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Chapter 4: Yuy, the kid and Kenji

Heero Yuy smiled.

At HIM.

Hell has just frozen over.

For a moment he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. Heero Yuy smiling ? He hadn't even thought the muscles in his face could form this contraction. But it looked like they could and the even more craziest thing was that he Duo Maxwell thought it didn't even look scary.

Obviously the other pilots felt as astonished as him since Quatre had trouble finding words with his mouth moving like a fish, Wu Fei with his mouth hanging open in eh not so dignified manner and Trowa managed to almost send us over the edge in speaking up in a moment like this.

« He smiles. » Was the only thing he said which was enough to bring Quatre down back to earth or well rather L1 and beamed at Trowa who in response nodded mysteriously as if he had everything figured out.

Duo finally got his wits back together which a single smile of 01 had managed to send them scrambling in all directions. Something he never had thought was possible. But hey the conditions were extraordinary and there was no point in worrying over his sanity now. Other things had more priority. Like getting out of here and putting as much space as possible between him and Yuy or well Kenji or whatever he called himself now. Not that he was afraid of one small kid. Hell, no. But Shinigami can only take so much on one day and he had reached his limits. He needed to get out of here before he really did something what he would regret later. Geez, had Yuy blue eyes. He never noticed that before. But as intense as ever. Kinda weird to be actually NOT being glared at. Hm, he could get used to it. Gah, he really needed to shut up this non-stop mind rambling.

Kenji was still looking at him obviously expecting him do do something.

Oh no, don't even think about kiddo. I got your attention the cuddling and taking care of thingies and whatsoever is Q's job.

Which brought him out of his bemuddled thoughts. 

What was the blonde doing anyway? Ah, yeah, starring like a love sick puppy at Trowa. Time to kick things into action before Wu Fei would suffer a heart attack.

"Hey Q! Woohoo! Q-man. You're with me again?" He stopped waving his hand in front of 04's face as Quatre began focusing on him. "Yes, Duo? What's the matter?" He peered innocently up at him from beneath his blonde bangs. Duo starred at him.

Does starring at Trowa included a memory charm or something? He warily throw a glance at the tall Latin boy who pretended not to notice and starred at the mini-01 instead. Duo shook his head.

"Anyway Q, in case you have forgotten we have a small –"he pointed at Kenji with his thumb- "problem here. If you don't mind I'd appreciate you taking over from now on."

Duo bore his eyes into Quatre's willing him to understand that he so not wanted to carry Heero Yuy out of here. Geez, he even had trouble of thinking of him as Kenji, a kid - how could he suddenly start acting all friendly to someone who had tried to make his life a living hell even if it was unconciously what Quatre tried to make him believe it was. Not that he really believed it himself. No way.

Luckily he didn't need to explain himself any further since Quatre walked over to Kenji getting ready to take care of him. Duo breathed a sigh of relief. It was a very difficult situation. He figured it was the best not to get involved with this kid since as soon as the teen Yuy was back they had a hell to explain and a pissed Yuy is very nasty. He had encountered him often enough. And he hoped to have a chance to escape his wrath if he just stayed out of this mess. Although Yuy would probably find a way to get him involved anyway. He always ended up fighting with Yuy.

Omg, one day his head is going to kill him. There should be something what could make you stop thinking. All this rampage in his head was starting to give him a headache. Thanks god there was still a Chang Wu Fei – a welcome distraction.

Wu Wei really looked like he needed some reassurance that they haven't been sucked into a parallel universe where Treize would suddenly pop up and invite him to tea.

"Hey, Wuffers, you alright over there? You look kinda pale around that cute little nose of yours." He snickered at the Chinese who turned a very interesting shade of scarlett. It was so easy to manipulate 05.

"Shut your trap, Maxwell." Wu Fei spat back annoyed to have been caught so off-guard. Then the black haired teen seemed to remember something.

"How come you speak Japanese?" He looked curiously at the Deathscythe pilot. It had never accured to him that Duo Maxwell had had the chance to gain any kind of different knowledge besides war related things what G had taught him. Wu Fei knew of his background and had to admit he was impressed. He had never thought about the fact that Yuy indeed learned English only when he began his training under J.

But Duo shook his head. "I don't really speak it. Just the regular survival vocabulary."

Wu Fei didn't look convinced. The prononcation had been to too proper. He had studied Japanese for a long time.

Duo sighed he didn't like talking about his past. Each of them were given a few facts about their comrades. It should have been enough. But ah to hell with it.

"You see, on L2 live all those who can't afford the more costly life on Earth or the other colonies and heck they dumped all the "unwanted" trash on our colony as well. I think you know about the special facilities and stuff."

Wu Fei nodded.

"Though originally Americans inhabitated first this colony it soon became a melting pot of all kind of nationalities. So were the kids on the streets. And I just managed to pick up quickly on languages. That's all."

Wu Fei looked like he wanted to ask something else but was cut off when Quatre cried frustrated.

"Duo, I need your help."

Said teen groaned inwardly and rolled his eyes. That was exactly what he hadn't wanted to hear. Wu Fei gave him a faint encouraging smile knowing what was bothering 02.

Duo turned once more his attention to the blonde stubbornly avoiding the small person now sitting upright on the bed.

"What's up Q?" He tried to smile nonchalantly at Quatre.

The other teen sighed. "He doesn't want to let go of your braid." He huffed annoyed with the fact that his charms had failed him. The kid was as stubborn as the teenager. The Sandrock pilot had the feeling that this was just the beginning of a lot of trouble. Duo starred at him confused.

"What?"

Quatre rolled his eyes at Duo's dumb question.

"Look." He pointed at Kenji who sat silently with a stubborn expression on the bed. Left hand pressed on his upper tigh, right hand clutching Duo's braid like a life line.

Duo groaned. That wasn't good. He hadn'd even felt that the kid was still holding onto it.

Was he loosing his touch? Maybe his Yuy warning radar wasn't working with this half portion. Gah, no time to worry about this now. He shoved the thought back into his head.

He now needed to convince the kid to let go of his precious braid. Nobody was allowed to touch it. Looks like someone needed to learn a lesson.

Duo once again settled into a crouch in front of the kid. It sure was ridiculous to keep thinking of Yuy as "the kid" but starting to think of him as Kenji would make him well let's say "real" and that would only complicate things.

Once you give them names you get attached to them.

And that was something Duo Maxwell wanted to avoid at all costs.  

Yay, that was fun to write. I admit it was already done on Monday but I hadn't had any time to post it before. My poor kiddies are sick. Hope you enjoy reading it.