Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A new life ❯ Chapter nine: Fights ( Chapter 9 )

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Yes, this is already chapter 9! One more chapter after this and this story is finished! Awwwww. Well, I hope you are all still with me and I hope you still like this story. I know I do! Wow, next week this will be the 2nd story I've finished! I am so proud of myself! And to think I wrote this (first version) in no more than a week! Of course, I re-read it many times to make it better and this is the result. Okay. . . I'll stop now because I'm acting as if this were the last chapter, which it isn't. Have fun reading!

Oh, one more thing. You can still vote for your favourite couple! 1x2 or 2xHilde?

Review responses:

Mei-akutenshi: I'm glad you like the chapter. I prefer dialogues so I put one in at last minute but I still found the chapter boring to read and write. It was just necessary (again, how many ways of writing can one come up with?) to explain a thing or two. Thank you for your vote and have fun reading!

Midnight-kisses: 2x5? That might indeed be hilarious. . . Though it's not a pairing I like that much and since it will be the first time I write a pairing, I'd like to have one I am more comfortable with. Thanks for your vote!

Joutei: I am glad you like the fic and I am warned too. But to see which pairing will come, you'll have to wait one more chapter. . . Thank you for your vote

Kyra: I agree, poor Q. The Christmas will have to wait for the sequel, though, this story ends before that. Thanks for your vote!

Sapphire angel: It will be the first time I write a couple so I don't know where I will take it exactly. I prefer the friendships too (that's why this story has only that) but I really want to try something new. Thanks for your vote, though.

Voices of Insanity: Nice banner you got there! I hope this chapter is soon enough for you? Anyway, thanks for your vote.

Cryearthstearsfalltou: yup, poor q-ball. But he's got Duo now and Duo's got him. Happy for them?

Mimi: This story doesn't get any couples, would be a bit late anyway since there's only one more chapter after this one. It's true that Duo and Hilde only met once, I kinda forgot about her :$ but she will come back in the sequel. Quatre will be more brave too (can't tell what happens, won't spoil anything but he's brave in the show too so he will be in the sequel) 3x4? Nope, that's one couple I won't do. I'm not sure what their relationship will be, but it's not a couple. I hate how people make them act as a couple. Thanks for your vote!

Shingami02: thank you for your vote, here's the next chapter. Soon enough? Hope you like it.

A new life

Chapter nine: fights

Duo spent most of the vacation with Quatre. Or rather, Quatre spent it with Duo. Not that Duo minded that. In the beginning he found the blonde one a bit intrusive, but that had changed. He grew used to it fast and he was glad he had someone to listen to his ramblings about how bad the food was or anything else he came up with. And Quatre, not half the speaker Duo could be, listened to the elder boy with amusement.

When school started again two weeks ago, Duo gave him the computer game to borrow and now the young one was addicted to it too. Duo had reached the last level several times now and somehow that spoiled most of the fun. So he showed Quatre how to play the game instead and now the younger boy couldn't keep his hands off it. He even was late for school once because of that thing.

So between duo and Quatre everything went well, but Heero was a different story. He seemed to be changing or something. And not for the better. Duo thought he would be glad that Quatre had a friend now and that he had more privacy now that Duo went out sometimes to spend time with Quatre. But instead the past two weeks or so the silent boy had become more distant than he was before and when he did speak to Duo he sounded as if he'd rather be having a conversation with a dog. And he didn't even play the game about his nickname anymore.

It hurt Duo more than he wanted, but he would never admit that. Only now he realised he'd actually grown fond of the silent, elder boy. When did that happen? Before the fight? After it? And why? Why did Heero all of a sudden act like that towards him? Did he do something wrong? Not for as far as he could remember.

Duo didn't like it one bit. He didn't want Heero as an enemy at all, but the boy was starting to ask for something. Another reason for not wanting Heero as an enemy was that he knew Duo came from the streets. If that ever came out, Duo would be screwed. He just knew it.

He wanted to find out why the youth was acting so weird, and fast. But how would he do that? He could just ask him of course, but he doubted he'd get a straight answer then. Hell, maybe Heero didn't even realize what he was doing and he'd get mad at Duo for even suggesting it.

`That's a chance I'm going to have to take.'

He opened the door to their room. Heero, as expected, sat behind the desk, doing homework. . . Or whatever he did there anyway.

"Hey, Heero." Duo greeted him.

Heero didn't turn around. "So you remember my name after all."

"Surprised?" Duo fought the urge to grin. His mask would hide everything. That way Heero would never tell the truth. Not to a laughing idiot.

But Heero ignored the seriousness in his roommate's voice as he just grunted a `hn' and left it with that. So Duo decided on a different approach. He walked up to the boy and began reading what he was reading, knowing Heero hated it when someone was looking over his shoulder. He saw that Heero was doing history, but before he could see what he was actually reading, the book slammed shut and he found Heero glaring at him. "Stop reading over my shoulder!"

Duo rolled his eyes, but decided not to fight back. At least he'd gotten the boy's attention.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Duo referred to the fact that it was Friday night. "Shouldn't you be out with Wufei and his friends or something?"

"Shouldn't you be with Quatre?" Heero shot back.

Duo sighed. He'd told Quatre he'd be over later to show him how one of the other games worked. He hadn't mentioned a time, though, so he didn't exactly have to leave now. He sat down on his bed and Heero opened the book again. Duo looked at his hands and a silence followed.

