Pairings: Duo/Heero, Quatre/Trowa

Warnings: possibilities of later violence, supernatural stuff, kinky moments, guns...um...gundams, implied sex

Author's comment: And some more stuff.

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Operation Blank Conspiracy 32

Wufei made sure he was there to meet up with Duo as soon as the shuttle landed. He couldn't help that he was still worried about the other being injured, remembering Treize's words. He was glad to see Duo and Trowa coming off the shuttle, chattering away. Ok so it was more like Duo was chattering and Trowa was stuck listening with a look of amusement but it was close enough. But Wufei didn't miss the very subtle change in the way Duo floated or how his body seemed so tense as if he was trying not to turn a certain way.

He almost completely forgot about it when Duo looked up at him and the brightest smile he could ever remember seeing came up on the other's face.

"Hey, Wu-master! Good to see you again!"

"…Wu-master?"

"What, you don't like it?" Duo put on a fake pout as he stared at the Chinese male. "And after I spent the whooole trip thinking up a good one for you too."

"It sounds cheesy," Wufei said rolling his eyes. "Don't go calling me goofy names. Just Wufei."

"Fine, party pooper," Duo said sighing before he looked up at him smiling. "Well, I'm back. You're back. Trowa's back. We're all back and in one piece. I think this calls for a celebration."

Wufei couldn't help chuckling at his words. "The only thing on your brain is partying."

"It could be," Duo said grinning before he looked over at Trowa seeing the other starting to float off. "Going to go see Quatre?"

"Yeah," Trowa said. He didn't elaborate further on what he was going to see Quatre about but from the grin on Duo's face, it seemed like he already knew what it was about. Not like it was Wufei's problem what going on there anyway. Wufei's eyes returned to the braided male watching the sparkling indigo eyes look up at him with a grin.

"So why the special visit, Wufei?" He asked that while he started floating off letting Wufei fall in beside him. Wufei didn't say anything in return, glancing at Duo before they exited out of the docking station. The change became more noticeable when they lost access to zero-G and Duo's hand flew to his stomach as he winced in pain landing on his feet.

"…You are hurt," Wufei said frowning.

"What?" Duo looked up at him with a frown. "What are you talking about? You know I can't get hurt." Wufei landed down beside him and turned to him frowning. He got a look of defiance in return.

"Then care to explain to me what that was just now?"

"…I tripped."

"And tripping makes you wince."

"It does if your stomach drops." Wufei crunched his face up staring at him and tried to ignore how Duo just rolled his eyes. "You know, like when you're on the road and you hit that one drip that makes you go, whoooa."

"I know what you meant!" Wufei glared at him folding his arms over his chest. He could see right now that Duo was going to make this difficult. Fine then…he knew a way around this. "If you're not injured then show me."

Duo blinked looking startled at the words and actually took a step back. "W-What?!"

"Lift your shirt up and show me you're not injured."

"A-Are you kidding me?! No way!"

"Why not? Because you're injured?"

"No!" Duo glared at him folding his arms over his chest. "Because I'm not showing my goodies to you!"

"You act like I'm telling you to strip!" Wufei said trying not to let the red reach his cheeks at how awkward this conversation was getting. "Besides, you're a guy! We have nothing to hide under our shirts!"

"You don't know that," Duo said sticking his tongue out. "For all you know, I could be a woman." Wufei wasn't sure if his eyes twitched or not but he really felt like he was about to get a headache.

"Take your shirt off!"

"No!"

"Take it off now!"

"No way!"

"I swear, Duo, if I have to tell you again I'll-"

"What's going on in here?" The two of them looked up like startled cattle at Colonel Po standing in the doorway leading out into the hallway. The two of them must have looked awkward with Wufei trying to take Duo's shirt off and Duo using one hand to hold his shirt down and the other pushed against Wufei's cheek to push him away.

Instantly the two broke away before Duo quickly went into attention mode.

"Ma'am! Wufei is being a pervert and trying to see my hot, naked body."

"What?!"

"I think he needs disciplinary action, ma'am!" And he had the nerve to salute her when he said that. He glanced over at Wufei, the hints of a smirk showing up on his face before they cut back to Sally quickly.

"I'm…really not going to ask what this is all about," she said sighing and rubbing at her forehead like she had a headache. Wufei sure as hell knew he felt like he was getting one, his jaw clenching in frustration. "Anyway, Duo Maxwell." She focused her attention on him. "Colonel Une would like to see you in her office. It's mandatory," she said before he could voice his complaint. It was obvious that Duo was not that fond of Colonel Une. Especially since she'd been the one trying to get him to see the nurse in the first place.

