Chapter 1: Accidents
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Daisuke Niwa stared at himself in the car wing mirror, finally having the courage to see how bad it was. The velvet maroon blazer, soft as feathers, with gold trimming, perfectly complimented his ruby red eyes and blazing hair. But Daisuke just saw a pale pathetic boy, cowering at the monster of a building in front of him.
"Darling, you look just lovely, everyone is going to love you. I know a new school may seem scary but-"
"Its fine!" Daisuke found himself screaming at his bewildered mother, Emiko.
Not wanting to have to cope with a laser beam glare from her, he thrust open the car door and sprinted through the intricately decorated black iron gates of Augusta's Academy for Boys. Daisuke felt as if he was being ripped apart from the inside, his inside knotted in fear. If he hadn't been so overcome with his emotions (and secretly fuming about the pink underpants Emiko had bought for him and made him wear that morning) perhaps he wouldn't have knocked into a boy holding a tray of food.
"AAAAAAAAAARRGH!" the boy holding the tray screamed, as a fish gleaming in sauce and an extremely sloppy chocolate pudding were squashed against Daisuke's chest.
"I'm sorry I'm so sorry!" Daisuke gabbled, only to watch in horror as the dark haired boy before him fell to the floor and sobbed hysterically. Daisuke, too shocked for words, tryed to help the boy up.
"Look I'm sure its not so bad...um was that your lunch or something?" Daisuke gave the boy a warm smile. Suddenly, the boy jumped up and flung his arms round Daisuke, pressing his face against his neck. It was at this moment than Daisuke really noticed the boy's height. This guy was at least a few feet taller than him, and the long hair tickling his face was a delicious shade of purple. Then, Daisuke felt long warm breaths against his neck.
"AIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Daisuke squealed madly, pushing the boy off him. It was bad enough he had food all over his freshly bought uniform on his first day-and now this! Why did he live in a world of freak disasters!
"You scream like a girl!" the boy straightened up and grinned down at him. Daisuke stared at him in disbelief, jaw dropping. "You weren't crying!" he burst out, like an angry child that has just been told Santa Claus doesn't exist. "Well...duh!" the boy's eyes burned with amusement and this time he smiled to show perfect white teeth that could have rivaled a Hollywood actor. "God, your face, it was worth spilling the food. Of course that part wasn't planned. But when I saw your adorable little face I just couldn't resist!"
Daisuke was floored. Why is this happening! he screamed mentally, instantly forgetting the older boy's comment about his cuteness. He looked down at the unattractive splatter down his front and grimaced. He pictured the look of disappointment that would be on Emiko's face tonight when she'd seen how her "little baby" had ruined his first day. Then, images of his new classmates reactions filtered into his thoughts.
"Sooooo, I guess your new then," Dark said this as if he was talking to himself. Daisuke looked up and for the first time really took in his fellow student's appearance. The first thing of course was again, the hair, which he now saw in it's full glory, falling like a violet waterfall around his face. The boy was twiddling a strand with a finger in an extremely feminine fashion, which somehow Daisuke found entrancing. His skin, soft and fair, his fingers itched to touch, the full lips he wished to...
Daisuke bit his lip in frustration and closed his eyes, all too aware of the frantic beating of his heart. Damn, these first day nerves sure were having an affect on him. I should get away from this guy, he thought, and get to class. Then I can ask if I can clean myself up. In that moment, he rested in the darkness behind his eyelids and waited till the electric shock to his heart wore off.
He opened his eyes to find a pair of shocking purple ones staring straight back at him. "Wow," the tall guy leered, "you sure are a freak. There's no way you're gonna survive here on your own. There's a whole bunch of rules, school etiquette, a whole lot of prats...and of course him..." he trailed off, a hint of unease suddenly in his voice. "Oh damn. Krad is soooo gonna kill me!"
"Look, will you please just tell me where Classroom 13 is? I've had enough trouble from you." Daisuke glared at the sneering guy before him. "Oky doky. I've been trouble have I? Well, guess what you little brat, I'll show you exactly where Room 13 is, but first you gotta come with me and tell Krad what happened to his food!"
"No way! I'll just find my way on my own!" the red head retorted. The other boy's reply was a fit of giggles. "Yeah like you're gonna find your way in this place when you've never set foot in it before. It's so old-fashioned and retarded they won't even put up signs to show you where the toilets are, and everyone has gone to class. If you go on your own you are gonna end up 2 hours late with a bunch of crap on you! But..." his voice became softer, dangerously so, "If you come with me I can save your butt. What do you say?"
Daisuke's head was pounding; every word he had said had hit him like a drum. As much as he hated it, this random (though quite handsome) creep was his only ticket into surviving his first day at this crazy school. The pale face of the clock tower to his left read 8:55. He was already 10 minutes late. He couldn't afford to waste any more time. For, though this boy and no one else knew, Daisuke's presence at this school was not just to be educated. No, there was much more he had planned...
"Hello? Are you dead or something? What do you say?"
Daisuke sighed and admitted defeat. "Yes I'll do what you want. But on one condition. You have to be my friend and show me round the school and help me understand all that stuff you said earlier."
"Whatever," Dark lent into Daisuke and whispered in his ear, "I'm Dark Mousy." Then he rapidly kissed the boy on both cheeks, leaving them red where they had touched them.
"I'm Daisuke. So is that the way people do things around here?" Daisuke let a smile slip from him.
"No, that's just the way I do things around here."
And with that, Dark took Daisuke's hand and whisked him into the twilight world of Augusta's Academy.