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Wings of Darkness
Chapter Two: Healing
Kyari groaned, slowly opening her eyes, the light from the morning sun flooding her eyes.
She squinted and sat up, quickly grabbing her side when her body protested.
"What happened?" She groaned to herself, her eyes opening fully.
She gasped at what she saw.
She was in a room, a boy's room from the looks of it. The sheets she was lying on were black, the rest of the room was mostly black too. Black curtains, black clothes strewn across the floor.
But the thing that startled her the most was the person that was sleeping in a chair at the edge of the bed.
A woman, rather pretty with short brown hair. She wore a green sweater with a white apron over top, in her hands were wads of gauze, and at her feet was a large box full of what looked like medical supplies.
Where was she?
Slowly, Kyari tried to get out of the bed, but the pain in her side only got worse as she moved. A strangled cry escaped her lips.
It was only then that Kyari realized what she was wearing. Long black pajama pants covered her lower half, and nothing but bandages covered her upper body.
A blush crept over Kyari's cheeks as she quickly covered herself up with the black covers, making her side ache even more.
Suddenly, someone opened the door to the room, and a tall boy entered with dark purple, almost black, hair. He worse dark blue jeans and a black t-shirt that showed off his muscles very nicely.
He was hot.
He was…
Kyari gasped. "D-Dark!"
He turned, surprised that she was awake, a smirk creeping on his handsome face. "I see your awake."
Kyari couldn't help but glare at him, it felt as if he was trying to look right through the black sheets that covered her up. "Why am I here? What did you do to me?"
"Me?" Dark laughed, trying to sound offended. "I didn't do anything Kyari. Oh and I got your name from the man who shot you."
Kyari's breath caught in her throat. "I-I was shot? I don't…remember."
"Well that's probably for the best." Dark said, shaking his mom's shoulder lightly. "Emiko wake up, Kyari's awake." Emiko's eyes fluttered open and she smiled. "Oh Kyari! I'm so glad! How are you feeling dear?"
"Wait just a second!" Kyari growled, quickly standing up from the bed, keeping the sheets tightly around her chest. "What is you people's problem? I attacked your son and you take me into your home and…help me? Don't you know what your getting yourself into? How do you know who I am, what I could do to your family?"
Emiko laughed, "Oh honey, don't worry about it, it was our pleasure to help you."
Kyari gaped at the woman, tears filling her eyes. All her life…no one had ever shown one shred of caring for her. And the boy she'd attacked had saved her and taken her into his home…why?
"I-I don't under-" Kyari started to say, but quickly cut herself off when the pain in her side throbbed full go. She clutched her waist and sank to the floor.
Just as her knees hit the ground, Kyari felt strong arms grab her shoulders, keeping her from completely falling.
She looked up into Dark's purple eyes, a gasp escaping her lips. "Why?"
He didn't answer her at first, but lifted her gently back into the bed. "It seemed like a good idea at the time."
"Now." Emiko smiled once Kyari was back in bed. "What's your parent's number? I'll give them a call and tell them where you are, they're going to be worried."
Kyari's eyes fell to her lap as she said softly. "I…They died when I was young."
"Oh I'm so sorry dear!" Emiko gasped. "Who are you staying with?"
Kyari's hands gripped tightly together as anger flashed through her eyes. "I'm not staying with anyone." Not willingly anyway.
"Oh well that won't do," Emiko sighed. "You're just going to have to stay with us."
"But-" Kyari was about to protest, but Dark, of all people, cut her off.
"I'd just agree if I were you." He mumbled. "She has ways, evil ways, to get what she wants."
Kyari giggled softly. "I guess I could stay for a little while."
Three Days Later…
Kyari had stayed with the Niwa family for three days now, and she was healed enough to get out of bed and walk around.
After slipping on her cleaned and mended dress, not bothering with her boots since it was rude to wear shoes in someone else's home, she slowly walked down stairs.
It smelt wonderful, like freshly cooked breakfast. Kyari took a breath. Her favorite; Umeboshi.
When she stepped into the kitchen she found the family sitting around the table, Dark's grandfather was sitting, reading the morning newspaper, Daisuke was eating a large bowl of Umeboshi while going over his homework, and Dark was just sitting there, a bowl in front of him. He was, to Kyari's surprise, reading.
A book.
"Oh Kyari!" Emiko smiled, turning away from the hot stove, two bowls of Umeboshi in her hands. "Good morning, how are you feeling today?"
"Just fine Ms. Niwa." Kyari smiled. "Thanks."
"Here, have a bowl of my Umeboshi, do you like strawberry?"
Kyari grinned and nodded, "That'd be great thanks." She was about to sit down at the table next to Daisuke with her bowl when the grandfather looked up, his eyes wide.
"What is that you're wearing!" He screeched.
Kyari felt a blush creep upon her cheeks, her dress did fall a little high…maybe Niwa wasn't used to girl's dressed like this.
"What kind of clothing is that?" He snapped.
"I think it's adorable dad!" Emiko smiled.
"It's sexy." Dark said under his breath, his eyes still skimming the book.
