Miss Cupid: Chapter 5
Author: Freya
Disclaimer: Heero, Duo, Relena, and all those other sexy peoples are belong to Bandai.... and every other thing I really don't feel like listing.
Setting: A random pier somewhere in the U S of A.
Warnings: A/U, Shounen-ai, 1x2x1 fluff, probably OOC (it's A/U, expect no less) and attempt at humor.
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"Du-u-u-ude, let's do THAT again!"
Heero sighed and took his dizzy forehead in his hand. "Duo, we rode that thing four times already, and you've thrown up twice," he said, doing his best to not to relocate the two bile patches behind the roller coaster's gate with his eyes. "You've had enough, come on."
"You're right, I did throw up twice... and now I'm hungry." Heero blinked twice then toppled over with his feet twitching in the air.
"Well I'm not. And after that, I won't be for quite awhile."
Duo shrugged and pulled his last five out of his pocket. "Well, incase you change your mind, I'm gonna buy a bag of beef jerky big enough for us to share."
Heero watched, amazed by just how fast the braided boy could recover. Not only was Duo the craziest person he'd ever met, but he was also one of the most simple minded. Then again, it was only motion sickness. Since the two of them were no longer in quick motion, Duo being fine right afterward was understandable. How he could EAT after that, well... Heero didn't even want to know.
"Back." Duo took Heero's arm and leaned on his shoulder. "They didn't have any of the good kind."
"Don't eat, Duo. You might.... you know... "
Duo giggled and lifted his head up to look at his date. "You should've told me you hated it when people threw up, then I would've told you I get motion sickness sometimes."
The dark haired boy snorted. "It's not something I think about usually. But, if I did know, I wouldn't have taken you on that ride."
"Heh, and you wouldn't be the only one," Duo stated, taking a look around him. Truth is, having motion sickness embarrassed him, especially since he was one hell of a speed demon. He was pretty good at hiding that embarrassment by shrouding it in silly remarks, like the one about being hungry, which he actually kinda was. He did want some jerky too, right after some minty gum of course. The lingering taste of bile and barf breath wasn't pleasent to say the least, and he was damn sure Heero didn't find it very attractive either. He ended up buying the gum instead after not spotting any good brands of dried meat and decided to bare with the hunger.
Interesting how Heero still had yet to leave him after torturing the both of them on four consecutive roller coaster rides. Good thing Hilde or Wufei wasn't there, they'd jump straight down Duo's throat for that. Mercilessly, and right in front of his Heero, just to triple his embarrassment for good measure.
"I've still got a large wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket. Wanna ditch this place for awhile and head somewhere else?" Heero asked.
Duo smiled with a slight blush working it's way along his face. "What's with you? You've spent way too much money on me already. I'm going to have to bust my ass doing a crap load of community work for the church to be able to pay that load back."
"Who said you had to pay me back?" Duo's jaw dropped, and Heero lifted it back up with his finger. "I owe you one. If not for you, my night would be nothing but buy the stupidest looking skirts, the ugliest looking handbags, and the most uncomfortable looking shoes you can possibly imagine."
The other boy snorted. "I dunno, buddy. I can sure imagine a lot. Is that Dorothy girl really such a bad person?"
Heero shook his head. "She's not bad in general. She's a first class shop-o-holic and that's the only thing I can't stand about her. She does have qualities that're respectable, such as being able to hold her own against people and downing the annoying prep language." Heero and Duo took a second to shudder audibly, then laughed at how nsync that was. Almost as if one could read the other's mind.
"So, she's not a bad person, just a bad date?"
"Bad's not the word. More like a total nightmare. She doesn't really get out much, rather then with her father who spoils her rotten."
Duo flinched. "Well, I don't really get out much."
"I noticed, but you didn't blow off my wad of cash in under an hour on a bunch of crap, now did you?"
"Nope... " he answered in that way where you knew more was coming. ".... I inhaled all you bought me and exhaled it twice."
