Disclaimer: I dont even have time to review these things befor i put them up! Do you honestly think i have time to write a diclaimer for every chap!!?? Just look at the first chapter if ya really need ta know ;)
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Wufei turned to the brunette and cursed. "What the fuck do we do now!!??"
The boy didn't answer, he stared blankly at one of the legs of the table they were seated at. Finally he looked up, and saw Wufei watching him expectantly.
"One of us will have to go break it to Zechs..." he began hesitantly checking that the prisoner was still there out of the corner of his eye. Indeed, the boy was fingering a trinket on one of the shelves in fascination and the brunette once again focused on the task at hand. "Though I'd just love to see him hang for suggesting a kidnapping of the Prince, he's got a big mouth...hed name names..." He looked at Wufei again.
"I'll go. No need to get him angry with you. I could care less what he thinks about me..." he finished, still in monotone.
Wufei eyed him carefully then nodded. "Fine, I'll stay here with him...but dont take too long." He slammed his fist on the table shaking his head furiously. "Damnit!! I cant believe this!"
The brunette nodded solemnly as he stood up. Without another word he walked the length of the room, lifted the drape and exited.
Wufei sat in silence for a few moments before an increasingly annoying voice found its way to his ears.
"He's not exactly the social type is he?"
Wufei looked over to where the boy was sitting. Having nothing better to do, he decided to humour the boy.
"No, never has been"
But Duo wouldn't let it rest there...
"He looks...foreign....Yuy, thats a Japanese name isn't it?"
Wufei shrugged. "Guess so, his first names Heero or something like that. He came to us on recommendation for this job."
"Heero," Duo murmered to himself. More loudly he asked "So what exactly is it that you guys are after?
Wufei scowled. "Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"
Duo grinned "Only everyday of my life!"
Wufei groaned. Somehow, he didn't think he was going to enjoy this 'quality time' with the braided fool...
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Heero looked high and low in the city for Zechs but could not spot him anywhere. He decided that the blond must be almost to the castle by now while he was still quite far, so he went to the nearest inn to inquire about the rental of a horse.
The Innkeeper came out wearing a smile and tagging along behind her was a brilliant white stallion with a flawless mane and strong looking legs.
"Actually, I was looking for a good home for this one, you wouldn't mind taking him would you?" asked the girl hesitantly. "No charge!" she added, seeing the look on his face.
Heero looked at her for quite awhile before nodding once and saddling him. After all, he could use a good horse and it wasn't everyday that someone offered one for free. Then a thought occured to him.
"Whats wrong with him?"
The girl looked up sheepishly. "Well...their's nothing really WRONG per say. Hes healthy and all that...Its just..."
She didn't get a chance to answer because the horse took that moment to buck wildly. Taking Heero along for the ride. He seemed to be testing his new rider for strength and worthiness.
Heero held on to the reins tightly, not allowing the horse to throw him. After a few minutes of this the horse slowed and came to a stop. Seeming satisfied with its new owner.
Heero smirked. No horse had ever been able to throw him, ever. The Innkeeper seemed ecstatic.
"Oh thats just wonderful!!" she squealed as Heero bent to scratch the horses ear. "I've been trying to find a strong keeper for that one for a month now! Then I saw you and I was like why not give it a go? Im Relena by the way who are you?"
(MUAHAHAHAHA None of you saw that coming did you? :D )
"Heero, Heero Yuy" he answered slowly. Normally he never told his name when asked but the girl seemed innocent enough. She had strawberry blond hair and pretty blue eyes and was simply radiating charm.
Heero looked at her again and had a strange feeling he had seen her before. "Do I know you?" he asked. She just stared at him blankly and he, deciding to take advantage of temporary oblivious state, applied pressure to the horses flanks with his legs and steered him out of the stable quickly.
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Duo had calmed down considerably in the last twenty minutes and Wufei looked up from his book and behind him just to make sure the boy was still there.
From the way that the braided boy had been asking question after question when Heero left, Wufei had thought he would have to deal with being quizzed right up to the time he walked back in with their leader, which could be awhile.
But Duo had simply walked over to a sofa and sat down, seeming to be in deep thought and fingering something around his neck.
Wufeis instincts kicked in before he had time to think. "What've you got there?" After all, it could be some kind of tool of escape.
Duo looked up at him and stared for moment blankly before grinning and answering. "Oh nothin, just a necklace...don't worry, Im not going to try and escape with it."
Wufei held a smirk at that, seeing how the boy seemed to read his mind. He obviously had some street smarts, further proving that his group had made a mistake...he scowled at that and was about to turn back to his reading when Duo asked another question.
