My December
Chapter #2~ Me and my Grass!! ¬.¬_~
By: Megami*Silence
Disclaimer: Me no own any ov da anime!!! :µ
AN: Okie, well, I got a lot of positive reviews for this story, so far... and so I WILL continue!! Thankies go out to all that _did_ review.. I appreciate it.. ^-^;; All right, I'll stop gushing, but beware I might start to glomp... RUN , RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aoko: I'm so happy & honored you picked my story to be like the 1st comedy that you actually liked.
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December, 2nd
Rei woke up with a headache. She figured it was from all the excitement last night. Which reminded her, Wufei stayed the night. Well, thank god he wasn't going to stay for very long. She grumpily got out of bed, and changed quickly. The quicker she gets rid of Wufei, the happier she'll be. She scrambled out the door, and headed towards Wufei's room. Then she realized... what room was he staying in?
Well, the fact that Haruka had forty three rooms in the house, didn't exactly help the situation at all. Rei sighed in frustration. Why did her life have to be so hectic? Then she looked down the long corridor, and sighed again. She knew right there, that she was never going to get a break!
She turned to the next room, beside hers. Casually, she strode up to it and knocked on the door. She heard a faint knock, every time she knocked on the door. So someone must've been in there. "Hello? Wufei, are you in there?" she called out. No one answered, so she knocked a little harder, and repeated her previous question. Still no one answered. She growled, and opened the door. 'Oh! For cripes sake!' she cursed. There was no one in the room, which didn't explain why she heard the faint knocking. Rei narrowed her eyes, and looked at the interior of the door. There was a framed poster hanging on it, and bounced every time the door moved. Rei showed her distress by yelling for a second... and then she continued on.
32..... 33..... 34...... 35..... There was Wufei... no where to be seen!! She couldn't believe this, and with all her yells of distress, approximately 35 he didn't show his face. How did she, of all people, get stuck with _him_ like this? She walked towards the next door, and knocked on it, with her head. She thought to herself, 'This is what using your head feels like.' She slowly opened the door, and looked inside. She quietly and calmly closed the door behind her. She drew in a deep breath and then exhaled... and then yelled as loud as possible. Now she was extremely pissed off! She had steam blowing out of her ears, and her face turned as red as Mars. She stomped to each door that was left, knocking them all down with her amazing kick. She continued this rampage, until she got to the last door.
Rei's eyes widened . This was the last room in the house. The only one left, there were no more rooms after this one, in some way Rei was relieved, but otherwise she was completely and utterly furious at Wufei for being in the last room of the whole fucking house!
'Enough stalling!' she screamed at herself, she huffed and puffed and blew that door down. She took one step inside, looking around she saw a coat laying across the bed with messy sheets, and a pair of shoes were on the ground beside the bed. Rei couldn't believe this, how did he know every right way to make her go insane.
"What are you doing onna?" the very familiar voice demanded to know. Rei abruptly stopped her plotting of Wufei's death, and she spun around to see the very same person that's head was in the oven at 500 degrees Celsius just a few seconds ago (or so she wished). You know, she had been trained to stay calm and collected, and just mentally let go of the situation. But hey? Who said that was ever fun? Rei bit her lip, and grabbed onto her hair, ready to scream her head off any minute. Wufei just stood there watching in amusement at the sight of her epiphany. He watched just to the point, that she started to bore him, he casually walked right past her into the room he had recently stayed in, and shut the door. Rei turned around, and stared at the door. He just ignored her didn't he? Rage filled her already furious eyes, and her face began to boil. She gripped her own neck, and started to make fake strangling noises, daydreaming that it was Wufei.
After finishing up with giving Wufei the finger, Rei sighed and knocked herself in the face, 'How could I have not known that Wufei was going to end up on the complete opposite side of the house than I was? The Gods! They wanted to do this to me!!!!! It's not fair, haven't I been punished enough?' As Rei was thinking to herself, she accidently walked into a doorway, of one of the many rooms that she destroyed because Wu-baka wasn't there! She stood there dazed for a few minutes and then looked at the spot where her head collided with, there she saw a drop of blood, slowly making it's way down the post to the carpet. Reality finally caught up with her, and it made her mad. Even I, the author am shivering at the look she had shining in her big, huge, wide, gigantic, eyes!!!!
She raced hastily towards the training room. Keeping the anger at full tilt, she blasted through the doors and made her way to the machines. The first machine was chin up bar. She grabbed hold of it and counted as she pulled herself up and down. Rei had this weird force that occurred every time she was mad. It was kind of like being accident prone, only this was different because it was her strength mixed with rage that caused accidents to happen.
She continued to use her strength in calming herself down on the bar, counting every time her face would come in contact with the bar. Her body moved in a swift motion, up and down, up and down. Her muscles rippled in every movement, and perspiration accumulated after a while. She was doing fine so far, until the same thing she wanted to forget crept back into her mind. Wufei laughing at her, mocking her, challenging her with his onyx eyes. It irked her to the pressure point. Without noticing it, Rei used so much power in pulling herself up, the bar couldn't handle it and snapped of its supports. It came down fast and hard and Rei collapsed on the ground, a yelp following soon after. Rei sat there for a moment. Now there was no stopping her, pure death awakened in her.
She stood up and looked around. She spotted another machine that could prove a challenge for herself. Rei maneuvered around many interesting objects and plotted herself down on a seat. It was a solo flex. She gripped the handles and pulled all her weight into it, using her torso to push forward, while keeping her lower body on the seat. Rei focused all her energy into this laborious activity, while keeping a steady head during this rough time she was experiencing. Rei moved forward and backward, forward and backward continuously. It was relaxing her for the moment, when tension came back to her, and the same face haunted her again. She stopped exercising for a second. Staring at the face that wouldn't disappear. Rei screamed at it to go away, and then she kept up with her training, pulling the weights more, and faster. It was a little too fast than she could handle and the cable snapped, throwing Rei forward. She crashed into the rack of dumbbells.
