Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, if I did Releena wouldn't be there or Heero would have shot her a long time ago.
Warnings: This fic contains mild yaoi of 1x2 and suggestions of 3x4
Hugs and Bubblegum pops
Duo sat on the couch with his legs sprawled. He was reading a magazine and chewing gum. Heero was in the chair opposite reading a book Duo would never have the commitment to get through. Every time Duo popped his gum Heero's eye twitched in annoyance so the 2nd Gundam pilot was popping as much as possible. He loved annoying Heero.
After an hour of this and only reading about 4 pages of his book (He couldn't see properly as his eye kept twitching) Heero couldn't take it anymore "Duo!"
The braided boy looked up innocently "What?"
Heero growled and stomped out to try and find some peace he muttered under his breath as he left "God of Death? God of annoying me more like!"
Seeing that his mission was successful, Duo returned to reading his magazine, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
After about 2 hours Duo started to feel guilty, well, Quatre had actually made him guilty by saying that it wasn't very nice to annoy friends like that etc. Duo trudged his way up to Heero's room and gently knocked on the door. A gruff voice mumbled something that sounded like 'come in' so Duo entered. He cautiously walked over to the bed where Heero was reading, "Er...I'm sorry about annoying you before. Heh heh, still friends?"
Heero didn't look up from his book "Was it Wufei saying that you were un- honourable?"
"No, Quatre saying I was a bad friend"
"A forced apology isn't as good as an original one"
"Huh?"
Heero just sat in silence. Duo took this as a sign to leave so he went to the kitchen to find Quatre. Feeling even worse than he did before. 'Quatre will know what to do' he thought as he travelled through the Winner mansion, when he got to the kitchen Quatre was sitting at the breakfast bar sipping a cup of coffee and looking over the newspaper while waiting for dinner to cook. Duo stepped shyly towards the Arabian; Quatre noticed this and put his paper down while looking concerned "What's wrong Duo? Didn't it go well with Heero?"
"He wouldn't accept my apology"
"Why not?"
Duo started to play with the end of his braid "He says that it's forced"
"But you really are sorry now aren't you?"
"Yeah, but he says that because you made me go and apologise that it's not as good as a real apology. I think he hates me"
"He doesn't hate you Duo. You've probably just annoyed him one too many times. He's probably upset that the only time that you apologise is the time that someone told you to"
"Really?"
"Yes"
"Quatre, you know us all too well. It's getting kind of scary"
Quatre just smiled and returned to waiting for dinner to cook. Duo, after deciding that they'd all kill each other without Quatre, felt like going to his room. He'd managed to get the attic room (After fighting Wufei for it) but he now regretted it as he had about a thousand stairs to climb every night. Duo's room was, by far, the most interesting room of all the Gundam pilots. He had a huge sky light over his bed so when he couldn't get to sleep he counted the stars. His walls were plastered with posters of bands like Linkin Park, System of a Down, Nickelback and Good Charlotte. He had a vast CD collection, so many that he had a wardrobe just for his music. Obviously the colour of his décor revolved around black but he did have small amounts of gold, like an Arabian lamp that Quatre gave him for his birthday.
Duo sighed and flopped down on his bed. He put his hands behind his head and stared at the sky. It was strange, he felt better after talking to Quatre but he couldn't stop thinking about Heero. He'd annoyed Heero hundreds of times before but this was the only time he'd actually gotten really mad. So mad that he seemed emotionless. In two minutes of thought, Duo had undone all of the work that Quatre had done and he felt awful about what he did. He turned over and punched his pillow "Come on! Why feel guilty now? Why not all after the other times! You've never been upset about annoying anyone else" Then he realised, he'd never upset anyone else. Sure, he's gotten Wufei a little hot under the collar but he never did that on purpose. That was just because Wufei found him naturally irritating. This left Duo feeling odd as well as guilty. This had to stop. He sighed aggressively, leapt up from his bed and stomped down the stairs to Heero's room.
The room of the first Gundam pilot was the complete opposite of Duo's. It was plain, Heero had left it the colour it was and it was barely furnished. He had a bed, a wardrobe and a table with his laptop on. Duo didn't even knock this time; he stormed in and started yelling at Heero "Look, I know I annoyed you but I apologised! That should be good enough! But instead, you make me feel awful and let me sit there feeling guilt that I shouldn't have to feel! I said I was sorry Heero so please stop hating me!" Heero just sat stunned in his chair; tears were starting to slowly creep down Duo's face. Had he really made him feel that bad? Heero did the only thing he could think to do to make Duo feel better. He crossed the room and placed the crying Shinigami into a loving embrace that he had never given anyone before. Now it was Duo's turned to be stunned.
