The Sixth Gundam Pilot
Part 4
by Lilock


Duo woke all of a sudden. Heero was still sound asleep, but there was something else where that was awake. Duo quietly slipped out of bed, hoping not to wake Heero. The American pilot dressed himself and quietly left the room.

"I wonder who's up? At this hour, even the machanics are asleep." Duo said as he looked around the ship. In the shadows, Duo noticed a figure moving very slowly. Duo walked over to the light switch and turned the lights on.

"Kai?" Duo said and he was the female gundam pilot. She stood composed, even though Duo had frightened her. She's way too much like Heero.

"Um, Hi Duo. I was just getting back. I got caught up in something else. So just go back to sleep and don't worry about me." Kai said. The American pilot glared at her with his violet eyes. "What is it now?"

"Are you telling me the truth? It doesn't sound like it." Duo said. Kai sighed. Out of the few humans she had met, Duo was the first to be able to read her like a book.

"I'm telling you what I want you to know. After Millardo ran from the fight, I got caught up somewhere else. I'm going to continue to tell you that until you believe it. You might as well save us both the time and trouble and except my explaination now." Kai said as she started to leave the room.

"Will you tell me the truth one day, Kai?" Duo said. Kai turned a smiled at her American friend. He seemed to be noisy, but he was also concerned.

"Perhaps I will one day, Duo. You'd better go back to bed before you're missed." Kai said as she left the room. Duo smiled and turned out the lights and went back to bed.

"Do you think she even came back, Trowa?" The Arabian pilot asked. The tall pilot shrugged. "I don't know, Quatre. She seems so hard. Kinda like Heero." Trowa said. Quatre laughed.

"That's probably why Duo is around her all the time he can." Quatre said. Trowa nodded in agreement. They both were walking into the dinningroom. When they entered the dinningroom, Trowa and Quatre couldn't believe their eyes. Duo was quickly eat while both Heero and Kai had their faces into a laptop. Trowa started to laugh.

"Too right, Quatre." Trowa said. Quatre laughed as they walked over to the table. Duo was trying to see what Heero was doing, but Heero continued to ignore him. Kai looked up from her laptop.

"Duo, what are you doing?" The female pilot asked. Duo looked up at her.

"I sometimes wonder why I try." Duo answered. Kai laughed and went back to her laptop. Suddenly, Kai started to type faster than Heero. The Japanese pilot became frusterated and started to type faster. Kai smiled and sped up, and Heero kept trying to move faster. Finally Heero's hand slipped off the keybroad and he stopped. Kai smiled.

"Well, I guess you met your match, Heero Yuy." Kai looked over to Trowa and Quatre. "Hey guys. What kept you two, or should I leave that question alone?" Kai laughed as Quatre blushed and Trowa looked away.

"Why do you have to be so loud, Duo?" The Chinese pilot said sleeply. Everyone, including Heero, looked at Wufei. "Hm, I can see that your not at your best when you first wake up, Wufei." Kai laughed. Wufei looked at Kai carefully and then Duo.

"Sorry, you were loud like Duo usually is in the mornings." Wufei mumbled. Kai laughed again. She had never been so happy before. Yet she had been so lonely that she had forgotten what happiness was. Kai balled her hand into a fist. Zechs would pay for the childhood he had ruined and the family she loved so much.

"Hey, Kai. Are you ok?" Kai looked up and saw a pair of caring blue eyes. She smiled and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I'm ok Quatre. I just was think about something." Kai said. She stood up. "I'll see you guys later. I'm going to tune up the Masquerader. Later guys." Kai left the room.

"She doesn't seem to be ok. Do you know what's wrong with her, Duo?" Quatre asked. "Maybe it's because she spends too much time listening to Duo's chatter." Wufei said dryly.

Kai walked towards her gundam. It seemed different to her now then it did before when she first got it. She was about six years old when it was completed. She had found a special alloy that enabled it to change forms. She usually had it in the form of her black ribbon. Now it seemed like a machine of destruction instead of peace. Yet she had changed too. She use to be such a lively girl, she found happiness and laughter everywhere she went. Now she was too battle-harden to care. It was because of her loneliness. If Treize and Zechs had just placed her in OZ, she wouldn't have been so empty. Now she was finding herself again with these gundam pilots. Yet they were fighting for peace for both Earth and space. She really didn't care what happened to anyone else. She should just get on her gundam and leave this stupid place, but then she would be leaving the others behind. Even though she had just met them, she seemed like she already knew everything about them. Mainly from Duo's constant chatter.

Kai smiled to herself. Just the relationship between the braid haired pilot and the laptop faced pilot was enough to convince her to stay.

"Kai, what's wrong?" The American pilot said as he walked over to the Masquerader.

"Nothing Duo." Kai answered. Duo jumped up next to Kai. "I thought you were going to take off and leave us." Duo said. Kai couldn't help but laugh.

"No, I thought about it. I don't have any place to go anymore. For some reason, Peacecraft is hunting me down. I would be doing you guys a favor by leaving, but I just don't know what I'd do without you guys." Kai said.

"So that means you're going to be staying with us, for good?" Duo asked. He sounded like a child hoping his mother would buy him a toy.

"For now, at least. Until this stupid war is over, I'm going to stay and help you guys." Kai said.

"Good to hear that." Heero said as he entered the room. Duo turned to him and so did Kai. "Now we have an even better chance of defeating Millardo and the White Fang." "Six gundam pilots." Quatre said as he and the other two pilots entered the room.

"Yeah, four normal ones and two Heeros." Duo laughed. Kai pushed him off her gundam. "And you're saying you're Heero too. You can't mean me, because I'm closer to normal than you'll ever be, Duo Maxwell." Kai said. Everyone, including Heero, laughed. Kai had found her place in life, with four normal guys and a Duo.



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