AN: YAY!!!! Another chapter out!!! *blows party favors* The ending seems pretty dragged out to me, but maybe that's just how I was when I was trying to write it. *heavy sigh* Oh well. We all have our off days, do we not? ~_~;;

Special note #1: GREAT BIG SPECIAL THANK YOU TO DARKSLAYER!!!! I feel so honored when I have the approval of a Duo fan for my Heero fanfic!!! ^___________^

Special note #2: I recommend everyone to read "From Another Point of View" (a fellow GW fic) cuz my two friends Darkslayer and AnimeFreak452 are writing it. It's super funny and great, and for some reason they're having a lack of reviews (which I can't possibly begin to understand, cuz their fic is so cool.) So, I promote them! PROMOTE PROMOTE!!!! Although its written by both, it's under Darkslayer.

With that done, let the fic commence!!

Chapter 11: "What the hell were you doing in my gundam??"

Blaze woke up to find herself in Heero's bed. At first she was perplexed because the room looked slightly different. Then the smell of Heero drifted up from the pillow, and she blushed despite herself. Heero was not around. The room was empty, and deathly silent. Blaze stretched in her position, melting in the comfort of Heero's soft bed. She then noticed that she hadn't changed from the day before, and that she was under his covers. She wasn't when she fell asleep, and she didn't recall waking up in the middle of the night to pull them over herself. Did Heero do it? She didn't know. Maybe she didn't remember pulling the covers up. She rolled over, and looked at the clock. She sat up suddenly. "I actually slept in???" she commented to the air, as the clock stared back at her reading 9:36 a.m. She pushed the covers off and stood up to get dressed.

Blaze exited her room and walked down towards the right end of the hall, that broke out into a lounge room. She went up a flight of stairs and found a large dining area and a massive kitchen. People were seated everywhere since this was a public building, and Blaze squinted through all of the different faces until she noticed a rather familiar chestnut braid next to a man with peculiar bangs.

"Ah ha!" she grinned, and hurried to join her comrades.

She pulled up a nearby chair and sat in it with the chair turned backwards. She placed her head on her arms, which were on the top of the chair. "Hey you two… What's up?"

"Nothing exciting…." Duo said grumpily.

"What's up with you?" Blaze asked curiously.

Trowa responded for his comrade. "He's jealous that Heero got a mission."

"Ooohhh……" she nodded. "Yeah, I'm not happy with it either." A frown covered her pretty features. "Heero wouldn't let me go with him! How the heck can I get better if I don't have any experience??"

Trowa gave her a small smile. "You'll get your chance."

"Yeah…" Duo commented. "Probably before I will!"

"The universe would have to collapse before that happened…." Blaze grinned. "I doubt I'll be sent to work any time soon. Which is annoying since I'm actually trying with this."

"You know he's only protecting you." Trowa said.

"yeah, he covered that last night when we argued over it." Blaze sighed. Her mind flashed back to the question she had asked him after that, and the lack of an answer that he gave. What did it mean?? It could mean one thing… but that one thing couldn't possibly be it. Not with Heero. Not no way, not no how. Blaze merely continued, skipping over that detail. "He knows that he can't protect me forever though."

"heh…." Duo laughed. "Don't bother telling him that, he'll never listen to you. He still protects Relena for God's sake!"

Trowa shot Duo a glance, but made no comment. Blaze, however, was completely oblivious to it. She merely stared off in question. "I'd like to meet her some time…."

"You probably will." Trowa replied.

"When?" Blaze asked, lifting her chin off of the palm of her hand.

"When Heero has to rescue her." Trowa replied.

"Yeah…" Duo added. "That dame always has a way of getting into trouble. I've lost the number of times that she would have been dead if she wasn't saved by either Heero or one of us."

"Not very smart with caution, I'd say…" Blaze commented.

Duo laughed at that. "You have no idea!!"

Blaze walked with Trowa through the streets, this time actually looking at the small shops that they passed. There was jewelry, food, hand-made clothing, blankets, artwork, pottery… the number of different items seemed limitless.

