Title:
Rowdy Li'l Relena-chan
Author: Raihne
Disclaimer: I made them chibis and messed with
their lives, but I don't own them.
Summary: Someone is trying to kill Relena
and whoever it is keeps finding her wherever she's placed. After a very
close call, she gets an idea. A bad one. But
It might end up helpful in other ways.
Pairing: 1x2 in the future.
Bits and hints of others.
Archive: Sure, just tell me
where and link back to me.
C&C would be drooled over, Flames will be used to line my rats cage.
Rai: Hi everybody, I'm
baaaaaaaack! Sorry for the long wait.
Duo: Oh, they could wait longer,
don't you guys think she could wait longer?
Pilots: Yes!
Rai: Nah. I can't. Gotta
get this written to apologise for making all of your fans wait so long.
Duo: *sigh* Who's the victim
this time?
Rai: Relena-chan!
Duo: *relieved look* Oh good.
Rai: *starts typing and
sings theme to 'Family Ties'*
Heero: bakara.
Duo: Why do I have a bad feeling
about this?
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<Part 1>
A sniper bullet pierced the wall beside Relena Peacecraft's
head and she gasped in alarm and ducked behind the bed, protected from
further attempts, or so she thought. Another bullet came through the wall
and bed to pierce the wall again. Much too close. She'd been saved only
by the slight adjustment that hitting the other things had made in it's
trejectory. Before the attacker could shoot again, she made a dash for the
door and slammed into the hall where the guards were watching for trouble.
"He found me again."
"But Relena-sama! We've had security quadrupled since
the first attack and no one knew you were here except your most trusted
advisors!"
"Well one of them isn't so trusted."
The guard nodded and phoned his superior. "There's
an armored car waiting outside."
Once she was secured in the armor plated vehical, Relena
turned to her cheif security officer, "What is the point of going somewhere
else? We need to face the person. He'll just find me again."
"But we can't face what we can't catch."
"Next time he may get lucky. I really don't want to
test it."
"But what else can we do?"
She thought a moment. "I don't know." Then looked up,
determined, "But I know someone who might. Take me to doctor J's lab."
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Heero looked at his laptop, waited a moment, blinked,
then looked again. The message was still the same. J requested a meeting
with the gundam pilots over a matter of extreme military importance. Relena.
"Oi! Hee-kun! What ya. . . anou. . ." Duo froze, the
hair brush still tangled in his long chestnut lochs, and blinked at the
screen. "I'm goin' zero system. Heero, tell me I'm going zero system!"
"We have to go. Now." Yuy switched off the laptop and
walked outside, Duo following closely.
"She reallly. . ."
"Aa." He climbed into Duo's jeep and turned the key.
Duo jumped into the passenger side, "Uh, Heero? Could
I drive?"
"No."
"'kay."
//What is that Baka onna up to?! Doesn't she realize
what a danger a move like this puts her in? What a danger the whole world
will be in if the assassin manages to kill her while she's like this?!//
"Heero! Slow down!" Duo fought his hair into a messy
pony tail and glarred at his partner. When Heero didn't answer his glare,
the American sighed. "Do you really think she'd do it?" He asked as Heero
pulled into Doctor J's lab area.
An angry curse and a babies cry broke the stunned silence
and gave Duo an answer he didn't want to hear.
"She did it."
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J looked up as the two pilots slammed inside, "I did
not sanction this."
A chubby baby of maybe one year with bright blue eyes
and cornflower blond hair blinked up at Duo and Heero as they stood side
by side staring at her in silent shock.
"D. . . daddy?" She grinned and made uncoordinated
grasping gestures toward Heero. When he didn't move she turned to Duo and
studied his long, messy hair with singular facination. He mouth turned up
as she made her realization. "Mommy!"
"Wha?! ME?!"
Heero ignored Duo's frantic denile and faced the doctor.
"Explain."
"I don't know the whole story, but according to the
men who were with her when I found her," He looked at the baby and shook
his head, "Relena was being stalked by a talented assassin, and she had
injected herself with my youth formula to make tracking her much more difficult.
But she did so without my consent or aid."
"You have the neutralizer formula this time though."
"For a gundam pilot." He picked the baby up and set
her in Duo's arms, ignoring his protest. "You five are biogenetically inhanced.
I have no idea what this will do to a regular human girl, but the netralizer
would kill her."
"So you'll make a new one."
"At the risk of her life?"
"What do you suggest?"
He watched Duo struggle against letting the baby get
to him. "Well Heero. . ." He faced the pilot and shrugged, "Every baby needs
a mommy and daddy."
