Disclaimers: I have nothing but a strange yet amusing brain, I guess.

Archived: Yume Maxwell-Yuy (www.geocities.com/maxwell_yuy2002/)

Warning: OOC, Weirdish, Yaoi 2x1, and 3x4, meant be slightly humorous, and that's about it.

Note: I was bored! Enjoy!

ARGH! Our internet is so ANNOYING! I can like never get on when I want and uploading new chapters is even harder. I even had to go to my cousin's house to get them up. Anyway, so if new chapters don't come up you can blame my internet. -_-;

ANYWAY!


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Haunted

Part 10

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"Wah! You finally decided to play my game with me?" looking up at the two Gundam pilots with wide, round, sky blue eyes a little girl asked eagerly jumping up and down.

Quatre and Trowa sweat dropped.

"...You were the one haunting the house?" Trowa asked alittle surprised, he would have thought that a place like this could of done better. Where were the witches and other sinister creatures?

"Yep!" the little girl said. She was only about eight or nine, dressed in a white, lacy dress topped with a wide summer hat wrapped in a yellow ribbon. She was very cute. There wasn't anything strange about her, she just seemed like an ordinary girl.

'Seemed' being the keyword here.

"What's your name?" Quatre asked. How could THIS girl have gotten the pilots so worked up? There had to be something else.

"Well, I'm not suppose to give my name to strangers." the girl replied.

Quatre kneeled down to her height, "What are you doing in a dark place like this? And during the night too?"

The girl's blue eyes sadden, "I can't find my dog!"

She burst into tears.

"Your dog?" Trowa asked, could the puppy that they were following be hers? But if it was, didn't it run down this way? Weren't they followning a dog? Yeah, then why didn't she see it?

The girl nodded, "Yes, she's been missing from me for quite some time now," the girl wiped her eyes, "and I don't know what to do!"

"Where are your parents?" Trowa asked. A young girl should have parents, but then again, Trowa, himself didn't have any. Nor Heero or Duo...or Wufei!

"I don't have any parents...they left me during the war."

A war orphan. It touched Quatre's heart.

"They just abandoned you?"

"No, I was suppose to come with them, but something happened to me and I was left behind."

This didn't make any sense. How could someone just leave a child like this?

"Are you lost, Oni-chan?" the girl stood up, "I can show you the way out."

"Alright." Quatre agreed as the girl lead them down the tunnel humming fantasy songs. She was a bit odd...how did she know songs from so long ago? Songs from so very long, long ago...

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"We've been running for like...forever!" Duo complained carrying a passed out Relena Peacecraft on his shoulder.

"This work out too hard for you?" Heero teased.

"Are you kidding? Relena's just heavy!"

"Would you like me to take her off your hands?" Heero asked reaching for the still unconscious girl.

"No!" Duo put Relena out of his reach, "I can do it myself!"

"Well then-oof!"

"Heero!"

The flashlight flew out of Heero's grasp and was thrown a couple of feet before a cracking sound was heard when the lights went out. Heero had tripped over something. No more flashlight for Heero. What could he possibly trip over in this boring tunnel?

"Ugh...where am I?" Relena stirred, "Duo! Unhand me!"

"Yes, ma'am." Duo placed Relena to her feet, "Heero where are you?"

"Duo?" Heero moaned. Ouch, that was an unexpected fall.

"Heero I'm here, where are you?" Duo suddenly stumbled over something as well.

"Duo! Get off of me!" Heero hissed.

"Heero...I can't see."

"Then use your flashlight." the Japanese boy suggested.

"Oh yeah!" Duo reached into his pocket and retrieved his flashlight flicking it on, and helping Heero up, "Now, let's see what caused you to fall..."

Duo shined his black flashlight where Heero had fallen. A figure was spawled on the ground.

"Wufei???"

"Ugh...oh Nataku...what the-?" Wufei covered his offended eyes, "Maxwell!"

"Nice to see you too." Duo grinned, "What were you doing lying on the ground?"

Wufei wiped off some blood from his nose, "Does that answer your question?"

"You were having erotic dreams of Treize???" Heero asked and Duo grinned. The Japanese youth was becoming more like Duo every day.

"NO!" Wufei shouted, "I saw those two guys again!"

"Oh."

"Ahem, I think I'm suppose to be the victim at the moment!" a female voice perked up.

Back to Relena.

"Oh, yeah..."

