Duo's Pain
Chapter 6
"Guys I was really hurt, but I guess I understand things fom your point of view. I was really a pain in the ass most of the time, even if I was trying to cheer you guys up. I...forgive you guys, but only if you forgive me for being a pain and flying off the deep end." Duo said and Quatre immeditally jumped and wrapped him in a hug with the others surrounding them.
Right in the middle of the happy celibrating, the front door was kicked open and men smashed in through the windows. "Everyone freeze. New Oz is taking you into custody."
The small group in the center of the living room frooze when they heard those words and saw the muzzles of the the guns that the soldiers were holding, point at them. Suddenly Sakura Tenda walked into the house, via the smashed door. She looked frankly nervous as she saw Duo, and then her eyes widened even more as she caught sight of Shin stand right behind him.
"What.....?!" she exclaimed as an older man came up behind her.
"What is wrong, Miss, Tenda?" he snapped briskly as he kept his eyes on the six in the livingroom.
"The Shinigami is no longer in Duo Maxwell's body. It surprised me, General Masaki." she said as she edged a little away from the man.
General Masaki was around fourty years old with black hair that was starting to gray at his temples and hard blue eyes that looked like they ice chips in a face like stone. He was about six' three and was very impossing in his New Oz uniform. Compared to Sakura's patite five' two with her long purple hair and huge blue eyes, it was like putting a lion next to a house cat.
(I just realized that I never gave a discription of Sakura. Sorry. ^_^!)
"What the hell is going on?" Duo asked during Sakura's short exchange with the General. He was standing with shoulder to shoulder with the other Gundam pilots in a circle facing outward with Shin in the middle. When the men had broke in, they had just formed up like this because they subcontiancly knew that they had to protect the God of Death while he was weak.
"How did they find us? What do they want with us?" Quatre, who was right next to Duo, asked softly as he stared at one of the men pointing a gun at them from the kitchen door.
"I don't know how they found us, but as to what they want with us is simple. They want to keep us out of the way when they take over the Earth and colonies." Shin whispered as he swayed suddenly. He was still incredably weak, the soda he had drunk earlier already starting to wear off. "Duo, one of the things you can do now is to teleport. I need to get back to the other realm, fast. My Uncle can give me a recharge for now but we can't let them get a hold of me. I may be in human form but I still have access to all my powers. If they every got a hold of that..." he trailed off but he didn't need to finish as each pilot was capable of imagining what would happen.
"But I don't know how to teleport!" Duo whispered urgently.
"I'll put the location we need to go into your mind. All you have to do is will yourself there. I want the rest of you to hold hands, or you will be left behind and I really don't think that you would want that." Shin said in a low voice and they nodded.
Grabbing each others hands, Duo bowed his head, like he was going to pray, and began to concentrate on the images that Shin was projecting into his mind. While the soldiers surrounding them started to edge forward, intent on seperating them, Duo started to glow with a green aura that grew brighter with every passing second. Suddenly, his head snapped up to reveal that his eyes no longer had pupils and that they were glowing violet, an odd contrast to the green surrounding him. He screamed and then all six of them were gone, leaving behind only wisps of smoke.
"I thought only the Shinigami could do that." Sakura said weakly as everyone, not including General Masaki, gaped at where the guys had been only seconds before.
"Obiviously not. With both this Shinigami and Maxwell, New Oz will be undefeatable!"
Masaki said in a satisfied voice as he ordered everyone to withdraw.
Duo, Shin, and the other gundam pilots appered in the middle of Tobias's living room. They landed in a heap, just as Tobias was pouring tea. Looking at the tangle of arms, legs, and hair, Tobias sighed as he set down the tea pot and stood up.
Dressed all in black, with his black hair and wings, and his intense blue eyes, he was quite a sight that greeted the pilots as they started to stand up. Heero and Wufie were on their feet first with Trowa helping Quatre up right after them. Unfortantly, Shin and Duo were still tangled up in each other's hair. Duo never had time to rebraid it and it was almost coming totaly undone, and Shin had never bothered to braid his in the first place. As a result Shin's hair was tangled around Duo's hands and was wrapped around his arms and neck, while Shin had his hand tangled in the remains of the braid, though most of the hair was loose already and was half pinned under Duo while Duo's leg was some how twisted around Shin's.
