AN- here's chapter 9. I'll be getting 10 up soon and also since Easter break is coming up I'll probably be able to write more. hope you like it.
Chapter 9
Duo had discovered many important things about his new teacher Kana Lamia. First of all, she was a complete mystery. Her past being more shadowed and perplexing than Heeros and even Trowa's left Duo in the dark. He had come to the conclusion that she didn't want to talk about it after he had been brutly slapped for not leaving her alone. Secondly, he found out that, following the slapping of Shinigami, Kana had a temper. Not a normal temper Duo could deal with like Heero's or Wufei's. Their tempers were subsided with idle threats or justice rants that Duo could easily ignore. Kana on the other hand physically took out her temper on who ever was near by. Unfortunatly for Duo he was usually the one closest. It never was fair, for Heero was the one that made her angry most of the time. Always arguing with her over the stupidest things. Then the third thing Duo discovered about Kana was that she could be very impateint. Her pateince level seemed to go down everyday. Which when added with Heero's 'nagging,' as she called it, flared her temper even more, meaning "Shinigami hurts like hell"
"What Duo?"
"I said I hurt like hell!" Duo yelled. His pateince also was becoming thiner with the passing days.
"Then stop getting the crap beat out of you."
"Oh easy for you to say! You're not the one who has to fight the Perfect Soilder." Duo's training for the past two days had consisted of the God of Death getting his ass kicked by the Perfect Soilder.
"And if I did I wouldn't let him touch me. Why aren't you improving?! You're faster then him Duo!"
"Oh I'm so sorry that I'm not getting my ass kicked as much as yesterday. Maybe that's because I have a BROKEN RIB!!!!" Duo clutched his side trying to catch his breath.
"Do you want me to call a doctor or something?" Quatre asked concerned for his fellow pilot.
"No." Kana sighed rubbing her eyes. She took a deep breath and kneeled down in front of Duo. "I'm sorry. I'm pushing you too much." She said sweetly as she lifted his arm away from his chest. Duo winced when she put her hand over the broken rib but soon it felt better as she begun to heal it with magic. He knew this routine all too well. All the injuries he had suffered under his so called friend Heero should have killed him. But Kana would always heal him. He had to admit, even though she had an awful temper she could be a real angel when she calmed down.
"It's ok." Duo said weakly.
"I just don't get it. You really should be improving. Duo, you do know that you are faster than Heero. You understand that right." He nodded. "Then I really can't figure it out."
"Maybe you're just not going about it the right way." Trowa piped in.
"Huh?" Kana asked.
Trowa was silent for a moment, "I can't get my gundam to work without pressing the right buttons." That's all he said and all he got were puzzled looks. "Maybe you're just not pressing the right buttons."
"Ahh... so what you're saying is that I have to press Duo's buttons to get him to work."
"...." Was Trowa's response.
Duo stood up after Kana finished with him. "Well isn't that helpful. Now we just have to find my buttons. Oh wait I almost forgot, I'm not a machine!"
"Hmm... I think I have an idea." Duo gulped as Kana got that awful look in her eyes again. She looked at Heero and smiled. "Could you hold him down for me?"
"Huh? What are you going to do?" Duo asked nervously as Heero nodded and headed towards the Deathscythe pilot.
"And I need a pair of scissors."
"Scissors!!"
"Will a knife work?" Trowa pulled one out.
"Yes that will do." Kana took it from him. Duo was now being held down by Heero. His hands in front of him. Kana flicked the knife out. "Keep him still."
"What do you think you're doing?" Duo yelled as Kana grabbed his hair and yanked his head back.
"What I should have done when we started all this training crap. This braid obviously is the thing that's keeping you back. I can sense it's power." She lied as the knife dissappeared back into it's sheith. She then used her finger as a substitue for the blade. "This braid is cursed. It's from your past. Nothing from your past is good." She moved her finger through his hair.
