Title: Around Your Heart In Seven Days

Author: Aino Yuy aka Usagi-Hater

Author Notes:

In this fic, I will have Trowa talk more. Sure he's known as the silent pilot but he isn't completely mute. He does talk more than ten lines in an episode. So I suggest you don't feel Trowa is out of character just because he's talking more.

Shout Outs:


- Sadie Joyce - Myst Lady: Setsuna will be the History teacher in Wufei's and Rei's class. Go figure, huh? And thanks for telling me about the Jap money. But... I think their money has a different value than ours. Like if we use $100 here, wouldn't it be a different number of yens there? I'm not sure.


- Firey of Jupiter: I'm going to have Hotaru with Quatre. She'll be the same age as Ami. And as for the dates, all I can say is chaos.


- Liete-Keeper-Of-The-Stars: Hello Leanne, and welcome to Fanfiction.net. Thanks for reviewing. And like I said, I'm not crazy! It's all your sister's fault.


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Chapter Four: Commencing The Deal


The school day was finally over. Everyone was heading to their cars or to the bus to reach their home. Makoto was doing the same, heading to the parking lot to get into her silver Honda Pilot.

Walking on the school yard, the chestnut haired female looked up at the sky to admire the beautiful clouds. Taking a deep fresh breath of air, Makoto was about to continue her walk when she saw a figure on a tree branch above her.

Huh? Makoto asked when noticing it was a boy.

The male student had brown hair with bangs that covered one of his eyes. He was sitting on a branch looking down at her.

"What are you staring at?" Makoto asked, not happy at all that someone was watching her.

"You of course," the boy replied.

He then jumped down from the tree and landed right in front of Makoto. She noticed his marvelous emerald eyes, close to her eye color, and his charming smile.

"Makoto Aino right?" He asked softly as Makoto's expression hardened.

"What do you want?"

"My name is Trowa Barton. It's a pleasure to meet you."


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Rei placed her hair behind her left ear as she leaned on her family's silver Pilot. Makoto had the car keys and she had no way in getting inside.

"What the hell is taking her so long?" Rei grumbled.

"Having car problems, onna?" an obnoxious voice asked from behind.

Rei quickly turned around to meet the eyes of Wufei Chang. He was leaning on the car from the other side, with his arm and head resting on the hood of the car.

"What are doing here? And get your filthy hands off my car!" Rei said angrily as she smacked Wufei's arm off the vehicle.

While rubbing the stinging spot where the raven haired female had hit, Wufei just smirked. "Feisty now aren't we?" he said in a somewhat infuriated tone.

Rei flipped her beautiful long hair away from her face. "And there's more where that came from. Now go away!"

Wufei let out a snort, "I was only trying to be nice. And I was going to ask if you needed a ride. But fine, be that, you ungrateful onna!"

As the Chinese student began to walk away, Rei was shocked at his words. Did he say he was going to ask me if I wanted a ride?

When the male student was out of sight, Rei went back to her anti-male self. "Stupid baka," she grunted. "Men!" She scoffed.


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Minako walked out of the field for volleyball practice. Taking deep breaths in and out, she began to warm up by exercising. Her teammates where still getting changed in the girls locker-room, therefore she was the only one on the field at the time. or so she thought.

Right when she was running on the track pathway, she felt someone staring at her from one of the benches.

Stopping and turning to were she felt the presence of eyes, she made eye contact with cobalt Prussian blue orbs. A boy, a year older than her, was sitting on the belchers, watching her. He had dark chocolate wild bangs that moved slightly with the breeze. He didn't look away when she caught him staring.

Stalker! Minako quickly thought as she made a displeased expression. She began to walk towards him; ready to show her what was on her mind.

When Minako was close enough she asked, "Care to tell me why you keep staring?"

However, she didn't get any reaction from the student. He kept his icy blue eyes on the blonde.

"What are you staring at?!" An uneasy feeling overwhelmed Minako. What was his problem?

The boy finally spoke, startling Minako. "I was watching. It's a free country."

His tone brought shivers up Minako's spin; it sounded… rough.

"Yes it is a free country but I prefer not having a stalker follow me around!"

A small smirk curved at Heero's jaw line. He had no retort to what Minako said; he only got up from his spot, flipped his black jacket over his right shoulder, and walked away.

