notice: skip over the author's note if you want to, but there is a chapter afterwards about Hee-chan and his father getting drunk.

Heero walked into the quiet room of Yelir's social studies AP class. Heero looked around to see everyone's mouth not moving and they were just blinking. Not even whispering. It was quiet. Too quiet. Then Lei bounced in and screamed at the teacher who was waiting at his desk for the late bell to ring.

"No!!!!! I'm too y-young to die!!" Lei screamed, dropped to her knees and hugged them close while rocking back and forth, sucking on her thumb and making other people laugh.

"Young Lady! Sit DOWN this instant!" Yelir stated with anger. "You are a very—very—disrupting delinquent!"

"ABUSE!" She claimed, throwing her hands over her 'virgin' ears. "It burns!" "ARG!!!!"

Yelir's lower eye twitched as he threateningly got out the ruler stick, clenching it. Lei stood up and walked over to her seat next to Heero.

"Alright class, today we will learn about World War I and the fighting that occurred." Yiler explained as some people began to drone off. Since Yelir wouldn't allow anyone to have anything out other than that required, Lei was subjected to look at her spiffy elbow length fish net bands.

Heero raised an eyebrow and glanced at Lei who was staring intently at her arms, looking at the black cross netting against her tan skin. Her eyes began to faze in and out on the object and she was so zoned out that she didn't notice the teacher standing above her until Heero nudged her sharply in the side.

"Huh? Wha—"Lei blinked, looking at Heero with confusion until she felt an ominous presence above her and she twitched her eye and turned to look at the teacher.

"Please do explain to the class what it was that you were doing." Yelir told her forcefully. "And no lies." He added, remembering the last comment she made about what she was doing about 'the rapid chipmunk bit me today and I wanted to check if I had "monkeynucleosis" or if I had a rash.' She had shoved the red colored skin in his face until Yelir found out it was red marker smeared over her skin. What a day that was.

"The truth?" Lei sighed heavily. She stood up and raised her hands like Relena Peacecraft would during a speech. She bowed her head. "My fellow students." A few suppressed chuckles could be heard from this. "I am very pleased to admit that..." A heavy silence fell over the room. "When I look at my arms." She said slowly. "It looks like I have scales like a snake!" People burst out laughing at this.

"Young lady!" He gripped her shoulder and she turned around and she did the same thing and shouting 'young man!' to him.

Heero started laughing at this as did the others and Lei smacked her face. "OF COURSE!" She shouted over the whole thing. "I will need a volunteer from the audience!" She grabbed the teacher, pulled out a rope and then wrapped it around him and pushed him onto the ground and pulled out a Goldilocks wig and some makeup.

"Man, talk about a drag!" She laughed at the teacher as she told another volunteer to come up and she grabbed Heerp, accidentally hitting a bruise. She caught a glance at his side shirt underneath the jacket and noticed a darker shade that seemed like dried paint or something.

"Now! Any minute now the damsel will scream in distress and—"Lei looked at her watch and then untied the rope to the teacher and Heero was allowed to go back to his seat. The class let out groans of protest.

Lei bowed and then looked at the teacher who seemed quite flustered. "That, sir," Lei told him. "Was for hurting my lovely virgin ears." She taunted him and flipped her hair like Charming in Shrek 2. Her many earrings flashed.

Yelir flushed at this and glared, but knew if he said anything this witty student and other's would speak out against him.

"I have an announcement to make though." Everyone turned to look at Lei with hope in their eyes so that they would get a couple of laughs in. She cleared her throat. "I would like to quote a wise statement I once heard at a wonderful world where I went. Though I was called an aneurysm fairy." She added. "Ahem, 'Come Slash! We must do the most dangerous thing we can do'!" She spoke with drama. " 'What? Make love in armor'?" The crowds burst out laughing once again and soon she sat down after taking a bow.

She grinned from ear to ear as a fake bell rang. One student behind her got up and was walking towards the door and Lei had a fierce look in her eyes. She got out some black lipstick and smeared it on her cheeks and yelled a war cry. The person who got up looked behind him just in time before getting tackled to the floor.

"ARG!!" She yelled in a huff with a wide grin plastered on her face. "Me THOR DA PIRATE—er—Viking thingy!"

"Miss Lei!"

"ACK! Suddenly I'm married! He's a friggin' stalker! How did you know that?!" She screeched at the teacher and then the bell rang and she grabbed her stuff and pranced out of the room while skipping.

