Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Flower Fields and Chestnut Hair ❯ The Morning After ( Chapter 7 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Author: Makiko Igami
Title: Flower Fields and Chestnut Hair
Rating: NC-17 (for more upcoming lemons)
pairings: 1x2/2x1 (HeeroxDuo), very slight 1xR
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. (Wish I did... $.$) But I don't so I am a poor person who has to live from her parents' money.
Warnings: Crossdressing, yaoi, Lemon (Non-Yaoi and Yaoi in later chapters), sap, fluff, or whatever it's called...
Summary: Heero is sent on a mission to meet a girl. Duo is on a mission too... What will happen after they find out that their missions will bring them together?
Notes & comments: This is the first story I post while I do not really know what will happen in upcoming chapters. I just noticed, I suck... It doesn't come out like I want it to... But I'm still in training... *sigh*
I still tend to write on train... I apologize for *any* misspelling or misunderstanding.

"..." spoken words
/.../ Duo's thoughts
[...] Heero's thoughts
*...* emphasis
{...} Author's comments
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The next morning Heero woke up with the biggest headache he ever had. His mind was so dizzy he didn't know the slightest bit where he was and how he got there.

That was very abnormal because his Perfect-Soldier-mind was able to withstand *any* kind of drugs. Well, except alcohol plus chocolate {1}. That was something Dr. J thought he wouldn't mix. He only did that once before and didn't do it again because he knew it would make him lose control. He could drink about two liters of whiskey without getting drunk, thanks to Dr. J's manipulations, but if he ate a piece of chocolate after that, he'd be plastered like hell. He'd do things he never wanted to do, tell stories nobody should hear and worst of all, he might cling to the next person around.

[Hope that didn't happen... though it feels like it did.]

He took a deep breath just to discover he couldn't extend his chest as much as he liked for something very heavy was lying on it. He slightly frowned and tried to open his eyes to see what was impeding him to breath.

His head exploded as if it was an OZ-base he had had to destroy. He frowned deeper and raised his right hand to his head to knead the pain away. Absent-mindedly he noticed that he wasn't able to move his left arm. He wasn't able move his left leg either because it was entangled by something warm.

[Wait... `entangled?´ Chikusho!]

Wide awake from the adrenaline rushing through his veins because of his fear of what-might-have-happened he checked his clothing. First only with his hands since he still had headache from opening his eyes before though this pain was vanishing now, thanks to the adrenaline.

Luckily he still had all his clothes on, only the shoes were missing.

He slightly wondered why he was wearing a skirt. And hair clips.

Then he opened his eyes.

And wished he hadn't.

First off his head started to hurt again and secondly what he most feared to see was what he did see.

Duo, still in Heero's school uniform and with his plait, was hugging him closely with his arms around Heero's waist, head lying heavily on his chest and their left legs entangled. But worst of it all, Heero's arm was trapped underneath the other pilot's body. And it looked as if it was lying there because he wanted it to. His arm was embracing Duo!

His mind was racing. Why was he lying in Duo's bed (as he took a quick look around, noticing it wasn't his room), holding the braided baka this close?

He slowly remembered yesterday's event's.

Duo had convinced him to change their school uniforms for a costume party that night. At first Heero tried to tell him he might endanger the whole mission by showing everybody what he *really* was but he discovered it was only *his* pride that didn't like dressing up like a girl. Duo's idea wasn't that bad. By showing the others he could wear boy's clothes as a costume made them believe even more that he was a girl.

[Funny thought. Duo is definitely *not* a girl.]

He could tell by the half-hard thing that was rubbing lightly against his thigh. He must have a *nice* dream about one of his new friends. It must be very hard for a boy to be surrounded by so many good-looking girls like...

Suddenly he noticed that he couldn't tell which one of his friends looked best. He could only think about Duo in his disguise and his beautiful locks hanging all around him, dancing with every small move he made like nodding, walking, laughing.

When Duo laughed his whole body seemed to dance in joy and Heero couldn't help but smile. Most often he hid it behind his cold stoic mask so that no one would see. He had vowed to himself that he would only smile again for the person he loved with all of his heart. He stopped smiling the day he killed that little girl and her dog. {2}

[Okay, we were there at... Olivia's house. That girl opened the door and didn't believe that we were Diana and Yuichi. Then she showed us around until...]

