Hi everyone. All right here it is, chapter 6 with Heero getting involved. This is just the beginning. (Trust me!) Disclaimers go as usual.
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Introducing a New Setting...
It was an ordinary day as usual at the embassy with Relena working at her desk typing in lengthy reports on her computer. Quatre was somewhere off running around chasing staff members trying to collect various reports and documents for their database. On the other hand, Heero was doing his usual job, in which it was to watch over Relena. Most of the day, the monotone security guard would just watch her from his post by the doors, which lead into her room. The sound of keys being punched in on her computer was evident, but he didn't mind. He would just stand there endlessly watching her like a hawk and if anyone that wasn't clearly identified with some type of badge, he would begin to interrogate the person in question.
Relena then looked up from her pile of work and caught Heero off his guard, "What are you looking at Heero?"
He replied in his usual monotone voice, "Nothing. I was just monitoring the hallway." He wasn't truly looking at the hallway, but at Relena, herself.
"You sure about that. It doesn't seem like that?"
"Never mind."
"Anyhow. Remember at my staff party that was held a couple of days ago, in which I told you about Quatre's little flour war with a local baker around here."
"Yeah. What about it?"
"Quatre told me that he doesn't want to go be the one who picks up the bakery goods anymore and I need a new person."
"Are you suggesting that I be the one?"
She then gave him a guilty look, "Um...yes. I don't know who else would do the job for me?" She was fidgeting with a pen in her hand in hopes of passing the time when Heero was trying to make his decision. "If you can't, I'll understand."
Heero pondered the question in silence for about a minute before he gave his final answer. Thoughts of him getting floured in the process were running through his mind, and if anyone saw the Perfect Soldier getting floured, the snickering and the remarks from his colleagues would never fade away. One such comment came through his mind, "Hey look, there's the Perfect Soldier. I heard that he was floured in the process of picking up bakery goods for Ms. Peacecraft and when he came back, he was covered in white from head to toe. I thought that in military school, they teach you how to dodge objects such as bullets, but I guess not flour."
While Heero was busy with that thought, Relena walked over to him and gently placed her hand in his. "Heero, are you all right?"
With that said, he immediately snapped out from his trance and resumed his monotone speech, "I'm fine." He then straightened himself out. "I'll do the job for you."
She then fired another question at him, "Could you purchase a variety of doughnuts for the staff tomorrow as a breakfast meal, I think they would enjoy a change in the food around here since all the time, we seem to eat bagels and cream cheese. I'm mean not to say that bagels and cream cheese are bad. It's just getting a little to redundant."
"I'll do it."
"Thanks Heero, I knew I could count on you." She then smiled at him, which made his heart skip a beat, but he couldn't figure out why he was feeling this way at all.
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Back at the bakery, business was pretty much as usual with a trickle of customers here and there. At least, there wasn't any flour wars going between the two head bakers there, even though Duo was crossing a very thin line of patience from Wufei.
"Duo, how many times do I have to tell you that you have to grease the cookie sheets before you place the cookie dough on them. Otherwise, you're going to have a dozen cookies stuck to the cookie sheet." Right then Wufei was trying his luck in removing the twelve burnt cookies that Duo had already baked, but during the baking process some customer distracted Duo, and inadvertently he left them in a little too long in the oven.
"I give up with this cookie rack." A hint of fire in his eyes, he then grabbed a spatula nearby him and began a mad rush at Duo.
"Easy there, Wufei. You don't want to spoil any of your cake frostings with me in them."
"Why you?"
Duo tried to shield himself behind a chair as Wufei came closer to him. He then spoke behind the chair, "You don't want to start another flour war with me. Look what happened last time, we both ended up getting floured by Quatre. Remember? And besides you told me that we need to get our act together in order for this bakery to survive. Right?"
Wufei then calmed his nerves down a little and dropped the spatula on his workstation table. "You might have won the battle here, but you didn't win the war yet?" Afterwards, Wufei left their kitchen and headed towards the front of their bakery to attend some customers that had entered into the room during their small conflict.
