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Name: Happiness is...A Cup of Hot Chocolate

I do not own GW

How did it come to this? Why had it come to this? It couldn't
be...this couldn't be happening, no, not to me.
But it was happening; because I'm here, sitting on my bed, eyes
puffy and red, a shiner on my eye...by my best friend. Bruises and
cuts inflicted by one of my own.
My eyes hurt from crying so much. I've been crying...what the hell
is wrong with me. But all I can do is shut my eyes and bury myself
in the blankets of the master bed.
From across the room a door crinks open, someone walks in, gets on
the bed, pulls the covers away, holds me and touches me.
Why? How could he do this to me? How could they do this to me? Why?

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I can feel the sun, the harsh light hitting my face. I use to hate
it, during the war anyway, yet I changed. We all changed. As I lift
my eyelids to the ceiling I rest my neck on the chair, just
relaxing, drifting out of sleep.
I never thought I would be back here. I never thought I would have
the courage to come back into the light. After the war, after what I
had done I never wanted to be seen, I was ashamed you see, I'm still
ashamed.
I lift me head from the chair to gaze out the window. It's still
morning, thankfully not to early but early enough. I here someone
walk up to me. Which one will it be? Ah, soft blue eyes, Quatre.
"Here." he says softly and hands me a green coffee mug. I take it
nodding my thanks and sip it. It's hot, I flinch and take a longer
sip this time, hot chocolate. How did he know?
He leaves quickly as he came and I turn back to the window. The mug
is set down on the side table. I curl up into the chair and cover my
hands with the sleeves to my old turtle neck. It took me a while to
feel safe after the war, yet I accomplished the impossible. I
finally feel safe at home and mostly here. I stare at a row of
books, my eyes begin to droop and sleep takes me.

Someone is nearby, I can sense them. I open my eyes slowly and brush
a strand of black hair from eyes. I don't tie it up anymore, I cant
take the headaches... go figure, during the war I could handle such
things.
The mug is still on the table and I reach to get it, sitting up in
the chair. I'm surprised that it's still hot and I smile slowly,
Quatre, he knows me to well. Taking a sip I get lost in the
chocolaty bliss of the sweet and bitter liquid.
Looking up I finally notice the intruder. Duo Maxwell. Standing
close to the library doors looking thoughtfully at me. He looks
normal enough, Hair long and down to his butt, eyes wide and indigo,
black attire, heart shape face, yet theres something off.
We stare at eachother for a few seconds and I seem to grow more
concerned. It has been five years after all, I had disapeared
without a trace, things change and people change. But I wasn't
expecting anything like this. Whats more scarier then seeing a
silent, passive Duo Maxwell? It's unheard of.
I stand up from the seat and braid my hair quickly. We still look at
eachother, his eyes boring into me on the spot.
"Maxwell." I say trying to break the silence and tension as well. He
nods his head to acknowledge me and I frown. I can see the same
person I knew, the same careless, hyper boy from the war, but theres
something else too, something casting a shadow over the old him.
I walk to the door and into the hallway not giving him another
glance. It's eerie to tell you the truth, he's making me nervous and
suddenly I don't want to be in the same room with him.
I walk into the kitchen; Quatre and Trowa are there fixing supper.
They both look up at me and smile.
"Have a nice nap?" asked Trowa.
I nodded, "It was comforting.. ."
"Did you see Duo yet?"
I nodded slowly," He was in the library when I woke up." I turn to
them," We spoke briefly."
Now thats a lie. I only said 'Hi' to the guy, well in my terms. But
I didn't want them to worry, this was suppose to be a happy time.
For all of us to be together and I'm not going to ruin it.

