Chapter 3: Be our Hero, Heero!
NEWLY REVISED!!! I don't own Gundam!!A/N I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters. Those that I have borrowed will be returned after the fic with no damage. Although they might be a little embarrassed by the roles they had to play.
Wufei: YEAH! Like making other kids stuff me in Lockers!! Injustice!!
Ghost: sigh......But it's funny WuFei...And this is a romantic comedy....At least I have Sally save you before you die of suffocation.
Wufei: DON'T CALL ME WUFIE. You're just as bad as that braided baka. And having that weak onna save me is INJUSTICE.
Ghost: *snaps fingers. Two big guys swarm Wufei and slam him into the locker that appears by magic*
Wufei:*mumble sounds*
Ghost: I might let you out at the end of the chapter...if you can mind your manners. Now...On with Chapter 3!!!
It was a bright and beautiful Saturday morning and Heero was enjoying a day without teachers, or girlfriends, or idiot guys with long braids, or clumsy blondes that didn't watch where they were going…to say the least he was having a wonderful day just laying around and watching TV. Then his doorbell rang...and rang...and rang. With a murmur about uninvited guest that just wouldn't take the hint of an unanswered door, he heaved himself off of the couch.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." He yelled out. Heero reached forward and yanked open the door…only to almost slam it shut again. The only thing keeping him from slamming the door was the foot that the unwanted guest shoved inside.
'No not him.' Heero shut his eyes tightly, 'I was having a relaxing day, and then I fell asleep on the couch. This is a nightmare. Duo isn't standing in front of me…'
But when he opened his eyes he could still see that stupid grin.
"Hi-ya buddy!! What's up? Been a long time since I came to visit, and I know you won't take the time to have fun on your own. Always studying." The youth wrinkled his nose in disgust as he shoved the rest of the way into the house.
"Duo." Was all Heero said as he watched Duo plop down on his couch and begin to watch TV.
"OH! I love this show! Have you seen the episode where Mulder and Scully meet these green eyed Vampires? Or the one where they find that guy that eats peoples spleens…or liver…or something like that?" Duo looked lost in thought for a moment before shrugging his shoulders, "Anyway, I have no idea you liked the X-files!"
Heero glared at him from where he was still standing by the open door. With any angry sigh he closed the door quietly. Slamming it would have made him fell better, but Heero desided that waiting until he could kick Duo out would be more satisfying. He sat down in the chair farthest away from Duo.
"What do you want Duo?" He asked the youth who had been his life-long irritant and neighbor. If Heero were to be truthful with himself he'd admit that Duo was also one of his greatest friends, but Heero had never felt the need for that much honesty.
"Umm…well I just came over to see what you were doing is all, buddy." Duo made himself more comfortable on the couch." But if you're handing out favors, I could use one."
"I should have known." Heero rolled his eyes and shifted to face the TV.
"Now wait, before you jump to conclusions, hear me out. You know that the school board is talking about instituting uniforms this year, right?" Heero nodded. " Well, someone had the idea of letting the students express their opinion on the subject with a vote. Not that the vote will change what the School board decides…but it'll let them know what the students want."
"And that has something to do with me…how?" Heero turned purposely-blank eyes toward Duo.
"What I'm trying to say ..." Duo leaned forward a bit, "Is....Heero, be our hero! I want you to join that campaign against uniforms."
"No." Heero deadpanned and went back to watching TV.
Duo looked shocked for a moment. "What? NO? Just like that?"
"Just like that." Heero replied.
Duo began to stand up from the couch when one of his feet knocked over Heero's stack of library books. He was distracted for a moment by the title of one of the brightly colored covers.
'Oh...what have we hear?' Duo smirked as he picked it up.
"Passion's Last Flame" he read aloud, " Oh, Heero, I didn't know you enjoyed...such...a wide range of reading marital." He held it up for the other boy to see.
Heero's eyes widened when he saw the picture of two people standing in a rather provocative position. Duo pulled the book back and flipped toward the middle. "'Oh Marsha how I love you. You are my cherry Blossom!'"
Duo's voice changed to high and squeaky, "'Charles, you would do anything for me right?'
'Yes, Cherry Blossom, anything for the one I love'"Duo couldn't hold in his laughter anymore. He bent over at the waist and grabbed his stomach. He was laughing so hard tears poured from his eyes. Heero used Duo's lack of self-control against him and yanked the book away.
"It's not mine." He insisted. Duo, of course, ignored him.
"What kind of line is that? 'Anything for the one you love?'"
"I said it's not mine." Heero said with more force.
"Sure buddy." Duo stated laughing again. Heero glared daggers at the laughing boy. He grabbed up his books and started to go through his homework in order to find something extra hard to hit Duo with. It was then he noticed his English essay was gone.
"I remember now…" He spoke aloud, forgetting for a moment that Duo was still there.
"What? You remember checking it out?" Duo whipped tears from the corners of his eyes.
"No, you dope! I remember bumping into that blonde girl. I was in a hurry to get away from her before she really caused me a lot of damage so I just grabbed stuff. She must accidentally grabbed my essay for English."
"Hmm....so what are you going to do about it?" Duo asked smugly.
"I don't know." Heero glared.
