Tainted Wings

Chapter Four: Bellisimo

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Daisuke closed his eyes just as his back came into contacted with something warm. Whatever his back had fallen into fell back a bit, but then stopped. Daisuke sat there a few more seconds before he peaked open his eyes.

He looked up into bright gray-green eyes. "Akai?" Daisuke questioned.

"Heh, brat piccolo, Dark would kill me if you got hurt while I was here." Daisuke blinked in surprise, standing back up right. "Sei sicuro che il tuo bene?"(1)

"Eh? Whats that mean?"

"Hm, il tuo bene, anyway, whats that you've got there? Is that why you fell?"

"Hm?" He glanced down to see the winged necklace clutched in his hands. "Oh, I don't know, it looks like a necklace."

"No, davvero. My eyes are just fine, thank you. Why did you climb all the way up there just for that?" Akai took the winged necklace from Daisuke's hands and examined it.

"I'I don't know. I just really wanted it at the time." He didn't like Akai holding the necklace, so he tok it back quick, before he was done with it.

"Strano..." Akai muttered under his breath, then suddenly turned around. "Well lets head back, Dark must be looking for you now. Se egli non aveva ancora smesso di combattimenti. And don't tell Dark, I don't want to get in trouble for taking you out side."

"Oh, okay." Daisuke said as he ran to catch up.

When they got back Akai disappeared upstaires, Daisuke figured to make it look like he'd never been out. For Daisuke, he headed to the kitchen, figuring he could get something to eat before Dark found him. Walking to the kitchen, which is located next to dining room, Daisuke passed by a few people who said hi to him as he passed. These two people, who were right outside the dining room, decided to cut there conversation short and talk to Daisuke.

"Hey, kid! Your that one Dark brought in, right?" The first one said, he had black hair and rhinestone red colored eyes. His hair was short and pushed to the left, covering that eye a bit.

"Yes?" Daisuke paused his walking to look at the two.

"Yeah, that is the one, Zenz! We saw him when Dark brought him into the dining room, remember?" The second one said. He was the same age as the first one, who looked no more then a teen, with bright emerald eyes. His hair was a green colored black compared with the first ones hair. They had matching outfits of simple design, of dark colors.

"Really? Didn't see him, he was hiding when I looked." Zenz replied as he hung off the other ones shoulder, his free arm on his hip, leaning forwards.

"Zenz, you didn't even look, you were to busy with Rao to look." The green-eyed one pointed out to the other.

"See? So don't tell me to remember it, Greenie."

"Hey, don't call me Greenie! Its Gin! GIN!" The two people were starting to creep Daisuke out a little bit, so he tried to back away without them noticing.

But he was quickly caught by Zenz, who turned his attention back to him by saying, "So little dude, you get lost? I haven't seen you out by yourself."

"N-no, I'm going to the kitchen."

"The kitchen? You hungry? Hey, Gin, isn't Rao in the kitchen today?" Zenz asked turning to Gin again while still managing to hang off his shoulder.

"Yeah."

"Sweet, lets join him. Hey, pipsqueak, Rao's in the cooks today, so we'll be following you, 'kay?"

"O-okay." Daisuke didn't like how he talked like he couldn't hear him. Zenz bounced up happily, off Gins shoulder, and shouted with glee.

"Yes! Here I come Rao!" Gin rolled his eyes.

"Hes obsessed, ignore him." Gin said to Daisuke, who was confused.

"Okay..." Zenz skipped on ahead as Gin and Daisuke followed along behind. As they came to the door and about to enter, Satoshi walked out. He paused when he saw the three and pushed his glasses farther up his nose saying, "Oh, don't talk to Rao and Mic, they're a little prissy today." With that he walked away.

Gin snorted, "prissy? Since when does Satoshi use the word prissy?"

"Since now." Zenz said, shrugged in response. "Well, he told you two not to talk to Rao and Mic, but not me! See ya!"

Zenz darted in as Gin shouted after him, "Hey! Zenz! He ment you too, you dork!" Daisuke jumped as Gin shouted right next to him, moving aways away. "There he goes. Well, I've no real reason to be here, so if you don't mind, I'm going to leave you alone. If you still goig to go in there, your better off getting your own food. Rao has Zenz on him now and Mic has a temper,so if Satoshi says they're 'prissy' then, for Mic, you don't want to talk to him the rest of the day. Chao." Gin turned and left, waving a hand over him shoulder.

Daisuke was left alone, but before he could decide to go into the kitchen or not a familiar voice shouted, "DAISUKE!" Turning to the person, Daisuke was greted with a familiar sight. Dark was running over to him, looking to be in a panic. "Daisuke, Daisuke! Where have you been? After I finished talking with Satoshi, when I looked, you were gone!"

"I was going to the kitchen..."

Dark paused, his panic now seeming useless. "...Are you hungry?"

"Well, not really, I'd thought I get something to eat while I waited for you to come find me, but Satoshi said Rao and Mic were prissy today, so I don't know if I should go in or not."

