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A Thief in One Life, A Thief in the Next	By : Coffeetailor Category: Gundam Wing/AC > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 4353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Half day! And I now only have seven days of class left. Graduation's on the 8th, no school Monday, senior skip day's the 31st, and I'm not counting weekends. Yatta! Anyway, most of this chapter was written during a play last night, which I was in, between my scenes. The rest was written during drama and stagecrafts, during which we tied knots. Another play performance tonight, so if you wish to send me fortune, don't mention the `l' word. I don't own anything, so don't sue! Read and review!

"A Thief in One Life, A Thief in the Next"

Chapter Twenty-Six

Relena

All eyes were instantly on the terrified princess, except for Heero's, as the pilot was still refusing to wake up. Just as he'd grown accustomed to Duo's yelling, he'd gotten used to Relena's screams as she was one of the thief's favorite targets for early morning pranks when they visited her or vice versa.

Unfortunately for Duo, his constant pranking had also taught her to recover her wits extremely fast, a fact proven as he grabbed hold of her own shoe. "You monster! What'd you do to him? And what have you done with Duo?"

The chimera yelped as he ducked out of the way from the flying high heel, dropping into the orchestra pit as its twin followed. "Ack, Relena! It's not what you think! He's just sleeping! No coffee this morning!" A small handbag flew over his head as he peaked out at her. "Quatre!"

"Miss Relena, please calm down," Quatre said, trying not to laugh at his friend's predicament. "I can assure you that both Duo and Heero are fine, though Duo may not be much longer if you keep throwing things at him."

About to grab a forgotten shoe that'd fallen from a panicking audience member, Relena faltered. Slowly, she lifted her head to take a closer look at the demon cautiously peering over the pit wall at her. Violet eyes, long hair, and protective of Heero... "Duo?"

A sheet of music was waved at her in place of a flag. "Peace?"

"Come out of there," she said slowly. It couldn't be...

"Promise not to throw anything else at me?" he asked, a hand coming up to grasp at the edge.

"For now," she said, nodding.

The chimera vaulted over the wall using one arm, the other wrapped around the waist of the slowly waking Heero. As he was set down in the front row, he looked up at his mate in brief confusion before taking in the new arrivals. "Why didn't you wake me up?"

"You looked really tired," Duo defended, wings flaring for a second by reflex. "Though if you had been awake, maybe princess pink wouldn't have thought I was some evil monster and attacked me."

Relena flushed before stomping down the isle to stand a foot from the chimera, staring up at him. "Explain."

Holstering her gun, Une took a seat in another of the empty seats. "Yes, please do." She glanced at Minamino sharply as he stood up and walked forward, nimbly leaping over the orchestra pit and landing beside Duo, making Relena jump. "You know something about this, Minamino?"

"You could say that," the red haired man said, smiling. "I did raise my little brother after all."

"You're related?" Une questioned, trying to fit her mind around the idea. They'd used the term earlier, but that had been before Maxwell's transformation. "What exactly are you?"

Duo gave a mock heavy sigh. "We are not of true blood, my lady, for I was but a kinless orphan wandering the streets when he graciously took me in and I became the first of the adopted Youko clan. Through the centuries, our family- Ack! Kurama!"

Releasing the captive black hair, Minamino rolled his eyes at his brother's antics. "Don't be so melodramatic, Kuronue. You're acting like a child."

"Kuronue?" Relena asked, head tipping to the side. It would seem that the mystery surrounding Duo Maxwell was unraveling.

"My original name," the winged man admitted. "Back home, I'm known as Youko Kuronue."

"And the new Mrs. Youko?" Sally pressed, raising an eyebrow at her commander as Une quickly covered up a snicker. "You mentioned a wedding."

Relena choked. Duo'd gotten married? When had that happened? And was Heero blushing?

"Well, I wouldn't say that there's a Mrs. Youko," Duo said with an awkward cough.

It was as though the hand of god had suddenly used a bright pink highlighter to connect the dots in Relena's mind. "Heero? You and Duo- Finally! Why wasn't I invited?"

The blond child in black blinked at her before turning to the other three he was playing cards with. "She just found out that the kid's a demon and married to her old crush, and she focuses on the fact that they mated without inviting her to the ceremony?"

Relena waved her hands at the child unconcernedly. "Honestly, he's strange enough that being a demon isn't all that much of a stretch. As for the marriage, there's been a running bet amongst the younger politicians on when they'd get some sense knocked into them and finally hook up."

Duo was laughing even as he grew shorter and his hair lighter, returning to the human man Relena'd known since the war. As dark wings vanished into his back, she held her breath, eyes flying to the quickly rounding ears partially hidden in his hair. Frowning, the ex-pilot rolled his shoulders. "Man, I hate doing that. It always feels weird to lose my wings. Anyway, you weren't invited because it was in the demon world."

"If it's any comfort, we're having two ceremonies, and the second hasn't happened yet," Heero said, now fully awake as he stood and wrapped an arm possessively around his mate's waist. "Commander Une, would you be willing to perform the ceremony?"

"Howard was our second choice, but for some weird reason Heero seemed to think that he didn't want to be married by someone in a Hawaiian shirt," Duo quipped before the woman could answer.

Une had to laugh at that. "Who did your other one?"

It was Minamino who answered, though she supposed his name too was Youko, Youko Kurama. "King Enma Jr. Chimera weddings call for someone to stand as the `god,' so we figured that we might as well go for the real thing. My mate and I have known him since old calendar days."

"I'd love to then," she said, figuring that she might as well hang up her current version of the universe next to the war-time one that said gundam pilots were evil and had to be eliminated at all costs.

With a grin, Duo stepped away from Heero's embrace to pull Relena aside, taking her hands in his as his face turned serious. "Relena, you know you're like a sister to us, right?"

"Duo?" she asked, a little confused. "What-"

"We want you to be our maid of honor."
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