Hi! Sorry for the late update! I've been writing this fic for such a long time and I thought I should hold the chapters for a while longer coz I might need to change some stuff here as I go along. I posted 2 chapters this time and I hope you will like it. Leave me a review, ok? Thanks!

Reason I Love to Fly

Chapter 2

Krad opened his eyes to a dimly lit room. He pushed himself up and found that his wounds had been taken care of. As he looked in front of him, the wooden door in the middle of the wall greeted his eyes. When he turned to look beside him, he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Yo!" Dark waved at him. Dark sat facing Krad with his back to the wall. Krad saw that Dark did not have his shirt on and he was bandaged as well. He looked away from Dark when he realized that he was in the same situation as well.

"Why are you here?" Krad asked as he sat facing Dark with his back on the wall too.

"We got no choice," Dark answered him, "Daisuke's house is small and this is the only room left. Emiko isn't too happy to help you though."

"I could guess," Krad said as he stood up from the bed.

The door suddenly swung open and a feminine looking woman with short brown hair and a pair of very determined eyes walked in. She stood in front of Krad and glared up at him before she pushed him back onto the bed.

"You two are not allowed to step on the floor until I say you can!" With that she walked back out and shut the door with a slam. Krad looked at Dark with a surprised look on his face. Before Dark could open his mouth, the door swung open again and the woman stood at the doorway, "No flying either!"

"That was Emiko," Dark said after the door was slammed shut again.

"I see," Krad replied.

"Mom!" Dark and Krad heard Daisuke called, "What did you say to them?"

"I'm sorry about my mom," Daisuke said after he opened the door, "How are you, Krad?" he asked.

"I can kill Dark now," he replied as he leaned back to the wall.

"Uh…um, that means you got better, right?" Daisuke stuttered, "I'll go call Satoshi now."

"There's no need," Satoshi said behind him that made Daisuke jumped in shock.

"Don't sneak on me!" Daisuke said.

"I didn't," Satoshi replied, "Didn't you hear your mom yelling from the door telling you that I came a moment ago?"

"Uh…no," Daisuke shook his head.

"Anyway, both are well taken cared of and they'll be back in their normal self in no time," Satoshi walked to the end of room and pull the curtains away from the window, "Some morning light will do you guys some good." Satoshi heard the slides of bandages dropping onto the floor and he turned to look at Krad.

"Krad," he began.

"Bandages will only slow my healing process. You know that, don't you, Satoshi-sama?" Krad asked, "Don't worry. I will heal completely within another hour."

"But," Daisuke said. Dark motioned him to stop and he looked at Krad who sat facing him with the same sitting position as he.

"Niwa, I'll leave in another hour," Krad said to Daisuke, "Till then, I'll trouble you."

"Where do YOU think you are going, blonde?" a very familiar voice said from the door. All four men looked at the door to see Emiko in a pink apron with a very frightening look on her face.

"Anywhere," Krad answered without looking at her. Emiko walked into the room and stood right in front of Krad.

"What will you do when you get out there?" she asked.

"Anything," Krad answered.

"Where will you stay?" she asked.

"Anywhere," he replied.

"Stop giving me that answer!" Emiko shouted, "You'll run into trouble!"

"Why would you care about me?" Krad looked at her.

"Because…" Emiko became speechless. She stood uncertainly for a moment before she walked out of the room, clearly confused.

"Hey, Krad," Dark finally spoke up, "Emiko is just trying to help you. Just stay in the house until we find some way to live by ourselves."

"WE? OURSELVES?" Krad repeated, "Who are you referring those two words to?"

"Both of us, of course," Dark said seriously but Krad laughed.

"I haven't forgotten that you are still alive, Dark!" Krad said as he concentrated an energy ball into his right hand but his power disappeared when Satoshi's hand rested on his.

"Don't you two ever feel tired of this endless fight?" Satoshi asked Krad. Krad looked at his former tamer and then Dark and his former tamer, Daisuke. Krad released his own hand from Satoshi's and sighed as he looked out of the window to the golden sea.

