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Credits: All the credits for beta this chapter is to Kin756894, without her help, you would not be reading this fanfic now.
The Heart of an Angel
Prologue
"Hey…. Why are you crying…? My beautiful angel?" The woman whispered, smiling softly and weakly. Her hand covered with blood raised itself to settle against the pale cheek of the angel by her side, her fingers beginning a light caress in a silent comfort.
The angel could not help but let more tears stream down on her face, while her unique sapphire eyes glanced at the wound on the woman's chest. She then looked back at her hazel eyes; the woman could see the guilt within them, seeing deep within the angel's soul.
"Please… don't blame yourself… for the choice I've made…" The woman pleaded, and after losing her remaining strength, her hand left the woman's pale face to rest again against the cold soil, leaving bloody fingers marks on the angel's porcelain skin.
The angel closed her eyes. Her hands carefully lifted the woman's head and placed it on her lap, starting a soft caress against her brown hair, while her lips, trembling, asked to the woman in something more than a whisper.
"Why?"
"Because… you are someone… very important to me…"
"How can you care so much for someone like me?" The angel asked softly, her hand now stroking the woman's very pale cheek. "I was sent from the skies to live here with the humans forever! And to protect them I lost everything I had there, and my judgment for all those sins around me just make me hate the humans more and more, the humans who I need to care about…"
"I'm glad you're here…" The woman whispered, the sapphire eyes looking at her with a mixture of confusion and surprise in them. "Because of God… I could meet you…"
"Meeting me will make you die here in my arms!" The angel stated in desperation. "If only I could have stopped this! Stopped you from finding me that day..."
"I don't care... I am a human…. And still... you stayed at my side," The woman in the angel's lap closed her eyes for a second, opening them again to look up at her caring, sad sapphire eyes. "It's true... we hate... we destroy... we became jealous... we commit sins... we kill... we can't help but do those things... because we are humans.... But... because of that... we can be happy... we can be sad... we can help... we can have faith... we can love..."
"I..."
"Please... don't hate the humans.... Learn with them... and someday... I think that you can... go back to your home..."
The angel looked in the woman eyes, sincerity could clearly be seen in those hazel eyes…. But the angel looked deeply, and found something that shocked her, something that for the first time she had saw with such a sincere force in a humans eyes. Love.
"My only regret… is that I could not… stay here longer… with you…" The woman with hazel eyes started to cry. This, she knew, was her last goodbye. "If destiny would let me… if I could life once more… in another time… I would come… to find… you… again… I love… you…"
The angel's eyes widened, and the woman in her lap closed her hazel eyes for the last time, and ceased to open them again.
The angel looked at the body in her arms. She no longer cared about the world, or the tears that had not stopped since what happened. She embraced the woman's body with all the strength she had, the white wings on her back covering the both their bodies, one hot like fire and one cold like ice.
For the first time since the day the angel stayed on Earth, she learned something with the humans besides hate; she learned what love is, and the pain of losing someone very precious to her.
…
"Sachiko-sama?" The servant of the Ogasawara mansion knocked on the door, before entering inside the room.
"What do you want, Keiko?" The woman on the bed looked from the book in her hands to the girl who entered in the room.
"It's already time for school, Sachiko-sama." The woman gracefully nodded and dismissed the girl who soon left the room, leaving the woman alone.
"Another day, I see…" She whispered to herself, closing the book and putting it back on the bookshelf. It was a really good book in her opinion, but sadly she will need to read it again another hour; she has her duties with the society to fulfill.
After some minutes, the woman looked at herself in the mirror. Her elegant porcelain skin, in a strange way, matched with the catholic school Lillian Girls' Academy uniform. Her long, dark hair, falling like a cascade on her back, but letting some black strands cover her unique sapphire eyes, but not thoroughly to hide their beauty from the world.
"It's already been two years since I started attending this academy…" She spoke softly, thinking.
After some minutes, Sachiko put her things into her schoolbag and exited her room. The driver of her personal car was probably waiting for her.
...
"No matter how many times I enter this school, it always surprises me!" The girl said to herself, smiling happily while she walked into Lillian Girl's Academy one more time.
One month and some days more the girl with hazel eyes started her first year into her new school, after her family bought a new house in the city. She had never studied in a school just for girls before, and when she discovered the rosary system, the girl was curious if one day she would have a sister like the majority of the first year girls in the Lillian Girl's Academy.
"But still… I'm so new here…"
...
"It's okay here. Thank you, Kotaro." Sachiko spoke gently to her driver who smiled and stopped the car close to the school entrance.
Sachiko, some minutes afterwards, was walking on the entrance path, like everyday, smiling gently and talking with the girls on her way to the Maria-sama statue.
"Good morning Rosa Chinensis en bouton!" They said; she could only answer to them.
"Good morning."
"Meoow."
The woman looked curiously at a nearby tree and her sapphire eyes found a small cat playing with a little leaf. The white cat with green eyes looked at her and, a little afraid of the stranger, he tried to flee from the place but got trapped in a shrub.
Sachiko approached the small creature and, while smiling, she gently took him from his prison and placed the cat on her lap, running her fingers on his head softly.
"You should be more careful, little one." She whispered, and he looked at her in a curious way.
"Meow?"
"That's right." The woman smiled and looked around the place where she noticed she was practically alone. "I need to go now or I will be late."
"Meoow…" The small feline looked at her in a sad way when Sachiko picked him up from her lap and placed him back on the ground.
"Don't look at me like that, little one. You should go back to your family; maybe your mother is worried about you." The woman spoke softly making the small cat look down in an expression that a human would say that he was thinking. "Have a good day."
Sachiko started to walk again and when she was in front of Maria-sama statue, she put her hands together and started a pray.
"I wish that something new would happen today…" She whispered to the statue, when suddenly she heard someone scream.
"OH MY GOD!!!! I NEED TO HURRY OR I WILL BE LATE!!!!!" The woman with sapphire eyes turned around, surprised that someone would scream like that in a place like Lillian Girl's Academy, but a little too late. Someone bumped into her and both of them fell on the ground.
"Ouch…" A soft voice whispered.
What…?
Her sapphire eyes widened when the woman understood the situation.
There was a girl on top of her!
Sachiko started to get up into a sitting position and the other girl seated at her side, confused about what had happened seconds ago. Soon, both of them looked at each other, and sapphire eyes locked with hazel. Shock could be read in both women's expressions.
"This is impossible…" Sachiko whispered to herself.
Yumi…?