Insanity

Insanity


Insanity
By Black Komagoro

Chapter 6

His eyes couldn\'t stop the tears, he didn\'t need someone to explain what he was looking at; that black braid was his Duo. The blood flowed out of it as if the braid actually had been wounded deeply; then he knew. When the braid was cut, Duo had been separated from Shinigami, as Heero once told Trowa, the braid was Duo and Duo was the braid. His past, his whole life was resembled in that braid.

Heero reluctantly raised his left hand and took the braid, and he could swear it was pulsing.

"Duo..."

* * *

"AHHHHH!"

Quatre and Trowa were at Duo\'s side in less than a second, the boy-god was on his knees and clutching his head in pain. They were worried, and scared; whatever that was attacking their friend was causing an amazing pain and Quatre felt it.

"Trowa this is Duo!"

Trowa understood the message, \'This is the real Duo, help him NOW!\'. He took the pilot by his shoulders and tried to shake him, in an attempt to make him stop and see were he was, it was futile. A moment later Duo stopped screaming but he curled on the floor, shaking furiously and calling Heero; saying his name like a mantra.

"Heero, Heero, Heero..."

"Duo!! Come on, calm down!"

Quatre could feel another person, not in Duo but with him. He focused on that feeling, trying to know if it was Shinigami, but when he finally could place it, hie eyes went wide.

"Heero... Trowa I can feel Heero with him, astheythey had a direct link or something"

Their fear grew even more, what they were seeing was too weird. Then they noticed the red stain on the carpet were Duo\'s shoulder length hair was resting; Trowa lifted carefully Duo\'s trembling body, and they saw how droplets of blood were flowing from the end of the hair.

"What the hell is happening here"

"I don\'t know, but we must find a way to stop the bleeding"

It was just then when the door of the safehouse went open, just to reveal Wufei being followed by Zechs and someone they would never have expected there, Treize Kshurenada himself.

"Treize? What the hell are you doing here?"

Treize didn\'t answer eye eyes were fixed on the ex-braided pilot, he couldn\'t believe what he was seeing.

"Stop staring Treize! We need help here!"

Treize shook his head and looked at Quatre, Wufei had said once that he could change from all polite and nice to a very dangerous person in less than a second. He had said he would believe that
the day he saw it, and so he did.

"What the hell happened here Winner?!"

Quatre was going to yell back when he saw the worried look on his Chinese friend, taking a deep breath he calmed down a little and answered.

"We don\'t know, he suddenly started to scream and fell to his knees; then he started to call for Heero and curled on the floor"

Before he could keep talking Trowa continued.

"Quatre told me he felt Heero\'s presence with Duo, not in him but WITH him. We noticed the blood just before you came here, and we don\'t know how it happened"

They had took Duo from the floor and laid him on the only couch in the room; they wrapped a blanket around him and were now trying to stop the blood pouring from the hair.

* * *

Heero had put the braid down on the plastic box again and closed it, tears were landing on the lid. He turned his face to look at the source of all his lover\'s pain, together with the pain of his and his other friends.

"You... YOU!! Fucking bitch!!"

Relena was still shocked because of Heero\'s attack and then the sight of the bloody braid; she snapped from her shock at Heero\'s voice. Why Heero wasn\'t all good and nice with her like it was
supposed to be? Why he had hit her? And most important, why was Heero so affected because of that ugly braid, so much that he had even cried over it?

"Heero, calm down... It\'s me remember? The woman you love..."

Even at that time she was still trying to convince him that he loved her, but Heero wasn\'t listening. All that was in his head was that the fucking bitch, piece of shit, scum of the earth was the cause of all Duo\'s suffering. His perfect soldier side took over him almost completely and in less than a minute a terrified Relena was gagged and her hands and feet tied with piecf faf fabric Heero had ripped from the dark pink sheet of her bed.

