2x1 (well.. eventually, I swear! LOL) And multiple pairings. (Oodles of bishonens. Yuummmm.)
Humour
OOC (like, totally)
PG 13
"Voice of True Love"
By Katana Rey
Part 2.
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[Forward - by two weeks, Quatre's POV]
I know it was all Heero's fault but...
I guess Mikage is right. It does take two to tango.
I still don't see why Duo couldn't just have told him that he loved him.
Mikage said that it was because Duo wasn't able to be honest with his own feelings, not like me. Mikage really is very sweet.
Mikage said that Heero wasn't in touch with his feelings at all. And that because of that, he just didn't understand what love was, or even how to love. I think Mikage felt a bit sorry for Heero. (Wufei didn't feel sorry for Heero at all and was very rude to Mikage. But I guess he's still mad about what happened with his boyfriend.)
We thought it was bad when Heero started dating. It was nothing compared to the disasters that eventuated when Duo decided that it was time for him to start looking for his true love.
It all started when Duo came home with this really gorgeous guy (Mikage says that it's healthy for me to notice and express my admiration of other men). I don't even remember his name but I do remember that he had this strange sword, the blade was made out of water. The next thing I know, a guy wearing a mask turned up on our doorstep and claimed that he had come to get back his boyfriend.
That probably wouldn't have been too bad until Heero came home. With his new boyfriend. The thing is that Kurei, that's the guy with the mask, decided that Heero was his boyfriend (which was really weird, since they don't look anything alike) and tried to drag Heero away. Well, Heero's new boyfriend, Yusuke, got mad and the next thing I know, half of my house has been blasted to dust, the rest is encased in fire and ice.
If they have to date, why can't they date normal guys! Or at least leave my house out of their fights.
We finally managed to convince Kurei that Heero wasn't his boyfriend and when we pried Duo off Tokiya (I think that was his name), the two of them went off, to fight, to talk, who knows and frankly, who cares! I mean, you should see my house!
As for Yusuke, he and Heero got sickeningly gooey around each other until the rest of us wanted to kill them (including Mikage and believe me, he's a very tolerant guy). If I heard them cooing 'Yusuke', 'Heero' at each other one more time I swear I was going to kill them.
I even felt a bit sorry for Duo. Almost. (I was still sore about the house)
I mean, it looked like Heero finally found the one. Yusuke was really powerful, and he seemed to be normal (well, relatively speaking that is). And he was even kind of nice. The rest of us rather liked him. It was almost a pity really.
Duo's next boyfriend had to be one of the most drop dead beautiful guys I have ever seen. (Mikage is so understanding.)
That dark green hair, that perfect face, those eyes! My god. I thought that I'd died and gone to heaven. He was an angel.
Actually, he was an angel. I mean, as in white wings etc.
Messiah. (weird name but then I don't think much of Schuldig either, though I don't dare say that around Trowa. That guy has changed since he started dating him.)
I thought that Yusuke and Heero looking into their eyes were absolutely revolting. I was wrong.
You should have seen the look on Yusuke's face when he saw Messiah! (1)
Poor Heero.
Duo curiously enough didn't seem to mind too much. He told me later that while Messiah was incredibly good looking, he found him kind of boring after a while. Still... he was so gorgeous... I couldn't help wondering what it would have been like to date someone that beautiful. But then, I look at Mikage and I know that I'm being an idiot. I am dating someone 'that beautiful'.
I was also beginning to understand why Mikage had said that Heero wasn't in touch with his feelings.
For someone who'd just lost the love of his life, Heero was dealing with the loss remarkably well. And I had thought that this time, he was really in love, as opposed to just trying to fall in love. Yusuke I think, did like Heero a lot. Enough for him to feel pretty guilty over dumping him. As for Duo... he was positively delighted with the way things turned out. He couldn't push Messiah into Yusuke's arms fast enough.
Heero just had this confused blank look on his face throughout the whole thing.
How the hell could he keep messing up like that?
According to Mikage, Heero is still suffering from his need to self destruct, from his unresolved feelings of guilt during the war and that since the war is over, Heero is trying to destroy any possibility of builting a genuine relationship, in a subconscious need to punish himself. Mikage wants to help Heero but he says that he can't do anything until Heero realises what he's doing to himself and realises that he needs help. (Wufei said that the one who needs help is Mikage. Mikage thinks that Wufei's broken arm should mend in another month. Luckily Wufei's boyfriend didn't know that I broke the arm. Mikage managed to persuade Wufei that it was probably best if we kept that between the three of us.)
Mikage thinks that Heero's dating is a way for him to ask for help. He says that we should have really stepped in when Heero introduced us to his first date. Takuto Izumi. Even now, just looking at Koji's poster is enough to set Wufei off. I don't think Trowa's too keen on that memory either. He has a tendency to rub his shoulder whenever he sees a soccerball. I still don't understand how Heero got involved with those two. What I do know is that Nanjo Koji has a restraining order, limiting him to a distance of 100 m from Heero and the rest of us, and 300m from Duo. I don't even think that those two should be in the same city to be honest.
And Heero's next try, a guy with red gold hair named Tasuki, went pretty awful as well, for everyone except Wufei. That's how he met his boyfriend, Tamahome. (2) That was kind of weird actually. I mean, I don't think Wufei's ever noticed, but Tamahome's voice sounds really similar to Heero. I told Mikage and he thinks that maybe Wufei had been subliminally attracted to Heero and that as a result, had been attracted to a guy who sounds just like Heero. He refuses to talk about Schuldig. Something about a mutual agreement of silence.
Tamahome is a nice guy (did I mention, really cute?) except for some funny hangups, like about money. I mean, who cares about money? We had a rather bad fight about that actually, so I don't spend too much time with him.
So what happened? Duo and Chichiri. Tasuki's ex boyfriend. Riiiight. Tasuki almost fried Duo with his fan that night.
And we all went to jail for the second time. (The first time was over the Koji affair, don't ask. I don't even want to think about that one. Ever.) I wanted to kill Duo. And Tasuki. In that order. Those two hot headed morons ruined my penthouse! And Tasuki's friends turning up like that didn't help either. (Wufei would disagree, since he got to meet Tamahome that night.) When Chichiri and Heero (those two ended up being friends after all that) finally managed to tear Duo and Tasuki away from each other, the police had arrived, and so had the fire engine. I could have used Mikage's calming influence that night. Not to mention his persuasiveness at the hearing the next day.
Do you realise how much Heero's little search for love has cost me? I mean, at the end of the day, guess who ends up footing the bill? Good ol' Quatre. Soon to be bankrupt Quatre if this continues.
Mikage thinks that as soon as Heero and Duo learn to be honest with each other and themselves, that this will all just sort itself out.
Mikage didn't have to pay for the replacement of the school house when the space craft crashed into it. I'm still trying to find that blond bimbo who destroyed it so that I could make her repay me. If you see a really cute looking girl with bronze coloured skin and yellow curly hair and big blue eyes, wearing a uniform which looks kind of like an air stewardess, call me, okay?
