Summary: It's not my first fic ever, but it's the first one I'm putting in here. If it's good, then MAYBE I'll be brave enough to put those other stories in here. So, to be exact, this is a Taito story, though Yamato AND Taichi are OOC in this. Don't kill me. I can handle flames, but only if they are from the nice people who just want to tell me that "Don't write anymore, you just don't have it in you". Just read, all right?

Disclaimer: Not mine, no money. It's obvious, isn't it?

FOREVER TOGETHER

By LonelyWalker

Epilogue:

By the when the Paradise was young and the angels still lived among the humans, lower creations of The Great Immortal, they had only one rule: Never fall in love. Falling in love was for humans, destined to die. These immortal creatures loved the human race from far, because their nature was to love and their hearts longed to play with the careless children, born with innocence in their hearts. The paradise was young and it stayed untouchable for ages.

But it all had to end sometimes, like all too good does. This story tells about Yamato, an angel born from all the love and the beauty the Paradise held inside, and Taichi, the human child who made him break the ancient rule of the Children of The Great One. Yamato planted the first seed of change into the calm eeriness of Eden, the Paradise of our dreams. His punishment from falling in love, was supposed to be a warning to all of his kind, but the cause was terrible. The Eden was cut in half and while the other half stayed untouched by the hands of time earning to be called Heaven, the other became the tomb of our hopes and dreams; Hell.

THE FIRST MEETING

"Taichi, don't run too far today", his mother warned him strictly. "There is Light in the air; an angel is going to born."

"Okay, mom!" the wild boy shouted running away. I wanna see it, he thought firmly by himself. I'm going to be the first human ever to an angel born! He ran as fast as he could towards the place he had found earlier in the week. The idea had obsessed him. He completely had to see the event the elders spoke in their stories. "I don't see any reason why it is forbidden to see an angel born!" he breathed to himself as he jumped over a large stone. Then he was there.

The light was as bright as ever in the cave under the Holy Waterfalls. Taichi didn't hesitate; he walked carefully through the falling water to the bright cave. He needed to see his angel almost desperately. On the crystal altar laid the purest thing The Immortal Spirit had ever created. Taichi wouldn't ever have assumed him to be human even if he hadn't got those large white wings on his back. Nothing else but an angel could be so beautiful, so absolutely perfect. Golden hair fell down on the figure's snow white shoulders sparkling in the glimmering light. Taichi walked to the angel and touched his hand lovingly. "Yamato..." he whispered fondly.

Suddenly the light became so burning that Taichi had to squeeze his eyes shut to prevent him from blinding. He crumpled backwards away from the heavenly being until he felt the cool wall against his back. When the light faded enough for him to open his eyes he found himself from staring into deep blue eyes, bluer than anything he had ever seen. The angel bent his head down on one side and waited for him to the next move. When he took one hesitant step closer to the being, those blue eyes widened in sudden fear. Taichi stopped immediately and stayed where he was looking at the lovely creature. He was as old as Taichi, judging by the way he looked like. "Don't be afraid", he whispered gently. "I mean you no harm, I promise you. I just want to see you closer."

He took another step, when it seemed the angel had nothing against it. The perfect head rose higher to look at him straighter. He didn't stop talking. After all, he had experience of speaking to the scared animals before. "My name is Taichi. I'm a human, unlike you. I'm sixteen years old from day after tomorrow. Can you tell me your name?" There was an awkward silence followed by his words. He singed after a while dropping his head. "I guess you can't..."

"Yamatel." Taichi's head jumped up in surprise, when the angel spoke. It sounded like the running water and the singing of the birds; it was silent, but still Taichi should have been deaf to not hear what he said. His heart bounded painfully fast in his chest.

"What?" he asked shakily. The laughter that filled the cave hurt his soul beautifully.

"My name is Yamatel. You asked it, didn't you?" the angel answered eyes sparkling out of pure joy of living.

"Can I... Um, call you Yamato?" Taichi asked with wide eyes. Was it a coincidence that the angel owned a name so much like the one he had given him? Yamatel nodded seriously.

"Call me with any name as you want, Taichi", he said. Taichi wanted to dance around the cave out of pure happiness caused by Yamato saying his name. He was finally standing in front of the altar Yamato was laying on. He raised his hand to touch Yamato's cheek. The angel tensed all together in sudden fear but the touch was so gentle and loving that he relaxed soon, closing his heavenly blue eyes.

"We belong together, Yamato", Taichi whispered quietly. Yamato leaned to his hand softly. "Nothing can stop us from being together."

"Forever..." Yamato sighed half asleep. Taichi closed his arms around the angel, feeling the soft feathers caressing his skin.

"Forever together, my Yamato", the brown haired boy promised as Yamato drifted away to the sacred sleep. "My Yamato..." he repeated quietly. Neither of them knew that with their promises they had broken the ancient rules of both races.

An ancient angel, the first one of them all, had said with his first words: "I heard your voice in my long sleep. It called my name and my soul answered your call. My heart and my soul are yours." Because of these words the Holy Spirit had the ancestors of humankind swore an oath to never name an angel and to never watch their sacred rest.

Their meeting happened in secrecy. No one got to know how the most sacred of all the angels lost his heart and soul to a boy, who didn't know what he had done. For that one magical time they were truly happy.

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Just tell me what you think, please. I already have made one version about the end, so I know what's going to happen. I'll put it all in the next chapter.