Just a Shadow
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Chapter 11: Terrible Singing, The Guys' Surprise!
I might not be able to update for a little while as I'll be busy over the next one – two weeks. Thank you all so much for all your reviews.
Lisa Joanna: So far Heero/Duo are in the lead, so no worries! Thanks for the review.
Chi: Thanks for your votes and review!
Duette-Chan: Thanks for your vote and review!
Mieka: Thanks for your vote ad 'm glad you liked Heero's 'I'll kill you' comment.
Milharu: Thanks so much for your great review, and so far Duo/Heero is in the lead!
Yaeko: So far Trowa/Quatre is in the lead and it looks like it going to win, but who knows? The votes could turn yet! Thanks for your review!
RubyChan05: I'm gad your enjoying the fic! Thanks for your vote and review.
Silversilence0: I think that we will have a mixture of yaoi and normal in this fic as that's the way the votes seem to be going. For now it's remaining as friendship though.
So far Heero/Duo are winning! Thanks for the review!
Keefy: For now at least the fic is remaining as friendship. If more votes come in for no couples then it will remain that way, but so far the other reviewers seem to want couples. I may not pair everyone, but I do want at least some couples.
El Terrible Fizzy: I may just use that nickname, and so far the votes for your couples are winning! Thanks for the review
Mite Mite: :starts beating readers who don't review at all: don't worry, at least you reviewed, thanks for that. I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Ravyn Owl: Thanks for your review and vote, I hope you like this chapter.
KentouKurige: I love those pairings too! You can even vote again if you like, there's no limit to how many times you can review!
Whymsy007: I'm not so sure that there are more yaoi fans. I've read many reviews and fics from Heero/Relena fans. I hope the results don't disappoint you too much but Heero/Duo are in the lead. There is still a chance Heero/Relena could catch up though! Thanks for your review!
Krage: Don't worry, the friendship factor will remain whether there are couples or not. In the next chapter II will be holding a new vote. This couples vote is all experimental for now, so there may be no couples at all! I really don't know yet! I'm glad you liked the last chapter! I hope this next one doesn't disappoint!
Normal – Present day
Bold Italics – Past/Flashbacks
Normal Italics – Flashbacks whilst in the past
Bold – Flashbacks in the Present
"Laa lalllaaaaaalalalaaaaaa!" a voice sang out from the shower "Dooodoodeeedoolalalaaa!"
Trowa covered his ears and groaned as the off key singing continued. As the finale to the song approached the singing got louder and was joined by another voice. Now, Trowa may be quiet, but when things bug him, he can be as loud as he wants.
He stormed up to the bathroom door and banged his fist against it hard. For a brief moment the singing stopped from one of the bathrooms, but the off key singing was sting ringing out from another.
Trowa stomped along the hallway until he came to another bathroom and repeated his beating of the door. The singing stopped, but just as the Heavyarms pilot was walking away with a sigh, both started up again.
His left eye twitched slightly and his expression darkened. This was the las time he would endure this in silent torture!
"Oooohhhh yyeeeaaaahhh! Woo! Laalaalaladoodoodeedaa!" The boys in the showers sang out.
Trowa growled lightly as he was assaulted with the terrible nose from either end of the hallway. The singing wasn't the only annoying thing to the uni-banged man, the most annoying thing was that he knew they could sing! He's heard them a couple of years ago! They were only doing this to annoy people!
Trowa walked up to each door individually and gave them a warning to stop before he had to resort to drastic measures. When neither heeded his warning, the young man made his way to Heero's room. He knocked lightly on the door before entering.
"Heero?" Trowa called quietly "Can you tell me where your water heater is?"
Heero groggily opened his eyes and blinked a couple of times sleepily before the slightly open door allowed the terrible noise to enter his room. The Japanese man flinched as one of the singers hit a high note and the other went for a low note. Needless to say, the result was ear-splitting!
"S'in the cupboard dow'stairs" Heero replied, voice thick with sleep "D'you mind f'I sleep in?"
