Duo's Child
Chapter 2
As the next morning shined in threw the windows, Uno woke up alone, but yet she didn't feel it as she used
to. Sitting up and stretching, she looked back down to the stuffed doll that
Duo had given to her that night before. She picked it up and stared at it, then
lay back down and stared at the picture on the ceiling above the bed. Without
extra glances at the two, she quickly hugged the stuffed Deathscythe
and got out of bed.
She checked the bathroom to see if Duo was there, but found an empty darkened
room. Figuring he'd be in the other rooms, she opened the door and closed it
behind herself, wandering about to the room where she
hoped Duo would be.
"Hey Uno; morning sweetie!"
Duo smiled looking over his shoulder to see a yawning clone walk slowly up to them.
She hugged the doll even more.
"Duo…isn't that the Deathscythe Doll Hildie gave you for your birthday in regards of missing the
actual machine?"
"…Well…yeah. But Q', look at how cute she looks hugging it tightly." Duo opened
his arms for her to sit next to him. He lifted her up and allowed it to happen.
"Well…does she know what it means? That doll?"
"Not yet…I'll tell her when she gets older." Duo played with her braid
as she snuggled into his side more, yawning as she snuggled. "Cutie."
"Duo," Began Heero walking into the room. "Hildie called earlier…she may stop by later today to give
you your marshmallows."
"Alright!" Duo shouted, obviously telling Wufei that Hell's awaken as he roamed into the room in his
usual standard way.
"Duo…it's ten in the morning. Not too loud until you're outside for good." Wufei leaned on the wall once again and looked at Uno curled up next to Duo. He couldn't help but actually
smirk at the sight.
"Uno…" Quatre walked up to
her as she sat up. "Do you know what that doll is?"
Uno shook her head as a five year old, Duo imitating
her, tossing his braid around.
"I like that! Wee!" Duo said as he began flipping his braid around.
"Well…before I tell you…do you believe in God?" Quatre
asked Uno seriously, kneeing in front of her.
"…Uh, uh." Uno shook her
head like a little five year old would be answering 'No' softly. Duo's eyes
widened, remembering this sequence.
"No?" Quatre was shocked, and yet again speechless. Trowa stepped in and stopped, seeing Quatre's
shocked expression and Duo's wide eyes.
"Then…what do you believe in? If you say there's no God?" Quatre
glanced at Trowa then back to Uno.
"Shinigami."
"…Uh…" Quatre glanced at Duo.
"Duo…you sure you didn't tell her—"
"No way Quatre! She's the one who said it just now!"
Duo's eyes were big, remembering when he answered with the same exact word at
that age.
"She…believes in the God of Death?" Trowa walked to
the other side of the couch and sat down, watching the scene.
"Uno…" She looked up to Duo. "Why…exactly?
I mean, why do you believe in Shinigami? Is it
because of me?"
Uno stared at him for a few second, trying to think
of what he meant by that question, but simply shook her head again.
"Alright…that's good. Because I—"
"Shinigami cuz I never saw
God, but mommy and daddy die." Uno, with her childish
eyes, stared directly into Duo's.
"Uh…" Silent, Duo said nothing. He knew where this was going.
"Um…Uno?" She turned to Quatre. "Did you actually see your parents die?"
"…"
"…I see. So you never really seen death then? Have you? Then why do you believe
in Shinigami? You never saw it actually happen." Quatre looked at her as she looked down, hugging the doll
even tighter. Duo rubbed her back a little.
"…Too much blood."
"Huh?" Quatre and Duo snapped into
her reality and realized that she had seen her parents die.
"…You saw…when?" She looked at Duo, pondering.
"Uno…when did you see you're parents die? How if I might add." Heero sat
down on the couch, off the end of Duo.
"Geese Heero, she's only a little girl, think she
knows that much and would want to remember it too?"
"Hm…" Heero looked away
from Duo after that point and back to Uno.
"Well Uno…did you know Shinigami
means 'God of Death'?" Asked Duo; aiming at the doll she hugged ever so
tightly.
Uno shook her head slightly, still looking at Duo.
"It does…and that doll you're hugging right now," Duo took the doll from her
and faced it to her. "Is Shinigami; the machine that
killed as the God of Death."
Uno's mouth dropped a little at that point. Wufei, who was reading a book by now, suddenly became less
silent, but still kept his nose in the binding.
"There you go Maxwell. Scare the girl to where she hates the fact that you're
him."
"Wufei…" Duo gripped his fists; beginning to think Wufei was correct until Uno
grabbed the doll out of his hands and squeezed it in a hug again. Duo watched
this action take place and smiled.
"Looks like you were wrong Wu. She still enjoys it." Duo wrapped his arm around
her and pulled her into his side again, another hug. Wufei
slammed the book shut and looked at Duo.
"The name's Wufei! Get it right Maxwell!"
