Title: Worthy
warning: weirdness and shonen-ai

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Wufei brandished his mini-beam glaive and fell into a fighting
stance.  "Heero!  Duo deserves better than a cold-hearted bastard like
you!  I'll defeat you in a duel and show you that I am the one worthy
to be his lover!"

Heero pulled out a mini-busterbeam rifle from his Spandex shorts and
glared.  "Duo belongs to me!  No one can take him away from me!"

The two circled each other warily, like beasts.  Heero suddenly aimed
the mini-rifle and fired, scorching a large hole in the spot where
Wufei leaped away from.

"Duo will be mine!"  Wufei screamed as he slashed down with the
mini-glaive.

Heero met the falling blade with the buster rifle, which split in two
and exploded, demolishing both weapons.

"Never!"  cried Heero.

Wufei came charging in with his fists and feet.  Heero blocked all of
Wufei's punches, but was knocked to the floor when Wufei dropped down
and executed a sweep.

With a triunphant cry Wufei pounced on Heero.  Heero countered by
shifting his weight and flipping Wufei on his back.

Heero growled.

Wufei screamed.

And suddenly Wufei managed to get his legs under Heero and kick out. 
Heero flew through the air and landed flat on his back.  Wufei started
to get up, but Heero recovered faster, and tackled him to the ground
again.  Wufei saw stars as his head hit the floor.

"No one can take Duo away from me!"  cried Heero as he pounded his
fists into Wufei.  "He's mine!  Mine!"

"All you can think of is yourself!  Duo will be happier without you to
torment him!"  Wufei's elbow cracked Heero on the nose.  "You could
never give him the love that he needs!"

The two rolled over the floor, shouting and punching at each other.

"I love him!"

"I love him more!"

And so the fight continued, until both parties were too exhausted to
stand.  Bruised and bloody, they lay tangled in each other's limbs,
making half-hearted attempts to beat on each other, breathing heavily.

"You're not a bad fighter," wheezed Heero.

"You're not too shabby yourself," said Wufei between coughs.

They lay there for a while, just getting their breath back.

"Do you really care about Duo that much?"  Heero said softly.

"Don't you?"  Wufei's voice was also a whisper.

"He means the world to me," said Heero.

"Promise me,"  Wufei pulled himself up on his elbows to he could look
Heero in the face.  "Promise me you'll make him happy."

"I thought you wanted to do that."

"You're the one he's always thinking about,"  Wufei smiled, a little
wistfully.

"He cares about you," said Heero.  "And I always seem to end up
causing him pain.  I don't want him to hurt."

Wufei placed a hand on Heero shoulder.  "But he still loves you," he
said and looked away quickly.

"I don't deserve it."  A hot tear fell down Heero's face and onto
Wufei's arm.

With infinite gentleness that contrasted greatly with the vicious
blows he has inflicted earlier, Wufei cradled Heero's head on his
shoulder and smoothed down his unruly hair.

"Duo would never love someone who was unworthy," he said.

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