FIVE
Sutoomu
Well, here is the eleventh chapter, and the last immediate update chapter. After this, I have to begin writing again, so it will be a while before the twelth chapter is up. But I gaurantee that, when it is up, you will love it! At least, I hope.
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So, here is the twelth chapter. Where the boys get company, and money is discovered, and friends learn new things. I hope you enjoy! Review and tell me what you say!
It suddenly started raining heavily as Wufei turned onto his street. He looked up, sighed, then shrugged it off. So he got wet. He didn't feel like rushing. So, by the time he reached the apartments, he was soaked. Which made Quatre go into mother hen mode at the sight of him stepping into the apartment dripping water. A couple of minutes later, he was changed into dry clothes with a blanket he didn't really need wrapped around his shoulders. Quatre sat him on the couch and brought him hot chocolate, then sat beside him. Duo and Heero joined them a second later.
"How'd it go?" Duo asked.
Wufei took a sip of hot chocolate and smiled. "It went well. Meiran's a very nice girl. Pretty, too."
"Don't make me jealous," Heero flat toned.
"You're still my top choice," Wufei assured him lovingly. "I'm just saying that meeting her every weekend won't be as bad as I thought it would. She'll be a good friend."
"Just friend, right?" Duo asked.
"Just friend, Duo," Wufei agreed. "I'm already in love. I doubt I could fall in love with her even if I wasn't in love with you. She's not my type for love."
"Are we your type for love?" Quatre asked.
"Four types," Wufei nodded. "Soulmates."
"I always liked that term," Duo grinned, kissing Wufei. He then looked at Quatre. "When's Hilde and Tro gonna be here?"
"They should be here within the next twenty minutes," Quatre said, then stood up. "Which means I have to finish dinner."
"And I have to fix myself up," Wufei stretched as he stood up and Duo wolf whistled. "I hate being so pleasant looking."
"You're not pleasant, you're sexy!" Duo cried out gleefully as Wufei walked to the washroom.
"Thank you," Wufei said in the bathroom door. "You're not too bad yourself." And he shut the door.
"Not too bad?" Duo said in mock horror. "That's all?"
"You're ravishingly gorgeous," Heero said, pulling Duo onto his lap.
"That's better," Duo smirked happily.
Ten minutes later Wufei emerged to Quatre just finishing off the warm meal and Heero and Duo making out. It seemed Duo always needed to make out. He was constantly insecure deep within about the love between them all, and always liked to be near one of them. Either that or he was just very eager. Wufei passed them, decked out in his makeup and downed hair, and feeling very happy at being back in his own natural black clothes and jewelry. He didn't like anyone except his four boyfriends to see him without his style.
"You look very beautiful today," Wufei murmured as he sat at the table, staring at Quatre. Quatre blushed and thanked him. "What's cooking?"
"Chicken and potatoes, corn and gravy, applesauce and pie with icecream for desert," Quatre recited.
"Sounds like thanksgiving," Wufei grinned.
"Sounds damn good!" Duo said from the connected livingroom. The door opened just then, showing a girl with short hair a deep navy blue color and Trowa behind her. Duo jumped off of Heero and charged at the girl. "Hilde!"
"Duo!" Hilde laughed, catching Duo's insane glomping hug with expertise. "Haven't seen you for a while."
"I took a few days off work so I could hang out with 'Fei," Duo said. "I thought you were never gonna get here!"
"I'm here, and I'm on time," Hilde smiled. "Now, where's this Wufei you won't shut up about on the phone?"
"Here!" Duo let go of Hilde and ran to Wufei. "This is my 'Fei 'Fei!" Duo snuggled Wufei on his seat, and Hilde came over to meet him.
"Wufei, this is Hilde Schbeiker," Quatre introduced. "And this is Wufei Chang, our latest love."
"Great to meet you, Wufei," Hilde shook his hand with energy. "Duo's told me absolutely everything about you. He's obsessed with you!"
"Everything?" Wufei blinked.
"Not everything," Duo rolled his eyes with exaggeration. "But I am proudly obsessed."
"I can see why," Hilde said, eyeing Wufei approvingly. "Love your style. Very unique."
"Uh, thanks," Wufei said.
"We can all talk over dinner," Quatre said. "Sit. I put a lot of effort into this meal, and it's brilliant, if I do say so myself, which I do."
Hilde planted herself on a chair and beamed at everyone. Wufei could see why she and Duo were best friends. They both had the same energy, if a bit more with Duo. It made sense that they connected. As Duo explained it, their relationship was more than just best friends. It was like brother sister. They depended on each other.
