Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Bloodlines ❯ Sibling Love ( Chapter 4 )
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By: jupiterschild 
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 527 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Comedy | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 02.20.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 527 | Status: Completed
Chapter 4
Large groups underneath the schools oak tree at lunch time were a common enough occurrence. However, for four blondes to be holding a confrontation, two of whom were known for their bubbly personalities, was _not_ common. But hey, this was Juuban so nobody paid them any attention. Stranger things had happened, _much_ stranger things.
"A warning _would_ have been _nice_ 30." growled Minako, trying desperately to reign in her temper.
The blonde in question shrugged his shoulders and tried his best to look innocent. "You live here, we _still_ haven't finished school. It seemed like a good idea at the time."
The pilots turned as one and gave Quatre an odd look. Wufei snorted at the comment and shifted uncomfortably in his uniform.
Duo shook his head, "Q, that has got to be one of the _worst_ explanations I've ever heard, and I've heard a few. Hell, most of 'em have come out of my mouth!". Wufei nodded his head in agreement. Duo mock glared and thwapped him one. "Oi! Be nice or you're not getting
any!"
Quatre just ignored the pair, well used to their antics. "By the way," he handed something small to each of the girls, "Here are your new student ID cards. I've changed your names back on the roles. I _was_ going to change your home address too but it seems like you've already
done that."
The other pilots winced. If Quatre was intent on self-destructing he was doing a better job than Heero ever had. The others didn't know whether to be impressed or worried.
They were leaning heavily towards worried when Usagi glared at him, fire in her eyes, "You know 30, that's _really_ taking liberties!"
"Even _I_ do not have that bad a timing Quatre." Wufei commented, Trowa nodded in agreement.
"Oh, I don't know about that Wu," Duo had a mischievous look in his eyes, "What about that time in the hang.....mrmph". Wufei clamped a hand over Duo's mouth and whispered something in his ear. Duo's eyes lit up.
Makoto and Ami quietly watched the drama unfold in front of them, confusion written all over their faces. Finally Ami spoke up, timidly asking the question that had been playing on their minds since the start of lunch. "Ano.....excuse me, but how do you know Usagi-chan?"
Duo was, as per usual, the first in with a smart arsed remark. "Take a re-ally _close_ look. It's kinda obvious dont'cha think?".
The girls looked between Usagi, Minako and Quatre in confusion. Usagi rolled her eyes. "My bratty little brother," Quatre hmph'd and Usagi glared at him, "has decided for us that we're to move in with him."
"_Our_ bratty little brother." Minako added, arms crossed over her chest.
Makoto frowned, confused look still evident on her face. "Shingo? Usagi, you _already_ live with Shingo, and as far as I know Mina-chan's _not_ related to him."
Usagi pulled a face, "Neither am I, thank God!"
Ami looked taken aback. "Usagi-chan, I know Shingo can be a pain, but he _is_ your little brother."
Usagi smirked and glance quickly at Haruka, who gave a slight nod of permission. **I can tell, _good_, this is going to be _fun_**. "No seriously, Shingo never was, and never will be my blood relation. I'm not related to him, or any Tsukino's for that matter. Just as Minako is not related to the Aino's, they're our foster families."
Haruka chose to join in the conversation. "Just as my name is not really Ten'ou Haruka. I believe re-introductions are in order. Boku wa Haruka Cybelle Raberba Winner. This," she pointed to Minako, "is my second youngest sister Minako Aphrodite Raberba Winner." she turned her gaze to Usagi and her smile became indulgent. "And _this_ is our youngest sister, and the baby girl of the family...."
Usagi glared. "You just _love_ to rub that in don't you!"
Haruka smirked. "As I was saying, this is our baby sister Usagi Serenity Raberba Winner."
"Only by two months 'Ruka!" Usagi scowled for another couple of moments and continued the introductions. "This is our beloved little brother, the runt of the family - figuratively anyway - Quatre Raberba Winner. Father didn't inflict _him_ with a middle name."
Minako crossed her arms, rolled her eyes, and sing-songed. "He's spe-cial."
"Personally," Stated Quatre, feigning wounded pride, "I like to think that he ran out of ideas, there _were_ a lot before me you know."
