Itko looked up and into the most stunning pair-err one eye he had ever seen. "Trey, Maxwell, take the two seats next to Itko, he can help show you what we're doing today."High Enough
So Trowa aka Trey, and Duo aka Maxwell, took seats next to Itko and started phase one of 'The Plan'. "Is this class always so boring?" Duo asked as the teacher droned on and on. Itko grinned, "Yeah but at least she never sops long enough to catch you if you fall asleep." Trowa and Duo both laughed. Duo looked at Trowa in slight surprise. Not noticing the look, Trowa leaned over and whispered something in Itko's ear. Soon they both shared maniacal grins. "Hey, what's up?" Duo, needless to say, did not want to be left out.
Ignoring him, which was not a good idea, the two proceeded with their plan. Objective: Hit the teacher with a spitball. Once Duo realized what they were up to, "Eeew man, that's gross." Trowa leaned back, "So are teachers." Then he winked. (Can you imagine this? *giggles*) Duo almost fell out of his chair in shock, but luckily his braid was snagged under Itko's arm.
However, their aim was off and the bell rang before either of them scored. Itko laughed, "That was the most fun I've had in that class, hey what do you guys have next?" "Sorry,"
Trowa said, "We have gym." He knew this was safe because Itko had taken the class last semester.
Itko looked rather downcast, "But a friend of ours is," Duo interrupted. "His name is Harry."
At this both Duo and Trowa trailed off into laughter, Itko looking at them as if they were
crazy. "Alright, I'll see you guys at lunch then."
Duo and Trowa looked around, and seeing noone, faded out. They then entered the records room. Duo bounced over to Heero. "Well, Harry, buddy, old pal, you're up next." "Harry?"
Heero growled. "Yep," Duo said, oblivious to the death staring him in the face. "It's your new name, be glad I didn't call you George." Heero merely stared at him in disbelief. Seeing Heero's incapacitation, Wufei handed the other two a copy of Itko's schedule and afterschool hangouts. "We'll all have to show up for lunch, but otherwise here's how we'll
split it. Trowa you and Duo will be with him first block, I'll be third block, Heero will be second, which is now, you better get moving. Any idea for fourth?" "I'll be with him fourth block." Trowa volunteered. "Geez Trowa I'd almost think you liked the guy." Duo teased. Trowa snorted.
Heero, meanwhile, showed up in Itko's second block class which happened to be shop class. His eyes gleaming slightly at the sight of flamethrowers and the like, he turned his
attention to tracking down his prey. "Hey, are you Harry?" Only to find his prey had found him. "I'm Itko, Maxwell and Trey told me about you."
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Harry, err Heero, and Itko were paired up for the classes' latest project. (Imagine that..) "Watch what you're hitting!" "Oww!" Needless to say, it was a very long class.
Just after the bell rang and before everyone crowded into the lunchroom, Heero joined the others. Duo's eyes widened, "Heero you look awful!" Then he got an absolutely devious look in his eyes, "I could kiss it and make it all better." Wufei clasped a hand to his nose where it had started spurting. "Maxwell, you hentai!"
Trowa calmly handed Wufei a handkerchief, way to used to these things to even bother commenting. "Hey guys!" Itko shouted and ran up to them.
"Hey Itko!" Duo shouted. Trowa smiled slightly and nodded at the boy. Heero glared, and Wufei sighed. "Oi, who's your other friend Trey? I know Maxwell and Harry." Trowa grinned maliciously, "Oh this is Willy, as in Willy Wonka. His mother adored the candy." Trowa leaned closer to Itko, "He's a little odd if you catch my meaning." Itko nodded in sympathy. Wufei narrowed his eyes, "What was that?" "Nothing Willy…" Wufei snorted, "Just like a woman."
'C'mon Willy," Duo said laughing, "Let's go eat I'm starving." "You're always starving, where does it all go your braid?" And Heero pulled the hair in question. "Itai!" Duo whined, "Harry, that hurts!" Itko laughed. "C'mon, let's see what the mystery meat is today." As it turned out not even Duo was able to place what exactly was in the gravy.
"So Willy," Here we must stop to give Trowa and Duo time to compose themselves. "You're in biology class with me right?" Wufei nodded. "Great! I want to introduce you to a friend of
mine, her name's Sakura."
Wufei resigned himself to torment.
Sakura Blossom looked over the young Oriental and sighed. He was very attractive, if you discounted his chauvinistic attitude. The two had soon been the center of the class's
attention as an argument broke out. Neither would back down even after the principal dragged them out of the room, they had been arguing in the hallway. Now they were finally calming down. "So you're one of the new kids right? Let me ask you a question, how do you all know each other? I mean it's unusual to get this many new kids in a single day, much less that know each other."
Wufei gulped, what to say? "We're all from the same foster home, our foster parents decided to move so we had to come to." There that sounded plausible. "Oh, whose your foster parents?" Wufei started to sweat.
Meanwhile, Duo was doing his best to charm Cherise. "So like where are you from?"
"Oh, we're all visiting, it's part of an international case study."
Heero was fuming in the background. "You know," Trowa said, "We really should have settled on a cover story."
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Sakura was now talking a mile a minute to Wufei, who was looking very disgruntled. Since it was Wufei's first day, the principal let them off with a warning. Wufei had that deer in the headlights look, desperately looking for an escape route. Does she never shut up?!
