Kid Duo

Part 4

By: DarkT-K

Author's Note: It's hard trying to figure out what I want to do with Duo and Heero. But I've still got ideas, just trying to put them down in writing.

"Hi Relena!" Duo called out as the blonde teenager approached. Heero, regretting now ever leaving the safe house grabbed Duo and hid him behind himself. "Hey!" Duo protested.

"Quiet Duo!" Heero snapped as Relena stopped in front of them.

"Heero it's so good to see you again!" Relena cried as she latched on to Heero's arm. Heero whinnied and Duo chuckled behind him. "I missed you so much Heero!" Relena said.

"Too bad Heero feels the same way too." Duo said evilly. Heero looked back at him and glared death.

"Really Heero! I knew you loved me!" Relena said as she plastered herself on Heero. Heero tried to pry her off.

"Relena get off!" Relena squeezed tighter. "Relena!" Heero said as she began to cut off air.

"Oh I know you're just speechless at my surprise arrival. But I just had to see you." Relena said happily and squeezed harder, if all possible. Heero began to change colors while struggling uselessly to get out of the death grip.

"Can't…breathe…" Heero said as he changed from blue to purple. Duo was holding in every ounce of laughter he could. "Need…air…" Knowing Heero needed air by now, Duo did the unspeakable.

"Eeek!" Relena squealed out. Duo had pinched her on the butt forcing Relena to let go of Heero. Heero collapsed and began sucking in large amounts of air. "What the…" Relena looked down to see a miniature version of the Deathscythe pilot. "Heero what the hell is that?!" Relena screamed as she jumped on his back and picked up her skirt. "It's a giant rat! Kill it!" she screamed. Duo frowned and crossed his arms.

"I am not a rat thank you very much. I happen to be human!" Duo spat. Relena screamed again and smacked Duo with her purse. "OW!" Heero looked up at Duo then Relena.

"Will you get off me! I am not a stool." Heero growled at Relena. Relena screamed and smacked Duo with her purse again.

"Heero make her stop!" Duo said as he dodged another blow.

"I would if I could get up!" Heero said as Relena missed Duo and smacked him in the face. Heero frowned. "Get off me women!" Heero roared.

"I can't! A rat Heero, kill it!" Relena cried. Heero looked pleading at Duo.

"You owe me Heero. This is twice I have to get her off you." Duo said. Ducking another swing, Duo then pushed Relena off Heero. Relena fell on her butt and cried out in pain. "About time too." Duo hissed. Heero stood up and dusted himself off.

"Thanks." Heero grunted then helped Relena up. She looked around and squealed again, then jumped into Heero's arms. "Relena!"

"Heero kill it! It's so big and ugly!" Relena cried out. Duo had a vein burst.

"That's it!" Kicking Heero in the shin, Heero frowned in pain and dropped Relena again. Duo grabbed Relena by her hair and forced her up. "Listen missy. I ain't ugly! I'm not a rat and you're not glomping on Heero! Now get out of here before I kick you sorry ass!" Duo screamed. Relena looked mortified.

"Heero! This…thing said something inappropriate." Relena said to Heero. Heero grunted and rubbed his shin.

"Relena that's not a thing, that's Duo." Heero said. Duo nodded proudly. Relena looked down at him.

"You mean this is the braided demon who keeps kidnapping you and taking you across the world?" Relena said as she picked him up by his feet.

"Hey!" Duo called out indignantly. Relena examined him and looked back at Heero. Duo began swing his small fists at Relena in attempt to be dropped.

"Yes. Put him down." Heero said as he held his head in his hand. Relena dropped Duo. Duo fell on his head and squealed out in pain.

"Ow! Why you!" Duo jumped up and was about to tackle her then Heero grabbed his braid and held him back. "Let me at her Heero! Let me at her! I'll teach her to mess with Shinigami!" Duo growled.

"You won't teach her anything." Heero growled. Heero held on to Duo as he tried to go at Relena.

"Heero you should throw him away. He shrank and he's so…annoying!" That snapped the last of Duo's patience!

"Forget getting rid of her! I'M GOING TO KILL HER!" Duo screamed as he broke out of Heero's grasp and tackled Relena. A fight broke out and Heero just sighed and shook his head.

"Why me?" Heero whined. Duo and Relena kept going at it until finally Heero decided to intervene. "I shouldn't, cause it could start all over again, but if I don't we'll never get the groceries." Heero reluctantly stepped into the cloud of uplifted dust and grabbed the braided tail of Duo.

"Hey!" Duo growled. Duo leapt on to Heero and bit his wrist not knowing it was Heero.

