Dilandau: Wow, someones reading the story

Lupicinus: Oh shush, the story is about you and Satori after all, this must tell you something Dilandau.......

Dilandau: Of course everyone should want to read about me..........what do you mean by that........

Lupicinus: Nothing! Maybe I'll tell you when i need a path blazed out of the snow so i can go get the mail, hope you like another chpt of BANG!

(random guy peddling pinapples falls over dead with gunshot wound in his head)

Dilandau: (pokes with stick) You killed him.................blooooooooood..........red is pretty, i think he would want to be cremated! Let's get to it!

Lupicinus: (holds D.A. back) Enjoy the chpt and if i dont update for a while its because i have been arrested for man slaughtering......I DIDN'T DO IT IM INNCENT I TELL YOU! INNOOOOOOOOCENT!................unlike Dilandau..

Dilandau: HEY!

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Chapter 11:

Satori looked up at the night sky. It was a quarter moon and there were many clouds hovering in the sky heavy with precipitation. The scent of moisture hung in the air strongly as Satori, with a calm Aeris on her shoulder, continued towards her home. The street she was on was deserted and only a few cars would pass by from time to time. She felt free at that moment; it was so magical as she looked up. The moisture was so thick that you could see its gleam as the light of the street lamps reflected off the many particles of water.

She sighed and smiled, "Utsukushii...anata nemutteiru Aeris?"

Aeris voiced a quiet squawk and fluttered her wings.

Satori smirked, "Baka na tori... I would be flying right now. If only you knew the greatness of the gift you have Aeris. Ano hanes no jiyu"

Aeris nibbled Satori's ear affectionately causing her to laugh, "Stop that! It tickles!"

Aeris shrieked in triumph, but she swiftly turned around on Satori's shoulder and got into a defensive position with her feathers puffed out and her wings extended, hissing. Satori stopped and looked behind her, "Nani? What's wrong Aeris?"

The Harpy eagle's threat intensified. She was now hissing more viciously as well as flapping her wings, snapping at the air.

Satori trusted her bird's instincts and secretly drew her knife from her bag. She stared hard into the direction Aeris was directing her threat. It was a dark alley and steam was veiling it in white mist from a restaurant vent, making it impossible to see into its concealing depths.

Satori gave it one last look and darted across the road to the other side of the street. She was now fully alert and on guard, noting every sound that reached her ears. She also eyed the alley out of the corner of her eye. Aeris had stopped screeching and flapping her wings, but her feathers still remained raised and she too was eyeing the alley.

Satori quickened her pace, she was nearing the end of the downtown and then she would be drawing closer to her destination, but she was still wary of the feeling like someone was watching her, and she didn't want anyone following her home.

Satori faintly growled as the clouds broke and rain began pouring down.

"Now how the hell am I going to hear someone, I hope your senses are not dampened by the rain Aeris..."

Satori suddenly whirled around at the sound of footsteps. Her eyes searched the surrounding area for any signs of movement but she found none. The feeling of someone watching her still had not gone away. She knew someone was there, she could feel their eyes gazing onto her.

Satori turned her attention to down the road as the sound of a motorcycle approached. She sighed and continued walking, it was pointless to even try to hear anything with the motorcycle coming up the street and the pounding rain.

Dilandau sped up as he rode down the street on his Suzuki GSX-R1000 that was blood red with black and silver streaks with the Japanese symbol for fire on it and the symbols for burn, burn on the other side. The rain was heavy but it illuminated the street in orange as the light of the street lamps reflected off of the thousands of drops. He squinted about half a mile down the road. It looked like there was someone walking.

"Who walks in the pouring rain... Must want some bad memories to wash away... the rain washes everything away..." He snorted and sped up.

He approached the person quickly and noticed the bird on their right shoulder as well as the guitar on the left.

"Satori?"

He frowned and shook his head to get rid of some of the water soaking his head. He resented himself for being so harsh towards her back at the club, but then again he also felt like she deserved every ounce of spite and anger within his entire soul. He had just spent the last five years trying to get over her and now she had come back after he had just learned to not see her face in everything around him. But there was one thing he couldn't purge her from, and that was the moon. Every time he looked up at the silver traveler, he saw her there.

He felt a lump form in his throat and cursed his emotions. He finally realized how greatly her leaving had actually affected him. He looked up and recollected himself. He wondered what she was thinking walking out in the rain like that, even though he knew she loved it. He remembered how they would use to go out and play in it.

Flashback

It was a nice summer day and downpour had started, "Come on Dilandau stop sitting on the porch! Come out here and play with us in the rain! It's so fun!"

Dilandau snubbed his nose; "I'm not going to get wet for no reason. I don't wanna! Rain is stupid..."

Kira playfully splashed Satori by jumping into a puddle, "Don't bother with him Satori. He's afraid to get wet. Just like a little kitty cat!"

Dilandau frowned, "Shut up! I am not a cat! I just don't like the rain..."

