Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Shinigami's Gem ❯ Bloodstone. ( Chapter 7 )

Warnings: LEMON!! Or lenom, if you prefer. Yaoi, shounen-ai, blood, guts and death. Duo angst. And, in case you didn't get it the first there is a lemon.

Pairings: If you don't know by now, I would be very afraid.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the GW characters, nor do a make any money off them. I do own non-GW characters that get mentioned, but I don't make money off them either…

Author's notes: Sorry this has taken so long, but it's only going to get worse. I'm drowning in assignments! I'm doing my best, really I am. Do enjoy, won't you? *grins* Oh, just so you know, since we sort of leap straight into it, the present tense stuff is actually the past… Confused? Me too.

Chapter 7: Bloodstone.

The sun blazes its way to death more violently than usual this evening, as though splashing red across the sky in an echo of the blood splashed across the entirety of the Maxwell holdings. A little boy sits in a pool of blood, shaking a mother who can never wake again. How long he sits there is unsure, but when his mother's sister comes to take him away, he won't have it. They are forced to drug him.

Later he's told raiders who'd somehow managed to sneak into the keep undetected and strike without warning killed his family and every living soul in the keep. The boy remembers the raiders as monsters and devils, the only categories he can sort them into in his immature mind.

He's treated well at his mother's sister's home and lives a well enough life there, but the shadow-sadness at the loss of all his kin save his aunt, and the confusion at why he himself was the only one to live through the attack haunt him constantly.

It's almost all he can bare when, at the age of ten, he loses aunt and uncle, who have come close to being mother and father, to a plague. He is forced to live with his uncle's brother, who does not like him from the outset. The youth remembers the last conversation he had with the man as though it happened yesterday.

He is accused of doing something, he can't remember what now, that he never would do and it's the last straw. He can't take any more.

"That's not fair and you know it! … Sir," he cries, the "sir" added as an afterthought and with a definite twist of sarcasm to it.

"Don't you ever take that tone with me! I don't know how my sister-in-law treated you, but I won't take any insolence."

His uncle's brother is mad, he can tell, but an anger inside him mirrors that of the far older man.

"I'm not being insolent, I'm trying to explain to you what happened!" Duo's voice is increasing in both volume and venom at this man's stubbornness.

"I know what happened!" comes the snappish retort.

"I'm sorry, but no you don't!" Duo dares to take a step closer and the man towers above him.

"Just because your family had a high standing, doesn't mean you can push me around, boy. The Maxwells are dead and gone, and you would do well to remember that."

Duo snaps and his anger swells.

"You bastard!" he snarls.

"Enough!" the bull of a man before him bellows, drawing his hand back to strike Duo. The eleven year old is too quick and darts out of the way, pointing his finger to emphasize his words.

"Don't say that about my parents!"

"I'll say what I like, boy!" Again the hand is raised to strike but again the braided boy dances easily out of the way and shakes his head.

"Not to me you won't!" He leaps over the table, scattering the items on it. "I'm gone!"

A quick hand snaps out to grab the doorknob and turns it.

"Don't you walk out that door!" the big man growls, but Duo is already half way out. "You walk out that door and you can never come back through it again!"

"I won't! Duo Maxwell doesn't need a bastard like you! I hope you…"

~ ~ ~

"…Die as painfully as possible…" the Duo of the present finished in a whisper, staring off at nothing for a few seconds before downing his entire mug of ale in one go.

Wu Fei frowned. To him, it still didn't make sense.

"That doesn't ex-" he started, but Duo raised a hand.

"I'm getting' there, 'Fei. Just taking a moment to get thoughts sorted."

"Wu Fei," the lordling corrected.

Duo rolled his eyes.

"Oh, c'mon! Wuffie, 'Fei, Wu, they all mean the same as Wu Fei, only they sound better!"

"And would you have me call you Du…? Or maybe just O?"

"Hey! Yeah! Du and Wu!" Duo smirked as Wu Fei now rolled his eyes.

"Are you never serious?" he asked, pushing his raven hair back from his face.

"Not if I can help it! Serious is so boring. You need to get out and live a little. Have some fun! Y'know, the most fun to be had is stealing something… Oh, unless you count Eliana and her sisters. Those girls are something else! Oh… wait… You don't like women, do you? Well, there's always Enre and th-"

"Why do I get the feeling you are avoiding the end of your tale?" Wu Fei cut smoothly across Duo's words.

"Beh… I was hoping you'd forget… Oh well. Here goes…" Duo took a deep breath and continued.

