The continuation of the anime. Please do not associate this fic to any chapters of the manga. Enjoy ^^
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Shirogane was gone.
Where, Akira didn't know; but all the stress and fears gathered through those past hours disappeared, filling the young boy with an unknown
warmth, especially on his lips, which had touched the Shin's.
All day long, he had walked next to the glimmering river, accompanied by Kengo and Aya; then, alone, until the sunset.
"I wonder where he is…". The boy sighed, and then shook brutally his head: "What the hell am I thinking? Like some old lover…Creepy. "
The night had fallen on the city, recovering the buildings with a dark veil with no stars on it.
Akira, bored of looking a pitch black and calm river, came back to his house to get some sleep.
"Everything is finished now... At least, nobody will peek when I'm going to bath or to the toilets."
The teen tried to think positively, without success; each of his thoughts was directed towards the silver-haired king.
Akira remembered when he transformed into the King of Light, and when Homurabi opened the passage leading to the Shadow's world.
"I want to know where Shirogane is…"thought the young boy. "I should ask Kou-nii how we can access to the Other Side."
Exhausted, he fell asleep immediately after deciding on this point.
At midnight, a slight shadow climbed on the young boy's apartment, until penetrating without a single sound through the window of his room.
There, the shadow took slowly a human form: long silver hair shining under the cold moonlight, black clothes emitting a strange, fascinating aura coming from
another dimension.
The teenager was still asleep, making a soft noise of breathing from one time to another. The shadow-human approached his hand, pure and
white under the moon's glimmering ray, towards the sleeping adolescent.
By doing this gesture, the silver-haired form touched by accident a glass that was lying there and dropped it on the floor; the glass shattered into thousand pieces,
cutting through the flesh of the boy's face.
Alarmed, Akira opened his eyes and stood on his bed, looking around him with a worried glance: all he saw was the broken glass lying on the floor.
However, his senses now sharpened by his awakening as a Rei told him that a presence was still remaining in the room.
He tried to turn the lights on: he couldn't. "A blackout at this hour? Can't be possible…" thought the awakened boy.
At this moment, the shadow-human, hiding into the shadow of the boy made by the moon's ray, attempted to regain the window in order to escape.
"You really think I'm this dumb to not sense you? Show yourself!" cried Akira.
The shadow-like thing detached itself of the boy's, and took again its human form.
Akira's lips trembled: a long, soft, brilliant silver hair… Black outfit lusted by… Wait.
Something was not right.
Shirogane didn't have this terrifying aura, nor this old-fashioned ribbon ridiculously fixed in his silky hair. The boy had hoped so much for it, though…
The shadow finally showed its face: it wasn't Shirogane that was standing in front of him, it was…
"You're not Shirogane! Who are you?" cried fiercely Akira.
The human form slowly turned his head towards the boy; he supported the heavy glance that the silver-eyed boy was sending to him, replying with a cold, cruel
glare that made the boy shiver of fear.
"Well, sorry that I'm not him" said quietly the shadow.
"I asked who you were!" cried loudly the boy, fearing that the tremble of his own voice could be sensed by the silver-haired shadow.
"My name is Sawaki. I'm one of the Five Children of the Shadows' King."
"By Shadows' King, you mean… Homurabi?" said the boy, with a little disgust for the last word.
"Don't say his name as such. He sent me to kidnap you, but actually I have a secret thing to do too. I was asked by Shirogane to keep an eye on you and to bring
you to him."
At those last words, the teen exulted. So he was alive!
However, he still couldn't trust totally the Shin : his aura was too dark for the young Rei to begin with.
"Ah? And why should I believe you? Do you…" began Akira.
"Here's the proof."
The shadow-human, or rather Sawaki, brought out a black-wooded cane, beginning by a silver-sculpted ornament and finishing by a gold peak.
Akira immediately recognized his shadow side's property: the cane Shirogane had always with him...
"Shirogane would never give this thing to anyone, including me or even Master… That's totally absurd…"thought Akira.
Sawaki removed with an impatient gesture the precious cane, and asked with a hurried glance :
"...Shall I have your accord then?"
The young boy hesitated; he had a presentiment that he was falling into an open trap.
Thus, he glanced around his room, hoping for a sign, a manifestation to tell him what to do. The household goods , quiet and immobile, were not helping him at all.
"If he wanted to kill or kidnap me, he would have done it ages ago…".
Finally, he decided, with the urging sensation of falling from a cliff:
"I'll go with you."
A beatific smile appeared on the black-clothed Shin's face.
"Very well. First, you must take your shadow form. No human can enter into our world, you know. I'll give
you advices once we will get there."
"Well…"
"What's the matter? We don't have much time."
"I don't know how to take my shadow form."
Sawaki gasped: it was pretty much funny to see this stone face making such an expression.
"What did you say???"
"It's exactly what I said. I can't take my shadow form."
"But then… How did you fight all the Kokuchi we sent???"
"So it was you and your pathetic father who sent them! Shirogane was right!"
"Don't call him like that! No… Now's not the time to argue for that. We should quickly find a solution for you, because at dawn the portal connecting the Shadow
World and the Human World will close…"
Worried, Akira looked at the hour. "Already 5a.m???"
"We should hurry, then! I can't believe you came here to kidnap me without even preventing this… Isn't there a solution to make me turn into a Shin?"
"Actually, no. But since you are the reincarnation of the Rei, maybe…"paused Sawaki.
"Maybe what?"
"Maybe you can enter our world without turning into a Shin."
Akira glanced once again at his watch; time was running faster than ever.
"What!? You should have said it earlier! Then let's go before I change my mind!"
"But I warn you, you may suffer terrible consequences! You don't know what's going to…"
"Shut up and go! We don't have much time! Dawn is coming!"
Akira looked at the window: the first glimpses of the Sun were already piercing the trees with sharp rays of pure light.
Alarmed, the boy hurried the Shin:
"HURRY UP!"
The Shin was surprised of how the boy could be so dominative, but finally sang the spell:
"O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
We are thy humble servants.
Thou knewest our purposes,
Heavens encounter thee.
Thou clash with Light.
Open, door of the Night
Thou that hath thrown out thy mighty opposites."
As soon as Sawaki pronounced those words, a pitch black hole appeared of nowhere into the tiny room, getting bigger and bigger and engulfing all that was around.
"Get in!" cried the Shin through the heavy wind.
Akira hesitated for a second. And if it was a trap? If they have just retrieved his cane and sent Sawaki to fool him?
Nevertheless, his urge to see Shirogane again was greater than anything else; desperately, he plunged through the Door leading to the Darkness, followed by the
Shin, who made a sarcastic smile of satisfaction before the door closed, leaving behind them a messy room where some tools went missing.
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I did before some chapters on "An unbreakable promise", but the contents were deleted. Some people told me that my sentences were too long, so I
re-arranged the structure of the fanfic. Hope you liked it :D