He studied his surroundings, looking for the best way to left the place without being noticed for one of Relena\'s servants. He shouldn\'t have worried; there was something he didn\'t know and it was that almost all of Relena\'s servants didn\'t like her; he could have shot Relena and they wouldn\'t care less. Once he had his plan of escape ready he grabbed the girl by her hair and literally dragged her to his room, in his other hand he was carrying the box with Duo\'s braid and blood.

He looked down at her and his eyes cried murder.

"If you value your life, you better tell us the truth Relena"

He said, and he threw her at the floor of his room to then start packing his things. He was giving her a chance, when she actually didn\'t have one; she was going to die but it was better if she thought that she could save her life by helping them. He felt his hands itching to kill her, but that wasn\'t his right; Duo would kill her and they would watch while he did it. Heero took his handbag and then took Relena by the front of her pajamas; she was going to sleep when Heero entered her room and it wasn\'t as if he would let her change. When you\'re going to die, what you\'re wearing should be the last of your worries.

He again dragged her through the floor and down the stairs, again if you\'re going to die, having bruises should be one of the last things you should worry about. He looked around, and luckily there weren\'t servants around; he went to the door that went the back yard and not making any sound he slid out, by that moment Relena was almost unconscious.

* * *

Duo was now sleeping, tears still pouring from his closed eyes. The hair wasn\'t bleeding anymore but the stain of blood on the carpet and the couch would never be erased, it would remind them
all the death of their friend and a respected enemy. At least that was what they thought they all knew that even if Duo recovered from this, he would never be the same.

They had just finished cleaning their friend. Trowa and Quatre were sitting on the floor next to Duo; Trowa had his back resting against the couch and Quatre was between his legs resting his back on the chest of his lover; in the other hand Treize was leaning against the wall across the living room with Wufei in his arms. Zechs was pacing from one side to the other; the Epyon pilot stopped suddenly and looked for something in the inside pocket of his uniform jacket.

"I thought you\'d stopped with that Zechs"

Zechs looked at Treize with the white cylinder between his lips and then glared, he took the cigarette with his index and middle finger.

"Right now I need one, and badly"

Was his only response; Treize didn\ay may more and when he felt Wufei was going to keep arguing he pinched him softly on the arm. Zechs had promised to quit smoking a long time ago, he must have
been amazingly stressed to not caring to be alone to smoke. To their surprise, especially for Quatre, Trowa asked him one.

"Can I have one too?"

"Sure, here"

"Thanks"

"Trowa?! Since when are you smoking?"

Trowa smiled sadly at his blond lover.

"I don\'t smoke, just when... well-"

Quatre cut him raising his hand and shaking his head.

"No, it\'s ok. I understand... but please don\'t smoke here. Duo is still weak and he needs the air to be clean; besides I don\'t want the living room smelling like an ash tray"

Both men nodded and went outside, Quatre sighed and Wufei shook his head.

"You never stop knowing people... specially those close to you"

Treize smiled and looked at Quatre with understanding eyes.

"I know. Zechs used to smoke a lot... he started during his first days at training; he felt so desperate and frustrated that he needed a way to alleviate the tension he was under. I think Trowa had the same problem, but I think he actually didn\'t smoke that much and if it weren\'t for Zechs he wouldn\'t been smoking right now"

Wufei raised his head to look at him with an obvious question in his eyes, at least for Treize.

"He never really wanted to be a soldier, did he?"

Treize nodded.

"Yes, he became a soldier and disowned himself from his family name when his father was killed and the Sanc kingdom destroyed. He wanted to revenge his father and his kingdom, but his family proclaimed pacifism so he didn\'t have any other choice"

Wufei understood Zechs\' way of thought, sometimes to make justice one had to do big sacrifices. Quatre nodded, and even when he knew Trowa\'s reason wasn\'t the same mus must have been something equally hard for him to bare. They kept quiet, Treize didn\'t want to keep talking about Zechs\' past, and they all already had enough worries and sadness to add more to the pile.

