Chapter Two
Everyone had a good stretch and went to eat somewhere.
"Here's a question: where do you get fast food around here?"
Duo was definitely deprived, "I wanna double cheeseburger with the works!"
Quatre rolled his eyes, "They don't have hotdogs and french fries and junk like that, at least not in this town."
"Well, this is where we're staying, so just go to some hotel and check in. I'm tired!" Duette whined.
"Okay, where to?" Trowa asked.
Heero got out a map from the airport, "Here, the Kasawa Resort...."
The next day, everyone was all set to trek through the rainforest with the help of a girl that knew the area (she had been living here for two months) that offered to be their tour guide. Duette in particular thought this was the best idea in the world, knowing her. She wanted to get lost with Duo and...The guide's name was Kaoru Takuino. She had long, flowing chocolate brown hair, green eyes, and she was the same age as them, 19. Quatre was taken by her at first sight.
"OI! Hurry up Quatre, or you'll get lost!" Duette called from where the group was starting off, startling him out of his reverie, "Only me and Duo are supposed to get lost together, hell, you too! Hehehe!"
"I'm...coming." He responded, catching up.
There's something about her, like.. His thoughts were interrupted when Duette grabbed him in for a hug, pushing his head a bit lower(if you know what I mean.^^0)
"GAHHH!" was all he could manage, his voice muffled.
Duo and the others turned back to look. Duette was enjoying herself, she wouldn't let him go. Held firmly in her grasp, Quatre struggled desperately to get away.
"HEEEEELP ME!!!!!! DUETTE! WHAT ARE YOU-GET OFF ME!!!!!"
"Heh heh, feels good, doesn't it?" Duette prodded.
Everyone gawked, wide-eyed, watching the scene. Duo was the first to come to Quatre's rescue. Trowa's mouth was hanging open.
"Duette!! Let him go now! You can forget ANY plans we made!" Duo was yelling at Duette.
Then he made a face and said, his voice low, "You poor guy..man, now you know what I go through EVERY night!"
"Oooook, I guess that's enough of a sample." Duette shoved Quatre away.
Quatre made a noise. His eyes were very very wide, then reverted after a while. Kaoru just stood there, laughing inwardly and yet feeling sorry for the guy.
"You know, it looks like you have a man," Kaoru gestured towards Duo, "so why do you do that to the other guy?"
"Kaoru, you'd never understand Duette's ways. I'm Duo." He introduced himself and everyone else, "..and Quatre is the guy Duette tried to seduce." Duo gave a look to Duette, one of embarrassment, and hopelessness.
Relena scolded Duette, "You know, that wasn't very nice to do! Especially in front of a stranger!"
"What does that mean? It's not nice to do at all, that's just screwed up!" Quatre didn't like the way she said that, "Then again, that's Duette for you. One of a kind."
Everyone but Duette hung their heads at this.
"Well, I'm glad that wasn't me, don't get mixed up with those dumb women! That's exactly what will happen to you!" Wufei pre-cautioned.
"Wufei! It already did happen to me!" Quatre pointed out.
Trowa made a face, "Man, how come you didn't jump at her throat?"
"I couldn't do that to her, she's Duette! Anyway, I'd have to deal with Duo." Quatre just had to live expecting stuff like that..had to CONTINUE to live like that.
"Relena, I'm so glad you're not like her," Heero said, relieved, "the last thing we need is another Duette."
"You must be used to that." Kaoru said to Quatre.
He blushed, "Yeah, I guess so. But Duo gets it more because he's her boyfriend. Relena is Heero's girlfriend. Me, Trowa, and Wufei
..don't have one."
"They look very happy together, Heero and Relena anyway." Kaoru's eyes were tinged with loneliness for a split second.
Quatre saw it.
"Ummm, Duo and Duette are too..they just don't show it, that's all. It's very sweet." the blonde trailed off.
"We should get going if you want me to show you all where the river meets up..there's a waterfall and a cave too." Kaoru said, rounding everyone up.
"Duo!" Duette shouted, rooted to the place she was standing.
