The Masks v2
By: Deaths-child
Rating PG or PG 13
Disclaimer: Look at chapter one.
AN: (Oh fear them.)
Deaths-child looks around before stepping out from behind a wall and waves at readers.
"Hi it's me. You can if you want call me Death-chan. And now for my first guest... Duo and his braid."
A spot light comes on and Duo is standing there looking surprised before waving to the readers.
"That's enough of Duo for now. We should be getting along with this or else you will never get to read it."
"On with the show." Duo yells from his spot light in the middle of the darkness that is writers land.
AN: Sorry I didn't put this in the first chapter but this is after Endless Waltz.
Chapter 2
Let the chase began...Now.
Siting in Sank Kingdom's Preventers meeting room were five jetlagged, sleep deprived Gundam pilots and one baggy eyed Noin. Millardo would have joined them but it seemed that he had too much work to do within the kingdom and they had thought Relena did nothing most of the time. Une was standing in front of them waiting to find out why Relena was still not back in Sank Kingdom.
"Why are we here?" Quatre asked his mind only half awake at three in the morning.
"Relena has taken a vacation of her duties..."
Wu Fei spoke up at this time. "So the Onna is on vacation what do you want us to do about it she has her own guards." He had glared at Une the best he could with his present condition.
"She has left the kingdom with out any suspicion on how she left. It has been a day since she was last seen. Noin has the note here." Une sat down and Noin placed a disk in the computer that was set up for her.
Clicking on the disk she went in and opened the only file there. Fallen. Opening the file the screen suddenly went blank before a screen of a little animated Relena popped up and started to dance. A song that now Noin and every one in the room couldn't put the lyrics to started to play as the animated Relena stared to do a gig.
Trowa showed shock by his eyes widening the others did it in their own way. Duo hummed along. Wu Fei muttering things about bakas under his breath. Quatre bobbed his head with the music. Heero raised an eye brow at the program. Une wished for an off button. Noin held her head in her hands as the songs she had only recently got rid of started again in her head.
After a few minutes and a few different dance styles the music stopped and the real Relena appeared. The real Relena.
"So it seems you have finally come to find me. Shows how much you think of me. Oh, don't worry Noin I'm not mad at you, never could be, anyway your wondering where I am, aren't you. Well that is privilege information and will not be released for some time. Now, don't start having kittens on me. I have a very good reason for leaving. Which I will explain once I figure out what they really are." The video of Relena explained they all staired at it like it was a demon had taken over Relena because this was not how Relena normally was at any time of the day.
"Now, Noin I will expect the castle to be in tact and the school not to be burned down when I return in say three months. Now, don't glare at me like that this is a pre-recording so there is no feed back to my location." They all gave Noin a questioning look who was glaring at the image.
"I will have my ear out on all events that happen. Oh I almost forgot, tell Millie that he can be ruler while I'm gone. Oh, one more thing the seniors have a skip day coming up so try not to get on their cases about it. That's all. Oh, wait one more thing take the limo out for a walk and don't stress so much you'll get wrinkles, like the one right in the middle of your fore head." Duo had cracked up at Millardos' nickname and kept on muttering it between spasms.
"Chill Noin you practically run the county even with me there. Millie will always be stressed so tranquilize him a few times. He should calm after the third one. And trust me even with them in his system he is still bound to do something stupid. Have fun, Noin." Looking at Noin again they wondered if he had really gone on any rampages lately and if she had used any tranquilizers on him.
The screen had gone blank and was left for a time before Relena had popped on again surprising them all. "Now Noin didn't I tell you he would do something like this. Now Heero and the others have to find me. What a waste of time and man power. I know what you're thinking Noin. 'How did this part get on the file when it wasn't before?' but it was. I just used a delay and set it for the second time this is played."
They all looked at her. Was that possible, could something like that be done and if so how did Relena know how to do it. "If you want we can make this a game. And here is your clue: time is fast but what is faster when it flows. Have fun." Her smirk seemed to taunt them as the screen returned to normal.
"Your mission is to..." Une was cut off again by a knock at the door. "Come in." She said getting a slight migraine already from the day.
