Lex: Nothing to say today,people,except..please R & R .. T____T'' at least
that'll show that my work is appreciated..
Wufei: *rolling eyes* serves you right.with the exam coming up..
Lex: *kicking the Chinese boy* ma fan lei.. oh,and please note that // means Duo's mind talking to him..
Duo: o.O?!?!?
Lex: *ignoring the braided boy* ..and \\ means him talking back.
Duo: ...am I going to be insane inside this story?talking to myself.. *shake head*
Lex: *grins* I know I'm bad..
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Forever Hating You -By- Alexq
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Chapter One-A Hateful Beginning
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"I won't do it!"
"Won't you at least consider it first?"The long,blonde-haired man pleaded exasperatingly.But the younger man,his cobalt blue eyes flashing dangerously,hissed."No."
"You're the only one who could protect her.Please."
"I am so flattered.No."
"Why..?"
It was a busy,hectic morning at the Pretender's main,formal headquarter.Today is probably the busiest of them all,for it was the first day of the month where every mission is made anew.Furthermore,the news that the former World Queen is coming to visit is not helping to ease the problem away.
The man wearing the Preventer's formal suit glared to the man sitting across the room.He was annoyed,and very troubled.He slammed the file in his hand onto the table,rattling the frame and pencil holder on it."Why?You're asking me why?!"He asked acidly.
The blonde man narrowed his dark blue eyes."No,I'm asking you why the cat must eat the fish."He returned the glare the Asian in front of him was giving."Of course I'm asking you why you wouldn't take the mission.What's wrong with being a bodyguard for my sister while she's here anyway?It's just a job,wasn't it,Mr Yuy?"
Heero Yuy spat the next word hatefully,rage bellowing inside his already too cold eyes."A job is a job.But if she is there,it wouldn't be job anymore.It's war."
"And already you're surrendering your pride?"
"Shut up,Milliardo.You know what happened the last time I worked up with her."The Asian pointed a long,sturdy finger to the scorned-faced Milliardo Peacecraft a.k.a Zechs Merquise.The man snorted."The whole building knows.What's more to tell?"
Heero frowned deeply.Damn him.What's his point?"That I can never stay near more than a universe away from her?"
"Come on,Yuy.What's done is done.And you did refuse,right?Why let is goes on longer than it should?"
"It's not me who will let it strays longer,it's her."Heero said with a matter of factly."Your lovable sister whom became the world's favourite leader."
The older man was offended by the other's words.He scoffed,much to Heero's icy glare."See?Everyone loves her."He stopped,and stared straight into the cold,cobalt blue eyes that looked back at him."Why can't you?"
The Asian gritted his teeth tightly,and looked away.He turned to look out the wide opened window which pictured the view outside like a magnificent masterpiece.He had purposedly choose this room at the west wing,only to see the lovely sight of a sun setting over the mountain near the city.And the other reason is because only at that particular side,can he see his other half friend from the other side of the building.
He looked straight to the room across the white building,and saw some braided young man dancing around with a headset on his head.He danced,here and there,a view that almost made the Asian shook his head and said a "Baka.".The man danced,and finally stopping in front of the window overlooking Heero's,saw him,and grinned.The man waved,and shouted."Oi,Heero!Come over here and join me!"
But the man called Heero only shook his head,and mouthed a small 'Later.'.He waved to shoo the braided man away,and pouting,the man did.He slammed the window shut,and Heero could almost swear that he saw the man muttered 'Damn ass..'.He rolled his eyes,and turned to face the man sitting across the room.
Zechs stared at the way his companion looked over to the braided man across the building.His mind was saying impossible words,but he shush it away,pretending that it was indeed,impossible.But looking back at Heero,he was certain that something is wrong by the way the man was this time.He wanted to say something,but thought better of it.He coughed,instead."So?What would you say?"
The brunette shook his uncomb hair."A definite no."
The man sighed,and crossed his arms."Why can't you just let things go?This is work,and I purposedly wanted only you to be in it."
"So you admitted that you were just using me?"
"Since when someone don't?"By then Zechs looked away abruptly,knowing that he was saying the wrong word that time.But Heero was not listening,as the door bursted open the minute Zechs said so.Standing at the doorway was the young braided man earlier,grinning cheekily as he strode inside the finely furnished room.
