Fallen Angel
By Misaki Sakura
Chapter 1 : The Cat in Astray
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom named Weiss with Takatori Shuichi as the king, code Persia, on the island of White Hunters. To the far west of the island there's also a kingdom named Schwarz with Takatori Reiji as the king. Though they're brothers, for some reasons they hated each other. But ... we'll not discuss it here.
Anyway, in the Weiss kingdom, there're four people called the Crusaders. The members were, as we all know, Fujimiya Ran as the leader, Hidaka Ken, Tsukiyono Omi, and Kudou Youji. Unfortunately, they were in the middle of a crisis. Siberian, Ken, was missing.
Okay, now we'll go to the residence of the moody redhead, Fujimiya Ran. As usual, he was practicing with his katana in his special room. He swung his katana straight at a doll with Takatori Reiji's name written on it. One of his hobbies whenever he's irritated.
And that day he was damn well irritated by the constant dreams of Ken. His lover, Ken, who'd gone with no traces. He who'd left on a mission and hadn't returned ever since. The same Ken who had said that he would come back soon. But he didn't.
They had announced his death but there's no way Ran would believe that. Not before he saw his body right before his eyes. He's gone, not dead. At least that's the only hope that he clung unto and kept deep within his heart. Ran believed that Takatori Reiji's responsible for Ken's missing. That's why he had proposed to declare a war to Persia who rejected right away.
"Abyssinian, Siberian's not there. We've checked and there's even no proof that he'd been there."
That's what he said. Calm down, Ran. That's easy for them to say that. No one felt this grief except him. Well, he tried so hard to calm down. He wouldn't cry, he knew that he wouldn't, if Ken really was dead. But he wanted a proof. A proof that would make him sure. But Persia wouldn't let him. He might be too afraid to lose another one of his best soldiers.
"Ran-kun, are you finished yet?" Omi's head plopped from behind the door. He and Youji picked him regularly since Ken's missing. Probably they thought he would kill himself if they didn't. Ran smiled bitterly at that thought.
"Almost."
"Then make it quick. We don't have all day to wait for you. We need to report to the castle, you know? Persia calls us."
"And who told you to wait for me, Kudou? You go first. I'll catch up with you later."
"No, Ran-kun. We'll wait." Omi replied quickly. He mentally kicked Youji. What a baka. What if Ran-kun didn't come to the castle? He'd probably stay in that room all day, thinking about Ken-kun.
The cute genki little Omi, Ran thought. He was the mother hen of the team. Well, except his lost lover but a mother hen all the same. Omi was Ken's best friend and he was their 'matchmaker'. Ran knew pretty well that Omi was really, really sad when he heard about Ken's dead. No, not dead. Missing. Yeah, missing.
With one graceful move, he sheathed his katana and got dressed. Then he went with Omi and Youji to the castle. Persia was sitting in his throne. Manx sat beside him.
"Your highness ..."
"Lord Fujimiya, I believe I have to give you these."
Ran stepped closer and shocked when he saw the things Persia's holding. They were Ken's bugnuks, his favourite weapons.
"These are ... Ken's ..."
"Yes. Our informants found them near the pile of the burnt down houses he was investigating. Since they didn't see them before, we assumed that they were thrown there about a week ago. So someone ..."
"Must've found him ... and ..."
"We don't know yet. But be prepared for the worst news."
"I'm sorry for my harsh language, Your Majesty, but you have announced his death. I'm very well prepared for anything."
He nodded. "I know."
Then they did they routine. Nothing's special, except for that Sakura girl ... er ... princess, pestering Ran wherever he went. If it hadn't been for Persia, he would have killed this annoying girl long time ago. Hell with Manx's weeping! How could she bear such an annoying girl?! Wait, she was annoying too. He wore his scowls all day near her but she didn't even flinch. When she knew that Ken's missing, she nearly jumped in excitement. Little did she know that there's no way, no way in hell she would be able to penetrate the icy façade of the stoic redhead.
As he walked home, he heard something suspiciously sounded like a cat's meow. "Do you hear anything, Omi?"
