Disclaimer: My friend just said out of nowhere "I think I like Sarah" (On aim) and I was like... WTF!?!?! Where did that come from!?!?!?! Actually, while Sarah's pretty cool and all, she's nowhere near as smart as I am. Was
Female lawyers: Ooooooooh sounds like somebody has a little crush!!!
Leiko: I guess. He's cute, and pretty smart. But I really go for the really intellectual type, you know, someone smarter than me.
Mizuna: He shouldn't be hard to find...
Leiko: I'm going to ignore that insult.
Kin: Question. Sure, you need to know how to do an essay and research paper to pass college, but in real life do you think you are going to look at something and say, "That sentence has a subordinating conjunction."?
Leiko: HAHA! I love Daria!!! Quinn talking to Stacey, "Whoops, gotta go, fashion emergency. No, it's not you. It's NOT you. IT'S NOT YOU!!! ... FINE IT'S YOU!!! GOODBYE!"
Mizuna: Shut the hell up and start the fic.
Leiko: Okay, who put her in a bad mood!
When Wufei and Yumi walked into the house, everyone stopped talking and stared at the cute couple. Yumi really felt like she was Cinderella or something... Except that Prince Charming was already escorting her, not waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
Taking a deep breath, she allowed her prince to lead her to the bottom of the stairs and over to her family.
She smiled brightly at her grandmother and outer family members, and then she gave a slightly pained smile to her immediate family. "Grandmother, thank you so much for the wonderful party!" She then faced the rest of her family. "And I'm so glad that my entire family could make it!" She really was thrilled; everyone in her family was, simply put, amazing.
A tall black haired woman with dark violet streaks and icy blue eyes grinned at Yumi. "Are you kidding? Where else would we be found than at the party of the decade!!!" She then laughed to show she was kidding. She was wearing a black Japanese style sleeveless dress with blue dragon pattern embroidered on.
Yumi grinned in return. This was her favorite cousin, Azereia. She was also someone Yumi looked up to other than her grandmother. She was 26, married to her dream man and she had a successful, independent career as obstetrician. Yumi also loved Azereia's husband, Trunks (Yes, Trunks from DBZ, she's my OC for him, 'cause Pan is WAY to young for him) Briefs.
He was a year older than her cousin; they had met a few years back, Azereia still refused to say where though. He had semi-short, ear length lavender hair, blue eyes, and muscles that would make any girl swoon, and he was currently wearing a black tux that looked damn sexy. (A/N: Haha!!! I just said damn sexy! Hehe... I'm on a sugar high!!! YAY FOR MULTIPLE COKES AND NO MOM TO WATCH YOUR INTAKE!!! WHOOOO!!!")
Trunks laughed at his wife's joke and pulled her into a hug. Azereia giggled and gently pushed out of his arms, blushing and murmuring something about not messing up her hair.
Yumi's brother snorted. "Get a room..." Unfortunately for him, his tall cousin in law heard him.
"We have one, and our own private mansion to go with it." Trunks smirked at his 'cousin's' discomfort at being heard.
"Yeah, you're probably just jealous because girl's only want you for your money." Azereia was now getting her payback. No one ever insulted her and got away without either a verbal tongue-lashing or a nice black eye. Sometimes even a mix of the two.
Hajime (A/N: Hehe... I forgot to name him!!!) blushed a deep red at the insult, but didn't dare talk back, Azereia might just turn on the water works, and then Trunks would beat the snot out of him for making his wife cry. Which would NOT be a pleasant experience!!!
Kaida, who had been pretty much silent till then, decided to break up the fight, as much as she was enjoying it. "So dear, who's your escort?"
Wufei smiled charmingly to the fierce old lady and bowed to her, but, before he could introduce himself, Yumi's father broke in.
"YOU LITTLE WHORE!!! YOU'RE ENGAGED TO SHINO, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH THIS BASTARD!?!?!?!?!" During his shouting, he had grabbed Yumi by the throat, and she was now having a bit of trouble breathing.
Wufei growled deep in his throat and walking calmly up to her side, punched her father right in the face and sending him flying across the room and into Kashaku. Then Trowa punched him again, because he had knocked Kashaku over.
Yumi fell to the ground and brought a hand to her throat, trying to regain her missed breath. Wufei knelt down beside her and put a comforting arm around her to help steady her while she stood.
He then noticed the stunned stares of her family. He shrugged. "My hand slipped."
At this Yumi laughed lightly, but it turned into a cough causing Wufei to turn his complete attention back to her.
"Not to worry. If you hadn't done it, I would have."
The young couple's heads shot up as they stared at Kaida. She was smiling kindly at them and Yumi returned her warm smile with a shaky one of her own.
"I'm sure you would have ma'am." So he can be polite when he wants to be... "I am Wufei Chang, Ruler of Colony 8. Yumi's real fiancée."
Now imagine what that must sound like to Duo, who had just happened to be walking by, drinking a cup of punch. Yup, you guessed it, there goes the punch!!! Duo spit out his drink and began coughing while Kin did the same, but without the coughing.
"Wufei, PLEASE tell me that you didn't just say that!!!"
Wufei raised an eyebrow at the braided pilot. "I did just say that you fool."