"Hello,mate.Long time no see."
Zechs smiled,a smile that warmed his own heart as he remembered the days when he had last seen the young man.He stood,and extended a hand to shook with.The braided man did,still grinning like there was no tomorrow."Hello,Duo.Long time indeed."
Duo Maxwell turned to the still annoyed Heero,and said,"Time's up,hon.Let's go back?"Heero rolled his eyes to answer his partner's question,and snorted."Loved to,but can't.I need to discuss something with Zechs."
"Hmm.."Duo frowned."It's about Relena's coming,isn't it?"
"Yes."
The usually blabber-mouthed Duo did not said anything at all to that,only to glance uneasily to Heero,then to Zechs,then back to Heero again.It went like that for more than 60 seconds,and Heero narrowed his eyes."Could you just stop doing that?It's starting to irritate me."
"Opps,sorry."The braided man hesitated,then continued."Do you want me to stay,Heero?"
The said man looked surprised at the other's request,and looked more troubled than he is.At last,he nodded."As you wish."
Clearly,Duo Maxwell was very surprised.But not as much as Zechs.Zechs was staring speechless at Heero until the man snapped irritatingly at him,"Close your damn mouth,Zechs.I wouldn't want to see it more than as much as I wanted to see your sister."
Zechs snapped his mouth shut,even more offended at what the younger man was saying about his sister."So she's not Relena anymore,eh?"
Heero's eyes turned colder at that remark,but he answered coolly,"She's Relena.It's just a name.Why would I care what to call her?"He shrugged.Duo walked around the room,trying to be deaf from their conversation about Relena Peacecraft,former World Queen.He walked to the trophy shelf,and fingered a small,glass frame of which contained a picture of five teenage boys.
The picture looked old,and the colours are slightly blurred as the years passed by.In the middle of it stood a younger-looking Heero in his usual green sweatshirt and jeans,being hugged by the shoulder by a smirking Duo.Duo smiled at the picture,and at the memory of their adventures together with the other three boys beside them.He looked again at the photograph.There was a stern-looking Chinese in white,looking slightly embarrased while smilling at the camera.Next to him was a cheery looking Arabian with his arm wrapped around a small-smilling European whose brown bangs was covering half of his face.
They looked so perfect and contented together,a little group that was made up by trust,honesty and friendship in which at that time,those things were thought foolish to ever existed.Duo's mind wandered off to the time when they had been together,but was snapped back to reality when Zechs's angry voice rang through the room."Just take the mission,dammit!Do you want her to assasinated?!"
Heero shouted right back,icy words that shocked both Duo and Zechs."I won't!I don't care even if she wad dead!Yes,I do feel grateful to her,but the feeling had stopped years ago!"He stopped,breathed deep,and said more calmly after minutes of the shocking tension."Look,let it go,okay?I won't take the mission no matter what happens.There.Satisfied?"
He then walked to the closet near the door,and took out his black coat.He called to the silent Duo."Let's go,Duo."And the braided man walked out,leaving the two man purposedly behind.Heero turned to face Zechs."Say hello to her.But don't let her be so giddy just because I said so."He stepped out of the room."I mean what I said.And I won't in the least say that I'm sorry."He left.
Zechs stared at the place where Heero had just been standing minutes ago,and sighed deeply.He slammed his fist to the small table next to it,and the small lamp wavered,falling onto the carpet with a crash.But he did not notice that,he was too absorbed in what he was going to tell his sister.He put his head into his hands,and sighed again.There is no way that Heero will ever agree again now that he had said so.Damn him.
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The house was quiet,and Duo tossed and turned on his bed.He turned again to his left,and turned back to his right.He then lay flat onto his back,sighing as he stared at the white ceiling over him.Yuck,he thought.Looks like I have to clean the house again next month.He stared as the spider moved freely toward the end of the ceiling,and disappeared as it slipped behind the door's crack.
Duo strained his ear to try to hear any noise,but heard nothing.He glanced out the window,and stared at the snow that fell.He looked away from the window,and thought back of today's incident.Heero was acting weird thoroughout the day for that,and the braided American blamed that to Zechs.If only Relena had decided not to come..
A small knock on his door awakened him from his thoughts.He strained his eyes when the door opened,bringing forth with the lights from the hall.He wiped his eyes,and pretended to be sleepy when Heero's familiar face came to view."Hee-Heero?What are you doing here?"
