Cruel Intentions

Title: Cruel Intentions
Author:Rei-chan
Chapter: 1 - Rivarly and Threats
Chapter Rating: PG-13
Pairings: 1+2, 3+4, 5+M, 2+H, R+Y, R+D
Warnings: shounen ai, language, step-incest, US bashing (not intentional, gomen American readers)
Summary: First day of school, Duo gets more than he bargained for.
A/N: // < - character thoughts

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Chapter 1 - Rivalry and Threats

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Duo grimaced as he trudged along the worn-asphalt path towards the building. It was the last place he wanted to be, in an upper-class private high school- full of pretentious snobs. Much to his dismay, he had been black-mailed into it by his aunt and uncle last month. Duo convinced that his best friend Quatre Raberba Winner had a lot to do with the arrangement as well was determined to find out. He shoved his hands further into his pockets and glanced over at his friend.

“Why Quatre? Why did you have to suggest this…dammit!” He frowned.

“Because it gives you an opportunity to experience other things out there and meet new people instead of the dark crowd you usually hang around with!” Quatre responded, smiling gently, not bothering to hide that he fact had been the one to suggest it to Duo’s uncle.

“Hey, I hang around with you a lot and you’re supposedly not “dark” as you so weirdly put it.” Duo pointed out, digging around in his pocket for something.

“I’m only one person, Duo. There are at least 20 of them. Your other friends are rather…hm, how should I put this nicely? Bizarre and messed up?”

“And this coming from a guy who wears pink shirts and has a clown for a boyfriend!” Duo grinned, deeply amused.

“Shut up! He is NOT my boyfriend, we’re just friends! And I happen to like the colour pink, so just shut up!” Quatre muttered venomously, yet his face was slightly pink.

“Uh huh. Whatever you say man. I still say you got the hots for him.”

“Hmph. Besides you should be thanking me this is a good chance for you to get away from you aunt and uncle!” Quatre said, still a bit miffed at Duo’s accusations. I don’t have the ‘hots’ for Trowa! He is just a friend…or is he? Yes, definitely. It would be just totally wrong and immoral to think of him in that manner! But then again… his chest was so…and his hair…he would just love to…Quatre mentally hit himself on the head for thinking such thoughts.

“Well, I guess I should thank you for that at least. But man, I even had to leave Hilde behind. I won’t be able to see her for such a long time! The whole dorm thing at private schools is stupid!” Duo continued to rant as they reached the front steps, unaware that Quatre was lost in his own thoughts.

Quatre, become aware of his surroundings, and snapped at Duo, “So you’ll see your girlfriend in a couple of weeks. Stop acting like a child and behave yourself! Or else I won’t show you where your classes are and you’ll be late!”

“Nah, you can’t do that. If I’m late for too many classes and my folks hear about it, they’ll kill me, but I’ll tell ’em it was you before I die and then after disposing of my body they’ll come after you too! I swear they’re a part of the Gundam mafia! No lies.” Duo laughed leaning against the side railing and pulling out a cigarette and lighter. He then proceeded to light it, and take a deep breath.

“I really wish you wouldn’t smoke! It’s bad for your lungs! You know have many chemicals they put in those? You could just all well sniff gasoline, it would be healthier!” Quatre hissed trying to snatch the cigarette from Duo’s mouth. However, Duo hopped over to the other side of the railing, causing Quatre to fall. Duo started laughing loudly, clutching his sides, his cigarette ground tightly between his teeth.

“Alright, alright. Stop harassing me mother, I promise I won’t smoke around you at least. That okay?” Duo said trying to gain control of his laughter as he offered Quatre a hand up.

“That’s fine. For now. But I promise you that if I see you smoking again I will hire the Gundam Mafia with your aunt and uncle to beat you!” Quatre grimaced as he stood up and brushed off his uniform. He watched Duo as he took one last breath and proceeded to put out the cigarette on the side of the stairs.

Unbeknownst to them two people walking along the path came closer to them, listening intently to their conversation. The brown-haired boy spoke first, “Quatre. I didn’t think you were the violent type! And to think that you preach about peace between all of the colonies and earth! Hah, you little liar!” causing everyone near them but Quatre to laugh.

“H-hey Trowa. How are you? I didn’t know you went to this school. I thought you transferred to Cathedral on L3 after your dad and sister said you were relocating the circus.” Quatre finally managed to say, trying to ignore the comment.

