Nobody else here, baby
No one here to blame
No one to point the finger
It's just you, and me, and the rain
--U2, If God Will His Angels
As you see, I've decided to put quotes in this book. But, I have to say, yet another chapter in this story! I also have to say that I am currently writing three books at one time! I feel like it's easier because if I have a block on one, I can turn to another! It also sparks Ideas for my others if I work back and forth, so I guess I don't update the fastest... forgive me! My book has no descriptive sex in it. None what so ever. Well, here's the next chapter in the west.
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 2: Runaway Plans
Duo looked up at the dark, wooden ceiling of the room in which he slept. A sodden candle lighted the room. The wick was so tiny that it was only a small amount of light it gave off. Right before his tiresome eyes, the flame no bigger that an insect became as long as a finger. Duo immediately stood up and ran out of the door, brushing his hair that was unbraided out of his face.
"Usagi! Usagi, where are you?" He screamed running up the large staircase. 'Oh, god, what has he done to her?!' He thought frantically. He stomped up the last step and ran down the hallway, he stopped at the door and listened for a second.
"Get away from me you drunken fool!" screamed a voice that belonged to a girl. "Shadow! Duo! Help me, please!" Her voice was sodden with tears and she screamed so desperately that her voice cracked.
Duo swung the door open and surveyed the scene. There was the sheriff, his father, with shreds of cloth in one hand and a wrist in the other, towering over a small and huddled figure. It was Usagi, she watched Duo eagerly for a second. The sheriff turned to face him.
"Get out of here, boy! This a man's job!" Said the sheriff in a voice that wreaked the sound of alcohol. He turned back to the blonde, "What is this Usagi? The fiftieth time you've put up a fight? The fiftieth time I've succeeded?" Usagi cast a glance near the candle with a big tear. Duo looked quickly and grabbed the gun that he had not noticed was near the candle. The man was taken aback.
"Get off of her. NOW." Duo ordered. The man held his hands up and let the girl slide out from under him.
"Put the gun down, son. You don't want to kill me. Put it down."
Usagi rushed behind Duo and hid next to the door, only letting her face show. She wiped the tears away with her sleeve, and then whistled. A loud crack sounded then Shadow began to blunder through the kitchen and up the stairs. The black wolf then stood next to Duo, she had called him as reinforcement.
Duo held the gun wittingly. He walked to the side of the bed near the wall, all the while the man stood still. Duo held the gun to his father's face.
"You know, pa? I've always hated the way you treated me after mom died. I've always hated the way that you treat Usagi too. And, before you die, I thought that I should let you know... Me and Usagi, we lost our virginity together." The man got a look of horror on his face. "Yeah, pa! I never humped that whore you sent me to! You disgusting pig, see you in hell from the point of view in heaven."
He cocked the gun, then the trigger clicked and the man covered his face. Nothing happened. He cocked it then the trigger clicked again, and again. Nothing happened. The man bared a smile of a demon and grabbed the gun.
"Looks like I forgot to load the gun. Oh, you're in big trouble now boy." His father said. He raised the gun and smashed it on Duo's temple with a crack that made Usagi cringe. Shadow began to bark wildly. Usagi quickly grabbed Duo and dragged him by his hands to the room next door. She bayed Shadow to come in the room too.
He trotted along pleasurably, keeping his eyes on the startled sheriff. Usagi was at the door waiting patiently for the wolf, the wolf kept his eye still on Duo's father and ran into the doorframe with a yelp. Then he rushed into the room with a snarl at the man's laughs. Usagi only managed a small smile. Then she locked the door.
"You silly beast." She said digging her fingers through his fur in a praising way. Duo gave a small grumble as he awoke from his short unconsciousness. She led shadow to the foot of the bed. Shadow was forced to sleep outside, only during a rain he used the lattice to climb to her window. He loved to sleep with her.
"Is he dead?" Duo asked unsurely.
"You gave him quite a scare. Now tell me of this whore you were talking about." She said with a slight pause as she helped him from the floor to her bed.
"You sound mad." He said in a teasing voice, despite his injuries.
"I might be." She said with a smile.
"When I was fifteen, pa wanted me to cross the threshold into manhood with a whore he hired for me in the Silver Saloon." The Silver Saloon was the best and only Saloon in town. They chose silver because that's the color of bullets, but the second floor of the saloon was a whorehouse. "I wanted to have sex for the first time with someone I loved and cared about. Not with someone hired to do it. So I asked if she would pretend that we had sex, and pa still paid her. Then a month later, me and you did it secretly."
