Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Invisible Man ❯ The invisible man 1 ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Okay..this is gonna be a short note: I had this on my mind for some time now and before I forget it again, I'm gonna put it down ^^. So.. I hope you will enjoy this little story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or any of its characters. Sunrise, Bandai etc. do.

Title: The invisible Man

Author: cryingPhoenix

Rating: PG-13

Category: Shounen Ai, OOC, AU, OC, TWT,

Pairings: 2+1 (but not really)

The Invisible Man

A grey building, standing on a hill, somewhere at the edge of a town. Nothing seems to be going on. Until a shadow jumps out from a little window, rolling down the hill. A helicopter suddenly emerges from the building, turning on a light. The shadow starts running but stops as soon as the light blinds him, holding up an arm to protect his eyes.

Through the light, a young boy is visible, wearing a black jacket, under it a blue t-shirt, and a jean. The wind created by the helicopter plays with the long chestnut coloured braid the boy has and the jacket. As the helicopter stays where it is, the boy slowly puts down his hand, and his shining, violet eyes get visible. On his left cheek is a tattoo, the code 0-2.

"Project 0-2. Stay where you are. Escape is useless. Guards will come and get you. The more you struggle the greater your punishment will be." Said a voice from the helicopter. But the boy only smiled, digging in his pockets for something.

"Well, my name isn't Project 0-2 anymore.…" Then he pulls out a piece of dynamite and quickly puts the fuse on fire.

"I am SHINIGAMI!" With that he throws the dynamite into the direction of the helicopter and ducks down. Screams are heard from the helicopter before the loud explosion drowns out everything else. Smirking, the boy quickly disappears into the dark forest which surrounds the place.

A figure stands on the wall of the building, looking after the boy. "No matter where you run to, Duo, we will find you. Or you may run back to us in case you can't stand the changes we did to your body. You were a willing experiment. I won't lose you." Then the figure disappears.

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"Mommy!! Daddy! I still can't sleep!"A young voice echoes through the little house. `Mommy' and `daddy' were highly annoyed by their little sun who shouted every few minutes that he couldn't sleep.

"Oh, I told you you should have used a condom back then! I said an abortion would be the best thing! I told you we could still sell him to someone who prayed to have a child. But no, you wanted to keep him. It's your fault, so go upstairs and make him stay quiet. I want to watch the movie!" The mother tells her husband highly annoyed.

Grunting, the man leaves the living room and goes upstairs , through the corridor until he reaches the last room. Maybe the brat just needs a bit fresh air, he tells himself.

"What's wrong, Heero?" the man asks while entering the room. It is just a small room with a window and a bed with some teddybear. A large, old wardrobe stands right beside the door. The boy named Heero, who sat on the bed, has messy brown hair and is dressed in one of his fathers shirts as his night cloth. The clear, blue eyes look hopeful as they see the man coming inside the room.

"Daddy, I can't sleep. Counting sheeps didn't work. But I'm tired." Heero whines. His father goes to the window and opens it, letting in a soft breeze.

"Then count teddybears instead. You're already 6 years old, so you should be able to count `til 1000. When you're not asleep `til then then look at the moon but don't shout around. There are some neighbours who want to sleep at this hour." The father quickly says before leaving again.

"Good night, daddy." The boy whispers low while his father leaves. He is just stressed, the boy tells himself while a tear rolls down his cheek. They are both just stressed. Using that sentence as some kind of lullaby, he slowly starts to drift into sleep. Until a rumbling sound from outside disturbs him and a boy falls through the window into his room.

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Project 0-2, also called Duo, runs through the street, stressed, scared, hopeless. A few guards followed him and now he is running down a long street, looking for a hide-out. As he turns around for just a second, he suddenly notices that the guards aren't behind him directly, so he takes that chance and runs towards the nearest house, climbing over the wall and jumping into the garden. He pants heavily but tries to breath as quiet as possible. The footsteps approach, then get lower, and lower. Finally they are gone, and Duo lets out a content sigh.

