Gundam wing A/C / Spirited away crossover
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 6: Frog work, Nanashi and a friend of the family.
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Wufei was woken in the early hours of the morning by a noise that wasn't a sound he usually heard in the boiler room. As he reached for his kettle and began to drink Wufei noticed a figure out of the corner of his eye and choked. Duo lay on the far side of the wooden platform, curled around a bundle of black cloth, sleeping and dead to the world as he randomly thought something about minions. Wufei shook his head as he heard the sleepy ramblings and reached out with two long arms to grab the cushion on the floor and lay it over the braided mute. He felt sorry for the boy that Relena had had to take his voice away from him. That was an all-new low for the pink money-grabbing banshee.
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Later that morning Duo helped Quatre put away the sleeping mats in their room. "Where were you Duo?" The blonde asked as Duo passed him another blanket. "I couldn't find you anywhere this morning and I was really worried." Duo just shrugged, his mind was silent. He didn't want to tell anyone about his meeting with Heero or what had happened on the hill. Quatre didn't push Duo into telling; he knew the braided teen was keeping something from him. Quatre lead Duo out to the main area of the bathhouse and joined a bunch of other cleaners who were washing the wooden floors. Duo copied Quatre's movements as he raced with the others in the room with practiced ease. Duo was slightly slower as he moved across the room but soon caught on and charged into the task, finishing his work before even Quatre.
Other cleaners where putting out cushions around the fire pits when a frog approached Quatre and Duo. "HEY! QUATRE!" he yelled before he got close, "You've got the big tub today so get to work." Duo looked at Quatre's face and saw outrage glimmering in his aqua marine blue eyes. "WHAT? But sir that's frog work!" Quatre argued. The frog shrugged, he could care less. "Tough luck, these orders come right from the top so just get down there and start cleaning." Quatre huffed at being brushed off and stormed out of the room, only taking the time to glare sharply at Duo when the braided teen fell over, holding his stomach as he rolled in the floor, gasping violently with silent laughter.
When they reached the big tub Duo almost regretted laughing... almost being the key word. Grass and remains from past guests littered the floor and the tub was caked with mould and slime. "Uggghhh, yuck." Quatre complained, irritated. "This tub is usually left for the more... healthy guests. Frogs usually clean it but I think the banshee just wants to be spiteful toward you." Duo shrugged and moved forward into the mess, taking the broom he'd been given off his shoulder he put it to the floor and began to scrub off the waste. //"Then the best way to get up her nose is to clean it up and do a damn good job at it too."// Quatre thought for a moment before a grin slipped over his face. "Alright then, lets get to work."
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It began to rain just as night was falling. The heavy torrents of water thundered down on the roof of the bathhouse, echoing in the wide halls and rattling the glass in the windows. Duo was emptying a container of water into the garden when the sentinel spirit that had been on the bridge suddenly made itself known with a whisper. /"Will you let me in?"/ Duo looked up startled to see the half clown's mask on the face of a man about Quatre's age. //"Whoa! Are you the spirit from the bridge?"// Duo asked to make sure. He nodded, /"I was bound to guard it by Relena, My friend Quatre lets me in sometimes."/ Duo's eyebrows raised. //"Then would you wait a second? I'll go get him then."// the spirit nodded and Duo skipped off. He found Quatre standing in the tub trying to scrub the walls.
//"Q-ball."// Duo's mind voice crooned to him. //"There's this spirit thingy that turned into a human at the side entrance and he says you let him in sometimes, who is he?"// Quatre's eyes lit up at the description. "Oh that's Trowa! He used to be known as Nanashi but I thought that was kinda sad so I named him." Duo backed off a little as Quatre went into a happy place and wondered off toward the door where Trowa was waiting. Duo shook his head and finished scrubbing the tub before climbing out and sitting on the edge to watch the other frogs and servers as they all rushed around outside and settled in to wait for someone to give him something else to do. Hell, was he bored!
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Relena was sitting at her pink desk trying to finish painting her nail's fairy floss pink. She'd just received the bottle from the human world that morning and hadn't had time to try it out yet. Now her fingernail's shone with the glossy color. Relena sighed, "If only Heero would stop playing hard to get and admit he loves me." She scowled before she remembered that frowning gave her wrinkles and smiled again. "Well, I already killed that guy that liked him, what was he again?" The three heads on the floor rolled about nervously and the one with the freaky eyebrows answered. "I do believe he was the son of Shinigami." Relena almost frowned again at the name, "Oh yes, I hope that the old coot isn't so mad about loosing his son. I don't see why he's so mad... his whelp was an obstacle between me and my Heero so naturally he had to go."