"Fine," Duo said before looking over at Wufei. "Party tonight, got that? Tell the others." His hand was still holding his stomach when he started walking away. With Treize's words bustling around his head about Duo having a weakening body, Wufei didn't give himself time to think about his next move. He got behind Duo quickly and took the syringe of Fly-Z taking only a second to stab it into Duo's butt through the pants and inject it inside.

"Ow!" Wufei pulled the syringe out just before Duo could reach back to grab at his behind, a frown on his face as he turned around glaring at Wufei and completely missing the syringe being tucked into a pocket. "What the hell, Wufei?! What did you just…?" The glare seemed to die away from his eyes turning into a look of confusion as he stared at Wufei. The pain was wearing away. Wufei knew that much just from the fact that Duo was rubbing at his stomach like he was trying to figure out what happened.

"Don't you have a meeting to get to?"

"Uh…yeah…" Duo reached up scratching his head and eyed him. "We're going to talk about this later, right?"

"Yeah…we'll do it after your party." Wufei ignored how Sally was looking at him, instead keeping his attention on Duo. Duo did have the right to know, even if Wufei planned on keeping it away from the others and the colonels. He just had this feeling that Duo would become the new science experiment if they learned that Wufei supposedly had free access to more of the drug. Which, sadly, he was going to have to get more of thanks to the fact that he just used it all on Duo only moments ago. Great…

"Alright then, I'll see you later." Duo turned walking from past the colonel and out the room missing how Sally turned to look after him before frowning and turning her suspicious eyes on Wufei.

"What was that about?" she asked him.

"Nothing you need to worry about," he replied starting to walk closer to her. "So are you here for something or did you just come here in person to tell Duo to see Une even though you could have just called him."

"I came to up check on you," she said resting a hand on his shoulder when he stopped in front of her. "And figured you'd come to see Duo first before anyone." He lifted a brow staring up at her. What would make her think that?

"Well whatever's in your head right now, just forget about it. There's nothing going on." He pushed her hand from his shoulder and walked past her out the door.

"Just remember you can always talk to me about anything, Wufei." He heard her say it as the door was closing and grumbled out as he started heading off for his room. This wasn't something he could talk to her about even if he wanted to. He frowned looking down at his phone and at the text he'd received from Treize only yesterday. Apparently the Fly-Z had worked considering the look on Duo's face. He wasn't too sure of what he'd think about the idea that Wufei had just used it on him.

But considering that it did work meant that Treize was right…Duo must be dying. He was going to have to get more of it. And the only way to do that was to go through Treize. Damn he wasn't ready to see that man yet. He waited until he got back to his room to text him saying only "I need more of that stuff." Thank god this was his personal phone…which was probably the only reason that Treize had managed to get his number.

It wasn't even a second later that the phone started ringing and he looked at the screen seeing that unfamiliar number from yesterday. He hated that he felt like the blood rushed to his cheeks as he took a deep breath and answered the phone. He should have known better that Treize would want to talk verses just typing back a quick ok.

"Hello."

"Ah, Nataku," the voice said smoothly over the line. "It seems you caught me at a good time. I was just getting out of the shower after relieving a bit of…stress." Wufei hung the phone up quickly at the words, fighting back the powerful burn of blood rushing to his face. Damn that man! The mental image was not something he wanted to be thinking about right now! Not that he knew what Treize looked like naked…or even that he wanted to. Ugh!

The phone ringed again and Wufei looked at it before frowning and pushing the on button.

"That's not a very polite thing to do, Nataku." But instead of sounding angry, Treize sounded more amused by the action. It grated on Wufei's nerves. "There's no reason to be embarrassed. It's just a conversation between men."

"Quit with the small talk," Wufei said trying to get this done with as quickly as possible. "What do I have to do to get more of that stuff?"

"Ah so you've finally come to your senses," the older male said on the phone chuckling despite the discomfort it gave to Wufei. "When do you plan on meeting with me again?"

"Depends," Wufei said frowning. "It'll look suspicious if I leave here without a legitimate reason."

"Then we should make one for you," Treize said. There was a pause and the sound of Treize typing something through the microphone before his voice entered Wufei's ear again. "I'll see you in a few days."

