S'up my dudes? Finally, I'm back to these stories of mine! I just put the Epilogue to Are You Jealous Heero Yuy, like three days ago. I suppose it left me inspired...? As I remember it is time for this story to have a nice fighting scene. And fighting scene it will have! I figured I had better start this, lest I never get around to it.

Please Enjoy!

000

Minako hastily transformed and ran out to the battlefield. She assumed she should hurry before the fool Heero got himself killed! Fighting eight bulky men by himself wasn't exactly the smartest thing she could think of!

Summoning her love chain, she barely got her it out before she was surrounded by five of the monstrous men. She raised her arm in the air, ready to flick her arm at any sign of danger. The linked golden hearts hung to the floor and swayed ominously with her every breath. The men kept their eyes on her wrist, waiting for someone to take charge and attack.

Heero, was now only surrounded by three. And had apparently not noticed his good fortune at losing five. He swiped his blade across one of the men's stomach quickly. The man cried out in pain and grabbed his stomach to keep his insides "in".

Minako winced at this. The boy seemed so young to be in battle. Now he would never grow up and truly live, all because of the stupidest of things. She had been pulled into war even earlier than that, but she always just took it as destiny and not worried about it.

Heero then turned and swiped at the other, chopping of a limb. The man had been caught off guard at the loss of a comrade, the mistake had cost him dearly. This man only grunted and took the pain with the knowledge that death wouldn't be far either way and an honorable death would be better. Swiping with his sword he lunged for Heero and missed badly, the loss of blood already making his dizzy.

"Please, warrior." The man said, his eyes already clouding over.

Heero, mistaking that his pleadings were for his own life, raised his sword to strike. His face took on the visage of a warrior, cold and hard. He gripped his handle to support the blade for a sure stroke through the body. But he stopped, knowing the man was on the brink of death anyway. The technique was a cruel one, but stabbing the man could cause him death because he wasn't watching the other fighters.

The man, knowing the technique nodded his head. "Please-", he pointed to the third soldier who was hunched over the already dead boy with tears in his eyes."Please, spare my son."

Heero flinched, it was barely visible but Minako noted it. He stormed over the distracted boy, who was obviously too distressed with the loss of a friend and hit a strategic spot on his neck knocking his out cold. The old man nodded his head and his body relaxed, eyes looking at Minako in his final moments. Then his eyes continued looking at her. The unnerving thing about it was that they weren't looking at her anymore.

One of the five surrounding Minako, noted the fact that her vigilant watch had fallen. Raising his sword he slashed it at her, fortunately for Minako he wasn't very skilled and the wide arc caught her attention. Quickly flicking her wrist, her chain caught the blade and wound around it. She gave it a jerk, pulling the boy off of his feet. He didn't let go of it and went flying with it.

Minako then brought her knee up and hit a warrior who had gotten too close in a very tender spot. He grunted and fell to the ground, curled in a little ball. Minako now had her back turned to the boy who had his blade caught in her chain. He noticed this and gave the chain a jerk, hoping to get her down on even terms. She fell as the chain roughly jerked and flew from her hand, de-materializing. Hitting the ground roughly she cried out in pain and instinctively rolled over to see her opponent.

Heero hearing a cry of pain, hurriedly turned and saw Minako sprawled on the ground, a man standing up in front of her. His eyes widened in shock before narrowing to anger. Hadn't he just told her to stay inside? Three of the five soldiers who had been surrounding Minako, now turned and took up fighting stances towards Heero.

Heero growled in frustration. Now how was he supposed to get to Minako? Picking the man blocking his way he quickly charged forward, watching as the man in front of Minako raised his sword in triumph. His mind noted a disoriented Minako trying to stand and fight the man. He slashed his blade at his opponent, growling in frustration when he blocked the blow. Couldn't make this easy could he?

The man in front of Minako slashed his sword towards her, then cried in pain. Heero looked up in confusion, Minako was too weak to inflict a blow. Then he saw it on its way back, a scythe sliced through the air and back to it's owner.

"Oh, shit." Murmured Heero to himself absently.

Duo caught the handle of the blade with expert hands, and watched as the man's head fell from his shoulders. With a goofy grin, he chuckled and asked,"Who started the party without me?"

Minako, now struggling to stand up, shot him an irritated look and said,"aren't parties supposed to be fun?"

"You aren't having fun?" Duo said in a mocking voice, knowing the answer already.

Minako gave him a glare and once again summoned her Love chain."I could have handled him myself you know!"

"Of course M'lady." Duo said, giving her a mock bow.

Heero grunted as he jumped over one man as he lunged for his leg, before slashing at another. He landed on his feet as the man fell to the ground in a misshappen pile. Then he gave Duo a look and said,"If it wouldn't be to much trouble, I could use some help."

"Oh, Heero! I'm sorry." Minako said with an apologetic smile.

She slashed her whip forward and Duo threw his scythe, killing the last two. They fell to the floor with groans and convulsed until finally staying still.