"Yeah, Ran-kun. But that's only a cat."
"I know but ..."
"But what, Ran?"
He didn't know how to say it. How could he say that he felt he knew that sound so well? The image of Ken floated in his mind. That's ridiculous. What's a cat had to do with Ken? He thought that he started to go crazy. Suddenly before he could get his mind straight, he noticed something jumped onto his face.
"Ran-kun!"
He grabbed whatever it was and held it in front of his face. The sight shocked him. A cat. A stray cat with brown fur and brown eyes which were staring intensely at him. And if that was not his imagination then the cat was actually pouting.
"Anou, Ran-kun ..."
"I know, Omi." With that, he put it in his embrace. "I'll bring it home."
Omi and Youji were surprised but they kept silence. It was good that finally Ran could interest in something so he wouldn't keep mourning about his life and his Ken.
"Okay, Ran-kun. We'll go home now. See you tomorrow." Omi waved at him and left with Youji.
Ran sighed and said, "Okay, now we're going home. Whoever you are."
The cat shifted in his arms and purred. Still, it sounded awfully familiar. In confusion, he brought the cat into his house. After cleaning it and taking a bath, he sat in front of the fireplace with the cat on his lap and patted its head.
"Now what am I going to do with you? You need a name."
The cat jumped down from his lap and scratched something on the floor. He leaned forward to see what it was doing. He blinked in surprise. The cat could write. Even though the word was hardly seen.
"K ... e ... n .... Ken?"
The cat nodded vigorously (A/N : I don't know if a cat can actually nod). Ran was still blinking. Okay, the cat wrote ... wrote Ken's name when he was thinking about giving it a name. The cat wrote it, damn it!! A real cat couldn't write. So ... that meant ... this was not a real cat. Simple but a crazy answer. From whichever sides he saw it, it's still a cat.
Looking impatiently, it jumped onto his lap once more. The redhead's amethyst eyes met with intense brown eyes and realization hit him. Those eyes looked just like Ken's. The relief he was feeling with Ken's presence ... the same he was feeling then.
"Ken? Is it really you?" he lifted it and held it close in front of his face. Suddenly, it jumped and stole a kiss from the stunned Ran. And boof!! Smoke's everywhere (A/N : Remember Fruit Basket? It looks just like it).
Ran rubbed his stinging eyes and blinked for the umpteenth time that day. And in only several hours. There stood in front of him a very naked Ken, who didn't seem to realize that he didn't wear anything.
"It's about time you recognize that it's been me! I was freezing outside! What took you so long?!"
Ran opened his mouth to reply but nothing came out. Ken put his hands on his hips. When he felt his cold skin against his palms, he was aware that he was bare-naked. He eeped and blushed, his hand tried to reach anything that could cover him. Now he knew what made Ran couldn't say a word.
"Ke ... Ken, you ... you're ... really Ken?"
"Yes! Please give me that blanket. It's cold!!"
He handed the blanket to Ken and went to their bedroom to take proper clothes for Ken. "Here, wear these."
Ran watched him as he slipped his hands into the sleeves of the sweater. "So ... what ... happened?"
"I don't know." He answered in muffled voice as he tried to pull his head out of the sweater. No such luck. Ran sighed and helped him, tugging the sweater down.
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know. The house I was investigating was on fire. I was trying to get out when suddenly, kaboom!! I heard a loud blast and was thrown out of the house. I fainted.
"When I regained my consciousness, I was in the middle of garbage outside a small town near that house, as a cat. I tried to ride in the carriage but they kicked me out. Fortunately, a girl found me and bathed me. She then ... kissed me and I turned normal, which of course made her freaked out.
"Then I know I can turn into a cat when I am soaked and turned normal ..."
"With a kiss. Sounds more like a fairytale to me."
"Yeah, me too. Anyway, I'm back now. Do you miss me?" he leaned closer to Ran. Ran rolled his eyes and decided to tease him.
"No."
He felt Ken's body stiffened. Suppressing his chuckles, he cupped Ken's face in his hands. "I'm desperate to see you."
