Mina and Michiru sat on Haruka as Usagi filled her in on all that had been happening in her absence, and it was only due to Michiru's calming presence and the whispered conversation that they had had when Haruka had thrown them all off and was heading for the police station that she was even still sitting, if not calmly then at least patiently in the garage.

Heero and Trowa watched in amusement as Wu Fei underwent the most startling changes when presented wit the sight of a real life model like Michiru, who even Heero had to admit was as close to perfect as h had ever seen, his conscience immediately countering with a slightly enraged, strange voice sounding distinctly like Usagi, "What about me?" shaking his head in shock nanoseconds later, he immediately wondered was he spending to much time with his….

Trowa's voice intruded on his stream of thought, as he was suddenly brought back to present with the sound of the girls seemingly disclosing the plan to these strange women.

Fighting the urge to demand what the hell she was doing, from his vantage point on the landing above them, he listened as jobs that had previously gone unassigned were volunteered and filled in.

There wasn't a greater distraction at a race then celebrities and especially ones whose reputation had preceded them even before they had been commercialised on television, endorsements, radio, magazines etc.

With the arrangements made for the next day, Usagi broke away from the group, slipping away with out any one noticing she was leaving even the ever eagle eyed Heero.

Slipping quietly away on one of the garages many in house motor bikes, she sped through the quite back roads of the city, letting her mind quieten to just the sound of the engine, it every change, until it was all she heard. No longer was her mind clogged with worries about what could go wrong with her plan, but with the thing that had been one of her very first loves over a decade ago.

Slipping the stand down on her bike, when she eventually found what she was looking for, she slowly un wound her tense body from the position it had occupied for more then two hours, something her mind didn't realise.

Walking slowly across the grass, she smiled when her gaze finally found, it her steps sure in the darkness, even after all this time.

Bending down on her knees, she scrubbed lightly at the stone, before laying down on the grass to stare at it.

Gazing at it for what seemed like minutes, Usagi's voice finally broke the silence of the night, and of the eerily quiet place, her voice low and confidential even in the silence of the night, "Hello mum and dad, have I got some things to tell you." Looking at her hands, she appeared to think a bit before quietly starting, "I've had a bit of trouble lately. It all seems to revolve about him…."

Letting it all out of her, talking it over gave Usagi some clarity, and it was with the rising of the sun over the Sacred Heart cemetery that Usagi finally rose to head for some rest and to complete what she had started the night before.

It all came down to tonight, and Usagi knew that she for one was already starting to feel the adrenaline rush.

Back at HQ, where coincidentally everyone had spent the night after realising that Usagi had disappeared and no one had seemed worried ( the girls) the guys had decided to keep the girls safe (stalk them) and were in fact driving the girls crazy, not letting them out of their sight.

It was becoming down right intrusive, Mina thought, especially considering Lita and Quatra were in the hospital not being followed.

Now looking around her she had to admit that she wasn't the worst off. Rei was a lot worse, with Wu fei, who wouldn't admit to following her, wouldn't argue with her and hadn't talked to her, well at all, all night, and then there was Trowa who well, Mina thought in her humble opinion was perhaps the most annoying and yet un obtrusive person ever born, that had a person like gentle Ami who hadn't yelled at anyone in, well since she had know her, raving like a fish wife at him.

Duo just wanted to continually go over ever detail of the plan for the next night, so she had shut him up the only way she was sure she could shut him up….. By gagging him off course.

Thankfully, he had just thought it was a bit of S&M and so he had caved quite readily and before he had realised what was happening she had him handcuffed, gagged, and tied to a wheelie chair, which she had proceeded to wheel into one of the surveillance vans they had purloined from Grey that morning.

There was just something so handy about keeping in contact with old boyfriends, especially those you knew way to much about, and they still caring about you.

Walking into the kitchen, she quickly averted her eyes from the kitchen table, grabbed a bottle of water and an apple from the fridge and left the kitchen, ignoring the muffled squeaks of surprise from the other occupants of the room.

It appeared both Rei and Wu fei had made up what ever differences they had had last night she thought, to her self as she bit into the apple, licking the juice from her lips as she got her first good crunch.

Swallowing quickly as she spotted Usagi make her way in through the back entrance to the garage.

Walking up the stairs to the common area, she jumped over the back of the couch and grabbing the remote from a motionless Heero, she pointed downstairs with her index finger, "Usagi just got in!" nodding in satisfaction as she watched him bound from the couch in a seamless motion.

Now she could get down to some serious t.v, switching channels until she came to the prescribed channel for the dvd player, and pressing a new button, watching as Roswell swallowed the large plasma screen, Micheal Guerin's sexy body taking over the screen, leaving Mina starring in lust at it.

When Duo found her, she had become a hormonal dog, and jumping him, proceeded to do her worst, something he found quite quite good.

