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 4

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Hilde's alarm went off. Still sleepy, she hit the snooze button. "Just ten more minutes……."

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

"Ah", Hilde shouted and jumped up in the bed, "Man, It's been ten minutes already. It only felt like two."

Yawning and stretching, Hilde made her way out of bed and into the bathroom. "Man, Duo better eat every last crumb of breakfast this morning. I always have to get up early because he claims that he can't function without breakfast." Having a change of heart she said, "But still, it is cute to see how his eyes pop out of his head when his plate of breakfast appears in front of him."

Once she finished up in the bathroom, she makes her way into the kitchen. When she came close to the living room, she could hear Duo snoring loudly. "Wow. He sounds like a wild bear with the way he snores." Once in the living room, she stared down at him and smiled. "But still, he is cute when he sleeps. He looks so innocent. Like a little boy."

After watching him sleep for a while, Hilde heads into the kitchen. While opening the kitchen door and seeing what groceries she has, she puts on her fluffy pink apron with the strawberries on it. "That's right!" she began while looking at the fridge, "Duo bought groceries yesterday. Oh boy! I can fix a good breakfast this morning."

Hilde grabbed some eggs, thick strips of ham, and started on some coffee. As the coffee began to drip, she realized that she had an extra member in the house, Heero Yuy. "Well, that means I need to make just a little bit more breakfast." While Hilde waited for the skillet to heat up, she began to prepare the eggs. "Hmm, I think I'll make scrambled eggs this morning. They usually make an even spread."

Heero could hear that Hilde was up and about, so he put away his laptop. He wasn't taking any chances of Hilde catching him and asking questions. After putting it away, he began to smell coffee and food. This would be a good chance to sneak out. But he thought about what Duo said about allowing his body to rest and catch up. Indeed, Heero did not want to loose any strength in his body, so that alone took away any thoughts of sneaking out. And with that, he headed into the kitchen.
Duo was having the time of his life. He was surrounded by mountains of food. Hilde, who looked like a super model, was wearing the most beautiful dress he had ever seen, and she was feeding him every last bite of food. Then all of a sudden, Heero showed up. And what followed Heero was the rest of the Gundam Pilots. And with the rest of the Gundam Pilots followed mobile suits, battles, enemies, wars, etc. They were in such a multitude that they stomped everything out of the picture. Helpless to do anything but watch as everything including Hilde and the food was destroyed, Duo screamed in horror, woke up and rolled off the sofa.
Heero finally in the kitchen, sat down at the table and said, "Good morning."

Hilde stopped her cooking duties for a second and smiled at him. "Good morning Heero. Breakfast will be ready shortly." She poured some coffee in a mug and then sat it down in front of him.

Right as he was about to take a sip, he and Hilde both heard a scream followed by a loud thud coming from the living room. Heero's eyes widened for a second as Hilde shook her head saying, "Well, Duo's up."

It was all just a dream. It sort of bothered him, but then he smelled the tantalizing aroma of coffee and food. In the blink of an eye, he hopped off the floor and ran into the kitchen, forgetting all about the dream.

Once in the kitchen, he saw Heero sitting quietly at the table sipping on coffee as Hilde talked away about God's knows what. Excited, he sat down at the table and held up his fork and knife, showing that he was ready to eat.

Hilde stared at Duo, annoyed but at the same time, could not ignore his cuteness. Smiling, she said, "Alright Duo, it's coming. Just a few more minutes." She turned around and scrambled the eggs up a bit and then flipped the ham over in the skillet.

Pouting because the food wasn't ready yet, Duo turned to Heero and smiled. "Hey buddy! What's up? Did you get a good night sleep?"

Heero, not lifting his gaze from the coffee said, "Yes."

Duo, grinning from ear to ear said, "Well that's great! Glad to hear it! So how long have you been up? I just got up. I woke up from a weird dream, but as soon as I smelled breakfast I ran into the kitchen!"

