Chapter Eleven
Throughout the journey home, Wufei had remained rather talkative, much the annoyance of his fellow companions. By the time they arrived home he had been given four death-glares by Heero, five death threats from Duo and seven barrages of insults from Quatre, but still he talked on and on about anything that he could think of. Anything to try and get their minds off of the events earlier on that day. But Duo had not forgotten, and the second Wufei had disappeared up the stairs at home he had informed everyone of his discovery.
At first it was only Quatre who was mad at what Wufei had done, but as time wore on both Heero and Trowa found themselves to be equally disgusted at him.
" It's not so much the fact that he sabotaged our entries." Said Trowa while arranging the remains of the flowers in a water filled vase. " It's that he withheld certain information which would have made today a lot easier on us all. That and the fact that he can't own up to what he did."
Heero agreed with him. " Wufei has been a total bitch and I'm not having it."
Duo frowned a little. Though he was glad that Heero was agreeing with him in that Wufei deserved to be punished, he knew Heero to be the kind who would normally just let things drop and cool down. There was something about the way that Heero was unconsciously snapping Duo's favorite key ring from the care keys off that unnerved him slightly.
" Keep you voice down!" shushed Quatre. " We don't want him to hear us, then he'll know that we know what he knew but didn't tell us!"
All three gave him a funny look.
" What?" asked Duo " Was that?"
" I'm just saying that we need to be quiet. Okay, Mr. Master in Stealth operations... Gees, for someone who's supposed to be able to move in complete silence you make a lot of noise..."
" That's a 'Miss' to you if you don't mind. And don't get on at me! It's Wufei that we need to be thinking about right now... So how are we gonna get him back for what he's done, the little ass licking bitch..."
" Why don't we wax him?" asked Trowa. " It was only Duo and Quatre who got it last time, maybe we could do that."
" No good." Said Quatre. " Wufei still goes on about how 'he feels no pain' and how he has 'mastered pain in its most extreme' so it wouldn't hurt him in the slightest. Besides, he can hide it if we wax him."
Duo threw his arms up into the air, narrowly missing the back of Heero's head. " I know! I know! Why don't we throw a ferret at him while he's in the bath?!"
" Poor little ferret!" squealed Quatre. " No! Bad Duo! Don't you even think about going out to get a ferret! Heero! Hide the car keys!"
Heero slipped the keys into the back pocket of his jeans.
" You think I ain't gonna go in there?" smirked Duo, aiming himself at Heero's ass. " I wanna see Fei-chan scream, and I wanna see him do it through the ferret treatment!" he threw himself forward, catching onto the pocket. " Gimmie 'em here!"
" For God's sake, stop that!" hissed Quatre. " I don't want to see you pulling at Heero's ass in the middle of the kitchen! Save that for later!"
Duo stuck his tongue out and folded his arms, flicking his hair as he did so. " Well I thought it was a good idea..."
" We'll we don't. What we need is something that'll last, something that'll really get him angry. What does he cherish the most?"
" His masculinity?"
Heero death glared him. " Does your brain fall out your ears if your hair isn't braided back to screw it in? Don't be so stupid."
" What about his katana?"
Quatre shook his head, his loose hair flying everywhere. " No, what could we do to that except take it and hide it for a little while? No... It has to be something different, something that he can do nothing about..."
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Wufei decided that it would be less risky to go to bed early. That way he couldn't be segregated and interrogated by any of his flat mates. He avoided them completely that night, they had spent all their time in the kitchen since they had got back, not even unpacking their clothes, except one time when Heero went out with Trowa in the car. Not wishing to raise their suspicions any more, he had not spied on them to see what they had got, if anything at all, when they were out and by ten he was in bed fast asleep.
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Duo stood outside Wufei's door dressed in his pyjama shorts and a sports bra. Next to him was Heero wearing a T-shirt and a pair of little cotton panties. At the other side of the door was Quatre in the same holding a brown paper bag and behind him was Trowa wearing similar clothes to Duo's. It was half four in the morning and they had been up all night arranging the kitchen for what they had planned for Wufei, though they were exhausted from the days activities, they were not about to pass up one of the best opportunities that they were ever going to get. Duo leaned forward to whisper to Quatre.
