Notes: This will be added to (and possibly rewritten) eventually. But for now, I'm going to cut it off with an epilogue. Thanks to everyone who's been in support of this fic, it was my first one that I felt was really liked. A-chan veddy veddy gwateful!
Itooshi Hito No Tameni Epilogue
Heero cursed and hitched his pack a little higher. This was NOT going well. First that girl had showed up at the base unexpectedly then that boy. He scowled and muttered another foul word. At this rate, his mission was going to f--f...He shook his head. No use getting himself upset with that idea.
He opened the door to his dorm room and reeled back in horrified shock. A black-clad figure was bottom-up with the head in a medium sized suitcase, tossing shirts, pants, and various articles of clothing helter skelter. A pair of boxers came flying his way and he caught it. Heero frowned and rubbed the material between his fingers absent-mindedly. Silk, he noted.
"Well well."
The familiar tenor snapped him back to attention and he looked up. His computer-like mind immediately registered the slender, braided boy smirking before him, hands on his hips and weight on his left foot. It was his first good look at the boy and Heero felt his heart beginning to race, though hadn't the faintest idea why. It was almost as if...as if he'd known him somewhere else. Beyond time, beyond space, hundreds of years ago. But that wasn't possible.
"When ol' principal-sama said I was going to share a room with a 'rather strange young man of Oriental ethnics', I wasn't expecting you!"
"..."
The boy came up to him and extended a friendly hand. "Hi, I'm Duo, Duo Maxwell. I run, I hide, but I don't lie." He leaned forward and whispered playfully, "But my enemies know me as Shinigami." He winked. "So you'd better watch out!" Duo took off his cap and did a sweeping bow. "Nice to meetcha, glad I didn't hamper you much with those shots. Say, what's your name? I don't think I caught it on our first (he wiggled his fingers in a quoting manner) nice-'n-easy introduction. And I wasn't listening when that principal was talking."
Heero's glare had somehow worsened during the American's extensive speech. "Hn." He pushed past the newcomer to his bed and threw down his things.
"Hn? Hmm, strange name. Like a rhinoceros' grunt or something. HNNNNNNN! But that's alright, I knew a boy named Ryuuen, can you believe it? A BOY named RYUUEN!"
"Hn."
Duo grinned. "Oh! A little more nasal, is that it? OK, let me try...ehem, hhnnnnnnnnn--!"
Heero whirled around and gave his deadliest glare. The other groaned.
"Now why do I have a feeling we'll either ignore each other's existence or kill each other before the next mission?"
Heero didn't answer, Duo didn't expect him to. Instead, he stared at his roommate for some time as he pulled out his homework and settled at the desk. Finally he blurted out, "Do I know you?"
Heero stopped his movements and his blood ran cold.
Duo obviously mistook it, and added hastily, "I mean, before I shot you. Like we've somehow met...before..." His expression was one of confusion, lost somehow. His eyes cleared and he blushed. "Er, not a very good first impression was that? I'm not crazy, really I'm not."
Heero just did his homework, determined to forget everything.
~*~
He loved Duo best like this, lying naked and content beside him, his beauty unguarded and open for his eyes to feast on. Heero nosed aside a stray lock of silky chestnut, tongue flicking out to taste his lover's ear.
His reward was a purr and he kissed his way down the swan-like neck, long and graceful and so Duo.
"Heero..." the American sighed dreamily. He craned his neck to give his love better access before meeting Heero's lips with his own.
Heero pulled him tighter, but quickly released him when a wince penetrated the gentle atmosphere. He pulled up the bed sheet and checked Duo's bandaged ribs carefully.
"I'm sorry," he murmured apologetically, silently taking note to be more careful.
Duo cupped the side of face sweetly and kissed his nose. "Don't apologize. It's not you who hurt me; it's those OZ bastards. And we'll beat them, itooshi." He laid his forehead against Heero's. "I'll do it for you, just you. Anything for the one I love. That's from a song on Fushigi Yuugi you know. About a girl who traveled into a book of the ancient times and fell in love with a boy from there who existed in that world only, a long, long time ago." He was suddenly thoughtful. "Still, I can't help but feel like I knew you before I met you, no matter how dumb that sounds."
Heero added quietly into his hair, "Maybe in a past life, sitting on a shining throne of gems and gold of the highest grade."
"Right, and surrounded by concubines though we chose each other over them." Duo giggled. "Oh my, are we getting carried away or what!" His expression turned mischievous. "Feeling up to some RP, Heero? I'll be your innocent concubine forced to do whatever your hentai mind and gorgeous body desires," he offered slyly.
Heero smirked. "As soon as you're out of those fashionable gowns of the bluest hue."
"Oi, I'm out of it now."
"You'd go out to the mall with that?"
"Hell no!"
"So I'm forcing you to recover before we get frisky."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
OWARI
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