5: Unwanted problems
[Author's note: Japanese is featured in this chapter.]
The next morning Wufei arrived at the Sanc around breakfast with a less than stellar attitude; He was rudely awakened by his next-door neighbor pounding on his door complaining about the silence that came from his apartment and accused him for arson because he smelled the wood in Wufei's fireplace burning all the time. Of course Wufei was not going to take the foul mouthed middle-aged man's insults lying down.
The Chinese preventer stormed out of his bedroom in his boxers and over to his door. The neighbor did not expect this or the harsh words that came out of Chang's mouth. The 17-year-old had gotten so angry that he was unaware that he was chewing his neighbor out in his native tongue. The middle-aged man ran back into his apartment trembling. Afterward Wufei bathed, scoffed down his breakfast and made his way out of the apartment complex where he was picked up by a reluctant preventer Eriol. Once he was at the sanc kingdom he watched Eriol drive speedily away from the area with a scowl.
He sat upon his temporary bed in a mediating position, calm and serene. He listened to the birds hopping along his window seal singing their sweet songs full of life. Wufei picked up on the faint sound of footsteps approaching his bedroom door. Not wanting to give the person the impression that he was oh-so soundless Wufei's lips parted. "What is that you want, Duo?" He muttered. Duo's fist paused lightly against the open door vaguely surprised that his friend even knew he was coming down the hall. "Mind if I come in?" Duo asked. Wufei cracked open one eye to get a look at the ex-pilot he hadn't seen in a good year or so. "You may," He responded.
Smiling the American stepped inside the room with his hands behind his back. He admired the cleanness of the bedroom as his eyes shifted toward the birds on the window seal. "Nice company," He sighed leaning up against the wall. Wufei shrugged pulling himself out his mediating state, he let his legs dangle over his bed. "So what have you been up to the last year or so?" Wufei asked incuriously. Duo blinked at the Chinese teen's sudden need to known what he was doing.
Placing his hands behind his head Duo pondered for a well deserved minute before explaining everything that happened during Wufei's absence minus the card accident. Wufei surprisingly in turn partially explained his life to the intriguing American. Duo smirked. "Sounds like you had one boring year," The 17-year-old replied. "Can't say I had the most exciting time either. Hilde make me work all year and only let me off on official holidays."
Wufei chuckled ruefully at his friend. "At least she has work ethic, unlike you," He yawned. Duo rolled his eyes; Wufei knew how and where to kick him with the abolsute turth. "Yeah, sure," Duo grumbled. "That's a real kick in the pants." Wufei shrugged once more hopping off his bed. He slipped his feet into his traditional Chinese slippers and exited the bedroom, he motioned that Duo follow him. The American teenager had no intentions of staying in his bedroom, bringing his arms down Duo followed Wufei down the second floor where Trowa, Heero and the others were waiting for him on the first floor. However, as he and Wufei traveld down the stairs, Duo was mind was someplace else. More or less last night.
"So what's up Heero...?" Duo asked as he stepped into the Japanese teen's bedroom.
"I think Jin was followed here," Heero got straight to the point. "Or rather, we were followed to the Sanc Kingdom."
Duo blinked in confusion as he headed over to Heero's window. He stared out into the darkness of the night that was only partially illuminated by the snow on the ground. "Your sure about this?" Duo asked. Heero nodded in response as he pulled out his Laptop from underneath his pillow. "There are reports that a special kind of Orphanage run by a large company are looking for special kinds of Orphans. Underage war Orphans to be specific," Heero explained tapping away at the keyboard. "Rumor has it that a woman named Margaret Cypher works for them and now in Japan."
Duo came over to Heero's bedside and peered at the information scrolling up the screen. His eyes narrowed at a picture of the red-haired woman, Margaret Cypher. "You think she's the one following us?" Duo asked. Heero shook his head and began to type in a series of cryptic codes. "No, I'm not sure who is following us or Jin. But they do work for the company backing that Orphanage," Heero sighed. "Just keep an eye out."
Duo nodded. "But what are we gonna do about Jin?" He asked. Heero shrugged. "We'll have to watch him. There's no telling what might happen. I'll tell Une about first thing tomorrow. In the meantime....... just be cautious." Duo sighed falling back onto Heero's bed with a more than upset look on his face. "Man! We can't ever catch a break can we?"
