"Look, your mother wanted you to behave, 'kay?" Said the young man's bodyguard. He only looked about sixteen, which was his age, the same as Relena. Another reason why his mother, the Neo Queen Ceres, wanted him to go out with the Foreign Minister because she was so close to his age and was "beautiful", not that he knew or not. She got so many deals settled with people he went out with.
"Yeah. Yeah." The young teenager said looking bored beyond belief. "Look, I haven't done anything bad..." He looked at the Theatre entrance. She was late. "Yet." He muttered underneath his breath.
The bodyguard looked at the young boy. He sighed, shaking his head. He had been a rebel ever since he had been assigned to him, though it didn't look like he needed a body guard himself, being quite strong as he was, but not only that, he had a inner strength inside him that made his foes underestimate him. Or so the guard though. He wasn't good at guessing, though he was more good at weaponry and such. He was a solider from the war, and found this job to his liking and also the fact that it was profitable watching over one of the most important and richest person's son.
The boy ruffled his chocolate brown hair and watched as a pink limousine pulled up across the street. He didn't care. His mother was lucky that she got him to watch Hamlet. He sighed heavily. He was wearing an attire of a leather jacket that was for his motorcycle, a black T-shirt saying 'Rock is Dead.' With 'Paper and Scissors live on forever.' Underneath it in smaller letters, with it bordered in red. Who ever believes rock, the music, is dead...he glared at them. After all, rock was part of his life. He wore dark blue jeans and black tennis shoes. His arms were folded across his chest in is usual manner.
A young girl his age rushed across the street, wearing a strapless dress and a white sweat jacket to keep her from getting cold in the balcony that his mother had gotten for the two of them. She took one look at him, without him looking at her.
"Heero!" Relena cried, truly shocked, not seeing the Neo Queen's son.
Heero turned to look at her, his prussain blue eyes looked her over, from head to dress to shoes. "I take it that you're Vice Foreign Minister Darlian." He said, looking quite bored.
"Huh?" Relena asked, quite confused. Of course she was Vice Foreign Minister, didn't he remember her? Heero looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "Oh! Um...yes... I am, but you can call me Relena."
Heero looked away. "You already know my name it seems."
He doesn't remember me! He's not acting! Oh no! Relena tried to keep her calm. The theatre was getting crowded; they would have to get in soon. Heero shoved his hand down into his pocket and revealed two crumbled tickets. He sighed. "Let's go." He said in a monotone voice.
"Oh, yeah." She stepped forward, then noticed that Fey was talking to his bodyguard, deep in a conversation and then talking about the date that they had arranged.
Heero turned around, noticing this too. The bodyguard looked up. He took a step forward, and then Heero saw the diminished and disappointed look Fey sported, no matter how hard she tried to hide it. "You stay here and keep her company. I don't need anyone protecting me." He tuned and left, Relena following. The bodyguard seemed to thank Heero mentally by the look in his eyes. That's one good deed for the day...
Relena smiled at him. She had to play along. "That was really nice of you to do." Heero looked at her. She looked back, throwing his stare back at him. He stopped by a guard by the theatre in front of him. He glared at the guard. Relena sweat-dropped, it was most certainly Heero.
"Excuse me, but this is for people who have ticket's only." The man said, crossing his arms to look intimidating.
Heero flashed two tickets in front of the man's eyes between his index and middle finger. The man looked at the names on the tickets, shocked, recognizing the face immediately. "Oh! Mr. Yuy sir, I'm sorry for that, it's just you..." The man looked at what Heero was wearing.
Heero waved off his apology then followed the man to the balcony seat that his mother had reserved, making him have the best one in the house. "Thanks." He muttered and plopped down in a seat by balcony ledge.
The man left, after showing Relena to her seat next to him. She started up a conversation. "So, how do you like being famous?" She asked.
