Gee, what do you know.I still don't own any of these characters, or their
respective shows either. College students can't afford to buy the rights to
things like that I wouldn't think.but I guess I could be wrong.
Well, with the site acting up and all, work, and my being sick it's taken a while to get this next chapter out. The plot has finally been introduced! The rest will follow in chapter 7. In spite of my apparent lack of a mind, I'm glad to see that people seem to still enjoy the story. Thanks to all who have reviewed!
Anyhow, I will now apologize to anybody who might happen to be Relena and/or Lita lovers. Both will be acting very much out of character. Just a warning so that I don't get flamed for the scene where Lita blows cigarette smoke in Relena's face, and other such incidents. (And in case you're horrified at reading that, I will say now that Lita is NOT a smoker.explanation of such props can be found in the story. If you're wondering where the idea came from in the first place, it comes from the original character profile of Sailor Jupiter-she was supposed to be 17, a gang member, and a chain smoker.fortunately Naoko didn't keep her character that way!)
Enjoy!
It was Tuesday that things really started. After school that day, Lita marched herself into Relena's office-like area. "So.trying to flunk me out are you?" "What are you talking about?" "These," Lita said, waving a handful of papers in Relena's face. "Everyone of these has been returned with a grade of F. I want them regarded."
"I can't help you," Relena shrugged. "Talk to the professors if you think you've been treated unfairly." "But I did.and they told me to come see you. I know these answers are right.my tutor checked them." "Tutor.? What tutor?" "That doesn't really matter now does it? Now I want these regarded and I want the credit I deserve for doing this work."
"You were given failing grades. Obviously you must have deserved them if they were given to you." "You want to play dirty? Then watch your back.I can play a pretty dirty game myself." Glaring, Lita stuffed her papers into her backpack and stormed out. "I take it your.talk.didn't go well," Duo ventured as she reached the bottom step of the stairway leading to the front doors of the academy. "What was your first clue?" she growled, cracking her knuckles. "Um.that's a hard one." "That stupid, stuck-up.brat.seems to have instructed all the professors to give me failing grades, no matter what my work is like. I think she hopes that by flunking me she can retain me in this grade or have me moved to a lower grade with easier work." "Remember, you promised.no glowing," Heero said. "Yeah, yeah.I know. But you don't know how hard it was to hold back. I just wanna fry the hair right off her head!" "Please remind me not to get her mad at me.I don't want my hair fried off." "No, I won't fry your hair Duo, I promise. I'm trying to cut down on violence anyway." Quatre sighed, relieved. "Good.for a minute there you had me worried you were going to do something." "Just because I'm not going to beat the living snot out of her doesn't mean I'm not going to do something. I refuse to be intimidated by the likes of her." "So what are you going to do?" Duo asked. "I'm going shopping!" she announced. "That's why I hate women," Wufei said. "They always have to go shopping." Lita rolled her eyes. "This is not a pleasure trip. And for your information, this is the longest period of time in the last two years that has passed without me going to a mall, so there." "What does shopping have to do with getting back at Relena anyway?" he asked. "Well, the way I see it.if I'm going to get even with her, I might as well have some fun doing it." "She does have a point," Duo said in agreement. "I'm glad you feel that way.because you've just volunteered to take me to the mall." "I.I did what?" "You heard me." Resigned to his fate, Duo did indeed take her shopping. Fortunately for him, she didn't wander all over the mall looking at everything, and within a couple hours they had returned home. Everyone.well, almost everyone. was curious to know what she had brought back with her, but she simply grinned and said "It's a secret." They found out all too soon. Wednesday morning came, and Wufei was drumming his fingers on the doorframe. "If we don't leave now, we are going to be late. Where is that stupid onna?" "Ok, you can stop talking about me now Wufei," Lita said, appearing in the entryway with her backpack. She was wearing a short, black leather trench coat over a dark green shirt. Also included was a black leather mini-skirt (but it wasn't too short.she is kind of tall after all) and a pair of knee high black boots, all topped of with just a touch of make up. "Sorry I'm late, but it took me a little longer then normal to get ready." Quatre almost had a heart attack. "You aren't seriously going to school like that are