Gundam Seiyuu (The OAV) Part 5
I woke up the next morning to a loud pounding on the hotel room door and groaned loudly. I rolled over in the bed to find that once again Heero had left without waking me up. I sighed loudly and sat up in bed rubbing my eyes. I remembered Quatre's advice from the other night and I had planned to speak to Heero as soon as he got back... but when he showed up he looked so tired that I'd decided to just let him be. If I was going to have a long drawn out talk about our relationship with him chances are it would turn out much better if he wasn't tired and irritable at the time. So I'd waited.
The pounding on the door started up again.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. Cut it out before you wake up the whole hotel!" I growled back angrily as I search the room for my robe. Wrapping it around my body I yawned and walked to the door. Sliding the chain away I opened the door to see who was making the racket.
"About time! You planning on sleeping until we fly back cuz?"
I frowned and began to shut the door again, but no luck. Hilde stuck her foot in the door. She prevented it from closing but the also slightly crushed her foot. She gave a small yelp and pushed to door back open, walking into the room before I could stop her. Dropping down on the bed she inspected her foot.
"Serves you right," I muttered. "You shouldn't have stuck it in the door."
"Jeez, look who's definitely not a morning person!"
I rolled my eyes at her and walked over to the dresser to find some clothes. "You've lived with me for how many years and you still don't know that?" I pulled a pair of jeans out of my suitcase and a fresh shirt. Hilde stood up and jumped in front of me, blocking my path to the bathroom.
"Not so fast, you. Did you forget today is the first day of the con? You're not actually thinking of just wearing normal clothes are you? After all the work Relena put into getting you guys new cosplay outfits-"
"I get it, I get it. So where's my outfit?" I asked.
She nodded toward a pile of clothing on the bed. "There you go. Special delivery courtesy of your loving cousin."
I froze and just looked at her. I knew that tone of voice, she didn't just bring the outfit up here to be nice, she wanted something in return. Oh man I hate it when she pulls stuff like this.
I sighed. "All right, what do you want Hilde? You're never nice without a reason."
"Hey! I am too! Well, usually. Anyway, I want the scoop on you and Heero! It would make for some really good angst in the next doujinshi we're putting out. You have to give me the whole story! You just have to!"
I walked over and picked up the black and red pile of folded clothes. "Not a chance. What's between me and Heero is between me and Heero, it is not between the pages of a comic book. Besides, like you haven't come up with some explanation by now anyway."
"Yeah, I know, but I want to hear it from you. Real life makes such a more believable story then what comes out of our heads. Besides that's what keeps people reading..."
I shook my head and headed for the bathroom. "No Hilde, and that's final."
She sighed in defeat and dropped back onto the bed. "All right, fine. But will you at least sign some of the doujinshi for us? Please? Just a few?"
"I'll think about it, now go down stairs so I can get dressed."
Hilde nodded and left the room.
I emerged soon afterwards dressed in my new outfit and grinning from ear to ear. As I rode the elevator down stairs I looked over my reflection in the mirrored walls. This time the outfit was slightly different. This time I wore tight black jeans and a red zip-up turtleneck, with a black leather jacket over the top. I couldn't help but grin at my own reflection, man these gundam pilots sure knew how to dress. I'd completely forgotten that Solo Reaper had worn such a cool outfit in the OAV.
Stepping out from the elevator I found the others waiting in the lobby, all dressed up in new outfits.
Wufei and Trowa both wore matching military uniforms that looked attractive yet slightly silly with shorts and in khaki color. I have to admit they looked more like they were ready for a month at camp then a war, but then again those were the outfits from the show and we didn't get to be choosy. At least Wufei got to keep Li Honour's signature curved sword on his belt.
Milliardo wore a dark brown trench coat closed over his body, yet fitted to show off his willowy figure. Around his neck was a white scarf, which was tucked in neatly into the coat while he wore tight black pants and knee high black boots. He looked every bit the distinguished and rich super villain that his character was. He flashed a mischievous smirk my way and it almost sent shivers down my back, he actually looked like he had a good amount of wealth under his arm and was ready to use it to finish his goals.
