Wanna Trade Wings?
Chapter Ten: Trust Me, Beside Me, Love Me

~This is What it Feels like to Really Love~

A few days later, Dino and Hibari sat on the top of a ledge in their cavern, hand in hand as they watched the sun rise. Hibari leaned into the angel, his raven-black hair falling over Dino's shoulder in long, silky strands. "I love you," he muttered.

"I love you, too, Kyoya," the blonde replied. Hibari sighed, feeling an odd sensation in his back, and he stood up a little straighter, looking back at Dino. The other was trembling as if with the cold, but he actually cried out when a fire sprung up on the tips of his wings. "Kyoya-? What-?"

Hibari felt his torn wings stiffening as if frozen by ice, and he groaned, reaching up and dragging his lover into a kiss to lighten the pain. He watched as the flames traveled up the other's pure wings, eating them away, and leaving nothingness in their wake. The halo that was once present would never be seen again, and Hibari soon realized that the same could be said of his horns. His brittle, frozen wings began to crumble, and he clutched Dino's robes in his hands, groaning loudly. The former angel at last gasped as his wings completely disappeared, and the same happened to Hibari at just about the exact same time. They gazed into each other's eyes, but Hibari quickly blinked out of it, and stood upright. "Dino?"

He slapped a hand over his mouth. His once tiny, telepathic voice was now booming with a masculine dominence, and as he looked around Earth, he found that something was overwhelmingly different about the world before him. "Kyoya..." The former demon glanced at Dino. His lover's voice was still gentle, but it also had a sort of commanding tone that made his ears ring.

Hibari was confused, but he quickly realized that something else was off. He reached up, to discover the passage of air flowing from his mouth and nose. He was breathing! And not only that, he was breathing Earth's air. He was certain that Dino could also taste the cool, pleasant breeze that raked over their ledge, bringing along dust and dirt in its grooves. He could smell the air, smell humidity, and could tell that rain was on the way. His hands, when clenched, allowed him to feel his tough skin. He was no longer anything like a demon.

"Kyoya... uff... this is intense," said Dino, slowly getting to his feet. "W-woah-!" the former angel nearly fell, but Hibari swiftly grabbed his hand, and pulled him back. "That must be... gravity?" the blonde murmured.

"This is spectacular," the ravenette sighed, taking off his cloak and letting it fall to the ground. After a few more moments of feeling the wind over his pale skin, he turned Dino towards him, and leaned in, allowing their lips to meet just one more time. The two shared a brief, but fiercely satisfying kiss, and carefully got themselves down from the ledge, although they both sustained a few injuries along the way. The couple then walked along the ground, holding hands as they felt the ground against their feet for the first time. "Where are all the dead bodies?" Hibari murmured. "I can hardly even believe there's a war going on here."

"That's because... there isn't," Dino answered. "In this dimension... in this realm, rather... it's only you and me." The ravenette trembled for a moment, easing in to Dino.

"I'm a little scared," he admitted.

"Me too," Dino agreed. "It's a big world out there."

"Hibari! Hibari!"

Hibird, the former demon's purified skylark, swept in, and landed on his finger, the beady, black eyes looking straight into the ravenette's. "It's okay," Hibari murmured. "You're home now." The skylark took flight once more, and the former demon stared after it with sad, gray eyes. "Did you see how beautiful he was?" the ravenette sighed.

"There's a reason why our races wished to become mortal," Dino said. "Once mortal, the pleasures of life increase infinitely. You're granted the five senses of taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight."

"Then, the portals?" Hibari murmured, looking up at the sky. There was not a single cloud to grant him the doubt, for the warped space of Heaven was no longer in sight.

"Another dimension, Kyoya," Dino sighed. Suddenly, a tremendously dark aura seeped about them.

"There are those among us who can move between dimensions, angel."

Hibari and Dino turned, and saw before them a broad-shouldered male deer, one which was giving them quite the evil eye. "Master...?" Hibari murmured. The deer's head bowed, and it pawed the ground with it's dark hooves, but Dino quickly grabbed Hibari and pulled him out of the way.

"Stupid thing," he muttered. "Disguising yourself, now, eh?"

The creature looked back up, and it walked around the couple, its eyes flashing dangerously. But the creature was weak out in the open, and it vanished, leaving Dino and Hibari in tact. The two looked at each other, both knowing this wouldn't be the last time that Mukuro Rokudo tried to seek them out.

The next day...

Hibari and Dino woke beside each other for the first time as human beings. They both sat up, pecked each other on the lips, and stared at the rocky ground they had been sleeping on. "Ugh... we need to make something softer," Hibari muttered. The former angel smiled at him.

"Let's look for a rose patch," he suggested. "We'll make a bed from rose petals." The former demon blushed, and reached to hold Dino's hand. The two shared grins; they loved Earth already. They embraced once more, still getting used to the mutual warmth of each others' living bodies. "We're mortals now, Kyoya," Dino said. "So we have to make the most of our time spent here..."

"Yeah," the former demon agreed. "We do. And I think we should venture about a little, to collect supplies."

"All right," the former angel said with a nod. "... I love you, Kyoya."

"I love you, too," the ravenette whispered.

The couple began to head on their way, moving over the rugged land, stepping across the rocky terrain, searching for food. They were soon rewarded by a beautiful fruit tree, and they moved up to it. Hibari took a hold on a low branch, but as he began to pull himself up, a voice stopped him.

"Now, little bird, come down from there."

Hibari leapt down, and turned, to see an entity much like the one he'd seen in Heaven. "Master Byakuran?" Dino whispered, before suddenly turning hostile. "You better not give us some crap about not eating the fruit."

"I won't, I won't!" laughed the being. "I'm just here to warn you about the evils of this world. The true evils. You're going to build a society of humans- though it's odd you're both male... and when that society comes, warn them. We can't have any money. We can't let people become corrupt like they have in the past. Practice acceptance of all things, good and bad, and remember, you both are divine, somewhere deep inside. If unnecessary, don't use the word 'no,' for its negative power will just hurt you both further."

"Okay, m'Lord," Dino said, smiling.

"Yes, sir," Hibari echoed with a short bow. The former demon then leapt back at the tree, and clawed his way up it with his mortal hands. He climbed out on a tree branch, and grabbed an apple, before tossing it to Dino. The former angel caught it, and Hibari soon took another and landed back beside him. They each took a bite of the not-so-forbidden fruit, and both were amazed by the sweetness that flooded their senses.

"Oh, I love food," Dino said, grinning widely. The former demon beside him nodded.

"The pleasures of Earth can't be matched," he said.

"Yes, yes," said Byakuran, starting to fade. "But don't let those pleasures consume you." He vanished, and Dino gazed into Hibari's eyes, taking his hands.

"Let's take care of our Earth for as long as we can," he said.

"Of course," Hibari answered.

Suddenly, Dino tripped, and Hibari failed to catch him. The former angel scraped his knee against the ground, and he hissed, immediately scrambling back up and looking at it. Blood seeped out from the wound, and Hibari rushed in, taking off his cloak, and tearing part of it so that he could bandage up the wound. Dino thanked him a couple times, and the former demon smiled at him. "It's okay, Dino. We feel more pain now than ever," he sighed, leaning in and taking his lover's lips once more. In the kiss, he promised to accept Dino no matter how strange the former angel became, and he promised to never accept the false enjoyment of riches or power. Likewise, Dino silently promised to never fall lower than a human level, and he swore to love the former demon with all of his heart, no matter what became of them.

And they did.

-End Chapter

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