"Go ahead" Trowa answered
With that said, that Japanese man flopped back down onto his plain bed sheets and yawned loudly before curling into a small ball. Before long. He was snoring lightly. Trowa smiled to himself as he watched his friend fall asleep. Things would be okay now that they were here. He'd make sure of it, all of them would.
Trowa whistled happily as he made his way downstairs, he greeted Quatre in the kitchen and began searching the downstairs cupboards. The young blonde was preparing breakfast for his newly dubbed family, whilst keeping an inquisitive eye on Trowa.
"Trowa?" he called "What are you doing?"
"Looking for the water heater" Trowa replied calmly "Could you please fill two cups with cold water and an ice cube Quatre?"
"Okay" Quatre smirked "Operation silence underway!"
Trowa smirked at his comrade and almost grinned as he came across the water heater.
"Are those cups ready Quatre?"
"Ready when you are!" Quatre replied, grinning from ear to ear
"Okay" Trowa smirked "Give me 30 seconds before turning off the hot water. I predict Wufei will come running out first due to the fact he has less hair and-"
Trowa flinched as both boys began to sing off key even louder.
"I can't believe they're still doing this!" Quatre sighed "You think one of them could have won that bet of 'who can sing the worst in the shower' by now! It's the stupidest bet I've ever heard of!"
"Yes. But as I was saying, Duo will come out second as his hair is heavier and will slow him down … operation silence commencing now"
"Roger that" Quatre replied "04 ready and waiting. Over and out!"
Trowa smirked as he dashed silently up the stairs and stood outside Wufei's bathroom. Within thirty seconds, two identical shrieks filled the air and as predicted, Wufei came dashing out of his bathroom in nothing but a towel only to be splashed in the face with ICE COLD water!
As soon as Wufei was splashed and has retreated into his room, Trowa sprinted to the other bathroom where duo was. He waited as he heard shouting inside about 'stupid hair getting in the eyes' and then a soon as the door opened…
SPLASH!
Duo screamed and dashed no his bedroom slamming the door behind him. Trowa leant over the banister to the stairs where Quatre was waiting for the mission report.
"Mission status?" Quatre asked
"Successful" Trowa replied smirking
"03 status?"
"Dry as a bone!"
Both boys started laughing, before returning to their previous tasks. A little bit latr, Quatre called them all down for breakfast. All except for Heero arrived and began to eat. Duo and Wufei were glaring at Trowa the entire time until Quatre spoke up on the whereabouts of their host.
"Duo?" Quatre asked "Do you know where Heero is?"
"Hmm?" Duo lost his angered look and faced Quatre "Come to think of it, I haven't seen him all morning!"
"He's asleep" Trowa interrupted "He asked me if we would mind if he slept in and I said no"
"Oh" Quatre replied relieved "That's okay then, he needs the sleep anyway!"
The other boys nodded and continued to eat their breakfast. Some time around noon, the pilots noticed that Heero still hadn't surfaced from his room. When they went to check on him, they found he was still asleep. They crept a little closer and checked his temperature, but found no problems so returned downstairs to let him sleep.
"He must be REALLY tired!" Duo exclaimed "I mean, he never sleeps this late … does he?"
"You mustn't forget" Trowa replied "We no longer know his sleeping habits – this may be normal for him … though I doubt it"
"He's exhausted" Quatre interrupted "You can see it when you look at him. His nightmares are preventing his sleep and he's underweight"
"Quatre's right" Wufei added "I felt it when I picked him up. He must be eeping himself busy and forgetting to eat"
"Or just not bothering to at all" Duo replied grimly "But no more. I'm gonna make sure my buddy gets back to normal again! Right guys?"
"Right" They all replied
They sat down on the one sofa in the room and had a moment of silence before all of them gasped and stood up.
"Guys!" They all shouted in unison "I've had an idea!"
The pilots looked at each other and all smirked.
"I think" Wufei started
"We should" Duo added
"Decorate" Trowa smiled
"This room" Quatre finished "It looks like great minds think alike!"
The other boys agreed and began to prepare for their trip into town.
"It's a good thing Heero told us where the money was!" Quatre smiled "And that we could use it for whatever we wanted!"
