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, 3x4, meant be slightly humorous, language, and that's about it.

Note: I was bored! Enjoy!

Okay, this is shorter than the previous chapters...gomen. SAPSAPSAP-ish.


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Haunted

Part 17

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"I'm not Nanashi. Boku wa keshite wasurenai...Ore wa Trowa Barton..."

BANG

Setsuna's whole life flew before his eyes at that moment, he saw the things he did. And for the first time, he regretted his actions. Setsuna didn't know what to think.

Was this why Nanashi didn't love him back?

What had he become?

He placed his hands over the place it hurt the most, his heart. Trowa had shot him in his heart, why? He had a clear shot at his head, but he shot his heart. Did he misfire on purpose? Setsuna felt the blood from his organ spill all over the dimly lit floor.

Setsuna fell to his knees in his own pool of blood. So this is how he was going to die...he never thought Nanashi would be the one to do the honors.

His vision blacked out every few seconds. He looked up at Trowa the best he could for the last time. He felt the gears in his head shut down, he could only think of one last thing to say. His lips formed a smile.

"Sayonara...Nanashi............."

With that whisper, Setsuna fell. Though this time, he would never rise again...

Trowa released the breath he had been holding and capsized to his knees, "I did it..." there were many distractions, but he did it. He looked over at Quatre and made his way over to the boy. "Quatre...I did it..."

Duo looked at the mess; many puddles of blood, and a dead man. This was not a good wake up call.

"Oh..." came a startled sound from Trowa and Quatre's room. Relena was standing there with tears in her eyes, the scene was too much for her, it was only something she saw in the movies. Yet it was here right infront of her.

When the first gun shot was heard, it woke her. She tried to hide from it, but after the shot was ignited, the sounds became much worse. She thought it was safe to see what was going on when everything had stopped, but she realizes that she should have stayed in the room.

She observed the corridor before her; Quatre lay passed out in Trowa's arms while Duo was holding a half-lidded Heero whose hemorrhagic arm was being stopped by Duo's shirt. And covered in bruises was Wufei who approached her.

"Relena-sama, I think it's best if you went back inside the room..." he said cooly. The girl nodded and followed Wufei to his compartmen of the house. The other pilots gathered their love and brought them into their own room to tend to their injuries.

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Quatre's eyes fluttered open, "Setsuna!" he shouted jolting up from the bed.

"Quatre, shh..." Trowa said trying to comfort his lover.

Quatre touched his neck, it was wrapped in a gauze, "But-"

"It's over, Little One," Trowa said quietly, "Setsuna is dead..."

"Nani?" Quatre asked, "Trowa what happened?"

Trowa sat at the edge of the bed, "I killed him." he turned to see wide aqua eyes, "And I don't feel anything..."

Quatre kept silent.

"Is that wrong? He told me that he loved me. After all these years...and I didn't give a shit." Trowa said, "He wanted me to join him again just like over a decade before. He said it would be like old times, me and him. He said we could be together again. It was like I was living the battle all over again except this time more educated."

Trowa let out a long sigh.

"I was tempted, I liked being around Setsuna...but all I could think about was you. Only you." Quatre was on the verge of tears, "I don't know what I would do without you. If it hadn't been for you, I might have ended up just like Setsuna...and I don't want that...so is it wrong?"

"What does your heart tell you?"

Trowa paused, "That I did the right thing."

Quatre smiled and hugged Trowa, "Then there's nothing wrong..."

"I would choose you over anybody, Quatre."

Trowa kissed Quatre's lips.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

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Eyes closed and cross-legged, Wufei sat on the floor meditating. Relena Peacecraft lay on the bed thinking to herself. She turned to Wufei.

"Chang Wufei pilot 05, do you go through this type of thing alot?"

The Asian opened his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"I mean, what I saw out there. All the blood and everything. I realized that you must go through that often to keep calm as you are now."

"...I see many things," Wufei glanced at Relena, "I'd say that my companions and I were used to it. But with every kill, knowledge is gained. Good and bad."

"I see. You all must have had hard childhoods, right?"

"It depends on what you mean by 'hard'."

"Well, I'm assuming that it was worse than mine. My largest complication was deciding what to wear to the parties." Relena sighed, "But I'm sure that wasn't the biggest problem for you."

