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High Enough
Parts 9-12

Duo currently had Heero pinned against the well, doing his
best to make his head spin and the ground fall away. Heero,
for his part, was enjoying every minute of it. Maybe he
should make Duo jealous more often he thought with an
internal smirk.

Then Duo tore away and glared at Heero, "If you ever do
anything like that again, you're sleeping on the couch for
the next 2 nights!" Heero gulped at the threat. "I wasn't
doing anything.." Duo held up a hand, "Save the excuses
bub." Heero grabbed Duo's hand, twisted his arm, and then
pinned him against the wall. And well that's enough our
hentai imaginations can go from there.

Trowa, Itko, and Wufei had finished eating and were
headed toward Itko's house. "So," Itko grinned, "what
happened to you and Sakura after the principal dragged
you off?" Trowa glanced over at Wufei. "The principal drug
you off? What would your mother say!" Wufei glared at him.
"Nothing, she just wanted to know where I was from and
yakked my ear off like all women." Itko and Trowa started
laughing.

Cherise met Sakura for their usual afterschool shopping
run. "So like did you met the new guys? They are so totally
hot!" Sakura nodded, "I know. And you know how much I
love the oriental look… It's a shame they're all foster kids."
Cherise blinked, "Foster kids? Duo told me they were part of
an international study group." "The poor thing! He must
have an inferiority complex, he's too ashamed to tell the
truth." "You think so?" "That must be it!"

Suddenly Duo sneezed. Heero blinked, "I didn't think angels
had allergies." "Neither did I," Duo scowled. The two had
now sufficiently made up and were just hanging around.
"Hey where did Tro-man and Fei go?" Heero glanced around,
only now realizing exactly how long it had been since they'd
seen the other two. "They're probably keeping an eye on Itko,
like we should have been." "Are you saying he's more
important than me?" "I didn't say that."

The trio finally arrived at Itko's house. "So I'll see you guys at
school tomorrow?" Trowa and Wufei nodded. "That's great,
you know I'm glad you guys moved here, for whatever reason
it was." Wufei sweatdropped. "So are we," Trowa replied,
"And that reminds me, do you want to see that new movie
coming out?" "You mean the one based on the gundams?"
"Yeah that's the one." "Are you kidding? Of course I do."
Trowa grinned, "Good then we're going after school
tomorrow." Itko batted his eyelashes at Trowa, "Why
Trey-san, are you asking me out?" Trowa replied playfully,
"Sure, are you up to it?" Wufei's jaw dropped in disbelief. Itko
laughed, "Why not? See you guys later."

Once Itko had stepped inside, "Trowa!" Wufei burst out.
"What?" "Our mission is to prevent heartbreak not to cause
it." "Oh come on 'Willy', we're just kidding. He's not going to
fall in love with me or anything."
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Trowa and Wufei met back up with Heero and Duo at the
school. "Where were you guys?" Duo called. "I was out
grabbing a bit to eat, he," Wufei points to Trowa, "was
being mr. Lover boy, hitting on Itko." Duo almost fell off his
non-existant perch. "Woah, what?" Trowa
flushed slightly, "I was not." Wufei snorted, "Baka, I saw it
with my own eyes, they even have a date for tomorrow."

At this even Heero looked surprised. "Trowa can I talk to you
for a moment?" Trowa nodded. He and Heero walked off a
ways from the other two. Duo frowned, "Why do they haveta
leave me out?" "Because you're an idiot." "Am not!"

After Heero judged they were far enough away, he turned to
face Trowa. "What exactly is going on here?" Trowa sighed.
"To tell you the truth I don't know. I mean I loved Quatre, I
still do. But he's not here. And Itko is a fun guy to be
around." He ran a hand through his bang-err bangs. "I'm
very confused, but in any case I doubt Itko would think of
me that way, after all we were sent to eliminate his heart
break, not to cause it." Heero nodded. "So long as you stay in
control of the situation, otherwise…" Trowa nodded.

Wufei sighed. "Since we're stuck together for a while, mind if
I ask why you decided to become an angel?" Duo who had
been off in lala land came to with a start, "Huh? No I don't
mind. Actually I'm not really sure why. Heero was willing to
go either way but something, some part of me decided that I
must stay behind, there wasn't any choice to it." Wufei
looked slightly startled at this heretherto rather rarely seen
serious side of Duo. (he how's that for alliteration) "What
about you Wu-man?" Rather than take offense Wufei
answered him just as seriously. "I felt I wasn't ready to move
on to the afterlife and the judgement I would face there.""
Duo nodded. ""Hey Wufei.." "What?" "Do you think we just
shared a meaningful moment?" "I hope not!"

