Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Missing Piece ❯ Chapter 56

Title: The Missing Piece

Author: Skeren Dreamera, with Bagelbunion co-writing

Archive: http://www.gundam-wing-fanfiction.net/, www.Mediaminer.org, www.nfiction.com, (All under Skeren Dreamera), http://www.afallenangel.net/makotosagara/frames/fanfiction.html

Categ ory: Sci Fi additions, Yaoi/Shounen Ai

Pairings: 5x2, 3x1, 4x1, 3x4, 3x4x1 2+6, 4+6, 1+6, 1+2 only kinda, 4+5 more protective 2+3, 5+3

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, so please, don't sue me, it would be pointless!

Rating: NC-17

Spoilers: Heero's Zero stuff, A bit of Trowa's, Sanq stuff.

Warnings: Just the OOC warning that applies to the whole thing.

Contact: Mickeofas@yahoo.com, bagelbunion@cox.net

Notes: -thoughts- ~telepathy~ after a rather lengthy wait, which will hopefully not be repeated, tada!

Begin part fifty six

Duo looked at Wufei over his shoulder then shook his head, pushing into the empty Hanger. "Stretches first, then we fight. No holding back, okay? I don't want to hurt you because you're trying not to hurt me."

"Do we have to?" Wufei very nearly whined. "I'm really not in the mood for sparring."

"You said we could. I haven't done this since we got back! Besides, you need to as much as I do, It'll take the edge off without anymore breakdowns."

"Yes I did. I just don't want to right now." Wufei grumbled and crossed his arms over his chest. He sat down on the ground.

Duo moved around Wufei. "But I don't want anyone to interfere if they think we're trying to hurt each other like might happen later in the day." Duo bent at the waist, putting his palms flat on the floor. "Please?"

Trowa wandered in a moment later, extremely pissed off and ready to take out his anger on Heavyarms.

"I'd much rather meditate at the moment, sweetie." The endearment slipped off his tongue before he was fully aware of it and looked away, blushing with clear embarrassment.

Duo grinned at Wufei. "Okay, we can do it later, Trowa looks like a good target to start with..." Duo stood, moving to intercept the brooding green eyed boy. "Hey Trowa!"

"I did not just say that..." Wufei muttered under his breath.

Duo glanced to Wufei. "Yeah you did!" Then he looked back to Trowa, coming between him and Heavyarms. "Trowa!"

"Hey." Trowa greeted stopping halfway to talk to Duo.

Duo rocked on his heels with a grin. "You look like you can use a distraction. Spar?"

Trowa blinked, clearly surprised. That was the last thing he expected to come out of Duo's mouth this morning. He looked at Wufei who was muttering something to himself on the ground and back to Duo. "Spar?" He repeated.

Duo grinned widely then nodded. "Yes, wanna? But if you do, don't try and go easy, I'm not in the mood to be patching you up."

"Alright. I could use a match." Trowa nodded, still a tiny bit skeptical, and began to stretch.

Duo's grin widened and he pranced back to do his own stretches. He'd never prepped for a fight in front of anyone before, so it could be a shock to see how flexible he was. Was the boy trying to mimic a pretzel?

Trowa was just as flexible as expected with his hobbies dropping into a split easily, though he was bit stunned to see Duo doing something similar. "You can't use your claws, no scratching allowed."

"Like I need scratching. I'm fully in control of myself right now." Duo raised his hands, showing his currently normal nails. "Hope you can hold up to me."

Trowa nodded. "Good. Using your claws would be unfair, since I don't have any." Trowa got up and pulled off his shirt, giving a few last stretches as he did so.

Duo smirked to himself. "You've never seen me in a fight Trowa, you don't know what you are in for."

Trowa nodded and took a stance. -I wouldn't really care if you did kill me right now.-

Duo eyed Trowa. "Fight your best, understand?" Trowa nodded once. Duo stood loosely. "I'm ready when you are."

"I'm ready." Trowa breathed.