* * *

Heero had tied Relena the best way he could inside the cockpit of Wing because there wasn\'t a lot of space inside. When he had gone to Sanc with her, his gundam had been brought with him in other
plane but now he was piloting the mecha on its jet form, towards the new location of their safe house. He had got a mail from Trowa telling him where they were and where he could land his gundam safely. Relena was completely unconscious now and he was thankful for that, hearing her struggling and trying to scream through the woulwouldn\'t help him to stop his desire to kill her.

"Don\'t worry Duo I\'m coming back to you and you\'ll have your revenge"

He put a hand over the plastic box where the black braid was drowning in it\'s own blood and started to fly even faster than before. He would reach the safe house in at least another 20 minutes. He hadn\'t tell the others because the shock he had been under, his reactions where almost automatic; his mission now was to bring the bitch to her trial.

* * *

Trowa and Zechs were silent, the only thing they heard from the other were the soft exhaling sounds when they expelled the smoke from their lungs. They didn\'t need words to understand each other
at the moment, besides they felt comfortable with just being there and sharing their way of relaxation in common.

It was then when they heard the distinct sound of a MS; Trowa knew who it was, he could easily recognize the sound of the five different gundams so he knew Heero was back. Five minutes later
they saw the Wing pilot walking towards them and he was dragging something, or rather someone; they too could see the box he was carrying carefully under his other arm. When he was in front of
the safe house he let go of Relena, making her to fall like a bag of potatoes to the ground.

"Zechs take care of this problem, I really don\'t want to touch this thing again"

Not waiting for an answer Heero entered the safehouse, carrying the box carefully in both hands. Zechs and Trowa took Relena by her arms and legs and brought her inside the place. Heero had left the box on the small table in front of the couch and knelt in front of Duo. He had noticed the blood stains and worried even more.

"Did something happen while I was out?"

Quatre looked at Wufei and Treize, whom Heero just gave a small nod and then turned again to look at his boyfriend; Quatre then turned to Trowa and Zechs who had just left Relena on the floor
with her back resting against the wall. Then he looked at Heero again.

"When we left the school he was Shinigami, but just some hours ago he started to scream; he was calling you and was in shock. He... well I don\'t know why but his hair started to bleed, we tried to stop it but it was impossible"

Quatre stopped and looked at Duo, he caressed the boy gently on his head and continued.

"Then the bleeding stopped suddenly and he passed out; he had been sleeping since then"

He looked at Heero and decided he had the right to know about what he felt.

"Heero... When he started to scream I felt someone with him... not \'in\' him but more like at his side and well... it was you"

Heero nodded, he understood what had happened; he was sure that the moment Duo started screaming was exactly the same moment when he took the braid when he was still in Sanc.

"I have to show you something..."

He said to all of them and then he lifted the lid of the plastic box, the reactions were as he had predicted.

"OH MY GOD!!"

"What the Hell!!"

Those were Treize and Wufei; Trowa and Zechs were throwing up outside and Quatre was in the bathroom.

"Yuy close that please!"

Heero put the lid again and waited for the other three. Wufei and Treize were obviously trying to not vomit right then and there, it was enough with the others. It wasn\'t the sight itself, it more the mix between the sight, the smell of blood and Duo\'s scent that affected them like that. Wufei shook his head trying to clear his head from the image.

"I can\'t understand this"

When the other three pilots came back Heero started to explain his theory, which wasn\'t that far from the truth.

"Duo was this braid, it resembled what formed him; his whole past was in there. The moment the braid was separated from the body, Duo was separated from the God he had inside... He was
Shinigami"

"Well, he always said he never lied so when he said he was the God of Death he was actually telling the truth"

"That means he was aware of the other inside him... I should have asked him, how could I have been so stupid"

Trowa took one of his lover\'s hands.

"What do you mean little one?"

Quatre looked at him with tears on his eyes.

"Duo was always cheering us up, trying to make our lives a little happier... but I always felt something inside him, I never could place it right. It was something dark and strong. I should have asked him about it, I could have helped to stop this from happening!"

Trowa embraced him, but it was Heero who comforted him.