The guests started to arrive at 6:00. I went upstairs to take a nap
and get ready, but mostly to take a nap. For some reason I like
sleeping...I could have worse habits. The good thing is that I'm
still in tip-top shape. I open my eyes as I hear the front door
close. I've been hearing that alot lately drfiting in and out of
sleep. From what I remember I know there is a lot of people down
stairs. I guess it's time to get up.
I take a quick shower, put on an orange turtle neck and some jeans,
my hairs left down to dry. When I open the bedroom door music is
playing downstairs. People are talking lively downstairs, good, at
least I won't be noticed. I walk down the hall and start to make my
discend, I stop when I reach the third step to the last and scan
over the crowd.
All are familar faces. Some holding wine glasses, while others have
plastic cups full of punch. I already recognize a woman in the
middle of the room. Who wouldn't recognize Noin with her blue hair
standing out out of the blonds ,brunettes and red heads. Next to her
is Dorothy, who has a close eye on Trowa who is talking to
Chatherine while serving appetizers. I smile to myself, him and
Quatre can throw one hell of a party. Going back to Noin I see her
glance every now and then to the right, which is were Zechs Marquise
aka Millardo Peacecraft is standing sipping some wine.
Next to him is his younger sister, the Queen of the World. I drop
down to another step and put my hands in my pocket, it was time for
me to mingle and thankfully no one had notice me yet.
"Wufei!"
To late.
"Hey Wufei!" yelled the person again. It was female and normally I
would be very annoyed by the person since I wanted to go unnotice
but this wasn't just anyone. From the crowd parted a woman with
golden locks and blue eyes, interesting enough she was Chinese.
Sally Po hurried toward me, barging her way through the crowd to get
to me and for once I was extremely happy.
Maybe it was becuase she had that light in her eyes, the one that I
seen in so many others at bus and shuttle stations. It was like I
was in an airport and she was one of my close relatives I'd left for
college and was visiting on holiday. It was her energy, her warm
energy that seemed to vibrate toward me. It's contacious.
So when she went up to hug me in a crushing embrace; I did the same
to her with the equal force. Honestly I didn't realize how much I
missed her until this moment. It had been five years after all
without a letter or having any contact with her. Suddenly I felt
very guilty. I didn't know how long we stayed like that, but after I
had gotten over my sappy embrace towards her I loosened my arms. She
kept on hugging me tight and I could almost feel a vibration coming
from her whole body, her heart was beating rapidly.
"I'm sorry." I whispered in her ear.
She let go of me and wiped her eyes before socking me hard in the
arm. I knew it was coming, yet, it still hurt. She ruffled my hair
and held me at arms length.
"You've grown up." she stated looking at me up and down.
I roll my eyes," Barely."
Then comes that warm smile, the sisterly-love smile that I love to
recieve from her. After all she is the only one on this earth that I
consider as family, I'm her little brother, she's my big sister.
"Where have you been?" she demanded. I shrugged, this time she
rolled her eyes.
"That's all your going to do after five years?"
"Do I really have to explain myself?"
She gives me a water down glare and grabs my hand," Come on. I have
to introduce you to someone."
And thats when I notice everyone around me...they are looking at
me. Some murmering and whispering but defiantly looking at me. I had
come to expect such a reaction (exspecially after the Mariemia
incident). But this was a different sort of staring, not hating.
I allowed myself to be dragged through the crowd. I nodded quickly
to both people I knew and didn't know as Sally quickly pulled me to
the left side of the room.
We stopped infront of a tall man with green eyes and black cropped
hair.
"Wufei," said Sally in a sort of proud tone," This is my fiance."
My mouth dropped open as the man extended his hand. It had been five
years after all.

The evening air was refreshing. After talking with more then a few
people at the party I headed outside for some fresh air. My green
mug was in hand and I was leaning against the balacony looking at
the forest surrounding the mansion.
A lot of things seemed to be buzzing in my mind but there was one
that stood out among the rest. Namely and scene I ahd seen between
one of my fellow gundam pilots.
It happened when I was interrogating Alexander(Sally' s fiance).
Between me asking him about his criminal life and seeing his medical
charts I saw at the corner of my eye a glimpse of a long braid,
which was attached to the head of Duo Maxwell. At the moment he was
standing close to the ex leader of the Gundam pilots, Heero Yuy.
Normally this wasn't odd to see, during the war Duo and Heero had
always been close to eachother... or at least Duo stayed by Heero
closely but this time the scenario was different.
This time Duo was leaning rather closing to Heero whispering
something in his ear. By the way the boy was smiling it had to be
something rather...intimate. .or even somewhat naughty. Even that
didn't really surprise me, after all Duo had no shame when it came
to a subject as sex, but when his body was drapped halfway along
Heero's and at the same time he was kissing on the other boys
neck...well that got my attention.
Who knew that those two would ever be an item and by the looks of
Heero's reaction, he was defiantly the affectinate- in-private type
of person. He seemed to not take any interest in Duo's teasing.
I took a sip of my chocolate. I would never drink alcohol mainly
because I have zero tolerance for it.
"Hello Chang Wufei."
I stood straight up from the balcony rail upon hearing the voice.
Turning toward the balcony opening I was greeted by Zechs Marquise.
"Mr. Marquise."
He smiled at me warmly,"Call me Millardo."
I nodded and turned to the balcony again. He walked up to stand next
to me.
"It's a beautiful night." he said.
He took a sip of the chocolate. Millardo turned to me.
"You've grown up."
I glared," And?" I asked a little irratted. I know I should of been
more polite but all night I had been getting that same comment by
different people. I was about fed up with everyones resolution of
the four inches I manage to grow in height.
He chuckled," Trieze would of loved to see how beautiful you turned
out."
That almost made me drop my mug. I turned to the man with surprise.
I certaintly didn't see that coming.
"Excuse me?" I barely whispered.
Zechs looked away," He loved you, you know."
I took a sip of my mug urgently, I just wanted something to do. I
hated to fidget when I was nervous.
"Why would you say that?" I asked sharply. At least I wasn't showing
my discomfort.
Zechs chuckled agin," He wrote it." taking out an old tattered brown
book from his coat pocket. "Many, many times."
Suddenly I wish I had a shot of scotch in my hand.

