Hee hee, that little chapter preview in the last chapter proved one thing to me………I watch WAY too much InuYasha. I was even saying it out loud in a Kagome like voice….::big sweatdrop:: Anyways I have a few days off so lets see if I can write this chapter. I was so uninspired until I went on FF.net and saw all of those Usa-centered fics. Let me just say this, USAGI AND MAMORU WILL BE TOGETHER FOREVER!!! Usagi WILL NOT fall in love with another person and vise versa for Mamoru. Sheesh. Now with that said, here's the new chapter.

Destiny is Fate and Fate is a Fickle Thing: Chapter 6: Fade to Black

She felt so horrible as her mother glared at both her and Kensuke. "How could you do such a stupid thing?"

Both of them knew not to answer. Their mother was not one for beating her children. She did much worse than that. Ami, over the last few years, had mastered the art of "the guilt trip". Instead of hurting her children physically, she would guilt them into anguish as a punishment. They would basically punish themselves.

Aoi tried to tune out her mother's voice but the blue haired genius's tone was too…..too heartbreaking to ignore. "What were you thinking? What if…" Ami swallowed a large lump that had built up in her throat, her voice grew soft and sorrowful, and "…what if you two died? Don't you understand why I put rules and boundaries into place? It is to protect you. I don't want to lose you two. Do you comprehend what I am saying?" The two children nodded gravely. Ami dismissed them from her room before leaving it herself.

The blue haired woman was so wrapped within her own thoughts that she ran into something or rather someone. The person caught her before she hit the ground out of instinct. His grip tighten around her slim frame to help her steady herself, again out of instinct. Ami blinked as her face heated up. She knew who the person she bumped into was without even looking up. 'Heero…' she told herself as she stood there, her heart pounding in her ears. She wasn't used to being this close to him since they had slept with each other five years ago. It felt pretty awkward.

Neither of them looked at each other. Neither of them seemed like they were able to move. Ami's breath was stuck within her lungs, suffocating her brain. She was unable to think. But the moment passed. The perfect soldier removed his arms from around her, grunted, and left to his side of the building.

The Princess of Mercury was finally able to regain her composure with him gone, or at least some of it. She couldn't understand why she had acted like…like…like a foolish little school girl with a major crush on some boy. A very hot boy, but a boy nonetheless.

Why was she so nervous? Bumping into someone shouldn't make her not able to breathe. Then again it was Heero she bumped into. It was Heero that caught her before she fell. It was Heero that held her close enough to himself that she could smell his scent. She shook her head again, trying to get rid of the tint of red on her cheeks. When did she become this…. she was never able to finish her thought. A scream rang out of the halls of Quatre's manor. Gripping her transformation pen tightly, Ami rushed down to the kitchen.

***A few moments earlier***

He told Aoi and Kensuke to run and get help as he guarded their escape. "Why are you doing this? You aren't the one I'm after."

"I may run and hide but I never tell a lie." he spoke his infamous motto, pointing at himself with his thumb, 'And I'm not going to lie to Ami about when I promised to protect he kids.' he finished in his thoughts.

"Have to your way"

His body wouldn't be able to take this abuse much longer. Blood began to flow from the corner of his mouth. What infuriated him was that he was down after one minute of fighting. The foot jabbed itself within his stomach, causing the braided haired man to spray more of his blood on the white marble of Quatre's kitchen.

'Quatre's servants are going to kill me.' Duo thought to himself, smirking at his little joke as blood dripped down in front of his eyes. It seemed that he earned a few cuts on his head.

"It would be a lot less painful if you scream." the youma stated, obviously smarter than the last one they faced.

Duo glared up at the sadistic woman. Sure, she was beautiful, but her eyes held a cruel, vapid look that made the American pilot shiver every time he looked at her.

The man rose from the floor unbalanced and said, "My mama always told be never to scream out in pain."

