A/N: Sorry about that! I accidently posted the same chapter twice! I mean't to post this on Tuesday, but i messed up, but her it is now! P.S. sorry if I have any spelling mistakes.

Chapter 2: Dark's Suspicion

Daisuke's POV:

It was only a few seconds after Riku and I walked into the mall's food court that we spotted Risa and Shizuku. We all sat down to eat when Risa started to talk to Shizuku, asking her all types of questions. It was easy to tell that Shizuku was a little uncomfertable by this, but didn't say anything.

"So why do you travel so much Shizuku? Are you on a tour of the world or something?" Risa asked her. I knew she meant no harm, but ever since that story of Shizuku not having any friends, I wasn't sure what kind of questions would be appropriate to ask her. Apparently Riku had the same thought that I did, and started glaring at her sister, but Risa didn't seem to notice.

"A-Actually, m-my father's job requires him to be relocated to a new location every few months…" she said, although she seemed nervous about the topic, then again, she has been kind of nervous all day long. But then I had just thought about what she had just said. A new location every few months? Does that mean that she isn't staying?

"So does that mean that you are only here for a couple months?" I asked her. I was actually pretty worried on what her response would be. After all, Shizuku had just gotten here, I didn't want her to move away so soon. I knew I couldn't help it if she moved because of her father's job... So I braced myself for the worst possible answer.

"W-Well actually, no, I'm going to be staying her for a while. Not sure how long, but I know that I will defiantly be here more than a couple months. I wouldn't have attended school if I was just going to leave again." I felt a smile creep up on my face, and I was showered by relief. At least she will be here a while, we could probably become really good friends. She does seem very kind after all, I thought quietly to myself. It wasn't long before my thoughts were interrupted by someone else's.

"I wouldn't get your hopes up Daisuke, she seems more innocent than you, and I didn't even think that would be possible." Dark said, probably with a small smirk on his face.

"What are you talking about Dark?" He asked him, hopelessly confused about what he was suggesting. Shizuku didn't make a very strong first impression, he would give him that, but just look at her… There was no way she could have an evil bone in her body.

"I'm just saying to be careful, you don't really know this girl, and looks can always be deceiving… I mean when people look at you, would they suspect right off the bat that you have a completely charming and handsome phantom thief living inside of you?" He asked, as full of himself as ever.

"You can't compare Shizuku to me, we are completely different people, and I don't think she is lying about anything… I think you need to learn to trust people, Dark" He said back, but then he heard another voice.

"A-Are you ok Daisuke?" Shizuku asked, looking at him with a confused look on her face. Every one was looking at him with the same kind of expression, he must of not been paying attention when he was arguing with Dark.

"Oh I'm fine!" I said, a little embarrassed. "I was just thinking about something else, but never mind that…" I said and realized that Risa had been telling Shizuku about all the great places in town that she should visit when she got the chance.

"And there is one more thing you should really do, we could even go together if you want," Risa continued, "You have to see Phantom Dark in action! He is so dreamy, I've met him before you know." She said, and Riku had started growling, and I just knew what she was going to say next.

"HE IS SUCH A PERVERT!" She said, yelling so loud that other people were starting to look at her. But she didn't even notice them, all she was focused on was telling Risa that she should stop thinking about him and just get a life. They started arguing back and forth, until….

"Um... who is Phantom Dark?" She said, a little afraid of the yelling that had just taken place. But the yelling stopped, and we were all a little shocked that she didn't know. Except for Dark and Risa that is... they were a little angry too. Make that a LOT angry.

"JUST WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?" Dark screamed inside my head, "I KNOW SHE'S NEW, BUT COME ON! WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHO I AM?" He was obviously enraged by this, and apparently, so was Risa. Since her comment was similar to Dark's. But when she did calm down, she explained to Shizuku exactly who he was.

"Does he sound at all familiar now?" Risa asked Shizuku, who was easily frightened by the yelling that had been done towards her.

"N-No actually, but I haven't really been here all that long so please excuse my incompetence towards the particular subject matter." She said, as politely as humanly possible. For some reason, she was being so formal towards us, even though we had made it clear that we wanted to be her friends.

I wonder why Dark wanted me to be careful around her, Shizuku is totally nice, and it wouldn't take a month of knowing her to figure that out. I thought, still confused about what Dark had said. Is it just possible that he sensed something about her? Something that I can't see?

"You don't need to apologize Shizuku, it's not your fault you didn't know, my sister was just over reacting again." Riku said, a smile returning to her face, she was not the least upset with her, nor was I. "Besides, your lucky that you have never met him, trust me." She said, and plastered a frown on her face, well more like a scowl, but you get the point.

After that little conversation was over, it remained quiet. I have to say that it felt a little akward just sitting and eating in silence. But when I glanced at Shizuku, I saw that she didn't seem to mind one bit. Unfortunatly, the lack of conversation seemed to bother me quite a bit. So I thought about something that I could say to spark things up.