After pulling back from the perfect soldier's arms Duo stared into Heero's eyes. He was so shocked that he couldn't say anything, a first for Duo. Heero turned and went back to his chair, put one leg over the other and folded his arms "Feel better now?" The other pilot just nodded and left not feeling guilty but now feeling confused. 'Could this day get any weirder?' he thought. He decided to revisit Quatre in his 'kitchen of wisdom' as the pilots sometimes called it, as Quatre was always there willing to give advice and right now Duo wanted a truckload of it.
Quatre was now humming and stirring something in a pot on the stove, whatever he had made for dinner smelt great. Duo entered the kitchen and took in a breath of the aromatic air and discovered that he was hungry. He walked over to the fridge and looked inside he was about to grab a quick sandwich when the fridge door was slammed in front of him "Hey!"
"Sorry Duo but dinner will be ready soon, I'm sure you can wait until then"
"How'd you get over here so fast Q?"
"Never mind that, what's wrong?"
"How'd you know something was wrong?"
"When your upset about something your hair kind of flops against your head and doesn't stick up like it usually does" Duo immediately started yanking his hair around to try and put it right, after realising he had three split ends and the start of a headache he stopped and decided to tell Quatre what was wrong. He sighed and sat down "Ok, I'll tell you" Quatre sat down next to him at the table, prepared to listen.
"Heero hugged me"
"Well, that's a good thing! Now you know that he doesn't hate you"
"Yeah but, it was strange. I yelled at him for making me feel so bad and-" he blushed "I started to cry a little. Then he just walked over and hugged me; I didn't know what to do. What do you think happened? What should I do?"
"I think it was the only way that Heero could think to say sorry. A hug is a big thing coming from Heero. He barely smiles at people, let alone hugs them. It looks like he just telling you that you're friends again"
"But couldn't he of just told me instead of hugging me?"
"Well, yes but...er... Look, I don't know why he hugged you. This is completely the opposite of what Heero is usually like. I have no idea what to do"
Duo's voice was dripping with sarcasm "Great, thanks Q"
"Well I tried to help! This is the first ever time that I can't understand why one of you has done something! I'm getting stressed! Must cook!"
Quatre then frantically resumed cooking, Duo left him alone, as he didn't want a replay of Quatre's insane laugh. Once was enough. After almost destroying Quatre because the poor Arabian didn't know something about one of the pilots, Duo decided to converse with Trowa about his problem.
He found the French boy in the library. He was sitting at the small table by the window sipping a cup of coffee and reading a book. It was so quiet that even with Duo's light footfalls Trowa heard him come in. "What's up Duo? Does Quatre want us for dinner?"
"No. It's almost ready though. Actually I want to ask you about something"
Trowa offered the American the chair next to him. When Duo had sat down Trowa patiently waited for him to say what was wrong.
"It's Heero"
"Did he try and shoot you again?"
"No. Worse. Now I'm really confused"
"Worse? Worse than him trying to shoot you?"
"He hugged me" Trowa's only reply to that was to fall off his chair
"He what?!"
"He hugged me. I got a little upset because he made me feel guilty about annoying him so he hugged me. What do you think it means?"
"I think that it means that he's sorry for making you feel so bad" Trowa was now back on his chair
"But usually when he's upset you or Quatre or Wufei then he just says sorry and goes to his room. Why didn't he just do that? Why did he hug me?"
"Maybe because he was already in his room? I don't know Duo. It looks like the only way that you're going to find out is if you go and ask him yourself"
"I guess so. But what if he does try and shoot me this time?"
"Then you run behind the door. You know that Heero's door is bullet proof"
"Oh yeah. Thanks Trowa. By the way, I think Quatre needs a little T.L.C downstairs. I sort of got him a little wound up about the Heero thing"
"What's he doing?"
"Cooking like mad"
"Oh dear" With this Trowa dashed out of the room to find Quatre before he blows up the kitchen trying to use twenty-five different appliances at once. This had actually happened because Duo and Wufei had had a huge fight and Quatre couldn't figure out how to get them to be friends again.
Duo just sighed and began the walk to Heero's room. Not quite knowing what he would meet when he got there.
Duo knocked on Heero's door, wondering if it would be the last thing that he ever did. He slowly opened it and peered into the room. Heero was lying on his bed with his eyes closed. Was he asleep? 'He doesn't look as deadly when he's sleeping' Duo thought as he tiptoed to the sleeping soldier 'He actually looks kind of sweet' He'd have to question him tomorrow. Duo was about to leave the room when he heard a voice say "That you Duo?"
