At Your Service!
Desclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing.
Author: SO, SO, SO, SORRY I did not update for SOOOO long! Firstly I have been full on -busy- with studies but now that I have entered into term break-hahaa! (clicks fingers in triumph). Also, I did not get upto say 6/7 reviews or whatever I was headed for but that doesn't matter. Also, I have tried to make this chapter better several times which has been taking a bit long, (also I write lots of other stuff too.) Hope you enjoy!
Reviewers: Thank you for all your support! Thank you for reviewing, encouraging, telling me what's good and bad, ways of improvement etc. They really do help! So thank you and hope you keep reading and reviewing. I'm sorry I took so long, I really am~ (Guilt) Thank you again for people who even -read- this, even more, -reviewed- this and loved it or hated it, I don't mind. At least you got up to -reading- it!
(IV) LAST TINGE OF TOUCHING UP All female readers you'll luv this part!
"Any of you ready yet?!" Catherine called from the outer room of the shower section.
"Catherine?"
"Hmm?" Cathy looked down.
"Will we need the moose?"
"Oh yes, can you get that for me too? Thanks," Cathy took the moose can from Rishika as the two girls prepared for 'The Last Touches'. "Now, you know what you're going to do, right?"
"Well," Rishie gave a light laugh. "There isn't much to it."
"Yeah! Well, just do a good job of it! I'm confident I don't even have to tell you," the older girl looked down at her little friend affectionately. "Oh, look. Someone's re------ady.?"
The door opened and one of the five pilots appeared and the two girls froze, their cheeks flushing a bit.
"Duo?" Catherine was the first to regain the ability to speak. "Would you care to go and put some clothes on you?...If you don't mind."
The brunette stood in the doorway, a towel twisted around his hair after washing it. His skin looked a little red after showering. He stood in a rather hot pose himself as he blinked a few times. He looked up sort of confused and laughed after a bit of thinking.
"It's nothing to laugh about you know?" Cathy said desperately. "You've got a lady the same age as you in here. And don't forget me.who's.older."
"What d'you think I'd start flirting or something?" the Shinigami grinned his 'Shinigami Grin' and moved a step forward.
"No! Go and get changed back to the clothes you were wearing before! Right now thank you!"
"Well, excuse -me-!" Duo bowed. "Those darned clothes are pretty heavy you know? After showerin' and all?"
"Your problem. Now go."
The 02 pilot retreated back through the door again, his mumbling and grunting muffled after the door closed with a swing and a /bfm/.
---***
"Now, this better? Fit your criteria a bit?" Duo muttered, walking in wearing his waiter costume. "Or don't you even allow towels for wet hair?"
"As a matter of fact, you can dispose of that, just there. But.yes, much better," Cathy said, a little more satisfied. "Now, let's get started with you since the others aren't out yet."
"If you'd like to make your way over here," Rishie said, leading Duo into a separate room again. "Here is where we will be touching up a little. It won't take long."
Duo glanced over the room he was led into. It was quite dark except for a few white coloured lights, dispersing into the blackness above each of the five mirrors set in the wall. There were chairs in front of the mirrors and tables were set to suit whatever they were going to do. Duo recognised this place to look quite similar to make up rooms you find in Hair Dressers or Drama Theatres. He watched Rishie walk briskly over to one of the 'sets' and point to the chair, pulling it out indicating for Duo to sit on it.
Cathy came in and closed the door and watched as Duo sat in the seat at the far end and Rishie put her hands through Duo's hair, playing with it for a bit, scanning the many bottles and such she had placed along the black table-top in front of her. After a bit she took a spray and sprayed the pilot's hair a few times then took up the brush and started to pull it through Duo's hair, proficiently.
"Are the others gonno be comin' in here as well?" Duo was asking.
"Yes, once they've finished their showers," Rishika answered absently.
"Crap, Do you think you'll have the hair done by then?" Duo's voice sounded regretful, guessing the answer.
"I don't think so. I'm really sorry. Did you have something to do or anything of the sort?"
"No, no. It's just that." Duo trailed off. //I'm not havin' any of them see me with my hair out Damn it! Especially Heero! Oh crap, what am I going to do~?//
"Rishie, once you've finished brushing, do you want me to take over?" Catherine asked.
