Disclaimers: Don't own ANYTHING, just borrowing.
Warnings: Shounen Ai/Yaoi 2+1, 3+4; 5+S, OOC, Lots of fluff and sap, Romance, mild language, Duo's POV.
Notes: I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time getting a mission to care for Quatre's niece and Duo and Heero finding each other along the way. It sounded fun to me. Excuse errorz, I know I have alot -_-;.
Thank you's at the bottom! That is if you have patients to get down to it -_-; (I love that face, can you tell?). And I'm proud to say that I replied to all of the generous people who reviewed chapter 5. I made this part a little longer than I had intended since I hadn't posted in like...two weeks. It's to make up for the delay, I hope that's alright with everyone. I'm sure you all know where they're headed today. Anyway, enjoy!
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First Kiss Delayed
Part 6: Sunday
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The next day I was awaken by the smell of pancakes. Which means...
I looked over the top of the couch; Heero was making breakfast as he normally would. He dressed casually in those TIGHT blue jeans that I like so much, and a loose pale blue shirt, one word: HOT! I didn't even have a shirt on, I took it off last night before I went to sleep, and I was in my boxers. I walked up behind him quietly then put my hands on his shoulders and gently massaged them, thought a day in bed would relax Heero, but they were actually kind of stiff.
"Someone's feeling better," I whispered, "Ohayo, Hee-chan."
"Ohayo."
Pancake flip.
"How do you do THAT???" I asked loudly, and if you asked me, I'd say that I ruined the peaceful mood between us that moment. Hm...not a problem though. At least not at this very second.
"Do what?"
Pancake flip.
"That!"
"This?"
Pancake flip.
"Yes, that!"
Heero shrugged, "You just throw it up in the air."
Pancake flip.
"How come it doesn't get stuck to the ceiling?"
"..."
"Okay, okay, I think I've been watching too many cartoons with Rachael."
"Or just by yourself."
Pancake flip.
"If you asked me, and I know you won't so I'll say it on my own, you're feeling ALOT more better than yesterday."
"Aa."
"Which is a very, very, VERY good thing. We missed you yesterday, Hee-chan. I'm glad you're well again. Stupid virus, ne?"
Heero stayed quiet, "Would you like to try it?" the boy finally offered handing me the spatcula.
"Are you sure? I can't guarantee the return of a couple of pancakes." I really couldn't.
"I can make more." Heero took my hand from his shoulder in his and explained the motion as I put my other hand on his left to keep the pan still, "Try it."
"I don't know, Heero..."
Heero stepped backwards on my foot intentionally, "I tried ice cream, went shopping forever, jumped on a bed in a five-star hotel, rode on a carousel, put a tiarra on, ate chilli fries and cotton candy, had a ride on the ferris wheel, went ice skating, thought I failed my mission, and got sick." Heero waved the spatcula at me, "Don't tell me you won't at least *TRY* to flip a pancake for me, Duo Maxwell."
"..." I blinked. You know he never uses my whole name...
"Duo?"
"Okay, okay." I took the spatcula, he was right, I did get him to do all that stuff plus some, it was the least I could do. I placed the utensil under the pancake and threw it up. Let me tell you something, it's not as easy as it looks.
We watched the pancake almost hit the stove fan then come down and miss the pan, "Anou...Oops."
We stared at the pancake. There went flippin' burgers for a livin'.
Then Heero laughed. Heero, laughed. Heero...laughed. Heerolaughed. Heero. Laughed. HEERO laughed. Heero LAUGHED. Heero laughed? HEERO LAUGHED!!!
And you know somethin'?
It was beautiful.
I used to not like the word until I saw Heero. He gave beautiful a new meaning.
You think it's silly right? Well, aheheheh--
Be quiet.
I left the rest of breakfast to Heero seeing that in my hands, not only would a pancake fall, but the whole house too. So, making myself useful, I went to wake Rachael up...of course after I put on my favorite snug black jeans and a clean white shirt. Wouldn't want a seven year old to get ideas ya know.
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"Uncle Heero, I love your pancakes!!! I'm so happy you can make them again!" Rachael managed to say with a mouthful of flat circles.
"Drink your milk." I said.
"Are we going to go to the arcade today now that Uncle Heero is better?"
I turned to Heero who was nibbling on a pancake, "Are you up to it, Heero?"
Heero cocked an eyebrow, "Up to what?"
"The arcade!" Rachael shouted across the table.
"Oh..." Heero was fixing to take a sip of milk, but I stopped him, "No dairy or acidic for you until Monday."
Heero frowned, "Does that mean no ice cream?"
"Hai."
Rachael giggled.
"Just what is so humorous little girl?" I asked.
"It's almost as if Uncle Heero is more like you the way he speaks. When I first met him he didn't even say 'hi'." she explained. I understood what she was talking about.
"Well, ya know Heero can talk alot when he wants, he just has to be comfortable."
"Comfortable?" Heero and Rachael asked.
"Uh...yeah." I picked up the emptied plates and put them in the dishwasher.
"I've never been to an arcade..." Heero said aloud as I came and sat back down at the table.
"Uncle Heero, there are so many things that you have never done...why?"
Heero glanced in me as if asking for some sort of guidance, "Um..."
I decided to help him out, "Your Uncle Heero hasn't done so many things because he simply didn't have a chance. But now that he's with us, he does. His interchild has been locked up forever and it's up to us to release the kiddie Heero." I said.
"Release the kiddie Heero?" the messy haired boy and pig-tailed girl asked in unison.
"Yep."
Heero smirked.
"I'll keep that in mind."
I smiled back.
I'd say that breakfast went smoothly. Heero agreed to go to the arcade in the afternoon, so he could get up and goin' again. Poor Heero. Before we knew it, 1 PM came, and we were off to the arcade.
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The arcade was both hi-tech and old fashion. The games were all new, but instead of using cards as a source of money, they still used old tokens. Guess they spent all their money on the games. At the front desk, Heero and I were asked to sign papers saying that we were older than sixteen for some new game just imported. I had heard of it before, sounded alright. I didn't know if we were going to play the game, but hey. Better safe than sorry, right? I convinced Heero that nothing would happen if he signed the papers so did and we were allowed admittance into the arcade.
It was huge.
No exaggeration. There was so many things to do. Games, games, and more games. I knew that the arcade was going to be big, but I didn't expect this. Hell, it was so gigantic, there was even a 'play place' like at McDonald's just...zoomed it about a hundred times. Okay, that was exaggeration, but it was huge. I guess this arcade is for everyone all ages. Though I did find it odd that they had a play place here. It was the last thing I would expect to be here. Really.
Heero's eyes grew wide, yeah, it was obvious that he had never been to thi arcade. I was pretty surprised at the massive tilt. I could only wonder why they would make an arcade so big. It was like an under age casino without the alchohol and slot machines. Wait, I take that back, I can see the slot machines from here. I looked at Rachael's expression. I pushed her mouth closed on a count that it was wide open. Her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"I want to do this one!" Rachael ran over to the skiball game as soon as we entered and was over most of her shock. She placed a token in the slot. 10 balls rolled down inviting her to take them. Rachael tossed one up the isle provided and hit the 1000 ring. Next she got 2000, a foul, and 5000. "Uncle Heero, can you get a 10000 for me?" Rachael asked holding a ball out for him.
Heero accepted the ball, but not without a complete inspection, "What do I do with it?"
I pointed to the little 10000 ring in the top left corner, "You try to get the ball in that little ring."
Heero bounced the hard ball from one hand to the other. He frowned, "But the weight of the ball is going to affect the outcome of the result from the toss. It's rigged."
"Hee-chan, there probably all rigged."
"Hn." Heero grunted, but nevertheless rolled the ball. The brown ball bounced off of the slant of the wire grid and fell into the 10000 point ring.
Will someone explain to me how he does things like that?
Seriously. I know that his past training did not require 'how to win at rigged arcade games'.
"Wow! How did you do that???" Rachael asked, "Nevermind, just do it again!"
Heero took another ball and repeated his earlier action. Another 10000 points were added to the score board, and another, and another, and another, and another, and then there were no more balls to roll. 15 tickets came out as an award. That's pretty good for skiball. Hell, the most I ever got was six.
Heero jumped, "What are those things?" he asked as rectangular strip of paper was exported from the game.
"They're tickets. You play the games and see how many tickets you can get, then you cash them in and get a prize over there." I filled in pointing to the counter filled with plush and many other cheap, breakable, yet fun and handy knick-knacks.
"Oh." Heero folded the tickets and handed them to me.
I guess I have the honor of keeping track of everything.
"Let's do this one!" Rachael pointed to spider stomping game and pulled Heero up on it with her. She put two tokens into the slot.
"Are you ready? GO!" said the 'queen spider'.
A red light lit up beneath Heero's foot and he jumped off the platform right into me, "What happened?"
I nudged him back on the spider infested scenario, "Step on it Heero!" Heero stepped on the light.
SQUISH
Another lit up and Heero stomped on it.
CRUNCH
Rachael jumped on two lights at the same time.
"Gross Rachael." I laughed.
When the game was over, the two received 10 tickets. Guess who got to keep track of them...
That's right, me.
Eh, at least they're having fun.
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Twenty games and over 600 tickets, yeah Heero was gettin' good at this stuff, later...
"Uncle Duo? Can I do some games by myself?" Rachael asked.
"Are you trying to ditch us?" I said.
"No! I wanna try some stuff with the other kids!" she replied.
I scanned the mildly crowded arcade. Seemed like nice people, mostly children and some teens. Looked safe, but...that's why I hesitated. "I guess so. But don't exit the arcade without consulting us, and stay out of trouble. Find us if you need anything."
"Hai!" I gave Rachael more tokens, but not enough to stay away for about 10 to 15 minutes just because I wanted her to check back with us to make sure nothing had happened to her during her away time. Me over-protective? Nah!
Rachael ran off on her merry way, in other words, she ditched us.
"Heero, I KNOW there are some games here you're just alittle interested in." I said to my Japanese friend.
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh come on, I saw you eyein' that racing game."
"............." Heero gave me a half smile and grabbed my arm, ".....since you suggested it..." Followed by the grab, he pulled me to the game of his choice.