Out of her range of sight the head with the pink braids gagged crossing its eyes, the head with the glasses fell forward into the carpet to muffle giggles. The head with the eyebrows frowned at Relena, "Did you ever maybe think that Yuy doesn't like you?" Relena snapped a glare on her almost instantly. "Don't even mention such a thing again Dorothy!" Relena cried in outrage. "Heero loves me and only me, he's just playing hard to get that's all." She turned her nose into the air and pretended to ignore them. "Yeah right," the huge baby looked in a pen to one side of the room scoffed. "If I hadn't been delivering that love note from Heero to my master you wouldn't have turned me into this. It one screwed up piece of witchcraft if you ask me, you didn't even get the height right." Relena turned her glare to the behemoth infant. "And you could do better?" She snapped.
Hilde laughed at her shrewdly then stopped as a smell floated to her nostrils on a foul wind. "Ugh Relena! Did you try I cook again or something, jeeze!" Relena's face crumpled as the smell reached her. "What the hell is that?" She asked, running to the open window and looking out. A large slimy mass rose up above the roof tops of the town below as it made its painfully slow progress toward the bathhouse. "Oh Damn it, it's a stink spirit." She cursed, her once beautiful face wrinkled further as she got peeved. She ran back to her desk and grabbed a fluffy pink toy teddy bear off the pink wood and began to speak into it. "What the hell is going on down there?" She yelled. In the background Hilde was laughing herself sick.
"Well, there's a stink spirit coming right for the bath house and it's not going to turn away." Relena growled. "Okay get all the other guests back to their rooms and let that spirit get in and out as fast as possible and send that new human worker, Duo I think his name was, to meet me at the front doors." She hung up and left the room.
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Duo was ready to fall asleep by the time someone finally came for him. A frog poked his head around the doorway only gaping for a moment at the spotless tub before he called out to the teen sitting on the rim. "Hey! Duo, Relena wants you at the front entrance on the double!" Duo looked up at him and slid off the rim, Making his was to the front entrance he noticed the other workers sending the other guests away and wondered what the hell was going on. As he got closer to the front entrance a strange feeling entered his head. Relena was waiting for him, looking very tense. "Good there you are, There a customer coming to the bath house and it's your job to take care of it so just get it in give it a bath and get it out as fast as possible.
Duo sorely wished he had a voice to taunt her with but at that moment the customer arrived and it took all of Duo's will power not to cover his nose. The feeling in the back of his head grew as it stopped before him and held out gold coins that Relena hungrily prompted him to take, but as he came into contact with the sludge and jolt of power ran through him. //"You are not what you seem."// Duo's mind voice claimed immediately. A second voice from amid the slime chuckled as Duo lead him through the bathhouse. //'Yes young one, I am indeed more than I appear at this moment. Although usually I would not come to this place it was necessary to find you.'// Now Duo was confused, //"Me?"// he asked.
The great mass bobbed its 'head' as Duo swiped a bath token like the one Quatre had shown him earlier that day. When they reached the big tub the spirit slid inside it and looked back at Duo who had moved to the side to send the water token to Wufei. A moment later the water chute slid down. Duo climbed up and pulled the handle to start the water but at the last second he slipped and fell. A mental shout was the only thing heard as he plunged into the water but the spirit in the tub picked him up with a chuckle. //'Still as clumsy as ever, shi.'// he held up the boy to his side. Duo shook the water out of his face and looked at the spirit only to see what looked like a thorn in the spirit's side. He grasped it and tried to pull but the thing remained stuck.
Far above the struggling Duo Relena was looking at the scene in the big tub with a critical eye. "Something is not right here." She muttered to herself as the blonde man Quatre finally appeared to help the new teen. Then something happened that startled everyone it the bathhouse. Quatre opened his mouth and yelled.
"DUO SAYS THERE'S SOMETHING STUCK IN THE SPIRIT'S SIDE!"
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Well that it for this chapter, I know a few things might have been strange to some people but hey, I'm twisted and so are the worlds I write about.
Oh yeah and I suppose you've already guessed why Quatre went into his happy place and who exactly Relena was talking about with Hilde and the heads, though if you don't understand you'll have to wait until the next chapter is up to find out, heeheeheeheeheehee.
