Chapter Four
The Meeting Interrupted...
Relief swept through the class as the bell indicating that the period was over rang shrilly through the intercom. No more Ms. Bitchcrap. A flicker of resent passed through her eyes but was hidden immediately. She had a reputation to protect and would do so to her dying breath; something a certain pilot would love to help her take.
Relena was not ignorant of the negative attitude that the students directed towards her. Quite the contrary in reality. The fact was that she just did not give a damn about their opinion. After all, who was the Princess of Sanq and former Queen of the world? Certainly not them. They were nothing compared to her.
Resigning the herself to the annoying detail that her verbal battle with the man stealing whore would have to be set back, Relena quickly dismissed the class and waited eagerly for Heero to depart so that she could give him a loving hug on his way out the door. She had missed her rugged soldier and wanted to make up for lost time, all six months, three weeks, five days, nine hours and thirty-five minutes of their separation. He was not really interested in that whore. He would return her affection when he feels that it's time. He had had so many opportunities to kill a her and had shown great restraint and independence by refusing. He had to love her, the sign was blatant!
Students retreated rowdily from the stifling atmosphere of the classroom. They pushed and squeezed their way through the door, spilling out into the hall. Amidst the crowd, one boy was moving swiftly and silently, his head bent to low to avoid eye contact lest a psychotic someone spotted him. Lucky for him, his comrades were copying his moves in hopes that the banshee did not see them to inquire after his location. Seconds later all of them were out in the hall with the exception of the target himself. They took up spots at the wall opposite the classroom and waited for him to come out, the general assumption being that he had been caught despite the absence of the wail.
The reality of the situation was very different from their version. Heero had been sitting behind Serenity and naturally would, by the coincidences of fate and logic, find himself trailing some distance behind her. From his previous experience, he made sure that his eyes were averted from her neck. He even went as far as to evade looking at her as much as possible. Keeping his head ducked, his busily protesting inner self kept him distracted and he never noticed that the crowd had pushed him forward to the point that he was directly behind Serenity.
Fate, being the mischievous little cherub that he is, saw it fit for the Heero to trip over someone's foot and bump into Serenity before he caught himself. Serenity turned to him in admirably swift reflexes, hand forming a fist and heading for his head like a missile. To her surprise, Heero caught her fist in his hand inches away from his precious face. At that moment prussian locked on silver flecked midnight and the noise and movement of the crowd faded away into the distance.
Serenity stared into prussian blue depths and felt herself fall deeper under their spell. She recognised him as the guy who Relena had been rudely gawking at during the brief but welcome interruption of her boring monologue. He had been watching them closely during the introductions at the beginning of class, suspiciously almost, and she had felt a quickening of her pulse when his gaze had grazed over her. Now that quickening had doubled and she was unable to break eye contact.
Heero felt his world shrink until only a pair of dark blue eyes with silver flecks existed. The sensation of falling deeper and deeper into the twin pools of hidden emotion swept through him like a hurricane, leaving him breathless and wanting. Drawing a ragged breath, he was brought back to reality by the jostling of the surrounding students all rushing to leave. It was hard to believe that only seconds had passed; to him it felt like hours.
Finding themselves in a now awkward position, the two hastily broke the eye contact and hurried out, avoiding physical contact like the plague. Each was ranting in their head about abnormal behaviour and psychiatric help while praying that no one noticed. Heero knew that Duo would make a big deal out of it while Quatre would be easily convinced that he needed to be set up with her. For a semi-pacifist he had a lot of determination and hard-headedness packed into that pretty blonde head of his. Speaking of blonde heads, Serenity was worried about Haruka's reaction. The violently overprotective senshi no kaze would most likely fillet the guy after cutting off a precious body part. (can you guess which?)
The others were not much of a problem. Sure they were over protective, but unlike Haruka, they asked questions first before attacking. Well, Hotaru and Michiru did. Setsuna had the excuse of knowing before it happened...most times. Serenity flinched as she was sent crashing back to reality once more. The first time it had been a more pleasurable though confusing but this time, thinking about her senshi had not given her the high that staring into a pair of captivating, cold prussian blue eyes had. Her jolt back to earth had her cursing under her breath as she mentally screamed about the lack of privacy and decency.
Finally the two made it out of the classroom and with no nauseating encounter with the Bitchcrap...{^_^;}Peacecraft chick. There they found their friends, well comrades in Heero's case, waiting impatiently for them. Once they were spotted, a barrage of questions came flying their way despite the fact that both groups ignored the other. That is, until a braided flirt opened his mouth.
"Hey Heero! What took you so long? Did Relena corner you and give you that smooch you've been dreading?" Duo said with a huge grin while slapping him on the back. This earned him the usual treatment that was now becoming useless.
"Do not hit me again if you value your life." Heero growled while giving him his death glare. He was careful not to make it too strong before Duo went kaboom but the idea was fast becoming appealing as Duo ignored him and shoved his sneaker clad feet deeper down his throat.
"Great Shinigami! You uttered a full sentence!" Duo gaped before moving forward to give him another slap on the back.
Quatre noticed that Heero's jaw was tightly clenched and moved to intervene before regrettable actions were taken. Placing himself in front of Duo, he turned Duo's attention to the one thing that would have him distracted for days if not weeks.