"Ow! Duo!" Heero screamed out in pain. Duo and Relena both froze and the dust cleared gradually. "Omae o Korosu Duo no baka!" Heero snarled as he waved his wrist to try and clear away the pain. Duo chuckled nervously.

"Sorry Heero. I thought it was her." Duo said pointing at Relena. Relena snorted.

"I may be blonde, but I'm not the stupid one, but I can at least tell when someone else grabs me." Relena said as she stood up.

"Both of you let it go. Relena leave so we can go grocery shopping and get home." Heero growled and he grabbed Duo and held him under his arm.

"But Heero! That braided maniac could hypnotize you and turn you against me and force you to leave!" Relena cried out. Duo rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"I'll force him alright, just to get away from you. My g-d, you're worse than a stalker." Duo said angrily. Heero shifted.

"Relena I doubt Duo even has the power to hypnotize. Hell, the best he can do is drive me away." Heero said.

"Thanks Heero. I feel so much better knowing you don't like my company. Remind me again why I came to you of all people?" Duo growled.

"I wondered the same thing…" muttered Relena. Heero had a vein throbbing in his temple.

"If you two don't mind, we're leaving." Heero snapped as he hauled Duo away, leaving a gaping Relena behind.

"CALL ME!" Relena called after.

"Oh brother. Does she ever give up?" Duo asked as Relena faded into the distance. Heero grunted and dropped Duo into the kiddy seat of a grocery cart.

"Do try to contain yourself Duo. The last thing we need is you running all over the store screaming." Heero said pulling out his list.

"Or naked." Duo added.

"Or naked." Heero growled then glared at Duo. Duo smiled cheesily and began looking around as Heero pushed the cart. It didn't take long till Duo found a new way of annoying Heero and pointing out his childish mind.

"Can we get this?" Duo pointed out a sugary sweet.

"No." Heero replied.

"Can we get that?" Duo asked for a new object.

"No."

"Can I have this?"

"No." Heero said, a vein appearing out of his annoyance.

"Can I get that?" Duo whinnied.

"NO!"

"Can I have that?" Duo pleaded.

"What part of not did you not understand?" Heero demanded. Then Heero turned into the most dreaded isle of all; the cereal isle. Duo squealed out in excitement. Heero groaned out, "Not this isle…" Duo jumped out of the cart and immediately began grabbing boxes of cereal and returning to Heero pleading for Heero to buy it.

"Can I get it?!" Duo asked.

"No. You're allergic to the dye in the marshmallows." Duo dropped it then returned with another.

"This one?" Duo asked.

"I'm allergic to strawberries." Heero growled. Duo dropped it and fetched another.

"This one?!"

"You'll never eat it and it will go stale! Now get in here or I swear I'm going to hurt you." Heero snapped.

"I'll eat, I promise!" Duo pleaded.

"No and that's final." Heero growled.

"Please oh please!" Heero glared. Duo dropped to the ground and began screaming in a hissy fit. Heero turned bright red and passer buyers looked at the situation at hand.

"Where, are your parents?" Heero growled out to Duo. The people walked by thinking the kid was just annoying some stranger and the parent was smart to ditch the child. Duo sniffled and replied.

"But Heero, I don't have any parents. You know that." Duo said wiping away the tears.

"And if you did I'm sure they would have found a better way of dealing with your stupidity." Heero growled. Heero grabbed Duo by the scruff of his shirt and buckled Duo into the cart, then whipped out a padlock and securely locked Duo into the seat.

"You know I'll figure out how to escape, right?" Duo said as he examined the lock.

"Try it. If you do, I'll make sure the doctors get a very short report." Heero growled. Duo crossed his arms and pouted. Heero continued gathering food supplies then saw an isle he particularly liked.

"Oh come on Heero!" Duo began whining. "Not the book isle!" Duo said watching as Heero began scanning for new books to read. "This is so not cool. You're a bad parent, ignoring me and paying more attention to your stupid books. Man what would your mother think if she saw you now?!" Duo screamed at Heero. Heero glared at Duo and continued browsing the book selection. "This bites. Stuck in a kiddy cart with the "Perfect Lump" and bored as always." Duo complained.

"You wouldn't be bored if you let your mind rot away to your age. You might even be curious to see what I'm doing." Heero growled. Duo looked at the title of Heero's books and his face fell.

"How to Take Care of Overly Hyper Children? How low can you sink Heero? I'm not hyper, just easily bored." Duo complained, grunting at Heero.

"Yes and you have the attention span of a Nat. I'm just looking for tips to help me handle you so I don't kill you. Cause I know I will if I don't get some help." Duo snickered.

