Disclaimer: Don't own Gundam Wing.
Crows are damn cool birds.
Did you know you can teach them to talk.
Just like parrots.
I couldn't get myself a crow, so I got a parrot instead.
But it's a damn cool parrot.
He's called Deathscythe Hell, he tells me 'Shinigami rulz', and uses my braid, which comes down past my arse, as a climbing rope.
It also calls me idiot.
Too much exposure to a certain perfect bastard, who happens to be my best friend.
I love my parrot.
It's the only thing known to man kind that can cause more than a slight expression on said perfect bastards face.
I've seen him smirk, frown, cringe, incredulous, angry, even smile. But only once, have I heard him laugh.
And that's because my beloved parrot called me an idiot.
Heero Yuy, that's his name.
Perfect bastard. He gets bloody straight A's and is still amongst the elite sports members of the school.
He's rather damned smug about it too.
A lot of people question me as to how I manage to become friends with him.
It had a lot to do with a certain extracurricular class we were shoved into in about year 7, and an assignment that required us to spend nearly every afternoon together for three weeks.
That class led to the formation of our group.
Me, Heero, Quatra, Trowa, Wu fei, Sally, and sometimes Relena, Hilde.
We just did stuff together, you know, lunch, weekends, hung around at each other's houses, saw movies together, showed up at parties together.
Although lately we've been separating up a little more. Wu fei and Sally apparently have something going, and I'm pretty sure it's not just straight friendship between Quatra and Trowa anymore.
Sometimes when I'm not around to save him, Heero ends up paired with Relena. It's kinda funny to see him sulk afterwards. But I've told him, you've got to actually say something if you want her to listen.
But it's generally accepted that I'm with Hilde, and Heero's with Relena. Outside our circle anyway.
I'm pretty sure the others know I don't like Hilde that way. Well, I know Quatra knows, but I assume the others have it figured out. We just happen to get along really well.
She's an absolute riot to party with, but probably the only one of us who's really into the drinking scene. I mean, I'll have a couple, but she likes to get drunk. And she'll quite happily create drinking partners out of anyone.
She's made a few attempts to get me inebriated on occasion, but only managed it once.
Pity I can't remember more, I think I recall Hilde doing a strip tease, a very irritated Heero dragging my arse back to his place, a few flashes of a bathroom, then I was waking up with a splitting headache to find myself strapped so tightly into Heero's bed it's a wonder I still had circulation to my head.
Apparently I like to walk around when I'm drunk.
Anyway, with the end of year party coming up, a really big one since it was our second last year of school, I figured I might go with someone I was actually interested in.
That idea was put on hold about an hour after I thought of it due to the occurrence of the strangest thing I've seen Heero do the entire time I've known him.
He came pelting down the main hallway skidding to a stop in front of me. He grabbed me by the shoulders to keep his balance, shook me, then, slightly desperate, said.
'You didn't see me.'
Then turned around and locked himself in the supply closet.
I was still seeing his panicked expression an inch from my nose when Relena appeared out of no where and demanded to know if I'd seen him.
Now, I happen to have this thing about not lying. So I took a couple of seconds to deliberate whether I could get away with it on a technicality. I mean, I trust Heero, if he says I haven't seen him, then ... well.
I eventually decided that my policy had to hold, and I couldn't very well break it now, so I told her the truth.
'Of course I've seen him' I said cheerfully. A small thump issued from the cupboard as I grinned stupidly at Relena.
'Oh good,' she breathed a sigh of relief 'because I've been wanting to ask him something, can you tell me where he went'
She looked at me expectantly. She was going to kill me for this one.
'When did he go somewhere?' Relena may be blond, but she's not stupid. Plus she's had a lot of exposure to the Maxwell sense of humour.
'Just now' she said patiently, her smile gone.
'Really?' I swung around to search the corridor, and oh joy of joys, when I looked back trying to pin a confused expression on my face, she was giving me a filthy look.
The bell went before she could say anything else, so she narrowed her eyes and stalked off.
Seconds later a hand grabbed the front of my shirt and I was pulled into the closet.
Little spaces don't normally agree with me.
Little spaces with Heero Yuy in them, generally get my blood going a bit more than normal.
It's safe to say my smile said goodbye pretty damn quick when I found myself squeezed between a door and a rather warm body, small breaths tickling the hair around my left ear.
I tend to talk a lot and joke when I'm nervous.
I was having a hard time making this the exception.
'Why are we spending our study period in the supply closet?' I whispered. Someone's joggers squeaked on the lino right outside the door. The hallway sounded nearly empty.
'We're not' Heero replied. He reached around me to grab the door as it started to slip open.
His friggen hand was on my arse!
'Really?' I squeaked, 'Then where are we?'
He snorted in my ear then began manoeuvring us around so he could be closer to the door.
