~ Okay people. I'm over it!!!!!! *SCREAMS WITH JOY* I'm so happy happy
happy now!!!!
Well,... I am happy that I can now remove my 'sorry' chapter and put in
'Chapter 6.' Well ... here goes the next chapter!!!!
(Congratulations to my fifth reviewer, Usagi Yuy!)
*I don't believe in disclaimers.
Chapter 6: The Computer
Duo splashed Usagi and dove under the water. He was going to come up under her until she put her hand on the top of his head and held him there. Hiiro smirked as Duo's last air bubbles erupted urgently to the top of the water. Duo didn't struggle. He just grabbed her butt cheek and made her jump.
She slapped him hard on the head when he resurfaced.
"What did you do that for?!" He asked with an evil grin.
Hiiro rounded the corner.
Hiiro could have sworn that Duo was 30 feet away from Usagi before he shut his eyes... Now Duo was standing behind her and holding her shoulders and using her for protection.
"What are you doing? What is that nonsense?" Hiiro looked at the pool. The sun was shining on the water that had been splashed over the side of the pool. The water was clear, sparkling, and clean. The grass on the other side of the fence was green and still had the morning dew.
"M-m-m-me?" Duo managed to sputter out.
"Yes. What is that you were doing? The splashing and all?" Hiiro questioned again.
"It's playing! Duh!" Usagi retorted. Duo shook his head worriedly.
"What she means H-man is that it's fun. Which is hard to explain." Duo said with a hand scratching the back of his head.
"Wha?! You don't know how to play?!" Usagi asked startled.
"You have to understand Usagi. Hiiro is a very serious person." Duo said trying to calm her down.
"Hiiro! You get in this pool right now!" Usagi shouted.
A sweat drop ran down Hiiro's forehead. "Why should I?" He asked then turned around to start walking the opposite way.
"Because I believe you're scared." Usagi said. Hiiro paused with his foot in midair.
"What?" he questioned reaching in his briefs. 'Damn! This was just the Time I needed it too!' He thought. He had left the gun on his bed. 'I'M NOT SCARED!!!! I'll just prove that to her.'
Hiiro turned around and stepped in the pool. "Teach me." He demanded.
~SEVERAL HOURS LATER~
Hiiro picked Usagi up and tossed her over his shoulder and she gave a playful yelp. She splashed Hiiro and he splashed her back. Hiiro stood with a straight face and Usagi stood with an ear-to-ear grin.
Duo watched from the side lines. He was having a great time watching Hiiro make a fool of himself. Duo was only watching with a dreamy stare. He watched Usagi splash Hiiro over and over while she pissed Hiiro off by dodging all his.
All of a sudden Hiiro splashed her. Serena made a dismayed smile. "Ya' got me finally Hiiro! I thought you just had plain rotten aim."
He cracked a smile revealing perfect, sparkling, white teeth.
Duo snapped into sense. He stared at the teeth that Hiiro had kept hidden behind war. He couldn't believe it. It wasn't true. Hiiro only gave smirks. Not smiles.
'I'm definatley dreaming.' Duo thought.
There was something that was dazzling about it. Something sad and pitiful. Mysterious. It baffled him.
Serena's smile disappeared. She began to stare. She hadn't seen this before. It was a smile of love, longing, pain, and sadness. Her heart began to beat so fast it hurt.
"Hiiro." Duo said. Hiiro's smile disappeared. "Are you alright?"
Hiiro shook his head and rubbed his face. He looked at Usagi.
"Are you Okay?"
Hiiro looked in Usagi's Crystalline blue eyes. His mind went blank. A woman appeared. A scene. A boy on a bike. An elbow. A question. Blood.
~(("I see we'll have to lower the seat some. Bikes aren't meant for 3-year- olds. Are you okay?"~))
"Hiiro!" Serena said worriedly. "Hiiro! Are you Okay?"
Hiiro looked down at is elbow. A small scar lay there.
"I've got to go." He said exiting the pool yard as quickly as he possibly could.
