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Chasing Death, Shinigami

Chapter Six

Waking up from my unconscious state, staring up at Shinigami's friends, the last thing that I remember is hearing him scream my name, sitting up very rapidly, hitting my head against someone else's. Looking back at Quatre I ask where shinigami, I mean Duo disappeared to.

"Gabriel he's gone, that guy took him away," WHAT! Duo Is gone? He can't be gone, I can't go down in the underworld. Still exhausted to walk the Chinese boy carried me on his back until we reached Quatre's apartment. When we finally made it up to his apartment from the never ending stairs seeing as the elevator was out of service again. I was placed in Duo room after finally getting the door to the apartment open after what seemed like forever.

"I hope he'll be okay?" Quatre said worried. "Don't worry to much we'll get Duo back for him." Promised Trowa.

Laying on the bed looking at His room, I felt like I was invading his privacy...but then again he didn't have very much in his room to begin with just a few random posters scattered here and there of angels and demons. Tilting my head a little I found a picture on the night stand near the bed with Duo and all of his friends during his time here. Gazing at the wall with mild interest I grab one of the pillows to my chest and began to silently weep.

dream

"Gabriel wait up. Where are we going anyway?"

"Down to earth, the Grim Reaper is loose again,"Gabriel said. "I thought the prince of the underworld had him under control . Don't worry I'll be back Annabel."

Disappearing from her sight and reappearing on earth, searching the city until I found the renegade Reaper. When I found him I wasn't expecting to see a young child no older than seven.

"Huh, who are you?" He asks me, " you really have pretty wings, I wish I had wings that color."

"I'm the angel Gabriel, Grim Reaper," I watch as tears well up in those violet orbs as he backs away from me. "Why does everyone call me that? Why am I the one who has to take people's souls? Why doesn't nobody like me, I'm just a tool for them aren't I?" Kneeling down beside him, placing my hand on his trembling shoulder. Looking at me with those tear filled innocent orbs his arms slowly wrap themselves around my neck, taking me by surprise. Picking him up we disappear to the bridge that connects our two worlds. His parents were waiting for him.

"Duo how dare you go to the surface," his mother screamed at him. Clinging on to me tighter while his father tried so desperately to pry him off of me. "May I speak to the boy for a few seconds?" I ask his parents, they reluctantly nodded and walked away from the bridge out of earshot. "Hey it's okay Shinigami, calm down it's alright, here this is for you." Pulling out a feather from my wings I tell him to hide it somewhere safe. He Smiles at me with those pretty violet eyes of his that shines innocence.

"If you ever need someone to talk to just wait right here, I'll come to you." His parents come back and take him away. Returning to heaven all I could think of was the boy shinigami, as soon as I returned to my quarters Annabel was there waiting for me."you were gone a month, so what does the Grim Reaper look like?" She bombards me with question after question. I simply answer her "He's only a kid, when I found him he was so scared, he didn't know how he got there." She wanted to know more and if she could ever meet him...Suddenly one of the angel guards came and said that I must immediately go to the council.

"What is it Sir?" I asked

"For giving the Grim Reaper one of your feathers you are to be put into a eternal slumber until the boy was old enough." I looked at him shocked, but I promised I would be there.

end Dream

Waking up in a cold sweat, I suddenly remembered that day clearly now. I have been asleep for so long that all I could think of was searching for the boy of seven years old but now that boy was a young teenager. Hitting my head on the headboard , the shelf above the bed began to shake with the motion until a book landed open in my lap with a black and white feather that looked oddly familiar to me. Staring at it a little longer I suddenly noticed the writing in the book.

entry

'Mom and Dad are fighting again, I want to go see my angel friend Gabriel, but dad has locked me up in my room, I'm chained to the bed so I can't run off again. I almost made it to the bridge once when I saw a young lady standing there with something clutched to her chest with tears flowing down her milky white skin. I called out to her but she didn't hear me until I was caught by the guards of the underworld. She looked at me and started to walk towards me but the farthest she could get was to the end of the bridge.

The Prince of the underworld comes to see me almost everyday. I don't know but he creeps me out, but mom says that he'll be taking care of me and that we are to be married when I hit the age limit for marriage. So that means in about 5 years I'll be marrying him, but I don't want to I already have my special someone. Mom says that be me being chained in my room that the above world can't taint me...but I think it's the other way around. I stare at the feather that Gabriel gave me it's slowly starting to become tainted from the darkness down here.

Closing the diary, my body was shaking with uncontrollable sobs. I can't believe that he was treated that way, the only kindness he was ever shown was that day when we had to part ways for a lifetime. I must find Shinigami and bring him home even if it has to kill me to tell him the truth. Maybe just maybe he'll accept me.