"It seems I'll just have to teach you to then." the female youma told him as she kicked him in his head, causing he to be flat on his back, and stepping on his already bruised stomach. The pain was so immense, causing more blood to rush to his mouth. It flew out in coughs as the American descendent gasped for air. 'I don't want to die. Shinigami can't die like this!'

The youma applied more force, causing the man under her foot to squirm in pain until CRACK, his ribs cracked. That did it. Duo shrieked out in agony before his eyes became vapid and faded into unconscious.

Sailor Saturn rushed into the room. Aoi and Kensuke ran up to her and told her that a youma was in the kitchen. Her eyes widened as she observed the scene. Duo, dying and female youma standing on top of his rib cage. The kitchen was in shambles as imprints of the braided haired man marked the walls and blood, presumably his, dye the floor red. The senshi of death and destruction grasped her glaive tightly as the youma turned its eyes onto her.

"I see you finally decided to show up, but it was too late to save your friend here. He was too weak, I'm afraid, to play my game." it spoke, a sadistic grin plastered on its face.

Saturn's body shook violently with rage. With her teeth clenched, she spoke, "Why…why did you attack him? He's not your enemy."

"He was in the way. I told him that he was not the one I was after, but he insisted to get in my way so I disposed of him." it said nonchalantly.

With all her will power, Sailor Saturn tried not to give into her anger, but couldn't help it. She changed in. The youma smirked and countered the head on attack, cutting Saturn's side. Saturn recoiled but attacked again. The furious swipes mounted in speed as the guide to death's anger increased. Her energy was fading fast. Her body was self healing itself as she continued to fight. Her body still had not recovered from her past encounters with the shifter and now that was taking its toll on her but she refused to give in to it. As a last ditch effort, Saturn called upon her "Death Ribbon Revolution" and ended the fight. The ribbons ripped away at the flesh and soul of the youma as Saturn collapsed onto her knees and dehenshi-ed back into Hotaru. Their battle was short but she used up a lot of her energy and anger.

Everyone else arrived in the kitchen, late. (Quatre's mansion is huge. I don't blame them for getting there after the battle) "Duo!" Heero spoke alarmed. He placed himself by his best friend's side and began to tear at his shirt to make bandages.

Wufei joined the perfect soldier in his 'doctoring' while Trowa stood in the doorframe, unable to help because of the weight he was carrying. On his way down, he had found Quatre, collapsed in pain, on the floor, twitching madly. He was mumbling something but Trowa only heard bits and pieces of it.

"Duo……feel…pain. ………trouble. Must help. ………dying."

His first and last words brought the brown haired man to the conclusion that Duo was in some deep trouble and Quatre was feeling his pain due to his empathy. So his just picked up the smaller blond haired man and ran the rest of the way down towards the kitchen. And now he was here and there was nothing he could do.

Ami turned to Hotaru while she went to inspect Duo's injuries, "You can't heal him, correct?"

The younger girl shook her head 'no', her eyes holding a grave look. 'Damnit. I just couldn't protect him.' Tears began to well up in her eyes, 'Now someone else will die because of me. And he's my counterpart from this world…'

Ami sensed the girl's sadness, placing her hand on her friend's shoulder, "Don't beat yourself up over this. He'll live through his. Duo is Shinigami. He just wouldn't die now. Not when he's needed." She smiled and then moved to where Duo lay.

Her eyes traveled over his body, observing the damages. "Someone get me the first aid kit. Another person get hot water and a few towels. Please hurry." Wufei and Heero nodded and ran to get what she asked for. The senshi of Ice observed the makeshift bandages that tried to stop the blood flow, blood began to seep through. She frowned more out of concentration than out of anger. 'He's defiantly going to need a blood donation after this.' She moved her slender fingers over his rib cage, proving her theory correct. Broken ribs. She positioned herself in front of the braided haired man's head after seeing blood soak his long, auburn hair, biting down on her bottom lip. Concussion.

