Thank you to EVERYONE who reviewed! n.n It makes me so happy! And this WILL be a Mina/Trowa fic! They just belong together in my book. And unfortunately angelicmayuka, I'm going to poke you. :poke: n.- Update soon! Also, to all those who listen to the music mentioned in my story, you rock! So, on with the show!
Chapter Eight: Get Ready, Get Set, Go!
Lita sat in Biology class with a bemused expression on her face as she watched a green tree snake taste the side of its glass environment. Mina's face was scrunched up in confusion as she tried to comprehend what the teacher was saying and text Heero at the same time.
"Liiiiiiita!" she whined in a whisper, gently kicking the tall girl's left shin, "Help!"
"Hun? Oh, he just told us to make sure our mice are alive, that's all."
"Um, that might be a problem." Mina said with a nervous grin, "Artimes likes mice."
"Mina!" Lita said a little too loudly.
"Is there something you'd like to tell the rest of us as well, Miss Winner, which Lita apparently finds so shocking?" Mina colored.
"Nothing! Except I hope my cat won't eat my grade." Several chuckles greeted her comment as the bell rang.
"All right class! I want a paragraph on their behavior in one week!" Lita poked Mina as she gathered up her books.
"You wanna go to the arcade after school?"
"Sure! Can we ask Bunny to come along? She'd hate to be left out."
"As long as she doesn't bring Darien." Lita said, thinking of the last time he'd come along.
"I'll make sure to tell her you said that." Mina said with a twinkle in her eye.
"Man…I'm bored." Duo whined, slumped over in the bleachers. Ami shielded her gaze with a hand to squint out at the track field. "Why are we even out here?"
"I don't know. Remind me again." Rei replied, lying flat on her back looking up at the robin egg's colored sky.
"I have conveniently forgotten." Duo replied dryly.
"We were supposed to be waiting for the others, but they're all late." Ami murmured. "Aha!"
"Found a reason we're still here?" Duo tossed out. Ami smacked the top of his head lightly.
"No, I see Heero and Lita." She stood up and waved once before sitting back down.
"Well what took them so long?" Duo wondered aloud as he sat up.
"Ask them when they get here."
"Nah, I'm too lazy." Duo said, standing up and stretching. "WHAT TOOK YOU GUYS SO LONG!" Ami and Rei winced as Duo shouted out across the field. The two figures waved back but made no effort to scream an answer across the stretch of ground between them. Duo grumbled good-naturedly and clambered down to meet them, the two girls not far behind.
"I cooked a huge lunch and was busy setting it up in the gym. I wanted to have a workout with Wufei before I ate and didn't want you to starve in the meantime, seeing as how-"
"We always come to watch." Duo drawled. He grinned. "Of course we couldn't miss it for the world." He skipped past them, heading for the gym, before breaking out in a neck-break run. "LITA COOKED!" he whooped as he skidded into the building. The two girls shook their heads. Duo would never change. Lita turned to look at Ami and groaned.
"Ami I don't believe it! You did it again. I'll have you know he's wearing khaki slacks, a white shirt, and a blue vest. Now Ames, what are you wearing?" Lita said, hands on her hips. Ami looked startled, sheepish, and then just smiled with a little toss of her head.
"I can't help it! He's the empathetic one! Blame him!"
"Ami…you're wearing exactly the same thing as your boyfriend. Tell me you didn't plan it."
"Well…"
"Ami!"
"So I take it this is a natural occurrence." Mina said, doing a lazy cartwheel on the balance beam.
"More like a...tradition." Trowa answered, doing a front flip so fast Mina almost didn't see him move.
"Hey! FOOD!" As Duo streaked past her, Mina laughed.
"I guess they're here."
"Hey guys!" Mina waved to Ami and Rei as they came in. "I'll be right there!" Finishing up her routine, she came over, grabbing a towel on the way. "Hey! Save some for me!" She said, eyes wide, as she stared at the enormous amount of food on Duo and Bunny's plates.
"Aw, don't worry! There's plenty! But that reminds me- Lita! You ran out of brownies!" Mina whapped the back of his head as she went by, grumbling under her breath about there being not enough brownies in the world to satisfy her two friends and their bottomless stomachs.
"You ready?" Lita asked, stretching her right leg. Wufei nodded, rolling his shoulder. Facing, they bowed, hands flat against their sides, before meeting with the ferocity and speed of cobras.
"Woha!" Mina said dropping a strawberry and staring at them spar. "They're good!"
"Yeah, they've both got lots of practice under their belts. A lot of what Lita does is street fighting with bits of everything else thrown in. In fact, she just might get…dirty." He paused, watching Lita bodily throw her boyfriend across the room. "And that's a match. Well, more sushi anyone?"
"So why isn't Rei coming along again? I thought you two were dating or something." Heero glared at his braided friend.
"She's busy studying for her physics exam with Ami and Darien."
"Ahhh." There was a comfortable pause before Duo said again, "What about Quatre? Where's he?"
"He's busy with work."
"What about Wufei? Or Trowa?"
"I thought that you wanted to go to the arcade."
