Gundam wing A/C / Spirited away crossover
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 9: Once upon a time in the realm of death.
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"What the hell is going on Duo? Relena is tearing apart the bath house looking for you!"
Quatre then did a double take, looking around the room to see the two winged guardians, a black clad Duo, an unconscious Heero and bloody walls. "Allah!" he gasped, "What happened here?" Hilde dragged him inside and slammed the door, planting her body in the entrance. "Quatre!" Duo cried, effectively stunning the blonde. "You... Your voice..." Duo waved a hand, "No time for that, I need you and Wufei to watch over Heero while I go and see Zechs..." Quatre finally caught up with what he was saying. "Whoa! Wait a minute. You're leaving? With Relena after you? She's already out for your blood and now you've spirited Heero out from under her nose!" Duo's violet eyes pleaded with him desperately. "Quatre, I don't know why but I just have to do this. The situation will only get worse if I don't and I don't want to see Hee-chan die. I've dreamt all my life of him, for what reason, I don't know, but I'm not about to sit by and let him die instead."
Quatre's face softened as he realised that Duo would do whatever it took to keep Heero alive and out of Relena's hands. In his heart he felt Duo's emotions radiating strongly and couldn't fight against something that Duo believed in with all his soul. A smile found its way onto the older teen's face. "Alright, I'll watch him and Trowa will act as lookout for me." Duo's smile was nearly blinding as he glomped on to the blonde. "Thanks." He pulled away and waved to Hilde and Treize. "Okay you guys! We gotta bounce!"
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To Duo the train ride felt like it had taken an eternity. With each passing station the braided teen's uneasiness grew. It was all Treize and Hilde could do just to watch him as he stared out the window to the horizon ahead. Night was falling like a star filled blanket over the sky's of the spirit realm by the time the three of them reached swamp bottom. The train slid to a stop at the station and Hilde, Treize and Duo all got out. "Oh man!" Hilde groaned, stretching out her muscles. "I haven't sat down that long in ages, not even while I was a baby." Duo rolled his eyes and started off down the only path. "Is that a bad thing or a good thing?" he asked as they walked. Treize joined in, "For Hilde it is bad, she's hyper and enjoys her work way to much." Duo's eyebrows shot up. "Sounds like me when I get a hold of to much coffee'."
Hilde gave them both a scandalized look and began to pout as a rusty squeaking started up somewhere ahead of them. The two bat-winged bodyguards tensed ever so slightly as a light came bouncing around the bend in the path to stop before them. Duo stared at the lantern that hopped around on its single hand. It bowed awkwardly toward them, a gesture that the three returned. It turned around and began to hop the way it had come. "Well if that isn't an invitation I don't know what is." Duo said and plunged after it. The lanterns lead them along the path toward a small farm. As they reached the gate the Lantern jumped and held on the bar above it, swinging for a moment with a soft squeak.
They entered the yard, looking around and peering into the darkness around them as they made their way toward the building in the center. Duo raised his hand to knock but it swung open before he could so much as touch it. They stood stunned for a moment and Duo peered around the doorframe. "Yo! Zechs? Ya here?" a voice came from behind the door. "Yes now get inside! I'm not about to hold this thing open all night you know." Duo eeped and crossed the threshold Hilde and Treize only just managed to get inside before the blonde man snapped the door shut. Duo looked around the rather small house, spying a woman with short purple hair before he remembered why he was there and rummaged around his pocket for the seal.
Hilde and Treize hovered uncertainly as Duo strode up to Zechs. "Hey, here's the seal. Now can you take the spell off Heero?" Zechs peered down at the small gold block. "Hmm, interesting, I wonder where the spell went, its already been destroyed." Duo looked at him in surprise. "What? It didn't happen to be shaped like a slug did it? 'Cause if it was it's gone now, we flattened it." Zechs looked surprised and sat down a moment before he burst out laughing. "A slug, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No, that was how Relena controlled him; the slug has a little bit of her essence in it that made him do what she wanted at times, but as for my curse... That can only be broken by love, pure and simple young Shi." Duo's mouth was shaped like a little 'O' as he heard this, then he snapped out of it.
