A/N- This chapter was fun to write. I was suffering the greatest writer's block that I have ever experienced, but I got to introduce some new characters. However, most of my time recently has been occupied by studying and homework. The teachers seem to think that since it's the end of the year, they should dump as much crap on the students they can. Bleh. Well, chapter four is finally finished, R&R please guys! Thank'ee! Now, enough of my rambling, on with the story!

A Hairy Situation

Raiju20

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Duo pulled on his braid in annoyance. Another call had come in for the same exact location, the fifth one that week in fact. All five times, they had to go check it out. However, once again, as he reached the location, there was nothing. Just a plain field with some farm animals. Duo had responded to two of these false calls, Wu-Fei had responded to one, yesterday in fact, Trowa had responded to one, and some new Preventer, his name was Aru responded to the fourth. All five times they had found the same exact thing, flat land. Duo was almost positive there was something that they had to be missing. Nobody's stupid enough to prank call the Preventers five times, if the call was traced, the person would be in tons of trouble. However, all five calls came from different people. Duo frowned and shook his head. He scanned the field once again, still finding nothing. He had spent an especially long time searching for something this time, he was positive they must have been missing something…

His eye caught something about 10 meters away. As Duo stepped forward to get a closer look, he noticed it looked like a crest from a uniform. It was silver, featuring a wolf on the front, fangs bared, looking vicious. As he picked it up he suddenly remembered the soldiers from last night. Hadn't they all been wearing silver crests on their uniforms? He frowned, pocketing the silver crest, planning to check it when he got home. They still hadn't cleaned the yard from yesterday's unfortunate bloodletting. Duo sighed at the memory, wishing the violence would just stop. The boy stood, shaking his head. The men they were dealing with definitely had this well planned out. He turned and strode back towards base. The field hadn't been to far away, and besides, he had walked to work. He'd consult his companions on this later tonight.

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Wu-Fei opened his eyes slowly. He hadn't even realized he had gone to sleep. He looked up and saw another dog walking across the lawn. Its coat was scruffy, a deep golden colour. Its ears were pointy, like a cat's and its eyes were a deep brown. Wu-Fei suddenly had a strong urge to bark at the dog. It was on his yard. He glared at the dog, his fangs bared in a snarl. "What do you want!" He snapped and the dog looked up with a jump, then it smirked.

"Oh, are you worried I'm moving in on your territory?" The dog asked, sounding smug. "I'm so sorry, I better watch my step, wouldn't want you to get mad, you could hurt me so badly." Wu-Fei's eye twitched in annoyance. This dog was so ignorant, it assumed it could move in on his territory, then mock him because he was smaller than it! He stood and a low growl emitted from his lips.

"You coward, mocking me for my height." The dog's smirk widened and Wu-Fei growled again, this growl sounding a bit like "unjust dog" or something in close proximity to that. "I know at least 200 ways to kill with my bare hands, er, paws. I wouldn't mess with me."

The dog assumed a look of mock surprise. "Oh, better watch my step, you seem serious." The dog's smirk changed to a genuine smile. "I like your spunk. I'm Nick, nice to meet you." Wu-Fei was taken aback by the sudden change of character. The dog now seemed nice. He waited patiently for an answer to his introduction and when he got none, he shook his head. "Not much for conversation are you? Well, can I at least have your name?"

"Wu-Fei" was the reply, still slightly a growl. Wu-Fei would not get off guard so easily. He looked at him with a smile, well the most of a smile a dog can muster.

"Are you a stray?"

"No" came the curt reply, "are you?" he asked after a few seconds of silence.

He smiled again. "Yeah, I am. But, if you're not a stray… why don't you have any tags?" Nick stood and walked over to the sidewalk, near the corner of the street. The street they lived on was pretty unpopulated. Only a few houses littered the street, and even so, most of the people who lived there left the gundam pilots alone. Many times they were avoided like they had the plague. Wu-Fei stood and followed Nick, standing next to him.

Wu-Fei looked up. "What? Why would I wear tags? What am I, a dog?" He stopped as he realized once again, yes, he was a dog.

"Uh, yeah you're a dog…" Nick shook his head in amusement. "If you don't wear tags, the dogcatcher will come and take you away." He finished simply. "You don't want to go there."

"Why?" Wu-Fei asked, curious.

"Because, unless you're adopted, there's no escape, and eventually, they'll take you through 'the door at the end of the hall…'" He shuddered. "You definitely don't want to go there."

Wu-Fei felt his body run cold. 'The door at the end of the hall' was obviously where they took dogs to put them to sleep. "How do you know this?" Wu-Fei asked Nick.

