AN: the characters and settings of Gundam Wing AC and Ranma ½ do not belong to me, I'm just borrowing them to play with. OOC, AU, Yaoi, and X-over warnings.

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Chapter 5

The doc couldn't a been too serious 'bout me stayin' in bed 'cause I had no trouble getting' out an' tryin' to head home the next mornin'. Of course, gettin' out a bed an' headin' down stairs just got me hauled back to where I'd started from by Duo an' Kat while Chang argued with Yuy 'bout whether they were gonna shot me or not.

Even upstairs while Duo an' Kat tried to get me back into bed I could hear Chang yellin' that no he wasn't gonna let Yuy shoot me just 'cause I had seen the gundams an' figured out that the guys were the gundam pilots. The argument seemed to end when Chang told Yuy that if he killed me he'd hafta kill some girl named Relena too, 'cause if I was too dangerous to let live she was even worse, followin' 'em around an' usin' their real names an' stuff in public.

While I was listenin' to Chang, Duo an' Kat had handcuffed me to the bed. I was so into listenin' to was was goin' on down stairs that I didn't even notice what they'd tried to do 'til I moved to stand up an' felt the chain tyin' my wrist to the bedpost snap. That was enough to make me forget 'bout Chang an' Yuy an' start payin' attention to Duo an' Kat.

Kat just looked a bit upset an' was mutterin' somethin' 'bout just like Heero an' havin' another bad patient to deal with. He grabbed a key outta Duo's hand, took the hand cuff off of me, an' asked Duo to get the ones they used to keep Heero in bed when he was hurt. Duo seemed a bit nervous for some reason an' stammered a bit when he told Kat that these were the handcuffs they used to keep Heero in bed. That's when Kat started lookin' kinda nervous too.

Now if this had all happened a couple a weeks earlier, I'd a done my best to bolt just like anyone else with half a brain.

As it was, what Kat'd said 'bout me bein' just like Heero made me curious so I just sat there an' went into baka mode to try an' calm 'em down. It didn't work. Laughin' like an' idiot with a hand behind my head an' sayin' I was sorry an' that I didn't mean to break their handcuffs just made 'em more upset instead a less. Kat was backin' up like he was tryin' to get outta the room without me noticin' an' Duo looked 'bout ready to run for help too.

That's when Chang came into the room an' saved me from tryin' to calm the two of 'em down. It musta been kinda of a strange sight, the pilots watchin' a little redhead sittin' on the bed, likely lookin' more'n a little confused, an' them slowly backin' away like they were dealin' with an injured wolf. He just did that eyebrow thing of his an' asked me how I was. I told him I was fine an' that I needed to go home so Akane didn't get any madder at me.

Later he told me that he'd found the whole thing amusing. All I can say is Chang hid it damn well at the time 'cause soon as I mentioned Akane he glared at me an' snapped that only a weak fool would that excuse to leave when there were more important things to talk about.

I laughed in his face.

It took me a couple of minutes to calm down an' soon as I had I almost wished I hadn't. Duo an' Kat were starin' at me like I was nuts, Chang looked 'bout ready to go boom, Triton Bloom's face was actually readable as he leaned against the door frame playin' with a knife, an' Yuy was glarin' at me an' was holdin' a gun. An' I could tell that none of 'em trusted me as far as they could throw me.

That Duo an' Chang didn't trust me kinda hurt, but I figured I'd some explainin' to do. So I started talkin'.

It took me a couple of hours an' by the time I'd stopped talkin' they had relaxed, an' while Chang was still growlin' it wasn't me he was mad at. In the end I'd told 'em just 'bout everything that happened since me an' pops got to Nerima damn near a year ago, an' I figured they had some idea what I was in for if I didn't show up at the dojo soon. I could tell that they still didn't really believe me, but long as they let me go home I really didn't care. Anyways, I got the feelin' that they'd be watchin' me real close for a bit an' I figured they'd see I was bein' honest sooner or later.

It now bein' 'round about noon, Kat an' Bloom headed to the kitchen ta work on lunch, Duo bounced off somewhere, an' Yuy hung out by the door tryin' to look threatenin' while I tried to talk Chang into letting me go home. It didn't work. He kept sayin' that I needed to stay in bed like the doc told me. I finally managed to cut a deal with him. I stayed 'til the next day an' he let me spend the rest of the day downstairs on the couch an' I got to call the dojo to tell Kasumi where I was. I even let Chang turn me into a girl an' carry me downstairs. Why I had no idea.