"It\'s not your fault Quatre, even if you had known about it, it was impossible to know what would happen"

He turned to look at Relena.

"No one could have guessed what that bitch was planning to do"

Treize noticed Zechs\' face of pain and guilt, and he would not let him go there again.

"This is not your fault either Zechs, no matter how much you tried you couldn\'t have been watching her 24/7"

But Zechs still felt that in part it was his fault, she was his sister and he should have known.

"I\'m so sorry Heero, I should have been more careful..."

As Treize had said before Heero told him that it wasn\'t his fault. The pilot looked at her and then turned to Zechs.

"See if you can wake her up, I need to ask her some questions"

Zechs nodded and took Relena on his arms, he went to the bathroom and placed her on the tub, taking off the gag and the restrains on her feet. He turned the cold water at full force and as he
expected she woke up almost instantly and of course screaming with that hideous voice she had, Zechs winced and then turned off the water.

"Shut up Relena, you\'re hurting my ears"

When she stopped screaming and recognized her brother she felt safe, that was her brother after all and he wouldn\'t do any damage to her, would he? She didn\'t know how wrong she was.

"Milliardo please help me... Heero is acting very strange, he even hit me!"

"And you well deserved it. Now stand up and come with me"

"What?! How can you say that?!! You\'re my brother, you should support ME!"

Zechs eyes narrowed and you could see clearly the vein that popped on his temple. He took Relena by her neck and held her in the air, she yelled and screamed at him to release her. Zechs let her go making her fall to the hard floor, just to grab her by her hair and drag her to the living room again; once there he threw her to the floor.

"Listen Relena and LISTEN WELL!! You\'re not a Peacecraft anymore!! I disown you!"

Relena\'s eyes opened wide, she couldn\'t believe what she was hearing, she hadn\'t noticed Treize and the others were there, she only could see her brother, or her ex-brother to be exact. She wanted to stand up and slap him but her hands were tied behind her back.

"What?! You can\'t disown me!! You\'re not a part of my family, you disowned yourself a long time ago!"

"THAT is the keyword! I disowned MYSELF!! I still am a Peacecraft and the older one!! IS MY RIGHT TO BE THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY!!"

Treize and the others were looking at him with open eyes, they knew Zechs could be harsh if the situation asked for it but they had never saw him like that before, but they did nothing to stop him. She had finally got to her feet and was now in front of Zechs with an defiant look.

"You\'re a coward who left because you didn\'t want to accept your father\'s death!"

And she got what she was asking for, Zechs slapped her.

"The only coward I see here is you... You acted in a cowardly way when you decided to attack Duo while he was sleeping, just because you didn\'t want to accept that he could have what you couldn\'t!"

He shook his head and continued.

"You\'re nothing more than a spoiled brat, if you can\'t have something you take it by force. Now you\'ll have to accept the consequences, as I said before, you\'re not a Peacecraft anymore. I exile you from Sanc, if you ever dare to put only one foot over Sanc\'s ground you\'ll be judged in a official trial and put under imprisonment. From now on you can\'t use the familme ame anymore, and so you won\'t have any kind of special treatment anywhere or have any right to the fortune of the Peacecraft family"

"You can\'t do this to me! I\'m not only a Peacecraft but I\'m too the Queen of the World!! If you disown me the war will never end! And it will be YOUR fault!"

It was then that Treize decided to interrupt and when she actually noticed the others.

"I think you\'re wrong; Romefeller decided to use you as a symbol for peace, not because you were you but because you were a Peacecraft. That name resembles and ideal for peace without weapons, now that you don\'t belong to that family you\'re useless and Zechs can take your place as the head of Romefeller and the Sanc Kingdom"

Treize\'s expression was hard; he wouldn\'t feel sorry for her. The last thing this war needed was an unstable person to represent the earth; she only would make White Fang to throw the damned Libra to earth sooner. Or worst, want her to lead them... the only thought made him shiver inside. She looked at him with rage and even in her situation, with superiority.

