| <Part 5> Raihne: Hoooooookay! I just cooked this up really fast. Guess what. Heero is gonna find something. . . Duo: What. . . why does this sound bad to me? Heero: What are you hiding? Duo: You want me to list everything?! *Wide eyes* Raihne: *Snicker* That would take weeks. And Duo it isn't so bad. . . he can't kill a baby you know. Duo: Kill??!! Raihne what are you up to?! Raihne: Actually a friend gave me this idea. Duo: Who is she, she has a date with death! Raihne: My lips are sealed. Heero: Hn, finally. Raihne: HN! _____________________________________________________________________ Duo-chan was finally asleep! Heero sighed and tucked the covers close around the little shoulders then turned his attention to the chest of baby supplies. He folded Duo-chan's little clothes and was placing them carefully back inside when his knuckles brushed against something hard. He pulled it out. A data disk? It looked like a video CD. Odd. Ever the perfect soldier Heero pushed the disk into the computer and hacked into the visual file it held. What greeted him was a picture of him, as a baby! He almost went into shock! Duo had gotten it on tape?! When had he planed on telling him?! He was wearing those ridiculous fuzzy black PJ's and clutching a teddy bear. Duo's voice could be heard in the back ground. �Oi, Hee-chan, Who is the most perfect baby in the whole wide world?' �Me?' he asked quietly. Duo laughed and the camera shook as he nodded, �Yes!' Heero watched his baby self giggle and fidgit. �And who is the most precious baby in the world?' �Me?' he asked again. �Right!' Duo laughed, �and who is the most beautiful creature in the universe and beyond?' �DOO!' Hee-chan smiled brightly and Duo gasped. The camera quickly changed hands to Quatre who giggled when Duo scooped up Hee-chan and hugged him close, tears in his eyes. �Doo owchie?' Hee-chan asked worried and clumsily swiped at the moist rivers on the braided pilot's cheeks. "No Heero-chan, I'm happy, that's all. I love you so much!" "A'sheru Doo." Heero sat enthralled at his computer, watching the data disk with wide eyes. Duo had taken such good care of him. Always holding him and snuggling him, and telling Hee-chan how much he loved him. Over and over. He realized that some of the film Duo hadn't recorded, there were some times when Duo didn't seem to realize that he was being taped. It must have been Quatre. The perfect soldier watched Duo bath his baby form and massage him with baby oil. �We'll have to do this when you're back to normal, ne Hee-chan?' Heero suffered a massive nosebleed at the thought. He came back just in time to see a picture of the two of them dancing in the rain together. He typed in a few commands and copied the disk onto another and onto his laptop. It was something precious that he was loth to part with. A treasured little piece of his time with Duo. //I need to take some pictures of Shi-chan.// He thought looking at the tiny bundle asleep in his bed. Heero slid a secret video camera from his computer and loaded a CD in then turned it toward Duo. "My little Shi-chan." He smiled. After taping a minuet or so of the baby sleeping, he turned it off and promised to get more later. //He really was good to me.// Heero thought. //I need to give him more time. He need's someone to hug him and spoil him like he did Hee-chan.// "I will try Shi-chan. I will really try." The baby smiled in his sleep and Heero slid in beside Duo-chan and pulled him to his chest. "I will try." ________________________________________________________________ Raihne: See that wasn't so bad. Heero: Not for Duo maybe. Did I really have to relive that embarrassment?! Raihne: Hmm, let me think. Yes! Heero: *glare!* Duo: At least you didn't talk about diapers this time. Raihne: hmm . . . Let's see. . . Duo. . . naked. . . a gundam and Heero. Duo/Heero: What?! Raihne: Oh nothing, just trying to think of an apropriate ending. *skips away* Duo/Heero: Raihne!? Raihne get back here! Raihne!