Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Wrath of Shinigami ❯ Duo Wins this Round ( Chapter 3 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Wrath of Shinigami
Aiko & Seki

Note: Remember warnings.... I am not sure when they are to be applied, but
the more I write the sooner it will be.


Duo Maxwell woke up to a splitting headache and his back was on fire,
almost as if he had a very bad sunburn, but he knew that wasn't it. He begain
to weep silently. Heero was gone. He couldn't save him. He tried to roll over
to cry onto his pillow but found there was no pillow and he couldn't roll over.
He opened his eyes then shut them again finding it was too bright. His headache
throbbed even more.
"Duo?" The voice was fuzzy as an effect of Duo's headache, but he
recognized it as Quatre's concerned voice.
"I can't move."
"I think it has something to do with the fact you have apendages on
your back you never had before," Quatre still didn't believe it.
Duo frowned, "but he should be gone. The deed's done!" He wailed.
"Heero is dead! Shinigami should be gone now!"
"I thought you were Shinigami." Quatre raised an eyebrow at his blinking
friend.
Duo was trying to get used to the brightness, "I don't know. He's inside of
me." When he finally did he sit up, his wings settled around him. He stretched his
arms and then tried stretching his wings. They spead around him. Duo looked at Quatre with confusion. "What happened...?"
Quatre sighed, "when I got there you were out cold. I had Hilde bring you
here." Quatre jestured around. "This is a safe house I managed to aquire at last
second's notice. We're on the moon."
"Oh, but... Heero." Duo tried not to show too much of what he was feeling.
Quatre would never under- wait... did he see...?
"Is alive," Quatre finished.
"He..." Duo stared at his fellow pilot. Heero was alive! "Where is he? I need
to see him!"
"He's in the next room. My sister is doing what she can to help him. She doesn't
say he might die. She knows there is a slim chance he'll even live."
"I've won!" Duo smiled, but it disappeared when Shinigami stated, "for now."
"What are you talking about?"
Duo didn't have to fight Shinigami for control over his body. Duo shook his
head to clear the dark feeling. "I... I need to see him!"
"Why?" Quatre stared.
"Can't I just see my bestfriend? He might die!"
"When he was being kept by Noin and the Preventers you never cared about his
safety or wanted to see him."
"I knew he'd live. I know you won't believe I can sense when he is going to die
and now he just might and you have to let me see him!"
Quatre ignored the urgency in Duo's voice, "what good would it do?"
"QUATRE!!! I WANT TO SEE HIM!" Duo's eyes flashed and he came at Quatre, who
was the only one inbetween him and the door. "Damn it! Can't you see that I love him?"
That comment made Quatre blink, "wha-"
Duo interrupted, "I don't want to hurt you. I need to see him."
Quatre stepped aside and let Duo walk out.
"Heero." Duo came rushing into Heero's room, "you okay buddy?" He didn't expect
an answer.
"He'll be fine. He's tough." Wufei sat meditating in the corner of the room.
Duo stared at the Chinese pilot with awe for a long moment before turning back
to Heero and approached him. "He looks like he's sleeping...."
"He is, technically."
The braided pilot didn't turn to meet Wufei's gaze. He stared at Heero, whose eyes
suddenly opened. "Heero?"
"I will kill Relena!" His mouth barely moved.
"What?" Duo would've laughed at the comment if he wasn't caught so off guard by it.
"She kissed me."
Duo looked over at Wufei uneasily. Wufei shook his head, "it may have been a dream."
"No, I felt her tongue! I will chop it off! I will not marry her no matter what!"
Duo stared at the angry Zero pilot as Hilde burst into the room, "what is all that
racket?"
"I will kill Relena, she will get her wish! She kissed me!" Heero didn't even move
an inch. Duo imagined Heero was in a lot of pain, but he didn't want to show weakness. Not
that Duo thought Heero was weak or anything. Duo knew Heero was strong. Heero looked directly
at Duo, "is it my imagination but does Duo have wings?"
"I really do have wings." Duo stated in a monotone voice. He unconsiously touched one
of the black feathers.