Duo then mumbled to himself, "Phew that was close. I better back my bags and leave, before he really kills me or does something insane. I think he wants the insurance money for himself, the more I think about it now." He then lifted the cookie sheet that Wufei had dumped into the sink just a while ago and twirled it in the air like he was one of those pizza makers tossing the pizza dough into the air. After twirling the rack a couple of times, he somehow manage to have it stick to the ceiling without him noticing at first. "Where's the cookie sheet? I just had it in my hands just a minute ago." He scratched his head and pondered about the missing rack.
"And what are you doing, Maxwell?"
"What? You mean me?" pointing to himself.
"Of course I mean you, who else would I be talking to in this very kitchen."
"Nothing. I was just cleaning up the mess I made." With that, Duo forgot about the cookie rack that was still clinging to the ceiling, even though Wufei was standing underneath it throughout their entire conversation.
"I see that you've made a change in your habit at least and maybe for the better." He gave a questioningly look towards Duo and then left the kitchen again.
While outside in the main area of the bakery, Wufei was attending to customers again and he noticed one of them that Duo was familiar with, the girl with the blue cornflower eyes had showed up again for the second time this week.
"What do you want now?"
"Hi Wufei. Is Duo around? I hope you're not giving him a hard time unless you want to deal with one angry lady that standing right in front of you."
"He's in the kitchen. Just wait here and I'll get him for you."
"Thank you."
He immediately left and within a matter of moments, Duo popped out of the kitchen filled with smiles and perkiness, while as for Wufei he did another expression of 'Here we go again' scenarios. He then went to the far corner of the bakery and overheard their conversation, while he was pretending to wipe the counters with a rag in his hands. But actually to the customers, he looked like he was wringing the rag as if he was ready to choke someone.
"Hey there, babe. How's your day been?"
"I've had better. Today the office was filled with papers and deadlines of completing various forms and so forth. My boss accidentally forgot to send a memo to each of the workers about this merger we've been dealing with."
"That sounds like fun." Duo was giving her a sarcastic grin.
"So how's your day been?"
"Pretty much the same routine over and over again, even though we make new pastries practically everyday. Wufei over there has been hounding me." He then sneaked a little bag of flour in her hands during their conversation and winked at her.
"He has?"
"Yep. Pretty much, nagging me." He then let out a sigh.
"Well if that's the case, I'll show him a piece of my mind." Hilde then walked over to where Wufei was standing, "I've heard that you've been hounding, my Duo for these past couple of days."
Wufei then responded dryly, "So what?"
"So what? Is that all you can say to me, since I'm his girlfriend."
"I don't need to get involved in these little conversations. If you would kindly excuse me right now, I need to get back to my customers that are waiting for their orders to be taken."
"Before I let you go, this is what happens when you mess with my man." Right then a shower of flour rained on Wufei.
"What the ...?" realizing that some customers brought their children along, he decided to control his language. Wufei then coughed up flour from his surprised ambushed. He wondered to himself, "Of all the people, the one person that I wouldn't suspect, Hilde. Duo this means pay back time." He then looked over his shoulder to see where Hilde ran off to and noticed that Duo was snickering from his small victory. In a matter of minutes, he yelled on the top of his lungs and pointed his finger towards Duo, "Mark my words, Maxwell, you haven't won the war yet!" As he said that, customers were looking in shock and some even had their jaws drop and they immediately cleared away from one angry baker.
A boy who was about five tugged at his mother's coat and whispered, "Why is that man so angry? He's all white and covered with something." He looked curiously at Wufei, in which Wufei gave back a distorted grin at him. He then screamed on top of his lungs, "AAAHHH! MOMMY," and hid behind his mother.
"I think he's having a little temper tantrum, dear. Just stay away from him until he comes back to his senses." The child listened to his mother and clearly stayed away from Wufei while his mother was purchasing a foot long French bread roll and some glazed doughnuts. During the transaction, he kept his eye out for the renegade couple. He also noticed that the child was alarmed at his sight and he even offered the kid a cookie popsicle that had chocolate chips scattered throughout the cookie and with an ice cream stick holding it upright. With him holding the cookie popsicle in his right hand, the kid immediately hid behind his mother again, afraid that Wufei might do something scary. "Sorry about that, he's usually not that scared around people. Here honey, the baker is offering you something. Go ahead, don't be scared." She kindly ushered him to the counter, where Wufei was leaning over. The kid meekly took the treat from him and started to eat it. Within a few minutes, the kid was smiling again and thanked Wufei.
