Notes: AU. This idea was a plot bunny found on the web site http://www.nitid.org/cgi-bin/plotbunnies. I would like to say thanks to Nitid for letting me use her idea and I hope she likes the fic ^^

Change of plan Odin ISN'T Treize's brother.

Untouchable Part 2

He should have been paying attention to where he was going. He walked straight into the boy, knocked him to the ground, then helped him out and it seemed that his touch had burned the silver-violet eyed boy.

Heero blamed himself.

The boy was his age, with long dark copper hair and deep silver-violet eyes. He had been talking to someone behind him and Heero had banged straight into him.

As soon as the boy had started to scream, Heero had dropped their hands and stood back melting into the crowd as the guards surrounded the market place hurried forward to help the boy.

He felt so much to blame.

He had loved the way the boy's hand has felt in his.

Duo.

The Chinese boy with him had called him Duo.

Strange name.

For a unique person.

As Heero re-entered the palace and slid silently through the shadows to his room, he made a promise to himself. He was going to find this boy.

Duo.

*   *   *

So much pain.

It was all Duo could feel. Hands were all over his body. Pain racked his body more than ever and he could hear his blood beating in his own ears. His eyes were clench shut and the blackness was a blinding white pain.

Everywhere.

"Quickly!" He heard someone say, hardly heard due to the screaming that was falling from Duo's own mouth.

He could feel the people holding him running, their hands burnt him, their memories invaded Duo's mind and Duo felt his connection to his life begin to come loose.

Suddenly they disappeared.

No more burning hands, only the pain that pulsed round Duo's body every time his heart beat remained.

Duo couldn't breath, the pain stole the air from his lungs faster than Duo could breath it in.

"Get Odin Lowe! If he dies then a lot of other people will as well!"

Treize.

Duo pinpointed the voice and threw his head back and forth as Treize laid a hand on his forehead.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" He was dimly aware of himself muttering the word NO over and over, his head thrashing about trying to dislodge Treize's hot hand from his already burning skin.

Treize removed his hand and narrowed his cornflower blue eyes at the boy sweating and crying on the bed. He looked around at the guard Wufei.

"Well? How did this happen?"

"He wasn't looking where he was going. He walked into a beggar."

"No wonder he is so much pain." Odin commented as he stuck a needle deep in Duo's arm.

Slowly Duo's eyes slide shut and the boy fell into a dark deep dreamless sleep.

Treize turned to Odin. "Why?"

"Even through Duo sees the memories of other people in his mind's eye, they are not why he is in pain. Every memory that someone holds has a certain feeling to it. It is that feeling that causes Duo pain... if the feeling is pain, Duo feels pain. If the feeling is pleasure than Duo will feel pleasure. However all the people you make him touch are evil bastards, a few more people with painful memories could flip Duo over the edge and destroy him."

Wufei gasped.

Treize simply shrugged. "Then I'll lock him in this room for a week or two. Avoid contract with people at all. Chang, you will be the only one allowed in here and that is only when he needs food!!!"

Treize turned and walked sharply out of the door.

Odin sighed and looked back at the sleeping Duo who was tossing and turning on the bed. It seemed that even in his sleep Duo couldn't escape the pain of it all.

*   *   *

Heero kneed the side of his head with the heel of his hand.

"Think Yuy, think!!!"

"What are you doing here?"

Heero looked round.

"Father."

"You should be entertaining Princess Relena."

"I am, she's over there."

Odin looked at where Heero pointed. Relena was wondering through the old library looking disdainfully at the books that were covered in dust and dirt.

"Why is she here?"

"Cause I said I was coming here."

Odin looked at the rather large and fat book on the table in front of Heero beside the magic light.

Heero's mother had been a witch making Heero a half blood. He could do small tricks.

"The records of the kingdom?"

"I thought I should know some things about it if I am going to rule it. Why are you here?"

"I'm worried about Duo. There must be something I can do."

Heero blinked as his mentor walked away.

"Duo?" He asked.

Odin nodded as he began to search the bookshelves.

"Treize's psychic." Odin informed Heero as he liked the look of a book and pulled it out of the shelf, unsettling a pile of dust and covering himself in it.

Relena walked forward.

"I'm sorry but I have to leave."

Heero waved her away.

She glared at him but strolled off and out of the old library, which was in one of the towers and was never used because a more up to date library was somewhere else in the Palace.

"Your mother would of like Duo, he's a mystery."

