Dark silently but quickly walked through the city to the small forest that rested next to the big clock tower where Emiko had told him to meet this 'Kaiya' girl. Of course, he didn't go out in public with just his normal wardrobe. He wore more practical stuff so that he blended in more. He didn't want to catch any attention from the people around him. That would just cause too much of a mess and too much trouble for Dark.
"So, Dark, when you see her, don't pull any of your tricks on her," Daisuke told Dark with a serious, yet worried, tone.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to pull anything," Dark assured as he smirked.
Daisuke sighed knowing Dark wouldn't listen to a word he said. Through the whole trip, Daisuke had been telling Dark what not to do while around Kaiya. It was really starting to get on Dark's nerves, but he can't quite ignore Daisuke's voice won't leave his head alone. Soon, Dark arrived at the small forest.
"Now where is she?" Dark questioned while looking around.
"She would be by the small pond in here," Daisuke told him.
"How would you know?" Dark asked, once again, out loud. Some on-lookers that walked by gave him a weird look thinking that he was crazy talking to himself but kept walking.
"Just trust me, okay, Dark?" Daisuke said slightly annoyed.
Dark then mumbled a 'whatever' and walked into the forest, looking for this pond. As he searched for the girl, he heard light taps like someone was typing on a keyboard to a computer. Dark followed the noise and it lead to right where he needed to be, at the small pond. Across the pond from where he was, a young girl sat on a rock with a silver laptop on her lap. The girl had short red hair with bangs that slightly went over her bright reddish-orange eyes. She wore a denim skirt with a white tank-top. She then had a short sleeved denim jacket on that bottom of the jacket stopped right above her stomach. The girl was also wearing white shoes.
"That's her, Dark. Now remember-"
Dark ignored Daisuke's rant as he continued to look at the girl in front of him that the fourteen-year-old confirmed was Kaiya. For some reason, this girl looked familiar to him.
"Why do I feel like I know her somehow?" Dark whispered as he started to walk over to Kaiya.
"What are you talking about, Dark?" Daisuke asked, confused at Dark's reaction, but he did not receive an answer.
Soon, Dark was standing next to Kaiya. She immediately noticed Dark there and looked up at him while giving him a smile.
"You must be the infamous Phantom Theif Dark," she said, continuing to smile. She then placed the laptop from her lap to the ground and stood up. After brushing some imaginary dirt off her skirt, Kaiya lifted her hand out for Dark to shake and greeted, "I'm Kaiya Niwa. Nice to meet you"
"Niwa!?!" Dark gasped in shock.
Kaiya gave him a strange look and asked with a small laugh, "Yeah. Emiko is my aunt and Daiki is my grandfather. Wait, you didn't know that? I would have thought my aunt and grandfather would have told you my name"
"Unfortunately they like to keep secrets from me," he mumbled loud enough for Kaiya to hear and she laughed.
"They do like to do that," she agreed and then placed her hands on her hips. "So I'm guessing you don't know why you're here either."
"Actually..." Dark took a moment to think back at what Emiko and Daiki had told him and then continued, "I don't. Why am I here exactly?"
Kaiya laughed again and sat back down on the rock. "Come over here and I'll tell you" She put the laptop back on her lap as Dark sat down on the rock next to Kaiya. A picture of a silver chained necklace was shown on the screen. There was a charm on the necklace that was crescent moon that had different colored stones to decorate it.
"What's that?"
"That, Dark, is the Charm of Serenity," Kaiya answered. "This is what you're going to be stealing tonight. It is said that if someone wears this necklace, good fortune with come to the wearer."
"Good fortune, huh"
"Yes, but that's not just it. Whoever wears this necklace is also cursed. After getting everything they want, the wearer will somehow get into some sort of depression and end up getting themselves killed. It's kind of ironic how someone would name it 'Serenity' with what this necklace can do."
"Strange... So where is this necklace?"
"It's in the museum right over there," Kaiya pointed over in a direction where Dark could just see the roof of the building just over the trees around them.
"Hm..." Dark looked up at the sky like he was deep in thought though he was not thinking about anything at all.
"What are you planning, Dark?" Daisuke asked suspiciously but he received no answer from the Phantom Thief. "Dark?"
"What's the matter, Dark?" Kaiya asked, not getting the hint that he's acting.
"Oh nothing. I was just thinking how you could be related to Daisuke," was Dark's reply. Before Kaiya can respond to that as an insult, he continued, "I mean, you're so beautiful and Daisuke is so... Well... There's not much to say about him"
"DARK!"
Kaiya stared at Dark blankly before shutting her laptop. "If you're trying to flirt with me, you're doing a bad job at it." Dark was shocked to hear her reply so he didn't say anything. Kaiya placed her silver laptop in a carrying case that she had and put the strap over her right shoulder. "If you want to successfully use a pick-up line with me, make sure you don't insult my cousin. Now if you'll excuse me, I want to see my family before the steal tonight." And with that said, Kaiya started to walk out of the forest.
In Dark's mind, Daisuke was laughing uncontrollably. No one has ever acted like that to him, with the exception of Riku Harada. So right now, Dark was not a happy camper. That was also when he realized something.
"You knew this was going to happen, didn't you, Daisuke?"
"I tried to warn you, Dark," the fourteen-year-old told him as his laugh calmed down. "You wouldn't listen to me though."
Dark mumbled under his breath and followed after Kaiya.
Here's another chapter. I hope to get the next one up in the next few days to a week, but who knows? Review please!
