By quicksylver
Just a little something i wrote. Warnigs: Slight angst and some shounen ai.
Stadarc disclaimers apply. No unauthorised posting please.
Enjoy!
He exhaled slowly and ran his tongue against the inside of his bottom lip, faovouring the small cut there. Heero had lost his temper and had backhanded him, sending flying unto the couch of the safe house. The Japanese boy had stormed out soon after. That was when the rains had started.
Duo absently tucked a lock of chestnut hair behind one ear, the black eye he had gotten a few days ago was starting to fade but it was still tender under his fingertips.A sound at the door made him turn. It was Wufei. He stood in the doorway in his immaculate white suit and a long dark coat slung over one forearm. There was a strange look in his eyes, one of curiosity, anger and some guilt. There was a silent battle being waged behind those velvet eyes.
He cocked his head slightly to one side and regarded Duo almost hesitantly. The bright light of the bare window cast Duo 's face in semi shadow but it was not enough to mask the bruises.Wufei bit the inside of his lip and exhaled, wanting to speak but not wanting to pry. He finally settled with a simple question.
"Why?"
Duo frowned slightly. "Why what?"
The Chinese boy stepped into the room and walked up to the window. He looked down into Duo's upturned, unwilling to go on but knowing that it was too late to turn back.
"Ah... Why do you let him treat you like that? Why don't you stand up for yourself? Why do you keep loving him?"
Wufei looked at the proud and stubborn gundam pilot who claimed to be the God of death but truly could not understand him. Duo looked out of the window again and smiled, just a little. There was a lengthy silence and just as Wufei was about to say something Duo spoke.
"Have you ever tried washing your hands in rain water?" he asked.
Wufei raised an eyebrow. Duo chuckled softly and continued.
"No matter how much you use or how hard you try to rinse the soap away, it just lathers more. It's quite frustrating actually. They call it soft water cause it hasn't been treated with any chemicals like normal hard water. It's pure... straight from the sky. Mother Nature's tears to cleanse the choked and filthy earth."
Wufei sat at the window and stared as Duo talked, this was a change from the normally manic Shinigami pilot. It was almost unnerving to see Duo look so... serene. Duo turned those violet eyes to him and gave a small smile of understanding.
"If you want to know where I'm going with this it's simple. I'm like the rainwater, no matter how much Heero tries to cut the lather I won't let him. I just do a little more each time he tries. And in the end... yeah, in the end I'll have washed him clean... washed his soul clean."
Wufei was silent. He couldn't speak... he wouldn't even know what to say if he could. He looked down at his coat that still hung limply across his arm. They sat like that for while as he let the words sink into his mind in all their solemnity.
Suddenly Duo grabbed his hand and pulled him to his feet, causing him to drop the coat. Soon they were both running down the front steps of the house into the pouring rain. Wufei sputtered and tried to pull his hand away but Duo would not let go.
"Duo no baka!" he yelled over the steady drum of the rain on the roofs of the parked cars.
"Come on Wu, don't tell me you're afraid of a little shower" he laughed lifting his face like a flower to the sun.
"We shouldn't stay like this? we can't!" he argued
.Duo stopped romping and looked at him, his scruffy bangs now slicked to his face just as his clothes were to his body.
"Why?" he asked simply
Wufei watched as droplets of water trickled down the sides of Duo's face to drip off his chin and his lips, even his nose. He looked almost bare, like a crowded slate that had suddenly been wiped clean. Gone was the brave and manic pilot, the crazy Death god, the silent and sombre orphan. All that was Duo had been washed away and all that was left was this boy... this simple human being.
Thousands of reasons flashed through his head on why they should retreat to shelter but they all melted under Duo's violet gaze. Wufei finally shrugged. Why should they go inside? Why couldn't he just shut up and enjoy this very moment? There was no real reason. They stood there for a while as the rain poured around them, saying nothing but speaking volumes.
Finally Duo smiled, and then he grinned widely and resumed his wild and childish antics in the downpour. Wufei raised his face up to the pregnant clouds a let the droplets caress his face and massage his shoulder with a surprisingly gentle and wonderful touch, cleansing them both with the tears of Mother Nature herself.
Rain water.
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