"Why does everyone call me that?" Duo demanded, peeved. "So far I've had at least four or five different people call me that, including the river spirit, and not once have they bothered to tell me why." Zechs raised an eyebrow at the sulking teen, and then he leaned over so that only he could hear what he said. "Duo, the answers you seek are all up here." He tapped Duo's forehead with a pale finger. "You know why already, you just have to remember." He pulled away to face the purple haired woman who had walked up to Hilde and Treize and was now dragging them toward a corner with a spinning wheel. "Noin, is that any way to treat guests?" Noin sent him a look of exasperation over her shoulder. "They where just milling around like sheep so they might as well be set to doing something useful." Zechs shook his head and turned away to do his own work, leaving a very confused Duo alone with his thoughts.
Duo moved numbly over to a chair and curled up on it. As he did his hair tie got caught on the edge of a jutting nail and snapped, letting his hair unravel from its braid and fall around him like a curtain. Duo paid it no heed, preferring instead to stare into space as he searched his whirring mind for the answers Zechs said where there but couldn't find anything.
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Heero rose slowly through the levels of consciousness, he was unsure of where exactly he was. The spirit could feel blankets around him, the air smelt like coal and mingled herbs. The comforting rumble of the boilers came next and Heero knew he was down with Wufei. But where was Duo? He remembered the braided boy calling out to him when he was in pain and growling when Relena called him. Did Relena catch him? Was he safe? Heero opened his eyes and blinked up at the roof of the boiler room. Everything seemed all right. He caught sight of the dry blood smeared along the walls and wondered 'did I do that?' Heero closed his eyes again and mentally checked for injuries and to his surprise, found none. He remembered the pain and almost dying but then Duo had come and everything had been all right, did he remember?
Prussian eyes opened once more and Heero sat up, letting the blankets fall away and startled Wufei and Quatre by speaking. "What happened? Where's Duo?" At the first word out of his mouth Heero almost winced. He hadn't meant to say the last part. Quatre span around and smiled at him tersely. "Ah! You're awake! We where beginning to worry about you, Duo would kill us if you'd died." Heero stared at him for a moment before her regained a little of his composure. "Where is he?" he asked calmly. Wufei came and sat beside him. "Duo went with Hilde and Treize to return the golden seal that you stole from Zechs in order to get him to lift the curse that was placed on you." Heero concealed his surprise, "He went with Hilde and Treize? But I thought they..." Wufei cut him off. "They've been turned back to their normal forms." Hope burned in Heero's eyes. "Does he remember?" Wufei sighed heavily. "No, they went with him on their own, they insisted on escorting him." Heero's disappointment was evident.
"Ah, would you mind explaining this to me?" Quatre interrupted suddenly, "I'm a little lost here." Heero slid out of the blankets fully and looked down at his torn clothes. "Duo isn't the human he seems to be." He started, pushing himself to his knees. "In his past life Duo was known as Shi, or death, the son of Shinigami. We... you could say we where best friends that turned into something more in the end, until Shi was killed..." He trailed off again. "It all started with Relena. She's been after me since the day she met me and has been watching my every move since. She intercepted Hilde who was running with a message from Duo to me and transformed her into a baby to get the note off her, when she realized it was from Shi she immediately feared our relationship and went off and killed him the same night." Heero's hands clenched, his knuckles turned white and blood seeped from his palm as his nails dug into his skin.
"She had the messed up idea that I loved her and that I just wanted to make her think I was playing hard to get so she eliminated all competition and cast a spell on me to keep me under her control. It did take hold the way she wanted to and I fought to weaken it even while I grieved for Duo. Then after so many years Duo was reborn. I knew his spirit was alive again the moment it entered the human world, but he couldn't remember what happened or what he was. Then finally he came here, something lead him into the spirit world again and I'd hoped that he'd remembered and now he's gone again..."
He trailed off once more, not bothering to hide his expressions from Wufei or Quatre. The blonde put a small hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry about Duo, I'm certain he'll remember soon enough, with you around it's only a matter of time." Heero nodded, getting himself under control once more. Quatre had taken his hand away when the door that led to the rest of the bathhouse opened and Trowa slid inside, shutting and baring it behind him. He looked over at Quatre and Heero. "She's coming." He said simply, not bothering to elaborate, he didn't need to. The room's three other occupants understood perfectly what was going on and burst into action.
Heero moved to the door to cheek how for away she was and pulled his head in a second later, a cold, calculating look on his face. He couldn't feel Relena's control anymore and obviously she knew it to or she just would have called. Then he smiled, something totally out of character for the ageless teen. Wufei caught the gleam in his eye and stepped back as he remembered when he had last seen then manic look on Heero's face. "No." He said as he back away further. Heero grinned wider, "Yes." He said in a laughing tone, "Need a distraction so I can find Duo."
