Engel an der Leine
What if I told you that I'm not who I seem I am?
What if...I told you I was something else?
Something not of this world...
Would you hate me?
Would you pity me?
Would it make me important to you?
Would you throw me away if you found out?
For you...I'd live a lie.
I'd live in the darkness for you...
Since my heart is already...dark...
Chapter VI:
"We have to find him! Fast!"
"What's wrong Michael-sama?"
"Lucifer's found him!"
"What!?"
"Hurry and send the troops!"
"Y-yes sir!"
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"Where is the angel?"
"He's living with a human sire!"
"Hm? A human?"
"Y-yes sir!"
"And who else has came in contact with the angel? Someone who has the essence of hell."
"Only a couple so far, the most recent would be "Hiwatari" sir."
"Hiwatari hm? What's his status?"
"He has a son, and has an interest in the angel."
"Very well, locate him, he may come in handy."
"Y-yes sir! Right away! What of the human?"
"...eliminate him in the most slow and painful way possible."
"Good choice sir!"
The demon flew back up to the surfaces of the human world in search of the man.
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Dark woke up to the sound of coughing, he sat up and looked around, he saw Krad asleep at the side of the bed on his knees, his brows clenched in pain.
"Krad...hey Krad..."
The blonde rose slowly, he looked at the slave, his golden eyes fogged, "Dark?"
The boy watched his master with worried eyes as he started coughing, "Krad? Are you okay? You look really pale..."
"I'm alright..." He said weakly, he reached up to feel Dark's forehead, "Your fever's gone."
"Kyu?"
Dark whirled around, "With! Why are you here?"
"Kyu kyu?"
"It seems like your pet's quite attached to you."
"Aa..."
"Come on, let's get some breakfast."
"What's for breakfast?"
"Leftover spaghetti, you wouldn't wake up when I called you."
"And you fell asleep."
"Yea, and I fell asleep, so you coming down to eat or not?"
"Kay...wait...I had a fever?"
"Uh huh, I came up here to check on you and he had a fever so I let you sleep."
"Oh..."
"Aa...you go downstairs first..."
"Kay."
Dark hopped out of bed and went downstairs, he went and grabbed a couple of strawberries for the rabbit, and he took the pasta out and put it on top of a stove to heat it up. There were more coughing sounds emitting from upstairs, soon the blonde dragged his feet downstairs, eyes more fogged up, Dark looked at his master in distress, "Krad...there's something red on your shirt..."
The blonde looked down, sure enough there were drops of blood on his shirt, he tried to wipe if off but the it stayed there, "...I'm going to change..."
Krad ran back upstairs and while tugged off his top, the last thing he needed was Dark getting on his back about this, when he reached the bedroom his air supply was cut off, he collapsed on the bed desperately trying to reclaim his breath, finally, cool air rushed back into his lungs, he rolled onto his back panting, which soon lead to more coughing. The blonde shut his eyes in pain, there was a thin streak of blood going down his chin, his throat was all scratched up and the metallic taste of blood lingered in his mouth, he laid there for awhile trying to calm his mind down then he went to the bathroom to wash his face, he looked in the mirror, his pale delicate face was reflected, he sighed.
"...I'm pathetic..."
Dark tapped his foot impatiently while waiting for the spaghetti to heat up again, he turned around to see Krad coming towards him wearily.
"Hey Krad...when's the spaghetti gonna finish heating up?"
"Turn it up."
"Kay...is it done yet?"
"Give it two minutes."
"...do you pity me?"
"What?"
"Do you pity me?"
"Huh?"
"Do you keep me just because you pity me or what?"
"No, why?"
"I dunno most people treat slaves like...slaves, do you pity me? Is that why you're so nice to me? I just don't get you."
Krad walked towards him, and laid a hand on the boy's hair and ruffled it up a bit, "Baka, don't you know? That's called injustice."
"Huh? What's that?"
"Treating people wrongly, sometimes based on how they look or what they are, either way, it's just stupid."
"You're too nice."
"Am I? Are you saying you don't want breakfast?"
"No! I didn't say anything!"
Krad laughed, "The spaghetti's done."
"Finally, I'm starving."
"I bet you are, you haven't eaten since lunch yesterday."