Usagi sighed dramatically. "Believe me I _know_"
Ami had been following the conversation intently, as usual, and storing any useful information away for later use. "Aren't there thirty Winner offspring?"
In response, the four siblings groaned and collapsed against each other, nodding their heads.
Makoto peeked out from where she had been wisely hiding behind Trowa. She had learnt very early on to get well clear when Usagi was in a bad mood. "And you didn't tell us this _why_?"
Trowa, for the most part, was quite happy to play the human shield for Makoto. He was more intent on watching to make sure his lover didn't get _too_ hurt.
Usagi snorted and started glaring at her brother again. "Rashid had.....issues".
"Rashid?" Ami asked, curious.
"You'll figure it out once you meet him." Minako was trying hard to keep a straight face. **Let's just hope he doesn't decide the girls need protecting as well. That'd be _all_ we need**
Heero was paying little attention to the conversation, his gaze was busy flickering between Makoto and Trowa.
After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence and staring, Usagi decided she'd better introduce her brothers....friends. "These are Quatre's friends..."
Ami interrupted, smug smirk out of place on her usually serene features, "The Gundam Pilots".
Faster than the human eye could blink, Heero had his gun out and pointed at the girl. Barely half a second after _that_ the girls had formed a protective guard around Usagi.
Usagi rolled her eyes at their overprotectiveness, crossed her arms and gave a disgusted humph, glaring at each girl in turn.
While this was going on the boys convinced Heero to put his gun away _before_ anybody else noticed it. For a community that appeared to barely bat an eyelid at Youma, they certainly freaked out about projectile weapons.
Out of the corner of his eye Wufei could have _sworn_ he saw Haruka slip a half drawn sword back into _no-where_.
Usagi lent forward and delicately placed her hand on Ami's shoulder. "We don't talk about that, at least not out in the open." Turning to Quatre, or at least where Quatre _should_ be, she couldn't see over Makoto. Poking her head around the tall girl, she arched an eyebrow. "A little trigger happy, isn't he?".
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Heero continued to glare at Ami. The other girls rebounded from their shock of seeing a teenage boy pull a gun on them rather quickly. A little _too_ quickly as far as he was concerned. He filed that, along with the fact that the _non-pilot_ contingent of the group had formed a protective _gaurd_, something civilians should _not_ know how to do, around Usagi and not Ami, away in his mind for later. He also picked up on Usagi's annoyance with it, she wasn't surprised, which led him to believe that this wasn't unusual behaviour.
He drew Ami off to the side of the group out of earshot, scowling. Noting the amused sparkle in her eyes, he scowled even more, causing Ami to choke back on a fit of giggles.
**She knows more than a teenager should.** He thought, then mentally snorted. **Hell, so do I, but I'm no civilian; she is.** he looked directly into her eyes, tone and expression leaving no room for arguments. "We _will_ discuss security later".
If it was at all possible, Ami's amused expression seemed to intensify, her eyes sparkling with surpressed laughter. Her reply was _not_ what he was expecting, causing him to almost reach for his gun again.
"Sure Wing".
As it was his gun arm twitched. Logging onto his mental database, he came up with an answer. It was unlikely, but it was one of the _only_ possible answers that fit; appearances had been known to be deceiving, just look at Quatre.
"Acknowledged," he grunted while glancing at her speculatively, "......Calculus?".
Ami, no Calculus, smirked at him. The were going to be having a _long_ talk very soon.
The rest of the group didn't notice the private exchange, they were busy with their own discussions.
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Usagi pushed her way out of the protective circle scowling, hoping that nobody noticed what the girls had done. Mentally she sighed. **Yeah _right_. Dream on Usagi. Not _one_ of the five deadliest men in the United Earth Sphere Alliance noticed your _civilian_ friends get protective on your butt. I _wish_, they're bound to have noticed. I have _got_ to talk to the girls about doing that...._again_.**
Makoto watched the boys _discuss_ the location of Heero's gun with him. She missed exactly _where_ he had holstered it. As the boys rejoined them she turned to her, more than slightly, peeved princess. "Ne Usa, you don't exactly seem....well, thrilled that your little brother is
back in town."
