Innocence Taken: (Finished this early for all my reviewers. I love y'all so mcuh for the encouragment!)

Groaning, Heero opened his cloudy deep blue cobalt eyes slowly perked up to the light from the blindless windows. He groaned and turned a bit only to have a sharp intake of air.

He jumped up, clutching his head in pain as he crumbled to the floor, fingering the new laceration he sported. He hissed slightly as he felt a hard patch under her fine toned skin, which was slightly paler than normal. He looked at his pillow through dizziness and saw the blood patches staining the fabric and cotton.

His arm tensed painfully as he closed his eyes and grinded his teeth to keep from letting the tiniest sound emit from his mouth. He took a deep breath, swallowed and pinched his infected skin together near the laceration. More blood poured from the wound as the muscles contracted and his whole body shook from exertion. Finally, a sliver of crimson-stained pottery from a lamp base emerged from his skin and he took faint breaths trying to regain his composure.

"Ugh..." Heero groaned, the lack of good sleep had obviously taken its toll on him as he collapsed on the ground and felt the world spinning around him as the light dimmed and darkness claimed his world.

Duo had gone to the football game that night, concern written in his eyes and riddling his feature as he stared at his ceiling.

FLASHBACK

Duo, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei all took their seats on the bleachers as they eagerly waited for the game to start. Relena noticed them in their normal spot and waved a little gleefully as she waited for Heero to come out with the team.

'Time to start the cheering', she remembered. Then she saw Lei also looking for the stoic pilot the young cheerleader was infatuated with. She glared a bit and snorted a little as she looked to her fellow teammates who were supporting their school, Lincoln, with her.

She grinned and they took formation. "That's alright, that's okay!" They cheered as some of them did a series of flips and other's did a couple of leap cartwheels and spirals. "Lincoln's gonna kick your ass away!"

Duo grinned as the crowd went wild. 'At least they're cheerleaders with some bright vocabulary.' He thought slightly.

The football team came out, having stretch already and had a wonderful pep speech in the locker room. Duo looked at the swarm of Lincoln Lions. Their black and gold uniform was quite the contrast against River Valley, who had blue and white uniforms.

Duo looked at the numbers as they took formation and those not on the field, noting the worried look on the coach's face and some of Heero's more closer teammates though he already had been close to all of them since many had the same interests, football being one.

Duo furrowed his eyebrows in a scowl and noted the lack of one of the numbers, '01'. Heero Yuy wasn't there.

The game of course went on without him and Relena later told them news that none of them expected.

"The coach said he never showed up, pre-practice or for the game even. He didn't call or anything. The team said they only won for him since he wasn't there." It had been a known fact whenever a player couldn't play or was absent; Heero would try his best for them.

"How could he just ditch them?" Wufei snarled lowly. "Injustice." He said with even more fire.

"Can it Wufei." Cathrine said as she came up to the group. "Heero works his ass out there, don't be talkin' 'bout all this injustice when you don't do anything for this school."

Wufei's eyes glistened with a infernal flame that was aimed directly at Trowa's 'sister'.

"Catherine..." Trowa said warningly. Everyone looked at him, expecting some great interference into the quarrel. "Since when do you swear?" Everyone looked at Trowa with gaping mouths, certainly not expecting that.

"Trowa." Catherine spoke to him lovingly. Then she screamed at him, "I'LL CUSS ANY DAMN TIME I WANNA!"

"Cheerleading does wonders to the self-esteem." Another cheerleader smirked at what Catherine had done to her brother.

"Was sad Heero wasn't here, we could've done our special new routines for him." Another sighed dreamily.

"Oh, but 7 is by far the best QB ever!"

"As if!" Thus the quarrel over the football team began...

END FLASHBACK

"Heero, where the hell are you?" Duo whispered to himself, looking at the digital numbers glowing red in the darkness. It read 1:01 in the morning.

"Arg!" He slammed his pillow into his face and then lifted it from himself a moment or two later. 'Can't sleep...' He reached into the darkness and fumbled around aimlessly, finding the object for his short quest, a black portable telephone.

He fumbled around and sat upright, knowing he wouldn't get any sleep if he didn't do this. "Lessee..." Duo mumbled to himself in an almost slurred voice. He dialed the numbers he had long memorized.

