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Chapter 7 New bodyguard/ / 5 days left
Serena woke up with one hell of a headache. "Is the room spinning or what?" Serena muttered as she forced her eyes awake.
She faintly heard voices outside but didn't register for a while. She stood up and grimaced as pain shot through her entire body. She probably suffered several broken bones and she surely had been shot, as proof were the bandaged tied securely on her stomach.
She went to the bathroom, brushed her teeth and washed her face. Blaming herself for the incident. "I was supposed to be the deadliest assassin and there I was caught unprepared! What an irony. First there was that weirdo stalker whom I can't even trace and now I nearly lost my life! It's a good thing Heero was there to save me, yet again!" Serena thought disdained.
After she finished beating herself up for being sloppy, she finally went outside. She felt a bit better after she had cleaned up.
She passed by a door and was surprised to hear voices talking.
"That was a close one! She was not supposed to be left unprotected." Serena heard the man known as Mr. Keiyo speak strongly.
"I thought I assigned several agents to trail her around." Her cousin Relena spoke with a frown. "She must be regretting her decision now about going public."
"They're not good enough." Quatre spoke up talking about the agents he usually see running everywhere trying to find Serena.
"Then who is? Aside from you 5 are there anyone else?" Relena asked thoughtfully.
"I have a suggestion, why don't we assign one of you 5 to protect her?" Mr. Keiyo suggested looking at the 5 gundam pilots.
"Oooh! Can I volunteer?" Duo said cheekily.
"Haha And I thought you enjoy my company." Relena said sarcastically.
"So which one of you is going to take over watching her?" Relena asked turning to the 4 pilots, purposely excluding Heero.
"Um…I think we need to ask her first if she wants us to watch over her." Quatre spoke up hesitantly. "I feel that she can easily ditch us if she doesn't want to be found."
"I'm going to guard her." Heero spoke surprising everyone.
"But I need you to watch over me!" Relena protested with a half whine.
" I think that Serena needs more protection, especially since she's receiving death threats right now." Mina input the others turned towards her.
"Is she now?" Heero asked interested.
Mina nodded vigorously. "But please don't tell her I told you." Mina begged.
Outside, Serena groaned. "How dare you Mina!" She couldn't hear anymore as the finally finalized the plan on how to take care of the situation. Serena crept silently back to her room and to plan her next move. No sooner than she went back to her room that she felt dizziness took over and was forced to lie down in bed.
It was already the next morning when she woke up, and only 5 days left from their game. She smiled a bit as she felt that all her broken bones had already healed and the shot on her stomach only bothered her just a bit. Serena took her laptop out instantly, wondering what information Haruka and Amy has sent her already when she felt someone watching her.
She turned around.
"Gahhh!" Serena yelled, surprise written over her face as she found Heero Yui leaning against the left side of her wall with a smirk.
"Guess, they decided that you'd be guarding me eh?" Serena spat out, closing her laptop instantly.
Heero showed no surprise that she heard their conversation.
She stood up and walked over to the table to get a drink when she wobbled a bit. Heero grabbed her arm quickly steadying her.
"I don't need any help." Serena said coldly grabbing her arm back.
"You shouldn't be walking yet. You're still hurt." Heero spoke gruffly with a tint of concern.
"I will not be treated as a handicapped." Serena snapped, mistaking the concern in his voice.
She continued her wobble to the bathroom to take a quick shower, hoping that when she finished he'd be long gone.
After 5 minutes, just as Serena was going out, Heero had nearly finished setting up the surveillance cameras in her room.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Serena asked with fury at the cameras in her room, which were at least 5. She was only wearing a cotton white robe that barely reached her knees, hugging her figure perfectly, her hair was wet making her look devastatingly sexy that Heero stopped what he was doing and stared at her.
She never saw him looking at her as she came closer and glared at him.
Heero growled as he realized what he was doing and focused his attention back to the cameras.
"I said what do you thin you're doing?" Serena asked with a near shout.
"Cameras, for your protection." Heero responded curtly.
"Are you going to put one in my bathroom too?" Serena asked sarcastically.
"Is the window big enough for a person to enter? Then I will." Heero answered in monotone.
"I don't believe you." Serena muttered and went back inside the bathroom slamming its door.
***
"Hey, Sere are you okay?" Mina greeted as Serena walked down the stairs.
Serena ignored her friend purposely and walk straight ahead.
"Oh, c'mon Sere, I was only trying to help! You could've been killed!" Mina pleaded wondering how her friend knew.
"Tell that to my shadow!" Serena hissed indicating to the gundam pilot who was following her closely behind.
Mina watched as Serena moved rapidly to who knows where, then giggled. "This was so much fun! Her friend once told her that she had a fierce crush on Heero Yui the guy who had saved her from falling and the one who refused Relena." Mina thought wickedly as she followed Serena trying to ease her temper.
***
They were at the armory room. There were lots of expensive antique swords displayed that cost a huge amount.
"Tell me what happened? I'm not your best friend for nothing." Mina begged.
Serena scowled. "It's all your fault! If you didn't tell them about the letter then security wouldn't be so tight!" Serena frowned.
"But I didn't tell them about the letter! I just said that you received some death threats that's all." Mina whined.
"C'mon what's really bothering you?" Mina persisted.
Serena eyed the swords on display. "Why don't we have a little game and if you beat me I'll tell you." Serena suggested with a grin.