Usagi began to go after him but Duo grabbed her wrist and shook his head 'no.' Usagi looked at him questioningly.
"Did I do anything wrong?" Usagi asked him.
"All I can tell you is just don't go looking for him." Duo said comfortingly. He put an arm around her shoulder. She put her hand on his.
~With Hiiro~
Hiiro looked at is laptop in the privacy of the vacant room. He listened to the annoying sounds of the computer's logging on the internet.
At last, he was on. He typed in a screen name and a woman appeared.
"Lady Une." He acknowledged bluntly.
"Hiiro," she replied, "have you found the base yet?"
"No. They've concealed it well. I can locate no trace of it."
"Well, try harder." She commanded, "it can't be that hard to find the Zeon base!"
"But Lady Une," he tried to explain, "It is somewhere and I can find no evidence of the base. It is extremely difficult."
"I want the word 'Difficult' deleted from your vocabulary." She ordered.
Hiiro thought a second.
"Then, It is very complicated to find it."
Lady Une shook her head. "Just find it Hiiro. You won't be leaving until it's destroyed!" She hit the screen off and logged off the internet.
'It must be very advanced for the best not to be able to find it.' She thought to herself. 'It must be destroyed!'
~With Usagi~
Usagi looked down the vacant hall. It was bare except for the doors to other rooms. The floors were perfectly colorless and the walls glowed luminously under the lighting. But there was one door that was open. It stood out from the white. It was different, unlike the camp wanted it to be.
She could here Duo's footsteps from down the hall. She took her time entering the room, making sure Duo would notice her, but also making sure he couldn't stop her.
She only saw a solitary computer. She sat down as Duo stood at the door.
"Whatcha doin'?" He asked. She looked at him.
"I've got to find out what I'm doing here. It's been eating my heart out.that I've been in this group. I mean the cap was one thing. But I don't think that took the appearance of my breasts away from underneath my shirt! I mean c'mon!"
Duo looked at her sparkling eyes. It was too much.
"I'll help. Next to Hiiro, I'm an expert on computers."
She smiled happily and got up to give him the seat. He took the offer and began to search through the files.
'I gotta show Hiiro this,' Duo thought as he searched, 'He might be able to locate the base easier. I know he's been getting pissed off about it.'
Duo finally found a folder labeled 'Students.'
'I don't know why they'd label it students.' He thought lamely to himself.
Usagi began to lean in over his shoulder. He didn't like it when people did that. But he'd let Usagi slide.
"Now, let's type in your name." He did so, a screen popped up, "here we g-" abruptly he stopped. "We better get going."
"Why?" She demanded with a playful smile. It fell to through the floor when she saw Duo's serious face. She looked at the screen.
It read:
Serena/Usagi Tuskino
Age: 14
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: blue
Gender: Recently declared female by family & friends
Crime committed: Smuggling
Current occupation: Dead
Cause of Death: Transportation accident, body not found
Replacement: Itooshi Kibou
Usagi gasped. The sharp intakes of air hurt her chest. She put her hand absent mindedly over her mouth to make the air slow down, to prevent being strangled. She shook her head slowly.
"Duo, tell me, I'm reading this wrong? Right?"
Duo kept his face long to the ground. He shook his head signaling 'no.' She sank to the floor, and began to cry. Her sobbing broke Duo's heart into a thousand shards of glass. He kneeled to the ground and held her to his freezing, damp chest.
"I hate it when girls cry," he mummbeled under his breath," especially when they're my best friend.
Usagi managed a small chuckle. "You go on ahead Duo, I'll search the computer for mistakes or anything like that." she said quickly pulling herself together, "I mean, of course my friends know I'm not dead."
Duo got up, "Maybe you shouldn't Usagi."
"Go on!" she screamed, "Just leave me alone."
Duo looked at her with pain in his eyes. But, he understood, time alone was what she wanted. He could realize that, but he hated to leave her there alone.
She looked up at him threateningly. Then he looked at her one last time, and left with the nagging thought of the pain that consumed her.