"This isn't happening... how could Wufei, WUFEI be getting married before me!?!?! AND ANOTHER THING!!! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Kin shook her head and shot Yumi a you-better-spill-next-time-I-talk-to-you- or-else look. Then she put her arm around Duo's waist and led him off while he continued muttering to himself about the apocalypse and something about an alternate world and giant Chihuahuas.
Wufei just shook his head at his friend's antics and slipped an arm around Yumi's waist. "If you will excuse us, this is sure as hell not our song, and I have to go break this CD."
Yumi nodded in agreement, Brittany Spears SUCKED and there was no way this trash was going to continue playing at her party.
After a short talk with the DJ, Alien Ant Farm came blaring through the speakers. Wufei then led his fiancée over to the dance floor and well duh they danced.
Approximately 6 songs later, a slow song came on. Yumi blushed when Wufei pulled her closer and slipped his well-toned arms around her waist. She complied and brought her arms up to loop around his neck. The couple swayed lightly to the beat and it was clear to everyone but the couple that they were in love. Even Kashaku knew it, though she wouldn't say anything about it, it would ruin her mask of obliviousness.
A few seconds after the song ended, the couple just stood there, staring deep into the other's eyes. Then a voice came over the speakers, startling them out of their semi-creepy mushiness.
"Good evening everyone. I hope that you are all having a wonderful time, I'm sure that our birthday girl is." Here she paused and beamed at her granddaughter and her soon-to-be-grandson, who were currently standing in each other's arms listening quietly to the announcement.
"There will be plenty more dancing later, but it is now time for dinner. If everyone would please head into the main dining room, the seating is assigned, trade if you wish." With that Kaida walked, or rather, floated across the room and through a set of double doors, seating herself at the head of the first table.
The main dining room was huge and exquisitely decorated, complete with a hanging diamond chandelier. There were three long tables set up each one the same. Yumi looked at her grandmother, and Kaida motioned that she take the head seat at the table on the left.
Yumi led the Pilots and their respective girlfriends to the left table where the seating for the room went as follows,
Yumi's Dad Mom Empty Kaida Wufei Yumi Sister brother various family Heero Duo Then other various members and Mizuna Kin Dignitaries the really important Trowa Quatre
Dignitaries Kashaku Cerise
Trunks Goten
Azereia Nami
When they set down, butlers rushed up and they were presented with the first course then the second course, and on until there was no way anyone could possibly eat anything else... though that cake was looking pretty good...
The entire room sang happy birthday to Yumi, and she suddenly flashed back to her fifth birthday party, just family, no politicians, or people to impress... and then the song ended and everyone was back to polite monotony.
Everyone was invited back into the dining room for drinks, dancing and cake. As everyone flooded back into the ballroom, Wufei pulled Yumi aside into a small parlor that was adjacent to the large room.
Her questioning gaze was met only with an unreadable stare. Silently the Chinese prince picked her hand up from her side, and slid an engagement ring onto her ring finger. Then he kissed her lightly on the forehead and left the room, leaving her to her thoughts.
A few minutes later Yumi finally wandered out of the room with a rather dazed expression on her face. The second she stepped out, the other girls immediately pounced on her and brought her back into the room to discuss details.
Before they could ask her anything, the black haired teen slowly brought her hand up, and stared in a still shocked manner, at the ring that now graced her slender finger. It had a medium sized dark ruby set in the middle of the thin white gold band, with a sparkling diamond on either side of it. The end effect was elegant, and not gaudy in the slightest.
All the girls in the room gasped. There was silence. And then girly mayhem broke out.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!?!" All the girls were squealing and jumping up and down, thrilled for their friend, and in Azereia's case, cousin.
As the news began to finally sink into Yumi, a large, silly smile began to slowly form on her face.
Their happy singing, dancing and screaming of course, was cut short by the door to the room slamming open. Expensive leather shoes slapping the ground accompanied slamming door. A livid Teiljo stormed into the room, and completely ignoring the other girls, he grabbed Yumi's neck and slammed her up against the wall.
"You little bitch!!! You are going to marry me, and you are never going to talk to that bastard son of bitch ever again, or else both you and he will meet with a rather, unfortunate, end!!!" His eyes held an animalistic fury that froze Yumi's very insides.
His tight grip on her neck was even worse than her father's, and little spots of black were beginning to appear on the edges of her vision. Just as her vision began going entirely black, she managed to see the door slam open a second time before she slipped into blissful unconsciousness.
The girls standing around the madman didn't think to bring weapons and were hesitant to provoke him, fearing for Yumi's life. They were just about to risk it when the door slammed open and the Gundam Boys ran in.
There were clicks and then five guns were trained on Teiljo's head. Each of the boys wore masks of fury, though all were slightly different. Heero and Trowa remained stoic, but their eyes were flashing with unveiled anger, Duo's face was twisted into a scowl and Quatre looked like he was about to lose it and just pull the trigger for the hell of it, and while all their faces would have anyone in their view peeing in their pants, Wufei's would have anyone within an 8 mile radius shaking.
He was wearing a terrifying scowl and his mouth was twisted into a feral growl, but his eyes were the worst, they shone with such fury that even Heero would shudder if it was directed at him.
