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 (alot), 3x4 (don't worry, Tro and Quat's part will come soon), meant be slightly humorous, and that's about it.
Note: I was bored! Enjoy!
This part has ***SLIGHT RELENA-BASHING*** (at least slight in my opinion, you may think differently), RFO; I'm not trying to be mean to her (unless you want me too), but it's all apart of the plot.
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Haunted
Part 13
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"It's this way...I think." Relena making another turn declared.
"You think? Ojou-san, we need to know."
"Don't push me!"
"Who's pushin'?"
"Let me think!"
"...like she ever does..." Duo mumbled under his breath.
"Duo!" Quatre elbowed the braided boy in the gut.
"Itai! Nani, Q-man? What was that for?"
"For being rude." Quatre said, "Why are you throughing a fit?"
Duo eyed everyone before answering his friend, "She was starin' at Heero's ass...AGAIN!" he said not quietly enough for Heero to miss.
Heero glanced at Duo.
Duo glanced at Quatre.
Quatre glanced at Trowa.
Trowa glanced at Wufei.
Wufei glanced at Relena.
Relena glanced at Heero.
"Stop that!!!" Duo ran behind Heero blocking anyone from staring at his beloved's ass. It was his eye candy and his eye candy alone.
"Duo...!" Heero glared.
"Nani?"
PatPatPat
The six people froze. Soon the pats faded.
"Yeah, that was freaky..." Duo said.
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Relena had been dragging the boys all over the tunnels for over an hour, "I was SURE that it was this way..."
"Maybe you misjudged, these tunnels all look alike." Trowa suggested.
Relena shook her head, "No, I'm positive..."
"I think you need a nap." Duo said from behind.
"I think you need to shut up." Relena, making eye contact with the boy, glared. Duo returned the glare as sparks zapped in between the two opponents.
"Will you both stop it?! I thought Duo and Wufei were bad, but you two are non-stop!"
Everybody turned to Heero who had suddenly outbursted.
"Nani???" Heero asked. His tone had everyone looking away from him.
Relena stuck her nose in the air and continued to lead rounding a turn.
Duo snorted, "SOMEONE'S being touchy..."
"And SOMEONE hasn't been kissed in over an hour..." Heero said under his breath folding his arms. This was chaos between the girl and boy. He had thought that he had made it clear that he loved Duo alone. Was Duo jealous? But-
Suddenly, Heero was pinned against the tunnel wall, "You're right, Hee-chan..." Duo attacked Heero's flesh with his lips.
Heero snickered, he wasn't too thrilled either that Duo hadn't touched him for a while. Heero slide his hands under Duo's shirt pulling him closer. Duo probbed Heero's mouth frenching the other boy.
"Du...o...? Itai!"
"Nani?" Duo asked as he pulled away from Heero.
"You're pinching me..."
Duo looked down at his hands which were firmly grasping a handful of spandex, "Gomen." Duo said but never released the boy, only loosened his grip. He began sucking on the boy's neck.
The Perfect Soldier was his.
Heero grinned as Duo resumed kissing him. Both ignored the slight pressure they caused against the wall behind them...
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"Um, guys...where's Heero and Duo?" looking around, Quatre wondered about ten minutes later.
"Yuy and Maxwell aren't here? No wonder it was so quiet..."
Trowa kept silent, he could guess what they were DOING, but wasn't sure where they WERE.
Relena turned around, "Oh no! What if something happened to Heero???" she asked and ran to find him.
"K'so!" the remaining three said and chased after Relena.
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Duo hands slid down into the spandex and proceeded to strip them off, but Heero stopped him, "Nani?"
"Duo, not HERE!"
Duo frowned, Heero had never stoped him before. "Why not?"
"What if Relena sees? Or Quatre, or Trowa, or Wufei?"
Heero did have a point. Duo sighed and pulled his hands out, but not before snapping them loudly.
"Itai!" the Japanese youth placed Duo's around his back away from his ass.
"Okokok. Have it your way." Duo seized Heero's lips.
"AAIIIEEE!" Heero and Duo were split apart, "What are you doing to HEERO?!"
"Relena???" surprised, the couple said in unison.
Relena glared at Duo.
SMACK!
Heero saw his koi's cheek redden.
She slapped Duo.
