NB: Set in the SM world. Rei will probably come in later chapters if I continue this.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters; if I did I probably wouldn't be broke.

Also note: I'm not going to bother with honorifics. Use your imagination, people! Oh, and BTW, do you know how much the GW boys weigh?! I'll tell you:

Heero (I know the correct spelling is HIIRO but I think it looks better this way.): 45kg

Duo: 43kg

Trowa: 44kg

Quatre: 41kg ß skinny bitch

Wufei: 46kg ßfat ass

These boys are rakes. Or lollipops, even. Heads on sticks, I swear…. Oh, well… they're still kawaii anyway.

Please Note: I constantly write "Makato" instead of "Makoto," you'll just have to excuse my idiocy.

Key:

Bold        = emphasis

Italics     = thoughts

Awaiting Good Fortune

*******Chapter One: New faces

"This is so… so… pathetic! I refuse to go along with this! It's an insult!" Usagi screeched. She turned around and looked behind her. "Right then, I'll go live behind that dumpster over there because it will most certainly be better than living in the hole of a house!" She said indignantly while she picked up her bags and stalked towards the, --rather full and overflowing-- dumpster.

"Usagi! No!" Minako cried, grabbing hold of Usagi's arm in attempt to stop angry departure, "We're all going to take this with as much dignity as we can. It's not our fault… it's just… just… uh…"

"…j-just that the school was to small and… well, it was the only way for them not to go bankrupt."  Ami finished Minako's sentence.

"Only way?! Only way?!! Ha!! This is just some cruel torture--!!"

"Torture?! How could you call going to an elite school with boys torture?" Makoto asked with dreamy eyes. "Ooooh… I hope they're all really cute… I'll bake the ones I like cakes everyday… we'll send loves notes to each other……"

Makato seemed to be in an unreachable world of her own now, so the other three girls continued their argument.

"But… why?!" Usagi screeched again. Sitting down on her suitcase in defeat, her old school uniform drooped over her, reflecting her emotions.

"Well Usagi, 50% of all the boys at our school began to leave, therefore diminishing the total number of students to a terribly low level, most of the girls then began to leave, thus, with most of it's students gone, the school wasn't getting enough income. This school here was having a similar problem, so… the two schools merged." Ami finished with a shrug, and, realizing that it put wrinkles in her uniform, she quickly straightened it out.

"C'mon, Usagi! It'll be fun. We get to stay in the boarding house!" Minako said excitedly, literally bursting with joy from the sheer joy of being around boys all the time.

"Oh, yes, what fabulous fun. I get to stay in a big old smelly house with a bunch of strange and most likely perverted boys. I just can't wait." Usagi said sullenly. She sighed and stared at her hands for a while whilst her three friends joined her by sitting on their suitcases. After she'd memorized every line on her hand –which she promptly forgot – she looked back up and the large boarding house in front of her and, as if on some cosmic cue, a young boy their age with white-blonde hair walked out and said;

"You must be the new boarders. Just a moment, I'll go get some help for your bags." He then turned and went back inside. A few moments later he reappeared but this time, with four other boys. One of them was slightly taller than the rest with a truly dreadful hairstyle that consisted of some furry hair monster falling over the left side of his face. He had dark, mysterious green eyes and an emotionless expression on his face. The boy walking beside was just as expressionless but just a little bit shorter. He had cold, icy, deep blue eyes and messy dark brown hair. He was very well built without being overly muscled or macho, and his cold face seemed to have a graceful look about it.

Then following the first three was a very odd sight. A boy with a long braid and cobalt eyes was dragging out a poor Chinese boy buy his small ponytail.

"C'mon Wu-man! Don't you want to meet the new girls?" The braided boy asked chirpily.

"Maxwell! Release me now! I do not care for these weak onnas! Maxwell!! If you don't let me go I will let my katana deal with you!" The dark-haired boy yelled. The bubbly one let go of his ponytail and bounced down the stairs before the four girls.

"Welcome, lovely ladies, to Graeham House. Home of myself and these four, and of course all of you. We used to have more people but everyone started to pack up and leave so now it's a little on the empty side. But don't worry, it doesn't get boring you see, these three are really easy to annoy so if you just—."

"Be Quiet," the messy haired boy said. The one with the braid stuck out his tongue. Then gave a big grin. He then proceeded to introduce them all.

