Ick. I think I'm dying right now. Pain... oh so much pain. It's kinda funny
really.
Yes, I'm a sadist. And a masochist. And a pessimist. And a realist. Thank you, thank you.
And somehow despite the pain, I feel in the mood to continue this little ficlet. Thanks for all of the reviews... I feel loved. Until the pain kicks in again, and then I just feel pain.
Ok... I think I'll answer the reviews now instead of later.
frosty: Ok, I know it's kinda confusing, but this is her dream. In dreams, things don't always make sense and you forget things that you know you should remember, and I made it seem contradictory so that things will work out in the end. Just trust me on this one. I actually planned this part out.
Kaiya: Uh... I'm female. A tomboy... but still female. And I put them in heels to be cruel. ^-^ And for so much as how they walk different... well lets just say that Quatre and Wufei are going to have to learn fast.
Black Aura-Sama: No I'm not kidding, but you'll find that out soon enough. Yes... I couldn't leave out the Kiss the Duo stand, could I?
To everyone else, thank you, but there really weren't questions in your reviews, and I don't have room to include them all. And I'm just plain lazy. Not to mention stressed... but that's a different story altogether. Plus, I doubt you care.
And without further ado, on with the fic.
** Random quote thingy... and stupid commentary from your oh-so-loveable author. (Inverse-chan's already inflated head starts to swell to unimaginable proportions)
You love life, and we love death." – from a random terrorist that didn't identify himself.
This is just such a funny quote. I fell over laughing at it... it's just that stupid. Stupid terrorists. If they really wanted to inflict pain and terror, they would have to take away the Internet for a couple of weeks. Now *that* would be horrible...
**
Opening the door to her usual classroom, Rei looked around at the familiar sight of her classmates talking animatedly to each other, smiles evident on their faces. Friendly chatter filled the air, and the usual gossip was going around. Walking in, she made herself towards her desk, all the way in the back.
If you thought about it, Rei wasn't exactly anti-social; it was just that she had less free time after becoming Sailor Mars. And the limited free time became non-existent after Usagi's accident... so what friends and clichés she had been a part of before had slowly faded out of her life as she became more and more busy. Not that she was complaining... saving the world was a little bit more important that having a social life. And the other scouts had been better friends than everyone else before, so that kind of made up for it.
Just as she set her book-bag down, she felt someone lightly tap her shoulder. Turning around, she found herself face-to-face with her teacher... a soft-spoken lady that had only began teaching a year ago.
"Rei, could you do me a favor?" she asked, her voice light but strong and knowledgeable at the same time. She was a little like Ami in a way... just more experienced.
"Yes, of course Mrs. Tsumaru." Rei replied.
"There are two new students coming today: Kat Winner and Faye Chang. (AN: I know... very unimaginable) I was hoping that you could show them around for the day... I think I will seat them next to you, since there are only empty desks in the back." She said, her voice level.
"Of course I will." Rei accepted out of common courtesy, "I'll be glad to welcome them both to our school."
"Thank you." The teacher said, walking back towards her front desk.
Rei shrugged. They were just a couple of new students... how hard could it be?
**
Ami looked at Duo, her eyes open wide. He seemed to have constructed a stand roughly out of mismatched pieces of cardboard, and had written on the top in black marker 'Kiss the new Guys... only $1!"
He had somehow convinced both of his friends to stand behind the stand with him, and they seemed to draw quite a crowd in a short time. Minako and Makoto were also looking at the stand, curiosity in their eyes.
"Uh... Ami? What exactly did you tell that friend of yours?" Makoto finally managed after reading the sign above their heads.
"Just that we needed money for a friend... I had no idea that he would go and do something like this!" She said, her voice full of shock and exasperation. It just figures that every other person she met turned out to be a nutcase.
Meanwhile, the stack of bills made from Duo's stand kept growing and growing. Soon the messy haired guy with blue eyes... Heero?... started to collect it, putting it in a jar that Trowa produced from nowhere. Minako left their bake sale (which still wasn't making much money... despite the crowds that were around them) and walked past their stand to see a five dollar bill flutter down to the ground while trying to make it to the bathroom. Out of instinct, she bent down to pick it up.
Holding it out to Heero, he took it from her, putting it in the jar. Looking up to thank her, he met her eyes.
And froze.
