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(make out contest), and 3x4, meant be slightly humorous, some language, and that's about it.
Note: Thank you all who reviewed, I really appreciate it. I was bored! Enjoy!
/blahblahblah/- Slanted lines are a flashback.
2x1 for the first part, very.
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Haunted
Part 11
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As Marou smirked at Duo, the braided boy did the same noting that the two did look alike just as Wufei had said earlier that night. Despite that Duo was younger, cuter, his eyes weren't as spaced out, his hair was more controlled, Shinigami had style, his nose was definitely better shaped (genetic wise of course), Duo had spunk, and was more vibrant. As for Marou, well, he just seemed kind of...dead. HOT, but dead...is that even possible?
Anyway!
Violet met violet. Their lovers looked at them back and forth. Coincidently, they looked very similar as well. Except Heero was just about the same as Duo's reasons. Okay, okay.
This could take awhile. Heero and Hikage thought. Both men seemed pretty competitive.
Suddenly Marou broke the gaze and grabbed Hikage. Hikage gasped as Marou engulfed his mouth nearly sucking off his face. The tall dark-haired boy's lips were swollen when Marou finished and was slightly dizzy from the sudden movement.
Marou made eye contact with Duo signaling that it was the braided boy's turn.
Duo grabbed Heero and did the same. Heero melted into the kiss moaning Duo's name. 'Kick ass' was written all over Duo's face as he and the stunned Japanese boy parted.
Hikage didn't moan Marou's name. One for Duo, zero for Marou.
Everything was quiet.
"Hikage and I are the owners of the house." Marou finally cracked. It was about time too!
"The owners, huh?" Duo said to himself. He thought that this house didn't have any owners. Hell! He was TOLD that this house didn't have any owners. Still, Duo didn't believe that they were lying, so maybe their resources were wrong. Hey, they were human too.
"Yes, we've been living in this house for a very long time now." Marou paused, "We were quite happy until a man disturbed us..."
"A man?" Heero asked.
"Round two!" Marou placed Hikage in his lap and kissed him more passionately than the first time. Hikage uttered something in Japanese and panted as the two broke apart. Their kiss was indeed hot.
Uttering incoherantly and panting...this guy was tough, but not tough enough for Duo Maxwell.
Duo pulled Heero into his grasp. Shinigami cupped Heero's chin and kissed him, devouring his moist cavern. Duo wanted more from it this time. Heero's vision blurred as Duo kissed him with everything he had. The Goddess of Love was sure to be jealous of it.
"...Shinigami-sama..." Heero managed to groan and panted pulling Duo's head closer to his. The Wing pilot caressed Duo's back with the his other hand.
Duo smirked mentally. He was going to have to part now so Heero and he could breathe. Wouldn't want Heero to pass out. That meant game over for him. No more information. Which wouldn't be cool because this was also fun. Duo slowly let go of Heero's mouth.
"...no, Duo." Heero whined desperately trying to attach his lips back with Duo, "Duo...please."
"Shh..." Duo whispered to Heero and held him tight.
Marou and Hikage's kiss was hot, but Duo and Heero's kiss was hot AND wet.
"Very good." Marou said.
Duo had managed to make his koibito call him '-sama', pant, groan, beg for him not to stop, caress him, and ahem. Marou scanned Heero.
Blushing, Heero turned facing his lover and buried his head into Duo's shoulder. Damn spandex.
Marou looked at Hikage, "What's the matter with you?"
"Gomen...you're just always...doing things to me." Hikage paused, "I'm kind of used to it."
Marou snorted, "The man has been running around for a few days and annoying everyone. He brought a girl with him earlier though we haven't seen her around that much..."
Duo motioned him to go on with any other information.
"I think the man's disturbed." Marou sighed. He recalled the memory of the other man always running about and squimish about everything."
"Did you manage to see him?"
"A few times, but then again I was distracted..." Duo didn't say anything and Heero wasn't even listening.
"What is this room used for?"
"I don't know. It was used during the war. We didn't know it was even here until that man came."
"One last thing," Duo glanced around the room, "does the man come through the tunnels?"
Marou didn't answer.
"Does he? We need to know."
"Yes..."
"You have a very nice house." Heero said randomly.
"You think so? You don't think it's alittle out dated? Hikage and I designed it awhile ago."
Heero shook his head into Duo's shoulder. The braided boy chuckled, Heero was so cute.
"So you two have been the ones givin' Wu bloody noses?" Marou nodded and Duo chuckled, "Well, I hope you don't mind us eating all of your food."
"Food?" Hikage asked not really sure if he was hearing right. What food could they be talking about?
"Yeah, all that food in the pantry." How could these two not remember what was in the pantry?
"We haven't restocked the pantry in quite some time."
"You haven't?"
"No."
"Oh..." If they didn't restock the food...who did?
"It must have been that other man." Hikage said, "We should thank him..."
"Hikage, I think we've scared him enough."
"Scared?" Heero asked with his back facing the other couple. Duo's shoulder was really comfortable.
Marou nodded, "Yes, this IS our home, and we will treat our guest as we please. It's just one of those unwritten rules. Is that all you needed to know Mr. Maxwell?"
