Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Flower Fields and Chestnut Hair ❯ Gathering Information ( Chapter 24 )

[ 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
Archive: - fanfiction.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=156634
- Wildfire's Flame: http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/RoninWarriors/
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: Cross-dressing, yaoi, Lemon (Non-Yaoi and Yaoi), 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 still tend to write on train... I apologize for *any* misspelling or misunderstanding.
Oh my, this is the last but one chapter...

"..." spoken words
/.../ Duo's thoughts
[...] Heero's thoughts
*...* emphasis
{...} Author's comments
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"Good Morning. My name is Lady Une..."

"Who are you? Some insurance agent? If so, I tell you, I don't need any more of those things! Good bye!"

The woman on the screen was about to terminate the connection as the Preventers' chairwoman let out some of her former self.

"I *said*, my name is Lady Une *and* I have some questions about Antoinette Secunda."

The woman on the screen froze in surprised horror. Heero who watched from the back, hidden in the shadows thought that she looked guilty.

[This will take some time...]

He sighed and shifted where he stood, having an awkward feeling in his rear which he cursed and cherished at the same time. It made him feel uncomfortable but yet it reminded him of his and Duo's love-making early this morning.

His eyes were glued to the screen behind Lady Une's head, his ears were focused on what the two women talked about and yet his mind was drifting off to this morning's events.

~Flashback~

"Why did you do that?" Duo asked while he was kneeling behind Heero in the tub, rubbing shampoo into short dark brown hair. Heero's eyes were closed, still bathing in the new sensation of having had Duo inside him.

"What do you mean? Letting you take me?"

Duo's finger stopped on his head, pressing down firmly, almost hurting him. Heero knew the other one was blushing. They were so used to Heero being the one in control that neither of them could talk about what they just did without blushing.

"You're so blunt..." Duo mumbled as he continued his massage.

Heero sighed again, then turned around fast, grabbing Duo by the waist and whirled the "Eep!"-ing around so that Duo was now lying in his arms, his unbraided hair floating around him in the hot water. Bubbles were flying around everywhere, settling down on Duo's skin and hair. One popped right next to his blinking blue violet eye.

"I love you. More than anything. This was the only way I could think of how to show how *much* I love you. I would never ever let anybody else do that to me..."

"Shut up, I get it!" Duo said, swirling his arms around Heero's neck and pulling him down into a kiss.

"I love you, too."

~End Flashback~

"So when was that? Could you give me a date?" Lady Une asked.

[Yeah, a date would be fine... I'd *really* like to know that!]

Heero took a closer look on the unpleasant and slightly impolite woman on the screen. She had black hair with a few grey strands, pale olive skin, small, light green eyes... he didn't like her. She wasn't ugly or so but there was something about her eyes... Their icy stare made him shiver.

[How could this woman ever be the friend of *anyone*?]

He was glad he asked Lady Une to do this. He would have glared at her and terminated the connection before he had the chance to ask what he wanted to know. But Lady Une was calm and collected since she was used to deal with stubborn politicians most of the time, so she was able to frighten even this woman with her cold attitude.

"Well, it happened a long time ago, don't expect an old woman to know what happened in each and every day of her life."

[Baka. She knows *exactly* when it happened.]

That woman wasn't giving *anything* away voluntarily. Une had to ask everything out of her and still then you had to read between the lines to have an idea of what *really* happened. But this was important to Heero. He did this for Duo. Why, he didn't know. Maybe it was the same reason why he let Duo have him a few hours ago.

~Flashback~

"Why this way?"

Heero, who was coating Duo's floating mane with shampoo sighed heavily.

"Why don't you just simply accept it? You could have complained before, you know.."

He took the end of those wet chestnut waves out of the water and rubbed more shampoo in.

Duo grunted.

"I'm not complaining! I just want to know why... Why doggy style?"

Heero had to prevent himself forcibly from ripping Duo's beautiful hair apart.

[And he says I'm blunt...]

He stopped stroking the long wisps and sat down on his heels.