Or the bath house. I don't think I would ever be able to eat peking duck again for the rest of my life. It was one of my favourite dishes! And never ever mention pork... (oohh... just thinking about it makes me feel ill)
Or tried to buy off the mob. And I mean, tried. I found out that the mob can't be bought. And doesn't like someone who tries to buy them off. Wish they told me before they cashed the check. If it wasn't for Trowa's boyfriend... I still don't know how Schuldig got them to back off. And I don't want to know.
I don't think I can afford to support Heero and Duo in their quest for love.
I pretty much reached the end of my rope when the bath house blew up. To think that I laughed when I first met Mousse. How was I to know that the glass wearing dork would turn out to be a master of the hidden weapons martial arts. (Does that sound as stupid to you as it did to me?) To my surprise, under the dorky glasses was an incredibly cute guy. Amazing really. So cute. And so dumb. As if you couldn't have seen that he was a dud, even without the whole duck thing. Heero is an idiot.
Mikage said that Heero's selection of someone whose voice sounded a lot like Duo's showed that Heero was making progress. He didn't look too confident though when he met Heero's last boyfriend, a sarcastic priest named Sanzo. Mikage was a bit disturbed by the idea of someone getting into a relationship with a priest. Me, I was disturbed by Sanzo's friends. The three of them ate more than a group of twenty (and their table manners were revolting) and the little one seemed to be particularly violent.
And naturally, just when we had guests, Duo turned up with his new love. Don't even ask about Duo's boyfriend. The guy was weird looking. I'm not too sure but I think he might have had some kind of a skin disease. He did sound a lot like Heero though... (could he possibly have been more obvious?)
When Heero's boyfriend (and company) met Duo's boyfriend (and company), I was left with a smoking crater where my other house used to be (not to mention a good sized hunk of the estate). That's when I lost my patience with two idiots.
I threw them out. (Metaphorically speaking that is, since thanks to them, I didn't have a house to throw them out.)
If they want to experiment with relationships, they can do it on their own time and most importantly, their own money.
When Tamahome got snide about money, I threw him out too, along with Wufei.
Schuldig laughed and dragged Trowa off with him before I could throw them out. Damned telepath.
Mikage told me to try to breath. He told me to try to calm down. He told me to focus on the bright side.
I almost told him to get out. Almost.
But if I had done that, I wouldn't have his arms around me now.
It's very hard to hold a grudge against Heero when I look into Mikage's eyes.
It's hard to think about anything, even my destroyed house, when I life my head and look into Mikage's eyes.
And when Mikage whispers into my ears that he loves me, in that sultry sexy voice of his, I can't think about anything at all.
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[Epilogue]
Scene 1.
'Quatre, you have a phone call.'
Quatre smiled happily at his beautiful lover and lightly kissed the soft lips that had fallen open invitingly as he closed his hand around the ivory phone being passed to him.
'Hello? This is Quatre.'
'Quatre!'
Quatre twitched and pulled the phone away from his ear as a very loud and familiar voice screamed into his ear.
'What do you want?'
He snapped coldly, a dark frown settling on his face. Mikage looked at his darling in concern and went behind him and gently hugged the blond youth, reminding Quatre to breath slowly in his soft voice.
Quatre gritted his teeth as loud laughter pealed out from the phone and forced himself to relax, feeling the soothing warmth of Mikage body pressed against him as he glared at the phone.
'Don't tell me you're still mad Q-boy. What a stiff. Hasn't that candy floss babe of yours taught you anything about the joys of relaxation and forgiveness? What you really need is... heeey!'
Quatre winced as he heard the voice squeal loudly in his ear and held the phone further away, he was debating whether or not he should just slam the phone down when he heard Heero's voice.
'Quatre?'
Quatre hesitated before answering, 'yeah?' He responded ungraciously. 'What do you want now Heero?'
'We just wanted to let you know... Duo! Give that back!'
'hee hee... don't tell them that yet. This is just to let you know that we want you to come to dinner.'
Quatre felt his headache returning as his fingers whitened around the phone. Mikage started to message Quatre's temple, he was concerned by the little pulsing muscle in Quatre's forehead.
'Dinner?' He ground out slowly. 'You want me to come to dinner?'
'Yep. And you better say yes. We aren't taking no for an answer.'
'No.'
Quatre snapped out involuntarily.
'Heeeeyy....' Duo sounded wounded, 'I thought we told you that we weren't going to take no for an answer.'
Quatre breathed deeply, wondering why he hadn'tjust slammed the phone on the annoying idiot, but then felt himself calm down as Mikage softly suggested that they agree to Duo's proposal. He found it very hard to refuse Mikage anything when he looked at him with those beautiful eyes and... Quatre shook his head.
'Ummm... maybe.' He said at last.
'Oh right! We knew we could count on you! You're the man, Q. And now, there's just this one little favour...'
Mikage hurriedly got off the couch and made his way to the bathroom, anxious to find the transquilizers even as he heard the loud screaming explode behind him... He was starting to worry about his sweet and gentle lover... Quatre was kind of scary when he got mad...
Scene 2.
Duo beamed around the table at his friends, feeling particularly generous as the waiter showed him the wine menu. He asked for four bottles of Dom Perignon, not noticing the little byplay across him as Quatre suddenly gripped the table cloth and Mikage gently rubbed his back. He smiled angelicly at Schuldig and Trowa, not quite sure why the handsome red haired man seemed to be constantly shaking and coughing, but he hoped that the German wasn't suffering from any illnesses.
'Excuse me.'
Schuldig suddenly choked out and stumbled to his feet, Trowa, looking alarmed followed behind him.
'What do you think is wrong with him?' Tamahome, looking worried, whispered to Wufei, who snorted and shrugged. Wufei hadn't liked the German on sight, since Trowa had first introduced him to the group, after that disastrous night when Heero had brought Schuldig's teammate, Brad, as his date. He hated the way that Schuldig would look at him as if he knew exactly what he was thinking, and he really felt uncomfortable when Schuldig kept on giggling everytime he looked at him and Tamahome together. The damned German rattled him so badly that sometimes, he caught himself looking down to see if his zipper had come undone...
Wufei glared at Duo and Quatre, he couldn't believe the blond had been stupid enough to agree to this dinner. Or that he agreed to foot the bill for the meal. Huh. When Mikage told him that before they chose their meals, Wufei deliberately chose the most expensive dishes for himself and Tamahome, smirking as Quate glared daggers at him.
And where was Heero anyway?
'Where is Heero?' Mikage asked smoothly and not seeming to notice the dark glower he got from Wufei as he spoke.
Duo grinned impishly and winked.
'Just wait. He'll be here.'
'Along with his latest true love?' Mikage asked softly, his eyes intent on the oval face before him, carefully watching for any changes in the smug expression. His eyes narrowed as Duo simply shrugged, looking unconcerned. He turned to Quatre and whispered to him in quiet excitement that he thought he knew what this dinner was about.
