***Chapter Three***
Usagi sat on her bed, combing her long blonde hair, which was now kept down instead of in the usual hairstyle. She yawned slightly; it had been a long night. Despite Duo's wild and … unearthly behavior, Usagi had actually enjoyed the evening with him. She remembered, sometime in the movie, Duo babbling on about how he had four friends, and she had four friends. Basically, he was suggesting they all get together sometime. Usagi shrugged and stretched out over her bed. Maybe, she thought, just maybe.
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Duo tiptoed in the door, trying to be as quiet as possible. All the lights were off, and there was no sign of Heero. Exhaling, Duo headed for the stairs. Right on the 13th step, two from the end, an alarm sounded. Duo looked around, trying to figure out what he had done, and, mostly, since when had Heero and him had an alarm in their house?
Heero came rushing out of his room and tackled Duo all the way to the 7th step, from there both of them tumbled the rest of the way down.
"HEERO!!" Duo shouted, rubbing his head. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!??!"
Heero shrugged. "Boredom, I guess."
Duo glared. "Boredom? Great, Boredom. So one day when you're ^really^ bored your going to take a gun to my head, huh!?"
Heero nodded, pretending to think about Duo's statement. "He----y. That might be a good idea."
Duo hung his head. "God, you're pathetic."
"HEY! AT LEAST I'M NOT DATING A DITZY BLONDE!"
"She isn't ditzy!" Duo yelled back down the stairs, "and, make note, that at least I'm not going around flirting with other peoples dates."
Heero raised an eyebrow. "Flirting?"
"Yah, flirting." Duo spat back.
"Oooooh," Heero said, grinning. "I get it! You're jealous because she waved to me, and because she talked to me, hai?"
"NO!" Duo shouted once more and slammed his door.
Heero shrugged, jumped over the back of the couch, and flipped on the TV. "He's jealous." He stated to the empty room.
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Usagi opened her eyes. What day was it? She never kept track of the days during the summer time. She couldn't help it. Without school, she really didn't know. And she had graduated a year ago. Stumbling out of bed, she shuffled downstairs. The fridge stood open. Not bothering to think about that, Usagi grabbed a soda out of the fridge and took a drink.
Taking a look about the room, she sighed. Usagi picked up the phone, and called each and every one of the girls. Makoto, Minako, Rei, and Ami. Each line starting with… "Hey, I've got something for you to do today. Why don't you come with me and Duo and…" She went on about how he had a friend, and, that each could be hooked up with one. Three of them immediately agreed, but it took Ami some talking into. She couldn't use the studying excuse anymore, because she was out of school and she wasn't going to college for another year yet. After rolling off fifteen excuses and all of them being turned down, she finally agreed.
She hung up the phone and dialed the last number. Duo's.
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Duo rolled out of bed and onto the floor with an excruciating thump. He groaned and literally crawled out of the room. Standing up, he just fell back down again and slide down fifteen steps. Each time he hit a step it made a dunk noise. Repeat that fifteen times and it got pretty annoying.
Heero looked over to Duo. He had been awake all night and wasn't at all tired. Duo, on the other hand, had gotten plenty of sleep, twelve hours to be more specific, and looked exhausted. "You're girlfriend just called."
Duo's eyes lit up. "Really?"
"Yup." Heero said, flipping through the channels.
"What'd she need?"
"Well," Heero started, looking up at the ceiling. "She said something about you being an immature pig and thought I was so much better and…"
Duo rolled his eyes, leaving Heero alone to ramble on. He poured himself a class of orange juice and glanced at the paper. He read the cover, "Kids eating too much?" Duo grunted. A person could never eat too much, Duo thought to him self. Take him, for example. He ate a truckload a day and never gained a pound. Duo smiled in spite of himself. He shrugged once more and took out the funnies. Each stupid, immature joke made him laugh.
Joining Duo in the kitchen, Heero came in. He sat down. "She said that she had plans tonight. You should get all the guys and she'd get her friends and do a huge party kind of thing."
Duo sipped is orange juice. "Is that right."
"Yah," Heero said, yawning. "She said that you should call her back with a suggestion of some sort."
"Alright," Duo said, reaching for the phone. He dialed Usagi's number and waiting for her to pick up.
"Moshi Moshi." Came Usagi's pleasant, sweet voice.
"Hey." Duo said back.
Heero ran upstairs to pick up the other line.
"How's it goin'? She asked.
"Alright, I guess. How long have you been up?" Duo questioned. She sounded too cheerful to have just gotten up. He glanced at the clock. Noon. An hour…two at the most.
