New Hope
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Part 8
Wufei sat with his head in his hands. He'd been up thinking about what he saw the other day. The possibilities of it were next to nothing.
There was no way Duo Maxwell is alive…can be alive…
Duo was – is dead. He saw him in the coffin himself. It was not possible!
Wufei looked up and accepted the tea offered from Quatre. They were back at Quatre's estate. He had to explain what spooked him out courtesy of Heero actually starting the spooking. If Heero hadn't fired that shot then he wouldn't be spooked about it. When he thought he saw Duo, he saw recognition on their suspect. He looked up and over at Heero, Trowa, and Quatre who were waiting for his explanation. He cleared his throat.
"I think… I saw Maxwell." Wufei finally said. The others looked at him in disbelief, more on Quatre than the other two.
"Impossible." Heero said, the first to reject anything not logical.
"Could you have just seen someone that looked like him?" Quatre asked thoughtfully. They all didn't believe it. They were at Duo's funeral. He is dead. Period.
"Look up anyone with violet eyes and brown hair and see how many names you get! Dammit! I know what I saw!" Wufei said losing his patients. He calmed down a few seconds later and breathed out. "While you're at it, look for a sixteen year old with blond hair and green eyes. They were together at the building."
-X-
"Saa… These are a lot of files Gushoshin," Watari commented helping out the Gushoshin sort them out.
"Well, you wouldn't be doing it if you didn't leave your experiments lying around for my brother to accidentally take," the Gushoshin said glaring at the scientist.
"Okay, okay… I get it…"
Watari surrendered to his fate. It wasn't so bad. He kept sorting out the files until he came upon a certain file. It was Duo's file. It was the standard report, nothing unusual about it until he saw the dates.
There was no death date.
-X-
Hisoka was irritated. He glared…and glared…and glared some more. Duo dragged him all over to look for some nice place to eat breakfast. Tatsumi didn't give them much to spend so they had to make due with a simple café. He grimaced, as Duo seemed to gobble up the whole table. Hisoka hardly had anything to eat so he just opted to sit back and let Duo have his fill.
"Hisoka aren't you going to eat some more?" Duo asked. Hisoka shook his head trying to not look sick. "C'mon you need to eat more."
"No more. I'm full." Hisoka answered. Duo sighed and just finished his meal. He seemed satisfied and they were ready to leave.
"Let's go Soka-chan! We have a long day!" Duo said wrapping his arm around Hisoka's shoulders. Hisoka grumbled before pushing it off and began walking ahead. Duo stared and smiled before running to catch up.
-X-
"You're sure they'd come in here?" Heero asked Wufei who was leading them to the office/hospital building. Wufei nodded.
"It's a likely target for them. They will most likely head for the offices than the hospital part of the building." If my assumptions are right and that really is Maxwell… He added as an after thought. "I'm counting on guesses but this is probable."
"Let's hope you're right Chang."
-X-
Hisoka was close to blowing up. But for the sake of the mission he couldn't. He was going to kill Duo again because of this ridiculous plan. He was seething inside. He didn't like his predicament one bit. He looked down at his nurse's outfit. They could've snuck in the easy way, but No… Duo said he wanted to do it the traditional way. Traditional way my ass… Hisoka thought angrily. For all he thought of, Duo just wanted to see him in a nurses' outfit. Another Saya and Yuma…
You had to go through the hospital part until you reach the offices. Duo was so going to pay for this.
Hisoka and Duo reached the offices and Hisoka took off the ridiculous nurses' uniform. Duo pouted saying it looked good on him but backed off when Hisoka leveled him a glare. Duo just disguised himself as a doctor, which was pretty simple. They examined the blueprints of the building but they couldn't come up with something to look for.
"Soka-chan I'll go this way and you'll go that way. That way we'll find what we're looking for faster." Duo said. Hisoka nodded and went to go another direction until he was stopped when Duo placed his arms around him. "Please be careful Hisoka." Duo told him worriedly. Hisoka nodded and muttered 'baka' under his breath before walking off. Duo then went off in his own direction.
Hisoka carefully followed in the shadows. He didn't want to be seen by security cameras or anything. He looked through rooms that he found empty. There was nothing significant. Hisoka was rather curious why this building would be suspicious, according to Duo. He went back out into the hall when he knew no one was passing. He walked further and paused, hiding in the shadows as he heard voices. One sounded familiar…way too familiar…
"Ah that should be fine. I'll see to it later." Muraki…
Hisoka looked from his hiding place and saw the other Muraki was conversing with walk off. He saw Muraki walk into the room to his left. A minute later he came out and walked away to where the other had just left. Hisoka quietly went inside the room Muraki stepped into earlier. He saw that it was like a doctor's office. Though he did wonder what Muraki was doing here still. He walked up to the desk to see piles of some papers. He picked it up and looked at them. They were just regular doctor's work nothing of importance. Surely Muraki wasn't dumb to keep things in an office. It's usually hidden somewhere where no one would ever travel or think of. He placed the papers the way he found them. There was going to be nothing here.
He turned to leave but froze in fear.
"Hello my beautiful doll," Muraki said smirking slightly at Hisoka's shocked face. He could feel the fear emitting from the frail shinigami. He walked up to him and trapped the young shinigami in place. "Found what you're looking for?" Hisoka struggled again, uselessly.
"Let me go," he said while trying to free his wrists from Muraki's vice like grip.
"I'm amazed to see you here my doll. You know, you've got a few ex-gundam pilots after you," Muraki said leaning in to nuzzle his neck. "I could help you with this problem for a price…"
With that Muraki forcefully kissed him. Hisoka tried to move but found that he couldn't. He was trapped. He bit Muraki's tongue, making the other back away. It just made Muraki laugh.
