Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Five Brothers ❯ One-Shot

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
Five Brothers

"Look, Grampa, I've never seen anything like it." The boy was fifteen and knew a great deal
about the world.

"Yes, it's very unusual for five trees of different types to grow together like that. People call
them the five brothers."

There were five trees grouped in a circle. Tall and straight they seemed to twine about each other;
especially the wisteria, which had twined around the other four, binding them together.

"No one knows where they came from or why they are here on the Winner estate. The wisteria is
called Duo for some reason. There's lots of it around, and all the cuttings came from that one. It's
the only one to have two tone flowers of purple-lavender and that special shade of blue." Said the
old man, who was eighty and knew very little about the world.

"Someone must have planted them. I wish I knew who. I'll do some research. Someone must
know something. Come on, Grampa."

The two ambled away in companionable silence.

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"Wu, what is wisteria and why did they give us sticks?"

Duo eyed the whip curiously.

Wufei smiled at Duo. The pilots had been honored in a renewal ceremony at the local veteran's
club. The young trees were symbolic of the renewal of the peace concord.

Quatre, Heero and Trowa had also received whips of different types. Heero an oak, Quatre a
chestnut, Trowa a yew and Wufei, for some reason, a Japanese maple

Duo examined the bare root whip with misgivings. "Still don't understand why they gave us a
stick from a tree. No one explains anything."

"They aren't sticks, they're baby trees. If we plant them soon enough, they'll grow. We should
plant them in the park."

So the five found themselves in the outlying estate. They carefully dug holes and planted the
whips never noticing that they had planted the wisteria in the middle of a ring of the other four
trees.

The five young men gathered up their tools and ambled away in companionable silence.