Raibane Rumble
By Dipstickels

"Kuu! Kuu wait up, don't go! Come back Kuu! Come back!" Rakka tripped, falling face down in a mud puddle that happened to be conveniently placed in the particular place she was running. Lifting her head from the mud puddle, and scraping her arm over her eye to remove as much as the mud from her face as she could, she noticed Kuu in the distance. Her eyes covered in her thick blonde hair, and a smug expression on her face, she turned and continued on her way.

"Kuu! Come back! Come back! Don't leave me Kuu! Don't leave me, Senpai!"

However, Kuu did leave and she didn't give a second glance back, and she disappeared from sight.

The scenery changed, although the mud puddle that Rakka's head was in didn't. A strange sensation came over her body – a kind of hurt that she felt as she tried to move her wings. Rakka moved up into a sitting position, her eyes turning around the area. She was in a clearing, although the clearing was surrounded by dense forest.

Her brown eyes moved over the scenery, and then fell on a small run-down cottage like house. As if her previous betrayal from Kuu was long forgotten, Rakka rolled up into a typical kneeling position, and attempted to move her wings. Ow!

She took her hand, and placed them on top of her left wing. Ow!

Rakka was absolutely bewildered. Why on earth did her wings hurt so much? Rakka tried to touch her wings again. Double ow!

She winced, and looked around – through her mud mask, and found that her eyes settled quite clearly on the run-down cottage, as she watched the doors open.

"I'm just going out for a bit!"

"Watch it, Kie, I don't want you too…"

Why did they seem so far away? They were only no more than five metres away from her, and yet their voices seemed like that from the distance. And, why hadn't they noticed her? And why weren't their features noticeable?

She noticed that the person saying good-bye, this 'Kie', was obviously a male, and he was the only person that was really noticeable in the picture along with the some-what girl figure he was speaking too in the doorway.

The pair of them bid their goodbyes with a strange wave of the hand, and the not-so-clear figure closed the door.

Kie became more noticeable to Rakka. His hair was blue, although it conveniently covered his eyes. Rakka suspected he was human, until she spotted the charcoal wings that emerged his back… but they didn't stop there. The wings grew from his back, and Kie didn't seem to notice or care. Rakka then noticed that they didn't stop at the normal size for Haibane wings, no, they continued much further, and they were much, much larger. The wings finally stopped growing, when Kie stood in front of the wide-eyed, and surprisingly crying Rakka. Why hadn't Rakka noticed she was crying before? Rakka's hand moved up to touch the water that was spilling from her eyes – she couldn't feel moisture of the water. Everything around her had frozen.

"Do you need some help there, Miss?" Kie bent down slightly, taking his enormous wings with him, they were now so large, that Rakka thought it could probably fly if he wanted to, no, she was sure that he could fly if he so desired.

Rakka looked at the hand that Kie had offered her to help her up. He didn't seem so bad, in the long run, his face looked kind, and if she ignored the huge wings on his back – he looked perfectly fine! That was not, however, what came out of her mouth.

"No! You keep away from me! Don't come any closer, keep away from me! Keep away! Reki! Kana! Hikari! Anybody!"

Rakka shut her eyes tight, and screamed like there was no tomorrow, sending the mud from her face flying all over the boys trousers, and still, Kie didn't withdraw his hand. Rakka didn't know why she was screaming, and it struck her as weird that she couldn't stop. In the end, she had to forcibly cover her mouth with her hands, and even then, there was a muffled sound emitting it.

"I guess you don't want my help then." The blue haired Kie withdrew his hand from Rakka, and stated quite clearly, "You are just like them.", and spread his wings out wide – lifting up from the ground, rather like a Crow did.

The picture then cracked like a mirror would, and piece by piece it fell into darkness – along with Rakka.

"Help me! Help me! Please, Sir, Help me! Anybody! Help me!" Rakka outstretched her arm towards the hovering boy, who simply replied;

"You don't need my help, Haibane, no Haibane needs the help of a Raibane."

Rakka's body turned over the other way, and she couldn't see the boy anymore. What she could see was a grassy ground, and she was headed straight for it…

Rakka awoke in a cold sweat. Her bed-sheets turned in every angle, and her hair stuck up more than usual, this suggested that she had been moving around more in her sleep.

Her eyes automatically looked towards the set-up frogs that had once belong to Kuu. Kuu! She had dreamt about her, hadn't she? That's when Kuu's face materialized in her mind, that smug expression that she'd held as she looked back at Rakka in the dream. Rakka stuck her head in her hands, and began to cry, as well as recall the rest of her dream.

That boy, who was he, and why, why were his wings so large? Why didn't he help her? And why was she screaming at him?

Tears gave way to confusion, as she recalled as much detail from her dream as she could. The puddle, the house, the boy, Kuu… and that was it. Only segments of the dream remained.

"Rakka! Rakka quick! Quick Rakka!"

Rakka looked up. A very hyperventilating Kana burst into Rakka's room, and basically ignored the fact that her eyes were red, and she looked more beaten than usual. "It-It's started! The hatching! It's started! The twins! They-They're being born!"

Rakka jumped from her bed, and in the process completely forgot the dream. The two small seeds that she'd found after Reki had left, were hatching! She knew that it was going to happen soon, but she didn't expect it to happen at four am in the morning.

Not bothering to get herself changed, Rakka ran with Kana down the hallway, and toward the room where the she'd first seen the small seedpods.

When she burst in – she got covered in slime.

Wiping the slime off of her face, she turned to look at what exactly had sprayed her. Sprawled on the ground were two small children, one male, the other female. Both were looked exactly the same, and she was sure that they both had dark brown hair.

Rakka ran forward, towards the girl, along with Nemu, although Hikari and Kana ran toward the boy. Their faces dropped immediately, and they turned, walking towards the girl – leaving the unconscious boy to lie there.

"Ka-"

"That boys a Raibane." Kana said, leaning down to take a look at the girl.

"A Raibane!" Nemu was startled, and it appeared that everybody except for Rakka knew what a Raibane was.

Still, Rakka couldn't leave the poor boy lying there, and left the girl to the others, and picked up the small boy. The pair of them couldn't be over the age of eight.

But, one thing still weighed on Rakka's mind. What in the hell was a Raibane?

WHOOT! I have finished Chapter one. Isn't that great? Don't you just want to hug me? I know I do! Oh, and in case you were wondering, this story is set after the series ended o.o;

Anyways, I thought I'd put the disclaimer down here!

Disclaimer: Haibane Renmei is lisenced to the dudes who created it n.n; I don't own any characters but the "Raibane", and the two little twin type people oO;