" Open the door and see if he's asleep."
The blonde smirked wickedly, the shadows from the lamp outside the landing window crawling over his face. He put a hand on the door handle and slowly turned it, wincing a little as it creaked a little, he poked his head round the frame. " Sleeping like a charm." He whispered as he pulled his head back round. He produced two lengths of cord and a scarf from out of the bag.
" Good." Said Heero quietly. " Let's get on with this..."
Duo crept forward, slowly entering Wufei's room he shuffled over to where the sleeping girl lay. Once he was there he signalled for the others to follow.
When all four were around the bed, Duo quickly flicked the lamp on the bedside table on. It took a good minute or so for Wufei to open his eyes a little, but when he did the four of them were on him in an instant.
" What are you doing?! What the hell?!? Maxwell! You..."
They never got to hear what Duo was in Wufei's eyes for Duo had thrown himself onto him, holding him down while Quatre tied the scarf round his mouth effectively gagging him and silencing him except for a loud muffle. He was turned around while Heero bound his hands together with the cord and Trowa stood him up, taking great care to avoid his flailing legs as he scowled and screwed his face up. They didn't have to put up with it for that much longer as Quatre placed the paper bag over his head that Duo had appropriately drawn a smiley face on and all four were dragging him out the room and down the stairs to the blacked out kitchen where he was abruptly shoved onto a chair that was sitting in the middle of the floor. Still kicking and mumbling loudly, he had his arms retied behind him and attached to the chair as were his legs which were tied to the legs of the chair.
When Duo pulled the bag from his head, all that Wufei could see was a table in the middle of the floor with another brown paper bag sitting on it and the outlines of the others. The light was switched on and it blinded Wufei for a moment, causing him to wince back. His eyes widened as he saw Duo pull on a rubber glove.
Quatre pulled the scarf from his mouth and a scream escaped him. " What are you doing?!?"
" What does it look like?" replied Duo, the triumph dripping in his voice. " Payback for what you did earlier on today..."
Wufei squealed and rocked the chair from side to side while shaking his head." What are you talking about?! I don't know what you're on about!"
" It's no good trying to lie." Said Quatre. " Duo found everything in your bag when you were on stage. We know that you tried to fix the competition for yourself so don't try and deny it."
Wufei looked at Heero and Trowa who were standing in the background, Heero death-glaring him and Trowa with his usual expressionless mask on. " You two can't believe Duo can you? How can you be so bitter over a stupid thing like a beauty contest?!"
" We're not." Retorted Heero coldly. " You lied to us. You knew that Relena and Dorothy were going to be there and you never told us. You knew that we wouldn't have entered if we had known that and you said nothing. We don't care that we lost, we're pissed off that you lied about something more important than any competition."
" But I didn't lie about anything!" claimed Wufei, still cautiously eyeing Duo who was now putting the other glove on.
" Let me rephrase it then. You 'neglected' to tell us some vital information."
" Nonsense! I did no such thing."
" You're only making it worse for yourself by lying." Said Quatre. " We told you already, Duo found what you had in your bag."
" Well he shouldn't have been going through my stuff!"
" You went through ours!" answered Duo angrily. " When we went out to check the list of names, you stayed and that's when you went through our bags and took the stuff! You swapped Heero's shoes, you unpicked part of Quatre's dress, you took Trowa's red bra knowing that he couldn't wear his white one under his red dress and you stole my, uh... thingies! What do you think you were doing?!"
" Calm down Duo." Soothed Quatre. " Don't work yourself up."
" Fine! I'll just get on with this then..."
" Get on with what?!" exclaimed Wufei as Duo approached him. " Don't you come near me with those on Maxwell... don't you dare!"