'Sorry about that.'
All heads turned to the tall German, who sauntered gracefully to the table, looking slightly flushed but otherwise perfectly fine, Trowa holding his hand surreptiously as he followed.
'What happened to you anyway?' Wufei asked in a low growl as Schuldig returned to his seat.
Schuldig shrugged expressively and his green eyes danced wickedly as he lowered his voice to a husky whisper and murmured demurely that 'a gentleman doesn't ask why someone has to live the table in a hurry.'
Wufei reddened as Schuldig gave Trowa a smouldering look and squeezed his hand. Pervert. He thought crankily. He glared even more hotly as Schuldig's shoulders started to shake again.
'Hi everyone.'
'Heero!' Duo jumped up and hugged their friend happily, even as the rest of the group turned around and stared, stunned at the man standing behind him.
'Ruwaka Kaede...'
Quatre's eyes glazed over as he stared at the stunningly beautiful man standing behind Heero.
'My hero!'
He screamed out loud and jumped on the startled man, who blinked at the excited blond man hugging him.
'Oh my god! You are like.. the most.. the best basketball player there ever was! I've been a fan for forever! I can't believe it's really you! Oh god. I'm touching him. I'm touching Ruwaka Kaede... Somebody pinch me! This can't be a dream!'
Duo leaned over to Mikage who was staring at Quatre and Ruwaka and said, 'he's a fan. From a long time ago.'
Mikage nodded numbly, as his eyes narrowed fractionally, merely muttering, 'no kidding.' He thought to himself that he really should have picked up a sport... probably basketball... for some strange reason, it seemed that dribbling a red ball was sexy... maybe Utena might give him some tips in getting started...
Schuldig's shoulders shook badly and Trowa looked at his lover in concern as the German's face flushed darkly.
'Heero, does this person belong to you?'
Ruwaka asked with irritation as he continued to try to detach an increasingly determined blond from clutching on to his neck, to his shoulders, to any part of his body.
Heero stifled a laugh as he looked at Quatre's beaming face and nodded.
'Kind of. Just... bear with it for a minute. He'll calm down in a minute...' Heero's voice trailed off dubiously as Ruwaka's increasingly frantic attempt to dislodge Quatre ended with the blissful blond wrapped around his leg. 'I hope...'
'What's basketball?' Tamahome whispered urgently to Wufei, as he bit into the soft white bread.
Wufei looked blank as he tore his gaze away from Quatre and Ruwaka. 'What do you mean, what's basketball?'
Schuldig choked and started coughing, he jumped up and tried to get away and then broke into laughter and fell in a giggling heap on the floor. Trowa jumped up in alarm and dashed to his lover's side.
'Schuldig. Stop listening to them... Oh my god. Schuldig. I warned you not to keep listening... Schuldig! Do you hear me?'
Schuldig was too busy laughing to answer him.
Meanwhile...
Across the restaurant, a couple waiting at the door stared at the noisy table in shock. The handsome man wearing an expensive armani suit, and a cute looking youth with dark hair, slowly shuffled backwards and taking advantage of the maitre'd's distraction, they slid back through the doors and ran for the elevators.
'It was them, wasn't it?' Ken asked, his nose wrinkling adorably as he shot furtive glances back to the restaurant where the sound of raised voices started to ring out, much to the confusion of the passers by.
Brad tapped his toes impatiently as the elevator slowly reached them, 'yes.' He said shortly and bundled Ken into the elevator as soon as the doors opened. 'I told you we should have gone to the restaurant on first floor.' He said in an edgy voice as the elevator started to descend.
Ken looked injured as he crossed his arms and stared at his agitated boyfriend. 'You never mentioned anything about meeting up with that lot of loonies again. I can't believe Schuldig is actually dating one of them.'
Brad winced and straightened his tie. 'He finds them funny.' He replied tersely. 'By the way, when we reach the lobby, when I tell you to duck, I mean, duck.'
Ken tensed and nodded. He didn't bother asking Brad to explain what he had seen.
Back at the restaurant...
'Darling!'
Quatre blinked as he heard a very familiar voice cooing at him. He turned his head reluctantly away from Ruwaka's face and squinted, trying to locate the source of the voice.
'It's me, baby. Fred!'(3)
Quatre mumbled incoherently and returned to his determined clutching of Ruwaka's leg.
The basketball player had lost his usual cold expression and was looking very hot and bothered as he tried to remove the persistent blond from his leg. He glared at Heero, who had also hunkered down, to try to pry open Quatre's fingers by force.
'You didn't tell me you had a crazy friend.'
Heero muttered sullenly in response as he continued in his efforts to pull at Quatre's fingers.
'I didn't know he was this crazy. Duo!' Heero yelled out crossly, 'come and help us. This was all your idea, remember?'
Duo looked up from the table, his face flushed with laughter, and yelled back. 'No way. No how. It's not my fault Quatre's crazy.' He turned accusing eyes at Mikage, whose usual insufferably smug expression had been replaced by an annoyed scowl. 'You're his boyfriend. You get him off.'
'Ouch!'
Heero screamed and jumped up suddenly, shaking his hand.
'He bit me. I can't believe he bit me.' Heero was shaking with real anger and pointed his hand at Quatre, yelling out, 'Quatre, omae..'
'Are you okay?'
Heero stopped and jumped back gingerly as the handsome dark haired man wrapped his arms around his shoulders.
'Heeeey...!' Duo screamed out loud in outrage and jumped across the table, even as dozens of men wearing dark suits and sunglasses surrounded the newcomer and Heero.
Tamahome nudged Wufei who was staring at the chaotic scene in horror and the two men grabbed their food and a bottle of the champagne and ducked under the table. After a minute, they were joined by a tight lipped Mikage who was holding another bottle of the champagne. Tamahome reached up and dropped the table cloth, obscuring the trio inside as the people outside grew more frenzied and things started to fly around.
'I wonder why they wanted to invite us to dinner anyway?' He said in a puzzled tone as he poured the champagne for himself, Wufei and Mikage.
Mikage snorted ungracefully as he gulped down the golden liquid and held out his glass for more. 'This is all their fault, I keep telling them that they need to express their feelings and this is what always happens. Men.'
Scene 3.
The police officer looked at the messy and bad tempered group of people sitting in his cell and sighed heavily. Why couldn't people just learn to mind their own business, he thought sadlly, as he looked at the pile of papers sitting on his desk. He stuffed his fingers in his ears and tried to concentrate on his work as the bickering lot continued to screech painfully...
In the cell...
'You ruined my evening. You ruined my life. I hope you are happy!'
'Ruwaka... are you seeing anyone? I mean, okay, so you are dating someone but really.. have you met someone who could change your entire life...'
'I hate you.'
'I hate you more.'
'Oh yeah, I hate you double times more.'
'Really! Well, I hate you double times the double times the time...'
'SHUT UP!'
'You shut up! Who do you think you are?'
'My head hurts... and my stomach hurts... I want Brad....'
'What about me?'
