Canine Instincts

By AlantisB

A/N:  Hey everyone! I wanted to get this chapter out since I've been depressed lately. I lost AOL because they did this stupid thing with our DEL computer and the six months free AOL we got with it. Anyway I don't have AOL anymore and that made me sad. Plus my grandpa is getting really sick, we don't think he'll last another week or two and my family is getting all broke up about this and his will is getting set up for the time he dies and shit.

Enough depressing stuff, time for the new chapter of Canine Instincts! I know you all will like this chapter because we get to see Duo telling the pilots about himself at last! We also get to find out about Heero. ^.^ I bet you all can't wait! Now GO READ!

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Chapter Five

Dog Tags

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"You put up a near perfect act. If I didn't revert back to my old form, I would have never suspected it. It's all over your scent though. I can tell you ain't what you seem. But that's to be expected from a master of illusions, isn't it, kitsune?" InuYasha growled out to Heero.

Heero glared at the dog youkai in front of him. For a while he had suspected it, ever since Duo came back from that mission he was acting strangely. The scent of dog demon filled the house ventilation shafts when Duo took a shower earlier and it confirmed it although he was loath to admit it. He had thought that the doctors had only caught one demon into their traps to become gundam pilots but he was wrong. He was surprised to see that a half demon as powerful as Duo was snared in the trap. He was as powerful as the Demon Lord, although he had heard hanyous were weaker than a full demon.

"Hn."

Quatre looked between the dog demon and Heero with confusion lighting his features.

"What's going on? Heero, what is he talking about?"

Wufei studied Heero with narrowed eyes, he hadn't seen it before when the two pilots were talking but now he knew it wasn't just his imagination. Heero's ears were becoming pointed. The air around him was wavering slightly like how it does on a hot day over black top streets. The pointed ears stopped just a bit curvier than what he imagined an elf to have.

Then his eyes widened when he watched a fluffy light chestnut brown fox tail with a white tip sprout from no where, it swished back and forth showing the Wing pilot's irritation. Heero's hair lightened and seemed to calm down from the wild spiky style to a more sweet hair style as it became the same shade as his tail. For the final touch that proved his love was not as human as he thought him to be, the construction boots that Heero always wore faded away showing two very non human feet that showed the paws of a fox. The toes on each foot were a darker shaded brown than the pilot's hair, about the same shade that his human disguise hair was colored.

The sounds of Trowa and Quatre's quiet gasps echoed in the room.

Heero spoke and to Wufei it sounded like his voice held inhuman amount of power with a touch of youthful playfulness he often spotted in Heero's eyes when it was not voiced in the confines of their bedroom. "I suppose since this information could endanger further missions, Duo and I will have to explain what we are so you will not be distracted if we suddenly fail to hold up the illusions of human appearances."

Wufei sagged in relief, he knew this was Heero. Heero was just not who he thought he was in terms of species but, he loved Heero and he didn't care if he was a kitsune. It wasn't like their lives weren't weird enough being teenage terrorists.

Duo walked around to the other side of the couch as the other pilots relaxed their tense grip on their guns. Jumping over the backing of the couch, Duo smirked as he bounced into a sprawled position on the couch and stretched out putting his arms behind his head. "Well Heero, why don't you get all comfy cozy while I tell the guys about my life since they'll wanna know. You can go after me."

Heero shrugged and moved to go sit by Wufei. He noticed his lover was taking his new appearance calmly so he felt it was safe to sit by him. "Hn."

Quatre studied him for a moment before a smile lit up on his face. "You really are Duo, you move, act, and feel like him."

Duo grinned, showing his fangs and then looked up at the ceiling, suddenly thoughtful. "Hmm. Now where do I begin? Let's see, oh! I know! I was born."

"Duo, get on with it. Don't mess around." Heero replied annoyed. He started purring quietly when Wufei hesitantly started petting his tail.

"Feh! Fine! Well, my real name is Inu-Maru Yasha but I'm known as InuYasha. I was born in Japan during the Sengoku Jidai era, the warring states period which was about six hundred years ago give or take a couple years. My father was Taiyoukai and my mother was the High priestess that was also the princess of a human village in his land. I am half-human, half dog demon so I was treated like dirt when my father died leaving me alone with my mother. I had a full demon brother but he didn't like me and wanted me dead for whatever stupid reason. I never found out.