After a moment of studying the four youths infront of him, Tobias sighed and said to the tangle behind them, which he couldn't see really see, "Shin, how many times have I told you not to just pop into my quarters? I may be your uncle, but you should still observe common curtisies. And why did you bring humans here? It's very dangerous for them."
"Sorry Uncle, but I had to bring them here. New Oz knows about me being with them and they had caught us. And besides, I need your help. I'm so drained from seperating myself from my host and forming this human body, that I had to relay on my host to transport us. It's a side affect from the merge." Shin said as he stood up and stepped out from behind the teens.
"Be that as it may be, I guess it was unadvoidable." Tobias said with a sigh. "Now which is the young man that transported you here?"
"Right here." Duo said in a cold voice as he stepped out from behind Shin.
"Duo. It's been a long time." Tobias said quietly as he looked the young man over. "You certanily look alot better than the last time we met."
"Yes, well, alot has happened to me since I was nine." Duo said as he stared into Tobias's blue eyes. "What did you follow me around, just waiting for them to die?"
"I'm sorry I had to take the others, but I shinigamis don't get the choice about who dies. That is up to Kami-sama." Tobias said as he sat down and gestured for the others to take seats around him.
"He's right. I wasn't even supposed to save you when I merged with you." Shin said to Duo as he started trying to untangle his hair with his fingers. "In fact, if Kami-sama hadn't approved, you and I would have been destroyed immeditaly."
Meanwhile Heero, Wufie, Trowa, and Quatre had no clue about what was going on. They were still a bit confused from the transportation and now they were totally lost as the three discussed things that had happened years before they had meet Duo.
Your friends seem to be a bit confused." Tobias said suddenly with a small smile at the quartet.
"This is all new to them. They haven't seen the embodiment of Death since they were children." Duo said and gave them a said smile.
"Yes, and now you are part death." Tobias said sadly. "Do you understand what that means, Duo?"
"To a point. Why don't you explain it to me?"
"Because you and Shin were to gether for so long, your spirits were begining to merge, which is why it drained Shin so badly when he seperated himself from you." Tobias explained and Shin nodded in agreement. After taking a sip of tea, Tobias continued.
"Because of the merging of your spirits, you gained some aspects of Shin. Take his teleportation powers that you used. All humans have that ability, though only immortials can access it. Through your merge, that part of your brain has been opened partially. In that section of the brain, there is the knowledge of time travel, teleportation, levitation, ESP, and about a dozen more things that normal humans only dream of."
"But what about all those people who say the can read your mind and float things and stuff?" Duo asked.
"Some people can tap into these things but they are few and far in between. Being able to send and grab things from subspace is another thing that you got from Shin. But a word of warning, don't try to send a living thing to subspace. They would die there. The only way to survive there is if a place, like a labrotory or a room, is created there. Washu, a genius from another deminsion, is the only person that I know of who can creat a stable enough environment that could support life in subspace."
"Cool. I would love to meet her." Duo said with a grin.
"...hahahahaha! No you wouldn't. Tenchi, who lives with her, has been made into her gunnie pig for her various experaments." Tobias chuckled while in the background Shin was howling with laughter. Both of them had meet the scientist and had barely escaped from becoming gunine pigs themselves.
"I really feel sorry for him. He lives with Washu, Ryoko who is a space pirate and her cabbit
Ryo-okie, Princess Ayaka and Princess Sasami from the planet Juri, and Mioshi & Kyonia (I know that most of these are spelled wrong but just ignore it. ^_^!) who are Galaxy Police officers. And most of them, with the exception of Sasami, after in love with him and are always chasing him. Expesially Ryoko and Ayaka." Shin said and the Gundam pilots just stared at him in shock.
"Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, you also can move things with your mind after someone shows you how and you exersize your mental muscles. Another thing is that you will now live about ten limes longer than your friends. That means while you still look the same as you do now, your friends will be in their seventies and about to die."
"What?!" Heero yelled suddenly, looking like he was in the middle of a nightmare he couldn't wake up from and the others looked just as bad.