Duo, who hadn't heard the conversation, looked at and
grinned, "Heero! Look at this!" He put his finger on her nose and she crossed
her eyes trying to look at it. "Kawii! Ojousan makes a cute kid!"
"At least I'm not the mommy." He nodded and walked
out.
"Huh? Heero? What did you just agree to? Heero!"
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Duo: Why do 'I' have to
be the mommy?!
All:
*Blank stares*
Duo: Heero!
Heero: *points to story pairing 1x2*
What is that for?
Rai:
well. . .
Heero: Hn?
Rai:
S-E-C-R-E-T
Heero: *lunges at author*
I'm going to kill you now.
Duo:
*Still traumatized* I'm the mommy?
Rai:
*grins* Well this is a good start ne? TBC minna san! Ja ne!
<Part 2>
Rai: Ohayo! I've been
working mostly on my novel lately but inspiration hit and my muses carried
me back to the fics so. . .
Duo: I'm the mommy?
Rai: *blink blink* I think
I broke him.
Relena: Well you haven't helped me any either.
A baby?! I hope I would be smarter than that!
Heero: Hn.
Relena: Heero-chan? You agree with this?
Rai: He realized
what 1x2 means.
Relena: What does that have to do with anything?
Heero: *smile*
Duo: Did he just smile?
Rai: *grin*
Relena: I don't want to know. I don't want
to know.
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"Mommy up! Up!"
Duo swung the little girl up into his arms and looked
at Heero walking silently beside him. "So how are we supposed to raise
a baby girl?"
"It's only for a little while."
"But Heero! We don't know anything about little girls!
What if we do something to traumatise her or something?"
"She won't remember when she returns to normal."
Duo stopped walking and stared at Heero's back.
He walked a little longer before turning back to meet
the violet eyes. "What?"
"How can you say that? She wont remember right away
but it will stay with her! I know I. . ."
"You what?"
He looked away and smoothed the baby girl's hair before
walking passed Heero quickly, "Nothing, let's just go home."
Heero caught up and walked beside his fellow pilot
once again. His mind going back to the disk he still kept in a safe place
hidden inside wing and his laptop. A file of a smiling baby boy with a long
braid and wide curious eyes, and another of a boy of about the same age,
with wild dark hair and a loving, awe filled face focused on the man speaking
off screen. //Shi-chan. . . and my own time as a baby. . . they changed me.
Made me realise. . . But now is not the time.// He glanced at Duo who was
holding the baby Relena like she would break at the slightest breeze. //He
would make a wonderful Mommy.//
"Heero?"
"Hn?"
"You looked strange just then."
"Strange?"
"Yeah. Does me holding the baby make you nervous or
something. I won't drop her. Shinigami's honor."
"Hn."
Duo looked hurt.
"I know you won't drop her." He assured him grudgingly,
"You never dropped me."
He blinked, "You remember?"
"No." He admitted.
"Thanks Hee-kun." the American's smile was soft and
glowing. "She's tiny."
"Aa."
"Was I this tiny?"
"Hai."
"I can't imagine it. Being this small I mean. Do you
think whoever's targeting her will find her now?"
"They might."
Duo clenched his jaw and tightened his hold on the
child, "We'll protect her."
Heero nodded and opened the door to the safe house
then watched Duo quietly strip down to his boxers and change Relena-chan.
He slipped under the covers and cuddled the baby close, letting her tangle
her hand in his braid. The picture they gave was so domestic and sweet Heero
felt something inside him jerk in response to it.
Relena looked up with sleepy eyes, "Daddy?"
He gave Duo a slightly unsure look but the other boy
just scooted over and patted the bed next to the baby, "Come on. Lena-chan
wouldn't understand if we slept in seperate beds."
The perfect soldier lay beside the baby and looked
over her at Duo while she snuggled between them. "Lena-chan?"
"Sweet dreams Heero."
"Aa." His lips jerked into a small smile and then fell
flat again, but Duo saw it and returned the smile before his eyes slipped
closed.
Lena-chan cooed and snuggled, secure and content.
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In the morning, Heero woke up warm and somehow at peace.
He felt something soft in his arms and opened his eyes slowly. His arms tightened
and his eyes widened when he realised the reason for the warmth and peace
was that in the night, Duo had somehow switched places with Relena-chan and
was now encased in Heero's arms while Relena snuggled in Duo's.