"Yes. Thank you for you time and information," Duo looked at the watch on his wrist, "but I think it's time to-" Duo looked up.
The couple disappeared.
"That's...weird." Duo poked Heero's side, "Did you see them leave?"
"They left?" Heero asked as he scanned the small room. He didn't hear them leave.
"Yeah, they're not in here." the Deathscythe pilot looked around again.
How could they have just disappeared? There was only one door in the room and that was the only way out. Seeing that it was pointless to stay there, Duo pulled out his flashlight and guided Heero out of the room.
Now at least they knew who they were looking for...
"Duo?"
"Hai?"
"How did Marou know your name?"
Duo stopped walking.
That was the second good question of the night.
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"Just alittle farther now..." the girl announced as she skipped ahead of the pilots, "Just a few more steps until the entrance to the tunnels." the girl took three steps ahead and looked up.
She smiled.
"We're here!"
"Good, I don't know what I would do if I-"
"Shh..." the girl turned around and put a finger over her lips, "Do you hear that?"
Trowa and Quatre listened to the silence...
"No, I don-"
"Onna! Could you stop your perpetual talk about Yuy???" an irritated voice asked.
"Wufei!" Quatre called into the tunnel.
There was a long moment of silence.
"Winner?" came the long awaited answer. Trowa shined his light around the tunnel and spotted Wufei, "K'so! That's the second time someone's shined light in my eyes!"
It was definitely Wufei.
"Wufei how did you get here?" Trowa asked. He noticed that another person was at his side, "And who are you with?"
"Yuy and Maxwell dumped Relena on me." Wufei replied walking closer to the light. Quatre looked at Wufei. He didn't have a flashlight.
"Where's you flashlight Wufei?" Trowa asked.
"It died."
"The how did you find your way back?"
"A little dog showed us." Wufei replied.
"A dog?!" the girl exclaimed. The young girl looked around frantically.
"Who's she?" Wufei asked.
"A girl that we found wondering the tunnels. Apparently she wanted us to play games with her."
"Sir, you said you saw a dog?"
"Yes, it was right...hey! It was just here..."
The dog was gone.
Wufei looked around as well. He did see a dog. The dog had lead him to where we was now.
"Oh, nevermind. I always hear the dog, but I never see it." the girl sighed.
The Gundam pilots plus company climbed an OH so convient ladder on the side of the entrance to the tunnels.
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When they arrived at the top, which were the stairs, it was VERY surprising to find that Heero and Duo had made it back before them and halfway up the steps, too.
"Duo! How did you-"
"We followed a little dog."
"Imagine that!" Quatre said, "Wufei said that he followed a dog here, too!"
"But...I just saw the dog, how could it have made it to Maxwell in that short amount of time???"
"Mary knows how to get around." the little girl replied.
"Mary...?" Heero whispered. He only caught the word 'Mary'. It sounded so...familiar. But where? Heero tuned out everything around him. Where had he heard Mary before?
"Come play..." the girl said, "Come play my game with me."
"We would be delighted to play your game!" Quatre said cheerfully.
"So you're the little girl creeping all of us out." Like Trowa, Duo was also surprised that this one girl caused some much turmoil. Duo took a closer look at the younger youth. She looked familiar. Come to think of it, she looked like the girl in the picture hanging on the wall of the child's room earlier this evening before dinner. THAT must be why she looked so familiar. Duo had seen her picture...which meant that the girl lived here. Small world-er house.
The girl looked up at the boy who had not said anything. He was just standing on the stairs staring at well...nothing. She smiled up at Heero.
Maybe if Heero was looking at her too, he would have known where the chill that ran up his spine came from.
But he didn't.
Heero Yuy was still trying to figure out why the word 'Mary' sounded so familiar to him.
The lights finally came back on and everything was visible...including the Wing Pilot's impassive face.
"Heero!" Relena called from the bottom of the stairs.
The cobalt eyed boy snapped out of his trance.
"Heero!" wheat hair flowed behind the girl as she rushed up the stairs towards Heero.
Before he knew it, he was in a breath-taking-flesh-pinching-God-awful grasp, Relena like to call a hug, "Oh Heero, I'm so happy to see you!"
Duo glared at Relena's back. There was only one word to describe him...two words actually:
VERY jealous.
Wufei, being the observant boy he was, sensed this, "Relena, why don't we go get something to eat? You must be hungry from these past days."
What a gentleman Wu could be.
Relena thought for a moment...come to think of it, she was kind of hungry. She hadn't eaten since this morning, which wasn't good because she was still a growing girl after all.
"Perhaps we can talk about your disappearance?" Wufei asked as Relena slowly let Heero go.
Duo watched Wufei skillfully lure her off of his Hee-chan. The violet eyed boy was starting to worry about Heero. Usually when Relena was being touchy or clingy, he resisted. So why wasn't he now? Was he actually...Duo gulped, FEELING something for her? Duo could only wonder.
"Not to mention get you changed, your clothes look awful. I'm sure there are clothes you can change into here." the Chinese pilot continuted. Relena nodded. That would make sense. Maybe she could even get a warm bath too! She would LOVE to have a warm bath.
