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Disclaimer: The animes Gundam Wing and Sailor Moon do not belong to me. If anyone would actually believe that they did, they deserve an award.


Chapter Three – No need for school!

Finally! Gym! A class I like! Mina could have leaped for joy at the thought. As it was, she settled for a stately walk. She stopped suddenly as she saw who else was in her class: Trowa, his sister Lita, and her boyfriend Wufei.

"Um, hi guys!" The two boys turned, looked at her, nodded, and turned back. Lita on the other hand winked at her and ran over to greet her.

"Hey! I didn't know you had PE this period! Come on! I'll take you to meet Amara! You'll love her! She's just so cool! She really is the one who runs this class even though the teacher's supposed to. Hey...are you going to be part of the fencing club?" Shaking her head, Mina let herself be dragged along to see Amara.

"Ah, well. You sure? A lot of the group's in it and it wouldn't hurt for you to be in it, want to try?" Mina paused and started to think about it. It actually sounded interesting, if not a lot of work.

"Can I?"

"Definitely, just let me talk to Zechs and we'll see. He's the president of the club. AHA! Found you 'Mara!" A very tall girl turned to face them, white-blond hair cut boyishly short around her face. She had eyes so blue they hurt Mina's eyes to look into them. The blue gaze moved back to Lita. Amara jerked her head towards Mina.

"Who's the new kid?"

"Quatre's sister! So you better be nice to her!"

"Who ever said I wouldn't be?"

"Just warning you..." Lita muttered. "I wouldn't be too surprised if Quatre came down here and tore your head off over something you said to Mina." Amara snorted.

"Little Keneko could try." She smiled. Mina gulped. Laughing, Lita turned back to Mina.

"Amara is Quatre's unofficial protector and older sister."

"But that doesn't mean I can't still take him down when I need to." Amara put in. She ran a hand through her short hair and took a deep breath.

"So," she began, "Are you going to join the fencing club? I have a feeling Lita's already talked to you about it." Mina nodded.

"I don't really know how to fence but I'd love to learn." Amara nodded to herself.

"Well, now's as good a time as any. Especially from the best."

"You?" Lita asked slyly.

"Hell no. Zechs is better and you know it." Lita sighed wistfully.

"I know. He beats you every time." Amara flushed angrily.

"He does not!"

"Um, guys?" Mina tried to stop them before they got into too big of an argument. "I think class is supposed to start soon? Everybody's starting to seem kind of anxious." Amara frowned and looked. Sure enough everyone, (except for Wufei and Trowa who were watching amusedly), were glancing nervously at Amara.

"All right! Time to split up!" Amara yelled, making them jump. Mina looked questioningly over at Lita.

"Oh! That just means whichever aspect of gym you take, that's what you practice. And since archery and fencing are considered gym practice," she grabbed Mina's arm and dragged her off after Amara, "That means we get to have fun!"


"And so," Mina concluded, "I now have, because of my interests and big mouth, both fencing AND gymnastics practice during gym. Not to mention after school fencing and volleyball practice." She sighed and sat down heavily on the couch, coke in hand.

"Um, how exactly do you manage to practice both gymnastics and fencing at the same time?"

"I alternate." Mina said gloomily. "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are gymnastics."

"And volleyball...?"

"Everyday after school."

"So fencing is...?"

"Weekends, first thing in the morning." Quatre whistled appreciatively.

"And people thought I was busy." He looked thoughtful and then broke into a grin. "Well, at least there are no worries about you getting fat." Mina threw a pillow at him.

"As opposed to you who sits around all day working on papers."

"It's my job!"

"You could get a different one!" He made a face.

"But I like this one! And it pays more." Mina rolled her eyes.

"As if you couldn't just ask dad for money."

"Same for you miss model!" Mina stuck her tongue out at him and the gesture was returned with equal gusto. She sighed heavily and looked back at her coke.

"Hey! Where's Artimas? I haven't seen him since you got back." Mina perked up at the mention of her cat.

"Oh he's sleeping on my bed. Maybe I should forgo drowning in my coke and sorrows and go torture him instead." Quatre shook his head.

"You're evil."

"Takes one to know one." Just as she was bounding up the stairs, the phone rang.

"Mina! It's Bunny! She wants to know if you can come join her and the girls for ice-cream later!" Mina did a 180 on the stairs and fell down with a thud.

"When!"

"Um...Five!" Quatre yelled back.

"Cool! Where?" Mina couldn't believe she was being invited already.

"The Crown!" And...she had no idea where that was. She'd ask Quatre.

"I'll be there!" Quatre hung up the phone and went up the stairs only to find Mina still sitting on them.

"Um, you do realize that means you need to leave now, right?" Mina just looked at him, waiting for an explanation.

"It's four-forty five." Mina did a double take and then whirled up the stairs to her room. Frantic scrambling to get ready was heard from the bedroom, accompanied by several yelps of pain. Quatre snickered.