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Part 6> Raihne: Finally! Part 6 is done! Heero: What tourcher have you got for us this time? Raihne: Heh, you're enjoying this, admit it. Heero: *Glare* Raihne: Anyway it isn't anything new. Duo: Meaning? Raihne: anou. . . Relena? Heero/Duo: NO!!!! Raihne: YES!!!!!!!! ^_^ (gomen to any Relena fans, it isn't too bad to her, I swear.) Duo: How could you do this to me?! Raihne: You get to get in Heero's shirt. . . Duo: *Interested now* Nani? Raihne: heh heh, gotta read to see. _____________________________________________________________________ Heero decided one day that being inside all of the time wasn't good for Duo-chan. Duo needed to go outside to play a little. He tethered the energetic child to his Gundam as he worked and Duo-chan piled up sand and proclaimed it a house. "Waaa! See ewo? Lookie!" Heero looked down at the formless pile of sand with a rock placed carefully on top. "It's nice Shi-chan." Duo grinned and started pounding on it, leveling it in not even a tenth of the time he spent on it. "Waaa!" He cheered, "sin'gami!" Heero couldn't help it, he started to laugh. Duo-chan looked up at the pilot and smiled wider than ever before. "What? You like me laughing?" Heero asked. Duo giggled and nodded. Heero slid down and untied the baby, lifting his carefully onto his shoulders, "Hn, you never change." The baby grinned. "Let's go for a walk into town." "Why?" "I'll buy you a milkshake." "Waaaaaa!" Duo bounced on Heero's shoulders and giggle. Heero held onto his little hands and walked down the road, the town wasn't too far away, and Duo-chan had been stuck inside for so long! He thrived on Duo's little giggles, pulling each one into his heart to store there for later. Duo-chan took in the world through the same bright violet eyes he always had and he took Heero with him for the journey. When they reached town Heero took Duo to a fast food restaurant and bought him his milk shake and took it with them to the park. He poured it into a little bowl and gave Duo a spoon to eat it with. "There you go Shi-chan. "Hee~ro!" Heero flinched at that voice. "Relena." "What a cute baby!" She smiled and tickled Duo-chan. He began to cry. Heero lifted Duo-chan onto his lap and soothed him, "Shh Shi-chan, don't do that." Relena watched them, envious of Heero's tenderness with the child. "Shi-chan? You call the baby death? What kind of a parent names their child death?" "He named himself." "You. . . you mean. . ." Her eyes went wide. "Duo!?" Duo-chan squealed at her raised voice and tried to hide in under Heero's shirt. His little head popped up through the neck next to Heero's to see if Relena was gone. When he saw she was still their, he popped back inside the shirt, reached his arms through the arm holes, and pulled Heero's arms around to shield him. Heero peeked into his shirt at the child, "Shi-chan, wont you come out?" Duo-chan shook his head. "Why not?" Duo-chan pulled Heero's head further into the darkness of the shirt and shivered. ". . . ?" Heero looked at Relena with a frown, "Relena you'll have to leave." "What?" "You're scaring him." "Me? How could I scare a baby?!" //Don't ask if you don't reeeeaaaaaly want to know.// Heero thought. "He's very particular about who he likes." He lied. "But. . ." "This is my mission Relena. Do not interfere." That was what clinched it. Relena was not about to interfere with Heero's mission again. Not after last time! She stood and nodded, "I'll see you soon!" She smiled. Heero frowned and nodded. Inside the warm shirt Duo-chan smiled up through the neck hole at Heero and cuddled deeper. "You coming out now? She's gone." "Wo'm" "Warm?" "Hai." Duo smiled and yawned, then curled up to sleep. If any of the pilots found it odd when Heero came in with a milk-shake covered Duo-chan tucked into his shirt, they weren't suicidal enough to mention it. Trowa did however get some pictures when Heero wasn't watching. ____________________________________________________________________ Raihne: There you see? Was that so bad? Heero/Duo: Yes! Duo: What the point of getting in Heero's shirt if I'm to young to do anything! Heero: *Glare* Raihne: Let's see. . . strawberries, whipped cream, peace slices. . . Duo: Huh? Raihne: Oh just working out a list of props for my next lemon. Don't worry Duo, you're on top. Heero: NANI!!!!!!!????????? Raihne: *Sheepish grin* Ummm, Eep? Heero: Damn right! *Runs after her* Sit still so I can cut off Your trice damned fingers! Raihne: *snicker* Thrice damned huh? Heero: Omae wa. . . Duo: Uh. . . yeah, Bye now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Part 7> Raihne: A writing I will go, I writing I will go, hi ho the merry-o . . . Oh! Hi! *sheepish grin* anou. . . it's done! Heero: bakara Raihne: Of course! Heero: . . . Duo: She proud of it Heero, you can't get to her that way. Heero: Your writing stinks! Raihne: *SD eyes* wh. . . wh. . . what? Duo: Heero. . . Raihne: It's really *sniffle* bad? Heero: Yes. Raihne: Thbppppttttt! Liar! hehehehe Heero: *bangs his head against the wall* Raihne: hahahaha, anou. . . on with the show, ne? Ouch! Heero! Your making MY head hurt watching you! Duo: But Raihne! Your head is soooo hard! Raihne: Watch it braid boy. ____________________________________________________________________ It was Heero's turn to cook dinner. After he set the kitchen on fire however, they decided pizza was safer. Heero sat cross legged on the floor and Duo-chan sat on his lap. Duo-chan grabbed the pizza on Heero's plate and wailed, drawing his little hand back. Heero blew on the burning fingers and licked the hot sauce from them. "Shh, I'll cool some for you Shi-chan." The others facevaulted. Heero was acting. . . human! And what had he called Duo? Little death?! Heero tore a little piece from his pizza and blew on it until it was cool, then he handed it to Duo-chan. The baby picked at the chunk of pizza, gumming the cheese and licking the sauce off of his pudgy baby fingers. When Heero tried to take a bite of his own, Duo-chan put his little hands on Heero's arm. "Nani?" Heero looked at the child in question. Duo-chan frowned and blew on Heero's pizza just as Heero had his. He explained it all in one childish pout. "�ewo ouchie." Quatre and Wufei started laughing so hard they rolled on the floor. Even Trowa chuckled. Duo chan smiled wide and bounced happily. He seemed to love their laughter so much! Heero smiled and gave a slight salute, pizza in hand, then started to eat while the babe in his lap ripped apart the piece he had been given. When dinner was through, Heero wiped off Duo-chan's face. (He had discovered how valuable wet wipes could be with Duo-chan around and so always had one on hand now). Then it was bedtime. Heero sat with Duo on their bed and brushed his long, silken hair out before he tied it back in it's usual braid. When Duo was playing, Heero had learned to wrap the braid like a crown around his head so that he wouldn't trip over it. But in sleep, it wasn't necessary. The soldier ran his hand over Duo's beloved braid and smiled kindly. "Perfect." "Hee-omma?" "Hai Shi-chan?" "Towey?" "Story?" "Hai." "I don't know any stories." Heero suddenly realized that he didn't. Duo looked so sad that he had to do something! "I can make one up. Let's see. Once upon a time, in a land far away there was a great soldier named Heero. He had everything a soldier could ask for but he was not happy." "Why?" "Because he was alone. The soldier could not accept the danger of giving his heart to anyone because he saw that was weak, and he couldn't be weak." Heero smiled at Duo's concerned face. "One day, the soldier was cleaning up after a battle when a dark shadow fell over him. He looked up and saw the face of an angel under the guise of death. The boy was beautiful, and his voice touched the soldiers soul from the first word. He asked the soldier, �do you want to die?'" Duo-chan shivered. Heero held him closer, "The soldier realized that for the first time in his life, he didn't! He didn't want to die. He wanted to live to learn more about his angel. He told the angel so and he smiled and said, �my name is Duo, what's yours'" "Tha's me!" Duo-chan giggled. Heero nodded, "Hai, that is you. And the soldier took the boy's hand and the boy took the soldier's heart. And they lived happily together forever." Duo-chan smiled in his sleep and cuddled closer to Heero and the perfect Soldier sighed. "And they lived, together forever." ________________________________________________________ Heero: Ok now that was sappy. Raihne: Did I say no sap? Duo: I think it was sweet. Raihne: *smile!!!