Wow...Do I owe you peoples apologies! I was reading through the last chapter, as I always do before I write the next one...And wow! It was horrible! I mean, the content wasn't -too too- bad, but even I got annoyed at the jumps from the different families! I promise to go back and fix that! XD Someday...
Answers to comments, as always, at the end
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Kaguya poked around in her room, looking in the empty drawers, walking in and out of the restroom, and opening the closet. This she expected to be empty as well, but was surprised when she found a pristine uniform hanging there. Curious, she reached up, looking at the sizes. Everything was perfect, even the shoes.
"...Stalkers." She murmured, glaring at the closet before closing it. She sighed deeply as she threw herself onto her bed, then frowned as she realized that she nothing to wear as pajamas.
"Uh uh! No WAY!" She stood, crossing her arms. She would give them the benefit of the doubt first, and look around the room. But if she didn't find anything...oh were they in for it.
It was the result of a negative search that she found herself standing in the middle of some god forsaken hallway, absolutely lost.
"I just wanted to find that damn Treize!" She whined moodily to herself, making a mental notice that talking to oneself did not bring a good impression of her. She walked up to yet another door, opening it in hopes of finding someone.
She was greeted with much more than one person. The room she was looking into was huge, bigger than even the gym at her school, which wasn't too tiny, either. Training equipment was in one corner of the room, a huge pool in another. The two combined took up about half the room, and the other was covered with huge mats, surrounded by a circular track. There were about 20 people running the track, and a few groups that were teamed in two, working on hand to hand combat.
She felt immediately overwhelmed. They were expected to learn that? None of them were over 18, and they were supposed to be able to do all that? She loved running and all...But seeing all these people working so hard just blew her mind.
She jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder, and she spun around, a chiseled chest meeting her view. The owner of it had obviously just emerged from the pool, as droplets of water raced down, tracing the lines of his muscles. She blushed deeply as he cleared his throat, and she forced her gaze up to his face sheepishly. Lord was he tall.
"Y-yes?"
"Ma'm, our company has the training area booked for tonight, you'll have to come back at another time."
"Oh! Actually, I was just looking for directions...I just got here, see, and I'm trying to find Treize..."
"New recruits are supposed to stay in the barracks in east block. You came from there, I assume, so just take that path back. If you need assistance finding someone, you should have asked one of your superiors."
She huffed, crossing her arms.
"Well, actually." She looked up at him sternly. "I did not come from the barracks, I don't know who any of my superiors are and I want my damn pajamas!"
She would have laughed at his face if she weren't so angry. "Yes, I said pajamas! He has the nerve to bring me here and stick me in a room without any pajamas! And so if you would please just tell me where he is, I'll be happy to leave your training area!"
He stood speechless for a few moments, then started laughing. She raised an eyebrow at this, waiting impatiently for him to finish.
"I'm sorry...Its just..." He snickered, then straightened the smile off of his face. "Right...You need pajamas. If you wait for me to go get dressed, I can take you to the staff, and I'm sure they can give you some. "
"I don't want to be taken to the staff! I want to go see Treize so that I can yell at him!" She sighed. "But fine. You can take me to the stupid staff." She pouted, glaring at the wall. "You wouldn't take me to him anyways."
This earned her another chuckle as the soldier walked off to the dressing rooms, and she simply stood there moodily until he came back.
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"You want six of them?"
Kaguya glared at the man across from her, wishing that the soldier that had shown her the way had stayed instead of returning to the training room.
"Yes, six. I wasn't the only new person here, and I'm sure they don't have any, either. While we're at it, toiletries would be nice to have as well. For six."
She added pointedly, her tone heated with annoyance.
"I wasn't informed of this. Go back to the barracks, squib."
Kaguya thanked the war movies she had watched on telling her the exact meaning of squib, and she slammed her hands down on the table.
"Listen, buddy. My name is Kaguya Maxwell, and you damn better give me some freakin' pajamas or I'm going to cause such a big ruckus in here, you'll have every single high ranked person on your ass!"
Angry was not the response she had been looking for, but salvation came in the form of Dorothy Winner. Before the man even had the chance to open his mouth, she walked in with her young child sleeping calmly in her arms.
Silence instantly filled the staff room. Obviously, nobody messed with Dorothy and her child.
"Thank goodness! Mrs. Winner, could you please inform these men that I am very much entitled to some pajamas?"
