Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bonds ❯ A New Life... ( Chapter 7 )

Blood Bonds

By Tygerlilee

Chapter Seven

A New Life...

*Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, but Ms. Sidra Kiloah is MINE. I also don't own the musical Jekyll and Hyde by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse.

I apologize ahead of time for the song ficishness if you don't like it-it just happened. If you do like song fics...I wrote this just for you!!! =)

Heero climbed down the off ramp of the shuttle and scanned his surroundings. This colony, XI-487, was in good repair and the overall population seemed to be well off-middle to upper class-at least from what he could see in the shuttle port.

As Heero shouldered his duffel bag and backpack, a woman in her early twenties wearing khakis and a loose shirt appeared at his feet. "Heero Yuy?" she asked, her voice slightly confused and skeptic.

Heero looked up and nodded.

She smiled slightly and held out her hand. "I'm Sidra Kiloah. I'm a teacher at the institute and they sent me to pick you up. Normally we have one of the janitors do it, but they all decided to take to day off today," she rolled her eyes at her last comment.

Heero shook her hand they began walking toward the exit and a sleek green Ulysses Model Five. Ms. Kiloah opened the truck and Heero deposited his luggage, then they got in and pulled out onto the road. She flicked on the radio, some oldies song from the sound of it that Heero had never heard before...

A New Life

What I wouldn't give to have a new life.

One thing I have learned as I go through life,

Nothing is for free along the way.

The streets were evenly spaced and neat, trees growing in the median strips separating the different directions of traffic. Many people were riding bicycles or walking, the "sun" shining.

A new start,

That's the thing I need to give me a new heart,

Half a chance in life to find a new part,

Just a simple role that I can play.

They drove through a residential area, a little girl was petting a white house cat and an old woman was watering her roses. They passed an elementary school, where the playground was full of little bodies running and chasing and laughing. Heero smiled inwardly at there carefree lives.

He was out.

A new hope,

Something to convince me to renew hope.

A new day, bright enough to help me find my way.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Ms. Kiloah inquired, the sun caught her short golden-red pony-tail as she turned her head for a split second.

Heero snapped out of his reverie and shrugged.

"Are you always this quiet, or it that only because I'm a teacher?" she asked him.

"I don't talk if I have nothing to say," Heero said simply.

"Boy, you're sure going to stick out like a sore thumb here," she grinned. "I'm usually about to yank all of my hair out by the end of first period because no one will be quiet, and then when I want them to talk, they don't," her voice sounded exasperated at just the memory.

A new chance,

One that maybe has a touch a touch of romance.

Where can it be, the chance for me?

"Have you received your schedule?" she asked, obviously trying to find a subject that he had something to say about.

"Yes," he said simply.

"Well, can you give me an overview?" she prompted.

"Why?" Heero asked.

"You really are a difficult one aren't you. Geesh, I feel like I'm back at home talking with my little sister...'Go to bed!' 'why?' 'Because Mom left me in charge and it's your bedtime!' 'So!'..." her voice trailed off, hoping that she had made her point. 'Don't be difficult you little turd because I'm just as stubborn as you and I'm only being nice anyway!'

A new dream,

I have one I know that very few dream.

I would like to see that overdue dream,

Even though it never may come true

"I have AP Calculus, AP English, AP Physics C, some random gym class, drafting, C++...they just transferred my old classes here," Heero told her.

Ms. Kiloah whistled. "Boy, you're going to have a fun time. I don't know how those classes were in your old school, but here, they mean AP when they say AP! Especially the English," she grinned evilly.

"Let me guess, you teach AP English," Heero smirked.

Ms. Kiloah cackled evilly. Heero began to wonder if all of his teachers were going to be this phsyco.

She grinned again at him. She seemed to be much more at ease with him than when she first met him. "Do you like to read?" she asked. "This isn't a loaded question, I promise. I'm just curious what kind of student you are."

Heero shrugged. "I read what I need to get an assignment done. I read when I want to know something. That's about it."

A new love,

Though I know there's no such thing as true love,

Even so, although I never knew love,

Still I feel that one dream is my due.

"You never read fiction, have you?" she asked.