"When do you think you'll get a mission?" Blaze asked the silent one.

"When I'm needed."

Blaze scowled and looked at animal rock carvings. "But you're needed now."

Trowa sighed. "I know. But we have to be cautious in the beginning. Slow but steady steps, Blaze. Slow but steady."

"Thus qouthe the Trowa. Nevermore." Blaze joked. Trowa glanced at her with a small smile. Blaze then approached a stand where pretty dresses hung from hangars along the outside. They felt soft and light to the touch, and looked similar to robes. The bead work on them weaved in intricate patterns, every pattern different. "These are very pretty…" she whispered.

"Do you want one?" Trowa asked casually. He never had a problem with buying gifts. He did it for Catherine sometimes.

"No, it's fine. I don't want you to waste your money." Blaze replied, waving his offer off.

"It's not a problem." Trowa replied. "What color do you want?"

Blaze blushed. "Trowa, it's okay!" He merely stared down at her with his green eyes, waiting for her to cave. "Fine! Fine. Okay. But I hope you know you're killing my conscience. Uh…." she peered at the selection. "How about… the magenta one?"

The two friends walked along again, this time Blaze holding her new dress. "What do you think Heero will think??" She asked curiously. She quickly wanted to take back those words, as they obviously gave away too much. Trowa looked at her side-long, then back ahead of him.

"He'll probably like it." Trowa replied. Then he added, "But don't expect him to say it."

"I never expect anything close to a compliment from the ambiguous Heero Yuy!" Blaze joked.

Heero came back later into the night, at around 10 p.m. The flight he had to take with Wing was long, and he had to make sure he had done the job completely, leaving only random scraps of debris that blended with all of the other old debris fields from the previous wars. He tiredly set down his gundam and got out. He would reload it and check its database in the morning. Right now, he needed some well deserved sleep.

He entered his and Blaze's room, and the lighting was dim compared to the brightness of the hangar where his gundam was laid to rest. Blaze was sitting up in her bed, reading a book when he walked in. He glanced at her, then proceeded to sit on his bed and take off his shoes.

"Well," Blaze said. "How did it go?"

"Perfect." Heero replied absently.

"That's good…." she whispered. Suddenly she remembered the dress that Trowa had treated her to. "Hey, Heero! I want to show you something!!"

Heero groaned and laid on his bed with his arm over his eyes, but he still peered at her from underneath it. Blaze brought the magenta dress out of the closet and held it up against herself.

"What do you think? Trowa got it for me." Blaze exclaimed. Without giving Heero time to answer, she kept talking. "I'm going to try it on and show you. I showed everyone else and they all approved. I want to know what you think."

"What I think doesn't matter." Heero mumbled.

"Oh silence, you! Of course it does. You're my sensei!!" Blaze smiled, acting rather childlike. "I'll be right out." She hurried into the bathroom and changed, and came out a few minutes later with the dress on her slender form. She spun in it for effect. "what do you think?"

There was no response from the observer, and upon closer inspection, Blaze realized that Heero had fallen asleep. She shook her head. "Typical…." she muttered. She sighed to herself, and sat next to him on his bed. He didn't move, he didn't respond. He was lost in his exhaustion. She gave a short laugh to herself, and pulled the covers over Heero. He removed his arm from over his eyes, and shifted to his side, facing her. The clock ticked as she gazed at him, and she blinked a couple of times.

She brushed his bangs away from his face, heat radiating from him. His bangs were slightly sweaty, and she ran her fingers through his hair from his bangs across the side, to cool him off a little. A small sigh escaped from his slightly parted lips, and she smiled.

She pushed herself up off the bed, her hand brushing his shoulder slightly in a secret caring manner. Blaze pried her mind away from the sleeping Stoic Sex God, and brought her mind back to the task at hand. She quickly went into the bathroom again, and this time changed into a blank tank top and loose cotton pants. She quietly put on her sneakers, and turned off the light. In the dark she shoved her clothes under her bed to make it look like her, all the while Heero completely unaware of it.