Usagi closed her eyes, rubbed her forehead and sighed tiredly. "Don't get me wrong Mako-chan, I love Q to bits but he's so _frustrating_. I mean seriously, we haven't heard from him in _ages_. We only get to see him on Vid telecasts, and for the longest time they were painting him and his friends as the big bad wolf. Then he comes to visit and DOESN'T TELL US!". She finished her statement and glared at Quatre who held up his hands in surrender.
"I _apologised_ for that already. Don't look at me like I'm the bad guy. If you'd left the Manguanacs I left here _alone_ they would've been able to tell you where I was!".
Makoto was glancing between the siblings, a lost look on her face. Ami, who had quietly rejoined the group, frowned.
"Manguanacs?" they chorused.
Usagi and Minako groaned while Quatre and Duo snickered.
Minako motioned for everyone to sit. Glancing at her yellow watch to make sure there was enough time to explain, she began. "Our family, or is it Q? I can never remember. Anyway we have these over enthusiastic retainers. There's about 120 of them, dedicated to keeping us 'safe'".
Makoto and Ami looked at her, jaws somewhere in the vicinity of their ankles. The were very relieved when Quatre moved in to correct his sister.
"That's not true Mi-chan, there's only forty of them." For a second time Makoto and Ami went into shock.
"Well it _seemed_ like 120, what do they do, _rotate_?.....Anyway, last time Q-chan visited he decided that we needed more protection than anonymity. So he decided to assign us two Manguanacs..._EACH_!!".
Makoto scratched her head, "What's so bad about that?"
Usagi gave her a meaningful look and scratched her ear with the arm that wore a pink watch, "Do you have _any_ idea how restricting it is to have two guys follow you around _everywhere_?"
"oohhh...."The two replied, catching Usagi's hidden message.
So did the pilots, but they couldn't figure out what the double meaning meant. They wouldn't figure it out for quite some time.
Quatre looked at his sister, "Don't pretend to be so hard done by, you got rid of them in short order," He frowned slightly. "You know Binyamin and Farid aren't out of the hospital yet."
His sisters turned as one and glared at him. "That was _not_ our _fault_!!" they both shouted.
"We didn't _ask_ them to jump in front of a Youma." Heero opened his mouth but Usagi glared him down. "Don't you _dare_ start. We know your opinion on Youma very well thank _you_." At Ami's enquiring gaze she elaborated. "Heero doesn't believe in Youma. He told us quite succinctly on Saturday night."
"Anyway," Minako tried to bring the conversation back on track. "About three weeks ago we finally got rid **ahem** sent the last of _our_ Manguanacs to protect our poor, under-defended brother."
Usagi picked up from there. "Then the _baka_ here decides to show up, every _single_ Manguanac in tow. All that hard work down the drain. AIIEEEE!!!!".
The two youngest Winner females jumped on their little brother again, intent on pounding him into the dirt. The didn't hurt him _too_ much, the didn't want an angry Rashid after them, they gave him just enough scrapes and bruises to remind him just _who_ was the eldest.
Once they had finished, Ami reiterated some of the story to make she had all the facts straight. ".....And then he told you you were moving in with him?".
Both girls scowled and nodded. Now that Makoto and Ami knew of the pairs relationship they were beginning to notice things that should have been obvious in the first place.
Makoto frowned as something occurred to her. "You pair are older than him right?" At the pairs nod she continued. "So why didn't you just pull rank?" She asked, referring to the earlier display of pounding. "And why wasn't Haruka told to move in too?".
Usagi looked decidedly disgruntled. "We would have, umm, 'pulled rank', only Q has Rashid backing him up on how _dangerous_ Juuban is, and now that the war is over blah blah blah blah _blah_!". She was _not_ a happy little Moon Princess.
Minako nodded emphatically. "You do _not_ argue with Rashid," She frowned thoughtfully. "Well, I guess you _could_, but the results would be, umm, how do I put this...._interesting_."
Ami was quickly deciding that she had to meet this Rashid. "What about Haruka?"
The blonde in question smiled sweetly and spoke in a sugar coated voice, conveying more threat than anything else. '30 knows better, don't you 30."
Quatre's eyes widened and he began nodding his head so fast Makoto thought it was going to fly off.
Makoto nodded to herself. "Okay, I _think_ I've got it all. I just have one more question and I don't think you're going to like it."
