Darkness
Chrno Crusade
Rated R: Bloodshed Violence Later On, Just Violence for now, some language (Only puttiing it as R now, because I don't wanna have ta change it...but PG-13 for now kk?)
Summary: Without knowing, Rosette and Chrno met each other in a past life in London. The unexpected encounter left Rosette curious about the devil and is determined to do what she can to uncover a dreadful past for Chrno. RxC Sorry, no lemon. Just a bit of fluff.
Note: Italics means thoughts, except for some, but I'm pretty sure you'll know when the person isn't thinking, I hope. If you don't, ask. The characters personality's are a bit changed, but take a moment to think of the situation. Rosette is homeless, you'd be calmer too if you had no home and no one to talk to and all! And Chrno's personality in this fic…is beyond me….
Disclaimer: I don't own Chrno Crusade although I wish I did. You can't sue me for I have no money.
Chapter One: Encounter & Love at First Sight
Everything happens for reason, right? Changing destiny isn't possible for those who continue to follow the ways of darkness…
The howling winds lingered in the cold stale air. The dry smell of cigars and liquor, followed by the men coming from bars, or from their expensive homes. The rain falling from the midnight sky smelt fresh to the girl wondering around the streets, as the winds blew her wet blonde hair and her blue pools determining where to go.
She pulled her jacket closer around her. The air blew harder and the rain poured heavier. "It's so cold outside! I don't know if I'm going to survive very long…."
"You there," A voice sounded from behind the girl. "Why are you here?"
The girl turned around to face the one who had confronted her so suddenly. "Who are you?"
"I could ask you the same thing, Rosette Christopher." The man that had spoke to the girl smirked baring fangs, and held the sight of amusement in his cold dark eyes.
The blonde narrowed her eyes while taking a step back away from her 'attacker.' "What the hell do you want?"
"You." The man lunged at the girl, managing to grab hold of her arm.
She now saw that he was a demon. Fear struck her eyes. Jerking away from him, she kicked the demon and ran.
The ground split, making the blue eyed blonde fall, but she didn't hit the ground.
"Rosette Christopher?" A boy with long violet hair, and crimson red eyes held her in his arms.
"How did-" Not being able to finish, Rosette was carried away into darkness with her mouth covered.
"There's no time to explain, that demon is a soul stealer. If you get near it, it'll suck your soul away and you'll die."
"A soul…stealer?"
The boy put Rosette down and turned away from, with a growl. "Stay here."
"What? Are you insane?" Rosette glared at him, along with taking a step past him.
"Please, just stay here, I'll take care of the demon." The boy jumped from the building they were on and landed softly on the ground below. A black aura surrounded him as black wings spread out from his back and his long portion of his hair became a bone like whip and he no longer possessed the look a young boy.
Rosette stared in amazement. She had only seen demons and read about them in books or heard them from other people who live on the streets. "A devil…." The feeling she had when she looked him in the eye before her flew off, was trust. She knew she could trust him. She couldn't explain it at all. They had just met!
Hours pasted, and the excitement was overwhelming Rosette as she waited for the devil to come back. Footsteps came from behind her. A smile of happiness filled her face, but quickly vanished when she saw him. "Sir…."
"Call me, Chrno." Blood was everywhere. Chrno's eyes locked with Rosette's. He didn't understand. He saw sadness and worry in Rosette's eyes. Nothing that was ever for him.
"Chrno…your hurt!" Rosette slowly walked over to him, with her hands trembling and her heart pounding.
"It's fine…." Chrno gritted his teeth in pain. His fangs were bared when Rosette approached. "I said I'm fine!"
"How can you say that? You're bleeding to death!" Rosette kneeled down with a face of determination and stared him strait in the eye. She pulled his gently to her, so she could get a closer look at his wounds.
Chrno was completely confused. No one ever wanted to save him, nor did he want anything to do with them. After all humans and demons would make an odd paring of friendship or lovers. In this case, innocent friendship. "Why do you insist on helping me? I am after all a devil."
"Devil or not, I can't just leave you here to die." Rosette moved closer to Chrno to look closer at what looked to be a bite mark from the demon. "There's always something good in everything."
"You believe everything you hear?" Chrno yawned in boredom and looked away from Rosette, secretly fearing her looks of disapproval.
"I don't believe everything I hear!" Rosette stood up and crossed her arms. "Where do you live anyways?"
"In a mansion, in another realm. I'll take you there so you can get cleaned up. Your clothes are wet and have blood on them from me."
"Mansion?" Rosette's eyes lit up to diamonds as she imagined gems and gold piled high to the ceiling and her possessing it. Her hysterical laugh made Chrno back away from her.
A sweat drop appeared on the side of Chrno's head as he stared at Rosette as she laughed in a hysterical frenzy. "Are…you okay?" Now he was wondering if it was safe to even be near her!
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
"What! Wait!" Chrno tried his best to catch up to Rosette. "You don't even know where it is!"
