Chapter Two
For a moment I don't know what happened. All I could remember was that he dropped me . . . a hundred, or perhaps a thousand meters below.
Suddenly I felt that I halted.
But instead of falling upon a hard cement rock, as I was expecting, my head dropped upon a soft, velvety thing. And then I realized . . . that I was crying.
"I was just joking. Do you really think I could let someone as cute as you fall on the ground?"
The thief caught me, and I'm back to my senses once more. Really, what is this creature? I am uncertain what he is . . . well, he's got wings, after all. But some part of him tells me that he is a human.
"I…It's not a good joke," I mumbled.
"Now, now, it's just a joke. I wouldn't let you fall, no matter what happens." He dried a drop or so of warm tears on my cheeks.
After a long moment, I managed to let words come out of my mouth again. I tried to remain calm as possible.
Who is this guy, really? I thought.
"W…Who are you?" I finally blurted out. The expression on his face suddenly became serious.
"I am the phantom thief… and they call me Dark,"
"Well then, Dark-san, I beseech you to return Akira's teapot,"
He smirked at me. "Are you mad? I need this."
"But, why? Of all things, why a teapot?" I reached something on my pocket, and after a moment, I revealed money on my palms. "Here. You can have this. Just return the teapot."
He chuckled. "You're really such a silly girl, are you not? I need the porcelain thing, not money. I've got heaps of that."
A thief with heaps of money… why is he even a thief? H…he's a mystery. I thought.
There was a moment of stupefied silence between the two of us. Why do I feel no fear . . . considering the situation and considering that a stranger's arm is tightly clasped around my hips?
Where is he bringing me, really? And why am I not frightened… when he almost killed me? I thought again.
"Where do you live?" He suddenly inquired, breaking the silence.
"Y…You plan to stalk me," I gasped.
"To stalk you? Silly girl. I'm bringing you home."
He called me silly for the second time. But it doesn't matter; he brought me home, anyway. He doesn't seem to be a bad guy, after all.
"T…Thank you," I said.
"Don't thank me. I just returned you to where you are supposed to be. A cute teenage-girl isn't supposed to be lurking at school late in the evening, right?" I nodded at him.
"I…I know!"
"Anyway, I forgot to ask your name,"
"Megumi," I answered shortly.
He winked at me then he waved his hand. "Till then, Megumi-chan,"
We finally separated ways. I stared at him mesmerizingly as he flew in the vast sky with his luxuriant black wings… quite forgetting these facts: That I let him stole Akira-chan's most prized possession and I let him interfere with my preparation for Ryuu's birthday.
A/N: well, well! even though only a person reviewed the 1st chap., it's still a motivation :)