Chapter 2:
Heero's eye twitched in annoyance as the door brought dust from the ceiling from the loud pounding. Thank god his door was locked.
He got up and grabbed some jeans and his green tank top and threw them over his body. He walked over to the door and unlocked it, drawing it open quickly and dodging the foot aimed for it as the person fell in.
"What now, Duo?" heero said in his monotone voice, his hair more unruly in the morning than it usually was.
"We are going to Li's today. You said that you would." Duo said, getting up off the floor.
"Li's is a Japanese steak house." Heero said, annoyed at this. "People go there for dinner, not breakfast." He said shortly, stifling a yawn, which worked well.
"Well, then I guess it will be a breakfast dinner then, eh?" He grabbed Heero's arm, dragging him out glaring at him for touching him, and pulled him over to the door.
'Baka.' Heero muttered under his breath.
"I heard that." Duo briskly walked to the door where the others were waiting for them.
"Have a good night sleep?" Quatre asked cheerily.
Heero raised an eyebrow. Something was up and he had no idea what is was. Were they going to lay a trick of some sort that would be revenge for the pillow shooting last night.
Quatre quickly turned away, mentally bashing himself for that last comment. He looked like he was suspicious. "Well, let's get going. We don't want to be late, do we?" He smiled as he walked out the door for the quick recovery.
"Late for what is a better question?" Heero questioned them. Quatre paid no heed to this, but Duo did his best to hold his composure. This was getting really risky. Not everything could get by Heero.
"Um...we kinda made a..." He began, thinking for anything that would help the situation any more than it already was.
"Reservation." Trowa finished off. "We'll be late if we don't make it in time and they might give away our seating arrangements." He said simply, talking more than he intended a little bit.
Heero nodded at this. Trowa wouldn't go along with a dumb trick, would he? Probably not. He reasoned with himself and followed the others out the door, yanking his arm back from Duo's hold.
Trowa himself only covered for Duo because he wanted to see this family and why Heero had run away from them. Quatre wanted to protect the colonies and such and left his, but he did go back and kept in touch with them, until of course his father and sister, Ilea was murdered by OZ.
They opened the dojo like doors to the dinning place and they lead them to their seats, next to a couple with two children.
They smiled at them and Duo and Quatre smiled back, the other three ignoring them. They all took their seats and the woman looked at Heero intently as he ignored her stare. "Loch!" She said happily, getting up out of her chair to walk to him not to fast and not to slow.
His head jerked in their direction, as he hadn't heard that name in a long time. "K'so!" He swore loud enough for the father to shake his head in disapproval. Heero was about to get out of his chair quickly, but the woman embraced him before he could do anything but stand up.
"Loch!" The woman said happily, whispering something into his ear. His body tensed up even more than it was. He managed to get the woman off him with much trouble.
"Surprise!" Duo said happily, getting scared by the expression on his face. He looked like he was ready to kill on of them or even all of them at once.
"That's no way to act to your friends, son." The father said, looking at the boy intently. "You've grown up." He said, taking this into note.
"I'm not your son." Heero looked at the other pilots, loathing what they had done.
"Huh?" Quatre said. He thought it would be a happy time and all hoping it would liven Heero up a little bit.
"Yes, you are." The woman said, gingerly touching his shoulder, which he drew back as soon as she touched it, holding back the urge to pull out a gun or the knife concealed in his sock. Hell, even an explosive would be good enough!
"So where's Srei?" He said through clenched teeth.
The parents didn't say anything but looked down said as the wife let a silent lone tear fall down her flushed cheeks.
"Heero!" Duo said angrily, knowing that he had hurt them deeply, figuring she died like many others in the war. Heero gave him a deadly glare in his direction, warning him to back off.
"Next time you bring them here, leave me out of it." He said, grabbing his jacket, walking towards the door in a quickened pace.
"We'll send a car to pick you up honey." The wife said, brushing away her tear. It was in the past, nothing more.
"No, you won't. Id rather die than go with you." Heero said, not turning around to face them as he yanked open the door and walked out, going back in the direction of the house.
"Wow. I'm so sorry about that. He usually is never like this." Quatre apologized, the man and woman waving off the apology.
"Yeah, I think this is the most that he's ever talked." The man and woman looked at him for saying this, sighing.
"He never did talk a lot." The woman said, brushing a lock of golden hair from her face and placing it behind her ear.
"Can we go see Loch now?" A little girl, whose name was Merri asked.
The woman looked at her, smiling sadly. "Yes, honey. I'm sure he'll come to his senses." She said softly.
"I can't wait!" The little boy said next to the girl, bouncing happily in his chair. "It's gonna be so fun now!" He said cheerfully.
"Calm down Cloud." She said soothingly, placing her hand on his shoulder, calming him down.
"Matt, dear. We really must apologize for this whole incident." The man nodded. "Yes, Sonora." He said quietly.
"We are terribly sorry for this. He was always a hand full even for us." Sonora apologized.
"It's all right. " Duo said, leaning into his chair and ordered some food. The other's ordered also and soon they had their meal, asking questions between them.
"Why did Heero run away?" Trowa questioned.
