Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A new life ❯ Chapter five: Hilde and more trouble ( Chapter 5 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

A/N: first off, I'd like to warn all Trowa Lovers because I made Trowa an ass in this part. Sorry, but I needed someone for that part (you'll find out later in the story what I mean). So don't flame me for it, okay? I actually like Trowa a lot but I like all the g-boys. And introducing a character of my own wouldn't have the effect I need. So please trust me on this and don't flame me for how I gave him his part in this story.

Also: Quatre gets introduced. For all the Quatre lovers here I'd like to warn you but I made him kinda like a wimp. Again, don't flame me, this is how my story goes and if you don't agree write your own story.

I can tell you that in the sequel (if I ever finish that) the boys will grow more and more into the personalities they have in the show but for this story, I need them to be like this. (Constructive) criticism is welcome, flames are not.

Thank you.

Little princess

Now on with the review replies!

SwomeSwan: I hope you review again, I like reviews (who doesn't?) Well, here's the next chapter, just 1 week until chappy 6. Think you can wait that long after reading this one? Thank you!

Vampire Queen: Of course I'll continue. Here's chapter 6. Thanks for your review and enjoy!

Cryeartstearsfalltou: Dear annoying fan (your words, not mine!), If you change your name, please let me know so I know who my real readers are. If I'm right you have been here from chapter 1 and you've reviewed every chapter so far. I guess I can tell you now that I plan to reward the one(s) who reviewed every chapter with the whole sequel as soon as it is finished. If you want that, of course. So if you're changing your name, please let me know.

Mimi: When Duo got caught they told him they knew he hadn't got anything to do with the break in, remember? Duo got of VERY easily, but he fears that the others wouldn't have the same luck. Besides that, this orphanage is for kids between 12 and 18 so the group would split up. So coming to live there has its consequences and they'd have to consider them all. Duo knew them and he knew Solo wouldn't agree to giving himself up. That's the explanation. As for mediaminer, yes I know. But still, 2 reviews per chapter is not much, even there. But I will keep posting here!

Lethanon: I don't like threatening either, but I need to know someone is reading my story. I'm so glad that you do. Don't worry, I am not going to give up on mm just yet. Thanks for letting me know you want to keep reading this.

Battousai: You'll find out in time what happens. Also, I'd like to tell you something since I informed the other one(s) in the race too. At the end of the story I plan to reward the one(s) who reviewed every chapter with the whole sequel as soon as it is finished. If you want to get that, keep on reviewing these next 6 chapters. Thank you!

Mei_Akutenshi: High expectations from mm. . . I see your point ^_~ In my opinion Duo was right by choosing for himself this time. You can't always please others while you only get yourself into trouble. But he IS going to get into more trouble by further bad actions, read on and review please!

Silver Angel: Wufei wasn't very nice indeed. But yet Duo turned out as the black sheep. Thanks for your review and here's your next chapter

Sapphire angel: I'm getting better as I go further and it helps that I left this story done for a few weeks before I read it over and corrected it. But if you just keep practising in writing you'll get better. And I'm not that good, some authors here are so good it just makes you feel like you totally suck. Thanks for your review and the compliment.

miyu-chan: Don't worry, it's secure for now. Just keep reviewing and I'll keep updating. Thanks for the review.

A new life

Chapter five: Hilde and more trouble

It was Friday today and Duo had a whole afternoon off. The teacher of his last class was sick, so he got the period off. And the one before it told them they could do their homework outside class. So, now he had a whole afternoon off to do. . . What would he do? He still hadn't made any friends, only enemies. Wufei, of course, wouldn't even spare him a glance and then there was this rich boy, Trowa. His parents had died in a car accident and since he was an only child they'd left him all their fortune. His parents, however, were paranoid enough to think half the earth was after their money and they hadn't trusted anyone. They had no friends or family at all so the state placed the boy here.

Trowa was one arrogant pain in the ass. He thought that because of his money he owned this place and he could do whatever he wanted. Of course, Duo couldn't stand that so eventually the two boys crashed and he got into a fight, again. They both got into trouble and Trowa blamed him for that. And since he was every teacher's pet he got the braided boy into a lot of trouble all the time. And hell if he didn't enjoy every moment of it.

Duo hated Trowa and Wufei, two boys who were pretty popular. Trowa had the twin Jeice and Darryl, who were only friends with him because he bought their friendship. Besides that the tall boy just had a loud mouth and since Duo wasn't very loved they'd all choose the other boy's side eventually.

Wufei was an important member of what they called the `white dragon clan'. They too were a pretty big group and thanks to Wufei they'd hated Duo since the day he'd arrived at the orphanage. The only funny thing was that Wufei's clan and Trowa's group didn't like each other all that much either.