“Aa, my Dad ended up not taking that job and said that we needed to ‘enjoy the fresh earth air’ whatever the heck that means.” Trowa shrugged gesturing to the Chinese boy beside him with the short pony-tail. “By the way, this is Wu-…”

“Wuffers, I haven’t seen you in ages. How’s it going man? How’s Merian?” Duo smirked putting his hand on Wufei’s shoulder, causing him to become rigid and shrug it off.

“For the love of all that is unjust… my name is Wufei, NOT, Wuffers, Wuffie, or Wu-man, or any other ridiculous up names you come up with Maxwell…I told you that at least a thousand times!” Wufei shouted, making several people on the ground turn around and stare to see who was making all of the noise.

Duo stepped back and jokingly placed his hands over his ears, “Man Wu, you need to lighten up! I’ll start to call you Wufei when you can call me Duo. And you wonder why Merian complains so much about your instant grumbling and bad moods? This is what she means!” poking him in the chest.

Wufei growled and batted his hand away, “Shut up, Maxwell. I should kill you.”

“Anyways… where do you know Wu-san from anyway? You’re not from around here are you?” Trowa asked interrupting Wufei’s on-going rant, looking a little puzzled.

“Yeah, I am new, just moved here a week ago from America. Wu and I used to go to the same middle school, until he transferred back to China and then Quatre-” Duo started to say but was cut off by the screech of a white limousine that had pulled up into the front parking lot, a small crowd of girls to gather.

The chauffeur jumped out of the driver’s side and ran over to hold the door for the waiting party inside. A tall young boy appeared; who was a bit wiry looking. He had midnight black hair and a freshly pressed uniform on, a good-looking boy to say the least. He figured that the guy could not be more than a year older then them, if that. He almost burst out laughing when the girls around the guy started preening like there was not tomorrow, and one even swooned when he kissed her hand lightly. Duo swore he had never seen anything so utterly pathetic before.

Duo snorted loudly, and then asked to anyone who was willing to answer, “Who’s the ego?” Many students who were around Duo and heard his comment turned around and gaped at him in disbelief, even Wufei and Trowa had a look of shock.

“Y-you don’t know who he is? He’s only Arishyoshi Yuki-sama the second most popular guy in the school and the only child of Arishyoshi, the multi-millionaire founder of L6- the new colony! ” Quatre sputtered, many heads nodding in unison at his reply.

“Alright then, that’s great…” Duo said rolling his eyes. God it was as though none of them had ever seen money before, he thought. He was just going to ask who the first and foremost popular guy in the school was when another limousine pulled up, this time it was bright pink, and trashy looking. Wait a minute I’ve seen that limo before it’s…ah crap, not her! Realization dawned on Duo, and his eyes widened in horror.

“Besides I thought that you had met him before, Duo-kun! Don’t you hang out in the same circl-” Quatre started, breaking Duo’s train of thought. As he became aware of what Quatre was saying he abruptly cut off him off by clapping his hands over Quatre’s mouth. Quatre looked questioningly at Duo, as he moved his hand away from him.

Duo leaned over to Quatre and whispered, “Shut up, Quatre. Its better that no one knows about it… please. I just don’t want anyone to know.” Quatre just shrugged and mouthed ‘alright,’ not bothering to question Duo’s decision any further.

“And here she is right on time…always five minutes after him…” Wufei said angrily.

The windows slowly rolled down, and another chauffeur ran over to hold the door for the waiting party inside. A delicate hand appeared from the darkness of the cars’ interior, causing Arishyoshi to walk away from his fans and take the hand to help the person out. She was a good foot shorter than Arishyoshi and had an aloof coldness about her. After stepping out, she turned to Arishyoshi and said something that no one could make out, put her hand upon his shoulder, and kissed his cheek slowly. She wore too much make-up from the looks of it, her lipstick was visible from where they were all standing and that was at least 10 or more feet away. Mousy light brown hair was pulled severely back into a tight ponytail with gaudy, bright pink elastic.

“I’m guessing that Peacecraft is still his girlfriend then?” Duo questioned, cringing in disgust from the girl’s appearance.

“Still? Ew, no! Why would you even think that that would happen? Relena is his sister!” Quatre squeaked in repulsion. This caused Trowa and Wufei laugh at his discomfort.

