Blinks. Closes her eyes. Re-opens them.

63 reviews!!!! Whoa!!! Thank you guys soo much! Wow, you like this story that much!? Hey, that's great! Oh, and I have sumore news! I'm putting my other stories on hold [ although I will continue to write them] and just working on this one! Updates will be whenever I finish a chapter, or don't have too much homework. Don't worry, though. I won't stop updating for like a year, again. -_-;

Welp!!! Thank you guys soo much again!!! You have NO idea of how grateful I am! This is the most reviews I have ever gotten! Now I'm gonna be bouncing and typing! [maybe that's because of this ridiculously large piece of chocolate cake] Fun fun! Anyway, on with the story!!!

Disclaimer: Noticed I hadn't done one in a while and I thought, 'Oh, what the foo, might as well, for old time sakes.' Here goes[ wish me luck]:

Clears throat. Takes a deep breath. Opens her mouth:

THEY AIN'T MINE!!!

Smiles proudly.

07:



Usagi ran down the bare hallways to get to her room at four in the morning the next day. 'I can't believe I slept for the rest of day yesterday! I hope I don't wake anyone up.' She reached her room and slid inside, then closed the door behind her.

When she turned around again, she blushed.

There was Duo, face flushed, body tucked deep into his blankets, eyes closed, mouth smiling with his boy-ish charm. She swooned and leaned against the door for support.

Then, there was Wufei. So he was a jerk! That didn't mean it wasn't obvious he was a ~cute~ jerk. He was what one called a 'Cerk.' Cute-jerk. Anyway, he was laying on his side, face turned to the door, eyes closed, hair (he always slept with his hair unbound) cascading around his face like a black cloud. His mouth was turned in a slight frown, as usual.

And Hiiro? Ah, Hiiro was so stoic, and quiet, and cold—but he was utterly charming. Wild brown hair, placid blue eyes. Yes, Hiiro was worth drooling over. Hiiro was calm, a professional, and—not even in the room.

Usagi blanched. 'Where is Hiiro? He can't stay awake all night! He's not a darn bat.' She pondered this for a few minutes. 'Okay, so it's a possibility. What if he's a vampire??' She let out a small eep and imagined Hiiro creeping up behind her to steal her precious blood. Flying into her bed and under the covers, Usagi curled into a tight ball and shivered, praying silently that Hiiro wouldn't come into the room and bite her.

Although it ~would~ be very sensual.

::2 hours later::

"WAOOOOOO!!!"

Usagi screamed at the top of her lungs and jumped out of her bed, tripping over something soft and landing flat on her face on the floor. "Damn you, Duo. Damn you to hell." She muttered angrily at the laughter.

"Heh, I been there; found it quite the bore. Anyhow! Good morning!" Duo bounced happily on Shenji's un-made bed, the sound of the boy's scream still shattering his eardrum.

Usagi pushed herself up and rubbed her aching nose. "Ow! I need some ice, baka. Thanks a lot!" She clutched her nose, willing the pain to go away.

Duo only tittered a laugh in return. "Do you," he pointed at Shenji's nose, making the other boy cross his eyes, "know what today is?"

Usagi, dizzy from her eye-crossing, uncrossed her eyes and frowned up at Duo, noticing they were the only two in their room, and letting going of her nose. "What day is it, Duo?" she asked.

"A good one!" He returned, smiling brightly and bouncing up and down on Shenji's bed.

Usagi frowned. "That's what today is? A good day?" she rolled her eyes. "You're on something, aren't you?"

"No," Duo responded, hurt. Then he smiled once more. "Today's a great day. Wanna know why?"

"Because you're going to leave me alone?" she asked dryly.

Duo ignored this. "No-o, because it's SUNDAY!"

Usagi's eyebrows shot up and a grin formed on her face. "Sunday?" the grin slid into a smile. "Today's Sunday? Sleep-in day? Are you sure?"

"You're the one with a calendar; look for yourself." Duo pointed to the white calendar with blue and red stripes all over it on Shenji's wall.

Usagi looked. Sure enough, it was Sunday.