A throaty chuckle escaped Heero's slightly parted lips. He just couldn't help but 'really' like Duo. The church boy's sense of humor was too cute, just as cute as the ass length braid he wore and his quirky heart shaped face. Well, sort heart shaped. He had such a big smile and pretty, almost glittery looking amethyst eyes. A very diverse color they were, but it brought out Duo's character quite well in a way. That color supposedly represented peace and serenity. Though Duo's chaotic personality was anything but, Heero felt a strange sense of overwhelming relaxation around his psychopathic buddy-boy (when not near a whack-a-mole machine that is.) As if he didn't have to do or say anything, because Duo would do it all.
It wasn't like him to feel 'that' comfortable around a complete stranger, but Duo had such a genuine feeling about him. The fact that Heero could instinctively feel that Duo Maxwell was one of the good ones was enough for him.
Because so far, Heero's insticts never steared him wrong.
The jock boy wrapped a protective arm around his Duo and began walking out with him, easily threading through the ocean of annoying people that were in their way. Some of the people stared and frowned, but when Heero could see or feel it, he shot one bitch-ass cold glare right back at them. If anyone were to give Duo and himself a hard time about being two boys on a date, they'd be on a fast track to hell. A hell of a lot of pain that was.
Soon after leaving the crowded area, Heero and Duo walked up to a curb on the side of the road right next to a stop sign. This particular stop sign had explicit words spray painted all over it. Well, that's life in the city for you. "Maybe we'll come back later when it's less crowded." Heero said, taking a quick look at the stupidly crowded pier then back at Duo. "How long can you stay out for?"
The other boy just shrugged. "It doesn't matter. Sister Helen thinks I'm at Wufei's house right now. She thinks I'm spending the night there."
"Hn." Heero pushed back a few messy locks of hair away from his eyes so they'd quite poking him. "The old I'm-staying-at-my-best-friend's-house-for-the-night excuse. Heh, classic."
Just before Heero could speak again, Duo rose his hand to stop him. "No, I'm not on any special medication. It wouldn't matter anyway. Sister Helen doesn't even have Wufei's phone number."
"You think you can read my mind." An amused smirk played across Heero's face.
Duo stuck his tongue out. "And, what if I do?"
Heero reached into his pocket. "I'll call up my driver. He can take you and I anywhere in the city. Where do you want to go?" Heero asked while pulling out his cell phone. "Oh, and would you like to ride in a Jaguar or a Benz?"
"Uh.... " Duo scratched his head. "Which ever one you like more."
The one with the green snorted. "You don't think there's a difference?"
"A car's a car, right? I mean, the fanciest thing I've ever ridden in was Fei's Ford mini van. The piece of crap's really jacked up too. Almost as if he were teaching a blind person to drive it."
Heero began playing solitaire on his cell phone, seeing as Duo still hadn't given him an answer to either of his questions, and doubted he would for awhile since he was now in story mode. "What happened to it?" The dark haired boy was curious to know the rest of Duo's story for just the hell of it.
"His ex-girlfriend Meiran, or Nataku as we all called her, drove it right up against a McDonalds, on purpose!" Duo was stifling his laughter quite a bit.
The dark haired boy next to him nodded cuetly and seemed not too interested in the story. Duo paused, thinking briefly that perhaps he was just annoying Heero. Well, briefly was the keyword since Heero soon lifted his head from his game to meet Duo's gaze. "I was listening."
"I guess you'd have to be there to find that funny. Even though I wasn't there with her... but, the look on Wu's face was priceless when she pulled it into the driveway."
"Are all your friends as crazy as you are?" Heero inquired, now converting more of his attention to Duo then the game on his cell. "Why the hell would someone 'purposely' do that? If she broke a gasoline valve or the oil tank open while causing sparks the thing could've gone up in flames. And wouldn't someone have noticed?"
"It happened at night while the place was closed. She shattered quite a few windows and left very ugly scratch marks against the outside. As for your first question, that's why she slid the sides of the car against the joint rather then ramming into it. She was bloody pissed off at Wufei over some stupid thing with another girl named Sally Po. She also claimed McDonalds gives people food poisoning. She called messing up Fei's car and messing up that place killing two birds with one stone."