'Well... it's not the same... '
'That better mean, as in I'm the boyfriend and he's the mommy substitute...'
'And did I mention that I am the owner of a multinational... no, no, make that, interplanetary corporation?'
'For God's sake! Heero, help me! Take him off me!'
'Did anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes, Ruwaka?'
'Why am I here? I demand a lawyer! And where are my bodyguards! This is the last time I'm going to do business with Winner Tech. Somebody listen to me...'
'I only wanted to have a happy evening with my friends... was that too much to ask?'
'YES!'
'Ano... excuse me, but who are you people? And has anyone seen my boyfriend? He has an unusual hair style...' (4)
Scene 4.
A long time later... (much, much later)
'Byee!'
'Have a good time!'
'See you soon!'
Quatre turned to Mikage with a shiver as he heard the last faint farewell, and whispered, 'god, I hope not.'
Mikage patted his love kindly and smiled sweetly, 'it was so nice of you to offer your yacht to those two. I'm very proud of you.'
Quatre purred happily and hugged him heartily, much to the amusement of the two tall men standing nearby.
Trowa gave a discrete kick to his lover as Schuldig started to giggle again.
'I thought you promised to never again peek into my friends' thoughts.'
Schuldig laughed out loud and give the serious looking man a quick, but very enthusiastic kiss.
'I wasn't. It's just that it was sooo... kind and soooo... touching of Quatre to offer his own yacht as the wedding gift. And I don't suppose that the fact that it got rid of them for a month had anything to do with his generosity.'
Trowa grinned back and tweaked the red gold hair hanging temptingly over the shoulder.
'Actually it didn't.' He leaned closer, and whispered into Schuldig's ear, 'it was on the list of expected gifts.'
Schuldig choked back another laugh and peeked at the happily smooching couple on the other side of the pier, their arms twined around each other's waist, waving furiously at the departing ship.
'There was a list?'
Trowa nodded silently and then passed a sheet to the telepath. Schuldig looked down at the sheet and then after a minute looked up with an aggrieved pout.
'I don't suppose you'd forgive me, if I ask why I have to pay for half of this...' He scowled sulkily as Trowa simply looked at him. 'Oh... all right... the things I do for love...' He dragged out his purse with considerable reluctance.
Wufei and Tamahome came panting up to the pier, just in time to see Schuldig pass some notes to Trowa.
'Are they gone yet?' Wufei asked, huffing slightly from the jog.
Trowa nodded and pointed to the ship in the distance.
'Man, I can't believe that Duo refused to let me to attend the wedding, just 'cause I won't get him a stupid wedding gift...' Wufei sighed ruefully as he waved to the disappearing couple.
Trowa blinked and turned to look at his friend.
'You refused to follow the list?'
Schuldig gave Trowa a little kick as Wufei nodded sadly.
'And he banned you from the wedding?'
Trowa continued incredulously as Wufei nodded again and winced as Schuldig kicked him again. A little harder.
'I would have liked seeing Duo finally getting married to Heero. Just like he always wanted.' Wufei mused sentimentally as he continued to wave to the boat, now a tiny dot in the distance.
'Schuldig!'
Everyone turned around as a sleek limousine pulled up and a tall handsome American jumped out of the driver's seat and shouted at Schuldig.
'Come with me. Now.'
Brad screamed out even as a loud explosion sounded and the tiny dot in the distance disappeared in a gust of golden flames and black smoke.
'My yacht!' Quatre screamed, before running down the pier.
Schuldig took one look at the smoking horizon and grabbed hold of Trowa and ran to the limousine. As he squashed inside, he squealed loudly in protest as he was crushed against the door. Mikage had jumped in behind them. He slammed the door of the car shut, offering a muttered apology. As the limousine turned around with a loud squeal, Wufei and Tamahome ran after it, screaming loudly at the occupants to stop and let them in.
'Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.'
Schuldig pushed Trowa and Mikage off him and started to pound on Brad, screaming at him to go faster.
'They're alive! And they're coming baaaaaack.....'
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Owari ~
(1) Okay, private joke for Earthian fans. Earthian is a 4 part OVA. Yusuke's voice actor played Chihaya. And Heero's voice actor played Messiah. They outrank Tamahome and Miaka (from Fushigi Yuugi) as the name calling couple. IMO.
(2) Whew. I finally gave it away. So did anyone guess before this point? ^_~
(3) Fred. As in Fred Luo from Outlaw Star. Guess who his voice actor is? lol. (Oh okay, it's Duo, or rather Seki Toshishiko)
(4) Poor ol' Kenshin. Wrong place at the wrong time. He didn't have anything to do with the voice actors. I just think he's gorgeous. heh.
Author's notes: Basically, this is a very self indulgent fic. I hope it's still funny even if you didn't know all the characters. I did swipe a lot of animes. I'll explain who they are now. Most of the jokes are based on the voice actors. But the only important information is that ALL the Gundam boys ended up with characters played with Hikaru Midorikawa. My favourite Seiyuu. (Was anyone surprised?)
Not in order of appearance
1. Takuya Izumi and Nanjo Koji - Zetsuai/Bronze (A must for Yaoi fans, if you don't know this one, find out.)
2. Radon and company are borrowed from 'Legend of Crystania', a movie + OVA series based on 'The Record of Lodoss Wars'
3. Did anyone catch me mentioning Iason Mink and Rikki from 'Ai no Kusabi'? 2 part OVA. Hubba hubba.
4. Sanzo (and co.) are from Saiyuuki. A new TV series. It's supposed to be based on the Monkey King. Basically, stars 4 bishonens. The main 'baddie' is a drop dead gorgeous bishonen.
5. Zelgadis (and co.) - Slayers.
6. Mikage Souji (and co.) - Revolutionary girl Utena. I loved the Black Rose Saga. The best part of Utena. IMO.
7. Schuldig (and co.) - Weiss Kruez
8. Tamahome (and co.) - Fushigi Yuugi
9. Messiah - Earthian, 4 part OVA. Yun Kouga is a great artist by the way.
10. Yusuke Urameshi - Yu Yu Hakusho. I kind of wanted to make of a thing with him but... this was a 2x1. Oh well.
11. Mousse - Ranma. I almost died laughing when I found out that Duo's VA was doing this role.
12. Mihoshi - Tenchi Muyo. As for why she was in the fic. Suffice it to say that Duo was dating Tenchi. Not a great idea. At the same time, Heero was dating Ryoko.
13. Lin - Cowboy Bebop. Duo's date. And Hikaru Midorikawa VA. And really cute guy. He was wasted on the series since he only got a short apprearance in a 2 parter but what a cutie. And he works for the mob.
14. Ruwaka Kaede - Slam Dunk (he almost got stuck with Quatre... but I just really loved Mikage with Q too much to break them up, poor baby)
I think I've explained everyone I mentioned. If there's anyone I forgot, email me and I'll be happy to explain. Hope you liked this. I mean, when I first got into anime, fics like this drove me crazy until I got to 'know' all the characters. On the plus side, it really gave me incentive to look for animes.
