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 6

After their trip to the mall, they had to catch a cab. They had just finished walking around the mall with bundles of clothes and eating too, so they were rather tired. Even Heero.

Once in the cab, Duo and Heero began placing the bags on the floor as Hilde leaned over the seat and directed the driver. Duo relaxed in the seat and placed his arms behind his head saying, "You know Heero, I've always wondered what your style of clothes would be. But now I realize that you just don't have one. You just pick whatever looks like it would last the longest. If Hilde wasn't there, I think you would have just picked nothing but jeans and tank tops."

Hilde giggled as she sat next to Duo. "Yeah Heero, I could tell you were shopping for nothing but work and travel." She looked over at Heero and said, "You know Heero, you should always have something nice. You never know what type of situation you may end up running into."

Heero leaned back further in his seat with his arms crossed as he stared out the window. He thought about all the clothes he had purchased in the mall. Hilde had picked most of them out. And in his mind, they were all nice. He has two new pairs of blue jeans; which Hilde refers to as the nice pair and the work pair. He also has a pair of black slacks. At first, Hilde insisted that he have 7 shirts, but it got narrowed down to 5. Two long sleeves, two short sleeves, and one dressy shirt. When he thought the shopping was over, he was surprised with a nice brown coat, a pair of boots and sneakers, and a nice traveling pack that could hold all of his belongings. His old one was rather worn and he really needed this new one. It even held more space than the last one. He also had more clothes. Hilde bought a pack of white beaters from C-Mart that could last him for a while. So he was really fit and ready for his next traveling destination.

His thoughts were interrupted when he overheard Duo talking loudly, "Yeah you know. I just don't know what it is, but the pizza just didn't taste right today. The sauce tasted sweet and not spicy."

Amused, Hilde chuckled and said, "Oh Duo, only you would notice something as subtle as that."

"No! I'm serious." Duo said grinning from ear to ear, "That pizza tasted sweet. It was just not right." He leaned back in the seat again and looked over at Heero saying, "You know Heero, I would have never thought you would like corn dogs."

"Corn dogs." Heero thought delightfully.

"I mean, I wanted you to try one, but I didn't expect you to fall in love with it." Duo said.

Heero thought back to when they had stopped to get some food at the mall. Hilde got food from a Lebanese stand, and Heero got something from the Japanese one. Duo wanted a little of everything, so he got three corn dogs, a cheeseburger, chili cheese fries, and a slice of pizza. When they sat down to eat, Heero asked what the corn dog was. And when Duo explained, he just ended up giving Heero one of his instead. Heero was in love at first bite. He now has two types of food that he really likes; corn dogs and Hilde's Apple Crumb Pie.

Duo was still rambling when he focused in on what he was saying. He said, "I really like these jeans Hilde." He pulled them out of the bag. It was a pair of black jeans with silver chains all around them. "I'm glad we stopped off in that store before we left the mall." He sorted through his other clothes, mostly black, and tried to figure out the total price of it all. Wondering just how fast his last paycheck was running out.

"I know." Hilde said, "I would have never found this color hat anywhere else. I have a skirt that would match perfectly with it." She put it on and smiled at Duo. "So how does it look?"

"Hmm?" Duo said rubbing his chin as though he really had to think hard about it, "I would give it a…C+."

"A C! That's all." Hilde gasped. "Now I know it should get a better grade than that!"

Duo gave a thumbs down sign and said, "Nope it's a C+."

Angry, Hilde started to throw an angry fist towards him saying, "Why you!"

Duo easily caught it, smiled, and said, "But on you it looks like an A+."

Surprised, Hilde blushed and looked away. "Yeah right! You're just saying that because you didn't want me to beat you up."

"You? Beat me up. Whatever!" Duo scoffed.

"Oooh!" growled an angry Hilde.

Laughing, Duo hugged her and snuggled his cheek against hers saying, "I'm just playing with ya babe."

Smiling, she turned and looked up at Duo and said, "Yeah that's right. You better."

The two of them giggled and flirted some more as the drive went on. While Heero just stared out the window, lost in his own thoughts.

Once at the house, Duo paid the cab while Hilde and Heero opened the door and went inside the house.

"Brrr. It's cold in here." Hilde said, "I must have left the air down too low." She placed the clothes neatly on the living room sofa and made her way into the hallway to turn the air down.

Duo walked in the house and closed the door behind him. "Damn!" He shouted, "It feels like an icebox in here!"

"I know, I know." Hilde shouted from the hallway and made her way back into the living room. "I just turned the air up. So it will warm up soon. Anyway, I'm about to try on my new clothes! See you guys later!" And with that she went into her room.

Duo shook his head and said, "Girls. She just tried them on at the mall, why does she need to try them on now. Ah well, I'll never understand women. Well if you'll excuse me Heero. I need to go into your temporary room, my room, and put these clothes up."

Heero nodded as Duo made his way to his bedroom. Once alone, Heero sat down on the couch and turned on the tv. He made it just in time to see the news.

The news had the usual announcements; a murderer on the loose, a child missing, and the latest sports miracle. Then they were talking about the rebuilding of L5 Colony Cluster again, and they showed a clip of Relena. "Relena." Heero thought instantly. She was addressing a rather large congregation. Heero forgot about everything else that was going on in the world and focused in on Relena.

Once Duo was in his room, he began putting up his new clothes in the closet for once. Usually he would toss them on the floor with everything else, but since he has company he decided to be neat. He decided to turn on his laptop and surf the net a bit. When it loaded, he sat down on the bed in front of it and noticed it started beeping. Someone was trying to communicate with him. He turned the video screen on and saw it was an old friend, Quatre Raberba Winner.

Duo shouted excitedly, "QUATRE!"

