Disclaimer: I do not own Shin Kidou Senki Gundam W or any of its characters. Welcome to the wonderful world of Fanfiction!

Warning: This fic contains at least BL (guys kissin' and cuddlin') and possibly YAOI (explicit sex scenes between guys), it also contains PEDERASTY (erotic practices between adult males and adolescent boys) because Wu Fei is 16.

Author Note: Sorry it took so long to get this next chapter out, I hope you enjoy.

Happy Reading!

-Na

Of Ghosts and Swords, Words and Wars

Chaputa-hachi: Words

Black eyes stared at the faintly glowing blue screen of the computer before the teen. The young Chinese took a deep breath and let it out in an aggravated sigh. He was double checking his mathematic work, the complex algorithms appeared to be pointless in the grand scheme of things. After reading through the last of the problems, he checked to make sure that he had indeed written Zhāng Yǔ Fēi at the top of his work. Once he was sure that everything was correct he e-mailed the work back to the Chinese computer correspondent school that he was signed up for.

Wu Fei, who was continued to be called so within the privacy of the Peacecraft estate, could not fathom to see the use of memorising the equations that the course had him learning. In his mind math was used only in the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, as well as math as applied in Physics and Chemistry. But according to the correspondent school the more pointless procedures of mathematic were necessary. Wu Fei had passed both physics and chemistry which had meant that he only had to learn a few algorithms and of all things geometry. Wu Fei had also passed Chinese, Japanese, and English in the language comprehension test during placement. History was another matter as he had learned world history in reference to the L5 colony and China, and since L5 was destroyed that comprehension point was no longer valid. To make up for the difference in view points and the lack of L5 records Wu Fei was writing a thesis paper on the difference of views, on several of the World Wars, between L5, China, Japan, America, there was also a chance that Germany and Sanc kingdom would also be included. It was an interesting topic; on L5 the first few World Wars had only ever been covered in the sense of how it affected the grand scheme of the technological advance that allowed for there to later be colonies.

Onyx orbs switched to look at the stack of history books next to the computer monitor, with another aggravated sigh the young Chinese decided that since he had no official due date for the paper and he had been doing mathematics all morning that he could use a break. Looking at the clock in the corner of the desktop Wu Fei left the chair and padded out of his room and down the hall to Treize's sweet. Knocking softly the youth paused for a moment before cracking the door slowly open and slipping into the room. In the month that Wu Fei had been in residence at the estate he had been informed that only the rooms that were locked were meant for him to not enter. Still, there was a part of Wu Fei who just could not bring himself to check whether the doors in the estate were locked before knocking.

Entering into the high light of the sitting room, the caramel skinned youth did not find his query. The ex-Gundam pilot paused listening to see if he could pinpoint the elder man. All seemed to be quiet so the youth padded over to the door that went to the library knocked softly and paused. Part of him was hoping that if Treize was in the library he would answer the knock, but a little part of Wu Fei knew that Treize and Milliardo delighted in bending his stiff up brining and demeanour. Hesitating a moment longer Wu Fei reached up and turned the handle, the door swung open on silent hinges. Black orbs took in the low light of the library and the regal German-Russian bred hunched over the desk studying some old text. The Chinese youth stood framed in the door watching the elder brunet.

After a moment Wu Fei coughed quietly to get the attention of the other man, since he already felt like he was intruding on Treize's peace. There was a long pause, where it was clear that blue eyes were trying to finish the page they were on before directing their attention elsewhere.

Blue eyes lifted and met black orbs, neither spoke for a moment, than Wu Fei asked, "I was wondering if you would like to join me for martial arts training?"

The ex-OZ general looked down at his book and picked up a bookmark marking his page he stood up from the desk and smiled at the smaller male, "I would love to Drache, it is such a lovely day out, too bad Miri says that we cannot go outside until nightfall," Treize paused for a moment as if to think of a suitable place, "how about the downstairs parlour, there are south and west facing windows, so we can get some sun."

