Blood Bonds
By Tygerlilee
Chapter Twenty-Four
The "Incident."
Disclaimer: It ain't mine
"Ai, they're coming. We've got to get out of here. Pack only what we can carry and get the kids dressed warmly. I'll be home in a couple minutes," Ryuzou told his wife hurriedly on the phone. "I'm driving home now."
"I love you," Ai said quickly and hung up. She turned and ran down the hall to the living room. Toshi, eight years old and very alert with a messy mop of hair in a muddy T-shirt, looked up at his mother and immediately read the panicked look on her face. "What's going on, Mommy?"
"Love, I want you to get your coat and boots on and then get your backpack–you need to pack a change of clothes, underwear, socks, and you can bring two toys, okay," Ai said smiling.
But Toshi saw through her. "Then I'll help you get Gina, Huy, and Tai ready to leave." Ai looked appreciatively at her son and smothered the quickly advancing panic attack.
While Toshi readied himself, Ai quickly told the six-year-old Gina to do the same, but Gina wasn't as understanding. "But Mommy, I want to finish watching"
"We don't have time for this," Ai said harshly, turning off the TV and then unplugging it so she wouldn't have to fight with her daughter.
Gina looked up in shock at her mother who was always so happy and played with her. "You're being mean, Mommy."
Normally a comment like that would have hurt Ai, but today she just wasn't in the mood to fight with the pig-tailed girl in a pink paisley jumper. "Now," she said, pointing to Gina's bedroom. The little girl scampered off, terrified. But Ai would comfort her later when she had the time. Besides, she had to get the boys ready–not an easy task.
When she entered the twins' room, the first thing she saw was a mass of toys piled in the middle of the floor. "Casle!! We buil casle!!" a semi-toothless three-year-old Huy yelled.
"Huy, where is your brother?" Ai asked nervously. Huy was bigger and stronger than his twin was, and they had the tendency to get into very large messes together, which usually ended with Tai crying.
"Hewe!!" Tai yelled as he jumped out of the closet. His overalls were backwards and his shoes were on the wrong feet as he had insisted on dressing himself that morning.
Ai sighed in relief. At least she wouldn't have to run around the house looking for the two munchkins. "Yes, I see! But we need to get you two dressed, okay!"
"I am dwessed!" Tai whined.
"Yes, you are baby. But let me turn you"
"NO!!" Tai stomped a foot.
"Okay, okayHuy why donHUY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!" Ai screamed.
Huy looked up innocently from the closet with a pile of clothes around him. "Builing a fowt," he said calmly.
"Huy" Ai growled as she picked the child up and forced shoes on him, then coats on both boys.
A door slammed and Ryuzou's deep voice filled the house. Ai breathed again. "Ryuzou, please pack some food!!" she called down to him. Then she grabbed the twins and called to Toshi and Gina who were arguing about what two toys to bring.
"Wait!!" Tai and Huy both wailed. "Bearw, bearw, bearw!!" they kept chanting between sobs.
"Oh, I forgot" Ai muttered as she stumbled back up the stairs carrying the two forty-pound boys.
Suddenly a thirty-year old, thin, fit, and very, very handsome Ryuzou ran down the stairs with the two teddy bears in his arms. He hastily handed the boys their bears and ran to open the door for Ai and the kids. He hustled them into the car and helped wrestle the twins into their car seats, then he jumped into the driver's seat.
Ai couldn't help but feel safe with her husband there, and she was glad she didn't have to do this alone. There was something so comforting with him there: calm, cool, and collected. Ai clutched the pack on her lap and continued to glance back at the children, counting and recounting them. Toshi sat quietly watching with bright alert childish eyes. Gina tried to hold back her tears, and the twins giggled happily as they hugged their bears.
They ran five stop lights and twice as many stop-signs and drove at least thirty miles over the speed limit at all times as Ryuzou rushed to the shuttleport. The place was jam packedword had gotten out quickly. The colony's officials had finally lost it and everyone was fleeing as quickly as possible. After Heero Yuy's assassination eight years before, the colonies became an inextricable mess, mass confusion and chaos. No one knew who to trust or where to go. Tickets to Earth were sky-high and hard to come by. Now it was over for this colony and Ai had her husband to help her and their children get out safely. Ai looked over at his taut face and untamable mop of hair, the heavy eyebrows and dark eyes. Short, dark, and handsometwo out of three wasn't bad. But then again, since when were there ever TALL Japanese menshe giggled quietly and her husband raised an eyebrow.