Heero's frown deepened. "Looks that way," He uttered. Duo sat back up and fiddled with the end of his sweatshirt. "Where do you think they'll strike?" The American asked. Heero closed his laptop and placed it back underneath his pillow. "My best bet is, when they think we're totally off guard..." A moment of silence past over them. Looks of astonishment came over the two as they faced each other.
".......the trip...." The two of them said in unison.
Duo brought himself out his memories as he reached the last stair. Hilde stood at the landing with a smile on her face. He waved tiredly to her before she jumped onto his waist embracing in what he figured was a hug. He smiled and patted her one the head before he motioned that he wanted her to let go of him.
Hilde hesitantly let him go then watched as he headed over to the unoccupied couch. He fell onto the cuchioned object with a flop, his braid slumped over his shoulder coiled on his lap. Hilde walked over to Relena who was busy talking to the train station about the reservations for 10 or more seats on a train to a well known winter resort in the mountains.
Hilde listened to the European's soft spoken words as she tried to aruge with the outraged person over the phone, Hilde could hear the supposed woman screaming at the very top of her lungs. The German girl figured the woman was in a tizzy because she thought Relena she could buy her out or something. Unable to hold her paitence Hilde tapped Relena lightly on the shoulder catching the 17-year-old's attention. "Hold on for a moment please--- ma'am please calm down I only asked you to hold---- thank you," Relena turned her eyes toward Hilde. "Yes?" Hilde glanced briefly toward Duo bfore speaking. "Did you call that doctor yet?" Hilde said in a hushed tone.
Relena shook her head as the sounds of the impatient woman threatening to hang up caught her attention. "Uhh-- hang on Hilde, I've gotta finish this. Yes ma'am?" Relena winced as the woman began to bark at her. Hilde sighed and headed over to the couch to join Duo who was busy scratching Lokey behind the ears. He looked up at the short-haired girl with a smile, Hilde sat down beside him quietly. His smile faltered slightly but he didn't want to pressure her to tell him what the problem was so he continued to play with Lokey. Hilde watched the dog's tail wagging back and forth with such pleasure she couldn't help be smile at the four legged creature's enthusiasm.
Wufei, Quatre, Trowa, and Heero stood at the end of the stairs watching the scene between their comrade and Relena's "bodyguard" with confusion. "How is it that Lokey dislikes Heero and Wufei, but it absolutely adores myself, Quatre and Duo?" Trowa wondered aloud. Wufei shrugged not really caring for the affection of a flea bag such as Lokey while Heero pondered on the Latin American's question. Quatre chuckled at his friend's question as he watched Lokey rub his nose against the back of Duo's hand. "I think its just a matter of personality.... but you'd think Lokey would go for people like Heero and yourself, Wufei," Quatre said placing a hand on his side. "You both look as though you've spent too much time by yourselves."
Heero grunted in objection as he made his way toward the front door. Trowa made no attempt to stop the Japanese teenager as he stepped outside. Quatre look a bit confused. "Did I say something to offend him?" He asked. Trowa shook his head. "No, he just went out to patrol around the house. I spoke with him this morning after he came out from Une's room. He believes someone who harmful intentions has followed either us or our younger counterpart---- Jin. He doesn't know what their exact aim is. Though he figures its another attempt on Relena's life," Trowa input. "I too believe something is amiss." Quatre and Wufei drank in every word Trowa had spoken also beginning to believe something about entire trip was quite disturbing as well. The woman they could hear screaming at Relena was only one of them.
Heero shivered involuntarily at the wind that blew around him as he scanned the first part of the building, he could find nothing out of the ordinary. Heero advanced to the back of the building, as he was doing this he noticed meidum sized footprits in the snow heading for the green house. Pulling his gun out of its holster he stepped in the footprints so he could not leave a set of his own. He scanned the area for other footprints but could find none from where he stood, the snow was just a bit too bright to see anything at the time. He continued walking the small footprints until he came to the entrance of the green house. Silent as can be he stepped inside with his gun in front of him as he waded through the floor coverd with shattered ceramic over flower pots. His eyebrows furrowed at the sight of two medium sized feet sicking out from behind a counter that held a numerous amount of geraniums and tulips like a pair of sore thumbs.
Heero approached the counter carefully until he came all the way up to it. He aimed his gun at the figure only to find not an assassin but a little girl cowering in fear crying in what he knew to Japanese. Her hair was cut in a most horrid way; it was short mostly like his but the split ends in every part of his hair indicated someone had cut her hair poorly. He couldn't see her eyes, they were shut tightly and her skin was pale and brusied.
