Insanity

Insanity


Insanity
By Black Komagoro


Chapter 4

"Duo is dead... I\'m Shinigami"

An statement they all feared, the God of Death stood up and walked towards Zechs, looking at him with intense eyes; Zechs took a step back, he was afraid and he didn\'t care about showing it.

"You... You\'re related to my release. Why?"

"WHAT?"

All of them had the same question in their heads, but Zechs was the only one who voiced it. How the hell did Zechs got involved in this? Well, except for the fact that Wufei had brought him there. He really didn\'t know what had happened to Duo until the night before, when Wufei told them.

"But... but I didn\'t know about this. I swear I didn\'t do it!"

Shinigami stood in front of him, the expression on his face was even colder than Heero\'s.

"You didn\'t do it, but you\'re related to it. I don\'t understand"

Heero stood up and took Shinigami\'s hand. Maybe, if he showed him how much he cared for him, how much he loved him; Duo would come back to normal.

"Duo, it\'s me Heero... don\'t you recognize me?"

The boy formerly known as Duo Maxwell looked at him with confused eyes.

"Why should I?"

Heero fell to his knees, it was too much for him to bear. He had lost the only person who had kept the human in him still there, without him Heero was just a body, programmed to kill in a war. The other three pilots and Zechs knew it was a thing of time before Heero losted it completely and they wouldn\'t be able to help him. The four of them took the same resolution; they wouldn\'t let that happen, it was more than enough with losing Duo.

"I can feel something strong in him..."

Quatre looked at the God, and smiled sadly.

"That\'s love, mixed with pain, rage and hate... He just lost what was the most important thing in his life"

"What do you mean? I don\'t understand those things"

"I think that\'s because you\'re the God of Death. I can\'t feel any kind of emotion inside you"

Quatre said while kneeling besides Heero, with the help of Zechs they made him lay on the bed. Quatre took Heero\'s hand and started to rub it softly, as if trying to easy the pain. He looked at Shinigami again.

"I guess it\'s better if death doesn\'t have feelings. I think it would be difficult if you felt sorry or sadness when you\'re going to take a soul... But the thing is that Heero Yuy and Duo Maxwell were in love with each other, and you just said that the one he loved the most was dead"

The boy-god still looked confused, it was obvious for them all that he would never understand. They had to find a way to bring back Duo or else they would loose Heero, ao, and they couldn\'t let that happen. Not only the future of earth and the colonies depended of that, but the future of them all depended of it too, the ground under them was shaking and threatened to break soon.

"Why do you say I\'m related to your freedom, it is because of my relation with Oz?"

Shinigami looked at him again, his red eyes showing nothing.

"I don\'t know, but I\'ll find out soon. The moment I find it, the responsible of my release will die. That\'s the price people pay when they call me"

In a way that was what all of them wanted, but first they had to bring Duo back, because the only one they thought had the right to kill the responsible was Duo. Trowa stood up in front of the one who used to be his friend.

"Is there a way to bring Duo back? No matter what you say, that body still belongs to him"

"Maybe, but the only way is if he ends the life of whom brought me here"

They all felt their hopes die, how was Duo going to do that if he wasn\'t there? But the fact that he mentioned it meant something. There was a hope; even if it was small, but it was there and the
only one with the strength necessary to bring Duo back was laying shattered in the bed. Now it depended of them to keep the boy awake and focused.

"Well, I must leave now. But I will be back... There\'s something about you I want to clarify"

He pointed to Zechs and then he left.

* * *

Relena thought of doing her move after lunch, because a dinner would be more romantic and, who knows, maybe something else could happen. She was thinking about how Heero would touch her gently and lovingly, how he would undress her slowly and worship her body* She wasn\'t paying attention at her surroundings, so she didn\'t noticed the black haired boy that had passed beside
her and who had looked at her with deadly eyes.

"Ummm... How about Relena Peacreaft-Yuy... No, Relena Yuy-Peacraft... No, Relena Yuy-Darlian... Maybe I should just go by Relena Yuy... yeah I like how that sounds. Hi hi hi... Relena Yuy, Relena Yuy, Relena Yuy... I should start practicing my signature. Yes, I\'ll start practicing it"

She sat down on a bench and taking an extremely bright pink pencil and a set of designed paper, in pink too of course and with her initials on the center, she started to practice her signature. She thought it was a loss of time going to classes, since she soon would be married, she wouldn\'t need to work, so going to classes wasn\'t important.

By the time she decided, her signature was as perfect as she was, it was time for her visit to Heero and Duo. She knew she was an excellent actress too, of course she had so many abilities. The queen of the world stood up fixed her dress and started her way towards her soon-to-be-husband.

