"Duo!" Hilde cried as she ran to him, Her heart pounding, her vision blurry with tears as she fell to her knees in the bloody puddle beside him, gently lifting him up into her lap. "Duo you can't die! Shinigami can't die!"
Duo weakly held Hilde's hand in his as he struggled to breathe. The once cheerful american now layed dying in Hilde's arms. "I-I'm sorry b-babe..." He said soflty as blood ran out the side of his mouth his body shaking slightly with the pain that threatened to lure him into unconsciousness.
"Duo Don't be sorry!" Hilde sobbed into his bloody hand. "It wasn't your fault!"
"Duo!" Heero called as he and the rest of the boys ran up, and He kneeled down beside his friend. "Duo! what happened?"
"Th-they shot m-me buddy..." Duo replied softly, looking at Heero tiredly. "I c-couldn't st-stop them..."
"Shhh... don't talk Duo...we'll get Relena back. I promise." Heero answered as he gently took Duo from Hilde's arms and laid him on the ground, looking him over as he took off his shirt and tore pieces from it to tie around Duo's chest to try to stop the bleeding. "Just lie still Duo...we'll get you help..."
Duo smiled a bit. "It's too..late for me buddy..."
"weak onna..." Wufei muttered under his breath. "She's always getting captured by someone..."
"SHUT UP WUFEI!" Heero yelled as he tried desperately to help his friend.
Everyone looked at Heero a second in surprise. Duo slowly moved his hand gently onto Heero's cheek, his hand shaking with pain as he brought it to his friend. Duo's hand was closed and there was something inside. "He-heero...you gotta...you gotta save..jousan...for me...please..." Duo said straining to keep his hand up near Heero, his eye closing slightly as another jolt of pain struck.
Heero gently took Duo's hand and opened it, inside was Relena's Jade angel necklace, its chain broken and the stone scarred with battle marks. Duo had really tried to save her. "Duo..." Heero said as he looked at Relena's necklace in shock. " I promise..." Then he genlty laid Duo's hand by his side as Duo closed his eyes.
"Duo! DUO!" There was no answer. Heero's eyes widened at the inevitable truth. Duo was dead.
Hilde cried and layed atop Duo's stomach, sobbing into the fabric of Duo's preist shirt. "Duo...Don't leave me...Duo!"
"The braided baka..." Heero said as he slowly stood up, tears forming in his eyes. "ALWAYS getting into trouble..." The others weren't sure if Heero was laughing or crying but Heero was acting strange.