Heh, I'm attempting to write another story. And like most of my stories, it's a x-over. CCS and Gundam Wing. For all of you out there who don't know jack about CCS don't worry. The only characters from the show, will be the Guardians, Eriol, Touya, Yukito, and Sakura. And the history behind the characters will be revealed later on as the story progresses. I hope you like this story. I will try to update often as I can, but with my computer acting up lately, I dunno if that's going to happen or not.
Also, Duo is going to be our main character here. Sorry. But there is at least one character in this fic, where his role isn't quite determined. Also another thing, This story contains Shounen ai. If you don't like boy/boy relationships, leave now and don't flame. They will be laughed at.
If you see some grammatical mistakes, please tell me in the reviews. My grammar isn't the greatest right now. And I have a cold so Don't expect miracles.
Well on with the fic.
'thought'
"Speech"
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flashback
Duo stared at the control panel in front of him. All he had to do was disable the security cameras, so the others could get in. Heero's voice rang in through the earpiece he was wearing.
" 01 to 02. What is your status?"
"In main laboratory, readying explosives." He said, adjusting the microphone that rested in front of his mouth.
"Have you disabled the security systems yet?" Heero impatiently asked.
"I haven't got that far, I'm trying to rig these explosives. I will in a second." He said, wiring two bombs together. And placing a detonator on it, resting the trigger in his pocket.
He walked over to the control panel again, and started pressing buttons in a rapid repeating pattern. Suddenly all of the monitors went blank.
"02 to 01, explosives ready, security offline, all clear." Duo said, waiting for his comerade to return the call.
"Roger that. Let's rondevouz at the main hallway. 01 out." Heero said, in his usual monotone.
Duo sighed, pulling the mic down, and opening the door. The others wouldn't have that hard of a time retrieving the rest of the information from the computers room. He'd disabled most of the soldiers. And they could take care of the rest without a problem.
Several minutes later, there was an explosion from the other side of the building. Meaning they had gotten the discs and had detonated the building. He ran out to the hallway nearby, and waited for the others, who were coming around the corner at a full out sprint.
"Let's blow this hotdog stand!' Duo yelled, pressing the detonator that was the trigger to several rounds of explosives.
They dived out of the building and hit the deck just as the building exploded into one large ball of flames. The heat washed over the five of them, and disappeared as the fireball dissapated. They got up and ran for the jeep Trowa had stolen from a car dealership several weeks before. And sped off into the night.
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"I just hope they can manage what they're in for...especially the boy with the braid, and his unruly haired friend." She muttered, looking in awe at the destruction the five boys had managed to create.
Reaching out, her hand slipped through a piece of rubble.
Another form materialized. This time, of a dark haired male with glasses, and wise eyes. "Sakura... I know your worried, but I'm sure they can handle it."
"I know that. . . But I'm worried the most about the one who is host to Yue. He acts so. . . robotic. Like a machine. I know Yue is asleep, so he can't be controlling his actions. What will happen when he finds out the truth about his identity?"
"I can't tell. Where's the damn pre-cognition when you need it." The other form chuckled.
The woman, Sakura, laughed.
"Your right in your reason to worry. He seems very conflicted in his emotions inwardly, although it isn't apparent to his comerades, all they see is the mask he wears."
"Eriol, do you think we should help them. I mean, come back as someone that might be close to them?"
"Would that be wise?" He asked, tilting an eyebrow in question.
"I dunno. But if we do it, you won't be playing tricks on them like you did to me." She warned.
Eriol laughed sheepishly."I guess it was a bit cruel to do that." He admitted.
"Another concern I have is about the Braided one. The candidate."
"Yes?" Eriol asked.
"Well, he seems to harbour some feelings for that robotic comerade of his."
"What? Are you insisting that we play matchmaker?"
She grinned slyly."Maybe. . . Playing matchmaker is something I'm quite good at." She said, rubbing her hands together in a Mr.Burns-is-planning-something-sinister manner.
"Now the problem is, do we go back, or remain as ghosts?" Eriol asked.
"It's easier to monitor them this way, but the one with the brown hair, and the unibang covering half his face, is the only one of them who has the ability to see us on a regular basis. He has the same powers my brother did. His friend, the blonde, has an Empathetic ability. He isn't the type to keep secrets either. The braided one...I think his name is Duo, he has the pre-cognitive ability. " Sakura said.
"Aren't you just full of information." Eriol teased.
"Uh huh. It comes with being several hundred years old. Not to mention I can read people like an open book." Sakura said.
