Oh My God! So many reviews! I'm inspired! Must write more, must please fans! I love you all cries Most of you got who Makoto's brother is, and if not, then I'm not telling you, because it's made sooo obvious in this chapter. So many votes, I'm over whelmed! Here's my review answers, hope you're satisfied!
kurai-kodoku: She does, doesn't she? I can't remember where I thought of fans as weapons, but I thought it was interesting. Perfect chance to try it!
Lady Light: That's what I need, input! How do my fans want the story to go?
angelwings6117: Do you know that you're the only person who caught that? Everyone else mostly guessed. Cookie. OMG! Catherine, I totally forgot, how absent minded am I! Goodness, that's a great suggestion! I think I'm going to do that. Have a second cookie.
babymar-mar: Um, babymar-mar, I don't think saying (writing) it twice will double your vote. Also reviewing for two chapters won't get you a second vote. That was your Heero/Mako last chapter if you didn't know. )
pinaygirl: Ug, more input, sensory overload! I'll have to fix that, can't go overloading yet. '
Bobica: A great idea huh? And what if I don't agree with that? Kidding, kidding!
Jewels14: Ah, finally new character vote, this I'm really looking forward too. Cookie for being the first one.
TeNshI nO Hi: You like the codes? Truly? I was thinking they were too corny and that people would complain and I'd have to take them out. You're so encouraging! And that Makoto thing! That just burned my blood that they had her like that. I always get rid of that when I write. Makes her seem ditzy.
Tigeress Moon: You wish is my command. It shall be added.
Jazna: You want to bargain, eh? I can put you in for a yaoi vote if I do a Setsuna/Duo pairing? That is a little… odd. Also I don't think that would work in this story. Setsuna's Hotaru's mother remember, big age difference there! But hey, that sounds interesting. A 'Duo affects Setsuna's personality' pairing. That's not so different than what I'm doing in this story. Hey, I know! Challenge me to do a Setsuna/Duo pairing and I'll write an experiment story for you! Write faster, got it. Cookies Jazna!
Wolf of the Darkness Flame: That is an awesome pen name! You're a Yu Yu fan! Me too! We have so much in common. tries desperately to relate to reviewers Votes galore for you! Got it all!
Damia - Queen of the Gypsi's: chokes Y-you! I'm such a big fan! I read all your stuff! hyperventilates Calm down TS, calm down. It's only Damia and you need to answer her review. Why the hell am I talking to myself in third person? You're right; no one does seem to take her seriously. I'll put you're votes in. reads the rest of review sobs She loves my story!
Zaeria: Yes, you got Mako's brother right. I can't wait to write that part either; Wufei is going to beat himself up trying to figure out how he knows Hotaru. He he.
theredqueen: I wrote the first chapter of this story years ago as the beginning of a different story, of which I have now discarded. I found that the beginning fit perfectly with this plot, made a few modifications and stuck it there. Sadly it still shows my older style and I have evolved a lot as a writer since then. I'm glad you saw the difference, even if it was because you were worried my story would be written badly. A cookie for the input. Also, about the guard calling her Mars, she was actually calling the guard Mars, indicating that the guard was Sailor Mars. Sorry that's so confusing, I'll fix it if you know how to make it less confusing. Oh theredqueen! I worship you! So much information! starts eating the info on Sailor Earth Don't worry, I hate OCs (Original Characters) my self, and agree with your sentiment that they ruin good stories. So I repeat for those unsure of my truthfulness, Sailor Sun and Earth will NOT be in this story, that would make me a hypocrite. Have two more cookies.
Erebus Darkness: I confused you? Uh-oh. Liked that part with Lita did you? Yea, I'm particularly proud of that. Cookie 'cause you liked it.
Disclaimer: If I owned GW or SM then I'd be rich like Quarte. And I'm not. So I don't own either. Read.
Heero kicked a dead body out of his path as he made his way to Doctor J's spy. He picked up her fallen gun and handed it to her silently. Then he assessed her wound. She looked over the carnage and whistled quietly.
