CLUE: a Night in Winner's Mansion
Chapter Three - Feeling Your Heart Beat
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Usagi rested her head against Wufei's chest. Another slow song had begun to play and Miss Venus was hogging Quatre. Little Hotaru sat with her teddy bear playing house. Zero didn't know it yet, but he was the abusive father who was hardly ever home.
Miss Crescent had forgiven Col. Nataku. She had always been like that. The man she danced with looked down at her odangoed head. He didn't understand her and he probably never would. It wasn't as if they would ever see eachother again anyway.
Even if he kind of hoped they would. Not that he would admit it to her.
"Wufei, I can hear your heart beating..." he heard her whisper softly.
"Stupid girl," he muttered, "You can't call me that here."
"I know, I just like your name." she replied.
"Stupid girl..." she smiled and lifted her head up as the song ended.
"Are you guys tired of dancing?" Quatre asked everyone. Zero nodded quickly, only stopping when Relena grabbed his chin to hold it still. Usagi had the feeling Quatre wanted to stop because of a person named Minako.
"I have a little game planned," he went on, "I believe you've heard of it, Hide-and-Seek?" almost everyone rose their eyebrows at the suggestion.
"You're joking, right?" Wufei asked incredulously.
"No, I'm not actually, this place is big enough. All we have to do is choose who will seek." Quatre pulled several straws out of his pocket - oh yeah, this was totally planned. "Everyone pick one, and whoever ends up with a red tip will be the seeker."
So everyone reluctantly drew a straw.
"I guess I'm the seeker," Relena said, shrugging a bit. She didn't really mind. Zero glared at Quatre.
"We came together,"
Quatre sighed, "Then I guess you can help..." this hadn't been in the plan - there was only supposed to be one seeker. He hadn't expected Hiiro to bring Relena along either - not that he didn't like her. It made things harder for him and the staff was all.
"So we just go and hide?" Minako asked. She received a nod.
"While Relena and Zero count to... a hundred." Zero glared and Relena nodded, figuring it was best to just go along with the rules.
"Wait!" Usagi called as everyone broke off, "Shouldn't there be bounderies? What about a base?"
"A... base?"
Usagi nodded, everyone looking at her, "Where you go so you can't get caught. The base, or safe-place or whatever. Are there any rooms we aren't allowed to go in?"
"Oh please!" Miss Venus said haughtily, "If he tells you not to go somewhere you'll only end up going there and breaking something you clumsy little ditz!"
"Now, now Miss Venus, no need for name-calling. Yes you have a good point, I suggest that no-one goes to the fourth floor, or the wine cellar, since you'll only end up getting lost as if you were in the amazon forest. As for a 'base'..." he trailed off, looking deep in thought.
'A safe-place? Are you on to me Miss Tsukino? A safe-place, where you can't... be gotten?'
"Allright, how about the ballroom? Since its where we're starting. If you can reach the ballroom before you're tagged by Relena or Zero then you don't have to worry."
Zero and Wufei shared suspicious looks, 'Don't have to worry?'.
"Allright then! Break!"
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Usagi giggled softly, they would never find her here! She layed scrunched up in a trunk somewhere on the third floor. It was a bit cramped, but it would do fine until she tried to get to the base.
It was only a few minutes later that Usagi was bored. Seriously, how long would it take for it to get exciting?
'Relena is so nice! It'll be fun playing with her,' she thought mischievously.
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"Should we split up?" Relena asked her beau.
"No, theres something strange going on here. It could get dangerous..." he trailed off. Relena gave him a worried look,
"You don't think this is some kind of... plot to hurt someone, do you?"
"I'm afraid it might be. Dammit Relena! Why did I have to bring you?"
"Because as your future wife I'm entitled to stick with you through... everything." Relena smiled, grabbed Hiiro's hand, and drug him toward the doors, "Lets go catch us some rabbit!"
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"This. Is so. Stupid." Wufei grumbled to himself. He peeked down at his left where little Mistress Nine stood. They were currently hiding behind a big curtain and she had wanted to hide with him. He rolled his eyes as she hugged the little teddy bear. Why was the curtain here anyway? There was no window! Just a wall with no doorknob or anything. It was just there. It was bugging him to no end, why would any idiot just put a curtain over a wall? There weren't any ugly stains or blemishes to hide.
"Mr. Nataku?" he stopped mental mid-rant.
"..."
"I have to go to the bathroom,"
'Nataku must really hate me,' he thought.
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Relena pulled the large - and kind of ugly - curtain back to reveal a wall and a little teddy bear.
"Aha! Honey! Mistress Nine was just here! She can't be far now!" Zero rolled his eyes. Why would someone just put a curtain in the middle of a wall? It wasn't clever or there for any real purpose.
"You're getting a little too into this, dear."
"I'm just trying to have fun! Thats what parties are for." she replied, reaching down to grab little Ben Mcgrizzles from his lonely spot.
"Whatever."
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"I'm hunting for rabbit, have you seen any around here?" a man asked the cook. She shook her head,
"No-one's come through here Mr. Winner."
"...Dammit!"
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Usagi stared up at the weird painting. The Mona Lisa was supposed to be a masterpiece. To her it was a woman with an ugly brown dress and a creepy smile.
