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Tainted Angel Feathers
Chapter 12
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Tohru was sitting on the pale blue couch, her hands folded in her lap and her attention focused on her hands infront of her. Kyo was sitting next to Tohru, his arms crossed and leaning back against the couch, awaiting Yuki's information. The silence made Tohru feel very uneasy. She smoothed her navy skirt and reclasped her hands.
Yuki was siting in the chair infront of her and Kyo, His light blue oriental shirt buttoned and a kind smile on his face. Kyo broke the nerve-racking silence,
"Well?"
Yuki remained smiling, "Kyo, I would like to talk to Tohru.. alone.. for now. Go take a shower or something."
Kyo snorted, "No way! I'm gonna protect Tohru from you, you bastard."
Tohru rested her hand on Kyo's shoulder, looking at him with a dead serious expresion, "Kyo, please?"
Kyo looked at her for a moment, then shrugged her hand away and stood up, walking out the room and upstairs.
Tohru watched his retreating figure before turning her attention back to Yuki and gulped nervously. She had to be brave now.
"Well Miss Honda, is Kyo treating you well?"
Tohru nodded repeatedly, "Yes! Of course! He's been wonderful to me."
Yuki smiled, "Good. Did he ever tell you.. why he's gaurding you?"
Tohru shook her head slowly, "N-No.. he never told me why.. I never thought about it, actually."
"Figures." Yuki mumbled before sighing, "Miss Honda, I'll be blunt with you. Kyo wasn't suppose to be gaurding you."
Tohru looked up at him in surprise, "Wha?"
"I was suppose to gaurd you. But my assignment paper went missing. I later found out that Kyo had found it, and went to Earth to protect you."
Tohru looked on for more of an explination, "So, why is that such a problem?"
Yuki raised his hand, "No, no. That's not it. We have observed him watching over you and we see no problem at all. I just came to fill you in with the information he failed to tell you, and the information he too, doesn't know."
"Is it about that Akito man?"
"Akito isn't exactly a man.. he's more of a dark angel. He was banished, permenatly from heaven before time with Satan, or the Dark One. I'm sure you have heard of the stories." Tohru nodded.
"Well, you see, a long time ago, Kyo had to gaurd a boy named Kohaku."
Tohru nodded again. Yuki continued the story, "Well, Kyo was gaurding him when he was around your age. Well, one of the Dark One's dark angels had tried to get Kohaku to steal something. Kyo started to fight the dark angel, and another dark angel appeared when Kyo was distracted and got Kohaku to steal the item and run. Kyo had to search for Kohaku. and when he finally found him, Kohaku was corrupted."
Tohru gasped lightly, "That's horrible!"
Yuki nodded, "Yes, and you see Tohru, it was all of Kyo's responsibilities. Because of this, Kyo was banished from heaven to sit at the gates for all of eternity. He's excluded, he doesn't belong in heaven anymore."
"But, why?"
"Only the Father knows the true reason. My freind Hatsuharu, who is also an angel, told me he thinks maybe the Father banished him for his plan."
"The Father? Plan?"
Yuki explained, "The Father is God, the runs everything. The 'plan' is unknown. Even I, the highest choir of angels, do not know the Father's plan. He keeps it a great mystery."
"I ses.. but does that mean Kyo's not really an angel? If he was banished?"
"He's an angel all right, but just, not part of heaven's angels."
"So, he's like.. a salmon onigiri in a group of chicken onigiri..?"
"Excuse me?" Yuki looked at her not understanding her analagy.
"I mean, Kyo is the salmon onigiri and he's surrounded by chicken onigiri, who are the other angels. He doesn't fit in because he's salmon, yet he should because he's an onigiri. He has white rice and the same shape and size as onigiri, yet instead of chicken, he has salmon. Because of this, he doesn't belong there, but he should, because he's an onigiri like everyone else." Yuki looked at her, still a bit confused.
"And then there's leek onigiri, but the salmon doesn't fit in there either because he is salmon, and not a leek. He's in between of the deleicious chicken onigiri and the bitter leek onigiri."
"..I like leeks."
Tohru looked at Yuki wide eyed and raised her hands up in defence, "OH! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to offend you! I just was using an example! I can change it to something else."
Yuki sighed, "No, No. I understand. It's a wonderful analagy. Don't appologize."
Tohru sighed in releif and Yuki smiled in thought, 'But I understand what you mean. Kyo isn't a heavenly angel, nor is he a dark angel, but he's more of a heavenly one than the dark one.'
Tohru stood up, "Well I better make something for dinner, I'm sure you're hungry from your trip." Yuki smiled, "Yes, thank you Miss Honda."
Tohru smiled and left the room into the kitchen.
It wasn't too long after that, Tohru was still preparing dinner when Kyo walked over to Yuki, a towel around his neck and his wet untamed hair shading his intense eyes,
"What did you tell her?"
Yuki looked up from the book he was reading, "Ah, Kyo, you don't smell like a dirty cat anymore."
Kyo snarled, "Shut up and answer me! What did you tell her?!"
Yuki looked back to his book, "Everything."
Kyo stumbled back in shock, "E-Everything..??"
Yuki sighed rolling his eyes, "Did you not hear me the first time? I said everything, didn't I? Are you as deaf as you are stupid?"
Kyo growled, "I heard you! I just can't beleive you told her EVERYTHING!"
"Everything about you being an outcast and it was really suppose to be MY assignment to gaurd miss Honda untill you took matters into your own hands." Kyo's eyebrow twitched, "So what are you gonna do?"
"Help you gaurd her."
"I don't need help!"
"You don't know what's going on, do you?" Yuki asked flatly putting the book down. Kyo replied with a simple 'Huh?'
