Disclaimer: I don't, nor have I ever, owned... Lawyers look at her expectantly Gund- Chainsaw noises start Oooooooooooh!!! What's that!?!"
Lawyers: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WE WERE THIS CLOSE!!!!
Kin: AHAHA!!!!!!! LET'S SEE IF YOUR PATHETIC KATANA CAN BLOCK THIS!!!!
Insert maniacal laughter followed by crickets here
Kin: Clears throat don't mind me... I was just leaving...
Runs out still looking for Wufei while laughing maniacally
Leiko: Ok, I'm in a very pissed off mood, so I'm just praying that it won't affect the fic... too much...
Kin: What's wrong Leiko-chan?
Leiko: Kashaku was just being a bitch at school today... I asked our teacher if these two computers were open 'cause I wanted to work on my fics... And I went around Kin who was on another computer heading for the one next to her... we were sitting like
Com 1 Com 2
Kashaku Kin Me
Com 3 Com 4
Sydney Kioko
So I was going around Kin to get on computer 1, because Sydney slid over to number 3 and Kashaku slid over before I could get there. And I know what you're thinking... It's a stupid thing to get mad about... But she specifically KNEW that I was going to get on that computer, and she did it anyway. But the thing that REALLY made me mad, was the fact that she could have done her fics on her FING LAPTOP!!!!! That's why I'm not mad at Sydney... She doesn't have a laptop, but KASHAKU DOES!!!! AND IT PISSES ME OFF GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Well that was a happy little tirade now wasn't it?
Kin: Um... You can borrow my punching bag if you want...
Leiko: Thanks Kin-chan.
Leiko rips the bag to shreds
Kin stares in horror at her destroyed training equipment
Leiko: Sorry 'bout that Kin-chan, I'll get you a new one!
Yumi sighed. It was REALLY hard to avoid Wufei!!! Especially when he sat right behind you. "Yumi."
Yumi ignored him.
"YUMI!!!" Wufei hissed from behind her while poking her in the back. She continued to ignore him.
From behind her, Wufei was beginning to see red. 'Damnit!!! She opened up to me, and now she won't even talk to me!!! Kami! When did my life get so fucked up anyway!?!'
'When you became a Gundam Pilot.'
'Who asked you!?!'
Then Wufei realized that he was talking to himself and slammed his head on the desk trying to make it stop.
"Mr. Chang!!! Is there something you would like to discuss!?!"
Wufei raised his head from his, now slightly bent desk and focused on the teacher. "As a matter of fact there is something I would like to announce. Everyone, our teacher is, as most of you know, a moronic bastard." Wufei then sat down ignoring the seething teacher. 'Not the most effective method of anger management... but who the hell cares!?!'
"Wu-man, if the elders found out what you just said they're gonna piss in their over-primped robes!!!" Duo managed to say during his laughter. Quatre, who had so far been managing to keep a straight face, finally gave up after that joke.
Now the whole class except for Wufei, who was still irritated; Yumi, who was too worried about Wufei knowing; Kimiko, who was only smiling indulgently and, duh, the teacher, were falling out of their chairs laughing.
Before Wufei could receive detention (Not that he would go anyway) the door opened revealing a tall woman with... short Platinum black hair (does that make any sense ta yall, 'cause that's what all her profiles said...) in a style that was similar to Trowa's. She had dark purple eyes and held a military air about her.
"Ms. Noin. It's nice to see you again." Quatre said politely, nodding his head to the woman in recognition.
"Quatre. Duo. Wufei." She returned bowing slightly to each one in turn.
"So watcha doin' here Lieutenant?" Duo asked in a nonchalant manner.
She sighed as she looked at them. "Me and a few others got stuck babysitting after what happened yesterday..." She then laughed to lighten the mood. "But I can't say that I'm complaining, I do get to spend time with Zechs after all!" Noin gave them a grin before getting back to work.
Walking over to the still-fuming teacher and she handed him a paper, nodded to the GW boys and walked out of the room... though not before she sent a sidelong glance at her new charge; Yumi.
As the teacher read the notice, he seemed to forget Wufei's earlier comment... For now anyway... "Listen up. The school has decided to perform an ancient play by a famous novelist. The story is about... Well, I don't feel like explaining it so your assignment for the night is to read it. You will have to buy your own copy; the book is entitled "Ghost Faeries" and I expect you all to have a copy by tomorrow. It is authored by the same all- knowing, all-seeing authoress of this fic." (A/N: HAHA!!! I DO own it!!! P.S. steal it and die. And I'm serious, I really will have to kill you, so don't make me get my .55 millimeter out. Smiles sweetly) with that being said he toddled off to his desk too actually read the book.
"Aww man! I don't want to read some candy-ass girly story!!!" Duo whined. He had obviously been spending too much time around Kin; she was starting to rub off on him.
Yumi, who was still not listening, was deep in a conversation... with herself... 'WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!?!?! How should I know!?! It's not like this has happened to me before!!! THIS ISN'T HELPING!!!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO!?!?!?! What's the worst that could happen? He might even whisk you off like you were Cinderella or something. Yeah, Wufei's a real prince charming all right! Well, he's cute enough to be one... Yeah, but that attitude! You know you think it's sexy! NO I DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes you do. FOR THE LAST TIME I DON'T THINK WUFEI'S HOT!!! You said hot, not me, I said sexy. WELL HE ISN'T EITHER!!!!!! Tch! Where have you been!?! I mean have you SEEN his abs!?! WHO CARES!?!?!?!?! You do, why else would you be having this conversation with yourself?'
As Yumi's inner tirade continued Wufei was struggling with his own thoughts... kind of... 'What is she so afraid of? It's not like I'm going to do anything rash about this... You mean like fly over to her house and beat the crap out of her family? On second thought, I might just do that. Really!?! Wow... you've never actually listened to me before!!! That's because you never had anything of interest to say. HEY!!! I happened to think that feeling her up was a good idea! I wonder if my inner soul somehow got mixed up with Duo's... ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!?!?! Do I ever?'
Wufei then ceased his frivolous inner argument and began to meditate, only to have his concentration broken by his least favorite voice in the world.
"Oh Yumi!!!" Came the falsely sweet voice of Kimiko Naraku. "Yumi, would you be an absolute dear and switch seats with me?"
Yumi came out of her thoughts in a bad mood, and didn't restrain herself from her snappy answer. "I'm not going to switch with you, you slutty bitch."
Duo whistled from his seat. "Whoa! Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!"
Kimiko heard his comment and turned to him, eyes full of tears. "You're not going to let her say those things to me, are you Duo-chan?" She asked in a sweet pathetic voice that had led so many other boys to ruin. Sadly for her, Duo wasn't just any boy.