"You're on!" Mina agreed with a smirk.
Each grabbed a sword and positioned to opposite sides. Though Mina never got to her career of being an assassin/spy she always never forgotten her training and still practices like hell.
Metal to metal clashed, their weapons stroked, as they matched strength for strength. Serena did a back flip as Mina continued her attack. Mina grunted as Serena did a quick defense and was soon the one attacking. They battled for a good 15 minutes before they finally stopped with Serena being victorious. During their fight, 2 vases were broken and an antique table was destroyed.
"Man, Relena's going to kill us! Look at what we did at her precious collections!" Mina panted as she fought to regain her breath.
"It was worth it though." Serena answered with a careless grin.
"Feel better now?" Mina asked.
"Definitely." Serena replied with a smile.
Heero watched with interest as they had battled wondering where they had learned such moves. Maybe there's more to them than meets the eye.
Serena whispered what was bothering her to Mina. She frowned when Mina laughed. "Is that all?" Mina exclaimed.
"Hey! I'm supposed to be worried about this things." Serena objected.
They continued talking and laughing as they went outside.
***
Heero was taking his lunch along with Wufei and Trowa when Duo rushed in.
Heero frowned as he saw him. "I thought you'd be watching Serena." Heero spoke with a frown. They had decided to take turns watching Serena after all, due to Relena's insistence.
"I got distracted, when her friend Mina talked to me." Duo admitted.
Wufei smirked. "Guess they pulled one over you huh?"
"Don't worry, I'll find her." Heero scowled as he stood up and went to find her.
***
He smiled inwardly when he found he object of his affections. "He was having such a thrill playing his little game with her. She must be obviously going crazy now inside." Serena's lunatic stalker thought with mock sympathy. "He knows that she's deeply troubled though, for she always come to her parents graves when she is. It's little habit that he figured out, and praised himself endlessly fir it." The stalker scowled when another person entered his view.
"Why it's none other than that pesky pilot Heero Yui! Oh how he hates him! Always so near to his precious princess." He saw the look the man, Heero gave his love and was going crazy not going over there and pick a fight. "Oh he will pay alright! For the fact that he dares even to breathe the sane air the she does." The man thought with a sinister smile.
He got out from his hiding place and gave one last look to his beloved princess. "Only 5 more days, and you're mine." He snickered licking his lips in anticipation. He went back to wherever he came from that he missed the scenes that would surely drive him to insanity.
***
Heero gave a sigh of relief inwardly as he finally found her. Kneeling at the graves of her parents with a sad look. Fresh flowers were placed at their graves and Serena never noticed him till he spoke.
"Miss them that much huh?" Heero asked delicately.
"Very much…" Serena answered without looking up.
She finally stood up and gave a sigh. "Guess you found me again eh?"
"I always thought that if I chose to get lost no one would ever find me." Serena whispered staring at the sky there were unshed tears on her eyes. It was already mi-afternoon, and the clouds had turned pink from the reflection of the sun.
"How long did it take you to find me?" Serena asked.
"Quite awhile." Heero admitted.
"You shouldn't have bothered about me." Serena said kneeling again touching her parent's inscriptions.
"No, it's you who shouldn't have run off. You could've asked Duo to come with you. You will not be placed on the same danger as yesterday. Besides you're barely healed." Heero scolded.
"I don't want him to come here. This is a special place for me. Duo would've been intruding." Serena murmured.
Heero kneeled beside her. "Am I intruding too?" He asked softly.
Serena looked at him, her eyes meeting his and answered. "No."
She sighed again. "About yesterday, it was foolish of me. I could've been killed." Serena admitted. "But you save me, again" She gave a quick glance at him and found him staring intently at her.
"I want to thank you again…" Serena said with a swallow.
Heero's eyes widened, as he never expected what was coming.
Touching his face gently with her right hand, her lips touch his lightly and she kissed him sweetly.
"Thank you." Serena whispered as she saw the confused look he was giving her. She quickly stood up when Heero grabbed her arm roughly pulling her to his embrace roughly. It was her turn to be surprised.
He kissed her hard; he forced her mouth to open with his thumb. Holding her close to him, his mouth slanting over hers again and again. Serena held on to him tightly, kissing him passionately as well. She finally pulled apart from lack of air, she heard him growl.
Serena looked at him, and found his eyes smoky with guilt. "I'm sorry." He whispered.
Serena shook her head. "Don't be." She game him a teasing kiss and fled back to the mansion, leaving Heero disturbed and ran after her.
Back at the mansion, Serena was happily disconnecting the wires of the surveillance camera before opening her laptop finally and received Amy and Haruka's e-mail. Amy's e-mail didn't have much to say, just necessary precautions and other information she had already gathered. Haruka's mail was much more helpful though just as Serena was about to check it out her door opened.
Wufei entered the room. "Woman! What do you think you were doing with those cameras?." Wufei asked angry.
"Don't you knock? And can't you see that I'm busy?" Serena asked irritably. "I only wish for my privacy."
"Not during my watch will you dismantle those cameras, do it on Maxwell's. Now I will fix them up again and don't you dare!" Wufei spoke with annoyance.
Serena rolled her eyes and shut her laptop again never having read the contents of Haruka's letter.
These bodyguards were a bigger trouble than she had thought.
A/n: I updated twice in one day! Yeah! So I probably will update much after New year already. Happy new Year!
