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Hut and Kiss
"You can't enter the Pope Chamber without permission, Saga!" said one of guardians, standing in the front of the door leading to the Chamber, where the Gemini spent thirteen years of his own life. Every time he had to come here, he was feeling sick, really sick, and now it wasn't different. All these years, just the memory of it was making him to shiver. "Everyone who wants to see the Pope has to…"
"Shut up, idiot. I know what I should do," cut Saga mercilessly, feeling the slight twitching of his mind. He wanted to run away from there, run as far as he could, but right now it was really important to enter that chamber and met the real Pope. "It is urgency; I don't have the time to deal with every formality! Get out of my way!"
The guardian hesitated. He knew Gemini Saga for a long time already, firstly as the fake Pope and now as a reliable Saint he truly was. But he knew also, that this man could be really impatient sometimes and then he could do something suiting his dead already, evil personality. On the other hand, he as the guardian of the Pope Chamber, had his own duty. He couldn't just let anyone to see the Pope, even if this someone was one of the most powerful people in the Sanctuary.
"I'm very sorry, but these formalities are necessary…" started the guardian, looking inside the furious, blue eyes of Saga and feeling as his courage was disappearing.
Saga snorted under his nose and opened the door, not even considering this man as someone worth of further argument.
The Pope Shion, Head of the Sanctuary at that time was sitting on his throne, lost in his thoughts. He knew there was something strange in this day, something that couldn't happen in the first place, but unfortunately it had the place. That feeling was disturbing his mind since he send Milo and Camus for that mission and a few minutes ago it deepened somehow.
And then he heard the rough voices outside his chamber. After a while the door opened with the crack and the Pope saw Gemini Saga, entering the space with quick steps. The young warrior kneeled before him and bowed his head. But before he could speak, the guardian entered as well with the embarrassed face.
"I'm very sorry, Your Highness. He was really stubborn…" started the guardian, but the Pope just silenced him with the move of his hand.
"It is fine. Go back to your position," said Pope Shion and after the man left the Chamber, looked at his subordinate.
"I have bad news, Your Highness," started Saga, raising his head and standing finally. "As you ordered I went to help Scorpio and Aquarius."
The Pope nodded. He was so worried about these two, since many weeks his mind was so turbulent over Milo and Camus. And when he sent them on a mission he thought it wasn't the good idea. So he sent Saga to check if everything was fine. But it seemed something wasn't right.
"I was late, they were fighting already. The four warriors surrounded them and then…" Saga silenced. It was still too unbelievable for him.
"And then?"
"They disappeared."
The Pope gasped. Disappeared… Like they fall into Saga's Another Dimension?
"What do you mean, they disappeared?"
"They were standing in the front of the enemies, then one of the warriors they were fighting with laughed, said something and made them disappear. There were no traces of Camus' and Milo's cosmo after that," added Saga. He was worried too; two of the strongest Saints in the Sanctuary disappeared without any traces. In the front of his own eyes. It was something even he couldn't believe. Even when he was sending someone to his Another Dimension, for a few moments the cosmo of the victim could be felt in the area. But this time… It disappeared alongside with Milo and Camus. Completely. "Of course I got rid of the enemies, but before I killed them, I managed to gain some answers. One of them was stubbornly saying that he sent Camus and Milo to the past."
The Pope took one deep breathe, tightening his fingers on the edge of his throne. To the past…
Right! It would be that time! How could he not realize this sooner?
"Your Highness, something wrong?" asked Saga with the worried look.
"No, everything is fine, Saga. I just realized that it is the proper time…"
"Proper time?"
"Yes. You see, I knew that this would happen, but I just didn't realize that it could be this day…"
"What do you mean, Your Highness?"
"Camus and Milo… They were sent to the times when I was one of Athena's Saints. They were sent to the XVIII century, Saga," answered the Pope, feeling like it became the unquestionable truth.
Saga couldn't say any word. For him it was something beyond his imagination.
"I remember them being in the times of my youth. I met them on the boundary of the Sanctuary, talking with two Gold Saints from these times. It was before the Holy War started. Of course firstly we thought they are Specters. Could you imagine how amazed we were, when it turned that they were telling the truth about being the Saints as well?"
The Gemini Saint was looking at his Pope, feeling dizzy a little. It was really amazing what was happening now.
"Then… Why you didn't warn them today?"
"Because… I just forget about it. I knew that someday this day would happen, but I have so many things to care about, so this just got lost in my head. There is nothing we can do now."
"But Your Highness, we can't leave theme there. We should do something, rescue them or… or anything!" How could this be? How could his two friends be over two hundreds ago?
"How you would do that? You killed that warrior who sent them there. We won't save them just now, without thinking."
"But if you remember they were in your times, then you should remember if they returned here safely."
"They weren't fighting with us in the Holy War, I'm sure. But… I know that there is the way to get them back, but I just can't find it in my mind. It is hard for old man like me to remember everything that happened over two hundreds years ago."
They silenced, not sure what to say more.