He sighed, then turned to look at her. "To tell you the truth, I utterly hate it." He said plainly, this was certainly a different Heero. What ever happened to him caused his personality to change as well. "Everything has to be perfect and all. Plus there are all the dates and crap, no offense. A lot of girls dress up as best as the can. He looked at Relena's plain and simple white dress with her jacket. "Not like you." He looked down at the stage that was ready for the first act. "What do you think of it?" He asked.
"It's alright. I've gotten used to it." She smiled. "I've been known since my father was Vice Foreign Minister, then took up the job after he died. Then during the war, I took up my original name as Relena Peacecraft." She said.
"Really? I try to keep myself inconspicuous." He said. "As you can tell, it doesn't work very well.' She could have sworn she heard him mutter 'damn paparazi bastards' under his breath.
"So, my friend, Fey-"
"Is she also your secretary?" Heero cut her off. "Gomen." Heero apologized for cutting her off, remembering his manners and strict up bringing.
"Its okay." The play started. "Yeah, she is, she also said that you we quite the rebel." She said, not deterring her eyes from the handsome man beside her.
"Yeah, I guess I am." He said dully. "I hate wearing all those crappy fancy clothes." He stood up; the play was so boring. "What do you say we ditch this place?" He smirked at her; she smiled back at him. "This play is stupid anyway, they all die in the end, mother has a knack for picking boring plays." He said, still grinning.
Relena grinned back just as evilly. "Sure, where do you suggest we go?" Relena asked.
"Come on, first, we gotta get you some new clothes." He said. She forgot she didn't bring a purse just then and was about to protest when Heero silenced her again by grabbing her arm. Her cheeks flushed deeply as she allowed herself to be dragged out of the building. "I'll take care of the expense. Mother gives me a really big allowance." He stated simply.
"Oh," She whispered, blushing at her stupidity that claimed her infatuated mind at the moment. She should have known better, after all he was son of one of the richest people in the world! Wait a minute, he's not her son! Or is he? Was this part of his past and he's come to reclaim it? Did he actually have a family?
They rounded a corner and Heero smiled slightly, a clothes shop with Neo Letters was there with the words 'Hot Topic' labeled on it. Relena looked at it, then looked at the looming mall they stood before. "Wow." She breathed. Not knowing that they had malls like this tucked away.
"C'mon." Heero said, she managed to keep up pace with him and entered the store with a few girls looking intently at Heero, showing their interest by approaching him.
Relena glared a 'Back off' deadly look at them. They didn't notice at all. He made his way through them and pulled Relena with him.
Relena made her way to the T-shirts where Heero was also looking. She laughed at some of the shirts, and picked out a pair of black jeans, then went into a changing room, the last one.
Heero was on her mind the whole time. He waited outside, with the sales cleric watching him, standing beside him. He didn't seem to mind her like the others.
He picked out a shirt that said 'My imaginary friend thinks that you have problems' one and went over to the changing area to try it on, but saw they were all full. He sighed.
"Ah, c'mon Heero." Said the sales cleric whose name was Yuka. "You don't need a changing room to try on a shirt. I suggest this one." She held up a pirate shirt that said 'I'll swashbuckle any land lubber I see, ye scurvy dogs.'
"Sure," he gave her the other one, looked it over, and took off his other shirt as she gazed at his muscled chest intently and then tried it on. "Cool, I like it." He said happily to his friend. He took it off and then put back on his other shirt.
He looked around and found another two shirts, one a Lord of the Rings fan people shirt that said, 'I went to Middle Earth and back and all I got was this crummy...' it showed a picture of the one ring where the sentence was. He smiled a bit, picking out a slightly larger size. The other was quite a funny shirt, more Halloween style though, but he didn't give a damn. It said 'I'm a mean son of a witch.' in scratchy white letters on the black T-shirt.
Relena was done changing and put on the unbought yet clothes over her undergarments. She took out her white dress. "I'm done." She said, liking the way the tight black jeans looked on her, picked out a black with silver chained belt and brought her stuff o the counter where Heero waited with his items.
