Heero had barely been up for five minutes when he heard the phone ring. He got out of bed and put on a muscle shirt as he went to answer the phone. Just as he reached down to pick up the phone the ringing stopped. As he turned back toward his room to take a shower the phone rang again. Turning around slowly, he picked up the phone, and answered in his usual manner.
"Hn."
"Hello Heero! Good morning!" a familiar voice chimed over the phone.
"Oh hey Quatre." Heero replied as he headed to the kitchen.
"Hey Heero... I have a favor to ask of you." Quatre said in a rather nervous tone.
"What is it?" Heero asked as he took a drink from the milk carton and put some toast in the toaster.
"Well you see, my father gave me the chore to take my new neighbor to school and make sure they get to their classess." Quatre paused waiting for Heeros response.
" And?" Heero asked as he headed up to his room to take a shower.
"Well do you think you could do it for me?" Quatre asked in a pleading voice.
"Why? Heero asked as he grabbed a towel from the linen closet.
"I have to meet Trowa before school to discuss the school carnival. I can't go get the new kid and be at the meeting at the same time!" Quatre said in a whiny pathetic tone.
"Fine." Heero said taking off his shirt and sweats.
"Thank you Heero!" Quatre chirped.
"Your welcome Quatre..." Heero said as he fully undressed and began to climb into the shower.
"Oh one more thing Heero!"
"What is it Quatre?" Heero asked pausing.
"Are you in your boxers or are you naked because I can hear the shower in the backgr-" Quatre blurted out as heero hung up and grunted."Hn."
He then stepped fully into the shower, turned on the water, and let the water stream down his body.
"It's gonna be a long day..." He sighed.
Duos House (Heeros POV)
As I walked up the drive way toward Quatres neighbors house I took in my surroundings. It hadn't changed much since the last time I'd been there. It had previously been owned by one of Quatres older sisters. She'd moved out after getting married because she'd wanted a smaller house to raise a family in. The house was quite large but nowhere near the size of Quatres. I walked up the porch steps and traced my finger across the railing and then proceded to the door. I knocked but got no response. After a couple minutes of knocking and still getting no response I decided to check to see if the house key was left where it'd always been before. I checked under the mat but was slightly disapointed to find it wasn't there. I started to walk away when I decided to try knocking once again. As I began my knocking again I realized the door was unlocked. Seeing as I was supposed to get the kid who lived here to school I figured it would be okay to enter. I had a reason to be there and that was enough for me.
When I entered the house I briefly took in the changes that the current occupants had made to the house and immediatly set to looking for the room where the new kid could be found. After searching a couple of the rooms upstairs I found 'em in the room next to Quatres old room. (From when he used to visit his sister.) I entered the room and was pleased to see the room hadn't changed much, after all it was the room I'd lived in for five years. It was obvious that Quatre had refurnished it to look the same as it had before. (Remeber they asked for Quatres help in making the room decent for a teenage boy.)
As I came into the bedroom I noticed the sleeping figure of a long haired brunette. She was curled up in a ball with the covers pulled up to her face and wrapped tightly around her. Truth be told she was kinda cute. I gently began to try to nudge her awake. She just pulled the covers tighter around her. Sensing the need to wake her quickly I began to carefully shake her. When I realized this wasn't going to wake her and I was wasting time I began to shake her a little harder. She loosened the covers just enough for me to catch a glimpse of her pale neck and bare collar bone. I blushed and then before I could comprehend what had happened I felt a blow to the side of my face. I fell back against the wall. 'Oh shit' had she noticed me staring at her.
When I looked over to the bed she had pulled the cover up around her again and had rolled over. She had hit me in her sleep? I couldn't help but laugh at this. The more I laughed the more my jaw hurt. I curled over trying to supress the laughter that wouldn't quit coming. As I began to calm down I heard the rustling of blankets and someone coming toward me. I turned and was face to face with the girl who moments ago had been sleeping.
