Wanna Trade Wings?
Chapter 4: Play me, Tease me, Guard me

~We'll Destroy our Enemies and Stay Together~

Sunrise...

Hibari sat up, and looked around the cave, when his eyes caught on Dino. To his suprise, the angel wasn't emitting a glow at all. Confused, the demon reached over, and brushed his hand over Dino's cheek. "Dino?" he murmured. The caramel eyes fluttered open, and immediately, the skin began to brighten, before the glow had returned- even if a little dimmer than the previous day- but perhaps that was just Hibari's imagination. The demon backed up, watching as his angel-mate sat up, and smiling as the angelic wings stretched with the body. "Good day," Hibari said, his face solemn. "We should look outside."

"I'll take care of that, so that you don't go killing off any more of my friends," Dino snickered. Hibari frowned at the taunting tone in the angel's supposed-to-be-soft voice, but the angel then smiled at him, and patted his head, rubbing his horns in the process. "I'll be right back, okay? So just stay here." Hibari nodded, and tiredly retreating into a corner of the inlet, curving his wings close to his body. Dino smiled at him, then left, and peered cautiously out of the cave. He was shocked by what he saw. Demons and Angels were fallen all over the place. The angel felt a flicker of rage as he witnessed the scene, and he hissed, "You monsters damn well deserve it," before kicking an unconcious demon. Immediately, the eyes flashed open, and the demon rose, coming all the way up to Dino's height.

He towered over Dino in a way other than in height. He was so consumed by dark energy that his mismatched eyes glowed with black fire, and his dark blue hair melded together at the ends like magma. His dark cloak bore the crest of the Demons on it, and he had two, glossy black antlers, each sprouting out from his forehead and branching out like those of an Earth creature. His wings were wide, dark and patched with holes, and his shoulders, broad and strong, each held two well muscled arms that ended in black-clawed hands.

"Oya oya? Are you picking bones with me, disgusting bearer of light?" laughed the demon, wielding a trident. Dino instantly got out his whip, and slashed it across the demon's body. "Kufufu... kuhahahaha~!" laughed the dark being, stabbing his trident into the other's shoulder. "All I need it to hit your pretty little face. Isn't that right, angel?"

"And I need to hit your dark, twisted heart, don't I?" Dino said, slashing his whip over the chest once more. The demon moaned with pain, a blush crossing his face, and he grinned at Dino, before grabbing both of his arms in a vice, dropping his trident in the process.

"One kiss from a demon will steal the soul," he rasped. Dino gasped, stumbling back, and the demon came on top of him, dipping in to capture the pure lips, when suddenly, he squealed in pain. Dino barely saw Hibari's face over the older demon's shoulder, and he smiled, his eyes soft. He had known that the ravenette was special. Hibari beat his wings, dragging his Master off of the angel, and he twisted the older man's wings further, making the older demon gasp with sick pleasure. "I smell you, Kyouya... I know you're committing treason... fufufu..."

"He knows your real name?" Dino gasped.

"I lied!" Hibari spat. "My full name is Hibari Kyoya... and I'm only called Kyoya by demon-mates or Masters... I could never make my own name... it's impossible!"

"Fufufu... what a little rebel," Mukuro husked, turning and grabbing on to the younger demon's horns. Hibari whimpered as he was jerked around, his own wings twisted twice as harshly as he could to Mukuro. "Bad boy," Mukuro husked. "That's a bad, bad boy." Hibari cried out in pain, and beat the large wings, trying to shake Mukuro off of him. "Look at this, all these nicks in the wings! Disgusting, to say the least. I knew you would go soft! I always knew it, Kyouya!"

"I'm NOT going soft!" Hibari shouted, turning and sinking fangs into Mukuro's throat. The older demon groaned as Hibari pulled back, tearing his flesh, but not quite destroying it. Dino watched the two fight, then took hold of his whip, and looked at it, frowning.

"I'm sorry, Lord Byakuran," he rasped. "I vowed to fight all my fights fair. But today, I'm turning against that." He dashed forward, plunging his hand into the older demon's chest, and tearing the black heart from it in one swift move. The demon cried out in pain, his dark blood seeping over Hibari's body, and he tore at the younger demon, scarring him one last time before he collapsed forever. Hibari panted, his face burning with claw marks, and he turned towards Dino, his lips quirking up into a smirk.

"Not bad," he said. Dino gave a tired nod, looking down at the body on the ground, and he stepped back.

"Well, I suppose he deserved it," the blonde said with a sigh. "It's a bit sad that it had to end up like that."

