~*~Crestfallen~*~

~*~Scythe~*~

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Disclaimer: I do not own GW or NGW but...its basically just a ruka/duet alternative couple song fic, and I don't exactly know how to do a song fic so work with me here, cuz song fics aren't really my strong point. I do song fics differently than what I normally read so I think it has a different affect on people when written this way. EnJoY

~Scythe~

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" Er...where’s my TV remote?!" Milliardo yelled after his twin. It was the weekend and nothing was going right in the Yuy house at all. Relena was mad at Heero, Haruka was barely ever home, and Rena was sick. Poor Milliardo was just stuck in the middle.

" Uh, did you check under the bed?" Haruka called back from his room. Amazingly he was home today. Almost all the time he wasn't home, he was either at Shingo's house, Ling's house, Triage's and Nova's house, or *Andre's house being a guy basically if you know what I mean.

" Oh, I forgot to check under there. HA, good one" Milliardo got on all fours and stuck his dirty blonde head under the dusty bed skirt and scanned the floor for his TV remote. So far all he found was a couple of dirty socks and some old high school text books. Then his hand grazed over the smooth black plastic of his TV remote. He got up with remote in hand and did a small happy dance.

" What the hell are you doing?" Haruka asked him. He had gotten out of his room to carry his dirty clothes to the maid when he saw his twin acting stupid.

" Ahem, nothing just doing some exercise that’s all ^_^"

" Riiight, and I'm Marilyn Manson." Haruka retorted and walked towards the maids room.

" Hey, Haruka, are you going out today?" Milliardo called after him.

" Yeah, why do you need something?" Haruka said tartly.

" No, just wondering. That's all." Milliardo said skeptically. He knew there was a reason that Haruka wasn't at home more often than he used to be and he wanted to find the reason why. But he just couldn't put his finger on it. Milliardo went back to his room and laid down on his bed to watch TV. Nothing appealed to him because in the back of his mind the problem with Haruka was gnawing at his brain like a dog gnaws at his bone. He flipped channels robotically but he didn't pay any attention to it.

He got off of his bed and went to look for his mom. She was with Rena no doubt in her room. Poor Rena had a terrible cold for being so little.

" Mom did Haruka say where he was going today?" He asked his mother who was changing Rena's diaper at the moment.

" No, he just said he needed some air and that he would be back by at least five. Why do you ask, is something wrong?" She said.

" No but can't you tell that he's been out a little more often than normal these days, Mom?" Milliardo had definitely gotten his mom thinking because she wasn't paying much attention to Rena who was dumping all of the powder on the changing table.

" Yes, but all he'll say is that he needs time from us and he would be going to a friends house and not to worry."

" I know but still, I've called them all and they said that he hasn't been to any of their houses in the past few weeks." Milliardo persisted. Relena was kind of fed up with his interogativeness and waved him out of Rena's room.

A few miles away Haruka is walking the streets looking for something to do to get his mind of off Duet. Ever since Milliardo had asked Duet out Haruka had suddenly realized why he had always picked fights and thrown snide remarks at Duet whenever she was with his brother. He had always hated himself for not asking her out first, because whenever he saw them together he felt sick to his stomach and wanted to kick something or kill his brother, but if he killed his brother then his parents would surely hate that.

Haruka walked around for a couple more minutes then sat down on a nearby bench. It seemed like valentines because all the couples looked like they were out of there love nests for the day to get some fresh air. He wished he had someone like that to cuddle with on a beautiful day like this.

" Haruka, is that you?" Haruka spun around fast and blushed. Duet was right behind him and she actually spoke to him like a normal person for once.

" Uh, y-yeah it me. W-Why do you ask?" he replied. Those eyes are what did it for him; those cobalt eyes that seemed to go on forever and never cease for anything. Whenever he stared into them he couldn't help himself but blush, stutter and stare. But no he always screwed it up by putting her down with cruel words.

" Well, because I've never seen you look so sad before, that's all." She said as she sat down next to him.

" Yeah, I guess I'm ok just thinking that’s all. Thinking about stuff for once, ya know something I don't do very often." Duet giggled and Haruka's heart jumped. That laugh of hers always jolted his nerves and opened the rush of his feelings for her. He kept a straight face and tried not to stare at her but he just couldn't do it, she was so beautiful that it hurt him.

" Is something wrong 'Ruka? Are you ok?" Duet asked him. He shook his dirty blonde head and answered,

" N-no not really just having a really shitty couple of weeks. Just not a very good month for me because...", he trailed off and turned beat red and looked the other way. He had almost said what he had wanted to say to her for so long, but he just couldn't for the fact that she was his brother's girlfriend.

" Because what 'Ruka?" Duet asked him. He got up to leave but she pulled him back down with her small strong hands. He looked down at the ground with sad eyes.

" God damnit, Duet, can you just leave me the fuck alone for once?" Haruka burst then he realized what he had done.

