Author's notes: Well, I'm playing mommy today (I just brought home a plastic doll... oh, excuse me, and "infant simulator"). So, this situation is what inspired me to write this fic about the GW boys. Tell me, how good are they at being dads, really? (Oh yeah, Lilas, Catherine's e-mail is up there. See it? ^^)

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The Trouble With Babies
Written by Susan Lara

*Disclaimer: Say it ain't so, I will not go! But the charas from GW aren't mine. Besides, there is no use suing me because the only thing of value I have is my computer, and believe me, you don't want it. Oh well, I'll just toy with the lives of the charas and put them back where I found them. >:) *

=Dedicated to my Health teacher Mr. Young. Thank you for showing me the hell of having a baby. ^~=

*~*~*~*~
It was just like any other school day. The Gundam boys were all sitting in their Health class, waiting for instructions.

"I hope class starts soon," Quatre says, trying to break the silence.

Duo leans on Quatre's shoulder, "I hope class never starts." He then turns to the entire class and shouts, "How about it guys, do you want class to start?"

A chorus of chants and shouts accompany Duo's question. Duo rises up from his chair and takes a bow, while the other pilots try not to get noticed by the others for having such a crazy friend. Duo turns his back to the door and raises his hands. More shouts and cheers come from the students. Suddenly, the students are silent.

"Hey," Duo questions the class as he looks around, "what's wrong?"

"Mr. Maxwell," a voice comes from behind, "please take your seat. Class has officially begun!"

Wide-eyed, Duo turns to see Mr. Young, holding his grade book and tapping his foot. Reluctantly, Duo slides towards a seat and sits down next to Heero. Heero just shakes his head at his companion's behavior.

"Well," Mr. Young , "I'm glad to see that you've all been entertained by Mr. Maxwell's shenanigans." Mr. Young looks at Duo, and Duo shrinks lower into his seat. "Unfortunately, since it is almost the end of this class, I have a project to give each of you."

Groans and curses can be heard from the students. Mr. Young walks behind his desk and grabs something inside. Pulling out a white box, he places it on the table.

"This will count for one-fourth of your final grade," states Mr. Young as he opens the box. "Now, I want to all to wait a while before you have children," Mr. Young continues, "but for the purposes of this experiment, you will each receive one of these." Mr. Young turns around, holding a plastic baby in his arms. "I would like to congrad you on the birth of your first child."

"NANI?!" said all of the pilots, wide-eyed.

"Yes," replies the teacher, "you are all responsible for this baby. And, if you do not treat it correctly, then you will receive and F and a low grade."

Sweatdrops appear on the heads of the pilots.

Mr. Young continues. "This baby must be fed, changed, and cared for. You must also keep a journal of what you did and how many times your baby has cried. Very well, each of you come up and receive your new babies. They're due back tomorrow."

The five pilots go up to the teacher's desk, and each receives his own baby. Heero receives a blue eyed baby, Duo gets a brown haired one, Trowa's baby has green eyes, Quatre's baby has blonde hair, and Wufei's baby, well, looks kind of like him. Duo giggles because of the similarities.

"Shut up braid boy!" Wufei remarks as Duo looks like he's on the verge of cracking up inside the classroom.

"Here you are ladies and gentleman," Mr. Young states, "the rest is up to you. I'll see you all tomorrow..."

*~*~*~*~
The boys were sitting in the park after school. They were discussing their dilemma because of the babies. Duo, on the other hand, thinks the babies are adorable.

"Aww," Duo cooed, "isn't my little boy just soo cute?"

"Duo," replies Heero, looking over his shoulder, "you're disgusting me."

Duo sticks his tongue out at Heero. "So? Besides, taking care of a baby might be fun."

"Yeah, it might," answers Trowa, "but what happens if we get called off to a mission? What are we going to write in our journals?"

Duo rubs his chin. "How about 'We couldn't take care of our child because we had to save the colonies?'"