After everything had settled down again, most of the customers got their orders taken and immediately left. Once the room had emptied, Wufei headed straight towards the kitchen where Duo and Hilde were hiding supposedly. "Okay, I know you two are in here somewhere." In the background, there were sounds of laughter going on within the darken kitchen. He then began to open various closets that he thought could fit the two of them and when he was doing so, Duo and Hilde began to switch places around the kitchen to aggravate Wufei even more.
"You sure he won't mind, Duo." whispered Hilde. "I think he's going to erupt any second once he finds us."
"Don't worry, we always do something crazy in this bakery for some odd reason."
"Whatever you say."
"All right. I KNOW that the two of you are here somewhere." Right then he heard, one of the closet doors closed behind and he decided to pretend to slip out of the kitchen by opening and shutting the kitchen door abruptly. With that Duo decided to head out to check to see if everything was clear, but right then all hell broke lose within the kitchen. Wufei yanked Duo out of the closet and started to do their usual scenario of throwing pots and pans, while Hilde was emerging from her secret hiding place.
"QUIT IT YOU, TWO. You're making a mess of the kitchen. Don't the two of you ever stop acting like little children? I mean I've been here before and I haven't really seen any flour fights."
"Stay out of this WOMAN!" Wufei glared at her with an angry look.
"WHAT did you say to my girlfriend?" He then jumped at Wufei with a series of pastry bags filled with chocolate frosting.
Hilde stood off to the corner and looked onto the scene, "I knew I shouldn't have left the office so early today." Right then sugar crystals came at her and she immediately dodged them. "I guess it's time to play hide and seek."
The two continued to duke it out before they realized that they were acting kind of foolish, but to get their last laugh, the two aimed each other with their little ammunition of flour. At that point, Hilde knew to duck for cover because the flour battle was going to get a little messy. By the time the two fighting bakers came to a truce, the whole kitchen was engulfed in flour. While at the same time, Wufei was covered in chocolate frosting and flour that clung to him like glue. As for Duo, he managed to duck from Wufei's blitzkrieg of flour, but had strawberry filling all over his apron from a pan thrown by Wufei earlier in the fight. But this time, the two finally agreed that they were equals in this bakery battle for now.
Hilde emerged from her hiding spot, which was underneath the table, even though flour dusted her slightly on her back and shoulders, "I'm glad you two finally came to your senses about this whole issue."
"Sorry about that honey. We usually don't get out of hand like this. Oh well, it was fun. Well, look at the time, it's time to close down for the day."
With that the trio cleaned the bakery up until it sparkled. Duo then lead Hilde out the door and said, "I'll see you later, Wufei."
"Whatever." He was left to mop the floor. By the end, the bucket of water had turn into some form of paste. He then lifted the mop from the thick pale paste, "Violà this is what I get."
"That's interesting," replied a woman standing in the doorway of the kitchen with a bag of supplies.
"Hey, you. I wouldn't want you to fall right now with those supplies in your hands right now."
"Now, now, Wufei I can manage." After she placed the various bags of groceries on the table, she asked him, "Where you going off to right now?"
"I was thinking of heading home for the night."
"Oh come on Wufei don't be such party pooper. The night is still young."
"All right then and what do you suggest?"
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Back at the embassy, everyone had already closed up their offices for the night, but one room was still lighted. In there, Relena was making final adjustments to her file cabinet, while Heero was waiting outside to escort her back home. "You know, Heero you don't have to constantly watch me from that hallway because I know you're still there. I don't need the extra security even though I run this embassy."
"Whatever, I'm just doing my job."