" But...ugh, fine I will leave you the fuck alone if you want me to! I just want to help you when you need it! Is that too much too ask you? Jesus Christ, all you do is yell your ass off at me for no reason, or is it just for fun. Why do you do that? Everybody has feelings, not just you ya know!!" she busted, the odd thing about it was she storm off like he had expected. Instead she sat back down on the bench and didn't move a muscle. Haruka sat down and turned her soft face around and looked into her watery eyes. Without thinking about what he was doing, he put both of his hands on the sides of her face and slowly brought her lips towards his. It was the kiss that they both secretly longed for without telling anyone, it was bliss for both of them; heaven even.
After what felt like forever, they let go and smiled into each others eyes and sat there on that bench for a while. Both of them knew what had just happened; they were secretly in love and they have been for as long as they were little. Their only problem: Milliardo was Duet's boyfriend and Haruka had Michiru which ruined everything they had ever hoped for.

" Haruka, we can't tell anyone about this. What are we gonna do? I'm scared. Why does this have to happen to us?" Duet started freaking out but Haruka calmed her down with a quick peck on her lips and she lightened up just a bit.

" No one will find out...I promise you." his perfectly tanned face sported a slightly curved smirk that made Duet's stomach jump every time she saw it.

" Promise?" she asked him with one eyebrow up in a seductive glare. He nodded once and got up to leave. He waved back, smiled, winked at his true love, and signaled that he would call later that night.

" DUOOOOOO!!" Hilde screamed, and Duo fell off fo the couch. He had forgotten to wash the dirty dishes that lay crusting in the sink since ten that morning.

" Ow... yes, dear?" Duo responded painfully.

" You forgot the dishes you dork!" Hilde screamed. She was outraged for some reason and it had to do with Duet. It was five and she said she'd be back by four from her shopping. Just then the door opened. It was Duet of course with her bags in her hands and a hazy look on her face.

" Duet, where have you been? Duet!" Hilde screamed at her daughter, but she wasn't listening she just smiled and went up to her room.

She put her bags down and flopped on her bed with her hands behind her head looking up at the ceiling as if it weren't there. Of course she was thinking about what had just happened the moment before she had gotten home. She still thought she was dreaming or that it was just her imagination.

" Duet, why were you an hour late from your shopping? If you do this again you're not going shopping by yourself anymore. C'mon, honey, don't make us worry like this ok?" Hilde whined to her navy haired daughter who was currently spaced out happily on her bed.

" Hmm, ok mom I won't" she replied absentmindedly. Her mother looked at her awkwardly and walked out of her daughter's room.

" Duo, don't you think Duet came home a little...different then when she left this morning to go shopping?" Hilde asked her husband as she was straightening up the kitchen. Duo screwed up his brows in concentration as he though about what his wife had just said. There definitely was some truth to her reasoning because when Duet left this morning she was very upset for some odd reason but none of them could figure out why and they didn't think it had to do with Milliardo either.

" Come to think of it yeah you're right but what the hell do you think it could be?" Duo responded. Him and his wife had always been concerned about their daughters whereabouts; but not when she was with Milliardo 'casue they knew he wouldn't hurt a fly unless he had to that is.

" I have no clue...wait did she say she was going somewhere besides shopping this morning before she left?" Hilde asked.

" Ok, dear, now you're freaking me out because she didn't say anything else except that she was goin shopping and that’s all I heard. So I suggest you lie down in bed and I'll be right there ok?" Duo tried that line so many times and it only worked half of the time but he always tried his best.

" Fine, fine, fine don't be long. You know I don't like to wait at times like these." She rounded the hallway corner and disappeared into the darkness of their bedroom.

At the Yuy house when Haruka returned home there was a certain air that made everybody’s head turn. He ran up to his room with a smile on his tanned face, a feathery light feeling in his heart, and a certain person in mind.

" What's up with the demented demon spawn of mine?" Heero asked his wife as he was flipping the pages of the newspaper to get up to date news on Neo OZ.

" I don't know. Why don't you go ask him seeing that all you did was sit on your ass all day and watch the god damn TV!" Relena boomed. She's never in a good mood when Rena gets a cold like this.

" Nope, I don't interact with that one for the lack of his brain." Heero retorted then ducked when Relena hurled a pan at his head and missed.

Up in his room Haruka was thinking about what had just happened. When he went through the whole thing he had realized that she had called him Ruka twice in their conversation. He chuckled to himself and shook his head at the thought. It kind of tickled him to hear her say that but he didn't mention it to her just incase she denied it and backed off.

" Haruka, have you by any chance seen Duet today when you were out?" his twin brother asked him casually. Haruka's composure changed as soon as his brother asked him that question. Why did they have to be twins, they always sensed something out of the ordinary with each other.

" Why, wouldn't you like to know? So you can screw the bitch?" he laughed at himself for his tartness. Yep he was himself again now that he had found the woman of his dreams that was attached to his brother, which in part was the only downfall.

" Ha...Ha...Ha, very funny. For your information that's none of your business. Now did you see her or not?" Milliardo was getting pissed off at his brother's childish antics and snotty manor.