you?" "Of course I am. Relena won't be able to stand it," she said grinning. "It'll drive her absolutely nuts." "Along with most of the guys in our class," Duo mumbled to himself. "Because they are weak and have no control," Wufei snorted. "If you don't want to be late, we should leave now," Trowa said, looking at his watch. And so they made their way to school. Relena was mortified when she saw them show up. Marching over in a huff, she grabbed Lita's wrist and dragged her aside. "I do believe you are severely violating the dress code by wearing this.abomination." Lita laughed. "What are you going to do about it, expel me? You know the consequences if you do.so you can't lay a hand on me." Smiling smugly, Lita turned and went into the school without giving the flabbergasted and irritated Relena a chance to respond. During the Pacifist Politics class that Relena taught, she decided to try getting a cut in at Lita. "Miss Kino," she said with forced politeness, "I'm afraid we don't allow jackets in class." "You're wearing one," Lita said. "It's part of the uniform, which you aren't wearing." "No, but it is part of my outfit." "I don't care. I asked you to take it off." Lita shrugged. "Suit yourself." She took the jacket off, revealing the shirt underneath. The dark green shirt was rather tight fitting and had the word princess printed in silver glitter across the front. Relena turned bright red. "PRINCESS? I'm the ONLY princess around here." "That's what you think," Lita said. The pacifist princess scowled. "I will not be mocked like this."
"I'm not mocking you. It's true.that's your opinion. And before you threaten to expel me for having an opinion.you better keep what was said in mind." Relena scowled, and scowled some more. She was furious. Her plans for getting even hadn't done anything. She would have to wait. Relena finally got her chance at lunch. She went hunting for Lita, only to see her sitting on a bench near the pilots. Grumbling, she went over and tapped Lita's shoulder. Upon getting her attention, Relena said, "I've been receiving complaints all morning that your state of dress is causing a great disturbance among the class. So I've decided upon appropriate disciplinary actions for you." "Disciplinary actions hmm?" Lita fished around in her backpack and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. "And that's contraband! You know smoking isn't allowed on the premises. That will result in extra measures." "Please." Lita pulled a cigarette out and lit it, sticking it in her mouth while she put the lighter and the rest of the cigarettes away. "I'm warning you.you will be doing some heavy duty time cleaning bathrooms here if you don't start following the rules. They do apply to everyone you know." Lita laughed, taking a slow drag off the cigarette. "They don't apply to me. You can't expel me and you know that. I have the upper hand here Miss Priss and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. As for you and your disciplinary actions, I don't clean up after the likes of you and I don't take punishment from the likes of you either. So you can take that discipline and shove it." So saying, she blew a cloud of smoke right in Relena's face. "Now leave me the hell alone." Relena was quite agitated. She knew quite well that she couldn't expel Lita and it annoyed her to know that somebody had such a power over her; but she was determined to do something about it. "Just you wait Kino.I'll get you eventually. I swear I will." Hacking and brushing the haze of smoke away, she stormed off, having temporarily been beaten again. After Relena stormed off in her fit of rage, Lita tossed the cigarette to the dirt and ground it out with her boot. It was only then that she noticed the 5 pairs of eyes staring at her. "What?" "That cigarette." Duo said. "Oh that?" Lita shrugged it off. "I'm not a smoker if that's what you're thinking." "Then why the cigarettes?" She sighed and leaned back against the bench. "Right before I started at Crossroads Jr. High, I beat up a kid from my old school for calling me stupid. It would be my luck that a 'gang' of high schoolers were around to see it and decided to initiate me. I didn't have many friends, so acceptance of any sort was ok by me at that point. I decided I had to fit in, which meant smoking. But I hated everything about it.smelled bad and well, you know.. It only lasted a couple days though. I found out they were planning on robbing some store and I didn't want any part of that so I ditched. Well, the leader came after me demanding to know why I hadn't shown and calling me a chicken.so I beat him to a pulp and they never bothered me again. That about cover it?" "Yeah, I guess." Duo answered. "But I still don't get quite why you did it." "Well, she's always blowing so much smoke, I though somebody oughta blow a little back at her." He laughed. "I do agree with you there."