"Wu-man!" Uno smiled her
tight smile and Duo smirked.
"…No…Nataku!" Wufei paced
out of the room through the door and was sure he slammed it shut. Duo busted
out laughing.
"Ha, ha! You go, Uno!" Duo
hugged her tight, laughing uncontrollably. "Now Uno's
gonna' be callin' Wu that
from now on!"
"Oh Duo…"Quatre stood up and sat on the love seat
where Trowa now sat. He shook his head slightly at
the stupidity Duo gave off. Uno kept on smiling a
normal smile, trying to suppress her laughter from Duo's.
"This is the next Shinimegami!" Duo hugged her once
again as Uno smiled, looking at Heero
and noticing his death glare. She stared at it for a few minutes, studying it
when the doorbell rang, kicking her back into reality.
"Uh oh…" Duo glanced over to Heero, who now was
standing and waiting to see who it was before fleeing in the halls. "Looks like we got ourselves another invader."
"She usually brings bad luck." Heero
stepped back, aiming for the point to hop the couch and make a run for it. "For
the past several visits, she nearly cost a war to happen."
"Duo…it's for you." Quatre saw Heero
nearly on the verge of collapsing on the couch.
"Oh…she's early." Duo mentioned before glancing at the clock and noticing the
time. "Then again…it's already one…damn—I mean…dang!"
Duo shut his mouth, almost forgetting Uno's listening
ears as he stepped towards Hildie at the end of the
hallway.
"Duo."
"Hey babe, what's up?" Duo pecked her on the cheek and side
hugged her, giving her the usual 'public greeting'.
"Nothing major, but I stopped by to ask if you still were up to seeing that new
horror flick, 'Keepers of Death'?" Hildie sworn into
his eyes, the way she knew to win him over, however, Duo had plans he couldn't
and wouldn't break.
"Sorry babe, but I can't."
"Duo! You promised me last week!" She tried again with her eyes, hoping she'd
change his mind.
"Well, I had something very important come up, and—no, you're eyes aren't
working on me for this one, sorry babe."
"Duo…what's more important than spending some free time with your girlfriend?" Hildie, who was now practically shouting, hadn't noticed
someone tugging at Duo's arm. "The war's are over now, so what else could you
be doing here?"
"Well I—"
"Duo?" Uno tugged again.
"Hildie…meet Uno." Duo
knelt down to face Uno and turned her to Hildie. "This is my new friend whom I'm raising."
Hildie looked down and almost thought she was seeing
things. Duo usually wasn't serious about kids and 'where did this come from',
was probably the only thought floating around in her head at that moment. She
blinked her eyes a few times and then realized that since the image of the
little girl didn't go away, that she also looked almost exactly like Duo. Then
she noticed Deathscythe in her hands, the doll Hildie gave Duo for his sixteenth birthday.
"Uno…say 'Hi' to Hildie.
She's my girlfriend." Duo winked at Hildie, trying to
cool her off.
"Hewwo." Uno
yawned after she spoke, barely covering her mouth. She then turned back to Duo.
"What is it sweetie?"
"I'm hungwy."
"Duo…she's—"
"Cute, ain't she?" Duo smiled and faced Hildie with the biggest grin on his face.
"But…is she really your—"
"No! No, no, no. I found her on the streets during that rainstorm we
had…yesterday it was. Yeah, yesterday we took her in. She's only five years old
and she's lost her parents to the White Fang war we fought in when she was
three and a half. I had to take her in. Even Quatre couldn't
bare to see how the war made more orphans like
myself." Uno hugged Duo and he lifted her up.
"…Well…she does look like you. Did you make her braid for her?"
"Yup, she loves it. She even loves wearing my old orphan clothes! But I don't
have much of it left. The church didn't really have much unharmed after the
destruction. This and another outfit is all I have left."
"Well...how about, in place of the movie…" Hildie
began, wishing she had the day with Duo all by herself. "We go to the mall and
get her some clothes."
"Great idea Hildie! You can help better
than I can anyways!" Duo cheerfully smiled at her.
Hildie at first was on the verge of weak-friendship
with Uno, but when she saw Uno
and Duo talk to each other like a family, it hit her
that Duo had something more to him than what looked.
"You hungwy?" Uno nodded. "Wanna' git somethin' to eat?"
Uno nodded like the age she was, the braid flipping
through the air.
"Yeah?" Nodded again, Uno
rubbed her eyes as well. "And another bathe?"
Uno shook her head.
"No? Well then you can't get new clothes." Uno
frowned, Duo played with her on and on, knowing how little kids didn't like to
bathe very often. Hildie was watching and couldn't
help but smile and giggle at the site. Duo with a child, about near the age of
what would be their own, which she was pondering about even more. Duo glanced
at Hildie and continued talking silently to Uno.
"No? Yes? You sure? How about you give Hildie a hug, hmm? Okay?" Duo stepped over to Hildie, allowing Uno to half hug
her and return to Duo. Duo smiled.