"Gotta go! Bye!" A flash of yellow and orange went by and the front door slammed. It suddenly opened again and a hand shot in and grabbed the keys hanging next to the door on the wall before slamming the front door again. Quatre blinked. The door opened again.

"QUATRE!" He winced.

"I'm right here!"

"Oops! Sorry. Um-"

"Take a right, down three blocks, take a left, down seven."

"Thanks!" The door slammed for a third time. Quatre sighed. Things were certainly going to be more active with Mina back home. He just wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.


"Hey! We were just beginning to wonder about you!" Mina gave a weak smile and tried to catch her breath.

"I- gasp-had to-wheeze-run from my house." Bunny's eyes grew wide.

"You ran all the way from the mansion?" Mina nodded. "Wow."

"Hey! Are we getting ice-cream or not?"

"In a minute Rei, let Mina catch her breath."

"Nah, I'm fine now!" Mina bounced over to Rei and smiled. "Lets go get ice-cream!"

The walk to the ice-cream parlor was relatively uneventful save for the fact that Bunny was continually tripping over everything and everyone in order to get there faster.

"Finally!" Lita exclaimed as they pushed the door to the shop open. A blast of cold air struck them and they were greeted by a handsome young man in blue jeans and a white shirt. In fact, it was –

"Darien!"

"Hi Bunny, figured you'd show up since it was Thursday."

"Bunny! You mean the reason we went out for ice-cream today instead of tomorrow was because you wanted to see your boyfriend?"

"...Yes?" Rei sighed and then glanced at Bunny, snapping sharply:

"No puppy eyes!" Bunny's eyes only grew bigger and she started to sniffle.

"All right! I give up! I'm sorry!" Bunny was instantly happy again, running over to kiss her boyfriend over the counter.

"Bunny, I wish you'd be a little more sensitive about these things sometimes." Ami said, shaking her head.

"I am Ami! Just when Rei-"

"Usual?" Darien interrupted.

"Of course!" Bunny chirped.

"Right away - wait. What would you like Mina?" Mina blinked.

"Me?" He nodded. "Um, strawberry?"

"Coming up!" The girls made their way to the back as Bunny grabbed a booth and sat in it, bouncing up and down happily. Rei, about to say something, suddenly decided against it and instead struck up a conversation with her sister. Mina, busy looking the parlor over, didn't realize until halfway through their conversation it was all in Japanese. Ami would add a comment now and then but generally did not take part in the conversation. Mina was about to ask her where she learned Japanese but just then Darien showed up.

"Raspberry sherbert," Ami smiled as she accepted it. "Chocolate for Rei, cherry for Lita, strawberry for Mina, three tone sherbert for Hotaru," she blushed and murmured a 'thank you'. "And two banana sundaes for my little rabbit." He tweaked her nose as she squealed in delight and moved back to his work.

"He's always like that." Lita said around a mouthful of cherry. "He and Bunny have been dating for...how long?"

"Fwee wears." Bunny said as she held up her fingers as extra help.

"And they've been so cute about it!" Lita's eyes glazed over as she let her ice-cream melt.

"And she-" Rei said pointing at Lita, "is a puppy who's sick for love."

"Am not!" Lita retorted, snapping out of her daze. Hotaru giggled.

"Hey Ami." Ami glanced up surprised.

"Hm?" Mina paused in the middle of her ice-cream.

"How did you learn Japanese?"

"She's half Japanese." Hotaru piped up.

"My mother's German and my father's Japanese." Ami explained. "They divorced when I was two."

"Oh." Mina took a thoughtful lick at her strawberry cone.

"You see, I still wanted to keep in touch with my brother Heero since he'd moved to Japan, but I couldn't write him in English very well. So Heero
and I sort of cobbled out a system where we would translate each other's letters and teach each other. It was easier for him since he had English as a requirement at his school. I had to get help from a couple of other students." She smiled at Rei and Hotaru.

"Of course by then she was already fairly well versed in the language and needed little help from us." Rei retorted. Ami blushed.

"So what do you guys wanna do now?" Everyone stared at Bunny and her empty dishes and then back at their own half-eaten ice-cream cones.

"What?" She said as they burst out laughing. "What did I say?"


Author: Well! That's all for now! I'll write more later! And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! REVIEW! I'd luv you forever and ever! With Bunny on top?

Bunny: Pwease?

Author: O.o

Author: My characters are helping me?

Ami: Not really, um, you see-

Rei: We just want the reviews!

Lita: Yeah! Reviews!

Author: -.-

Author: You just want the reviews? That's the only reason you help me?

Mina: ...Yeah?

Author: .

Hotaru-chan: We love you?

Author: You see what I have to put up with here?

Quatre: Allah! No wonder it takes you so long to update!

Author: -.- What he just said.

Minna: We love you! Ja ne!