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Note: Shounen ai

Disclaimers: Kaikan Phrase and the characters that you'll be seeing here are not mine.

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- = Nursing Wounded Wings = -

By: scarlet_bliss

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The cherry-haired boy continued to look out the window of Sakuya's apartment. The said boy's plan of going out was postponed due to the unwelcoming Christmas weather outside.

"Christmas huh…"

"Some Christmas this turned out to be." Atsuro whispered into the glass.

"Hey…" Atsuro heard the vocalist say from behind him. The guitarist turned his head towards the origin of the voice and found Sakuya holding his guitar on his left hand and a couple music sheets with the other.

"Since we're stuck here with nothing solid to keep us moving, why don't you humor me, and memorize this piece?" Atsuro reached for the music sheets and ran his eyes over the first page.

"But there aren't any wo-…"

"The lyrics will come in later. All I need from you now is to study that song so we can work on it later. Come to me when you're done." And that was all that Sakuya said before leaving Atsuro in his room.

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Atsuro's gaze lingered on the now closed door. He mentally shook himself and turned to look at the music sheets in his hand.

"This has a different rhythm from the other songs… I wonder what brought this on…" Atsuro queried to the phantom listener, sighed and took hold of his guitar.

"This should be interesting."

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Sakuya was jumping from one channel to the other, patiently waiting for Atsuro to finish and to finally come out. After a couple more channels the raven-haired vocalist stands up and strides towards the door of his room. He was about to reach for the knob when it opened and showed him a certain guitarist's form.

"I memorized it."

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"The weather still hasn't cleared up a bit so we have no other choice but to practice here. Do you want to have dinner first or have that later?" Sakuya asked the man opposite him.

"I'm fine. We can just have dinner later… That is-…"

"Let's start practicing then." Sakuya said, hushing the other's sentence midway. Atsuro nodded and shifted himself into a more comfortable position on the settee and placed his guitar on his knee.

At the singer's nod he started plucking the guitar for the first few notes to kick the song off.

Lift your head…

Atsuro felt himself stiffen as he heard the first three words of the song.

Baby, don't be scared…

The string instrumentalist's eyes widened as he found himself being watched by the man opposite him.

Of the things that could go wrong along the way…
You'll get by with a smile…
You can't win at everything, but you can try…

Atsuro found himself totally breathless as he saw Sakuya smile at him in time with the song. He nearly tripped on the chords he was playing but something made him carry on.

And baby you don't have to worry…
Coz there ain't no need to hurry…
No one ever said that there's no easy way…

And when they're closing all their doors…
And they don't want you anymore…
This sounds funny but I'll say it anyway…

"The song is for me." Atsuro told himself. He felt tears starting to well up in his eyes but the red head has decided to play the song and blinked those tears away. Again he marveled at the gentle smile he got from Sakuya as if telling him-…

Girl I'll stay…
Through the bad times
Even if I have to fetch you everyday
I'll get by if you smile
You can never be too happy in this life

Atsuro allowed himself to smile at the word girl and continued playing with his eyes glued to that of the azure pair that held his.

Coz in a world where everybody hates
A happy ending story
It's a wonder love can make the world go round
But don't let it bring you down
And turn your face into a frown
Get along with a little prayer and a song

Atsuro closed his eyes and savored the silken voice that was weaving for him the song he was hearing now. He slowly opened his eyes and gasped as he saw Sakuya's deep set eyes close to his.

Lift your head
Baby don't be scared
Of the things that could go wrong along the way
We'll get by with a smile
Now it's time to kiss away
Those tears goodbye

Atsuro summoned up everything he had to choke down the sob that was forcing itself out of him only to fail miserably as he felt Sakuya's cool hands on both his cheeks tenderly wiping the tears trailing down his face.

Sakuya continued to hum as he rested his forehead on the angel whose guitar playing is long forgotten.

The vocalist felt Atsuro melt towards him and wrapped his arms around the redhead.

"Tomorrow will come and you'll see and hear lots of things. Some of this you will choose to keep, but most of what you will encounter you will just fail to remember… But what I need you too bear in mind is that you have me and that you always will."

===owari===

Author's notes:

I'm sorry if this didn't turn out as you guys expected. The song by the way is entitled With A Smile and it's by the Eraserheads. Again, do send me your comments, suggestions, reviews and flames. Thank you for reading Clipped Angel Wings.