The Man called Kaitou Dark Mousy
NOTE: This is the sequel to the fanfic, "The Fallen Angel". In this fic, Shuichi Hikari, Satoshi's brother, is actually Kaitou Dark. Though I'll still label him as Dark but everybody here will call him Shuichi Hikari. I don't own D.. I'm just a fan. This is a DarkxRiku pairing.
"Nee, Satoshi. Tell me now, will you? You must've known a lot about me before you let me come here. You're that type of guy," Dark said.
"Quit bothering me. I'm telling you I don't know!" Satoshi said. "But why are you avoiding me whenever I ask this question? This is the only time you got so angry when I asked something," Dark said. Satoshi started sweating. "This is bad. I don't know what lie I should say that'll coordinate with everyone he'll talk to about it," Satoshi thought. "Otouto-kun," Dark pleaded tugging Satoshi's sleeve. Satoshi trembled and, out of anxiety, he slapped a book to Dark.
"Ow, my jaw is still cracking. Satoshi went overboard hitting me with that thick book!" Dark thought. "He even refused to ride the same car with me."
Dark finally reached the school. As soon as he went out of the car, girls consecutively greeted him. As he passes by the football field, he looks at Riku who's warming up with other lacrosse players. "Having the same face as her, it must've been the reason why I am interested in Riku. It must be it. This is humiliating. I guess I'm lucky that nothing serious happened yesterday. I'll only break her heart. That girl...must have been my ex-girlfriend, or worse, a girlfriend I forgot," Dark thought. "Is it really possible to have a stranger getting the same face as you though you already have a twin?"
"Dark!" Daisuke gasps; holds his mouth and hides. Dark looks back. "Eh? Dark?" Dark blinked. "Why did I turn?" he muttered while scratching the back of his head. Dark goes to the school building.
"Stupid, stupid! Don't call him 'Dark'!" Daisuke hits his head.
Riku watches Dark as he goes to the school building. She heard someone call Dark's name. "These people. Don't call him 'Dark.' I actually thought he would be around," Riku thought.
Risa stares at Dark. Her eyes play around his face for a long time until Dark finally feels uncomfortable.
"Nani?" Dark asked while smiling at her. Risa shakes her head lightly. "Nothing," she said. "It's just that...I think you really look like Dark-san."
"Huh? Dark-san?" Dark asked.
"Un. You don't know Dark-san?" Risa asked. Dark shakes his head.
"He's a phantom thief who snatches away valuable things no matter what it takes," Risa said. "At first, he'll give the police a note that tells he'll be stealing something. He'll put in detail – the time and the place and what he will be stealing. Then, at that exact time, he'll arrive and leave even in less than fifteen minutes! He is able to take it easily from a cage, inside a trap, above, beneath, even with everyone watching! The police cannot do anything with him."
"I can see he's great enough to receive such compliments from you," Dark said. "Un," said Risa. "He's really, really, really great! I'm actually his number one fan!" "So you think I look like Dark-san?"
"Un. Actually, you don't just 'look like' him. It's more like you are him," Risa said. "from your face, to the way you move and the way you speak. Everything's so similar." "Ah, I see. Who is exactly this Dark-san? I mean, where does he live? You know, because, just this morning-"
"Harada-san," Daisuke called from behind. Dark and Risa look at him. "Riku-san is looking for you," Daisuke said. "Ah, hai." Risa claimed. "I'll be right back, Hikari-kun." "No, that's okay. It's getting late anyway. You should go home," Dark said. "But I'd like it if we go home together," Risa said. "Ah, really?" Dark just looked away. "I'll be right back quick and we'll talk more about Dark-san," Risa giggles and leaves.
Daisuke looks at Dark; Dark grins. "Nee, Daisuke. Risa-chan is really pretty, isn't she?" Dark said. "Yeah, but I think Risa is interested in you more," Daisuke said. "Please don't say that," said Dark. "As the things happen this way, how can I focus on the girl I'm interested on?" "You like someone right now, sempai?" Daisuke said. "Not quite yet. Well, at least I thought I am, but then, I probably am not. I have to clear things myself first before I make a move at her, but she's the only girl I'm interested to," Dark said.
"But you're really sweet and gentle towards other girls," Daisuke said. "Eh? Well, I can't be harsh on girls," said Dark. "They're very fragile on a lot of things. Skin, feelings, thoughts and more. I'm not yet ready to see them break down and cry."
Dark's mind is filled with questions now but his maturity in handling situations is still present. Daisuke is impressed. "You are Dark, after all. It is expected that you're this way," Daisuke thought.
