If We Had Wings
A Story Of Five Individuals
Duo stretched
his arms out while sitting in the chair at the manga shop. The business for
this store was always so slow, and yet they still got enough money to buy the
shipments, pay the rent and pay him to do his job of sitting and reading manga.
Yep, life was
good.
There was one
customer wandering around looking at the different mangas'. She had a very nice
colour of hair which has a blackish bluish and wore very casual baggy clothing.
It went really well with her style. Also, her eyes were the same colour as his.
Duo was
reading one of the Ranma novels and between pages would stare at her. There was
something about her, kinda like the connect he felt with Heero, only not as
strong.
She finally
made her selection, an X graphic novel and an Inu Yasha one. She walked up to
the counter and put them down as Duo got the prices.
"You like
Rumiko Takahashi?" He inquired as he put the two books in a bag. "That'll be
$26 and 40 cents."
"Oh yeah,
she's the best. One of my favourite's along with CLAMP," she answered and
started to rummage through her pockets finally producing $25. "Ah shit, I'm a
dollar 40 short."
Duo grinned
one of his famous grins.
"That's all
right, I'll pay it for you," he said taking the money and ringing it all up.
"Gee thanks,"
she answered casually. "I owe you."
"No you don't,
but you have to promises to not shop at any other manga store."
"I wouldn't
anyways, I always only come here."
"Really? I've
never seen you here before…"
"I normally
come on the weekends."
"Well that
would explain it, the weekends I'm off working with my band."
"You're in a
band?"
"Yeah, I play
the guitar and sing."
"Oh yeah? Well
I'm in a band too. I play the bass. What's your band called?"
"'The Duo
Maxwell Band'."
"Duo Maxwell?
Is that your name?"
"Yeah, what's
yours?"
"Hilde
Schbeiker."
"Well Hilde,
I'll be seeing you around."
And with that
Hilde ran out the door smiling, something about that boy gave her this amazing
adrenaline rush. She turned back once more and the two smiled at each other.
She would have to come back there again. She had to.
*
Heero stared
blankly at Duo as he described the girl to him. He was getting rather annoyed.
Why would he care about some 'great' girl he had met at his store anyways?
Duo's love life was his business. Finally Duo's rambles got to annoying and he
stood up to leave.
"Hey, where
are you going?" Duo asked curiously.
"I'm going to
get some sleep," he mumbled his reply not bothering to stop walking.
"Sleep!?! But it's
nine o'clock on a Friday night! How could you possibly want to sleep now-"
"We've got
band practice tomorrow don't we? I've got to get rested for that," and then
Heero left Duo looking after him dumbfounded.
"Did… he just
say…? But he… he's actually in my band?" Duo's face brightened up and he
grinned. "He's in my band! All right, now I've only got to get a bassist. And-"
"Duo be
quiet!" Heero yelled from the other room, Duo chuckled softly.
"Yes sir…" He
said mocking a salute, to celebrate, he decided to go out to town, and get a
few beers.
*
Treize and Wu
Fei walked through the airport; they had just arrived in New York, the location
of the OZ headquarters. The rebels had destroyed the past headquarters in
Europe, quite shockingly. This was when they had been first brought to Treizes'
attention, and so he recruited Wu Fei.
Wu Fei walked
by Treizes' side, he was quite annoyed by the mans constant gaze, he looked
around trying to find the best possible to get away from him. He'd only agreed
to do this so he could get out of that hell house and track down Quatre Raberba
Winner and Trowa Bloom.
His
opportunity arose when a woman walked by, just brushing his shoulder. In a
quick reflex he stuck out his leg unnoticed by all, the woman went down and Wu
Fei smirked to himself as Treize went to help her back up.
"Fucking
moron…" he mumbled and slipped away in the crowd.
Treize got the
woman back to her feet and looked around to find Wu Fei, but the boy was
nowhere to be seen.
"Fuck," he
cursed aloud and then began to run forward, Wu Fei was a dangerous madman
capable of killing anyone who got in his way, he had lots of reason to worry.
He rushed to
an OZ soldier at the side and ordered him to radio the other soldiers, he gave
them a description of Wu Fei and seconds later OZ soldiers were roaming around
the airport.
Wu Fei was not
an idiot and noticed this immediately; he had no real worries though, he was in
America after all. He looked around at the people and finally found what he was
looking for. A gun hanging out of an open purse, what a crazy thing to find…
He walked up
behind the old woman and quickly grabbed the silver gun from the purse without
the woman even noticing, and then he walked ahead of her, the gun at his side.
The soldiers would see him before they saw a gun anyway. He doubted he'd get
out of this, so why not have some fun?
Finding a set
of stairs he started walking up them with a crowd to remain unnoticed. The
stairs led to a second level that was open the mass of people below. He stood
by the rail and looked down.
"Now where is
Treize…?" He asked himself and then took aim with the pistol.
The soldiers
saw the gun glint in the sunlight and began screaming and pointing towards
threw upper level, some got their own riffles and guns ready, thinking they may
just have to resort to violence.
The shot rang
out as Wu Fei pulled the trigger. He smiled as he did. In his gaze was Treize,
but unfortunately he missed and he shot a man standing beside him.
"Fuck!" Wu Fei
yelled and shot again.
Treize spun
around in shock as the man went down screaming, the whole thing began a domino
effect and soon all the people were yelling and screaming trying to get away
from the mad gunman, even though they were too frightened to know where he was.