I could feel my jaw drop. She had the most beautiful eyes I'd ever seen. They were a deep shade of amethyst. As I shut my jaw I felt the pain from where she'd hit me. I rubbed the sore spot. 'I should be more careful of her punches.' I tore my vision away from the amethyst eyes so I could look over the rest of the girl. I traced her sleek neck to her slightly broad shoulders... and toned chest?
I then looked her over completely and was shocked to find that she was a he... And he was only wearing boxers. I stared at the boys pale features for a while before realizing I'd been staring far to long. I tried to introduce myself... "Um...I'm Heero." I said quickly. I found myself wondering what he thought of my strange actions but when I looked up at the boy I found he hadn't even been listening. He was apologizing profusely. I just stared at him as he continued to ramble. I didn't know what else to do.
After a couple of minutes he quit rambling and began staring at me. He looked like he was trying to think. I felt sort of sorry for him. He made thinking look like such a hard task. He began to pout while he thought and I found myself blushing. I quickly got rid of the blush and then checked to make sure he hadn't noticed and as before he was oblivious... Thank god! As he seemed to finish his pondering he bent down and reached out a hand to help me up. I would've grabbed his hand grateful for the gesture but then I noticed how he'd frozen and was once again staring at me. He had a guilty- no shocked- no confused- no worried look on his face. Man his emotions change fast! I find it hard to even maintain one emotion... I couldn't help but wonder if I had something on my face with the way he stared at me next. I was about to ask what was wrong when he bent over completely and sat straight in front of me. I was looking straight in his eyes when all of a sudden his hand came up to stroke my face.
I'd hit him before I'd even acknowledged what had happened. I also remember breifly letting some profanity slip from my lips... As soon as I'd hit him I prepared myself for a counter attack but I was surprised that he instead began laughing. I remained at a ready position incase this was some sort of diversion and he did indeed attack.
" Owww. I guess I had that comin'. Well now that that's outta the way. Hiya I'm the new guy in town! You have one heck of a right punch, Heero was it?" He said laughing as he starred up at me. When I didn't respond he seemed to grow sort of nervous but carried on anyway."Oh I'm sorry, Round two?"
Seeing as he was trying to joke around I tried to find the humor but when I couldn't I answered in my usual dry tone.
"No." No I didn't feel it was time for round two just yet.
Once again the worried look crossed his face and he spoke again ." Um I know I hit ya and all but did I do anything else wrong? You seem pretty uptight?" He asked. Then after another couple seconds I heard him mutter "Does he know karate or something?" very quietly.
I could tell the last part wasn't intended to be heard by me but I had heard it and couldn't decide whether to answer or not.
"Hn.No" I said impassive.
The boy began to approach me again and as he did so I answered his second question. " And yes." I said quietly.
As soon as I'd spoken I realized I'd confused the other boy and so I decided to extend my brief answers.
" No was my reply to being up tight and yes I do know karate." I said and couldn't help but smirk at the suprised look on his face. Yup, he most definetly did not mean to voice the last question.
After he seemd to process my answer he continued "Hey Heero buddy, you didn't answer my first question... Did I do something else wrong?"
After a moment I realized yes there is something wrong "Do you have a name?" I asked and he instantly looked at me as if I'd slapped him across the face... Okay the way a normal person would look at you if you'd slapped 'em, he wasn't laughing like he had before when I really did hit him.
"You gotta be kidding, right?" he said with a smile. I didn't know what I was suppose to be kidding about, it was a reasonable question. The other boy laughed a little and went on to introduce himself. "The name is Duo Maxwell, I may run and hide but I never tell a lie!" His answer was followed up with an even bigger grin that was definetly goofy but also sort of cute.
Ok. I couldn't help it. I blushed again. Really unusual for me I know, but so far this whole mornings been unusual. As soon as he looked at me, I could tell he saw the blush, but he didn't say anything about it. Instead, he made one of his confused faces and proceded to look me over. I had no idea why he was doing it, but I didn't say anything against it. I guess it's because he kept doing these weird things that I can't read him. I usually can read a person straight away, but with this guy... I just can't understand.
