Clean smokes of air surrounded the place... tranquility embraced the cheerful faces of the angels in white long dresses and a pair of wings in cloud-like plummage... at their backs.
The silence and calmness of the place was pure... real and authentic.
No one is in a hurry... no one cries... and no one rages. Everyone enjoys the paradise that was called heaven... where eternal happiness lives in their hearts and souls.
"Mama..." A little child with little-grown red hairs and chubby tomato red cheeks... approached his mother with a sweet smile of the youth. "I want to fly."
The mother angel... with her pair of wings attached at her back... looked down at the pleasing pulchritude of her own child. "Yes... baby Hana... let's just wait for your father."
"I want now." The cherry lips of the child pursed longingly... and his long lashes fluttered as he gazed his copper brown eyes upwards to the loving face of his mother.
"Later..." the mother angel caressed the soft head of the little boy... one, two, three. "Just stay with your friends for a while as I hover for your father."
The mother angel smiled calmly and went towards where she would be waiting for the arrival of her husband who works to watch for the sky.
Little Hana stomped his feet towards his angel playmates... and frowned. "All I want is to learn how to fly," he murmured to himself and looked over his shoulder to see his baby wings... as white as the egg's albumen.
"Hana!" Little Yohei, a close angel friend of the redheaded child, called. "Look! The clouds are minimizing and showing the blue sky!"
Hanamichi gazed languidly at the direction which his friend was pointing at. What's so new about the sky? He had seen it more than a dozen of times.
Suddenly, Hanamichi squeezed his entire pudgy body... to force his tiny wings to flap. Having no positive result, Hanamichi didn't stop... he continued until he floated an inch above the smoky ground.
"Hana..." Little Yohei's eyes were as big as the moon. "You can't fly without the companion of your parents."
"I don't want to wait for them." Hanamichi insisted and ignored the warning of his friend. After an intense trial... and no yielding... Hanamichi was able to flee from the grounds of the heaven's castle. He had been practicing to fly even without his parents' guidance... but this was the first time he ever left the walls of the castle and fly beneath the opulent blue sky... all by himself.
Hanamichi had a difficulty to view the earth... as he had always wished for... because his innocent mind focused on the wings he was preventing to haul down.
Until finally, his strength could no longer manage his weight and slowly... he was drifting apart from the clouds and sinking down the blue and green milieu.
Colorful blossoms of Magnolias, Daisies, and tulips of various sizes... blessed the clean and green surroundings with the fresh air from the hill top.
A raven-haired and white-skinned kid inhaled the warm feeling of the nature's beauty in abundance. The natural scents of the blooming flowers coated him with comfort and solace.
This is his favorite place... his home away from home.
Kaede lives in the underground... before the earth's core. From the moment his sapphire blue eyes opened... he saw darkness... tongues of fires and naked ladies sprinting and dancing with grace.
In his real home... it was hot... he was uncomfortable... everytime he looks right or left... he sees his father making love with different women... sometimes men... and even to his twin brother, Ichiro.
It was a trite scene in the inferno where he grew up... but he still feel awkward and grossed whenever his father lays his hand on him... kissing him and touching his loins.
He doesn't even know where Ichiro and he came from... were they hatched from eggs like the birds he sees on earth? Or did they fall from the white thick air above him?
As soon as Kaede looked up... at the pearly-white ground above... a thing fell like a shooting star that hit a branch of a Sakura tree. The branch was broken from the impact and the object laid numb on the grass.
Kaede ran towards the landing area and see for himself the surprise that had welcomed him.
He had never seen a pure white cloth all his life. The one he was wearing right now was a black long cloak.
Then after a moment of staring at the white thing... he noticed that it was indeed a little child with a broken wing.
He gulped at the mesmerizing sight of a sleeping redheaded child. Never was he captivated so much with such beauty. Perhaps it's the answer to his question. Ichiro and he came from above like the little child lying on the green ground.
The little angel released his almond-shaped eyes and stared at the extreme sapphire blue eyes.
"Who are you?" Hanamichi roamed his copper brown eyes around and saw the inviting beauty of the nature. He thought he was in the castle's garden. "How come I'm here? I know I fell from heaven..."
The redheaded angel halted when Kaede mumbled. "Heaven?"
Hanamichi's thin brows knitted in bewilderment. All his life... he had never seen a black clothing worn by angels.
"Where are your wings?"
It was Kaede's turn to be confused. "Wings?" He's not a bird to have a pair.
"Am I in HEAVEN?"
Kaede chuckled and Hanamichi froze his eyes at him. The cute sapphire eyes of the boy were tender, docile and handsome.
"You're on earth," Kaede said.
"Earth?" The raven-haired kid's jaws dropped at the sight of a naive and vulnerable-looking child.
"Yes... and I'm a devil."
Hanamichi jumped from the ground at the mere mention of the word 'devil'. From the stories of his mother, devils are mischievous angels who wants to spread darkness on earth and reigns in heaven. However, for Kaede, being a devil is not synonimous for being a frightening creature. He calls himself a devil the way a man calls himself a human.