Duo grinned, nodding to Trowa and moving around him a bit, gaze taking in Trowa's stance before he leapt forward. Trowa watched, only his eyes moving as he twisted the side and dodged Duo's leap. Duo ducked down, using his foot to follow the move to the side as his fists whipped forwards and up. Trowa whipped around his own fists up in a block and just watched, waiting for the next attack. Duo grinned, his every move eerily silent as he bounced back into a partial flip, rebounding off his hands as he kicked up at Trowa.

Trowa tilted back, nearly doubling over, and Duo missed by only a few inches. Trowa twisted into a back flip and landed a few feet away in a crouch. Duo landed back into a similar position where Trowa had been a second before, his gaze firmly fixed on his opponent as he rose to his feet fully, circling around Trowa at his same distance. Trowa twisted his body, watching, waiting for Duo to spring something new on him.

Duo just grinned, moving forward to the right of Trowa in a punch towards him before ducking down and turning the action into a kick at the last second, using the feint to try and catch the other fighter off guard. Trowa moved to block the punch, when it vanished and he guided his block down, barely making contact with Duo's leg and pushing it back as he bounded into a handspring taking him in the opposite direction. Duo followed his actions, not allowing Trowa to get away from him, and he ducked into a roll, coming up into a crouch near Trowa, eyes keen. He was looking for an advantage. Trowa crouched and swept a foot out intending to knock Duo over with a kick.

Duo felt the touched and rolled over it towards Trowa, using his hand to propel him upwards into Trowa with his elbow quickly striking out from the close range. Trowa blocked it and grabbed Duo's elbow, throwing it to the side before he threw a knee out, grabbing Duo's wrist as he ducked and tossed Duo over his shoulder and sprang away. Duo muttered an oath, bringing his hands up to block his fall from hurting his face, then rolling into it. He quickly came back up into a crouch from his back, spinning to face Trowa again. He'd let Trowa make the next move. Trowa stared back as Duo failed to move. Are we done? He thought to himself. He stretched his arms and watched Duo.

Duo followed his movements, lifting an eyebrow at him in an obvious 'well?'

Trowa smiled and lightly shrugged one shoulder. Duo shrugged back, grin widening a bit. He knew Trowa was only defending, but it was showing him how out of practice he was that he couldn't get through the defense. Trowa nodded, taking pity on Duo, and sprang forward with a couple of fast punches, going for a more boxing style now instead of his patented brand of gymnastics fighting. Duo smirked, dodging around the fists and bringing his own up quickly to strike at Trowa's stomach from his low position before turned his body into a sharp kick. Trowa managed to block the punch, but only took the edge off the kick. He threw an uppercut towards Duo, followed by a few hand strikes and carefully guided knee to the hip.

Duo leaned back out of his crouch sharply, allowing his back to meet the ground before he used the change of position to spin his legs into a kick. Trowa flipped back out of Duo's range again, landing lightly on his feet. Duo rolled over then pushed himself back to his knees quickly before spinning, that grin never once leaving his face. Then Duo stood, using the spring of the motion to leap into a kick. Trowa threw out both arms to block the kick and gave a returning strike with his palm to Duo's ankle before ducking back and hopping to the side. Duo spun in the air a bit, then tipped so he landed on his hands, pushing off the ground to return to his feet as his gaze followed the other teen. Trowa was faster than he'd thought. The green eyed teen stood slowly and waited, settling in to watch Duo again.

Duo smirked, springing forward yet again, then dropping into a roll, tossing his arm out and yanking Trowa's legs. In an attempt to hop out the way, Trowa slipped slightly and fell on his backside, then twisted into a roll and leaped back to his feet, a light scowl on his normally expressionless face. -So Duo wanted to fight dirty did he?-

Duo came up into a crouch, shoving back on Trowa to press his advantage as his wild grin briefly changing to a smirk before he returned to the other expression. Trowa stood up, sizing Duo up before crouching into a stance again. Duo lifted his chin, shifting from side to side ever so slightly in his low crouch, his eyes on Trowa. He seemed to be deciding just what to try next. Trowa stretched his muscles out, still keeping his eyes on Duo. Circling Trowa a bit, Duo then moved forwards again, only to bounce back a second before his attack might have hit to drop his hands down to the ground and spin his legs out and around, attempting to throw Trowa out of his crouch. Trowa rolled again, twisting into a series of handsprings leaping across the hangar. He landed and lost his footing, falling over right into Wufei's lap.

