Chapter two
"You did what!" An ebony haired women shoots to her feet, all the better to yell down at her still seated friend. Usagi stairs up at her from the ground where she is currently seated around a low table with her other friends. She flinches as Rei's face begins to flush in anger.
"How could you?! You didn't even ask!" The angry girl hisses.
"But Rei!, Usagi wines. "They needed some place to stay!" Her eyes starting to water as she looks pleadingly at Rei, puppy dog face in full effect.
Feet shuffle behind her nervously. "I don't want to cause anyone any trouble, really. We will just leave." Quatre says as he steps up from behind Usagi blushing, clearly embarrassed.
The sailor scouts had been in the middle of a meeting when Quatre had shown up with his friends, at Rei's temple. As usual Usagi had forgotten all about telling Rei that she had invited her brother and his friends to stay at the temple. Needless to say Rei was furious.
"Do you have anywhere else you could go?", asked Ami, a petite blue haired woman. Like usual, she got right to the point.
"Ami?!", Usagi gasps at her friend shocked by her bluntness.
"I'm Sorry Usagi, but we do hold our meetings here. It could get…complicated….if they stayed." The young girl apologised from her spot at the table, a small laptop resting in her lap.
"Meetings?" The voice was cold, monotone even. The girls turn to look. A man with unruly short brown hair stands leaning against the far wall. Ami shivers silently, his eyes bore into her.
Rei is the first to break out of the trance, "Nice going Ami." She sneers.
Ami looks up at her and blushes furiously. Suddenly, for the first time Ami actually takes notices all five of the strange men crowed into the temple's main room. "Oh." She gasps stiffening, a small frown flitting over her face, gone almost before it's there. The man with the unruly brown hair looks at her and raises a brow in her direction, but she's no longer paying attention.
'She knows something.'
Ami begins to type furiously away at her laptop.
'Or she's about to find something out."
"Honestly girls, the answer to your question is no,", broke in a nervous Quatre. "However, I'm sure we will figure something out." Quatre, with that he and the other boys turned to leave.
"Wait!" Minako, another blonde, says from beside Usagi. The boys pause. Suddenly rising from her knees she continues gesturing towards them, "Rei you can NOT just turn them out onto the streets like that!"
"And why not?!", Rei exclaims. "This is my temple after all people! Or have you all forgotten that?", she huffs crossing her arms and glaring at her friends.
"You heard the cute blond! They have no where else to go!"
At this Quatre blushes bright pink, another man, this one Chinese, steps forward beside his brows raised. His jet black hair is tied back into a painful looking ponytail and his face is contorting first in shock and then in fury.
"You own this temple! Injustice! You are just a weak onna!", he exclaims.
"Uh oh, your in for it." A slender brunette mutters, the only one remaining seated other than Ami who is still furiously typing away on her laptop. A tall boy with brown hair that covers one emerald eyes completely, sends a questioning look in newest girls direction. She catches his eye and shrugs, a small smirk appearing on her face as she seems to say, you'll see…
"What did you call me?!" Rei sputters, seeing red. She aims a death glare at the Chinese man, and then slowly begins advancing towards him.
"Rei…please don't, he's with Quatre." Usagi begs, it's ruined by her smile and her failing attempt to keep from laughing at the poor man's impending doom.
"Rei, please. This is uncalled for." Tries Ami, distractedly. Far too busy concentrating on her laptop, she doesn't even look up.
"Rei stop." Orders Minako, Rei keeps moving, a small growl escaping her.
Finally, with a sigh, Makoto gets up from her comfortable position on the floor. She knows she is the only one of the girls who ever has any chance of controlling Rei when she get like this, and only just. She notices out of the corner of her eye the man with the emerald eyes following her every move while everyone else is distracted, warily eyeing the furious ebony haired girl. He sends her a questioning glance. She only sighs once more in response and shakes her head smiling as she walks to intercept Rei's course towards the Chinese man. Makoto calmly and swiftly steps directly in the path of the ranting and raving woman.
"Move." Growls Rei, in a dangerously low voice.
"No Rei. Go sit down", Makoto answers.
"Why are you stopping her?", scoffs Wufei. "She's just a weak…", the Chinese man foolishly starts to say.
"You…you little…" Rei stutters.
"You're a baka, aren't you?", Makoto asks rolling her eyes. She steps forward easily holding back a enraged Rei.
"Injustice! Do not call me a baka, you weak onna!" The man exclaims.
"Watch it buddy, I might just let Rei at ya." Makoto replies calmly.
"So?!"
Makoto considers for a moment before smirking and suddenly releasing Rei, stepping safely to the side.
"Makoto!" Minako exclaims in horror as Rei launches herself at the arrogant man.
Makoto just smiles evilly and shrugs her shoulder, rocking back on her heels. "He had it coming."
A different man, this one with a long dark brown braid starts to laugh uncontrollably, as Rei launches herself at his friend and pins him to the ground in moments. Amusement shows clearly in all the men's eyes, except for of course, poor Quatre who flinches every time the ferocious young woman hits his friend.
