Ice Angels
Playtime
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
in the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
we're happy tonight,
walking in a winter wonderland.
Daisuke awoke to the sound of soft whimpering. He groaned, pulling the blankets tighter, attempting to cover his ears but the cry continued, getting more desperate each minute. Finally, he pulled the covers from his head and glanced around. Silence and darkness greeted his eyes and he blinked a few times, trying to adjust his sight to the soft light of the fire, crackling weakly against the nights darkness. Two bulky figures were snuggled on the couches that surrounded the fire and Daisuke quickly recognized where the soft whining was coming from.
He pulled the blankets away completely so not to tangle his legs in them and crawled across the floor, coming to rest at the couch where the blue-haired boy lay. In his sleep, he tossed and turned several times, soft cries emitting from his lips. Sweat ran down his face, giving him a flushed look, a strange comparison to the pale skin Daisuke had observed before. In the soft firelight, his skin seemed to glow and Daisuke blushed, quickly perishing his thoughts. He cross his legs, sitting next to Satoshi and watched him while he slept. The blue angel on top the Christmas tree that Daisuke had seen before had kept flashing in his memory, and the redhead couldn't help but compare the boy before him with the icy angel. There was just the matter of the tears. And as if on cue, soft thin tears began to seep from the boy's shut eyelids, and his whimpering succumbed to a soft moan.
Blue icy orbs of wonder were revealed to cause an embarrassed Daisuke to stumble backwards. Satoshi glanced at the redhead now cuddling back into the covers.
'He saw me! Just staring at him!' Daisuke blushed again, not exactly sure why and pulled the covers over his rosy cheeks, glancing back at the boy's silhoutte (as that was the only thing he could see in the darkness) with curious amber eyes. But the shadow he watched did not stay sitting up for a while, and Daisuke watched a hand sleepily raised to wipe away tears and rouse sleepy eyelids. It was then that Daisuke noticed the boy was completely dazed, and had not taken notice to the redhead who had sat next to him just a few moments ago.
Satoshi looked around, blinking rapidly. Well, everything seemed to be in place...Where was he again? He rubbed his eyes, and felt moistness on his cheeks. Funny, he didn't remember going out in the rain, or anything like that. With a last glance at a bundle near a dying fire Satoshi pulled the covers back over his body and drifted back to sleep.
When Satoshi came to his senses again, it was because someone was shaking him quite roughly by the shoulders. He mumbled something about sleeping five more minutes and groped around for his glasses. When they were set carefully over his eyes he noticed Krad now with one hand on his shoulder, the other on the couch arm for support.
"Get up. We're going back home, it's morning already," Krad whispered. Satoshi, still confused and thinking that he was in some foreign country, stumbled his way out of the couch which he had hapilly burrowed himself into and squinted in the still darkened room to find his coat.
"Wah...happened?" Satoshi asked, finally grasping some kind of warm material. However, it was not his coat. His coat did not move. It did not have red eyes, or squel, "Kyuuu!" when grabbed exceptionally hard on a tail. And his coat cartainly did not have a tail.
"Nnn...Wiz?" Daisuke pulled himself from his bed on the floor, hair sticking out in all directions and shapes. He blinked a few times and rubbed his sleepy eyes, then noticed the two figures now standing, and his lips split into a smile.
"You're awake! And you're both alright," Daisuke said. He scurried to his feet, turning on a light in the living room. Krad glanced at the clock, and noticed it was only seven in the morning.
"Yes, well we have school to go to and..." Krad tried to come up with some excuse to hurry out the door as he could hear the other family members making their way down the stairs.
Satoshi was still pulling at Wiz's tail and muttering, "Stay still...coat..." Krad grabbed his wrist and placed his hand on Satoshi's real coat. Satoshi blinked more, still swaying about, but put on his coat none-the less, even if he was putting it on backwards. From the stairs a figure appeared, jumping down the steps three steps at a time. Dark muttered something and looked back up at Krad and Satoshi who were pulling their coats and scarves on. His face brightened, and he looked back over to Daisuke.
"Are you going to have a snowball fight? Wait for me!" Dark stumbled back up the stairs and Krad sighed. He started pushing his dazed sibling out the door saying, "But we have sc-"
"Ah, Krad-kun you might want to look out the window..."
With a simple glance Krad knew he wasn't going anywhere. Even if he had wanted to get away from the Niwa household, than in itself would be hard. Snow had piled up so it was on the edge of the window. The blonde opened the window, a cold breeze coming in and looked around, eyes wide.
"The roads..."
"Are completely blocked! What a snowstorm last night huh?" Behind him Dark was staring out the window too, pulling a hat over his head. Daisuke jumped, telling the three to wait and rushed upstairs to change. Dark looked over at Satoshi.