“But…Arishyoshi is an only child…” Duo said even more confused, thinking, it seemed like everyone at this private school was on a totally different planet.

“Relena-sama is technically his step-sister. His father married Relena-sama’s mother, Peacecraft Makiko Akemi-sama, the president of Sanc kingdom enterprises. Besides everyone knows that they were close friends before their parents married.” Trowa explained quickly. He then paused before asking Duo another question, “You know Relena-sama?”

“Yes you\'re quite right, Trowa. I believe he does know me. It has been a while has it not, Duo-san?” a voice dripping with false sincerity replied for Duo.

Duo turned around slowly, already knowing that is was Relena’s malicious smile and lukewarm eyes he was talking to. Duo answered bitterly, “Yes, I suppose I do know you Peacecraft-san.”

The four of them hadn\'t heard Relena and Arishyoshi approach, nor had the crowd around them, as they were too absorbed in the ongoing conversation.

“Please, Duo-san. Call me Relena-san. Many people do. We are beyond such formalities, no?” Relena responded, offering her well manicured hand out to him excepting him to kiss.

This caused a few gasps and murmurs through the crowd as Duo did not accept Relena’s rare offer of her hand, and instead he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at her and Yuki. Everyone knew that when Relena offered her hand to a person on the first day of school that she was offering friendship, if not offering a rarity of a truce to the reciever. There was only one other person had ever rejected her offer. Relena withdraw her hand immediately, moving it back to her hand-bag, her eyes hardening instantly.

“You? Have manners? Don’t make me laugh. The world would explode before that happens.” Duo stated sarcastically.

“Remember me Duo-san?” Yuki Arishyoshi snarled slightly, coming out from behind Relena, as if to protect her in some pathetic way, since everyone could tell he was angry with Duo for turning down his sister’s hand.

“No. I’m sorry. I must have blocked ‘it’ from my memory.” Duo said sarcastically, his fists tightening. This was one person Duo did not want to remember, though he could hear some whispers when Yuki had called him Duo-san.

“Of all the nerve-” Arishyoshi growled pushing Relena further behind him, but no one was paying any attention to him.

“Oh wait. Now I remember,” Duo paused for a moment, as though in deep thought, “Although last I heard you two were still screwing. Still planning to keep it ‘all in the family? How do you all sleep at night in one big bed? On second thought I really don’t want to know.”

Arishyoshi hissed, “You’re going to pay for that you son-of-a…” and made quick step towards Duo his fists poised and ready to fight. But Duo and the rest of the crowd were all suddenly preoccupied on the loud engine from the Harley Davidson 195AC that has just pulled up into the school parking lot.

The rider revved the engine once, creating an echoing sound off the walls of the school, before he turned it off. Sliding off his bike, the motorcyclist unclipped his helmet, took it off slowly, and put it away. The boy scanned the school’s grounds, seeing the new students clustered together at the front of the school. He stomped towards the group, watching them bunch around Relena and Yuki. Fresh blood he thought. As he closed in he stopped right in front of Relena, smirking.

“Senpai, so nice of you to show up. Late as always.” Relena said in a clipped voice. Making Duo frown, since he had no idea what ‘Senpai’ meant, he figured that was the boys’ name nickname or something.

When Duo finally got a good look at him through the crowd. He was shocked. This was by far the hottest guy I’ve ever seen at the school, and from the looks of it I’m not the only one who thinks so, even Relena and Yuki are staring at him intently. The boy, who Relena had called ‘Senpai’, was the same age as the rest of them, but he was a bit more built-up than the rest of them and slightly more tanned. He had a definite Asian look about him though.

“Relena. Out gathering new lackeys, I suppose?” the boy finally said Duo was shocked when he heard the boy’s voice; it was incredibly deep, exotic and being a seductive baritone.

“No. The ingrate just insulted me and the family and refused my hand.” Relena huffed highly insulted. This caused the boy to look at Relena for a moment and then back to Duo. Though there was an unmistakable mirth that reached his eyes when he looked at both of them. “Really? Is your pride shattered?”

Although the boy was talking to Relena, he was staring straight passed her. Duo almost gasped as he gazed into the most amazing Prussian blue eyes he’d ever seen he was mesmerized and they were looking straight at him.

“Shut up, you. You don’t have the right to make such comments.” Yuki snarled cautiously, still furious about was Duo had said a few moments ago.