"You found Relena? How?!" Wufei asked. He go up and brushed himself off. Damn Hikage and Marou.

"Duo and I were...um..." Heero fiddled with his words, "'sparring'?"

Wufei cocked an eyebrow.

"Uh...yeah, and we just...found her."

"I see."

"Well Wufei, seeing that you're always complaining about not having a partner, we're going to leave Relena with you to take to the house." Duo gave Relena a nudge over towards Wufei.

"Nani?!" Relena and Wufei's eyes nearly fell out. Just who did Maxwell think he was? Oh yeah, the God of Death. But that didn't mean that he had the right to just DUMP somebody on him. Let alone a crazed Heero obsessor.

"Yeah, Heero and I still have to find the others and whoever the hell was runnin' around like that tonight. So, take Relena up to the house, clean her up, and ask her how she got here."

"I want to go with Heero!" Relena said.

"Ojou-san, there's a time when you CAN have what you want and CAN'T. Right now, you can't. We have a mission to complete." Shinigami reasoned, "Isn't that right, Heero?"

Heero nodded in agreement.

Relena sighed in defeat. Whatever was best for Heero, was good enough for her.

"I'll get you for this Maxwell..." Wufei cursed under his breath as he got his flashlight back out. For some reason before he passed out, the two men had provided light, and he had put his flashlight away.

"See ya at the house Wu!" with that, Heero and Duo ran off...but to where? The tunnel had just made a loop. Crazy lovers.

Wufei sighed. He didn't know why, but his flashlight was awfully dim...

"I'm not very fond with that Duo." Relena said out of the blue, "He's getting too close with Heero. That's not a good sign."

"Well they are best of friends..." Wufei said unconsciously, 'You have NO idea...' the Shelong pilot added mentally.

"I suppose, even so, I don't like it. But Heero doesn't seem to mind him. I honestly don't know why for many reasons; he's loud, idiotic, immature, seems to be always happy, careless, hyper, wreckless, annoying, irritable, and is just a baka!"

"You forgot obnoxious."

"Yes, obnoxious, where as Heero is calm, strong, dreamy, quiet, responsible, always gets everything done, handsome, mature, meticulous, careful, and so many other things. It's as if they are complete opposites! They have almost nothing in common, but Heero seems to enjoy being with that braided idiot. Why do you think that is?"

"..."

"I couldn't see what they were doing when they found me, but I could see their feet..." Relena paused, "What do you suppose they were doing?"

"It's none of my business." Wufei held back his urge to have a bloody nose and continued to walk.

"I guess you're right," Relena looked ahead forward into the tunnel, "Pilot 05, your flashlight is- AHHH!" Relena shouted.

Wufei's flashlight died! How could it just die like that?! How was he suppose to find his way back?! How could he see?! How much longer could he stand Relena's awful shrieking???

"Relena calm down!" Wufei said in an irritated tone. He couldn't even make out his hands infront of his face. The Chinese boy did not panic. He searched his pocket for his spare batteries-

Oh no! He had used them for his Sony Walkman TM earlier that night to drain out the squeaking beds!!!

So now he was stuck in the dark with a hysterical Relena, no light or CD player!

The Wu-man was screwed.

Even so, he kept walking, and Relena followed. He was convinced that nothing would get better. Might as well go all the way.

ArfArf

What the-? It was that dog again! How did it get down here? Wufei looked ahead and saw the silhouette of the puppy. Wait, if it was so dark...then how was he able to see the dog?

ArfArf

Wufei didn't know why, but he felt like following the pup was a good idea.

"Come on Relena, this way."

Wufei and Relena caught up with the dog. The puppy was just sitting there wagging its stubby tail. What was it waiting for? Wufei stared at the dog's eyes. The dog did the same.

"Well? What are you doing?" Relena looked at the dog, "Oh! It's so cute!"

The dog looked away and ran off in the other direction.

Wufei smirked to himself grabbing Relena before chasing the dog. 'What a weakling, can't even look at me...'

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Quatre was chatting on and on with the girl that they had found. She was really sweet. Even so, Trowa couldn't help but think that just her alone couldn't cause so much confusion about the house. There HAD to be someone else, but who?

"So how did you get here?" Trowa heard his lover ask.

"I walked of course." the girl replied.

"Well, I know that, but what are you doing here?"

"I was told to say that if anyone asked me that, to tell them, 'just for kicks', but that's only in the tunnels..." the girl smiled up at Quatre, "So, I guess I can tell you that I live here!"