Meanwhile Quatre was dressed in a very loose outfit, once again succeeding in hiding the fact that she was actually female. Loose gray pants and an aquamarine sleeveless shirt accompanied by a light pink scarf, which hung around her neck loosely and down her back. She smiled sweetly at me and raised her eyebrows.
"Looking good, Solo." She said with a chuckle. Trowa playful nudged her in the side with his elbow, reminding her silently they were married. I grinned back.
"So, we ready to go? Where's Heero?"
Wufei nodded toward the door. "He's at the con, setting up last minute things for the concert."
I frowned slightly. I'd wanted to see his outfit. "But you two aren't performing until tomorrow, I thought."
At that Milliardo smirked. "Heero is very picky about his equipment, especially before performance. He'd sleep in the same room with it just to protect it if the hotel would let him."
I nodded and laughed. "Yep, sounds like Heero. Ok, lets get going then."
~*~
We arrived at the hotel hosting the con and the scene was much like last time. With tables full of merchandise and venders all setting up to sell and advertise their wares from various anime series. But this time we were all led into a separate room for the guests. This time the convention was larger so there were several rooms and we, the guests, were given a separate room where we had our own tables and could sit down as we signed the books. We arrived to find the room already occupied by six seven people about our age. Relena stepped forward, embraced the single female in the group, then turned around to introduce all of us.
"This is Lady Une, the director for the English version of Gundam Wing. And these are the American seiyuu (1). Jay Zimmerman does the voice of Odin. Alex Mueller is Solo. Van Flowne is Triton. Miki's voice is done by Benny Rabera. Jesse Dekim is Li and, finally, Asher Thomsen is Zechs Marquise. Now, Lady and I have some things to speak about, so we'll be back later." Relena waved to us and left the room with the American director.
I turned and looked at each of the American actors. The first thing I noticed was they were all dressed in normal street clothes, none of them were in cosplay. Now you'd think this would make me feel self-conscious but it had to opposite effect, instead I felt like the real voice actor of Solo Reaper. After all, I was not only his original voice but I was also wearing his outfit.
Speaking of the other voice actor for Solo, Alex was what Relena had called him, he was leaning coolly against the back wall of the room. Watching all of us with slightly narrowed eyes, or maybe that part about his eyes being narrowed was just my imagination. Anyway he had dark brown hair that curled slightly, cut just above his ears and just at the top of his eyes. He wore glasses over his blue eyes as well. Turning from him I glanced to the others, who seemed to blend in with our group nicely.
Quatre was speaking with Van and Benny, giggling sweetly at their varied comments. Heck, it looked like she was flirting with them and I would have placed money on it if I didn't know she was married. And even then...
Anyway Van was quite attractive. He had short, very short, yellow hair and he was tall. He had bright green eyes and an attractive smile that most likely made the fangirls swoon (2). Meanwhile Benny had bushy black hair that he had attempted to pull back into a ponytail, and had pretty much failed because it kept sliding out.
Jay had shoulder length brown hair and a neatly cut bead, he also wore glasses. Asher, looked like a perfect mirror to Milliardo, with long strawberry blond hair and an equally willowy figure, and bright blue eyes. Jesse, the voice of Li, had shoulder length brown hair, which was pulled back into a ponytail to show off his attractive young looking face.
My thoughts and observations were interrupted as Benny glanced back toward Alex with a laugh. "Look at this Alex, the voice of Miki is actually a girl!" I could tell by his voice that the comment was in good humor, not an insult, Quatre blushed slightly.
Alex frowned. "Lucky you," he spoke icily. Pushing himself away from the wall he focused his eyes on me, my braid in particular. "Nice braid," he spoke in a hard sarcastic voice as he took a seat near one of the tables. I stood froze, just looking at him.
Ok, I admit, that comment hurt. I'd never even met the guy but with that one single comment he'd managed to basically slap me across the face. I like my long hair! But I was also kind of protective of it, since it was rare and it had earned me some strange looks in the past. Apparently long hair was not 'in style' here and he'd made that abundantly clear. I noticed Milliardo was watching both of us quietly, waiting for something to happen. Knowing him he'd jump to my defense and there would be a nice little fight started, so instead I decided not to give Alex the pleasure. Instead I shrugged away the comment and walked over to Quatre, Van and Benny.
