Chapter Seven

Tempers Tempers

It was well past noon when the large bearded man came into Lady Une's office. He had lost the simple game to see who had to face her, and now had the pleasure of telling the dark witch about Cudra. Lady Une looked up at him with a deadly glare, the brim of her hat shading her eyes.

"Last time I saw you, I got bad new. For the sake of your life, it had better be good news this time." She threatened, causing the man to sweat and swallow hard. "I see." She forced out.

"I do have a little good news." He said, trying to smile at her, he failed miserably at it.

"Go on." She forced out threw her teeth.

"We know who has him." Lady Une stood at that remark.

"Oh and who was that?" Her voice was sarcastic sounding and mocking. The man put a large shard of Jade onto the table, it was covered in Cudra's blood and smelled badly.

"Other Volaers, maam." Her eye twitched. She picked the shard up and shoved it into the mans throat .

"I already knew that, you twit!" She screamed, the man fell to the ground, blood pooling around him.

"Lady Une, you should really learn to control you're temper." Trieze said. Une jumped and turned around to see the king standing at the door way, again. He was becoming increasingly good at that little trick.

"You know for a king you can really be too kind." Lady Une snapped out, turning on Trieze, the Jade shard still in her hand, she found herself staring at the very sharp end of a sword, a smirk of Trieze's face, and a droplet of blood running down the bridge of her nose.

"Temper, temper." Trieze warned, he sheathed his swords and turned to leave.

'I am so sorry." She whispered. "But I can not work with these idiots any longer. Please, just let me use my beasts?" Lady Une asked, almost begging.

"Didn't Cudra just die, I believe he was your 'idiot', Lady."

"Yes, but he was small and weak, I have bigger and better ones." She said with a crazed smile. Trieze waved at her.

"Do what you want, just get me what I want, Lady Une." He said, leaving the witch to herself.

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"Duo can I talk to you?" Heero asked, Duo didn't say anything , pulling himself off Deathscythe, but in stead of landing on his feet, he landed on his butt and winced.

"Damnit." He cursed, Heero moved to help him up, but Duo ignored his offer, and just sat there, crossing his arms and blushing slightly to the fact that Heero had seen him fall. It's hard to be mad when you embarrass yourself in front of the person you're mad at.

"Duo, about last night, I acted unkindly to you. I took my frustration and my exhaustion out on you. I apologize." Duo smiled and nodded, taking Heero's hand and stood up. He wouldn't stay man at a man willing to save and protect his life.

"That stuff was nasty, people actually drink that?" Duo asked, rubbing his butt.

"Yeah, well Gazy has stronger ale then most placed." Heero said. "Once we get to the White Fang I'll show you what truly good ale is, you'll enjoy it." Heero said with a smile, Heero looked at Deathscythe, who was following them as they walked toward the others. "That's a good horse you've picked out."

"Yeah, we have many things in common." Duo said, smiling from ear to ear.

"Oh really?" Heero asked doubtfully.

"Yeah we both hate humans." Duo said, they both laughed at that comment.

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They only stopped long enough to allow the horses to rest, and for them to eat, with in the hour they were back on the move. Heero and Trowa road ahead, looking over a map between the two of them, while Quatre and Duo were behind them.

"So you and Trowa, huh?" Duo asked, Quatre blushed brightly, starring at the back of Trowa's head. "That is so cute." Duo practically squealed, Quatre smiled widely.

"Yeah…like you and Heero." Quatre countered, Duo chocked on his own tongue.

"What?" He asked, then smiled shyly. "Do you think he really likes me?" He asked Quatre.

"Are you kidding, you should see how he smiled when you fell asleep on him, and Wing. And I've never seen him treat anyone to ice-cream. And I've never heard him apologize to anyone under his own mother…not even Milliardo, and he's the King of White Fang. I don't know what happen, it might be that fact that he has someone to protect, but he's falling hard and fast for you."

"Really?"

"You should have seen how hurt he was this morning when you ignored him." Quatre said with a smile.

"I didn't want to hurt his feeling, I just wanted him to know that he hurt mine." Duo said.

"He deserved your anger. So did I." Quatre said.

"We're stopping here for the night." Heero said, When he turned to see Duo and Quatre's innocent looks, he glared slightly in suspicion. "What?" He asked cautiously.

"Nothing." They said at the same time, Heero just looked more doubtful at that. Trowa smiled, he knew that look in Quatre's eyes and it was being mirrored in Duo's, mischief, and a secret…maybe a plan. The next few days would prove to be very interesting. Heero only grunted and got off Wing, holding a hand up to Duo to help him off Deathscythe, so that he wouldn't fall again.

Duo helped Trowa set the camp up. Trowa insisted on teaching him how to build a fire from scratch.

"In case you don't have the energy to use your powers."

"If I didn't have enough energy to use my powers, then I don't think I would have the energy to start a fire by hand." Duo pointed out. After that was done, Heero made Duo practice with his dagger, just a few simple exercises. He did the exercises for about an hour before Heero stopped him.

"Okay, that's enough, we should get some sleep, we still have three days before we reach Byl." Heero said, Duo sat down next to him exhausted.

"Wow, Duo you pick those up quickly." Quatre said. "You're movements were almost completely fluent by the time Heero stopped you." Duo gulped down some water and fell back on the fur Heero had laid out for him.

"It was tiring and hard…I can't wait to do it tomorrow." Duo said seriously. "It's fun too and I have some good ideas I think to make it a little more original and spontaneous." Duo said with a smile.

"If it's planned then it's not spontaneous." Quatre said with a small laugh. Duo smiled at him and closed his eyes. Quatre moved to lean against Trowa and soon they were sleeping. Heero leaned himself up against a tree, getting traps ready in the ground to tell him if anyone or thing approached their camp.

It was well passed midnight when Duo opened his eyes. He looked around the camp and found who he was looking for propped up against the tree, one knee bent. Duo smiled and slowly crawled across the short distance, making sure not to make a noise.

Heero's eyes popped open immediately when Duo's head rested in his lap. Heero hadn't noticed that Duo was coming to him, until the long haired boy rested his head in his lap. Heero softly pulled Duo's bangs to the side, resting his hand on his head and fell asleep.

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I didn't realize how short this chapter is so there will be another one up soon, probably tonight. But my horse reared up on me today and caught my shoulder pretty good. It's all blue and purple with a hint of green, not a pretty bruise and it hurts a lot. Though it's not broken the doctor still gave me a sling to put it in so I don't move my arm to much. Typing one handed is a skill I perfected when I broke me wrist a while ago. :D