~ ~ ~

Duo soon finds that life outside the comfort of money isn't as easy as he thought it would be. He's hungry, cold, tired, lonely and has nowhere to sleep. He can't live like this. No matter what his uncle's brother said, Duo realises he will have to go back.

He's a clever boy (and so very modest, Wu Fei remarked with playful sarcasm and Duo stuck his tongue out). He knows he has only avoided the eyes of the brutish men swaggering about looking for a good time because of his ability to melt into the shadows and he knows he won't be unseen forever. So, hopeless and pitiful, he swallows his pride and heads back to take the punishment he knows he will receive - assuming they're even willing to take him back that is.

The punishment he never comes and the question as to wether or not he would have been allowed back is never answered. When he arrives back at the house he had never called home, he finds it has he had left the Maxwell holdings. Every man, woman and child slaughtered.

This time, he doesn't stop to find out how it happened, but only flees. He soon attaches himself to one of the finest thieves in the town and learns the tricks of the trade, never even coming close to being caught.

~ ~ ~

"Well, until a masquerading lordling appeared anyway… Death missed me three times. The third time, it was almost as if I'd called him down upon my uncle's brother and his family. I am Shinigami…" Duo finished, eyeing Wu Fei's untouched drink, then sneaking it away and drinking it all without notice.

"You never found out what happened that third time…?" the lordling asked, unconsciously laying his hand over Duo's.

"Oh, I did. It turned out they'd been assassinated by a rival for the land through the use of some very powerful, very evil, very illegal black magic. The name Shinigami will be mine forever, though. I can't let it go…"

Duo bit back and forced down tears, one hand - the one Wu Fei wasn't covering - lifted to wrap around his braid as he chewed his bottom lip.

"I won't tell anyone your real name or how you came to call yourself by another, Duo. I promise you that."

Wu Fei's eyes widened as Duo attacked him, hugging him tightly.

"Thanks, Wuffie! It actually feels really good to've told someone about it."

"Wu Fei!"

"Wuffie sounds better!" Duo replied, his arms sliding from their awkward positioning to a more comfortable location about Wu Fei's waist.

"Be that as it may, my name is still Wu Fei…" the lordling insisted, but his words were muted and far less argumentative than before as one of his hands lifted to tangle in Duo's bound hair.

"Wuffie… sounds… better…" duo said slowly, before leaning forward to brush his lips across Wu Fei's.

"But 'Wuffie' isn't my name." Before Duo could open his mouth to repeat that Wuffie sounded better, the one whose name was in dispute used the hand tangled in Duo's hair to pull him forward again and kiss him deeply. Duo made an approving sound in the back of his throat, his arms running up Wu Fei's back and pulling him against his body. He ran his tongue around the outline of Wu Fei's lips, carefully coaxing them apart and sliding his tongue inside.

Wu Fei made a soft sound and let his hand trace down the length of Duo's braid until he could release the tie at the end. He worked his fingers through the entire length of hair until it fell free about them.

Duo soon took over and carefully laid Wu Fei' back on the pillows, seizing his mouth for another, far hungrier kiss. He smirked slightly into the kiss as he slid his hand inside Wu Fei's shirt by way of the new opening conveniently left by his sword earlier. His nimble fingers found a nipple and stroked it teasingly, just barely touching it.

"Yes…" Wu Fei whispered, arching into the touch, wanting it to be much firmer than it was. Duo laughed softly and quickly stripped Wu Fei of his shirt, leaning down to lap gently at the shallow cut across the lordling's chest.

Wu Fei winced a little, but soon gave a gentle moan as Duo moved his mouth to a bronze nipple. He swirled his tongue once around it, gaining a satisfyingly needy moan from Wu Fei, then kissed it and lifted his head to look at the lordling's face.

Obsidian eyes were closed and ruby lips were slightly parted, breath panting in and out rapidly at the pleasure.

Duo realised suddenly and with no small amount of surprise, that Wu Fei was a virgin. He smirked, his ego nicely stroked by that knowledge.

Duo's silence and inaction quickly forced Wu Fei's dark eyes open to look at the thief.

"Duo…?" he asked, grimacing slightly at the meekness of his voice. Duo's smile only widened.

"You're not so hard and strong as you make out, are you?" he asked softly, unhooking black hair that had caught between Wu Fei's shoulder and jaw.

"What do you mean by that?" Wu Fei snapped, instantly on the defensive.

"Shh…" was Duo's only reply as he moved the sapphire suspended around Wu Fei's neck so he could lean down and sink his teeth lightly into that neck.

