Hey all, this is a letter to the readers. I know that this is in the anime section, but I've only read the mangas so far. And I'm still reading them, but that doesn't stop me making a fic about them!

Disclaimer: I don't own DNAngel or any characters in there (but I wish I did! )

Chapter 1: A Surprising Visitor

The bell rang at the Azumano Middle School, so everyone went to their classes. As usual, Daisuke was under the weather about Risa dumping him, Risa was feeling sorry for Daisuke FOR dumping him, and Riku was still pondering about if she like Daisuke or not. Takeshi didn't do his homework so he asked Daisuke, and Satoshi was keeping an eye out for Daisuke.

It was a week before St. White's Day and the Festival Committee was already getting things ready for the St. White's Day Festival. It was lunch, and Satoshi ate his bread and walked around the school.

The hallway was empty and Satoshi heard footsteps in the next hall. He paid no attention to it. The sound got closer, and he stopped at the corner; but when he did, the person bumped into Satoshi. It was a girl, she had long bangs in the front of her hair and the back part was as long as her neck, and she was wearing the school's uniform. She was carrying boxes so she didn't know where she was going. The boxes fell over and her whole body fell on Satoshi.

"Aah..."the girl stuttered.

She lifted her upper body with her arm, and she was rubbing her head with the other. She opened her eyes and gasped to see that she was on top of somebody. Satoshi was starting at her the whole time.

"Oh! Oh! I'm so so so so sorry!!! I didn't know where I was going, and I had a lot of things on my mind," she said rather hastily while picking up the boxes filled with silver tinsel (luckily for her, none of the tinsel spilled on the ground).

"It's okay," he replied while getting up.

When she was done picking up the boxes, she noticed Satoshi's glasses were near her feet. She picked that up and held out her hand for him to grab,

"Here you go,"

"...Thanks."

Satoshi grabbed the glasses from her hand and put them on his face. While doing so, she was staring at him; he looked up and saw.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked.

"You look familiar...are you in my class?"

"Probably."

"My name is Kazuko. Kazuko Barero. I'm new here, I was enrolled here from the beginning of school."

"...Satoshi Hiwatari."

"...Satoshi...yeah! I heard that name! You ARE in my class, boy, your very popular amongst a lot of the girls."

"I guess so, but I have no time for them."

"I see. Well, nice to meet you Satoshi," she was saying while walking away.

Satoshi said nothing and continued his stroll around the school.

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After school came and the Festival Committee had a meeting. They did their jobs, and then they went home. Daisuke was about to walk out of the school once he heard his name being called.

"Um...are you Daisuke?" Kazuko asked.

Daisuke looked back to see who was calling him, "Um...H-Hello."

"I don't know if you know me or not, bit I'm new in your class, and I'm also on the Festival Committee. My name's Kazuko Barero."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Daisuke Niwa."

They continued their walk down the street.

"Daisuke, I was just wondering."

"Yes?"

"I just met Satoshi Hiwatari and I've seen him hang out with you lately. Can you tell me what kind of person he is?"

"Uhh..." was the only thing that came out of his mouth.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I'm just curious on why other girls are attracted to him."

"Well, even though he's been hanging out with me, I hardly know anything about him. I don't want to tell her that he's trying to catch my other self, not that I want to tell her that I'm Dark," Daisuke thought, "Well, umm...he's very quiet...and...he...uh...well, that's all I could think of."

"Oh. No wonder girls like him."

"Hm? How do they?"

"Well, first of all, he's very good looking, and second, he's very mysterious. They hardly know anything about him."

"They really think that?"

"Well, that's what I think. That's what made me interested in him. I think all the girls like him because of his good looks."

"Kazuko! I need help on something," yelled Riku.

Kazuko looked back to see Riku holding bundles of paper. Daisuke thought he was going to transform so he hastily said to Kazuko, "I have to go now, bye!" and ran away.

"Was that, Daisuke you were just talking to?"

"Yeah, I just met him. I just wanted to ask him some questions. That's all. So, what is it that you want me to do? I can't stay long, I have errands to run."

"It's not that long to work on, I just need help on making this banner."

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It was night, and the police received another note from Dark.

