DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha OR D N Angel
OUTCAST
CHAPTER 1
Escape
Dark peered around a corner, looking both ways. 'Good, the coast is clear,' the fifteen-year-old thought to himself as he tip-toed across the lavish hallway to the exit. Before he reached his destination, however, a loud voice boomed from one of the rooms close-by.
"Dark! Get your ass back here NOW!!" It was King Takeshi.
'Crap!' Dark looked around quickly and after seeing one of the many secret passage entrances, hedodged into it.
"Now where has that wretched boy gone?!" Queen Hio's voice sounded.
"He's probably hiding in one of the rooms." King Takeshi's voicewas angry and impatient.
Dark flinched before he crept down the stairs inside the passage-way as quietly as possible. So why was he running from his so called parents besides the fact that they hate and despise him? Well...
-FLASHBACK-
The day started off as any normal, boring day at the Mousy Mansion. Queen Hio and King Takeshi were in a morning meeting with some random country's representative asking for money, Krad was across the counrty on some trip, and Dark was in his room being tutored by yet another reluctant person. They knew what he was and didn't much want to be near him, which was all the same to him, he was used to being ignored. No one acted like he even existed if it was at all possible. Even the maids and butlers refused to have anything to do with him.
'Ugh, why the hell do I have to tutor this... this thing?! Does he even need to learn anything?' The tutor thought to himself as he tried to teach the stubborn teen. "Now, recite the anthem."
Dark glanced at the man, then returned to staring out the open window, and spit outside hoping it would land on someone. "I don't feel like it. You don't even want to be here, so why don't you just leave? Ignore me like the rest of the world?"
"I would if I could mons- er, boy." The man protested hotly as he slammed his books shut.
Dark's expression saddened a bit. 'Monster... eh? Heh, I guess I should be used to being called that by now...' He may act tough, rebelious, indifferent... but inside he's constantly hurting. No one accepts him, not even his... not even Queen Hioor King Takeshi.
"Tch. I'm tired of this. Don't count on me coming back, you don't even listen anyway and I'm tired of being forced to be near something like you." The tutor bit out before standing and stomping out the door.
Sad eyes watch birds fly with each other. White birds, brown birds, grey birds... even black birds flew among the others. And they were accepted, even though they had different color wings. Dark stood and walked over to a mirror, letting his ebony wings grow form his back. He glared at the reflection and grabbed something off the desk, throwing it at the mirror. 'I hate being so different.' His wings retracted into his back once more. He followed his ex-tutor's previous path and stalked out the door, just quieter. 'The King and Queen are still in a meeting, so I think I'll go listen in on what they're talking about to get my mind off this crap.'
Walking down the silent halls as the maids and butlers dodged back into the rooms they were attending, he came up to an elaborately decorated double door. He slowly pulled on the knob and let it drift soundlessly open, before slipping insde and shutting it again. Good. No staff was allowed past here for fear they would eavesdrop and hear something they weren't supposed to. Quickly, he snuck down the hall to the main meeting room and placed his ear upon the door, listening intently through the cracks in the wood.
..."So we should meet you atthe harbor just before dawn?" It was the King's voice.
"Yes. Meet me there and I will take that thing off your hands for good. You won't have to deal with it any longer." Ah. That must be the neighboring Docks country, favored for their fish cuisine.
"Finally, we'll be rid of that horrid boy!" The Queen's voice joined in.
"Hm, and you will pay well? After all, carrying cursed cargo on our ships will be no easy task to swallow for my crew-mates."
'What...? Wait a minute... cursed cargo? ME?!'Dark's eyes widened. 'They're... they're shipping me off?! What-no! What did I ever do to them?!' he thought frantically. All of a sudden he heard the slight scraping fo chairs, letting him know they were about to leave the room. The door opened before he had the chance to get away, and there stood King Takeshi.
"What are you doing out here?! You should be getting tutored, no matter how useless it is for you!!" He yelled.
"Were you eavesdropping on our conversation?!" The Queen cut in next.
And then... Dark ran.
-FLASHBACK END-
Dark kept walking and walking until he finally found the end of the passage-way. He grinned triumphantly as he opened the door. Snow blew in as the cold wind bit at his cheeks and fingers. Freedom. Shooting out into the snow-covered land, but stopped at the gates of the mansion. 'Oh no! I don't have any food or anything!'
"There he is!!" King Takeshi's voice was almost un-heared from the wind outside.
'Ergh, I'll have to do without...' He ran through the gates and into the forest.
The King and the Ambassador form the other country ran out into the cold and stopped at the gates.
"He's gone into the forest! Should we go after him?!" The ambassador shouted over the wind.
"No. He'll soon die out in this cold with no food, no water, and he won't find his way out. He's never been out of the mansion before." A dark smile appeared on the King's face. "He won't be troubling us anymore."
