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New chappie. Now, we get some action here. Well, not really. But we get the first pairing. That's right! Read and find out. But the main pairing is still under process. But it will happen soon. Really soon. laughs like a maniac

"Q, T means cutie:"

A week later another Saturday had approached and the streets were quiet. At the moment. Running like hell was a Japanese teen with chocolate bangs and Prussian blue eyes on his way down the street. His face was flushed and his jaws were tense. He was late. For the first time in his life he was late. Heero Yuy was late.

Cursing his father for needing help down the stairs this morning, he ran even faster to reach the already started band practice. He couldn't believe that he was so late. When Duo had called, he'd told him he'd meet him there in five minutes so there was no need to wait for him. Damn it! He hurried trough the gates to Quatre's house, rang the bell, and waited. Damn, was Rashid this slow on purpose?

After what seemed like an eternity Rashid opened the door. "Nice to see you again, Master Heero. Master Quatre and the others are waiting upstairs for you."

"Arigato, Rashid." Heero nodded and slipped off his shoes before starting the way up towards the third floor. Walking down the hall towards the music room, he could hear the faint sound of music. As he got closer, the sound got stronger until it was clear as crystal. The sound of a violin and a flute was heard the clearest with just a hint of drums and guitar in the background.

Gently slipping inside, he took a seat next to the door and watched the others play. Quatre was playing his violin and Trowa was playing the flute. Wufei gently tapped his drums while Duo played his ever so faithful guitar. The melody was beautiful and Heero closed his eyes so he could enjoy the beautiful sounds.

When the music stopped, he opened his eyes and clapped. Quatre looked up and smiled. "Heero. We were worried about you. It's not like you to be this late."

Duo snickered. "Yeah. Quatre was worried sick and was just seconds away from sending Rashid out to find ya." Closing his eyes, Duo smiled. "But we told him to wait a little bit longer. You probably had something unexpected to fix up. Like running from Relena or something. But we agreed that if you hadn't showed up when this melody was finished we would call you."

Wufei snorted. "No need to worry. Yuy is a big boy. He can take care himself. Right?" Cracking an eye up, Wufei looked at Heero, just to make sure that Heero really could take care of himself. Heero gave him a glare. "I'm fully capable of taking care of myself."

Duo smirked and walked over to sit down next to him. Playing with the strings, he looked at his friend. "Yeah. But even the mightiest one of us needs help sometimes, ne? Gods knows how many times we've saved each others asses. Right guys?"

Trowa and Quatre nodded and sat down next to them, but Wufei only snorted while muttering something about 'weaklings'. Duo just shock his head and yelled 'Take's one to know one, Wu—man', something that made Wufei splutter out some random words. Heero chose to ignore him and turned to his braided friend.

"That melody you were playing. I haven't heard anything like it. Have you made it yourself?"

Duo grinned. "Sort of. Q-man was playing his violin one day and Trowa just decided to join him with the flute. Later I joined them with some background tunes and finally Wufei cooked up some use for the drums. The result; The QT melody. [1]"

"Cutie?"

Duo smirked while Trowa and Quatre looked away, a little flush on their faces. "No, Q and T. As in the first letters in Trowa's and Quatre's names. Q and T means cutie. Got it? It's kind of their song."

Heero nodded. "Smart." Then he added with a little smirk. "And cute." Duo looked at him before bursting into laughter. A 'Grow up, Maxwell' was heard from Wufei's direction and Trowa just shook his head. Quatre smiled and decided to change the subject. "Well, Hilde couldn't be with us today and we haven't really found any song we need to practice on. Duo wanted to do that Vertical Horizon song, 'I'm Still Here', but we haven't found the notes for it yet. And we need someone to sing with him."

"Can't you do it?"

"Quatre doesn't have the voice to do it." Drying away some tears, Duo leaned over towards the others. "Even though our desert prince has a lovely light tenor, his voice doesn't fit. Besides, he's gonna do the keyboard while Trowa's doing the mixing, if there is any. I haven't figured that out yet." Deep in thoughts, Duo sat back and left the conversation.

Quatre laughed. "Anyways, we were discussing what to do if we decided not to rehearse today and decided to go the movies. You wanna come?"

Heero nodded. "Sure thing. Don't have anything else to do and I really don't wanna spend the rest of the day with my father. He's grumpy because of his foot."

Duo woke up from his mentally trip and leaned towards the others. "Speak of the devil, when will your dad be back on his feet?"

"Another week or so. Depends on how much he uses it."

"So he's gonna be stuck home a couple of weeks longer, huh?"

Heero nodded. "Hai. Especially if he decides to try the stairs again. He tried them yesterday and he almost fell down." Duo snorted. "I can see were you got your determination from, Hee-chan."

"Baka."

"Love you too, Hee-chan."

Rolling his eyes, Heero turned towards Quatre and Trowa. "So, what movie are we gonna see?"

Trowa shrugged. "We don't know yet. Our plan is just to show up and see what's on." Lifting an eyebrow, Heero smirked. "Sounds like a plan Duo cooked up." Smiling, Trowa nodded. "How did you guess?"

