Part Eight
By Ranma Inverse
"Really?! You got a message from Duo, Quatre?"
Umi jumped up in excitement. "They're okay?! Tell me they are! Say they
are! Please!"
"Er...Hai, they are. And that's why we're
searching for them in these gundams."
"...Will you two stop chatting over the intercom?
We're supposed to be searching for Duo." Heero's voice unemotionally
broke up the conversation.
"...Why exactly did I have to ride with him?"
Umi sighed and sat back down.
"Gomen nasai, Umi, but you are much better around
strangers than I." Fuu spoke, sitting next to Quatre in Sandrock.
"Why couldnt I have just gone with Wufei?"
"...Are you saying you like him?" Fuu questioned.
A huge blush spread over Umi's face. "N-no!"
"Right..." Fuu had a small smile on her gentle face.
"I'll have to explain this to Hikaru."
"ACK! NO!" Umi shouted.
"Do I really need to ask again?" Heero spoke.
Beep, Beep, Beep! Quatre's face lit up. "Found them!" He moved his gundam in after locked onto the damaged Deathscythe. His Gundam landed and Quatre climbed off it, and Fuu jumped down, Quatre catching her, as the same thing occured with Heero and Umi.
"Okay, now I assume that they would be at the farmhouse near here like Duo said." Quatre smiled and began to walk in front of the others towards the faint farmhouse in the distance.
. . .
"Duo..."
What was that voice?
"Duo! Don't make me hit you! Wake up! Please!"
But he was so tired...
"Come on! You can't leave me and the others!"
The pain though...
"Please?"
But, the pain...he could escape it if he lost consciousness again.
"Duo!"
A small drop of something cold hit his face. ....What was that? Another one fell.
"C'mon...don't go...."
Tears?
"C'mon...stay with me...and the others."
Yeah, that was it. Whoever-it-was was crying.
"Duo Maxwell! Wake up before I slap you! Im not gonna let you die!"
He didnt want to open up his eyes just yet. He felt to weak to even twitch. But he wasnt so weak as so he couldn't listen. The voice, it was female, and it was shaking as it made that exclamation.
He heard the door open before he lost consciousness for the second time, even though Hikaru couldnt have told from the stillness of his form.
. . .
"Hello? Excuse me for intruding...Hikaru? Duo? Where are y---" Quatre stopped at the doorway as he saw the blood trail on the floor, the ashes, and a crying Hikaru with Duo laying there, his head in her lap.
"He's dying...dying...dying...dying...dying...going to be just like my family..." He heard Hikaru say. Fuu ran to Duo, and began to try to cast a healing spell.
Umi and Heero snaked through the doorway, and Heero stopped at the doorway, to watch what was happening, Umi stood in front of him, for a moment, before turning to being beside Quatre.
"Damnit, if only our magic would goddamn work here..."
Hikaru opened her eyes after hearing Umi. "That's it!"
"What's it? And dont talk when your crying."
"Shut up. What I meant was..." She stopped to sniffle. "When I got mad or determined enough here, I could use my powers. I just realized that."
"Then...we can use them here? But we tried to before...it never worked..."
"Maybe because we weren't determined or strong enough?" Fuu cut in, beginning to cast a healing spell on Duo.
"You wont let him die will you?" Hikaru looked up at Fuu. Fuu shook her head, as she would never do such a thing. Umi sat down next to Hikaru and put her hand on Hikaru's shoulder, whispering to her that it would be okay. Hikaru, still crying, told Umi what happened from the moment they disappeared with Deathscythe to where Quatre burst through the door.
"Oh my..." Umi hugged Hikaru. "It's okay, okay?"
A sniff was heard, and then like a child, Hikaru
wailed and swung her arms around Umi, bursting out with tears. "I
thought he was gonna die!"
Heero shook his head. "You think a gundam pilot would
die?"
"Mortals are mortals." Umi snapped at Heero,
not wanting him to talk coldly at Hikaru.
"You say that like you aren't one."
"Maybe im not?" Umi said sarcastically, then turned
her face back to the weeping Hikaru. "Shh...shh...it's okay..."
She narrowed her eyes as she looked at the healing Duo in the corner of
her eyes. You bastard! How could you make Hikaru cry?! It
wasn't really his fault...but still!
Fuu finished her healing spell, and faced the others
with the results
--I know this is too soon to end this part, but Im doing it to annoy a certain person who hates cliffhangers and wants me to hurry up and finish this fic...you know who you are. >=D...XD--
@.@ Should I write this more romantic?
More funny?
More serious?
Turn it into a sad fic?
Keep it like it is?
...I dunno..@.@....most likely keep it like it is.