Trowa, Heero, and Wufei glare at Duo.

Duo has a sweatdrop on his head. He proceeds to shake his hands and say, "Hey it was just a suggestion you guys."

"Well," Quatre says, breaking the tension between Duo and the others, "I guess all of us will just have to put up with them for one night. It shouldn't be that bad."

They all agree and exit, not knowing what these babies holds for them.

*~*~*~*~
((At Duo's))

Hilde is over at Duo's house. As soon as she saw the little baby that Duo held in his arms, she grabbed it from him.

"Oh what a cute baby!" Hilde complements as she hold it in her arms.

"Yeah, I thought so," Duo remarks as he tries to take the baby away from Hilde. "Um... Hilde, I think I should hold it, being that it is my grade that's in jeopardy."

Hilde has a disappointed look on her face. "Aw, I just wanted to hold him for a little while."

Suddenly, the baby starts to bawl. The look on Hilde's face was pure shock, and Duo lunges for the baby.

"Hilde, give him!" Duo yells.

"Here," Hilde responds, "you can have him!" She tossed the baby over to Duo.

Duo hold the baby and tries to make him stop crying. "Hilde, what do I do?!" Duo was in a panic.

"How should I know?!" Hilde snaps back. "He's your baby!"

*~*~*~*~
((at Trowa's))

Trowa swung from the trapeze with ease. He was practicing for tonight's show along with all the other performers.

"Trowa," Catherine calls as he swings from one bar to the other, "are you sure you should leave your baby unattended?"

Trowa lands on the ledge that is sticking out from the pole. "It's fine Catherine."

"Ok," Catherine agrees, "this is your problem not mine."

Grabbing onto the bar that's swinging towards him, Trowa grabs a hold and begins to do his routine over again. Shortly after Trowa does his loop, his baby begins to cry. Hearing this, Trowa is distracted from his routine and misses the bar. Plummeting towards the ground, Trowa spots the pool that is to be used in the high diving act. Quickly he aims for the pool, hoping to break his fall. He falls in with a splash as Catherine approached him with the baby in her arms.
With his sweater and jeans soaking wet from the pool, Catherine approaches with the crying baby. As Trowa leans out of the side, Catherine scolds him.

"Now Trowa, you know you have to tend to your baby!"

Putting his head on the side, while his hair is dripping, Trowa has a frown on his face. "This stupid project better be worth it!" Trowa mumbles.

*~*~*~*~
((at Quatre's))

"There now," Quatre says as he puts on a new diaper on his baby, "all better. You know, this baby thing isn't..."

Quatre was interrupted by Rasid and the Manganacs.

"Quatre-sama," they all chant, "we can watch your baby for you."

A sweatdrop appears on Quatre's forehead. "No no, I can do it. Um, thanks for offering."

"No Quatre-sama," a Manganac answers while grabbing the baby away from Quatre, "we can take care of it. Besides, we were all baby's once."

Without warning, the baby starts to cry. "You guys," Quatre complains, "I need to take care of the baby if you don't mind."

"We can do it," the Manganacs echo.

'Oh no,' Quatre thinks to himself.

The Manganacs place the baby on the table as they try to figure out what is wrong with the baby.

"Maybe it's hungry," one suggests.

"Or maybe it needs a diaper change another chimes in.

"This is going to be a long night," Quatre sighs.

*~*~*~*~
((at Wufei's))

Wufei opens his eyes and sees his target. Lifting his arm, he slams it down onto a pile of bricks. The seven layers immediately break into pieces as Wufei smirks. Unexpectedly, the baby which he placed on a pile of pillows begins to bawl.

"Uh stupid baby," Wufei scowls, "what does it want now?"

Picking up the baby, Wufei holds it in his arms. "There now," he replies, are you happy?"

Looking into the baby's eyes, Wufei's expression seems to lighten a bit. Walking back to the pile of pillows, he gently places the baby back on. He walks back to his training with a smile.

