CHAPTER THREE ~ MUM?

'*Yawn* I feel like I'm forgetting something. Never mind, better get ready for school. AAAAHHH!'

'What is it Miss. Riku?' Niwa came running? Wait! What's Niwa doing here?

'AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!'

When Riku came to her senses

'He he, you forgot eh? Guess I should have known that was coming? Are you feeling better now?'

'Yeah, sorry for screaming,'

'It's alright Miss. Riku,'

'Hey, you just called me Miss. Riku,'

'Yeah, well we are going out, are we not?'

'Whoa! Oh, yeah, you stole my first kiss,'

'Wah! You remember, I wanted to change that, never mind. Here's your breakfast.'

'*Chomp* wow! This is great!'

'Well in return, may I please, have another kiss?'

'HUH?'

'Is it really that weird, I guess…'

'No it's not weird, you just caught me off guard, how about a kiss on the cheek now, and a fresh batch of raspberry and chocolate chip cookies after school?'

'That's okay.'

I walked over to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek; I'll give you a proper one with the cookies. Kay?'

'O...o...okay,'

'Are you blushing?'

'No,'

'Yes you are, how cute!'

'Oh! Yeah, quickly finish your breakfast, school today, and why did Nobu ask Nakao to bring your uniform, how did she know you were here?'

'Well when you went to get dinner, I called her to say I wasn't feeling well, so you were taking care of me here. I'm Sorry; I shouldn't have said anything to her.'

'*sigh* its fine. But you'll have to wear a protector, it may take a while to get use to, but you still have to wear it.'

'Okay, *smile,*'

*Smiles back*

Daisuke's POV

'Ready to go?'

'Yeah, but the protector isn't very comfortable,'

'You'll get use to it, for now we'll be late, so let's go.' We walked outside, looks like no one's here 'hold on tight,'

'What?'

'Come on! Give me your hand!'

'Okay!'

FWOOSH! 'So how are you liking the air, since you can't fly yet, and we'll be late soon, I'll fly you there.' I felt her relax. 'What are you doing?'

'Listening to your wing beat. It's nice, relaxing, soothing.'

'Okay, then rest, but don't get to comfortable we're nearly there.'

'Okay.' I wonder what would happen if I stole a kiss on the cheek? No, I shouldn't, wait, why are Nobu and Nakao at the gates, darn, their waiting for us, I can't let them see me.

'I'll have to land early, kay?'

'Why, Nobu and Nakao are waiting, they can't see us flying, get ready to run,'

'Okay,'

'We're going down. How are you feeling?'

'Okay, huff huff, tired need to rest,'

'Nearly there,'

'NOBU! THERE THEY ARE!

'Ah, Riku, are you okay?'

'Yeah, huff huff, just a bit tired, huff, from running.'

'Come on Miss. Riku we're going to be late!'

'Did he just call you Miss Riku not Miss Harada?'

'Maybe, let's go!'

DING! DONG! DING! DONG!

'We made it Miss. Riku!'

'Yeah, we'll meet you in there Nobu,'

'Kay, come on Darling.'

'Niwa,'

'Daisuke.'

'Huh?'

'You told me to call you Miss. Riku, so I'm asking you to call me Daisuke.'

'Okay, and when we were flying I heard you thinking about stealing a kiss on the cheek.'

'I said that out loud?'

'Yes, you don't need to steal one, but I can give one,' Miss. Riku moved closer to me, then kissed me on the cheek, I think I went red. 'You need work on stopping going red when we kiss. Kay?'

'Okay.'

'Come on, Daisuke.' She called me…

After school

'So Daisuke, I saw Nakao walk towards your room, with a girl's uniform, what's that about? Hmmm?'

'Miss. Riku and I were working on a class rep thing last night, and she didn't feel well, so she stayed the night, she called Miss. Ichihara and she told Nakao to bring Riku's uniform.'

'Daisuke? Daisuke? Where are you?'

'Ooh now you got her calling you Daisuke eh? Are you guys finally going out?'

'Yeah, now I gotta go, Miss. Riku's looking for me. See Ya!'

'BYE!'

'Miss. Riku, I'm over here!'

'Oh, Daisuke, hey! Can I show you something?'

'Sure!' Wait what do you want to show me? Where are we going?

'Miss. Riku why are we on the roof?'

'Watch,' she took off her jumper, there were hidden slits in her shirt, and she slowly unravelled her wings. Flap, flap, flap, flap. She started hovering over the ground, 'now Daisuke, pull me up higher,'

'Okay,' he started flying much more gracefully 'this doesn't look safe Miss. Riku; I have a bad feeling,'

'Just try, pull me up higher,' oh Miss. Riku, okay, I'll try,

'How high?'

'High enough for a small flight.'

'Okay,'

'Okay that's high enough, let go'

'What? No! You're not ready! Not yet!'

'Do it!'

'No, you'll fall!'

'Please let me try,' don't look at me like that Miss. Riku, *sigh*

'Fine, but I'm staying close,'

'Okay!'

