Title: It's all Duo's Fault

Chapter: none

Rating: PG

Warnings: None

Spoilers: Some of Gundam Wing

Disclaimers: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by the company that controls Gundam Wing. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Author's Notes: Just some amusing antices invovling christmas gifts. I take no credit for the wrapping ideas, but I do personally know someone who's used a couple of them.

It was all Duo's fault. He was the one who started it about four years ago with wrapping every one of the gifts from him in full layer of tape. It had taken hours for the others to actually get into them, invovling many dark looks, muttered threats and destruction. Duo, of course, hadn't been able to stop laughing for three days.

It didn't help matters that Quatre upped the ante the following year by wrapping small gifts in about ten layers of wrapping, plastic bags, and colourful duct tape. Each layer was carefully done so that you couldn't tell if you had actually reached the final one. That plus Duo's love of the tape caused the unwrapping to take nearly half the day.

Surprisingly, Trowa and Wufei got into it next. Troaw had gotten everyone gift cards and had carefully wrapped them with entire decks of cards artfully glued together into decorative houses. Each card in the deck had been wrapped as well so they all had to be unwrapped to make sure you had found the right one. Wufei surprised everyone by using pages out of dirty magazines as wrapping paper. Maybe not the same kind of obstacle that the others had used, but it was difficult to keep from staring at the wrapping paper instead of opening the present.

Heero had been the hold out. The only one who so far hadn't added something difficult to the wrapping of his gifts. Of course Duo was of the opinion that Heero wouldn't ever do such things.

But sure enough, under the tree that year was four unusually large packages from him. Four unusually large and incredibly HEAVY packages. The other four ex-pilots eyed them dubiously. What on earth did he do with them.

The first layer of wrapping came off fairly easily only to reveal the "surprise".

Identicle blocks of concrete.

The end.

AN: Try and guess which ones that have actually been used.