Hey there! This is my second fanfic so please be nice! ^^ I hope you enjoy the angsty stuff between Duo and the pilots. As you can tell, Duo is my favorite GW character, and I love to give him angst. I have absolutely NOTHING against yaoi, but I wanted to make a sort of family atmosphere between the pilots. I mean they're all they have! Well, please read and review! ^_~
Signed,
~Shinobi Goddess~
Damnation of the Heart
Chapter 1: The death of Shinigami
His body sat there. Blood flowing freely from the wound in his chest. He coughed and tried to move, but the pain only intensified. He dropped back to his seat and closed his eyes slowly, watching his life pass him by. Of course, he wasn't afraid to die, it was this. Watching his life screen through his thoughts. He knew, that it was time to go. Slowly, his chest stopped moving up and down, and his breathe was gone. Duo, the shinigami was dead. Who would care right? He's only a murderer, there would be no point to miss him, would there?
Heero docked his gundam and looked for deathscythe, but Duo nor the gundam were seen.
"Hilde, where's Duo? He left before us, isn't he back yet?" Heero asked Hilde walking up to her. Hilde looked at Duo's docking space.
"Sorry Heero, Duo hasn't showed up at all. He probably went out for a drink or something." Hilde said smiling. Heero shook his head.
"Duo's a gloat freak, he'd never miss a chance to gloat about his mission. But if something happened to him-" Hilde looked at Heero worried.
"Don't worry, I'll go and look for him." Heero said sighing in annoyance. He got into Wing Zero and blasted off into the sky.
"Where are you, you idiot." Heero said speaking to himself.
"There!" Heero said in success. A flashing red light appeared on the tracking map. Heero looked at the light and he raced as fast as he could to Duo.
Heero climbed out of Wing Zero and raced to the Deathsycthe. It stood with an energy sword through the cockpit. Heero looked at it angrily and jumped up into his gundam. He used Wing Zero to pull the sword out of the Deathscthe and then rushed to Duo. He tried to lift the cockpit's door, but it was stuck in place.
"DUO! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, OPEN THE DOOR! DUO!?" Heero said now with a little worry in his voice.
After a few hours of trying, he finally got the door free and he slowly pushed the door open. But what he found, he turned away and shut his eyes. He looked back only to see Duo's lifeless body sitting there in the cockpit's seat. A hole imprinted into his chest.
Wing zero finally flew into the hanger, and everyone ran out to see him. But they saw Duo's gundam first. The hole still cut in the cockpit's center. Hilde almost screamed and Quatre and Trowa ran to help Heero.
"Heero! Where's-" Quatre stopped in mid sentence when he saw Duo in Heero's arms when the Wing Zero's cockpit door opened.
"Oh my god...." Quatre too had to look away.
"GET A MEDIC!!!" Trowa called brashly to the others. Hilde was in tears now. Her hands clutched. Relena ran to Hilde's side and hugged her trying to comfort her.
"It's gonna be okay, You'll see." Relena said not so sure of herself. Hilde tried to get a look at Duo when the medics ran past with him on the stretcher, but his whole body was covered in white sheets. Hilde tried to follow, but Heero grabbed her arm and shook his head. Tears weld up in her eyes and Heero pulled her close and let her cry on him.
"Hilde...Duo's gone." She cried even harder, and tried to erase those words from her mind but she just couldn't. Quatre, Trowa, and yes, even Wufei were effected. But the two that were most effected, where Hilde, and Heero.
Duo's gone. Why would it matter? He knew the consequences, why would I care? Heero thought to himself as Hilde cried. He closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around Hilde. She just cried even harder, remembering Duo had done the same thing whenever she was upset or sad.
The next day, Duo's funeral was held. having no name to put on his grave, made the shock of reality even more painful to the gundam pilots. They knew, that Duo had no family, and he was alone for most of his life. He knew the consequences of being a pilot. They all did. Heero, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei stood in a row next to Duo's coffin. They were in their finest soldier clothing. Heero offered to say a few words for Hilde's sake. Finally, Heero stepped up and spoke.
"Duo was a fine soldier and a great role model to some. When Duo joined the force, he knew his life would be at stake, we all knew when we joined. I don't know much to say about his personality. Actually, he was quite annoying....but he was a good encourager and always tried to give positive light to things.....no matter how hard and endless things seemed....." Heero sighed.
"I sure wish he were here to give me that look on his face and give me those words right now....." Heero looked out into the crowd, and without realizing it, tears were streaming from his eyes. He looked at the other pilots and they too found themselves crying. The shock of the reality of being a pilot had taken hold of them, and they were afraid for the first time. Heero scanned through the crowd and spotted a man in a black cloak and with a scythe in his hand under a tree. He tried to get a better look, but the man disappeared. Heero became tense, sensing something was going to happen…something to change their lives forever….