Chapter 5

Duo climbed into a black Camaro with black leather seats,
in perfect condition. He opened the glove box, looked around,
bounced in the seat, kicked the tires, made little zoom noises as
he turned the steering wheel. Then Duo looked up at the
salesman who was glaring hard at the god of death.

"Well?" The salesman put on a fake smile and waited
impatiently.

"Let's see under the hood one last time," Duo said,
the salesman rolled his eyes but popped the hood anyway.

"I don't know," Duo put a hand to his chin, the salesman
suppressed a scream of frustration.

"It's the best on our lot sire," the salesman gritted out.

"Fine, I'll take it," Duo said, smiling sweetly at the salesman.
He closed the hood and went into his office to get the paper
work. Soon Duo drove out of the lot with the salesman's
pocket money and credit cards safely in Shinigami's pocket.

"Sucker," Duo said as he turned on the radio and
heavy metal rock music blasted out. Duo parked in
front of Quatre's mansion and Ivory ran out.

"Ooooh," Ivory said, running her hand over the car.

"Nice huh?" Duo asked, Ivory nodded frantically.

"Can I drive it?" Ivory asked.

"Sorry hon, maybe when your older," Duo winked at her,
she smiled and opened the door then climbed in.
Leslie came out and glared at Duo.

"I swear Shini," Leslie shook her head as Duo walked up to her.

"Come on what was that dude going to do with all that
money? Let it disintegrate in his safe? I rescued that money
and put it to good use, just like last time when I put all those
nice college girls through college," Duo said.

"They were stripper girls and Avery's inside waiting for
you, he's on the west balcony," Leslie said, Duo kissed
her cheek and walked inside.

"Ivory, come on, let's go, Jaden will be here to go
swimming pretty soon," Leslie called.

"Alright Leslie," Ivory hopped out of Duo's car and
ran up the steps to Leslie, she picked her up and
carried her inside.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Come on Wufei I need to show you something,"
Wufei's ancient father waved his wrinkled hand at Wufei.
He suppressed a sigh and followed his father to a small
building deep in the gardens. It's old statues were just as
Wufei remembered, the small jade statue of Nataku sat
on it's silk pillow on a stand of iron in the middle of the
small temple.

"We have decided to put you in the temple with the rest of
our ancestors when you die, you came when we called,
you have shown your loyalty to the Dragon Clan," Wufei's
father announced, beaming at his son. Wufei stood shocked
to his core.

"You were thinking about taking me out of the Dragon
Clan?" Wufei asked.

"You left, you weren't supposed to but you came back
and all is well once again," Wufei's father nodded his
head and turned to Nataku.

"She will always be beautiful and strong," Wufei's father
murmured then left, leaving Wufei alone.

"Why aren't you talking to your father about the war?
It is important that you join the fight," Nataku's statue
said, the small green body stood up from it's eternal kneeling.

"When the time is right Nataku, don't worry," Wufei turned
to the other statues.

"Your hanging around that harlot too much, I forbid it,
he's fogging your mind up, just like that american," Nataku
demanded, Wufei turned to her.

"That's why you don't want me to go back, you want me
to yourself, you hate it that I spent so much time with Duo
and you were perfectly content to see me wage war with
the other people on the streets but when I finally-" Wufei
went into a rant.