Usagi silently thought to herself, she was afraid to break the calm apart from the humming of the computer. As if the ominous silence would eat anything that made a noise.
'How could this happen? I'm supposed to be the Queen of the Silver Millennium! I can't just ignore that. And then they proclaimed me dead. How? That man introduced me to the group as Serena Tuskino, they would notice i-'
Then comprehension came to her mind. 'That man didn't introduce me to them by name at all! Does this mean. I'm Itooshi Kibou?'
She pieced it together in her mind. All the while, the computer began to bring every folder on memory to the screen. It began to get faster and faster, more and more folders.
'That's it! I was supposed to be picked up by the driver after Itooshi Kibou! So on the way back here the driver got in a wreck! and.' the computer's screen began to blink on and off wildly, 'Itooshi Kibou was killed while I was accidentally put in his group! That's it!"
The computer blew up. Usagi ran out of the room and down the hall after a slight scream leaving the computer to discharge strange green smoke.
~2 MONTHS LATER~
Usagi looked at the new construction site. They were adding an addition to the camp because of the great need of more rooms and such. She walked in between Hiiro and Duo on the way to the morning's exercises.
"Mr. Kibou." The drill sergeant said separating her from the others. "I still don't understand why you would tell all the people in the camp to call you Usagi." He began to circle her like a vulture. A couple of other boys snickered. "I saw that. Give me 40." Two boys dropped to the ground obediently and began to do push ups.
"Now Mr. Itooshi Kibou, It's time for the barbed wire crawl."
Serena always hated the barbed wire crawl. Her hair almost always caught on the wire. But she loved target practice.
~During Target Practice~
She looked over at Hiiro, he was the best, always focused on the target and almost never missing. Well, actually, never missing.
She looked back at her target. She remembered all the monsters she had destroyed and all the people she had saved. She saved the world and colonies from destruction. But during those days, she had no time to muse on the wars. Only on foolish sleeping and comics. Those days were over, now was the time to focus on the war.
She looked back over at Hiiro. He was gone.
~Well peoples!!!! I finally updated! Now I'll need 10 reviews!!!!!! (I'll never go any higher than 10!!! I promise!) Well. I hope ya'll liked!!!!! :P
(Congratulations to my fifth reviewer, Usagi Yuy!)
*I don't believe in disclaimers.
Chapter 6: The Computer
Duo splashed Usagi and dove under the water. He was going to come up under her until she put her hand on the top of his head and held him there. Hiiro smirked as Duo's last air bubbles erupted urgently to the top of the water. Duo didn't struggle. He just grabbed her butt cheek and made her jump.
She slapped him hard on the head when he resurfaced.
"What did you do that for?!" He asked with an evil grin.
Hiiro rounded the corner.
Hiiro could have sworn that Duo was 30 feet away from Usagi before he shut his eyes... Now Duo was standing behind her and holding her shoulders and using her for protection.
"What are you doing? What is that nonsense?" Hiiro looked at the pool. The sun was shining on the water that had been splashed over the side of the pool. The water was clear, sparkling, and clean. The grass on the other side of the fence was green and still had the morning dew.
"M-m-m-me?" Duo managed to sputter out.
"Yes. What is that you were doing? The splashing and all?" Hiiro questioned again.
"It's playing! Duh!" Usagi retorted. Duo shook his head worriedly.
"What she means H-man is that it's fun. Which is hard to explain." Duo said with a hand scratching the back of his head.
"Wha?! You don't know how to play?!" Usagi asked startled.
"You have to understand Usagi. Hiiro is a very serious person." Duo said trying to calm her down.
"Hiiro! You get in this pool right now!" Usagi shouted.
A sweat drop ran down Hiiro's forehead. "Why should I?" He asked then turned around to start walking the opposite way.
"Because I believe you're scared." Usagi said. Hiiro paused with his foot in midair.
"What?" he questioned reaching in his briefs. 'Damn! This was just the Time I needed it too!' He thought. He had left the gun on his bed. 'I'M NOT SCARED!!!! I'll just prove that to her.'