Her arms were thrown over his face, Her legs were covered in small bleeding cuts and her hair was the color of timber wolf (gray). She only looked about four years of age. "Mune ni kakushita tsubasa de oozora e maiagareba wasurekakete 'ta kinou no jibun ni aeru," She whimpered softly. "Omoide nante iranai me no mae no ippyo dake boku-tachi wa ima ikite iru subete wo kakete....." Heero put away his gun and kneeled down to the small girl's level and carefully placed his hand on her wrist.
The reaction he got was one he expected but as a loud he thought it would be. She screamed out at his touch and began to thrash violently as he tried to pull her up off the ground. Heero grunted as he was kicked the side the moment her leg shot out from its bent position. "Iie! Iie! Iie!" She screamed kicking her legs in front of her. Heero dodged them by ducking to the side pulling the girl over. "Daijoubu!" Heero shouted in Japanese grabbing her by the waist. She wriggled in his grip as he held her to him. "Iie......Iie......Iie.......lie!!" The girl's voice was becoming hoarse and barely above a whisper as her struggles became less and less.
"Daijoubu......! Daijoubu," Heero repeated in ear. The girl's fuilte attempt to escape him was no more, she slumped against his shoulder unconscious. He stayed where he stood for a moment as he stared into the fear riddled expression of the little girl before a snap of a twig caught his attention. Ignoring the girl's sudden revival Heero pulled his gun out and aimed in the direction the noise originated from and spotted a figure aiming its own gun at him. Heero pulled the trigger and fired directly at the man's side and to his surprise he hit him but the figure managed to fire his own weapon. The figured rushed from the scene in a hurry. Heero stumbled backward at the impact of the tranquilizer's dart inplanted its needle into his neck. The gray haired girl bit down hard on Heero's wrist, he released her untentionally at the sting of pain in his wrist. The gray haired little girl ran past him and outside into the snow and into possible danger.
He placed the handle of his gun between his teeth and yanked the dart ouf his neck preparing himself for unconsciousness but......nothing happened. An eyebrow raised in question. Not the slightest bit of drosiness came over him and it made him wonder why the hell the man had fired at him. Tossing the dart to the ground Heero rushed outside of the green house catching a glimpse of the little girl slding down the snow covered hill into the forest. Taking his gun out from between his teeth Heero slid quickly down the hill and into forest after the fleeing figure and the girl if he could find her.
He bobbed and weaved through the trees with ease focusing his eyes soley on the man whom he noticed was a bit bulky, he worry about the girl later on. The Japanese teenager fired off his gun hitting the base of the tree barely missing the man's leg, growling under his breath Heero picked up his pace leaping over a rock slightly loosing his footing. The man he chased turned back to find the squirt of a Asian was beginning to gain on him, he needed to do something quick before he was caught.
Making a hard turn to the left the man headed toward a nearby stream he had past several times until he ran into the little girl Heero had found, he fell over onto he knees. The little covered her mouth with her hand and hid behind a tree beside the fallen man. Heero came up from behind panting as he aimed his gun down at the man's back. He scanned the area for any one else but he could find no one, not even a departing or apporaching footfalls. The man made an attempt to rise but the feeling of a barrel pressed against the back of his head stopped him short. "What are you doing here?" Heero sneared. "Answer me!" Heero was tempted to pull the trigger on the man without giving him a chance to speak.
"To retrive the girl, she'll jeopardize our mission if I let her escape," The man replied. "What's your mission?" The 17-year-old asked. The man said nothing leading Heero to think he was talking about the girl he found in the green house. Pressing the barrel of the gun harder against the man's head Heero noticed a small head peer from behind the tree with fearful gray eyes. "Oh God......," Heero uttered unconsciously. The man shifted his head toward what Heero was staring at and gasped himself.
The girl was right in front of him and all he had to do was get this twit off his back long enough to grab her. Throwing his leg up the man knocked Heero over onto his back. The girl tried to run over to the young man who had helped her but she grabbed by ends of what little hair was on her head and into the harmful embace of the man. "Tasukete [help]!" She screamed as the man took off. Heero had no intentions of the letting a girl die. Jumping onto his feet Heero ran after man as fast as he could. He wouln't let another little girl die on his account or fault! Heero lept out from the trees, his feet splashed into the water after spotting muddy foot steps on the shore line going back into the forest.