Duo stared into her eyes and looked as if he was about to melt just like every other sap she did that to. Then he grinned at her with his usual charm. "Sorry, even if I did, for some estranged reason, want to do something, Yumi has already proved to be EXTREMELY scary when she's mad, but not as scary as Wufei is, and Wufei isn't as nice or forgiving as her either!"
Wufei smirked slightly from where he was pretending to meditate. It was true, if Duo, or anyone for that matter, raised a hand against Yumi, he would kill them. He would do the same if they verbally abused her, but she was very adept in that area herself, so it saved him the trouble.
When the bell finally rang signaling the end of the day, EVERYONE was ready to leave. Yumi turned in her seat and faced Wufei. "I'll be back in a few minutes."
Wufei nodded understanding that she was going to change back into the confident princess she really was.
Yumi strolled down the path to her house, went in, changed and came back out. She was now wearing a simple, yet elegant afternoon kimono. It covered her figure and that, coupled with her veil made it virtually impossible to tell whether she was fat or thin, ugly or pretty. And she rather liked it that way, no one could judge her based on her looks... sadly, it couldn't hide her station and instead of her beauty she was judged by that.
'Oh well... at least I have a few friends who don't judge me by those standards.' In recognition of her thoughts, her mind brought forth an image of Wufei, which really surprised her because she hadn't really considered him as a friend before... Though thinking back on their past encounters, it was really the only thing that she could describe him as. 'Boyfriend...' The traitorous part of her mind reminded her. 'Damn extra voice living in my head...'
Walking back along her usual route, she flipped her hair up into a sophisticated French twist and pinned it there with an artfully made silver sakura blossom pin. She paused and readjusted her emerald green kimono, it was her favorite one and she was hoping to gather strength from it. Green was her favorite color and she especially liked the silver sakura petals embroidered on it with its matching silver obi. The silver off set her dark hair and the green pulled out the purple highlights in her eyes and hair.
"Get in." Yumi tilted her head to the side and faced Wufei. She nodded slightly and slid into his car. They drove in complete silence until she couldn't take it anymore.
"So... um... Have you read Ghost Faeries yet?" Wufei nodded curtly and didn't respond which pretty much murdered that conversation. Yumi nodded and noted in her head that they seemed to be doing a lot of nodding... Anyway, back on track...
"You... You're not going... to do anything... are you?" Yumi asked, finally bringing up the topic that had kept the car in suffocating silence.
After a length of silence the Chinese prince responded slowly. "Do you want me to?"
This silenced her and she began to stare blankly out the window wondering if she did want him to do anything. "What would you do?"
Wufei barely heard her she said this so softly. "Whatever I could."
"Why?"
Wufei stopped the car outside of the base they were staying at and studied her closely. Normally Yumi would have shifted under his intense scrutiny, but she had to know. "I-I don't know..." He admitted, sounding if he was surprised himself.
'YOU MORON!!! JUST TELL HER IT'S 'CAUSE YOU WANT HER BODY!!! I did NOT just think that... Oh god... I'm becoming delusional!' To get the perverted, and rather Duo like thoughts out of his head he slammed his head against the steering wheel, which was okay because the car was stopped, but if he had been driving he wouldn't have to worry about being insane, he'd be dead.
"Um... Wufei?" Yumi asked worriedly leaning over to see if she could help in some way. Even though she was wearing seven layers her bending over definitely didn't help Wufei with his inner pervert.
"I'm fine!" He growled, slamming open his car door and getting out. His mood demanded that he now stalk off and go sulk somewhere, but training and good etiquette won over and he opened the door for Colony 5's youngest princess. He held out his arm and escorted her into the building, down more halls than she liked to count and finally stopped outside a videoconference room.
"WHERE WERE YOU!?!?!?!?!?!?!? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO!!!!!!!!!!"
The yell stopped the two teens in their tracks and had them gaping in surprise. Kin they would believe yelling, but HEERO AND MIZUNA!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SOME KINDA ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OR SOMETHING!?!?!
"Eigh" Yumi managed to finally choke out while still in a state of shock. Wufei didn't say anything, knowing it would also come out as some kind of garbled cry.
Before Yumi could make any other strange guttural noises, Kin flew out of the room, grabbed Yumi and Wufei's wrists and threw them into the conference room.
Yumi, while still feeling disoriented, tried to make sense of the images swimming in front of her eyes. On the screen was her family; her grandmother and the rest, oh and the "others" were there as well. 'Well,' Yumi thought at seeing her sister eyeing Heero and her brother doing the same to Mizuna, 'that explains the yelling... Yup, I'd be screaming too...'
"YUMI!!! THANK KAMI YOU'RE ALRIGHT!!!" Cried her grandmother. Kaida Kasamura was a distinguished and beautiful lady, even in her early eighties. Yumi had always loved and admired her, her grandmother was everything Yumi strived to be: Kaida was commanding without being cruel, a wise ruler, kind, yet not a pushover, her mere presence radiated dignity and seemed to demand respect, which was willingly given by all. In truth, she was perfect in Yumi's eyes.
Her grandmother seemed to realize that there were other people looking on, and immediately reverted back to queen mode. "Yumi Kasamura!" She called in a harsh voice. The girl in question winced at her grandmothers tone, but still took in how her immediate "Family" all smirked and gave her a "now- you're-going-to-get-it-and-it's-about-time-too look".
"I would say that your actions were childish and unbecoming a princess of the Kasamura dynasty, however your heroism honors us, as do your new associations with the rulers of other Colonies." Here the current ruler of the Colony paused and her eyes swept over the Gundam Pilots. "You have done well grand daughter in choosing your allies, I commend you. You do these old bones well to show me such friendship." Now her families faces were set in more of a... "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! -Why-is-she-getting-praise-she-almost- destroyed-the-family-she-should-be-punished-not-commended look.
"Also, since today is your coming of age..." Kaida allowed time for a dramatic pause and her eyes sparkled with happiness, "We will be throwing a ball in your honor, we have invited all the necessary aristocrats, but there are still a few invitations left if you have anyone in mind..." She finished off her speech with a wink at her favorite grandchild and then the screen went blank.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US TODAY WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY!?!?!" Kin yelled angrily. Mizuna appeared behind her and whacked her on the head.
"That's no way to speak to the birthday girl!" Kashaku yelled, backing Mizuna up, though the blue haired teen probably just wanted to hit the golden haired one.
"So, how old are ya now?" Duo asked good naturedly, breaking through the triad's bickering.
"I'm going to be 16 in... 1 hour and 3 minutes." Yumi estimated, looking at Wufei's watch, which consequently was still on his wrist.
Wufei pulled his wrist back with a snort of disapproval. "WOULD YOU ONNAS STOP ARGUING ALREADY!!!" He yelled at the three teens, which ultimately earned him two bumps on the head and a shoe print on his face. Damn, that hyper girl had good aim!