For the next half hour the six of them sat at the table eating dinner, then moved to the livingroom for dessert. Hilde was very friendly and Wufei found himself able to talk to her easily. She made you feel at ease. There was no nervousness in Wufei at all when he talked to her. No fear that she would judge him badly if something he said came out wrong. And she simply smiled and teased them when they kissed. The clock finally chimed ten o'clock and Hilde claimed she had to go because, unlike a certain long haired fiend, she still had to work.
"Ba bai, Hilde," Duo gave her a hug. She kissed his cheek, ruffled Quatre's hair, and winked at Wufei. Heero and Trowa recieved a nod and then Hilde was gone, with a promise to return soon.
"This was a nice night," Quatre smiled.
"Well, Wufie?" Duo asked. "What'cha think of Hilde?"
"She's awesome," Wufei grinned. "Was she insane before she met you Duo? If not, you've definitely improved her."
"Ha ha," Duo gave a mock laugh.
"Seriously, though," Wufei nodded. "She is awesome. Friendly, and easy to talk to, and definitely not bashful. She'll be a good friend."
"Great!" Duo whooped. "Wait'll I tell her she got an A plus!"
Wufei stared, then shrugged it off and inhaled deeply. Today had been a very good day. He had made two potential new friends. Meiran and Hilde. And nothing had gone wrong. A brilliant day. Wufei smiled slowly as he thought of a way to make it a stupendous day. "How about we look at my inheritance now?" he suggested. "Unless you're all tired."
"I'm never tired!" Duo proclaimed. "Except when I'm sleepy!"
"That was a total contradiction," Quatre mentioned.
"We shouldn't stay up too late," Heero said, obviously analyzing everything like he usually did. "We have school tommorrow."
"Aw, c'mon!" Duo whined. "Can't we miss a day?"
"No."
"I think looking at Wufei's inheritance right now would be a wonderful idea," Quatre said. "But we'll have to watch the clock and make sure we don't stay up too late. And if we're a little bit tired tommorrow, we can always sleep in and be a little bit late. That won't be too bad."
Trowa agreed. "That sounds okay. Heero?"
Heero thought for a moment, then reluctantly nodded. "I am, actually, somewhat curious about Wufei's inheritance."
"Yah, Dragon!" Duo exclaimed. "Now we get to see how rich you are!"
"That's a reassuring statement of your love," Wufei snorted, but he smiled, as he knew Duo was joking. "I'll get it. Sit." Wufei walked into the bedroom and grabbed the briefcase. He hadn't looked at it yet, just wanting to enjoy being free for a while, so he had no clue what he had inherited from his dead clan. He came back into the livingroom and sat down in the middle of the couch between the others. Looking at the briefcase, he breathed deeply and then pressed in a series of codes Taia had told him to unlock it. The security mechanism chimed happily and the latch opened. Wufei opened the briefcase, revealing it to be full of brown folders, all labeled neatly.
"Oooh," Duo stared. "Mysterious brown folders...open one, 'Fei!"
Wufei did so, grabbing a rather thick one labeled property. He pulled out some papers and scanned over them, his eyes widening. "Wow," he breathed.
"What?" Quatre asked, as inquisitive about Wufei's inheritance as Duo.
Wufei flipped a few more pages, scanning them. "I can't believe this..."
"Lemme see!" Duo snatched the papers out of Wufei's hand and began to look at it. "Heero, what's all this legal mumbo jumbo mean?"
Heero looked at the papers over Duo's shoulder and smirked. "It means that Wufei owns over thirty properties, most of them mansions, all in different countries." Duo gaped at Wufei. "He also has a large amount of land in china which belongs to his clan name. He has an incredible amount of land value."
"Not bad, Wufei," Trowa smiled. Wufei was still shocked. Quatre reached down and picked up another folder, opening it.
After looking at it with a business like eye, Quatre smiled. "You have a very large sum of money from business. It appears your clan owned quite a few large businesses and was in corporation with quite a few others. The businesses were sold when the clan died, and the corporations ended, and you've recieved a hefty amount of cash in a bank account in china from the sales. Enough for three lifetimes at least."
"Not to mention the sum total of all the personal possessions and money from the clan members themselves," Trowa had read another folder. "You have bank accounts and safe boxes in nearly every country!"
"Damn, 'Fei, you're rich!" Duo whistled.
Wufei frowned. "This doesn't change anything, does it?"
"Oh, don't worry," Quatre assured him.
