A/N: Yay! I'm on chappie number 4!! Woo-hoo! I hope ya guys like it! ^^ Sorry again for taking so long.
~~~Feeding Time~~~
Relena and Hilde finally released the infants and sat down at the dining room table along with Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei. Heero was positioned on top of Relena's lap; his arms were crossed and his eyes narrowed in a threatening manner. Duo was neatly assembled on Hilde's lap, frowning. He was soooo hungry. It felt like he hadn't eaten for days.
Relena blabbered on and on about how cute Heero is, while Hilde nodded in agreement and the teenage pilots chuckled at Heero's expressions. Duo's stomach growled loudly. Relena stopped jabbering.
"What was that?" She looked around the room. Hilde lifted Duo at her eye level and examined him. Duo's mouth drooped and his eyes were half closed. His arms and legs dangled motionless, while he rested in Hilde's grasp.
"Are you hungry, Little Duo?" she finally asked with a smile on her face. Duo's eyes lit up as he nodded his head vigorously.
"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" he cheered and chanted.
"How about you, Little Heero? Are you hungry, too?" Relena questioned Heero. He turned his head away from her, trying to refuse any and all attention.
Relena giggled and grabbed the baby bag across from them and took out two bottles. She handed a bottle to Hilde, and they popped off the caps. Actually, Duo was helping too. He was the one that seized the bottle from Hilde and tried to open it. Unfortunately, his baby hands couldn't even make the cap budge. The milk inside crashed along the sides as Duo shook the bottle rapidly. Since the shaking didn't work, he resorted to using his teeth. But, that had no effect what so ever considering the fact that Baby Duo was tooth-less. Hilde laughed at his attempts and carefully assisted him.
Heero, on the other hand, didn't want to drink from a stupid, scrawny baby bottle. After Relena had opened the bottle, she held up in front of his mouth and waited patiently for him to start sipping. It's a good thing that Relena has a lot of patience… she'll need it.
Duo started slurping the milk even before Hilde was ready to serve him. The milk was sweet to his taste buds as he happily sucked the bottle. Heero stared at him with disgust.
"How can you drink that repulsive bottle?" he grumbled.
"I guess I may look funny, but this milk tastes great!! You gotta try some, Heero!" Duo prompted as paused from his drinking to take a breath. "It's not the same as regular milk. This milk is even better than that normal stuff." Duo smiled widely and continued slurping. Heero ignored Duo's invitation and looked away.
"Wow, Duo looks like he's really enjoying that bottle. What's in it?" Quatre brought forth out of curiosity.
"It's a special kind of milk," Relena answered as she tried to coax Heero into drinking it. She received his usual answer: the back of his head.
"What's so special about it?" Wufei mocked.
"Well, it didn't come from a cow or a baby formula," Hilde replied with a wink. Duo stopped sipping and stared at her. His cheeks fully expanded, filled completely with milk.
"So, then what is it?" Trowa inquired, knowing it was his turn to speak.
Hilde and Relena nodded and shouted in unison: "BREAST MILK!!!" Duo's eyes grew unreasonably large and his face turned green as he immediately spat out the boob milk. Fortunately, the milk missed Hilde, but unfortunately, the milk splattered all over Heero. He sat there, stunned and unsure of what type of emotion to express. A sudden rush of tears overwhelmed him as he uncontrollably let it all go and cried at the top of his lungs. Duo didn't even notice Heero's tears; he was too busy speedily wiping his flavored tongue. Relena picked up the crying Heero and rushed to the bathroom to clean him up. Throughout this entire ordeal, Wufei, Quatre, and even Trowa were laughing so hard that tears formed in their eyes too.
Five minutes later, Relena returned with the prune-faced Heero. Duo was neatly assembled on Hilde's lap again. His eyes were half closed and his mouth drooped. Not only was Duo grossed out, but also he was still hungry. Relena sat next to Hilde with Heero positioned on her lap again. Duo's growling stomach broke the silence.
"Are you still hungry, Duo?" Hilde questioned him. Duo was a little bit hesitant in responding. Who knows what food the girls have up their sleeves! But, Duo had to take that risk. He slowly nodded in hopes that they had some real food. Relena grabbed the baby bag and pulled out a container. Duo's eyes filled up with tears of misery as soon as he saw what she pulled out. It was a container of mashed peas.