Using the handy-dandy stealth that Heero had taught her, she was able to creep out of the room without waking him up. It worked even more so, since he seemed to be sleeping like a log (if logs did sleep, which they don't, which renders this phrase completely useless). She snuck down the hall, which was nearly dark from the dimness of the lights on the wall.

Blaze crept her way into the hangar with cat-like skill, and peered at the resting Wing Zero. She narrowed her eyes. 'Heero, if you're not going to train me in a mobile suit, then I'll just have to learn through observation!' she thought . She was tired of Heero not teaching her how to pilot a suit. All she had ever learned was how to move around, and that's only with those stupid seats in the antigravity room.

After hours of attempting to hack into one of the side panels to open the cockpit, Blaze gave an aggravated slam on the buttons and the door popped open. "Figures…" she grumbled to herself. She climbed in, and sat in Heero's gundam in the still of the night. "Oooh….. If he finds out I'm in here then that'll be the end of it!!!" she muttered. She turned on the control panel of the cockpit by pressing a few buttons on the seat arm, which she learned from inside the antigravity room.

Blaze looked at the row of buttons with complete confusion, as she attempted to recall all she had read in those ridiculous mobile suit magazines and blueprints. Nothing came to mind that could help her with a gundam, which was to be expected since the mecha was unique. Blaze sighed, as time weighed heavily on her. She brought her legs up in Heero's piloting seat, completely unsure of what to do. 'Next time you decide to sneak into someone's gundam, know how to work it!!' she scolded herself mentally. Her eyes itched with sleep, but she refused to fall asleep. She sat in silence, thinking of what to do.

A while later, a 'clink' sound woke Blaze slightly from her slumber. Her eyes were half open, as she tried to place what the sound was from. 'It was just a rat…' Blaze's mind told her. She accepted it. 'Press that button…' A voice in her head said. She obeyed, still half asleep. She pressed the commanded button, and static showed on the screen. She pressed a nearby button that looked like: '' and suddenly the static was replaced by images rewinding quickly. She pressed the first button, which was play, and the video images went forward, and she watched, from Heero's perspective, as he destroyed the shuttles. Once the tape was over, she rewound it and watched it again. And again. Though she didn't quite understand Heero's train of thought, she did begin to learn how to fight with a mobile suit.

Once her eyes began to droop again, she watched the video until she reached the static, and then turned off the power to the gundam.

She snuck back into the room and was surprised to find that Heero was still asleep, and she had actually gotten away with something for once. She changed into her night clothes, and silently put all of the clothes from her bed back into the dresser. Finally, she lied down and went to sleep.

Blaze was given a very rude awakening. Heero ripped the covers off of her, and pulled her out of bed by her arm. "Ahh! Heero, what the hell??" Blaze cried, as she stumbled out of bed from his harsh pull. Heero shoved her up against the wall, his eyes angrier than she'd ever seen them at her.

"What the hell were you doing in my gundam??" Heero shouted at her.

"What???" Blaze said shocked. "I don't know what the hell you're talking about!!" Heero tightened his grip on her arm, and she struggled against him.

"Don't LIE to me, Blaze!!" Heero yelled. "I went to check the video file, and it said it was last opened at 2:33 this morning!!"

"What makes you think it was me??" Blaze shot back, as she masked the lie behind her eyes.

"Because no one else would have any reason to break into my gundam!" Heero shouted. "They all know better than to touch Wing, and you do too! So why the hell did you do it??"

Blaze clenched her mouth shut, and looked away from him.

"Look at me!" Heero shook her by her shoulders. "Answer my question!"

Blaze shrunk against the wall. "Heero, stop holding me!!"

"You answer my question!!" Heero shot back.

"Heero, you're hurting me!!!" Blaze cried. Tears stung the corners of her eyes, and started to build up. Heero widened his eyes slightly, and loosened his grip on her. Still, he didn't let her go.

"Answer me." Heero demanded, no longer yelling.