"Duo!" Heero cried and brought his hand to Duo's cheek. He glared at Relena. "What was THAT for?"
"He-he *KISSED* you!"
"Daijoubu, Duo?" Heero asked concerned since he hadn't reacted. "Duo?"
Shinigami grinned an evil grin.
Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei stopped when they saw Duo's expression. Pinning Heero harshly against the wall...again, Duo passionately pulled Heero into a rough kiss, Heero moaned. Relena was about to hit Duo again when they parted, but Heero caught her hand.
"Heero! Let me go!"
"Don't touch him."
"He just kissed you AGAIN!"
"You're getting hysterical." Heero replied in between gasp for air.
"Heero-"
"I won't let you hurt Duo."
"Why not???"
Well that was a stupid question, Duo thought.
"Because he's my lover!"
Duo knew that Heero didn't hate Relena, but also didn't like nor trust. He was rather surprised when Heero went out and told her the blunt truth.
"Suki da, Hee-chan." whispered and kissed him for a third time.
Relena's eyes grew wide from Heero's words AND the fact that Duo just kissed him again right in front of her. She raised her fist and attempted to punch Duo in the face-er at least the back of his head, but missed when Duo and Heero slid down to the floor as Relena's fist made contact with the tunnel.
CRACK!
The wall collapsed and they saw a man sitting in a chair watching many monitors of the house and the power box. The power box! So that's why the lights kept on going out...he was eating ramen noodles too, the man turned around in surprise, he made eye contact with Trowa when the uni-banged boy shined the flashlight on his face, then ran through a door of the hidden room.
Trowa's eyes grew wide as he saw the figure, "Set-Setsuna........" he whispered unconsciously taking a protective step in front of Quartre.
"Trowa...?" Quatre asked.
"It can't be..."
"Woah, I'm just glad she didn't hit *ME*, she woulda bust my nose right off of my face. That would have TOTALLY distorted my facial features..." Duo turned to the girl, "Good job Relena."
"Don't just STAND there!" Wufei shouted, he sprinted through the door after the mysterious man.
Before anyone else went after Wufei, Duo stared at the monitor, "Hee-chan! That's our room!"
Heero took a closer look at the monitor. He gasped. It WAS their room...that meant he had seen them earlier! Heero blushed.
"I think we should follow Wufei now." Trowa exited the room followed by Quatre.
"Oh my God..."
"Come on, Ojou-san." Duo pulled Relena's arm, but Relena shrugged it away, "Don't. Don't touch me."
"Okay then." Duo grabbed Heero's hand and took off.
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"Where are you going? What are you doing here? Why did you take Relena Peacecraft? How did you get here? What relations do you have with the girl? What are the motives behind your actions? Why-"
"That's enough Wufei." Trowa said. Wufei had caught the man whose face was against the wall and arms were behind his back which Wufei had secure with his own hands.
"Barton, it's about time." Wufei said.
Just then the others caught up, "Sweet Wufei, you caught the bad guy, now we can get out of here." Duo pulled our a pair of handcuffs, "I thought these might come in handy." Duo tossed them to Wufei who cuffed the man.
"You can't leave just yet..." a voice said from behind.
The pilots turned around, it was Hikage and Marou, "What are you talkin' about? We caught the guy. Now we can leave."
"No yet." Hikage said in a low tone. Marou agreed.
"But you haven't played my game with me, yet!" came another voice, everyone turned towards the voice and met with a little girl, the one from earlier.
"It's you..." Heero said.
"Oni-chan!"
Heero hid behind Duo, "I TOLD you, I'm not any one's Oni-chan...!"
"Wait, I thought we already played your game." Quatre said.
The girl shook her head, "No, you only saw my Memory Wheel."
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! I'm more than a TAD confused here." Duo said waving his hands, "Why is she callin' my Heero 'Oni-chan'? What the hell is a 'Memory Wheel'? What 'game' are we talkin' about? What the hell is goin' on???"
Marou sighed, "Perhaps we should go upstairs and discuss this. Follow me." Marou escorted the seven of them to the right side of a tunnel. He pressed his hand against the wall and an elevator opened.
"How did you do that???"
Marou turned to Duo, "Mr. Maxwell, I simply pressed a button."
"This house is fucked up!"
Everyone nodded, save the captured man.
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"What are we going to do with this one?" Wufei asked referring to the dark man he had recently captured.
