Title: Book I: AHHA until I think of something better. Authors: AHHA, also known as, Harmonie Firefly and Aliera E'Kieron Warnings: Hmm... This fic will eventually have it all... short of a lemon... I don't think we are planning for any actual lemons in here... maybe some side story lemons... but none in the actual story. Limes though. Hormonal teens. Violence. Language. Pregnant women. All that shnaz. Angst. Sapp. Humor. Disclaimer: We don't own them, unfortunately. *cries*

KEY:

'blah' thoughts

*blah* telepathy

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Chapter 1/?

'Another day, another mission. Well, lag in between missions anyway. So life goes on, as does this pointless war. Here I am, posing as a student yet again. At an American high school. A PUBLIC American high school. No dorms. No uniforms. This is going to be fun. I love America.' Duo tossed his braid over his shoulder with a grin and headed for his first class, AP English.

Duo really didn't expect what he found when he entered the classroom. He thought only really nerdy, super smart kids took this class. He was apparently wrong. A girl, about his height was the only person in the room besides the teacher. She was adamantly debating with him, green eyes on fire. She wore black fishnet stockings, a short patent leather mini skirt with a string of metallic rings slung around her waist, a fitted black t- shirt with the sleeves and neckline cut off, a multitude of silver bangles, clunky black ankle boots, and finally two braids, black in color with burgundy streaks, as long as Duo's own.

"They just don't like me because I'm different!" She pouted and plopped down into a chair by the teacher.

Duo raised an eyebrow at her then approached the teacher. "Um... hi. I'm Duo Maxwell. I just transferred here." He dropped the appropriate papers on the teacher's desk.

"Welcome to Fernandina Beach High School, Duo. I'm Mr. Bowyer. [1]Have a seat, the rest of the class should be here shortly. Talk to Harmonie here, she can be... interesting." he smirked slightly and went about his teacherly duties.

"Aw Uncle Pete! You make me sound like a freak of nature!" the girl, now revealed as Harmonie, protested.

The teacher just smirked again. "...and you're not?" he countered, never looking up from his work.

Duo sat next to Harmonie. "He's your uncle?"

"Nah, I only call him that because it bothers him." she replied with a grin to rival his own.

Duo grinned back, and by then the other students had filed into the classroom.

Uncle Pete stood. "Well, it looks like everyone is here... wait, where is e'Kieron?"

Just as he said this, a girl with auburn hair just past her shoulders and lavender eyes holding a pile of books and folders burst through the door and plopped down in the seat on the other side of Harmonie. "I'm here, I'm here!" She smoothed her close-fitting purple t-shirt down over her dark blue flair jeans and grinned innocently at the teacher, preparing to give her excuse for being late.

Uncle Pete held up his hand. "I DON'T want to hear it. Besides, you were ALMOST on time today."

She grinned again and put her CD player somewhere, Duo couldn't tell where, it was kind of like Heero with his gun, and she glared at Harmonie who was giggling slightly at her misfortune.

~After classes~

"So who's the new guy?" The girl known as e'Kieron asked, searching for an introduction as she already knew who he was and what he did.

"This is Duo. Duo, This is Allie, my partner in crime, A.K.A. MS. I'm- Always-Late-For-Every-Class." Harmonie smirked.

"Nice to meet you!" Duo grinned at Allie who was blushing.

"So, Duo, you want to go do something with us?" Harmonie looked at him inquisitively, her eyes seeming to delve right into him without even trying. They reminded him of Quatre.

"Sure! Honestly, I need to find a place to stay, do you think you could help me? I thought this school had dorms... which it obviously doesn't... so..." Duo grinned at them sheepishly.

"Of course! House hunting it is!"

"Hey Harm, we have an extra room, why doesn't he just stay with us?" Aliera said to Harmonie with a look. *Well, that was easy.*

"Oh yeah! Good point! Of course! Okay then, it's settled! Duo, let's get your stuff and move you in!" [2]

Duo looked sheepish. "Anou... I don't have any stuff, just this." Duo indicated his back pack. [3]

Harmonie blanched a bit. "Oh. Well, let's go then!" She grabbed one of either teens hands and skipped off towards the parking lot.

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They pulled up to a wrought-iron gate with the letters "AHHA" twisted into it. [4] Harmonie pressed a button in the car, and the gate slid open. The car drove on and came to a stop at the end of a cement driveway. Duo was the first person out of the car and ran around to the front. He stopped short. "Wow! You live here?!?"

Harmonie and Aliera just snickered, knowing that they lived in a house that should be well out of their league. "Yeah, it was a... gift... from our, uh, uncles.." Harmonie explained.

