Notes: Duo in this fic has silver-violet eyes, which are more silver. Sometimes I'll call them silver-violet, other times just silver or just violet. It makes it easy that way! I think you'll find I'll make them silver most of the time ^^. Odin is Treize's stepbrother! I told someone that Heero and Odin are partners, well soz about that but I've changed it now so they are... read and find out! I really like this fic and I'm going to try and finish this one as quickly as I can.
Thanks to: G'Vola, NightCralwer, Tina, ShadeAngel, Miharu, seamaidian (Quatre doesn't have his space heart but he will have a magic ability and Treize is 25ish), AV, Kayle, Jazzy.
Untouchable Part 1
"Oh someone new to annoy!!!"
The Chinese guard, Chang Wufei, turned to see what had made that sentence. He cried out as he came face to face with what appeared to be a hyperactive boy with very long hair and gorgeous eyes!
"You must be my new guard! Hi I'm Duo Maxwell and this is Prince Quatre Winner."
There was a small blond boy standing behind the hypo boy.
"Chang Wufei, I have been asked to escort you around the Kingdom."
"More like act like my new master, only let me go to places where you can see me."
"I have been..."
"Same old, same old." Duo waved away Wufei's words. Wufei turned to Quatre.
"What?"
"That's Duo, strange, weird but... nice."
"I heard that!" The boy sang strolling away from the other two.
"Wait Duo!" Quatre yelled at the running away boy.
But Duo was gone already.
"Great I lose him on my very first day!"
"Don't worry. He always does this to a new guard. It's his way to find out just how good you are." Quatre smiled at Wufei. "You better go find him. I'll go keep Treize busy until you do." Quatre winked before heading off towards the Throne Room.
* * *
Quatre entered the throne room to see that Treize had company.
"Oh Prince Quatre."
Quatre bowed and strolled forward. "Good morning sir."
Quatre looked around the Throne room, he didn't know the people that were sitting around the throne.
"This is Prince Quatre, I'm in change of keeping him safe until he comes of age and can take his place as ruler of his kingdom." Treize told everyone. "Quatre, this is Odin Lowe, he is my most trusted friend and brother. The man next to him is Lord Milliardo Peacecraft, heir to the Sank Kingdom and his sister Princess Relena."
Quatre nodded to the three guests.
"My nephew is around here somewhere, but he has disappeared."
Odin chuckled, he was a tall man, with dark brown hair and dark blue eyes. "Heero doesn't wish to become Emperor once you die Treize. He believes you will have an heir by then and he will not be needed."
Treize smiled. "I have already named Heero as my heir and I wish for him to stay here now for good. Plus I do believe that him and Relena would make a brilliant king and queen together."
Relena blushed at this and Quatre smiled.
"Please sit Quatre, we have dark matters to attend to."
* * *
Wufei flopped onto a bench in the gardens under the shade of a large oak tree. He sighed heavily.
"I can't be that hard to find can I?"
Wufei looked up quickly, he saw silvery eyes smirking at him before the owner of them jumped down on to the grass, landing on all fours like a cat.
"Have you been up there all along?"
"No, I've been following you around all day." He laughed.
"WHAT?!"
"Yeah, it was great fun! You're a lot better then the other guards Treize stuck on me." Duo stood, brushing dirt and grim of his clothes and sat down beside Wufei.
"I was told you were a Psychic. Is that true?"
"Kind of. For as long as I can remember when I touch someone I feel their memories, their ups and downs and it's horrible. It leaves me feeling... pain."
"That's why Treize keeps you here?" Wufei asked, there was a darkness in Duo's silver-violet eyes that made him want to gather the boy up in his arms and comfort him but he now knew doing that would cause the boy more pain.
"Yes." The silver eyes closed and Duo lent back against the tree. "Nothing stops it. Clothing doesn't help. Most psychic is by skin to skin only but even if I touch someone through some material or other I still feel their thoughts and memories."
"Sounds horrible."
"You have no idea!" Duo snapped at Wufei.
"I'm sorry. I should of thought."
Wufei scanned his eyes over the boy next to him. No one would be able to touch this beauty. Duo would never know the pleasure of holding a loved one or what making love feels like. Part from other people's experiences.
"Duo?"
"Yeah."
"What happens if you touch someone for too long, or too many people at once?"
"This man, Odin Lowe, came here just after I first arrived here. He told me that one day I'll lost the barriers that separate my memories from other peoples and I'll go insane. No more Duo. I won't know what are my memories or what other people's memories are. I'll be useless as a human and the only things you could do with me is either lock me away and hope that after a while or never touching someone, my memory barriers will come back or kill me and save me from a life of hell."
Wufei looked down at his hands and study them even though he couldn't really see them. He was taking in what Duo had just said, and thinking about the life, which Duo has, and must, lead.
"Hay Wu? Can I call you Wu? Take me to the market place please???!!!"
"Why?"
"Cause I love being around people and there are always lots of people there!"
Wufei nodded and Duo jumped up. "Come on then."
Wufei didn't want to pity Duo, the boy who seemed to love and care so freely but couldn't touch or hold people or get the contract he truly needs, but he knew deep down he did. He sighed again as Duo hurried away towards the Palace Gates.
"HURRY UP WU!"
Wufei suddenly smiled. "I hate being called that!"
* * *
He hated this, the feeling of being trapped in one place. More than any thing, he hated knowing he was trapped in one place, namely the Palace. Dressed in beggar clothes, Baron Heero Yuy, heir to the Oz Empire, made his escape from the stonewalls of the Palace and hurried into the market place. He was meant to be meeting Princess Relena Peacecraft, his future wife, but he didn't want to. He had seen her from afar and she was nothing special, in fact she was dressed in pink and appeared to be a brat. When he had seen her, the blond princess had been yelling at a servant because she had been given red roses instead of pink roses in her room.
No she wasn't the girl Heero wanted to marry, in fact, Baron Heero Yuy preferred boys to girls.
Heero entered the market place and shield his face as he made his way through the crowd.
* * *
Duo hurried to the market square. It was a few hundred meters out of the palace and the furthest Duo could go without being chased after by Treize's guards. His eyes danced as he entered the waves of normal day people going about their normal lives.
"Duo!!!"
Duo looked over his shoulder and waved at Wufei who seemed to be having problems with keeping up. The only problem with looking backwards at Wufei was that Duo wasn't looking at where he was going and he banged straight into something.
Someone more like.
Duo hit the guy's chest with his own and fell backwards. The shock of their skin touching sent shivers running through Duo's body and he immediately saw a baby boy being held tenderly in his mother's arm. A strange loving feeling raced through Duo's body as he laid there stunned on the ground.
"DUO!"
Wufei reached Duo's side and knelt down beside Duo's side.
Duo opened his eyes and stared at the person who was standing over him.
"I'm sorry. I should have been watching where I was going." The voice was the same tone, but deep and smooth at the same time.
"It was my fault." Duo gasped out and he struggled to rise to his feet.
"Let me help." The man reached out and took Duo's hand pulling him to his feet.
There was no pain, not for Duo, he stared at their joined hands and watched as the man's memories washed into him. They were warm memories, filled of the man's childhood and the love he had felt. Then he saw the man's mother's death. The pain that had ripped through the young boy ripped through Duo and Duo could hear someone yelling in pain.
He didn't realise it that it was himself.
TBC...
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