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Chained

Chapter Six: The Problem

-----(Duo)-----

Duo was so busy concentrating on forgetting about the small room with his eyes closed, and his throat humming his mothers song that he didn't even realize that he had fallen asleep. And whether it was because of lack of food, overly using his abilities, or just the whole concept of becoming a slave against anything he had to say about it, his sleep was peaceful. The fact that it was so peaceful that he didn't walk up when Heero entered the room again, was a little of a shock when two strong arms placed themselves on his shoulders and gently shook him awake.

Duo yawned, showing off his sharp teeth, and rubbed his eyes. Finally opening them to look straight into deep blue eyes. He smiled at first, thinking it was Quatre, but then his mind provided that Quatre's eyes were light, his skin was paler, and his hair was not brown but thick locks of sun colored strands. Duo's eyes widened and shock and he backed away from the elf standing above him, sitting up and leaning against the wall, chains rattling together.

"Have you not had enough yet, must you continue on tormenting me." Duo said, his eyes were half closed in a glare and he was breathing deeply. "Was it not enough that I am already bound to you?" Duo asked, this time his voice was a little more quiet.

"No." Heero answered shortly. The demon already hated him, so he was no longer going to try to calm the creature with words. Duo looked at his with a slight disgust. "There is more to being a slave then just being bonded. You must stay by my side and obey my word, like a mindless creature with nothing better to do." Heero said simply. Duo rolled his eyes and looked away from Heero.

"Right. I'm going to forget my past life. And be happy that I have someone to take care of me, feed me, and dress me, while all I have to do is give my soul to them in slavery and warm their bed." Duo said venomously. Heero flinched slightly, Duo hadn't noticed. Heero decided to still walk the path he had chosen.

"Or. ((yes))." Heero sat with his face slightly in the air and his arms crossed over his chest. Knowing that he either looked like a stubborn child or an arrogant prick. But he desperately hopped it would work "I will use you how ever I see fit, but only until the problem that has come to take threat on elves, namely the Tholi Jhyl." Heero said. That caught Duo attention.

"What the hell is that suppose to mean?" Duo asked. Heero turned to face Duo seriously.

"Duo, I know damn well that you know elves don't take slaves." Heero said. Duo looked doubtful, but yes he did know that. That was one reason in a few as to why it was hard for Duo to accept this. The major reason being that 'he' was the one in control of his life not others, not 'Heero'. "Well, demons have been attacking the other creatures on Kelas, taking lives, so the Tholi Jhyl have decided on taking them as slaves. They believe that this will stop the demon problem. But I believe it'll only start more."

"Damn right it's going to start more. It's going to start a bloody fucking war. Your elders are idiots. Maybe the demons wouldn't be attacking the other creatures the way they are if they were invited to be involved with Kelas affairs." Duo said coldly. "Not once has a demon attended a treaty signing, not once has a demon's opinions been taken seriously. They all think we're stupid or something. They all think we're the same." Duo snapped. Heero held his tongue. It was true. He himself had thought that their were only demons not Meistaria Paestyl ((Sympathy Demons)). He had never known there were other breeds.

"Do you even realize that there are two hundred types of demons. Just like elves, there are many different kinds. Like elves there are those of light and dark. And like elves there are those who look more animalish, and others more human. But no one gives a damn. And know you think you can just catch a demon chain him in a room, bond him, and expect him to accept it." Duo was in Heero's face now, eyes meeting eyes, noses almost touching.

"Duo, I'm sorry, but until this can be fixed your going to have to be enslaved. I don't like it, it's unnatural and cruel, but I promise I will remove the bond when the time in right." Heero said. He expected Duo to lash out, but he didn't expect to be hit, and the solid punch to the face threw him to the ground.

"You still don't fucking get it, do you?" Duo said. He got off the bed and stood as close as he could with the chains holding him back. With whatever grace Heero had left after falling off the bed, he stood and faced Duo. "You can't just become a slave." Duo snapped.