~~~Later that Afternoon~~~
Lita stormed into the kitchen, dropping her backpack on the table. "I was only looking to irritate Relena.I wasn't looking for anything else!" "What do you expect, dressing like that." Wufei said blandly. "Oh shut up Wu-man," Duo said. "It just means that she must be popular if so many guys were hitting on her." "If that was their idea of hitting on me, then I don't want it." She threw her jacket onto the table. "I don't see what the big deal is," Heero said. "Its just clothes. It isn't like there aren't other girls who dress like that." Everyone looked at him a little oddly. "What?" he asked. "You.you're not going to say anything?" Duo asked. Heero shrugged. "It's not our place to tell her what to wear." "That is true," Trowa said. "Well, thanks.I think," Lita said, scratching her head. "But I think I'm giving up on this one." So saying she disappeared into her room, where she spent a good part of the night, except for when she was cooking or getting help on her homework. Later that night, Heero went down to the kitchen. He had missed dinner that night, being the busy guy that he was. As he leaned against the counter eating his sandwich, he heard a voice coming from Lita's room. In a covert attempt to eavesdrop, he tripped and fell on the floor with a thump. Immediately, the kitchen light came on and Lita was standing in the doorway of her room. "Heero?" He stood up and brushed himself off. "Yes, it's me." "What are you doing down here at this time of night?" He picked up the remnants of his sandwich off the floor. "Eating." "So I see," she answered, watching as he threw it away in the trash. "And what are you doing up at this time of night?" he asked. She flushed guiltily. "I know, I know it's late.but I had to talk to Setsuna.." "Time differences." Lita nodded. "I don't think she'd be happy to be woken up in the middle of the night for this. But anyway, I've made arrangements for this Saturday, around noon. And Setsuna will be here tomorrow night around this time to pick up your part." Heero nodded. "Understood. It will be ready." Without so much as a goodnight, he turned and went back upstairs to his room. The following day saw a continuation of the previous day's battle As soon as Lita walked into the classroom, she was immediately surrounded by a group of students. "Is it true," one girl asked, "that you're the boss of a secret lesbian mafia organization?" Lita blinked. "Excuse me?" "That's what Relena told us," the said. "Figures. And no, it isn't true. But I'll tell you something that is. Relena has a serious scalp problem and she can't grow her own hair, so she wears a wig." "No way!" another student cried out. "I always thought her hair looked a little fake.." Just then, Relena walked into the room and herd of students crowded around her and started yanking on her hair, trying to see if it was fake or not. "OUCH! What are you doing??" "Lita told us you wear a wig," a young man said. Relena glared. "Well, I don't. She lied to you." "Just like you lied to them about me," Lita smiled sweetly. "Paybacks are hell aren't the Relena?" "Only if you're the one on the receiving end," she replied. Everything was quiet until the physical activities portion of the day. This Tuesday was horse back riding and swimming day. Nothing out of the ordinary happened until Lita climbed up onto her horse. Upon sitting down in the saddle, she was promptly thrown off. Cursing silently, she brushed the dust from her jack and stood up. "Are you ok?" Duo asked, hopping down from his horse as the group of pilots rode over. "Yeah, I think so." Still mumbling, Lita went and looked the horse over as best as she could in it's frenzied state. "That's odd," she said frowning. "I can't find anything wrong with it." Heero got of his horse and began his own search. After a few minutes, he held up a small brown object. "This was under the saddle blanket," he said. "A burr.stupid. She could have hurt the horse doing that!" Lita fumed, climbing back on after making sure the horse was calmer. She was still fuming half an hour later.and her bad mood was only made worse when she saw Relena perched on the fence of the corral they were riding around in. Deciding to take her down a peg or two, as Lita rode by, she reached out and pushed