Scarlet Love
Chapter Eight:
Reverting Back
By: NightChild
Slight warning: there are some small spoilers for Endless Waltz here….
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Heero didn't block the punch that Wufei had aimed for his left cheek in time, and was hit square on by the punch, his head snapping back with the force of it. He wiped the thin trail of blood from the corner of his mouth away. Then he attacked with a lightning-quick punch of his own, aiming for Wufei's abdomen, putting as much force behind the blow as he could, he couldn't afford to waste time with this fight. He had to shake his trackers, if there were really any--old habits die hard, as they say, and Heero still didn't completely trust anyone…well…except maybe for Duo Maxwell, but he wasn't about to admit it to anyone, including himself--and get back to the house to tend to Duo.
There wasn't time for Heero to linger on that train of thoughts, because at that moment he was thrown back into a tree and pinned there by his opponent, Wufei. "Listen to me, Yuy. There's a trap waiting for you just a little farther up this path, do you really want to get caught by them?!" ground out Wufei, his onyx eyes glinting dangerously.
Heero glared at his once-ally and comrade, and half-snarled out, "Just how do you know this?" Memories of the Eve War [1] flashed through his mind. Wufei had acted as a member of Mariemaia's army, for reasons that were of his own, although it had looked like he had betrayed his fellow Pilots. Things had turned in the end, however, and he had helped bring the army down.
Wufei's voice brought Heero out of his reminiscent thoughts, "I am posing as one of their soldiers because of a Preventer mission. I found out they had located you and Duo, they were planning on staking out a park near your house, and setting traps in it just incase you were spotted--"
Heero effectively cut Wufei off, "If they knew where we were, why didn't they just attack the house?"
Wufei sighed and continued, "I do not know, I can only guess that they knew that plan would not work and decided to chance that one of you would show up at this park." He finished his explanation, watching Heero's face, but he couldn't see any emotion on that face or in the deep blue eyes, it seemed that Heero Yuy had reverted back to being The Perfect Solider.
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Duo followed the trail of blood into a thicket of bushes, and fell back a step at what he saw. Lying on the ground in a puddle of congealing blood, laid a man that was obviously a solider when he was still living. He had a hole in his head that could only be a bullet wound, his apparently once-white-blond hair soaked in the slightly chunking mass of blood that surrounded him, the black of his uniform shirt darker in places where the blood had seeped through, his white breeches stained forever sickening red, the black and white beret-like hat the same sickening red where the letters stood out and the black darker than it should have been.
Duo reeled back at the gruesome sight be fore him, it had been a while since he had to face that much gore; and he had never liked gore much in the first place. He hadn't thought that he would have to deal with it ever again. But he was horribly mistaken. "Who did this…?" he gasped out as he gathered the mask that he had pushed to the back of his mind after the war ended. "It looks like Shinigami's gonna have to come back from hell." He said to himself before darting off into the woods, following the slight blood trail that continued away from the chilling sight of the body that had once been a man.
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[1]: I think that's what they called the war that was in Endless Waltz, if I have it wrong, would someone tell me?
AN: I realize that this chapter is short (again) and it's been a while since I updated, but I'm fighting writers block at the moment.
Thank you, a glomp and a cookie to BlueMoonDuchess, Duo-js, Cherrii, Wolfgirl333, Aquarius, Yaoi addict, Randalbezerker, Blue Eyed Angel2, and Lone Warriors for reviewing (some of you repeatedly) and brightening my day.
Until next time…
Ja`ne