"Oh, sure,'
"Okay then."
"I'm almost finished. But it's just so long," Rishika commented, her voice full of envy.
"Mine isn't almost as shiny as yours," Duo said to the reflection in front of him.
"Is it?"
"Uhuh,"
Rishika stared blankly for a moment then purposefully started brushing Duo's hair furiously.
"Catherine, I've finished."
"Okay," Cathy walked over and rung Duo's hair out a little.
Then the three heard a muffled sound of a door open then close as somebody must have come out from the showers so Rishika started walking toward the door.
"I think one of the others have come out."
"Oh good," Cathy said in a pleased voice. "I didn't think boys took for ages."
Duo looked back to look at Cathy then added-"Well, we did have some problems getting in. Most of the others didn't want to because all the showers weren't separate. I was fine, Quatre seemed to be used to it-" Cathy's eyes glinted and Duo quickly added" "don't take it the wrong way-he just travels a lot and you get all sorts of baths and showers he says. He said he went in baths which had both genders too."
Cathy looked a little uncomfortable at that, though a part of her twitched with some kind of excitement.
Then Duo continued "Well, Trowa got in eventually. Heero didn't mind other then the fact that he thought the taps might shoot missiles at you or somethin' seeing as he went around 'inspecting' all of them. Wufei was the worst."
Catherine nodded. "Okay," there was a split second silence then Duo seemed to remember something and had the face of a dying man. "What?"
"Oh shit," Duo said in a grim voice.
Rishika opened the door and Duo and Catherine heard her say 'Oh come in' and she opened the door wider to let whoever was out of the showers to come in.
Duo hesitated then very cautiously turned his head to come face to face with Trowa. "Oh God."
Trowa gave a small sign of a snigger then Rishika sat him down next to Duo.
"Well Trowy, There's nothing much we can do about that hair can we?" Catherine said as she plastered some sort of liquidy substance over Duo's hair.
"I'll just give it some moosing and a bit of brushing," Rishika said, taking up the can of moose and a spare brush getting straight into it.
"Good,"
"Yeah Trowa-Nothing much to do about your abnormality hair!" Duo called. "I mean what kind of hair is it? More like, can you even see through that.well.what would you call it? A branch off a pine tree hair?" Duo made a small sneer.
"Stop teas-," Catherine started as she brushed Duo's hair over again then realised that it would be difficult to object against Duo's comment this time. You couldn't exactly say it wasn't Palm Tree shaped hair after all.
"You told me it was natural ages ago when I asked you. More like, wasn't that the first thing I said to you?" Duo asked.
"No," came his very simple answer. "And yes, it is natural. Don't ask anymore."
"Wow, so it is natural," Rishika said. "Here, you're finished. Is that alright Cathy/"
"Yop, beautiful. Now Trowa you can just sit there looking shiny."
".okay Cathy," he answered.
"You must take good care of your mass," Cathy commented.
"Yes, of course! I take good care of it everyday,"
"Nothing to boast about,"
"Shut up Trowa-here comes another pilot! Oh no." Duo said as he heard the muffling sounds again.
"Excuse me for a moment," Rishie said and went to the door again.
"Hi Kat," Duo said as Quatre, the next victim entered the room.
"Hello, what's going on in here?" he looked around then Cathy broke away from Duo for a bit and said.
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon. Don't look at me like that, it won't kill you-,"
"It does!" Duo interrupted.
Ignoring that, Catherine went on. "Anyway! Take a seat."
"Here," Rishie pulled out the chair next to Trowa's and Quatre thanked her as he sat down then she started her efficient work.
"Cathy? Can you pass me that spray there?" Rishie asked, pointing to a blue see-through bottle.
"Here," Cathy threw it over and Rishika caught it, she shook it up and the liquid inside frothed up and she squirted a bit on the blonde hair. Rubbing it in gently she added other creams to it.
All this reminded Quatre terribly of all his 29 sisters, playing with hair things and deforming his hair.
Trowa sat there, silently in his spot looking shiny, as for Duo who was watching Rishie and Quatre out of the corner of his eye for Cathy forbade him to move his head as she washed it over again.
The two-Quatre and Rishika-were talking happily together as the girl reached out to get sprays or brushed his hair.
"You have such silky hair Quatre," she was saying.