"Calm down. All of you, you are all acting like children." Everyone quieted down and faced the speaker. It was the girl from before. She was standing next to Quatre, and they assumed that the two were dating. She was a little bit shorter than her supposed boyfriend with shoulder honey colored hair and dancing ruby red eyes. She was wearing a simple green shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans, and her hair was pulled into two cute little pigtails, with a few strands falling down to frame her face.
Then Yumi finally remembered where she had seen her before. "Cerise Thiery correct? You are princess of Colony 6."
Cerise Nodded and smiled politely at the Japanese/Chinese style princess.
"Anyways, as I was saying before I was so randomly sidetracked... I would like to formally invite you all to attend my birthday party." Yumi requested bowing slightly.
"Does that mean we aren't invited informally?" Yumi looked up at Kashaku through her bangs and had to stifle a laugh. The redhead could be so oblivious sometimes.
Mizuna shook her head. "Okay... Anyway, we need to go buy outfits for the party, so I suggest that we go now so that we will have time to get ready." The other girls nodded in agreement and they set off, but not before Mizuna had stolen Heero's key to the Viper, and Yumi Wufei's key.
When they arrived at the mall, there was a lot of bowing, and stares of awe from the crowd as their youngest princess stepped out of the car. It wasn't often that she appeared in public (Her sister only shopped at the exclusive shops and Yumi shopped online, or had a tailor come to her or something). Yumi smiled politely at her subjects and even shook hands with a few. She would have stayed at gotten to know some people, but Mizuna noticed that they were wasting shopping hours (She didn't like shopping, and wanted out of there ASAP) and dragged her off.
3 hours and too many stores to count later...
Each girl had finally found the perfect gown that suited her personality just right and they were on their way back to the compound to get dressed.
"Don't worry about makeup Yumi-chan, Mi-chan is an expert at all things feminine, and so is Cerise-chan." Kashaku said happily, she couldn't wait to show off for Trowa. She might be oblivious, but that didn't mean she was naïve or blind for that matter!!!
Mizuna smirked when she heard this. It was true; she was a genius in more ways than one. And she inwardly agreed with Kashaku, though she wouldn't admit it under any kind of torture, she also wanted to look her best for her boyfriend.
All of the girls silently had the same wish, even the one without the official boyfriend. (A/N: Though he'll end up marrying her if he wants to live.)
When they reached the base, the girls threw themselves out of the car and made a mad dash for inside so that they would have maximum time to get ready... Except Mizuna, who was to dignified and who had spotted the soldiers staring at them... Though if they hadn't been there she would probably be leading the rest.
The girls separated and each went to their own rooms to shower, deciding to meet in Noin's room because it was the biggest. (Her and Zechs were also invited to the party)
Half an hour later all of the girls met up hiding their dresses beneath robes. We wouldn't want boys drooling before it was time would we?
One by one the girls gathered in front of Mizuna for makeup and Cerise for hair. They decided that they would all do hair first so that it wouldn't mess up the makeup.
Kin went first, wanting to get the torture over with. She was wearing a captivating green corset ribbon dress. It went to a little bit after her knees and ended with a mini-handkerchief hemline and had a corset ribbon lace up front. It had slits up to mid-thigh over which the ends of the ribbon ties fluttered. She was wearing strappy green flat shoes with green ribbons that crossed her ankles up to mid-calf. She looked like an Amazonian warrior going on parade.
Cerise keyed up the ribbons with her long golden hair. She took random strands of her hair, curled and pinned them so that half of her hair flowed down her back and the other half curled into ringlets that only reached her shoulders.
When Cerise was done Kin moved onto Mizuna to have her makeup applied. After a few minutes of styling her face, the blue-eyed teen declared that Kin was done and brought up a hand mirror so that she could examine herself. The sophisticated girl definitely knew her way around makeup. Kin's eye shadow was dark green and put on lightly, a bit of mascara made her eyelashes curl perfectly and a hint of eyeliner set off her molten gold eyes and made her eyes really stand out. A bit of green glitter on her cheeks and just some light pink lip-gloss coated her lips making them shine.
Next up was Noin; her dress was the most elegant of them all. It was a dark silver floor length evening gown held aloft by two rhinestones edged dark silver, slightly off the shoulder straps. On the left it had a slit up to mid thigh and on the right there were crisscrossing rhinestone patterns.
There wasn't much Cerise could do with Noin's short hair, but she managed to make it look as elegant as the dress. She parted the short platinum black hair down the middle, making it reach her the bottom of her ears, then she sprayed it with silver glitter and to top it off she sprinkled a few rhinestones throughout it.
Noin then sat in front of Mizuna to have her face made up. The blue haired teen took more time on the lieutenant's face than she did on Kin's. When she was done, Noin admired herself in the mirror, marveling at how feminine she looked. Her eyes were outlined in a smoky black shadowed by dark silver. There was silver glitter on her cheeks and her lips were also done in light pink. But the thing that took Mizuna a while was she placed a rhinestone at the corner of each eye.
Kashaku, having become tired of waiting, and the fact that she had run out of Cheetos, plopped down in front of Cerise to get her hair done. Cerise examined her dress to determine the best hairstyle to match it with. The hyper redhead was wearing a strapless turquoise floor length dress with a black side corset. Taking note of the corset sides, she worked with those and let Kashaku's hair remain down, but she took a few strands and using two black ribbons for each, Cerise braided them so that the ribbons formed a crisscross pattern.
Then Kin and Noin restrained Kashaku so that Mizuna could do her makeup. It wasn't that the redhead didn't like getting made over... It's just that she didn't have the patience to sit still for more than 2 minutes at best. Mizuna went as quickly as possible without getting sloppy, First she applied the same pink lip-gloss she had used on the other two, outlined her eyes in black and then put turquoise eye shadow on her friend. She didn't need anything on her cheeks and so she was done.
Mizuna and Cerise decided to do themselves before the birthday girl, that way they could spend the rest of the time perfecting her.
Mizuna went first; Cerise French braided her hair into two pigtails, but tied them off at the shoulders and curled the rest of her hair so that it fell down in waves to her waist. This style complimented Mizuna's thin ribbon lace-up front dress. It was very sexy black dress with slits up to mid-thigh and a cascading fabric flounce made up the long skirt.
She did her own makeup which consisted of black eye liner and eye shadow, the light pink gloss and then she spritzed her neck and bare shoulders with a bit of her favorite perfume after which the other girls all pulled out their favorites and sprinkled themselves with it. (They had forgotten about it till just then, or rather I had.)