"So...what're you guys gonna do with me when your leader finds out that Im not the one you wanted, y'kow" he looked up, "when he finds out theres no reward..."
Wufei thought on that and shrugged "Probably dispose of you" he tensed immidiately after he said it and stood up abruptly when he realized he had just said the thing that would set the boy off again. He prepared himself to catch the boy should he decide to run for it.
Duo just stared at him. Wufei noticed his face had not changed at all, just seemed to have had something confirmed to him that he had known all along.
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Heero pulled the horse into a run as he sensed an uneasy feeling coming from the city.
As he entered he heard shouting voices and pulled the horse closer to hear what they were saying.
"...TRAITOR..."
Heero tensed, it seemed that he was a bit late and he cursed to himself, tuning around and catching a few snipit of conversation as he did...
"Burn him!"
"Nono! We need to find the prince...torture him! Find out all he knows!!"
Heero became uneasy himself, knowing now that not only had Zechs been found...but he had been captured, and that meant, he and Wufei were next.
He quickly spun the horse and ran back in the direction of the cottage.
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Duo noticed Wufeis guarding stance and managed to grin a bit. "Hey don't worry, Im not gonna freak out again, that was a one time thing. You just suprised me thats all, and after...well..." he trailed off but Wufei didn't need to hear anymore as Duo looked down. He promised himself to have a talk with Zechs about honorable conduct later.
The two sat in silence for a moment until they were surprised by the door slamming open and an stoic Heero walking in. He walked over to some desks and began to go through them.
Wufei stepped forward boldly. "What are you doing?"
Heero didn't look up as he answered calmly "Zechs has been captured, we must relocate"
Wufeis eyes bulged and he went to grab his only possession, his long katana in an upstairs room.
Duo watched Heero rummage through the desk and got a good look this time. He had a lean frame, and a definite asian face topped with messy brown locks. His face was just as unreadable as his deep blue eyes and Duo was immidiately fascinated with the boy. He found himself once again staring but this time, the brunette seemed to sense the eyes on him and he turned to stare back.
The boys were interrupted when they heard a loud knock on the door.
Heero muttered a curse, expecting to hear the voices of the royal guard at any minute...but it was silent. He got up and walked slowly to the drape that hid the door from sight. He lifted it and noticed that a small envelope had been pushed underneath.
He picked it up catiously and pried it open. Inside was simple letter and Heero's eyes widened when he saw who it was from.
Wufei came down the stairs and seeing Heero holding the letter walked over and held out his hand to receive it.
Having finished with it he handed it to Wufei, looked once again at their braided captor and walked into the kitchen.
Wufei looked down and read:
' The mission is a failure. Kill the boy and Rendezvous at the old dance club on the outskirts of the town in three days '
Zechs
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Wufei looked up as well, but he did not seem quite as disturbed as Heero. He had expected something like this from their leader though he didn't want to be the one with an innocents blood on his hands.
He saw through the corner of his eye, Heero walk back in still deep in thought and drying his hands with a clean towel.
"So" he started "When do we move?"
Heero looked at him, then to their prisoner, who was also staring at him aprehensively and looking frightened and then back to Wufei. "We wait." He said firmly. "We dont do anything till the time is up. We dont need unnescisary blood on our hands if its a false alarm."
Wufei looked shocked. "A false alarm!? It's from Zechs! He doesn't do that kind of thing..."
Heero cut him off. "I heard them talk about a prisoner with my own ears and I'll be damned if it was anyone BUT Zechs who they could've been referring to."
Wufei was still skeptical "But who else could know were here? Are you suggesting that someone else knows about us and is posing as Zechs to lure us into some kind of trap?"
Heero didn't say anything for awhile, but when he finally spoke up he said "Never underestimate your enemies..." He threw another look to where Duo sat on the sofa, noticing that the frightened expression had softened as he realized that the two weren't going to do anything to him just yet. Then he walked out.
When Duo finally took his eyes away from the door where Heero had just dissapeared, he saw that he was alone in the room. He noticed the drapery near the stairs was swaying slightly and figured that was where Wufei had gone.
He found his mind drifting back to the boy known as Heero. 'he doesn't let anything out from that cold shell' he told himself thoughtfully 'but his eyes betray everything.'
He once again looked to the door that Heero had just been standing in as his thoughts continue.
'He's a strange one. That Wufei seems to look up to him a lot though that one named Zechs seems to feel nothing but contempt, and he said something about Heero being recommended. What was that all about?' He was getting more and more curious about the blue eyed boy as he continued.