I spent most of the afternoon watchin' TV with Duo an' Kat. After supper Duo an' Trowa, he got tired a me callin' him Bloom, taught me how to play poker. After a couple a games, Kat an' Chang sent me to bed, an' paranoid as ever, Yuy followed me up to make sure I wasn't gonna leave or somethin'.

Before I met the guys I tended to sleep like the dead 'til I was ready to wake up, but after meetin' 'em an' learnin' the joys a wakin' up before Pops, I started learnin' to sleep lighter. Of course it didn't always work at first an' there were plenty of times I woke up wet or flyin' but I did get better an' Pops started tryin' to surprise me in the middle of the night. So I got practice learnin' to wake up at odd sounds.

That stopped when Nabiki threatened to have Kasumi make Akane do all of the cookin' on the days Pops an' me woke everyone up fightin' in the middle of the night.

Anyways, by the time I fell through the warehouse roof, I was wakin' up anytime someone was movin' 'cross the floor in the room I was in. so I guess I was still not back to usual 'cause Chang gettin' changed an' goin' to sleep on the other side of the bed didn't wake me up. So I got one helluva surprise when I woke up in the middle of the night curled up 'round someone smaller'n me.

I just 'bout panicked 'til I noticed the lack of boobs on the person I was cuddlin' with, an' remembered where I was. Even findin' myself snugglin' with a guy was better'n wakin up curled up with any of my fiancées. At least he wasn't gonna expect me to marry him or smack me so hard that I ended up in the harbor. As I headed to the bathroom I could feel myself smirk, who'd have thought Wufei, I couldn't call him Chang after wakin' up like that, liked cuddle.

I ran into Duo in the hall an' he agreed to help me pull a prank on Wufei. All it involved was a little cold water, a camera, an' Duo an' the guys wakin' up before Wufei an' it worked like a charm.

I figured that wakin' up curled around a nearly naked girl would scare him just as much as wakin' up curled around him had scared me at first. So after splashin' my self with a little cold water an' with Duo tryin' not to giggle behind me, I slipped back into bed. I musta been nuts cause I pulled off my boxers an' stuck 'em under the pillow. I mean my tanktop was plenty long, an' Wufei was wearin' pajama pants, but still I musta been nuts! Duo just 'bout bust something tryin' not to laugh out loud.

Soon as I was settled, Wufei wrapped both arms an' a leg around me an' wouldn't let go. My face must a looked real funny 'cause Duo's cheeks puffed out an' he sprinted outta the room. I could hear him mufflin' his laughter in the hall when Wufei buried his face in the back of my neck. At that point I was stiff as a board, an' it took me 'bout half an hour to relax enough to go to sleep.

Wakin' up, the first thing I noticed was that my shirt had bunched up durin' the night an' Wufei's hands were places they really shouldn't have been. One was wrapped around a boob, an' the other was on my lower belly, damn near down There! That's when I noticed that I was bein' poked in the butt my somethin' hard, an' he was rubbin' it against me!

I tried ta twist around to see if he was awake but he just pulled me to him even tighter, started playin' with my boob, an' rubbin' my belly. I started feelin' kinda weird, kinda warm an' tingly.

Wasn't 'til later in the day that I figured out why I was feelin' that way, an' let me tell you, I just 'bout panicked, 'cause if mom ever discovered I'd gotten aroused by a Guy, I was dead meat. Still I decided that given what he'd been doin' when he woke up, I could call him what ever I wanted to.

In any case, that was 'bout the time the guys decided to come wake us up an' get the pictures to tease Fei with. I was sure he'd wake up the minute he heard Duo an' Kat gigglin' but he stayed fast asleep an' kept on playin' with me an' I started to blush. Then he started whisperin' 'gainst the back a my neck. I was damn glad he was whisperin' in Mandarin 'til he started callin' me Nataku an' Meilan.

It was at that point I started gettin' a real bad feelin' 'bout the whole thing an' asked Kat to get everyone outa the room, 'cause I'd remembered somethin' I'd forgotten when planning this prank.

Wufei had been stuck in an' arranged marriage too, an' his wife was dead.

AN: I'm sorry it's taken so long to update but a combination of writer's block and a new job have delayed chapters for both fics I'm currently working on. I'm also going to repost Demon's Angel, it really should be in the Ranma section. Just to let you know, at this point pairings are not guaranteed and may change as whim takes me. In any case, please don't hate me because I love a good cliffhanger.

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