"Risa!"

"Risa!"

Kyle and Shayla screamed as they ran after Risa Harada in the hospital hallways. She suddenly came to a halt as she almost crashed into Riku's doctor.

"Doctor! Is..is Riku alright?" Risa asked as she carefully studied his expression. The doctor looked surprised as he looked at Riku's friends. He hesitated as he told them what had happened to Riku.

"Amnesia!" Kyle shouted in disbelief as Risa and Shayla's hopeful faces fell. They decided to go check on her anyway. So the Doctor led the way to Riku's room just to find another surprise. Riku was not where she was supposed to be.

"Huh? Where'd she go?" the Doctor asked as he frantically looked around the room to find her but to no avail. Kyle and Shayla started throwing questions and demands at the doctor for not watching over Riku while Risa stayed quiet. The lump in her throat kept her from saying anything. She held back her tears hoping Riku had just gone to the bathroom or something. Everything had happened all too fast. She couldn't capture anything. She was bewildered and all she wanted was for Riku to be back. She was all Risa had left anymore. But now….

"What do you mean you can't find her? It was your responsibility to keep watch over your patients! She's only 7 years old! And you said she lost her memories! So she wouldn't know where she is right now!"

"Yeah everything must be all so new to her! Poor Riku."

Kyle and Shayla were getting frustrated when Riku was no where to be seen in the hospital. Her name was announced through the hospital's PA system but they doubted that she would even remember her own name. Then Risa remembered the silver name tag necklace she had given to Riku. Maybe there was still hope left. As long as Riku had the charm necklace, maybe she would be able to find her sister.

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Dark Mousy layed Riku down on his bed after catching her from falling in the middle of the street. His house was a huge mansion. He was a famous artist and he had many maids and servants. He was like a prince. He was handsome, he was a good cook, he had the perfect body that any guy would desire and had wild violet colored hair and violet-crimson eyes that caught anybody's attention. He was also a real ladies man. He was admired wherever he went, he was almost perfect. Almost.

A long time ago, Dark and his cousin, Krad secretly stole a magic potion that gives you a longer life for their dying away mother. They had taken it from a witch named Rinari. When Rinari found out that they had taken the potion, she hunted them down and put a terrible curse on them that would never ever allow them to age from that point on. So Dark and his cousin has been 15 years old for about 40 years now and Dark was getting tired of this 'forever' life. He was practically immortal. He wanted to experience death. He could just kill himself but only Rinari could kill him. His goal in his life was to lift the curse off of him and Krad. All he needed to do was find Rinari again or someone who had the same power as her. He knew Rinari was still alive and that she was in Tokyo someplace. After all his thoughts, he suddenly heard a groan coming from his bed.

"mmngh..now where am I?" Riku yawned and looked around.

"Well, well looks like you're finally up. What happened to you anyway?" Dark asked Riku as she whipped her head around to look at the person who had just talked to her. She looked startled for a moment but regained her senses quickly.

"Uhmm mister, do I know you?" Riku asked Dark as he let out a short laugh.

"The name is Dark Mousy. And you, my lady?" he asked as he casually walked over to his bed in which she was sitting in. Riku didn't answer for a long time. She just sat there as Dark stared at her. It made her feel like she had done something wrong.

"M-my name…?" Riku struggled to bring back whatever memory she had, but her mind just wouldn't let her. Finally she decided that she didn't know.

"I-I don't know sir…"she said. Dark looked at her with sympathy in his eyes as he realized that this girl had lost her memories. His eyes caught something shiny hanging from her neck. He bent down and grabbed her necklace.

As he studied it, he said,

"Hmm… your name seems to be Riku Harada and you are currently 7 years old." Riku stared with a confused look on her face.

"And it looks to me you have amnesia." Dark continued. "You can stay at my place if you don't have anywhere to go Riku."

The little girl barely managed to let out a small 'thank you' before she fell back to sleep.

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6 YEARS LATER

"Ohayo Dark!" Riku yelled from upstairs as she bounced down the stairway to greet Dark. He was in the kitchen, standing next to his cook. Riku was now 13 years old and Dark was.. well, still 15(or should I say 61). Riku's room was on the third floor of Dark's castle-like home. The first thing you would notice when you stepped into Riku's glamorous room was the glass wall that stretched from one end of her room to about halfway across the floor that separated her room into two. A white curtain with a tint of blue hung from the glass wall. Her room's walls were also light blue. The smaller side contained her queen sized bed, and her bathroom. Her bed was light blue and the head board and her bed sheets were white. The bigger side had her desk and closet and that kind of stuff.