"...Prissy? Since when does Satoshi use the word prissy?"

Daisuke shrugged, "how would I know? I only met him today."

"Thats true. Hmm, well, going in there won't be bad, unless Zenz in there, then its better off avoided. Well?"

"Zenz and Gin followed me here, Zenz went in, but Gin left, he didn't want to go in."

"Wow, really? No wonder it was so hard to find you, you were with those pair. Those two are always together, and if Zenz wasn't so obsessed with Rao, you'd think he liked Gin."

"If Zenz didn't like Gin why would he always hang out with him?" Daisuke asked innocently.

"...Er, no, nevermind." Dark waved it off, and headed down the hall. "Come on, I'll be out tonight, so I want to show you some places, so you won't be bored." Daisuke followed along, mumbling a small reply as he did.

"Okay."

Dark lead Daisuke through a few halls until one opend up into a large hallway. The hall was huge, the design was a Gothic style, and with the long tall walls, the style fit perfectly. At the end of the hall, which wasn't to long, was a door. It was a double set door that stretched from ceiling to the floor between two pillars on either side. The hall wasn't very wide, so the doors touched to either side as well. The hall wasn't very wide, so the doors touched to either side as well. Dark paused outside the doors and turned to Daisuke.

"This is the Grand Library. Lots of different types of books here. Before we go in, I've one question, can you read?" Daisuke blinked, surprised at the sudden question.

"Well... Sorta. When I was younger they were teaching me to read, but that stopped when... When I was locked up." Dark just nodded and pushed open one of the doors.

The first thing Daisuke saw was books. Shelves upon shelves of books. Dark stepped in and Daisuke followed a long behind him. He lead him through the maze of books to what Daisuke guessed to be the center of the room. There he found a small open space with a circular desk at its center. Ther was three places cut out of the desk so that people could get in and out from those directions. At its center was two chairs, one happenly occupied by someone.

The person was going through one of the many piles of books on the desk. His hair was short, but still long enough in the front to fall into his eyes, and was a sandy blonde color. He had on a simple white formal shirt with the top half unbottoned as well as the cuffs. When hr glanced up at their approach Daisuke saw that his eyes were green.

"Hm? Dark? What are you doing in here? I thought you said you'd never set foot in here again after that incident of yours."

Dark sighed. "Yes, I realize that, but that was then and this is now."

Daisuke looked between them before asking, "what incident?" They both stared at Daisuke a moment, the stranger like he just noticed him and Dark like he really wished he didn't ask that.

Dark sighed as the stranger laughed, and before he could say anything Dark said, "its nothing, don't mind it."

The stranger smile widdened as he looked to Dark. "Aww, why not? It would be a great story to tell the kiddie."

Dark glared ar him. "No." The stranger sighed, seeming to give it up for now.

"So, why are you here then?"

"No big reason, I was just showing Daisuke some places so e won't be bored. What about you, Keiji? You've been spending an unusual lot of time in here, why is that?" The stranger, Keiji, seemed the slump onto the pile of books in front of him.

"I was looking for something." Keiji said, looking depressed, and before he could continue, Dark interrupted him.

"Was?"

Keiji gave him an annoyed look. "I'm trying to tell a tale here, don't interrupt me, low life!" Dark gasped at him and was about to give an indignant reply when Keiji continued, looking depressed once more. "I knew I was close to finding it, what I was looking for, when he came. The blue devil of the sea, a beautiful, but deadly soul-"

"You mean Satoshi?"

"Shut up, dirt!" Keiji said without changing his expression. "Anyway, he came over, and said in his sickly sweet monotone voice-"

"Sweet?"

"-'Since your here, and not doing anything important, you can do some work.' I was so devastated. I didn't know what to do! And then he just left! Walking that smooth graceful walk of his-"

"What are you talking about?"

"-And left me all alone! He left me with these books," he gestured to all the books covering the desks. "To put away all by my lonesome self." His sad, depressed face made Daisuke want to help him.

"Ha," Dark laughed. "Sucks to be you!"

"Do you need help?" Daisuke asked, making Dark stumble over his next words.

"Wha- what! No, Daisuke! Don't offer him help! You don't know what your doing!"

Keiji's face instantly brightened as a wide smile broke out on his face." Really? Thanks! Your such a big help! You can have that pile over there!" He pointed to one of the desk full of books.

"Ack! No! Daisukes busy at the moment! Don't try to steal him away!" Keiji stuck his tongue out at him.

"To bad! Hes helping me now!"

"No! Iie, iie! Nein! Het! Não! Never!" Dark shouted at Keiji as he clinged to Daisuke.

"Ah! Umm... Dark?"

"Hey! Dark, let him go! If he wants to help he can! Your not his babysitter!"

"I am at the moment! You just watch! I'll make Satoshi watch him later! Dare you to go near him then."

"No!" Keiji gasped in horror. "You can't! Not the devils son himself!"

"Oh yeah?" Dark smirked in triumph. "Who says I can't?"

