Perfection

Chibi Tsuki

A/N: Sorry about the bad spelling people! I didn't have time to revise it and I didn't have a clue about what to write. Hope you like it!

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Chapter 5

Taking Another Step in Love

Fingers hit the keys swiftly and accurately and letters automatically appeared on the monitor screen. Crumbs spilled onto the keyboard, falling in between each individual key. From the laptop speakers, music could be heard softly, the gentle rhyme being hummed in tune. The door creaked open but the student working on the computer ignored the sound and continued typing at full speed, never stopping unless it was to take a sip of water or bite into the biscuit held firmly in the mouth. "Hey cous, I'm dropping in for a visit. I hope you don't mind," the voice of the speaker was rather quiet and sounded unenthusiastic. Waving a hand, Lucretzia Noin tried to shoo the visitor away as she determinedly tried to finish an assignment due the next day. When the boy didn't move, the raven-haired girl turned around and looked at him strangely.

"You're not supposed to be here Duo, you know better. Go back to your dorm. What if someone sees you here?" she scolded him before turning back to her work but the boy made no move or hint that he was going to leave. Something told Lu that Duo wasn't himself right now. She gave in and turned to the fourteen year old and sighed. "What's wrong Duo?" There was a slightly sad look in his face.

"I'll be leaving tomorrow for the holidays, I won't be back for quite a while. Do you think you could pass a letter to a girl in my year for me?" He blushed crimson when he mentioned the girl.

"Oh, is that what this is about? And I thought that you were sad to leave me behind in this place," she sighed, lifting her eyebrows. "So who's this girl of yours?" She chuckled softly and focused her attention on her cousin for a little while.

"Hilde Schbeiker," he muttered.

"Who is it? I can't hear you Duo."

This time he spoke louder, knowing that his cousin was teasing him. "Hilde Schbeiker and if I find out that you haven't given her the note, I'll tell everyone that you're the-"

"Ok! Ok!" Lucretzia smiled. She shook her head slowly. "I'll pass her the letter for you, just remember to bring some goodies back when I see you again after the next term starts. Lucky little rascal, gets an entire month of holidays." She reached forward and took the note off the boy's hands, tucking it gently under her pencil case. "Leave it to me." When she turned around again, Duo had already left the room without a good bye to his dear cousin.

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Heading down the dormitory, Lucretzia found the Year 8 dormitories and knocked on the first door she passed. Surely the juniors wouldn't be asleep by now, it was still quite early. The door opened to reveal a blonde haired girl with long hair that reached slightly below her hips, "Hello Miss, can I help you?" she spoke sharply, her forked eyebrows reminding Lucretzia of someone she had often seen at the dining hall with a certain popular gentleman.

"Can you please direct me to Hilde Schbeiker's dormitory?" she asked, trying to stay as polite as possible.

"Hilde's room is four rooms to the left, you won't miss it because one of the golden plated numbers is missing. By the way, her room number is E14 but it's missing the number 4," the girl explained, smiling cheerily at her in a slightly sly manner.

"Thank you," she responded, leaving the girl immediately. That girl's eyebrows sure are freaky. She searched for the room with the missing number plate. When she found it, she noticed several scratches near the door handle and a chipped door frame. Yikes, I wonder what happened to it… She shook her head and knocked at the door gently. The door opened and a honey blonde haired girl looked up at Lucretzia, big blue eyes staring into hers.

"How can I help you?"

Lucretzia looked at the girl, subtly raising an eyebrow. Was this the girl that Duo liked? Sure she was quite pretty and she seemed to be chivalrous but this girl and Duo? They seemed a rather odd couple. "Does Hilde Schbeiker sleep in this dorm?"

"Yes, you've come to the right place. Please wait a moment while I fetch her," the girl smiled, leaving Lucretzia to ponder what this girl Hilde looked like. Soon, a dark haired figure appeared at the door looking at her visitor politely.

"I'm Hilde, how can I help you?" Lucretzia noted the girl's sweet, polite voice and stored it into her mental list of Duo's lover's qualities.

"I was asked to give this to you," the older girl replied, holding up an envelope that Lucretzia had decided to put in so that it seemed more formal. She handed it to the girl.

"Thank you," the girl took the envelope and smiled, actually Lucretzia noticed that she was actually blushing.

