Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Slavery Death And Rebirth ❯ Chapter 6

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
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Wufei: well, what are we doing this chapter?
Getsuei: O.O I’m not even going to ask how you got in here.
Rath: you didn’t answer his question.
Getsuei: >.> Relena’s gonna start asking questions bout you guys, Wufei, and Heero’s gonna storm off. Then you get to learn a little about his past.
Wufei: I see…
Heero: do you really?

/thoughts/
‘overhearing someone’
//speaking to someone’s mind//

Warnings? Heero tells the boys a little bit about his painful past. ________________________________________________________________________

Relena watched in silence as the four new boys pet Heero and Rath. /Doubtless, Heero has his reasons for trusting these four so much so soon, but there are still things he and we need to know about them. It’s time to start the interview…/

Sensing the change in Relena’s mood, Hilde asked, “If you don’t mind me asking, how do the four of you know each other?”

Looking at the girl, Quatre blinked then answered, “Our parents all work for the same company.”

“So you’ve all known each other for a while?” Dorothy asked, noticing that the four didn’t stop paying attention to Rath and Heero, though they were all looking over.

/mmm… what are they talking about, I wonder…/ Heero cuddled closer the one he was using as a chair and blinked tiredly.

“Yes. We’ve been friends for about ten years now.” Wufei replied from his position as a chair.

“I’d say the first time we met was in first grade.” Trowa said nodding to his three friends. “Some how it ended up that we were all in the same class, and they never thought to separate us afterwards…”

“We all sat together that first day of first grade and have been practically inseparable since.” Duo put in. “Why are you interrogating us?” His hand dropped away from
Rath as did Quatre’s.

Rolling out of Quatre’s lap, Rath on his knees blinking at the boy confusedly.

Heero’s eyes were wide with surprise at seeing his cousins confusion. He rolled away from Wufei and gathered the younger Neko in his arms comfortingly. /What the hell’s going on? Why… what happened? Wait… interrogation? Nani?/ Heero looked at Relena, questions in his eyes.

“Some one has to take care of you, because you obviously can’t take care of yourself.” Relena said to the boy, making him flush in anger. “We’re only asking you things Heero needs to know.” she said turning to the boys.

Heero sent the three girls a glare that clearly said, ‘leave them alone’. it was a glare the girls easily ignored.

“Where did you move here from?” Hilde asked quickly.

“America.” Wufei answered defensively, watching Heero’s jaw clench. /Why aren’t they letting Heero ask if he needs to know?/

“America is supposed to be the land of opportunities, so why did you move?” Relena demanded.

“Onegai, Relena-chan, please stop this!” Heero spoke to the girl beseechingly, hoping she would stop.

“No school is America would take us.” Trowa answered, looking from Heero to the girl. //She’s upsetting Heero and she knows it. Why won’t she stop?//

//I don’t know Trowa, but it’s beginning to more than upset him…// Quatre saw that Heero was beginning to shake.

“Why wouldn’t any of the American schools take you?” was Relena’s next demand.

“Relena, please,” Heero interrupted before one of the boy’s could answer, “I would get around to asking them! You know that, so please stop this!” he was desperate to get Relena to stop. /Relena, please stop! Why are you doing this to me?/

“No, Heero, you wouldn’t have asked! You would have waited for the information to be offered.” Relena interjected harshly. “And by then they’d probably want something more than you were ready of willing to give. You give and you give and you give, and you neither expect nor ask for anything in return. I refuse to let the ingrates take advantage of you!”

The four boys watched in shocked silence as Heero rose to his feet. The pained question in his eyes evident, ‘ How can you trust my so little?’. A tear slid down his cheek as he walked away, hugging his arms to himself, shoulders shaking.

Sending an angry glare at the blond haired Neko, Rath rose and followed his cousin.

Stalking towards the girls after standing, Duo’s eyes were cold and hard with anger. //I don’t understand why neither of them just slapped her. They obviously wanted to…// Raising his hand, he backhanded Relena hard, sending her sprawling. “If you dare ever treat Heero like that again, I will kill you.” He waited to see the shock and fear in Relena’s face before leaving. The others followed him in search of Rath and Heero.

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“It’s not his fault.” the soft lilting words came from under a table to their left. Surprised at the quiet words, they stopped.

Crouching down, Quatre saw deep Prussian eyes framed by wild black hair staring out at their feet. Rath’s knees were drawn up to his chest; his arms wrapped around them. His chin rested on his black clad knees. There was a look of resigned sorrow on his face.

The others kneeled down beside Quatre as he asked, “Where’s Heero, Rath? What’s not his fault?” /This is the first time he’s spoken since his panicked words last night./

Rath made a motion with his head, indicating that Heero was somewhere behind him. “He said he wanted to be left alone for a little while. And it’s not his fault he is the way he is.”

Exchanging confused glances with his friends, Duo quietly asked, “What way is he?”