" To answer your question, dearest brother, no I haven't seen your whore of a girlfriend! Now if you will excuse me I have a very important call to make." Haruka waved a hand at his intelligent clone and slammed the door. Despite his brothers bangs on the door and incoherent mumbling as he walked away, Haruka didn't listen to him and dialed his longed for girlfriends number. He twiddled his thumbs waiting for the phone to pick up. He was growing impatient. Finally it picked up but he was greeted by some rather um...private noises.

" Um...hello this is Haruka may I please speak to Duet?" Haruka was grossed out by the sounds he heard.

" Ooooh....shit, yeah Ha-ruuuuu-ka just a moment...Duo will you hold on a minute...let me get my clothes." Hilde said on the other end of the phone. A few minutes passed and Duet was on the phone.

" Hello?" Duet answered. Haruka's heart leapt at the sound of her voice. It was always so clear as to how much he loved her, but he could never tell her that.

" Hey, guess who?" he said in his brothers tone of voice.

" uhg, Milliardo?" this was funny, Duet thought it was her actual boyfriend Milliardo but it wasn't obviously.

" No...guess again" he replied in his normal tone of voice. Duet squealed and apologized for being blonde.

" I’m so sorry 'Ruka I didn't know it was you at first, I thought it was my oh so wonderful boyfriend Milliardo. I swear all he does is give me stuff and its kind of annoying. Ya know what I mean, right?" Duet said with her face screwed up on the other side of the phone. Haruka chuckled and answered yes to his would be girlfriend.

" I find it rather funny, dear, that you're still with him and not with me." Haruka replied with a sad tone. He wish he hadn't said that because it sounded like a desperate plea for her to go out with him.

" Don't you see it Haruka? He loves me more than I will ever know and I don't know if you can give me that same kind of love back. 'Cause with all the girls you've hurt and let down I'm scared of what you'll do to me. And I don't want to be hurt again..." Duet trailed off due to the fact that she was on the brink of telling some rather important information that no one has ever heard about before, not even Milliardo.

" You WHAT?!?" Haruka almost screamed, he was shocked at half of the information he had just heard. First of all she was scared that he might hurt her, and secondly she had been hurt before Milliardo had come onto the scene of her love life.

- Had she really been that terribly hurt before that she won't give in to the true love she has for me? Haruka thought to himself in shock.

" N-nothing, its nothing. Just thinking and talking at the same time doesn't exactly work out at all..." she said in a quivery voice.

" Bull shit! What's wrong with you? I won't hurt you for the world, no in fact the universe. Now don't YOU see it, Duet? That I, Haruka Zechs Yuy, am in love with you and I always have been since the day I first looked into your eyes. Duet...I don't know how else to put it, but I wont hurt you no matter what. I love you, Duet. Isn't it obvious?" Haruka was about to cry over the phone. Her relationship with Milliardo blinded the love she had for Haruka terribly and so she was programmed to think that she was in love with Milliardo and not Haruka; which obviously was not the case. If Milliardo found out, Haruka would’ve been dead within half an hour or maybe even less.

" Would you stop yelling at me PLEASE? God, that’s another thing that I was afraid of dealing with- your yelling at people you claim to love..." he had done it, he made her cry and that’s exactly what he didn't want to do in the first place is make her cry. His heart broke when the first signs of crying came out in the woman he loved so much. On the other end of the line Duet slowly took the phone away from her ear and right when it was an inch away from the cradle she ever so softly whispered these words,

" I'm sorry Haruka, I love you too much; and if I do break up with Milliardo for you, I'm afraid you're going to get hurt and I don't want that to happen..." and hung up. Haruka wasn't paying attention that well because of his own quiet sobbing. When he regained composure he kept calling out her name but had finally come to realize that she had hung up on him. He sat there, eyes in frozen stare, blinding tears racing down his cheeks, and hearing nothing except for the dial tone that was protruding from the phone in his possession. With locked door and darkness, he lain down on his bed and cried himself into a long, fitful, and disturbing sleep with head filled of dreadful dreams about the women he loved so much.

~*~

Who am I to need you when I'm down
Where are you when I need you around
Your life is not your own

And all I ask you
Is for another chance
Another way around you
To live by circumstance, once again
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~*~THE NEXT DAY~*~

" Hey, man, you don't look so good. You ok?" Shingo asked his best friend. Haruka had been at his house since he got up the next day. Shingo was right, he looked terrible; his eyes were blood shot with bags under them, his sandy hair was tousled and unkempt, and his clothes was all wrinkled. He looked like a handsome bum basically.

" Yeah...I'm fine, can't you tell?" he finally cracked after two hours sitting outside on the Winner mansion steps with Shingo. For those two hours Shingo was having a one sided conversation with himself about Ariel and Haruka was just staring at his own feet with out moving thinking about the night before.