Duo struggled but Heero was just too strong. He could feel the knife cutting through his hair. All the memories of his past came flooding back to him. Of sister Helen and Father Maxwell. "She's taking away the one thing that brings back happy memories." A voice in Duo's head hissed. "You can't let her do this. Stop her. You must stop her. Kill her!" The voice hissed over and over again until Duo couldn't take it anymore. A surge of power erupted from his body. Heero was thrown accross the room into the wall. His body fell limp on the ground. Before anybody even knew what was going on Duo spun around, grabbed the witch by the throat and dragged her a couple steps then slamed her into a wall.
Kana scrambled trying to pull her thoughts together. Her feet dangled and as soon as she realized something was blocking her air way she clawed at Duo's hands. His eyes were black, an empty void of emotion. Duo was no longer Duo. He had become the God of Death. At that note Kana knew she could die at the hands of Shinigami and she became frantic. "Duo! It's me! Duo can you hear me. I'm sorry. I didn't do anything I wasn't even using the knife! Please Duo you're hurting me."
The black empty eyes of Shinigami slowly turned back into the warm violet ones of Duo Maxwell. He had seen everything that had happened. Heero being thrown and Kana begging for her life. After seeing all this he still didn't stop himself. The anger and the power still surged through his body. He looked at the witch and slowy put her down but still kept his grip around her neck despite the srartches he was recieving. She had calmed down and was now smiling. Her right hand was held out in font of him. It had the knife Trowa had given her but the knife wasn't out.
"See. I was just joking."
"Ha ha" Duo's voice crackled, "Fun-ee" With that said he let her go. He turned around to see Heero getting up with the help of Quatre and Trowa. The perfect soilder wipped the peices of wall off his shoulders that had fallen on him when he smashed into it. Duo took one more look at Kana, her face frowning but her eyes gave away her delight, and walked away.
"Duo wait! Where are you going?" Quatre asked still helping Heero up.
"Out."
* * * * *
"You definatly pressed the on button." Heero grumbled.
"Is Duo's power triggered by anger?" Quatre asked?
"Hmm... I think so. Like I said, the God of Death is going through puburty. His emotions are as out of whack as a 15 year old boy. Anything could trigger an emotion that could cause a surge of power."
"Doesn't that make him dangerous." Heero went into soilder mode. "We should go after him."
"Nah. He'll be fine." Kana dismissed Heeros suggestion with a wave of her hand.
"Duo just needs to be alone." Quatre pointed out, "He needs some time to think. This must be all to overwhleming for him. But will he be safe from other things that might want to hurt him?"
"Nobody knows we're here so I'm sure he'll be fine." Kana handed the knife back to Trowa. "This all works out great for me."
"How so?"
"I have to meet someone in Paris. It's just a business trip this afternoon."
"Last time you went on a business trip we were chased out of the Vatican." Heero snarled the pain in his head fading as Trowa began to heal the present bump on the back.
"Well you're not coming so you don't have to worry."
"What if I decide to come?"
"Why the hell would you come with me?"
"I don't trust you." Heero said in his most mono tone voice. (if his voice can sound even more like a robot)
"I really could care less if you come or not. But you're paying your way there."
"When do we leave?"
"What you're actually coming?" Kana rolled her eyes. "I'm leaving in an hour. I can't believe you're actually coming" She started to mumble as she walked out of the basement to get ready. "Why does he have to go everywhere I go. It's like I have a frigen shadow."
Once she had left Quatre turned to Heero who seemed perfectly fine for just being slammed into a wall. "Why are you going Heero?"
"I have a feeling this business meeting has something to do with Duo. He's a complete idiot for trusting her. She's going to turn him in the first chance she gets."
"And why do you care?"
Heero paused for a moment. Why did he care? Did he consider Duo a friend? Of course they were friends. They had been through a lot together. From wars to break-ups with girlfriends. Of course the Prefect soilder wasn't about to admit that Duo was his best friend so he simply said, "I don't want the world to come to an end. Duo could destroy the world with his power."
"So why don't you eliminate him like you would have done before?" Trowa asked curiously.
"You and Quatre wouldn't let me." Heero started to walk towrds the exit.
"And that would stop you?"
Heero just ignored the Heavyarms pilots comment and walked out of the room.
Quatre smiled at Trowa, "I wonder if he knows Releena is in Paris right now."