Relena then popped out of the room, "I really appreciate that, but you don't have to follow me everywhere." She then went back in to close down her computer and lock the file cabinets. After making sure that everything was in order, she locked her room and as she was heading out through another set of doors, she bumped into Heero in a darken hallway. "Sorry about that. I didn't see you. You seem to always pop out of nowhere." He then placed his fingers on her lips to silence her, but she didn't mind.
The two stood there as if time just stood still for them. Each with their eyes gazed at one another. He wanted her, but he could never tell her the absolute truth. He eventually broke the silence, "C'mmon a car is waiting for you outside by the back gates." He then led her towards the back part of the embassy and right there, Trowa was waiting outside the car, while already in it, Quatre was waiting for them. "Okay, Trowa everything is secured." And with that, Trowa acknowledged and began the drive.
Inside the car, everyone was quiet for a while until Quatre spoke up, "So Heero, I heard that you are going to be the new 'runner' to pick up the bakery goods at Shinigami's and Chang's Bakery. Congratulations."
Heero just sat there quietly and stared ahead at the long dark road leading up to Relena's residence.
"Do you need any pointers?"
"I can manage the situation myself."
Sensing the tension in the car, Quatre managed to shift the subject, "All right, on to the next topic and lets see," right then Quatre pulled out his palm pilot and noticed that Relena's birthday was coming up, even though practically everyone in the car new about it. "So do you have any plans for your birthday, yet?" directing his question towards Relena.
Relena was somewhat paying attention to Quatre, even though she looked like she was deprived of sleep for the past ten hours and the incident with Heero was on her mind, "Not really. I just plan to have a normal day just like any day."
"You sure about that? I can ask the staff to host a party in your honor."
"I really don't want to trouble the staff with minor issues, honestly, Quatre. Thanks for the offer." Right then the black car pulled into the front of Relena's home and with that, Heero escorted her out and walked with her up to the front of her steps. "Thank you, Heero and good night."
He nodded in response and watched her enter into her house and after waiting for a couple of minutes to see if the scene was clear, he left and headed back towards the car, where the other two were waiting. Once Heero was back in the car, Trowa decided to drive Quatre back and on their way there, the two in the back seat had another conversation.
"Heero, I think we should have some type of surprise party for Relena. I mean after all, she's been in a pretty tough spot lately with securing peace agreements and forming relationships with various nations, she needs a break."
"Get to the point Quatre."
"All right, I'll be brief. I think you should go to the bakery and purchase a cake for her upcoming birthday. I think it would be a fantastic surprise for her."
Heero acknowledged his secret mission, which was coined, OPERATION SURPRISE. By that time, the car finally pulled up at Quatre's townhouse and with that, Trowa drove Heero home for the night. During the night, Heero pondered on the design of Relena's birthday cake even though he didn't know if he should have flowers decorating the surface of the cake or should he have sprinkles on it. All these thoughts surged throughout his mind as he tossed and turned in his bed. He began to mutter to himself, "How would I know on what designs I should plan on this cake?" And with that, he fell asleep for just a couple of hours. But with the light of the early dawn shining through his apartment window, he had to make his mind up and with that he did.
Within a matter of hours, Heero was up and running about, tossing his green tank top to the floor, while his shorts still remained and putting on a decent white shirt and neatly pressed pants on him. He already called Trowa to provide the transportation to the bakery and with that his fate was sealed. After waiting for about five minutes in the early morning, Trowa finally pulled up in the front lobby of his apartment complex.
"Good Morning. I see that your ready to battle with the two bakers, I assume."
"Just drive, Trowa. I don't need to delay any further." With that, Trowa began a slow drive towards the bakery and after turning onto several different streets and passing though endless rows of empty shops that were waiting to open for the day, the two finally pulled into the parking lot that held the bakery. "Here we are, Heero. Do you want me to come in with you, just in case anything goes wrong?"
"Just wait for me in this parking spot."
Trowa nodded in acknowledgement and with that, Heero closed the car door. As Heero was about to enter the bakery, Trowa murmured, "Another one bites the dust." He then saw Heero enter the bakery and dialed on his cell phone, "He's in all right. So who wants to make a bet?" ...