"We're here at the Museum of Famous Jewelry. Here, we received another message that the Infamous Thief Dark's next target is the Crown on Avalice," said the reporter, "The time is almost here."

Kazuko was standing on the roof of a building observing the group of people around the museum and the reporter with the camera crew. Kazuko had a white t-shirt on with dark green sleeves. He also wore baggy dark green Capri's that stopped in the bottom of her knee and there were strings coming out of the sides of the ends; she wore black gloves.

"Hm...It seems that they're keeping an eye out for that Dark person. It won't hurt to show my face, would it?" she thought.

She jumped off the 3-story building and landed on the ground.

"Now, time to get that crown."

She stood up and ran to the side of the group of people. She was almost at the entrance of the museum, but one of the guards restrained her.

"I'm sorry miss, but I can't let you pass through."

"Oh, sorry about that, I was just here to see if there were any cute guards around here. You seem to be the only one," she was saying trying to put on her charm.

The guard hesitated and blushed.

"Uh...Uhm...N-Now's not the time or the place to do...t-that."

"Oh really? Okay then, I just want to see somebody who's in there."

"B-But you just said-"

Kazuko jumped over the police line and ran past the guard.

"Hey! Stop her!"

The guards in the front of the door attempted to catch her, but failed, and she made her way inside the museum.

"Inspector Saehara!" yelled a guard.

"What is it?"

"Someone's breeching though our defenses."

"Is it Dark?"

"No..." a guard said looking at the monitors, "It's...a woman!"

"She's taken the Crown of Avalice!"

"I'll take care of this," Satoshi said.

Kazuko made her way through the museum until someone from above caught her and pinned her to the ground. The crown slipped away from her hands. It was Dark, and he had his hands cuffed around her arms on the floor. Dark was kneeling on top of her.

"Ah, the Art Thief Dark," Kazuko said.

He looked at the crown that was a distance away from them.

"It seems that you were going to take what I was going to steal."

"I've an interest in art as well. Not only you can get through these defenses."

"Heh, you won't give it back so easily, will you?"

"Why should I?"

"...Good point. If you don't give that to me, I'll have to take it by force," he said moving his face closer to hers.

"Try me."

"Hmph."

Dark still had her pinned to the ground and kissed her.

Satoshi wandered around the museum and then found the woman they were talking about. He couldn't figure out who the woman was, but he knew the person she was kissing.

"Dark..." Satoshi said interrupting their kiss.

Dark pulled away from the kiss, took the crown from the ground and flew away on wiz's wings. Kazuko was a little angry that Satoshi did that (She was thinking, "Damn it!")

Kazuko got up to her feet and turned away to run, but Satoshi grabbed her arm, and pinned her against the wall. (Boy, she's getting pinned everywhere. P) Satoshi examined her face.

"You're that classmate..."

"Oh, it's Satoshi, is it not?"

"What are you doing her in a place like this?"

"Why, looking at the art of course."

"You were here to steal the Crown of Avalice, weren't you?"

"So glad that you noticed. You see, if you didn't recognize yet, I happen to be an art thief too. But I know why you can't catch me, and it's a simple answer too."

"........."

"I'll take my leave now, and one more thing. If you noticed, I got through too, so don't worry about me sneaking past the guards, not that you will."

Dark was flying through the air and then he stood on top of a statue.

"Hey Daisuke, it looks like we have some competition," Dark said.

"You know what, I think that woman is in my class, she's new this year."

"Hm...that's interesting," he said with a grin.

"Dark, what are you thinking!?"

"I think I'm gonna have fun with her. What's her name?"

"Dark, I beg you! Don't do this!"

"All I'm asking is her name."

"......Kazuko."

"Ah, Kazuko...we will meet yet again, to see who's the better thief."

And that's when the competition was on between Dark and Kazuko.

The next day at school, once Kazuko came through the door, Satoshi looked at her. She saw him, smiled, and went to her seat, which were 3 seats to the right of Satoshi.

"It's a nice day today, isn't it Satoshi?" Kazuko asked.

He glared at her, but she just kept on smirking.

"I'm onto you, Kazuko," Satoshi thought.

At lunch, she was walking around the school and Satoshi was following her. Other girls were following Satoshi being half curious and half jealous about him watching her. At one time, she stopped in her tracks and Satoshi did as well.