Ten minutes later the Chinese man finally manages to flip Rei under him. Pinning her to the floor with his body, he attempts to stop her from doing any more damage to him. Duo, the braided man, also finally manages to get his gasping laughter under control.
"Oh man! Wu-man, your ass is so kicked! And by a woman!" After finally managing to spit out this obvious insult, the braided man brakes down into uncontrollable laughter again.
'Wu-man' glares at him and yells a death threat at him from across the room. Immediately the braided baka flees behind Trowa, the tallest of the group. "Help! He's going to kill me!" Duo yelps, obviously scared of the Chinese man. He looked so cute hiding behind the other man that Usagi could help but to burst of laughing.
"Um perhaps we should introduce our self's now?" Mina asks hesitantly, unsure of what to do now.
Quatre turns to look at her thankfully, "Yes. I suppose we should."
"Oooooo! I'll go first!" Usagi squeals, by this time she has recovered from her fit of giggles. "I'm Quatre's sister!"
"Sister?! You never told me you were related him!" Rei complains from the ground. She is still pinned despite the struggle she has continued to put up. Distracted for a moment she stills, "Oh by the way I'm Rei Hino. Nice to meet…most of you."
"My names Minako Aino. Nice to meet you all." Minako speaks up quickly before the Chinese man can reply to Rei's insult. Quatre looks at her gratefully once again.
"And I'm Makoto Kino, and over there is Ami Mizuno." Makoto smiles pointing to Ami who is still entranced with whatever she is doing on her laptop.
"A pleasure to meet you ladies for sure." Quatre replies with a genuine and warm smile, "I suppose I should introduce my friends and myself."
"Ah ha!" Ami suddenly exclaims. "I thought so!" Looking up triumphantly she turns to Quatre, "You all looked so familiar!" Pointing to the young man with the brown braid she continues, "Duo Maxwell. Gundam pilot 02. Wufei Chang, Gundam pilots 05. Quatre R. Winner, Gundam pilot 04. Trowa Barton, Gundam pilot 03. And last but defiantly not least…Heero Yuy a.k.a. 'The Perfect Solider', Gundam pilot 01."
Heero has his gun out and pointed steadily at Ami's head almost before she even finishes. His face is unreadable.
Ami just smiles shifting nervously; after all she stood up to worse, Yoma's and all.
"What?!", comes the surprised response from the other four girls.
"Quatre why didn't you tell me?!" Stutter Usagi, confusion showing on her face as she tries to take it in.
"I'm sorry Usa, but you know you can't keep a secret." Quatre lowers his head, peeking at his sister through lowered lashes.
Rei just nods dumbly in agreement from her position on the ground, stunned but still ever willing to agree with anyone pointing out Usagi's faults. Suddenly realization hits…"This baka is a war hero?!" She is looking at the man above her from the corner of her eye in surprise.
"What I'd like to know is what your doing here." Makoto asks suspiciously, moving to stand near Usagi unconsciously.
"The war is over. We're here on the first vacation we've had since we joined the army." Quatre answers, he sounds so very tired all of a sudden.
"The war's over?" Usagi asks in surprise. The four men swivel as one to look at her questioningly. Hero dark gaze is still trained heavily on poor Ami, as is his gun.
"Just for everyone else Usa.", Ami answers quietly, her eyes shying away from Heero's intense gaze. "We still have to fight."
"Awww! No fair!" Usagi replies pouting, unaware of the confusion she has caused among the men.
"Fight what exactly?" Duo is the first to speak.
'Exactly what I'd like to know." Heero mutters to himself. 'Something's not right.'
"Never mind." Minako answers quickly, too quickly. Her voice is cheerful as she tries to make light of Usagi's mistake.
"If someone would get this baka off of me, I'll show you guys to your rooms." Rei states trying to change the subject from where she lies, all but forgotten underneath Wufei still form, her hands still pined above her head.
"So they can stay?" Usagi asks excitedly, unaware of the tension in the room.
"Seems like the best thing to do at the moment, wouldn't want to get them mad at us because I said no and kicked them out." Rei grinds out, "Especially since Heero is still pointing a gun at Ami's head. Or had no one else noticed?"
"Oh."
"Put the gun away please, Heero." Quatre begs his friend.
"Hnn." Reluctantly he does so…very reluctantly.
Wufei cautiously rolls off Rei as Heero's gun is tucked away. Rei does a quick back flip to get to her feet.
She clears her throat, "Alright, Usa show your brother to a spare room please, Mina, you can take Duo, Makoto show Trowa if you will, and let see…" Glancing at Wufei and rolling her eyes Rei turns to Ami, "I suppose he has to be given a room as well Ami, do you mind?"
"No."
Rei looks over her shoulder sharply, "Excuse me?"
"She will show me to my quarters." Heero speaks, staring impassively at Rei's angry glare. "Now." She looks away unsettled.
"Fine." Turning with out another word Rei storms out of the room, muttering under her breath about baka's without even a backward glance to see if Wufei is following or not. Looking annoyed he follows her lead, muttering about onna's who don't know their place.
Slowly, one by one the girls unfreeze from their shock and glancing nervously at Heero, as they lead the way out of the main room.