ACK! Gomen nasai, I forgot what DEMON HTML does to text between those litthe arrow-thingees! Here it is, with the lost text. Should make more sense now.
WARNING: Implied, one-sided shounen-ai. The Dark Magician gets covered in chocolate syrup and chucked in a swimming pool.
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The Shadow Realm. It was a pretty normal place all around- well, normal if you consider styled after ancient Egypt normal- except for the eternal night covering the place. Fortunately for the inhabitants, the "monsters" who had been sealed within to protect the place, they had some modern technonogy for their own amusement. Such as the small radio that the twenty-six-year old Magician of Black Chaos, Akuma, was fiddling with under one of the many small lights in the living room.
"Hellspawn..." He grumbled, prodding it with his index finger. By some odd coincidence, his finger hit the power button and turned it on.
"That's more like it..." He muttered, picking it up and carrying it into his room as a song began to play.
Oh, when you're in love, there's no time and no space,
Akuma's face took on a look of absolute horror. "Almighty Gods, NO!" He began frantically prodding at the radio again, but this time the irony gods took no pity on him and made him miss the power button entirely.
There's a permanent smile on your face.
"No there isn't!" He growled at the demon radio, prodding at it frantically. "Turn off, damn you!"
Your friends all complain, that you're goin' insane,
"I AM!"
But the truth is, they're just afraid.
"And well they SHOULD be... This damn thing is enough to make ANYONE homicidal." Akuma dropped the small box on his bed and sat in front of it, cross-legged. Had anyone been foolish enough to ask him, he would have sworn it was mocking him.
And hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares.
The magician tilted his head, his river of black hair spilling over his right shoulder as he did so.
"Hmm... Reminds me of something..."
Hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares...
When you decide that what counts is inside,
A strange look appeared in Akuma's eyes. "...Kageri..."
Your friends all say it's a lie.
"And so she did!" Akuma thought back to the day he had confessed his infatuation with the young, purple-haired magician-in-training to their blonde fellow-apprentice, the Dark Magician Girl.
*FLASHBACK*
"You wanted to see me?" Wide, friendly blue eyes searched deep, red-brown ones.
"Hn." A curt nod. The blonde girl pouted, crossing her arms over her ample chest.
"Well? Spit it out already! Is it about Kageri?" A flicker of surprise passed through the cold eyes of the twenty-one-year-old magician in training.
"It is, isn't it?" The blue eyes were more focused now, prodding the magician to tell his secrets.
Another nod.
A sigh. "Akuma, you've got to let it go. It's just a crush, nothing more. It CAN'T be anything more."
Another flicker, this one of a tolerant sadness- he had expected this. "I wish you could tell my heart that."
"Don't ever trust your heart. It'll only steer you wrong."
*END FLASHBACK*
'No good memories there.' He thought, wryly. 'She meant the best, but I really can't help the way I feel...'
But there's no brighter light, when you look in her eyes,
When you're walkin' her home through the night...
*FLASHBACK*
Akuma leaned against the back wall of the walk-in closet he had chosen to hide in, and yawned. 'This has GOT to be the longest FREAKING game of hide-and-go-seek EVER... Never again am I letting Kijutsu seek.'
He was startled out of his reverie by frantic giggles issuing from just outside the door, and ducked behind a black trenchcoat as a Dark Magician threw himself into the closet and slammed the door behind him, then collapsed in a fit of silent giggles. Very familiar giggles.
"Kageri?" He whisper-shouted. "Is that you?"
"'Kuma?" Akuma grinned. 'Yep, definately Kageri- nobody else dares to use a nickname for me.'
"Yeah, 's me. What're you doing?"
"Hiding from my demon cousins. I mean, it's my sixteenth birthday, are they SUPPOSED to torment me?" Akuma just chuckled.
"Probably another one of their freaky 'traditions'." A chuckle. "By the way, I haven't had a chance to wish you a happy birthday, goofball." Kageri scratched the back of his head.
"Ano... 'Kuma, this isn't going to involve a birthday spanking, is it? I've been tricked like that before..." Akuma blushed, then laughed.
"Nah. I'm not THAT mean." He waved one hand around in midair, conjuring up a tiny box, and tossed it to the Dark Magician. "Happy birthday."
Kageri snagged it, popped it open and blinked in surprise. Inside, there lay a golden earring, engraved with the Eye of Horus.
"What's this?"
"Goofball insurance." Akuma grinned, and pulled his black hair away from his right ear. In the faint light that the keyhole provided, Kageri caught the glint of a golden earring. "They're communicators." A perplexed look from the purple-haired magician. Akuma just sighed.
"Put it on." Kageri obediently hooked the golden ornament into the hole in his own right ear, and at once a sort of chamber opened up in his mind.
[Can you hear me?] He blinked, realising Akuma was talking in his head.
{So these things let us talk to each other in our heads?} A nod. {Cool!} Kageri tackleglomped the Magician of Black Chaos, who blushed. {Thank you!}
[You're welcome, Shade(1).] Akuma tentatively wrapped his arms around Kageri in return. They stayed like that for roughly five minutes, after which Kageri's cousins caught them, dragged Kageri outside, covered him in chocolate syrup and chucked him in the swimming pool.
*END FLASHBACK*
'Okay, so they weren't all bad.' He chuckled to himself. 'It was actually kind of funny, even if he DID drag me into the pool when I laughed at him.'
And hey, hey, hey somewhere
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares,
Hey, hey, hey somewhere
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares...
Akuma leaned back against the wall, humming softly along with the song. 'I could learn to like this one...'
Let yourself go with the tide,
There's an angel by your side
Tonight...
"And tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that... At least we're nearly always together."
You threw your fear in the sea...
"... Or the swimming pool, as the case may be."
Back at the bar, getting cynically stoned,
Your friends are drinkin' alone.
"Well, OF COURSE. I don't drink."
But it's funny, they don't even cross your mind,
When she asks you into her home...
"They wouldn't, either, if I could only get up the nerve to tell him..."
And hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares.
Hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares...
"Swimming pool..."
Hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares.
"Swimming pool."
Hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no cares.
"Swimming pool!"
Hey, hey, hey somewhere,
You threw your fear in the sea of no ca-a-ares...
"SWIMMING POOL, DANGIT!"
You threw your fear in the sea- threw your fear in the sea!
"Swimming pool, SWIMMING POOL!"
Akuma sighed, almost wistfully, as the song ended, and poked at the radio again, noting the fact that he had actually managed to turn it off. "Demon thing..." He set it down next to his bed, then flicked the light off and lay down, trying to sleep.
Just outside his bedroom door, the Dark Magician stretched, shook himself, and sighed.
"Someday, Akuma. Someday..."
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1: Shade is his nickname, his real name is Kageri, but only Akuma knows it, all the rest don't. There's a reason for this. What it is, though, will simply have to wait for another day XD Anyway, R&R. (Tell me how horrible it is, I DARE you XD)