Heero sat in the first player driver seat, and I was in the second. The game was one that was just released, Intensity is what it was called. It was suppose to be the most realistic racing game throughout Earth and the colonies. I was pretty impressed. The seats actually had a harness to prevent you from flying out of the chair and smashing your head on the screen. Why would it do that? Oh yeah, I recall this thing imitated vibrations of the obstacles being run over and run into like a real car. You even had to be sixteen and older to play the game. At the front desk Heero and I had taken care of that. We were even required to wear helmets.That shouldn't be a problem, Gundams were way more dangerous. There were warnings all over the machine concerning health and injury complications.
I read the brightest, biggest warning posted, "Do NOT ride if pregnant." it said. I scanned Heero top to bottom.
"Nani?" he asked.
I placed my hand on his stomach causing him cock an eyebrow, "Hm, I guess we can do this since you're not pregnant..." I joked. He rolled his eyes as I pat his thin abdomen.
"Baka."
Heero started the game choosing a midnight blue sports car and I picked a black convertable much like the one I already had.
Hey, I liked it.
BleepBleepBleep
BING
A half-naked girl in a bikini waved the checkered flag.
Thus, the race began.
Heero was already infront of me speeding ahead, he managed to cause a collision right infront of me, I surved around it leaving skit marks behind. Heero was already a quater of a mile ahead of me. Little sneak.
At the third check point I was still behind, I found a nice little shortcut that Heero had missed.
I jumped out of nowhere right infront of Heero and slammed the breaks.
A familiar jolt of vibration jerked my body when I halted, one that I hadn't felt in a long time, it was minor, but it was a jolt I had often felt when I was in the cockpit of Deathscythe and been hit by a missile.
"Ahh!" Heero cried. He was thrown forward and had no clue what just happened. I saw Heero hit his head on the screen. Thank God for the helmet, I didn't want to spend the rest of the day in the emergency room.
Our cars were a mess and my engine died. The front of Heero's car was crushed, and the blue car's rear was demolished. At least I stopped him.
"Hee-chan are you okay?"
A continuation sign popped up with twenty seconds remaining.
20...19...18...17...16...15...
Head down Heero laughed one of his freaky psycho laughs, I nearly cringed at the cruel sound, "...That was a good move," he looked at me and gave me an evil grin, "Finish the race Duo."
"Yes sir." I insert more tokens and we picked up where we left off with brand new cars. Heero stomped on his pedal full speed as soon as we were granted permission to start. "Ugh...that's so uncool" I grunted then took off after him.
Ten minutes. *TEN* minutes we were virtually chasing each other, dodging cars and collisions we had caused for each other using jerks, bumps, and mild crashing vibrations. It was hard to say who was winning since we were both pulling ahead and getting behind at the same time.
The finish line was only miles away, Heero surved into me, I saw it comin', I put my breaks on as he was about to hit me.
"K'so!" Heero cursed. Wow, he was really into it.
I was in the lead, but not for long Heero suddenly appeared next to me. The checkered banner was just ahead, I could even read the letters 'finish'. Heero and I had the same idea at the same time. We both ran into each other. Grinding, we passed the finish line simultaniously.
Flashing in big, bright, blinking, red letters were our places.
TIE!!!
"Shimatta!" we shouted in unison. We took our helmets off and surprised when we saw that we were sweating.
GAME OVER
It's not fair! I SO had him!
Heero and I stumbled out of the racing game.
"Good game, ne?"
"Hai," Heero replied, "You're a good opponent."
I smiled, "Eh, I try."
Heero smirked back.
I saw something on the right side of Heero's face. "Oi Heero, turn your head to the left."
Heero cocked an eyebrow. I pushed his face to the left side, "Itai..." Heero reacted.
"Gomen, gomen." I tilted his head to the light. What I saw was a light bluish-purplish mark. Just as I suspected, Heero's cheek was slightly bruised, "Nah, Hee-chan you got a bruise on your cheek from that game."
"Nani?"
"Yeah, I didn't see it earlier..." I brushed my fingers over it.
"Duo..." Heero hissed.
"Gomen. What do you want to do now, Hee-chan?" I asked still holding his chin.
"...what can we do?"
I smiled, "Anything."
"Anything...?"
Heero gave me another--do I dare say...naughty smirk? He stood with his hands behind his back and slightly rocked forward and backwards on his heels. The Japanese boy avoided eye-contact with me.
"Well...there *was* something else that I saw, but......" Heero's voice faded and he released the tiny shy smile that had crept behind his lips. He looked up at me mischievously with piercing blue eyes. Mischievously?
Masaka!
Heero was *NOT* mischievous!
Was he?
"What's going on in that little mind of yours?" I asked giving him a sideways glance.
"Why would you think that?" Heero replied innocently.
"I don't know, what do you think?"
Heero shrugged.
"You were going to say something?" I reminded.
The boy nodded, "But I'm not sure if you'll agree."
Not agree to do something with Heero?
Never!
"Try me."
"Promise?"
I nodded, "Whatever you want..."
"Okay..." Heero leaned in close to my ear and whispered, "I want you...--" his warm breath was on my ear, "I want you to go to the play place with me..."
That was it?
Heero wanted to go to the play place?
"Play place?"
Heero pulled away and nodded.
"Duo Maxwell does not do play places!"
Heero pouted, "But you promised..."
And he knew this was going to happen how......?
"Alright, alright. We'll go to the play place."
Heero smiled a tiny smile, "Arigato."
I can't believe Heero, of all people, wants to go to a play place. They were for kids!
Suddenly Rachael run up to us, "There you are! I've been looking all over the arcade to find you two!" Rachael handed me more tickets.
"Gomen, we were playing a game." I threw a thumb at the machine.
"Intensity? Wow, that's suppose to be really good. Who won?"
"No one."
"No one?"
"We tied."
Rachael whistled, "Uncle Duo, I need more tokens."
I reached into my pants and pulled out pocket lint. "Anou...these aren't tokens..."
"Baka."
I pulled out Quatre's card from my other pocket, "Should we?" I asked holding the card in front of Heero. He only shrugged. "Okay, you've convinced me." I went over the an ATM machine and received twenty dollars. Actually, I haven't really used Quat's card that much. I thought that a girl would be really expesive, but she isn't as costly as I thought. I cashed the twenty in an gave Rachael three dollars of it, "Find us when you finish." Rachael smiled and went off to play more games.
Then Heero and I were off to the play place.
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We arrived at the play place about three minutes later. It was on the other side of the arcade, and was also vacant. How lucky was that? Well, I guess since it was still relatively earily to be in an acrade, the kids who would normally play in one of these, hasn't spend all of their money yet. Come on. An empty play place just waiting for someone to play on it. Like us. I grinned. The plastic structure consisted of sturdy blue, green, yellow, and red tubes which twisted and intervened with each other not to mention the many slides serving as exits. Oh, and my grin was stretched from ear to ear as my eyes laid upon the square ball pit. Fun. In front of that was a large sign.
"No shoes." I read from the oversized yellow sign.
"No shoes?" Heero repeated.
"No shoes." I shrugged and pulled off my foot apparel.
"What are you doing?"
"No shoes." I replied from the floor then tugged at Heero's sneakers, and for once they weren't the ugly yet uniquely adorable yellow ones. Heero sat down next to me and began untying his shoes. After that was done with, Heero and I stood there waiting for something. I don't know what. I suppose I would have to start something up. Another grinned played on my face. I tapped Heero on his shoulder.
"Nani?" the ex-Perfect Soldier asked.
"You're it!" I said then ran off to the nearest tube entrance.
"Duo!" Heero shouted but nonetheless trailed behind.
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I crawled through the tubes trying to escaped Heero, he was right behind me. I know he's fast, especially when it comes to crawling. I'm sure that was a basic skill he was required to know. I'm surprised he hasn't caught me yet. I turned around and he ran right into me and lost his balance. He fell, if you could *really* fall in a plastic tube, and landed on that cute ass of his. He glared.
"Oops...I guess I'm it now." I said.
"Baka."
"That's me. I'll give you ten seconds to get out of my sight before you're it again."
"I don't need your time."
"I know. It's for my benefit."
Heero cocked and eyebrow. "*Your* benefit?"
Crap, did I say that out loud???
I gave him in a shove in the other direction. He went down the tubes, and for ten glorious seconds, I got to stare at his ass. Bad, I know.
I couldn't help it!
He was there! And it's just so cute! How could I resist?
Anyway, I counted to ten very slowly.
"Ten." I said, he had taken the second slide which led to a chamber of four tunnels and one slide in the middle section of the play tubes. I turned in the opposite direction with a grin.
Four minutes later, I hid in the blue slide that branched off from the chamber. Th slide led to the ball pit. Fun.
Damn! Are my knees killin' me or what??? I thought to myself as I rubbed the offended knobs protruding from my legs. That's what I hate about these play places, if you crawl for a few minutes, your knees get so banged up! Itai...
thumpthumpthump
I ceased my knee-rubbing as I head the sound of crawling coming through the green next to me. I held my breath containing the laughter threatening to burst out. I could tell it was Heero by the muted 'thumps'. I put myself into ready position as I saw a long, slender, jean cladded leg emerge from the green tube. Then another. He walked in front of the blue slide not even noticing my presence which was rather strange. He looked to the left at the red tube, forward, backwards, and finally into the blue.
As soon as I saw his pretty face, I pulled him in by the waist, much like a trap-door spider did when they found their prey. In this case, I was the spider, and Heero was the prey. Mmm...I love Heero's. Heero and I slide backwards down the tube slide. Round and round we went on the curvy plastic structure, Heero in my arms the whole time. Of course I didn't catch my prey silently.
"Duo no baka!" Heero shouted.
"What did I do?" I asked.
"Omae o korosu!"
Suddenly, we were ejected from the slide and into the ball pit. The crumbling sound confirmed that as we plunged down into the balls. A moment later after Heero recalled what had just happened and why we were in a ball pit, he sat up and glared.
"Omae o korosu!" he said then threw a squeezable plastic ball at me.
I ducked, "Oi!"
Heero only replied by throwing another ball.
In the words of Bugs Bunny, 'as you see, this means war...'
I picked up a blue ball and threw it at Heero. He did the same, but with about ten balls instead. Oh...he wants to play does he? I threw a ball over at him and nailed the Japanese boy in the chest. Heero only grunted. Thus, the great kiddie ball pit war broke out.
Ten minutes had passed and we were still engaged in the battle. Heero launched an attack on me, I thought I could escape, but I only ran right into the trap.
Bop!
Heero hit me square in the nose. Ya know what? It kinda hurt for a plastic ball.
