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Zoophilia

Chapter Two: The Gift…

Duo tuned and wrapped the blanket around him tighter. His sniffed as a different smell filled his nose. It didn't smell this the alley. He sniffed again, nope not the church, not the docking bay. Where the hell did he fall asleep last night. He opened his eyes, blinking a few times then starred at the blue eyes starring back at him. After sitting like that for a full minute Duo sat up and looked around the room rather calmly. This was saying noting about his heart rate or his nerves.

"Good to see that your awake. Now we can get you bathed and ready for the presentation." Quatre said. Duo turned to look at Quatre. Very slowly Duo narrowed his eyes into a glare.

"Where am I?" He asked. Quatre's smile widened, and Duo had the feeling that he really wanted to smack it off the little blond Mau's face.

"Your in King Heero's Palace. You are his birthday present. We've just got to get you cleaned up." Quatre said happily. He was trying to calm the boy in front of him down. He knew panic and fear when he saw it, even if the cheetah was trying his damn hardest to hide it. Quatre placed a hand on Duo's shoulder. Duo moved away from him, and Quatre just side. "Come on." Quatre said nicely, leading Duo from the room. Duo stood quietly and followed.

There were laws, and they state that if you don't have means of providing for yourself then you are eligible to be enslaved. They figured it would be easier to enslave the homeless rather then let them starve. Duo growled at that. Duo wasn't starving. He liked being on the streets, being around the people. Cheetah's were not solitary animals. They loved being around people. The only thing Duo was missing was his own family. But Duo knew one thing for sure, he may not be able to fight the slave issue, but he sure as hell was not going to make it easy on the unlucky bastard who was his new 'master'.

Duo entered the room after Quatre and waited quietly for Quatre to fill the tub with hot water. Quatre helped Duo into the tub, even though Duo resisted and kept pushing him away. /Persistent little shit./ (1). Duo thought and Quatre began to bath him. Duo gave up on trying to do it himself. If the little Mau wanted to bath him so much then let him.

"Heero loved the water-" Quatre began.

"I don't care." Duo said back, interrupting Quatre from finishing his sentence. Quatre just smiled to Duo, though he felt that he was starting to get a little down hearted now. Duo just ignored him, he was busy thinking about other things. He had no idea what race of Animamal this 'King Heero' was. It was hard to tell, no one was giving away any hints. And it was not like Duo had ever made the effort to find out who there king was before. The only thing he knew was that their King ruled with an iron fist. Nothing passed by him, and no one went unpunished.

"So, what is you're name?" Quatre tried again. Duo looked at him out of the side of his eyes.

"Duo." He said shortly.

"You'll like it here-" Duo placed his wet hand over Quatre's mouth.

"Look I understand you are trying to be nice, but, please, stop talking…you're only making things worse." Duo said. He removed his hand and faced forward again. Quatre stopped smiling and quickly finished bathing Duo. He knew Duo had a right to be upset, but not rude. Quatre sighed, he would let the 'rudeness' go, this time. He would try to make friends with Duo when he was a little more comfortable with the situations.

Once Duo was out of the tub, Quatre dressed him in a very loose pair of dark purple pants. He brushed Duo's short fur out quickly, it didn't really need brushing since it seemed like skin but it kept it clean. He put two silver bands on Duo's upper arms, and three at the base of his tail. He also put a belled anklet on his right ankle.

"I don't want that on." Duo snapped out, hearing the bells. Quatre flinched at the tone in his voice.

"Um, all slaves and maid's that specialize in stealth are required to wear the bells so that they can not sneak up on their masters." Quatre said quietly. Duo made a noise that Quatre didn't understand. It was a growl but it was accompanied by a bit of a hiss. (2). "I'm sorry if you are annoyed, you can take it up with Heero later." Quatre said, still quiet. He didn't want to upset Duo to much. The Cheetah was stronger then him, a larger and more talented cat. Quatre quickly braided Duo's hair, with a ribbon tied at the end of it.

Trowa entered the room just as Quatre was tying off the end of the braid. Trowa was caring with him two guns. Duo growled again, the hiss following it. He knew the guns, a piercing gun and a tattooing needle. Trowa handed Quatre the instruments and stood close to Duo.

"Duo, Trowa is going to hold you down. Obvious I'm not strong enough for that, and I dare not try it. A good cat always knows his limits." Quatre explained. Duo didn't have time to agree before He was facing Trowa, Trowa's arms wrapped tightly around him.

"I think you will fair better if you let go of me." Duo threatened. Trowa just lifted an eye brow, in what Duo felt was a very cocking way. /oh he's going to pay/ Duo thought.