"Come on Relena, Heero needs his rest, as well as you too." Duo added. Duo guided Relena down the stairs and handed her off to Wufei, just like earlier, but in a nicer way.
Heero was utterly confused. First there was a crazy girl clinging to him. Then Wufei said something and now she was walking down the stairs with Duo. Did he miss something here???
"I think I would like that," Relena looked up Heero from the bottom of stairs, "We can talk later. Good night Heero."
Heero was silent and headed to his room.
"He says 'oyasumi', Relena." Duo replied for the absent pilot.
Relena bowed her head, "What's wrong with him?"
Wufei took Relena's arm and walked her to the kitchen, "This way."
"I don't know," Duo whispered to himself as he trotted up the stairs, "but I'm gonna find out..."
Relena heard the pilot's footsteps retreat up the stairs. She sighed deeply. If Duo was there, Heero was going to be alright. She knew that Duo would always take care of Heero. Possibly better than she herself could. The girl just knew it. She could feel it in her bones, and it scared her. Duo has always been good with communicating with Heero. And deep down in Relena Peacecraft's heart and soul, she had always envied his gift.
And she was on the verge of happiness that Heero had someone that truly understood him even more than she, and hate for that fact that it seemed as if Heero and Relena were destined together, but were seperated by Duo Maxwell...
She thought that she had everything figured out, but now seeing Heero and Duo together, she was extremely confused.
They were just friends as Wufei said...
...Right?
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"So what's the object of the game?" Quatre asked looking around the lavander room. It was indeed the room that Duo had visited earlier.
"The object...?" the girl walking to the rocking chair picked up her carousel gingerly, "..."
"Yes, every game has an object. Surely this has one too." Quatre replied. This girl wanted to play this game with them, and she didn't even know what she was doing herself, "What's that?" Quatre pointed towards the carousel.
"My Memory Wheel."
"'Memory Wheel'?" Trowa repeated.
The girl nodded, "Yes, it holds my memories. From the past, present, and future..."
"Future?" Quatre was alittle confused. How could it hold memories of the future? That wasn't possible!
"Yes, all Memory Wheels have memories of the future."
Oookaaaayyyyy...
"Where did you get this Memory Wheel?" Trowa asked.
"Well, I'm not really sure. I can't really remember."
"But if it's a 'Memory Wheel', shouldn't it have the memory of where you go it?"
"I suppose, but...it's lost some of them. I don't know what I lost either. I can't remember! All I remember when I got it was that I was standing in front of golden gates...there were many lights." the girl paused, "And they just gave it to me and told me to keep it in good condition. I might use it later. Then I blacked out."
Quatre and Trowa looked at each other. If it was a 'Memory Wheel'...why couldn't she remember where she got it from? And how did it lose some of the memories? It's not like it was run on batteries. Okay then...
"How do you use it?" Trowa was reaching to touch it.
"Don't!" the girl pulled the Wheel away from Trowa, "You must not touch it. You can't." the girl said sternly.
Just what the hell was this?
She was being all defensive over a carousel!
"Alright...what does it do?" Quatre asked.
"I already told you. It holds memories." the girl pressed her fingers between five gaps on the bottom, "I'll show you what it does, if you keep it a secret."
"Our whole lives are about secrets. I don't think this will do any harm to add on to the pile of secrets we already have." Trowa replied. It was true. They did have alot of secrets. Some have even been forgotten...
"I suppose I have nothing to lose even of you DID tell someone, but I trust you both." the girl pressed the ball located at the very top of the carousel. "Watch. It's when I first saw you."
The carousel started to play a song. A slow, sad, yet relaxing song. The horses of the carousel began to rotate clockwise slowly at first, but then to an acceptable pace that matched the song.
"...it's beautiful..." Quatre managed to squeak out as he observed in awe.
"..." Trowa thought it was pretty extrodinary as well.
The tinkle of the the carousel faded as the girl's Memory Wheel, opening from the center, flashed a bright light blinding the pilots.
/Heero jiggled the door knob. The door gently swung open daring the pilots to enter. The girl had opened it.
Heero and Duo entered first.
Duo whistled a low tune, "Wow, beat up and run down on the outside, fit enough for Quatre and his sisters PLUS there husbands on the in!"
"Do you think someone lives here?" Heero asked hand-in-hand with Duo.
"Besides the spirits?" Duo gave Heero's hand a squeeze, "Nah."
"What do we do now?" Quatre asked.
"Explore."
The pilots were so wrapped up with the house, they missed the little girl behind the door...
"Come play my game with me..." the girl whispered into the house./
Suddenly the light dimmed and the carousel shut.
"Woah..."
"I know! Wasn't it great?" the girl asked.
"..." Trowa said, "Do you have any memories of the man you spoke of?"
"Yes, but I could never see him...he was so mysterious and dark...and scary." the girl looked up at Trowa, "I'm frightened!"
"It's alright." Quatre soothed, "How would you like it if we caught him? Then we could take him away from your house, sound good?" Quatre smiled.
The girl smiled back.
"You mean it?"
"Hai. Promise."
"I would LOVE that!"
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Heero was lying on the bed face down and back up. His arms were being used as a chin rest, and he was glaring at the wall deep in thought. He didn't even notice Duo walk in.
"Hey, koi."
