Shallow Mist march 27, 09
Disclaimer: G-boys not saru's (not available to buy anywhere; even though saru might have no money to even try make a bargain over Heero…)
Warning: critical AU, supernatural beings, violence, mature contents : male x male bonding, language, abusive Duo, NCS
4. fourth day -weather forecast: cold day with cozy drizzles in the evening
……'if you won't regret it, then…you may kill me…!'
Heero stirred with the words echoing in his head, he'd heard it said somewhere but his mind couldn't remember when and where; but the voice was softer than a morning breeze…like…the last breath of a dying night. He thought, even if he used such metaphor to name things others wouldn't understand him, so he never really spoke with anyone like that; even to Duo…Duo didn't even feel anything wrong when he trampled the wildflower. And like last night, he's not accusing that Duo was the culprit; but Duo did take advantage of things, the fire, the burnt plants, him losing his voice, people's concern of their past. Duo even used his parents' deaths as a cover to his threats, but he wasn't such a malevolent boy before Heero met him; so it was definitely his fault that Duo got more and more twisted with every passing day. He never intended to be the master, and he sure knew Duo didn't want to be his fodder one way or another, Duo just couldn't fight the obedience in his blood. And himself, Duo couldn't deny his existence and his curse; even if Duo wanted to run away from him, suicide wasn't an option available anymore; his life wasn't his anymore…
With both arms embracing his smaller body, Duo fell asleep last night still filling him; and Duo was right about that as well, it's not like he minded the pain every time they were doing it, he wasn't sure if it was pain he was feeling, anyway.
Opening one eye a slit, Heero saw a thicker blanket draped around them on top of the blanket they had last night; so some time when they were sleeping someone came and covered them with that blanket. Heero frowned, Aunt Leon said she'd tell others to not come in for a while; or was it Aunt Leon who did it?
As if answering his thought, a couple of soft knocks sounded by the door, Heero stiffened and closed his eye again faking sleep; Aunt Leon came in with apparently their breakfast on another tray. She exchanged the tray she put last night on the table behind Duo and patted his shoulder a couple times gently before going to the door again, thinking that he was asleep. She stopped on her track when Duo mumbled a thank you.
"Oh, I thought you're still asleep…!"
Duo opened his eyes and smiled, "I thought you're going to the Church for Morning Mass?"
"Yes, you're not coming…?"
"Mm…not today…"
She chuckled, "That's okay, I understand…!" brushing Duo's bangs behind with her fingers. "About the detective I told you last night?"
"Yes?"
"He'll be coming here today, I don't know whether he'll skip going to Church, too; but I just wanted to tell you beforehand since everybody is going to come to the Mass…!"
Duo's brows lifted, "You mean the house is going to be empty except for us?!"
"Not really, there are already some police officers guarding outside; and some of them on the ground floor and garden, I just told them to give you some privacy for a while; alright?" Aunt Leon tapped Duo's nose with a finger. 'How's he doing…?' she mouthed flicking her eyes at Heero in Duo's arms.
'The usual…' Duo mouthed back; Aunt Leon didn't seem satisfied, but she shrugged and ruffled Duo's head before she left.
"Want something to eat?" Duo muttered; Heero opened his eyes and shook a little. Duo snickered while breathing in the smell of his hair, "…not even me?!" there was still an edge in his tone, and Heero squirmed in his hold. Duo started licking his ear, "C'mon, just a little bite and grant me release…?"
Duo sighed after Heero shook his head even harder, he couldn't see his brother's face since he was holding him to lean his back to his front, but he thought he didn't really care what kind of face Heero was making now. Throwing the blankets from their bodies Duo sat kneeling on his feet; the thick blanket fell to the floor while the thinner one from last night somewhat spread on the rest of the sofa. "Then I guess I have to make you either come with me or bite me…!" Duo's voice sounded coldly bored. Heero gasped as Duo threw his body on his back to the other side of the sofa swing on the blanket, with Duo's right hand gripping his left ankle up higher than his shoulder and his left hand squeezing his neck hard.