Damn it! I can't find them! He thought franticaly. Just as he was about to stop the girl and man screams reached his ears once more bringing back all determination to find her. He rushed through forest once more noticing there was a trail of blood below him, dreading the worse he followed it until he came to a dead end which was an usually large lake frozen over, the blood stopped there. He frantically searched the entire area where he was and caught sight of the girl at the end of the shore her lower body in the broken part of the thin ice.
Heero made his way over to the girl's side and kneeled down on one knee. He gently pulled her out of the freezing water and toward him. He lifted one limp arm checking her pulse, to his relief there was a faint one. Heero examined her face; her lips had lost some color and were quivering slightly and there was bleeding cut on her lower leg but other than that he could find nothing else. Rising his feet Heero gathered the girl in his arms then stared down at the hole in the thin ice with a look of disappointment.
He knew the man had fallen into the water and to his dismay there was no way of knowing what he truly wanted the girl for or who he was working for. A moan escaped the little girl's lips catching the former soliders attention. Heero watched her gray eyes open to stare at him. Struggling the little gripped his shirt with all effort. "Is the bad man gone?" She rasped. Heero's Prussian blue eyes remained unaffected by the innocence of the girl's question, looking down at the hole in the ice Heero averted his eyes back to the girl, his face impassive. "Yeah," He replied dryly. "What's your name?" The girl stared at him for a moment her eyes fluttering closed. "Ryuusei," She whispered before falling unconscious. Heero's eyes brigthened at the sound of her name. Shooting star. He thought smiling.
Relena sighed as she hung the phone up. Her ears ached from the constant yelling from the woman on the other line. But she had managed to book a train ride up to the mountain area or somewhere near it after she assured the woman that she was trying to bribe her with money and a large amount of passengers. Everyone in the room stared at her in question. Relena gave them her best smile and said; "I managed to get us a train that was heading to the area I picked out for our trip!" Quatre smiled back in response, while Wufei and Trowa nodded in acknowlegement.
Duo was a little to preoccupied with Lokey who had hoped onto the couch and draped himself across Duo's legs to take a nap. Duo was beginning to get stiff from sitting still, Hilde tried her best to get the dog off of his legs but Lokey would not budge. Relena noticed this and called for him. Lokey's ears went forward at the sound of her voice and he immediately hopped off of Duo and headed over to her. Duo grumbled at the sight of dog fur all over his black pants and rose to go change them. Hilde reframed from laughing at his situation as he made his way over to the stairs.
The opening front door caught all of their eyes and they stopped in astonishment at the sight that was truly one to behold; Heero standing in the front door with a little girl in his arms. "Nani?" Blurted Duo as he stepped down from the first stair. "Heero who's the kid?" Heero looked down at the girl in his arms and shrugged. "I found her in the green house hiding," Heero explained. Trowa blinked in confusion wondering how a girl in her condition got in Relena's green house. Quatre, Wufei and Hilde wondered the same thing while Relena stood at the phone with a dumbfounded look on her face.
A little girl in her green house? "How'd she manage to get there, Heero?" Relena asked. Heero explained the situation to them in as much detail as he could (minus the going on's on his head). This left his four comrades to poinder on what he had told them. "Do you think this has something to do with whoever is following us or Jin?" Quatre asked worriedly. Heero shrugged staring down at the girl in his arms. "I have a hunch that is does, but that's about it," Heero replied. "Our best bet is to get this trip moving, to keep them thinking we don't know what's going on." They all nodded in agreement. Heero moved over to the couch and laid the girl onto the couch beside Hilde. The German girl noticed there was a torn peice of Heero's shirt upon her leg but she mad no notion to question it's purpouse.
Upstairs, Mariemaia stood in front of Jin's bedroom door with hesitant fist against the wood. She wasn't sure why she was standing there in the frist place. The orange-red haired girl straighed out a few lose strands of hair that fell out of place in order to look presentable. Sighing the girl swallowed her fears and knocked on the door a few times. The sound of rustling could be heard from the inside but no one answered the door, Mariemaia was beginning to believe she had done something other than invite herself into his bedroom the other day to offend him.
She could hear Jin's footsteps departing from the bedroom and into the bathroom but he never came within two feet of the door. Mariemaia's hopes slowly began to die out as she turned away from the door and headed back down the hall. It was offical; he didn't want anything to do with her anymore. And as much as she tried to think it didn't bother her it did, truth be told. She whipped her eyes with the back of her right hand and entered her bedroom.
