My Angel in the Dark
Author: Ran Ishikawa
Rating: R
Summary: The rest of the Akuneko are very accustomed to threats… Gee… some friends I have… Anywho… What secret is Horo hiding? And why didn't he want Ren to know? Do I ask too many questions? Really, tell me… … I do kinda pity Ren at the end of his dream… for one thing, it was only a dream… and for another… I made sure in advanced that he wasn't wearing any underwear… XD
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(1) The kanji for 'Yoh' means leaf in case you didn't know… forgot to add that… Gomen…
Feather Three: Confessions of an Angel
Ren stared at the marred angel floating above his bed. He walked forward and brought hand to touch the blood matted wings… Another pure white feather floated down to the bed. Ren picked it up and examined it closely. He slowly turned to the frowning boy and asked, "These feathers… Do they have something to do with what he's going through?"
Yoh nodded, and walked out of the room. Ren put a hand on the writhing angel's face. "Horo… How can I save you?"
Yoh sat in the big living room and listened to the sound of the wind and snow outside. A small hand was placed on his shoulder. Yoh smiled. "Manta-chan… you know you shouldn't be here… Kami-sama will be angered…"
The small angel, Manta, fluttered slightly and landed next to Yoh. "Yoh-kun… I couldn't leave you to deal with this alone… Besides… If I'm cursed the same as Horo for disobeying him, I've already got my lover to restore my wings…" He nuzzled Yoh's shoulder, the highest point he could reach. Yoh wrapped an arm around Manta, who sobbed quietly. "Horo isn't gonna die… Is he?"
Yoh looked down at the smaller boy, then to the floor. "I can't be sure… It's up to Ren, really…" Manta buried his face into Yoh's chest. The door to Horo's room opened, breaking the gloomy silence. "Speak of the devil…"
Ren walked in, holding the two feathers close to his chest. "Please… somebody… explain to me what's going on…?" Ren quivered slightly, then fell softly to the floor.
Where am I…? Were Ren's first coherent thoughts. He didn't want to open his eyes because his head hurt so much. He moved a little and than felt something on his forehead. 'Wetness…?' He reached up and felt a cloth of some kind that seemed to be folded neatly and placed there with an almost tender feeling. Ren sat up slowly… and looked a very distraught Horo straight in the eye… "Ack!!!" Ren jumped back and hit his head on the arm of the couch. "Itai! Horo!!!"
"Gomen ne…Ren-san… anou… are you alright?" He asked reaching for Ren's face and cupping it lightly.
"Yeah… demo… I had a weird dream while I was out… Something about…" He paused and looked down. "… You being a dying angel or something… I can't really remember… It's stupid though… just forget it…"
He looked back up towards Horo again… who looked on the verge of tears… Horo leaned forward and put his forehead against Ren's. "Ren-chan…" Ren closed his eyes momentarily in surprise, as Horo got close. "It… It wasn't a dream… Gomen nasai…"
Ren opened his eyes as Horo backed away. Ren got a full view of him since he opened his eyes… the wings had returned… covered in blood like before… Ren gasped.
"Gomen… Ren… I didn't want to tell you…" Horo stepped back and sat on the floor, pulling his knees up to his chest. "I was afraid… you'd be scared… and leave… I… I don't want you to leave…"
Ren looked around the large living room, spotting Yoh and the little boy angel sitting on the love seat. His face saddened as he looked back towards Horo. Slowly he got up and walked towards the bluenette, sitting in front of him. "Horo…" He took his face into his hands and kissed his cheek lightly. "I won't leave… I want to help… really… Demo… I need you to tell me what's going on… okay?"
Horo looked up into Ren's eyes. "You… don't care… that I'm…?" Ren shook his head. The atmosphere was tense… until… "Yay!!!!!!!! I Luv You, Ren-chan!!! You don't hate me!!!!"
"Ack!" Ren was glomped and tackled to the floor. "Hey! I said I want to help! I didn't say you could rape me!!!"
Horo didn't move. Ren shuddered, as his breath got closer to his neck. "Ren… I'm going to tell you… what happen… in my past… Yoh, Manta… if you don't mind…?"
