Reason For Living

Chapter One

Looking around at the gaily dressed people, Heero briefly wondered what had possessed him to come. He had left earth only to return a few days prior to the day of the wedding with no destination in mind. Yet, he had still found himself attending. Surely it could not be curiosity that was to blame. He was never curious. Then again, it was not everyday that the most chauvinistic member of the Gundam team got married.

Wearing a rented black tuxedo that made him look dashing and like a rogue or pirate, Heero attracted the admiring stares of both the male and female guests who took notice of him. His unruly dark brown hair with bangs falling into his deep, dark prussian blue eyes had the fingers of all the women drooling over him itching to run through it or brush it away from his eyes.

Having grown since the war, Heero now stood at a comfortable five feet ten inches and had grown a little more muscular despite the wiry build of an athlete. It was obvious to anyone watching him that this was no man to mess around with. The tuxedo heightened the aura of controlled power that he had acquired during his twenty three years of life instead of dampening it. Many of the women present were having fantasies of him on a deserted beach with only his birthday suit on. (can you blame 'em?)

Growling under his breath in annoyance, Heero made his way to a seat at the back of the church in hopes of keeping out of sight. He had had the bad luck to arrive minutes before the wedding was to start, allowing most if not all the guests to be present already. His entrance, ofcourse, was sure to gain the attention of those present as they were eagerly awaiting the procession. Briefly, Heero wondered how many of the guests were Wufei's. The fellow pilot had lost his home during the war so it stood to assume that most were his wife-to-be's, whoever the brave woman was.

Unfortunately for him, Duo and Quatre had spotted him. Their silent approach had been thwarted by Duo's effervescent personality as he could no longer contain his joy at seeing the stubborn loner.

"Heero!! I can't believe that you made it. Just wait till you see who had the guts to marry Wu-man. It'll knock your socks off." Duo shouted as he made his way over.

His shout had, naturally, attracted even more attention to the disgruntled pilot. He felt like a piece of meat on display and glared openly at the women gazing adoringly and hungrily upon his entrancing visage. One would swear that they had never seen a man before. Before Heero could ward him off with his gun, Duo grabbed hold of Heero and gave him a bear hug. Stifling the urge to punch the braided pilot, Heero disentangled himself from the overjoyed boy with no real facial expression to show what he was feeling.

"Hello Heero. It's been a while, hasn't it. How have you been?" Quatre greeted polite and offered his hand.

As courtesy dictated, Heero shook hands with Quatre and responded with a curt 'Fine'. Once he had been spotted and revealed by those two, all plans of leaving after the service had fled as though they had never been. Wufei would insist on his presence at the reception. Sending his annoyance to the back of his mind, he figured that he could act on it later and punch Duo when there were not too many people to witness his actions.

Wufei looked towards where all the commotion was taking place and was not in the least bit surprised to see Duo amidst it all. What did surprise him, however, was Heero Yui's presence. Although he had sent the invitation with a threat attached to his Gundam comrade, he had not been expecting his to actually come. Wufei allowed himself to smile for the first time in day. If Heero had found his way to his wedding then surely he and his precious itooshi were meant to be. Nothing would go wrong as he had nervously been predicting before.

Glancing back at Trowa, he saw that the silent boy had also noticed their missing comrade. Trowa was his best man, chosen because he had thought that Heero would not accept and he was the next best thing. There was no way in Heaven or Hell that he would have made Duo his best man. The young man had him slightly irritated at least and stark raving mad at most whenever they met. As for Quatre, well he was a little too pacifistic for his liking and they were not as close as he was to Trowa. Amazingly enough, Heero was the only one to have spent time with and talk to all of them.

Letting out a barely audible growl of frustration, Wufei was about to go down the aisle in search of his bride. She was two minutes late already. It did not help the matter that Duo was still standing in the middle of the aisle at the end conversing excitedly with Heero who had no discernable expression on his face except a glint in his eyes that no one could see. He and the blonde pilot were supposed to be two of the escorts for the bridesmaids!

Sending a glare with waves of negative energy in their direction, Wufei hoped to alert them to the fact that they were holding up his wedding. Maybe it worked, because Quatre looked up and glanced in his direction before speaking quietly with Duo and Heero. Indicating what, from his stand point, looked to be where to sit, Quatre then pulled Duo with him and out of the church. Breathing a sigh of relief, Wufei relaxed a little more.

Heero was finally free of Duo's incessant though informative chatter. The damage was already done so there was nothing he could do other than follow Quatre's directions to a seat closer to the front. Ignoring the stares sent his way, he looked towards the alter and caught sight of his two other comrades, both looking well and Wufei looking edgy. He saw Trowa place his hand on Wufei's shoulder to calm him eliciting a low, darkly amused chuckle from Heero.

Finding the seat, Heero had barely let his ass touch the bench when the wedding march started. He would finally get to see who it was that had Duo so excited and had managed to get Chang Wufei of all people to get shackled with the old ball and chain.

Well this is all for now. Sorry about how short it is. The chapters will start to lengthen when I actually have loads of time to write so until then please bear with me. I am still determined to complete An Unlikely Bond, I just haven't had the time. School assignments are killing me. The only reason this chapter was typed up was because it took only an hour and was set aside. Hope you enjoyed it. Chapter two will be posted after I get ten reviews, so review if you want this updated quickly.

Also, this week will be my week to type up Valentine fics. One will be three part and the other two or three will have one chapter only. Please check them out on Valentine's Day which is when I upload them all. The three part fic will be have chapters posted on the following days, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Not all are GW/SM x-overs and I would appreciate it if you visited those located in the SM x-over section. Onegai? You'll really enjoy them.

Ja ne.