"Well, Heero, here comes the love of your life"

* * *

Heero, Trowa and Quatre were now at his and Duo\'s room. It was painful, but they needed to start somewhere; they had convinced Heero to stay focused, to not think about what Shinigami had said.
They told him that there was still a chance to save Duo and that was all they needed to keep Heero stable.

"There\'s nothing here!"

"Clam down Heero! You\'re not going to solve anything if you start acting like that!"

It was always kind of disturbing when Quatre yelled, because that meant the boy was at the verge of becoming Zero.

"I\'m sorry Quatre, but it\'s just that I don\'t know what else to do..."

"Look, he said he would be back, it seems that he had some kind of issue with Zechs"

Heero looked at Trowa with narrowed eyes, all that thing about Zechs having something to do with Duo\'s death had him almost wanting to rip open the man\'s throat. Wufei had stayed back with Zechs to talk about that. Quatre trusted in Zechs, he knew the man had said the truth but he was connected with whoever did that to Duo.

"Heero, you should know by now that he wouldn\'t do something like that, maybe it was because he\'s from Oz and all that. Please don\'t make him feel woreveneven here I can feel his guilt"

Heero sighed, he knew Quatre was right, but he needed something to hold onto. He was going to open his mouth to say something when the door opened.

"Duo... "

Heero stood up like in slow motion he walked towards the boy-god and embraced him tight.

"Duo, please tell me you\'re still there"

Shinigami just stood there, but for some reason he didn\'t understand his heart hurt. Heero let go of him and looked at blood-red eyes, he knew his Duo was there, the happy and full of life boy he had fell in love with was still there.

"Duo, I know you\'re there, deep inside you\'re still alive... plea-"

"Heero?"

That voice, god he hated that voice and definitely now was the last moment he wanted to see her. He looked at her; there she was all in pink and looking as perfect as she always said she was.

"I think this is not the best moment to come here Miss Relena"

Quatre said as polite as he could, but when she saw Duo she gasped. She had prepared a special gasp to when she noticed Duo, but this one was real, she never expected to see what she was seeing now.

"Wha- what happened to him?!"

Part of her mind said, good I didn\'t have to fake after all.

"Someone attacked him last night, he didn\'t even feel it"

And then her performance started.

"Oh my god! And who could have done something so mean?!"

Trowa looked at her suspiciously, there was something in the way she reacted that bothered him, but he couldn\'t place it right. Besides, he had more important things to think about right then.

"We don\'t know, but our suspicions is that it was someone from Oz"

Heero looked at her and then at Quatre.

"Shut up Quatre, she doesn\'t need to know anything of this"

Inside her deluded mind she thought.

Of course he doesn\'t want me around all this. He doesn\'t want me to get hurt because I know too much... My Heero is so sweet, he worries so much for me

She smiled to herself.

But I have to assure him I\'m strong and that I can deal with this

Her face still had an expression of worry and sadness.

"It\'s ok, don\'t worry Heero. Nothing will happen to me, and if you want to I can give you all the help you need-"

"Get out of here Relena, I don\'t want to see you right now"

Oh Heero, you don\'t have to worry. It\'s ok if you don\'t want the others knowing yet. I\'ll respect you wish of privacy

Then the god of death turned to look at her, and her blood froze. She was really impressed now and scared too.

"Heero, who... who is him?"

"Trowa take her out of here now!"

Heero felt like killing her right then and there, how she dared to ask that?! Quatre felt that and that was why he told his lover to take her out of the room.

"Please miss Relena, come with me. Right now we\'re discussing some important things"

She nodded, and let Trowa take her out of the room and toward his and Quatre\'s room, except that they bumped into Wufei and Zechs when they were leaving Heero\'s room.

"Milliardo? What are you doing here?"

Zechs looked at her but didn\'t answer; he entered the room leaving Wufei and Trowa with her.

"As I told you, we\'re discussing some important matters right now"

She raised a brow.

"With my brother? Why? I thought you were fighting against him"

Wufei clenched his fist, trying to not hit her right then. Trowa noticed that and motioned her to keep walking.

"I can\'t tell you Miss Relena, those are private issues"

"Trowa, you know I\'m involved in this war as much as all of you are. I think I have the right to know what\'s going on"

And for first time in is life, Trowa felt the urge to hit a woman.

"Not this time, you better go now"

And with that, he turned his back and left her in the middle of the hallway. She stood there for a moment and then decided that, one way or the other, she would know what the hell was happening
inside that room. She was the "Queen of the World" and when she wanted something she obtained it!