"Oh…about four hours."
"FOUR HOURS!?" Duo yelled. "Holy…why so early?"
"No reason, really. Anyways. Is it a good idea?"
"Yea…it's a great idea. We'll all be there around four. Picnic sound good?"
"Uh huh, sounds great."
"Alright, bye."
"Ja ne."
Duo hung up the phone while Heero hung up the extension. Heero ran into the bathroom and got a pair of scissors, grinning.
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The clock now read three o' clock. All the girls would be coming in about fifteen minutes. Glancing in the oven, Usagi scrunched up her nose. She had attempted to cook an apple pie. She also thought that she had remembered the directions. Shrugging, Usagi took it out of the oven and set it on the counter. Taking out a magazine, she waited for everyone to get there.
Usagi was reading a section about girls with embarrassing stories, seeking advice. She was interrupting by the chiming of her doorbell. Without warning, three girls came rushing in, the fourth one slowly walking behind.
"Oi minna!" Usagi greeted.
"Hey Usagi." Makoto said, glancing around.
"Where are they!?" Minako said, bursting in the door, shoving Makoto out of the way.
Usagi looked disturbingly at Minako. "Anxious much?"
"Hai, hai. Very!" Minako shouted.
"They'll be here in forty-five minutes. Take a chill pill and relax until then."
The girls all nodded their head. They dug into the apple pie, watched TV, gossiped, and read a few articles out of the magazine. Before they knew it, four o' clock had rolled around. Makoto grabbed her basket that she had prepared and waiting by the door with the rest of the girls.
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Heero packed a few sandwiches into the large basket. He didn't even know why he was going. Duo had somehow managed to convince him to go, but he didn't really want to. Five gossiping, ditzy girls, and Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei would surround him. Quatre and Trowa would be talking amongst themselves, leaving two girls alone. Wufei would be complaining about woman and how they were so week. And Duo would be running around like the freak of nature he was. He shook his head and sighed, packing a few bags of chips and bottles of pop into the basket. "Duo!" He shouted. Heading for the stairs, he grabbed the scissors and waiting.
"What?" Duo asked, appearing at the top.
"I think you should uh…fix up your hair." Heero said, nodding. He started up the stairs.
"I was…until you disrupted me."
"Well…" Heero said. "Turn around."
"Why"
"Just do it!"
Duo raised an eyebrow. "Okay." He moved his feet and turned about. "What are you going to do?"
"You know that braid has always gotten annoying. I mean, it has to be a major turn off towards girls. You outta cu…" Before Heero could finish, Duo was in the bathroom, door locked.
"NO!!" Duo shouted. "YOU ARE NOT CUTTING MY BRAID OFF!!!"
"Aww…c'mon Duo! You got to cut it ^sometime^! I mean, its five feet long and your barely that tall yourself!!!"
"So what?" Duo stated bluntly. "I don't care."
"You have to come out sometime." Heero said, standing in front of the door.
"Yah, I guess I do. But not until you leave."
Heero shrugged. Walking a few paces away from the door, he stumped, pretending to go down stairs.
Duo held his breath, waiting until it was safe to go out. He had spent a good portion of his life growing out his braid. It shouldn't have to be cut of now! He walked outside, only to find Heero still standing there. Before Duo could even let out a scream, Heero had him turned around and pinned.
"Now…hold still unless you want me to do a really choppy job!"
"HEERO, DON'T!" Duo said, struggling. He couldn't break free.
"Now, Duo, don't be such a baby about these things," Heero said, snickering slightly. He took this scissors and cut in one, straight line. The five foot long braid fell to the floor. Duo could not protest any more. Heero dropped the scissors and head downstairs. "You better get ready…we have to go pick the girls up in ten minutes!" He shouted. "Don't stall."
Duo glared after Heero. "HEERO!! YOU BETTER SLEEP WITH BOTH EYES OPEN TONIGHT!!"
Heero shrugged. "Okay." He grabbed the picnic basket and waiting for the panic-stricken Duo to get downstairs.
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^Hmmm :Think: Well? Good, bad, not so good? It isn't all that funny, I have some really good ideas for the next part though, so please be patient. Thank you so much for the reviews, and please keep leaving them. I have actually started to consider turning this into a Heero/Usagi fic. :Shrug: Maybe.
