Author's Note: I do not own D.N Angel. This is a mere fanfiction. Please enjoy.
Chapter 1
Daisuke spotted Riku extra early that morning. His hopes for the day already heightened, he ran up behind the girl, trained legs easily overtaking the bicycle.
"Good morning, Riku." Daisuke chirped, jogging backwards in front of the bike.
"Good morning, Niwa." She replied, only slightly surprised at his sudden appearance.
Daisuke blushed at her reply and almost tripped as he struggled for something new to say.
Oh, how cute. You blush at a thing like that and expect to move forwards in your relationship. Just get a room already. The offhand voice of Daisuke's counterpart rang in the boy's ears.
Daisuke's blush deepened and he turned to face forwards before speeding away from a very surprised Riku. After a few blocks and some deep, calming breaths, Daisuke turned his voice inwards.
Dark! You didn't have to be so blunt!
Oh, come on Dai. If that's blunt then I'm a hammer.
Shut up! Did you really have to ruin the moment?
That's my job.
Dark turned smugly away from Daisuke, pointedly ignoring any further conversation.
Dark didn't say another word to Daisuke on the short trip to school and Daisuke did his best to return the favour. He couldn't help his body language from conveying his feelings, however, and he only hoped that no one picked up on his sour mood. He slouched into the classroom and put his bag on the desk. Takeshi was rattling off all of the gossip in a corner and Daisuke hunched lower, hoping that his friend would ignore him, if only for today. There was no luck with that.
Takeshi slung an arm over Daisuke's shoulder.
"Good morning Daisuke!" he crowed.
Daisuke began to mumble a reply but Takeshi spoke over the top of him.
"Did you hear about Dark's newest threat?"
Daisuke groaned inwardly. He wanted to avoid anything to do with Dark at the moment. Forcing a weak smile onto his face, Daisuke forced back a sigh.
"No. What is it?"
"There's this famous necklace, the 'maiden's locket', that has been kept at this tiny museum just down the road from here which Dark sent out a warning letter for this morning. I'm going there tonight. Do you want to come to?"
Already fuming, Daisuke grinned.
"No thanks. I've got a lot of homework."
"Well, I'll be sure to get you some good pictures. Just you wait, Dark will be in chains tomorrow morn, no problems."
Daisuke feigned laughter as his friend wondered away.
Dark, what is this all about? Daisuke raged.
Dark turned for the first time in the last half hour and frowned.
I haven't heard anything about this one either. Emiko didn't mention it?
No. And here I thought I would be free tonight.
Dark didn't reply.