**
Heero looked into the blue-eyed girl in front of him and froze, not knowing what to do. Memories flashed unbidden in front of his eyes, and he felt himself tugged to the past.
A little girl with her puppy. Her golden hair and blue eyes smiling as she asked him if he was lost.
A little girl with a hat one. A hat with a white ribbon.
A little girl, smiling with complete innocence. A little girl that had been so trusting, with a happy and carefree life.
A girl that stood before him now, looking at him with eyes just as blue and hair just as gold, topped off with a white ribbon. A girl with eyes as blue as the sky.
But... there was something different. Something missing.
The girl that stood before him had no innocence held in the blue orbs that stared at him. She was different... war scarred. Sad. A warrior that had seen death and destruction, and had the innocence he had once seen in a child wiped away. He could see pain, fear, and exhaustion in her eyes... eyes that were so familiar and so different at the same time.
The little girl had grown up. And she was different... she no longer asked if he was lost. No longer cared... no longer pure with childlike sincerity.
And for some absurd reason, Heero felt himself wanting to give her back her innocence. Wanting to give her hope and to wipe away the pain in her eyes... the suffering. He wanted her to be a child again... to have an undisturbed soul. And he knew that was impossible... but felt himself wanting it all the same.
He wanted her to be happy. And he didn't even know her!
Snapping himself out of his train of thought, he tried to clear his head. The girl in front of him was looking at him quizzically, almost like he was insane. Which, if you thought about it, wasn't that far from the truth at the moment. After all, he was making connections to people that weren't even related! They just... resembled each other is all.
"Minako! Get back over here! We have customers!" Heero heard a girl yell from the bake sale. Turning his head a fraction of an inch, he could see a tall brunette waving to the blonde.
"Be right there, Mako!" The blond... Minako?... answered. Giving him a small smile, the girl left Heero and wove her way through the crowd back to her stand.
Wait a second... Minako. *Aino, Minako*?
Heero had a feeling that things were going to get very, *very* interesting.
**
Usagi danced in the field of daises, laughing as it started to drizzle. The clouds above her were downcast and gray, but she wasn't afraid. After all, her friends were right by her to protect her.
They joined her, dancing in the rain as a chilling wind swept across the field. The water-laden daisies dropped their heavy heads, as if in prayer, bowing close to the ground. Soon all of them were soaked in the sweet rain, and Usagi bend over to pick one of the praying daises.
Plucking it out of the earth, she turned to give it to Mamoru. Holding it out to him, he reached out to accept it. But just as his fingers toughed the bloom, another chilling wind blew, this time hostile and unfriendly. All of the dream-people looked at the steadily darkening sky, laughter silenced. Usagi slowly turned to the sky as well, wondering what was wrong.
Dark clouds, and cold spring rain. A few straggling birds trying to fight the currents of strong wind, and trees swaying in the storm. Nothing out of the ordinary, to Usagi. Turning to ask Mamoru what was wrong, she faced emptiness.
Looking around, she saw that she was all alone.
Calling out to her friends, first questionably and then feverishly urgent, she found no one in the field with her. Dropping the daisy, she ran around, trying to find them, to find something, anything. But there was nothing, nothing but a spring field under a raining sky.
Falling to the ground finally in exhaustion, Usagi cried, tears mixing with the mud under her. The sky above her kept growing darker and darker, until it was as black as the darkest night. Sitting up, she tried to call out once again and felt an almost unreal fear seize her. Where were they, her friends? Why would they leave?
Why was the sky so black?
Another chilling wind blew through the field, freezing the crying princess. She lifted her eyes to the black sky and shivered. Something was wrong. A feeling... a deep dread.
She didn't want to be trapped in her dream anymore.
Trying to wake up, she made the spiritual journey back to her body. Floating above it, she saw herself in a hospital bed, face pale. On a table by her bed there was a vase of pink roses and her brooch, crystal glittering in the light of the fluorescent bulbs. Floating down towards her body, she tried to enter.
And found that she couldn't.
Trying again, she was once again denied access. Panicking, she tried again and again. And every time, she was denied, standing so close to her body, but so unreachable at the same time.
She was running out of time.
Throwing herself at her body, she simply passed through it. Feeling a tug at the back of her mind, she knew that she had failed. She felt herself drawn back to the field of daisies, under the dark sky. She couldn't stay in the real world for long before being pulled back to the field... she just wasn't strong enough.