Quatre and Trowa were suddenly very afraid as Heero set his insane gaze on them.
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Relena tore through the lower levels of the bathhouse as she looked for Heero and Duo. They had escaped from the pit via the lower pipes, as relieved as she was to know that Heero hadn't met his doom, she knew that if that brat Duo had been with him then there was nothing good about them living at all. Not only that but her prisoners had been released and it was all Shi's fault! She couldn't understand how she'd missed something so obvious when he'd first tumbled into her office. He looked identical to what he had in his past life, if anything more beautiful than last time and she hadn't realized it was him.
Growling, Relena descended the stairs to the boiler room. They had to be there, it was the only place in the bath house for them to run, Heero wouldn't live long if they left and Duo couldn't leave with out his voice and that was in her office... The grating noise of a lift starting began from the side and Relena looked around to see the last thing she wanted to see. Shi stood in the lift grinning at her manically, clad in the full robes of his station holding a wicked looking scythe in one hand and another person's hand in the other. Relena glared at him and he laughed at her, something that made her blink in confusion.
Snickering came from behind the black and violet clad figure as another person emerged, someone none other than Heero. His smug smirk sent a chill through the pink witch and she screamed as loud as she could. The walls around her cracked under the sound of her voice but the two in the lift seemed unaffected as they continued upwards into the bathhouse proper. Relena, in a murderous rage, gave chase but couldn't find them anywhere; no matter how hard she looked or how many times she interrogated the staff, including Quatre and Trowa, who had been by the lifts.
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Hilde and Treize spent nearly the whole time they where at Zechs' farm, helping his wife, Lucrezia with her spinning and cloth making and where making a pretty decent job of it too. At the moment their host was teaching Hilde how to knit. A task that was almost impossible to the winged Royal Guard. After a while she gave up trying and looked over at Lucrezia to see what she was doing with the thread they'd made earlier. She had it tied to the tiniest of looms and was turning the thin, violet stained thread in a long ribbon with rim's of gold down the side's. "What's that for?" She asked as she got a closer look at it. Lucrezia snipped off a loose thread and quickly finished off the end of the large ribbon.
"It's for his highness." Lucrezia whispered, careful not to let her voice carry to anyone else. "His hair tie snapped and he needs something else, but this will also protect him. You and Treize wove the thread and it now holds you need to protect the boy. It will keep him safe from magic and guide him a little although he will still always need someone to look over him no matter what he thinks." She handed the ribbon to Hilde, "Well what are you waiting for." Lucrezia said louder, making a flapping gesture with her hands to make her move. Hilde grinned and skipped over to where Duo sat and held it under the lost looking teen's nose. Duo blinked as he was shocked out of his thoughts and looked up at Hilde with wide violet eyes to see her grinning face. "Don't think to hard Duo, or you'll blow a brain cell or something." A giggle bubbled to the surface as he discarded his hopeless and depressed mood.
"So what's the ribbon for?" He asked looking at it. Hilde laughed and held it over his nose again. "Its for you, dummy. We made a ribbon for you hair, if you haven't noticed." Duo suddenly became aware of the chestnut curtain and cursed. "Dammit!" He snatched the ribbon out of her hand and pulled his hair behind his head, his nimble fingers expertly twisting the thick strands of hair back to obedience. He tied the new braid off with the ribbon and watched as it began to sparkle softly. He sent a look at Lucrezia who was pointedly not looking at him.
Then the windows began to rattle as a strong wind pounded them from the outside. Zechs looked up and put down his pen on the table. "Ah, he's finally arrived. Duo would you please go and get the door." Duo looked over at him and then padded over to the door, opened it... and froze. There stood the long lithe silver, navy blue and white dragon form of Heero. A wide smile lit Duo's face as he ran outside without so much as glancing back at the people coming into the yard behind him and threw himself at the dragon. Holding onto him as if his life depended on it. "Ah Hee-chan! I'm glad your okay, I was afraid you'd go and die on me." Duo whispered on the edge of tears. The dragon melted away and a human Heero took its place. "Shhh Shi, I'm not about to die yet..."
But even as Heero reassured him Duo was already lost in his memories as they poured into the front of his mind, bringing back images of a different lifetime.
He fell against Heero in a dead faint.
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Now this is where I really begin to change the story line from spirited away. I'd say it'll have about two or three more chapters before it's completely finished but for now you'll just have to live with this little cliffhanger.
Hehehehehehehehehehehe
Don't forget to review and a big THANK YOU to all who have already.