They had been in the rainforest for 3 hours. Duette was tired and wanted to stop, but to save time they had to push on.
"What? What's wrong?" he ran over to her, "Come on!"
"Carry me!" she demanded
"Nani?! Carry you.umm." Duo didn't know what to do.
"I'm tired and my legs hurt! Please Duo!" Duette begged.
"Okay, get on." He figured they could get to their destination faster.
"YAY! Arigato Duo!" she cried. At least she was happy, Duo thought to himself as he carried her piggyback.
Kaoru had been whacking away a narrow path with the blunt end of Wufei's sword. No one knew why he brought it, there wasn't any reason anyone else could see to bring it. It was a miracle Wufei even let Kaoru use it. They finally reached the waterfall. A few vibrantly colored parrots perched nearby squawked.
"So, ...this is.it?" Duo asked between breaths. He had been carrying Duette for most of the time.
He dropped her on the ground.
"Duo! Hey, why'd ya do that? Duoooooo!" she wailed.
"Babe, I'm tired! Why don't you take a dive in that pool?" Duo said to get her off his back.
"Very beautiful, ne, Heero?" Relena said as she cranked her head upward to see the waterfall.
"Yeah, maybe we can take a swim later." Heero responded.
"Trowa, Wufei, how does that sound?" Quatre asked.
"Sure." Trowa said.
"Alright, that trip was long and irrelevant!" Wufei agreed to a nice cold swim.
"I saw a toucan! It was sooo cool!" Duo exclaimed as it flew away.
Duette wasn't happy, "Oh, so you like birds more than me? I'm cool, sexy, right?" she pouted.
"Oh, Duette! You know I love you." Duo said as he pulled her in for a peck on the lips.
"I LOVE YOU DUO!" Duette was in one of her happiest moods.
"So, why did you come to the rainforest?" Kaoru asked.
The Gundam pilots all looked at each other. Quatre responded, "We just.had to get away from it all, you know."
"Yeah."
"Why did YOU come here to Africa?" Quatre was curious.
He wanted to learn more about this girl..she was somehow different, he could feel her emotions. He felt loneliness, recklessness, and a certain deep pain from long ago from her. But he didn't want to open up any emotional wounds there might be. Her eyes were very sad, and she would be open to others, only to be polite.
"You know what? I don't really know, you see. Something deep inside just told me I should be here, now. It all feels right.." She paused, "like I was supposed to meet you all."
Fate. That's what it was in reality.
Trowa was the first one to decide to go in the waterfall. He was hot, exhausted, and needed to relax. He retrieved what looked like swimming pants from his backpack. Now, why on earth did he have one, Duo thought.
Trowa was just about to jump in when Duo called out, "Trowa! Where in the hell did you get the idea to bring your swim shorts?"
"Catherine said there's always a place to swim wherever you go. She wouldn't let me leave without them." Trowa said before plunging in.
"That's not fair! Oh well!" Duo said as he improvised by simply taking off his shirt and going in.
"Oooh! It's.cold!" he said as he came to the surface.
"Oh Duo, wait for me!" Duette said coming around a corner of thick foliage, wearing a very revealing bathing suit. It was a fluorescent yellow bikini.
Duette jumped off a nearby rock, sending the spray all over Heero and Relena.
"Omae o korosu!" Heero said as he took after Duette.
Heero didn't really care about his clothes. They could live through just about anything, like himself.
"Ah! Duo, save me!" Duette swam for Duo.
"Heero! Now, now, she didn't mean to get you guys wet.help!" Duo tried to escape Heero but it was futile.
He pushed Duo underwater. A few seconds went by and Duo came up, panting. Duette rushed over. Duo decided to give up on Heero. Like wise for Heero. Just then Relena came out of nowhere for a high jump off a ledge on the side of the falls. She made a huge splash. Then there was a water fight between Duette and Relena. Heero and Duo just watched, and, as if nothing had happened, Heero just got out and walked away. Guess that's all the sociality I'm gonna get from him today, Duo thought.