"Is there anything I can do toage the same as them? I don't want to see them all leave me like that." Duo said shakely. Of course Shin had already told him all this, but it had never really hit him untill right now.
"I'm afraid not. You will never be normal again and there is no way for them to live as long as you will unless four shinigami's decide to merge with them for the next five years and Kami-sama will never allow it to happen again like it did with you and Shin." Tobias said sadly.
"So I have to watch them grow old and die while I stay young?"
"Don't worry Duo. You will be able to do so much more good this way." Quatre said softly.
"But I don't want to without you guys!" Duo said as he jumped up and started pacing around the room.
"I'm sorry but that's just how it's going to be." Wufie said softly, looking very pale. The rest of the pilots nodded silently and Duo went over and wrapped his arms around Quatre, who hugged him back.
Seeing that the teenagers needed some time alone, Shin and Tobias withdrew to another room to recharge the weak shinigami to full power. There was more to Duo's new powers but they didn't think he would be willing to hear anything from them for awhile.
Two hours after they had arrived, the gundam pilots and Shin went back to the safehouse where they had been attacked by Oz.
"I can believe that four days have passed here since we left." Quatre said in a strained voice. He didn't like the face that time between the two places was so diffrent. What if one of his companies had needed him while he was gone?
"I know. It does seen strange." Trowa said as he glanced around the room. There was glass all over the floor under the windows and the door hung on only one hinge, gently swinging in the breeze and there were leaves scatered on the floor.
"Well, I guess we need go after New Oz before they come after us again." Duo said coldly. He had resigned himself to his extra long life and had withdrawn from the others, even Shin. He blamed Shin a little bit for what was happening to him and he figured that if he kept his distance from the others, it wouldn't hurt as much.
"I'll be back in a little while." he said and promptly disappered.
"Where do you think he went?" Quatre said and the others just shook their heads. Turning to Shin he started to ask, "Can you...?"
"No, I can't. We can't track others who can teleport." Shin said quietly.
Duo appered right behind Sakura as she was cooking dinner in her house. "Why do you help them when they ruin people's lives?" he asked quietly.
"Ahhhh!!!!!!" she screamed as she flung the contents of the pan into the air. It rained shrimp stirfry for a few seconds as she stood with her hands pressed against her chest, trying to calm her racing heart.
"Why do you help them?" he repeated more forcefully.
"Wh...what do you want with me?" she stammered as she started to edge away from the angry young man infront of her.
"Answer my question!" he yelled and she paled.
"Because I don't get much of a choice in the matter. General Masaki took care of a debt of mine and in return, I do things for him." she whispered as she continued trying to edge away, but suddenly, he barred her way with his arms, boxing her in against the wall next to the stove.
"Everyone has a choice." he snarled as he leaned forward and put his face two inches from he face. "But not everyone decideds on the right one."
"But...he said that if I didn't do it, I would regret it." she stammered as she cowered against the wall.
"Well, do you agree with what they are going to do?"
"No. But there is nothing that I can do about it."
"What would you do if I told you thatthere was something that you could do?" he said softly with a small smirk on is face.
Suddenly, she stood up straight and pushed him away from her. "What do I have to do?" she said with a smile spreading across her face. Chuckling, he moved back a few steps and sat down at her table. The chuckling soon grew to loud laughter which she hesitently joined in.
"We have to arrange it so that they think that you're dead." Duo said after they had stopped laughing.
"Ok, but what would leave no remains for them to find?" she asked as she cleaned up the spilled stirfry and started to make some hamburgers instead.
"We could blow up your house." he suddgested but she shook her head. She liked her house just like it was, not some charred ruin.
"How about we drive my car off a cliff into the ocean? They won't be able to get it for a while and they'll assume I'm dead." she said as she set a plate in front of him with some ketchup, tomatos and lettuce.
"Doable. But if we put a body in the car before it goes over, when the drag the car up, it will be unreconizable and it will be assumed that it is you." he said as he made a hamburger. Seeing her go pale again, he said, "Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it."
"Are you going to kill someone?" she whispered.