".Really?"
"Yes, oh and I never noticed the waves down the bottom at the upper neck," she was running her fingers through his strands as she talked. "Oh it feels nice."
"Thank you. You have lovely hair too Rishika.san?" Quatre pondered on how to call the other girl.
She smiled and giggled. "Just Rishika will do."
"Okay, Rishika. No, I really like the colour. I saw a tinge of red-brown in it as well," Quatre looked at the mirror-image in front of him and Rishika with her hands on his head, peering out to the mirror from behind his head.
Duo still looked out of the corner of his eye to Quatre and Rishika, the top of their heads shining white by the light. Then-
"I'll just get that," Rishika reached over Quatre's shoulder to grab a bottle.
"No, no. I'll get it for you," Quatre reached his hand out at the same time and the bottle was knocked over with a clatter as both their hands pushed it from either side.
"Oh!" both sqealed in surprise then both ducked down to get it and made the mistake of tripping over each other's feet and the two landed on top of one another on the tiled ground.
Their heads were extremely close, basically one head touching the other. Quatre's head was pushed against the wall whilst the fall and Rishie had her head crammed in front of Quatre's. Both their noses touched and their wide eyes met in frozen horror. During the fall Quatre had reached out for the bottle and grabbed Rishika's hand instead, Rishie had automatically grabbed for something to assist her to stay up and had one hand held by Quatre and the other flung out on top of his thigh. Quatre's other arm had been forced to twine around Rishika's neck in such a way. Their legs were tangled and when Rishie quickly tried getting up she fell again and by first reaction Quatre put his arm around her to protect her from the hit, making Duo burst.
"Good shot! Cathy, you got that?" Duo clapped his hands, entertained.
"Sure have," Catherine said from behind his head, a video-camera to her eye.
Right at that precise moment Heero chose to walk in. The two innocent souls on the ground froze as the sound of the door opening was heard. Then a slightly amused sounding voice spoke.
"Sorry for disturbing. Having fun?"
"Heero," Trowa whispered.
The door closed and Heero went to sit next to Trowa, keeping one eye or both down below.
"Mfffmmsdfffdlllksm," a muffled voice squealed.
"What?" Trowa asked looking over to the other side of the room where the voice came from.
A head popped up from under the table and yelled. "Don't look!" and ducked back under, ironically.
"Nice hair Duo," Heero commented.
"Damn, you saw," a small voice grumbled as Cathy tapped him on the back saying 'get up, I haven't finished yet.'
Muttering things that were rather not heard Duo scrambled back onto his chair and sat with a slouched back, after being slapped across the shoulders by Catherine he straightened, stubbornly fixing his posture.
"Wufei should be coming soon, as a matter of fact," Heero turned from his chair, looking toward the door. "He's here now."
"Good afternoon people," Wufei seemed in an unpleasant mood spitting the words out as he shut the door silently, his hands were red and it was obvious he had tried escaping again. Either that or he was suffocating himself in the showers.
After a few seconds of glaring at the wall Wufei turned his attention downward to 'something' that drew his mind that way.
"What're you doing? God," Wufei stalked over to the empty chair nearest the closest wall and sat down. "Now, is this some kind of 'practice your sleezing' test? Peh!" He soon realised that Duo seemed abnormally quiet, looking his way he cracked up in a small snigger. Then in a drawling voice, teased "Nice hair there Maxwell-." He was acting rather intimidating tonight.
Catherine had a hand under Duo's hair, touching his neck. Going with the flow and following Wufei's mockery she grinned and bent down and blew in his ear as she pinched the back of his neck with her cold fingertips.
To her delight the straight face that Duo was trying to keep broke and he squealed for a split moment as shivers ran down his back.
"Hey!" Duo complained as Cathy laughed at his reactions. "I'm sensitive you know?"
"Whatever you say,"
"Hm,"
"Errr." After some time Catherine glanced back downward and asked slightly timidly. "Rishika? Would you sort of finish Quatre's hair and do Wufei's for me.please? Yeah sort of and."
"S-soRRY!!" Rishika immediately sprung up on her feet and half pulled Quatre up to his seat as he nodded in apologies desperately toward Catherine Bloom.
