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(Congratulations to my thirteenth reviewer, obsessed. I might add though, she reviewed 8 times... so I guess if I subtract her reviews... Then PrincessVi-Vi is my thirteenth reviewer. But I give credit to both of you. But ya'll wouldn't be #13 if you didn't have all the other wonderful people who reviewed. Thank all of ya'll!)
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 11: Loss Pains Every One
Usagi stared at the katana blade. It was sharp and she had heard that most of the swords of the Chinese could slice a molecule in half. She would only feel a moment's worth of pain, and then it would all end.
Wu fei lifted his sword up and put it against her heart, he was getting ready to push it through and penetrate it, gash it till it would beat no more. Wu fei then began to think.
'I can't do this! What am I thinking? She doesn't deserve to die let alone should this onna want to die... if this onna can the make 'perfect soldier' do something like that, she won't die for a while. I can't let her do this.'
"I won't." He said sheathing his sword. She looked at him in awe.
"I want you to, I know you're a chauvinist...you should be happy!" She shouted at him furiously. He clenched his fist and shut his eyes firmly, as if to shut them would ease the pain her words carried, and would ease his own.
"You know onna, I did love at one time, you don't need to assume! You cannot know the past or future!" He said waving his hand to his side and taking a step closer to her.
She looked up at him and plummeted to her knees. His face held pain and anger mixed up into an expression she couldn't translate. She sighed and grasped the paper firmly in her hand. It held a burning sensation and it didn't feel as if it could do so much harm. She looked up at him and then looked back down at the paper trying to believe that she had read wrong.
It had a newspaper clipping stapled to it that said:
Car Accident Involving Tsukino Family
The suburban family of the Tsukino's daughter, Usagi Tsukino, was falsely tried for drug smuggling and killed during transport through a bus accident over 3 months ago. Tragically, her body was never found. Her boyfriend, Mamoru Chiba, stated during an exclusive interview "I did not plant the drugs on her. I would never do that to her. My friend has already been checked for drugs or drug usage, I have been checked also. We are clean of drugs and I already had money saved for her bail...' he stopped mid- sentence and refused to continue and forced the press out of the room.
A recent accident as of yesterday has killed the remainder of the Tsukino family. Eye witnesses say that they saw an apparently drunk driver bombard into the Tsukino family's car and they were knocked into a gutter. After this act, the police determined, the car's gas line had been knocked loose where gas was able to be spilled on the road. The heat from the car's engine ignited the gas into flames before officials could arrive on the scene to rescue the family. Burns still remain on the road and police are still tracking the crazed drinker. They have some leads on...
Usagi stopped reading there. She couldn't take it any more. She looked up at Wu fei's aggrieved face.
"I'm sorry Wu fei... I have no right to assume, like you said. I'm just so upset, It just," a tear rolled down her cheek, "It just..."
"It just seems so flawed. So deceptive," he finished for her.
"Yeah," she agreed, "So unreal."
He extended his hand towards her. She forced a smile on her tear-dropped face and took it. She stood up and tucked the note in her back pocket. "Thank you Wu fei." she said. "You shouldn't have been stuck with that job." she said, her voice wavering note to note.
He patted her back in a comforting gesture. She grabbed his hand and held it against her shoulder. He let her do this. Weak onnas need a strong shoulder to cry on.
He led her away from the room. He figured that she didn't need to confront the others about this yet, she wasn't ready. He led her along the bland halls of white talking to her and comforting her.
"I don't understand!" She said, more reasoning with herself than Wu fei, "I never did anything bad! I mean I always tried to help in the ways that I could! I always did something good...I mean, I didn't study well, I didn't make good grades, I was always late. I didn't actually smuggle drugs of my own will...they were planted! And then I did change the way I studied for school! What in the moon's name did I do?!"
"Moon's name?" Wu fei queried.
"Oh," she could feel the sweat on the back of her neck; her spine began to tingle as if a thousand needles were piercing it, "I do that to be different... I like the moon a lot." she said making an excuse.
"Well, I must say it's an odd habit." He said with a smirk.