"Itai...!" I said involuntarily. I held my nose and crouched over pretending that I was seriously injured. "My nose!" I heard the crumpling of balls stop as I continued with my drama scene. "Heero! Heero! My nose!" I cried sinking to my knees.
"Duo?" Heero asked timidly.
"My nose!"
Heero made his way over to me, "Daijoubu Duo?"
"You hit my nose!" I said more dramatically as I fake-sulked in my fake misery. "My beautiful nose is destroyed!"
"Gomen nasai, Duo. Duo?"
"AAAHHHHHH!" I shrieked, "It hurts! Heero make it stop!" then I completely disappeared from Heero's sight as I was engulfed by the multicolored balls. I rolled around under the three dimensional circles to keep my location hidden.
"Duo!" Heero said frantically as he began searching for me under the hollow spheres.
Silence.
More silence.
More.
More.
More.
More.
More!
Suddenly, I surfaced from the balls as if I were a demon sea creature. I saw Heero jump and satisfaction seeped through my body. I grinned inwardly to myself.
"Heero Yuy of L1, you have offended the cartilage on my face! Suffer the consequences!" I said that promptly pounced on him. Heero gasped as I took him under the plastic balls.
"Duo!"
THUD
Heero landed on his back with me atop of him. I felt him struggle for a second, but then he relaxed. He looked up at me from under the balls.
"Gotcha Hee-chan."
"Duo?"
"Hm?"
"I can't breathe under here very well."
I frowned, "You can't?"
Heero shook his head, "No."
With an inward sigh, I removed myself from the comfortable position. Heheh, boy did I regret that, Heero sprang from the balls and pounced on *me*! I was pinned against the mesh net of the pit with Heero perched on my abdomen. The balls came up to my shoulders and Heero's hips. My head was leaning into the net as once again Heero was on me. Hm...I could get used to this. Yes, in fact, I would rather enjoy getting used to the Heero-on-my-stomach thing.
"What's this?" I asked Heero.
He replied with a smirk, "Gotcha..."
"Heero Yuy!"
How dare he mock me like that! And in such a cute way!
"Nani?" he asked.
I shook my head, "I can't believe you did that."
He's so cute.
"Was it wrong?" Heero asked innocently.
Wrong?! Wrong??? How could *this* be wrong! I shook my head again.
"Is...is your nose unharmed?"
Aw, how sweet, he cares about my nose!
"Well, you did hit it pretty hard with that plastic ball..." I hinted.
"Gomen nasai," Heero paused, "Do you want me to make it better?"
Woah, that was a brave step.
"Would you please?"
Heero nodded silently, he leaned forward so that he was hovering over my lucky nose. His breath wavered as he hesistated. He was so close. Heero pulled back which was rather disappointing. But it was reassuring when he dove back in more confidently. I kept my eyes on his lips the whole time. They looked to soft...and warm...and beautiful...and--
Shimatta, just do it Heero!
"Uncle Heero!"
The less-than-an-inch-away boy looked up causing him to pull back. Complete opposite of what was supposed to happen.
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!
Rachael has the worst timing EVER!!!
DDDDDDAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
"Uncle Heero, where's Uncle Duo?" I heard Rachael ask as I slid deeper into the balls. Ugh! Why did she have to come *NOW*? Anytime would have been great, but *NOW*!
Heero removed himself entirely from my stomach, "Right here."
Rachael looked at me and giggled, "Uncle Duo, what are you two doing in the ball pit?" she asked. Before I could answer, a tall, grouchy lookin' lady (that wasn't exactly skinny) in a uniform with the name tag that read 'Manager' towered over us from outside the mesh.
"Excuse me, sirs, but I believe you are much too big for this attraction." she said in a warning tone, "Would you please step out of the ball pit?"
I cocked an eyebrow. I opened my mouth to say something which was probably stupid like 'make me' or something, but I was stopped when Heero grabbed my hand and pulled me out.
"Thank you. Have a nice day." the lady said sweetly then left.
I glared at her back.
"Uncle Duo, I'm out of tokens!" Rachaels said tugging on my free arm. I sighed and pulled out a five. She took the money gleefully with a smile, "Arigato! Have fun Uncle Heero and Uncle Duo!"
Hey...wasn't that what the adult is suppose to say to the kid, not the other way around?
I watched as Rachael's back retreated into the kiddie games. Heero gently shook my arm for attention, "Yes, Hee-chan?"
"Can we do more games?"
I smiled, "Sure."
Okay, okay, I'm sure you know what I'm going to think next, right? Yeah, but I'll say it anyway.
He's so cute.
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After running around the arcade, Heero decided that he wanted to try a jet-ski simulated game. It was one of that older games that I had already played before, but whatever made Heero happy. Heero straddled himself in the front of the jet-ski. I offered to show him how to play, he agreed and I positioned myself in the back, yes I know it sounds bad. Believe me, it was arduous to sit behind him when he was right there nearly in my lap. It was arduous indeed.
Does that make sense?
I instucted Heero on the first round placing my hands on top of his until he got the hang of it which didn't take too long. Then once he got it, I sat back and tried to relax as the artifical bumps caused Heero to scoot backwards right against me. But I think I brought it on myself when I wrapped my arms around his waist only provoking the problem. I didn't know that arcade games could get so arousing. Kinky.
Dammit.
But 'dammit' in a good way, I assure you.
Heero rode around zigzagging through floaties and completing all of the obstacle courses without a problem. I could feel his stomach tense, flex, and loosen as I rotated my thumbs in small circles while I was sitting behind him. I didn't do it on purpose! It just happened! He was there! Yeah, well that only made him want to lean back even more. Thank God he threw his attention back at the game. When he was convinced that the game couldn't satisfy his action packed needs anymore, we moved on to pinball.
Pinball wasn't very laborious at all. I only gave him two tokens and he managed to keep the same ball out the whole time even if he had about ten or more extra ones.
Pinball bored Heero very quickly. After the second ball, he just let all of the other extras slide pass the paddles.
In the end, Heero's score didn't even fit the high score message board.
Instead, it flashed 'ERROR'.
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Rachael came and took five more dollars and left. Heero had seen all the games that he wanted. I pulled him over to the snack bar to get a little something to eat and a drink. I chose to sit on a corner booth, the ones where the seat semi-circled the table, of course so I could be closer to Heero, why else?
"Lessee..." I slurred while reading the thin red letters of the menu hanging over the front counter, "What would you like?"
Heero shrugged.
"Ever had a funnel cake?"
Heero shook his head.
"An ICEE?"
Heero shook his head again.
"You like strawberry, right?"
Heero nodded.
"Sugoi!" I went up to the cash register and ordered a large funnel cake and two large ICEEs, one strawberry, one white cherry. I came back to the table with the snacks.
Heero looked at the funnel cake oddly, "It looks like a thick fish net."
I chuckled, "Don't worry, it isn't." I pulled off a little piece and handed it to Heero. He examined the baked dough the same way he examined everything else that was new.
Heero sniffed it and sneezed.
"Yeah, did I mention that there's powder sugar on it?" Heero glared and tasted the funnel cake, "What do you think?" I asked as Heero took more off the plate.
"Hn."
I chuckled and took some off for myself, "That's what I thought." I pushed Heero's ICEE infront of him, "Try this now."
Heero speculated the cup and took a long sip, too long if you wanted my opinion. Heero made a face, "Doowo, it's cowddd!" Heero said with a mouthful of ICEE. He swallowed it quickly and held his head. "Itai..."
"Brain-freeze, I guess I should have told you sooner, ne?"
Heero glared again, "Brain...freeze?"
"Aa. Happens all the time."
"Hn."
Heero's brain-freeze subsided, and from then on he took small sips. Every now and then, Heero took pieces of the funnel cake and sipped his ICEE. I take it he liked them enough to at least finish the rest.
The Asian was finished with his ICEE before I was even half way through with mine. He watched me sip the cherry, "Wanna taste?" I offered handing his the cup. Heero smelt it which was funny to me. "It's white cherry Hee-chan."
Heero took a small sip.
"What do you think?"
"Hn."
"Okay, since you like it so much, I see no harm in letting you have the rest."
"Honto, ni?"
"Honto, ni." I replied. Heero looked at the ICEE then a me, "Heero, I'm giving you the rest of my ICEE, not a kid. Finish it up for me." Heero began sucking on the straw. I crossed my legs as my pants became a tad too tight for my taste. Heero does these type of things to me, and didn't even know it...
I wrapped an arm around Heero as he leaned on my shoulder still drinking the ICEE. Moments later Heero had fallen asleep. He still must be alittle tired from yesterday. He's become much more relaxed lately, I guess he really is comfortable now. I pulled the ICEE from his hands and placed it on the table.
He's so cute.
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About fifteen minutes later, I heard a child shout, "My uncles could whoop you so badly at Laser Tag!"
"Whatever! I bet they're losers just like you." a boy said. I turned and looked over the edge of the booth. I saw Rachael with two other girls and a group of six older boys (I'm guessing ages between nine and ten), arguing with her. The two girls were behind Rachael glaring at the boy.
I shook Heero, "Hee-chan," Heero slowly opened his eyes, "Heero look at this..." I pointed to the kids. Heero raised his head to see what was going on.
"You just wait!" one of the girls interjected, "They can too!"
This kid was standing up for us, and I had never seen her before.
"Your uncles can't beat us!" the biggest boy pushed Rachael.
Yeah, that got Heero awake, "He just pushed her Duo!"
"I know, wanna go kill some punk ass ten year olds at Laser Tag?"
"Hai." I slid out of the booth pulling Heero, he grabbed the ICEE on his way out, "Matteo, Duo."
"Nani?"
"Anou...what's Laser Tag?"
Heero didn't know what laser tag was.
"Just pretend that the boys are OZ and you're trying to hit as many as you can. There's a power base that you shoot at, pretend it's an enemy control base you need to blow up."
"Nimnu ryokai."
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"Rachael, is there a problem?" I asked.
"Uncle Duo, tell them that you can beat them at Laser Tag." Rachael pointed to the boys glaring.
I looked at the boys, "I can beat you at Laser Tag." I said calmly.
"Nuh-uh!"
"Wanna bet?" Rachael asked.
"Yeah, whoever loses gives the winners twenty tokens!" the leader said.
"You're on!" Rachael shook his hand.
This was going to be fun.