The sofa swing swayed by the force, and even without that Heero's head already felt spinning. Duo had a cold mask of a dead face while he thrust into Heero roughly; Heero couldn't even gasp and only gritted his teeth, knowing Duo's eyes burnt to the line of teeth in his mouth waiting for his fangs to come out. "Draw out your fangs, Heero…!"
Heero opened his eyes a slit and saw Duo's eyes were shaded with dark shadow that the color was almost black; no, he didn't want to soil Duo more…! He closed his eyes again as Duo planted his fingers deeper digging into his neck, as if he could squeeze his fangs out if he crushed it harder.
'…Duo…' Heero mouthed, his face skin already felt hot by the pressure of Duo's hand that he couldn't feel it when his tears trailed down from the ends of his eyes. Duo tsk-ed and his left hand let go Heero's ankle and he used it to pry his mouth open; "I'm going crazy, Heero…! So, since you don't seem like you're enjoying the sex, enjoy a little bite instead!"
Duo had three fingers jammed in Heero's mouth, gripping the lower jaw forcing it down and Heero could taste his own blood from his tongue cut by Duo's nails. He croaked a faint 'ack' and Duo heard it; chuckling, Duo said with a relief mocking his roughness; "…so, your voice is back, Heero? May be I should've done this to pull your voice back since yesterday?"
Heero lifted his hand and wound it around Duo's neck, then his body shook with small seizures and his fangs drew out slowly, only half the length of his usual feeding-teeth but Duo groaned and his whole body boiled up inside answering the call. Duo released Heero's neck and mouth, wound his arm around Heero's shoulder to his back, and one behind his head to support him biting the base of his own neck; and Duo came violently even though he only felt Heero's fangs broke his skin and he didn't suck in his blood. His vision swirled and he dropped his body on top of Heero's as he felt like drowning in a deep blackness and something inside him cackling in satisfaction.
Heero could hear the Shinigami laughing inside Duo, he didn't want that entity to take over Duo's body again so he didn't suck Duo's blood; he didn't want to erase Duo little by little, Duo was not a twisted being when he's not involved between the two of them. Embracing Duo's shuddering body with both hands, Heero tried to remember why he took Duo to take part of his curse, but his tired mind couldn't work right now. It had something to do with his misdeed in the past and…
"…awwwh…my angel is regretting killing me…!" an amused leer heard from Duo's mouth and Heero immediately let his fangs off Duo's skin and dropped his head on the sofa. He saw the smiling Shinigami as he turned his face a little; the entity used Duo's finger to stroke his head from straying hair and licked the blood trails from his mouth. "If you don't feed, you'll get even weaker than I am and your precious Duo will be swallowed by ME completely, angel…!" the Shinigami kissed his slack mouth to clean the traces of Duo's blood as if enjoying his own share.
"…you haven't told him about me eating him from inside his own body, have you? I bet he'd freak out and rip his veins open just so you would feed on his blood to quell me…!" Heero didn't respond to the mocking tone, his eye color turned shallower and Shinigami knew that he was almost losing his consciousness. Snickered once, he wiped a trailing tear from one end of Heero's eyes; "You look sleepy, I'll let you get away for now…!"
After that Heero's eyes turned dull and lifeless; and Shinigami knew that he was staring at his precious human's soul drowned in the darkness that was him, residing deep inside Duo's unawareness; as if he would keep his eyes open forever to see the flickering dying light of hope. And that masochistic stubbornness was the thing Shinigami liked from him, the entity smiled and closed Heero's eyelids with his hand, savoring the feel of the thick eyelashes wet by tears brushed his palm skin. If he didn't possess Duo's body he wouldn't have the chance to feel that kind of sensation, and he didn't regret their triangle-curse, even if that fallen angel hated him even more…cursing him more…and may be someday he'd kill him again.
That thought made him smile contentedly.
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Heero groaned weakly; he didn't know whether he'd fallen asleep or fainted, but even though his body felt wrecked he was relief that Duo's bitterness had passed and he could have his dreary time back. He tried to open his eyes, moaned and closed his eyes again as the light from the window hurt them; a flash of sight of his own shoulder told him that he was stripped naked. Perhaps he'd left some blood on his shirt when he bit Duo, and Duo had discarded it. He waited as his senses gradually came back, he felt like a ragged piece of cloth seeped by muddy water; but he knew he was way beyond dirty inside out so he didn't think of it badly.