"What are you plotting my little angel?"
"Oh nothing."
~TBC~
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Chapter 9
Duo had discovered many important things about his new teacher Kana Lamia. First of all, she was a complete mystery. Her past being more shadowed and perplexing than Heeros and even Trowa's left Duo in the dark. He had come to the conclusion that she didn't want to talk about it after he had been brutly slapped for not leaving her alone. Secondly, he found out that, following the slapping of Shinigami, Kana had a temper. Not a normal temper Duo could deal with like Heero's or Wufei's. Their tempers were subsided with idle threats or justice rants that Duo could easily ignore. Kana on the other hand physically took out her temper on who ever was near by. Unfortunatly for Duo he was usually the one closest. It never was fair, for Heero was the one that made her angry most of the time. Always arguing with her over the stupidest things. Then the third thing Duo discovered about Kana was that she could be very impateint. Her pateince level seemed to go down everyday. Which when added with Heero's 'nagging,' as she called it, flared her temper even more, meaning "Shinigami hurts like hell"
"What Duo?"
"I said I hurt like hell!" Duo yelled. His pateince also was becoming thiner with the passing days.
"Then stop getting the crap beat out of you."
"Oh easy for you to say! You're not the one who has to fight the Perfect Soilder." Duo's training for the past two days had consisted of the God of Death getting his ass kicked by the Perfect Soilder.
"And if I did I wouldn't let him touch me. Why aren't you improving?! You're faster then him Duo!"
"Oh I'm so sorry that I'm not getting my ass kicked as much as yesterday. Maybe that's because I have a BROKEN RIB!!!!" Duo clutched his side trying to catch his breath.
"Do you want me to call a doctor or something?" Quatre asked concerned for his fellow pilot.
"No." Kana sighed rubbing her eyes. She took a deep breath and kneeled down in front of Duo. "I'm sorry. I'm pushing you too much." She said sweetly as she lifted his arm away from his chest. Duo winced when she put her hand over the broken rib but soon it felt better as she begun to heal it with magic. He knew this routine all too well. All the injuries he had suffered under his so called friend Heero should have killed him. But Kana would always heal him. He had to admit, even though she had an awful temper she could be a real angel when she calmed down.
"It's ok." Duo said weakly.
"I just don't get it. You really should be improving. Duo, you do know that you are faster than Heero. You understand that right." He nodded. "Then I really can't figure it out."
"Maybe you're just not going about it the right way." Trowa piped in.
"Huh?" Kana asked.
Trowa was silent for a moment, "I can't get my gundam to work without pressing the right buttons." That's all he said and all he got were puzzled looks. "Maybe you're just not pressing the right buttons."
"Ahh... so what you're saying is that I have to press Duo's buttons to get him to work."
"...." Was Trowa's response.
Duo stood up after Kana finished with him. "Well isn't that helpful. Now we just have to find my buttons. Oh wait I almost forgot, I'm not a machine!"
"Hmm... I think I have an idea." Duo gulped as Kana got that awful look in her eyes again. She looked at Heero and smiled. "Could you hold him down for me?"
"Huh? What are you going to do?" Duo asked nervously as Heero nodded and headed towards the Deathscythe pilot.
"And I need a pair of scissors."
"Scissors!!"
"Will a knife work?" Trowa pulled one out.
"Yes that will do." Kana took it from him. Duo was now being held down by Heero. His hands in front of him. Kana flicked the knife out. "Keep him still."
"What do you think you're doing?" Duo yelled as Kana grabbed his hair and yanked his head back.
"What I should have done when we started all this training crap. This braid obviously is the thing that's keeping you back. I can sense it's power." She lied as the knife dissappeared back into it's sheith. She then used her finger as a substitue for the blade. "This braid is cursed. It's from your past. Nothing from your past is good." She moved her finger through his hair.
Duo struggled but Heero was just too strong. He could feel the knife cutting through his hair. All the memories of his past came flooding back to him. Of sister Helen and Father Maxwell. "She's taking away the one thing that brings back happy memories." A voice in Duo's head hissed. "You can't let her do this. Stop her. You must stop her. Kill her!" The voice hissed over and over again until Duo couldn't take it anymore. A surge of power erupted from his body. Heero was thrown accross the room into the wall. His body fell limp on the ground. Before anybody even knew what was going on Duo spun around, grabbed the witch by the throat and dragged her a couple steps then slamed her into a wall.