Cya ^__^ \/
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Spirited Away.
Chapter 9: Once upon a time in the realm of death.
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"What the hell is going on Duo? Relena is tearing apart the bath house looking for you!"
Quatre then did a double take, looking around the room to see the two winged guardians, a black clad Duo, an unconscious Heero and bloody walls. "Allah!" he gasped, "What happened here?" Hilde dragged him inside and slammed the door, planting her body in the entrance. "Quatre!" Duo cried, effectively stunning the blonde. "You... Your voice..." Duo waved a hand, "No time for that, I need you and Wufei to watch over Heero while I go and see Zechs..." Quatre finally caught up with what he was saying. "Whoa! Wait a minute. You're leaving? With Relena after you? She's already out for your blood and now you've spirited Heero out from under her nose!" Duo's violet eyes pleaded with him desperately. "Quatre, I don't know why but I just have to do this. The situation will only get worse if I don't and I don't want to see Hee-chan die. I've dreamt all my life of him, for what reason, I don't know, but I'm not about to sit by and let him die instead."
Quatre's face softened as he realised that Duo would do whatever it took to keep Heero alive and out of Relena's hands. In his heart he felt Duo's emotions radiating strongly and couldn't fight against something that Duo believed in with all his soul. A smile found its way onto the older teen's face. "Alright, I'll watch him and Trowa will act as lookout for me." Duo's smile was nearly blinding as he glomped on to the blonde. "Thanks." He pulled away and waved to Hilde and Treize. "Okay you guys! We gotta bounce!"
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To Duo the train ride felt like it had taken an eternity. With each passing station the braided teen's uneasiness grew. It was all Treize and Hilde could do just to watch him as he stared out the window to the horizon ahead. Night was falling like a star filled blanket over the sky's of the spirit realm by the time the three of them reached swamp bottom. The train slid to a stop at the station and Hilde, Treize and Duo all got out. "Oh man!" Hilde groaned, stretching out her muscles. "I haven't sat down that long in ages, not even while I was a baby." Duo rolled his eyes and started off down the only path. "Is that a bad thing or a good thing?" he asked as they walked. Treize joined in, "For Hilde it is bad, she's hyper and enjoys her work way to much." Duo's eyebrows shot up. "Sounds like me when I get a hold of to much coffee'."
Hilde gave them both a scandalized look and began to pout as a rusty squeaking started up somewhere ahead of them. The two bat-winged bodyguards tensed ever so slightly as a light came bouncing around the bend in the path to stop before them. Duo stared at the lantern that hopped around on its single hand. It bowed awkwardly toward them, a gesture that the three returned. It turned around and began to hop the way it had come. "Well if that isn't an invitation I don't know what is." Duo said and plunged after it. The lanterns lead them along the path toward a small farm. As they reached the gate the Lantern jumped and held on the bar above it, swinging for a moment with a soft squeak.
They entered the yard, looking around and peering into the darkness around them as they made their way toward the building in the center. Duo raised his hand to knock but it swung open before he could so much as touch it. They stood stunned for a moment and Duo peered around the doorframe. "Yo! Zechs? Ya here?" a voice came from behind the door. "Yes now get inside! I'm not about to hold this thing open all night you know." Duo eeped and crossed the threshold Hilde and Treize only just managed to get inside before the blonde man snapped the door shut. Duo looked around the rather small house, spying a woman with short purple hair before he remembered why he was there and rummaged around his pocket for the seal.
Hilde and Treize hovered uncertainly as Duo strode up to Zechs. "Hey, here's the seal. Now can you take the spell off Heero?" Zechs peered down at the small gold block. "Hmm, interesting, I wonder where the spell went, its already been destroyed." Duo looked at him in surprise. "What? It didn't happen to be shaped like a slug did it? 'Cause if it was it's gone now, we flattened it." Zechs looked surprised and sat down a moment before he burst out laughing. "A slug, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No, that was how Relena controlled him; the slug has a little bit of her essence in it that made him do what she wanted at times, but as for my curse... That can only be broken by love, pure and simple young Shi." Duo's mouth was shaped like a little 'O' as he heard this, then he snapped out of it.
