Datenshi : Fallen Angel © My Anh Nguyen

Chapter One – Dreamcatcher

There are phenomenon in this world that Aya Mikage doesn't quite grasp the meaning of, for instance, looking up at the grand gate to her school that had an enormous golden lettering – The Royal Institution of Kyoto Private Academy. Indeed, that was her school's name tracing back to centuries ago. The teachers didn't allow the students to call their academy as a regular 'high school' but as 'The Royal blah blah blah'. It shunned her and Aya didn't know what issued these people have but they believe they're prestigious and above everyone else. Talk about a big head. What's worst was that the people that attend this academy are not the best people to make friends with. The school thinks they are good hence forth the student body also believe they are. It's rather sad actually; they are all civil to one another but merely to be polite. It was final and factual, Aya ostracized the school.

"Walk faster Aya."

Someone pushed her forward from behind and she rolled her eyes. The only person who she can converse with for more than ten minutes was no other than her twin brother. "Onii-chan! I am hurrying you don't have to push me." Aya barked out and flung her hands in the air.

"Ohayou gozaimasu, Aki-senpai!"

"Aki-kun, konnichiwa!"

It wasn't something to be embarrassed of the fact that her brother was the most popular guy in the school, however she was discomfit. They are twins yet both contradict one another greatly, it always surprised her how ever did she get him as a twin brother. The only similarity they behold was the blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. From their interest to personality it differs vastly.

"Well known as always aye Aki? Do you even know the names of half the people who greet you every morning?" Aya questioned frowning.

Aki shook his head and took his sister's bag into his hand. "Nope. Did you remember to bring your packed lunch?" He asked her shaking her bag as it felt lighter than usual.

"Oh no! I forgot it on the kitchen table!" She hits her head and poked out a tongue at Aki. "Gomen."

"Aya you know that you can't miss meals like that. What happen if later on you faint and I'm not around?" Aki said it all in one breath looking more than annoyed but on the side of worried. "From now on I'll pack your bag for you every morning."

She pouted and walked ahead of him then turned around making a clown face at Aki. "Bro, you sound like an old man!"

"Why you! I am being a caring brother and I am insulted like that?" Aki rolled up the sleeves of his navy blue jumper. "You better run real fast because when I get you, you're dead!"

Aya carried on running ahead with Aki chasing behind her tail when suddenly she bumped real hard into a hard chest. "Ow!" She rubbed her head and glanced up to see Aki's close friend, Yuuhi Aogiri. "So sorry!"

The brown haired man brushed his hair back whilst shaking his head. "It's okay. Where are you running to?" he asked as he looked over Aya's head to see Aki coming from behind.

"Ah! From the ugly monster. Bye Yuuhi!" Aya waved her hand and took her bag from Aki's grasp running further on. "Catch me later, dear brother of mine!"

"I'll get you!" Aki screamed out and chuckled. "How you do buddy?"

"Not as good as you from the way things look. How lucky of you, have such a cute sister around." Yuuhi sulked and the two gentlemen walked into their homeroom together.

Aki raised an eyebrow and beckoned, "If she was many years younger than me then what you said won't sound wrong. Are you trying to hit onto my sister?"

Bewildered, Yuuhi stammered, "No!"

"Better not be." He nodded his head and with a cold tone exclaimed, "I'll kill anyone who inflicts any sort of pain on Aya."

"Aya Mikage!" Out of the blue a light brown haired girl hugged Aya tightly and she doesn't know where the girl popped out from. "You look dazzling!"

Aya gazed at Chidori Asai and gawked. "What do you want now?"

"Could I come over this afternoon?" Chidori rubbed her body against Aya with pleading eyes.

"Wha-what?" Shr heard perfectly fine but Chidori was one mischievous young girl and Aya know there had to be something behind it. "Why?"

"Your brother would be home from basketball practice right?" Aya nodded her head. "Great. I get to see his body all flushed and sweaty from the training." Chidori clasped her hands together and her eyes looked beyond the clouds. "Then he will take a shower and his hair and body will be wet… Ah! Aki-kun, come to me!"

What the heck? Aya thought and gave a sardonic expression. "You disgust me." She walked ahead into their homeroom with Chidori clinging from behind still begging for permission.

Even though Chidori was too wild for Aya but she thoroughly enjoyed her. Chidori was one to speak her mind and honest with everything she feels or says. Aya liked that about her. Hence, that's why Chidori could be included as Aya's only friend in the entire academy. Aya still remembered the first time Chidori Asai spoke to her; it was early last year during summer. The cherry blossoms were blooming with such beauty that Aya couldn't help but gazed at them every time she walked pass. One day she forgot her lunch and was sitting underneath one of the biggest tree in the school. Her stomach growled real loud and a hand appeared out of nowhere holding a sandwich. She stared at the girl, who sat beside her and smiling warmly. Take it; I've got plenty more, she said. After that incident Aya saw more of Chidori and the first time she introduced her brother to Chidori, the girl had been sexually driven toward Aki without being meek about it.

"So what about it?" Chidori snapped Aya from her trance and she stared blankly at the enthusiasm Chidori had in her eyes.

Aya gazed outside the classroom window at the lucid azure sky and said, "The weather is making me sleepy." With that Aya put her head down on the table and closed her eyes.

