Wufei scowled at his notes before addressing the auditorium, "Mr. Heero Yuy will now present Japan."

Heero joined Wufei on stage and leaned for the microphone, "Domo arigatou Chang Wufei."

Wufei glanced suspiciously at Heero before wandering off stage. Heero cleared his throat and proceded to read an essay he's written contrasting Japanese and American school systems. After a while, Dean Une strode out on stage and whispered to Heero behind a clipboard, just as Heero opened the floor for questions. Heero bitterly repeated his request for questions in English.

The audience appeared to have reached a new level of "lecture given in Japanese" induced boredom. Heero frowned, "I offer my sympathies to those of you who were not informed that you would need to learn a second language to take anything away from today's discussion. Heero glared at his audience for a moment before he growled, "Welcome to my life," and left the stage.

Quatre scanned the auditorium for Duo, in hopes of a translation. Heero and Wufei were accounted for because they were on stage, Catherine was sitting with him and Relena, but Trowa and Duo were MIA. As everyone filed out of the auditorium and began milling around, Quatre noticed Heero and called to him. Heero looked up and Quatre wove his way over, through the students. "Yuy, I wanna talk with you."

Heero called over his shoulder, "Good to know."

Later that afternoon…..

Heero sat as his desk doing homework when he heard a noise, "Duo?"

Wufei leaned in the doorway. "It's me."

"Hey."

"How goes it?"

"Fine."

"What's up with you and Duo?"

"Who says something was up?"

"Lucky guess?"

"No."

"If nothing's up, why are you getting so defensive?"

"It's nothing. He's just pissing me off a lot lately."

"Is he?"

"He's being clingy and fucking Catherine."

"How can he be both?"

"…"

"…"

"And he's been asking too many questions."

"What about?"

"The time I spend with Trowa."

"So?"

"He thinks I have a thing for her."

"Um, who doesn't have a thing for her?"

"..."

"Look, even if you have a crush or whatever on Trowa that doesn't give Duo the right to give you a hard time. She's practically a chick, so he's got no grounds claiming you're a fag-"

"Wufei."

"Yuy?"

"I am only going to explain this once."

"Hit me."

"Duo and I have been lovers for the past 3 months"

"Oh man.."

"…"

"So.. you're… a homosexual…?"

Heero frowned, "Who?"

Wufei glared, "You're gay?"

"I'm in love with Duo."

"Oh man, you should have said something.."

"I didn't see any reason to. It was information pertinent to Duo and no one else."

"But all those times I've let you see me just out of the shower and stuff!"

"I'm going to pretend that I don't know what you're suggesting."

"But I thought D-"

"Nope."

"But what about Trowa?"

"What "about" Trowa?""

"What do you mean, what about Trowa? Trowa!"

"We're close."

"…"

Heero glared at the nearby lamp, as if willing the awkwardness to pass. Wufei rubbed his neck, "But you said Duo's doing Catherine?"

"Yeah."

"How do you know?"

"Walked in on it."

"Oh god!"

"Yeah…"

"So now you and Duo are over?"

"Yeah."

"How could you let me miss this opportunity to mercilessly give you shit? How long have you been having relationships and not telling me about them!"

"Wufei."

"Yes?"

"I'm not in the mood."

"Of course."

Heero put his head in his hands and groaned.

"So how long have you known Duo was cheating on you?"

"I've always been suspicious, but I never thought of Catherine."

"Who'd you think?"

"With you."

"What! You thought Duo was cheating on you with me?"

"Hn."

"But he's not out and I'm not gay! How did you think that happening? Plus even if we had been playing with a full deck, you know I wouldn't do that to you!"

"Hn."

"Yuy and Maxwell: partners in crime,"

"You're still not helping."

"Christ, I think you were introduced to me in freshman year as Maxwell's Yuy."

"Captain Tact, I'm nobody's and Duo knows that."

"Why would you think Duo and me?"

"I guess cause you guys were always going off and having heated debates about morality"

"Yuy, you are a whole new level of paranoid."

"Thanks Wufei. Way to trivialize my emotions."

"Any time. Would you like to hear my opinion?"

"No."

"Alright."

"No. Tell me."

"Give him some space. He'll come back. Duo'll realize sooner or later that he misses you."

"Could you give me some time alone?"

"Will do, " Wufei frowned at the rug. "You don't like, want a hug or something do you?"

"God no."

"Good."

Regardless, Heero and Wufei hugged awkwardly for a moment.

MEANWHILE

Quatre meandered to behind the gym, where he found Duo crouched against the wall having a cigarette.

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