"How'd you know it was me? You haven't opened your eyes!"
"You have a different footfall to the others and I could hear your braid swinging against your shirt" This was the only time Duo ever cursed his braid.
"Did I wake you up?"
"I wasn't sleeping"
"Oh"
"What do you want?"
"Nothing" Duo replied in what he hoped was an innocent tone
Heero still hadn't opened his eyes "So you came in to look at me sleeping?"
"No! It's just...I want to ask you something"
"Go ahead"
"Why did you hug me before?"
"Because you looked like you needed a hug"
"But Quatre's looked like he needed a hug thousands of times and you've never hugged him"
"Quatre has Trowa to hug him"
"Yeah but... wait a minute...Do you mean that... that... You're my Trowa??"
"I suppose so, yes"
"But Quatre and Trowa are... are..."
"Yes, I know. They're hardly secretive about it are they?"
Duo was now completely and utterly confused. He started to feel funny so without realising he sat down on the edge of Heero's bed. "Does this mean that you... you want to be my..."
"Yes"
"Just yes? No explanation? Nothing? Just yes? And what if I don't want to?"
"Then this conversation never happened"
"You're so emotionless! Even when you're saying you love someone you act like you don't care!"
Heero sat up and stared at Duo "What do you want me to do? Go on my knees with flowers in my hand and beg you to love me? That's not who I am Duo and if you don't like it then you can forget that I ever showed my feelings to you!"
Duo was shocked; he looked down and mumbled something
"What was that Duo?"
"I didn't say that I didn't like you" Duo looked up and Heero saw that he was blushing madly "In fact, I've seen Trowa and Quatre together and wished that I had something like that"
"I won't be as full of emotion as they are"
"I know that, Trowa's not very emotional. I guess that means I'm Quatre!" He grinned.
"I'm not doing some weird role play with you" Heero smiled
"Don't be stupid" With that Duo leaned over to kiss Heero's cheek. But at that same time Heero turned his head to say something and their lips met. Duo was too stunned to do anything but then he felt Heero kissing him back. There were many more kisses after that one but Duo always remembered their first as it was the only one that made his heart soar to the skies like a huge weight had been taken off it and he knew that Heero was who he was meant to be with.
Warnings: This fic contains mild yaoi of 1x2 and suggestions of 3x4
Hugs and Bubblegum pops
Duo sat on the couch with his legs sprawled. He was reading a magazine and chewing gum. Heero was in the chair opposite reading a book Duo would never have the commitment to get through. Every time Duo popped his gum Heero's eye twitched in annoyance so the 2nd Gundam pilot was popping as much as possible. He loved annoying Heero.
After an hour of this and only reading about 4 pages of his book (He couldn't see properly as his eye kept twitching) Heero couldn't take it anymore "Duo!"
The braided boy looked up innocently "What?"
Heero growled and stomped out to try and find some peace he muttered under his breath as he left "God of Death? God of annoying me more like!"
Seeing that his mission was successful, Duo returned to reading his magazine, grinning like a Cheshire cat.
After about 2 hours Duo started to feel guilty, well, Quatre had actually made him guilty by saying that it wasn't very nice to annoy friends like that etc. Duo trudged his way up to Heero's room and gently knocked on the door. A gruff voice mumbled something that sounded like 'come in' so Duo entered. He cautiously walked over to the bed where Heero was reading, "Er...I'm sorry about annoying you before. Heh heh, still friends?"
Heero didn't look up from his book "Was it Wufei saying that you were un- honourable?"
"No, Quatre saying I was a bad friend"
"A forced apology isn't as good as an original one"
"Huh?"
Heero just sat in silence. Duo took this as a sign to leave so he went to the kitchen to find Quatre. Feeling even worse than he did before. 'Quatre will know what to do' he thought as he travelled through the Winner mansion, when he got to the kitchen Quatre was sitting at the breakfast bar sipping a cup of coffee and looking over the newspaper while waiting for dinner to cook. Duo stepped shyly towards the Arabian; Quatre noticed this and put his paper down while looking concerned "What's wrong Duo? Didn't it go well with Heero?"
"He wouldn't accept my apology"
"Why not?"
Duo started to play with the end of his braid "He says that it's forced"
"But you really are sorry now aren't you?"
"Yeah, but he says that because you made me go and apologise that it's not as good as a real apology. I think he hates me"
"He doesn't hate you Duo. You've probably just annoyed him one too many times. He's probably upset that the only time that you apologise is the time that someone told you to"
"Really?"