Odin sat down and opened the book. Heero closed the old book he had been read and stood up to read over Odin's shoulder. His Prussian eyes scanned down the pages as Odin flicked through them.

"What's wrong with him?"

"He is going slowly mad. Every time he touches someone or they touch him, he losing a little bit of his sanity. There has to be a way to prevent that from happening before he goes complete insane and loses everything! Including the knowledge of his own very name! Turn that light up Heero, I can barely read this."

The young baron waved his hand at the lamp, which suddenly glowed extremely bright, and the whole of the old library was a lit in a warm yellow glow, including the hidden corners.

"That's better. Now let's see." Odin peered at the pages and Heero glanced around the room.

It was then he saw it.

Hidden at the very back of the library in the corner, which was once covered in darkness, was a hole in the wall.

"Be back in a minute."

He strolled over to it. It was barely a meter wide and about half a meter tall. Getting down on all fours Heero crawled in.

The room was pitch black, or staircase was pitch black. Heero caught himself just in time before he went flying down the stairs.

"Light." He muttered waving his hand and the staircase was showered in golden rays coming straight from Heero's hand.

The walls were charcoal black and the stone of the staircase was slowly crumbling away. Slowly and carefully he walked down them, one hand lighting the way the other hand running along the wall for support as he walked. After about 5 minutes of walking down the stairs, he came to a solid wooden door. He pressed his whole weight against the door but it refused to move.

"Open." Heero muttered, the light in his hand dying so he could cast the new spell. The door swung open and Heero walked into a small room, which looked like it was once a chapel. There was one window, stain glass, which shred colourful light into the room.

Sitting in the middle of the light was a woman, her head was bowed and she was on her knees.

"Hello?"

"She can't hear you."

Heero spun round.

"Who are you?" Heero asked.

There was a boy, his jade eyes burned into Heero's Prussian ones. His brown hair, in a style that defied gravity, covered half of his face. He wore black robes, a lot like the ones that used to be worn a long time ago.

"Baron Heero Yuy."

"How do you know my name?"

"You are a strong wizard."

"My mother was a witch. I'm only half."

"Only a really strong wizard can open that door."

"Who is she? And more importantly who are you?"

"I can't tell you the answers to the questions unless you promise one thing?"

"What?"

"You must not let the magician who calls himself Romemto get hold of her."

Heero slowly nodded, unsure of what he was getting himself into.

"My name is Trowa Barton and I am the Guardian of the two people that can save this world from this man."

Trowa walked over from his corner and placed a hand on the stone statue.

"This is Lady Hilde Schbeiker. Once she was the princess of the whole world but her future husband only wanted her because she and only she holds the knowledge of where the Gundam Stone can be found."

"Gundam Stone?"

"Only a strong wizard or witch can use the Gundam Stone. Whoever holds it, holds the power to destroy the whole world if they wish."

"Shit."

"I was her best friend. I trained to be a wizard a long time ago. I'm over 1000 years old and we've been waiting for you Baron Heero Yuy."

"We?"

"Me and Hilde. I placed her under the spell but now I can release her because all the players are here."

"Players? Wait you said you were the guardian of two people. Who is the second one?"

"Back when Hilde was a Princess she had a hidden brother, they were extremely close, and his name was Duo. Her future husband found out and placed a curse on Duo, jealous of the love that the two siblings shared. He was given the gift of being able to see and feel other people's memories and thoughts just by touch. But it would slowly turn him insane. Back then Duo didn't know of the Gundam Stone but the next time he touched Hilde everything was revealed to him. Duo was then taken prisoner by Hilde's future husband..."

"Who was?"

"His name back then was Prince Romemto but he has changed it since then. He told Duo that Duo could tell him where the stone was or die. Duo killed himself. I placed a charm on him that one day he would be reborn and then I turned Hilde to stone as she is now."

"So you guard Duo as well?"

"Yes."

"This makes a creep kind of sense. Where do I come into this?"

"You must protect Hilde and Duo, they must go together and find this Stone. Once they have found the stone, you must destroy it, at all costs! Of course I'll be there as well."

"How do you free Hilde?"

"I need her brother."

"What if Duo doesn't remember her?"

"Then she'll be heartbroken but we must do this! To ensure the safety of the Earth!"

Heero nodded.

"Then I should go?"

"Yes."

Heero left quickly, locking the door behind him and heading quickly back up the stairs. His brain trying to work out everything out and get a plan together.

"First things first." He told himself. "Find Duo and gain his trust!"

TBC...

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