"Hello Riku." Dark greeted her back as he gave Riku a kiss which was returned to him with a hard slap. But it was worth it. Riku was so cute when she blushed. Like she was when he had kissed her. The food was served and they ate breakfast in silence as Dark rubbed his now red cheeks. He could have sworn she took karate lessons or something before she moved in with him. He now knew more about the girl in front of him and knew better not to bother her when she was pissed off. When they were finally done eating, they got in one of Dark's many limousines and rode to their first day of school. Riku was now starting her 1st year of high school and Dark was starting his 2nd.

As soon as Dark and Riku stepped out of the limo, Riku was being glared by all the girls in school and Dark was being drooled over from the remaining girls who weren't glaring at Riku. Riku didn't mind though. All the girls could do is be jealous and glare at her. What were they gonna do? Even if they did try to hurt her, she could beat them up. After all, she was known for being the strongest and toughest girl in her junior high school. Even though Dark was famous and popular and all, Riku was still somewhat smarter than him, so they had classes together

Riku's schedule

1 PE(swimming) gym

2 math C2

3 art F1

4 English A12

5 biology C11

6 japanese J17

Dark's schedule

1 PE(swimming) gym

2 english B5

3 art F1

4 chemistry JH3

5 math C2

6 japanese J17

They had 3 classes together.

'Oh great.' Riku thought. '3 whole hours with that bastard. And I'll have to put up with the stupid girls dawging me for 3 hours a day. It's not my fault I ended up living with him..tch..' Riku looked over her schedule and frowned at her first class. She didn't really like swimming. She was good at it. She was good at every sport. But she just didn't like the fact that she'd have to dress in a swimming suit. And she'd have to see Dark in his swimming trunk…with no shirt. It disturbed her. She thought about how the swimming pool would be filled with girls' saliva because they would drool so much over the sight of Dark in his swimming suit. She wasn't quite ready for it. As she got changed, something rolled over and hit her foot. She looked down to find a cylinder shaped bottle of lotion. She picked it up and looked for the owner of the lotion. Then someone came over and tapped Riku on the shoulder. She turned around and a girl with braided pigtails looked back at her.

"Umm..that's mine." The girl said.

"Oh..right. here." Riku turned around to finish getting dressed when the girl tapped her again.

"Ah sorry. I'm Ritsuko Fakada. ( is this right? Ritsuko's last name.) I'm a first year here, I was just wondering would you happen to know where the gym might be?" She asked Riku. Riku knew where the gym was because she had taken a tour of the school with Dark the day before and she basically knew her way around.

"Hold on." Riku said as she put her stuff in her locker and slammed it shut. It was a chilly morning and it was pretty cold in just a swimming suit and a towel.

"I'm Riku Harada and I'm also a first year, but I know where the gym is. Just follow me." Riku told her. She slung her white towel over her shoulder and lead Ritsuko out of the locker room and around the corner to the gym. There were already many kids there and the girls had to squeeze themselves from the main gym into the smaller gym where the swimming pool was located. As soon as Riku stepped in a soccer ball flew full-speed toward her face. She didn't notice the ball until Dark screamed out her name telling her to watch out. Riku quickly caught the ball at the last moment before it could harm her and kicked it all the way to the other side of the swim gym. She heard someone apologize somewhere..not that she cared anyway. Inside the pool gym, there were 4 swimming pools in total, a race pool, 2 regular pools and 1 Jacuzzi. Soon they heard whistles and 2 coaches walked into the gym. There were two classes that had swimming for PE that period. The kids lined up with the correct teacher and after roll call, they were dismissed to have freeplay inside the pool gym.

"Hey Riku you wanna race me?" Riku turned around. It was Daisuke Niwa, a kid from her junior high school.

"Oh hey Daisuke. Sure, why not?" Riku was always ready for a challenge. Riku, Daisuke and Ritsuko walked over to the race pool.

