DISCLAIMER: I do not claim to own G Gundam or any of the characters.

This is the sequel to "Partners Outside of the Gundam". I guess you don't have to read that before this, but if you like this, I think you might like "PO of the G".

Here's how I like to picture a married Domon and Rain; two mature adults sharing their lives together.

PARTNERS NOW IN MARRIAGE

Prologue

Anyone who met the married King of Hearts and his queen immediately witnessed the strong devotion between the two. The young Kasshu couple had been married for about eleven months now and showed every sign that they truly belonged together and would be forever.

It seemed that after all of the suffering they had been through, that remaining together by each other's side was the most important thing to each of them. They were truly grasping happiness as Rain had suggested when they were defeating the Dark Gundam and they had started their true journey as Domon had said just before they made their way back to earth on Master Asia's horse, Fuunsaiki.

Unlike their time together during the 13th Gundam Fight, in the present they couldn't deny their feelings for each other. Without the pressure of all the horrible things that came with the Dark Gundam, Domon found that life could actually be very enjoyable when with the love of his life; that sorrow didn't have to take him over. His wife had made it clear in sweet, honest words and loving actions that he meant everything to her. If ever he was lost within himself over the things that had happened in the past, all she had to do was just hold him and he knew he'd be all right. It almost amazed him that someone could love him quite like his wife did, and he loved her back with all of his might.

As each day of their married life passed by, Rain found out more and more that Domon was, without a doubt, the most important person in her life. Though she was very capable of taking care of herself, he was there for her the times that she missed her father and insured her that she would never be alone. Besides making her feel safe he made her feel a love that some had thought would be impossible for him to show. Indeed, Rain had found out that her husband could love as strong as he could fight. Though he wasn't one to over exaggerate his feelings for the people whom were important to him, he did with Rain and couldn't seem to stop himself …and didn't want to. He got too much love from her back in return. His loyalty to his wife was even stronger than the loyalty he had when wanting to conquer the Dark Gundam. He had lost too many people in his life all ready, and since being married to Rain, she was surely one that he couldn't bare to lose because she touched him down to his very core like no other.

Upon needing to settle in Neo-Japan, Domon and Rain had found and purchased a house together. The experience of looking for a house had been a thrill for both of them but even more so for Domon since he hadn't lived in a normal house since before he left to train with Master Asia. Like a big kid he had gone on and on about the details of the houses making Rain laugh whole-heartedly. Making him grin happily were memories that flooded his head of when he and his…wife used to run around playing hide-in-go-seek in their houses when they were very young children.

Houses in Neo-Japan weren't huge, but the King of Hearts and his queen were very content in a nice size two-story house that existed amongst other houses and apartments in Neo-Japan. The view of their house from the outside was a roughcast wooden appearance, which was very traditional. The inside of the house was modern with all of the normal conveniences and decorated with Ikebana Flowers. Rain had the colorful, big flower arrangements in just about every room because of their beauty.

Not far from their house was Dr. Kasshu's residence, which they often visited. The male doctor wanted to be close to his son and daughter-in-law and he often asked them when they would have children of their own. Both Rain and especially Domon stumbled over their answer each time they were asked. Though they wanted children, they were always careful, wanting to wait till they knew they were ready. Domon's father tried to tell them that if they were waiting till they were completely ready that they might be waiting forever. However, since Ming and Hoy were living with Han on their boat in Neo-Japan now, the doctor had gotten to see how funny and playful the tough Domon Kasshu acted with the two children. Ming and Hoy both loved Domon and Rain and often spent the night at their house.

At least for now in their married lives there seemed to be nothing serious to worry about besides the normal everyday things. When Rain wasn't busy being the Burning Gundam's head mechanic, she was busy assisting at the hospital. Doing what he loved, the King of Hearts was fighting, or training to fight most of the time. It was so different for him since he wasn't being forced to be a gundam fighter but instead wanted to be one.

They kept in touch with the Shuffle Alliance members on an every other month basis taking turns to all stay in each other's nations to go over things for the 14th gundam fight and to simply just see how each other was doing. The next nation where all of the fighters were to stay was Neo-America because it was Chibodee's turn to play host. In fact, both Domon and Rain expected a call from him any day now.

As the sun went down one afternoon, bent over and working on some of the controls in the Burning Gundam's cockpit was Mrs. Domon Kasshu. All day she had been working quite hard to get it to work even more perfectly with its pilot. "Finished," the pretty blue-eyed woman whispered glad that she had accomplished all that she had wanted to that day.

"Well it's about time," an aggravated voice said from behind her.

