A/N: Finally finished this chapter! I hate writer's block. Thanks for everyone's support, and I hope you continue to enjoy the story.

MORNING: SAFE HOUSE

"Day four report: While we are still handicapped, we are making some progress. We are currently investigating a student going by the name of Eins Koenig. He was found conducting suspicious activity in a faculty area.

"As for the team, I have been keeping tabs on them, since they do not seem to be dealing well with our current situation. Quatre is currently on day four of what women call a period. A length of time at the end of a 'cycle'... I'm sure, Ma'm, you know much more about this than I do. My biggest concern is that this 'period' has caused his attitude to become frighteningly similar to his attitude while under the influence of the ZERO system. Luckily, it has yet to become a problem.

"Wufei is also now on this 'period' as well. This is his second day, and his mood has significantly worsened from the day this mess began. It is... grating. So far this has not become a problem yet, but I am concerned it may become worse than Quatre's mood in the near future.

"Trowa has exhibited no such issues so far.

"Duo has been put in charge of executing our plan to gather intel. Normally, I would never leave such a delicate situation in his hands. However, our situation has left us little alternative.

"Our plan is unorthodox to say the least. Our target may or may not be infatuated by Duo. We plan to have Duo return the interest and observe the outcome. I can only imagine your reaction right now.

"I should mention that I have also started to exhibit these 'period' symptoms as of this morning. They are unpleasant, but after some quick research I have confirmed that several girls occupying the same living quarters tend to get it around the same time. This is normal. Thank you for your time. I will stay in touch. ~Heero Yuy"

Heero sighs and a slight groan escapes his lips as he shuts the lid on his laptop. He pushes himself out of the kitchen chair and cracks his back. The pain is strange. Heero has always believed he knew every possible form of pain that has ever existed. This pain is new. Located in a new region, and the sensation is indescribable.

Heero's thoughts become interrupted by the sound of banging coming from upstairs. Heero twitches. "Now what?"

Heero notices that he is more irritated by this than normal as he stomps up the stairs and sees Wufei slamming his fist against the door to the bathroom. "Maxwell! Stop hogging the bathroom! If you are wasting all the hot water, again, I will break you!"

"Get up earlier, then! That's what I decided to do when you hogged it yesterday!" Duo's muffled response causes Wufei to growl menacingly at the bathroom door.

Heero rubs his temples before reaching for the bathroom door handle. It's locked. Heero grunts; he is definitely more irked than usual. He pulls out his pistol and shoots the door handle until the entire thing breaks off. Heero kicks the door and then barges in.

Wufei stands in the hall, a little surprised at Heero's decision to just break in. A high-pitched squeal erupts from the bathroom, causing Wufei to take a cautious step back. The sound also pulls Quatre and Trowa out of their rooms and into the hall. The gunfire didn't do it, because that seems sadly much more normal...

"Did something happen?" Trowa runs up to Wufei while wrapping a robe around himself. Trowa has a look of mild concern, and Quatre just looks annoyed.

Quatre sighs at Wufei, "What did you do?"

"Nothing," Wufei huffs, "Yuy suddenly broke the bathroom door down and barged in on Maxwell..."

The three hear Duo screaming words that one would never repeat to one's mother, and the sound of splashing water. Then, silence.

After about a minute, the three become curious and venture into the bathroom. Duo is sitting in a tub full of water with his arms wrapped around his chest, and huddling in the corner, now rendered speechless. Heero is just standing in front of the tub, staring at Duo.

Trowa waves a hand in front of Heero's face. After no reaction, Trowa looks at Heero and notices a trickle of blood leaking out of Heero's nose. Trowa sighs, grabs a tissue, and jams it up Heero's nose. Then Trowa takes Heero by the shoulders and steers him out of the bathroom.

"Uh," Wufei addresses Duo while focusing on a wall, "I did not put him up to that."

"Okay..." Duo tries to sink lower into the water.

Wufei decides to add, "So, why are you taking a leisurely soak right before school? There are more appropriate times for that type of activity..."