Ken grinned widely and pecked a kiss on Ran's lips that he responded by pulling Ken closer to him. It'd been two months, two long months that felt like two centuries and he missed him so bad. They were to busy making out when suddenly the door sprang open and ...
"Ran-san, I want to see you so I ..." a gasp, loud one.
Both Ran and Ken turned their head in unison. Before the door stood the nosy princess, Sakura.
"I ... uh, ... Ken ... -san ..."
She fainted.
"Oops. Maybe we're a bit too ... you know."
"No. She thought that you're dead." He said, examining the girl that lied on the floor with shocked face.
"So she thought that she saw a ghost? That's funny." He chuckled.
"Not at all. Take her to the couch."
"Aye, aye, sir." Ken said, sighing. Two months and his lover hadn't changed a bit. Well, two months was rather short for changing a person's habit. Especially someone as cold as Ran. Um ... he's not that cold to Ken, but still ...
After a few grumbling, he managed to get Sakura on the couch. Okay, that girl didn't look fat but what made her far heavier than Omi?! He played with Omi sometimes, like pouncing him or playing catch with Youji (Omi's the ball) and he'd never been that heavy.
"Ken ..."
"What?" he asked, hands on his hips. "You want to be left alone here with her?!"
"Ken ..." this time, he's growling in irritation.
"What?!"
"Do you want her to be all hysterical when she's awake?"
"... No."
"Then go to the bedroom first. I'll catch up with you later."
Ken grumbled but obeyed. There's no way he could protest when Ran looked at him with those eyes. His patented glare. Even Ken's not immune with that. Sometimes he felt that Ran could kill anybody he wanted with just looking at them. Creepy.
So, if Ran didn't want her to see him and pretended that it was a hallucination then that meant Ran didn't want her to know that he's alive. Why was that? Did he have some things with Sakura when he's away? Ken decided that he had to have a serious talk with his koi. But not now, he thought when sleep started to take over him.
Meanwhile, Ran was too busy waking the princess up. What did she want, visiting him this late? It must've been very important. Or maybe not. This girl was as annoying as hell. Plus, she's a princess, a spoilt one to be exact. She didn't need any reasons to barge into anyone's room without even knocking.
"Wake up, Princess Sakura."
Slowly, her eyes fluttered open. Cute, Ran thought, but not as cute as Ken. He believed that he had to make this quick and return to his koi. Two months were really a long time.
"Ow, Ran-san ..." she got up and sat on the couch. "What happened?"
"You fainted."
"I know that. Ran-san, ... I think I saw Ken-san here ... but it can't be, right? He's dead."
Ran really wanted to shut this girl up. If he had to explain, it would take very long time for her to understand so he decided to postpone the explanation.
"I'll go to the castle tomorrow to tell this to King Persia. Do you have anything that you want to tell me?"
"Nothing's special." She blushed. "I just want to see you."
Ran growled. She interrupted him because of that?! They met that morning! Wasn't that enough for her?! But he kept himself calm. Well, as calm as a grumpy Ran could.
"If there's nothing, then I'll escort you to the castle."
"No need. I've told my mother, the Queen, that I'll sleep over here."
"You what?!!"
She was taken aback by Ran's yell. "I'm sorry but I want to be with you."
Sighing, he called his servant to prepare a room for the princess to stay. She protested since the room was so far from Ran's but to no avail. It's enough that he had to deal with her at work. He didn't want to deal with her in his house. There, he ruled. Even though she's a princess, she couldn't do anything there.
Some time before midnight, he finally went to his bedroom. He was opening his mouth to call Ken when he saw him lying on their bed. His mouth was tightly shut. That made him looked even cuter.
"Tired are you, Kenken?" Ran sat on his side of bed and kissed his cheek. Then he pulled the blanket and covered them with it.
"I think I need some sleep too."
TBC
A/N : I decide to use this title at last. Maybe I won't have any
connection with the story but I like the way it sounds. Do you like
this? Or hate this? Please tell me what you think. Oh, and sorry if I
make Sakura so ... annoying. I'm not her fans actually and I really
don't like her with Ran/Aya. I prefer Ran x Ken!
