Disclaimer: If anyone here thinks that I do own Gundam Wing they should be put into a nut house…. Oh wait… that mean I should go admit myself. XD Ok, I really just wish I owned it… cause then I would have so put Heero and Duo into a smexy, hot couple.
Duo's conscience slowly climbed to wakefulness, preparing for the frigid cold cement floor that he had gotten used to over the past few months. A freezing cold floor, with no blankets or padding to keep him from freezing to death in the night, and pajamas with so many holes that it would almost be more useful to sleep without them. Duo felt his body chill, with fear, fear of pain, what punishment he would be given for living today, and cold, if he should be thrown out again.
Then a pair of arms worked their way around him to enclose him into a soft, yet comforting embrace. Just then he remembered that he was wearing the shirt of one of Heero's pairs of pajamas (the pants wouldn't fit) and that he was in fact sleeping in Heero's bed, because there was no other bed to give him. That also meant that the arms surrounding him were Heero's as well, at this thought Duo froze again, this prompting Heero to hold him tighter.
Duo slowly turned his head towards Heero, careful not to move around too much, in hopes that Heero was only moving in his sleep. Which he was, and quite soundly asleep, with a smile on his face that was more like a grin for Heero. As comfortable as it was Duo began to adjust so that he could slip out of Heero's grasp, and not wake the boy. But his adjustments turned him toward Heero, and Heero adjusted automatically to the squirming boy in his arms, and brought Duo's face to Heero's chest, his bear chest.
Duo took in a deep breath and slid his way out of Heero's hold, and not too soon, because as he was getting off the bed Heero began to wake up. Duo sucked in a breath and puffed his small, slim chest out as much as he cold, and hoped against hope that Heero didn't know what happened while he was asleep. As Heero came fully to wakefulness he saw Duo's comical pose and gave him a quizzical look.
"Do you do that every morning?" Heero asked in a sleep laden voice.
"Uh… I… um… I do… I mean I am… eer I was…" Duo blabbered, attempting to make an intelligent sentence out of the stupidity that was his mind. Heero shrugged and slipped off of the bed, when he came level with Duo he patted the other boy on the shoulder firmly and continued past and out of the bed room. Duo let out the breath he had been holding in a relived sigh, when Heero had brought his hand up Duo had expected to be hit, or that Heero was going to grab him by the collar and start screaming at him.
Duo turned and followed Heero out of the bedroom and over to the upstairs bathroom, when Heero noticed this he gave Duo an amused look.
"You still don't have pants on." Heero explained when Duo gave him a questioning look in response.
"Is that a problem?" Duo asked, tilting his head down so that he was looking at Heero through his bangs, this action making Duo look even smaller and more vulnerable in front of Heero.
"Not for now, but you will want to get dressed before going down stairs. Okasan will be getting you pajamas that fit today." Heero responded, feeling bad for finding Duo's predicament humorous at all. Heero thought back to the night before, when he had given Duo a pair of pajamas, only to find out that Duo's waist was a lot smaller than Heero's.
"Here, put these on, and you and I will be sharing a bed tonight." Heero stated, handing Duo the matching set of pajamas. He then turned around to give Duo some privacy and to finish putting his clothes in the drawers of his dresser.
"Um… Heero." He heard the smaller boy say timidly. Turning around he saw Duo standing there, with the shirt off by a button and the pants polled at his feet. Duo bent down and pulled the pants up to his waist, where they should be, and let go, and they proceeded to fall around his feet again. Heero sighed and pulled the pants up again, and lifted up the bottom hem of the shirt to see how much extra room there was in the pajamas, as it were Heero wondered if they couldn't fit another person Duo's size in there as well.
"They aren't going to fit, will you be fine with just the top?" Heero asked looking up a Duo. The look on Duo's face as he nodded told Heero that this was more that he would ever have gotten anywhere else. "Well, might as well not dirty too much laundry, I will just wear these, I can go without a top." Heero explained.
"By… by the way… Heero… I Idon'tneedtosleeponthebed." Duo said at such a rapid pace that for a moment Heero couldn't figure out what exactly Duo had said. In a few moments, from the nervous look that Duo was giving him, and just knowing that Duo wasn't used to being giving a lot, he surmised what Duo had said.
"Don't worry, there is no problem with you sleeping on the bed, besides you would catch a cold sleeping on the floor." Heero said, with a smile to show Duo that there were no hard feelings over what was said.
"Oh… ok." Duo said, resigning himself to not arguing about the issue. "Good night." He said, crawling up onto the foot of the bed and curling up there.
"Sleep in the bed proper, meaning under the covers, with your head on the pillows, and Oyasumi." Heero said, making sure not to let his tone become to harsh, keeping his smile to help.
"Oyasumi? Wha' zat mean?" Duo asked in a sleep slurred voice.
"Good night." Heero said simply, watching Duo drift off to sleep.
Heero was quite certain that he would have to make sure to say everything with a kind tone, or the smaller boy would look as if he were expecting a blow to fall. He had already come to tell when the boy expected rough treatment, his eyes would scrunch up and he would seem to pull into him self even more, becoming as small as possible, without actually moving away. Heero hoped that he could learn that he wasn't going to be hit and or yelled at.