Knowing the voice all too well, Rain spun her head around to see her husband standing there with his arms folded over his tan jacket as he pretended to be angry. Standing up, a tired Rain asked, "And how long have you been standing there watching me?"

Realizing that he had been caught, Domon's scowl turned into a smile as he admitted, "Long enough to admire your…backside."

"Well, don't look at the rest of me," Rain said dusting off her pink dress. "I'm sure I don't look so good with grease all over me."

Becoming straight faced, Domon moved to stand right in front of his wife and putting his hands on her shoulders, he said very seriously, "Baby, you always look good to me."

All Rain could do was smile as she felt a blush coming over her and then her fighter leaned and gave her a quick, but sweet kiss.

After thinking of Rain as his better half for almost a year now, Domon hated when she knocked herself, even if she was just kidding. She was his and to him she was perfect…even when they disagreed over things. During their arguments they were now adult enough, most of the time, to know when to walk away before they said something that they didn't mean. Then there were those times that making up made their disagreements well worth it.

"So," Rain said as she moved away from her husband so that she could bend down and pick up her tools, "Did Commissioner Karato go on and on about the 14th Gundam Fight again today?"

Rolling his eyes at just how many times, Domon said, "Yes, but you know how good I am at ignoring people."

Recalling some of their time together during the 13th tournament, Rain looked up and said, "Oh yes. You certainly are good at that. I've had first hand experience when you ignored…"

"Hey," Domon said cutting in to defend himself as he unconsciously grabbed his left arm. "I haven't acted that way with you in ages."

Hearing the irritation in his voice, Rain stood up holding her tools and said, "I was just teasing, honey. You know that I think you've been such a wonderful husband."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," he replied becoming embarrassed.

After Rain put her tools away, she realized that her husband was still rubbing his arm. The caring doctor in her made her say, "Did you hurt yourself?"

Looking down at the limb, Domon said, "It's nothing. I think I may have just pulled a muscle or something while I was training."

"Let me look at it," Rain said sounding a bit worried.

"I'll be all right," Domon said blowing the slight pain off since it was really minor.

"Well, I should still take care of it," Rain said once again showing her normal, persistent concern for her husband.

Taking her hand as it reached for him, Domon said, "Come on. Let's just go home and then you can take care of any part of me that you want to."

Shaking her head at her husband, Rain said with pleasure in her voice, "You are so bad, Domon."

"Yeah, and you love it Mrs. Kasshu," he said pulling her out of the cockpit.

Hours later, Domon and Rain were upstairs in their bedroom of their house, both content and quite exhausted after a session of their intense love making. It seemed to end their little quiet night at home together perfectly. This had been just one of the many nights that they had let their desire for each other take over, making them realize that each time was just as fulfilling as the very first had been on their honeymoon night in St. Thomas. The bond that they had made as husband and wife that first night together, they held very dear in their hearts knowing how fortunate they were that they had only made love to each other. Down in their souls that meant a lot to each of them since that was so odd for anyone this day and age.

Lying on his back while his wife was on her side cuddled against him in his arm, Domon heard her sigh in satisfaction. Turning his head to kiss her forehead, the King of Hearts said, "Yeah, I feel that way too."

Smiling against him, Rain replied, "And to think that you told me to come up here so that I could look at your arm."

Laughing lightly, Domon recalled when he had come out of the shower and then called to his wife to come upstairs to their bedroom to look at his arm. He remembered how she appeared to be in her doctor mode just after entering the room. Before he had given her a chance to even attempt to look at the limb, he had managed to engage her into a serious kiss with him, which she didn't seem to mind at all. "Well, my arm feels much better now."

"I bet it does," Rain said softly as she closed her eyes allowing herself to fall into slumber.

By 4:00 AM in the morning the two had been sound asleep for hours. Both on their sides now facing the same direction, Domon had his arms around his wife, holding her back against his chest as her arm rested over his. When the phone suddenly rang, Domon's head sprung up from the pillow as his eyes flew open. Immediately he hoped nothing was wrong as he looked at the crest on his hand. Since it wasn't glowing, he didn't feel alarmed and then mumbled something about killing who ever it was on the phone as he reached over his wife to grab it. Unhappily he grunted a hello into the receiver.

"Well hello to you too, Japan!" an overly happy Chibodee Crocket exclaimed.

"I should have known it was you," Domon said still not sounding happy.

Being able to tell that nothing was wrong, Rain turned over onto her other side and mumbled into her husband's chest, "Who is it?"

"Is that Rain I hear?" Chibodee asked curiously. "She sounds very physically close to you right now."

