Crow

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Chapter 2

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"Now you can't say than you didn't see anything Dark" Daisuke told him in their house after his mother had screamed from having seen him coming with Hiwatari.

"I'm telling you for last time; I didn't see any of what you say" responded the thief bored.

"Dark, are you stupid? It was practically on me and you... you moved away. Don't tell me that you didn't feel that."

"I felt that something moved us away, but I couldn't see it. Understand that, baby."

Daisuke sat down on the bed. At least now he knew that what he saw was not an illusion. The biggest surprise was Hiwatari, he could see it, but Dark could not and Satoshi should have felt something to have returned running like that, judging by the footfalls that he had heard when he had that... creature above him.

A creature that looked something like himself...

If he had been some kind of a vampire, that is.

Daisuke shook his head. Vampires didn't exist and anyway they didn't appear during the day. Nor he didn't believe that "he" had an ice body, as that was the impression that it gave him. Dark had told him that it was impossible fort him, the legendary thief, to exist without his tamer in this way. But Daisuke didn't pay him attention.

"A black feather, as if it were a piece of darkness?" Yes, Hiwatari knew something and that was not good judging by how he reacted later. He didn't tell him anything when he brought Hiwatari to his house, and their mother began to make a scandal when she saw them arrive, which caused Hiwatari to disappear quickly.

But Daisuke knew that Satoshi knew something about that "creature".

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Two nights later dealt new work. They felt better flying again after two and a half weeks of inactivity, and the fresh air of the night had a special scent that they had not perceived before. Dark was anxious to put his feet in the museum, and his hands in a couple of hoops made of onyx. The monetary value was not much but the artistic value of the hoops made them a coveted piece.

Daisuke looked nervously to all sides trying not to think of that creature that was so cold. Thankfully when they arrived at the museum they didn't see anything similar to before and Dark was more than prepared to act. This time they could see Hiwatari hidden in a police uniform and he looked a little nervous.

Daisuke preferred to let Dark take charge and this could not have made the thief happier. He confused the policemen into running here and there after him until they were too tired to follow. He took the hoops and thought about leaving through the window but the flashback of that creature stopped him, he gave a half turn and began to ascend to the terrace hoping nobody was there.

And nobody was.

Not the police, the "creature", or even Hiwatari. It seemed too easy putting Dark on his guard but nothing happened and they arrived home without problems…

…Only to find out why their escape was so easy.

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"The actual causes are being ignored although the preliminary reports seem to have a firm base; heart attack, almost all the cases caused by hypothermia" announced the journalist on television. The policemen's bodies were found in the terrace covered by sheets. Daisuke felt a great relief when he checked that Saehara and his father were well.

"This is the drop that spilled the glass. Dark is now a murderer and as such should be captured and judged. The human lives that were taken cannot simply be returned..." said Saehara's father.

Daisuke was now in his normal form gaping at this news with Dark also unable to speak and neither understanding what had happened.

-Dark... – asked Emiko serious -what happened?-

-I don't have any idea- responded the thief through Daisuke -when we left for the window exit I remembered that "creature" and I decided to leave by the roof...but nobody was there-

-The journalists- said Kosuke, his hands crossed under his chin –saw the legendary thief Dark leave the roof flying where five dead policemen were piled. I don't believe that you did it, Dark (and not only because they are unable to make something like that) but I don't understand who it could have been-

-Maybe the "creature" that Daisuke says that he saw- commented the thief.

"Dark! That's it!" Daisuke trembled while his mother hugged him scared –maybe it was this creature... Although I don't have enough proof to accuse him-

Daisuke's grandfather, who had returned just the previous night, looked at him for awhile before speaking.

-Daisuke, for whatever reason, what haven't you told us?-

The redhead took a deep breath of air and answered.

-When that creature attacked us we both saw it. But later, when it entered in the classroom, Dark didn't see it, but Hiwatari did, and he came running before "he" could make me do something. Also, I have from the first encounter a black feather from the first encounter that only I can see. Yet Hiwatari asked me if it was a black feather with almost the same words that I thought of when seeing it for the first time-

Silence.

- Did you say a black feather? - ask his grandfather slowly.

-Yes- said Daisuke.

-And you both touched it?-

-I was transformed at the time with Dark dominating when we felt it hit-

More silence.

-Daisuke go to sleep. We have to discuss some matters- his father told him.

The redhead was surprised by the curt farewell but he didn't protest. He went to his bed and fell asleep, thinking of all that had happened. Now Dark was pictured as a murderer. What would Risa think? And how will he look at her tomorrow?

After they fell asleep, in the lower part of the house his mother's sobs could be heard.

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It was very similar to the world of his picture but at the same time, very different. In that, it was by day and there were other creatures: Freedert, birds, guards... But in this world the only thing that gave light was the full Moon, and there were no signs of life to be seen in the pine forest in which he was.

Daisuke was not afraid and neither did he feel cold. He should have felt something, not nothing at all yet he wasn't afraid because of that. He was walking in the snow, his bare feet left no prints and there was no wind moving the snow that wouldn't stop falling. He didn't know where he was going nor why he made the journey but someone was calling him.

The snowy landscape contrasted with the stones of the cave which Daisuke soon entered without stopping to think what could be waiting for him inside.

Before seeing the black plumage, he knew then what he would find there. The darkness of its feathers made the darkness of the cave seem luminous.

-Crow- he said upon seeing the creature at the bottom of the cave sitting down on a snub stone -What are you doing?-

The creature doesn't answer him, and essentially doesn't look at him. After awhile, he lifted his head up and their eyes found each other's. He looked with curiosity to the recently arrived one, moving his head like if he was a bird. The snow didn't permeate that place and while the place was cold, neither shivered. Daisuke felt an invitation so he walked toward the creature that opened his wings for him. He sat down very close as the two wings covered them. His chest disappeared between the arms and the creature's wings but this didn't bother him. He did not even feel the cold of the creature's chest against his back as they leant on each other as the creature put his head on Daisuke's shoulder.

-I am a Crow; yes- said the creature with a cold voice.

-What's your name?-

-I ask you the same-

-I am Daisuke Niwa-

-And I am Arashi (1)-

Silence.

-What are you doing? - The redhead asks upon feeling the hug tighten -why did you hit us in the museum?-

-That was not you. It was Dark. And he doesn't interest me-

-What?-

-I don't care for him. He is a traverse being not like you. You are unique, and that is what interests me-

-Do I interest you? - Daisuke rotated his head to look at him again in the eyes.

-Much more than you could think-

Arashi brought his face nearer and opened his pick. His mouth rasped like sandpaper but the redhead could not escape from the jail of his arms, if he had even wanted to escape, because he did not feel the desire to leave this creature's embrace.

-What are you doing? - He asks after awhile.

-I will only be able to have what I want when you are you again. Or you or him, and I prefer you- the same monotonous voice resonated in the walls of the cave- you are more nice, although he would be more willing -

-What are you talking about?-

-You will know it, already-

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(1) Arashi is a unisex name in Japan (in X Arashi it's a girl and in Paradise Kiss it's a boy) It agreed with the androgynous image of the Crow, so I put him that name that means storm.

Another of my inspiration sources that I didn't mention before, is the Manga Death Note. Goddess, that few times a Manga caught me as much as that. I am happy, because in August they use for the first time the movie in Japan, and the actor that makes of Raito he finds enough, inside everything. I want to see...

And like Mora Black can't edit the chapter, this have a LOT of gramatical´s errors, but I don't like to leave like this my Fanfics...

C you

Nakokun