Wufei blinked. "What? Wait, what do you mean by-"

"See you soon, my little friend." The phone was hung up leaving Wufei with nothing more than a beeping sound. Wufei cursed hanging up and redialing the number only to find the phone out of service. Great, how the hell was he supposed to meet Treize within a few days?

The phone rang again and Wufei answered it about to cuss the person out but when he heard Sally's voice on the line he stopped.

"Wufei, we have a situation," she said to him. "Seems like we found out who those guys transporting the Gundamium alloy negotiating with. I'll tell you more details in the briefing tomorrow but you and Trowa will be leaving out tomorrow ASAP. Make sure you're well rested." She hung up before he even gave his response. He sighed and looked down at his phone. Well at least he knew how they were supposed to be meeting each other.

Might as well call the others and tell them about the party Duo was planning on having tonight. Hopefully he showed up this time.

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Duo frowned when he stepped into Colonel Une's office. He wasn't alone there. Heero was sitting at the table along with Quatre as the two of them looked up when he entered. He wondered what it was about. From the looks on the other two faces, they didn't know either.

"Come have a seat, Duo. We're just about to begin." Une wasn't alone there. She had Noin there as well. The two of them were sitting once again side by side. Duo's hesitation only lasted a moment before he went over taking a seat with Heero. He saw the questioning look on Heero's face and offered up a soft smile saying he was ok. It seemed to be enough because Heero gave a nod before focusing his attention on Une. Whether Heero knew about his heroic stunt or not was still a mystery to him.

"As you may have guessed, we actually have another mission for you to take a part of." Duo lifted a brow at that. Well he sure hadn't guessed that. He just got back, right? Just because he was a super human didn't mean he didn't want to rest. Though if he was going with Heero, the idea didn't sound so bad.

"What's the mission?" Quatre asked across from him.

"…A birthday celebration." Duo lifted a brow hearing the grunt beside him from Heero. Apparently he knew already what this was about.

"Birthday?" Duo asked looking at Une like she was nuts. "You need three people to set up a birthday party?"

"I need three people to protect the person having a birthday party."

"Queen Relena," Quatre said glancing across the table at Heero, the two exchanging a look. Duo blinked narrowing his eyes wondering what just transpired between the two of them, but then Noin took over talking for them.

"Correct. Queen Relena will be having her 18th birthday in a month. You'll be protecting her while she is at her birthday celebration. Seeing as she is one of the founders of the Preventers, I expect you three to take very good care of her." One of the founders? Duo blinked. If she was just one then who were the others? He'd have to ask Heero about that later. Well it wasn't like he'd ever met this queen lady though he'd heard the name often enough. Queen of the Sanc Kingdom. She was a person who was trying to bring peace to both the Earth and the Colonies. She was an important figurehead. That much was certain. "The gundams will be taken as well just as a precaution against attacks."

"For the next two weeks," Une said taking over. "You'll be training with the gundams. We need to have Duo up and ready to use it by the time you leave for Sanc Kingdom." …Well it shouldn't be that hard. Wasn't like he'd never driven a mobile suit before. Even if he'd only done it once with a bad outcome he'd rather not remember.

"Wait so it's just the three of us?" Duo asked trying to see past the glare on her glasses to her eyes. "If she's so important wouldn't it make sense that all five of us went?"

"Trowa and Wufei will be on another mission," she said to him. "They'll meet with you down in the Sanc Kingdom with their gundam once that mission is over." Another mission already? The two of them just got back. Did they really need to be going back out into the field already only to have it followed up by a third mission? "So if there aren't any further questions…" she paused in her words before a smile lifted to her lips, probably the first one Duo had ever seen on her grumpy looking face. Seriously, how much more of a hard ass could she be? "Ah yes, one further thing. Concerning Duo Maxwell's placement in the Preventers, we determined that he will be part of Division one. I'm sure you've already established these results."

"Considering my physical condition, I figured that was inevitable," Duo said grinning. "But you were just testing me out anyway, huh?"

"You will be given access to Division one files and a room assignment that will be sent to your phone. Congratulations. You are all dismissed." Well at least some cake and ice cream would have been nice instead of a simple dismissal. Sighing Duo pushed back from the chair followed by Heero and Quatre. He waited until they were outside the room before he turned to the two of them with a big grin on his face.

"Sooooo…I talked to Wufei earlier and we're having a party tonight." Duo gave them both a look waggling his eyebrows at them. "You're both coming even if I have to drag you there."