Trowa took the man from Wufei, "I'll take care of him." Trowa said and walked the man upstairs.
"Okay, NOW will someone tell me what the hell is goin' on?" Duo asked. Heero stood looking for a place to sit, "Hee-chan, what are you doing?"
"Looking some where to-" Duo wrapped his arms around Heero's waist, then pulled him into his lap and kissed his cheek.
Relena glared.
"Mr. Maxwell, you must be patient."
"I have been patient..." muttered Duo, bouncing his legs causing Heero to move with them.
"Duo, I'm going to check on Trowa." Heero said after a while of being bounced, Duo released him and he proceeded up the stair case.
"I apologize for the great confusion, I have nothing to do with that man your friend just escorted up to the rooms, that's for certain. I am the owner of the house, Hikage and I have lived here for many years..." Marou's voice trailed off as he explained everything.
Everything.
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"Setsuna..." Trowa said as the man sat down in a chair.
The man was tall and skinny with dark unruly hair that went every which way, his eyes were a piercing maroon that sent shivers up Trowa's spine. He was about five years older than the uni-banged boy having more mature and developed facial features. His pale skin was smooth which added to his eeriness.
Setsuna was a man of dark mystery, the man had several studs running down his left ear and on the right one had a ring at the top of the ear and one on the bottom of the lobe. He was complete with a black choker embroided with silver.
The maroon eyed man hadn't changed since the last time Trowa had seen him, and Trowa knew the history if all of the piercings which at the same time frightened the boy. The only difference was the fact that Setsuna had grown to be a tall man, but all of his features were the same.
Setsuna nodded making eye contact with the other, "Trowa, isn't that what they call you now?"
The uni-banged boy turned away, "I thought you were dead..."
"Here I am, alive and well."
"But...how could you survive after that night? After..." Trowa's voice faded.
"You seem upset to see me...Nanashi."
Nanashi, Trowa hadn't been called that for a very long time...
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Setsuna sighed, "I thought it was pretty obvious I was trying to prevent Relena Peacecraft from signing the treaty..."
"You're..." Trowa punched the wall, "You're...insane."
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"Trowa?" Heero asked wandering through the halls. "Trowa?"
Giggling.
"Not again." Heero groaned as a girl appeared before him.
"Oni-chan!"
"I'm not you're Oni-chan..."
"Oh, yes you are. I can sense that you remember Mary."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Heero turned around attempting to walk away from the girl, but she ran in front of him, "Are you lost Oni-chan?"
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/I've been lost my whole life.../
Heero held his head, he knew who the girl was all along, he just didn't want to remember...
"Oni-chan?"
"You can't be her!" Heero said, "She died along time ago! She couldn't have survived, and it's all my fault that she didn't! Why won't you leave me alone?"
"Daijoubu, Oni-chan?"
"You can't be her! You can't! She's dead! I killed her!" Heero blamed himself shutting his eyes so that he blocked the girl from his vision. "She's DEAD!"
"I *AM* dead, as well as Mary and my Uncle Marou and Uncle Hikage!"
Heero opened his eyes, "You're...what?"
"I'm dead. I *DID* die that night..."
Heero shook his head, "No...then why are you here talking to me?"
"Because I need you to play my game with me. Play my game with me so we can all go home..."
Heero felt a heavy feeling hover over his chest, mentally weighing him down.
"It's my last request..." The girl walked to the window, "I was buried here in the back cemetary, I was sleeping peacefully in the heavens until OZ came to the house and dug all these tunnels. They disturbed four of the graves in the family cemetary, Uncle Hikage and Marou, Mary and my own. After we had been upturned, dismantled, and twisted we were taken from the heavens and returned to earth...as ghost." the girl pointed outside.
Heero walked over to the window and saw what the girl was pointing at.
The boy could barely make out the sight of the selected area. Beneath the rugged weeds, uprooted trees, and rotting plants was...
The family cemetary.
"Where's you dog?"
"Mary was seperated from the rest of us. I haven't seen her in years...only heard the soft barking."
The feeling that hovered over Heero's chest doubled.
"We can't leave the house...the farthest we have ever gotten to it was at the end of the tunnels. The only way we can return is to play my game..."
"What game?" Heero asked.
"My game. The one that takes me home."
