Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ School days ❯ 3 ( Chapter 3 )

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

Kitty walked gently down the steps out of the school building. The sun set rays of almost sunset like sheen across the yard and forecourt. Kitty sighed. It was truly beautiful. It would have of course, been ten times more beautiful if she had someone to share it with. She noticed Heero standing alone at the end of the steps, leaning on a stair-end. She smiled and walked over.
"Hello!" she piped up. Heero remained motionless.
"So, err, isn't it a beautiful day?" Kitty asked. Heero frowned and made a noise of acknowledgement. Kitty cleared her throat.
"So, are you heading straight home, or are you hanging about for a bit?" Heero looked up.
"Hanging about for a bit. I don't have any homework to do. I got so bored during the lunch recess I did it all then. Then I proceeded to snap the leads off all the colouring pencils..." Kitty giggled.
"If you were bored, you should have come and found me. I'm always happy to give people a reason not to be bored. I've heard the saying that only boring people get bored, but I don't think that's true. I mean, what kind of boring person does something so spontaneous as to snap all the leads off the colouring pencils? Haha, err... why did you do that?" Heero sighed.
"I don't know," he replied plainly. Kitty made an 'oh' motion with her mouth. She twiddled her thumbs.
"So..." Kitty sighed, trying to think of something else to say. Heero smiled.
"I have only two things left to say to you today." Kitty raised an eyebrow.
"OK... that's a really original piece of conversation...actually it is? Cool!" Heero raised an eyebrow at her over enthusiasm, "err...well, hit me with it then." Heero looked back at the sky.
"One is that you talk to much," Kitty glared indignantly at him, "and two, I think you are over looking how lucky you are." Kitty looked at him.
"What do you mean, lucky?"
"Well, earlier you said that you were alone. Personally I think you'd find that Wu-fei and Quatre would both be very offended to hear you say that." Kitty looked at him. Then she sighed.
"I guess... but I dunno. They both have their own friends too, while I haven't. Oh I don't know! Oh thanks a lot Heero, you've made me have to think!" Heero smiled.
"See, things are always better than they seem," he smiled, turning away, "I, on the other hand, am alone. That is how it should be." Heero began to walk away down the final flight of shallow steps.
"Heero!" Kitty called out. Heero turned around.
"You're not alone, you've got me, remember?" Heero blinked slightly in shock. He'd only seen confidence such as this around such a pessimistic twerp such as himself in Relena. In a lot of ways they were so very alike. It scared him. He relaxed his face and nodded with a smile. He walked away casually, although he could feel Kitty's fantastic midnight blue eyes boring into the back of his head. Kitty sighed.
"That boy," she growled jokily to herself. She laughed a little and then headed off toward the bike sheds.

Heero continued the long walk back to his accommodation. The school was pretty much in the middle of nowhere, in the centre of a forest filled countryside. It was very picturesque, but a long walk away from the nearest town, where Heero was staying. He was thinking over Kitty's last words to him; you're not alone, you've got me, remember? It was haunting how her voice in her mind changed its tone and rhythm to someone else's. He shook his head, trying to remove the echoes in his mind. The voice went, but a drumming like metal hitting the ground still knocked about his skull. It grew louder and louder until he could almost take no more. Then it stopped.
"Hello Heero!" a voice piped up. Heero turned to see Kitty smiling at him from atop a huge white horse. The horse's saddle was attached to a pony trap where Quatre lay, sprawled slightly and asleep. Heero smiled. He shook his head quickly. He decided he was smiling too much, and that he would stop doing it from that moment on. It wasn't as easy as it seemed.
"I didn't expect to see you this late in the evening," Kitty smiled, "Me and Pegasus decided to wait for Quatre to finish his music lesson before we left. It's so dreadfully hard to get a taxi out here."
"No kidding," Heero uttered. He began walking again. Kitty moved the horse on until it was walking along beside Heero with the trap still in tow.
"Heero, you look as though you could use a lift. Would you care to join us?" Kitty gestured a white leather glove clad hand towards the cart. Heero frowned.
"No thanks, I'll be fine." Kitty laughed.
"Heero its another 12 miles back to Littleton! You won't make it before nightfall! And I will not leave a fellow classmate and friend out in the dark willingly. It's part of my policy as form head and head of the citizenship committee!" Heero growled.
"Listen, Kitty, I am not you're friend. Right now, I don't want any friends, and I don't think a nice little girl like you deserves all the trouble I'd cause you." Kitty shrugged.
"Fine then, acquaintance and classmate. If you want to be uppity Mr Yuy that doesn't bother me in the slightest." Heero growled.
"Now, come along, in the cart!" she cooed patronisingly. Heero continued to walk. Kitty growled and urged the horse on a little. The trap knocked into the back of Heero's legs, making him stumble to a halt. He glared up at Kitty. She sighed.
"Now get in," she demanded. Heero muttered something under his breath and climbed in, moving Quatre over a little.
"No, don't, that hurts, make him stop mummy!" Quatre uttered in his sleep. Heero raised his eyebrows. Kitty giggled.
"Now, Heero, I leave this choice up to you, the fast road or the slow road home?" Heero frowned.
"Before I choose, you have to promise me one thing or I'll jump out." Kitty turned her head and smiled.
"What's that?"
"Don't talk to me. You talk to much." Kitty laughed.
"Fast road it is!" She giggled and the horse shot off down the left road in the fork as fast as it could peg it with a cart and three people to carry.