"Yeah, I'll never forget the look on his face!" Wufei grinned
"I still can't believe you're telling me Yuy sleep the entire day!" Zechs muttered
"So let me guess" Noin asked "You all took a corner and did what you wanted?"
"How could you tell?" Duo asked
Noin and the other guests looked around the room and turned back to Duo, giving him a long suffering look.
"I guessed" she replied sarcastically
"Okay, Trowa you take those walls, Duo you take that wall and the ceiling, Wufei, you take those two walls, and I'll take these ones!"
"When the painting is done, we arrange the furniture – and remember, take your time!"
"Good thing we got this ultra-deluxe quick drying paint eh Quat?" Duo asked
"Yes" Quatre replied "It will be dry in 10 minutes … and our furniture should be arriving in an hour, so that should give us enough time to do at least 3 coats!"
After several hours, the pilots' painting was finished and they marvelled at their work. They had started off just painting it a colour, but soon they began to get creative. They all ended painting their walls white and creating their own designs.
Wufei's corner of the room was painted as a rainforest landscape. There were trees and animals painted with a mixture different colours. He also had a number of Chinese symbols across the wall. There was a waterfall o the far left that lead to a lake.
Trowa's corner was a painting of the circus, the background was off the big top and the crowd was made up of a multiple of different dots and smudges. There were clowns and animals and there was even people selling things. A man in a corner was holding a bunch of balloons and handing one to a child and to the far right, Trowa had inserted his and Catherine's act as well.
Quatre had also drawn a landscape. His passed across the two walls he was painting and was of the desert. The only difference being that in the middle of the desert there was an oasis. It was a beautiful pond with glossy palm trees and cool looking grass. Next to it was written 'dreams, like an oasis in the desert, don't always last forever, so take advantage of them whilst you can live them'.
Duo's painting spread across his wall and the ceiling. His took the longest and was the hardest to do, but in the end he managed it. On the wall was a painting of the five Gundams as well as Epion, the Tallgeese and Zero. The back ground was of outer space and some of the colony clusters. On the ceiling was a HUGE painting of the earth from outer space. It was surrounded by stars and in one of the far corners was the moon.
Duo wiped his brow as he finished his painting. He had done the painting on the ceiling first so that the others could bring the furniture in after it was dry. He had just finished the painting on the wall and after 10 minutes began to bring the rest of the furniture in.
Quatre had chosen a beige corner piece and rug to go with his corner whereas Wufei had chosen two green armchairs with an oriental style rug for his corner. Trowa had chosen a rest suite with no rug for his corner and Duo had chosen a black suite that had sparkles of blue that looked like stars. His rug was of the earth and was big and plushie. They had ordered most of the items through Quatre's own companies which is why it arrived so quickly. Quatre had used Heero's phone to ring home and told them what he wanted. They had it air lifted to the house.
"I can't wait to see Heero's face when he sees this!" Quatre grinned
A thump sounded from upstairs and then footsteps. The boys held their breath as the steps approached the stairs and started to make their way down.
"I was so nervous!" Quatre laughed "I didn't know whether he would like it or not!"
"I know!" Duo grinned "And it was like he was taking his time to annoy us!"
All eyes turned to Heero who was asleep with his head rested on Quatre's lap on a pillow.
Four pairs of nervous eyes turned to the door as it began to open.
Okay, I admit, that was evil :grins: oh well! Heehee! The results of he votes are as follows:-
Heero/Relena – 1
Heero/Duo – 8
Duo/Hilde – 1
Trowa/Quatre – 9
Quatre/Dorothy – 2
Wufei/Sally – 6
Heero/Duo/Wufei – 7
No Couples – 5
Reviewers choice – Wufei/Hilde – 1, Trowa/Quatre/Wufei – 1, Duo/Trowa – 1, Trowa/Midii – 1
Those are the results so far. You can vote as many times as you want and you can even vote against the couple you don't want. Votes against are taken away from the total of votes for a pairing e.g. For – 2, Against – 1, Total – 1.
Until Next Time!
Clarobell