Wufei stared at Duo, "I wasn't planning on asking about them, just for the record."
"Are they real?" Heero's curiosity got the better of him and he sat up. He winced and
nearly cried out, but didn't. He pressed his palm hesitantly to Duo's wings. He jestured for
Duo to turn around. Duo did. Heero moved his hands to the middle of Duo's back, where the wings
met his back. "Whoa...."
The warm touch sent a senation through Due he didn't want evident to anyone. "I can really fly too," Duo still had a monotone voice. To demonstrate this he flapped his wings and moved just enough iches of the ground to prove his point.
"But... how?"
Duo sighed, "Shinigami, the God of Death, has chosen me to help him take people to the
'other side' as he calls it. So, technically he and I are in the same body. When you almost died
Shinigami was going to be the one to guide you to the other side. He swears that is his job. He
doesn't kill, only helps the soul get where it needs to go when the body dies. Those wings are
Shinigami's. I didn't ask to have them or be a pawn in his sick job, but I am." Duo tried to
swallow his tears before they came, "he asks you not to be afraid of him when he takes you. I
tried to stop him from taking your soul!"
Wufei raised an eye brow after Duo spoke, "so, the only reason Heero lived through that
is because of you? It isn't his will to live?"
"I don't know. I just know I couldn't see Heero die."
"It is my job, Maxwell. I am a Gundam pilot. You know when you started this that we
would eventually die in battle. I should've died out there." Heero stated coldly. He jerked his and away. He watched the braided one turn around and face him with an absent look about him.
"See, Duo," Shinigami spoke, "It is his time."
"No!" Duo shouted as everyone stared in confusion.
"What did you say?" Wufei asked.
Duo blamed Shinigami, but not everyone completely agreed. Duo sighed heavily, "I don't want him to die."
Heero was about to lecture Duo on the duties of being a gundam pilot in more depth but was stopped by the look in Duo's eyes, "Maxwell... that look...." He watched Duo look away sheepishly. "I've seen it before." Heero blinked and shook his head. "No, that couldn't have been you...." He remembered that look. He saw it when he was in his own gundam and he was about to embrace death. As Heero tried to figure out who that figure was, "it wasn't Relena."
Duo Maxwell, pilot of the 02, blushed and admitted with a shrug of a shoulder, "it was me or rather... both of us. Shinigami and I."
Heero gave Duo a confused looked, "why?"
"I... he... um...." Duo tried to think of a way to explain, but when he failed to do so he just shrugged. Duo couldn't read the look in Heero's eyes so he quickly stammered, "D-don't kill me please!"
"Why would I kill you?" He grinned, which Duo knew as a bad sign.
"Well, when you thought it was Relena... that... um... yeah, you said you were going to kill her so why should I have another fate?" Duo asked.
Wufei gave Duo a horrid look, "you mean when Heero was ranting and raving about killing Relena because she kissed him, it wasn't really Relena... but you, Duo?" That caused Hilde to raise an eyebrow.
"Yes, it was me. I kissed Heero!" Duo glared at Wufei. "So, what? I thought he was going to die."
"Yeah, but even so you'd have to be-." Wufei stopped mid-sentence when he realized what he was just about to say. He then asked, "are you?"
"Am I what?" Duo asked with a steady gaze at Wufei.
"Gay?" Wufei asked. He immediately got Quatre's attention, which was followed by a quizical look.
Duo shrugged. It was time to come clean, "yeah, I guess I am."
Heero laughed, Wufei shrugged and Quatre looked a little nervous at the comment. He did get that idea out of the conversation he had earlier, but to actually hear Duo say it was odd.
"What?" Duo said in the blonde's direction, "you have nothing to worry about. It wasn't you I kissed was it?"
"N-no." Quatre glanced from Wufei to Heero and back again, "who-nevermind. It isn't my business."
"You're right it isn't, but since we are all friends you might as well know. I kissed Heero and I'd do it again if I could get away with it."
Heero's laughter grew causing all in the room to stare in his direction, "Duo, despite my death threat you still are willing to be so honest in your statements? Bold move, Maxwell."