Kitty walked into the house. She had finished putting Pegasus (her beloved white horse) away and now she was going to get ready for dinner. She could smell the rich aroma of Biftek a la vin cooking in the kitchen. She sighed. It was nice to be home again, or at least in one of the many homes she had lived in. This was one of her favourites, the Sunset house in Littleton. It was in her favourite style, white marble. She padded silently up the sweeping marble staircase and into her room. The room was richly decorated with deep red furnishings and wall drapes and dimmed lamps. A large vanity mirror sat above a mahogany table in the corner. Kitty quickly pulled off her school uniform and flung it into the dainty laundry basket in the corner. It didn't really match the room at all, but it had a picture of a unicorn on it, so she liked it. She sat in front of the mirror and sighed. She gently untied the ribbons at the ends of her twin braids. They hung down beside her ears if not pinned back, just behind her full fringe, which unintentionally was quite untidy. She wound the lengths of hair away from one another and picked up her hairbrush. Slowly and carefully she drew the combed teeth through her long golden hair, until suddenly a thought came to her head. She blinked silently for a moment, and then shut her eyes.
"Show me," she said. An image flooded her mind. In a sunset lit apartment, a young man quickly folded his clothes and walked over to a small walk-in wardrobe in the alcove in the corner. The walls were a dirty white in tone, and the apartment itself was studio. It was also incredibly small, about 15ft by 18ft. A single bed was sat in the middle, and towards the other end was a cornered off shower and toilet, complete with door and a tiny kitchen set up, with a sink/wash-basin, two small over head cupboards, a refrigeration unit and small oven under a tiled counter-top and a microwave, iron and radio propped up on the counter. There was a chair towards the end of the counter, where one could sit and eat, for example. Kitty looked back at the young man. He opened the wardrobe door and placed the folded trousers and shirt on top of a small cabinet containing shoes. He hung a blazer up beside a green work shirt, a few spare shirts in varying pastel colours and a suit jacket, which was mid-dark blue. Also hung up, though in another division, was a spare pair of black trousers, a pair of what looked like lycra pedal pushers, a matching pair of trousers to the suit jacket, 2 pairs of faded blue jeans and three ties. The first 2 ties were dark blue, and the final was in the school colours, green and gold. It had the emblem of a unicorn's silhouette in front of the moon and the words "Pushing mental ability to the stars". This same emblem was on the blazer pocket, along with a sewn on badge bearing the student name and form, in the case "Heero Yuy, 10A". Heero sighed and shut the wardrobe doors. He lay back on his bed, covering his eyes with his hands. Kitty bit her lip. She decided finally to speak.
"What is wrong?" she asked gently. Heero made no shocked motion.
"This is wrong," he simply replied. Kitty sighed. Heero spoke again.
"Things are quiet. That is a good thing. But it has become too quiet. People are turning from simply silent and confident to sly and sneaky. People are keeping secrets. A secret is a dangerous thing." Kitty nodded.
"Then why are you not solving this problem?" Heero sighed.
"Currently there is no problem, so I can't do anything about it. Only when the problem arises..."
"You can nip it in the butt and shut it down," Kitty finished.
"Exactly," Heero replied. He got up off the bed and walked to the window. He peered into the sunset intently.
"I came here to achieve something. I wanted to find something." Kitty listened more intently.
"What are you trying to find?" she asked. Heero pulled a picture out of his pocket and sighed. It was a picture of a small boy walking alone down a street, not looking at the camera.
"Myself," he replied, "I want to know who I am. I have never needed this information before but for some reason, now, when there is no purpose for the person I have become, I seek to find out who I really am and who I was before I was corrupted and changed by those doctors..." Heero stopped speaking. Kitty blinked sadly.
"I understand. I seek the same thing, Heero," Kitty sighed. Heero lay back down on the bed.
"Then we both seek to achieve the same goal," he sighed.
"Yes, the knowledge of our past," Kitty sighed. Heero lay back on his pillow and within seconds he was asleep. Kitty sighed and lay back in her chair. She opened her eyes. The telltale turquoise glow faded. Quatre tutted.
"Who's mind were you prying into this time?" he sighed, leaning against the doorframe. Kitty screamed.
"Quatre! You can't barge in to my room like that! I'm in my underwear!" Quatre looked away from her face for a second, and defying his physical image, he grinned a devilish grin.
"Oh really, I didn't notice? Smile for the camera!" Quatre whipped out his pocket Polaroid and snapped the shutter. Kitty screamed again.
"Quatre, you pig! Get out, get out, get OUT!" She flung her hairbrush out the door, as Quatre dashed away her slammed the door, causing wood to strike wood and a loud clatter to be heard. Kitty screamed in annoyance and stamped her feet angrily. She pouted and stomped over to her wardrobe. She put on a lilac shift dress and stormed out of her bedroom and downstairs. Quatre giggled mischievously from his bedroom. Although he was sixteen, his looks defied his age, and he played himself to that. He giggled at the freshly printed Polaroid picture and at the lilac book embossed in gold with "Kitty's Diary! KEEP OUT!" he now held in his hand.