"Oh, that was good," Duo sighed, leaning back in his seat. "It's a shame I'm gonna be hungry again in an hour."

Quatre glanced between Duo and the cleaned plates before him. "Duo, you had five servings!"

"I also think he had five chopsticks," Wufei said in a dry tone. "Someone count them."

"Not chopsticks," Heero sighed, holding up one napkin. "Paper."

They all looked close and saw that a corner had been bitten off.

Trowa shrugged. "Good for fiber, I guess."

The waiter, seeing that they were finished, came by and dropped their check on the table, along with a handful of fortune cookies in plastic wrappers. Wufei sighed and picked one up, examining it disdainfully. "Probably store-bought," he grumbled. "No one takes their time with these anymore."

Quatre giggled and gave him a quick kiss. "I'm sure these were made by a nice old lady in the back who prepares the mix according to a traditional recipe, handwrites the messages and folds them up with loving care before using wrappers that she makes herself."

"For something so sweet, you can be quite sarcastic at times," Wufei rolled his eyes.

"Hey, fortune cookies!" Duo cried, sitting up. "Wow, that's a lot of them!"

"How can you still be hungry?" Trowa asked.

"Easy, there's a black hole in his stomach," Heero responded. He handed two fortune cookies to Duo before the braided boy could grab them up. "Try not to eat the cellophane."

Duo stuck out his tongue as he unwrapped his. Around the table, the others did the same.

"So what's yours say?" Duo asked everyone. Trowa brought his up first, but Duo interrupted him. "And don't forget to add 'in bed' after it!"

"Oh no," Heero sighed.

"What?" Wufei wondered.

"Don't encourage him," Heero tried, but it was too late.

"Every fortune is infinitely better if you add 'in bed' after the message," Duo explained. "See, watch. Trowa, read it as it is."

Trowa, now fidgeting under all the attention, obeyed. "'The important thing is to express yourself'."

Duo didn't even need to say anything else. Everyone mentally applied the last two words whether they wanted to or not. Wufei couldn't help his snicker, and Quatre laughed as Trowa turned red.

"Yes, definitely remember that," Quatre grinned. "I'm getting tired of leading everything all the time."

"What's yours, Duo?" Wufei asked, trying to turn the attention from his blushing lover.

Fortunately, Duo was incapable of being embarrassed. "'You are always welcome in any gathering in bed'!"

As the others contemplated the implications of that statement, Heero reached over and pulled Duo's braid, forcing him into his spandex-clad lap. "Itai, Heero, what'd you do that for?"

"You looked a little too happy with that one," Heero snapped back.

"Oh yeah? And what does yours say, Mr. Grump?" Duo snatched one of Heero's cookies up before he could push them away. "'Don't take things too seriously'! In bed! Hah, see? The cookie never lies!"

"I'm glad my family cannot see this," Wufei groaned.

Quatre, who found Duo's antics particularly infectious, now opened his own. "Oh my..." he tried to hide it, but too late. Trowa deftly pulled it from his fingers and read it aloud. "'That long-sought opportunity will soon arise...'" His eyes widened as he added 'in bed' to that phrase.

Quatre, beginning to blush, grabbed one of Wufei's cookies and opened it. Wufei made a lunge for it, but Trowa held him at bay. "If we have to suffer, so do you!"

Quatre gave a short bark of laughter. "'You will have good luck and overcome many hardships...in bed'!"

In retaliation, Wufei picked up Trowa's other cookie. "Versatility is one of your outstanding traits'...in bed." He looked up and grinned. "Well, you are an acrobat..."

Oddly enough, it was Duo who needed the chewed napkin to halt his nosebleed. While he was occupied, Heero picked up the braided boy's other cookie. "'Your skills will accomplish what the...'" he tossed it away before finishing it, but Duo grabbed it before it disappeared under the table.

"Hey, that one's mine and...here we go...'your skills will accomplish what the force of many cannot'!" He gave Heero a devilish smile. "I'll let you find out what that means tonight."

Heero frowned and opened his second one. "'Stick to things as they are, distrust novelties'." He glared triumphantly at Duo. "So get your mind out of the gutter."

Duo's smile turned into a grin, and he leaned up to whisper in Heero's ear, "I don't need toys for you."

Meanwhile, Quatre opened his last cookie. "'Wishes will be shortly fulfilled...in bed'? That's weird, neither of you is short."

Wufei, who had taken another gulp of water, nearly choked when Quatre said that. Trowa glanced at the fortune and shook his head. "Um, no, little one. I think that means soon."

Quatre re-read it, then grinned. "Oh, then that's good!"

The pair looked expectantly at Wufei, who had the last cookie to open. The Chinese pilot sighed and cracked it open.

"Very well, anything to get this over with," he groaned. He read the message, and to their surprise, he smiled. "You will be in the best position..." He glanced at his lovers. "Well, are we ready to go home? It's getting late."

The sudden racket brought all the waiters rushing in to see what was the matter. All they found was the boys' table overturned, the chairs scattered around it, large denominations of bills floating around it, and the restaurant doors slowly shutting.

The End