Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Requiescere Sanus ❯ School Life ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3 - School Life

I looked at him he seemed pensive, he almost looked sad, or maybe that was my imagination. I heard his voice cold and gravely but not hateful and I was somewhat soothing "That'll suit me fine, I don't want too many people to get to know me, you know with the mission that wont do that wont do at all, you'll do fine." Don't leave me, I don't like people, at least you're like me and you're not some idiot who wouldn't understand my torment and try to brush it off with a smile and tell me it'll be ok, because you understand, you've been through my training, you have my honour. I didn't want him to leave me? That was odd, tell him to push off Heero, tell him now...if you start to like him more...trust him more it'll destroy everything you've worked for, that's not in the mission plan. I glanced around the hallway and remember my last two schools, in the first I had almost killed that blond haired boy in fencing, that one that said it was against my honour as a gentleman to rip up that onna's invitation. I liked the look of his face when I pushed my broken blade into his fencing mask and walked away. I didn't want to be popular...I didn't like people...did I? Maybe that's what it was...was I...*afraid* of human contact...to get too close in case it screwed everything up? Then again...most people were ignorant anyway, they didn't know who I was and expected me to be happy and friendly and perfectly sociable, though I didn't and couldn't be that, because that was not me my hands had been stained by so much blood that I could never be considered normal or happy, who could if every day they wished for death or the death of their enemy. I turned to him and spoke quietly "how is this school for perceptiveness, will they know or are they dim enough to be easily deceived?" I walked to the classroom where I was scheduled first and looked in past my long bangs my eyes sweeping it sizing up each persons attributes instantaneously. My first day here, my mission, to understand how each person could be made to see my form of reality, it was different with him though, he already knew...he couldn't be deceived, but at least he wouldn't ask my missions of me, he knew it was too important to let that information leak.

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Yarri thought for a minute before answering. "Don't challenge anybody to a fight. If you do, they'll figure out immediately you aren't like normal humans. Especially not anyone with a tail or fangs. They aren't human at all, and they'll see right through you, then possibly kill you. Most of the people will leave you alone, they won't try and figure out if there's something different about you. We all have something odd." He thought again. "Don't go out of your way to be cold, either. People don't like that and they'll wonder what's wrong." -Past experience. Nearly had to kill a kid in fencing to get them to leave me alone. -

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I listened to him still observing the people in the classroom, the teacher hadn't arrived yet though I knew who he was. I felt him lingering behind be wanting to enter the room but still I stood framed in the doorway. I nodded my head to each of his requests, all right no fighting, I was glad of that one, but no acting overly cold? I was cold, dead cold, I never smiled or my voice never changed pitch from its monotone quality, I didn't like being close to others, they'd learn soon enough to leave me alone. I walked into the class each step determined and precise. I nodded my head to the multiple eyes, which seemed to be fastened upon me then sat down in a spare desk at the back taking my writing implements from my bag and setting them on the desk. Then I rose out of my seat as the teacher entered, I'd learnt by now it was proper to give teachers the respect they desired. I settled myself down again into my chair and await the lesson to commence, Physics. I looked to him sharply my eyes cold, he looked towards me, what could this man teach me about physics I didn't already know? I'd studied it extensively in my training. He smiled at me and I feigned ignorance and nodded to him. He stood and cleared his throat his soft musical voice lifting up "Class we have a new student, I'm sure he'll introduce himself." I watched the class turn to me eagerly and I stood dutifully "My name is Heero Yuy, charmed I'm sure." I bowed slightly before sliding back into my chair, great just great, talk about trying to stay unknown I thought to myself then glanced over to Yarri before looking down harshly at the papers laid on my desk as the lecture began.

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-It could have been worse...- Yarri thought, -He could have had to talk about himself...- He turned to Heero and whispered, "Just zone out, we've learned this all already and he doesn't even know half the stuff he's talking about. If you look like you're paying attention, he'll call on you all the time." Yarri settled back in his seat and started formulating plots to bring down OZ and Romefeller on his own with no mobile suit. It was the only way to stay awake in his classes and keep his mind sharp. Pointless, yes, but good tactical practice. "Next class is fencing, by the way."

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A small knowing attempt at a smile crossed my lips as I heard the next lesson was fencing, though it failed miserably, maybe I didn't have the muscles to be able to smile I wondered silently to myself then I turned my attention to the information of the next lesson. Good I thought to myself, then I remembered his warning, I'd have to go easy...but I didn't want to, I wanted to push myself and see how far I could go, the spicy aroma of the gym had always eased me, the feel of sweat cooling on my body had always given me a relaxing feeling. I looked to the teacher again my eyes glazing as an idle hand started etching a pencil over paper drawing a little plan of the school. I saw him ask various questions to other pupils, some stuttered then finally answered correctly others failed miserably, fools I thought to myself, as they looked down defeated with the wrong answer. The minutes passed and I looked down at the picture keeping sharp and silently learning the students names and traits and trying to decipher what most of them actually were, most it seemed were not human as was previously suggested, but it didn't make a difference they wouldn't know more than they had to. Finally after what seemed an age class was dismissed. I walked over to Yarri's desk and stood ready for him to accompany me to the lesson, this would be interesting very interesting.

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Yarri snapped out of his mental fog as the bell rang. He looked up at Heero. "Come on." He stood and led the way to the gym and the fencing room. "This is the only class you don't have to hold back in, especially against the instructor or myself. The instructor is half-vampire and faster than either of us, and I can fight you easily. You'll pick a sword and that will be yours until you leave here." Yarri turned into the locker room and got a set of whites for him. "Here. If you want to fight in your clothes you can, but otherwise, wear these. I'm changing, so if you want to wait, you can, or you can meet the dhampire." He shrugged. "It's up to you." -Please let him change, please let him change... Shut up! - Yarri walked over to a locker and pulled out a karate gi, and shamelessly started changing.

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