The Asian did not say anything,but to close the door shut behind him.He walked to the where his partner was lying at,and sat next to him.Duo looked strangely at him,and lied back to bed when his friend continued to stay quiet.He wanted to ask if something is wrong,but with the look at Heero's face,he decided not to.
Heero,never saying a word,lied down next to Duo.He lied there quietly,eyes open as he stared out the window.The sky was brightly coloured that night,and he could see the still-covered-with-snow forest outside,snows falling slowly as he did.He stared out the window like that for more than a half an hour when a voice woke him up.
"Heero."
The Asian did not budge,nor did he did anything else.He just lied there,and Duo was starting to worry.Why was Heero..so..quiet?"Heero."He started again,"You okay?"
"Hn."
"Why are you so quiet?"
"Hn."
Duo turned to face the man beside him,and studied the other's face.Heero was lying at the side where the shadow was centered,and the braided man sighed when he could not see what Heero was doing."I've told you before,Hee- chan.'Hn' is not an answer."
"Hn."
The man chuckled at his Asian's friend cuteness.Without hesitation,he reached for the other's shoulder,and hugged the startled man tightly.Heero blinked and stared.But Duo only grinned,and leaned his head to the other's.He gazed into a pool of cobalt's,and whispered when Heero wanted to push him away,"Just relax."
After a moment,the Asian did,much to his relief.So,they lied there in silence,hearing nothing except for the sound of cold wind howling through the night and the sounds of their deep,steady breathings.The warmth of the other gave another a sense of calmness,and Heero wrapped his arm around his partner.
Duo sighed."This feels nice..just like christmas,eh,Hee-chan?"
"Quit calling me that."
"As if I would even if you pointed your gun at my face."
"Hn."
"Na,Hee-chan.Stop that once in a while,will ya?"
"Never."Heero snorted.
Duo hugged the man closer."Che.Wonder what will make you stop saying that"he mumbles.Heero snorted,wrapping the arm tightly around his pouting partner."As if I would ever tell you that."
"Hn,bully me again,Hee-chan."
Heero frowned."Can't you just stop?"
"No."
"Just once..?"
"No."The man thought for a while,chin on Heero's broad chest."Okay,let's make it as a bet."
"What bet?"
"Hmm-a bet.You don't say 'Hn',and I won't call you 'Hee-chan' anymore.The deal is off when one of us breaks it first."
Heero scoffed.As if Duo would ever stopped calling him that.He agreed."Allright,then.What's the catch?"
The other snorted."Knew you wouldn't say yes without any prize,eh?"He shrugged,closing his eyes."I dunno,you think."
Heero thought,and after for almost like fifteen minutes,yawned."No,you think yourself.I'm going to sleep.Tell me in the morning."
The American opened one eye,and nodded."Okay,night,Heero."Heero snorted,and placed his hand to the other's bare back,eyes closed.Duo waited for him to get up and walked out,but it did not happen.He waited again,as if to give the other time to spare,but his partner did not even making any effort to move at all.Anxious,he called out for Heero."Oi,Heero."
A sound of a muffled voice."Mmm?"
"Aren't you going back to your room?"
"No..,..don't make me."Silence.Then "...do you want me to?"
Duo could hardly believe his own ear.Here was Heero,lying across him who were only wearing his boxer to bed,asking if he wanted him to go?The answer if of course,definitely a.."No."
"Okay,then.Oyasumi,Duo."Heero turned to Duo's side,holding the other man close as he moved closer.He then proceeded to sleep,one hand to Duo's head,holding it to his chest while the other is to the other's back,warming it.He sighed,and snuggled deeper to the bed and to Duo.He slept.
The American blinked for a few times,mind registering to his brain that he was actually inside Heero's arms,held a little too close for comfort.He wanted to wriggle out,but then he heard Heero's sleepy voice,"Don't move too much.Just sleep.." and decided not to.He stayed like that for almost like an hour,and felt himself blushing scarlet when he found himself trying to hug the man back.And picturing his lips against the other's..
//Duo!What the hell do you think you were doing?!Sleep!//
He bit his lips.\\But why bother?He's not awake\\.
