Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Bonds ❯ Something to Protect ( Chapter 13 )

Blood Bonds

By Tygerlilee

Chapter Thirteen

Something to Protect

*Disclaimer: Alright, I admit it-GW isn't mine!! Sob, sob...not really though. What would I do with it if I did own it? Seriously!! What the heck can you do with a cartoon that's already been completed and mistranslated and exploited?

"Alright, today we begin the exciting world of French literature!" Miss Kiloah rubbed her hands together with a look on her face that Heero really didn't like. "So, I thought we'd start out with The Hunchback of Notre Dome. As everyone read it last week, it should be fresh on our minds. After that, we will move to The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man In The Iron Mask. Then, we will read random essays and poetry which I have not decided on yet!" she smiled brightly at her victims.

Heero didn't even want to know what she was planning...

"The 'cin' and 'cout' represent..."

Heero tuned out his C++ teacher and began to work on his assignment for that night discretely. He already knew all of this stuff anyway, and the homework was written on the board. But that didn't take him long, so he had time to let his mind wonder...falling back to Miss Kiloah's class. He REALLY didn't like the sound of their projects...

"Teachers, please excuse the interruption," the intercom sounded "for the end of day announcements. Cross country and girls soccer practices today after school. A Tennis match at home is at four thirty. Coach Lady will be selling tickets for the Freley home football game on Friday..."

Heero put all of his books in his book-bag and tuned out the rest of the announcements, waiting for the bell.

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Heero sat at his desk in the dorm-calculus book open.

"Man, don't they ever lighten up!! First it's an essay, then a poster, then a speech, and THEN we're back to essays again. ARRRRRGGGG!!!!" Huy ranted as he tossed his bag on top of his desk.

"Well then you had better get busy," Heero told him, not looking up.

"I know, I know. Don't you ever STOP working?" he asked looking over.

"If I have finished everything, I stop," Heero said flatly.

Huy sighed and fished through his bag. "Heero, could you do me a favor?" he asked, holding a paper in his hand.

"Depends. What is it?" Heero asked.

"I need you to read this essay for me." Huy explained.

"Yes," Heero turned away from his homework to take the paper from Huy.

Heero turned back to his desk and pulled out a pen to mark it with. "I kinda got a little informal, but that was because of the subject. I think I'm a little too fond of my family," Huy told Heero.

"I noticed," was the simple reply. "What was the topic, 'Brag on your family in five hundred words or more'?"

"Ha, ha. No. It was basically write about how your family and upbringing have affected you and your life."

"Strange topic," Heero murmured.

"No kidding."

"I take it that that's them in your picture," Heero said motioning to the framed picture on the shelf of Huy's desk.

"Yah," he said, picking up the frame. "That's my Dad, he's pretty strict guy and none to loveable-kind of like you!! He, he...bad joke, anyway...That's my Mom-she worries WAY too much, but then again, all mom's do. That's my big brother, Toshihiko, but we always call him Toshi-hee, hee-but he doesn't really care. He's in his fourth year of college right now. Then that's Gina-she's a sophomore in college, and Yachi. She's the baby, only eight, but she's good for Mom and Dad. Anyway, I know you didn't ask for that explanation, but so what," Huy shrugged.

"You said that you don't have a family earlier. What did you mean?" Huy asked abruptly.

"I meant that I don't have one," Heero said simply. "That's all."

"No, I mean are you an orphan or put in foster care? What? Why don't you have a family?"

"I don't know--I've just never had a family," Heero explained.

"But you were born right. Therefore, at one time you had a Mom, even if it was only for a minute, you still had one. Did she give you up for adoption?"

"Congratulations, you used a fairly large word," Heero muttered.

"Ha, ha, ha. You didn't answer my question--again. That's a really bad habit of yours isn't?"

"I don't know. I told you, as far as I know, I've never had a family."

"So who took care of you when you were a baby?" Huy wondered.

"I can't remember that far back."

Huy let out a huge sign and shrugged his shoulders in exasperation. "Can't I EVER get a straight answer from you?"

Heero didn't answer, but continued to mark up the essay.

Huy started to say something else, but then stopped, as if thinking better of it. Then he finally asked, "If you didn't and don't have a family to fight for, why did you fight in the wars?"

Heero looked up at him, his eyes narrowed. "Oh come on Heero!! It wasn't that hard to figure out. You're all quiet and serious and philosophical," Huy said, wiggling his fingers by his head, eyes wide with sarcasm. "Seriously Heero, I just had to think a little. But back to my question, why did you fight?"

Heero looked at the picture of Huy's family still in Huy's hands. "I did have something to protect," Heero said as he turned back to his desk. "It just wasn't a person." Then he added quietly, "not at first anyway."

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"Sanctuary, sanctuary..." Heero grunted. He was not happy, standing there on top of her desk holding a rag doll above his head and his untucked shirt stuffed with what appeared to be couch cushions.

Several people giggled and sniggered behind their large paperback books.

"Oh come ON Heero, put a little more FEELING into it!" Miss Kiloah tried to force the upturned ends of her mouth down.

Heero glared. I'll give you feeling, alright, Heero thought.

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A/N Ho-hum...you know the drill... Oh, except, just so you know, Toshi is actually a girl's name, which is why they (the children in Huy's family) tease him with it. Please review and thanks for reading.

Toodles for now, Tygerlilee =^,^=