Chidori gagged but afterward sat down beside Aya and smiled gently.

"Oh my gosh! Have you seen the new biology teacher?"

"Yes! He's so hot!"

"I know! How old you think he is?"

"Twenty-four?"

Aya walked pass all the constant blabbering of the girls in her biology class and sat herself down on one of the tables. She was still half asleep from the previous lesson of mathematics, it wasn't her thing. Aya yawned and placed her head in the palm of her hand as support.

"There he is!" All the girls blushed as the new teacher walked into the classroom and stood in front of the blackboard.

Aya shifted her eyes to the front and was amazed. The new teacher was fairly young, bright red hair, a mix of gold and blue eyes, one pierced ear and a choker necklace. He could be the next Calvin Klein model, she thought.

"Good morning. I am the new transfer teacher, Touya Nigawa. Hope we will cooperate well throughout this year."

"Yes, sir!"

Swapping hands, Aya yet again looked out the window where she saw a flock of birds flying across the sky.

"Hey you. Are you the dream catcher?"

Aya opened her eyes and her vision was indistinct soon later it regained as she made out the figure of a little boy. She got up on her legs and looked at her surroundings, she was in the hospital. How did she get here? Wasn't she having lunch with Chidori?

"I'm going to die soon." The dark haired boy said to her. She opened her mouth and then shut it again. "He's after my life essence."

"Whose he?"

"I don't know but like you, I hear his voice in my dreams. My time is near the end." Aya walked closer to the boy sitting on the white bed swinging his tiny legs. "If you can foretell the future in your dreams, could you protect my dog? He's only one year old." How can she protect someone's love ones when she can't even guard her parents? "He's very obedient."

"I – I'll try."

"Thank you. As a present I'll give you a dream of your own." The boy grinned and hopped off the bed landing on two feet. "What dream would you like?"

"You can give me a dream?"

"Yeah. My powers are not as strong as yours but it can do."

Aya thought for a second and asked, "Then I can give you a dream too?"

"Of course you can dummy. My mother said you're the original Dreamcatcher. You can put someone into an eternal sleep as well." The young boy looked up at Aya with crystal clear sapphire eyes.

"Can I give myself a dream?" Aya questioned and felt foolish for it seems as though the younger boy was more knowledgeable than her.

He shook his head and took her hand into his. "You can't. That's our sin. Now close your eyes…" Aya examined the boy and did what he said. "For now I'll put you into a world where you wish to be but you will wake up from it after some time."

"Thank you. Are we the same kind?"

"No," he paused. "You're the fallen angel who has a lot of responsibility and power."

"I don't get it."

The boy hushed her and a bright golden glow emerged from their hands. "Now let yourself loose and dream."

Aya smiled lightly, "My first dream."

Stepping out of the shower Aya looked at herself in the mirror and grinned. She saw her parents in her dream and they were all laughing joyfully. Aya hummed a tune and walked into the kitchen where Aki was preparing dinner. He took a glimpsed at her and continued to chop the onions.

"What are you so happy about, now tell your brother."

Aya sat on her arm chair in front of the television and smiled from ear to ear. "I had a dream of mum and dad. We were having dinner and playing games together."

He brought the dishes onto the small square shaped table. "Oh is that so?" Aya nodded and jumped up from her position. "Now eat up and get ready for bed."

"Yes, mum!"

"What sins have I caused to deserve such a sister?" Aki asked exasperatedly.

Aya laughed and shook her head. "No, no. It's more of what good deeds you have done to have me as your wonderful younger twin sister."

He shook his head in disbelief and pinched her nose. "I have no way with you."

"It's because you love me too much." Aya picked up a pair of chopsticks and hand it to Aki. "Itadakimasu!"

After finishing the meal and doing some homework, both Aki and Aya went off to bed in their respective rooms. Aki walked pass the room that used to belong to their parents and took a longing gaze. Soon later he peeked into Aya's room to make sure she was under the bed covers then he closed the door lightly and went to his room. He laid there in his bed wondering what Aya's true feelings are. She always had a smile in front of him but he knows in her sleep she cries. He turned to the side and watched the full moon, bit by bit his eyes fell heavy and he fell in a deep slumber.

Woof! Woof! Woof!

Aya scrunched her face at the noise the dog was making and chose to ignore it. "Aya! Aya!" She heard indistinct screams from somewhere far. The dog continued to bark loudly and she was frustrated. Aya got up from her bed and looked outside her window to where the gate was. There was a brown dog wagging its tail and scratching the gate.

Instantly, images flooded through her head and she jerked up. The boy! Aya slipped into her shoes and climbed out from her window. She opened the small gate and the dog started running forward. It stopped and looked back as if waiting for her to come.

"Show me where he is." Aya whispered and the two ran off into the dark pitch night with only the moon as their guide.

She doesn't know why she's doing this but she doesn't want him to die. He was her kind; he understands her pain of one without any choice. Aya held a stern expression and reminded herself that the incident in the past was when she was only nine. Now nine years later she's eighteen and it won't be the same. She will make sure of it, now that she finally felt as though she was not alone in this world with her unnatural ability.

"Wait for me. I'm coming."

Next chapter – Seraph Without Wings