"You brother seems to deal with it okay." Heero snapped back. Then caught himself and looked away. As much as Duo was starting to annoy him, it was not his fault. For everything Duo had said was true. But it wouldn't do for Heero to loose his self control.

"What…" Duo staggered down to the bed, looked disbelieving and confused. "…But he'd never betray…he…" Heero knelt down in front of Duo taking his hands in his and looking into his eyes.

"You're brothers not betraying you or anyone else. He's simple just…going incognito. If you think about it Duo, your brother is preparing for what is going to happen. Like you and I both know it will. War is always the answer, if it wasn't then it wouldn't exists. No creatures gods, nor the creatures themselves can prevent it. Trust me I see very little resignation in Quatre. He merely sees himself better off as a slave right now then free when a war is about to start. I'm not asking for you to give up your control over yourself, just to act like it." Heero said. He didn't know why he was reasoning with the demon but he thought it had something to do with the way he was thinking how he really didn't want to let this creature go. Duo pulled his hands away from Heero.

"A fight." Duo said. Heero stood up straight with an eye brow raised.

"A fight?" Heero asked, not knowing exactly what Duo was saying. Duo looked at Heero, his eyes in a deadly glared.

"I want a fight, if I can defeat you then me and Quatre get to go free and you have to find yourself another demon to play slave for you." Duo said. Heero rolled his eyes.

"How come you can't just…"

"Because, there are still things, that even if we are 'pretending' like children, I would still have to do, that I personally don't ever want to do. So if I win the fight you undo the bond and me and Quatre go free." Duo said. Heero was mad now. It wasn't easy to get an elf mad, but it was easy to make Heero mad, and Duo was starting to royally piss him off. So Heero decided, in the thick fog of madness, about his next answer.

"Fine, then you better fight like you're life depends on it, because if I win, then you're mine." Heero growled out. Duo just glared at him.

"Fine. I want food and to see Quatre before we have our fight." Duo said, crossing his arms over his chest. Heero's eye twitched with irritation and grabbed Duo's chain close to his neck. Leading Duo out of the room. To Duo extreme shock, the chains around his wrist disappeared.

Duo tried to pull away from Heero, giving the elf a hard time pulling him down the corridors, almost slipping away, but Heero's grip held firm though.

"Let go, you haven't won yet. This really hurts you know." Duo said. Heero stopped and looked at him.

"If you ask me you deserve it." Heero said.

"Oh I deserve it huh. I did nothing fucking wrong. Then I'm caught, you're freak elf beats the shit out of me, and now I'm a slave…and I deserve this?" Duo asked incredulously. Heero smirked with a dangerous glare in his eyes. Duo only matched it.

"Yes, because you are being a stubborn child, and now you have gotten into something that will be far worse then being my temporary slave. You had better win, or you'll lose your freedom for good." Heero growled out, Duo's eyes widened and he thought over what had happened in the room and his eyes widened even more.

"Wait, that's not what I meant." Duo said. He stood up straight but Heero pulled him so that he was slightly bowed. "Stop that!" Duo snapped out. Heero rolled his eyes and pulled Duo with him.

They entered the dinning room were Quatre and Trowa were eating and forced Duo down in the chair next to Quatre. He roughly placed a plate of food in front of the boy and then grabbed Trowa's arm leading the taller elf out of the room, while he was in the middle of drinking his tea.

"Ass whole." Duo cursed taking a bit out of his roll of bread venomously. He heard Quatre laughing next to him and glared at the boy. "What do you find so funny?" Duo snapped, that caused Quatre to stop.

"What's wrong with you?" Quatre asked. Folding his hands in front of him, giving Duo his full attention. That told Duo he expected answers. Duo looked away from Quatre.

"What's wrong with you, you accepted this?" Duo asked. Taking another bit of his food.

"Yes, I did." Quatre said simply. As though the three words would explain everything.

"Why?" Duo asked, his voice was betraying the anger that he felt. He took another bit of food and quickly drank half his glass of water.