Kaguya wished she could burst out laughing, the look on the poor man's face was priceless.
"Are they saying you can't have any?"
"Of course not, Ma'm!" He interrupted smoothly, turning on his heel to walk to the back room.
Dorothy's eyes fell to Kaguya. "Were they refusing to give you any?"
"Yes, Ma'm. Didn't believe me when I said who I was, either."
The man came back quickly, a black bag filled with, upon inspection, six sets of pajamas and bathroom necessities. A smug smile on her lips, Kaguya left the unfortunate man to the torture of Dorothy's scolding.
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Kaguya changed into her own set of nightwear before grabbing the bag and heading to the other rooms that settled in the hallways, thankful of the change of clothes. She knocked on Shane's door first, but found it empty. Sighing, she searched the others, to similar results. By the time she reached the last room, Sheila's, if she remembered correctly, she was about to give up and just place the stuff in front of their doors. The murmur of voices she heard through the wood, however, was just what she was looking for.
She opened the door, walking in. Everyone was spread to different parts of comfort, leaning back and enjoying themselves in quiet conversation.
"Was I not invited to the party, then?" She asked jokingly, placing down the bag by the door.
"Perhaps if you had been here." Shane retorted, waving. "Where did you run off to?"
"To find the salvation of CLOTHES!" She said dramatically, spinning on her heel to sport off her own 'fashionable' look.
"Oh yay! So you bullied some people into giving us pajamas?" Sheila asked excitedly, jumping up to inspect the bag. "I was all in a fit because I would have to stay in my leotard all night."
Shane laughed. "Shoulda known Kagu wouldn't stand for not having pajamas. "
"You're right I wouldn't! I mean, c'mon!" She jumped onto the bed, next to the one in the suit. "You're Takeru, ne?" She asked, poking him. He nodded, and she turned her attention back to the room at large. "So...who else is pissed off?"
"Who wouldn't be? I mean, they tricked us into coming here... Sure, we met our parents, but what right do they have to turn us into their stupid soldiers?" Takeru was the first to answer, getting up to gather his stuff after Sheila was done poking through the bag.
"What more would you expect from the military? They don't give a shit how you feel about what they do." Suoh was in the corner of the room, feet propped up on the desk next to him.
"Well...At least we're not like, the lowest ranked people here. I mean, being the kids of the Gundam Pilots has to mean something, right?"
Suoh raised his eyebrow at Kaguya. "So you're saying we're gonna get 'special treatment?'
"Well, don't you think so? I mean, if we get fed up and bring legal stuff into this, or just refuse to do anything, they'd be in a bind. Even if they don't know us very well, I'm sure our parents wouldn't really stand for us being mistreated."
"Obviously they don't really care about that. Seeing as they abandoned us."
"Oh would you just SHUT the hell up about that!" Neil was on his feet in instants, stark raving livid with Suoh. "Holy shit, they already explained! you can see from how they act they care for us! They were freakin' forced to send us away, so stop acting as if they hated you!"
The room went silent as Suoh stood, walking over to Neil, inches from his face as he replied.
"If you lived through the shit I did, you wouldn't think the same way. You would blame them too. At least you had a family. At least you had a home."
Neil lifted his arm, and at first, it seemed that he was going to punch Suoh, but he simply pushed the sleeve of his jacket up to his elbow. "Don't act as if you're the only one that suffered." He hissed out, taking a step back to distance himself. "You don't see me blaming Wu-fei and Sally for this, do you? You don't see me acting like they're the ones that brought me pain. They had not fucking control over it, so get over yourself! Stop living in the past, blaming everyone else because its easier to deal with the pain that way!"
Neil fell back when Suoh punched him, his back hitting the door. He lifted his hand to strike back, but Sheila was between them in seconds, Shane grabbing onto Neil to keep him from throwing himself at Suoh.
"Thats enough!" Sheila had her arms spread, looking between the two. "Everyone is leaving right now! Go!"
After a few tense moments, everyone started filing out of the door, Neil and Suoh sending each other threatening glares before slamming their doors shut.
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A/N: BUM BUM BUM! Conflict! Ooooh nooo! XD
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Saberice: Will ya lookit that! My only reviewer this chapter! I appreciate it Keep readin', I'm glad ya liked it. (even though you MUST have been crazy to like that chapter. :sweatdrop: yes, I do admit it, I'm not all too happy with how chapter eight came out...But hopefully I didn't lose too much respect for that one. ;;