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Title : From Far Away part 10
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Pairings : 1+2/2+1, 3+4/4+3 implied
Rating : PG
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Warning : yaoi, sap, AU, fusion
with Kanata Kara
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"..." : spoken word
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<<...>> : telepathy wordFrom Far Away Part 10
"Heero! Are you okay?"
Quatre knelt next to the trembling boy, very worried.
"Hey, Quatre, is
that you?" Wufei's voice was heard.
"Yes! Wufei, come here! There's
something wrong with Heero."
After fighting his own body's reaction for
some time, Heero felt the pain subside and his breath become steady. He vaguely
heard someone talking and opened his eyes.
"Ah, he opened his eyes!"
Relena's relieved voice was registered.
"Heero, are you okay?" Heero
turned his head and saw Quatre kneeling next to him, looking worried.
"I'm okay." Heero looked around and saw Sally, Noin, and Hilde behind
Trowa and Wufei. The girls had heard Quatre's shouting and quickly joined them.
However Heero knew someone was missing. "Where's Duo?"
All his friends
looked at one another questioningly.
"Hilde? You were with him, weren't
you?" Noin spoke up.
Hilde bit her lower lip. "I'm sorry, Heero. I lost
Duo in the fog."
"What?" Heero quickly sat up.
"Heero, slow
down. You just fainted. It'll do no good if you force your body." Wufei told the
stoic boy.
"I'm fine." Heero growled and stood up. //Duo, where are
you?//
<<Heero! Is that you?>>
<<Duo?>>
<<Who else? Are you okay? I'm worried about
you.>>
<<I can say the same, baka. Where are you now?>>
Heero growled, oblivious his friends who eyed him in confusion.
"What is
he doing?" Wufei asked no one in particular.
"I think he's talking with
Duo, just like he did last night." Sally answered, eyes still watching Heero.
Heero, who had finished his conversation, turned to the others. "I'm
going to fetch Duo."
"Do you know where he is?" Relena
asked.
Heero nodded.
"I'll go with you." Hilde stepped forward
but Heero shook his head.
"No, I can do it alone. Just wait for us here
and light some fire. Duo said that monster is afraid of fire."
"How did
he know?" Noin turned to ask.
Heero shrugged. "He said a ghost told
him."
"Ghost??" All of them choked up.
"Yes, a ghost. True or
not, I'm going to find out about it. Wait right here." Heero left them and ran
toward the direction Duo had told him. Hilde, who intended to follow, had to
hold back her intentions when she saw Heero disappear from her sight in two
seconds.
Quite far away from there, Duo was digging something in the
ground.
"Ah, is this it?" Duo held up a soil-covered-gold cross.
Solo, who was floating in front of Duo, grinned. "Yes, that's my cross."
"So what do I gotta do with this?" Duo cleaned the cross. It was
beautiful and well carved.
"Throw it to the main body of the monster.
I'll take care of the rest after that."
"Take care?" Duo raised an
eyebrow. "You can calm those children's souls?"
Solo nodded. "Yes, but I
need a part of me near them. Something they'll recognize as mine."
"That's why you need me. No one can see you except me and you can't
touch anything; including this cross..."" Duo eyed the cross.
"DUO!"
Duo looked up and saw Heero approaching him. "Heero!" The braided boy
smiled and stood up.
Heero stood before him. His breath was steady,
betraying how fast he had run to find Duo. "Are you okay?"
Duo grinned.
"I should ask you the same question."
"I'm fine." Heero frowned and then
raised his hand to caress Duo's cheek.
"Heero?" Duo's eyes widened.
"You have dirt on your cheek." Heero explained flatly and cleaned the
dirt with the sleeve of his tunic.
Duo watched Heero as the boy focused
to his cleaning task. He then remembered his conversation with Hilde and felt
his heart burst in happiness. The boy before him right now was his koi, his
mate, his lover! Heero accepted him as his koi without knowing Duo had
misunderstood the meaning of koi at the first time. That meant ....Heero loved
him, ne? He had to or he would not accept Duo as his koi.
Heero finished
cleaning Duo's cheek and was about to pull his hand when Duo grabbed his hand
and kissed it tenderly. "Duo?" Heero was really surprised at Duo's action.
Duo looked at Heero, still holding his hand, and smiled. "Omae o kisu,
Heero." [1]
He was not surprised to see Heero widen his eyes. The stoic
boy opened his mouth but nothing came out. Duo chuckled and leaned down,
accomplishing what he had said.
Heero was stunned as Duo captured his
lips. What was Duo doing? Kissing him? Really kissing him? He could feel those
firm lips against his. Duo was definitely kissing him.
Duo pulled away
and encircled his hands around Heero's waist, pulling the stunned boy closer to
him.He couldn't help but grin as he saw those prussian blue eyes stare at him
widely in shock. "Never thought I actually knew the meaning ne, Heero?"
