Ok. This is a re-post. I had this story up earlier but for reasons I had taken it down. I believe that the chapters will remain the same except maybe for one. I revised this again and cleaned it up a bit.

Pairings: 1+2, some 3+4 and maybe some 13+6

The setting is in Egypt in a not real time period...whenever that is.

"…" dialogue

italics thinking

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing so don't sue


Captured Treasures I-

--Flashback--

"Hurry up C'mon " A young boy whose long brown hair was enclosed in a braid screamed back at his blond haired companion.

"Keep going," panted the youth, "I won't fall too far behind so don't look back, just keep going "

"Over here Quick " The blond turned and followed his friend into an alleyway. They huddled together as close to the wall as they could. Their chasers ran right by them and through the crowded streets, eliciting curses here and there.

"Whew That was close " Exclaimed the brown haired boy, breathing heavily.

"Yeah, I'll say," replied the blond as he paused to catch his breath, "but what are we going to do now?"

--End Flashback--

It had been a couple of years since that day. We find our two friends living comfortably in an apartment surrounded by beautiful furniture, paintings and artifacts. Gems adorned many of the items. They were free from slavery at last. Everything was, of course, the fruit of hard labor. Hard labor, that is, in stealing, for both boys were now thieves. They had settled in a city many miles from the town in which they had been slaves and were enjoying stripping the local merchants of their gold and riches. To the people who casually noticed them on the streets, who were very few, they just seemed like ordinary boys who were sons of some well off families in one of the larger neighboring cities. There were plenty like them roaming the streets. Nobody suspected a thing. They had never even been close to being caught. The perfect couple, they used stealth and skill to snatch even the most heavily guarded treasures.

"Hey Quatre " yelled the boy with the long braid, "have you seen that necklace with the amethyst pendent on it which we stole yesterday?"

"Wait a sec, Duo," replied the blond as he rummaged in a large gray sack, "yep, I found it." He walked over to the bedroom and handed Duo the necklace.

"Thanks a bunch "

"No problem." Soon after the exchange Duo had completed his usual preparations for the day. He had adorned the necklace because it was pretty and accentuated his eyes, but it was not lavish enough to elicit suspicion as they were only going to stroll around the town, yet he still made sure that it was half hidden, only to be seen by those who made an effort to look at him. Quatre was already finished preparing.

"Alright then let's go now that your finished." Duo nodded in agreement and they stepped outside into the scorching Egyptian sun in search for a place to eat.

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"You know those thieves are still out there on the loose," stated a brown haired boy with a unibang, his emerald green eyes turning on his childhood friend.

"Yes," replied another youth with messy chocolate-colored hair, "and there is nothing we can do about it. We have already had the town searched over an over again and nothing has come up."

"I'm surprised they haven't robbed us yet considering that they have already robbed almost all, if not all the merchants in this city."

"I suppose our time will come," was all the boy had as answer. "Hopefully we will be ready," he added as an after thought.

A knock sounded at the door and Heero answered by opening the door.

"Masters Trowa and Heero," implored a servant stepping into the room, "masters Zechs and Treize request your presence for lunch."

"Please tell them that we will join them shortly," replied Heero.

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"Mmmm...that was good," Duo said satisfyingly as they walked through the bustling streets of the city.

"I agree," Quatre responded.

"You know what tonight is," Duo said as he closed the door to their apartment.

"Yeah," Quatre said thoughtfully, "do we have everything ready?"

"So far I can't think of anything that we've forgotten."

"Well then all we can do is wait for tonight," Quatre said as he looked at the clock which read 2:30 PM.

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"You know that those thieves could pay a visit to us any night soon," a man with platinum hair stated as the last plates of dinner were cleared up by the servants.

"Zechs, like I told Trowa they only thing we can do is wait until they do and catch them."

"He's right you know," added the man named Treize, "our security system is the best one in this city not to mention it is extremely hard to get up to the main part of the house because it's near a cliff face." Zechs pouted at his lover's disapproval of his statement.

"Well, we'll excuse ourselves. Trowa and I are planning on playing some tennis. Do you want to come play? We can play doubles then."

"Sure, come on Zechs." Zechs pouted again as he clearly hoped Treize would do something else with him in the afternoon. Treize saw this, smiled, and gave him a small kiss on the cheek.

"Don't worry," he whispered into Zech's ear, "just wait until later." Zechs smiled and they walked towards the mansion to change into appropriate clothing for tennis.

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The summer crickets chirped as they quietly stepped out onto the now empty street.

"You ready Quat?" Duo whispered to his companion.

"Yeah," replied Quatre matching Duo's voice.

"Okay, let's go." They softly padded through the streets quiet as mice. When they climbed the hill on which the mansion sat, they were faced with a choice.

"Well, we can go either on the road, which has a lot of security, or we can climb the cliff face which we don't know the security situation." Duo fingered his braid for a second and then said, "We'll take the road up, it has more security, but it is flatter and safer."

"I agree. Let's go." They silently snaked there way up to the huge iron gate. Duo and Quatre easily scaled it and landed soundlessly on the other side. A beautiful lawn was before them, trimmed and weeded to perfection. A stunning milky quartz path led up to the expansive oak door inlaid with gold. Quatre halted and told Duo to stop. "What's up Quat?" He whispered.

"There are motion sensors all over the path and lawn up to the door."

