Awe he's so cute!
Trowa walked around the enclosure of the orphanage. A small smile on his lips as he looked at all the small children huddled around Quatre and Wufei, Duo was no where in sight, which wasn't surprising. Duo loved kids but they had a fascination with his braid and wouldn't leave him alone, and despite his jokester attitude even Duo could only take so much. All four of them, Duo, Wufei, Quatre and Trowa, lived in the same house and were all part of a government military unit. Each of them were feared demons just by themselves but together they were a army no on would think of messing with. So why in the world were they at a orphanage thinking of adopting a child for all of them to raise? The answer was simple. Quatre thought it was a good idea and that a child was the only thing missing from all their lives. And only after a few weeks of convincing the others they were looking at kids.
Quatre was in love with all the children, smiling and picking up as many as he possibly could, meanwhile Trowa was worried that once they got home it would be infested with so many kids they wouldn't be able to breath. Trowa couldn't take the hustle and bustle of all the children, while Duo on a good day was bad enough, but he was one of those people who shared the view point that all children were suffocating. Deciding to get away from the noise Trowa moved over a large tree, and by pure luck looked up and spotted a small Black kitten. Up on closer inspection, Trowa saw that it wasn't only black but black with dark drown stripes running through its fur.
"What are you looking at Trowa?" Quatre quietly asked from his side, having managed to get away from the kids by distracting them with some toys he brought for a donation.
"Hey there's a Kitten in the tree!" Duo stated, magically appearing with the rest of the group that was looking up into the tree at said Kitten. With all the commotion going on below, the Kitten opened its eyes and fixed wide Prussian eyes on the group.
"Aren't cats supposed to have yellow eyes not blue ones?" Duo looked to Trowa.
"I think it's a NeKo (1)"
"But aren't NeKos endangered?"
"Actually they're all gone" Trowa mumbled sadly
"Then what's...?" Duo trailed off as the 'kitten' jumped gracefully from its tree and landed on the ground with only a quiet thump. The kitten walked up to the group that was standing in a line all staring at it, sat down and started to faintly glow. A second later, there was a small boy about the age of five standing their in little black shorts and a green tank top, messy brown hair and brown cat ears on the top of his head with a matching tail twitching behind him. The group could only stare mouth opened at the small child as he proceeded to cross his arms over his chest and glare the them angrily.
Awe he's so cute!
After participating in the standoff for several minutes the small boy slowly started walking around them inspecting them from head to toe, glaring the whole time. After walking from behind Duo, clearly done with his inspection, still glaring, walked away. Trowa looked to Wufie, who looked to Duo who looked to Quatre, all with dumfounded expressions on their faces. After a few moments of wonder, the group looked to the boy now standing so they could see his profile, and between his lips hung a cigarette! The group was shocked once again, which was becoming a trend, from seeing the five year old smoking. The boy stood there happily smoking away seemingly obvious to everything else now that he had his smoke.
"HEERO YUY!" a shrilling voice sounded across the playground, and Duo could have swore the boys eyes widened two times larger.
"WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT SMOKING!" a medium sized lady angrily stomped across the grass to the boy. Right before the lady was within grabbing distance the boy jumped away from her grasp and made a mad dash to the tree. Too bad for the boy that the lady anticipated his dash and lunged at his small legs taking him down only a few feet from the tree. The woman now on her back with a squirming cat boy held at arms length over her stomach. The cigarette hanging loosely from his lips and a small pout on his face, ears pressed back tail twitching furiously.
Awe he's so cute!
He took the cigarette from his mouth and tapped it, a small bundle of ash falling onto the woman's exposed stomach, and with a piercing scream the boy was thrown away from her and if he had burnt her. (No pun intended) Before anyone could move to help the woman or get the boy he was already up the tree safely nestled in the branches away from view. The woman finally gathering herself brushed the dirt off her shirt and pant and stomped over to the tree standing at the bottom hands on hips.
"Heero you better come down her right now!"
Nothing
"Fine if you're not coming down give me the cigarettes!"
A lit cigarette fluttered down and the woman had to step out of the way so she wasn't burnt again.
"The whole pack Heero!"
A empty cigarette box fell from the tree
The woman started mumbling something about 'stupid visitors and not watching their pockets'
"What do you mean?" Duo asked out, startling the woman, she clearly didn't notice them before.