Heero jumped alittle, "Duo?"
"No, Wufei." Heero turned his head, "Yes, I'm Duo. So glad you can tell the difference."
Heero smirked. As corny as Duo could get, it still made him happy just to be with him.
Hee-chan a hopeless romantic?
Never!
"So are you gonna sit there glarin' at the wall, or are ya gonna tell me what's buggin' you?" Duo asked approaching Heero.
"What makes you think anything's wrong?" Heero answered eyeing Duo, "It's nothing..."
"You're an AWFUL liar, ya know that?"
"..."
"Well you are." Duo paused, "You were fine until that girl said 'Mary'. After that you were pretty much non-responsive. Not to mention that Relena was hangin' all over ya and you didn't even notice or care. See what I'm talkin' about? Does that give you a hint?"
"..." the Japanese boy looked away.
"Heero..." Duo folding his arms said sternly as if Heero was a naughty child.
"I can't figure it out is all, Duo."
"Figure what out?"
"...that's just it," Heero sat up, "I don't know!"
"Don't know what?" Duo asked sitting on the edge of the bed to Heero's left side.
"I don't understand..."
Heero not understanding. Not a good sign. Not at all. Duo knew how the story went. If Heero was confused, he would do anything to stray away from that feeling and try to understand it taking whatever it took--even extreme attempts such as suicidal actions. So this was definitely not a good sign. He liked Heero too much for that.
Hell! He LOVED Heero too much.
"What don't you understand?" Duo asked. Maybe he could help. He was always able to when Heero needed him.
"Mary..."
"The dog?"
"Hai."
Duo had to think about that a second, why would this bother Heero? It was now time to think like Heero since his words weren't helping, much less making sense, but what was there to understand about a dog's name? Aha!
"Did you know a dog named Mary?"
"...I don't," Heero stopped himself, "...maybe."
"You're not helping me, or yourself." Duo said, "The harder you think and decide to give your brain an overload, the less you'll be able to think about it."
Heero sat up facing Duo, "Then what am I suppose to do about it? I'm confused! I don't like being confused!"
Duo could REALLY tell that the Japanese boy was confused. Cause when Heero got confused, he threw little fits. Much like this one.
"I hate being confused!" Heero outbursted again, "I don't want to be confused!"
Key word: Confused.
Duo watched Heero throw his fists into the air then pounded them into the mattress. The braided boy felt sorry for the bed beneath them. Poor thing was going to get beat up now.
Heero slammed his fist into the mattress again and again causing Duo and himself bounce up and down.
"Why can't I remember???"
Duo wrapped his arms around the upset youth and kissed him on his right temple calming Heero down, "Hey, don't get so worked up over it," Duo said softly, "...you'll think of it, you still have a mission to complete..." Duo kissed Heero's nose. Somehow Duo felt odd saying that to the Perfect Soldier.
Heero looked up at Duo. He was right. He would think of it later, he had a mission to worry about. Deciding that he would sort things out later, Heero sagged into Duo's grasp. He could never get use to this.
Never.
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"How were you kidnapped, Relena-sama?" Wufei asked pouring her a cup of tea.
"A man just...took me." Relena replied, "I was getting into my limo, and then he just snatched me!"
Oh how terrible it was.
"He didn't want me to sign the treaty. He told me. Then he tied me to a chair, gagged."
"Tied to a chair for four days?" Wufei asked serving her Macaroni that he had found in the pantry. Good stuff.
"Yes, but he brought me food three times a day."
"What about your clothes?" Wufei pointed to her torn attire.
"Oh, walking to the house, I tried to jump over that fence in the front yard." Relena replied, "I tore it on the top and fell back over and surprisingly the man helped me, but I still tried to get away. As a result, I got dirty."
"Aa." Wufei placed his hands behind his head. What the hell would this guy want with Relena? "What else did he tell you?"
"...um, besides not to sign the treaty? Nothing." Relena scooped up some of her macaroni, "This is delicious! Who made it?"
"Kraft, Easy Mac, Sponge Bob Squarepants Special Edition[1]."
"Oh. Well, I like it."
"Good. I'm happy that you're not as picky as everyone depicted you as."
"NANI?!"
"Nothing."
ThumpThump
"Did you hear that?" Wufei asked turning around to see if anyone was at the stairs.
"Hear what?" Relena replied wiping cheese off of her face.
"Never mind...Finished?" Wufei glanced at her bowl. It was spotless. 'Wow, she's faster than Duo.'
Relena nodded. She pushed the bowl aside and rose from the chair, "I would much like a bath now."
Wufei grunted, she was still demanding, just as everyone had said.
"I'll show you to your room then..." the Chinese boy excused himself from the table and headed towards the stairs.
Relena smiled. This Wufei wasn't so bad.
But he could never compare to Heero.
Wufei escorted Relena upstairs.
In the corner of the dining room, a figure hid.
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TBC?
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Relena and Wufei? YUCK! Don't even think about it!
[1] Kraft Easy Mac. Definitely don't own that. Or Sponge Bob. Do they even make that stuff for him? I know that they make cheese nips for him, but I don't know about Macoroni.
