Fallen Shinigami
Section 1: Duo's new look

Author's note: Disclaimers Standards apply here. Please don't flame or sue me. I'm only doing this fanfic because I'm extremely bored. Gundam Wing characters except Kotori Shiou belong to its rightful owner(s).

'Why that two-timer Duo! He promised me to be here by 1 o'clock, and this is 3 o'clock, and he's still not here yet! What exactly does he want? Calling me to be here by 1, and he himself wasn't even here yet. Hmph! I had enough! I'm going back.' I thought angrily as I walked away from the park, when suddenly, I spotted Duo's brown long braid.

"Hildey! Hildey! Wait! I'm sorry, Hildey!" It was Duo…I should've known. What kind of reason would he give me now?

When he caught up with me, he was panting, and tried to gain control of his breath.

"Hildey (hosh) sorry (gasp) I'm (hhh) late (hosh)." He said while trying to catch is breath.

"Hold up, Duo. Catch your breath." I said calmly to him, calming him down.

"Hilde, I'm sorry. I'm awfully sorry. I tried to come here in time, but my office got all messy again, and I can't find my document paper, so I have to spend 1.5 hours trying to find it, and I still can't find it. I'm sorry to made you wait for 2 hours." He said with both hands above his head, bowing repeatedly at me.

I laughed at his reaction, and just replied, "Duo Maxwell, you should clean your office! Anyways, why did you call me here?"

Duo smirked in embarrassment, and replied, "Actually, I have another mission coming up with Heero and the others, so I would be leaving tomorrow to L1 colony. I couldn't possibly go to the breakfast party with you tomorrow morning, I'm very sorry. I'll make it up to you sometimes."

I was silence for a second, and I could see that Duo was getting worried that I was mad at him, and that I might not help him find his stuffs. I wouldn't do that, right? After all, he's such a nice guy, and he helped me from the mobile dolls assaults a couple of times. It's true that I'm mad at him about being late ALL the time, but I still LIKE him.

Considering his concern to me, I replied, "It's okay, Duo. I know how important it is to you. Good luck. And come back alive, okay?"

Duo's head was raised up in happiness, and he answered me cheerfully,

"Really? You're not mad? Thank you, thank you, Hilde! You're the best!"

I giggled at his answer, when suddenly he caught me by the waist and raised me up in the air. I yelled at him to put me down.

"Duo, you fool! Put me down, people are watching us, you know?"

"So what? Let them be, they're just jealous!" Finally, Duo returned me to the ground, and once my feet touched the ground, I started walking away from the park. Duo chased after me, and eventually he caught up.

"Hildey, wait up! Are you still mad?"

"No, Duo, I'm fine. Anyways, Relena gave me an invitation to her wedding today. Her wedding is tomorrow. I'm going to attend it, how about you?"

"For sure, but with who is ojousan married to?"

"Duo, you know who! Don't act dumb in front of me. Of course her all time prince charming, Heero Yuy a.k.a. Odin Lowe Jr.! Duo no baka!" I yelled at him, and advanced through our office, a pretty big office that stood in the middle of two buildings owned by the Winner Company, Quatre's company.

Duo ran to catch up with me, as he replied, "Alright, alright. Sorry, Hildey. Hildey! Wait for me!"

I unlocked our office building and went inside. Once I went in, I peered through Duo's office window. Holy moly! There's papers scattered everywhere. When Duo arrived at the office, I gazed at him accusingly. Duo glanced back at me, nervous. He started to sweat, and finally gave me his excuse.

"Uhh, that's when I was looking for the paper. It's natural to be messy when you're looking for something, right? Ha ha ha." He laughed nervously.

I screamed at him,

"Maxwell, get in there now! I could've find your document paper if it wasn't this messy. Duo! Get in there, and clean it up! Quick!"

"Uhn, okay, okay…" He replied, and walked hesitantly to his incredibly messy office, and started cleaning it off.

I went in, and helped him to find the paper. Duo searched from a pile to the other.

"Nope, not here."

"Not here."

"Uh uh"

"Nope"

"Where in the world could it possibly be? Hildeeee…" Duo started to whine again.

"Calm down, Maxwell. First, sort out that pile of papers into the drawers. NEATLY!"

Duo went to the nearest pile, and started to sort them by category grudgingly.

Finally, after 3 hours of cleaning, I finally found the paper. "Here it is, Duo."

"Yes! Hurrah!"

His office was now clean, and everything is in order. I shrugged my head in amazement as he jumped up and down on the floor. Then, he went to me, and dragged me to jump with him. I refused, and walked away towards my office. I arrived at my office, and when I opened the door, papers flew everywhere. Duo stared at me nervously. I glanced back at him, and gave him my best 'I'm gonna kill you for this' look.

He backed away from my office, trying to flee. But, right before he went into his office, I caught the collar of his shirt, and dragged him to my office. Once again, I scolded him.

"DUO MAXWELL! What the heck did you do with my office?"

He answered me with a mischievous smile, and then shrugged it off. "I didn't do it, Hilde. I was looking for my paper. I didn't go in there and mess up your C cabinet."