"Every time a visitor comes, Heero always manages to steal their cigarettes"
"If people cant keep a small boy from stealing their cigarettes then they deserve to have them stolen" Duo laughed light heartily.
Quatre started giggling quietly "What is it Quat?"
"Isn't that your brand of cigarettes Duo?"(2)
"Wha-?" Duo said dumbly and started digging through his back pocket and mumbling a shit before breaking out in laughter. Walking up to the tree Duo looked up smiling "Well, I guess he gets to keep them"
everyone falls over anime style
"No he doesn't get to keep them!" The lady harps "You come down now Heero or I'll have to come up there and beat you!"
Duo started climbing up the tree to retrieve the small boy when he hear a small whimper after that 'woman' threatened to beat him. Duo saw him huddled on a branch knees drawn up to his chest arms wrapped around legs and his head burred in his lap, ears pressed flat.
"It's OK, I'm not going to hurt you" Duo quietly whispered to the boy when he picked him up cradling him to his chest, a small shiver running through his small frame.
Once the pair made it to the ground and the rest of the group saw the state the child was in they all fixed angry glares at the woman.
"How could you beat someone!" Wufei exclaimed
"A child no less!" Quatre yelled, this being one of the few times he raised his voice.
"Wh...what?" The woman was baffled, looked at the angry faces surrounding her "I didn't mean it literally"
Duo gave her one last murderous glare and move to the orphanage the small bundle still clutched in his arms.
Heero's head poked out of Duo's arms once they reached the desk at the front of the orphanage, fixing Duo in spot with a confused look his big blue watery eyes.
"How do you feel about coming home with us Hee-chan?" Heero's head looked to the others, as if silently asking 'really?', and was greeted with nods and smiles.
Heero tilted his head and raised one of his eyebrows, trying to decipher if this was really happening, one ear twitching back the other one perking forwards.
Awe he's so cute!
Once the paperwork was taken care off the group pilled into Trowa's black SUV, Heero was planted on Duo's lap with a seatbelt holding him in place. Duo was chatting up a storm telling Heero all about his new home what to do to piss off Wufei, how good Trowa's cooking was, and how much money Quatre had. The whole time Heero was silently looking out the window, tail twitching every so often on the leather seat beside Wufei. Trowa couldn't help but smile in his rear view mirror at the cute picture. The same thought came into all of their minds.
Awe he's so cute!
Heero's big blue eyes widened even more when he saw the size of his new home, it wasn't a house it was a mansion! The kitchen was all stainless steal, the sofas and couches were all leather, and the majority of the house was hard wood floor. There were so many rooms Heero could imagine days of looking through them all and their was even a library. After given a brief tour of the house, Heero was shown his room (which was done in earth tones), and was given a pair of extra big pajamas, the shirt falling off his shoulder every time he moved.
Duo came in a few minutes latter to see how his kitten was doing and found Heero curled up in the corner of the room. Frowning, Duo picked up his small form and plopped him in the center of his new large bed. Heero sat cross legged on his bed and gave Duo a cute confused look like the one before.
"You sleep on the bed Hee-chan"
His kitten gave his another head tilt and then curled up in a ball on the top of the blankets and snuggled his head into the blanket, proceeding to go to sleep.
Duo decided tomorrow to teach Heero how to sleep, tonight he could do it how he liked, besides he was too cute to move anyway.
Awe he's so cute!
In the morning, Duo happily bounced into Heero's room, a huge smile on his face as he flung the door open and peered into the room. There was a small imprint on Heero's bed but the kitten himself was no longer their. Duo initially panicked, thinking someone kidnapped him or aliens abducted him or... Duo's thoughts stopped as he looked in the same corner and saw the small curled up body of Heero. He must have went back to the corner once I left Duo inwardly sighed to himself.
He picked up the now waking child in his arms and looked down on the little yawning face, and little hands coming up to rub sleepy eyes.
"You're supposed to sleep in your bed Hee-chan" Duo schooled once again, opening his mouth for a big speech about how sleeping on the floor was bad for your back and other medical reasons, but stopped when he saw Heero look up at him with pleading eyes and his little hands fisted into his shirt.
