Summary: Are ingeniousness and insanity the same thing? For Hikari Satoshi they seem to be. Ever since he was little, he would converse with water and ignore other humans. After all their badness had hurt him and made him ill. But now his father wants him to go to a regular school where he can interact with kids his own age. Ever since, a good-looking senior, a comforting angel, and a demon full of bloodlust have been following him. Tricky triangles of trust shall form and confused love shall follow. DarkxSatoshi and SatoshixDaisuke and maybe a bit of love (rather... lust?) for Krad later on.

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The Guardian Angel

Chapter 1

How Can I See You?

Satoshi was always a little odd. He seemed to never let anyone in. He was wise beyond his years, yet he never thrived in schools. So, until he was 14, he was home schooled via the Internet, and ended up graduating from college extremely early.

His father never really liked him, which was odd since the man adopted Satoshi. Satoshi's mother had died, and no one really knew what happened to his father. But all the while that Satoshi was in the orphanage, he was sickly, pale, and hard to get along with. Not that much had changed between then and age 15.

Satoshi could feel bad things in people, and that would make him ill. For a long time at the orphanage he couldn't sleep, and after a few years with his adoptive father, his sleeplessness came back. His blood pressure, oddly enough, lowered, and he became extremely sensitive to everything. That's when he turned to nature for help.

Satoshi felt connected to nature, especially water. Water had a lot of stories to tell, and Satoshi would listen to them… He felt able to converse with water. Every time he looked into a mirror, he would swear that he reflected his relationship with water because of his eyes and hair. Satoshi would spend hours in a park, doing nothing but looking into the pond and conversing with the water in his mind. He really believed he was conversing with the water, too, but when he told his father, the man told Satoshi that he should stop daydreaming and get back to reality.

That's why his father said that Satoshi should enter a normal school now.

And that's why Satoshi was going to enter the local high school and be with other kids his age. Satoshi had a bad feeling about this, but his father wouldn't hear of it. Satoshi would go to school.

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High school had started, and it was Satoshi's first day of school. He got dressed in the school's uniform, which was a navy blue pant with a button up white dress shirt and a black leather belt. The poor boy could hardly stand to put the belt on... He heard the heart-piercing squeal of an animal the first time he touched it. Imagine wearing it for an entire day.

The boy arrived at his new school, nervous as could be, yet he was so detached from the world, he didn't know how to show it. He walked to his classroom, 1-A, and slid open the door. He just stood there staring for a while... It was definitely intimidating. He didn't really know what to do, so he slid in, ignoring the stares he was getting from the other kids, and he walked to a desk in the back of the room. Why did he have to go to school? He's graduated from a college for crying out loud!

He sat down, and within 5 seconds, there was about five girls standing around the desk, and a very confused Satoshi looking up at them.

"Ah... Hello..." Satoshi said as politely as he could with a little bow of the head.

"Hiiii," the girls responded, looking him up and down.

"What's your name?" one of the girls asked.

"Hika- Ah… Hiwatari Satoshi," the boy replied.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" another asked immediately after hearing his name.

"N-no," Satoshi responded, kind of freaked out by them. His head started spinning with thoughts that he didn't think were his own. He couldn't decipher them either; they were running through his head so fast. But they had to do with... Infatuation... Weird...

"Please sit down," a woman said from the door as she entered, pushing a pair of thin, rectangular glasses up the bridge of her nose.

Thus, class was started and Satoshi could ignore the teacher and everyone else around him in peace.

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It was lunch and Satoshi was allowed to roam the school grounds, finally. Unfortunately for Satoshi, there was no pond, nor were there puddles from rain, though the sky looked as if it would rain any second. Satoshi hoped it would. It was hard to converse with water that was so high above your head, and he didn't have the strength. Just being by so many people at once was straining.

Instead of trying to converse with clouds, Satoshi sauntered over to a line of trees and sat down beneath them. Maybe they had something interesting to say…

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Dark was a senior this year. A very popular senior, actually. He was tall, dark, and overall, good looking. He could make the girls swoon with one look. But, of course that had its downfalls. It could get annoying when they tried to follow you home.

Dark was just trying to get away from the girls when he stumbled upon a blue haired boy sitting by himself, back to a tree, seemingly sleeping. Thoughts of 'how odd' ran through his head and he trotted on over to the boy. He wasn't but 10 feet away when the blue haired one opened his stunning eyes and looked at Dark.

"Who're you?" Satoshi asked softly, watching Dark jump in surprise. The senior had thought that Satoshi was sleeping.

"I am Niwa Dark. Who are you?" Dark replied, smiling idiotically, half way regaining his composure.

"Hiwatari Satoshi," Satoshi replied, looking up at the leaves on the tree.

"You're a freshman?" Dark asked, still standing at 10 feet away.

"Yeah..." Satoshi said wistfully.

"I've never seen you before. What middle school did you go to?" Dark asked as the bell rang.

"I've never gone to middle school," Satoshi said, standing up, and after receiving a weird look from Dark, he started on his way to his classroom.

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Satoshi returned to his apartment totally worn out. How could a social school be so hard on one person? It was unreal. Poor Satoshi just wanted to climb into his bed and sleep. And that's just what he did.

Satoshi woke up at 2:00 AM, dazed and confused. Something had woken him up... Hadn't it? What was it...? All he could see was a red glow and red feathers swirling around him. It was comforting... warm...

"Don't worry... I'll help you through this," an echo-y voice said as Satoshi felt something grasp his hand.

"Who are you?" Satoshi said through his daze.

"Daisuke..." the thing replied, its voice weakening. The hand that Satoshi felt grasping his faded away too, and Satoshi was left gasping for breath, grasping at thin air trying to make whatever it was come back. But all he could see was a faint glow of red right at the foot of his bed. Well, whatever it was, it was still there... But Satoshi couldn't talk to it any more, so Satoshi resigned himself to staring at it, and after a while, Satoshi found himself dreaming again.

When he woke up, Satoshi found a red feather next to his head on the pillow.

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A/N: And that's the first chapter! I hope it's not too confusing, and for the stuff that is confusing, I hope to tie that up along our journey.

I wanted to kill this story so bad... Why'd it have to come in the middle of NOVEMBER for crying out loud!? And on top of that, it wouldn't let me work on my NaNoWriMo. Geeze. I already have 2 stories running here. Now I'm going to be even more overloaded, but hey, at least it's a good story that writes itself… Now my other two... Used to write themselves. xD

Please review. Much appreciated.