Heero was okay for now, at least he didn't give him any trouble or made him feel like shit as Wufei did whenever he had invited friends in their room. And he hadn't told anyone about Solo for as far as Duo noticed. He'd been watching the boy closely to make sure he wouldn't.

Heero hardly ever brought any friends at all. He didn't have many of them but he didn't seem to need them either. He spent most of his spare time behind a computer or behind his desk doing homework or whatever that boy would do. Wufei came into their room now and then, him and Heero seemed vague friends, but he had always left as soon as possible when Duo was there, continuously glaring at the boy until he finally made his exit.

Of course, Duo's defensive attitude didn't really help him. He hated everybody and everybody hated him. He started wondering if he'd made the right decision about Solo. It was almost a week ago now, but he started doubting his decision to stay more and more.

Anyway, that was not the issue now. He had a whole afternoon off and he decided to leave the building for once. He could still do that as long as he was back in time for dinner at six.

Duo decided to go to the mall. He hadn't used much of his pocket money so far, just that one CD Wufei broke, so with the money he still had he might be able to try some fun things. It felt odd, walking trough the mall, entering all those stores, knowing that he didn't have to steal anything this time.

Or hopefully ever again.

He remembered how the seven of them used to check out the different stores to see how they could best get in and out without getting caught. Daytime or night time, it didn't matter to them. Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, that was the story. And minor shoplifting was easier with a throng of people right outside the stores where you could hide yourself.

Not this time though, he wouldn't have to `hunt' for food this time. He could buy something fun to do, maybe a computer game or something. Yeah, that was a good idea. He'd buy one of those little computer games so he had something to do when he was bored again as usual. There wasn't much to do in the orphanage. Not without any friends. It was too cold to be enjoying a walk on the playground without being busy moving around, it was fall. They had a play room with a pool table, a big TV and several other things to do but when over half the orphanage was against you, there wasn't much for you to do.

Duo wanted to make sure he wouldn't waste his money on anything but the best he could afford. He walked around for a few hours until he was sure what he wanted to buy. A little game that had 9 games in one. Five of them were different forms of Tetris. The game wasn't expensive at all but Duo knew it would keep him busy for at least a few weeks. And if he bought this game he would still have some money left to buy something else.

He bought the game and some extra batteries and decided he'd buy something to eat with the money he had left. He went to the nearest place where he could find food, anything was okay with him now that he was hungry. It was a self-service restaurant. He walked inside and was immediately impressed by all the delicious smells. He counted his money and grabbed a plate. He took a soda and looked for something to eat. Then he saw a tray with donuts on it. Or actually, only one donut was left. He hurried forward to make it his, but at the moment he grabbed it, somebody else grabbed it as well.

"Hey, I saw it first!" Duo looked at the other person. A girl? She was about his age, but he'd never seen her before.

"Not you didn't." He said, not willing to give up this delicious looking donut. "I got hold of it first."

The girl glared at him. Then suddenly her face changed into a slight smirk "Alright, then we'll have to share it."

"What?"

"Share it," the girl repeated, "you know, each of us pays half and each of us gets half."

But Duo didn't trust her like that. He had the feeling that the moment he let go of it, she would have it. "No way!"

The girl smirked. "Why not? Don't tell me you're afraid to sit on the same table with a strange girl?"

Duo glared at her. She was challenging him! Damn her! He knew his pride wouldn't let him do anything else than prove her wrong. "Okay, fine. We'll share it." He said, letting go of the donut. Strangely enough, the girl didn't walk away at all. "Is there anything else you need cause I'm ready now."

Five minutes later the two sat together on a table in silence, eating their half of the donut.

"So, are you from around here?" The girl broke the silence. "I've never seen you before."

"I don't go out often." Duo replied.

"Well, what school do you go to?"

"Just. . . somewhere around." Duo replied. Then he decided to change the subject to her. "How old are you?"

"I'm fifteen, you?"

"Fifteen." Duo took a sip from his soda. "What's your name?"

"Oh how stupid of us, we haven't even introduced ourselves!" The girl offered him her hand and smiled sweetly. Duo took it. "Hilde" she said. "What's yours?"

At that moment Duo heard the radio shifting to the news. ". . .this is the 7 o'clock news of. . ." the rest he didn't hear as he jumped up. 7 o'clock? That meant he was more than an hour late! He glanced at the clock in the restaurant and saw that it was indeed that late already. He quickly withdrew his hand.

"Sorry, gotta go, I'm late!" He took off.

"Wait! I don't even know your name yet!" Hilde yelled after his retreating form.

He glanced over his shoulder. "It's Duo!" he yelled back as he got out of the restaurant, hurrying back to the orphanage.

