"this is when they're speaking Japanese"
Chapter 16: AbductionHeero fell onto the bed. 'What is wrong with me...?' He was able to think before closing his eyes to the dreamless sleep once again.
He had only gotten about ten minutes of sleep before he was being shaken awake. "Heero!" Relena shouted into his ear.
He groggily opened his eye and looked at her, half asleep. He forced himself awake. "What?" He asked.
Relena looked at him. "Well, it's getting to be nightfall and we are going out for dinner." She said. "You have to come, you didn't eat anything on the plane ride." She lied. She had seen him eat the meal that Miyyuuki's mother had packed for him. She noted the faint lines under his eyes but brushed away all worries. He was always fine, even when critically injured it seemed.
Heero sighed and got up. He also figured it was because they couldn't read or speak the language. He put on his yellow tennis shoes and smoothed out his normal clothes, which was the same style as of what he had worn during the war.
He grabbed his jacket and wallet, which was shoved it into his pocket. "Let's go then." He said. He opened the door and met the others in the hall. "So where do you want to eat?" He asked them, stifling a yawn, which only Trowa noticed.
"Dunno. Do you know any good places around here?" Duo asked Heero.
Heero shook his head. "Not really. It would depend on what you would want." He said simply.
"We don't care. We are hungry, we'll eat food, okay?"
"Fine." Heero walked off with the other's following behind him. The driver waited for them out front. They all shuffled into the car.
" Where to? " The driver asked.
" Sakura, the Japanese steakhouse. " He said without emotion.
" Alright then! That's a good place to eat. " The driver said, turning out of the parking lot to go to the restaurant which was by the hills and a forest, giving it a natural pleasant feeling too.
"Where are we going?" Relena asked Heero, the other's looked at him too.
"We're going to a place to eat. That's what you said and that's what we are doing.." He said, closing his eyes.
" You look tired, you okay? " The driver asked.
"Yeah..." Heero said in English, nodding his head. The driver understood the nod, but didn't understand the word.
"Yeah what?" Relena questioned.
"Nothing." He said back, not opening his eyes.
" By the way, I'm Jay. " The driver, who's name was Jay said.
"Heero." Heero said. The other's raised an eyebrow.
"You mean to tell us that you've been talking about things and you never knew each other's names?" Quatre asked.
"Would it matter?" He retorted, not opening his eyes still. They were out in the country area by now, the less urban area. Sakura was nestled in a nice little area where the fresh air did you good and it was breathtaking to see the landscaping and scenery.
Quatre looked at him. "Well...no, but you didn't trust us during the war even after you knew our names." He pointed out.
"So? Why wouldn't I trust you? You had the same mobile suit's as me and all." He said.
"So? What does that mean?" Duo asked.
"It mean's I've never trusted anyone in my life, I never will, and that's all." He said, a hint of anger in his voice as a wave of pain hit him. The sleepiness was completely gone from him and now he was getting headaches since he had lain down on the bed.
'What the hell is wrong with me?' He said, looking out the window, pressing his hand to his aching temple and making it look like he was leaning on his arm and not trying to stop the pain from his throbbing head.
Relena looked at Heero. She wanted to ask him if everything was all right, but she didn't want to know how the pilot would react.
Jay stopped immediately, hearing the conversation as it wavered up to the front. " What! " He shouted at them in Japanese. " You are soldiers! " He shouted. He yelled at them through broken English from the book that he had been reading for them to get out now. They piled out of the car and he quickly drove off.
The gray cloud overhead hung ominously and it began to growl at them, spitting rain that felt like daggers at Heero. His headache had passed, but he knew it wasn't the last.
"Wonderful." He muttered. "Next time you all plan a vacation, leave me out of it." He said through gritted teeth as he walked down the road, which was getting muddier.
Relena look down hearted. Something was bugging Heero and it wasn't just the fact that he had been dragged along. He wasn't feeling well or something. She and the others followed after him.
Heero's hand flew to his head and he let out a hiss of pain as the headache pounded through his skull. It felt like someone was beating on his head with a sledgehammer. The splitting pain caused him to stagger, drawing the others attention as he fell to his knees, bent over, trying to subdue the pain.
