Ice: You all are so lucky. What is this, three chapters uploaded at one time?

Blazer: The only reason this is happening is because she hasn't been able to get a chance to upload them until now, so, don't get used to this happening all the time.

Ice: Yeah. My Internet access has been down for a while because of a snow storm, but my word processor hasn't been down ^-^.

Blazer: Any way.

            G-Wing- Don't own.

            2x1, 3x4, yaoi

            Yes, we swear it is 2x1, even at points it seems 1x2. We swear, we swear!

Ice: I think they get the point  0.o

'thinking'

"talking"

            The next morning, Duo awoke at least a half an hour before the alarm went off, making him the first one up in the dorm. He decided to use this to his advantage and go get a shower, since he hadn't the night before hand.

            Walking into the bathroom and shutting and locking the door, he commenced to turn on the water, letting it start to warm up, then shrugged out of his clothes with a yawn, laying them on the sink counter. He then unbraided his hair, letting the long chestnut locks run down his back, and stepped into the water. He was instantly wide-awake. The water was still cold.

            "God damn it," he muttered to himself then took a closer look at the handles for the water and sighed. He had turned on the cold water, not the hot. "It figures."

            While shivering in the freezing water, he went ahead and turned the hot water handle on, basking in the warmth when it finally did become at least luke warm, standing there until he was satisfied with the temperature. He then realized something else. In his still half asleep state, he forgot to bring his shampoo in with him, however, he noticed Quatre had left his in the shower the night before, so he made do with that.

            "Thank god that boy can be absent minded sometimes," he sighed out, lathering up the soap in his hair, treating it like it was some fragile artifact that could be broken if one wasn't careful. "Either that or he knew I would be absent minded this morning. One of the two. After all, it wouldn't be the first time."

            Duo continued to talk to himself as he scrubbed at his hair, then washed it out, and even kept talking as he washed the rest of himself. It was a bad habit he had, if there was no one else around to talk to, he would just keep talking to no one, just to hear some noise.

            "Wonder what I'll have to do for my classes today. Hope it's nothing dull," he questioned to himself, about half leaning against the wall of the shower, playing with a strand of his wet hair. While he was pondering the question though, he decided his hair wasn't clean enough, so he got some more soap and started to wash it again.

            Now, by the time Duo finished and got out of the shower, turning the water off, it had been a good twenty minutes. He then wrapped a towel around himself and dried off and went about combing out his hair, which took about fifteen more minutes. He however didn't know how much time had passed, and so he didn't expect anyone else to be up. Keeping the towel around him, he gathered his old clothes and walked back into his room, literally running right into Heero as the older man was exiting the room.

            "Gomen, Heero. Didn't see ya there," the younger man said smiling, trying to hide his embarrassment.

            "Gomen, Duo," was all Heero said in reply, save for a slight yawn and a quick look over Duo. He was quite gorgeous with his hair down, but in reality, Heero was to tired to process what he was seeing.

            "You ok? You look like you didn't get any sleep last night."

            "That's because I didn't," the older one answered, then walked past Duo and out into one of the other rooms.

            'Ok, that was one weird encounter. He's probably still mad at me for last night,' Duo thought to himself, going over and pulling out a knew set of clothes and, making sure no one was around, he dropped his towel and slipped them on. He didn't feel like wearing anything fancy, just jeans and a t-shirt, a strange change from his normal black outfit. He then braided his hair and left the room, taking his things that he would need for his first class with him. He didn't feel like staying in the dorm, and since there was still time before his first class, he wanted to go out and draw something.

~oo00@00oo~

            Once he was out of the dorm, Duo went about trying to find a spot to stay in until it was time for class. However, nowhere seemed to please him.

            "For a campus so big, it's to small to find a place to be alone at," he muttered and decided he would just sit down under a nearby tree. "Now, for something to draw…"

            Looking around Duo found nothing of much interest, so he settled for something that wasn't so interesting. A group of girls standing further away from him that were all talking to each other.

            Taking out his sketch pad and a pencil, he started drawing lines and such for an outline of which to draw the bodies. His motions were sure and quick and it didn't take him long to move onto the next stage, which was filling in and adding more shape to the bodies. Once finished with that, he started adding detail and a background, all the while in deep concentration. He was in such deep concentration in fact, he never noticed the person looking over his shoulder.

            "You know, that's really good."

            Duo jumped a little and looked behind him to see a blond haired girl smiling, looking over his shoulder. He knew her. "Your Relena, aren't you?"

            "Oh, yes. My Heero must have told you all about me last night," she replied in an overly sugary voice.

            "Your Heero?"

            "Oh yes. We've been dating for awhile now."

