Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ By The Light... ❯ mix 'em up style (-_-*) ( Chapter 17 )

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By The Light…

A Fanfic by Lady Lye

Chapter Seventeen: mix 'em up style (-_-*)

Copyright 2001

Idea suggested and consulting/editing by Mako-chan

Disclaimer: Don't own GW *sob* Don't own SM *sob again* but I do own- KATAKU! My keyboard!! BWAHAHA! *laughs in Wufei's face* Take THAT annoying Justice Boy!!

Note: I scramble names a tad… Japanese- English- what's the dif? Some of each all mixed together to create MY Universe…

Other Note: SM time; after Super S but before Stars since the manga's not all out. ^__^ GW time; um, we're gonna mess with this A LOT. They're comrades living together w/ the Winner's I dunno if they have gundam but it remains to be seen… Just go with the flow, k? All will be revealed eventually…



XVII

Duo let himself into the house, fumbling with the key and cursing his clumsiness. He was fairly certain that that maniac hadn't followed him, but how could he be sure? He locked the door firmly behind him and saw a light on in the kitchen. "Guys! Oi, Guys! Anybody care that I was nearly just KILLED?" he called loudly, making sure his voice reached upstairs as well.

"Wha-?" Quatre blinked up from the coffee machine, Wufei sitting at the kitchen table sleepily.

"Maxwell will you stop yelling like a maniac?" Wufei grumbled.

"Pardon me, but I'm still sorta celebrating the fact that I am ALIVE rather than DEAD," Duo said sarcastically.

"Why would you celebrate THAT?" Wufei snapped back. "I'd think it'd be the other way around."

Duo opened his mouth to reply but Trowa came in, looking a little worn out, as though he had been trying to get some much needed sleep. He blinked at Duo and then went to get himself a mug. "I thought you were going out."

"I did," Duo said smugly. "I was attacked by a crazy psycho-bitch with a wooden katana screaming about how she was gonna kill all vampires." The three of them stopped immediately and stared at him. He nodded. "Yes, we now see the gravity of the situation? Good, I'm glad my life means so much to you." He dropped into a chair, exhausted.

"What happened? Are you alright?" Quatre asked worriedly.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Nearly got impaled on her jumbo toothpick, though."

"You say she had a katana?" Wufei asked.

Duo nodded. "Wooden and hard as a fucking rock. Looked really old. I mean, antique times ten kind of thing."

"Interesting," Trowa said mildly, pouring coffee for those who wanted and taking a seat. "What did she look like?"

"'Bout yeigh tall, thin, pretty, pale littlething with big black and purple eyes, hair short and black, sort of a severe Cleopatra cut, got in her eyes a lot," Duo elaborated. "She didn't look more'n nineteen, though."

A shuffling noise in the doorway made them turn, to see Heero blinking in the harsh light. He squinted at them sleepily. "What in the hell is going on? I thought we had a deal- you let me sleep at night, I let you sleep during the day, yes? I have school in the morning, I need to sleep."

"Someone nearly staked Maxwell. Pity they missed," Wufei chuckled at Duo's tired glare and took a sip of coffee.

"Oh," Heero blinked mildly. "But he's not dead?"

"No, he's not dead." Trowa confirmed.

"So… do I need to be up or can I go back to sleep?"

"No, no, don't worry about me," Duo said sarcastically, a little hurt. "I just had a SMALL brush with death-"

"I thought you WERE death," Wufei smirked.

Duo faked a sniffle. "I can see that no one cares about me. FINE, if that's the way you all feel- I just won't tell you about the psycho bitch out hunting us all. I'll just go up to bed and see if I help you when she pops out of an alley waving a big wood sword at YOU."

"A vampire hunter?" Heero stared, coming fully awake. "A slayer? Are you serious?" he came to sit at the table with them.

"Yup. Didn't call herself that, though, just kinda ranted on about how filthy and evil we were and how she was going to kill us for being bad servants or something," Duo fiddled with the elastic band at the end of his braid.

"Bad servants?" Trowa frowned.

"Were vampires ever anyone's servants?" Heero asked.

"We really don't know," Wufei said grimly. "Clearly it's been a mistake for us to try to exist in ignorance. We should have sought out knowledge of ourselves long ago."

"If we had, we would've known that we could eat human foods," Quatre pointed out. He sighed, clearly taking the weight of their mistake all on himself. "I should've pushed harder for us to do the research… it's not like I don't have the resources…"

"Don't blame yourself, Quatre," Trowa sighed. "None of us knew."

"Perhaps ignorance is the most dangerous state," Wufei murmured, giving them all pause.

"It's not the knowing that causes problems, it's the not knowing," Duo quietly agreed.

"So where do you go from here?" Heero looked to them all. "If you're looking to do research, I'm going to have to ask if you can keep an eye out of anything on werewolves as well. I can look at school, too. I'm in the same boat you all are, when it comes to being ignorant, though."

