It's Dangerous To Run Away!!
Chapter 4 - Leads
A/N: I am sooo sooo sooo sorry that it's taken this long to get this chapter out! I will try from now on to update at least once a week. I hope that the length of this chapter will make up for the amount of time it took to get out. Please R&R.
I would like to thank zero, silver star, Crazy-Gurl, ravenshadow18, Li-chan, dagger, Potato, LunaPrincess, SerenityLNguyen, alexz, Gideon's Dreamer, rose-serenade, Gemini, Tenshi, tenshi-chan, Vixen, Koneko, alexz, MarsMoonStar, Me Myself, Hanazalari, and Moonchild DJ for your reviews.
To zero: Usagi is just Usagi. The G-boys are just bounty hunters not Gundamn pilots.
To any one who wants to know what Usagi's parents did to her: Just keep reading to find out.
"...." = Speaking
^....^ = Thoughts
(A/N:) = Author's Notes
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*The door opened to reveal two people. The man had dark blond hair that was starting to
turn gray at the roots. The women had silvery blond hair that was pulled back in a ponytail that fell
to the middle of her back. "Please come in." The man said.
The boys walked into the mansion following the couple. Hiiro could smell a faint trace
of marijuana. "Thank you for accepting the job. We're so worried about our little Usa," The
women said while wiping her eyes with a tissue. (A/N: *gag*faker*gag*gag*faker*!)
"You may call us Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino. You look a bit young, but Officer Williams
called and said the best bounty hunters were coming to take the job. Could you boys please tell
us your names?" As the man spoke, Quatre frowned slightly at the smell of liquor on his breath.
Duo, not noticing the frown on Quatre's face, boasted, "I'm Duo Maxwell. The blond hair
man is Quatre Reberbra Winner. The Chinese man is Wufei Chang. The man with bangs covering
half his face is Trowa Barton. The other brown haired dude is Hiiro Yui. And we are the best
bounty hunters around."
"It's nice to meet you. Please have a seat." Mr. Tsukino said motioning to the chairs in the room they had just entered. "What is it exactly you want to know?"
Quatre took a small notepad out of his pant pocket and said, "Do you know of any places she would likely go?"
"Our little Usa loved to hike when she was younger. And loves forests and mountains. We
think that she may have gone to Big Wolf Mountain."
"That's a start. Is there any reason to believe she could be at one of her friends houses?"
"Usagi doesn't have any friends. She spends most of her time doing schoolwork. So that
rules out friends, and our closest relatives are on the other side of the country."
"Okay," Quatre said writing this all down.
Hiiro still had the question of why someone would want to runaway from a place like this.
Having lived on the streets till he was five and then living in an orphanage until he proved he could take care of himself at the age of thirteen, he wanted to know why someone would WANT to leave a place where they had enough money to get anything they wanted. And having two parents, two more then he had. Why would someone give all that up and runaway? "Could you tell us why you think Usagi would want to runaway?" He asked.
"We don't know way she ran away, but we do know that if you're the best then you could
find her. And we'll even give you a bonus if you bring her back unharmed," Mrs. Tsukino said sniffling and looking like she was going to cry.
"Is there anything else that you could tell us about Usagi?" Duo asked.
"We think that her cats Luna and Artemis are with her because there are not here making my
allergies act up." Mr. Tsukino said.
"Thank you. Could we look around her room and outside to see if we can find anything that might present more leads?" Trowa said standing up.
"Yes. Go ahead. Usagi's room to upstairs to the right. The second to last door on the left.
I hope that you find more clues. And please, find our daughter soon." Mr. Tsukino said.
The boys nodded and exited the room, following the directions given them. Each one of the boys were thinking over the leads and the actions of both parents. Each wondering if her parents really had any idea why she ran away. Stopping outside the door, they saw a sign nailed on it
that had a bunny sitting behind the name 'Usagi'.
Duo took a breath and opened the door expecting to find the room covered in pink and girly stuff. He was right. The room the girl lived in had a jewelry box and a music box on a dark wood expansive looking dresser, a queen size bed decked with a pink comforter, and a desk with a computer and printer on it. "I would have thought her room would be something more flashy and expansive looking. This looks just like any other kids room. Not a rich kid's."
"Very observant Maxwell. Maybe you really are a man and not some onna pretending, and wishing, to be a man (A/N: No offence to any males, but who would actually want to be one?!?! GROSS!!!).
"Haha! Very funny WU-MAN. At least I'm not the one with a nickname-" Duo started to say in a sarcastic voice when Quatre interrupted.