Heero blinked. "Ho...How?"
"I figured it out after I knew the
meaning of 'omae o korosu'. I didn't let you know about this because it's fun to
see your reaction when I ask you about the meaning." Duo grinned as he saw Heero
fuming.
"Omae o korosu!"
Duo rolled his eyes. "As if you'll do
it to me."
Surprisingly, Heero did something that was really out of
character for him. He pouted. Heero Yuy was pouting for the first time. Never in
his life had someone teased him like this.
Duo chuckled. Heero didn't
know how adorable he was while pouting. Those delicate lips seemed to tell him
to kiss them. And Duo did surrender to temptation. He leaned forward and kissed
the stoic warrior once again.
Heero gasped in surprise as Duo kissed him
again. He could feel Duo's tongue entering his slightly opened mouth. What
happened? Why did Duo kiss him? It was not right. Only a koi might kiss his lips
like this and Duo had said that Heero was not his koi. So why??
But his
mind stopped thinking as the tongue licked and sucked his mouth, awakening many
sensations that were alien to Heero. He never felt something so intense like
this. The invading tongue was teasing his tongue right now. First, he didn't
know what to do except shy away. But as Duo's tongue kept teasing his, Heero
started responding. He moaned and welcomed Duo's invasion with his own
tongue.This felt good, really good.
They were panting when they broke
some moments later. Duo watched as the boy in his arms gasped for air.
"Beautiful." The Prussian eyes blinked and focused on Duo. "You're beautiful,
Heero."
"Sorry to disturb you guys but we have no time." Solo
interrupted them, coughing a little.
Duo turned to Solo. "No time? What
do you mean, Solo?"
"I sense your friends are in danger, Duo."
"What?" Duo turned to Heero. "Heero, we have to go back. Solo said
Relena and the others are in danger."
"Solo? Who is he?" Heero looked
around but saw nothing.
"The ghost. He's floating on your right now but
you can't see it."
"Why?"
"I don't know. He said only I can see
him. Anyway, let's go back, we're running out the time."
Heero nodded
and grabbed Duo, putting him over his shoulder.
"Hey!" Duo protested.
"This is the fastest way. Hold on." Heero ran as fast as he could,
bringing his precious bundle on his shoulder. He was still wondering why Duo
kissed him but it had to be set aside. Now, there were more important things to
do.
Behind him, Solo looked at them thoughtfully. "I'm counting on
you,.." The boy softly whispered to himself.
"....Shinigami."
"Damn, we're surrounded!" Wufei
cursed and stepped back, only to meet with Trowa's back.
"It seems we
can't escape." Quatre looked around. They were surrounded by the hair monster,
which had made a circle around them with his body.
"Where's the torch?
Throw it to the monster!" Relena shouted. They had made some torches, following
Heero's instruction.
Noin and Hilde who held the torches threw them to
the monster.
"Hey, it worked!" Sally shouted as the monster stopped
approaching them and tried to stop the fire from eating it.
But suddenly
rain fell down, extinguishing the torches.
"Damn it." Wufei cursed
again. "How can it rain??? I swear the sun was shining a minute ago."
"This rain isn't natural. I think that monster made it, just like it
made the fog." Trowa spoke up.
"What should we do now?" Hilde watched
worriedly as the monster narrowed the circle.
"Hope for a miracle?" Noin
offered, also stepping back. They were forced to stand back to back with each
other as the circle grew smaller.
"I better hope for Shinigami to order
his Perfect Soldier to help us." Relena muttered
"Relena, if Perfect
Soldier does help us, we'll probably end up as its food." Hilde
winced.
"Onna, stop talking nonsense. We still have hope. Heero and Duo
were still out there." Wufei snorted.
"Hey there they are!" Quatre
shouted and pointed in a direction.
All of them looked where Quatre
pointed and saw Heero approaching them, with Duo on his shoulder..
"Kuso, they were surrounded by the monster." Heero quickly put Duo down.
"Duo, stay behind me."
"Huh?" Duo didn't have time to react and could
only watch as Heero raised both of his hands. He was stunned as Heero unleashed
two big fireballs to the monster. And what stunned him more was the fact that
the rain couldn't extinguish the fireballs.
He had seen Heero use the
fire magic the first time they met. But he never thought Heero's magic was this
strong.
Heero, in the other hand, focused his eyes on the fireballs. As
they hit the monster, the fire became bigger, burning the monster. If Duo wasn't
standing behind him, the braided boy would've seen those Prussian blue orbs
narrowed like cat eyes.
"Hey, look! The fire breaks the monster's
circle." Sally shouted.
"What are you waiting, onna? Let's go out!"
Wufei pulled Relena to the gap the fire made, pushing Sally out of the circle,
followed by the others.
As the last person left the circle, Heero
shouted, "Duo, now! Throw the cross!" Duo had told him about the cross along the
journey to the church and Heero hoped the ghost really could handle the monster.