Quatre expected Duo to scream or cry out at least a bit, but he didn't. When the needle touched Duo's skin, it was Trowa, that roared. Quatre jumped and looked up to see Duo's fangs were deep in Trowa's shoulder. Trowa nodded to Quatre to hurry up. He growled out a little bit when the needle was back on Duo's skin, the cheetah had tightened his jaw. Duo kept his teeth there until Quatre was done, which was a ten minute period, and before any of them could move he had the piercing gun loaded and snapped the stub into Duo's right ear.

Duo pulled away from Trowa and looked at him lifting an eye brow in a cocky fashion, there was blood dripping from his chin..

"You don't like me, do you?" Trowa said. He rubbed his shoulder, the wounds were at least an inch deep.

"What gave you that idea." Duo said (3) his face straight.

"Duo you could have hurt him if you went closer to his neck." Quatre said checking over Trowa's injuries.

"I know." Duo said simple. Quatre looked at him and then back at Trowa a small smile on his face.

"He'll be perfect for Heero." Quatre said, almost sarcastically. Trowa nodded. He turned and pulled the robe off of the hook, throwing it around Duo's shoulders and pulling the hood over Duo's head. .

"Quatre, can you inform Heero that we are ready." Trowa said. He wasn't about to leave Quatre with Duo. It would be too dangerous with Duo in such a mood.

"Yeah Sure." He said and ran off ahead. Trowa didn't say anything to Duo, he grabbed his upper arm tightly and pulled him from the room a little roughly. The hood blocked Duo's vision. He was really hating this. The bell was tinkling, his vision was blocked. If they blocked one more of his senses he was going to seriously hurt someone. Duo tried to remove the hood, or at least push it up a bit, but Trowa slapped his hands away, Duo smacked him back.

"Leave it on." Trowa said.

"I can't see." Duo snapped.

"Trust me, you won't want to." Trowa countered. Duo just huffed a breath and folded his arms. Duo was pushed past a door and immediately wanted to run. He smelt a lot of different predators in this room. Everything from wolves , bears, lions, hyenas…a tiger? It was only a brief smell, but he knew he smelt it. The assault on his ears was killing him. He thought the city was bad, this was horrible. They must have been in a large stone or cement room. There seemed to be an echo that was making the noise worse.

Then all the noise stopped. A single voice rose up in the room. It was strong and controlling and Duo felt himself shiver from hearing it.

"Trowa? After I told you that I didn't want anything. You, Quatre, and Wufei got me a present after all?" Heero asked. He was truly surprised. Usually when he said he didn't want anything they didn't get him anything, but not this time. This time they had gotten he something. They had gotten him a slave.

"King Heero, we felt it was time for you to have a slave. With all your work it would help to have some one to comfort you." At that Duo started fighting Trowa's grip. He was not going to stand by and let some 'king' bed him. Being a slave he could handle . A pillow slave, never.

Trowa quickly pushed Duo forward, keeping a grip on the robe so that it pulled away from Duo's body. Duo fell to his stomach, a gasp went threw the room. Duo sat up and looked around him to see people starring at him, all whispering.

"A Cheetah?"

"I thought they were all…?"

"Dead?"

"Yeah."

Duo bowed his head and closed his eyes.

"He's beautiful." The voice whispered. Heero spoke up more clearly. "Put him in my chambers, being here is making him uncomfortable." Duo was about to say something to that, but Trowa's hand was coving his mouth before a single syllable could passed through his lips. Trowa pulled Duo from the room quickly.

"Please let me go!" Duo warned…nicely. Trowa didn't say anything. "I don't want to be a pillow slave." Duo tried. Trowa glanced at him, his grip still firm on Duo's upper arm.

"You have no choice." Trowa said simply.

Once they were in the chambers, Trowa forced Duo onto the bed and placed a collar around Duo's neck, earning a few more scratches for his hard work. And yes it was hard to get that damn collar around Duo's neck. The damn cheetah was squirmy and thin.

Trowa was well known for being a patient man, but the slim cheetah had the talents to royally piss Trowa off. So out of a little revenge for himself he made sure the chain was too short for Duo to do anything but sit there. He would have to sit there for hours. He made sure everything was out of reach. Trowa did all this without a single word to the cheetah.

Duo busied himself with yelling at the top of his lungs for a full fifteen minutes before he resorted to throwing the pillows across the room. Each pillow, ten all together, hit something and either broke it or knocked it off the wall. When he ran out of pillows he pulled the blanket over him and curled up the best he could sitting up and fell asleep.

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(1) Duo's not in a good mood

(2) Cheetah's growl, this is often accompanied by hissing and spitting and are exhibited by cheetahs during annoyance, or when faced with danger.

(3) is Duo pissed or what, well I think it's fair to saw that I would be too. I would be a little hostile too.