Humour
OOC (like, totally)
PG 13
"Voice of True Love"
By Katana Rey
Part 2.
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[Forward - by two weeks, Quatre's POV]
I know it was all Heero's fault but...
I guess Mikage is right. It does take two to tango.
I still don't see why Duo couldn't just have told him that he loved him.
Mikage said that it was because Duo wasn't able to be honest with his own feelings, not like me. Mikage really is very sweet.
Mikage said that Heero wasn't in touch with his feelings at all. And that because of that, he just didn't understand what love was, or even how to love. I think Mikage felt a bit sorry for Heero. (Wufei didn't feel sorry for Heero at all and was very rude to Mikage. But I guess he's still mad about what happened with his boyfriend.)
We thought it was bad when Heero started dating. It was nothing compared to the disasters that eventuated when Duo decided that it was time for him to start looking for his true love.
It all started when Duo came home with this really gorgeous guy (Mikage says that it's healthy for me to notice and express my admiration of other men). I don't even remember his name but I do remember that he had this strange sword, the blade was made out of water. The next thing I know, a guy wearing a mask turned up on our doorstep and claimed that he had come to get back his boyfriend.
That probably wouldn't have been too bad until Heero came home. With his new boyfriend. The thing is that Kurei, that's the guy with the mask, decided that Heero was his boyfriend (which was really weird, since they don't look anything alike) and tried to drag Heero away. Well, Heero's new boyfriend, Yusuke, got mad and the next thing I know, half of my house has been blasted to dust, the rest is encased in fire and ice.
If they have to date, why can't they date normal guys! Or at least leave my house out of their fights.
We finally managed to convince Kurei that Heero wasn't his boyfriend and when we pried Duo off Tokiya (I think that was his name), the two of them went off, to fight, to talk, who knows and frankly, who cares! I mean, you should see my house!
As for Yusuke, he and Heero got sickeningly gooey around each other until the rest of us wanted to kill them (including Mikage and believe me, he's a very tolerant guy). If I heard them cooing 'Yusuke', 'Heero' at each other one more time I swear I was going to kill them.
I even felt a bit sorry for Duo. Almost. (I was still sore about the house)
I mean, it looked like Heero finally found the one. Yusuke was really powerful, and he seemed to be normal (well, relatively speaking that is). And he was even kind of nice. The rest of us rather liked him. It was almost a pity really.
Duo's next boyfriend had to be one of the most drop dead beautiful guys I have ever seen. (Mikage is so understanding.)
That dark green hair, that perfect face, those eyes! My god. I thought that I'd died and gone to heaven. He was an angel.
Actually, he was an angel. I mean, as in white wings etc.
Messiah. (weird name but then I don't think much of Schuldig either, though I don't dare say that around Trowa. That guy has changed since he started dating him.)
I thought that Yusuke and Heero looking into their eyes were absolutely revolting. I was wrong.
You should have seen the look on Yusuke's face when he saw Messiah! (1)
Poor Heero.
Duo curiously enough didn't seem to mind too much. He told me later that while Messiah was incredibly good looking, he found him kind of boring after a while. Still... he was so gorgeous... I couldn't help wondering what it would have been like to date someone that beautiful. But then, I look at Mikage and I know that I'm being an idiot. I am dating someone 'that beautiful'.
I was also beginning to understand why Mikage had said that Heero wasn't in touch with his feelings.
For someone who'd just lost the love of his life, Heero was dealing with the loss remarkably well. And I had thought that this time, he was really in love, as opposed to just trying to fall in love. Yusuke I think, did like Heero a lot. Enough for him to feel pretty guilty over dumping him. As for Duo... he was positively delighted with the way things turned out. He couldn't push Messiah into Yusuke's arms fast enough.
Heero just had this confused blank look on his face throughout the whole thing.
How the hell could he keep messing up like that?
According to Mikage, Heero is still suffering from his need to self destruct, from his unresolved feelings of guilt during the war and that since the war is over, Heero is trying to destroy any possibility of builting a genuine relationship, in a subconscious need to punish himself. Mikage wants to help Heero but he says that he can't do anything until Heero realises what he's doing to himself and realises that he needs help. (Wufei said that the one who needs help is Mikage. Mikage thinks that Wufei's broken arm should mend in another month. Luckily Wufei's boyfriend didn't know that I broke the arm. Mikage managed to persuade Wufei that it was probably best if we kept that between the three of us.)
Mikage thinks that Heero's dating is a way for him to ask for help. He says that we should have really stepped in when Heero introduced us to his first date. Takuto Izumi. Even now, just looking at Koji's poster is enough to set Wufei off. I don't think Trowa's too keen on that memory either. He has a tendency to rub his shoulder whenever he sees a soccerball. I still don't understand how Heero got involved with those two. What I do know is that Nanjo Koji has a restraining order, limiting him to a distance of 100 m from Heero and the rest of us, and 300m from Duo. I don't even think that those two should be in the same city to be honest.
And Heero's next try, a guy with red gold hair named Tasuki, went pretty awful as well, for everyone except Wufei. That's how he met his boyfriend, Tamahome. (2) That was kind of weird actually. I mean, I don't think Wufei's ever noticed, but Tamahome's voice sounds really similar to Heero. I told Mikage and he thinks that maybe Wufei had been subliminally attracted to Heero and that as a result, had been attracted to a guy who sounds just like Heero. He refuses to talk about Schuldig. Something about a mutual agreement of silence.
Tamahome is a nice guy (did I mention, really cute?) except for some funny hangups, like about money. I mean, who cares about money? We had a rather bad fight about that actually, so I don't spend too much time with him.
So what happened? Duo and Chichiri. Tasuki's ex boyfriend. Riiiight. Tasuki almost fried Duo with his fan that night.
And we all went to jail for the second time. (The first time was over the Koji affair, don't ask. I don't even want to think about that one. Ever.) I wanted to kill Duo. And Tasuki. In that order. Those two hot headed morons ruined my penthouse! And Tasuki's friends turning up like that didn't help either. (Wufei would disagree, since he got to meet Tamahome that night.) When Chichiri and Heero (those two ended up being friends after all that) finally managed to tear Duo and Tasuki away from each other, the police had arrived, and so had the fire engine. I could have used Mikage's calming influence that night. Not to mention his persuasiveness at the hearing the next day.
Do you realise how much Heero's little search for love has cost me? I mean, at the end of the day, guess who ends up footing the bill? Good ol' Quatre. Soon to be bankrupt Quatre if this continues.
Mikage thinks that as soon as Heero and Duo learn to be honest with each other and themselves, that this will all just sort itself out.
Mikage didn't have to pay for the replacement of the school house when the space craft crashed into it. I'm still trying to find that blond bimbo who destroyed it so that I could make her repay me. If you see a really cute looking girl with bronze coloured skin and yellow curly hair and big blue eyes, wearing a uniform which looks kind of like an air stewardess, call me, okay?