"Now ummm, we need er I just have to.YES! Get this and-," Rishika worked quickly on Quatre's hair, she looked strangely like a professional gone wonky. "There, I've finished now."
"Thanks, Rishika," Quatre smiled and sat back, looking at the mirror in front of him at his now shinier and suspiciously more heavy-feeling hair.
The girl then hurried toward Wufei's seat, grabbing an armful of sprays at the same time, dropping some on the floor with 'klatters' as she ran. Quatre had to pick up all the fallen, now rolling down the room cans and spray bottles, setting them on the table-top in front of Wufei, next to all the others.
Wufei eyed the cylindrical objects that were sitting in front of him. He wanted to reach a hand out inconspicuously and pick one of those sprays and test it on his hands to see if they would damage anything in a horrid way, but that would lead to embarrassment. He could just see that Maxwell, glancing to where he sat, leaning back to see around all the heads in his way then laugh and tell him that the sprays were used on 'hair' not 'hands'.
While Wufei's thoughts were floating off into space Rishika was absentmindedly twining her hands together, thinking what she could do to improve the boy's hair.
When Wufei had noticed he saw a hand extend from behind him and reach to some sort of stick with a wheel at the end and a botton on it. Quickly Wufei grabbed it before the girl behind him could. "Min! Not that, just not that!" Wufei spat as he remembered what it was. It seemed familiar and no wonder. His wife used to use it, he remembered. The Hair Waver.
Rishika looked a little put down at that, wondering what she could do to get it back from him.
"Fei, don't be mean,"
"What!!?" Wufei yelled back to Catherine who was now at long last staring to gather up Duo's hair to prepare braiding. She just had to wait so that all the gundam pilots could see the beautiful hair, out around his shoulders.
Heero looked around Quatre's head and said in his monotone voice, "It's a mission. Now give that to Rishika."
Rishika then reached out and took the Waver out of Wufei's hand. Taking the tie out from Wufei's hair the strands flopped down in a smooth way, forming curtain like sheets around the sides of his face. Putting the Waver through just the front strands Rishika continued brushing it then sprayed it for it to look shiny and neat and did nothing more for she was quite afraid to actually do anything more.
Heero's hair was too messy to control, even for Rishie the expert. So she concluded to brushing it and decided that 'Bed Hair was the fassion. Yeeees- '
"You finished yet?"
Catherine was desperately trying to finish the last bit of Duo's braid and snapped- "Stop asking, it's the.I don't know. Who could be actually bothered to counth time! You sound like one of those kids who keep asking 'How much longer?' on a car trip!"
After some time Cathy gave a sigh and stood back, cracking her neck from the stress of all of strands.
"Now, how does that look?"
"It-" Duo started then was interrupted by Catherine once again.
"If you dare say anything like 'It looks better when I braid it' OR 'It doesn't look any different from normal' OR 'Why 'dyou even try? It looks as though a dog's done it' OR OR OR OR OOOOOOR!!!!"
"..It..it looks fine," Duo concluded, staying on the safe side after being bombarded with the Catherine outbreak.
"Oh, okay."
"Shall we go now?" Rishika asked as she walked up to Cathy.
Catherine looked toward Rishika and smiling she clapped her hands and said, "Sounds good! Okay everyone! Follow me!!"
It sounded as though it was a lot of harrd work to finish Duo's hair.
***
The pilots then were led out of the make-up room and out to the shower blocks and back to the corridor and back into the large room they practiced the waiter-work in. In that room there was a curtain at the back that none of them had noticed before. AS soon as they saw it, for one Wufei stopped dead not wanting to go 'any' further then he had come then that was finished by Heero Yuy who simply said 'it's a mission' and proceeded to push him along the floor.
Through the curtain another one of the 'doors' appeared.
All pilots were shivering violently as they had learnt the horrors of the doors. Quatre and Duo were even clinging onto each others' sleeves.
"Now, now. I told you, the last room was the room of 'the last touches.' There are no more practice rooms, okay?" Catherine asked. "This is the real thing."
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Author: Was that chapter okay? I'm.mmm. I hope you enjoyed it!!! I'm sort of damned stuck at the moment with the next chapter buuuut, maybe if I get looootsa feedback, it might come quicker! ^_^ I guess I'm just trying to beg for comments. Well, if you want to, please review, if not.well, hope to see you next chapter!
Desclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing.
Author: SO, SO, SO, SORRY I did not update for SOOOO long! Firstly I have been full on -busy- with studies but now that I have entered into term break-hahaa! (clicks fingers in triumph). Also, I did not get upto say 6/7 reviews or whatever I was headed for but that doesn't matter. Also, I have tried to make this chapter better several times which has been taking a bit long, (also I write lots of other stuff too.) Hope you enjoy!
Reviewers: Thank you for all your support! Thank you for reviewing, encouraging, telling me what's good and bad, ways of improvement etc. They really do help! So thank you and hope you keep reading and reviewing. I'm sorry I took so long, I really am~ (Guilt) Thank you again for people who even -read- this, even more, -reviewed- this and loved it or hated it, I don't mind. At least you got up to -reading- it!
(IV) LAST TINGE OF TOUCHING UP All female readers you'll luv this part!
"Any of you ready yet?!" Catherine called from the outer room of the shower section.
"Catherine?"
"Hmm?" Cathy looked down.
"Will we need the moose?"
"Oh yes, can you get that for me too? Thanks," Cathy took the moose can from Rishika as the two girls prepared for 'The Last Touches'. "Now, you know what you're going to do, right?"
"Well," Rishie gave a light laugh. "There isn't much to it."
"Yeah! Well, just do a good job of it! I'm confident I don't even have to tell you," the older girl looked down at her little friend affectionately. "Oh, look. Someone's re------ady.?"
The door opened and one of the five pilots appeared and the two girls froze, their cheeks flushing a bit.
"Duo?" Catherine was the first to regain the ability to speak. "Would you care to go and put some clothes on you?...If you don't mind."
The brunette stood in the doorway, a towel twisted around his hair after washing it. His skin looked a little red after showering. He stood in a rather hot pose himself as he blinked a few times. He looked up sort of confused and laughed after a bit of thinking.
"It's nothing to laugh about you know?" Cathy said desperately. "You've got a lady the same age as you in here. And don't forget me.who's.older."
"What d'you think I'd start flirting or something?" the Shinigami grinned his 'Shinigami Grin' and moved a step forward.
"No! Go and get changed back to the clothes you were wearing before! Right now thank you!"
"Well, excuse -me-!" Duo bowed. "Those darned clothes are pretty heavy you know? After showerin' and all?"
"Your problem. Now go."
The 02 pilot retreated back through the door again, his mumbling and grunting muffled after the door closed with a swing and a /bfm/.
---***
"Now, this better? Fit your criteria a bit?" Duo muttered, walking in wearing his waiter costume. "Or don't you even allow towels for wet hair?"
"As a matter of fact, you can dispose of that, just there. But.yes, much better," Cathy said, a little more satisfied. "Now, let's get started with you since the others aren't out yet."
"If you'd like to make your way over here," Rishie said, leading Duo into a separate room again. "Here is where we will be touching up a little. It won't take long."
Duo glanced over the room he was led into. It was quite dark except for a few white coloured lights, dispersing into the blackness above each of the five mirrors set in the wall. There were chairs in front of the mirrors and tables were set to suit whatever they were going to do. Duo recognised this place to look quite similar to make up rooms you find in Hair Dressers or Drama Theatres. He watched Rishie walk briskly over to one of the 'sets' and point to the chair, pulling it out indicating for Duo to sit on it.
Cathy came in and closed the door and watched as Duo sat in the seat at the far end and Rishie put her hands through Duo's hair, playing with it for a bit, scanning the many bottles and such she had placed along the black table-top in front of her. After a bit she took a spray and sprayed the pilot's hair a few times then took up the brush and started to pull it through Duo's hair, proficiently.
"Are the others gonno be comin' in here as well?" Duo was asking.
"Yes, once they've finished their showers," Rishika answered absently.
"Crap, Do you think you'll have the hair done by then?" Duo's voice sounded regretful, guessing the answer.
"I don't think so. I'm really sorry. Did you have something to do or anything of the sort?"
"No, no. It's just that." Duo trailed off. //I'm not havin' any of them see me with my hair out Damn it! Especially Heero! Oh crap, what am I going to do~?//
"Rishie, once you've finished brushing, do you want me to take over?" Catherine asked.