* Heero: Why are you agreeing with her?!?!?!?! Duo: Hey I have the threat of a lemon with Doc G hanging over my head! I may be death but I'm not suicidal! Heero: Hn! Raihne: So minna-san (excluding you two) What do you think? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Part 8> Raihne: Well, one more down and one to go. Duo/Heero: Thank the Gods! Raihne: *pout* it wasn't that bad! Heero: Hn! Duo: Yeah, what he said! Raihne: *rolls her eyes* Here it is. ______________________________________________________________________ Living with a baby Duo was nothing short of terrifying, but Heero seemed content. He and Duo-chan were never apart for very long. He called Duo Shi-chan openly now in front of the others, and in secret, he even smiled at the baby once or twice. Deep inside, he was starting to realize his heart. Duo-chan was a constant joy to him, a candle in the darkness of war. Always smiling and laughing, so innocent and sweet. He lived in a constant fear though, of the day doctor J would call them back to the lab. He wanted his Duo back, but Shi-chan. . . he didn't want to lose him, even if they were the same person. It was easier to smile at a baby than the man you. . . //what? The man I what?// < �A sheru Doo!' �I love you too Hee-chan.'> Heero looked down at the baby asleep in his arms and smiled a tiny smile, "I. . . I love you too." Duo-chan woke up and yawned, stretching his little body out in Heero's arms, "Hi." He squeaked and smiled at Heero, violet eyes twinkling with joy and love. "Hi." Heero felt tears prickling the back of his eyes but refused to let them form. "Play now?" Duo looked so hopeful that Heero chuckled slightly. "Bath now." "NO." Duo started to kick and fuss trying to get away from Heero. "No baf!" Heero rolled his eyes, they went through this every morning. "I need a bath too." Duo-chan stopped struggling and looked back at him. "Me an' ou? Bof?" "Yes we will both take a bath. Together." "OK!" Heero tickled his little belly and Duo-chan giggled. They were both settled in the tub when Quatre came running in, "Heero they found us!" The soldier jumped to his feat and Duo-chan slid under the water without Heero's support. Heero snatched the baby up and Duo-chan started coughing up the water he had inhaled. "Oi! Shi-chan!" The baby was coughing and crying and the soldier was becoming worried. "It's ok it's ok I have you!" Duo-chan was crying and clutching to Heero for his life. Quatre wrapped a towel around both of them. "We need to pack up and move now! Oz is coming." Heero nodded and quickly dressed himself and Duo-chan then tossed their belongings into two duffles, slipped Duo-chan into the chest carrier and ran to Wing, "Damn it! Shinigami!" He set the other Gundam on automatic and wired it to follow Wing. On the way back to Wing though, Oz was on him. "Get out of here!" He yelled to the others and tossed Duo-chan to Wufei, "Take care of Shi-chan for me!" "Heero! Don't self destruct!" Quatre pleaded. "Duo needs you!" The last part froze the Wing pilot long enough for the Oz soldiers to force him away from the self destruct button and Heero was slammed into the leg of the Gundam. As blackness was claiming him, he heard someone calling his name. "HEERO!" "Duo?" Then everything went dark. _______________________________________________________________ Heero: I didn't self distruct?! Raihne: Of course not! Duo: I needed you Hee-kun Heero: But you let them capture me?! Raihne: Will you cool down! Duo: What about me? And who called Heero's name? Raihne: *Evil grin* Suffer Duo-chan suffer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Part 9> Raihne: This will conclude our Duo-chan series, but stay tuned for Trowa-chan! Trowa: . . . ! Quatre: It won't be THAT bad Trowa. Duo: Yes it will! She'll mangle your dignity! Shove your pride down your throat! She'll. . . Raihne: Duo? Duo: Huh? Raihne: Shut up Heero: *agreaing* Hn! ______________________________________________________________________ "HEERO!" The Oz soldiers stared, frozen in their places. Something was happening to the baby in the