Heero was talking with the girl at the counter and looked at Relena. "Do you like 'em?" He asked. She nodded and he paid for the clothes, she still wore them thinking it was a waste of time to change out again and have to put them back on.
"Thank you.' Relena said kindly. "Do you know that girl?" she asked him.
"No prob." He said about her thanking him for getting her those clothes. "Uh-huh, I know her," He answered for second question she asked. "She's one of my best friends. She'll be getting' off work soon." They continued walking around the mall until Relena's stomach growled hungrily. She blushed furiously.
Heero looked at her and smiled a bit. Her heart skipped a beat. "Guess all this walking around has made you hungry." He teased as they were soon walked over to the food court and made their way to a booth, but stopped when a group of people came rushing up, calling Heero's name.
"Heero!" Cried a girl, who came up, panting, waiting for the others to catch up. "You here for the band playin'?" She asked.
"'Ey Anna," He said. The others caught up, greeting him by saying 'hey' and stuff. "What concert?" He asked, they followed him over to the McDonald's booth.
It was still a while to walk, so the guys started up a conversation with Heero, and the girls, not knowing who Relena was, started talking about bands, which Relena who some about the more famous ones, not the garage band ones. Relena still stuck by Heero's side, and he didn't seem to mind at all.
"You got the new lyrics?" Rob, a guy with black small spiked hair that looked close to a buzz cut. He wore a T-shirt saying 'Glomp me and Die!' and black jeans with a studded belt and black tennis shoes and a wrist band saying 'F' and then a 'U' on the other wrist.
"Yeah, I gave 'em to Joy, did she get 'em and practice? I gave her a recording of just the music so she could get used to singing them. There weren't like the other ones." Heero said, Rob nodded.
Jack, a dude with curly short black hair (much like Orlando Bloom's hair was) with a skate board under his right arm followed as they got into a conversation of music and bands and stuff.
"So, you're Heero's friend?" Joy, a girl with blonde hair asked, looking Relena over. "Cool outfit." She said, smiling at her good taste in clothing.
Relena wore a Green Day shirt with black jeans which had zippers on the side of her calf, making them more flared and having a red color for cloth under the zippers to hold it together. The belt went perfectly with her outfit and she had a dark sweat jacket on her.
Relena nodded. "Cool!" Said Anna and Chris, another young girl only with brunet hair and blue eyes. "Any friend of his is a friend of ours." Said Chris after they got aquatinted.
"You guys want some Mcy D's? I'll pay." Heero said.
"Sure, but we can pay for the admission fee then." Rob said and they all nodded on it as they walked up to the counter.
"I'll have a double cheeseburger and a coke." Anna told the person at the counter.
Yuka came running up to them, rushing to get through the crowds. "Hey guys!" She shouted as she got to the group of people.
"Hey Yuka, you want somethin'? Heero's payin', but we're gonna take care of the tickets in exchange." Jack told her simply.
She nodded her head. "'Kay. Um...I'll have a...um...Oh! I'll have a chicken fillet with a Sprite." She said.
Rob and Jack got the same thing, a chicken nugget meal with a Dr. Pepper and fries.
Heero ordered last after all his friends and Relena hadn't spoken, still gazing at the menu. "I'll have a double hamburger, medium fries and a coke." He looked at Relena who blushed, he sighed and turned back to the cashier. "She'll have a double hamburger and a coke too, without the fries."
After everyone's order came, they took a large table in the food court. "You can have some of my fries." Heero said, pulling out his fries and putting them between Relena and him who were seated next to him and pulled out some ketchup packets too.
They all ate their food while chatting about all sorts of stuff and Relena had to contain her pleasure since it would look weird if she gasped at how good it tasted for such a small price. Heero smiled at her, and Relena smiled back, happy at the good time she was having with him.
His watch went off, the others got up from their seats, threw their trash away, and then carried their drinks with them where they were heading.
