Luv Yoo, Bye-bye!

In the next week to come the Gundam pilots that knew about Heero's 'daughter', Heero and Relena would discover two things about Hotaru. First, that she was far smarter at times than they could give her credit for and she could still act like her physical age at times. At the physical age of two, or somewhere around there, Hotaru was learning to climb stairs.

Her favorite game was to climb up the stairs on her own two feet again and again. The only problem was… she would have to crawl back down the stairs, something she didn't like so…

"TOW-A!!!!" Hotaru's voice rang throughout the house.

General rule of thumb, what was fun for the baby, wasn't fun for the adults. Since Hotaru couldn't walk down the stairs, she would often call her mother, father or uncles to come up and help or carry her down.

"DA-DEE!!!!"

Wufei let out something that was a cross between a groan and a growl as he got up from the couch. As another general rule of thumb, children run on nothing. They can run for hours without so much as a drop of sugar. Adults on the other hand needed sleep, food and perhaps caffeine to run for that long. He shook his head he couldn't believe it. He, Chang Wufei, the man who got up either before or with the rising of the sun to do katas, type long into the night, who had been through more physical training than a normal person was bested by a two year-old.

"Correction," Wufei gave himself a mental note, "She's seventeen days old.

He frowned at that; there were so many mysteries about Hotaru these days. Though he may not seem it, but Wufei was quite a scholar, and knew a puzzling question when he saw one.

"How can she grow so fast? It should tire her out and yet she's like any child," Wufei was slightly worried about the fast growth rate might have some nasty side effects.

"MOMEE!!!"

Another thing, Wufei had to shake his head at that. Children it seemed had an amazing pair of lungs, or was it just Hotaru? As Wufei made his way over to this staircase, he saw that Trowa had all ready beat him to it.

"Hotaru, why do you keep going up the stairs like that?" Trowa asked.

Hotaru smiled, "Wu-fi, Tow-a!"

Trowa turned to Wufei, "She finds this entertaining?"

"Or she likes making our lives miserable," Wufei muttered.

As much as either of them would have liked to choose the second option, Hotaru was just too sweet of a kid to even consider she likes making their lives hell.

"She'll just walk back up," Wufei added.

Trowa looked at him, "So who is going to stay with Hotaru?"

"You," Wufei growled, "I got to look after her for three extra days."

"I will," a voice said behind them.

They both turned to see Heero there with a towel over his shoulder. They also noticed that Heero was also holding a dress belonging to Hotaru.

Heero shrugged, "She needs to take a bath anyways and later when Relena gets back we'll be taking her out for the night."

"Just the three of you?" Trowa asked.

Heero nodded, "Relena has spent way too much time at her desk and Hotaru… she just needs to get out. Besides Quatre is supposed to come home today."

Wufei nodded, "Ah… Winner might have a heart attack if he saw you bouncing Hotaru on your lap."

"Pretty much," Heero shrugged again, "I think Quatre will be the least out of all of us to take this well. You and Trowa should go and pick him up."

"While explaining to him of our additional houseguests," Trowa finished.

"No surprises then," Wufei nodded, "Sounds good."

Hotaru who was still on top of the stairs didn't like the fact they have forgotten all about her.

"DA-DEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" she screamed on top of her lungs.

Heero looked up, "I'm coming, and you're having a bath."

She smiled and just dropped to the floor, waiting for Heero.

"Am I the only one who finds it uncanny how she understands us?" Trowa asked.

Wufei just sighed, "You'll get use to it. Who knows? Maybe all babies are like that. This is the first time we've looked after a baby you know."

"Perhaps…"

They looked at each other and shrugged as they went off to pick up the unknowing Quatre from the spaceport.

~ Twenty Minutes Later ~

Quatre R. Winner finally made it to Earth after nearly three weeks of business meetings they had finally come down to an agreement. Now all Quatre wanted was a cup of tea and a nice book. He made his way to the nearest phone booth as Quatre wanted to warn his friends he was coming home rather than surprise them. At least he was sure no one knew of his arrival on Earth. The phone wasn't the videophone that he would often have to use, but it would still work.