"Oh yeah, Risa talked about someone called Kaitou Dark Mousy just now. How about you? Can you tell me more about him?" Dark said. Daisuke is astonished. "Eh?" "Nani? You don't know Dark? Risa said he's popular. If I'm right, he's been stealing for almost a year now but then he suddenly disappeared. Hm...mysterious guy, ne?" Dark flicked his pen around his fingers. "It's such a shame because he disappeared just when I arrived in this town." Dark said. Daisuke is motionless on his seat and started sweating cold. "Oi, Daisuke!" said Dark. "What happened?"
"Ah, it's nothing," Daisuke looks away. He hopes that Dark won't ask about Kaitou Dark anymore. "Ne, tell me about Dark," Dark said. Daisuke got stiffer than before. He stands on his seat. "Eh?" Dark looks up at him. "Sorry. I remembered I promised Mom I'd go home early," Daisuke said. Dark blinks. "Eh? Your Mom? Eh? Oi, Daisuke! Wait! What the-...weird."
"He must be thinking I'm so weird. How the hell will I answer? It's so difficult. I should ask Satoshi what he told him so every answer will be the same." Daisuke murmured.
"Niwa-kun," Riku called. "Oh, Riku-san," Daisuke said. "Where is Risa?" Riku said. "Eh? I already sent her to you. She hasn't meet up with you yet?" Daisuke said. Riku shakes her head. "It's so weird. If you sent her here, I don't think I would miss her in this spot." Riku said.
"You're right...but I swear I did send her," Daisuke looks around. His heart skips a beat. "No." Daisuke mutters. "Eh? Nani, Niwa-kun?" Riku called.
Daisuke is staring at a ribbon he saw hanging on to Risa's hair. "I'll look for her; stay here in case she comes," Daisuke said. "Ah, un. Okay," Riku nods. Daisuke picks up the ribbon when Riku isn't looking. He immediately hides it in his pocket.
"This is her ribbon, alright, but...where did she go? She definitely went by here," Daisuke thought.
"Dark-san!" a girl's faint voice called. Dark, alone in the classroom, got surprised. "Eh? "Risa? Is that you?" he called. No answer. He looks around; there's no one around. "Dark-san!" the girl called again. "What the-" Dark looks around. "Risa? Are you making fun of me?" he said. No answer.
He stands up from his seat and searches from where the voice can possibly come from. The windows, the hallway, the cabinets. Dark turns pale. "Don't tell me it's..." Dark turns around. He screams seeing Satoshi behind him. "Satoshi!" he yelled. "What are you doing here?" Satoshi asked. Daisuke is behind Satoshi looking worried.
"Eh? What's wrong?" Dark said.
"Risa's missing? But I heard her just now, I think but...she was calling 'Dark-san'," said Dark. "It was so weird. I couldn't find her anywhere. Could it be a doppelganger?" "So someone told of about Kaitou Dark. But I must say, even though he's human, his instincts are still sharp. Is it possible that he still gains his powers, too?" Satoshi thought. "Oi, Satoshi. Are you listening to me? I said 'I heard her', don't you think that being able to hear her is already a great progress to find her?" Dark said.
"You don't have to help us, but if you're so insistent, you may help. But whatever happens to you is not my responsibility," Satoshi said. Dark is speechless. Daisuke sweatdropped. Dark throws a book to Satoshi's face. Daisuke gasps. Satoshi groans. "You're always like this – acting high and mighty, but you're just seventeen! Of course, I will help since you're my little brother. If you weren't, did you think I would still insist? You arrogant little prick! If something happens to you with your detective game, I won't be able to live normally!" Dark yelled.
Satoshi is dumbfounded at Dark. He sighs and says, "Fine. Then tell us where do you think it's coming from?" "Here," Dark said pointing to his head. "It's coming from here."
Satoshi and Daisuke stare at him. Satoshi enraged and shook Dark holding Dark's collar. "Do you think this is some joke? How in anyway do you think we'll enter that thick head of yours?" Satoshi screamed to Dark's ear.
"I'm not joking. It's really here," said Dark. "but I don't know how to jump in." "Calm down, Hiwatari-kun. He won't figure it out easily if you'll keep losing your temper," Daisuke said holding Satoshi back ceasing both his arms.
"Ssh, I hear it again," Dark said. "She's calling 'Dark-san'." Satoshi and Daisuke watch Dark. "Risa? Risa, do you hear me?" Dark said. Satoshi holds his forehead. Daisuke sweatdropped. "Risa, Risa." Dark continuously called.