"It's not for leisure, damn it! My back has been killin' me these past couple of days! I have no idea what I did to it." Duo shifts uncomfortably in the tub.

Wufei eyes Duo suspiciously, "Did you catch the disease as well?"

"I... I don't think s-so..." Duo holds himself tighter when Wufei looks at him.

Quatre sighs, "Do I really have to explain everything?" Quatre goes over to the tub and points at Duo's chest, "It's his breasts! They probably weigh two pounds each!"

"Seriously?!" Duo gapes, "Big boobs make your back hurt? Wow, I'm startin' to learn way more than I ever wanted to about women..."

After everyone is finally ready to leave, they go down to the kitchen. Trowa intercepts Quatre, Duo, and Wufei before they enter. "I just thought I'd let you guys know that when Heero came to, he started to act... uh, funny..."

"Funny?" Quatre raises a questioning eyebrow.

Wufei just grunts and enters the kitchen. Heero is standing next to the fridge, and there seems to be some kind of sign taped onto fridge door. Wufei knows he's going to regret asking, but, "Did you put that sign there, Yuy?"

"Yes," Heero gives a simple answer as the others file into the room.

Duo walks up to the fridge and reads the sign, "'Rules of Household Conduct. One. There is no need to hold cover while alone in the safe house; please keep morning use of the bathroom to ten minutes each. Two. Only be in states of undress in the privacy of your own bedroom or during the ten minutes granted in the bathroom. Failure to follow this rule will result in severe punishment.' Okay Heero first off, I was in the bathroom..."

"Past your ten minutes," Heero twitches, "You're excused this time, but now that rules are in place, such behavior will no longer be tolerated."

Quatre also looks at the sign, "'Three. There will be no more complaints about our handicap. If there is something you fail to understand, there is a useful tool called the internet at your disposal. Please use it.' I guess it could be worse, but why are you enforcing this now?"

"We need order. Without it, we could easily fail this mission. That is all." Heero looks even more irritated that usual.

Due to Heero's extra ire, everyone silently agrees to drop the subject for now, and head to school.

AFTERNOON: ST. GABRIEL INSTITUTE

After a long day of boring lessons, everyone gets their things together to go home for the weekend.

Duo slams his locker shut as he complains to Quatre, "Who the Hell does he think he is?! Hee-"

"Hey," Quatre cuts in, "use proper pronouns while we're outside. I think the sign is overkill too, and she is being a complete bitch about it." Duo giggles, Quatre sighs, "What?"

"You called Heero a bitch," Duo continues to giggle.

Quatre blows on his bangs, "Well, it's true. Heero doesn't get it. This problem isn't easy; just wait until she hits her time of the month..."

Duo bites his lip, "Wait. That's it. That's what's gotten into him, uh, her. She's on the rag! You know, I bet I'm the only one who didn't get it yet..."

"What about Trowa?"

Duo repeats, "What about Trowa? Do you really believe we'd be able to tell the difference? I barely saw his face twitch before he stole Heero's suit to go after Kathy..."

"Keep it down, Duo... Though you may be right about that one..." Quatre's serious expression suddenly breaks and he lets out an almost evil giggle, "Heh, don't look now, but I think your knight in shining armor is headed this way."

Duo looks over his shoulder and instantly groans, "Ugh, I do not want to deal with this right now..."

"Too bad," Quatre chides.

Eins walks up to the pair, "We meet again Miss Maxwell..."

"Dude, just call me Duo. I'm not an old woman." Duo's comment earns a kick from Quatre, "Ow, what the-"

"Hi," Quatre interrupts, "you must be Eins! I'm Duo's friend Quatre. She just can't stop talking about you!"

"Quatre!" Duo glares daggers at Quatre.

Eins flashes a bright smile, "Well, I'm flattered. Duo, I was wondering if I could take you out to dinner tomorrow evening. I figured since it was a Saturday, you would be free from your after school obligations..."

Duo tries to groan, but Quatre elbows him hard in the side. Duo hisses, but gets the point. "I should be free. Sounds like fun, heh heh..." Duo tries to hide his disgust under a nervous laugh.

"Great. Shall we meet outside the school gates at six tomorrow?"

