Wanna Trade Wings
Chapter Six: Taunt Me, Taint Me, Paint Me
~No Matter What Happens, I Refuse to Leave Your Side~
In the Kingdom of Heaven...
"What? Kikyo was?" Byakuran cried, standing upright.
"You heard me, my Lord," Zakuro snickered. "It seems as though they killed each other."
"No way...," Byakuran sighed, reaching up and rubbing his forehead. "Why would Kikyo...? He was such a sweet angel..." God took his time to mourn the loss of his messenger, then shuffled in his seat, saying, "All right, then, Zakuro. Come close. I'll enlarge your wings."
"Yes, sir," Zakuro answered. "I will carry on my duty as an angel to serve you."
Byakuran embraced his new messenger, and the angel's wings expanded until they were as large as Kikyo's once were.
In Hell...
"That damn brat," Xanxus snorted. "Figures he'd do that- the idiot. Squalo, come forth. You'll be Bel's replacement."
"Yes sir, of course, sir," Squalo said, approaching Satan. Xanxus grabbed Squalo by the throat and crashed their lips together, causing the other's wings to grow much larger than those of regular demons.
Later, in the Cavern on Earth...
Dino opened his eyes, sat up, and stared at Hibari, who was still asleep just a few feet away. He came forward, and picked up the demon's hand in his own, to find that the nails had gone from black to white, and were no longer claws. Dino rubbed the back of the demon's hand with his thumb, and Hibari soon woke up, and the demon sat upright, before looking at his hand. "My claws?" he muttered. "What the heaven?"
"Hey, don't say that in vain," Dino snapped, before brushing it off, as he had used the phrase 'what the hell' in several occasions. "Who knows?" he said, smirking at the demon. "Maybe Xanxus is dying and his power in you is going away."
Hibari tore his hand away from the angel's, and hissed, before snarling, "My Lord Xanxus would never lose to the likes of the Angels!" he snarled. Dino sighed, and patted the demon on the head.
"Calm down, Kyoya," he muttered. "It was a joke."
Hibari paused, still offended, but he did relax after Dino had touched him. The angel did, after all, have that little aspect of motherly care to him. "It's all right," he sighed. "I guess it's my fault this happened, anyway." The demon observed his new nails with narrow eyes, and he snorted with resentment at the development, then reached up and felt along his horns. They did feel smaller, but he would never admit to that. Besides, Dino's halo was dimming down, and he never mentioned it. There was no need for Hibari to confess about anything.
Dino stood, and walked over to the smooth walls, then ran his hand down them, before walking over to the place from where he and the demon had entered. It was quite a large hole, and Dino thought that maybe it would be better if said hole was smaller. He moved rocks over the area, groaning as they grew bright and hot beneath his touch. "Hey, Kyoya, would you move these for me?" Dino asked. The demon walked over, and grabbed a stone, and it darkened to a natural gray color, immediately turning cold as ice. They should have been as black as night, but they didn't grow that dark. Hibari snorted with frustration as he moved the stones into place over the door, then flapped his wings and continued to built it up until he and Dino could both just barely fit through it.
"There," he sighed. "That good?"
"Yeah," Dino agreed. "Thank you." Hibari nodded, and walked back to the pond, then cupped his hands. He scooped up some of the water, and held it to his lips, before tilting his hands back and letting the substance flow down his throat. Dino watched for a while, then joined Hibari at the pond. "You don't need to drink that," he mumbled.
"I want to," Hibari answered, glancing back at Dino. "It does feel kind of good."
Dino arched his eyebrows in disbelief, then followed Hibari's example, and as the cool water entered his body, he realized that Hibari was right. His dry throat grew instantly moist and much more comfortable. "Damn, you're right," he said. Hibari glared at him, and Dino blushed, realizing his mistake. "I'm sorry."
"I forgive you," Hibari sighed. "But please don't take terms such as 'damn' so lightly."
