Adapting to Life
by: *~Shinigami_Star~*

A Gundam Wing Fanfiction

Rating: PG-13 for safety. Some bad language.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of it's characters etc. (God I wish I did), it belongs to Sunrise and Bandai, and all of it's other respective owners that I can't think of. I am not making any profit off of this, it simply for enjoyment (well I hope it is).

heyo! This is my first REAL GW fanfiction, and by that I mean completed fanfiction. Anyways, I would REALLY appreciate if you would R&R, because I REALLY want the advice. Please comment on anything you liked or disliked!

One last thing, this fic is dedicated to all the Duo fans out there, you guys rock! I AM ONE AND I AM PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"That's satisfying to hear"

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"People say that it's hard for a soldier to adapt to the normal world after a war right? Well whoever said that was damn straight. Believe-it-or-not, hte world is a HELL of a lot different then it was for you; and the thing you did best, or MAYBE even the only thing you knew how to do, or the only lifestyle you had ever lived, has disapeared, vanihed, *POOF* into thin air. Well that's waht I found at least.........
"Okay, so you are PROBABLY wondering who I am. Well my name is Duo Maxwell. I am a 20 year old male. The year is AC 200 and in 195 & 196 I piloted Gundam 02. Actually I prefer to refer to my buddy as Deathscythe because...... well at least I believe he deserves a REAL name.
"Well around the time when Deathscythe and I landed on Earth I met my friends Heero, Quatre, Trowa and Wufei. I met Heero first, he's my BEST friend. Actually it's a kinda funny story. You see I shot him. Well, I was waiting for my Gundam to surface from underwater, at this naval port on the sea. So I hear some people talking and me, I'm curious. Well it ends up that there's this guy (Heero) about to shoot this girl. So thinking I could e ome great her (remember i was only 15) and I could save this girl's life, I snuck up on them (that's what I'm good at), and I shot Heero, in the leg so I would kill him, but I would stop him all the same. Heero tried to et his gun, but I shot ti away. So in the middle of this the girl told me to stop shooting him. Anyways in the end my Gundam surfaced, along with Heero's: Oh did I not tell you! Heero is the Pi8lor of Gundam 01, Wing Gundam, and later Wing 0. Well anywyas Heero's Gundam was lying at the bottom of the ocean and I found it when I was n a missin, I took it thinking I could use it for my backup supply; obviously that didn't happen, but back to the story. Well the Gundams were surfaceing and Heero saw them, he yelled something about it being HIS Gundam and he sent some torpoedoes at the Gundams, throing himself into the water in the process. In the end I had to save him froma hospital Relena (that's the girl's name) put him in, but that's another story.
"Well the irony of this story is that Reena and I don't get along AT ALL, I mean, I DESPISE her, and Heero is my best friend.
"Okay so, next best, I GUESS would be either Wufei or Quatre, but I give Wu the upper hand. You see, I met him when we were trapped in a jail cell together (no, don't think that you HENTAI [1] person. Hehe that's Japanese, I picked it up from Heero). Anyway the cut off the oxygen, we were stuck in their, practically dead until someone opened up the jail cell, and we went of a raging rampage in our Gundams (Wufei is the pilot of Gundam 05, Nataku). In other words we destroyed almost every other Mavile Suit in sight. I tend to get on Wu's nerves sometimes, it's one of my greater hobbies. You see Wu has this big thing about 'justice' and appaernly intuerupting him when he's practicing he fencing.......... is not justice. You see, Wufei is Chinese, and he has ther REALLY cool Chinese sword thinies that he fences with. Anyways, one day I was waling around, trying to find something to do when I found Wufei fencing. Of course, it was the perfect opportunity I just couldn't pss it by. "Wu-man...... watcha doing?" I asked him.
"I'm practing my sword fighting." He replied
"Ah..... I see. Watcha doing?"
"MAXWELL....."
"Yish, I know my name. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"MAXWELL!!! JUSTICE!!!"
"and he ran around chasing after me with his sword. It was kinda scary at the time, but boy was the memory worth it.
"Now for Quatre. Well........ He's rich, he's kind, he's peaceful. Le's face it: Quatre Raberba Winner is an all around NICE person. I really got to meet him when we were strandd in a desert together (Again, no not that way! You VERY hentai person. Tee-hee, I like the japanese thing ya know). Anyway we spent a lot of time together there. He really is a great guy. He is quite admired byt the desert people though... 'Master Quatre' this, 'Master Quatre' that, I don't think I could stand it. Wuatre is also the most peaceful of us. i mean even when he is in his Gundam (Gundam 04, Sandrock), he is kind. He really doesn't like to fight, and he really LOVES peace. I kinda admire him for that.
"Last is Trowa. The reason I place him last for the Hones-To-God-Truth is that i don't know him all that well. I've only ever met him when I was with one or more of the other pilots. Not only that but Trowa....... well let me put it this was...... he embraces silence a lot more than I do. Hes does talk, don't take it that way. It's just that I haven't had the time to get to know him well enough that he'll talk that much to me. Actually Heero and Trowa are quite good friends. Heero doesn't talk that much either (Believe me, it took me QUITE a while to get him out of his shell), but hey! As they say Birds of a Geather Flock Together (NO! For the last time! NOT THAT WAY! God, you really ARE a Hentai. LOL there's that word again).
"Anyways enough about my friends... let's get back on topic, it's hard for a soldier to adapt to normal life. Hey, what time is it? SHIT! I'M GONNA BE LATE FOR WORK?!"

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tbc.......

[1] Hentai- Pervert(s), Perverted

So, what did you think? Please R&R. I hope to get the next chapter up soon, it's in the works right now. The next one is about Duo, and the story he is telling, not the characters. Sorry about that, but I wanted a strong backround for the rest of the fic, and besides, I thought it would be cute if for once we got to see Duo's side of the story, and his POV on the chars. Well I dunno, I hope that it didn't bore you too much, and that you enjoyed it. Sorry about my BAD grammar!

*~Shinigami_Star~*