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Well, how was that for chapter 6? I hope you paid attention to one certain detail in this chapter that will come into play later on. I'll update soon, so stay tuned! ^_^
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Introducing a New Setting...
It was an ordinary day as usual at the embassy with Relena working at her desk typing in lengthy reports on her computer. Quatre was somewhere off running around chasing staff members trying to collect various reports and documents for their database. On the other hand, Heero was doing his usual job, in which it was to watch over Relena. Most of the day, the monotone security guard would just watch her from his post by the doors, which lead into her room. The sound of keys being punched in on her computer was evident, but he didn't mind. He would just stand there endlessly watching her like a hawk and if anyone that wasn't clearly identified with some type of badge, he would begin to interrogate the person in question.
Relena then looked up from her pile of work and caught Heero off his guard, "What are you looking at Heero?"
He replied in his usual monotone voice, "Nothing. I was just monitoring the hallway." He wasn't truly looking at the hallway, but at Relena, herself.
"You sure about that. It doesn't seem like that?"
"Never mind."
"Anyhow. Remember at my staff party that was held a couple of days ago, in which I told you about Quatre's little flour war with a local baker around here."
"Yeah. What about it?"
"Quatre told me that he doesn't want to go be the one who picks up the bakery goods anymore and I need a new person."
"Are you suggesting that I be the one?"
She then gave him a guilty look, "Um...yes. I don't know who else would do the job for me?" She was fidgeting with a pen in her hand in hopes of passing the time when Heero was trying to make his decision. "If you can't, I'll understand."
Heero pondered the question in silence for about a minute before he gave his final answer. Thoughts of him getting floured in the process were running through his mind, and if anyone saw the Perfect Soldier getting floured, the snickering and the remarks from his colleagues would never fade away. One such comment came through his mind, "Hey look, there's the Perfect Soldier. I heard that he was floured in the process of picking up bakery goods for Ms. Peacecraft and when he came back, he was covered in white from head to toe. I thought that in military school, they teach you how to dodge objects such as bullets, but I guess not flour."
While Heero was busy with that thought, Relena walked over to him and gently placed her hand in his. "Heero, are you all right?"
With that said, he immediately snapped out from his trance and resumed his monotone speech, "I'm fine." He then straightened himself out. "I'll do the job for you."
She then fired another question at him, "Could you purchase a variety of doughnuts for the staff tomorrow as a breakfast meal, I think they would enjoy a change in the food around here since all the time, we seem to eat bagels and cream cheese. I'm mean not to say that bagels and cream cheese are bad. It's just getting a little to redundant."
"I'll do it."
"Thanks Heero, I knew I could count on you." She then smiled at him, which made his heart skip a beat, but he couldn't figure out why he was feeling this way at all.
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Back at the bakery, business was pretty much as usual with a trickle of customers here and there. At least, there wasn't any flour wars going between the two head bakers there, even though Duo was crossing a very thin line of patience from Wufei.
"Duo, how many times do I have to tell you that you have to grease the cookie sheets before you place the cookie dough on them. Otherwise, you're going to have a dozen cookies stuck to the cookie sheet." Right then Wufei was trying his luck in removing the twelve burnt cookies that Duo had already baked, but during the baking process some customer distracted Duo, and inadvertently he left them in a little too long in the oven.
"I give up with this cookie rack." A hint of fire in his eyes, he then grabbed a spatula nearby him and began a mad rush at Duo.
"Easy there, Wufei. You don't want to spoil any of your cake frostings with me in them."
"Why you?"
Duo tried to shield himself behind a chair as Wufei came closer to him. He then spoke behind the chair, "You don't want to start another flour war with me. Look what happened last time, we both ended up getting floured by Quatre. Remember? And besides you told me that we need to get our act together in order for this bakery to survive. Right?"
Wufei then calmed his nerves down a little and dropped the spatula on his workstation table. "You might have won the battle here, but you didn't win the war yet?" Afterwards, Wufei left their kitchen and headed towards the front of their bakery to attend some customers that had entered into the room during their small conflict.