"He's staining my name," Satoshi said. "Weird. She doesn't hear me," said Dark. "we have to think of a way to know where she is now." "Hiwatari-kun-" Daisuke sweatdropped ceasing Satoshi's arms again. "You won't get serious with this!" Satoshi yelled.
"No! Don't, please! Go away! Help! Aaah!" Risa cried. Dark alarms. "Risa!" he claims and hits the floor with his fist. A strong energy surrounds the classroom. Daisuke and Satoshi are astonished at what happened. The classroom changed with different scene. They are in the same classroom but the room turned gloomy, messed up and soiled. "Where-" Daisuke blinked.
"Risa!" Dark called running out of the classroom. "Niwa, let's go!" Satoshi said. "Risa, where are you?" Dark claimed. "I'm here! I'm- aaah!" Risa shrieked.
Daisuke looks around. The boys and girls they pass by are, rather, glaring at them. "Satoshi, every one here looks angry," Daisuke said.
They finally reach the classroom where Risa is. A group of students are pulling Risa's dress and hair. Some are ripping her clothes and touching her chest. "Don't...No!" Risa shrieked.
Dark began pulling and hitting the students grouping up against Risa. "Hikari-kun," Risa called. "Yes, it's me, Risa. Daisuke and Satoshi are with me. Run to them now," Dark said. "Hai!" Risa ran to the door. Daisuke and Satoshi had their own business.
"Niwa-kun, Hiwatari-kun!" Risa called. Daisuke and Satoshi look at her. "Harada-san!" Daisuke claimed. "Hiwatari-kun, let's go." "Un."
"Where's Shuichi?" Satoshi asked. "He's back there. Please help him," Risa said. Satoshi went to the room Dark was and he's being outnumbered. "Get off me," Dark yelled. Satoshi sees a crumpled used paper on the floor.
"Shuichi!" Satoshi called. "Use this." He throws a crumpled paper at him. Dark catches it and turns it into a smoke bomb. They manage to escape. Dark coughs as he had inhaled some of the smoke. He grips on Satoshi's sleeve. Dark groans. "Wait. I-" "What?" "I feel...sleepy," Dark fell to the ground.
When his palm touched the floor, they returned to their original world. "Hikari-kun," Risa claimed taking his shoulders up to look at his face. Dark is sleeping. Risa sighs. "Thank good-"
Satoshi hits Risa's nape and she fell down. "Hiwatari-kun," Daisuke claimed. Satoshi carries Dark with his back. "Please do something about Risa's clothing, Niwa, before you return her to Riku. Also, hide our things somewhere. I'll pick them up later. Don't tell anything to Riku or Risa of what truly happened. As far as we're concerned, Risa only fell unconscious because of anemia. You understand, right, Niwa?"
Daisuke did as he was told. Riku was happy to see Risa is okay, but Risa couldn't accept Daisuke's excuse of what happened. Risa is speechless the whole time after she woke.
"Risa doesn't believe that she fell unconscious because of anemia and gained so many bruises," Daisuke said.
"Dark is still not awake," Satoshi said.
"I didn't realize Dark is aware of his powers," Daisuke said. "Did you forget, Niwa? Dark didn't forget anything in the first place. He was only brainwashed. We brainwashed him. Telling him he's just a normal high school student," Satoshi said. "But I don't get it. Why did something like that happen?" Daisuke said. "I was meaning to ask Niwa-sama for that," said Satoshi. "At this rate, we're by ourselves now. Dark is not here to answer questions involving his past life."
"I see. That's what happened, huh?" said Daiki. "Dark has been helpful during that crisis, hasn't he?" "Jii-chan," Daisuke sweatdropped. "We're serious here. What's going on? We can't let that happen anymore. For now, we may let this slip up but the next time, Risa might smell something she shouldn't."
"It can't be helped. He's not a normal human being after all," Daiki said. "He's the only being who can seal the Hikari arts including the powers the Hikaris have. Satoshi can draw and make any art creations now thanks to the seal Dark made on his cursed powers."
"Dark sealed your power?" Daisuke repeated. Satoshi looks away. "it was when I made a random scribble drawing just to test a pen. My drawing turned into some insane stickman who throws sharp sticks everywhere and everyone in the house. Dark was living with me so the artwork didn't slip out of the house. Only, he was pissed off so he sealed up my powers to create cursed artworks. It's in here," Satoshi shows his right wrist. "You can't see it with your naked eye. It has to be looking through fire or water." Satoshi makes Daisuke look through a drinking glass.
"Wow, so cool," Daisuke said. "It did appear." "Anyway, getting back to our talk, it definitely is impossible that Satoshi might've created some cursed art since we all know now that his powers to create them are now sealed up," Daiki said.