"Sure I do! How hard is it to find a mansion!"
Rosette wondered around for hours on end searching for Chrno's mansion. "Where in the world is it?"
"You never listen…. I told you that it was in another realm. Humans can't see it unless I want them to." Chrno sighed and took Rosette's hand. "Just come on, I'll show you where is."
"Good! I'm so tired from walking around everywhere!" Rosette allowed Chrno to lead her to the mansion. His hand felt good against hers. She couldn't explain the feeling she had toward it.
They came to a dark ally filled with rats scurrying around and trash spilled everywhere.
"Why did you bring me here? This leads no where to a mansion."
"It leads to the realm my mansion is in."
"Oh." Rosette's eyes scanned the area carefully. "If it just me, or did it get extremely cold?"
"My realm is frozen. Cold. Stay close to me or you'll freeze." Chrno lead her through the portal that connected the two realms.
"Freeze?" Rosette's teeth chattered as the chilled air wrapped around her body. "C-Cold!"
Chrno picked Rosette up and transformed once again into his demonic form. They made inside the mansion with ease.
The warmth of the place was welcoming and calming. It surprised Rosette that the place seemed friendly, knowing that Chrno was a devil. Everything seemed so unfamiliar to her. She had no home, and it would be best if she just died, right?
"I'll take you home after your all cleaned up." Chrno Lead Rosette to room and opened the door. "What's wrong? Do I scare you?"
"No, it's just your lucky to have a home. I don't." Rosette walked into the room, admiring the black walls and maroon sheets and the shades on the windows.
"Your…welcome to live here is you want." Chrno hadn't known what to say. He didn't want to just leave her on the streets where another demon could kill her. He quickly reverted back to his non-demonic form and began to leave with a blush on his face. "I'll go see if one of my maids can give you some clothing."
Rosette cocked her head to the side as she watched Chrno almost trip, before turning her gaze to a silver box. It seemed to be the only thing that wasn't dark, or filled with shadow.
The door opened slowly as a woman appeared holding a neatly folded pile in her hands. Her black maids dress with maroon trimming (a lot of Black and maroon, eh?) waved around her legs as she walked. "Master Chrno as if I would give you this." The woman's cold gaze never changed, and her voice was as calm as could be. Her long red hair was pulled neatly into a loose low bun with two strands in front of her face.
"Thank you, miss." Rosette gave a small smile.
"Please address me as Pheor. If you wish to write down something that is needing to be done, spell my name as F-I-O-R."
(Pheor can also be spelled Fior…. In a lot of places it's spelled both ways, so don't tell me it's wrong! I looked it up! I always spell it Fior. Hey! Add an "E" and it'll be Fiore!)
"Dinner will be ready shortly. Master Chrno wishes for you to join him when you are ready." Fior closed the door behind her after setting the clothing down on the table stand.
Wrapped inside the black dress were two black ribbons, undergarments, and a brush. Rosette slipped the dress on and examined herself in the mirror. The dress touched the ground and the top of it bared her shoulders and neck. The sleeves were a clear silky see through black that was naturally loose around her arms. She took two small strands of hair and braided them, than pulled them back and tied to the ribbon around them.
She made her way to the door, and slowly turned the knob so it wouldn't make a single sound, then she entered the hall of black. She could hardly even see her own hand. Standing still for a moment, pondering, Rosette choose a random direction and headed in the way she chose.
I can't see anything! How am I supposed to find Chrno when I can't even see my own hand…
"Lost?"
Rosette jumped ten feet into the air. She turned swiftly around to face whoever had scared the living daylights out of her. Chrno was standing there with a look of pure amusement on his face. "Don't do that! Are you trying to give me a heart attack!"
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." Chrno gave a small smile and held out his hand. "Allow me to lead you in the right direction."
Rosette nodded and took his hand. "It's so dark…. How can you stand it?"
"Dunno, I should have had Fior wait for you, and to show you where to go."
"It's fine. Just a little…" Rosette pondered for a while to fit what she was trying to say.
Chrno gave a chuckled. "Don't strain yourself."
Rosette snapped back to reality. A small blush spread across her face as she looked away from Chrno. "Sorry."
"You look good in that dress. It fits you perfectly." Chrno glanced away, glad that the hall was dark enough to hide his blush.
They made it to the dinning area after ten minutes. The bright light blinded Rosette as she entered the room cautiously. The crystals on the Chandelier glittered and danced, spreading light particles throughout the room. Rosette's eyes widened as she stared in awe at the tons of food on the table.
"Help yourself, I don't mind." Chrno smiled and began to look around to see what he wanted, while Rosette was chowing down food like there was no tomorrow.
Full and content, Rosette sat in the living room gulping down a glass of whine Chrno had given her.
Chrno blinked after he took his first sip of the whine. "You can always have more…"
"Sorry, but I haven't had anything for three days now!" Rosette drank a huge sip of her second glass.
"I see. Like I said before, you can live here if you want." Chrno's face became fove shades of red in one second flat.