"What else would you suggest me to do?" Krad asked. The other three men kept quiet. "Well, I suppose I could find a job to help out the Niwa if I am to stay here," Krad said with a sighed. All three of them was silent and took some time to digest the words that came out of Krad.

"Yeah!" Daisuke said, "That's a great idea. My mom will be happy about it." And he left the room to tell his mother about Krad's decision.

"Are you sure about this?" Satoshi asked. He was quite taken aback by Krad's decision that he became worried about him. Dark too stared at Krad with disbelief in his purple eyes.

"Yeah," Krad answered as he checked his healing wounds.

"But it's so sudden," Satoshi said to him.

"No, it's not sudden," Krad looked into Satoshi's blue eyes, "I had thoughts of it after I was sealed."

"So that's what you have been thinking all those while," Dark smirked.

"Don't smirk at me, Dark. You'll have to do something too," Krad threw a pillow at straight at his chest. Dark caught the pillow and thought for a while.

"I'll continue stealing," Dark threw the pillow back at him.

"Then I'll continue killing you at every chance I get," Krad said, tossing the pillow at Dark again but with less strength than the first time.

"I'll still be able to run from you," Dark tossed the pillow back to Krad.

"No, you can't," Krad sent the pillow flying to Dark.

"Yes, I can," Dark said, with the pillow flying back to Krad again.

"Um, guys," Satoshi cleared his throat as he watched the two played "Catch the Pillow" game and say "Yes" and "No" repeatedly. Both Dark and Krad looked at Satoshi with tired eyes. "I think you guys better take a rest," he said before he closed the door.

As soon as the door had closed, both angels laid back on the bed and closed their eyes. It wasn't long before sleep took them under its wings and slowly healed their wounds.

Krad saw a girl dressed in a long white dress with flowing long light brown hair standing on the green grass in front of him. He heard the sound of flowing water nearby but his eyes never left the girl. She reached out to touch the lilies that grew beside her and smiled. He did not know the reason he felt the way he felt at that moment but deep inside his soul, he knew he saw her before. Suddenly she seemed to have sensed him and started to turn towards him.

"Krad!" Dark shook the blonde, "Wake up sleepy! It's two in the afternoon already!"

"Shut up!" Krad pushed Dark away from him. 'I almost saw her face!' Krad screamed in his mind.

"Emiko made us lunch," Dark said as he opened the door, "Come on."

Krad followed Dark out of the room and walked into the kitchen. He saw that two plates of food were already placed on the dining table. Dark and Krad sat opposite of each other as Emiko emerged from the inner kitchen.

"I hope the food is to your taste," Emiko said as she dried her hands on a towel.

"It's great! Thank you!" Krad heard Dark said to Emiko with his mouth full.

"Thank you," Krad said to her before he started on his meal.

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"Uncle Jima is not here yet," Yuri said softly to herself when she approached the front gate of her school. Most of the students have already left as they took the bus or the tramcar home from the hillside school. Yuri stood clutching her bag by the gate as she wait patiently for her family's driver came to fetch her. Ten minutes passed and Yuri got worried about the driver as he never came late when he was supposed to fetch her. Yuri crossed the road to the square and looked around for any sign of the black limousine along the road.

'Uncle Jima wouldn't forget to fetch Yuri,' she said to herself, 'Maybe he has some errands to do. Then, Yuri'll just have to wait. No harm done by waiting.' She put her schoolbag on the railing of the square and stared ahead of her. She could hear the sound of the flowing water from the nearby fountain and feel the soft windy breeze on her cheeks. She looked down at the town below her.

'What a big town,' she said in her mind, 'Yuri has been here for a year and yet Yuri never really did explore the whole town.' Yuri hung her head, 'Well, at least Yuri had been to the town even though it's by car. But Yuri could enjoy more of the scenery if Yuri was to go on foot but Mother and Father wouldn't let Yuri.'