Heero and the others, with Relena talking to the girls, farther from Heero she had been yet, stopped in front of a building with bright lights and multi-color flashed going on and off inside it with a large beat. The sign in front said Otaku Rave. Heero smiled at her, clasped her hand and then walked into the building.
"Don't wander off." He told her sharply, not wanting her to wander off and get stuck with the wrong group of people. If she hadn't ever even had McDonald's, how would she cope with a wild group and large uncivilized party like this ('course after this, she'll love this place he thought), but he had to come since his band was playing tonight. This is what he lived for.
His original plan was to ditch her, but when he actually met her, she wasn't half-bad, she wasn't like all the other rich and important people his mother made him go out with to get people to sign treaties and stuff. He won ninety nine percent of the time since all the other girls fell head over heels for him.
"Okay." Relena said, feeling almost dizzy from the loud music.
Heero looked at her as he pulled her behind the stage. "I'm doing a gig tonight, okay?" Heero told her.
Relena looked surprised. "Wow. You're in a band?" Relena asked. Heero nodded, picking up his guitar that was colored deep black and was shiny. "You play the guitar?" She asked again. He nodded again, and tuned the guitar, striking a few strings to do a little tune.
"I'm gonna have you stay with Ginna, she's the manager of this place. She got a special room up above. You can see everything from up there, but after this were gonna stay for about ten more minutes." He looked at her. "'Kay?" He asked. She nodded. "I can take you home, or get someone to pick you up."
"Nah." She said. "Its ok, I'll be fine." He walked her up to stairs, talked with the bouncer and then she walked up the stairs, and opened the door, which lead to a clear balcony that overlooked the stage. A girl was sitting in armchair; she looked at Relena and smiled.
"You must be Heero's friend, right?" She asked.
Relena nodded. "Hello." She said. 'She seems nice enough, of course, if Heero doesn't speak ill of her, she must be kind.' She learned never to judge a book by its cover. The Gundam pilots proved this little saying. They were guerilla fighters involved in the bloodiest battle yet they seemed so innocent and kind deep down once people got to know them. If the people weren't in the way of their mission that is.
"I'm Ginna." She said, getting up from her spot to where she was sitting and pulled a chair next to hers and then shook Relena's hand.
"I'm Relena." She smiled. Ginna nodded, and Relena sat down in the chair next to hers, where the stage was being set up behind the curtain.
"Their band, Blackfire, is really popular here, and around other places, but this is the closest around for them to go." Ginna said, nodding her head towards the stage. "And I was lucky enough to get a contract. Heero and me have been friends for a while so he decided to help me liven up business a little with their gigs." She sighed happily at that memory. "Only place they play and they are a real big hit."
"Wow." Relena said. "I thought they were just a garage band. They must be really good." She said, Ginna nodded to this statement like the other thing she mentioned yet again.
"We get to book them a lot since they are a real big-hit and it's not a one time single band, people love a lot of their songs. We record and sell some of their albums here, sometimes we sell them at places that might need business help, but we roll in the dough when it comes to these guys.
The Rave itself makes a lot of money. This used to be a rented place where you could hold school dances and crap, ironic isn't it. Now it's for rowdy people and party animals."
The curtain opened, Heero holding his guitar over in the corner, Rob with one two, only is blood red color with stickers all over his much like Heero's. Jack was on the drummer's seat with the stuff all around him, and then Joy, Yuka, and Anna each hand a microphone in their hand. They raised their hands and the crowd started to cheer wildly as Heero started playing, then Rob, then the drums came in, and then the girls started singing. The ( ) is for the echo or under voice while a person is singing.
"I saw you.
I loved you,
You loved me back.
(What did you lack?)
We had fun,
(Out in the sunny sun)
Now it's all gone
You've hurt me on and on...
(on and on and on and on again)"
Then came the chorus, which all the girls sang after the drum did a little jig while the girls waited for their rest to stop.
"Can't you leave me be?
Look at me,
And see...