"You aren't going crazy on me are you, Ai?" he asked, reaching over to squeeze her knee.
"No, noI was just" she grinned.
"Okay" he said a little skeptically and parked the car.
They jumped out and grabbed all the kids, Ai taking Gina and Toshi's hands while Ryuzou carried the heavy toddlers. They sprinted into the port and Ryuzou deposited his family in a safe waiting room, threatening the kids with death if they decided to go sightseeing. Then he ran off to make arrangements before it got too difficult to get out.
"I'm hungry!"
"I'm hunwy!"
"I'm tired!"
"I'm twred!"
"I have to pee-ee!!"
"I have to pwee-ee!!"
"Mommy!! They's copying me!!"
"They's cwoping meee!!" the twins called in unison.
"Gina, Huy, and Tai, please sit down and just be quiet" Ai gritted out. The stress was getting to her. "Here," she said more softly as she pulled her little girl onto her lap. "I'm sorry I've been so short with you sweetheart, but I'm just really tired and I need you to be good. Okay?" Gina buried her face in her mother's stomach and hugged her.
"I'm sorry, Mommy."
"It's okay baby, it's okayand that goes for you too!" she called to Toshi and the twins who were looking very guilty for some odd reason, making Ai very nervous. She never trusted the three on their own.
Ai continued to struggle with the kids for another three hours, but she trusted her husband and waited, determined that he would be back.
He was.
Ryuzou was pushing his way through the crowds, trying to get to his family, when Ai was struck by how much the twins looked like their father. Toshi and Gina both somewhat bared a resemblance to Ryuzou, but with the twins, it was just uncanny. He was panting a little when he finally made it over to his family. "I got some tickets," he said. But he wasn't smiling so Ai was worried.
"What's the catch?" she asked.
He hesitated and then sunk down into a chair, the twins quickly claiming his lap. "They're for tomorrow morning."
"Wha!! We can't wait here with the kids all night! Ryuwe have to find a place to get them food, and a place to sleep, and"
Her husband interrupted her suddenly. "I know, but this was the best I could do. At least we will be getting out at all. Once that **** fascist bigoted dictator finds out that ninety-nine percent of the colony are fleeing for their lives because of his leadership', he'll be storming us here, and we'll be stuck. We can take turns taking the kids to the public restrooms and I'll go get us all something to eat. We can sleep on the floor, and we've got two chairs more than anyone else here," he said quietly in Ai's ear.
"But, what about" Ai began.
"Don't worry. We'll be fine. The government doesn't know we are here yet, and we've paid for our tickets. It's all legal. They can't take them away from us." Then he kissed her on the cheek comfortingly.
Ai nodded, not in the least calmed or appeased. But then again, if Ryuzou said so, then all would be okay. It always was.
But that was the worst night of Ai's life. The kids had to go to the bathroom at least five times every hour, and the line was all the way to Timbuktu and back again. She grumbled as Gina went for the up-teenth time that night. When she got back, Ryuzou had his legs stretched over her seat with Toshi lying on his legs and one twin under each arm, securely in headlocks. Ai smiled. "Your turn," she whispered.
"Why couldn't we have had more girls? I have to keep track of three in there and you only have one!" he whined good-naturedly.
Ai grinned. "It's your fault!"
"No it's noI guess technically it iscome on squirt, let's get you over there before you wet your pants" he muttered to Toshi as he slung the groggy, half-asleep twins over his shoulders. As soon as the twins woke up and realized that everyone had gone to the bathroom already, they would insist on going too, so Ryuzou was taking them to save a trip.
Ai settled into a chair and held her little girl close. A half-hour later, Ryuzou appeared again and filled the other chair. Ai leaned over and fell asleep on his shoulder, and he wrapped a strong arm around her shoulders, hand hanging over to pat Gina on the head.
She awoke to Ryuzou's gentle prodding about six in the morning. "Come on, love. We've got to start moving. They are here"
Ai sat up with a start and glanced over, trying to peer through the masses of people. "Where?" she asked in a strained whisper.
"Shh. Don't look around, you'll be too obvious. Let's just get the kids and start to move to our gate."
Ai nodded and they gathered up their family. The officials, they had found them. But she would get her family out--safely. Ryuzou was a botanist, but he was head of the agriculture department on this colony. That meant that he heard everything and was in on every meeting. After discovering several corrupt officials and practices and refusing bribes of superfluous physical pleasures by insisting that all he needed or wanted was Ai and the kids, they started watching him, afraid that he'd tell what he knew. Ai had grown used to cars following her, strange people watching the house, and her husband calling from the car phone to assure her he was still alive and well.