"I think it's time to give them some real food," Quatre began, reading Duo's mind. "They may look like babies, but their not."
"I guess you're right, Quat," Hilde surrendered.
"Did you just call me 'Quat'?" he tilted his head.
"But what types of food do you have?" Relena addressed.
"Uh… I'm not sure," 'Quat' admitted.
"Well, then let's investigate," Hilde directed. Relena and Hilde plopped the infants on Trowa and Wufei's lap—without their consent—and followed Quatre into the kitchen.
Trowa stared at the unhappy Heero who sat cross-armed on Trowa's knees. Wufei watched the hungry Duo who was on the verge of falling off his lap. Eventually, Duo lost his balance and tumbled onto the floor. Duo and Wufei both had blank expressions.
"Aren't you going to help him up?" Trowa beseeched.
"Why should I?" Wufei jeered.
"I see your point." Trowa set Heero down on the floor next to Duo whose face was neatly buried in the carpet.
"What are you doing?" Heero finally inquired.
"I'm hungry," Duo groaned.
"You're not eating the carpet, are you?"
"No… I think I'm thinking."
"You think?"
"Yeah, I think so."
Heero sighed deeply. "Baka…All right, then. Let's go."
"Go where?" Duo lifted up his carpet-designed face.
"To the kitchen. We'll find our own food; without the girls' help."
"Really?! Great! Let's roll!" Duo got a head start and began to crawl as fast as his stubby legs and arms could go. Heero followed Duo at his own steady pace.
"Should we go after them?" Trowa pressed as he watched them inch away.
"Why should we?" Wufei retorted.
"I see your point."
Duo waited impatiently against the wall on the outside of the kitchen for Heero to catch up to him.
"Do you have a plan to get past the girls and Quatre?" Duo whispered when Heero arrived.
Heero described his fully detailed and well thought-out operation of action: "We'll wait for them to leave the kitchen and then sneak in."
"That's it?" Duo nagged receiving a nod from Heero. "I could've thought of that." And so, they waited and listened. They couldn't clearly identify what they were saying in the kitchen; Quatre had a large kitchen that stretched a good distance. After five and a half minutes of waiting and Duo repetitively asking: "Are they gone yet?" Quatre exited the kitchen while the girls trailed behind him, carrying one bag each of food for the toddlers.
Heero gave the signal to move in. Duo dramatically somersaulted into the kitchen and posed like one of Charlie's Angles. Heero casually crawled after him. Duo headed for the counter nearest to him on the left. Heero purposely chose not to follow Duo and crawled to a different counter at the opposite end.
"Hey! I think I smell something sweet, Heero! Come over here and help, will ya?" Duo yelled from across the kitchen.
"Get it yourself," he snapped.
"Hmph, fine! I'll do it myself, " Duo stuck out his tongue. He gazed up at the "25ft" counter top. "Arg…"
Heero had already formulated a plan. He pulled out the drawers leading up to the counter top and climbed on top of them, using them like stairs. Heero successfully crawled to the top and scanned his surroundings. An antique cookie jar was behind him, and a collection of various teapots surrounded it. Heero's stomach growled as the smell of cookies reached his nose. He crept his way towards the cookie jar and slowly opened it. Jackpot!! The jar was piled high with assorted cookies: chocolate chip, oatmeal, raisin, you name it. Heero hastily grabbed as many cookies he could carry. But his arms were too tiny to carry enough cookies to satisfy his hunger, so he stuffed all the cookies in his diaper ((Why not? *shrugs* Doesn't Heero store his gun in his spandex anyway? ^-^;;)). "Mission: complete." …… CRASH!!! SPLATTER!!! Heero looked up from the jar of cookies and searched for the source of the noise. A sweat-drop ran down his head when he realized the cause of the clamor.
Duo lay on the floor with a white paper bag on his head. He was completely covered and saturated in a white sparkly, flaky substance. Duo slowly sat up as the tiny flakes rolled off his body and scattered all over the floor.
"What happened?" Heero exhaled deeply. "And where's your lamb outfit?"