"He is pretty cute," Wufei remarks.

Realizing what he just said, he smacks himself.

"I am not going to let a baby make me soft!"

Gazing at the baby, Wufei just shakes his head. "I'm not going to let this baby interfere with my training."

Just when Wufei is about to train again, Sally knocks on the door. Opening it and seeing Sally, Wufei mutters hello. Looking around, Sally notices the baby that is resting on the pillows.

"Well," Wufei asks as he looks at the wandering Sally, "what are you doing here?"

"Just thought I drop by since I was in the neighborhood," Sally answers. "Hey Wufei, is this your baby?"

A sweatdrop appears on Wufei's forehead. "Uh, yeah, so?"

Sally picks him up and looks at him. "Well, he looks rather funny."

"WHAT?!" Wufei yells. "He does not!"

Sally give Wufei a look of 'so you do care'.

Quickly, Wufei responds, "It's just a stupid project!"

Sally rolls her eyes. "Yeah, sure Wufei."

*~*~*~*~
((at Heero's))

Heero is typing at his computer when his baby starts to cry. He picks it up and calms him down. Placing him on the bed, he begins to type again. A few moments later, the baby cries again. Frustrated, Heero turns the baby around and notices a box on the inside.

"Hmm," Heero ponders, "if this thing is controlled by computers..."

Heero pulls out the box from the back. While searching his room, Heero finds a couple of cables. Connecting them to his computer, he puts the other cables into the box and quickly hacks into the main drive.

"Ok," Heero says, "I got it."

*~*~*~*~
((at school the next day))

Duo yawns as the boys are sitting near each other. Trowa is trying to keep his eyes open, but to no avail, Quatre is dosing off, and Wufei is leaning back on his chair ready to take a quick nap. But Heero on the other hand looks refreshed and ready for class.

"I don't know about you guys," Duo complains, "but that baby kept me up half the night.

"I know," Trowa answers, "it even interrupted me during my performance."

"Well at least you two got to hold your babies," Quatre sighed, "the Manganacs insisted that they can take care of the baby. I spent half the night trying to get it from them."

"Well," Wufei replied with a pang of guilt, "at least they go back today."

"Thank God," Trowa, Quatre, and Duo declare.

Duo looks over to Heero, who doesn't look at all tired. In fact, Heero is typing on his laptop and not even yawning like everyone else. Gazing at Heero,

Duo asks, "So Heero, how was your baby?"

Heero glances over to Duo. "It was fine. I could take care of it."

Duo raises an eyebrow. "I know you Heero Yuy, what did you do to your baby?!"

Their conversation was interrupted by Mr. Young, who walked into the classroom. Placing his briefcase on his desk, he turns to the students seated.

"Today," Mr. Young announced, "is judgment day."

One by one, the students all lined up to present their babies to Mr. Young. Trowa, Quatre, Duo, and Wufei for all their hard work (sort of) got A's. But, the best student was Heero, who had the baby that didn't cry at all.

"Congratulations Heero," Mr. Young says as he shakes Heero's hand.

Once the boys were outside the classroom, Duo jumps all over Heero.

"Heero, I know you did something to your baby!" Duo accuses. "No one in the history of this school got a perfect score!"

Heero just smirked. "I told you I knew what I was doing."

"AAARRRRGGG!" Duo held his head in frustration.

This pleasant little conversation was interrupted by Relena and her worshipers, who also had Mr. Young's class.

"Heero," Relena calls as she and Hilde approach the other boys.

"Hey Relena," Heero answers. He then looks down and sees what she's carrying.

"Uh, Relena" Heero asks as he points to what she's holding. "Is that what I think it is?"

Relena nods. "I just got it today in Mr. Young's class. Do you want to hold her."

Without warning, the boys dash down the hall, hoping to avoid the project which caused them so much agony.

"What's wrong with them?" Relena questions. "They act like their scared to death of a baby."

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