They had been attempting to get out since the twins were born, but the committee board head continued to make it impossible for them to leave. Projects that couldn't wait, insisting that he was indispensablethe only assuring thing was that if Ryuzou disappeared, then Ai had information that she could leak, thus the whole family would have to be disposed of if the government wished to hush them, but that would be too suspicious. Ryuzou and Ai did have parents, sisters and brothers, friends. Someone would look into their deaths if they all disappeared.
But when the one powerful, good man on the committee was killed in a car "accident", everything fell apart, and the public knew it. That was when they were most afraid that Ryuzou would rat on them. Then they reached the breaking point and now everyone was fleeing, and Ryuzou was hoping that he and his family could mix into the crowd and escape unscathed. They would go to Ai's parents and camp there until Ryuzou found another job, then they'd move again. After they told everything that is. They could not keep living like they had been--in fear. Ryuzou would tell and gain government protection on a more secure colony with a good, and hopefully honest, leader.
Now they were hiding the children behind their backs as they hurried to their port in hopes of not being noticed.
Then the alarms rang.
Everyone went into a mad panic. Ryuzou took a piece of rope out of his pocket and looped it through his and Ai's belt loops, linking them securely. Then he picked up Gina, slung Toshi over his shoulder, while Ai gathered the twins into her arms. They forced their way through the crowd, Ryuzou plowing the way. Ai thanked the gods that Ryuzou had the presence of mind to think of bringing rope.
At one point, Ryuzou stopped and turned, jerking Ai after him. They jumped onto an escalator and onto the subway, transporting them to the correct hall. The alarms continued to scream and then policemen in black suits rushed into the port. If possible, the room became even more chaotic. Gina began to cry and the twins gripped painfully onto their mother.
Then Tai dropped his bear.
He screamed and wormed his way out of his mother's vice-like grip, crashing to the floor and disappearing into the crowd. "TAAAAIIIII!!!!!!" Ai screamed, and she pulled so hard on the rope that she nearly knocked her husband down. "TAI!!" she yelled again and waded through the people, searching frantically for her child.
After five minutes of panicked, desperate searching, Ryuzou grabbed his wife and the screaming Huy and pulled them to the gait, presenting the tickets. His face was stone and he remained deathly silent.
He hurried them onto the plane and buckled the kids in. Ai screamed and tried to run out of the plane again when Ryuzou grabbed her and forced her into her seat. She continued to cry. "Let me go!! I have to find Tai!! I have to get our son!!!!"
Then Ryuzou shook her violently. She was so shocked at his violence that she ceased screaming for a minute. "Ai," he said harshly. "GET A GRIP. You have to stay here with the kids. I'm going back to look for him, but I have to get the rest of you out of here safely. Do you understand? STAY," he said forcefully. His eyes were stone and face ridged, chiseled harshly by shadows in the bad light of the shuttle.
Tears flooded down Ai's cheeks. "But Tai"
"I will get the rest of you out safely. And I'll get Tai." Then he disappeared.
Ai didn't know where he went or what he did. She was numb with grief. Who was she fooling? How could she ever find her child in that messTai was lostbut Ryuzou would find himRyuzou could do anythinghe was wonderfulhe was
"Mommy, where is Tai?" Huy asked quietly. His little face was white and frightened.
"Daddy's getting him, baby. Daddy's getting him." But then she began to doubt againand what ifwhat if Ryuzou didn't get back in timewhat if he kept looking for Tai and missed the shuttlehow could she live without himhow could she take care of the kids alonewhat could she do
She was about to sob when the stewardess instructed everyone to buckle up. They were taking off.
Ai's heart felt like it was falling out of the sky. Her husband and sonRyuzou would never leave until he found Taihe would be left
Then two men came onto the plane dragging Ryuzou between them. He was fighting madly, yelling and cursing them. "John, let me go!" he yelled. "I have to find my son!!"
It was then that Ai recognized the men as co-workers and friends of her husband. A big blue-eyed Caucasian named John punched Ryuzou in the nose and threw him into his seat. "You have three kids and a wife. They need you. You'll find your fourth child later," he yelled two inches from Ryuzou's face.
Ryuzou glared back angrily. "I have to find my child" he said coldly. "I have to"
Ai felt a little had tug on her shirt. She looked down to, once again, meet Huy's innocent gaze. "Mommy, why did wat man hwit Daddy? Where is Tai?"