She pulled herself up slowly, and ran to the treadmill hoping to forget this whole thing, and maybe she could be at ease for at least a minute. She started out walking but gradually it became a jog, and finally a easy run. She was running for about 10 minutes. It was wearing her out and that was a good thing. Maybe she could take a relaxing bath and then sleep for a couple of hours. Rei was disturbed of her teasing dream when the treadmill went berserk. First the treadmill switched to extremely slow pace, meant for old people with practically broken bones, and then it switched to the fastest pace possible which Olympic athletes use. Rei smacked the control panel a couple of times, getting angry again. Instead of reacting better, it got worse. The panel short circuited and exploded, sending Rei flying backwards tripping from the treadmill, falling onto her butt. She was pulled backwards because the treadmill was still moving, and she bounced off the ground a couple of times. It did hurt a bit, but she took this a bit calmer than the last two incidents.
She walked over to the bleachers that were in the far back corner of the large, spacious room. She climbed to the very top and sat there, crossing her legs upside down. She started to breath in large heaves 'inhale, exhale.' her mind told her over and over again. This started to make her feel better. Well, better than before anyway. When she was sure she would be feeling good from now on, she retreated from this spot, and went back to the main floor. She walked towards the punching bag, and bowed at it. That's when the real training set in, and it was very relaxed, and meticulous moves she mastered.
Just then, Wufei had made his way to the training room, about to continue his morning workout. Once he walked in he was totally surprised seeing Rei move so delicately with skills he had never seen a girl practice. He knew that she was probably mad at him, and he liked that, but he didn't want to get all pissed off right now, so he lurked in the shadows and watched her instead. He could tell she had been practicing martial arts for a long time, because not many people could have this many skills while training themselves. Wufei moved closer to one of the exercise machines that Rei had been using before. Wufei stopped watching Rei for a second to observe the interesting looking melted object that he recalled was a treadmill.
"You're making me nervous, Chang, I might have to kill myself!" Rei remarked, sensing his presence. She mocked him for being a baka because he thought he could hide from her.
As if reading her mind, he used the very same word against her, "You're such a baka onna!" Secretly he smirked at her instant reaction.
"TAKE THAT BACK!!" She screeched. She hated it when he called her anything negative. He was so insensitive. Some people do have feelings, he should know that.
"Iie, I think you deserve it." He retorted, hiding the mirth that started to dance in his eyes.
"Then I'll fight you for it!!"
"Oh yeah? What do I get if I win?"
"Um... Uh... well.... I'll cook you breakfast? Yah, and if I win, you LEAVE!"
"FINE!"
"FINE!"
Thus the duel begun. In respect for the opponent, they both bowed although they didn't really want to. They took their stances. Both stances were almost identical. They were so alike, yet so different, and they didn't even notice this themselves.
Rei started off, and ran towards him throwing a punch his way, but his left hand blocked it, and in return he kneed her. At the last minute she blocked his knee, and then she used her left leg to sweep him off his feet. He did fall, but immediately kicked himself to a standing position again.
He leaped for her grabbing a hold of her arms, but she kicked him in the groin, sending him backwards a bit. He exhaled in frustration turning red in the face.
'This is an onna, and she's a quick thinker... go full tilt.' He thought to himself. He jumped after her, and ducked low as she tried to hit him, but was swept off her feet from Wufei's sweep kick.
Rei's alerts went off as she detected Wufei's kick to the face, she quickly did the splits, and caught his foot in the air, throwing him off balance. He stumbled back, and she tumbled forward onto her feet.
Rei sent a flying roundhouse at his stomach but his quick reflexes made him fall low, and then back up kicking her in the stomach instead. She grabbed her abdomen and looked at Wufei with rage, she threw herself at him, and they both dropped to the ground, now wrestling more than sparring. They rolled over, so Wufei was on top now.
Rei punched him in the face. Wufei's lip started to bleed, and droplets fell onto Rei's face. Rei pushed him away from her and jump kicked him in the chest after springing from the ground. Wufei drew back, and went back after her.
Wufei threw a couple of punches her way, though she blocked all of them, she repeated the same thing and Wufei blocked all of her punches as well.
Wufei quickly grabbed Rei's hair, and twisted her around, holding her in a locked position. She couldn't move her arms or head, so instead she kicked up, her leg bending all the way behind her head, and making contact with Wufei's face. He grasped his face in pain. She spun around kicking him in the side. Wufei took hold of her leg, but she reacted by bending her leg and gripping his shirt, sending him over herself, backwards.
Wufei landed on his back. He snapped back up. "I will admit you are good, but now I'm going to have to stop being nice to you!" he threw her way.
She snorted, "You don't have anything better than that, so I'm not worried!" She threw back in his face.
He smirked, 'You have no idea....'
Wufei ran towards her, she knew he was going to going for her upper body so she did a cartwheel as he approached, hoping to strike him in the face but he caught her foot and threw her onto her back.
She got up slowly, and turned crouching low like a wildcat ready to pounce on it's prey. Her growl showed Wufei her anger and he knew that that was her weakness. She jumped after him throwing her body at him, her arms raised in front of her, but in midair she changed position, kicking him in the chest from his ducked position.
He retaliated by letting himself be knocked backwards only to grab her legs as she tried to land and he allowed her to land... on her face.
She, still being held at the ankles, got on her knees, and then all together she fell backwards at a great speed using her elbows as weapons, blasting his gut, forcing him upwards and letting go of her ankles she easily rolled off of him.
He was so close to really freaking out on her, he forgot all respectful martial art skills and dove at her knocking her forward.
He held her down, she kicked and screeched for a bit, but Wufei was just too strong. He flipped her over, and stared at her cynical face. She thought this was child's play. He grinded his teeth. "Don't think this a game, because I'm about to pulverize you."
"You're going to hurt little ole me? My, my Wufei I thought you didn't fight girls. I thought they're too weak to fight." Wufei saw a spark flash through her eyes. She was really enjoying this.
Wufei stood up. Rei was about to get up herself, but Wufei drop kicked her in the stomach and then rolled onto his knees pining her neck down. He followed up with a punch in the face. She groaned before letting her arms show her defeat.
