Coming Home

Chapter One

Hi everyone! It's me again! This is the Sequel to "Most Popular Boy," I hope y'all like. I posted the teaser thing to see if anyone would be interested in reading it, and I got my answer. Here you go! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Everyone knows I don't own them, so why do I have to say it?

Heero thought that things with Duo would get better after the death of his family. He thought that he could help Duo get through everything; he knew about grief. The only problem was that after their one stolen night of unfettered emotions, Duo began to draw away from Heero.

At first Heero thought that Duo just needed his space, later, he became more concerned. Duo just kept withdrawing into himself until Duo finally told Heero he was going to travel the world. Alone.

It's been eight years since high school and five since he last laid eyes on Duo. Heero sighed as he sat at his desk, looking at yet another exotic postcard Duo had managed to send. They hadn't spoken to each other in years, but Duo would send a postcard from everywhere he went.

This one was slightly different from the rest. The picture on it was an embroidered piece of cloth that read "Home, Sweet Home," on the back, three words were written next to Heero's name and address: I'm coming home.

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(Heero POV)

I really don't know what to think of Duo right now. He's been out of our lives for so very long. He's pretty much severed contact with his friends since he decided to travel and the only thing we've heard from him is from the occasional post card he sends. Everyone has started to forge their own lives now, things have changed among all of us. Quatre is now working in the family company, everyone knows he's going to be left in charge one day. Trowa is living with Quatre and is the proud owner of an animal rehab center for animals that are hit by cars or that have had their homes destroyed he even gives retired circus animals a home. Actually, that's wrong, Winner INC. put up the shelter (it gives them a tax cut) and they have Trowa run it (Quatre's suggestion). In any case, their relationship survived high school, college, and is now thriving.

Speaking of thriving relationships, Wufei and Meiran are also still together. It's really not as shocking as one would think. They both have strong personalities and they feed off of each other when their own strength is lacking. The last I heard, they were both studying law and I'm pretty sure that Wufei really would like to be a judge one day; he's hinted at it often enough.

Hilde and Noin I haven't kept up with. I know Noin was going to enlist in the army right after high school, so I can only assume that's what she's doing. Hilde I also haven't heard from in years, but if I'm not mistaken, she landed the job of a newspaper editor in New York.

Speaking of editors, Relena Peacecraft was now the editor-in-chief of one of the nation's hottest selling teens' fashion magazines. Leave it to her to insure the creation of other Barbie look-alikes amongst the nation's impressionable youth.

I sigh looking that the post card in my hands. It's been so long since I've seen Duo, and honestly, I'm not sure how much I want to see him. I'm afraid of getting hurt again. The day he told me he was leaving, I felt my heart shatter into a million tiny fragments. I told him he'd always be welcome here, but… I don't know how well I'll be able to cope with him. Since he left, I pretty much reverted to my old self: cold, withdrawn, a stone carved in the image of a person.

I'll try to be on my best behavior, but really, what does he expect from me when he's been gone for so long without so much as a phone call?

I know it's short, I'm just giving a little background info at the moment and Heero's thoughts. Besides, they cut the power today so I'm running on my laptop's battery (and I don't like writing half a chapter now and half later so I'll wrap this up for now).