"So Shizuku," I asked, she looked up at the mention of her name. I had actually wanted to ask this question to her for a while now, but I wasn't sure if the time was right. But now, I just needed to say something, and the question was the first thought in my mind. "You're actually really nice, but why don't you have any friends?" I could feel Riku hit me under the table, I probably deserved that, but I still wanted to know.

"W-Well, I don't think I'm that nice," she said shyly, looking me right in the eyes. "But I think I told you already why I don't have any friends. I used to move around so much, there really all that much time to make any. A-And... I really don't know how to make any." By then, she was looking down at the table, her expression was depressing, I never meant to make her upset, I was actually complimenting her.

"Daisuke didn't mean anything by that Shizuku! He's just surprised that you don't have more friends, because someone with a personality as great as yours should deserve more friends." Riku quickly put in. "And by the way, you really do seem all that nice, it's just the truth. Daisuke would never lie to you like that. Right Daisuke?" She said, looking at me with those big brown eyes that I just adored.

"Right!" I responded enthusiasticly, "I would never lie about something like that, never!" I would only lie about Dark... I said in my thoughts, making sure I didn't say that part out loud.

"It's okay Riku, I get it," she said. Just then, the bill for our lunch came. I was about to take it, but Shizuku beat me to it. She then pulled out a fifty dollar bill, and told them to keep the change. Wow, she really is that nice. She knew she didn't have to do that... I said in my mind.

"You didn't have to do that Shizuku..." I said to her, speaking my thoughts, and Riku and her sister quickly agreed with me.

"I did it because I wanted to..." she said with a smile and a wink, her voice as quiet as ever. "After all, I am that nice..."

After we left the mall, Riku asked her if she wanted to do anything else today, but Shizuku just shook her head as a response.

"I-I think I need to go home now, but thanks for such a great day!" She said, and then turned around to leave.

"See you tomorrow Shizuku!" Riku yelled after her, who was already half a block away. But then I just remembered what Mom had told me that very morning before school. I had to go steal something tonight, and I really hadn't kept track of the time when we were in the mall. So I looked at my phone to check what time it really was.

Crap! Unless I leave now, I'm going to be late!

"Riku, I just remembered that my Mom wanted me home, and if I don't go now, I'll never hear the end of it... So I'll see you tomorrow?" I said, slightly looking down at her, after all she is just a bit shorter than me. She nodded in understandment, after all, she had met my mom before.

"Okay, see you tomorrow!" she said, and left with Risa towards their home. And then I started to run towards mine. After all, I couldn't let Dark be late for his appearance tonight.

Shizuku's POV:

I opened the door to my new house, thankfully the moving was already done and all of my belongings, and the new furniture I recently bought, were already in their proper place. The Feng Shiu in the room was just right... I had made sure of that, maybe some luck would be heading my way soon.

"I'm home," I said out loud, only to be greeted by silence. But what else would expect in a house where you lived alone?

That's right, I lived alone, not with my so called father, not with anyone. I didn't mean to lie to everyone, but I never wanted any of them to worry about me. Because I just had a feeling that they would care about me, every adult who found out that I didn't have any parents did. Either that or they would try to drag me to some god forsaken adoption agencey.

What most people didn't realize was that I was more than capable of taking care of myself. After all, I have been doing it for... How many years now? I guess five or so years, I didn't really keep track.

I went into my bedroom, which was fairly big in size, not that I needed all that much room. I sat down at my new desk and pulled out one of my many notebooks, and I began to write. I called this free writing, I would think of a random word or concept in my head, used that for the title of my piece, and wrote non-stop for 7 minutes, not caring about spelling or grammer, not that I ever made any mistakes anyway. And I just wrote whatever I had been thinking about, some of the thoughts completely random and out of the blue... But I liked it, it helped me recap on what I was thinking about.

This time for some reason, I titled my entry as, Friends.

It went a little something like this...

I'm thinking about the people that I met today... Riku, her sister Risa, Daisuke (aka Riku's current boyfriend), and I also briefly met Satoshi in the book store. Now I just remembered that I will still need books to read soon, I guess I'll pay a visit to the library after school tomorrow. I am glad that I had decided to move to Amzumo, it without a dought is a quite unique town. I wonder why I chose to move here... I was last living in America before I came, and I still don't know why I chose this particular town over the city. Not like I enjoy the city more than nature, now that I actually think about it, the city is far too loud for my liking. But anyway, oh wait I just remembered something! I can't go to the library tomorrow because I was going to head out to the museum that my mother's family had owned. Well, still owned, my mother passed the museum down to me with her passing. But enough of that kind of talk, I guess I should also mention the concerns that I had today. The main one is coming from an event with Satoshi today. I could of sworn that I had felt a magical energy generating from him. Perhaps that was just my imaginaton though, I don't remember any people by the last name of Hiwatari possesing magical properties. But I do remember reading the name Niwa somewhere through my studies. But for some reason I can't seem to remember where, I guess I have been pretty scatter-brained of late. Also, a character by the name of Phantom Dark seems to have grasped my attention. I believe that he was also somewhere in my studies, but I only rememeber bits and pieces of information. But here is what I do rememeber, he is one of the parts of the Black Wings, an artwork I believe was created by the Hikari family if memory serves me right. He, of course uses magic to help with his theifts, air magic to bemore spceific. But would concern me is that he has special abilities, and with those abilities, it could be possible that he figures out that I...