"Release. My. Fiancée. Now." Each word was meticulously pronounced as Wufei tried to control his rage, and not just blow the bastard's head off.
Teiljo sneered, but dropped her all the same, allowing her limp body to crumple to the floor. Just as he reached the door he paused, hearing his name. He faced back with his irritating I'm-better-than-you look firmly in place. Then it disappeared when a bullet lodged itself into the wall half an inch from his head.
"Touch her again, and that bullet will be adorning your forehead." Wufei still had the furious look in his eyes, but now his face had relaxed into a practiced smirk.
Walking over to his fallen fiancée, Wufei scooped Yumi up in his arms and walked out of the room. He strolled through the ballroom, ignoring all the stares being directed at him, both for the unconscious girl in his arms, and for the gunshot they had heard earlier.
"My Kami! What happened to my granddaughter!?!" Kaida was now in a state of panic, perfectly ready to call in the FBI if it would help.
"She'll be fine. But alert your security to keep Teiljo away from her. Now if you can excuse us, I'm going to take her back to the base." He bowed to her with Yumi still firmly in his arms, and she bowed back.
When Wufei arrived at the base, he went around his car and carefully picked his fiancée back up and carried her inside. As he strolled through the maze of halls and doorways that was the compound, he took the time to study Yumi's face seeing as how her veil had fluttered off sometime during the car ride.
Her creamy white skin was a healthy pale and shone with a pearly glisten in the bright light. Her long curling charcoal lashes lightly brushed her soft cheeks and if her eyes had been open, he would have been able to see the fierce passion that dwelled in the depths of her crimson/violet eyes. His own deep brown/black eyes slowly traveled down her angelic face and refocused on her glossy lips. Her plump lips were covered in a sheen of light pink lip-gloss making them look even more delectable.
While his attention had been on the angel in his arms, Wufei had ended up at his door without knowing it. Balancing her on one arm, he pulled his key out and unlocked the door before stepping into the dark confines of his room.
Walking over to his bed, he gently lay Yumi down on his bed. Pulling off her shoes, he used his sleeve to gently wipe away her makeup. He then stared at her for a second before slowly moving his hand up and releasing her hair so that it pooled on his pillow like ink.
He hesitantly ran a hand through her silky locks before pulling himself away from her. After throwing his clothes into the laundry shoot, he took a quick shower before immediately coming back out wearing his sleeping clothes.
Pulling up a random chair that randomly happened to be located in his room, he sat down next to Yumi's sleeping head. After a few minutes of watching her steady breathing, the day's events caught up with him and he followed his fiancée into dreamland.
Yumi's Dream
"Hello? Hello!?!" Yumi frowned looking around the empty hall. Choosing a random door, she opened it and walked in. It was pitch black so she flipped the light switch by the door.
The light turned on revealing a star filled sky. Looking down, she immediately jerked her head back up, wishing she hadn't looked down in the first place. She floated for a second before plummeting down through the unending darkness.
Her mouth opened in a horrified scream, but she had nothing to voice it with, her veil was strangling her as she fell. She jerked it off and tried to breath. When she still couldn't tears began pouring out of her eyes, only to fly above her as gravity forced her freefall to continue.
After what seemed like hours of terrifying panic, she fell through a flash of bright light which magically slowed her decent so that she floated down gently. Landing on one foot, she placed the other down and soaked in her surroundings.
She was standing in the middle of a lush field of deep purple flowers and a strong, yet soft breeze made her long dark hair dance in the wind. Looking around the endless meadow she spotted a fleck of black amongst the greens and purples.
She felt a tug at her heart and ran for the color, which blurred before forming into a man's figure as she got closer. The shadow's arm raised and a bang sounded throughout the field. Yumi got there just in time to see another man fall, holding his chest and gasping for air.
As the man's bloodstained the ground, the world turned dark and lightning flashed in the background. As the descending darkness touched the field, the flowers turned black before the petals fell, then as if a wildfire swept across the plain, the grass charred and wilted.
Then the first shadowed figure turned to face her. His face was still shrouded in darkness, but she knew that one more step would bring him into the light. Afraid of what she would find, she hesitantly took a step foreword. The new light cast upon him, showed the shadow for who he was. Wufei was standing there with no expression on his face but his eyes held an unnamed sorrow that chilled her straight to her heart.
She gasped and took a step back to keep from falling over, but his face remained in terrifying clarity. His figure was bathed in blood and it trickled from his mouth.
Her mind's first thought was that it was the other man's blood, but her heart screamed that it could be his. Ignoring both, she ran foreword and caught him just as he began to slump over.
Soundlessly she tore off a part of her new dress and carefully wiped away his blood to reveal fatal wounds. She burst into tears at the thought of losing him and as her crystal tears hit his mortally wounded body, the gashes healed themselves, not leaving a trace of the wounds that once marred his sun kissed skin.
Her eyes widened in relief, but the tears didn't stop flowing. Burying her face into his shirt, an annoying beeping began pounding through her brain, jerking her back to reality.
