You've Got Mail
AN/Disclaimer: the characters and settings of Gundam Wing and Ranma ½ are not mine and never will be. I'm just borrowing them to play with. This is and AU crossover fic. Look out for het and yaoi relationships as well as for OCC ness.
Chapter One: The arrival of Dana Maxwell
It started just like every other damn day has since me an' Pops started livin' with the Tendo's, with me getting' wet and turnin' inta a girl.
SPLASH!
One three point landing in the koi pond. Least this time I landed face up, always a good thing. Less chance of swallowing water if I hit my head and get knocked out again. Damn near drowned a couple a times, at least after the last time Pops started fishing me out if I didn't surface quick 'nough.
Any ways back to the story.
It started like any other day at the Tendo's. A quick trip to the koi pond followed by sparring with Pops until Kasumi called us for breakfast. A quick splash of hot water, a change of clothes, eating quick while fighting Pops for food, then grabbing my school bag and out the door heading for school.
The first sign that it was gonna be a weird day was my gettin' to school early. Akane pissed me off so I ran on ahead and got a good seat to watch her bash the hentai hoard like she did every mornin'. She was doin' good, bashin' through those geeks like a freight train, guys flyin' every where, I settled back ta enjoy the show till I saw that one a 'em was gonna land on a girl with a long braid hangin' out by the doors inta the school. I jumped outta the tree an' hauled her an' the guy she was talkin' to outta the way just before the guy Akane bashed their way landed on 'em.
Ya know, I usually didn't pay attention ta girls, but man she was pretty, big purple eyes, a cute nose, nice lips, and the longest brown braid I'd ever seen. She was prettier than Shampoo, an' I'd never seen her before. It wasn't till she asked me to put her down that I realized I was standin' there starin', with her in one arm and the fella she'd been talkin' to like to blow a fuse in the other. I can remember her giggling when I blushed and stuttered while I put 'em both down fast as I could without dropping 'em. I remember sayin' sorry an' backin' away red as a beet then turnin' and headin' up to class a bit dazed.
The second crush I'd ever had, not that I realized then what it was, and as I found out later, She was a He…
But never mind that, I'll explain later, back to the story.
That girl with the braid was the second person I'd ever had a crush on, and the first one just about bust a gut when she came in to the classroom only to see me starin' outta the window with a silly grin on my face. Soon as she saw me, Akane started yellin' and callin' me a pervert. Seems she saw me pull the girl outta the way and then forget to let go. If the teacher hadn't come in right then, she woulda used that mallet of her's to send me flyin' out the window. But the teacher did show up, an' she had to sit down like everyone else.
The teach did all the usual things, announcements and such, same old thing as every day, 'til she said that we had a couple a new exchange students coming in to the class, Dana Maxwell and Chang Wufei. For a second I thought what if… then shrugged it off, knowin' my luck was too shitty for somethin' like that to happen. Course who walked in to the classroom but the pair I'd grabbed outta the way earlier.
Up 'til that point, I'd been slouched down starin' outta the window bored outta my mind. I was surprised enough to end up sittin' straight at my desk for once. Lookin' at 'em at the front of the room, I noticed somethin' I'd missed before. The guy, Chang, had a sword strapped to his back. This told me just how flustered Dana Maxwell had me, 'cause the sword an' the way Chang moved weren't the sort of things I usually missed.
In any case, as it turned out, the only free seats in the room were next to me and Akane. I could feel the glares from all of the guys in the class, I got to sit next to not only the most popular girl in school, who I just happened to be engaged to, but I also got to sit next to the pretty new girl too. But hell, guys glarin' at me was something I was pretty well used to by then, so it didn't bug me at all.
The way Chang glared at me as he sat at his desk was somethin' else though. Not even Ryouga at his worst could match this guy. I grinned back at him, hopin' he'd make a decent sparring partner at some point, the way he moved told me he might. Dana Maxwell smiled a bit, nodded and sat down with her cheeks a bit pink. Man she was cute.
'Course Akane had to tell them I was her fiancée just as soon as she could. She'd seen how I'd looked at the girl, and even though she didn't want me herself, she wasn't gonna let anyone else have me either. What a pain in the ass that girl was, at least while I was engaged to Nabiki she pretended to want me. Yeah, I knew it was a lie when she said she loved me, only thing that girl loves is money.
After that, besides the occasional glares from Chang, and U-chan, class went same as usual till lunch time. Rather than sit where Akane, Ukyo, or Shampoo could find me, I sat about half way up one of the trees near the school, in a spot where I could see most of the area in front of the school. At the time I wouldn't admit it, but I was lookin' for Dana Maxwell, even then I had it bad. It was nice eatin' alone, not bein' bugged by my fiancées, and even better, I got to watch the new girl with out anyone knowing what I was doin', which was exactly what I did. I was surprised ta find myself pissed off when most of the guys around my age crowded around and tried to talk to her. Chang chased 'em off pretty quick though, so it didn't bug me too bad. I didn't figure out 'til later that I'd been jealous.
Back in the class room after lunch, but before Akane and Ukyo got back, I got up the nerve to go over to her, even with Chang nearby, an' apologize for what I'd done that morning. She just laughed and thanked me for getting her and the big grump outta the way of the gut who was gonna hit 'em. Then she started flirting with me an' I found myself flirting back until I couldn't stand Chang glarin' at me anymore. So I asked him what his problem was. Dana, she asked me ta call her that, just elbowed him and called him grumpy and overprotective.
That's how I learned that they were best friends from the same school in the US, an' that Chang apparently considered Dana more or less his little sister an' his to protect. She just smacked him and claimed she could take care of herself. By that time most of the class had returned and I was tryin' not to laugh at the two of 'em as they argued back an' forth. Still, soon as Akane showed up an' started glarin' at me, I headed over to my desk and got ready to spend the afternoon bored outta my mind.
Still, I spent more time listening than usual that afternoon. Chang kept poking me awake when I fell asleep, he claimed my snoring was too distractin'. Dana just giggled at us.
ooOOoo
After class, me an' Chang left together, arguin' about somthin' with Dana following us tryin' not to laugh.
I knew Akane and U-chan were mad at me, but I couldn't of cared less. Turned out that Dana an' Chang had to go the same way I did, so we kept on a talkin' 'til we got to the dojo, where I stopped and said I'd see 'em tomorrow. By then Akane was really pissed off. She'd been followin' us since we'd left school, and seemed to feel that my not walkin' on the fence like usual was an insult taoher. So of course she hit me with that damn mallet of hers, sendin' me flyin' as usual, this time towards Juban.
As I flew over Nerima, I saw Dana an' Chang goin' up to a house. I was surprised to see a couple of other guys turn into the same yard, but since both looked foreign, I figured they were exchange students too. I was just happy I knew where Dana lived.