While Mizuna was applying her own makeup, Cerise was fixing up her hair. First she streaked her hair with the same color red as her dress and eyes. Then she pulled it into two buns, one on either side of her head, but since her hair was so short a few strands fell into her face. Becoming annoyed she pulled them back with two ruby tipped pins so that they artfully framed her face instead of blocking her vision.
When Cerise was done with her own hair, Mizuna did her makeup. Her eyes were also outlined in black and since her eyelashes were so light she also added some mascara to make them stand out. To match her dress Mizuna applied some red eye shadow and some vibrant red lipstick. Cerise's dress was a strapless red organza dress with a corset lace up back. It had an iridescent red bustier with rhinestone trim along the front and the back; it also had a long flared skirt with cascading back inset ruffles. To add to it, she also had a matching wrap so she wouldn't get cold.
Next Mizuna and Cerise turned on Yumi, each one giving her calculating looks that reminded the garnet eyed princess of predators on the hunt... And it was creeping her out!
All of a sudden Mizuna and Cerise jumped her. Cerise pulled her long hair out of its confines and Mizuna yanked off her veil. Yumi began looking around frantically for a means of escape, but finding none, she resigned herself to her fate. Seeing that she was being stared at, she nervously looked at her dress to see if it was acceptable. Normally she would wear a formal kimono, but her grandmother insisted that she wear 'civilian' clothes. Yumi was wearing a black/dark purple dress. It had long drooping sleeves and a tight bodice that flowed down her legs and swished lightly at her ankles where it met up with her tall strappy black heels. The top had a semi low neckline so she had chosen to wear her family crest on her neck. It was a small Japanese style white gold dragon circling an also white gold sword and a white gold tiara circled that. The dragon and sword represented their colony, and the tiara told all that she was the princess. The dragon had dark ruby eyes, as did the sword hilt and the tiara. Cerise ran a brush through Yumi's long black/purple hair before nimbly styling it. When she was finished the Japanese style princess's hair was in a messy bun with half of her hair pulled through it and into a ponytail. The end result was sophisticated, but not so elegant that the older adults would wear it.
Mizuna's approach was the same, trendy, but not juvenile. Yumi's lips were coated in a thin layer of light pink and her cheeks were sprinkled with crushed garnets, which sparkled in the light and made her eyes stand out with a little help from black eyeliner and a dash of dark purple eye shadow.
"We're done." Mizuna stated. At her words, all of the girls pulled out mirrors out of nowhere and examined themselves.
Apparently they finished just on time because there was a knock at the door signifying that the boys were ready to go. The girls all took a deep breath and one at a time they stepped out the door.
Noin went first and when she stepped out she was handed a pink rose by Zechs who was blushing slightly but had turned his head so that it wouldn't be seen. Noin grinned at him, took the rose and kissed him lightly on the cheek before dragging him out of the compound and to his car.
Next to exit the room was Kashaku who had been shoved out the door by Kin for skipping around annoyingly. Trowa also handed Kashaku a rose, though it was white rather than pink. He however didn't blush because he was in complete control of his emotions... And that is exactly why his eyes traveled down her neckline of their own accord. Luckily Kashaku didn't notice because she also kissed him on the cheek and dragged him off to his car.
Kin however, HAD seen it, and sent Duo a warning look; of course Duo being Duo ignored the look and allowed his eyes to slowly travel her form causing Kin to blush profusely. "Looking good gorgeous!" He then handed her a golden rose, and when she leaned over to kiss him on the cheek, his mischievous side took over and he turned his head kissing her full on the lips. Kin's blushed another twenty shades of red, but didn't kill him for it like he thought she would.
Kin was still standing in the doorway, and Mizuna got fed up and shoved her out the door and into Duo's arms. He grinned, sat her down and then they walked away holding hands.
Mizuna stepped out into the light and smiled at Heero who was looking FINE in his black tux. He handed her a black rose and only smiled after she kissed him on the cheek. Well, it was really more of a smirk, but we can't expect more from our favorite perfect soldier now can we? Heero slipped his arm around Mizuna and whispered a compliment in her ear before they headed off.
Cerise stepped out in a swirl of red. Her eyes were set on the last couple and her eyes had little hearts in them as she thought of what a cute couple they made. Quatre bowed to her and held out his arm. She curtsied in return and accepted his outstretched arm. As they were walking away, Quatre brought out a red rose and handed it to her, she smiled happily and kissed him on the cheek as they continued walking away.
That left our two main characters. Yumi shyly stepped out into the hall and gave Wufei a nervous smile that was returned with an appreciative smile as he looked over her appearance, though in a strictly polite way, not like Duo. Wufei bowed and Yumi curtsied, then he handed her a stunning garnet rose hybrid. Yumi gasped and lost in the moment, she hugged him tightly. She blushed and pulled away, only to be held there when Wufei snaked an arm around her. He then realized what he was doing and released her.
They were both blushing when they walked out to Wufei's car. When Wufei put a hand in his pocket for his keys, he remembered he had forgotten to do something. Seeing Yumi shiver slightly in the evening air, he quickly unlocked the doors and allowed her to get inside.
When they were a block away from Yumi's illustrious estate, Wufei parked the car and turned it off. Before Yumi could say anything, he withdrew a gorgeous rose comb inlaid with garnets and placed it in her hair. Then he turned the car back on and drove up to where the party was being held, all the while with Yumi sitting next to him in what could only be called a state of shock.
When they pulled up at the front of her mansion, Wufei got out of the car, went around and opened the door for her. Hey, just because women are the inferior onnas doesn't mean that Wufei don't got game!
Leiko: Next chapter! Wufei finally answers the question! Be there be there! Sunday! Sunday!!!
Kin: You sound like an infomercial...
Leiko: I was going for that.
Mizuna: If you don't go to bed soon you're mom is going to kill you.
Leiko: OMG IT'S 11 ALREADY!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO SCREWED IF SHE WAKES UP!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: We're sure you are.
Leiko: Anywho, I'm going on a class trip to Arkansas next week, so I won't be able to update any of my stories... pooh...
Kin: It's not like you were actually going to update this story in a week.
Mizuna: True.
Leiko: Where's Kashaku? Things are quiet... TOO quiet...
Kashaku: SNORE!!!!!!!!!!!
Kin: Who knew an entire package of benadril could put a grown person to sleep?
Kin shrugs and walks off to experiment with other various non-perscription drugs
Mizuna: I'll be right back...
Banging sound
Mizuna walks back in with dented frying pan in hand
Mizuna: We're all safe for now...
Cerise: Read and Review please.
Readers: Why should we!?!
Duo: Don't question her, she's Quatre's girl and if you make her cry, Quatre's going to go crazy and kill everyone again...
(Also, all rantings at beginning of chapter are to be ignored because I started this chapter a week ago, and I am no longer mad, also in retrospect, I was just pissed for no real reason. Thank you, that is all)
(You still sound like an infomercial-Kin)
Lawyers: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WE WERE THIS CLOSE!!!!
