-1The Love of the Cursed

Chp 2

He ran for some time, until they come to a waterfall that was hidden from the outside world by a thick wood. Duo fell off of him smiling.

"Wow, I've never ridden a tiger before, that was cool." He said with a smile directed at Heero. Heero had started to change back, his bones made a disturbing crack, as his fur disappeared. What started as a painful growl turned into a human screams as his body twisted shape. When he stopped changing he seemed out of breath. His ears were still like a tigers sticking out of his messy chocolate hair and he still had his tail. There were even stripes that still lingered on his body.

"Heero, are you okay?" Duo asked worriedly.

"Yeah" He said plopping down on his back.

"You still have ears and a tail." Duo pointed out, reaching out, but not quite touching them.

"I better get this blood off." Heero said not worried about the tail or the ears. He got up and pulled of the black cloak that Duo had given him and waded into the water. Duo watched for a moment, watching in amazement at Heero's sheer form, and the muscles that laced his body. Duo turned, blushing, he pulled his cloak back, turning his back to Heero he began banging a rock on the chains, trying to break them off of his wrists. Then, accidentally, hit his thumb and cried out a bit, shoving his thumb into his mouth. And sat back on his butt.

Heero was before him in a flash, checking to see if Duo had broken his finger. He gently ran his fingertips across Duo's palm and fingers. Deciding that Duo's thumb was alright his hands drifted to the cuffs braking them off Duo without harming him.

"How did you do that? I've been trying to get those off for days." Duo said, throwing the chains away from him and shivering slightly. He wanted Heero to touch him again...'what!' he thought and turned to look at Heero.

Heero walked back over to the water and this time he dove in. He brushed the water out of his eyes when he resurfaced. Duo pulled his cloak off and fallowed Heero into the water. He waded in up to his waist and stood there for a bit.

"You didn't answer my question, are you like a super changeling or something?" Duo said, his arms still out of the water. He giggled a bit when he felt something swim passed him. Heero being a tiger loved the water.

"Tigers are strong Duo." Heero said as he swam around.

"Yeah and elves are natural born hunters." Duo said sarcastically, wrapping his arms around himself. Duo was walking in a little further in and tripped, ducking all the way under, and jumped up sputtering. "And graceful." He added quietly.

"I'll keep that in mind." Heero said swimming around Duo.

Duo glared and spit a mouth full of water out at Heero. "Yeah you do that." Duo said and sunk under the water, undoing his braid so he could wash it. He surfaced again, allowing his hair to flow around him in a chestnut waterfall. Heero could not stop himself. He reached out and ran his fingers through Duo's hair.

Duo's large violet eyes popped open and he jumped slightly but didn't move. He was afraid that he would just move closer to Heero.

"Are you okay?" Heero asked pulling his hand away.

"Y-yeah...I'm go-going to.." Duo swallowed and made a move to get out of the water, only to trip again and fall into the water again. He surfaced again, coughing up some water. "Damn rocks." He said, though truth be told, it wasn't a rock he had trips on, but his own damn feet. He started slowly making his way out of the water again. Heero was a little sad to see him go but the boy was making him act oddly. He swam over to the waterfall to wash off the rest of the blood.

Duo turned to see where Heero was and froze just on the shore as he saw Heero under the waterfall and his mouth fell open and his pants felt a little tighter. He turned around blushing and he made it out of the water with out any more trips and laid down on a rock in the sun so he could dry off. He watched Heero from under his arms.

Heero left the falls diving under the water surfacing with a large fish in his mouth. Duo giggled at the sight and continued to watch him. He's so cute. Duo thought. Heero came out of the water on all fours stopping only to shake the water off then moved into the sun next to Duo.

"Did you have fun?" Duo asked, yawning lazily.

"Hn." Heero said and closed his eyes.

