"Where is she going?" Wufei asked hearing the front door shut.

"Duo go see what she's doing." Heero told him.

"Why don't you? You're the one who ticked her off." He scowled.

"She trusts you more." He shot back.

"Fine, but you owe me if I get my ass kicked." He sneered and walked outside.

As soon as he shut the door Ashleigh took off running.

"Damn she's fast. Better follow her." He shrugged and ran after her.

* * *

'It has got to be here. It's just got to.'

Ashleigh ran up 'her' street then slowed when she saw her house there still intacked, but the windows were boarded up. She finally stopped when she came to 'her' front door.

"Ashleigh...wait...up!" Duo yelled trying to catch his breath. "Man i'm out of shape."

"What are you doing here Duo?" Ashleigh looked at him quizzically.

"I was forced to follow you. What are you doing here?" He looked at the boarded up house.

"This is where I live. Well, used to live." She looked at the front door (it wasn't boarded up) and gripped something in her pocket. "I hope the locks weren't changed."

"Huh?" Duo looked at her in confusion.

Ashleigh pulled out her keys and put the silver one in the doorknob.

It unlocked.

She opened the door and walked in. Ashleigh looked around the house and saw changes. The office had new furniture in it and the kitchen had been remodeled. The thing is that the house looked abandoned and was expected to have piles and piles of dust, but there wasn't any dust what so ever.

"Man this is a nice house," Duo commented walking in behind Ashleigh. "but shouldn't it be covered in dust?"

"That's my question too. The decedents from my brother or sister must have preserved this place. I know that because there is my picture on the mantle of the fire place." She pointed to it when they walked in the living room.

She looked at the many pictures and giggled at one of them. "Muffin, Patches, and Worf sitting together? It's a miracle. Ian grew up to be handsome and Trish did as I thought, became a cheerleader, captain none the less."

She looked around at the living room one last time and then walked to a hallway. She paused in front of a door and looked at it.

"I wonder what they did to my room?' She whispered then looked at the lock on the door.

Ashleigh put her blue key to the lock and opened it. It was the lock to her locker. She opened the door and gasped a little at what she saw.

"It's the way I left it except the bed s made and my clothes have been washed." She muttered to herself. "My kimono, dolls, stereo, clothes, computer, everything is still here."

"Whose room is this?" Duo peered around her.

"Mine."

"You had a lot of stuff. Did you draw all those pictures?" He walked up to one and examined it.

"Yea that one is of Serena from Sailor Moon, that one is you, that one is of Yu-Gi from the dhow Yu-Gi-Oh, then the other one is Kagome, Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, and Miroku from the show Inuyasha." She told him walking to her closet and opening it.

She walked in and reached up to the top shelf then pulled out two bags.

"What cha doin?" He looked up from the picture just in time to catch the bag being thrown to him. "What is this for?"

"I'm going to take my clothes and a few other things with me. Make yourself useful and get the clothes from the middle and bottom drawers for me. Oh and the kimono too."

Ashleigh started in the closet getting shoes and clothes that were hung up. After she was done there she walked over to her nightstand and grabbed her comics and photo album of her friends.

"What about these?" Duo asked holding up a tape and newspaper clippings.

Ashleigh walked over and took one of the videos from Duo.

"Ian's media project/ graduation/wedding." She read the title a loud. "Put these in there too please. I'll want to look over them."

She put a hand on Duo's shoulder and hoisted herself up and began to grab things again.

* * *

"Ms. Relena?"

"Yes."

"We have been notified that 2 persons have been spotted going into your great-great-great grandfathers home."

"Is there a description?"

"Yes a girl and a boy. The young lady looked 15-17 yrs old, brown hair with blond highlights pulled in a ponytail, and wore all black. The young man has been identified as Duo Maxwell. They left with 2 bags."

"Thank you. Get my limo. I'm going to pay Mr. Maxwell and his friend a visit."

* * *

"Where did you two disappear to?" Quatra asked looking up from his book when they entered the living room.

"Lets put it this way, we found her room." Duo told him reclining in a chair.

Quatra blushed.

"Duo you baka! Quatra we didn't do anything like that. Ya see we found my old house and got some clothes, shoes, and memorabilia from my room. I was raised better than to do that at this age." Ashleigh blushed with embarrassment after hitting Duo.

After they got the problem worked out Ashleigh and Quatra had a talk and Duo sat there fiddling with the tip of his braid. The conversation ended when Quatra got up to make dinner. Ashleigh grabbed the TV remote and turned it on.

"What are some good channels?" She asked flipping channels not looking at Duo.

"Let me see it really quick." He reached for the remote only to have it pulled out of the way.

"Nope." She muttered still flipping channels.

"Come on."

"Nope."

Reach. Miss. Reach. Miss.

She finally found a channel that showed cartoons.

"Anything but that channel." He whined reaching for the remote again. Miss.

"I control the remote so I get to chose the channel." Ashleigh stood up and put the remote in her back pocket then stuck her tongue out.

"This sucks. I can't fight you for it cause you're a girl." He sat back in his chair and pouted.

"I don't mind. I'll just win anyways." She shrugged.

"Ya think so, huh?" He said as he stood up and tackled her causing her to laugh as she went down.

Duo tried to roll Ashleigh on her stomach to get the remote, but she had other plans. She brought her feet up to his chest and pushed him off enough that she could roll out from under him. As she did he grabbed the remote from her pocket.