But his mind scolded.//Stop being stupid for once in a while,will ya?What if he wakes up and see you kissing him?!//
\\Well,\\he thought back.\\I can always say that I was dreaming of..\\
//..Hilde?//His mind scoffed.//As if he would ever believe that.//
Stop being a priss,he snapped.\\Besides,I never dreamt of Hilde.\\
//Oh,really?Then who do you dream of?//
Duo shook his head,and snorted quietly.\\Of course you know who it is,stupid.You're me.How could you not know?\\
//Ah,but,//the mind whispered.//Why don't you admit it yourself?//
He gritted his teeth.\\What are you trying to play?\\
//You.//
\\I hate you.\\
//Thank you.But you gotta admit,it's pretty interesting to hear you say that you've actually dreamt of..//
"Shut up!"
Heero jerked awake,arms held tighter around him.He looked around in an alarm,as if trying to find any suspicious intruder.Failing to do so,he turned to face his partner."What happened?"
"Err-nothing?"
"I heard you screaming."
Duo stammered,never thinking that he was sounding very ridiculous right then."Urm,you see,actually something bit me.A mosquito,I think."//Yes,//his mind said.//You do sound very so.//
\\Shut up,\\he snapped.
Heero stared dumbly."A mosquito.Uh-huh.Winter?Does that ring any bell to you?"
"Urmm..?"
Heero yawned again,tucking Duo's head under his chin,reaching for the comforter to their bodies.He placed it around them,saying rather sleepily,"Don't make too much sound,will you?I'm trying to have a peaceful sleep.."He snored.
The braided man giggled.He had actually forgot that Heero snores in his sleep.Of course he did,they never slept in the same room for at least..three years?Not since they had stopped being a gundam pilots.Even when they had stayed together in the same house.Why should they?Not that they had any good reason to,actually.
//Ah,here we are now,remembering the good old days.Memories are sweet,eh?//His mind laughed.
\\I am soooo into hating you.\\
//Since when you don't?//More laughs.
\\Go away,pervert.\\
//Aa-and so are you.//
\\Thank you very much.I know.\\
//Okay,I'll leave.Just don't get caught..//
\\Shoo!\\
Complete silence.
Duo sighed,snuggled deeper and closed his eyes,trying to sleep,but still failing to do so.He just lie there,with Heero holding him tightly and him trying to forget all the thoughts his mind was playing with,until he himself did fall asleep.Which he did,after a few more hours before dawn.
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Zechs smiled triumphantly."I guess that's it,huh?"
Heero glared at the smilling man in front of him.He turned to his left,glaring to one brown-haired woman next.The woman sighed,knowing full well that the man was very angry at her.She got up,walking toward the huge window over looking the headquarter's main building."Look,Heero."She turned to face the man."The minister had asked personally that only you were to be her protector."
"Spare me the fantasy word."Heero snapped."I had a right to refuse."
The woman shook her head,ignoring another deathly glare from the man "I know.But she had every right to be accompanied by you.You're the best that we got around here."
But the Asian objected."Then send in Chang or Barton."
"We can't.She wouldn't let us."
"Why should we care whether she'd let us?It's for her own safety,god's sakes!"
"That's why,"interrupted Zechs."She choose you."
"Am I supposed to be grateful about that?"
"As you wish."
"Shut up."Heero walked over to the woman's desk,slamming his fist onto it.Sally Po sighed.Why can't they just let the past go?"Look,Sally.I can't.There will be extreme battle to happen if I did."
"Heero,let go of the past.She won't do anything to you."
"I wouldn't take your word for it."
"Then don't."Zechs strode out of the room."I'll expect you at my hotel early tomorrow morning,Yuy.No excuse."
Heero glanced to the silent Sally,and gritted his teeth.Sally frowned."Now,don't you try to be like that in front of me."Heero rolled his eyes,scoffing."Why can't you make an excuse for me,Sally?"He groaned.
Sally snorted."As if that would make the girl stop?"
Heero almost smiled to that remark,but did not say anything.At last,the woman spoke in a very authorative voice."Heero Yuy,I ordered you to get on with the mission.You cannot refuse,nor can you ask to be under other mission.Understood?"
Heero bit his lips,but nodded nevertheless and saluted."Yes,ma'am."His mind wandered.Whatever is he going to do now?