"Well I'm Duo," he said pointing to himself and grinning. He then put an arm around the shoulders of the blonde boy next to him. "Blondie here is Quatre Rabarbra Winner. He's really kind and will make your years here pleasant. The tall one is Trowa Barton, he doesn't speak much and saunters about a bit. The one exploding with rage at the back is Wufei Chang; he needs to take an anger management course but has too much pride to go to one. And this one—" he said, jerking a thumb at the still unnamed boy, "—Is Heero Yuy. He just grunts a lot. He probably used up his yearly stock of words buy just telling me to be quiet earlier."

The four young ladies were surprised at the assortment of boys, to say the least, and didn't speak for the next few seconds. Well, until Minako perked up and began to thoroughly introduce them all.

"Hi! I'm Minako Aino. I like sports and playing games. My birthday is October 22nd and my favourite food is curry!" Minako said, patting her stomach. She then poked Makoto. "This charming lady here is Makoto Kino. She loves to cook and she's really good at it. This wonderful girl over here," she said moving over next to Ami, "is Ami Mizuno. She likes swimming and playing chess. She's really smart and really nice too! She always helps me with my homework!" Ami blushed slightly over the comments. Then Minako yanked on one of Usagi's ponytails, making her yelp. "This is Usagi. She likes to sleep and eat. She'll probably eat us all out of house and home eventually, and all of the cake is going to go first. But despite her hunger she's real nice and a great friend. Oh! And her boyfriend and her just broke up, so now she's single!" She said winking. Usagi blushed furiously.

"AAH! MINAKO!" She screamed, covering her ears and shaking her head. "She didn't just say that. She didn't just say that…"

Two of the five boys smiled at their antics. One sneered and the other two remained emotionless. Duo eagerly stepped forward in front of Minako, beaming.

"May I take you bags, Miss?" He asked brightly.

"Oh, please do, kind Sir!" Minako chirped, playing along with his mock formality. They both headed into the house, chatting with each other as if they had been friends since birth. It was at this point that the Chinese boy, Wufei, stalked off, ranting something about 'onnas', 'weakness' and 'insults to his dignity.'

Quatre stepped forward gingerly and picked up Ami's two suitcases.

"I'll show you to your room… Ami, wasn't it?" He asked softly.

"Oh thank you…um… Quatre. Oh, yes, that's right."  Ami picked up her laptop and swung it over her shoulder and they both quietly walked into Boarding House, which left Makoto and Usagi with the two emotionless boys.

They waited like that for quite a while.

Makoto realized that nothing was going to happen soon so she bent down to pick up her duffel bag and suitcase, and at that moment the Trowa boy decided to be of some use and took the two bags out of her hands.

"Trowa, right?" She asked. His gaze flicked to her briefly, which she took for a yes. "Thanks." Then those two disappeared into their new home. Which left herself and Heero. They both stood there for a long time, just staring at each other. After a while --when the robot boy didn't do anything-- she decided that she would simply wait him out until he helped her with her luggage. She guessed that he had made a similar agreement with himself, because he made no move to leave or take her bags either. Hours seemed to pass, their intent gazes only faltering when either of them were in dire need of a blink.

"Hn," he grunted and stepped forward to take her four bags.

"Thankyou Heero. I guess you are a gentleman instead of a robot after all," Usagi said with a smile.

"So what's it like here? Do you guys have fun or anything, or is it just study, study, study?" Minako asked inquisitively.

"Well it can get real boring… buts that's why it's so fun to play pranks on them," Duo said with a wicked grin. The two of them then began to climb the long flight of stairs. "Hey! You can go in the room next to me! Yeah! We could come up with all kinds of crazy stuff!" Duo exclaimed, as he bounced up the rest of the stairs.

"He he he…Sounds cool!" Minako said, rubbing her hands together in a devilish way. "…But, don't you have, like, girls quarters and boys quarters or anything?" Minako questioned.

"Nah… this used to be an all-boy school anyway so they didn't have to divide the boarding house or anything." He said as he stopped outside the first door on his left, it was marked with a large golden '1' centered on the pristine white door.  He put her two suitcase down. "I'll be next door, if you want anything just get me," He said with a large smile on his face. He turned and walked a few steps until he reached his own room, marked with the golden number '3' on it. He was about to enter until another idea popped in his head. "Or do you want someone to help you unpack?" He liked Minako already. She wasn't uptight like Heero and not insulting like Wufei and not quiet like Quatre. She liked to have fun, she liked to annoy people, and was very extroverted, like himself.

"Yeah OK. Here you take that one," she said indicating the large dark blue suitcase, and help up a slightly smaller crimson one, "I'll take this one, it's got underwear and stuff in it so I'll do this one."

