Garnet & Amber
XO'MagickMoon'OX
Together At Last …
Koryu and Kohaku sat in peaceful silence in the garden, Koryu's head resting in the lap of his beloved angel …
Yes, his beloved angel …
He finally had her, and he was never going to let her go.
The demons were gone, and the archangels had returned to Heaven. Kokuyo and Hisui were still out, Ruri and Hari … God only knows what they were up to.
"Kohaku," Koryu said.
"Mm?" She looked down at him.
"Thank you … for protecting me … back there. I never would've made it without you."
Kohaku blushed. "Oh … uh … I … really didn't do much. Most of the time, it was you protecting me, and I wouldn't have made it either had Master Ransho, Master Touki, and Master Ryuki not shown up."
Koryu shifted, nestling himself further into Kohaku's embrace. "But still … it took a lot of power and courage … and love." Her words still echoed through his mind, "I won't let you hurt him!"
"Koryu … what did you mean when you said that you wouldn't lose me again?" Kohaku asked, turning her eyes back to look straight ahead. She began absentmindedly stroking the demon's soft, ebony locks.
"Oh … eh …" Now it was he who blushed, though Kohaku, her gaze aimed elsewhere, didn't notice. "I just meant that … well … I lost you once before … when you decided to wait for Shuichiro to be reincarnated. I lost you again when he was reborn. That time, his soul leaking from his body was no distraction, and I felt the jealousy I should've felt one hundred years prior. You spent all of your time with him, and I felt so … shunned, neglected, aband –"
He stopped when he heard Kohaku's muffled sob. He looked up as a tear fell from her cheek onto his brow.
"K-Kohaku …"
"I'm sorry," she wept. "I didn't know it hurt you so much."
Koryu was taken aback. "I … I wasn't accusing you of anything. I just … wanted to answer your question."
The angel nodded, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"And when you were sick," Koryu continued, seeing that Kohaku had calmed down, "you almost … died, and that was the third time I had almost lost you. I had never been so scared, and all I could do was wish every night for you to just get better."
"Well, at least I was able to answer that wish before it was too late, this time," Kohaku said, forcing a feeble smile.
Koryu couldn't help but smile as well, though his was less half-hearted than hers. He continued, "If I had really lost you this time … I don't know what I would've done."
Kohaku nodded, absentmindedly brushing her fingertips over his cheek, her eyes staring again into the distance. He held her hand against his cheek, savoring the feel of her warm flesh against his. He was enveloped in her sweet scent … vanilla.
"What did you mean when you said 'It was you last night'?" Kohaku asked.
"Y-You don't remember?" He looked up at her.
She looked down so that their eyes met. She shook her head, her expression one of honest puzzlement.
Koryu took a deep breath. "You don't remember anything?"
"Well, I did have a dream …"
"About what?" Koryu asked, figuring she wasn't going to tell him unless he prodded.
Kohaku blushed fiercely. "Er … of you."
An impish smile graced the demon's lips. "And what was I doing?"
"We … We were in the garden … and you kissed me … gently, softly, and then pulled away," Kohaku answered tentatively.
"And then …?" Koryu urged.
Kohaku closed her eyes and, in one breath, blurted, "And then you started to walk away and I ran after you and kissed you back more passionately than you had kissed me and then you collapsed and then I fell down with you and continued to kiss you and then you disappeared and I was all alone in the garden."
Koryu couldn't help but burst into laughter. He sat up, holding his sides and laughing incessantly.
Kohaku's blush, if at all possible, deepened, and she bowed her head in humiliation "Why are you laughing at me?" she whimpered.
Koryu stopped. He sat there, trying to catch his breath and wiping his eyes, before saying, "I'm not laughing at you, bubblehead! I'm laughing at … the irony of life."
"What irony?"
"What if I told you that your dream wasn't really all that much of a dream?" he asked, inching closer to her.
She looked baffled. "What are you talking about?"
Koryu suppressed another laugh. "That night, I snuck into your room and stole a kiss from you while you were sleeping. That was the first kiss in your dream. And then I left the room and was standing in the hallway when someone came up behind me and pulled me into a very passionate kiss. That was the second kiss in your dream." His eyes glittering, he said, "You were sleepwalking!"
Kohaku gasped. "Wh-What did I do?"
"Anything that you did in your dream," Koryu answered, laying back on the grass beside the angel, folding his arms behind his head.
As Kohaku thought back to her dream, Koryu watched with amusement as her expression became more and more embarrassed. Then, her eyes portrayed confusion as she wondered, "Why did you disappear in my dream?"
"Oh … uh …" Koryu averted his eyes, a pale pink tinting his face. "I fainted while you were kissing me."
Now it was Kohaku's turn to laugh. "You fainted? You!"
Koryu glared at her. "Yeah, so what?"
Kohaku's giggling quelled. "Well, I'm sure that you've …" She paused. "…that you've … done much more than kissing with … others. I know that you used to take lover after lover, and you always had Ruri and Hari when you couldn't find anyone to … eh … sleep with you."