He really didn't know why. It just happened.

"Cuz I think this position is humiliating... You have no control of anything; you have to rely completely on your trust for the one who's taking you. I think that's the most thrilling part for both..."

Heero let the hair drop down completely and hugged Duo from behind, kissing his cheek.

"I think you answered your question all by yourself."

Duo leaned back to look into Heero's eyes.

"But I wanted to hear it from you. I'm so unsure about you sometimes..."

The long-haired boy then stared down into the water, shrinking a bit. Heero laid his chin on one slumped shoulder and pulled him closer.

"I admit that I don't understand you fully sometimes but what I do understand is that I love you. It took me a lot of time to realize but now I'm totally sure about it. I love you. I'm sure that I always will. I want to be with you for all my life. I want to share *everything* with you. Heart, body and soul. I am totally yours and I'd like you to be mine but I can't take you like some cheap object or so. If you want to be mine I'll gladly take you but I won't if you don't want me to." {1}

Heero stopped talking as he saw something dripping down from Duo's cheek onto the unmoved surface of the bathing water. Concerned he tried to make out the impression on the pale face that was hidden behind soaked chestnut bangs.

"Baka," Duo choked. Heero's eyes grew wide as Duo wiped some tears away. "I was yours from the first day I knew you. You just didn't see it, baka."

"Duo..."

"Please stop talking," Duo pleaded. "I don't like crying, but all those nice things you say to me make me..."

"I'm sorry," Heero whispered as he started kissing away these tears of happiness.

Duo sobbed and then managed to grin playfully. "Nope, you aren't. You love to make me melt in your arms. Control freak."

Heero pulled him on his lap and kissed his nose.

"Guilty as charged. But the exception proves the rule. You are in total control over me, too."

~End Flashback~

"Thank you very much, you helped us a lot," Lady Une said before she terminated the transmission.

"Are you satisfied now?" she asked without turning around.

"Hn. I owe you."

The brown-haired woman sighed. She then turned around and smiled at the shadow that was Heero.

"You've never asked for a personal favor before. One is free. But I want you to take a vacation," she said in a deadpan voice and stood up.

"Ma'am?"

Puzzlement was seen on Heero's face as he stepped out of the shadows.

"I don't want to see you or Duo Maxwell around here for the next few months."

She walked over to Heero and laid her hands on his shoulders.

"You Gundam pilots have done so much for this peace. You should be the first ones to enjoy it. You shouldn't be fighting anymore."

Heero looked up into her dark brown eyes, thinking of any protest that would sound logical. But then his heart reminded him that this had been his own idea, too. Who wanted to take some time off to take Duo to a deserted island, without any distraction by missions or other things?

Lady Une's gaze became soft, like that of a mother.

[Taking care of Treize's daughter has made her soft.]

Heero never had a mother and had never regretted it but this warm gaze of the tall woman that was his employer almost did. He felt like he wanted to wrap his arms around her waist and hug her like a little child would hug his mom but he just nodded in acknowledgement and smirked.

"Thank you."

The Lady smiled, patted him on the shoulder and handed him a disk that contained the entire data of the interview.

"You're welcome. Now go and accomplish your mission. Be happy. All of you."

Heero nodded again, put the disk in a pocket of his jacket and turned towards the door.

"Send Mariemeia my greetings. Good-bye."

After he had left the room Une turned around and took an old picture in an equally old frame out of a drawer from her desk and looked at it longingly, faintly noticing her own reflection on the glass.

"My dear Treize... When did I become this motherly? Where is my strength?"

The man in the picture, who was holding a single red rose while standing on front of a big picture of OZ's lion. To the Lady it seemed as if he wanted to say, "My dear Une, being like a mother is a strength, not a weakness. You are doing great."

The tall woman sighed and put the picture away.

"Thank you very much, my dear Treize. For everything."

~z~

Meanwhile Duo was sitting in a basket chair, sipping on some ice-cold lemonade and was totally bored. And especially for him that was no easy task.