Quatre punched in the phone number and waited…

Hotaru had just finished her bath and was wandering around in the kitchen when the phone rang. Heero had gone to the basement for a quick minute to get the stroller as they hadn't had found the time to use it yet. Relena was in the shower and Hotaru was curious. She looked up at the kitchen table where the phone was. Hotaru looked beside her to see a chair. She grabbed hold of it and tried to lift herself up.

"Oufff, aeee, oft," she murmured.

After a minute of hauling and grunting Hotaru finally managed to pull herself on top of the chair. Then as carefully or as dangerously as a baby could she stood up and leaned over to pick up the phone. It stopped ringing! What amazing thing this was! It stopped ringing when she picked up the strange thing. She put the phone back on where she got it.

Quatre stared at the phone in his hand. It took a while for someone to pick up and Quatre worried for a minute that no one was home. Then someone had picked up and hung up on him. Of course, for all he knew it could have been Duo. The blond pilot nodded to himself, that's what probably happened. The ringing of the phone must have woken Duo from his sleep and as a result Duo picked up the phone and placed it back on the hook. So with that in mind Quatre called again…

Hotaru gave a small jump as the phone rang again. She giggled to herself, what fun that the phone rang again! What kind of game was this? She had always seen her daddy and mommy use the phone or answer it. She picked up the phone… and set it back down.

Quatre sighed, it seemed that either the others couldn't get to the phone in time or no one else but Duo was home. It happened, but Quatre couldn't understand why Duo would sometimes take these naps. Once again he punched in the number. Perhaps after the third time the braided pilot would give up trying to get back to sleep and actually answer the phone.

Hotaru clapped her hands with amusement as the phone rang once more. This was so much fun, must more fun than going up and down the stairs. Much more fun than watching Uncle Wufei do his katas or watching Uncle Trowa play the flute. This was more fascinating than her daddy's computer.

Once more she picked up the phone only to have a voice yell from it, "Duo don't you dare hang up again!"

She blinked and held out the phone studying it. It was a strange thing… What was it? It felt smooth… It had no smell… Suddenly Hotaru realized that her gums were hurting her. She wondered…

If there was ever a time Quatre wished to bang his head on something it was now. Suddenly instead of hearing Duo, it sounded like something or someone was sucking on the phone. No doubt that Duo was probably half asleep and half awake.

"Duo! Wake up!" Quatre shouted into the phone.

The sound stopped, "Na?"

Quatre sighed, "Duo, it's Quatre."

"Cat-wa?"

"Duo… are you all right?" Quatre asked worriedly.

"Cat-wa! Cat-wa!"

Quatre frowned, what was wrong with Duo… Then he listened carefully to the babbling going on the other end. The voice didn't sound like Duo at all. In fact it sounded like a young girl's.

Quatre mentally groaned to himself, he had gotten the wrong number, "Sorry, I've gotten the wrong number. Could I talk to your daddy?"

"Da-dee?"

"Yes, or some other adult?" Quatre asked.

When he realized what he asked, he scolded himself. He was making this too difficult for the child. The child on the other hand seemed to have no problem telling him who was an adult.

"Momee?"

"Yes that right," Quatre said gently.

"Tow-a?"

"What?" Quatre blinked. Did she just say Trowa?

"Wu-fi?"

Quatre couldn't believe what he was hearing. He'd had thought he got the wrong number now he found out he might have gotten the right number after all. If that was so, who was the voice on the other line? And who were this girl's parents?

Quatre carefully asked the girl, "Could you please get your mommy or daddy?"

There was a pause and then the voice said, "Luv yoo bye-bye!" and the phone went dead.