Dinner was far more tolerable then meeting everyone in the living
room. I sat next to Sally and Relena Peacecraft. This surprised me,
since she had saved me a seat and I had always thought she didn't
care for me. But putting my old views of her aside; I found that she
was quite nice and even funny. Across from us was Noin and Dorothy.
I finished my punch for the fifth time that evening and glanced over
to Quatre and Trowa. They both were sitting down and eating they're
food. I smiled warmly at them and excused myself from the table to
get a drink of water from the kitchen. Normally Quatre and Trowa
would be doing this, but they needed the rest. They played gracious
host all evening and my legs aren't broken.
I walk to the kitchen and enter through the swinging doors. The
refrigerator is close by, I click the button to get some water from
the machine.
Taking a long drink; the door swishes back and fourth again. When I
look at the new arrival I stop dead in my tracks. The dark unruly
hair, piercing colbat eyes and stone face is not easy to ignore.
Heero Yuy stops 1/12 of a second upon seeing me before he put his
empty plate on the island in the middle of the kitchen. We both
stared at eachother, not knowing exactly what to do or say. Well, at
least I didn't. For one thing I hadn't seen Heero ever since I tried
to kill him and the others cold expression it looks like he still
remembers the incident.
I clinched my jaw and turned around to place my cup on the counter,
then suddenly I feal something close to my body. I cock my head to
the side and do a double take once I realize that Heero is closely
behind him. I can't help but turn around and lean a little into the
counter to put some place between us. I seriously wasn't expecting a
confrontation, at least not tonight. If Yuy wanted to kill me I
wouldn't try to stop him...I would defend myself, but my strength
and skill doesn't match his.
His arm lifts up quickly and I can't help but flinch and for good
reason too. Suddenly I feel a strong hand firmly around my neck. He
turns my head side to side, almost like he's examing me. Then he
brings my face to face his and I immediatly look away.
"Look at me." he says after a couple of seconds.
I don't do it. I'd rather not see my death in his eyes.
"Look at me." he said again. This time his voice lower. The hand
around my neck tightens.
Then the door swings open again and in walks Duo Maxwell as his
normal cheery self I recognize from the war. But his grin quickly
falls when he sees Heero and me. It's understanable and at the
moment I was very happy to see him, until I looked into his eyes;
that is.
The braided boy looked at Heero then at me a couple of times, each
time his eyes growing harder, face expression more darker. Then I
caught his gaze and I recognized the look, the same look he gave me
in the library. At the time I had no clue what it was, but now
standing here and seeing it more clearly; I recognized it for what
it really was.
I might as well have been pointing a gun at him, because the look he
gave me was all Shinagami. He looked at me as if I was a threat and
I had no clue why. The hand on my throat tightened.
"Look at me." said Heero gaining my attention again, completely
ignoring Duo.
I turned my eyes toward him. The hand around my neck loosened, but
only a bit. And suddenly I fumbled, not because I am clumsy and
lacking coordination, but because Heero pulled me closer to him. My
face became inches from his and suddenly I was very confused.
"Heero!" yelled out Duo.
We both turned to him and the braided haired boy was clearly pissed.
He looked to be shaking when I looked more closely at him. Heero let
go of my neck slowly, his hand lingering on my skin before it fell
to his side again.
The door swung open again to reveal Relena to fetch the punch bowl
for the other guests. I never been happier to see her.

Not long after the kitchen incident I returned to my room. With much
convincing and somwhat pleading in my own terms, I convinced Sally
to come with me. She sinced that something was wrong after I came
back from the kitchen. Even though we didn't talk I knew she was
thinking of all sorts of questions to ask me. But I said nothing, I
just enjoyed the the quiet comfort of my head on her lap and my mug
on the night table.
I was official worried. Somehow Duo and Heero's relationship was
going down hill and even though I wish that my involvement in it was
a coincidence, I doubt it was. I sighed slowly and grabbed my hot
chocolate from the side table. Other then Sally, that was the only
thing that seemed to comfort me at the moment.

And thats the end of chapter 1.
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