"I do but-"
"!" The call pierced through the parking lot, causing heads to turn. Duo Maxwell rubbed his ear.
"Does she have to do that?" he asked nobody in particular. Heero grinned.
"Of course she does. I believe she picked it up from you actually. Bad influence; for shame Maxwell." Duo gaped at him.
"You-you-you-joke!"
"It's called humor. I rarely use it."
"This is all Rei's fault."
"Hn."
"Now that's more like it!"
"Hey guys!" Mina said, bouncing up to the two boys gaily. "Ready to go to the mall?" Lita arrived behind her, walking at a more sedate pace.
"I thought you said arcade!" Duo exclaimed. Mina smacked him lightly over the head.
"I did. I meant the one in the mall you bozo!"
"Only if you let Heero drive." Duo said, following the skipping blonde.
"No! I'm the only one allowed to drive my baby! Well, Quatre too, but that's it!"
Mina's 'baby' was an orange Toyota Supra equipped with a CD player and surround sound. Sliding into the driver's seat with familiar ease, Mina started the car, smiling to herself as it purred back at her. Lita slipped into the back as Heero and Duo held a staring contest as to who would brave shotgun. Finally Heero huffed in annoyance with a muttered, "Coward." and slid in. Duo beamed and happily settled in next to Lita.
"All right! Let's go!" Pealing out of the parking lot with her stereos blaring Antonis Remos, Mina rolled down the windows and let the wind tangle her long yellow hair.
Duo squealed and constantly yelled out suggestions at her driving. Lita spit out a piece of yellow hair that had flown into her face and contemplated rolling up the window on Mina's hair. Heero just gripped the door handle so hard his knuckles were white and said nothing.
"So what do you think of Trowa and Mina?" Lita asked, leaning against the machine as she watched Duo shoot people, who exploded in a cloud of red.
"I dunno, ask Heero."
"Hee-"
"They'd be good together." he answered, eyes never leaving the screen.
"I think so." Lita mused as Heero finished, with the highest score and nearly half and hour later. "They just work so well together."
"LITA! I DID IT! I WON!"
"Mina," Lita said with a sweat drop, "It's DDR…you don't win…you just, get better."
"No." Mina said stubbornly, "You can so win! Completing a level means you win!" Lita wisely chose to say nothing. Suddenly spotting a flash of white-blonde hair, she waved her hands frantically.
"Amara! Michele! Over here!" The two threaded their way through the crowd, Amara in front. By the time they reached Lita, Duo had managed to loose.
"Damn it! Stupid plastic piece of- Oh, hey 'Mara! Michele!" Amara ruffled Duo's hair with familiar ease and grinned at them all.
"So…who's not loosing?"
"I'm not!"
"Bunny!" Mina said happily, rushing over to greet her friend. "You arrived just in time to see me beat Amara at racing!"
"She did? I'm racing? What?" Amara asked confused as Mina towed her away.
"See you in a few minutes dear." Michele said with a wink, patting Amara's arm sympathetically. Amara threw them all one last look of panic before giving them a Cheshire cat grin.
"Did you say racing Mina?"
"No!" Mina said in disbelief as Amara beat her yet again at the racing game. "It can't be happening! It's not fair!" Ignoring her whining, Michele congratulated Amara with a quick kiss while the others did so verbally.
"Aw, that's nothing! You should see her out on the streets when she races! Now that's what I call racing!" Duo said. Lita nodded in agreement, noticing the back of Amara's neck flush at the comment.
"I'm not that good Duo." she protested halfheartedly.
"Modest."
"Racing? What? Where? What kind?" They all turned to stare at Bunny.
"Drag racing." Heero answered, monotone.
"Oh," Bunny said quietly, tilting her head thoughtfully. "What's that?" Duo groaned as everyone else face-vaulted into the floor.
"It's illegal racing Bunny, usually at night so the cops won't see them do it." Michele said gently. Bunny's eyes got wide.
"Illegal? What if you get caught?"
"She won't." Duo said confidently. "She's too fast for that!"
"Then can I come watch you sometime 'Mara?" Bunny asked, surprising the tall woman.
"No."
"Pleeeeeeeeeease!"
"No Bunny!" Bunny's eyes glistened with unshed tears.
"Oh no…not the puppy eyes…" Bunny refused to stop, letting tears spill over, throwing in a sniffle for good measure.
"Bunny…"
"She'll start crying soon." Lita warned.
"No! Bunny I-" Suddenly a piercing wail was heard as Bunny began to cry: loudly.
"Shhh! Shhh! Calm down! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you cry!" Amara hurriedly tried to pacify the petite blonde who was creating a lake in the middle of the arcade. People, stopping to stare at the scene they were creating, began to throw dirty looks at her. "Fine! You can go Bunny! But only if I take you!" The waterworks stopped immediately.
"You will! YAY!" Bunny jumped up and down happily, hugging Amara. The tall blonde merely smacked her head in exasperation as she realized she'd been had.
"There's a race tonight." Lita said, throwing her sweatshirt over the back of a chair. "Wanna go?"
"Hn." Wufei said noncommittally, turning the page of his book.
