Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The True Victor ❯ Chapter 16

AN: Oi, sorry for the long delay, minna! I have been soooo busy with school and all...as well as trying to finish this up! And yes...I finally have. Oh, don't worry, I'm not going to spill it all to you at once ^^. I'm planning to updated at least every week until the entire fic is finished. So, go on ahead, read and enjoy!

Chapter Sixteen

Heero and Kaitou Yuy sat in the Gundam in silence as they flew over the fast field of forest before them. The Gundam was pretty similar to Heero's old Wing Gundam for it could transform into a traditional fighter plane. However, it did have some new aspects to it by having a various amount of new controls and what looked like another mode, the button marked "G". Heero, however, didn't pay attention much for his only focus of mind was getting back to the Preventer for now. Kaitou sat squashed in the back of the cockpit, fiddling with his gun. Click, here he would slide out the bullet clip to make sure that it had seven bullets inside. Click, again as he slid the clip back into his gun. Then he would repeat the process again. At first, Heero didn't mind the noise. However, as the hours passed, his patience was on its very last thread.

"Stop that," he said, glancing back at Kaitou. "It's getting annoying."

"What is?" Kaitou innocently asked, meeting his elder brother's eyes.

Heero's eyes narrowed as the thread of patience began to wear thin. "What do you think I'm talking about? The noise that your gun is making is getting annoying."

Kaitou rolled his eyes as he reluctantly put his gun back in his jacket. "Well, sor-RY if it's bugging you, but you're not speaking to me and I'm bored as hell. I ain't gonna sit and stare at the damn glowing controls all day."

"Ain't isn't a word," Heero corrected him as he held back a smirk. "And I'm speaking to you now."

"That's not what I---" Kaitou stopped in mid sentence as he noticed the smirk on his brother's face. He flung his hands in the air, shaking his head. "Argh! You know what I mean."

"Riiiight. I'm beginning to wonder if oneechan ever made contact with you and didn't tell me."

"Why's that?"

"You act like her. Hot tempered and all."

"Ha, ha, ha, very funny, aniki," Kaitou replied sarcastically as he shifted his position on the "floor". Heero chuckled silently to himself in amusement.

Silence fell upon them again. Kaitou sighed to himself as he stared at the controls for the billionth time. Then a topic popped in his head.

"Well, to tell you the truth, no, I haven't been in contact with her since the time when oniisan rescued us," he began. "When I was old enough to live on my own, I tried looking for you guys, but with all that chaos going on seven years ago, I was too busy with missions to even search."

"Hmm...so then who took care of you when we split?" Heero asked, curious.

"Well, when we split, I was scrounging around for food and stuff, homeless for a few weeks. Heck, I guess that's the only thing I can thank the doctor for: knowing how to survive with few resources at a young age."

Heero nodded in agreement, knowing who and what his younger brother was talking about. "The doctor" always referred to their father because that was what he always made them call. Their training at the young age they all were allowed them to know what to do to survive when the situation called for it. He remembered back to those days when he and Kaede were sifting through colony ruins in search for food before Doctor J found them. However, he didn't say anything and let Kaitou continue. He was the kind of person not into initiating conversation unless necessary.

"Anyways, a woman named Lin found me one day," Kaitou continued. "She told me that she saw my shuttle crash into colony L3 and began to look to see if there were any survivors. When she found me, she took me in as an adopted little brother into OZ." At this, he let out a light laugh. "Would you believe me if I told you that I didn't know what OZ was until I was ten? Lin was an OZ soldier, a part of the specials. She was killed during the first war."

Heero inwardly flinched, wondering to himself if he had been the one who had killed his younger brother's guardian during those days. However, he didn't let his guilt show. "So you're from OZ?"

Kaitou shrugged; he apparently didn't notice the look in his brother's eyes. "Used to be. When it disbanded after Treize Khushrenada's death, I pretty much worked as a self-hired mercenary. That was when I finally had the time to figure out where you guys were. You disappeared after Maremaia Khushrenada's fall and Kaede changed her name."

"No she didn't," Heero said.

"Well, her name was on the MIA list for a while."

"Oh, that. A little problem occurred in one of her missions. Somebody from the Red Hawks uncovered her identity when she was acting as a soldier at their HQ, so she had to change it."

"Oh yeah...NICE change, don't you think?" Kaitou asked sarcastically. "From Lowe to Nakayama. I don't think that really helped with the same picture on there."

"So then the Red Hawks know, huh. She likes her name anyway."

"Aa, figures."

"So then you 'joined' in to try to find us, acting as if you didn't remember us," Heero concluded, nodding thoughtfully. "I get it now."

"Geez, took you that long?"

"Ie, I had to make sure that you really ARE my brother."

Kaitou rolled his eyes. "Like how we look alike doesn't give it away."

Heero smirked. "You never know."

"Whatever."

<Preventers' safehouse>

"Relena-san?"

Kitsune knocked on the door again, except a little louder. "Relena-san? Are you in there?"

Relena, inside her room, ignored Kitsune's questions as she lay on the bed. Her eyes were listlessly staring up at the ceiling. She didn't want to talk to anybody right now, especially any of Heero's relatives.

However, Kitsune Yuy was determined to not give up. Even though she was only twelve years old, she could definitely tell that her "Hee-chan" and Relena had a connection with each other somehow.

"Okay, then, if you're not going to open up, then I'm going to break it down," Kitsune warned as she calmly began punching in various numbers on the control lock to Relena's room. When all of the codes didn't work, she casually glanced around her to make sure nobody was there and then punched the panel.