But she couldn't answer. She turned and looked out the window to see the quickly disappearing colonyher sonthe little mop-topped headthe bright blue eyesthe little backwards overallsthe reversed shoeshis little giggle when his father played with himhis cryhis smilehis stubborn independent way of doing everythingthe time he tried to brush his own teeth and smeared it up his nosethe mosaic' he made with Cheerios and Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies"they're Rice Crippies, Mommy!""Mommy! I need privacee! I'm using the bafwoom!""Mommy, I had a bad dweam""Mommy, my weg huwts""Mommy, Mommy"
Then she broke down and began to screamand screamand scream
"Ai!!" she felt herself being shaken away from the shuttle forcefullya familiar voice close by.
"TAI!! WHERE IS MY BABY!! I HAVE TO FIND HIM!! MY BABY!!!!!!!"
"Ai, snap out of it!! It's a dream, it was all a dream, love, it's okay." She felt strong arms embracing her, holding her close, trying to force her flailing arms to her sides. She opened her eyes to find herself on a hard hotel room bedthe usual chest-of-draws across the roomthe TVthe night standthe noisy air condition clicking offand her husband
"Ryuzou"
"It's all right. I'm herebreath in, breath out, breath in, breath out"
Ai snuggled into his arms and sobbed softly. "Huy's missing now" she whispered.
"Heero will find him."
"Heero? Who's Heero?" she said harshly. "There is no Heeroonly some person who renamed our baby that. There is no Heeroonly Tai"
"Tai is Heero Yuy now, and, like it or not, he knows nothing else, love. And he will find Huy."
"How can you know that? He's a boy, a seventeen year old boyscared and alone"
"Have faith in him, Ai. He's been through things that you and I cannot even comprehend. Hehe told me what happened. And he told me who he isor who he thinks he is"
"What, tell mewhat happened Ryuzou? Who found our baby? What did they do to him? And what about Huy?" Ai pressed.
"Who found Heero, I have no idea, but with regard to Huyin short they went to a bar, and Heero left because some guys were making him nervous. Huy followed him and disappeared. Heero says that those guys were after him and got Huy by mistake."
"But what would they want with Tai?" Ai asked, refusing to call Heero by anything but his birth name.
"Who wouldn't want Gundam Pilot Zero Onethe assassinthe perfect soldier."
Ai gasped and pushed herself from her husband. "He's a teenager"
"That doesn't change anything. Remember those profiles of the pilots that the papers published six months ago. They've been researched since the warall around seventeen years old, all war-toughened fighters.all found except the expert hacker and perfect soldier Heero Yuy. He's been running from his past for a year, and now someone is trying to bring him back into the loop. He cried tonight, Ai. It's probably the first time he's ever cried since he was a child."
"Ohmy baby"
"Ai, Heero may not know who he is, but he knows that he loves us, all of us, but most especially Huy. They are twins, they have a connection that makes them understand each other so clearly–just a step away from ESP. Heero will find Huy, and Huy will be alive. The perfect soldier has never failed before"
"He was the one who self-detonated in Siberia!!"
"Yes."
"He fought Zechs Marquis in space!"
"Yes."
"He destroyed the Barton foundation."
"Yes."
"He disappeared and found us"
"He did."
Ai sobbed into her husband's arms again.
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The blond man stood with his back to the brick wall, cigarette hanging from the edge of his lip, the smoke curling around his head. Rain pattered around his little shelter under the eaves of the old brick building, and the man pulled the collar of his trench-coat up to help ward away the wet and cold.
"Jothan," a voice said softly from the blond man's side.
"Brad," Jothan greeted back. "Took you long enough."
"Hey, give me some slack. I had some paperwork to do. I couldn't get out of the office till bout ten minutes ago," Brad defended himself.
"Yah, sure. How's that long-legged secretary of yours?"
Brad grinned foolishly and Jothan shook his head as he bent to flick ashes off of the cigarette. "So, how is everything? All in order?" Brad asked as if the previous question had never been asked.
Jothan glared harshly. "Don't you read the papers?"
"Well," Brad scratched his head. "I have to admit that I don't exactly make it a top priority."
"Maybe you should make it a top priority.' We got the wrong kid."
"What?"
"You heard me."
"But that's impossible. How could youyou are the bestyou never goof up like that!"
"Well, guess what? We did. No one bothered to tell us that he had a twin, and somehow, which I have no idea how, we didn't notice it."
"Heero Yuy doesn't have any family, much less a twin brother. I KNOW that," Brad said emphatically.