"Well, it looks like were going to stay the way we are until we are needed. Looks like we get to play guardian angels to these five." Eriol said, adjusting the pair of transparent glasses he wore on his nose.
"Hai. I just hope they can handle what's coming..." Sakura said, as the two of them faded into non-existence once again.
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Duo flopped onto the couch. It was boring in this safe house. What struck him even more, is that it was an old house in the middle of suburbia. Why Quatre picked it, he'd never know. It was one of the few remaining houses that were over 100 years old. It had been built back in the 1900's A.D. making it almost three hundred years old. Even it's furniture was in very good condition. And it was the original furniture. It hadn't been inhabited in ages. Close to about 250 years.
The others had gone out to deliver the report to Dr.J who was stationed up in Yokohama, to the north, and wouldn't be back for several hours.
"Since I'm here, I might as well explore this creaky old house. At least it won't take me three weeks like it does for Quatre's mansions." Duo muttered. Getting off the couch, he headed for the kitchen, which was fully stocked, and there was a pot of simmering curry stew on the stove, that Trowa had turned on before he'd left. The table was a mess. Quatre had been sitting there, trying to figure out some new stragtegics for the next mission.
"He sure knows what he's doing." Duo said, picking up a couple of papers with writing on them. He sat them back down, and set to exploring the rest of the house. He headed for the stairs, that led from the living room to the second floor. He walked into the first room, which had been designated to himself. Which was empty, spare a bed, and a picture of two teenagers that sat behind the two white vases with a white card resting on them that sat on the dresser in the room. For some reason, the room resonated with a strange presence. Something that made Duo's hair stand on end. Something else was in here, besides himself.
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Two invisible specters sat on the bed, watching the braided teen with interest. Having a conversation no one but themselves could hear.
"Do you think he can sense us here, To-ya?" The first of the specters said, his pale, greyish hair glinting in the sunlight.
The other, a dark haired man, who in life, and also now was his lover gave him a calculating look."Probably. It wouldn't surprise me. I don't think he can see us, but he knows were here. It's been ages since anyone has lived here. Because of the house being haunted. I guess these five don't believe in either magic, or the supernatural. Since they're using it for a safe house of all things."
"Aa. I'm worried though. About that one boy. The one that's sharing the room with him."
"Nani? Why do you think that Yukito?" His companion replied.
"Because... I don't know. He seems so... detached. I also sense Yue's presence sleeping within him. But I doubt that's the reason behind the cold demeanour. Something happened to him. I also sense, that unlike me, Yue slept within this child for years. He looks to be about fifteen, or sixteen. Meaning that, something happened when he was younger. He has no emotion, or if he does, he masks it well. Yue couldn't mask his emotions that well either. So he's been trained to be emotionless. He has to be."
"I agree. There's a lot more to the two of them than what meets the eye. I can tell just by looking at the braided one, that he's had a rough time of it. Just the way he carries himself, it's like someone stuck a huge weight on his shoulders. Like he's lost something of importance." The darker haired one added.
"You can definitely tell that the five of them haven't had the greatest lives, for being as young as they are. Touya, I know I sound like a mother hen when I say this, but I worry. We've seen so much chaos over the centuries past, and these five are caught up in all these battles. No one should have to fight like this."
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Duo looked at the small white vases that stood on the dresser. He ventured over to see why they'd been sat there. Then he realized, they didn't belong to any of them. He also noticed, that they looked kind of big to be vases. He looked down at the card in front of them, which had writing scrawled across it in chicken scratch type handwriting, that severly reminded himself of his own.
"Yukito and Touya Kinomoto. May you be together in death as you were in life."
Then he realized. They were cremation urns. His surprise quickly turned into curiosity.
"I wonder why they kept the funeral urns in the house all these years. And why they didn't scatter the ashes." He muttered, furrowing his eyebrows in concentration. He opened the first vase, which had the words "snow rabbit" or Yukito Tsukishiro, etched in beautiful looking Kanji across the rim. He took the lid off, to find ashes in the urn. Which he'd been expecting. He touched some of the silt with his fingers, and immediately felt a flashback coming on. Except. . . it didn't belong to him.
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"Iya! Abunai yo!" A female voice yelled. A little girl, who couldn't be any older than ten years old wearing roller blades was heading straight for him. There wasn't enough time for him to get out of the way, so she ran into him and plowed him over.
She got up, and started muttering apologies to the boy. "Gomen! Gomen nasai! Daijobu desu ka?" She hurriedly asked.