Her face was pressed against a stark white pillow and Yumi jerked up into a sitting position covered in a thin layer of sweat. Large sleepy garnet eyes blinked owlishly as she took in the dark room around her. Realizing that it had all been a dream she calmed down a bit, but just in case, she figured she might as well... you know, just check on Wufei.
When her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she made a move to swing her legs over the side. Only to encounter something hard, whatever it was growled at her. Now sufficiently freaked out, Yumi steeled herself before peeking closer at the shadow.
The shadow, just like in her dream, turned out to be Wufei. But instead of him being near dead from blood loss, this was a cutely sleeping little angel. His tan face was lax in sleep and he had a babyish look on his face, with the slightest bit of drool was coming out of the corner of his mouth.
Smiling at how angelic he looked sleeping, she raised a hand and lightly wiped away the sleep in her eyes before settling back to watch his breathing until she drifted back into the peaceful abyss that was sleep.
All previous memories of her nightmare disappeared as she watched his easy slumber and soon she slipped back under the waves of unconsciousness, but not before she broke the alarm clock that had woken her in the first place.
Yumi's peaceful sleep was interrupted by a single sharp beep coming over the intercom in Wufei's room. She jerked up into a sitting position just like she had before, but this time Wufei was also awake.
Before she could speak, his hand covered her mouth and he made the motion that she be perfectly quiet. She nodded compliance, but gave him a questioning look.
He shook his head and pushed gently on her shoulder so that she would lie back down. Yumi gave him a weird look, but trusted his judgment and did as directed. He winked at her, and pulled the covers over her head before hiding quietly next to the door.
A few minutes later the door opened and someone stepped into the room. Whoever it was began walking towards the bed, but they paused in the middle of the room and withdrew a gun from their pocket. They placed a silencer on it, but before they could point the gun at the figure on the bed Wufei stepped out from behind the door and slammed it shut, startling the would- be assassin.
The Chinese prince flipped the lights on revealing a frightened boy of 12 or so. He raised an eyebrow and lowered his gun slightly. "Can I help you?"
"I-I-I..." Wufei had scared the boy so much that he was having trouble forming sentences, or words for that matter!
Yumi, becoming curious, threw the covers back and looked at the boy with her head tilted to the side. "You know, if you give him your gun he would probably be a bit nicer in his interrogation."
The young man jerked around so fast that he ended up on his butt. He stared at her in blank awe for a minute before nodding dumbly. Facing back to Wufei he held up his gun, hilt first.
He accepted the proffered weapon and dropped it carelessly next to him before putting his gun back into its holster on the wall. Walking past the boy who was still on the ground, Wufei sat down next to Yumi and asked if she was okay. She nodded and then he grabbed a headset that the G boys used when they split up on missions.
Fidling with it for a second, his voice echoed throughout the compound. "False alarm. Resume sleeping. 077814." He then took it off his head and tossed it back into its place.
"What are you doing here?" His voice was stern, but in a reprimanding way as if speaking to a small child, which he basically was.
"I was told to go in and shoot whoever was in this room... It was part of an initiation, they said that it was just a dummy! I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS OUR PRINCESS!!!!!" His light green eyes filled with tears which he tried desperately to hide from Wufei.
Yumi slid off the bed and knelt by his side, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. "It's okay. We just need to know who you are and who put you up to this and then we can go back to sleep. Well, you and I can, I think that Wufei's pretty much awake now." She giggled slightly at his expression and stood up. Moving over to the dark haired pilot, she kissed him lightly on the nose before plopping herself back down on the bed.
"My name's Tendo Takashi your highness," Here he hesitated, but continued when Yumi gave him and encouraging smile, or maybe it was Wufei's steady glare that prodded him on, whichever. "They go to my new school, I just now got into middle school, and these boys are the coolest in the whole school. And I just thought that if I became friends with them then no one would pick on me anymore... It sounds kinda stupid now that I say it outloud..."
This confession was met with two entirely different answers. "Of course not!" –Yumi and "You got that right." –Wufei.
"That still doesn't explain how you broke through our security." Yumi gave him a look, which he returned with a look of his own.
The boy shrugged. "There's a tunnel under this place, it leads to a cleaning closet a few doors down. It starts about a mile or two from here at the basement of this abandoned amusement park."
Wufei's expression was one of annoyance. 'Great. Just great. A group of misfits can break through our security. Yup... We're screwed.'
Yumi lightly laid a hand on his arm. "How about we talk about this in the morning. Or the afternoon, whenever we wake up." She smiled charmingly and Wufei caved.
"Fine." He stood up and towered over the boy. "I'll escort you to your room. Yumi, go to sleep, I'll be back in a minute."
Yumi nodded and slipped back under the covers before waving goodbye to Takashi. Laying her head back on the pillow, she went back to sleep breathing in the scent of her new fiancée.
Kin: That was shorter than last time...
Leiko: Yeah I know, but I thought that that was a good stopping place.
Mizuna: Kashaku, stop typing up songs while Leiko's trying to type.
Kashaku: Do I have to?
Kin: Yes. Yes, you do.
Kashaku: Pooh...
Mizuna: Read and review. Or else.
Random reader: Or else what?
Mizuna pulls out gun
Mizuna: or, Omae o karusu!!!