"Sorry, I just realized that I've been talking about me this whole time and you're just walking along with me listening..."
"And...?" He urged her to continue.
"I'd like to hear about you. I don't really know too much about you. I'd like to know."
"Well..." He began to think about it.
"Oh, c'mon!" She begged.
"Okay, It's not a 'happily ever after story' though." He warned.
"I can deal with that." She said shrugging the shoulder vacant of his hand.
"Well, it starts not too long ago. My clan and I were pretty happy; we had some problems, but not many. And soon, all our problems were resolved, as was any small problems. Then, war rolled along and befell my clan. Oz killed everyone. I am the only survivor," he paused as if to debate whether he should say this or not. Finally, he continued, "They killed my fiancé."
Serena grabbed the hand that wasn't on her shoulder and cradled it in hers. "I guess I didn't have a right to assume..." she whispered under her breath.
"See, now don't you feel better?" he teased, very much unlike him
"How so?" she said half in anger half in pleasantry.
"You know you don't have it so bad." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "You technically didn't cheat on your fiancé with Yuy since you broke up with him. So when you go home, you'll both be happy because in the paper it says he's innocent and you're innocent. So you can both get married in the end."
"Earth to Wu fei! The paper also says I'M DEAD! " She almost blew her top at the biggest part he missed. "You're not always right, ya' know!" But instead of being offended, he began to genuinely laugh and smile. Something she never expected him to do.
When he stopped, he almost sputtered: "Well won't he be surprised when you turn up on his doorstep!"
Usagi's mood began to lighten as she saw Wu fei's smiles. He truly had feelings and he even had a fiancé.
"You know Wu fei; I would never have suspected the sexist to have a fiancé! It would have been the last thing I would have suspected of you..." She began to get an almost devilish grin. "How old were you when you proposed?" She didn't give him time to answer. "Are you a virgin?"
"I take pride in it." He said with the darkest hue that she had ever seen on his face Usagi was almost in awe.
"Oh, did I ask a personal question?" she asked in a babyish voice. He turned his head the other way, yet he let his hand stay on her shoulder. They were approaching the doors to the back lawn where the field was bare except for the grass that was so green it was almost excruciating to look at.
"No, it's not personal, but I don't advertise it." He said thinking back to the scene he had seen, and the racket coming from within the room.
"I can't help it if the camp doors are emaciated." She ran ahead of him and burst through the door and into the sunlight. Her hair sparkled in the sunbeams so brightly that it appeared white. Her eyes became an even deeper and more pure blue than they had been before.
Wu fei leaned against the white walls watching her dance to inaudible music. He began to smile. The sun became so bright that her uniform looked to be an elegant, flowing, white ball gown decorated with beads and jewels and a tiara on in her hair. He could have sworn she had wings and a small iridescent crescent moon upon her forehead. He began to walk to her.
"Why are you dancing? I hear no music." He said examining the dress which began to get more transparent every step he took. He finally reached her and all the wonderful jewels and beads disappeared.
He began to feel a sudden urge to dance and began to wonder why he had said there was no music. There was.
She stretched a hand out to him so slowly it was as if in slow motion. Her eyes were no longer a crystalline blue nor the deeper blue he had seen from the distance. Her eyes were glowing like a sparkling light had been lit behind them. They began to glow so brightly that they began to change the grass, the flag pole, even the building, into an elegant tiled room.
It was huge room which there was a throne at the end. The ceiling was a dome with a diamond chandelier hanging from it; it seemed impractical that the ceiling could support it. The floor was a pallid tile. He could no longer feel the softness of the grass beneath his feet. He couldn't even focus on that now. Her eyes were searching with the light that burned yet comforted his eyes. He could look away nor keep looking.
He began to walk backwards away from her. This thing that was not the Usagi he knew. It was not human at all; it was a beast from infernal pits of hatred and sorrow. He looked around; the whole room was encased in people dancing as if he wasn't even present. Whatever it was, it began to reach through its eyes, and a big dark cloud began to come from them, seeking his heart. He looked swiftly for a window to lead to his quick escape.