Phew, they're gone, he tells himself. Now to look for a place to stay. As he looks around the garden where he stands he notices that the roof is quite low. Hmm, I could easily climb up and sleep there. Looks kinda nice.

So he walks toward one edge of the roof and jumps once to get hold of the gutter and on the roof he is. The tiles are quite slippery so he takes one careful step after the other. He passes an opened window and walks forward, slowly getting used to the slippery tiles. But before he reaches the top, a sudden bark disturbs his concentration and he slips, falling onto his butt hard. Before he knows what's going on he's halfway down the roof and suddenly falls through the window he had passed before.

"Ohh..shit" He curses as he rubs his head. "What an impact." A low whimper catches his attention and he turns his head to the left, seeing a small boy sitting on a bed. They stare at each other for some moments before another sound from outside distracts them both.

"This house? Okay, we're going in,roger." A male voice is heard from outside.

"Shit..they've found me!" Duo curses silently before quickly hiding behind the wardrobe. Just a moment later, 4 men come through the window, quickly scanning the area. They all have a gun and a flashlight, eyes hidden behind sunglasses. One has a headset on his head.

"Project 0-2 not found jet" he is noticing while carefully walking around the room. Then he notices the child on the bed. Shaking lightly, the boy does nothing but stare in shock.

The guard ignores the boy and walks toward the wardrobe where Duo is trembling with fear. Just before the braided boy thinks he will die, the guard lights up the corner where Duo is sitting.

SHITSHITSHIT! Duo curses while praying that they won't shoot him. But it seems that nothing will surprise the boy more than the experience he is going to have.

" Project 0-2 not here. Looking through house would be suspicious. Will ask the witness." The gurad reports with the headset. Then he turns to Heero.

"Hey, boy, have you seen a boy around 16,long braided hair, a tattoo on his cheek?" The man asks, quickly receiving his answer as the boy shakes his head no. Sighing, the guard finishes reporting.

"Troup 0-2-1 here. Area 23-A-56-b clear. Project 0-2 is not here. Will come back to base." Then he turns the headset off and turns to Heero once more.

"Boy, I would recommend that you won't tell anyone what you have heard and saw right now. One thought, and we will find it out. Say a word, and you will die." With that, the guards jumps out the window, followed by his comrades.

As Heero sits on his bed, shocked, a confused Duo slowly walks towards the window, looking after the men in disbelief. Then he turns to the trembling boy on the bed.

"Boy, calm down. I want to ask you something. Can you see me?" As Heero keeps trembling, Duo crouches down and reaches out for the boy's hand, but before he can touch the boy, the little kid suddenly shouts.

"Mummy, daddy!! There's a man inside my room!!" Heero quickly runs out of the room and down the stairs, panting lightly as he finally reaches the living room. To the boy's surprise, his parents don't ignore him but get worried instead.

"In your room?" His mother asks shocked. As Heero hesitantly nods, his father quickly looks for his baseball bet and slowly goes upstairs.

"Don't worry, Heero. If there's someone inside your room, then daddy will beat him out of the house." His mother explains while holding the boy as close to him as possible before slowly following her husband upstairs.

Strangely, it doesn't really sooth Heero and he doesn't calm down. Yes, he wants the strange boy out of his room, but does he really want him to be beaten up? Before he can think any further, his father is in the room and scans the area.

Duo decides to test his theory and walks forward to face the man, but Heero's father seems to ignore him, or he simply can't see Duo. The braided boy waves his hand in front of the man's face, but gets no reaction.

God, what have they done to me? Duo asks himself while Heeros father keeps scanning around the room. As he doesn't find anything, he goes to the window and closes it before turning to his son who finally reached the room together with his mother.

"Heero, stop kidding around with such things. There's no one here." As his father says those words, Heero suddenly starts shouting again.

"But he's standing directly in front of you! Why are you ignoring him? He is in front of you!" But his fathers only answer is a slap onto the boy's left cheek.

"Respect is something you don't know, right? Always adress your parents with respect, Heero! Understand??" Heero only nods silently while holding his cheek. His father quickly leaves the room, taking his wife with him. As soon as they're out, Duo starts speaking.

