Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I & II ❯ The First Night in the Haunted Forest ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Terrenis-chan 
Duo spends his first night in the forest, where he meets Wufei...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 275 | Status: Work In Progress
Duo spends his first night in the forest, where he meets Wufei...
Anime/Manga: Gundam Wing Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Mystery / Martial Arts / Horror / Fantasy / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 10.25.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 275 | Status: Work In Progress
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A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I
2. The first night in the Haunted Forest
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**...The young swordsman Heero had been picking up the mummified corpse of his former rival Treize just to give him a decent burial, as suddenly...
Suddenly and completely unexpected the corpse opened its eyes and uttered strange guttural noises. And then two tentacles wrapped around the swordsman's throat and started to strangle him. For a moment Heero was too shocked to react. But then he began to fight back and also to choke the zombie with one hand.
"I should have known it. You will never change. Even in death you fight against me!" the young man hissed.
Like a flash he got out of his bag a long and narrow pin, made of pure silver, and used all his strength to ram the pin into the zombie's skull. At the same time a bright blue light flashed up at the spot where the pin had been rammed into the head of the zombie. The undead one let out an inhuman, horrible scream. But he was still alive. After his first attack the Japanese flung the zombie against the rocks of the waterfall.
Then he took out an amulet and spoke some magic words quickly, after which the piece of paper went up in flames. Heero threw it against the zombie and the undead began to burn. Without any emotion in his face the young swordsman watched as his rival burned up to ashes.
"So the monsters are back again!" he murmured to himself.
After a while of thinking of what would come up to him, the young swordsman wanted to go back to the temple as something came to his mind. There still had been this boy, this young book scholar. If he still was there? Heero only could hope that he was wrong. But if this scholar really were at the temple yet, then he was in big danger. As fast as he could, the Japanese was running back to the temple. He hoped that it wasn't too late yet.
*
In the meantime Duo had made himself comfortable in his room. He had lighted some candles he had found to lighten his room. And he also was holding something to eat in his hand and reading in a book. But unfortunately the braided boy hadn't noticed yet, that he had some unpleasant company in form of a few zombies at the attic. The undead were wide awake and crawled across the woodened floor.
Suddenly Duo got suspicious. He had heard something above him. It was a really strange noise, as if someone or something would scrape on a hard underground. A little voice inside his head told him that he wasn't alone anymore. So he decided to go in search of the source of the strange noises, though he had a really bad feeling. Slowly he went across the room and listened.
After a few minutes he discovered that the strange noises seemed to come from the attic. But how should he get upstairs? Then the braided boy saw an old woodened ladder leaning at the wall. Duo took the ladder and put it against the opposite wall. After doing this the braided scholar began to climb up. But the mummy-like zombies also had reached the end of the ladder and were ready to receive their next prey. Only a few metres separated both, Duo on the ladder and the zombies on the other side.
And the braided boy would have gotten into their claws if he hadn't heard anything different at the same moment that let him stop. It sounded like music that caught him immediately. A magical melody, so beautiful and so sad yet. Duo couldn't resist. He climbed down and followed the music, armed with a small knife he had found.
And so he went through the pitch-black forest towards the music. He passed two gigantic statues and went further until he reached a small lake. In the midst of the lake was a small pavilion, which could be reached over a woodened footbridge and was lighted by numerous torches.
The entrance was guarded by two big lion statues. And at the end of the footbridge he could see a figure sitting which seemed to play one of these traditional Chinese instruments, but Duo didn't know its name. Unfortunately he couldn't see the face of the figure, because it was covered by some waving veils. But Duo's curiosity was grown. He wanted to see who the figure was and slowly went on.
And finally, when the braided scholar stood in front of the pavilion, he saw him. Duo could barely keep himself from gasping. The figure was a young Chinese man, dressed in white Chinese gowns. His long hair had the colour of ebony and was tied back into a ponytail, with the exception of some bangs falling into his face. Duo could felt his heart beating.
Never in his entire life had he seen such a beautiful creature yet. Such a beautiful being with a face like an angel. Absolutely fascinated the braided young man watched the Chinese as he was playing his instrument.
Suddenly one string of the young man's instrument tore and he looked up. This time Duo gasped. He couldn't believe it. Those eyes, such beautiful, onyx coloured eyes, like jewels. He never had seen such eyes before. They were unique und perfect.
And then he saw that the Chinese young man also watched him. Duo could see the interest in his eyes and smiled. But suddenly the Chinese boy's expression changed from interest to fear. Duo wondered about the sudden change until he noticed the nearly forgotten knife in his hand. No wonder that the other boy seemed to be afraid of him. Perhaps he mistook Duo for a criminal, who wanted to murder him.