Duo giggled, bounding out of his crouch and darting over to Trowa, pleased with the sudden lapse of attention that lent to clumsiness and curious to see how Wufei would react without breaking his defenses. Trowa fumbled but didn't quite get up, he looked up to see Wufei staring open eyed down at him. "Hi." Trowa greeted, trying to smile.

"Hi." Wufei greeted. "What are you doing?" Duo came to a halt before the pair, glancing from Trowa to Wufei as the two spoke.

Trowa shrugged. "Oh nothing." He smiled a little.

"Nothing?" Wufei raised an eyebrow at Trowa.

Duo bent over at the waist, putting his hand on Trowa's chest to keep him firmly in place. "I think he made a little mistake there didn't he Fei? He tripped right over you!"

"Yes he did. Didn't even watch where he was going." Wufei scolded.

"I saw that too! Finally gets going and lands in your lap ever so neatly. Silly boy." Duo patted Trowa on the head with the hand not holding him in place.

"It was an accident. Boy?" Trowa questioned with a protesting tone in his voice as he looked up at Duo.

"What, you wanted me to say? Girl?" Duo leaned further over, glancing to Wufei mischievously. Wufei chuckled while Trowa looked indignant. Duo's grin widened and he shook his head, his braid dropping into Trowa's lap. "So, now you know to watch where you're going, eh?"

"Yeah, I suppose." Trowa said quietly, to which Duo just grinned. Trowa was beginning to get nervous, Duo wouldn't let him go and Wufei was holding him in place now. It was unnerving that Duo wouldn't stop grinning at him.

"You seem a wee bit uncomfortable, might I ask why?" Duo tilted his head, braid flicking back and forth in a slight twitch.

"No reason." Trowa replied quickly as he squirmed a little.

"No reason?" Duo almost purred the words, glancing to Wufei again to see if he agreed to his teasing.

"No reason whatsoever..." Wufei replied, looking up to Duo and smiling at him.

"Oh good, I'd hate to think I was unnerving you somehow." Duo casually brought himself down to a crouch in front of the pair, tapping his fingers on Trowa's chest lightly.

Trowa looked back and forth between the pair. He was rather unnerved. -Is Duo still sparring? And somehow brought Wufei into this?- He moved his foot and tried to stand, but Wufei grabbed his wrist and shook his head.

Duo put on a mock hurt look. "Going somewhere Tro?"

"You're not going anywhere." Wufei spoke coldly as Duo idly ran his fingers through Trowa's hair, a playful smile lingering on his lips as the mock hurt look drifted away.

"You're just playing, right?" Trowa asked nervously. Wufei still had his wrist in a death grip, and he looked up to Duo, smiling letting him answer if he wanted to.

Duo glanced to Wufei again, grinning widely, but there was a question in the look. 'How far should I tease?'

Wufei shrugged. 'Until he runs screaming?' Wufei mouthed to Duo.

Duo grinned more widely, well aware Trowa was looking at him, not Wufei, and he turned his attention back to Trowa, purring his words at him. "Everything can be a game Trowa."

Trowa just looked back to Wufei a 'save me!' expression on his face.

Wufei just smiled a nodded. "You like games... I know you do." Wufei purred. Duo ran his fingers lightly down from Trowa's hair down his neck, his braid flicking higher up over Trowa's chest rather like a snake, then he started to hum faintly, head nodding ever so slightly to the beat.

"Umm..." Trowa didn't expect this and he was still slightly fearing for his life.

