Oh! Thanks to all of you who reviewed, you've given me happiness so I could make this chappy & I forgot to put this at the beginning of the last chappy::

Disclaimer:: I do not own any of these characters in any way except Duo and Heero being my muses, but I don't really own them… for they really do have a minds of their own. Oh and I don't who the heck really owns these cute guys, but they are some lucky ducks!

Warnings:: Shounen-Ai/Yaoi (boyxboy relationships), cute/sappy thoughts, um… that's it. I might have lemon in another chappy, but not here. Nope! This is all very nice, not too naughty at all!

At Gunpoint

Chapter Two: Puzzling

Duo's face was a syrupy mess, and he finished off the last of the sausages just as Trowa and Quatre walked in cuddling close with their fingers laced together. The braided boy gulped down his food and looked enviously at the enlaced fingers of the couple. How he wished that he could be like that with Heero… but he couldn't let his mind wander on that subject… it was too depressing. Though Duo really did wonder why the emotionless boy hadn't just told him that he had been giggling and thought Wufei was a teddy bear. Duo's mind wandered then to thoughts of Heero being a stuffed animal… one that he could cuddle close whenever he felt the need for companionship, or whenever he had a hard time pretending to be happy in a rough scenery. The longhaired brunette shook his head and drank the remaining orange juice in his glass. Why did his heart have to choose such a cold, emotionless man as Heero Yuy to latch onto? Why not some one like Quatre, who was kind and gentle? Why Heero Yuy? Why Heero, when he knew that the feeling he had would never be returned, no matter how much he fantasized about it? Duo blinked and noticed to his dismay that Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei were starring at him looking concerned.

"Duo… what's wrong?" Quatre inquired out of the long and awkward silence. Duo grinned as if he was confused.

"What made you guys think there was anything wrong?" Shinigami licked his sticky lips. Trowa frowned.

"You seem kind of out of it, and you poked your face with your fork five times before you got the last bit of waffle in you mouth… It just seemed a little out of place."

"Trowa… I'm fine, really, just a little sleepy and messed up from this headache…" Duo smiled sheepishly, hoping they'd believe his little fib, but then again, at that moment, he looked so innocent that they all seemed convinced. He got up from the table, "I'm gonna go see what the Hee-chan is up to, okay?" He just wanted to get away from all of their unsure gazes. Duo made his way up the stair as quickly as he knew how without drawing attention to himself. The other three pilots shrugged it off as just what their friend had told them, though that didn't stop Quatre from worrying about his comrade.

Meanwhile Duo stepped into Heero and his room, gingerly opening the door as if afraid to disturb the rhythmic typing that could be heard from outside the entrance. He stepping inside, and while looking at his shoes felt the gun Heero had instinctively pulled on him push into his neck. The longhaired boy looked up.

"Hey, Hee-chan… don't get so worked up, it's just me…" The braided male said in response to the barrel of the gun pressing against him while throwing his arms up in surrender.

"Hn. You." Heero moved to sit back down and finish up any typing he had yet to do, that is, fixing with his journal's already tight security system. Duo rolled his eyes.

"Yeah. Me." The braided Baka sat down on his bed. "Hey, thanks for the aspirin earlier… and I really didn't mean to yell, it's just, well, I'm kind of moody right now. Sorry Heero-Man!" Yeah, no doubt that Duo was back to his annoying garrulous self, but not nearly as aggravating as he was when drunk. Heero looked up for a second before closing his laptop and putting it away. The longhaired gundam pilot had no time to wonder where his crush had put said gun that had formerly rested firmly in Heero's hand. The Wing Zero Pilot turned and began to walk toward the door, as he was finished with his work for the time being. "Hey, where you going?" Duo brushed back and untamed piece of hair that had fallen out of his braid.

"Why do you want to know?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to do something with me. I'm kind of bored…" The longhaired boy smiled. "Hey, Hee-chan! Do you want to put together a puzzle, or something?" After a long silence of Heero simply starring blankly at the other brunette, he finally muttered a positive grunt.

"Okay… now what puzzle do you like?" Duo pulled out three boxes full of puzzle pieces. One was a kitten, one was a picture of a house, and the last one had two little boys sitting on a porch swing together, all were 1000 piece puzzles. "I like this one…" Duo blushed, pointing to the last one with the two little boys. Heero noted that they were sitting rather close and really didn't look like brothers in the picture, not at all actually. Was this some kind of game? Did Duo know about his feelings?

"That one's fine." The Perfect Soldier replied, referring to the longhaired brunette's pick. Duo put the other two away and went over to the desk Heero always sat at while typing and spread out all the pieces.

"Okay, now we better find the corner pieces first…" Shinigami instructed, pulling up a second, neglected chair, to the desk as Heero sat in his normal chair in front of where the laptop sat when in use. Duo spotted a corner piece and smiled; reaching for it at the same time Heero did, causing their hands to touch briefly. The braided baka drew his hand back and blushed, letting Heero place it in a corner of the desk where there was space to put selected pieces. So the finding of corners went on with no more embarrassing moments for Duo, and soon they were looking of pieces with straight sides. Boarder Pieces. The fit pieces and in no time, or at least it seemed like no time to Duo, they had the whole puzzle complete, and not one piece had been lost. "How long do you think we were at it?" inquired the braided male.

"Look at the clock. It's almost one." Heero responded.

"You serious? That means we worked at this thing for about two and half hours… I never knew I could get into something so much, what about you?" Duo answered in his normal chatter. Heero thought that the time hadn't really gone by all that quickly considering he was probably sweating the whole time with nervousness to be around Duo for that long. Then again, he had been interested in the way the longhaired male moved and mesmerized with how he knew exactly where each piece was met to go. No… he would not fail his mission… he needed to get rid of those feelings. They were nothing but trouble. "Hee…ro…" Duo looked worried. "Are, are you alright, Hee-chan" Heero had just been sitting there starring into space for five minutes.

"Same as always." Heero replied, a bit of a smirk playing on his lips.

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Duo grinned at his own sarcasm. How he wished that they were, well, a little more than friends.

"Depends." The slim blue-eyed boy answered the other male's query. How Heero's Prussian-blue eyes pierced Duo's fragile soul when they slipped in hiding pain or such… but now, for some unknown reason, his eyes pierced him even though there was no pain or secrets. It was just that all of a sudden, for a single moment, Heero had looked as if he needed to stay away from the braided boy, and the thought of Heero avoiding him… was like being told that your true love planned on torturing you, and it being true. That was the pain he felt as his crush's blue eyes flickered with an anger and fear of and for him. That was it. Duo was tired of keeping it locked up inside and keeping his feelings cowering in a corner because he wasn't brave enough to tell Heero who his passion was, that, all this time, He, the Perfect Soldier, had been adding wood to the burning fire of his soul. Duo looked down, it was all he could do to keep from kissing Hee-chan, right there.

"H-Hee-Heero?" Duo inquired, trying to still his warm lower half. Heero looked up at him, seeming interested in what could begin with such a strange and nervous tone. "Heero… I- I…well, I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time… and now, I just can't… um well… I- Heero, I-" The beat of Heero's heart quickened and his mouth became dry. What was Duo trying to say? It seemed important enough… so what was it? Duo took a deep breath…

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AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! I love cliffhangers. You people are going to hate me for this… ^^; Oh well. I like keeping my audience at the edge of their seats so they practically break their computers with anticipation. Am I doing a good job? *grins*

Well, I Hope all goes well, don't you? Ja Ne… until next time! Oh and, um… Gomen… for all my spelling mistakes and crap if there is any… and there probably is, knowing my grade in Lang. Arts…. ^^;

Tenshi-Usa