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-End Chapter 1-
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Lex: hehe-of course there will be more to come..
Wufei: *rolling eyes* serves you right.with the exam coming up..
Lex: *kicking the Chinese boy* ma fan lei.. oh,and please note that // means Duo's mind talking to him..
Duo: o.O?!?!?
Lex: *ignoring the braided boy* ..and \\ means him talking back.
Duo: ...am I going to be insane inside this story?talking to myself.. *shake head*
Lex: *grins* I know I'm bad..
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Forever Hating You -By- Alexq
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Chapter One-A Hateful Beginning
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"I won't do it!"
"Won't you at least consider it first?"The long,blonde-haired man pleaded exasperatingly.But the younger man,his cobalt blue eyes flashing dangerously,hissed."No."
"You're the only one who could protect her.Please."
"I am so flattered.No."
"Why..?"
It was a busy,hectic morning at the Pretender's main,formal headquarter.Today is probably the busiest of them all,for it was the first day of the month where every mission is made anew.Furthermore,the news that the former World Queen is coming to visit is not helping to ease the problem away.
The man wearing the Preventer's formal suit glared to the man sitting across the room.He was annoyed,and very troubled.He slammed the file in his hand onto the table,rattling the frame and pencil holder on it."Why?You're asking me why?!"He asked acidly.
The blonde man narrowed his dark blue eyes."No,I'm asking you why the cat must eat the fish."He returned the glare the Asian in front of him was giving."Of course I'm asking you why you wouldn't take the mission.What's wrong with being a bodyguard for my sister while she's here anyway?It's just a job,wasn't it,Mr Yuy?"
Heero Yuy spat the next word hatefully,rage bellowing inside his already too cold eyes."A job is a job.But if she is there,it wouldn't be job anymore.It's war."
"And already you're surrendering your pride?"
"Shut up,Milliardo.You know what happened the last time I worked up with her."The Asian pointed a long,sturdy finger to the scorned-faced Milliardo Peacecraft a.k.a Zechs Merquise.The man snorted."The whole building knows.What's more to tell?"
Heero frowned deeply.Damn him.What's his point?"That I can never stay near more than a universe away from her?"
"Come on,Yuy.What's done is done.And you did refuse,right?Why let is goes on longer than it should?"
"It's not me who will let it strays longer,it's her."Heero said with a matter of factly."Your lovable sister whom became the world's favourite leader."
The older man was offended by the other's words.He scoffed,much to Heero's icy glare."See?Everyone loves her."He stopped,and stared straight into the cold,cobalt blue eyes that looked back at him."Why can't you?"
The Asian gritted his teeth tightly,and looked away.He turned to look out the wide opened window which pictured the view outside like a magnificent masterpiece.He had purposedly choose this room at the west wing,only to see the lovely sight of a sun setting over the mountain near the city.And the other reason is because only at that particular side,can he see his other half friend from the other side of the building.
He looked straight to the room across the white building,and saw some braided young man dancing around with a headset on his head.He danced,here and there,a view that almost made the Asian shook his head and said a "Baka.".The man danced,and finally stopping in front of the window overlooking Heero's,saw him,and grinned.The man waved,and shouted."Oi,Heero!Come over here and join me!"
But the man called Heero only shook his head,and mouthed a small 'Later.'.He waved to shoo the braided man away,and pouting,the man did.He slammed the window shut,and Heero could almost swear that he saw the man muttered 'Damn ass..'.He rolled his eyes,and turned to face the man sitting across the room.
Zechs stared at the way his companion looked over to the braided man across the building.His mind was saying impossible words,but he shush it away,pretending that it was indeed,impossible.But looking back at Heero,he was certain that something is wrong by the way the man was this time.He wanted to say something,but thought better of it.He coughed,instead."So?What would you say?"
The brunette shook his uncomb hair."A definite no."
The man sighed,and crossed his arms."Why can't you just let things go?This is work,and I purposedly wanted only you to be in it."
"So you admitted that you were just using me?"
"Since when someone don't?"By then Zechs looked away abruptly,knowing that he was saying the wrong word that time.But Heero was not listening,as the door bursted open the minute Zechs said so.Standing at the doorway was the young braided man earlier,grinning cheekily as he strode inside the finely furnished room.
"Hello,mate.Long time no see."