Koryu again looked away. "Yeah … well …" He fidgeted under the awkward silence that was descending upon them. "But … But with them it wasn't the same. There were two things working against me when you kissed me." He rolled over on his side and rested his head in his palm. Kohaku sat with her arms wrapped around her legs, the side of her head resting on her knees. The two stared at each other for a moment before Koryu spoke again.
"When you kissed me, your divine purity was a bit overwhelming. Actually, it's the same for any demon that does anything like that with an angel. But that's usually no problem. What made your kiss so overwhelming was … well … you know about the Seven Deadly Sins, right?"
The angel nodded, her eyes never leaving Koryu's as he talked.
"Well, demons are empowered by the Sins. Usually, when I would … do anything … with other demons, or humans, or even angels … rarely, Lust – one of the Sins – gave me the upper hand, made me the dominant one in the situation. You know that Love is the pure counterpart to Lust, right? Well, when you kissed me, Love overpowered Lust, giving you the upper hand. So, your angelic purity doubled with your love overwhelmed me … and I fainted."
"Too pure for you, am I?" Kohaku teased, smiling.
"Yeah," Koryu said, sitting up. "But it's no problem anymore." He leaned in and placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
She smiled as he pulled away and wrapped his arms around her. They sat there, the afternoon sun peeking out from behind a gray storm cloud, smiling down at them with warm rays of light.
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"Noooooo! Master Koryu!" Hari whined.
Ruri hit her sister on the back of the head. "Quiet! Besides, how can you complain? It's so sweet!"
"Yeah, but now he's going to spend all of his time with her instead of us!" Hari whispered.
The two demons watched Kohaku and Koryu in the yard from the window, Hisui and Kokuyo standing behind them.
"So I guess they were okay, after all," Kokuyo said.
"Did you doubt God's judgment?" Hisui smiled.
"That old bastard's crazy," Kokuyo muttered, resulting in a frown from his lover. "Sorry."
"Although, I admit that when Ransho told us what would happen and that we had to leave for a little while, I had my own doubts, however fleeting," Hisui added.
"Aw, we knew Master Koryu could take those demons!" Hari exclaimed, her cat tail swishing behind her.
"Yeah! He's the strongest demon in Hell now!" Ruri chimed in, pawing the air enthusiastically.
"But he didn't defeat them," Hisui said. "Kohaku saved him once after he saved her twice, and then the Angel Masters intervened before the demons could take it further."
"How do you know this?" Kokuyo asked.
"Oh, Ryuki sent me a messenger shortly after the little battle, telling me everything that had happened."
"You mean that dove that interrupted us at the park?" Kokuyo wondered. "That was his messenger?"
Hisui nodded, a pleasant smile lighting her face.
The four turned back to the window as Kohaku and Koryu began to get up and make their way inside. The sky was gray; it was sure to rain later.
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That night Koryu lay on his futon mattress with Ruri and Hari. The two female demons cuddled next to their master, enjoying being by his side again …
Even if he did now have Kohaku.
"Master Koryu?" Hari murmured sleepily.
"Mm?"
"Are you all right now?" Ruri chimed in, following her sister's train of thought.
He looked down at his servants. "What are you talking about?"
"Before," Hari said, "you were really upset and tense and moody. Now that you have Kohaku, are you all right?"
Koryu smiled. "Yeah. I'm okay."
"Good." Ruri nuzzled her nose against Koryu's bare side (he had taken off the shirt that the succubus had torn, not bothering to conjure a new one, being that his magic was still exhausted).
It wasn't long before the twins were fast asleep. That was when Koryu snuck out of bed and stealthily made his way to Kohaku's room.
Standing by her bedside, he gazed down at her. The moon was a sliver outside her window, the cool autumn breeze carrying in the sweet smell of rain as it fell silently outside. He took a deep breath and smiled. The wind caressed the angel's face, rustling her silky hair as she slept.
She was so beautiful.
He walked around to the other side of her bed and crawled in with her, wrapping his arm around her. He felt her shift, heard her groan as she awoke.
"Koryu?" she mumbled tiredly.
"Yes."
The angel smiled, rolling over to face the demon, suddenly very awake. His smile, in turn, widened, still with his arm wrapped around her. She leaned in and pressed her lips against his. He happily accepted the kiss, rolling onto his back and pulling Kohaku with him so that she lay half on and half off the demon. He felt her tongue brush against his lips, and he parted them in invitation. Running his fingers through her golden locks, he kept his other arm wrapped protectively around her.
She was his angel.
He would never let anything happen to her.
Kohaku pulled away for air, breathing heavily. Koryu found himself in the same state, but he hadn't wanted the kiss to end.
Oh well.
He was sure there'd be many more.
"Koryu," Kohaku whispered, running her fingers across the bare flesh of his chest and abdomen.
"Yeah?" he whispered back, brushing her flaxen bangs away from her face.
"I love you."
The demon smiled. "I love you, too."
Kohaku nestled her head in the crook of his neck, curling up against him, and he hugged her tight. He laid his head back on the pillow and listened to the soft breathing of the angel and the quiet pitter-patter of the rain outside the widow before falling asleep, only to dream of his beloved, as she was surely doing as well.
-End-
A/N:
Yeah! I finished! Hope you all enjoyed!
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