Duo slowly tried toopen his heavy eyelids, but couldnt. "Wha?" he managed to whisper. "Dont talk Duo, save your strength" a familiar voice said. "H-Heero? what are you doing here?" "Some girl named Shadow called me. I figured you were dead by the way she was talking." "Where is she?" "Gone." "What did you say to her Heero?" "She wasnt needed." "Yes she is. Get her back Heero." "No. Its her fault this happened to you. She explained it to me. You completely didnt listen to me Duo. I told you to stay out of trouble, and i find out that your in a gang and getting the shit beaten out of you." It set Heero off. He yelled and hollered at Duo all the things he did wrong. Duo didnt want to listen to Heero's bull shit. He closed his eyes and went to that safe place in his mind.

Heero had no idea where to look for Shadow. He didnt know the girl or where she lived. Duo was sleeping, so he couldnt find out. He just sat there and watched him sleep, his heart twisting at the sight of his beaten friend lying there helpless.

Shadow stirred, knocking over a bottle, making it shatter on the ground below her. Her head pounded, showing her that she had a severe hangover. She observed all the empty bottles of alcohol and the thing asleep next to her. "Belial?" The red head stirred and pulled her head up off the counter. "Just five more minutes luci" she mumbled and dropped her head again, snoring away. Shadow tried to remember what happened last night, she knew for damn sure Belial wouldnt. A vague memory of tears and laughter blew through her mind. She slumped back in the bar chair as last night came into play. Alot of drinking and talking. "Duo" Shadow said out loud. Someone knocked on the door. She barely heard it, but it came again, making her mind register what was going on. She slid out of the seat, gripping it for balance, and headed over to the door. She opened it to see Heero. "What do you want?" she asked, her speech slightly slurred. She put her hand where her head was pounding. "Duo wants to see you" he said in that same monotone. "Oh he does, does he? But you said i wasnt needed so i have no reason to go since his room mate doesnt want me in there." She said sarcastically, sounding alittle drunk than she had intended. "Duo wants to see you. He asked me to find you." "Ok ok ok, give me a minute." Shadow disappeared into her dark apartment giving Heero an invitation in. The apartment reeked of alcohol big time. He saw a figure asleep at the bar. "Michael?" he went over to the person and shook him. "Hey i just told you five more minutes luci. if you bug me again ill sick the dogs on you" Belial mumbled. Heero figured that wasnt Michael, it sounded like a woman or something." Shadow appeared in the hallway, dressed and looking alittle better than she had five minutes ago. "So long Belial. Lets go Heero." Heero walked out of the apartment, followed by Shadow.

They walked in silence to the hospital, nothing really interesting to talk about, since they didnt know eachother. The nurse at the desk didnt even bother trying to stop them. She just gulped and hid behind her magazine. Shadow stopped when they walked into the room. She slowly made her legs move to Duo's side. She stroked his cut cheeks and touched his bandaged hand. He opened his eyes as much he could and smiled weakly at her. "Oh Duo im so sorry" Shadow sobbed and leaned over him. She layed her head on his chest. "Its allright Shadow. Its not your fault." "Yes it is" She lifted her head to look in his eyes. "Its my fault that Lucifer did this to you because i wasnt supposed to be with you. But i swear i didnt know who you really were until two nights ago" she sobbed. "Its ok, I didnt know who you were or who your employer was either until two nights ago." Heero sat in the corner and watched them closly. It seemed disguisting to him in a way that Duo had fallen for something like her instead of him. It made him alittle jealous to see Duo sharing his heart with someone else. But he knew this was the only way for him. If Duo was going to get better in time, it was going to be because of that girl.

***1 Month Later***

"Heero i really am allright cant ya tell? i can move just fine." "I still dont think you are well enough to go out and fight. You arent fully recovered yet." "Heero i want the bastards who did this to me to pay. And they will. And my friends are going to help me." "I still cant believe that you went off and joined a gang behind my back." "Hey i needed some friends. And these people are my friends. Now get dressed." "No. I refuse to wear such trash." "Aw come on He-chan, you sound like Wufei." "You may like to look like a freak without decency, but i will not." "Heero those are my best clothes, and your damn lucky im gonna let YOU wear them to a brawl. So just shut up and put em on." "Fine." Heero grabbed the black clothes off of Duo's bed and went to his room to change. Afew minutes later, Heero came out in black leather pants, thick boots, a black lacy shirt and a long black trenchcoat. "Aww you look so pretty!!" "Omae or Korosou." "Uh huh. Well Heero its the style here, I cant have you showing up in sky blue and white now can i?" "No Duo, this is your style." "Yes so." "You are hopeless. Lets just go get this overwith."