The American shifted a little and sighed in his sleep
and Heero rubbed his arm lightly, calming him. //It feels like family.//
The thought yanked him back to reality and he stood up quickly, pulling
his clothes on and fighting down his erection. It wasn't real. Relena was
a full grown person, not their child and she would be full grown again soon
enough. It was just a mission. He looked back at the beautiful man curled
up with the child who was theirs for the moment. They looked so warm. So
wonderful. There weren't words to describe the perfection he saw. He forced
himself to walk away. //Just a mission.//
As the door closed he missed Duo's soft word. "Heero."
Relena watched her daddy walk away and frowned. She
didn't like that her daddy didn't stay till mommy woke up. He looked so
sad. She wanted him and mommy to be happy.
"Mmm. . . Ohayo Lena-chan." Duo yawned and tickled
her lovingly, "Sleep well?"
"Hai."
"Come on. Let's get you in a nice warm bath ok?"
"Bofe us?"
"Yeah, we can both take a bath."
"Daddy?"
Duo blushed and bit his lip, "Let's let daddy work
a little bit ok?"
"'k."
"Maybe next time."
She smiled at that and nodded.
"Ok then, up you go." He lifted her high into the air
then cuddled her close and walked with her into the bathroom.
She giggled and splashed and played in her Duo mommy's
hair and Duo mommy washed her carefully and then dried her off and wrapped
her in a fluffy white towel.
Heero watched from the doorway, unseen.
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Duo: Man Heero you're really
angsty.
Heero: Hn.
Rai: I know a remedy for angst.
Duo: Nani?
Rai: Lemon!
Duo: Some how I don't think
you mean the fruit.
Rai: *grin*
Heero: *glare*
Rai: *double grin* This
staring contest could take a while. Ja ne minna-san.
Heero: *triple glare*
Duo: *in an announcer's voice*
And the contest continues. Neither show signs of stopping. For more, let's
go to the floor.
Rai: *Infinite grin*
Heero: *Infinite glare*
Rai: *Grin to infinity. And Beyond!* snirk!
*drops to the floor laughing.
Duo: And we have a winner folks!
Relena: Was there a point to that?
Duo: Not really no.
Relena: I can't believe you're my 'mother'.
Rai: But he makes such a
good mommy! For more, on to the fic!
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Part 3
Duo walked into the living room with Lena-chan and
was met by the eyes of three startled pilots.
"Anou. . . Duo?" Quatre smiled shyly, "What have you
and Heero been doing this mission?"
Heero glarred, "This is our mission."
"Having fun?" He asked innocently.
"Not that." the perfect soldier glarred, "Say hello
to Relena."
"Relena?"
Duo held up the baby. Who choose that moment to see
Heero's conviniently empty arms. "Mommy, pass me to my daddy."
The others were silent as Duo handed the baby to Heero.
It was Wufei's slight snicker that ended their shock though and soon all
three of them, Trowa included, were laughing so hard they had tears in their
eyes.
"J is a dead man." Duo muttered, looking at the floor
to hide his blush.
"Just think of it this way Duo." Quatre shushed him,
"What kind of childhood did Relena have? You said when Heero was a baby
that you wanted to give him a better childhood than what he'd had before.
Relena was a diplomat's daughter, she had money and fame, but she probably
didn't get much attention, or love."
Duo's eyes went from Quatre to the baby and the Arab
could see the American boy's nurturing intinct taking over. //I have never
known a 'male' who was such a born 'mother'.//
Heero noticed Duo's gaze and handed the baby to him,
watching the braided pilot cuddle little Lena-chan tightly. His mind ran
over the conversation again and again. He recognise Quatre's tactic using
Duo's natural caring to assure the baby was well loved and cared for, but
the other part. . . //'You said when Heero was a baby that you wanted to
give him a better childhood than what he'd had before' Just another reminder
of how well loved I was as a child. And now. . .// He watched Duo with 'their
child' and thought back to his fractured memories of before. He recalled
an embarrasing conversation with a completely naked Duo. . . he asked Duo
to marry him. A slight smirk crossed his lips as he thought of how Duo must
have responded to that proposal. If only he could remember more. <ask.
. . back to normal.> That was all he remember of Duo's reply. He didn't
have enough information. It was too risky to proceed at the present time.
"Heero!"
His head shot up, "Nani?"
"Where were you just then?"
". . ." He looked around the room. "The couch."
Duo made a 'snerk'ing sound but didn't push it. "I
told you Lena-chan will need clothes, diapers, and baby stuff. Our old things
are still at Quatre's and we can't risk going to get them."
"We will buy them then." He reasoned and walked toward
the door, "Coming?"
Duo smiled a broad grin and nodded, running after him
with Relena wrapped up carefully in his arms.