"Oh, sure,'
"Okay then."
"I'm almost finished. But it's just so long," Rishika commented, her voice full of envy.
"Mine isn't almost as shiny as yours," Duo said to the reflection in front of him.
"Is it?"
"Uhuh,"
Rishika stared blankly for a moment then purposefully started brushing Duo's hair furiously.
"Catherine, I've finished."
"Okay," Cathy walked over and rung Duo's hair out a little.
Then the three heard a muffled sound of a door open then close as somebody must have come out from the showers so Rishika started walking toward the door.
"I think one of the others have come out."
"Oh good," Cathy said in a pleased voice. "I didn't think boys took for ages."
Duo looked back to look at Cathy then added-"Well, we did have some problems getting in. Most of the others didn't want to because all the showers weren't separate. I was fine, Quatre seemed to be used to it-" Cathy's eyes glinted and Duo quickly added" "don't take it the wrong way-he just travels a lot and you get all sorts of baths and showers he says. He said he went in baths which had both genders too."
Cathy looked a little uncomfortable at that, though a part of her twitched with some kind of excitement.
Then Duo continued "Well, Trowa got in eventually. Heero didn't mind other then the fact that he thought the taps might shoot missiles at you or somethin' seeing as he went around 'inspecting' all of them. Wufei was the worst."
Catherine nodded. "Okay," there was a split second silence then Duo seemed to remember something and had the face of a dying man. "What?"
"Oh shit," Duo said in a grim voice.
Rishika opened the door and Duo and Catherine heard her say 'Oh come in' and she opened the door wider to let whoever was out of the showers to come in.
Duo hesitated then very cautiously turned his head to come face to face with Trowa. "Oh God."
Trowa gave a small sign of a snigger then Rishika sat him down next to Duo.
"Well Trowy, There's nothing much we can do about that hair can we?" Catherine said as she plastered some sort of liquidy substance over Duo's hair.
"I'll just give it some moosing and a bit of brushing," Rishika said, taking up the can of moose and a spare brush getting straight into it.
"Good,"
"Yeah Trowa-Nothing much to do about your abnormality hair!" Duo called. "I mean what kind of hair is it? More like, can you even see through that.well.what would you call it? A branch off a pine tree hair?" Duo made a small sneer.
"Stop teas-," Catherine started as she brushed Duo's hair over again then realised that it would be difficult to object against Duo's comment this time. You couldn't exactly say it wasn't Palm Tree shaped hair after all.
"You told me it was natural ages ago when I asked you. More like, wasn't that the first thing I said to you?" Duo asked.
"No," came his very simple answer. "And yes, it is natural. Don't ask anymore."
"Wow, so it is natural," Rishika said. "Here, you're finished. Is that alright Cathy/"
"Yop, beautiful. Now Trowa you can just sit there looking shiny."
".okay Cathy," he answered.
"You must take good care of your mass," Cathy commented.
"Yes, of course! I take good care of it everyday,"
"Nothing to boast about,"
"Shut up Trowa-here comes another pilot! Oh no." Duo said as he heard the muffling sounds again.
"Excuse me for a moment," Rishie said and went to the door again.
"Hi Kat," Duo said as Quatre, the next victim entered the room.
"Hello, what's going on in here?" he looked around then Cathy broke away from Duo for a bit and said.
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon. Don't look at me like that, it won't kill you-,"
"It does!" Duo interrupted.
Ignoring that, Catherine went on. "Anyway! Take a seat."
"Here," Rishie pulled out the chair next to Trowa's and Quatre thanked her as he sat down then she started her efficient work.
"Cathy? Can you pass me that spray there?" Rishie asked, pointing to a blue see-through bottle.
"Here," Cathy threw it over and Rishika caught it, she shook it up and the liquid inside frothed up and she squirted a bit on the blonde hair. Rubbing it in gently she added other creams to it.
All this reminded Quatre terribly of all his 29 sisters, playing with hair things and deforming his hair.
Trowa sat there, silently in his spot looking shiny, as for Duo who was watching Rishie and Quatre out of the corner of his eye for Cathy forbade him to move his head as she washed it over again.
The two-Quatre and Rishika-were talking happily together as the girl reached out to get sprays or brushed his hair.
"You have such silky hair Quatre," she was saying.
