Duo paced in the hall way. Stopping every now and then to inspect something that caught his interest, then he was back to pacing.

The latch to the mighty door clicked open, and out walked a lovely vision.

Heero was dressed in a gold satin shirt that had a slit in the front to show off his chest. Tight, black pants that were low cut on the hips, along with black boots and a

black velvet choker on his throat.

Heero blushed lightly as duo stared hungrily at him. Shielding his wings slightly over him he walked over to the dark lord.

"How do I look"

Duo let out a whistle, and winked at the embarassed angel.

"Damn you're hot!"

Coming out of his trance, Duo straightened his composure and ushered his guest down the hall.

"I figured the best thing for me to do is to give you a tour."

"I would like that alot."

Walking down the long corridors, heero looked at all the fine art and statues decorating Duos' home. Turning the left, they stood in front of a massive door. Duo couldn't help but chuckle as he watched heeros' eyes went wide in amazement.

"It's just a door heero, you haven't even seen inside it yet."

The servants bowed before their lord and opened the door, a great flood of brilliant white light surrounded them. Heero spread his wings, shielding himself for anything unexpected. Duo smiled and lightly squeezed his shoulder. He let down his shield and stepped in with duo. Duo was right about not getting excited over the doors, inside the room were things he had missed in so many years.

There were beautiful red rose bushes surrounding the room. Little creatures such as rabbits and song birds could be seen everywhere and in the center of the room was a gigantic waterfall. Heero ran over to the edge of the pool and looked down into the water, cautiously he put his fingers in the water and smiled at the forgotten memory of the cool feeling.

Duo walked up to heero and smiled,

"Do you like it here?"

"What is this place?"

Looking up at the ceiling, he gave a sad smile.

"This is my private sanctuary, I come here when I am lonely or troubled about something, it helps me relax."

Heero looked up at Duo with a sad look in his eyes,

"Are you lonely all the time?"

"...Always..."

Smiling brightly Duo grabbed heeros' hand and led him back to the entrance.

"We will come back here later, I still have so much to show you."

The guards bowed again as they closed the door. Duo led heero down another corridor and stopped in front a large hallway. There were two guards on both sides, quickly raising thier weapons toward heero, they glanced at thier lord.

"Your majesty are sure about letting HIM in here?"

Heero hid behind duo and peeked out from behind at the sneering creatures, Their lower bodies were that of snakes and their upper halves were of elves. Duo waved his hand at them to move aside and they quickly obeyed.

"This is Heero, he is a guest in my home and will be given every liberty to whatever he needs, be sure to tell all the staff immediately."

They all lowered thier weapons immediately and bowed before heero and the lord. Motioning for heero to follow they entered the hallway. Walking to a grand archway, heero saw that it was a throne room. Duo leaned against the side of the entrance as Heero walked slowly around the room, examining everything he saw.

Heero stopped in front of the royal chair and looked up at the enormous picture of a man, he looked rather familiar and turned towards duo.

"Who is that Duo?"

Walking up to the curious angel he smiled,

"That is my father Lucifer, the former ruler of Hell."

Heero smiled,

"You two look almost like twins, what was he like?"

"He was a proud ruler and a wonderful father."

"What was your mother like?"

Duos' eyes grew sad and looked as if he was re-visiting old memories. Shaking his head he smiled,

"We'll talk about that another time."

Leaving the room, Duo gave his dad one more smile before leading heero out into the court yard. There were servants bustling about, some setting up a table under a tree, others bringing out large amounts of food on trays and the last of the group were bringing bottles of fine wine. A tiny gnome came running up to his lord and bowed before addressing him.

"Your majesty, lunch is ready for you and your guest."

"Thank you Janbon, you may go."

The gnome bowed once more and ushered the others out of the courtyard and back into the castle. Heero sat adjacent to duo and looked on in awe and all of the food that had been brought out to them.

"What do you do with all this left over food?"

"I send it to the villagers here."

"That is nice of you Duo."

Duo laughed,

"I may be ruler of this hellish world but I do believe in taking care of my people."

With that said they began to feast upon Broiled Dragon Thigh, Rare Vegetables from his garden and drank several fine wines. About two hours had passed since the servants had cleared the table and they had parted to duos' room. They sat there in the room, a little tipsy from seven bottles of wine and half a bottle sitting in the center of a lovely table. Duo giggled as he watched heero stand and wobble his way to the bed and flopped on his stomach. Heero crawled around on the bed until he found a comfortable spot. He was so loosened by the wine that he couldn't even lift his wings and had to push them away from his body when he fell over on them.

Duo rose and walked unsteadily towards the bed and helped tuck heero in. Loosening the sashes on the curtains, he darkened the room and headed towards the doorway.

"Good night heero."

Heero yawned loudly,

"Good night duo, sweet dreams."

Duo quietly closed the chamber door and crossed the hall to his room adjacent to heeros'. Taking off his shirt and boots, he slipped into the covers and quickly dozed off to sleep.