"No." he snapped. They finished the meal in silence then they went their seperate ways; him to get a body, her to bring her car to a road that ran along a cliff that fell all the way to the ocean.
He met her there a few minutes after she arrived, carrying a woman about her size wearing filthy rags. Seeing her questioning look, he said, "She was killed by a man who wanted her place to sleep under a bridge."
Shuddering, she mummered, "Let's just get this over with." before hurrying over to her car.
It was done quickly and they watched as the car rolloed off the cliff and crashed into the sea with a huge splash. "Well, I think it's time to introduce you to the others." he said with a grim smile. Grabbing her hand, he quickly teleported to the safehouse where Trowa and Quatre were just finishing cleaning up the mess left from New Oz.
"Duo! Are you alright? Where were you?" Quatre exclaimed as he hurried towards his friend, but stopped when he caught sight of Sakura. "Why is she here?" he asked quietly.
"She is going to help us with New Oz. She knows more about them then we do and she hates them as well." Duo said and Trowa nodded. Quatre still looked uncertain but instead told Duo that Shin, Heero and Wufie had gone out looking for him.
Just as Duo was about to respond, the front doorm which had been fixed, opened to reveil Heero and Wufie, and a moment later, Shin appered in his customary puff of green smoke.
"Where did you go?" Heero demanded as he closed the door.
"I was begining the fight against New Oz. Sakura here is going to help us." Duo said as he gestured to the woman who was slowly backing away from Shin as he stared at her.
"What do you mean that she is going to help us? Wufie demanded as he glared at the braided teenager.
Duo quickly told them everything and in the end, Quatre went up to her and gave her a quick hug. "Welcom to the team, Sakura." he said with a quick smile. "I'm Quatre, and this is Trowa, Wufie, and Heero. You already know Duo and I believe that you've meet Shin before."
"Yes. We have." she said softly as she threw a quick glace at the God of Death, who gave her a sinister smile, and she flinched and looked away hurriedly.
Heero just glared at her before turning around and went upstairs. Everyone's eyes followed him up the stairs, so no one noticed the breaf flicker of pain that showed in Duo's eyes before it was covered in a cool mask once again.
Chapter 6
"Guys I was really hurt, but I guess I understand things fom your point of view. I was really a pain in the ass most of the time, even if I was trying to cheer you guys up. I...forgive you guys, but only if you forgive me for being a pain and flying off the deep end." Duo said and Quatre immeditally jumped and wrapped him in a hug with the others surrounding them.
Right in the middle of the happy celibrating, the front door was kicked open and men smashed in through the windows. "Everyone freeze. New Oz is taking you into custody."
The small group in the center of the living room frooze when they heard those words and saw the muzzles of the the guns that the soldiers were holding, point at them. Suddenly Sakura Tenda walked into the house, via the smashed door. She looked frankly nervous as she saw Duo, and then her eyes widened even more as she caught sight of Shin stand right behind him.
"What.....?!" she exclaimed as an older man came up behind her.
"What is wrong, Miss, Tenda?" he snapped briskly as he kept his eyes on the six in the livingroom.
"The Shinigami is no longer in Duo Maxwell's body. It surprised me, General Masaki." she said as she edged a little away from the man.
General Masaki was around fourty years old with black hair that was starting to gray at his temples and hard blue eyes that looked like they ice chips in a face like stone. He was about six' three and was very impossing in his New Oz uniform. Compared to Sakura's patite five' two with her long purple hair and huge blue eyes, it was like putting a lion next to a house cat.
(I just realized that I never gave a discription of Sakura. Sorry. ^_^!)
"What the hell is going on?" Duo asked during Sakura's short exchange with the General. He was standing with shoulder to shoulder with the other Gundam pilots in a circle facing outward with Shin in the middle. When the men had broke in, they had just formed up like this because they subcontiancly knew that they had to protect the God of Death while he was weak.
"How did they find us? What do they want with us?" Quatre, who was right next to Duo, asked softly as he stared at one of the men pointing a gun at them from the kitchen door.