"OK fine, but you have to seep in your bed from now on, Kay? good!" Not waiting for a answer Duo carried him downstairs for breakfast were the others were waiting and already sitting around the table. Seated on a chair between Duo and Quatre, only the tips of Heero's little cat ears proved that someone was actually sitting there. Trowa quickly rectified the situation by grabbing a phone book and other thick text to make a higher seat, and soon the cat ears were joined by a whole face.
"Pancakes Heero?" Quatre asked holding out a pancake for him, a little nod and the pancake was on his plate. Once the bacon came around, which Duo was furiously grabbing, Heero wouldn't even touch It and gave it a shriveled up face, pushing the plate away.
As the breakfast moved on, the observation of 'Heero almost has as much syrup and you do duo' came up, and Duo was shocked to see his sea of syrup was almost duplicated beside him. And a content Heero eating his bits of pancake soaked in syrup happily.
"I'm amazed Duo! a five year old manages to have better table manners then you" Wufei scolded after some of Duo's pancake managed to fall of his fork and land on his lap leaving a large sticky patch.
"At least I don't have the intelligence of a five year old!" Duo retaliated putting his hands on the table standing up.
"OH YAH!"
"YAH!"
"WHY DON'T YOU TRY SAYING THAT IT MY FACE!"
"I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOUR FACE, TURNS OUT IT WAS YOU'R ASS"
"DUO!" Quatre scolded covering Heero's cat ears.
"Oops sorry" they both muttered sitting back down.
The rest of the meal progressed in silence till Duo saw Hee-chan stand tippie toes on the edge of his chair, leaning toward the bowl of fruit in the center of the table, still a foot away from the tip of his fingers. A look of determination oh his little face and cat ears pressed back, whole body stretched out.
"Need a hand Hee-chan?"
Blue eyes fixed a glare on Duo and turned back to the task at hand, getting the fruit. Duo decided that when he wanted help he would ask and went back to eating his breakfast ignoring the distressed kitten, the others following his example. After a few moments, Duo wondered when Heero's stubborn streak would come to a end, and couldn't help but smile when he felt a small tug on his shirt sleeve. Looking down there was Heero, tugging on the fabric of his sleeve and pointing at the fruit bowl, head lowered in defeat.
"Do you want the banana?"
Shaken head, negative
"Orange?"
Nope
"Apple?"
Denied
"Kiwi?"
Bingo!
Heero's little chibi arms reached up to take the small fury fruit from Duo's hand. Happily flopping back in his chair, contently clutching his prize in his hands. With a flick of his hand, Heero had five small little knifes at his disposal and the fury fruit was soon defused. Green fruit pieces disappearing in a over wide mouth.
Awe he's so cute!
Duo contently looked at the smiling boy, taking out a cigarette and attempted to light it. There it was one minute and suddenly gone the next.
"Hey where's my cigarette?"
"You're quitting Duo" Quatre ordered, placing Duo's missing cigarette across the table out of reach. (3)
"But why Quat!"
"Don't whining Duo, you have to quite, its a bad influence on Heero"
"But I-"
"NO DUO!'
"BUT MY CIGARETTES!"
"NO DUO"
"BUT-"
"NO"
"BUT-"
"NO! AND THAT'S FINAL, I WONT HAVE A FIVE YEAR OLD SMOKING!"
"This isn't fair!"
"You have to make sacrifice for children Duo" Wufei smugly said, taking a drink of his coffee
"Oh shut up!" Duo mumbled crossing his arms. A sad Heero looked up at Duo with big watery eyes, thinking that he was mad at him.
"Wha...oh no Heero, I'm not mad at you!" Duo quickly reassured him taking the small boy into his arms. "Do you want to go shopping for some new clothes how'd you like that? OK lets go!" Duo picked up the boy and started walking for the door the others yelling after that Duo had to get dressed first. The small confused Heero being carted around the house looking around with huge dazed eyes.
Awe he's so cute!
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Foot Notes
(1) Neo in my fic are Cat/Humans (yes I know Neko means cat in Japanese, just humor me)
(2)Yes Duo smokes in this fic, I can make him if I want to!
(3)How many of you thought it was Heero stealing it again? (well I knew cause I wrote it but haha!)