"I have a question…."
"Yeah?"
"Back in the street, when you saved me, you knew my name. How?"
"I heard the demon call you that. I'm sorry if I was being rude."
"I was just wondering."
A sudden breeze surrounded Rosette's body, squeezing her until she couldn't breath. "Chr-no."
Screaming and gripping his head in pain, Chrno stumbled back, confused, yet very alert.
"Master Chrno!" Fior came running down the hallway in a calm panic. (Is it even possible to be in a calm panic?)
Rosette's breathing became even more shallow as she reached out her hand to get Fior's attention.
"Rosette!" Fior took Rosette's hand, pulling her away from the wall she had been pinned down and almost suffocated. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, but what about Chrno?"
Fior was at his side now comforting him the best she could. "Master Chrno, are you alright?"
"I'm fine now." Chrno stood up shaking his head. "Show Rosette back to her room."
"Yes, sir." Fior placed a hand on Rosette's shoulder. "Come."
"What about-"
"Master Chrno will be fine."
Rosette watched as Chrno enter his room. It was just a few rooms away from hers!
"I will come for you in the morning, when breakfast is ready." Fior bowed than disappeared into the dark realm of darkness.
Instead of fully closing the door, Rosette slipped away and dashed to Chrno's room and knocked on the door lightly. No reply. She turned the knob and opened the door slowly peering in. "Chrno…it's me Rosette."
No answer.
"Chrno?" Rosette opened the door fully and stepped into the room. "Chrno?" Fear overflowed the blonde as she saw shapes in the shadows that seemed to jumped out at her, but no sign of Chrno…. She had seen his go into his room, right? So did Fior, right?
"What are you doing in my room?" Chrno appeared from the blackness in front of Rosette. His eyes narrowed into a cold gaze.
"I just came to see if you were…alright…. I'm sorry, I'll go." Rosette turned to leave, but was pulled back into a strong embrace. "Chrno…."
The devil pulled her closer, licking her neck lightly. He walked in front of her and stared deeply into her eyes to see confusion and a bit of fear coming to the serface of her eyes. He could clearly see her emotions in her eyes.
"Chrno, what are you doing? This isn't like you…I don't think…" Rosette took a step back away from him. It felt like his blood-red garnet eyes were penetrating her body, making her feel relaxed. "Chrno, why are you making me feel like this? I feel so warm inside…so calm…"
"Rosette, I know we just met, but I have a confession of make…" Chrno sadly moved away from Rosette so she couldn't reach him. "I saw you a month ago, and I found you interesting. You weren't like all the others. You tried to make other peoples lives better, before you treated yourself…. I knew that I had fallen for you the minute I began to feel warm when I saw you."
Rosette's cheeks became a bright pink as she walked to Chrno and embraced him. Tears flooding down her face. I can't understand why I'm crying. The way Chrno said that, it made me feel as if nothing could harm me…as if I were all his and he was all mine…
"Rosette, why are you crying?" Chrno went into a daze as he stared down at the angel that embraced him.
The moonlight shown brightly through the window making the room fill with silver beauty.
Rosette's blue eyes glimmered with tears, and her pale lips a soft, soft pink. "I can't explain how I feel…. I'm not very good at expressing my feelings."
Chrno stroked her hair and held her tight, but gentle at the same time. He hadn't noticed Rosette's shaking. He was to busy trying to find himself…to understand how this had happened.
"Chrno?" Rosette pulled back a little. "Is love at first sight possible?"
Chrno stared at her. "It really depends on the person your beliefs."
"I see, but do you think it's possible?"
"I didn't…until I met you. It's hard to describe." Chrno gave a shy smile before Letting Rosette go. "You should go back to your room."
"I will, after you answer me this. Why were you in pain in the hall? What was happening?"
Chrno became uneasy as he swiftly moved to the window, ignoring Rosette's question.
Rosette narrowed her eyes. "If you cared at all for me, then you would trust me enough to tell me. Give me something. I'm worried about you, Chrno."
"Rosette, my past…isn't something for you to hear. It's one of the things I fear most…."
"Than let me help you over come your fear." Rosette embraced Chrno from behind. "I want to be there for you…to help you…to love you."
"Rosette…." Chrno twisted so that he was facing her. He pulled her close to him as he winced in pain of the memories flooding his mind.
Passion. Grace. Emotion.
Darkness. Misery. Pain.
All can be lost with a simple movement, and turned into something unbearable. As you can see, so many things in this world can be lost, but also can be found if you truly believe in the ones you love, and yourself.
Please Read & Review! This is my second ChrnoCrusade Story ever, and I hope you like it. In the summary, it said that Rosette is determined to uncover a dreadful past for Chrno, well I don't want people to get the idea of Chrno's past being uncovered in this chapter!
I can't just give it away all at once you know! Anyway, the next chapter will be up in four days, so please check back than, okay?
If people want some Lemon in this fic, please tell me, and majority wins.
Mia Orisaki