Relena off the fence into the dirt. Feeling quite satisfied with herself, she continued on. However, Relena wasn't about to let this go. Later on, Lita was headed to the locker room to change for the swimming class. Relena was headed in the opposite direction and just happened to be walking right by Lita. So Relena elbowed Lita, knocking her into the pool fully clothed. Lita clamored out of the pool, her hair plastered to her head, her clothes soaking wet, and a dark scowl etched on her face. Seeing Relena's back as she walked out of the pool area, Lita picked up a conveniently placed water polo ball and tossed at Relena's head, scoring a direct hit. Even that though, did little to improve her mood and she spent the rest of the day with the proverbial black rain cloud over her head. That night, around the time Setsuna was supposed to arrive, there was a knock at her door. "I don't have time for this!" she said just loud enough for the person on the other side to hear her. Guess she's still in a bad mood, Heero thought to himself. The door suddenly jerked open. "Oh.it's you." "Yes, it's me." He shoved an envelope into her hand. "Here. This is my part." "Thanks." She went and put it on her desk. "About the only thing that's gone right today." "Oh, I don't know," Heero shrugged. "Relena should have good size bump on her head from that hit she took." "I hope so.but with my luck her head's so hard it probably dented the ball instead." "Well, that's certainly a possibility." Just then, Heero could see a purplish fog gathering in the room he was looking into. He pushed past Lita and pulled out his gun, pointing it directly at the green haired, sailor suited woman in front of him. "Heero! You can't kill Setsuna!" Lita hissed loudly. He paused for a moment, and then he recognized the woman from the picture on Lita's desk. "Sailor Pluto." he said, shoving his gun back where he pulled it from. "I'm glad you remembered." Shaking her head, she handed the envelope on her desk to her fellow scout. "I'm sorry about that Setsuna." The Keeper of Time merely nodded, tucking the letter away. "If I were you Heero, I'd be careful about who I pulled that gun on. It could get you in trouble sometime." Heero stared at her. "How do you know my name?" "You forget who I am. I am master of past, present, and future.especially when it concerns any of us. You and your comrades have had and will have a large impact on her life, so of course I know who you all are." So saying, she waved her staff in the air forming the foggy portal once again. Before she entered it, she turned around. "Everything proceeds according to plan.expect us Saturday at noon.you know where to look for us. But I don't expect you know where to look for what is missing," she said, disappearing into the portal. Lita frowned. "I wonder what she meant by that.I haven't lost anything." "Neither have I." Shrugging, the two parted and went their separate ways for the night. As the days had passed already, the coming days went the same way. Relena and Lita were constantly waging their war. Lita would put tacks on Relena's chair. Relena would in turn throw gum into Lita's hair while passing by, causing Lita to leave nasty messages on the walls of the girl's restroom; and so it continued all week long. Finally, Saturday morning arrived. Heero and Duo had "some errands" to run in town, and Lita asked if she might tag along. She told them she wanted to stop at the station to get some information because she was thinking about going and visiting her friends in Juuban. Finding her request reasonable, they agreed and stopped at the station. Heero and Duo waited outside on the platform while Lita made her inquires inside the building. She came out just in time to see an aqua haired young lady carrying a violin case disembark from the train. The young lady walked down the platform, stopping occasionally to talk to various people. It wasn't long before her questions reached Duo's ears. "Excuse me miss," he said, tapping her shoulder. "I couldn't help overhearing. You're looking for Duo Maxwell?" She nodded. "That's right. Would you happen to know where I might find him?" He grinned. "Speaking. What can I do for you?" The young lady smiled politely. "I am Michiru Kaioh and I'm your mail order bride."