As I tried to understand what he was doing I noticed he was staring me in the eyes. By the confused look on his face I knew he was thinking. Yes, I figured that much about him. Whenever he's thinking he looks flat out confused. Weird, huh? After about a minute of him looking me in the eyes I figured out what he was thinking. Just as he did so he asked me the question I'd begun to wait for.
"Hey, Heero is that your-" he started.
I instantly cut him off " Yes. This is my natural eye color." It felt good to beat him to the point. I expected him to be surprised by the fact I'd figured out his question before he'd finished but instead I was the one who got the surprise as he started with his strange comments again.
"Really? Wow! I've never seen anyone with such an intresting eyecolor before." He said still staring into my eyes.
I gave him a skeptical look and then couldn't help as my own curiosity got the best of me. "Isn't that your natural eyecolor? Or do you wear contacts...?"
"Um...Yeah." he answered with a little blush. "This is my natural eye color." he said obviously embarrassed. As he answered me he sat on his bed. When he blushed I couldn't help but smile. I don't know why I did. It's awfully out of character for me, but I'll tell you I didn't regret it when it made him blush again even worse then before.
As he blushed he gave me a look as if he'd just realized I was there. "Um... So what're ya here for?" he asked obviously just realizing a complete stranger was in his room. As he asked the question I'd began staring at the pictures of him and other people on his bedside table. The smile staying on my face until I noticed the time on the clock.
"Kuso!" I yelled the smile completly disappearing from my face.
"Wha!" he yelled back in a nervous tone.
" We're late for school!" I yelled back to him before running over to the dresser I used to keep my clothes in. I was relieved to see some clothes in it. I grabbed what looked like pants, a long sleeve shirt with another shirt in it, and a pair of boxers. I then threw them at him and shoved him into the bathroom.
It suprised when he came out in what looked like a priest outfit. When he walked toward me he calmly asked "Shall we be going." He obviously didn't see my well hidden surprise. He put on some socks and combat boots and then he went to the door and waited for me to exit. As I did he did too. He turned to close the door but then he stopped abruptly and laughing lightly said "I should probably leave it open so I can find it again later."
When I didn't laugh we started again toward the front door. After a couple of hallways I figured out he was following me because he obviously had no clue where he was in the house. I slightly wanted to laugh at his confused look he was making as he was obviously trying to remember the way to his room. I couldn't though because everytime I looked at him I saw the priest outfit and tightened up again. Is he wearing it to make fun of me or maybe he hadn't noticed what he was wearing. But then why would he own a preist clothes? Was he a preist? Or maybe he's into cosplay...
We reached the front door and I kept walking in the direction of the school. I didn't want to look Duo in the face, but I couldn't help my staring at him with what he was wearing. I decided he was doing it to make fun of me. Why not? He'd been making fun of me all morning. Damn Quatre for asking me to do this!
I continued staring and noticed he was staring now too. 'Oh so that's the way he wants it.' I thought to myself and continued to stare. After a while of staring and Duos stare changing every five seconds I finally snapped. "What do you think you're doing?" I asked annoyed.
"I dont know...Staring? Why? What would you happen to be doing?" he asked laughing obviously he didn't care that I was glaring at him and imaginig multiple ways of killing him. After a couple of minutes I calmed myself down and decided to get his word before I hog-tied him with his own braid and locked him in a locker. I looked away before speaking to him again.
" Why did you wear what I grabbed? You should've just grabbed something different if I grabbed the wrong clothes..."
I said still looking away. I didn't want to see his mocking smile. I only looked up when he began laughing. Not an evil or mocking laugh but a sweet laugh. I was bewildered as to why he was laughing. I hadn't said anything funny. I was a man of few words anyways, let alone jokes.
"What's wrong Heero? Don't you like this on me?" he asked sarcastically, still laughing. 'Yup, he is making fun of me.' I thought to myself as I answered with my usual grunt. "Hn." As I did so I turned away. ' I don't like the comments he makes. He's doing it on purpose.'