"Satoshi, why are you following me?" Kazuko asked.

"......Why AM I following her?" Satoshi thought, "That event last night, why did you let yourself get noticed?"

She looked back, "You have a crowd. We need to talk somewhere where it's only the two of us. Keep up with me if you can."

She sprinted through the hallway and Satoshi was trying to keep up with her.

"SATOSHI!" the girls were yelling.

"Ah! Could the one he's following now be his girlfriend?" one of them thought.

"No no no no!! This can't be!"

Kazuko ran up to the top of the roof of the school.

"So, you're actually a fast runner," she said.

"(pant pant)Now...you must...answer my question...(stops panting) Why did you let your self get noticed?"

"Easy, I wanted to get noticed. Dark's been famous for being an art thief for 400 years. I want to start a new life; I don't care if I get noticed...only if I don't get caught. Basically, I wanted to get noticed because of the thrill of getting away."

"It's seems that you just WANT to get famous."

"That might be...but I like new thrills, new challenges, and new places."

"New places...?"

"Yes, I've been to many different cities here, you have a problem?"

"Hmph...it all comes down to you just trying to get away from the law."

He jumped to Kazuko, took her arm and twisted it behind her back, he took the other arm and did the same thing, and then he handcuffed her. She was kneeling on the ground while he was putting pressure on her arms.

"What the hell!?" she thought.

"I am the commander of the special forces to catch Dark. It doesn't mean that he's the only one I could catch, if that's what you were thinking last night."

"Why didn't you arrest me then?"

"........."

"Satoshi...let's make a deal."

"......What..."

"With me around, it's easier for you to catch Dark. I know that from last night...and another thing, I won't give up stealing, but he'll chase me to get the artifact from me. Oh and, I'll even try to get those girls away from you. I know you've been trying to ignore them...it's an offer that you can't refuse."

Satoshi was thinking, while holding Kazuko. Then, after a while, he loosened the handcuffs and let her go.

"You've made a good choice," she said while rubbing her wrists.

"I don't care about the girls, all I want is to catch Dark."

"The girls are annoying when they follow you around, so I intend to chase them away."

"How?"

"Listen, the girls would give up on you if you're taken...I mean, if you have a girlfriend."

Satoshi glared at Kazuko, " What do you mean?"

"I mean, if I play your girlfriend, they would give up on you, if you go out for a while."

"But I don't have time for girls."

"Satoshi! You spend your free time walking around the school! Why not do it with someone you 'like?'"

He thought some more, and then slowly held out his arm to accept; Kazuko took it.

"You've got a deal."

"Okay, I have a plan. To make them slightly give up, let's start 'going out' on St. White's Day. Oh, and let me do whatever I want with Dark. I'd like to have some...fun with him."

"Fine then, we've gotten another message from Dark saying that he's going to steal the Tears of the Gods (A small bottle) from the Atlantis Museum."

"Okay then, I'll be there before Dark says he'll be."

Night came and Kazuko made her way to the museum. She shook past the guards instead of flirting with them and took the artifact when she got in the museum. She didn't notice that Satoshi was in the room until he spoke.

"Well I guess you are punctual," he said.

"I thank you that you trust me. I better go now before Dark notices."

She ran down the hall and one of the guards saw her.

"She's stolen the Tears of the Gods-"

Satoshi went behind that guard and said, "Let her do what she's doing."

"But...commander..."

"I have a plan."

"Sir," he saluted, and then he went back to his post.

Kazuko ran to the back of the museum.

"This is the second time in a row. Do you know that?" Dark said.

He walked out of the shadows and onto the moonlit floor.

"Nice to see you again, Dark."

"And you too, Kazuko."

"Kazuko looked surprised, and Dark started to walk up the her.

"You're not getting away with what I stole this time!" Kazuko said.

"You're underestimating me. You don't know what I could do."

"And so are you."

Dark jumped to Kazuko do get the artifact from her hands, but she evaded and jumped on Dark. She pinned his arms on the ground with his and she was sitting on his stomach (With the bottle still in her hands.).

"The table's have turned, haven't they?" Kazuko asked.

"It might have...but not for long."

"I have one question though..."

"Ask me anything."

"How do you know my name?"

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End of Chapter 1

Well, hoped you like it.