Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Ugly ❯ Male bonding ( Chapter 10 )

Duo had dressed up, and was now sitting on the sofa, ready for 'sister Quatre' to start treatment.

Quatre was sitting next to him, smiling and eager, both the violin and the star swinging, reflecting light as he was nodding his head.

”So”, he said with a voice of authority, ”First, we take this bandage off.”

”No shit, Sherlock.” This quiet mumble came from the floor, in the direction of where Trowa was sitting, plucking his sweatpants with two bony, tanned fingers. He had gotten spare clothes also. Too bad, that since he was the last one to choose, he had gotten the most horrendous rags. Canary-yellow pants and a yellow and green striped pyjama shirt... He was not happy, and Quatre had been snickering at him with no subtlety at all from the moment he had emerged, clothes changed, from Duo's bedroom.

 

Now the said boy had started to unwrap Duo's bandages, and Trowa looked as closely as he could. He had always found everything medicin-related very interesting. Especially, since he and his sister needed to patch each other up every once in a awhile..

Heero was sitting on the floor also, kinda close to Duo's leg which felt like twitching as a result. Wufei was standing on the right side of Duo, a concentrated frown on his face.

 

Finally Quatre was done with the unwrapping, holding long, white strings of gauze in his peachy white fingers, tilting Duo's head a little to the side from the chin with the fingers of his other hand. There was a black bruise covering Duo's left cheek, and a little bit of the neck also. There were also some slight scrape marks on the other side, from when he had fallen to the ground.

Everyone were staring.

Suddenly Duo became extrememly self-conscious. Thinking about his acne covered face, he withdrew slightly and coughed a little. His violet blue eyes flicked to the side and he tried to sretch his back. ”well...Do you mind if we get to business, then?”he asked, but without the gauze around his face, he opened his mouth too much and winced. This immediately set a string of shouts about. Heero was jumping up, warning him :”Don't talk!”, while Wufei was yelling Quatre to 'wrap him up, again' and Trowa had shot up from his floor seat also telling Quatre to hurry up already.

Quatre jerked, startled by all the yelling and started to yell himself:”Alright allright, I'm on it already! C'mon!!” while he was shooting accusatory glares at Heero and Wufei and somewhat vehement ones at Trowa.

Duo would have sighed, if only he would've dared. The pain in the jaw nevertheless made him seriously re-think about producing any kind of sounds. Quatre was tilting his head again, and telling him to keep still, and then he started his wrapping.

 

”No, Quatre, that's not the right place to start...” said Wufei, after his blond friend had tried to put some bandage behind Duo's ear.

”How do you know!?” Quatre snapped, his fingers working even faster. ”Trust me Duo...Just keep still.”

”OUCH... Q, that was my eye... A..Ah, you're not exactly supposed to bandage my nose, you know...” Everyone was looking, as Quatre fought bravely with the gauze, getting tangled in it, and almost plucking Duo's eye out in the process.

As Duo winced and his body instinctively jerked away from Quatre, Trowa, who had a look of increasing worry and annoyntment on his face decided, that he had had enough of this now.

”Let go of him! Don't touch him!” Trowa was showing Quatre aside. ”Hey! My sister's a doctor!” Quatre yelled, when his hands were forcibly removed from the gauze, which had somehow gotten around Duo's neck and was now in the process of strangling him.

Duo tried descreetly to escape from the sofa, but Quatre got a hold of him, and pulled him forcibly back, angry and glowering at everyone, speaking with a considerably loud and irrate voice: ”Just. Stay.STILL!” He tore the gauze from around Duo's neck , shouting:”JUST FUCKIN' TRUST ME, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M DOING!” while Duo shouted ”Ouuuch!” and Trowa literally threw Quatre from the sofa yelling ”Are you guys kidding me?! He has absolutely no idea what he's doing!!” Quatre got up, fist balled and a look of pure rage in his eyes. Trowa turned to face him, all of his muscles tensed, towering over everyone else, looking ready to kill.

”Does someone know, how to put the bandage back? If not, I'm going to take Duo to the doctor myself, right now.” Wufei seemed somewhat in controll still, and Heero was quietly gathering the gauze with quick and efficient movements. ”Yes, I agree. We should tend to Duo, if it doesn't interrupt with your fighting too much.”

 

His words were quiet, but a sudden silence descended after them, and Trowa turned back to Duo. ”Right. I'm sorry. I watched, when it was taken off, I can most probably put it back correctly...” His cheeks were a little bit flushed, and he didn't look Duo in the eye, as Heero silently handed him the gauze. He turned to Duo, and after a few moments the bandage was back in place, snug and firm, but not too tight, allowing Duo's jaws to rest. He had even taken care of feeling with his fingers, that the bone was in the right place, in a way, that had felt rather professional to Duo.