"Hey, what's wrong with it? It's a good plan. Besides, being spontaneous is fun." Duo gave his best pout and crossed his arms. Heero looked at him, one eyebrow still raised and with a smirk. "You're being spontaneous if just walked past the Cineplex and decided to watch a movie. This has been discussed and agreed too."

"Well, we're being spontaneous when it comes to the movie."

Heero snorted and shook his head. "Duo no baka." Grinning, Duo threw his arm around Heero's neck from the side and pinched his nose with the other. "Watch the language, Mr. Asian man."

Rubbing his nose, Heero gave him his best glare, even though it was impossible to stay annoyed with the braided teen. Duo just grinned and released him. Shaking his head, Heero turned towards Quatre and Trowa. And stared.

The two of them were whispering with their heads close together. Duo leaned over Heero and poked Trowa's shoulder. "Hey. What're ya whispering about?"

Startled, Trowa jerked his head back, a nice little flush marking his face. Quatre cleared his throat, and blushed as well. "Nothing. We were just wondering what kind of transportation we should use to get to the Cineplex." "Can't we just take the bus?"

Quatre shook his head. "But you can't take the bus, Duo."

Duo waived his hand and smiled. "Hey, I can take a little drive.

Raising his eyebrow, Heero looked at them. "Why can't Duo take the bus?"

"Because the braided baka gets bus-sick and throws up. That's why." The Chinese teen had finally decided to talk and Heero's eyes were fixed against him. Duo snorted. "Not all the time. Besides, I can do if it's just into town. And I don't throw up!"

"You did last time." Wufei grinned and Duo blushed. "Well, it was a long trip and I'd just eaten a Milky Way..." Heero smiled. "Well, we can always use our feet's. Or I could ask my dad if I could borrow the car. But it's highly doubtful that I can..."

"But ya got your license, haven't you?"

Heero nodded. "But it doesn't mean I can borrow the car."

Duo raised his eyebrow and looked at his Japanese friend. "You're dad is a nice guy, isn't he." Heero glared at his braided friend. "I know, my father is very old fashioned and strict, but you don't have to be sarcastic, Duo."

Duo looked down and ran his hand trough his bangs. "Well, excuse me! But I still have a hard time forgetting the way he treated you when he first saw us. I don't give a rat's ass what he thinks about me, I just don't want him to let his issues get over you." Looking up, Duo sighed. "That's all, Hee- chan."

Gently smiling, Heero nodded. "Thank you for your concern, Duo, but I can handle him. Besides, he's accepted the fact that you guys are my friends."

Lifting his eyebrow, Duo just nodded. He still hasn't talked to Heero's father so he didn't really know him, but he knew the type. Once a homophobe always a homophobe, and if you were one you don't just change your mind over night. A small voice was lurking at the back of his head, warning him that Heero's dad probably hadn't said his last words about the issue. But for now, he would keep quiet about it. Besides, the same voice told him that Heero was probably aware about the same things. Sighing, Duo told his mind that Heero was probably alert on his father and would tell them if he said something.

Quatre cleared his throat and tapped his watch. "We really should get going guys, or we won't make any movies at all."

Duo nodded and got up. "Right, Q-man. We take the bus or?"

Quatre shook his head. "No, I'll ask if Rashid can drive us. I'm sure one of his men can do it." Duo nodded and pulled Heero onto his feet. "Come on, Hee-chan. Let's get dressed while Q-man asks Rashid if he can give us a lift." Heero nodded and let Duo drag him away, just as he always did.

And he was always happy to let it happen.

"Okay, we got some choices here, people. We can go for a romantic comedy, plain comedy, splatter movie, thriller, horror or a sickly sweet chick- flick." Turning, Duo laid his hands on his hips and looked at his comrades. "I don't know about you, but I wanna skip the chick-flick, but that still leaves us with quite a few choices."

Heero looked over the program, quickly reading about the movies. "I agree. No chick-flicks. And I'm not in the mood for any horror movies."

Quatre nodded. "Me neither. And I don't wanna see any platter movies tonight. I don't think I can stomach it."

Wufei snorted. "Agreed, but it's not because I can't stomach it. I just thinks it's so badly made." Duo smirked and gave Wufei a wink. "Sure, Wu- man. And when we cut up a pig's hearts in biology last year you didn't pas out."

Wufei blushed and muttered 'Shut up, Maxwell', before excusing himself to the bathroom. Duo snorted and turned towards Trowa who looked like he was on another planet. Walking towards him, Duo snapped his fingers to wake the tall teen from his trance. "Yo, Trowa. Get back down to earth wills ya?"

Trowa jumped at the sound of Duo's voice and blushed. Duo grinned. "Find me that scary, huh? Maybe the name Shinigami fits me better than I thought." Trowa didn't say anything and Duo patted his shoulder. "Don't ya worry, T- bone. Just tell us what movie you don't wanna see so we can agree on a movie we wanna see."