"They are." Wufei shot at her. He stood up and walked out of the room. He didn't even offer to help her up. She slowly sat up. She looked at his retreating figure, feeling the blood make it's way down her face. "AAARRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!! I can't believe this!" She started to freak out again. This time knowing it was her own fault. She lost because she taunted him and he used that to his advantage.
Rei stood up and walked away, running the events through her head. She smirked thinking that they did have a good fight even if it was ruined by herself.
*****
A half hour later, Wufei could smell the food being cooked from the corridor where he was looking at all the paintings. He had eaten Rei's cooking before, when they had a great big party at her temple. She made a home made traditional Chinese meal. It was absolutely delicious considering his residence was in Japan at the moment. Wufei closed his eyes reminiscing of his old days in China. It was the dark years for the Dragon Clan, where he had trained and trained to be the pilot of Nataku, that's when it was rare to actually eat a meal. He would savor the taste of the shrimp sub gum and gu gai pan. Now he could smell the rich flavors of herbs and spices and... burnt toast!! "Damn!" he could hear from the kitchen. He figured she was probably too mad to want to deal with him right now, so he went to the kitchen to annoy her.
He quietly stepped into the kitchen, where he saw Rei's back bent over the sink furiously scraping the burntness off the surface of the toast. He walked over to the breakfast table and pulled himself a seat. There, he watched her as her face became more red when the food in skillet was starting to over cook. Wufei had smile playing at his lips, but he stopped himself from doing so, after all, he was professional!!
Rei slowly turned around, and she seemed more pleasant than just a second ago as she successfully scraped away the unwanted blackness on the toast and saved the food from tasting like a frying pan. AS she turned, Wufei watched and saw her eyes sparkle with some unusual feeling he had never noticed before. The morning sun had spilled into the room from the window above the sink and hit Rei gracefully, giving her a warm aura. At that moment Wufei forgot the disagreements between them and focused on the other side of Rei's personality, which could only be described with so many words such as trust, beauty, wisdom, faith, gracefulness, elegance, those simple words filled a world of hate and war with love and peace, it made Wufei feel strange, something he never felt before and he could feel his cheeks get warmer, but he couldn't help staring....
*CLANK*
Rei dropped his plate of food in front of him with a cute humph sound which meant she was irritated that he was staring at her. She totally startled him, though she couldn't tell because he was so cool about it, he snapped back into attention like waking up from a nightmare. His warm cheeks cooled down and he remembered how stubborn and arrogant she was. He was going to say something when the scent of the food wafted into his face and he took a long, drawn sniff of the beautiful food. Rei watched him as he did so and was pleased at his reaction. Without further hesitation, he picked up his chopsticks and started to eat her masterpiece. He had absolutely no expression on his face while he stuffed more and more food in his mouth.
Rei also picked up her chopsticks but she was totally concentrating on the slightest look upon Wufei's face that she could get, so she didn't bother looking at what she was doing while she put food in her mouth, first she missed and poked herself in the cheek, then she unceremoniously missed her mouth with the rice and some stuck to her face and then when she finally took a glance at her food and was about to safely place it in her awaiting mouth, Wufei spoke. Thus she unintentionally dropped the food in her mouth and swallowed without chewing, making herself choke, practically to death.
When her coughing died down, she asked in a hoarse voice, "What did you say?"
"I said your cooking needs works, in other words you should know what you're doing before you try to serve your guests, unless you're purposely trying to kill me!" he repeated.
"Oh, you have no idea!!!!" she took a sharp breath, "AND YOU ARE NOT MY GUEST!!!!!!!! YOU ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS, AND YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Her rage reached her peak and she picked up her plate and chucked it at Wufei.
Wufei could have wrung her neck at that moment but instead he looked down at the mess that was soaking through his white t-shirt. Of course she would have plum sauce on her rice, it only makes sense because it can make such a lovely color when strewn upon a nice clean, WHITE, shirt right? He couldn't believe this, now she had down it. He ripped his shirt off and threw it down. Rei was unfazed by his action and instead of yelling she simply picked her chopsticks up and threw them as well, they bounced off of Wufei's head. She growled and walked back to the counter to clean up.
He was pretty mad, and really didn't know what to do at the moment, so he picked his shirt up and left to find the washer and dryer. Wufei had a pretty image of Rei sitting on a platter in the middle of a feasting table with an apple in her mouth and her arms and legs tied together. This picture amused him and he continued to think of this image and the movie Hannibal.
Meanwhile Rei was in the kitchen and she had cleaned off Wufei's plate. She washed some dishes and wiped the counter while having an image of Wufei in the middle of a corn field being chased around by a huge tractor with herself driving it. She would definitely not stop until she got that sonuvabitch. This pleased her and she thought more about what she would wear at Wufei's funeral... maybe a red dress and three inch pumps. She laughed psychotically and scared everyone who is reading this.
Then she started to forget that morning and thought more about Usagi and the gang, and how she missed them already because she hadn't seen them in a long time, which led her to think about Grandfather, and she shivered when she realized how cold it must be for him in the temple. Her psychoticness disappeared and she grew sad.
She finished her cleaning in the kitchen and walked to the window, thinking she could get a glimpse of the day, and hopefully Wufei would be able to leave. She looked out the window but she couldn't see anything only white, and it was too bright to have a clear look at the road so she walked over to the door and opened it to take a look outside. She had thought she would have needed to shield her eyes, but she definitely didn't need to because the snow was piled to the top of the door.
Rei freaked out big time, 'No, no no no no no no no no, NO!!!! This can't be, that means Wufei can't get out!!!! No, if he can't I have a better idea, I'll throw him out the window, yah and then he sink into the snow like quicksand and everyone will be happy!!! Yes that's the plan!!! Oh-h-h-h God!!!!' She couldn't believe what torture had been fooling with her now. It was sunny, it could have melted something!!!!!
Rei's racing mind slowed when she was hit on the head with some snow. She looked up and whispered, "uh oh." The huge pile of snow avalanched on top of her, and she was buried under at least eight feet of snow. She covered her head when she was hit to save herself from suffocating but she couldn't move her body and it was terribly cold. She screamed loudly more from the fright the barricading snow had given her than her anger.