"...Is your brother okay?" he asked, staring at the blue-haired boy. He had his coat on backwards, his fingers stuffed into the goves crudely so that he looked like he was missing some fingers, and his hat was put on at such a strange angle that his strands of blue were sticking out everywhere. Krad nearly slapped his face when he noticed him.
"He just...It's hard for him to get up in the morning."
"Oh."
There was of course another strange silence, as Daisuke was taking his merry little time getting dressed.
"You...like the snow?" Dark asked, finally closing the window that had been letting in fresh air.
Krad looked up, and muttered under his breath, "No."
Luckily, a that moment Daisuke came down the stairs, and by this time Satoshi had finally awoken, and looked about rather confused. He fixed his clothes and glanced at Krad asking, "Where are we?"
"We are at the Niwa household, because you collapsed last night, and Niwa Daisuke did not want to leave you alone. A snowstorm started, and he insisted on bringing you here, along with me."
Satoshi blushed ever so slightly, but it was barely noticeable. He looked back at Daisuke who was waving shyly at the call of his name. Satoshi blinked. Hmm. He recalled a blur of red in a dream last night...(1)
"Can we get out there now?" Dark asked. He had a sled tucked beneath his arm, and a pair of skates in the other. Daisuke nodded shyly, and smiled, rushing out. Both Niwa's vanished in the snow, flashes of violet and crimson visible every now and then.
"Do you think we should...?"
Krad looked down at Satoshi, a frown plastered on his face. He hissed, "We don't have much of a choice now do we? Would you like to walk a few miles through six feet of snow?"
Satoshi coughed. And sneezed. Then he took time to glare at Krad which didn't work well since his nose was rosy, and gave him a rather adorable look with his glasses falling off and his light blue hair sticking out in several places. Krad grinned and walked outside, trying to find Dark. He didn't know exactly why...It just felt like instinct. Find Dark...
Satoshi on the other hand wandered off to somehow thanks the redhead that hadn't let his out in the snow to freeze to death, like other people. When he found the boy making a snowangel he stopped. His feet refused to move as he watched the young boy, smiling in the snow with arms outstretched, waving them up and down and about. Finally he stopped when he felt the icy cold gaze of the Hiwatari boy. Daisuke blinked, snowfalkes gathering in his hair and resting on strands of crimson. There was that odd contrast of red against white. Blood against purity...
"Hello!" Daisuke smiled up at him rolling over. He looked back down at his angel which had turned out perfectly. He smiled, satisfied and turned back to Satoshi.
"I wanted to thank you. Fir helping me last night..."
Daisuke beamed and waved his hand about. "Of course! I couldn't just leave you, you just collasped!"
Inside, Satoshi laughed softly. Plently of people wouldn't have given a damn...
"Hey, do you wanna go sleigh riding?" Daisuke asked. Satoshi's head snapped back up, looking confused.
"Sleigh...What?"
Daisuke fell over.
"How do you...?" Krad was watching Dark make a perfect snowball in his hands. Dark was trying to tell him how to scoop up a good amount and morph it into a perfet sphere. But Krad was nearly paying attention. He was watching Dark's hands move elegantly, watched his lips part and close, and form a soft smile every now and then. Well, all this lecturing was getting to a very good point.
"And you can hit people with them. It's like you're fighting, but it's fun."
Dark handed Krad the ball, snickering, and pointed over to Daisuke, who was at that point trying to explain sleigh riding to Satoshi.
"Aim..."
Dark pulled Krad's hand back, the snowball still in his palm. He blushed slightly, and the snowball seemed to be melting...
"FIRE!" Krad slung his arm forward, the snowball coming to rest in the back of Satoshi's head.
"Now run!" Dark grabbed Krad's arm and pulled him away. Before Satoshi could even glance behind him, the two had vanished within the winter wonderland. Daisuke looked up and sighed.
"Ehh, where's he going? Well come on Satoshi, I'll just have to show you how to sleigh ride." Daisuke pulled himself up, brushing snow off. He grabbed the sleigh and headed the same way that Dark and Krad had headed.
But Satoshi wasn't following him.
"...How did you know my name?"
A/N: (1) He didn't dream about Daisuke, he just thought he did. He thought when he woke up in the beginning of the chapter that he was dreaming..XD
If you notice, Satoshi's name hasn't been uttered from Krad's lips once. Just enforcing that. But Daisuke knows Satoshi's name somehow. I was gonna have them sleigh ride but then was like, "...Beh. -ends chapter-" By the way, it seems to be a lot of DaixSato right now, but trust me, there's a whole heap of tasty/angsty/fluffy DarkxKrad in the next few chapters. That, by the way, are already typed on my computer. XD Thanks for all the reviews! Please continue to read and review! --peachie