"Such an asshole father. Boy,are you okay?" The braided boy asks worried before Heero sinks down and cries.

"Little one!" Duo quickly crouches down and starts a few tries to sooth and calm the boy. "Hey, don't cry." But Heero doesn't listen. "Boy, I mean, what's your name anyway?"

"He - Heero…" the boy brings out between broken sobs.

"Okay, Heero. Why don't you first lie down and cover yourself with the blanket?" Duo suggestes and smiles inwardly as Heero slowly nods and climbs clumsily into his bed. As soon as the boy is lying, Duo continues to talk with the boy.

"Please stop crying, Heero. You're making me sad as well. Please stop." The braided boy begs while Heero indeed stops, sobbing taking over.

"Why… why am I … making you sad?" The boy brings out.

"Because I don't want to see anyone cry. It makes me feel sad because I can't help the person to be happy again." Duo smiles before a question returns to him. " Say, Heero, you can see me, right?" Heero quickly nods, leaving Duo to think a lot.

"Who… who were those… men? And… and why… why were they looking for you?" The boy asks curious while whiping away his tears.

"Well…I have kinda worked for them, but I don't want to do that anymore. So I ran away from them. But they want me back as it seems." Duo sighs. A question runs around his head, but he can't find any answer.

"Just why can you see me, but the others don't?" He asks himself aloud.

"Maybe because they're all… grown-ups. Or maybe you're my invisible friend." Heero says, making Duo blink.

"Your invisible friend?"

"Yes.. I've read a lot of books about raising children, and they all said that a child has an invisible friend at some time. So maybe you're mine." Duo looks at the boy in disbelief. A child reading books about himself? Strange.

"Will you be my friend,….. erm…"

"Duo. The name's Duo." The braided boy smiles. And to his surprise,but delight, Heero smiles back.

"Duo. Will you be my friend?" He asks hopefully. Duo thinks about it for a few moments and then answers.

"Of course I will, Heero. I promise" The braided boy replys before reaching out to touch the other boy's hand. But his eyes widen in shock as his hands goes through Heero's. Duo's smile quickly disappears as he realizes that he is indeed just a project. And those scientists did fool around with him a lot.

Meanwhile, the little boy stares at the place where Duo's hand is, in his tigh. He shivers as a strange feeling streams through his whole body, making it hard to breathe. Heero starts panting in order to get some oxygen. But it doesn't really work.

"Heero? What's wrong??" Duo removes his hand and suddenly, Heero stops panting, all breathing problems disappearing. "Everything allright?" The braided boy asks worried.

"Yes, but.."

"But what?" Duo looks at Heero questioning.

"It felt like…. Like something was cutting off my oxygen as soon as you tried to touch me. As if… your hand stopped me to breathe." Heero says while staring at the boy in front of him, shocked by his own words.

Duo bows his head and stares at the ground beneath him sadly as the realization hits him. Shinigami, yes, he had become Shinigami indeed. Invisible, fast and deadly. Whoever was touched by him, that person would die.

"Duo?" Heero tries to bring Duo out of his thoughts.

"….I think it's better to leave now, Heero. I'm dangerous for you. Someday I could kill you without me wanting it." And with that, the older boy stands up and walks towards the window.

"No, don't go! You promised me to be my friend!" Heero stops Duo, and as Shinigami turns around, he finds his little friend crying. And it makes it very hard for Duo to leave right now.

"Heero, don't you understand? You could die due to me. I don't want you dead." Duo's voice trembles. He is at the edge of crying himself, but for Heero, he wants to be strong.

"I don't want to be alone anymore! I have no friends, no one wants to be with me. And you promised to be my friend, Duo! You can't break your promise!" Heero brings out between sobs. And it nearly breaks Duo's heart.

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whohoo..mean me, ne? thehe… don't hit me… I justwanted to test if this story's gonna be read. Otherwise I won't continue. So, PLEASE REVIEW and tell me IF I SHOULD go on. THX