"Yes"
"Quatre, you know us all too well. It's getting kind of scary"
Quatre just smiled and returned to waiting for dinner to cook. Duo, after deciding that they'd all kill each other without Quatre, felt like going to his room. He'd managed to get the attic room (After fighting Wufei for it) but he now regretted it as he had about a thousand stairs to climb every night. Duo's room was, by far, the most interesting room of all the Gundam pilots. He had a huge sky light over his bed so when he couldn't get to sleep he counted the stars. His walls were plastered with posters of bands like Linkin Park, System of a Down, Nickelback and Good Charlotte. He had a vast CD collection, so many that he had a wardrobe just for his music. Obviously the colour of his décor revolved around black but he did have small amounts of gold, like an Arabian lamp that Quatre gave him for his birthday.
Duo sighed and flopped down on his bed. He put his hands behind his head and stared at the sky. It was strange, he felt better after talking to Quatre but he couldn't stop thinking about Heero. He'd annoyed Heero hundreds of times before but this was the only time he'd actually gotten really mad. So mad that he seemed emotionless. In two minutes of thought, Duo had undone all of the work that Quatre had done and he felt awful about what he did. He turned over and punched his pillow "Come on! Why feel guilty now? Why not all after the other times! You've never been upset about annoying anyone else" Then he realised, he'd never upset anyone else. Sure, he's gotten Wufei a little hot under the collar but he never did that on purpose. That was just because Wufei found him naturally irritating. This left Duo feeling odd as well as guilty. This had to stop. He sighed aggressively, leapt up from his bed and stomped down the stairs to Heero's room.
The room of the first Gundam pilot was the complete opposite of Duo's. It was plain, Heero had left it the colour it was and it was barely furnished. He had a bed, a wardrobe and a table with his laptop on. Duo didn't even knock this time; he stormed in and started yelling at Heero "Look, I know I annoyed you but I apologised! That should be good enough! But instead, you make me feel awful and let me sit there feeling guilt that I shouldn't have to feel! I said I was sorry Heero so please stop hating me!" Heero just sat stunned in his chair; tears were starting to slowly creep down Duo's face. Had he really made him feel that bad? Heero did the only thing he could think to do to make Duo feel better. He crossed the room and placed the crying Shinigami into a loving embrace that he had never given anyone before. Now it was Duo's turned to be stunned.
After pulling back from the perfect soldier's arms Duo stared into Heero's eyes. He was so shocked that he couldn't say anything, a first for Duo. Heero turned and went back to his chair, put one leg over the other and folded his arms "Feel better now?" The other pilot just nodded and left not feeling guilty but now feeling confused. 'Could this day get any weirder?' he thought. He decided to revisit Quatre in his 'kitchen of wisdom' as the pilots sometimes called it, as Quatre was always there willing to give advice and right now Duo wanted a truckload of it.
Quatre was now humming and stirring something in a pot on the stove, whatever he had made for dinner smelt great. Duo entered the kitchen and took in a breath of the aromatic air and discovered that he was hungry. He walked over to the fridge and looked inside he was about to grab a quick sandwich when the fridge door was slammed in front of him "Hey!"
"Sorry Duo but dinner will be ready soon, I'm sure you can wait until then"
"How'd you get over here so fast Q?"
"Never mind that, what's wrong?"
"How'd you know something was wrong?"
"When your upset about something your hair kind of flops against your head and doesn't stick up like it usually does" Duo immediately started yanking his hair around to try and put it right, after realising he had three split ends and the start of a headache he stopped and decided to tell Quatre what was wrong. He sighed and sat down "Ok, I'll tell you" Quatre sat down next to him at the table, prepared to listen.
"Heero hugged me"
"Well, that's a good thing! Now you know that he doesn't hate you"
"Yeah but, it was strange. I yelled at him for making me feel so bad and-" he blushed "I started to cry a little. Then he just walked over and hugged me; I didn't know what to do. What do you think happened? What should I do?"
"I think it was the only way that Heero could think to say sorry. A hug is a big thing coming from Heero. He barely smiles at people, let alone hugs them. It looks like he just telling you that you're friends again"
"But couldn't he of just told me instead of hugging me?"
"Well, yes but...er... Look, I don't know why he hugged you. This is completely the opposite of what Heero is usually like. I have no idea what to do"
Duo's voice was dripping with sarcasm "Great, thanks Q"
"Well I tried to help! This is the first ever time that I can't understand why one of you has done something! I'm getting stressed! Must cook!"