He gasped and widened his eyes as he felt his lower parts, reflexively pulled his legs together but two hands around his ankles didn't let him. "…Duo…!" he croaked out poorly as he lifted his head to see his lower body, and Duo raised his head above the line of his crotch.
"You're bleeding…!" Duo stated levelly then he proceeded with his licking.
Heero sobbed once, "…don't…--dirty…!" he tried to move his legs but only managed a weak squirm.
"If you keep squirming, my body might get another idea, Heero…!" Duo said as if bored and Heero stopped instantly. "……it's like a cat licking its wound, no big deal, right? The tear closed faster with my saliva…!"
"Why are you hiding your face?" Duo sat up and found Heero used both arms crossed to hide his face, there was a tear trailing down, and the sight made his anger back. "You're embarrassed even after all these years doing immoral things together, or are you tempting me to do something more, Heero…?!"
Heero moaned and balled his body to the sofa's back, presenting his back to Duo; "…I'm sorry…!" he croaked breathlessly and Duo felt a chill ran up his spine; hearing his broken tone, and seeing his small skinny body pale and wrecked by frightened trembles. Where had they taken the wrong turn, exactly? He never meant to love his Heero this way, '…that's not a brotherly-love that way'…! The words echoed unbidden in his mind and he gritted his teeth in denial.
Duo turned his head sharply from the sight; took a couple of deep breaths he gathered the rumpled and soiled blanket and Heero's pants and ripped shirt and balled them together in his hands. "I'm going to discard these; don't let anyone see you like that…!" and with that he left the room, avoiding the police's guards and slipped to the incinerator hut near the log storage. Throwing them inside the incinerator, Duo turned it on and watched as the fire ate the cloths from the small window; he knew the police would see the smoke from the chimney, but he didn't care just as long as he'd gotten rid of the traces of Heero's blood and his own crime, they wouldn't know what was burnt once he's done.
There were the sounds of footsteps coming closer and Heero stiffened, snatched the thick blanket from the floor he hurried to the corner behind the armoire and potted plant at the wall opposite the door, covering his body somewhat and balled down. An officer opened the door just in split second in his patrol, he might have forgotten that Aunt Leon told them to let her nephews alone in that room, or he didn't know which room she was talking about in that large mansion.
The officer surveyed the room from the doorway, and finding it empty, he turned and closed the door; Heero realized the end of the blanket was left on the floor visible from the doorway and he pulled it just before the officer opened it again as he thought he saw something. Frowning and feeling something amiss; sometimes humans had reliable sense, as well; the officer walked into the room and checked around.
Heero gripped the blanket tight as the man passed him several times, he didn't care much about himself, it was the fear of what Duo would do to the man if he ever found him in his condition and meddled between him and Duo. Surely with the man being a cop, what he'd find about their relationship wouldn't be taken lightly. And he wouldn't want to break the kind Aunt Leon's heart if she knew into what kind of a person he'd twisted his dearest nephew now.
The officer stopped just a couple of meters from the armoire; he might have thought he saw the plant's leaf moved, and he walked to check behind the armoire since it was placed covering a corner and made a small space behind it that could be used as a hiding place. Right before he bent and tilted his body in front of the potted plant his radio called him, he answered and distractedly moved the drooping leaves from his sight for a mere second and he turned his head to the door while speaking with his partner. They shared some jokes about a strict unkempt superior who'd look like a prince if only he'd know what to do with a razor in hands; and the officer joked back about what that man could do with the razorblade in his hands with them instead if he knew what they were talking behind his back; and they laughed together, while he was still standing on his spot in front of Heero's hiding place.
"…ack-- he's here..!" the officer on the radio said in surprise.
"I heard that, you sure know what I could do to you if you mess up such an easy job, right..?!" another man yelled seemingly behind the man who was holding his radio on the other side.
"Yessir…!" the officer in the room said and hurried to the door to proceed with his patrolling, but he was still chuckling to himself when he closed the door.