"YESS!" She yelled, hopping back into bed and throwing Duo on the ground. "Don't bother me until breakfast—no, lunch. Scratch that, leave me alone until dinner time! Today I am going to—"

"Train."

Four large, curious, startled eyes went to the solitary figure in the doorway.

"Heya Hiiro!" Duo called, overly loud.

Hiiro ignored the greeting and looked straight at Shenji. "It's already 6:35 now; you've had five extra minutes of rest. Get cleaned up and meet me at the training grounds in ten minutes." And he left.

Silence ensued for a couple of seconds before Duo burst out into laughter.

"I almost forgot Hiiro was training you! Wow, so you guys gonna make-out on the first day or what?" he chided.

Usagi, not welcoming the teasing, sat stock still, staring at the place where Hiiro had just stood. 'Train? Now? On Sleep-in Day?'

"Two words." She stated icily. "Hell. No."

*~*~

Usagi stood, angrily, outside in the vastly cooling weather in murky green sweatpants and a white T-shirt. The bandages were wrapped even tighter around her chest today, accompanying the pain of her hand-gripped, sore arm, and the fall-on-your-butt pain in her posterior end. She blamed one person: Hiiro Yui.

"So are we just gonna stand here or what?" she demanded, hands on her hips.

Hiiro studied Shenji while leaning against a tree with his arms crossed. This was going to take some work, he decided, since Shenji still obviously had the mentality that in his past life he had been a girl.

"Hello!" Usagi yelled, waving her arms around wildly and getting no response. "FINE! If you're just going to stand there like a statue, then I'll go back inside and to bed." She turned her heel to leave.

"Don't move."

His tone was what stopped her. She slowly turned to see Hiiro focusing heated eyes on her, and walking toward her.

"I told you not to move." He stopped in front of Shenji, topping him in about 2 feet.

Usagi frowned, looking up at Hiiro. "Did you want me to keep my butt to you while you spoke? I believe that would be what you'd call rude, Hiiro."

"Sir."

She rose her eyebrows and laughed. "Excuse me?"

Hiiro glared at Shenji. "From now on, you will call me 'Sir', or Commander Yui. Anything else is unacceptable."

Usagi laughed louder. "He wants me to call him 'Sir'! Hah! The next thing you know I'll be doing his laundry." She stopped laughing and grinned. "Get REAL, Hiiro."

The fist stopped right in front of her already swollen nose, tickling the hair that stood between the flesh.

"Gah!" Usagi screeched, backing up and falling on her behind once more. She clutched her nose, even though nothing had happened to it. "Is everyone determined to break my nose today? I mean jeez, you could have seriously done some damage." She glared up at him.

He glared right back, harder, narrowing his eyes. "Shenji, I'm not playing with you anymore. Commander Kihono put me in charge of training you, and I'm going to do just that. You don't like it, leave. Otherwise, get rid of the attitude and straighten up. Second semester will kill you if you don't. Literally kill you." His voice had gone low and dark, warning the other boy he was completely serious.

Usagi's eyes widened and she slowly let go of her nose. 'How can someone look so good and dangerous at the same time?' she wondered, hauling herself up, hesitantly, with fear. "Okay, H—Sir." She said, quietly.

Hiiro nodded in approval. "Now, attack me."

"No!"

Hiiro frowned, clenching his teeth, glaring.

Usagi blushed. "It slipped! Sorry, sorry! I meant no ~Sir~."

"It wasn't a question, it was a command, and it didn't require a yes or no. Now, attack me."

Usagi chewed on her bottom lip. "Why? I don't hate you ~that~ much."

Shenji was stalling, obviously. Hiiro could also pick up a wave of fear and resistance, and something else. Concern? That didn't matter. What ~did~ matter, was that Shenji was disobeying him, which meant that his attitude wasn't gone yet.

"Well, if you won't attack me," he said evenly, "I'll attack ~you~." Hiiro lunged forward at Shenji, fist first, and made contact with the flesh of the other boy's face immediately.

Usagi bit her lip in surprise, biting through the flesh, and fell backward, onto her behind yet ~again~. She held the side of her face tenderly and fought the urge to cry. She'd never get used to being hit. Possibly because she never hit anyone in return, or possibly because it hurt like HELL. Right now, her cheek was aching, her lip was pulsating, and the taste of blood was vomit-prone to her stomach.

