SHINIGAMI

chapter 2- rage

The wind howled though the empty shell of the church, its roof gone and windows shattered the stones still stood like a grinning skull, laughing at the boy that now stood at its threshold. He hesitantly put his hand on the door as if expecting it the sear his flesh and then pushed it open. The wood was so rotten though that it fell of its hinges and landed on the floor with a crash like thunder, the noise echoing of the cold walls. Duo shielded his eyes from the cloud of dust that rose from the floor and wiped his away the tears with the back of his hand. It was the dust; he had something in his eye boys don't cry right? How about monsters though? Did duo have the right to shed tears and weep like a normal boy? His anger rose again, NO death doesn't cry, death doesn't feel, death is eternal, forever.......alone.

"Always alone" he murmured to the crucified Christ staring down at him. By its nature death will eventually kill all those it loves.

He brought death where ever he went, Maxwell church, the battle field and now his friend, quatre. Duo swallowed who would be next? Trowa? Wufei?....Heero? His chest tightened, as the image of Heero came into his head. Piercing cobalt eyes, the dark wild hair, the continuous scowl,........the soft pale skin....... He turned. And punched a nearby pew as his emotions see sawed again shattering it he stared at the cuts on his hands as blood started to ooze out staining his hands red. No, he didn't know what he had with Heero but not death, his father or all the powers in hell were going to take the Japanese boy away from him.

He walked up the aisle towards the cross that was still standing at the end of the church, his feet crunching on the shattered faces of angels and saints, duo looked down at his feet and gave a half smile

"Story of my life" he whispered, death always death, that's what he was that's what he brought. His friend was dead, where he went he brought death, people died at his hand and around him people were slowly dying as their lives disappeared day by day.

He reached the end of the church and began to search for what he was looking for. He pushed aside the alter as if it weighed nothing at all. Falling to his knees he began to brush away the dust with his hands his nails trying to pull up the edge of every stone slab.

"Where the hell is it" he growled standing up and walking to the first row of pews not even stopping to dust him self off.

"Where is the damn thing, where's he hidden it father?!" he roared ripping up the first pew in a fit of inhuman strength and throwing it across the room where it splinted as it hit the font sending the plain stone bowl crashing to the ground. Duo turned his back the second pew and ripped that from the ground too. He turned to throw it across the room but then he stopped and quietly put the pew down. He stood like a statue listening, his braid faintly stirring in the wind, his eyes narrowed he could hear water, water that was falling down a very deep drop. He vaulted over the back row to where the font had smashed against the floor, sure enough there was a silvery trail of water flowing away from the stone fragments and disappearing down a faint gap under the font's pedestal. Duo flashed a triumphant grin.

"Got you" he whispered knocking the pedestal to one side with a flick of his arm, there on the floor was a marble slab engraved with various symbols in gold on a wheel surrounding a skull.

Duo brought his fist down and shattered the slab revealing an endless drop into nothing ness

"I'm coming home dad you've punished me for the last time Quatre's coming home if I have to kill you to do it" duo yelled before swinging his legs over the side and falling into the abyss.

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