Jothan threw the cigarette to the wet ground and rubbed it out with a booted toe. "Some how, God only knows, Heero Yuy looks identical to a boy about his age by the name of Huy Iwasato." Jothan stopped as he heard Brad's intake of breath. "What is it?"
"This Iwasato, who is his father?"
"Ryuzou, a botanist on"
Brad interrupted Jothan's comments with a loud oath. "I take it that this isn't good," Jothan observed dryly.
"Oh, brilliant deduction Watson. This isn't not good, this the worst thing that could possibly happen" Brad continued to mutter a stream of the most descriptive expletives Jothan had ever heard.
"Chill for about two seconds and tell me what's up."
"Do those morons for partners know what's really going on?"
"Well, one is a little hot headed, but I think the other two are on to us–they aren't dumb enough to believe that we are starting a war for the fun of it. And the money has to be coming from somewhere."
"Well, make sure they don't find out. Crap"
"What is it, Brad? Quit all this nonsense."
"You remember that whole little uprising on the old colony my dad ran?" Brad asked.
"Yahbut that was fifteen years ago."
"Fourteen."
"What?" Jothan asked, confused.
"Fourteen years ago, not fifteen."
"Whatever, just get on with it," Jothan said impatiently.
Brad sighed and rested his against the wall. "Well, there was one guy of the colony, Ryuzou Iwasato. He was a botanist and head of Agriculture, but he was also smart as get all and figured my dad out within the first couple weeks that he got the job. Dad tried to win him over, the guy wouldn't budge. I mean, it was ridiculous! This guy was offered a salary three times what he was making, college money for the kids, even admittance to my dad's little hot house. Nothing worked. He was a stikin' family man, in love with his wife, played with the kids, the whole kit n caboodle. So dad went after them. The guy's wife was a cool cookie. A guy walks up to her with a gun, and cool as you please, she'd smile and turn the other way–course she was from New York, but that's sides the point. What the point is, is that Iwasato knows EVERYTHING from that mess, and the moment his son, who undoubtedly is at least somewhat like his old man, disappears, he will figure us out, only spreading the word this time. And if Iwasato knows who got his kid, we're toast and the plan is out the window."
"Guess it's a good thing that I called for back up," Jothan commented sardonically.
"Why?"
"I'm using the Iwasato kid as bait for getting Yuy. What still disturbs me is why the two look so much alike."
"I'll look into that," Brad said confidently. "You better get back before your guys get curiousmercenaries can't be trusted."
Jothan snorted. "You just figure that out? Don't forget to keep your old man out of the way. I don't want him to screw this up."
"I know, I know. I'll keep him busy and he'll be positioned perfectly to conveniently take up the authoritative role when dear Miss Darlin becomes too stressed to deal with a war, which she was so sure could never happen now that arms have been cast aside."
"Good. Don't screw up your part. I've spent enough time in the slammer."
"Our own little Alcatraz junkie"
"Hey, you shut up."
"Touchy aren't we?"
"Look who's talking. Don't forget the cash."
"Yah, yah, I got it right here" Brad dug around in his pockets for a fat yellow envelope. "It's right here."
"What are you going to do about Iwasato?" Jothan asked as he pocketed the envelope.
"Oh, I'll figure something out. I have to find him first."
"He's here."
"What?"
"He flew in today with is wife. They're staying downtown in Toby's."
"I'm impressed," Brad said with raised eyebrows.
"I'm the best," Jothan said simply. "I'm going now. Keep me updated."
"Yah, whatever."
Then the two parted and turned opposite ways.
Jothan walked slowly back to the warehouse, mind running frantically. George Morris was a power hungry freak with a fat wallet, Jothan just did as he was told and accepted to pay check. It was his job, no worries. What did it matter to him if Morris managed to take over. The man would lead the Earth and Colonies into a chaotic mess, but what did he care? War's created enemies, which created jobs for him and his men. The cash flow would be endless as everyone trusted no one. So what if millions died?
He kicked at a rock angrily as he cursed his active conscience. Morris was ambitious, but he was also an incredible strategist, albeit unstable. Surely the Earth would be fine. He just wanted the Presidency, and to do that, he could show the current President unfit. The current President fully supported Miss Darlin, and if Darlin was shown to be incorrect, the President, similarly, would also be shown to be incorrect. The people would rebel and Morris would take over, settle the wars capably, and make peace with the rambunctious Gundam Pilots. The people would be happy and impressed with their new leader. Morris would have problems then–he didn't know how to deal with peace, but he would have many advisors. All would be well. Jothan's job was just to get the Gundam Pilots going, give them new Gundams. It was a well-known fact that several of the pilots had been attached to their steeds.' That was all.