"Yeah," Duo grinned. "Quat-koi's rich, and we still love 'im. I'll still love you, and maybe borrow money of you every now and then like I do Quatre."
"That's about all that will change," Trowa said. "Duo borrowing more money off you."
"Now we're gonna have to decide whether we wanna go and live in one of Q's mansions or one of 'Fei's mansions when we graduate," Duo said.
"Nevermind that," Heero said. "It's still well over a year away."
"Right, 'Ro," Duo said, pulling another sheet to him and trying to make sense of it. "All I can understand here is 'you have money'," he mumbled. "Stupid lawyers and their big words."
"Well, there's one thing you won't have to worry about," Heero kissed Wufei lightly. "With this inheritance, you emancipation will be absolute."
Duo was the first to wake up on that lovely saturday. Three weeks had passed since Wufei had met Meiran. He had been meeting her once a week, revealing her to be an excellent conversationalist, and a very fun girl. Wufei had gotten a well paying job teaching martial arts and meditation at a dojo, and the three of them had lived their lives normally for the last three weeks. They still went to school together, and went to work, and ate together and slept together. They basically lived their lives as best they could.
The emancipation petition for Wufei had been sent to the courts right away after they looked at his inheritance. They had recieved a call a week ago for their first court date. Needless to say, Tao Shen and the elders had been infuriated when they found out. Tao Shen had been livid with rage when they saw him at the courts two days ago, nearly having to be removed from the room before he managed to keep his anger in check. Wufei had been slightly disappointed when Tao Shen managed to neither hit him or insult him at the courts. Not that he wanted his uncle to do that, but it would have helped his emancipation and perhaps put some heat on the Chieu homelife. He hadn't heard from his uncle at all since then, but he knew he would, and he dreaded having to deal with him. For know, however, he was happy with what he had.
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Wufei woke up to the smell of crisp bacon and eggs frying, and he immediately decided to label it a good day. What day wouldn't be good, if it started out with Duo's famous bacon and eggs. They were one thing Duo could cook with fine talent, and Wufei loved them. Hell, everybody loved them. Another thing added to his good day as he looked into Heero's soft sleeping face, the stoic boy's arm wrapped around his waist, along with Quatre's arm, wrapped around him from the back. They had cushioned him inbetween, giving him the middle tonight. Sleeping three to a single bed wasn't an impossible task, but it was definitely not the most roomy. And Duo tended to either push the people on both sides of him off or roll off the bed himself when he slept with two of them.
Wufei sighed inside, knowing there would be no way he would be able to get out of bed and to Duo's breakfast without waking up at least Heero. The slightest unfamiliar movement or noise would wake him up. Heero was fine when his lovers shifted in their sleep, since his subconscious knew their movements by heart and automatically deemed them harmless, but if someone tried to get out of the bed, he would wake up instantly. Only Duo, who was a master of stealth and sneaking, could get out of the bed without waking up Heero. And it had even taken him months of practice. Wufei was surprised Heero wasn't already awake, what with the aromatizing smell wafting throughout the apartment. He still woke up every now and then when Chibi hooted, not wuite fully used to her presence yet.
"Don't worry about waking him up."
Wufei tilted his hea dup ever so slightly to see Trowa sitting on the edge of the bed he and Duo had shared, breathing in the smell of bacon and eggs with a small smile on his perfect lips. Wufei took a pleasurable moment to observe Trowa's fine abs, and then sighed sadly and laid his head back down as he saw the thick and long scar under Trowa's navel. He had said it was a memento from Jasen, but never mentioned how he got it. None of the other's knew, either, and, like them, Wufei didn't press the matter. Trowa had quite a few scars from Jasen, and every time Wufei saw one he either felt like crying or killing something.
"I know," Wufei said quietly. "He just looks so peaceful. I hate disturbing peace."
"Then disturb it in a pleasurable way," Trowa suggested, a gleam in his eyes.
Wufei understood exactly what he meant and he made his move quickly, taking his tongue and licking Heero's chin and lips. A pair of blue eyes opened instantly, blinking groggily but with a light of enjoyment and desire in them. Wufei didn't wait for Heero to figure out who was doing it, moving quickly to Heero's earlobe and suckling on it, then kissing the tender spot behind it, then nipping at his neck lightly. That was about as far as he got before Heero growled and captured Wufei's lips passionately, pressing into him deeply and teasing Wufei's senses with his tongue. A sudden yell and a loud 'thunk' made them break apart, breathing a bit heavier, and look over to the other side of the bed. Wufei laughed at the sight.