And she couldn't go back now. Because now, there was something different. Before she had been able, but this storm had brought with it some deep unspeakable power. A dark power, that shadowed her own.
She couldn't wake up now.
Collapsing to the ground once again, Usagi sobbed.
Overhead, dark clouds swarmed, raining on her frail form.
**
Rei looked up as the door opened, and two new figures stood in the doorway. She saw them talking to the teacher, and the teacher pointing at Rei. Both of them looked at her, meeting her eyes. The Asian nodded, and she saw the blond talking softly to the teacher.
After a few minutes, they made their way to the desks by her. They set down their stuff, and walked towards her.
"Hello, my name is Kat." The blond introduced herself, "And this is my friend, Faye. Mrs. Tsumaru said that you would be our guide for today."
"Yes, I will. My name is Hino. Rei Hino. I'll help you guys out for today, and whenever you'll need it." She said, directing her answer to both of them, although Wufei didn't seem like he wanted to talk.
Contrary to her first impression, she *did* reply. "I doubt that we will be needing your assistance for more than a day."
Rei blinked as Kat elbowed her friend. How... how... rude! "Well excuse me. I shall certainly hope that I won't have to lead you for more than a day." She said, her voice turning sarcastic. How dare she! And they had only met a few moments ago!
"Don't be sarcastic, onna." Faye replied, glaring.
"And I suppose you don't consider yourself a woman?" Rei replied, a glare on her face as well, matching her acidic voice perfectly.
"I don't consider myself a weakling like you." She replied curtly, almost instantly.
Who did she think she was!? No one, NO ONE talks to Hino Rei like that! "I'm stronger than you any day, *Faye*. I'll take your challenge whenever, wherever." She said, almost spitting fire.
"Fine, onna."
"Fine, *Faye*"
Turning towards her desk, Rei sat down glowering. This wasn't going to be a pleasant day.
Maybe she shouldn't have accepted after all...
**
Well... I hope you liked it. I know that this was a little more serious than the others... but I had to add some angst in here eventually. And it seems that Rei and Wufei have gotten off to a nice start, haven't they?
Tolerance is an odd thing indeed. Poor Quatre, caught in the middle yet again.
Anyways... review!
Love,
Inverse-chan
Yes, I'm a sadist. And a masochist. And a pessimist. And a realist. Thank you, thank you.
And somehow despite the pain, I feel in the mood to continue this little ficlet. Thanks for all of the reviews... I feel loved. Until the pain kicks in again, and then I just feel pain.
Ok... I think I'll answer the reviews now instead of later.
frosty: Ok, I know it's kinda confusing, but this is her dream. In dreams, things don't always make sense and you forget things that you know you should remember, and I made it seem contradictory so that things will work out in the end. Just trust me on this one. I actually planned this part out.
Kaiya: Uh... I'm female. A tomboy... but still female. And I put them in heels to be cruel. ^-^ And for so much as how they walk different... well lets just say that Quatre and Wufei are going to have to learn fast.
Black Aura-Sama: No I'm not kidding, but you'll find that out soon enough. Yes... I couldn't leave out the Kiss the Duo stand, could I?
To everyone else, thank you, but there really weren't questions in your reviews, and I don't have room to include them all. And I'm just plain lazy. Not to mention stressed... but that's a different story altogether. Plus, I doubt you care.
And without further ado, on with the fic.
** Random quote thingy... and stupid commentary from your oh-so-loveable author. (Inverse-chan's already inflated head starts to swell to unimaginable proportions)
You love life, and we love death." – from a random terrorist that didn't identify himself.
This is just such a funny quote. I fell over laughing at it... it's just that stupid. Stupid terrorists. If they really wanted to inflict pain and terror, they would have to take away the Internet for a couple of weeks. Now *that* would be horrible...
**
Opening the door to her usual classroom, Rei looked around at the familiar sight of her classmates talking animatedly to each other, smiles evident on their faces. Friendly chatter filled the air, and the usual gossip was going around. Walking in, she made herself towards her desk, all the way in the back.
If you thought about it, Rei wasn't exactly anti-social; it was just that she had less free time after becoming Sailor Mars. And the limited free time became non-existent after Usagi's accident... so what friends and clichés she had been a part of before had slowly faded out of her life as she became more and more busy. Not that she was complaining... saving the world was a little bit more important that having a social life. And the other scouts had been better friends than everyone else before, so that kind of made up for it.