"Damn Yuy, J wasn't kidding when he said you were one hell of a shot." Heero's eyebrow twitched ever so slightly. He seriously doubted Doctor J had said it in those words.
"Take off your jacket." Heero demanded in his normal monotone.
"Excuse me?" She asked eyeing him.
"Take off your jacket." He repeated.
"Why?" She clarified.
"I need to use it to make a temporary blockage for the blood flow from your wound."
"Oh," She unbuttoned the OZ jacket and handed it to him. "here." Heero then ripped the jacket into strips and bandaged her leg. "Guess I owe you 01."
"What do I call you." It wasn't a question, Heero never asked questions.
"Every one calls me Makoto Kino."
"Kino is Japanese, you are not Japanese." Heero 'asked.'
"No," Kino agreed "but I spent a long time there. And don't look for my records, J took care of them." Heero knew he wouldn't find any thing if 'J took care of them.'
"Aww man, Hee-chan you took them all out, I didn't even get one." Heero's eye twitched at the nickname.
"Serves you right." He muttered. Kino burst out laughing.
"Hee-chan? Oh Lord that's rich Maxwell." Then Heero watched as she eyed his priest collar. "Er, no offence."
"No problem, I'm not a religious man." Duo said.
"Mako-chan, we should get going, the third pilot will be waiting, and we don't want more OZ soldier to catch up to us." Came a voice from Duo's shadow. Heero looked over the person who he hadn't noticed, which was rare. Her look just let her blend into the shadows. She had shoulder length black hair and odd violet eyes. Her Chinese dress was also black but had violet trim. She had a violet waistband that held a very expensive looking sword and the revealing slits up each leg showed a black gun strapped to her right thigh.
"She's right, who's carrying J's spy?" Duo asked.
"No one, I'm too heavy for any of you. Hotaru will just have to make a patch." Kino told the two of them.
"But you're a girl…" Duo said reasonably. Heero disagreed after looking her over, she was as tall and as built as Trowa and Trowa was not some one they could lift without pumping adrenalin.
"Kino is right Duo." Was all Heero said. He never said more than needed, it wasn't in his programming. Duo backed off. Heero watched as OZ's prisoner, Hotaru Tomoe, examined the wound. With a frown she reported to him her assessment. She seemed to know he had higher standing than Duo, even if it was unspoken.
"The bullet is still in her leg, it needs to be removed if she is going to use it." Kino winced at the thought and then nodded wordlessly. The girl reached into a black draw bag he had seen Kino with and removed a pair of tweezers. Definetly not surgical material. Duo was sweating slightly as he realized exactly what was going to happen.
"Do any of you have a lighter I can use?" She asked in a quiet voice. Kino reached into the pocket of her OZ pants and produced a green one. The violet eyed girl sterilized the tweezers with it. Kino looked away and started muttering something to keep her mind occupied as the escapee approached the wound. Several minutes latter found a bloody bullet and a ripped up OZ jacket on the floor of a hallway filled with dead bodies.
Trowa Barton was not a person to indulge in silly dreams. That is why when he saw Heero and Duo running towards him with two girls (his attention was immediately drawn to the one with the limp) his first thought had startled him. Family, not her OZ uniform pants or an assessment of her injuries or even how well her injury had been taken care of in the middle of enemy territory, he thought about family, something very unrealistic. Though he couldn't help reassuring himself that it was normal (not something he did often considering he was any thing but normal) to associate with someone who looked so very much like him when he had no family of his own. None of this inner contemplation, however, showed on his face as the four figures approached him.
"Duo, Tomoe, in the truck, Kino go with Trowa." Heero instructed swiftly. Trowa reached behind him into an OZ military jeep and threw an OZ uniform at each pilot. Heero swiftly put it on over his current outfit and Duo removed his priest shirt methodically, exposing a scarred torso which was quickly covered by the OZ top. Duo threw the pants back at him, obviously intending to stay with his black ones. Then looking at the taller of the two girls he noted she had lost her OZ top. Shifting through the back quickly he handed her one. It was slightly big for her, but you could hardly notice. She slipped it on over her tank top and got in the passenger seat of the jeep. Duo lifted the secret compartment in the back of the truck and the smaller of the two girls got in.
