Heero and Duo, Saiyan Gods
Part 5: Recovery
By: Fantasim Soldier

Anime series: Gundam Wing & Dragon Ball Z
Romance/action/alternate universe/suspense
Not a lemon or a lime
Yaoi: Heero and Duo
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or Dragon Ball Z or any of their characters. The only characters that are mine are the ones that don't belong in or to either Gundam Wing or Dragon Ball Z and the same goes for the attacks.

It had been a day and Duo was being very overprotective of Heero. At least Heero thought so. Duo finally fell asleep in the chair, but he hadn't let anyone in, especially Vegeta, though Heero couldn't say he missed the spiky haired, arrogant piss poor excuse for a prince, if he ever saw one. Heero wanted up, if only to go look out the window. The window was big, but still too far away for Heero to see out of. King Kai had been humoring Duo and had told him that he'd seen the blast, which was probably true, that Heero had taken in the chest and that it should take Heero at least a weak to recover from that, without a sensu bean. He'd also said that someone named Koren was fresh out of sensu beans. Though, from what Heero had seen already, he wasn't so sure that this Koren person was human. He'd also been hearing about some man named King Yema. King Yema had apparently said that he'd allow the God of Death and the God of War to live on Earth, but they had already had their destination there chosen, whether they wanted it or not. They were to live with Goku and his family. Word had already been sent to the woman who was supposed to be Goku's wife and Gohan's mother and one of the strongest women on Earth or something, named Chi-Chi. Duo had, strongly, refrained from making fun of the name, but Duo would eventually be in a mood to where he wouldn't care until it was too late. He'd heard that Chi-Chi could be violent. Especially with frying pans.

No sooner had Heero pulled the covers away and tried to get out of bed, did his chest start aching so much that he moaned loudly in pain.

Duo immediately woke up and rushed to Heero's side. "Heero, did I or did I not specifically tell you to stay in bed? You're going to hurt yourself." Duo said, worry in his voice. He took a look at the bandages on Heero's chest. They were red again. "Awww, Heero, look what you've done to yourself. You're bleeding again." Duo said, concern written all over his face and showing in his voice.

Heero winced as Duo changed the bandages. Heero had tried to let Duo let him do it, but Duo had insisted that if Heero had tried it himself, he'd only further injure himself. Heero decided that Duo was going to be stubborn and he would let him change the bandages.

Duo remembered what Heero'd done once, when a doctor hadn't gone fast enough for Heero when he was taking out stitches in Heero's right leg. It had been an accident that Heero'd had. He'd been trying to do something with the curtains and he'd lost his balance on the ladder and fell, taking the ladder with him. He'd cut himself and needed stitches. Duo had reprimanded him the whole way there, for not asking for Duo's help. Really, he'd just been worried and had been trying to cover it up. When it came time for the stitches to come out, the doctor had been going too slow for Heero and Heero had made the doctor get away from him and took them out himself. And, unfortunately, Heero's wound had been just bad enough, this time, to have to have some stitches in his chest. Duo hadn't noticed until the sheets that were used as Heero's covers had turned red, after Duo'd given him that kiss on the cheek. Duo had gone around to the other side of the bed to get something from the little wicker stand there and had noticed something red staining the sheets that were near his chest and, upon closer inspection, noticed that the sheets had been clinging to Heero. He didn't know why Heero hadn't mentioned it, but Heero got an earful when Duo woke him up, telling him that he needed to check his wound and Heero wasn't in the right position. Through the whole wound inspection and the stitching, and bandaging and when Duo had been putting on ointment to make the wound heal quicker and take some of the pain away, Duo had scolded him and scolded him for not telling Duo that his chest had been bleeding like that and hurting so badly.

Duo, though, figured that he should have noticed Heero's wound right away, but hadn't a clue why. He couldn't very well go back in time to fix it. Though, in this place, he wasn't so sure.

"Heero, hold still, I've almost got this done and if I mess up now, I'll have to start over completely." Duo warned. It wasn't the pain that Heero couldn't stand and was fidgeting about, it was Duo's touch. Whenever Duo touched him in any way, he'd get this funny feeling and he didn't know what it was.

Heero didn't answer Duo, but he tried his best to hold still. Duo didn't know what had gotten into Heero. One second he was sitting still and the moment Duo tried to touch him he started to fidget. Heero never did that to anyone else. Now wasn't the time to figure it out, though. He had to get this finished and if he let his thoughts wander too much, then he'd mess up and have to start all over again.

Finally, Duo finished and stopped touching Heero, who was sweating. He did, however, run his hand over Heero's face, wiping the sweat away, then asked, "It's awfully cool in here, why are you sweating?" "Hurts." Heero said. Duo's eyes softened, along with the rest of his facial features and his touch, though, Heero noticed, his touch was always gentle when touching Heero. "I know. I told you to let me go ahead. I wish I could make that pain go away, but I can't." Duo said.