"Guys please, we have a job to do." Both Duo and Wufei turned their backs to each other and walked to opposite sides of the room. "Now that that's settled, lets continue to look for clues."
The boys looked around and under stuff but couldn't any clues as to where she would have gone. There was silence until Quatre said, "Did you guys notice any thing weird like the smell of alcohol or any thing else on their breath?"
"I don't think that we should talk about this here. Lets wait until we're out of here."
"Okay Hiiro. Did you guys find anything yet, because I haven't?"
"Nope, sorry Q-man."
"Neither have I."
Trowa just shook his head.
"I found something, " Hiiro said as he got off the floor and showed them a rolled up map. "I think this is a map of the different mountain ranges around here." He unrolled it on Usagi's bed.
He was right the map showed Big Wolf Mountain, Mount. Baldy, and Sandstone Mountain.
"Well this is our first solid clue. I'd say that she is in one of these mountains." Trowa said as he examined the map with the others.
"How about we look outside now. I don't think that we'll find any thing else here." The others nodded in agreement with Quatre and left the room with the map. They walked out the front door and split up to search the property. After a while, Wufei shouted, "Guys I think I found some more clues over here in the garden."
The others ran over to see what he had found. As they arrived, Wufei pointed it out. Some of the branches on the plants were broken. And they led to the gate. At the top of the gate, there was caught a small piece of cloth. "I think that we should go over the gate as well and see if there's any more clues."
The others nodded and hopped the gate, just like Usagi had done the day before. They walked about two blocks when they came to a bus stop. "Do you think that she could have taken a bus somewhere?" Duo said he said sitting on the bench.
"We'll just have to wait and see. When the bus comes, we'll ask the driver what the other stops are and we'll go from there," Quatre said as he joined Duo on the bench. And so they sat or stood as they waited for the bus. And they waited and waited and waited some more. Finally after about two hours of waiting, 5 fights between Duo and Wufei, and Hiiro shooting at them and coming within an inch of their lives twice, the bus came.
Quatre stood from his seat as the bus stopped in front of them. Once the doors were open, Quatre stepped up into the bus and asked, "Have you see this girl?" while showing the driver a photograph of Usagi.
"Yeah. I remember her because she had two cats with her. Why ya asking?"
"We need to find her. Where'd you drop her off?"
"At the stop in front of the Old Hiking and Hunting Shop at Big Wolf Mountain and Mount. Baldy. Now would you please get on, I have a schedule to keep you know."
"Thank you for the information but, we're not taking the bus," Quatre said as he got off the bus. The driver just scowled and drove off. "Lets get going." And so the boys headed back to the mansion. "Should we tell them we're going?"
"I'll go in, you guys get in the car. And I'm driving, so stay out of my set," Hiiro said as he pull out his gun and put it back. The others understood......get in the drivers seat = death.....that simple.
Hiiro had started walking away when Quatre said, "Hiiro, can you grab my notepad? I must have dropped it in Usagi's room."
"Hn" (A/N: I finally made him grunt!! ^_^) he said and continued his stride. He entered and headed to the room they'd last seen Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino in. Stepping up to the doorway, he could hear Mr. Tsukino talking on the phone in a hushed tone. He dove flush against the wall and decided to listen. "I'm sorry, but Usagi can't come talk right now." He could hear the person on the other line yelling, but it was incoherant. He heard Mr. Tsukino again. "She can't because...ah......she can't because she's asleep." More yelling from the other line. "Well, she's not feeling well. I need to be going. I'll let Usagi know you called when she's up." There was a pause then he said, "Yes, I will. Bye."
"Did he buy it?" Mrs. Tsukino asked.
"I think so. I hope the boys find her before he gets too suspicious. Hey, have you seen those boys around?"
"I think I saw them go outside. They may have left."
Hiiro then decided to make his presence known. He stepped through the doorway and said, "I just came to tell you that we're leaving after I retrieve Quatre's notepad from Usagi's room." After saying what had to be said, he turned and left.
"Wait. Have you found any clues? You've been looking for a few hours now." Mr. Tsukino nervously asked.
"We think she's either at Big Wolf Mountain or Mount Baldy." Hiiro resumed his walk out of the room. He got the notepad and left. He saw that noone was in his seat. Good. He mentally smirked to himself He got in without so much as a word and drove off.