" So, do you want to talk about it? Or no?" even though Shingo was loud, obnoxious, and annoying, on the inside he was really a good friend. Haruka hesitated to answer for a moment but shook his head no. He knew that if he told Shingo what had happened yesterday, their friendship would take a dramatic turn for the worst because they both had a pact that they would not fall in love with someone so bitchy but at the same time someone so beautiful and mysterious. Shingo might not even believe it but Haruka didn't want to take that risk of telling his inner most secrets to his best friend. He breathed in a quivery breath and stood up. Shingo followed suit not knowing what to do.

" It's almost lunch time lets go get a burger or something, cause I'm so god damn starving." Haruka said without letting Shingo answer yes or no.

" Uh, yeah sure, man, whatever you say." Shingo was freaking out. Haruka never acted so depressed in his life. At least Haruka was eating; because when Shingo was depressed he didn't touch anything, not even Relena's cooking and that was like the one thing he would actually devour.

" How did you get around to telling Ariel how you felt the first time you realized you loved her?" Haruka asked his best friend out of nowhere after a few minutes of walking to the burger joint down the street.

" Um...actually I don't really remember. Why, something wrong with you and Michiru?" he had forgotten all about Michiru the past couple of weeks that he was brooding over Duet. Haruka sighed and nodded his head no.

" Eh, I'm actually thinking about dumping her...I found her kissing some bastard the other day in my dorm room on my bed." Haruka said in one trivial breath. To tell the truth he never really loved Michiru because all that time he was thinking about Duet.

" Are you serious?" Shingo asked in amazement as they rounded the end of the street. Haruka nodded his head yes even though he wasn't exactly paying attention to anything but the dirty shoes he had on.

" Yep and I really don't care right now 'cause I want to eat and there’s the burger joint-" Haruka trailed off at a gut wrenching sight: Milliardo and Duet sharing a chocolate milkshake. He stopped dead in his tracks staring at them with a clenched jaw and fists. Shingo turned around to where his friend had stopped and looked puzzled.

" Um...dude are you ok?" Shingo asked him as he walked back to him. Haruka knocked some sense into himself and said yeah. Shingo just kept looking at him funny and muttered a few incoherent words about insanity.

" Can we uh, eat inside instead of outside this time please?" Haruka asked his best friend.

" Why? You've always liked eating outside...now what?" The only reason Haruka liked eating outside was because it had a higher percentage of hot chicks outside instead of in which held the lower half of the population: old ugly broads.

" I just feel like eating inside for once that’s all." Haruka said as they stepped inside the restaurant. As he was walking he could feel Duet's cobalt eyes following him like a razor blade but he could tell that she was talking to Milliardo. But he was quickly jerked around by Shingo and greeted by a disturbed expression on his face.

" Haruka snap out of it, man! You're freaking me out here, so stop it!" he said in a strangled whisper. Shingo gave him one last glance and turned around to order his burger. When the order was done Shingo handed two burgers to Haruka and two for himself and continued looking at his best friend in an odd way.

~*~

Who am I to need you now
To ask you why to tell you no
To deserve your love and sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me

And you may go, but I know you won't leave
Too many years built into memories
Your life is not your own
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" Why am I freaking you out?" Haruka asked him as they were sitting down. He was clearly puzzled by his friends reaction to his not so daily spazing out. But Shingo could tell that it wasn't his daily dose of nothingness, there was something that was bothering his best friend and he wanted to know what it was, because whatever was bothering Haruka would always spark something in Shingo's mind.

" Because, you just are ok?! Jeez, what's with you today? You showed up on my doorstep and didn't move until now to go and get something to eat, your hair looks like shit, your eyes look like you colored them with a red and pink marker, your clothes looks like you've been through the spin cycle a few times, and you're as pale as a sheet of paper!" he said in another strangled whisper. Haruka's eyes widened as he stared at his friend in amazement.

-Do I really look that bad? he thought to himself.

" Well I've had a couple of bad thoughts about...stuff that...oh god damnit I can't tell you! Even though you are my best friend! This isn't going to work, I don't even know why I showed up at your doorstep at one in the morning!" he said as he took a giant half bite of one burger.

" At one in the morning did you just say?" Shingo asked in shock. Haruka nodded yes as he polished off his first burger with his second bite and downed the first super large coke along with the jumbo fries and started on the second meal. Shingo stared at him in disbelief while Haruka was finishing his second burger, fries, and coke.

" Yes, one in the morning. I was walking around last night, I felt like sitting down somewhere, I just kind of sat down without looking at whose doorstep it was, and then it was daylight when you came out of your house." Haruka said casually as he was throwing away his trash and sat back down. But of course Shingo was still gaping at him like a mad man as if he had done something wrong.

" Why the fuck would you do that?!?" Shingo said as he finally found his voice. Haruka pondered the thought for a moment and shrugged his shoulders. Shingo wolfed down both of his burgers and shook his head. When they got up to leave, Milliardo and Duet were making out. Haruka tried not to look at it as they walked past them. They finally unlocked lips with each other and he could feel those eyes once more penetrating right through him like a hot knife does within the enemy. He didn't pay any attention to it but just kept on walking. Finally, he gained enough courage to look around at her. Milliardo's back was to him and he was staring right into those big cobalt eyes that he had always loved to stare into. They were staring right back at him with so much longing and despair that he wanted to scream out and run to her and hug her and never let her go but he just couldn't do that.