Relena Peacecraft Darlian had just come back from her meeting to find Hotaru standing on the kitchen chair. The young woman shook her head, and briskly walked over to pick Hotaru up. As she held Hotaru up to her shoulder Relena smiled.

"You shouldn't do that Hotaru," Relena said gently, "You could have fallen and hurt yourself badly."

Hotaru smiled while she toyed with Relena's bow.

"Now what were you doing?" Relena could just imagine the trouble Hotaru had been getting into while she was gone.

Small chubby fingers undid the bow that kept Relena's hair in place.

Walking with Hotaru in her arms Relena searched for anyone else, "Where is everyone?"

At that moment Heero emerged from the basement carrying the stroller. He frowned and turned to Relena, "Did you pick up the phone?"

"No, I just got back. Why?" Relena asked.

"Trowa and Wufei left for the spaceport already," Heero explained, "And the phone rang twice. Since it stopped I thought maybe you picked it up."

Relena shook her head, "No… I don't think so…"

Hotaru squealed, "Luv yoo bye-bye!"

They both looked at Hotaru with wonderement. Hotaru, for a baby caught on to words very fast. It was one of the reasons why they took extra care to make sure swear words were not spoken in her present.

Heero sighed, "Last time I let her watch those cartoons."

"I'm sure it okay…" Relena said uncertainly.

Relena had always heard about what it was like to raise a baby, but Hotaru had proven time and time again she wasn't a normal baby.

Heero gave her a look, "She understands far too well."

"Yes…" Relena nodded in agreement, "I don't understand how she can, but she does."

"Hmmm…" Heero thought for a moment, "Nah… never mind, it was a bad idea. It's expecting too much of her. I was just wondering if maybe she knew who called.

Relena gave a small laugh, "Now that is asking to much of her! I swear Heero, you're more of a parent than you give yourself credit for."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Heero asked with light amusement.

"A lot of parents believe their child is the most gifted in the world," Relena answered, "And though I agree that Hotaru is gifted, she certainly couldn't have known who called."

"You're right," Heero gave her a smirk as he ran his fingers through his hair, "I'm just so use to treating her like a normal person. Full grown person."

Hotaru smiled looking from Relena to Heero, "Cat-wa! Cat-wa! Cat-wa!"

The two froze and stared at the dark-haired girl. Relena's eyes were becoming wide as saucers and Heero was just shocked. As far as they knew no one really mentioned Quatre nor had they encouraged her to say any other names.

Relena looked at Heero in surprise, "You don't think…"

"Hotaru picked up the phone," Heero murmured.

"Oh dear…"

Meanwhile on the other line Quatre also hung up the phone, it seemed like he was going to get any answers that way. He picked up his bags, getting ready to leave once he called a taxi.

"Quatre!" a voice yelled from the crowd.

The Sandrock pilot turned to see Trowa and Wufei standing in the crowd waving him over. Quatre rushed up to him, happy to see his friends after such a long time.

"I didn't tell you I was coming back," Quatre exclaimed.

"Yuy probably found out through the flight schedules," Wufei explained.

Quatre nodded, "Makes sense… Trowa… Wufei…"

As they made their way through the crowd Trowa turned, "Hmm?"

"Is there a child staying with you?" Quatre asked.

Trowa and Wufei looked at each other. They couldn't figure it out, how did Quatre know about Hotaru?

"Quatre…" Trowa looked at him strangely, "How did you know about Hotaru?"

"Hotaru?" Quatre asked.

Wufei nodded, "Yes, that's the child you're referring to, right?"

"I'm not sure," Quatre admitted, "I was trying to call home when this little girl picked up the phone. I thought I had gotten the wrong number when she started to say-"

"Tow-a," Trowa smirked.

"Wufie," Wufei shook his head.

"That's right!" Quatre exclaimed.

The three of them got into the car. Quatre sat in the front with Trowa, as Trowa gave this look to Wufei.

Wufei shrugged, "So she struck again."

"What's going on?" Quatre demanded to know.

