Well I'm back with more! Between work, my muses being pains (again), and just being busy in general, I didn't get this up when I wanted to. (sad face) But I got time to finally get it up now. (grins) And it's almost Halloween! Yay! Anyways, enjoy!
-Chapter Eight-
Dark looked at the teacher having another boring day again at school. They'd just gotten off a two week vacation as well. 'Why does Monday have to be so boring?' he thought to himself as the teacher started class off right away after morning announcements. He looked over towards Daisuke yawning slightly then to Satoshi looking half awake himself. The rest of the class looked pretty much tired too and he had to keep from yawning himself.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and the teacher excused himself to answer it. The other students looked up suddenly more awake than before trying to see what was going on. The teacher gave a nod and stepped to the side.
"Class it seems we have a new student," he said and the students perked up even more at this. "Please welcome Krad Kurosaki."
Dark's eyes widened as a very familiar blonde with his hair pulled up in a very familiar ponytail and golden yellow eyes walked into the room. He could feel his heart suddenly pounding in his chest and he tensed up as Krad stopped by the teacher's desk and looked at the class. He could see both Daisuke and Satoshi from the corners of his eyes doing the same thing as he was while the rest of the class seemed to stare as well.
"Mr. Kurosaki you can take a seat there behind Dark in the back," the teacher pointed and Krad nodded slightly and started walking towards Dark down the aisle.
Dark could feel his heart pounding harder in his chest as Krad came closer and found himself holding his breath as the blonde walked past and sit down silently in his seat without so much as a word or a glance to him at all. He glanced again to Daisuke and Satoshi who looked back staring at Krad and gave Dark a look of surprise as well before turning back around to face front when the teacher started class back up again.
'Daisuke please tell me I'm hallucinating,' Dark said through their mind link in a slightly shaky voice and the redhead turned his head towards him a little.
'No I don't think you're hallucinating Dark,' Daisuke replied just as surprised. 'If you were I'd have to be hallucinating too.' He glanced over to Satoshi, who was looking down at his notebook on the desk, his eyes wide at what he was seeing. 'I know for a fact that Satoshi would have to be hallucinating too if we were. And by the way he's looking I'd have to say he's not liking it either.'
'But Krad is sitting right behind me Daisuke,' Dark replied shakily. 'I don't…I don't think I can handle that after what happened.' Thoughts from before suddenly started to come back to him and he looked down at his hands sitting on his desk starting to shake.
'Dark?' Daisuke asked glancing to Dark again feeling his panic rising through their link. He could see Dark shaking ever so slightly and flashes of images of what happened coming through from the thief as well. 'Dark you need to calm down.'
'Daisuke, I don't know if I can take this,' Dark replied shaking more as his panic started rising sharply.
'Dark. Calm down. It won't do any good if you panic,' Daisuke said feeling his heart pounding and his panic rising due to the panicking thief. He was trying to calm himself down and force those feelings back through to the other by thinking of anything that would calm him down. After a moment, he could see Dark's hands stop shaking as he took a silent breath and closed his eyes.
'Thanks Daisuke,' the thief said through their link as he opened his eyes again and glanced towards the redhead.
'You're welcome,' he replied glancing over to Satoshi who was still looking down at his notebook with a surprised look on his face. 'But I don't think Satoshi's doing so well.'
Blue eyes shifted up towards the two pairs of red and purple ones looking at him before glancing back towards the blonde behind Dark still looking up towards the front. He gave a still bewildered look back to the two again.
'We'll figure it out somehow,' the redhead mouthed silently to the blue haired boy. 'Just stay calm.' Satoshi nodded once slightly, glancing back to the blonde that was paying attention to the teacher as if nothing else was going on, before looking back to the front himself.
Sitting through the next several classes before lunch as the teachers came and went for class proved to be pretty testing towards the three. The blonde sat quietly taking notes the whole time. By time class let out for lunch break, Dark had nearly had enough.
"Ugh. I can't take this anymore!" Dark said as he sat down underneath one of the trees where he, Daisuke, and Satoshi usually ate lunch at. The two had already pulled out their lunches and started to eat and he pulled out his own lunch and started eating as well. "Just how the hell..."
"Is Krad back?" Daisuke finished for the thief as he trailed off a little. "I have no idea."
"Don't look at me either," Satoshi replied giving a slight shiver himself and looked off into the distance a moment before looking back to the other two. "Did you see his eyes though and the way he was acting when he came in?"