Quatre lay on the floor at the edge of the bed, having been pushed off by Heero pushing Wufei against him. A blanket was still wrapped around his legs as he looked around in a confused daze, then focused his hazed cerulean eyes on Heero and Wufei looking down at him. He turned his hazed look into a frown as he realized Wufei was laughing at him and stood up, then pushed agaisnt Wufei and Heero with a hidden strength he rarely showed. The two of them went down to the floor on the opposite side of the bed, Wufei falling onto Heero and making him grunt.
"Stupid boys," Quatre grumbled, still sleepy. He got back into the bed, fluffed the blankets all around him, and closed his eyes, enjoying the space he had on the bed with the other two off. He peered open one eye to look at Trowa, then, who was laughing. It was soft, but it was still a laugh. "And what do you find so funny, Mr. Barton?" he asked.
Trowa closed his mouth and tried to look innocent. It would have worked had he not been snickering and reddening from trying not to laugh. "Nothing."
"Riiiight," Quatre rolled his open eye, then closed it again, huffing. "Go 'way an' let me sleep."
"Yes, little one," Heero said meekly, standing and helping Wufei up. The two of them left, knowing what could happen if they disobeyed morning Quatre. Simply said, Quatre was not a good morning person. If he wanted to sleep, you let him sleep. Of course, if he had to be somewhere, he was up on time and chirping with the birds. But if he didn't have somewhere to go...
"Duo, feed me!" Wufei exclaimed as they left the bedroom and entered the kitchen/livingroom/diningroom main area of the apartment. Duo looked up from the frying pan and grinned his famous grin.
"Right away, sir," he mock saluted, returning to his eggs. Wufei sat at the table happily, with a fork in one hand and a knife in the other. Heero vanished into the washroom with a towel. "Here you go! Duo's Infamous Bacon And Eggs!"
"Thank you!" Wufei beamed at the plate full of his favorite breakfast and stabbed his egg with his fork. Lifting a piece up to his mouth, he paused with it halfway in as Trowa came bolting out of the bedroom, laughing fully now. The voice that followed him explained his quick entrance.
"Trowa Barton, you get back here!" Quatre's voice was heard yelling. "Aargh. You just wait! I'll get you back for that!" There was a bunch of incessant grumbling coming from Quatre then, with a few curse words he normally never used, and then peaceful silence again.
"What did you do this time?" Wufei asked as Trowa sat down and Duo set a plate in front of him.
"Nothing," Trowa said innocently. "Is it my fault he's so ticklish and sensitive?"
"How long?" Duo asked.
Trowa understood exactly what he meant. "I'd give him twenty minutes or so. He should be well awake, hungry, and cooled down by then."
"I wouldn't count on the cooled down part," Duo mentioned. "You better be ready to retreat good and fast."
"Listen to him," Wufei suggested. "Duo's an expert at retreating."
"Damn right!" Duo grinned, then realization dawned on him. "Hey!"
"Baka," Heero said, and they looked to see him toweling off his messy hair in the bathroom door, a towel loose around his waist and rather low.
"Dude, cover up a bit more," Duo groaned, obviously thinking the same thoughts Wufei had been thinking. "You keep looking so damn erotic and I'm going to either ravish you or die of sexual tension!" Heero smirked and headed for the bedroom.
"Should we warn him?" Wufei asked in a low voice. He winced as there was a sudden thud of something hitting the wall.
"Why ruin the fun?" Duo asked, grinning.
"I'm sorry, Heero!" Quatre was suddenly heard apologizing. "I thought you were Trowa."
"Oh," was all Heero said, as if that explained everything. It probably did to Heero. He always seemed to know what was going on. He emerged a few moments later, dressed and ready for breakfast. The three of them ate together happily while Duo finished cooking for him and Quatre, chatting amiably and teasing and generally acting like best friends and lovers. The vidphone ringing interrupted their breakfast just as they were finishing, Quatre's meal staying warm on the stove. Duo bounced out of his chair with unnatural energy and he answered.
"Hey!" he said. "You're reached the Yuy, Maxwell, Barton, Winner, Chang residence!"
"Is Wufei there?" a female voice came through
"'Fei, it's for you! It's Mei Mei!"
Wufei dropped his fork accidentally, it clattering against his plate. "Meiran?"
Wasn't that a pleasantly long chapter? Did you like what I all did? Did I leave you in suspense? I can't tell whether this is suspense or not...hm. Anyhoo, tell me what you thought of it, and I'll see you all in replies and the next chapter...when I get it out. Oh, damn, this whole longer updates thing is starting to depress me. Yeah, well...see you all then!
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