New Haven

Chapter Sixty-Five: Kitchen Trouble.

Wufei laughed softly at the oblivious man turned boy. Miles had a major hand in this room. He had insisted that only the best was good enough. He had also provided half of the tools insisting that it was nothing but spares and would be put to good use.
Trowa came to a stop beside him and lifted an enquiring eyebrow and nodded toward the elevator. He thought it would be best to leave the exploring teen to their curiosity.
“Damien don’t turn on the tools until Miles or Johnny is here to work with you.” Wufei ordered and waited for an affirmative from the young man. When he received it he turned to a grinning Trowa.

“I take it from the look of him that Katey had the same reaction?” Trowa murmured as they entered the waiting elevator.

“Of course. Angel as well?”

Trowa raised an eyebrow and smirked when the ding of the elevator told them they had reached the main floor. The noise that met them surprised both men. Duo was threatening two men in the kitchen from the sound of it and looked like he was about to get up and chase the two men from the kitchen.

“Duo!” Wufei growled as he surged out of the elevator to catch his lover. “Calm down.” He just caught him as Duo stood up from the couch.

“They going to steal my cooking things!” Duo whined as he tried to pull away from his dragon.

“I promise I will make sure they put everything back and that everything will be accounted for.” Bev said calmly from where she stood watching the duo in the kitchen peeking into all the cupboards with a frown. I do not need anything else in the kitchen.”

Duo scowled as his chef friends ignored him as they pottered around the kitchen he had finally gotten just the way he wanted it. “I don’t trust them. Not one bit. I just know they will get something past us.

Wufei rolled his eyes as he eased Duo back down onto the couch. “Then why don’t you set Deathscythe on them. He’ll make sure that nothing leaves the house that isn’t supposed to.”

Duo blinked at the solution presented to him. He tilted his head to the side as he thought about it. “’Scythe come here.” He called to the black shepherd. The animal barreled around the guests and planted itself on top of Wufei’s feet. Duo tugged him off and started to whisper into the dogs ears. “You see those two in the Kitchen?” He murmured and motioned to the men in the kitchen. Deathscythe gave a sound of acknowledgement. “Don’t let them take anything out of the house. And I mean anything that belongs to the house. Got me?” Deathscythe gave Duo a quick kiss before going to guard the kitchen. He kept a watchful eye on the men as they finished preparing dinner for the welcome home party. Duo grinned and gave Wufei a big hug in thank you for the wonderful suggestion. He then settled back more comfortably on the couch. He was now a happy camper.

Wufei rolled his eyes at his lover again. It was always a simple solution to solve any problem that came along for his lover. Though somethings took a little longer to make him happy. Wufei settled happily with his fiance as he watched the people around him playing games with the children and other adults. He didn’t notice when the teenagers decided to join them. He was admiring the way everything was running smoothly under the watchful eye of Heero’s mother. She managed to run things smoothly and fuss over her son at the same time adding to Wufei’s enjoyment of what was going on.


Dinner was finally served and people settled to murmuring quietly to each other to be distracted by punctuated squeals of delight and dismay. Everyone was going about the party delighting in the easy going nature the people around them.

Duo looked up at Wufei from where he lay and gave lazy, sleepy smile as he was slowly drifting to sleep as he listened to the quiet noises of the party. He was startled awake when he heard a low warning growl from the direction of the kitchen. He frowned as he tried to see what was going on.

Wufei turned and moved to see what was going on as well. “Duo stay there. I’ll see what has Deathscythe upset.”

Duo nodded reluctantly watching as his lover moved away from him.


Wufei entered the kitchen and snickered as he saw Caleb backed into a corner that the counter made. He saw the man holding his hands out as if showing that he didn’t have anything in them. “Okay Deathscythe.” Wufei said to the animal as he approached the big man. “I’ll search him.” Caleb looked at him innocently.