A few minutes later, Trowa and Heero rejoined them.
"Everything worked out?" Wufei asked. Heero nodded. "It
was a misunderstanding." Duo grinned, "So which of the
girls do you think it is? My bet's on the redhead." Thereby
dissolving the built-up tension.

Not too much later they drifted into a state of
semi-awareness. The angel version of sleep.

The next day dawned bright and early. Trowa and Duo were
running to class and ran right into Itko. A chorus of ows
and itais split the the air. "Watch where you're going," Duo
grumbled. Trowa rolled his eyes, "Don't mind him, not a
morning person." This for some reason made Itko double
over in laughter. The reason soon became apparent though.
"Why, was someone keeping you up last night?" Duo's eyes
widened. "Hentai!" Itko smirked, "I couldn't resist. Although I
never would have figured you for the type." "What type?"
Duo narrowed his eyes suspiciously at Trowa. "Oh Trey and
Willy told me all about you and Harry. I have to say you'd
make a very nice couple." "Trey!" Duo shouted and launched
himself at him. He knocked Trowa to the ground and Itko
had to break them up. "As interesting as this would be, we're
going to be late guys, and one more tardy on my part and I
fail." "They can fail you for tardies?" "Now they can."

They just barely beat the bell into class. "Well, well I salute
you three. On time for once Mr. Teyano." "Only for you
teach!"
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It was lunchtime again and the five had confiscated a table
towards the far end of the cafeteria. "I heard you're going to
that new movie today after school," Duo said. "Yeah, Trey
invited me and it's supposed to be really good. It's kinda a
shame that the gundam pilots died in that freak accident,
otherwise they'd be multi-millionaires now." Wufei nearly
choked on his food. "Nani?" Itko looked at him surprised. "Oh
yeah, they're even going to be making a television series
about them. Of course it'll probably get everything wrong."

For once the gw boys realized just how out of touch their
death had made them. "Can I ask you a question Itko? It
may sound a little odd." Heer said. "Sure," Itko nodded.
"Whatever happened to Relena Peacecraft?" Itko looked at
him in surprise. "You guys must not watch the new a lot.
Just last week she was getting married." In unison their
head snapped up, "To who?" Itko shrugged surprised at their
reaction, "Some diplomat guy, the one rebuilding Colony 5."

Just then, Sakura, Cherise, and Kerry decided to descend
upon the boys. "Hey guys,"Cheris called out. "What's up?"
Itko looked over at her and got dreamy-eyed. Duo grinned,
"Nothig much Cherry!" Cherise grinned, "Oh Maxwell, you're
so funny!" Itko came out of his daze long enough to glare at
Duo. Hmm, looks like we have a winner, Heero thought.
Sakura sat down next to Wufei and ran her eyes over him,
making him extremely uncomfortable. She smiled. "So what's
your latest manly issue today?" "Woman! Men don't have
issues." Kerry sat down next to Heero. "I'm working on
planting some seeds that Mr. Ulio, the school groundskeeper
gave me, would you like to help?"

Maybe it had been a bad idea to get to know the girls.
Seeing the others predicament, Trowa smirked. "And what
are you so happy Mr. Cat that Ate the Cream?" "No reason,"
he said. Sakura smiled, "I don't think we've met you, I'm
Sakura, that's Cherise, and that's Kerry." "I'm Trey, at your
service." Then he turned around to look at Heero in slight
disbelief, "You know how to plant things? I never would
have figured you for a green thumb." Heero flushed slightly,
"It passes the time." "Oh Isn't that so cute!" Duo said,
pinching Heero's cheek. Heero punched him, and soon the
two fell into a wrestling match. "They do this a lot?" Sakura
asked while Cherise and Kerry laughed. "All the time," Wufei
sighed.

Before they could get out another word, the bell rang
signally lunch was over. As one the entire student body tried
to walk through the hallways and into class. As this wasn't
possible, it made for quite a mess.

Wufei, Itko, and Sakura had split off from the main group
and headed into class together. "Ms. Sakura, Mr. Willy, I
expect you two to conduct yourselves accordingly today."
"Yes sir," they chorused.

Heero and Duo each headed off with one of the girls. Duo
with Cherise and Heero with Kerry. Trowa phased out and
decided to get some downtime before the next class. He
dropped by the theatre and picked up tickets to the showing
after school. "It's a good thing you got here so early, we're
selling out on this show." Trowa simply nodded. "Thanks."

He still had over an hour an hour to go so he went down to
the park by the lake, to think. He reached into his pocket
and took out a picture of Quatre. He was smiling in the
picture, as he often did, he had been caught unaware of
Trowa with the camera. He turned his thoughts back to
that day.