Inside her room, Relena turned her head at the noise, her blue eyes blinking in curiosity. She could hear Kitsune talking outside, but wasn't sure what the young girl was actually saying.

Then....BAM!

What in the world is she doing? Relena thought to herself, sitting up in bed. Another bang rang outside her door, then another. Finally, the door slid open quarter way, and Kitsune stuck her hands in the gap to forcefully push the door all the way open. Relena blinked in awe as Kitsune brushed the dust off her hands.

"Yosh! That's better!" she exclaimed.

"Kitsune-chan, how did you do that?" Relena asked in a dumbfounded voice as the young girl entered the room.

Kitsune quickly grabbed her hand. "C'mon, Relena-san, let's go see Hee-chan!"

"Na---"

Relena stumbled out of bed as the girl led her out of her room with a strength that she couldn't even imagine in such a young girl. She wondered to herself if Heero's siblings had all held back their strength before.

"Zechs-san told me that Hee-chan's coming back," Kitsune began to explain to her as they went from hallway to hallway. "He's flying this big robot thingy, so Zechs told him to land at a nearby hangar base not far from here."

"A big robot thingy?" Relena repeated.

"Hai! I forget what it's called, but oniichan explained to me that it's something that was in the last two wars that blew up or something..." Kitsune replied.

"Masaka..." Relena murmured in realization.

"Huh? Nani?"

"I..ie, it's nothing, Kitsune-chan," Relena replied as she was gently led by the young girl to the garage.

Are they...are they Gundams?

<Preventers' Hangar Base>

"Here it is," Heero said to himself as he scanned the forests below him. Not far away from his current position, there was a small clearing.

Heero checked another monitor to make sure that nobody was following them. Oddly enough, there wasn't a single trace of another mobile suit pursuing them. Hm...that's fishy... He swiveled his chair around to kick his younger brother awake.

"Oi, Kaitou, wake up," he said. "We're already here."

"You don't have to wake me from my dream so rudely," Kaitou grumbled as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "I was already awake to begin with."

"Yeah, right," Heero replied sarcastically and swiveled back around. "I heard you snoring back there."

"I snore?"

Heero sighed in frustration. I'm so glad that Andy isn't like this. "Never mind. Just shut up and be ready to meet everyone."

"Whatever you say, okaasan," Kaitou saluted.

Yep, he got this from oneesan somehow, Heero thought miserably to himself. Of the few people who actually got to know the real Heero Yuy, two people were able to manage to literally annoy him to death: his older sister, Kaede, and Duo Maxwell. Now his younger brother was added to the small list. Maybe it's a sibling thing...no wait, that doesn't explain Maxwell, Heero pondered. Maa, he could be my second cousin for all I know, screwed up as my family is.

"Oi, aniki, what're you thinking about?" Kaitou asked, breaking his brother's train of thought.

"...Spaghetti with garlic bread," Heero replied.

"Nani?" Kaitou asked incredulously.

"Oi, I haven't eaten since forever," his brother replied in embarrassment. "So I'm hungry, okay?"

<Preventers' Hangar Base>

"Oniichan, do you have any gum?" Kitsune pleaded in a very childlike voice, clutching her stomach.

Andy glanced over at his "little sister" with a very bored expression on his face.

"Nande, you hungry?" he asked.

"Yeah..."

"I think I have some," Gally replied in the front seat as Kaede drove. She sifted through her meager pack of junk before finally taking out a stick of gum and handing it to Kitsune.

"Tell me again," Kaede said. "Why do I have to drive? And why do I have to come along?"

"You chose to come," Wufei explained, who sat on the other side of Kitsune.

"Well, that doesn't explain why I have to get the driver's seat," Kaede replied. "And aren't you Preventers supposed to take care of this case? I mean, geez, I'm a guest. Guests aren't supposed to be involved in cases like this."

"Article 18, Section 4 states that 'when one or more party members not of the Preventers unit find to be an important aspect to a Preventer case, then he or she must be kept under twenty-four hour supervision'," Andy said like a book.

"I didn't know there was such a section in the Preventer initiation contract," Relena replied incredulously.

"Oh, Relena-san, there isn't. He's just trying to mess with my head," Kaede grumbled as she braked to a stop. "Okay, here we are. Everyone out."

<Red Hawks' HQ>

Roy Garret quickly took out his cell phone as he was walking back to his room.

"Yes sir?"

"Have you been able to find them?" a mechanical voice asked through the receiver.

"Hai. I've attached a tracking device on Kaitou Yuy's jacket when we were in that skirmish. It shouldn't be long until we find all of them."

"Good. However, I want all of the Yuy family except for Heero alive. Understood?"

"Of course, General."

Roy hung up the phone and redirected his course towards the ammunition room. A small smile crept to his lips. I'll get you yet, Andrew Lowe.

<Preventers' Hangar Base>

Kaitou yawned fro the hundredth time as Heero carefully manipulated the mobile suit down to a safe landing.

"I guess it's been a while since you piloted one of these things, huh?" he commented as he began to scratch his back.

"Aa. It's been five years. I'm still amazed that I remember how to pilot it," Heero replied.

He noticed through the reflection of the monitors that Kaitou had frozen in his place.

"Oh shit," his brother cursed.

"Nani?" Heero asked, swiveling around slightly.

Kaitou took off his leather jacket and pried out a tiny black device from the interior of his back collar. He looked at his brother with slight fear in his eyes, holding up the device for Heero to see.

"I've been tracked."

AN: Oh yes, random chapter with very little plot movement ^^. Uh...forget about the food part, I was hungry and making spaghetti while I was writing this chapter ^^;;;; R&R!