The taller boy who'd been yelling at her, who he presumed to be her older brother, walked over.
"I told you to be careful on those things Kaiju! Are you ok?" He asked, holding a hand out to the boy who was now sitting up, trying to dust off his blazer.
"Aa. Daijobu. It wasn't her fault. I wasn't looking where I was going." He replied taking the taller boy's hand.
"Are you new? I don't recognize you." he said.
"Hai. I just moved in down the street."
"I see your going to Seijou. I'll give you a lift. If you walk, you'll be late for classes." The taller boy said, picking up his bookbag.
"Arigato."
"What is your name?" The little girl asked shyly.
"Anata wa Tsukishiro Yukito desu."
"Watashi wa Kinomoto Sakura desu." She said. Yukito stuck his hand out in a handshake guesture. She shook his hand, and he said."It's a pleasure meeting you Sakura-chan."
"I'm sorry about running you over. Touya-baka is right, I do need to watch what I'm doing."
"It's alright. No harm done." Yukito said laughing. Touya dragged his bike over.
"Hop on. Unless you want to be late for classes." the boy said, guesturing to the second seat on the bike. Yukito slung his bag over his shoulder, and climbed on.
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The scene shifted to a later date suddenly. And Duo realized, he was looking through the eyes of this persons past. Unable to do anything but watch he just let it keep coming.
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This time, the scene was a shrine. The full moon hung overhead, and the sounds of a festival of sorts could be heard nearby.
"So. What should we do first Yuki?" The same boy from before asked. They were holding hands as they walked through the shrine grounds. The little girl, Sakura was standing nearby, talking to a Sable haired girl, with a small stuffed animal on her shoulder. Yukito kept getting the strange feeling that the stuffed animal on Sakura's shoulder, wasn't what it seemed.
"The goldfish catch sounds good to me. What do you want to do?"
"The baseball pitch. I wonder how hard I can pitch. I haven't played ball in eons." Touya said, looking at his younger sibling with a calculating look on his face... Like he was trying to figure something out. Whatever it was, it was bothering him.
"Are you ok, To-ya?" Yukito asked.
"Aa. I'm fine." he said, tearing his eyes away from his sister.
Yukito dismissed it, and let it go.
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The sound of yelling could be heard, for some reason, Yukito found it very hard to keep his eyes open, or to at least appear to be slightly awake as he stood on the balcony. Touya was standing next to him. The director yelled 'action!' and started the camera.
Touya began to speak.
"I know what you are... your not..."
Yukito's legs buckled underneath him, and he fell over the side of the balcony.
Then there was a large blank in his memory.
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Duo was thrown out of the little trip down someone else's memory lane. He blinked in surprise.
"What in the hell happened?" he asked, replacing the urn on the dresser, along with the card.
The two spectres on the bed looked at eachother.
"I wonder what he saw... probably not much. By the sounds of things, he was kicked out during one of my blackouts when Yue would appear. Before Sakura seperated us, and I died." Yukito said, staring at the braided boy.
"Probably... we'd better go... Sakura is probably wondering what were doing. We can always come back you know." Touya said, disappearing into nothingness.
Yukito stood up, and walked over to the unmoving boy. Who was staring at his hands in confusion.
He brushed one thin finger across Duo's face. And whispered "All will be known soon."
Then he disappeared after his lover.
Duo's head snapped up in surprise. He'd just heard the same voice from the eyes he'd been seeing through say. "All will be known soon." "All will be known soon.... what in the flipping hell is that supposed to mean?" Duo muttered. Shaking his head, he headed back downstairs.
"That was possibly the wierdest thing I have ever experienced in my life." He muttered. Looking at his watch he shrieked. He'd been up there for an hour. And then the smell of scorched stew infiltrated his nostrils.
"Trowa is going to kill me if his stew is wrecked!" He yelled, racing back into the kitchen.
Luckily, he was able to salvage most of it. He tossed the scorched pan in the sink, and dumped the stew into a big bowl, covered it and stuck it in the refridgerator for the time being. He decided to see what was in the big library downstairs. The previous owner had been an archaeologist by the name of Kinomoto Fujitaka. Duo stopped. "Kinomoto.....that's the last name of that little girl and her brother... that must mean, they lived here." Duo mused, reaching for the door that closed the basement stairs off from the rest of the house.