Zechs smiled,a smile that warmed his own heart as he remembered the days when he had last seen the young man.He stood,and extended a hand to shook with.The braided man did,still grinning like there was no tomorrow."Hello,Duo.Long time indeed."
Duo Maxwell turned to the still annoyed Heero,and said,"Time's up,hon.Let's go back?"Heero rolled his eyes to answer his partner's question,and snorted."Loved to,but can't.I need to discuss something with Zechs."
"Hmm.."Duo frowned."It's about Relena's coming,isn't it?"
"Yes."
The usually blabber-mouthed Duo did not said anything at all to that,only to glance uneasily to Heero,then to Zechs,then back to Heero again.It went like that for more than 60 seconds,and Heero narrowed his eyes."Could you just stop doing that?It's starting to irritate me."
"Opps,sorry."The braided man hesitated,then continued."Do you want me to stay,Heero?"
The said man looked surprised at the other's request,and looked more troubled than he is.At last,he nodded."As you wish."
Clearly,Duo Maxwell was very surprised.But not as much as Zechs.Zechs was staring speechless at Heero until the man snapped irritatingly at him,"Close your damn mouth,Zechs.I wouldn't want to see it more than as much as I wanted to see your sister."
Zechs snapped his mouth shut,even more offended at what the younger man was saying about his sister."So she's not Relena anymore,eh?"
Heero's eyes turned colder at that remark,but he answered coolly,"She's Relena.It's just a name.Why would I care what to call her?"He shrugged.Duo walked around the room,trying to be deaf from their conversation about Relena Peacecraft,former World Queen.He walked to the trophy shelf,and fingered a small,glass frame of which contained a picture of five teenage boys.
The picture looked old,and the colours are slightly blurred as the years passed by.In the middle of it stood a younger-looking Heero in his usual green sweatshirt and jeans,being hugged by the shoulder by a smirking Duo.Duo smiled at the picture,and at the memory of their adventures together with the other three boys beside them.He looked again at the photograph.There was a stern-looking Chinese in white,looking slightly embarrased while smilling at the camera.Next to him was a cheery looking Arabian with his arm wrapped around a small-smilling European whose brown bangs was covering half of his face.
They looked so perfect and contented together,a little group that was made up by trust,honesty and friendship in which at that time,those things were thought foolish to ever existed.Duo's mind wandered off to the time when they had been together,but was snapped back to reality when Zechs's angry voice rang through the room."Just take the mission,dammit!Do you want her to assasinated?!"
Heero shouted right back,icy words that shocked both Duo and Zechs."I won't!I don't care even if she wad dead!Yes,I do feel grateful to her,but the feeling had stopped years ago!"He stopped,breathed deep,and said more calmly after minutes of the shocking tension."Look,let it go,okay?I won't take the mission no matter what happens.There.Satisfied?"
He then walked to the closet near the door,and took out his black coat.He called to the silent Duo."Let's go,Duo."And the braided man walked out,leaving the two man purposedly behind.Heero turned to face Zechs."Say hello to her.But don't let her be so giddy just because I said so."He stepped out of the room."I mean what I said.And I won't in the least say that I'm sorry."He left.
Zechs stared at the place where Heero had just been standing minutes ago,and sighed deeply.He slammed his fist to the small table next to it,and the small lamp wavered,falling onto the carpet with a crash.But he did not notice that,he was too absorbed in what he was going to tell his sister.He put his head into his hands,and sighed again.There is no way that Heero will ever agree again now that he had said so.Damn him.
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The house was quiet,and Duo tossed and turned on his bed.He turned again to his left,and turned back to his right.He then lay flat onto his back,sighing as he stared at the white ceiling over him.Yuck,he thought.Looks like I have to clean the house again next month.He stared as the spider moved freely toward the end of the ceiling,and disappeared as it slipped behind the door's crack.
Duo strained his ear to try to hear any noise,but heard nothing.He glanced out the window,and stared at the snow that fell.He looked away from the window,and thought back of today's incident.Heero was acting weird thoroughout the day for that,and the braided American blamed that to Zechs.If only Relena had decided not to come..
A small knock on his door awakened him from his thoughts.He strained his eyes when the door opened,bringing forth with the lights from the hall.He wiped his eyes,and pretended to be sleepy when Heero's familiar face came to view."Hee-Heero?What are you doing here?"