"That's no surprise." Heero said still sipping at his coffee.

Hilde giggled at Heero's comment. Sometimes he can be really funny and he doesn't even realize it. She stared down at the sizzling breakfast. The ham looked tender and juicy. And the eggs looked just about right. It was almost ready. She put three slices of bread in the toaster and while they toasted, she began to fix their plates. Once she finished fixing everyone's plates, the toast was ready and added a finishing touch to their plates. Breakfast was now officially ready.

She sat everyone's plate down in front of them. Duo instantly began to devour everything on his plate while Heero stared at his plate, wondering what he should try first. Hilde just smiled at the two of them. It was nice having Heero around, she could get used to this. As she began to munch on her eggs, she looked up at Duo and asked, "So you said you had a weird dream eh? What was it about?"

Heero, who decided to eat the ham first, looked up at Duo for a second and then back down at his plate. He was curious about this dream as well.

"Well." Duo began, "It started off with mountains of food and you were wearing….uh…" Duo didn't want to take any chances of being called a pervert, so he didn't even mention the dress, "…I mean uh…you were feeding the food to me Hilde. And then Heero just shows up. And with Heero so did the rest of the Gundam Pilots. You know, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei. Then all these mobile suits showed up and wars and just all kinds of stuff. Then they literally stomped away Hilde and the food. And that made me sad." Duo had a moment of silence. "Then I woke up, smelled real food and headed into the kitchen. Weird huh?" He ended his story with shoving a huge slice of ham into his mouth.

"Yeah." Hilde began, "That is weird."

Heero said nothing and just continued eating his breakfast.

"Well I'm sure it didn't mean anything." Duo said while sipping on some coffee. "It was probably just a result of ole' Heero here showing up and well it brought back some old memories and stuff. Nothing serious I'm sure."

Frowning, Hilde looked up at Duo and said, "I don't know. Sometimes dreams can be warnings of the future. Maybe something is going to happen."

"Yeah right!" Duo snickered, "We destroyed our Gundams a long time ago. I'm sure nothing is going to happen." He looked at Heero and smiled, "Besides we got me, Heero, Trowa, Quatre, Relena, Wufei and the Preventers to stop stuff like that from happening. There is nothing to worry about." Duo smiled a huge smile and went back to eating.

Hilde just shook her head and smiled at Duo thinking, "I wish I could be so carefree and happy go lucky as he is all the time. I guess that's why I like him so much." She turned her attention to Heero and said, "Well mister, if you are going to be staying with us for a few days, I guess we should go out and get you a few things. Like clothes and shoes. You know personal stuff like that. That is if you don't mind."

Heero looked up from his plate and said quietly but firmly, "No, that's not necessary."

"Nonsense!" Hilde shouted. "I will worry about it. I want you to be as comfortable as possible so we will be getting you those things."

Heero, finally seeing Hilde's stubbornness that Duo had often talked about, saw that she wasn't about to give up. So reluctantly accepting defeat, he nodded his head. Satisfied, Hilde said, "Good. And later on after Duo gets off of work, we will go to the mall and get you a few clothes."

At the mention of the word work, Duo spit out his coffee and started to cough furiously. Confused, Hilde looked up at him, "Duo? Are you ok?"

"Hell no! I lost my job, damn it!" was what he thought. But all he said was, "Oh yes uh…my coffee just went down the wrong tube! Hee hee hee! Don't mind me at all. Of course I will join you guys after work." He chomped down the last bit of his breakfast and said nervously, "Well you know, I better start getting ready for work! Hee hee! Don't want to be late for my job! Hee hee heee! Well uh, see you guys later!" And with that he flew out the room.

Heero and Hilde just sat there and stared at the empty spot where Duo had sat just a minute ago. Hilde said, "He's been acting very strange lately."

Heero picked up his cup of coffee and all he said was, "Indeed."

Once Duo was clear and safe in the bathroom, he rested against the door, breathing heavily. "Phew! That was close."