Duo stopped. " Your right. I forgot the most important part..." he turned around again and from out of the bag sitting on the table he pulled a box marked 'Loreal No. 7' Wufei screamed again as he noticed that the picture of the lady on the box had bright peroxide blonde hair.
" NOOO!" he shrieked as Duo opened the box, discussing with the others how one actually applied the dye to another's hair. " Don't! Please don't! I'll tell you everything, I'll admit I did it just please don't dye my hair!"
Quatre shook his head. " Nah, I think we'll do it anyway... You've been a bad little girl Wufei, you need to be punished..."
Wufei sat trembling. The second Duo came near him he started to shake his head violently. " No! You're NOT putting that on my head!"
" Hold him down!"
Heero walked behind Wufei and held his head straight.
" Okay... here I go..." smiled Duo as he poured the contents of the bottle over Wufei's head, pulling the sides up and coating it in the dye too. All the while Wufei sat cursing them until Quatre gagged his mouth again.
When Duo was done he stood back to admire his work. " How long are you supposed to leave it on for?" he asked.
Trowa picked up the instructions. " It says here you have to leave it on for half and hour to an hour if you have light hair already. If you have dark hair then you should leave it on for an hour to an hour and a half. If you leave it any longer then the colour will change form what's it's supposed to be. "
" Okay. Lets leave it on for three hours." Smiled Duo while removing the gloves. " Or maybe we should sleep on it?"
" Yeah, I'm exhausted." Said Quatre while scratching his head, his long natural blonde hair wrapping round his fingers. " He can sit there until we get up. It should give him time to think about what he's done..."
" Take his gag out." Said Heero. " We probably won't be up for hours."
Wufei glared them all individually as Trowa pulled the gag from his mouth. " This stuff is burning my head!" he screamed.
" Oh stop screaming..." Yawned Duo. " You'll wake the neighbours up..."
Wufei fumed, but whatever it was he was saying, the others didn't hear for they did as they had intended and left the 'almost blonde' girl sitting in the kitchen in the dark.
Throughout the journey home, Wufei had remained rather talkative, much the annoyance of his fellow companions. By the time they arrived home he had been given four death-glares by Heero, five death threats from Duo and seven barrages of insults from Quatre, but still he talked on and on about anything that he could think of. Anything to try and get their minds off of the events earlier on that day. But Duo had not forgotten, and the second Wufei had disappeared up the stairs at home he had informed everyone of his discovery.
At first it was only Quatre who was mad at what Wufei had done, but as time wore on both Heero and Trowa found themselves to be equally disgusted at him.
" It's not so much the fact that he sabotaged our entries." Said Trowa while arranging the remains of the flowers in a water filled vase. " It's that he withheld certain information which would have made today a lot easier on us all. That and the fact that he can't own up to what he did."
Heero agreed with him. " Wufei has been a total bitch and I'm not having it."
Duo frowned a little. Though he was glad that Heero was agreeing with him in that Wufei deserved to be punished, he knew Heero to be the kind who would normally just let things drop and cool down. There was something about the way that Heero was unconsciously snapping Duo's favorite key ring from the care keys off that unnerved him slightly.
" Keep you voice down!" shushed Quatre. " We don't want him to hear us, then he'll know that we know what he knew but didn't tell us!"
All three gave him a funny look.
" What?" asked Duo " Was that?"
" I'm just saying that we need to be quiet. Okay, Mr. Master in Stealth operations... Gees, for someone who's supposed to be able to move in complete silence you make a lot of noise..."
" That's a 'Miss' to you if you don't mind. And don't get on at me! It's Wufei that we need to be thinking about right now... So how are we gonna get him back for what he's done, the little ass licking bitch..."
" Why don't we wax him?" asked Trowa. " It was only Duo and Quatre who got it last time, maybe we could do that."
" No good." Said Quatre. " Wufei still goes on about how 'he feels no pain' and how he has 'mastered pain in its most extreme' so it wouldn't hurt him in the slightest. Besides, he can hide it if we wax him."
