Title: Rumors 1/3
Author: Spider-Jen
Rating: PG-13/R
Pairings: 1x2
Warnings: Yaoi (boyxboy), AU, Fluff, No Beta, Short
Summary: Duo moves to a new school and is immediately attracted to the school playboy, but is Heero Yuy really like everyone says?

Not The Best Way to Meet -1-

Duo was the new kid in school, again. He'd done quite a bit of town hopping as a kid, having a father in the military. According to his dad all the moving around would stop now that he had a good paying job as an air traffic controller for the FAA.

Walking to his new locker with a book bag full of books and several under his arm, Duo found what he'd been looking for. Locker sixty-nine, he rolled his eyes again at the number. It was situated at the end of the hall next to a fake, painted locker seventy. The adjacent wall was a mural of a never-ending hallway.

His assigned locker was already open and a girl with short cropped hair was rummaging around. Duo walked around her and leaned on the painted locker. The girl looked at him confused as they exchanged hellos.

"Sorry to do this to you, but I'm your new locker mate." He brandished his schedule, locker assignment in the upper right corner.

"Damn." The girl lamented, but then brightened. "Oh well, its not so much loosing half a locker as making a new friend."

Duo smiled, he liked her attitude. "I'm Duo."

"Hilde."

Hilde started to rummage around the locker with renewed vigor. Talking out loud about how they should divide the locker.

Not being particularly interested in the logistics of locker division, Duo scanned the hallway's inhabitants. The usual, jocks, honor roll students and misfits, same as any other school. His eyes stopped suddenly when he found his gaze locked with deep blue eyes. They were the most incredible eyes he'd ever seen and the face they came with wasn't so bad either. In fact the whole package was to die for. The young man was obviously a jock, not only did he have the physic, but he was surrounded by young men of similar builds.

Duo didn't notice that Hilde stopped talking and probably would have continued to return the blue eyed boy's stare if she hadn't mumbled a stricken, "Oh no."

"What," he asked glancing back at her for a second. When he looked back at the other boy the spell was broken and he was scowling at one of the boys in a circle around him.

"Nothing." She said, but it was obviously anything but. "That one's just no good."

"Really? He looks pretty damn good from here." He gave her his patented Maxwell grin to which she rolled her eyes.

"Look, but don't touch, I'm telling you. He's the love 'em and leave 'em sort."

Duo returned her frown, if it was one thing Duo hated, it was a player. "You don't say?"

"Yup, a regular man whore that one and he loves fresh meat. AND he's dating the head cheerleader!" Hilde seemed particularly irked by this fact.

When Duo looked over at the crowd of jocks again and the blue eyed young man, he noticed a pack of cheerleaders that he missed previously. They weren't exactly together but the girl with long blonde hair was standing next to the boy, her hand brushing against his occasionally. The first bell rang and the crowd in the hall started to thin.

"Shoot my first class is on the other side of the building on the third floor. You ok to find your way?"

"Yeah, no problem, I'm right there." Duo pointed to a door across the hall.

"Don't look now, but trouble's headed your way." Hilde ran off down the hall, Duo turned to see the same blue eyed young man headed in his direction all his friends disappeared.

'The nerve of this guy! One look and he thinks he can get into my pants!' Duo turned to his locker and violently started shuffling books around. When the boy stopped at his locker, Duo didn't even turn to look, but he could feel heat rising to his cheeks.

"Hey…" The gruff voice stated. "I saw you looking at me."

"Oh yeah?" Duo continued to fain interest in the arrangement of his books inwardly smirking. 'That's right, welcome to the cold shoulder hot stuff.'

"Yeah, and I don't want you getting ideas, I'm not interested."

"What?" Duo turned to the other boy flabbergasted.

"Just stay away from me, ok? I'm not interested." The gruff voice matched the scowl on the boy's face.

"Excuse me?" 'Was this guy for real? He's got some nerve!'

But the boy was already walking away and Duo was left to grumble to himself in annoyance. He stepped into his first class, sat at the first empty seat he found and fumed. 'The gall of that guy! Saying that I was coming on to him or something!'

Duo was infuriated through first period, homeroom and on through second. In his third period science class he found Hilde sitting at the back table.

"So tell me about the jerk." Duo insisted slamming his books down on the table.

"Uh…ok. His name is Heero Yuy, he's captain of the basket ball team, senior, honor roll student. What happened with him this morning?"

"What else, what about that stuff you said this morning?" Duo ignored her question and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Well, when he was a junior last year he started sleeping with every freshman he could find. Boys, girls, didn't matter and his girlfriend Relena is usually all over him. Now what happened this morning? Did he hit on you?"

"No!" Duo practically shrieked. "He told me he was NOT INTERESTED!"

"Did you want him to be interested?" Hilde asked blinking up at him innocently.

"No! Of course not." Heat flushed through Duo's cheeks. For a brief moment he asked himself why exactly he was so upset. "I mean, the nerve of him acting like I was hitting on him when HE was the one staring at ME!"

"So…what are you going to do?"

"Try out for basketball." Duo slammed his hand down on the table.

"Try out for basketball?"

"Yup."

"What is that supposed to do?"

"You said he was captain of the basketball team. Well I'm going to show him not to mess with me."

That same day during gym class, Duo asked the teacher about the basketball team. He was informed that the gym teacher was the coach and that he'd just missed tryouts. Putting on the Maxwell charm Duo got himself a tryout that day after school prior to basketball tryouts.

When his tryout came Duo played his heart out against one of the jerk's jock friends, Trowa. The guy had him in height, but Duo was running circles around him. He might be shorter, but Duo was fast.

The coach was very excited to add him to the team and by the time the rest of the team came for practice, Duo had a shit eating grin on his face. The jerk's face immediately turned sour as he caught sight of the braided boy.

"What's he doing here?" Heero asked the coach.

"He's the newest member of the team."

Heero looked less than thrilled. For the next hour Duo proceeded to take every chance to hit Heero on the back of the head with the ball.

"Oops sorry, my palms are getting sweaty." Duo smiled disarmingly while Heero fumed.

"Alright boys, that's enough, hit the showers." The coach yelled.

Heero caught hold of Duo's arm before he could enter the locker room. "What's your problem? Are you stalking me?"

"Oh my god, could you be any more full of yourself?!" Duo stood in awe. 'Unbelievable!'

"Tell me you aren't here because of me?" Heero accused.

"I'm only here to run circles around you, captain." Duo spat.

"What's your problem?" Heero asked again.

"What's my problem? What's YOUR problem? I'm not the one that nearly stripped me naked in the hallway with that look and then come to me saying, I'm not interested."

"What?! You were starring at me!"

Duo ignored Heero's outburst and continued, "You have some nerve saying that to me. I'm not good enough to be another notch in your belt?"

At this Heero went silent and his whole face went red.

"Well the hell with you Mr. Heero Yuy, I wasn't interested!" With that Duo stomped off into the locker room with the rest of the team. Heero never came in to the locker room, Duo watched the door the entire time.

TBC