Wu Fei's arms went around Duo's shoulders and he tilted his head to one side, sighing in pleasure,

"Wu Fei!" Quatre's shout from the other side of the door and his fist pounding it's surface made Wu Fei groan disappointedly. Duo couldn't help but give a soft laugh.

Wu Fei swallowed and tried to ignore Duo's questing mouth.

"What?" he snapped out, hoping Quatre would put the irritation in his voice down to being woken at such a time.

"Shinigami's gone! You were supposed to be watching him!" Quatre's voice returned, sharp, distraught and very, very angry.

Wu Fei opened his mouth to reply, but all that came out was a wanting little mewling sound as Duo's lips and teeth found the sensitive place at the junction of neck and shoulder.

"Pardon?" Quatre called in confusion, thinking Wu Fei had actually said something.

Wu Fei swallowed and tried again, striving valiantly to pay no attention to the sensations Duo was sending through him.

"Shinigami is fine. You can go to Trowa, Quatre."

"You're impossible! You don't even care!" Quatre's voice was both furious and heartbroken.

"I care, Quatre. Trust me when I say Shinigami is fine…" Wu Fei just managed to choke out the "fine" before his words degenerated into a moan, stifled against a pillow, as Duo returned his mouth to one of the two perfect nipples that simply begged for his attention.

"But-"

"It's alright, Quat. He's not lying," Duo called quickly before his mouth was busy again.

"Shinigami? Why aren't you-" Quatre began.

"Didn't wanna stay in there any longer. Wu Fei's right, you should go find Trow."

"Well… I… a-alright…" Quatre said hesitantly. "Night, then…"

"Night!"

Wu Fei gave a relieved sigh as the blonde's soft footfalls moved away from the door, but the sigh was soon a moan as Duo assaulted vulnerable nipples again.

Wu Fei's back arched off the pillows and his arms tightened around Duo's shoulders. A small whimper that Duo found amazingly arousing escaped the lordling's lips and he hooked a leg around both of Duo's. He moved one hand to slide up Duo's back under his shirt and ghost tentatively over his soft skin.

At that, Duo sat up and quickly rid himself of the shirt.

Wu Fei licked his lips unconsciously as his eyes wandered freely over Duo's lean, well-defined form. He ran his fingertips over the thief's chest, hovering uncertainly for a moment before slowly rubbing two fingers over one waiting nipple.

Duo's eyes flickered half-shut and he dropped his head forward, hair falling in a silken wave to surround the two of them in whispering chestnut.

Taking confidence from the pleasing result of his gentle caress, Wu Fei lifted his other hand to the neglected nipple and stroked both firmly.

"Mmm… 'Fei…" Duo whispered, his hands to either side of Wu Fei's head clenching on the pillow. Wu Fei smiled and, using one hand to lever himself up, closed his mouth over one of those nipples and sucked slowly. One of Duo's hands came up to tangle in Wu Fei's dark hair and he moaned deep in the back of his throat. He kissed the top of Wu Fei's head.

"Don't stop, please…" he whispered, though the slightest buzz of fear began to niggle at his brain.

Wu Fei didn't reply, but nor did he stop. Duo shivered with both delight and fear as his fingers tightened in Wu Fei's hair.

The lordling wrapped his free arm around Duo's waist and pulled him closer as the thief's breathing began to grow ragged and he whispered Wu Fei's name, his back arching.

Wu Fei drew away slightly and looked up at Duo.

"I think I have wanted you since that day I caught you stealing that ruby… I could not get you out of my head at all," he said softly, clearly embarrassed, but needing to say what he felt.

Duo smiled and leaned down to kiss him gently.

"I hated you, with a passion! I blamed you for the shit I went through. I blamed you for my getting r- well just everything. When I set eyes on you again, all I wanted to do was kill you. But that kiss in the bathing pool…" Duo smirked. "Has anyone ever told you how sweet you taste…?"

"No…" Wu Fei went a touch red and dropped his gaze to Duo's stomach.

Duo laughed and gently laid Wu Fei down again, kissing his way down to the lordling's navel and halting there to dip his tongue into it. Wu Fei's eyes flickered shut and he gave a sigh of pleasure, forgetting to ask Duo what he had been going to say that started with an 'r'.

While he was busy with Wu Fei's stomach, Duo carefully untied the laces holding the lordling's pants closed. He sat up and ran his hands over Wu Fei's chest before letting them slide down to the waistband of his pants. When he received no protest, he quickly slipped both Wu Fei's pants and his undergarments off. He paused to survey the wonderfully built body beneath him and couldn't keep from leaning down and exploring the entirety of Wu Fei's neck, chest and torso with his lips and tongue. He soon had the other youth arching off the bed at almost every touch and caress, and gained an amazing range of sounds from him.