Archived: Yume Maxwell-Yuy (www.geocities.com/maxwell_yuy2002/)
Warning: OOC, Weirdish, Yaoi 2x1(make out contest), and 3x4, meant be slightly humorous, some language, and that's about it.
Note: Thank you all who reviewed, I really appreciate it. I was bored! Enjoy!
/blahblahblah/- Slanted lines are a flashback.
2x1 for the first part, very.
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Haunted
Part 11
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As Marou smirked at Duo, the braided boy did the same noting that the two did look alike just as Wufei had said earlier that night. Despite that Duo was younger, cuter, his eyes weren't as spaced out, his hair was more controlled, Shinigami had style, his nose was definitely better shaped (genetic wise of course), Duo had spunk, and was more vibrant. As for Marou, well, he just seemed kind of...dead. HOT, but dead...is that even possible?
Anyway!
Violet met violet. Their lovers looked at them back and forth. Coincidently, they looked very similar as well. Except Heero was just about the same as Duo's reasons. Okay, okay.
This could take awhile. Heero and Hikage thought. Both men seemed pretty competitive.
Suddenly Marou broke the gaze and grabbed Hikage. Hikage gasped as Marou engulfed his mouth nearly sucking off his face. The tall dark-haired boy's lips were swollen when Marou finished and was slightly dizzy from the sudden movement.
Marou made eye contact with Duo signaling that it was the braided boy's turn.
Duo grabbed Heero and did the same. Heero melted into the kiss moaning Duo's name. 'Kick ass' was written all over Duo's face as he and the stunned Japanese boy parted.
Hikage didn't moan Marou's name. One for Duo, zero for Marou.
Everything was quiet.
"Hikage and I are the owners of the house." Marou finally cracked. It was about time too!
"The owners, huh?" Duo said to himself. He thought that this house didn't have any owners. Hell! He was TOLD that this house didn't have any owners. Still, Duo didn't believe that they were lying, so maybe their resources were wrong. Hey, they were human too.
"Yes, we've been living in this house for a very long time now." Marou paused, "We were quite happy until a man disturbed us..."
"A man?" Heero asked.
"Round two!" Marou placed Hikage in his lap and kissed him more passionately than the first time. Hikage uttered something in Japanese and panted as the two broke apart. Their kiss was indeed hot.
Uttering incoherantly and panting...this guy was tough, but not tough enough for Duo Maxwell.
Duo pulled Heero into his grasp. Shinigami cupped Heero's chin and kissed him, devouring his moist cavern. Duo wanted more from it this time. Heero's vision blurred as Duo kissed him with everything he had. The Goddess of Love was sure to be jealous of it.
"...Shinigami-sama..." Heero managed to groan and panted pulling Duo's head closer to his. The Wing pilot caressed Duo's back with the his other hand.
Duo smirked mentally. He was going to have to part now so Heero and he could breathe. Wouldn't want Heero to pass out. That meant game over for him. No more information. Which wouldn't be cool because this was also fun. Duo slowly let go of Heero's mouth.
"...no, Duo." Heero whined desperately trying to attach his lips back with Duo, "Duo...please."
"Shh..." Duo whispered to Heero and held him tight.
Marou and Hikage's kiss was hot, but Duo and Heero's kiss was hot AND wet.
"Very good." Marou said.
Duo had managed to make his koibito call him '-sama', pant, groan, beg for him not to stop, caress him, and ahem. Marou scanned Heero.
Blushing, Heero turned facing his lover and buried his head into Duo's shoulder. Damn spandex.
Marou looked at Hikage, "What's the matter with you?"
"Gomen...you're just always...doing things to me." Hikage paused, "I'm kind of used to it."
Marou snorted, "The man has been running around for a few days and annoying everyone. He brought a girl with him earlier though we haven't seen her around that much..."
Duo motioned him to go on with any other information.
"I think the man's disturbed." Marou sighed. He recalled the memory of the other man always running about and squimish about everything."
"Did you manage to see him?"
"A few times, but then again I was distracted..." Duo didn't say anything and Heero wasn't even listening.
"What is this room used for?"
"I don't know. It was used during the war. We didn't know it was even here until that man came."
"One last thing," Duo glanced around the room, "does the man come through the tunnels?"
Marou didn't answer.
"Does he? We need to know."
"Yes..."
"You have a very nice house." Heero said randomly.
"You think so? You don't think it's alittle out dated? Hikage and I designed it awhile ago."
Heero shook his head into Duo's shoulder. The braided boy chuckled, Heero was so cute.
"So you two have been the ones givin' Wu bloody noses?" Marou nodded and Duo chuckled, "Well, I hope you don't mind us eating all of your food."
"Food?" Hikage asked not really sure if he was hearing right. What food could they be talking about?
"Yeah, all that food in the pantry." How could these two not remember what was in the pantry?
"We haven't restocked the pantry in quite some time."
"You haven't?"
"No."
"Oh..." If they didn't restock the food...who did?
"It must have been that other man." Hikage said, "We should thank him..."
"Hikage, I think we've scared him enough."
"Scared?" Heero asked with his back facing the other couple. Duo's shoulder was really comfortable.
Marou nodded, "Yes, this IS our home, and we will treat our guest as we please. It's just one of those unwritten rules. Is that all you needed to know Mr. Maxwell?"
