The most popular boy

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Disclaimer: I don't own them. *sniffle*

Warnings: Shonen ai, tiny bit o' angst, some derogatory statements, I'm not sure what else yet.

C&C: Yes please. I'm kinda new at this writing bit, so let me know if I should spend any more time on it.

A/N: Thank you to all my lovely reviewers!! You guys really make a girl feel at home here at FFN ^.^ If any of you can think up any suggestions as to where my story goes (not just this one, this goes for all my stories), let me know!!

One more thing, would y'all like longer chapters but further apart OR this length chapters about a day apart?

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It wasn't until Monday that Heero and Duo got to see each other. They met with each other before class began and excitedly (on Duo's part) talked about the gundams. Duo wanted to build one on his own and wanted to know if Heero would let him borrow the Deathscythe design. Heero agreed to let him, so long as he got to help in building it. Duo readily agreed.

As their English class started, things began their normal routine. Heero would sit quietly and glare every so often and Duo would be his usual jovial self. The teacher noticed, though that Heero was becoming more verbal and mentally patted herself on the back for making the two students permanent class partners.

After English class, Heero and Duo each went off to their different classes and met again in the gym for their athletics class after they had dressed out. Today they were going to run five laps then they were all going to be separated into teams and play basket ball. Since the coach was aware that Duo was showing "the new kid" around, he put them both on the same team.

Surprisingly enough, Heero was quite agile and fast. He and Duo made a really good team. Heero would steal the ball and Duo would make the shot. The game ended with their team winning 35-6. A grand victory indeed.

Inside the locker rooms, they each went their separate ways. Duo's locker was in the Varsity Players' den and Heero's was with the regular P.E. lockers. Duo showered and got dressed, ready to look for Heero so they could walk to their Calculus class when he heard something slam against the other side of the row of lockers he was in front of. He quickly jogged around to the other side, making out little snippets of the conversation.

"Whatcha looking' at. China-man?" He heard someone sneer.

"You like looking at guys, huh, queer?"

"Fucking homo can't keep his eyes to himself!"

"What the *hell* do you think you're doing?!" Duo spat as he came to stand in front of a group of three boys pinning Heero's smaller frame to the lockers, his feet dangling half a foot off the floor.

"We caught this little faggot staring at you when you showered, Duo. We can't have his kind sharing the locker room with our star athletes!"

'What? You afraid he's going to rape you or something, Johnny? Look at him! You're well over a foot taller than he is. What does it bother you, man? Just let him go."

"But-"

"No 'buts.' I won't have a bully on my team." (1)

The three boys let Heero go and stepped away. Heero then grabbed his bag and walked out of the locker room.

"Oh, by the way," Duo added as he was leaving, "Heero is from Japan. Chang would throw a fit if he knew you were confusing his home land with the *island* of Japan. Better catch up on your geography. I hear there's a test in our history class about it soon."

The boys grumbled and went back to getting ready to get to class.

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"Oi, Heero! Wait up!" Duo jogged up behind Heero who avoided making eye contact.

"Duo."

"Hey, man, don't worry about those guys back there. They're a bunch of morons who don't know what they're talking about. They shouldn't bother you too much in the future. They know I can get them on probation if they bully other students around."

Heero kept quiet.

"Did they hurt you? Do you want to go to the nurse?"

"No. I'm fine."

"Okay... anyway, don't worry about those guys. If they bother you again, let me know."

"Hn."

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The rest of the day passed without incident and so did the day after that and the day after. Pretty soon, they had just about forgotten it. Neither of the two wanted to bring up the incident. All the boys had gotten to know each other fairly well and were now comfortable with each other.

A few weeks into October, at Quatre's house, they started talking about Home coming. Since they were all Seniors and club officers, the topic naturally came up. Today, Hilde, Meiran, and Noin joined the weekly meeting.

"So, seeing as we're all heads of the student body, we'll all end up running against each other," Quatre began.

"Yeah," Noin cut in, "It's going to be a hard vote to cast, I mean, there's no particular animosity towards any of you guys. It's going to be a pretty close call."

"Hmph," Meiran snorted, "as long as Miss Prissy-in-Pink doesn't win, I don't care who gets to be Homecoming Queen."

"What club are you from," Heero asked.

"I'm the band's Color Guard Captain!" she announced proudly.

"Color guard?"

"We're the marching band dancers. We usually provide the visuals for the band during performances with costumes, flags, hoops, and *sabers*" Wufei had to smile at that.

"Color guard and the cheerleaders are always at each other's throats. It's the way it's always been, I'm afraid," Noin volunteered.

"Why does everyone hate Relena so much?" Heero really didn't know anything about the girl, other than everyone hated her.

"She is dishonorable and repulsive"

"She refused to have a guy be a better cheerleader than her"

"She tried to cheat her way into NHS."

"She always tries to show up my Guard."

"She pesters the Class to have *special* cheerleader privileges."

"She wants the ROTC to be her special body guard core."

"She's just a general pain in the ass."

(1) This is a line from "Disney Channel Original Movie: Going to the Mat."