 

”That was quick. ” he managed to mumble, while the budding good spirits he had been harboring were squashed to death by the throbbing pain, that was making an appearance, again.

He rubbed his forehead with his fingers. ”I need more painkillers.” He started to scramble up the sofa in a rather ackward manner.

 

”Yeah, well, Cathy -that is, my sister- and I need to do this, sometimes... I'll get your medication, if you tell me, where you keep it.”

 

Duo sagged gratefully back down. ”Yeah... In the cupboard. The same one that the desinfectant is in.” Quatre and Trowa blushed both.

 

Trowa came back bringing the pizza, that had been all but forgotten, and on it rode five glasses of water, with Duo's medication.

He was carrying all of this with his left hand, some paper hanging from his right arm, that had been bent in the most waiter-like manner. Duo had to chuckle a little, but he wasn't feeling too good, even he was smiling.

The ache in his jaw made his thinking a bit muddy, and so the only thing he had on his mind was getting the pills quick, though he did feel like he had been about to ask Trowa something about something.... But the pain had started to radiate from the tip of the bone in sharp, pulsating wawes, and he really could't think about anything else at the moment.

Heero had risen to take the glasses from Trowa, but in a single, gracefull movement, Trowa had lowered the pizzabox on the floor, and let the glasses slide from on top of it to the floor.

Not a single drop escaped, and all five landed next to each other in a neat row, making five, subsequent chimes as they landed.

Everyone was 'ooh'ing at this sudden display of skill, and Duo saw Quatre dare a smile, but Trowa would't look at him.

 

As Duo was hungrily downing his medication, Wufei tried to make a joke about his missing tea, but in the end, they were all just sitting in a loose, quiet circle on the floor, munching in silence that was a little bit tense, but not too much so.

Not enough to take your appetitte away, but strong enough not to be broken, in any case.

Duo felt slightly desperate, chewing his pizza carefully in small, small bites. Why was everything going wrong?

Wufei, Heero and Quatre had always been talking and laughing amongst themselves. Now that Duo was there too, there was only stress in the air.

He refused to think about Trowa and his possible part in the degenarion of good spirit and the feeling of easy friendship. Trowa and himself were the same in some weird manner, though Trowa was tall and manly, while Duo felt himself generally mostly like bad joke, that no one had even the strenght to laugh at, anymore.

 

'It's my fault' he thought, and depression begun to take over. 'All my fault'. The silence was still reigning.

Suddenly Trowa burped very loudly, which startled everyone, and even draw out some laughs.

Wufei was tapping his mouth with some paper, and his black eyes were sparkling with laughter. ” Shut up, Usagi! You have no manners!”

Duo had only some faint idea what he was talking about, but Trowa obviously knew exactly, because he threw his bangs off his face and laughed. His eyes scrunched and the adams apple on his long neck jumped. ”You shut up, Rei! You're interfering the most sacred service on earth! Worshipping mother nature and her gifts of nourishment...”

”So, where does the pizza-tree grow?” Quatre threw in a bit wryly, and Duo held his breath for a moment, scared that they'd start to fight again, but instead, Trowa just smirked. Then he begun to answer: ”In your grandmother's-” but everyone burst laughing before he could complete his sentence. Heero was shaking his head a little while he laughed, which looked very cool, and Wufei contributed to the 'conversation' with the most uncharactereistic ”Eeeeew!”

 

” Well, 'My humour at least greatly exeeds the feeble attempts, that you torment us with every day.'” Trowa said laughing, wich sounded just a little bit odd to Duo, but halted Wufei's 'ew's and made Quatre yell: ” That was from 'Deeper Love'!! You read that too?? I didn't know you were into that stuff!!” His eyes were as wide as two blue saucers.

 

Duo didn't understand anything, so he was left in silence, once again.

 

”Well, you would't, since you don't know me at all... Anymore, than I know you.” Trowa said, and though he sounded a tiny bit sarcastic, there was a hint of a smile in the corner of his mouth. Duo noticed, what he'd said, but Quatre was apparently too exited about something to have paid attention, and to Duo's great surprise, both Wufei and Heero had a gleam in their eyes also, and they were leaning forward.

What were they all talking about? Were they secretly buying some kiosk-romance?

 

”You all know what I'm talking about?” Trowa was now asking, looking genuinely surprised, his long , tanned face turned to Heero, who was sitting crosslegged, and looking almost exited. ”Yeah! Sure we do!! I just never would have taken you for the fanfic kinda type, Tro!” his smooth voice rolled in pleasurably honeyed wawes into Duo's ears, but he was still coherent enough to be able to put extra attention to the mixture of pleasure and surprise there. That made him slighty jealous for a fleeting moment. He wanted to be an expert in whatever it was, that they were talking about, if it made Heero exited like that.