"G...Gomen. I forgot. But you really don't have to be afraid of me. I don't want to hurt you. I throw it away if you like!" Duo stuttered.
But clumsy as he was, the braided boy somehow managed to break off the blade of his knife, which flew towards the pavilion, where it hit the wall only a few centimetres beside the young Chinese man's head. Duo paled and looked incredulous at the broken knife.
"Gods, I'm really sorry. I really didn't want to do that."
Then he took a look at the Chinese and this one didn't seem to be mad at him though he looked a little shocked. On the contrary, he took the cord and started to repair his instrument as if nothing had happened. Relieved Duo looked around, just to check if something else was broken.
But when the braided young man turned his back to Wufei, the Chinese's eyes went wide and he abruptly turned his gaze away, shielding his face from Duo's back. Why? Unnoticed to Duo, this one didn't know that he still had the prints of the amulets from the stand in the village on his clothing where. And these amulets were a useful weapon against demons or ghosts - ghosts like Wufei.
And for this reason he couldn't endure the sight of Duo's back. The braided boy turned to Wufei again, seeing that the Chinese seemed to be afraid of something.
"What's the matter? Can I help you?" he asked, really concerned.
When the other realized, that the boy with the long braid had turned round again, he visibly relaxed. But the Chinese had to get rid off these prints. And he even had an idea. Unnoticed he undid one of the veils attached to the pavilion and let it carry away by the wind.
"Oh no...!" Wufei shouted.
"Don't worry, I'll get it back!" Duo replied and started to run behind the
filmy piece of cloth.
But unfortunately he overlooked the end of the way and the fact that he was in the midst of a lake with lots of water in it. And when Duo realized the fact, it already was too late.
SPLASH!!!
And he was ended up in the lake and all that, although Duo couldn't swim at all. Desperate he tried to keep himself over water and to get back to the safe footbridge somehow. But the braided young man failed when a helping hand was stretched out towards him, which Duo gratefully accepted.
"Come on. You'll only catch a cold." The Chinese boy said when he helped Duo out of the ice-cold lake.
"Thank you."
Soaking wet from the involuntary bath the young scholar sat down next to the beautiful Chinese.
"Sorry, but I couldn't catch it. I'll try to find it tomorrow again. Gods, I'm so c...cold!" the braided youth stuttered.
He shivered with cold and clattered with his teeth. He really had to warm himself up. Duo took Wufei's hand in his own to receive a little warmth from him. But he noticed that Wufei's hand was as cold as his own.
"W...Why are you so cold?" he shivered.
Wufei smiled and started running his fingers through Duo's wet bangs. And Duo stared with wide eyes at the Chinese, whose face was only a few millimetres away from his own. Only now he could see the whole beauty of these onyx eyes. Then the Chinese youth breathed something in his ear.
"I don't know. Because your body is warmer than mine?"
Duo blushed and could feel the heat in his face. For a moment he really had thought that the Chinese would kiss him. But he hadn't expected such an answer.
//What's the matter with you, Maxwell? Normally you don't behave yourself like even before. But he's so beautiful and I really want to kiss him. Gods, what shall I do?// Duo scolded with himself.
Wufei smiled when he saw the other in such confusion. He was really cute this way. Too bad, that he would die like all the other men before. Just another prey for his master Zechs. Unless...
No, maybe this boy didn't have to die, if he could save his life. And the Chinese swore to himself that he would do this, before in four days everything would be over him. But how should he do that? And then an idea came into his mind.
Duo was still talking with himself when he realized that the pretty Chinese boy was staring at him. Suddenly he came nearer and Duo's eyes widened again. Could it be...? Did the Chinese really want to kiss him? He could feel his heart beating faster and faster, the nearer the other young man came.
But then Wufei stopped and he took a few breaths, before he opened his mouth and a thin, fine fog flew into Duo's face. The braided boy was much too surprised to react. He only took a last glance at this before his world went black and he slipped into unconsciousness, crumpling in a heap in the Chinese's lap.
Wufei looked with sad eyes at the limp body.
"How pretty and cute you are! I'm really sorry, but you're here at the wrong place. It's better when you're going. Or otherwise you also will die." The Chinese spoke.
He stroked the boy's brown hair and just sat there, looking at him.
*
In the meantime Heero had been running back to the temple. But he hadn't found anyone and so he was looking now in the forest for this book scholar. Why did that baka also have to be there in the middle of the night? And where could he be?
//Maybe he is at the lake.// he thought by himself.
Heero remembered the small lake he had found at one of his excursions. Without thinking long he ran straight to his new destination.