"What did you expect??" Blaze yelled at him, her eyes full of anger. "You haven't taught me jack!! Yes, I know how to fight hand to hand, but what good is that? This is going to be a war with mobile suits! Mechas!! I don't know how to freaking use one!! How else am I suppose to learn if you don't teach me??"

Heero let her go forcefully. "So you admit it. You broke into my gundam."

"Yes, I do admit it!!" Blaze yelled. She clenched her fists at her sides. "You won't teach me how to pilot a mobile suit! My time of learning this crap is very limited!! We only have a couple of months left before the war starts, and that's assuming that Hampshire's stupid freaking postponement follows through. We don't know if he'll decide to start the party early, now do we?? What good will I be if I can't pilot a gundam??"

Heero looked at his feet, and crossed his arms. He sighed heavily, knowing she was right on that. "But still… that doesn't give you the right to do what you did." He looked at her again, and she refused to meet his eyes. "If you have a problem, or if you have a question, then you confront me on it! Don't go behind my back, Blaze! That doesn't give you my trust!"

Blaze scoffed. "I don't expect to get your trust, Heero. You never trusted me, not from day one." She rubbed her arms slightly, and then crossed them.

Heero glanced at her action. "Did I hurt you?"

"Yes." she answered. "That's why I said, 'Heero, you're hurting me'. But I guess you were a bit too busy to hear that."

Heero shuffled his feet. "I'm sorry." he mumbled.

Blaze shook her head. "You shouldn't be the one to apologize first. I'm sorry I broke your trust."

Heero backed away from her, and shook his head aimlessly. "Get dressed. We'll start training again today. I'll bring you into the piloting simulations."

Heero stepped out of the room, leaving Blaze to her privacy. All of his comrades immediately began to act casual outside the door, standing in various sections in the hall. Heero rolled his eyes. Like he couldn't tell that they were listening in? Duo slung an arm around Heero, and slugged him lightly in the shoulder.

"It's so nice to see you two kiss and make up!" Duo grinned.

"Shut up, Duo." Heero demanded. Quatre giggled behind his hand, but kept his comments to himself.

"What level will you start her on in the simulation?" Wufei asked.

"I'm not sure. We'll see." Heero replied. "I have to teach her the parts in the cockpit. I have to teach her a lot. She's right, there's not much time."

"You only didn't teach her that yet because you want to keep protecting her." Trowa said from the far wall. Heero turned and walked away.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Heero said simply.

Trowa peered at him with his emerald eye. "Sure you don't, Yuy." He narrowed his eyes slightly in annoyance. Sometimes Heero's emotional constipation annoyed even him.

After a while of taking the time to learn the parts of a mobile suit, Blaze was finally put to the ultimate test. Or at least it felt like the ultimate test to her. Heero helped her strap into the simulation, as her pulse pounded in her ears from sheer nervousness. She nervously cracked her knuckles, and waited for Heero to leave the cockpit before she closed the solid metal door. He glanced back as she pressed the few buttons, and the door sealed her away in the small space. The small room that she had to work with was very uncomfortable, and she had the feeling that there wasn't enough air.

"Geez…" she muttered, as she typed in the commands to turn on the mobile suit (simulation-wise). "One would think that with all of this technological intelligence, that they could put an air conditioner or a fan or something in here!"

The control panel lit up, and Blaze checked all of the red lights, carefully recalling what she was taught. A lot of it was hard to keep track of, and she spent plenty of useless time making sure it was green across the board.

A simulation battlefield appeared on her screens, giving the illusion that her surroundings were real. She took a deep breath as she watched the radar repeatedly blink, each time with red dots appearing on the perimeter. She raised the buster rifle on the mobile suit, and put up her defenses.

A voice suddenly said in her head, 'what if something goes wrong?'

Blaze clenched her teeth. 'Nothing will go wrong.' she responded silently. 'This is just a simulation. I can handle it.'

She squeezed her eyes shut and buried all of the doubt, then opened them again. "Lets just get this over with."

Blaze immediately fired her buster rifle to the right, taking out two advancing mobile suits. What type were these? Taurus suits. She watched her radar as a suit advanced on her from behind, and she pulled back on her controls, her mobile suit doing a back flip and landing behind the mobile suit. She blasted directly into its back, and the shot erupted the Taurus suit, and went through and took out the one in front of it.

