Disclaimer: I don't own anything
Pairings: 5x2, mentioned 3x4
Warnings: Shounen ai, swearing, child prostitution, death, spoilers, also any OOC-ness that may happen to occur, especially when they're younger.
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Wufei's eyes snapped open, staring for a second, and the squinting against the sunlight seeping into his room through the closed curtains. Grunting groggily, the Chinese teen sat up, running his fingers through his disheveled ponytail.
Letting his feet touch the floor, he stood, swaying slightly before catching his bearings and walking to his closet, pulling out his regular outfit, eyeing the tarnished silver ring sitting innocuously on his desk beside his laptop.
Shaking his head, he opened the door, walking from his room to the bathroom just down the hall. 'I really should get rid of it. It's nothing but a liability,' he thought, twisting the knobs of the shower, turning them on, then adjusting the temperature to his liking.
Stripping, he stepped inside, the water soaking him almost instantly. Relaxing under the hot spray, the teen thought about his new partners.
'Barton is quiet, that was established when we first met. And then there's Yuy. He's mission oriented, like nothing else matters to him. Winner seems soft, but I do not wish to come to that conclusion until I see him fight for myself. Now Maxwell… I'm not sure what to make of him. He's a fool. A joker and an idiot. I can't stand him. And then there is that braid of his, and his obnoxious attitude. He irks me.'
As Wufei mentally ranted about the brunette, he went through the motions of cleaning himself. The water turning cold snapped him from his thoughts and the usually graceful boy scrambled frantically from the shower, hurriedly turning off the water.
As he sat, naked on the linoleum floor, droplets falling down his body, he squeezed his eyes shut, trying to ward away more thoughts of the braided idiot. Standing, he wrapped a towel around his waist.
Thinking that no one would be awake yet, Wufei decided to go back to his room and change there, but when he opened the door, he felt something dry and warm fall against his chest.
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Duo's day was not quite going as planned. First, he had woken from a nightmare at four in the morning and, not able to sleep, he tried to burn off some of the negative energy by taking his turn for cleaning early. It didn't help.
Trying the next alternative, he went to the gym, still dressed in his sleeping clothes, to work out. By the time he was finished it was six thirty. 'Damn it all,' he pouted, crossing his arms childishly, trying to think of another way to relax enough to fall asleep. When he couldn't, he resorted to crawling off the floor and walking to the bathroom to take a long, hot shower.
When he neared the bathroom, mentally taking note that the door was closed but ignoring the fact that there was steam seeping out from under it, he looked back, debating over whether or not he should go back and get his towel from his room. When his hand was about to close around the knob, the wooden access opened, and his hand was instead met with hot, wet skin, and it slid off the slick stomach, sending his forward.
Squeaking, he came face to chest with bronze skin and hard, well defined muscles. Blushing hotly, Duo slowly looked up, meeting his new comrades flabbergasted eyes. "Max…well?" he asked lowly, the small beads of water soaking into the black fabric covering the brunette's body.
"Um… S-sorry," Duo said, slowly pushing away from the Chinese teen, trying desperately not to think of the firm chest and already broadening shoulders. Racking his eyes over the tanned body, he noticed Wufei was clad in a small towel that barely covered the boy down to his mid thighs.
Coughing awkwardly, Duo moved aside, pushing away any thoughts of the boy. Wufei grunted, walking past the pale teen. Shaking his head to clear it, he walked into the still steamy room, closing the door behind him, turned on the water to the desired temperature, and stripped; stepping into the wet blast.
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Wufei blinked as a shriek, followed by a loud smash, echoed through the silent halls, water dripping from his now loose hair. An aggravated knock on his door brought him from his back from his shocked daze.
Walking to his door, he opened it, finding himself looking into a pair of burning violet eyes. Duo opened his mouth to complain, but stopped short at the sight of his teammates form, once again shocked speechless.
Raising and eyebrow, Wufei leaned against the doorframe, crossing his arms over his chest. "Did you need something Maxwell?" he asked, mentally smirking as the other teen blinked, much like he himself had done earlier, and nodded his head.
"Um, yeah. You coulda warned me that there was no hot water left," he said, his frown once again planted on his face. Wufei smirked openly this time. "Pardon me, I am afraid I forgot." Duo growled quietly, about to turn away and leave when something caught his eyes.
A small, silver ring, old and tarnished and in need of cleaning, sat innocently on the nightstand. Putting a hand to Wufei's chest, Duo gently pushed past, walking into the rather plain room.
"Maxwell, what in the world do you think you are doing?!" Wufei demanded, following the entranced boy. Picking up the simple ring, the only decoration a small, cracked sapphire; he turned it around and around, fingers searched for the familiar grooves he hadn't felt for years.
"This ring, where did you get it?" he asked slowly, one fair digit finding the carved names on the inside of the band, running over then. Wufei growled behind him, snatching it from pale hands, ignoring the indignant noise from his companion.
"Not that it is any of your business, but I received it from someone I knew once. They are most likely dead." Duo frowned, but accepted the explanation, and turned to leave the room.
"I'm sorry for barging in like that, it just looked familiar to me. I could've sworn it was…" Duo's ramble quieted when he left, murmuring to himself as he headed back to his own room. Wufei frowned again, looking back to the small circular strip of metal sitting in his hand.
'Familiar? And what was that look he gave? As if he was reminiscing, but couldn't seem to remember how exactly it left his possession…' Wufei shook away those thoughts and finished dressing, heading outside to do his daily kata's and exercises.
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In his room, sitting on his bed, Duo toyed with a band, so similar, yet much more detailed and cared for, with opposite colors and metals, to the one in Wufei's room, rolling and caressing it with loving fingers. Light filtered in through the open window, bouncing off the polished surface and rubies.
The design and intricacy of the hoop never failed to amaze him. Every line and curve had been cared so carefully, that it must have brought the creator great pain to make. 'And yet,' Duo thought amusedly, slipping it onto his left ring finger, where a faceless, nameless boy had placed it so many years before, 'they must've been so proud when they accomplished their task.'
Sighing, the brunette flipped over onto his stomach, legs idly swinging back and forth, occasionally going low enough to hit his lower back and rear.
"I wonder," he whispered, turning his hand to fully analyze it. "I wonder if maybe, just maybe, Chang might've…" Duo cut himself off with a shake of his head, sitting up and sliding off the bed, putting the reptilian ring on his bedside stand beside the lamp, the bumpy scales sliding against his fingertips.
"Naw. There's no way Mr. Justice could've given me something like this. 'Sides, you'd think I'd remember about it." He snorted, shaking his head and went to his closet, pulling out various articles of clothes before finding something he was content to wear.
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Basically meaning he found his standard outfit and deemed it suitable. Well, I'm sad to say that I know this is pitifully short, and I am even more poignant to say that I cannot do a thing about it, seeing as this took a completely unforeseen turn in events. This was not how I planned, but I think it took a turn for the better –hopefully- but you can never say. Please bear in mind that I haven't seen most of Gundam Wing, so I don't know how they met, nor really how they act around each other, only going by the stories I've read. I've only seen select pieces of the show and read bits of the manga.
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