I then heard a loud ringing sound, indicating that my seven minutes were up. Most people would be clutching their hand in pain for doing just five minutes of sustained writing, but I had gotton used to it over the years.

Then, like I would always do after the buzzer sounds, I would close my notebook, leaving my last sentence unfinished, and locked it away in a chest in my closet until I felt like free writing again. After all, I, like everyone, had secrets, which I never want to be discovered.

Later that night...

Dark's POV:

Yet another successful theft by Phantom Dark... I thought to myself while flying back to the house. Krad had shown himself back at the museum, but I'm positive that I lost him a while ago. Guess he was off his game tonight, he didn't even land one punch on me! But then I started to think about the events that happened earlier today.

I still wonder about that Shizuku girl... I can't seem to shake this feeling that she is bad news. And Daisuke wouldn't even listen to me when I suggested it, I know she looks innocent, but looks can be deceiving. I thought to myself, I mean just look at Krad, one may look at him and assume that he is an angel, but really, he's a devil on the inside. But she couldn't be that bad, at least not as bad as Krad. Maybe I should stop comparing her to others... But then, that would mean that Daisuke would be right, and I wasn't sure if I would want to admit that just yet.

"I wonder..." I whispered to myself, honestly, I couldn't find one bad thing about that girl. Except of course the fact that she is so damn shy... But that isn't any threat, not even close. And although she is shy, she is really cute after all.

Then I saw her, the girl that Daisuke had made as a friend, Shizuku. Her hair was down behind her back, which made it look just the tiniest bit longer, she was still wearing her glasses, but the strangest part was were she was. She was standing on the roof of a house, looking up at the night sky.

She must live there... I thought, but then remembered about what she had said. The thing that had gotten me so pissed off earlier that day. I felt myself smirk at the idea that had just popped into my mind, and I flew closer to Shizuku.

So she doesn't know who I am? Well I guess I'm just going to have to introduce myself won't I?

Shizuku's POV:

For some strange reason, I just had a problem falling asleep that night, maybe it was because of what happened today, what I had found out. I couldn't help but smile, just a little bit.

I continued to look up at the sky, it was so vast, and very beautiful in more ways than one. In the daytime, it is warm and welcoming, filled with light. except for rainy and stormy days of course. But I find the rain quite soothing, and the same goes for Winter. Those kinds of weather calms me down for some reason, I enjoyed those days more than the bright and sunny days. But I still loved the night, it was almost as peaceful as the rain.

But then, I felt a presence come up from behind me, I decided that I wouldn't turn around to face it, at least not until it made its presence known.

"Hello there..." I heard an unfamiliar voice from behind me, as I turned around, I saw none other than... Phantom Dark. I have to admit that I was slightly confused, and slightly annoyed. I really did not want to converse with beings like himself.

Now what could he possibly want? It's not like he knows anything about me, but then again, Riku did say that he was a flirtatious jerk. I thought to myself, looking at him, I said nothing. Trying my best to keep a blank look on my face.

"Now tell me, what's a pretty girl doing up at this late hour?" He asked, a smirk plastered on his 19-year-old looking face.

Maybe if I just answer him, he'll just go away... I thought. "C-Couldn't sleep..." I said, pretending to act scared, but really, I just wanted him to go away. This time, when I was talking, I was stuttering on purpose to give the nervous look its full affect. Apparently, I'm a pretty decent actress when it comes to these things.

"No need to be scared," Dark said, (told you!) "I haven't seen you before..." he continued, walking closer to me. "The name's Dark... What's yours?" he asked, now only a couple feet away from where I was standing.

"Shizuku," I said plainly, still hoping he would just leave. I really didn't want to be bothered by him right now.

"I see... a beautiful name for a beautiful girl," he flirted, and now he was far too close to me for my liking. But fortunately, he backed away from me, the smirk still plastered on his face.

"I have a feeling we'll meet again Shizuku, but for now, I must be going..." he said before he took off into the night sky. Finally, I thought he would never leave... And I really hope we never meet like that again. I thought before climbing off of my roof, and through the window of my bedroom.

I need to be more cautious when I go out at night, so I don't run into that kind of trouble again. I would be albe to handle it if I did, but it would still be annoying... Was the last thought in my mind before I crawled into my bed, and let sleep consume me.

What I didn't know was that not to far away, someone had just witnessed at what had happened on the roof top, and that person was smirking with the new information they had just required.

A/N:

Well, here it is! hope you enjoyed it!

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