Ch 4

With Duo

Duo had a hold of the file and headed at the door. Walking down the road he pulled out the screen.

"Alright, Preventer Hime." Duo began.

'Princess huh?' he thought.

"Well let's see what you look like."

'Hopefully it's not Relena.' Duo thought turning on the screen.

The screen flashed to show a girl. Blond hair with lack high lights sown to the floor, blue eyes that shine, small build, little nose and small hands. She was dressed in a tight lack turtle neck and tight black pants. Combat boots and a tilted thick belt completed her outfit. At the bottom of the screen was the word contact.

"Contact?" Duo questioned as he tapped the screen.

After Duo tapped the screen a number popped up 884-555-9119 handlers name Sakura.

Duo shrugged and pulled out his black slider cell. He dialed the number and waited for the owner to pick it up.

"Hello." A dark female voice answered the phone.

"Hey!" Duo responded. "Is this Sakura?"

"Who wants to know?" The voice seductively replied.

"Well, Death needs his mistress of life after all." Duo wittingly responded.

"Well if Death wants his life then he needs to meat me in fifteen minutes at the bench in front of the lake on the north side of the park. Bring a black rose, Hime will bring a white."

"Alright." Duo responded to a dial tone.

Duo ran all the way to the park and nabbed a rose on his way past the rose garden all in ten minutes.

"Now what do I do? The rose is red and I need a black one!" Duo exclaimed. "I guess this is all I can do." He sighed.

Duo sat silently on the grass next to the bench. He closed his eyes and let his mind wonder. 'I hope this chick isn't another Yuy. Her secretary or whoever that was sounded real cold. If she's like that, I hope she's easier to get along with then Yuy. Having two guns in my face is not very appealing right now. I mean who wants two psychotic, cold, trigger happy, emotionless, hard, stubborn, war goi ...' Duo was cut short when he herd a feminine voice.

"Duo!"

Duo opened his eyes to see Serena, only different. She didn't have the royal hair style or her usual air of innocence. Her hair was up in a clip that made it flow like a waterfall down her back and he could just see the black highlights and it looked like red low lights. 'Interesting, but nice.' he thought. She was dressed in short low rise blue jean shorts that let a black ribbon sowed on either side of the shorts hug her waist and a light blue bikini bra top under a black mesh tank top (think Riku-ish from final fantasy X-2, but not quite). Also, a pair of lose, black with blue scythe and crystal design cowboy looking combat boots adorned her feet. She had one hand behind her back and was looking at him oddly.

"So, you're the one who called." She assumed.

Duo got up and looked at his rose for the first time to mention it, but he saw that somehow it had turned black.

"I had a red one just a moment ago. What happened?"

"You." Serena said calmly.

"You're Sakura then?" Duo asked.

Serena removed her hand from behind her back to reveal a white rose. "Hime reporting for duty." She said, giving him an electric smile that made his heart race.

"I guess it's back to Q's house then. Well have to wait for two others to find their marks." Duo said, beginning to walk towards Quatre's mansion.

"No need." Serena said casually falling in beside him.

"Why is that now my lady?" Duo said teasingly.

"Don't call me that." she huffed and looked over to him. "I know all of them and could just call them and tell us to meet up at Quatre's. Then, when the boys come home, one at a time, we can send them out, or bait them correspondingly."

"Girl after my own heart, call 'em up babe!" Duo proclaimed.

"Already way ahead of you." Serena said flipping open her sailor communicator wrist band. Soon all four girls were on screen.

"Hey girls." Serena said.

"You're out of sight, right?" Rai asked.

"I'm not that dumb." Serena said, moving the communicator around so they could see the ally she and Duo were in with out showing Duo.

"Judging by your appearance I would say you're being called out." Ami said.

"Yep, and so are all of you." Serena responded.

"So now what?" Mina asked.

"Meet at the Winner Mansion dressed for Preventer work. We'll go from there." Serena answered.

"Got it." Lita responded.

"See ya in a bit." Mina said.

"Later." Rai said.

"Front gate?" Ami asked.

"Yep. Over and out girls." Serena said cutting contact. "Done." She turned to Duo and smiled.

"Oh, you're good." Duo slyly said. In a flash his tone changed. "Know what?"

"What?" Serena asked.

Duo tapped her shoulder and took off running to Quatre's yelling back at her "You're it!"

Serena took off running after him just trailing behind.

20 minutes later

Beep "Hey Sere! Let us all in." came Lita's voice.

Duo and Serena hurried over to the button to let the gate open, hitting it at once calling out "I win!" and falling into giggles for the girls to find them in.

Lita, Mina, Ami, and Rai all waked cautiously into the Winner Mansion following the resounding sounds of Duo and Sere's laughter. They waked into a small hallway to find their friends tangled on the ground laughing.

"What, may I ask is so funny?" Rai asked.

Duo and Serena sobered. They both picked them selves up and smiled at the girls.

"Good to see you came ready. They boys will be calling you each soon, so we need to hurry." Serena said, sobering more into the secret Preventer operations leader she needed to be to pull this prank.

"You all look so different, yet so . . . the same." was all Duo could say.

Lita's eyes still shown with the fierceness they always did but her demeanor seemed only to support it more. Her wary brown hair was braided and bund, she had black spandex capri's with various belts along legs, her top was a tasteful pastel green jacket over a solid, slightly lose pastel pink tank top, her black and yellow sneakers slightly worn, and her rose earrings were no longer on her ears. (Shocker!) "What do you mean call?"

"Call, as in on a phone?" Mina inquired. Mina had her hair braided back with red highlights and a set of heat and multipurpose goggles on her head, a baby blue t-shirt with a yellow heart in the middle, a jean skirt, and a pair of comfy tennis shoes.

"What else would she mean?" Rai asked, a little annoyed. Rai was dressed in simple flexible slipper shoes, flowing black cotton pants, and a firry red tank top. Her tinted raven hair was up in her messy bun with a few white highlight and a set of chop sticks in her hair.

"How about the cell phones we got from HQ? Those numbers are on our appearance holograms." Ami said. Ami had her multi-shaded blue hair clipped away from her ace, sunglasses over her head, a white no sleeve turtle neck, and a pair of tight flair black pants quaintly kissed the back boots. Ami wore a touch of ice blue and silver eye shadow and glitter white lip gloss.

All in all, all four girls looked pretty different from their high school selves. They carried prominent, confident airs that seemed to shadow their slightly shy, played down selves the g-boys had meet.

"Quick, before they call." Serena grabbed eye / nose costume masks and handed them out. "Put those on and Duo will guide Rai and Mina to their places and I'll take Ami and Lita to theirs."

Rai placed an eccentric red dragon design on her face, Ami one as cool as the ice she commanded, Mina blood red with gold etching, and Lita one of vines and silver. Duo lead Rai to Wufie's workout room and Mina to Quatre's private office, good thing he could pick locks. Serena lead Ami out to Trowa's practice spot for his circus tricks in the garden and Lita to Heero's bedroom. Soon she and Duo were waiting in the security room to see events unfold.

AN: hello all. Please review and I hope I can get the next chapter up faster then this one. I might be a bit slow because I start school next Thursday. Please REVIEW!