By Misaki Sakura
Chapter 1 : The Cat in Astray
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom named Weiss with Takatori Shuichi as the king, code Persia, on the island of White Hunters. To the far west of the island there's also a kingdom named Schwarz with Takatori Reiji as the king. Though they're brothers, for some reasons they hated each other. But ... we'll not discuss it here.
Anyway, in the Weiss kingdom, there're four people called the Crusaders. The members were, as we all know, Fujimiya Ran as the leader, Hidaka Ken, Tsukiyono Omi, and Kudou Youji. Unfortunately, they were in the middle of a crisis. Siberian, Ken, was missing.
Okay, now we'll go to the residence of the moody redhead, Fujimiya Ran. As usual, he was practicing with his katana in his special room. He swung his katana straight at a doll with Takatori Reiji's name written on it. One of his hobbies whenever he's irritated.
And that day he was damn well irritated by the constant dreams of Ken. His lover, Ken, who'd gone with no traces. He who'd left on a mission and hadn't returned ever since. The same Ken who had said that he would come back soon. But he didn't.
They had announced his death but there's no way Ran would believe that. Not before he saw his body right before his eyes. He's gone, not dead. At least that's the only hope that he clung unto and kept deep within his heart. Ran believed that Takatori Reiji's responsible for Ken's missing. That's why he had proposed to declare a war to Persia who rejected right away.
"Abyssinian, Siberian's not there. We've checked and there's even no proof that he'd been there."
That's what he said. Calm down, Ran. That's easy for them to say that. No one felt this grief except him. Well, he tried so hard to calm down. He wouldn't cry, he knew that he wouldn't, if Ken really was dead. But he wanted a proof. A proof that would make him sure. But Persia wouldn't let him. He might be too afraid to lose another one of his best soldiers.
"Ran-kun, are you finished yet?" Omi's head plopped from behind the door. He and Youji picked him regularly since Ken's missing. Probably they thought he would kill himself if they didn't. Ran smiled bitterly at that thought.
"Almost."
"Then make it quick. We don't have all day to wait for you. We need to report to the castle, you know? Persia calls us."
"And who told you to wait for me, Kudou? You go first. I'll catch up with you later."
"No, Ran-kun. We'll wait." Omi replied quickly. He mentally kicked Youji. What a baka. What if Ran-kun didn't come to the castle? He'd probably stay in that room all day, thinking about Ken-kun.
The cute genki little Omi, Ran thought. He was the mother hen of the team. Well, except his lost lover but a mother hen all the same. Omi was Ken's best friend and he was their 'matchmaker'. Ran knew pretty well that Omi was really, really sad when he heard about Ken's dead. No, not dead. Missing. Yeah, missing.
With one graceful move, he sheathed his katana and got dressed. Then he went with Omi and Youji to the castle. Persia was sitting in his throne. Manx sat beside him.
"Your highness ..."
"Lord Fujimiya, I believe I have to give you these."
Ran stepped closer and shocked when he saw the things Persia's holding. They were Ken's bugnuks, his favourite weapons.
"These are ... Ken's ..."
"Yes. Our informants found them near the pile of the burnt down houses he was investigating. Since they didn't see them before, we assumed that they were thrown there about a week ago. So someone ..."
"Must've found him ... and ..."
"We don't know yet. But be prepared for the worst news."
"I'm sorry for my harsh language, Your Majesty, but you have announced his death. I'm very well prepared for anything."
He nodded. "I know."
Then they did they routine. Nothing's special, except for that Sakura girl ... er ... princess, pestering Ran wherever he went. If it hadn't been for Persia, he would have killed this annoying girl long time ago. Hell with Manx's weeping! How could she bear such an annoying girl?! Wait, she was annoying too. He wore his scowls all day near her but she didn't even flinch. When she knew that Ken's missing, she nearly jumped in excitement. Little did she know that there's no way, no way in hell she would be able to penetrate the icy façade of the stoic redhead.
As he walked home, he heard something suspiciously sounded like a cat's meow. "Do you hear anything, Omi?"