"I believe that would be me." Everyone froze, except Daisuke who had watched the person walk up, in surprise. Dark turned around to see someone standing there. Daisuke looked at this person curiously, wondering who he was. He had long blonde hair pulled back in a pony-tail, and his eyes were a sharp yellow, slitted like cats. His outfit was completely white, disorienting Daisuke a bit.

Dark smiled a bit warrily at the new stranger. "Eh heh heh, Krad, so glad to see you, when did you get back?"

"An hour ago. I'm looking for Satoshi, do you know where he is?"(2)

Dark shrugged. "Don't know, don't care." The stranger whom Dark had called Krad snorted.

"Of course not, whats that?" Krad asked as he pointed at Daisuke. Daisuke just tilted his head to the side as he stood halfway behind Dark. Dark glanced at him before looking to Krad. "This is Daisuke. As you can see, he is still very young, I'd just recently found him while you were away. Hes... Special. Like us." Lrad lifted an eyebrow.

"Is he now?" Krad turned to face Daisuke completely as he looked him over. "Well, he certainly has the attributes of one."

"Really?" Dark asked. "He looks like someone dumped him into a bucket of paint and it wouldn't come out."

"Red..." Krad broke off mid sentence and then continued. "Thats an interesting color, I wonder how its chosen? The color of one. Its not inherited."

Dark shrugged. "Beats me. It comes and goes as it pleases. Don't know, don't care." Krad snorted, and completely disregarded Daisuke and Keiji as he focused on Dark.

"When do you ever care?"

Dark grinned. "When food is concerned." Krad rolled his eyes.

"Of course."

Daisuke had enough, he finally asked the question he really wanted the answer too. "What were you guys talking about?" His voice came out as a sort of squeak, much to his surprise. He hadn't noticed his throat close up at the sight of the tall blonde. He noticed that there was something off about him. It made goose bumps crawl all over his arms at the sight of him. He didn't care who the guy was, he would be happy to never see him again.

"What?" Dark questioned.

"When... When you guys were talking about colors and stuff." His voice was solid, but not very loud. He shrunk back even farther behind Dark, making him have to look over his shoulder to see him.

"Oh, that?" Before Dark could continue Krad interrupted.

"We were talking about what made you like us. More specifically, your wings. People have long since learned we aren't born by inheritance, although that does improve the chances. Out kind are born specifically by random, each chosen their own color, or the same as someone else. We, including most other people, don't know how this choice works."

Dark looked at Krad curiously, then turned slightly to Daisuke. "Hes been doing research on this. Though most information has been destroyed by now." Daisuke nodded meekly.

Krad turned around suddenly and started walking away. "Don't bother me. I'll see you tomorrow." And he was gone.

Dark sighed. "The cold bastard, can't even say bye. Well, that means I can't bug Saotshi tonight." Daisuke blinked and looked up at him.

"Why not?"

"Because when Krad says, 'don't bother me,' it really translates to, 'leave Satoshi and me alone or I'll strangle you.'"

"Strangle?" Daisuke squeaked.

"Eh, not really, not really. Its just a threat to keep people away."

"...Oh." Daisuke paused, looking to the door then back up at Dark. "But he never said that, you did."

"..Aa." Dark waved it off quickly. "Your imagining things." And proceeded to drag Daisuke off to more places. Unnoticed to the two, Keiji had long since disappeared along with the stack of books. The rest of the day proceeded along slowly, and by nightfall Daisuke found himself all alone in his room. Dark had gone off to somewhere he didn't know and he didn't know where to find anyone.

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Hey! Long time, eh! Sorry for the long wait, computer access low, as you would know if you read Foreshadowing Darkness. And, by the way, if you see any errors tell me, I didn't edit it, I was rushing it a bit to put up, so sorry. Oh no! I didn't mean for Krad to come in until Dark was out, but oh well, he just had to come in. Also, has anyone noticed that almost all the characters in this story is male? Hmm...

I brought Keiji in! Just like I said! Though, it might only be me, but I think his personality is a little twicked... Ah well, its an AU story anyway, so who cares. This story is still continuing too, don't worry, just slowly.

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All translations are now being put at the end of each chapter, to make it easier for me. If one doesn't appear or I forget to put them on please tell me so I can fix that.

Bellisimo I hope most people already know this, but if you don't it means Beautiful in Italian.

Heh, brat piccolo Heh, little brat

Sei sicuro che il tuo bene? Are you sure your alright?

Hm, il tuo bene Hm, your good

No, davvero. No, really.

Strano. Strange

Se egli non aveva ancora smesso di combattimenti. If he hadn't stopped fighting yet.

No! Iie, iie! Nein! Het! Não! Never! No! No, no! No! No! No! Never!
Nein German
Het Russian
Não Portuguese

(2):

Okay! If anyone can guess where Satoshi is, they get a preview of the next chapter and there name in the next chapter(like at the top)! This is just to get you to review and I'm also curious if anyone knows. Heres a hint: Its in the chapter.