Rating: K+

Genre: Romance

Author's Note: Hello!! This story just suddenly sprang into my mind one day so I decided to write it down before I forgot. The story takes place one year later without Dark or Krad. The setting is placed during winter, St. White's Day, at Azumano Middle School. 9th graders the main characters are now. Each chapter takes place within the mind of all 4 characters in the order they are listed in: Daisuke Niwa, Risa Harada, Riku Harada, and then Satoshi Hiwatari. I plan to have this story at least 3-4 chapters long only. Anyway, read, enjoy, and please review!!

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Maybe Someday, We Can Dance Like That

Chapter 1

Rise of the Storm

My eyes zoomed in on the happy dancing students. Christmas lights were scattered everywhere across the school's front yard as soft snow slowly fell all over. Covering everything in a majestic festival of snow, an announcement came from the speaker whish halted the cheerful music. All the students stopped dancing and looked up at the speaker.

"Attention all students! Attention all students! Due to the snow, we are lowering all usage of electricity. I repeat: Due to the snow, we are lowering all usage of electricity. My apologies for this evening." The voice from the speaker disappeared and just as quickly, the lights from the strings which hung overhead disappeared along with it. The only light that shown through the darkness was the lights emitting from the giant Christmas Tree located in the center of the school yard. The students hesitated in their movement but shrugged their shoulders and continued on with their mingling. I sat by myself in my lonely chair as another announcement came from the speakers.

"And Daisuke! Get yourself over here to class! It's an emergency!!" shouted the announcer urgently.

Everyone looked at me with wide eyes as I stood up, my face getting red. That voice… Takeshi?! Geez… I ran toward my classroom inside the school building as fast as I could since Takeshi said it was an, "emergency". I heard the laughter of students as they shouted behind me,

"Make sure you get there in time!" and, "Don't go, Daisuke! It's a trap!"

I waved at them as I entered the school building. I ran through the halls and cut corners when all of a sudden, I crashed into someone as we both fell on the ground. I felt something light and silky fall on top of me as I was covered in white curtains. I looked at the curtains and grabbed them with my hands. I stood up and dusted myself off. Holding out my hand, I said to the person still covered in the curtains, "Are you okay? I'm sorry…" The person took my hands and immediately, I realized how small this person's hands were.

"Ugh… Watch where you're going!" the person shouted angrily. The stranger took off the curtains from themselves and as we locked eyes, I realized who the person was: Riku Harada.

"Oh… Daisuke… What are you doing here?" she asked confused. "I thought you were supposed to be outside making sure everything was all right." She took the curtains from my hands and dusted them off.

"Takeshi called me in. You didn't hear it?" I asked with a point to the speaker in the hallway.

"Ah, Takeshi. I guess I wasn't listening to his annoying voice."

I laughed softly.

"Well, I should be going to the sewing room now. See ya, Daisuke." Riku walked away toward the other end of the hall with a wave good-bye.

I waved good-bye as I stood there watching her go.

I entered the classroom with caution. I opened the door slowly. I stuck my head in when all of a sudden; an eraser was thrown at me as I hear Takeshi shout at me, "Daisuke! Where have you been! I've been looking all over for you!"

"I've been outside taking care of Christmas tree outside, remember? After all, it was you who assigned me that job." I replied nervously as I wiped my face and picked up the eraser from the ground.

"Never mind that, Daisuke! I need you to take this to the art room!" Takeshi said as he handed me a tree branch.

"W-what is this?" I asked confused. "Isn't this supposed to go into the storage room?"

"Of course not! This thing is a work of art! Art! Not some piece of trash! Now hurry up and go!" Takeshi urged me out of the room with the tree branch in hand as he slammed the door shut behind me.

I sighed and said to myself sadly, "I thought you said it was an emergency…" Instead of running through the halls, this time, I took my time and looked out the windows. Snow fell slowly down onto the school yard and I could already see the fog roll up the windows. I walked toward the windows and looked up into the sky. The moon shone brightly. Who would have thought that the annual St. White's dance would have been on a full moon?

"Daisuke?" A voice came.

I quickly turned around and came face to face to Risa Harada. She looked at me wide eyes.

"Oh, hi Risa. What are you doing here?" I asked.

"I'm looking for Riku. Have you seen her anywhere? I need to tell her something!" she replied urgently.

"Riku went into the sewing room just a while ago." I answered, pointing to the sewing room door just at the end of the hall.