Heero didn't realize that he'd been holding his breath until his throat constricted; he choked and tried to gasp poorly and realized his neck was hurting because of Duo's grip sometime before as well. He hid his face under his arms, wondering where Duo had left that he was there alone, naked and only had a blanket to hide himself from the world. He thought about what Duo said the other night, about his curse; being cursed to be heartless might as well meant that even the person loving him treated him like a heartless thing, and it broke his heart…
A palm placed on his head made him jerk his head up; he found a concerned Duo's face with a serious frown staring at him, he didn't realize he was crying until Duo wiped the flowing tears with his thumb and palm. "…let's go and take a shower?" he said almost whispering; and Heero knew it was his kindhearted Duo and without thinking he grabbed Duo's neck and clung to him, didn't even minding the blanket fell and pooled on the floor showing his nakedness.
"Sorry…did someone come here while I'm gone?" Duo held his waist with one hand while bending and picked the blanket with the other hand. Heero could only answered by clawing at Duo's back trying to press their bodies to be one. "They didn't find you, did they…?" Heero only shook his head to that question.
"Okay…we'll go upstairs now, alright?" Duo held him covered with the blanket, and rearranged Heero's legs so he could walk without them getting in the way, he felt like holding a big baby but he didn't say it. "It's okay; I got you, Heero…!" Duo took him to their bathroom, mumbling words of comfort along the way.
Heero hated it when he couldn't help but act so powerless in times like that.
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He'd calmed down after a bath and changed into fresh clothes and actually enjoyed the little swaying of the sofa swing while reading a book, which he only pretended to read just so that Duo would let him use his body as a big cushion behind his back; much like their arrangement last night. Duo munched on the cakes Aunt Leon left on the tray of their breakfast; complaining about the sweets and Aunt Leon treated them like children that she gave them sweets for breakfast just because they had a sad recollection about their past; but he munched on them happily anyway, Heero noted.
A knock on the door broke their comfortable arrangement, and Duo stood to see who it was. A self-assured looking man about in his early 30s smiled with a crooked unlit cigarette in his mouth; even though he seemed like a confident type but he had somewhat shaggy appearance like he hadn't seen a bathroom for days, but the impression didn't strike wrong in Duo's mind. The man introduced himself as Aunt Leon's friend; childhood friend, more correctly; and that she had already pleased him in and checked around all he liked. Duo blinked as the man didn't stated that he was a police detective, but he didn't need that statement, Duo could smell a policeman from across a crowded room since he already had too many happenstances with them.
"You must be Duo…!" the man greeted while stepping inside.
"I am, Mr.--…?"
"Oh, Blackice, Mirlo Blackice. Your Aunt used to call me Blackbird when we're children…!" the man grinned showing his white teeth with no plaque on the surface, may be he just liked to bite something between his teeth and not really a smoker; that would explain the crooked cigarette, perhaps he'd chewed it for more than a week.
"And…what should I call you with, Detective?" Duo gave him a good smile.
"Ah, what you like is alright; just don't call me uncle, I'm not that old…!" the man shrugged and surveyed the room in general, Duo was going to say something; "Oh, but your Aunt calls me Blacky, these days…!" but the man kept cutting with some distracting conversational issue.
"Sounds like a dog's name, eh?" he laughed; Duo chuckled wryly, he was forgetting what he was thinking as an image of a black dog came running with its wriggling tail and a giant cigarette bitten like a stick in its mouth flashed in his mind; but the man looked more like a wolf with his black duster like that, he thought.
"And you must be Heero?" the man stood behind the table separating him and the sofa swing.
"Yes, he's my brother…--"
"Oh, I like reading that book, too. The illustrations are pretty graphic, eh?" he bent and took a peek at the open book on Heero's bent knees; Heero ignored him all the same.
"Um, Uncle Detective, I thought Aunt Leon said that you will debrief us about last night…?"
The man laughed and pointed at Duo, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?!"
"Alright, just call me Blackbird, and I won't bother your peaceful time here…!" he turned to the things in the room again away from Heero's back.
Duo crooked a smile, "…the questioning, Mr. Blackbird?" and walked to Heero's side from the back of the sofa swing.
"Alright. Did you burn the garden, Duo?" Blackbird checked the collection on the book shelf, peeking at Duo's face from the reflection on the glass; he noticed Duo's hand pulled Heero's loose turtleneck up covering his nape.