Scanning the program, Trowa pointed at the romantic comedy. Duo nodded. "Okay, no romance for you. Then the only thing left is comedy. And we can choose between two movies according to the program."

Walking towards Duo, Heero looked over his braided friends shoulder. "Which?" Pointing at the names, Duo looked at Heero. "These two. 'Bruce Almighty' and 'The Haunted Mansion'."

Pointing at the program, Heero lifted an eyebrow. "Isn't 'The Haunted Mansion' a horror movie? I really don't wanna see anything with poorly made ghosts and a cheap plot."

Smirking, Duo looked at Heero from the corner of his eyes. "Too scary for ya, Hee-chan? Don't worry, if you're scared I can make room for you on my lap. That is, if Wu-man is willing to move over to one knee or something."

"Ha-ha," Heero replied dryly and Duo grinned. "I'm only messing with ya. Besides, 'The Haunted Mansion' is half horror, half comedy. More comedy than horror though." Quatre shook his head. "Let' us save that movie for later. I wanna see 'Bruce Almighty'."

Duo nodded. "I'm with you on that one. I'm in the mood for some Jim Carrey." Trowa just nodded and Duo turned towards Heero. "What do you say? Wanna go for Murphy or Carrey?"

"Carrey. As Quatre said, let's save the other one for later."

Duo nodded. "Now we only miss Wu-man's vote. Is he still in the bathroom?" Quatre nodded. "I think so. But I don't think he minds if we just by the tickets. He never pays attention to the movies anyway."

Duo nodded. Grinning towards his Japanese friend, he pointed towards the ticket shop. "Come on, Hee-chan! To infinity and beyond! Or at least to the ticket stands."

Heero just laughed.

"Wasn't that fucking awesome?! I thought I was gonna die of laughter when that monkey came out of the dude's butt!"

Duo was rambling about the highlights of the movie and the rest just nodding behind him. Turning his attention towards Heero, he grinned. "Wasn't it great?"

Heero smirked. "The movie was a little simple for me, but it had it's moments. It was entertaining enough."

Pouting, Duo placed his hands on his hips. "You're no fun." Then his pout was replaced with a grin and he swung his hand around Heero's shoulder. "But you can't fool me, Hee-chan. I heard you laughing beside me."

Giving his friends a friendly thwap over the head, Heero smiled. "As I said, the movie had it's moments." Sticking out his tongue to Heero, Duo turned his head towards Quatre and Trowa. And stopped. "Quatre? Trowa? Is there something you wanna tell us?"

Heero turned along with Wufei and both Asian teens raised their eyebrows. The tall Latino teen and the petite blonde was standing next to each other, holding hands and blushing.

Duo raised one of his eyebrows and smiled. "I repeat, is there something you wanna tell us? Like, how long this has been going on?"

Quatre blushed a deeper red and turned towards his silent partner. Looking back at the others, he smiled. "Well, Trowa and I have decided to go steady."

Duo clapped and grinned. "That's great! How long have you liked each other? When did you decide to get together? How long have you fooled around? Tell me everything, Q-man!"

Trowa squeezed Quatre's hand and smiled to. "I've been interested in him every since I met him. He told me he liked me last year, about the same time he came out. We've seen each other since then, but we decided to come out with the relationship today. We just...wanted to make sure that we would last."

Clapping again, Duo ran over to give his two friends a hug. "That's great! I'm so happy for you. I just knew that you two were meant for each other!"

Heero walked over and patted Trowa's back. Smiling towards the blond, he winked. "Congratulations to you both. I'm happy for you."

Everybody turned towards Wufei and stared at him. Raising his hand, Duo gently approached him. "Wufei? Don't you have anything you want to say to Trowa and Quatre?" Wufei smirked a look at the two said teens. "Congratulations to both of you. Just don't go making out in front of me. That I can't stomach, because you two are too damn sweet for your own good together."

Everybody just laughed before stopping at the McDonalds to celebrate. Wufei complained about the fact that the McDonalds wasn't a good place to celebrate, while Duo said that it was twice as cozy as any fancy restaurant. Besides, they could celebrate the happy couple when the weekend came. They did have school the next morning after all. Trowa and Quatre agreeing with the fact that they could celebrate later, and Heero...even though he was happy that the two of them was together, he couldn't help but feeling a little stab of jealousy 'because they was experiencing something he never had. Loving and be loved by another human being you were willing to share your life with. Somebody you trusted. Somebody you were willing to die for.

Looking at his braided friend, he smiled. Maybe he would experience it someday. But today, he just wanted to celebrate the get-together of two good friends.

Author's Notes: [1] When I'm writing this I'm thinking about that time Quatre and Trowa played together in the desert (Quatre and Trowa instrumental). You can hear the drums and the guitar in it. I just thought it fitted so good.

Okay, a quick ending. I'm planning my next chapter and I just had to end it. I just didn't find any good was to end it. What do you think? Need feedback, I live for feedback. Remember to review. points at the review button Thankee! And remember what I say. Hugs and Gundam pilots too those who reviews. The rest gets Relena. shivers