He suddenly heard a dull thud. Dismissing it as his imagination, he opened the door, and walked down the stairs. The basement was quite large. There was a desk, with an open book and a magnifying glass resting on top of it. Most of the books hadn't been touched for many years. There were many research books, but also there were copies of the classics. Like Moby Dick, Romeo and Juliet, a Diary, which had the name Sakura scrawled across it in neat kanji.,and a few others. There was a book on the far shelf that caught Duo's attention the most.
It was red, and the Spine also had the name 'Sakura' written in English across the centre. He picked it up, and decided to look at it. It had the picture of a lion, wearing some sort of armour on his head. There was a small, star shaped lock and a leather strap binding the book together. He went to grab a bobby pin from his hair to pick the lock, but it snapped open on it's own.
Opening the book with curiosity, he looked at the face down deck of cards, that had a strange symbol on the back of them. He picked up the first card, and read the name out loud. Well not really loud, more like a whisper. But it was enough to activate the card.
The room went dark, and a bright gold coloured, very intracate looking, circle appeared beneath his feet. Suddenly, wind began to blow around the room, mostly around Duo. The cards started to escape from the book. Only about half of them got out, before Duo snapped the lid on the book shut, and the rest swirled around him and started to glow. Then they shot out the window, which was cracked open.
Duo stared in shock. Then the book started to glow. Something yellow started to appear.
First a large bulbous head appeared, followed by a body, legs and tail. Duo recognized it from the flashback. Taking a large step back, he reached for his gun, which had been holstered in the waistband of his pants. It was gone.
"What the??" He yelped, discovering it's absence. Then he remembered, it was upstairs.
"What is going on here? Where are the cards?!!" The stuffed animal like creature that had just apppeared panicked.
"I dont know!!" Duo yelled.
"Well kid, I hope you believe in the strange, wierd, and supernatural. Cause your life just got a helluvalot more complicated." The stuffed animal said.
"That's just what I need. . .Complications." Duo muttered.
"Could you please do me a heart attack saving favour. Tell me what in the hell just happened here?" Duo asked.
"That card in your hand....did you happen to say it's name out loud?"
"Um... Yeah." Duo sheepishly stated.
"Oh boy... IS that the only card you have?"
"No . . . about half of them are still in the book."
"Phew. That's a relief. Sort of." it said, Sighing in relief.
"This is a good news/ bad news type scenario here kid. The good news is, you won't have to work as long to get these cards back. Bad news, before you start in with the excuses, IF you don't get those cards back, the earth will fall into chaos and destruction. Those cards are binding several sentient spirits. Powerful spirits, when left to thier own devices like to cause chaos and havoc. Since you sent them packing kid... you have to get them back."
"Dude... hate to tell you this.... but earth is already hell. I'm a soldier in a war. I don't have time for stuff like that." Duo said. Trying to worm out of it. Not going to work.
"Aren't you a bit young for a soldier, kid..."
"Oh yeah... lemme rephrase that. Terrorist is a better fitting term."
"Really...."
" Dude, I can tell you every single type, model and workings of any explosive known to man kind. I can de-arm a bomb without any trouble. I can operate a mobile suit, and take out a bunch of ozzies in my sleep. I've destroyed space colonies the size of Alaska before. I'm a sharp shooter. I usually don't miss what I shoot at. And I'm a expert at subterfuge and infiltration. As well as in demolitions. If I wanted to, I could pass for lady Une, who is by far, the most psychotic woman I have ever met. And a high status Oz general, which is also our enemy."
The stuffed animal paled slightly. This kid wasn't joking.
'Sakura... wherever you are, were probably going to need your help.' he thought.
"So... you still don't have a choice. It's better not to complain and just do it. And by the way, my name isn't "Dude" It's Cerberus. Or Kero for short.
"And my name is Duo Maxwell. Not 'kid'." Duo snapped back.
"Touché." Kero said.
"Ok. If I have to get these cards back. How am I going to do this, exactly?" Duo asked.
"Could you move over by that bookshelf right there." Kero said, pointing at the bookshelf with the least books on it.
Duo moved. Kero muttered something, and once again, the room went dark. A small, pink key on a chain appeared in front of Duo. The wind started to blow again, and the key grew a lot bigger.
"Take it!" Kero yelled. Duo scowled and yelled back."But! It's pink!!!" Pink had to be the colour he loathed most. It reminded him of the demon leech. Relena. Duo shuddered.
"Just take it!" Kero yelled exasperatedly.
Duo did what he was told, although albit reluctantly. After the wind died down, and the room returned to normal, Duo was still whimpering about the fact the staff was pink.
