Gundam Wing: The Never Ending Waltz Between

War and Peace

Fandom: This is a Gundam Wing fan fiction

Disclaimer: I do not own this great show, Gundam Wing!

Ratings/Warnings: This is a NONYAOI fan fiction rated 'T' for teen. It will have some violence, slight sexual contents, and very mild profanity. Action/Adventure/Humor/Romance

Beta read by Chibi Rose Angel

Chapter 3

Heero lied back on Duo's bed and stared at the ceiling. It had been a very long time since he slept on a bed, much less on something soft. He had been traveling around the Earth and colonies to make up for all the wrongs he's done. Of course he had to go under another identity. Heero Yuy would just cause way too many suspicions and questions. He decided to go under the name Odin Lowe. Naming himself after the man that took care of him and who killed the real Heero Yuy. Now he could get temporary jobs.

His first job was a janitor at a pitiful excuse for a high school in a really bad part of town. Since Heero was the janitor, he had access to every room in the building. And so he secretly lived in the attic while saving up money for transportation. Once he had enough money, he walked around town and found a low budget car lot. He spotted what seemed to be the most irreparable vehicle he could find and asked how much it was. The owner of the car lot told him it wasn't for sale because it was old and inoperable. Heero said he wanted it anyway and the man only sold it to him for a thousand dollars (see Author's Note for more explanation.) which isn't a lot of money. Once Heero had the raggedy truck in his possession, he used his superb mechanical skills and had it working in no time. So now Heero had a truck, a job and a place to stay. He was officially ready for his expedition. Now when it came to going overseas, he needed another plan. Once Heero hacked into a ship's system, created a fake name tag, snuck onto the ship and borrowed a uniform. While on the ship, he pretended to be a worker until he got to his next destination. And when it came to going to space, well Heero has snuck onto jets before. What's to say he couldn't do it again? Heero Yuy was an amazing person. He could do so many things that a normal person couldn't even dream of. Yet he couldn't even communicate with another human being.

While Heero worked at the high school on Earth, he learned lots of things about the human behavior. How normal people reacted and lived in the world. Things like the interaction between teenagers and adults. Teenagers among teenagers; and adults among adults. It was strange and unique. Like a food chain, except you didn't get eaten physically, but emotionally. It was still survival of the fittest and who was the best and better than the rest. He even took mental notes, because he still didn't know how to act around people. For as long as Heero remembered, he had been around adults and working in secret missions. The closest thing he had to a normal life was when he traveled with Odin Lowe. Odin Lowe took care of him and showed him things like a father would, while all the while, he did his secret missions. He hoped that by the end of this expedition, he would master the human way and be able to communicate like a normal human being. But that wasn't so.

Heero still didn't understand the human race. And from what he was able to gather, no one did. Even 'normal' people don't know how to react in society. The human race is just a mystery and always will be. Even today, he didn't know what to say to Hilde before Duo came home. At least she was a little bit of a talker, so he didn't have to say much. But even after Duo arrived, he still didn't know what to say. He couldn't express how this was not the first time that he had seen Duo in four years. In fact, every year, he made sure to check up on at least one of the others. Heero's been on this colony many times and watched Duo from a far. He's seen Trowa at the circus twice, and catches up on Quatre and Relena in the media all the time. As for Wufei, all he has to do is check up on him through the Preventers web site.

Now, after four years, he actually managed to talk to Duo. Heero, still not understanding human behavior, wondered what kind of feelings he harbored for the other Gundam Pilots. There were many times that he thought about them and wondered what they were doing. He even had the urge to talk to them a couple of times. Would this be considered as 'missing' them and their company? Tonight, when he talked to Duo, he remembered all of his strange ways and even found a few of them amusing. What was going on with himself though? Was he changing? And if he actually was changing, was it for the better or for the worse? What if something drastic does happen? What if another war starts up? Would he have to go back to being an emotionless shell that only cared about his missions? And what about his feelings for Relena?

What is it about Relena that makes him want to be around her the most? Is it more because he still has the second nature to want to protect her, or is there something more?

These infinite thoughts were becoming too much for Heero. It was time for him to get some rest and go to sleep.

Authors Notes: As you can see, this chapter was about Heero and his thoughts. I tried to get into the mind of Heero Yuy and imagine what kind of thoughts he would have, etc. I hope it sounded like what Heero Yuy would think and was not out of character to you guys. I also hope the whole traveling throughout Earth and space wasn't too extreme. As we know, Heero Yuy is one amazing individual and almost nothing can stop him. So I just thought that the explanations of his expeditions would be interesting, and maybe even the start of a new story arc.

And the whole web site thing with the Preventers, I think they would have something more advanced than a 'web site'. But I have no idea of knowing what it could be. So for this story they will have websites.

Ok, I think that since it's like thousands of years into the future, money would change. Think about it, 20 years ago, $20 was a big deal. Now, $20 is nothing. So with this story being thousands of years into the future, I thought money would change. You know, $1.00 would be the equivalent of 1 penny. $25 is like .25 cents. And thus $1000 would be the equivalent of $100. Which $100 dollars is very cheap for a vehicle even in our time period. So I just wanted to explain that.