Duo closed his eyes to sleep, tired from traveling the whole night before and their little battle a few hours ago. Without noticing it he snuggled closer to Heero. Not minding the extra warmth, Heero closed his eyes and was soon asleep as well. Duo would be shocked to wake up with Heero cuddled into him like a kitten

Duo woke up a few hours later feeling something thick on his leg. He opened his eyes and looked down to see Heero curled up next to him, his tail wrapped around his leg. Duo smiled and curled up with Heero, closing his eyes to maybe get a few more hours of sleep, seeing as the sun was just passing the half way point.

Heero woke an hour later and blushed at the way he had been laying. He got up and started to cook some fish. Duo would be hungry when he awoke. Duo woke up to the smell of cooking fish and opened his eyes, sighing when he didn't see Heero laying next to him anymore. He sat up and found Heero cooking a few feet away. Duo crawled over to him and sat near him.

"So where do we go?" Duo asked.

"North?" Heero said having no clue.

"Okay, I was going that way anyway, after what happen I can never really show my face back there again." Duo said a bit bitterly.

"Hn?" Heero said turning the fish.

Duo looked at Heero glaring.

"What's with the glare?" He asked. Duo continued to glare. Heero glared back. Duo grabbed Heero's hands in his face and kissed him on the lips. It only lasted for a second before Duo pulled away and turned away from Heero, blushing deeply and mentally hitting himself for doing it. But Heero was killing him. He was just to gorgeous and Duo couldn't help but at least get one kiss. He smiled and closed his eyes, actually he was happy he did it.

Heero pushed him to the ground leaning over him "What was that for?"

Duo's eyes widened in slight fear and he eyed Heero, not saying anything. Heero lean down and brushed his lips across Duo's. Duo's eyes closed and he responded to Heero's kiss, wanting to wrap his arms around Heero, but still feared for his life, after all Heero had just broken chains like they were nothing. Though the feeling of being helpless to Heero was only turning him on more.

Feeling Duo tense a little Heero pulled away with his eyes on the ground. He moved into the water hoping it would cool him down. Before Heero could get to far Duo grabbed his tail. "You better not be finished yet." Duo said quietly.

Heero went back and kissed Duo and as it deepened he let out a low purr. Duo's eyes rolled in pleasure at the feeling of Heero purring into the kiss and wrapping his arms around Heero's neck. Heero's hand dipped into Duo's hair then his fingertips brushed down his neck where he placed more kisses.

An arrow wedged into a ground near them. And laughing filled their ears. "Looky who we have here, clumsy Duo and his new pet."

Heero growled and jumped up ready to attack.

"Calm down little kitty." The elf with long blond hair said. "We've just came looking for Duo, we don't want any problems with you. I think the Humans want that." The elf said, with a laugh. Heero growled again looking to Duo for answers.

"I'm not going back home, it's destroyed anyway." Duo said, not looking at Heero.

"Yeah the church burned down, thanks to you, but no one was hurt. Not to mention Relena has made a bargain with King Treize. We give her you and she leaves us alone." Duo pulled out his sword and glared at them

"I'm not going back."

"Like hell you're not." The blond elf charged towards them, the other two elves stayed behind and watched with smirks on their faces. Heero was between them in an instant in full blown tiger form. Growling with his teeth bared. The elf just smiled and elbowed Heero as hard as he could. The tiger caught the blonds elbow in his teeth threatening to bite it off. The elf winced and punched towards the tiger with the hilt of his sword. One of the other elves went after Heero as well, while the third went after Duo. Duo jumped back, landing on his feet he charged forward to hit the elf. The elf simple moved to the side and tripped Duo, laughing as he did so.

"We're not humans Duo." He said, bringing the hilt of his sword down to the back of Duo's head knocking him out.

"Let go of my arms you freak cat." The blond elf said, hitting Heero in the head over and over with the hilt of his sword. Heero chomped down as he passed out. That arm would have to be cut off to get it out of his mouth.