Readers: EEP!!!!
Kin: You know, I think she's been hanging around to much with Heero...
Female lawyers: Ooooooooh sounds like somebody has a little crush!!!
Leiko: I guess. He's cute, and pretty smart. But I really go for the really intellectual type, you know, someone smarter than me.
Mizuna: He shouldn't be hard to find...
Leiko: I'm going to ignore that insult.
Kin: Question. Sure, you need to know how to do an essay and research paper to pass college, but in real life do you think you are going to look at something and say, "That sentence has a subordinating conjunction."?
Leiko: HAHA! I love Daria!!! Quinn talking to Stacey, "Whoops, gotta go, fashion emergency. No, it's not you. It's NOT you. IT'S NOT YOU!!! ... FINE IT'S YOU!!! GOODBYE!"
Mizuna: Shut the hell up and start the fic.
Leiko: Okay, who put her in a bad mood!
When Wufei and Yumi walked into the house, everyone stopped talking and stared at the cute couple. Yumi really felt like she was Cinderella or something... Except that Prince Charming was already escorting her, not waiting at the bottom of the stairs.
Taking a deep breath, she allowed her prince to lead her to the bottom of the stairs and over to her family.
She smiled brightly at her grandmother and outer family members, and then she gave a slightly pained smile to her immediate family. "Grandmother, thank you so much for the wonderful party!" She then faced the rest of her family. "And I'm so glad that my entire family could make it!" She really was thrilled; everyone in her family was, simply put, amazing.
A tall black haired woman with dark violet streaks and icy blue eyes grinned at Yumi. "Are you kidding? Where else would we be found than at the party of the decade!!!" She then laughed to show she was kidding. She was wearing a black Japanese style sleeveless dress with blue dragon pattern embroidered on.
Yumi grinned in return. This was her favorite cousin, Azereia. She was also someone Yumi looked up to other than her grandmother. She was 26, married to her dream man and she had a successful, independent career as obstetrician. Yumi also loved Azereia's husband, Trunks (Yes, Trunks from DBZ, she's my OC for him, 'cause Pan is WAY to young for him) Briefs.
He was a year older than her cousin; they had met a few years back, Azereia still refused to say where though. He had semi-short, ear length lavender hair, blue eyes, and muscles that would make any girl swoon, and he was currently wearing a black tux that looked damn sexy. (A/N: Haha!!! I just said damn sexy! Hehe... I'm on a sugar high!!! YAY FOR MULTIPLE COKES AND NO MOM TO WATCH YOUR INTAKE!!! WHOOOO!!!")
Trunks laughed at his wife's joke and pulled her into a hug. Azereia giggled and gently pushed out of his arms, blushing and murmuring something about not messing up her hair.
Yumi's brother snorted. "Get a room..." Unfortunately for him, his tall cousin in law heard him.
"We have one, and our own private mansion to go with it." Trunks smirked at his 'cousin's' discomfort at being heard.
"Yeah, you're probably just jealous because girl's only want you for your money." Azereia was now getting her payback. No one ever insulted her and got away without either a verbal tongue-lashing or a nice black eye. Sometimes even a mix of the two.
Hajime (A/N: Hehe... I forgot to name him!!!) blushed a deep red at the insult, but didn't dare talk back, Azereia might just turn on the water works, and then Trunks would beat the snot out of him for making his wife cry. Which would NOT be a pleasant experience!!!
Kaida, who had been pretty much silent till then, decided to break up the fight, as much as she was enjoying it. "So dear, who's your escort?"
Wufei smiled charmingly to the fierce old lady and bowed to her, but, before he could introduce himself, Yumi's father broke in.
"YOU LITTLE WHORE!!! YOU'RE ENGAGED TO SHINO, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING WITH THIS BASTARD!?!?!?!?!" During his shouting, he had grabbed Yumi by the throat, and she was now having a bit of trouble breathing.
Wufei growled deep in his throat and walking calmly up to her side, punched her father right in the face and sending him flying across the room and into Kashaku. Then Trowa punched him again, because he had knocked Kashaku over.
Yumi fell to the ground and brought a hand to her throat, trying to regain her missed breath. Wufei knelt down beside her and put a comforting arm around her to help steady her while she stood.
He then noticed the stunned stares of her family. He shrugged. "My hand slipped."
At this Yumi laughed lightly, but it turned into a cough causing Wufei to turn his complete attention back to her.
"Not to worry. If you hadn't done it, I would have."
The young couple's heads shot up as they stared at Kaida. She was smiling kindly at them and Yumi returned her warm smile with a shaky one of her own.
"I'm sure you would have ma'am." So he can be polite when he wants to be... "I am Wufei Chang, Ruler of Colony 8. Yumi's real fiancée."
Now imagine what that must sound like to Duo, who had just happened to be walking by, drinking a cup of punch. Yup, you guessed it, there goes the punch!!! Duo spit out his drink and began coughing while Kin did the same, but without the coughing.
"Wufei, PLEASE tell me that you didn't just say that!!!"
Wufei raised an eyebrow at the braided pilot. "I did just say that you fool."