Wufei had heard her scream from the basement and he could tell it wasn't from her rage over his comments. He forgot what he was doing and ran as fast as he could to see what was wrong. He hopped up the stairs and flew down the hall until he reached the main entrance, where he stopped and observed. He saw a wide open door, a huge pile of snow, his car outside buried to the top with snow and Rei's head poking out of the intruding snow that was now all over the beautiful rug on the ground.
Wufei couldn't help it, Rei's face was twisted in madness and she was pouting like a five year old. How she managed to get herself stuck like that he didn't know, but he it struck him extremely funny, and he couldn't contain his laughter any longer.
Rei's eyes widened as she realized that he was laughing, though he was laughing at her it was amazing that he did so at all because she had never seen anything remotely close to a laugh come from him. Then a really cold shiver ran down her spine, "Hey baka! Stop wasting time, I'm going to freeze to death, get your ass over here and help!!!!!"
He complied to her demand, although he would have rather stood there and humiliate her. He started to dig some snow away from her until she could pull her arms out and then he lifted her up out of the snow. She took a step but her legs were so numb from the snow she tripped over herself, but thankfully was caught by Wufei, who picked her up in a threshold and set her down at the bottom of the stairs where she hugged herself from the cold.
As quick as he could, he disposed of the snow laying on the floor to unblock the door to close it. There was still more snow on the floor, but he ignored it. He turned around, as Rei looked up and she noticed him standing there, pretty much naked with the exception of his boxers. Now it was her turn to laugh and she did so willingly. This laugh was more hysterical than her psychotic laugh.
Wufei stares at her with concern from her strange behavior when he looked down at himself and realized that he was only wearing his boxers. He didn't blush in embarrassment, but he did get mad at her for laughing at him and he yelled at her.
"Shut up onna, you should be thanking me for helping me instead of laughing!"
She calmed her laughing into giggles so she could speak, "I know- hehahehahe- but I-hahahaha- can't -hehehehehahahaha- help it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"IT's your fault in the first place, if you didn't so stupidly open the door and stand there while snow was piling on top of you, then I wouldn't be here for you to laugh at.... baka onna!" he yelled un mercifully and stomped away.
At that comment, Rei stopped laughing immediately and glared at him and watched as he left the room so she could pick her wet self up and run to warmth.
*****
Usagi's snoring wasn't nearly as loud as Duo's when she woke up. She knew she was pretty bad but he was even worse. She and Duo fell asleep in Duo's bed, there were a lot of people that had to spend the night and it wasn't the largest apartment. Makoto and Minako also slept in Duo's room, but had left during the night. They obviously couldn't handle the snoring.
Usagi had dressed into some of Duo's clothes, and made her way to the kitchen for breakfast, hoping Makoto was already up. She opened the door, and Makoto was up, but everyone else were still asleep. The futon had been pulled out and Michiru and Haruka had slept on that while Hotaru slept on the lazy boy because she was small enough to. Minako ended up sleeping on the floor but she had about a billion blankets and sheets on top and underneath of herself.
Just then the bathroom door opened and Michiru walked out, she usually was an early riser. She quietly greeted Usagi and walked into the kitchen to help Makoto. Usagi joined them and she ended up setting the table because Makoto said that food should be colorful, not black, 'Whatever that meant' Usagi thought.
By the time the food was ready everyone had awakened. They all sat at the table and Michiru served the food gracefully. They all were waiting eagerly for the delicious food and when it came they did nothing but eat.
Makoto and Michiru were very pleased with the appreciation everyone showed by holding their stomachs in pain from eating too much. Makoto winked at Usagi after revealing that she had brought a triple layer chocolate cake with her last night for today. Usagi's eyes glittered in delight at the sound of chocolate and cake int the same sentence.
Later on that day they all sat there extremely bored. They had tried playing some games but most of the time Usagi ended up complaining that someone was cheating, especially at the game telephone.
They sat there staring out the window in amazement of how high the level of snow had become. If Duo owned snow shoes, he would have been able to jump out his window and take a walk around town.
They all had almost fallen asleep from boredom when a knock was heard. Everyone looked at each other in amazement. They were all thinking the same thing, 'Who could possibly be at the door?'
Duo sprung to his feet and dove for the door. He opened it but no one was there. He knew it wasn't his imagination because everyone heard the knock. Then he heard it again. 'Ok,' he thought, ' this is a dream and we are all trapped in the movie The Shining.' He nodded, that must have been it.
Once again someone knocked, but it was louder so someone must have been outside somewhere. Then Hotaru spoke, "Look out your window Duo-san, Quatre-san is here!!"
Duo ran into his room and sure enough there was Quatre standing outside his window knocking on the glass to be let in. Usagi gasped, he had arrived in a mobile suit. "Oh geez" Duo said , "Isn't he fashionably late?"
HE walked to the window and opened it, Quatre greeted everyone when he jumped inside. Makoto took his coat and offered some food but he said that he had eaten. For some reason the mood changed and everyone started to get unbored again.
Usagi and Minako inform Quatre of the master plan to set Wufei and Rei up and Quatre, though partly worried, found it quite amusing. He laughed a bit and said, "I hope they can hold out long enough." Everyone got a good laugh from the strange thoughts of Rei and Wufei and how they would be managing at the particular moment.
*****
"I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP ABOUT THAT!" Wufei shouted at the top of his lungs.
Rei laughed cynically and retorted, "Why? Aren't manly enough to admit when you're embarrassed?"
"I WILL FIGHT YOU TO THE DEATH!!!!!!!" He screeched.
"FINE!"
"FINE!"
And thus they started the fight all over again, except this time Rei was planning to use more than just fists.
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Hehehehehehe.... I know it's been a long, long, long time since I uploaded the first chapter, but I just got done first semester of highschool, and now I'm starting second, so it's been hectic lately. Gomen-nasai for the big inconvenience to those who had threatened me to get this chapter out in their reviews for the first one. I hoped you liked it though!!!!!