 

Then Trowa broke his thoughts by coughing a little, and it was the most faked sound, Duo had ever heard in his life. ”Well..” he said, and his quiet voice was laden with pretentious modesty ” I would know that sentence... Since I was the one, who wrote it...” and he was streching himself in the most ungenuinely innocent way, eyes down cast.

 

”You're the RoseKinkKing??” Quatre was panting now, and Wufei shot up from his place. ”Have you your laptop in your bag, Winner?” he yelled. ”Always!!” Quatre answered, and Heero was laughing again, delighted over something. Wufei had sprinted away, and almost before Duo could register that he had left, he shot back, carrying a white Apple computer, that he shoved to Quatre, while plopping himself down. Duo looked at Heero again, and the boy graced him with a smile, that lit the depth of those strormy blue eyes with warm light, and made his pearly teeth shine, while two, attaractive lines were formed in his cheeks.

Duo's heart fell immediately apart from the power of that smile, and the remaining mess was cleanly tidyed away from him by the owner of it, yet again. In addtion to this, the bottom of his stomach felt like it had been jolted with electricity, and he blushed, averting his eyes hastily from the blissfull sight, lest it took notice of his strange behaviour.

 

Meanwhile, Trowa was apparently very modestly admitting to being the 'author' of something called ' Deeper Love.'

 

”I can't believe this!!” Quatre was squeling, sounding almost like a girl, fumbling with his laptop, seemingly in search of something. Then he apparently took notice of Duo's lost expression for the first time during the conversation, and proceeded to filling him in. ”I'm a huge fan of this ani... Cartoon, Japanese cartoon called 'Sailor Moon', and I write stories inspired by it... And a lot of people do, but 'RoseKinkKing' is-” and then he was cut of by an equally exited Wufei ”Only the most popular fanfic author in the field!! Or if not, then bloody close! I can't believe your sitting there!” and Wufei was shaking Trowa's hand exitedly, as if he'd never seen him before in his life.

Duo snorted at this, but in truth, he sometimes watched the said anime himself, and now he begun to be very interested in the topic. ” What kind of stories do you write, then..?” He tilted his head curiously, shaking some bags from his eyes. He had never even considered writing stories from cartoons, and it sounded a bit funny to him anyway. Why write a story, when there already was a plot..? He didn't quite grasp this.

For a moment every guy went quiet again, but then Trowa recited smoothly ” Action, adventure, alternate universe, suspense, hentai, rom...” and here he obviously got something stuck to his throat, because he could not continue his sentence.

”Hentai?” Duo was looking puzzled, while Heero was chuckling again,looking positively evil as he was amused, and then Duo melted for a moment at the sight and sound of that, and almost missed the explanation.

”Sex. Sexsexsexsex. Lot's and LOOOTS of hot girl on girl action, man! You need to be educated on this!” and Quatre was grinning like a complete moron now. There was slightly obsessed, a little bit frightening gleam in his eye, and his hair had begun to look wild, sticking from his head in strange tuffts. His body language was alarming, too. He looked triggered and tight, a bit like an animal ready to pounce...

 

Wufei reached Trowa's sleave tugging at it for attention. ” Are you gonna write anything on Minako, anytime soon..? Perhaps with Rei..?” Duo was doing his best to follow. He was, obviously expected to be filled in now, by that strange list of things that Trowa had spoken, or then they just could't spare a moment for a proper explanation right now, and Duo would just have try and figure it out by himself...

Trowa laughed. ”Actually, I was going to do a piece with Mako and Usagi-” he never got to finish his sentence. He was interrupted by a small, but very sharp mutter ”MakoandAmibelongtogether.”

Quatre was examning the nails of his left hand now, as cold as he had been lauging and warm just a while ago. Duo gave mental sigh.

 

”What was that?” Trowa asked, in a completely friendly tone, eyes hard like pieces of some green stone.

”Well, I like Rei and Usagi, yes, Rei and Usagi, and Rei as the butch, while Usagi is the femme” Wufei tried to rattle, obviously attempting to stop whatever it was, that about to be starting this time. Heero turned to him, completely calm, and a look of interest on his face. ”Really? I like that pairing myself, but I could never really get into that butch/femme thing, you know, I like equality and no roles...”