Duo led Heero to The Pit. Everyone stared at him as he weaved through bodies. Duo led him upstairs to Raphael's apartment. Everyone was there already. "I swear why must we meet in this shit house? he doesnt even clean" Michael complained and pointed at Raphael who had bandages on his nose. "Hey, you decided to knock down the wall and expand it into mine so shut the fuck up. im gonna have his bugs in my apartment" Jibril bitched at Michael. He turned around and ignored her, waiting for Duo to speak. "Allright all, this is Heero, my best friend and roommate." "Yea yea yea i know who he is. What are we going to do about Lucifer?" Michael said, sounding overly anxious to get in a good fight. "Our big night is tonight. We are to meet him in that old abandoned building at the end of fifth street. He will be waiting for us." "I really dont see the point of fighting abunch of foolish idiots over you" Uriel spoke up from the corner. "There is no point to meaningless bloodshed." "We arent doing this to kill everyone. Just to get a point across that we are better and they should leave us alone" Setsuna said proudly, Sara at his side. "Why dont we just hand over Sara as a peace treaty, that should satisify Lucifer. What do ya say?" Kira asked sarcastically. "what the fuck??!!!!! i do not think so!!!! we should get rid of you instead!! your a worthless friend Kira" Setsuna shot back, glaring at him. "Will you two shut up? Lets just all be ready for tonight, and try not to get yourselves killed, and dont kill any of them!" Duo stressed. "But they almost killed you Duo" Katou said, sober and not stoned. "I saw you before anyone else did."

"Oh shut up Katou, you were too stoned to remember jack shit" Michael argued. "Im the one who had to carry him, yes i do remember Michael." "Duo i really dont think you should fight in this" Jibril protested, making use of all the seperate conversations. "I know you arent fully recovered." "Its allright, Heero is gonna play my body guard. Im not too busted up to fight. Im ready to get my revenge on those sorry bastards" Duo reassured everyone. "Lets just get some sleep for now so we are awake and aware tonight" he suggested and walked over to Raphael's bed, plopping down on it. "Its clean, i just changed the sheets" Sara said. "You change his sheets and not mine?!" Setsuna barked. "Oh shut your mouth big brother! you need to take care of yourself! Raphael was handicapt." "What?!!! you call a broken nose handicapt?!! you are-" "Shove it big brother. Not another word." "I will-" "Uh uh uh!! i said not another word!" "Someone should beat her in the head with a shovel" Yogi whispered in Katou's ear. "They should do more than that. Look at how she treats Setsuna. Hes a puppy that gets bossed around by his little sister!!" Katou bust out laughing. Sara came over and slapped him across the face. "Hey you dont hit my man!" Yogi shouted and backhanded Sara across the face. "How dare you hit me!! big brother!!!" "Ah go to hell bitch." "What?!!! Katou you ass!!!" "Hold it, your talking to my man all wrong, its the wrong tone" Yogi joked. "I am not an ass!!" Katou protested. "Yes you are you little toad!!! your more worthless than Setsuna!!" Oh will someone shut her up?!!" Yogi pleaded. "You shut the fuck up!!!" he screamed in Sara's ear. "How dare you!!! i will not be treated this way!!!" Yogi pushed her out the window before she had anytime to reply. "Oops, she slipped" he lied. A big splat was heard up in the apartment. "Oh well, i guess thats the end of Sara" Katou clapped his hands and laughed. "Sara? Sara?" Setsuna walked over to the window and screamed out it. "SARA!!!!!!!!!! Yogi you bastard!!!!!" "Hey will you guys cut it out!!!! Duo is sleeping and im sure he doesnt want to hear your crap!" Uriel boomed, making everyone shut up. "I suggest you all get some sleep, like Duo said, its going to be a very long night."