Chinese boy's hands. He was growing! The little clothes tore and popped and the baby turned into a man in front of their eyes! "Shinigami lives!" Duo cackled evilly and grinned his trademark grin. Duo grabbed his thermal scythe from the bag that lay on the ground beside him and activated it, slicing into the soldiers, tuning out the screams and the blood. All that mattered was they had hurt his Heero! Oz would not be outdone by one young boy, but the shock of his transformation was enough to give him an edge. He scooped Heero up and climbed into Wing with the unconscious pilot. Come on! Let's get outta here!" They slammed into action. Trowa and Quatre finished off the rest of the Oz offense, Wufei destroyed their ground vehicles, and Duo flew Heero to safety with Wing. Heero stirred, something wasn't right, he wasn't restrained. The surroundings. . . he was in Wing's cockpit! Duo grinned, "Awake I see. How's your head?" "Shi-chan?" Duo gave him the strangest look and then burst out laughing, "That's a new one!" Heero didn't change his face, but his eyes looked upset. "Heero? What? What did I do?" He shook his head, "You didn't do anything." Duo must have shown his surprise that Heero bothered to answer him because Heero grunted and glared at him. That brought a smile to Duo's lips. "That's the Heero I know." "Hn, baka." Heero grumbled. As an after thought he grinned evilly, "Did you know you're naked?" Duo blushed bright red and chuckled, "Yeah, mind explaining that to me?" "Nani?" "I went to sleep in J's lab and woke up butt naked in the middle of an Oz attack. Now I know I'm a heavier sleeper than you, but I'm not *that* bad." "You. . . don't remember?" "Remember what?" Heero shook his head and averted his eyes. "Nothing." Duo landed Wing at a new safe house and scrambled out with Heero right behind him. The instant the wing pilot touched the ground he was off. Duo slipped into some clothes left in the safe house for emergencies, three sizes too big, and then went to find his friend. Heero was wandering aimlessly through the surrounding terrain. Kicking a rock along and acting very unlike the Heero Duo had thought he knew. "Heero?" The boy asked quietly, walking up beside him. "Hn?" "Heero what happened to me?" "You were used as a lab rat by doctor J and turned into a one year old child." Duo stopped walking as pieces fell into place, "You took care of me!" Heero hesitated then nodded. "Why?" "It was my mission." "Now tell me the truth." They glared at each other for a long time then Heero closed his eyes, "Ilikeyou." he mumbled quickly. "What?" Duo grinned. "I said I. . . like you." Heero looked at Duo, daring him to hate him. A smile slowly dawned on Duo's face and he leapt at Heero and pulled him close for a huge hug, "I. . . like you too." He laughed as they both fell hard to the ground. Heero's eyes caught with Duo's and he licked his lips thoughtfully. "You were a beautiful baby." He said carefully. Duo smiled from ear to ear and struck a silly pose, "but baby, look at me now!" He mimicked an old song he had heard somewhere then burst out laughing. "Hn." "Oi Heero man! I'm glad you like me." Duo smiled and offered his hand to help Heero up. Heero looked to the hand and then to Duo, realizing he was offering a lot more tha just his aid in rising. Duo was offering his friendship, an exchange it trust and care. <. . . The soldier took the boy's hand and the boy took the soldier's heart. . .> The Wing pilot took the hand and Duo pulled him to a standing position. "Did I give you much trouble?" Duo asked as they walked back to the safe house. "Don't you always." "Aw you know you love it!" He teased. Heero almost gave Duo a heart attack when he offered him a slight smile. //Yes. I think I do.// _______________________________________________________________ Duo: Yes! She's done with us! Heero: Hn Raihne: heh heh *licks her lips* I have a 1X2 2X1 in progress right now. A post war fic. Duo: Why can't you just stop messing with our lives? Raihne: Cause youre just to cute to leave alone! ^_^ Duo: HEERO! HELP! Heero: Hn. I'm tied up at the moment. Duo: *Eyes light up* Honto?! Raihne: *rolls her eyes* Hentai ~Owari~ |