Wu Fei nodded once in agreement and then turned to head downstairs, Treize followed slightly after. The parlour was a sunny room, which had two walls that were practically made out of glass. The furniture was made of a light wood, with bear claw legs the cushions were a light brocade pattern that complimented the wallpaper there were three low sofas, a coffee table, a cabinet, a grandfather clock and a tea trolley in the corner by the door. When the young Chinese entered he surveyed the room for a moment before heading towards the closet sofa and began to push it against the nearest wall. When the brunet entered the room he automatically went to help his young companion.

Soon the furniture was out of the way and the two men were standing in the centre of the room with their house shoes off and in one of the corners of the room. They started their routine with some basic stretches just to limber up their joints and muscles. Treize found it interesting that each of the stretches had names related to animals, for example monkey was where one cups their hands and stretches them up over ones head. The brunette just thought that the names were very uncharacteristic of the stoic youth.

After the finished stretching the two men ran through the basic for both upper and lower body of the dragon style. Wu Fei would call out the forms and the two men would perform the strike, block, parry, kick or stomp. After a month of practicing the basics were like a second movement to the German-Russian bred. The first tàolù of the style Treize could do slowly but he still couldn't complete the whole tàolù.

Wu Fei made it a habit while teaching Treize and Milliardo tàolù he would do the moves slowly facing his pupils. This time was no different, blue eyes met black across the room and the men moved in tandem mirror images of each other. This allowed for Treize to have a reference and Wu Fei had a chance to practice with his weak side.

They ran through the basics and the first tàolù about two dozen times, each time they went a little faster. After they were finished with that, Wu Fei ran through the second tàolù step by step so that Treize could learn it. They repeated the second tàolù another two dozen times. By the end Treize was tired and as the elder relaxed Wu Fei went through the remaining tàolù a couple of times really fast.

After his short breather Treize stood up and began to practice the first tàolù without using Wu Fei as a reference point. When the younger was finished with all of the empty-hand forms he sat down on the sofa along the wall and watched as Treize moved slowly through the tàolù. Black eyes noticed that the elder's footing was off, standing u he watched for a moment until Treize began the next move and said, "Freeze."

Treize jerked a little bit his hand forming only half a strike, but his body complied with the command, "did I do something wrong?"

"Iie, your moves are very good, but your stance needs some work, hold your position," replied Wu Fei. Treize let out a breath and nodded the shorter walked up to the other and walked around the frozen form a couple times. Without warning Wu Fei reached out a nudged Treize.

The Russian-German bred stumbled away from the younger with a bewildered look on his face. Wu Fei nodded and moved so that he was looking Treize in the eye, "That is what a weak stance will do; it makes your whole body more susceptible to attacks. Now get back in the first stance," the elder nodded and righted himself before getting back into the main stance of the first tàolù. Wu Fei looked at the stance before physically moving the other's legs to be a little bit wider, "now hold that stance."

The slightly wider stance felt a bit awkward to Treize but he did what he was told. Once he got use to the new stance enough to relax Wu Fei nudged him—he did not stumble.

"This is how your stance should be throughout the whole tàolù, you take a step forward into this stance, you kick when your foot lands it is in this stance. It doesn't matter how fast you move in a tàolù, if your stance is wrong your speed in an actual fight will amount to nothing," said Wu Fei stepping back to look at the elder.

Treize nodded and went to start the tàolù over again this time after every move he checked his footing. Every once in awhile the ex-Gundam pilot would have the ex-general pause in his step, and Wu Fei would test the strength of the other's stance.

Suddenly Milliardo came into the room in a near panic, "My sister is coming to visit."

Everyone in the room froze and the two who were working out turned to look at the tall blond, Treize broke the silence, "When is she coming Miri? Is there anywhere specific that you want us to stay for her visit?"

The blond drew an aggravated hand through his hair, "I got the message that she would be here within the hour, and I need this parlour back to normal and you two upstairs right now."

There was a sense of urgency in the blond's voice; it set the two other men into quick