DF14: Well heres chapter nine...

Riku's eyes slowly opened upon a sea of soft ebony feathers. She looked up and discovered Dark smiling at her.

"Good morning, Riku," He said softly.

"Morning," Riku replied as she smiled back.

"Riku! Riku! Dark was right! It's snowing!" Risa exclaimed excitedly as she ran into the livingroom with a coat on.

"Risa, how'd you get a coat? I thought the stairs to our room were demolished in the explosion," Riku asked confusedly.

"They were but when Dark woke up you were leaning on the couch instead of him, so when he noticed it was snowing, he flew up to get us all changes of clothes and coats." Risa then giggled at what she was about to reveal to her twin. "When he sat back on the couch, you leaned on him again and started shivering a little so he wrapped his wings around you again to keep you warm," she explained with a huge smile on her face.

"Oh, thank you." she said to Dark with a slight blush.

Dark smiled again, "No problem. Here," Dark said as he lifted his wings off of Riku and handed her a change of clothes.

"Oh thank you again, I'm going to go change." Riku said as she took the clothes and headed for the closest down-stairs bathroom. She came out wearing a loose long-sleeved shirt, with dark brown trousers, and boots. "C'mon Dark!" she said excitedly as she grabbed Dark's hand and dragged him outside, wings and all.

Dark followed Riku outside, laughing as she was, to the white snow where his wings contrasted greatly.

Riku gasped as she looked at the snow when they were still on the top step, "It's so beautiful!" she exclaimed happily.

"Yes... you are," Dark said softly.

Riku turned to look at Dark surprised, with a light dust of pink on her cheeks. When she smiled, she felt something warm and soft come in contact with her lips. 'He...he's kissing me,' Riku thought, but then all thoughts melted away as she closed her eyes and kissed him back.

When they pulled away from each other, Riku smiled and wrapped her arms around Dark. He also wrapped his arms around her, along with his black wings now with a soft luster to them from the melted snow droplets on them.

"You don't know how long I've waited to do that..." Dark said with a small chuckle.

Riku looked up with a small blush spreading across her face, "Really?"

Dark also blushed with a goofy face as he scratched the back of his head nervously, "Well... um... you see, when we were little... I kinda developed a little crush on you, and it only got stronger and never went away," he confessed.

Riku started giggling.

"Hey, w-what's so funny?"

"I also had a crush on you when we were little, and it also only got stronger and never went away," Riku also admitted with a pretty light pink blush across her face.

Dark looked dumbfounded, "You mean all this time and I never knew? humph, all those crazy girls at Dad's sure didn't hide it," he said looking off to the side with an annoyed face. He then looked back at Riku, "That got really annoying too! I mean, every time I saw any of them they'd start fluttering their eyes, or blowing kisses to me, blugh! I admit I enjoyed it for the first couple times it happened, but then they started to squeal and giggle every time I smirked or smiled."

Riku started laughing.

"Hey! That wasn't funny either!" Dark said with a playfully annoyed face, but then a smile broke out on his face too.

"What's so funny?" Risa asked as she walked up to the two. Krad, Risa, and their Father were completely oblivious to the previous kiss.

They then started laughing even harder, but they didn't know why.

Risa looked at Krad, they shrugged, and then got an idea. "Incoming!" she shouted as they threw snowballs at them both. Then, the snowball war started. (-gasp!- dun dun dun! lol)

About two hours later, they were all sitting around the fire warming themselves while drinking hot tea. Dark was leaning his back against the couch, while Riku and Risa were in front of the fire, their Father in a chair near the couch, and Krad was behind them.

Krad was rubbing the back of his neck from where Risa accidentally pelted him with a pebble stuck in one of her snowballs.

"I'm sorry Krad, I really didn't know there was a pebble in that snowball," Risa said as she watched him.

"It's all right, like I've said the last million times you apologized, it'll just be a little sore," Krad said with a smirk.

"You gotta admit though Krad, she nailed you good," Dark said with a smirk of his own.

Krad glared at him, "Yes well I'm not the one who got nailed in the ass with a snowball."

This made Riku and Risa start laughing.

"What's so funny?" Both Krad and Dark asked at the same time before glaring at each other.

"You two!" Risa and Riku answered in unison before laughing harder, making Krad and Dark turn to look at them.

The boys then looked at each other, shrugged, and resumed their glaring contest.

Riku stood up and quietly moved over to them, put her hand in between them about forehead level without them even noticing, and snapped her fingers making them both blink. "There, now you both lose." She then sat down next to Dark and wrapped her arms around his chest from the side, making him blush. "Keep me warm?" she asked. The fire wasn't really doing much, considering it was so small, and Riku was starting to get a little chilly again since she finished her tea.

Dark smiled and nodded as he brought his wings out once again and wrapped them around Riku to keep her warm.

Riku smiled, "Thank you."

Dark whispered, "Anytime," before he pulled away to see the new blush across her cheeks. Dark chuckled as he snaked his arm around her waist and pulled her closer.

Riku, in reaction, snuggled into his chest and whispered, "Your wings may be black, but your still an angel. My black winged angel," and giggled when Dark tensed as a deep blush flew across his face.

By now, Krad and Risa were leaning their backs against each other, and had already fallen asleep. Their Father was in a chair with the only blanket over him asleep as well.

Dark leaned into her ear and whispered, "And I always will be," earning another giggle from Riku as she hugged him tighter.

"I love you Dark, and not just as a friend either."

It was Dark's turn to hug Riku tighter, he put his other arm around her and pulled her into his lap as he put his forehead to hers and smiled, "I love you too, Riku."

Soon they fell asleep in each others arms, relishing in eachother's warmth, and both enjoying the other's closeness greatly.

DF14: Well I hope you like it, I tried to make it as sweet as I could, lol. Reveiw!