"Thank you, Heero," Quatre nodded graciously. "We all need to help each other if we're going to survive." His compelling blue eyes passed around the table, looking at each of them until they gave their reluctant agreement. Together, maybe they could stand, but divided, they would surely fall.

~~~%*%~~~

Bunny wolfed down her lunch, as usual, oblivious to the conversation of Lita and Ami as they ate more calmly. They kept an eye on the crowds of students, looking for someone.

"Where do you think she could be?" Ami questioned.

"Probably with HIM," Lita harrumphed.

"Eh?" Bunny's head popped up from the small tray. "Who? What?" she blinked. "Wait, where's Mina?"

"We were just wondering that," Lita said drily.

"Is it just me, or is she spending more and more time with Heero?" Ami tapped her glasses thoughtfully.

"Heero? You mean the new guy?" Bunny looked from one to other, unable to feel as though she had not missed something.

"Yeah, the new guy. The one she knew before anyone else. The one who she hangs out with practically more than us anymore. The one she drags to study sessions. The one who- Ami why are you looking at your hands like that?" Lita paused and they both stared at their quiet friend.

Ami twisted her napkin into a knot, nervously. "Well, he's also the one Mina showed up at my apartment with at two am, both of them pretty badly torn up, like they'd been in a fight." They gaped.

"Ami, why didn't you tell us this before?" Bunny asked, getting up to sit closer to her. "This sounds serious, was Mina hurt?"

"She said a wolf attacked her in the park and Heero saved her," Ami said quietly, feeling a little guilty, as though she had betrayed Mina's trust. "I tried to say something at the meeting this weekend, but it somehow never happened."

"Sounds like a fishy story to me," Lita said bluntly.

"It sounds more than a little fishy to ME," Bunny said around a mouthful of rice. She swallowed and sat up a little straighter, getting that righteous look in her eye. "What's with this, huh? She just dumps us as soon as a new guy comes along? I don't think so! I think we need to have a little chat with Ms Minako Aino!"

Ami and Lita just looked at each other.

~~~%*%~~~

Friday after school saw Heero studying with the girls at Ami's. Raye and Bunny argued, Lita rolled her eyes and tried to concentrate, and Mina and Ami tried their best to ignore them and help Heero. Heero himself, had never felt more self-conscious.

He had come here before but still he felt like a stranger. The circumstances of the night in question didn't help, though both girls were cheery enough and didn't seem to be bothered.

"Bunny! Is that the last one!?" Raye gasped as Bunny snapped up the last of Lita's brownies.

"Hai!" the silly rabbit grinned.

"And you didn't bother to ask if anyone else wanted it!? You are the most selfish, greedy-GLUTTONOUS little pig!"

Bunny's eyes filled with tears. "R-Raye-chan!" she whined, hurt.

"Don't think you can Raye-chan me! You're always doing this, Bunny! You never think of others, you only think of yourself!" Raye's eyes snapped with anger, but she wasn't truly as furious as she seemed.

Heero glanced up from his homework uncertainly. He had only met Raye at these study sessions and so far, he wasn't sure what to make of her. She yelled, she scolded, she studied hard, and she was a good friend. He shook his head. Some days it seemed nothing here would ever make sense.

"Hey, eyes on the book!" Mina tapped the text right in front of his nose, making him blink up at her. "You wanna learn algebra, you gotta pay attention!"

"Why don't you practice what you preach, Mina? I know you're just procrastinating on YOUR homework," Ami said mildly, not glancing up from her advanced mathematics.

Mina flushed and ducked behind her book. She snuck a glance at Heero and giggled though, finding it a joke. He looked at her in bewilderment, but couldn't help smiling as well. It WAS a little silly…

"ITAI! RAYE-CHAN!"

"Give me my eraser back!"

"WAAAAH! You said I could use it!"

"I said you could borrow it! That means I need it back!"

"OWOWOWOWOW you're hurting meeeee!"

Lita rolled her eyes over her history assignment. "Grow UP already…"

"RAAAAAAAYE!"

"Bunny, look out-!"

The two tumbled off the couch onto the floor, still wrestling for the eraser. The others all stared at what quickly became a tangle of limbs, hair and shrieks. Finally a victor emerged, and she calmly finger combed her raven locks back into place, smiling smugly.

Bunny sat up, looking bruised in body and ego. She glared at Raye. "Everybody's always beating down on me…"

"We love you anyway, Bun-chan," Raye patted her on the head patronizingly, making the other girls giggle. She noticed Heero staring and smiled. "Sorry if we're weirding you out- most girls aren't like this. It's just us."

Bunny's eyes widened. "Hey! You hypocrite! That's my pen!" she dived for it.

"Nani!? What! You meatball head, that's MY pen! We bought them at the same shop, remember!?" Raye tried desperately to fend her off, escalating into another fight.

The three other girls sweatdropped and Lita leaned over to Mina. "Are you SURE you want him to see all this? I mean, I thought we promoted staying in school."

To all their amazement, Heeor chuckled. Laughed. None of them had ever heard him do that. The fight stopped, mid shout, Ami looked up so quickly that her glances slid off the tip of her nose. He smiled broadly. "You're not discouraging me at all. I'm enjoying it here. I'm enjoying school. Thank you."

"Oh," Lita blinked, speaking for them all. "Well… you're welcome then."

"In that case-" Bunny picked up her textbook and nudged Mina over to sit next to Heero. "You must understand something I don't. Can you explain it to me?"