Dino nodded, and folded his hands over his lap, watching Hibari's expression. The demon was being good to forgive him for using offensive phrases such as 'damn,' and for occasionally making a mockery of his society. It made Dino ashamed of himself to reflect on his abusive behavior. Wasn't he supposed to be an angel? Dino moved a wing towards him, and grabbed a hold on the bone inside it, before reaching up to touch it. Hibari watched him as he took a hold of a feather, than plucked it from his own body. "There," Dino sneered. "I deserved that."
He tossed the feather over his shoulder, and Hibari leaned over, grabbing it. "Now, Dino, don't go pulling these out; aren't they special to you?" he protested as the feather darkened in his grip.
"Not if they don't mean anything," Dino hissed, pulling out another. Hibari lunged forward, tackling the angel to the ground, and holding his wrists against the ground.
"Don't treat yourself like that, you idiot!" he shouted. "Pull too many feathers out, and you may as well lose your wings! Do you want to be damned, Dino?"
The angel gulped. When used as as serious matter, the term 'damn' was one that would strike fear into any angel. Just to imagine becoming something that God wouldn't allow in his place, and the mere thought of losing one's angelhood to be banished to Hell, it was all so frightening. Dino didn't want his lord Byakuran to pity him, and he didn't want to be rejected by him either. And so, Dino realized, he needed to forgive himself for losing track of his emotions, and he needed to calm down, and stop hating himself- before he became such a being. The angel's eyes watered as he came to the conclusion, and he murmured, "Thank you," to the demon who had saved him from himself. Hibari stared for a moment, confused, and then, Dino wrapped his arms around the demon's shoulders, and embraced him, hugging him so close that their bodies were squished together. "Thank you, Kyoya." Hibari closed his eyes, letting the warm body of the angel warm his cold heart, and he gulped, letting his wings tear painfully as he prolonged the action by returning it. Dino's body itself was a drug- dangerous, but painfully addictive. Hibari couldn't help but fear the consequences of staying with him, but even as he did, seeing Dino's grateful face- that gratefulness that the demon had created inside the angel's delicate soul... That feeling swept over Hibari's body, and he could only stay in place and observe it. "Kyoya," Dino breathed against the demon's ear. "Kiss me."
Hibari looked into the angel's eyes, incredulous, then sat back. "I can't," he said. "I'll kill you, right?"
"It's sweet of you to care about me," Dino teased. "You really are a softy, aren't you." It wasn't rage that overtook the demon, but the fear of being losing his demonhood and rising, the fear of becoming a traitor to his family, that was enough to make him snap. He flushed red as he crashed his lips to Dino's, and the angel gasped with pain, but Hibari was already sunk in his lusts. If it was a kiss that Dino wanted, then he would give it to him! Dino had been on the offensive lately, anyway, so surely, a little physical lust in his general direction wouldn't do much harm. Hibari soon found that it was useless to remain true to his blood in the situation, however, and he began to kiss the angel a little softer. He quickly grew shocked at himself, though, and backed off, and Dino quickly caught his breath, gasping out, "Again!"
"No!" Hibari shouted. "Dino, are you crazy?"
The angel calmed down, and shook his head, sitting up. "I'm sorry," he muttered. "I... got caught up in it, and..."
"Didn't it hurt?" Hibari pointed out, biting his lip with fangs that seemed to be rounding out.
"Only a little," Dino admitted. "Actually... it wasn't that bad at all..."
Hibari got off of the angel, and walked away, his head pounding with regret. How could he oblige to Dino's command out of his stupid pride? He was surely going to lose his demonhood like this. His head already felt lighter due to the recent loss of mass on his horns! And his wings were so torn that he was starting to doubt his ability to fly. "Dino, I'm not going to do that again," he muttered. "It's not safe."
Dino understood. No matter how far their need went, they couldn't keep doing this and still be safe. It was dangerous for them to do anything together without threatening their own beings. Hibari was the ice, and Dino was the fire. Now the question was- would Dino be put out when Hibari melted? Only time could tell.
-End Chapter
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