Megami* Silence
Chapter #2~ Me and my Grass!! ¬.¬_~
By: Megami*Silence
Disclaimer: Me no own any ov da anime!!! :µ
AN: Okie, well, I got a lot of positive reviews for this story, so far... and so I WILL continue!! Thankies go out to all that _did_ review.. I appreciate it.. ^-^;; All right, I'll stop gushing, but beware I might start to glomp... RUN , RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aoko: I'm so happy & honored you picked my story to be like the 1st comedy that you actually liked.
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December, 2nd
Rei woke up with a headache. She figured it was from all the excitement last night. Which reminded her, Wufei stayed the night. Well, thank god he wasn't going to stay for very long. She grumpily got out of bed, and changed quickly. The quicker she gets rid of Wufei, the happier she'll be. She scrambled out the door, and headed towards Wufei's room. Then she realized... what room was he staying in?
Well, the fact that Haruka had forty three rooms in the house, didn't exactly help the situation at all. Rei sighed in frustration. Why did her life have to be so hectic? Then she looked down the long corridor, and sighed again. She knew right there, that she was never going to get a break!
She turned to the next room, beside hers. Casually, she strode up to it and knocked on the door. She heard a faint knock, every time she knocked on the door. So someone must've been in there. "Hello? Wufei, are you in there?" she called out. No one answered, so she knocked a little harder, and repeated her previous question. Still no one answered. She growled, and opened the door. 'Oh! For cripes sake!' she cursed. There was no one in the room, which didn't explain why she heard the faint knocking. Rei narrowed her eyes, and looked at the interior of the door. There was a framed poster hanging on it, and bounced every time the door moved. Rei showed her distress by yelling for a second... and then she continued on.
32..... 33..... 34...... 35..... There was Wufei... no where to be seen!! She couldn't believe this, and with all her yells of distress, approximately 35 he didn't show his face. How did she, of all people, get stuck with _him_ like this? She walked towards the next door, and knocked on it, with her head. She thought to herself, 'This is what using your head feels like.' She slowly opened the door, and looked inside. She quietly and calmly closed the door behind her. She drew in a deep breath and then exhaled... and then yelled as loud as possible. Now she was extremely pissed off! She had steam blowing out of her ears, and her face turned as red as Mars. She stomped to each door that was left, knocking them all down with her amazing kick. She continued this rampage, until she got to the last door.
Rei's eyes widened . This was the last room in the house. The only one left, there were no more rooms after this one, in some way Rei was relieved, but otherwise she was completely and utterly furious at Wufei for being in the last room of the whole fucking house!
'Enough stalling!' she screamed at herself, she huffed and puffed and blew that door down. She took one step inside, looking around she saw a coat laying across the bed with messy sheets, and a pair of shoes were on the ground beside the bed. Rei couldn't believe this, how did he know every right way to make her go insane.
"What are you doing onna?" the very familiar voice demanded to know. Rei abruptly stopped her plotting of Wufei's death, and she spun around to see the very same person that's head was in the oven at 500 degrees Celsius just a few seconds ago (or so she wished). You know, she had been trained to stay calm and collected, and just mentally let go of the situation. But hey? Who said that was ever fun? Rei bit her lip, and grabbed onto her hair, ready to scream her head off any minute. Wufei just stood there watching in amusement at the sight of her epiphany. He watched just to the point, that she started to bore him, he casually walked right past her into the room he had recently stayed in, and shut the door. Rei turned around, and stared at the door. He just ignored her didn't he? Rage filled her already furious eyes, and her face began to boil. She gripped her own neck, and started to make fake strangling noises, daydreaming that it was Wufei.
After finishing up with giving Wufei the finger, Rei sighed and knocked herself in the face, 'How could I have not known that Wufei was going to end up on the complete opposite side of the house than I was? The Gods! They wanted to do this to me!!!!! It's not fair, haven't I been punished enough?' As Rei was thinking to herself, she accidently walked into a doorway, of one of the many rooms that she destroyed because Wu-baka wasn't there! She stood there dazed for a few minutes and then looked at the spot where her head collided with, there she saw a drop of blood, slowly making it's way down the post to the carpet. Reality finally caught up with her, and it made her mad. Even I, the author am shivering at the look she had shining in her big, huge, wide, gigantic, eyes!!!!
She raced hastily towards the training room. Keeping the anger at full tilt, she blasted through the doors and made her way to the machines. The first machine was chin up bar. She grabbed hold of it and counted as she pulled herself up and down. Rei had this weird force that occurred every time she was mad. It was kind of like being accident prone, only this was different because it was her strength mixed with rage that caused accidents to happen.
She continued to use her strength in calming herself down on the bar, counting every time her face would come in contact with the bar. Her body moved in a swift motion, up and down, up and down. Her muscles rippled in every movement, and perspiration accumulated after a while. She was doing fine so far, until the same thing she wanted to forget crept back into her mind. Wufei laughing at her, mocking her, challenging her with his onyx eyes. It irked her to the pressure point. Without noticing it, Rei used so much power in pulling herself up, the bar couldn't handle it and snapped of its supports. It came down fast and hard and Rei collapsed on the ground, a yelp following soon after. Rei sat there for a moment. Now there was no stopping her, pure death awakened in her.
She stood up and looked around. She spotted another machine that could prove a challenge for herself. Rei maneuvered around many interesting objects and plotted herself down on a seat. It was a solo flex. She gripped the handles and pulled all her weight into it, using her torso to push forward, while keeping her lower body on the seat. Rei focused all her energy into this laborious activity, while keeping a steady head during this rough time she was experiencing. Rei moved forward and backward, forward and backward continuously. It was relaxing her for the moment, when tension came back to her, and the same face haunted her again. She stopped exercising for a second. Staring at the face that wouldn't disappear. Rei screamed at it to go away, and then she kept up with her training, pulling the weights more, and faster. It was a little too fast than she could handle and the cable snapped, throwing Rei forward. She crashed into the rack of dumbbells.