'Ready One…Two…Three…GO!' I let go, and I regret it.

'Look I'm doing it' Flap, flap, flap. Wing beats are soothing, until they stop. 'Kya!'

'Miss Riku,' I caught her just in time. We landed safely on the room, she lay crying in my lap, 'shhh, don't cry,' she sat up to kneel, then through her arms around me, and cried more, 'shhh, shhh, you're alright. I'm just gonna check your wings, this may hurt,' there was a shiny feather, I checked it, it was only glossy and shiny because it was wet, wet with blood. 'Come on; hold on tight, there's somewhere I wanna take you.'

We flew for a while, 'look, Miss Riku the sea. I pointed downward, she had stopped crying awhile ago, she put on a small smile, I slowly went down, I put her hand in the water, she started to let out a little laugh, 'let out your wings,'

'What?'

'Let out your wings, and don't worry, I'm holding you, she slowly let out her wings, I held her hovering over the sea, for a little while, then it got too cold for her so I went back to her laying in my arms. 'Feeling better?'

'A bit, where are we going?'

'To a special person, just off the schools island.'

Riku's POV

Then just across the sea a little house appeared among others where a lady, with short hazelnut hair, was sitting out in the garden, 'MUM!'

'Huh? Dai? What are you doing here?'

Daisuke landed. 'She needs help mum,'

'Who?'

'Miss. Riku,'

'Why did you bring her here, why didn't you take her to the islands hospital?'

'Well, because she's like me,'

'Wings?'

Daisuke nodded

'Okay, bring her inside.'

5 minutes later

'So how long have you known Dai?'

'"Dai?"'

'I mean Daisuke,'

'Oh! Since middle school,'

'When did you fall in love with him?'

'Mum!'

'What, I'm just asking,'

'Its fine, I fell in love with him at middle school,'

'Your wings look young, when did you get them?'

'Yesterday night.'

'What? And you've already hurt them!'

'Mum!'

'What?'

'Please stop being rude,'

'I'm not! Anyway, I have one more question. You said you fell in love with him in middle school, but when did you start going out and have you made the vows?'

'Umm…'

'I'll answer that one, Miss. Riku, I confessed to her last night, she's vowed to accept her wings and learn to use them, to love them, but since she cannot fly, we have not done the love vow flight.'

'The what vow flight?'

'Oh right, I didn't explain, don't worry it all comes naturally.'

'Dai,'

'Yeah,'

'Go back to the school, tell them that Riku will be absent, she will heal and learn to fly here, just like you did.'

'But!'

'Go and don't worry you can visit her on the weekends,

'Fine, but don't open the photo albums, and keep grandpa away from her, he'll scare her.'

'Okay.'

'Oh! Here I'll give you my mobile number, Miss. Riku.'

'Okay,'

'(04) 94647 63 733, got it?'

'Yea, thanks, oh as promised, *whispers*,'

'Mum can you turn around please,'

'What? *sigh* fine,'

'I love you Miss. Riku,'

'I love you too Daisuke,' I stepped for hugged him and kissed him on the lips. 'Have a safe flight.'

'I will,'

'Call me when you're back!'

'Okay,'

'Bye Dai!'

FWOOSH! Next thing I knew was that he was up in the sky, flying away, he stopped waved and continued on.

'You were smart to choose him, come on, let's look at that wing.'

'Okay.'

5 minutes later

'Wow! You got a deep cut, how you lasted this long, I don't know, it should heal in a week, well for normal people, for you it shouldn't take too long. By the way, what did you do to it? Did you do the same as Dai?'

'This happened to Ni…I mean Daisuke?'

'Yeah, he tried to fly too early, you?'

'Yeah, it's just when he was flying me to school he had to carry me, I don't want to be a burden to him, so I want to learn to fly, I also just want to fly alongside him. Everyday.'

'Hmm, yeah, that would be nice, just to fly, I can't, no, It was Daisuke's Father that was the flyer, currently, Daisuke's Father isn't in the country, he's somewhere else, doing research for his article, do you read it?'

'Around the World by Mr. Niwa. Yeah I love to read them. But I've never told Daisuke that. I used to think that if I told him, he would think I'm weird. But not anymore. Ouch!'

'Sorry, when I was having Dai, my father called Dai's Father, and he looked for flights to Japan but there were no flights. He was determined to get back to me. The night I was in the hospital after I had Dai, I heard a knock on the hospital window, I saw him, it was the first time I heard or saw him fly, he told me "Our son might not last the night for we have not done the love vow flight, grab him and come back," I obeyed him, grabbed Dai and took his hand and he did the love vow flight holding me close and I was holding Dai in my arms. That was when Dai grew small Red Wings. I loved him anyway. Wings or no Wings. He's my son, and husband.'

'That's so sweet!'

'Yeah, but I warn you, if you do wish to be with Dai forever, and have a family, you must do the Love Vow Flight.'

'I wonder what Daisuke's doing now?'