"I'll take that as a plea for help...Let's see how would you go about getting your paper from Relena Dorlian. Do you think she's pretty?" He asked suddenly.
"What does that have to do with it?" Heero looked at Duo strangely.
"Well it's just that I think she's much prettier than your current girlfriend...those eyebrows freak me out every time I see her. It's like wakening up from the same nightmare twice. Like AHHHH!!! AHHHH!!!...But you'd know that if you actually---"
"Get to the point Duo!" Heero was quickly loosing patience with the braided youth.
"Okay, okay...My point is...You ran into Relena, who is a very pretty girl, and I just happen to have her number." There was an unholy gleam of mischief in Duos eyes that Heero didn't like.
"Give it to me. I have to call for my paper. It's due on Monday!" Heero tried to hide his desperate look behind a blank face.
"If you'll be our Hero."
"No. I will not be black mailed"
"Then I guess you can take your chances."
"I guess I will. I mean I could always just look it up in the phone book." Heero reminded Duo smugly.
"You could if the number was listed." Duo replied.
"Then how do you have it, huh?" Heero raised one eyebrow.
"I have my ways." Duo flipped his hair over his shoulder in a haughty gesture.
"Well, I guess I'll just explain to the teacher that I lost it in a collision. You did say that she was in most of my classed right? I'll get her to back up my story." Heero was willing to take the chance of turning in a late paper if that meant he could get out of helping Duo out with this stupid uniform thing. Truth be told, he hated being in the limelight. He had always been a bit shy and the thought of getting up in front of the whole school assemble to champion the anti-uniform campaign gave him butterflies in his stomach.
"Well, I have to be going then. There are a lot of people who need to know about the great reading you enjoy." Duo stood up and headed for the door.
"You wouldn't." Heero said in a cold voice. If looks could kill, his glare would have sent Duo six feet under.
"Heero, buddy, this is nothing personal. It's business." Heero had the sinking feeling that he had just been had.
Relena sighed, and looked around at the mess her room was in. All the supplies from the now finished posters cultured the floor and the bed and the dresser and the desk...who knew six posters would take that much junk to make?
"Hey, Lena. I need help with English. Could you throw in some free tutoring in exchange for my free artwork?" Hilde asked from her half reclined position on the bed.
"Okay. I guess I owe you one." Relena said as she fished her homework out from among the clutter.
"More than one, if I heard right. Baby-sitting help...hmm...A new all time low." Cathy teased.
Relena took the teasing well as she flipped through her homework.
"What do you need help with exactly?" She asked Hilde.
"Umm…that stuff about poetry…I can't seem to grasp the meaning of onomatopoeia and how to find it." Hilde screwed up her face to show her disgust.
"Oh, okay. I can help with that." Relena flipped toward the chapter that covered poetry but stopped when a couple of neatly typed pages fell out of her textbook. She picked it up and eyed it couriusly before dropping it as if it would bite her. Quickly, with the feeling of dread beginning to twist her stomach Relena went through all of her books to see if she'd gotten anymore papers or books that didn't belong to her. Sure enough, she was missing her newest novel.
"Guys, I can't believe this! He has my book, I just know it!! And what am I supposed to do with these papers…I'm pretty sure Heero has to turn them in on Monday. Oh, God…he has that book…." Relena blushed at the thought of Heero looking at the cover and laughing at her for reading stuff like that.
"Which one was it?" Cathy asked.
"Passions Last Flame." Relena all but moaned the title out in embaressment.
"Oh, that one was good!" Hilde said with a dreamy look.
"Yeah, but would you want a guy looking at it?" Relena asked before burying her face in her hands.
"On second thought...I feel sorry for you." Cathy and Hilde patted her back sympathicily.
"And I have his English paper too." Relena reminded them.
"OH! Lets read it!!" Hilde squealed and reached for the papers in Relena's lap.
"No, I mean, we can't do that." Relena said as she held them away from the grasping girl.
"Then you have to call him so he want worry that he lost them." Cathy suggested with a knowing smile.
"I can't do that either!" Relena spoke with surprise, "He's dating Dorothy, and doesn't even know I breath the same oxygen tat he does everyday. I can't just call him!"
"Well you could bump into him, calling can't be that different." Hilde pointed out.
"Hilde!" Relena moaned. "you know that was an accident! And I'm sure he thinks I'm a danger to siciotey now."
"I think what Hilde's trying to say is...he's just a human Relena. He won't bite." Cathy tried to comfort the moaning girl as best she could.
Just then the phone rang. Relena waited a moment in silence to see it Milli would answer it or if she would have to stop her pity party to do the job. The ringing stopped. Relena sighed and went back to feeling sorry for herself and the strange situations she seemed to always stumble (quite literly it seemed) into. But it wasn't to be. From the bottom of the stairs she could hear Milli calling.
"Relena its some boy for you! Said his name was Heero Yuy!" Relena wished the floor would swallow her. After all being eaten by Linoleum had to be better than talking to Heero Yuy.
A/N Hi-ya!! I see you made it to the end of the chapter. *still can hear Wufei trying to get out.* I think I'll leave him in there a little longer. I have lots for people to thank for reviewing. *a pale ghost-like list appears in front of Ghost.*
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Revised 3/07/03