"Duo…if you didn't mess my office up, who else could've done it? You just gave up a clue that showed you were in my office. How did you know it was C cabinet?"

Duo covered his mouth with both of his hands, and answered, "I guess, yeah, just a lucky guess."

"Yeah right, Duo! Isn't that your fingerprints on my cabinet?"

"Ah, ha ha ha…"

"Come back here, Maxwell! You have to clean this up!"

"No, Hilde, please! Anything but that!"

"You have no choice, Duo Maxwell!"

I proceeded to drag him by the ear into my office.

"Aww, ouch, alright, alright! I'll do it."

"That's more like it…"

3 hours later…

"Ahh, finally finished…Okay, can I go now?"

"Yes, Duo. Domo arigato. But, you have one more task to do since you broke your promise."

"What promise?"

"You said that you were going to take me on a dinner yesterday, but you forgot, and went to sleep! Now, you have to pay me back! I was waiting 2 hours before I turn in also. Now, let's go. And, remember, you'll pay for all of the food."

"Gulp…but, Hilde, you said that you were going to pay for the food. And besides, why didn't you wake me up so that we could go?" He returned my words, and smiled a mischievous smile.

"Well, I didn't know where you slept until I discovered you this morning, so I can't wake you up. And anyways, since you broke the promise, you will be the one paying all the food. Now, go change in your room! I will be changing too, so no peeking!"

I went upstairs to my room, while Duo went to his downstairs. When I arrived at my room, I locked the door, and opened my closet. I put on a cobalt blue sleeveless sundress embroidered with silver thread, and opened my braid. I accessorized my hair with a violet headband, and placed my faint-gold watch on my wrist. I looked at myself in the mirror for any errors while I put my make up on, and proceeded to my shoe closet. I picked out a pair of royal blue heels, and put it on my feet.

"Wow, not bad at all, if I say so myself." I said as I looked once more at the mirror at my reflection.

There was a knock on the door, and a voice calling out my name. Of course it was Duo.

"Hildey, are you ready yet? Hildey?"

I chuckled to myself once more, and proceeded to open the door. When I opened the door, Duo was staring at me, surprised and impressed.

"Egad, Hilde! You look totally awesome!"

"Thanks, Duo."

I inspected him, and frowned.

"Duo, where's your suit?"

"I don't have one."

"What! You think you're gonna go to Relena's wedding wearing that? No can do, Maxwell. We're going to get you some suit!"

Duo ignored me, and I proceeded to drag him by the collar to the mall. I closed the door behind, and locked it. Duo was totally surprised, since he thought we're going to eat first.

"Whoa, Hilde…Isn't the restaurant that way?"

"We're not going to any restaurant, Mr. Maxwell. I have to get a suit for you, it's time you do, since tomorrow is Relena and Heero's wedding. Now, stop whining, and let's go."

"But…but…but…I LIKE my clothes the way it is…I DON'T WANT NEW CLOTHES OR LOOKS!!! Hildeeeee…" He whines again and again until finally we reached the shopping mall. I proceeded to drag him into my favorite store, Cyberspace Clothes. There, the shopkeepers greeted me politely as always, and dragged Duo into the men's section while I went to the ladies' section to browse some summer clothes. From afar, I could hear Duo screaming from the dressing room. I could imagine that the shopkeepers are having the worst time of their live trying to get Duo to dress formally. Two minutes later, after all of the screaming and yelling, finally Duo calmed down. I looked across to see if everything's okay, and then went back browsing. Half an hour later, Duo came out with tears upon his face. I peered through the men's section and found out that Duo's hair was cut off into Heero's haircut. I swore I could've laugh like a freak at him if I didn't push myself not to laugh. I popped myself in to see him, and to tease him a bit.

"Duo…awesome look! Thanks a million, Roger, Martha, Claire, and Dave. I owe you guys a lot."

"Don't mention it, Hilde. We're glad to make over this young lad." They pushed themselves to smile politely, I know. They can't possibly have a great time with the stubborn Duo who is now checking out his new suit, until he realizes that I was looking. He looked back at me, and then turned his head away, slightly blushing, I could tell.

I walked towards him, and complimented him,

"Hey, Duo! You look awesome. See, I told you that you look better with formal clothes on. Anyways, I figure they cut your braids off, but you look more handsome this way."

Duo blushed furiously, and then replied, "No way, Hildey. Look at me! I look like Heero now, with the haircut, and the formal suit. Hhhh…I bet that everyone's gonna tease me at the party, especially Wu-Man." He hangs his head down.

I smiled, and said, "Aw, come on, Duo. You look super-terrific! Lighten up a bit!"

"LIGHTEN UP? How could I lighten up if my braid was cut off? (sob) It's gonna take me years to grew it back to the full length. Well, since we're done here, can we go now? Puleaseeee?" He looked at me with his innocent puppy eyes, and of course, I couldn't refuse.

I nodded, and went to the cashier to pay for his clothes and mine that I just bought.