"Oh, of course, Horo! We'll be in the other room if you need us!" He picked up Manta and walked out.
"Yoh, you'd better clean up any mess you make in there!" Horo shouted.
"Shut up!" Yoh was heard shouting back.
Horo got up slowly and helped Ren up… by that I mean picked him up and pulled him into his arms… "You… sure don't seem like Angels to me…" Ren stated plainly, not even bothering to argue that he could walk to the couch himself… It felt nice to feel like a queen… 'I didn't just think of ME as a queen… did I?'
Horo placed him on the couch and sat next to him, dropping his head on Ren's shoulder. Ren leaned on him subconsciously. "I don't want you to freak out all right? Just listen to what I have to say…"
"I will… I promise…" Horo smiled and started his story.
Flashback
"Horo-san!" Faust shouted. He drifted slowly over the heaven's gardens, valleys and hills. All because he was searching for the missing Angel. "Horo-san! You must finish your lessons!
Horo was hiding behind a nearby cloud. He snickered lightly as he sensed that Faust had passed his hiding place.
"Horo!" A voice boomed in his ear. Horo jumped and fell into the cloud.
"R-Ryu?" He asked as he somehow managed to crawl out of the mass cloud. "Please, PLEASE don't tell Faust-sama I'm here! He's giving me my last lesson on guardian angel skills…"
Ryu blinked. "That's great… Why are you complaining?" He asked.
Horo huffed. "Have you seen this kid I have to look after??? He's such a snob! He doesn't even cry! When he was born, his mother left because she didn't want to take care of him, and now I'M stuck with him??? I don't want to help some snot nosed kid that probably won't like me anyway!"
Ryu sighed. "Horo-san, that's why you're taking those lessons… And that's the point of being a guardian angel! You have to help him…"
"Help him what?!" Horo shouted, "Help him cry?!"
"Pretty much… yes… If you can get him to cry his hidden sorrows away, he'll be less… snot nosed, as you put it." Ryu smiled at the guardian angel in training. Horo pouted and glared at the older angel.
"Shyeah, easy for you to say… you're already a guardian Angel…"
"There you are!" Faust had put a hand on Horo's shoulder.
"ACK!!!" Horo fell over into the cloud again.
Faust crossed his arms. "Please come back to your lesson, Horo-san, if you finish, you won't have to deal with me anymore…"
"Yeah, demo…" He grunted as he pulled himself back up out of the cloud. "Then I'll have to deal with that kid…"
Faust sighed. "Please… he isn't as bad as you think…"
"FINE!!! I'll finish my stupid lesson! Geez…" Horo stomped away.
"Now remember, Horo, stay as near to your client as possible. Don't scare him away or make him mad. Do NOT under NO circumstances hurt him in ANY way." Faust hurried behind Horo, who was glad as hell to get out of there, three weeks later.
"Hai, hai, I know… What's his name, again?"
"Kitsushitara Kurara." Faust said.
Horo's eyebrow twitched. "Kurara? Written in Kanji that's… got 'joy' and 'suffering' in it, doesn't it?"
Faust sweatdropped. "Hai… demo… don't let the name say anything about his personality, though…"
Horo blinked, but continued on his way.
Ten minutes later found Horo walking along the crowded streets of a baron town. He looked around and spotted his target walking away from an empty alleyway. "Oi!"
The boy turned around. "What do you want?" Horo blanched in his mind.
"I just wanted to ask you… you're Kitsushitara Kurara, ne?"
"Hai… What of it?!" He screamed. He was very jumpy. Horo looked into the alleyway and blinked, slowly.
"What were you doing in there?" He asked innocent.
"None of your business!" He started walking away.
"Oi! I just wanna be friends! Come on!" He grasped the larger boys arm, lightly. Kurara pushed him against a wall.
"I DON'T." He let go and walked away.
'Well… there goes not making him mad…' He walked back towards the alleyway where he saw the older boy leaving. "I wonder what he was doing here anyways…" He said to himself. He rounded the corner and gasped.