Kaoru and Quatre had gone to explore the cave. Maybe then he could get her to talk more, to get to know each other better.
"Wow, this is cool. How long have you known about this place?" he asked.
"Oh, about as long as I've been here." She responded.
"Hmm, what's-" Quatre was cut off by Duette yelling from the entrance of the cave.
"Oh Quatre! Don't you want to take a swim with us?" she called cheerfully.
"You want to, Kaoru?" Quatre asked her.
"Okay! Let's get going, shall we?" Kaoru started out of the cave behind Quatre.
Just as they came out, they could hear a machine buzzing above. Everyone looked up to see mobile suits flying by.
"What the hell." Duo trailed off a he watched them zoom away.
They looked like Tauruses. What are they doing here? Quatre
thought frantically.
"Heero, those look like.like mobile suits!" Relena said as she reverted her gaze from the sky to him.
None of the Gundam pilots didn't know what to do. They couldn't let Kaoru know who they were, or actually who they used to be. Something was going on, it couldn't be OZ or White Fang. All those organizations had been wiped out. Just then they could hear explosions in the distance.
"Huh? Guys, I think we should head back." Kaoru said as she started back.
Everyone followed. Kaoru knew exactly what those were. She had been inside one.
Trowa whispered to Heero, "What do we do? Our Gundams are in Japan!"
"Apparently, we are needed. We have to do something right away without stirring up suspicion from Kaoru." He responded.
"We have to contact the Preventers." Wufei said.
When they got back to their hotel, they made to call.
Lucrezia Noin picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"This is Heero."
"What's wrong? Has something happened over there?" Noin knew if Heero called, it must be dead serious.
"We don't know who, but someone has started a war over here. We saw Taurus Mobile Dolls fly over the Amazon. We need our Gundams"
"I'll get right on it. You can expect them by the end of this week."
Today was Sunday.
"Alright. Goodbye."
"Bye."
Heero hung up the phone and turned to face the group. They had to somehow make it through a whole week without their Gundams. An explosion occurred just miles away from their resort. Something had to be done.
Everyone had a good stretch and went to eat somewhere.
"Here's a question: where do you get fast food around here?"
Duo was definitely deprived, "I wanna double cheeseburger with the works!"
Quatre rolled his eyes, "They don't have hotdogs and french fries and junk like that, at least not in this town."
"Well, this is where we're staying, so just go to some hotel and check in. I'm tired!" Duette whined.
"Okay, where to?" Trowa asked.
Heero got out a map from the airport, "Here, the Kasawa Resort...."
The next day, everyone was all set to trek through the rainforest with the help of a girl that knew the area (she had been living here for two months) that offered to be their tour guide. Duette in particular thought this was the best idea in the world, knowing her. She wanted to get lost with Duo and...The guide's name was Kaoru Takuino. She had long, flowing chocolate brown hair, green eyes, and she was the same age as them, 19. Quatre was taken by her at first sight.
"OI! Hurry up Quatre, or you'll get lost!" Duette called from where the group was starting off, startling him out of his reverie, "Only me and Duo are supposed to get lost together, hell, you too! Hehehe!"
"I'm...coming." He responded, catching up.
There's something about her, like.. His thoughts were interrupted when Duette grabbed him in for a hug, pushing his head a bit lower(if you know what I mean.^^0)
"GAHHH!" was all he could manage, his voice muffled.
Duo and the others turned back to look. Duette was enjoying herself, she wouldn't let him go. Held firmly in her grasp, Quatre struggled desperately to get away.
"HEEEEELP ME!!!!!! DUETTE! WHAT ARE YOU-GET OFF ME!!!!!"
"Heh heh, feels good, doesn't it?" Duette prodded.
Everyone gawked, wide-eyed, watching the scene. Duo was the first to come to Quatre's rescue. Trowa's mouth was hanging open.
"Duette!! Let him go now! You can forget ANY plans we made!" Duo was yelling at Duette.
Then he made a face and said, his voice low, "You poor guy..man, now you know what I go through EVERY night!"