Minako watched him headed towards the school building, bewildered with what just happened. She stayed there for a moment in a trench before one of her teammates called out to her.

"Minako! Come on, time to play!"

Turning around to see Robena waving at her from a distance with the other female volleyball players, she waved in response, showing she was coming. But before she turned back, she looked forward where she thought the strange boy was still walking off. Surprisingly, he was gone.

Weird guy. She mumbled while walking away, letting out a grunt.


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Makoto folded her arms as she looked at the brown haired boy. She didn't take his extended hand to shake.

"Listen, I don't just talk to anybody I bump into. Now if you don't mind, I'm running late."

Trowa had a calm expression as Makoto brushed passed him and walked away.

I see this isn't going to be as easy. He silently thought. But he had to admit, this Makoto was very pretty.


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When Rei saw her younger sister coming up, she held her famous annoyed expression. "May I asked what took you so long, Makoto?!"

Makoto rolled her eyes as she unlocked the car. "Chill Rei. Some guy came up to me. It was weird."

Rei got in the driver's seat and took the keys from Makoto. "Some guy?"

"Yeah. Said his name was Trowa Barton."

Starting the car engine, Rei was a bit puzzled by this information. "Trowa Barton is a silent guy. What would he want from you?"

"I don't know. I sure didn't stay to find out though. He's uncanny!" Makoto declared as the car went out of the school's parking lot.

As their ride was silent for a while, Makoto thinking about her odd encounter with Trowa, Rei was also thinking to herself about a certain black haired student.

"Humph, for some reason Wufei Chang came up to me today while I was waiting for you." Rei brought up.

Makoto raised an eyebrow at her sister. "I thought you and Chang never got along together? What did he want?"

"We don't! He claimed he was going to ask me if I wanted a ride home, but knowing him he probably wanted me to do something for him. Homework in History for instance." Rei scoffed.

"Well, that's men for ya!" Makoto answered, shaking her head with disapproval. Her hate towards the gender was starting to rise again as her thoughts were filled with a flashback.

Dammit..


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The sun was still up, but slowly setting, as Ami looked at her watch. It was quarter to five and the bus was scheduled to arrive at five. She had stayed after school for the computer club, and usually would go home with Minako on the bus.

She better hurry up if she wants a ride home. Ami thought.

Three minutes later, she got her cell phone out and called her athletic blond sister.

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Minako was in the middle of putting all the volleyballs away when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

She heard Ami's soft voice on the other line asking, "Minako? Where are you, the bus will get here in any minute now!"

Minako glanced at her watch and saw it was ten before five. "Darn it Ami, it's my turn to put the volleyballs away! I'll try to be there but if I'm late, just get on without me, okay?"

Ami answered "Alright," and disconnected the call with a push of a red button.

After putting all the balls away in a bag, Minako quickly picked it up and headed towards the school. She still had to put it in the equipment closet and get her things from the girl's locker room.

"Damn! I'm not going to make it!" she worried when basically throwing the bag inside, hearing a loud bang, and glancing at the clock near by.

It was five to five when she burst into the locker room and grabbed her clothes. She wiggled into her short navy blue skirt and shoved her white blouse over her naked form when taking off her volleyball top uniform. Ignoring to take off her sneakers, she snatched her black shoes and ran out of the empty room.

"Fuck!" she cursed when almost tripping on her two feet on her way to the other side of the school to reach the bus stop.


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The huge yellow bus pulled up to the bus stop and opened its doors for Ami. The blue haired girl looked around to see if Minako had arrived yet. But there was no blonde girl in sight.

"Minako…" Ami sighed as she entered the bus.


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"No!" Minako screamed as she ran across the parking lot.

She could see the bus already pulling away.

"Wait for me!"

But the bus did not obey as it drove off, leaving Minako behind. The blonde reached the bus stop right when the bus was out of sight.

Breathing heavily, Minako kicked some of the dirt that was on the side walk. "Damn it! Why do these things always happen to me?!"

She was completely angry with faith. Now she would have to wait another hour for the six o'clock bus stop. Taking a seat on one of the benches, the blond tried to catch her breath while laying her head on the backrest and closing her eyes.

Man, I ran like there was a cheetah after me and I still didn't make it. Why, why, why!

In the middle of Minako's complaint to herself, she heard a very familiar icy voice break into her train of thoughts.

"Want a lift?"


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Closing Notes:

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