"Yes. Thank you for you time and information," Duo looked at the watch on his wrist, "but I think it's time to-" Duo looked up.
The couple disappeared.
"That's...weird." Duo poked Heero's side, "Did you see them leave?"
"They left?" Heero asked as he scanned the small room. He didn't hear them leave.
"Yeah, they're not in here." the Deathscythe pilot looked around again.
How could they have just disappeared? There was only one door in the room and that was the only way out. Seeing that it was pointless to stay there, Duo pulled out his flashlight and guided Heero out of the room.
Now at least they knew who they were looking for...
"Duo?"
"Hai?"
"How did Marou know your name?"
Duo stopped walking.
That was the second good question of the night.
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"Just alittle farther now..." the girl announced as she skipped ahead of the pilots, "Just a few more steps until the entrance to the tunnels." the girl took three steps ahead and looked up.
She smiled.
"We're here!"
"Good, I don't know what I would do if I-"
"Shh..." the girl turned around and put a finger over her lips, "Do you hear that?"
Trowa and Quatre listened to the silence...
"No, I don-"
"Onna! Could you stop your perpetual talk about Yuy???" an irritated voice asked.
"Wufei!" Quatre called into the tunnel.
There was a long moment of silence.
"Winner?" came the long awaited answer. Trowa shined his light around the tunnel and spotted Wufei, "K'so! That's the second time someone's shined light in my eyes!"
It was definitely Wufei.
"Wufei how did you get here?" Trowa asked. He noticed that another person was at his side, "And who are you with?"
"Yuy and Maxwell dumped Relena on me." Wufei replied walking closer to the light. Quatre looked at Wufei. He didn't have a flashlight.
"Where's you flashlight Wufei?" Trowa asked.
"It died."
"The how did you find your way back?"
"A little dog showed us." Wufei replied.
"A dog?!" the girl exclaimed. The young girl looked around frantically.
"Who's she?" Wufei asked.
"A girl that we found wondering the tunnels. Apparently she wanted us to play games with her."
"Sir, you said you saw a dog?"
"Yes, it was right...hey! It was just here..."
The dog was gone.
Wufei looked around as well. He did see a dog. The dog had lead him to where we was now.
"Oh, nevermind. I always hear the dog, but I never see it." the girl sighed.
The Gundam pilots plus company climbed an OH so convient ladder on the side of the entrance to the tunnels.
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When they arrived at the top, which were the stairs, it was VERY surprising to find that Heero and Duo had made it back before them and halfway up the steps, too.
"Duo! How did you-"
"We followed a little dog."
"Imagine that!" Quatre said, "Wufei said that he followed a dog here, too!"
"But...I just saw the dog, how could it have made it to Maxwell in that short amount of time???"
"Mary knows how to get around." the little girl replied.
"Mary...?" Heero whispered. He only caught the word 'Mary'. It sounded so...familiar. But where? Heero tuned out everything around him. Where had he heard Mary before?
"Come play..." the girl said, "Come play my game with me."
"We would be delighted to play your game!" Quatre said cheerfully.
"So you're the little girl creeping all of us out." Like Trowa, Duo was also surprised that this one girl caused some much turmoil. Duo took a closer look at the younger youth. She looked familiar. Come to think of it, she looked like the girl in the picture hanging on the wall of the child's room earlier this evening before dinner. THAT must be why she looked so familiar. Duo had seen her picture...which meant that the girl lived here. Small world-er house.
The girl looked up at the boy who had not said anything. He was just standing on the stairs staring at well...nothing. She smiled up at Heero.
Maybe if Heero was looking at her too, he would have known where the chill that ran up his spine came from.
But he didn't.
Heero Yuy was still trying to figure out why the word 'Mary' sounded so familiar to him.
The lights finally came back on and everything was visible...including the Wing Pilot's impassive face.
"Heero!" Relena called from the bottom of the stairs.
The cobalt eyed boy snapped out of his trance.
"Heero!" wheat hair flowed behind the girl as she rushed up the stairs towards Heero.
Before he knew it, he was in a breath-taking-flesh-pinching-God-awful grasp, Relena like to call a hug, "Oh Heero, I'm so happy to see you!"
Duo glared at Relena's back. There was only one word to describe him...two words actually:
VERY jealous.
Wufei, being the observant boy he was, sensed this, "Relena, why don't we go get something to eat? You must be hungry from these past days."
What a gentleman Wu could be.
Relena thought for a moment...come to think of it, she was kind of hungry. She hadn't eaten since this morning, which wasn't good because she was still a growing girl after all.
"Perhaps we can talk about your disappearance?" Wufei asked as Relena slowly let Heero go.
Duo watched Wufei skillfully lure her off of his Hee-chan. The violet eyed boy was starting to worry about Heero. Usually when Relena was being touchy or clingy, he resisted. So why wasn't he now? Was he actually...Duo gulped, FEELING something for her? Duo could only wonder.
"Not to mention get you changed, your clothes look awful. I'm sure there are clothes you can change into here." the Chinese pilot continuted. Relena nodded. That would make sense. Maybe she could even get a warm bath too! She would LOVE to have a warm bath.
