Wufei: Talk about a lack of subtlety.
Rya: Hey!
Mienaku: You gotta give her some credit for trying.
Rya: See, Fei? Miku loves me.
Mienaku: (fuming) It's Naku.
Trowa: We better get on with this before someone gets hurt.
Quatre: I agree. Duo?
Duo: Yeah. Um...what were my lines again?
Quatre Trowa: . . . . . (sigh)
Heero: (points to parenthases) Those are thoughts and actions.
Duo: (in the background) Hey, I remember now!
Mienaku: (punches him upside the head) Baka.
Rya: Poor Duo. I better go make sure he's okay. (drags an eager Duo away)
Wufei: Yeah, you do that. (rolls eyes)
Quatre: (sigh) On with the fic.
CHAPTER 2
Duo
and Wufei walked into the living room; Wufei lagging behind, still
reluctant to have gone back inside in the first place. Duo stopped in
the doorway at the sight of the strangers. His first reaction to the
two girls sitting on "his" couch was
"Wow"
In unison the girls,
women actually, turned to him. Before Duo could utter another word,
Heero stepped forward to introduce them.
"Duo, this is my sister Mienaku Yuy and my . . . adopted . . sister, Rya"
The
dark haired woman Heero had introduced as his sister stood to shake
Duo's hand. wow! they're practically identical . . . if you ignore the
whole gender thing. Duo thought.
"Nice to me-" Duo was cut off as the other girl, Rya, sped past him screaming.
"Feeeiiiiii," she yelled running after a quickly retreating Wufei.
"Help Meeeeee," he squealed, back-peddling and running for the stairway.
"And
all this time I thought Wufei was the calm and collected type," Trowa
muttered as he left the room, presumably to go after Wufei.
"Sorry,
Rya can get a little . . excited sometimes," Mienaku said, finally
coming to shake Duo's outstretched hand. Just then Rya came running
back in. "Speak of the devil"
"Blast," Rya shouted, skidding to a
halt next to Duo. "I lost him again! Doesn't he know I only want to
play with him? Not hurt him. I really just wanted to touch his-Wow!"
she turned to Duo, "Has anyone ever told you how gorgeous your hair is?
It's magnificent, but too bad it's not auburn, then it would be just
purrrrfect," she said fondling his braid. Duo, who would never have let
anyone touch his hair, was too busy trying to keep himself from
drooling. gods she's hot! that long hair the color of honey and those
eyes! i could drowned them; big and green, like a cat's! and don't get
me started on that body. so many curves so- His thoughts were cut off
as said hotness dropped his braid and grabbed his hands.
"Sorry, giggleI'm Rya! You're Duo, yes"
"He
would say yes if he weren't drooling on the carpet," Heero answered
monotone, closing Duo's mouth and wiping his hand on his pants. Then,
noticing for the first time, "Duo? What in the"
"Name of Allah
happened to your hair!" Quatre walked into the room cutting his lover
off with an exaggerated gasp of surprise at the misfortune of Duo's
braid.
Duo put a hand behind his head and grabbed at his braid in
embarrassment. "Well ya see, it's like this. Heh heh. Remember the
little trick I played on Sally and a couple of the guys at work? Well,
they decided to get me back. Sent me on this fake mission, jumped me,
and dyed my poor hair the shade of Fei's! Lucky for me, though, it'll
rinse out. Treize said that he wanted me to suffer, but not my gorgeous
hair! I sure lucked out," Duo said by way of an answer. Trowa picked
that moment to return to the living room hauling a protesting
justice-monger behind him.
"Don't worry, Fei. I found one of my own
kind to ogle-I mean to occupy-um, keep me company," Rya stammered,
glancing at Duo from the corner of her eye.
"I found him hiding in
my knife chest. Don't ask me how he got in there, but he did," Trowa
informed. so much for the great and mighty Dragon. he thought.
Mienaku
fell back on the couch trying not to give in to her fit of giggles. She
lost the battle as she watched a rumpled Wufei try to glare down Rya as
she ignored him, too busy ogling with her eyes what she wished she
could fondle with her hands. Namely Duo. Suddenly Rya froze mid-ogle
and turned to look at her sister on the couch. Mienaku, all traces of
laughter gone, looked up at Rya's gasp of fear and uttered a soft
"Shit. How close are they Rya"
Exchanging
glances of confusion, the men automatically went into combat mode at
Mienaku's urgent voice. Blinking, Rya lightly shook her head, as though
to clear it of cobwebs, and said,
"10 kilometers and closing, fast.-Miku, how did they find us! I thought you'd said we lost them"
Getting up from the couch, Mienaku grabbed her bags from the floor and started for the front door.
"We
have to go. Come on Rya." She looked back to see her sister just
standing there as if she hadn't heard her. Staring at Mienaku with
tears in her eyes, Rya started babbling in a panic.
"But-I
don't wanna run anymore, Miku! I-I'm tired of it! Tired of running,
an-and sleeping in weird places, and I-I'm tired of being scared all
the time! I'm tired of-of-of being tired"
Hiding tears of her own,
Mienaku looked her sister right in the eye," I know. I'm tired t!" She
took a shuddering breath and dropped her gaze to the floor. Giving a
small hiccup-sniffle, Rya made to move towards her sister for comfort
but stopped short at the look in her eyes. Mienaku looked up, eyes
blazing with anger and hatred.
" I will not let them take you"
The
men stood lost and unable to follow the panicked ramblings of the two
sisters. In short, they had no clue what was going on. They could only
figure that someone was after them, and they were closing in on the
house. Finally, not being able to take the lack of information coming
his way, Heero blocked their escape and promptly demanded some answers.
"What's going on? Who's after you"
"I'm
sorry brother, but we seem to have over-stayed our welcome and brought
you trouble on top of it," Mienaku answered on a sigh of sadness.
"No one's saying you have to leave," Heero tried again.
"I know, but we must"
"Heero's right, stay. We will fight with you. That's what family is for, right love," Quatre said stepping up to Heero's side.
"You don't understand," she said more urgently," We can't"
She
cut herself off in frustration, stooped down and grabbed her bags. Rya
just stood there watching everything a bit nervously. Naku headed once
more for the front hallway, once again it was blocked by her brother.
"So that's it? You're just going to run away? You don't come across as that type of person," Heero said frowning.
"Um . . . Miku," Rya said quietly from behind the two siblings.
"I'M NOT RUNNING," Mienaku yelled angrily.
"As much as I dislike your sister," Wufei spoke from the back of the room," stay and let us help win this this battle of yours"
"Miku," Rya said, the fear evident in her voice.
"No! We have to go now! There's no time for argu"
"They're here," Rya cried, backing away from the large figure in the doorway.
"Rya! Down!" Heero yelled.