"Okay you have to get over to the other side and back." Said Ritsuko. They decided it would be best for Ritsuko to be referee.

"Ready, set, go!" at that Riku and Daisuke sped off. They were both great swimmers. A lot of the kids came over to watch the race. It was a close race. But Riku won by 2 seconds in the end. Riku and Daisuke were both congratulated by the other kids(mostly guys).

Dark was also watching the race. But he was really only looking at Riku. She had really grown beautifully over the years. He couldn't help glancing over at her. she was so cute. And she was. Her hair was now shoulder length and was a beautiful shade of auburn. Her amber eyes were always confident and she stood out from everyone. Dark liked Riku a lot. Until now he had only liked her as if she were his sister. But he has been having a change of heart. He stiffened a little when she looked at him. His heart always seemed to skip a beat whenever he thought about her. What was this feeling? He couldn't change the fact that he was actually starting to like this girl he had found a few years ago. He had to admit that he wasn't too happy about Riku hanging out with so many guys. He was afraid someone else might steal her away from him. Who wouldn't like Riku? She seemed so perfect. She wasn't like all those other girls. She was different. Something about her intrigued Dark. Maybe because she was the only girl he ever met that wasn't all over him. He held the heart of every girl he wanted…except one. Riku's. Why was she so perfect to him? He liked everything about her. Her looks, personality, figure, hair. everything. He had told her about his curse the day before.

"Riku, I need to talk to you." Dark said. Riku looked at him with a questioning look on her face. His facial expression was serious. It wasn't like his normal looks like a smirk on his face.

"what is it Dark?" she asked

"you've noticed I haven't been physically changing over the past 6 years…"

"um yeah?"

"I wanted to tell you this before but I wanted to wait until you were older…"

"what?"

"I…I'm cursed."

"cursed?"

"it was about 45 years ago. A witch who called herself Rinari……" and he told her the story about how him and his cousin Krad had been put on a curse because they stole that potion from Rinari.
"so…only people with a power like Rinari's can break that curse?" Riku asked him

"yeah..im trying to find—"

"I'll do my best to help you find a solution to you and your cousin's problem Dark. I'll help in any way I can…I don't like seeing people suffer because they were trying to help someone they loved. Like your mother." Riku interrupted. Most people would have freaked out on him and on the fact that he was like in his 60's in a way. but not Riku.

"Thank you" Dark had given her a hug out of his shock to her answer. She was special.

And so the day went on like Riku had expected. Girls flirting with Dark and him being on her nerve all day. And like the artist he was, he was extremely good at art and she admired his work. She was actually surprised at the news that Dark had given her last night. About some curse. But she was determined to help him. His cousin, Krad was coming to live with Riku and Dark in about a week. She was eager to meet him. Riku had made many new friends during the week. Like Ritsuko and Taruto. She had met Taruto in Japanese class. He was an immature funny little kid that got in trouble almost every single day. As for Dark, as the years went by, she had gotten more used to him. And she believed that she had some sort of special bond with him. Whenever he was away for a while, she got worried over him. She felt secure and happy whenever she was with Dark and it bothered her that he was such a womanizer. A part of her didn't want other girls to be around him. She didn't like him. She knew that for sure. Sure he was good looking, had a great body, he was popular, smart…and whenever she looked into his eyes, she seemed to be drowned in those deep eyes and it was so hard for her to pull her gaze away from his. She always convinced herself that she didn't like him. But some part of her opposed to that.

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And the day that Krad would arrive from America finally came. Riku was practically jumping up and down from excitement. She couldn't wait to see what the cousin of the gorgeous Dark would look like. Dark was clad in a big black Tshirt over a white long sleeve. He wore loose black jeans and a black belt with silver studs loosely hanging from his jeans. Riku was wearing a black sweatshirt with a picture of red wings on the back and low rise gray cargo pants that dragged along her heels because they were a little too long for her. Her hair was tied high in a messy bun. As Dark and Riku waited at the airport, Dark finally pointed out a gorgeous looking blonde dressed in a white tank that exposed his nice figure and a shirt with the buttons undone. He had loose white cargo pants on and his long blonde hair was tied in a low ponytail. He had dazzling golden eyes to match his hair and he was almost a perfect replica of Dark.

"Yo." He smiled.