Well, with the site acting up and all, work, and my being sick it's taken a while to get this next chapter out. The plot has finally been introduced! The rest will follow in chapter 7. In spite of my apparent lack of a mind, I'm glad to see that people seem to still enjoy the story. Thanks to all who have reviewed!
Anyhow, I will now apologize to anybody who might happen to be Relena and/or Lita lovers. Both will be acting very much out of character. Just a warning so that I don't get flamed for the scene where Lita blows cigarette smoke in Relena's face, and other such incidents. (And in case you're horrified at reading that, I will say now that Lita is NOT a smoker.explanation of such props can be found in the story. If you're wondering where the idea came from in the first place, it comes from the original character profile of Sailor Jupiter-she was supposed to be 17, a gang member, and a chain smoker.fortunately Naoko didn't keep her character that way!)
Enjoy!
It was Tuesday that things really started. After school that day, Lita marched herself into Relena's office-like area. "So.trying to flunk me out are you?" "What are you talking about?" "These," Lita said, waving a handful of papers in Relena's face. "Everyone of these has been returned with a grade of F. I want them regarded."
"I can't help you," Relena shrugged. "Talk to the professors if you think you've been treated unfairly." "But I did.and they told me to come see you. I know these answers are right.my tutor checked them." "Tutor.? What tutor?" "That doesn't really matter now does it? Now I want these regarded and I want the credit I deserve for doing this work."
"You were given failing grades. Obviously you must have deserved them if they were given to you." "You want to play dirty? Then watch your back.I can play a pretty dirty game myself." Glaring, Lita stuffed her papers into her backpack and stormed out. "I take it your.talk.didn't go well," Duo ventured as she reached the bottom step of the stairway leading to the front doors of the academy. "What was your first clue?" she growled, cracking her knuckles. "Um.that's a hard one." "That stupid, stuck-up.brat.seems to have instructed all the professors to give me failing grades, no matter what my work is like. I think she hopes that by flunking me she can retain me in this grade or have me moved to a lower grade with easier work." "Remember, you promised.no glowing," Heero said. "Yeah, yeah.I know. But you don't know how hard it was to hold back. I just wanna fry the hair right off her head!" "Please remind me not to get her mad at me.I don't want my hair fried off." "No, I won't fry your hair Duo, I promise. I'm trying to cut down on violence anyway." Quatre sighed, relieved. "Good.for a minute there you had me worried you were going to do something." "Just because I'm not going to beat the living snot out of her doesn't mean I'm not going to do something. I refuse to be intimidated by the likes of her." "So what are you going to do?" Duo asked. "I'm going shopping!" she announced. "That's why I hate women," Wufei said. "They always have to go shopping." Lita rolled her eyes. "This is not a pleasure trip. And for your information, this is the longest period of time in the last two years that has passed without me going to a mall, so there." "What does shopping have to do with getting back at Relena anyway?" he asked. "Well, the way I see it.if I'm going to get even with her, I might as well have some fun doing it." "She does have a point," Duo said in agreement. "I'm glad you feel that way.because you've just volunteered to take me to the mall." "I.I did what?" "You heard me." Resigned to his fate, Duo did indeed take her shopping. Fortunately for him, she didn't wander all over the mall looking at everything, and within a couple hours they had returned home. Everyone.well, almost everyone. was curious to know what she had brought back with her, but she simply grinned and said "It's a secret." They found out all too soon. Wednesday morning came, and Wufei was drumming his fingers on the doorframe. "If we don't leave now, we are going to be late. Where is that stupid onna?" "Ok, you can stop talking about me now Wufei," Lita said, appearing in the entryway with her backpack. She was wearing a short, black leather trench coat over a dark green shirt. Also included was a black leather mini-skirt (but it wasn't too short.she is kind of tall after all) and a pair of knee high black boots, all topped of with just a touch of make up. "Sorry I'm late, but it took me a little longer then normal to get ready." Quatre almost had a heart attack. "You aren't seriously going to school like that are you?" "Of course I am. Relena won't be able to stand it," she said grinning. "It'll drive her absolutely nuts." "Along