"What do you want?" Minako asked.
"Funny, I don't believe you treat the others this way." Wufei snapped.
"Well maybe because they don't treat me like I'm useless or aim a gun at my best friends head and mine." she snapped back. Usagi became quiet in her little corner. They all remained silent for a while. Then Heero broke it.
"We would like to know about your friend over there." he said indicating Hotaru. Minako looked at her then back at him, a little confused.
"Like what?"
"We found out about that explosion when she was eight. The funny thing is that happened 12 years ago, which would make her twenty. So why is she only eighteen?" he asked. Minako's eyes grew. 'Oh crap! How am I going to explain this?' she thought. Nothing came to her. So she did the only thing she could think of. She screamed. She grabbed the vase next to her bed and hurled it across the room. She began kicking and shouting for them to get out. Heero glared at her but got up. Wufei muttered about emotional onna's and left. Heero looked back one last time until he left.
Minako carried on till she was sure they were out of hearing range, then she stopped. She looked over at Usagi and smiled. "And my teachers said I couldn't act good." Usagi giggled at her and bounced up. Minako looked over at Hotaru. She wouldn't be a able to throw a fit every time they came to ask that question. She would have to make something up, like the files were wrong. She doubted that would work.
"What have I gotten myself into. I thought Pluto changed those files anyway. Oh well I guess not." she muttered. She looked at the mess she made. "Well I better clean this up and find a way to replace the vase." she slowly got up and began to gather the broken vase up, several times she had to tell Usagi to not come over to her, so she wouldn't step on it. Once that was done she sat on the chair next to Hotaru
"Hotaru, please wake up soon. I really need you right now. Please wake up." she whispered hoping the sleeping angel of death would hear her and open her eyes. Instead her own eyes closed and she fell asleep on the chair.
Minako opened her eyes. It was night time since there was barely any light in her room. Usagi slept in another room since she didn't have any injuries that needed tending or supervision. Minako looked around and saw Trowa standing there. She was still on the chair next to Hotaru who he was looking at. 'Why is he looking at Hotaru-chan?' she thought. She glanced over without moving her head, Hotaru was still in her coma. Or at least that's how it looked, maybe she was sleeping. She doubted it. They would have woken her up if Hotaru had come out of her coma. Trowa sighed then walked towards the door.
"What were you doing?" she asked. He looked back at her.
"Just ...waiting." he said. She sat up.
"Waiting...for what? For her to wake up?" she asked. "You seem pretty concerned for her."
He sighed and went to sit down in another chair near the door. "She saved me. I found her when we went to the park to look over the area. A teal haired woman was covering her as if to protect her. It looked like one of the Leo's had trampled them. Hotaru was still alive and conscious, the other wasn't. I pulled her out and checked her over. The problem was one of the enemy soldiers was still there and came out of his hiding place. He attack us. I managed to kill him, but was stabbed in the stomach in the process. I was dying. She then placed her hands on my wound and healed it. I guess that made her even more weak."
"Anyway the others found us. And we managed to get what had happened till she slipped into a coma. I can't help but feel it was my fault. If she wouldn't have needed to heal me, she wouldn't be struggling to live." he explained. Minako was quiet through out his story. Then she smiled a little.
"You can't blame yourself. Hotaru-chan would have done that for anyone. She's always been that way. Even when others would hurt her because they thought her ability to heal was gross. She still would heal them when they got hurt. Even when they yelled and beat her for it. She hates to see others in pain, and will do all she can to help them." she said looking over at her friend. Trowa nodded in understanding. Then got up.
"You should get some rest. Your wounds haven't fully healed yet. Good night." he said and left.
"Good night." she whispered still looking at her friend. Then a sly smile crept itself onto her face. 'Hotaru once you wake up do I have plans for you.' she thought, then went over to her bed to get some more sleep.
In the morning Irea came in. She told Minako her wounds were healing up perfectly. In fact they were healing to fast for normal humans. Minako just shrugged off the questions about that and tried walking around the room with out any support. Once she passed that test. Irea handed her some clothes. "Now I can finally change out of this hospital outfit." Irea just smiled at her.
She was given a pair of jeans and a red turtle neck. She combed her hair and put it up in her bow as always. She put on some slippers and peaked out of the room. She knew she shouldn't go off alone, but curiosity got the better of her. Besides it wasn't like she was going to snoop through any files, and Usagi was always running around this place. Which reminded her, where was her hime? She looked up and down the hallway, it was clear. She closed the door behind her and began wandering the halls. No one was around.
"This is weird. This is a secret base after all. Wouldn't there be scientists running around examining stuff? Or dissecting aliens?" She said out load.
"Young lady out of all the years I have been working with this organization, I have yet to see any evidence of aliens." she turned around to see a funny looking old man with a mechanical hand. He walked up to her. "Hello I am Dr. J. You must be Minako." she nodded.
"Yes that's me."
"Well good, because you're need in the cafeteria were Usagi is." he took her arm and guided her over to the next hall were he pushed open some doors. The room silenced and Minako gulped. Sure she liked being the center of attention, but this was all from soldiers and pilots, not people who she felt comfortable performing in front of. Someone waved and she looked over to see Usagi eating breakfast with four of the five piolets. She was about to walk over to them when the doctor grabbed her arm again to keep her in place.
"Gentleman and ladies." he said and nodded to a few female piolets. "This is Minako Aino. She was one of the three that survived last weeks attack. Help her around here, show her where things are, and please make her feel welcomed." Minako felt like she was back in a new school. Finally the doc let her go and she went to sit down next to her friend.
"Minako-chan have this." Usagi said handing her a plate of toast. Minako accepted it and smiled at her princess.
"Thank you hime." she said
"Why do you call her hime? Doesn't that mean princess?" Duo asked, taking a sip of his orange juice.
"Oh it's just a nick name we all gave her. Nothing special." Minako said, and gave a little nervous laugh. Duo shrugged and handed Usagi a spoon. She was trying to eat her cereal with her hands. Minako smiled at Duo.
"You act like you're her older brother."
"Well, I kind of feel like it. I never had any siblings, and she just feels like a little sister to me." he said leaning back in his chair and grinning.
"Usagi had a little brother. But at the end of the last war he disappeared." she said recalling how hard they had tried to find them. Minako looked up when she felt an arm drape around her shoulder. She looked over at a pilot who had a missing tooth, bad breathe, and smelled like fuel.
"Hey there. I'm Guzo I'll give you a tour of this place, starting with my room." he said grinning. Minako was about to teach the guy a lesson when a click went off and a gun was pointed to the guys head.
"Omae o korusu." Heero hissed. The guys stumbled off the chair and landed on his butt before scurrying away.
Minako looked at Heero and nodded a thanks. He grunted and put his gun away. Usagi looked at Minako then Heero then back at her friend. A goofy grin formed on her face and she grabbed the perfect soldiers hand then her fellow senshi's and placed them on each other. "MARRY!" she shouted. Minako turned beet red, while Heero fumed. Both snatched their hands away and glared at the once sane girl, who just giggled and ran away to the table with the female piolets who greeted her happily.