Black feathers equals a black heart

Chapter 2


"Is he a human?"

"No he is something else..."

"But he looks like one..."

"He isn't a demon is he!?"

"You idiot! If he was a demon then he could of never had pass through the barrier!"

"And he was chased by demons..."

"That could only have been a facade so that we would trust him!"

"Quiet! If he was a demon then he would be dead by now!"

The boy was slowly regaining consciousness. He could hear the voices from men talking, or he thought it was men. His head was hurting badly and he could just be imagination the whole conversation. At least he knew that he was laying on some kind of bed, either that or they had really comfortable floors in this place.

He didn't know if the owner of the voices were real or not, he hoped they were, kinda. Though he didn't like the way they were talking about him, he hadn't done anything for them to act this way towards him.

The boy didn't know how long he had been out of it, it could have been a few minutes, hours, or maybe days. Not that it matter, all he cared about was that he could still remember everything, and he had nowhere to go anyway, he had no friends nor family in this place.

He suddenly got an uncomfortable feeling, someone was looking at him, but thanks to his body who refused to cooperate could he not open his eyes to see who it was.

The owner of those eyes looked at the form of the small boy with mild interest. He had been one of the men who had seen him coming in through the barrier. A tired and beaten young man who had survived death by mere inches.

"You should be happy." He said quietly before he averted his gaze back to the other men who were in the small room, still debating about what they should do with the young boy who really wished that he could move and-

"That's enough!" The men instantly feel silent when they heard the woman's voice and the boy mentally sighed in relief. "Whats the point in asking these questions right now? Only he can answer them and he needs rest, not this!" The woman continued with a calm but threatening voice and the boy felt something wet touch his forehead as well as hands on his arms and legs.

"What if he tries to kill us?" One of the men said and the boys right hand itched at the man's word but, for the time being was he unable to do anything about the way they were talking about him. He growled mentally, wishing he could at least talk, these people may be scared but that did not give them the right to call him a monster.

"We don't know that until he wakes up, besides," The woman answered, her voice still as calm, but the irritation was starting show through her words. "he will be to weak to fight when he wakes up. You can easily overthrow him if needed be." The boy wanted to laugh at the last comment, if she only knew how wrong she was.

The hands that currently were on his legs and arms carefully moved over to his bare chest before the boy could hear a door open and small footsteps.

"Is he not a human?" The new intruder asked.

The woman sighed at the words. "I don't know. He looks like one but these gentlemen over here insists on him being a demon."

"You all see him as a demon?" The youngster's voice asked and the boy could hear four yes. At least now he knew how many humans there were inside the room.

"You can't just assume things like that!" The woman angrily growled. "He's just a kid, how can you just accuse him like this? We don't even know if he'll survive." The boys right hand itched again. He may be young, but he was far from weak.

"Who cares if he survives, we should of just left him to die and Ryou, what are you doing in here?" One of the men asked.

"W-Well I was just going to see how he was. The-The general wanted to know." The one called Ryou answered. The voice of the boy had gotten closer. The boy could now hear it just as good as the woman's, which meant that he too was standing right beside his bed.

"The general?"

"He wanna know if we should kill the demon or not?" One man said and the boy didn't have to be able to see to know about the sadistic grin that was on the man's face.

"Why does he care about this thing anyway?" This thing, those words cut through to the boy like a knife. A monster, a demon and now a thing? He wasn't some sort of object you could just throw away, god dammit he was a living creature just like them! Why was it so hard for these people to see him as such?

"Ryou stay here and watch the boy." The woman's voice sounded like venom and cut through the silence that had filled the room after the last comment. "You're all coming with me. Now." The boy could hear the men mumble something and then the sound of a door closing. The room went dead quiet and had he not been able to feel the presence of the other in the room, would he had thought that he was finally alone. Not that he had anything problem with this, the shouting and insulting words had finally stopped.

"I guess it's just you and me now." The one named Ryou said before he awkwardly laughed. "Not that you would know that."

A strange noise filled the room before it went quiet again and a weight placed itself on the side of the boys bed.

"Don't mind them. They're just scared, we all are, but at least we have the general. Without him I don't think I would be alive right now." Ryou started to say and the boy felt his body relax. This Ryou had a much lower and nicer voice then those men had. "Or, maybe I would be alive but, you know, a slave. But I don't really see that as being alive." Ryou continued, the weight on the bed shifting slightly. "You probably already know this but, my name is Ryou and, well." He went quiet and the weight on the bed once again changed it's position before Ryou started to talk again. "I hope you'll wake up soon. There isn't many in my age here and it… Becomes really lonely, I have no one to talk to. Only adults everywhere, besides the general of course. He's actually pretty young, but he acts like an adult and… He scares me." Ryou chuckled at that. "But I guess he scares everyone, even a few demons are scared of him. He's the only reason why we're all alive and even though he's really scary… I'm really happy that he is the one in charge." Ryou went quiet for a minute before he started to laugh again. "I'm talking to an unconscious guy about the general and what not. I think I'm going insane. But..." He suddenly went quiet again and the boy started to wonder just how long it took for this guy to think, or maybe he was just shy? But he didn't even know that he was awake! "If you were awake," Ryou continued, bringing the boy back from his thoughts. "Would you tell me your name? Would you talk to me?"

The boy wanted to answer that, to say something, but his mouth refused to open. He mentally sighed and answered his own question, since none else could.

"Yes."

"You would?" A shocked Ryou asked, confusing the boy more than ever before, but he never got a chance to think any more about it. "Wait, you talked? You're awake?!"

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Done! That's chapter two for you!

Now I just have one question for you readers, commenters and voters... I do not care if those are not real words and! Do you know who the general is? I mean I think I left pretty good clues as to who he or she can be.

And! I don't know if I've already said this in some way, like of I've said his name or something, but can you guess who The boyis too? If you know who he is then you're definitely gonna know who the demon is.

And you know, I'm really starting to like Ryou. I don't know if I'm good at writing him in character or if he just becomes ooc, but I like writing about him being a good friend to the main character and all that, maybe I should pair him with another character in this story later, but who knows!

So again, thanks for reading and see yaaaaa!

PS, my computer don't know what English is… I think he needs to take lessons, like seriously...