~*~

Who am I to need you now
To ask you why to tell you no
To deserve your love and sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me

Who am I to you?
Along the way
I lost my faith
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~*~AT THE YUY HOUSE~*~

Later that day when Haruka got home he decided that he could at least forget about her for a couple of hours but whenever he tried to do that, somehow she would always find her way back into his mind. He washed his and his brothers gundam at least ten times, he actually cleaned his room and Rena's room, he dusted the house, he fed Rena, he sorted the books in the library, and he took out the trash: all of this was obviously un-normal behavior for him but it was all he could do to rid his mind of his brothers girlfriend.

" Um...Haruka, why are you acting like this?" Milliardo asked as he was watching tv but stopped to give his twin a puzzled glance.

" Hmm, um, just because I guess. I've been bored lately, ya know?" he replied in a haughty manor.

" Yeah, sure...whatever." Milliardo said as he went back to his tv show about micro organisms and their functions in the brains of animals.

" Fine don't believe me, hmph suit yourself then. You should be thanking me 'cause I did all of your chores for the whole week." Haruka laughed and went outside for a meditative walk.

" Milliardo!!" Heero screamed from the living room. Milliardo groaned and got up to answer his fathers scream.

" Yeah?" he said.

" Why the hell did you clean your gundam five times? Now I'm all out of that really good cleaning stuff, whatever its called I don't have it anymore!" Heero said obviously not knowing that Haruka had done it.

" Uh...I uh...um I didn't do it." was all he had managed to say to his father. But by the look on his fathers face he could tell that he didn't believe him.

" Riiight, whatever. How come I don't believe you then?" Heero was acting like a little unreasonable child on crack by this time.

" I don't know why the hell you don't believe me!! But I know I didn't clean my dam gundam five times in a row for the hell of it! Go ask Haruka, he seems to be on top of things right now!" Milliardo screamed and stormed off to the library.

Shingo was sitting at home playing with his rubber band ball thinking about the days events at the burger joint. -Why was Haruka acting like a fag? He thought to himself. -He looked like a wreck, and he reeked of not taking a shower and bodily fluids all at the same time. He shuddered as he kept bouncing his ball and then decided to call Ariel. Her cell rang for a bit then she picked up after a couple of rings.

" Hey, Ariel speaking." she said.

" Hi, sweety, hey listen...um have you noticed anything about Haruka lately? Like anything weird or abnormal about him?" He asked his much loved girlfriend.

" Um no not really. And what do you mean abnormal? He's always been abnormal. HA! Good one Shingo." She laughed to herself.

" Well, I meant abnormal as abnormal to me and what I normally see everyday, that type of abnormality. And I've been seeing a lot of it lately. Today he freaked out at the burger joint, last night he was at my door step at one in the morning, and he looked like and reeked like shit." Shingo strained out.

" Wow, that really doesn't sound like him. You're right on that one Shingo, but come to think of it..." she trailed off in mid thought and sentence, then suddenly it all made sense as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

" What?" Shingo asked he wanted to know desperately.

" Ya know what? I have to go 'cause...I gotta...um go work." she said in one breath.

" But, Ariel! Wait! Don't go yet!" Shingo was desperate.

" I love you baby. Gotta go bye!" and she hung up her cell as quickly as she had picked it up. Shingo just stared at his own room phone and then put it back on its receiver. He sat there for a bit and pondered why she had to go so soon.

Back at the Barton's place Ariel put her shopping bags down, wrote a little note to her parents that she would be going to her cousin's house, and bolted out the door. She ran down the street to Duet's house and pounded on the door, panting like a dog.

" Hey, Ariel. What's wrong?" Hilde asked a tattered Ariel with her hands on her knees.

" Is...Duet...home?" she asked her aunt desperately.

" Um, nope she isn't. Sorry hun. She left about a couple of minutes ago." she said with a sad look and a shrug. Ariel stood up and said that she was going to go look for her. Hilde closed the door and went back into the house.

In the little town square where the two lovers had a meeting with each other the day before, we find Haruka sitting down with his head in his hands thinking about where he had gone wrong. He straightened up, closed his eyes, and went through yesterday's encounter with Duet. -What the fuck is wrong with me? he asked himself in disgust. -What did I do wrong and can I do anything to fix it? he paraded himself with questions until he couldn't anymore and just broke down silently but thankfully nobody was there to see him. He heard footsteps then and sat in an upright position while wiping his eyes furious with himself. But he couldn't see anybody at least he thought. He got up and sped behind a bush. There she was, sitting on the fountains edge, with her head in her hands just like he had been a few seconds ago. She picked up her head and her whole porcelain face was red as a tomato. There were two glistening tear streams down either side of her cheeks. He could hear what she was saying but it was a bit incoherent, that is, until she started screaming it.