'"It's dangerous!" they would always say when Yuri asked for their permission to go out. Maybe it's because Yuri wanted to go out alone but Yuri is already seventeen,' Yuri said in her mind, 'If only someone would accompany Yuri; that would be great.'

"Yuri-sama, isn't it?" a taunting voice said quite a distance behind her. Yuri spun around. Her eyes widened in shock when she saw a group of boys slightly older than her standing a distance from her but she quickly hid her shock.

"Alone?" the leader, a tall and muscular blonde boy, said, "Let us accompany you."

"I appreciate your company but I have no need for them. Thank you," Yuri said confidently.

"It really IS Yuri-sama," the boy said with a delightful smirk o his face, "Even the way she speaks is different than other girls!" The other boys laughed and Yuri became more frightened of them.

"Then, shall we see if Yuri-sama DO act like Yuri-sama," the blonde boy said as he took a step to her. Yuri took a step back and realized that she was at the edge of the square. Yuri looked at her left and right for a way to run away from them but her mind told her that there was no way she could run without being caught by one of the boys.

'Someone,' her mind screamed, 'Please save Yuri!' Yuri shut her eyes as the group of six boys advanced towards her.

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"I'm going out for a while," Krad said to Emiko, "I'm not running away." Emiko looked relieved when Krad finished his last sentence and told him to take care of himself while he was out.

"Emiko, Krad isn't a boy," Kosuke, Emiko's husband, told her.

"Yup!" Daiki, Emiko's father, agreed.

"He's troubled," Emiko said, "I can see it."

Krad got out of the house after he had his meal and walked aimlessly around the town. Wearing a pair of faded blue jeans and a long sleeved white shirt, he did not draw any unwanted attention to himself. Krad still had his golden bang in front of his face and he still tied the cross at the end of his long pony tail and many who saw Krad had thought that he looked familiar but could not place him anywhere in their memories.

The sun was beginning to set when Krad found himself walking along the road of a hill where a famous private school was situated. As he neared the square, he heard laughs which he recognized as victorious laughs. He looked ahead of him and saw a group of boys taunting a girl, who sat on the floor, clearly frightened.

"Let's see what you'd do next," the blonde boy said victoriously. As he raised his leg to kick Yuri, a punch to his abdomen threw him off his feet and to the other end of the square. Yuri looked up at her saviour who stood in front of her.

"Who do think you are punching me like that?" the blonde boy stood firmly in front of Krad.

"I just felt that it was improper to treat a lady as you did," Krad replied, "Leave if you don't want to get hurt again."

"Why do you think I'll listen?" the boy shouted. Krad did not say a word but looked at him in the eye. "OK, OK," the boy stuttered in fright, "We're leaving!" Then he scrambled away with his mates.

"Are you alright?" Krad asked the girl as he knelt down beside her.

"Yes, I am fine," Yuri replied as she sat up to look at the man who saved her. She momentarily lost herself when she saw his beautiful golden eyes looking down at her worriedly. Then she saw the surprise in his eyes when he looked her.

'It's her,' Krad's mind said in surprise as he recognized the hazel green eyes.

"You are hurt," Yuri heard the man said as he gently touched her arm. Yuri shrank away from his touch in pain. "I'm sorry," he said.

"I'm sorry," Yuri said, "I shouldn't have done that but it did hurt a little."

"We'd best clean the cut before it gets infected," Krad said to her.

"I am fine," Yuri stood up, "It's just a small cut."

"Are you sure?" Krad asked. Yuri nodded to him with a smile. "Why are you here alone? Shouldn't you be home by now?" Krad inquired.

"I'm waiting for Uncle Jima to fetch me," Yuri said, "He is late today. I hope he did not meet with an accident or anything like it."

"If you don't mind, let me accompany you till he comes," Krad suggested.

"I would very much like it, thank you," Yuri replied even though she was still afraid after what had happened while she was alone a moment ago.

"I'm Krad," Krad introduced himself.

"I'm Yuri, Kasumi Yuri," Yuri replied.