Wufei patted the man down and raised his eyebrow when he came to the large pockets of the man’s pants. He pulled out the one of a kind specially made serving ladle and tried not to snicker at the thought of where it had been. “You do know that this is Duo’s?” He asked mildly. “Do I have to search you before you leave the house and make sure that it is still here?”

Caleb just gave him a look and went back to the dishes he was washing muttering about nosey dogs and lawyers. The people in the kitchen just rolled their eyes and went back to what they were doing.

Wufei just grinned and patted ‘Scythe on the head. “Good boy Deathscythe. Keep on watching them.” He told him as he moved out of the kitchen to reassure his worried wraith.

He chuckled to see the way his lover was trying to see what was going on in the kitchen and not fall asleep. He glanced around the room checking on things and found Sakura nodding off as she sat in her Uncle Trowa’s lap as he played 45’s with his blond lover and some of the other adults. He stopped on his way to his lover to collect his daughter.

“You should move Heero to your room so that he won’t be woken up by the noises that everyone is making.” Wufei suggested to his much taller friend as he scooped his protesting daughter into his arms. “Bedtime.” Wufei murmured as he placed a chaste kiss on his forehead.

“Don’t wanna.” Sakura muttered as she tried to pull away in protest. “Wanna ‘tay wit’ Uncle Tro.” She grumbled as she settled comfortably into her father’s arms leaning into his chest.

“Shhh,” Wufei murmured as he moved back in the direction of Duo. “Brussels.” Wufei commanded as he maneuvered through the throng of visitors. The large mixed breed immediately appeared at his side. “I am going to put Sakura to bed and then come to get you. Deathscythe has everything under control in the kitchen. So don’t worry. I’ll stay awake till the kitchen thieves leave.”

Duo blinked drowsily. “‘kay, but put Sakura in our bed. We’ll keep each other company till you come to bed.” he muttered as he tried to keep his eyes open.

Wufei nodded and placed a gentle kiss on smooth lips before moving off to settle Sakura into their bed for the night.


Caleb glared at the ever watchful eyes of the black german shepherd. “You know you are a big pain in the ass.” He growled and received a doggy grin for his efforts.

Andy rolled his eyes as he set one of Duo’s many measuring cups into his box hoping that his large lover was distracting the animal from him. A resounding growl was heard and the french man turned to see the animal closing in on him and a white shepherd was keeping a steady eye on the red head. “What zee hell!” Andy hissed. “Zhey are multiplying.” he looked back at the box and found Deathscythe removing the measuring cup from the box and putting it in the sink. “Zhere are too many dogs in dis house.”

Their female partner laughed from where she was sitting at the island. “I like them. They make life interesting.” Bev stated as she watched her male lovers with hawk like eyes. “Andy.” She warned as he tried to put one of the ultra limited edition knives in his boxes. The flat tone of her voice warned of dire actions to come if he didn’t put the knife back.

“Merde!” He nearly shouted when he felt the sharp teeth that were pressed into his wrist. He looked down to find a husky attached to his wrist.

“Mindy thinks you should put that back.” Damien stated from where he was getting a drink of pop from the fridge. “I would do what she says. I would hate to see what Duo would do to you if you even thought about doing that let alone Wufei or the others.” He winked at Bev as he went back to watching the game of 45’s.

Andy glared at the husky before he placed the knife back into the specially made block to hold the gundanium lazer edged knives. “I will get something past zhe blood hounds. I swear to do so.” he whispered to himself. Not seeing the all seeing eyes of a now larger group of dogs that was watching him.

Caleb agreed with his lover as he glared at the dog that was at his feet. He continued to pack up his utensils and clean his friends kitchen. It was a game that they had played with Duo and they had yet to win. Today would be the day that they managed to get something by the ever watchful eyes of their friend.


Duo grunted as he settled comfortably onto the bed to curl around his little flower blossom. “Go make sure they don’t steal…me blind.” He muttered to his mate around a yawn as he slowly fell into a peaceful sleep with his daughter.