I ended with a mop in my back, one hand clutching the shelf above me, the other arm wrapped around Heero's chest so we didn't tumble out. I could feel his ribs underneath my fingers and his chest moving up and down.
His pectorals flexed as he opened the door a little, letting in a slit of light. I had to bury my face in Heero's neck to stop myself from laughing as a set of high heels approached. He looked so god damned serious.
I mean, well, ok, he always looks serious, but this was like, oooh, beware, there be danger about, kinda serious.
As if he'd have anything to worry about. I'd be the one copping the crap for being in a supply closet during class time. All he'd have to do is deathglare the teacher and they'd be giving him a hall pass and scampering off in the other direction.
I took a moment to realise how soft Heero's neck was, then realised it was Heero's neck and quickly jerked my head back up.
We spent five minutes listening to ourselves breathe before Heero deemed it safe and we stepped out into the hall.
Well, he stepped, I stumbled.
Heero stood there for a second looking up and down the hallway. The powers of speech continued to allude me so I left the talking up to Heero.
Needless to say I was quite surprised to find the school corridor is quite silent when nobody else is in it.
Thinking it was better to turn up late than never, I tried to head in the direction of the classroom. Heero had other ideas though and nearly wrenched my arm out of it's socket when he grabbed it and began dragging me towards the exit.
We went to my house.
Did I mention that Heero Yuy loves my parrot?
I always thought it was rather sweet how he sits on the end of my bed and hand feeds it sunflower seeds. He gets this almost smile, and stays there for ages just passing it the seeds one at a time.
He's doing it now.
It reminds me of the time when he laughed. Which sounds kinda stupid, but laughing is not something Heero Yuy does very often.
He was already pretty happy that afternoon, and I was raving on like I usually do, pleased to be getting more of a response than usual. When I provided the perfect cue for him to call me 'idiot'.
The bird supplied it for him.
We both stared at it a little shocked, then Heero threw back his head and laughed. It was a nice sound, a bit too difficult to describe. It only lasted for a couple of seconds, but he was smiling for the rest of the afternoon which sort of turned me a bit quieter.
He was already happy, I didn't need to talk.
I threw myself down on the bed and poked him with the toe of my boot to get him to say something.
I was opening my mouth to give him a verbal prompt when he obligingly turned around and pulled himself further up the bed. He picked up the end of my braid and started playing with it.
'Relena' was all he said. Being well versed in Heero speech, this was obviously an explanation, and probably the only one I was going to get. So I was quite surprised when he prevented me from getting up off the bed and continued talking.
'She wants to ask me to the dance.' As much as I liked Heero playing with my hair, I was tempted to retrieve my braid from his fingers, he was going to give me split ends if he kept pulling at it like that.
As for going to the dance with Relena, well, I'd always figured he actually enjoyed spending time with her and just didn't like to admit it.
I voiced this thought aloud and received a mild deathglare in return.
He smoothed out the end of my braid and dropped it back on the bed.
'I don't want to go to the dance with Relena.' He said softy. For a minute he looked like he was going to add something else, but then he was off the bed and at the door. He gave me an odd sort of smile then left.
We only managed two days of playing avoid Relena before Quatra caught on to what we were doing and demanded he go speak to her during our afternoon basketball game.
It was apparently discourteous to ignore her like that.
So Wu fei took Heero's place on the court and Relena dragged a reluctant Heero across the playground to sit on the bench.
I kept half an eye on them as our game continued.
Heero started out cross, not even looking at Relena, who was smiling, waving her arms about and occasionally touching his arm.
After shooting a 3 pointer I turned back and Heero was giving her the deathglare. I concentrated on blocking Quatra, thinking Heero would be back soon.
I set up a shot for Wu fei then caught a glimpse of Heero and Relena that all of a sudden made me feel very cold.
Relena was holding onto Heero's hand very possessively and he was actually looking as if he didn't mind.
She was beaming down at him, laughing and looking excited.
Heero said something and she put a very theatrical hand to her chest turning away slightly to take a deep breath and releasing Heero's hand to fan her face.
I'm not quite sure what I was feeling when Heero put a hand on her shoulder, looking concerned.
But when she tuned back to him and he smiled at her, my throat seemed to do a weird constriction, my eyes turned hot and my face felt like it had been set alight.
A shout followed by a basketball in the head brought me back to the game.
All of a sudden I was surrounded by people. Quatra, Trowa and Wufei were asking me if I was all right.
From somewhere behind me I heard Hilde say I might have a concussion.
'I didn't throw the ball that hard' Wu fei snorted.
I saw Heero standing up over the top of Quatra's head and I just didn't want to be there anymore.
Forcing a smile onto my face, I reassured the guys that I was ok then told them I had to leave.
Before they could ask for explanations I didn't have I set out at a jog for the school gate.