*
Wufei was still sitting at the pavilion with the still unconscious Duo in his lap, when he suddenly felt a familiar aura coming nearer. It wasn't the aura of his master, but he knew this aura well enough. It was that swordsman who lived in one part of the old temple. And he was coming nearer. Time to go. And at the same moment Wufei started to fly away and vanished.
Duo, who had been lying in his lap, landed right away in the lake again. Wide awake and confused, Duo wondered why he was in the water again. And where was the Chinese boy? Didn't he have been here? The braided scholar looked around. No, it had not been a dream. There was still lying the instrument of the Chinese boy. He must have forgotten it.
Duo picked it up and headed for the forest, where the Chinese must have gone to. There he and Wufei, who hid himself in the branches of a tree, barely missed Heero, who finally had reached the lake.
*
The young Japanese slowly went along the footbridge and looked around. No one was here. Heero sighed. He hated it when he came too late. But it didn't matter. The young swordsman simply would have to look further for that stupid braided baka. He turned back and went back to the forest.
*
Meanwhile Duo still wandered round in the forest with Wufei's instrument in his arms. Still in search of the mysterious young man he met at the lake. He simply couldn't forget those beautiful eyes. Where could he only be? He searched and searched, but didn't find him. But when the braided young man turned around, Wufei suddenly stood before him. At the first moment Duo was frightened, but quickly calmed down.
"Gods, you scared me to death!" he shouted.
"I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention to scare you. But may I ask you why you are going after me?" the young Chinese man asked.
Duo blushed with embarrassment. What should he say? But before he could answer, Wufei grabbed his wrist und started to pull the braided boy away, because the Chinese had felt the aura of Heero again and he really wasn't keen on an encounter. And so they were running through the darkness.
"W...What's the matter?" Duo asked breathlessly.
"There's a stranger. He's dangerous." Wufei replied.
"A stranger? But I haven't seen anyone. I.........UAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
The young braided man let out a loud yell when he tripped over a root causing him to fell exactly on the Chinese boy. Now both of them were lying on the forest floor and looking puzzled at each other. Finally Wufei couldn't suppress a slight smile. The boy was really too cute in his naivety.
A hissing sound let them snap out of their confusion. Next to Wufeis head a cobra had appeared. He didn't know why, maybe instinctively, but Duo pulled the Chinese boy close to his chest protecting him from the poisonous snake. Both men were looking with fear at it.
"You don't have to be afraid. I'll protect you." The braided scholar whispered.
He indeed had no idea how to do that yet, but somehow he would manage it. And then he had an idea. Slowly Duo got nearer to the snake and stared at it as if he planned to hypnotize the cobra. When he was close enough, Duo started to stamp onto the snake like a maniac planning to kill her by doing so.
"I'll kill you, you stupid snake!" he shouted.
Wufei couldn't believe what the other boy was doing and found it difficult to suppress a laugh. Did he really believe to kill a snake like this? But then the cobra started to snake her way up on Duo's leg.
The boy with the long braid shrieked and panic-stricken he took of the snake and flung her high in the sky. There she stayed for a moment. However, before she came down again, Wufei grabbed Duo and pulled him out of the way, before he used the thin and fine fog, coming out of his mouth, to stun the snake and fling her on a branch.
Then the Chinese threw Duo and himself on the ground. Now he was lying on the braided boy and put a finger on his mouth, indicating that Duo should be quiet. Duo flushed. He suddenly felt uneasy, but on the other hand it wasn't that bad yet. One minute later they heard someone coming to their location. The running footsteps were coming nearer and then leaving again.
"He's gone!" Wufei whispered.
"Who was that?" Duo asked.
"That was the swordsman who lives in one part of the Nataku - Temple. If he sees us, he'll kill us."
"Oh! Is he that crazy guy who lives next door to me?"
Wufei only nodded.
"Hmmm. And I really thought he was a good person! I really can't believe it, that I could be so wrong!" Duo replied.
Several minutes later, when the footsteps were finally gone, both men stood up and Wufei started to leave, running and with Duo behind him. The braided young man tried to catch up with the Chinese.
"What do you still want from me?" the Chinese growled.
"I just want to ask if I can bring you home! It's too dangerous out here."
"That's impossible. My family is very stern. I'm not allowed to take strangers home." Wufei answered and went on.
//They would kill you immediately, if they would find you at my place!// he added mentally.
Duo looked and then sprinted after him, until he passed Wufei and placed himself in front of the Chinese. This one stopped and looked at him with his onyx eyes.
"I understand, what you mean. Why don't you go home and I distract this swordsman?" he suggested.
The young Chinese nodded silently and Duo grinned.
"Well, then I'm going now." He said and started to leave.
But he stopped when he remembered the forgotten instrument in his hand. Duo went back to the Chinese boy and gave it back to him.
