How it came to be

*Disclaimer* I don’t own any of the characters, apart from the ones I make up…although I would very much like to own them, nor am I making any money, which is a shame as I am skint…*

Chapter 3

The next day everyone woke up, some of them in better moods than others. Wufei, having refused to sleep in his Teletubby bed, had kipped on the floor and woke up extremely disgruntled, sore and tired (if any of you have had experience you will know the floor is not the most comfortable place to sleep). He was even more annoyed when he went into the kitchen to find Quatre and Trowa making out beside the fridge. He took care of this problem by stomping loudly to said fridge, removing a pot of yogurt loudly and them complaining for about 5mins about the lack of coffee even though Quatre had unstuck himself form Trowa as soon as the fridge door had jostled him.

‘Hey Wufei, did you sleep well?’ questioned Quatre innocently.

‘Hmph, not exactly and don’t give me that look, you and the Miss Silent over there know why. I expect Duo informed him of his plans? Which means you also know where he’s hiding…TELL ME NOW!!!’ growled a rather irritated and sleepy Wufei.

But before he could attempt to strangle Quatre, Heero walked into the kitchen. At this Wufei went an odd shade of purple, and gurgled, presumably because it was obvious Heero had had a good night’s sleep whereas he had slept on the floor.

‘Why doesn’t that idiot do anything harsh to you?’ snarled Wufei.

‘Probably because he doesn’t want an angry reaction from me when he returns, he would prefer a…different reaction if I am correct about his reasons for leaving those gifts.’ replied Heero casually as he reached for the milk.

Again Wufei went a odd shade of purple and spluttered before finally saying

‘YOU got PRESENTS? YOU?! Why didn’t I get any?!? INJUSTICE!’

Maybe you didn’t get any presents because Duo feels differently about you to how he feels about Heero.’ snickered Trowa.

Wufei was so shocked at Trowa’s use of words that he stopped in the middle of his justice rant and promptly fell off his chair causing Trowa to snicker even more. Meanwhile, Quatre and Heero were calmly eating their pancakes and taking time to discuss what they were going to do that day…well, Quatre was telling Heero what his plans were, Heero was being as silent as ever but his thoughts were all about a certain elusive braided pilot.

‘I think I’m going to go for a walk.’ Heero suddenly said and got up from the table, cleared his plate and left through the back door to the garden.

‘Ok!’ called Quatre, ‘Just don’t go too far!’

Wufei looked slightly perplexed but before he could say anything, the doorbell rang and 5mins later it was his turn to run for his life as a light brown haired woman called Sally came through the door and reached for her ‘Wuffy-kins’.

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‘Who invited that Onna?’ sulked Wufei as he sat on one of Quatre’s squashy sofas an hour later.

‘Duo did’ replied “that Onna” ‘and I do have a name you know’

‘You don’t when you hugging me like bloody plushy’ came the muffled reply, due to the fact that Sally had Hugged him even tighter and his head was getting lost in her hoody. ‘Let me go woman! I. Can’t. Breathe!!!’

‘Oh, what a shame, although if you did suffocate you wouldn’t be able to call me “that Onna” anymore, haha!’ giggled Sally.

The only reply was a loud and objecting ‘HMPH’ still slightly muffled although she had freed him enough to allow him to breathe.

‘So has anyone seen Heero since he left? enquired Quatre who had used all his self restraint to prevent himself from giggly too loudly at the display in front of him.

‘I went on a short walk after I had finished breakfast to look at the flower beds and I saw him making his way into the forest’ replied Trowa, at the same time sneakily wrapping his arm around his smaller lover, pulling him close.

‘Oh, well I hope he doesn’t go too far in…it might ruin Du- I mean he…er…he, he might get lost’ corrected Quatre, but Wufei was too busy muttering swear words under his breath to notice the slip up, Sally on the other hand just gave him a wink.

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Outside in the forest, Heero was walking around the first tree that Duo had climbed. To him it looked the same as any other tree, but he remembered that Duo had run in a specific direction and had sped up as they neared this tree. Therefore, to Heero’s perfect thinking there must be something special about this tree, it must have a marker on it somewhere to tell Duo where to go. If his theory was correct that would mean that the other trees that duo had used would also have a marker on which would lead to Duo’s hideout…not that Heero knew Duo had a hideout, he just assumed that Duo would have gone to some sort of shelter to preside over his ‘plans’.
With that thought in mind, Heero began to circle the tree again. When he didn’t see anything unusual, he moved further back and tried to look at it through Duo’s eyes.

‘There must be something here that Duo would be able to see’ Heero mused.

As he looked up into the branches he spotted what looked like a rather shiny apple. Now an apple is nothing unusual on a tree, there were many apple trees in Quatre’s forest. At least an apple isn’t unusual when it’s on an apple tree. The tree Heero was looking at happened to be an Oak tree, which meant that Duo must have positioned that fake shiny apple to remind him of the order of tree he was meant to climb in. Heero moved around till he could see the next tree that Duo had jumped to. From the ground he couldn’t see any apples on it. And he didn’t remember seeing any when he was on the branch with Duo... then again at that point he hadn’t been looking. So moving back to the original tree, he climbed up to the branch and looked across. And sure enough on one of the highest branches there was another shiny apple…on another oak tree.

With a small smirk, Heero readied himself to jump across the large gap onto the next tree.

‘Ready or not Duo, here I come’

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Looking in shock at his TV screen, Duo could only open and close his mouth as the realization that Heero had worked out his system, and then screamed in fury when his brain told him that in about 2hours Heero would be at his hideout, looking for answers. And after the gifts Duo had given him last night, Duo wasn’t sure he wanted to be around when Heero arrived.

The screams of ‘SHIT! FUCK! BALLS! BUGGERDAMNSOD! SONOFABITCH! ARRGH! SHINIGAMI HELP ME, SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!’ reached Heero’s ears very faintly. Heero’s smirk widened as the shouts confirmed his theory and told him he was going in the right direction. Thank the Gods that he remembered to bring some of is gifts.

‘Oh Duo is going to get the “punishment” of his life!’ grinned Heero, in a very un-Heero-ish way picking up his speed. ‘Tonight is going to be fun…’

*Well, you’re just going to have to wait for the Heero/Duo lemon. Btw, I passed my theory Owari*