What he saw made his stomach tie in to a thousand knots; it felt like millions of needles were pricking his spine up and down, he was struggling to breathe. His muscles were so tense that he couldn't move.
He saw Earth. A blood red, molten lava, burning-Earth.
~With the Other Boys~
Duo could feel his ears prick to strain to hear something wonderful.
"Do you guys hear that?" He requested of their ears. They heard nothing.
Quatre cleared his throat and leaned over to whisper to Duo with a tint of red on his cheeks. "You aren't soar because you didn't 'get anything', are you?"
Duo craned his head away from Quatre, "Are you insane?! Of coarse not! When we get out of here I'll get a woman or two."
Hiiro looked up, "You've never even had ONE woman in your life." His voice was still quavering and his hands were trembling badly from his last encounter with Usagi. He was trying to type on his laptop but had to delete every other word because it was spelled wrong or had to many letters. He found it pathetic that this was happening to HIM.
"I've had them visit once or twice..."
"More like 20 each woman!" Quatre corrected. "My security gaurds inform me of every visitor to visit the manor, Duo. You're lucky the maids like you enough to wash your bed sheets every visit-"
"Shh!" Duo ushered to Quatre. Hiiro cocked an eyebrow at Duo's almost maroon face. Then a sneer appeared.
"I hear music." Trowa interrupted. He got up and opened the door. It was echoing through the hall.
Hiiro, now that he was trying to listen, heard the music too. "Shut the door, I can't contemplate." he ordered.
"You hear it now?" Duo asked as they all shook their heads. Quatre stuck his head out the door to follow the sound. He left the others behind. What he heard was ballroom music more grand than any Queen's grandest ball music could be. Any queen from Earth anyways...
Okay people! 10 Reviews fast!!!!!!!!!! Now, now, now!!!!!!!!!!! Thank ya'll so much for reviewing my last chapter and I'll try to get Chapter 11 up as fast as I can!!!!!!!!! (If I get 10 reviews that is... :P)
(Congratulations to my thirteenth reviewer, obsessed. I might add though, she reviewed 8 times... so I guess if I subtract her reviews... Then PrincessVi-Vi is my thirteenth reviewer. But I give credit to both of you. But ya'll wouldn't be #13 if you didn't have all the other wonderful people who reviewed. Thank all of ya'll!)
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 11: Loss Pains Every One
Usagi stared at the katana blade. It was sharp and she had heard that most of the swords of the Chinese could slice a molecule in half. She would only feel a moment's worth of pain, and then it would all end.
Wu fei lifted his sword up and put it against her heart, he was getting ready to push it through and penetrate it, gash it till it would beat no more. Wu fei then began to think.
'I can't do this! What am I thinking? She doesn't deserve to die let alone should this onna want to die... if this onna can the make 'perfect soldier' do something like that, she won't die for a while. I can't let her do this.'
"I won't." He said sheathing his sword. She looked at him in awe.
"I want you to, I know you're a chauvinist...you should be happy!" She shouted at him furiously. He clenched his fist and shut his eyes firmly, as if to shut them would ease the pain her words carried, and would ease his own.
"You know onna, I did love at one time, you don't need to assume! You cannot know the past or future!" He said waving his hand to his side and taking a step closer to her.
She looked up at him and plummeted to her knees. His face held pain and anger mixed up into an expression she couldn't translate. She sighed and grasped the paper firmly in her hand. It held a burning sensation and it didn't feel as if it could do so much harm. She looked up at him and then looked back down at the paper trying to believe that she had read wrong.
It had a newspaper clipping stapled to it that said:
Car Accident Involving Tsukino Family
The suburban family of the Tsukino's daughter, Usagi Tsukino, was falsely tried for drug smuggling and killed during transport through a bus accident over 3 months ago. Tragically, her body was never found. Her boyfriend, Mamoru Chiba, stated during an exclusive interview "I did not plant the drugs on her. I would never do that to her. My friend has already been checked for drugs or drug usage, I have been checked also. We are clean of drugs and I already had money saved for her bail...' he stopped mid- sentence and refused to continue and forced the press out of the room.