She pulled herself up slowly, and ran to the treadmill hoping to forget this whole thing, and maybe she could be at ease for at least a minute. She started out walking but gradually it became a jog, and finally a easy run. She was running for about 10 minutes. It was wearing her out and that was a good thing. Maybe she could take a relaxing bath and then sleep for a couple of hours. Rei was disturbed of her teasing dream when the treadmill went berserk. First the treadmill switched to extremely slow pace, meant for old people with practically broken bones, and then it switched to the fastest pace possible which Olympic athletes use. Rei smacked the control panel a couple of times, getting angry again. Instead of reacting better, it got worse. The panel short circuited and exploded, sending Rei flying backwards tripping from the treadmill, falling onto her butt. She was pulled backwards because the treadmill was still moving, and she bounced off the ground a couple of times. It did hurt a bit, but she took this a bit calmer than the last two incidents.
She walked over to the bleachers that were in the far back corner of the large, spacious room. She climbed to the very top and sat there, crossing her legs upside down. She started to breath in large heaves 'inhale, exhale.' her mind told her over and over again. This started to make her feel better. Well, better than before anyway. When she was sure she would be feeling good from now on, she retreated from this spot, and went back to the main floor. She walked towards the punching bag, and bowed at it. That's when the real training set in, and it was very relaxed, and meticulous moves she mastered.
Just then, Wufei had made his way to the training room, about to continue his morning workout. Once he walked in he was totally surprised seeing Rei move so delicately with skills he had never seen a girl practice. He knew that she was probably mad at him, and he liked that, but he didn't want to get all pissed off right now, so he lurked in the shadows and watched her instead. He could tell she had been practicing martial arts for a long time, because not many people could have this many skills while training themselves. Wufei moved closer to one of the exercise machines that Rei had been using before. Wufei stopped watching Rei for a second to observe the interesting looking melted object that he recalled was a treadmill.
"You're making me nervous, Chang, I might have to kill myself!" Rei remarked, sensing his presence. She mocked him for being a baka because he thought he could hide from her.
As if reading her mind, he used the very same word against her, "You're such a baka onna!" Secretly he smirked at her instant reaction.
"TAKE THAT BACK!!" She screeched. She hated it when he called her anything negative. He was so insensitive. Some people do have feelings, he should know that.
"Iie, I think you deserve it." He retorted, hiding the mirth that started to dance in his eyes.
"Then I'll fight you for it!!"
"Oh yeah? What do I get if I win?"
"Um... Uh... well.... I'll cook you breakfast? Yah, and if I win, you LEAVE!"
"FINE!"
"FINE!"
Thus the duel begun. In respect for the opponent, they both bowed although they didn't really want to. They took their stances. Both stances were almost identical. They were so alike, yet so different, and they didn't even notice this themselves.
Rei started off, and ran towards him throwing a punch his way, but his left hand blocked it, and in return he kneed her. At the last minute she blocked his knee, and then she used her left leg to sweep him off his feet. He did fall, but immediately kicked himself to a standing position again.
He leaped for her grabbing a hold of her arms, but she kicked him in the groin, sending him backwards a bit. He exhaled in frustration turning red in the face.
'This is an onna, and she's a quick thinker... go full tilt.' He thought to himself. He jumped after her, and ducked low as she tried to hit him, but was swept off her feet from Wufei's sweep kick.
Rei's alerts went off as she detected Wufei's kick to the face, she quickly did the splits, and caught his foot in the air, throwing him off balance. He stumbled back, and she tumbled forward onto her feet.
Rei sent a flying roundhouse at his stomach but his quick reflexes made him fall low, and then back up kicking her in the stomach instead. She grabbed her abdomen and looked at Wufei with rage, she threw herself at him, and they both dropped to the ground, now wrestling more than sparring. They rolled over, so Wufei was on top now.
Rei punched him in the face. Wufei's lip started to bleed, and droplets fell onto Rei's face. Rei pushed him away from her and jump kicked him in the chest after springing from the ground. Wufei drew back, and went back after her.
Wufei threw a couple of punches her way, though she blocked all of them, she repeated the same thing and Wufei blocked all of her punches as well.
Wufei quickly grabbed Rei's hair, and twisted her around, holding her in a locked position. She couldn't move her arms or head, so instead she kicked up, her leg bending all the way behind her head, and making contact with Wufei's face. He grasped his face in pain. She spun around kicking him in the side. Wufei took hold of her leg, but she reacted by bending her leg and gripping his shirt, sending him over herself, backwards.
Wufei landed on his back. He snapped back up. "I will admit you are good, but now I'm going to have to stop being nice to you!" he threw her way.
She snorted, "You don't have anything better than that, so I'm not worried!" She threw back in his face.
He smirked, 'You have no idea....'
Wufei ran towards her, she knew he was going to going for her upper body so she did a cartwheel as he approached, hoping to strike him in the face but he caught her foot and threw her onto her back.
She got up slowly, and turned crouching low like a wildcat ready to pounce on it's prey. Her growl showed Wufei her anger and he knew that that was her weakness. She jumped after him throwing her body at him, her arms raised in front of her, but in midair she changed position, kicking him in the chest from his ducked position.
He retaliated by letting himself be knocked backwards only to grab her legs as she tried to land and he allowed her to land... on her face.
She, still being held at the ankles, got on her knees, and then all together she fell backwards at a great speed using her elbows as weapons, blasting his gut, forcing him upwards and letting go of her ankles she easily rolled off of him.
He was so close to really freaking out on her, he forgot all respectful martial art skills and dove at her knocking her forward.
He held her down, she kicked and screeched for a bit, but Wufei was just too strong. He flipped her over, and stared at her cynical face. She thought this was child's play. He grinded his teeth. "Don't think this a game, because I'm about to pulverize you."
"You're going to hurt little ole me? My, my Wufei I thought you didn't fight girls. I thought they're too weak to fight." Wufei saw a spark flash through her eyes. She was really enjoying this.
Wufei stood up. Rei was about to get up herself, but Wufei drop kicked her in the stomach and then rolled onto his knees pining her neck down. He followed up with a punch in the face. She groaned before letting her arms show her defeat.