"Ah, I remember it overwhelmed you. You didn't wake up until dinner time and then you went straight back to bed." They both gave a couple of snickers.
"Yeah, but I wanted to ask you something." He said changing the subject.
"Shoot."
"Is that a pun? If it is then it's not that funny." Duo gave an expression that said he wasn't being serious. Shadow rolled over and crawled in between them and licked the blood off Duo's face.
"Ha ha," She said mockingly, "I didn't mean it as a pun. Just ask me the question." She said with a smile.
"If you ever runaway, I'm going with you."
"I'm too afraid to runaway. That man will kill me." She stood up and grabbed a bowl with a sponge and wrung the sponge out. "I've got to clean the second cut he's given you today."
"God, no! That crap hurts! I swear those stupid herbs must double the pain. Can't we just use water?"
"C'mon! You're seventeen! You can handle a little pain. Or are you a little baby?" She put her fingers on the end of his nose and made a bunch a baby noises.
"Fine, just do it quick." He said stubbornly.
"Okay, as quick as I can. But you're lucky I have these herbs. If I didn't, your cut would get infected and swell to the size of a watermelon. Now, hold still. And don't grab hold of Shadow cause he won't like it."
"Okay. Any thing else I should know? All sarcasm intended." He added quickly at her glance, although her glance was sweet.
"Yeah, you should know that you're going to be locked in this room all night with me and Shadow." A devious grin came upon her face and then she placed the sponge on his cut.
"He leaves in the morning. He'll be out of town tomorrow for the opening of the new town ten miles from here. He'll be gone for two days." Duo let a sigh out. Then he grabbed her wrist and held the sponge away for a second. "That stings!"
"It cleans your cut better than anything else! Now if you grab the sponge again I'll have to throw you back out into the house with that drunk. Stay still."
"I guess I'll take up on your offer later." He said with a cunning grin, despite the throbbing of the sponge.
"Shadow, it looks like your going to be on the floor tonight." Shadow lifted his head briefly with a grunt then laid it back down.
"Did you ever let your first wolf sleep up here with you?" He asked in a manner that could only reveal that he was in pain.
"Shadow crept up the lattice and in here every night. Then that awful man came in here and shot him." She whispered.
She had followed her first wolf to the den of his mate. There, they had a wonderful litter of eleven puppies. One pup was going to have to wait on the side while the other ten fed, the mother only had ten tits, as does every dog or wolf. Usagi watched the splendor of new birth that day. And only two weeks after, that evil man had slapped her, and then Shadow leapt up in defense and the sheriff shot him. That night, she snuck to the den of his mate, with Shadow's carcass. The only reason she did not die at the mercy of the mother wolf that night was because she was half Indian, and she remembered all the things her mother had taught her of animals. She took the black pup from that litter and set him aside as she buried Shadow in the graveyard out side of town. She was only nine and had no idea on how to feed the pup, which was not weaned. The farmer let her stick the new Shadow in with newborn piglets. After the new Shadow WAS weaned, she brought him home. She did the same thing with the Shadow she had now, but she was fourteen. She couldn't wait to see the wolf cubs that would be born next, because Shadow was the only black wolf out of the whole litter of eight. Now she was sixteen and she would make sure that Shadow did not die at the hands of that man.
Duo looked at the blank expression on Usagi's face. He knew she was thinking of the wolf in which her mother given her. He rubbed his cheek to interrupt her thinking, she looked sadder every second.
"Do you think that these scratches from the thorns will heal to NOT become scars?" He asked.
"I think that they will heal in time, and they will be scars most defiantly. They'll make you look tough and all men will identify you with them. When your reputation as a gunslinger kicks off, you'll be called 'Scars.'"
"That sounds a bit awkward. How about 'Braided Scars?'"
"I think that sounds even better than my name, Braided Scars. It reminds me of my mother. Her name was Braided flowers." She smiled as she lifted the sponge from his head and put the bowl back on her vanity.
"For now, just call me Duo. Okay?"
"Sure. I'll keep calling you Duo. Until you win your first gun draw."
"Yeah, just got to get a criminal in this town." He tried to hide his excitement, but he still let it show.
"There's one in the next room you can start off with." She said with a frown.
"He's a bit too experienced for me, but I promise you I'll kill him. And I'll kill him just for you." His smile was genuine.
She walked back to the bed and sat next to him. "You sure do know how to charm a lady, by all means." She leaned over and began to gather his hair in one hand. She rubbed his hair on her cheek and closed her eyes. He had such beautiful hair.