"I don't know how they found us, but as to what they want with us is simple. They want to keep us out of the way when they take over the Earth and colonies." Shin whispered as he swayed suddenly. He was still incredably weak, the soda he had drunk earlier already starting to wear off. "Duo, one of the things you can do now is to teleport. I need to get back to the other realm, fast. My Uncle can give me a recharge for now but we can't let them get a hold of me. I may be in human form but I still have access to all my powers. If they every got a hold of that..." he trailed off but he didn't need to finish as each pilot was capable of imagining what would happen.
"But I don't know how to teleport!" Duo whispered urgently.
"I'll put the location we need to go into your mind. All you have to do is will yourself there. I want the rest of you to hold hands, or you will be left behind and I really don't think that you would want that." Shin said in a low voice and they nodded.
Grabbing each others hands, Duo bowed his head, like he was going to pray, and began to concentrate on the images that Shin was projecting into his mind. While the soldiers surrounding them started to edge forward, intent on seperating them, Duo started to glow with a green aura that grew brighter with every passing second. Suddenly, his head snapped up to reveal that his eyes no longer had pupils and that they were glowing violet, an odd contrast to the green surrounding him. He screamed and then all six of them were gone, leaving behind only wisps of smoke.
"I thought only the Shinigami could do that." Sakura said weakly as everyone, not including General Masaki, gaped at where the guys had been only seconds before.
"Obiviously not. With both this Shinigami and Maxwell, New Oz will be undefeatable!"
Masaki said in a satisfied voice as he ordered everyone to withdraw.
Duo, Shin, and the other gundam pilots appered in the middle of Tobias's living room. They landed in a heap, just as Tobias was pouring tea. Looking at the tangle of arms, legs, and hair, Tobias sighed as he set down the tea pot and stood up.
Dressed all in black, with his black hair and wings, and his intense blue eyes, he was quite a sight that greeted the pilots as they started to stand up. Heero and Wufie were on their feet first with Trowa helping Quatre up right after them. Unfortantly, Shin and Duo were still tangled up in each other's hair. Duo never had time to rebraid it and it was almost coming totaly undone, and Shin had never bothered to braid his in the first place. As a result Shin's hair was tangled around Duo's hands and was wrapped around his arms and neck, while Shin had his hand tangled in the remains of the braid, though most of the hair was loose already and was half pinned under Duo while Duo's leg was some how twisted around Shin's.
After a moment of studying the four youths infront of him, Tobias sighed and said to the tangle behind them, which he couldn't see really see, "Shin, how many times have I told you not to just pop into my quarters? I may be your uncle, but you should still observe common curtisies. And why did you bring humans here? It's very dangerous for them."
"Sorry Uncle, but I had to bring them here. New Oz knows about me being with them and they had caught us. And besides, I need your help. I'm so drained from seperating myself from my host and forming this human body, that I had to relay on my host to transport us. It's a side affect from the merge." Shin said as he stood up and stepped out from behind the teens.
"Be that as it may be, I guess it was unadvoidable." Tobias said with a sigh. "Now which is the young man that transported you here?"
"Right here." Duo said in a cold voice as he stepped out from behind Shin.
"Duo. It's been a long time." Tobias said quietly as he looked the young man over. "You certanily look alot better than the last time we met."
"Yes, well, alot has happened to me since I was nine." Duo said as he stared into Tobias's blue eyes. "What did you follow me around, just waiting for them to die?"
"I'm sorry I had to take the others, but I shinigamis don't get the choice about who dies. That is up to Kami-sama." Tobias said as he sat down and gestured for the others to take seats around him.
"He's right. I wasn't even supposed to save you when I merged with you." Shin said to Duo as he started trying to untangle his hair with his fingers. "In fact, if Kami-sama hadn't approved, you and I would have been destroyed immeditaly."
Meanwhile Heero, Wufie, Trowa, and Quatre had no clue about what was going on. They were still a bit confused from the transportation and now they were totally lost as the three discussed things that had happened years before they had meet Duo.
Your friends seem to be a bit confused." Tobias said suddenly with a small smile at the quartet.
"This is all new to them. They haven't seen the embodiment of Death since they were children." Duo said and gave them a said smile.
"Yes, and now you are part death." Tobias said sadly. "Do you understand what that means, Duo?"
"To a point. Why don't you explain it to me?"