Kin: AHAHA!!!!!!! LET'S SEE IF YOUR PATHETIC KATANA CAN BLOCK THIS!!!!
Insert maniacal laughter followed by crickets here
Kin: Clears throat don't mind me... I was just leaving...
Runs out still looking for Wufei while laughing maniacally
Leiko: Ok, I'm in a very pissed off mood, so I'm just praying that it won't affect the fic... too much...
Kin: What's wrong Leiko-chan?
Leiko: Kashaku was just being a bitch at school today... I asked our teacher if these two computers were open 'cause I wanted to work on my fics... And I went around Kin who was on another computer heading for the one next to her... we were sitting like
Com 1 Com 2
Kashaku Kin Me
Com 3 Com 4
Sydney Kioko
So I was going around Kin to get on computer 1, because Sydney slid over to number 3 and Kashaku slid over before I could get there. And I know what you're thinking... It's a stupid thing to get mad about... But she specifically KNEW that I was going to get on that computer, and she did it anyway. But the thing that REALLY made me mad, was the fact that she could have done her fics on her FING LAPTOP!!!!! That's why I'm not mad at Sydney... She doesn't have a laptop, but KASHAKU DOES!!!! AND IT PISSES ME OFF GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: Well that was a happy little tirade now wasn't it?
Kin: Um... You can borrow my punching bag if you want...
Leiko: Thanks Kin-chan.
Leiko rips the bag to shreds
Kin stares in horror at her destroyed training equipment
Leiko: Sorry 'bout that Kin-chan, I'll get you a new one!
Yumi sighed. It was REALLY hard to avoid Wufei!!! Especially when he sat right behind you. "Yumi."
Yumi ignored him.
"YUMI!!!" Wufei hissed from behind her while poking her in the back. She continued to ignore him.
From behind her, Wufei was beginning to see red. 'Damnit!!! She opened up to me, and now she won't even talk to me!!! Kami! When did my life get so fucked up anyway!?!'
'When you became a Gundam Pilot.'
'Who asked you!?!'
Then Wufei realized that he was talking to himself and slammed his head on the desk trying to make it stop.
"Mr. Chang!!! Is there something you would like to discuss!?!"
Wufei raised his head from his, now slightly bent desk and focused on the teacher. "As a matter of fact there is something I would like to announce. Everyone, our teacher is, as most of you know, a moronic bastard." Wufei then sat down ignoring the seething teacher. 'Not the most effective method of anger management... but who the hell cares!?!'
"Wu-man, if the elders found out what you just said they're gonna piss in their over-primped robes!!!" Duo managed to say during his laughter. Quatre, who had so far been managing to keep a straight face, finally gave up after that joke.
Now the whole class except for Wufei, who was still irritated; Yumi, who was too worried about Wufei knowing; Kimiko, who was only smiling indulgently and, duh, the teacher, were falling out of their chairs laughing.
Before Wufei could receive detention (Not that he would go anyway) the door opened revealing a tall woman with... short Platinum black hair (does that make any sense ta yall, 'cause that's what all her profiles said...) in a style that was similar to Trowa's. She had dark purple eyes and held a military air about her.
"Ms. Noin. It's nice to see you again." Quatre said politely, nodding his head to the woman in recognition.
"Quatre. Duo. Wufei." She returned bowing slightly to each one in turn.
"So watcha doin' here Lieutenant?" Duo asked in a nonchalant manner.
She sighed as she looked at them. "Me and a few others got stuck babysitting after what happened yesterday..." She then laughed to lighten the mood. "But I can't say that I'm complaining, I do get to spend time with Zechs after all!" Noin gave them a grin before getting back to work.
Walking over to the still-fuming teacher and she handed him a paper, nodded to the GW boys and walked out of the room... though not before she sent a sidelong glance at her new charge; Yumi.
As the teacher read the notice, he seemed to forget Wufei's earlier comment... For now anyway... "Listen up. The school has decided to perform an ancient play by a famous novelist. The story is about... Well, I don't feel like explaining it so your assignment for the night is to read it. You will have to buy your own copy; the book is entitled "Ghost Faeries" and I expect you all to have a copy by tomorrow. It is authored by the same all- knowing, all-seeing authoress of this fic." (A/N: HAHA!!! I DO own it!!! P.S. steal it and die. And I'm serious, I really will have to kill you, so don't make me get my .55 millimeter out. Smiles sweetly) with that being said he toddled off to his desk too actually read the book.
"Aww man! I don't want to read some candy-ass girly story!!!" Duo whined. He had obviously been spending too much time around Kin; she was starting to rub off on him.
Yumi, who was still not listening, was deep in a conversation... with herself... 'WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!?!?!?! How should I know!?! It's not like this has happened to me before!!! THIS ISN'T HELPING!!!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO!?!?!?! What's the worst that could happen? He might even whisk you off like you were Cinderella or something. Yeah, Wufei's a real prince charming all right! Well, he's cute enough to be one... Yeah, but that attitude! You know you think it's sexy! NO I DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes you do. FOR THE LAST TIME I DON'T THINK WUFEI'S HOT!!! You said hot, not me, I said sexy. WELL HE ISN'T EITHER!!!!!! Tch! Where have you been!?! I mean have you SEEN his abs!?! WHO CARES!?!?!?!?! You do, why else would you be having this conversation with yourself?'
As Yumi's inner tirade continued Wufei was struggling with his own thoughts... kind of... 'What is she so afraid of? It's not like I'm going to do anything rash about this... You mean like fly over to her house and beat the crap out of her family? On second thought, I might just do that. Really!?! Wow... you've never actually listened to me before!!! That's because you never had anything of interest to say. HEY!!! I happened to think that feeling her up was a good idea! I wonder if my inner soul somehow got mixed up with Duo's... ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME!?!?! Do I ever?'
Wufei then ceased his frivolous inner argument and began to meditate, only to have his concentration broken by his least favorite voice in the world.
"Oh Yumi!!!" Came the falsely sweet voice of Kimiko Naraku. "Yumi, would you be an absolute dear and switch seats with me?"
Yumi came out of her thoughts in a bad mood, and didn't restrain herself from her snappy answer. "I'm not going to switch with you, you slutty bitch."
Duo whistled from his seat. "Whoa! Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!"
Kimiko heard his comment and turned to him, eyes full of tears. "You're not going to let her say those things to me, are you Duo-chan?" She asked in a sweet pathetic voice that had led so many other boys to ruin. Sadly for her, Duo wasn't just any boy.