Quatre could tell from the other boys' faces that they knew something he didn't. It was strange, because they normally wouldn't keep secrets like this from him.

Trowa sighed, "Hotaru is an experiment of Dr. J's and some mysterious colleague of his. She's technically speaking only seventeen days old, but she's physically about two years of age. Dr. J gave her to Heero to take care of until she reaches the age of twelve. Physically anyways.

Quatre had a look of horror on his face, "That's awful! Heero can't return her to Dr. J. God knows what he'll do to her!"

Wufei gave Quatre a smirk, "Who said Yuy was going to give her back?"

Quatre blinked, "So Lady Une knows?"

Once again the other two pilots gave each other a knowing look. Trowa gave this look to Wufei and Wufei sighed.

Wufei leaned forward, "Quatre…"

"Oh no…" Quatre turned around, "What happened? You normally don't call me Quatre unless it's a reunion, friend's time or something bad happens."

"Well…" Wufei admitted slowly, "It's not exactly bad. Unless Milliardo kills Yuy and we get stuck with his daughter."

"Oh… well…" Quatre nodded, "If it's just that, then it's okay. Milliardo won't kill Heero because Miss. Relena will try and stop him. If not that Heero isn't the easiest person to kill…" there was a pause, "HIS DAUGHTER?!?!?"

"I was wondering when that would sink in," Trowa murmured.

Quatre looked from Trowa to Wufei back to Trowa, "Who? When? Where? Why?"

Wufei shrugged, "Her name is now Hotaru Yuy, adopted on the day Yuy got her. Officially accepted a week after he got her, about anyhow…"

"When we were all gone," Trowa added.

Quatre looked completely stunned, "I always hoped that Heero would find family it's just…"

"You didn't expect to become an Uncle so soon?" Wufei guessed.

Quatre nodded, "Heero? Looking after a child? A girl?"

"Surprise, surprise…" Trowa said absently.

Quatre just sat back into the seat, clearly too shock to come up with anything else to say. The rest of the ride was at least an hour long. It was a very long way from the spaceport. The three men walked up the steps to the house. When they made it inside Quatre thought about everything he had been told about Hotaru. Then a strange question came to mind as he sat on the couch.

Quatre looked up, "Wufei, why did you say if Milliardo didn't kill Heero?"

"……………… Quatre…" Trowa trailed off.

Outside what looked like a normal family of three was walking home after being at the park. They looked like any normal family, and acted like any normal family, but only two of them were. Relena and Hotaru were up ahead. The Vice-Foreign Peace Minister was holding the tiny toddler in her arms, singing a song to her.

When the skies are gray,

And the day seems lonely…

I just pick up be chin,

And grin and say…

The sun will come out tomorrow…

Heero was walking behind the two, just watching them with a bit of amazement. He had no idea that Relena could sing or that Relena could be so motherly. It was like, for the first time he was experiencing what a family should be like. What his family would have been like if he had one. They came up the steps and to the front door. In the moonlight Hotaru was curled up in Relena's arms. Hotaru looked like a little angel with her head on Relena's chest and her dark purple hair falling over her face. Heero opened the door for them. They came into the living room to see that Quatre was on the couch with Trowa and Wufei standing beside him. The first thing that Quatre saw was Relena, holding baby Hotaru.

"Oh Allah…" Quatre murmured.

Author's Notes: Okay, so I'd admit… I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to Milliardo, but think about it. This is Milliardo who's thinking about his sister and his rival and a baby.

Also about Hotaru, this would be a good time to note that even though Hotaru is about two and a half, she is a senshi. We have to keep that in mind, so she's smarter and can do more… while still being a baby at the same time.

On another note, yes Alexandra would climb up the stairs and yell for someone to bring her down again. Kind of funny… when you're not the one helping her. If you haven't guessed, the song is Tomorrow from the Broadway Annie. My mom use to sing that to me when I have five you or so…

One more pilot to go! Duo!!!! What fun!