Four

Yuki woke up early than she normally does. She sat up on her bed and reached for her ceiling. After stretching she washed her face, then brushed her teeth. Then as she was dabbing her face with a towel she remembered about last night and Dark.

"Was that all a dream?" she thought to herself, "It must be all just a dream."

She wondered around the room, and found no trace of another person in the room. She finally believed that Kaito Dark appearing in the middle of the night was just a dream until she opened the doors of the balcony and found a black feather sitting right in front of her as if saying: You guessed wrong!

Yuki picked up the feather and just looked at it. It was much larger than a raven's or a crow's so it had to be an angel's. Yuki returned into the room and put the feather in the top drawer of her reading desk next to her bedside.

"Damn," she thought to herself.

"Dark-kun!" Remu called from the counter of the cafeteria, "Are you going to go out again tonight to find a part time job?"

"Actually, I'm not!" Dark called back from the storage room, "But I am going out again."

"For what?" Remu asked, "Oh, I know. You found yourself a girlfriend, didn't you? A young man that looks as good as you would probably get mobbed by a group of girls."

"Well, she's not exactly a girlfriend, just a friend as of now. She does have some good points, and she's pretty cute."

"Well, go out and have fun now," Remu said as Dark walked out of the storage room.

"See you later then, Remu-san," and Dark ran out the inn.

"Geez, young people."

"Onee-sama!" Kyo called from the hall.

"Kyo, are you done with your work? Katsuo-sensei won't be happy if you aren't," Yuki said as she was heading into her room.

"Don't worry. I'm done with all of it. Finally. Katsuo-sensei left already," Kyo said really proud of himself for finishing all his studies for today, which happens on rare occasions.

"Alright, now go to bed. Tomorrow you still have work to do," Yuki said and walked into her room.

She sighed. She went to her closet and changed into a warm nightgown and then wrapped herself in another layer of clothing. Then she washed her face. Then she went out onto her balcony. There was a nice cross breeze at the time. Yuki undid her hair and let it the wind carry it. Then she was pulled back into reality by the sound of fluttering of wings.

Yuki walked over to the left of her balcony and checked around it, then to the right. She felt just a little secure, and to be safe, she leaned over the side to see it he was there. Just as she was feeling very reassured, her worst nightmare appeared.

"You looking for me, Hime-san," Dark said, "Up here."

Yuki looked up to see Dark sitting on the little roof over her glass doors. Suddenly he jumped down from it and landed right in front of the princess.

"Didn't know I left such a good impression," Dark said.

"Defiantly not," Yuki said losing her posture as a princess and looked like a little girl in a rebellious stage.

"Then why were you looking for me? Did you miss me that much?" Dark teased.

"No!" Yuki said regaining her posture, "Why are you here anyways?"

"The truth is," Dark said leaning in on Yuki again and took a little of her hair and played with it, "I missed you."

Yuki blushed and then pushed him off of her, "Don't touch me like that! Princess here! Be respectful even if it's just a little!"

"Alright, alright," Dark laughed, "But I really did miss you."

"Enough with that. Now go away before I call on someone," Yuki threatened.

"I don't think you will," Dark said sitting on the table next to her.

Yuki moved to the other side of the balcony, "Why do you think that?"

"Because if you are, you would have done that already," Dark said, "So I did leave a good impression."

"Like I said you didn't," Yuki said losing her bearing again and blushed, "What do you want anyways?"

"Just to talk to someone sensible," Dark said walking towards her, "All the other girls just faint all over me once I talk to them. It really is no fun at all. That's why I like you so much better than them."

"Is that supposed to be a complement?" Yuki asked.

"Somewhat," Dark said, "But you really are the first girl that hasn't done that."

"Please don't compare me to people that don't know what they want."

"Actually, you're the one that doesn't know what you want, isn't it?" Dark said.

"What did you say?" Yuki yelled at Dark, cross.

"In your heart you really want to do something, but you don't know what it is, right?"

"I-," Yuki flustered.

"Never mind," Dark said, "By the way, Hime-san-"

"Don't call me Hime-san like it's my name," Yuki said.

"But Hime-san is cuter than Hime-sama," Dark explained to her, "and call you by name is just to modest of such a commoner like myself."