"Don't worry, Saga. They will be fine. They are the Gold Saints of Athena. And I'm sure; I will find the way to get them back. It is somewhere inside my head."
Saga bowed before him, but he still had the worried look on his face. He said the word of the farewell and left.
"It is some kind of joke, right?" asked Manigoldo, looking at the two Kardias in the front of his eyes. Then he turned his sight at two Degels, standing beside. He blinked a few times and again looked at two Kardias. "How there could be two of you?" he asked again the Scorpio Saints. "The Sanctuary with only one of you was the pain in the ass. It is the worst scenario with two Kardia's. For the Athena name!"
Kardia growled.
"Watch your mouth, you damn crustacean. I don't care if you are the disciple of the Pope himself, I will tear your flesh apart!"
"Go ahead, you stupid arachnid!"
"Stop both of you," interrupted Degel, looking harshly at his companions of the order. "It is not the time for fighting. Manigoldo," the Aquarius said to the Fourth Guardian, pointing at the same time at Milo, "he is not Kardia. Well, the case is a little complicated…"
"Complicated? Of course it is complicated. They are two Kardias!" Manigoldo approached Milo, looking at him very carefully. The future Scorpio smiled to him a little disconcerted. "But… it is true, he looks a little different… He doesn't seem to be such a wild monster…"
"Hey, you damn crab!"
Manigoldo looked at Camus.
"Tsh, since you two are with them, I suppose they are not our enemies… But for the Athena's name, how it is possible?!"
Degel sighed a little. Would Manigoldo understand if they would tell him everything?
"They are… they are us from the future…"
Manigoldo blinked a few times and then he laughed loudly.
"You from the future? It is the dumbest thing I ever heard," he said between the laugher. "Good joke," he added, walking away into the Sacred Hill's direction.
"Sorry for him," murmured Dohko. "He is always like that. Lets him believe into what he wants…"
Milo and Camus exchanged the looks. Actually Manigoldo didn't act differently from the other Saint of the Cancer they knew in the future. It seemed that it was the true, that the Saints from the XX century had the same souls like their predecessors.
Shion sighed.
"I would like to hear your story… About you and your war with Hades…" he murmured, knowing that it would be impossible right now.
"Oh, it would be great!" agreed Dohko, looking with a smile at Milo and Camus. "Ugh, you look the same; it is really hard to tell who is who…"
Milo chuckled, hearing these words.
"I will make sure, you will never mistake me with Kardia," he answered, hearing the snort, coming from the current Scorpio Saint.
"Look," said Shion, pointing at something between the trees, when they left the stony area of the Sanctuary. "It is the hut I was talking about. It is deserted right now, so you could stay there."
The small building was all made from the stone – it wasn't strange in this part of the world, most of the buildings were made from this material. Camus could clearly see the damages that time made over this house, but it seemed it was still in the good shape for someone to live here. Surely no one was using this house for a long time; in the front of the doors were many weeds, the path heading there was almost invisible under the grass.
"Few years ago it was inhabited by certain Saint, but he moved to the other corner of the world in his mission and died, so since then it is abandoned. I hope it is still in good shape to live there. No one was even checking this one for all these years," added Shion.
Milo frowned. Looking at the shape of the outside, he wasn't expecting something good inside. But when Camus walked over the building without the hesitation, he followed him. He shouldn't complain. For now the two of them were in really bad situation, and it was real lucky they weren't killed by Kardia when they met for the first time this morning.
The door opened really hardly, the iron hinges creaked loudly, when Camus pulled them. This sound didn't make Milo happy. Everything seemed that this place wouldn't be good enough for two people to live in.
But when they entered, every doubts Milo had, disappeared. He sighed with relief, looking around. Despite the awful shape of the rotten bedcover and one chair eaten by the beetles, the rest of the things inside were useful. The light coming through the windows was falling down the wooden furniture, showing them not so bad place to be for now.
"It's better, than I thought…" said Shion quietly, like he was afraid that with the one louder sound everything could turn into the dust.
"I think we should bring you some other things you could use…" murmured Dohko, looking with the disgust at the blanket on the bed. He caught it with his own two fingers and threw it out of the window. "I wouldn't dare to use anything despite furniture that was there for so long time."
"Thank you, we would be very appreciating of your help, Dohko," said Camus with the smile, checking the content of the cabinets and pulling out everything he found there.
"No problem," Dohko smiled as well. "Come Shion, we have to found something useful in our Temples," he added, walking out of the hut. "And you should burn that disgusting thing," he said, pointing at the rotten blanket. "We don't know what muck is there.
"We will," answered Milo, bringing out the broken chair and putting it alongside the bedcover, and looking like they walked over the Sacred Hills.
"We will leave you too for a while," started Degel, leaving the building with Kardia, who had very bored face. "I'm going for some bandages for you; I noticed a few wounds on your bodies."
"Don't worry about that," murmured Camus, looking through the window. "We are used to have a few wounds after the fighting."
Kardia snorted.
"Used to? As the Gold Saints you should kill your opponent fast enough to maintain unharmed…" he said and disappeared between the trees, no one knew where heading.