"Well," Heero commented as he managed to catch up. "That was quite a show." He commented with a weak smile.

"Yes, I suppose. Next time I'm gonna be bush girl. Remind me. I'll have to get there early that's for sure. Scare the crap outta them people. Maybe we can get a game'a strip poker goin'!" She said with enthusiasm.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, oh!" Lei snapped her fingers together. "You got dried paint or sumthin' stuck on yer shirt." She commented.

"Huh?" Heero had a blank look before a slight fear came over him.

Lei lifted up a flap on the black jacket he decided to wear. She found the darker patch as they continued walking, Lei oblivious to the glares some people gave to her for touching him like that or even getting close to him. "Right here." She poked the spot, feeling how it seemed to give into her fingers a little stiffly and she heard a slight intake of breath come from Heero but all was forgotten when someone bumped into her.

"What the hell?! What where your goin' buddy-boy!" But stopped short when she realized it was Quatre and Trowa. "Oh, sorry 'bout that y'all." She grinned sheepishly.

Trowa mumbled something and Quatre looked shocked she talked like that but he shrugged it off. He looked at Heero and smiled a bit. "We missed you at the football game." He stated as a wave of pain washed over him but disappeared almost instantly.

"Yeah," Heero seemed to mutter while looking away a bit. The jacket part where Lei had prodded his body still showed and Trowa raised an eyebrow but Heero turned a walked off, the other football members calling over to him and that they were going out with the coach to celebrate.

"He seems quieter." Quatre pointed out to Trowa. "Quieter than normal that is."

Lei tilter her head to look at them with an intrigued look on her features. "Come to think of it, it does seem harder to make him smile in Yelir's class.

Trowa looked at her. "That's right, you have Yelir with him, social studies, right?"

"Yeah," Lei told him. While Duo, Relena, and Wufei didn't take a liking to the girl, Trowa and Quatre were quite nice to her, despite her friendship with the stoic teenager. "Hey! I 'member! You switched out after the first day, right? You took that test thingy and got accepted into a higher class," She exclaimed, happy that she remembered. "If there was one that is." Lei mumbled to herself. How could all of Heero's friends be so damn smart?!

"There was a stain on his shirt. It looked like..." He trailed off from his train of thought, not wanting to mention any thing bloody or war sounding to the friend beside him. He was more peaceful anyway as it was.

"I know." Lei told him thoughtfully also, the fool's mask gone. Her philosophy 'Those who don't know how to act a fool are the fool.' "I poked it." Trowa looked at her, expecting an answer. "His muscles seemed...messed up there." She said, choosing her words wisely.

One of Lei's friends ran up to her with a flower lei and threw it on her neck. "YOU GOT LEI-D!" The person named Tim laughed loudly and she burst out laughing too as she took one of the many lei's he held and ran about, doing to same thing to other people.

Quatre shook his head while Trowa raised an eyebrow while hiding a smirk and a couple of laughter with his hand. "Quite interesting, isn't she?"

"Yes. She is." A cool voice came from behind them and Quatre jumped a little to turn around to a very pissed off Kimiko. "Maybe that's why Heero-kun enjoys hanging around with her..." She seemed to have that glint in her eye, which showed that she must have been concocting something in her demented skull.

"Or maybe its because he just doesn't like hanging around people like you." Another cold voice came from in front of Kimiko. It seemed that Relena had come up while they were having their little chat. She had seen Heero's eyes and body language when he was around this girl and obviously he didn't like her. She just wouldn't get the clue, would she?

"Oh go molest your pom poms, cheerleader." Kimiko muttered to the cheerleader.

"Jealous you can't be on the team now, are you?" Relena said with venom dripping in her words. "Just can't get a guy wrapped around your finger, can you?"

Kimiko glared at Relena, who glared back in turn. The war had begun...

"Hey Heero!" Jake shouted, rushing over to the other football player while patting him roughly on the back. They were always rough, luckily Heero had been known to conceal pain quite well, so that's just what he did.

"'Ey." He said back, looking at the other players who were crowding around him as they talked about random things and other football things.

"Don't forget to get your hoodie for this season. Some of us already got ours."

"How does this years look?" He had seen others from previous years and they weren't that bad at all. Heero waited while the boy he questioned seem to rack his brain for the answer.

"Well, it's black this year with 'Lincoln' on the front and a football in the back. The lettering is gold and on the back is our number." The dude, whose name was John said.

