A Locket Song Chapter 1

[deathroseaiko]

A Locket Song

By: Rei Tamashii

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. This plot, yeah.

**** A/N: Okay this is my like.second attempt at trying yet another AU fanfic. Of Gundam Wing that is. Anyhow hope you review, and hope you like this chapter. I'm trying to get about five chapters in on the same day if I can think quickly and all that is. But out of all my fanfics, this one included the following couples: 1xR, 2xH, and a little bit of 6x9.

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A Locket Song Chapter 1

By: Rei Tamashii
A slim figure walked among the rose bushes, tending them and watering them. She wore a white dress and the sun reflected her honey golden hair and made her skin glow dim. She looked like an angel.

Relena smiled to herself as she watered the roses. She lived with her grandfather in a small and cozy house on a hill next to a church for boys and girls. Relena loved when she was able to see them. Relena's sea green eyes darted to the church. Most of them were her age and some were only small boys about the age of seven. But there was only one that she enjoyed his company. They were close friends and they acted as if they were related. He had a long thick brown braid on his hair and big violet eyes and always wore a large cheerful smile. As well he wore nun clothing for men. It was strange about his clothing but still Relena was his friend. His only friend really. But to her, Duo was like her brother. She never knew her parents or known that she had a brother or any other siblings for that matter. All she had was her grandfather and he was a real wizard. However her last name was a mystery. She had none and her grandfather had never told her why she did not have one or what it was.

As Relena watered the roses she didn't notice that Duo had snuck up behind her. Suddenly she was jumped on and had landed on the soft green grass with Duo on top of her. Relena laughed as water from her watering pot spilled on both of them. Damp at the moment and her dress clinging to her legs she sat up straight to look at Duo. He wore the same clothing as always and had a grin on his face, only his hair was completely wet.

After a few hours of drying themselves in the warm sunlight, they sat on the grass of the hill looking at the blue sky. "Duo, tell me again how we met. After all you put more action into it then I do."

Duo sighed and pulled himself to a sitting position after watching Relena do the same he started the telling the story.

"Okay, let me think. Oh yeah! I came a few months after winter and I was screaming at this nun name Sister Helen to not cut off my long hair. So I was running as fast as I could of my sixteen-year-old legs would go without cramping and save my hair. But then you were walking up the hill and I was running down. Then I suddenly slipped down this stupid tiny little rock on the hill and I missed Sister Helen's hard monstrous grasp of my hair and letting her cut it like the witch she is!" Duo paused to think more and heard the giggles of Relena. "What, she has these mean claws trying to get my hair! And she looks and dresses like a witch. Besides Relena I already told you that one time I saw her stir this potion stew to kill somebody or something!"

"Duo! She was praying silly! Besides you looked like a girl when I saw you running down!"

"Very funny, Lena!"

After a few minutes of Duo's protests and Relena's teasing, Duo continued on with his story. "So anyway, I rolled down and then as I said before you were walking down holding some wild flowers from down the hill in your arms and then you heard me screaming, 'Witch! Witch!'"

"You did not scream 'witch', Duo!! You were screaming like a baby girl!" Relena started shrieking in an attempt to mock him.

"Fine I was screaming! But I wasn't screaming like a baby girl. So anyhow I screamed, and it was not like a girl, so you looked up and I, rolling down the hill while Sister Helen ran down after me holding the scissors in one hand and the other holding up her skirt so she wouldn't trip and roll down the hill as well!"

"Then all of a sudden we were both rolling down the hill together and when we stopped we were laughing so hard! So till then we started talking and blah blah blah."

They had known each other for only four months and they were befriended so easily. Soon it was sunset and they were talking and looking at the sunset drift down and slowly the dark colors of night painted over the warm colors and made the skies black and stars looming over it. They bid their farewells and went their separate ways. Relena to her grandfather's and her own small house and Duo back to the church.

"I'm back, Grandfather!"

Her grandfather, being a wizard was very old but thanks to his powers he stayed looking as if he was only a young man. He had eternal life for that matter. He didn't wear a wizard hat or a cloak with stars on them like ones in the books but he wore a thick sweater and pants beneath his plain dark blue cloak. His hair was platinum blonde and he smiled in greeting. "Talked to Duo again?" He asked his granddaughter.

Relena nodded, her gaze darted out the window and looked at the rose bushes that was planted out front. There were only three bushes but each one she loved. In the moonlight the roses were dark as if they were black roses and the top of the bush was sparkling with dark forest green colors.

Her grandfather snapped his fingers together and in a second a large meal was set onto the table. Even though Relena knew that his father could use magic and that she knew a few spells for her own protection though she was never allowed to use them; in the morning before she had left she had drew up the curtains and placed firewood into the fireplace and had a fire crackling warming the house in the late fall. She had also lit a few stoves to warm up a pot of hot water to make tea for herself and one for her grandfather when he awoke. But then when she returned back into the house, she had placed more firewood in the fire and saw that her grandfather had lit a few candles without using magic. Relena loved her grandfather very much but she also didn't like it when he used his magic too much. "Grandfather?"