She pulled out her beam saber, and sliced through more Taurus suits, her mind working quickly. 'Alright! I'm doing good!!' she thought to herself with a grin. A shot rocked her from behind suddenly, and she suffered from a slight case of whiplash. "Karma. Karma I say…." she muttered. A suit advanced on her from ahead, as the one behind her prepared to fire again. She pushed forward her joysticks and pressed the button on the left one, and she rocketed forth, igniting the gundam behind her with the flames of the thrusters; she skewered the Taurus in front of her, and flung it at two nearby Taurus's just as it exploded.

There were ten dots on her radar, and Taurus suits were beginning to surround her. She wasn't fast enough. Another shot hit her on the left. She really wasn't fast enough. She could already see Heero cynically shaking his head at her poor efforts. She clenched her teeth and narrowed her eyes. She pushed the joysticks forward, and plowed through the mobile suits in her path, slicing vigorously as she went. A pile of smoking debris was left behind her, as she thrust forth at high speeds. She turned upwards, spiraling away from the ground. A chain of Taurus suits followed, and she brought out her buster rifle again. She turned back to face them, and fired down the middle. The blast made direct contact with a suit, and it exploded, setting a chain reaction.

Still, there were more that were left. They came from all sides. There were five of them, and her buster rifle was wasted. She clenched the beam saber, her knuckles whitening around the joysticks.

She peered at the surrounding mobile suits. She spotted a weak point behind her to the left, and she pulled back and spun around, catching two of the mobile suits on the crackling light of her saber. Another hit crashed her to the ground, and thick clouds of dirt covered her screens. She looked at the radar. The eight mobile suits were practically on top of her!! Another hit, and the red lights started to flash in her cockpit, which jerked around roughly. The joysticks shook in her hands as she attempted to gain control.

Blaze pulled out her shield and swiped off the legs the Taurus suit that was in front of her, and it crashed to the ground and exploded. Pieces of debris hit her mobile suit, as she held up her shield to block the larger, blazing chunks. The suit on its right fell to the floor, with its left half melted crackling with haywire electricity.

Blaze's muscles were tired, and her eyes itched. Her jaw was sore from all of the teeth clenching she was maintaining during this simulation, and her neck and shoulders hurt from the whiplash.

"I need to finish…" she whispered. The red flashing lights and the warning alarm was making her hearing go numb with the ringing. The cockpit began to spin around her, and she blinked repeatedly to clear the image. The cockpit kept shaking with each hit, causing her to smack her head against the side vid screen. Wasn't this just suppose to be a simulation?? Why did it seem to hurt so much?

Suddenly everything stopped, and the screens went blue, then turned off. The cockpit went upright, and Blaze wasn't doing the controlling. She took her hands away from the controls, as she realized that the simulation was over. She slumped back in her seat, her harness no longer digging into her skin. She rubbed her eyes as the cockpit door opened, and Duo came in.

"I thought I was going to get to finish it…" she mumbled, as Duo unbuckled her.

"Hey, you did really good!" Duo complimented.

"I didn't get to finish!!" Blaze shot back. She flinched as Duo helped her out of the seat.

"You're in no position to be heroic right now." Duo replied with a grin. "You still surprised us. You strong woman! Strong! Strong woman make Wuffie grumble! Strong woman showed Wufei that women no weak!!" Duo's lopsided grin and bright eyes made Blaze laugh, and give a slight tug on his braid. A grunt came out of him when she did that.

"Ooh! It's like an automatic response!" Blaze said amiably. She pulled on his braid again, and Duo grunted again in response.

She pulled again. Grunt.

Pull. Grunt.

Pull- "stop it already!!"

"Okay…"

He helped her out of the simulation, and to the ground where the rest of them stood and waited.

Blaze glared at Heero as Duo placed her on the ground. "You stopped the simulation, didn't you??" she said accusingly.

