Reason I Love to Fly
Chapter 7
"Eh? Why is Krad-san here?" Riku asked when she saw Krad in Daisuke's living room.
"Am I not welcomed here?" he asked with a slight hint of sarcasm.
"No! I meant, aren't you supposed to be working?" the brunette stuttered under his warm gaze.
"Yuri-sama is spending some time alone with her parents and I'm free for the day," Krad explained.
"Come on, Krad," Dark whined, "Just say that you missed me."
"Why would I miss you?" the blonde glared at the thief on the other couch. Dark made a sad face and turned away. Krad sighed and walked out to the small compound outside the living room.
"Hey," Dark followed the blonde outside, "What's up?"
"I want to see her," Krad mumbled.
"Eh?" Dark looked at Krad, "Yuri-chan?"
"Don't call her that!" Krad snapped at him, "Yuri-sama is a noble lady! Yuri-chan doesn't suit her! It's too adorable a name!"
"Okay, okay!" Dark said. He smiled as he thought he had cheered his other half up but his smile was short-lived as Krad was staring at the sky with the painful expression in his eyes.
"You," Dark said as he realized something, "You are in love." Krad blushed and looked away.
"Don't be ridiculous!" he said, "You can be in love but not me!"
"There's no need to get all red because I said the word 'love'," Dark teased, "You're you. Only you yourself know the feelings when you felt loved."
"You've been in love before," Krad began with a sigh, "So tell me, what is love?"
"It's kinda hard to explain," Dark began, "But, what do you feel when you are with her?"
"Content," he replied, "I don't know why but when I'm with her, I'm happy and I smiled when she smiled at me." Krad turned his back to the sea and leant on the three foot high wall as he looked up at the blue sky.
"Come to think of it," Krad said, "I have never smiled unless I have the thought of how I will kill you."
"Hey," Dark warned, "This is not about killing me anymore."
"I guess you are right," the blonde said, "I could have killed you months ago."
"You know, I find Yuri-sama's way of speaking very weird," the other said.
"I personally find it very amusing," Krad said as he closed his eyes.
"Hey!" Dark shook him and showed him a picture of Yuri in her school uniform.
"What?" he said, taking the picture into his hand. She was smiling as she talked with her friends in the photograph but deep inside Krad knew that the smile that she showed was only a mask.
"Dai-chan's friend got it," he said, "He's quite a fan of her."
"And?" Krad asked as he sat up once again.
"You have a competitor, my archenemy!" Dark shouted.
"What's all the commotion about?" Daisuke casually walked out of the house.
"Nothing out of the ordinary except that Krad have set his eyes on some-" Dark's mouth was slapped shut by Krad's hand.
"Shut up!" Krad said.
"Eh?" Daisuke stared at Krad in disbelief.
"Krad? A girlfriend?" Riku asked behind Daisuke.
"Don't listen to him," Krad pointed at Dark.
"You two look like brothers now," Risa said.
"I still find it unbelievable," Daisuke said.
"Kasumi Yuri," Satoshi said in the living room, "Not a bad choice."
"Satoshi-sama!" Krad yelled in frustration, "Not you too!"
"I finally found Krad's weakness," Satoshi laughed.
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He unfurled his magnificent white wings when he was alone in his dark room. From the tip of his wing, he pulled out a single white feather. He winced at the pain but the pain slowly subsided as he furled them in once again.
Gently placing the white feather into the box that he had bought at the town early that day, Krad wondered if Yuri would dismiss his gift as worthless. He decided to try his luck as he tied a silver ribbon, sealing the feather of unwanted attention.
It was still two hours before midnight and Krad could still see light on Yuri's balcony. A moment later, he saw her walked out of the room and he hid himself in the shadows of his room.
Krad was mesmerized by the angel before him. She had her hands on the railing and was staring at the sea ahead of her. A smile was on her lips and her clothes were pure white, that almost made her glow in the dark night. As the wind picked up, her hair danced about her along with her long dress.
"Sacred Maiden, huh?" Krad mumbled to himself as he imagined a pair of white wings on her back, "She looks more like a White Angel than I do."