Trowa got behind the wheel and started the engine. He heard an identical rev to the right automatically assuming Heero was driving. Duo was a terrible driver. Trowa heard a scuffle beside him and turned to see that Duo had snatched the detonator from Heero.
"Sayonara suckers! Have fun in Hell!" He then pressed the button and the compound behind them exploded.
Trowa shifted into gear and drove off to the left, mentally reviewing the rendezvous spot. He glanced to the right and frowned. This was going to be a long night.
Tap tap tap.
He frowned and blew his bangs out of his eyes. His foot taped nervously and he was holding his tea cup too tight. Quatre was at their safe house alone, and he didn't like it. Not that he'd never been in the middle of nowhere alone before, it was just a recent mission had them rescuing two people that were supposed to stay with them until further notice. That had him worried, they needed reinforcement? Was it really that bad? And to send three pilots for such a mission, wasn't that excessive? But the thing that had him worried the most was Wufei. He had yet to come back from a four day mission. He left one week ago, and Quatre was nervous. He knew Wufei wasn't dead, he would have sensed that, but some things were worse than death. Several times he had tried to reach out to him, but his powers weren't strong enough.
With a sigh Quatre decided to reach out again, to try to feel Wufei, even if it was futile. He set down his tea and then arranged himself in lotus position. A deep breath later and his sixth sense was expanding. He jerked it back with a startled cry, falling out of his seat. Someone with very strong emotions was approaching him. Quatre reached out again, only this time tentivily. It was Trowa he recognized first, he was good at schooling his face, but that did not mean he hid his emotions. At the moment he was feeling a large amount of frustration as well as some second emotion Quatre couldn't make out. Then Duo, the thin layer of happiness that concealed his grief and pain from everyone, including himself. Then came the wall that was Heero. He kept his emotions locked up tight most of the time, and Quatre had yet to get passed his barrier. Slowly he reached out more, coming upon two unfamiliar people. One was practically giddy about something, but the other felt… strange. That was the only thing he could think of to describe it, strange. They were peaceful on the surface, but underneath was an amount of pain to rival Duo's, and yet they went even deeper than that. Going back he felt the other person also had that strange feeling, and yet they hid their deeper emotions better.
"Uh, Q-man, why are you meditatin' in the middle of the kitchen?" Quatre almost had a heart attack. He had subconsciously resumed his lotus position and had been so consumed by his senses that he didn't notice they had walked in the door. He gave a startled yelp and rolled to one side instinctively, turning to face the voice.
"Duo! Don't do that!" Quatre scolded. Duo held his hands up in a defensive gesture.
"Sorry Q, but you were in the way to the frige." Was the jovial response.
"Honestly, don't you think about anything else? Don't answer that." Quatre said rubbing the back of his neck and standing up.
"Hey, where's Wuffers? Shouldn't he be back by now?" Quatre sighed and shook his head.
"I'm starting to get worried Duo, he's three days and some change overdue." A startled gasp was heard behind Duo and Quatre looked passed him. Standing there was a small girl in a white Chinese shirt too large for her and matching black pants that seemed to fit fine. He looked into wide violet eyes and he knew. This girl was worried. She was worried for Wufei.
Pairings
Heero/Mako: 8
Duo/Mako: 4
Heero/Relena: 1
Trowa/Quatre: 5
Not Trowa/Quatre: 2
Add a Senshi
Minako: 2
Ami: 1
Setsuna: 1
Ug, that was torture writing from Heero's perspective. Sorry if it wasn't any good. Hey! Double vote for anyone who can guess which feelings match to which senshi that Quarte felt. For anyone who has yet to figure it out idiots Trowa is Makoto's brother. Hey, if this helps some, Hotaru/Wufei will be the main spotlight. If I do end up doing a Trowa/Quatre then it will be very mild, probably one of the girls conspiring with Duo to get them together or something along those lines. Oh and Jazna, your bargain yaoi review isn't up there, because I wasn't sure if you wanted it to count. Keep reviewing! Chao!
TS