"Home?"
"To the heavens with my family." The girl softly replied.
Heero pinched himself like Duo did when Heero first kissed him to test if it was a dream, it was too far-fetched. "Itai..."
It wasn't a dream.
"That's why you have to help me! No one else will..."
Heero wanted to go home too, this house was too weird, he didn't know how much longer he could stand it, "How do I help?"
The girl paused, "...Oh darn, I knew I forgot something..."
Heero cocked an eyebrow at the ghost.
"How were they-?" The girl hit her head, "How could I forget how to play my own game???"
Heero arched his eyebrow even higher.
"I know!" the girl snapped her fingers, "The challenge of the game is to figure it out by yourself. I cannot tell you how to save us, then it wouldn't be a game..."
The girl vanished.
Heero didn't know what to do. He was uncertain with a mixture of confusion and something else that he had felt along time ago, but wasn't sure what it was. The girl wouldn't have ever been caught up in this if he hadn't miscalculated the damn explosion!
Why?
Heero fell to his knees, "Gomen, gomen nasai...!" he apologized. "...gomen nasai.........." he started to shake and he didn't know why. "Duo!"
Duo...he always called that name when he felt no one else could help him.
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"NANI?! You're WHAT?!" Duo's eyes nearly popped out of his skull along with Wufei, Quatre, and Relena's.
"Dead."
"Now you tell us. You could have said so sooner." Duo rolled his eyes, "I had a make-out contest with a ghost. Wait till Heero hears about this."
Then they heard a cry, "Duo!"
"Heero!" Duo and Relena said both getting up from their seats. Duo turned to Relena, "Is your name 'Duo'? No? Then stay here." Duo said and headed upstairs, "Hee-chan?"
He saw Heero on the floor shaking, "Heero!" Duo ran to the boy and picked him up. "Heero, what's wrong?"
"She's dead Duo, and it's because of me, I remember her, I remember Mary!" Duo craddled the boy and held him close, "It's all my fault...it's all my fault!" Heero sobbed onto Duo's shirt, "It's all my fault Duo, I killed the innocent little girl and her dog!"
"Heero, calm down..." Duo shushed Heero and took him to the bedroom. He didn't like Heero when he was like this.
"I killed her!"
"Stop it." Duo knew exactly what Heero was talking about, it was one of the main source of the boy's nightmares, Heero had told him long ago, and Duo had spent nearly all of his time trying to get Heero to forget about it. Yeah, well, he didn't do a good enough job, "How were you suppose to know the MS would fall like that?" Duo asked, "How COULD you have known? It was an accident, just a freak accident."
"But the girl-" Heero choked on his sob.
Duo patted Heero on the back, "What about the girl?"
"We have to help her get home." Heero said.
"What do you mean?"
Heero repeated what the girl had just told him.
Duo pinched himself.
"I already tried that." Heero said feeling better now that Duo was with him.
"Chotto matte, you'll pinch yourself, but you won't let *me*?" Duo asked.
"Nani? I never-" Heero frowned and remember when Duo had pinched him in the tunnels, "It's not like that stopped you..."
Duo grinned and pinched Heero, "Itai!"
"Okay, I'm finished." Duo said kissing Heero. The Japanese youth lay on the bed thinking.
"Duo?"
"Aa?"
"I feel...bad."
"Bad?"
"Hai."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know...just...BAD."
Duo knew Heero still wasn't that great with feelings. Heero was blaming himself for an accident, if Duo didn't know better he would say that Heero felt guilty.
"Guilty?" Duo asked luring himself over the Japanese youth, Heero turned to his Shinigami from underneath, "Is that what it is?" he asked.
"I think so."
Heero sighed, "Guilty...I feel guilty."
"Then we'll just have to help that little girl get back home. After that, I think you'll feel alot better, ne?"
"Aa...it feels like a ton of bricks hovering over me."
"No, I think that's just me right now." Duo replied. Wrapping his arms around Duo's neck, Heero smiled and kissed the American's lips. "Oi, Hee-chan?"
"Aa?"
"Did you know that we had a make-out contest with some ghost?"
Heero frowned.
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TBC?
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Is this too confusing? Or is it just me?
