Angel Kisses

There is an old legend, not widely known, but still held dear to the few that know it. This legend is known as Sovusaku. The sad thing is, even those who know the legend have ceased to believe it, so beautiful and wondrous it is. I think that the new world doesn't believe Tenshi Kokoro because true love and the idea of peace for harmony was lost at the end of the Feudal Era.

Speaking of which, that is where our story begins. This is the actual way the legend went, not after it was told for twelve generations, but how it really was, while it was happening.

It was a beautiful day, the sky a blazing blue. The village of the Demon Exterminators was in a particularly lazy mood. On the steps of one house sat two children, a boy and a girl.

They greatly resembled each other, the girl being a bit older, but sharing the beautiful dark eyes with the younger boy. You might wonder why they so resembled each other. Well, it was because they were brother and sister.

"Sango-chan," the boy said, frowning at his sister. "Why is it that you have a perfect face and yet I have these spots?"

Sango looked at her brother, surprised by the question. "Spots? You mean your freckles?"

He nodded.

"Kohaku, freckles aren't bad! In fact, they make you very unique. And besides, haven't you ever heard the story behind them?"

Kohaku looked up, with bright eyes staring eagerly at Sango. He loved his sister's story telling ability.

"A long time ago, when all the people in the land had fair skin, and it was almost impossible to tell people apart, a young boy was born. He was at first considered very special, because he carried markings on his face that had never been seen before. Can you guess what those are?"

"Freckles?"

"Exactly. So while he was young, his mother and father showed him to all of their friends and family the miracle child. But one day, a very powerful and influential woman saw the child. She was not impressed with his freckles, and so she began to tell people that they were a curse. Do you know why she did that?"

"Because freckles are ugly." Kohaku said with a flat voice that made Sango smile.

"No, because she was jealous. She new that if she had been born with freckles, she would have been as loved as he. In her wicked heart, she wanted to be the boy.

"Nobody wanted to believe her, but they had to because of her reputation. She caused the boy to be vanished from the town. He was very young when he was cast out on his own, only about ten years of age. On the third day after his banishment, he met a tribe of hog demons.

"They had never seen freckles and this made them fear the boy. And fear causes hatred which causes violence, and they attacked the boy. He was no match for them, and he was left to bleed on a path, miles away from anyone."

Kohaku shivered. "What happened? Did he die?"

"The next day, he was nearly dead. But his deafened ears could just make out a faint singing:

Angelic heartache, leave your sweet sign.

Let those who bare it see thy and shine.

Show them a light to set them on their way.

Let them live to the Judgment Day.

And if they should falter in their purest heart

I shall find them and give them a new start.

"The boy had know idea how or why, but he gathered the strength to look at the singer. It was a girl. She was very beautiful. Looking at him with deep sad eyes, she wept a silent tear."

'Haku, for that is your name now, I call you back to the light. I, Tenshi, call you back to the land of the living, and with my crystalline tear, I bind you to me.'

Kohaku's eyes widened. "An angel? She was an angel?"

"Yes. And when her bright tear sank into Haku's chest, he stood.:

'Oh, beautiful Tenshi, are you truly an angel?'

'That I am.'

'Then could you grant me a wish?'

'What is it, and I shall think it over.'

'I wish these freckles would go away.'

Here Tenshi let out a small laugh. 'But why would you want that? Those freckles are no curse. They are protection, they are love, they are peace. They are the kisses of an angel."

Kohaku gasped. "Freckles are angel kisses?"

Sango nodded. "Yes, when someone has freckles, that means an angel thought them special and gave them love and protection. Mostly girls get freckles. In fact Kohaku, you are the first boy to get freckles since Haku himself."

"Wow! That means an angel thought I was worth protecting!"

"But to end the story, Haku and Tenshi stayed together, and to this day they are said to roam around. And you know what having freckles means besides an angel loves you?"

"No, what?"

"It means that you are somehow related to Haku and Tenshi because they had children who shared freckles with their father."

Sango woke with a start from the memory/ dream about the old days with her brother. She looked over at her friends, Inuyasha and Kagome. Silently, she wondered when Sesshoumaru would be back to pick her up.

A/N: Well, that was the first chapter of the second part of the The Wish series. Review and be loved.