Everybody looked at her, trepidation evident on their faces.
"Exactly _who_ is going to explain this to Rei?"
The Senshi all groaned and hung their heads. They'd forgotten about Rei.
The Gundam Pilots blinked.
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The rest of the school day continued normally, for the most part. Usagi stayed awake for once, but there was a resigned expression on her usually cheerful face.
Quatre was sporting a new set of bruises. Duo was alternating between taking notes and doodling on his notebook. All of his drawings looked suspiciously like Wufei.
Wufei was sitting at his desk with his eyes shut. Haruna-sensei had made the mistake of thing that he was asleep. She had thrown a piece of chalk at him, without even opening his eyes he had caught it and placed it gently on his desk. Only then did he open his eyes, arching one
aristocratic eyebrow in mild amusement.
Trowa was stoically examining Quatre's profile from his desk, quietly making sure the blonde was all right after his encounter at lunch time. He stopped when Quatre flicked a note at him.
//Trowa, I'm _fine_. I've had much worse. I don't even hurt. Stop _worrying_. Q.//
Heero spent his lesson sending odd glances at Ami, while trying his best _not_ to kill Umino. It was getting increasingly hard not to. One good thing did come out of the boys babbling though, when he caught Heero looking at Ami, he'd given him a _very_ thorough profile on
her....Only now, Umino had the wrong idea. Did _nothing_ phase this boy?!
After the final bell the two groups met once again under the oak tree, calmly this time. As he approached, Duo pulled out a while handkerchief from somewhere and waved it, causing the girls to giggle.
Quatre carefully broached the dreaded subject. "So, are you two ready to move in?" He was ready to bolt at any second. There were only so many beatings he could take per day. The worst thing about sisters was that he couldn't fight back.
Minako nodded. "Yep! All a boxes n' stuff should already be over there."
"All we have to do is pick up Luna and Artemis". Finished Usagi.
Quatre looked at his sisters in trepidation. They were sporting identical grins that reminded him too much like Duo - just before you fell victim to one of his practical jokes.
He had a bad feeling about this. "Please, don't tell me they're cats." He pleaded, turning his 'kicked puppy' look up to 100%.
Makoto gave him an unreadable look. "They're cats. Why?"
Quatre gave a heartfelt groan. Off to the side Usagi and Minako began snickering.
"A warning _would_ have been _nice_ 30." growled Minako, trying desperately to reign in her temper.
The blonde in question shrugged his shoulders and tried his best to look innocent. "You live here, we _still_ haven't finished school. It seemed like a good idea at the time."
The pilots turned as one and gave Quatre an odd look. Wufei snorted at the comment and shifted uncomfortably in his uniform.
Duo shook his head, "Q, that has got to be one of the _worst_ explanations I've ever heard, and I've heard a few. Hell, most of 'em have come out of my mouth!". Wufei nodded his head in agreement. Duo mock glared and thwapped him one. "Oi! Be nice or you're not getting
any!"
Quatre just ignored the pair, well used to their antics. "By the way," he handed something small to each of the girls, "Here are your new student ID cards. I've changed your names back on the roles. I _was_ going to change your home address too but it seems like you've already
done that."
The other pilots winced. If Quatre was intent on self-destructing he was doing a better job than Heero ever had. The others didn't know whether to be impressed or worried.
They were leaning heavily towards worried when Usagi glared at him, fire in her eyes, "You know 30, that's _really_ taking liberties!"
"Even _I_ do not have that bad a timing Quatre." Wufei commented, Trowa nodded in agreement.
"Oh, I don't know about that Wu," Duo had a mischievous look in his eyes, "What about that time in the hang.....mrmph". Wufei clamped a hand over Duo's mouth and whispered something in his ear. Duo's eyes lit up.
Makoto and Ami quietly watched the drama unfold in front of them, confusion written all over their faces. Finally Ami spoke up, timidly asking the question that had been playing on their minds since the start of lunch. "Ano.....excuse me, but how do you know Usagi-chan?"
Duo was, as per usual, the first in with a smart arsed remark. "Take a re-ally _close_ look. It's kinda obvious dont'cha think?".
