Heero was sitting at his desk typing on his laptop once again as Duo lay on the bed behind him, bored out of his and babbling on about nothing in particular.
"Hey, Heero?"
"Hn?"
"Do you do anything besides sit there and type? Y'know, like anything for fun? Like rollerblading, or going out to dance clubs? Cuz if not then you have one boring life, no offence or anything. It's just that, well, surely you must notice how boring this is. I mean not even Trowa could handle just sitting at a desk in front of a computer typing all day."
"Duo.."
"Ah-ha! He does speak! I knew it!" Duo sat up, a grin on his face.
"Be quiet." Heero side glanced back at the boy behind him on the bed, and then looked back to the document he was typing up.
"Huh? Now why would I want to do that? Jeez. You must be losing your marbles to think that I'm just gonna sit here and watch you type on that computer all day. Hey, You ever play marbles, Heero? No. Of course not. God forbid you would ever do anything fun... You're always so anal-retentive. I bet you don't know the first thing about-"
"Duo. Do you ever shut up?" Heero sighed as he continued to type at an amazingly high speed, interrupting his companion..
"Nope! Don'tcha know? A person can never talk too much. There is no subject too inane to discuss, nor can any remark be too silly." Duo chimed, his grin growing a bit.
"Hmm? Uh-oh. Here we go again." His grin faded "The silent treatment. You know I can wait this out just as long as you can. And since you won't interrupt me, I'm just gonna keep on talking. Now what to talk about? I know! I saw this most wicked show last night. I think it was called Yu-Gi-Oh! Well, anyways it was wicked cool. It's bout these people who play this trading card game called Duel monsters. And there was this one character, Kaiba, he was a real jerk. Actually... he reminded me of you."
"Maxwell, shut up." Heero commanded, in that ice cold, monotone voice of his.
"Yeah. Definitely like you. In fact... he kinda looked like you too. Heh. Think the creators had you in mind when they came up with him?" Duo continued, feeling spiteful.
"Shut up now." Heero commanded again, this time a little more agitated
"Or what?" Duo asked, his voice now starting to take on an annoyed hint as well.
"Omae o korosu." Heero said flatly.
"Jeez. You don't need to be so up tight all the time. It's just a cartoon. Then again, what would you know about fun stuff like that? You're always such a cold, uncaring bastard."
"And you're a loudmouth idiot. We're even." Heero turned to look at him, his gaze cold and stone-like. "Now this is the last time I will say it. Shut up."
"Make me!" Came the petulant reply.
"Gladly." Was all that Heero said as he rose from his chair and walked over to where Duo was sitting and punched him hard in the jaw.
Duo gingerly touched his already bruising face and looked up at Heero, fear and betrayal glistening in his eyes for a moment before turning to something else.
Duo stood up, angry, and returned the punch with one of his own, that Heero easily ducked, dropping into a crouch and sweeping his leg around catching the back of Duo's causing him to fall and land on his back. Quickly recovering from the shock Duo turned and swept his own leg causing Heero to lose balance and fall. "I'm glad to be who and what I am! Can you say the same?"
"What do you mean by that?" Heero asked, his steely blue eyes carefully watching the upset youth before him as he slowly got up ready to counter any attack launched by the braided teen.
"You're a cold, heartless, emotionless, stuck-up asshole. That's what I mean." Heero glared and winced inwardly as Duo continued. "And now that I look at you, I can see what my biggest mistake in life was." Duo said as he stood, panting slightly.
"And what would that be?" Heero asked, keeping his cool façade.
"Giving a damn about you!" With that he stormed out of the room, down the stairs, and out the front door, slamming it behind him. Heero blinked. // Was he... crying? // He thought dazedly as he thought he saw the glimmer of a tear in the corners of Duo's eyes. A minute later He heard Duo's motorcycle roar to life and speed off.