Duo then mumbled to himself, "Phew that was close. I better back my bags and leave, before he really kills me or does something insane. I think he wants the insurance money for himself, the more I think about it now." He then lifted the cookie sheet that Wufei had dumped into the sink just a while ago and twirled it in the air like he was one of those pizza makers tossing the pizza dough into the air. After twirling the rack a couple of times, he somehow manage to have it stick to the ceiling without him noticing at first. "Where's the cookie sheet? I just had it in my hands just a minute ago." He scratched his head and pondered about the missing rack.
"And what are you doing, Maxwell?"
"What? You mean me?" pointing to himself.
"Of course I mean you, who else would I be talking to in this very kitchen."
"Nothing. I was just cleaning up the mess I made." With that, Duo forgot about the cookie rack that was still clinging to the ceiling, even though Wufei was standing underneath it throughout their entire conversation.
"I see that you've made a change in your habit at least and maybe for the better." He gave a questioningly look towards Duo and then left the kitchen again.
While outside in the main area of the bakery, Wufei was attending to customers again and he noticed one of them that Duo was familiar with, the girl with the blue cornflower eyes had showed up again for the second time this week.
"What do you want now?"
"Hi Wufei. Is Duo around? I hope you're not giving him a hard time unless you want to deal with one angry lady that standing right in front of you."
"He's in the kitchen. Just wait here and I'll get him for you."
"Thank you."
He immediately left and within a matter of moments, Duo popped out of the kitchen filled with smiles and perkiness, while as for Wufei he did another expression of 'Here we go again' scenarios. He then went to the far corner of the bakery and overheard their conversation, while he was pretending to wipe the counters with a rag in his hands. But actually to the customers, he looked like he was wringing the rag as if he was ready to choke someone.
"Hey there, babe. How's your day been?"
"I've had better. Today the office was filled with papers and deadlines of completing various forms and so forth. My boss accidentally forgot to send a memo to each of the workers about this merger we've been dealing with."
"That sounds like fun." Duo was giving her a sarcastic grin.
"So how's your day been?"
"Pretty much the same routine over and over again, even though we make new pastries practically everyday. Wufei over there has been hounding me." He then sneaked a little bag of flour in her hands during their conversation and winked at her.
"He has?"
"Yep. Pretty much, nagging me." He then let out a sigh.
"Well if that's the case, I'll show him a piece of my mind." Hilde then walked over to where Wufei was standing, "I've heard that you've been hounding, my Duo for these past couple of days."
Wufei then responded dryly, "So what?"
"So what? Is that all you can say to me, since I'm his girlfriend."
"I don't need to get involved in these little conversations. If you would kindly excuse me right now, I need to get back to my customers that are waiting for their orders to be taken."
"Before I let you go, this is what happens when you mess with my man." Right then a shower of flour rained on Wufei.
"What the ...?" realizing that some customers brought their children along, he decided to control his language. Wufei then coughed up flour from his surprised ambushed. He wondered to himself, "Of all the people, the one person that I wouldn't suspect, Hilde. Duo this means pay back time." He then looked over his shoulder to see where Hilde ran off to and noticed that Duo was snickering from his small victory. In a matter of minutes, he yelled on the top of his lungs and pointed his finger towards Duo, "Mark my words, Maxwell, you haven't won the war yet!" As he said that, customers were looking in shock and some even had their jaws drop and they immediately cleared away from one angry baker.
A boy who was about five tugged at his mother's coat and whispered, "Why is that man so angry? He's all white and covered with something." He looked curiously at Wufei, in which Wufei gave back a distorted grin at him. He then screamed on top of his lungs, "AAAHHH! MOMMY," and hid behind his mother.
"I think he's having a little temper tantrum, dear. Just stay away from him until he comes back to his senses." The child listened to his mother and clearly stayed away from Wufei while his mother was purchasing a foot long French bread roll and some glazed doughnuts. During the transaction, he kept his eye out for the renegade couple. He also noticed that the child was alarmed at his sight and he even offered the kid a cookie popsicle that had chocolate chips scattered throughout the cookie and with an ice cream stick holding it upright. With him holding the cookie popsicle in his right hand, the kid immediately hid behind his mother again, afraid that Wufei might do something scary. "Sorry about that, he's usually not that scared around people. Here honey, the baker is offering you something. Go ahead, don't be scared." She kindly ushered him to the counter, where Wufei was leaning over. The kid meekly took the treat from him and started to eat it. Within a few minutes, the kid was smiling again and thanked Wufei.
