:::CHAPTER TWO:::
COME
Oh, she had finally made it! The house stood towering over her in the moonlight as she changed into her humanoid form, with a perfect hourglass figure and grey eyes that seemed to shatter like fragile glass if she should be hurt and cry. She fled to the door quickly, slamming with her fists frantically at the windowpane as well.
"Argh!"
"Master Kokuyou! Master Kokuyou! Quick!"
Hari suddenly heard the rushed footsteps of someone Kouryuu hated.
Pale, slender fingers trembled as they opened the door. Hisui's hair was down, his eyes and figure shadowed.
"H-He's not here right now..." He murmured almost guiltily.
"Hisui...? Is that...you?" Hari stammered. Hisui let his eyes through by parting his blond hair. He was looking just off to the side, dazed as if something had deeply sorrowed him.
A glazed look in Hisui's jade eyes only answered.
"Well, can you tell me where he is?"
"I-I-I..." His hands were suddenly covering his mouth, and he collapsed to the ground of the house on his knees, his hair falling where it may in tangled heaps. It saddened one, to see a fallen angel in the moonlight, helpless and distressed.
(Oh great, what happened to him? Now I have another to care for!)
But Hari's heart unexpectantly went out to the fallen angel. Once Heaven's most powerful angel now lay powerless in front of her.
(Kouryuu would like to have me bring Hisui to him so Kouryuu could—wait a minute! Hisui is an angel, she's probably equal or even better than Kokuyou at healing potions! I'm gonna have to butter him up, though...)
"Hisui, if you come with me to Kouryuu, he could probably tell you where he's gone to. In fact—"
"No, I know what you want," he sobbed tenderly, "just do it quick, or slowly, so I may feel my life burn and fade," he presented his chin and neck to her, his hands and feet behind him.
"Look, if you're so willing, come with me," she gestured into the darkness toward the forest, "where we can be alone."
---Ooh! Where, oh where, has my little dog gone, oh where, oh where could he be...?---
As a side note, if I ever put "she" instead of "he" for Hisui, please tell me. I read the books, thinking that he was a girl, so I'm still kinda used to it.