Kero rubbed his face. This was going to be a long haul.
Meanwhile, the collection of ghosts had collaborated in the background. They weren't visible. But you could almost hear the giggling coming from Yukito, and Touya's mocking of Duo."But, it's pink!!" He laughed.
Sakura looked at her brother, and his lover. Shaking her head in exasperation she said, "Were supposed to help him. Not mock him."
"Aww c'mon sis. It was funny." Touya said, trying not to snigger.
"Whatever."
going back to Duo and Kero....
"How am I supposed to use this thing?" Duo asked.
"It's the sealing staff. You use it to return the spirits of the cards, to thier confined forms, the cards. You have to make up an incantation."
"Oh."
"Uh...I'm hungry. I'm going to go get something to eat. You can come if you want, but if that door slams, hide."
"Alright. What do you have?"
"Not a lot. Heero did the shopping, so we have mostly health food. I think I have a package of twizzlers left. The only junkfood in the house. So it's gotta last for a while." duo said, leading the slightly disgruntled Guardian upstairs.
The door slammed, as they got halfway up the stairs. Wufei yelled,"Maxwell! Where are you?!"
"Crap! go upstairs, and hide in the room with the open door. It's the first room on the left!"
"Touya's old bedroom. ok." He said, flying past Duo and around the corner into the room.
Wufei came around the stairs, and spotted the braided teen trying to escape up the staircase.
"Where is the curry stew?"
"The big white bowl in the fridge. Can't miss it."
"Thank you." Wufei said, heading back towards the kitchen. Duo sighed in relief. He rushed upstairs.
That's when he noticed the huge bird outside his window.
"Kero..?"
"What?"
"Um, do one of these cards happen to be a huge bird? And does another one look like some sort of sprite with an bow and a quiver for a set of arrows."
"Why do you ask?"
"Look out the window, see the big bird out there that is roughly the size of a jumbo jet?!"
"Yep. It's a card. Oh great...a double header. It brought a friend. If I were you...I'd duck right about...now." Kero said, as an arrow came whizzing right through the window, straight at Duo's head. He barely missed getting nailed in the head by a very sharp, well aimed arrow.
Getting back up, he opened the window, sliding it open. He was about to jump when Kero yelled.
"What are you doing!?"
"What does it look like. I'm going to jump."
"Are you trying to commit suicide?"
"I've jumped from five stories and not even broke as much as my pinkie. Two stories, no problem." Duo said, jumping out the window. Kero shook his head and followed the slightly psychotic teenager, shaking his head.
"Great.....I'm going to guess, the bird is something that has to do with flying, and whatever shot the arrow at me is either the shot, or the arrow."
"Your fast. Use one of the other cards to capture them." Kero yelled.
Duo looked at him in exasperation. Going against his better judgement, the one that told him to get his gun and start shooting. He reached for the only card he had on him at the moment.
Grabbing the staff, which had reverted back to it's key form he yelled the first words that came to his mouth.
"Key of the star, I command thee under the contract, Release!"
'Jeez. Those two must think alike or something, because he uses almost the same incantation Sakura did.'
The key floated out in front of Duo, and turned into the staff. When Kero had called the staff back into existence, it's appearance had altered slightly, from when Sakura had been the card mistress.
Grabbing the key, with a look of determination on his face, Duo looked up, and started formulating a plan of attack.
Reaching into his coat, he pulled out a card.
"This should cut them down to size. Wood card! Release!" Duo yelled, throwing the card into the air, and striking it with the staff.
The cards true form erupted from the card, in a flash of light. It awaited it's command.
"Wood. Trap fly and arrow!" Duo yelled. The card turned away from Duo and spotted it's targets. Rushing towards them, it ensnared Fly in it's vines first. It jolted in a halt, and started to stuggle.
Arrow looked around in confusion. Then it too found itself struggling admidst woods vines.
Duo looked at the cards, and sighed in relief.
"Arrow! Fly! Return to your forms confined!" He yelled, striking a spot in the air with the staff.
A rectangle shaped form of light appeared beneath the staff, and the three cards were sucked into thier card forms, but not before Woody gave Duo a wink, as she disappeared back into her card form. All three cards floated back to Duo's hands, and he sunk to the ground unconcious.
Kero, looked at Duo funny."He shouldn't have blacked out like that." He said, then he looked at the gards, grasped tightly in the teenagers hands.
"Oh...no." Kero gasped, when he noticed the colour of the cards in his hands. Red. Not pink.
