Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ School days ❯ 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

A woman with dark hair walked to the front of the class.
"Now, everyone, please be quiet," she said clearly. Everyone continued to talk except for 4 people. Heero sat in silence as he often did. Quatre and Kitty sat behind one another, backs straight, eyes wide open, hands clasped in front of them, completely attentive. Duo looked over at them and sniggered. Kitty snuck her hand under the desk and stuck her middle finger up at him. Duo made motions to symbolise a sarcastic scare. Heero raised his eyebrows in acknowledgement. The teacher put her hands on her hips and frowned. Another young man walked in to the classroom. He passed the teacher a note and she nodded. He sat down at the front of the class and smiled at Quatre.
"WILL YOU BE QUIET!?" the teacher yelled. Everyone was silent.
"Now, welcome back class," the teacher sighed, "I am Miss Lila Burton, your teacher, but you may call me Miss Lila. Now, we have a new addition to the class this term. If our Form head would like to bring him up and introduce him, I'd be very happy." The teacher nodded and sat down next to the new young man. Kitty stood up. As she made her way to the front of the class, she tapped Heero on the shoulder. Heero sighed and got up. Kitty stopped at the front of the class.
"This is our new class mate. He has recently joined our school and I hope we will all welcome him to our class." Kitty looked at Heero and smiled. Heero smiled a little back. He handed Kitty a piece of paper he had been asked to give to the Form head when she asked for it.
"Right then," Kitty cleared her throat and scanned the piece of paper with her midnight eyes, "this is Heero Yuy..."
"Knew that already, Kit-babe!" Duo commented. The class fell into giggles apart from a few people.
"...he is 16 years old and he comes from the L1 Colony cluster..."
"Stop telling me stuff I already know!" Duo yelled. The teacher shook with anger in her seat. Kitty glared with her midnight blue eyes at Duo.
"Ok, fine! Duo, if you think you can do this job any better, why don't you come up and do this?" She squealed.
"Coz it's dorky!" he whined. The class laughed. Quatre glared at Duo. Kitty sighed. She pushed her glasses up her nose.
"Heero likes...Clay pigeon shooting and electronics? OK? His favourite food is...beef burgers...and his favourite colour is blue." Duo shot his hand up.
"Hey Heero! Mind telling us what shade, so I know what colour paper to get for your birthday gift!" The class laughed.
"One, I don't know when my birthday is," Heero growled, making the class go silent at the pitch of his voice, " and two, it's midnight blue." He looked back at Kitty, who was blushing a little.
"You can continue now, if you like?" he said plainly. Kitty smiled and nodded.
"Err... Heero's favourite subjects are Phys Ed. and electronics. He also enjoys music."
"That's a hoot!" Duo cackled from his seat. Quatre flicked his pen at Duo's head. Duo winced and glared at everyone behind him. Kitty sighed.
"Well that's about it. I guess I can go disappear again..." Kitty shook Heero's hand symbolically and went and slumped into her seat. Heero went and sat down. He was seated next to Quatre and behind Duo. He grinned almost cheekily and began tapping Duo's chair with his foot. Duo began to squirm in annoyance as the teacher stood up.
"Thank you Kitty. I apologise Heero for Duo's bad behaviour. He's a rather immature young man." Duo opened his mouth in mock horror.
"Anyway, on other topics, this is our new prefect. His name is Trowa Barton. Kitty, do you want to come up to welcome him?" Kitty smiled sweetly and began to walk up. She purposely stabbed her heel into Duo's trailing braid and swiftly walked on. Duo squealed and the heel ripped through his hair, splitting the hair shafts and ripping his elastic band. He clutched his braid and petted it, whilst rummaging for another elastic and glaring at Kitty. Kitty smiled cheekily at duo, and then shook Trowa's hand.
"Welcome," she said kindly. Trowa smiled.
"Thank you," he said. Kitty walked back to her seat. Duo slapped her butt on her way back, making her squeal and trip. She plunged into her seat in a fit of embarrassment as titters arose around her.
"Duo!" the teacher scolded. Duo winked at her and she growled in frustration. Quatre turned around to check that his baby sis was OK.
"Now class, we have some form time, so if you want to chat quietly amongst yourselves whilst I go do some photocopying..." Miss Lila sped out of the room. Quatre raced out of his seat to go and speak to Trowa. Heero just watched the commotion around him. He heard a familiar voice and turned to see who it was. A young Chinese man was talking to Kitty.
"Are you alright?" Wu-fei asked. Kitty smiled.
"I guess, Duo's just a prat so you have to expect these things." Wu-fei smiled.
"I guess so. Well, if he's mean again, tell me, and I'll smack him with my katana!" Kitty giggled.
"Thank you Wu-fei, but I think I can handle one big kid by myself!" Wu-fei smiled Kitty turned back around to face the front. She smiled at Heero who was still looking at her. He raised an eyebrow in acknowledgement and turned back to face the front.

