Real Men Get Angry And Even
'Macho law prohibits me from admitting I'm wrong.'
Duo almost choked on his coffee as he read the slogan on the navy T-shirt in his friend's hands. "Man, Une-chan really pegged you, ne, 'Fei?"
Bearing the countenance of a severely pissed off cat – and hissing his displeasure to boot – Wufei turned on his friend. "What did you say, Maxwell?" It would have been a rather calm and pleasant question – if Wufei hadn't been baring his teeth, onyx eyes glowing with the banked embers of anger.
In the face of such rage, Duo did what any God of Death in his position would – he smirked. "I said that this–" Duo flicked the T-shirt held in Wufei's tightly clenched hands "–is you all over, 'Fei-'Fei." Disregarding the other man's growls, he joked, "Forget justice, you just want to uphold Macho Law."
For several long, time-lapsed moments, Duo thought that he had, perhaps, finally gone too far. It appeared as if Wufei was preparing to not only hack off Duo's braid with his katana, but to also cut the rest of him into little pieces – and then get even more interesting. More horrifyingly, Wufei's former rage had subsided into nothing more than a calculating gleam in onyx eyes. His diamond-hard gaze measured Duo with the kind of intensity that was normally only seen by his enemies on the battlefield – right before he used Shenlong's Dragon Fang to fry them to a charbroiled crisp.
"Forget justice, ne, Maxwell?" Wufei mused, tapping a finger against his chin with mock-thoughtfulness. "No fairness or equality?" he asked rhetorically. "No quarter asked, no quarter given?" he quoted from some long-forgotten source.
Warily, Duo watched his friend/teammate/comrade-in-arms change before his very eyes into…
…well, into what he'd always thought 'Fei would be like if he ever used the ZERO system. Only scarier.
Duo gulped and started backing slowly out the door. Perhaps he'd finally pushed Wufei too far…
…and he was determined to be just as far away from him when Wufei exploded and the excrement hit the rotating aeration device.