Eighth chapter, oh yeah! The Pink Prickish Princess strikes! Aaaaah! Anyways, read on and you'll see...

Wakai Kyoushu

Young Assassins

Storm

Trowa stood up, motioning Quatre to the door. Terrigan opened his mouth to protest their leaving when Trowa turned to him. "No," he said again, no emotions showing. "I am Nanashi. I do what I like." And he let Quatre through the door and closed it behind them. He stopped briefly and got their schedules from the secretary, then proceeded on back to Miss Harrone's class. She was, of course, not there. Instead, a Mrs. Carth was. The class stopped abruptly when they re-entered, and the two of them made their way to Heero, Duo, and Wufei. trowa gave them each a schedule as Quatre explained they were in the wrong class.

"We are?" Duo laughed. "Heh. That's funny..." and he stood up, saying bye to Hilde and the five of them left to discover where art was. The period was almost over, so they only spent about ten minutes in the end of it. When the bell rang, they moved on to language arts class, ignoring the whispers and glances they recieved. Most everyone knew about Trowa knocking out the strictest, meanest teacher, or at least, they knew a part of it. There were even stronger rumors than there had been when they had arrived. The boys went through language arts in silence, then filed out when the bell rang. They followed the main stream of students and discovered the cafeteria. They stood near the door, watching students go through the line, buy food, and either sit down or head off to their own lunch spots.

Duo stared at the lunch line until hs stomach growled. He turned to his friends. "How are we supposed to get lunch? Une didn't give any of you money, did she?" the others shook their heads no and Duo sighed. "Great. You know, they say a lot of things, but half of them aren't true."

Heero looked at him. "What do you mean?"

"Well, first Une said we had to go early so we could all have a tour, then she said she couldn't stay because she had business, and then Terrigan just handed us over to Hilde instead of showing us around personally like Une said he would, and they didn't give us a schedule or give us money to pay for lunch. They seem to be a little lax..."

"We only got out yesterday," Wufei explained. "I'm surprised they managed to arrange all they have so quick."

Duo snorted. He didn't agree with Wufei at all. They were Preventors, the most influential group of the world. And they forgot to give five assassins money for lunch? Pathetic! But he did have to thank them for letting him out of his room. He already knew the outside world was a hell of a lot more fun than throwing knives in his room. He had to admit, though, people sure had a lot of personality quirks. Hilde was happy, while Miss Harrone was a stiff ditz. Trowa was like a picture, silent and never changing, and Wufei liked to scowl at a lot of things. The Dragon wasn't that bad, though. He was actually kind of nice. Heero seemed very cold and unsocial, but Duo had a feeling he was just unsure of everything. Duo was unsure of everything, too, but he just jumped into everything with incredible enthusiasm and optimism. Heero had a more wary approach. Quatre seemed to be wary as well, but more in a shy way. Duo could understand that, since Quatre was seen sort of askew since he was dressed the way he was.

"DUO!"

Duo jumped five feet in the air, as someone pulled on his braid, jerking him out of his angry sulk. He whirled around to see Heero glaring at him. "What?" he asked innocently, rubbing his head.

"Duo, my god, I've been calling your name in your ear for the past five minutes!" Hilde jumped into his view.

"Thirty nine seconds."

"So precise, Heero!" Duo praised.

"Hn." Duo understood Heero was putting on an 'I-don't-care' face to cover up his thanks.

"So what is it, Hilde?" Duo asked, turning to the short haired chick-his words, of course.

"I've been looking all over for you guys ever since lunch started. There's this gigantic Preventor van parked outside and they're looking for you guys," Hilde grabbed Duo's hand and dragged him through the door, the others following. "C'mon!"

"Preventors?" Duo asked. What the heck were the Praventors doing here? Had they been called in to collect Trowa? Maybe they were all going to be arrested now. He ran behind Hilde as she led them out the door. The Preventors van was parked at the sidewalk, the back doors open. Duo ran up to the doors and saw Chase and Davis. Duo had to think a bit to remember their names.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked of them.

"Une said she forgot to give you guys money for lunch," Chase said. "So she sent us to bring you some." Chase handed a pizza box to Duo.

"Yeah!" Duo whooped, then gaped as Chase sent another one on top of it. Duo began giggling insanely at the thought of all this for him, and he dashed away to a tree to eat He had just taken out the first slice when a shadow fell over him. Duo looke dup to see Wufei, glaring at him.

"Uh...," Duo hesitated, then grinned. "You all want some, too?" Wufei snatched a box away and sat down beside him. They were soon joined by Trowa and Quatre, and Heero finally sat down, though he refused to eat the pizza. Duo tried to wheedle him into eating it, but Heero stubbornly set his jaw. Duo finally gave up and called over a boy who was just happening to be walking by.