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Heero, Rachael, two girls behind, six other boys, and I entered a dark room lit with a black light. Wow, did my white shirt stand out or what? The other kids were trying to dust lint off of their colored shirts, it was funny. Even Heero tried.
"Hee-chan, you won't be able to get that lint off." I said as the Japanese boy brushed at his shirt over and over again.
"Hn." he grunted, other than that he didn't reply.
"Heero," I caught his thin wrist to cease his brushing. He looked up at me with questioning eyes. Questioning eyes that told his soft lips to release a snicker. I frowned, "What?"
Heero couldn't contain his chuckles. He looked down and calmed himself, but as soon as he looked up, he began to snicker again. I cocked an eyebrow.
"Hee-chan? What's so funny?"
Heero stopped snickering, "Your eyes...!"
"What about my eyes?"
"They're white now."
My eyes were white now? Oh! Yeah, from the light.
"What's so funny about that?"
Heero drew in a breath, "Nothing."
"What?" I asked in confusion.
Before Heero could answer, a teenager about a year or two younger than Heero and me entered the room and directed our attention to a screen in the left hand corner of the room. We watched a short video explaining the rules and what to do. The girls plus Heero and I were on the green team and the boys were on the red. Heero picked up harness 01, and I got the standard 02. Rachael's friend got 03, Rachael was 04, and the other girl was 05. Funny, 03 was extremely quiet, and 05 was a justice raging Asian who stood up for us when those other kids were bothering Rach.
"Like your number, Heero?"
"Like YOUR number, Duo?"
I smiled, "Oh yeah."
Pilots 01 and 02 are back in action!
............too bad our opponents were little boys.
"Uncle Duo, I don't know if *I* can beat those boys..." Rachael whispered to me. I leaned down to her height.
"Sure you can. Pretend you're a Gundam pilot on a top secret mission."
Rachael smiled, "That I can do!"
We entered the room and loaded up.
"Let the Laser Tag begin." a voice said from the speakers as techno music filled our ears.
Heero was right next to me as a deluge of lasers came towards us. We ducked and took cover behind a rectangular pillar.
"Just like old times, ne Hee-chan?"
"Hai, just like old times."
Heero and I shot all the boys at least 30 times, and they didn't even hit us once. The boys finally retreated.
"I'll go for the power base, Duo, you see the other side." Heero commanded, I nodded and he went for the power base.
I walked around to the other end of the small arena and saw where all the action was. So, the boys were picking on the girls, huh? I reloaded and quietly walked behind them and shot all of them in the back more than 15 times.
"Ahh!" the boys turned around to shoot me, but I took cover behind another pillar. I saw Heero just casually standing shooting the power base. He yawned.
"Havin' fun Hee-chan?" I called over to him.
Heero sat down on the floor and yawned again.
He's so cute.
"There he is!" a boy yelled, they began shooting at me, I tried to shoot back.
"Uh-oh, out of ammo." I dodged all of the boys shots and flipped over to reload my laser gun. I looked at the screen that showed the status of everyone. Heero had the top score with over 90000, not far behind was me, then Rachael and her friends. I checked on the Red team's status, their points were pretty low, they were still in the one thousands.
"Uncle Duo!"
I ran over to Rachael, "Nani?"
"Help me!"
I shot all of the boys that were shooting Rachael as she ran back to reload and restore her life. Heero came up behind me, "Their battle tactics are the worst I've ever seen."
"Really?" I asked sarcatically.
"They have absolutely no defensive line."
"What did you expect?" Heero shrugged, "Go help Rachael and the girls." I ran to the power base and shot the hell out of it. I can see why Heero yawned. He was right, the boys had no defense.
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Twenty minutes later, the green team had earned their victory. The boys handed the three girls twenty tokens, where they got them, I have no clue. Heero and I didn't accept our share. Rachael's friends went off to spend their earnings and the boys diffused into the crowd, except for one who decided to follow Rachael around.
It was about 5 PM when Rachael ran up to us and clang to Heero's legs, "Tell him to leave me alone!"
"Tell who what?" I asked.
"That boy!" Heero and I looked at the person Rachael was referring to, it was one of the boys we had played laser tag against, more specifically the leader kid, "He won't stop following me, and he gave me all these tickets! I didn't even ask for them!"
The boy walked up to Rachael, "My mom says that I have to leave now."
"Good for you." Rachael said sourly.
The boy leaned over and kissed Rachael on the cheek. She froze, "Sayonara." As soon as the boy was out of sight...
"AAAHHHH!!!" Rachael screeched and rubbed her cheek until it was red, "Getitoffgetitoffgetitoff!!!"
"Rachael, what's wrong, aren't you flattered?" I asked.
"NO!"
Heero smirked.
"Don't you like boys?"
Rachael started crying and fell to her knees, "Yeah, but...that was my first kiss and it was HORRIBLE!!!"
I nudged Heero to do something, Heero picked Rachael up in his arms, "Stop crying Rachael..." Heero said.
"But it was DISGUSTING!"
I couldn't help but chuckle.
"There's nothing funny about this!" the girl spat and clang to Heero.
"Gomen." if I couldn't laugh out loud, I would do it inside.
Rachael finally stopped crying when we bought her some sweets.
We were down to our last three tokens. We agreed not to spend it on anything that gave tickets out since Rachael had already used the hers to get many prizes. The only thing we could think of was Air Hockey.
Heero started the game. The game's pace was extremely fast, Rachael had trouble watching. The puck would fly across the table as I slammed it to the other end. I blocked about one hundred times before Heero scored one on me. Ditto for him.
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The score was 6 to 6. Heero had possession of the flat plastic puck. I was ready, there was no way I was going to lose. I even had a certain strategic way to hit the object so it went in smoothly. Not to mention the slight advantage I had over the Japanese boy.
I could feel the intensity boil within my veins. Heero Yuy wasn't going to win this one...
This was going to be easy...I tighten my grip on the the tool I was using for offense and defense. I saw Heero place the puck on the air-breezing table.
"C'mon Heero, I'm ready for ya anytime..." I said challenging him.
Rachael tugged on my pant leg, "Uncle Duo?"
I looked down and loosened my hold on that thing that was in my hand, "Nan--"
CLINK
I turned my attention to the slot where the puck was deposited. I looked at the scoreboard.
7 to 6...
............I lost.
I glared at Heero and lunged at him, "That was a dirty trick Heero Yuy!" We playfully wrestled with each other, "That was suppose to be my victory!"
I straddled Heero underneath me sitting on his lower abdomen, I mean REALLY lower abdomen, "You said that you were ready anytime..." Heero said calmly in his slightly nasally voice. He smiled up at me, something told me I was going to see that smile much more often.
My glare disappeared when he launched his smile attack, "I did say that didn't I?" Heero nodded. "Ugh! I'm such a baka!"
"I know."
Heero tried to get up raising himself between my parted legs. I felt him lift himself against me, I swear with the way he was moving he was grinding. As soon as I felt the slightest tighness, I quickly stood up.
Heero blushed, "Gomen nasai..."
"No you're not..." I said quietly which only caused the redness of Heero's cute cheeks darken. I smiled, so he was grinding...I leaned down towards Heero and he came up, I knew we woul meet somewhere in the middle. Closer, clos--
"Uncle Heero, I'm hungry."
Shimatta, I forgot all about Rachael for a second.
Heero and I turned heads. I pulled Heero up and we went home to the safehouse.
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Dinner was as good as usual, Rachael stayed up showing her completed models to Heero and me. Heero tucked her in this time, then we watched the Korean series and went to bed. Pretty slow if you asked me. Eh, I enjoyed every minute of it though.
I thought over the day before I fell asleep as I did every night. The way Heero acted towards me, he never acted like that to or around anyone. Then again, I knew that he liked me from the start...
I looked down at the sleeping figure holding a teddy bear, we both knew that Heero Yuy was already mine. Mind and soul. All I needed was the body, I hadn't done anything with the boy. I had won him over long ago, I just never made it official or anything. From the past week he's been so much more human from the Heero that everyone knows him as. He was plenty broken in mentally, but physically was a different story. And it starts with the little steps.
All I have to do is kiss him, then Heero will be mine forever...
But do I have the nerve to claim a beauty like him?
Am I deserving enough?
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TBC?
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Wah! You managed to make it down here...again! It was so long, I was afraid that you might have gotten lost in the words. I hope you liked this chapter. Sorry for the delay of this part minna-san, I had so much homework and other stuff that just wouldn't give me some leeway to get this done and posted -_-; Hopefully I can get the next chapter in sooner.
About the 'play place' thing, I couldn't help but put that it. I know you probably wouldn't find one at an arcade, but what the Hee-chan, this is fiction! Yeah, my cousin protested with the idea.
Again, hope you liked it!
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Arigato minna-san!:
diane: You're welcome for the long chps. Just trying to give everyone a fic that they'll enjoy, ya know? Well, thank you!; Aurenne: Yeah, don't you just love a sensitive Hee-chan?; moonbunny317: More to come! Thank you for your review, not only in this fic, but all the other ones too!; Elle-FaTe2x1: They'll hook up eventually, but I want to have more fun with them! Oh, I visited your webpage by the way and I have to say that I *love* that pic on the warning page. It's so fun.; Sakura Yuy: Thanks for signing the petition, every signature counts. Hey, now you have to update your fic! Onegai?; Stoic-Hyper: Stoic...hyper...I like that name. Oh, I don't know, Rachael can be--well...*there*; Rei: I agree, kids can be a pain, if I write a sequel, Duo and Heero will be sure figure that out...the hard way. That is if I write one, I'm still unsure.; Shaman Flamingo: Thank you, I know what you mean about the rushing thing and I'm trying not to do that, tell me if I start though. That's the last thing I want to do -_-; Yume Maxwell-Yuy: Hey Yume, I really appreciate you reviewing my fics, it means alot. Thank you ^_^.; Sugar Goose: Ack, homework is killin' me too. Thank you for the flowers and cake, the slice was very good bye the way.; shinigami angel: Breathe! Please! Daijoubu? I hope you didn't pass out, I'm sorry it took so long to get this part in. *fans angel*; LB: *whistles innocently* Hey, tell me something, are you going to add more to that 'Duo's New Pet' fic?; rosa: I'm glad you liked it, let's hope it stays that way, ne?; saya: Very happy, thanks cuz. Watashi wa benza desu yo! j/k. C'ya.
Thanks again! Ja ne!
Warnings: Shounen Ai/Yaoi 2+1, 3+4; 5+S, OOC, Lots of fluff and sap, Romance, mild language, Duo's POV.