"Why does everyone call me that?" Duo demanded, peeved. "So far I've had at least four or five different people call me that, including the river spirit, and not once have they bothered to tell me why." Zechs raised an eyebrow at the sulking teen, and then he leaned over so that only he could hear what he said. "Duo, the answers you seek are all up here." He tapped Duo's forehead with a pale finger. "You know why already, you just have to remember." He pulled away to face the purple haired woman who had walked up to Hilde and Treize and was now dragging them toward a corner with a spinning wheel. "Noin, is that any way to treat guests?" Noin sent him a look of exasperation over her shoulder. "They where just milling around like sheep so they might as well be set to doing something useful." Zechs shook his head and turned away to do his own work, leaving a very confused Duo alone with his thoughts.
Duo moved numbly over to a chair and curled up on it. As he did his hair tie got caught on the edge of a jutting nail and snapped, letting his hair unravel from its braid and fall around him like a curtain. Duo paid it no heed, preferring instead to stare into space as he searched his whirring mind for the answers Zechs said where there but couldn't find anything.
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Heero rose slowly through the levels of consciousness, he was unsure of where exactly he was. The spirit could feel blankets around him, the air smelt like coal and mingled herbs. The comforting rumble of the boilers came next and Heero knew he was down with Wufei. But where was Duo? He remembered the braided boy calling out to him when he was in pain and growling when Relena called him. Did Relena catch him? Was he safe? Heero opened his eyes and blinked up at the roof of the boiler room. Everything seemed all right. He caught sight of the dry blood smeared along the walls and wondered 'did I do that?' Heero closed his eyes again and mentally checked for injuries and to his surprise, found none. He remembered the pain and almost dying but then Duo had come and everything had been all right, did he remember?
Prussian eyes opened once more and Heero sat up, letting the blankets fall away and startled Wufei and Quatre by speaking. "What happened? Where's Duo?" At the first word out of his mouth Heero almost winced. He hadn't meant to say the last part. Quatre span around and smiled at him tersely. "Ah! You're awake! We where beginning to worry about you, Duo would kill us if you'd died." Heero stared at him for a moment before her regained a little of his composure. "Where is he?" he asked calmly. Wufei came and sat beside him. "Duo went with Hilde and Treize to return the golden seal that you stole from Zechs in order to get him to lift the curse that was placed on you." Heero concealed his surprise, "He went with Hilde and Treize? But I thought they..." Wufei cut him off. "They've been turned back to their normal forms." Hope burned in Heero's eyes. "Does he remember?" Wufei sighed heavily. "No, they went with him on their own, they insisted on escorting him." Heero's disappointment was evident.
"Ah, would you mind explaining this to me?" Quatre interrupted suddenly, "I'm a little lost here." Heero slid out of the blankets fully and looked down at his torn clothes. "Duo isn't the human he seems to be." He started, pushing himself to his knees. "In his past life Duo was known as Shi, or death, the son of Shinigami. We... you could say we where best friends that turned into something more in the end, until Shi was killed..." He trailed off again. "It all started with Relena. She's been after me since the day she met me and has been watching my every move since. She intercepted Hilde who was running with a message from Duo to me and transformed her into a baby to get the note off her, when she realized it was from Shi she immediately feared our relationship and went off and killed him the same night." Heero's hands clenched, his knuckles turned white and blood seeped from his palm as his nails dug into his skin.
"She had the messed up idea that I loved her and that I just wanted to make her think I was playing hard to get so she eliminated all competition and cast a spell on me to keep me under her control. It did take hold the way she wanted to and I fought to weaken it even while I grieved for Duo. Then after so many years Duo was reborn. I knew his spirit was alive again the moment it entered the human world, but he couldn't remember what happened or what he was. Then finally he came here, something lead him into the spirit world again and I'd hoped that he'd remembered and now he's gone again..."
He trailed off once more, not bothering to hide his expressions from Wufei or Quatre. The blonde put a small hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry about Duo, I'm certain he'll remember soon enough, with you around it's only a matter of time." Heero nodded, getting himself under control once more. Quatre had taken his hand away when the door that led to the rest of the bathhouse opened and Trowa slid inside, shutting and baring it behind him. He looked over at Quatre and Heero. "She's coming." He said simply, not bothering to elaborate, he didn't need to. The room's three other occupants understood perfectly what was going on and burst into action.
Heero moved to the door to cheek how for away she was and pulled his head in a second later, a cold, calculating look on his face. He couldn't feel Relena's control anymore and obviously she knew it to or she just would have called. Then he smiled, something totally out of character for the ageless teen. Wufei caught the gleam in his eye and stepped back as he remembered when he had last seen then manic look on Heero's face. "No." He said as he back away further. Heero grinned wider, "Yes." He said in a laughing tone, "Need a distraction so I can find Duo."