(Food poisoning? Nah, the only thing McDonalds does is make people fat.)
"Was he cheating on her?"
Duo shook his head. "Nah, not so much cheating. Rather just paying more attention to the things Sally would say rather then her, even though Sally was only helping in using his grades to get him into college a year or two earlier. Then someone just had to lie to Nataku and tell her Wufei was dating Sally behind her back. Naturally, she believed it since Sally was a really pretty girl and did seem to like Wufei a lot."
Some people, Heero thought. Teenagers, entranced in their hormone driven rage could believe anything. Teenage girls tended to be the bigger victims then guys. Hell, he didn't even want to know what Relena would do if he were still dating her, but found him here tonight with Dorothy or Duo. Along with being a closet perv, Relena had the most extensive, colorful vocabulary he'd ever heard. That girl could whip out cuss words that weren't used since the fifteenth century as if it were nothing and it drove everyone nuts. Not to mention she knew every language that ended in -ese fluently, where he just knew Japanese as a second language. Confusing people with her knowledge was her weapon of choise, and it worked well.
Obviously Duo's Nataku friend was quite creative as well. He would've never thought anyone would have the brains or the balls to 'carefully' reck someone else's car.
"Hey, Duo, you've evaded my question with your strange little story."
Two large violet eyes blinked in confusion.
"You know. What car? Where do you want to go?"
Duo shrugged. "Like I said, Wufei's now mangled shit mobile and an ice cream truck were the two fanciest rides I've ever had."
"And you're going to evade my questions again with the ice cream truck story?"
Duo sighed, but with a happy look in his eyes. "It's a funny story!"
Heero began dialing on the cell. "I'm sure it is, and you can tell me later. We'll just stop at some random place for a b... hi Bob."
"Bob?" Duo said giggling.
"Shhh," Heero said with the phone drawn tightly to his ear. "Yeah... yeah... alright. Hn... the Benz this time. Alright." Heero clicked the phone shut. "What's so funny about the name Bob?"
His braidedness calmed himself down a tad just to speak. "Have you ever looked it up in the dictionary?"
They paused... and Heero thought it'd be a good idea not to mention his 'dad' also had servant named Peter, though he was tempted, just to see Duo laugh some more.
"You're a gonna drag us off to somewhere bizarre, aren't ya Heero-buddy?"
Buddy? Strangers, dates, now buddies, all in a matter of (Heero checked his watch) two and a half hours! He wondered what they'd be next: lovers, enemies, dick-wads, who knew? Duo was way too unpredictable for his own good. Then again, learning about your partner was the fun of having a blind date, whether it was accidental or not.
"You just wait. I advise you to call front seat now because Bob's a pretty reckless driver."
"Hey, I can handle crazy driving. Think back to Nataku. She had her license revoked for extreme road rage." Duo sighed. "I miss her. She moved away almost as soon as her a Wuffers broke it off. That's why you'll see him get pissy around public display of affection. He misses his girl... even though she did kinda screw his ride over."
"He wouldn't be the only one," Heero stated, seeing as public display of affection rather bothered him as well. He considered having his arm wrapped around Duo or holding his hand in public to be tame. But, deep throating your partner with your tongue and sliding your hand down their ass pocket drew the line.
Heero shook that thought out of his head, though. Duo was causing him to get side-tracked with all the discussions of his friends. Hell, Yuy knew more about Hilde, Wufei, and Nataku now then he did about his own significant other... if you could even equipt Duo with that title yet. His mind converted back to the motion sickness issue once he looked down at his pure silver watch and noticed that Bob was going to be there any minute.
"Duo, you wanna take the front seat with Bob or the back seat with me."
A sly and very playful grin quirked on Duo's much-too-cute face. "You, duh. I bet Mr. Bob isn't as fun to play Lady Utena with."
"You'd BETTER not jump me again," Heero warned while rubbing one of his sore shoulders.