Heero quickly put up his defenses. "It was Noin's suggestion."

"And you listened to her!" Blaze shot back. "Don't try to get out of it, Heero! You didn't let me finish."

"You were about to lose anyway." Heero replied. "Noin suggested it when you were surrounded. I waited until I was more positive."

Blaze glared at him and clenched her sore hands. "I ought to smack you right now."

Heero merely glared back at her. "You'll get your chance another time."

"To smack you? You bet your ass I will!"

"No. I mean to beat the simulation." Heero corrected. He started to walk away.

"You didn't let me finish!! What the heck is the matter with you??" Blaze shouted as she stomped after him.

Heero spun on her and pointed his finger at her. "I waited, positive that you would beat it. But you didn't get up, and those suits in the simulator were beating you. My actions weren't unreasonable!"

"What, did you think I had gone unconscious in there??" Blaze retorted.

"It had been a possibility. What was I suppose to think?" Heero shot back. "I'm training you, not trying to kill you. I'm not going to put you under such conditions where you would have to waste time recovering."

Everyone stood in amusement, watching this argument.

Blaze crossed her arms across her chest and pouted stubbornly. "You suck." she said simply, and walked past him.

Heero stood there and watched her walk away from him. She went 7 paces, then swayed on her feet. Heero reached her just as her legs decided to stop supporting her, and she fell in exhaustion. Heero caught her and easily lifted her up into his arms. "I believe I have proven my point." Heero said with a slight grin of triumph.

"Shut up and get me to bed." Blaze grumbled as she blushed. She waved at everyone as Heero carried her away.

Moments later, Noin said, "That was just too cute."

"It's disgusting…" Wufei spat.

"Wufei…." Quatre said kindly. "Shut up."

Duo erupted into laughter and clapped his hands. "You just got owned Wuffie!!!"

Wufei's face turned red. Trowa grinned at Quatre, and shook his head. He glanced back at where Heero and Blaze had left. He sighed to himself. They were so typical. Both of them.

Blaze pushed herself out of Heero's arms and walked into their room on her own, despite her complaining muscles. 'I could have finished it!' she thought to herself angrily. The atmosphere surrounding her was hot with her anger, and Heero noticed it. Still, he didn't regret the action that he took. She'll have another chance, it's not the end of the world.

He watched her slowly sway to their bathroom, and stood there, listening to the faucet of the sink running. A couple of minutes later she came out with a hot hand towel draped over her neck. She lied down with her head facing away from him, completely ignoring his presence. Great. The silent treatment. Just what Heero needed. He sighed quietly to himself, and checked his mail.

His laptop informed him of another mission. So soon? He opened it, eager to finally be doing something useful for this war (no offense towards Blaze, of course). His eyes narrowed as he read the information.

'A group of Arabic pacifists are being held hostage, and may possibly be assassinated. Among them are Relena Dorlian Peacecraft, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for ESUN, and Abdel Malcolm, the representative of the pacifist Winner foundation of Arab nations.

They were having a meeting to the promotion of pacifism to avoid the upcoming war. Hampshire's forces invaded their meeting hall in Ankara, Turkey, and are now holding them hostage. Hampshire is requesting that they sign a legal document stating their support of the war, otherwise they will all be assassinated.

This is obviously an illegal operation, and if they do not comply, then they will be killed and Hampshire will place their deaths as the fault of the colonies.

Go with the other pilots to defeat Hampshire's forces and retrieve the pacifists. The number of enemies are unknown. Proceed with caution. Take Blaze for her first mission, as I presume she is trained well enough.'

The address, map, and blueprints of the building were enclosed with the e-mail. Tomorrow. The mission was tomorrow. He looked at Blaze, who was asleep in her bed. Despite what she had said, he knew that she was sore from the simulation. Still, Dr. J. requested that she go with them.

Heero went over to her bedside and shook her awake. Blaze batted his hand away and said, "Go away, Heero. I'm not talking to you."

Heero kept his smart ass comment to himself for the time being, and said, "I have a mission tomorrow."