".Really?"
"Yes, oh and I never noticed the waves down the bottom at the upper neck," she was running her fingers through his strands as she talked. "Oh it feels nice."
"Thank you. You have lovely hair too Rishika.san?" Quatre pondered on how to call the other girl.
She smiled and giggled. "Just Rishika will do."
"Okay, Rishika. No, I really like the colour. I saw a tinge of red-brown in it as well," Quatre looked at the mirror-image in front of him and Rishika with her hands on his head, peering out to the mirror from behind his head.
Duo still looked out of the corner of his eye to Quatre and Rishika, the top of their heads shining white by the light. Then-
"I'll just get that," Rishika reached over Quatre's shoulder to grab a bottle.
"No, no. I'll get it for you," Quatre reached his hand out at the same time and the bottle was knocked over with a clatter as both their hands pushed it from either side.
"Oh!" both sqealed in surprise then both ducked down to get it and made the mistake of tripping over each other's feet and the two landed on top of one another on the tiled ground.
Their heads were extremely close, basically one head touching the other. Quatre's head was pushed against the wall whilst the fall and Rishie had her head crammed in front of Quatre's. Both their noses touched and their wide eyes met in frozen horror. During the fall Quatre had reached out for the bottle and grabbed Rishika's hand instead, Rishie had automatically grabbed for something to assist her to stay up and had one hand held by Quatre and the other flung out on top of his thigh. Quatre's other arm had been forced to twine around Rishika's neck in such a way. Their legs were tangled and when Rishie quickly tried getting up she fell again and by first reaction Quatre put his arm around her to protect her from the hit, making Duo burst.
"Good shot! Cathy, you got that?" Duo clapped his hands, entertained.
"Sure have," Catherine said from behind his head, a video-camera to her eye.
Right at that precise moment Heero chose to walk in. The two innocent souls on the ground froze as the sound of the door opening was heard. Then a slightly amused sounding voice spoke.
"Sorry for disturbing. Having fun?"
"Heero," Trowa whispered.
The door closed and Heero went to sit next to Trowa, keeping one eye or both down below.
"Mfffmmsdfffdlllksm," a muffled voice squealed.
"What?" Trowa asked looking over to the other side of the room where the voice came from.
A head popped up from under the table and yelled. "Don't look!" and ducked back under, ironically.
"Nice hair Duo," Heero commented.
"Damn, you saw," a small voice grumbled as Cathy tapped him on the back saying 'get up, I haven't finished yet.'
Muttering things that were rather not heard Duo scrambled back onto his chair and sat with a slouched back, after being slapped across the shoulders by Catherine he straightened, stubbornly fixing his posture.
"Wufei should be coming soon, as a matter of fact," Heero turned from his chair, looking toward the door. "He's here now."
"Good afternoon people," Wufei seemed in an unpleasant mood spitting the words out as he shut the door silently, his hands were red and it was obvious he had tried escaping again. Either that or he was suffocating himself in the showers.
After a few seconds of glaring at the wall Wufei turned his attention downward to 'something' that drew his mind that way.
"What're you doing? God," Wufei stalked over to the empty chair nearest the closest wall and sat down. "Now, is this some kind of 'practice your sleezing' test? Peh!" He soon realised that Duo seemed abnormally quiet, looking his way he cracked up in a small snigger. Then in a drawling voice, teased "Nice hair there Maxwell-." He was acting rather intimidating tonight.
Catherine had a hand under Duo's hair, touching his neck. Going with the flow and following Wufei's mockery she grinned and bent down and blew in his ear as she pinched the back of his neck with her cold fingertips.
To her delight the straight face that Duo was trying to keep broke and he squealed for a split moment as shivers ran down his back.
"Hey!" Duo complained as Cathy laughed at his reactions. "I'm sensitive you know?"
"Whatever you say,"
"Hm,"
"Errr." After some time Catherine glanced back downward and asked slightly timidly. "Rishika? Would you sort of finish Quatre's hair and do Wufei's for me.please? Yeah sort of and."
"S-soRRY!!" Rishika immediately sprung up on her feet and half pulled Quatre up to his seat as he nodded in apologies desperately toward Catherine Bloom.
"Now ummm, we need er I just have to.YES! Get this and-," Rishika worked quickly on Quatre's hair, she looked strangely like a professional gone wonky. "There, I've finished now."