"Here. I forgot to give it to you."
Then Duo wanted to go, but Wufei held him back.
"What's your name?"
Puzzled Duo stared at him, but recovered quickly.
"Maxwell, Duo Maxwell! And yours?"
"Chang, Wufei Chang!" the Chinese answered and stepped forward, just to caress Duo's cheek, who turned a bright red. His eyes widened. What was the Chinese boy up to now?
"Well. Then I thank you, Duo Maxwell!" Wufei breathed and finally brushed a quick kiss on Duo's lips.
The braided scholar was much too shocked to think clearly.
//He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me.// was his only thought until he snapped out of it, just to see Wufei leaving.
"He Wufei!!!" Duo shouted.
Wufei turned his head.
"See ya tomorrow night!" Duo shouted again and waved his hand.
The Chinese smiled and waved back. Then he left. But when Wufei was out of Duo's sight, he rose up in the air and flew to the next tree, where he hid himself and from where he could watch what Duo was doing now.
*
This one sneaked meanwhile around in the undergrowth and hid himself, when the braided scholar heard the Japanese returning. How could he divert the swordsman from him and especially from Wufei? Duo racked his brain, until he got a brilliant idea. At least Duo thought it was a brilliant idea.
Duo ducked and began to imitate the voices of monkeys and then behave himself like them. When Wufei watched this scene, he started to chuckle to himself. The Chinese couldn't help, but he liked the braided boy more and more. Duo meanwhile continued with his performance and he even succeeded.
Heero had heard the noise and was running now in Duo's direction, away from Wufei. When the Japanese arrived at the spot where he had heard the strange noises, there wasn't anything to see. Duo had been able to hide himself just in time. Heero took his sword in his hand and started to look around for any suspicious looking figures.
Unfortunately Duo hid himself only a few centimetres next to the Japanese trying hard not to make a noise. But as he tried to sneak away, the braided scholar noticed that Heero was standing on his clothes and he couldn't get away without being noticed by that Japanese swordsman. So he had to hold out until Heero would be gone. Poor Duo.
But then he was lucky. An animal rustled in the undergrowth and distracted Heero for one second. Duo took advantage of this time to get away. But Heero saw him and made a gigantic jump towards the braided boy.
"I get you!" he yelled.
"Shit...!" cursed Duo. Fortuna didn't seem to be on his side.
*
Wufei noticed that Duo seemed to be in trouble and decided to help him.
"Watch out!" he shouted.
Like a flash the Chinese began to fly, crossing Heero's way. Immediately this one made a few jumps to change his direction and was now after Wufei. The Chinese boy flew through the forest with Heero in his back and tried to get rid off him. But the Japanese proved to be very stubborn.
"This time you won't escape me!!"
The Japanese took one of his silver pins out of his bag and aimed it at Wufei. Then he flung it. The pin flew in Wufei's direction, ready to kill him. But then something really odd happened. Zechs appeared. Not directly, but as a shadow behind a bush.
The demon only made a move with his hand and like a flash a tree grew from the ground, which caught the pin and started to burn. Heero cursed and watched Wufei disappearing in the fog. And with a loud scream the demon also vanished.
Heero just stood there. This ghost and the demon, they had managed to escape again. He had failed, again. And the Japanese knew that they wouldn't show up again for the rest of the night. So he had to wait till the next time.
Heero sighed and went to the burning tree. He extinguished the fire by breathing at it and then he suffocated it with only one move of his hand. After that the Japanese went back to the temple, where he would think about a new plan how to proceed against the apparition.
*
When the air seemed to be clear, Duo poked his head out of his hiding place. He really didn't understand what had happened a few minutes ago. He truly could have sworn that the pretty had been flying through the air. But that was impossible. Finally he got out of the undergrowth and noticed a piece of white cloth hanging at a tree.
Curiously he took it and started to read the written letters on it. Suddenly he gasped. It was a message from Wufei.
'YOU'RE REALLY NICE, BUT DON'T COME BACK TO ME! WUFEI'
Why should Wufei write something like this? Why did he want to see him never again? Did Duo something to anger the handsome Chinese? Duo decided to think about that when he was in the temple again und put the white cloth into his sleeve. But without noticing it, the braided scholar lost it again when he walked away.
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It had been a long night and Duo was tired. The only thing he wanted to do was sleeping. But if he would have known what was happening in his room at the moment...He certainly would have slept elsewhere.
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Tsuzú ku -> to be continued
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BGM: Siam's Eye - La'Cryma Christi; After, In the Dark - Gabriela Robin & Mai Yamane; Gravity - Luna Sea; Moon - Luna Sea; Seki - Ray - Gackt...
