***Yuri***

"Hey Professor G! Is it ready?"

"Yes, please step in."

I ran up the stairs and over to my Aoi Tenshi. It was beautiful. I felt the smooth, silvery surface, entirely in awe at the gigantic mecha. Then, unexpectedly, I whirled around and hugged Professor G. He looked surprised.

"Thank you so much!"

"You are welcome."

**Saturday morning, 5 am**

***Kenmei***

One eye opened slowly, then the other. Blink confusedly twice. I squinted at the digital alarm clock next to my bed, waiting for the blurry image to sharpen. It flashed five o-nine. Inwardly I groaned. Man, the sun's not even up. So why am I awake?! Jeez. Well, sice I'm already wide-awake then I might as well physically get up too. The bed springs whined as I sat upright. I winced and looked over to Yuri's bed, sweatdropping at what I saw. No wonder she's been such a sound sleeper! All these nights she's kept her earphones on, so I was the only one disturbed by Duo's midnight trips to the kitchen. More sweatdrop. I sighed. Why me? First, Quatre's awful, awful sisters. Now this. Fate is cruel.

I leapt lightly to my feet. Then, out of nowhere, a light bulb turned on in my head. It's five in the morning. Everyone's asleep. What better time than now to go snoop? Heheh. Maybe I could even set up a little prank; a scene from a movie I once saw gave me an idea. First stop, the kitchen to stock up on supplies. After that, Duo's and Heero's room!

Armed with a colossal bottle of honey, whip cream, and a huuuge ball of string, I tiptoed silently back up to the second floor. Carefully I opened the door to room number one. They were both sleeping soundly as I had hoped. Heero in his uptight manner as always, and Duo sprawled on his bed with arms and legs hanging off. He was drooling a bit too. I snickered; Yuri has got to see this... I shook the bottle of whip cream, pulled open the top with a bit of effort, and sprayed three spiral layers on his head. Then I made little doodles of honey all over him. Next, I laid out the string so that he would get all nice and tangled up in it, like a sticky spider web.

Heero's mumblings made me stop in the middle of my handy work. Hell, I thought I was gonna get busted or something. Turns out he was only talking in his sleep. I crept closer, hoping to catch a peep at what he was going on about.

"Oh, Relena... Relena..."

Erm, okay... Heero caring about someone that much is a little too freaky for my taste. I shrugged. Whatever, moving on, Wufei's room!

I slipped in stealthily like a thief on a moonless night. Good grief! The guy slep on his back, everything straight and rigid, with his arms holding his katana crossed against his chest. The things you find out but you don't want to know... I flicked open the top of the honey, and squeezed some onto Wufei's head. Then I watched as it slipped down into his ear. Way too much hair gel. Sighing in defeat, I left. Chances are if honey didn't work, neither is whip cream. And then what the heck am I supposed to do with string without honey or cream? I'm not hat creative for pete's sake.

Well, that leaves Quatre, Trowa, Hilde, her boyfriend, and the scientists. I didn't want to do anything to Hilde and Alex, Trowa never gave any signs of being mad, didn't see the point to pulling something on the docs, and Quatre... I didn't want to be mean to Quatre. My watch read five twenty-eight. This is sooo boring. (AN: this is so boring for me too; I've ran outta ideas, AGAIN) Hmm... Guess I could go make breakfast before Duo got up and depleted the food supply.

I bounced down the stairs, the freezing cold atmosphere in the base making me weirdly hyperactive. Let's see now, what to make, what to make... Pancakes! Yes, I love pancakes. (AN: forgive me, I have absolutely no clue WHAT I'm writing, because I am cold and hyper; bad combo) Up and down I searched for the flour, finally spotting it in the forty-eighth cabinet. Holy cow, forty-eighth?! Oh, my gosh. Then I collected the milk, eggs, and everything else I needed and started cooking. I guess there was too much racket, because Hilde and Alex came down soon after, followed by Yuri ten minutes later.

"Kenmeeeeeeeei, what the hell are you doing this early in the morning?!" grumbled Yuri.

"Making pancakes. They're good."

"Uh huh, whatev." she glanced over at Hilde out of the corner of her eyes and winked, "Sooo, Hil, Al. Get any sleep last night?"

Immediately their sleepy look vanished and they turned bright, cherry red. Hilde mumbled something under her breath. Alex nodded furiously.

"What's that?" I asked.

"We mumble mumble not like that."

"Louder, please!"

"I said, our relationship isn't like that. We just share the same room, that's all."

Yuri giggled. "I'm suuuuuuure that's all."

"Really, it's true! We sleep in seperate beds!" Alex blurted out.

"Haha, alright Yuri we should drop the subject and stop tormenting them."

"Yea ok. Ohmigosh, you know what Duo bought me?"

"An engagement ring?"

"NO, baka. A gorgeous music box that plays Utada Hikaru's First Love."

"For real? That's so sweet! So what's up with you two anyhow? Are you all officialy a couple or what?"

"Uh no. I don't know, everything's still so confusing. But you know that cliche 'my knees turn into jelly'? Yes well that's what he does to me. Urgh."

"You don't say. How interesting. Forget what Hilde and Alex may have been doing last night, where were YOU and Duo?!"

"In our respective rooms, thank you very much. Ok, I will tell you that we did kiss--"

"GAH! Stop! Too much info, waaay too much!"

"Have we learned our lesson?"

"Yea, yea. I'm sorry fr sticking my nose into others' business. I'll try to refrain from doing it."

Yuri giggled. "It's alright Ken-chan."

"What's alright?" asked Duo, yawning his head off.

"Nothing that concerns you. Lemme guess, six pancakes for you?"

"Yup, thanks Kenmei. Oh, and thank you very much for the lovely surprise you gave me." He winked.

Yuri raised her eyebrows. "What surprise?"

"I armed myself with whip cream, honey, and string and uh 'decorated' Heero and Duo earlier."

"No, you didn't!" she replied in a mock-surprise tone.

"I believe we shall find out in a mere few seconds." comented Duo.

True enough, after he said that we heard Heero yellng from upstairs.

"DUO!!! Omae o korosu!"

"Wasn't me this time!" shouted back the wrongly-accused.

"Er--I think perhaps I should go out until he's calmed down. Care to join me, Yuri?"

"Sure. Wanna come too Duo?"

"Why not? No point in being here while Heero's mad. Hey, Hil, Alex, do us a favor and explain everything to the Angry One, alright? Call my cell when he stops breathing fire."

Yuri ran upstairs to grab her car keys while Duo and I waited outside. I took this chance to ask him how he felt about her.

"Soo.. How long have you liked her?"

"Huh? Oh. Honestly? I don't know. But when I saw her in the scrapyard... someting in my heart triggered. It was a bittersweet pain. I know that doesn't really make sense, but..."

I nodded. "I don't know if you've thought that far, but do you intend on marrying her? I know Yuri. She's going to need someone who understands what she's going through and know when to comfort her and when to just back off, let her think the problem through herself. And, Duo, you're perfect for her. I know the history of both of you--how much pain you both suffered. You need each other."

The door behind us opened and Yuri came running out, her face flushed and gasping for air.

"Heero--he chased me--down the hall--trying to--find out who did it. Kenmei, he freakin' pointed a gun at me and said he'd shoot if I didn't spill!"

TBC...because the author is sick of typing so much =)