"Not at all," Hibari replied, a venomous smirk on his lips. "I've wanted to kill that guy since the first time he twisted my wings," he hissed. "He's a monster."

"Most demons are," Dino sighed. Hibari looked back at him, and reached up, placing his hand on the other's shoulder.

"Let's go back to the cave... before anyone else wakes up," he said. He and Dino headed back to the cave they had slept in, and they continued on to the inlet where they could evade discovery. As they walked, Hibari saw another feather fall from Dino's wing, and he grabbed it. He was satisfied that it didn't quite darken into night black like the others and stopped a few shades early. He placed the feather in his cloak before Dino could notice, then, before another thought could cross his mind, he felt a spike of pain in his wing from Mukuro's treatment earlier. He massaged the area sorely, staring after Dino as he walked forward. "Dino," he murmured, "What is God like?"

The mere question made Hibari feel awkward, but he was curious nonetheless, and didn't take the question back. "God?" Dino repeated. "Well, he's full of love, and gives it to everyone but you lot. You know, humans... who created religion based off of his teachings thought that doing certain things made God shun them. They were wrong... always wrong..." Dino's eyes began to water as he looked back at Hibari, and he breathed, "Do you remember the war that wiped out the human race?" The demon nodded. "It was because they all thought they were right and the other was wrong... but no one was right... everyone thought that God hated the other... us angels could only watch and pity... as they killed each other... all thinking they'd become angels when they died... but no soul becomes an angel. No soul becomes a demon."

"They all become a part of the energy," Hibari concluded. "Giving their power to God and Satan."

"No. Not Satan," Dino said. "Humans never gave power to Satan." Hibari rolled his eyes.

"It depends on their energy," he countered. "Absorbed by the ego, they go to my Lord. Absorbed by selflessness, they go to God."

"... Byakuran says that, at death, all humans are selfless," Dino murmured.

"Not all humans," Hibari said, grinning evilly. "There were some so caught up in it that they never know they died."

Dino and Hibari turned, gazing into each other's eyes, knowing that there were some things they might never agree on. Only one thing was definite- that humans had been the perfect combination of their Masters' wills, and now, humans were gone. Angels and Demons were never meant to coexist. They couldn't cooperate. They could only fight.

"God loves everyone," Dino said, easing down on to the ledge. "He never wanted to have this battle."

"Now, you know that's a lie," Hibari snorted, sitting down on the ground beside the angel. "He wants us gone. He probably leapt at the idea of fighting us." Dino sighed, and reached out, rubbing his fingers against the horns on Hibari's head.

"Funny, those look a bit smaller than they did earlier...," he murmured. Hibari glared at him.

"Don't you ever say that," he hissed. "It's insulting. How would you like it if I said your pretty little halo was shrinking?"

Dino gasped, reaching up and placing his hands around the ring of extra bright light that floated just over his head. "Don't!" he protested. "That was a very special gift from Byakuran!"

"As were my horns from Xanxus," Hibari hissed. The two stared at each other for a moment, then looked away, feeling odd about each other.

They weren't sure if their decision was a good one.

Meanwhile... In the Kingdom of Hell...

"Lord Xanxus," Belphegor greeted, landing gracefully on the ground. "I have the report from last night."

"Talk," Satan said, lying back in his throne.

"Rokudo Mukuro was killed this morning," Bel said. "By an angel, of course. Also dead are all of Leviathan's apprentices, the fallen angel Daisy, and my brother, Rasiel."

"Those were some of our weakest members," Xanxus sighed. "All right. That's nothing. Get back up there."

"Yessir," Belphegor said, giving a short bow, before flying back to Earth.

In the Kingdom of Heaven...

"Lord Byakuran," Kikyo greeted as he touched the plush ground of Heaven. The lord of angels stood and walked over to his young messenger, and reached out, placing a hand on Kikyo's cheek.

"Have you been hurt?" he asked.

"No sir. I'm simply tired," Kikyo answered. God took the angel into a snug embrace, then slowly backed off, having refreshed Kikyo's body.

"How's the war?" Byakuran asked.

"We currently have the upper hand, sir," Kikyo reported. "Only one of our angels has been killed. Unfortunately, dissolved body of angel Tsunayoshi Sawada was discovered in a cave."

"Tsuna?" Byakuran repeated, his expression falling. "Oh, dear..."

"Another thing, my lord. Beside the body were the tears of another angel. Tsuna did not die without mourning." Byakuran sat down, and closed his eyes.

"Sad things," he sighed. "I'm afraid this world... is full of them."

-End Chapter

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