"Quatre," I mock scolded. "It looks to me like you're flirting with these two."
Quatre flashed me a pretend offended look and took a step back. "Duo, how dare you suggest such a thing. I'm married after all!"
I snickered. "Yeah, but do they know that?"
Van and Benny laughed.
"You have nothing to worry about," Van said with a bright grin. "I would never dream of breaking up a marriage for such a happy young lady."
Quatre blushed at the compliment. She glanced behind me to the door and smiled happily, waving her hand. "Hey Heero! You're finally here."
I turned to see Heero standing in the doorway, he gave Quatre and the others a silent nod of welcome then walked toward the table to sit down. I couldn't help but stare at him in his outfit, of all the things for him to wear...
I hadn't been disappointed in anyway whatsoever when he wore the flight suit last time but this time the new outfit was even better. Instead of a skintight black flight suit he wore a loose green tank top and a tight pair of black spandex shorts. I had to force myself not to stare at his ass as he walked to the table, and my, what an ass. The spandex only helped to show off his body while the loose tank top offered one teasing glimpses of the firm chest beneath. If we had been alone and he'd been wearing that... well lets just say that no matter how many problems we were having currently in our relationship he definitely wouldn't have been wearing that outfit long. I would have pulled it off in a second.
I forced myself not to stare at him and looked away, unfortunately my eyes left Heero and went to Alex, who was glaring at both of us. Apparently I hadn't hidden my reaction to Heero's outfit very well, because he rolled his eyes at us and glared angrily.
"Oh please," he muttered softly in disgust.
I can't quite explain it but that added to the comment about my hair hit home and I felt my self-confidence shrink into nothing. The rest of the con should have been a blast, especially since the other American seiyuu were really nice and had great senses of humor. But it was the one rotten apple, by the name of Alex Mueller, who ruined everything for me. Throughout the entire day he glared at me and made off comments to everything I said, even though they were mostly so silent no one else heard them. But I heard them and they all seemed to pound themselves into my mind.
By the end of the day I was feeling miserable again, even though I managed to hide it pretty well under my grinning mask. As soon as we got back to the hotel I retreated to my room for some long peace, quiet and self-pity. Heero didn't come with, he'd stayed at the hotel to double check on his equipment and stuff, something like that.
It figures. The one time I really felt like I needed a hug he wasn't there. So instead I contented myself to stripping naked and slipping into the deliciously scalding hot waters of the room's personal hot tub.
Oh man, it was heaven! After an entire day of having to deal with Alex and squealing fan girls and seeing Heero in that sexy outfit the hot tub was complete and total heaven. Leaning back in the softly bubbling water I closed my eyes and slowly began to undo my long braid. As I ran my fingers through the long strands I couldn't help but sigh.
"Nice hair." Alex's voice echoed loudly in my mind and I stopped unbraiding my hair. Instead I opened my eyes and looked down at the long locks floating before me in the water. I swallowed and sat up, my eyes moving toward the small cabinet next to the hot tub. Moving through the water I rummaged through the drawers until I found what I was looking for.
A pair of scissors.
Sitting back down in the water I looked back down at my hair, holding the scissors tightly in one hand and a few locks in the other.
They say in times of trouble it uses improves one's mood to cut their hair or do something like that. I had an incredible urge to cut mine, especially with everything happening around me and things getting worse and worse. With a sigh of defeat I took a small amount of hair and brought the scissors to it.
Snip.
I watched the small amount of hair fall into the water. I raised my hand to cut more off when I heard the door behind me open. I turned to see Heero standing in the doorway, his eyes locked immediately on the scissors and then focused on me.
"What are you doing?" He asked quietly.
I looked away quickly and felt a sudden stab of guilt. Sighing I dropped the scissors with a loud splash into the water.
I am such an idiot.
TBC...
Here is my warning, I know next to nothing about the American Seiyuu for Gundam Wing, so please don't take any offense to how I have them act. I've only seen the seiyuu for Duo and Trowa and the part above was already planned before I met them. To be honest they were really nice guys, so please don't hurt me!
1. Yes, that is actually what the American seiyuu for Trowa looks like. I agree with my friend who got his pic, damn he is good looking!
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