"Duo why are you eating so fast-" Duo turned on Quatre, glaring death to the blond boy in front of him. Quatre swallowed and stuttered a little, his mouth open and closing a few times.

"I asked you why?" Duo repeated.

"Why are you being like-" Duo stood, knocking his chair over.

"WHY QUATRE?!" Duo practically screamed. Quatre's looked away from Duo and to his empty plate.

"Because Duo. I'm tired. I'm tired of everything. Of seeing you beat for no reasons, for seeing you suffer to protect the both of us. If this decision that the Tholi Jhyl made causes a war, then I don't want to be stuck somewhere in the middle-" Quatre said, but Duo interrupted him.

"The we join the demons Quatre, their our people, even if we are the last of our kind, they are still our people. We don't fight against them." Duo said. He sat down and put his head on the table, pushing his food away. "Quatre I know I'm young, I know you've had more experience then I do with these sorts of things, but it doesn't seem right for us to join the elves. The are not…." Quatre smiled sadly and pulled Duo into a hug. The boy sobbed into Quatre's chest.

"Duo I know that they're elves, and I know you hate elves because of what they did to your family, but you have to get over that Duo it happened so long ago." Quatre said, soothing the boy.

"It doesn't matter anyway, unless I beat Heero in a fight I'll be his forever." Duo said, his sobs calming down a bit. Quatre sighed.

"When I told him to talk to you and to have you make a promise I didn't think it would end up like this." Duo sat up and looked at Quatre with silent betrayal.

"You told them Quatre?" Duo asked.

"Not everything Duo, I was just trying to help." Quatre said. Duo stood and walked towards the door.

"It doesn't matter anyway, Quat, unless I defeat Heero, nothing will matter anymore." Duo said, there was a determined look in his eyes, but there was also fear, and a slight nervousness. Duo turned away from Quatre and left the hall.

-----(Trowa and Heero)-----

"Heero, I don't know if you've noticed, but I was trying to-" Heero covered Trowa's mouth with his hand.

"We're going to fight. If I win I get him for life, if he wins we w\have to let both of them go." Heero said. Trowa's eyes widened and then unexpectedly he punched Heero in the arm. Heero glared at Trowa, but before he could say anything about it, Trowa pulled his hand away and spoke.

"You have better win." He gave Heero a glare that would match his own.

"I plan to." The surprised Trowa, who in turn lifted en eyebrow at his elder brother.

"Are you telling me that after six hundred and thirty eight years you actually found someone capable of gathering your attention for mare then an hour?" Trowa asked. Heero thought for a moment.

"No, there was Relena, it took me a month before I realized she wasn't the right one. And then there was Dorothy, but she became war obsessed and then there was Dang-" Trowa laughed cutting Heero off.

"Heero if you jump straight to passed relationships without me specifying what I was talking about I'd say you have a little thing going for Duo." Trowa said. Heero frowned and looked away.

"Well it doesn't really matter Trowa, he hates me." Heero said.

"That could always change Heero, with a little help, it can always change." At that moment Duo walked into the corridor and up to Heero.

"We fight with weapons, no magic, it would give you an unfair advantage." Duo said. Heero smirked.

"With my age and skill over yours I am afraid I already have that advantage." Heero stated. Trowa looked at Heero with warning eyes.

"Oh yeah, that'll really work to make him like you." Trowa mumbled under his breath as he walked passed Heero to see if Quatre was w\still whiling to eat with him. Either Duo didn't hear him, or choose to ignore him.

"I want my scythe." Duo said. Heero nodded, and grabbed Duo by the chain again. Duo rolled his eyes and pulled against Heero's grip, but decided against keeping it up, he needed his strength.

"You know I can walk on my own." Heero just grunted a response and ignored him. Duo made a face at Heero's back and walked with Heero so that he wouldn't be in pain.

-----(AuthorNote)-----

Review please...I had trouble getting it were i wanted it to go, but I think i did okay. Beware everyone, the slavery issue causes a lot of problems between the four involved, Wufei will be back soon with a huge surprise.