Grace of a Swan

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Pairings: The parings of this chapter have decided to duplicate those of the last chapter almost precisely…ahah! But they have not caught onto my plot…of adding some Dark x Krad!!!! I shall be the victor!!!

Disclaimer: I do not own D.N angel. Or do I? Is that a rhetorical question!? Uhm…56!!!

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He crushed the purely white feather in his fist and muttered under his breath, “He’s here.”
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Daisuke gazed around, attempting to locate the source of the entire commotion. He found his answer shattered across the expanse of the ballroom floor. //The chandelier fell? How could something like that have happened? It would have had to be done by someone on purpose…but how? They’d have to be equipped with wings to get onto the ceiling, especially without being noticed…wings…// Daisuke’s crimson eyes darkened. //I’m going to find Dark, I have a feeling he knows what’s going on…//


Daisuke grimaced as he accidentally stepped on a large piece of crystal. “Ouch.”
The red-head bent down to examine the damage, when something else caught his eyes. An ivory feather peeked out from beneath a shard of crystal. It was small and barely evident but it was still there, and Daisuke had discovered it. He picked the little feather up and held it in his hand.


//I was right after all. White wings, like an angel.//
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//A slave has spotted me. My gaze flows over his form. A strength that appears delicate. Pale, almost as white as my wings, and eyes the colour of the ocean.//
Krad flipped a stray strand of flaxen hair out of his line of vision. He smirked down at a slave who was staring back at him with a determined fix.


“So, now that you’ve seen me are you going to do something? Or are we just going to stare at each other all night? Because I can do that too.” Krad raised an eyebrow at the boy.
“You know it was I, who cut the chandelier. You saw it with your own eyes. So why aren’t you doing anything? Like alerting the guests of my presence? Maybe you don’t see the point in trying to do something like that…when no one would believe a little slave? Or maybe…you don’t care if I’m caught?”

The slave boy didn’t reply. He was trying to think of something, anything, he could do as well.

The blonde spoke again, “I see. You probably don’t know what to do.” Krad fluttered his wings.
“I realize that these can be somewhat imposing, but I see no point in harming you. I think you know that, don’t you?” Krad smiled. He could tell what this boy was thinking through his eyes.

//Such expressive eyes, like windows to his soul. How pretty.//

The slave shifted uncomfortably. It made him uneasy, the way this mysterious creature was analyzing him and that penetrating gaze he was receiving from those icy eyes. They held no warmth and yet, they had something burning within them.

“Well, little slave boy, you might as well tell me your name…I’ll even tell you mine. I’m called, Krad.”

The slave spoke, “My name is Satoshi. How do you know what I’m thinking?”

“Your eyes betray you, Satoshi.” Krad flew to where Satoshi stood. He leaned in till his face was barely an inch apart from the other boy\'s.

The blonde raised a hand and gently removed the glasses from Satoshi’s eyes.
“These don’t protect as much as you’d like.” Krad smirked as the other boy’s face adopted a faint pink tinge.


Satoshi could feel his face heat up due to the close proximity of the blonde to him. He could feel the soft breaths of the other male and is made him squirm slightly in sudden discomfort.
//Why is he so close?//

Krad noticed the shift in Satoshi’s position and realized that the boy’s stance had dropped drastically. He was caught in a vulnerable position and he was nervous about it.
//Frightened and defenceless suits him nicely.// Krad decided as he leered at Satoshi and leaned in closer until their noses touched.

Satoshi tried to reverse away from Krad until he felt his back press up against a wall.
//He’s got me trapped.// the blue-haired boy realized.


Krad cupped Satoshi’s cheek and pressed his lips to the other boy’s in a gentle but dominant kiss.

Satoshi, unused to such contact, involuntarily moaned into the kiss.
Krad noticed and he smirked inwardly.

//Still a virgin then. How sweet.//

The two parted for air and Krad whispered into Satoshi’s ear, “I should go now, but I’ll be back for you later. Count on that much.”

The boy blinked twice and Krad was gone, disappearing completely, without so much as a trace of evidence indicating that he had once been there. Except for Satoshi’s bruised lips and flushed face.

Satoshi slumped down onto the floor. He was shocked and anxious. //He’s going to come back for me!?//


There wasn’t much in life that frightened Satoshi. He had seen horrible things before. His mother had been shot down by a barrage of arrows when he was very young, right in front of his eyes. His father used to beat him everyday because he blamed Satoshi for his mother’s death. Then his father died and left Satoshi with his aunt who was a miller.
Satoshi moved to the castle to work there because she couldn’t support him. He visited her every so often but was always wary about that area of the woods. The area by the stream. The very stream where his mother was shot down.

There wasn’t much that scared him anymore. He had grown used to the castle and its occupants and he was adjusted. Satoshi hadn’t felt truly afraid for a while, but as he felt the burning sensation that remained on his lips from Krad—and the promise of the Blonde’s return, Satoshi was terrified.


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Dark watched from above. He sat on a windowsill that overlooked a long hallway. He had seen Krad. Seen the blonde talking to the slave from earlier and seen Krad press his lips to the boy\'s, then disappearing in a split second, leaving the slave crouched against a wall. Dark raised an eyebrow at the slave as he gazed down at him. //So, he’s taken an interest in this one.// Dark sighed.
//Poor kid.//


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