Chapter 09: Darkness Over Powered by Flowers

Luka held the duvet covers up to her face as Gumi stood by the door with her finger hovering over the light switch.

It was night time and they were going to go to bed. Gumi was dressed in cotton pyjamas while Luka was dressed in a loose fitting night gown. She was sat curled up on the top bunk of the bed.

"Do you have to turn the light off?" Luka asked as she stared down at Gumi with wide eyes.

"Well, it's custom to go to sleep in the dark," Gumi said.

"B-but I'm scared of the dark," Luka murmured.

"You're scared of the dark?" Gumi asked in a disbelieving tone before she burst into laughter.

"Don't laugh! It's not funny! I really am scared of the dark!" Luka moaned.

"We live in a world where there is no light and you are scared of the dark?" Gumi asked as she continued to laugh, but at least she had the decency to try to muffle her laughter.

"I know it's weird, but I really hate the dark!" Luka protested.

Well, to Luka it wasn't stupid, considering she had lived her whole life in the light.

Gumi just looked at Luka with a blank expression before she flicked off the light switch.

Luke screamed as the room was plunged into darkness and pulled the duvet over her head and pulled her knees close to her chest.

"Hey I heard some screaming, is everything okay?" Luka heard Gakupo ask.

She carefully lowered the duvet and looked out over it. Light was flooding in from the hall way and Gakupo was standing there holding the door open. He was only wearing some sort of trousers which Luka presumed were the bottom half of his pyjamas and she couldn't help but stare at the fact he was shirtless. Yes, she'd seen some of the angle guys shirtless but being on Earth with the humans just seemed to make everything...different.

She also couldn't help thinking that he looked pretty cute too. Well, with all those muscles and stuff, any girl would think so.

What am I thinking? She asked herself, feeling shocked. The human world was really getting to her.

Remember, you promised yourself you wouldn't fall for him, Luka reminded herself but then another voice in her head said, And look where that got you. Here on Earth with your wings ripped off.

Luka pulled the duvet back over her head. She needed to get her mind in control. When she was pretty sure her thoughts weren't going hay wire she looked pulled the duvet back down and looked at Gakupo and Gumi who were looking at her oddly.

"I was walking passed and heard screaming," Gakupo said slowly. "Are you all right?"

Luka looked at Gakupo with her wide eyes and nodded. "I'm just scared of the dark."

Unlike Gumi, Gakupo didn't laugh, he just looked sympathetic.

"Aw, that must be hard, living in this world and being afraid of the dark, he said with a sad smile. "May I ask why you are afraid of the dark?"

Why did he have to ask that?

"I don't know," Luka murmured. "I can't remember."

"I suppose some things stay with us even if we don't remember who we are," Gakupo said.

"I suppose," Luka said.

"Well, I'll see you in the morning," Gakupo smiled up at her then he said a quick goodnight to Gumi before he left.

He left the door open a jar though, which made Luka feel better.

"Can I close the door fully?" Gumi asked after a couple of seconds.

Luka frowned and thought about it before sighing and saying. "Oh go on then."

"Thanks," Gumi replied and she prodded the door shut.

Luka lay down with her head against her pillow, staring at the blackness of the ceiling, her duvet still held up to her nose so anybody looking at her would only be able to see her eyes (if the could see in the dark).

She listened as Gumi climbed into the bed below her. Gumi said goodnight but didn't say another word after that and by the softness of her breathing Luka presumed she had fallen asleep.

Luka sighed and closed her eyes, still eeling weird becasue she knew it was still dark. Oh well, she was stuck her now so it was pointless being afraid.

She yawned, proving just how tired she was so, slowly, she let her self fall asleep.


Gakupo couldn't help but think about Luka as he walked back to his room. He felt sorry for her, being afraid of the dark when the whole world was just that. Must have been hard living like that. Well, at least she didn't remember, so it was okay for her, he hoped.

He also couldn't get over the fact how adorable she had looked, sitting up on the top bunk of Gumi's bed, her duvet pulled up to her face. It was pretty cute how she lookde at him with those large innocent eyes of her. Heck, she could get anything she wanted with eyes like that if she tried.