Archived: Yume Maxwell-Yuy (www.geocities.com/maxwell_yuy2002/)
Warning: OOC, Weirdish, Yaoi 2x1 (alot), 3x4 (don't worry, Tro and Quat's part will come soon), meant be slightly humorous, and that's about it.
Note: I was bored! Enjoy!
This part has ***SLIGHT RELENA-BASHING*** (at least slight in my opinion, you may think differently), RFO; I'm not trying to be mean to her (unless you want me too), but it's all apart of the plot.
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Haunted
Part 13
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"It's this way...I think." Relena making another turn declared.
"You think? Ojou-san, we need to know."
"Don't push me!"
"Who's pushin'?"
"Let me think!"
"...like she ever does..." Duo mumbled under his breath.
"Duo!" Quatre elbowed the braided boy in the gut.
"Itai! Nani, Q-man? What was that for?"
"For being rude." Quatre said, "Why are you throughing a fit?"
Duo eyed everyone before answering his friend, "She was starin' at Heero's ass...AGAIN!" he said not quietly enough for Heero to miss.
Heero glanced at Duo.
Duo glanced at Quatre.
Quatre glanced at Trowa.
Trowa glanced at Wufei.
Wufei glanced at Relena.
Relena glanced at Heero.
"Stop that!!!" Duo ran behind Heero blocking anyone from staring at his beloved's ass. It was his eye candy and his eye candy alone.
"Duo...!" Heero glared.
"Nani?"
PatPatPat
The six people froze. Soon the pats faded.
"Yeah, that was freaky..." Duo said.
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Relena had been dragging the boys all over the tunnels for over an hour, "I was SURE that it was this way..."
"Maybe you misjudged, these tunnels all look alike." Trowa suggested.
Relena shook her head, "No, I'm positive..."
"I think you need a nap." Duo said from behind.
"I think you need to shut up." Relena, making eye contact with the boy, glared. Duo returned the glare as sparks zapped in between the two opponents.
"Will you both stop it?! I thought Duo and Wufei were bad, but you two are non-stop!"
Everybody turned to Heero who had suddenly outbursted.
"Nani???" Heero asked. His tone had everyone looking away from him.
Relena stuck her nose in the air and continued to lead rounding a turn.
Duo snorted, "SOMEONE'S being touchy..."
"And SOMEONE hasn't been kissed in over an hour..." Heero said under his breath folding his arms. This was chaos between the girl and boy. He had thought that he had made it clear that he loved Duo alone. Was Duo jealous? But-
Suddenly, Heero was pinned against the tunnel wall, "You're right, Hee-chan..." Duo attacked Heero's flesh with his lips.
Heero snickered, he wasn't too thrilled either that Duo hadn't touched him for a while. Heero slide his hands under Duo's shirt pulling him closer. Duo probbed Heero's mouth frenching the other boy.
"Du...o...? Itai!"
"Nani?" Duo asked as he pulled away from Heero.
"You're pinching me..."
Duo looked down at his hands which were firmly grasping a handful of spandex, "Gomen." Duo said but never released the boy, only loosened his grip. He began sucking on the boy's neck.
The Perfect Soldier was his.
Heero grinned as Duo resumed kissing him. Both ignored the slight pressure they caused against the wall behind them...
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"Um, guys...where's Heero and Duo?" looking around, Quatre wondered about ten minutes later.
"Yuy and Maxwell aren't here? No wonder it was so quiet..."
Trowa kept silent, he could guess what they were DOING, but wasn't sure where they WERE.
Relena turned around, "Oh no! What if something happened to Heero???" she asked and ran to find him.
"K'so!" the remaining three said and chased after Relena.
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Duo hands slid down into the spandex and proceeded to strip them off, but Heero stopped him, "Nani?"
"Duo, not HERE!"
Duo frowned, Heero had never stoped him before. "Why not?"
"What if Relena sees? Or Quatre, or Trowa, or Wufei?"
Heero did have a point. Duo sighed and pulled his hands out, but not before snapping them loudly.
"Itai!" the Japanese youth placed Duo's around his back away from his ass.
"Okokok. Have it your way." Duo seized Heero's lips.
"AAIIIEEE!" Heero and Duo were split apart, "What are you doing to HEERO?!"
"Relena???" surprised, the couple said in unison.
Relena glared at Duo.
SMACK!
Heero saw his koi's cheek redden.
She slapped Duo.