Just as she set her book-bag down, she felt someone lightly tap her shoulder. Turning around, she found herself face-to-face with her teacher... a soft-spoken lady that had only began teaching a year ago.
"Rei, could you do me a favor?" she asked, her voice light but strong and knowledgeable at the same time. She was a little like Ami in a way... just more experienced.
"Yes, of course Mrs. Tsumaru." Rei replied.
"There are two new students coming today: Kat Winner and Faye Chang. (AN: I know... very unimaginable) I was hoping that you could show them around for the day... I think I will seat them next to you, since there are only empty desks in the back." She said, her voice level.
"Of course I will." Rei accepted out of common courtesy, "I'll be glad to welcome them both to our school."
"Thank you." The teacher said, walking back towards her front desk.
Rei shrugged. They were just a couple of new students... how hard could it be?
**
Ami looked at Duo, her eyes open wide. He seemed to have constructed a stand roughly out of mismatched pieces of cardboard, and had written on the top in black marker 'Kiss the new Guys... only $1!"
He had somehow convinced both of his friends to stand behind the stand with him, and they seemed to draw quite a crowd in a short time. Minako and Makoto were also looking at the stand, curiosity in their eyes.
"Uh... Ami? What exactly did you tell that friend of yours?" Makoto finally managed after reading the sign above their heads.
"Just that we needed money for a friend... I had no idea that he would go and do something like this!" She said, her voice full of shock and exasperation. It just figures that every other person she met turned out to be a nutcase.
Meanwhile, the stack of bills made from Duo's stand kept growing and growing. Soon the messy haired guy with blue eyes... Heero?... started to collect it, putting it in a jar that Trowa produced from nowhere. Minako left their bake sale (which still wasn't making much money... despite the crowds that were around them) and walked past their stand to see a five dollar bill flutter down to the ground while trying to make it to the bathroom. Out of instinct, she bent down to pick it up.
Holding it out to Heero, he took it from her, putting it in the jar. Looking up to thank her, he met her eyes.
And froze.
**
Heero looked into the blue-eyed girl in front of him and froze, not knowing what to do. Memories flashed unbidden in front of his eyes, and he felt himself tugged to the past.
A little girl with her puppy. Her golden hair and blue eyes smiling as she asked him if he was lost.
A little girl with a hat one. A hat with a white ribbon.
A little girl, smiling with complete innocence. A little girl that had been so trusting, with a happy and carefree life.
A girl that stood before him now, looking at him with eyes just as blue and hair just as gold, topped off with a white ribbon. A girl with eyes as blue as the sky.
But... there was something different. Something missing.
The girl that stood before him had no innocence held in the blue orbs that stared at him. She was different... war scarred. Sad. A warrior that had seen death and destruction, and had the innocence he had once seen in a child wiped away. He could see pain, fear, and exhaustion in her eyes... eyes that were so familiar and so different at the same time.
The little girl had grown up. And she was different... she no longer asked if he was lost. No longer cared... no longer pure with childlike sincerity.
And for some absurd reason, Heero felt himself wanting to give her back her innocence. Wanting to give her hope and to wipe away the pain in her eyes... the suffering. He wanted her to be a child again... to have an undisturbed soul. And he knew that was impossible... but felt himself wanting it all the same.
He wanted her to be happy. And he didn't even know her!
Snapping himself out of his train of thought, he tried to clear his head. The girl in front of him was looking at him quizzically, almost like he was insane. Which, if you thought about it, wasn't that far from the truth at the moment. After all, he was making connections to people that weren't even related! They just... resembled each other is all.
"Minako! Get back over here! We have customers!" Heero heard a girl yell from the bake sale. Turning his head a fraction of an inch, he could see a tall brunette waving to the blonde.
"Be right there, Mako!" The blond... Minako?... answered. Giving him a small smile, the girl left Heero and wove her way through the crowd back to her stand.
Wait a second... Minako. *Aino, Minako*?
Heero had a feeling that things were going to get very, *very* interesting.
**
Usagi danced in the field of daises, laughing as it started to drizzle. The clouds above her were downcast and gray, but she wasn't afraid. After all, her friends were right by her to protect her.
They joined her, dancing in the rain as a chilling wind swept across the field. The water-laden daisies dropped their heavy heads, as if in prayer, bowing close to the ground. Soon all of them were soaked in the sweet rain, and Usagi bend over to pick one of the praying daises.