The two ate in silence, Dark finished first, he put his dishes away and walked back to Krad, he rested on the blonde's head, his weight making Krad lean down a bit, his nose was almost in the pasta, his eyebrow raised in annoyance.
"...yes?"
"I'm bored."
"Go outside or something."
"Nah...ne Krad."
"What?"
"When's Christmas?"
"Huh?"
Dark pressed Krad lower, it was a good thing he pushed the spaghetti away in time, "When's Christmas?"
"In a few days? Why?"
"Aren't you suppose to buy presents? That's what Daisuke said."
"Uh huh, and what are you going to do about it?"
"How should I know?"
Krad snorted, "Fine what if I put on your collar and called you master? Then what would you do about it?"
Dark was speechless, "I would...I would...well...first I would ask you what a fever was."
The blonde raised a brow, obviously, he hadn't expected the question to be thrown at him, "You don't know what a fever is?"
The slave shook his head, "Nope, never got one...I don't think."
"...uhhh...it's when...your forehead burns up and you start shivering or you suddenly feel really hot or cold, other then that it's like a cold."
"I see...alright...let's see...if I got to pick what to do..."
"Yea...go on..."
"I'd...I'd...hmm...I guess I'd ask if you were alright first."
Krad was baffled and somewhat annoyed that the he kept on changing subjects, "What do you mean?"
"I mean you're having countless coughing fits and stuff, but you're always too busy taking care of me to get proper rest for yourself...you might catch a fever."
The blonde tensed up, "...I'm fine..."
"No you're not, I'm not stupid you know. You're sick, I bet you're going to catch a fever, actually, I think you have a fever right now."
"And just how did you come up with that?"
"You're burning up."
Krad blinked, he felt his forehead, Dark was right, he had a fever, a pretty high one too and it came so suddenly. His head pounded and he swayed around in his seat a bit, knock Dark off his back, "Krad!"
The slave caught the blonde before he hit the ground, "Hey Krad! Wake up! You really burning up, shit!"
The blonde groaned, he opened his eyes and stumbled on his feet clutching his head, he managed to get into the living room, he slumped down on the couch, Dark sat down beside him watching him worriedly. He didn't know what to do when someone came down with a fever, "Krad...you alright?"
"Aa..." His master moaned back, Krad's head was achingly painful, it hurt so much that he didn't notice someone walking into the room, Dark tensed as he felt the sense of sins, he turned around sharply determined to stop anyone from getting too close to the blonde, Krad cracked open one of his eyes and looked at Dark, "Dark?"
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Krad flinched at the voice, despite the fever, he managed to get up and turn around to face the speaker, "Hiwatari-san, what are you doing here?"
Dark stared at the two, he had a sinking feeling inside him.
"I'm here...to make you a deal."
"A deal?"
"Yes, you see, I'm interested in that little slave of yours."
"Sorry, no."
"But Krad, you haven't even listened to the rest of the offer, I'll give you anything you want."
"I'm sorry Hiwatari-san, I already told you, the answer's no."
"Are you sure? I mean anything you want for this lowly slave."
"Yes I'm sure."
The man frowned and sighed, "I guess I really don't have much of a choice now do I?"
He snapped his fingers and a group of bulky men appeared, Krad froze to the core, he looked back at Dark, his fever completely ignored, the slave looked back, completely oblivious to the man's intentions, the blonde bit his lower lip nervously, one of the men approached him fast. Dark's fist clenched in anger how dare anyone try to take him away from Krad!? He kicked one of the man in the gut making him yell out in pain, but he didn't notice the other one approaching Krad from behind, the blonde watched wide-eyed as Dark slung another man over his shoulder and onto the floor with a sickening crack. Just then his fever came rushing back and he felt himself falling.
"Krad!"
The blonde fell into the arms of the man behind him who caught him with little care, the man chuckled, "Hey boss I think the kitten here's got himself a fever."
Krad let a breath out and hissed, "Goddamn it Dark, get away already!"
Dark stopped and glared at the man then shook his head, "Hell no, you think I'm going to leave you here with some fucking bastard and his oversized pigs?"
The squinty eyed man raised a brow, "My, my, it seems that you two are quite attached to each other, maybe I should bring you both along."
Krad yelled, "Leave Dark out of this!"
While Dark yelled, "Leave Krad alone you bitch!"