Their three freinds watched them leave with mixed emotions
on their faces.
"Do you think either of them has a clue?" Quatre asked
hopefully.
Wufei and Trowa answered in tandem. "No."
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Heero pulled a cart free from the row and Duo walked
beside him with the baby unwilling to put her down.
"We need diapers first, we can take one from the bag
and get it on her before she has an accident." Duo offered.
Heero nodded, "Then food. We don't know when she ate
last."
Duo grinned and whooped, "Mission accepted!" Earning
him some odd looks from other shoppers and a muttered "baka." from Heero.
Heero watched Duo slip from aisle to aisle finding
everything they would need. //Of course he's done this before.// he reasoned.
//I just used whatever he'd gotten for me when he was changed.//
"We need clothes next."
"She is not going to be dressed in black."
"What's wrong with black?"
"It doesn't look natural on a baby girl, she would
stand out and be easy to target."
Duo thought about pouting but stopped himself. Heero
was right.
"Oh what a lovely little girl!" A woman walked up to
them and cooed over the baby. "Are you the father?" She asked Duo with a
small, flirty smile.
Heero stepped between them and stared her down. "I'm
the father. He's the mother."
The woman quickly left.
"Way to look natural, what's wrong with black again?"
He teased, but on the inside he was melting into a rapturous puddle of goo.
Heero had told someone in public that Lena-chan was theirs! Suddenly he didn't
mind so much being the mommy.
"Hn." Heero looked at Duo and the baby carefully before
saying, "A little black." He finally agreed and Duo whooped again and kissed
his cheek before slipping among the clothing racks.
Heero stood there, shell shocked. His hand lightly
touched the cheek Duo had kissed. The other pilot didn't act like he even
realize what he'd. . . Just as Heero thought that Duo turned to face him
with a similar shocked look upon his face. //His brain just caught up to
his actions.// Heero thought fondly.
Duo blushed.
Heero smiled.
Duo smiled back and Heero was floored by the flood
of emotions through his normally calm system. "You know. . ." The braided
pilot looked up shyly from the ruffly baby dress he was holding up to Lena-chan,
". . . what I said to you in the . . . when you were a baby." He took a deep
breath and gave a nervous smile, "You're back to normal."
//What did he say in the. . . Duo had blushed there.
. . In the shower?// <ask me. . . back to normal.> //Is that when
I asked him to. . .// <S for Shinigami, becuase you're mine.> <‘ou
duo so-jer. . . Duo's Soldier?. . . Hai!> <When I'm big I WILL love
him! I will!> "Not quite." He muttered and blinked the memories away,
walking into the clothing with Duo.
"Heero?" The american looked unsure.
He picked up a black T-shirt with a silver S on it
"This would be. . . good."
"But her name is Lena-chan." Duo whispered.
Heero nodded, "But S is for Shinigami."
"Heero." He gasped, the other pilot was so close.
Relena chortled and broke the moment, causing both
men to pull back and blush. Heero handed the shirt to Duo and ordered, "Just.
. . get the shirt."
"Hai."
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Duo and Heero: *Being very quiet and trying not to
look at eachother for too long.*
Relena:
For a story named after me I'm getting very little type
time.
Rai:
*sighs* Aren't they beautiful
together.
Relena:
I'm not getting through to you am I?
Rai:
Huh?
Relena:
Forget it.
Rai:
I'm just having a moment. Excuse
me. *sigh*
Relena: Raihne
I demand you get those two together!
Rai:
*Shock* uh. . . why do you want that?
Relena: Because since part 3 they've
been mooning over eachother but refuse to actually talk and it's driving
me NUTS!
Rai: What
can I say? I think it's a guy thing.
Relena: hrmph. . . Men!
Rai:
You know, you're not as bad as you seemed.
Relena: Don't let it get out,
I have a reputation as a RB among fic readers that needs to be honored.
Rai:
RB?
Relena: Rich Bitch.
Rai:
Oh. . .
Duo:
*stares longingly at Heero and looks aay when Heero turns to face him.*
Heero: *Gazes with
need at Duo and looks away as Duo looks up.*
Relena: Oh PU-LEASE!
Rai:
*giggles* I think we should start the fic now.
Part 4
Heero walked a bit behind Duo, watching the other pilot
as he juggled the baby and his share of the bags. He was frustrated and annoyed
with himself. Never before had he 'not' been able to remember something important.
He kept getting flashes of himself as a child but nothing enough to be sure
of exactly what Duo had said to him in the shower. The gap in his memories
was really begining to annoy him.
