They stopped outside the Otaku Rave, Relena, Trowa, Quatre and Duo stared at it, the bright lights still flashing all night.

Duo looked at it, wide-awake now with the loud music, Blink 182 this time, playing, rising the crowd's excitements. "Hey! This is my kind of place!" He shouted and followed after Relena as she quickly walked into the building.

She walked up to the bouncer and he recognized her, and told her to go on inside, only she couldn't go up to the balcony. "I can get you to the front, it'll be hard for you, being your size, no offense." He said politely.

"Thank you so much." She said, smiling sweetly. "Let's go, guys." She said, waving them to follow her. They made their way into the maddening crowd.

"Let's give up for the best band here! Blackfire!" The announcer said, happily as the crowd went wild, girls screaming Heero, Rob, or Jack's name saying 'we love you' or 'marry me!' and such. Or for the girls 'marry me Joy!' or 'we love you Anna!' 'Go Yuka!' and such.

"Wow." Duo yelled. "They must be good!"

Relena nodded. "They are awesome!" She shouted as the curtain parted to reveal the band members, including Heero holding his guitar.

Like last time the girls raised the microphone in the air, shouting to the crowd "Y'all rock!" Heero and the other guys grinned, shaking their heads at the girls, who were all reeled up. Jack started the drums, the girls got into position and Heero started a guitar tune then Rob joined in and then the girls started singing.

Joy sung into the microphone alone. "And the rain falls,

As I dry my tears.

I am soaring,

Across on weightless wings.

I am falling

By my fears." She stopped; the drums did a little beat then all the girls sang.

"So come on!" They shouted, swaying with the beat as the rave crowd did.

"Come and twirl with me 'til I'm gone!

Come dance with me under the star lit moon,

Come on quick 'cause it's gonna set too soon!

Come on, go on!

(go on, come on)."

Joy took over alone now. "And I'm flying,

Now I'm falling,

Into the endless deep,

Where in the shadows I can weep.

Now I'm loosing.

Is this my choosing?

I don't know..." The girls joined in again for the chorus after Heero did an awesome guitar part with Rob, then Jack joined in to go with the beat on his sheet.

"So come on!

Twirl with me 'til I'm gone,

Let the shadow's give us a run.

Come on let's have a little fun!

Come on,

Sing a little song." The guitars were silent and the drums weren't quite so loud as the girls did a soft line, quite the contrast to the normal screaming.

"La la la, la la la, la la la." They sang, rocking their bodies that made some guys whistle loudly.

Joy took over again as the guitars and other instruments joined in. "And the suns out,

As I sing away all my doubts,

I was crying,

My tears falling,

Now I'm smiling,

No more tears

Like my fading fears,

Not having to go,

So now I know..." The song ended.

The girls jumped up and down, having completed the song they had just made perfectly. The crowd was just as excited over hearing the awesome new song.

A girl managed to get pass the bouncers, and got up stage, giving Heero a hug and kissing his cheek. She smiled at him; Yuka glared at her, and then walked over, planting a kiss on his lips. He looked shocked, but put on a smile for the crowd, though he looked at Yuka, who smiled back happily at him. A lot of the girls screamed at Yuka, the bouncer came and dragged the other girl offstage.

Rob said something to Heero who looked at him, laughing as the guys started the next song. Heero did a solo, then the girls sang to the other new song.

"I m real,

I can feel.

I can see now,

Without asking how.

No more crying,

Not another falling.

I am real now,

I can feel now." They sang the chorus together.

"Faking myself towards dreams,

Not knowing freedom's wings,

Thinking shallow beneath,

When there's so much more underneath.

I am real,

I can feel.

I can see now,

Without asking how.

No more crying,

Not another falling.

I am real now, I can feel now..." The song was quite shorter than the others, so they started another song, the first one they did, and their favorite. 'Let me Be.' Heero did a light tune, while the girls announced into the microphone, the song that everyone liked the best.

"'Kay y'all! We're gonna play you our favorite song of all!" Joy sad, bending down slowly, wearing a tight black tub top, and placed her hand on her knees with the microphone in her hand. The drums started and she bent up quickly, walking to the other side of the stage with the girls following.

They sang:

"I saw you,

I loved you.

You loved me back.

(What did you lack?)

We had so much 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...)

Can't you leave me be?

Look at me,

And see...

You're not the guy for me.

(Not the guy for me, ooh-oh, ooh-oh, ooh-oh)." They said shaking their heads as the crowd danced to the music which was their best song.

Relena and the others danced, liking this song more than most others on now a day.

"I tried so hard to forget you,

To forget you sweet for what you do,

But you-you make me forget who I am,

Who I was.

Am I too wrong to do this?

I'll make one last strangled wish...

Can't you leave me?

Let me be!

Look at me and see,

Just what you've done to me!

Something I'm feelin' just died.

Under my shallow skin I hide,

Deep inside my haunting self

I look at me and see my hell!

(From the heavens 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-ooh!).

I am lost now....

I am gone now...(ooh-ooh)

But couldn't you see,

That you're smothering me!

Just let me be!

