Gami1x2: Yeah redeem your bad self Wufei ScythedWing: Oh wow.
Shinii2x1: Hmmmm Anubis you rock…..
A/N: special thanks to my reviewers who are anonymous; Aryam and Shinigami. THANK YOU!!!
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Important info: Anubis is a god with very limited powers because he is not connected to the afterlife right now. But he still has some powers. Duo is his son. Any Questions contact me and I'll tell you answer you personally so that I don't ruin anything. Thank You. My e-mail is listed in my profile.
Chained
Chapter Nine: The Acceptance
-----(Heero's room)-----
Heero was the first to awaken the next morning. As the sun rose and shone into Heero's window the warm rays washed over his face. He opened his eyes, closing them for another second before opening them again. There was a slight pressure in his abdomen and something sharp poking into his chest. He blinked a few times and looked down; to his surprise he found the top of a chestnut covered head. The sharp poking in his chest was Duo's nails clutching onto his shirt. There was a snickering causing Heero to look up and into the brown eyes of the black jackal (?) lying on the foot of the bed.
"Last night you where a hound." Heero said. Anubis laughed a little harder. Heero glared half heartedly at the jackal and waited for him to answer.
"And sometimes I'm a war horse, your point?" Anubis asked.
"If you want to stay close to Duo, you're going to have to stick to one form." Heero said. Anubis nodded; he understood the reason behind the command. It wouldn't do any good to walk around in different forms. It would bring only suspicion and interest in Duo.
"I know, but considering what I am I felt the jackal fits me better." Anubis said. Heero nodded in agreement. Though how many people would question him about a black jackal.
"Why were you snickering?" Heero asked. Anubis smiled the best he could in this form. "You don't disapprove of Duo cuddling me?" Heero asked with a half hearted glare. Did Anubis care if Duo was cuddling another man, an elf for that matter? Heero hit himself mentally. Anubis was a god; he would care if Duo was hugging a man nor a women, elf nor demon, as long as it wasn't forced. And Heero hadn't forced Duo into anything, Duo had done it one his own.
"Why would I care about that, I find it cute. And to think he doesn't even do that when he and Quatre are in the same bed." Anubis said. Heero looked down at Duo again, and saw him stirring. He closed his eyes and put his head back on the pillow. Not wanting Duo to think he was forced into this position, Heero made sure that his hands were lying at his side, not touching Duo in any way.
Duo opened his eyes slowly; the first thing he saw was the jackal smiling at him. He smiled dumbly at it and snuggled closer into the body he was cuddling with…Duo's eyes snapped opened wide and he sat up quickly looking at the elf in his bed.
"What the hell are you doing in my bed?" Duo asked. Heero sat up at that and looked at Duo with a 'what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about' look. Duo looked around. He wasn't in the stables, nor was he in a hotel. He was in Heero's room. "Okay, what the hell and I doing in your bed?"
"You know Heero I was wondering the same thing. Why did you take Duo to your own bed?" Anubis asked an eyebrow lifted his tone slightly playful. Heero's breath caught. /Why had I taken him to my bed?/ He asked himself. He had plenty of spare rooms, plus the little room just passed his that Duo had been in yesterday. There was no real explanation as to why he put Duo in bed with him.
"In case you decided to run, and break the deal." Heero said. Anubis laughed lightly; knowing that the elf had lied threw his teeth. Duo looked at Heero like he was a mad man.
"In case I ran. I don't break my promises Heero." Duo said. "And you didn't have to get to close." Duo snapped crossing his arms. Heero glared at him.
"Hey I'm the one who woke up with you clawing at me." Heero snapped back. Anubis stopped laughing and looked away. Mumbling something about youngsters and there stupid bickering. Duo looked at the jackal for the comment and raises a hand to smack him. Before he could do so however, his mind jumped back to what Heero had said.
"I don't claw at anyone." Duo said stiffly. Heero smiled and opened his shirt showing Duo the claw marks. Duo huffed and turned away. "So." He mumbled.
"Duo stop whining like a child." Anubis said getting up on all fours and shaking his fur clear of sleep. Duo pouted and glared at his father. Something Heero thought was cute.
"Wait a minute. Quatre doesn't know that you're his father does he?" Heero asked. Quatre had told Heero that Duo's mother and father were dead, maybe he had miss understood Duo. Maybe Duo had said they were death, not dead.
"No one does." Anubis said.
"He does." Duo growled out threw his teeth. "Why did you tell him? And why did you tell me to stop, I could have beaten him if it wasn't for you." Duo snapped at the jackal, who just smiled and jumped off the bed.
"I'm hungry, let's go eat." Anubis said heading for the door. "And Duo I want you to start listening to Heero, he's not going to treat you wrong." Anubis added, turning to look at his son who was still sitting on the bed, the covers piled to his side. Duo's eyes widened.