Quatre then frantically resumed cooking, Duo left him alone, as he didn't want a replay of Quatre's insane laugh. Once was enough. After almost destroying Quatre because the poor Arabian didn't know something about one of the pilots, Duo decided to converse with Trowa about his problem.
He found the French boy in the library. He was sitting at the small table by the window sipping a cup of coffee and reading a book. It was so quiet that even with Duo's light footfalls Trowa heard him come in. "What's up Duo? Does Quatre want us for dinner?"
"No. It's almost ready though. Actually I want to ask you about something"
Trowa offered the American the chair next to him. When Duo had sat down Trowa patiently waited for him to say what was wrong.
"It's Heero"
"Did he try and shoot you again?"
"No. Worse. Now I'm really confused"
"Worse? Worse than him trying to shoot you?"
"He hugged me" Trowa's only reply to that was to fall off his chair
"He what?!"
"He hugged me. I got a little upset because he made me feel guilty about annoying him so he hugged me. What do you think it means?"
"I think that it means that he's sorry for making you feel so bad" Trowa was now back on his chair
"But usually when he's upset you or Quatre or Wufei then he just says sorry and goes to his room. Why didn't he just do that? Why did he hug me?"
"Maybe because he was already in his room? I don't know Duo. It looks like the only way that you're going to find out is if you go and ask him yourself"
"I guess so. But what if he does try and shoot me this time?"
"Then you run behind the door. You know that Heero's door is bullet proof"
"Oh yeah. Thanks Trowa. By the way, I think Quatre needs a little T.L.C downstairs. I sort of got him a little wound up about the Heero thing"
"What's he doing?"
"Cooking like mad"
"Oh dear" With this Trowa dashed out of the room to find Quatre before he blows up the kitchen trying to use twenty-five different appliances at once. This had actually happened because Duo and Wufei had had a huge fight and Quatre couldn't figure out how to get them to be friends again.
Duo just sighed and began the walk to Heero's room. Not quite knowing what he would meet when he got there.
Duo knocked on Heero's door, wondering if it would be the last thing that he ever did. He slowly opened it and peered into the room. Heero was lying on his bed with his eyes closed. Was he asleep? 'He doesn't look as deadly when he's sleeping' Duo thought as he tiptoed to the sleeping soldier 'He actually looks kind of sweet' He'd have to question him tomorrow. Duo was about to leave the room when he heard a voice say "That you Duo?"
"How'd you know it was me? You haven't opened your eyes!"
"You have a different footfall to the others and I could hear your braid swinging against your shirt" This was the only time Duo ever cursed his braid.
"Did I wake you up?"
"I wasn't sleeping"
"Oh"
"What do you want?"
"Nothing" Duo replied in what he hoped was an innocent tone
Heero still hadn't opened his eyes "So you came in to look at me sleeping?"
"No! It's just...I want to ask you something"
"Go ahead"
"Why did you hug me before?"
"Because you looked like you needed a hug"
"But Quatre's looked like he needed a hug thousands of times and you've never hugged him"
"Quatre has Trowa to hug him"
"Yeah but... wait a minute...Do you mean that... that... You're my Trowa??"
"I suppose so, yes"
"But Quatre and Trowa are... are..."
"Yes, I know. They're hardly secretive about it are they?"
Duo was now completely and utterly confused. He started to feel funny so without realising he sat down on the edge of Heero's bed. "Does this mean that you... you want to be my..."
"Yes"
"Just yes? No explanation? Nothing? Just yes? And what if I don't want to?"
"Then this conversation never happened"
"You're so emotionless! Even when you're saying you love someone you act like you don't care!"
Heero sat up and stared at Duo "What do you want me to do? Go on my knees with flowers in my hand and beg you to love me? That's not who I am Duo and if you don't like it then you can forget that I ever showed my feelings to you!"
Duo was shocked; he looked down and mumbled something
"What was that Duo?"
"I didn't say that I didn't like you" Duo looked up and Heero saw that he was blushing madly "In fact, I've seen Trowa and Quatre together and wished that I had something like that"
"I won't be as full of emotion as they are"
"I know that, Trowa's not very emotional. I guess that means I'm Quatre!" He grinned.
"I'm not doing some weird role play with you" Heero smiled
"Don't be stupid" With that Duo leaned over to kiss Heero's cheek. But at that same time Heero turned his head to say something and their lips met. Duo was too stunned to do anything but then he felt Heero kissing him back. There were many more kisses after that one but Duo always remembered their first as it was the only one that made his heart soar to the skies like a huge weight had been taken off it and he knew that Heero was who he was meant to be with.