"Duo…I have an idea. How about we go out and get something to eat, for her as
well…my treat."
"Really Hildie! Alright!"
"I'm treating her…I had trouble affording for you last
time."
"Aw, c'mon Hildie, I'm hungry too!"
"Very well Duo…you can join too." Hildie smiled, once
again loosing to the God of Death.
"Alright!" Duo hugged Uno
once again, happy that he had his girlfriend and 'child' making friends. "Hey Hildie, guess what babe, Uno here
is going to be the next Shinimegami. Ain't that right, Sweetie?"
"Duo…" Hildie couldn't help but smirk. "What if
there's not a war by that time?"
"Well…we wouldn't know now would we? And besides…before she came into the room,
Quatre and I agreed that each of us, Wufei too if we could get him too, teach her a little of
each of us 'til she gets all she can from every one of the Gundam
pilots."
"And what about Zechs? And Noin?"
"…We'll try them as well…that is if we can find them." Hildie shook her head, hearing what Duo has planned for
little Uno.
"Wu-man!" Uno tight smiled,
showing Asian features, however, none were really there to be shown.
"Te-he! She's taking that over while I just call him
Wu!" Duo did his smile and caused Uno to giggle. "You
know, I even taught her to read last nigh as well. For her age, she's learning
pretty darn fast. She's already read all of 'The Little Train'; of course with
errors in it, but at least she's trying! That's why her speech is off. But we
first found out she couldn't speak when she said 'Wu-Fay'."
"Wufay."
Uno hugged Duo's neck.
"See!" Duo smiled as Hildie shook her head.
"So you're serious about her Duo, I mean…you know."
"As if she were my child." Duo said seriously, which Hildie has only heard once before as he was asking for her hand
in a relationship, not yet engagement. Hildie's eyes
silent 'awed' at this as Duo kept his stern face, telling Hildie
he wasn't lying and that he had already felt something for Uno
that moment and before.
"Hildie, since I saw her pushed down in the middle of
the street in the rain by the storeowner, I felt pity on her. But when I found
out that the battle we fought in again the White Fang had killed her parent
that she's seen die, and change her beliefs into Shinigami,
I literally fell to take her in as mine."
"Duo…" Hildie's voice trailed off, noting Duo's
seriously stern but yet calm and soothing voice rests her sorrow and make her
cry; however, she kept it in. "Duo…why don't you adopt her then?"
"I don't have the money too. And if I ask Quatre, he'd
want part in it, but I feel the pain she has cuz' I
had been down that very same road that she's traveling down now." Uno laid her head on Duo's shoulder as he adjusted his arms
with her; she was resting her head on his shoulder and hugging the stuffed Deathscythe as if she were about to fall back asleep, the
warmth of his arms calming her body and relaxing her.
"I mean, look at this. She's been asking for a hug almost every chance she
gets, and it's all because she had never had anyone give her love before."
"Duo…what if I help pay."
"What do you mean…help pay?"
"I will lend you the money as long as you give me some share into this. Raising
a child, whether it's a boy or a girl, will take both a mother and a father to
do; the mother to teach her basic skills for house and love, and the father to
teach her skills of fun and work; education along with it."
"Hildie…are you saying—"
"She'll live with you, but I get help in raising her as well. And when you may
need time alone or when I see that you may do, I'll take her in for a while,
you know, as a parent would."
"Well…she's still becoming Shinimegami."
"Yes…you and the rest can teach her all she needs." Hildie
had to smile at that; she knew Duo wouldn't be able to hold out that long,
though it was longer than when he asked for her.
"So…you're seriously going to help me? We're not even married and you're
willing to help me take on the care of a child. Are you sure Hildie?"
"Well…Duo, if I didn't, and still wanted to, think of how I would have a hard
time trying to cheer you up when the law and government takes her away from you
because you don't have legal custardy on her. I would
be downhearted…but you, trust me Duo, you'd never see
her again if you didn't and they found out."
Duo smiled and stepped in for a kiss. "Thanks babe. You're a life saver."
"Duo." Hildie blushed,
rubbing the backside of her hand on Uno's face.
"A Cheery Life Saver." Duo said in remark to cheer her
up.
"Duo…good grief." Hildie
couldn't help but laugh, it was worth it. "Look at that, she's asleep again."
"Hm…guess she didn't have enough before." Duo began
to walk to his room but stopped when Hildie
placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Duo…it's the fact that someone's actually holding her and loves her." Hildie kissed Duo on the lips, pressing her saltiness
against his and being sure they don't wake Uno.
"…Get a room will you." Wufei rolled his eyes as he
walked by to his room. Duo wanted to flick him off, but couldn't due to holding
Uno.
In replacement of that, Hildie whispered in his ears.
"Let's get ready and I bet she'll be awake by then."