Notes: I don't know, it seemed like a good idea at the time getting a mission to care for Quatre's niece and Duo and Heero finding each other along the way. It sounded fun to me. Excuse errorz, I know I have alot -_-;.
Thank you's at the bottom! That is if you have patients to get down to it -_-; (I love that face, can you tell?). And I'm proud to say that I replied to all of the generous people who reviewed chapter 5. I made this part a little longer than I had intended since I hadn't posted in like...two weeks. It's to make up for the delay, I hope that's alright with everyone. I'm sure you all know where they're headed today. Anyway, enjoy!
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First Kiss Delayed
Part 6: Sunday
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The next day I was awaken by the smell of pancakes. Which means...
I looked over the top of the couch; Heero was making breakfast as he normally would. He dressed casually in those TIGHT blue jeans that I like so much, and a loose pale blue shirt, one word: HOT! I didn't even have a shirt on, I took it off last night before I went to sleep, and I was in my boxers. I walked up behind him quietly then put my hands on his shoulders and gently massaged them, thought a day in bed would relax Heero, but they were actually kind of stiff.
"Someone's feeling better," I whispered, "Ohayo, Hee-chan."
"Ohayo."
Pancake flip.
"How do you do THAT???" I asked loudly, and if you asked me, I'd say that I ruined the peaceful mood between us that moment. Hm...not a problem though. At least not at this very second.
"Do what?"
Pancake flip.
"That!"
"This?"
Pancake flip.
"Yes, that!"
Heero shrugged, "You just throw it up in the air."
Pancake flip.
"How come it doesn't get stuck to the ceiling?"
"..."
"Okay, okay, I think I've been watching too many cartoons with Rachael."
"Or just by yourself."
Pancake flip.
"If you asked me, and I know you won't so I'll say it on my own, you're feeling ALOT more better than yesterday."
"Aa."
"Which is a very, very, VERY good thing. We missed you yesterday, Hee-chan. I'm glad you're well again. Stupid virus, ne?"
Heero stayed quiet, "Would you like to try it?" the boy finally offered handing me the spatcula.
"Are you sure? I can't guarantee the return of a couple of pancakes." I really couldn't.
"I can make more." Heero took my hand from his shoulder in his and explained the motion as I put my other hand on his left to keep the pan still, "Try it."
"I don't know, Heero..."
Heero stepped backwards on my foot intentionally, "I tried ice cream, went shopping forever, jumped on a bed in a five-star hotel, rode on a carousel, put a tiarra on, ate chilli fries and cotton candy, had a ride on the ferris wheel, went ice skating, thought I failed my mission, and got sick." Heero waved the spatcula at me, "Don't tell me you won't at least *TRY* to flip a pancake for me, Duo Maxwell."
"..." I blinked. You know he never uses my whole name...
"Duo?"
"Okay, okay." I took the spatcula, he was right, I did get him to do all that stuff plus some, it was the least I could do. I placed the utensil under the pancake and threw it up. Let me tell you something, it's not as easy as it looks.
We watched the pancake almost hit the stove fan then come down and miss the pan, "Anou...Oops."
We stared at the pancake. There went flippin' burgers for a livin'.
Then Heero laughed. Heero, laughed. Heero...laughed. Heerolaughed. Heero. Laughed. HEERO laughed. Heero LAUGHED. Heero laughed? HEERO LAUGHED!!!
And you know somethin'?
It was beautiful.
I used to not like the word until I saw Heero. He gave beautiful a new meaning.
You think it's silly right? Well, aheheheh--
Be quiet.
I left the rest of breakfast to Heero seeing that in my hands, not only would a pancake fall, but the whole house too. So, making myself useful, I went to wake Rachael up...of course after I put on my favorite snug black jeans and a clean white shirt. Wouldn't want a seven year old to get ideas ya know.
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"Uncle Heero, I love your pancakes!!! I'm so happy you can make them again!" Rachael managed to say with a mouthful of flat circles.
"Drink your milk." I said.
"Are we going to go to the arcade today now that Uncle Heero is better?"
I turned to Heero who was nibbling on a pancake, "Are you up to it, Heero?"
Heero cocked an eyebrow, "Up to what?"
"The arcade!" Rachael shouted across the table.
"Oh..." Heero was fixing to take a sip of milk, but I stopped him, "No dairy or acidic for you until Monday."
Heero frowned, "Does that mean no ice cream?"
"Hai."
Rachael giggled.
"Just what is so humorous little girl?" I asked.
"It's almost as if Uncle Heero is more like you the way he speaks. When I first met him he didn't even say 'hi'." she explained. I understood what she was talking about.
"Well, ya know Heero can talk alot when he wants, he just has to be comfortable."
"Comfortable?" Heero and Rachael asked.
"Uh...yeah." I picked up the emptied plates and put them in the dishwasher.
"I've never been to an arcade..." Heero said aloud as I came and sat back down at the table.
"Uncle Heero, there are so many things that you have never done...why?"
Heero glanced in me as if asking for some sort of guidance, "Um..."
I decided to help him out, "Your Uncle Heero hasn't done so many things because he simply didn't have a chance. But now that he's with us, he does. His interchild has been locked up forever and it's up to us to release the kiddie Heero." I said.
"Release the kiddie Heero?" the messy haired boy and pig-tailed girl asked in unison.
"Yep."
Heero smirked.
"I'll keep that in mind."
I smiled back.
I'd say that breakfast went smoothly. Heero agreed to go to the arcade in the afternoon, so he could get up and goin' again. Poor Heero. Before we knew it, 1 PM came, and we were off to the arcade.
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The arcade was both hi-tech and old fashion. The games were all new, but instead of using cards as a source of money, they still used old tokens. Guess they spent all their money on the games. At the front desk, Heero and I were asked to sign papers saying that we were older than sixteen for some new game just imported. I had heard of it before, sounded alright. I didn't know if we were going to play the game, but hey. Better safe than sorry, right? I convinced Heero that nothing would happen if he signed the papers so did and we were allowed admittance into the arcade.
It was huge.
No exaggeration. There was so many things to do. Games, games, and more games. I knew that the arcade was going to be big, but I didn't expect this. Hell, it was so gigantic, there was even a 'play place' like at McDonald's just...zoomed it about a hundred times. Okay, that was exaggeration, but it was huge. I guess this arcade is for everyone all ages. Though I did find it odd that they had a play place here. It was the last thing I would expect to be here. Really.
Heero's eyes grew wide, yeah, it was obvious that he had never been to thi arcade. I was pretty surprised at the massive tilt. I could only wonder why they would make an arcade so big. It was like an under age casino without the alchohol and slot machines. Wait, I take that back, I can see the slot machines from here. I looked at Rachael's expression. I pushed her mouth closed on a count that it was wide open. Her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"I want to do this one!" Rachael ran over to the skiball game as soon as we entered and was over most of her shock. She placed a token in the slot. 10 balls rolled down inviting her to take them. Rachael tossed one up the isle provided and hit the 1000 ring. Next she got 2000, a foul, and 5000. "Uncle Heero, can you get a 10000 for me?" Rachael asked holding a ball out for him.
Heero accepted the ball, but not without a complete inspection, "What do I do with it?"
I pointed to the little 10000 ring in the top left corner, "You try to get the ball in that little ring."
Heero bounced the hard ball from one hand to the other. He frowned, "But the weight of the ball is going to affect the outcome of the result from the toss. It's rigged."
"Hee-chan, there probably all rigged."
"Hn." Heero grunted, but nevertheless rolled the ball. The brown ball bounced off of the slant of the wire grid and fell into the 10000 point ring.
Will someone explain to me how he does things like that?
Seriously. I know that his past training did not require 'how to win at rigged arcade games'.
"Wow! How did you do that???" Rachael asked, "Nevermind, just do it again!"
Heero took another ball and repeated his earlier action. Another 10000 points were added to the score board, and another, and another, and another, and another, and then there were no more balls to roll. 15 tickets came out as an award. That's pretty good for skiball. Hell, the most I ever got was six.
Heero jumped, "What are those things?" he asked as rectangular strip of paper was exported from the game.
"They're tickets. You play the games and see how many tickets you can get, then you cash them in and get a prize over there." I filled in pointing to the counter filled with plush and many other cheap, breakable, yet fun and handy knick-knacks.
"Oh." Heero folded the tickets and handed them to me.
I guess I have the honor of keeping track of everything.
"Let's do this one!" Rachael pointed to spider stomping game and pulled Heero up on it with her. She put two tokens into the slot.
"Are you ready? GO!" said the 'queen spider'.
A red light lit up beneath Heero's foot and he jumped off the platform right into me, "What happened?"
I nudged him back on the spider infested scenario, "Step on it Heero!" Heero stepped on the light.
SQUISH
Another lit up and Heero stomped on it.
CRUNCH
Rachael jumped on two lights at the same time.
"Gross Rachael." I laughed.
When the game was over, the two received 10 tickets. Guess who got to keep track of them...
That's right, me.
Eh, at least they're having fun.
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Twenty games and over 600 tickets, yeah Heero was gettin' good at this stuff, later...
"Uncle Duo? Can I do some games by myself?" Rachael asked.
"Are you trying to ditch us?" I said.
"No! I wanna try some stuff with the other kids!" she replied.
I scanned the mildly crowded arcade. Seemed like nice people, mostly children and some teens. Looked safe, but...that's why I hesitated. "I guess so. But don't exit the arcade without consulting us, and stay out of trouble. Find us if you need anything."
"Hai!" I gave Rachael more tokens, but not enough to stay away for about 10 to 15 minutes just because I wanted her to check back with us to make sure nothing had happened to her during her away time. Me over-protective? Nah!
Rachael ran off on her merry way, in other words, she ditched us.
"Heero, I KNOW there are some games here you're just alittle interested in." I said to my Japanese friend.
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh come on, I saw you eyein' that racing game."
"............." Heero gave me a half smile and grabbed my arm, ".....since you suggested it..." Followed by the grab, he pulled me to the game of his choice.
Heero sat in the first player driver seat, and I was in the second. The game was one that was just released, Intensity is what it was called. It was suppose to be the most realistic racing game throughout Earth and the colonies. I was pretty impressed. The seats actually had a harness to prevent you from flying out of the chair and smashing your head on the screen. Why would it do that? Oh yeah, I recall this thing imitated vibrations of the obstacles being run over and run into like a real car. You even had to be sixteen and older to play the game. At the front desk Heero and I had taken care of that. We were even required to wear helmets.That shouldn't be a problem, Gundams were way more dangerous. There were warnings all over the machine concerning health and injury complications.