Since I was hanyou, a mixed breed, the kids in the village didn't want to play with me and threw rocks and me and shit. I pretty much learned about hunting and fighting instead of playing games with the other kids. When I was five my mother died in a raid by the same demons that killed my father and I was left to fend for myself. I was constantly fighting for my life because demons thought I was lower than them selves and wanted to kill me.

When I was fifteen, I heard of a legendary jewel of power called the Shikon no Tama, the jewel of four souls. Supposedly if I got it from the priestess guarding it, I could make a wish and I wanted to be a full demon.

Anyway to make a very long story short, I destroyed her village, burning it to the ground as I stole the jewel from her. Before I could get away with my prize, she caught up with me and killed me by pinning me to the Holy Tree near her village using one of her spirit arrows. I think she died with me, although I don't know where she got the wounds from since I didn't touch her.

For centuries I was trapped to the Holy Tree, weak and faded. When I managed to break the spell on me, I woke up to a world full of technology and humans with no room for demons. I managed to stow away on a shuttle to L2 and lived on the streets for a few years taking care of a pack of street kids who knew what I was but didn't care. Solo was the leader of the pack and before he died from the plague he put me in charge.

Father Maxwell found me and the kids and let us in his orphanage which was attached to the Maxwell Church until someone adopted us. I told my pack to call me Duo so that the holy people didn't know who or what I was. I was never adopted so the priest and Sister Helen let me stay there.

One day some rebels came to the church to hide and they needed a mobile suit or they wouldn't leave. I volunteered to get it and on the way back, the colony rocked with an explosion right where the church was. When I reached the church, everyone but Sister Helen had died. I could see my pack littering the ground in pieces, an arm here, a foot there, it stank so badly.

Sister Helen gave me this cross, and told me that she and Father Maxwell would watch over me in heaven or some shit like that. I didn't believe her since I don't believe in any gods except Shinigami. I gave myself a last name with my first and became Duo Maxwell.

After I left the church, I traveled the colony looking for a way to get off. I spotted a junk shuttle and I stowed away on it. Dr. G found me freezing cargo hold and took me out and gave me a bath and something warm to eat. I told him I don't owe him shit for doing this and he smirked and left me alone in the room. A minute later a demon walked into the room wearing a human disguise. He taught me several spells on how to hide my demon appearance.

Five years ago I settled on locking myself in my human form, hiding away my demon side forever. After my mission, the spell started to fade. First, when I woke up I took a shower and then noticed I was back to my hanyou appearance. I dyed my hair back to the chestnut color I had before then spelled my eyes to take on the violet color my human form had but left my claws alone.

When the spell on my eyes faded, I was reduced to wearing sunglasses when I went to go wash my clothes. Wufei woke me up from dream and before I realized who it was, I threw him up against the dryers and dug my claws into his neck. I smelled the blood and I dropped him and apologized, leaving the room quickly. I changed into my old clothes and went hunting to calm down the bloodlust that rose in me. Coming back to the house in the rain, I decided to tell you all about me since it was obvious my spells were fading for whatever reason."

Duo smiled nervously and scratched his hair with a claw. "Well, that's my story."

Wufei looked at Duo with new admiration in his eyes. He hadn't realized that behind that cheerful façade there was a demon dog half breed that experienced more sorrow and pain than him. Seeing your colony blown up in front of you and your wife dying is painful, but living a life of loneliness and hatred was much worse. "We never realized, Maxwell. What should we call you now that you've come out of the closet." Wufei smirked, a playful glint lighting his eyes.

Duo's eyes widened mockingly. "Mark this day on the calendar, we have to celebrate this! Wu-man told a joke! Quatre, we need to bake a cake or something and just have a party to make sure no one ever forgets this day! Never would I have thought Wu-man was able to make a joke." He grinned, studying the Chinese boy.

He never realized that under the tough exterior there was someone that appeared to be a teenager trapped deep inside Wufei. Seeing just a hint of it warmed him and made him want growl at him approvingly. However, Wufei would have no idea what the hell he was doing and Heero would glare at him because he would catch the meaning of the growl.

"You can call me whichever you prefer. I'm used to hearing Duo now, though." Duo glanced at the kitsune. "Your turn now kit. Tell us your life story."