A recent accident as of yesterday has killed the remainder of the Tsukino family. Eye witnesses say that they saw an apparently drunk driver bombard into the Tsukino family's car and they were knocked into a gutter. After this act, the police determined, the car's gas line had been knocked loose where gas was able to be spilled on the road. The heat from the car's engine ignited the gas into flames before officials could arrive on the scene to rescue the family. Burns still remain on the road and police are still tracking the crazed drinker. They have some leads on...
Usagi stopped reading there. She couldn't take it any more. She looked up at Wu fei's aggrieved face.
"I'm sorry Wu fei... I have no right to assume, like you said. I'm just so upset, It just," a tear rolled down her cheek, "It just..."
"It just seems so flawed. So deceptive," he finished for her.
"Yeah," she agreed, "So unreal."
He extended his hand towards her. She forced a smile on her tear-dropped face and took it. She stood up and tucked the note in her back pocket. "Thank you Wu fei." she said. "You shouldn't have been stuck with that job." she said, her voice wavering note to note.
He patted her back in a comforting gesture. She grabbed his hand and held it against her shoulder. He let her do this. Weak onnas need a strong shoulder to cry on.
He led her away from the room. He figured that she didn't need to confront the others about this yet, she wasn't ready. He led her along the bland halls of white talking to her and comforting her.
"I don't understand!" She said, more reasoning with herself than Wu fei, "I never did anything bad! I mean I always tried to help in the ways that I could! I always did something good...I mean, I didn't study well, I didn't make good grades, I was always late. I didn't actually smuggle drugs of my own will...they were planted! And then I did change the way I studied for school! What in the moon's name did I do?!"
"Moon's name?" Wu fei queried.
"Oh," she could feel the sweat on the back of her neck; her spine began to tingle as if a thousand needles were piercing it, "I do that to be different... I like the moon a lot." she said making an excuse.
"Well, I must say it's an odd habit." He said with a smirk.
"Sorry, I just realized that I've been talking about me this whole time and you're just walking along with me listening..."
"And...?" He urged her to continue.
"I'd like to hear about you. I don't really know too much about you. I'd like to know."
"Well..." He began to think about it.
"Oh, c'mon!" She begged.
"Okay, It's not a 'happily ever after story' though." He warned.
"I can deal with that." She said shrugging the shoulder vacant of his hand.
"Well, it starts not too long ago. My clan and I were pretty happy; we had some problems, but not many. And soon, all our problems were resolved, as was any small problems. Then, war rolled along and befell my clan. Oz killed everyone. I am the only survivor," he paused as if to debate whether he should say this or not. Finally, he continued, "They killed my fiancé."
Serena grabbed the hand that wasn't on her shoulder and cradled it in hers. "I guess I didn't have a right to assume..." she whispered under her breath.
"See, now don't you feel better?" he teased, very much unlike him
"How so?" she said half in anger half in pleasantry.
"You know you don't have it so bad." He said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "You technically didn't cheat on your fiancé with Yuy since you broke up with him. So when you go home, you'll both be happy because in the paper it says he's innocent and you're innocent. So you can both get married in the end."
"Earth to Wu fei! The paper also says I'M DEAD! " She almost blew her top at the biggest part he missed. "You're not always right, ya' know!" But instead of being offended, he began to genuinely laugh and smile. Something she never expected him to do.
When he stopped, he almost sputtered: "Well won't he be surprised when you turn up on his doorstep!"
Usagi's mood began to lighten as she saw Wu fei's smiles. He truly had feelings and he even had a fiancé.
"You know Wu fei; I would never have suspected the sexist to have a fiancé! It would have been the last thing I would have suspected of you..." She began to get an almost devilish grin. "How old were you when you proposed?" She didn't give him time to answer. "Are you a virgin?"
"I take pride in it." He said with the darkest hue that she had ever seen on his face Usagi was almost in awe.