"I see." Quatre said, "How long have you been here?"

"Since...that night." the girl quieted. She was obviously hiding something from them.

Quatre decided not to push her any farther.

"I was wondering...why are YOU and your friends here?"

"Just for kicks." Trowa replied.

"Oh...I was also wondering what that man was doing running around the house like that."

The girl's comment hit Quatre and Trowa square in the face.

"You've seen him?"

"Why yes. He has been up and about this house for about four days! I'm sick of it!"

"Four days?" Quatre asked. That was about how long Relena had been missing!

"Yes. I've been keeping track. He better hurry and leave before I run out of fingers to count." the girl pouted, "Do you know of him?"

"In fact, we do know of him, and we are to bring him away from this house." Quatre said.

"What else do you know about the man?" Trowa asked.

"What do you want to know?"

Maybe this girl could be of help to them...

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Duo suddenly stopped walking and pointed to the wall, "Oi Heero, did you see this?"

"See what?" Heero asked shining the flashlight to his left side. What was Duo talking about? There was nothing but-, "A door...?"

A door hidden in the wall of the tunnel. Heero must of missed it when reaching for Relena. But how could he just miss a door like that? He should have seen it right away. It protruded about 2 inches! Heero mentally cursed at himself. At least Duo found it.

"Yes a door, and ya know what that means don't cha?" Duo didn't even hesistate as he jiggled the tiny handle. Surprisingly, it was unlocked, "K'so! When am I going to get to use my lock picking skills???" Duo whinned.

"Duo?"

"Hai?"

"Shut up." Heero said as he walked through the door flashlight shining ahead of him. He's back stiffened.

Duo glared at Heero's straight back, "Well? What's inside?"

Heero didn't move.

"What's the matter?" Duo asked poking Heero's side teasingly, "Didja see a ghost?"

Heero remained still. Duo examined Heero in his upright position with no expression on his pretty face. Was he nervous? Now why would Heero be nervous? There wasn't any reason to be nervous. Duo turned to see what Heero was looking at.

Duo turned off flashlight Heero was holding and stored it in his pocket as he viewed two HOT, half-naked guys sitting on a desk in the dimly lit room.

"Oh..."

"Won't you come in?" the man with long, dark, red hair invited stoking a dark haired Asian who was in his lap.

"Don't mind if I do..." Maybe these were the guys that they were looking for. Duo gave Heero alittle push to help him move.

"...Your lover seems quite, what's the word?"

"Nervous?" Duo finished. When Heero didn't respond to anything, he was more than likely nervous. It must be a Heero thing.

"Yes..." the red haired man replied.

Duo whispered some uttered words in Heero's ear immediately causing Heero to awaken from his short trance. The braided boy walked into the room, Heero close behind him. He usually didn't have problems with unknown people. Shoot first, ask questions later was more of his thing to do. But these men...Heero didn't know how to explain the vibe he received from them.

"May I help you?" the red haired man asked.

"Actually...you can, Mister...?"

"Oh, how rude of me. I am Marou and this here is Hikage..." Marou pointed to the man in his lap.

"Nice to meet you..." Hikage said. Cute.

"Okay, Mister Marou, I just wanted to know...just exactly who you are."

"I just told you."

"Well, I mean, what relations do you have with this old house?"

Hikage looked up at Marou who had stopped stroking his head. Marou looked sternly at Duo. Then at Heero.

"Kiss your lover." Marou demanded.

"Excuse me?" Duo asked a bit surprised, no one had ever actually told-er DEMANDED him to kiss Heero before.

"Information comes with a price." Marou said, "Now kiss your lover."

Heero blinked a couple of times. Wait a second...how did they know that Duo and Heero were lovers?

Duo looked over at Heero. He was quite cute acting all confused and everything, the American almost kissed him. Almost.

"...No."

Heero was shocked! Duo refusing to kiss him? Heero felt his chest tighten. He was suddenly filled with a feeling from long ago. Reject? No, that wasn't it. Hurt? Was he hurt by Duo's sudden action? How could Duo refuse to kiss him? This was definitely odd. What was going on in the Shinigami pilot's head?

"Refusing to kiss the one you love?" Marou asked. He was surprised as well.

"Listen, you invited me in first." Duo glared, "What are your relations with this house?"

Marou smirked knowing where Duo was getting at. Two...no, Marou miscounted, *four* could play at this game...


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TBC?

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