"Then call me Yuki-hime!"

"But putting them both together just makes the explanation longer," Dark said clearly teasing her.

"Mah! Whatever, I can't handle arguing with you anymore," Yuki said and went into her room.

"Does that mean I win the debate?" Dark asked following her.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean that you can come in to my room! I mean no! Gah! I'm losing my mind!"

Dark laughed and then came close to her and took her hand.

"Hime-san, you now what?" Dark asked turning the princess around a looked into her eyes, "You," and he came close to her ears and whispered, "Are really… cute."

With that Yuki blushed like mad and was speechless for a while.

"Stop that!" she yelled and slipped out of his grasp.

Dark held tight to her hand, "That wasn't really the reaction that I'd expected, but that's fine."

Dark took her hand and lightly kissed it. Yuki flushed but stayed motionless. Many men had kissed her hand, but she'd never felt this way toward anyone. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Yuki went to open it.

"Yuki, my dear," the king said at the door, "I heard some shouting going on in here.

"Ah," Yuki stuttered as the king let himself in.

Yuki panicked, if her father found Dark in the room with her, what would he think?! She turned around and found the room empty and no sight of the presence of Dark.

"Yuki," Theodil said and closed the glass doors, "Please keep these doors closed. You'll catch a cold."

"Yes," Yuki said and sneezed.

"Oh dear," the king said and called on one of the maids, "You'd better go and see the doctor. Come with me to the infirmary."

Yuki followed the king out of her room and to the doctor of the palace. She looked back and saw just a glimpse of a pair of black wings that glistened blue under the moonlight.

"Onee-sama!" Kyo called running into her room, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, thank you for your concern, Kyo," Yuki said sitting on her bed with many layers of clothing on and under a gigantic comforter.

"Oh, please get well soon. You promised that you'd take me to the park one of these days. You can't be sick or you won't be able to do that!"

"Yes, yes, yes, Kyo. I understand how much you want to go outside. But you'll have to let me rest if you want me to get well. And you need to finish all your studies if you want to go. So now go before Katsuo-sensei gets here and scolds you!" Yuki said quite sternly.

"But-" Kyo said.

"No buts," the princess said to her younger brother.

"Alright," Kyo said and exited the room.

He turned around and found himself facing his very enemy.

"Se-sensei," Kyo stuttered.

"Kyo-ojisama," the old man said leaning down so that he's eye level with the prince, "I know you concern for your elder sister, but now it is time to put the kingdom under concern."

"Yes, I understand," Kyo said and once again he was dragged off to do work.

Yuki slumped back into bed; her face was well enough flushed to last a lifetime. Unable to sleep she went over to her bathroom and filled the tub with warm water to the rim. She soaked her body into the water, trying to lower her body temperature to equal that of the water. Steam slowly rose up and the mirror fogged up, but it was still not enough to make the fever go away. Yuki got out of the bathroom and changed into something even warmer. Then fell into sleep on her bed.

It was very rare that she would catch a cold accompanied by a fever. From the very bottom of her heart she wished that Dark would not appear on her balcony tonight. But then she just tumbled into sleep.

"Oh finally wake are we?" her father said sitting by her bedside.

"What time is it?" Yuki asked.

"Right now it's about five minutes until seven. Do you want something to eat?"

"That would be nice," Yuki said finally realizing how hungry she was.

"Alright I'll call up some porridge for you, is that alright?"

"If it doesn't make my stomach churn," Yuki said.

"Alright then," her father said, "Well I need to get back. I've been here too long, my advisors will scold me if I stay here any longer. Good night. And don't open the doors to the balcony."

"I won't," Yuki said and the king left the room.

A few minutes later one of the maids came up to her room.

"Begging you pardon, Hime-sama," she said opening the door, "here's you porridge. I do hope that you'll get better soon."

"Thank you. You may go now. I don't want you to catch a cold from me," Yuki said taking the hot bowl.

"Thank you, please excuse me," and the maid left.

Yuki quickly finished her tiny meal and sank back into bed. She was a little dizzy from sitting up and was slowly going back into dreamland. She looked out the balcony. But black wings never appeared.

"Thank God," Yuki said and fell asleep.