My Angel in the Dark

Author: Ishikawa Ran

Rate: R

Summary: Do I have to? … It's the next chapter anyway… sorry it took so friggin' long… I mean yeah, I had time over the summer… just not one Internet break to put it up… -w- anyway… onto the chapter! Read to find out what happens for your self! I'm too lazy to put up and actually summary…

-Chapter 4: Denial… and a Chocolate Sunday-

Ren froze. Time seemed to freeze with him. Horo didn't move, the two couldn't even hear the wind. Ren finally ended the still silence. He leaned his head down and hid his eyes. "Me…?"

Horo sighed. "I am sorry… that it had to come to this…" He sat on the floor, blushing lightly.

Ren looked at Horo's drooping wings. How motioned towards then and tried to say something, but he couldn't find the words. "I… H-How long…?" He stuttered, surprised at himself. He was always taught not to stutter or cry or do anything beyond his father's order for that matter.

Apparently, Horo got the wrong idea. "Since I met you really… I mean I was already looking for you when I found it was you I was looking fo-"

"No! No… I mean…" He blushed. 'He's loved me… since before the day…' He gulped. "I meant… how long do you have…?"

Horo blinked and sweatdropped. "Oh… He glanced at his wings and closed his eyes. "Around a month maybe…" He sighed. "I hope that gives you enough time…" He stood and walked towards Ren, who had somehow managed to travel to the window and sit on the windowsill.

Ren shuddered at the closeness… and the cold of the window he was leaning on. "It… should I hope…" He whispered.

They sat in silence for a few minutes… just as Horo was about to say something to cheer the situation up, a small crash was heard in the room Yoh and Manta had taken residence in… Horo sweatdropped. "They couldn't be doing it THAT rough…?"

Ren sweatdropped as well. "They… aren't actually…? …Are they…?" He asked.

"It wouldn't surprise me…" Horo stated and walked towards the door. Ren looked shocked. Not appalled… just shocked.

Horo had only just touched the knob of the door when Yoh came bursting out. "HORO! Manta having another vision!"

"What?! Now?!" He stormed into the room. The smallest boy's eyes held no emotion… In fact they were pure white and staring at the ceiling. Horo stopped on a dime. "Shit! It's that bad??" Yoh nodded, a scared look in his eyes. "We have to talk to Faust… he's the only one who can fix this…" He turned to leave. Yoh grabbed his shoulder.

"Horo, your wings are cursed, remember? If you go near them, they'll kill you… I'll go…"

Horo blinked and sweatdropped. "Oh yeah!" Yoh would've fallen over had they not been in this situation… A small incantation, and Yoh was gone. Manta twitched and flinched, trying to free himself from his vision. They were not something angels wanted to be cursed with. Horo sighed and turned away from the young boy… and looked straight into a distraught Ren's eyes. "Holy-! Don't do that!"

"What's… going on…?" He asked. He hid his eyes with his hair once more.

Horo gazed at him sadly. "Manta has visions… all the time… they're usually not this severe… but it does happen once in a while…"

Ren nodded slowly. He gulped once. "Horo…" He whispered.

"Y-Yes?" Horo answered with a forced cheerful voice.

"I… I want to go home!" He dropped to his knees and grasped onto Horo's pant leg. He let tears that he'd been holding since he last cried… which felt like forever. "I never admit this to anyone! Ever! But I'm scared! I don't want to be caught in the middle of it! I hate this… please… I want to go home… I prefer that hell over this… it feels like your against your kind in a war… and I'm scared… yes Horo, I'm scared for you…" He shuddered slightly. "Help me… I don't know what to think! I CAN'T think right now! And it's… it's just…" He sobbed.

Horo gaped at the boy, who usually so tough and cold, now so scared and helpless. Horo kneeled down slowly and wrapped his arms around the shivering boy. "Ren… I can't let you go home…" He looked away. "But I can make you forget everything… make you forget me… and Manta… and Yoh… and what I told you… You can start a completely new life with your very own house… your very own life…" He held him tight.