with most of the guys in our class," Duo mumbled to himself. "Because they are weak and have no control," Wufei snorted. "If you don't want to be late, we should leave now," Trowa said, looking at his watch. And so they made their way to school. Relena was mortified when she saw them show up. Marching over in a huff, she grabbed Lita's wrist and dragged her aside. "I do believe you are severely violating the dress code by wearing this.abomination." Lita laughed. "What are you going to do about it, expel me? You know the consequences if you do.so you can't lay a hand on me." Smiling smugly, Lita turned and went into the school without giving the flabbergasted and irritated Relena a chance to respond. During the Pacifist Politics class that Relena taught, she decided to try getting a cut in at Lita. "Miss Kino," she said with forced politeness, "I'm afraid we don't allow jackets in class." "You're wearing one," Lita said. "It's part of the uniform, which you aren't wearing." "No, but it is part of my outfit." "I don't care. I asked you to take it off." Lita shrugged. "Suit yourself." She took the jacket off, revealing the shirt underneath. The dark green shirt was rather tight fitting and had the word princess printed in silver glitter across the front. Relena turned bright red. "PRINCESS? I'm the ONLY princess around here." "That's what you think," Lita said. The pacifist princess scowled. "I will not be mocked like this."
"I'm not mocking you. It's true.that's your opinion. And before you threaten to expel me for having an opinion.you better keep what was said in mind." Relena scowled, and scowled some more. She was furious. Her plans for getting even hadn't done anything. She would have to wait. Relena finally got her chance at lunch. She went hunting for Lita, only to see her sitting on a bench near the pilots. Grumbling, she went over and tapped Lita's shoulder. Upon getting her attention, Relena said, "I've been receiving complaints all morning that your state of dress is causing a great disturbance among the class. So I've decided upon appropriate disciplinary actions for you." "Disciplinary actions hmm?" Lita fished around in her backpack and pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. "And that's contraband! You know smoking isn't allowed on the premises. That will result in extra measures." "Please." Lita pulled a cigarette out and lit it, sticking it in her mouth while she put the lighter and the rest of the cigarettes away. "I'm warning you.you will be doing some heavy duty time cleaning bathrooms here if you don't start following the rules. They do apply to everyone you know." Lita laughed, taking a slow drag off the cigarette. "They don't apply to me. You can't expel me and you know that. I have the upper hand here Miss Priss and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. As for you and your disciplinary actions, I don't clean up after the likes of you and I don't take punishment from the likes of you either. So you can take that discipline and shove it." So saying, she blew a cloud of smoke right in Relena's face. "Now leave me the hell alone." Relena was quite agitated. She knew quite well that she couldn't expel Lita and it annoyed her to know that somebody had such a power over her; but she was determined to do something about it. "Just you wait Kino.I'll get you eventually. I swear I will." Hacking and brushing the haze of smoke away, she stormed off, having temporarily been beaten again. After Relena stormed off in her fit of rage, Lita tossed the cigarette to the dirt and ground it out with her boot. It was only then that she noticed the 5 pairs of eyes staring at her. "What?" "That cigarette." Duo said. "Oh that?" Lita shrugged it off. "I'm not a smoker if that's what you're thinking." "Then why the cigarettes?" She sighed and leaned back against the bench. "Right before I started at Crossroads Jr. High, I beat up a kid from my old school for calling me stupid. It would be my luck that a 'gang' of high schoolers were around to see it and decided to initiate me. I didn't have many friends, so acceptance of any sort was ok by me at that point. I decided I had to fit in, which meant smoking. But I hated everything about it.smelled bad and well, you know.. It only lasted a couple days though. I found out they were planning on robbing some store and I didn't want any part of that so I ditched. Well, the leader came after me demanding to know why I hadn't shown and calling me a chicken.so I beat him to a pulp and they never bothered me again. That about cover it?" "Yeah, I guess." Duo answered. "But I still don't get quite why you did it." "Well, she's always blowing so much smoke, I though somebody oughta blow a little back at her." He laughed. "I do agree with you there."