"Duo? Wufei? Have you seen Trowa anywhere?" Quatre yelled into the hanger seeing the pair sitting on the floor a ways away.

"Are you alright Trowa?" Duo leaned a bit closer, fanning his fingers over Trowa's chest before raising his voice so Quatre could hear. "Yeah, I was sparring with him earlier!"

"Ah good!" Quatre yelled and came into the hangar. "I was worried about him and..." Quatre paused as he saw Trowa laying in Wufei's lap with Duo's hands on his chest.

"No need to worry, he decided he needed a breather." Duo turned back to Trowa, his braid flicking in a rather teasing manner over places his hands weren't about to venture, not that Trowa knew that. Trowa squirmed uncomfortably, trying to get up but Wufei still held him in place, punishing him for falling into his lap.

Duo raised an eyebrow at Trowa, his back turned to the stunned Quatre. He whispered so only the two in front of him could hear. "Trowa, aren't you having... fun?" Trowa didn't know how to answer. He wasn't sure what kind of game the two were playing or else he might have been able to enjoy himself being in Wufei's lap like this. He looked up Quatre, embarrassed. Quatre had gotten over his shock and was scowling at Trowa. He raised and eyebrow at him.

Duo's braid added a bit more pressure, and Duo had to suppress a gleeful laugh, though didn't hide his evil grin, his gaze flicked to Wufei. While Trowa looked away he mouthed. 'He isn't running yet.'

~That's a good sign.~ Wufei thought to himself, not quite realizing that Duo would be able to hear it.

Duo chuckled softly. 'Oh really?' Duo raised an eyebrow, not wholly adverse to the idea, otherwise he wouldn't feel free to tease like he was. His fingers moved just a tad more to pass absently over a nipple, hunting for some sort of strong reaction. Trowa gasped lightly and squirmed more forcefully rolling himself more into Wufei and away from Duo. Duo flicked his glance to Wufei then, his finger running up to trail over the shell of Trowa's ear. He was curious why Quatre hadn't moved in a couple minutes as well.

"Umm...what are you guys doing?" Quatre was pissed off at the situation he'd been speechless.

Duo lifted an eyebrow at Wufei, an obvious nonverbal 'well?'

Wufei shrugged that he didn't know and he let Trowa go, leaving it up to Trowa to decide. Duo looked back to Trowa and flicked his head, urging his braid to return behind him before moving his hands from restraining and teasing, to harmless and resting, easily moved. Trowa sat up, pulling himself up into a sitting position and taking himself off of Wufei's lap, slowly watching them both, lest they attack him. Duo immediately spun around and planted his bottom firmly in Wufei's lap, still grinning madly at Trowa. Wufei chuckled, grabbing Duo's shoulders and pulled their foreheads together to touch.

Duo turned his head into Wufei's touch, still grinning. -That was amusing.-

Trowa got to his feet and looked back at the both of them, a strange expression on his face. -What just happened?-

-Very amusing.- Wufei agreed, a light smile on his face. Duo just grinned more widely, picking up on Wufei's amusement. He could get used to this new smell mood detector and curse on any colds that dare interfere.

Trowa continued to stare at the pair strangely until Quatre grabbed his arm and dragged him from the hanger. Heero was headed towards the Hanger just as Quatre was dragging Trowa out of it. "I missed something again."

Quatre glared at him. "Yeah, you did." He stopped in the hallway to look at Heero.

"Would one of you tell me what?" Heero glanced from one to the other, bewilderment turning to anger. Trowa was still a little too shook up to reply. He had gotten his anger out of his system only to be replaced by puzzlement. Heero looked more closely at Trowa, taking in his shell-shocked state. "Trowa?"

Trowa shook his head. "I need something to drink." He replied and wandered off down the hallway looking for the kitchen.

"What happened?" Heero turned, following after the other teen. Trowa shrugged as he walked into the kitchen to see several Maguanacs whispering and pointing at the counter.

To be continued.