“Ummm… the only way he can be?” Rath answered teasingly before saying in all seriousness, “Heero by nature is extremely generous and giving, but also extremely vengeful. If someone hurts him he’ll more then likely try to kill that person. He always has been like that; he can’t help it.” Rath paused to see if the older boys understood, then continued, “You can’t fight your nature. Believe me, I know; I tried. More, I spent most of my life watching Heero fight his. It worked for a while, until someone was nice to him… fighting his nature almost killed him…”

“… what happened?” Trowa asked cautiously.

A far away look came across Rath’s face and his eyes filled with tears. “It was four years ago.” he said quietly, “Uncle Ling and Grandfather came to him. He’d been used so much already, beaten so much; he was tired. He just wanted to sleep… when they came into his room he thought, ‘Maybe if I fight them it’ll be over, all the pain and humiliation. If I fight and they kill me it’ll all be gone…’ so he fought. They didn’t kill him. They never took it that far with him. He fought so hard though, that they ended up breaking both his arms and legs, and five of his ribs. When they were done with him, they whipped him as punishment. They knew he had to go to the hospital, but they didn’t want to be attached to the incident. They had one of their ‘bouncers’ drop him at the emergency room.” he shuddered in new and remembered horror at part of the past he and Heero had lived.

There was a long silence before Wufei asked hesitantly, “You… have you… you weren’t… used… were you?” he prayed the boy would say no.

A quiet whimper was emitted from Rath’s throat as he buried his face in his knees and wept.

A quiet sultry voice from above startled bet boys. “Rath and I were both victims of physical and sexual abuse.”

The four boys gasped in surprise and fell backwards at the sound of Heero’s voice.

Crawling out from under the table Rath asked in a quivering voice, “Better now, Heero?”

Nodding, Heero lifted Rath into his arms cuddleing and comforting him as he sat on the table.

“H-how long?” Duo’s voice was tense with dread.

“For Rath and I, it started on our third birthday.” Heero said mater-of-factly. “At that point it was just beating. The sexual abuse for us started when we turned five, and we were raped when we turned seven.” his eyes were lit with disgust.

“Heero,” Trowa asked quietly, “would you mind terribly if we killed them?”

Heero blinked at the taller teen and said, “You can’t kill them in cold blood if that’s what you’re thinking. You have to catch them doing something bad then claim self-defense. That’s the only way Treise will overlook it.” A forlorn far away look came into his eyes, and they could all but touch his sorrow.

“Heero?” Quatre asked, “What’s wrong?

“I miss Shichiyou.” it was a barely heard whisper.

“Who… who’s Shichiyou?” Wufei asked as gently as he could though slightly jealous.

It was Rath who answered quietly, “He is Heero’s older brother. They still have him, and they still hurt him. They have taken so much from me and Heero.”

“You can’t visit him at all?” Duo asked surprised.

“No, I can it’s just… I can’t go alone… don’t want to go alone really to the place they keep him, and Jay and Zechs and Treise always find an excuse not to go with me. I haven’t seen him in four years.”

“But you’ve only been free…” Trowa trailed off.

“For four years.” Heero confirmed sadly.

“… Hey… Heero… I… what I mean to say is… maybe we could go with you.” Duo suggested hesitantly. “I mean you seem to really miss your brother, and you don’t want to go alone, and Wufei already said he’d protect you, actually we’d all protect you, and now I’m just babbling.”

Heero looked at the braided boy and was moved. “Thank you Duo, but… I’m not sure you’d be comfortable there and you’d have to get different clothes then what you’re wearing…”

“They can come shopping with us this afternoon, Heero. I mean we’re going to Lee’s anyway.” Rath spoke up. “Besides, you’ve wanted to see Shichiyou for so long I can’t let you pass up this opportunity, or are you just being shy?”

Heero blushed at the gentle question, and the other boys grinned. “I’d love for you to come with me this afternoon.” he finally murmured, then he chuckled, eyes twinkling. “You all get to meet Talim today. He’s one of a kind, and super hyper. He’s really fun too.”
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Wufei: well, that was a little depressing. Not nearly as depressing as some of your other chapters though.
Getsuei: ^_^
Heero: I thought you were planning to put more in this chapter!
Getsuei: I… well, I was! It’s just that if I’d put more in this chapter it would have lost that something it has now and I didn’t want to do that.
Heero: but I wanted them to meet Talim and Lee this chapter!
Getsuei: well they’re meeting them next chapter instead!
Lee: you’re talking about us like we’re not here.
Talim: not fair!!! ::sniffles::
Getsuei: awww Talim I’m so sorry. ::hugs guest oc:: I’m so happy nita-sama’s letting me borrow you and you’re being such a good sport about it. ::hands Talim a chocolate bar:: now don’t go getting too hyper alright?
Talim: CHOCOLATE!!!!!!
Getsuei: O.O; I’ve created a monster haven’t I? Anyway, read and review.
Lee: wait a minute. I feel cheated. You gave Talim chocolate and I get nothing. ::pouts::
Getsuei: silly, you get Talim.
Lee: ::grins::