"No!"
"Did you think of setting it on fire?"
"No"
"Did you know someone who would?"
"I don't know everyone that close, I only know the people in this mansion in my visits when I was a child…!" Duo shrugged.
"Do you know someone who wouldn't?" Blackbird turned around facing them.
"What kind of question is that?" Duo sweat-dropped; the shaggy detective only chuckled at the expression on his face. "Shouldn't you ask like 'did you want to do it' instead?"
"Did you want to?" the man complied.
"No!" Duo scowled, "I helped planting some flowers the whole day yesterday…!"
Blackbird noticed Heero's curled toes on the sofa at that admission. "Did your brother want to?"
"Hell, no…!! Why would he do that?"
Blackbird chuckled again, he used his left hand he pulled from his duster pocket and twirled the crooked cigarette in his fingers. "Well, perhaps it's just something that happens, since they couldn't find anything left of any arson-thingy…!"
"…you don't speak like a cop, Mr. Blackbird…!" Duo sweat-dropped again; Blackbird chuckled and bit his crooked cigarette again, lifting both hands in surrender.
"I read too many story books…!" Blackbird offered.
"Is a garden suddenly burst on fire something that would just happen?" Duo asked back.
"You wouldn't belief what could happen in this town…!" Blackbird took a piece of cookies on the tray and stuffed it in his mouth, Duo stared at the crooked cigarette still bitten in between his lips; while Blackbird noticed Duo's hand wound around Heero's neck half-consciously. He smiled at them and said that he would look around the house again and leave the boys alone.
"Boys are boys, after all…!" he mumbled around his crooked cigarette while standing on the patio to the garden.
"Black…!" Aunt Leon greeted him from behind.
"Oh, and I already told your nephew that you called me Blacky nowadays…!" he crooked an amused smile; Aunt Leon rolled her eyes.
"Found anything?"
Blackbird shrugged and cued her to go outside. Aunt Leon sighed and told him that she would just see how her nephews were doing first.
"Duo…!" Aunt Leon opened the door a little.
"Oh, you're back!" Duo smiled. She lifted her brows flicking her eyes at Heero, and Duo shrugged with wide clear eyes; she smiled and tilted her head cueing out the corridor in general, and Duo waved at her behind Heero's back. One thing ran in the Maxwell family was the ability to converse without actually speaking; Heero took a glance at the closed door when she left, he knew they were going to discuss about them somewhere outside the house but he didn't want to get Duo alerted about it, so he didn't say anything.
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"So, what did you find?" Aunt Leon asked sipping her tea cup.
Blackbird bit his lower lip and tsk-ed, his eyes glanced at the people in the café in general before he stared at her. "About the garden, or about your nephews?"
Aunt Leon shrugged one shoulder and poured the milk into her teacup, then salt and black-pepper; the detective cringed a little at the tea stirred in the cup and he stared when she sipped it and smiled satisfactorily. "Want a taste…?" she asked.
Blackbird lifted his hand and chewed his cigarette and said; "You noticed the heart-attack victim was found again the other night?"
"Read it in the newspaper…"
"You think they should increase the patrol number?"
"I don't want to burden the Headmaster more than this…!" Aunt Leon put the cup with a clink sound.
"Your boys are in the line, right?"
"I don't want to involve them in this matter!"
"But that's not your choice!"
"…can we just talk about what you found?" Aunt Leon stared him in the eyes, he sighed.
"The mansion of the Mortise family was burnt, too, last week…!" Blackbird lit the crooked cigarette and held it between his fingers and watched the smoke wafted in the air.
"The Mortise…!" Aunt Leon had a shaded look in her eyes.
"One of the house workers had a patisserie in the old town…-"
"The father, who worked in the patisserie, was the heart-attack victim?" Aunt Leon sipped her tea again.
"Should we arrange more guards in your house?"
"No, my workers mostly live in the mansion, with their family; any excessive activity would alert my nephews more than necessary and I wouldn't be able to make up something to cover it!"
Blackbird watched a little girl playing a stuffed doll on the floor near their corner table; "…you should at least put them in the dorms, they would be safe there…!"