The Asian did not say anything,but to close the door shut behind him.He walked to the where his partner was lying at,and sat next to him.Duo looked strangely at him,and lied back to bed when his friend continued to stay quiet.He wanted to ask if something is wrong,but with the look at Heero's face,he decided not to.
Heero,never saying a word,lied down next to Duo.He lied there quietly,eyes open as he stared out the window.The sky was brightly coloured that night,and he could see the still-covered-with-snow forest outside,snows falling slowly as he did.He stared out the window like that for more than a half an hour when a voice woke him up.
"Heero."
The Asian did not budge,nor did he did anything else.He just lied there,and Duo was starting to worry.Why was Heero..so..quiet?"Heero."He started again,"You okay?"
"Hn."
"Why are you so quiet?"
"Hn."
Duo turned to face the man beside him,and studied the other's face.Heero was lying at the side where the shadow was centered,and the braided man sighed when he could not see what Heero was doing."I've told you before,Hee- chan.'Hn' is not an answer."
"Hn."
The man chuckled at his Asian's friend cuteness.Without hesitation,he reached for the other's shoulder,and hugged the startled man tightly.Heero blinked and stared.But Duo only grinned,and leaned his head to the other's.He gazed into a pool of cobalt's,and whispered when Heero wanted to push him away,"Just relax."
After a moment,the Asian did,much to his relief.So,they lied there in silence,hearing nothing except for the sound of cold wind howling through the night and the sounds of their deep,steady breathings.The warmth of the other gave another a sense of calmness,and Heero wrapped his arm around his partner.
Duo sighed."This feels nice..just like christmas,eh,Hee-chan?"
"Quit calling me that."
"As if I would even if you pointed your gun at my face."
"Hn."
"Na,Hee-chan.Stop that once in a while,will ya?"
"Never."Heero snorted.
Duo hugged the man closer."Che.Wonder what will make you stop saying that"he mumbles.Heero snorted,wrapping the arm tightly around his pouting partner."As if I would ever tell you that."
"Hn,bully me again,Hee-chan."
Heero frowned."Can't you just stop?"
"No."
"Just once..?"
"No."The man thought for a while,chin on Heero's broad chest."Okay,let's make it as a bet."
"What bet?"
"Hmm-a bet.You don't say 'Hn',and I won't call you 'Hee-chan' anymore.The deal is off when one of us breaks it first."
Heero scoffed.As if Duo would ever stopped calling him that.He agreed."Allright,then.What's the catch?"
The other snorted."Knew you wouldn't say yes without any prize,eh?"He shrugged,closing his eyes."I dunno,you think."
Heero thought,and after for almost like fifteen minutes,yawned."No,you think yourself.I'm going to sleep.Tell me in the morning."
The American opened one eye,and nodded."Okay,night,Heero."Heero snorted,and placed his hand to the other's bare back,eyes closed.Duo waited for him to get up and walked out,but it did not happen.He waited again,as if to give the other time to spare,but his partner did not even making any effort to move at all.Anxious,he called out for Heero."Oi,Heero."
A sound of a muffled voice."Mmm?"
"Aren't you going back to your room?"
"No..,..don't make me."Silence.Then "...do you want me to?"
Duo could hardly believe his own ear.Here was Heero,lying across him who were only wearing his boxer to bed,asking if he wanted him to go?The answer if of course,definitely a.."No."
"Okay,then.Oyasumi,Duo."Heero turned to Duo's side,holding the other man close as he moved closer.He then proceeded to sleep,one hand to Duo's head,holding it to his chest while the other is to the other's back,warming it.He sighed,and snuggled deeper to the bed and to Duo.He slept.
The American blinked for a few times,mind registering to his brain that he was actually inside Heero's arms,held a little too close for comfort.He wanted to wriggle out,but then he heard Heero's sleepy voice,"Don't move too much.Just sleep.." and decided not to.He stayed like that for almost like an hour,and felt himself blushing scarlet when he found himself trying to hug the man back.And picturing his lips against the other's..
//Duo!What the hell do you think you were doing?!Sleep!//
He bit his lips.\\But why bother?He's not awake\\.