Heero was driving, so that meant the passengers once again held on for all they were worth. Turning a corner, he thought of what Mr. Tsukino had said and who the person on the other side could have been. And why had that person made Mrs. Tsukino so nervous?*
Chapter 4 - Leads
A/N: I am sooo sooo sooo sorry that it's taken this long to get this chapter out! I will try from now on to update at least once a week. I hope that the length of this chapter will make up for the amount of time it took to get out. Please R&R.
I would like to thank zero, silver star, Crazy-Gurl, ravenshadow18, Li-chan, dagger, Potato, LunaPrincess, SerenityLNguyen, alexz, Gideon's Dreamer, rose-serenade, Gemini, Tenshi, tenshi-chan, Vixen, Koneko, alexz, MarsMoonStar, Me Myself, Hanazalari, and Moonchild DJ for your reviews.
To zero: Usagi is just Usagi. The G-boys are just bounty hunters not Gundamn pilots.
To any one who wants to know what Usagi's parents did to her: Just keep reading to find out.
"...." = Speaking
^....^ = Thoughts
(A/N:) = Author's Notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*The door opened to reveal two people. The man had dark blond hair that was starting to
turn gray at the roots. The women had silvery blond hair that was pulled back in a ponytail that fell
to the middle of her back. "Please come in." The man said.
The boys walked into the mansion following the couple. Hiiro could smell a faint trace
of marijuana. "Thank you for accepting the job. We're so worried about our little Usa," The
women said while wiping her eyes with a tissue. (A/N: *gag*faker*gag*gag*faker*!)
"You may call us Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino. You look a bit young, but Officer Williams
called and said the best bounty hunters were coming to take the job. Could you boys please tell
us your names?" As the man spoke, Quatre frowned slightly at the smell of liquor on his breath.
Duo, not noticing the frown on Quatre's face, boasted, "I'm Duo Maxwell. The blond hair
man is Quatre Reberbra Winner. The Chinese man is Wufei Chang. The man with bangs covering
half his face is Trowa Barton. The other brown haired dude is Hiiro Yui. And we are the best
bounty hunters around."
"It's nice to meet you. Please have a seat." Mr. Tsukino said motioning to the chairs in the room they had just entered. "What is it exactly you want to know?"
Quatre took a small notepad out of his pant pocket and said, "Do you know of any places she would likely go?"
"Our little Usa loved to hike when she was younger. And loves forests and mountains. We
think that she may have gone to Big Wolf Mountain."
"That's a start. Is there any reason to believe she could be at one of her friends houses?"
"Usagi doesn't have any friends. She spends most of her time doing schoolwork. So that
rules out friends, and our closest relatives are on the other side of the country."
"Okay," Quatre said writing this all down.
Hiiro still had the question of why someone would want to runaway from a place like this.
Having lived on the streets till he was five and then living in an orphanage until he proved he could take care of himself at the age of thirteen, he wanted to know why someone would WANT to leave a place where they had enough money to get anything they wanted. And having two parents, two more then he had. Why would someone give all that up and runaway? "Could you tell us why you think Usagi would want to runaway?" He asked.
"We don't know way she ran away, but we do know that if you're the best then you could
find her. And we'll even give you a bonus if you bring her back unharmed," Mrs. Tsukino said sniffling and looking like she was going to cry.
"Is there anything else that you could tell us about Usagi?" Duo asked.
"We think that her cats Luna and Artemis are with her because there are not here making my
allergies act up." Mr. Tsukino said.
"Thank you. Could we look around her room and outside to see if we can find anything that might present more leads?" Trowa said standing up.
"Yes. Go ahead. Usagi's room to upstairs to the right. The second to last door on the left.
I hope that you find more clues. And please, find our daughter soon." Mr. Tsukino said.
The boys nodded and exited the room, following the directions given them. Each one of the boys were thinking over the leads and the actions of both parents. Each wondering if her parents really had any idea why she ran away. Stopping outside the door, they saw a sign nailed on it
that had a bunny sitting behind the name 'Usagi'.
Duo took a breath and opened the door expecting to find the room covered in pink and girly stuff. He was right. The room the girl lived in had a jewelry box and a music box on a dark wood expansive looking dresser, a queen size bed decked with a pink comforter, and a desk with a computer and printer on it. "I would have thought her room would be something more flashy and expansive looking. This looks just like any other kids room. Not a rich kid's."
"Very observant Maxwell. Maybe you really are a man and not some onna pretending, and wishing, to be a man (A/N: No offence to any males, but who would actually want to be one?!?! GROSS!!!).
"Haha! Very funny WU-MAN. At least I'm not the one with a nickname-" Duo started to say in a sarcastic voice when Quatre interrupted.