"They are." Wufei shot at her. He stood up and walked out of the room. He didn't even offer to help her up. She slowly sat up. She looked at his retreating figure, feeling the blood make it's way down her face. "AAARRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!! I can't believe this!" She started to freak out again. This time knowing it was her own fault. She lost because she taunted him and he used that to his advantage.
Rei stood up and walked away, running the events through her head. She smirked thinking that they did have a good fight even if it was ruined by herself.
*****
A half hour later, Wufei could smell the food being cooked from the corridor where he was looking at all the paintings. He had eaten Rei's cooking before, when they had a great big party at her temple. She made a home made traditional Chinese meal. It was absolutely delicious considering his residence was in Japan at the moment. Wufei closed his eyes reminiscing of his old days in China. It was the dark years for the Dragon Clan, where he had trained and trained to be the pilot of Nataku, that's when it was rare to actually eat a meal. He would savor the taste of the shrimp sub gum and gu gai pan. Now he could smell the rich flavors of herbs and spices and... burnt toast!! "Damn!" he could hear from the kitchen. He figured she was probably too mad to want to deal with him right now, so he went to the kitchen to annoy her.
He quietly stepped into the kitchen, where he saw Rei's back bent over the sink furiously scraping the burntness off the surface of the toast. He walked over to the breakfast table and pulled himself a seat. There, he watched her as her face became more red when the food in skillet was starting to over cook. Wufei had smile playing at his lips, but he stopped himself from doing so, after all, he was professional!!
Rei slowly turned around, and she seemed more pleasant than just a second ago as she successfully scraped away the unwanted blackness on the toast and saved the food from tasting like a frying pan. AS she turned, Wufei watched and saw her eyes sparkle with some unusual feeling he had never noticed before. The morning sun had spilled into the room from the window above the sink and hit Rei gracefully, giving her a warm aura. At that moment Wufei forgot the disagreements between them and focused on the other side of Rei's personality, which could only be described with so many words such as trust, beauty, wisdom, faith, gracefulness, elegance, those simple words filled a world of hate and war with love and peace, it made Wufei feel strange, something he never felt before and he could feel his cheeks get warmer, but he couldn't help staring....
*CLANK*
Rei dropped his plate of food in front of him with a cute humph sound which meant she was irritated that he was staring at her. She totally startled him, though she couldn't tell because he was so cool about it, he snapped back into attention like waking up from a nightmare. His warm cheeks cooled down and he remembered how stubborn and arrogant she was. He was going to say something when the scent of the food wafted into his face and he took a long, drawn sniff of the beautiful food. Rei watched him as he did so and was pleased at his reaction. Without further hesitation, he picked up his chopsticks and started to eat her masterpiece. He had absolutely no expression on his face while he stuffed more and more food in his mouth.
Rei also picked up her chopsticks but she was totally concentrating on the slightest look upon Wufei's face that she could get, so she didn't bother looking at what she was doing while she put food in her mouth, first she missed and poked herself in the cheek, then she unceremoniously missed her mouth with the rice and some stuck to her face and then when she finally took a glance at her food and was about to safely place it in her awaiting mouth, Wufei spoke. Thus she unintentionally dropped the food in her mouth and swallowed without chewing, making herself choke, practically to death.
When her coughing died down, she asked in a hoarse voice, "What did you say?"
"I said your cooking needs works, in other words you should know what you're doing before you try to serve your guests, unless you're purposely trying to kill me!" he repeated.
"Oh, you have no idea!!!!" she took a sharp breath, "AND YOU ARE NOT MY GUEST!!!!!!!! YOU ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS, AND YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Her rage reached her peak and she picked up her plate and chucked it at Wufei.
Wufei could have wrung her neck at that moment but instead he looked down at the mess that was soaking through his white t-shirt. Of course she would have plum sauce on her rice, it only makes sense because it can make such a lovely color when strewn upon a nice clean, WHITE, shirt right? He couldn't believe this, now she had down it. He ripped his shirt off and threw it down. Rei was unfazed by his action and instead of yelling she simply picked her chopsticks up and threw them as well, they bounced off of Wufei's head. She growled and walked back to the counter to clean up.
He was pretty mad, and really didn't know what to do at the moment, so he picked his shirt up and left to find the washer and dryer. Wufei had a pretty image of Rei sitting on a platter in the middle of a feasting table with an apple in her mouth and her arms and legs tied together. This picture amused him and he continued to think of this image and the movie Hannibal.
Meanwhile Rei was in the kitchen and she had cleaned off Wufei's plate. She washed some dishes and wiped the counter while having an image of Wufei in the middle of a corn field being chased around by a huge tractor with herself driving it. She would definitely not stop until she got that sonuvabitch. This pleased her and she thought more about what she would wear at Wufei's funeral... maybe a red dress and three inch pumps. She laughed psychotically and scared everyone who is reading this.
Then she started to forget that morning and thought more about Usagi and the gang, and how she missed them already because she hadn't seen them in a long time, which led her to think about Grandfather, and she shivered when she realized how cold it must be for him in the temple. Her psychoticness disappeared and she grew sad.
She finished her cleaning in the kitchen and walked to the window, thinking she could get a glimpse of the day, and hopefully Wufei would be able to leave. She looked out the window but she couldn't see anything only white, and it was too bright to have a clear look at the road so she walked over to the door and opened it to take a look outside. She had thought she would have needed to shield her eyes, but she definitely didn't need to because the snow was piled to the top of the door.
Rei freaked out big time, 'No, no no no no no no no no, NO!!!! This can't be, that means Wufei can't get out!!!! No, if he can't I have a better idea, I'll throw him out the window, yah and then he sink into the snow like quicksand and everyone will be happy!!! Yes that's the plan!!! Oh-h-h-h God!!!!' She couldn't believe what torture had been fooling with her now. It was sunny, it could have melted something!!!!!
Rei's racing mind slowed when she was hit on the head with some snow. She looked up and whispered, "uh oh." The huge pile of snow avalanched on top of her, and she was buried under at least eight feet of snow. She covered her head when she was hit to save herself from suffocating but she couldn't move her body and it was terribly cold. She screamed loudly more from the fright the barricading snow had given her than her anger.