Or the bath house. I don't think I would ever be able to eat peking duck again for the rest of my life. It was one of my favourite dishes! And never ever mention pork... (oohh... just thinking about it makes me feel ill)
Or tried to buy off the mob. And I mean, tried. I found out that the mob can't be bought. And doesn't like someone who tries to buy them off. Wish they told me before they cashed the check. If it wasn't for Trowa's boyfriend... I still don't know how Schuldig got them to back off. And I don't want to know.
I don't think I can afford to support Heero and Duo in their quest for love.
I pretty much reached the end of my rope when the bath house blew up. To think that I laughed when I first met Mousse. How was I to know that the glass wearing dork would turn out to be a master of the hidden weapons martial arts. (Does that sound as stupid to you as it did to me?) To my surprise, under the dorky glasses was an incredibly cute guy. Amazing really. So cute. And so dumb. As if you couldn't have seen that he was a dud, even without the whole duck thing. Heero is an idiot.
Mikage said that Heero's selection of someone whose voice sounded a lot like Duo's showed that Heero was making progress. He didn't look too confident though when he met Heero's last boyfriend, a sarcastic priest named Sanzo. Mikage was a bit disturbed by the idea of someone getting into a relationship with a priest. Me, I was disturbed by Sanzo's friends. The three of them ate more than a group of twenty (and their table manners were revolting) and the little one seemed to be particularly violent.
And naturally, just when we had guests, Duo turned up with his new love. Don't even ask about Duo's boyfriend. The guy was weird looking. I'm not too sure but I think he might have had some kind of a skin disease. He did sound a lot like Heero though... (could he possibly have been more obvious?)
When Heero's boyfriend (and company) met Duo's boyfriend (and company), I was left with a smoking crater where my other house used to be (not to mention a good sized hunk of the estate). That's when I lost my patience with two idiots.
I threw them out. (Metaphorically speaking that is, since thanks to them, I didn't have a house to throw them out.)
If they want to experiment with relationships, they can do it on their own time and most importantly, their own money.
When Tamahome got snide about money, I threw him out too, along with Wufei.
Schuldig laughed and dragged Trowa off with him before I could throw them out. Damned telepath.
Mikage told me to try to breath. He told me to try to calm down. He told me to focus on the bright side.
I almost told him to get out. Almost.
But if I had done that, I wouldn't have his arms around me now.
It's very hard to hold a grudge against Heero when I look into Mikage's eyes.
It's hard to think about anything, even my destroyed house, when I life my head and look into Mikage's eyes.
And when Mikage whispers into my ears that he loves me, in that sultry sexy voice of his, I can't think about anything at all.
* * *
[Epilogue]
Scene 1.
'Quatre, you have a phone call.'
Quatre smiled happily at his beautiful lover and lightly kissed the soft lips that had fallen open invitingly as he closed his hand around the ivory phone being passed to him.
'Hello? This is Quatre.'
'Quatre!'
Quatre twitched and pulled the phone away from his ear as a very loud and familiar voice screamed into his ear.
'What do you want?'
He snapped coldly, a dark frown settling on his face. Mikage looked at his darling in concern and went behind him and gently hugged the blond youth, reminding Quatre to breath slowly in his soft voice.
Quatre gritted his teeth as loud laughter pealed out from the phone and forced himself to relax, feeling the soothing warmth of Mikage body pressed against him as he glared at the phone.
'Don't tell me you're still mad Q-boy. What a stiff. Hasn't that candy floss babe of yours taught you anything about the joys of relaxation and forgiveness? What you really need is... heeey!'
Quatre winced as he heard the voice squeal loudly in his ear and held the phone further away, he was debating whether or not he should just slam the phone down when he heard Heero's voice.
'Quatre?'
Quatre hesitated before answering, 'yeah?' He responded ungraciously. 'What do you want now Heero?'
'We just wanted to let you know... Duo! Give that back!'
'hee hee... don't tell them that yet. This is just to let you know that we want you to come to dinner.'
Quatre felt his headache returning as his fingers whitened around the phone. Mikage started to message Quatre's temple, he was concerned by the little pulsing muscle in Quatre's forehead.
'Dinner?' He ground out slowly. 'You want me to come to dinner?'
'Yep. And you better say yes. We aren't taking no for an answer.'
'No.'
Quatre snapped out involuntarily.
'Heeeeyy....' Duo sounded wounded, 'I thought we told you that we weren't going to take no for an answer.'
Quatre breathed deeply, wondering why he hadn'tjust slammed the phone on the annoying idiot, but then felt himself calm down as Mikage softly suggested that they agree to Duo's proposal. He found it very hard to refuse Mikage anything when he looked at him with those beautiful eyes and... Quatre shook his head.
'Ummm... maybe.' He said at last.
'Oh right! We knew we could count on you! You're the man, Q. And now, there's just this one little favour...'
Mikage hurriedly got off the couch and made his way to the bathroom, anxious to find the transquilizers even as he heard the loud screaming explode behind him... He was starting to worry about his sweet and gentle lover... Quatre was kind of scary when he got mad...
Scene 2.
Duo beamed around the table at his friends, feeling particularly generous as the waiter showed him the wine menu. He asked for four bottles of Dom Perignon, not noticing the little byplay across him as Quatre suddenly gripped the table cloth and Mikage gently rubbed his back. He smiled angelicly at Schuldig and Trowa, not quite sure why the handsome red haired man seemed to be constantly shaking and coughing, but he hoped that the German wasn't suffering from any illnesses.
'Excuse me.'
Schuldig suddenly choked out and stumbled to his feet, Trowa, looking alarmed followed behind him.
'What do you think is wrong with him?' Tamahome, looking worried, whispered to Wufei, who snorted and shrugged. Wufei hadn't liked the German on sight, since Trowa had first introduced him to the group, after that disastrous night when Heero had brought Schuldig's teammate, Brad, as his date. He hated the way that Schuldig would look at him as if he knew exactly what he was thinking, and he really felt uncomfortable when Schuldig kept on giggling everytime he looked at him and Tamahome together. The damned German rattled him so badly that sometimes, he caught himself looking down to see if his zipper had come undone...
Wufei glared at Duo and Quatre, he couldn't believe the blond had been stupid enough to agree to this dinner. Or that he agreed to foot the bill for the meal. Huh. When Mikage told him that before they chose their meals, Wufei deliberately chose the most expensive dishes for himself and Tamahome, smirking as Quate glared daggers at him.
And where was Heero anyway?
'Where is Heero?' Mikage asked smoothly and not seeming to notice the dark glower he got from Wufei as he spoke.
Duo grinned impishly and winked.
'Just wait. He'll be here.'
'Along with his latest true love?' Mikage asked softly, his eyes intent on the oval face before him, carefully watching for any changes in the smug expression. His eyes narrowed as Duo simply shrugged, looking unconcerned. He turned to Quatre and whispered to him in quiet excitement that he thought he knew what this dinner was about.
'Sorry about that.'