"Duo!" Heero cried and brought his hand to Duo's cheek. He glared at Relena. "What was THAT for?"
"He-he *KISSED* you!"
"Daijoubu, Duo?" Heero asked concerned since he hadn't reacted. "Duo?"
Shinigami grinned an evil grin.
Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei stopped when they saw Duo's expression. Pinning Heero harshly against the wall...again, Duo passionately pulled Heero into a rough kiss, Heero moaned. Relena was about to hit Duo again when they parted, but Heero caught her hand.
"Heero! Let me go!"
"Don't touch him."
"He just kissed you AGAIN!"
"You're getting hysterical." Heero replied in between gasp for air.
"Heero-"
"I won't let you hurt Duo."
"Why not???"
Well that was a stupid question, Duo thought.
"Because he's my lover!"
Duo knew that Heero didn't hate Relena, but also didn't like nor trust. He was rather surprised when Heero went out and told her the blunt truth.
"Suki da, Hee-chan." whispered and kissed him for a third time.
Relena's eyes grew wide from Heero's words AND the fact that Duo just kissed him again right in front of her. She raised her fist and attempted to punch Duo in the face-er at least the back of his head, but missed when Duo and Heero slid down to the floor as Relena's fist made contact with the tunnel.
CRACK!
The wall collapsed and they saw a man sitting in a chair watching many monitors of the house and the power box. The power box! So that's why the lights kept on going out...he was eating ramen noodles too, the man turned around in surprise, he made eye contact with Trowa when the uni-banged boy shined the flashlight on his face, then ran through a door of the hidden room.
Trowa's eyes grew wide as he saw the figure, "Set-Setsuna........" he whispered unconsciously taking a protective step in front of Quartre.
"Trowa...?" Quatre asked.
"It can't be..."
"Woah, I'm just glad she didn't hit *ME*, she woulda bust my nose right off of my face. That would have TOTALLY distorted my facial features..." Duo turned to the girl, "Good job Relena."
"Don't just STAND there!" Wufei shouted, he sprinted through the door after the mysterious man.
Before anyone else went after Wufei, Duo stared at the monitor, "Hee-chan! That's our room!"
Heero took a closer look at the monitor. He gasped. It WAS their room...that meant he had seen them earlier! Heero blushed.
"I think we should follow Wufei now." Trowa exited the room followed by Quatre.
"Oh my God..."
"Come on, Ojou-san." Duo pulled Relena's arm, but Relena shrugged it away, "Don't. Don't touch me."
"Okay then." Duo grabbed Heero's hand and took off.
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"Where are you going? What are you doing here? Why did you take Relena Peacecraft? How did you get here? What relations do you have with the girl? What are the motives behind your actions? Why-"
"That's enough Wufei." Trowa said. Wufei had caught the man whose face was against the wall and arms were behind his back which Wufei had secure with his own hands.
"Barton, it's about time." Wufei said.
Just then the others caught up, "Sweet Wufei, you caught the bad guy, now we can get out of here." Duo pulled our a pair of handcuffs, "I thought these might come in handy." Duo tossed them to Wufei who cuffed the man.
"You can't leave just yet..." a voice said from behind.
The pilots turned around, it was Hikage and Marou, "What are you talkin' about? We caught the guy. Now we can leave."
"No yet." Hikage said in a low tone. Marou agreed.
"But you haven't played my game with me, yet!" came another voice, everyone turned towards the voice and met with a little girl, the one from earlier.
"It's you..." Heero said.
"Oni-chan!"
Heero hid behind Duo, "I TOLD you, I'm not any one's Oni-chan...!"
"Wait, I thought we already played your game." Quatre said.
The girl shook her head, "No, you only saw my Memory Wheel."
"Whoa, whoa, WHOA! I'm more than a TAD confused here." Duo said waving his hands, "Why is she callin' my Heero 'Oni-chan'? What the hell is a 'Memory Wheel'? What 'game' are we talkin' about? What the hell is goin' on???"
Marou sighed, "Perhaps we should go upstairs and discuss this. Follow me." Marou escorted the seven of them to the right side of a tunnel. He pressed his hand against the wall and an elevator opened.
"How did you do that???"
Marou turned to Duo, "Mr. Maxwell, I simply pressed a button."
"This house is fucked up!"
Everyone nodded, save the captured man.