A bullet and Duo's shocked cried pulled Heero quickly
from his musings. "Get down!" He yelled. It wasn't necisarry, Duo had dropped
to his side the moment the shot was fired. From the blood dripping over his
cheek, the fact that he'd fallen sideways to protect the baby was most likely
the only thing that had saved him. Heero was seeing red! He scanned
the panicked crowd and caught a glimpse of a gun but before he could get
of a killing shot Duo grabbed his arm. "What are you doing baka?!"
"Too many people. You could hit a civilian."
Heero jumped to his feet and growled, "Damn it! He got
away." He turned back to Duo, "I knew what I was doing. The risk was worth
it for the outcome."
"No Heero, it wasn't. The moment you put killing before
life you become one of them."
Relena cooed and kicked in Duo's arms and the pilot took
Heero's offered hand and stood, bringing the baby with him.
"What kind of role models would that make us?"
Heero snarled. "But now the threat to her is still out
there!"
Duo shook his head. "She has us to watch her."
"Yeah. And now you're bleeding."
Duo became very quiet. He got in the jeep, buckled Relena
in, and was quiet the whole way back. Once they returned, he took Rlena adn
the bags inside and left Heero to wonder what he'd said to cause the other
pilot to be so silent.
He walked into their room and found Duo changing the baby.
He carefully powdered her and folder a new diaper around her then began the
task of dressing her. "Ooo!"
The braided boy laughed, "Are you trying to say my name?"
She giggled and blew a spit bubble then giggled again
when Duo popped it.
"Duo."
He jumped and spun to face his . . . what was Heero? Partner?
Freind? Co-worker? Whoever he was he was familiar enough that Duo's usual
radar hadn't even noticed he was in the room. "What?"
"You haven't dressed your wound."
His lips thined, "Well the baby needed changing."
"Baka." Heero took the first aid kit and pressed Duo to
sit on the bed. "You need to take better care of yourself."
"Oh?"
"Ah." Heero murmured and pressed an antiseptic cloth the
the tear in the skin.
Duo flinched a little as the alchohol mix burned out all
infection. "The bullet was hot, it partially cauterized it."
"Nn." The other boy placed some butterfly bandages over
it the let the skin knit back together. "It will scar."
Duo grinned, "Cool. I'll look all manly an' tough."
Heero gave a wan grin and then looked back at the boy.
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why did you stop talking?"
"I'm talking."
"I meant on the way back, baka."
Duo bit his lip. "You don't have to worry. I can take
care of Relena."
"I know that."
"You said I couldn't."
Heero backed up a bit, "No. I did not."
Duo was getting angry. "I know what the Fuck you said.
I heard you! I said she had us to protect her and you pointed out that
I was bleeding. I may have been shot but so what?! You've been blown up how
many times?!"
Relena obviously didn't like her 'parents' fighting because
she started to wail. Her nose was scrunched up, eyes squeezed closed and
she was crying her little heart out. "Awaaaaaaaa! Ah Ah Awaaaaaaaaa!"
Duo reached for her but Heero got there first, lifting
her into his arms and rocking her as he sat on the bed next to Duo. "Shh."
He soothed her and then turned to Duo. "You misunderstood."
"It was pretty clear to me." He said in a hurt voice.
"The sniper got away." Heero frowned.
"You pointed that out already." Duo
Heero touched the bandages on the American's face and
continued, "He hurt you."
"Yeah I felt it happen." Duo's response dripped sarchasm.
"I don't like that."
"Well sarchasm is an American lifestyle." Duo snapped.
Heero shook hi shead and held Relena closer, like she
was a lifeline while he stared at Duo, trying not to look as lost as he felt.
"I don't like it when you're hurt."
Duo froze, all anger gone. "Oh."
Heero looked away, "Take the baby. I'll warm up her dinner."
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Duo: I didn't mean to scare you Heero.
Heero: Hn. Baka
Duo: I can kiss it better.
Relena: At least they didn't let me get shot while they
were mooning over eachother.
Rai: *Grin* Don't worry. There's
still a few chapters to go.
Relena: You wouldn't dare!
Heero: I'll do it.
Rai: Can't, you're the loving
daddy figure.
Heero: LOVING?! *Pulls out a gun and chases after your
freindly neiborhood author*
Duo: Will Raihne escape? Will Relena get
shot? Will I get laid? Tune into future updates of. . .
Rai: *still running* Just tell
me one thing before I die.
Heero: Nani?!
Rai: Is that a gun
in your spandex or. . . EEP!
~tbc~