You're not the guy for me." The girls said and the crowd cheered as Heero and Rob played, then the girls started to sing again.
"I tried so hard to forget you...
To forget you sweet because of what you do.
But you-"They hit a rest on the vocals. "You make me forget who I am,
Who I was!
Am I too wrong to do this?
Making one last strangled wish."
The chorus again, only with a different wording arrangement. Each chorus was different, but rhymed a little bit.
"Can't you just leave me?
Let me be!
Look at me and see,
Just what you've done to me!" Heero did a little guitar solo and then the song went on. The crowd was going wild and Relena was dumbstruck, listening to how good the music was. She whispered a 'wow', which was faded out by the blasting music.
"Something in me just died,
Under my shallow skin I hide,
Deep inside my haunting self,
I look at me and see my hell!
(From heaven to the fiery pits I fell!)
Can't you look at me?
Look at me and see,
What you've made me be!
Go on now, hide and flee (flee)
Running away, far from me (ooh-oh, ooh-oh!)" The blaring music stopped now, the girls sang in a harmonized voice, without the music now.
"I am lost now.
I am gone now (ooh-oh)." They waited a bit, resting and the crowd was still raving over the great music.
After a less than three second rest, the drum started again, then the guitars, while the girls waited for their part to start again. "But can't you see that you're smothering me?" They shouted, continuing on the last chorus. "Just let me be!
Oh God, please!" The other music died again as the girls sang without the guitars and the drums.
"Just let me be..." They said softly, shaking their heads slowly, then the final line in the song.
"Just let me be..." They repeated.
The crowd went wild as they took their bows. Some people threw up flowers that they had handy. The band members grinned at each other.
"What the hell, why not give them the other song, they are giving us an encore!" Jack said as he started to play again, the girls, recognizing the song, began to sing once again.
Relena bobbed her head to the music, feeling the beat. This certainly wasn't Heero...she would have to talk to the other former Gundam pilots, or the other two that kept in touch with her. Wufei wasn't really the social type.
"Lost some where deep,
In the shadows to which I keep!
Forever fighting on and on and on...
I am gone,
So far from here,
Lost in a place where I can leer,
So far from here,
Away from my old fears,
In a place I can't call home.
Wandin round and round,
Across the star-laced ground,
Forever wandrin' on and on and on....
I am gone,
So far from here,
Lost in a place where I cry tears,
So far from here,
From my new fears
In a place I can't call home...
I found you,
I have found you,
I run towards you,
On and on and on and on I run...
I am gone,
So far from there,
Gone from the place I cried tears!
So far from there,
Away from my fears!
In a place I can call home...
(home)"
The smiled while the crowd roared with pleasure, showing how much they loved the band. They left behind the black curtain that closed after the second song.
"That was great!" Joy cried. "Oh my gosh! That was such a rush!" She said, fanning herself.
"Yeah, that was awesome guys, we really nailed those new songs!" Yuka said. "It was really hot out there." She said, letting the cold air of the behind stage area cool her off. Anna nodded.
Rob patted the girls on the shoulder, grinning at each of them in such a way they all laughed. "Great job!"
Heero nodded, Yuka ran over to him and gave him a hug. "You nailed that guitar solo pretty good in 'Let me be' Heero." She smiled, releasing him from the hug he didn't mind. "You been practicin'?"
He shook his head. "Nah, your forgettin' my mom." He sighed. "Luckily, she sets up so many dates with people that I hopefully don't have to worry about it." He looked at Yuka and the others.
"Man, you're the best guitar player." Jack said, patting him on the shoulder.
Heero laughed. "Luckily, I don't have to worry about bringing my guitar home. Thanks again Jack for taking it with you all these times!" He laughed, the others did too, and they left the stage through the back door where Relena was waiting for him.
"Huh?" Heero asked, looking confused at the downhearted Relena. "How did you-"His bodyguard waked out from behind the shadow's, Relena looked at the floor.
This definitely wasn't good at all...