The two-story house was built in a colonial style, painted neutral blue with black trim. Dark green ivy ran wild on the outside, giving the house an ancient feel.

Rosebushes of burgundy, red, white, and some black grew wild along the borders of the front, wrapping around the sides. A mahogany wrap-around porch added to the antiquity of the house, with small stone fountains on either side. [5]

Running around to the back, Duo found even more to like. There was another stone fountain in the backyard, big enough to swim in, with a large statue in the center. There was a fenced-in section of the backyard, in which resided a large black panther, lounging lazily on a tree branch. Duo's eyes widened at that. "You. Have. A. Panther." [6]

Aliera grinned. "Yep!" She cleared the fence with ease and wrestled the panther playfully.

"Allie! I'm not letting you inside now! Look at you! You're covered in mud! You too Shi-chan!" Harmonie was met with two pairs of purple hued eyes. "Oh no! Don't give me that look! Hose!" Harmonie grabbed up the hose and turned it on Aliera and the panther with the ease of practice. Duo was watching all this, not saying anything but "You. Have. A. Panther. Ohmygod, you have a PANTHER!"

"Now, Duo and I will go inside, and I'll bring out some towels. THEN you can come inside." Harmonie turned and headed for the house, Duo in tow.

Aliera blew a raspberry at Harmonie's back. "Okay MOTHER!"

Harmonie eloquently gave her the finger.

***later***

Harmonie happily showed Duo all around the house, explaining things to him. "Okay, I realize we are a couple teenagers that more or less live by ourselves, but we do have some rules." [7] She handed him a list. "They are pretty basic, at least I think... OTHER PEOPLE can't seem to get the point." She glared in the direction of the bathroom where Aliera and Shi- Chan had just finished taking a shower. "Anyhews, before I show you the rest of the house, you can read through the rules! I'm going to go change!" She bounded up the mahogany spiral staircase, almost running into Aliera.

"HARM!" She shook her head and glanced at Duo. "I see she gave you the rules." she snickered. "They pretty much say this: Clean up after yourself. If you break something, fix it or replace it, Don't use someone's personal belongings without asking first, if you use the last of the toilet paper, put out a new roll, don't track mud in the house, etc." She grinned comically.

"I think I can handle that... if you don't mind me asking, why do you have a panther, and is he going to eat me?" Duo asked warily glancing at the panther as it sniffed him and then plopped down in front of the fireplace.

Aliera giggled. "Well, we found him on a mi.. trip. He was abandoned and pretty sick, so we took him in and nursed him back to health and he's been ours ever since. And if he was going to eat you, he would have already! So nothing to worry about!" Aliera grinned and hoped that duo didn't catch her slight slip-up.

"Oh. Okay. So where's my room?" Duo grinned.

"Harm didn't show you? Oh well. It's upstairs, I'll show you!" Aliera practically barreled up the stairs, dragging Duo behind her. she stopped on the second floor. "Okay, well, mine and Harm's room is there, Sally's is next to us, but she's never here, and across from us is your room." Allie grinned again and opened the door. "Harm and I got bored and decorated in here a couple weeks ago. You're welcome to change it if you like.

Duo stepped into the room. "WHOA! It's like this room was MEANT for me!" The room was decorated in deep purple and black. The walls were painted an inky indigo color that looked like it might still be wet. The windows were covered in deep purple velvet drapes that stretched from the ceiling all the way to the floor, the bed was a king size and covered with a thick fluffy, black down comforter and piled high with indigo and purple pillows. The bed frame itself was a work of art. It was made of wrought iron and the foot and headboards were twisted into intricate patters that didn't see to neither begin nor end. In the far corner of the room was an ebony armoire. The ceiling was also painted indigo, only it had silver stars all over it that sparkled.

"You like it?" Aliera asked, thinking to herself, 'He'd damn well better like after all the trouble Harm and I went through to put this room together for him.'

Duo nodded appreciatively and flopped onto the bed, sinking a few inches into the covers.

"BOO!" Harmonie popped into the room, not phasing the room's occupants. She sighed. "It NEVER works!" Aliera rolled her eyes at Harmonie, still a bit peeved about being drenched with the hose. "Well, what do you guys want for dinner? I'm ready to start cooking now."

"Let's let Duo decided." The two girls looked at Duo.

"Um... well... What are my choices?"

"Sketti, Chicken parmesan, BBQ chicken..."

Duo's eyes lit up. "SKETTI! I LOVE sketti!" He grinned.

"Great! Now stay out of the kitchen!" Harmonie left.