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"What are we going to do with this one?" Wufei asked referring to the dark man he had recently captured.
Trowa took the man from Wufei, "I'll take care of him." Trowa said and walked the man upstairs.
"Okay, NOW will someone tell me what the hell is goin' on?" Duo asked. Heero stood looking for a place to sit, "Hee-chan, what are you doing?"
"Looking some where to-" Duo wrapped his arms around Heero's waist, then pulled him into his lap and kissed his cheek.
Relena glared.
"Mr. Maxwell, you must be patient."
"I have been patient..." muttered Duo, bouncing his legs causing Heero to move with them.
"Duo, I'm going to check on Trowa." Heero said after a while of being bounced, Duo released him and he proceeded up the stair case.
"I apologize for the great confusion, I have nothing to do with that man your friend just escorted up to the rooms, that's for certain. I am the owner of the house, Hikage and I have lived here for many years..." Marou's voice trailed off as he explained everything.
Everything.
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"Setsuna..." Trowa said as the man sat down in a chair.
The man was tall and skinny with dark unruly hair that went every which way, his eyes were a piercing maroon that sent shivers up Trowa's spine. He was about five years older than the uni-banged boy having more mature and developed facial features. His pale skin was smooth which added to his eeriness.
Setsuna was a man of dark mystery, the man had several studs running down his left ear and on the right one had a ring at the top of the ear and one on the bottom of the lobe. He was complete with a black choker embroided with silver.
The maroon eyed man hadn't changed since the last time Trowa had seen him, and Trowa knew the history if all of the piercings which at the same time frightened the boy. The only difference was the fact that Setsuna had grown to be a tall man, but all of his features were the same.
Setsuna nodded making eye contact with the other, "Trowa, isn't that what they call you now?"
The uni-banged boy turned away, "I thought you were dead..."
"Here I am, alive and well."
"But...how could you survive after that night? After..." Trowa's voice faded.
"You seem upset to see me...Nanashi."
Nanashi, Trowa hadn't been called that for a very long time...
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Setsuna sighed, "I thought it was pretty obvious I was trying to prevent Relena Peacecraft from signing the treaty..."
"You're..." Trowa punched the wall, "You're...insane."
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"Trowa?" Heero asked wandering through the halls. "Trowa?"
Giggling.
"Not again." Heero groaned as a girl appeared before him.
"Oni-chan!"
"I'm not you're Oni-chan..."
"Oh, yes you are. I can sense that you remember Mary."
"I don't know what you're talking about." Heero turned around attempting to walk away from the girl, but she ran in front of him, "Are you lost Oni-chan?"
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/Are you lost Oni-chan?/
/I've been lost my whole life.../
Heero held his head, he knew who the girl was all along, he just didn't want to remember...
"Oni-chan?"
"You can't be her!" Heero said, "She died along time ago! She couldn't have survived, and it's all my fault that she didn't! Why won't you leave me alone?"
"Daijoubu, Oni-chan?"
"You can't be her! You can't! She's dead! I killed her!" Heero blamed himself shutting his eyes so that he blocked the girl from his vision. "She's DEAD!"
"I *AM* dead, as well as Mary and my Uncle Marou and Uncle Hikage!"
Heero opened his eyes, "You're...what?"
"I'm dead. I *DID* die that night..."
Heero shook his head, "No...then why are you here talking to me?"
"Because I need you to play my game with me. Play my game with me so we can all go home..."
Heero felt a heavy feeling hover over his chest, mentally weighing him down.
"It's my last request..." The girl walked to the window, "I was buried here in the back cemetary, I was sleeping peacefully in the heavens until OZ came to the house and dug all these tunnels. They disturbed four of the graves in the family cemetary, Uncle Hikage and Marou, Mary and my own. After we had been upturned, dismantled, and twisted we were taken from the heavens and returned to earth...as ghost." the girl pointed outside.
Heero walked over to the window and saw what the girl was pointing at.
The boy could barely make out the sight of the selected area. Beneath the rugged weeds, uprooted trees, and rotting plants was...
The family cemetary.
"Where's you dog?"
"Mary was seperated from the rest of us. I haven't seen her in years...only heard the soft barking."
The feeling that hovered over Heero's chest doubled.