"I'll be leaving now, bye," Lucretzia trudged off, a smirk on her face. Hilde didn't seem that bad, instead she knew why Duo liked this girl.

Suddenly she darted back towards her room, realising that she only had half an hour until her roommate would force her to turn off the light; she had half an hour left to finish her assignment.

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The competition was due to start soon and Lucretzia concluded with the decision to stay as a spectator. It was an interesting day and all lessons from break afterwards were cancelled for the competition. They had already finished the question part of the competition and two teams were tying first place so far; Zechs Merquise's team and Treize Kushrenada's team. Now it was half-way through the tennis tournament and all the girls were admiring both male players, jealousy pounding in their hearts as the two girls in the teams played. Lucretzia recognised both of the girls; they were the two she had met while finding Hilde. The one on Treize's team was the blonde with the forked eyebrows and the other girl with Zechs was Hilde's roommate. When she glanced at both teams, she noticed the resemblance in the team members. Perhaps they're related. Louie came searching for Lucretzia, after loosing to the other teams in a relay race. Track work wasn't really his thing and he had admitted it several times.

When she focussed her attention back on the tennis competition, they had declared a draw and both teams were to advance into the next round since the winner couldn't be decided. The competition was to end with a final round of acting. Both teams were to act out a dramatic scene of prosing and the one that seemed most realistic would win the entire competition. After several minutes of discussion, the first team started; Treize and the blonde. The blonde was seated in a chair, pretending to stare out of the window. This was going to be funny.

"Miss Lucretzia Noin."

Lucretzia was enjoying herself too much to hear the speaker. The speaker repeated her name again, this time slightly louder, over the music and conversing audience. She turned her head towards the speaker this time and said, "Yes?" Looking at the speaker, Lucretzia grinned brightly. "Eva, it's been a long while. Why are you here?" Her plump maid curtseyed.

"I'm glad you still remember me Miss Lucretzia, I see that you're enjoying yourself quite a bit here." Her melodic voice was as sweet as always, her rosy cheeks blushing slightly pink like always.

"Yes, although I still haven't really adapted to this place. I have a lot to tell you though," she uttered as her maid led her away from the audience.

"Well there's no time here to tell me about it. We're leaving today, and you'll be back in two days time which will be Thursday. We've already spoken to the principal and so we'll be leaving at once since I've gathered most of your belongings that you'll need during the short period away," she explained, grabbing the student by her hand whilst she sped up.

"But Eva, can I finish watching this performance? I really want to know what's going to happen." Being dragged by her maid around the school wasn't such a good sight but luckily all the students were enjoying themselves at the competition and so no one saw.

"No Lucretzia, this is important. Our flight is in half an hour and we must hurry otherwise we'll miss it. Now be a good girl and no more talking until we get there." Clueless, the young girl followed her maid, still in the state of confusion.

"You mean Aleena's getting married to her new prince charming! That's wonderful!" she squealed with delight, certainly happy with the ending results. The engine of the private jet couldn't compare with Lucretzia's voice. "I'm so happy for her." Her heart thumped excitedly, wondering what this lucky gentleman looked like and how he was dressed and such. She had also been thinking of what her sister was going to wear; something fancy or something simple? Rubbing her hands in a delighted way, she giggled whilst her maid shook her head with a sigh. This was going to be such a noisy ride for the poor middle-aged maid.

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Where did Lu go? Louie had last seen Lucretzia being dragged away by some lady from out of nowhere and it was already near the end of dinner and still she couldn't be found. He had asked many people for the whereabouts of Lucretzia and she didn't even say where she'd gone to. This disturbed him the most but Louie was thinking positively, knowing that a girl like Lucretzia would be safe; she was strong in her own ways and had a quick-thinking mind. Perhaps she would ring him tonight and report of her whereabouts. He wasn't getting too worried, not yet anyway.

On the other hand, a certain young gentleman who had been expecting to see Lucretzia after his victory in the performance was waiting rather nervously for the girl to step into the dining hall. The dining hall would be closing soon but she still hadn't appeared. Usually she would sit down with either Louie or the braided youth who hung around her during dinner since both were still new to the school. Although he had noticed her missing since the end of the competition, he still waited patiently for his 'fair maiden' to appear. Surely she hadn't left the school in such short notice. But who was he to her? He was only another gentleman in the school, like the many others except that the girls hung around him much more than around others.