Krad waited for midnight as he looked up at the crescent moon in his dark room. Yuri had gone to bed for some time now and Krad knew that if he slipped into her room, she will not know it.
'I'm not going into her room!' Krad reminded himself mentally.
He stood up as the digital clock stated 11:59 PM. He retrieved the small white box on his table and silently stepped out onto his balcony. He spread his wings and took off towards Yuri's balcony.
He landed on the balcony and left the box in front of the closed balcony door. When he looked up, he saw Yuri's sleeping form on the bed in front of him. He wondered what dream she was having as she had a sweet smile upon her lips. But her smile faded a little and she began to stir.
Krad left Yuri's balcony reluctantly when he sensed that she was about to wake up. He flapped his wings and disappeared back into his room. He sighed in relief as he furled his wings back and peek out of his room.
'I hope she didn't come out to the balcony even though I really wish that she would pick up the present,' Krad said to himself.
Yuri opened her eyes when she heard the sound of wings flapping outside her room. She slowly got up and opened her balcony door only to be greeted by a long white box tied with a silver ribbon. Yuri picked up the box and looked around for a sign left by the person who gave her the present.
She closed the door behind her and turned on her desk lamp. She slowly undid the ribbon and opened the box. She held up her present in her hand with a smile.
"It's warm," Yuri commented as she felt the feather on her cheek, "It feels safe."
"She does impulsive acts quite often," Krad smiled to himself as he felt Yuri's warm in him as she touched the feather he gave her.
"It feels like Krad-san," Yuri mumbled, 'How did Krad-san get into Yuri's mind?' Yuri shouted in her mind and began to get embarrassed as kept the feather in its box in a hurry. As soon as she released the box from her grasp, Yuri began to blush and a hand traveled to the star pendant on her neck.
"You're really a lucky charm," she said softly to the pendant, "Yuri's wish to have someone by Yuri's side has been granted. Thank you."
"Shiro-chan is a lucky charm too!" Yuri smiled as she hugged the white toy dog to her chest. "Because Shiro-chan always gives me sweet dreams," she said softly as she remembered the dream to the amusement with Krad.
"Yuri," she remembered Krad called her.
"Hm?" she turned to face the blonde.
"I love you," he said and Yuri froze at his words and she could do nothing but stare at him. Before she could realize it, Krad had already placed his lips on hers in a passionate kiss.
'But it won't happen,' Yuri blush when she remembered her kiss with Krad in her dream, 'Krad-san needn't know that because it will never come true. If Yuri can have a birthday wish, Yuri'll wish that someone will ease Krad-san's loneliness.'
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"We'll just give the Kasumis this," a voice said, "They'll know what to do."
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"We need to get the lucky charm," Kosuke announced.
"Why? Lucky isn't all that harmful," Daiki sipped on his coffee.
"Lucky?" Daisuke blinked but he was ignored.
"And it's not important too," Emiko agreed as she sat down on the sofa. Dark had a strange expression again when the name Lucky was mentioned.
"Look at what I dug up," Kosuke showed them a file which contains documents of historical massacres and wars.
"Wars were usual in the olden times," Emiko said as she looked at the notes, "That shouldn't have anything to do with lucky charms."
"All my notes are about a thousand years' history," Kosuke began, "If you read carefully, the wars and massacres were done by people who sat behind the scenes."
"That is not unusual," Emiko said."
"The thing that is unusual is the possessions of those behind our leaders," the man said, "The first of the manipulator had Lucky Maiden."
"There goes the name again," Dark shuddered and Daisuke just smiled.
"The pendant was passed down to the next generation but was replaced by Lucky Falcon," Emiko read, "The charm's names varied but one thing is certain. Every manipulator had a lucky charm and incidentally, every charm began with the name Lucky."
"I hate that name," Dark muttered.
"Manipulators don't exist now, do they?" Daiki set down his cup.
"They managed to set up their own business empire nowadays," Kosuke informed the old man, "But I think they might still be on the hunt for the next charm."
"I've check the dates for the birth of the charms and I found out that one had been born on Saint White's Day eighteen years ago," he continued, "And no one has been able to find it yet."