I read the brightest, biggest warning posted, "Do NOT ride if pregnant." it said. I scanned Heero top to bottom.
"Nani?" he asked.
I placed my hand on his stomach causing him cock an eyebrow, "Hm, I guess we can do this since you're not pregnant..." I joked. He rolled his eyes as I pat his thin abdomen.
"Baka."
Heero started the game choosing a midnight blue sports car and I picked a black convertable much like the one I already had.
Hey, I liked it.
BleepBleepBleep
BING
A half-naked girl in a bikini waved the checkered flag.
Thus, the race began.
Heero was already infront of me speeding ahead, he managed to cause a collision right infront of me, I surved around it leaving skit marks behind. Heero was already a quater of a mile ahead of me. Little sneak.
At the third check point I was still behind, I found a nice little shortcut that Heero had missed.
I jumped out of nowhere right infront of Heero and slammed the breaks.
A familiar jolt of vibration jerked my body when I halted, one that I hadn't felt in a long time, it was minor, but it was a jolt I had often felt when I was in the cockpit of Deathscythe and been hit by a missile.
"Ahh!" Heero cried. He was thrown forward and had no clue what just happened. I saw Heero hit his head on the screen. Thank God for the helmet, I didn't want to spend the rest of the day in the emergency room.
Our cars were a mess and my engine died. The front of Heero's car was crushed, and the blue car's rear was demolished. At least I stopped him.
"Hee-chan are you okay?"
A continuation sign popped up with twenty seconds remaining.
20...19...18...17...16...15...
Head down Heero laughed one of his freaky psycho laughs, I nearly cringed at the cruel sound, "...That was a good move," he looked at me and gave me an evil grin, "Finish the race Duo."
"Yes sir." I insert more tokens and we picked up where we left off with brand new cars. Heero stomped on his pedal full speed as soon as we were granted permission to start. "Ugh...that's so uncool" I grunted then took off after him.
Ten minutes. *TEN* minutes we were virtually chasing each other, dodging cars and collisions we had caused for each other using jerks, bumps, and mild crashing vibrations. It was hard to say who was winning since we were both pulling ahead and getting behind at the same time.
The finish line was only miles away, Heero surved into me, I saw it comin', I put my breaks on as he was about to hit me.
"K'so!" Heero cursed. Wow, he was really into it.
I was in the lead, but not for long Heero suddenly appeared next to me. The checkered banner was just ahead, I could even read the letters 'finish'. Heero and I had the same idea at the same time. We both ran into each other. Grinding, we passed the finish line simultaniously.
Flashing in big, bright, blinking, red letters were our places.
TIE!!!
"Shimatta!" we shouted in unison. We took our helmets off and surprised when we saw that we were sweating.
GAME OVER
It's not fair! I SO had him!
Heero and I stumbled out of the racing game.
"Good game, ne?"
"Hai," Heero replied, "You're a good opponent."
I smiled, "Eh, I try."
Heero smirked back.
I saw something on the right side of Heero's face. "Oi Heero, turn your head to the left."
Heero cocked an eyebrow. I pushed his face to the left side, "Itai..." Heero reacted.
"Gomen, gomen." I tilted his head to the light. What I saw was a light bluish-purplish mark. Just as I suspected, Heero's cheek was slightly bruised, "Nah, Hee-chan you got a bruise on your cheek from that game."
"Nani?"
"Yeah, I didn't see it earlier..." I brushed my fingers over it.
"Duo..." Heero hissed.
"Gomen. What do you want to do now, Hee-chan?" I asked still holding his chin.
"...what can we do?"
I smiled, "Anything."
"Anything...?"
Heero gave me another--do I dare say...naughty smirk? He stood with his hands behind his back and slightly rocked forward and backwards on his heels. The Japanese boy avoided eye-contact with me.
"Well...there *was* something else that I saw, but......" Heero's voice faded and he released the tiny shy smile that had crept behind his lips. He looked up at me mischievously with piercing blue eyes. Mischievously?
Masaka!
Heero was *NOT* mischievous!
Was he?
"What's going on in that little mind of yours?" I asked giving him a sideways glance.
"Why would you think that?" Heero replied innocently.
"I don't know, what do you think?"
Heero shrugged.
"You were going to say something?" I reminded.
The boy nodded, "But I'm not sure if you'll agree."
Not agree to do something with Heero?
Never!
"Try me."
"Promise?"
I nodded, "Whatever you want..."
"Okay..." Heero leaned in close to my ear and whispered, "I want you...--" his warm breath was on my ear, "I want you to go to the play place with me..."
That was it?
Heero wanted to go to the play place?
"Play place?"
Heero pulled away and nodded.
"Duo Maxwell does not do play places!"
Heero pouted, "But you promised..."
And he knew this was going to happen how......?
"Alright, alright. We'll go to the play place."
Heero smiled a tiny smile, "Arigato."
I can't believe Heero, of all people, wants to go to a play place. They were for kids!
Suddenly Rachael run up to us, "There you are! I've been looking all over the arcade to find you two!" Rachael handed me more tickets.
"Gomen, we were playing a game." I threw a thumb at the machine.
"Intensity? Wow, that's suppose to be really good. Who won?"
"No one."
"No one?"
"We tied."
Rachael whistled, "Uncle Duo, I need more tokens."
I reached into my pants and pulled out pocket lint. "Anou...these aren't tokens..."
"Baka."
I pulled out Quatre's card from my other pocket, "Should we?" I asked holding the card in front of Heero. He only shrugged. "Okay, you've convinced me." I went over the an ATM machine and received twenty dollars. Actually, I haven't really used Quat's card that much. I thought that a girl would be really expesive, but she isn't as costly as I thought. I cashed the twenty in an gave Rachael three dollars of it, "Find us when you finish." Rachael smiled and went off to play more games.
Then Heero and I were off to the play place.
~!~!~!~!~
We arrived at the play place about three minutes later. It was on the other side of the arcade, and was also vacant. How lucky was that? Well, I guess since it was still relatively earily to be in an acrade, the kids who would normally play in one of these, hasn't spend all of their money yet. Come on. An empty play place just waiting for someone to play on it. Like us. I grinned. The plastic structure consisted of sturdy blue, green, yellow, and red tubes which twisted and intervened with each other not to mention the many slides serving as exits. Oh, and my grin was stretched from ear to ear as my eyes laid upon the square ball pit. Fun. In front of that was a large sign.
"No shoes." I read from the oversized yellow sign.
"No shoes?" Heero repeated.
"No shoes." I shrugged and pulled off my foot apparel.
"What are you doing?"
"No shoes." I replied from the floor then tugged at Heero's sneakers, and for once they weren't the ugly yet uniquely adorable yellow ones. Heero sat down next to me and began untying his shoes. After that was done with, Heero and I stood there waiting for something. I don't know what. I suppose I would have to start something up. Another grinned played on my face. I tapped Heero on his shoulder.
"Nani?" the ex-Perfect Soldier asked.
"You're it!" I said then ran off to the nearest tube entrance.
"Duo!" Heero shouted but nonetheless trailed behind.
~!~!~!~!~
I crawled through the tubes trying to escaped Heero, he was right behind me. I know he's fast, especially when it comes to crawling. I'm sure that was a basic skill he was required to know. I'm surprised he hasn't caught me yet. I turned around and he ran right into me and lost his balance. He fell, if you could *really* fall in a plastic tube, and landed on that cute ass of his. He glared.
"Oops...I guess I'm it now." I said.
"Baka."
"That's me. I'll give you ten seconds to get out of my sight before you're it again."
"I don't need your time."
"I know. It's for my benefit."
Heero cocked and eyebrow. "*Your* benefit?"
Crap, did I say that out loud???
I gave him in a shove in the other direction. He went down the tubes, and for ten glorious seconds, I got to stare at his ass. Bad, I know.
I couldn't help it!
He was there! And it's just so cute! How could I resist?
Anyway, I counted to ten very slowly.
"Ten." I said, he had taken the second slide which led to a chamber of four tunnels and one slide in the middle section of the play tubes. I turned in the opposite direction with a grin.
Four minutes later, I hid in the blue slide that branched off from the chamber. Th slide led to the ball pit. Fun.
Damn! Are my knees killin' me or what??? I thought to myself as I rubbed the offended knobs protruding from my legs. That's what I hate about these play places, if you crawl for a few minutes, your knees get so banged up! Itai...
thumpthumpthump
I ceased my knee-rubbing as I head the sound of crawling coming through the green next to me. I held my breath containing the laughter threatening to burst out. I could tell it was Heero by the muted 'thumps'. I put myself into ready position as I saw a long, slender, jean cladded leg emerge from the green tube. Then another. He walked in front of the blue slide not even noticing my presence which was rather strange. He looked to the left at the red tube, forward, backwards, and finally into the blue.
As soon as I saw his pretty face, I pulled him in by the waist, much like a trap-door spider did when they found their prey. In this case, I was the spider, and Heero was the prey. Mmm...I love Heero's. Heero and I slide backwards down the tube slide. Round and round we went on the curvy plastic structure, Heero in my arms the whole time. Of course I didn't catch my prey silently.
"Duo no baka!" Heero shouted.
"What did I do?" I asked.
"Omae o korosu!"
Suddenly, we were ejected from the slide and into the ball pit. The crumbling sound confirmed that as we plunged down into the balls. A moment later after Heero recalled what had just happened and why we were in a ball pit, he sat up and glared.
"Omae o korosu!" he said then threw a squeezable plastic ball at me.
I ducked, "Oi!"
Heero only replied by throwing another ball.
In the words of Bugs Bunny, 'as you see, this means war...'
I picked up a blue ball and threw it at Heero. He did the same, but with about ten balls instead. Oh...he wants to play does he? I threw a ball over at him and nailed the Japanese boy in the chest. Heero only grunted. Thus, the great kiddie ball pit war broke out.
Ten minutes had passed and we were still engaged in the battle. Heero launched an attack on me, I thought I could escape, but I only ran right into the trap.
Bop!
Heero hit me square in the nose. Ya know what? It kinda hurt for a plastic ball.