The redheaded angel covered his ears and shut his eyes as he recited the words, "Oh Lord, My dear God... forgive me... forgive me for I have sinned. I promise I will never disobey my mother and father again. I promise."
Oblivious, Kaede watched the child as it spoke the words Lord, God and Sin. Ichiro and he address their father... a god... their Lord... their master. Sin? It's a sin to betray the Dark Emperor.
Kaede felt sympathy for the sobbing chid. He had heard cries and woes echoing in the inferno... but he never paid heed of it. Perhaps because he had never seen the faces of those people... but now that he was witnessing a mourning child right in front of him... it was different. He enclosed the child with his warm embrace.
"You're not gonna eat me, aren't you?" Hanamichi gazed up... worriedly. Security was felt by his soul as the caring arms wrapped around him.
"No," the little devil answered.
"KAEDE!"
They both looked at their common side and saw a fast approaching dark-haired kid... every physical attribute of the boy was identical to Kaede's physical features.
"Ichiro..." Kaede murmured... hiding his surprise in his cold mask.
Hanamichi tightened his grip at Kaede's waist... he was afraid that the newcomer would hurt him.
"The Emperor has been searching for you."
The two raven-haired boys were wearing the same black cloaks and looked exactly like each other... but Hanamichi was certain he wouldn't mistake the one as the other. Ichiro has a rogue and naughty glint in his handsome sapphire blue eyes and he doubts to trust him.
"Oh..." Ichiro grinned mischievously when he saw Hanamichi. "An angel with a broken wing." He showed an ostensible but fraud concern for the poor little child. He was about to touch the broken wing when Hanamichi hid behind the standing Kaede and avoided the contact. "Are you afraid of me?"
Sensing that Ichiro was terrifying the angel, Kaede looked straight at his twin brother.
"Ichiro, go home now. I'll be there soon."
"Don't you dare make the Emperor wait."
Ichiro lowered his gaze at his brother... assuring him that a war will break out if Kaede ever tries the Emperor's patience.
"Yes. My brother."
From that, Ichiro left with an agressive walk towards the wilderness... passing a secret hole for the devils to come in and out of the earth's surface.
"Are you going to leave me?" Hanamichi queried... with pain building in his deep brown orbs.
"I have to go." Kaede released the child's arms that was imprisoning him to an irresistibly serene feeling he was willing to possess.
He kneeled in front of the child and touched his broken wing... delicately. Hanamichi could feel his temperature rising up... and in a fleeting moment... he saw his broken wing... healed.
"You can return now to the heaven you're talking about."
Kaede smiled wanly. He didn't want to bid farewell to the child that energized his spirit... but they belonged to different worlds. It's The Earth that binds them together.
Suddenly... in a brisk move... Hanamichi plunged himself to Kaede and hugged him so tenderly and so tight.
He whispered on his ear, "I promise. When I learn how to fly by my own... I'll return on earth and I'll see you again. Promise me... you'll wait for me."
Kaede caressed the back of the angel he was holding. "You promise me that no one will know this vow... and that I healed your wing."
"I promise."
Kaede felt a ray of hope in the mere utterance of the word 'promise' by the redheaded angel. Now there's somewhere in tomorrow that their paths would meet again.
And thus... a vow was swore upon two creatures from opposite clans... with opposite morales and opposite traditions.
For now... it's only the belief and trust that keeps them together... only TIME forbids their happiness to be with each other once and again.
That's the way their young minds could procure.
"What's your name?" Kaede glanced back... before he enters the inferno's secret hole.
"Hanamichi."
The raven-haired kid curved his lips. "I'm Kaede." Then he vanished in the wilderness.
Hanamichi looked up at the sky and saw some angles flying by. He tried to fly at the tip of his strength and screamed for help. The angels helped him and brought him back to home... to the heaven's castle above.
Kaede lifted his feet one by one and entered the secluded room of his Lord Father. Tongues of fires stuck on the walls in a vertical line... illuminated his way.
"Dark Emperor..." Ichiro's voice echoed on the cold stones of the underground cave. "May I present to you my brother... your son... Kaede."
Kaede stood in front of the vast Emperor's bed... he was naked from head to toe. A three-inch long brown tail had grown... just above his anus.
"Come here... my son."
The Emperor welcomed him by his stretched arm and made him lay on the soft bed with him. Kaede stared at the indigo eyes of his father... as his heart refused to accept what has to come on that moment.
Ichiro had left the area and Kaede was alone in the room with his father.
The Emperor brought his son to sit on his lap and looked at him with admiration... with lust... and with desire. He laid his hungry fingers on the youthful cheek... heading downwards to the long slender neck and the bare chest of succulent vanilla complexion.
He aimed for his son's luscious lips... tasted it with his own ...and licked every inch of the mouth's interior.
In his management... he let his son's neck curve backwards for a bigger access on blood-heated flesh. He ran down his saliva on the skin and satisfied his crave.
"Moan my name..." The Emperor ordered... without stopping his sensual activity.
Kaede obliged.
"Hisashi."
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