Satori smiled, "You don't know how you like it until you've tried! It get out here!"

"No!"

Satori pouted and looked at Kira, "Wow, I think you're right, he is afraid of the rain. Meow..."

Dilandau shot up to his feet, "I am NOT afraid of the stupid rain!"

He grumbled and stomped out from under the cover of the porch and stood in the middle of the yard with his arms crossed slowly getting saturated, "See!"

Satori and Kira both laughed and grabbed him by the arms, pulling him farther out in the yard and spinning.

"You see Dilandau. The rain isn't so bad!"

"I guess you're right...technically..."

End Flashback

He laughed feebly and slowed down as he approached her, pulling up beside the curb so he didn't splash her.

She stopped when she heard the bike stop beside her and looked at him surprised, "Dilandau?"

Even her bird was eyeing him curiously.

He looked away scowling, "I said I was going to take you home, so...hop on..."

She crossed her arms and shot him a challenging smile, "I thought you hated the rain."

He sighed angrily, "You showed me that it wasn't that bad remember... now are you getting on? You're wasting my time." He cringed at his cold words and cursed himself. Talking to Satori Irerno was never a waste of time in the old days.

She looked up as the rain hit her in the face, sighing and then walking over to his bike. She readjusted her guitar before she hopped on, but gave the area one more glance for any signs of who or what might have been watching her. She sighed after finding nothing and put her knife back in her bag. She slid on behind him and made sure her guitar wasn't hitting anything.

Dilandau waited as she got situated behind him, "Are you ready?"

"Yes."

He revved his engine and sped down the road with the rain stinging his face, the balance of his bike slightly off due to the second passenger. His heartbeat quickened as he felt Satori's arms snake around his waist. He was a bit alarmed; no one ever dared to touch him since he had become rather slap and punch happy. Even the guys became painfully careful not to touch him, for one little playful punch or slap on the back could result in getting your hand ripped off if he was in the wrong mood, and since he didn't talk much anymore how could they tell when that was? After he had started to change for the worse, even his fan club was afraid to look at him in case he told them off (which would break their little hearts and probably make some of them kill themselves from the rejection of their dream boy). So why is it this girl behind him so easily wrapped her arms around his waist? Once again the voice of good and bad raged. His rotten conscious was telling him it was because the stupid wench didn't know any better because she had abandoned him for six years. His so to speak 'good' conscious argued that she had once said she'd accept him no matter what. He snorted angrily; well first off why the hell did he even stop and pick her up instead of just driving right by, being sure to splash some rain water her way. He sure as hell wouldn't be sitting here arguing with himself if he had just drive right by her.

Yet again it was the battle of the voice of good and bad inside his very soaked head. His mouth twisted into a snarl over his weakness, which just happened to be the girl sitting so dangerously close to him.

He glanced back to see that she was staring at the passing scenery with sad eyes and loose hair in her face. Her head looked heavy but her own courteousness prevented her from resting it on Dilandau's back.

He sounded more sarcastic than caring, "Something wrong?"

She sighed, "Yea...I'm sorry..."

His eyes narrowed, "What do you mean sorry?"

"I... hurt you...and I broke our promise..."

He bit his lip and focused on the road. He couldn't hear this now. It was too much. He felt the anger building inside him. Satori took the hint and fell silent

He couldn't help but sound spiteful, "Where's your house..."

She frowned at his tone and looked down, "Down the road up ahead to the left, then you turn into the driveway with the Sakura and Magnolia trees..."

He followed her directions and once he had turned, he traveled down the street until he spotted flowering trees being whipped by the soaked wind. He pulled into her driveway and headed up towards her house.

Once there he slowed to a stop and put down his foot to let her off, the rain pitter-pattering off of his non-moving bike. His lump grew bigger as he felt the warmth of her arms leave his waist. He was sure he would be happy to be rid of her for causing him to waste his time and gas by dropping her off, but oddly enough he was now wishing the trip to her house had been longer.

Her bird shook off its feathers and flew from her shoulder up to the open window and went inside. Dilandau was amazed that it had stayed on her shoulder the entire ride. Satori squeezed out her hair and straightened out her skirt. She started to head for her front door, but she stopped at the doorstep and leaned her guitar against the wall instead of going straight inside. She then turned and looked at Dilandau with blank, sad eyes that tore into his soul.

He looked away scowling.

She started back towards him until she was about two feet from his bike. He faced her again, staring at her questioningly. He sighed and put up his kickstand, knowing that she wasn't going to speak unless she was sure he was listening to her. He hopped off and walked over to confront her.

He glared at her, "What?"

She looked up at him with stern eyes even though Dilandau easily saw the pain they held, "Dilandau, I am sorry, I am sorry for leaving so suddenly. I'm sorry for causing you to hurt; you must believe me when I say I didn't want to go. I broke our promise, and for that, I deeply hate myself. I...."

