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This story is dedicated to Dark Angel for getting me interested in writing again, and to my sister who really helped me with my writer's block when I needed her. Thanks!!

 

The Trouble With the Truth Part Two: Time Marches On.

By: Msmelanie

Chapter two: Who's Neo?

. All the guys whipped out the guns they had in their robes and started to run upstairs. They just got upstairs when they heard...

"MICHAEL!!" Hilde shouted,  "Michael you-"

"IT'S SNOWING!!" Michael shouted as he ran around the hallway waking everyone up. "Look mommy, it's snowing!" He shouted as he lifted up the curtain in the hall. "It's snowing a lot!"

Dorothy stumbled out of her room, "I tell you Hilde, if you don't get that kid to pipe down I'm gonna-"

"Don't blame me!" Hilde shouted back at Dorothy while pointing at Duo. "It's his fault!"

Duo just looked at her. "What do mean it's my fault?"

"He gets it from you!" Hilde shouted.

"Does not!" Duo shouted back. "I don't act like that, do I guys?"

Heero looked at the ground, Quatre twiddled his fingers, Trowa looked at a wall, and Wufei just continually nodded yes.

Mae Linh and Catherine looked at their watches.

"It's not even eight, Hilde..." Catherine grumbled.

"I know tha-Michael! Don't you dare slide down that-"

It was too late. Michael slid down the stair banister and sprinted to the living room window.

"I wanna see the snow too!" Mingh Loh and Dominic shouted as they started sliding down the banister as well.

Mae Linh and Dorothy looked at Hilde. "It's not my fault, stop looking at me like that!" She said as she moved downstairs after Michael.

Mae Linh and Dorothy went back to bed, along with Jimmy too. It was way too early for them. Little Heero moved downstairs, though. He realized Rei wasn't sleeping in their room, so he knew his mother must've moved her to the couch again. He saw her on the couch with a blanket. I bet Michael woke her up... he growled. He moved next to her on the couch, while the guys came back downstairs.

Not fair...the guys all thought. No Dorothy, and the little girls not sleeping but...now there's not enough room for us. The guys sadly moved back to their spots on the wall.

Relena came back from another doorway with a smile on her face. "I found them! Oh, Heero I need to talk to you."

Heero and Heero moved toward her.

"I was talking about my son Heero, Heero." Relena replied. Heero moved back to the wall.

"Honey, I was wondering if you would do mommy the biggest favor?" Relena asked.

Little Heero nodded his head yes.

"Wonderful!" Relena exclaimed. "Do you mind if we start calling you Junior?"

Little Heero made a sour face.

"Well, what do want to be called then?" asked Relena.

Dominic interrupted. "Heero gets to change his name? Neato!"

"Neato?" Rei  replied looking at little Heero.

"No." Heero replied.

"Take out the 'a-t'." Rei recommended. Everyone just looked at the two children.

"What are they talking about?" Duo asked Heero. Heero shrugged his shoulders.

"Fine." little Heero agreed. "I will be called Neo."

"Wonderful, honey. We'll call you that from now on. I will be right back, okay?" Relena told Neo.

"You're girlfriend's taking off again, Heero." Duo commented. "Do you have any clue where she is going to this time?

Heero just ignored Duo.

Michael came back from looking at the snow through the living room window and went over to the couch. He noticed Duo wasn't looking very warm. "Hey, you wanna come sit down, Duo?" Michael asked him.

Duo had a big smile on his face, but looked at the other guys. They all had don't-you-dare-leave-us-or-will-kill-you looks in their eyes.

"You know, I'm fine right here kid." Duo sadly declined.

Dominic and Mingh Loh noticed Michael sitting down on the couch and decided to come over.

"Michael?" Dominic inquired looking at their fathers. "Those guys look like their freezing."

Michael shook his head. "Yeah, I know. Duo says their fine though."

Dominic noticed the couch. "Michael, maybe he didn't want to leave the others behind? There's not enough room on the couch."

Michael looked at the couch he was sitting on. "Well, yeah maybe..."

"Hey!" Dominic called out to the guys. "If you guys want to sit down we can extend the couch for you!"

The guys all looked at him in confusement.

Michael jumped off the couch and grabbed one end of the couch while Dominic grabbed the other end of the couch. The couch became shorter in height, but a lot longer in length.

The guys started moving towards the couch, but they heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Before they knew it Jimmy, Mae Linh, Dorothy and Catherine sat down on the couch. Hilde saw them and sat down to talk to them.

Dominic watches as the guys move to their spot on the wall again with a dissapointed face. He awkwardly smiles and mouths the word 'sorry'.

Duo starts grumbling about the cold. "This is so lame. Why do earthlings like this weather?"

Relena enters the room with a laundry basket full of clothes. "Hey, guys. Let me introduce you to something us earthlings like to call 'sweaters'."

She handed woolen-knitted sweaters to each of the guys. "I have been looking for these all morning. They were very hard to find, I was beginning to think they 'd be outside in the church."

The guys just looked at their sweaters. Heero had a green sweater in fairly good condition. Wufei took the plain tan sweater, while Trowa took a beautiful old blue sweater. Quatre took a burgundy sweater while Duo got stuck with the last sweater.

"What's this red 'VFMD' doing on this old thing?" Duo asked as he held up his old sweater.

Relena laughed. "Those are all my fathers old sweaters. That one I made for him when I was young. It stood for Vice Foreign Minister Dorlain. He loved wearing that sweater."

The guys all went upstairs to put their old sweaters on. Old or not, the sweaters felt a lot warmer than the cold robes. When the guys came back down they heard Relena talking.

"It looks like we need a bigger couch. Neo? Will you, Dominic, Michael, and Mingh Loh bring out the spare couches?" Relena asked her son.

"B-but it's cold!" Michael started to whine, while Dominic acted like he didn't hear his Aunt Relena.

Neo grabbed the both of them by their pajama necks and dragged them upstairs to get dressed while they continued to protest.

"Thank you, children!" Relena shouted after them. Then she grabbed Rei and took her upstairs to get dressed as well.

A little time passes...

Mingh Loh comes down all bundled up in her coat, while all the other kids are just wearing sweaters.  They all head for the front door.

"Hold it!" Hilde shouts before they can turn the handle. "You are not going out wearing only that!" she scolds. Hilde pushes them up the stairs and scolds them some more.

Mingh Loh and Mae Linh just laugh together.

"That's the brains of an Otoko for you!" Mingh Loh said.

"Isn't that the truth!" her mother laughs back.

Suddenly, Wufei knew he had heard that laugh before. That vicious laugh. It was on the tip of his tongue, but before he could remember Neo, Michael, and Dominic came back downstairs. They were all bundled up in their coats and scarves.

"No playing in the snow, Dominic." Dorothy warned.

Dominic nodded a forced yes and took off with the others.

Hilde stood by the window to watch them. "Don't kick the snow, Michael!" Hilde scolded.