Une looked up from her book with a questioning gaze. Her eyes were focused soley on Mariemaia's outfit. Cargo pants and a large necked orange sweater with sandles to match her eyes. Une also noticed that Mariemaia was crying, something she rarely saw the girl do. Placing her book down onto the bed the 22-year-old walked over to her daughter, her face showed uncertainty. Mariemaia glanced up at her mother through her eyelashes that were wet with tears but said nothing. "What's wrong Mariemaia?" Une asked.
Mariemaia's face falter to one of a brokenhearted little that spent her time away from the German woman when she first came to live with her. "He hates me!" Mariemaia's wail caught Une off guard. Kneeling down in front of the sobbing girl, Une placed her hands on her daughters shoulders. "Who hates you? Treize.......," Mariemaia glared at her mother for her obliviousness to the situation at hand.
"Not father! Jin------! He hates me! He doesn't even want to talk to me anymore!!" Mariemaia sobbed loudly, burrying her face in her hands. While She cried Une's brown eyes narrowed in realization. Heero never said anything about........ that boy with the cross! Une's eyes glazed over as she remembered the 11-year-old boy setting on the table fiddling with a cross. Are you a Christian....? No, I just like to fiddle around with it is all. Une scowled and stormed out of the bedroom. But not before asking her daughter where he was.
Mariemaia directed her toward the end of the hall. Une then made her way toward the bedroom door at the end of the hall. She knocked roughly on the door but go no answer, this angered her greatly. "Stay calm, don't get angry....," Une whispered to herself. The German woman turned slowly around and noticed a tall young figure walking down the hall in a brisk pace. Pulling out her gun she shouted to the boy ordering him to stop.
Jin stopped dead in his tracks as the sound of Une's voice then turned to meet her firey brown eyes with his onyx blue eyes. She stomped stomped toward him her gun clutched tightly in her hand. Jin stood in his place knowing Mariemaia had told her he was in this building, he stared at the woman towering over him frowning. Without a word spoken between them Une grabbed him by the collar of his blue T-shirt and dragged him down the stairs. All five ex-pilots noticed the German woman's flowing brown hair resting upon her shoulders and immediately dread washed over all of them. "Heero give that girl to Hilde!" Duo hissed as quietly as he could.
Hilde's eyebrows raised in horror but could not object when Heero handed her the girl and shoved her through the entrance of the kitchen and ordered her to hide there until he said otherwise. Hilde obeyed and remained in the kitchen hidden behind the refrigerator. Une came down at the last stair shoving Duo out of her way. The American pilot noticed Jin in her grasp immediately knowing what was going to happen next. Heero came over to Relena's side his face impassive as the Preventers commander tossed Jin across the room.
"Do you mind telling me why you never told me that you knew where this boy is?" Une snapped harshly. No one said anything. "Because I asked them not to," Jin replied climbing off the ground. Une's eyes burned with such anger that she was tempted to her shoot the boy in point blank range. "Preventer five, I could all have you courtmarshalled for with holding information on an enemy rebel and from your superior," Une said. "Who died and made you leader Une?" Duo scoffed at her threat which got him a sort of wanring glare from Trowa. Duo threw this hands behind his back with a roll of his eyes.
"In case you've forgotten he was assoicated with Dorothy Catalonia's sister's rebel force, which makes him plauseble for jail," Une pointed out. "All he did was steal a Gundam from her in order to kill Dorothy's sister, he had nothing to do with her rebel foce," Trowa said bluntly. Une snapped her head toward him growing more engraged by the mintue. "What he did may have been wrong, Une, but that doesn't make him plausable to go to jail," Heero pipped up.
"I'd have to agree with Heero and Trowa," Quatre said. "I did the same thing once upon a time. Sorta." Wufei kept his mouth shut, he did not know the boy Jin and he did not want to get involved in something he knew very little about. Une could her mind debating over their somewhat vaild points and her point of view on the entire situation. Unable to decided she decided to let the whole thing off.
"Fine, I'll have to agree with you for the moment. But if you ever withold information on anything that might threaten peace or is in direct offense of my authority, you will be punished for it," Une sneered storming toward the front door. "I'm leaving Mariemaia in your capable hands. I'm heading back to Preventers HQ, I'll be sure to let know if I find anything on the infromation you've given me Yuy." Une grabbed slipped into her boots and winter jacket before exiting the building. The room fell silent afterward.