Duo felt himself getting uncomfortable. Heero had cut off the conversation with an angry remark again and Duo was sure he knew his roommate well enough to draw the conclusion that indeed something was bothering him. Just like he knew.

`Now the problem is, how do I get it out of him?'

It wasn't like this was the first time he tried to get it out, though every tactic he'd tried to get to the right subject had failed. There was only one he hadn't tried yet. . . Direct approach.

"Hee-chan?"

No answer.

"Heero?" Duo asked a little more serious now.

"What?" The irritated boy still didn't turn away from his book.

Duo paused a moment before he said that sentence he was dreading to speak. But finally he turned his head in the direction of his `studying' roommate. "Why do you hate me?"

"`Cause you won't shut up and look over my shoulder."

"No, I don't mean just now, I mean the past few weeks."

Now Heero tilted his head a bit, still not looking back. "What?"

"Don't pretend you don't know, Heero Yuy." Heero looked at the braided boy. He'd never spoken his last name before. He opened his mouth to saw something, but Duo ignored him. "You've been acting weird for weeks now! Ever since I started to hang out with Quatre." Then it struck him. "Wait a minute. That's it, isn't it? You pitied me because I had made no friends so you acted normal to me but now that I have Quatre you think you can act like a bastard!"

Heero narrowed his eyes and gave Duo a perfectly serious death glare, but Duo pretended to be oblivious to it.

"Yeah, maybe I have Quatre as my friend now, but that doesn't give you the right to act like that! I mean look at yourself for a change! You're the bastard with no friends here now, you know! You show people a bit of yourself and then you close yourself again. Half the orphanage likes you but non-of them are really your friends, now are they? And you pitied me?"

Duo gave him a sick laugh. "Ha, I should be the one to pity you. But you're too much of a bastard for me to even care!"

With that he stalked out of the small room and slammed the door shut, leaving Heero with a jaw that practically hit the basement.

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It was cold outside that night and the jacket he wore was thin. But he didn't care. He needed to cool off anyway. Damn how he hated that kid. Well, he was hardly a kid anymore, but that didn't matter. He still hated him.

When he realised why Heero had been acting like this, Duo felt like he could rip him apart. He didn't want Heero's pity, he didn't need it. He was Duo, the boy with no last name, the street rat that had never been caught red handed, one that knew how to survive without a penny in his pocket. There was no way anyone would pity him!

He'd gotten mad at Heero, real mad. Maybe a little too mad?

Duo brushed that thought away. No, he didn't overreact. Everything he'd said was true, every word. He knew the truth could hurt, but why this much? Why had he grown so fond of Heero? What did he want with him? Sure he was nice to look at and he looked cute when mad, which was about all the time lately, but surely that didn't mean anything, right?

Whatever he thought of his roommate didn't matter now. He was mad at him. And for good reasons. He was certain of that.

Though he couldn't shake off the thought that he might have gotten a little too angry in there. He couldn't help but thinking, what if. . . What if he was wrong and Heero really didn't realise what he was doing? Or what if he had another explanation? Heero would probably never admit anything, but still. Should he really have jumped to conclusions like that? Compared to how others in the orphanage acted towards him, Heero was still pretty nice.

Maybe he should go back and apologizing. But could he? Could he swallow his pride for once and admit that he was wrong? Could he do that in front of Heero? He would never forgive him, that's for sure. Man, how did Solo always manage to bring that up?

Duo knew he had to do it, though. If anything, he owed it to Solo. The years they'd spent together, fighting to survive, shouldn't be forgotten over such a small issue that had driven them apart. When Solo was down because of his little brother, Duo had been the one to pull him up. And when Duo had given up on life two years after he'd run away, it was Solo who helped him see the light again and who convinced the youth not to commit suicide or do anything along those lines.

Duo had made up his mind. Everything Solo stood for, everything he'd taught Duo, the only way he could remember that now was to swallow his pride and apologize for being too angry and for drawing conclusions. He didn't have to say he didn't mean what he'd said, well maybe that about the friends, but he did have to apologise. And that was exactly what he was going to do.

Duo shivered. He was cold. He was always cold. He looked up and realized he was back at the orphanage. He glanced at the big clock that hung on the outside wall of the building. He'd been outside for almost two whole hours! It wasn't 11 o'clock yet, though. That meant he would be able to enter the building without anyone questioning where he'd been.

Duo went in the building and quietly walked up the stairs, still half lost in thoughts. But right when he wanted to turn and walk into the corridor that led to his room, someone grabbed him from behind, pressing a hand oton his mouth and pinning his arm behind his back. He was caught by surprise, but as soon as he realised what was happening he started kicking and struggling, trying to break free.

Duo tried to yell at his attacker but whoever it was, he was effectively blocking his mouth from any escaping sound. He heard a voice behind him, telling him to shut up and then he heard another one, telling to hurry it up, probably speaking to his partner in crime. Then he felt something hard hitting his head and he started to feel dizzy. Soon, he blacked out.

I know it's short but the next chapter is the longest because. . .I really hate to say this but. . . It's the LAST CHAPTER!

;_;

Next time: "Squirm all you want, little one, it won't work."

Damn it! Duo recognised the voice, but he couldn't remember whom exactly it belonged to. "Who the hell are you? And where am I?"

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