Gakupo shook his head as his thoughts trailed towards Luka. No, he wouldn't think about her. It wasn't fair to think of her like that, not when she was frightened like that. She needed to feel more comfortable.

Still, she was drop dead gorgeous and no one, not even Gakupo could deny that. If Lily could stop being so spitful for even one second she couldn't deny it either. Well, Lily probably didn't deny it, but she wouldn't ever admit it, her being Lily, she'd be like that.

Gakupo sighef as he thought about Lily. Why couldn't she just trust Luka? Gakupo did. Luka didn't seem like the bad type.

Oh well, Gakupo trusted Luka and that was the main thing, he refused to let Lily be horrible to her. Luka was a good person, she didn't deserve to be taken down by Lily's wrath.

As Gakupo was thinking this he passed Akaito in teh hallway. Akaito was looking at the floor muttering something under his breath. Gakupo frowned adn looked over his shoulder as Akaito passed. What was up with him? Either way, it probably didn't concern Gakupo so, clearing his head of all thoughts of Luka he headed to his room.


Luka moaned as Gumi drummed on the side of the bed to wake Luka up. Gumi just laughed and called her a sleepy head and went to get dressed into that morning's attire. Gumi didn't seem to care whether Luka was in the room or not, she just got dressed, which made Luka feel better because that was what life as an angel was sort of like.

Luka quickly scrambled down the ladder on the side of the bed and took the clothes Gumi had pulled out for her and got dressed too. When they were both dressed they rushed to the mess hall to grab some food.

Once there they imediantly joined the end of the queue for food.

Luka started at the food, wondering what she should have today, aware that some one had joined the queue behind her.

"Did you get used to the dark last night?" the person behind her whispered, making her jump slightly.

"Oh Gakupo!" she exclaimed. "Don't do that!"

"Do what?" Gakupo laughed getting Gumi's attention. Then he whispered, "Do you mean whisper?"

Luka just glared at him and turned her back on him in a huff. Gakupo just laughed and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Come on, I'm being serious, did you get used to the dark in the end?" he asked sincerely.

"I don't think so," Luka admitted.

"Maybe tonight you should sleep with me and you'll be fine," Gakupo smiled.

Luka jsut looked up at him with her usual wide eyes, feeling herself go red.

"I was joking, I was joking," Gakupo assured her as he ruffled her hair.

"Gakupo! Don't say things like that!" Gumi scolded as she asked the person dealing out the food if she could have some porridge. "I'm making you eat some porridge today, Luka."

Luka turned pale. "I think I'll pass on that one."

"Gumi! Don't say things like that!" Gakupo said, putting on a high squeaky voice as he mimicked Gumi.

Gumi just frowned at him and stepped out of the line to head over to theri table.

"Hello sweetie, what would you like?" the person dealing out the food asked Luka.

Luka looked up, noticing that the person who had spoken was Sweet Ann.

"Sweet Ann! What are you doing there?"

"I work in the kitchens!" Sweet Ann laughed.

"You work in the kitchens?" Luka repeated. "I've never been in a kitchen."

"You've never been in a kitchen?" Sweet Ann asked, sounding shocked. "Well, maye later you could come and see what it's like in one."

"Really? That would be so cool!" Luka exclaimed.

Gakupo just rolled his eyes. He had never seen someone so excited to go in a kitchen.

"Well, since you're here you might as well do something to help," he said to Luka. "Maybe working in the kitchen could be your thing?"

"Maybe. We'll arrange for you to come round later." Sweet Ann said. "Right now, you need to pick your food, you're holding up the line!"

Luka looked back at the line, realising that it had grown by a bit since she had joined the end of the queue.

"I'm sorry for being slow!" she called down the line, feeling slightly embarassed but she felt better when they all replied that it was okay.

Looking back at the food she wondered what to get. When she saw a particular food she looked up at Gakupo and grinned then pointed at the food and Sweet Ann put it on a plate for her.

"Bans on toast, huh?" Gakupo asked as he ordered the same thing.