Oh god, please!

Just let be..." The song slowed down and became less loud as the music stopped and the girls whispered loudly into the microphone loud enough for the crowd to hear.

"Just let me...be..." The said, shaking their heads, taking a bow like the other band members. They turned smiling, looking at each other as the curtain closed.

"Well!" Rob said, grinning at Heero. "I think he got a got kiss from Yuka!" Rob said, nudging him in the arm. Yuka looked at Heero and smiled, he smiled back.

"So." Yuka said, walking up casually towards him, a smile still on her face.

"What was that all about?" Heero asked, still grinning. Yuka blushed, she loved it when he smiled, there was something about him that made her always want him to be happy like that.

"Well." She said, cocking her head to the side. "I've always really wanted to do that." She said, blushing deeply. Heero laughed at her and brought her into a warm embrace.

"Aww..." Joy said, smiling. "Well, while we are at it..." She ran over to Jack and placed a passionate kiss on his lips, which he gladly accepted. When they broke due to need of air, Jack raises an eyebrow and Joy laughed.

"Wow." Rob said, stunned at what was going on. "I think that you all are-"He was broken off by a kiss from Anna who had closed her eyes, enjoying every minute of it. She had wanted so long to kiss him like this and then-

Rob kissed her back, and put his arms around her. Heero started to laugh, and Rob chased his around as the DJ started playing some tunes outside.

The sound of 'Freckles' from Rurouni Kenshin floated into the room.

"I betchya can't stop freckles and I hate so my life

And I heave a little sigh for you

It's heavy the life that I would share for you

Now it dissolved like it was just a sugar cube!

Now the little pain sitting in my heart has shrunk but it really does hurt me now

Those silly horoscopes

I- guess I can't trust them after all!

If we could get together away...

(oohoh)

I wonder what it would be like!

Yeah!

I'd be so happy!

Inside my heart!

All the memories,

I have are beautiful in my mind,

But they don't feed the hunger deep inside!

And tonight of all,

I'd just be sitting in my sorrow!

And now I must wonder what, what did it really mean to you?

I just can't see it anymore

I just can't see it anymore...

Oh-oh oh-oh oh!"

(a/n: sorry, I was listening to the Japanese version and I had to sing along. I wanna share the love! I only know the English words though, so, sorry about it being shorter than the j-pop version)

Relena and the other four walk in from the back door, which lead to the wild party outside. They didn't see anything going on before this (Relena would have attacked Yuka if she didn't keep saying to herself the first time on stage was to get his mind back to the show). Relena walked up to Heero and smiled.

The other Gundam pilots were going to greet him first, but then Heero beat them to it, speaking to Relena.

He looked at her, staring at her clothes. "What afraid to change incase the tracer on you might wash off?" He said coldly. Yuka wrapped her arm over his shoulder, which Relena stared at like it was deadly poison.

"What are you talking about?" Relena asked, moving her eyes from Yuka's arm to his prussain eyes. He glared at her.

"And you are these people?" He said coldly. "Your bodyguards?" He asked cruelly. The Gundam pilots looked at him shocked at what he was saying. Something was terribly wrong. It was both Heero and wasn't.

"No." Relena said back strongly. "They aren't, I don't have a tracer, yet I do suggest that you make yourself less conspicuous, the news is all over you running away, or your mother's posting saying you were kidnapped. She-"Relena stopped what she was saying. The other pilots looked at him.

He turned around, clenching his fists at his side. "Go away." He commanded. "Just." He said angrily. "Just leave me alone." He turned and his other new friends watched him head to the door.

Joy was about to walk up to Heero to comfort him, but Rob put a hand on her shoulder. Jack wrapped his arms around her waist and she looked at him, brushing a strand of golden hair out of the way.

"Heero..." Quatre said, but stopped when Relena put her arm in front of him. She shook her head.

Yuka walked over to Relena, angry. She slapped her hard across the cheek, Relena surprised by this touched her stinging cheek.

Duo and the other pilots clenched their fists, waiting for her explanation.

"You." She snarled, while Yuka's friends looked at her, never seeing her so angry before. "You have no right what so ever, no matter who you may be to say such things to him. To even utter his mother's name after all the crap he's been through today, why do you think he ran away? He felt like it? Heero doesn't do things without thinking them over."

Tears filled her eyes. "You don't know the Hell he's lived through. You don't know a damn about anyone or what goes on behind those walls he had to call home. Not even his room could be his sanctuary." She said, tears falling down her eyes. "I heard the screaming, the silent cries of pain, once I even got hurt too. I saw it once." She said, tears falling faster now like a faucet.

"That time when I was coming over to explain the new lyrics a month ago. I heard yelling in the study. I opened the door, just thinking that he was saying how he hated living in the rich and famous, but he was leaning against the wall, he had a gash on his forehead. She swore at me and told me not to tell anyone, or she would kill him. He would make him die of pain. In exchange," she lifted her bangs, revealing a scar on the side of her cheek, close to her ear. "I would be hurt to for being a witness. If I told a soul I would be punished too by watching him die."