Wufei chuckled as he placed kisses on his wraith’s cheek and daughter’s forehead. He quietly left to join the party to find everyone of the dogs crowded into the kitchen entrance way growling like an avalanche at the confined chefs in the room. He burst into laughter at the disconcerted looks on their face as Damien, Katey, and Angel were going meticulously through the boxes that had been set on the counter while Quatre and Trowa were patting the offenders down looking for the utensils that might be on their person while Bev sat and watched her lovers trying not to burst into laughter with a huge grin on her face.

Wufei’s laughter had caught the attention of the others and they grouped around to see what was going on. They also laughed at the sight before them. Andy was protesting in indignation at the search while Caleb snarled and growled at what he thought was offensive behavior of their hosts.

The two chefs were ribbed mercilessly for their actions.

“You thought that just because Duo wasn’t able to protect his sacred kitchen that he wouldn’t have anyone else to help him protect it.” Howard called as he caught his breath. “Guess you didn’t take in the Duo factor.” He finished as he fell back into fits of laughter at the disconcerted looks on the two men’s faces.

Wufei grinned at the pile of cookware and utensils that was piling up on the counter and the sighs of disappointment that were being given by the teenagers that were making both men wince every time they heard one. He watched with his eyes growing wider and wider as the pile grew to abnormal proportions. He wondered where they had hid all of the things that were appearing.

Wufei wasn’t the only one that was surprised. “You two are completely outrageous!” Bev barked in embarrassment. “Wait till I get the both of you home. I am severely disappointed in this behavior. How could you even think to do something like this to Duo.” The complete indignation on her gave away how she was feeling about her soon to be husbands. “I thought better of you. Just because Duo can manage to sneak away with something every time doesn’t mean you can behave like silly little boys who try to outdo each other. Duo is allowed.” She lectured as she entered the kitchen and helped the body search of her partners. She found several things that Trowa and Quatre had missed.

“Bev!” Caleb yelped in amazement.

“Femme!” Andy added his own voice to the complaint.

“Duo gets the right to be a child again. He never was one to begin with. You two are another matter altogether. I thought I told you before we came that I didn’t want any of these shenanigans.” She looked up at them close to tears of fury as her eyes welled up. “You promised.”

The two mean looked away as they tried not too look like the little boys they were acting like. “Sorry” was muttered from both men as they went through the boxes they had brought to see if the teenagers had missed anything. A few more things were added to the pile and they left the kitchen to the hosts so they could put everything back where it belonged.

Bev sighed as they left then turned laughing eyes to her hosts. They stared as the mask that was there only moments before had vanished. “Duo is in no condition to protect his kitchen.” She rolled her eyes at the two men sitting pouting in the living area. “They did promise me and I can’t let them get away with everything.” She stated as she helped put things away.

The canine patrol had left the kitchen and were now guarding the men in the living area much to the amusement of the other guests.

Wufei smiled at his new friend. “I can see why Duo likes you all so much. At first I thought that they were serious but…” The lawyer trailed off at the restaurant managers laughter.

“Duo may not be serious about this prank he started, but those two are beyond serious.” She stated as she gasped for breath and giggled. “He manages to walk away with something from any kitchen we own without a backwards glance. They on the other hand have yet to manage it and that irks them to no end.” She gave an unrepentant grin to family in the kitchen. “Three weeks from now will be their chance I won’t help you like I did this time. Duo will be in perfect health and can keep his own eye on them.”

Wufei laughed softly at the explanation. “I’ll warn him.” Wufei stated dryly as he placed the last object away leaving the measuring cup in the sink to be washed later.

“You do that.” She grinned as she moved out of the kitchen. “I am angry at them.”

She informed them as she again placed her angry mask on her face as she confronted her pouting lovers.

Wufei watched her leave shaking his head.

“Don’t worry Wufei.” Damien stated as he moved up beside his dark haired benefactor. “We’ll keep an eye on the two of them at the wedding.”

Wufei smiled as he joined the activities that were proceeding now that the kitchen debacle was over with. He had a feeling it would be long enjoyable night that he was going to remember for a while and hoped would happen more often.