Yuki stood up and looked Kyo straight in the eye, "Kyo. Do you remember Kohaku?"
"Kohaku? Of course I do!" Kyo's face went downcast abit remembering those horrible memories.
"History is repeating itself."
"What do you mean, Yuki?" kyo looked up in question.
"The Dark One is trying to bring her to the dark side, just like Kohaku. Another wild killer and con artist."
Kyo's eyes widened, "N-No! Tohru isn't like Kohaku! She's...she's..."
"An angel? Hah, don't be a fool. She's human, humans make mistakes.. more than us angels do. Or at least, me and the others." Kyo glared at him darkly, "Shut up."
"You're an outcast Kyo, you don't belong in heaven. Thinking that protecting Tohru in this mission will give you a thumbs up to go to heaven?" Kyo's eyes widened and Yuki chuckled,
"Sorry, but it's a no. I doubt the Father will change his mind when you didn't even ASK to take this huge assignment. You just took matters in your own hands for your selfish desires. You better watch out before the Dark One decides to corrupt you even more, you were weak enough to give in the first time. Your wings are still grey and battered, aren't they?" Kyo's eyes widened even more in hatred in surprise.
"Don't worry, I didn't tell Tohru about THAT. She wouldn't feel safe, would she? Knowing that her gaurdian angel is corrupted."
"Shut up you damn rat. Who are you to talk? You're here trying to mentally scar me, isn't that Akito's job?!"
Yuki took a step back.
Kyo took a step forward, "Just because I happen to get my wings fucked up abit doesn't mean I'm corrupted! You're here filling my head with lies! Sure at first I came here just to get back to heaven, but that all changed in a matter of hours!" Kyo weilded his fist back ready to attack, "I care more for Tohru than heaven, hell or even your own shitty preachings!"
Kyo swong the fist down, and Yuki didn't have time to react. His fist connected to Yuki's jaw, sending Yuki back and into the chair he was sitting in. From that force, the chair toppled over with Yuki in it. Kyo looked on in shock.
"I beat him.."
"Kyo!"
Kyo turned to see Tohru look at him in shock. Kyo's eyes widened, "T-Tohru?" Tohru dropped the wooden spoon she was holding and rushed over to Yuki helping him up.
Kyo watched on in shock. He just beat the rat, and the girl he was trying to protect came rushing in to, not congratulate Kyo, but help the shit head up!?
Yuki smiled when Tohru helped him up, "I'm sorry about the trouble Miss Honda." He sent Kyo a dark glare. Kyo looked to Tohru, then ran upstairs to his room where he retreated, even after dinner.
After dinner, which Kyo never came down to enjoy. Tohru walked eupstairs with the meal and knocked timidly on his door. A muffled, 'What do you want?' was heard and Tohru opened the door,
"Kyo?"
Kyo looked up, then turned away. Tohru set the food on the bedside table and looked to Kyo, "Why-"
"What did you hear?"
Tohru looked down, "Everything."
Kyo grit his teeth together and glarred at her, "So what now!? You want that princely ass to protect you since you know that I'm not really a heavenly angel?! You want me to leave?!"
Tohru winced at his tone and tears formed in her eyes, "Kyo.."
"Just say it! Say 'Kyo you bastard I want you to leave right now!'"
Tohru looked at Kyo as he stood up from his spot on the bed. Only centimeters away from her, he looked down at her with both a hurt and angry expression,
"Just say you hate me and I'll leave."
Tohru couldn't take it anymore, she dropped her head against Kyo's chest and sobbed. Kyo, who was taken aback, instinctivly wrapped his arms around her. He let her cry, not knowing what else to say or do. She hated him now because he lied to her. What could you do?
"Please Kyo.." Kyo took a deep breath. 'Here it comes.'
"Don't leave me. Please, stay with me. I-I don't want to be alone. Kyo, please. You said you cared for me.."
Kyo's eyes widened and he looked at her hugging her frail body against his tightly, "Of course I do.. i just thought that you hated me since, you know."
Tohru gripped his white t-sirt and chocked in her sobs, "No Kyo! I would never hate you! You protect me, you stayed with me and Kyoko! You cheered me up when I was sad and you were there every time I needed a shoulder to cry on."
Kyo stroked her back softly as she continued, "Kyo, please don't leave me. I know I'm just an ordinary girl but please... Kyo, I.."
Tohru stopped crying. Everything was suddenly quiet. Kyo continued stroking her softly and closed his eyes feeling her breathe against him. He felt everything had come back together. She really did care for him. She wanted HIM to stay with her. She wanted HIM to care for her. She wanted HIM and only HIM to be at her side. Kyo, if he was human, he would right then and live happily ever after, like in those faerie tales, only he was an angel and couldn't 'live' with other humans, not like this anyway.
The room was silenced, and Tohru never spoke another word, she had fallen asleep in his arms. Her grip had relased and Kyo scooped her up in his grasp before she collapsed. He had carried her to her room and tucked her in.
Looking at her face, Kyo smiled. She was beautiful. And she cared for him.. but..
'Does she love me?'
Kyo winced at the thought of her not loving him. Then looked at her sleeping form again, he leaned forward to her face and brushed away a few bangs. He wished he could stand there all night, but that would be a stalker, wouldn't it?
He smiled and closed the distance between their faces, capturing her lips in a simple kiss.
He grinned inwardly as his lips lingered there for a moment before departing and walking out the room with a slightly flushed face. He smiled to himself again, he would always remember that stolen kiss.
In the shadows of the hallway though, violet eyes watched Kyo walk into his room and close the door,
"Haru was right,
a forbidden love."
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AN: Weeell... whaddya think? Good? Bad? Let me know! I hope you liked it because I enjoyed writing it!
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-Amaya