Blaze lifted her head up and looked at him. "Oh good! That means you can leave tomorrow and I won't have to deal with you for the entire day!! In fact, why don't you just go now ??" With that said, she blew a raspberry at him and put her head back into the pillow.

Heero narrowed his eyes. Why did she always have to act like this? He put his hand on her shoulder and rolled her onto her back so she looked at him. He explained, "You have to go with me."

"That's nice." she replied.

"Do you feel up to it?" Heero asked.

Blaze glared at him. "Of course I feel up to it. Why wouldn't I?"

Heero squeezed her arm and she flinched. "That's why. Would you be well enough to go on a mission with the rest of us?"

"Gggrrr…… pest." Blaze grumbled. "Yeah, I'll go. I don't have much of a choice, do I?"

"You do. If you're not going to be able to function accordingly, then you would be a handicap." Heero said as he got up.

Just as he turned his back on her, Blaze's pillow hit the back of his head. The stoic pilot stopped in his tracks, but refused to turn around. He could feel Blaze's fiery glare burning into his back.

"That's flattering!!" she yelled at him. "You're a real motivational speaker, you know that Heero??"

Heero smirked as he walked back to his laptop. "I try." Blaze growled, and he simply said, "It worked didn't it?"

Blaze clenched her fists, but finally gave up. She fell back onto her bed and muttered, "Oye vey…" She rubbed her sore muscles and stretched in her position. Damn it. Now she had to get up and get the pillow. As she pushed herself up she said, "Double oye vey with whipped cream on top!!!"

Heero looked at her with a raised eyebrow. Blaze looked back at him, and a grin spread across her previously frowning features. "What're you thinking of Heero??"

Heero looked surprised for a second, then replied, "Nothing like that."

"Ssssuuuuurrreeee……" Blaze drawled.

Heero attempted to ignore her as she got her pillow and threw it on her bed. Heero typed his response to the mission that was just assigned. 'click, clickity, click, click' 'grumble grumble'. The clicking stopped, as Blaze gave a little whine in response to her stomach. Heero continued. 'clickity, click, click, click……'

"Heeeeeero…….." Blaze whined. She climbed over his bed and sat on the side next to him. She put her head on his shoulder childishly. "I love you!!!!"

Blaze was given an icy glare in response.

"Heero, can you please, pretty, pretty please get me something to eat??" Blaze pleaded.

Heero ignored her and continued typing. What was he, her slave?? 'clickity, click, clickity, click-' Blaze wrapped her arms around Heero's waist, and all his actions ceased. She rocked back and forth with poor Heero in her grasp.

"ppppppppppppppllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaassssssssseeeeeeeeee????????????????????"

Heero crossed his arms as Blaze moved him side to side, the chair squeaking annoyingly. He could handle this. Then Blaze took it a step further. She sat herself into Heero's lap, with her arms wrapped around his neck, and continued rocking back and forth. He couldn't handle that.

"Plllllleeeeeaaaaassssssseeeeee??????????? Perty, perty please???????"

Heero cleared his dry throat. "Blaze…. Get off of me." She looked at him with a masked expression, and Heero refused to look her in the eye.

"Why?" she replied.

"Because." Heero shot back.

"That's your answer? 'Because'? You'll have to do better than that." Blaze said amiably. God, was it fun to toy with him…

But two could play that game. Heero wasn't exactly the type to be bold, but he did want her off of his lap. Badly. Fight fire with fire.

Blaze's smile dropped as she felt Heero's arm go around her waist. "Heero…. What are you doing?"

Heero glanced at her, and suddenly his ingenious plan backfired. Those weird feelings that he wasn't familiar with began to flow into his consciousness again, and he swallowed them down before they surfaced. Not only were these strange emotions floating around him like those dizzy swirls in the cartoons, he now had his male hormones to control.

Blaze's eyes stared back at Heero, and she didn't know what to do, nor what to say. Was he going to do what she wanted him to…?

"I'll get you that food you wanted so badly…." Heero said quietly and quickly, eager to regain his self-control before something happened.

…Obviously not.