Understandings: Body, Mind and Soul

Part 3

By: Quatre Raberba Winner (Quatre-Chan/Onna-Quatre)

Down stairs in the kitchen, the other four pilots sat at the table over hearing their comrade's outburst.

"I wonder what happened. He was two hours late coming home." The blond said aloud. "Someone should go talk to him."

"Heero."

"Heero."

"Heero."

"Montel."

"Come on, Heero." Duo swung his arm around his koibito, "You're the perfect person to talk to him."

"Why? Because I'm not afraid of him when he's angry?"

"Yeah."

He sighed, "Fine, I'll talk with him." He got out of his seat and walked up the stairs. He stopped in front of the Shenlong pilot's room and knocked on the door. "WuFei?"

"What?!"

"I want to talk to you."

"Fine." He opened the door and looked at the Japanese boy, "What?"

"Why were you late? And what was that loud crashing sound?"

"I took a walk, after I went to Kirei's."

"Is she okay?"

"No. She's dead." He opened the door all the way so Heero could step in, "And that" he pointed to the wall, "was the loud crashing sound."

"You broke the wall?"

"I'm pissed, what's it to you?"

The Wing pilot looked deep into his friend's onyx eyes. Behind all the anger that WuFei was giving off, he could see a pool of sorrow and despair, "Do you want to talk?"

"No I don't! I just want. .."

"Want what?"

He plopped down onto his bed, "I just want Kirei to be alive.. ."

Heero was speechless. There was nothing he could say or do to cheer his friend up. Not even making the attempt, he slowly backed out of the room, shut the door and headed back to the kitchen.

"What happened?" the American questioned.

The Japanese boy looked at his friends and proceeded to tell them on what WuFei had said. After his explanation he saw his friends' reactions. Duo was in his lover's arms on the verge of tears while repeating "boys don't cry" over and over. Quatre was in tears within the first few words of his story and Trowa was trying to comfort him, but alas there were no words that could relive these five boys of their pain and loss. Not even Heero knew what to make of these events.

The next day, the five pilots amongst others, gathered at the cemetery to say good bye to their friend. The five boys sat in the front row right next to Kirei's mother. The black haired women stood up and faced the group. She wiped a few tears from her eyes and gave everyone a sad smile, "Thank you all for coming all this way. Now before we say our final farewell to my daughter, her best friend Aisu Mizuhara would like to sing Kirei's favorite song. Lets all bow our heads as Aisu sings 'Melodies of Life'." She sat back down and a chestnut haired girl got up and began to sing.

After the funeral the g-boys returned to the safe house. All of them silent and not wanting to show anymore weakness than they had previously.

Three weeks had passed and the whole incident remained fresh in the minds of the young pilots. As they drove down a deserted road to their new mission location, each of them felt unsure of what awaited them.

Heero had parked the car in the woods that sealed the base from any civilian. He looked at his four comrades, "This is our objective; we are to obtain the research they have done on a new medical experiment, on top of that we are to destroy the base. WuFei, you come with me to get the information, Trowa, wait here for us. And Duo and Quatre, you to need to set the explosives with 15 minutes. Once that is done get your butts out of there. Is that understood?"

Everyone nodded. The four that had been selected to enter slowly made their way to entrance. Heero and WuFei went one way while Quatre and Duo went the other.

As carefully as they could, both teams set out about doing their tasks.

10 minutes later.. .

Heero and WuFei were half way back to the truck when the Japanese pilot pulled out his walkie-talkie, "Duo, can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear. The explosives are set. We're on our way out."

"Roukai!" as that was said they made it back to the truck. Now all that was left were the pilots of 02 and 04.

"All right Q, press the button!"

The blond nodded and hit the button, but there was no explosion, "Duo did you hook it up right?"

"Yes. But why won't it blow up?"

"Because the wires have been cut and disposed of." Said a female voice.

"Damn Q.. ."

"Duo, that's not me."

They both turned around and saw a pair of glowing violet eyes.

"Who are you.. .?" the blond asked with a hint of fear in his voice.

"That is no concern of yours. 02 and 04 omae o korosu.. ." she raised her gun at the two boys.

Both boys quickly turned and ran off. The girl laughed, "Now for the hunt." She aimed her gun at the Deathscythe pilot, "Say good bye, 02.. ." she fired.

"Duo, look out!!" The Arabian pushed his friend out of the way and the fell to the ground.

"Quatre!!!" the braided boy crawled over to him and gasped. Blood started to trickle down his back and his head had hit a rock. "Come on Q, get up!!"

The female soldier took a few more steps, ready to fire again, "This time, I won't fail." She moved her finger towards the trigger, "AAAAARRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed as a bright light flashed before her and once it cleared, the two pilots were gone.

The four boys took Quatre to the hospital immediately after they had left the base. They waited in the waiting room for 6 hrs. and when Sally came out she did not have very good news.

"Sally, please tell me he's all right." Trowa pleaded.

"Yes and no. He will recover, but he's lost the use of his legs.. ."

The uni banged pilot was shocked, he opened his mouth to say something, but nothing would come out.

"He's in recovery right now, but once he's out I'll let you know that is unless you're not staying."

Duo stood up, "I know Trowa's going to stay and I'll stay too." He faced Heero and WuFei, "You two can go back home and we'll update you on his condition, okay?"

"Yeah." The Japanese pilot stood up and walked towards the door with WuFei close in tow.

~*~*~*

Once back at the safe house, Heero and WuFei sat in the kitchen looking over the document they had obtained. The Chinese boy sighed, "Maxwell said that the person that shot Winner was a female with glowing violet eyes." He shuttered at the thought.

"Hey WuFei, listen to this you might find it interesting."

"What?"

"OZ got involved with the search for Kirei, correct?"

"Yeah."

"On the day they found her body, they got a new female recruit."

"So?"

"She was blind until she did this experiment. And her first mission was the one we were just on."

"The point?"

"Come take a look at our new enemy."

The Shenlong pilot got out of his seat and stood behind the Japanese boy. The picture on the screen came into full view. It was a girl in her teens with sea blue hair and bright violet eyes. WuFei looked at it carefully and noticed that the person looked a lot like someone he knew. He zoomed the picture in and noticed a few strands of brown hair. His eyes widened, "Kirei?!?!"

TBC

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