"I don't have any problems with it," Quatre said smiling at him. "But…are you sure you'll make it this time without distractions?" The way he said it so knowingly made Duo blush considering that the only reason he didn't make it was because he and Heero had been well…establishing their desires for one another.

"You can bet on it," Duo said covering the blush with a grin as he winked an eye. "I don't have to worry about a distraction like Mr. Tall, mysterious, and green-eyed. Mine is short, blue eyed, and grumpy."

"D-Duo!" He didn't miss the blush on the blonde's face and couldn't help the laughter bursting from his mouth as they headed for the elevator. Heero just grunted to his words but didn't make a single objection to any of it. Though when he glanced back at Heero and saw the amusement on his face and he couldn't help smiling at him. He was just glad that the two of them would get to go on a mission together. He was glad he'd get to watch Heero's back and protect him.

What he didn't like was that he was going to have to start working on his mission report like Wufei said. He was sure the witch Colonel Une that seemed to enjoy staring into his soul would come looking for it soon if he didn't hand it to her. He didn't really know why he didn't like her much. Something to do with the fact that she rubbed him the wrong way maybe? Or was it because of that whole "you need to see the evil nurse" bit?

As for his report, he knew he was going to have a problem when it came time to write about the mysterious man. He couldn't very well say that the guy played some sound that made him almost comatose. Well he could…but it'd probably result with the Preventers trying to replicate the sound and did he really need more people knowing a weakness against him? The other thing was that he needed to talk to Wufei tonight about what happened not even thirty minutes ago.

Whatever Wufei had done to him had obviously healed up his damaged stomach. He'd checked the damage as soon as they got to the shuttle after the completion of his mission with the excuse of needing a quick piss. He'd seen the bruises, the blue and black marks surrounding the huge boot print of the man who'd stomped on him. That sort of damage should never have happened. He shouldn't have felt the pain of those solid shoes at all. Nor should that sound have ever existed outside of OZ.

Who was that man from before? What did he have to do with OZ? He'd mention having heard about him. Was he someone from OZ then? It seemed likely. Who else would have access to that sound? But then again, OZ already knew what the sound could do to him…and so far had only made the indication that they wanted to capture him alive.

That's why they hadn't bothered to use it yet, right? Because it could do things to him that might be irreversible? Ok so he was pulling straws out of a hat here. He didn't know what the extent of damage was involving that sound. But hearing it then, remembering it, it sent a shoulder down his spine. It wasn't something he wanted to remember, ever. The sound made him want to pull his brain out through his ears to make it stop. Who knew what damaging effects it had him his poor body.

That was the stuff he was going to have to find out. In the mean time he'd have to leave that little tidbit of information out of the reports. No reason to stir up mess.

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"Come on, you party poopers!" Duo wasn't sure how he managed to convince them all to go to the night club on the space station considering how much of a downer the group of them were. He was literally the only person willing to get up and dance at all. Seriously, what kind of club goers were these? It wasn't like they were drinking which Wufei absolutely refused to let happen, the goodie goodie two shoes.

But somehow he'd managed to even get Heero to go along with it. This had only given him a goal tonight as he stared at his young boyfriend. He was going to get Heero out on this dance floor one way or another. Even if it meant having to flirt with some huge muscle bound guy named Tony. Quatre acted like they were at a strip club with how chicken he was. And he swore he couldn't get any of them to dress more relaxed. In fact, the only one willing to go out on the dance floor with him at all was surprisingly Trowa.

The young male was used to using his body to perform some of the most body bending poses. So moving to the fluidness of the club songs wasn't a problem at all. The two of them stuck together which easily swayed the attempts of those that came to ask to dance with them. Apparently the way Duo's indigo eyes were glowing in the dark with that unique purple hue to them was drawing attention to him. And it wasn't in the, there goes a freak, way either. They were intrigued by his eyes and he'd found himself being complimented several times by how beautiful they were, from both men and women.

Granted that half the people there were drunk. But it also seemed that news of him being the new elitist had spread as there were some rumors passing along the groups before eyes stared in his direction with respect. And since then he'd been asked he didn't know how many times about having a dance.

And despite that he could tell that Heero was staring at him with a jealous eye, he hadn't bothered to make a move towards the dance floor one bit. Meanwhile, if Trowa was trying to get Quatre to join him, he was doing a bad job of it as the blond could only stare in their direction and watch with a bite to his lips. Well it wasn't like Duo learned if they had done anything or not. He still wanted to talk to Quatre about it. Didn't mean he didn't enjoy teasing the blond merciless. Served him right trying to tease him earlier.