Duo just sat and watched her, her perfect hands glided over the brown hair in which he took so much pride. He jumped as Shadow stood and got off the bed and sat near the window, watching them intently.
"Did he really mean what he said? About the 'fiftieth' and all?" Duo asked in concern.
"I didn't want to tell you because I knew that he would hurt us both. I did it for you. He threatened to kill you in your sleep." Her voice was sorrowful as she tightened the grip on his hair.
"I'm sorry I never stopped it before... If I had known, I would have sent the whole town on him. When did he start that awful thing?"
"After I lost my virginity to you." She grimaced. "I'm glad that you were my first partner instead of him." The town did know that Usagi and Duo had a thing for each other. But they didn't know that they had such an involved relationship. It was inappropriate for two to not marry after going so far.
"I am too. I love you, Usagi. I will never leave you." He reached out his hand and touched her face. "Runaway with me, while he's gone. Let's runaway together."
"I will, if you come, I will." She let go of his hair and went around the bed. She lifted the covers then slid into them and he did the same, since he was already in his nightclothes.
Duo scooted closer to her and held her tightly. Then he kissed her lips and she kissed back. He kissed her more passionately than ever before, and she returned it. She began to undo his buttons as he kissed her neck. Then he stopped and pulled her away.
"What's wrong?" She asked in confusion.
"I can't do this while he's watching me." He said shyly.
"Who? No one else is in here."
"I mean Shadow! I can't have sex while he's watching me!" Duo said in frustration. He turned to the black wolf.
"How about I watch you and your girlfriend, huh?! How would you like that?!" The wolf gave a small whimper and turned towards the wall and sunk to the floor. Duo turned back to Usagi, she was asleep. "Damn dog." Shadow turned and looked at him with a small growl. "Okay, damn wolf then." He said in apology. Shadow turned back around with a satisfied grunt and laid his head back down.
Duo heaved a big sigh and turned over towards Usagi. He had that strange feeling like some one was watching him. He turned back around and Shadow was staring at him again. "Fine. Get up here." He said exasperatedly.
Okay people! Hope ya'll liked it! Please, please, PLEASE review! See ya'll next chapter. And I thank all of you who reviewed before, thank ya'll so much!
No one here to blame
No one to point the finger
It's just you, and me, and the rain
--U2, If God Will His Angels
As you see, I've decided to put quotes in this book. But, I have to say, yet another chapter in this story! I also have to say that I am currently writing three books at one time! I feel like it's easier because if I have a block on one, I can turn to another! It also sparks Ideas for my others if I work back and forth, so I guess I don't update the fastest... forgive me! My book has no descriptive sex in it. None what so ever. Well, here's the next chapter in the west.
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 2: Runaway Plans
Duo looked up at the dark, wooden ceiling of the room in which he slept. A sodden candle lighted the room. The wick was so tiny that it was only a small amount of light it gave off. Right before his tiresome eyes, the flame no bigger that an insect became as long as a finger. Duo immediately stood up and ran out of the door, brushing his hair that was unbraided out of his face.
"Usagi! Usagi, where are you?" He screamed running up the large staircase. 'Oh, god, what has he done to her?!' He thought frantically. He stomped up the last step and ran down the hallway, he stopped at the door and listened for a second.
"Get away from me you drunken fool!" screamed a voice that belonged to a girl. "Shadow! Duo! Help me, please!" Her voice was sodden with tears and she screamed so desperately that her voice cracked.
Duo swung the door open and surveyed the scene. There was the sheriff, his father, with shreds of cloth in one hand and a wrist in the other, towering over a small and huddled figure. It was Usagi, she watched Duo eagerly for a second. The sheriff turned to face him.
"Get out of here, boy! This a man's job!" Said the sheriff in a voice that wreaked the sound of alcohol. He turned back to the blonde, "What is this Usagi? The fiftieth time you've put up a fight? The fiftieth time I've succeeded?" Usagi cast a glance near the candle with a big tear. Duo looked quickly and grabbed the gun that he had not noticed was near the candle. The man was taken aback.
"Get off of her. NOW." Duo ordered. The man held his hands up and let the girl slide out from under him.
"Put the gun down, son. You don't want to kill me. Put it down."
Usagi rushed behind Duo and hid next to the door, only letting her face show. She wiped the tears away with her sleeve, and then whistled. A loud crack sounded then Shadow began to blunder through the kitchen and up the stairs. The black wolf then stood next to Duo, she had called him as reinforcement.