            'Wait. He said he never had time for a relationship. Something is seriously wrong here,' Duo thought to himself as he looked over Relena. 'And Heero doesn't seem to be the type to just lie.'

            "So is this your first year here? It's my second. I love it here and all, I'm so glad I came, and then Heero showed up and it made it all the better…"

            The violet eyed man sighed and started to put his stuff away. He now knew why Heero had said he couldn't stand Relena at the party. She started talking and wouldn't shut up. Sure, Duo had found her annoying at the party when he was dozing, but now that he was fully awake, it seemed worse.

            "Oh, where are you going," Relena ask as Duo stood up and started to walk off.

            "I'm going onto class. Bye."

            "I'll come with you!"

            "No, no that's ok."

            "Really! We can talk more!"

            "No, I wouldn't want to make you walk all the way over to my class-"

            "Come on, we can really bond… hey!"

            Duo didn't hang around and took off in a run, however, this didn't stop Relena and she ended up chasing after him, yelling at him and all.

            'What have I done to deserve this!' 

~oo00@00oo~

            Running into his classroom and slamming the door shut, Duo slid to the ground panting. Relena had chased him no mater where he went, but he ended up losing her some where between the building where the gym was and the cafeteria building, giving him time to get away to his class.

            "My, my… Duo, right? Most of the students take their time getting here. May I help you with something?"

            "Crazy… girl… chasing… need water…" Duo worked out between gasps of breath, then looked up at his teacher, who was sitting at his desk. "Sorry Mr. Tekasca…"

            "It's alright Duo. And if you want some water, help yourself from the sink."

            Duo nodded and stood up off the floor and went over to one of the three sinks the art room had and turned it on, sticking his head under the tap and began to drink deeply until his thirst was quenched. He then stood awkwardly there, unsure of what to do. He was the first student there, and the only other person in the room was his teacher.

            "You can do what you'd like while waiting for the others to arrive. It will be awhile though," his teacher said suddenly as if reading Duo like a book.

            "O-ok," Duo answered, then decided to finish his drawing he had started outside.

            First he drew his sketch pad from his bag and opened it to the right page, then went to get some paints and other things. Once he had what he wanted gathered, he sat down at a desk and began to work. He remembered everything perfectly and with a steady hand he carefully added color to his drawing, the whole time, his teacher watched him. It was rather intriguing to watch Duo draw or paint. He just seemed to get so lost in what he was doing, and ever little thing was perfect, down to the last detail, in whatever he was doing.

            "When did you get so interested in art, Duo?"

            There was silence for a while until Duo washed his brush out and picked up a new color, dipping his brush into the liquid lightly.     

            "I was young, and my mother used to paint. She used to try and teach me, but I didn't want to learn. Then she died when I was six, and I swore on her grave that I would be the best artist in the world," was his answer, which was rather surprising. "It was the only thing she really wanted me to try, and so I promised that I would try, and be the best."

            "I'm sorry to hear that about your mother, but I believe from what I'm seeing that you've upheld your promise rather well."

            "Yeah, I guess. It took me till high school though, to really get into the whole art deal and actually start to study it. During middle school and grade school there really weren't any classes for it, so I had to teach my self and all. Pretty soon I had to have the classes, because I ran out of stuff to teach to myself."

            Mr. Tekasca nodded a little, then got up and walked over to Duo so he could see clearly what he was doing. What he saw was surprising. Some of the techniques Duo was using were some of the more advanced that an artist could use.

            "Duo, I don't think you should be in this class-"

            "What?! Oh, no! I have to stay in this class! I need the experience and all!"

            "No, no. I didn't mean that you should drop out of my art class, I meant that I think you should be moved to one of my higher skilled classes. From the look of things, if you stay in this class, you wont learn much."

            "Really?"

            "Yes, really. What do you think? I can have you moved if you would like."

            Duo thought about it for a while, then shrugged and nodded, a goofy grin on his lips. "Alright, I'm up for that. Thanks Mr. Tekasca."

            "Your welcome. You'll have to stay in this class until I can get your schedule changed, but it shouldn't take more then a few days to do so."

            "Alright. Man, this is so great," and with that, Duo fell silent and went back to his work, smiling brighter then one would think possible.

Ice: This one surprisingly didn't take that long to finish.

Blazer: Coffee… need… to stay… awake… ugh.

Ice: Oh dear. I think I've worked my muse a little to hard. Ah well. Heh, hope you all liked this chapter. I tried to make it a lot more comical then the others, since the last were all so not comical. And yes, there will be a lot more of the annoying Relena in future chapters. Poor Duo. Please review for me, if that's ok with you.