Seeing Trowa passing by, physical, and on his way to fourth block, Wufei made good his escape. "Umm, I have to go get umm my homework assignments from Trey. I'll see you
tomorrow!" And with that he ran for dear life, leaving Sakura blinking in the dust he left behind. "I wonder why he was in such a hurry…" Oh well, she shrugged and headed to her fourth block.
Once Sakura had turned Wufei faded out with a sigh of relief, he had been starting to fade. "Oh Willy, there you are. Duo's been looking for you, something about rotten fruit?" Wufei started laughing and went in search of Duo. Trowa shook his head in amusement at their antics and headed off to find Itko.
Itko was already waiting for him, some mysterious sixth sense letting him know the boy would not be long in showing up. "Trey!" he called out, and motioned to an empty seat beside him. Trowa slipped in just as the bell rang. "Hello class and welcome to your political studies course…."
So far none of the four had seen anything of the third girl on their list, Kerry. So Heero, aka Harry, was nominated to go look for her, since he had spent the least time physical. And so with Duo's admonition, "You better not flirt with her!" ringing in his ears, he was off to the greenhouse.
Inside was a girl with medium length red hair1, wearing a pair of overalls and gardening gloves. She was unearthing some seedlings to be transplanted. "Hello?" Heero called out.
She looked up startled. "Hi. Who are you?" Well so much for small talk. "I'm," here he stops to wince, "Harry. Would you happen to be Kerry?" The girl takes off her gloves and they
shake hands. "Yes I am, how did you know?" "Well, I was told you ran the local garderner's club and I was interested in getting membership." Her eyes widened with disbelief as she looked him up and down. "I have to say you don't look like the gardening type." Heero blushed. "Actually I find it relaxing, mind if I help?" She grinned, "No not at all, anyone who'd skip class to come out here and dig in the dirt is worthy of membership in my book and I'd love the help." Needless to say Kerry was quite impressed with Heero's gardening skills.
By the time Duo had become jealous enough, and had run out of things to torment Wufei with, Herro and Kerry walked out of the greenhouse laughing. Duo saw red. That was his Heero laughing with some some hussy!
Before Duo had the time to act on his jealousy, Kerry told Heero she had an appointment to meet and ran off. Heero glanced around and faded out. Duo fluttered over. "And what exactly took you so long?" he demanded angrily. "We were transplanting some saplings, they're going to be planted as part of the school's arbor day celebration." Heero answered. Duo blinked, "Heero, I didn't know you knew the first thing about gardening." In response, Heero twitched his lips in what was almost a smile.
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It was after school and instead of meeting back up with the guy, Trowa and Itko were at a fast-food place digging in. "I thought I was gonna crack when the prof. said that tomorrow's lesson would be boring. I mean what did he think today's was? The dissertation on the radioactivity of molars would be more interesting." Trowa nodded his agreement. "We really need a way to liven things up tomorrow." Much to his amazement, Trowa found he rather
enjoyed getting to be a teen again, he'd never felt free to pull these type of pranks undercover or make friends. Of course he couldn't afford friends now either, but he ignored
this fact.
Wufei walked into the restaurant, unable to stand being a third wheel any longer. He turned physical and decided the best way to clear a case of the blues was fast-food. (uh-oh ice cream's the next step and you need to watch your figure) The afterlife wasn't that bad but even with the other pilots it was offtimes lonely. Duo had Heero and Trowa, well he had his dream of Quatre and the hope that he would find him. Wufei had still felt unworthy of Nataku, silly he knew, but he could not change the fact any more than he could face Meiran. Glancing over he noticed Trowa and Itko sitting together. That's odd. Looks like Trowa's
taking this mission a bit personally I'll have to keep an eye on him. Personal Involvements were one of the angel no-nos , especially if it was the person you were here for.
There was an interesting merit-demerit system in operation for angels you see. For every good deed you gained a feather, thereby earning your wings. For every broken rule, you lost
a feather. Fortunately though you could not be fined for a feather you didn't have so if you messed up the first time badly, you could redeem yourself. As of now, Duo had 10 feathers, Wufei 9, Heero 8, and Trowa had 8. Despite the variances in numbers if they managed to pull this off, they would pass trainee stage and be official guardian angels. However if they decided they wanted to be a death angel for instance, they would revert to trainee stage. Each type of angel had a different color of feathers. Guardian Angels had white. Comfort angels had silver. Death angels had black. This kept people from being confused. Most angels tended to stick to others of their own kind, although occasionally they intermixed.
Wufei sighed, he hoped Trowa wouldn't lose any feathers over this, or get his heart broken again. But then again maybe he was jumping to conclusions and they were just friends.
Just then Itko spotted him, "Hey Willy!" he shouted, causing all the patrons to turn and stare. Wufei turned a bright red. Trowa started laughing and motioned him over. "I figured
we should give the two lovebirds time alone." Trowa said when Wufei joined them. Wufei nodded in agreement. Itko's eyes widened. "Lovebirds who?" Then he looked aghast, "You
don't mean Harry and Maxwell do you?" Trow and Wufei simply looked at him. Now it was Itko's turn to blush. "Sorry, it's just that, well, Harry doesn't seem the type you know?
Maxwell might have been but I thought he was a bit too interested in the girls first block." Wufei smiled, "He just does that because he loves to flirt… and make Harry jealous.
Although Harry got him back today." "Oh," Trowa asked. "I didn't know about this. What happened?" Grinning maliciously, Wufei related the tale of the hothouse escapade.
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