"Come on Relena, Heero needs his rest, as well as you too." Duo added. Duo guided Relena down the stairs and handed her off to Wufei, just like earlier, but in a nicer way.
Heero was utterly confused. First there was a crazy girl clinging to him. Then Wufei said something and now she was walking down the stairs with Duo. Did he miss something here???
"I think I would like that," Relena looked up Heero from the bottom of stairs, "We can talk later. Good night Heero."
Heero was silent and headed to his room.
"He says 'oyasumi', Relena." Duo replied for the absent pilot.
Relena bowed her head, "What's wrong with him?"
Wufei took Relena's arm and walked her to the kitchen, "This way."
"I don't know," Duo whispered to himself as he trotted up the stairs, "but I'm gonna find out..."
Relena heard the pilot's footsteps retreat up the stairs. She sighed deeply. If Duo was there, Heero was going to be alright. She knew that Duo would always take care of Heero. Possibly better than she herself could. The girl just knew it. She could feel it in her bones, and it scared her. Duo has always been good with communicating with Heero. And deep down in Relena Peacecraft's heart and soul, she had always envied his gift.
And she was on the verge of happiness that Heero had someone that truly understood him even more than she, and hate for that fact that it seemed as if Heero and Relena were destined together, but were seperated by Duo Maxwell...
She thought that she had everything figured out, but now seeing Heero and Duo together, she was extremely confused.
They were just friends as Wufei said...
...Right?
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"So what's the object of the game?" Quatre asked looking around the lavander room. It was indeed the room that Duo had visited earlier.
"The object...?" the girl walking to the rocking chair picked up her carousel gingerly, "..."
"Yes, every game has an object. Surely this has one too." Quatre replied. This girl wanted to play this game with them, and she didn't even know what she was doing herself, "What's that?" Quatre pointed towards the carousel.
"My Memory Wheel."
"'Memory Wheel'?" Trowa repeated.
The girl nodded, "Yes, it holds my memories. From the past, present, and future..."
"Future?" Quatre was alittle confused. How could it hold memories of the future? That wasn't possible!
"Yes, all Memory Wheels have memories of the future."
Oookaaaayyyyy...
"Where did you get this Memory Wheel?" Trowa asked.
"Well, I'm not really sure. I can't really remember."
"But if it's a 'Memory Wheel', shouldn't it have the memory of where you go it?"
"I suppose, but...it's lost some of them. I don't know what I lost either. I can't remember! All I remember when I got it was that I was standing in front of golden gates...there were many lights." the girl paused, "And they just gave it to me and told me to keep it in good condition. I might use it later. Then I blacked out."
Quatre and Trowa looked at each other. If it was a 'Memory Wheel'...why couldn't she remember where she got it from? And how did it lose some of the memories? It's not like it was run on batteries. Okay then...
"How do you use it?" Trowa was reaching to touch it.
"Don't!" the girl pulled the Wheel away from Trowa, "You must not touch it. You can't." the girl said sternly.
Just what the hell was this?
She was being all defensive over a carousel!
"Alright...what does it do?" Quatre asked.
"I already told you. It holds memories." the girl pressed her fingers between five gaps on the bottom, "I'll show you what it does, if you keep it a secret."
"Our whole lives are about secrets. I don't think this will do any harm to add on to the pile of secrets we already have." Trowa replied. It was true. They did have alot of secrets. Some have even been forgotten...
"I suppose I have nothing to lose even of you DID tell someone, but I trust you both." the girl pressed the ball located at the very top of the carousel. "Watch. It's when I first saw you."
The carousel started to play a song. A slow, sad, yet relaxing song. The horses of the carousel began to rotate clockwise slowly at first, but then to an acceptable pace that matched the song.
"...it's beautiful..." Quatre managed to squeak out as he observed in awe.
"..." Trowa thought it was pretty extrodinary as well.
The tinkle of the the carousel faded as the girl's Memory Wheel, opening from the center, flashed a bright light blinding the pilots.
/Heero jiggled the door knob. The door gently swung open daring the pilots to enter. The girl had opened it.
Heero and Duo entered first.
Duo whistled a low tune, "Wow, beat up and run down on the outside, fit enough for Quatre and his sisters PLUS there husbands on the in!"
"Do you think someone lives here?" Heero asked hand-in-hand with Duo.
"Besides the spirits?" Duo gave Heero's hand a squeeze, "Nah."
"What do we do now?" Quatre asked.
"Explore."
The pilots were so wrapped up with the house, they missed the little girl behind the door...
"Come play my game with me..." the girl whispered into the house./
Suddenly the light dimmed and the carousel shut.
"Woah..."
"I know! Wasn't it great?" the girl asked.
"..." Trowa said, "Do you have any memories of the man you spoke of?"
"Yes, but I could never see him...he was so mysterious and dark...and scary." the girl looked up at Trowa, "I'm frightened!"
"It's alright." Quatre soothed, "How would you like it if we caught him? Then we could take him away from your house, sound good?" Quatre smiled.
The girl smiled back.
"You mean it?"
"Hai. Promise."
"I would LOVE that!"
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Heero was lying on the bed face down and back up. His arms were being used as a chin rest, and he was glaring at the wall deep in thought. He didn't even notice Duo walk in.