"My doll, you're still just as pathetic as a century ago." Muraki told him. Hisoka looked at him horrified but confused.
"What are you talking about?" Hisoka asked.
"You don't remember your little mission to L3? It seems you don't remember my doll. They did good suppression on your memories. Perhaps I'll help you remember."
Hisoka felt his wrists bound and held above his head as he was lying down on the desk. He struggled but still to no avail. He knew what was going to happen to him. He kept kicking but it didn't work. Muraki pulled out a knife that Hisoka ceased his struggles. He stared fearfully and began shaking his head.
"No…don't…please…" Hisoka begged. He could feel the darkness seeping into him. He hated being touched by this man. He struggled, as the knife was closer.
"You should be quiet bouya. You don't want anyone to hear do you?" Muraki said while he cut down the middle of his victim's shirt. He watched in fascination as the trail of blood healed immediately. "I'll try to make this fun for you bouya. And this time, I'll make sure you'll remember it well."
Someone! Help me! Duo…-X-
Duo walked along the halls opposite the direction Hisoka went to. So far there wasn't any trouble except for a few guards walking around. He hadn't run into anything substantial yet. He paused then hid in the shadows as he heard familiar voices.
Heero… Wufei… Trowa… He thought. He peaked to see them conversing. They were probably waiting for him. Wufei probably told them that he saw him. Duo knew this was going to be hard to pass them. He couldn't afford to be seen. He had to go a different route.
Duo…
Duo paused as he heard a voice in his head. It sounded pained and desperate. He recognized it.
"Hisoka…" he breathed out. He placed a hand to his mouth, as he was sure the three heard him since they stopped conversing.
"Who's there?" Heero.
He didn't have time for this. Hisoka was in trouble. He'd take his troubles with being seen even if he had his disguise. Hisoka was more important. He did make a promise to Tatsumi. With that, he ran out of his hiding place and began to run full speed to the direction Hisoka went in. He hoped he made it in time. He could faintly hear the three of them trailing behind him but he didn't pay them any mind. He had to get to Hisoka.
Seconds later he realized that he stopped in front of the room he knew Hisoka was in. He looked around to see none of his former comrades anywhere. He tried to open the door but it was locked. He growled in annoyance. With that, he took out his gun and kicked the door down. What he saw made him freeze in shock and rage. He pointed his gun and fired.
"Get off him you bastard!" Duo hissed angrily at Muraki.
Muraki didn't seem fazed at this. He just casually stood up and dusted off wrinkles on his shirt. Duo stared as he saw Hisoka curled up hiding his upper body the best he could, tears staining his cheeks.
"Shinigami, you do have perfect timing as always. I suggest you take him before your friends reach you here," Muraki said. He stepped away and out the door.
Duo hastily approached Hisoka, breaking his binds and gave his jacket to Hisoka to cover himself. He helped Hisoka stand. He was lucky he got here in time before something more traumatizing happened.
"We have to go before my friends get here," he told Hisoka. "Can you run?" Hisoka nodded.
Duo grasped his hand and began running out. Hisoka struggled to catch up with Duo's pace and managed but he was losing strength quickly. The encounter with Muraki always left him useless and tired. He wished he could pass out. He stopped as he noticed Duo had released his grip on him. Guns were pointed at them.
Duo only noticed Heero and Wufei. Where was…
"Let me go!" Duo turned around to see Hisoka held on the arm by Trowa.
"Give up, escape is impossible." Heero said clicking the safety off.
Duo didn't hear it. He was already lost the minute Hisoka spoke.
Hisoka stopped his struggles as he felt a change in the air. It was disturbing but not enough to be evil. He then looked towards Duo. He noticed the flare of power surrounding his partner. It was not good. He tried to go to him but was pulled back by the one holding him. He glared and growled in annoyance. Did they know their former friend was going to kill them?
"Dammit Duo," Hisoka muttered, "Knock him out before he continues!" Hisoka yelled to the other two. They were confused by it though they didn't look it. "Shoot him or something!" Hisoka yelled again. But it was too late. The winds picked up around Duo who was def to any kind of attack or words. The air picked up. Heero and Wufei shielded their eyes while Trowa shielded himself and his captive. A few seconds later it was calm. They stared in shock.
Duo stood there. This was a shock to the three former gundam pilots. They didn't think what they suspected was true. But they did notice a difference. This Duo was different from the one they knew. They saw in his hand a scythe. They took a step back as soon as his eyes opened revealing red-tinted violet pools. Heero, Wufei, and Trowa were frozen in shock. Hisoka stayed as calm as he could. He knew it wasn't good. He felt nothing from his partner. It was by then Trowa had let go of Hisoka the minute Duo's cold gaze turned to him. Duo pointed his scythe at him.
"You, prepare to die." Duo told him and began walk towards him, his scythe ready to strike. He stopped when Hisoka jumped in front of Trowa with his arms outstretched. Trowa was surprised that he was doing this. Before he could make any protest he spoke.
"Stop it Duo, this isn't like you. Snap out if it!" Hisoka yelled at him. He never knew Duo would act this way. He didn't know what caused him to snap and act like this.
Duo looked at him and scowled. He walked up to Hisoka and backhanded him making Hisoka fall to the ground on the side.
"Know your place guardian." He told him.
He raised the scythe and swung.
TBC-----------------
BLK Angel of Destruction: This is the real chapter 8! I posted the wrong one! Sorry!
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