"Don't you talk to me like that! That american clouded
your thinking but I didn't care, my favorite clan is going to
be destroyed unless you cooperate, now, light my incense
and fluff my pillow," Nataku pointed to the silk pillow that
had a permanent dent from the statue embedded in it.
Wufei sighed and did what she asked.

~~~~~~~~~~~

"Well what do you think of china?" Heero asked.

"Fine, I had to kill an official that was traveling through here once,
it doesn't change much," Trowa said, looking around.

"Yea well that's china, personally Japan is better, more
entertaining," Heero replied, they were walking toward
the Dragon Estates near the banks of the ocean. Heero
was to draw out the subject while Trowa took her out.
Soon Heero was walking among the massive gardens
surrounding the mansion. A little girl ran by, laughing
hysterically. Merian appeared a minute later.

"Oh! Hello Heero, what are you doing here?" Merian asked.

"Nothing much, just thought I'd check on our leader,
things like that," Heero smiled at her. "Do you want to
go for a small walk?" Heero asked.

"Why not?" Merian shrugged. Trowa climbed up a tree,
scanned the area around Heero and Merian then took
aim. Merian never knew what hit her.

"He-Heero?" Merian looked up at Heero as she fell.

"Merian?" Heero kneeled over her, "I'll get help,
stay where you are," Heero stood and ran off. Wufei
stepped out of the temple and spotted Merian.

"Merian?" Wufei walked towards her.

"Wufei," Merian reached out, Wufei grabbed her hand and
kneeled beside her. "I think I was shot, oh Wufei, it's getting
dark," Merian choked out, tears running out from her eyes.

"No, Merian hang on," Wufei looked around but Trowa
and Heero were already gone. "Who did this Merian?"
Wufei asked.

"I wanted to warn you," Merian paused. "Our clan, our
clan is not what it, what it seems," Merian coughed a bit.
"There are some, some who, who have betrayed," Merian
couldn't get anything else out. Sakura ran forward but
stopped, Wufei looked up.

"Come on Sakura, let's go get someone," Wufei choked
out, tears staining hs bronze cheeks. Wufei picked up Sakura
and walked back to the house, Sakura was crying by the
time they got there. Soon the police were there and some
people to take Merian's body away. Afterward Wufei
walked back to the temple.

"You arranged this," Wufei growled at the jade statue.

"So what if I did? She deserved it, she was getting weak
and useless, I hate useless people," Nataku snarled up
at Wufei.

"You killed her, how could you do such a thing? You bitch,
I'm out of here," Wufei growled, walking out of the temple,
the statue was calling for him.

"Let's get out of here Ichiro, pack up Sakura and hurry
we don't have any time," Wufei commanded Ichiro. He
nodded silently and went to Sakura's room. Soon the
three were on the private plane back to where Duo was.
Wufei was staring at his home, suddenly it blew up into
tiny pieces.

"Nooooo!" Wufei screamed, staring at the black hole
that used to be his home.

"You deserve it you weak fool," blazing green eyes
hovered outside of the plane. Wufei glared at the fading eyes
long after they disappeared.

~~~~~~~~~~~

"That feels good," Duo moaned as Avery hand
combed through his hair.

"I know what'll feel even better," Avery whispered in
Duo's ear, he shuddered a bit.

"Not right now, I have to meet a friend of mine," Duo
stood up, quickly re-braiding his hair. Avery sat back
and crossed his arms.

"I'll be right back to do what ever we want," Duo kissed
Avery and walked out.

"Shinigami!" Quatre called running after him.

"Yea Q-man?" Duo asked, walking backwards to the door.

"Heero just called, he said that Wufei's home was blown
up, he escaped with a couple people and are on their
way here," Quatre said, Duo's face lighted up.

"He's coming back?" Duo exclaimed then sombered.
"His home," Duo turned around and walked to the door.

"Page me when he's back," Duo said, holding up his
cell phone.

"Will do," Quatre answered, walking back to the kitchen
to argue over what should be put in the sauce for the lasagna.
Duo opened his car door and slammed it behind him.
Avery walked out onto the front step, Duo looked up
at him but didn't smile, he just turned on the engine and
drove off.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"We shouldn't have done that," Heero said after getting
off the phone with Quatre.

"We had to, orders are orders besides it wouldn't have made
much differences, she would have been dead an hour
later anyways," Trowa replied.

"Are you sure?" Heero looked over at Trowa.

"Yes, positive," Trowa answers then puts on his headphones.
Heero sighs and stares out the window a white dove flies
up next to his window and Heero smiles at it, putting his
hand up to the glass. Suddenly the dove burst apart into
guts and feathers, staining the window. Heero jerked
awake, looking around he then stares out at his window
but the glass is clean, nothing's there. Heero sighs and
picks up his headphones.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"There they are!" Quatre exclaimed, pointing to the
private jet with a green chinese dragon painted on the side.
Leslie smiles, letting go of Ivory. Duo gets up from a chair
and goes to the window. Avery and Anubis looks up
from a magazine they were sharing. Aphrodite walks
up next to Duo.

"He'll be needing your help Duo," Aphrodite said.

"Just like I needed Leslie's help after," Duo trailed off.

"Exactly, I trust you to help him Shinigami," Aphrodite patted
his shoulder and went back to stand next to Leslie. The jet
pulled up next to a tunnel and the passengers all walked out.
Duo spotted Wufei and ran to him. A black haired, green
eyed chinese guy was standing next to Wufei with a little girl
on his hip. Duo hugged Wufei who returned it whole heartedly.

"I'll never leave you again," Wufei whispered in Duo's ear.

"You better not," Duo answered as everyone else
walked up to the three.

"Everyone this is Ichiro and my little adopted sister
Sakura," Wufei introduced. "Sakura, Ichiro, this is
Shinigami, Leslie, Quatre, Anubis, Aphrodite, Ivory
and who is this?" Wufei turned to Avery.