( that guy is sex on a stick and I would lick ever,….. ahemmm….. right must remember have boyfriend… quite upset… but still god.. he is a sex god,… the arms, the body…. The bad boy attitude, focus….but I don't want to.. think ill go watch roswell dvd's for a while…hehe: ) )(okay…im back and focused…)

Watching from behind her, knowing she knew he was there didn't make Heero feel less of a guy with voyeuristic tendencies, that at least thought, didn't stop him from watching her, he had learned his lesson, letting her out of his sights just once, and her disappearing over night, no one knowing or if they did know telling him where she was.

If he couldn't have a more important part in the plan unfolding later on that evening to flush out the baddie, then the least he could do was at least keep Usagi safe till that hour, no matter how much he might wish he could keep her safe for a lot longer.

Less then two hours later, war broke out between the two sexes, as Usagi, Ami, Mina and Rei prepared to go outside to sun bath on the open tarmac behind the garage that also hosted an impressive hot tub to relax in after races or a particularly stressful day.

Duo and Wu fei were equally astonished at each other as well as the girls, when they both shouted at once "Put some damn clothes on" and rushed to cover their girlfriends more then fabulous bodies, not that they didn't want to ogle them a bit themselves but you have to understand that when the guys found something that could be just there's alone, they naturally became very protective of said object and felt like they should be the only one to see it.

Since they obviously could not control how the girls acted or who saw them, the least they could do was make sure that other guys could not see something that they felt they had the exclusive rights to see.

Breasts, legs, and other things exposed by the tiny string bikini's the girls were wearing, or not wearing, whatever the case.

They conveniently seemed to forget they were on private property, surrounded by high security detail, and friends who also had girlfriends/partners here in bikinis already.

The jealous workings of a male mind was a slightly weird thing to behold.

Blinking at the guys slightly shocked, the girls took one look at their slightly deranged faces, and turning away from the guys, ignoring there screaming orders, walked outside into the heat.

Piling her hair high on her head, she turned on the hot tub and waiting for the bubbles to get just the right consistency, absently rubbed her back.

When strong calloused hands came to rest on her shoulders and gentle knead the knots from them, she almost groaned in pleasure. Leaning back against Heero's strong body, she twisted her head, to make access to the knotted muscles easier.

Rubbing his slightly stubbly chin against her soft skin, he spoke into her ear, "You know we need to talk!" helping her get into the tub when he noticed the bubbles were just right, and continuing rubbing her shoulders.

Leaning into him trustingly, Usagi looked out over the tub to the sight of her friends, blissfully unaware of the stress she was under, but knowing she needed some time alone.

It was true the saying, she thought, that friends were family you choose.

Speaking soothingly, she didn't allow her fears to come through her voice, "Everything will be alright, you'll see. We'll find out who this person is, capture them and soon we will be able to get on with our lives, and you can go back to yours!" she said this with a little sadness in her voice, as if expecting after everything that had happened, he would leave.

Heero's fingers tightened painfully on her shoulders, before wrapping themselves around her slim waist and pulling her back into him, until she was almost lying on top of him, balanced totally by him, and buoyed totally by the force of the bubbles.

Speaking against her skin, his voice low and insistent, so that she had to strain to hear him above the sound of the tub, she knew he was only speaking this way so he wouldn't be heard by the others, "Just were the hell do you think I'd go without you? I was empty before this, knowing I was missing something but not knowing what…. But then I meet you and everything changed. I could feel my self-coming alive, wanting more of this something that I couldn't explain. You're the reason I feel so alive and if you think I'm letting you go, you got another thing coming!" he punctuated this with an open mouthed kiss on her neck and Usagi could feel all the stress leave her, in a loud sigh. He may not speak a lot, but when he did, you could nearly guarantee what he did say was important.

Looking into the future, Usagi could think of nothing more then what would happen after the race tonight. None of the worry or stress that had plagued her for so long was present; it was if he had taken a load of her mind, and now all she could think about was he.

Watching as Rei expertly slapped First Wu fei's left cheek and then his right at something he had said to her, she couldn't help but feel that her friend had a long way to go before she found the harmony she had craved for so long.

And mina, watching as Duo merely picked her up and carried her inside, had finally found someone that knew how to handle her, leaving only Ami.

She didn't know Trowa, but she knew Ami and if Ami had chased after this guy then he must indeed be something to chase after, but watching him try and explain to her why she should put clothes on, but getting lost in thought every time she moved a little, was actually quite funny. He even seemed to be getting a little nosebleed.

Her family had grown so big in such little time, she wondered were they just experiencing a bit of that captive thing, where the captive seems to fall in love with the captor, that the only reason they were with the guys was because they seemed s embroiled in this mess as everyone else?

Soon people started arriving soon after this, setting up for the races, and it was with a regrettable drive that the girls started inside, to get changed and go over their vehicles once more, not changing their normal itinerary before a race one bit, in case the were being watched.