In walked the sectary with a small envelope, "this just came for you Miss. Une they said it was urgent." The sectary then handed over the envelope to Une and quickly left.
Opening the envelope carefully Une read the note.
"Hi,
I'm doing fine if you must know and yes I find this a fun joke to play on all of you. I hope Millie isn't depriving you of any much needed sleep. Noin tell him that class festivals will be starting in a week and he needs to have the students make committees for this or nothing will get done. Inside are tickets to a local violinist that has just has to be heard and is in Sank for the last concert. Have a fun time, I know I am, so why don't you.
Sincerely, Relena."
"P.s. Fun is only done when its fun."
Une then fished out the tickets from the envelope and looked them over before handing them out to each person. "There is one for each of us and two extra marked for Sally and Mariemaia." Looking up at the group of not too happy solders Une smiled. "We should all go to it. Relena might be their at..." she stopped and looked closely at the tickets again, "...Friday's concert. That's five days from now letting you have time to sleep and look the kingdom over for Relena." She finished looking back up at the even more degreed pilots.
"How could Relena know that we specify us be here?" Quatre asked being the only one that talked the most and because Duo was half asleep on himself.
"She figured that Millardo would call Une and ask for her to search for her and everything." Noin spoke up from her seat. Everyone looked towards her as if she had a second and third head had growing from her neck.
"If you noticed she was different in the video. She held no grudges and knew the actions each of us would take in order to find her. She is bound to know that Heero is here and yet she's not here and I doubt that she is even in the kingdom anymore." She looked all of them in the eye and they knew she spoke the truth that wasn't the Relena they knew.
"I've spent a lot of time with her... hell I spend most of my time with her. And over the time I have been able to find out one thing about her. That is she is not what everyone expects her to be and even I don't know her half as well as I should with the amount of time I spend with her. For all that we know she could be another Heero. What I'm getting at is all that we know about Relena up to this point is worth nothing when we don't even know how she got out of her room with cameras at all possible exits."
This was true because Relena had explicitly said no to having cameras placed in her room and with the princess wishes they weren't. So the million dollar question was how did she do it. Going over every thing they knew they all drew a blank. And all that they had known or did know was useless when it came down to it.
"The Violinist is a friend of mine and part time jack of all trades." Une said her eyes taking in everything that might be on the tickets.
With so much attention on her she didn't even flinch when Duo made a choking sound trying to get her to continue with what she had been talking about. "Yue Liang is what she goes by with us but she is simply known as Usagi Tsukino the moon rabbit. As I said she is part time so I have no clue what or were she goes after any of our dealings.
"She's different even in her dealings with us and the wars. When you see her you will see all that she is not, not what she is. She worked for every side. Her policy was, 'play sides, play nice, and never get involved.' She didn't like how Treize stated how every thing was set by destiny.
"For some reason she doesn't like any thing involving the words fate and destiny. She liked the thought that even with a pass to enter the base she would appear like a wrath in some dark shadow. Even now she still holds this air around her just as back then, that just made you doubt any thing that surrounded her." Une looked up her eyes seemed in a haze as she looked at them and that just thinking about that one person could do this to a person.
"What dose the babe look like?" Duo asked and the haze shifted from Une's eyes.
"Such a good question Duo. She is known for her silver-white hair and her soul stealing blue eyes. And even at a half a year older then all of you she is such a knowledgeable person of the world. She is everything you five are and more to the point that she isn't any of it. When you see her you will know what I mean." Une seemed to nod at her own statement.
Making mutual agreement they all with the exception of Une took a car to Sank palace for a long night sleep and a long week to come. Not that any other week wasn't much like this in some way or another. But there were some cases that seem to go beyond the others and this was one of them. It would be along three months if this kept up. A long sleepless three months.
Now the first time I placed this there was a work week for juniors but its been a year and now instead of that I am graduating in a few days so I am nervous to the extreme not that any other day isn't like that but oh well its life.
Review it please or else I will stop writing all together and leave them all on paper.
Sincerely yours,
Deaths-child