"Yeah, Ran-kun. But that's only a cat."
"I know but ..."
"But what, Ran?"
He didn't know how to say it. How could he say that he felt he knew that sound so well? The image of Ken floated in his mind. That's ridiculous. What's a cat had to do with Ken? He thought that he started to go crazy. Suddenly before he could get his mind straight, he noticed something jumped onto his face.
"Ran-kun!"
He grabbed whatever it was and held it in front of his face. The sight shocked him. A cat. A stray cat with brown fur and brown eyes which were staring intensely at him. And if that was not his imagination then the cat was actually pouting.
"Anou, Ran-kun ..."
"I know, Omi." With that, he put it in his embrace. "I'll bring it home."
Omi and Youji were surprised but they kept silence. It was good that finally Ran could interest in something so he wouldn't keep mourning about his life and his Ken.
"Okay, Ran-kun. We'll go home now. See you tomorrow." Omi waved at him and left with Youji.
Ran sighed and said, "Okay, now we're going home. Whoever you are."
The cat shifted in his arms and purred. Still, it sounded awfully familiar. In confusion, he brought the cat into his house. After cleaning it and taking a bath, he sat in front of the fireplace with the cat on his lap and patted its head.
"Now what am I going to do with you? You need a name."
The cat jumped down from his lap and scratched something on the floor. He leaned forward to see what it was doing. He blinked in surprise. The cat could write. Even though the word was hardly seen.
"K ... e ... n .... Ken?"
The cat nodded vigorously (A/N : I don't know if a cat can actually nod). Ran was still blinking. Okay, the cat wrote ... wrote Ken's name when he was thinking about giving it a name. The cat wrote it, damn it!! A real cat couldn't write. So ... that meant ... this was not a real cat. Simple but a crazy answer. From whichever sides he saw it, it's still a cat.
Looking impatiently, it jumped onto his lap once more. The redhead's amethyst eyes met with intense brown eyes and realization hit him. Those eyes looked just like Ken's. The relief he was feeling with Ken's presence ... the same he was feeling then.
"Ken? Is it really you?" he lifted it and held it close in front of his face. Suddenly, it jumped and stole a kiss from the stunned Ran. And boof!! Smoke's everywhere (A/N : Remember Fruit Basket? It looks just like it).
Ran rubbed his stinging eyes and blinked for the umpteenth time that day. And in only several hours. There stood in front of him a very naked Ken, who didn't seem to realize that he didn't wear anything.
"It's about time you recognize that it's been me! I was freezing outside! What took you so long?!"
Ran opened his mouth to reply but nothing came out. Ken put his hands on his hips. When he felt his cold skin against his palms, he was aware that he was bare-naked. He eeped and blushed, his hand tried to reach anything that could cover him. Now he knew what made Ran couldn't say a word.
"Ke ... Ken, you ... you're ... really Ken?"
"Yes! Please give me that blanket. It's cold!!"
He handed the blanket to Ken and went to their bedroom to take proper clothes for Ken. "Here, wear these."
Ran watched him as he slipped his hands into the sleeves of the sweater. "So ... what ... happened?"
"I don't know." He answered in muffled voice as he tried to pull his head out of the sweater. No such luck. Ran sighed and helped him, tugging the sweater down.
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know. The house I was investigating was on fire. I was trying to get out when suddenly, kaboom!! I heard a loud blast and was thrown out of the house. I fainted.
"When I regained my consciousness, I was in the middle of garbage outside a small town near that house, as a cat. I tried to ride in the carriage but they kicked me out. Fortunately, a girl found me and bathed me. She then ... kissed me and I turned normal, which of course made her freaked out.
"Then I know I can turn into a cat when I am soaked and turned normal ..."
"With a kiss. Sounds more like a fairytale to me."
"Yeah, me too. Anyway, I'm back now. Do you miss me?" he leaned closer to Ran. Ran rolled his eyes and decided to tease him.
"No."
He felt Ken's body stiffened. Suppressing his chuckles, he cupped Ken's face in his hands. "I'm desperate to see you."