The girls looked between Usagi, Minako and Quatre in confusion. Usagi rolled her eyes. "My bratty little brother," Quatre hmph'd and Usagi glared at him, "has decided for us that we're to move in with him."
"_Our_ bratty little brother." Minako added, arms crossed over her chest.
Makoto frowned, confused look still evident on her face. "Shingo? Usagi, you _already_ live with Shingo, and as far as I know Mina-chan's _not_ related to him."
Usagi pulled a face, "Neither am I, thank God!"
Ami looked taken aback. "Usagi-chan, I know Shingo can be a pain, but he _is_ your little brother."
Usagi smirked and glance quickly at Haruka, who gave a slight nod of permission. **I can tell, _good_, this is going to be _fun_**. "No seriously, Shingo never was, and never will be my blood relation. I'm not related to him, or any Tsukino's for that matter. Just as Minako is not related to the Aino's, they're our foster families."
Haruka chose to join in the conversation. "Just as my name is not really Ten'ou Haruka. I believe re-introductions are in order. Boku wa Haruka Cybelle Raberba Winner. This," she pointed to Minako, "is my second youngest sister Minako Aphrodite Raberba Winner." she turned her gaze to Usagi and her smile became indulgent. "And _this_ is our youngest sister, and the baby girl of the family...."
Usagi glared. "You just _love_ to rub that in don't you!"
Haruka smirked. "As I was saying, this is our baby sister Usagi Serenity Raberba Winner."
"Only by two months 'Ruka!" Usagi scowled for another couple of moments and continued the introductions. "This is our beloved little brother, the runt of the family - figuratively anyway - Quatre Raberba Winner. Father didn't inflict _him_ with a middle name."
Minako crossed her arms, rolled her eyes, and sing-songed. "He's spe-cial."
"Personally," Stated Quatre, feigning wounded pride, "I like to think that he ran out of ideas, there _were_ a lot before me you know."
Usagi sighed dramatically. "Believe me I _know_"
Ami had been following the conversation intently, as usual, and storing any useful information away for later use. "Aren't there thirty Winner offspring?"
In response, the four siblings groaned and collapsed against each other, nodding their heads.
Makoto peeked out from where she had been wisely hiding behind Trowa. She had learnt very early on to get well clear when Usagi was in a bad mood. "And you didn't tell us this _why_?"
Trowa, for the most part, was quite happy to play the human shield for Makoto. He was more intent on watching to make sure his lover didn't get _too_ hurt.
Usagi snorted and started glaring at her brother again. "Rashid had.....issues".
"Rashid?" Ami asked, curious.
"You'll figure it out once you meet him." Minako was trying hard to keep a straight face. **Let's just hope he doesn't decide the girls need protecting as well. That'd be _all_ we need**
Heero was paying little attention to the conversation, his gaze was busy flickering between Makoto and Trowa.
After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence and staring, Usagi decided she'd better introduce her brothers....friends. "These are Quatre's friends..."
Ami interrupted, smug smirk out of place on her usually serene features, "The Gundam Pilots".
Faster than the human eye could blink, Heero had his gun out and pointed at the girl. Barely half a second after _that_ the girls had formed a protective guard around Usagi.
Usagi rolled her eyes at their overprotectiveness, crossed her arms and gave a disgusted humph, glaring at each girl in turn.
While this was going on the boys convinced Heero to put his gun away _before_ anybody else noticed it. For a community that appeared to barely bat an eyelid at Youma, they certainly freaked out about projectile weapons.
Out of the corner of his eye Wufei could have _sworn_ he saw Haruka slip a half drawn sword back into _no-where_.
Usagi lent forward and delicately placed her hand on Ami's shoulder. "We don't talk about that, at least not out in the open." Turning to Quatre, or at least where Quatre _should_ be, she couldn't see over Makoto. Poking her head around the tall girl, she arched an eyebrow. "A little trigger happy, isn't he?".
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Heero continued to glare at Ami. The other girls rebounded from their shock of seeing a teenage boy pull a gun on them rather quickly. A little _too_ quickly as far as he was concerned. He filed that, along with the fact that the _non-pilot_ contingent of the group had formed a protective _gaurd_, something civilians should _not_ know how to do, around Usagi and not Ami, away in his mind for later. He also picked up on Usagi's annoyance with it, she wasn't surprised, which led him to believe that this wasn't unusual behaviour.