"Heero?" Sonora questioned, a quizzical look over came her features. "Oh, you mean Loch?" She asked, smiling at this. "No wonder we couldn't find him." She almost chuckled to herself. "Well, if that's what he calls himself so shall we." Matt agreed to this solemnly.
"So why did he run away?" Duo asked, using the chopsticks to shove some rice into his mouth, adding some soy sauce all the way.
"There was a scientist and he took Heero to do something." Her eyes lowered saddened. "We looked everywhere for him but it was like he disappeared."
"The doctor took him?" Wufei asked, hiding his suspicion. The couple nodded. 'Something isn't right about this...' He thought, his eyes narrowing ever so slightly.
"Is something the matter, mister?" Cloud asked, noticing the narrowing of his dark eyes.
"Oh, no not at all." Heero didn't even look like this family. They all had blonde hair and none of them had the same intense eyes that he had.
Duo walked into the house and walked over to Hero's door, banging for him to come out of the locked room. He paused after hearing the click of a gun's safety being taken off and it being loaded, ready to fire. He edged away from the door, arms raised in defeat though Heero couldn't see that part.
"Something isn't right about them." Wufei muttered loud enough for only them to hear.
"I agree." Trowa said without emotion, glancing at the hall where Heero's room was at the end.
"What do you mean?" Quatre asked, bringing a cup of tea down with him to the table where they were all sitting. "I didn't notice anything strange." He said, quite happy on how nice the family was.
"Never mind." Trowa said simply, ignoring the urge to talk about their suspicious behavior.
"Man, Heero is really upset about all of this." Duo said, walking into the room. "I told him to come out, but he loaded his gun and pulled off the safety." He said, plopping down into a chair.
"Did you notice how none of them looked like Heero?" Wufei asked, not letting the subject die so easily.
"Huh?" Duo said, racking his mind over and over again. "Come to think of it...yeah, you're right Wu-man." He said, noticing this.
"This is so weird. I thought Heero would be happy to see them again, he acted like they weren't even his family, but his enemies." Quatre said, taking a sip of tea. "Plus, he said that he wasn't their son." He added.
"Yeah, I say we get Relena over here." Duo said, snapping his fingers as a in he had an idea to this.
"Why?"
"Because maybe she can calm him down a bit and find out why he's so upset."
"Oh." Quatre looked down at his cup of tea. "He hasn't come out yet and he hasn't had any breakfast yet either."
"He's not going to come out. Believe me. Any one who tries to even touch the door will get shot!" The brunet haired fighter raised his hand with exasperation. "Why does he hate them so much, I mean he doesn't even hate us that much!"
"That's true." Wufei said, looking up at the braided soldier. "He doesn't consider us comrades, but he hates this family more than us. There's more to this than there seems I believe."
"I think that that's absurd. Why would the family that's been looking for their son do anything weird other than go to drastic measures to get him back." Quatre said, trying to reason with them.
Trowa got up and was about to leave the room, heading towards the hall when he stopped. "I think he only wants to shoot Duo right about now since he's the one that usual does these things." Duo looked angry at this remark. "I'll try to reason with him," He left the room.
He knocked on the door of the lightly lit hallway. "Heero?" He heard a gun being loaded and another click for the safety. He didn't let his emotions get in his way. "Can I come in?"
"What for?" He sounded angry. It had been three hours since he had left Li's and came back to the house.
"To talk." Trowa said simply.
"If it's about them I have nothing to say." He said shortly. He heard the click of a gun being unloaded and loaded. He must have been fiddling with it to get a better range or firing rate out of it.
"Really?" Trowa asked, not really caring what the answer was going to be.
"You can come in if you want. The door is unlocked y'know." He said with no emotion, lying on the bed in the dim light, fiddling with all his weaponry.
He turned the knob and was surprised to find it was unlocked. "Did you have it locked the whole time?" He questioned, walking into the room and closing it before sitting down in a chair.
"No. Duo's just to much of a baka to figure it out." Heero said simply, aiming the gun at the ceiling, which had a target on it.
Trowa sweat-dropped and nodded at this. Duo could be a ditz sometimes. "Why do you hate them so much?"
"I have my reason's." Heero unlocked the safety.
"What reason's."
"They are of my concern. This involves me and not you." He took aim at the ceiling and then sat up from his lying position. He fired, a silencer on the gun as it hit the statues head right where another bullet hole was right between the eyes, not making the hole any bigger. A perfect shot.
"You said that you weren't their son." Trowa said, more of a question than a statement.
"I'm not. They think that I am, but I'm not." Heero said, turning over to face away from Trowa.
"I thought they looked differently from you. None of them had brunet hair."
"That's not true." Heero said, not turning around to face him. He closed his eyes. "Srei did. She knew something was wrong and up with that screwed up family." He said, Trowa having a confused and almost astouunded look crossed his features.
"Srei?"
"She was like my sister, or a very good friend. We were a lot alike..." Heero said quietly. "Because she figured something was wrong she must have gotten herself killed."
"Gotten herself killed?" Trowa questioned, intrigued by this whole conversation.
Heero turned and face him, his head lowered as he still held the gun in his hand. He pocketed it and then stood up, walking towards the door. "They murdered her." He said without emotion and left the room, leaving Trowa staring at where he had once been in shock.