"This isn't happening... how could Wufei, WUFEI be getting married before me!?!?! AND ANOTHER THING!!! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Kin shook her head and shot Yumi a you-better-spill-next-time-I-talk-to-you- or-else look. Then she put her arm around Duo's waist and led him off while he continued muttering to himself about the apocalypse and something about an alternate world and giant Chihuahuas.
Wufei just shook his head at his friend's antics and slipped an arm around Yumi's waist. "If you will excuse us, this is sure as hell not our song, and I have to go break this CD."
Yumi nodded in agreement, Brittany Spears SUCKED and there was no way this trash was going to continue playing at her party.
After a short talk with the DJ, Alien Ant Farm came blaring through the speakers. Wufei then led his fiancée over to the dance floor and well duh they danced.
Approximately 6 songs later, a slow song came on. Yumi blushed when Wufei pulled her closer and slipped his well-toned arms around her waist. She complied and brought her arms up to loop around his neck. The couple swayed lightly to the beat and it was clear to everyone but the couple that they were in love. Even Kashaku knew it, though she wouldn't say anything about it, it would ruin her mask of obliviousness.
A few seconds after the song ended, the couple just stood there, staring deep into the other's eyes. Then a voice came over the speakers, startling them out of their semi-creepy mushiness.
"Good evening everyone. I hope that you are all having a wonderful time, I'm sure that our birthday girl is." Here she paused and beamed at her granddaughter and her soon-to-be-grandson, who were currently standing in each other's arms listening quietly to the announcement.
"There will be plenty more dancing later, but it is now time for dinner. If everyone would please head into the main dining room, the seating is assigned, trade if you wish." With that Kaida walked, or rather, floated across the room and through a set of double doors, seating herself at the head of the first table.
The main dining room was huge and exquisitely decorated, complete with a hanging diamond chandelier. There were three long tables set up each one the same. Yumi looked at her grandmother, and Kaida motioned that she take the head seat at the table on the left.
Yumi led the Pilots and their respective girlfriends to the left table where the seating for the room went as follows,
Yumi's Dad Mom Empty Kaida Wufei Yumi Sister brother various family Heero Duo Then other various members and Mizuna Kin Dignitaries the really important Trowa Quatre
Dignitaries Kashaku Cerise
Trunks Goten
Azereia Nami
When they set down, butlers rushed up and they were presented with the first course then the second course, and on until there was no way anyone could possibly eat anything else... though that cake was looking pretty good...
The entire room sang happy birthday to Yumi, and she suddenly flashed back to her fifth birthday party, just family, no politicians, or people to impress... and then the song ended and everyone was back to polite monotony.
Everyone was invited back into the dining room for drinks, dancing and cake. As everyone flooded back into the ballroom, Wufei pulled Yumi aside into a small parlor that was adjacent to the large room.
Her questioning gaze was met only with an unreadable stare. Silently the Chinese prince picked her hand up from her side, and slid an engagement ring onto her ring finger. Then he kissed her lightly on the forehead and left the room, leaving her to her thoughts.
A few minutes later Yumi finally wandered out of the room with a rather dazed expression on her face. The second she stepped out, the other girls immediately pounced on her and brought her back into the room to discuss details.
Before they could ask her anything, the black haired teen slowly brought her hand up, and stared in a still shocked manner, at the ring that now graced her slender finger. It had a medium sized dark ruby set in the middle of the thin white gold band, with a sparkling diamond on either side of it. The end effect was elegant, and not gaudy in the slightest.
All the girls in the room gasped. There was silence. And then girly mayhem broke out.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!?!?!?!?!?!" All the girls were squealing and jumping up and down, thrilled for their friend, and in Azereia's case, cousin.
As the news began to finally sink into Yumi, a large, silly smile began to slowly form on her face.
Their happy singing, dancing and screaming of course, was cut short by the door to the room slamming open. Expensive leather shoes slapping the ground accompanied slamming door. A livid Teiljo stormed into the room, and completely ignoring the other girls, he grabbed Yumi's neck and slammed her up against the wall.
"You little bitch!!! You are going to marry me, and you are never going to talk to that bastard son of bitch ever again, or else both you and he will meet with a rather, unfortunate, end!!!" His eyes held an animalistic fury that froze Yumi's very insides.
His tight grip on her neck was even worse than her father's, and little spots of black were beginning to appear on the edges of her vision. Just as her vision began going entirely black, she managed to see the door slam open a second time before she slipped into blissful unconsciousness.
The girls standing around the madman didn't think to bring weapons and were hesitant to provoke him, fearing for Yumi's life. They were just about to risk it when the door slammed open and the Gundam Boys ran in.
There were clicks and then five guns were trained on Teiljo's head. Each of the boys wore masks of fury, though all were slightly different. Heero and Trowa remained stoic, but their eyes were flashing with unveiled anger, Duo's face was twisted into a scowl and Quatre looked like he was about to lose it and just pull the trigger for the hell of it, and while all their faces would have anyone in their view peeing in their pants, Wufei's would have anyone within an 8 mile radius shaking.
He was wearing a terrifying scowl and his mouth was twisted into a feral growl, but his eyes were the worst, they shone with such fury that even Heero would shudder if it was directed at him.