But his mind scolded.//Stop being stupid for once in a while,will ya?What if he wakes up and see you kissing him?!//
\\Well,\\he thought back.\\I can always say that I was dreaming of..\\
//..Hilde?//His mind scoffed.//As if he would ever believe that.//
Stop being a priss,he snapped.\\Besides,I never dreamt of Hilde.\\
//Oh,really?Then who do you dream of?//
Duo shook his head,and snorted quietly.\\Of course you know who it is,stupid.You're me.How could you not know?\\
//Ah,but,//the mind whispered.//Why don't you admit it yourself?//
He gritted his teeth.\\What are you trying to play?\\
//You.//
\\I hate you.\\
//Thank you.But you gotta admit,it's pretty interesting to hear you say that you've actually dreamt of..//
"Shut up!"
Heero jerked awake,arms held tighter around him.He looked around in an alarm,as if trying to find any suspicious intruder.Failing to do so,he turned to face his partner."What happened?"
"Err-nothing?"
"I heard you screaming."
Duo stammered,never thinking that he was sounding very ridiculous right then."Urm,you see,actually something bit me.A mosquito,I think."//Yes,//his mind said.//You do sound very so.//
\\Shut up,\\he snapped.
Heero stared dumbly."A mosquito.Uh-huh.Winter?Does that ring any bell to you?"
"Urmm..?"
Heero yawned again,tucking Duo's head under his chin,reaching for the comforter to their bodies.He placed it around them,saying rather sleepily,"Don't make too much sound,will you?I'm trying to have a peaceful sleep.."He snored.
The braided man giggled.He had actually forgot that Heero snores in his sleep.Of course he did,they never slept in the same room for at least..three years?Not since they had stopped being a gundam pilots.Even when they had stayed together in the same house.Why should they?Not that they had any good reason to,actually.
//Ah,here we are now,remembering the good old days.Memories are sweet,eh?//His mind laughed.
\\I am soooo into hating you.\\
//Since when you don't?//More laughs.
\\Go away,pervert.\\
//Aa-and so are you.//
\\Thank you very much.I know.\\
//Okay,I'll leave.Just don't get caught..//
\\Shoo!\\
Complete silence.
Duo sighed,snuggled deeper and closed his eyes,trying to sleep,but still failing to do so.He just lie there,with Heero holding him tightly and him trying to forget all the thoughts his mind was playing with,until he himself did fall asleep.Which he did,after a few more hours before dawn.
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Zechs smiled triumphantly."I guess that's it,huh?"
Heero glared at the smilling man in front of him.He turned to his left,glaring to one brown-haired woman next.The woman sighed,knowing full well that the man was very angry at her.She got up,walking toward the huge window over looking the headquarter's main building."Look,Heero."She turned to face the man."The minister had asked personally that only you were to be her protector."
"Spare me the fantasy word."Heero snapped."I had a right to refuse."
The woman shook her head,ignoring another deathly glare from the man "I know.But she had every right to be accompanied by you.You're the best that we got around here."
But the Asian objected."Then send in Chang or Barton."
"We can't.She wouldn't let us."
"Why should we care whether she'd let us?It's for her own safety,god's sakes!"
"That's why,"interrupted Zechs."She choose you."
"Am I supposed to be grateful about that?"
"As you wish."
"Shut up."Heero walked over to the woman's desk,slamming his fist onto it.Sally Po sighed.Why can't they just let the past go?"Look,Sally.I can't.There will be extreme battle to happen if I did."
"Heero,let go of the past.She won't do anything to you."
"I wouldn't take your word for it."
"Then don't."Zechs strode out of the room."I'll expect you at my hotel early tomorrow morning,Yuy.No excuse."
Heero glanced to the silent Sally,and gritted his teeth.Sally frowned."Now,don't you try to be like that in front of me."Heero rolled his eyes,scoffing."Why can't you make an excuse for me,Sally?"He groaned.
Sally snorted."As if that would make the girl stop?"
Heero almost smiled to that remark,but did not say anything.At last,the woman spoke in a very authorative voice."Heero Yuy,I ordered you to get on with the mission.You cannot refuse,nor can you ask to be under other mission.Understood?"
Heero bit his lips,but nodded nevertheless and saluted."Yes,ma'am."His mind wandered.Whatever is he going to do now?
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-End Chapter 1-
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Lex: hehe-of course there will be more to come..