"Oh, no it's not a problem. I can take that one for you," Duo said jokingly, but picked up the large blue case and followed Minako into her room.

Ami meekly followed Quatre into the large brick house in front of them. It really truly was exquisite; it was two stories high, and had beautiful cream balconies for every room on the second floor. It was quite old, but you could still slightly see the beautiful scrollwork and tiny leaves and flowers and animals that had been delicately carved in various areas.

"Oh, please come inside. Your room will be on the top floor. The bottom floor has the kitchen, the ballroom, the dining room, and the lounge room. Here, follow me," he said as he walked over to the staircase and began to climb up. When they reached the top, he turned left, but stopped.

"This is where all our rooms are situated," he said, looking down the corridor. "Down that way," he said, tossing his head and indicating the other rooms behind them, "is almost out of bounds. The school wants those rooms to be kept in good condition so if more boarders arrive, they can take those rooms." He began to walk down the corridor. Sounds of chatter and laughter issued from room number one, and Ami immediately recognized it as Minako and her new friend Duo.

"Oh, I couldn't imagine leaving near these two," Ami laughed softly.

"I know how you feel," Quatre said smiling, "That's why I'm down the end, an even then I can still hear Duo's load voice echoing through the house at night." He walked right to the end of the corridor and stopped. "I live here, in number 11. Wufei lives in number 8, Trowa is in number 5 and Heero is in number 4. Room 1 has already been taken by your friend Minako, but feel free to choose any other room."

"Hmm…" Ami put her hand over her mouth, thinking. "Tell me Quatre, do you like to play chess?" She asked, a little embarrassed.

"Oh, I love chess." Quatre said, nodding.

"Terrific. I'll take this room, number twelve. So if we ever want to play, it will be convenient." Ami said with a smile. She opened her door and picked up her bags, but turned around just before she entered her room. "Excuse me, Quatre, what time is dinner?"

"It's at 7:30 sharp."

"Hmm… okay. It's 4:45 now, so let's meet at 6 o'clock in the lounge room for a game of chess." She said brightly.

"Sure. That would be wonderful." Quatre said eagerly, with a large smile on his face.

Makoto followed the taller boy inside. From the angle she was looking at, she could see his face clearly (not being blocked by his overly large fringe), and found that he actually was quite attractive, and he had stunning eyes… in fact, he almost looked liked one of her old boyfriends…

Immediately, Makoto fell into her own dream world, not realizing that she'd stopped moving altogether. After a few minutes, however, Trowa got tired of waiting for her stop thinking, and cleared his throat loudly.

Makoto shook her head quickly, and then turned crimson. "S-sorry, I…uh…. I guess I kinda spaced out." She said, scratching the back of head and laughing softly in an attempt to turn her spacey-ness into a joke.

Trowa turned and made for the stairs. And unless her eyes were deceiving her, she would swear that she saw slight amusement in his emotionless orbs.

They both climbed the stairs in silence.

"So… how long have you been attending this school, Trowa?" She asked, eagerly trying to spark conversation.

"3 years," Was his blunt reply. They reached the top of the stairs and Makoto could see Ami waving to Quatre and entering the room at the far end on the right.

"Which rooms mine?" She asked, hoping to get more than two words out of him this time. She could also hear Minako's voice filtering out of room 1, as well as the voice of the braided boy… Duo, if she remembered correctly.

"Room number 1 seems to be taken by your long haired friend –"

"Minako," Makoto corrected him.

"—Room 2 is occupied by Duo Maxwell. Heero is in room 4, Wufei is in room 8, Quatre is in room 11, your short haired friend—"

"Ami."

"—is room 12, and I am in room 5."

Makoto thought about her options. She immediately decided that she wanted to be near this interesting new boy Trowa (even though he refused to acknowledge her friends names), but she didn't want to be close to Duo and Minako; Minako alone makes enough noise.

"I'll take room 7, it's my lucky number, after all." She fabricated quickly. Trowa immediately walked towards the fourth door on the left. Makoto took more time however, and quickly listened in on Minako's conversation.

"…. –nd so, that's when—HEY! DUO, YOU PERVERT! GIVE ME BACK MY UNDERWEAR!!"

"You'll have to get them off me!!" Duo laughed, followed by lots of clatter that Makoto assumed was Minako rampaging around the room trying to get her underwear back. Trowa clearing his throat again made Makoto jump away from the door and briskly walk to where he was standing, blushing all the way.

"S-sorry…" Makoto mumbled.