"No. We had survival problems."

Relena and Wufei remained quiet.

"Pilot 05, you're not a bad guy..."

Wufei snorted, "Tell that to Maxwell." with that, Wufei got up and retrieved a small phone from his bag.

"What's that for?"

"I'm getting the hell out of here." Wufei said as he dialed HQ.

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"There." said Duo finishing up the bandage he was wrapping about the cobalt one's injured arm thirty minutes later. He kissed Heero's dark hair, "How's your head?" hovering above, he asked and run his fingers through the unruly spikes.

Heero cocked an eyebrow, "...what's wrong with my head?"

"You hit it remember?"

"I did?" Heero asked, so that's why his head was throbbing!

Duo run his fingers over the knot in the Japanese youth's head, "Yeah...you blacked out alittle too. I was worried that you would have passed out." Duo replied.

"Itai..." Heero swatted the hand away.

"You're such a baby." Duo reached for the first aide kit and crack open an instant ice pack. He placed the chilling pack under Heero's head.

"No I'm not."

"Whatever."

"Hn."

"What do you think about all of this?"

"What do you mean?"

Duo rolled off onto the left side of Heero. He looked at the boy next to him, "I mean exactly what I asked, what do you think? Was it good, bad, hell, heaven? What's your opinion?"

Heero took a deep breath, "I think it was all...I'm no longer haunted by my past."

Duo chuckled, "We got alittle bit of everything here, ne?"

"Aa..."

The two lay there in silence just thinking about the day they had lived. It wasn't anything that they had experienced before. Heero wondered if it was even real. He turned to Duo, whose eyes were closed. He matched the pattern of the other boy's breathing. His chest rised and fell at the same rate as the braided boy's did. Heero ran his finger gently along Duo's jaw line. He reconsidered his thoughts, it was very real.

"What time is it, Hee-chan?" Duo mumbled half asleep.

"10:00 AM."

"Only...?"

"Aa."

"Damn, it felt like we were out there forever, ne?"

"Hai."

"I'm just glad it's over." Duo rolled on his side and kissed Heero nose, "Shit, that Setsuna guy was messed up...you don't have anyone like that in your past do you?"

Heero shook his head, but regretted it as the pain increased, "No, not that I know of, you?"

Duo paused, "There's Solo..."

"Solo?" asked concern filling his voice.

"Yeah, don't worry about it." Duo paused, "Do you think Une will be too pleased about all of this?"

"Nani?"

"The fact that Trowa killed Setsuna."

Heero shrugged, "It was self defense, he almost took the life of Quatre."

"Mmhmm," Duo placed his lips on Heero's right shoulder, "I got him back for injuring your arm, Hee-chan."

"Hn."

Duo frowned, "Is that all the thanks I get??? A measily 'hn'? Heero Yuy, I thought you loved me!"

Ignoring the pain in his right tricep, Heero wrapped his arms around Duo's neck, "I do, I do." he reached up and placed his lips on Duo's firm ones. "So am I really Shinigami's angel?"

Duo grinned, "What do you take me for?"

"...a baka."

"That's what I thought." Duo began sucking on his lover's neck, "Ai shiteru, Heero. You have NO idea..."

"Ai shiteru Duo."

KnockKnock

"Maxwell, open the door."

Duo got off the bed and opened the door, "Une?"

"Hai."

"What are you doin' here? This is totally unexpected."

"Chang called me in. Sounded pissed off too." Une looked over Duo's shoulder and saw Heero on the bed, "There is an escort waiting for you outside. We'll handle the rest." Lady Une said, "Relena will stay with us. You have permission to leave the perimeter when you're ready to."

Shinigami looked out into the hall, there were many people gathered around the corpse of Setsuna snapping pictures from every angle and taking evidence.

They were free to go.

Duo could only think of one thing to say.

"YES!!!" he ran over to Heero and lifted him from the bed, "C'mon Hee-chan! We're goin' home."

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The five boys sat in the car surprised when Une had sent them a limo to drive back home in. 5 hours of relaxation...

Kind of.

They all gazed at the disappearing house. All were having mixed feelings about leaving. Even if happiness of going home outweighed the rest of them. They would never forget the mansion. They would probably spend the rest of their lives referring to it again and again. 'Hey, remember when Heero shot that snake' and 'Quatre, we're inseperatable. Remember, how we made it through the barriers' and 'Wu-man remember the time you tripped and fell on the stairs??? HAHAHA'. Yep, they could see it now.

