Author's Comments
Fifty themes is not a lot, considering the numbers others write. But I do not do one liners, except for the occasional. Some of the drabbles are paragraphs long, and having all fifty on one chapter would make it tedious to read. So by suggestion of Galadriel, I had the themes split into five tens. Themes are in alphabetical order.
Disclaimer
All characters used belongs to Yukiru Sugisaki.
Clandestine Thoughts
Part One
Act
It is during the rare moments when Dark shows Daisuke a piece of compassion, like the time the dark angel had saved him from himself, that Daisuke begins to wonder if Dark's usual front is but an act.
"Hey, Daisuke! Can I flirt with Riku today?" Dark grinned mischievously in his mind, his tone suggestive.
Then again, Daisuke sighed, maybe not. Perhaps he's bipolar instead.
"I heard that!"
Age
Occasionally, Daisuke notices the signs of old age on his grandfather, Daichii.
It could be a throaty cough when the man thinks he is alone; it could be the weary sighs he sometimes heaves; or it could be the obvious aches he tends to feel when the weather is chilly and stretches in hopes of feeling better.
In the course of these times, Daisuke would make a further effort to spend time with Daichii. He would always feel comforted by the smile his grandfather would direct at him because no matter the number of times he had seen it, age never wore off the warmth, pride and hidden strength in that gentle expression of his grandfather's.
Betrayed
He thought he would have been happy – jubilant, even – when the Phantom Thief was finally gone and he had his psyche and body to himself. However, Daisuke only felt empty, and a wry sense of being betrayed of something precious.
Care
Despite his arrogance and dirty mind, Dark had never given Daisuke a reason to hate him. Feel annoyed, perhaps – even to the point of extreme frustration – but there never was the hatred Satoshi believes he should be harbouring because the thief was using his body.
Maybe Dark was using his body, in a way, even though Daisuke never thought that he was. After all, how else would Dark steal if he had no body to do so? Daisuke never tried to explain to the blue haired boy that for all Dark was, the thief had always cared through his subtle acts. Especially when things came to Daisuke.
Different
Daisuke only had one word to describe the thief he first met and the thief he now knew: different. To the point of two individual beings born of different race, religion and everything else possible? No, not that exaggerating. But the difference is obvious to those who really know him. Being his Wing Tamer, it can be said that it is unavoidable to not know the thief, especially when they share the same body.
When Daisuke first met Dark, the first impression he had of the thief was arrogant, perverted playboy. Dark's actions did nothing to change this impression, if the incident where the thief had control of Daisuke's body by accident had anything to say about it.
But Daisuke was a bright boy and very perceptive despite being well-known for his oblivious nature. Within the first few weeks, he already noticed the small things the Phantom Thief would do for others and later, the methods he chose to do certain things.
The event when Dark came to save him from the Second Hand of Time was what really set his mind off. The pure relief on the thief's face when he saw Daisuke had told the red head everything. Even if Dark continues to be an arrogant, perverted playboy, he had a good nature that differed from everything else he presented.
Exterior
As an artist, Daisuke knows how to appreciate each and everything in existence for their own unique beauty. Perhaps that was why he had a certain fascination and liking for Risa when he first saw her, because admittedly, Risa had a feminine beauty inside out.
Later, however, as he began to know her, he came to realise that for all her beauty, Risa was only beautiful on the exterior, for her heart never had the same shine he saw in Riku, and even Dark.
Faded
He tried, really he did, to salvage whatever love he had left for Riku, but nothing ever was the same when Dark sealed both himself and Krad in Black Wings. Riku attempted to help him because her love for him still ran strong, but when she saw his halfhearted smiles and the despondency in his scarlet eyes, she knew they had no future together that led further than being tied as friends.
Daisuke's love for Riku had faded away, just as Dark had faded from his life.
Fallen
The first time Daisuke laid his eyes upon the blonde angel, he wondered – rather cornily, he admitted to himself later – if Krad had fallen from Heaven.
Fear
Daisuke feared Krad within reason. It was not the fact that the blonde angel was after him (Dark, actually, but Krad wanted to hunt down the Niwa clan as well), neither was it the fact that Krad was homicidal.
No; it was the fact that his heart thumped unnaturally quick with a warm rush in his blood whenever his thoughts stumble on Krad unwittingly. Sometimes, it nearly causes him to change into Dark, but he always manages to erase the thought quick enough. Dark never suspected.
Still, Daisuke feared Krad because of what the blonde angel is unknowingly capable of doing to him.
Fragile
No matter what Dark tells Daisuke of the blonde angel; no matter how much hatred there is evident in Satoshi's voice when the blonde angel is mentioned, Daisuke believes in his own judgment of Krad.
Where people see a homicidal devil in disguise, he only saw Krad, an angel whose fragile wings cannot take him back home and whose fragile heart had lost all faith in believing.