Duo tossed his head back in a happy chuckle. "Fine Grandpa, I won't throw out your back again."
Heero shook off that remark and patted his 'buddy' on the shoulder, with a little comeback of his own just burning on the tip of his tongue. "If you're sure you want to take the back with me then. I'll just tell Bob to take it easy or he's fired."
"No. Don't go and do that. I'll be fine, really. Besides, don't you want the front seat? Usually people like that more."
Heero sighed. "Either I tell him to take it easy or you're taking the front seat. S'your choice. I just don't want my car yacked in before I'm old enough to drive it." He looked around to try to scope out any sign of his sweet car that was about to come. Nothing quite yet. "And no, I'd rather sit in the back, with you."
There was no point in arguing with that. Though, Duo loved riding in a moving vehicle at a fast and reckless pace. His stomach however...
The boy ran his hand over Hilde's Mooninite t-shirt for a moment, happy he didn't mess it up any back at the pier. That could be different if in a car though, and Hilde worshiped Aqua Teen Hunger Force. His ass would be on the back burner if he recked one of her favorite shirts. Heero wanted to sit next to him too. With a proposition like that, who couldn't be tempted? But, his dare devil side was eating at him. The poor boy was so confused.
"He's here," Heero announced, taking Duo's hand. "So choose. You ride shot gun or you sit with me while I have Bob ride the speed limit."
Duo giggled. "Bob."
"Duo!"
"Kay, sorry. I... I don't know."
The car honked at them, and Heero decided that if Duo wasn't going to give him an answer, he'd just have to give Duo one for him.
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TBC
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A/N: Heh heh heh, YES!!! Heero and Duo are getting a tad bit more serious now -smirk- Yeah yeah yeah, I know gundam pilot Duo wouldn't have motion sickness, but this is an A/U so of course it's supposed to be different =P At least he's a speed demon, so it does rather keep him in character.
Much love to those of you who understood my random joke back in the last chapter. All Your Base shall rule us all!
Thank you so much for your reviews. Some of them were pretty supportive. I don't usually update fics as fast as this one. Heh, I'm surprised I wasn't described what kind of horrible, bloody death I "deserve" because I'm a big Relena fan in ANY of my reviews yet. I appreciate that SO much. Thanks for sparing me!!! Please continue, along with sending your many generous and honorable reviews -fawns over the ones I have so far- Happy trails, may all your dreams be full of hot yaoi-ful bishounen engaged in sweaty, moany, night-time fun, because you all deserve it ;)
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Meepu- XD, even though Heero was supposed to be Utena! You think Relena's trailing them? Hell, I don't even know where she is -looks for Lena-sama- Wait... oh yeah! She's playing as my muse for this whole story (since my other ones are on vacation at the moment) She IS trailing them because it's giving me ideas for this story.... or something XP
Angel Reid- Yaaay, I feel loved! -sporks over some love of her own- I hate whack-a-mole, that game is pure evil. I'm glad Duo killed it, heh heh heh heh...
Inuyasha-Luv-Kagome- Yus! I don't even have to try very hard to make Relena cool either XD
Dark Kaizer Ken-Wolf- Of course they're on a proper date. How could they resist each other :)
Kitsunes Shinigami- Eeep, I've read my share of depressing fics. This one, however, is just plain silly. Well written? Heh, if you say so (though I've seen much better)
pUnK-RoCk['s Sk8ter chic- XD I can't even afford those pants. Heh, thanks. I won't leave ya hangin' =D
blingblingbabe- You more of a 1xR fan? (I actually have an idea of a 1xR fic!) Heh, yeah, I love Relena to pieces so she stays nice. Hilde too! Bashing is so unnecessary most of the time. Yaoi fans are aloud to love girls, cause I sure do! As for Relena romance? Well, you'll just have to stick around and see ;)
Gangsta Videl- All your base are belong to Heero and Duo! My brain's been stuck in the stupid gutter for... ever I think XD. Yes, welcome to Bob-chan's world of insanity Videl-sama, can I take your order?
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Final Note: Just remember... if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.