Heero scowled for a moment at the dog demon before thinking about what exactly he wanted to say. His lover gave him a reassuring hug, not long enough for the other pilots and demon to notice but enough to give him the courage to speak.

"I was born in the Sengoku Jidai also. My mother and father were rogue kitsune that had no family pack to stay with. I was happy living with them, they taught me everything a kit my age needed to know about social structures and which demons not to mess with. At a very young age for a kitsune, I became proficient in illusions, expecially cute ones made for warning signs.

My mother died when I was three from birth complications while my father took care of me for another three years. When I was six my father was murdered and skinned for his fur by a couple of demons called the Thunder Brothers. They were a vicious team that wanted the Shikon no Tama for their own. When the leader of the two heard that my father had seen it, he captured him and tortured him for information using his immense power to get any and all useful facts. As he finished, he made me watch my father get skinned alive and kept my father's pelt

I was pissed and I went out to hunt for the legendary jewel. I wanted the jewel to use the power to destroy him. However, all I heard from the rumors was that the village where the jewel used to be lost it fifty years prior and I was left to fend for myself with no one to help me.

Eventually I stopped the quest for the jewel and attacked the Thunder Brothers on my own. During my quest I had learned many fighting moves and techniques. Purely on accident using a new illusion I had made, I managed to steal my father's pelt back and then used fox fire to ignite the entire radius with my fire. My father's pelt protected me from the flames as I escaped.

For the next few hundred years I learned spells to disguise my appearance to keep me from being discovered by humans. As the human technology grew, the more interested I became. I engrossed myself in the human technology and helped it grow little by little until humans landed on the moon for the first time. When they managed to stretch out into space, building colonies and letting people live up in space, I left them alone intending to go find a quiet mountain to disappear to.

I met a man named Odin Lowe, an assassin by trade and a very good one at that. He needed someone that could get in and out of buildings unnoticed, and be able to place bombs in strategic places where the guards wouldn't find them until too late. I helped him out, seeing the good cause he had in doing these small missions. I never told him who or what I was but he appreciated my help.

On one mission he got himself killed leaving me to complete the job for him. I quickly blew up my first military base and left the business alone, not excepting another job of assassination again from Odin's employers.

Dr. J found me –or really, captured me- when I was traveling to find a place to ignore the world where I could grieve for my sometimes friend. Using unique combination of chemicals, he managed to trap me in his lab and unlock the disguise spells I used. He struck a deal with me, stating that if I worked for him to do this mission called Operation Meteor, then we would let me go content with what data he collected so far.

I agreed knowing I had no other choice for my freedom. So I became pilot 01, of the Gundam named Wing. Codename: Heero Yuy."

Wufei snuggled closer to Heero to comfort him. Heero wasn't looking at any of the pilots but was looking down at the ground, not willing to say anything more. It was the most he had ever said to them all in the span of a few minutes. Duo was shocked to find out that Heero wasn't such a young demon as he had thought he was but he definitely was more mature than he was since he actually grew up during the six hundred years from the Sengoku Jidai to After Colony.

"That's horrible Heero!" Quatre looked at his friend with sadness. Trowa nodded in agreement. "To be blackmailed into being a gundam pilot must have been hard on you. No wonder you're so dedicated to your missions, you want to be free."

"Say, Heero." InuYasha stared at Heero. "I've told you my real name, but all you have told us was your code name. What is the name you were given? I know its not Heero, that's not a Japanese name from that time period. So spill."

The Japanese pilot was quiet for a moment as he picked at his furry tail, suddenly nervous. He glanced up and Duo was shocked at the sight of a pair of deep forest green eyes with gold flakes near the iris. "Shippou," he said softly. "My name is Shippou."

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Ohh! Is that not a plot twist or what?! I told you some Inuyasha characters will show up—I just didn't tell you how! So Heero is Shippou, the little kitsune from the Sengoku Jidai from the original InuYasha story. There is only one last chapter folks, and you won't be disappointed!

Well that's all for now. Remember to review!

-AlantisB

Notes:

Hanyou- Half demon, half youkai. Outcasts of demons and humans, not liked very much and usually killed on sight.

Taiyoukai- Great demon. Usually the shogun of that territory. Usually very powerful.

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