He stopped momentarily, assuring himself he wasn't doing anything to frighten his lover, then slithered down a little further to run his tongue up the underside of Wu Fei's arousal.

The lordling's breath caught in his throat and his hips lifted slightly in response, although a quick hand from Duo forestalled the movement. He repeated the action with the same result and smirked before curling his tongue around the tip. Wu Fei's hips lifted again and he made a sound that was half moan of pleasure and half groan of pleading.

Duo consented to the latter and took Wu Fei fully into his mouth, teasing and caressing until he had the lordling writhing on the pillows in ecstasy and panting out Duo's name in a way that drove the erstwhile thief almost to distraction. He kept his mind enough, however, to make sure Wu Fei couldn't reach that point where the world melts away and the centre of everything becomes a delicious silky warmth. In his unconscious mind, Wu Fei knew it was reachable and knew he wanted it, but Duo wouldn't give it to him. The thief held his hips still so he couldn't set the pace he wished, but was totally at Duo's mercy. He soon fell to begging, hands twisted into fists in the pillows and eyes shut in pure, unmasked pleasure and needy desire. His back arched under a particularly firm caress from the warmth of his lover's mouth and he gasped out a few words.

"Oh… Duo… Duo, please… gods… Duo, I can't…" A shaky moan ended his barely coherent words and he bit his bottom lip to keep from screaming.

Duo smirked and made his way up to kiss Wu Fei deeply before slipping off the bed and making his way swiftly to his own room. Again he forced fear down, reminding himself that Wu Fei was close to helpless at the present time anyway!

The lordling's eyes fluttered open as Duo vanished and he started to sit up, afraid he'd done something wrong.

"It's alright, Wu Fei. I'll be back in just a sec - ahh! Got it!"

Duo came trotting back with a bottle of something in one hand, and before Wu Fei could ask what it was, Duo captured his mouth for a kiss of such passion that it stole his breath and thought from him. He slid his arms around Duo's waist and tucked his hands under the band of his pants, letting his fingers wander freely over the thief's backside. He soon got tired of limited movement due to the material and quickly undid the laces. Once that was done, however, he lost his nerve and couldn't follow through with stripping his lover of the garment.

Duo laughed softly and quickly followed through for Wu Fei.

The lordling smiled and shifted, rubbing against Duo like a big cat. He knew he should probably do for Duo what Duo had done for him, but he wanted and he wanted now. He couldn't stand the waiting any longer. He needed Duo's mouth again or he would go mad, he was sure of it.

"Duo…" he whispered pleadingly.

"Mmm," Duo agreed and sat up, drawing a bewildered look from Wu Fei. The thief smiled reassuringly as he dipped a finger into the bottle, which Wu Fei realised now was oil. Duo trailed the finger down Wu Fei's arousal, causing a quickly stifled gasp, then let it wander casually around to Wu Fei's opening.

"This might hurt a little, but I promise you, it'll be worth it," he murmured before sliding the oiled finger carefully into Wu Fei. The lordling gave a slight hiss of pain, but it was soon gone and it wasn't long before Duo had added a second finger, taking care to prepare Wu Fei fully, whose breathing grew ragged and sharp with delight. Once Duo was sure Wu Fei as ready as he could be, he quickly coated his own arousal with the oil, then gently lifted Wu Fei's hips and positioned himself over the other youth's opening.

"Now this will hurt, but it'll be well worth it… Trust me?" Duo said, reaching out to gently touch Wu Fei's hair.

"Yes, I trust you," Wu Fei replied, his dark eyes veiled as he touched his hand to Duo's neck where the silver collar glistened in the dim, flickering light.

Duo smiled reassuringly and leaned down to kiss Wu Fei with unrestrained passion. Wu Fei gave a little whimper into Duo's mouth and while Wu Fei was distracted, he began to enter him as gently as possible. Wu Fei's arms where they rested around Duo's shoulders tightened and Duo deepened the kiss as he eased further within his lover. He halted soon and gave Wu Fei time to adjust to him, then began a slow, steady rhythm within him. Wu Fei soon gave a gentle moan and lifted his legs to wrap around Duo's waist.

Duo moaned in answer. Wu Fei was so warm and sweetly intoxicating and being within him was heaven.

"Ooh, 'Fei…" Duo whispered, his pace beginning to quicken.