"Obviously the slave hasn't learned any manners from you Krad, quite a shame really..." He walked over to the fallen blonde and tilted his head up so he met golden eyes, Dark tensed and watched guardedly, one wrong move and the man was as good as dead. "you're quite beautiful, did you know that Krad? You have no idea how long I wanted this body, I was having serious thoughts about having you as a slave you know, but aren't you lucky that my eyes found something better, already broken, can you guess what it is?"
Dark bristled at the mention of Krad being a slave, "You fucking whore! Leave him out of this!"
The man smiled, "Oh I will, don't you worry your pretty little head "Dark", my, Krad has named you well, I'll leave him alone, but not without a price."
"What?"
Krad's eyes widened, no, no! And just after Dark began to open up again, he coughed out, "Leave him out of it, please..."
"I'm afraid I can't do that Krad, since you've given his the power of free choice, this is his choice and not yours. You didn't really think you could keep something this precious for long did you?"
"Dark...don't..." He felt his consciousness slipping, fast.
The slave stole a glance at the blonde, "Well...what's the price?"
"You be my slave, simple enough."
Dark thought it over quickly in his mind, it didn't take long to reach a conclusion, "Your slave? ...fine."
The man dragged Krad up by the collar, the blonde made no move to struggle, Dark ran towards them, "Krad!"
Hiwatari stopped him, "Come on Dark, your old master will be escorting us to the car."
"Hey boss, you know his fever's getting pretty high..."
"Leave it."
"Hai."
They went outside into the snow, "Alright this is far enough, get the slave."
Two of the men took Dark by the arms and dragged him towards the car, Dark struggled wildly, "Hey! Let me go!"
He nodded to the man holding Krad, instantly, the blonde was sent sailing in the snow, the squinty eyed man smiled, "You know what Krad? I think I'll be nice and give you a vacation, a permanent vacation, you're fired. Anyways I doubt I'll be seeing around, ever again, isn't that right? You might not even make it though new years now will you? Oh but don't worry, I'll take excellent care of your pet, very good care indeed, you have my word."
Dark's eyes glistened with tears as he looked back, "Ku-kuso...Krad! KRAD!!!"
The men dragged him into the plaid brown car and drove off leaving an unconscious Krad in the snow. The church bells rang in a distance, it's cry fortelling misfortunes to come...
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Nya So sorry for the slow update, I can't remember why it took so long anymore. But I have a pretty good idea on how Krad feels when he's having a coughing fit and fever, minus the blood. Yes, I'm sick AGAIN...funfunfun....not that's like the....3-6 time this year. Anyways I'll try to update sooner next time, and yes I just left Krad in the snow unconscious(sorry to all new and old Krad fans!) ...yea...ANYWAYS...
Hakudoshi-chan-10 points for recognizing the quote! I was hoping someone would bring it out or something, yes I got it from Sequence, somehow I thought it fit the story so there it is.
Sheridan-Here's what happens next, it's somewhat messed up I guess...but oh well, yup I've written more DN Angel fics than other anime even though I started with Weiss Kreuz first, funny how things turn out.
Wydrel-Thankies, a buddah rubbed my tummy!!! ) Glad you liked that chapter nya
Mysterious Kaitou-Lol, parent and kid, never really thought of that, amusing thought really...sorry but Dark and Krad are seperated since the father or foster father of a certain creepy boy....anyways I'll try to type faster nya
so, so-I updated nya! (finally)
darksaphire-Here's more tissue! Sorry I made Krad sleep in the snow nya
Luine- Thankies! Hope you like this chappie too!
bored to death-There will be, but I want to keep it at a pg13 level nya
Yuki Haitani-Possesive, obsessive lol, it's so true and it rhymes! Yea, and they call him a demon, demons don't wear crosses. S'okay, my computer/internet messes up on me countless times too. I can imagine Dark and Krad being married...Dark getting into trouble and Krad having to get him out, kawaii!
westkitsune-Thankies! Short but encouraging(to me anyways)! Did I spell that right? Lol, you'd think I'd be a better speller by now. P
myinuyasha04-Hi-mi-tsu, can't give away the ending now can I? P
golden-flame4-I can't really give away the ending now can I? Don't worry, it's a kradxdark/darkxkrad alright, no doubt about that.
And now I'll bid you all goodbye and go to sleep then wake up in the middle of the night having a coughing fit and a major migrane! Byebye nya