He remembered that Jean suddenly had his hand on his bum, insulted him he being gay and screaming it out to everybody in the room.

[What the hell happened then? I was growling... and then I... No! I didn't! ... Kuso! I *did*!]

He remembered that he kissed Duo. In front of all the people. And he did it on purpose *and* tenderly!

Well, not in the beginning but when he noticed how rough he was he softened the kiss and felt Duo respond to it.

[It was a nice sweet kiss... My first, that is. Kuso! And it was with the braided baka!]

He cursed himself over and over again for he actually tried to save his first kiss for Relena. And now he had kissed a boy, for heaven's sake!

He could think of rational reasons for his behavior. He tried to keep their cover up, wanted to show he wasn't gay and he enjoyed the kiss because it was his first and he didn't know any better. But all this didn't count because he didn't think about these things when he kissed Duo. In fact he was only thinking about Duo. How lovely he looked when his eyes were wide open, how beautiful his face was when he smiled and how adorable this long chestnut hair was.

He looked down at the sleeping beauty in his arms and couldn't help but hook the edges of his lips. It was his closest to a smile.

Duo slept open-mouthed with an adorable little snore that doesn't wake you up even if you're close to him. When he slept, his face lost all traces of the smirks, the frowns and tension it bore throughout daytime.

On their missions when they shared rooms and one big bed he often watched Duo sleeping peacefully while he had been haunted by nightmares. Watching Duo breath helped him to calm down, retrieve his own relaxation and finally being able to fall asleep again.

Unfortunately sometimes it happened that Duo was having a nightmare, too. Then he tried to wake the braided baka to forget this dream. Sometimes he even talked about it. But that didn't happen very often. Heero assumed that Duo dreamt about his childhood and the bad things that must have happened to him. He once told him why he called himself 'Shinigami', 'God of Death. Since all the people around him died he thought he must be the cause for this and so he thought Shinigami was the only name that suited him. He put it like: "I've never seen a miracle but only death. So the only god I believe in is Shinigami."

Lost in his thoughts about what he knew about Duo's past he absentmindedly began stroking the soft strands of hair underneath his left hand, unconsciously causing Duo to wake up.

Duo felt the soft heat in his arms and didn't want to move away from it. He felt save and the tender hand caressing his hair made him feel like a little child again. The person he was holding in his arms seemed like a big teddy-bear to him so he hugged him closer.

His teddy-bear gasped and Duo noticed that he wasn't holding a cuddly toy but a real and alive person. The heart under his right ear started to pound faster.

/Wait. A beating heart? In a plushy?/

Then he remembered what hat happened the day before and who he was holding. But still he didn't want to let go. He played dumb and sleepy.

Slowly he opened his eyes and looked up.

"Daijoubu ka?" he yawned.

Heero raised an eyebrow and looked suspiciously at Duo who faked his surprise about noticing how close he was holding the other boy. He looked down the whole length of Heero's adorable body that looked even more adorable now for it was clad with a girl's school uniform.

/I don't know what it is but girl's school uniforms always look adorable. Especially on Heero./

"Huh?!" Quickly he disentangled their legs, moved his arms away from Heero's waist and they both sat up. "Whoops! Sorry."

"No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."

"What?"

Duo could see the blood flooding into Heero's cheeks.

"I must have lost my mind..." Heero mumbled.

Duo pretended he didn't hear what the dark-haired boy said. "I beg you pardon?"

"I'm sorry, Duo, if I abused you or something..."

/Nani? What does he think happened?/

The flush on Heero's cheeks deepened.

/Oh, *that*!/

He smirked. As much as he liked to torture the other pilot he knew he had to tell him what happened because Heero obviously had a massive hangover.

"What makes you so sure you abused me? What if it was the other way round?"

Instead of the infamous Death Glare he usually got by saying something like this Heero's eyes only widened in surprise. Then he seemed to understand, and looked down at the sheets with his look half relieved, half disappointed.

"So nothing happened, huh?"

Duo grinned and nodded. "Oh well, I guess you remember the kiss? You kinda had me completely off guard with this. I didn't know what to do and so I reacted on instinct and kissed back. You seemed rather shocked after that. I didn't trust my eyes when I saw you downing one beer after another. And then Olivia begged you to eat a piece of her birthday cake..."

Duo dreamily closed his eyes to recall the taste of the tasty candy.

"Such a sweet chocolate cake... hmm... yummy..."