"Because, my best friend has been there, he was adopted, but another one of my friends wasn't so lucky…" He trailed off, looking sad. "Anyway, he comes around here regularly, he should be here soo-" Nick stopped short. "Damn" He whispered under his breath. "Wu-Fei… I'd run…" Before Wu-Fei could answer, he felt a net get thrown over him. He barked and struggled as he felt himself get more tangled. "Speak of the devil." Nick growled before he leaped on the man, trying to make him drop Wu-Fei. The man shoved him off and grabbed him by the scruff of the neck. The man must have been watching them and had known to be quiet, because Wu-Fei hadn't even heard the man approach. He heard Nick yelp as he got thrown to the ground by a very strong arm. This guy was obviously well trained for military work. He must have stopped fighting with the end of the war. The man smirked and pulled Nick up by his neck and threw him into a vehicle parked nearby.

Wu-Fei was just about to be thrown in after when another hand gripped the dogcatcher's. "What do you think you're doing to my dog?" A dangerously soft voice asked. Heero had come home early. Wu-Fei relaxed as he was dropped out of the net, trying to act doglike he whimpered and ran behind Heero and noticed the boy barely withholding a smirk. He glared and ignored the boy.

Heero was about to turn until Wu-Fei barked and motioned with his head to the car. "And the other one." He said coolly. The dogcatcher didn't argue and grabbed Nick throwing him out. "Don't ever let me or any of my companions ever catch you handling our dogs ever again." The words were menacing, just daring the man to argue. The man nodded hastily and ran into his car, slamming down on the accelerator and zooming off.

When the man was gone, Heero looked down at Wu-Fei with a smirk. "Very brave dog, whimpering and running to safety." Wu-Fei glowered at his friend, if looks could kill Heero would be dead five times over. However, looks couldn't kill and Heero just shook his head and walked towards the house. Wu-Fei started to follow, then stopped and turned to Nick. "You coming?" He asked and as he nodded he walked back to the house, avoiding applying pressure to his still injured leg that was not appreciating the previous excitement.

Nick stood still for a few more seconds before following Wu-Fei into the house. Wu-Fei was owned by a gundam pilot Damn, those guys were practically idolized by the world. Hell, they were even idolized by the animals. Dogs and cats loved to talk about them, believing them to be amazing for risking their lives to save the earth. All of the animals had been against OZ, those people had bad plans. None of them knew what those bad plans were, they were just bad. Nick shook off his train of thought as he realized he had stopped a few feet from the house. He started walking again and then stopped short again as he got plowed over by a dog almost as big as him. The dog, an auburn colour, slammed into him and then stood, her golden eyes shining brightly. "NI-SAN!" (1) She shouted.

"What Maya?" He asked the female in slight annoyance.

She bounced up and down, tail waving in the air. "Ni-sani-sani-sani-sani-san! GUESS WHAT!"

Wu-Fei returned to the door at the noise, looking at Nick with an annoyed face. "Can you turn down the volume Nick? Heero's getting tetchy, and you don't want to see Heero tetchy." Nick glared at the other dog.

"What do you want Maya?" Nick asked in a warning tone.

"Maya found something out! Ya know where you're standing! This house! This is the house of the GUNDAM PILOTS!" Wu-Fei noted that she spoke in third person. Was this a common trait with dogs?

"Yes Maya, I know. Is there anything else?" Nick said with a glare.

"Yeah! Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah!" This dog made even Duo look calm as Heero and that just wasn't possible. "The Silverwolf is moving again!"

Nick suddenly looked… scared. Wu-Fei looked at him, puzzled. "Who's the Silverwolf?"

Nick looked at him in surprise. "You don't know? They're a new organization who is out to kill your owners and start a war. Same old story right? But we don't know exactly what they're planning, and I hear… they've already gotten one of the gundam pilots. Is… is that… true?" Nick looked uncomfortable in asking this.

Wu-Fei assumed a sad face, "Yeah, they got one. Last night."

Nick's face fell in distress. "I'm so sorry."

Wu-Fei smiled, the smile was bitter. "There's nothing we can really do." Wu-Fei didn't tell Nick how they had gotten the pilot or anything, but he didn't really want to tell the other dog he was the pilot who had be gotten, he didn't think that was a good plan yet. "Let's go inside." He said with a small "smile." Nick nodded and followed Wu-Fei, Maya following after the both of them. As they walked, Wu-Fei attempted to make conversation, which was odd for him, he just felt like talking for once. "So, is Maya your sister?" He asked Nick.