"Got any lunch money?" he asked.

"You can't have it!" the boy declared stubbornly. "I don't care what you do to me."

"No, no, I don't want it," Duo assured him. What kind of an impression had they made if people were afraid of them? Not a good one. "I just want to make a trade. See, my pal Heero," Duo considered pointing to Heero, then decided against it since Heero's glare-left over from Duo's nagging-would probably just scare the kid more. "Doesn't like pizza. So we'll trade you three slices of pizza if you'll go buy him a sub or something."

The boy thought about it a while, then nodded, since pizza wasn't sold in the cafeteria so he couldn't just go get his own. He ran off to the cafeteria and returned a moment later with a sub for Heero. Duo traded him his pizza and handed the sub to Heero, who took it with a 'hn', which translated into 'thank you very much Duo' to the braided boy.

"You're welcome," Duo said, and Heero blinked. Heero bit into is sub and announced it compatible in his mind. He was just finishing off his meal when a girl dressed entirely in pink suddenly bounded up to the group.

"Hi!" she chirped. Her voice was way too happy. Not happy like Duo's, because Heero could handle Duo's voice. He actually even kind of liked it. Her voice was a squealy, girly, feminine voice, and harsh to the ears. And her outift. How the hell had she managed to have her school outfit pink? All the other, normal, standable girls' outfits were blue, like the boys, and consisted of a pleated skirt and top and bandana around their collars. Sailor style, Hilde had called it. Heero had to admit, Hilde had more style to his eyes with her boys slacks.

"I'm Relena!" she smiled and sat down inbetween Heero and Duo. Duo gagged and made a face, covering his eyes against the flare of her pinkness. Heero scowled at her as she leaned towards him. "What's your name?"

Heero didn't reply. He really saw no reason to give everyone his name, except for those he was associated with. And he had a deep instinctive feeling he did not want to be associated with Relena. Relena, of course, couldn't read Heero's instincts, so she continued to talk.

"I know who you are. You're Heero!"

Why the hell had the baka onna asked him for his name then? Heero wished she would just back off a little. Having lived in a single room for their entire lives, and only let out to kill people, the assassin boys weren't very comfortable in the world yet, and Heero more so. He had been trained to be a killer, not a kid. He wasn't meant to be in a school with a girl in pink hovering near him. He was meant to be breaking into somewhere with a gun in hand, prepared to end the life of another. And he would much rather do that right now than be here. She seemed to have an overpowering sweet scent. Heero's eyes threatened to tear from the fumes. He noticed that Relena was still talking, but thankfully to the others.

"Which one of you is Trowa?" she asked. Everyone looked at Trowa, and Relena turned to him as well. "Is it true? Did you really knock Miss Harrone out? Wow," she continued without waiting for verification. "That must have taken a lot of guts." She suddenly turned on Quatre. "You must be Quatre. I know 'cause of your clothes. Are you really alergic to the sun?" Once again, she didn't wait for a reply. the girl seemed to be able to talk non stop. And with her high pitched voice, it sounded a million times worse to Heero than when Duo chattered on. "So who are you guys?" Heero was stumped as to this baka onna's intelligence. It seemed to be way south of the below average line. "Are you, like, really dangerous? 'Cause the Preventors brought you and all. That is so cool that the Preventors brought you lunch!"

"Yes, we're dangerous!" Duo burst out to Relena. "Really dangerous. And I'm likely to kill if you..."

"Duo, stop!" Quatre interrupted.

"It ain't my fault, Quat!" Duo yelled. "Right now, I think I've gone color blind, and I can barely breath what with the pink pricks perfume!" Hilde burst out laughing while Relena fumed. Quatre buried his head in his hands and groaned. Heero supressed a grin. Duo knew how to be tactful, but he could sure throw manners out a window well.

"Humph!" Relena turned her back on the dramatically gagging Duo and the laughing Hilde and smiled at Heero. "How can you hang out with such rude people? You really should leave them and come with me. Oh, I just know we're going to be great friends!" She wrapped her arms around Heero in a hug and he immediately stiffened.

"Wrong move," Wufei muttered as Heero grabbed her wrists in his own. She winced at his iron grip. Heero was actually holding them gently in his opinion. He could, after all, bend certan steels with his bare hands. He glared at her as he moved her away from him.

"The death glare of Heero Yuy!" Duo exclaimed, beaming.

Right now, Heero was feeling in a very 'assassin' mode. "Don't touch me," he said darkly. "I don't want to be your friend." He threw her hands down, and she rubbed her red wrists.