"Guys please, we have a job to do." Both Duo and Wufei turned their backs to each other and walked to opposite sides of the room. "Now that that's settled, lets continue to look for clues."
The boys looked around and under stuff but couldn't any clues as to where she would have gone. There was silence until Quatre said, "Did you guys notice any thing weird like the smell of alcohol or any thing else on their breath?"
"I don't think that we should talk about this here. Lets wait until we're out of here."
"Okay Hiiro. Did you guys find anything yet, because I haven't?"
"Nope, sorry Q-man."
"Neither have I."
Trowa just shook his head.
"I found something, " Hiiro said as he got off the floor and showed them a rolled up map. "I think this is a map of the different mountain ranges around here." He unrolled it on Usagi's bed.
He was right the map showed Big Wolf Mountain, Mount. Baldy, and Sandstone Mountain.
"Well this is our first solid clue. I'd say that she is in one of these mountains." Trowa said as he examined the map with the others.
"How about we look outside now. I don't think that we'll find any thing else here." The others nodded in agreement with Quatre and left the room with the map. They walked out the front door and split up to search the property. After a while, Wufei shouted, "Guys I think I found some more clues over here in the garden."
The others ran over to see what he had found. As they arrived, Wufei pointed it out. Some of the branches on the plants were broken. And they led to the gate. At the top of the gate, there was caught a small piece of cloth. "I think that we should go over the gate as well and see if there's any more clues."
The others nodded and hopped the gate, just like Usagi had done the day before. They walked about two blocks when they came to a bus stop. "Do you think that she could have taken a bus somewhere?" Duo said he said sitting on the bench.
"We'll just have to wait and see. When the bus comes, we'll ask the driver what the other stops are and we'll go from there," Quatre said as he joined Duo on the bench. And so they sat or stood as they waited for the bus. And they waited and waited and waited some more. Finally after about two hours of waiting, 5 fights between Duo and Wufei, and Hiiro shooting at them and coming within an inch of their lives twice, the bus came.
Quatre stood from his seat as the bus stopped in front of them. Once the doors were open, Quatre stepped up into the bus and asked, "Have you see this girl?" while showing the driver a photograph of Usagi.
"Yeah. I remember her because she had two cats with her. Why ya asking?"
"We need to find her. Where'd you drop her off?"
"At the stop in front of the Old Hiking and Hunting Shop at Big Wolf Mountain and Mount. Baldy. Now would you please get on, I have a schedule to keep you know."
"Thank you for the information but, we're not taking the bus," Quatre said as he got off the bus. The driver just scowled and drove off. "Lets get going." And so the boys headed back to the mansion. "Should we tell them we're going?"
"I'll go in, you guys get in the car. And I'm driving, so stay out of my set," Hiiro said as he pull out his gun and put it back. The others understood......get in the drivers seat = death.....that simple.
Hiiro had started walking away when Quatre said, "Hiiro, can you grab my notepad? I must have dropped it in Usagi's room."
"Hn" (A/N: I finally made him grunt!! ^_^) he said and continued his stride. He entered and headed to the room they'd last seen Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino in. Stepping up to the doorway, he could hear Mr. Tsukino talking on the phone in a hushed tone. He dove flush against the wall and decided to listen. "I'm sorry, but Usagi can't come talk right now." He could hear the person on the other line yelling, but it was incoherant. He heard Mr. Tsukino again. "She can't because...ah......she can't because she's asleep." More yelling from the other line. "Well, she's not feeling well. I need to be going. I'll let Usagi know you called when she's up." There was a pause then he said, "Yes, I will. Bye."
"Did he buy it?" Mrs. Tsukino asked.
"I think so. I hope the boys find her before he gets too suspicious. Hey, have you seen those boys around?"
"I think I saw them go outside. They may have left."
Hiiro then decided to make his presence known. He stepped through the doorway and said, "I just came to tell you that we're leaving after I retrieve Quatre's notepad from Usagi's room." After saying what had to be said, he turned and left.
"Wait. Have you found any clues? You've been looking for a few hours now." Mr. Tsukino nervously asked.
"We think she's either at Big Wolf Mountain or Mount Baldy." Hiiro resumed his walk out of the room. He got the notepad and left. He saw that noone was in his seat. Good. He mentally smirked to himself He got in without so much as a word and drove off.
Heero was driving, so that meant the passengers once again held on for all they were worth. Turning a corner, he thought of what Mr. Tsukino had said and who the person on the other side could have been. And why had that person made Mrs. Tsukino so nervous?*