Duo sighs, "Uh, yeah, sure..."

Eins takes Duo's hand and kisses it, "Until then..."

After Eins leaves and is out of sight, Duo franticly rubs the back of his hand against his skirt, "Gross..."

Quatre starts to giggle, "You got a date, pfft!"

As Quatre continues to giggle, Trowa walks over to them. He narrows his eyes at Duo, "What did you just do?"

"What? You idiots told me to accept his stupid offer for a stupid date!" Duo defends himself.

"Oh," Trowa turns to one of the girls, "Excuse-me, is this Eins guy popular by any chance?"

The girl's eyes widen, shocked that Trowa is so ignorant, "Why of course he his! Any girl would die to go on a date with him! But, no girl has been able to even get his attention until now. There was even a rumor that he was gay, but it looks like your friend has blown that rumor out of the water." The girl pushes Trowa to the side and gets in Duo's face, "Who do you think you are anyway? You have barely been here for a week!"

Duo growls, and both Quatre and Trowa take that as their cue to drag Duo out of there.

Once they are safely away from the den of jealous girls, Trowa continues, "That explains that. It seems accepting that date has made you the enemy of all the other girls..."

"Is that why you asked me that?"

"Yeah. I overheard a lot of them suddenly plotting your death."

Quatre runs his hand through his hair, "But he just accepted that date like one minute before you walked up to us..."

"Well, the research material did mention something about girls spreading gossip at an inhuman pace..."

EVENING: LOCAL MALL

"Why are we here, again?" Wufei grumbles as Heero forces the group to do another lap around the mall.

"Duo needs a dress," Heero tries to keep his face steady as he explains the situation to Wufei.

"Aw, c'mon!" Duo pouts, "Even you find this shit funny, dontcha, Heero?"

Heero doesn't bother to respond and instead just walks into a boutique with a lot of casual dresses displayed in the front window. The others reluctantly follow Heero inside.

After realizing the others are completely clueless once again, Heero sighs, or growls, it could have gone either way, "It's only the first date. We won't need anything too fancy." Heero selects five different dresses, and shoves them into Duo's arms, "Try these on."

Duo stares at the dresses, "All of them?"

"Yes," Heero grits his teeth, hoping not to lose his patience in a public place, "As I said last time, there is a process to this. Should I call Dorothy to help you?"

"Duo, come on. I'll help you," Quatre drags Duo into a dressing room.

"What the Hell Quatre?" Duo exclaims after the two of them squeeze into the tiny dressing room.

Quatre sighs and rubs his temples, "This is another thing I've seen some of my sisters do. Trust me, it's normal for girls to go into a fitting room together. I won't look. Let's just get this over with before Heero really does call Dorothy."

Outside the dressing room, Heero tells the others to browse the shop, so they don't look suspicious just waiting around. Trowa shrugs and starts flipping through the various clothes racks while Wufei simply stares at one as if it offended him somehow.

Back in the dressing room, Duo has the first dress on and doesn't know what to make of it. He groans, "Ugh, Quatre what do you think?"

Quatre turns, looks at Duo, and crinkles his nose, "That looks like something an old lady would wear to a funeral. Try one of the more revealing ones. I know you hate that, but you have to meet at least halfway here."

"Yeah, yeah," Duo groans again as he tries another.

Quatre looks away again, "I really hope this guy is seriously into you. I hate to think we've blown our cover so soon."

"I hate to say it," Duo sighs, "but you're right. I don't want to blow this. I know you guys don't exactly have a lot of faith that I can pull this off."

"Not for any reason you think. You're not bad at this stuff, but you are a terrible liar," Quatre fidgets, "Are you decent yet?"

Duo grunts, "Can't reach the stupid zipper."

"I'll get it," Quatre carefully grabs the zipper and pulls it up, "There you go. That one looks much better. The classic little black dress. I think it's perfect for a first date."

"Woo," Duo cheers sarcastically.

"Still," Quatre tries not to act too irritated, "we better listen to Heero's advice and check the rest of these too."

"Seriously?"

"Sorry."