"Yes. But what do you mean by it?" Daisuke asked looking at Satoshi puzzled.
"His eyes aren't like that normally," Dark murmured staring across the school yard. "I saw it too." He looked at Satoshi who was looking at him.
"His eyes had something else to it and it wasn't hatred or anger," Satoshi said in his icy tone to the thief as he narrowed his eyes to his icy look. "It was something else but I don't recognize it."
"Blankness was behind his look," Dark said quietly still looking at Satoshi. "Not even a word when he passed me. At all." He glanced to Daisuke giving a serious look as well. "I don't know if it's a trick or not but either way I don't like it."
"I don't like it either," Satoshi replied and Daisuke nodded in agreement.
"Ugh! This day just keeps getting more and more screwed up!" Dark said as he shoved food in his mouth.
"Will you stop talking with your mouth full? You have a bad habit of doing that," Satoshi said rolling his eyes at the thief. Daisuke snickered from beside Satoshi as he took a bite himself.
"This is a nightmare," Dark growled in annoyance then sighed. "Somebody please just hit me or something."
Suddenly from behind, Dark was smacked upside the head by something hard and nearly choked on his bite of food as his head went forward. He put a hand to the back of his head quickly and turned to see Riku behind him. "What the hell was that for!?" he asked rubbing his head where he had been smacked by what looked to be her school bag.
"You said for someone to hit you," she replied as she sat down and pulled out her lunch as Satoshi started to snicker softly.
"I didn't mean to literally!" Dark replied and glared at Satoshi who kept smirking. Daisuke had also started snickering. "Dammit that hurt!"
"I didn't hit you that hard," Riku replied taking a bite of her lunch.
"Yes you did!" Dark protested back at her.
"You've been through worse so quit your whining Dark," Satoshi spoke up again still smirking.
Dark turned towards Satoshi to say something back when suddenly Krad came walking past without looking at them and sat down over under another tree alone and pulled out a book and started reading. Dark, Daisuke, and Satoshi watched him a moment before Riku spoke up.
"Who is that guy anyways?" she asked looking from him to the other three who looked back at her. "He looks familiar a little." She gave a pause as she studied Krad a second then blinked. "Oh my goodness. Wait isn't he...?" She looked to Satoshi.
"Yes that's Krad," Satoshi spoke up quietly looking down at his food.
"But I thought you said he was gone two years ago?" she asked looking back over to the blonde again then back to Dark. "How...why is he here?"
"We have no idea," Daisuke spoke up looking to the blonde as well.
"That's what we want to find out," Satoshi added looking up to Krad again as Dark groaned. He gave another slight pause. "But either way Krad is dangerous so be cautious of him."
Dark gave another groan as he muttered a few incomprehensible words, clenching his fist and snapping his chopsticks in half by accident. "Ah dammit. Now how am I going to finish eating my lunch?"
Rolling his eyes, Satoshi pulled out a spare pair of chopsticks and handed them to Dark. "I'm glad I packed an extra pair this morning," he said as Dark took them and started eating again. "Break them and I'll get after you though."
"Um Satoshi?" Daisuke asked looking to the blue haired boy.
"What is it Daisuke?" Satoshi replied looking to Daisuke.
"I was wondering since Dark and I still have our link through our thoughts then do you think you might still have it for Krad from before?" the redhead asked and the others looked to Satoshi.
"I don't know Daisuke," Satoshi replied with a shrug. "I lost it after the last battle with Krad that led us to think he was truly gone." He glanced back towards Krad still reading his book then back to Daisuke. "You want me to see if it's there don't you?"
"Duh," Dark replied with a grumble and Satoshi gave him a glare.
"I just thought if you could possibly see if you still have it you might be able to tell what he's thinking and might even be able to find out why he's here now," Daisuke replied quietly looking down at his half finished lunch.
"Okay I guess I can try," Satoshi replied with a sigh and looked back towards Krad with the others and concentrated on the blonde.
'Krad what are you doing here?' he tried sending through their link he could feel was fuzzy. Krad paused from reading his book and looked up and around blinking confused before shrugging and went back to reading his book.
"What just happened?" Dark asked confused looking from the blonde going back to reading to the blue haired boy who looked back and blinked confused himself.
"Blank," Satoshi whispered confused.
"Huh?" Daisuke asked.