"Dinner's at 7:30 in the dining room downstairs." And with that, he went into his own room, leaving Makoto standing there.

Usagi walked quietly next to Heero as they both entered the boarding house.

"This place is huge!" Usagi exclaimed, looking up at the ceiling and spinning around once. "Hey, what's this room?" Usagi said, disappearing into the room on her right. She popped her head out after she got no reply. "It wouldn't kill you to answer, you know."

"Hn." When she continued to stare and wait for an answer, he decided to just tell what she wanted to know, and that way he would be able to be free of her and her stupidity much quicker. "Ballroom."

"Ooh! And this one?" She said, running into the Lounge Room and jumping onto one of the sofas.

"Lounge Room," was all he said.

Usagi jumped off the sofa and bounced into the kitchen.

"Hey, let me guess… the Kitchen!" She said excitedly, then sat on the kitchen bench. "So do we cook our own meals or is there a chef? Is the food terrible here?" She asked, leaning forward intently.

"Mr. Calt cooks on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Ms. Barbara cooks on Thurdays, on weekends, and makes lunch and dinner on Fridays. On Fridays, a person in the house in nominated to cook breakfast."

For some reason, the girl in front of him just grinned. She then swung off the bench, walked right up to him and poked him in the chest.

"I'd bet anyone that you just said more words then than collectively everything else you've said in your life," she had a knowing look in her eye.

She was probably right, too.

He turned and exited the kitchen, Usagi excitedly at his heels. She sprinted into the Dining Room.

"And what would this room be, Mr. Monotone?" She asked, completely aware that it was the Dining Room, due to the fact that a long table ran across the floor, with plates, glasses, knives, forks and napkins adorning it.

He looked away from her and walked up the stairs.

"So when's dinner?"  She called out to him.

"7:30."

Realizing that dinner wasn't going to be served anytime soon, she followed him up the stairs. He turned left and stood there. She gathered that she had to choose a room.

"Okie-dokie…" Usagi said, surveying the rooms in front of her. She could hear Minako's voice on her left in room one, as well as Duo's. And she guessed that Minako would choose a room next to an extroverted person like Duo, so that meant rooms 1 and 3 were taken. Ami would move as far away from noisy areas so she could get the maximum output of her study time, and Quatre seemed to be a similar person, which meant that the last two rooms were taken. Trowa and Wufei seemed like the loner type, so they would probably go in the middle to avoid others, and Makoto seemed a bit taken by Trowa, which meant she chose a room near him. And she wanted to be as close to food as possible, so she turned and pointed to the golden '2' on the pearly white door next to her. "I choose this room!" she declared. "Is anyone in this one?" Usagi asked as she opened the door, and to her delight she found it empty. "Yes!" She ran in and jumped on the bed. "My new room…"

She looked around and only saw the bare minimums; a bed, a cupboard, a chest of drawers, a desk, a mirror on the wall and sad looking light dangling from the roof.

Heero took two steps in, placed the four bags on the floor and made to leave.

"Hey Heero! Who's my next-door neighbor?" She inquired, swinging her legs over the end of the bed.

"Me," was all he said as he walked out. Usagi couldn't help but laugh, this boy was her pestering target she'd decided, and he was going to have to live with her being next door. Everyday.

She blew her fringe out of her eyes and rolled over to see what the time was. The glowing red numbers '6:01' stared at her. She still had an hour and a half before dinner.

What to do… what to do…

The possibility of going over to Minako's room was ruled out. (Last time she did she had been greeted by Duo lying on the floor on his stomach, with Minako sitting on his back, twisting his arm behind him and yelling, "OK! I won! Now give me back my underwear bag!" And Duo laughing and yelling, "Never!")

Ami and Quatre had just started a game of chess, so there was no way of talking to either of them. Wufei had gone off to practice with his katana, Trowa had gone off somewhere to read a book, and Makoto was helping Ms. Barbara cook dinner.

Which only left one person…

Heero.

She grinned an evil, childish grin as hopped of her bed, and walked outside to stand in front of Heero's door. She knocked three times. When there was no answer, she knocked again. When she got the same result she just continued to knock on the door until he opened it. Two –slightly angry— blue eyes met hers.