By the time I got there I was running.
Crows are damn cool birds.
Did you know you can teach them to talk.
Just like parrots.
I couldn't get myself a crow, so I got a parrot instead.
But it's a damn cool parrot.
He's called Deathscythe Hell, he tells me 'Shinigami rulz', and uses my braid, which comes down past my arse, as a climbing rope.
It also calls me idiot.
Too much exposure to a certain perfect bastard, who happens to be my best friend.
I love my parrot.
It's the only thing known to man kind that can cause more than a slight expression on said perfect bastards face.
I've seen him smirk, frown, cringe, incredulous, angry, even smile. But only once, have I heard him laugh.
And that's because my beloved parrot called me an idiot.
Heero Yuy, that's his name.
Perfect bastard. He gets bloody straight A's and is still amongst the elite sports members of the school.
He's rather damned smug about it too.
A lot of people question me as to how I manage to become friends with him.
It had a lot to do with a certain extracurricular class we were shoved into in about year 7, and an assignment that required us to spend nearly every afternoon together for three weeks.
That class led to the formation of our group.
Me, Heero, Quatra, Trowa, Wu fei, Sally, and sometimes Relena, Hilde.
We just did stuff together, you know, lunch, weekends, hung around at each other's houses, saw movies together, showed up at parties together.
Although lately we've been separating up a little more. Wu fei and Sally apparently have something going, and I'm pretty sure it's not just straight friendship between Quatra and Trowa anymore.
Sometimes when I'm not around to save him, Heero ends up paired with Relena. It's kinda funny to see him sulk afterwards. But I've told him, you've got to actually say something if you want her to listen.
But it's generally accepted that I'm with Hilde, and Heero's with Relena. Outside our circle anyway.
I'm pretty sure the others know I don't like Hilde that way. Well, I know Quatra knows, but I assume the others have it figured out. We just happen to get along really well.
She's an absolute riot to party with, but probably the only one of us who's really into the drinking scene. I mean, I'll have a couple, but she likes to get drunk. And she'll quite happily create drinking partners out of anyone.
She's made a few attempts to get me inebriated on occasion, but only managed it once.
Pity I can't remember more, I think I recall Hilde doing a strip tease, a very irritated Heero dragging my arse back to his place, a few flashes of a bathroom, then I was waking up with a splitting headache to find myself strapped so tightly into Heero's bed it's a wonder I still had circulation to my head.
Apparently I like to walk around when I'm drunk.
Anyway, with the end of year party coming up, a really big one since it was our second last year of school, I figured I might go with someone I was actually interested in.
That idea was put on hold about an hour after I thought of it due to the occurrence of the strangest thing I've seen Heero do the entire time I've known him.
He came pelting down the main hallway skidding to a stop in front of me. He grabbed me by the shoulders to keep his balance, shook me, then, slightly desperate, said.
'You didn't see me.'
Then turned around and locked himself in the supply closet.
I was still seeing his panicked expression an inch from my nose when Relena appeared out of no where and demanded to know if I'd seen him.
Now, I happen to have this thing about not lying. So I took a couple of seconds to deliberate whether I could get away with it on a technicality. I mean, I trust Heero, if he says I haven't seen him, then ... well.
I eventually decided that my policy had to hold, and I couldn't very well break it now, so I told her the truth.
'Of course I've seen him' I said cheerfully. A small thump issued from the cupboard as I grinned stupidly at Relena.
'Oh good,' she breathed a sigh of relief 'because I've been wanting to ask him something, can you tell me where he went'
She looked at me expectantly. She was going to kill me for this one.
'When did he go somewhere?' Relena may be blond, but she's not stupid. Plus she's had a lot of exposure to the Maxwell sense of humour.
'Just now' she said patiently, her smile gone.
'Really?' I swung around to search the corridor, and oh joy of joys, when I looked back trying to pin a confused expression on my face, she was giving me a filthy look.
The bell went before she could say anything else, so she narrowed her eyes and stalked off.
Seconds later a hand grabbed the front of my shirt and I was pulled into the closet.
Little spaces don't normally agree with me.
Little spaces with Heero Yuy in them, generally get my blood going a bit more than normal.
It's safe to say my smile said goodbye pretty damn quick when I found myself squeezed between a door and a rather warm body, small breaths tickling the hair around my left ear.
I tend to talk a lot and joke when I'm nervous.
I was having a hard time making this the exception.
'Why are we spending our study period in the supply closet?' I whispered. Someone's joggers squeaked on the lino right outside the door. The hallway sounded nearly empty.
'We're not' Heero replied. He reached around me to grab the door as it started to slip open.
His friggen hand was on my arse!
'Really?' I squeaked, 'Then where are we?'
He snorted in my ear then began manoeuvring us around so he could be closer to the door.