The soldiers
were ready to shoot then, but Treize wouldn't allow them. "HOLD YOUR FIRE!" He
yelled out to the riffle men close by, a stupid order. The last shot hit the
ground beside Treize and he finally realized the boy was shooting at him.
"Restrain
him!" Treize yelled at his soldiers and half of them began running towards Wu
Fei while the others kept aiming at him, if he shot a soldier they wouldn't let
him live no matter what Treize said.
Wu Fei took
aim again, he wasn't worried about the soldiers at all, he knew it would mess
his aim up and so far he wasn't doing too well, so he had to put all his
concentration into the shot. It would most likely be the last one he had.
It was just as
he pulled the trigger again when he felt someone tackle him to the ground
The bullet
flew through the air, missing Treize's head and hitting his leg. Treize fell to
the ground, he swore, but didn't start screaming.
Wu Fei was
quickly cuffed and dragged to his feet, he was silent as they yelled at him and
dragged him back downstairs. Wu Feis' gaze locked on Treize still. He was still
his target.
Treize sighed.
This would be a lot more work than he had first anticipated.
*
Duo slowly
came to as the knocking continued to ring through the small apartment.
"Heero…" He
mumbled, not wanting to move because of his damned headache. "Heero…"
"What?" Heero
yelled waking up, in the next room. The last night Duo had convinced him to go
out to the clubs with him, this of course led into him taking care of a drunk
Duo.
"The… door…"
Duo mumbled again.
Heero sighed
and got out of his bed wearing his boxers. He had had a few drinks last night,
but not very much, so unlike Duo, he got out of his clothes before 'passing
out'. Duo mumbled some incoherent thank yous'. He opened the door as quickly as
he could so to stop the damned knocking.
"Hello?" He
asked not really knowing whom to expect.
He came face
to face with none other than Hilde, who began blushing upon seeing Heero in his
boxers.
"Ah… Hi! You
must be Heero," she said her greetings as she held her hand out, Heero
reluctantly took it.
When the hell
had she gotten their address??? He'd have to talk to Duo about this one…
"Yeah," he
said and shook her hand.
"Is Duo in? I
need to talk to him."
"Well, he is…
but he isn't," Heero replied looking back in the apartment.
"It's kind of
important," she said smiling.
Damn people
and their damn ability to smile in the morning… not the sort of person Duo
normally liked to hang around… come to think of it, Duo didn't really hang out
with anyone but him, though he did flirt like a slut.
"Fine, but I
leave the task of waking him up to you," he said letting her in.
She walked
into the room and closed the door behind her seeing Heero was already going
back to sleep. She felt like Heero wasn't too fond of her, but then again, they
had just met.
Walking into
the room that must have been Duo's (Heero had gone into the other room), she
knocked lightly, no reply came. She knocked again a bit harder; still no motion
could be heard. Finally getting annoyed with waiting she opened the door and
walked in. She found Duo face first still fully clothed on his bed.
She got to his
figure and started shaking him.
"Hey Duo! Wake
up Duo!" She yelled in his ears.
"Wha… what the
hell…? Oh… Hilde," he said looking up at her. He had seen her quite a lot at
the manga store since they first met, and one day he simply gave her his
address… but he didn't expect to ever see her there, especially in the morning.
"Duo, I have
great news!"
"Oh?"
"I've quit my
band and decided to join yours! Now you can have a bassist!" She exclaimed
happily.
Duo looked at
her a bit shocked, but slowly a smile spread across his face. Soon his plans
for domination of the musical charts could come into play, now that he had a
bassist that is. On that note, Duo fell back asleep.
*
Trowa walked
off the stage, sweating and smiling. He was the opening act for a band, and he
was ecstatic, this being his first real tour and all. Katherine and Quatre had,
of course, come along, seeing they were playing in some of his songs and all.
He couldn't
say that he was an instant success or anything, but his record had a very
steady income, and once in a while he'd hear his song being played on the
radio. He was truly having the time of his life. He wanted to tell Mandy… but
she probably wouldn't care too much. He should just forget about her becoming
the person she once was.
Putting his
thought behind him, he gave his guitar to one of the roadies and grabbed a
towel to clean off. He had just sat down when Quatre came running down the
hall, he was smiling like there was no tomorrow.
"TROWA!!! THAT
WAS GREAT!" He yelled enthusiastically, Trowa got up to great him, a small
smile danced on his face as Quatre hugged him, almost pushing him over.
"You weren't
too bad yourself," Trowa said back in reference to Quatre playing on a few of
his songs.
Quatre backed
up a little and stared up at the taller boy. They were only 17, and already
their dreams were becoming a reality. It was probably the thought of dreams
coming true that made Quatre push himself up those few inches and kiss Trowa.
They kissed for a few seconds and then Quatre slowly pulled away from the
shocked Trowa.
"What was that
for?" Trowa asked in puzzlement.
Quatre smiled
a bit. "For a lot of things."
Then they
kissed again.
TO BE
CONTINUED…
(Well, well,
well, that ungrateful bastard Banky left me to go off with Holden, so that left
me with not knowing what to write. Damn muses… So, because Aoi couldn't help me
*he said he was busy with the Russian government*, I got my dear old sis
Sony_Mouse to give me a few ideas. Her only real idea was: "Wu Fei should
escape and start shooting people from a tower… sounds like something he's do".
Obviously, I jumped at the idea. Anyhoo, hope ya like. Oh and, if you see Banky
floating around in cyber space, please e-m him back to me. Cao)
If We Had Wings
By: Lady Shinimegami