"Let's go and study a bit in the library Zechs, the common maths test will be held quite soon and I've heard from the teachers that it'll be quite difficult if we don't study," Treize suggested, glancing at the lover boy beside him. "Perhaps your lover will be studying in the library too." He hinted, thinking of a way to get Zechs out of the dining hall before it bore him to death. Zechs grunted and nodded, dumping the remainder of his rubbish into the bin as he stood up from the chair. I wonder what she likes; flowers, poetry or perhaps chocolates and romantic stories. Treize led the way, several others following after him while the pondering platinum blonde gentleman trailed slowly behind, girls admiring him. Usually he would take notice but this time he was too absorbed in his thoughts to notice anything at all; especially when his friends had disappeared in the corridor, leaving him behind.

"Hurry up Mr Merquise, you don't want your crowd waiting on you," Otto, one of their companions teased, waking Zechs from his deep thinking. "At last, we've revived the ice block."

The trailing teenager eyed Otto in an irritated fashion but kept his cool as he hurried up to them. "Actually, I'm positive Otto's going for the ladies."

Moving the cursor towards the 'inbox' link, Louie scanned his eyes around the monitor screen. He was in a private chat room typing messages in the message box before he pressed the 'enter' key. "There's so much junk mail," he mumbled to himself and scrolled down the screen, leaving the chat box blinking for a while. Each time he scrolled down, he selected the small box next to each new email he thought was junk, clicking over and over. "When will I ever get this emptied?" He glanced at the senders and scanned downwards until he found the one he had been searching for and clicked on it, forgetting about the undeleted junk mail. Quickly he switched to the chat box again while he waited for the browser to load and typed in a few words before totally closing the chat box by clicking on the cross on the corner of it. The browser finally loaded and Louie read the message, word for word. "Huh? Lu left the school today?" He read on, his emotions changing as he read. "Lucky girl, she gets to miss a few days of school." He licked his dry lips and started to reply the message, mumbling softly to himself as he typed it.

Zechs Merquise stepped into the library stealthily, hiding behind the plants while his little admiring crowd searched for his existence. If he hid long enough, the librarian would shoo them out and he would be able to resume his normal work. But this time he was going to search for something different; he was going to find a love poem since he knew the Shakespearean sonnets all to well and they were quite boring after a while. The librarian still hadn't noticed the crowd yet and so Zechs walked behind the computers, passing several users as he did so. They ignored him because they knew all too well what was happening and it happened almost every night, his attempts to stay hidden usually fooled them since they never realised him simple plan. He glanced at the monitor screen as he passed the computers. Everyone was typing up assignments during their free time or checking their emails, nothing new. When he looked up at the user at the end of the row, he realised it was Louie; just the one he was looking for. Quietly, he approached his classmate and whispered to him, although it was rather rude to whisper but in a situation like this he had no other choice.

"How can I help you Mr Merquise?" Louie asked softly, noting that Zechs was trying to stay hidden. He had just finished replying the email and it was sending through to his friend's email account.

"I was wondering whether you've seen Miss Lucretzia Noin tonight," Zechs asked, standing in a crouching position.

"I'm sorry Mr Merquise but I haven't the slightest clue where she is. As far as I know, she may have gone home," Louie stated. Actually he knew where Lucretzia was but he wasn't going to say anything to all popular Zechs Merquise. Louie didn't really like Zechs all that much, especially since he had fallen for his recently adopted god-sister. He was going to protect her from Zechs' secret admirers by making sure they didn't know who Zechs liked and keeping Zechs away from Lu was certainly the way to go. Besides if Zechs found out that Lu was the basketball player, a lot of trouble was definitely assured.

A/N: I just blabbered on a bit and rushed the competition because I had no clue how I was going to write it. Isn't Duo sweet?! Now Zechs will have difficultly approaching Noin and Louie's being overly protective. Just giving our dear friend Zechs a slightly harder situation since in most stories Noin usually has the hard role of gaining Zechs' love. Hope this wasn't too boring and I'm awfully sorry about updating it so late! *sits in the naughty corner and sulks*

By the way, I don't own GW or any of the characters!