He drew Ami off to the side of the group out of earshot, scowling. Noting the amused sparkle in her eyes, he scowled even more, causing Ami to choke back on a fit of giggles.
**She knows more than a teenager should.** He thought, then mentally snorted. **Hell, so do I, but I'm no civilian; she is.** he looked directly into her eyes, tone and expression leaving no room for arguments. "We _will_ discuss security later".
If it was at all possible, Ami's amused expression seemed to intensify, her eyes sparkling with surpressed laughter. Her reply was _not_ what he was expecting, causing him to almost reach for his gun again.
"Sure Wing".
As it was his gun arm twitched. Logging onto his mental database, he came up with an answer. It was unlikely, but it was one of the _only_ possible answers that fit; appearances had been known to be deceiving, just look at Quatre.
"Acknowledged," he grunted while glancing at her speculatively, "......Calculus?".
Ami, no Calculus, smirked at him. The were going to be having a _long_ talk very soon.
The rest of the group didn't notice the private exchange, they were busy with their own discussions.
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Usagi pushed her way out of the protective circle scowling, hoping that nobody noticed what the girls had done. Mentally she sighed. **Yeah _right_. Dream on Usagi. Not _one_ of the five deadliest men in the United Earth Sphere Alliance noticed your _civilian_ friends get protective on your butt. I _wish_, they're bound to have noticed. I have _got_ to talk to the girls about doing that...._again_.**
Makoto watched the boys _discuss_ the location of Heero's gun with him. She missed exactly _where_ he had holstered it. As the boys rejoined them she turned to her, more than slightly, peeved princess. "Ne Usa, you don't exactly seem....well, thrilled that your little brother is
back in town."
Usagi closed her eyes, rubbed her forehead and sighed tiredly. "Don't get me wrong Mako-chan, I love Q to bits but he's so _frustrating_. I mean seriously, we haven't heard from him in _ages_. We only get to see him on Vid telecasts, and for the longest time they were painting him and his friends as the big bad wolf. Then he comes to visit and DOESN'T TELL US!". She finished her statement and glared at Quatre who held up his hands in surrender.
"I _apologised_ for that already. Don't look at me like I'm the bad guy. If you'd left the Manguanacs I left here _alone_ they would've been able to tell you where I was!".
Makoto was glancing between the siblings, a lost look on her face. Ami, who had quietly rejoined the group, frowned.
"Manguanacs?" they chorused.
Usagi and Minako groaned while Quatre and Duo snickered.
Minako motioned for everyone to sit. Glancing at her yellow watch to make sure there was enough time to explain, she began. "Our family, or is it Q? I can never remember. Anyway we have these over enthusiastic retainers. There's about 120 of them, dedicated to keeping us 'safe'".
Makoto and Ami looked at her, jaws somewhere in the vicinity of their ankles. The were very relieved when Quatre moved in to correct his sister.
"That's not true Mi-chan, there's only forty of them." For a second time Makoto and Ami went into shock.
"Well it _seemed_ like 120, what do they do, _rotate_?.....Anyway, last time Q-chan visited he decided that we needed more protection than anonymity. So he decided to assign us two Manguanacs..._EACH_!!".
Makoto scratched her head, "What's so bad about that?"
Usagi gave her a meaningful look and scratched her ear with the arm that wore a pink watch, "Do you have _any_ idea how restricting it is to have two guys follow you around _everywhere_?"
"oohhh...."The two replied, catching Usagi's hidden message.
So did the pilots, but they couldn't figure out what the double meaning meant. They wouldn't figure it out for quite some time.
Quatre looked at his sister, "Don't pretend to be so hard done by, you got rid of them in short order," He frowned slightly. "You know Binyamin and Farid aren't out of the hospital yet."
His sisters turned as one and glared at him. "That was _not_ our _fault_!!" they both shouted.
"We didn't _ask_ them to jump in front of a Youma." Heero opened his mouth but Usagi glared him down. "Don't you _dare_ start. We know your opinion on Youma very well thank _you_." At Ami's enquiring gaze she elaborated. "Heero doesn't believe in Youma. He told us quite succinctly on Saturday night."
