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Gloomy Duo

Peace had finally been achieved and the warriors of old now had a new mission: adapt to a life without war. Heero is one of two main characters of this story and it is him that is lying on his bed thinking of what to do. Being raised an assassin had its benefits during war, but he was at a major disadvantage during peaceful times. He had taken up protecting Relena and using his skills as her bodyguard, but it was driving him insane! For one, he found Relena to be a little too clingy and two she managed to track him down no matter where he went. He now had free time and he was determined to stay away from Relena for the day, but that brought new problems. What was he going to do? He couldn't sleep all day like Duo, He could train like Wufei, but then Relena would find him sooner rather than later. He couldn't work on Wing, because they decided to detonate them and get rid of any chance for them being used to start another war. What to do? That was his self-appointed mission: what could he do to walk around in the open without Relena seeing him. His thoughts went to Duo, wishing that he had at least a little bit of his carefree and idiotic nature.

"Perfect. Mission accepted." He quietly stated as he looked around his room.

He worked with Duo at the preventers when Relena didn't need him, and so looking around the shared room he found Duo's black hat lying on his bed. He also found something that he could make resemble a braid. He found the materials, but he had no idea how to braid anything. He could ask Quatre, he did after all have 29 sisters. Quickly dialing Quatre's number he waited for Quatre to answer.

"Quatre here." Quatre answered.

"Quatre, it's Heero. Could you come to my room?" Heero asked.

Silence ruled for a minute until Quatre answered, "Why?"

"For a mission." Heero answered.

"I guess I could." Quatre answered warily.

Heero hung up the phone, completely ignoring Quatre's tone. He couldn't tell Quatre over the phone in case someone was listening. He began to think about what he was going to do and began to curse Duo for rubbing off him. The knock at his door caused him to cautiously look out. Seeing Quatre he opened to let the blonde in.

"Heero, you're not supposed to be doing missions. It's your day off." Quatre pointed out.

"I wasn't given the mission. You have sisters, you know how to make a braid, right?" Heero asked holding out the materials he found.

"Heero, are you okay? This doesn't seem like you." Quatre asked.

"Are you going to help me or not?" Heero asked. "If not, I can't have you talking about this."

Heero pulled out what looked like a gun. It was actually a tranq gun. He learned tranquilizers were just as good and they wouldn't kill people. It's peace time people, guns aren't supposed to be used! Anyway, back to the story. Quatre sighed and went to work on making a braid. Heero watched him and saw the technique. It took Quatre a few minutes in order to get it to Heero's satisfaction. Picking up the braid he attached it to the hat. Putting the hat on he made it cover his eyes a bit.

"Mission accomplished." Heero commented.

Quatre laughed as he finally caught on to what Heero was thinking. He wondered what Duo did to warrant Heero acting like the Shinigami. Heero left the room acting like an almost perfect clone of Duo. He even wore some of Duo's clothes to make it look more realistic. He had to admit, considering the clothes they were pretty comfortable and they weren't too bad to move around in. He went back to noticing the halls and began to walk down them. He bumped into someone coming from the opposite direction.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you there!" The guy apologized.

"You're new here?" Heero asked.

"My name is Juan." Juan introduced.

"I'm Duo Maxwell." Heero introduced.

"Are you okay sir? You seem more gloomy then I have been told." Juan asked.

"I'm actually a very gloomy guy. That's why Heero piloted Wing and became the center of everything." Heero commented.

"I'm sorry to hear that sir. I'll be leaving now." Juan saluted and left.

Heero got away with this for quite a few times. He ran into Sally Po, the leader of the preventers, and that was a challenge, but he made it work. He wasn't expecting to be waylaid when he turned down a corner. He noticed the door opening too late and when he was pulled inside he was thrown against the wall.

"Hey! Quit stealing my identity!" Duo exclaimed shaking Heero until the hat fell off.

"Mission failed." Heero stated as Duo was shaking him.

Needless to say Duo kept a very watchful eye on what left out from that point on. Amazingly enough, this charade of Heero stayed amongst Quatre, Duo and Heero. At least for now.

The End

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