Translations:
·Moshi moshi - a greeting used to answer the phone
·Hai - Yes
·Ja ne - See you
·Oi minna - Hey everyone
Usagi sat on her bed, combing her long blonde hair, which was now kept down instead of in the usual hairstyle. She yawned slightly; it had been a long night. Despite Duo's wild and … unearthly behavior, Usagi had actually enjoyed the evening with him. She remembered, sometime in the movie, Duo babbling on about how he had four friends, and she had four friends. Basically, he was suggesting they all get together sometime. Usagi shrugged and stretched out over her bed. Maybe, she thought, just maybe.
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Duo tiptoed in the door, trying to be as quiet as possible. All the lights were off, and there was no sign of Heero. Exhaling, Duo headed for the stairs. Right on the 13th step, two from the end, an alarm sounded. Duo looked around, trying to figure out what he had done, and, mostly, since when had Heero and him had an alarm in their house?
Heero came rushing out of his room and tackled Duo all the way to the 7th step, from there both of them tumbled the rest of the way down.
"HEERO!!" Duo shouted, rubbing his head. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR!??!"
Heero shrugged. "Boredom, I guess."
Duo glared. "Boredom? Great, Boredom. So one day when you're ^really^ bored your going to take a gun to my head, huh!?"
Heero nodded, pretending to think about Duo's statement. "He----y. That might be a good idea."
Duo hung his head. "God, you're pathetic."
"HEY! AT LEAST I'M NOT DATING A DITZY BLONDE!"
"She isn't ditzy!" Duo yelled back down the stairs, "and, make note, that at least I'm not going around flirting with other peoples dates."
Heero raised an eyebrow. "Flirting?"
"Yah, flirting." Duo spat back.
"Oooooh," Heero said, grinning. "I get it! You're jealous because she waved to me, and because she talked to me, hai?"
"NO!" Duo shouted once more and slammed his door.
Heero shrugged, jumped over the back of the couch, and flipped on the TV. "He's jealous." He stated to the empty room.
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Usagi opened her eyes. What day was it? She never kept track of the days during the summer time. She couldn't help it. Without school, she really didn't know. And she had graduated a year ago. Stumbling out of bed, she shuffled downstairs. The fridge stood open. Not bothering to think about that, Usagi grabbed a soda out of the fridge and took a drink.
Taking a look about the room, she sighed. Usagi picked up the phone, and called each and every one of the girls. Makoto, Minako, Rei, and Ami. Each line starting with… "Hey, I've got something for you to do today. Why don't you come with me and Duo and…" She went on about how he had a friend, and, that each could be hooked up with one. Three of them immediately agreed, but it took Ami some talking into. She couldn't use the studying excuse anymore, because she was out of school and she wasn't going to college for another year yet. After rolling off fifteen excuses and all of them being turned down, she finally agreed.
She hung up the phone and dialed the last number. Duo's.
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Duo rolled out of bed and onto the floor with an excruciating thump. He groaned and literally crawled out of the room. Standing up, he just fell back down again and slide down fifteen steps. Each time he hit a step it made a dunk noise. Repeat that fifteen times and it got pretty annoying.
Heero looked over to Duo. He had been awake all night and wasn't at all tired. Duo, on the other hand, had gotten plenty of sleep, twelve hours to be more specific, and looked exhausted. "You're girlfriend just called."
Duo's eyes lit up. "Really?"
"Yup." Heero said, flipping through the channels.
"What'd she need?"
"Well," Heero started, looking up at the ceiling. "She said something about you being an immature pig and thought I was so much better and…"
Duo rolled his eyes, leaving Heero alone to ramble on. He poured himself a class of orange juice and glanced at the paper. He read the cover, "Kids eating too much?" Duo grunted. A person could never eat too much, Duo thought to him self. Take him, for example. He ate a truckload a day and never gained a pound. Duo smiled in spite of himself. He shrugged once more and took out the funnies. Each stupid, immature joke made him laugh.
Joining Duo in the kitchen, Heero came in. He sat down. "She said that she had plans tonight. You should get all the guys and she'd get her friends and do a huge party kind of thing."
Duo sipped is orange juice. "Is that right."
"Yah," Heero said, yawning. "She said that you should call her back with a suggestion of some sort."
"Alright," Duo said, reaching for the phone. He dialed Usagi's number and waiting for her to pick up.
"Moshi Moshi." Came Usagi's pleasant, sweet voice.
"Hey." Duo said back.
Heero ran upstairs to pick up the other line.
"How's it goin'? She asked.
"Alright, I guess. How long have you been up?" Duo questioned. She sounded too cheerful to have just gotten up. He glanced at the clock. Noon. An hour…two at the most.