"Ah, okay. Thank a lot, Daisuke!" waved Risa as she headed toward the sewing room.

I waved behind her and then headed for the art room. After putting everything back where they belonged, I decided to go and view the Christmas lights once again.

The snow was piling up higher now as I stepped outside. There, I saw Riku and Risa sitting near the benches. I heard Risa's voice as she talked energetically about something.

"You gotta listen to me, Riku!" she shouted into Riku's ear.

Riku looked at her sister annoyed and said to her, "Yeah, yeah. I've heard you. I still don't believe it." She rested her head on her hand.

"But it's true!" Risa shouted once again as she pounded her hand on the table. "They say that if you dance the last dance with the person you really like, your love will last forever!"

"That's just like the ribbon story you told me last year!" Riku countered her sister's story.

"Well…" started Risa. "The dance is a surefire thing now!"

"Now?" Riku repeated as she eyed her sister.

"Augh! Think what you want but I say that it's true!" Risa shouted. She turned and walked away toward her group of friends near the base of the Christmas tree.

"Aw geez, Risa… You take things way too seriously." Riku complained.

"I think that's a good thing about her." I said.

"AH!" Riku jumped up from her seat and stared with wide eyes at me, her hands before her in defense.

Our eyes locked for a second as we both burst out laughing.

"I'm sorry, did I scare you?" I apologized as I bowed.

"N-no. It's okay." She replied as she breathed in and out.

We sat there together, just sitting there taking in the view. This… feels really nice. Just sitting here with Riku like this. Wait… What?

"Daisuke?" Riku eyed me.

"W-what?!" I shouted as I jumped up from my seat. Nearby students stared at me as I felt myself going red.

Riku laughed softly. "Did I scare you this time?"

I regained my posture and sat back down, my heart still beating against my chest. "N-no. I was just thinking how nice it was… to be here, you know?"

Riku looked at me. "Really? I was just thinking the exact same thing!" she smiled happily. "I thought to myself, 'Wow… The snow is falling so slow and everyone is all happy and dancing. It would be nice if time just stopped right here, right now.'" She looked toward the tree and then back at me. I felt my face turning red. "Don't you think so too?" she smiled.

I paused. I gripped my hands as I felt sweat build up in my hands. This is it. No turning back. Just do it already, Daisuke!

"Um… R-Riku…" I started. I couldn't look at her in the face.

"Yeah?" she replied, unknowingly.

"Um… W-would you… l-like t-to… dance… with…"

"Daisuke?"

Suddenly, everything turned dark. What's going on?! I stood up from my chair and scanned the area.

"Daisuke, what's happening?" asked Riku nervously.

"Attention, all students! Please do not panic. There has been a brief power outage. Please do not worry. We will have the power back up shortly."

"A power outage?" repeated Riku.

"…I guess we'll have to wait it out." I said.

Riku paused, as if worried about something. "Maybe… I should go check on Risa." Riku stood up from her seat and started running into the darkness. Before she could go anywhere, I grabbed her hand to stop her from going any further.

"No! It's dangerous. You can't see and you might hurt yourself." I warned.

"But I need to make sure Risa is okay! She's not good by herself in the dark! Now let me go, Daisuke!" Riku grabbed my hand and tried to force my grip off of her but proved nothing.

I took her hand and before I realized it, a snowstorm came and hit us like we were just sticks and stones. "Riku! We need to get inside the school!"

"No!" Riku protested. "I need to find Risa!"

"Riku!" She's so stubborn!

The storm kept coming. Why was there a snowstorm now at all times? It was just snowing softly a wile ago.

"AAHH!" We heard Risa's scream far off into the distance.

Upon hearing her sister's scream, Riku was able loosen my grip. She then started running toward the Christmas tree. "Riku!" I shouted as I ran after her.

Suddenly, a wall of snow was created by the wind and Riku was unable to go any further. I took Riku's hand and dragged her toward the school building. "Let go of me! Risa!!" she called out.

"Riku, we need to think about our situation first!"

"No! Let me go!" she shouted angrily.

Before I knew it, the doors to the school were forced open and we were both pushed inside by the incoming snow. I grabbed Riku and shielded her from the snow as I felt freezing pain crawl up my spine.

"Daisuke?!" called out Riku. We both fell inside the school building as a giant wall of snow covered the front exits. I got up from the ground while Riku sat there in disbelief, her eyes wide open. We were trapped inside the school.