Kyari glared at him. It would be like Dark to be a pervert first thing in the morning.
It was only then that Kyari realized what Dark and Daisuke were wearing.
Daisuke had on what looked like a red, almost dark pink, and white school uniform. Where Dark also had on a school uniform, but since he was in the higher grades he wore an all black long sleeved shirt and pants.
"Um…is there school today?" Kyari asked, confused.
Dark looked up from his book, setting it on the table. "Yep. Are you coming or not?"
"M-Me?" Kyari gasped. "I don't-I haven't gone to school in a long time. And besides, I don't have a school uniform."
"Well then," Emiko smiled. "I'll take you shopping today for some new clothes! You can't keep wearing that I guess…and we'll have to enroll you in Dark and Daisuke's school…I'll need to go to the bank…"
"Oh no." Kyari said quickly. "I don't expect you to pay for it. I have money that I…got a while ago."
She saw Dark's mouth curve up in a smirk as he started to eat his Umeboshi.
"I didn't steal it if that's what your thinking Mousy." Kyari hissed under her breath.
Dark shrugged, "I didn't say anything."
Kyari had, sadly, never been to the Tokyo mall.
It was huge.
Really, really huge.
Just before Emiko and Kyari had left Ms. Niwa and Dark had started bickering. Dark had insisted that he came with the two girls so he cold lend his opinion on what Kyari chose, Ms. Niwa told him to shut up and go to school.
Knowing Dark, he had probably followed them anyway.
The first stop was the bank, where Kyari took out a large amount of yen that she'd gotten as inheritance from her parent's death.
More like murder.
"So where would you like to go?" Emiko asked, the two stopping in the hallway to gaze around.
"Um…" Kyari sighed. She felt a little uncomfortable to be in the mall in her…provocative outfit. All around her people were staring. "How about that store?"
Emiko smiled. "Great choice."
They walked into the store that said "Tokyo Fashions" on it.
Kyari was, in heaven. All around her were clothes, clothes, accessories and more.
"Wow." She breathed. "I've never been…"
"It's okay." Ms. Niwa smiled. "I'm going to go and drop off a letter for Dark's next…you know. See you in a few minuets okay?"
Kyari smiled and nodded, turning back to the store.
She walked over to the shelves and started to pick things out, skirts, t-shirts, tank-tops, jeans, pants, sweaters, hoodies, etc.
Then she slipped into the change rooms and by the time Emiko had gotten back Kyari was already at the counter, a large amount of clothes in her hands.
"Um, can I change into this?" Kyari asked, holding up some of her purchased clothes.
The clerk smiled and nodded.
Emiko waited while Kyari changed,grinning when the girl stepped out of the small room.
She wore a short white jean skirt and a light pink zip-up hoodie with a white tank-top underneath, though the tank top was hidden under the sweater. Around her neck was a milky white oval pendant. Her long black hair fell in a sligh wave past her shoulders.
"You look gorgeous." Emiko smiled. "You're so beautiful."
Kyari's cheeks flared as she picked up her bangs of clothes. "Thanks Emiko."
"I love that necklace." Ms. Niwa sighed. "I didn't see any of those here…"
"Oh I didn't buy it here." Kyari said. "For Dark, he has Wiz for his wings. Well, this necklace is my wings."
"Oh wow!" Emiko smiled. "That's clever."
Kyari smiled. "So where to next?"
"Are you done your shopping?"
Kyari looked at her hands, filled with bags. "I believe so."
"Then we go to the school." Kyari's heart started to beat faster. School. She'd never been to a school before, in the place where she'd been kept they home schooled her.
She never wanted to go back to the place again.
As the two got into Ms. Niwa's car, Kyari rubbed the back of her neck. "They won't go away…" She mumbled.
Dark sighed. School was so, so boring.
He saw, with satisfaction, that Satoshi wasn't back yet with Krad. Dark wondered if Krad had also been freed from Satoshi.
He hoped not.
"Mr. Niwa." Mrs. Taylor sighed. "Pay attention please."
"Sure thing Mrs. T." Dark said, saluting her.
The teacher glared at him, turning angrily back to the board and continuing with her lecture.
From all the years Dark had been trapped in Niwa after Niwa, he'd never had to actually go to school and sit through a class. Well he did, but it wasn't truly him.
"Boring…boring…bor-" He cut himself off when something caught his eyes from out the window.
It was a girl, a very familiar girl, stepping out of a very familiar car.
Dark saw that not only he, but half the male percent of the class, had noticed the girl.
"Kyari." Dark smirked. "Oh she's going to love it here."
He couldn't help but notice how cute she looked in her white skirt and pink hoodie, and he found himself wondering if she was wearing anything under the pink fabric.
"Dark!" Mrs. Taylor shouted. "PAY ATTENTION!"
"Can't." Dark said, turning from the window.
A vein popped in Mrs. Taylor's temple. "And…why…not?"
"I have to go to the bathroom." Dark said, getting up from his seat and waltzing from the class.
He was never one for manners.
The hallways were empty except for the odd student coming to and from the washrooms or office.