" Why me? This isn't fair...why did I have to sat yes to Milliardo? I love Haruka, right? I mean he seems like the right one for me...what am I saying?! He is the right one for me. Ugh, what did I do to deserve this fucked up mess anyways?..." She continued sobbing and put her head back down into her hands. He slowly got up as to not make any noise and sat next to her. She obviously didn't hear anything over her loud wails.

" Hey," Haruka said in a whisper and rubbed her back with a gentle hand. While this was going on Ariel had finally caught up with them and was watching behind a nearby bush about a couple of feet away from the live Soap Opera. With wide eyes and rapid breathing, she didn't say a single word.

" Oh my god...how long have you been there?" Duet said as she was scraping the tears away from her face. Her eyes were puffy and her hair was everywhere. Haruka still thought that she was one of the most beautiful women next to his mother of course (A.N. he has to be nice right? oh c'mon its the role of the ball in the story...work with me here)

" I just sat down like a minute ago...So, are you ok?" he asked cautiously. She obviously didn't look it though. Ariel wanted to protest but she just couldn't put herself to do it because this affair that she was watching between two of her friends, namely one of them her cousin, actually seemed to fit somehow. She shook her head slowly at the thought and kept watching.

" Does it fucking look like I'm ok? I've been thinking about yesterday since forever!! You were right, I do love you and...and...oh I just can't dump your brother for you...THIS ISN'T FAIR GODDAMNIT!!" she screamed and continued crying. Haruka put his arms around her and pulled her close to him and held her for what seemed like forever then let go and looked into her reddened eyes. She stopped crying instantly. Ariel was stunned by how it just takes one time being embraced by someone you truly love to calm you down that fast. This was so right that it was forbidden to her to even see it happening.

" Look, Duet, I LOVE YOU...can't you even comprehend what it means to me to see you with my brother? It tears me apart into pieces and...and I can't stand it, this isn't fair to either one of us, I know that and I've always known that to be true. I've wanted you to be mine for such a long time that I can't wait anymore, Duet. I just can't wait anymore. Don't you ever wonder where we would be now if you hadn't said yes to Milliardo and at least waited for me to ask you out back in middle school, well at least the last grade of middle school, where we would have been happy? Right now we could have been married with at least one child and another on the way. Duet, isn't that what you want for both of us?" Haruka said as silent tears were streaming down his softly tanned face. Duet was touched by what he had just said and it was so true, every single word, every single sentence was so true that it scared her. She just bent forward and kissed him unexpectedly for so long that it scared him also.

~*~

And as you were, you'll be again
To mold like clay, to break like dirt
To tear me up in your sympathy
You were never meant to belong to me
You were never meant to belong to me
You were never meant to belong to me

Who am I?

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Ariel was crying by now to at what she had just heard by one of the people she thought was so perverted ever since he was born. He was only like that to Duet because he couldn't have her and it was his way of taking out his aggressions verbally without hurting anyone physically. There was no way in the world that she could tell Shingo now, because if he didn't see it before then she surely wasn't going to tell him now. She was astounded at how well everything seemed to fit perfectly like a little puzzle so neat and perfect in its unopened dusty box for such a long time. Well now that cover was lifted and the puzzle put together, and oh what a perfect picture it created.

" I love you Haruka Zechs Yuy, and I always will till the day I die. I hope you know that." She said while she put her head on his chest. He fondled with her hair and bent her head up to kiss her one more time.

" I love you too Duet Maxwell, but it's more than you'll ever know and maybe even more. Who knows, heaven maybe." He replied. They sat there for what seemed like hours but it was only two o'clock when they decide to leave. Ariel was amazed by how so calm they both were and how they looked like they've been together forever but all of them knew this would be short lived and maybe even deadly if this information got into the wrong hands. Ariel got up slowly not to disturb the two and creped up behind them quietly on the opposite side of the fountain to get a better hearing and a better view. They didn't see her because they were too busy making out like there was no tomorrow. Both of them had finally unlocked lips and Ariel slipped and fell and they both heard her fall on her ass behind the fountain wall.

" Who's there?" Haruka asked scared out of his mind. He had stood up with wide eyes and looked around like a deer looking at white hot headlights.

" Ow...it's just me, Ariel." she replied in pain as she went to stand up gingerly. Both of them had a look of shock on their faces like something terrible was going to come of this. There faces turned sheet white just as if they had seen a ghost.

" What the fuck are you doing here god damnit!?!" Duet said in a loud whisper as she walked slowly towards her cousin. Ariel just looked at her with a impish smile and tried to sit back down on the fountain's edge but was scared out of her mind that she would slip and fall on her already hurt ass one more time.

