Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ In The End ❯ Tricked ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I don't own the gundam pilots (wails). But I do own the girls and any new people in this.

In The End:

Every day is a new day

I'm thankful for every breath I take

I won't take it for granted

So I learn from my mistakes

POD, Alive

Duo Maxwell peered around the corner curiously. It was his first time here and everything was so…interesting. He was in the China Town of New York City checking out all the 'wonders' of Chinese people. Although he didn't want to come there in the first place he had been a bad 'Maxwell' as Wufei had called him. Great now Wufei was referring to him like a dog.

Duo hadn't even meant to bump into it but things happen. Well more like shit happens; so what was he going to do about it. He couldn't change anything. Duo always managed to something wrong even when he was asleep.

Now, he had found out that if you do one thing wrong such as breaking a priceless Chinese vase that Wufei happened to own and like, you'd find yourself being threatened to either get a new one or die a thousand little painful deaths. And quite frankly, Duo had heard nothing good about Chinese torture except that it was the best kind of torture there was out there.

//Flashback//

Duo dashed madly around the corner with an angry Wufei wielding a katana right behind him.

"Dishonorable Maxwell! Come back here!" Wufei yelled.

"No Wufei, because your chasing me with a sharp object that could do bodily harm." Duo yelled back. He stumbled slightly but kept his pace to get away from Wufei.

"I would not be chasing you if you were not running."

"But if I stop running you are going to hurt me."

"Who said I was going to hurt you?"

"Um… the katana in your hand that you are waving around. That gives me the slightest hint that you are mad and out for blood."

"I grabbed this katana because it was just something that I naturally do when chasing you."

"Hey! You didn't always chase me with your katana." Duo said looking behind him indignantly. Wufei smirked. That definitely wasn't a good thing and it made Duo nervous. "Why are you smirking?!"

"Watch out."

"Wha…"

*SMASH*

It was a direct head on collision with the wall. He landed in an ungraceful heap on the ground with a dazed expression. If he had been looking in the right direction he would have noticed if he turned the next corner it would have led him outside. It took him a while to figure that out and when he did he would later beat himself up.

Wufei stood above him with a smug smirk. He pointed the katana at Duo neck and pinned Duo with an icy glare.

"Now you listen Maxwell and you listen good. You are going to go home to the dishonorable place you call New York and you are going to find me a new vase to replace the one you broke. Do I make myself clear?" Wufei said. Duo nodded his head vigorously. The braided man was now fully at attention with a little Band-Aid on his nose.

Wufei pointed to the door. "Now go before I change my mind and kill you."

Duo dashed out the door with such speed it would have made a cheetah dizzy.

//End Flashback//

Duo lowered his head.

"Why do Chinese people have to be so very pissy. Its not like I tried to blow up the world or something, although Wufei acted like I did." Duo began mumbling choice words under his breath about Wufei being a total Nazi.

He saw a shop that sold Chinese vases and ran over. Inside a small Chinese woman greeted him in Chinese clothing.

"May I help you sir?" She said. You could tell that those were most likely the only words she knew how to say.

"No I'm just looking around." Duo said passing her by to look at the shelves of Chinese antique vases. He selected a vase that looked like the one he broke. Twin Chinese dragons curled around the neck of the vase with angry roars on the tip of their tongues and a painted landscape in the back round. There was some writing on it but he wasn't interested in that. He couldn't read Chinese. It looked almost exactly like Wufei's vase. Therefore it was perfect and brought it to the cash register.

"How much is this?" Duo asked. The Chinese woman gave it one look and smiled.

"You have very good taste this is one of our finest. It would be about 3,000 credits." She said. Duo blinked.

"Wow that much. I'll take it." Duo said taking out the money he 'earned'.

"Okay. Come again." She said. Duo grabbed the vase and walked out of the store. "Thank you Quatre for the wonderful money you 'gave' me. Hehehe." Duo swung the bag around a few times.

In a foreign country, somewhere across the world, Quatre opened his wallet to pay for the wedding arrangements. He blinked.

"I could have sworn there were more credits here last time I checked." There was a brief silence before he shrugged and whipped out his other wallet and handed Rashid the credits to pay for the plans. "Hm…could have sworn…" He mumbled. It was something he would ponder about for a little while.

Since his shopping for Wufei was over he could now shop for himself. He turned to a shop with ancient Chinese weapons in it with a grin.

Upon entering he was assaulted with a room full of all kinds of weapons, including scythes. They were on the far wall of the shop along with glaives and sickles. Duo went directly to the shelves with scythes. One caught his attention almost immediately. It had a long black handle made of marble and the blade had sapphire's and amethysts decorating the base of it. It looked like something the god of death would use and as he reached out to grab it but, another hand came out of no where and grabbed it before him.

He looked over.

A woman about the same age as him with long curly black hair and silvery light blue eyes was standing next to him looking at the scythe he wanted.

"Hey I was going to get that." Duo wined. The girl looked over at him.

"Nope. I'm getting this." She said glaring at Duo.

"But I was going to get it."

"Well I am now."

"No I am."

"I am."

"Me."

"I am."

"Me."

"Me!"

"Me!"

"Fine you can get it but I get a date from you." He pulled out a business card.

"Fine!" She yelled.

Duo smiled "Okay I hope to see you again." He said, handing the business card to her. He walked away with his vase over his shoulder leaving the girl standing there holding the scythe and card. She stared at the card for awhile before realizing what he said. It just sort of clicked in her mind what had just happened.

"Hey get back here!" She yelled turning around but he had already left. Now she was angry. Maxine had been tricked and by a stupid American man with a long braid. Well she would hang him by that braid if she ever caught him again. She fumed for ten minutes before someone came up behind her.

"Max, what is wrong? Your causing a scene." A short haired red headed girl asked.

"Kamori this guy just started arguing with me about this scythe and all of a sudden he tricked me into going on a date with him."

"Wow, pretty tricky is he? Is he at least cute, handsome, sexy, all of they above?" Kamori asked pushing some of her red hair out of her right eye. She shifted her weight to her other leg with a smile. She traced the zodiac symbol for a Leo on her shirt that was made with little gemstones. Under it were the words Leo: hear me roar in fancy writing.

"Well I guess he was kinda cute…but still he tricked me! That BAKA!" She looked down at the card in her hand.

It was black. Across the top in silver letters was Duo Maxwell, God of Death. Then his cell phone number, fax, screen name, and shop address. The final design on it was a little reaper at the bottom with a scythe and a pentagram on one side and a cross on the other. Maxine huffed. "God of Death my ass. This Duo Maxwell is a dead God of Death now."

"Oh you'll get over it. Let's go to the next store." Kamori said rolling her eyes before dragging Max along.

~Owari