Ren blinked. "Y-You can do that…?" He asked quietly.

"I can…" Horo murmured. "One last thing… Ren-chan…" he smiled sadly, finally looking at Ren, showing his tears that were traveling down his cheeks. "It wouldn't be… too much to ask for a goodbye kiss, would it? I mean you won't remember it…"

Ren contemplated this. 'I at lest owe him that… don't I…? I mean… he saved me from my father… He brought me here… and loved me…' He blushed lightly. "Fine… since I won't remember it…" He said bluntly. 'That was too mean… wasn't it…?''

Horo winced lightly. "Sankyuu…" He spoke quietly. He leaned forward slowly, giving Ren plenty of time to back out. He brushed his lips against the boys… and he felt his heart jump.

Ren also felt something deep within his heart. Regret…? Anger…? Nerves…? …

'…Love…'

'…C-could I…? I m-mean… I…' Ren pulled back slowly. A single tear having escaped his eyes, he blinked the rest back. "I… ganbatte…" Was the only thing he could thing to say.

Horo nodded and placed his hand on Ren's forehead. Ren closed his eyes. 'I'm going to forget… I'm going to forget everything…' He searched his mind deeply for feelings he should've told before this. 'I'm… going to forget… I don't… no… I don't want to forget!' "Ho-!" It was already to late… He felt his voice leave him, and the scene before him start to go black… 'I DON'T WANT TO FORGET!!! NO! HORO!!! I LOVE YOU TOO!!!'

Ren awoke with a start. He looked around hurriedly. 'Home… I'm just home… what a weird dream…' He stood and stretched. 'Now I just wish I could remember it…'

He walked down the stairs and to the kitchen for a glass of milk. "Can't go wrong with refreshments…" He whispered to himself. He had gotten half way threw a sip when a small fragment of the dream came back into his mind… Kissing the blue haired boy…

His eyes widened and he choked on the milk, coughing violently. "W-what the hell-?!" He shook his head. "I need more sleep…"

Faust sat quietly on the couch, the young seeing angel resting in his lap. "How are things, Horo?" he asked lightheartedly.

Horo shrugged. "Fine I suppose… beside the fact that I've just gone a step backwards in saving myself… at the moment I really don't care… as long as Ren's happy where ever he wound up…"

Faust smiled. "I believe you may still have chance, Horo-san…"

"How do you say?" Horo straightened up a bit.

Faust glanced at the ceiling. "You didn't give him enough time to decide…"

Horo blinked. "What? He had decided that he wanted to go home… I just helped him." He glared, suddenly wondering what the elder angel was getting at.

Faust sighed. He held his hand out, extending it forward, palm out. A small orb appeared and Ren's current life… Ren sat down on the bed, holding his head. He lay back lightly and closed his eyes, though still unable to get rid of the images of him and the other boy… Horo… Horo eyes widened as Ren's mind was revealed to the two… Manta suddenly jerked awake, and the orb disappeared.

"Re-Ren! Where's Ren??" He managed threw gasps and coughs.

"What's wrong?" Faust asked quietly.

"Ren… He's…" He took a breath. "Did he leave? Where's Yoh?"

Horo stood. "Yoh waiting for you back at the academy… What about Ren?"

Manta nodded and gulped. "If he's left it already too late… He's going to be killed…" He stated.

Ren made a frustrated noise. "Kuso! I'm never going to get any sleep…" He stood and walked back to the fridge… spotting the ice cream. "Oh… Yay… I'll freeze my brain… then I might be able to stop that… scene… from repeating itself forever…" He made himself a chocolate Sunday and sat quietly on the couch.

A small noise was heard in the corner of the room. He glanced over but paid no mind. He had gotten in one spoonful… when a hand closed itself over Ren's mouth, cutting off his air and slowly knocking him unconscious…

Cliffy! HAH! I suck!