Plucking it out of the earth, she turned to give it to Mamoru. Holding it out to him, he reached out to accept it. But just as his fingers toughed the bloom, another chilling wind blew, this time hostile and unfriendly. All of the dream-people looked at the steadily darkening sky, laughter silenced. Usagi slowly turned to the sky as well, wondering what was wrong.
Dark clouds, and cold spring rain. A few straggling birds trying to fight the currents of strong wind, and trees swaying in the storm. Nothing out of the ordinary, to Usagi. Turning to ask Mamoru what was wrong, she faced emptiness.
Looking around, she saw that she was all alone.
Calling out to her friends, first questionably and then feverishly urgent, she found no one in the field with her. Dropping the daisy, she ran around, trying to find them, to find something, anything. But there was nothing, nothing but a spring field under a raining sky.
Falling to the ground finally in exhaustion, Usagi cried, tears mixing with the mud under her. The sky above her kept growing darker and darker, until it was as black as the darkest night. Sitting up, she tried to call out once again and felt an almost unreal fear seize her. Where were they, her friends? Why would they leave?
Why was the sky so black?
Another chilling wind blew through the field, freezing the crying princess. She lifted her eyes to the black sky and shivered. Something was wrong. A feeling... a deep dread.
She didn't want to be trapped in her dream anymore.
Trying to wake up, she made the spiritual journey back to her body. Floating above it, she saw herself in a hospital bed, face pale. On a table by her bed there was a vase of pink roses and her brooch, crystal glittering in the light of the fluorescent bulbs. Floating down towards her body, she tried to enter.
And found that she couldn't.
Trying again, she was once again denied access. Panicking, she tried again and again. And every time, she was denied, standing so close to her body, but so unreachable at the same time.
She was running out of time.
Throwing herself at her body, she simply passed through it. Feeling a tug at the back of her mind, she knew that she had failed. She felt herself drawn back to the field of daisies, under the dark sky. She couldn't stay in the real world for long before being pulled back to the field... she just wasn't strong enough.
And she couldn't go back now. Because now, there was something different. Before she had been able, but this storm had brought with it some deep unspeakable power. A dark power, that shadowed her own.
She couldn't wake up now.
Collapsing to the ground once again, Usagi sobbed.
Overhead, dark clouds swarmed, raining on her frail form.
**
Rei looked up as the door opened, and two new figures stood in the doorway. She saw them talking to the teacher, and the teacher pointing at Rei. Both of them looked at her, meeting her eyes. The Asian nodded, and she saw the blond talking softly to the teacher.
After a few minutes, they made their way to the desks by her. They set down their stuff, and walked towards her.
"Hello, my name is Kat." The blond introduced herself, "And this is my friend, Faye. Mrs. Tsumaru said that you would be our guide for today."
"Yes, I will. My name is Hino. Rei Hino. I'll help you guys out for today, and whenever you'll need it." She said, directing her answer to both of them, although Wufei didn't seem like he wanted to talk.
Contrary to her first impression, she *did* reply. "I doubt that we will be needing your assistance for more than a day."
Rei blinked as Kat elbowed her friend. How... how... rude! "Well excuse me. I shall certainly hope that I won't have to lead you for more than a day." She said, her voice turning sarcastic. How dare she! And they had only met a few moments ago!
"Don't be sarcastic, onna." Faye replied, glaring.
"And I suppose you don't consider yourself a woman?" Rei replied, a glare on her face as well, matching her acidic voice perfectly.
"I don't consider myself a weakling like you." She replied curtly, almost instantly.
Who did she think she was!? No one, NO ONE talks to Hino Rei like that! "I'm stronger than you any day, *Faye*. I'll take your challenge whenever, wherever." She said, almost spitting fire.
"Fine, onna."
"Fine, *Faye*"
Turning towards her desk, Rei sat down glowering. This wasn't going to be a pleasant day.
Maybe she shouldn't have accepted after all...
**
Well... I hope you liked it. I know that this was a little more serious than the others... but I had to add some angst in here eventually. And it seems that Rei and Wufei have gotten off to a nice start, haven't they?
Tolerance is an odd thing indeed. Poor Quatre, caught in the middle yet again.
Anyways... review!
Love,
Inverse-chan