"Get up." Hiiro cracked his knuckles. "We haven't even begun yet."

"I think we've finished already. I wanna go inside!" she pitifully whined, her voice cracking at the very end of her sentence.

Hiiro's eyebrows furrowed. Was Shenji going to cry? Well, it wouldn't be the first time.

Usagi felt hot tears slide down her face in shame. Her cheeks were flaming red and her heart was beating fast. But she didn't care. She was in pain! "Hiiro," she whimpered through her tears, "I want to go inside!"

"Then go."

His tone was one of utter disgust, she noted. That made her tears come faster, and harder, until she was trying to stifle her cries, and doing a horrible job at it. "I—I'm s-s—"

"You're a failure, that's what you are." He growled, his voice trying desperately not to yell, and failing. "I don't understand why you're even here! It's obvious to every single person in this camp that you can't make it here. You can't toughen up, you whine, you act like small child; basically, you sicken me. You sicken Commander Kihono. You're pretty much the prime example of everything that someone in the world should ~not~ be. You think I'm being cruel?" he yelled over Shenji's loud, sincere bawling.

"You just wait until, no, ~if~, you actually make it past first semester. You get into second semester, and the upperclassmen will kill you. They'll taunt you, laugh at you, push you, pick on you—you'll basically be their number one joke. I pity you, Shenji, and it's even more than that. You want to know how I feel? I feel towards you the way a small child would feel towards a sickly dog." His voice had risen drastically to past the yelling point, and he briskly turned to leave Shenji to his sobbing party, spitting on the ground in complete and thorough loathing of the boy.

Usagi curled into a ball on the cold ground and cried. Cried as the winds picked up and it began to sprinkle. Cried as the trees moaned and it began to pour. Cried for herself. Cried because she was still a baby. Cried because she couldn't make it here. But mostly, cried because she was wrong.

And that's how he found her, in a tight, secure, soaking wet ball.

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::peeks out from behind her couch:: Sorry guys! But I just HAD to make Hiiro the evilest man of all time in that part! Oh, and I'm not tellin who "he" is yet, hehehe. You gotta wait till the next chapter, when I DECIDE to get off my homework-doing butt and write the next chapter in. hahaha!

So how'd everyone like this one? I can't believe I got 63 reviews, either! Thank you guys sooo much! You don't know HOW happy this makes me! Really!

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Tenshi Chikyuu: Well thank you so much! Whoops, I promise to make it longer, just for you hehe! By the way, can you tell me how to make up my personal profile? I dunno how! Wahh! Thanks for wishing me a great day! That was nice! Ditto for you ^^

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Ann-chan: Hehe, I like the word "fwee". Don worry, I'm updating—right now even!

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Lireal: You're absolutely right about Usa's period. It is impossible to go without it for months or so, ~unless~ she was in extreme condition and/or environment. Since Usa is pretty much training/running/being winded all day, it's causing her period to be delayed. Hey, my cousin is a doctor, so I get this stuff from her. If I'm wrong, BLAME MICHELLE!!! [my cousin] Thanks for your review!



Person: Lol, I never get enough sleep in eight hours either! I know, I'm so evil. I dunno if anyone can survive on 6 hours of sleep—but I know that when I was at camp, we had to learn how to! Ugh, the torture!

Lady Light: Why, thank you! Yup, I plan on continuing.

Neo-Queen Serenity: I must say I like your nickname! Neo-Queen is just such a cool word! Hehe, I thought the gay thing was a bit interesting, too. I'm glad you thought the last scene was hilarious, because I was trying to add a bit of humor to my story. Hehe, thank you! Now I can write funny stuff—kinda.

Tanya Dinocrisis01: Sure thing! I'll continue! Thanks for reviewing!

Orion: AHH!! I like your name too! Orion is sooo cool—hehe, anyway. Yes, poor Usagi—and there's more bad, I mean uh—difficult stuff to come hehe!

Lilyan Yui: Uh oh, married to Hiiro himself, eh? Lucky dog. Anyway, thanks! I'm glad you think this is awesome! Hehe, I try, I try.

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