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So, that's all for now. I know this chapter was somehow confusing, but I hope it was not that bad.
Do you like it? Just write me:
Terrenis@web.de or terrenis-chan@gmx.net
Ja ne!
^^ Terrenis-chan ^-^
A Gundam Wing Ghost Story I
2. The first night in the Haunted Forest
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**...The young swordsman Heero had been picking up the mummified corpse of his former rival Treize just to give him a decent burial, as suddenly...
Suddenly and completely unexpected the corpse opened its eyes and uttered strange guttural noises. And then two tentacles wrapped around the swordsman's throat and started to strangle him. For a moment Heero was too shocked to react. But then he began to fight back and also to choke the zombie with one hand.
"I should have known it. You will never change. Even in death you fight against me!" the young man hissed.
Like a flash he got out of his bag a long and narrow pin, made of pure silver, and used all his strength to ram the pin into the zombie's skull. At the same time a bright blue light flashed up at the spot where the pin had been rammed into the head of the zombie. The undead one let out an inhuman, horrible scream. But he was still alive. After his first attack the Japanese flung the zombie against the rocks of the waterfall.
Then he took out an amulet and spoke some magic words quickly, after which the piece of paper went up in flames. Heero threw it against the zombie and the undead began to burn. Without any emotion in his face the young swordsman watched as his rival burned up to ashes.
"So the monsters are back again!" he murmured to himself.
After a while of thinking of what would come up to him, the young swordsman wanted to go back to the temple as something came to his mind. There still had been this boy, this young book scholar. If he still was there? Heero only could hope that he was wrong. But if this scholar really were at the temple yet, then he was in big danger. As fast as he could, the Japanese was running back to the temple. He hoped that it wasn't too late yet.
*
In the meantime Duo had made himself comfortable in his room. He had lighted some candles he had found to lighten his room. And he also was holding something to eat in his hand and reading in a book. But unfortunately the braided boy hadn't noticed yet, that he had some unpleasant company in form of a few zombies at the attic. The undead were wide awake and crawled across the woodened floor.
Suddenly Duo got suspicious. He had heard something above him. It was a really strange noise, as if someone or something would scrape on a hard underground. A little voice inside his head told him that he wasn't alone anymore. So he decided to go in search of the source of the strange noises, though he had a really bad feeling. Slowly he went across the room and listened.
After a few minutes he discovered that the strange noises seemed to come from the attic. But how should he get upstairs? Then the braided boy saw an old woodened ladder leaning at the wall. Duo took the ladder and put it against the opposite wall. After doing this the braided scholar began to climb up. But the mummy-like zombies also had reached the end of the ladder and were ready to receive their next prey. Only a few metres separated both, Duo on the ladder and the zombies on the other side.
And the braided boy would have gotten into their claws if he hadn't heard anything different at the same moment that let him stop. It sounded like music that caught him immediately. A magical melody, so beautiful and so sad yet. Duo couldn't resist. He climbed down and followed the music, armed with a small knife he had found.
And so he went through the pitch-black forest towards the music. He passed two gigantic statues and went further until he reached a small lake. In the midst of the lake was a small pavilion, which could be reached over a woodened footbridge and was lighted by numerous torches.
The entrance was guarded by two big lion statues. And at the end of the footbridge he could see a figure sitting which seemed to play one of these traditional Chinese instruments, but Duo didn't know its name. Unfortunately he couldn't see the face of the figure, because it was covered by some waving veils. But Duo's curiosity was grown. He wanted to see who the figure was and slowly went on.
And finally, when the braided scholar stood in front of the pavilion, he saw him. Duo could barely keep himself from gasping. The figure was a young Chinese man, dressed in white Chinese gowns. His long hair had the colour of ebony and was tied back into a ponytail, with the exception of some bangs falling into his face. Duo could felt his heart beating.
Never in his entire life had he seen such a beautiful creature yet. Such a beautiful being with a face like an angel. Absolutely fascinated the braided young man watched the Chinese as he was playing his instrument.
Suddenly one string of the young man's instrument tore and he looked up. This time Duo gasped. He couldn't believe it. Those eyes, such beautiful, onyx coloured eyes, like jewels. He never had seen such eyes before. They were unique und perfect.
And then he saw that the Chinese young man also watched him. Duo could see the interest in his eyes and smiled. But suddenly the Chinese boy's expression changed from interest to fear. Duo wondered about the sudden change until he noticed the nearly forgotten knife in his hand. No wonder that the other boy seemed to be afraid of him. Perhaps he mistook Duo for a criminal, who wanted to murder him.
"G...Gomen. I forgot. But you really don't have to be afraid of me. I don't want to hurt you. I throw it away if you like!" Duo stuttered.