"Hey, koi."
Heero jumped alittle, "Duo?"
"No, Wufei." Heero turned his head, "Yes, I'm Duo. So glad you can tell the difference."
Heero smirked. As corny as Duo could get, it still made him happy just to be with him.
Hee-chan a hopeless romantic?
Never!
"So are you gonna sit there glarin' at the wall, or are ya gonna tell me what's buggin' you?" Duo asked approaching Heero.
"What makes you think anything's wrong?" Heero answered eyeing Duo, "It's nothing..."
"You're an AWFUL liar, ya know that?"
"..."
"Well you are." Duo paused, "You were fine until that girl said 'Mary'. After that you were pretty much non-responsive. Not to mention that Relena was hangin' all over ya and you didn't even notice or care. See what I'm talkin' about? Does that give you a hint?"
"..." the Japanese boy looked away.
"Heero..." Duo folding his arms said sternly as if Heero was a naughty child.
"I can't figure it out is all, Duo."
"Figure what out?"
"...that's just it," Heero sat up, "I don't know!"
"Don't know what?" Duo asked sitting on the edge of the bed to Heero's left side.
"I don't understand..."
Heero not understanding. Not a good sign. Not at all. Duo knew how the story went. If Heero was confused, he would do anything to stray away from that feeling and try to understand it taking whatever it took--even extreme attempts such as suicidal actions. So this was definitely not a good sign. He liked Heero too much for that.
Hell! He LOVED Heero too much.
"What don't you understand?" Duo asked. Maybe he could help. He was always able to when Heero needed him.
"Mary..."
"The dog?"
"Hai."
Duo had to think about that a second, why would this bother Heero? It was now time to think like Heero since his words weren't helping, much less making sense, but what was there to understand about a dog's name? Aha!
"Did you know a dog named Mary?"
"...I don't," Heero stopped himself, "...maybe."
"You're not helping me, or yourself." Duo said, "The harder you think and decide to give your brain an overload, the less you'll be able to think about it."
Heero sat up facing Duo, "Then what am I suppose to do about it? I'm confused! I don't like being confused!"
Duo could REALLY tell that the Japanese boy was confused. Cause when Heero got confused, he threw little fits. Much like this one.
"I hate being confused!" Heero outbursted again, "I don't want to be confused!"
Key word: Confused.
Duo watched Heero throw his fists into the air then pounded them into the mattress. The braided boy felt sorry for the bed beneath them. Poor thing was going to get beat up now.
Heero slammed his fist into the mattress again and again causing Duo and himself bounce up and down.
"Why can't I remember???"
Duo wrapped his arms around the upset youth and kissed him on his right temple calming Heero down, "Hey, don't get so worked up over it," Duo said softly, "...you'll think of it, you still have a mission to complete..." Duo kissed Heero's nose. Somehow Duo felt odd saying that to the Perfect Soldier.
Heero looked up at Duo. He was right. He would think of it later, he had a mission to worry about. Deciding that he would sort things out later, Heero sagged into Duo's grasp. He could never get use to this.
Never.
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"How were you kidnapped, Relena-sama?" Wufei asked pouring her a cup of tea.
"A man just...took me." Relena replied, "I was getting into my limo, and then he just snatched me!"
Oh how terrible it was.
"He didn't want me to sign the treaty. He told me. Then he tied me to a chair, gagged."
"Tied to a chair for four days?" Wufei asked serving her Macaroni that he had found in the pantry. Good stuff.
"Yes, but he brought me food three times a day."
"What about your clothes?" Wufei pointed to her torn attire.
"Oh, walking to the house, I tried to jump over that fence in the front yard." Relena replied, "I tore it on the top and fell back over and surprisingly the man helped me, but I still tried to get away. As a result, I got dirty."
"Aa." Wufei placed his hands behind his head. What the hell would this guy want with Relena? "What else did he tell you?"
"...um, besides not to sign the treaty? Nothing." Relena scooped up some of her macaroni, "This is delicious! Who made it?"
"Kraft, Easy Mac, Sponge Bob Squarepants Special Edition[1]."
"Oh. Well, I like it."
"Good. I'm happy that you're not as picky as everyone depicted you as."
"NANI?!"
"Nothing."
ThumpThump
"Did you hear that?" Wufei asked turning around to see if anyone was at the stairs.
"Hear what?" Relena replied wiping cheese off of her face.
"Never mind...Finished?" Wufei glanced at her bowl. It was spotless. 'Wow, she's faster than Duo.'
Relena nodded. She pushed the bowl aside and rose from the chair, "I would much like a bath now."
Wufei grunted, she was still demanding, just as everyone had said.
"I'll show you to your room then..." the Chinese boy excused himself from the table and headed towards the stairs.
Relena smiled. This Wufei wasn't so bad.
But he could never compare to Heero.
Wufei escorted Relena upstairs.
In the corner of the dining room, a figure hid.
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TBC?
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Relena and Wufei? YUCK! Don't even think about it!
[1] Kraft Easy Mac. Definitely don't own that. Or Sponge Bob. Do they even make that stuff for him? I know that they make cheese nips for him, but I don't know about Macoroni.