After everything had settled down again, most of the customers got their orders taken and immediately left. Once the room had emptied, Wufei headed straight towards the kitchen where Duo and Hilde were hiding supposedly. "Okay, I know you two are in here somewhere." In the background, there were sounds of laughter going on within the darken kitchen. He then began to open various closets that he thought could fit the two of them and when he was doing so, Duo and Hilde began to switch places around the kitchen to aggravate Wufei even more.
"You sure he won't mind, Duo." whispered Hilde. "I think he's going to erupt any second once he finds us."
"Don't worry, we always do something crazy in this bakery for some odd reason."
"Whatever you say."
"All right. I KNOW that the two of you are here somewhere." Right then he heard, one of the closet doors closed behind and he decided to pretend to slip out of the kitchen by opening and shutting the kitchen door abruptly. With that Duo decided to head out to check to see if everything was clear, but right then all hell broke lose within the kitchen. Wufei yanked Duo out of the closet and started to do their usual scenario of throwing pots and pans, while Hilde was emerging from her secret hiding place.
"QUIT IT YOU, TWO. You're making a mess of the kitchen. Don't the two of you ever stop acting like little children? I mean I've been here before and I haven't really seen any flour fights."
"Stay out of this WOMAN!" Wufei glared at her with an angry look.
"WHAT did you say to my girlfriend?" He then jumped at Wufei with a series of pastry bags filled with chocolate frosting.
Hilde stood off to the corner and looked onto the scene, "I knew I shouldn't have left the office so early today." Right then sugar crystals came at her and she immediately dodged them. "I guess it's time to play hide and seek."
The two continued to duke it out before they realized that they were acting kind of foolish, but to get their last laugh, the two aimed each other with their little ammunition of flour. At that point, Hilde knew to duck for cover because the flour battle was going to get a little messy. By the time the two fighting bakers came to a truce, the whole kitchen was engulfed in flour. While at the same time, Wufei was covered in chocolate frosting and flour that clung to him like glue. As for Duo, he managed to duck from Wufei's blitzkrieg of flour, but had strawberry filling all over his apron from a pan thrown by Wufei earlier in the fight. But this time, the two finally agreed that they were equals in this bakery battle for now.
Hilde emerged from her hiding spot, which was underneath the table, even though flour dusted her slightly on her back and shoulders, "I'm glad you two finally came to your senses about this whole issue."
"Sorry about that honey. We usually don't get out of hand like this. Oh well, it was fun. Well, look at the time, it's time to close down for the day."
With that the trio cleaned the bakery up until it sparkled. Duo then lead Hilde out the door and said, "I'll see you later, Wufei."
"Whatever." He was left to mop the floor. By the end, the bucket of water had turn into some form of paste. He then lifted the mop from the thick pale paste, "Violà this is what I get."
"That's interesting," replied a woman standing in the doorway of the kitchen with a bag of supplies.
"Hey, you. I wouldn't want you to fall right now with those supplies in your hands right now."
"Now, now, Wufei I can manage." After she placed the various bags of groceries on the table, she asked him, "Where you going off to right now?"
"I was thinking of heading home for the night."
"Oh come on Wufei don't be such party pooper. The night is still young."
"All right then and what do you suggest?"
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Back at the embassy, everyone had already closed up their offices for the night, but one room was still lighted. In there, Relena was making final adjustments to her file cabinet, while Heero was waiting outside to escort her back home. "You know, Heero you don't have to constantly watch me from that hallway because I know you're still there. I don't need the extra security even though I run this embassy."
"Whatever, I'm just doing my job."
Relena then popped out of the room, "I really appreciate that, but you don't have to follow me everywhere." She then went back in to close down her computer and lock the file cabinets. After making sure that everything was in order, she locked her room and as she was heading out through another set of doors, she bumped into Heero in a darken hallway. "Sorry about that. I didn't see you. You seem to always pop out of nowhere." He then placed his fingers on her lips to silence her, but she didn't mind.