Kana scrambled trying to pull her thoughts together. Her feet dangled and as soon as she realized something was blocking her air way she clawed at Duo's hands. His eyes were black, an empty void of emotion. Duo was no longer Duo. He had become the God of Death. At that note Kana knew she could die at the hands of Shinigami and she became frantic. "Duo! It's me! Duo can you hear me. I'm sorry. I didn't do anything I wasn't even using the knife! Please Duo you're hurting me."
The black empty eyes of Shinigami slowly turned back into the warm violet ones of Duo Maxwell. He had seen everything that had happened. Heero being thrown and Kana begging for her life. After seeing all this he still didn't stop himself. The anger and the power still surged through his body. He looked at the witch and slowy put her down but still kept his grip around her neck despite the srartches he was recieving. She had calmed down and was now smiling. Her right hand was held out in font of him. It had the knife Trowa had given her but the knife wasn't out.
"See. I was just joking."
"Ha ha" Duo's voice crackled, "Fun-ee" With that said he let her go. He turned around to see Heero getting up with the help of Quatre and Trowa. The perfect soilder wipped the peices of wall off his shoulders that had fallen on him when he smashed into it. Duo took one more look at Kana, her face frowning but her eyes gave away her delight, and walked away.
"Duo wait! Where are you going?" Quatre asked still helping Heero up.
"Out."
* * * * *
"You definatly pressed the on button." Heero grumbled.
"Is Duo's power triggered by anger?" Quatre asked?
"Hmm... I think so. Like I said, the God of Death is going through puburty. His emotions are as out of whack as a 15 year old boy. Anything could trigger an emotion that could cause a surge of power."
"Doesn't that make him dangerous." Heero went into soilder mode. "We should go after him."
"Nah. He'll be fine." Kana dismissed Heeros suggestion with a wave of her hand.
"Duo just needs to be alone." Quatre pointed out, "He needs some time to think. This must be all to overwhleming for him. But will he be safe from other things that might want to hurt him?"
"Nobody knows we're here so I'm sure he'll be fine." Kana handed the knife back to Trowa. "This all works out great for me."
"How so?"
"I have to meet someone in Paris. It's just a business trip this afternoon."
"Last time you went on a business trip we were chased out of the Vatican." Heero snarled the pain in his head fading as Trowa began to heal the present bump on the back.
"Well you're not coming so you don't have to worry."
"What if I decide to come?"
"Why the hell would you come with me?"
"I don't trust you." Heero said in his most mono tone voice. (if his voice can sound even more like a robot)
"I really could care less if you come or not. But you're paying your way there."
"When do we leave?"
"What you're actually coming?" Kana rolled her eyes. "I'm leaving in an hour. I can't believe you're actually coming" She started to mumble as she walked out of the basement to get ready. "Why does he have to go everywhere I go. It's like I have a frigen shadow."
Once she had left Quatre turned to Heero who seemed perfectly fine for just being slammed into a wall. "Why are you going Heero?"
"I have a feeling this business meeting has something to do with Duo. He's a complete idiot for trusting her. She's going to turn him in the first chance she gets."
"And why do you care?"
Heero paused for a moment. Why did he care? Did he consider Duo a friend? Of course they were friends. They had been through a lot together. From wars to break-ups with girlfriends. Of course the Prefect soilder wasn't about to admit that Duo was his best friend so he simply said, "I don't want the world to come to an end. Duo could destroy the world with his power."
"So why don't you eliminate him like you would have done before?" Trowa asked curiously.
"You and Quatre wouldn't let me." Heero started to walk towrds the exit.
"And that would stop you?"
Heero just ignored the Heavyarms pilots comment and walked out of the room.
Quatre smiled at Trowa, "I wonder if he knows Releena is in Paris right now."
"What are you plotting my little angel?"
"Oh nothing."
~TBC~
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