"You\'re nothing to tell me something like that, you started this war after all. You\'re as bad as White Fang, after all that bitch who killed my father works for you, doesn\'t she?"

Zechs could stand a lot of things, but he would never let someone to talk to Treize like that, specially not her.

"YOU YOU DARE?!! What you have done is even worst! Lady Une was fighting a war! You just are a stupid child who start screaming because she couldn\'t get the toy she wanted!"

Treize and Wufei were holding Zechs to calm him down, they still needed to ask her who she hired to cut Duo\'s hair, after all they needed to kill that person to bring him back.

"Calm Down Zechs please..."

"I can\'t Wufei..."

Treize let Wufei to hold Zechs and he stood in front of her and with the elegance that always distinguished him he slapped her.

"Don\'t ever talk of Lady Une like that again, she\'s one of my most loyal followers and she would give her life before doing something against me, not like you"

He paused, because he was going to say something he haven\'t even said to his lovers for respect to his friend, but he felt that would make her see the difference between real love and just plain obsession.

"Did you know she loves me? She loves me so much that even when she knew I was in love with someone else, and not only another male but our enemy, she never did something to hurt him?
She loves me and respect me so much that she would be happy justknowing that I am happy"

Wufei and Zechs couldn\'t believe what they were hearing, Treizehad a tear rolling down his cheek.

"She told me once that she had discovered about them, yes them. Don\'t look at me with that face, you are the last person who have the right to look at someone with loathe"

He sighed and kept talking.

"As I was saying, she asked me why I didn\'t trust in her about it; I said I didn\'t want to hurt her. Do you know what she did? Of course you don\'t... She slapped me, she said that I had insulted her intelligence and her feelings, and then she told me I should have had more faith in her"

He smiled sadly.

"She never tried to harm my loved ones, she respected them and even thanked them for making me happy. Do you see the difference between her love and your obsession? So don\'t ever
again say something bad about her, you may not survive my anger"

With that he went back to his lovers. Wufei then took his turn, as the way things where developing all of them would have their turn to tell her their opinion and she felt scared when Duo\'s turn would came at the end. Wufei stood in front of her, but he didn\'t hit her; he was better with words when it came to women.

"You always proclaimed you\'d get married with Yuy, do you even know what marriage is about? Of course you don\'t, you put in shame the feminine gender. I\'ll tell you what marriage is about; I was married once and my wife died protecting my people, my whole colony. She loved me but I didn\'t love her, but I respected her. She was a strong woman and she was younger than you"

He looked obviously sad but he didn\'t shed a t he he had promised her he wouldn\'t cry if she died.

"I know that wherever she is now she\'s happy for me, because I found love at last. Love and marriage is about giving not plainly taking what you want. She gave her life for our colony and me, and I\'ll fight to honor her memory. But what are you going to understand, you don\'t know what honor is about. You attacked an innocent while he was sleeping, and in the process you destroyed the life of the one you so proud proclaim you love"

He didn\'t say more and went back to the arms of Treize and Zechs. Heero turned to her and decided that it was time for her to confess but before he could even move, Quatre took his arm and shook his head, Heero understood. It was his turn now.

"Do you know the meaning of the word sacrifice? I\'ll explain it to you with an example, so you can get it easier"

Oh sarcasm, he had to thank Duo for that; well if they ever got him back with them of course.

"I have 29 sisters... all of them born by test tubes, but my father wanted a boy and a son who didn\'t came from a test tube. He knew giving birth in space was dangerous, so he never asked my
mother to have one. She loved him... she loved him so much she did the sacrifice and got pregnant with me"

Trowa was at his side and gently took the tear out of Quatre\'s cheek.

"Thanks... She died at the birth, she gave her life just tke mke my father happy. She died happy to have given the man she loved what he wanted; he took great care of me, but he never told
me about my birth because he didn\'t want to cause me pain... And I hurt him leaving to earth, to fight just to give him a lesson and because I was so stupid to think I was less human because I was created in a test tube"

He leaned in Trowa\'s embrace and took a deep breath.