Hiiro turned around and stepped in the pool. "Teach me." He demanded.
~SEVERAL HOURS LATER~
Hiiro picked Usagi up and tossed her over his shoulder and she gave a playful yelp. She splashed Hiiro and he splashed her back. Hiiro stood with a straight face and Usagi stood with an ear-to-ear grin.
Duo watched from the side lines. He was having a great time watching Hiiro make a fool of himself. Duo was only watching with a dreamy stare. He watched Usagi splash Hiiro over and over while she pissed Hiiro off by dodging all his.
All of a sudden Hiiro splashed her. Serena made a dismayed smile. "Ya' got me finally Hiiro! I thought you just had plain rotten aim."
He cracked a smile revealing perfect, sparkling, white teeth.
Duo snapped into sense. He stared at the teeth that Hiiro had kept hidden behind war. He couldn't believe it. It wasn't true. Hiiro only gave smirks. Not smiles.
'I'm definatley dreaming.' Duo thought.
There was something that was dazzling about it. Something sad and pitiful. Mysterious. It baffled him.
Serena's smile disappeared. She began to stare. She hadn't seen this before. It was a smile of love, longing, pain, and sadness. Her heart began to beat so fast it hurt.
"Hiiro." Duo said. Hiiro's smile disappeared. "Are you alright?"
Hiiro shook his head and rubbed his face. He looked at Usagi.
"Are you Okay?"
Hiiro looked in Usagi's Crystalline blue eyes. His mind went blank. A woman appeared. A scene. A boy on a bike. An elbow. A question. Blood.
~(("I see we'll have to lower the seat some. Bikes aren't meant for 3-year- olds. Are you okay?"~))
"Hiiro!" Serena said worriedly. "Hiiro! Are you Okay?"
Hiiro looked down at is elbow. A small scar lay there.
"I've got to go." He said exiting the pool yard as quickly as he possibly could.
Usagi began to go after him but Duo grabbed her wrist and shook his head 'no.' Usagi looked at him questioningly.
"Did I do anything wrong?" Usagi asked him.
"All I can tell you is just don't go looking for him." Duo said comfortingly. He put an arm around her shoulder. She put her hand on his.
~With Hiiro~
Hiiro looked at is laptop in the privacy of the vacant room. He listened to the annoying sounds of the computer's logging on the internet.
At last, he was on. He typed in a screen name and a woman appeared.
"Lady Une." He acknowledged bluntly.
"Hiiro," she replied, "have you found the base yet?"
"No. They've concealed it well. I can locate no trace of it."
"Well, try harder." She commanded, "it can't be that hard to find the Zeon base!"
"But Lady Une," he tried to explain, "It is somewhere and I can find no evidence of the base. It is extremely difficult."
"I want the word 'Difficult' deleted from your vocabulary." She ordered.
Hiiro thought a second.
"Then, It is very complicated to find it."
Lady Une shook her head. "Just find it Hiiro. You won't be leaving until it's destroyed!" She hit the screen off and logged off the internet.
'It must be very advanced for the best not to be able to find it.' She thought to herself. 'It must be destroyed!'
~With Usagi~
Usagi looked down the vacant hall. It was bare except for the doors to other rooms. The floors were perfectly colorless and the walls glowed luminously under the lighting. But there was one door that was open. It stood out from the white. It was different, unlike the camp wanted it to be.
She could here Duo's footsteps from down the hall. She took her time entering the room, making sure Duo would notice her, but also making sure he couldn't stop her.
She only saw a solitary computer. She sat down as Duo stood at the door.
"Whatcha doin'?" He asked. She looked at him.
"I've got to find out what I'm doing here. It's been eating my heart out.that I've been in this group. I mean the cap was one thing. But I don't think that took the appearance of my breasts away from underneath my shirt! I mean c'mon!"
Duo looked at her sparkling eyes. It was too much.
"I'll help. Next to Hiiro, I'm an expert on computers."
She smiled happily and got up to give him the seat. He took the offer and began to search through the files.