The eighteen-year-old scanned around him for any sign of his mom and Kyari. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. "There we go!" He saw his mom slip around a corner towards the office, and Dark started his walk there.
Until he saw Kyari, standing alone in the hallway.
"Hey." Dark said.
Kyari jumped, she had been looking at the artwork on the walls by the art room, her blue eyes fascinated.
"Oh hey."
"No, you can't steal them." Dark teased.
Kyari smirked at him. "I was just looking. What are you doing out of class anyway?"
Dark shrugged and leaned against the wall beside her, folding his arms across his chest. "I saw you guys come in, I wanted to welcome you to our school."
"Uh huh, sure." Kyari said flatly, her blue eyes scanning over him. "What are you really doing here?"
"Well…" Dark sighed. "It's a good excuse to get out of class."
"I bet."
They fell silent for a while until Kyari finally spoke. "Thank you Dark."
"Huh? For what?"
"For…saving me, by the river." Kyari said softly, her fingers running along the paintings. "The man who shot me…he would have just left me, all the others along with him would have just left me. But not you. I attacked you and you still helped me…took me into your home."
Dark shrugged, "I couldn't just let you die. Besides, I had questions, and still do."
Kyari sighed and turned, leaning against the wall beside him, hers hands in the front pockets of her hoodie. "Shoot."
Dark was surprised, no one ever went into an interrogation freely. "You're actually going to answer me?"
She nodded, "It's the least I could do."
"Okay," Dark said, thinking for a moment. "Why are you so hot?"
"Serious questions Dark." Kyari laughed.
"Fine. Um…who was that man and why did he want you, and our "kind" dead?"
Kyari sighed. "I don't know his name, but I know that he's from an organization held secretly in the city that kidnaps or kills Wings."
"Wings?"
Us." Kyari said. "We are what they call "Wings" or the "winged ones". They hate us and think that we're these abominations…they want us dead."
"How come I've never heard of these…people."
Kyari shrugged. "They work mostly in secret, making their killings seem like ordinary murders. They probably couldn't get to you because you used to always change back into Daisuke. But now…I don't know. The man saw you, he probably sent out a signal of some sort, they know who you are now."
Dark sighed and closed his eyes. "How do you know so much about them?"
Kyari fell silent for a few moments, and Dark opened his eyes to look at her, only to see that tears were welling up in her eyes.
He hated it when girls cried.
"I'm sorry," He said softly. "That doesn't matter-"
"No," Kyari sniffed, wiping her eyes with her wrist.
As she did so Dark caught something that he hadn't seen before. A small black tattoo on her wrist, small black wings.
"What's that?" He asked.
"This?" Kyari asked, pulling her sleeve down so he could see the tattoo more clearly. It wasn't just a tattoo with black wings, but in between the wings was a sword, the blade of the sword cut into the left wing. "They…when I was six, my parents were just tucking me into bed, and they came into our house."
Dark looked at her…how could he, or anyone, not have heard of these people?
"They killed both my parents." Kyari sighed, her hands cupped tightly together in her lap. "And they kidnapped me. For eleven years after that they kept me as an…experiment in their freaky lab. They taught me school so I wasn't just this empty shell, but every day they'd try to figure out how I got my wings…how they could possibly make something that could kill us easily." She turned from Dark and lifted up her hair.
Dark gasped at what he saw.
There were three burn marks in her neck in a triangle shape.
"That's where they put all their antidotes in." Kyari said softly, letting go of her hair and leaning back against the wall. "They wanted to see if their poisons would work on me. The worst it ever did was make me really sick or knock me out for a couple of days. Finally they got tired of me and decided that they'd dispose of me the next day…"
"So you escaped." Dark said softly. "That's why you needed the painting, money to get away."
Kyari sighed and nodded. "I just didn't expect them to find me. I didn't expect them to see you. It's my fault that they know what you look like now…if I hadn't attacked you…"
Dark gasped as Kyari sunk to her knees, crying into her hands, her shoulders shaking with each sob.
What was he supposed to do? No girl had ever cried in front of him before. Except of course Risa when he'd told her that she was too young for him.
But this seventeen-year-old girl…what was he supposed to do?
Dark knelt beside her and gently wrapped his arms around her, pulling her against him.
Kyari didn't struggle like the first time he'd held her, she sunk into his embrace and cried into his shirt.
"I'm sorry…it's all my fault." She looked up at him. "That's the real reason I stayed at your house. I'm responsible for you now Dark…for your family. If the organization gets into your home-"
"Shh." Dark whispered. "It's okay. You're not responsible for me…it's not your fault, they would have found out otherwise." Kyari sighed and leaned back into his shirt, her tears still falling.
They sat there for a long time, not talking, just sitting there. But then the bell rang and students filled into the hallways, Kyari finally wiped her eyes and stood with Dark, waiting for Ms. Niwa.
Okay! R&R R&R!
And some of you may be wondering "Couldn't she just use the money from her bank instead of stealing the panting and getting into this mess?" Well no, because she needed to leave then and didn't have time to go to the bank, where they would most likely find her.