The Demon Prince Chapter 3

By HeeroYuui

Chapter The Third- Of many Hauntings

Heero woke the next day to find his room empty and the figure that had haunted him earlier that night was gone, but not from his mind. He felt nervous as he opened his door that led to his hallway. The poked his head out and looked both ways and finally walked out and down the stairs.

As he reached the kitchen, Yuki raised an eyebrow at her master suspiciously. "Yui-sama," she asked him as he looked up to meet her gaze, "are you feeling alright?"

"…Yea, I'm fine…" He could tell that she was very nervous so he added, "It was just a nightmare I had last night so it's nothing." She gave him one of her first-class smiles and turned to finish they're breakfasts.

"So, Yui-sama," Yuki casually began, "what are you doing after breakfast? Being that its Sunday, I knew you had no work, so I just wanted to know what you were doing…" She stammered. Heero snickered at her voice and how she had flushed so much in his presence nowadays.

"I was thinking of going to the Japanese Tea Garden, why?" he asked, as if to challenge her.

"Oh, I was just wondering, that since I'll be alone here, I was just wondering if I…if I…"

"Could come?" Heero finished for her.

"If I'm not being too bold, Yui-sama, yes I would love to go with you to the garden. I've never seen one before and I'd really like to see one before my mainframe shuts down."

Heero smiled, "Of course you can come with me, Yuki-san, all you had to do was ask. Let's go." Even though he was nervous about Ashkar, he felt a little better with the android around. He sighed as they pulled out from the driveway and on rote to the garden.

As Heero paid for their entrance, he almost thought that the teller was his ghost, although it wasn't. A few minutes later, by the gateway to the Zen garden, he saw him again. He stopped to stare at the man, but a group of tourists walked in front, blocking his view, and when they were gone, so was he. Was that real? Later on he found the specter outside of the bonsai house and by the bamboo forest. Yuki, on the other hand, was extremely hyper and astonished by every single lower or insect she found. She took pictures of them through her eye lens and saved them to her mainframe to be view later. Heero had to admit that she was having fun.

As they passed the garden's beautifully lavished Koi pond, the ghost appeared. Heero looked around, but it seemed as if everyone was gone but the two of them.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

Make that three of them. He turned to Yuki who had fallen to her knees and screamed in horror.

H-POV

As I stared at my nightmare-come-to-life, I felt myself biting my lip to suppress a scream. I backed away from Ashkar and dragged Yuki-san with me who gleefully moved back. I thought h would follow, but the ex-director stood rooted in place by the small waterfall. I knew that he sensed that I was nervous. I hated him. Please let him not be real, he thought, please let him just be a ghost come to haunt me on an ill day… My fears were realized as he took a few menacing steps forward. I glanced over to Yuki-san, who had stood up, and her face showed signs of a mortified human. Her earcuff showed the sign for 'abunai' in bright black flashing characters. The only thing I knew I could do to keep us alive was to run. So I pulled on her collar and we started running away.

End POV

They ran back to the entrance and kept running until they reached the children's park that was surprisingly empty. They relaxed as they thought their flight over. They walked to a bench and sat as Heero propped his arms up on the bench top as Yuki lay down on Heero's lap. She opened her eyes and looked into Heero's Prussian eyes. She grabbed his hand and held it close to her and closed her eyes. They popped open again once Heero tensed up again.

Y-POV

I looked at him, well I mean his eyes. He seemed to be looking at something but I looked exactly in the direction that he was and saw nothing, not even a fly. I couldn't see where the man had gone, but I was happy that he was anywhere but here. I became nervous and fidgety, I wanted to help but was powerless to do so. I didn't know what to do. I'm so weak…

Heero's POV

All around. He was anything and everything. Except for Yuki-san. She looked so concerned for me, but she was naive. She can't understand what I was going through. I knew that the man I thought to be Ashkar wasn't real, but only a hallucination he had forced on be. Baka. I am stupid enough to believe that even a person like him was nice.

Flashback (Of something unsaid from the last chapter)

It was a 10-minute break. Heero walked into the lunchroom and sat down to relax. His throat hurt from singing so much. Luckily, no one else was in the room to bother him and make him talk. I'm surprised I'm not hoarse, he thought. Ashkar waltzed in and set a drink down in front of him. It smelt like coffee.

"Kore wa nan desu ka?" he asked his director.

"Coffee. You looked like you needed it." He sat down next to him as Heero began to drink the dark liquid.

"So what's…"

End Flashback

Kuso. I'm so stupid not to think about the drink. Him must have spiked or something for me to see this or something. My lungs burned as I thought about what I had done. For the first time in my life since birth, I felt small and feeble. I felt myself begin to hyperventilate from telling myself that this was my fault, which it was no doubt about that, and felt my consciousness slipping fast.

"Yuki…" Then everything went black.

Normal POV

Yuki dove down to scoop up the unconscious boy in her arms. She ran home non-stop, and wished that Heero wasn't hurt by whatever had been done to him while she was blind in the garden. Upon arrival of their home, she ran straight past a freaked out Willow and an appalled Agatha. She plopped him down on his bed, removed his shoes and put a blanket on him and felt his forehead. It was hot so she got some ice to cool him down.

"Please be alright…"