Duo stared into her eyes and looked as if he was about to melt just like every other sap she did that to. Then he grinned at her with his usual charm. "Sorry, even if I did, for some estranged reason, want to do something, Yumi has already proved to be EXTREMELY scary when she's mad, but not as scary as Wufei is, and Wufei isn't as nice or forgiving as her either!"
Wufei smirked slightly from where he was pretending to meditate. It was true, if Duo, or anyone for that matter, raised a hand against Yumi, he would kill them. He would do the same if they verbally abused her, but she was very adept in that area herself, so it saved him the trouble.
When the bell finally rang signaling the end of the day, EVERYONE was ready to leave. Yumi turned in her seat and faced Wufei. "I'll be back in a few minutes."
Wufei nodded understanding that she was going to change back into the confident princess she really was.
Yumi strolled down the path to her house, went in, changed and came back out. She was now wearing a simple, yet elegant afternoon kimono. It covered her figure and that, coupled with her veil made it virtually impossible to tell whether she was fat or thin, ugly or pretty. And she rather liked it that way, no one could judge her based on her looks... sadly, it couldn't hide her station and instead of her beauty she was judged by that.
'Oh well... at least I have a few friends who don't judge me by those standards.' In recognition of her thoughts, her mind brought forth an image of Wufei, which really surprised her because she hadn't really considered him as a friend before... Though thinking back on their past encounters, it was really the only thing that she could describe him as. 'Boyfriend...' The traitorous part of her mind reminded her. 'Damn extra voice living in my head...'
Walking back along her usual route, she flipped her hair up into a sophisticated French twist and pinned it there with an artfully made silver sakura blossom pin. She paused and readjusted her emerald green kimono, it was her favorite one and she was hoping to gather strength from it. Green was her favorite color and she especially liked the silver sakura petals embroidered on it with its matching silver obi. The silver off set her dark hair and the green pulled out the purple highlights in her eyes and hair.
"Get in." Yumi tilted her head to the side and faced Wufei. She nodded slightly and slid into his car. They drove in complete silence until she couldn't take it anymore.
"So... um... Have you read Ghost Faeries yet?" Wufei nodded curtly and didn't respond which pretty much murdered that conversation. Yumi nodded and noted in her head that they seemed to be doing a lot of nodding... Anyway, back on track...
"You... You're not going... to do anything... are you?" Yumi asked, finally bringing up the topic that had kept the car in suffocating silence.
After a length of silence the Chinese prince responded slowly. "Do you want me to?"
This silenced her and she began to stare blankly out the window wondering if she did want him to do anything. "What would you do?"
Wufei barely heard her she said this so softly. "Whatever I could."
"Why?"
Wufei stopped the car outside of the base they were staying at and studied her closely. Normally Yumi would have shifted under his intense scrutiny, but she had to know. "I-I don't know..." He admitted, sounding if he was surprised himself.
'YOU MORON!!! JUST TELL HER IT'S 'CAUSE YOU WANT HER BODY!!! I did NOT just think that... Oh god... I'm becoming delusional!' To get the perverted, and rather Duo like thoughts out of his head he slammed his head against the steering wheel, which was okay because the car was stopped, but if he had been driving he wouldn't have to worry about being insane, he'd be dead.
"Um... Wufei?" Yumi asked worriedly leaning over to see if she could help in some way. Even though she was wearing seven layers her bending over definitely didn't help Wufei with his inner pervert.
"I'm fine!" He growled, slamming open his car door and getting out. His mood demanded that he now stalk off and go sulk somewhere, but training and good etiquette won over and he opened the door for Colony 5's youngest princess. He held out his arm and escorted her into the building, down more halls than she liked to count and finally stopped outside a videoconference room.
"WHERE WERE YOU!?!?!?!?!?!?!? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO!!!!!!!!!!"
The yell stopped the two teens in their tracks and had them gaping in surprise. Kin they would believe yelling, but HEERO AND MIZUNA!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SOME KINDA ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OR SOMETHING!?!?!
"Eigh" Yumi managed to finally choke out while still in a state of shock. Wufei didn't say anything, knowing it would also come out as some kind of garbled cry.
Before Yumi could make any other strange guttural noises, Kin flew out of the room, grabbed Yumi and Wufei's wrists and threw them into the conference room.
Yumi, while still feeling disoriented, tried to make sense of the images swimming in front of her eyes. On the screen was her family; her grandmother and the rest, oh and the "others" were there as well. 'Well,' Yumi thought at seeing her sister eyeing Heero and her brother doing the same to Mizuna, 'that explains the yelling... Yup, I'd be screaming too...'
"YUMI!!! THANK KAMI YOU'RE ALRIGHT!!!" Cried her grandmother. Kaida Kasamura was a distinguished and beautiful lady, even in her early eighties. Yumi had always loved and admired her, her grandmother was everything Yumi strived to be: Kaida was commanding without being cruel, a wise ruler, kind, yet not a pushover, her mere presence radiated dignity and seemed to demand respect, which was willingly given by all. In truth, she was perfect in Yumi's eyes.
Her grandmother seemed to realize that there were other people looking on, and immediately reverted back to queen mode. "Yumi Kasamura!" She called in a harsh voice. The girl in question winced at her grandmothers tone, but still took in how her immediate "Family" all smirked and gave her a "now- you're-going-to-get-it-and-it's-about-time-too look".
"I would say that your actions were childish and unbecoming a princess of the Kasamura dynasty, however your heroism honors us, as do your new associations with the rulers of other Colonies." Here the current ruler of the Colony paused and her eyes swept over the Gundam Pilots. "You have done well grand daughter in choosing your allies, I commend you. You do these old bones well to show me such friendship." Now her families faces were set in more of a... "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! -Why-is-she-getting-praise-she-almost- destroyed-the-family-she-should-be-punished-not-commended look.
"Also, since today is your coming of age..." Kaida allowed time for a dramatic pause and her eyes sparkled with happiness, "We will be throwing a ball in your honor, we have invited all the necessary aristocrats, but there are still a few invitations left if you have anyone in mind..." She finished off her speech with a wink at her favorite grandchild and then the screen went blank.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US TODAY WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY!?!?!" Kin yelled angrily. Mizuna appeared behind her and whacked her on the head.
"That's no way to speak to the birthday girl!" Kashaku yelled, backing Mizuna up, though the blue haired teen probably just wanted to hit the golden haired one.
"So, how old are ya now?" Duo asked good naturedly, breaking through the triad's bickering.
"I'm going to be 16 in... 1 hour and 3 minutes." Yumi estimated, looking at Wufei's watch, which consequently was still on his wrist.
Wufei pulled his wrist back with a snort of disapproval. "WOULD YOU ONNAS STOP ARGUING ALREADY!!!" He yelled at the three teens, which ultimately earned him two bumps on the head and a shoe print on his face. Damn, that hyper girl had good aim!