Heero went about the bathroom, going over his normal morning routine, brushing his teeth, brushing his hair, and washing his face, with Duo in tow. When it came to brushing his teeth and washing his hair Duo did well without needing much of anything, but when time came to tame his wild locks he just stood where he was, perplexed. Heero looked over at Duo, relieved him of the brush, and began to brush out Duo's mess of hair.
"Ow…owwi.." Duo whimpered softly, at first too soft for Heero to hear, but once he did he looked up into the mirror, and saw that Duo's eyes were squeezed shut and tears were slowly making their way down his cheeks.
"Hold on, I will be right back." Heero instructed, leaving the bathroom and going down the stairs as fast as he could without sounding like he was trying to break down the house.
"Heero Yuy, slow down, and what are you doing going around the house without a shirt on?!" his mother shot at him in a torrent.
"Okasan, please, do you have any hair detangler? Duo's hair needs to be brushed, but from looking at it I don't think it has been in a number of years." Heero explained quickly. His mother simply nodded and went into a door on the side of the family room, which obviously led to his parent's bathroom. She returned with a spray bottle of leave in conditioner and detangler.
Once Heero had the detangler he rushed back upstairs to see Duo in the same place that he had left him.
"Ok, this will make brushing your hair a lot easier." Heero said as he began spraying it at the very ends of Duo's hair. He grabbed the hair brush and went at the hair again, this time making sure to be soft. In moments the bottom of Duo's hair began to look like it wasn't its own creature on Duo's head.
It took Heero a half an hour to detangle and brush out Duo's hair, but when he was done he felt it had been worth it. Duo's hair lay like a chocolate milk cascade down his back, each wave of hair picked up the light in the room, and like a crystal makes a rainbow his hair turned the light into at least twenty different shades of brown and honey. The mess that hadn't made it halfway down his back before now, in soft, barely wavy locks, made its way down to caress the crease where Duo's legs met with his small round bottom.
Heero and Duo made their way back to Heero's room where Heero tossed his smallest clothes and belt to Duo, and began getting dressed himself. The shirt and jeans Heero had sent Duo's way being black and a dark blue, while his were green and faded blue. Heero turned around to observe how his choices for Duo were working out.
Duo had no trouble putting the clothes on, but when he went to put the belt on hadn't known how to wear it. He knew it went around the waist of the pants and would keep them up, but he had never been shown how to put one on, so he had latched the belt over the pants, keeping an inch of the pants over the top of the belt in hopes that would keep the pants up. Heero sighed, but not with weariness, or in exasperation, but in amusement at the sight, but in moments was wordlessly helping Duo to get the belt put on properly.
Heero's mother knocked on the door as Heero finally got the belt all the way around and was latching it. Upon receiving an hn noise for an answer she opened the door, and was about to make a statement about the scene she saw when Duo spoke up, explaining the reason.
"Heh, kind of silly that I don't know how to put a belt on right isn't it?" He asked, his voice full of teasing, but it was gentle, as if he were reminding himself that there was nothing wrong with not being perfect.
"That is alright, it looks like Heero-kun is teaching you well enough. When you two are done there I want you to come down and eat so that we can get to the store early." She responded. "Oh, and Duo-kun, why don't we braid your hair so that it won't get tangled as easily?" she added.
"Ok!" he responded excitedly as Heero finished with the belt, it still barely keeping the jeans on Duo. Heero just shook his head as he went over and fished out two pair of socks, tossing one of them at Duo. In a matter of moments the two had socks on and headed down stairs for breakfast.
TBC
(reviews from chapter 1)
ZmajGoddess: Yes, poor Duo, but don't worry he has a friend now And hopefully I won't torture them too much XD
LilPixi: Why yes, it will be very interesting, and I am sorry for not updating very fast.
Griffen: I am glad you like the story, but I am sorry to say that if I explain the weird actions I will be giving away an awfully big plot twist. ;
Saturn's Hikari: I am tickled that you like how I right, and hopefully I will be able to pick up on the updating soon.
blackhorn: Yes, um… sorry that I had originally forgot the AU notice hehehe…. Yeah, my bad.
Sabbychan Yaoi Fan: Oh wow I will update XP
(reviews from chapter 2)
ZmajGoddess: Yays! A repeat reviewer XD Um yeah, the Woman is a bitch… and I am truly glad you want to read more of the story.
Elithil: Yeah, I am sorry to say this but at this point this story isn't meant to be very clear, and I guess that is to keep people reading, hoping that they will figure it out, but trust me by the end if people don't get it I will just come out and explain it all for them.
Carrot: Thank you, you rock. As to how old they are, right now they are in 5th grade, but the story will be making a time jump soon, I just want to get a good grounding for the story set up, and yes sir, updates will be far more regular, very soon.
camillion: Yes, well you will be getting a big taste of how people see the new living arrangement in the next chapter.
daemonshalo: Yeah, Duo-kun needs a big hug, and love will blossom soon ;)
lolly sister: Yes, you are right, I did anticipate the readers being confused, but that is part of what will keep people reading right?
Note: I have edited this chapter very little, mostly just small spelling and grammar errors. I have also left in my responces to chapters 1 & 2 but I have removed the responces for 3 as I deleted that chapter. Thanks for reading, and I hope to have another chapter up soon 3