"Itai...!" I said involuntarily. I held my nose and crouched over pretending that I was seriously injured. "My nose!" I heard the crumpling of balls stop as I continued with my drama scene. "Heero! Heero! My nose!" I cried sinking to my knees.
"Duo?" Heero asked timidly.
"My nose!"
Heero made his way over to me, "Daijoubu Duo?"
"You hit my nose!" I said more dramatically as I fake-sulked in my fake misery. "My beautiful nose is destroyed!"
"Gomen nasai, Duo. Duo?"
"AAAHHHHHH!" I shrieked, "It hurts! Heero make it stop!" then I completely disappeared from Heero's sight as I was engulfed by the multicolored balls. I rolled around under the three dimensional circles to keep my location hidden.
"Duo!" Heero said frantically as he began searching for me under the hollow spheres.
Silence.
More silence.
More.
More.
More.
More.
More!
Suddenly, I surfaced from the balls as if I were a demon sea creature. I saw Heero jump and satisfaction seeped through my body. I grinned inwardly to myself.
"Heero Yuy of L1, you have offended the cartilage on my face! Suffer the consequences!" I said that promptly pounced on him. Heero gasped as I took him under the plastic balls.
"Duo!"
THUD
Heero landed on his back with me atop of him. I felt him struggle for a second, but then he relaxed. He looked up at me from under the balls.
"Gotcha Hee-chan."
"Duo?"
"Hm?"
"I can't breathe under here very well."
I frowned, "You can't?"
Heero shook his head, "No."
With an inward sigh, I removed myself from the comfortable position. Heheh, boy did I regret that, Heero sprang from the balls and pounced on *me*! I was pinned against the mesh net of the pit with Heero perched on my abdomen. The balls came up to my shoulders and Heero's hips. My head was leaning into the net as once again Heero was on me. Hm...I could get used to this. Yes, in fact, I would rather enjoy getting used to the Heero-on-my-stomach thing.
"What's this?" I asked Heero.
He replied with a smirk, "Gotcha..."
"Heero Yuy!"
How dare he mock me like that! And in such a cute way!
"Nani?" he asked.
I shook my head, "I can't believe you did that."
He's so cute.
"Was it wrong?" Heero asked innocently.
Wrong?! Wrong??? How could *this* be wrong! I shook my head again.
"Is...is your nose unharmed?"
Aw, how sweet, he cares about my nose!
"Well, you did hit it pretty hard with that plastic ball..." I hinted.
"Gomen nasai," Heero paused, "Do you want me to make it better?"
Woah, that was a brave step.
"Would you please?"
Heero nodded silently, he leaned forward so that he was hovering over my lucky nose. His breath wavered as he hesistated. He was so close. Heero pulled back which was rather disappointing. But it was reassuring when he dove back in more confidently. I kept my eyes on his lips the whole time. They looked to soft...and warm...and beautiful...and--
Shimatta, just do it Heero!
"Uncle Heero!"
The less-than-an-inch-away boy looked up causing him to pull back. Complete opposite of what was supposed to happen.
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!
Rachael has the worst timing EVER!!!
DDDDDDAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
"Uncle Heero, where's Uncle Duo?" I heard Rachael ask as I slid deeper into the balls. Ugh! Why did she have to come *NOW*? Anytime would have been great, but *NOW*!
Heero removed himself entirely from my stomach, "Right here."
Rachael looked at me and giggled, "Uncle Duo, what are you two doing in the ball pit?" she asked. Before I could answer, a tall, grouchy lookin' lady (that wasn't exactly skinny) in a uniform with the name tag that read 'Manager' towered over us from outside the mesh.
"Excuse me, sirs, but I believe you are much too big for this attraction." she said in a warning tone, "Would you please step out of the ball pit?"
I cocked an eyebrow. I opened my mouth to say something which was probably stupid like 'make me' or something, but I was stopped when Heero grabbed my hand and pulled me out.
"Thank you. Have a nice day." the lady said sweetly then left.
I glared at her back.
"Uncle Duo, I'm out of tokens!" Rachaels said tugging on my free arm. I sighed and pulled out a five. She took the money gleefully with a smile, "Arigato! Have fun Uncle Heero and Uncle Duo!"
Hey...wasn't that what the adult is suppose to say to the kid, not the other way around?
I watched as Rachael's back retreated into the kiddie games. Heero gently shook my arm for attention, "Yes, Hee-chan?"
"Can we do more games?"
I smiled, "Sure."
Okay, okay, I'm sure you know what I'm going to think next, right? Yeah, but I'll say it anyway.
He's so cute.
~!~!~!~!~
After running around the arcade, Heero decided that he wanted to try a jet-ski simulated game. It was one of that older games that I had already played before, but whatever made Heero happy. Heero straddled himself in the front of the jet-ski. I offered to show him how to play, he agreed and I positioned myself in the back, yes I know it sounds bad. Believe me, it was arduous to sit behind him when he was right there nearly in my lap. It was arduous indeed.
Does that make sense?
I instucted Heero on the first round placing my hands on top of his until he got the hang of it which didn't take too long. Then once he got it, I sat back and tried to relax as the artifical bumps caused Heero to scoot backwards right against me. But I think I brought it on myself when I wrapped my arms around his waist only provoking the problem. I didn't know that arcade games could get so arousing. Kinky.
Dammit.
But 'dammit' in a good way, I assure you.
Heero rode around zigzagging through floaties and completing all of the obstacle courses without a problem. I could feel his stomach tense, flex, and loosen as I rotated my thumbs in small circles while I was sitting behind him. I didn't do it on purpose! It just happened! He was there! Yeah, well that only made him want to lean back even more. Thank God he threw his attention back at the game. When he was convinced that the game couldn't satisfy his action packed needs anymore, we moved on to pinball.
Pinball wasn't very laborious at all. I only gave him two tokens and he managed to keep the same ball out the whole time even if he had about ten or more extra ones.
Pinball bored Heero very quickly. After the second ball, he just let all of the other extras slide pass the paddles.
In the end, Heero's score didn't even fit the high score message board.
Instead, it flashed 'ERROR'.
~!~!~!~!~
Rachael came and took five more dollars and left. Heero had seen all the games that he wanted. I pulled him over to the snack bar to get a little something to eat and a drink. I chose to sit on a corner booth, the ones where the seat semi-circled the table, of course so I could be closer to Heero, why else?
"Lessee..." I slurred while reading the thin red letters of the menu hanging over the front counter, "What would you like?"
Heero shrugged.
"Ever had a funnel cake?"
Heero shook his head.
"An ICEE?"
Heero shook his head again.
"You like strawberry, right?"
Heero nodded.
"Sugoi!" I went up to the cash register and ordered a large funnel cake and two large ICEEs, one strawberry, one white cherry. I came back to the table with the snacks.
Heero looked at the funnel cake oddly, "It looks like a thick fish net."
I chuckled, "Don't worry, it isn't." I pulled off a little piece and handed it to Heero. He examined the baked dough the same way he examined everything else that was new.
Heero sniffed it and sneezed.
"Yeah, did I mention that there's powder sugar on it?" Heero glared and tasted the funnel cake, "What do you think?" I asked as Heero took more off the plate.
"Hn."
I chuckled and took some off for myself, "That's what I thought." I pushed Heero's ICEE infront of him, "Try this now."
Heero speculated the cup and took a long sip, too long if you wanted my opinion. Heero made a face, "Doowo, it's cowddd!" Heero said with a mouthful of ICEE. He swallowed it quickly and held his head. "Itai..."
"Brain-freeze, I guess I should have told you sooner, ne?"
Heero glared again, "Brain...freeze?"
"Aa. Happens all the time."
"Hn."
Heero's brain-freeze subsided, and from then on he took small sips. Every now and then, Heero took pieces of the funnel cake and sipped his ICEE. I take it he liked them enough to at least finish the rest.
The Asian was finished with his ICEE before I was even half way through with mine. He watched me sip the cherry, "Wanna taste?" I offered handing his the cup. Heero smelt it which was funny to me. "It's white cherry Hee-chan."
Heero took a small sip.
"What do you think?"
"Hn."
"Okay, since you like it so much, I see no harm in letting you have the rest."
"Honto, ni?"
"Honto, ni." I replied. Heero looked at the ICEE then a me, "Heero, I'm giving you the rest of my ICEE, not a kid. Finish it up for me." Heero began sucking on the straw. I crossed my legs as my pants became a tad too tight for my taste. Heero does these type of things to me, and didn't even know it...
I wrapped an arm around Heero as he leaned on my shoulder still drinking the ICEE. Moments later Heero had fallen asleep. He still must be alittle tired from yesterday. He's become much more relaxed lately, I guess he really is comfortable now. I pulled the ICEE from his hands and placed it on the table.
He's so cute.
~!~!~!~!~
About fifteen minutes later, I heard a child shout, "My uncles could whoop you so badly at Laser Tag!"
"Whatever! I bet they're losers just like you." a boy said. I turned and looked over the edge of the booth. I saw Rachael with two other girls and a group of six older boys (I'm guessing ages between nine and ten), arguing with her. The two girls were behind Rachael glaring at the boy.
I shook Heero, "Hee-chan," Heero slowly opened his eyes, "Heero look at this..." I pointed to the kids. Heero raised his head to see what was going on.
"You just wait!" one of the girls interjected, "They can too!"
This kid was standing up for us, and I had never seen her before.
"Your uncles can't beat us!" the biggest boy pushed Rachael.
Yeah, that got Heero awake, "He just pushed her Duo!"
"I know, wanna go kill some punk ass ten year olds at Laser Tag?"
"Hai." I slid out of the booth pulling Heero, he grabbed the ICEE on his way out, "Matteo, Duo."
"Nani?"
"Anou...what's Laser Tag?"
Heero didn't know what laser tag was.
"Just pretend that the boys are OZ and you're trying to hit as many as you can. There's a power base that you shoot at, pretend it's an enemy control base you need to blow up."
"Nimnu ryokai."
~!~!~!~!~
"Rachael, is there a problem?" I asked.
"Uncle Duo, tell them that you can beat them at Laser Tag." Rachael pointed to the boys glaring.
I looked at the boys, "I can beat you at Laser Tag." I said calmly.
"Nuh-uh!"
"Wanna bet?" Rachael asked.
"Yeah, whoever loses gives the winners twenty tokens!" the leader said.
"You're on!" Rachael shook his hand.
This was going to be fun.