The telephone rang on the other line, and then again. It rang three more times afterward. 'That's weird, Heero never waits THIS long to pick up the phone unless he's comatose or somethin'. He's got caller ID for—' Duo's thoughts were broken off as the phone was picked up.

"W-What?" Came a slightly pained and somewhat groggy voice at the other end. 'Man! What the hell happened to him?! Sounds like he got run over by a car!'

"Heero?" Duo asked, wide awake now.

"Duo?" The voice sounded vaguely alert but a groan sounded suppressed. Little did he know that on the other side of the line, Heero was cradling his head while trying to take a pain reliever he had been lucky enough to find. The first shard he had gotten out of the wound lay discarded on the floor, blood seeping into the white carpet. Two other shards lay beside that one.

"Heero," Duo's voice held concern now. "Are you alright?" He questioned.

"Duo wha—"Heero was about to whisper into the phone when the sound of thumping was easily heard over the phone.

"Duo, I have to go." Heero hissed to his friend.

"But, Heero—"Duo shouted into the phone, the banging growing louder and louder.

"What the hell is going on boy?!" The sound of a loud voice rang through Duo's ear as he heard stomping feet and some muffled groans and other noises that sounded like the house was being torn apart.

Then the line was disconnected abrubtly.

TBC

Author's note:

Well, what do y'all think of my evil cliffhanger/suspense y'all? Here are some responses to your questions/ comments/ randomness thoughts:

-Word dreamer 999: Thank you much! I have yet to decide the pairings, though I believe there will be rivalry between Relena and Lei. Possibly even Duo if I feel like it. In fact, since so many people say I should do 1X2, I actually might (don't hate me Shellie-kun!)

-Yume Keki: I will, as you can see. How can I abandon my dear fic?

-gundam girl: Thank you for the compliment and it is very depressing some kids have to live through this sort of thing. Thank you for your other review also! I also hate shots, with a passion of course!

- Lockea Stone: Yah! Another review from Lockea! Currently, the whole lamp smashing thing, Heero got knocked out (ouch!). I'm sure you can write drama if you tried. Currently, I have no idea how I write like I do (maybe it's because of my overly-active imagination...just ask my health teacher. She probably thinks I'm insane since I wrote a creepily beautiful story about abuse, drugs, etc. and in one page also!) I'll try to make the conversation more understanding for you, sorry 'bout that!

-Erinamation-limited2-nothing: Danke (thank you) for the compliment. I think. Not really sure what it was suppose to mean...

-Clarobell: I felt sorry for the whole lamp thing too. I can't believe I wrote him getting hit by a lamp! (where the hell did that come from anyway?) Well, it was better than getting knocked unconscious by a spatula or some other household weapon. Or a kitchen knife shivers. I won't kill Hee-kun. And I update now bows.

-ASKInfinity: HA! I put yours on the bottom Shellie-kun!!! Muahahah! Don't kill me! Red Rum...uh...yeah...I've regained my seriousness composure. ahem. Your reviews make me so happy! I'll have to write long ones for you too. Anyhow- Uh...thanks Shellie-kun. I updated Pilots for you and am glad you like it since your not a big Gundam Wing fan . About the Heero playing football thing, he's not SO short. I have his stats. I'm an overly obsessive fan. Besides, people do get growth spurts. Relena's a cheerleader, because...well whispers I didn't wanna make her a lancer 'cause the ones at our school scare me.

uh...yeah...this is to all my reviewers:

I love reviews and suggestions. Couple suggestions would REALLY be helpful, also: I'll give a little something extra in this author's note:

New fanfiction possibly coming out soon: (don't diss me 'cause it's me first yaoi fic...It'll probably suck since i can't so romance or anything (Shellie-kun, that means you too!). If you think i should make it, tell me. If it sucks alot, then tell me. I don't care. I'll team up with someone if they wanna do this together.

Summary for Love's Pain; Literally:

Relena and Duo liked Heero, alot. Though the war rages on in secret for the young soldiers heart, Relena turns to drastic measures to get the braided pilot out of the picutre. Perminately.

Just another one of my GW stories! Auf Weidersehen! Red Tail