"You could always ask the others. I'm sure Quatre and the others would have some useful tips." Heero stomped over and almost rung Duo's neck from the comment.

"I will not have their help! It's bad enough the doctors forced you on me, but I will not have the other Gundam pilots coming in and mocking me because I didn't choose to take care of you." Heero hissed.

"Well I hate to break it to ya Heero, but Quatre left a message saying he and the others would be joining up with us this afternoon." Duo said as he laid back.

"Why didn't you tell me this before?!" Heero snapped.

"Well cause you kept telling me to be quiet unless it was important, and last I checked you were still capable of checking your own messages." Duo said. "Besides, its not an emergency. It's just a simple fact." Duo said.

"It is important you baka! How am I going to hide you?!" Heero snapped gathering up his belongings and rushing to the checkout.

"Well you could tie me up and hide me in a closet, but I think that's cruel. Or you could give me back to OZ, tell the others I was captured and act like nothing between us ever happened." Duo said cheerfully. Heero hated his options.

"I don't have much of a choice." Heero growled through clenched teeth. Placing all his items on the moving reception desk, the clerk greeted Heero happily.

"Hi there. Did you find everything alright?" She asked. Heero grunted.

"That means yes." Duo said translating Heero's unknown language.

"Aw. You're so cute? Are you his father?" She directed to Heero.

"No. He's my little annoying brother." Heero said covering up.

"Aw." She said again and ruffled Duo's hair. Duo giggled happily and Heero rolled his eyes. "Want some candy?" She asked Duo as she continued scanning Heero's items.

"CANDY!" Duo shouted happily. She handed Duo a sucker and Duo ripped the wrapper off quickly. Placing the sweet on a stick in his mouth, he began sucking happily and smiled.

"Finally, a way to shut him up." Heero grumbled as he scanned a credit card into the machine.

"Suckers are a good way to keep a child quite, but personally my mom says the best way is to put a little sleeping powder on a pacifier or sucker and it will knock him out real quick." The clerk whispered. Heero smirked.

"Really, I ought to try that. Thank you." Heero said gathering up his supplies. Heero pushed the cart to the jeep and loaded it while Duo continued to suck on his sucker.

"You're not really gonna drug me are ya Hee-chan?" Duo asked after taking out his sucker.

"Give me a reason not to." Heero growled.

"Child abuse." Duo stated simply. Heero growled and unlocked the doors of the jeep.

"Let's go before they find a body." Heero growled.

"What body?" Duo asked in confusion.

"Yours." Heero snapped. Duo gulped.

Both pilots arrived back at the safe safely. Heero unloaded the groceries while Duo played around with the T.V. Heero had a good notable silence till Duo shouted.

"I'm hungry Heero!" Heero grumbled and threw a granola bar at Duo, effectively hitting the braided boy in the head. "Ow! Hey!" Duo shouted. "This isn't lunch! This isn't even food." Duo complained. Heero shrugged and went over his laptop. Duo growled but ate the bar unhappily.

"Throw the wrapper away." Heero said, noticing Duo was about to drop it on the ground.

"Yes mother." Duo said mocking Heero. Duo picked up the wrapper and tossed into the bin. Looking out the window in boredom, Heero noticed a car pulling up into the driveway. "Alright!" Duo shouted happily. "They're here!" Being surprised by Duo's sudden outburst, Heero had jumped, knocking over the table and spilling his computer onto the ground. Duo laughed.

"Who's here you baka?" Heero snapped, picking up his laptop and table and placing them back in proper position.

"Quatre, Trowa and Wufei!" Duo shouted happily, dancing around. Heero's jaw dropped.

"You said tonight!" Heero screamed. "It's 4 in the afternoon."

"I said this afternoon to night. You need to pay attention Hee-chan." Duo said, hearing the unlocking of the door.

"Heero, Duo, we're here!" called Quatre. Heero slapped his face.

"Just as I thought the day couldn't get any worse it does." Heero grumbled angrily, just as Quatre and the others walked into the room.

"Hey guys." Quatre said happily. Then he noticed Heero, and a small figured next to him. Duo rushed over to Quatre, tackling the blonde and effectively knocking the blonde over.

"Hi Quatre! Welcome back." Duo said excitedly hugging the blonde. Quatre couldn't form a sentence to help express himself. Wufei and Trowa followed, both gaping at the mini Deathscythe pilot.

"I'll explain later, all you need to know now is that is wasn't my fault it was his. I got stuck cleaning up the mess." Heero said directing the flabbergasted pilots into the kitchen.