Duo held the gun wittingly. He walked to the side of the bed near the wall, all the while the man stood still. Duo held the gun to his father's face.
"You know, pa? I've always hated the way you treated me after mom died. I've always hated the way that you treat Usagi too. And, before you die, I thought that I should let you know... Me and Usagi, we lost our virginity together." The man got a look of horror on his face. "Yeah, pa! I never humped that whore you sent me to! You disgusting pig, see you in hell from the point of view in heaven."
He cocked the gun, then the trigger clicked and the man covered his face. Nothing happened. He cocked it then the trigger clicked again, and again. Nothing happened. The man bared a smile of a demon and grabbed the gun.
"Looks like I forgot to load the gun. Oh, you're in big trouble now boy." His father said. He raised the gun and smashed it on Duo's temple with a crack that made Usagi cringe. Shadow began to bark wildly. Usagi quickly grabbed Duo and dragged him by his hands to the room next door. She bayed Shadow to come in the room too.
He trotted along pleasurably, keeping his eyes on the startled sheriff. Usagi was at the door waiting patiently for the wolf, the wolf kept his eye still on Duo's father and ran into the doorframe with a yelp. Then he rushed into the room with a snarl at the man's laughs. Usagi only managed a small smile. Then she locked the door.
"You silly beast." She said digging her fingers through his fur in a praising way. Duo gave a small grumble as he awoke from his short unconsciousness. She led shadow to the foot of the bed. Shadow was forced to sleep outside, only during a rain he used the lattice to climb to her window. He loved to sleep with her.
"Is he dead?" Duo asked unsurely.
"You gave him quite a scare. Now tell me of this whore you were talking about." She said with a slight pause as she helped him from the floor to her bed.
"You sound mad." He said in a teasing voice, despite his injuries.
"I might be." She said with a smile.
"When I was fifteen, pa wanted me to cross the threshold into manhood with a whore he hired for me in the Silver Saloon." The Silver Saloon was the best and only Saloon in town. They chose silver because that's the color of bullets, but the second floor of the saloon was a whorehouse. "I wanted to have sex for the first time with someone I loved and cared about. Not with someone hired to do it. So I asked if she would pretend that we had sex, and pa still paid her. Then a month later, me and you did it secretly."
"Ah, I remember it overwhelmed you. You didn't wake up until dinner time and then you went straight back to bed." They both gave a couple of snickers.
"Yeah, but I wanted to ask you something." He said changing the subject.
"Shoot."
"Is that a pun? If it is then it's not that funny." Duo gave an expression that said he wasn't being serious. Shadow rolled over and crawled in between them and licked the blood off Duo's face.
"Ha ha," She said mockingly, "I didn't mean it as a pun. Just ask me the question." She said with a smile.
"If you ever runaway, I'm going with you."
"I'm too afraid to runaway. That man will kill me." She stood up and grabbed a bowl with a sponge and wrung the sponge out. "I've got to clean the second cut he's given you today."
"God, no! That crap hurts! I swear those stupid herbs must double the pain. Can't we just use water?"
"C'mon! You're seventeen! You can handle a little pain. Or are you a little baby?" She put her fingers on the end of his nose and made a bunch a baby noises.
"Fine, just do it quick." He said stubbornly.
"Okay, as quick as I can. But you're lucky I have these herbs. If I didn't, your cut would get infected and swell to the size of a watermelon. Now, hold still. And don't grab hold of Shadow cause he won't like it."
"Okay. Any thing else I should know? All sarcasm intended." He added quickly at her glance, although her glance was sweet.
"Yeah, you should know that you're going to be locked in this room all night with me and Shadow." A devious grin came upon her face and then she placed the sponge on his cut.
"He leaves in the morning. He'll be out of town tomorrow for the opening of the new town ten miles from here. He'll be gone for two days." Duo let a sigh out. Then he grabbed her wrist and held the sponge away for a second. "That stings!"
"It cleans your cut better than anything else! Now if you grab the sponge again I'll have to throw you back out into the house with that drunk. Stay still."
"I guess I'll take up on your offer later." He said with a cunning grin, despite the throbbing of the sponge.
"Shadow, it looks like your going to be on the floor tonight." Shadow lifted his head briefly with a grunt then laid it back down.
"Did you ever let your first wolf sleep up here with you?" He asked in a manner that could only reveal that he was in pain.
"Shadow crept up the lattice and in here every night. Then that awful man came in here and shot him." She whispered.