The two stood there as if time just stood still for them. Each with their eyes gazed at one another. He wanted her, but he could never tell her the absolute truth. He eventually broke the silence, "C'mmon a car is waiting for you outside by the back gates." He then led her towards the back part of the embassy and right there, Trowa was waiting outside the car, while already in it, Quatre was waiting for them. "Okay, Trowa everything is secured." And with that, Trowa acknowledged and began the drive.
Inside the car, everyone was quiet for a while until Quatre spoke up, "So Heero, I heard that you are going to be the new 'runner' to pick up the bakery goods at Shinigami's and Chang's Bakery. Congratulations."
Heero just sat there quietly and stared ahead at the long dark road leading up to Relena's residence.
"Do you need any pointers?"
"I can manage the situation myself."
Sensing the tension in the car, Quatre managed to shift the subject, "All right, on to the next topic and lets see," right then Quatre pulled out his palm pilot and noticed that Relena's birthday was coming up, even though practically everyone in the car new about it. "So do you have any plans for your birthday, yet?" directing his question towards Relena.
Relena was somewhat paying attention to Quatre, even though she looked like she was deprived of sleep for the past ten hours and the incident with Heero was on her mind, "Not really. I just plan to have a normal day just like any day."
"You sure about that? I can ask the staff to host a party in your honor."
"I really don't want to trouble the staff with minor issues, honestly, Quatre. Thanks for the offer." Right then the black car pulled into the front of Relena's home and with that, Heero escorted her out and walked with her up to the front of her steps. "Thank you, Heero and good night."
He nodded in response and watched her enter into her house and after waiting for a couple of minutes to see if the scene was clear, he left and headed back towards the car, where the other two were waiting. Once Heero was back in the car, Trowa decided to drive Quatre back and on their way there, the two in the back seat had another conversation.
"Heero, I think we should have some type of surprise party for Relena. I mean after all, she's been in a pretty tough spot lately with securing peace agreements and forming relationships with various nations, she needs a break."
"Get to the point Quatre."
"All right, I'll be brief. I think you should go to the bakery and purchase a cake for her upcoming birthday. I think it would be a fantastic surprise for her."
Heero acknowledged his secret mission, which was coined, OPERATION SURPRISE. By that time, the car finally pulled up at Quatre's townhouse and with that, Trowa drove Heero home for the night. During the night, Heero pondered on the design of Relena's birthday cake even though he didn't know if he should have flowers decorating the surface of the cake or should he have sprinkles on it. All these thoughts surged throughout his mind as he tossed and turned in his bed. He began to mutter to himself, "How would I know on what designs I should plan on this cake?" And with that, he fell asleep for just a couple of hours. But with the light of the early dawn shining through his apartment window, he had to make his mind up and with that he did.
Within a matter of hours, Heero was up and running about, tossing his green tank top to the floor, while his shorts still remained and putting on a decent white shirt and neatly pressed pants on him. He already called Trowa to provide the transportation to the bakery and with that his fate was sealed. After waiting for about five minutes in the early morning, Trowa finally pulled up in the front lobby of his apartment complex.
"Good Morning. I see that your ready to battle with the two bakers, I assume."
"Just drive, Trowa. I don't need to delay any further." With that, Trowa began a slow drive towards the bakery and after turning onto several different streets and passing though endless rows of empty shops that were waiting to open for the day, the two finally pulled into the parking lot that held the bakery. "Here we are, Heero. Do you want me to come in with you, just in case anything goes wrong?"
"Just wait for me in this parking spot."
Trowa nodded in acknowledgement and with that, Heero closed the car door. As Heero was about to enter the bakery, Trowa murmured, "Another one bites the dust." He then saw Heero enter the bakery and dialed on his cell phone, "He's in all right. So who wants to make a bet?" ...
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Well, how was that for chapter 6? I hope you paid attention to one certain detail in this chapter that will come into play later on. I'll update soon, so stay tuned! ^_^