"Why don't we leave this talk for later. the young ladies and the gentleman over there may need help finding their way around the school." Quatre said softly and indicated the small group standing a few feet away from them on the opposite wall.
"What chicks?" asked a confused Duo before he spotted them. "Hey it's the new hotties. We've got to go over there. Maybe we can get one to be Wu-man's girlfriend so he can release all that pent up tension he carries around."
"MAXWELL!" shouted a very displeased Wufei with a red face, whether from embarrassment or rage, no one knew.
"I know, I know. your name is Wufei not Wu-man." Duo began in a dismissive tone. "But Wu-man sounds so much better."
"Maxwell, if you do not want me to cut off that braid of yours and strangle you with it then you will shut up right now." Wufei growled slowly, his hand reaching threateningly towards his katana.
Letting out an 'eep', Duo flew to the other group's side and tried to join their ranks in an effort to put some distance between him and the enrage chinese boy.
"Hello ladies, I'm Duo Maxwell, your voluntary guide for the day. I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie." he introduced himself while fidgeting nervously under their solemn stares.
"That takes care of the baka for now," muttered Heero while containing the rise of negative emotion towards his fellow pilot just because he was in Her presence. He had absolutely no business feeling this that way.
"Yui, we had better make tracks if we don't want that bitchy onna catching us here." Wufei warned.
"Wufei's right. Relena should be exiting the class soon." Trowa added, indicating trickling of students streaming out of the classroom.
"That's why being their guide is perfect. Relena will have to back off." Quatre said persuasively.
"I'm not taking a bunch of weak onnas around the school!" Wufei declared furiously, his pride wounded.
Heero just stood there mentally turning the merits of the plan against his misgivings and shooting furtive glances at the object of his libido's desire. Damn she was hot.
At that thought, Heero's inner self appeared in his mind's eye looking like an enraged Wufei, katana and all, and started whacking him on the head. Mentally glaring at the image, he grumbled,
'The word sadist comes to mind,'
'You should talk. I am you.' the Wufei look-alike retorted smugly.
'Then start looking like me you annoying little konoyaru.' He muttered.
'Tsk, tsk. Talking to one's self like that warrants psychiatric help you know.' he laughed mockingly and gave Heero one last whack before disappearing back into the dark cavern he came from.
Meanwhile the girls were trying to figure out why the handsome guy had rushed over to them with a fearful gaze on his face. Not that they minded. His boyishly handsome face and cobalt blue eyes which were flecked with violet held a certain appeal. The openly friendly grin on his face had them relaxing and Haruka glaring openly. He was a guy and guys were not allowed to harm his koi, hime or musume.
'Maybe he's gay.' Haruka thought hopefully as he eyed Duo's long rich brown braid. 'Then again, with my luck...'
Duo was enjoying the attention the girls were giving him as their gazes surveyed him from head to toe. Babes were always good for the ego. And these were top class, grade A honies. They were the type men dreamed about but knew that they would never have. If they were lucky then maybe they would get some action or some permanent loving but otherwise it was dream on asshole.
Haruka was not appreciating the attention that the others were giving the braided insult. Already riled up, he was about to blow when Wufei's ignominious comment reached his ears. Deciding that taking out his anger on the sexist ass was better than beating up the probably defenseless braided annoyance, he turned to face the offender. Naturally, the others heard his comment and all got annoyed. They followed Haruka as he stormed over to the guys opposite them with duo trailing apprehensively behind them.
Unfortunately Relena chose that moment to exit the classroom and a piercing shriek of her banshee call was heard over the din made by the students. This halted all activity as the student body present turned as one to see the Princess of Sanq grab onto the most respected and feared guy in the entire school.
That's all for now but don't worry about a thing. The tiny but surprising fact that more people liked An Unlikely Bond than I thought has prompted me to choose it as my Valentine fic. A word of forewarning, it's gonna have a sad ending so beware. I'm going to work mainly on this fic and the last two chapters of the Millennium Interlude of Body Swapped (after my before mentioned break). The chapters for other fics will be done when I have at least two extra hours free to type. Studying and homework should keep me busy enough to have to work late at night. Updates on those other fics will be further between than before but they will occur, just slowly.
A notice, I hope that you guys know that Haruka is a girl. I mentioned in an earlier chapter that I would refer to her as a he until it is revealed but if you guys want her to stay as a he, then let me know. Another thing, I forgot to add their ages. Baka me. Serenity, since she is taking on her Cosmos form is as old as the universe, older than even Setsuna, well she will be when her transition to Cosmos is complete. Until then she's 19. The lovers are both 23, Setsuna is as old as time and Hotaru is 18. The pilots with the exception of Heero are all 22. Heero's age will remain unknown for the sake of the plot. it will be revealed later on. Relena is 21. As the other characters are added their ages will be given.
Just wondering, do you guys want me to bring in the Inners sooner or later? And they're not evil. the dissension between them and Serenity is a friend thing that happens to the best of us. When they pop up it'll all be explained.
Well, that's all for now. Expect the next chapter for AUB soon. Before the week is out. After it, the countdown to the destruction begins.
Ja ne.