Title: In the Eyes
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that is related to Gundam Wing. I am not making any money off of this story, so do not sue, and do not take this story for it is copy written by me!!! For the original version of this story is MINE!!!!!
Pairings: My usual
Summery: Heero has to get Duo to the White Fang before Trieze can steal him away. Magic, Chaos, and LEMON all around, YEAY.
Warnings: Everything under the sun. LOL
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Chapter Four
Memories of the Past
Heero woke up early the next morning and dressed quickly. He pulled out his map and looked it over just as quickly, making a path from Aria to Gazy, there next destination, which meant they would have to pass over the Facic river. All and all they would only travel for a good twelve hours today, which wasn't much, sixteen hours being ideal for Heero, but with Duo they would have to slow down just a bit, just until the he was strong enough to travel for longer periods of time. And when he could ride his own horse.
Heero woke Duo a short time after dawn, as soon as he touched him, the boy jumped up and looked around the room frantically, his violet eyes falling to Heero. He calmed down a bit and relaxed, leaning his head down onto his knees, still on the bed. "I thought yesterday had all been one long dream." Duo confessed, pushing his hands over the blanket in a nervous gesture.
"No it's not a dream." Heero said. "Come on, get dressed, we're going to meet the others for breakfast downstairs." Heero said, throwing Duo's long over shirt to him and walking towards the window, he opened the curtain and looked out over the street. Duo looked up and got his first good look at Heero, without his cloak on. He was wearing a tight long sleeved, dark blue turtle neck that bared his abdomen, a tighter black shirt just under the blue. He wore skin tight black pants with a purple belt that split into three along the left side of his hips. His boots rose to his thighs, covering the insides of his thighs with dark blue material, Duo guessed it was for riding, they where held up with silver straps, while a lighter blue material covered his calves, a silver ring rested around his ankles.
"Oh food." Duo said as he pulled the shirt over his head and focused on smoothing it down over his chest so he wouldn't have to look at Heero, he pulled on his arm covers and then his boots. Duo smiled and pointed his foot towards Heero. "Will you tie them for me?" He said, tilting his head. Heero smiled and nodded, knelling down in front of Duo and started tying his boots.
"You better be watching, you need to learn how to do this on your own." He said, faking a stern tone. Duo nodded and laughed.
"Thanks." Duo said, smiling and headed for the door. It felt good to be able to walk wherever he wanted too. He opened the door and bounded out, Heero right behind him. He almost fell down the stairs, but Heero was quick to catch him and no one noticed, not that there were many people up this early to see it anyway.
Duo spotted Quatre almost instantly, not being able to miss the walking smile. Quatre had short puffy blond hair, his bangs framed face. He wore a nice pair of beige pants with brown ankle high boots. He wore a pink shirt similar to Duo's over shirt, going down to his knees with slits up the sides to his hips. He also wore a purple vest over the top of it, that was laces up the sides, and buttoned up the front.
"Some times I wonder why he wears pink." Heero said, Duo turned to him with a smile.
"That's not nice." He said, but couldn't help laughing a bit.
"He doesn't mind, and he wears nothing but beige purple and pink, no matter what." Heero said, sitting down next to Quatre, Duo took the seat across from him.
"There's nothing wrong with that. And I do wear other colors. You try being from the desert and wear black and dark blue." Quatre said defensively.
"Well I think you look cute, Quatre." Duo said, smiling at the boy.
"Thank you , Duo." Quatre said, making a face at Heero. Duo waved behind them and Heero and Quatre turned to see Trowa walking towards them. Duo was surprised to see that he was wearing color. He had thought that being a shadow master would mean that he would wear all black, that was not the case. He wore a simple quarter sleeve dark green shirt over a long sleeved black shirt, and simple dark blue jeans. His boots were black with silver rings around his calves.
"Is Wufei joining us?" Duo asked, as Trowa took a seat next to him, across from Quatre.
"Naw, Wufei ate and left already, he's going to met us in Byl….Trowa slow down you'll choke." Quatre cried out. Duo looked over to him to see him gulping down his food quickly. He merely just shook his head and continued.
"I have to get the horses ready, we need to leave as soon as possible." Trowa said threw a mouth full of food, then sank into the shadows. The three of them just sat there starring for a few minutes.
