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"Trusting You,"
Part 10
by Shi-chan
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The next morning Duo awoke with a start, but this time the happiness came from something other than a dream. What had happened with Heero wasn't a dream. What had happened to Duo himself wasn't a dream.

Duo found his singing voice fairly early in the morning process. He took a blue towel from the rack and hopped in the shower belting a song at the top of his lungs.

"...go on well,
The chance is right before you!
Daijobu kitto OK!"

He soaped his hair and reveled in the smell of the shampoo and the hot water and life all rolled together. "CHANSU WA ME NO MAE DAIJOBU KITTO OK! It's gotta be OK!"

Wufei pounded on the door. "Maxwell! Shut UP!"

Duo grinned to himself and shut up...for approximately five seconds. He continued to sing the song under his breath as he rinshed his hair, blowdried it, and carefully wound it into a loose braid that bounced when he walked.

Duo danced out of the bathroom and back into his bedroom singing "KITTO OK OK OK!" at the top of his lungs. Elsewhere in the house Wufei screamed, "INJUSTICE!" while Quatre giggled, and Duo laughed out loud again.

He pulled his black pants and white shirt from the closet and added a black long-sleeved shirt on top. He affixed his minister's collar and whistled a tune as he walked down the hall, rolling up his sleeves to above the elbows.

Once Duo got his clothing straightened he bounded through the house singing the whole time. "It's so all RIGHT, maybe too RIGHT, SONO UCHI KITTO COME TO LIGHT! Oh, it's so alllllllll riiiiiiiight...yoshi!" He bounced into the kitchen. "Hey minna-san! Oi, Q-man you're making breakfast? I wanted to cook today!"
Wufei pointed wordlessly at his eyebrows.
Duo looked slightly disappointed but perked up right away. "Whoa! Quatre-kun, are those scrambled?"
"Ano, Duo-kun...hai!" Quatre beamed and moved over so Duo could watch the eggs cook.
"Are you all right, Maxwell?" Wufei asked suspiciouly.
"Of course!" Duo speared a peice of egg with a fork. "It's so all right, remember?"
"What's all right?" Wufei didn't like the idea of Maxwell talking in riddles-or in song titles.
"Everything!" Duo hugged Quatre cheerfully.
Quatre looked down at the black and chestnut whirlwind. "Decided to put your hair up today?"
"Aw, Sister Helen said I had to put it up every day. But I've never minded a bit!"
"Sister Helen... Duo, you're wearing your Maxwell collar!" Heero gaped at his friend.
Duo bounced over to Heero. "Thanks to you. You want me to close that for you?" The braided American grinned and kissed Heero on the lips before bouncing back to the eggs.
"DISHONOR!" Wufei roared.
Heero's eyes were as big as dinner plates.
Trowa, who hadn't spoken since Duo entered the room, said mildly, "Got your memory back, Duo?"
Quatre gasped in delight and threw his arms around his friend. "Really!"
Duo grinned his trademark grin under the folds of the Arab's shirt. "Really. I've never been better."
"Thank Allah!" Quatre's face was a cross between joy and relief. "We've missed you!"
"I missed me too!" cried Duo, running over to Heero. "But Heero-chan brought me back!"
"Me?" asked a surprised Heero.
"Heero-_chan?_" questioned Trowa.
"Of course! I never knew you felt that way about me, but I felt the same way about you!" Duo planted another kiss on Heero's forehead. "Hope you don't mind the public display of affection!"
A slightly-dizzy Wufei sat down hard in the wooden chair. "Dishonor..."
Heero gazed into Duo's violet eyes. "And if I do mind?"
Duo appeared to think this over for a minute. "Nah! I'd do it anyway!"
/Well, are you happy now?/
/Mission complete./
/...mission?/
/It was a personal mission. Of course I'm happy! I have what I wanted most in the world.../

Heero clasped Duo's hands in his. "And that, Duo, is why you're you."

His eyes sparkled. "'Cause I do things like this?" Duo enveloped Heero's protesting mouth in another passionate kiss. Wufei developed a nosebleed.

When the American pilot pulled away from Heero, the Japanese boy grinned at his ai. "Because you do things just like that. Welcome back, Duo."

~Owari! It seems okay for a first try...o.O;;