His Angel
"So...It's a full moon tonight.."
"It is?-"
"Come on Sasuke, tell your best friend-"
"You call yourself that, not me-"
"Ha! You can't fool me we've been best friends since imps, and anyway don't change the subject. Where does the Prince of darkness go every full moon?"
"That's just a mystery for the Prince of Darkness to know, and you, my little imp friend to never find out." Sasuke smirked walking away.
With the sun finally set Sasuke, the devils least favorite son, sneaked across the border of his fathers realm. It was easy, it shouldn't have been but after years of eluding the guards it had become second nature.
The human world is their mutual territory, where angels and demons can inflict their abilities and create havoc, in the case of Sasuke's kind, and whatever angels created. In his opinion their influence could seem endearing but he found it meddlesome. Why couldn't they just leave the humans alone? What did it matter what happened to they puny, insignificant little lives?
In the human realm the sun had set hours ago, the forest, their secret spot, bathed in natural light of the moon.
Being a mid autumns night every now and again a cloud would cover their natural light basking them in darkness. These were the moments Sasuke enjoyed the most, the unspoken minutes when darkness could take away all their inhibitions and allowed them to take actions you wouldn't have done in light.
"Sasuke-Kun." He smiled, the first since the last full moon.
"Hinata." He answered simply.
"Were you spotted?" He couldn't help the small chuckle of arrogance escape at her innocent question.
"Am I ever?"
"Good." She sighed in relief.
They sat then, side by side on the log conveniently placed by a storm a few years back. Actually, in all honesty the storm had been Sasuke on one particular rampage. She lent her head against his shoulder and they sat in silence, looking to the moon.
"Our parents-"
"Please, not this again." Sasuke rolled his eyes. "We've been going back and forth over this for years now."
"I know, but, do you think they would ever accept-"
"A demon and angel? No, I don't." He lifted her chin for her now sad eyes to meet his,"Hinata, I don't mean my honesty to hurt you. But our parents are both set In their ways, for aeons now. They just can't and won't understand our friendship."
"I know your right, but I want them to see the good in you, like I do."
"You're such an...an angel." He chuckled, "I'm a demon, dark spawn, what light could you possibly see in me?"
"You joke, but I get the feeling your serious." Hinata's eyes widened at the realisation. Sasuke stayed quiet and lent back. "Your mother."
Sasuke turned away from Hinata, her words stinging him like a swarm of wasps. Although he knew she had never, and would never mean to cause him pain.
"I-I'm not allowed to talk about her." Sasuke stammered uncharacteristically.
"Your father?"
"Hmm." He agreed.
"Perhaps," Hinatas voice gently guiding his eyes back to her. "I could tell you about her."
"She a tooth fairy now?" He gave a small chuckle, trying to desperately hide the emotions building within.
"A guardian angel."
"Seems fitting." He smirked.
As predicted, a cloud enveloped the moon, their only sauce of light, and now in darkness he could ask a question without witnessing her reaction.
"Does she remember me?" His voice sounding to his own ear like the small child he had been when she had lost her life to save his own.
His mothers actions on that fateful day had changed Sasuke's life and not necessarily for the better. With his father in a state of despair and depression from the grief of loosing the love of his entire existence, he had become a empty vessel. His heart darkened with bereavement, turning him to the swiftly to an evil path and eventually becoming the devil and ruler of the daemon realm. In the years thereafter his fathers hate had turned from the world, to it's soul occupier: Sasuke.
"She begged to become the guardian of the boy she now in her care. I think, she reminds her of you."
"Me?" Sasuke frowned.
"He's much younger of course being 13-"
"You forgot charming-"
"Oh how brainless of me," She chuckled, "Yes, he has a certain charm I suppose." She admitted. "His life could be radiant with light, if he would only make the right choices."
With the cloud dissipating, the moon once again caked them in its beams of light. They remained quiet then, in a comfortable silence, both simply enjoying the others company without the need fill the space with inconsequential blabbering.
Sasuke's mind wondered to their 1st encounter. A mission; To bring balance to the human realm at the time engrossed in war. Such a mission was unheard of, an angel and demon required to work together. Between them they had had to make decisions, some harder than others. Compromised, when plans had gone astray. A life saved and another to be greeted by their fellows in the afterlife. In that, most troublesome and complex of time their friendship had formed, trust earned; something rarely given by himself.
"Hinata?"
"Hmm?" She replied. He glanced towards her, judging her reaction. Her eyes were closed and face pointing towards the moon, if they were in the sun anyone would think she was savoring the suns warmth.
"Do you think-" He stopped himself, and took pause of his thoughts.
"What is is Sasuke-Kun?" She turned her body, facing him, their knees almost touching. He scrutinized the sky, waiting obediently for the next inevitable cloud to conceal the moon once more.
"Do you think" He began again, "You can fall in love without a heart?"
Even in the darkness he could feel her gaze seeking his own. The space between them becoming so intense and electric could of fuelled an entire city.
In her own way Hinata didn't answer his question with words. Instead, he felt one of her fingers tentatively touching his own in the gap between them on their log.
"You've turned my world on it's axis," He confessed in the pitch-black forest, "What had once seemed right, now seems wrong." His hand took hold of her small one in his own and their fingers interlocked. "You starve and near exhaust me with your willingness to put others before yourself. Everything I've done, I've done for you. I'd move the stars for no-one; but you." He heard her gasp, it's noise reverberating off the trees. "Don't you think we've done enough for humans? Our fathers? Perhaps it's time we be selfish, together."
"I-I would like that." Her voice sounding course with emotion.
"I would be human for you."
"Sasuke." She sighed. Of course she knew what those words meant. She knew his view on humans, and therefore understood the depth of them.
Then moon un-obscured by clouds once again, the secret placed doused in light. Therefore giving Sasuke the advantage of catching Hinata's quick glimpses from his eyes to his mouth. This own vision mirrored hers.
Slowly, they both closed the gap, both leaning towards the other. Sasuke angled his head to one side, to get a better angle. With his lips just a hairs width from hers he looked to her gaze once more, giving her the opportunity to pull away. She didn't. Hinata's eyes closed and at long last he felt her smooth and supple lips tenderly press his own. His own eyes closed and an involuntary groan escaped at the euphoria of such a sensation. He could feel her hands wrap around his shoulders pulling him all the more closer, his own wrapping around the curve of her waist.
He broke the kiss only to move his head to the other side, testing if a different angle achieved the same result. With each millisecond they had both come to the same conclusion, their lips touching would not be enough. Each opened their mouths, tongues grazed.
He may think humans insignificant and irrelevant but even he'd admit the act of kissing could very well redeem their every discretion.