"Oh my god." Duo said. He turned his eyes from her to see Heero's friend's also looking at him, turned away from them, his left arm bent against the wall, supporting him.

"Heero, is-is this true?" Rob asked, stunned.

Heero had his face turned away from them so they could see him clench his teeth in pain. His hand flew to his head in pain and he fell to his knees.

His friends rushed over, Yuka pushing them out of her way. "Heero!" She cried. "What's wrong?" She shouted. His head was slumped against the wall and he was barely breathing. A sweat broke out on his body, and his eyes were closed in pain. He couldn't respond; the pounding was so awful compared to the soothing darkness. He let it take his world.

Trowa rushed through the people. "Move!" He rushed up to where Yuka was holding Heero's head, begging him to wake up, but he didn't respond, his chest was barely moving. Trowa turned Heero's head, feeling for a pulse and found it, but it was slowing down slowly but steadily.

He was holding by near the neck and felt something wet and cold touch his hand. He took off the T-shirt, revealing his well-toned muscular chest with a large gash over his neck and shoulder area. It looked infected from not being dressed properly and cleaned, but Trowa had a gut feeling there was more to it that that and he had learned to trust his instincts.

"We have to get him to a hospital! Now." He said sharply. "Duo, help me carry him."

Duo stepped forward, but stopped when Yuka shouted at him not to come any closer. "We don't have time for this!" Duo shouted as Trowa and him pried her from his limp body.

They rushed him out, Quatre, Relena and Yuka following while Rob, Jack, Joy, and Anna followed close behind them. They rushed them into Relena's car and drove quickly to the hospital, Heero wanting to give up on life any minute, except for something tugging at him.

They waited in the hospital. The doctor came out of two swinging double doors, a clipboard in his hand.

"Doctor!" Relena and Yuka shouted. They glared at each other. Yuka looked at the doctor again, pushing the thought of that wench ( sorry again for the interruption, but it's just so funny. Yuka's calling Relena a wench when she thinks the same about Yuka) aside. "How is Heero!" She yelled in his face, blowing his hair back and making his glasses fall down a bit.

The doctor blinked. "He'll do better if he stays here for the time being." The doctor looked at Yuka who asked the question and then looked at Relena. Then the others then pointed to Trowa. "You." He commanded. "You need to come with me." He said firmly. He pointed to Duo also and told the others to go home or he would call the parents and police to take them away.

"What is it?" Trowa asked. "Why did you want to see us?" He questioned.

"You are the only two boys that look sane." He sighed. "We did a test on his blood and found a chemical in there, it's a new type of stuff so we couldn't examine it, you look to be like the Gundam pilots from the Eve war's." He said.

The Gundam pilots were well known for the Eve wars, in fact, they were recognized as heroes. They nodded. "I'll let you look at the substance."

"Why did he collapse like that?" Duo asked the question that had been on everyone's minds.

"He had a strong poison in his blood, but it was a strange one. This type you can't eject or swallow, you have to make a laceration, a large one and it will freeze your blood. You have to strike a vein though. Much like a spider would on the neck if it was a giant spider." He said. "He had a large gash on his neck." He turned to look at them. "Might I ask how it came to be?" The doctor asked.

They shook their heads. "I don't know." Trowa looked at the man. "Who are you and how do you know about us? We have all been keeping a low profile."

The man looked at them. He reached up and took off a mask revealing a young girl with blonde hair. They looked at her, shocked. The man was actually a woman. "I am a friend." She said, she removed her jacket and showed a military like outfit with green army pants and combat boots with a brown tank top and a green vest. Her hair was cut a few inches above her neck.

"What the hell? The man is a woman?" Duo shouted.

The girl looked at them and sighed. "My name is Migurai, I have come from the L1 colony area. I saw Heero on the news and I've been looking after him secretively." She said. "I noticed him but saw how he was acting differently."

"How did you notice that?" Duo asked sarcastically. "I mean, really!" He said with exasperation. "How can you not notice? He suddenly appears and all the sudden he's the son to a Queen!"

Trowa looked at her. "How would you be able to tell if he acted differently, have you met him before?"

"He was a Gundam pilot and I knew him during the war." Migurai said. "He saved me once since I was important to his mission. He had to protect me and got seriously injured because of it. He disappeared and then next thing I knew, he was a Gundam pilot." She said.

"Why were you important to his mission?" Trowa asked.

"It was to protect me," She said. "My father and me helped form the rebellion group." She said. "When we were little, I fell in love with him, and still love him. He was so mysterious and still is to me..." She said dreamily. Then her eyes diverted back to reality.

Duo sighed. "Heero really needs to tell us more about his past. People just start appearing saying they know him and all." Migurai slapped him. "What the hell?!" He shouted, touching his stinging face.

"That was rude. I'm here to help, not to just come and tell you all sorts of things." She stated. " Heero's been under control by the Neo Queen, don't ask me why. She's given him a drug and I leave it to you to find an antidote. Once he's given the antidote, he'll remember everything, but not about what happened" She said, stepping back into the shadow's and disappearing. "Hurry. The Neo Queen will have heard of this and will rush over here."