Happiness Heero kissed the tears from Duo's face and held the young pilot close. "Duo, please don't cry." he said, softly. "I... I can't help it, Heero." Duo sniffled. "I'm just so amazingly happy right now. I ..." "I just said I love you, Duo." Heero said. He hadn't expected this much of a reaction. "Hasn't anyone told you that?" "Not since Sister Helen died." Duo replied, a touch of sadness in his voice as he remembered the kindly old nun. "And never have I been loved in the way that you love me, Heero." "I can't believe someone as beautiful as you could go unloved for so long." Heero told Duo as he lifted Duo's chin and placed a soft kiss upon Duo's lips. "It's true, sadly enough." Duo sighed. "Duo," Heero said, placing another tender kiss upon Duo's lips. "you will never be unloved again." Duo's joy was increased tenfold when Heero placed a diamond solitaire upon his finger. "Will you marry me?" Heero asked. Completely overwhelmed, Duo barely managed to get out the word "Yes." before he fainted. When he came to, he found Heero holding him close and gently trying to revive him. "Are you okay?" Heero asked. Duo nodded. "I'm fine. Shall we tell the others?" Heero nodded. "Why don't we make the announcement at dinner?" "Sounds good to me." Quatre looked over at the door as Duo and Heero entered the dining room. "It's about time you two got to the table." he remarked. "We were about to start without you." "Sorry about that." Duo shrugged. "Pizza, I hope?" "Hardly." Quatre replied. "Chicken, corn, and mashed potatoes." "Oh well," Duo shrugged. "At least it's attractive health food. So much for a perfect day. But it's still a pretty damned good one. Don't you think so, Hee-chan?" "Duo..." Heero began. "Mmmm?" Duo smiled at Heero. "You know, I really think my Gundam could use a fresh coat of paint and..." "Shut up." Trowa remarked. "... I really need to go over the wiring in that thing, some of the systems have been a little sluggish of late and..." "Shut up, Duo." Wufei tried. "...plus there's a few modifications I'd like to try out that might..." "Shut the hell up, Maxwell." Quatre growled. "... be helpful in our next assault on the OZ troops, whenever that is, by the way, when is our next attack? We haven't had a mission in days and frankly I'm bored as hell and... MMMPH! Mmmmmm." The other pilots stared in frank amazement as Heero caught Duo in a passion liplock, a kiss to end all kisses. Duo didn't protest. Instead, he wrapped his arms around Heero and returned the kiss. As Duo ran his fingers through Heero's hair, Quatre caught sight of the new diamond ring the braided pilot was wearing. "That's a nice ring, Duo." he remarked. Duo broke the kiss for a moment. "Isn't it? Heero gave it to me." he looked at Heero with more love in his eyes than anyone had ever seen before. Only one place held as much warmth and that was the eyes of Heero Yuy as they gazed back at Duo. "Duo's agreed to marry me." Heero told the others. "Congratulations!" Quatre grinned. "Way to go!" Trowa cheered. "All right, Heero!" Wufei exclaimed. That weekend, Duo and Heero were wed in a small but definitely beautiful ceremony. They both wore the traditional wedding attire for a Japanese groom, since they had decided on a traditional Japanese wedding. The other pilots watched with tears of happiness in their eyes. After the wedding came the reception. Since there were only the five of them, it consisted of raiding the all-you-can-eat buffet at a nearby restaurant, but that was perfectly acceptable to the happy couple. Returning home at the end of the day, Heero carried Duo across the threshold and straight into their bedroom. "Won't the others hear?" Duo asked, shyly. "So what if they do?" Heero shrugged. "We just got married, they're kind of assuming we're going to be making love." he carefully undressed Duo, kissing each part of his new husband as he exposed it until Duo was naked and writhing beneath Heero who was gently sucking upon his twitching manhood as he came into Heero's mouth, unable to hold back, his virginity betraying him. Heero smiled up at him, pulling back and gazing at Duo with fond amazement. "So, it's true." he whispered. "You are a virgin." Duo moaned an affirmative, then moaned even more deeply as Heero began to lick and suck upon one of his nipples. "Please," he whispered, "make love to me?" Reaching over to the nightstand, Heero dipped two fingers into a jar of lubricant, then carefully eased them into Duo, preparing him as he continued to tease Duo's nipples with his teeth and tongue. He rubbed a bit of the lubricant onto himself, then he pushed his erection into Duo, slowly and carefully. Duo clung to Heero, gasping out the Perfect Soldier's name in pure ecstasy as Heero thrust into him, moving with Heero until both newlyweds cried out in ecstasy as an explosive mutual orgasm wracked their young bodies. They slumped over onto the mattress, both completely spent, their bodies shuddering as orgasmic aftershocks coursed through them. -----Owari-----