It was then, that someone decided to barge in. "Well, well, well. How touching." Vegeta said. Duo turned around, face twisted in anger and hate to the man that had hurt Heero so badly. "Touching? Touch what? You have nothing to touch, because you haven't got a heart. You're also fool hearty with your power. You get excited and use too damn much. You can't control it. You shouldn't be allowed to have it or use it until you can. Get the Hell outta this room, now. No one said you could come in. I may not be strong in whatever the Hell it was, you were doing out there when you hurt Heero, but I don't need to be as mad as I am with you, right now. Get...the....Hell.....out." Duo said, stopping before he said the next word and making sure to pronounce ever word right down to the T, his voice practically dripping with venom.

However, Vegeta didn't like the way he was addressing him. "I'll show you power, boy." Vegeta said, preparing to hit him with a power blast. Duo took the opportunity, when Vegeta had been powering up, to attack him, instead. He was no fool. He wasn't going to wait until he powered up. He wouldn't stand a chance. Duo jumped up, over the bed, his training automatically kicking in and into overdrive and starting assaulting Vegeta with punches to the face. Unknowingly, a black energy started to surround him. It was gone as quickly as it had come, but with one final punch, Duo sent Vegeta back a ways. "How dare you, you impertinent long haired sissy!" Vegeta yelled. "Well, this sissy just kicked your ass. Now, get the Hell out and stay away from Heero and from me." Duo said, slamming the door in Vegeta's face.

Meanwhile, Heero had been straining to stay up to where he could see Duo and Vegeta. He had been toying with the idea of getting up and intercepting Vegeta's blast with his own body, to save Duo from it, because he was sure Duo didn't know how to block one, even he didn't, really. He just knew how to dodge and shoot some of his own. He'd also found out that he could block attacks with attacks of his own, as long as they were at equal strength to where the attacks would cancel each other out or the attack was stronger than the other and it would engulf that attack and keep on going. Heero wasn't sure if the attack then gained power from the other or not, but he'd find out one way or another. He wasn't fast enough to block all attacks like that and probably wasn't near as strong enough, yet, for the stronger attacks. He was sure this couldn't be it. Otherwise, why would there be so many other people to train them how to master this. Granted it wasn't as easy as the others made it look, but it wasn't all that hard, either. He just had to figure out a few things.

Duo saw that Heero was straining to keep himself propped up with his arms behind him a ways and balancing on his hands. Duo rushed over to him, smoothing his bangs away from his eyes and gently getting him to lay back down.

Once Duo had soothed Heero enough to where he went back to sleep, Duo quietly slipped out and had a chat with King Kai. He wanted Heero to be on Earth. He was sure that the gravity increase would make Heero extremely weak, along with the altitude of this planet. King Kai had agreed, reluctantly at first, but then decided that Duo might be right and made arrangements for Goku and Gohan to take Heero and Duo down to Earth and they'd stay there until Heero was better and then they'd either come back to King Kai's or they'd stay on Earth and train, but eventually, they'd have to be trained by King Kai, himself.

Heero was cradled in Duo's arms as they stood outside, ready to be teleported. Goku had ahold of Duo's braid, because he had to be touching some part of Duo, and had Gohan by the hand, as he teleported. Heero had his head resting against Duo's chest. He couldn't believe how weak he was. He'd had wounds worse than this and wasn't this weak. Though, they did take longer to heal, because he wasn't so weak that he had to stay in bed, though he should have, if he would consider the wound itself.

But, now the only way he could leave bed without hurting himself in some way, was to have Duo carry him in his arms, while Heero put his arms around the American's neck and let his head rest on his chest. It was embarrassing, though he felt, surprisingly, safe in Duo's arms. He felt Duo staring at him, though he doubted that it was anger. Duo didn't seem to ever be angry with him for very long, though he was still really pissed at Vegeta. Heero was getting tired. He couldn't believe this. He never got tired like this! Not usually when he was injured, though it used to be that he wouldn't give himself a chance to be tired or notice it, anyway.

Heero quickly fell asleep, in Duo's arms. Once they'd teleported to Goku's house, and Duo swore he'd never get used to that, Chi-Chi immediately noticed that Heero was injured, since Heero wasn't wearing a shirt, and she saw the bandages, she ushered them both into the only spare room. It was big enough. One teensy weensy little problem, though. It only had ONE bed. Meaning, they'd be sleeping in the same bed. Oh, the bed was big enough, he just didn't know if Heero would like that idea. Duo noticed that Heero seemed to be breathing better and in slightly less pain. Now, Duo was sure that it would only take a week of recovery. He set Heero down on the bed and covered him up. Duo knelt next to the bed and brushed some of Heero's bangs away from his eyes and kissed his forehead. "You get well soon." Duo whispered very softly. He hadn't known that Chi-Chi had been watching him or that he'd left the door wide open.


Author's note: So, how's this part?? I hope it's good and in future parts there should be some Chi-Chi bashing, but I don't do much with bashing characters, but it should pass as humor, though I don't think I'm good at much but romance. Just mail me at, traci1985babe@hotmail.com