'He probably saved my hide. That note undoubtedly told them to "dispose" of me and Wufei was ready to do it...but why not him? He doesn't seem to enjoy what he does one bit...I can see it in his eyes though he does a good job of hiding it. They're all haunted and empty...' his face saddened as he suddenly found himself sleepy. He stretched out on his sofa and as he started to float into dreamland one last thought went through his mind
'Its not right that such beautiful eyes are dimmed with such pain...have to fix that...' and with that he thought no more.
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Heero was also questioning himself as he sat in the kitchen staring ahead at nothing. The words of the note kept repeating themselves in his head...
/...mission is a failure.../
No, this was supposed to be his last! It couldn't fail!
/...rendezvous...three days.../
No, he couldn't take it anymore. The mission should've been over by now! He should've had his reward by now and been far away in some distant country...
/...Kill the boy.../
Heero shook his head angrily. 'It shouldn't have been that hard' he thought to himself. 'This is what you were trained for! Stop letting your feelings get in the way!' But Heero knew reprimanding himself would do no good. One look in those frightened Violet eyes had stayed his hand, and he knew he couldn't allow it to happen.
He hit the table with his palm and cursed. He knew also that there was really no way around it. If he didn't do it, Wufei would. If he could somehow talk Wufei out of it, and let the boy go, Zechs would be after him in a heartbeat if it was truly he that had sent them that note. He wouldn't allow the boy to squeal by letting him live.
Growling he stood up to check on the mentioned prisoner and was immidiately alarmed when he couldn't find him. He quickly walked over to the sofa, which was facing the other way and sighed with relief when he saw the boys figure curled up in sleep.
He didn't know why he didn't just return to the kitchen after checking on him. Instead, he slowly made his way around the sofa to an armchair on the other side and sat down. Just staring at the sleeping form.
He looked so peaceful just lying there, his eyes closed and a few stray hairs brushing his face. Another wave of guilt washed over him as he remembered that the boy would most likely be dead in three days time. He rubbed his hands together subconciously as he continued to stare down at the resting form.
Duo must've felt the eyes on him because a moment later, his eyes fluttered open and Heero felt himself again staring into Violet depths. Neither said a word for a moment. Duo was the first to break the silence.
Okaaay...just skimming this thing has caused TONS of spelling mistakes to come to my attention but alas...i have no time to fix them ;_; anywhoo..hows it goin so far story wise? Yeah it get more in depth in the next couple of chapters but the third isn't finished yet so...yeah...you can expect it in a few days. Ja ne for now!!
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Wufei turned to the brunette and cursed. "What the fuck do we do now!!??"
The boy didn't answer, he stared blankly at one of the legs of the table they were seated at. Finally he looked up, and saw Wufei watching him expectantly.
"One of us will have to go break it to Zechs..." he began hesitantly checking that the prisoner was still there out of the corner of his eye. Indeed, the boy was fingering a trinket on one of the shelves in fascination and the brunette once again focused on the task at hand. "Though I'd just love to see him hang for suggesting a kidnapping of the Prince, he's got a big mouth...hed name names..." He looked at Wufei again.
"I'll go. No need to get him angry with you. I could care less what he thinks about me..." he finished, still in monotone.
Wufei eyed him carefully then nodded. "Fine, I'll stay here with him...but dont take too long." He slammed his fist on the table shaking his head furiously. "Damnit!! I cant believe this!"
The brunette nodded solemnly as he stood up. Without another word he walked the length of the room, lifted the drape and exited.
Wufei sat in silence for a few moments before an increasingly annoying voice found its way to his ears.
"He's not exactly the social type is he?"
Wufei looked over to where the boy was sitting. Having nothing better to do, he decided to humour the boy.
"No, never has been"
But Duo wouldn't let it rest there...
"He looks...foreign....Yuy, thats a Japanese name isn't it?"
Wufei shrugged. "Guess so, his first names Heero or something like that. He came to us on recommendation for this job."
"Heero," Duo murmered to himself. More loudly he asked "So what exactly is it that you guys are after?
Wufei scowled. "Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"
Duo grinned "Only everyday of my life!"
Wufei groaned. Somehow, he didn't think he was going to enjoy this 'quality time' with the braided fool...
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Heero looked high and low in the city for Zechs but could not spot him anywhere. He decided that the blond must be almost to the castle by now while he was still quite far, so he went to the nearest inn to inquire about the rental of a horse.
The Innkeeper came out wearing a smile and tagging along behind her was a brilliant white stallion with a flawless mane and strong looking legs.
"Actually, I was looking for a good home for this one, you wouldn't mind taking him would you?" asked the girl hesitantly. "No charge!" she added, seeing the look on his face.