"This is Avery, he'll be staying at Quatre's mansion
until he gets on his feet, he's also the newest member
of my group," Duo explained.

"Where's Trowa and Heero?" Wufei asked.

"They'll be arriving soon," Quatre answered, Wufei nodded.

"There they are right now," Leslie pointed to the airliner.
The jumbo jet landed and everyone rushed to that terminal.
Soon Trowa and Heero emerged and was greeted by everyone.
Duo caught Wufei's hand and Wufei squeezed his. Ichiro let
Sakura down, she went to talk to Ivory. Then everyone
was in the parking lot.

"Me and Wufei will ride in my car with the kids,"
Duo said, the two girls were already in Duo's car,
talking adamantly.

"I'll take Wufei's truck," Heero spoke up.

"Me and Trowa will go in my car," Quatre called from
his Lotus Espirit.

"I'll take the rest home," Leslie said as Ichiro, Avery,
Aphrodite and Anubis climbed into her car. Then
everyone drove off in their respective cars and ways.

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"I've missed you," Duo said as they followed Quatre
to his mansion.

"Me too, I wish I never even left in the first place,"
Wufei sighed, grabbing Duo's hand.

"You know I never knew that," Ivory replied to Sakura.

"Come on, if you knew anything about art you have to
know something about mangas and anime," Sakura
rolled her eyes.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"You know it's weird but I don't know about that Avery
guy or that Ichiro, don't they seem a little, I don't know, off?"
Quatre asked Trowa.

"Who knows, they both seem pretty nice," Trowa
shrugged.

"Well I talked to Wufei right before he left, it seemed that
Ichiro was his lover or something before Wufei went
away with Merian," Quatre said.

"Yea and Duo's fucking Avery," Trowa pointed out
bluntly.

"Trowa," Quatre blushed scarlet while shaking his head.

"What?" Trowa grinned at Quatre.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Bye Aphrodite, see your tomorrow," Leslie called as Cassie
climbed out, she waved and walked up to her apartment. They
then dropped off Anubis and the ride to Quatre's mansion was
rather silent.

"How do you know Wufei?" Leslie asked, trying to strike
up a conversation.

"We grew up together," Ichiro answered.

"Are you guys brothers?" Leslie asked, Ichiro laughed.

"No far from that and we aren't enemies either," Ichiro
replied.

"So what are you?" Leslie asked.

"We used to love each other," Ichiro lost his smile and stared
out the window, Leslie stayed silent after that. Avery just
stayed silent through the whole thing, just watching and
listening. They pulled up in front of Quatre's mansion and
climbed out.

"This is your room," Ivory showed Sakura her room
next to her own.

"Nice, thanks," Sakura put her suitcase down and
sat on the bed. Ivory disappeared then reappeared
with a small doll in her hands.

"Here, she'll keep you company, she always made me
happy when I wasn't," Ivory handed over the doll that
was dressed in a clown suit and clown make up, Sakura
smiled.

"Thank you, she's very pretty," Sakura hugged the doll.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"I hope your comfortable," Quatre said to Ichiro as
he started unpacking.

"Yes, your graciousness is very welcome,"
Ichiro smiled at Quatre.

"It's nothing, what's a couple more people? Besides
Sakura will keep Ivory busy," Quatre shrugged.

"You are very kind," Ichiro said, following Quatre
down to the kitchens.

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"Avery don't do this," Duo said, climbing out of Avery's grasp.

"Come on, Wufei has Ichiro, why can't I get some?"
Avery asked.

"Well go ask Ichiro, he might help," Duo slammed the door
behind him. Avery frowned and crossed his arms. Duo
bumped into Wufei.

"There you are," Duo smiled at Wufei who didn't smile back.
"There's something wrong, come on," Duo dragged Wufei
away. They sat down on the north balcony lounge chairs.
A servant sat down lunch and went away.

"Now tell me what happened," Duo said, Wufei looked
up at him with big sad dark chocolate eyes.

"Nataku, the goddess started talking to me on the plane
ride over. She said if I left, my clan would all be killed. I
decided to stay, Ichiro saw Nataku and that's when I knew
I wasn't hallucinating. I came to hate Nataku and some one
killed Merian, Nataku set it up. I decided to leave, I couldn't
stay without her and I packed up Sakura and Ichiro then left.
Nataku blew up my home in front of my eyes,"
Wufei choked, Duo had come up and was carressing
Wufei's hair and cheek. "I hate her, I hope she never talks
to me again," Wufei looked down.