"We can't leave the house...the farthest we have ever gotten to it was at the end of the tunnels. The only way we can return is to play my game..."
"What game?" Heero asked.
"My game. The one that takes me home."
"Home?"
"To the heavens with my family." The girl softly replied.
Heero pinched himself like Duo did when Heero first kissed him to test if it was a dream, it was too far-fetched. "Itai..."
It wasn't a dream.
"That's why you have to help me! No one else will..."
Heero wanted to go home too, this house was too weird, he didn't know how much longer he could stand it, "How do I help?"
The girl paused, "...Oh darn, I knew I forgot something..."
Heero cocked an eyebrow at the ghost.
"How were they-?" The girl hit her head, "How could I forget how to play my own game???"
Heero arched his eyebrow even higher.
"I know!" the girl snapped her fingers, "The challenge of the game is to figure it out by yourself. I cannot tell you how to save us, then it wouldn't be a game..."
The girl vanished.
Heero didn't know what to do. He was uncertain with a mixture of confusion and something else that he had felt along time ago, but wasn't sure what it was. The girl wouldn't have ever been caught up in this if he hadn't miscalculated the damn explosion!
Why?
Heero fell to his knees, "Gomen, gomen nasai...!" he apologized. "...gomen nasai.........." he started to shake and he didn't know why. "Duo!"
Duo...he always called that name when he felt no one else could help him.
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"NANI?! You're WHAT?!" Duo's eyes nearly popped out of his skull along with Wufei, Quatre, and Relena's.
"Dead."
"Now you tell us. You could have said so sooner." Duo rolled his eyes, "I had a make-out contest with a ghost. Wait till Heero hears about this."
Then they heard a cry, "Duo!"
"Heero!" Duo and Relena said both getting up from their seats. Duo turned to Relena, "Is your name 'Duo'? No? Then stay here." Duo said and headed upstairs, "Hee-chan?"
He saw Heero on the floor shaking, "Heero!" Duo ran to the boy and picked him up. "Heero, what's wrong?"
"She's dead Duo, and it's because of me, I remember her, I remember Mary!" Duo craddled the boy and held him close, "It's all my fault...it's all my fault!" Heero sobbed onto Duo's shirt, "It's all my fault Duo, I killed the innocent little girl and her dog!"
"Heero, calm down..." Duo shushed Heero and took him to the bedroom. He didn't like Heero when he was like this.
"I killed her!"
"Stop it." Duo knew exactly what Heero was talking about, it was one of the main source of the boy's nightmares, Heero had told him long ago, and Duo had spent nearly all of his time trying to get Heero to forget about it. Yeah, well, he didn't do a good enough job, "How were you suppose to know the MS would fall like that?" Duo asked, "How COULD you have known? It was an accident, just a freak accident."
"But the girl-" Heero choked on his sob.
Duo patted Heero on the back, "What about the girl?"
"We have to help her get home." Heero said.
"What do you mean?"
Heero repeated what the girl had just told him.
Duo pinched himself.
"I already tried that." Heero said feeling better now that Duo was with him.
"Chotto matte, you'll pinch yourself, but you won't let *me*?" Duo asked.
"Nani? I never-" Heero frowned and remember when Duo had pinched him in the tunnels, "It's not like that stopped you..."
Duo grinned and pinched Heero, "Itai!"
"Okay, I'm finished." Duo said kissing Heero. The Japanese youth lay on the bed thinking.
"Duo?"
"Aa?"
"I feel...bad."
"Bad?"
"Hai."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know...just...BAD."
Duo knew Heero still wasn't that great with feelings. Heero was blaming himself for an accident, if Duo didn't know better he would say that Heero felt guilty.
"Guilty?" Duo asked luring himself over the Japanese youth, Heero turned to his Shinigami from underneath, "Is that what it is?" he asked.
"I think so."
Heero sighed, "Guilty...I feel guilty."
"Then we'll just have to help that little girl get back home. After that, I think you'll feel alot better, ne?"
"Aa...it feels like a ton of bricks hovering over me."
"No, I think that's just me right now." Duo replied. Wrapping his arms around Duo's neck, Heero smiled and kissed the American's lips. "Oi, Hee-chan?"
"Aa?"
"Did you know that we had a make-out contest with some ghost?"
Heero frowned.
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TBC?
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Is this too confusing? Or is it just me?