"For your information Heero I happen to like my priest git' up so deal with it!" he said as he stopped suddenly making me run straight into him. We toppled over and I landed on top of him. I felt myself go slightly red in the face. Whether from anger or embarassment I couldn't decide. He started laughing at me again. ' I hate all the confusion and disorder he causes.' I thought as I shot him what has always been known as my death glare. I got off him continued to be pissed off. I could feel my temper rising.
"Hn. For your information Duo I don't care what you wear. It's not your clothes I don't like." I all but hissed. I gave one last glare before turning away and heading toward the school. I'd decided to just lead him to the school, seeing as I might kill him before getting there if I talked to him again. To be frank, his inpredictability really pissed me off and the emotions he made me feel pissed me off even more. I wanted to break his nose...
As I turned the corner I heard Duo yelling to wait up and heard him running toward me. As he got closer I realized what he was saying. "Hey Heero wait! How am I suppose to get to school !"
I stopped, turned around, and looked at him. I just couldn't understand it, I couldn't stay angry with him. He just had that strange affect on me. Annoyed? Yes, I could easily say I was annoyed with him but I couldn't truly beleive I was angry. With that logic going through my head I just continued staring at him. He stared right back as he ran up to meet me. He had his confused look and I found myself wondering what he was thinking. After a moment the look was gone as was his stare.
"Um...So how much farther?" he asked without making any eye contact with me.
I could tell it was intentional.
"Hn. We're here."I near grunted as I pointed at the building that would be his new school. St. Vincents Boarding School .
As we entered the building I noticed Duo was stragling behind. He looked very confused. 'Aww... He must be thinking very hard.' I thought and nearly slapped myself for such an idiotic thought. "C'mon." I muttered and we started down the main hall.
When we reached the office at the end of the hall I walked in and over to Mrs. Awayukis desk. "Excuse me mam." I muttered in the politest voice I could manage. She turned around and stared at me for a second and then when I didn't continue she spoke. "Yes Heero? What is it?"
"This is the new boy. I was told to bring him to school today and as a result I'm late and have no time to show him to his classes. I figured I'd instead quickly explain his schedule to him and be on my way. I need his schedule. Could you?" I said and waited for a response.
"Could I what...?" She asked confused. I realized the way I'd asked was sorta off, but I'd been like this all morning. Instead of getting angry and giving her a glare I just said what I'd meant.
"So mam could you please give me Duos schedule?" I stated more than asked.
Recognition dawned over her face as she said "Sure dear. What's his last name?"
I paused and was about to answer when another voice behind me answered.
"Maxwell. Duo Maxwell."
I turned and saw Duo smiling at the Mrs. Awayuki. She of course smiled back and then turned to find Duos folder. I knew she would take a while to find it and I was already late so I grabbed Duo and turned him toward me so I could talk to him.
"Duo listen very carefully. I'm going to my class now. It's Miss.Po's English class in room 303.Okay?" Duo nodded and I continued. "When Mrs. Awayuki gives you your class schedule I want you to go straight to your classes. Don't mess around in the hall. Alright?" I stated in voice that threatened I'd hurt him if he did anything against what I told him. ' Why am I so worried?'
When Duo nodded I began to leave for class. ' Miss. Po's gonna chew my head off...' I thought. My thoughts started to drift to class, but as soon as they did I instantly went back to thinking about Duo. I turned around to face the braided baka again. "If you need any help come to my room." and with that said I was off again.
When I made it to class I noticed everyone was silently reading. When I entered the classroom they're eyes seemed to all look up at me at once as if on a cue. I ignored them and headed straight to Miss.Po's desk to apologize for my tardiness. I expected to get yelled at or something , but instead she gave me a funny smile. "It's ok Heero. Everyones late every once in a while." She whispered quietly to me so only I could hear her. I faintly smiled back. She then said in a slightly loud whisper "Don't do it again!" so the rest of the class could hear. When they seemed to all be looking back at their books she smiled again. "Sorry 'bout that... Can't let them think I've gone soft." She sighed and shooed me back to my desk. I quietly headed back to my desk.