"Anyway," Minako tried to bring the conversation back on track. "About three weeks ago we finally got rid **ahem** sent the last of _our_ Manguanacs to protect our poor, under-defended brother."
Usagi picked up from there. "Then the _baka_ here decides to show up, every _single_ Manguanac in tow. All that hard work down the drain. AIIEEEE!!!!".
The two youngest Winner females jumped on their little brother again, intent on pounding him into the dirt. The didn't hurt him _too_ much, the didn't want an angry Rashid after them, they gave him just enough scrapes and bruises to remind him just _who_ was the eldest.
Once they had finished, Ami reiterated some of the story to make she had all the facts straight. ".....And then he told you you were moving in with him?".
Both girls scowled and nodded. Now that Makoto and Ami knew of the pairs relationship they were beginning to notice things that should have been obvious in the first place.
Makoto frowned as something occurred to her. "You pair are older than him right?" At the pairs nod she continued. "So why didn't you just pull rank?" She asked, referring to the earlier display of pounding. "And why wasn't Haruka told to move in too?".
Usagi looked decidedly disgruntled. "We would have, umm, 'pulled rank', only Q has Rashid backing him up on how _dangerous_ Juuban is, and now that the war is over blah blah blah blah _blah_!". She was _not_ a happy little Moon Princess.
Minako nodded emphatically. "You do _not_ argue with Rashid," She frowned thoughtfully. "Well, I guess you _could_, but the results would be, umm, how do I put this...._interesting_."
Ami was quickly deciding that she had to meet this Rashid. "What about Haruka?"
The blonde in question smiled sweetly and spoke in a sugar coated voice, conveying more threat than anything else. '30 knows better, don't you 30."
Quatre's eyes widened and he began nodding his head so fast Makoto thought it was going to fly off.
Makoto nodded to herself. "Okay, I _think_ I've got it all. I just have one more question and I don't think you're going to like it."
Everybody looked at her, trepidation evident on their faces.
"Exactly _who_ is going to explain this to Rei?"
The Senshi all groaned and hung their heads. They'd forgotten about Rei.
The Gundam Pilots blinked.
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The rest of the school day continued normally, for the most part. Usagi stayed awake for once, but there was a resigned expression on her usually cheerful face.
Quatre was sporting a new set of bruises. Duo was alternating between taking notes and doodling on his notebook. All of his drawings looked suspiciously like Wufei.
Wufei was sitting at his desk with his eyes shut. Haruna-sensei had made the mistake of thing that he was asleep. She had thrown a piece of chalk at him, without even opening his eyes he had caught it and placed it gently on his desk. Only then did he open his eyes, arching one
aristocratic eyebrow in mild amusement.
Trowa was stoically examining Quatre's profile from his desk, quietly making sure the blonde was all right after his encounter at lunch time. He stopped when Quatre flicked a note at him.
//Trowa, I'm _fine_. I've had much worse. I don't even hurt. Stop _worrying_. Q.//
Heero spent his lesson sending odd glances at Ami, while trying his best _not_ to kill Umino. It was getting increasingly hard not to. One good thing did come out of the boys babbling though, when he caught Heero looking at Ami, he'd given him a _very_ thorough profile on
her....Only now, Umino had the wrong idea. Did _nothing_ phase this boy?!
After the final bell the two groups met once again under the oak tree, calmly this time. As he approached, Duo pulled out a while handkerchief from somewhere and waved it, causing the girls to giggle.
Quatre carefully broached the dreaded subject. "So, are you two ready to move in?" He was ready to bolt at any second. There were only so many beatings he could take per day. The worst thing about sisters was that he couldn't fight back.
Minako nodded. "Yep! All a boxes n' stuff should already be over there."
"All we have to do is pick up Luna and Artemis". Finished Usagi.
Quatre looked at his sisters in trepidation. They were sporting identical grins that reminded him too much like Duo - just before you fell victim to one of his practical jokes.
He had a bad feeling about this. "Please, don't tell me they're cats." He pleaded, turning his 'kicked puppy' look up to 100%.
Makoto gave him an unreadable look. "They're cats. Why?"
Quatre gave a heartfelt groan. Off to the side Usagi and Minako began snickering.