"It's 4:00 in the morning you idiot," Domon said just before whispering to his wife who was on the phone. "We were sleeping."

"Damn," Chibodee said trying to at least sound sorry, "I always forget about the time difference. It's 3:00 in the afternoon here in my New York."

Not replying, Domon was about to fall asleep even while he was holding the phone to his ear.

"Domon Kasshu! Are you and the Mrs. busy having some fun right now?" the boxer asked because of getting no response from Domon.

As his eyes opened again, Domon said, "Chibodee. What do you want before I hang up?"

"Well," Chibodee said offended, "you are seriously not a morning person."

"Tomorrow I'm going to hop on a plane, fly over there and make you a dead person," Domon said dryly.

Smiling against her husband's chest, Rain could only imagine what the Neo-American fighter was saying to make Domon say such a thing.

"Okay, okay. Sorry, man," Chibodee said laughing under his breath. "I was just calling about the visit that everyone's to pay me over here next week."

"Yeah?" Domon mumbled since it was Chibodee's turn to play host for all of the Shuffles. This would be the second time that they would all meet in New York.

Surprising Domon, old Chib said, "Don't come to New York."

"What? Why not?" Domon asked with disappointment in his voice, which surprised Chibodee.

Rain was the only one who knew just how much her husband really enjoyed getting together with the other shuffles and crews every other month. "What's wrong?" she asked opening her eyes.

The King of Hearts shook his head to her that he didn't know yet.

"Awe…I heard her again," Chibodee said of Rain's voice. "I bet you two were in the middle of doing something physical when I called."

Ignoring the boxer's comment, Domon asked, "Why don't you want us to come to New York?"

"Chill out King of Hearts," Chibodee said enjoying this. "We're still going to all meet, just not here."

"Oh," Domon said calming down, "You want everyone to come to Neo-Japan again?"

"No. I know it's my turn to play host," the boxer said. "It's just that you and your wife and everyone else will have to come as my guest in another state here in the USA."

"Where's that?" Domon asked only imagining what the Neo-American fighter had in mind.

"New Orleans, Louisiana, Domon," Chibodee replied happily.

"New Orleans?" Domon asked not having a clue of why the boxer wanted to go there.

"Japan. It's not New Orleans. People down there say, New Or-leans, Darling."

"Who the hell are you calling Darling?" Domon asked, still a bit too tired to scream. "Only my wife can call me that."

"Domon," Chibodee said laughing. "I wasn't actually calling you Darling. It's a New Orleans thing."

"Whatever. So, you really want us to meet you there?" Domon asked as Rain watched him wondering what was going on.

"Hey," Chibodee said defending it. "It might not be the Big Apple, but it's the Big Easy."

"You still never answered my question on why you want us to go there," the Neo-Japan fighter said becoming frustrated.

"Because, Dude! It's Mardi Gras down there next week!" the boxer said sounding clearly excited over it.

Though Domon had heard of it and had seen things about in on TV, he asked, "What the hell is Mardi Gras?"

Rain laughed at her husband's reaction as she began to let her fingers glide up and down his back.

Wanting to explain Mardi Gras as quickly as possible to Domon, Chibodee said, "It's like this huge party that never ends! I've been there for it before and everyone is in such a good mood, like they're so happy."

"I don't like happy people," Domon replied not meaning it but enjoying aggravating Chibodee. Hearing his wife giggling at him, Domon looked down at her as she continued to let her hand glide slowly over his back.

"Come on, Domon. What do ya say?" Chibodee asked sounding hopeful. "It's about time that we get together to only have a good time."

"I'll check with my wife and get back to you, Chibodee. I guess call the others and see what they think."

"Will do," the boxer said knowing that Rain would convince her husband to want to go. She was too sweet not to.

"Good night, Chibodee," Domon said wanting to get off the phone.

"Yeah, I know you're tired," the boxer said since he had called so early in the morning.

"I'm not tired anymore," Domon said with a smile as he snuggled closer to his wife while taking in her soft caress.

As the phone was being hung up, Chibodee could be heard yelling, "Hey! At least let me listen to you two!"

"Chibodee's something else," Rain said as she giggled again.

"Out of respect for you, I won't say what," Domon said as his hand began to caress Rain's soft back.

In almost a purring voice, Rain asked, "We're going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras?"

Gently pushing his wife onto her back, the King of Hearts moved over her and whispered, "I guess, but let's talk about it later."

His beautiful wife only smiled as she wrapped her arms around his back.

I hope you all enjoyed this. I think I'll have a lot of fun writing it.

Thanks, Jen

Happy Easter!