He could go swimming, splashing Relena and Dorothy while doing that, he could tease Wufei with ... whatever, since the Chinese was usually so easy to banter, or he could just lie in the sun and cultivate his tan. But nothing of that seemed to make fun today. Not when Heero wasn't with him.

Again.

Sighing for the hundredth time that day he leaned back and let his head hang over the back of the chair.

Upside down now he watched how Dorothy sneaked up behind Wufei, who was standing dangerously close to the pool. Smirking he watched how Wufei whirled around, grabbed her wrist and waist to throw her into the water. Grinning down self-confidently at the now soaked girl he didn't notice how Relena appeared out of nowhere behind him and pushed him into the pool as well.

"Injustice!" was all that Duo heard as the black-haired youth surfaced again. The giggles from the girls were much too stifled to be heard where Duo sat in a considerably far distance but he could see how their bodies were shaking from laughter.´

But then Pargan showed up next to Relena and the sand-haired girl immediately stopped laughing. She nodded curtly and then followed Pargan into the house.

"Bet this is some politics-stuff..." he thought out loudly and closed his eyes, praying to Shinigami that Heero would come back soon.

~z~

"Relena..."

"Heero," she smiled. "Is it true what Pargan told me? You know about Duo's past?"

The Japanese nodded.

"Then why are you frowning so deeply? Aren't these good news?"

Heero scowled a little more and shook his head. He had been going through the data of what Lady Une found out over and over again on his way back and what was said about Duo's past he absolutely didn't like.

Duo Maxwell remained a miracle to him. Every tiny bit that he knew more about that incredible young man made him even more astounded of how the American could be like he was.

He told Relena what he knew and waited for a wise advice of the young politician.

Relena was silent for a few seconds, the information sinking in. Then she took a deep breath and said, "Well, you have to tell him sooner or later. Why not sooner?"

"Hn."

Heero didn't feel comfortable with that. He knew the truth would be too much a shock right now. Duo had just lost his only relative and now he should get to know the circumstances of his birth?

But Relena was right. If he did this now the cut would be deep but clean than when he did this in a few weeks and had to rip open those just healed wounds. And he wasn't sure if he could keep silent for long when he saw Duo's face.

"I will tell him."

"That's good," Relena said. She had watched him while he pondered about his decision. So many little flashes of emotion running over this once stoic face... It was fascinating. "What about joining us at the pool? I bet Dorothy would like to see the trunks I bought you. Not to mention Duo," she grinned.

"Relena!"

[Hentai...]

Instead of an answer she shoved him towards his room and got outside to rejoin Dorothy, Duo and Wufei at the pool.

~z~

As Heero stepped outside he was blinded by the bright sunlight. Shielding his eyes he didn't see how Relena and Duo were moving towards him, not seeing each other since Duo aprroached him from where he had sat in the basket chair and Relena from behind the house since she was helping Pargan with some lemonade. He just felt a soft being embracing his left arm, so he looked down in surprise, trying to find out who it was. {2}

"Heero, you look *so* sexy in these tight trunks!"

"Relena! Let go of my arm! Please..."

Oblivious to them Duo had watched this scene from a distance and took things the totally wrong way.

Assuming that Heero and Relena were more than just friends he turned around, tears welling in his eyes and not able to stop them.

/Shit, shit, *shit*! Why am I such a crybaby whenever it comes to Heero's feelings towards me?/

He started running away, trying to hide somewhere where no one could see him crying, especially not Heero.

But Relena caught the sight of a swishing braid just as Duo disappeared behind a bush. She immediately let go of Heero's arm, feeling sorry that she had hurt Duo unintentionally when this was the last thing she wanted to do.

"Heero, I think Duo needs our help. Now."

To be continued...
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{1} Blame this sappy outburst on Sita Seraph's Abuse This... I'm really into Yin and Yang, and *if* I have to take care of balance myself...

{2} I have a full page of a doujinshi for that... I will scan and upload it to my site soon.
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Ne, minna-san... It's almost done. One chapter is left... Mata!