* * *

Inside the room, five men were in complete silence, waiting for Trowa to come back. Wufei and Zechs seemed to have found something. Trowa entered the room and closed the door, locking it
behind him.

"Once of these days she\'ll end with a black eye"

He muttered between his teeth, then he saw the expression on Wufei\'s and Zechs faces. Quatre and Heero were serious, and Duo... No, Shinigami just stood there with his face expressionless.

"Barton, I think you better sit down"

He didn\'t answer but did as Wufei said, taking his place next to Quatre.

"We think we may have found out who did this to Duo"

Heero jumped at that; he was in front of Zechs in less than a second grabbing him by the collar of his uniform.

"WHO?!"

"Calm down Yuy! He didn\'t do it so stop it!"

Heero clenched his fist tighter on the collar, but then with a sigh he let go of Zechs.

"I\'m sorry Zechs..."

"It\'s ok Heero, I understand how you feel... at least I know I would feel the same if I were in your shoes"

Heero sat dawn again and tried to stay calm, but the only idea of knowing who had killed Duo made him go almost berserk.

"As we already discussed it, our first guess it that it was
someone from Oz"

Zechs paused and looked at the boy-god with something between fear and doubt. He didn\'t know how to call him, so he decided to refer to him just as he.

"But when he told me I was related to what happened I started to think about it. Of course there\'s Oz and they would have a lot of reasons to do something like that, even if Treize or myself do not approve it. But there\'s other, who would like to destroy Duo..."

They all knew already whom he was talking about, but he said it anyway.

"And that\'s Relena. When Wufei came to visit us the other night I was discussing her with Treize. She seemed to have been acting estrange the last few weeks. I had someone watching over
her, but they couldn\'t be tracking her every single time"

Heero was using all his self control to not leaving right then and there to go and kill Relena. He raised his eyes to look at Zechs.

"Wait Heero, I know she\'s the most obvious person to blame, but there\'s a problem. No matter how much she tried, there\'s no way she could have done it without one of you noticing"

He was right, at least in part. She was just a girl, and they were perfectly trained soldiers.

"So, our guess is that she may have paid someone from Oz to do the job"

"And so we still don\'t know who exactly did it... Fucking shit! If we want Duo back whoever did it must die"

Of course, they could go and ask Relena, but they knew she would deny everything and without proves they couldn\'t do anything.

* * *

Relena was getting very irritated, she couldn\'t hear a thing; they had closed the windows and even if she tried they were talking too low to hear through the door. The only thing she could hear in a moment was Heero yelling something, but the door was thick and it muffled their voices.

What they could be talking about? I have to know!

After a while she got tired and left. It didn\'t matter anyway.

"My sweet Heero will tell me later, I know he loves me too much to deny me something"

And so she left, thinking about more important things as what color they would paint their bedroom.

* * *

"Well, we need a way to make her confess, or at least to find the proves we need"

Quatre looked at Trowa with what you could say it was exasperation. The rage and impotence were affecting even Quatre in ways they never thought the gentle pilot of Sandrock could react.

"Oh and please tell me how are you planing to do that miracle?!"

And suddenly, a miracle happened.

"STOP! Please stop... I can\'t"

They all turned to look at the only one who hadn\'t said a word at all until then. Kneeling and holding the sheets of the bed with his left hand was Duo. Not Shinigami... Duo, the hair was still raven-black, but there was that deep amethyst color in his eyes. In less than a second, Heero was at his side.

"Duo! Please Duo, tell me it\'s really you!"

Duo looked up at his lover, his beautiful violet eyes were filled with pain and tears were running down his cheeks.

"Heero, koi... please help me..."

Heero held him tightly in his arms.

"Duo, please react. Don\'t let him take you away from us... don\'t let him take you away from me"

Duo\'s eyes were almost closed, it was obvious he was about to faint.

"Please... don\'t-don\'t let me... die"

That last word was said in such a small voice that, if wasn\'t because he was so close to him, he wouldn\'t have heard it either. After that Duo went limp on his lover arms. Heero narrowed his eyes.

"Don\'t worry Duo... I won\'t let you die"

He hugged the unconscious body tighter.

"But please don\'t give up, keep fighting him..."

He took Duo in his arms and placed him on the bed, raising his eyes he looked at Zechs. His eyes had that determined look they all knew meant he wouldn\'t stop until he completed his mission

"Mission accepted"

~tbc~

(*) I really felt like vomiting here. *thinks about it again* Ewwww... Arg!! I must go and read some nice and good 1x2 lemons *hentai smile* That way my mind will be clean and pure again!