His angelic long fingers touched the crystal part paralleling the devilishly handsome creature imprisoned inside.
He felt its hardness, its coldness... the smoothness of the surface made his fingers ran easily down... persuading his mind that he was holding the life of his life... in the flesh.
"Kaede..."
Those words his mouth uttered... razored through his chest... through his heart.
Will that handsome face lit up like the morning sunshine again? Will those sapphire blue eyes open once more like a flowing river showing its pulchritude? And will he ever taste those pretty sweet red lips... only his Kaede has?
"I didn't know I have a visitor."
Hanamichi glanced to the origin of the voice and saw a white-skinned creature coming down a stone avalanche... inching to his location.
The huge dark brown horns... almost black, were like real venomous snakes frozen in the head of their master.
The deep indigo blue eyes... intensified as Hanamichi stares at it. Those monstrous blue orbs could bring apocalyps on earth.
The angel retreated his gaze as the approaching devil opened his mouth and boasted about his sharp long teeth... aiming to eat him alive.
"You came to see my son?" The devil circled the quivering redheaded angel... and spoke sarcastically.
Hanamichi was too frightened to think, to utter a word, to answer the question 6that was so apparent he could answer it in a snap.
"You're truly in-love with my son, aren't you?" Hisashi continued and lowered his look to the other... as if inviting him to his pool of burning blood. "My precious angel..."
Hanamichi felt the hot air from the Emperor's mouth... striking his face. Hanamichi was less than a foot farther from the Emperor... and he could sense darkening indigo eyes... firing and burning him alive.
"Listen to me, angel." In a brisk move that Hanamichi himself was shocked, the Emperor cupped his jaws with a force to break it in an instant. "I have a proposition to offer..."
Hanamichi met the horrifying indigo orbs and it slashed his skin on every second that passed.
"I can free my son and allow him to be with you... for as long as you like... even forever." There was a mischievous glint in those eyes. "In return for your submission of your whole self to hell... and leave your heaven."
Hanamichi resisted the ache on his jaws. His head neared towards the Emperor without his management and his fright even worsened the situation. He couldn't defend himself... his Kaede.
"What are you waiting angel? Leave the heaven you grew up with? Or forget about the love of your life?"
Ichiro saw everything from the boiling pot... and his emotions synchronized with the redheaded angel. He could feel his pain... the implications of the sadistic choice he must make.
The young devil entered the dark hole immediately. All his sentiments were for the angel... all his thoughts gathered to take a plan that could clear the web that was messing the angel's way.
Tears incessantly rolled down the porcelain cheeks of the lovely angel. Ichiro wanted so badly to hug him... to take him away from harm... to make those silver tears into droplets of joy and eternal happiness.
All Ichiro could do was to look at the suffering angel. He never had the courage and strength to urge the Dark Emperor.
With impatience... Hisashi directed his crooked finger to a huge rock and burnt it with tongues of scarlet fire.
"I can do that to your Kaede... if you make me wait longer." Hisashi lowered his gaze to him. "Bow to me and beg for my acceptance."
Hanamichi couldn't imagine the crystal burning... and killing his beloved.
With a heart that's bursting inside his chest... Hanamichi's knees fell on the rocky ground and his clear soft hands buried on the soil.
"I beg you... your highness... accept me to your kingdom."
A loud victorious roar of laughter came from Hisashi, the Emperor of the Inferno. He loves to see an angel accepting his cruelty... his greed in dominating the Hell, the Earth and the paraiso above it.
"Promise?"
"I promise."
"That's a promise you have to keep... as I keep mine."
With a light that struck the crsytal where Kaede was trapped inside... it slowly broke into pieces and freed the devil it had captured.
Hanamichi ran towards his beloved with desperation and hugged him... he wrapped his arms around the unconscious being and sobbed.
"There are certain things in life that you have to accept... no matter how wrong it is," Hisashi said as he watched the angel crying for the eyes of his son to open. "I know... because I was an angel too." The statement shocked Ichiro and... Hanamichi paused from crying. "And fell in love with a human. It was forbidden for us."
The conscious beings were attentively listening to the tragedy story of the Dark Emperor.
"I was prohibited to visit earth since the woman I love gave birth to our sons... and she waited for me for a very long time... until she went hopeless and killed herself. Because I was badly hurt... I rebelled against heaven and disobeyed every rule there is. I live here in the dark and took my sons from the human security."
The Emperor gazed at the angel... assuring that his words were absorbed by the latter.
"I don't want the same thing to happen to Kaede. That's why I urged you to choose. If you stay in heaven... you would surely be forbidden to see him and my son would experience the pain his mother and I had."
Slowly... Kaede's eyes opened up... and looked weakly at the brown eyes of the angel he loves.
"Hana..."
"Kaede..."
A frown on Kaede's forehead puzzled Hanamichi. "What is it, my love?"
Kaede ran his sweating fingers along the contours of Hanammichi's face. It was rough... dry and as Kaede reached the head part... he was able to touch a pair of hard horns.
Hanamichi noticed it and touched the horns himself.
Even Ichiro was stunned to unconsciousness. Hanamichi was no longer an angel... but a monstrous devil.
Shivering from fright... Hanamichi looked at his hands that were now wrinkled and pigmented. His fingers were almost black and long.
Betrayal... cruelty... and wrath combined to form a dark frightening evil with thick dark hairs... ox sharp-teeth and full red eyes.
"Hanamichi." Kaede pulled his beloved closer to him and held him tight. "What happened?"
"I'm only making things easier for the both of you." The Dark Emperor watched the scene with emotioness face.
"Now you have my son for eternity."