Hilde stepped out of the kitchen with a uncomfortable look on her face when she noticed the unhappy faces on all five ex-pilots and the worried expression on Relena's face. "You've gotten yourselves into one fine mess," Hilde muttered shifting her weight onto on leg. Duo wordlessly made his way up the stairs to change his pants. Heero narrowed his eyes at the young man standing the middle of the floor thinking he should've just stayed on the L1 colonly. This entire idea of Relena's was a bad one.
"I'll be outside," The Japanese teenager grumbled. Trowa's arms fell to his side and he followed after Heero. His green eyes glanced briefly at the guilty face of Jin before slipping out of the door as it closed. Hilde rushed across the floor and headed up the stairs after Duo leaving Wufei, Quatre, and Relena alone with JIn. Wufei was beginning to feel uncomfortable amongst the silence and he too headed upstairs to his bedroom.
Jin lowered his head, his wild bangs fell over his eyes hiding the guilt that reflected in them. "Sorry," He muttered. Relena made her way toward the korean and kneeled down to his level in a half-crouch due to his height. Their eyes met and Jin recoiled from her soft touch of her hands against his arm. "You have nothing to be sorry for, Jin," Relena assured him. Jin scoffed and pulled away from her almost too quickly, because he noticed Relena flinced at his sudden movement. He headed off into another part of the house seeking solitary. "This isn't going to well," Quatre sighed.
Relena continued to watch Jin departure and couldn't help but agree with Quatre. "I'd have to agree with you, Quatre," She said solmenly. "I just hope we'll be able to get to the train station without any trouble."
Margaret sat atop of her desk with a look of disappointment etched across her face. Before her stood Ralph and Chris, their faces showed fear and Margaret was the source of this feeling. The red haired woman's hands clutched the edges of her desk as she fought to control her tempter. "I must commend you on a job well done Ralph," Margaret began. "You've managed to get one thing right: follow Rei's son. But someone under your command lost a child that Tomeki had taken under his wing and the was next to be killed because of her uselessness." Margaret paused exhaling.
"And now both of them are missing, the man most likely dead and the girl..... well who knows because your inferior lackey hasn't reported back!" Ralph flinched at the harshness of her voice made no move to object. Margaret turned her toward Chris who flinced at her movement, the 44-year-old did not take notice of this. "And Chris, weren't you supposed be keeping visual contact with Ralph's subordinate?" Chris nodded fervently. "I was, but something happened. The last I saw of him he had the girl but there was someone else with him as well and then the signal went completely dead. I couldn't get a feed or anything," The blonde explained.
Margaret turned to pick up the palm-pilot Chris had been using to watch everything Ralph's man was supposed to be doing and examined it. A smile of disbelief came to Margaret's face as she turned to face the quivering blonde woman. "It looks as though this wire here was purposely disconnected," Margaret sighed placing the pom pilot onto the desk once more. "Did you do this, Chris?" The blonde woman shook her head quickly fearing the worst was going to happen her. Margaret picked her glasses placing them upon bridge of her nose.
"Fine, whatever you say. Ralph you are coming with me on a little trip to the mountains. Chris you are to stay here and keep servailance over the Sanc Kingdom despite the VFM's absence. We might need to use the building in our plans," Margaret explained jumping off her desk. She motioned Ralph to follow her. He did so but hesitantly. Leaning over he kissed his sister and headed off following after the elderly woman. Chris stood in the empty office trembling, she fell to her knees and sobbed for her life and her brother's. Margaret was going to get them for her own selfish ambitions if someone didn't stop her!
Heero stalked up the stiars having returned from the cold outside accompanied by Trowa. He stepped into his bedroom with a sigh, he had pack everything he needed once more so they could out of the Sanc Kingdom and arrive at the train station in time before their train left. It was more problematic than he wanted it to be. Grumbling he pulled out his suitcase and sat it down onto the bed to flatten a lump in his bed, he turned to go place his clothes into the suitcase but the lump under his sheets shifted from underneath it.
Heero watched cautiously as the lump slowly advanced toward the top of the bed, first two hand came from underneath the sheets and then the head. Heero sighed dropped his guard. "Ryuusei, are you alright? What are you doing in my bed?" Heero's questions confused the little girl. Then he remembered she didn't speak English so he repeated what he had said to her in Japanese. Ryuusei replied that she was playing hide and seek with Hilde and Duo but they never bothered to look for her. Heero just smiled.