Her grandfather looked up at his only granddaughter. "What is it, Relena?"

"May you teach me another spell?"

Relena looked at her grandfather as he tapped a finger on his chin and his eyes looking up thinking of a spell to teach her. She loved to learn a few spells and she only knew of five.

One was to place up a force field to protect her or anyone else from danger. Second was to detect if an enemy was there, another was make a whole large feast, the forth was to dress in whatever she wished for with a clap of her hands, and the last was to heal a wound on anyone or animal. Of course she had to say the spells before clapping her hands or so.

"What spell would you like to learn?" Her grandfather asked and looked at her.

Relena shrugged and thought for a moment. "To make my favorite song come to play anytime I want."

Her grandfather shook his head and frowned, "I'm sorry but I can not teach you that one."

Relena did not question why because she knew that her grandfather had his reasons and he had told them to her when she was very young but she had forgotten and she did not think that she would want to hear them again. "How about burning people alive if they have weapons to kill you, Relena?"

Relena thought of this for a second, she didn't want to kill anyone but she also needed it if she was ever going to be in danger. "Can you teach me a spell to burn them to only wound them enough for them not to sit on a horse or walk in a few days?" Relena asked. Her grandfather nodded. And smiled. "You don't like to kill do you?"

"No, Clamp, I don't." Relena called her grandfather Clamp because two reasons. One he had insisted on it and the other was that she didn't have to call him grandfather since it made her uncomfortable to call people with formal names, she had grown up calling people what they had insisted on being called or simply just their names.

"Alright then. Eat up and sleep. I'll teach you in the morning, you need a lot of strength to do things tomorrow after this busy day." Clamp promised. Relena nodded and started to eat.

**** Duo sat up in bed and looked around, everyone was all asleep. He got out of bed and dressed quickly and snuck out. The church was still quiet and everyone was asleep by midnight. Duo jumped out of an open window and ran silently down the hill. His black clothing made him look like a moving shadow; he ran and tired not to get hit by the moonlight. It would get him caught. Suddenly he stopped as a strong arm grabbed him and pushed him up against a tree trunk. Prussian blue eyes glared at him.

"Hello brother." Duo mumbled as he was released. He was Heero's foster brother and every night of the week, he would ride all the way from Kazuhiko to come and check up on him.

"So how is Princess Peacecraft?" Heero asked. Actually his brother came only to check mostly on the princess and a bit to see if he was hurt.

Duo shrugged, he knew that Heero had never seen her and his brother was the leader of a war band of his father's so he had to take the job of looking after the princess and it was a whole lot better then being bossed around by Heero Yuy. And riding on a horse sack for many days, he had done that once and wasn't planning to do it all over again unless of course the princess was in danger and all. "I just saw her today, she's fine."

"Did you tell her anything about yourself?"

Duo shook his head. "Did you tell anything about me?" Heero asked coldly.

Duo snorted and replied, "She doesn't even know you exist."

"Good." Heero stated. Heero turned around and got up on his horse, "Take care of her, Duo. She's the last of the Peacecraft heir. Her brother, sister-in law, mother, and father, are all dead."

Duo nodded. {They both don't know about Clamp.}

He waved at Heero even though knowing that his brother wasn't going to turn around to return the wave, Duo watched his brother grow smaller and smaller and soon he was gone. Sighing to himself, Duo took his time into walking back to the church.

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Clamp sat on a stool of his bedroom; the house was large enough to have two bedrooms and one bathroom with a small kitchen and a dining room. The dining room also had a few armchairs and a bay seat and a roaring fire so it was also the living room. It was both of their favorite room since that was where Relena was able to help him mix potions and read spells; though never trying them.

Clamp sighed and leaned his head against the wall, their bedrooms only allowed a bed, a closet, and a small wooden desk. Clamp looked down at what he was clutching at. A gold-hearted locket was in his palm with a diamond star in the center. He stared at the it for a few minutes before click it open. Inside were a woman and a man beside her with a young boy holding the sleeping girl's hand.

Sighing he tucked it away in his cloak pocket. He looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes, "She will never find out." Clamp thought. And with that Clamp drifted off to much needed sleep.

In Relena's room she was laying on her warm blankets, and the moonlight bathed her through her open window and the wind tickled her hair. Her golden hair spread like a halo around her and her eyes shut in a dreamless sleep. A smile on her lips and her face in a soft lit of light and it was a face of serenity.
To Be Continued...

[blackrose]

Good start.

Evil Heero. Silly Duo.

Can't wait to see what everyone's up to...

Love,
Rose

[Kiyoko]

Nice opening, I can't wait to see where this fic is heading. Crazy Heero, he's always up to something!