It scared them.

The pilots sighed at least they came out in one piece.

"What the hell is that???" Heero asked. He pointed to a thin, green, reptile with a bullet hole in its head...

"It's a snake. How did it get in here?" Quatre wondered.

Duo poked it, "Looks like the one from our room, ne Hee-chan?" Heero raise his feet from the floor and sat crosslegged.

"Hn."

"I think it's dead." Trowa declared, "It's not breathing."

"How can you tell if a snake breathe?" Wufei retorted.

Trowa held the snake by its tail in the air to examine it, "Well, how can you tell if it's not? It's not moving."

"Heero, that *IS* the snake we saw!" Duo exclaimed as he saw a bullet in the forehead of the reptile.

Heero frowned.

Click

BANGBANGBANG!

"Heero Yuy!" Duo shouted covering his ears. The snake burst into pieces, tail here and head there. Its silver insides flew every where.

Hold up...silver insides?

"It's..."

"Mechanical." Quatre finished.

"Get it out here." Heero growled.

"Yuy, afraid of snakes?" Wufei asked out of his own amusement, "That's outrageous."

"Shut up, Chang." Heero spat.

"What is it doing here?" Duo asked.

"I don't know, I don't care, and I don't intend on finding out!" Heero said.

Wufei gathered what he could or the dismantled snake, "It's evidence Yuy. By the looks of it..." he picked up a small lens, "this appears so be some sort of camera...I'll be damned, it's a robotical camera..."

The braided boy pointed to a small circular aluminum leyden jar, "Look, it's even run batteries! Do you think is was Setsuna's? Ya know, to see us where security cameras could not be planted?" Duo asked.

"There's a chance. Infact, that's very plausible, I'll drop it by the lab later." Wufei pulled out a random Ziplock bag and sacked the snake remnants.

Honestly, they were all very glad to leave the house, too many weird things. They thought that had solved all of the mysteries. But apparently, there were still some things there...

They all sighed.

"Mission completed, screw the snake. Let's relax!" Duo suggested. Good enough for them, the others decided to let it alone...for now.

Quatre and Trowa looked at each other, they were meant to be. A match made in heaven. Quatre's lips formed a smile as Trowa lowered himself and claimed them.

Wufei looked away and turned his attention towards Yuy and Maxwell.

He paled and got a bloody nose, "Ugh! Will you two ever cease???"

Giggling, Heero was in Duo's lap sucking each other's faces off while Duo was groping at Heero. You'd think they would take some time to think about what had just happened, but NO! They were too caught up with each other.

Wufei slumped back into the leather seat and pouted, "Bakas...forgot about the house already." the Asian boy whipped out his Sony Walkman TM and pressed play. The ride would be torture without his beloved CD player.

Thank Buddha for music.

Duo parted from Heero, "Well, we found Relena which will prevent another war, returned ghosts to the heavens, and killed the bad guy. I'd say we've done our job for the week."

"Ninmu kanyou..." Heero said.

"Hai, mission accomplished."

They had defeated the house's obstacles and completed the mission. The hardest part of it all was not the physical fight with Setsuna or returning the ghost, but was the mental sturggles they had all encountered. The Gundam Pilots left the house in peace.

Speaking for the estate and pilots, all fear was abandoned and replaced with forgiveness.

Thus leaving them no longer haunted.


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owari...

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Gomen if there wasn't enough Tro and Quat action for ya Candy, I know you like 3x4, tell me if it wasn't enough. I'm a Baka and Hee-chan person. Why? Simply because I believe in a sensitive Heero.

Woah...I'm finished! And what's even more surprising is that you've made it all the way down here, you got guts, ne? Yeah yeah, I know...I sux at endings X_x! Could you tell?

Sorry that this took so long to get out -_-; I know it's short and I hope that it didn't disappoint you with it and it took a while to get out since I started school and everything and I was so busy and--and--and--and---

Okay.

Thank you for all the reviews, I finished this cause of that. I really appreciated it. Anyway, hope you liked it. For those that are interested, I have the second chapter for First Kiss Delayed up, or I should.

Ja ne!