"Oh…about four hours."
"FOUR HOURS!?" Duo yelled. "Holy…why so early?"
"No reason, really. Anyways. Is it a good idea?"
"Yea…it's a great idea. We'll all be there around four. Picnic sound good?"
"Uh huh, sounds great."
"Alright, bye."
"Ja ne."
Duo hung up the phone while Heero hung up the extension. Heero ran into the bathroom and got a pair of scissors, grinning.
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The clock now read three o' clock. All the girls would be coming in about fifteen minutes. Glancing in the oven, Usagi scrunched up her nose. She had attempted to cook an apple pie. She also thought that she had remembered the directions. Shrugging, Usagi took it out of the oven and set it on the counter. Taking out a magazine, she waited for everyone to get there.
Usagi was reading a section about girls with embarrassing stories, seeking advice. She was interrupting by the chiming of her doorbell. Without warning, three girls came rushing in, the fourth one slowly walking behind.
"Oi minna!" Usagi greeted.
"Hey Usagi." Makoto said, glancing around.
"Where are they!?" Minako said, bursting in the door, shoving Makoto out of the way.
Usagi looked disturbingly at Minako. "Anxious much?"
"Hai, hai. Very!" Minako shouted.
"They'll be here in forty-five minutes. Take a chill pill and relax until then."
The girls all nodded their head. They dug into the apple pie, watched TV, gossiped, and read a few articles out of the magazine. Before they knew it, four o' clock had rolled around. Makoto grabbed her basket that she had prepared and waiting by the door with the rest of the girls.
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Heero packed a few sandwiches into the large basket. He didn't even know why he was going. Duo had somehow managed to convince him to go, but he didn't really want to. Five gossiping, ditzy girls, and Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei would surround him. Quatre and Trowa would be talking amongst themselves, leaving two girls alone. Wufei would be complaining about woman and how they were so week. And Duo would be running around like the freak of nature he was. He shook his head and sighed, packing a few bags of chips and bottles of pop into the basket. "Duo!" He shouted. Heading for the stairs, he grabbed the scissors and waiting.
"What?" Duo asked, appearing at the top.
"I think you should uh…fix up your hair." Heero said, nodding. He started up the stairs.
"I was…until you disrupted me."
"Well…" Heero said. "Turn around."
"Why"
"Just do it!"
Duo raised an eyebrow. "Okay." He moved his feet and turned about. "What are you going to do?"
"You know that braid has always gotten annoying. I mean, it has to be a major turn off towards girls. You outta cu…" Before Heero could finish, Duo was in the bathroom, door locked.
"NO!!" Duo shouted. "YOU ARE NOT CUTTING MY BRAID OFF!!!"
"Aww…c'mon Duo! You got to cut it ^sometime^! I mean, its five feet long and your barely that tall yourself!!!"
"So what?" Duo stated bluntly. "I don't care."
"You have to come out sometime." Heero said, standing in front of the door.
"Yah, I guess I do. But not until you leave."
Heero shrugged. Walking a few paces away from the door, he stumped, pretending to go down stairs.
Duo held his breath, waiting until it was safe to go out. He had spent a good portion of his life growing out his braid. It shouldn't have to be cut of now! He walked outside, only to find Heero still standing there. Before Duo could even let out a scream, Heero had him turned around and pinned.
"Now…hold still unless you want me to do a really choppy job!"
"HEERO, DON'T!" Duo said, struggling. He couldn't break free.
"Now, Duo, don't be such a baby about these things," Heero said, snickering slightly. He took this scissors and cut in one, straight line. The five foot long braid fell to the floor. Duo could not protest any more. Heero dropped the scissors and head downstairs. "You better get ready…we have to go pick the girls up in ten minutes!" He shouted. "Don't stall."
Duo glared after Heero. "HEERO!! YOU BETTER SLEEP WITH BOTH EYES OPEN TONIGHT!!"
Heero shrugged. "Okay." He grabbed the picnic basket and waiting for the panic-stricken Duo to get downstairs.
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^Hmmm :Think: Well? Good, bad, not so good? It isn't all that funny, I have some really good ideas for the next part though, so please be patient. Thank you so much for the reviews, and please keep leaving them. I have actually started to consider turning this into a Heero/Usagi fic. :Shrug: Maybe.
Translations:
·Moshi moshi - a greeting used to answer the phone
·Hai - Yes
·Ja ne - See you
·Oi minna - Hey everyone