"Bunny…" Raye smacked her forehead.

Ami giggled and offered Heero an explanation. "Bunny can learn but she doesn't pay enough attention to it, so she misses things and doesn't get it later. Here,Buns, let me see your work so far-"

"Wha'dya mean I miss things!?" Mina and Raye made eye contact and laughed uproariously as though they had just shared a joke. They both looked at Bunny smugly and she simply looked disturbed. Then she pouted. "Ok so maybe I do miss stuff… What'd you two say?" That sent them into REAL fits of laughter. "What? WHAT? C'mon, tell me! Gu~uys!! This isn't fair! It isn't funny! Tell me~e!"

Lita rolled her eyes again in fond exasperation. "I'm going to go get some more snacks…" she escaped into the kitchen.

Ami hid a smile behind her hand, her eyes bright as she watched her friends tease each other. Sometimes she wondered how the five of them managed to work together at all, but the fact remained that they did. And how grateful she was that it was so.

Watching her, smitten, Heero wondered why he had been blessed enough to sit right next to her.

~~~%*%~~~

Mina yawned widely, swinging her bag around to hold it behind her head. She and Heero strolled in that dying afternoon light towards the bus stop where she always left him. "Ah, TGIF… I need less week and more weekend."

He shot her a questioning glance. "TGIF?"

"Thank GOD it's Friday," she smiled. "What'cha gonna do with your first weekend, huh? Your typical student stays up late, sleeps in late, and procrastinates on homework til Sunday night. Sound good?" there was a twinkle in her eye.

Heero laughed a little, adjusting his handle on his schoolbag, his jacket uniform slung casually over one shoulder. "Maybe. I'm more of an 'early to bed, early to rise' sort of guy though."

"'Makes a man stealthy, fit for a prize'," Mina misquoted, making him laugh again. "What?"

"It's 'makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise'," he chuckled.

"Oh," Mina tittered, mollified. "I'm no good with analogies, Ami's always correcting me."

"Someday you'll get them," he smiled. The smile faltered as he saw that they approached the corner turnoff. Impulsively, he stopped and waited for her to turn to look at him. "Do you want to come home with me today?"

Visions of wild romping in bed with a large, furry wolf flashed across Mina's mind, making her blush and facefault. "P-pardon?" she choked, trying desperately to clear them from her mind. He couldn't POSSIBLY have meant what her dirty mind had just assumed that he'd meant unless of course he actually meant it which would be totally crass and rude since they hadn't even had a real date and- oh no, did he think she was easy or something? A quick check on the way she was wearing her school uniform and hair didn't put that worry to rest, especially when she realized she had been wearing lip gloss all week- did werewolves think of make up as some kind of funky part of mating? She was thinking of it in terms of mating. KINKY! GAH! She was so wrapped up in her inner monologue she missed what he had said and had to ask him to repeat it again, yanking herself out a daze to hear.

He was looking at her worriedly. "I thought you might want to come home and meet the guys that I live with. I feel bad that I've spent so much time at the other girls' homes- I'd like your opinion on mine. Mina, are you alright? You look ill, are you well?"

"Fine, fine!" she said brightly, mentally kicking herself. "Peachy keen! You know what, I'd love to! Really, I would! When?"

"Well, how about right now?"

She blinked. It was Friday, Mom had left on some bowling trip or something and wouldn't be back til Sunday morning. She smiled genuinely. "Sure. Why not?" She was rewarded with a dazzling smile that nearly made her insides melt and followed him around the corner dazedly, past the bus stop and into another realm it seemed. She listened with half an ear, smiling giddily. Something he said made her pull up short. "Wait- you live with four other guys?"

"Well," he looked uncomfortable.

Mina's heart leapt into her throat. OH MY GOD, she thought. He's GAY.

"I wouldn't necessarily say GUYS… not the way you think of them…"

He's living with people who have had sex-change operations!!

He seemed to make a decision. "The truth is, they're vampires."

Releif washed over her. He wasn't gay- well, maybe not- and he wasn't living with hermaphrodites and- hold up. "Say what?"

"I live with four vampires," he repeated, continuing to walk.

"Woah, woah, VAMPIRES? Like REAL vampires? 'I vant to suck your blud' kind of vampires? Like Dracula? Nosferatu? The undead guys they kill on Buffy every week?" She stared at him. For some reason she could believe he was a werewolf, but to hear that there were four vampires in town was beyond her.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "You seem to know a lot about this."

"Well DUH! I've only seen EVERY vampire movie and TV show in creation! Hel-lo!" she exclaimed, then sobered. "You swear you're not joking."

"I swear."

"Promise? Cuz is this is really out there if you are."

"I promise you that I am not joking or lying to you in any way."

"Really? You're SURE they're vamps?"

"Uh huh. They keep spare blood in the fridge." He made a face. "It goes all weird and gelatinous if they keep it in too long." (AN: *shrug* I have no idea if that is true. I don't care.)

She stared at him for a moment, watching his face. Then she burst into laughter, grabbing his hand and pulling him down the street after her. "Oh this is too cool!"

~~~%*%~~~



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