He headed over to the sink and began to brush his teeth all the while thinking, "I can't believe I got fired yesterday! And Hilde will find out eventually. I can't hide it forever." He washed his face with a towel and began to get his shower ready, still thinking. "Well, I will definitely have to hide out today. But where?"

After he had showered, and "dressed for work", he had come up with a plan. He would wander around town and look for another job until he thought Hilde and Heero were out of the house. Once he was absolutely sure they were gone, he would come back home and hide out. Then when he was supposed to get off of work, he would "meet them at the mall" like he said he would. All the while, Hilde would never know that he didn't go to work and at the same time, he might find another job. And soon. "This plan will work out just fine!" He thought to himself and headed out for the city.

Duo was finally out of the house and into the streets of the colonies. He figured Hilde and Heero would be out after lunch, so he would head back to the house at about one. In the meantime, he would look around and try to find another job.

All of his options were laid out in front of him. The library, animals, and food were already ruled out. So what next? "Hmm." He thought to himself, "Let's see. I love to talk. I love to eat too! Yep, and that's what got me fired last time. I love mechanics and fixing things. Umm…" Suddenly, a light bulb turned on in his head. "That's it! I love fixing things!"

He sat down on the park bench to take a rest and stared off into the sky. While thinking, he stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "Hmm, fixing rooftops sounds like too much heat and heights for me. Trowa is the acrobat, not me I can just see myself falling off the roof. And being a plumber just sounds kinda nasty." Frowning, he sighed and lied back on the bench. "Ah man! What to do? What to do?"

Suddenly, an old car sputtered down the street, until it just broke down. Putting two and two together, he suddenly exclaimed, "Hey! I can fix vehicles! This will be the best job ever! I can blast music! Talk to my co-workers! And do something that I'm great at! This is going to be great!"

With that on his mind, Duo went across town to try to find a place that was hiring.

After a nice lunch, Hilde and Heero headed out to the city. Hilde let Heero borrow some of Duo's clothes to go out. For some strange reason she was very excited, and Heero couldn't understand why. It wasn't his first time going to C-Mart, but it was his first time going to the mall. What was the point of going to the mall, when everything he needed was at C-Mart. He just didn't understand. Humming to herself, Hilde turned and smiled at Heero saying, "Ok, so first we are going to C-Mart, you know, Colony-Mart. Get you a new toothbrush, some more toothpaste, socks, deodorant, you know the basics. And then when it's time to go to the mall we will get you clothes and shoes. Oh Heero! This is going to be so much fun, just you wait and see!"

Heero, not knowing what to say, simply nodded his head in agreement.

As they walked around town, Heero watched all the people that went by. He watched the young couples hold hands and walk down the streets. He saw the group of teen friends causing riots to get attention for themselves and laughing about it. He saw the parents holding their children close to them and he watched as the children happily beamed up at their parents. "So this is what a normal life is like." He thought to himself. He turned to look at Hilde who was walking and still humming. She seemed very happy and at peace with the world. Like she just blended in with everyone else in the crowd. Content with what was going on, he brought his attention back to the colony world around them.

After finally reaching C-Mart, Hilde grabbed the grocery cart and headed into the store. "Ok Heero! The great adventure begins!"

Authors Notes: Yeah, I know I'm wrong for C-Mart (Colony-Mart). But for some reason it just stuck with me.

In this part of the story Heero's trying to rest his body. You know, constantly traveling catches up with you. And I think that unless Duo had come up with a good excuse for him staying, Heero would try to leave as soon as he could.

Heero shopping, eh? Weird to imagine. But the guy's gotta survive somehow. I'm sure he didn't go through the entire series without purchasing such basic needs such as toothbrushes and toothpaste. And I'm sure Dr. J didn't buy it for him. I bet that was an interesting sight….

Anyways! The next chapter will be quite interesting. I'll try to update a lot sooner this time.