"That's why you told me to let him when. So you can see me become a slave." That had done it. You see it was hard for Anubis to loose his temper, especially when it was his son talking to him. But to accuse him so intensions not true, well it was a peeve that he would never get over. Anubis changed into his true form and walked back to the bed grabbing Duo's chin and forcing the boy to look at him with his violet eyes that reminded him of Mórrígan.
"Don't doubt my intensions, and don't question my decision, that is all I ask of you my son. To trust me. The least you can do is trust your own blood." Anubis said. Duo tried to look away from his father, but the hand under his chin stopped him. "Duo you still have freedom with Heero, you would not be so lucky if someone else knew who you were." Anubis said. That did however gather Duo attention quickly. He glared at Heero.
"He knows who I am?" Duo asked quietly.
"Not who you are, but what you will become, yes. I told him everything that he needs to know for now. Duo you need to stop acting like a child." Anubis said letting Duo's face go and changing back into his jackal form. "If fact I think it would be a good idea if you stayed in Heero's room, at night. Get to know each other a little better. That's an order from your father Duo, obey it, will you."
"You can't do that!" Duo whined, and got out of bed to fallow his father. Heero on the other hand fell back into his pillow and threw his arm over his eyes. "You comin' Heero?" Heero sighed. Duo had asked he question like he and Heero had been friends for years. Heero didn't get this demon. Yesterday he was here crying and whining, and yelling and saying he hated Heero. Today he's here whining, and cuddling with Heero, and now talking to him like he's his best friend. "Well?" Heero sat up and got out of bed slowly.
"I don't get you, and I don't get your father. Is there anything else I should learn and not understand so that I can try to figure everything out at once?" Heero asked. Duo smiled.
"Well if your confused then the one with the weird bangs will be too." Duo said with a smile, though Heero saw the caution in his eyes. Heero decided then that he really liked Duo's smile.
"What about Trowa?" Heero asked, wondering why Trowa had anything to do with it.
"Well Quatre's just as complicated as I am, if not a little more so. Empathy and Demon don't belong together, there's no one else on the planet like him." Duo said with a smile, then opened the door and walked out. Heero fallowed him out, deciding that he really didn't want to know at the moment, he needed to figure Duo out first. Duo turned left and Heero grabbed his arm to stop him.
"Kitchens are this way." He said. Duo bounded out of Heero's reach and down toward the kitchen. Heero fallowing behind him, calling out directions to the bouncing demon, his mind one huge web of confusion.
"What's wrong?" Heero looked down to see Anubis looking at him. He sighed and looked back at Duo. "You can tell me the truth I won't tell anyone." Anubis said. Heero half smiled and closed his eyes, rubbing them with his figure and thumb when Duo ran into a vase and almost smashed it to the ground. There was a 'sorry' before the boy's braid disappeared behind a corner.
"I'm confused. I have never been so confused before. I usually have everything figured out. I'm usually one step ahead of the others. I know the Tholi Jhyl is trying to start a war. I usually know before anything's going to happen. I've earned the fear and respect of the other elves. But with Duo…my glare doesn't affect him. And his attitude changes faster then anyone I have ever come across, including Wufei." Heero said. Sighing and turning the corner to see the subject of there conversation starring into the black eyes of the black haired elf. Heero and Anubis stopped and decided to watch to see how this would progress.
"What are you doing running around free of a master?" Wufei asked in a snarl.
"Funny, I was going to ask you the same thing." Duo said with a smile. Heero saw the pain pop in Wufei's forehead before Wufei threw Duo to the ground with a punch in the face. Duo was on his feet in a second laughing. "Yep, you still punch like a woman." Duo said. Before anything could progress any further however, Heero was holding Duo back and Anubis, in his true form, had Wufei's shirt in his hands.
Wufei was starring at Anubis wide eyed. Anubis' red eyes were narrow slits in his black face and his teeth were bared, red drool traveling down his chin as he growled at Wufei.
"What is you problem?" Anubis growled out. Wufei didn't answer. "Show some respect and answer your elder." Anubis growled out again, pushing Wufei away from him to the ground. Heero and Duo watching in shock, Heero still hanging on to Duo, Duo completely unaware of the position.
Wufei stood up and glared at the demon in front of him. "I don't answer to demons." Wufei growled out. Anubis growled out to that and quicker then the elf could have imagined, Anubis had him to the ground again, nose bleeding.
"I am no demon, elf." He spat out. "I am a god and you 'will' answer to me. Do I make my self clear?" Anubis spat out. Even Heero felt the need to just answer for Wufei, but held his tongue. Wufei nodded. "Good, what is your problem with demons?" Wufei narrowed his eyes in thought.