"His mind was blank," the blue haired boy replied again giving a bewildered look this time. "Like all his memories had been erased or something."
"Wait what?" Dark asked blinking in surprise looking over to the blonde again. "He doesn't remember anything?"
"From what I tried to see, no," Satoshi replied still bewildered and looking at the blonde as well.
"How is that even possible?" Riku asked confused looking between the three who looked at her just as confused before looking to Dark. "I mean, you said that you didn't feel his presence at all and everything."
"I didn't," Dark replied holding his hands up in front of him. "I didn't even sense him until he showed up in class." He gave another shiver as he dropped his hands to his lap again. "I'm still puzzled over all of this. There's still no way that he could've just disappeared for two years and reappear out of nowhere." He gave a pause then looked to Satoshi. "You can hack into the school's computer records. See what it says in his file."
"I could do that," Satoshi nodded glancing to the blonde again before giving a sigh as he finished his lunch and put it away and stood up. "I suppose I can do that while we still have some free time before class starts up again. It shouldn't take me long at all."
"Alright Satoshi," Daisuke nodded. "See you back in class." The blue haired boy nodded before excusing himself.
"Ugh. I don't want to go back to class," Dark sighed as he poked at what was left of his food before taking another bite.
"Why not?" Riku asked tilting her head slightly.
"Krad sits right behind him since it was the only open seat left," Daisuke replied as Dark gave a groan.
"Oh that has got to suck," she spoke up giving Dark a sympathetic look. "Guess Risa and I are kind of lucky we got stuck with a different class this year than you guys."
"Yeah lucky you," Dark sighed finishing his lunch up. "By the way, where is Risa?"
"Probably with a couple of other friends today," Riku replied. "They're planning on a shopping day together at the end of this week last I knew." She gave a slight sigh glancing to the blonde again still reading his book. "Should I tell her to be cautious of Krad? I don't think she remembers him very well from that time back then."
"Might be a good idea," Daisuke nodded finishing his lunch and putting it away.
"Alright I'll do that then," Riku nodded and finished her lunch as well before standing. "I better head off to class then. See you two later."
"See you later," Daisuke said with a wave as she turned and headed off. He looked back to the thief who gave another sigh. "You going to be alright?"
"I hope so," Dark replied as he gathered his things and stood. Daisuke did the same and they started heading towards the doors again to head back to class. "I just really want this day to get over with."
"Do you think we should tell Mom, Grandpa, and Dad about this?" Daisuke asked. "I mean, I know we'll eventually have to but this soon?"
"I think it might be best to wait a few days and see what's going on first," Dark replied glancing back over his shoulder to see the blonde shut his book and stand up and brush himself off before making his way towards the doors where he and Daisuke were headed. "Geez I just wish I knew what the hell was going on."
Making their way back to the classroom, Dark slunk into his seat with a sigh as Daisuke went to sit in his own. The class started coming back and the blonde came in without a word as he passed Dark and sat down in his seat behind the thief and opened his book again and continued reading for a few more minutes. Satoshi came in a moment later and headed for his seat, a few papers in hand that he put away before the teacher came in to start class.
'Looks like Satoshi got some information on Krad I bet,' Dark spoke up to Daisuke through their link. 'Come on end of the day! Hurry up so we can find out!' Daisuke only gave a slight subtle shake of his head before putting his attention back to the teacher.
"So what'd you find out?" Dark asked impatiently as he slid into the limo across from Daisuke and Satoshi. He decided on taking it home instead of walking today.
"Well, today was his first official day obviously," Satoshi spoke up looking at the papers. "His parents are listed as Megumi and Keiichi Kurosaki."
"How the hell is that possible?" Dark asked confused trying to reach for the papers.
"He was adopted by them," Satoshi said rolling his eyes at the impatient thief and pulled them away from him so he could finish. "And his birthday is listed as being two and a half weeks ago, which ironically comes the day before a police report was submitted by the Kurosakis of a missing person found."
"What?" Dark blinked with the redhead.
"Missing person's case?" Daisuke asked tilting his head.
"Yeah. I hacked into the police files to further investigate," the blue haired boy replied. "They filed a report about Krad having been found and that he didn't seem to know who he was and were looking in to trying to find anything about missing people and find where he belonged. Since nothing came up, it seems they adopted him."
Dark blinked. "Wait, did you say two and a half weeks ago?"