Duo glared at Heero during the recess between periods. A girl (known as Cindy) walked over to him.
"Heya babe!" she cooed, planting a kiss on his cheek. Duo smiled.
"Hiya," he sighed, and then continued his glaring. Cindy smiled.
"What's wrong, you jealous of him?" Duo frowned.
"What's there to be jealous of?" he growled.
"Well, he is a hunk, if that's what you mean?" Cindy giggled, clutching Duo's arm a little harder. Duo glared at her.
"I thought I was your man!" he protested. Cindy laughed.
"Oh don't worry, Duo-baby, you're still the hunk of the school!"
"Oh that's a laugh! He's got hair down to his butt and he looks like a girl!" a voice laughed from behind the pair. Duo tensed up to see Kitty walk past smirking.
"Oh shut up Kitty! Just coz no-one likes you!" Duo growled. Kitty snorted.
"Like that would bother me?" she sighed, walking off towards the Technology block. Duo growled.
"I don't know why, but I just can't seem to get under that girl's skin!" he whined. Heero watched Kitty leave. Intrigued, he decided to follow her.

Kitty sat down at her desk in the classroom. She pulled across her latest work and began fiddling with it. Heero sat down at the spare desk nest to her. Kitty looked up and smiled. She wiped away a tear that threatened to violate her cheeks.
"Hello, I didn't expect anyone to be here so early," she said quietly. Heero 'hn'ed. Kitty thought for a moment and looked at him.
"You don't seem to be much of a talker, Mr Yuy, but would you mind listening?" Heero looked up. He had never been requested to listen to someone before. Usually people were asking him to talk, however inappropriate it seemed to him. All Kitty wanted was him to listen, whether he made any remark or not.
"Why do you want me to listen?" he asked plainly in monotone. Kitty smiled, brushing away another tear.
"Well, sometimes it's nice to get things off your chest. So you tell people what your feeling, and whether they can help you or not, it helps you to feel better." Heero nodded.
"Do you feel bad then?" he asked. Kitty smiled weakly.
"Very. I feel worse whenever I walk into our homeroom than I have ever felt, except maybe when I lost my darling father, I suppose." It hadn't occurred to Heero that everything that Quatre had suffered, Kitty had suffered too. Quatre, though one of the sweetest people he knew was trained to deal with pain, Kitty was not. She was a civilian. She must have suffered ten times worse when Mr Winner was killed. But then again, she must have suffered to every time Quatre was off fighting. Every time he wasn't there, he may have been being tortured, or injured or even killed, and she wouldn't have known. For a moment, Heero was glad he had no family.
"Tell me about it," Heero asked quietly. Kitty sighed.
"I know I'm not exactly the prettiest, or most charismatic girl in history, but at least I try! Most people here are just naturally popular, although they have less brains that watered down cabbage!" Heero smiled a little.
"All my time at this school, I've been picked on for being the brains, the nerd, the geek. It isn't fair! I don't just enjoy academics, you know? I have a life at home too! I enjoy clothes shopping, like other people, although most of the girls don't have a private designer and tailor at their fingertips but never mind. I like animals, and music, and dancing and talking! I'm completely normal, really, but whatever I do, I can't be accepted because one person doesn't want me to be, an I don't know why..." Kitty trailed off as her tears got slightly too much for her to contain. Heero frowned.
"You mean Duo, don't you?"
"Yes..."
"Maybe he considers you a threat. He's usually genial and well mannered to most people." Kitty sighed, wiping her face of a small white handkerchief she had pulled from her pocket.
"I know, I know. Quatre says he's really a lovely person. He was always there for his friends during the war..."
"Quatre told you about that!" Heero exclaimed, a little worried.
"No, Quatre told me nothing verbally, but the mind speaks when the voice does not." Heero frowned.
"Then you know who I am?" Kitty smiled a little.
"Yes, you are the pilot of the 01. Oh how I have admired your bravery! I only wish I could have been up there with you five." Heero shook his head.
"It isn't all glamour. A lot of people died in that war." Kitty laughed.
"I know that, silly! But I would have loved to have been there, just to know what was going on." Kitty sighed as the bell for the end of the Recess rang.
"Thank you for listening to me, Heero. I feel so much better now somebody else knows." Kitty quickly wiped her face again, making it look fresh and clean.
Wu-fei walked in and sat down on the other side of Kitty. He smiled at her. Another girl walked past and uttered 'Hi Wu-fei'. Wu-fei frowned.
"Baka Onna!" he growled. Kitty looked at Heero. They both rolled their eyes. Kitty laughed. The rest of the class waltzed in and took their seats, followed closely by Trowa and the teacher, Master Weiss.