"Oooook, I guess that's enough of a sample." Duette shoved Quatre away.
Quatre made a noise. His eyes were very very wide, then reverted after a while. Kaoru just stood there, laughing inwardly and yet feeling sorry for the guy.
"You know, it looks like you have a man," Kaoru gestured towards Duo, "so why do you do that to the other guy?"
"Kaoru, you'd never understand Duette's ways. I'm Duo." He introduced himself and everyone else, "..and Quatre is the guy Duette tried to seduce." Duo gave a look to Duette, one of embarrassment, and hopelessness.
Relena scolded Duette, "You know, that wasn't very nice to do! Especially in front of a stranger!"
"What does that mean? It's not nice to do at all, that's just screwed up!" Quatre didn't like the way she said that, "Then again, that's Duette for you. One of a kind."
Everyone but Duette hung their heads at this.
"Well, I'm glad that wasn't me, don't get mixed up with those dumb women! That's exactly what will happen to you!" Wufei pre-cautioned.
"Wufei! It already did happen to me!" Quatre pointed out.
Trowa made a face, "Man, how come you didn't jump at her throat?"
"I couldn't do that to her, she's Duette! Anyway, I'd have to deal with Duo." Quatre just had to live expecting stuff like that..had to CONTINUE to live like that.
"Relena, I'm so glad you're not like her," Heero said, relieved, "the last thing we need is another Duette."
"You must be used to that." Kaoru said to Quatre.
He blushed, "Yeah, I guess so. But Duo gets it more because he's her boyfriend. Relena is Heero's girlfriend. Me, Trowa, and Wufei
..don't have one."
"They look very happy together, Heero and Relena anyway." Kaoru's eyes were tinged with loneliness for a split second.
Quatre saw it.
"Ummm, Duo and Duette are too..they just don't show it, that's all. It's very sweet." the blonde trailed off.
"We should get going if you want me to show you all where the river meets up..there's a waterfall and a cave too." Kaoru said, rounding everyone up.
"Duo!" Duette shouted, rooted to the place she was standing.
They had been in the rainforest for 3 hours. Duette was tired and wanted to stop, but to save time they had to push on.
"What? What's wrong?" he ran over to her, "Come on!"
"Carry me!" she demanded
"Nani?! Carry you.umm." Duo didn't know what to do.
"I'm tired and my legs hurt! Please Duo!" Duette begged.
"Okay, get on." He figured they could get to their destination faster.
"YAY! Arigato Duo!" she cried. At least she was happy, Duo thought to himself as he carried her piggyback.
Kaoru had been whacking away a narrow path with the blunt end of Wufei's sword. No one knew why he brought it, there wasn't any reason anyone else could see to bring it. It was a miracle Wufei even let Kaoru use it. They finally reached the waterfall. A few vibrantly colored parrots perched nearby squawked.
"So, ...this is.it?" Duo asked between breaths. He had been carrying Duette for most of the time.
He dropped her on the ground.
"Duo! Hey, why'd ya do that? Duoooooo!" she wailed.
"Babe, I'm tired! Why don't you take a dive in that pool?" Duo said to get her off his back.
"Very beautiful, ne, Heero?" Relena said as she cranked her head upward to see the waterfall.
"Yeah, maybe we can take a swim later." Heero responded.
"Trowa, Wufei, how does that sound?" Quatre asked.
"Sure." Trowa said.
"Alright, that trip was long and irrelevant!" Wufei agreed to a nice cold swim.
"I saw a toucan! It was sooo cool!" Duo exclaimed as it flew away.
Duette wasn't happy, "Oh, so you like birds more than me? I'm cool, sexy, right?" she pouted.
"Oh, Duette! You know I love you." Duo said as he pulled her in for a peck on the lips.
"I LOVE YOU DUO!" Duette was in one of her happiest moods.
"So, why did you come to the rainforest?" Kaoru asked.
The Gundam pilots all looked at each other. Quatre responded, "We just.had to get away from it all, you know."
"Yeah."
"Why did YOU come here to Africa?" Quatre was curious.