Wu Fei arched into Duo's thrusts, wanting him deeper and closer, unable to get enough, though he was getting far more than he had ever thought possible.

It wasn't long before Duo lost all control over himself, thoughts flung to the four winds. As he reached between them to take Wu Fei's arousal into his hand and stroke in time with his thrusts, Wu Fei gasped.

"Duo…" he managed to moan out as the sensations built within him until he thought he could take no more and then built still further. He went wild beneath Duo, out of control in a way he'd never been out of control before. He moved closer and closer to sweet perfection, his hands twisted in Duo's masses of hair and his legs locked around his waist.

And, just before the lordling reached that indescribable point, he heard something that made the experience all the more earth shattering.

"Oh… 'Fei… I love you," Duo whispered, then Wu Fei was conscious of nothing but an explosion of pure pleasure that started between his legs and spread through his body like a wave, setting every nerve afire.

Duo followed a bare few seconds later as Wu Fei's inner muscles tightened, whispering the lordling's name over and over.

It was a long while before either of them managed to form a coherent thought, and it was Duo who got there first. He shifted off Wu Fei, gaining a muffled protest in response, which made him smile.

"Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere," he murmured, pulling Wu Fei's back against him and curling around him spoon-fashion. He wrapped his arms about the lordling's waist and kissed his ear while Wu Fei shifted slightly, getting comfortable. Duo's hair drifted over the two of them and Wu Fei took a hold of a lock of the chestnut silk, running it idly through his fingers. He wondered, now, if he'd heard Duo right. Had the collared youth said he loved him, or had Wu Fei imagined it? And, if he had imagined it, why had he? Did he love Duo? He couldn't love Duo. Wanting Duo was bad enough; it would be too much to love him. It was an impossibility.

Duo's hand ghosted over Wu Fei's neck, pulling sweat-soaked hair free. It travelled on to stroke lightly up and down Wu Fei's side in a gentle caress.

"Thank you, 'Fei," Duo murmured and Wu Fei gave a slight smile rather than protesting his name. For one, he preferred "'Fei" over both "Wuffie" and "Wu". For another, Duo had used "'Fei" the whole time they were pleasuring one another.

Wu Fei snuggled back into Duo's warmth, dropping his commanding from in its entirety and allowing himself to feel vulnerable but safe, protected by the beautiful youth at his back.

"Thank you, too," he murmured, kissing the lock of hair he held in his hand.

"You're not planning to cut that off are you…?" Duo asked playfully.

"No, but I will cut something far more important off it you're not careful."

Duo snorted.

"Once you've had Maxwell, no other will satisfy you and you can't have more Maxwell if he's lost the essentials. Therefore, you wouldn't dare!"

Wu Fei smiled silently and turned his head to kiss Duo's shoulder.

"You might be suffering from delusions of grandeur. According to Quatre, Trowa is the best lover on the earth and according to Heero, it's Zechs."

Wu Fei felt Duo laugh against his back.

"Not a chance!" The thief leaned forward to nibble on Wu Fei's ear, then murmured his next words. "I am the best lover on this earth." Another smile and Wu Fei shifted against Duo, getting still more comfortable.

"We should be seen at breakfast," Wu Fei murmured, half asleep by now.

"Mmm," Duo said agreeably, though he was too far-gone in the afterglow of pleasure and beginnings of sleep to have understood a word.

Wu Fei made another satisfied sound before yawning, snuggling impossibly deeper into Duo's embrace and drifting off into a sated sleep.

Duo buried his nose in Wu Fei's hair.

"Shit…" he whispered, knowing his lover was asleep. "I can't believe I've fallen for the bastard merc…"

He was completely unaware of confessing to the fact just before he reaches his climax, lost in Wu Fei's body as he had been. As far as he knew, Wu Fei was unaware and he wasn't sure if he wanted the lordling to know or not. Wu Fei certainly wasn't the best lover Duo had ever had; yet suddenly, Duo couldn't bare the thought of ever being with anyone else.

The thief sighed and sniffed deeply at Wu Fei's hair, buried his nose further into it, and, though he tired to think on his problem, drifted slowly off to a contented sleep.

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Author's notes: On the title. Bloodstone is actually a gem. ShivaKuy and I found it in the same book as alexandrite. It's a sort of green colour with blobs and streaks of blood red in it. I had tossed up between bloodstone, with regard to Duo's past, and rose quartz, pertaining to the lemon, but since I already had smokey quartz earlier, it ended up as bloodstone. However, don't be surprised if rose quartz does pop again sometime later. I think it's a really pretty stone!