Grinning to himself in the dark, rainy city, Jothan walked uneasily back to the warehouse. It would be okay.
Jothan Kirkpatric watched as twenty men in their thirty's and twenty's come one at a time in half-hour intervals to the old warehouse. If the entire troop came in at once, it would have attracted too much attention. Jothan delegated the responsibility of stationing them to Yajoroo. Traz was an excellent soldier, but tended to launch onto power-trips, and Jensin was apt to miss an area and confuse instructions. Yajoroo was level-headed and quick.
Traz was still arguing his decisions, but Jothan was still in chargeand a better shot.
The warehouse was nearly condemned until many months ago, the four of them had restored it skillfully on the inside, carefully leaving the outside appearance the way it was. They had built an especially secure room purposely for holding Heero Yuybut it was hiding a weak nobody named Huy Iwasato. But fortunately, Jothan was resourceful and could make the best of any situation.
"The West and North halls are covered. We have issued the weapons and boarded up that wall you mentioned was weak earlier."
"Thank you, Yajoroo. Make sure that the surveillance cameras are installed."
"Sir, yes sir. What are you going to do now?"
"Pay a visit to our little imposter"
Huy heard the door creak open and he cringed. A light flicked on, blinding him as usual and the heavy boots clomped on the floor. Hesitantly, Huy looked up to face the redhead again. But this man was the longhaired blond, and he remembered where he had seen him beforein the hospital when he and the school nurse had gone to pick Heero up.
"Hello Heero Yuy. It seems that you've given my men an awful hard time."
Huy closed his eyes and tried to shut the man out.
"Will you join us?" he asked.
This was itHuy was going to have to answer and it would probably determine if he would live or die. But there was no choice, even if he wanted to, he could never say yes. He wasn't Heero Yuy, Gundam Pilot Zero One. He clenched his teeth and steeled himself for what the blond man would do. For some reason he was ten times more afraid of this man than the othersit was just something that he could sense, an instinct.
But he answered no anyway, and the whip lashed him painfully across his back
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Thump, thump, thump
"Wufei, what in blazes do you think you're doing," Sally asked, almost laughing as she watched her partner bang his head with a perfect regular rhythm on his desk.
Thump, thump "I should have knownthere was no excuse for such incompetenceI am not worthy to"
"Don't you think that I am not worthy' stuff is a little old? You've been saying that for two years."
"I should have followed my instincts" Thump.
"You don't have any to follow."
Wufei paused for a second to glare at Sally and them resumed his thumping.
After five more minutes of thumping, Sally couldn't take it any more and asked, "What happened?"
"Heero sent me an e-mail. You know that pesky group lead by the old White Fang Lieutenant that's been hoarding all the scrap metal?" Thump.
"Yah."
"They tried to kidnap Heero." Thump.
"What's the problem. They apparently didn't succeed if Heero e-mailed you about it."
"They got a guy Heero knows, Huy Iwasato. This guy looks identical to Heero and he's completely innocent." Thump.
"Crap"
Thump, thump, thump
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Huy screamed. He had been doing a magnificent job of not crying or yelling when they hit him, but he couldn't hold it in anymore. He felt like he was dying.
WHAM!!
Huy felt the fist collide with his face again. "You changed your mind yet, kid?"
"No" he whispered. He couldn't say yes. It wasn't possible. But he wasn't going to tell them who he really was either.
But then his mind began to work. Why didn't they know? Surely someone was looking for him and he would be in the papers. They were terrorists. They would be reading the papers–surely. Why didn't they know that they had the wrong kidunless they were just playing with him and using him as a bribe to get the real Heero.
Or maybe no one cared that he was missing. Yes, that was probably it. No one caredno one ever did. Huy Iwasato was no more and no one would care. Stop thinking like this Huy!! Your family loves you and Heero has shown countless times that he cares about you. But then why didn't he come and help you?
Huy's mind continued to ramble on as the blond man proceeded to tenderize him.
He didn't know what he could take.
Then there was the snap as Huy felt a rib crack sharply.
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A/N You didn't honestly think that I would make it that simple did you? Also, please pardon the sap. My little sap-o-meter was bleeping the whole time, but those parts are kind of necessary, but I do try to keep it at a minimum.
Toodles for now, Tygerlilee =^,^= (I should really figure out how to make an evil kitty face.)