Behind Their Backs- Chapter 5
Eyes on me- Kit's curse

Hotaru felt her insides wrench as she stared down into her lap. Her good hand lay on her on her leg, clutching the fabric of her shirt so hard that her knuckles were white. Her eyes were glazed and her lips pressed tightly together. Finally she couldn't take it anymore as she felt 10 eyes, 5 set of them, bare into her, seemingly reading everything about her. She hated it. Hated being stared at. Hated being measured up for how she looked; how she acted. Hated being judged- hated being different. She didn't know how she was different, but she somehow realized the feeling when the five boys turned their eyes to her, staring. She had felt this way before. They kept staring and staring, staring staring staring.....staring...she could hear laughter...cruel laughter...as they pointed and stared...the kids called her a freak...she never fit in...and they stared and stared...stared...until finally...she..

"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP IT! Just stop it! Don't-pl-please... please..." She covered her ears with her hands and started to rock back and forth, salty tears forming in her eyes and bursting free into rivers on her cheeks. Quatre wrapped his arms around her comfortingly. "Ssshh, it's okay Kit. It's okay."

Hotaru had followed Heero downstairs and found the g-boys already enjoying a hearty meal. After declining the food she sat down, and they started staring. Then the memories, the horrible feelings, the taunts, the name-calling, the bullying, the pain, then finally... almost. Evering came back except for then last few things. After a few minutes Hotaru looked up and blinked, wiping her eyes. Just as soon as it had come it had left.

Wufei's usual smug attitude and sexist comments had been wiped away when Hotaru freaked out. He didn't know what to think or say, but he knew he shouldn't tell the girl she was weak. It seemed obvious to him, but he felt something horrible would happen if he set this girl off. It felt like if he said the wrong thing she'd erupt like a volcano, hot ash stinging his senses and magma melting away his skin. He didn't know how these morbid thoughts came to his mind and he wondered why he felt compelled to keep quiet around this fragile creature. An unknown fear struck itself inside of him like a match and burned deep into his heart. He sat wondering why he felt this way, since he never had before.

Trowa had a puzzled look on his face as well. Instead of being his usual guarded self, he felt he could say things he'd never tell anyone- ever. The feelings were deep, like he had a bond to someone that could never be broken. Like he had a secret he could only tell one person he trusted more than anyone...like he had a friend. He couldn't understand these feelings and sat thinking about them.

Duo's eyes were glazed as he frowned deeply. He also had the strange faint feelings. He felt like a fuzzy glowing ball had formed inside of him and spread throughout his body. He felt a deep love, not like a lovers love, but something softer, safer. A single word came to his mind: Family.

Quatre felt solemn and stern, strict but gentle. He felt like a father might feel for his child. He felt he should teach someone how to live, how to act, but yet let them do it on their own. He felt a strange fondness in his heart and a heavy weight in his stomach.

And Heero thought one word, which he spoke with such a emotion it startled them all back to reality and now they were staring at him. The one word...

"Firefly."

I know this seems extremely confusing, but it starts out what happened to Hotaru after she met Heero, then a kind of solemn feeling sets over the g-boys as they start to faintly remember something from the past, feelings they have for a person. It's just a little teaser, the next chapter will be more action, but I wanted to put this in here to introduce a new idea I came up with while contemplating things. It all happens in the past- so this is the Hotaru freaking out as she remembers things and the g-boys freaking out as they remember things, only they freak out inside and she has a physical emotional outbreak.