SASUINO DAY 4: Angel/Demon AU

Ino was taught from a young age that angels from grace all the time since the creation of the universe.

But why?

She finds herself asking and they always reply with the same thing. It's just the way it is.

But no angel has fallen from grace for centuries, and no one will dare break that for fear of losing their beautiful wings.

"Listen, Ino. There are two ways for angels to fall from grace and lose their wings." His father said. "The first one is failing their assigned human intentionally, and the second is sleeping with our enemy."

"We have an enemy?" She asked, confused. They're angels! Why do they have one?

"Yes, sweetheart. Demons are the opposite of existence, our enemies, and the ones we should avoid or kill at all cost."

"Why?"

"Because just the way it is. They tempt humans away from the path of God and cause our kind to fall from grace. They're simply evil. That's just the way it has always been and will continue to be."

"But they're created by God, are they not?" She still doesn't understand.

Although her father explained it a hundred times, she still doesn't understand why they can't just coexist and live in harmony.

She was always cautioned against her curiosity and idealistic view of the world, and she knows how much they worried about her when she was finally assigned a human to protect and guide.

Being on her own without her friends and parents worrying over her is strangely liberating. It feels strangely euphoric. She thinks as she watched Sakura, her assigned human, drink and laugh with her friends. Sakura's at what humans call a bar, which is the place she frequents aside from the hospital.

"If you don't focus, your human is going to be in trouble." She quickly turns to the owner of the voice.

"How can you see me?" she asked, amazed.

"What do you think?"

She peeked from behind him and found no black wings, a symbol of a demon.

"You're an immortal?"

He neither confirms nor denies as he looks at her. She has heard of immortals. Neither human, angel, nor demon, but it's the first time she ever saw one in the flesh.

She saw her human, Sakura, cross the street, and she quickly said her goodbye to the stranger.

The weeks passed and they would see each other in the bar.

"Are you interested in my charge?" she asks one day.

He watched his drink for a minute before he looked at her. "Maybe."

Mind games? She scoffed. Now that she knows Sakura, she doesn't want any strange men or women around her. Sakura deserves better. "Well, you should be interested in someone else other than Sakura. It's my job to protect her and it's in your best interest to stay away."

With that, she left him to stay beside Sakura, even though she wouldn't see her.

Maybe it was her attitude and the challenge she posed, but the following days, the stranger seems keen on getting under her skin. He would approach Sakura despite her glares.

"What's wrong with you?" She confronts him again when she hears Sakura lament how this strange immortal who goes by the name Sasuke (if that's even his real name) never contacted her again. "Stop messing with Sakura."

He drinks his beer. "Well, you took your time."

"What?"

"I was wondering when you'd finally confront me."

"Ha?"

What is he even saying? It's as if he was doing those things to get her attention.

"I took your advice and decided to be interested in someone else." he says, looking into her eyes.

She's sure his eyes are obsidian, but for some reason, she can see some red in it.

"So you mean me?" she asks, pointing at herself. "You're interested in me?"

"Yes, I am."

This strange, strange immortal. "You're crazy."

"I know." What is this guy on?

"Stop playing games."

"I'm not."

"Then what do you want?"

"Your name."

"I'm not giving you my name!" she exclaims. This guy is crazy, and his good looks are lost in his craziness.

"I guess I'll contact Sakura again then." She glares at him, but he's unaffected.

"Fine." she sighs. "It's Ino, okay? Just stop messing with my charge."

He agreed, but on one condition, and Ino obliged.

Ino's distrust gradually changed when they started talking, and it would be the first time that someone agreed with her idealism. In between watching over Sakura, she falls in love, but she knows it can't happen.

So when Sasuke voiced his affection, she denied him.

And when he asked why, she didn't have the heart to lie to him.

It was out of love and loyalty to Sakura's feelings that she couldn't ever accept him, and it was out of obligation to Heaven that she denied him.

Sasuke's eyes darkened at her admission and he leaves.

At that time, she didn't know that she had just sealed all their fates.

Ino cried when Sakura died because of a hit and run. The Heaven Council said that they will announce the verdict soon for her crime of not being able to protect her charge.

Her family and friends assured her that she would not lose her wings.

But she's not worried about her wings.

She just wants Sakura to be back and safe.

Sasuke finds her behind the bar Sakura usually goes to, and his presence was the only thing that stopped her from hurting herself.

Maybe it was the loneliness and disappointment she felt after failing her charge. Maybe she just doesn't want to be alone right now, so when Sasuke beckons her to go with him to his place, she doesn't refuse.

And when his head leans closer to her, she doesn't turn away.

She wakes up to find black wings covering her and she bolts out of the bed. She is confused, hurt, and betrayed as she looks at Sasuke.

"Good morning." he greets, as if it's a normal occurrence for a demon to sleep with an angel. As if he didn't lie to her and condemn her to Hell.

He stood up to go to her, but she shrieked to stop him. She feels dirty. She feels sick.

"What's the matter, Ino?"

"What do you mean 'what's the matter'?! You lied to me!" Ino shouted, hurt and betrayed. "You're- you're a demon."

He walks closer to her.

"Don't come near me!"

He didn't listen, and the next thing she knew, he was tipping her chin up so he could look down at her. "Yes, I am a Demon."

"But-but you never said anything-"

"Why does it matter, Ino? I'm always what I said I was and you've always said we can coexist, didn't you?"

She couldn't say anything because he was right. He was right and she messed up! Tears ran down her face, and he was quick to kiss them away. "Now we'll be together forever."

Sasuke waits patiently for the verdict of the Heaven Council in his place beside his brother.

Now, he doesn't have to hide who he is in front of her, and she will finally learn that demons are not nice. They don't play nice or fair.

And she will finally belong to him. Only to him.

When the verdict is announced across all councils, he is delighted, and the sound of Ino falling into his awaiting arms is heaven.