She had followed her first wolf to the den of his mate. There, they had a wonderful litter of eleven puppies. One pup was going to have to wait on the side while the other ten fed, the mother only had ten tits, as does every dog or wolf. Usagi watched the splendor of new birth that day. And only two weeks after, that evil man had slapped her, and then Shadow leapt up in defense and the sheriff shot him. That night, she snuck to the den of his mate, with Shadow's carcass. The only reason she did not die at the mercy of the mother wolf that night was because she was half Indian, and she remembered all the things her mother had taught her of animals. She took the black pup from that litter and set him aside as she buried Shadow in the graveyard out side of town. She was only nine and had no idea on how to feed the pup, which was not weaned. The farmer let her stick the new Shadow in with newborn piglets. After the new Shadow WAS weaned, she brought him home. She did the same thing with the Shadow she had now, but she was fourteen. She couldn't wait to see the wolf cubs that would be born next, because Shadow was the only black wolf out of the whole litter of eight. Now she was sixteen and she would make sure that Shadow did not die at the hands of that man.
Duo looked at the blank expression on Usagi's face. He knew she was thinking of the wolf in which her mother given her. He rubbed his cheek to interrupt her thinking, she looked sadder every second.
"Do you think that these scratches from the thorns will heal to NOT become scars?" He asked.
"I think that they will heal in time, and they will be scars most defiantly. They'll make you look tough and all men will identify you with them. When your reputation as a gunslinger kicks off, you'll be called 'Scars.'"
"That sounds a bit awkward. How about 'Braided Scars?'"
"I think that sounds even better than my name, Braided Scars. It reminds me of my mother. Her name was Braided flowers." She smiled as she lifted the sponge from his head and put the bowl back on her vanity.
"For now, just call me Duo. Okay?"
"Sure. I'll keep calling you Duo. Until you win your first gun draw."
"Yeah, just got to get a criminal in this town." He tried to hide his excitement, but he still let it show.
"There's one in the next room you can start off with." She said with a frown.
"He's a bit too experienced for me, but I promise you I'll kill him. And I'll kill him just for you." His smile was genuine.
She walked back to the bed and sat next to him. "You sure do know how to charm a lady, by all means." She leaned over and began to gather his hair in one hand. She rubbed his hair on her cheek and closed her eyes. He had such beautiful hair.
Duo just sat and watched her, her perfect hands glided over the brown hair in which he took so much pride. He jumped as Shadow stood and got off the bed and sat near the window, watching them intently.
"Did he really mean what he said? About the 'fiftieth' and all?" Duo asked in concern.
"I didn't want to tell you because I knew that he would hurt us both. I did it for you. He threatened to kill you in your sleep." Her voice was sorrowful as she tightened the grip on his hair.
"I'm sorry I never stopped it before... If I had known, I would have sent the whole town on him. When did he start that awful thing?"
"After I lost my virginity to you." She grimaced. "I'm glad that you were my first partner instead of him." The town did know that Usagi and Duo had a thing for each other. But they didn't know that they had such an involved relationship. It was inappropriate for two to not marry after going so far.
"I am too. I love you, Usagi. I will never leave you." He reached out his hand and touched her face. "Runaway with me, while he's gone. Let's runaway together."
"I will, if you come, I will." She let go of his hair and went around the bed. She lifted the covers then slid into them and he did the same, since he was already in his nightclothes.
Duo scooted closer to her and held her tightly. Then he kissed her lips and she kissed back. He kissed her more passionately than ever before, and she returned it. She began to undo his buttons as he kissed her neck. Then he stopped and pulled her away.
"What's wrong?" She asked in confusion.
"I can't do this while he's watching me." He said shyly.
"Who? No one else is in here."
"I mean Shadow! I can't have sex while he's watching me!" Duo said in frustration. He turned to the black wolf.
"How about I watch you and your girlfriend, huh?! How would you like that?!" The wolf gave a small whimper and turned towards the wall and sunk to the floor. Duo turned back to Usagi, she was asleep. "Damn dog." Shadow turned and looked at him with a small growl. "Okay, damn wolf then." He said in apology. Shadow turned back around with a satisfied grunt and laid his head back down.
Duo heaved a big sigh and turned over towards Usagi. He had that strange feeling like some one was watching him. He turned back around and Shadow was staring at him again. "Fine. Get up here." He said exasperatedly.
Okay people! Hope ya'll liked it! Please, please, PLEASE review! See ya'll next chapter. And I thank all of you who reviewed before, thank ya'll so much!