Duo only even made the attempt to leave the dance floor when he caught sight of Wufei slipping out the entrance. Frowning, he took off after him not letting him get very far and caught up to him fairly quickly right outside the small club.

"Going somewhere without saying anything?" Duo asked staring at the Chinese male's back and waiting on him to turn around.

"I need to get some rest," Wufei said looking at him. He really did look tired when Duo stared at him. Had the guy gotten any rest since his last mission? "I do have to get up in the morning for another mission."

"That's so stupid," Duo said walking over to him with a frown. "Seriously, they can't just let you rest for one night?"

"I'm an elitist," Wufei said grumbling. "I'm not here to be pampered."

"Whatever," Duo said rolling his eyes. He reached into his pocket pulling free the small phone charm and the bookmark, holding them out to Wufei. "Here, these are for you."

Wufei had a small frown on his face has he looked down at the items placed in his hand before lifting a brow and looking up at Duo curiously. "…A bookmark and a panda charm?"

"Not just any panda charm," Duo said holding the charm up by the string. "But a ninja panda charm with a light up nose." He grinned holding the small charm up by his face mimicking the panda's fighter face of doom. It made Wufei chuckle at the look before he was given the charm back.

"Well then I'll thank you for the gift then," Wufei said smiling at him and reaching up patting his head. The smile fell from Wufei's face as his expression grew more serious. "Do you have time to speak?"

"…Yeah," Duo frowned too. They were supposed to talk about what happened earlier today. It was a real mood changer considering that it was becoming obvious that Wufei had an idea of what happened to him. Was that why he'd asked if he'd been hurt during the start of his mission?

"Follow me then." He walked with the Chinese male, following after the short ponytail as they walked to the gym. The sounds from the few people still swimming as well as those working out in the weights room drowned out the sound of them talking. Obviously, Wufei didn't want other people hearing this.

He waited until the two of them settled down on the beach chairs by the pool before he spoke. "I…met with Romefeller's representative during my last mission," Wufei said frowning a bit. "He told me something interesting…about OZ." The eyes cut over to Duo probably trying to catch the look of frustration coming on Duo's face. Yeah he wasn't all that fond of OZ right now. Never had been really. "He said that…that your body is deteriorating. That your bone, your skin, even your blood is becoming denser every year because you're not being injected with that stuff."

Duo blinked at him surprised. "Is that what you injected in me?"

"Yeah but it's just one dose," Wufei said sighing. "But it obviously worked if it helped heal whatever damage you took."

"So it had nothing to do with that guy and that sound," Duo muttered out in response missing the look on Wufei's face.

"Who?"

"…the guy that attacked me," Duo said trusting him enough to tell him this. "He played that sound, the one I told you about that caused Solo to get captured by OZ again. I couldn't do anything against the pain. And it was like every kick he did to me was felt ten times over."

"That's…strange…" He saw the look on Wufei's face like he was thinking it over. "Well…tomorrow's mission involves confronting Treize about a Gundamium negotiation. I'm sure I'll find out from him there." Wufei gave a grunt staring out at the pooling watching someone dive into the water. "I won't say I trust him. But the only way to get what I want is to do what he wants."

"Geez I've heard that name enough to give me nightmares," Duo said giving an involuntary shiver. "Just tell me you'll try to be safe around that weirdo."

"I promise," Wufei said frowning. "Anyway, you better get back. The others are going to be wondering where you went."

"Yeah, especially Heero," Duo said shaking his head though there was the hint of a smile there on his lips. He completely missed the way Wufei looked at him at the sound of that name. "Anyway, I'll see ya, Wufei. Try and get some rest will ya?"

Duo gave him a quick pat on the shoulder before he stood and headed out the gym leaving Wufei there to contemplate over the things they just spoke of. He really hoped that Wufei would stay safe. He trusted OZ as much as he trusted a monkey carrying a bag of bananas for him. He just hoped that this Treize wasn't Wufei as a ploy to get to him. Because if he did one harmful thing to Wufei, Duo was not going to let him live with it.

If anyone were looking at Duo's eyes at that moment, they'd know to stay clear of him. Because, just for a minute, thinking that last thought, his eyes had darkened to almost black.

TBC…

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Finally completed this chapter. It's a little late but I hope you all enjoy this update.