"Well, nobody said we had to use the front door." They climbed up the wall surrounding the mansion and ran on top of it while avoiding magical sensors and cameras. They ran around back and came to the slave quarters. There was a crude window near ground level. Duo and Quatre made their way in through the window soundlessly. They found themselves in a small room with stairs leading upwards. Both Quatre and Duo shuddered, the room bringing back memories from when they were slaves. They slowly made their way upstairs, taking precaution not to wake any of the sleeping slaves.

Once upstairs they wandered around with stealth, avoiding large amounts of security. They soon found themselves in a lavishly decorated room. They split up and started grabbing anything valuable they could get their hands on without tripping any alarm systems. These objects weren't extraordinarily beautiful, but would sell for quite a lot on the black market. Duo and Quatre met up and continued upstairs grabbing anything and everything they could see. As they continued up the security got stronger and the items got more expensive. Their load was heavier now, and the going was slower.

They finally reached one of the top floors. The security was ridiculously high here, sensors, cameras, sound detectors and many other protection systems were used liberally. Also, now Duo and Quatre had to be very quite because there were bedrooms down the entire length of the hall they were in. Towards the end of the hall there was a room which most likely had a jackpot of expensive gems and artifacts. Quatre and Duo made their way stealthily down the hall almost triggering some of the alarms. After picking the lock to the room, they paused in shock as the door opened. Gems littered the place, hanging from the drapes, lamps and chandeliers. Glass cases enclosed gems that would sell for millions. Diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, it was all there, itching to be stolen.

"Damn, we should have come here in the first place," Duo whispered.

He made a start but Quatre held an arm in front of him and motioned him to look down. There were lasers crisscrossing the floor and after spraying some of the liquid in a can, which Quatre pulled out of his bag, many more were revealed. It was not impossible, but one false move would be the end of everything. In fact Quatre was curious as to why it was so easy, after all this was a room full of priceless treasures. Quatre just shrugged the thought off as he neared the first gem lying on a table in a cast. Just as his slender fingers were about to pick it up, an alarm blared. He looked at Duo who was also in the same predicament. They stared for a second and then both grabbed some gems and made a mad dash to the door. They could hear people getting up and running. They were down the second staircase when the saw guards running up towards them. Sliding down the banister of the staircase, they managed to knock out some of the guards as they continued their mad dash.

"Screw the stuff just go " Yelled a frantic Duo.

Darting across the lawn they were almost to the gate, closely followed by all they guards they had avoided and not knocked out, when both were hit by something heavy in the head and felt the sweet warm darkness swimming around them as they slipped out of consciousness.

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The following morning...

"Sirs, we have caught the thieves." A servant informed Trowa and Heero who just finished eating breakfast.

"Shall we go tell Treize and Zechs?" Trowa implored.

"I think they are busy right now, if you know what I mean." Heero replied, amused.

"Alright. Let's go." They followed the servant to the lower chambers. There a cell was unlocked and where two boys were supposed to be there were none. There was only a guard who had been knocked out.

"Where are they?" The servant questioned the jail master in a panicked voice. Suddenly an alarm fired off. Minutes later guards appeared carrying to boys who were kicking and squirming against there captors.

"Put them down." Heero commanded to the guards. The boys were set down on the ground and they immediately pulled away from the guards' grasps around them.

Heero then saw that they were quite young, only about as old as he was. One had sort of spiky, light blond hair while the other had messy brown hair that was tied back in a dirty braid. His eyes were stunning, an unusual color of violet like an amethyst. He just wanted to peer deep inside them, have them look up at him in pleasure, in want, in desire, in lust, anything. They were now regarding him with dislike, yet Heero continued to look into them. He could not wait to see them darken in a haze of passion. He was already getting stiff thinking about it. That beautiful lithe body was not helping either; he just wanted to moan out in desire for it. Duo looked up into the most stunning Prussian blue eyes he had ever seen. They were currently regarding him with a strange look. He felt like he was going to drown in their eternal depths. Quickly, he looked away. Heero saw this and smirked. This was going to be fun. Heero looked over to Trowa who was staring intently into the aquamarine depths of the blond boy's eyes. This amused him even further. He made it a point to ask Trowa later if he was taken by the young boy.

"Well, you know what the punishment for thieves is," Heero said to the guards, "we will see to them later." Trowa and Heero both walked out and up the stairs.

Quatre and Duo were dragged into a cell, despite their kicking and yelling, where they were whipped thirty times on their backs. All through it neither of them screamed or did anything, knowing that would be the pleasure of the guards if they did this. They were then turned around so there backs were to the walls and were to be left there to hang for three days before being released and made slaves. Silent tears streamed down their now dirty faces. For quite some time there was only silence and then Duo spoke in a hollow voice.

"Well, I guess we were caught." He winced in pain as his back rubbed against the wall. Quatre just gave him a sad look before turning away to search the cell. There was only a small slit in the wall to allow light in and the door was made of solid steel. There was no escape possible. It didn't matter though now, from the looks of it they would probably end up becoming slaves of some kind and end up just like they were before. Quatre couldn't stand being a slave again, and he was certain that Duo couldn't either. They had been lucky enough to be house slaves but were still treated terribly, almost being raped in many occasions. It wasn't their backs that were hurt; it was their pride.

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Whoa, ok a step back. I re-did somethings in this chapter. Nothing changed in the plot but it needed some TLC in other areas. The formatting isn't great because my word processor decided to go mental on me. Sorry for the problems earlier. Thanks for being to patient

Hotaru