~ "Trowa!" Quatre yelled, "Come on everybody else is almost
ready to go." Trowa was up in his room, placing the film
into the camera, he smiled to himself. "I'll be down shortly,"
he called down. When the film finally was in correctly, he
snuck down the stairs to right beside Quatre. He knew
Quatre had been listening for him, so he'd made an effort to
keep quiet. So when he spoke Quatre whirled around, and he
snapped the picture. Quatre had nearly tackled him for
scaring the living daylights out of him, Trowa had dropped
the camera, but later rescued it and had the picture
developed. Unbeknowst to the others, he'd kept it ever
since.~

Oh Quatre, where did you? For that matter what would you
do if you were here instead of me. You were better suited to
being an angel than I ever will be.

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Sakura and Wufei had managed to keep from being hauled
out again but just barely. It had started innocently enough,
with Sakura's comment that all men were pigs. Wufei took
exception to this fact. However Itko managed to finally get
them under control by duck taping their mouths shut.
Instead of doing anything about it the teacher hardily
approved and vowed to always have a supply on hand.

Fourth block arrived and found Trowa back at the school.
"Hey Trey!" Itko waved, "I thought you were going to be late."
"No I was just out getting tickets." Itko's jaw dropped, "You
skipped? On your second day here?" Trowa nodded. Itko
slung an arm around him, startling him. "Trey, my man, this
is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." They both
laughed.

After school the two of them headed to the theatre and met
up with the others along the way, Duo had sneaken out
earlier to grab tickets and amazingly enough Sakura
showed up with Wufei. "Don't ask," he threatened. Which of
course was in vain because he was teased the entire time.

Duo tried to keep quiet, he really did but he just couldn't
help himself. "Oi, wht is this crap? They say that I-err that
Duo guy is an airhead. What am I a surfer part time?
Sheesh." "Be quiet,"Heero said, in an aside, "You're just angry
because they captured your true self." Duo hit him on the
shoulder in reply. Itko was keeping a running
announcement of the explosions. "There went another one,
woah the ship's gone!" "What do you think?" Sakura asked.
Wufei frowned, "It's just like every other movie bad
characterization, voices, and unrealistic." "How can you say
that?" And so on and so forth. Trowa merely kept quiet until
it came to a scene on Quatre. When the camera turned to
the actor portraying him, they all had to gasp. He looked
exactly like Quatre, in a way no make-up could manage. But,
no, it couldn't be their friend, they had all been at the site
of the freak accident. Indeed when the credits rolled, it
proved to be a cousin, the new heir of the famous Winner
family. "That was so amazing!"Itko shouted, Sakura nodded,
"It was great." The other four who knew how unrealistic it
was had to nod for at times, the resemblance to reality had
been so uncanny it had made up for that fact.

Wufei offered to walk Sakura home. "Are you implying I need
a man to keep me safe?" she replied indingnantly. "No,"
Wufei blushed, "I was just asking." "Oh," Sakura calmed
down. "In that case I'd love for you to!" The others had to
laugh. After they headed off, Duo and Heero vanished of to
who knows where. Trowa and Itko walked to his house.
"That was really fun Trey." Itko said, and turned around to
grin at him. Trowa nodded. Itko seemed to want to say
something but decided against it. "I'll see you tomorrow
right? Or maybe we can skip and go swimming." Trowa
nodded. "You know, there is such a thing as talking." Trowa
grinned, "I know, but it's overrated." Itko agreed, "Body
language can say so much more don't you think?" Then he
winked at Trowa and left him to ponder his meaning.

Trowa faded out, deep in thought.

The four rejoined soon after. "Well," Heero said, "There
doesn't really seem to be anyone here with the potential of
breaking his heart that I can see." The others nodded.
"Which leaves me to wonder…" "What?" Trowa asked.
"Exactly why where we sent here then? I mean, they have
got to know more about this than we do, and even we know
there's nothing going on." Duo agreed and then glanced
over at Heero in shock, "Wow, two whole sentences at a
time. Progress at last." "Hn. Baka." Heero answered. Wufei
frowned, "Do you think it's some kind of test? Just to see
what we'd do if we were actually given an assignment like
this? Maybe to give us time to being used to being
guardians?" Trowa shook his head, "That doesn't sound
right though…There has got to be something we're
missing." Wufei sighed, "And here I was hoping this
wouldn't be something hard." "Well, they always say expect
the unexpected. So what would be the most unlikely thing?"
Duo asked. "That we were sent here to cause trouble and
then untangle the mess we made."

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