"Oh, don't worry about hurting their feelings," Relena replied, ignoring his statement, pointing to the others. "They'll get over it. And if you were my friend, it would be so much better. Come on, Heero! Let's go introduce you to my friends. They're much better than that bitch, Hilde." Hilde's eyes widened, then narrowed in an evil glare. She growled in her throat and leapt at Relena, only to be intercepted by Duo.

"Hey, hey, Hilde," he said, holding the angered girl back. "Relena ain't worth it. it would be way too easy. You could probably knock her out in one swing. Where's the fun in that? No, we have to prolong the torture somehow..." Duo laughed maniacly.

"You know, I like the way you think, Duo," Hilde agreed, relaxing.

"Come on, Heero," Relena stood up and pulled at Heero's hand. Heero decided to let off a tiny bit of his anger and annoyance, if just to get rid of Relena. He grabbed her hand back and let her help him up, then tightened his grip, causing her to cry out. Heero knew his grip wasn't quite strong enough to break or sprain her fingers, but it would cause her incredible pain. He let go and threw her hand away.

"Leave me and my friends alone, Relena," Heero threatened, glaring. "Or omae o korosu."

Duo jumped inbetween Heero and Relena. "Uh, I'd go now, your pinkness."

"Back off," Relena spat at him.

"Heero just told you to leave," Wufei translated. "Or he'll kill you." Heero blinked. They understood japanese? He shouldn't have been too surprised, since he knew more than one language as well. Or maybe they had heard about his phrase through the mentors.

"What?" Relena looked shock. Then she set her jaw stubbornly and tilted her nose up.

"I think I just got a new understanding of the word snooty nose," Duo made a face.

"I don't believe you!" she declared. "And you had all better get ready to say goodbye because Heero will be mine!" She turned in a flurry of her pink skirt and flounced away. Everyone stared after her.

"That girl has issues," Trowa said after a moment.

A very disturbing onna," Wufei added.

"Damn right!" Duo laughed. "Great work, Heero. But I think she misunderstood you a little."

"No, she didn't," Hilde explained angrily. "Relena Peacecraft is Miss fuckin' Princess of the World. She's a whore and a slut and thinks she can have any fuckin' thing she wants."

"She can't have Hee-chan!" Duo grinned, flinging an arm over Heero's shoulder. Heero somehow didn't feel angry when Duo did that. Maybe it was because Duo was a fellow assassin...

"Hee-chan?" Heero blinked at Duo. Had Duo just called him a girl friend?

"Yeah. It means friend, I think," Duo said. Heero relaxed a little. So Duo did know some japanese, but not all.

"It's Hee-kun, you baka," Heero pointed out.

"No...no, I don't think so, Hee-chan, my friend," Duo said.

"Friend?"

"Yeah, you called us your friends, remember?"

"I did?" Heero searched his memory and recalled it. "Oh. Right." Well, technically, the four boys were the closest things he had to friends. He could live with that. It was this normal life he was worried about.

"Yeah!" Duo gave his 'V-is-for-victory' sign.

"Baka," Wufei muttered.

"I am not an idiot, Wufie dear," Duo replied. Wufei blinked. So he responds when Wufei calls him an idiot, but he doesn't respond when Heero does? Strange, his fellow assassins were.

Wufei jumped as something round and hard suddenly hit the back of his head. "Ah, injustice!" he whirled, looking for the perpetrator.

"Sorry." Wufei blinked, then looked up at Trowa, who had oddly enough climbed the tree they were under. Wufei looked down and saw the acorn which had hit him, then peered upwards at Trowa suspiciously. Trowa simply looked back, and with that emotionless face, Wufei couldn't tell whether he had thrown the acorn or if it had dropped. Most likely the latter, but you could never tell sometimes. People had a lot of layers.

"Injustice?" Wufei looked at Duo, who looked extremely amused and confused at the same time. Wufei glared and then nearly jumped again as the end of lunch bell rang. Trowa jumped down

from the tree and followed after Quatre. Duo cursed and reluctantly followed Heero and the others, and Wufei followed them as well. Back to the torture chamber they called high school. Honestly, the material they taught them was extremely lax in his opinion. He considered asking Une if he could move up a few grades, then thought better, since he knew she would never go for it. Not if they were to have a normal life.

Wufei chuckled at the thought as they entered the buzzing building.

And that is Relena, ugh and ick! I sooo hope I got the Hee-kun part right. I got it right, right? Huh? Eight chapters of pre-written story. Wow. Now I have to go write some more before I can post again...sigh. But yeah...that's life! Hmm, I'm hungry...

Storm