Aunt Leon tsk-ed to herself, stirring the tea again, she was hiding her nervousness and Blackbird knew her that much; "…Duo is not that adaptive, I don't want to put him in the line, either!"
"And his brother, Heero…?" Blackbird twirled the cigarette's lit head between his fingers and knuckle.
"Duo is over-protective over him…!"
"Really? That's interesting…!! Do you notice the hand-mark bruise around his neck? Surely he'd be overly protective if he had a younger brother like him!"
Aunt Leon wasn't too happy with the sarcastic tone, "…and you're saying?"
"You know what I'm talking about; letting it goes on is not that wise, right, dear Aunty?"
Aunt Leon sighed deeply, and sipped her tea for a couple of times; "…it's that obvious, hu? I thought it was endearing at first, when I first saw them in Duo's parents' funeral…!"
"I couldn't just butt in, now; I left them to themselves for years!" she muttered again, staring at the table.
Blackbird snickered, pulling out a new cigarette from his shirt pocket and bit it while still staring at the burnt one between his fingers. "You could at least let them know the reason…?"
"I'd rather not. Not now…!" she poured more pepper to her tea and finished the last sip.
"Why do you always drink it like that…?!" Blackbird cringed again.
Aunt Leon snickered at him, "Habit?" she smiled victoriously.
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The Head-maid stood discreetly behind the stuffy chair, waited for any order for her.
"…what do you think I should do, Ms. Beth?"
"I think you should stop stirring your tea, Lady, it's cold now…"
Aunt Leon chuckled in her seat, the fluttering lacy curtain entertained her eyes for awhile; "That's why I didn't want a family, I'm not suited playing parents…!"
"No one expect you to be one, Lady Leonore. I think you're best suited as a friend…?" Ms. Beth said in her thick dialect.
"I'm not very successful in that area as well, as you can count how many friends I have left, right, Ms. Beth?" she chuckled tiredly, sipping at the tea and frowned at the amount of pepper she'd put in.
"Too much of anything could do you harm, my Child…!" Ms. Beth moved closer and stroked her head, Aunt Leon leaned her head to her motherly hand.
"I wish someone would say that about me, too, Ms. Beth…"
"I tell you what; go out tonight, have some fun with the boys…" Ms. Beth massaged her stiff neck and she moaned in pleasure, "You work too much these days, I'm beginning to wonder if it was just an excuse to avoid them!" Aunt Leon groaned at that, but she chuckled afterwards. "No one could have too much of your company, Child…!"
"Really…?" she chuckled again, "The Old Men seemed they got fed up by my pestering…!"
"Now that's not very nice of you, Lady Leonore…!"
Aunt Leon chuckled to herself, "Sorry! But they started to get on my nerves, Nanny Beth!" she whined mockingly and sipped her tea, and cringed again.
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Heero stared at the city lights from the curved bridge above the made river on top of the hotel roof, the water flowed to a waterfall passed two levels down to a pool at the lower floor; some spotlights placed strategically and made it look like a picture in a storybook. The night sky poured a thin drizzling shower and he welcomed the cool touches of the spray on his face. Sometimes he'd glance at Aunt Leon laughing over some jokes Duo said randomly over their dinner at the restaurant's table by the window, and the warm lit picturesque pinched his heart; he thought it's what the kind of life Duo would have if he didn't get involved with him…and that Shinigami.
Blowing his breath slowly and watched the thin white fog of his breath penetrated by some pouring spray and dissolved into the air, Heero pulled his eyes from the wide window and ignored his constricted chest.
"What are you looking at? You're getting wet out here…!" Duo asked softly and held him with both hands from behind. Heero blinked at him and glanced at the window where Aunt Leon was still sitting at her table. "Aunt Leon met someone of her acquaintance and I take my refuge out…!" Duo chuckled inhaling Heero's smell and rubbing his own cheek at the side of Heero's head half covered by his jacket hood.
Suddenly Duo tightened his hold and lifted his small body up, Heero opened his mouth but no yelp came out; he twisted his body behind and grabbed at Duo's upper arm when he realized Duo swung his feet above the low balustrade of the stone bridge. "What…?" Duo chuckled, "I won't throw you down, Heero. It's a better view seeing it like this, right? I got you…!" Duo held him and maneuvered Heero's sitting body to lean on his front.