"DUO!" shouted back a beaming Quatre. "Hello Duo! How are you doing?"

"Great man! I'm doing great!" Duo couldn't stop smiling. He hadn't talked to Quatre in months. "So how's it going for you? Still handling that money and business well?"

Smiling, Quatre said, "Yes. Everything is going well Duo. Business is great and so are finances. How is Hilde? Is she well?"

"Aw Hilde, yeah she's doing great! Same ole' Hilde."

"Well that's wonderful Duo. Ah Duo." Quatre began, "You're probably wondering why I'm talking to you now. Well you see, my birthday is coming up and…"

"Really!" Duo interrupted, "Happy Birthday Quatre!"

Quatre giggled, smiled and said, "Yes, my birthday is coming up and I was wondering if you could attend the ball that is planned."

"Yeah! Really Quatre that would be great. Of course I can come."

"Ok Duo. Well I was also wondering if you would like to stay for a week. I hope that it won't interfere with your work schedule…."

Work, the scariest word in the world to Duo right now. He thought, "Ah man, I still gotta tell Hilde tonight. And she's in such a good mood too. Well, that outta make it just a little bit easier."

"….and I'm inviting Trowa, Wufei, Relena, Dorothy…"

Excited, Duo yelled out, "What! You're inviting the rest of the gang! Well that's great! I haven't seen them in years! Man, I can't wait for the party."

Quatre just smiled and waited politely until Duo was finished talking. Then he looked kind of sad and said, "Yes. It would have been perfect if Heero could join us, but as you know he's rather hard to find. I wish he could come."

Duo grinned from ear to ear and said, "Well, Quatre, if you excuse me for one minute I think I may have something you need to see. I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere!" And with that, Duo shot out of the room.

"Ok." Quatre said, even though Duo was gone from the room. He smiled to himself thinking, "Well I'm glad Duo is ok. It's so great to talk to an old friend again."

As promised, Duo came back in one minute. He blocked and filled the video screen with his big head and said, "Ok Quatre. Here is one early birthday present to you! SURPRISE!"

When he moved out of the way, Heero was standing in the view. Quatre's eyes widened and big smile formed upon his face, "HEERO!"

Heero was just as stunned as Quatre as he stared into the video screen. "Quatre." He said.

"Heero! Hello! It's so great to see you!" Quatre smiled.

"Yes." Heero said while staring into the video screen. "It's nice to see you again as well."

"Heero, where have you been all this time?" asked Quatre.

Crossing his arms, Heero said, "I have been taking care of some things."

Quatre noticed that Heero didn't really want to talk about it, so he changed the subject. "Well anyway, it's still great to see you again. Heero, my birthday is coming up. And I was wondering if you would like to attend the ball that I'm throwing. And also, I would like to know if you would like to stay an extra week. Just to spend time together with the rest of us. I've already talked to Trowa and Wufei and they said that they could. Duo is coming, so I was really hoping that you could join us Heero."

Heero was silent as he thought about his decision. He hasn't seen any of them in years, and he would really like to see them all again. What he was doing didn't have any time limits. He could stop and start back again as he pleased, so why couldn't he go? Was he afraid? And if so, about what?

He looked into the video screen and saw Quatre waiting for his answer. Probably holding his breath. He knew if he turned Quatre down, Quatre would feel responsible and blame himself even though he had nothing to do with Heero's decision. Besides, he didn't have to invite Heero, so why couldn't he just go in the first place.

His decision was final. He was going to attend Quatre's ball. "Ok. I will come to the ball and stay for a week."

The smile Quatre gave could have lit up the darkest cave. "That's wonderful Heero! I can't wait. This is so exciting. Oh by the way, Heero. Just what are you doing over at Duo's house?"

Grinning, Duo said, "Well that's just a loooong story I will have to explain to you."

Smiling, Quatre said, "Well I just can't wait to hear it. In the meantime, I have to excuse myself. I have work to attend to, but it was wonderful to see and talk to you two again. Also Duo, Hilde is more than welcome to come. Do you think she will be able to attend?"

Duo grinned and said, "Oh yeah, she has nothing planned. She will be able to go!"

"That's great." Quatre said. He paused as he picked up an envelope, opened it, and placed it in front of the video screen, "Three invitations should be coming through the mail soon. It will be a proper invitation to my ball." He put it away and smiled into the screen. "Again, it was wonderful to talk to you two again. Well, I will see you all soon. Take care of yourselves until then."

Heero nodded as Duo said, "Ok buddy! You too!" Then he turned the video screen off.

Sighing, Duo said, "Well who would have thought. Not only did I get to see you again, Heero, but I'm going to see the others as well. It's going to be like a reunion you know." He yawned, stretched, and made his way out of the door. "Well, I'm getting sleepy. But before I go to sleep, I have to tell Hilde the truth." He turned around and smiled saying, "You might hear lots of yelling and screaming, so don't be alarmed ok. That'll just be Hilde taking her anger out on me. Boy it'll be scary too." He made his way out the door and waved saying, "Goodnight Heero. See you in the morning."

"Goodnight." Heero said. He looked over at the clock on Duo's dresser to see what time it was. He was far from sleepy and he had a lot of work to catch up on. Besides, even if he was tired, thoughts of the reunion would keep him up anyways. So he grabbed his laptop and began doing some research.

About ten minutes later, he heard an angry female voice shouting, "YOU WHAT!"

Silence. Then in about another five minutes he heard, "DUO! YOU WHAT!"

He could hear Duo's nervous laugh from all the way in his room. "Hee hee hee. Now now Hilde. Let's be rational…"

"RATIONAL! OH! I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU RATIONAL!"

"AHHH!" Duo screamed. The arguing had just begun.