"Get him off me!" The elf screamed, pulling at his arm and only tearing at his skin. Duo opened his eyes slowly. His head hurt really bad, but the elf hadn't hit him hard enough. He saw Heero's tiger body limp on the blond elf, his teeth buried in his elbow. Quietly and slowly, since his vision of spinning, he pulled the dagger out of the elves belt and plunged it into his back, where it would reach his heart. He may be clumsy, but he wasn't stupid. The elf dropped him as he fell to the ground. He rolled as he herd the only available elf running towards him and kicked his foot up, sending the elf over him. He quickly got to his feet and threw his dagger at the elf, who caught it, to his dismay. Duo picked up the fallen elves bow and an arrow and quickly sent the arrow flying into the elves throat, then turned to the blond elf with Heero.

Heero's tail twitched and he turned back to his human form but the tail, ears, and stripes remained. Using everything he had Duo kicked the elf in the head, effectively knocking him out. And gentle pulled Heero off him and away from the elf. He tied the elf up and then started checking Heero's head, luckily the bastard blond elf didn't break the skin, and from what he could tell didn't break any bone. But that didn't mean there wasn't a concussion or anything.

Heero's tail wrapped around Duo's ankle. Duo looked down at him with a sad smile. "Looks like both of us are the hunted." He said, and forced himself to stay awake, just incase the blond elf woke up.

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"I liked it here too..." Heero said as he looked around.

Duo smiled again. "Me too. Maybe we can come back here someday." Duo said, not even thinking about whether he and Heero would be together then. Though he hoped so.

Heero nodded. "When should we get going..."

"I don't know, should we kill him, keep him from fallowing us?" Duo asked, pointing to the blond elf, tied up a few feet away. Heero walked over to the elf and snapped his neck.

"Lets move..." Heero said putting the black cloak back on. Duo just stared at the elf for a bit before getting to his feet and pulling his cloak on as well. Heero was a killing machine, Duo smiled.

'Makes it that much more exciting.' He thought fallowing Heero. "So I guess you don't have a concussion, right?" He asked a little concerned.

"No. I heal when I change. If the wound his not bad." Heero said as they walked.

"Really, that's cool." Duo said running forward, a bit to catch up with Heero. "So how come you have a tail and ears, and strips, but you didn't before?" Duo asked, noticing that the sun was going down.

"I was born with them." Heero said "On full moons I have no choice but to be a tiger. Sometimes right after I look human..."

"I think there cute." Duo said, pinching one of the ears lightly. Heero blushed, not knowing if he should tell the elf about the new moon.

"Oh on the full moon, I grow an extra head." Duo said jokingly, with a smile.

"I'll keep that in mind as well" Heero had no idea where they were going but he knew it would be interesting with Duo around. Duo laughed at his own joke.

"I'm just kidding." He said. He sighed out a huff of breath and wrapped his arms around himself in thought.

"Are you okay" Heero asked.

"What? Oh yeah, I was just thinking." Duo said. Smiling up at Heero, though he was only half hearted.

"About?"

"Well...it's just I don't know why my clan would be so whiling to give me up. I mean I know I'm clumsy and stuff, and I didn't mean to burn down the church, but I shouldn't be handed over to Relena like that...right?" Duo asked, not looking at Heero.

Heero nodded, he wanted to ask what had happened but did not want to push Duo.

Duo laughed in a harsh way. "It may be best if you stay away from me." Duo said, still not looking at Heero.

"Why?" This time he had to ask, he looked at Duo

"Because I bring bad luck where ever I go." Duo said quietly. "Not to mention I'm clumsy, that has to be the biggest disgrace for an-" As if on queue, Duo tripped and fell. He sat up, his head dropped, and he sighed.

Heero offered him a hand to help him up, then pulled him into a kiss. Duo kissed him back, melting into the kiss, with a soft sigh.

"I don't mind" Heero kissed him again.

"Well, you're the first, not even my parents wanted to keep me." Duo said. "So where are we going?" Duo asked, changing the topic quickly.

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We hope that one was better on the spelling and Grammar, lol, though I doubt it, we're too distracted with our own story, lol.