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Duo was too late. He tried to sneak in the building without being seen, but mister Tsuborav spotted him and punished him. No dinner this evening and he got grounded. He could spend the rest of the evening in his room. Normally duo wouldn't have minded so much, he always spent a lot of time there anyway and about the food, he was used to being hungry, missing one dinner wouldn't kill him. But this time he was just pissed off. Mister Tsuborav felt the need to take his computer game from him. He could get it back in the morning.

Duo lay on his bed, glaring at the ceiling. Tsuborav had no right to do that! He'd bought that game from his own money! First he lost his own CD and now he lost his own game! It might not seem important to anyone, but when you always had to share everything and were never able to buy anything for yourself for fun, this thing meant a lot. He was actually looking forward to something and now that man ruined it! Even in Wufei's words this would be injustice!

Damn he had to be really pissed if he even deliberately repeated Wufei.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. When Duo didn't answer the door slowly opened and a young, blond boy stepped in, carrying a tray of food. The boy walked up to Duo.

"I brought you some food." The little blond boy smiled polite.

Duo narrowed his eyes at him. That smile just made him sick. And his anger didn't help his mood. So he decided to get his anger out and this boy just happened to be the unfortunate victim. "Lemme guess, you poisoned it, didn't you?"

The blond boy blinked, not understanding what the other boy meant. "No. . . I didn't poison it. Why would I do that?"

"Why not? You're probably better off without me, aren't you?" Duo smirked at the younger boy. He stepped forward to make the impression greater. "Aren't you?"

The younger boy clearly didn't understand what was going on. His eyes grew wide. "NO! That's not. . ." He looked as if he could burst out in tears any moment now. He quickly put down the plate and turned around to leave the room without looking back.

"That wasn't fair." Heero walked in and leaned his back against the wall, his arms crossed and his face wearing its usual scowl. Only this time the scowl almost seemed like a glare.

"Well excuse me!" Duo said sarcastically, throwing his arms in the air. "I didn't know he was such a great friend of yours!"

"Quatre was just trying to be nice."

Duo snorted and narrowed his eyes and gave him a sick laugh. "I don't want any charity."

"Even after everything he'd seen you do he saw some light in you. He tried to be your friend while no one else even wants you around anymore and you and your sick mind just blew the last opportunity you'd get!"

Duo smirked.

`So, you're not as perfect as you think you are after all.'

"If you think about it that way, why don't YOU become his friend? Oh, right. I forgot. You don't socialize with those lower than you!"

Before he knew it he was down on the floor, arms pinned above his head. He struggled to break free but the weight that was put on him was too much. Suddenly he felt something hard coming down on his left eye.

`DAMN HIM! He's punching me!'

Duo felt something crawling down on his face. So now he was bleeding too. And that in one blow, this guy really was strong. He got ready to receive the next blow, but it never came. He stared up in the face above him and the death glare he received almost had him gulping. But he could hold back just in time. He had really done it this time. He glared back at the youth above him, desperately thinking of a way to break out of his grip. He tried struggling but Heero was too strong. His grip seemed like iron handcuffs that cuffed him to the floor.

"You'd better take that back." The youth warned him.

At that moment the door to their room opened and a girl stepped in. "Heero, I. . ." she broke off her sentence as she saw the two boys.

Heero's grip loosened a moment when the girl spoke and Duo used this to his advantage, breaking out of the tight hold and throwing the boy off him. Heero was too startled by this to stop him and Duo flew to his troth. Just in time he ducked away and punched the braided boy in his stomach. he doubled over but recovered quickly, getting ready to punch again, this time aiming for the head. He hit his roommate right below his right eye and Heero burst against the wall. Duo wanted to throw himself at the other youth again, but at that moment someone grabbed his waist, roughly pushing him into the wall on the other side of the room where his attacker kept him restrained.

A female voice sounded. "Stop this, both of you!"

Duo glared at the one who was trying to hold him back. Miss Noin. He glanced at the other side of the room to see that Wufei was holding back Heero. Thought he seemed very willing to just let his friend go and watch where he would be taking this.

Duo glanced around. A small group of children had gathered to see what was happening. In the middle of the room stood headmaster Sally.

"What is going on here?"

"It's his fault!" Duo said, trying to break free. But miss Noin had expected that and he held the youth back.

"Why you. . ." Now it was Heero's turn to try and break free. But he on his turn was held back by his Chinese friend.

"Forget it, Yuy, he's not worth it."

Sally turned to look at the kids that had gathered. "Alright, you can get out now." The children looked at her but didn't move. "Go on, the show's over." One by one the children left the room. Sally turned back and looked at the two youths. "You two, in my office, now!"

Oooh! More trouble! Love it! Sorry Duo!

Duo: Don't worry about it, it's not your fault I lose my game.

Well, technically it is but we're not going to tell him that, are we?

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