Crow

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He stayed in thinking the whole day sulking. He spoke in monosyllables only when he answered something; sometimes because he was not really listening and other times because he didn't want to answer. Dark received the same treatment, no matter how much he told him that what he planned to do was useless and a dangerous madness.

"Oh, yea. Do you consider me when you are in first place and I ask you to do something?" Daisuke finally answered him.

"You are not yourself Daisuke and this problem is worsening. I'm telling you seriously; it won't work. Not only won't it work but you are taking too much of a risk with this one" Dark told him.

"I don't care. If I don't do it my conscience will never leave me alone"

"Are you an idiot or what?! That Crow could kill you in a slow and painful way. Hiwatari already told you; you could be his chosen one!"

"But I am not a sad creature no matter how many reasons I have for it"

"Oh, don't start with this..."

"I share my body with somebody that doesn't respect me nor treats me like a person. I have to steal in the night, my life is too far from being calm and every time that you do a 'good one' you quit me several years off my life. I cannot refuse as you entered in me without my permission and take my body's control from me sometimes without caring what I say. Plus, my family hopes that I will be a good thief. They don't care about me and I daren't refuse. Apart from Riku and Hiwatari (and the last one not so much) nobody else cares for me for who I am and not for the one whom they want me to be"

"..." the thief was surprised

-Do you see? No one. For that reason you can't be so sure, Dark- he made a pause and reclined his head onto the window of their room where he was seated -if I had been a woman, or if I had been born in another part, maybe I would have an own life, with people that loved me for what I am. And you would have another body more willing to be allowed to use, Dark- he spoke with his mental link "And I still don't know what a traverse creature is?"

"It's a creature that can pass through several creatures that have some characteristics in common."

"Is that why the Hikari had women among their 'tamers' and the Niwa are not able to have that?"

"I don't know, I never asked."

"I still don't understand why Hiwatari was put upon this way. First he was very nervous, later calm and lastly he kept shifting. If I hadn't of left I would have hit him."

"And I would have helped you Daisuke."

"You are not helping me now" the redheaded one pursued his mouth.

Silence.

"Daisuke, you have changed. Too much. And it all began since that that... Crow came"

"He said his name was Arashi"

"He can say many things, but nothing assures that what he says is true"

"So, then, why if he came to announce the death to Hiwatari, did he choose me? Because my other Me has black wings? Or for another reason?"

"Maybe he likes you"

"But I am not as sad as Hiwatari"

"I didn't say in terms of the 'Crow' business but rather maybe HE LIKES YOU"

Silence.

Daisuke was paralyzed, without knowing how to react. It fit, yes, but the idea had never gone through his head before.

-I believe that I underestimated you- said somebody outside the room.

Daisuke rotated his head to see who had spoken. More time had passed than he thought as it was already night and the head outside his window looked unattached to any body. Yet upon recognizing Arashi, Daisuke didn't stun him completely.

-But I cannot let you to interfere- Arashi lifted its hand, coming closer to the redheaded.

Daisuke was not still and grabbed the hand before it could touch him. The sway of Arashi's wings made him ascend and lower a little with each flap of the wings. Arashi looked at its hand, grabbed by Daisuke, and then looked the redhead in the eyes.

-Dark doesn't have to be in you-

-I don't want you to make that happen- the redheaded told the Crow.

-What?-

-Why did you come? To announce my death or...?-

-I don't have to tell you why-

-Huh?-

The Crow came closer until it was able to put its other hand on the window bringing the creature closer to Daisuke's face. The redheaded one didn't like to have it so close...

-Do you still sit upon the fence?-

-What?-

"Shit Daisuke. Hit him in the balls and then leave him to me if he doesn't leave..."

-You sat down because you wanted to. I didn't force you. So don't say that you don't like it, because you can't hide in front of Dark, or in front of me- The Crow growled.

Daisuke gulped and averted the creature's gaze.

"Shit, Daisuke, react already!" screeched Dark on the edge of desperation.

-Have you come here to announce the death of Hiwatari?- asked Daisuke suddenly.

-I don't have to...-

-And I don't have to prevent Dark from hitting you in the face, but I am-

Silence.

-The death is not ever avoidable. We need only worry about it if something else does not happen before- said Arashi after a long pause.

-What other thing should happen?-

-If should find a successor-

Daisuke's blood was frozen as he shivered. The Crow's eyes didn't change and Dark wanted to kill him but his redheaded tamer wouldn't allow it.

-And who... is your successor?-

-He is in front of my eyes-

With that Arashi disappeared.

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"Daisuke"

Nothing.

"Daisuke"

Nothing.

"DAI-SU-KE"

Nothing.

"Fuck, are you going to stay this way all day! I told you that it was a bad idea and you wouldn't pay attention! Now you have to confront the consequences."

-Ah, it is soo nice to know that you care about me, Dark- Daisuke sarcastically said as he finally rose from where he had sat on the floor when Arashi disappeared -And especially in that you see me. Considering all you see is an object of your property instead of like a person with the right to continue and lead their own lives!-

Dark was quiet at that.

-You've changed too, Dark. I'm not sure I like how you are now-

"Well I don't like you anymore either."

-I am glad we can agree on something-

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Hiwatari didn't return to school, leaving Daisuke on the edge of desperation. There was too many things going on, too close to each other, and Arashi had not reappeared again since that night. Dark continued to comment that rhe Crow should be with Hiwatari but the redhead tried not to give him any attention.

He felt like something big and intense was approaching him. He continued to wake with increasing paleness and every time it took Dai more time to return to his normal colour and temperature. He no longer went on his "works"; Emiko wanted to keep him safe, and Kosuke and Daiki continued to revise any document that could explain something remotely similar to the Crows.

They were hiding something from him, Daisuke knew. He didn't have enough proof to say it for absolute certainty but Hiwatari had definitely not told him everything. What the blue haired boy had not told him was the solution to this whole enigma. The redhead centred all his attention on three questions. He knew some of the answers, or thought he did, but Daisuke didn't know what the truth was and what the myth was.

The first question was: Why did the Crow come?

Second: Who does it ultimately affect?

And thirdly: What will it happen after everything is said and done?

Arashi still hadn't appeared in the following week and whenever the redhead knocked on Hiwatari's door nobody answered. He didn't know if he was in his house or not and Krad had not appeared again either. Dark suspected that there was some connection between Krad and the Crow, but Daisuke didn't think so.

Daisuke didn't know what to think, especially when the Crow suddenly appeared before him, for what would be the last time.

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The end will have many strong scenes and it is not advisable that you read it if you don't want to be seriously grossed out; they are things that have never been seen in DNAngel. I know that most won't do it. So be warned. The end will also contain final notes on Arashi's character and this fiction's final edit.

CosmicEsscense, thanks you very much!!!

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