"Anyway, how did you tell Dark about this?" Daiki asked. "He hasn't wakened up yet," Satoshi said.
Dark slowly opens his eyes. He blinks his eyes and groans as he rises up. His body felt heavy. He neither feels tired nor over-rested. He feels just uncomfortable with himself. "What happened?" he said.
"Risa?" Riku called from the door. From a usually noisy and bratty sister Risa has always been, she suddenly turned really quiet. "What are you thinking about?"
Risa only glanced at her. "Nothing."
"You've gone really quiet since you woke up. And you were really scared. You want to about it, what you dreamed about?"
Risa held herself as she recalled the traumatic situation that she swears felt too real to be called just a dream. And she never fainted due to anemia. She's born well and healthy.
"Riku, please just hold me for now."
"Of course," Riku immediately comes over to her sister and she's surprised that Risa grabbed onto her tightly. Her trembling affected Riku's stance.
"Risa—come on, tell me what happened. You don't have to suffer by yourself."
"I can't really tell anymore how this happened, too." Daiki said. "To tell you the truth, Dark is done with his job and he really is retired with dealing with such tendencies. I doubt there's another Hikari art out there, really. He and With are the only remaining art pieces and they're in one piece, living and breathing in this world."
"Jii-chan…" Daisuke felt a lot more helpless than before after finding out his all-knowledgeable grandfather is just as clueless as Satoshi and he.
Dark is sitting by the windowsill, looking down to the vast area that is Azumano. No matter what he does, his eyes would always stop at the tip of the island that is the Harada property. He felt more at ease and nostalgic looking at it, more than any other place in Azumano. His feeling of being familiar of it gets greater and greater. But he's only been around for a quarter of the year.
He sighs; stands up to go to bed. Then felt a strong force attracting him to look through the things that wasn't his. A black trench coat that always caught his eye and Satoshi refuses to take off his room.
He rummages on the pockets, instinctively. And he finds a curious-looking frozen red butterfly with a plain black string at the tip, making it look like a girl's necklace.
His heart twisted and his mind flashed memories that aren't supposed to be there. A beautiful girl in a formal attire with long auburn hair. A dazzling night by a maze garden. A heart-thumping moment of standing really close to that girl.
He looked at it in agony, feeling really attached to the butterfly and the memory of that girl. He held his head.
"Crap."
Riku, in the meantime, rummaged on her belongings, hoping to find that one gift she could use to cheer up Risa. The necklace with a red butterfly pendant Dark gave to her. Just as much as she loved and treasured it because it's from Dark, she loves and treasures her sister and wants her to smile and be cheerful again. Dark may hate her for giving it up to her sister, but she doesn't have anything just as fancy that Risa will definitely like.
"Where the hell is it?" Riku wipes her sweat. "I swear I placed it here!"
A clink in the window surprised Riku. "Huh?" Riku blinked. Another clink at the window. Riku frowns. She swings the window open. "Who-" There's no one. "The hell?"
Another clink on the window. She raises a brow and looks further below. She finds Dark looking up at the window next door. "Shuichi-kun—" Her heart drops. She turns around and holds herself. Instead of her window, Dark is now after Risa's.
Riku bites her lip. She is saddened at the sight. "What the hell?"
"Let's reread the list we made. First, his behavior at home...telephone till morning, talkative, annoying...uh, jerk? Aren't there any positive traits?" Daisuke sweatdropped.
"Hmph. If there will be positive traits, he won't be himself," Satoshi said.
"Hiwatari-kun-" Daisuke laughs.
There are clinking sounds on Riku's window this time, but she's too hurt and contemplating to even care. She was on the verge of tears, but the tears refuse to let her cry.
"Riku!"
Riku gasps and turns around, finding Dark at her windowsill.
"I'm sorry I let myself in. You're sleeping?"
Riku jolts from her bed. "What are you doing?" She pushes him away from the window. "Get out!"
"Riku—" Dark holds her angry hand and looks at her with angst.
"Go home!"
Dark pulls her arm to enclose her in his arms. Now the tears that refused to fall from her eyes are screaming to fall. "No! What are you doing?"
"I'm sorry!" He begged. He held his head. "But I—for some reason, I felt that Risa was calling for me. And I don't even understand why I know where her room is, or your room has always been. It's all just coming down to me that I know."
"Behavior in school, uh...womanizer, pretender, self-conceited? Hiwatari-kun!" Daisuke sweatdropped. "What?" Satoshi said.
"Nee, how about his attitude towards Daisuke or the Harada twins?" Daiki said.
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