" Well, this afternoon Shingo had called me and he was telling me about how awful Haruka was acting the past couple of days and the past couple of weeks to be exact. So I figured that since Duet was acting the same way all I did was put two and two together and came up with this equation within seconds. It wasn't that hard to figure out you guys. With Duet being pissed off at Milliardo all the time and coming over my house to beg me to go shopping with her so she could blow all of the money off of her credit card, and what Shingo was saying about Haruka being all out of it and acting all goody-goody two shoes at home and like he was on crack or whatever...it just all made sense like a simple puzzle right then and there." she told them in one long breath. Duet and Haruka looked at each other with fear at what would happen to them if she would say anything.

" You're not gonna say anything are you?" Duet asked her cousin with one last tear rolling down her cheek. Ariel smiled and hugged her cousin.

" Why would I do something stupid like that? And besides I always knew you and Milliardo were so NOT right for each other. I mean it was like a match made in hell for crying out loud." She said.

" I could've told you that..." Haruka said fecitiously with a sarcastic air.

" Well obviously you didn't dear or else you guys would have been married with one child and another one on the way..." Ariel said and blushed.

" You were there for that long!!" they both chorused. She nodded shyly and laughed. She had always wondered why Duet had said yes to Milliardo and when Haruka was going to forget Shingo's pact and finally ask her out after she dumped Milliardo for a couple of times, but needless to say that never happened. Now that it happened it tickled her to see it actually unwind.

" Yeah...I'm sorry you guys. I went to Duet's house after Shingo had called me but you weren’t there so I figured you were at the plaza shopping or whatever." she replied with a smirk.

" Well, now isn't all of this useless shit touching." Everybody jumped and turned around but they couldn't see who it was because the person was behind the bushes. He sauntered out of the bushes sleekly and stared down his backstabbing brother. Ariel didn't say a word, Duet screamed and started crying, and Haruka was on guard. Milliardo advanced on the extremely sad clone of himself with a disgusted and repulsive look on his face, then punched him knocking him back into the fountain behind them. Duet turns around to Milliardo and slaps him across the face. Milliardo stands in disbelief as to what his now exgirlfriend has just done.

" How could you have fallen for...for HIM?!?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Milliardo said with a disgusted aire at his now ex girlfriend.

"I didn't plan to hurt you Milliardo, it kind of just...happened..."Duet replied with a seductive smirk to her already beautiful porcelain face.

Haruka finally gets himself out of the fountain, outraged expression on his lightly tanned face, drenched as hell, and only one thing in mind.

" Yeah, so read my goddamn lips...FUCK, OFF!!! I GOT THE GIRL THIS TIME, BITCH!! OH SO WHAT NOW HUH HUH HUH?? BOO YAH!! BEAT THAT!!" Haruka says in a gay rapper tone of voice and knocks his brother out one more time for the victory. Ariel and Duet gasp and Haruka does a little happy dance then regains composure and scrapes his unconscious brother up off the floor.

" Haruka!! What the fuck do you think you're doing?! He's your goddamn brother for crying out loud...jesus christ!! What the hell is wrong with you, you’re parents are gonna fucking shoot you if they found out what you did to him...and what he did to you but whatever." Ariel said uncontrollably in one ranting breath.

" I thought it was the funniest shit in the world to tell you the truth." Duet said, shrugged and laughed at her piece of crap ex boyfriend in Haruka's arms and shook her head. Milliardo regained consciousness and looked around quietly and slightly puzzled. He looked at his brother one last time then walks up to Duet with sad eyes and a tear down his face and says,

" I loved you and I always will but remember that I will always be there for you if you need me..." and kissed her for one last time then left with his head hung and no one to love him anymore as he had loved Duet. She just stared after him but said nothing, Ariel was right they were a match made in hell and she had always known it but didn't do anything about it.

" Wow, poor guy. But o'well the puzzle has been put together and the pieces fit perfectly. No wonder I didn't see it before...it just all makes sense now that this happened. The puzzle's lid has been sealed for a long time and was slowly opening up the last few days by you two's love affair that was concealed by day but blooming by night. This is so COOL!!" Ariel said in one wise breath. She was happy for Duet and for Haruka now that he wouldn't be so mean to her after all but they still had to keep it from Shingo for a while or all hell would break loose for sure.

~*~THE NEXT DAY AT SCHOOL~*~

Ling was packing his backpack for class in the dorm room he shared with Milliardo when he heard some talking in the bathroom across the hall. He decided to go in and investigate. So he got up off of the dorm room floor and slowly tiptoed to the bathroom door. He pressed his ear slowly and quietly against the smooth wood door and heard a one sided conversation by Milliardo about Duet and himself. The door opened up and he was surprised to see Ling standing there.

" Oh hey, Ling. How are you this morning?" he said fagishly. Ling raised one eyebrow and replied,

" Um...fine thank you...why were you talking to yourself in there? There's like no one else in there..." Ling said puzzled completely by his friends actions. Ling waited for an answer while watching Milliardo dry his hair.

" Oh just thinking I guess. Out loud ya know?" he said.

