Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Perfect Color for You ❯ The Follower ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3

Duo pulled himself out of bed, it was too early way way to early. He looked over a the clock 7 am "I feel like a I didn't even sleep."

He grumbled pulling on his clothing for the day. "Another day, another hellish day at school." In front of the mirror he pulled on his hair with his brush, finally deciding it was decent he worked on braiding the large mass of chestnut brown hair. As he tied the band in his hair he looked outside. The snow lay heavy on the ground and the stark white glitter shown even brighter as the sun came out. "Stupid uniform, stupid cold, stupid school." His constant gripping seemingly cheered him up as he ran out the door. It was a twenty-minute walk to school and Heero would meet him five minutes into his walk there.

As Duo was accustomed to, it was his job to try to get Heero to smile. Heero had been very quiet and it was rear to see him showing any emotion after the declaration of peace between the earth and the colonies. Not that that was anything really very new. Duo just figured a good shot of good fun by means of snowballs would help Heero out a little.

After a few good snowball face plants via the perfect soldier Heero and Duo made it onto school grounds. Heero was smiling smugly as Duo held his frost bitten nose and forced a smile. Trying not to look as hurt as he really was.

It was fairly early and they sat in the commons looking at the black computer. "So how goes with the evil little machine?"

"I got more of the information to transfer, but it keeps freezing up on me." He said poking what can only be compared to a spacebar with his index finger. His head suddenly shot up, seeing a new face in the building. He quickly shut the computer and looked up at Duo. "Do you recognize her?" Heero said tilting his head towards the girl standing at one of the common tables. She was looking directly at them.

Duo looked over and saw her, a black haired girl in a long green jacket. Her hair was in two low tails tied at her shoulders. She was walking over to them, and sat at the table across from Heero. The downward facing corners of her lips peering up, as she looked at him her smile was strange and childish.

Looking palely at the girl, Duo stood besides her looking very confused. "Uh, hi?"

The girl looked at the violet eyes of the boy for a moment then turned back to Heero. "Give me the compass." Her eyes looked up imploringly.

"No." Heero said, pushing the box deeper into his sack. He then stood up, grabbing Duo around the wrist and walked away.

Once out of sight Duo was sure he was going to pop and exploded into questions. "Okay! What the hell? Who was that? What does she know? When Where Why?" Duo pulled at his bangs as he jumped beside Heero.

"I have no idea." Heero said, leaning against the second floor wall facing the stairs.

Duo shivered "Wow, she was scary! I thought Dorothy was scary, well she is scary, but I guess Miss. Greeneyes takes a good second place." The twinge of uneasiness he felt, causing himself to get wound up in excitement.

"I had the box put away as soon as I saw her, how did she know it had a compass?" Heero asked, more over contemplating the question to himself then to anyone else.

Duo breathed out a heavy sigh and slid down against the wall. "No idea. Binoculars maybe?"

Shacking his head, Heero looked down at his watch, the building would be filling up with students any minute. "Watch out for her today. I got a very uneasy feeling around her, like I know her."

"Well she was coming onto you like she knew you." Duo said poking his friend in the side. The eyes in Heero's head rolled up so far Duo was afraid they might fall out.

"Come on, let's go."

In class Heero sat to the far left side of the room, far from the door his hand tapping the desk, waiting for the end of the algebra class. The teacher was a foreigner from India and was very good at math. Duo loved to complain about him though, saying that he always had trouble with math, and that it didn't help that the teacher's accent was too difficult to understand. His accent didn't bother Heero in the least.

His head lay in a fog though, that girl, he knew her from somewhere, but where?

He thought back to his battles with OZ, with white fang. He could not remember seeing her, not once. It was a desperate scenario he could not be forgetting already. A part of his training was to remember.

He looked up, a calm, or a panic wrapped together entered him. His eyes scanned the room of students, his eyes suddenly looking off to his left. There was the girl, her face staring straight ahead at the teacher.

Heero pushed the panic from his mind; she didn't look like a threat, other then the fact that he didn't notice her in the room before now.

That is what Heero found the most interesting of his view of the girl. She was not a threat. She was small, and thin. From earlier this morning he had also assessed that she could barely walk. Her legs where so emaciated. As he looked at her now he could see her cheekbones, and the hollowness of her eyes. She was skeletal without that jacket. He was struck now with a self-doubting question. Was she really this threat he thought he was?

Besides the sharp green eyes, she was, just half of a human.

The bell rang and the people shuffled out. Leaving Heero and the girl standing in the back of the room. She didn't speak just looked up at the Japanese boy's face; the corners of her own thin lips nearly curving up.

Heero looked down at her face. It was imposable to read; much like his own.

"Who are you?" he finally asked.

"Rose." She replied. Her hands wrapped around her shoulders.

"What, do you want?"

"The compass." Her voice was soft and could barely be heard above his thoughts.

"I don't have it." A lie, and he knew it, but did she?

Her face remained hollow, besides the slide of her smile.

Heero did not see it, he did not sense her movement until her hands where cupped over his jaw and ears. He could barely feel her cold but soft hands on his face. Her eyes shut and her face turned down to the ground. Her hands becoming colder, his own heart slowing down, and hers, her heart, he could feel it inside his chest. As if, his own was being pushed out of the way.

Then, feeling stopped.

Wwwoo…. How strange! What is this girl!? and what has she done to Heero?

Find out next episode of "A Perfect Color for You"