All heads turned to the tall German, who sauntered gracefully to the table, looking slightly flushed but otherwise perfectly fine, Trowa holding his hand surreptiously as he followed.
'What happened to you anyway?' Wufei asked in a low growl as Schuldig returned to his seat.
Schuldig shrugged expressively and his green eyes danced wickedly as he lowered his voice to a husky whisper and murmured demurely that 'a gentleman doesn't ask why someone has to live the table in a hurry.'
Wufei reddened as Schuldig gave Trowa a smouldering look and squeezed his hand. Pervert. He thought crankily. He glared even more hotly as Schuldig's shoulders started to shake again.
'Hi everyone.'
'Heero!' Duo jumped up and hugged their friend happily, even as the rest of the group turned around and stared, stunned at the man standing behind him.
'Ruwaka Kaede...'
Quatre's eyes glazed over as he stared at the stunningly beautiful man standing behind Heero.
'My hero!'
He screamed out loud and jumped on the startled man, who blinked at the excited blond man hugging him.
'Oh my god! You are like.. the most.. the best basketball player there ever was! I've been a fan for forever! I can't believe it's really you! Oh god. I'm touching him. I'm touching Ruwaka Kaede... Somebody pinch me! This can't be a dream!'
Duo leaned over to Mikage who was staring at Quatre and Ruwaka and said, 'he's a fan. From a long time ago.'
Mikage nodded numbly, as his eyes narrowed fractionally, merely muttering, 'no kidding.' He thought to himself that he really should have picked up a sport... probably basketball... for some strange reason, it seemed that dribbling a red ball was sexy... maybe Utena might give him some tips in getting started...
Schuldig's shoulders shook badly and Trowa looked at his lover in concern as the German's face flushed darkly.
'Heero, does this person belong to you?'
Ruwaka asked with irritation as he continued to try to detach an increasingly determined blond from clutching on to his neck, to his shoulders, to any part of his body.
Heero stifled a laugh as he looked at Quatre's beaming face and nodded.
'Kind of. Just... bear with it for a minute. He'll calm down in a minute...' Heero's voice trailed off dubiously as Ruwaka's increasingly frantic attempt to dislodge Quatre ended with the blissful blond wrapped around his leg. 'I hope...'
'What's basketball?' Tamahome whispered urgently to Wufei, as he bit into the soft white bread.
Wufei looked blank as he tore his gaze away from Quatre and Ruwaka. 'What do you mean, what's basketball?'
Schuldig choked and started coughing, he jumped up and tried to get away and then broke into laughter and fell in a giggling heap on the floor. Trowa jumped up in alarm and dashed to his lover's side.
'Schuldig. Stop listening to them... Oh my god. Schuldig. I warned you not to keep listening... Schuldig! Do you hear me?'
Schuldig was too busy laughing to answer him.
Meanwhile...
Across the restaurant, a couple waiting at the door stared at the noisy table in shock. The handsome man wearing an expensive armani suit, and a cute looking youth with dark hair, slowly shuffled backwards and taking advantage of the maitre'd's distraction, they slid back through the doors and ran for the elevators.
'It was them, wasn't it?' Ken asked, his nose wrinkling adorably as he shot furtive glances back to the restaurant where the sound of raised voices started to ring out, much to the confusion of the passers by.
Brad tapped his toes impatiently as the elevator slowly reached them, 'yes.' He said shortly and bundled Ken into the elevator as soon as the doors opened. 'I told you we should have gone to the restaurant on first floor.' He said in an edgy voice as the elevator started to descend.
Ken looked injured as he crossed his arms and stared at his agitated boyfriend. 'You never mentioned anything about meeting up with that lot of loonies again. I can't believe Schuldig is actually dating one of them.'
Brad winced and straightened his tie. 'He finds them funny.' He replied tersely. 'By the way, when we reach the lobby, when I tell you to duck, I mean, duck.'
Ken tensed and nodded. He didn't bother asking Brad to explain what he had seen.
Back at the restaurant...
'Darling!'
Quatre blinked as he heard a very familiar voice cooing at him. He turned his head reluctantly away from Ruwaka's face and squinted, trying to locate the source of the voice.
'It's me, baby. Fred!'(3)
Quatre mumbled incoherently and returned to his determined clutching of Ruwaka's leg.
The basketball player had lost his usual cold expression and was looking very hot and bothered as he tried to remove the persistent blond from his leg. He glared at Heero, who had also hunkered down, to try to pry open Quatre's fingers by force.
'You didn't tell me you had a crazy friend.'
Heero muttered sullenly in response as he continued in his efforts to pull at Quatre's fingers.
'I didn't know he was this crazy. Duo!' Heero yelled out crossly, 'come and help us. This was all your idea, remember?'
Duo looked up from the table, his face flushed with laughter, and yelled back. 'No way. No how. It's not my fault Quatre's crazy.' He turned accusing eyes at Mikage, whose usual insufferably smug expression had been replaced by an annoyed scowl. 'You're his boyfriend. You get him off.'
'Ouch!'
Heero screamed and jumped up suddenly, shaking his hand.
'He bit me. I can't believe he bit me.' Heero was shaking with real anger and pointed his hand at Quatre, yelling out, 'Quatre, omae..'
'Are you okay?'
Heero stopped and jumped back gingerly as the handsome dark haired man wrapped his arms around his shoulders.
'Heeeey...!' Duo screamed out loud in outrage and jumped across the table, even as dozens of men wearing dark suits and sunglasses surrounded the newcomer and Heero.
Tamahome nudged Wufei who was staring at the chaotic scene in horror and the two men grabbed their food and a bottle of the champagne and ducked under the table. After a minute, they were joined by a tight lipped Mikage who was holding another bottle of the champagne. Tamahome reached up and dropped the table cloth, obscuring the trio inside as the people outside grew more frenzied and things started to fly around.
'I wonder why they wanted to invite us to dinner anyway?' He said in a puzzled tone as he poured the champagne for himself, Wufei and Mikage.
Mikage snorted ungracefully as he gulped down the golden liquid and held out his glass for more. 'This is all their fault, I keep telling them that they need to express their feelings and this is what always happens. Men.'
Scene 3.
The police officer looked at the messy and bad tempered group of people sitting in his cell and sighed heavily. Why couldn't people just learn to mind their own business, he thought sadlly, as he looked at the pile of papers sitting on his desk. He stuffed his fingers in his ears and tried to concentrate on his work as the bickering lot continued to screech painfully...
In the cell...
'You ruined my evening. You ruined my life. I hope you are happy!'
'Ruwaka... are you seeing anyone? I mean, okay, so you are dating someone but really.. have you met someone who could change your entire life...'
'I hate you.'
'I hate you more.'
'Oh yeah, I hate you double times more.'
'Really! Well, I hate you double times the double times the time...'
'SHUT UP!'
'You shut up! Who do you think you are?'
'My head hurts... and my stomach hurts... I want Brad....'
'What about me?'
'Well... it's not the same... '
'That better mean, as in I'm the boyfriend and he's the mommy substitute...'