'I gotta show Hiiro this,' Duo thought as he searched, 'He might be able to locate the base easier. I know he's been getting pissed off about it.'
Duo finally found a folder labeled 'Students.'
'I don't know why they'd label it students.' He thought lamely to himself.
Usagi began to lean in over his shoulder. He didn't like it when people did that. But he'd let Usagi slide.
"Now, let's type in your name." He did so, a screen popped up, "here we g-" abruptly he stopped. "We better get going."
"Why?" She demanded with a playful smile. It fell to through the floor when she saw Duo's serious face. She looked at the screen.
It read:
Serena/Usagi Tuskino
Age: 14
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: blue
Gender: Recently declared female by family & friends
Crime committed: Smuggling
Current occupation: Dead
Cause of Death: Transportation accident, body not found
Replacement: Itooshi Kibou
Usagi gasped. The sharp intakes of air hurt her chest. She put her hand absent mindedly over her mouth to make the air slow down, to prevent being strangled. She shook her head slowly.
"Duo, tell me, I'm reading this wrong? Right?"
Duo kept his face long to the ground. He shook his head signaling 'no.' She sank to the floor, and began to cry. Her sobbing broke Duo's heart into a thousand shards of glass. He kneeled to the ground and held her to his freezing, damp chest.
"I hate it when girls cry," he mummbeled under his breath," especially when they're my best friend.
Usagi managed a small chuckle. "You go on ahead Duo, I'll search the computer for mistakes or anything like that." she said quickly pulling herself together, "I mean, of course my friends know I'm not dead."
Duo got up, "Maybe you shouldn't Usagi."
"Go on!" she screamed, "Just leave me alone."
Duo looked at her with pain in his eyes. But, he understood, time alone was what she wanted. He could realize that, but he hated to leave her there alone.
She looked up at him threateningly. Then he looked at her one last time, and left with the nagging thought of the pain that consumed her.
Usagi silently thought to herself, she was afraid to break the calm apart from the humming of the computer. As if the ominous silence would eat anything that made a noise.
'How could this happen? I'm supposed to be the Queen of the Silver Millennium! I can't just ignore that. And then they proclaimed me dead. How? That man introduced me to the group as Serena Tuskino, they would notice i-'
Then comprehension came to her mind. 'That man didn't introduce me to them by name at all! Does this mean. I'm Itooshi Kibou?'
She pieced it together in her mind. All the while, the computer began to bring every folder on memory to the screen. It began to get faster and faster, more and more folders.
'That's it! I was supposed to be picked up by the driver after Itooshi Kibou! So on the way back here the driver got in a wreck! and.' the computer's screen began to blink on and off wildly, 'Itooshi Kibou was killed while I was accidentally put in his group! That's it!"
The computer blew up. Usagi ran out of the room and down the hall after a slight scream leaving the computer to discharge strange green smoke.
~2 MONTHS LATER~
Usagi looked at the new construction site. They were adding an addition to the camp because of the great need of more rooms and such. She walked in between Hiiro and Duo on the way to the morning's exercises.
"Mr. Kibou." The drill sergeant said separating her from the others. "I still don't understand why you would tell all the people in the camp to call you Usagi." He began to circle her like a vulture. A couple of other boys snickered. "I saw that. Give me 40." Two boys dropped to the ground obediently and began to do push ups.
"Now Mr. Itooshi Kibou, It's time for the barbed wire crawl."
Serena always hated the barbed wire crawl. Her hair almost always caught on the wire. But she loved target practice.
~During Target Practice~
She looked over at Hiiro, he was the best, always focused on the target and almost never missing. Well, actually, never missing.
She looked back at her target. She remembered all the monsters she had destroyed and all the people she had saved. She saved the world and colonies from destruction. But during those days, she had no time to muse on the wars. Only on foolish sleeping and comics. Those days were over, now was the time to focus on the war.
She looked back over at Hiiro. He was gone.
~Well peoples!!!! I finally updated! Now I'll need 10 reviews!!!!!! (I'll never go any higher than 10!!! I promise!) Well. I hope ya'll liked!!!!! :P