They weren't but even though it was there people setting up, they couldn't be too careful.

Knowing they still had plenty of time before Usagi raced, Heero took his car, over to the hospital to fetch Quatra, knowing they would need all the help they could.

Picking him up and paying a quick visit to Lita, he drove to the mansion and leaving Quatra in the car went inside to get changed and get his gun. Something Usagi defiantly had no idea about.

Quatra growing bored began pulling papers out of his dash, and pulling the picture from on top recognised the woman.

Starring down into the crazed eyes he tried to remember where he knew her.

Meanwhile back at the track, Usagi watched from her vantage point over looking the entire proceedings, and watched as drivers started to arrive and the dj finally started its set.

The party was beginning and now all they needed was the bait, or should she say the party girl.

Swinging around as she heard a sound behind her, she looked back at her friends, the only family she had left, and felt safe.

All wore the official race uniforms of her team.

Black leather trousers, buckles lining the sides, leaving skin exposed to air, silver boots, black corsets, black chokers, and hair pinned into a knot on their heads, no matter the length.

This she knew was a sign of respect for her, and running over to them she hugged everyone, whispering softly to each "It'll soon be over!"

Turning everyone around, she walked down the steps regally, in tune to the music that had just come on knowing her girls; her family were following her dutifully.

Stepping onto the track she looked around expecting to see faces she didn't recognise, but quickly came to the conclusion that so far it was all her friends, but then she thought, it could so easily be one of them that were threatening her life, and her livelihood.

Talking and laughing her way through her acquaintances, she couldn't stop the part of herself that gazed around, hoping that there would be just one person there that would scream "Hi, I'm the one that's been trying to kill you because…" but obviously no one did, and Usagi couldn't help but feel as an hour went by and nothing happened, that maybe her plan wasn't going to work after all…

Finally it was time for her race and Usagi couldn't help but wonder were Heero was, he had promised he was only going to get changed, and she couldn't wait any longer.

Getting into the car as if she was coming home, she quickly assessed the car and finding it satisfactory, let the announcer, Ludacris, a special treat from a friend, find her someone to compete against.

When a black lancer evo rolled up, she almost rolled her eyes in pity for the driver, had it not been for the tinted windows and the fact that not once did the driver show there face.

Brushing of the weird feeling she got starring at the car, she gunned the engine to her new baby, and smiled in delight when it didn't make a sound, laughing at the crowd who started whispering amount themselves in disappointment.

Jumping of the start line, they matched in speed and strength, but Usagi knew she had one over the other racing, toying with them for a while; she got ready to take the lead when she noticed it swerve towards her. Thinking that the driver was trying to avoid hitting something, she readjusted her car settings but when the car kept on swerving towards her, she knew something was wrong.

Grinning at the surge of adrenaline, she realised this was it, this is what she had been waiting for. And she thought, almost detached from what was going on, it was about damn time!

Swerving to the side, she watched as the other driver surprised for a minute decide to follow. Good idea you little fucker, come after me, come right into my trap! Usagi thought smiling, amused at how easy this was going to be.

Turning the engine off, or as of as she was going to turn it while still allowing for a quick get away, she stepped out of her car, keeping her eyes trained on the other car. Coming to the front of the car, she leaned back nonchalantly against the hood and waited for the other person to react. Knowing from previous experience if nothing else, that the person that was after her was not the most patient of people, smirking slightly as the tell tail click of the door opening was heard clearly in the vastness of the now empty race course, the spectators long gone in the race for the finish line.

Stepping out into the light, she watched as the figure emerged from the darkness of the car, stepping gout silently, dressed in black from their head to the toe.

Usagi tried to guess whom it was, but even she wasn't that good that she could tell what a person looked like from behind big sunglasses and a baseball hat that almost covered their whole head, forehead, and eyebrows.

Spotting the gun holster, Usagi's voice broke the silence, questioning in its simplicity " since one of us is obviously not going to leave her in anything but a body bag," her fingers, which had been resting against the bonnet for leverage but also for easy access to her gun, clicking the safety off unseen, "I think it would be better if both of us knew the face of our opponent!"

Waiting tensely, Usagi unwillingly held her breath, and as the other driver took off both their hat and glasses, she exhaled, extremely surprised, just as a gunshot went off.


Okay I'm inspired... I think ill have the actual and this will be the last one out probably before the end of the week, I keep on rewriting the ending.. I'm not sure how it will end yet... but it will come to me.. plus I don't like ending it.. but needs must… sorry about the delay.. after my semester one exams went bad had to knuckle down to do well in semester two but I'm back and more inspired then ever… yahoo…

Anyway you know the deal..

Review and tell me if this chap was okay..

Thanks to those who have followed and reviewed so religiously my simple story…

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