Heero's tightness melted gradually, Duo chuckled again at his expression, "Why? You think I would hurt you in such a public place…?"; but that actually made Heero stiffened again, he turned his upper body but he didn't have the time to look at Duo's face since he tilted his head down and covered his mouth. Heero widened his eyes as he was actually facing Aunt Leon's window and though Duo's head covered his face from her sight, it's obvious that she could figure out what they were doing; like, now…Heero stared at her staring at them, she spoke to her acquaintance for a few seconds and pulled the curtain's flies covering the window's view.
…….she knew…! Heero didn't know whether to feel relieved or worried, he somewhat realized Duo's mouth left his and he was rubbing his cheek on his forehead again like a cat, purring as he enjoyed the contact. "I said, let them know…!" Duo whispered. Heero's face flustered as he heard it; so Duo actually made it as a show, even to Aunt Leon? "What do you think she would do, separate us?" Duo's crossing hands at Heero's front tightened, and he rubbed Heero's stiff left upper arm with his right hand as if trying to get him warm.
Heero felt his leftover strength drained from him, and he melted in Duo's arms, leaning behind feeling Duo's warmth seeped through their thick clothes; and the beating of his heart, too, thumping from behind on the exact place where he should have his own heart beating.
"I love you, Heero…!" Duo mumbled to his hair, smiling gently; but Heero knew it was coming from his obedience-induced mind, so he didn't answer in any kind, he didn't deny that confession either, at least he felt happy when he heard it. Keeping the hope that Duo would really love him made him able to open his eyes every morning; even after such hard and brutal night.
The three of them got home when Heero almost fell asleep in Duo's arms, it's been another hard day for his 12-year old body and mind, and he decided that he would attend school tomorrow, no matter Duo's reason for not letting him go to that place. Being kept in the house and always minding the house workers' safety was more tiring than having a rough ritual; at least in their bonding ritual he knew no one would get hurt besides themselves.
"…you sure your brother is alright?" Aunt Leon asked with a low voice while walking Duo with Heero in his arms to Heero's room.
"He just feels like sleeping since he wanted to go to school tomorrow, and he's someone who had his own world and could just fall asleep when his body said it wanted to take the nap…!" Duo chuckled at the end.
Aunt Leon frowned, "He hadn't had his voice back, right?"
"Hu? …oh, he croaked something today…!" Duo shrugged, "But he'd rather let me have the trouble and speak for him…!"
She huffed, "You know, you're spoiling him too much, and only get him more and more restrained…!"
'…awh, you wouldn't want to know what kind of restraints I put on him…!' Duo's mind leered, and Duo chuckled to pull his mind back; but Aunt Leon seemed to think that he was chuckling to her words and she playfully gave him a pat on his head.
Without they knew it they already at Heero's door, Aunt Leon opened the door for Duo and he put Heero gently on the bed, taking off his damp jacket afterwards. "But it's not like he's hurting anybody, Aunt Leon…!" Duo reasoned with his wide smiling eyes from his lower view as he sat on the bed. She ruffled his head as answer to those irresistible eyes and said a goodnight, and left her chuckling nephew walked her to the door of Heero's room.
Duo took his shoes and outfit off, did the same with his brother and changed him into a more comfortable shirt, amused at him not waking up in the process; then joined in into the blanket cocoon and held him like a bolster. Duo slept and found himself drowned in darkness again, he felt anxious but at least he wasn't seeing nightmare, his mind whispered.
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It was in the middle of the night, Heero could feel the pull of another day getting born somewhere in the flow of Time; writing another punishment for him which he'd face for another day. He moved in Duo's embrace and felt the friction on his lower body; he wasn't surprise finding Duo didn't change him into another pair of pants or underwear and let him only clad in his night shirt under the blanket.
His body felt like floating, he recognized such sensation was only when he had to deal with--…
Heero snapped his eyes wide open and found a pair of black-hollow of eyes with two red shining pupils staring at his face with a smile. "…ahh…, the angel wakes up…!" Shinigami purred, and Heero knew he didn't have the strength to fight back.
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Thx for reading ….(saru is surrently waiting the downloads of some yaoi scanlations, hehee)