I ended with a mop in my back, one hand clutching the shelf above me, the other arm wrapped around Heero's chest so we didn't tumble out. I could feel his ribs underneath my fingers and his chest moving up and down.
His pectorals flexed as he opened the door a little, letting in a slit of light. I had to bury my face in Heero's neck to stop myself from laughing as a set of high heels approached. He looked so god damned serious.
I mean, well, ok, he always looks serious, but this was like, oooh, beware, there be danger about, kinda serious.
As if he'd have anything to worry about. I'd be the one copping the crap for being in a supply closet during class time. All he'd have to do is deathglare the teacher and they'd be giving him a hall pass and scampering off in the other direction.
I took a moment to realise how soft Heero's neck was, then realised it was Heero's neck and quickly jerked my head back up.
We spent five minutes listening to ourselves breathe before Heero deemed it safe and we stepped out into the hall.
Well, he stepped, I stumbled.
Heero stood there for a second looking up and down the hallway. The powers of speech continued to allude me so I left the talking up to Heero.
Needless to say I was quite surprised to find the school corridor is quite silent when nobody else is in it.
Thinking it was better to turn up late than never, I tried to head in the direction of the classroom. Heero had other ideas though and nearly wrenched my arm out of it's socket when he grabbed it and began dragging me towards the exit.
We went to my house.
Did I mention that Heero Yuy loves my parrot?
I always thought it was rather sweet how he sits on the end of my bed and hand feeds it sunflower seeds. He gets this almost smile, and stays there for ages just passing it the seeds one at a time.
He's doing it now.
It reminds me of the time when he laughed. Which sounds kinda stupid, but laughing is not something Heero Yuy does very often.
He was already pretty happy that afternoon, and I was raving on like I usually do, pleased to be getting more of a response than usual. When I provided the perfect cue for him to call me 'idiot'.
The bird supplied it for him.
We both stared at it a little shocked, then Heero threw back his head and laughed. It was a nice sound, a bit too difficult to describe. It only lasted for a couple of seconds, but he was smiling for the rest of the afternoon which sort of turned me a bit quieter.
He was already happy, I didn't need to talk.
I threw myself down on the bed and poked him with the toe of my boot to get him to say something.
I was opening my mouth to give him a verbal prompt when he obligingly turned around and pulled himself further up the bed. He picked up the end of my braid and started playing with it.
'Relena' was all he said. Being well versed in Heero speech, this was obviously an explanation, and probably the only one I was going to get. So I was quite surprised when he prevented me from getting up off the bed and continued talking.
'She wants to ask me to the dance.' As much as I liked Heero playing with my hair, I was tempted to retrieve my braid from his fingers, he was going to give me split ends if he kept pulling at it like that.
As for going to the dance with Relena, well, I'd always figured he actually enjoyed spending time with her and just didn't like to admit it.
I voiced this thought aloud and received a mild deathglare in return.
He smoothed out the end of my braid and dropped it back on the bed.
'I don't want to go to the dance with Relena.' He said softy. For a minute he looked like he was going to add something else, but then he was off the bed and at the door. He gave me an odd sort of smile then left.
We only managed two days of playing avoid Relena before Quatra caught on to what we were doing and demanded he go speak to her during our afternoon basketball game.
It was apparently discourteous to ignore her like that.
So Wu fei took Heero's place on the court and Relena dragged a reluctant Heero across the playground to sit on the bench.
I kept half an eye on them as our game continued.
Heero started out cross, not even looking at Relena, who was smiling, waving her arms about and occasionally touching his arm.
After shooting a 3 pointer I turned back and Heero was giving her the deathglare. I concentrated on blocking Quatra, thinking Heero would be back soon.
I set up a shot for Wu fei then caught a glimpse of Heero and Relena that all of a sudden made me feel very cold.
Relena was holding onto Heero's hand very possessively and he was actually looking as if he didn't mind.
She was beaming down at him, laughing and looking excited.
Heero said something and she put a very theatrical hand to her chest turning away slightly to take a deep breath and releasing Heero's hand to fan her face.
I'm not quite sure what I was feeling when Heero put a hand on her shoulder, looking concerned.
But when she tuned back to him and he smiled at her, my throat seemed to do a weird constriction, my eyes turned hot and my face felt like it had been set alight.
A shout followed by a basketball in the head brought me back to the game.
All of a sudden I was surrounded by people. Quatra, Trowa and Wufei were asking me if I was all right.
From somewhere behind me I heard Hilde say I might have a concussion.
'I didn't throw the ball that hard' Wu fei snorted.
I saw Heero standing up over the top of Quatra's head and I just didn't want to be there anymore.
Forcing a smile onto my face, I reassured the guys that I was ok then told them I had to leave.
Before they could ask for explanations I didn't have I set out at a jog for the school gate.
By the time I got there I was running.