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Zero Down

by: Lost-Remembrance (Red Tail)

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Chapter Seven:

"Hey, Heero." The brunette looked up with cool and calculating dark blue eyes from where he was aiming with his rifle scope down at the target below. He looked at her, finger easing away from the trigger he was about to pull before his trainer spoke.

Rei smiled at him, expecting Heero to speak first. So he did, saying, "what?" in his cold and detached voice. It held no happiness, just a person having existence in the world and not caring.

Laughing as she walked over to him she shook her head in a mocking manner, happily clapping him on the shoulder as she bent down next to the teen who looked at her, this time in confusion.

"Well?"

He looked away, grunting a "hn" under her breath. She shook her head with an exasperated sigh this time.

Deciding to get on with the matter at hand, she looked down at the target below them. She looked at his sniper rifle and his scope, saying calmly, "Remember what I told you about the range?"

The brunette nodded, his spiky bangs going up and down as he did so. He tilted his head towards her, "How can I forget? We do this everyday as always?"

She laughed, "Humor me!" She slapped him on the back for old times sake.

Nodding at the request as he calmly stated the information, he quoted from the day before, "600 and closer aim for the head and more than shoot anywhere in the torso."

Rei smirked. Rubbing his head, she earned a small smile from him. "I taught you well, then, did I?"

"That or I managed to teach myself." Heero said, looking at his trainer out of the corner of his eye as he rested his rifle.

"Hey," She said after a silence fell between the two. "How about you humor an old woman like me—" Heero snorted and she shot him a playful glare. "—And we both go down to the city for some R&R since training's over for today."

"If you'd like."

She smiled, "Of course you can consider this a mission if you would like." He tilted his head in her direction in a confused, yet interested, manner. "You need to interact more with people."

Her other words were left unspoken in the air; and you need to try and get a better grasp at the abilities now granted to you through these bastard scientists.

She shook her head and looked at him with sparkling emerald eyes, "Shall we go?" She got up from her spot on the ledge of the building.

"I should go change." She nodded, walking him to his nearby bedroom.

"I'll wait out here." She opened the door for him as she watched him eye the bag lying on his bed. "I got you some clothing." He nodded curtly and walked in, closing the door behind him to get changed.

She sighed as she leaned against the door. She turned her head towards a darker corridor and she smirked, clicking her teeth together in a reprimanding way. "Haku, you should know spying doesn't become of you."

The man grunted, walking over to Rei. "The Minister isn't giving up on her search, and it seems she's dragged the other pilots into this mess. We have no idea on how to track the four pilots, but the Minister is easy enough to find."

Turning sad green eyes to look at the door, she whispered, "They would still care for him, even if he's been stripped and suppressed of everything he's worked for."

Haku grunted, "I'm simply the delivery man." She threw a punch at him, satisfied when it connected with his cheek with a 'crack'.

"You're a bastard." She hissed, "Do you know what it's like to see him? He used to be sixteen, now he's twelve!" He gets four more years out of life than a normal person would. Rei paused, but would he give it away to become sixteen or however old again and regain his memories?

Sighing, Haku leaned his head against the wall, "The drugs affected his systems. It was a effect and possibility." He looked at the seething woman in her twenties, "Don't take your anger out on me."

"You're the one that's their little lap dog!" She clenched her fists, "What happens if we get caught? They could trace you, with your description from that stupid doctor!" She cursed that man too, for allowing Heero to be taken away and turned into a modified Perfect Soldier.

"You happen to be one too." He muttered, getting up. "I should be going now. Arm yourselves, just in case. A pilot could be running around for all we know."

Coldly laughing, she shot back, "Yeah? And who would think to look at Veisp's mansion? The guy owns most of this whole place any ways!"

He didn't bother glancing back.

Heero opened the door from behind her and she turned with a smile on her face, "Awww!" She grabbed his cheek and he turned away with a pout on his face. "You look so cute in that school uniform!" The black uniform fit his body, from the tight long t-shirt that opened near the neck to reveal some of his muscles, to the pants and the heavy combat boots.

"You're the one that picked it out." He mumbled.

She smiled, "You're right!" She wrapped her arm around his shoulder, "How about some ice cream, little brother?"

He looked up at her, looking around to see them already on the streets. "Veisp wants the best for you."

"He's weird." Heero grumbled as they continued to walk along the streets and they stopped at an ice cream parlor.

"Ah, yes, but he loves you like a son, or a brother, or a lover, or whatever you wanna call it!"

"Hn."

TBC

Author's note: Wow, that took a long time to update... I'm so sorry for not updating! Thank you everyone for the reviews!

Love, Red Tail