"What is with him?" Quatre asked. Heero just shrugged, and started eating his eggs, as the waitress brought it over to them. A few minutes later found them with a table full of empty plates. Duo was just having a blast eating.
"You sure can put away food, Duo." Quatre said. He had never seen anyone eat this much, it was almost gross. Almost.
'Well it's been a long time since I've had any food. It's all too good." Duo said, finishing off his last plate of fresh fruit.
"I have a few questions if you don't mind, the information we have about you is lacking greatly." Quatre said.
"Yeah okay, what ever you guys want." Duo said.
"How old were you when you were…well…" Quatre thought about how to phrase it. He didn't want to make Duo uncomfortable.
"Eight." Duo said quickly, so Quatre wouldn't have to finish.
"How old are you know?" Heero threw in. He knew the incident had taken place almost two hundred years ago, or even more so, but Duo looked to be only nineteen, maybe twenty.
"I don't know." Duo said, he thought about it.
"What do you mean you don't know? You know when you're birthday is right?" Quatre asked, shocked that someone wouldn't know how old they are.
"Yeah in the fall, but it's hard to tell what the day is when you're in a cave. Obviously I could tell the season, but after a few season changes I just stopped keeping track. I thought I would be there forever, so I didn't really care." Duo explained. Heero and Quatre nodded their agreement and understanding. Who would want to count the days of eternity anyway.
"Howard said I could well be over two hundred and fifty years old, something about a war with King Vijri the first being a timeline. It happened two hundred years after the invasion of Archaic and fifty years before today. But I just told him to stop figuring it out because I really didn't want to know how long I had been trapped there." Duo said. "My mothers spell gave me eternal life, I won't die with normal means. They tortured me, tried to drown me for two hours, whipped me, and beat me, they stabbed me, and cut at my throat. I hate them all and I just…" Duo stopped and bowed his head, he was started to rant, and go off track.
"But you can die?" Heero asked.
"HEERO!" Quatre cried out. "You don't ask questions like that." He said. Duo answered with a nod.
"How come you know as much as you do? By all right you should not have some of this knowledge?" Quatre said, changing the subject.
"I guess, but I had some friends and they taught me all sorts of stuff." Duo said, Heero lifted an eye brow.
"People came to visit you?" Heero asked.
"Yeah well, Solo was an elf. He found me when I had been in the cave for twenty five years. He was ten." Duo smiled at the memory. "I don't know how he found me, but he did. He began to teach me everything I wanted to now, and everything he was being taught too. I watched him grow up and finally he just stopped coming, a few years later his daughter came and told me what had happened, he had died of an attack on their clan. She taught me from there, but soon she stopped coming as well, she went and got married and had a family. I couldn't blame her for I?" Duo said with a smile. "Then her children came to see me, and taught me more stuff, but soon the war with Vijri came and everyone stopped coming for a good fifty years as Howard had said. " Duo looked grim. "He caught me up on times, he became my friend. But I think he betrayed me. He disappeared for a few days and then all of a sudden I'm being chained up and dragged away…Not that's I'm complaining now." Duo sent a sly smile over to Heero who lifted his eye brow again. Duo blushed and turned away.
"What does iron do to you?" Quatre asked.
"It drains all of my energy in a matter of second, and it hurts, if feels like my skin in on fire and I can't do anything to help it. I'm completely helpless. " Duo explained. "It's a horrible feeling, and I should have never told Howard that." Duo said with a sad face. Trowa came up to them then and eyed all the plates.
"Don't ask?" Quatre said, Trowa just laughed a bit.
"The horses are ready. Are we going to buy one for the pig?" Trowa asked. Duo stuck his tongue out at him, Heero and Quatre laughed, Duo joined in a little after.
"I was hungry." He said with mock defense.
"Not yet." Heero said answering Trowa's question. "You don't know how to ride a horse, do you?" Heero asked, hoping the Duo didn't know how to ride a horse. He wanted the long haired man to stay on Wing with him. To his relief Duo shock his head. Heero placed a large gold piece on the table and the three of them stood to follow Trowa out to the stables.
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Yeay it gets a lot more interesting after this so I hope I still have readers.