Title: Angels playground
Summary: There's a clearing that holds a man, tall and lean. When Krad Hikari finally returns to the clearing he falls in love with the one person who cared for him all his life.
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Last time on Angels Playground…
The man backed away.
Slowly purple eyes opened.
Chapter 2 A four letter word
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Krad stared, his golden eyes melting into those of the other man. He shook his head before looking back down at the man. The man made no move to show he'd seen Krad, no move at all, the only move was from his chest, slowly rising and falling with the occasional flutter of his eyelashes as he blinked.
"Who…who are you?" Krad hissed slightly. The man turned his head, letting it roll onto the side, he looked up at Krad, his hair falling with him, while the petals lay undisturbed.
"My you've grown…" Krad's eye twitched, the male's eyes travelled up and down his figure as he stood still, out of all the things to say? My you've grown….
"I ask again, who are you?"
"Mind helping me up?" The man smiled and laughed before sitting up himself, his eyes looking around his surroundings, before he lifted his arms and stretched.
"I will ask one more time, who are you?" The blonde all but shouted. Purple eyes sadly turned to him, a sad smile on his face.
"You don't remember me do you?" Krad raised a brow. The tall man stood, Krad blinked, the he looked no older than 15, what a young man…no boy. The boy stood inside the circle, the red petals underneath his feet.
"How am I meant to remember you if I've never seen you before in my whole life?" Krad hissed, the boy stood still, his eyes looking at Krad. He frowned and raised a hand. He grazed his head as he moved it forward, the hand touching just below Krad's neck.
"Man I'm short" He sighed and moved his hand away, the pale skin glistening under the moonlight.
"I remember when you were this tall" The boy bent down letting his hand hover in the air as he made out the blondes height.
"You're avoiding my question" Krad all but growled, the boy sighed and ran his hand through his gravity defying hair, his eyes casting a glance at the moon, before turning back to the blonde. He blinked, his eyes staring into the honey covered gold irises of Krad's eyes.
"Well, I guess I should tell you, but you already know my name" Krad glared at the boy making him smile before he whispered out a four letter word.
"Dark" The boy smiled before looking at the sky, he smiled as birds dived in and out of the air, singing their playful tunes.
"Dark…" Krad let the boys name roll on his tongue, he'd heard that name before, though where he didn't know. He looked back at the boy.
"Krad is something wrong?" The blonde blinked. He frowned and stepped back as a hand reached for his shoulder. He slapped the hand away, getting a surprised look off the boy. Hurt fluttered through the boy's eyes.
"How do you know who I am?" Dark smiled and walked towards Krad only to stop when the blonde stepped backwards. Dark sighed before walking back to the tree, he stood still underneath it, the wind playing with his hair.
"Do you remember when you were 5? The day you first found me, found this place?" Dark's dull voice drifted into the pale ears of Krad, he stood still watching the boys back.
"No…I don't remember anything before the age of 11"
"…Ah…I see, so you have forgotten me…….Oh well" The man laughed, he turned, his purple eyes glistening in unseen sadness. He stood still, the red petals falling around his figure.
"Why have you returned?"
"Why should I not be here?"
"Hahaha, Krad, when children come here they leave at a certain age after finding someone who will care for them, unless someone doesn't care for you then you have no reason to be here"
"I have no one…"
"I'm sorry" Dark whispered, he walked towards the blonde, his hand outstretched, he stopped, his fingertips an inch away from Krad's shoulder, the blonde neither flinched nor moved as he was pulled into a caring hug.
Krad blinked, he bit his tongue before pulling away from the hug, his golden eyes burning with anger and fear…Dark was thrown to the floor from the movement, he landed with a bump on the icy grass. Startled purple eyes looked up, he blinked.
"I don't even know you! You don't know me and never touch me again!" Krad turned and ran, his heart pounding in his chest his eyes burning with unshed tears.
Dark stood watching as the boy disappeared from the world he called home, he blinked and sighed. His mind at an uneasy peace, if the boy had returned to him then that meant…
Krad stopped. He felt them running down his cheeks, the tears spitting onto the path, mixing with the rain. He felt sad, he felt…scared. His eyes blurry, from the tears that stung while his heart, was pierced over, and over again. Krad looked towards the sky, he cursed it, his eyes looking back the way the wall was, the one wall that he'd entered.
Krad started to walk, it was true…no one loved him…Not even his own mother had loved him…only his grandfather. The horrid people, they'd sent him…to the men in white, why how he would slice them to pieces and then chuck those chunks of fat flubber into the sea…
He sighed and fingered the necklace. A sad smile gracing his lips, his grandfather had told him to keep on him. He remembered the day, when he was 11 he'd told him about the necklace he never knew who gave him.
"Krad…" Golden eyes looked up, the 11 year old blinked and looked at his last living relative. His grandfather smiled and ran a hand through his hair, his golden locks flying back and forth. He cast his gaze to the necklace around the blonde's neck.
"I see you kept it, good…" He smiled up at Krad.
"Grandpa?"
"Yes my boy?"
"Did you give this to me?" The old man nodded, before coughing. That was the last time Krad saw him.
More unwanted tears flowed down his face, he touched the necklace and sighed. A small, dim, warmth left it and as he walked away, the warmth disappeared.
Krad awoke with a start, he wiped his brow. Sweat gathering up on his hand, he sighed and looked towards the clock. The necklace around his neck was warm. Krad blinked and lifted it off his chest. He stood and walked, each step making the small necklace a bit warmer. He stopped at his front door, the necklace a white hot flame. It felt as if he was surrounded by flames, he walked forward the heat burning. Then it stopped.
He opened his eyes, he was in the field again. This time, it was different.
The grass wasn't there, but a sea of flowers were left in its place, the sky was a hazy greeny blue, the trees large roses while the moon stayed the same as before, the tree the same, its red petals falling onto the figure that leant against its trunk, his face turned away from the blonde, one arm holding his raised leg while the other spread out in front of him. Purple hair mixing with the light red petals. He sat on the bed of red, his body still, the only movement, the steady rising of his chest.
Krad stepped forward, his eyes locked on the black figure, he stood just outside of the circle of red that the figure sat in.
"D-Do you…are you always here?" Purple eyes turned to him.
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Next time on Angel's playground…
, the way his eyes sparkled in the moonlight
, he was running in the field of flowers again
His eyes closed.