"Well, uh," Duo began with a chuckle, "I saw a bag of sugar on the countertop, but I couldn't figure out how to get up there, so I took off my clothes, formed a noose, and used it to pull it down. The bag of sugar fell on me and exploded on impact, and well, here I am." As Duo was telling his story—still in his diaper—he grabbed handfuls of sugar and stuffed it in his mouth, savoring the sweetness as it glided down his throat.
"Baka…" Heero replied.
"So, what about you? Did you get some food?" Duo emphasized with the hopes of more food.
"I got some cookies," he declared.
"All right!! Good goin', Heero! Sugar and cookies; I love it!" Duo paraded on his hands and knees on top of the pile of sugar. "So, where are the cookies?" he nagged as he held out his hands.
"……"
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The girls and Quatre returned to the dining room and dumped the bags of food on the table in front of Trowa and Wufei.
"Isn't this a little too much food?" Trowa implied with an arched eyebrow.
"That's what I was thinking," Wufei added.
"That's what I told them," Quatre sighed.
"Where are the boys?" Relena asked, ignoring the comments.
"They're somewhere in this house," Wufei stated calmly.
"You mean you don't know where they are?!" Hilde grabbed Wufei by his shirt collar and shook him until Wufei had dizzy-spirals for eyes.
"Calm down, Hilde," Trowa came to the rescue. "If they're lost, then they can take care of themselves."
"How can we calm down?!!" Relena rushed in, grabbing Trowa's shirt. "They're only babies and you lost them!"
"Uh… girls?" Quatre entered with a small voice. "I think they're in the kitchen."
"What?" the girls said in harmony.
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"YOU PUT THEM WHERE??!!" Duo shouted. "Do you realize how DISGUSTING that is?!!!" Duo nearly gagged on the sugar when Heero told Duo where he stored the cookies.
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"Was that Duo screaming?" Relena noted.
"It came from the kitchen," Quatre reminded.
The gang herded to the kitchen to investigate with Hilde and Relena leading the way. They stopped at the threshold of the kitchen and stared at the two sprouts on the kitchen floor. Duo was still surrounded and drenched in sugar, still upset about the cookie ordeal. Heero sat a short distance away—separate from the sugar pile—with a blank expression.
"Duo Maxwell!!" Hilde firmly addressed. Duo lifted his head when he heard his name, but soon wished he hadn't. "What are you covered in?" Hilde bend down next to Duo inspected the crystal flakes. "Duo, what are you doing in a pile of sugar in Quatre's kitchen?" she glared. Duo responded with a chuckle and a shrug. Hilde slowly picked him up and gently shook him, letting the sugar gems drift to the ground. "Oh, great… now we'll have to give you a bath," Hilde concluded with a sigh.
"A bath?!!" Duo's eyes grew large. "No way! I don't need a bath!" he crossed his arms.
Heero was enjoying Duo's circumstances and smirked at him. His smirk faded away, however, as Relena came up from behind him and lifted him up. Heero would have struggled, but the cookies in his diaper made that difficult.
"You better take a bath with Duo, Heero. You're still sticky from the breast milk incident," Relena instructed.
"What?!" Heero's eyes grew larger than Duo's. "I'm not taking a bath with that baka!" he protested as his eyes narrowed.
Ignoring the Duo and Heero's rants, the girls plopped them into the arms of Wufei and Trowa.
"I'm sure you boys can handle giving these two a bath, right?" Hilde verified with a smile.
"Any baka can give an infant a bath," Wufei scoffed on a level of assurance.
"That's good to hear, but remember: this is Heero and Duo you're dealing with," Relena noted.
"Yeah, we know," he confirmed. "I'll be sure to chain the doors shut and bullet-proof the bathroom windows."
"Good. By the time you're done giving them a bath, we should be done cleaning up this mess," Hilde emphasized the word "mess" and eyed Duo.
The pilots walked away with the complaining babies and trudged upstairs and into the bathroom.
A/N: That's the end of chapter 4! If you have any ideas or suggestions for more chapters, then let me know! Tee hee ^^ this is so much fun! Please review and in return, I'll try to update soon. grr… hw …grr