm entrance and yelled back "I cooked supper, and That's What You're Going To EAT!!! No Man Is Going To Call Me Weak And Tell Me That I Cooked For No Reason! NOW! Get In To The Table And SIT! Supper will be served shortly."
What surprised everyone the most about this is that Wufei actually went and did as he was told. The others followed and Duo said, "I never thought I'd see Wufei actually do what a girl told him to."
Wufei shrugged and replied to this by saying "Well, she DID have a point. She cooked supper and for someone to tell her that it wasn't good enough for them before even trying it is pretty harsh, even for me. Besides, that's a woman's place, in the kitchen, cooking for the better sex."
Duo's and Quatra's eyes widened as they saw Hotaru come out of the kitchen, holding a butcher's knife and go for Wufei. Duo lunged at her, but she sidestepped him and he fell to the floor with a thud. Quatra began to stutter "Wu-Wu-Wufei... M-M-Move!!" But Wufei only looked at him like he was crazy.
"What The Hell Are You Doing Hotaru?" Zechs, who had decided to check on everyone and just entered the room to see Hotaru running with a butcher's knife and Duo on the floor, yelled. Hotaru stopped and turned to him. "Going to kill Wufei." She replied calmly.
"Oh, No You Don't!" he said and snatched the knife from her hands. "Fine." She said and went back to the kitchen to get the food. She brought it out and Relena followed her with an extra place setting for Zechs. Supper was quickly done and Quatra offered for him and Trowa to do the dishes. The girls agreed on it and brought Zechs to their room, so that he could check and make sure it was safe and secure. He looked around the room, nodding his approval at various items in the room. When he reached Hotaru's side, he noticed three pictures that were on her dresser. He recognized the couple in one as the man and woman that had visited while Hotaru was in the hospital. "Who are these people?" he asked, indicating the pictures.
Pointing to the one of the couple and her, she said, "That's one of me, Haruka-papa, and Michriu-mama. The one of the group is of me and my friends back home. There's Usagi, Makato, Rei, Minako, Ami, and me. *She pointed to each person as she said their name* the other is of my closet friends, Usagi and Setsuna-mama and me. All of us are close to each other, really. We usually hang out in a big group of all the people from the three pictures, but no one seems to have a picture of all of us together."
Zechs' gaze rested on Usagi for a moment longer. "Nice pictures. You look close. I hope I get to meet these friends of yours." He said, before turning and leaving. **~~~** OK. Yea... I have no idea if that chapter made sense, so please tell me what you think of it. And livid means 3 different things, but in here it means furious, enraged. I heard it somewhere and thought may be I could use it here.