Quatre and Trowa were suddenly very afraid as Heero set his insane gaze on them.
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Relena tore through the lower levels of the bathhouse as she looked for Heero and Duo. They had escaped from the pit via the lower pipes, as relieved as she was to know that Heero hadn't met his doom, she knew that if that brat Duo had been with him then there was nothing good about them living at all. Not only that but her prisoners had been released and it was all Shi's fault! She couldn't understand how she'd missed something so obvious when he'd first tumbled into her office. He looked identical to what he had in his past life, if anything more beautiful than last time and she hadn't realized it was him.
Growling, Relena descended the stairs to the boiler room. They had to be there, it was the only place in the bath house for them to run, Heero wouldn't live long if they left and Duo couldn't leave with out his voice and that was in her office... The grating noise of a lift starting began from the side and Relena looked around to see the last thing she wanted to see. Shi stood in the lift grinning at her manically, clad in the full robes of his station holding a wicked looking scythe in one hand and another person's hand in the other. Relena glared at him and he laughed at her, something that made her blink in confusion.
Snickering came from behind the black and violet clad figure as another person emerged, someone none other than Heero. His smug smirk sent a chill through the pink witch and she screamed as loud as she could. The walls around her cracked under the sound of her voice but the two in the lift seemed unaffected as they continued upwards into the bathhouse proper. Relena, in a murderous rage, gave chase but couldn't find them anywhere; no matter how hard she looked or how many times she interrogated the staff, including Quatre and Trowa, who had been by the lifts.
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Hilde and Treize spent nearly the whole time they where at Zechs' farm, helping his wife, Lucrezia with her spinning and cloth making and where making a pretty decent job of it too. At the moment their host was teaching Hilde how to knit. A task that was almost impossible to the winged Royal Guard. After a while she gave up trying and looked over at Lucrezia to see what she was doing with the thread they'd made earlier. She had it tied to the tiniest of looms and was turning the thin, violet stained thread in a long ribbon with rim's of gold down the side's. "What's that for?" She asked as she got a closer look at it. Lucrezia snipped off a loose thread and quickly finished off the end of the large ribbon.
"It's for his highness." Lucrezia whispered, careful not to let her voice carry to anyone else. "His hair tie snapped and he needs something else, but this will also protect him. You and Treize wove the thread and it now holds you need to protect the boy. It will keep him safe from magic and guide him a little although he will still always need someone to look over him no matter what he thinks." She handed the ribbon to Hilde, "Well what are you waiting for." Lucrezia said louder, making a flapping gesture with her hands to make her move. Hilde grinned and skipped over to where Duo sat and held it under the lost looking teen's nose. Duo blinked as he was shocked out of his thoughts and looked up at Hilde with wide violet eyes to see her grinning face. "Don't think to hard Duo, or you'll blow a brain cell or something." A giggle bubbled to the surface as he discarded his hopeless and depressed mood.
"So what's the ribbon for?" He asked looking at it. Hilde laughed and held it over his nose again. "Its for you, dummy. We made a ribbon for you hair, if you haven't noticed." Duo suddenly became aware of the chestnut curtain and cursed. "Dammit!" He snatched the ribbon out of her hand and pulled his hair behind his head, his nimble fingers expertly twisting the thick strands of hair back to obedience. He tied the new braid off with the ribbon and watched as it began to sparkle softly. He sent a look at Lucrezia who was pointedly not looking at him.
Then the windows began to rattle as a strong wind pounded them from the outside. Zechs looked up and put down his pen on the table. "Ah, he's finally arrived. Duo would you please go and get the door." Duo looked over at him and then padded over to the door, opened it... and froze. There stood the long lithe silver, navy blue and white dragon form of Heero. A wide smile lit Duo's face as he ran outside without so much as glancing back at the people coming into the yard behind him and threw himself at the dragon. Holding onto him as if his life depended on it. "Ah Hee-chan! I'm glad your okay, I was afraid you'd go and die on me." Duo whispered on the edge of tears. The dragon melted away and a human Heero took its place. "Shhh Shi, I'm not about to die yet..."
But even as Heero reassured him Duo was already lost in his memories as they poured into the front of his mind, bringing back images of a different lifetime.
He fell against Heero in a dead faint.
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Now this is where I really begin to change the story line from spirited away. I'd say it'll have about two or three more chapters before it's completely finished but for now you'll just have to live with this little cliffhanger.
Hehehehehehehehehehehe
Don't forget to review and a big THANK YOU to all who have already.
Cya ^__^ \/