I knew the only reason she'd let me off the hook was because she was a major supporter of our school sports teams and I was on her favorite. Her favorite was the basketball team which I just happened to be captain of. I also happened to be a junior. That means I have to deal with her for another year after this one meaning I should stay on her good side.
My friend Wufei leaned toward me as I sat in the desk next to him.
"Where you been, Yuy?" He asked in his usual serious tone.
"Just doing chores..." I said without thinking.
Wufei said nothing for a moment. He just stared at me and then asked "Chores?" as if he hadn't heard me right.
"Hn." was my reply.
"Must have been some hard chores if it took you an hour to do them. You're an hour late you know." Wufei said obviously looking for me to say what I'd really been doing.
I just stared at him and calmly said "You're right. It was more like a mission." I said. "Mission impossible with that braided baka' I thought to myself as Wufei responded.
"A mission?" He asked as if I was mocking him.
"Yeah." I replied watching the chinese boys face carefully.
"And?" He asked annoyed.
"Mission accomplished." I stated plainly. As I did the bell rang signaling first blocks end. I walked to the door and headed towards my next class leaving a rather annoyed chinese boy to gather his stuff.
As I headed to my next class I heard Quatres voice. I tried to pinpoint where he was in the hall of students. After listening for a moment I realized he was talkng to someone. I listened a little longer and recognized the voice as Duo's. After pinpointing their location, I walked toward the school commities room. I saw them through the crowd, but stopped as I heard Duo yell "If you're my neighbor then who was that boy from this morning!"
I expected Quatre to explain, but I realized he was confused what Duo was talking about as he asked "What boy from this morning?" I chose that moment to push through the crowd. I was right behind Duo as I said "Let me explain..."
As soon as the words left my mouth Duo jumped about ten feet in the air.
"You!" He said turning to face me.
"Heero!" Quatre said surprised.
As Quatre said my name Duo turned to face him again. "You know him?" He asked Quatre as if I wasn't there.
"Oh yeah!" Quatre said slapping his forehead lightly. "I sent him to get you this morning.
"Oh..." Duo said turning to face me again. "Thanks then!" He said with a happy smile. I just responded with a simple "Hn." and looked away.
"So Duo How was your first class? Did you enjot it?" Quatre asked giving Duo a curious smile. I looked up wondering how things had tuned out as well. I looked up just in time to see Duo blush slightly and say carefully "Um... I made it to a class..." Quatre looked sort of confused and then gave me an awkward pouty face. ( I figured out when we were five that it's his angry face.) Duo looked slighly confused and I gave a half question. "Hmm?"
" HEERO YUY! Did You Or Did You NOT! Take Duo To His Class!" Quatre half yelled in his best angry voice. Angry pout slightly inflating more. I had no intention of answering until I noticed he was refusing to breathe until I answered.
I was about to answer when Duo cut in rather quickly " Yo chill Cat." At the sound of the new nickname Quatre let out the held in breath in one gasp, paused, and stared at Duo. I started to smirk until Duo finished his explanation. "An older kid decided to show me to class and took me to the wrong one. It wasn't Hee-chans fault." He finished still slightly red, but laughing obviously thinking his exlpanation was rather clever.
He then grinned and looked at me to help add on to the story obviously not wanting to carry on. I might've helped if I wasn't trying to fight the repeating urge to tie the braided baka up with his own braid and lock him in a locker. 'Hee- Chan!' That pissed me off and yet I could feel myself blushing. 'Damn Baka!'
When Qautre looked at me as if to ask if this was true I just turned to Duo giving him my best death glare and said in a monotone voice. "I'm not involved." I then stocked away replaying the conversation over and over in my head. I was pissed about what Duo had said yet at the same time something bothered me about the blush he wore as he said it... 'Somethings not right.'
What'chya think of Heeros point of veiw! I tried to stick to his character and situate him to a more highschool oriented version. Did I do okay? Feel free to review goodly...ness or flat out burn me like there's no tomorrow if you want! Either way I'm just glad you read it and gave me your opinion! I'm hoping to make my next chapter really big! So I hope you'll enjoy it!
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