"Release. My. Fiancée. Now." Each word was meticulously pronounced as Wufei tried to control his rage, and not just blow the bastard's head off.
Teiljo sneered, but dropped her all the same, allowing her limp body to crumple to the floor. Just as he reached the door he paused, hearing his name. He faced back with his irritating I'm-better-than-you look firmly in place. Then it disappeared when a bullet lodged itself into the wall half an inch from his head.
"Touch her again, and that bullet will be adorning your forehead." Wufei still had the furious look in his eyes, but now his face had relaxed into a practiced smirk.
Walking over to his fallen fiancée, Wufei scooped Yumi up in his arms and walked out of the room. He strolled through the ballroom, ignoring all the stares being directed at him, both for the unconscious girl in his arms, and for the gunshot they had heard earlier.
"My Kami! What happened to my granddaughter!?!" Kaida was now in a state of panic, perfectly ready to call in the FBI if it would help.
"She'll be fine. But alert your security to keep Teiljo away from her. Now if you can excuse us, I'm going to take her back to the base." He bowed to her with Yumi still firmly in his arms, and she bowed back.
When Wufei arrived at the base, he went around his car and carefully picked his fiancée back up and carried her inside. As he strolled through the maze of halls and doorways that was the compound, he took the time to study Yumi's face seeing as how her veil had fluttered off sometime during the car ride.
Her creamy white skin was a healthy pale and shone with a pearly glisten in the bright light. Her long curling charcoal lashes lightly brushed her soft cheeks and if her eyes had been open, he would have been able to see the fierce passion that dwelled in the depths of her crimson/violet eyes. His own deep brown/black eyes slowly traveled down her angelic face and refocused on her glossy lips. Her plump lips were covered in a sheen of light pink lip-gloss making them look even more delectable.
While his attention had been on the angel in his arms, Wufei had ended up at his door without knowing it. Balancing her on one arm, he pulled his key out and unlocked the door before stepping into the dark confines of his room.
Walking over to his bed, he gently lay Yumi down on his bed. Pulling off her shoes, he used his sleeve to gently wipe away her makeup. He then stared at her for a second before slowly moving his hand up and releasing her hair so that it pooled on his pillow like ink.
He hesitantly ran a hand through her silky locks before pulling himself away from her. After throwing his clothes into the laundry shoot, he took a quick shower before immediately coming back out wearing his sleeping clothes.
Pulling up a random chair that randomly happened to be located in his room, he sat down next to Yumi's sleeping head. After a few minutes of watching her steady breathing, the day's events caught up with him and he followed his fiancée into dreamland.
Yumi's Dream
"Hello? Hello!?!" Yumi frowned looking around the empty hall. Choosing a random door, she opened it and walked in. It was pitch black so she flipped the light switch by the door.
The light turned on revealing a star filled sky. Looking down, she immediately jerked her head back up, wishing she hadn't looked down in the first place. She floated for a second before plummeting down through the unending darkness.
Her mouth opened in a horrified scream, but she had nothing to voice it with, her veil was strangling her as she fell. She jerked it off and tried to breath. When she still couldn't tears began pouring out of her eyes, only to fly above her as gravity forced her freefall to continue.
After what seemed like hours of terrifying panic, she fell through a flash of bright light which magically slowed her decent so that she floated down gently. Landing on one foot, she placed the other down and soaked in her surroundings.
She was standing in the middle of a lush field of deep purple flowers and a strong, yet soft breeze made her long dark hair dance in the wind. Looking around the endless meadow she spotted a fleck of black amongst the greens and purples.
She felt a tug at her heart and ran for the color, which blurred before forming into a man's figure as she got closer. The shadow's arm raised and a bang sounded throughout the field. Yumi got there just in time to see another man fall, holding his chest and gasping for air.
As the man's bloodstained the ground, the world turned dark and lightning flashed in the background. As the descending darkness touched the field, the flowers turned black before the petals fell, then as if a wildfire swept across the plain, the grass charred and wilted.
Then the first shadowed figure turned to face her. His face was still shrouded in darkness, but she knew that one more step would bring him into the light. Afraid of what she would find, she hesitantly took a step foreword. The new light cast upon him, showed the shadow for who he was. Wufei was standing there with no expression on his face but his eyes held an unnamed sorrow that chilled her straight to her heart.
She gasped and took a step back to keep from falling over, but his face remained in terrifying clarity. His figure was bathed in blood and it trickled from his mouth.
Her mind's first thought was that it was the other man's blood, but her heart screamed that it could be his. Ignoring both, she ran foreword and caught him just as he began to slump over.
Soundlessly she tore off a part of her new dress and carefully wiped away his blood to reveal fatal wounds. She burst into tears at the thought of losing him and as her crystal tears hit his mortally wounded body, the gashes healed themselves, not leaving a trace of the wounds that once marred his sun kissed skin.
Her eyes widened in relief, but the tears didn't stop flowing. Burying her face into his shirt, an annoying beeping began pounding through her brain, jerking her back to reality.
Her face was pressed against a stark white pillow and Yumi jerked up into a sitting position covered in a thin layer of sweat. Large sleepy garnet eyes blinked owlishly as she took in the dark room around her. Realizing that it had all been a dream she calmed down a bit, but just in case, she figured she might as well... you know, just check on Wufei.