~~~Later that Afternoon~~~
Lita stormed into the kitchen, dropping her backpack on the table. "I was only looking to irritate Relena.I wasn't looking for anything else!" "What do you expect, dressing like that." Wufei said blandly. "Oh shut up Wu-man," Duo said. "It just means that she must be popular if so many guys were hitting on her." "If that was their idea of hitting on me, then I don't want it." She threw her jacket onto the table. "I don't see what the big deal is," Heero said. "Its just clothes. It isn't like there aren't other girls who dress like that." Everyone looked at him a little oddly. "What?" he asked. "You.you're not going to say anything?" Duo asked. Heero shrugged. "It's not our place to tell her what to wear." "That is true," Trowa said. "Well, thanks.I think," Lita said, scratching her head. "But I think I'm giving up on this one." So saying she disappeared into her room, where she spent a good part of the night, except for when she was cooking or getting help on her homework. Later that night, Heero went down to the kitchen. He had missed dinner that night, being the busy guy that he was. As he leaned against the counter eating his sandwich, he heard a voice coming from Lita's room. In a covert attempt to eavesdrop, he tripped and fell on the floor with a thump. Immediately, the kitchen light came on and Lita was standing in the doorway of her room. "Heero?" He stood up and brushed himself off. "Yes, it's me." "What are you doing down here at this time of night?" He picked up the remnants of his sandwich off the floor. "Eating." "So I see," she answered, watching as he threw it away in the trash. "And what are you doing up at this time of night?" he asked. She flushed guiltily. "I know, I know it's late.but I had to talk to Setsuna.." "Time differences." Lita nodded. "I don't think she'd be happy to be woken up in the middle of the night for this. But anyway, I've made arrangements for this Saturday, around noon. And Setsuna will be here tomorrow night around this time to pick up your part." Heero nodded. "Understood. It will be ready." Without so much as a goodnight, he turned and went back upstairs to his room. The following day saw a continuation of the previous day's battle As soon as Lita walked into the classroom, she was immediately surrounded by a group of students. "Is it true," one girl asked, "that you're the boss of a secret lesbian mafia organization?" Lita blinked. "Excuse me?" "That's what Relena told us," the said. "Figures. And no, it isn't true. But I'll tell you something that is. Relena has a serious scalp problem and she can't grow her own hair, so she wears a wig." "No way!" another student cried out. "I always thought her hair looked a little fake.." Just then, Relena walked into the room and herd of students crowded around her and started yanking on her hair, trying to see if it was fake or not. "OUCH! What are you doing??" "Lita told us you wear a wig," a young man said. Relena glared. "Well, I don't. She lied to you." "Just like you lied to them about me," Lita smiled sweetly. "Paybacks are hell aren't the Relena?" "Only if you're the one on the receiving end," she replied. Everything was quiet until the physical activities portion of the day. This Tuesday was horse back riding and swimming day. Nothing out of the ordinary happened until Lita climbed up onto her horse. Upon sitting down in the saddle, she was promptly thrown off. Cursing silently, she brushed the dust from her jack and stood up. "Are you ok?" Duo asked, hopping down from his horse as the group of pilots rode over. "Yeah, I think so." Still mumbling, Lita went and looked the horse over as best as she could in it's frenzied state. "That's odd," she said frowning. "I can't find anything wrong with it." Heero got of his horse and began his own search. After a few minutes, he held up a small brown object. "This was under the saddle blanket," he said. "A burr.stupid. She could have hurt the horse doing that!" Lita fumed, climbing back on after making sure the horse was calmer. She was still fuming half an hour later.and her bad mood was only made worse when she saw Relena perched on the fence of the corral they were riding around in. Deciding to take her down a peg or two, as Lita rode by, she reached out and pushed