"Thanks, Rishika," Quatre smiled and sat back, looking at the mirror in front of him at his now shinier and suspiciously more heavy-feeling hair.
The girl then hurried toward Wufei's seat, grabbing an armful of sprays at the same time, dropping some on the floor with 'klatters' as she ran. Quatre had to pick up all the fallen, now rolling down the room cans and spray bottles, setting them on the table-top in front of Wufei, next to all the others.
Wufei eyed the cylindrical objects that were sitting in front of him. He wanted to reach a hand out inconspicuously and pick one of those sprays and test it on his hands to see if they would damage anything in a horrid way, but that would lead to embarrassment. He could just see that Maxwell, glancing to where he sat, leaning back to see around all the heads in his way then laugh and tell him that the sprays were used on 'hair' not 'hands'.
While Wufei's thoughts were floating off into space Rishika was absentmindedly twining her hands together, thinking what she could do to improve the boy's hair.
When Wufei had noticed he saw a hand extend from behind him and reach to some sort of stick with a wheel at the end and a botton on it. Quickly Wufei grabbed it before the girl behind him could. "Min! Not that, just not that!" Wufei spat as he remembered what it was. It seemed familiar and no wonder. His wife used to use it, he remembered. The Hair Waver.
Rishika looked a little put down at that, wondering what she could do to get it back from him.
"Fei, don't be mean,"
"What!!?" Wufei yelled back to Catherine who was now at long last staring to gather up Duo's hair to prepare braiding. She just had to wait so that all the gundam pilots could see the beautiful hair, out around his shoulders.
Heero looked around Quatre's head and said in his monotone voice, "It's a mission. Now give that to Rishika."
Rishika then reached out and took the Waver out of Wufei's hand. Taking the tie out from Wufei's hair the strands flopped down in a smooth way, forming curtain like sheets around the sides of his face. Putting the Waver through just the front strands Rishika continued brushing it then sprayed it for it to look shiny and neat and did nothing more for she was quite afraid to actually do anything more.
Heero's hair was too messy to control, even for Rishie the expert. So she concluded to brushing it and decided that 'Bed Hair was the fassion. Yeeees- '
"You finished yet?"
Catherine was desperately trying to finish the last bit of Duo's braid and snapped- "Stop asking, it's the.I don't know. Who could be actually bothered to counth time! You sound like one of those kids who keep asking 'How much longer?' on a car trip!"
After some time Cathy gave a sigh and stood back, cracking her neck from the stress of all of strands.
"Now, how does that look?"
"It-" Duo started then was interrupted by Catherine once again.
"If you dare say anything like 'It looks better when I braid it' OR 'It doesn't look any different from normal' OR 'Why 'dyou even try? It looks as though a dog's done it' OR OR OR OR OOOOOOR!!!!"
"..It..it looks fine," Duo concluded, staying on the safe side after being bombarded with the Catherine outbreak.
"Oh, okay."
"Shall we go now?" Rishika asked as she walked up to Cathy.
Catherine looked toward Rishika and smiling she clapped her hands and said, "Sounds good! Okay everyone! Follow me!!"
It sounded as though it was a lot of harrd work to finish Duo's hair.
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The pilots then were led out of the make-up room and out to the shower blocks and back to the corridor and back into the large room they practiced the waiter-work in. In that room there was a curtain at the back that none of them had noticed before. AS soon as they saw it, for one Wufei stopped dead not wanting to go 'any' further then he had come then that was finished by Heero Yuy who simply said 'it's a mission' and proceeded to push him along the floor.
Through the curtain another one of the 'doors' appeared.
All pilots were shivering violently as they had learnt the horrors of the doors. Quatre and Duo were even clinging onto each others' sleeves.
"Now, now. I told you, the last room was the room of 'the last touches.' There are no more practice rooms, okay?" Catherine asked. "This is the real thing."
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Author: Was that chapter okay? I'm.mmm. I hope you enjoyed it!!! I'm sort of damned stuck at the moment with the next chapter buuuut, maybe if I get looootsa feedback, it might come quicker! ^_^ I guess I'm just trying to beg for comments. Well, if you want to, please review, if not.well, hope to see you next chapter!