Wufei had heard her scream from the basement and he could tell it wasn't from her rage over his comments. He forgot what he was doing and ran as fast as he could to see what was wrong. He hopped up the stairs and flew down the hall until he reached the main entrance, where he stopped and observed. He saw a wide open door, a huge pile of snow, his car outside buried to the top with snow and Rei's head poking out of the intruding snow that was now all over the beautiful rug on the ground.
Wufei couldn't help it, Rei's face was twisted in madness and she was pouting like a five year old. How she managed to get herself stuck like that he didn't know, but he it struck him extremely funny, and he couldn't contain his laughter any longer.
Rei's eyes widened as she realized that he was laughing, though he was laughing at her it was amazing that he did so at all because she had never seen anything remotely close to a laugh come from him. Then a really cold shiver ran down her spine, "Hey baka! Stop wasting time, I'm going to freeze to death, get your ass over here and help!!!!!"
He complied to her demand, although he would have rather stood there and humiliate her. He started to dig some snow away from her until she could pull her arms out and then he lifted her up out of the snow. She took a step but her legs were so numb from the snow she tripped over herself, but thankfully was caught by Wufei, who picked her up in a threshold and set her down at the bottom of the stairs where she hugged herself from the cold.
As quick as he could, he disposed of the snow laying on the floor to unblock the door to close it. There was still more snow on the floor, but he ignored it. He turned around, as Rei looked up and she noticed him standing there, pretty much naked with the exception of his boxers. Now it was her turn to laugh and she did so willingly. This laugh was more hysterical than her psychotic laugh.
Wufei stares at her with concern from her strange behavior when he looked down at himself and realized that he was only wearing his boxers. He didn't blush in embarrassment, but he did get mad at her for laughing at him and he yelled at her.
"Shut up onna, you should be thanking me for helping me instead of laughing!"
She calmed her laughing into giggles so she could speak, "I know- hehahehahe- but I-hahahaha- can't -hehehehehahahaha- help it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"IT's your fault in the first place, if you didn't so stupidly open the door and stand there while snow was piling on top of you, then I wouldn't be here for you to laugh at.... baka onna!" he yelled un mercifully and stomped away.
At that comment, Rei stopped laughing immediately and glared at him and watched as he left the room so she could pick her wet self up and run to warmth.
*****
Usagi's snoring wasn't nearly as loud as Duo's when she woke up. She knew she was pretty bad but he was even worse. She and Duo fell asleep in Duo's bed, there were a lot of people that had to spend the night and it wasn't the largest apartment. Makoto and Minako also slept in Duo's room, but had left during the night. They obviously couldn't handle the snoring.
Usagi had dressed into some of Duo's clothes, and made her way to the kitchen for breakfast, hoping Makoto was already up. She opened the door, and Makoto was up, but everyone else were still asleep. The futon had been pulled out and Michiru and Haruka had slept on that while Hotaru slept on the lazy boy because she was small enough to. Minako ended up sleeping on the floor but she had about a billion blankets and sheets on top and underneath of herself.
Just then the bathroom door opened and Michiru walked out, she usually was an early riser. She quietly greeted Usagi and walked into the kitchen to help Makoto. Usagi joined them and she ended up setting the table because Makoto said that food should be colorful, not black, 'Whatever that meant' Usagi thought.
By the time the food was ready everyone had awakened. They all sat at the table and Michiru served the food gracefully. They all were waiting eagerly for the delicious food and when it came they did nothing but eat.
Makoto and Michiru were very pleased with the appreciation everyone showed by holding their stomachs in pain from eating too much. Makoto winked at Usagi after revealing that she had brought a triple layer chocolate cake with her last night for today. Usagi's eyes glittered in delight at the sound of chocolate and cake int the same sentence.
Later on that day they all sat there extremely bored. They had tried playing some games but most of the time Usagi ended up complaining that someone was cheating, especially at the game telephone.
They sat there staring out the window in amazement of how high the level of snow had become. If Duo owned snow shoes, he would have been able to jump out his window and take a walk around town.
They all had almost fallen asleep from boredom when a knock was heard. Everyone looked at each other in amazement. They were all thinking the same thing, 'Who could possibly be at the door?'
Duo sprung to his feet and dove for the door. He opened it but no one was there. He knew it wasn't his imagination because everyone heard the knock. Then he heard it again. 'Ok,' he thought, ' this is a dream and we are all trapped in the movie The Shining.' He nodded, that must have been it.
Once again someone knocked, but it was louder so someone must have been outside somewhere. Then Hotaru spoke, "Look out your window Duo-san, Quatre-san is here!!"
Duo ran into his room and sure enough there was Quatre standing outside his window knocking on the glass to be let in. Usagi gasped, he had arrived in a mobile suit. "Oh geez" Duo said , "Isn't he fashionably late?"
HE walked to the window and opened it, Quatre greeted everyone when he jumped inside. Makoto took his coat and offered some food but he said that he had eaten. For some reason the mood changed and everyone started to get unbored again.
Usagi and Minako inform Quatre of the master plan to set Wufei and Rei up and Quatre, though partly worried, found it quite amusing. He laughed a bit and said, "I hope they can hold out long enough." Everyone got a good laugh from the strange thoughts of Rei and Wufei and how they would be managing at the particular moment.
*****
"I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP ABOUT THAT!" Wufei shouted at the top of his lungs.
Rei laughed cynically and retorted, "Why? Aren't manly enough to admit when you're embarrassed?"
"I WILL FIGHT YOU TO THE DEATH!!!!!!!" He screeched.
"FINE!"
"FINE!"
And thus they started the fight all over again, except this time Rei was planning to use more than just fists.
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Hehehehehehe.... I know it's been a long, long, long time since I uploaded the first chapter, but I just got done first semester of highschool, and now I'm starting second, so it's been hectic lately. Gomen-nasai for the big inconvenience to those who had threatened me to get this chapter out in their reviews for the first one. I hoped you liked it though!!!!!
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