Title: Hoi Ni Ochittamo
Chapter: 4 (I can't believe it ;P)
Rated: T

"Krad." Satoshi said with surprise and anger in his voice.

"Come Satoshi at least sound a little glad to see me."

He opened his eyes and looked at the boy before him.

"What did you do Krad? Wait. This means that last night wasn't a dream, I fell, and you..."

Krad turned around and faced the door.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"But..." Satoshi tried to say something but he was interrupted.

"You're father wants to see you."

"My father? What did you say to him?"

"I haven't seen him. So if you don't want him to know we've been separated then I suggest not telling him."

He opened the door and walked out, leaving a stunned Satoshi.

"If you haven't seen him then how the hell do you know he wants to see me?" he thought as he got out of bed. He looked down to find himself still fully clothed. He walked out and there was no one around. The place was quit and cold as usual as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

"Damn what does my father want now? I really don't have time for this."

He began to walk down the hallway and down the stairs toward his father's study where he always was when he was home.

Satoshi took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

He opened the door slowly and entered and felt a chill go up his spine, it was even colder in here.

"Ah Satoshi how good it is to see my son again!"

He gave him a smile, and fixed his glasses on the bridge of his nose.

"I hear you had quit a night last night."

Satoshi's heart began to pound.

"Does he know?"

"Satoshi, I'll be blunt with you, if you continue to let Dark escape, I'm afraid I'll have to take matters into my own hands."

"What do you mean?"

Satoshi looked up as his father began to stand from behind his desk. "I mean..." He came closer and gave Satoshi a hug. "If Dark isn't captured soon..." He wispered in his ear. "I'll have to take drastic measures, and someone could get hurt."

Satoshi pushed his father away.

"I can handle things on my own! I can capture Dark if you just stay out of it!"

His head throbed badly from his yelling, and he could hardly understand what his father said next.

"Let's hope so."

He sat and began to pace his brief case and put on his fake, happy tone again.

"I'm afraid I must leave again for a little while. Just have to do some important business at the office."

He smiled and took his coat off the coat rack.

"Remember what I said Satoshi."

He patted him on the head and waited for Satoshi to leave the room.

He turned and left going straight up the stairs to his room. Opening the door he was met with the last person he wanted to deal with now.

"I trust you had another pleasant conversation with your father." Krad mocked. He looked rather bored as he stared out the window and watched as the car pulled out of the driveway.

"That's none of your business. Now explain to me exactly what happened to us last night! Is Niwa like this too?"

Krad turned and looked at the boy.

"It is my business; you and I are the only ones that can catch Kark after all."

Satoshi became very agitated.

"Well?"

"I have no idea what happened. I was about to defeat Dark when the Yuumei Wings activated and somehow separated us."

Satoshi squinted his eyes; there was something he wasn't telling him.

"What the hell are we supposed to do now?"

When he didn't get an answer he sighed and rubed his head. Trying to think but still keeping a safe distance from the angel.

"Well if you're not going to tell me then I'm going to Niwa's to see what they know."

He turned ot leave when he was stopped by someone grabbing he hand.

"If you go I'll have to go to." Krad said simply, not letting go of Satoshi.

"Wha...Why? I can't take you out in public!" He said looking at his big white wings and gaudy outfit.

"Then we'll have to go tonight because..."

He didn't let go of Satoshi's hand but held them up to his face and touched something between them Satoshi couldn't see. Then something began to glow a light blue in Krad's hand. He looked closer and it was like a piece of glowing blue string connecting Krad's wrist to his wrist.

'This thing connects us together. You wouldn't have gotten down the block before I would have been drawn to you."

Satoshi fingered the magical string that held his wrist.

"Is this an effect for the pendent?" he asked.

"No, its the bond between me and my tamer."

Krad finally let go of his hand, and the magical string stopped glowing and became invisible once more.

"This is just great. I'm free of him, yet I'm not really free."

He looked up at Krad who once again took to looking out the window.

"Fine, I'll just do some research here then and we'll go to Niwa's tonight. But I don't think you're the most welcome person in there household."

He didn't answer and Satoshi walked over to his desk and opened his laptop to try and find something on the pendent, and Krad just stayed at the window, but his attention was on someone else.

A Few Hours Later...

Satoshi leaned back in his chair and streached his arms over his head. He'd been at it for hours checking old documents and stuff from the Sunnen Museum and the only thing he found was an article put on display in front of it at the museum about how it was suspected to be a Hikari original but there was no evidence of it. The pendent was found in a cavern deep under ground, and in remarkable condition. He sighed and looked up at the ceiling trying to get an idea. Krad left a lettle while ago to wonder around the house because he was getting bored. And Satoshi didn't like having his back turned to him for such a long time so it was a relief when he left. He thought about where he might get some more information about the Yuumei Wings when it hit him.

"My father usually has all kinds of documents on art in his study."

He got out of his chair and walked out of the room, into teh dark house,and down the stairs back to his father's study. When he got there he tried to open the door but it was locked.

"Now would be a good time for Niwa to be here."

"Sneaking into daddy's private study I see."

Satoshi jumped in surprise and turned around to see Krad standing behind him.

"Don't scare me like that! I'm trying to get in to see if he has anything on that pendent."

"Well then let me help."

Satoshi eyed him. "Why is he being so helpful? Knowing him, I should be dead by now." Then a flashback went through his mind of when Krad had kissed him. He shook his head and turned around to hide his blush.

"What can you do?"

"This..."

He said and knelt by the door, and put his hand on the door knob. He began saying a few words in another language not even the boy genius understood. His hand glowed yellow and the door knob began to turn. When he was done he got up and touched the door and it swung open.

"Well what do you know, you are useful after all."

Satoshi said as he walked in.

"I'll take that as a thank you."

Satoshi ignored him and began to look through file cabinets, bookshelves, everything but he didn't find anything. He was about to look through his desk when something caught his eye. On his desk was an open book of old art works. He looked at the large picture of a glass like statue called The Second Hand of Time. But what he was really interested in was that his father had a picture of Daisuke on top of that. He remembered what his father had told him earlier. 'If Dark isn't captured soon I'll have to take drastic measures, and someone could get hurt.'

"What's he planning?" He thought and looked closely at the book. He flipped through page after page, reading and looking but even this book had nothing on the pendent.

"Where did it come from, and where is it now?"

He turned the book back to the Second Hand of Time and placed the picture back i nplace so his father would not know he was there. He walked out of the study, making sure to close the door behind him and glanced out the window. It was sunset. The sun was almost completely down over the horizon and the street lamps flickered on and off. He grabbed his black jacket with the gold cross onthe back, and watched as the last specks of light left the earth and the moon began to peak its head over the opposite horizon.

"Come on Krad it's time to go."

Krad walked down the hallway and followed he Hikari out, strangely quit.

Is it just me or was that chapter longer ;P It felt longer while I was typing it. And I was getting frustrated while writing it but then I hade a bowl of ramen and I was all better I can't wait to do some more chapters on this cause Krads gonna get to be the hero again! yay!