Chp. 1: Fallen angel.
Rin Motsumoto sighed as she stood up, running one hand cautiously over her numb backside. She'd known she should have set an alarm for herself, somehow she always lost track of time while she was reading. She took a glance at the blazing gold in the sky that came just before the dusky red of sunset. A smile curved her lips as she leaned down to gather up her purse and book from the park bench she had just vacated. She lost even more time when she decided to pick her favorite bench in the park down the road from her house. Taking in a deep breath of the fresh air she pointed her feet down the walking trail towards home. If her mother and father had been home she would have never lost track of time, her mother would have made sure of that. She would have called every five minutes from the time the sun started to go down, until Rin was home. Rin chuckled at the image. Her mother was wonderful, but she was glad they decided to take their vacation while she was out of school for summer. Of course, that had its downsides. School had been out for over a week and she had nothing better to do than go to the park and read on a bench. Most of her friends were either on vacation, or not willing to run around on a warm day like today.
Rin sighed once more as she felt the cool breeze of evening ruffle her light blue skirt and lift the hairs at the nape of her neck. It felt alot better out today than it had for the past month, a freak cool streak. It was getting late and she'd already whiled away the afternoon's heat, and she decided the breeze that was coming in would make for a very comfortable walk back. The slight wind fluttered the leaves of the trees that bordered either side of the path, causing every dapple of shadow and sunlight to flicker along the pavement under her feet. Her flip flops made quiet patting sounds as she made her way through the park, and the noise went along quite well with the calm mood of the area. She's been walking no more than a few minutes when a slightly overgrown path appeared up the road on her right. She smiled as she recognized it. It was a well worn footpath she'd used to take when she was little and if she remembered correctly it would be a very nice shortcut home. So, on a rather childish whim Rin stepped off the concrete track and onto the grass. She peered at the hole between the trees for a moment, then ducked her head and walked through.
Immediately she was submerged in the cool dark utopia of forest and Rin breathed deeply, savoring the long lost memories that invaded her mind at the smell of dirt and dark damp wood. She grinned at the memory of herself as a child in this place. Her kneeling by a bubbly little brook than ran through the park. Her laying back and heating her skin on a rock that had been placed in the middle of a small lake, which would probably seem more like a very small pond to her now. And her gazing up at the stars, on nights she'd felt rebellious and ran off for an hour or two, through a convenient canopy right above that pond.
Rin smiled softly and stopped, bending to take her flip flops and feel the soft mossy dirt beneath her feet. She continued down the little path until she was at the opening to the small clearing with the tiny island. Smiling slightly, she lifted back some low hanging branches, an unexpected thrill zinging up her spine as she did so. She brushed it off as excitement of seeing her favorite childhood haunt and she stepped out of the trees and into the bright warm sunshine, memories of this beautiful place still playing through her mind. Would it be as wonderful as she remembered? She grinned and looked up. Then her grin fell.
Rin felt the air leave her body, felt a blush sweeping up her neck and across her cheeks... felt her heart flutter like the flapping wings of a caged bird. She knew her eyes had to bulging. How could they not! Faced with what she was now. For there lying on his belly, head resting on one arm, while the other stretched out over the rock, shifting his long tanned fingers through the cool waters of the rock's moat...was the most beautiful man she'd ever seen.
His body was long, lean and hard, turned like finely carved stone. Muscles strung tautly under incredibly smooth bronzed skin. One well muscled leg rested under him while the other stretched out against the warmed surface of the rock, the large foot attached to it was wiggling slightly. The, what had to be large, expanse of his chest, stomach, and tapered hips pressed against it, hidden from her for the moment. Her eyes landed next on his hair. It was a bright shining silver that glinted in the sun and seemed very near to sparkling. It was long, much longer than any hair she'd seen, she bet that when he stood it would go straight to brush his hips. Right now it was tossed over his shoulder, some of the long strands had escaped though and trailed along his arm and under his chest, there was even a lock of hair that trailed into the pool of water, it's wet silver surface making it shine like a freshly cut diamond.
She turned her stunned gaze to the man's face. His profile was turned to her so she had to speculate his looks from that. His chin was stubbornly tilted and square, his nose straight and practician. His cheeks curved high, the bones one long sweep of slightly concave perfection. His eyes were lowered, looking at the pool of water she assumed, and she couldn't make out a color, but his eyelashes were long and pitch black, and so was the one thick and finely arched eyebrow she could see. She had to admit the dark features were a striking contrast to his hair.
Then, of their own accord, her eyes wandered to trace the line of his full bottom lip. It tipped up slightly at the sides as if he smiled gently at the cools waters he traced with his fingers. She felt her own answering smile start to tug automatically at the corners of her lips. She shook her head. That kind of smile always caused trouble. Slowly her gaze turned to sweep over his clothing, Not that there was much to see. From what she could tell, all he wore was an ornately carved silver bangle on his right wrist, the one that was attached to the hand playing in the water, and a snow white toga skirt of sorts that had a bright stripe of gold which started an inch or so above the hem.
She was so engrossed in her perusal of him, Rin didn't notice the man's head turned in her direction. She didn't notice the smile that crossed his face as he finally deigned to note her presence. A smile betrayed that he knew who she was, why, she was there, what she'd been looking at, and much more. A smile that had seen more than anyone could know.
"Hmm, when God sent me down here he never told me how utterly delicious my reason for being here would be." Another smile gleamed as Rin jerked in surprise. Startled sapphire eyes flew up to meet a twinkling molten gold. "This is going to be so much fun."
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Alright, as promised, this is the first in MANY revisions that my stories are going to undergo, hopefully you guys have stuck around and will read up on the changes I'm making to them. If you don't, who knows what new goodies you may miss! ;)