'And did I mention that I am the owner of a multinational... no, no, make that, interplanetary corporation?'
'For God's sake! Heero, help me! Take him off me!'
'Did anyone ever tell you that you have beautiful eyes, Ruwaka?'
'Why am I here? I demand a lawyer! And where are my bodyguards! This is the last time I'm going to do business with Winner Tech. Somebody listen to me...'
'I only wanted to have a happy evening with my friends... was that too much to ask?'
'YES!'
'Ano... excuse me, but who are you people? And has anyone seen my boyfriend? He has an unusual hair style...' (4)
Scene 4.
A long time later... (much, much later)
'Byee!'
'Have a good time!'
'See you soon!'
Quatre turned to Mikage with a shiver as he heard the last faint farewell, and whispered, 'god, I hope not.'
Mikage patted his love kindly and smiled sweetly, 'it was so nice of you to offer your yacht to those two. I'm very proud of you.'
Quatre purred happily and hugged him heartily, much to the amusement of the two tall men standing nearby.
Trowa gave a discrete kick to his lover as Schuldig started to giggle again.
'I thought you promised to never again peek into my friends' thoughts.'
Schuldig laughed out loud and give the serious looking man a quick, but very enthusiastic kiss.
'I wasn't. It's just that it was sooo... kind and soooo... touching of Quatre to offer his own yacht as the wedding gift. And I don't suppose that the fact that it got rid of them for a month had anything to do with his generosity.'
Trowa grinned back and tweaked the red gold hair hanging temptingly over the shoulder.
'Actually it didn't.' He leaned closer, and whispered into Schuldig's ear, 'it was on the list of expected gifts.'
Schuldig choked back another laugh and peeked at the happily smooching couple on the other side of the pier, their arms twined around each other's waist, waving furiously at the departing ship.
'There was a list?'
Trowa nodded silently and then passed a sheet to the telepath. Schuldig looked down at the sheet and then after a minute looked up with an aggrieved pout.
'I don't suppose you'd forgive me, if I ask why I have to pay for half of this...' He scowled sulkily as Trowa simply looked at him. 'Oh... all right... the things I do for love...' He dragged out his purse with considerable reluctance.
Wufei and Tamahome came panting up to the pier, just in time to see Schuldig pass some notes to Trowa.
'Are they gone yet?' Wufei asked, huffing slightly from the jog.
Trowa nodded and pointed to the ship in the distance.
'Man, I can't believe that Duo refused to let me to attend the wedding, just 'cause I won't get him a stupid wedding gift...' Wufei sighed ruefully as he waved to the disappearing couple.
Trowa blinked and turned to look at his friend.
'You refused to follow the list?'
Schuldig gave Trowa a little kick as Wufei nodded sadly.
'And he banned you from the wedding?'
Trowa continued incredulously as Wufei nodded again and winced as Schuldig kicked him again. A little harder.
'I would have liked seeing Duo finally getting married to Heero. Just like he always wanted.' Wufei mused sentimentally as he continued to wave to the boat, now a tiny dot in the distance.
'Schuldig!'
Everyone turned around as a sleek limousine pulled up and a tall handsome American jumped out of the driver's seat and shouted at Schuldig.
'Come with me. Now.'
Brad screamed out even as a loud explosion sounded and the tiny dot in the distance disappeared in a gust of golden flames and black smoke.
'My yacht!' Quatre screamed, before running down the pier.
Schuldig took one look at the smoking horizon and grabbed hold of Trowa and ran to the limousine. As he squashed inside, he squealed loudly in protest as he was crushed against the door. Mikage had jumped in behind them. He slammed the door of the car shut, offering a muttered apology. As the limousine turned around with a loud squeal, Wufei and Tamahome ran after it, screaming loudly at the occupants to stop and let them in.
'Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit.'
Schuldig pushed Trowa and Mikage off him and started to pound on Brad, screaming at him to go faster.
'They're alive! And they're coming baaaaaack.....'
* * *
Owari ~
(1) Okay, private joke for Earthian fans. Earthian is a 4 part OVA. Yusuke's voice actor played Chihaya. And Heero's voice actor played Messiah. They outrank Tamahome and Miaka (from Fushigi Yuugi) as the name calling couple. IMO.
(2) Whew. I finally gave it away. So did anyone guess before this point? ^_~
(3) Fred. As in Fred Luo from Outlaw Star. Guess who his voice actor is? lol. (Oh okay, it's Duo, or rather Seki Toshishiko)
(4) Poor ol' Kenshin. Wrong place at the wrong time. He didn't have anything to do with the voice actors. I just think he's gorgeous. heh.
Author's notes: Basically, this is a very self indulgent fic. I hope it's still funny even if you didn't know all the characters. I did swipe a lot of animes. I'll explain who they are now. Most of the jokes are based on the voice actors. But the only important information is that ALL the Gundam boys ended up with characters played with Hikaru Midorikawa. My favourite Seiyuu. (Was anyone surprised?)
Not in order of appearance
1. Takuya Izumi and Nanjo Koji - Zetsuai/Bronze (A must for Yaoi fans, if you don't know this one, find out.)
2. Radon and company are borrowed from 'Legend of Crystania', a movie + OVA series based on 'The Record of Lodoss Wars'
3. Did anyone catch me mentioning Iason Mink and Rikki from 'Ai no Kusabi'? 2 part OVA. Hubba hubba.
4. Sanzo (and co.) are from Saiyuuki. A new TV series. It's supposed to be based on the Monkey King. Basically, stars 4 bishonens. The main 'baddie' is a drop dead gorgeous bishonen.
5. Zelgadis (and co.) - Slayers.
6. Mikage Souji (and co.) - Revolutionary girl Utena. I loved the Black Rose Saga. The best part of Utena. IMO.
7. Schuldig (and co.) - Weiss Kruez
8. Tamahome (and co.) - Fushigi Yuugi
9. Messiah - Earthian, 4 part OVA. Yun Kouga is a great artist by the way.
10. Yusuke Urameshi - Yu Yu Hakusho. I kind of wanted to make of a thing with him but... this was a 2x1. Oh well.
11. Mousse - Ranma. I almost died laughing when I found out that Duo's VA was doing this role.
12. Mihoshi - Tenchi Muyo. As for why she was in the fic. Suffice it to say that Duo was dating Tenchi. Not a great idea. At the same time, Heero was dating Ryoko.
13. Lin - Cowboy Bebop. Duo's date. And Hikaru Midorikawa VA. And really cute guy. He was wasted on the series since he only got a short apprearance in a 2 parter but what a cutie. And he works for the mob.
14. Ruwaka Kaede - Slam Dunk (he almost got stuck with Quatre... but I just really loved Mikage with Q too much to break them up, poor baby)
I think I've explained everyone I mentioned. If there's anyone I forgot, email me and I'll be happy to explain. Hope you liked this. I mean, when I first got into anime, fics like this drove me crazy until I got to 'know' all the characters. On the plus side, it really gave me incentive to look for animes.