"He's already started to change the cards...He hasn't even been through final judgement... Something is seriously wrong. Maybe I will have to conference with Yue. Something here is totally off kilter." Kero said. He froze and fell over in doll mode, as Heero came running out of the house.
"Duo!!" He gasped, running over to the teen.
"What in the hell?" Heero muttered, looking for the reason as to why the braided moron had passed out cold on the pavement. Hell, he didn 't even know Duo had even left the house.
His eyes carefully scanned Duo over. He noticed three cards tightly clutched in his hand, and some type of necklace in his other. Something told him to not question it. It was none of his buisiness. But another part of himself recognized this type if incident. The scene of a little girl passed out on the ground, clutching a set of cards. And several characters he couldn't clearly make out, buzzing around in worry.
He shook his head of the memory. For some reason . . . He didn't recognize where that had come from... it sure as hell didn't ring a bell from anywhere in his memory. And it was confusing.
'I can't let my emotions slip, just because I can't figure out where that came from. Emotions are a weakness. I can't be weak. It'll endanger the mission.'
Putting his stoic mask back, his thoughts strayed back to that memory. 'Where did it come from...I've never seen that little girl before in my life.'
He picked up his comerade, and carried him inside the house, making sure to advoid both Quatre and Wufei. Trowa wouldn't ask questions about why Duo was unconcious.
He put Duo on his not yet made bed. And noticed the Cremation urns, the picture and the card.
Since Duo was out cold, he let curiosity get the better of him. He walked over to the dresser.
The faces on the pictures... They seemed so familiar. But he couldn't place where he knew them from. It was confusing, and it was getting on his nerves. He needed to think. He jumped out Duo's opened window, and decided to go running.
Lately, the little things had been getting to him. Especially the braided pilot. He knew the least about him. He knew the political background, upbringing, ect... about the four other pilots. But the only thing he knew about Duo, was the fact he came from L2, his age, and who he'd been trained by. Other than the fact that the pilot was only serious when it came to being on missions. And sometimes annoyed the hell out of all of them.
Duo Maxwell, for as much of a loud mouthed, brash, crass, rude teenager he was, never revealed anything about his past. Not a thing in the year or so they'd known eachother. Heero had often found the teen crying in his sleep, whispering names. The most common ones were "Father Maxwell" "Sister Helen" and "Solo".
Duo was a mystery... that much was for sure.
And this is exactly what he was thinking about, as he counted the marching cadence he repeated everytime he ran.
"1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4."
"I wonder why Duo never says anything about his past...even the other pilots told eachother about thier pasts...we even know that Wufei had been married. I don't know anything about Duo. He's the only person I know that can even get through to me anymore. Ugh. Damnit...k'so. He's just so confusing." He said, stopping at a park to catch his breath.
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Back at the safe house.....
Quatre sat at the kitchen table. He had sensed the two of them come into the house and Heero leaving again. He shook his head. He'd seen Duo, and the flying stuffed animal. He'd resolved not to tell the other pilots. He'd leave that to Duo.
He also sensed the presence of several other entities. "Ghosts...I wonder what they're haunting this old place for?" Quatre asked, really to noone but himself.
"Knowing Trowa...he's already seen them." He added.
Returning to the cup of coffee he'd been drinking, his thoughts turned to the strange presence he couldn't identify. The one that seemed to be within Heero. Something that Heero obviously didn't know about.
"Maybe I should talk to Wufei. I think he also suspects something. He's been quite edgy around him lately... kind of like he knows something. Either that or my imagination is getting the better of me." He muttered, going back to his battle tactics planning.
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OK, I know y'all are going to want to kill me for ending the chapter there, but Hey, this is *counts # of pages on print preview* 15 pages according to Wp. I've worked on this since yesterday morning. So I hope you like it.And sorry if you got bored. I have a tendency to drag out things, and make chapters take forever to finish. The next chappie should be out next weekend. Uhm, i plan on updating "Untitled" within the next week or so...i've just had really bad writers block on it. I wanted to finish it for halloween, but that obviously didn't happen. So I'm just going to make a point of finishing it before Christmas. Cause I'm going to be buisy.
I hope you liked this.
P.s. I got the new Rascal Flatts CD. "Melt". I like this one as much as I liked the first one. ALOT. God knows, I'll probably have to buy a new one soon, because i'll wear this one out. #1 and #11 are my favourites.
Well gotta go.
ja!
Naoko
11/03/02
10:43:31am