When her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she made a move to swing her legs over the side. Only to encounter something hard, whatever it was growled at her. Now sufficiently freaked out, Yumi steeled herself before peeking closer at the shadow.
The shadow, just like in her dream, turned out to be Wufei. But instead of him being near dead from blood loss, this was a cutely sleeping little angel. His tan face was lax in sleep and he had a babyish look on his face, with the slightest bit of drool was coming out of the corner of his mouth.
Smiling at how angelic he looked sleeping, she raised a hand and lightly wiped away the sleep in her eyes before settling back to watch his breathing until she drifted back into the peaceful abyss that was sleep.
All previous memories of her nightmare disappeared as she watched his easy slumber and soon she slipped back under the waves of unconsciousness, but not before she broke the alarm clock that had woken her in the first place.
Yumi's peaceful sleep was interrupted by a single sharp beep coming over the intercom in Wufei's room. She jerked up into a sitting position just like she had before, but this time Wufei was also awake.
Before she could speak, his hand covered her mouth and he made the motion that she be perfectly quiet. She nodded compliance, but gave him a questioning look.
He shook his head and pushed gently on her shoulder so that she would lie back down. Yumi gave him a weird look, but trusted his judgment and did as directed. He winked at her, and pulled the covers over her head before hiding quietly next to the door.
A few minutes later the door opened and someone stepped into the room. Whoever it was began walking towards the bed, but they paused in the middle of the room and withdrew a gun from their pocket. They placed a silencer on it, but before they could point the gun at the figure on the bed Wufei stepped out from behind the door and slammed it shut, startling the would- be assassin.
The Chinese prince flipped the lights on revealing a frightened boy of 12 or so. He raised an eyebrow and lowered his gun slightly. "Can I help you?"
"I-I-I..." Wufei had scared the boy so much that he was having trouble forming sentences, or words for that matter!
Yumi, becoming curious, threw the covers back and looked at the boy with her head tilted to the side. "You know, if you give him your gun he would probably be a bit nicer in his interrogation."
The young man jerked around so fast that he ended up on his butt. He stared at her in blank awe for a minute before nodding dumbly. Facing back to Wufei he held up his gun, hilt first.
He accepted the proffered weapon and dropped it carelessly next to him before putting his gun back into its holster on the wall. Walking past the boy who was still on the ground, Wufei sat down next to Yumi and asked if she was okay. She nodded and then he grabbed a headset that the G boys used when they split up on missions.
Fidling with it for a second, his voice echoed throughout the compound. "False alarm. Resume sleeping. 077814." He then took it off his head and tossed it back into its place.
"What are you doing here?" His voice was stern, but in a reprimanding way as if speaking to a small child, which he basically was.
"I was told to go in and shoot whoever was in this room... It was part of an initiation, they said that it was just a dummy! I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS OUR PRINCESS!!!!!" His light green eyes filled with tears which he tried desperately to hide from Wufei.
Yumi slid off the bed and knelt by his side, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder. "It's okay. We just need to know who you are and who put you up to this and then we can go back to sleep. Well, you and I can, I think that Wufei's pretty much awake now." She giggled slightly at his expression and stood up. Moving over to the dark haired pilot, she kissed him lightly on the nose before plopping herself back down on the bed.
"My name's Tendo Takashi your highness," Here he hesitated, but continued when Yumi gave him and encouraging smile, or maybe it was Wufei's steady glare that prodded him on, whichever. "They go to my new school, I just now got into middle school, and these boys are the coolest in the whole school. And I just thought that if I became friends with them then no one would pick on me anymore... It sounds kinda stupid now that I say it outloud..."
This confession was met with two entirely different answers. "Of course not!" –Yumi and "You got that right." –Wufei.
"That still doesn't explain how you broke through our security." Yumi gave him a look, which he returned with a look of his own.
The boy shrugged. "There's a tunnel under this place, it leads to a cleaning closet a few doors down. It starts about a mile or two from here at the basement of this abandoned amusement park."
Wufei's expression was one of annoyance. 'Great. Just great. A group of misfits can break through our security. Yup... We're screwed.'
Yumi lightly laid a hand on his arm. "How about we talk about this in the morning. Or the afternoon, whenever we wake up." She smiled charmingly and Wufei caved.
"Fine." He stood up and towered over the boy. "I'll escort you to your room. Yumi, go to sleep, I'll be back in a minute."
Yumi nodded and slipped back under the covers before waving goodbye to Takashi. Laying her head back on the pillow, she went back to sleep breathing in the scent of her new fiancée.
Kin: That was shorter than last time...
Leiko: Yeah I know, but I thought that that was a good stopping place.
Mizuna: Kashaku, stop typing up songs while Leiko's trying to type.
Kashaku: Do I have to?
Kin: Yes. Yes, you do.
Kashaku: Pooh...
Mizuna: Read and review. Or else.
Random reader: Or else what?
Mizuna pulls out gun
Mizuna: or, Omae o karusu!!!
Readers: EEP!!!!
Kin: You know, I think she's been hanging around to much with Heero...