Duo reacted as soon as Heero shouted. He ran toward the monster and
threw the cross. Once the cross touched the monster, it showered it in very
bright golden lights.
As the rain stopped, Heero and the others stood
stunned and heard a voice echoing around them.
"My brothers and
sisters......wake up....open your eyes..."
The monster stopped
moving.
"Please remember.......this is not your place..."
Duo
watched as many balls of light; which resembled children, emerged from the
monster. They were the lost children's souls. And surprisingly , he realized
Heero and the others could see them too.
"Remember about
yourself......Don't be sad.....You are not alone...."
The monster
dissolved as one soul after another left and flew toward the golden boy.
"You all are great children." Solo opened his arms. "Let's start from
the beginning again."
The souls gathered between his opened arms. Heero
and the others could hear the children's crying. It was a cry of relief; like a
child who finally found his way home. Solo smiled and embraced the souls. "Let's
go back to where we belong.......Together."
Then it was over. The light
become so bright that Heero, Duo, and the others had to close their eyes. OOnce
they opened their eyes, there was no sign of the monster. Duo looked up and saw
the sun shining brightly on the beautiful blue sky.
"It's beautiful."
Duo turned and saw Relena also looking at the sky. "I never appreciated the sky
until today..." She murmured.
Duo smiled and looked at the sky again. He
was surprised to see a necklace with a golden cross on it flying in front of
him. He looked up and saw the golden eyed boy floating above him.
"Solo?"
"Finally I can meet with my brothers and sisters. Thank you very much
Duo. I hope you will accept this as our token of appreciation." Solo smiled and
put the necklace around Duo's neck then disappeared once more after saying his
last words. "I'll send your horses to you. It's all I can do to help your
journey."
Duo looked at the cross on his chest and smiled. "Thanks to
you too, Solo."
"Heero!!!" As Relena shouted, Duo turned to the stoic boy
just to see him lying on the ground on his side.
"Heero!" Duo quickly
went to the boy and checked him. Heero was panting and his eyes were closed. He
seemed to be in pain. "What happened to him?" Duo looked up to the
others.
"I don't know. He suddenly collapsed, just like before." Trowa
spoke up.
"Just like before? You mean this is the second time this
happened?" Duo looked at Trowa, who nodded back.
"I'm fine..."
Duo looked at the speaker and scowled. "No, you aren't fine, Heero. We
need to see a doctor."
Heero wanted to refuse but he felt every part of
his body throbbing in pain. He had over used his power again. That was the
biggest fireballs he ever made, not counting the windstorm in the arena, and the
wind he used to blow up the hair monster. Heero never thought he'd continuously
use his power like this. It wore him out, but he knew he hadn't yet unleashed
the strongest power within him...
"Hold on, Heero." He could hear Duo's
voice and felt someone lift him up.
Duo ordered the others to find their
horses and then looked down at the boy in his arms worriedly. Heero seemed to be
very exhausted. The magic might have worn him out.
"Duo, I found our
horses." Wufei shouted at him from behind the ruined church.
"I'll be
right there, Wufei." Duo shouted.
As he arrived behind the church, Duo
noticed the others also had gathered there. Quatre was tying Heero's horse to
his horse, knowing Heero would not be able to ride the horse. Duo gave Heero to
Trowa and then mounted his horse. "Give him to me."
Heero felt he was
hoisted up and was leant against something warm. Then he felt a pair of arms
around him, protecting him. As the warmth enveloped him, Heero felt the
throbbing slowly subside. As the time passed, his breathing had become steady
again. He looked up and saw a pair of violet eyes looking at him with
concern.
"Feeling better?" Duo asked him.
Heero nodded and then
looked around. Wufei, Sally, and Noin were riding in front of them, Relena on
their right and Hilde on their left. Behind were Trowa and Quatre.
"Are
you okay, Heero?" Relena approached them.
Heero nodded again as he
studied the road. There were no trees. So they weren't in the forest anymore.
"It's okay, we're safe now." Relena smiled.
Just as Relena
finished her sentence, a loud shriek was heard from above them. They quickly
looked up and saw a giant bird approaching them. And before they had a chance to
move, the bird had seized Duo, Heero, and the horse in its talon.
"Heero!". "Duo!" Relena and Hilde shouted simultaneously and watched the
bird fly away.
"Damnit!! That bird'll have them for its lunch.." Wufei
cursed.
"We have to help them" Hilde spoke up
"How?" Sally asked.
Noin spoke up. "A bird usually brings its prey to its nest... I think
this one might too. So if we can find its nest, we can save them."
"And
how can we find the nest?" Wufei asked to the blank faces around him.
TBC...
[1] I am not gonna tell what's the meaning againnnnnnnn ,
LOL. You have to find it by your own. *evil chackles*
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