" Right..." Ling said and went back to his room. Something was very wrong with Milliardo ever since last night, Ling thought to himself. He just couldn't put his finger on it. Milliardo put on his yellow and navy polo shirt, khaki pants, waffle stompers, and some Tommy Hilfiger for men. He looked gay to Ling, and maybe he was or something but whatever it was it was really freaking the shit out of Ling.

" See you in class, Ling." he said as he walked out of the dorm room with his versaci back pack over his one shoulder. Ling raised his eyebrow in amazement as he walked out of the room and into the shower. When he got out of the shower he saw all of Milliardo's towels were changed to lilac instead of black and he used Dove soap instead of Zest. Ling was starting to freak out so he quickly stepped out of the bathroom and got ready for class. As he was just about ready to leave he spotted a note on his bed. He picked it up, read it, and this is what it said...

Ling-

Hey hun! I was just wondering if you were doing anything tonight because if you aren't I was wondering if you would join me for ice cream. But one problem...I don't seem to have a spoon...So...can I use your ding-dong for the Ice Cream scooper? just wondering since it would be fun, not to mention kinky at the same time! Oh screw it I'm getting horny already...see ya in class before I start jacking off at lunch!

<3 Milliardo

Ling dropped the note in the wastebasket and ran back into the bathroom and hurled his brains out till lunch where he avoided Milliardo for the rest of the day. He even skipped all of his classes so he didn't have the urge to hurl again.

He walked back to his own house instead of the dorm room and flopped on his bed and went to sleep and only woke up to the phone ringing in his room. He picked it up with a shaky hand to answer it.

" Hello..." he said as if he hadn't used his voice in forever. he didn't want it to be Milliardo because that would just be wrong and unjust.

" Hey man its me Shingo...you don't sound so good." he said.

" Nope, Milliardo was hitting on me this morning." Ling said as he tried to fight a wave of nausea arising in his throat. Shingo let out a girlish scream that was probably higher that the decibels that your supposed to hear and laughed for what seemed like hours but was only a few minutes.

" That’s fucked up man, big time. And when was this?...wait a minute, what happened with him and Duet then?" Shingo asked slightly pissed off at what Ling might say next.

" I don't know, all I know is that they broke up and Duet is going with some look alike of Milliardo but I think that's the only reason why she’s going out with the guy and the reason why Milliardo is gay..." he said with another wave of nausea approaching so fast that he ran to his old bathroom and blew the chunks in the toilet.

" Gross...well I'm gonna let you go...hurl so cya." he said an hung up.

~*~ AT THE UNIVERSITY'S FRESHMAN HOMECOMING ~*~

" Hey you guys where's Ling?" Milliardo asked his fellow Neo Gundam Pilots. He looked around with one wrist bent to his side and searching for his 'friend' with a seductive smirk on his face. All of his friends shook their heads saying no and going there separate ways onto the dance floor.

As they were dancing there first slow song ever, Duet looked up to ask Haruka a question,

" How long do you think we will last?" she asked him worriedly. Haruka chuckled and led her to the outside courtyard under the velvet black night ornate with twinkling ivory stars where they could dance by themselves.

" Well to tell you the truth, dear, I hope for a very long time and maybe even long enough so we could grow old together." Duet's heart jumped with anticipation.

" Oh really? Well I hope so too." she said as they danced dangerously close to each other’s bodies. The music went on well into the night and the little couple on the balcony danced nonstop. Haruka let go of Duet and sat her down on a nearby porch chair.

" What are you doing, Haruka?" she asked him slightly amused. He told her to wait right there and not to move. He was gone for quite a while, which in turn gave her time to think about a lot of things like the beautiful night stars, her future, his future, there future as a couple and a lot of things all together. She was mesmerized by the beauty of the vast night sky and why the stars always seemed to be happy and full of joy. Her thoughts were interrupted by Haruka kneeling on one knee with a flushed smiling face.

" Haruka?..." Duet was speechless as to what to say. She knew what was coming and it shocked her. He opened the little black box and there was a tiny diamond ring glistening in the full moonlight and shining in her big luminous cobalt eyes. He slipped the ring on her small delicate finger as he watched her happy tears rolling down her porcelain face onto her silvery white dress.

" Duet Maxwell, will you do me, Haruka Zechs Yuy, the honor of being my wife for the rest of our lives?" he asked her and waited patiently for her reply. She sat there and stared with a wide eyed smile at the tiny ring on her finger.

" Oh my god, Haruka, I don't know what to say..." she said after a while.

" Say yes, please say yes." Haruka said suddenly getting afraid of the situation. She burst in tears and laughter and looked Haruka in the eye.

" Yes then I will marry you, Haruka Zechs Yuy, I will be your wife for as long as we both shall live." She then got up and hugged Haruka and kissed him for a while and they stayed out on the balcony a little longer.

" I love you, Duet."

" I love you to, Haruka." they said and stayed in each others arms till the morning light did part the velvet night sky and the sun peaked through the creamy clouds of day.

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THE END

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Holy shit that was awesome!! review!! ~Scythe