Heero looked at her for quite awhile before nodding once and saddling him. After all, he could use a good horse and it wasn't everyday that someone offered one for free. Then a thought occured to him.
"Whats wrong with him?"
The girl looked up sheepishly. "Well...their's nothing really WRONG per say. Hes healthy and all that...Its just..."
She didn't get a chance to answer because the horse took that moment to buck wildly. Taking Heero along for the ride. He seemed to be testing his new rider for strength and worthiness.
Heero held on to the reins tightly, not allowing the horse to throw him. After a few minutes of this the horse slowed and came to a stop. Seeming satisfied with its new owner.
Heero smirked. No horse had ever been able to throw him, ever. The Innkeeper seemed ecstatic.
"Oh thats just wonderful!!" she squealed as Heero bent to scratch the horses ear. "I've been trying to find a strong keeper for that one for a month now! Then I saw you and I was like why not give it a go? Im Relena by the way who are you?"
(MUAHAHAHAHA None of you saw that coming did you? :D )
"Heero, Heero Yuy" he answered slowly. Normally he never told his name when asked but the girl seemed innocent enough. She had strawberry blond hair and pretty blue eyes and was simply radiating charm.
Heero looked at her again and had a strange feeling he had seen her before. "Do I know you?" he asked. She just stared at him blankly and he, deciding to take advantage of temporary oblivious state, applied pressure to the horses flanks with his legs and steered him out of the stable quickly.
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Duo had calmed down considerably in the last twenty minutes and Wufei looked up from his book and behind him just to make sure the boy was still there.
From the way that the braided boy had been asking question after question when Heero left, Wufei had thought he would have to deal with being quizzed right up to the time he walked back in with their leader, which could be awhile.
But Duo had simply walked over to a sofa and sat down, seeming to be in deep thought and fingering something around his neck.
Wufeis instincts kicked in before he had time to think. "What've you got there?" After all, it could be some kind of tool of escape.
Duo looked up at him and stared for moment blankly before grinning and answering. "Oh nothin, just a necklace...don't worry, Im not going to try and escape with it."
Wufei held a smirk at that, seeing how the boy seemed to read his mind. He obviously had some street smarts, further proving that his group had made a mistake...he scowled at that and was about to turn back to his reading when Duo asked another question.
"So...what're you guys gonna do with me when your leader finds out that Im not the one you wanted, y'kow" he looked up, "when he finds out theres no reward..."
Wufei thought on that and shrugged "Probably dispose of you" he tensed immidiately after he said it and stood up abruptly when he realized he had just said the thing that would set the boy off again. He prepared himself to catch the boy should he decide to run for it.
Duo just stared at him. Wufei noticed his face had not changed at all, just seemed to have had something confirmed to him that he had known all along.
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Heero pulled the horse into a run as he sensed an uneasy feeling coming from the city.
As he entered he heard shouting voices and pulled the horse closer to hear what they were saying.
"...TRAITOR..."
Heero tensed, it seemed that he was a bit late and he cursed to himself, tuning around and catching a few snipit of conversation as he did...
"Burn him!"
"Nono! We need to find the prince...torture him! Find out all he knows!!"
Heero became uneasy himself, knowing now that not only had Zechs been found...but he had been captured, and that meant, he and Wufei were next.
He quickly spun the horse and ran back in the direction of the cottage.
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Duo noticed Wufeis guarding stance and managed to grin a bit. "Hey don't worry, Im not gonna freak out again, that was a one time thing. You just suprised me thats all, and after...well..." he trailed off but Wufei didn't need to hear anymore as Duo looked down. He promised himself to have a talk with Zechs about honorable conduct later.
The two sat in silence for a moment until they were surprised by the door slamming open and an stoic Heero walking in. He walked over to some desks and began to go through them.
Wufei stepped forward boldly. "What are you doing?"
Heero didn't look up as he answered calmly "Zechs has been captured, we must relocate"
Wufeis eyes bulged and he went to grab his only possession, his long katana in an upstairs room.
Duo watched Heero rummage through the desk and got a good look this time. He had a lean frame, and a definite asian face topped with messy brown locks. His face was just as unreadable as his deep blue eyes and Duo was immidiately fascinated with the boy. He found himself once again staring but this time, the brunette seemed to sense the eyes on him and he turned to stare back.
The boys were interrupted when they heard a loud knock on the door.
Heero muttered a curse, expecting to hear the voices of the royal guard at any minute...but it was silent. He got up and walked slowly to the drape that hid the door from sight. He lifted it and noticed that a small envelope had been pushed underneath.
He picked it up catiously and pried it open. Inside was simple letter and Heero's eyes widened when he saw who it was from.