A young girl lay dead against the wall.
Horo put a hand over his mouth to stop from screaming… another hand closed over his. "How did I know you'd come here…?"
"Mm… mmph…?!" Horo's eyes widened as a hand ran slowly over his groin.
"You are very pretty though… maybe… we can be… 'friends'…" He grasped Horo's member through his pants and Horo screamed… Well, screamed as much as one could through someone's hand.
Horo fought against the older boy, pulling his hand off his mouth (Me: But not his groin…?). He used his strength to throw the latter off of him. He stepped back against a wall.
The other boy turned. "You are stronger than you look…" He unsheathed a bloody sword. "But you've seen what I do… and you don't wanna be my friend any more, do you…?" Horo pressed up against the wall as the man lunged at him. He put his hand in front of him to stop the blow…
And a beam of light shot straight throw Kurara's torso…
Horo kneeled in front of a pure white bliss that was never again to be his home. Angels lined in a mocking circle around him. Faust stood in front of him, a grave look on his face. "Horo… You have committed the worst sin imaginable of an Angel of your rank… You have killed the client that you were supposed to protect… I have no choice but to curse your wings…"
Horo nodded a little before standing slowly and turning his back on his instructor. Faust looked away, and held up his hand. A soft beam of grayish light made its way to Horo's drooped wings. Excruciating pain shot through Horo's body as his wings were torn, mangled, and drenched in the blood drawn from his own body. Though he did not make a sound… not one gasp or cry of pain was heard from the boy.
Faust managed to look down at the beaten child. He winced at the look of him. "You have until you shed your last, clean, pure white feather… to find someone who will be willing to restore them. If they are not restored by that time, your soul will be taken to fulfill another purpose… Angels… you are dismissed…"
The angels whispered and gossiped until the room was completely empty. Faust rushed forward as the door shut and hugged Horo lightly, trying not to touch his wings. "Horo-san… I'm so sorry… I saw everything that happened… I had no choice…"
"Faust-sama… I can do this on my own…" He got up and began walking away.
Faust stood. "Horo-san!" Horo turned around. Tears could be seen forming in his eyes. "Ganbatte…"
Horo nodded and hurried away, slowly disappearing into the darkness…
End Flashback
"That guy was a rapist and a murderer… he killed everyone that glanced at him sideways…" Horo said, looking at his feet, which had seemed to gain him very much interest when he was describing his trial.
"That…" Ren pounded his fist on the small coffee table, almost cracking it. "That's not FAIR!!! Did they even give you a chance to explain?!"
Horo sighed. "They saw everything… about him… but he was me client and I killed him… it's against policy-…"
Ren jumped up. "Fuck Policy!!!! Oh, so if he were about shove that sword through your chest, you wouldn't even be able to protect yourself?!" Ren stood up and grabbed Horo's face with his hands. "You should have said something!!! Demanded a retrial, or something! What you did was only self-defense! And you said you didn't even mean to actually kill him!!!" He took in a breath. "What can I do to help you…? Do you need a lover? I can help you look for one! I won't let you die because you can't get you wings cleansed!"
"Ren-…"
"I will NOT take no for an answer!!! I don't care if you ARE my master!!!" Ren fell to his knees. "So far… you're the only friend I have… and I don't wanna lose you… All right?!"
Horo looked at the partially distraught boy.
"Please let me help you…" Ren asked, almost timidly.
Horo sighed. "Of course you can help… But I want you to know… It can't just be anyone…" He took in a breath. "It has to be the first person my heart decides to love… Has to be… that person…"
"Then we'll find that person! We can look in the village! There are lots of women there that you could-…" Horo put a finger to Ren's lips.
"You don't get it Ren…" He pulled the boy into a hug. "It… It has to be you…"
I did it again… didn't I…? Evil cliffy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHA!!! Cough anyway… Sorry this chapter took so long… It was originally on my dad's computer… I just got a new one (Old one blew up) and my dad hardly let me on his… So now it's here! Yay! Ja ne folks…
-Ran Ishikawa