Relena off the fence into the dirt. Feeling quite satisfied with herself, she continued on. However, Relena wasn't about to let this go. Later on, Lita was headed to the locker room to change for the swimming class. Relena was headed in the opposite direction and just happened to be walking right by Lita. So Relena elbowed Lita, knocking her into the pool fully clothed. Lita clamored out of the pool, her hair plastered to her head, her clothes soaking wet, and a dark scowl etched on her face. Seeing Relena's back as she walked out of the pool area, Lita picked up a conveniently placed water polo ball and tossed at Relena's head, scoring a direct hit. Even that though, did little to improve her mood and she spent the rest of the day with the proverbial black rain cloud over her head. That night, around the time Setsuna was supposed to arrive, there was a knock at her door. "I don't have time for this!" she said just loud enough for the person on the other side to hear her. Guess she's still in a bad mood, Heero thought to himself. The door suddenly jerked open. "Oh.it's you." "Yes, it's me." He shoved an envelope into her hand. "Here. This is my part." "Thanks." She went and put it on her desk. "About the only thing that's gone right today." "Oh, I don't know," Heero shrugged. "Relena should have good size bump on her head from that hit she took." "I hope so.but with my luck her head's so hard it probably dented the ball instead." "Well, that's certainly a possibility." Just then, Heero could see a purplish fog gathering in the room he was looking into. He pushed past Lita and pulled out his gun, pointing it directly at the green haired, sailor suited woman in front of him. "Heero! You can't kill Setsuna!" Lita hissed loudly. He paused for a moment, and then he recognized the woman from the picture on Lita's desk. "Sailor Pluto." he said, shoving his gun back where he pulled it from. "I'm glad you remembered." Shaking her head, she handed the envelope on her desk to her fellow scout. "I'm sorry about that Setsuna." The Keeper of Time merely nodded, tucking the letter away. "If I were you Heero, I'd be careful about who I pulled that gun on. It could get you in trouble sometime." Heero stared at her. "How do you know my name?" "You forget who I am. I am master of past, present, and future.especially when it concerns any of us. You and your comrades have had and will have a large impact on her life, so of course I know who you all are." So saying, she waved her staff in the air forming the foggy portal once again. Before she entered it, she turned around. "Everything proceeds according to plan.expect us Saturday at noon.you know where to look for us. But I don't expect you know where to look for what is missing," she said, disappearing into the portal. Lita frowned. "I wonder what she meant by that.I haven't lost anything." "Neither have I." Shrugging, the two parted and went their separate ways for the night. As the days had passed already, the coming days went the same way. Relena and Lita were constantly waging their war. Lita would put tacks on Relena's chair. Relena would in turn throw gum into Lita's hair while passing by, causing Lita to leave nasty messages on the walls of the girl's restroom; and so it continued all week long. Finally, Saturday morning arrived. Heero and Duo had "some errands" to run in town, and Lita asked if she might tag along. She told them she wanted to stop at the station to get some information because she was thinking about going and visiting her friends in Juuban. Finding her request reasonable, they agreed and stopped at the station. Heero and Duo waited outside on the platform while Lita made her inquires inside the building. She came out just in time to see an aqua haired young lady carrying a violin case disembark from the train. The young lady walked down the platform, stopping occasionally to talk to various people. It wasn't long before her questions reached Duo's ears. "Excuse me miss," he said, tapping her shoulder. "I couldn't help overhearing. You're looking for Duo Maxwell?" She nodded. "That's right. Would you happen to know where I might find him?" He grinned. "Speaking. What can I do for you?" The young lady smiled politely. "I am Michiru Kaioh and I'm your mail order bride."