Wufei came down the stairs and seeing Heero holding the letter walked over and held out his hand to receive it.
Having finished with it he handed it to Wufei, looked once again at their braided captor and walked into the kitchen.
Wufei looked down and read:
' The mission is a failure. Kill the boy and Rendezvous at the old dance club on the outskirts of the town in three days '
Zechs
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Wufei looked up as well, but he did not seem quite as disturbed as Heero. He had expected something like this from their leader though he didn't want to be the one with an innocents blood on his hands.
He saw through the corner of his eye, Heero walk back in still deep in thought and drying his hands with a clean towel.
"So" he started "When do we move?"
Heero looked at him, then to their prisoner, who was also staring at him aprehensively and looking frightened and then back to Wufei. "We wait." He said firmly. "We dont do anything till the time is up. We dont need unnescisary blood on our hands if its a false alarm."
Wufei looked shocked. "A false alarm!? It's from Zechs! He doesn't do that kind of thing..."
Heero cut him off. "I heard them talk about a prisoner with my own ears and I'll be damned if it was anyone BUT Zechs who they could've been referring to."
Wufei was still skeptical "But who else could know were here? Are you suggesting that someone else knows about us and is posing as Zechs to lure us into some kind of trap?"
Heero didn't say anything for awhile, but when he finally spoke up he said "Never underestimate your enemies..." He threw another look to where Duo sat on the sofa, noticing that the frightened expression had softened as he realized that the two weren't going to do anything to him just yet. Then he walked out.
When Duo finally took his eyes away from the door where Heero had just dissapeared, he saw that he was alone in the room. He noticed the drapery near the stairs was swaying slightly and figured that was where Wufei had gone.
He found his mind drifting back to the boy known as Heero. 'he doesn't let anything out from that cold shell' he told himself thoughtfully 'but his eyes betray everything.'
He once again looked to the door that Heero had just been standing in as his thoughts continue.
'He's a strange one. That Wufei seems to look up to him a lot though that one named Zechs seems to feel nothing but contempt, and he said something about Heero being recommended. What was that all about?' He was getting more and more curious about the blue eyed boy as he continued.
'He probably saved my hide. That note undoubtedly told them to "dispose" of me and Wufei was ready to do it...but why not him? He doesn't seem to enjoy what he does one bit...I can see it in his eyes though he does a good job of hiding it. They're all haunted and empty...' his face saddened as he suddenly found himself sleepy. He stretched out on his sofa and as he started to float into dreamland one last thought went through his mind
'Its not right that such beautiful eyes are dimmed with such pain...have to fix that...' and with that he thought no more.
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Heero was also questioning himself as he sat in the kitchen staring ahead at nothing. The words of the note kept repeating themselves in his head...
/...mission is a failure.../
No, this was supposed to be his last! It couldn't fail!
/...rendezvous...three days.../
No, he couldn't take it anymore. The mission should've been over by now! He should've had his reward by now and been far away in some distant country...
/...Kill the boy.../
Heero shook his head angrily. 'It shouldn't have been that hard' he thought to himself. 'This is what you were trained for! Stop letting your feelings get in the way!' But Heero knew reprimanding himself would do no good. One look in those frightened Violet eyes had stayed his hand, and he knew he couldn't allow it to happen.
He hit the table with his palm and cursed. He knew also that there was really no way around it. If he didn't do it, Wufei would. If he could somehow talk Wufei out of it, and let the boy go, Zechs would be after him in a heartbeat if it was truly he that had sent them that note. He wouldn't allow the boy to squeal by letting him live.
Growling he stood up to check on the mentioned prisoner and was immidiately alarmed when he couldn't find him. He quickly walked over to the sofa, which was facing the other way and sighed with relief when he saw the boys figure curled up in sleep.
He didn't know why he didn't just return to the kitchen after checking on him. Instead, he slowly made his way around the sofa to an armchair on the other side and sat down. Just staring at the sleeping form.
He looked so peaceful just lying there, his eyes closed and a few stray hairs brushing his face. Another wave of guilt washed over him as he remembered that the boy would most likely be dead in three days time. He rubbed his hands together subconciously as he continued to stare down at the resting form.
Duo must've felt the eyes on him because a moment later, his eyes fluttered open and Heero felt himself again staring into Violet depths. Neither said a word for a moment. Duo was the first to break the silence.
Okaaay...just skimming this thing has caused TONS of spelling mistakes to come to my attention but alas...i have no time to fix them ;_; anywhoo..hows it goin so far story wise? Yeah it get more in depth in the next couple of chapters but the third isn't finished yet so...yeah...you can expect it in a few days. Ja ne for now!!