Nick let out a small bark of something that sounded like laughter. "No, she's my best friend. She's about 2 years younger than me, so she calls me ni-san. Don't ask me why, I honestly have no idea." Maya huffed in annoyance and Nick looked back at her with a soft look. "But she is like a sister to me." Maya's tail wagged at this. He leaped up onto the couch that Wu-Fei led him to, Maya jumping up and curling up beside him. Wu-Fei jumped up on the couch opposite to them. Heero was in a chair nearby and raised an eyebrow at Wu-Fei, motioning with his head to the other two dogs. Wu-Fei nodded, signifying they were OK. Heero shrugged and returned to his work.

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Duo walked back towards the house, which was about a half a mile away. The light was fading from the sky, the sun sending a pink hue on everything it shone on. Duo walked slowly, enjoying the peace and quiet. He frowned as he was suddenly alerted of someone walking behind him when their shoe crunched a wrapper. Was someone tailing him? He shot a glance behind his shoulder, seeing no one. He quickened his pace, checking to be sure that he had his gun. He then blinked, realizing what he was thinking. He shook his head. Idiot, you're getting paranoid, he thought, scolding himself. He just wasn't used to the peace. He slowed, just slightly. He was still aware, his hand ready to reach to the gun if it was needed. He stopped short as he heard a familiar click and saw a man step out of the shadows in front of him holding a gun. "Don't move 02." He said in a quiet voice. The man looked scared, uncomfortable with being so close to a gundam pilot, who could probably very easily kill him.

Duo stopped a flash of surprise from crossing his face and hid it with a smirk. "Or you'll do what? Shoot me? That one's long lost its frightening effect man. You think I care if you kill me?" He really didn't care. It would put him out of the misery of the mental hell he had to go through, the hell of killing so many. The man looked taken aback by this. As the man hesitated, Duo grabbed his gun and shot, his aim true, the bullet going right between the eyes. The man fell, a surprised look adorned his features as his eyes clouded and he went limp, dead. Duo didn't have to turn to know there were two more men behind him who both shot. He crouched, throwing a leg out and spinning, tripping the men.

Duo heard a voice shout, "Just subdue him! Do not kill!" As he stood and sprinted down the sidewalk, firing behind him at the four men now chasing after him. One of the men was walking with long strides, standing proud. Duo turned down a series of alleys, finding himself at a dead-end. He felt dread in the pit of his stomach as the men moved in, he pulled out his gun and shot two of the four, running out of ammo. The two fell and Duo threw his gun at the third, who was caught off guard and got hit in the head. The man cursed and rubbed his head, leaning against the wall for support.

Duo smirked. "Well man, looks like it's just you and me." The man merely smiled, a cold, hard smile that sent a chill down Duo's spine.

"02, I really don't want to kill you, but I can. Would you like me to let you live?" Duo looked at him, a frown playing on his features. The teen had long forgotten his mask, letting his emotions show on his face, but his eyes were hard. The man lifted a gun, etched with golden spirals. Duo's eyes widened as he noticed where he had seen the weapon, and the man. The night before flashed back to his mind, the man, the gun, Wu-Fei… A low growl emitted from his lips as he realized that this was the man who caused his friend's strife. The man stopped for a second, then smirked. "Oh, so you remember me do you?"

Duo's face contorted in rage, planning a way to get back at the man. He knew he had little or no chance fighting this man and winning, especially when the man had a gun. The other man who had received Duo's gun was still in good enough condition to shoot if he had a chance. The man smiled as he shot the gun. Duo was prepared for this however and leapt to the side narrowly avoiding the metal. He flicked a knife out of his pocket and dashed forward, slamming the man in the stomach. The man coughed and fell to his knees from the impact of the blow.

Duo smiled and pulled out the little knife he had jammed into the man's stomach. Duo ran, narrowly avoiding the bullets shot from the other man, covering his fallen comrade. Duo cursed as a bullet went through his left wrist. He frowned and ran around a corner, out on the open streets again, picking up a previously discarded gun, shooting the man who had shot him as the man ran out into his sight. He killed the man, then turned and ran before anyone else could attack.

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Ni-san, for those who don't know an ounce of Japanese, means older brother.

Well, done with chapter four! Yay! This one is a bit longer, but was fun! I wish to thank my fabulous reviewers for all the reviews and I would like to ask my fabulous readers to please review and let me know what they like/hate and what to change! Gee, reviewers are sure great… hint hint Please spend five minutes of your time, heck, maybe not even five minutes, maybe one minute! Well, anyway, please spend that small amount of time to let me know you're reading what I'm writing. Thanks!