Disclaimers and other Warnings: Well, I'm sure everyone has heard this whole thing before, but some people just don't listen, ya know? Anyhoo…Story mine. Characters not. Got it? Oh, and be warned, this is my first attempt at a GW fic…*nervous laughter* Erm, anyways, there is yaoi and shonen ai or whatever you wanna call it. ^_^ Enjoy. Oh, and C&C would be very much appreciated.

"Heero. Heero, wake up. We've got company. Don't move if you can help it." Duo warily eyed the snake that was slithering over his foot, making his skin crawl. Not the most pleasant way to wake up.

Heero cracked an eye open, calmly looking at the snake. No! Dammit, I can't move or that thing'll bite Duo. I can't lose him. Not after last night.

"Heero?"

"Kuso. Where's Trowa when we need him?"

"I thought he was a lion tamer, not a snake charmer," Duo quipped, trying to cover up his insecurity.

"He is a bit better with animals than either of us are."

"Do you think it's poisonous?"

"Very," came a voice from the mouth of the cave.

Please, God, let that be Trowa, Duo thought, not daring to move his head in fear of the snake. "Trowa?"

"Don't move," the lanky pilot advised.

"We haven't," asserted Heero with a glare, causing Trowa to blink in surprise, wondering vaguely about what the two boys had been doing last night to be in a position like that. The green eyed boy smiled faintly. Duo had finally gotten his wish.

"I'll radio Quatre and tell him to bring my flute." He strode back to Heavyarms, passing Wufei, who was going into the cave. Trowa caught his arm. "Don't go in there. Cobra." The Chinese pilot froze.

"Did he just say 'cobra'?" Duo whimpered. Heero gave him a reassuring squeeze. "It'll be all right. You will be all right."

"That thing isn't crawling over your foot, now is it?"

Trowa came back in, brushing past Wufei, who was still frozen at the mention of the cobra. "Quatre's on his way," he told them, moving in a semi-circle around them, getting an eerie feeling that Heero's eyes were following him. He glanced up. They were. Trowa noticed with mild amusement that the braided pilot had his eyes shut tightly, mouthing a silent prayer as the snake continued to slide over his foot. He also appeared to have a death-grip on Heero.

Duo opened his eyes as he felt the slight weight of the snake leave him. Then he saw it slithering across Heero's things. That accounted for the sudden stillness in the boy he was holding so tightly.

Wufei had also entered the cave, raising an eyebrow as he saw the position the other two Gundam pilots were in. Duo let himself grin.

All four boys heard Sandrock land. Trowa went out to meet the blond Arabian.

"Hello, little one. Do you have my flute?"

"Hai, Trowa," Quatre chirped.

"Well then, let's go rescue Heero and Duo."

"Okay." When Quatre saw how the two pilots were situated, he raised and eyebrow and added, "Are you sure they want to be rescued?" Trowa laughed. "Yes, little one."

Duo made an exasperated noise. "I wish they would stop looking at us and get the damn snake away."

"Nani?"

"Just look at them and you'll see what I mean."

Heero did and would have shrugged if there hadn't been a deadly snake sliding over him. "At least we don't have to tell them."

Duo blinked. "Tell them what?"

"You're mine."

Duo's heart skipped a beat. How he loved the slash on his leg, loved it for bringing him his Heero. Now I have a real excuse for Hilde.

A weird piping music filled the cavern, causing the snake to rear up. Duo sucked in his breath. Its beady eyes were fixed on Heero. Let it go away, please dear God, make it go away. The cobra turned in the direction the music was coming form. Then it started to move in the direction of the music, back over Duo's foot, who cringed. Trowa led it out of the cave. The music faded in the distance.

Duo let out an explosive breath. Heero picked his head up off of the braided boy's shoulder, looking at the cave entrance. Wufei had turned his back on them. Quatre must have gone to help Trowa with the snake. Heero turned Duo's face toward him. He smiled slightly as Duo leaned in, initiating their second kiss, which was cut short as Trowa and Quatre—who was laughing his head off—came back.

"Omae o korosu," Heero growled in their direction as he got up, stretching from being in such a cramped position for so long.

"Hey guys, what's so funny?" Duo called from the floor.

"You'll have to wait for him to stop laughing to get any answer. I'm not going to say anything." Trowa rolled his eyes.

"G-gomen," Quatre gasped out, trying to stop laughing. "You see, there are a lot of snakes in the desert. A lot. I know how to deal with them, better than Trowa." He dissolved into laughter again. The lanky pilot shook his head and plopped down on a nearby rock. "Um, anyway, when Trowa stopped playing, the cobra was really close to him, so I guess he tried to move away, but the snake started to lash out at him, so I stepped on its tail, grabbed it behind the head, and threw it into the stream. You should have seen the look on his face!!" Quatre doubled over with laughter.

"It couldn't have been that funny," Trowa muttered. Duo started to laugh. Even Heero cracked a smile. Wufei rolled his eyes and said something about "unmanly behavior."

"I wasn't even sure the music was going to work in the first place…" Trowa explained, trying to cover up his embarrassment.

"NANI?!" Duo yelled at him. "What were you going to do if it DIDN'T?!"

"Good question."

Duo looked murderous, struggling to his feet, lurching towards Trowa before collapsing. Heero was immediately at his side, helping him up.

"Omae o korosu," Duo said, borrowing Heero's pet phrase.

"Duo…" Heero said warningly. "What are you all doing here to begin with?"

"We've got a new mission." Wufei said, instantly capturing Heero's full attention. "It's going to take all five of us. We have to break into the base where OZ is keeping the prototype and take it to our superiors. Whoever inputted that information you got, Heero, messed something up. The design for it is impossible, so we have to get the actual prototype."