"Mr. Chang, I'm so glad you could make it. Please take a seat"
A man, obviously Chinese for both his face characteristics and the way he was dressed, was in a big, elegant office. This man's name was Wufei Chang. Mr. Chang sank onto a very comfortable high chair and opposite to him, behind a recently polished wooden desk, sat a blonde man. He was young, probably around Wufei's own age, 20.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" asked a black-dressed butler.
"No thank you" answered Wufei politely.
The butler excused himself and abandoned the office. While Wufei carefully studied the man in front of him, a third man entered the room. Taller than the other two and with a stern expression, he positioned himself next to the blonde, standing like a prison guard. Wufei stared at him annoyed.
Obviously noticing this, the blonde spoke again.
"This is Trowa Barton, Mr. Chang, my most trusted counselor.
"Good evening Mr. Chang" bowed Trowa Barton. Wufei simply nodded.
"All right then, to business" the blonde dropped his kind manner of speech to get into a more formal way.
"Yes. I understand that you are looking for a man… a certain hacker" began Wufei.
"That is correct. As you understand, my company is one of the most prominent outer space transport companies, and now, due to this hacker, our whole system has come crashing down at a great cost"
"I understand that perfectly, as I also understand that you want such person eliminated"
For a brief moment the blonde turned to look at his counselor, a certain quiver on his lower lip.
"The man has cost us more money than what you can imagine" replied his counselor Trowa Barton instead "I suppose it's only fair he pays for it and I'm afraid that his life would barely be enough to cover the debt"
The blonde lowered his head. He couldn't hide the fact that he did not agree with Trowa's particular point of view.
"I believe you don't want him dead Mr. Winner, am I correct?" pointed Wufei out.
The blonde, young Mr. Winner, raised his head surprised. Something like an odd sense of relief and hope shone in his eyes.
"I really was hoping we could avoid such action. A man's life is very important and shouldn't be taken at one's will…"
"I see. Then the hacker will be captured, brought to you, and you decide the rest" neither of the men opposite to Wufei spoke so he began to stand, "I believe this meeting's over gentlemen. Please excuse me, I have a lot of things to do"
Wufei Chang left the office and was led by the butler outside the Winner mansion. Young Quatre Raberba Winner was the heir to the whole millionaire empire his father had built and was the blonde man he had just been talking to. Due to this incident with the hacker, Wufei was called to close a deal with them. Heero was to find such hacker and Wufei made sure he got the job. After all, that's what Wufei did, he met Heero's clients and closed the deals with them; Heero was in charge of the dirty work.
Wufei took the cell phone that hung from his belt and phoned Heero to the hotel they were currently staying. After having an operator answer he asked for Heero's room and was immediately communicated with him.
"Hey Heero, I got news for you" started Wufei.
"Listen Wufei, I can't really talk right now, I'll call you back as soon as I can" was all he got for an answer before Heero hung up.
Wondering what on Earth could possibly prevent Heero from being able to talk at the moment, Wufei took a cab and pointed the direction to the driver. After a while the cab was pulling up to a fancy hotel and Wufei was paying the bill.
The next day Wufei woke up late. Feeling the bed around him he discovered Heero wasn't there any more. He was probably on his victim's tail again. A job was still pending and all that was left was for Heero to find the perfect moment to pull the trigger. Wufei wrapped himself in a bathrobe and decided to take a refreshing bath before he set out to get some breakfast.
Wufei and Heero occasionally shared a bed, but they weren't what you'd call lovers. They liked each other, but that was about it… but that certainly didn't stop them from spending whole nights awake and busy. But still, they were simply good friends. They had met nearly six years ago, before Heero had entered the mercenary business at a beach party. Heero had always been secretive and mysterious but that night he discovered he could trust Wufei.
When they grew up, nearly four years after they met, Heero became a mercenary for an unknown reason, even for Wufei. But still, Heero let him handle the business part and they became partners. Although he had found someone he could trust, Heero was still
secretive most of the time, but Wufei knew how to respect his privacy. Somehow, unknowingly, he was falling in love with his partner.
Wufei sank into the cool bathtub water. He put a CD in his CDPlayer and put the headphones on. While he drummed his finger at the music's same beat, he thought of the man he had visited just yesterday. Quatre Winner was a pacifist, something, in Wufei's opinion, reserved for weaklings. Killing his opponents had let Heero survive and make a good living out of it, and Wufei admired him for that. Visiting people like Mr. Winner made him uneasy.
For a while he just lay there, until there was a knock on the door. Surprised anyone could come at this hour, he wondered whether Heero had forgotten to place the "Do not disturb" sign on the door. Wrapping himself again in the bathrobe he left the bathroom soaking and annoyed.
When he opened the door he had expected someone from the hotel, probably a lady wanting to know if she could already make the room, but instead he found a guy.
He was young, dressed all in black, and with a long brown braid. He was absentmindedly looking around until Wufei opened. When he turned he just stared with his mouth half open.
"Hi…" he said finally, "I was looking for Heero Yuy"
Wufei was absolutely stunned. What was a guy like him doing there looking for Heero? As far as he knew, no one knew Heero in this city, therefore, no one knew he was staying at this hotel.
"He's not here right now… may I ask what do you want with him?" Wufei answered closely inspecting the guy.
He was about his same height, with brown hair like mentioned before, and had amazing cobalt eyes. He was also carrying a package, a plastic bag, and when Wuifei showed up he sort of tried to hide it behind his back.
"Oh, nothing important, really, I just wanted to talk to him… but I can come back later so, see ya!"
Before Wufei could go after him the guy started to walk away. He would've followed him but he reminded himself that he was naked and wet. Just then the phone rang and he had to go back.
"Yes?"
"Wufei, it's me" answered Heero on the other side of the line.
"What's up?"
"I'm done here, could you make sure this gets taken care of?"
"Sure, you come back this moment, I'll sort things out"
"Good…"
"By the way, you got some things to explain…"
TBC
A/N: Hi! Thank you for your reviews, I hope you like this chapter and that I didn't keep you waiting a long time. I'll see you next chapter.