"Ignore him," Degel said with a smile. "He is always like that, when I'm stopping him from killing. Well, this time it was lucky he allowed me to stop him. Tomorrow everything will be fine with him."
And he too walked over to the heart of the Sanctuary.
Milo sighed and entered the building.
"I still can't believe what happened to us…" he murmured, approaching Camus and hugging him from behind.
The Aquarius nodded, looking around the house. It was reminding him his own hut in the middle of the Siberia. Maybe this one was much smaller and made from the stone, not from the wood, but the same aura of the loneliness was filling the walls and every thing here. He was always abandoning his own house in the Snow Land, after the Holy War living in the Sanctuary with Milo and his other fellows, and now he felt a little sad about that. He loved his hut, so far away from the tumult of the other towns and cities, with the beautiful nights in the winter and the coldness of the climate. He loved to train on the ice, he loved to have long trips in searching for the wood; this hut had so many memories about his youth, about Hyoga and Isaac. What if he would never have the chance to see it again? To live there for a while, to make Milo to stay with him there? To make love in the front of the warm fireplace…?
"And what now, Camus?" asked Milo, holding tightly his lover, and thinking about their situation. It was the worst to be here, so far away from their times. Fortunately the Holy War was just the memory, so they didn't have to worry about it. But what about Nemesis and her Avengers? Another war could be knocking to the doors of the Sanctuary, what would happen if the two of them would be here forever?
"And what can we do, Milo? Nothing, completely nothing," answered Camus with the voice of really tired parent who was explaining something really easy to his dumb child. The Scorpio sighed quietly. "For now we are useless; we are trapped here, two hundred years before we were even born, we can only hope that Lady Athena will find the way to send us back. We don't even have our Clothes."
Milo nodded lightly, hiding his face in the soft, aquamarine hair of his lover.
"Yes, you are right, Camus," he admitted, playing with the long strands of the Aquarius. "But since you are here with me… " he turned Camus to face him, "I don't miss our Sanctuary at all."
He slowly approached Camus' lips and touched them gently with his own. His hands sunk deeply in the aquamarine hairs and started to play with them. Camus smiled under the touch of warm lips, encircling his own arms around Milo's torso. After a short while he departed his lips with the invitation, seeking for Milo's hot and deep kiss. The Scorpio didn't force him to wait to long; with the firm move of his tongue, he entered Camus' mouth with slight moan and few moments later their two tongues started to dance rapidly, making them to breathe harder with the every second. The aquamarine-haired man felt the waves of the heat spreading around his body, and he gladly accepted this; he knew that the sex was the best thing to take care of the stress. And it seemed Milo was thinking the same way; his pride was getting harder and harder with the every lick inside Camus' mouth, the cold Saint could feel it clearly through the material of their jeans.
But when the hand of Milo slipped from his hair and headed to his pants, just when it almost reached its destination, the door of their new home opened with a crack. They didn't manage to react in time – they heard the loud gasp of the surprise, coming out of their guest. Both of them looked at the surprised Degel, holding the sack of bandages.
"Huh? What are…?" he didn't finish his question, still too surprised what he saw now. He felt a little confused by that sight.
"Oh, shit…" murmured Camus, turning red n his face.
Milo looked at Degel, then at his lover, couldn't understand their reaction.
"What? What's wrong, Camus?"
Camus sighed deeply.
"Look Milo, I know that in our times it is something acceptable, but I'm not sure how this Sanctuary looks at any love relationships," he explained, firmly moving away from his lover. Milo looked at him surprised by this move, but Camus couldn't believe that even Degel looked at him that way. Like Camus did the stupidest thing ever. After a while he shook slightly his head and took gently Milo's hand into his own. Degel saw their kiss, so now there was no point of hiding the rest. "You see, Degel… We are…" he stopped for a while, but after the deep breathe he continued: "We are lovers. I suppose you could feel really disgusted right now, but could you please keep it in the secret, Degel?"
The current Aquarius Saint looked at them, frowning a little, but after a while he smiled.
"Actually… I'm not sure how this Sanctuary is looking at this too. We can't have families outside, and that means we can't love someone from outside the Holy Land. I think the Sanctuary just could ignore this as long as both of you are… Saints… But it is something uncommon to see any love here; the upcoming war is making us a little afraid of creating such a deep relationships with each other. I don't mind it, really. It is so nice to see someone with that kind of bond. But I'm not sure how others would look at this, Camus, so please, be careful the next time. Probably not all of us are tolerant so much," said Degel calmly. "Actually beyond the borders of Sanctuary it could be heavy sin…" he added, still confused. He felt his cheeks blushing a little.
Camus sighed with the relief and answered on Degel's smile with his own, warm smile. For a while he was really afraid, what fate was waiting for them, if the love between the two men was prohibited here. But it seemed they had the lucky.
"So, don't worry about that. If you will be careful, nothing will happen," added Degel and with really warm smile he gave them the fresh bandages. "Take care of yourself; I have my duties right now."
And he left them inside the old hut. After a long and full of tense moment, they laughed with relief.