"Well that's all of them," Minako said wiping her hands as though she had just finished the dishes. Then she remembered the boy that Heero had knocked out."But what about him."

Heero grunted and walked over to the young lad. He took off the jacket with Bery'l insignia on it, so that no one knew who he served.He then slung him over his back, and bounced him once to position him more comfortably. The boy groaned once, but remained unconscious.

Minako looked pleased at this, but Duo was giving him an incredulous look. Slinging his braid over his shoulder where it usually stayed, scratched his head in confusion. He slowly walked forward to Heero and closely studied his face, he reached out and felt his forehead before walking to the end of the hall and unsheathing his scythe.

"Heero-" He said his tone serious,"-you know I can't let you let him live. He is the enemy, so I will ask you to either kill him or give me a good reason not to."

Heero only looked at Duo, his face taking on it's cold and calculating visage. He walked forward until he was barely one step from Duo and firmly gave his a "Hn" before brushing past him and walking on down the hall.

Duo's hand faltered almost dropping his scythe before coming back up, he turned and raised his it to throw then let it down again. His face had uncertainty written all over it. Duty or Comradery? Minako answered the question for him. She and Duo had known each other when they were small, though she hadn't seen him for awhile.

She laid and hand on his arm and smiled reassuringly at him. He returned the smile, but barely and sheathed the scythe before running to catch up with Heero. Minako smiled in approval and ran after him.

More men ran down the hall and Minako and Duo protected Heero until they got the war room. It was a secret that Heero knew about. He pulled and pushed some carvings on the door and it opened slowly, sliding back and to the right.

The men and women inside drew their swords only to sheath them back when they realized who it was.

"Heero!" Haruka called from her seat on the end of the table.

"Hn?"

"Your orders are to evacuate immediately! Take the princess of Minako and get her to safe camp 2B! We believe that she is why they are here! Trowa has already taken Makoto."

"Damn!" Duo cursed turning to run out the door.

"What is it?"Minako called out.

"I gotta go find Hotaru, I left her shortly before we were attacked!"

They all nodded their heads at him as he made a mad dash out the door and disappeared down the hall.

"Heero, take Minako immediately...and who is that boy?"

"A wounded soldier." Heero replied in monotone.

Haruka nodded her head,"you did well to protect him. Take him to the infirmary on your way."

Heero nodded his head and did a clumsy salute before turning to leave. He and Minako had made it to the door, before Haruka called out again.

"Heero, Wait!"

He turned and Haruka came running up to him, she pulled him over to the corner and leaned forward in fear someone would hear. "Heero, take care of Minako! Beryl wants the princesses and she'll stop at nothing to get them. Even-" She half-choked off the word, tears in her eyes. She covered the sob with a cough and continued,"-even at the cost of your own life. The fate of the planets depend on it."

She patted him on the arm and saluted him, he returned the salute and left supporting the weight of the boy on his back, and the weight of the planets.

Minako followed him quietly down the hall and all the way to another secret door, not far off. They had fortunately not encountered anymore groups of soldiers. He opened this passage and limped through the boy's weight tiring him.

He closed the door behind him and Minako before starting off again.

Minako's legs began to ache as they walked. All sense of time was gone to the empty and obviously desolate corridor. It was obvious no one had been through it in a very long floor, small rats feet were the only visible prints. They were obviously underground, the damp cold made that much obvious.

They must have been walking several hours when they reached another door. Heero hit a few more switches and this one opened, revealing a night sky.

They had come out far away from the castle on a hill. They could see smoke rising from the direction of the castle and Heero, gave it a pained look. It was gone as soon as it appeared and Minako sympathized with him. She would have felt the same way had she been at home.

Heero put the boy on the ground, and got some branches on the ground where they had fallen from the tree's behind them. He built a fire, it was small but they didn't want to attract too much attention to themselves.

Minako shivered in the cold night air, the Scout uniform doing nothing to shield her from the bitter cold. Heero noticed this and took off his jacket and handed it to her.

Minako shook her head and smiled,"you keep it."

He shrugged and dropped it on the ground at her feet.

She growled,"now your just being stubborn."

He shrugged again and sat down in front of the fire, raising his hands to warm them.

She crossed her arms over her chest, refusing to touch the jacket. Then a cool wind blew her teasingly causing her to shiver in the cold. Heero didn't look at her so she quickly grabbed it and threw it on, hoping he didn't notice. So concentrated was she on not making him notice, she didn't notice his tell-tale smirk when he noticed that now she had put it on.

A few more minutes passed in silence and then she looked at him and asked,"Heero, why did you help that boy."

She nodded at the boy, indicating who she was talking about. Heero said nothing for a minute then turned to her with those piercing, all knowing eyes.

"My father once told me....to act on my emotions."

000

Well that was the end. Why didn't Minako just un-transform into her dress you ask? First of all it was thin and cool if you would so kindly re-call. And Secondly she was ready to fight.

I thought it was a pretty good chapter myself....What did you think?

Questions? Comments? R&R.

-Aphrodite's Scribe