"Calm down. All of you, you are all acting like children." Everyone quieted down and faced the speaker. It was the girl from before. She was standing next to Quatre, and they assumed that the two were dating. She was a little bit shorter than her supposed boyfriend with shoulder honey colored hair and dancing ruby red eyes. She was wearing a simple green shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans, and her hair was pulled into two cute little pigtails, with a few strands falling down to frame her face.
Then Yumi finally remembered where she had seen her before. "Cerise Thiery correct? You are princess of Colony 6."
Cerise Nodded and smiled politely at the Japanese/Chinese style princess.
"Anyways, as I was saying before I was so randomly sidetracked... I would like to formally invite you all to attend my birthday party." Yumi requested bowing slightly.
"Does that mean we aren't invited informally?" Yumi looked up at Kashaku through her bangs and had to stifle a laugh. The redhead could be so oblivious sometimes.
Mizuna shook her head. "Okay... Anyway, we need to go buy outfits for the party, so I suggest that we go now so that we will have time to get ready." The other girls nodded in agreement and they set off, but not before Mizuna had stolen Heero's key to the Viper, and Yumi Wufei's key.
When they arrived at the mall, there was a lot of bowing, and stares of awe from the crowd as their youngest princess stepped out of the car. It wasn't often that she appeared in public (Her sister only shopped at the exclusive shops and Yumi shopped online, or had a tailor come to her or something). Yumi smiled politely at her subjects and even shook hands with a few. She would have stayed at gotten to know some people, but Mizuna noticed that they were wasting shopping hours (She didn't like shopping, and wanted out of there ASAP) and dragged her off.
3 hours and too many stores to count later...
Each girl had finally found the perfect gown that suited her personality just right and they were on their way back to the compound to get dressed.
"Don't worry about makeup Yumi-chan, Mi-chan is an expert at all things feminine, and so is Cerise-chan." Kashaku said happily, she couldn't wait to show off for Trowa. She might be oblivious, but that didn't mean she was naïve or blind for that matter!!!
Mizuna smirked when she heard this. It was true; she was a genius in more ways than one. And she inwardly agreed with Kashaku, though she wouldn't admit it under any kind of torture, she also wanted to look her best for her boyfriend.
All of the girls silently had the same wish, even the one without the official boyfriend. (A/N: Though he'll end up marrying her if he wants to live.)
When they reached the base, the girls threw themselves out of the car and made a mad dash for inside so that they would have maximum time to get ready... Except Mizuna, who was to dignified and who had spotted the soldiers staring at them... Though if they hadn't been there she would probably be leading the rest.
The girls separated and each went to their own rooms to shower, deciding to meet in Noin's room because it was the biggest. (Her and Zechs were also invited to the party)
Half an hour later all of the girls met up hiding their dresses beneath robes. We wouldn't want boys drooling before it was time would we?
One by one the girls gathered in front of Mizuna for makeup and Cerise for hair. They decided that they would all do hair first so that it wouldn't mess up the makeup.
Kin went first, wanting to get the torture over with. She was wearing a captivating green corset ribbon dress. It went to a little bit after her knees and ended with a mini-handkerchief hemline and had a corset ribbon lace up front. It had slits up to mid-thigh over which the ends of the ribbon ties fluttered. She was wearing strappy green flat shoes with green ribbons that crossed her ankles up to mid-calf. She looked like an Amazonian warrior going on parade.
Cerise keyed up the ribbons with her long golden hair. She took random strands of her hair, curled and pinned them so that half of her hair flowed down her back and the other half curled into ringlets that only reached her shoulders.
When Cerise was done Kin moved onto Mizuna to have her makeup applied. After a few minutes of styling her face, the blue-eyed teen declared that Kin was done and brought up a hand mirror so that she could examine herself. The sophisticated girl definitely knew her way around makeup. Kin's eye shadow was dark green and put on lightly, a bit of mascara made her eyelashes curl perfectly and a hint of eyeliner set off her molten gold eyes and made her eyes really stand out. A bit of green glitter on her cheeks and just some light pink lip-gloss coated her lips making them shine.
Next up was Noin; her dress was the most elegant of them all. It was a dark silver floor length evening gown held aloft by two rhinestones edged dark silver, slightly off the shoulder straps. On the left it had a slit up to mid thigh and on the right there were crisscrossing rhinestone patterns.
There wasn't much Cerise could do with Noin's short hair, but she managed to make it look as elegant as the dress. She parted the short platinum black hair down the middle, making it reach her the bottom of her ears, then she sprayed it with silver glitter and to top it off she sprinkled a few rhinestones throughout it.
Noin then sat in front of Mizuna to have her face made up. The blue haired teen took more time on the lieutenant's face than she did on Kin's. When she was done, Noin admired herself in the mirror, marveling at how feminine she looked. Her eyes were outlined in a smoky black shadowed by dark silver. There was silver glitter on her cheeks and her lips were also done in light pink. But the thing that took Mizuna a while was she placed a rhinestone at the corner of each eye.
Kashaku, having become tired of waiting, and the fact that she had run out of Cheetos, plopped down in front of Cerise to get her hair done. Cerise examined her dress to determine the best hairstyle to match it with. The hyper redhead was wearing a strapless turquoise floor length dress with a black side corset. Taking note of the corset sides, she worked with those and let Kashaku's hair remain down, but she took a few strands and using two black ribbons for each, Cerise braided them so that the ribbons formed a crisscross pattern.
Then Kin and Noin restrained Kashaku so that Mizuna could do her makeup. It wasn't that the redhead didn't like getting made over... It's just that she didn't have the patience to sit still for more than 2 minutes at best. Mizuna went as quickly as possible without getting sloppy, First she applied the same pink lip-gloss she had used on the other two, outlined her eyes in black and then put turquoise eye shadow on her friend. She didn't need anything on her cheeks and so she was done.
Mizuna and Cerise decided to do themselves before the birthday girl, that way they could spend the rest of the time perfecting her.
Mizuna went first; Cerise French braided her hair into two pigtails, but tied them off at the shoulders and curled the rest of her hair so that it fell down in waves to her waist. This style complimented Mizuna's thin ribbon lace-up front dress. It was very sexy black dress with slits up to mid-thigh and a cascading fabric flounce made up the long skirt.
She did her own makeup which consisted of black eye liner and eye shadow, the light pink gloss and then she spritzed her neck and bare shoulders with a bit of her favorite perfume after which the other girls all pulled out their favorites and sprinkled themselves with it. (They had forgotten about it till just then, or rather I had.)
While Mizuna was applying her own makeup, Cerise was fixing up her hair. First she streaked her hair with the same color red as her dress and eyes. Then she pulled it into two buns, one on either side of her head, but since her hair was so short a few strands fell into her face. Becoming annoyed she pulled them back with two ruby tipped pins so that they artfully framed her face instead of blocking her vision.
