Ch 9 Changing Face
Hello to all again! Chapter nine is finally here! I seem to make you guys wait on every chapter so this one is going to be my gift to you as an extra long chappie! (Sorry to those who don't care for long chapters…) Super special thanks go out to all of my readers that haven't given up on this fic! Without you guys I wouldn't have made it this far that I promise. So enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own DN Angel or Indiana Jones. *smiles wickedly at readers* just try and guess why I have to put that there.
As always for ppl who don't want to go back to chapter 1 to check: This is normal:
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This is thinking:'---- '
This is writing in notes, letters ect,
"This is talking to alter egos."
'This is thinking as an alter ego'
(This is me talking 2 U)
And * means look at the end of the fic for the meaning!*
I don't even type this part anymore I just copy and paste it…
Friday morning Satoshi told Daisuke that he had figured out what he and Krad needed to do.
"Really! What?" Daisuke asked excited.
"I believe that we need to start to get along with each other, like you and Dark, or Yumi and Shadow." Satoshi told him.
"Bingo again!" Yumi said coming up to the group.
"Bingo?" Daisuke asked.
"It's her and Shadow's 'indirect' way of saying I'm right." Satoshi explained.
"Oh I see, cool." Daisuke smiled, "Wait, how do you know that you and Krad getting along better will complete your quest?" he asked as a confused look crossed his face.
"Well if Krad and I start to get along then that means his personality will have changed from what it is now." Satoshi said.
"Ok that makes sense!" Daisuke said.
School went by with surprising speed for Yumi and Satoshi and after classes finally let out for the day they both rushed home to prepare for the date.
At six Satoshi knocked on Yumi's door and her mom opened it.
"It will be just a minute Satoshi." She smiled then turned around and called, "Shadow! Sato-kun is here to get you!"
Shadow finished messing with her hair up in Yumi's room and then came downstairs.
Satoshi whistled at the sight of her, "Wow Shadow!" he said surprised.
She had on a black fedora and had left her long dark hair to hang freely down her back. She was wearing a scarlet halter top with a short dark black jacket on over it and her dark jeans were tucked into long black boots. Around her neck was a silver chain with the end of the necklace hiding under her top.
"Do you like it?" she asked as she spun for effect.
"Do I like it? I think you look amazing!" Satoshi said, "But what about your wings? I've never seen you without them and I know you don't have a familiar like Dark." He asked confused.
"Oh! I never told you? My wings can be changed into a necklace when I don't need them." Shadow answered and pulled the rest of the necklace out to show him. On the end of the chain hung a deep purple feather that seemed crystallized.
"That's a neat trick." Satoshi said looking back up at her.
"Krad can do it too, he just never does." Shadow pointed out.
"That's good to know." Satoshi said tucking that bit of information away for later use, "So are you ready to go?"
"Yep! You lead!" Shadow chirped.
(Ok I'm going to summarize the date, if you want to read the whole thing then tell me in a review and if I get enough requests I'll type it an extra chapter.)
Satoshi took Shadow out to a movie and then afterwards he took her out for dinner. Finally he dropped her back off at her house.
"I had an awesome time tonight." Shadow said.
"So did I, I hope we can do it again sometime." Satoshi smiled.
"It's a date." Shadow said and lightly kissed Satoshi's cheek. "Bye." She waved and went in.
When Shadow got inside she changed back into Yumi.
"Did you have fun?" Yumi asked.
"I know you were watching the entire time." Shadow said.
"Yes but that still doesn't answer my question." Yumi said.
Shadow sighed, "Yes Yumi I had a great time." She finally answered.
"Good. I'm happy you had a good time." Yumi said now distracted.
"But you want to start the planning for Krad's quest right?" Shadow asked getting her attention back.
"Yes," Yumi sighed, "If only he would do something stupid that way I could justify teaching him a proper lesson." She said running her hand through her hair.
"Just be patient Krad will defiantly do something stupid eventually." Shadow said an idea already forming in her head; she knew exactly what she wanted to steal next.
Later that night:
I will steal the Bracelet of Amok
At 10 tonight.
The Shadow within the DarK
Shadow landed on the roof of the museum and snuck in through and air vent. She came out close to the case that held the bracelet.
It was small almost like a bangle but it was a little different it had a large stone in the center that's color changed with the light. The band of the bracelet was silver and etched with symbols of some kind.