Duo threw his arms up into the air, narrowly missing the back of Heero's head. " I know! I know! Why don't we throw a ferret at him while he's in the bath?!"
" Poor little ferret!" squealed Quatre. " No! Bad Duo! Don't you even think about going out to get a ferret! Heero! Hide the car keys!"
Heero slipped the keys into the back pocket of his jeans.
" You think I ain't gonna go in there?" smirked Duo, aiming himself at Heero's ass. " I wanna see Fei-chan scream, and I wanna see him do it through the ferret treatment!" he threw himself forward, catching onto the pocket. " Gimmie 'em here!"
" For God's sake, stop that!" hissed Quatre. " I don't want to see you pulling at Heero's ass in the middle of the kitchen! Save that for later!"
Duo stuck his tongue out and folded his arms, flicking his hair as he did so. " Well I thought it was a good idea..."
" We'll we don't. What we need is something that'll last, something that'll really get him angry. What does he cherish the most?"
" His masculinity?"
Heero death glared him. " Does your brain fall out your ears if your hair isn't braided back to screw it in? Don't be so stupid."
" What about his katana?"
Quatre shook his head, his loose hair flying everywhere. " No, what could we do to that except take it and hide it for a little while? No... It has to be something different, something that he can do nothing about..."
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Wufei decided that it would be less risky to go to bed early. That way he couldn't be segregated and interrogated by any of his flat mates. He avoided them completely that night, they had spent all their time in the kitchen since they had got back, not even unpacking their clothes, except one time when Heero went out with Trowa in the car. Not wishing to raise their suspicions any more, he had not spied on them to see what they had got, if anything at all, when they were out and by ten he was in bed fast asleep.
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Duo stood outside Wufei's door dressed in his pyjama shorts and a sports bra. Next to him was Heero wearing a T-shirt and a pair of little cotton panties. At the other side of the door was Quatre in the same holding a brown paper bag and behind him was Trowa wearing similar clothes to Duo's. It was half four in the morning and they had been up all night arranging the kitchen for what they had planned for Wufei, though they were exhausted from the days activities, they were not about to pass up one of the best opportunities that they were ever going to get. Duo leaned forward to whisper to Quatre.
" Open the door and see if he's asleep."
The blonde smirked wickedly, the shadows from the lamp outside the landing window crawling over his face. He put a hand on the door handle and slowly turned it, wincing a little as it creaked a little, he poked his head round the frame. " Sleeping like a charm." He whispered as he pulled his head back round. He produced two lengths of cord and a scarf from out of the bag.
" Good." Said Heero quietly. " Let's get on with this..."
Duo crept forward, slowly entering Wufei's room he shuffled over to where the sleeping girl lay. Once he was there he signalled for the others to follow.
When all four were around the bed, Duo quickly flicked the lamp on the bedside table on. It took a good minute or so for Wufei to open his eyes a little, but when he did the four of them were on him in an instant.
" What are you doing?! What the hell?!? Maxwell! You..."
They never got to hear what Duo was in Wufei's eyes for Duo had thrown himself onto him, holding him down while Quatre tied the scarf round his mouth effectively gagging him and silencing him except for a loud muffle. He was turned around while Heero bound his hands together with the cord and Trowa stood him up, taking great care to avoid his flailing legs as he scowled and screwed his face up. They didn't have to put up with it for that much longer as Quatre placed the paper bag over his head that Duo had appropriately drawn a smiley face on and all four were dragging him out the room and down the stairs to the blacked out kitchen where he was abruptly shoved onto a chair that was sitting in the middle of the floor. Still kicking and mumbling loudly, he had his arms retied behind him and attached to the chair as were his legs which were tied to the legs of the chair.
When Duo pulled the bag from his head, all that Wufei could see was a table in the middle of the floor with another brown paper bag sitting on it and the outlines of the others. The light was switched on and it blinded Wufei for a moment, causing him to wince back. His eyes widened as he saw Duo pull on a rubber glove.