"Because you and Shin were to gether for so long, your spirits were begining to merge, which is why it drained Shin so badly when he seperated himself from you." Tobias explained and Shin nodded in agreement. After taking a sip of tea, Tobias continued.
"Because of the merging of your spirits, you gained some aspects of Shin. Take his teleportation powers that you used. All humans have that ability, though only immortials can access it. Through your merge, that part of your brain has been opened partially. In that section of the brain, there is the knowledge of time travel, teleportation, levitation, ESP, and about a dozen more things that normal humans only dream of."
"But what about all those people who say the can read your mind and float things and stuff?" Duo asked.
"Some people can tap into these things but they are few and far in between. Being able to send and grab things from subspace is another thing that you got from Shin. But a word of warning, don't try to send a living thing to subspace. They would die there. The only way to survive there is if a place, like a labrotory or a room, is created there. Washu, a genius from another deminsion, is the only person that I know of who can creat a stable enough environment that could support life in subspace."
"Cool. I would love to meet her." Duo said with a grin.
"...hahahahaha! No you wouldn't. Tenchi, who lives with her, has been made into her gunnie pig for her various experaments." Tobias chuckled while in the background Shin was howling with laughter. Both of them had meet the scientist and had barely escaped from becoming gunine pigs themselves.
"I really feel sorry for him. He lives with Washu, Ryoko who is a space pirate and her cabbit
Ryo-okie, Princess Ayaka and Princess Sasami from the planet Juri, and Mioshi & Kyonia (I know that most of these are spelled wrong but just ignore it. ^_^!) who are Galaxy Police officers. And most of them, with the exception of Sasami, after in love with him and are always chasing him. Expesially Ryoko and Ayaka." Shin said and the Gundam pilots just stared at him in shock.
"Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, you also can move things with your mind after someone shows you how and you exersize your mental muscles. Another thing is that you will now live about ten limes longer than your friends. That means while you still look the same as you do now, your friends will be in their seventies and about to die."
"What?!" Heero yelled suddenly, looking like he was in the middle of a nightmare he couldn't wake up from and the others looked just as bad.
"Is there anything I can do toage the same as them? I don't want to see them all leave me like that." Duo said shakely. Of course Shin had already told him all this, but it had never really hit him untill right now.
"I'm afraid not. You will never be normal again and there is no way for them to live as long as you will unless four shinigami's decide to merge with them for the next five years and Kami-sama will never allow it to happen again like it did with you and Shin." Tobias said sadly.
"So I have to watch them grow old and die while I stay young?"
"Don't worry Duo. You will be able to do so much more good this way." Quatre said softly.
"But I don't want to without you guys!" Duo said as he jumped up and started pacing around the room.
"I'm sorry but that's just how it's going to be." Wufie said softly, looking very pale. The rest of the pilots nodded silently and Duo went over and wrapped his arms around Quatre, who hugged him back.
Seeing that the teenagers needed some time alone, Shin and Tobias withdrew to another room to recharge the weak shinigami to full power. There was more to Duo's new powers but they didn't think he would be willing to hear anything from them for awhile.
Two hours after they had arrived, the gundam pilots and Shin went back to the safehouse where they had been attacked by Oz.
"I can believe that four days have passed here since we left." Quatre said in a strained voice. He didn't like the face that time between the two places was so diffrent. What if one of his companies had needed him while he was gone?
"I know. It does seen strange." Trowa said as he glanced around the room. There was glass all over the floor under the windows and the door hung on only one hinge, gently swinging in the breeze and there were leaves scatered on the floor.
"Well, I guess we need go after New Oz before they come after us again." Duo said coldly. He had resigned himself to his extra long life and had withdrawn from the others, even Shin. He blamed Shin a little bit for what was happening to him and he figured that if he kept his distance from the others, it wouldn't hurt as much.
"I'll be back in a little while." he said and promptly disappered.
"Where do you think he went?" Quatre said and the others just shook their heads. Turning to Shin he started to ask, "Can you...?"
"No, I can't. We can't track others who can teleport." Shin said quietly.
Duo appered right behind Sakura as she was cooking dinner in her house. "Why do you help them when they ruin people's lives?" he asked quietly.