"I can't stand them." He said simply, bowing his head.
"That is no answer. I expect an explanation as to why you would treat my son with such little honor." Anubis said. Wufei snapped his head up and looked at Anubis with wide eyes.
"Thanks, now he knows too." Duo said. Anubis ignored him. Wufei stood slowly, watching Anubis the entire time.
"I'm not Aendreidol (Egyptian (1)), you have no say in my life." Wufei said cautiously. Anubis raised an eye brow in slight amusement.
"Oh, well, maybe if Yama Raja (2) I would listen to me better?" Anubis asked. Wufei's eyes widened. "My brother would be displeased to see you acting like an idiot.
"Yan Luo is your brother?" Wufei asked a little dumb founded. Anubis glared at the question.
"Do not ask me questions. I want to know why you treat my son with little honor, if none at all?" Anubis asked. Heero decided to step in.
"Anubis, he…" Anubis held his hand up to silence Heero. Heero swallowed and closed his mouth, though he was not happy about it, but who would disobey a god, even if that god's powers were on the weakened side. Anubis backhanded Wufei hard enough to snap his head to the side, but not to knock him to the floor.
"Listen up, and listen closely. Forget the trauma in your past and get over it. It was nothing you could have stopped. Your peoples death was dated and they died in that time, you have yet to be dated and I doubt you purpose in life was to be an ass. Now leave." Anubis growled out. Surprising Heero by not arguing Wufei left without another word, but not before Anubis adding in a few more words. "Next time, honoring your friend would be in your favor." Wufei didn't say anything.
"I'm not his friend." Duo said shortly, pulling away from Heero. Heero reluctantly let him go. Anubis turned back to Duo in his jackal form.
"Do not hate him, Duo. His choices were not his own, though now I think they will be." Anubis said. Heero raised an eye brow.
"You cured him?" He asked.
"God no, a trauma like that, his childhood was ripped apart, his life was destroyed I merely pointed him in the right direction of passing over the past." Anubis said. Heero nodded. Now there was something he could understand. Heero knew it would still be a long while before Wufei ever respected a demon, but at least he was heading in the right direction to forgive himself for letting the demons kill his clan. Heero opened the door that was just a few feet away from Duo.
"Well let's eat, then." He said. Duo smiled and bounced through the door. Heero heard him calling to his brother, alerting Heero that Trowa and Quatre were already in the kitchen. Heero stepped in after Anubis was in and greeted the two. He sat down across from Trowa, Duo sat down next to him, and Anubis, still jackal form, sat down next to Duo in a chair. The maids didn't question it when Heero glared at them.
"Shinigami, I didn't know you were allowed to be inside." Quatre said happily, greeting the jackal with a smile.
"Cut the crap Quatre." Anubis said, his voice playful. Quatre rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Again I'm the last to know. So Heero knows the whole truth?" Quatre asked. Looking at the jackal with half a glare.
"Mostly yes, something can not be explained. I expect that this elf here knows your story Quatre, seeing that Apollo is sitting on your shoulder….Good morning brother." The sandy colored bird nestled in the space of Quatre's neck, mostly hidden from view, stepped out into full view.
"Anubis, glad to see you are fairing good this morning." The bird chirped. Everyone looked at Heero when he slammed his head on the table and stayed there. Duo patted his shoulder lightly.
"Heero, you okay?" He asked. Heero shook his head, not voicing his answer. Duo frowned. "What's wrong?"
"This is too much." He whispered. Duo laughed.
"Sorry, but you got yourself into this mess." Duo said.
"Well actually-." Apollo stopped when Duo glared at him in complete death glare mode. "What?"
"If you dare say that Quatre, Heero, Trowa, and I are part of some prophesy I swear to the gods I will pluck all of your little feathers (3)." Duo growled out. Apollo just kept quiet. "Are you saying-."
"No!" Apollo snapped out. "I was only going to say that we could have just kept quiet and not told them any of this." Apollo said. Quatre laughed and nodded.
"That is true Duo. It's better for them to know the truth then to find out the hard way later." Duo rolled his eyes, and then glared at Quatre.
"I should still be mad at you for telling Heero my life story, but seeing how it's a popular subject at the moment," He glared at his father. "we'll let it go."
"Oh Duo your so kind." Quatre said sarcastically. Duo stuck out his tongue. Then immediately perked up, as the food was being brought to the table.
-----(end chapter)-----
(1) Since this is not earth Egypt is Aendreir so Egyptian is Aendreidol.
(2) In Chinese Mythology, Yan Luois the god of death and the ruler of hell (Feng-Du). The name Yan Luo is a shortened Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit term Yama Raja .
(3) Apollo was the god of prophesy, music and healing.