"You could have just lied, now I must tell you something
Wufei," Duo sighed. "I'm not human," Duo confessed.

"Of course you are, a very beautiful human," Wufei said,
Duo looked up at Wufei, blood tears staining his cheeks,
his eyes pitch black, fangs poking out of his lips, then
Wufei saw them, large leathery black wings fluttered
slightly in the breeze.

"The gods above," Wufei whispered.

"I'm a death angel Wufei, a demon," Duo shuddered,
Wufei pulled Duo closer, lightly brushing his hands over
the spot between Duo's wings.

"You're not a demon Duo, you’re a very beautiful
angel and I love you no matter what you are," Wufei
looked into Duo's now violet eyes, there was still blood
tears running down his face and the fangs were gone
but the wings stayed.

"I love you too," Duo kissed Wufei, he felt a salty blood
taste as he opened his mouth to suck on Duo's lower lip.
Shinigami moaned and started sparring with Wufei's tongue.
Suddenly there came a scream and Duo looked up. Leslie
was staring at the black wings coming straight out of his back.

"Leslie," Duo whispered, Leslie backed away and ran
down the hall. "Leslie!" Duo got up but Wufei stopped him.

"Your wings Duo," Wufei said, holding on to one, Duo
closed his eyes and his wings retracted into his body and
Shinigami ran after his sister, scrubbing his face as he went,
trying to get the fast drying blood off.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ichiro?" Avery knocked on Ichiro's door. He opened it
and let him enter.

"Yes Avery?" Ichiro asked, picking up a small bracelet
and putting it away.

"Well I was wondering if you wanted to go downtown
tonight? I could show you around, buy you dinner?"
Avery offered, Ichiro smiled, showing perfect white teeth.

"I'd like that," Ichiro said.

"Great, we'll go at 7," Avery turned to the door.

"Oh and Avery?" Ichiro asked, Avery turned around,
Ichiro kissed Avery and then went back to unpacking.
Avery smirked and walked away.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Always ready for more huh Avery?" Jermaine chuckled
over the phone.

"I've found a place here, I don't think I'll be coming back,"
Avery said.

"If you want to, just remember I am always watching,"
Jermaine hung up the phone. Avery sighed and hung up
the phone then turned to his date. Ivory and Sakura shrieked
with laughter at the tv.

"My life is finally looking up," Ichiro said, taking
Avery's arm.

"Mine to," Avery agreed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Why didn't you tell me?" Leslie asked, staring into Duo's
forever violet eyes.

"Because I thought you might get hurt," Duo answered.
"Wufei's changing me, I can feel it, I wont be a
death angel for long," Duo smiled at Leslie.

"Are you happy Duo?" Leslie asked.

"Yes, happier then I've ever been," Duo answered.

"I could say the same," Wufei said behind Duo, he
turned and smiled at Wufei.

"I'll leave you two alone," Leslie slipped away but
neither of them noticed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"You'll always be mine, right Quatre?" Trowa asked,
running his hand over Quatre's bare stomach.

"Forever my graceful assassin," Quatre whispered back,
breathing heavily from what Trowa was doing to him.

"Forever is a very long time," Trowa replied.

"Not with you, with you there is never enough time,"
Quatre said.

"You flatter me too much," Trowa smiled up at Quatre
then kissed his way down.

Owari

Tracy, my muse: So that's a happy ending. Never thought
I'd see one come out of you.

Gothic: Of course, I write happy endings all the time when
I actually get a story done.

Tracy: Yea right, I remember the multiple endings you
deleted to this fic. You weren't so nice then.

Gothic: That's because I listened to my conscience instead
of you miss know it all, you and my little dragon Jasmine
are always getting me in trouble. Next you'll be bugging
me on lemons again.

Duo: I thought that was my job!

Goth: Look what you did now, you woke up Duo *Groan*

Tracy: You deserve it, sick her Jasmine.

Gothic: Watch it or I'll replace you and never even
attempt a lemon again.

Duo: Wufei! Trowa! Heero! Help!

Quatre: What about me?

Duo: Oh yea, Quatre!

Gothic: Great, now I've got all of them ganging up on me
and I still have to finish Moonlight Wonders, my
other story. Tracy!

Tracy: Why are you calling me?

Gothic: I don't know, you just always seem to be on my side.

Tracy: That's because you’re the only one who puts up with me.

Gothic: Damn straight, and don't you forget it!

Duo: Now she's got Tracy, we're doomed.

Tracy: *Evil Laugh*

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