The pounding in his ears didn't allow him to respond to any of their questions as he fell forward from exhaustion as the headache passed.
Relena caught him quickly before he hit the hard muddy road and Trowa reached to help her stand up. It began to thunder and lightning in the sky. They made out the shadowed figure of the place that they were going to eat at. They ran towards it, carrying the exhausted Heero who was at least able to keep his eyes open and his breath was heavy as if he had been running for three hours and more non-stop.
They opened the doors to the place that looked like a dojo and found it empty, the lights off. Trowa laid Heero on Duo and Quatre for support and reached to turn on the lights.
Shadow's appeared before them, silhouettes of people. They grinned at him and Heero was able to lift up his head. He saw their evil grins, which showed that they were up to no good and got off of Quatre and Duo's support. He took a weak fighting stance, staggering a bit, but held the position.
"Well, well." A large bulk of a person said, "What have we here? It looks like they fell for our trap, didn't they Kasaii?"
"Wel,l yes, they did Higarki, did they. Our little puppets lead them right into the trap." A young woman in her late teenage years said slyly, almost devilishly.
"Who the hell are you?" Duo shouted.
The two shadows that had been talking stepped out into the light. One, a girl had brunet hair with deep blue eyes, and the other had black hair tied into a small ponytail that was braided and had green eyes.
"It's been a long time, Heero." The girl said whose name was Kasaii. He glared at her, recognizing her as the flight attendant that gave him his glass of water before they had gotten to Japan.
"Yes, too long. Too long for both of us." The man said whose name was Higarki.
"What do you want?" Relena shouted to them. They glared at the five that weren't Heero and snapped their fingers. Minion's came behind them, despite their struggling, and tied them up with strong bonds before they could do anything.
"What do you want? What are you doing here?" Heero said, without any energy. The fight with the headache, which had worn him out, had exhausted him.
"So, it looks like the 'perfect soldier' can fall ill from a nurotoxin after all. We placed a heavy amount of sedatives into that drink too so now it's all in your bloodstream, if we were to give you a little more, you would collapse."
"We've missed you so much too." Kasaii said. "You know, after the organization couldn't find you they took us instead and now we are like their slaves, they won't train us though since they only want you. They are never going to let you go Heero. Did you think they would? After all, you're their perfect creation. They are going to retrain you, though. We've discovered you're gaining emotions. They are useless after all." Kasaii explained to him.
"Hold still, we don't want to hurt you any more than they will to you." Hagarki said, grinning all the while
"Heero! Run!" Relena cried, spilling tears onto the floor.
Heero was barely standing as it was and the others noticed this, and struggled in their bonds. Just when they thought it was hopeless, Heero collapsed, which they thought was for real, and he quickly reached into his sock and drew a blade and threw it skillfully with his last strength to hit the bonds on Trowa, making them fall apart. Heero smiled a weak smile as Trowa grabbed the knife and cut Wufei undone who attacked some of the men closing in on Heero.
"Relena..." He said, which came out as barely a whisper and he fell forward, passing out, the nurotoxin circulation was becoming quicker since he had been walking and moving around more than he had on the plane.
"Great." Kasaii muttered. She threw off her jacket and went to fight Wufei. "You say that women are weak," She told him, grinning evilly. "Tell me, how will it make you feel when a woman kicks the crap out of you?" She asked, tilting her head slightly to the side.
Wufei lunged at her, throwing kicks and punches at her. One connected and she got up, spit out some blood from when she bit her tongue from a force of the blow for her cheek and ran towards, Wufei, about to throw a fist punch for his upper chest, but landed a knee kick in his abdomen. Wufei clutched it as she grabbed his shoulder painfully and threw his body down into her knee. He fell to the floor after letting out a painful cry as the bruise on his abdomen grew and shaded a deeper color.
"Get him, Kasaii!" Hagarki shouted as he dealt with the other pilot's, shielding them from their friend that Wufei had bravely tried to defend. Kasaii ran towards Heero, scooped him up in a single sweep and ran out into the storm, her followers and Hagarki following steadily behind them.
"No!" Relena cried, falling to the wooden floor, tears flowing down her cheeks, mingling with the rainwater.
TBC
