Chapter Three

"Heero, are you in there?" A voice came from the hallway.

"In the study, Wufei."

A chinese man with raven black hair pulled into a tight ponytail and onxy eyes came through the doorway. "Heero, your father would like to see you." The man called Wufei said and then left the room leaving a chocolate haired, blue eyed boy to follow.

Grudgingly Heero sat up and walked to the entrance. He really didn't like going to see his father, they have never seen eye to eye. Walking down a hallway he stopped at big oak doors, knocking twice he opened the door and stepped in. Inside the center of the room sat the ruler of the village, Cheif Odin Yuy

"You sent for me Otosan?"

"Yes Heero, your bride will be here next week. I expect you to welcome her to the full extent."

"Yes Otosan."was the solem reply. Further conversation was halted with the entry of the cheifs highest council member, Lady Une.

"Sir, there are two travellers asking premission to enter our village. One of them is in need of urgent medical attention."

"Only one of them is injured you say?"

"That is correct sir"

"Take the injured one to the infirmary and bring the other one to me, I wish to speak with him. You are dissmissed Lady Une, oh and take Heero with you for assistance."

"Yes sir!" She said with a salute "Heero, please follow me" and with an air of authority she left with Heero reluctently trailing after her.

Walking close behind Heero followed Lady Une to where the travellers awaited them. Nearing the edge of the village he spotted two clocked figures one on a horse another on the ground with two sets of reins in hand.

The one of the horse was looking deathly pale and had a long chestnut braid almost touching the ground a pained look on the sleeping face. 'Is that a boy or a girl? I'm thinking girl' thought Heero. The other traveler had short wavy blonde hair and aqua eyes, he looked as if he had hardly gotten any sleep.

"Heero take the injured one to the infirmary, I'll take the other one to your father as requested." She told the boy standing beside her. Unfortunatly for her, the blonde haired boy didn't like that idea one bit.

"No! ma'am please let me stay by Duo's side." He begged

"Thats not my call Cheif Yuy wishes to speak with you and I will not go around disobaying his orders." Lady Une said with finality. "Now Heero take the injured one to the infirmary."

"Yes Lady Une." Heero said moving towards the figure on the horse. Looking at the figure beside the horses he asked. "You what is your name?"

"I'm Quatre Winner, and yours?" Quatre asked

"My names Heero Yuy, can I please have the reins to your companions horse?" He asked kindly. Quatre handed over the reins very slowly, not fully trusting the boy. Once the requested items were in Heeros hands, Heero started leading the horse through the village towards the infirmary with Quatre and Lady Une following him until they had to take a different route to the chiefs house.

"Dr. Po? you have a paitent." the dark haired boy said to the woman sitting at the desk.

"Oh and did Hilde and Relena get into another fight today? I swear one more fight between those two and their gonna be patching up their own wounds at ho-" her speak stopped when Heero brought in the braided one. "Oh my god, what the hell happened to her?" She said near panic as she rushed over to the poor soul, directing the two to a near by bed.

"I don't know he's not from this village, all I know is her travelling companion brought her here for medical attention." Was the answer. "Her companion said her name was Duo."

started taking the cloak off the wounded indiviual, her heart breaking even further as more bandagess we revealed. 'It looks like whoever did this was set out to kill.' thought the doctor when the cloak was fully off she noticed the wolf ears and tail 'So shes a Shinea, such pretty coloring.' Turning to Heero she spoke "Heero thank you for bringing her in. You can leave if you want to, the choice is yours but personally I don't think that you will want to see whats underneath all those bandages." Not waiting for his reply she started unwrapping the soiled torso bandages, wincing when ever she had to pull on an area of the bandage to get it unstuck.

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Duo was quite comfortable in the land of the unconcious, unfortunately it didn't last as long as he'd like, Duo came to quickly when an area of a bandage was yanked away. He alerted who he thought was Quatre with a pain filled yelp. "Hey Quat can ya be a little more gental? that fucking hurts." His voice coming out just barley above a whisper.

"Sorry, no guarentees but I'll try."

'Sheesh doesn't Quat kno- wait a minute that wasn't Quatres voice'. Peeking a violet eye open his line of sight fell onto a pair of sky blue eyes. Panic set in and he quickly jumped up trying to make his escape but he didn't count on getting dizzy making the floor come up pretty fast. Before he could hit the floor a pair of strong arms grabbed him and hauled him back into a laying position onto what he discovered was a bed.

"Who are you? Where am I? Where's Quatre?" He said in a panic

"Calm down" Said a deep monotoned voice "You are safe, your friend Quatre went with Lady Une to see the village Chief while I brought you to the infirmary." Duo looked to where the voice was comming from and what he saw took his breath away. A human boy maybe 15 years of age with messy chocolate brown hair and piercing cobalt blue eyes all mixed together on a span of tanned skin 'Oh my god did I die and go to heaven, this guys drop dead sexy and that voice. Fuck if this is a dream, don't wake me up.'

"You still didn't answer my question, the one of who you guys are." Duo said

"I'm Heero Yuy and this is Po, she's trying to treat your wounds Ms. Duo." Heero said trying to sound polite. Duo snorted "Sorry to burst your bubble man, but I'm no miss I'm pure male." the violet eyed boy said with a smirk causing the blue eyed boy to blush like a tomato.

"Oh...Uh, sorry I didn't mean to affend you, its just with the braid and all, god damn it I'm starting to babble aren't I?" Heero said in a jumble casuing Duo to laugh which ended in a groan of pain.

"Duo will you allow me to continue to check your wounds? Alot of them look infected to me."

"Fly atter doc." He said pain evadent in his voice

"Okay now lie still alright? I'll try to be as quick as possible"

"Sure thing just please be gental."

Deciding to get on with the task rather then respond sally sat up and fetched a bowl of warm water and a cloth she ran the wet cloth over the bandges hoping that would help them separate from Duo's skin. The bandges came off with minimal stickage and whimpering from her paitent next came the inspection of the wounds, she wasn't looking forward to this mainly because poking and proding the wounds is gonna sting like a bitch.

"Sorry about this Duo but this is going to hurt like a bugger." True to her word it did, even worse then when his own villages doctor stitched him up. The pain got past the point of unbearable when she reached the bullet wound, the tears came streaming out of his closed eyes and down his face, he had to bit his lip just to stop himself from screaming out.

Heero noticed this and nudged Dr. Po, the kind doctor turned to yell at him but stopped short when she saw he was pointing to Duo indicating her to look at her paitent. Seeing the tears falling and pained expression she stopped her examination and went to the cuboard in the far end of the room, and fetched a needle and a small bottle of a clear liquid from inside, then headed back to the two boys. She filled the suringe with the recomended dose and then touched Duo's uninjured shoulder.

"Duo, I'm going to put you under with a fast acting sedative, that way you won't feel a thing okay." Sally said as kind as she could. Duo nodded and she slipped the needle into his arm and depressed the plunge, within minutes the wounded boy was asleep leaving Dr. Po to work in earnest.

TBC...