By now the guys had returned with their items and handed them over to the blue haired genius, who began to remove the other bandages. She washed out the cuts and put alcohol on them before rewrapping them tighter. Then she moved back to Duo's broken ribs. She wrapped them tightly, but was unable to attend to them properly for she still did not have the right equipment to do such. She left out a sigh of relief. Ami believed that she was finished, but she wasn't.

This should have been able to stop the bleeding, but apparently Duo's a heavy bleeder. His new bandages were soiled with red around his head. His pulse slowed and his breathing nearly stopped. They were losing him!

Ami turned to face the other way from everyone else, "I don't think he's gonna make it." Her voice was forlorn and her eyes were downcast.

"I don't think so, Ami-san." Shingo spoke for the first time (in this chapter at least.) since they were attacked by the Shifter.

Ami turned around, a look of alarm on her face. "You don't mean….you can't mean…" He nodded to her stammering. "But you can't use the Ginzuishou! You might…"

"Die." he finished for her. The sandy blond shrugged, "Well we won't know if we don't try, ne? I'm not heartless. I just can't left Duo-san die like this." With that said, the Ginzuishou appeared in Shingo's open palm.

Ami bowed her head in defeat, but a small smirk appeared on her face, 'He's stubborn as ever. Just like Usagi-chan.'

'I hope this works.' Shingo thought to himself as he knelt down next to the man of American background, positioning his crystal over the body. His eye lids covered sapphire eyes as concentrated on the task at hand. A transparent silver veil of light draped over Duo's limp form, shimmering brightly over his injuries.

Moments later, a bright flash of light filled the room but then died just as suddenly as it had came. After recovering from the blinding light, the group found Shingo had collapsed next to where Duo had lain and Duo sitting upright, looking very confused. Quatre had also gained consciousness, now standing next to Trowa, was also confused.

His cobalt blue eyes traveled around the room. "What just happened? Are we all in hell?" Duo asked, receiving a smack in the back of his head from Wufei.

"No baka, we're all alive." the Chinese ex-pilot told him.

The two glared at each other while Heero looked on from a secluded corner of the room. The perfect soldier mentally sighed. Duo was okay and back to his normal self. He watched his best friend get up from the ground but fall right back down.

"Duo-san, be careful. Your wounds are healed but you still lost a lot of blood." Ami gently scolded the older man, "You'll be anemic for a while but we still need to find you a donor. I do not have the equipment necessary for the blood transferring at the moment so you'll just have to eat a lot of food and get some rest." Duo's eyes brightened at her orders. Just to eat and sleep all day. What a dream come true!

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Well here's the second chapter of the Month of November! Happy One-Day-Late Thanksgiving! Yesterday I pulled a Usagi or Goku or Duo or whoever you know is extremely food crazy and pigged out. Now I'm feeling the consequences. Okay so you'll never believe me if I told you but Pokemon has inspired me to write. I love the movies! ^-^ Anyways on with the reviews people:

Nyneve: What perverted things to say about Shingo….of course they may be true and the same thing I was thinking but still. Ah who am I kidding? He was having fun, wasn't he? ::evil grin:: Maybe that shall be apart of the plot…Heero/Ami/Shingo triangle. That would be fun to write. Thanks for the review!

Kaiya-san: Thanks for your reviews. I sorta forgot to mention you last time. I'm so sorry about that. This chapter was more a one sided little love thing. Nothing big happening yet. I just am being evil and want Ami and Heero to suffer a bit before anything BIG happens.

Dr.Cricket: Sorry about the long wait. I'm really happy you like my story. People like you keep me going! Thanks for the review!

Sniper1250: Yay! Long reviews live! Sorry about not updating sooner. I dun know reverse psychology anyway. My friends tell me that I am extremely dense, in the nicest way possible, so it would probably go over my head anyways. And the plot thickens. Dum dum muumuu! Sorta….Anyway thanks ever so much for reviewing and reading my story!

Vega03: A new reviewer! Yay! I'll try to update sooner. Thanks for the review!

Alrighty everyone. I have some fencing stances and squats to do. I also have to go back to sleep. I woke up way too early. Good night! Ja ne

~minimerc