A.N. Hi, it's me, Gamma here with an announcement. This story now has illustrations up on my DA account, the links are on my profile. Daisuke in flight, what Satoshi looks like with wings, a picture of Satoshi comforting Daisuke in the second half of this chapter, Daisuke going to sleep while using a wing as a blanket, all of these are there. Please feel free to check them out.
Balance
His mind is like fire, so warm and comforting, and strong at need. He is in so many ways my opposite, and once he told me that my mind feels like a river in response to my own observation about how he is fire. But unlike fire he never burns me; in fact his fire only balances the cold I've known so long, if am a river it's because he melted my ice walls. Ice hunter and red feather, fire and water, we balance each other out. Equal opposites, but then opposites attract.
Rest
Daisuke's vibrant scarlet wings, usually splayed out freely whenever they were visible, now drooped limply behind him in sorrow. Satoshi pulled his partner closer, and that seemed to break the dam holding the redhead's tears back. Tears mingled with the rain pouring down on them as Daisuke sobbed into his best friend's shoulder, the human side of him grieving for the loss of Riku now that he had mourned in the way of magic. Satoshi shifted, wrapping his own great wings around the other in an embrace of feathers, and sending a constant thrum of reassurance through their mind link. As Daisuke cried himself to sleep Satoshi sighed, speaking his first words aloud since he had felt Daisuke's pain and joined him in the sky; "Even though they're moving away and it feels like everyone you love is leaving you, rest now Daisuke. I promise I'll stay with you, as long as you want me. You comforted me so many times; let me do the same for you now."