He wanted to learn more about this girl..she was somehow different, he could feel her emotions. He felt loneliness, recklessness, and a certain deep pain from long ago from her. But he didn't want to open up any emotional wounds there might be. Her eyes were very sad, and she would be open to others, only to be polite.
"You know what? I don't really know, you see. Something deep inside just told me I should be here, now. It all feels right.." She paused, "like I was supposed to meet you all."
Fate. That's what it was in reality.
Trowa was the first one to decide to go in the waterfall. He was hot, exhausted, and needed to relax. He retrieved what looked like swimming pants from his backpack. Now, why on earth did he have one, Duo thought.
Trowa was just about to jump in when Duo called out, "Trowa! Where in the hell did you get the idea to bring your swim shorts?"
"Catherine said there's always a place to swim wherever you go. She wouldn't let me leave without them." Trowa said before plunging in.
"That's not fair! Oh well!" Duo said as he improvised by simply taking off his shirt and going in.
"Oooh! It's.cold!" he said as he came to the surface.
"Oh Duo, wait for me!" Duette said coming around a corner of thick foliage, wearing a very revealing bathing suit. It was a fluorescent yellow bikini.
Duette jumped off a nearby rock, sending the spray all over Heero and Relena.
"Omae o korosu!" Heero said as he took after Duette.
Heero didn't really care about his clothes. They could live through just about anything, like himself.
"Ah! Duo, save me!" Duette swam for Duo.
"Heero! Now, now, she didn't mean to get you guys wet.help!" Duo tried to escape Heero but it was futile.
He pushed Duo underwater. A few seconds went by and Duo came up, panting. Duette rushed over. Duo decided to give up on Heero. Like wise for Heero. Just then Relena came out of nowhere for a high jump off a ledge on the side of the falls. She made a huge splash. Then there was a water fight between Duette and Relena. Heero and Duo just watched, and, as if nothing had happened, Heero just got out and walked away. Guess that's all the sociality I'm gonna get from him today, Duo thought.
Kaoru and Quatre had gone to explore the cave. Maybe then he could get her to talk more, to get to know each other better.
"Wow, this is cool. How long have you known about this place?" he asked.
"Oh, about as long as I've been here." She responded.
"Hmm, what's-" Quatre was cut off by Duette yelling from the entrance of the cave.
"Oh Quatre! Don't you want to take a swim with us?" she called cheerfully.
"You want to, Kaoru?" Quatre asked her.
"Okay! Let's get going, shall we?" Kaoru started out of the cave behind Quatre.
Just as they came out, they could hear a machine buzzing above. Everyone looked up to see mobile suits flying by.
"What the hell." Duo trailed off a he watched them zoom away.
They looked like Tauruses. What are they doing here? Quatre
thought frantically.
"Heero, those look like.like mobile suits!" Relena said as she reverted her gaze from the sky to him.
None of the Gundam pilots didn't know what to do. They couldn't let Kaoru know who they were, or actually who they used to be. Something was going on, it couldn't be OZ or White Fang. All those organizations had been wiped out. Just then they could hear explosions in the distance.
"Huh? Guys, I think we should head back." Kaoru said as she started back.
Everyone followed. Kaoru knew exactly what those were. She had been inside one.
Trowa whispered to Heero, "What do we do? Our Gundams are in Japan!"
"Apparently, we are needed. We have to do something right away without stirring up suspicion from Kaoru." He responded.
"We have to contact the Preventers." Wufei said.
When they got back to their hotel, they made to call.
Lucrezia Noin picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"This is Heero."
"What's wrong? Has something happened over there?" Noin knew if Heero called, it must be dead serious.
"We don't know who, but someone has started a war over here. We saw Taurus Mobile Dolls fly over the Amazon. We need our Gundams"
"I'll get right on it. You can expect them by the end of this week."
Today was Sunday.
"Alright. Goodbye."
"Bye."
Heero hung up the phone and turned to face the group. They had to somehow make it through a whole week without their Gundams. An explosion occurred just miles away from their resort. Something had to be done.