Quatre pulled the scarf from his mouth and a scream escaped him. " What are you doing?!?"
" What does it look like?" replied Duo, the triumph dripping in his voice. " Payback for what you did earlier on today..."
Wufei squealed and rocked the chair from side to side while shaking his head." What are you talking about?! I don't know what you're on about!"
" It's no good trying to lie." Said Quatre. " Duo found everything in your bag when you were on stage. We know that you tried to fix the competition for yourself so don't try and deny it."
Wufei looked at Heero and Trowa who were standing in the background, Heero death-glaring him and Trowa with his usual expressionless mask on. " You two can't believe Duo can you? How can you be so bitter over a stupid thing like a beauty contest?!"
" We're not." Retorted Heero coldly. " You lied to us. You knew that Relena and Dorothy were going to be there and you never told us. You knew that we wouldn't have entered if we had known that and you said nothing. We don't care that we lost, we're pissed off that you lied about something more important than any competition."
" But I didn't lie about anything!" claimed Wufei, still cautiously eyeing Duo who was now putting the other glove on.
" Let me rephrase it then. You 'neglected' to tell us some vital information."
" Nonsense! I did no such thing."
" You're only making it worse for yourself by lying." Said Quatre. " We told you already, Duo found what you had in your bag."
" Well he shouldn't have been going through my stuff!"
" You went through ours!" answered Duo angrily. " When we went out to check the list of names, you stayed and that's when you went through our bags and took the stuff! You swapped Heero's shoes, you unpicked part of Quatre's dress, you took Trowa's red bra knowing that he couldn't wear his white one under his red dress and you stole my, uh... thingies! What do you think you were doing?!"
" Calm down Duo." Soothed Quatre. " Don't work yourself up."
" Fine! I'll just get on with this then..."
" Get on with what?!" exclaimed Wufei as Duo approached him. " Don't you come near me with those on Maxwell... don't you dare!"
Duo stopped. " Your right. I forgot the most important part..." he turned around again and from out of the bag sitting on the table he pulled a box marked 'Loreal No. 7' Wufei screamed again as he noticed that the picture of the lady on the box had bright peroxide blonde hair.
" NOOO!" he shrieked as Duo opened the box, discussing with the others how one actually applied the dye to another's hair. " Don't! Please don't! I'll tell you everything, I'll admit I did it just please don't dye my hair!"
Quatre shook his head. " Nah, I think we'll do it anyway... You've been a bad little girl Wufei, you need to be punished..."
Wufei sat trembling. The second Duo came near him he started to shake his head violently. " No! You're NOT putting that on my head!"
" Hold him down!"
Heero walked behind Wufei and held his head straight.
" Okay... here I go..." smiled Duo as he poured the contents of the bottle over Wufei's head, pulling the sides up and coating it in the dye too. All the while Wufei sat cursing them until Quatre gagged his mouth again.
When Duo was done he stood back to admire his work. " How long are you supposed to leave it on for?" he asked.
Trowa picked up the instructions. " It says here you have to leave it on for half and hour to an hour if you have light hair already. If you have dark hair then you should leave it on for an hour to an hour and a half. If you leave it any longer then the colour will change form what's it's supposed to be. "
" Okay. Lets leave it on for three hours." Smiled Duo while removing the gloves. " Or maybe we should sleep on it?"
" Yeah, I'm exhausted." Said Quatre while scratching his head, his long natural blonde hair wrapping round his fingers. " He can sit there until we get up. It should give him time to think about what he's done..."
" Take his gag out." Said Heero. " We probably won't be up for hours."
Wufei glared them all individually as Trowa pulled the gag from his mouth. " This stuff is burning my head!" he screamed.
" Oh stop screaming..." Yawned Duo. " You'll wake the neighbours up..."
Wufei fumed, but whatever it was he was saying, the others didn't hear for they did as they had intended and left the 'almost blonde' girl sitting in the kitchen in the dark.