"I loved him, he always gave me all I wanted because he wanted me to be happy, he was always gentle and taught me to be good and considered, he taught me to value the gift of life. Then
he died protecting the colony, a ny Iny I distroyed in my rage afterwards... Not long ago one of my sisters told me the truth, and I still feel bad about it. But I know both, my mother and my father had already forgiven me. They gave their lives for the ones they loved and I swear to do the same if I have to. Tell me Relena... Would you do the same for Heero?"

Trowa ended the phrase for him.

"Of course you wouldn\'t, the only one you care about is yourself. You will never know what love is about because you don\'t have the capacity to understand it... I don\'t have a family, they all died when I was just a baby. But then I met Quatre and Catherine, she became a sister to me and Quatre is the one I love the most; they both had always tried to protect me and both showed me the importance of life and love"

He looked at Treize.

"I hope Lady Une finds someone who loves her like she deserves to be loved"

Treize nodded.

"I hope so too, thank you"

Relena stood there, her brain trying to process all that information and failing badly. What they meant she didn\'t know what love was about?

"You\'re all wrong!! I DO know what love is about! Love is what I have with Heero, he had saved me a lot of times and even risked his life for me when that... that thing shot him!"

They all winced at her voice and five of them thought the same, that girl was already dead.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"

He took her by her neck and threw her towards the wall, they all were sure that there had to be a broken bone, not that they really cared that much anyway.

"Well, he did shoot you!"

"You\'re the most fucking stupid person I\'ve ever known Relena!! Do you know why I didn\'t shoot YOU?! It was because he stopped me!! He was trying to SAVE YOU! And this is how you pay
him?! Destroying the most beautiful soul I\'ve ever had the pleasure to meet?!"

He decided that it was time for her to say the truth and no matter how he would make her talk.

"You owe me an explanation Relena, and you should know you life depends of it! Now, tell me who the fuck you hired to attack Duo for you?!"

She looked at him surprised, he didn\'t thought it could have been her? But that was the idea of the whole thing! So he would see how brave she was, that she could go and risk her life for him entering to where someone as dangerous as Duo lived and destroying the spell he had over him!

"Why do you think I hired someone?!"

"Because we all are high-trained soldiers!! There\'s no way you could have go inside that room without Duo noticing you!"

Relena thought about that night. Duo had been sleeping deeply, he even seemed to be dreaming or something; he never felt when she cut the braid, so that meant that scum from L2 wasn\'t that "well-trained". Then it hit Heero, he\'d been so worried about Duo and then trying to find who had done it that he really didn\'t think about the especial aspects of that particular night.

\'Of course she could do it! How could I bee so stupid!\'

He remembered that Duo always got really sleepy after sex and that particular night had been quite exhaustive, even if they had done it just once. Duo had the ability to excite the both of them to the higher point and so they would be too tired to do it again. He used to do that specially when they had missions, as if he wanted to make him remember he had to come back to someone after
the mission. As if saying \'Heero don\'t go and self-destruct because you have to come back to me\'. Of course she had the opportunity to do it.

"Heero?"

Quatre asked noticing his friend seemed not being with them at the moment. Heero turned his head to look at him.

"You know Quatre? She actually did it herself, and it was my fault she could have the chance to do it"

He said with a calm that scared all of them, Heero took the box and stood in front of Relena.

"I should have been more careful; I felt that something bad would happen. I should have installed the alarms on the door... or at least tell you to stay with him. I\'m so sorry Duo"

Then he explained to the rest of them.

"She could do it because Duo was so tired he wouldn\'t have felt her unless she had done a noise as loud as an Oz attack... Even when her voice is worse than that... Finally she shows some
intelligence and she use it to do stupidities"

They didn\'t need more explanation, and they all knew that she was as good as dead right now.

"Now Relena, is my turn to explain some things to you"

Heero took the lid and opened the box.

~tbc~