"'Kay." Heero said, imagining the hoodie he was about to receive. The bell rang and Heero waved slightly as the other's patted each others backs, some throwing light punches and heading off.

He made his way down the hallway with Jake, the person in his next class. "Well, let's hope that this isn't too boring. Would think that I'll get a good snooze in this class."

"Let's just hope that guy, what was his name--?"

"Oh, ya mean Billa-bob?"

"Yeah, that...person." Heero said, clearing his throat slightly. "Let's just hope that Billa-bob won't make you nail that kid, Naomi, in the head again."

"Hey, that was TOTALLY Billa-bob's fault!" He laughed while remembered when that happened and Heero laughed slightly too.

"Right, your such a schitzo." Heero joked as a few students waving at him, hoping that he'd be there for the game next time.

"I know and I'm damn proud a' it!"

"Whatever." They walked through the doorway and entered the class. A girl named Michaela smiled at the two as they took seats next to her.

"So, what's up with you 'Cheala?" Jake questioned, obviously flirting with the junior also.

"Not much, we're doing a new topic today, you guys ready for it?"

"Depends on what the new unit is." Jake grumbled and Heero nodded slightly. "Let me guess, she said it last class while I was sleeping?"

"How did you know?" Michaela giggled while she swatted his lightly, yet playfully on the back. "We are going to do a project starting today, the teacher's going to pair us up since the last project you both did was just..." Michaela giggled at the memory of a goose that was suppose to represent an anthropoid since they couldn't catch an ant. 'I'm sorry, it's not my fault all the bug thingys burned under the sun with a magnifying glass.' Heero glared, smacking his head mentally with Jake's lame excuse.

"Yeah, I 'member that." Jake laughed. "Heero said next time he wasn't gonna work with me since our project sucked. We still got an A though since we won the game!"

Michalea smiled and the teacher walked in right before a loud commotion occurred as a teenage boy rushed in with his long braid trailing behind him as he dived for his seat, sitting like an angel around a demotion site when the teacher walked in.

"Mr. Maxwell." She raised a eyebrow at the innocent look on his face but sighed heavily, lowering her head and raising it to look in the clipboard in her palm. "Whatever." She muttered. "All of you are here. I'll start pairing you together. You'll have two days to do the project and your NOT allowed to do it in school. At all, Mr. Maxwell understand?" Duo grinned and waved slightly at her while blowing a kiss while the class giggled. "Yeah, in your dreams kid. 'Kay, well I'm sure it wont be a problem since your partner obviously won't let you."

"Great..." Duo mumbled, a couple girls looked at the teacher hopefully, praying to be lucky enough to get paired with the sexy boy.

The door creaked open and a girl walked in. She had long honey blonde hair tied in her trademarked style, literally. It was none other than Relena Darlain-Peacecraft. "Hello," She said to the teacher, "I'm going to replace Ms. Kaganashi, Kimiko. She's moving away currently."

"Ah, welcome then Relena." The teacher said, gesturing to the seat where Kimiko used to sit.

"Hi Heero," Relena smiled at him. She couldn't help but realize the slightly pained look in his eyed. 'What is wrong with you, Heero?' She thought to herself.

"Hi Relena." He said to her. Duo smiled at her and waved also. Jake just rolled his eyes and decided to actually listen to the lecture but found his attention wavering over to Michaela.

"Jake, your partner will be Michaela." The teacher announced and looked back at her clipboard to call the next group. Jake muttered a small thanks to the heavens and he scooted closer to Michaela who giggled at this and moved closer to his also, suppressing giggles when she saw how his eyes seemed to light up at this gesture.

Heero's group was next. Only Jake and Michaela were the only two partnered since the numbering in the classroom worked out that way. "Heero, your group will be—"

TBC

Author's note:

CRAP! I seem to be getting less reviews, but hey1 who can complain? The reviews that I have make me smile! Okay, enoguh with that and on with the next topic:

second: you can skip through the reviewer thank you's and go down to a little extraI added for my readersthat goes back with Heero's abusive parents.