Ken grinned widely and pecked a kiss on Ran's lips that he responded by pulling Ken closer to him. It'd been two months, two long months that felt like two centuries and he missed him so bad. They were to busy making out when suddenly the door sprang open and ...
"Ran-san, I want to see you so I ..." a gasp, loud one.
Both Ran and Ken turned their head in unison. Before the door stood the nosy princess, Sakura.
"I ... uh, ... Ken ... -san ..."
She fainted.
"Oops. Maybe we're a bit too ... you know."
"No. She thought that you're dead." He said, examining the girl that lied on the floor with shocked face.
"So she thought that she saw a ghost? That's funny." He chuckled.
"Not at all. Take her to the couch."
"Aye, aye, sir." Ken said, sighing. Two months and his lover hadn't changed a bit. Well, two months was rather short for changing a person's habit. Especially someone as cold as Ran. Um ... he's not that cold to Ken, but still ...
After a few grumbling, he managed to get Sakura on the couch. Okay, that girl didn't look fat but what made her far heavier than Omi?! He played with Omi sometimes, like pouncing him or playing catch with Youji (Omi's the ball) and he'd never been that heavy.
"Ken ..."
"What?" he asked, hands on his hips. "You want to be left alone here with her?!"
"Ken ..." this time, he's growling in irritation.
"What?!"
"Do you want her to be all hysterical when she's awake?"
"... No."
"Then go to the bedroom first. I'll catch up with you later."
Ken grumbled but obeyed. There's no way he could protest when Ran looked at him with those eyes. His patented glare. Even Ken's not immune with that. Sometimes he felt that Ran could kill anybody he wanted with just looking at them. Creepy.
So, if Ran didn't want her to see him and pretended that it was a hallucination then that meant Ran didn't want her to know that he's alive. Why was that? Did he have some things with Sakura when he's away? Ken decided that he had to have a serious talk with his koi. But not now, he thought when sleep started to take over him.
Meanwhile, Ran was too busy waking the princess up. What did she want, visiting him this late? It must've been very important. Or maybe not. This girl was as annoying as hell. Plus, she's a princess, a spoilt one to be exact. She didn't need any reasons to barge into anyone's room without even knocking.
"Wake up, Princess Sakura."
Slowly, her eyes fluttered open. Cute, Ran thought, but not as cute as Ken. He believed that he had to make this quick and return to his koi. Two months were really a long time.
"Ow, Ran-san ..." she got up and sat on the couch. "What happened?"
"You fainted."
"I know that. Ran-san, ... I think I saw Ken-san here ... but it can't be, right? He's dead."
Ran really wanted to shut this girl up. If he had to explain, it would take very long time for her to understand so he decided to postpone the explanation.
"I'll go to the castle tomorrow to tell this to King Persia. Do you have anything that you want to tell me?"
"Nothing's special." She blushed. "I just want to see you."
Ran growled. She interrupted him because of that?! They met that morning! Wasn't that enough for her?! But he kept himself calm. Well, as calm as a grumpy Ran could.
"If there's nothing, then I'll escort you to the castle."
"No need. I've told my mother, the Queen, that I'll sleep over here."
"You what?!!"
She was taken aback by Ran's yell. "I'm sorry but I want to be with you."
Sighing, he called his servant to prepare a room for the princess to stay. She protested since the room was so far from Ran's but to no avail. It's enough that he had to deal with her at work. He didn't want to deal with her in his house. There, he ruled. Even though she's a princess, she couldn't do anything there.
Some time before midnight, he finally went to his bedroom. He was opening his mouth to call Ken when he saw him lying on their bed. His mouth was tightly shut. That made him looked even cuter.
"Tired are you, Kenken?" Ran sat on his side of bed and kissed his cheek. Then he pulled the blanket and covered them with it.
"I think I need some sleep too."
TBC
A/N : I decide to use this title at last. Maybe I won't have any
connection with the story but I like the way it sounds. Do you like
this? Or hate this? Please tell me what you think. Oh, and sorry if I
make Sakura so ... annoying. I'm not her fans actually and I really
don't like her with Ran/Aya. I prefer Ran x Ken!