"Oh yeah, that's an important one. Don't go in the kitchen when she's cooking, she hates it for some reason or another." Aliera shrugged. "Oh, and I think Sally is due back soon, within the next couple of days anyways. So if you see a blonde haired, blue eyed, Chinese 19 year old, don't worry, it's just Sally. I do believe I have homework, so I'll leave you to get settled in."

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"Harm ... whatcha doin?" Aliera grinned at her friend who sat on the bed cursing and untangling a brush from her hair.

"What does it LOOK like I'm doing? I'm TRYING to brush my hair!" she huffed.

Aliera grinned. "Here, lemmee help." She took the brush from a pouting Harmonie and began brushing out the girls long hair. "So... I take it that Wufei is coming?" Aliera smirked knowingly.

"How did you..."

"Harm-chan, the only time you prep like this and attempt to brush your own hair is when Wufei is coming to visit."

"Hn. And I was NOT prepping! He should be here..." she looked at the clock, "Now!" Aliera quickly finished off the last of Harmonie's two braids before she hopped onto the banister, sliding down to the ground floor, Aliera following at a more sedated pace.

"What's with her?" Duo asked Aliera after being damn near plowed down by Harmonie.

"Oh, you'll see." Allie smirked knowingly and led him to the door to watch.

"WU-CHAN!!!!" Harmonie ran and jumped the poor Chinese youth, hugging him tightly.

He politely hugged back. "Hello Lady Firefly." Then Wufei saw Duo. "Maxwell." Wufei removed Harmonie from himself. "What are you doing here?" He looked at Harmonie. "You didn't tell me he was here already."

She shrugged. "You didn't ask!" She smirked, "Now take your stuff up to your room, and you could probably use some sleep as well." Wufei grabbed his duffel and headed into the house.

"Well, geesh, nice to see you too Wufei." Duo muttered after the initial shock wore off. "Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that you two know about us?" The girls nodded and grinned at each other. "And you didn't tell me!?!"

Harmonie smirked again. "You didn't ask!"

"Have you heard of AHHA?" Aliera asked him, waiting for it to sink in.

Duo nodded, then brightened. "Oh my God... You're..." His eyes got wide. "Heero HATES you guys!"

The two girls smirked even more.

Duo shook his head and wandered upstairs muttering about being played. He made his way all the way up to the third floor. He instinctively found Wufei's room. "Hey Wufei."

"Hello. Do you like your room?" Wufei asked, truly curious.

"Yeah... why?"

"Well, they forced me to tell them what you liked, I hope that I was correct."

Duo grinned. "I LOVE it! Anyways, what about those two, they know that we are Gundam Pilots?"

Wufei nodded. "Hai. They know a lot. They are also a very useful pair. Infiltration and information."

Duo smirked. "I never thought I'd hear you talking so highly of a pair of women."

"Hn." Wufei glared.

"Well, I know how to take a hint... later Wu-man!" Duo ran downstairs.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Notes: [1] This is the school I actually go to. Uncle Pete was my English teacher last year, one of my favorites! He's the exact opposite of me, it's fun! Oh, and please don't stalk him!

[2] Aliera: *holds head* Do you ALWAYS have to talk in exclamations?

Harmonie: Yes!

Aliera: *groans*

[3] Harmonie: He lied!

Duo: Not ah! I don't lie!

Harmonie: Yeah huh! You have a Gundam hiding somewhere!

Duo: NYAH!

[4] Both: Yes, we're cheesy!

Aliera: Now she has me doing it! *looks at sentence, panics* See! Hmph!

[5] Harmonie: There is a house I loosely based this on in the historical part of my town. It's so pretty! It's worth like a million dollars or something like that....

[6]Harmonie: Another fabled side fic. Just like the one that explains why Heero doesn't like us.

Duo: Well you only... *cut off by a hand over his mouth*

Harmonie: SHH!

Duo: *bites her*

Harmonie: OUCH You little...

Duo: MEEP! *throws Wufei in front of him*

[7] Harmonie: Yes, I am really like this... Kind of. I hate it when people don't use common sense!!!

Harmonie: WOOO HOOO! I finally finished off this part!

Aliera: It's about time! *taps foot* Waitaminute! Wasn't I supposed to write that last part?

Harmonie: Well, yeah, but I got impatient and had an inspiration and wanted to finish this part, now I have to go finish the next scene.... hmmm.... oh, fair warning to everyone, Wufei is a bit of a bastard in the next part, but he gets over it... or does he? MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Aliera: *smacks Harmonie* SHHH! Sorry folks, we'll leave you alone now!

Harmonie: *being dragged away by Aliera* READ AND REVIEW!