But clumsy as he was, the braided boy somehow managed to break off the blade of his knife, which flew towards the pavilion, where it hit the wall only a few centimetres beside the young Chinese man's head. Duo paled and looked incredulous at the broken knife.
"Gods, I'm really sorry. I really didn't want to do that."
Then he took a look at the Chinese and this one didn't seem to be mad at him though he looked a little shocked. On the contrary, he took the cord and started to repair his instrument as if nothing had happened. Relieved Duo looked around, just to check if something else was broken.
But when the braided young man turned his back to Wufei, the Chinese's eyes went wide and he abruptly turned his gaze away, shielding his face from Duo's back. Why? Unnoticed to Duo, this one didn't know that he still had the prints of the amulets from the stand in the village on his clothing where. And these amulets were a useful weapon against demons or ghosts - ghosts like Wufei.
And for this reason he couldn't endure the sight of Duo's back. The braided boy turned to Wufei again, seeing that the Chinese seemed to be afraid of something.
"What's the matter? Can I help you?" he asked, really concerned.
When the other realized, that the boy with the long braid had turned round again, he visibly relaxed. But the Chinese had to get rid off these prints. And he even had an idea. Unnoticed he undid one of the veils attached to the pavilion and let it carry away by the wind.
"Oh no...!" Wufei shouted.
"Don't worry, I'll get it back!" Duo replied and started to run behind the
filmy piece of cloth.
But unfortunately he overlooked the end of the way and the fact that he was in the midst of a lake with lots of water in it. And when Duo realized the fact, it already was too late.
SPLASH!!!
And he was ended up in the lake and all that, although Duo couldn't swim at all. Desperate he tried to keep himself over water and to get back to the safe footbridge somehow. But the braided young man failed when a helping hand was stretched out towards him, which Duo gratefully accepted.
"Come on. You'll only catch a cold." The Chinese boy said when he helped Duo out of the ice-cold lake.
"Thank you."
Soaking wet from the involuntary bath the young scholar sat down next to the beautiful Chinese.
"Sorry, but I couldn't catch it. I'll try to find it tomorrow again. Gods, I'm so c...cold!" the braided youth stuttered.
He shivered with cold and clattered with his teeth. He really had to warm himself up. Duo took Wufei's hand in his own to receive a little warmth from him. But he noticed that Wufei's hand was as cold as his own.
"W...Why are you so cold?" he shivered.
Wufei smiled and started running his fingers through Duo's wet bangs. And Duo stared with wide eyes at the Chinese, whose face was only a few millimetres away from his own. Only now he could see the whole beauty of these onyx eyes. Then the Chinese youth breathed something in his ear.
"I don't know. Because your body is warmer than mine?"
Duo blushed and could feel the heat in his face. For a moment he really had thought that the Chinese would kiss him. But he hadn't expected such an answer.
//What's the matter with you, Maxwell? Normally you don't behave yourself like even before. But he's so beautiful and I really want to kiss him. Gods, what shall I do?// Duo scolded with himself.
Wufei smiled when he saw the other in such confusion. He was really cute this way. Too bad, that he would die like all the other men before. Just another prey for his master Zechs. Unless...
No, maybe this boy didn't have to die, if he could save his life. And the Chinese swore to himself that he would do this, before in four days everything would be over him. But how should he do that? And then an idea came into his mind.
Duo was still talking with himself when he realized that the pretty Chinese boy was staring at him. Suddenly he came nearer and Duo's eyes widened again. Could it be...? Did the Chinese really want to kiss him? He could feel his heart beating faster and faster, the nearer the other young man came.
But then Wufei stopped and he took a few breaths, before he opened his mouth and a thin, fine fog flew into Duo's face. The braided boy was much too surprised to react. He only took a last glance at this before his world went black and he slipped into unconsciousness, crumpling in a heap in the Chinese's lap.
Wufei looked with sad eyes at the limp body.
"How pretty and cute you are! I'm really sorry, but you're here at the wrong place. It's better when you're going. Or otherwise you also will die." The Chinese spoke.
He stroked the boy's brown hair and just sat there, looking at him.
*
In the meantime Heero had been running back to the temple. But he hadn't found anyone and so he was looking now in the forest for this book scholar. Why did that baka also have to be there in the middle of the night? And where could he be?
//Maybe he is at the lake.// he thought by himself.
Heero remembered the small lake he had found at one of his excursions. Without thinking long he ran straight to his new destination.
*
Wufei was still sitting at the pavilion with the still unconscious Duo in his lap, when he suddenly felt a familiar aura coming nearer. It wasn't the aura of his master, but he knew this aura well enough. It was that swordsman who lived in one part of the old temple. And he was coming nearer. Time to go. And at the same moment Wufei started to fly away and vanished.