"Finally… geez, I thought you'd gone deaf or something." She invited herself in and had a look around. "Wow, your room's really boring." The only thing he looked like he'd added were his schoolbooks, a laptop and some clothes that were hung up in his cupboard. "So what're you doing on your laptop?" She asked as she plonked herself down on his chair and peered at the screen. "Quantum Physics?" She screwed up her nose. "Isn't that a little advanced? Oh I see, you're one of those smart loner kids. Ami's smart too, but she's not introverted. Not that you are or anything it just seems like you don't go out much… or at all for that matter… but anyway, you don't seem to get along with the other boys here. Is Trowa like that too? He doesn't seem like the social type either. Duo, on the other hand, seems like the really happy, social type which is kind of strange considering he lives with you guys… I don't mean that in an offensive way or anything, it's just odd that someone like him could stay that way when he lives with non-socialites like you and Trowa. Anyway…"

She just wouldn't shut up. She was almost like Duo, except he got bored eventually and went off to pester someone else. This… Usagi… seemed oblivious to the fact that he didn't care and just continued to talk and talk and talk…

"… and that's why we broke up. I mean I liked him and all but it just didn't have that 'meant to be' feeling, you know? Have you ever had a girlfriend? Ur… probably not. You really should get out more. You know, makes some friends, find a girl you like… that kind of thing. Personally, I'm in no rush but that's not the problem. You see…"

She seemed as though she hadn't talked for a year and was making up for lost time now. He hoped to the God he didn't believe in that that would never happen to him

"… And so now you know why I don't go to the Crown Arcade anymore. I mean, Rei still does but she has a reason… Oh my God! You could go out with Rei! I mean, she's in another city at the moment, but I'm sure you'll meet her one day! But…no, no! That wouldn't work! Rei's the commanding type, and you don't seem to like people trying to order you around. Oh! Oh! I know! You could put an ad in the personals! I'll just get a piece of paper…"

She began rummaging through his desk until she found a piece of paper and a pen.

"Okay… handsome boy, aged 15, looking for a girl similar age who doesn't mind an introverted boyfriend," she held up the piece of paper for him to look at it. "How does that sound?"

Okay, so even his icy heart was a little flattered at being called handsome.

But she was still being annoying. He just stared at her in what he hoped was a very threatening way. She shrugged.

"Oh well, I'll just leave it here…" She put it on the left side of his desk, re-lidded the pen and put it on top. "…so if you have second thoughts to can add some more to it and send it off. Hey, let's just say you did send it in! What kind of girl would you be after? I think you'd go for a shorter woman, with blue or green eyes, light brown hair, nice figure, smart, probably athletic, definantly pretty, and personality wise…"

She stopped for a second and seemed to study him.

"Hmm… I can usually tell a lot about people from just looking at them. But you… hmm. Um… maybe…" She tilted her head to the side and stared at him.

"Here, let's have a look-see at your eyes. You can tell at lot about a person from their eyes…" She got off the chair and walked up to him, standing about two feet away. He was about six centimeters taller than she was so she still had to look up a little bit. "Could you possibly move your hair out of your eyes?"

His cold glare wasn't having any effect on her, and clearly she wasn't getting the massage that plainly said, 'go away.'

She sighed angrily, and began mumbling something about 'people just tying to annoy you,' 'think they're too good fro everyone else' and 'just doing this so he won't find a girlfriend in the future.' She took a small step forward, closing most of the gap in between them. She brushed his hair out of his eyes and put her hands on either side of his face, pulling him down a bit so that they were eye-to-eye.

"Okay let's see… at first, you're angry –I can't understand why, but that's what I gather—but under that you seem… hmm… I would say slightly amused or maybe even flattered…………you…hmm… you seem to be hiding something.…oops. OK, seeing that anger again. Hey, hey! Don't get all defensive at me! I'm just saying what I think I'm seeing, sheesh! …There's something else though… underneath it all…" She seemed to lose focus on what she was seeing, but continued to look at his eyes, "… underneath the anger and the coldness, being kept locked away… I think I see…"

Someone began to ring the dinner bell downstairs, signifying that it was 7:30. Usagi shook her head as if just waking up, and then she smiled broadly. "Aha! Dinnertime! Race you!" She dashed out the door and he could hear her run down the stairs.

He blinked a few times, then stared at the note she had left on his desk. He picked it up, folded it into four, then put in the bottom drawer in his desk. He looked at his laptop briefly, decided that he didn't have to shut it down, then went downstairs to have dinner.

*******End chapter 1

Okay… so what did we think? Please review and tell me if I should keep going or not. If I do, some relationships my form and Rei will eventually come into it but until then… yeah. Until then, this is it.

BTW, I'm sorry if it seemed like I was Trowa bashing, I'm not. In fact Trowa's by third fave GW chara, but you have to admit, his hair truly is dreadful.