“Duo. The Maxwell Duo. Son of the Maxwell the third, owner of Maxwell Empire Trade Stocks and Bonds, one of the richest men in all the state colonies.” The boy said ignoring Arishyoshi comments. All while maintaining eye contact with Duo, trying to embarrass him. The boy came dangerously close to smirking when Duo turned a slight red and looked away for a moment.

“Do I know you or something?” Duo questioned, unsure of himself. Angry that the boy let the crowd know his secret. But then why was his guy having such an effect on him? It’s not like he was gay or anything. He had a girlfriend. It must just be the heat; it was a hot day today after all. Right? Yeah. That must be it!

Meanwhile everyone else was looking back and forth between the two boys, wondering what was going on, becoming increasingly uneasy at the two boys continued their staring contest, a silent war waged.

“No. But you will.” The boy smirked again, hoping to bring fear into Duo eyes; but it never came.

“Is that supposed to have me scared or something? Cause I think your full of shit.” Duo stated coolly, causing the onlookers to gasp again. The boy became angry, thinking to himself what he losing his touch or something? Usually he could have the person feeling shaking in fear, but Duo didn’t look like he was fazed in the least.

“You should be scared. And don’t think your father’s money can protect you.” He snarled and walked by Duo, brushing past him as he continued to walk up the steps and into the building.

“What the hell is that supposed to mean, you asshole!” Duo shouted at the boy’s receding figure. Everyone watched as he disappeared.

“This isn’t good.” Quatre muttered to Trowa and Wufei.

Duo hissed at them, “What does that mean? Will someone explain what hell that means?” Relena and Yuki basked in his agitation for a while, smiling at each other knowingly.

“It means, Maxwell. That you are his next target. Every year Yuy chooses a new victim. Making their life a living hell.” Wufei explained, causing Relena\'s smile to widen.

“Who the hell is Yuy? Peacecraft said his name was ‘Senpai.’” Duo growled, even more confused, causing almost everyone around him to laugh.

“The guy that you pissed off was named Yuy. You do speak Japanese!” Trowa asked raising an eyebrow in dismay, rolling his eyes slightly at Duo’s ignorance.

“Hey, I resent that! There are a few words that I still don’t know! I’ve only studied it for a few years.”

“’Senpai’ means older classmate. Your school obviously didn’t teach anything worthwhile. That’s what you get for going to a ‘drama’ school?” Yuki taunted hoping to rile Duo as much as the other boy just did. “Shut up Yuki, you\'re such a…” Duo began coldly, but Relena stopped him.

“I really do hope, and this is in all sincerity, from the bottom of my heart that you fail miserably, Duo-san. And that he crushes you existence. Come on Yuki-kun, we don’t want to be late.” Relena grinned evilly, and proceed to drag a laughing Yuki by his tie into the school, just as the outside bell rang. The rest of the crowd gave Duo one last look and then followed in their stead. Leaving the four of them to stand alone in front to of the school, taking in all of what just occurred.

“Stupid, incest-bred bitch.” Duo hissed after Relena.

“Duo-kun! Let it go already. At least it can’t get much worse.” Quatre said quickly trying to lighten the mood in anyway possible, and still slightly shocked at Duo’s outburst, this wasn\'t like Duo at all, and he was extremely worried.

“Really? How? On the first day he succeed in pissing off Peacecraft-san, Arishyoshi-san and worst of all Yuy-san! It’s going to get a hell of a lot- Ow!” Wufei asked incredulously, earning him a smack from Quatre, earning Quatre a deadly scowl and a threatening fist.

“Try and be helpful, Wu.” Quatre whispered in his ear, ignoring Wufei’s silent threat.

“Well you could always, transfer…again?” Wufei trailed off.

Duo raised an eyebrow and sighed, “What and show those three idiots that they got the best of me on the first day? Don’t be stupid, that’s exactly what they would want. And besides they’re all cowards anyway.”

“Well it’s not like you can avoid all three of them for the entire year.” Quatre stated pointedly.

“I have a bad feeling that this is going to be one long year…” Duo muttered walking behind the other three into the school.

“Well you have no one but yourself to blame. You’re the one that said that they-” Quatre began to lecture in a haughty manner.

Duo abruptly cut him off, “Quartre. Shut. Up. Everything I said about them is true.”


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Owari - TBC


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