Duo, who had been lying in his lap, landed right away in the lake again. Wide awake and confused, Duo wondered why he was in the water again. And where was the Chinese boy? Didn't he have been here? The braided scholar looked around. No, it had not been a dream. There was still lying the instrument of the Chinese boy. He must have forgotten it.
Duo picked it up and headed for the forest, where the Chinese must have gone to. There he and Wufei, who hid himself in the branches of a tree, barely missed Heero, who finally had reached the lake.
*
The young Japanese slowly went along the footbridge and looked around. No one was here. Heero sighed. He hated it when he came too late. But it didn't matter. The young swordsman simply would have to look further for that stupid braided baka. He turned back and went back to the forest.
*
Meanwhile Duo still wandered round in the forest with Wufei's instrument in his arms. Still in search of the mysterious young man he met at the lake. He simply couldn't forget those beautiful eyes. Where could he only be? He searched and searched, but didn't find him. But when the braided young man turned around, Wufei suddenly stood before him. At the first moment Duo was frightened, but quickly calmed down.
"Gods, you scared me to death!" he shouted.
"I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention to scare you. But may I ask you why you are going after me?" the young Chinese man asked.
Duo blushed with embarrassment. What should he say? But before he could answer, Wufei grabbed his wrist und started to pull the braided boy away, because the Chinese had felt the aura of Heero again and he really wasn't keen on an encounter. And so they were running through the darkness.
"W...What's the matter?" Duo asked breathlessly.
"There's a stranger. He's dangerous." Wufei replied.
"A stranger? But I haven't seen anyone. I.........UAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
The young braided man let out a loud yell when he tripped over a root causing him to fell exactly on the Chinese boy. Now both of them were lying on the forest floor and looking puzzled at each other. Finally Wufei couldn't suppress a slight smile. The boy was really too cute in his naivety.
A hissing sound let them snap out of their confusion. Next to Wufeis head a cobra had appeared. He didn't know why, maybe instinctively, but Duo pulled the Chinese boy close to his chest protecting him from the poisonous snake. Both men were looking with fear at it.
"You don't have to be afraid. I'll protect you." The braided scholar whispered.
He indeed had no idea how to do that yet, but somehow he would manage it. And then he had an idea. Slowly Duo got nearer to the snake and stared at it as if he planned to hypnotize the cobra. When he was close enough, Duo started to stamp onto the snake like a maniac planning to kill her by doing so.
"I'll kill you, you stupid snake!" he shouted.
Wufei couldn't believe what the other boy was doing and found it difficult to suppress a laugh. Did he really believe to kill a snake like this? But then the cobra started to snake her way up on Duo's leg.
The boy with the long braid shrieked and panic-stricken he took of the snake and flung her high in the sky. There she stayed for a moment. However, before she came down again, Wufei grabbed Duo and pulled him out of the way, before he used the thin and fine fog, coming out of his mouth, to stun the snake and fling her on a branch.
Then the Chinese threw Duo and himself on the ground. Now he was lying on the braided boy and put a finger on his mouth, indicating that Duo should be quiet. Duo flushed. He suddenly felt uneasy, but on the other hand it wasn't that bad yet. One minute later they heard someone coming to their location. The running footsteps were coming nearer and then leaving again.
"He's gone!" Wufei whispered.
"Who was that?" Duo asked.
"That was the swordsman who lives in one part of the Nataku - Temple. If he sees us, he'll kill us."
"Oh! Is he that crazy guy who lives next door to me?"
Wufei only nodded.
"Hmmm. And I really thought he was a good person! I really can't believe it, that I could be so wrong!" Duo replied.
Several minutes later, when the footsteps were finally gone, both men stood up and Wufei started to leave, running and with Duo behind him. The braided young man tried to catch up with the Chinese.
"What do you still want from me?" the Chinese growled.
"I just want to ask if I can bring you home! It's too dangerous out here."
"That's impossible. My family is very stern. I'm not allowed to take strangers home." Wufei answered and went on.
//They would kill you immediately, if they would find you at my place!// he added mentally.
Duo looked and then sprinted after him, until he passed Wufei and placed himself in front of the Chinese. This one stopped and looked at him with his onyx eyes.
"I understand, what you mean. Why don't you go home and I distract this swordsman?" he suggested.
The young Chinese nodded silently and Duo grinned.
"Well, then I'm going now." He said and started to leave.
But he stopped when he remembered the forgotten instrument in his hand. Duo went back to the Chinese boy and gave it back to him.
"Here. I forgot to give it to you."
Then Duo wanted to go, but Wufei held him back.