Cya ^__^\/
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 6: Frog work, Nanashi and a friend of the family.
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Wufei was woken in the early hours of the morning by a noise that wasn't a sound he usually heard in the boiler room. As he reached for his kettle and began to drink Wufei noticed a figure out of the corner of his eye and choked. Duo lay on the far side of the wooden platform, curled around a bundle of black cloth, sleeping and dead to the world as he randomly thought something about minions. Wufei shook his head as he heard the sleepy ramblings and reached out with two long arms to grab the cushion on the floor and lay it over the braided mute. He felt sorry for the boy that Relena had had to take his voice away from him. That was an all-new low for the pink money-grabbing banshee.
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Later that morning Duo helped Quatre put away the sleeping mats in their room. "Where were you Duo?" The blonde asked as Duo passed him another blanket. "I couldn't find you anywhere this morning and I was really worried." Duo just shrugged, his mind was silent. He didn't want to tell anyone about his meeting with Heero or what had happened on the hill. Quatre didn't push Duo into telling; he knew the braided teen was keeping something from him. Quatre lead Duo out to the main area of the bathhouse and joined a bunch of other cleaners who were washing the wooden floors. Duo copied Quatre's movements as he raced with the others in the room with practiced ease. Duo was slightly slower as he moved across the room but soon caught on and charged into the task, finishing his work before even Quatre.
Other cleaners where putting out cushions around the fire pits when a frog approached Quatre and Duo. "HEY! QUATRE!" he yelled before he got close, "You've got the big tub today so get to work." Duo looked at Quatre's face and saw outrage glimmering in his aqua marine blue eyes. "WHAT? But sir that's frog work!" Quatre argued. The frog shrugged, he could care less. "Tough luck, these orders come right from the top so just get down there and start cleaning." Quatre huffed at being brushed off and stormed out of the room, only taking the time to glare sharply at Duo when the braided teen fell over, holding his stomach as he rolled in the floor, gasping violently with silent laughter.
When they reached the big tub Duo almost regretted laughing... almost being the key word. Grass and remains from past guests littered the floor and the tub was caked with mould and slime. "Uggghhh, yuck." Quatre complained, irritated. "This tub is usually left for the more... healthy guests. Frogs usually clean it but I think the banshee just wants to be spiteful toward you." Duo shrugged and moved forward into the mess, taking the broom he'd been given off his shoulder he put it to the floor and began to scrub off the waste. //"Then the best way to get up her nose is to clean it up and do a damn good job at it too."// Quatre thought for a moment before a grin slipped over his face. "Alright then, lets get to work."
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It began to rain just as night was falling. The heavy torrents of water thundered down on the roof of the bathhouse, echoing in the wide halls and rattling the glass in the windows. Duo was emptying a container of water into the garden when the sentinel spirit that had been on the bridge suddenly made itself known with a whisper. /"Will you let me in?"/ Duo looked up startled to see the half clown's mask on the face of a man about Quatre's age. //"Whoa! Are you the spirit from the bridge?"// Duo asked to make sure. He nodded, /"I was bound to guard it by Relena, My friend Quatre lets me in sometimes."/ Duo's eyebrows raised. //"Then would you wait a second? I'll go get him then."// the spirit nodded and Duo skipped off. He found Quatre standing in the tub trying to scrub the walls.
//"Q-ball."// Duo's mind voice crooned to him. //"There's this spirit thingy that turned into a human at the side entrance and he says you let him in sometimes, who is he?"// Quatre's eyes lit up at the description. "Oh that's Trowa! He used to be known as Nanashi but I thought that was kinda sad so I named him." Duo backed off a little as Quatre went into a happy place and wondered off toward the door where Trowa was waiting. Duo shook his head and finished scrubbing the tub before climbing out and sitting on the edge to watch the other frogs and servers as they all rushed around outside and settled in to wait for someone to give him something else to do. Hell, was he bored!
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Relena was sitting at her pink desk trying to finish painting her nail's fairy floss pink. She'd just received the bottle from the human world that morning and hadn't had time to try it out yet. Now her fingernail's shone with the glossy color. Relena sighed, "If only Heero would stop playing hard to get and admit he loves me." She scowled before she remembered that frowning gave her wrinkles and smiled again. "Well, I already killed that guy that liked him, what was he again?" The three heads on the floor rolled about nervously and the one with the freaky eyebrows answered. "I do believe he was the son of Shinigami." Relena almost frowned again at the name, "Oh yes, I hope that the old coot isn't so mad about loosing his son. I don't see why he's so mad... his whelp was an obstacle between me and my Heero so naturally he had to go."