"Why should I. It has no purpose," Heero explained.

"No purpose? What about enjoyment--is that not a purpose? Or what about unplugging from daily life? Some of the greatest lessons in life can be taught to one through reading," she told him.

A new world,

This one thing I want to ask of you world,

Once before it's time to say adieu world,

One sweet chance to prove the cynics wrong.

Heero just looked strait ahead. "I've never had time for 'enjoyment' before-at least when I did have time I didn't waste it on reading," Heero told her.

"Well, what did you waste it on?" she asked.

"People," was Heero's straightforward reply.

"People? What a girl?" she pried.

The look Heero gave her forced burst of laughter up. "I guess not," she giggled. "Friends then? No one ever spends time with family, at least not teenagers," she grinned at him.

Heero didn't answer. "Oh, boy. You'll be an interesting addition to my class, I can see that," she smiled again.

A new life,

More and more I'm sure as I go through life,

Just to play the game and to pursue life,

Just to share its pleasures and belong,

That's what I've been here for all along,

Each day's a brand new life!

"Okay, here we are. Your new home!" she announced happily as she popped her trunk.

As Heero gathered his luggage, he scanned the their location.

They were parked in front of an older brick building, about five of six stories high. Another one identical to it could be spotted several blocks down. The street was strait arrow, and the landscaping geometric. "All of the boys room here," she informed him. "The girls rooms in that building down the street," she said, pointing down toward the building. "They were originally going to build one big building for everyone, or at least two across the street from each other, but they decided that it might be wise to separate the boys and girls with a little more distance. As if that really does any good...the kids just get sneakier."

Ms. Kiloah held out two keys. "This one," she indicated to the silver one, "is for the main door to the building. Everyone has one and they are numbered and check out. This bronze one is for your room. The buddy system applies here, so you have a roommate. You will go to all your meals with him and you are both expected to keep your room clean.

"He hasn't had a roomy this year, so I suspect that he was adopted into a three-some. He already knows that you're coming, so there won't be any awkward 'who are you and what are you doing in my room's. His name is Huy Iwasato. He's our school's big basketball star, so be prepared. I don't have him in class though...I think he's in all generals, like most sports maniacs.

"Anyway, you too should get along...but things might be a little...weird for a while," she finished. "I have to get back to class now. Your room is on the third floor. The whole building is one huge box, so you probably won't have trouble finding it. If you do, just wander around and use your common sense. Good luck," she gave him one last fleeting look and got in her car to drive away.

Heero walked up to the entrance and unlocked the main door.

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A/N How was that? The story is only beginning...and you thought that I would end it when he left that dump. I planned on you meeting Huy in the next chapter, but I think that he'll have to wait another one...heh, heh, heh...I'm just waiting for that part. A Gundam Pilot and a Basketball dope, how will they get along?

Also, sorry again for the song, but it just fit so perfectly and I'm a musical/song junkie...if you read any of my parodies that I either have written or will write, you'll see serious evidence of that. ^_~ All of the Jekyll and Hyde songs fit perfectly with this fic, I'm not sure why because this is NOTHING at all like that story, but it does. Also, if you like musicals, I highly recommend Jekyll and Hyde, the music is gorgeous-especially the version with Linda Eder and Colm Wilkinson.

Oh, Kiloah is pronounced KI-Loo-AH, with a kind of Hawaiian twang to it, just as it is spelled. Sidra is pronounced See-dra.

Thank you everyone who has reviewed me thus far!!!! I really need the encouragement so I really appreciate it!!! Unfortunately I'll be isolated from a computer for a couple weeks so it may be three weeks or so until I updated this story. However, I also need to ask for so advice. This story is going to have some fighting scenes in it (not any time soon mind you, I'm envisioning the fighting somewhere around chapter fourteen or so), but I'm really bad at writing them. I took a stab at one in the first fic that I ever wrote (Trowa Smiled), and I'm just not happy with it. Any suggestions? Advice? Please lend some assistance or prepare for really stinky, corny fighting. It's kind of hard to describe something that you've never done. Okay, maybe not never, but those fights with Fyerbelle were just mock fighting so they don't count.