"Yeah," Satoshi replied with a confused look along with the redhead. "Why?"
Dark blinked again remembering suddenly how he'd been reminiscing about the past that day and had wished for something exciting to happen. 'My wish for some excitement couldn't have done this,' he thought to himself. 'It's just a coincidence.'
"W-well how the hell could he have been adopted so quickly?" Dark asked not speaking what he'd been thinking. "It takes longer than two weeks to get everything situated!"
"He obviously had some strings pulled with inside connections," Satoshi replied looking to the papers. "Mr. Kurosaki is a lawyer. And a damn good one at that."
"Kind of like what you did to get Dark situated with us," Daisuke spoke up and the blue haired boy nodded. "What about Mrs. Kurosaki?"
"She works as one of the managers at the La Garre Art Museum," Satoshi replied looking to Dark.
"You've got to be kidding me," Dark groaned a little at the news. Satoshi turned the papers to show him. "Ah man. She'd certainly know me that's for sure."
"But wouldn't that still be worrisome about Krad being with them?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah. I still say it's a trick he's pulling," Dark grumbled as he crossed his arms across his chest and slunk back in the seat.
"You know just as well as I do that it's hard to hide secrets between our links with each other," Satoshi chided the thief. "It's laid bare with whatever goes through it. The only way is to outright block the whole connection."
"He is right," Daisuke sighed with a nod in agreement to Satoshi's statement.
"And what I got was nothing," Satoshi replied with a sigh. "As puzzling as it is, that was it."
"What about his magic?" the redhead asked curiously. "Do you think he's figured that out yet?"
"Now that's a disaster waiting to happen," Dark spoke up as he looked out the window. "Former crazy psycho angel with no memories suddenly realizing he has powers and no idea how to control them."
"From what I could feel through our link, he doesn't even recall any of that," Satoshi replied rolling his eyes slightly at the thief. "Or rather I couldn't really feel anything in terms of magic coming from him." He gave a pondering thought.
"Maybe that was why you couldn't sense him you think?" Daisuke asked looking between the thief and blue haired boy. "Because his magic is maybe sealed or something?"
"It's possible," Satoshi replied still pondering as he tapped his chin with the papers rolled up in his hand. "But either way, we'll have to keep an eye on him closely. And I'll have to see if there's anything I can get through our link without giving myself away."
"Sounds good," Daisuke nodded. "Dark and I figured we won't say anything to Mom and the others yet until we know more about what's going on at least. Don't need them panicking either."
"Good idea," Satoshi agreed and looked to Dark.
"What?" Dark asked looking from out the window to blue eyes studying him.
"Nothing," Satoshi replied as the car slowed and stopped in front of the Niwa residence.
Dark opened his mouth to say something but Daisuke shook his head and shoved Dark out of the limo as he got out behind him. "Thanks Satoshi for the ride," the redhead softly smiled before leaning back in and kissed Satoshi on the cheek. The blue haired boy nodded with a soft smile.
"We'll figure something out," Satoshi said before the redhead shut the door and waved as the car headed off.
"I still don't see why you two still hide the fact you're dating to everyone else," Dark said teasingly making a kissy face at the redhead. "I mean, Emiko, Kosuke, and Daiki know obviously. And Riku and Risa."
"Dark you're horrible!" Daisuke replied embarrassed as the thief chuckled sticking out his tongue and ran inside. Daisuke followed right after him, sliding his shoes off quickly just inside the door like Dark did and ran after him down the hall and towards the stairs.
"What's gotten into you two today?" Emiko asked as they nearly ran her over on the stairs going up to their rooms.
"Dark's teasing me again!" Daisuke replied as he half tripped on the stairs but caught himself and continued up them to try to tackle Dark. Dark's laugh sounded from up the stairs and around the corner.
"Oh Dark. Be nice," Emiko chuckled as Daisuke made it up the stairs before she turned and headed back down the stairs.
Daisuke stopped at the top of the stairs and glanced towards his room then towards Dark's trying to determine where the thief had decided to hide. He opened his senses linking him to Dark to determine where he'd gone. He turned and headed towards Dark's room and stepped inside looking around at the empty room.
"Dark?" he asked as he walked further into Dark's room, going past the long mirror on the wall. His reflection was of Dark mimicking him as he walked past the mirror. Daisuke blinked, stopping just on the other side of the mirror and took a step back to see Dark's reflection in it give a similar puzzled look he was giving before Dark's huge grin came across the thief's face. Dark unmelded from the mirror with a laugh as he tackled Daisuke to the floor.