Out of her range of sight the head with the pink braids gagged crossing its eyes, the head with the glasses fell forward into the carpet to muffle giggles. The head with the eyebrows frowned at Relena, "Did you ever maybe think that Yuy doesn't like you?" Relena snapped a glare on her almost instantly. "Don't even mention such a thing again Dorothy!" Relena cried in outrage. "Heero loves me and only me, he's just playing hard to get that's all." She turned her nose into the air and pretended to ignore them. "Yeah right," the huge baby looked in a pen to one side of the room scoffed. "If I hadn't been delivering that love note from Heero to my master you wouldn't have turned me into this. It one screwed up piece of witchcraft if you ask me, you didn't even get the height right." Relena turned her glare to the behemoth infant. "And you could do better?" She snapped.
Hilde laughed at her shrewdly then stopped as a smell floated to her nostrils on a foul wind. "Ugh Relena! Did you try I cook again or something, jeeze!" Relena's face crumpled as the smell reached her. "What the hell is that?" She asked, running to the open window and looking out. A large slimy mass rose up above the roof tops of the town below as it made its painfully slow progress toward the bathhouse. "Oh Damn it, it's a stink spirit." She cursed, her once beautiful face wrinkled further as she got peeved. She ran back to her desk and grabbed a fluffy pink toy teddy bear off the pink wood and began to speak into it. "What the hell is going on down there?" She yelled. In the background Hilde was laughing herself sick.
"Well, there's a stink spirit coming right for the bath house and it's not going to turn away." Relena growled. "Okay get all the other guests back to their rooms and let that spirit get in and out as fast as possible and send that new human worker, Duo I think his name was, to meet me at the front doors." She hung up and left the room.
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Duo was ready to fall asleep by the time someone finally came for him. A frog poked his head around the doorway only gaping for a moment at the spotless tub before he called out to the teen sitting on the rim. "Hey! Duo, Relena wants you at the front entrance on the double!" Duo looked up at him and slid off the rim, Making his was to the front entrance he noticed the other workers sending the other guests away and wondered what the hell was going on. As he got closer to the front entrance a strange feeling entered his head. Relena was waiting for him, looking very tense. "Good there you are, There a customer coming to the bath house and it's your job to take care of it so just get it in give it a bath and get it out as fast as possible.
Duo sorely wished he had a voice to taunt her with but at that moment the customer arrived and it took all of Duo's will power not to cover his nose. The feeling in the back of his head grew as it stopped before him and held out gold coins that Relena hungrily prompted him to take, but as he came into contact with the sludge and jolt of power ran through him. //"You are not what you seem."// Duo's mind voice claimed immediately. A second voice from amid the slime chuckled as Duo lead him through the bathhouse. //'Yes young one, I am indeed more than I appear at this moment. Although usually I would not come to this place it was necessary to find you.'// Now Duo was confused, //"Me?"// he asked.
The great mass bobbed its 'head' as Duo swiped a bath token like the one Quatre had shown him earlier that day. When they reached the big tub the spirit slid inside it and looked back at Duo who had moved to the side to send the water token to Wufei. A moment later the water chute slid down. Duo climbed up and pulled the handle to start the water but at the last second he slipped and fell. A mental shout was the only thing heard as he plunged into the water but the spirit in the tub picked him up with a chuckle. //'Still as clumsy as ever, shi.'// he held up the boy to his side. Duo shook the water out of his face and looked at the spirit only to see what looked like a thorn in the spirit's side. He grasped it and tried to pull but the thing remained stuck.
Far above the struggling Duo Relena was looking at the scene in the big tub with a critical eye. "Something is not right here." She muttered to herself as the blonde man Quatre finally appeared to help the new teen. Then something happened that startled everyone it the bathhouse. Quatre opened his mouth and yelled.
"DUO SAYS THERE'S SOMETHING STUCK IN THE SPIRIT'S SIDE!"
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Well that it for this chapter, I know a few things might have been strange to some people but hey, I'm twisted and so are the worlds I write about.
Oh yeah and I suppose you've already guessed why Quatre went into his happy place and who exactly Relena was talking about with Hilde and the heads, though if you don't understand you'll have to wait until the next chapter is up to find out, heeheeheeheeheehee.
Cya ^__^\/