"What's your name?"
Puzzled Duo stared at him, but recovered quickly.
"Maxwell, Duo Maxwell! And yours?"
"Chang, Wufei Chang!" the Chinese answered and stepped forward, just to caress Duo's cheek, who turned a bright red. His eyes widened. What was the Chinese boy up to now?
"Well. Then I thank you, Duo Maxwell!" Wufei breathed and finally brushed a quick kiss on Duo's lips.
The braided scholar was much too shocked to think clearly.
//He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed me.// was his only thought until he snapped out of it, just to see Wufei leaving.
"He Wufei!!!" Duo shouted.
Wufei turned his head.
"See ya tomorrow night!" Duo shouted again and waved his hand.
The Chinese smiled and waved back. Then he left. But when Wufei was out of Duo's sight, he rose up in the air and flew to the next tree, where he hid himself and from where he could watch what Duo was doing now.
*
This one sneaked meanwhile around in the undergrowth and hid himself, when the braided scholar heard the Japanese returning. How could he divert the swordsman from him and especially from Wufei? Duo racked his brain, until he got a brilliant idea. At least Duo thought it was a brilliant idea.
Duo ducked and began to imitate the voices of monkeys and then behave himself like them. When Wufei watched this scene, he started to chuckle to himself. The Chinese couldn't help, but he liked the braided boy more and more. Duo meanwhile continued with his performance and he even succeeded.
Heero had heard the noise and was running now in Duo's direction, away from Wufei. When the Japanese arrived at the spot where he had heard the strange noises, there wasn't anything to see. Duo had been able to hide himself just in time. Heero took his sword in his hand and started to look around for any suspicious looking figures.
Unfortunately Duo hid himself only a few centimetres next to the Japanese trying hard not to make a noise. But as he tried to sneak away, the braided scholar noticed that Heero was standing on his clothes and he couldn't get away without being noticed by that Japanese swordsman. So he had to hold out until Heero would be gone. Poor Duo.
But then he was lucky. An animal rustled in the undergrowth and distracted Heero for one second. Duo took advantage of this time to get away. But Heero saw him and made a gigantic jump towards the braided boy.
"I get you!" he yelled.
"Shit...!" cursed Duo. Fortuna didn't seem to be on his side.
*
Wufei noticed that Duo seemed to be in trouble and decided to help him.
"Watch out!" he shouted.
Like a flash the Chinese began to fly, crossing Heero's way. Immediately this one made a few jumps to change his direction and was now after Wufei. The Chinese boy flew through the forest with Heero in his back and tried to get rid off him. But the Japanese proved to be very stubborn.
"This time you won't escape me!!"
The Japanese took one of his silver pins out of his bag and aimed it at Wufei. Then he flung it. The pin flew in Wufei's direction, ready to kill him. But then something really odd happened. Zechs appeared. Not directly, but as a shadow behind a bush.
The demon only made a move with his hand and like a flash a tree grew from the ground, which caught the pin and started to burn. Heero cursed and watched Wufei disappearing in the fog. And with a loud scream the demon also vanished.
Heero just stood there. This ghost and the demon, they had managed to escape again. He had failed, again. And the Japanese knew that they wouldn't show up again for the rest of the night. So he had to wait till the next time.
Heero sighed and went to the burning tree. He extinguished the fire by breathing at it and then he suffocated it with only one move of his hand. After that the Japanese went back to the temple, where he would think about a new plan how to proceed against the apparition.
*
When the air seemed to be clear, Duo poked his head out of his hiding place. He really didn't understand what had happened a few minutes ago. He truly could have sworn that the pretty had been flying through the air. But that was impossible. Finally he got out of the undergrowth and noticed a piece of white cloth hanging at a tree.
Curiously he took it and started to read the written letters on it. Suddenly he gasped. It was a message from Wufei.
'YOU'RE REALLY NICE, BUT DON'T COME BACK TO ME! WUFEI'
Why should Wufei write something like this? Why did he want to see him never again? Did Duo something to anger the handsome Chinese? Duo decided to think about that when he was in the temple again und put the white cloth into his sleeve. But without noticing it, the braided scholar lost it again when he walked away.
*
It had been a long night and Duo was tired. The only thing he wanted to do was sleeping. But if he would have known what was happening in his room at the moment...He certainly would have slept elsewhere.
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Tsuzú ku -> to be continued
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BGM: Siam's Eye - La'Cryma Christi; After, In the Dark - Gabriela Robin & Mai Yamane; Gravity - Luna Sea; Moon - Luna Sea; Seki - Ray - Gackt...
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So, that's all for now. I know this chapter was somehow confusing, but I hope it was not that bad.
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