Author: aomurasakiai
Warnings: AU, Angst, Sap, Shounen ai/Yaoi [Lime Warning]
Pairings: 2+1, 1+2, 2x1 [R+1]
Spoilers: None
Rating: PG-13 [R in Chapters 17 and 18]
*Everything above may be
subject to change*
~~~Winner Memorial Hospital, Intensive Care Unit~~~
"Slow down!"
Lady Une continued to run down the hall, paying no heed to Mr. Darlian's command. She was so close to getting Heero back… she would *not* let that girl take him away. As she turned a corner, she cried out and almost tripped when she tried stopping to avoid colliding with a blonde teen. He reached out and grabbed Lady Une by the arm, helping her to regain her balance.
"Thank you," she sighed out.
"It's okay, are you all right?" he questioned her.
"I wish…"
"My Lady, you should be more careful," Mr. Darlian said, coming around the corner.
"Mr. Darlian!" the blonde boy exclaimed.
"Young Quatre, what are you doing here?" Mr. Darlian asked in surprise.
~~~Winner Memorial Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, Room 102~~~
"Heero… what's wrong?" Relena asked the conscious teen. She saw him move his lips and removed the oxygen mask without another thought.
"You… you stayed? All this time?" Heero asked in a weak voice.
"Well no, I just came a few minutes ago. I had to take care of something."
"Sou ka… I thought… you would stay…" Heero said forlornly.
"I had something important to do," Relena reasoned.
"More important… than me?" Cerulean eyes widened in surprise. She was about to answer when she heard a cry from outside the door. She heard some low mumbling before her father's voice came in clear. She smiled and got up, anxious to introduce her fiancé to him. However, the door opened without warning and in walked…
"What are *you* doing here?!" she cried out at Lady Une.
"Relena," she heard her father say in a low voice.
"But--" Mr. Darlian cut her off with an angry look.
Lady Une slowly made her way to the bed, trembling as she got closer. Tears slid down her cheeks as she studied the frail looking boy.
"Heero…" Cobalt eyes looked up at her.
"Lady Une… where… where is Duo?" Lady Une sat down and held his hand.
"Don't worry, he'll be here. I promise you he'll be here," she sobbed out.
"Stop this absurdity, Father." Relena spoke up. "I have chosen Heero to be my husband and that hateful woman is trying to tear him away. This isn't the first time either. She has tried in the pa--"
*Smack*
A slap vibrated through the air. Relena slowly turned her head to glance back at her father, her eyes wide with shock. She raised her hand to a reddened cheek.
"You… you hit me?"
"I'm sorry, but I will not allow you to talk about Lady Une that way. Be glad that I will not add any more punishment for what you have done upon Lady Une's request."
Relena glanced back and forth between her father and Lady Une. In a daze she moved forward to Heero, needing someone to stabilize her.
"Heero? Please talk to me." Heero looked up at the girl.
"Don't talk Heero. You need your rest," Lady Une urged him. He slowly shook his head.
"Relena… someday, you will find that special someone who will truly care for you."
"But you will Heero. I know you will."
"I cannot…"
"Why? Why do you say that Heero? How can you know if we don't try?" Heero smiled as he answered.
"When… when someone who accepts you from the bottom of their heart appears… that… that person should become the most important person to you. No one wanted me for so long. But Duo… Duo wanted me. Me, the me that my parents hated…"
"But Heero that… that is wrong… boys shouldn't…" Relena tried to force out.
"Is it wrong?" Relena stopped when Heero's expression suddenly changed.
"What's wrong with that?" Heero continued, misery clouding his eyes. "Duo had hopes for me… he wanted me and I… I need him. But if I'm your fiancé, he can't…" Tears began trickling from his eyes.
"Duo can't be with me anymore…"
Relena stood silently, shedding her own tears with each heartbroken word that was said. She turned away and closed her eyes, not being able to withstand the sight before her. This sorrow radiating from the Japanese teen was the same as before… not because of the detachment of a place… but because of a person.
This was the first time Heero had actually spoken to her about why Duo was so important to him. She didn't understand before… angry at how he always thought of him instead of her. But now she knew why, realizing that perhaps everything in the world could *never* match that one special person…
She took a deep, shaking breath. Her world had collapsed the moment her father's hand made contact with her cheek. Never had she felt such rage from him. It was then she was literally hit with the fact that she could not always be "daddy's little girl," like she thought she could be. Always using him to get what she wanted… just because she was the daughter of the Vice Foreign Minister… just because her name was "Darlian"…
Opening her damp eyes again, she looked at the teen on the bed.
"I'm sorry…" she said quietly, before turning to Lady Une.
"I'm truly sorry." Lady Une just nodded, forgiving her. Still… Relena felt worse. She made her way back to her father who was waiting by the door.
"Father…" she stopped when he held up his hand.
"We'll talk on our way back to England," he said. She bit her lip but nodded anyway. Mr. Darlian waved farewell to Lady Une before leading Relena out of the room.
Lady Une turned her attention back to Heero and saw that he was asleep. Giving his hand one last squeeze, she released it and went outside to get one of the doctors.
'I must call Duo,' she thought, and hurried down the hall.
tbc…
Notes:
"When someone who accepts you from the bottom of their heart appears, that person should become the most important person to you. Zabuza-san knew that I was from a family with the Bloodline Limit and raised me. He wanted this ability that everyone hated."
"Is it wrong? What's wrong with that? Zabuza-san had hopes for me. He needed me. But I have lost the purpose that made me, me. Zabuza-san will no longer need me."
~~~Haku ("Naruto" Episode 17 fansubbed by ANBU-AonE)
Haku's words again and they are from the same episode that the words I had used for Chapter 13 were in. I just cut some words and changed some words. I'm not making claims to "Naruto"… it belongs to whoever owns it.