"Oh, did I ask a personal question?" she asked in a babyish voice. He turned his head the other way, yet he let his hand stay on her shoulder. They were approaching the doors to the back lawn where the field was bare except for the grass that was so green it was almost excruciating to look at.
"No, it's not personal, but I don't advertise it." He said thinking back to the scene he had seen, and the racket coming from within the room.
"I can't help it if the camp doors are emaciated." She ran ahead of him and burst through the door and into the sunlight. Her hair sparkled in the sunbeams so brightly that it appeared white. Her eyes became an even deeper and more pure blue than they had been before.
Wu fei leaned against the white walls watching her dance to inaudible music. He began to smile. The sun became so bright that her uniform looked to be an elegant, flowing, white ball gown decorated with beads and jewels and a tiara on in her hair. He could have sworn she had wings and a small iridescent crescent moon upon her forehead. He began to walk to her.
"Why are you dancing? I hear no music." He said examining the dress which began to get more transparent every step he took. He finally reached her and all the wonderful jewels and beads disappeared.
He began to feel a sudden urge to dance and began to wonder why he had said there was no music. There was.
She stretched a hand out to him so slowly it was as if in slow motion. Her eyes were no longer a crystalline blue nor the deeper blue he had seen from the distance. Her eyes were glowing like a sparkling light had been lit behind them. They began to glow so brightly that they began to change the grass, the flag pole, even the building, into an elegant tiled room.
It was huge room which there was a throne at the end. The ceiling was a dome with a diamond chandelier hanging from it; it seemed impractical that the ceiling could support it. The floor was a pallid tile. He could no longer feel the softness of the grass beneath his feet. He couldn't even focus on that now. Her eyes were searching with the light that burned yet comforted his eyes. He could look away nor keep looking.
He began to walk backwards away from her. This thing that was not the Usagi he knew. It was not human at all; it was a beast from infernal pits of hatred and sorrow. He looked around; the whole room was encased in people dancing as if he wasn't even present. Whatever it was, it began to reach through its eyes, and a big dark cloud began to come from them, seeking his heart. He looked swiftly for a window to lead to his quick escape.
What he saw made his stomach tie in to a thousand knots; it felt like millions of needles were pricking his spine up and down, he was struggling to breathe. His muscles were so tense that he couldn't move.
He saw Earth. A blood red, molten lava, burning-Earth.
~With the Other Boys~
Duo could feel his ears prick to strain to hear something wonderful.
"Do you guys hear that?" He requested of their ears. They heard nothing.
Quatre cleared his throat and leaned over to whisper to Duo with a tint of red on his cheeks. "You aren't soar because you didn't 'get anything', are you?"
Duo craned his head away from Quatre, "Are you insane?! Of coarse not! When we get out of here I'll get a woman or two."
Hiiro looked up, "You've never even had ONE woman in your life." His voice was still quavering and his hands were trembling badly from his last encounter with Usagi. He was trying to type on his laptop but had to delete every other word because it was spelled wrong or had to many letters. He found it pathetic that this was happening to HIM.
"I've had them visit once or twice..."
"More like 20 each woman!" Quatre corrected. "My security gaurds inform me of every visitor to visit the manor, Duo. You're lucky the maids like you enough to wash your bed sheets every visit-"
"Shh!" Duo ushered to Quatre. Hiiro cocked an eyebrow at Duo's almost maroon face. Then a sneer appeared.
"I hear music." Trowa interrupted. He got up and opened the door. It was echoing through the hall.
Hiiro, now that he was trying to listen, heard the music too. "Shut the door, I can't contemplate." he ordered.
"You hear it now?" Duo asked as they all shook their heads. Quatre stuck his head out the door to follow the sound. He left the others behind. What he heard was ballroom music more grand than any Queen's grandest ball music could be. Any queen from Earth anyways...
Okay people! 10 Reviews fast!!!!!!!!!! Now, now, now!!!!!!!!!!! Thank ya'll so much for reviewing my last chapter and I'll try to get Chapter 11 up as fast as I can!!!!!!!!! (If I get 10 reviews that is... :P)