"I think it'd be fun. We could go downtown first and I could get my hair done. Sound okay?" Wufei looked up and over the tops of his reading glasses at his girlfriend.
"You really want to go?"
"Yeah," Lita said, untying her hair and shaking it loose. "I kinda want to. It's been a while."
"No kidding." Wufei snorted. Lita smiled. "You want anything?" he asked, watching her sprawl over the couch.
"Maybe…" she said, getting a wicked gleam in her eye as she started crawling towards him. Slipping her hands through his long black hair she kissed him long and hard. Pulling away after a moment, she smiled languidly to see him panting.
"Well then." was all he said before diving back in and pushing them towards the bedroom.
"She said she'd be here by now! Where is she?" Lita asked worriedly as she kept glancing down the street for Bunny and Amara.
"She'll be here, don't worry." Wufei said, hugging her from behind and burying his face in her hair. He grimaced. "You just had to get your hair dyed. Now it doesn't smell nice anymore." She smacked the arm around her waist lightly.
"Oh hush. I didn't say anything when you wanted blue streaks, now did I?" Wufei didn't get a chance to reply as a sleek yellow sports car pulled up beside them.
"Sorry I'm late. You ready to go?" Amara asked, Bunny sitting next to her in the passenger seat. Bunny had let her hair completely down and put hot pink highlights in it. She was wearing a loose white peasant shirt and brown leather pants. She winked at them.
"Love the hair Lita."
"Likewise. Yeah, we're ready to go. We'll follow you." Lita said, beckoning Wufei. Both of them mounted their bike, Wufei passing Lita her helmet. Nodding to Amara, Wufei blared out through the intersection towards the heart of downtown, Lita holding onto him tightly.
"Finally! I was wondering if I had the wrong place, although, I thought not considering all the cars." Amara rolled her eyes at Duo and smiled.
"I'm here. Now, who's up?" While Duo gave Amara the rundown, Bunny saw a girl about Rini's age slip through the crowd to stand at Duo's side. She had hair as long as his, only it was dark brown, and she had light blue eyes. In short, she was the exact opposite of Duo in everything except height. The girl looked straight at her and smiled.
"Hi, I'm Fort, Duo's younger sister if you were wondering."
"I was. You don't look like him at all." Fort's smile wavered a second before returning full force.
"I get that a lot."
Sure you do. Bunny thought, watching as she chatted with Michelle with easy familiarity. And I'm the queen of the moon.
The racing was faster than anything Bunny had expected and the cars were flashy to say the least. There were three different races and after just one Bunny never wanted it to stop. Adrenaline didn't stop behind the wheel; she got a rush just from watching. After two races however, Amara pleaded to call it a night and they agreed. It was a Wednesday after all.
"So what do you want to do now?" Wufei asked, swaying with Lita to the faint strain of music pounding low under the talking around them.
"Hmmm… How about," she licked his ear, nipping his earlobe, "we go," she kissed his neck, "clubbing." He shivered.
"I don't know if I'll make it that long."
"Then how about a pool?" Wufei choked.
"With water!"
"Mhmm." She said, rubbing her cheek against his.
"Exhibitionist." He said fondly.
"With you, always." She replied, claiming his mouth.
"Aw man! They're making out again! 'Mara!" The tall blonde raised one elegant eyebrow.
"And…?"
"Make 'em stop!"
"I'm not their nanny."
"MARA!" Bunny snickered. Duo sighed, banging his head against his fist. "Oh well, I have to take Fort home anyway. Hey! Fortney Azure Maxwell!" Any angry girl popped up beside him, eyes snapping fire.
"What have I told you about saying my middle name!" Duo looked sheepish, rubbing a hand nervously against the back of his head.
"But I like your middle name." Bunny said simply. Fort blinked at her before giving her a lazy smile.
"Wanna know what Duo's is?" Duo's eyes widened.
"Sure, what is it?" Before Fort could say, a hand covered her mouth, effectively silencing her.
"Hahaha...Time to go! Bye guys! See you at the shop tomorrow Amara!" He waved, dragging his sister behind him, who was shouting obscenities and pounding on his back. Amara blinked.
"Sometimes…I wonder about him." She shook her head. "So," she said turing to face the others, "Shall I take you home now?"
"Yeah, that'd be good." Bunny said in a strangled voice. "I think Lita and Wufei have just gone code red on the making out scale." Amara glanced over and gave an exasperated sigh.
"Guys what have I told you! You need a bed to do that!"
I admit it! I am shamelessly integrating Fast and Furious into a purely SM/GW Anime fanfic! Ah! Whatever! It fits Amara so, it stays!
Antonis Remos and his album "Kardia Mu Min Anisihis" – sexy voice!
Axiom of Choice and their cd "Unfolding" – also very neat music but no singing in it to my knowledge
– Can listen to clips of them on Amazon. This is called advertising by the way. I'm getting paid millions to do this….just kidding. I wish I was getting paid. Damn having no job because of studying for AP testing. Grrr.
Oh! Disclaimer! Ahem – If anyone believes I own anything pertaining to these anime then I have one question for them: Why am I still broke! Thank you.
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