When Cerise was done with her own hair, Mizuna did her makeup. Her eyes were also outlined in black and since her eyelashes were so light she also added some mascara to make them stand out. To match her dress Mizuna applied some red eye shadow and some vibrant red lipstick. Cerise's dress was a strapless red organza dress with a corset lace up back. It had an iridescent red bustier with rhinestone trim along the front and the back; it also had a long flared skirt with cascading back inset ruffles. To add to it, she also had a matching wrap so she wouldn't get cold.
Next Mizuna and Cerise turned on Yumi, each one giving her calculating looks that reminded the garnet eyed princess of predators on the hunt... And it was creeping her out!
All of a sudden Mizuna and Cerise jumped her. Cerise pulled her long hair out of its confines and Mizuna yanked off her veil. Yumi began looking around frantically for a means of escape, but finding none, she resigned herself to her fate. Seeing that she was being stared at, she nervously looked at her dress to see if it was acceptable. Normally she would wear a formal kimono, but her grandmother insisted that she wear 'civilian' clothes. Yumi was wearing a black/dark purple dress. It had long drooping sleeves and a tight bodice that flowed down her legs and swished lightly at her ankles where it met up with her tall strappy black heels. The top had a semi low neckline so she had chosen to wear her family crest on her neck. It was a small Japanese style white gold dragon circling an also white gold sword and a white gold tiara circled that. The dragon and sword represented their colony, and the tiara told all that she was the princess. The dragon had dark ruby eyes, as did the sword hilt and the tiara. Cerise ran a brush through Yumi's long black/purple hair before nimbly styling it. When she was finished the Japanese style princess's hair was in a messy bun with half of her hair pulled through it and into a ponytail. The end result was sophisticated, but not so elegant that the older adults would wear it.
Mizuna's approach was the same, trendy, but not juvenile. Yumi's lips were coated in a thin layer of light pink and her cheeks were sprinkled with crushed garnets, which sparkled in the light and made her eyes stand out with a little help from black eyeliner and a dash of dark purple eye shadow.
"We're done." Mizuna stated. At her words, all of the girls pulled out mirrors out of nowhere and examined themselves.
Apparently they finished just on time because there was a knock at the door signifying that the boys were ready to go. The girls all took a deep breath and one at a time they stepped out the door.
Noin went first and when she stepped out she was handed a pink rose by Zechs who was blushing slightly but had turned his head so that it wouldn't be seen. Noin grinned at him, took the rose and kissed him lightly on the cheek before dragging him out of the compound and to his car.
Next to exit the room was Kashaku who had been shoved out the door by Kin for skipping around annoyingly. Trowa also handed Kashaku a rose, though it was white rather than pink. He however didn't blush because he was in complete control of his emotions... And that is exactly why his eyes traveled down her neckline of their own accord. Luckily Kashaku didn't notice because she also kissed him on the cheek and dragged him off to his car.
Kin however, HAD seen it, and sent Duo a warning look; of course Duo being Duo ignored the look and allowed his eyes to slowly travel her form causing Kin to blush profusely. "Looking good gorgeous!" He then handed her a golden rose, and when she leaned over to kiss him on the cheek, his mischievous side took over and he turned his head kissing her full on the lips. Kin's blushed another twenty shades of red, but didn't kill him for it like he thought she would.
Kin was still standing in the doorway, and Mizuna got fed up and shoved her out the door and into Duo's arms. He grinned, sat her down and then they walked away holding hands.
Mizuna stepped out into the light and smiled at Heero who was looking FINE in his black tux. He handed her a black rose and only smiled after she kissed him on the cheek. Well, it was really more of a smirk, but we can't expect more from our favorite perfect soldier now can we? Heero slipped his arm around Mizuna and whispered a compliment in her ear before they headed off.
Cerise stepped out in a swirl of red. Her eyes were set on the last couple and her eyes had little hearts in them as she thought of what a cute couple they made. Quatre bowed to her and held out his arm. She curtsied in return and accepted his outstretched arm. As they were walking away, Quatre brought out a red rose and handed it to her, she smiled happily and kissed him on the cheek as they continued walking away.
That left our two main characters. Yumi shyly stepped out into the hall and gave Wufei a nervous smile that was returned with an appreciative smile as he looked over her appearance, though in a strictly polite way, not like Duo. Wufei bowed and Yumi curtsied, then he handed her a stunning garnet rose hybrid. Yumi gasped and lost in the moment, she hugged him tightly. She blushed and pulled away, only to be held there when Wufei snaked an arm around her. He then realized what he was doing and released her.
They were both blushing when they walked out to Wufei's car. When Wufei put a hand in his pocket for his keys, he remembered he had forgotten to do something. Seeing Yumi shiver slightly in the evening air, he quickly unlocked the doors and allowed her to get inside.
When they were a block away from Yumi's illustrious estate, Wufei parked the car and turned it off. Before Yumi could say anything, he withdrew a gorgeous rose comb inlaid with garnets and placed it in her hair. Then he turned the car back on and drove up to where the party was being held, all the while with Yumi sitting next to him in what could only be called a state of shock.
When they pulled up at the front of her mansion, Wufei got out of the car, went around and opened the door for her. Hey, just because women are the inferior onnas doesn't mean that Wufei don't got game!
Leiko: Next chapter! Wufei finally answers the question! Be there be there! Sunday! Sunday!!!
Kin: You sound like an infomercial...
Leiko: I was going for that.
Mizuna: If you don't go to bed soon you're mom is going to kill you.
Leiko: OMG IT'S 11 ALREADY!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO SCREWED IF SHE WAKES UP!!!!!!!!
Mizuna: We're sure you are.
Leiko: Anywho, I'm going on a class trip to Arkansas next week, so I won't be able to update any of my stories... pooh...
Kin: It's not like you were actually going to update this story in a week.
Mizuna: True.
Leiko: Where's Kashaku? Things are quiet... TOO quiet...
Kashaku: SNORE!!!!!!!!!!!
Kin: Who knew an entire package of benadril could put a grown person to sleep?
Kin shrugs and walks off to experiment with other various non-perscription drugs
Mizuna: I'll be right back...
Banging sound
Mizuna walks back in with dented frying pan in hand
Mizuna: We're all safe for now...
Cerise: Read and Review please.
Readers: Why should we!?!
Duo: Don't question her, she's Quatre's girl and if you make her cry, Quatre's going to go crazy and kill everyone again...
(Also, all rantings at beginning of chapter are to be ignored because I started this chapter a week ago, and I am no longer mad, also in retrospect, I was just pissed for no real reason. Thank you, that is all)
(You still sound like an infomercial-Kin)