"Got you again!" Dark laughed as Daisuke pushed him to the side and sat up.
"You are so unfair," Daisuke replied but smiled. He had to admit, he did like the constant challenge that the thief gave him from time to time. As Dark had said, it kept him on his toes.
"Ah you know you love it," the thief replied with his grin as he sat up as well then stood and helped his former tamer to stand.
"Yeah I suppose the distraction was good considering today's events," Daisuke replied as he gave a sigh then looked to the thief. "So what are we going to do about..." He gave a pause and looked at the doorway for a second then back to Dark. "Well you know who?"
"I don't know," Dark replied giving a sigh himself and dropped his bag to the floor beside his desk before flopping backwards onto his bed. Daisuke set his bag down on the floor and sat down on the bed beside the thief. "Even now, I really can't sense him all too well like I could before." He gave a pause as he looked towards the redhead.
"Someone's going to have to keep an eye on him that's for sure," the redhead spoke up looking to the purple eyed thief.
"Oh please tell me you're not saying I should do it?" Dark asked sitting up quickly. The redhead gave a sheepish look.
"Since you've known him the longest and you know how he is," the redhead started saying while fidgeting with his hands a little, "it just seemed the logical thing."
Dark looked at the redhead for a moment as red eyes looked up to meet his gaze from looking down at the fidgeting hands in his lap. He pulled his lips into a thin line for a moment before sighing and flopped back against his bed again. "The Commander would probably end up suggesting the same thing so might as well." He looked back over to the redhead that was looking at him still.
"We'll still keep an eye on him too you know," Daisuke said as Dark sat back up.
"Thanks," the thief replied before getting up and heading for the door. Daisuke followed him to the stairs before quickly ducking down to his room and dropped his bag off inside it then followed Dark down the stairs to the kitchen.
"So how did your day go you two?" Emiko asked as she rummaged around the kitchen with getting dinner preparations started. "Anything interesting happen at school?"
Dark and Daisuke exchanged glances to each other, giving mental nods that nothing to be said about Krad showing up got out. "Nope. The same ol', same ol'," Dark said leaning against the counter and reaching for an apple sitting in the fruit bowl at the side on the counter.
"Ah! Not before dinner!" Emiko said tapping his hand with the metal spatula she had in hand. "You'll spoil your appetite." Daisuke gave a snicker as Dark gave a pout. "Why don't you two get your homework done while I make dinner?" She gave Dark a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, yeah," Dark replied with a grin as he stood back up straight and waved a hand nonchalantly as he turned to head for the stairs with Daisuke. At the top of the stairs, he smirked and held up a hand with the apple he'd been going for. "Want half?"
"Old habits never die," Daisuke chuckled as he held out his hand as Dark split the apple in half with his magic and handed half to the redhead. Daisuke took a bite out of his as he headed back to his room to work on his homework as Dark went to do the same.
Later that night as they got ready for bed, Dark came to sit on the end of Daisuke's bed. "I am so not looking forward to tomorrow," he sighed. "Why did he have to sit behind me again?"
"Because you just happened to have the only open seat there?" Daisuke spoke up as he finished putting his books back in his bag ready for tomorrow.
"Fate certainly is a bitch sometimes, you know." Daisuke gave a chuckle. "Can't we switch?"
"Only if you wanted to ask the teacher," the redhead replied as he came over and plopped down in bed. "And you know how that goes with seating."
"Yeah that won't happen." Dark gave a groan. "I guess I'll just have to deal with it." He got up with another sigh and went to the doorway as Daisuke got underneath his blankets and clicked off the light. "Night."
"Night Dark."
Going back down to his room and getting under the blankets after clicking his light off, Dark stared up at the dark ceiling and sighed. Tomorrow was going to be a long day indeed. He gave another sigh as he rolled over and let himself finally drift off to sleep.
Well Krad finally showed up at school! Poor Dark getting stuck with Krad behind him. (evil chuckle) I have much more in store for him as things go on. (evil chuckles again) But for now, I'll be good. (makes an innocent face with a halo before it explodes and little devil horns appear) Oops. You didn't see that...
Anyways, I'll try to update as soon as possible again! For now, I wish everyone a happy Halloween/Samhain and stay safe while out there gathering yummy candy!