Who was this woman anyway? Did old Leo just pick some random woman off the street hoping she would make him famous? Or maybe they were secret lovers! The thought was quite romantic.
For the last half hour Usagi had been wandering the halls of the Winner Mansion, unbeknownst to her, she kept on barely missing Zero and Relena.
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"Are you done in there yet?" Nataku whispered outside the bathroom door. He faithfully kept lookout for the happy couple. Shoot, if he was going to play the stupid game, he might as well win.
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Intersession!
Kinoki doesn't know what to write here, so write now we're just going to have our own little Omake Theater Part 01!
The story today is IMs from Usagi, Wufei, Hiiro, and Trowa! Even though hes not in this story.
Rabbie: wuts up?
Nataku005: Nothing much...
OneWingedDemon: Eating chips
Silenso: Playing solitaire
Nataku005: I could go for some chips...
OneWingedDemon: Damn these are good
Nataku005: Go ahead, rub it in you b----!
Rabbie: no name callin
Silenso: il ost
Nataku005: How do you lose solitaire?
OneWingedDemon: Some have timers
Silenso: no timer, i just lostdi lostsS! kagafglfhddsdd
Rabbie: looks like tros comp gots anutha virus
OneWingedDemon: Whatever I need some pop
Nataku005: You mean soda.
OneWingedDemon: I said pop so I meant opo
Rabbie: opo?
Nataku005: Its soda!
OneWingedDemon: Pop
Nataku005: Soda!
OneWingedDemon: Pop
Nataku005: Soda!
Rabbie: sodapop
OneWingedDemon: a Compromise
Silenso: missme?
Rabbie: always
Silenso: sarcasm
Nataku005: Everything online sounds sarcastic.
OneWingedDemon: brb, gotta p---
Rabbie: u dont have 2 explain!
Nataku005: Its Yui, what do you expect?
Silenso: guns and glares
Rabbie: sounds acurat 2 me
Nataku005: Accurate, you mean.
Rabbie: u did not just correct me
Silenso: here we go...
OneWingedDemon: Im back, whats shaking
Silenso: lover's quarrel
OneWingedDemon: I think Ill go watch a Barbie movie or something
Silenso: ill join u we live in the same house anyway
OneWingedDemon: later
Rabbie: ur just a stupid exesive compusive ferak!
Nataku005: I'm a what?
Rabbie: hold on ima lookit up...
Nataku005: ...You do that.
Rabbie: i said ur a exessive compulsive freak!
Nataku005: You cut me deep there barbie! Thats it! I'm signing off!
Rabbie: fine just 'member i live across the hall from u!
Nataku005: F---!
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"Tsukurimashou.." Usagi sang under her breath. She started down another set of stairs, seeing the familiar chandelier hanging over the Hall. This was so boring! She hadn't run into Relena or Zero once! Not a noise rang in the air, and from the sounds of it no-one was really playing. Or maybe everyone was still hiding? Maybe Relena and Zero were looking outside? If they were allowed. There wasn't any rule saying that they couldn't.
'Should have thought of that before,' Usagi thought.
"Get out of my way!" a whiny voice spat behind her. Usagi turned to see Miss Venus standing with that evil glare on her face.
"Oh, sorry..." she muttered, stepping to the side, "So where were you hiding?"
Miss Venus passed her without another glance, "What made you think I was hiding? As if I would risk getting this dress dirty!" she gestured towards the obviously expensive orange-colored gown.
Usagi sighed, the last thing she wanted was having the stuck-up idol bragging about being rich and beautiful.
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Col. Nataku and little Mistress Nine stuck their heads around the corner. Sounds of footsteps resounded and the two jerked back hurriedly.
"You... you want to risk it?"
Hotaru looked up at him with wide eyes, "You mean run?"
"...Yeah."
"I--I guess. If you want to. I'm not fast." she looked down. Nataku thought quickly, if they were going to get past Yui and his girl, they would have to be faster than the speed of light! Shrugging, the first plan that popped into his head seemed good enough.
With that Wufei threw little Hotaru over his shoulder - she squealed in surprise - and darted past the corner, knocking both Hiiro and Relena down and running faster than he thought he could.
"Go Nataku: Mistress Nine shouted. Little did they know they had just passed a shadowy figure in the... well, shadows. It grinned maliciously.
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Notes:
I don't care if its no where near as long as the other chapters! I'm tired and I wanted to put it up tonight! So I have! And like half of it has nothing to do with the actual storyline! Yay! Read and like it!
Its been a while. Like, a really long while! I had to force this chapter out but I finally did it! I feel a little proud of myself! It doesn't help the actual story at all to me. Hopefully I'll get better at this mystery stuff!
This is far too humorous! I meant for this to be a serious mystery! Its not working ;-; Oh well, I'll try harder next chapter, forgive me mystery fans!
I think I just realized that its been over a year since I wrote anything for this fic. I'm so sorry! I'll try harder! I really will! I'm not that busy with anything so my only excuse is laziness and thats not a really good excuse! I'm soooo sorrry! ;-; I feel bad now.
I've actually been writing and updating a lot of stuff! It shouldn't be much longer til my smaller stories come out! And then theres FotM and LEbM...
R&R please and thank-you!