Dun dun dun! Who will the group be? To tell the truth, I need suggestions on this. People want 1XR and 1X2 fics, but I have no idea how to write romance (don't kill me!). I got rid of Kimiko, for my sister of course. She didn't care for her. If we need a bad person other than the abusive people (such as a forced dating relationship of some sort...Tja...I might do that!) I'll ship her back into the story. Until then, she's the person voted off the island! I'm happy today for reasons that a friend of mine is going to get help for something that she does to herself (yes! Congrats to you!). Then I'm in a crappy mood because of the whole doctor's appointment and I almost missed trench war fare day glares at evil ortho people . I got to do it though! I actually hit Naomi in the head. Smack dab in the forehead. Then Tyler elbowed her and she had a giant lump on her head ouch, yes I based it off of that. I also based Billa-bob after my friend Sparrow. She lives in my head when I'm too bored. Sparrow hit her. I can't throw for crap. I didn't die though. (.) Also, this will probably be the last of the looking inside his classes (by that I mean Heero). The next will be more abuse wise and I might also boost the level up to R. I said might though.

Okay, yeah, here's to the reviewers!:

TARIGARMA12: I never said it was going to be a 1X2, in truth I have no idea who the couples are yet. I've updated and I made this chapter really long, 5 pages okay? Sometimes I'm just too tired to write. Like right now, but I'm doing it for you people!

Clarobell: I'm glad that you liked Chippy! Yeah! I'm gonna try and stick with him and thank you for liking this chapter!

Hells-angel8: I think that I take that as you liked Chipy but I'm not quite sure. I had to make at least a couple chapters more funny to make sure none of my readers fall into a deep depression state because it will most likely get more abusive for a while before going on into the honeymoon stage. Plus, self-mutilation will most likely occur later on.

Gundom1 Wing Zero: WOW! Your review like, makes me so happy! Yes!!! Happy so much I'll try and write the next chapter as fast as I can! (got my report card today so I can kinda kick back for a while, plus I can also write a lot during Thanksgiving holiday).

Word dreamer 999: Yes, it's allowed to review more than once! You can review all you want! I love reviews (as you can tell). Thanks for liking Chippy. Someone will find out about the whole abuse thing soon, that much can be certain. There's still the whole recovery thing though.

Yume Keki: Do you want it to be a 1XR fic? I'm gonna add Relena more to the story, but Relena is more of his lover and Duo's more of his best friend so I figured to add him more than Relena. There will be more Relena coming up since I'm going to get rid of some characters (looks at Kimiko).

FOR MY READERS:

Here's a little something for you people who are tired of all the stuff that I'm putting in to try and make it less amusing. Here y'all go:

He heard it again, the smashing of glass. Tthis was the reason why his mother beat him sometimes, though it was coming more often.

Heero looked up with weary eyes to look at the crying figure of his mother. She was clutching her head, blood stringing like her hair which was tangled all around her. She had torn some out of her scalp to try and ease the pain. His giant father stood over her and held a smashed bottle of whiskey in his hand, glaring at her.

"How DARE you decide all the sudden to make meatloaf when today is Tuesday! What is Tuesday?!" He bellowed at her while lifting her by the hair.

She choked out an answer to him; "Tuesday is Salisbury steak night." She yelped as he dropped her, kicking her sharply in the side like he would to a lame hound.

He turned sharply on his heel away from her huddled form and then glared at Heero who was sitting rigid now on the couch since he first turned to look at the smaller boy.

He took out his lighter and lit up a cigarette. "Well, boy?" He growled as if a animal had stepped into his territory. Heero inhaled sharply, swallowing and fighting back the bile that was creeping into his esophagus. He shook his head sharply.

The man smiled, the darkness of the room making his face even more demented by the light of the burning tobacco as some tar slipped and stained the carpet. "Is that so?" He exhaled, smoke swirling around Heero's face as he blinked but dared not look away. He felt a hand grip his face. He opened his eyes slowly and fearfully.

"Are you so sure of yourself?" The man questioned as the cigarettes lit end moved closer and closer to him. Heero pushed himself back into the plush cushions and looked into the man's cold eyes. He nodded again, slower and unsure of his answer. Yes if he was doomed and no if he was damned.

"Well," The burly man said to his child. He took it out of his mouth easily and edged closer to the boy, using his hands to hold the squirming boy still as the cigarettes end moved closer to his skin, making it tingle at first but sent his nerves screaming around as it burned into his flesh. Heero couldn't take it as the man pulled out a lighter and lit up another cigarette and pushed it onto his skin so that it actually stayed on his skin, burning his flesh. Two more were applied.

Heero couldn't take it as the man began to punch his formand took out his lighter and took his beer can that he had gotten after breaking the whiskey, dripping it slightly across his arms and lighting it on fire.

TBC

Author's note:

i hope all of you liked it.i would like some reviews. i was gonna update when i got 60, but this is to try and get some reviews to make me happy.

Red Tail