As we exited the mall, I could see that there were plenty of ladies that laid eyes on MY Duo. I wish they would just bug off! I wanted to scream very loudly at them to mind their own business and lay off MY Duo, but I controlled myself. Luckily, Duo didn't notice the girls, so I'm very glad. If he noticed them, I vowed to myself I would crush every bone he has in his body. (Wait a sec, looks like I'm jealous, huh? Duo does looks very handsome after he had his haircut. I'm serious; I like him even better now). I started to shift the shopping bag from left to right, till I accidentally hit Duo's leg.

"Ouch! Hildey, what are you doing?

"Aaa…nothing, Duo. Sorry…"

He stared at me in confusion, and then looked away.

After the exhausting shopping at the mall, we decided to stop by at the restaurant that Duo promised me for dinner. Of course, he had to pay the bills, and he pouted about it the whole time.

When we exited the restaurant, and started to walk to our home, the company, I notice that somebody is following us. Duo noticed it too, for his whole body stiffed. After a couple steps from the restaurant, we stopped, and proceeded to take our guns that we hid in our pockets. We turned around, and pointed the gun at the figures that followed us. We advanced towards them, and saw a glimpse of a sandy-brown hair, and lock of neatly cut dark brown hair.

The two figures appeared behind the dark, and greeted us cheerfully.

"Hello, Duo, Hilde. Recognize us?" The woman started as she walked beside the other figure, and I can see that she's holding to her partner's arms very tightly.

I could feel that my jaw is dropped open when I saw the two figures clearly from the darkness. It was Heero and Relena. What the heck are they doing following us?

"Relena? Heero? What're you guys doing here? Why are you following us?" Duo started conversationally as he put his gun back in his pocket. I did the same after him.

Relena replied cheerfully, "Hmmm…we're just here to eat at the restaurant. When we were about to enter, we saw you guys left the table, so we hid behind the door, and decided to follow you." When she finished her sentence, Relena noticed that there's something different about Duo.

Relena whispered something into Heero's ears, and then both of them smirked at Duo. Duo was a bit confused at their reaction, but then realized that they had noticed his brand-new hairdo.

"Well, Duo. Who cut your hair? You used to be very picky about your braid, and let absolutely no one but yourself to even touch it. Well?" Heero asked him while still smiling. I could tell that both Heero and Relena is holding back their laughter, since they know that it's not very polite to laugh at people.

Duo replied nervously, "Ahhh…well, ummm…well, Hilde and I went to the shopping mall today. And the clerk there gave me the haircut. Of course, I look identical to Heero, now don't I, Relena, Heero? I told them a million times not to mess with my hair, but they injected this tranquilizer to make me shut up while they trimmed my hair."

Relena smiled kindly to Duo, and then faced Heero again, who's giving her quite a romantic smile. As soon as they're done, Relena glanced to me.

"So, Hilde. How did you manage to bring Duo to the shopping mall? The last time I brought Heero, he was feeling extremely uncomfortable, and always wanting to flee from the mall. I have to drag him in to the clothes store to get a nice suit for him, after all, he can't wear his tang tops and spandex shorts during our wedding, right?" She looked at Heero, who's blushing slightly.

I replied calmly, "Well, I actually have to use certain tricks, and anyways, the clerks helped me to make-over him, so it was pretty easy. The only problem is that he whines, pouts, and scowled the whole way until we got inside the mall.

"Is that so, Duo?" Heero suddenly asked his former partner.

"Ugh…yes, I did..." Duo replied in embarrassment while trying hard to deny the truth.

Heero nodded, and gave him a mischievous smile. Duo stared back at him, confused, but then he looked away. After a couple seconds of silence, Relena bid us farewell.

"Okay, I guess we'll be going now. Bye, and see you tomorrow." Relena held on to Heero's arms, and they walked back to the restaurant. After a couple of seconds, they disappeared into the thin air. Duo and I just stared into the darkness, thinking of different thoughts, but quickly snapped back, and continued walking.

Duo and I walked in silence, until finally we reached our office. I opened the door, and found out that papers were scattered everywhere, as if a tornado had just stricken it. I stared at the scattered paper, went in, and entered my office. As soon as I entered my office, I discovered a bouquet of pinks roses and a card addressed to me. I set the bouquet aside, and opened the card. Duo was behind me, trying to read the card over my shoulder, but I shoved him off. He scowled, and then walked back to his office. The card said:

My dearest Hilde,

I hope that you like the roses. It suits you very well.

Sincerely,

Your secret admirer

I tossed the card in the trash bin, and thought. 'Who the heck is this person? Why is he messing with our office? And most of all, how in the world did he know my name, or my address?'

*Who is this mysterious person, and what does he want with Hilde? And why would he or she mess up Duo's office? Find out in part 2, the secret admirer…

Author's note: Well, how was it? This is my fourth attempt of making a fanfic, so please don't scold me for grammar mistakes, and lack of descriptions. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy it. By the way, this fan fiction took place after the OVA series Endless Waltz, when the pilots are about 20 years old. Comments? E-mail me at aerial@mechpilot.com