'Damn.' She cursed to herself.

"Who wins?" Duo gloated sitting in an upright position.

"I do" Ashleigh tackled him this time and pinned his wrists down. "Don't do that again. I have my brother to thank for wrestling with me." She smiled mischievously.

Duo tried to do the same thing Ashleigh had done to him, but she caught that to quickly and sat on his stomach wrists still pinned. She slowly moved her left hand up to his right, grabbed the remote and jumped up. He rolled onto his stomach and tried to get up but couldn't.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

"Making sure you don't pull that stunt again." She smiled at him and sat cross-legged on his back.

"Beaten by a girl." He pouted resting his head on the heel if his hand.

"Poor baby." She giggled playfully and patted his upper back.

DING-DONG

"I can't get it!" Duo yelled.

"Neither can I!" Quatra yelled from the kitchen.

"I'm busy too." Ashleigh yelled.

DING-DONG

"I'll get it." Wufei said rather annoyed.

He walked past the living room and looked to see what Ashleigh and Duo were doing that was too important for one of them to get the door. He looked in to see Ashleigh had pinned Duo and he we pouting.

"You're pathetic Maxwell." He chuckled to himself.

DING-DONG

Wufei opened it to a rather mad looking Relena.

"I need to speak to Duo." She said calmly.

"He can't come to the door at the moment. If you need to speak to him urgently I think the onna will let him free. He's in the living room." Wufei pointed towards the living room and Relena walked in.

* * *

"Will you stop squirming. I'm not getting up." Ashleigh scowled playfully.

"Du-Duo? Pinned by a girl?" Relena stuttered then burst out laughing.

"Great now Relena has a reason to laugh at me." He hid his face in the carpet.

Ashleigh giggled and leaned down and whispered something in his ear. She got up and walked over to Relena.

"Hello Ms. Relena. My name is Ashleigh Berry." She held out her hand.

"Nice to meet you. I do believe you are the first girl to pin one of these guys." She giggled when Duo dusted himself off and glared at her.

"What do you want Relena?" He scowled. "I think Heero is up in his room."

"I came to talk to you Duo and Ashleigh here." She all of a sudden became really serious.

"Not a good tone." Ashleigh said backing up from Relena.

"What were you two doing in my great-great-great grandfathers home?"

"Don't look at me she's the one who had a key." Duo pointed at Ashleigh.

"Look I would explain everything to you, but there is one thing I can say about that house and it's that I used to live there. Who is your Great- great-great grandfather?"

"Ian Lee Berry."

"Really. I would have never guessed that my great-great-great niece was a Peacecraft."

"How dare you! One of my Aunts died at 15yrs old. She was found in a ditch beaten to death." Relena fumed.

"That's the story they came up with." Ashleigh remained calm.

"How dare you! If my Grandpa Berry were to hear this he would roll over in his grave."

"I think I should be the one saying 'How dare you' Relena Peacecraft! Do not speak ill of my brother! My name is Ashleigh Susanne Berry. I was born June 23, 1987. I have three siblings: Ian Lee Berry, Patricia Francisca Perez, and Collin Sky Berry. My parents are Jacquiline Susan Perez and Jeffrey Lee Berry. If I weren't who I say I am how would I know all of this? How else could I get into MY sealed off bedroom without the key to the lock and without cutting it or picking it? If you want me to prove it do a blood test!"

Duo hid behind the couch when Ashleigh's temper let out and Relena, well let's say she was sprawled up against the wall looking fearfully at Ashleigh.

"She can explode. That's the 3rd person today." Duo chose his words carefully not wanting to upset Ashleigh even more.

"What is all the yelling about?" Quatra ran in.

"Relena got told off by a pissed off Ashleigh."

"Come on Ashleigh, let's go into the kitchen."

"That's not a good idea. I'm going to go rest in my room or somewhere on my way there." She said sternly putting her right arm behind her back and gripping the wrist with her left hand.

As they watched her leave they saw her right hand twitching.

"No wonder she didn't want to me to get her mad. I'd rather face a whole base of OZ solider unarmed than her a few minutes ago." Duo said amused at the look on Relena's face.

"H-how lo-long has sh-she be-been h-h-here?" Relena tried to regain her composure.

"Since yesterday."

* * *

'I'm dizzy. Maybe I should have controlled my temper. Damn voices SHUT- UP!!!!' Ashleigh slowly made her way upstairs and tried to fight her urge to faint. 'If only I could make it to...' Darkness claimed her.

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OOOOHHHHHHH. Cliffhanger. I think? O'well. Hey I thought of a new type of Gundam wing story and I want everyone's to tell me their opinions, k? It is about the people of Gundam Wing (evil people included) sign up for a play. Okay the play is the Wizard of Oz. Everyone gets the parts they don't want. For example (i'm going to give you the list of the characters they will play, k.): Heero- The cowardly lion, Duo- The scarecrow, Trowa- Dorothy (can't you imagine him with pigtails ^.^), Quatra- Tin man, Wufei- Toto, Relena- Wicked Witch of the West (watch her broomstick is a limo), Hilde- Wicked Witch of the East, Sally- Glenda the good witch, Zechs- One of the Flying Monkeys, & Treize- The wizard. Tell me what you think at lil_princess4562@yahoo.com. Of coarse it would be after this story is complete. BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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