He narrowed his eyes and his mental dam burst, releasing the floods of rage, "Shut up! Stop saying you're fucking sorry! Do you think that's going to make me magically forget these last six damn years!? You left me behind Satori! You didn't even care about how it would affect the people who cared about you! You didn't think at all did you! You should have known what this would do to us! If you didn't want to go you sure put up one hell of a fight to stay!"

Satori felt her own anger starting to burn, "You don't know what it's been like for me! I went through hell these last six years! Don't think I left off to some happy life where I was surrounded with nothing but security and bliss! We had to leave! I was given two choices Dilandau, that day I was given two choices! Atomsk asked me to go with him. I had the choice to go, live freely with him. Or stay, and I chose to stay! Did you even think for one second how deeply hurt and confused I was? Did you even consider my feelings! Utter hell Dilandau! That's what it was. Then once he had gone we were forced to leave! We weren't given a choice! Yes, we went to Japan to escape the gang violence so your lives wouldn't be in danger cuz how do you think they'd be able o get to us! Through you just the same way as they would use us to get to Atomsk! Do you understand how much danger we were in! Atomsk had no weaknesses, only two. Mother and me! Can you imagine how many angry people there would be after us when they had found out Atomsk had left!? They would do anything to get back at him, and in truth the only way they could get to him was through US! I'm sorry that you don't underst-"

Dilandau slapped her, but she recovered quickly. Her eyes burned with pain and rage as she glared at him, teeth clenched together as her hands formed quickly into fists quivering with the thirst for a fight. He glared right back at her, but his eyes were full of hurt and resentment.

She took a step closer to him. He tensed in the anticipation, expecting her to knock him flat on his ass but she did something that totally caught him off guard, she rested her head against his chest and nestled her face in his shirt clenching it tightly like he was going to run off.

"You are the last person I would ever want to hurt Dilandau. And even if you never forgive me and hate me forever, I'll always be here when you need me..."

He choked back tears and took her into a tight embrace much against what his brain was telling him, resting his head on top of hers. She smelled so good, like a fresh spring's night. He had missed her so badly, it killed him to have said those things to her, and to top it all off, he went and slapped her for trying to save her own life (I'm such a selfish bastard. And yet she always forgives me. Satori you fool...)

She slowly pulled away and walked around him to his bike. She put up the kickstand and wheeled it over to under the lip of the garage so it wouldn't get any more wet than it already was. She walked back over to him and took him by the hand, leading (more like dragging) him up to the front door with no resistance, grabbing her guitar, and then going inside to the warm house.

Satori shut the door behind them. She kicked off her shoes and flicked on a light. She then led him up the stairs, and into the bathroom. She made him sit down on the toilet.

She wandered over to the pantry and grabbed some towels, "Take off your shirt and shoes."

He complied and peeled off his shirt, not feeling like being rebellious to get back at her, he then bent down and took off his shoes. Satori threw a towel over to him and he began to dry himself off.

"I'll go find you some clothes to change into. We still have some of Ato's things left..."

He nodded as she disappeared into the hall. He heard a closet door open and close and Satori came back into the bathroom with flame boxers, black loose pants, and a white T-shirt with a red and orange phoenix on it.

"I hope these fit." She handed them over and left, shutting the door behind her.

Dilandau sighed and looked at the clothes with guilt. He got up and began to change. His now three inner voices screaming at him, (I can make her pay later...for now, I'll...just go with it...)

Satori walked into her room and shut the door, sitting the guitar against the wall and pulling down her hair. She took off her wet clothes, throwing them on top of her hamper, and changed into black pajama pants and a short-sleeved gray shirt. She used the towel she had brought from the bathroom and dried out her hair. Once it was dry enough to her liking, she put it into a long braid down her back.

She flopped down on her bed and deeply sighed.

"What a night...went better than I thought it would though...I can't believe the fucker hit me though....I guess in his mind it was justified, I suppose I deserved it..."

Ururu woke up from his bed, which was right beside Satori's, and licked her hand that was hanging over the side the bed.

"Hey boy."

She sat up and petted him a while before he laid his head back down and went back to sleep.

She got up and headed out into the hall just as Dilandau was coming out of the bathroom.

He avoided looking her in the eyes, "... where should I put these?"

"I'll put them in the dryer." She took his wet clothes and headed down stairs with him following behind her. He was about to say something to her, but stopped and looked away as she guided him.

He followed her out into the kitchen, "The phones right there. You should call your mom and let her know that you'll be staying here for the night. It won't be letting up anytime soon." with that she opened the door to the basement and headed down to the dryer.

"But-"

Halfway down the stairs she rolled her eyes and shouted, "No buts, you're not riding home in this storm Dilandau. Just shut up and call your freaking mom!" She smiled and shook her head as she continued down the steps.

Dilandau sighed, there was no point in arguing with her, so he picked up the phone and dialed home.

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