Wufei flicked an errant black strand from his nose, leaning toward Heero: ”Really? Oh, I like it, though I don't really have any that specific pairings... Though Rei and Usagi are something of a favorite, but I admit I also like Minako and Rei... ” Heero was about to answer something to this, when Quatre said very loudly: ” Well, Rei really should be with Usagi, but that's not so important as Mako and Ami. ” He shot a positively venomous look to his left, where Trowa was sitting. And Mako just HAS to be the butch-woman, because Ami is just so sweet... She can't be a butch.She needs to be taken care of by Mako.” and he snapped his mouth shut, in a manner that suggested he had given his final word, while his eyebrows begun to resemble one blond line instead of two.

 

”Well, what happened to being my fan? Just a moment ago you were really exited about this. No, I don't really care for the butch/femme thing -sorry Wufei- and I'll write whatever damn pairing I like. And Ami is perfectly capable of taking care of herself.” Trowa's cheeks had begun to darken, and his brows were slowly knitting together. Quatre leaned closer too, in an obviously threateningly intended manner. ”Well, I don't care where you get your perverted, twisted ideas from, but it's MAKO AND AMI FOREVEEER, and DON't talk to me about anything else!!” and he punched Trowa's arm with his fist. Not too gently.

A muscle in Trowa's chek twitched. His nostrills flared. ” Well, FYI, I HATE the fucking butch/femme shit, and I'll go with your old boring pairings, but what I REALLY like, is actually Minako and Makoto, and I.WILL.DISCUSS.IT.AS.MUCH.AS.I.FUCKING.LIKE!”

”Yeah?” Quatre puched him again.

”Yeah!!” Trowa's eyes were filled with scorn.

”Well, your fucking so called 'pairings' are SHIT, Barton, and SO ARE YOU!” and Quatre attacked. He's tackle threw Trowa backwards, as he landed on his chest, and proceeded to whacking his head on the floor by his hair that he was holding by the bangs, while Trowa was twisting his other wrist to free himself. ”YOU'RE BREAKING MY FUCKING WRIST, YOU FUCKING PERVERT!! LEGGO OF MEEE!!” But of course, neither one was going to let up and so they were rolling on the floor, kicking and yelling and cursing, while their three spectators sat, stunned to motionlessness, and anyway already too exhausted to try and get them to stop.

Wufei was taking a sip of water from his glass. Heero was leaning his chin down on his hand . Duo was chewing the last bites of his pizza mechanically, eyes staring at a point in the distance.

All of them sighed.

 

Tbc.

 

AN: First, to anyone new reading this: My chapters of 'Ugly' are always about 3000-3500 words long (Microsoft word counter), and so, my AN's won't really affect to the length of the chapter.

 

Second: I found this litle button, that enables reviews from people, that are not registered here, and since everyone else seem to have it on, I will too... I'm such a sheep. BAA!

I have some serious doubts about my story going on right now. I even submitted chapter one to the reviewer guild because of that... So, constructive criticism is welcome, too.

Here's a lot of reviewet responses. Sorry for that. I just...Kinda want to let everyone know, that I haven't forgotten the attention they gave me, though I moved...Some of these reviews answered were from FFN,when I still had an account there.

 

Bomabyoni:Glad it made you laugh. I was bit worried it might've been a little too crude... But I can't see the boys as prissy prudes. Just can't.

 

Anissa: Well, thank you for your good opinnion, once again! Lol! You know, you're welcome to tell me, if something doesn't in your opinnion work, also... You have a way with words, too. Why aren't you writing anything? :) You have an account, so you could... :)

 

Same goes to Blair. Especially you, since I've had a lot of reviews from you, and your writing and insight both have impressed me LOT! I'm certain, that if you'd just take the time, you could write quality fiction. I'm glad you took the time to analyze a little why you like my fic in that review for ch10, at the FFN, a looong time ago...

 

Tyrannimo: If you're still there, then uhm... Sorry! My bad! Lol...

It's just that, you can't tell which gender people are by just looking at their reviews...And writing gay-stuff, it's just safer to assume, that all your audience is female... But sorry again. :)

You like my Heero a lot, don't you? Lol! Perhaps he was alittle bit like 'stalking' Duo... ;) Hehe.

GladAngel: If you're still there: Trowa was calming down in the bathroom. Took him some time, though. Lol!

And you're right about Trowa's motives, partly. More to come... ;)

Wolf girl: I hope you're here, too. It was so nice, 'meeting' someone, who likes my Heero. :)

Ayamari: So, now it's 'fascinating'... Lol! I'll try to keep it entertaining, though it's sometimes sad too, this story.

ZaKai: Take your time. I can wait. I know, you're not out to hurt me, so you can also point out stuff, that didn't work, if you find any. :)

Muchacha: I wonder, if you're here... Anyways, I like Trowa, too. And yes, he gets kicked around..Lol! Since he's bigger than the rest of them, him punching others just would't be fair. ;)

 

And once again, I make the empty promise of never rambling this much again... (sigh)

M.S.