"Ahhhh!!!!!!" she screamed as she flung the contents of the pan into the air. It rained shrimp stirfry for a few seconds as she stood with her hands pressed against her chest, trying to calm her racing heart.
"Why do you help them?" he repeated more forcefully.
"Wh...what do you want with me?" she stammered as she started to edge away from the angry young man infront of her.
"Answer my question!" he yelled and she paled.
"Because I don't get much of a choice in the matter. General Masaki took care of a debt of mine and in return, I do things for him." she whispered as she continued trying to edge away, but suddenly, he barred her way with his arms, boxing her in against the wall next to the stove.
"Everyone has a choice." he snarled as he leaned forward and put his face two inches from he face. "But not everyone decideds on the right one."
"But...he said that if I didn't do it, I would regret it." she stammered as she cowered against the wall.
"Well, do you agree with what they are going to do?"
"No. But there is nothing that I can do about it."
"What would you do if I told you thatthere was something that you could do?" he said softly with a small smirk on is face.
Suddenly, she stood up straight and pushed him away from her. "What do I have to do?" she said with a smile spreading across her face. Chuckling, he moved back a few steps and sat down at her table. The chuckling soon grew to loud laughter which she hesitently joined in.
"We have to arrange it so that they think that you're dead." Duo said after they had stopped laughing.
"Ok, but what would leave no remains for them to find?" she asked as she cleaned up the spilled stirfry and started to make some hamburgers instead.
"We could blow up your house." he suddgested but she shook her head. She liked her house just like it was, not some charred ruin.
"How about we drive my car off a cliff into the ocean? They won't be able to get it for a while and they'll assume I'm dead." she said as she set a plate in front of him with some ketchup, tomatos and lettuce.
"Doable. But if we put a body in the car before it goes over, when the drag the car up, it will be unreconizable and it will be assumed that it is you." he said as he made a hamburger. Seeing her go pale again, he said, "Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it."
"Are you going to kill someone?" she whispered.
"No." he snapped. They finished the meal in silence then they went their seperate ways; him to get a body, her to bring her car to a road that ran along a cliff that fell all the way to the ocean.
He met her there a few minutes after she arrived, carrying a woman about her size wearing filthy rags. Seeing her questioning look, he said, "She was killed by a man who wanted her place to sleep under a bridge."
Shuddering, she mummered, "Let's just get this over with." before hurrying over to her car.
It was done quickly and they watched as the car rolloed off the cliff and crashed into the sea with a huge splash. "Well, I think it's time to introduce you to the others." he said with a grim smile. Grabbing her hand, he quickly teleported to the safehouse where Trowa and Quatre were just finishing cleaning up the mess left from New Oz.
"Duo! Are you alright? Where were you?" Quatre exclaimed as he hurried towards his friend, but stopped when he caught sight of Sakura. "Why is she here?" he asked quietly.
"She is going to help us with New Oz. She knows more about them then we do and she hates them as well." Duo said and Trowa nodded. Quatre still looked uncertain but instead told Duo that Shin, Heero and Wufie had gone out looking for him.
Just as Duo was about to respond, the front doorm which had been fixed, opened to reveil Heero and Wufie, and a moment later, Shin appered in his customary puff of green smoke.
"Where did you go?" Heero demanded as he closed the door.
"I was begining the fight against New Oz. Sakura here is going to help us." Duo said as he gestured to the woman who was slowly backing away from Shin as he stared at her.
"What do you mean that she is going to help us? Wufie demanded as he glared at the braided teenager.
Duo quickly told them everything and in the end, Quatre went up to her and gave her a quick hug. "Welcom to the team, Sakura." he said with a quick smile. "I'm Quatre, and this is Trowa, Wufie, and Heero. You already know Duo and I believe that you've meet Shin before."
"Yes. We have." she said softly as she threw a quick glace at the God of Death, who gave her a sinister smile, and she flinched and looked away hurriedly.
Heero just glared at her before turning around and went upstairs. Everyone's eyes followed him up the stairs, so no one noticed the breaf flicker of pain that showed in Duo's eyes before it was covered in a cool mask once again.