Heero scowled. That's why he couldn't remember anything that happened after their kiss.

The first and only time he ever tried chocolate and alcohol together made him forget everything he did in the six hours after that. Later he found out he almost told an OZ spy about the secret Gundam-plans if he hadn't fallen unconscious in his arms. When he awoke he found himself with a strong headache and lack of memory in a dark prison on L1. Luckily it was easy for him to escape. He never told anybody about this incident, not even Dr. J. It embarrassed him that he was so easy to outwit.

"That kiss. It wasn't..."

But before Heero could explain any further Duo cut in.

"I know. `For the mission's sake.´"

That wasn't exactly what Heero wanted to say but he remained silent instead of saying more.

"You're a good kisser, did you know that?"

Heero was taken aback by that statement. He looked at his friend with wide eyes.

[So it wasn't his first... that's a pity.]

He cursed himself for this thought. {3}

"That was my first..." he muttered.

"Really?! I thought Relena would have been the lucky one to be your first kiss! You're quite a natural at kissing."

"Thanks... but..."

Answering the untold question in Heero's voice he said, "You wanna know my who my first kiss was?"

Heero nodded. Again it wasn't exactly what he had it mind but that could wait.

"Well, there was this sweet little girl at the orphanage. I got quite a crush on her though we were both very young. Hell, she was kind of a sister to me!"

He let out a small laugh and noticed that Heero's eyes lit up a bit.

"Then one day she asked if she could kiss me and I said yes."

Duo looked dreamily at the far wall. "It wasn't a *real* kiss... Just a quick touch of our lips... but it was my first kiss and I treasure it like my own life."

Heero knew that this girl must have died during the Maxwell Massacre. {4} His eyes were full of pity and amazement when he looked at his still cheerful friend. But Duo mistook it as sadness.

"I'm sorry that you don't have such a nice memory of your first..."

"It's ok. I can live with that," Heero interrupted Duo's speech. He felt better now that they cleared their feelings.

"Hey buddy, you surprise me again! I thought you'd be disgusted! You're sure okay with this?"

"Hn."

[I can't change it, so why not like it?]

Duo smirked again. "That's the Heero I know!"

Heero frowned. He seemed to have forgotten something.

"Why did I wake up in your bed?"

Duo blinked several times and then grinned sheepishly.

"Well, after drinking so much beer and eating this chocolate-cake... You kinda grabbed me and mumbled strange stuff... You've been totally rat-arsed. So I called a taxi that brought us here. You didn't let go of me and I was very tired... so I put you in my bed, too."

Heero nodded. Like he assumed.

"I just hope my uncle doesn't notice... I bet he'll beat the hell out of ya."

Heero slightly frowned as he heard Duo referring to the senator as `*my* uncle´ but he quickly took his concern aside. It must have been out of habit.

Duo was smiling at him again and he lost himself in this angelic face framed by strands of chestnut hair.

"Let's go eat some breakfast. I'm starving!"

Heero chuckled slightly.

[Some things never change..]

"Alright. But I'll change my clothes first."

Duo looked at him curiously. "Why?"

"I don't want to wear a skirt," Heero sighed. "And you should change as well. You look like a *boy*."

"Ouch! *That* hurt!"

Heero hid his grin as he stood up from the bed and walked out of the door.

To be continued...
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{1} I couldn't think of anything more extraordinary, gomen! ^^;;

{2} This scene from 'Endless Waltz' made me cry the first time I saw it. It still hurts me every time I see it. Poor Hee-chan. *sniff* I was slightly surprised that *he* didn't cry. Maybe they somehow removed his lachrymal glands... *scratches head* Haven't seen much else than 'Endless Waltz' yet...

{3} I'm evil. Making Hee-chan think things he curses himself for. ^-^

{4} Did I get this right?
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*sighs out loudly* I can get lost in the thoughts of my characters... Can you imagine how hard it is to think while hearing Koji Nanjo sing? I tell you this voice is kinda lulling me into a trance...
Anyways... I hope you liked this chapter... It didn't turn out as funny as I planned it... *sigh* I'm not really happy with it... But I never am with my stories. The important thing is that you like it! If you do so, than I do as well! *smile* Please R&R!!!

PS: Could you please tell me when you put me or one of my stories on one of your lists? I don't have the advanced package of this thingie here and I nearly fell off my chair when I read that I am on the list of three of you...