~!~!~!~!~
Heero, Rachael, two girls behind, six other boys, and I entered a dark room lit with a black light. Wow, did my white shirt stand out or what? The other kids were trying to dust lint off of their colored shirts, it was funny. Even Heero tried.
"Hee-chan, you won't be able to get that lint off." I said as the Japanese boy brushed at his shirt over and over again.
"Hn." he grunted, other than that he didn't reply.
"Heero," I caught his thin wrist to cease his brushing. He looked up at me with questioning eyes. Questioning eyes that told his soft lips to release a snicker. I frowned, "What?"
Heero couldn't contain his chuckles. He looked down and calmed himself, but as soon as he looked up, he began to snicker again. I cocked an eyebrow.
"Hee-chan? What's so funny?"
Heero stopped snickering, "Your eyes...!"
"What about my eyes?"
"They're white now."
My eyes were white now? Oh! Yeah, from the light.
"What's so funny about that?"
Heero drew in a breath, "Nothing."
"What?" I asked in confusion.
Before Heero could answer, a teenager about a year or two younger than Heero and me entered the room and directed our attention to a screen in the left hand corner of the room. We watched a short video explaining the rules and what to do. The girls plus Heero and I were on the green team and the boys were on the red. Heero picked up harness 01, and I got the standard 02. Rachael's friend got 03, Rachael was 04, and the other girl was 05. Funny, 03 was extremely quiet, and 05 was a justice raging Asian who stood up for us when those other kids were bothering Rach.
"Like your number, Heero?"
"Like YOUR number, Duo?"
I smiled, "Oh yeah."
Pilots 01 and 02 are back in action!
............too bad our opponents were little boys.
"Uncle Duo, I don't know if *I* can beat those boys..." Rachael whispered to me. I leaned down to her height.
"Sure you can. Pretend you're a Gundam pilot on a top secret mission."
Rachael smiled, "That I can do!"
We entered the room and loaded up.
"Let the Laser Tag begin." a voice said from the speakers as techno music filled our ears.
Heero was right next to me as a deluge of lasers came towards us. We ducked and took cover behind a rectangular pillar.
"Just like old times, ne Hee-chan?"
"Hai, just like old times."
Heero and I shot all the boys at least 30 times, and they didn't even hit us once. The boys finally retreated.
"I'll go for the power base, Duo, you see the other side." Heero commanded, I nodded and he went for the power base.
I walked around to the other end of the small arena and saw where all the action was. So, the boys were picking on the girls, huh? I reloaded and quietly walked behind them and shot all of them in the back more than 15 times.
"Ahh!" the boys turned around to shoot me, but I took cover behind another pillar. I saw Heero just casually standing shooting the power base. He yawned.
"Havin' fun Hee-chan?" I called over to him.
Heero sat down on the floor and yawned again.
He's so cute.
"There he is!" a boy yelled, they began shooting at me, I tried to shoot back.
"Uh-oh, out of ammo." I dodged all of the boys shots and flipped over to reload my laser gun. I looked at the screen that showed the status of everyone. Heero had the top score with over 90000, not far behind was me, then Rachael and her friends. I checked on the Red team's status, their points were pretty low, they were still in the one thousands.
"Uncle Duo!"
I ran over to Rachael, "Nani?"
"Help me!"
I shot all of the boys that were shooting Rachael as she ran back to reload and restore her life. Heero came up behind me, "Their battle tactics are the worst I've ever seen."
"Really?" I asked sarcatically.
"They have absolutely no defensive line."
"What did you expect?" Heero shrugged, "Go help Rachael and the girls." I ran to the power base and shot the hell out of it. I can see why Heero yawned. He was right, the boys had no defense.
~!~!~!~!~
Twenty minutes later, the green team had earned their victory. The boys handed the three girls twenty tokens, where they got them, I have no clue. Heero and I didn't accept our share. Rachael's friends went off to spend their earnings and the boys diffused into the crowd, except for one who decided to follow Rachael around.
It was about 5 PM when Rachael ran up to us and clang to Heero's legs, "Tell him to leave me alone!"
"Tell who what?" I asked.
"That boy!" Heero and I looked at the person Rachael was referring to, it was one of the boys we had played laser tag against, more specifically the leader kid, "He won't stop following me, and he gave me all these tickets! I didn't even ask for them!"
The boy walked up to Rachael, "My mom says that I have to leave now."
"Good for you." Rachael said sourly.
The boy leaned over and kissed Rachael on the cheek. She froze, "Sayonara." As soon as the boy was out of sight...
"AAAHHHH!!!" Rachael screeched and rubbed her cheek until it was red, "Getitoffgetitoffgetitoff!!!"
"Rachael, what's wrong, aren't you flattered?" I asked.
"NO!"
Heero smirked.
"Don't you like boys?"
Rachael started crying and fell to her knees, "Yeah, but...that was my first kiss and it was HORRIBLE!!!"
I nudged Heero to do something, Heero picked Rachael up in his arms, "Stop crying Rachael..." Heero said.
"But it was DISGUSTING!"
I couldn't help but chuckle.
"There's nothing funny about this!" the girl spat and clang to Heero.
"Gomen." if I couldn't laugh out loud, I would do it inside.
Rachael finally stopped crying when we bought her some sweets.
We were down to our last three tokens. We agreed not to spend it on anything that gave tickets out since Rachael had already used the hers to get many prizes. The only thing we could think of was Air Hockey.
Heero started the game. The game's pace was extremely fast, Rachael had trouble watching. The puck would fly across the table as I slammed it to the other end. I blocked about one hundred times before Heero scored one on me. Ditto for him.
~!~!~!~!~
The score was 6 to 6. Heero had possession of the flat plastic puck. I was ready, there was no way I was going to lose. I even had a certain strategic way to hit the object so it went in smoothly. Not to mention the slight advantage I had over the Japanese boy.
I could feel the intensity boil within my veins. Heero Yuy wasn't going to win this one...
This was going to be easy...I tighten my grip on the the tool I was using for offense and defense. I saw Heero place the puck on the air-breezing table.
"C'mon Heero, I'm ready for ya anytime..." I said challenging him.
Rachael tugged on my pant leg, "Uncle Duo?"
I looked down and loosened my hold on that thing that was in my hand, "Nan--"
CLINK
I turned my attention to the slot where the puck was deposited. I looked at the scoreboard.
7 to 6...
............I lost.
I glared at Heero and lunged at him, "That was a dirty trick Heero Yuy!" We playfully wrestled with each other, "That was suppose to be my victory!"
I straddled Heero underneath me sitting on his lower abdomen, I mean REALLY lower abdomen, "You said that you were ready anytime..." Heero said calmly in his slightly nasally voice. He smiled up at me, something told me I was going to see that smile much more often.
My glare disappeared when he launched his smile attack, "I did say that didn't I?" Heero nodded. "Ugh! I'm such a baka!"
"I know."
Heero tried to get up raising himself between my parted legs. I felt him lift himself against me, I swear with the way he was moving he was grinding. As soon as I felt the slightest tighness, I quickly stood up.
Heero blushed, "Gomen nasai..."
"No you're not..." I said quietly which only caused the redness of Heero's cute cheeks darken. I smiled, so he was grinding...I leaned down towards Heero and he came up, I knew we woul meet somewhere in the middle. Closer, clos--
"Uncle Heero, I'm hungry."
Shimatta, I forgot all about Rachael for a second.
Heero and I turned heads. I pulled Heero up and we went home to the safehouse.
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Dinner was as good as usual, Rachael stayed up showing her completed models to Heero and me. Heero tucked her in this time, then we watched the Korean series and went to bed. Pretty slow if you asked me. Eh, I enjoyed every minute of it though.
I thought over the day before I fell asleep as I did every night. The way Heero acted towards me, he never acted like that to or around anyone. Then again, I knew that he liked me from the start...
I looked down at the sleeping figure holding a teddy bear, we both knew that Heero Yuy was already mine. Mind and soul. All I needed was the body, I hadn't done anything with the boy. I had won him over long ago, I just never made it official or anything. From the past week he's been so much more human from the Heero that everyone knows him as. He was plenty broken in mentally, but physically was a different story. And it starts with the little steps.
All I have to do is kiss him, then Heero will be mine forever...
But do I have the nerve to claim a beauty like him?
Am I deserving enough?
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TBC?
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Wah! You managed to make it down here...again! It was so long, I was afraid that you might have gotten lost in the words. I hope you liked this chapter. Sorry for the delay of this part minna-san, I had so much homework and other stuff that just wouldn't give me some leeway to get this done and posted -_-; Hopefully I can get the next chapter in sooner.
About the 'play place' thing, I couldn't help but put that it. I know you probably wouldn't find one at an arcade, but what the Hee-chan, this is fiction! Yeah, my cousin protested with the idea.
Again, hope you liked it!
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Arigato minna-san!:
diane: You're welcome for the long chps. Just trying to give everyone a fic that they'll enjoy, ya know? Well, thank you!; Aurenne: Yeah, don't you just love a sensitive Hee-chan?; moonbunny317: More to come! Thank you for your review, not only in this fic, but all the other ones too!; Elle-FaTe2x1: They'll hook up eventually, but I want to have more fun with them! Oh, I visited your webpage by the way and I have to say that I *love* that pic on the warning page. It's so fun.; Sakura Yuy: Thanks for signing the petition, every signature counts. Hey, now you have to update your fic! Onegai?; Stoic-Hyper: Stoic...hyper...I like that name. Oh, I don't know, Rachael can be--well...*there*; Rei: I agree, kids can be a pain, if I write a sequel, Duo and Heero will be sure figure that out...the hard way. That is if I write one, I'm still unsure.; Shaman Flamingo: Thank you, I know what you mean about the rushing thing and I'm trying not to do that, tell me if I start though. That's the last thing I want to do -_-; Yume Maxwell-Yuy: Hey Yume, I really appreciate you reviewing my fics, it means alot. Thank you ^_^.; Sugar Goose: Ack, homework is killin' me too. Thank you for the flowers and cake, the slice was very good bye the way.; shinigami angel: Breathe! Please! Daijoubu? I hope you didn't pass out, I'm sorry it took so long to get this part in. *fans angel*; LB: *whistles innocently* Hey, tell me something, are you going to add more to that 'Duo's New Pet' fic?; rosa: I'm glad you liked it, let's hope it stays that way, ne?; saya: Very happy, thanks cuz. Watashi wa benza desu yo! j/k. C'ya.
Thanks again! Ja ne!