"Yep, I think I like it," Luka grinned as she waved goodbye to Sweet Ann and made her way over to where Gumi was sitting.

They sat down with her and Sonika who was already sitting there too.

"Ah, the famous beans on toast," Sonika mused as she ate some buttered toast.

"Not as famous as the porridge!" Gumi declared and she scooped up a spoon full and held it out to Luka. "Eat it!"

"No it looks disgusting!" Luka complaind but as she spoke Gumi shoved the spoon into her mouth.

"Haha! You just fell for the oldest trick in the book! Sonika laughed as Luka spat the porridge out.

"Ewww! That's disgusting as it looks!" she decided.

"You don't like it?" Gumi asked as she started to eat the porridge. "Well, that's you loss."

Luka stuck out her tongue and started to eat her beans on toast. They ate their food, chatting as they did so. When they finished they all out their dishes in the to be washed pile.

"Luka Luka Luka!" Luka heard a familiar voice call and she turned to see Oliver running towards her.

"Oliver! You always find me hear!" she smiled and she ruffled the small boy's hari as he held his hands behind his back.

"Luka!" another child called.

"Oh hey, it was Yuki, right?" Luka asked.

"Yep!" Yuki replied.

Luka looked at the other child who was with them and she smiled. "Ritsu the boy, right?"

Ritsu tried to scowl but Luka could see he was desperately trying not to smile. In the end he gave up and smiled at her.

"What brings you three here?" Luka asked.

"Oliver wants to show you something!" Ritsu declared loudly.

Oliver removed his hands from behind his back and held out whatever he was holding.

He was holding a pure white flower with large petals. The flower really was such a beautiful flower and it seemed to glow. Luka stared at is mesmorised. As she did he started to feel a little bit stronger. Confused, she looked up at Gakupo.

"What is it?" she asked.

"It's what we call an Angel Flower," Gakupo said as he admired the flower. "They're very rare. We call them angel flowers because they're made out of real light that escaped from the sky."

The way he put it sounded really poetic and it made Luka smiled. Light that escaped from the sky. Heavon's light. There had been some rumours around the angels that some light escaped from Heaven and found it'a way down to Earth in the form of a flower.

Standing in front of the flower, a solidified form of Heaven made Luka feel a lot better.

"I'm going to take it to daddy as a present," Oliver said. "He'll be really proud I found this!"

"I can't believe he actually found it!" Yuki exclaimed.

"Me neither!" Ritsu said.

"Will you come with me to take it to daddy?" Oliver asked Luka.

"Sure!" Luka said.

"I'll come too if you guys don't mind," Gumi said. "I'd like to see if your daddy's okay."

Oliver nodded and ran off for the exit with Ritsu and Yuki following him.

"I'll see you later," Gakupo said to Luka before she left.

"I'll see you later too!" Luka said and she waved before she walked off with Gumi.

"He definitely likes you," Gumi whispered and Luka elbowed her in the stomach in repsonse. "Hey that hurt!"

"Like I care!" Luka laughed before she went on ahead laughing.


Gakupo stood in the mess hall in his own thoughts as usual. Sonika had gone off to find Lola which left him on his own.

"Hello, Gakupo," he heard Lily says but he didn't turn to look at her.

"Come to lecture me about Luka again?" he asked.

Lily just shook her head. "No, I just wanted to ask how you were doing."

"I'm fine, thank you," Gakupo said. "You?"

Lily was silent.

"I get it, you're not fine. You still hate Luka," Gakupo muttered spitefully.

"Gakupo, just hear me out okay? I don't hate her, she's just suspicious that's all. I she to be suspicious of her, as so do you. You're the leader of the DD, Gakupo, you can't just be so acceptive like this," Lily said.

"I don't care, Lily," Gakupo replied. "Why can't you just give Luka a chance?"

"Because she can't be trusted," Gakupo heard someone say and he turned around and looked at Akaito.

"What makes you think that?" Gakupo asked.

"Becasue I know it's true," Akaito said and before GAkupo could say anything he walked away. Lily just shrugged and walked away too.

Gakupo just frowned. Something really was up with Akaito, and Gakupo was going to found out what.