Shadow looked down at it and gasped, "It's a fake." She said.
"Looking for this?" a familiar voice said from behind.
"Krad." Shadow said turning to face the angel.
He was holding up his arm and on it was the original bracelet.
"Shadow what is that?" Yumi asked.
"It is, the Bracelet of Amok." Shadow said, "How did you get that Krad." She asked him unhappy with the turn of events she had planned on getting the bracelet first.
"My dear Satoshi decided to let me take care of things tonight." Krad smirked.
"I hope it was his intention to let you have control." Shadow said.
"Now why would you ever think it wouldn't be." Krad asked feigning hurt in his voice, "Besides since Satoshi got it in his head that we should learn to work together he's been much more… submissive." He purred.
Shadow glared at Krad, "You know I really hate people who take advantage of others." She said.
"Don't flatter me, it will get you nowhere." Krad smiled wickedly.
"What's so important about that bracelet Shadow?" Yumi asked genuinely curious. The bracelet of Amok was one of the few Hikairi artworks she didn't know much about.
"The bracelet is amazingly powerful. It doubles its user's magical power when worn." Shadow answered her, "But the power comes at a price, it more than doubles the energy drained on the tamer. The more it's used the more energy it drains and the more powerful the bracelet gets." She explained.
"That's not good, Shadow, Krad could really do a lot of damage with that, you have to get it away from him." Yumi said worried about Satoshi.
"I realized that Yumi." Shadow snapped aggravated at herself that she had let Krad even get his hands on the artwork.
"Give me the artwork Krad, I don't want to fight you for it." Shadow said.
"Are you not going to borrow your tamers power and just take it from me?" Krad asked.
Shadow glared at the white angel.
"How honorable keeping your promise to my Satoshi even when your not dealing with him." Krad said forming an energy ball.
"Don't Krad." Shadow's tone was a warning.
Krad just smirked and threw it at her.
Shadow easily dodged the flash of energy and Krad formed another ball of energy and threw it at her.
For the next couple of minutes Shadow ducked, weaved, and dodged as Krad threw volleys of lightning, energy orbs, and explosive feathers at her.
"Krad you do know that using that bracelet drains Satoshi faster right?" Shadow asked.
"Then I'll just have to speed this up." He answered forming an extra large orb.
"No Krad! You could kill him with one that size!" Shadow yelled eyes widening.
Krad smiled wickedly and threw the ball.
Shadow pulled out a feather and created a shield around her. It reflected the energy back at Krad and there was a large flash of light.
When it faded Krad was slumped by a wall and then changed back into Satoshi.
Shadow got up from where she had landed and ran to Satoshi.
"Satoshi, are you ok?" she asked pulling him into her arms. He was unconscious with a few cuts and scrapes but otherwise looked fine.
Shadow held a hand over his head and closed her eyes. Her hand glowed as she checked for internal injuries and then faded.
"How is he?" Yumi asked.
"He'll be fine he's just worn out." Shadow told her relived. She slipped the bracelet off of his wrist and put it in her pocket. Then she lifted him up and left the museum.
Saturday Satoshi's eyelids fluttered and opened and after his low blood pressure's effects had faded he looked around and realized he was back in his apartment, 'How did I get here?' he wondered, 'The last thing I remember was Krad shielding against that last attack.'
He sat up and rubbed his eye's trying to get the sleep out of them. Then he stood up and looked down at himself his cloths had been changed to pajamas and his cuts had been treated. He headed downstairs into the kitchen shaking his head in wonder. Once he got to the kitchen he found a sticky note on the fridge.
Satoshi,
Sorry for just leaving you alone but I thought you could handle
yourself. I left breakfast in the fridge and your cloths are being
cleaned at Yumi's who will be over to check on you and
drop off your stuff about noon.
Shadow 3.
He sighed and looked at the clock it read 10:30. He looked down at his cloths and decided to take a shower, it would help him wake up more too, he was still exhausted.
After he finished his shower he found pancakes in the fridge. After making some coffee and searching for syrup he finally ate then cleaned up. Just as he finished his doorbell rang.
He opened the door to reveal Yumi; her hands were full carrying a bundle of folded cloths, "Hi Yumes." He said smiling.
"Hey." She smiled back, "How are you feeling?"
"Fine." He answered.
Yumi looked him over for a minute, "Ok I believe you." She said and thrust the cloths she was holding into his arms, "Here their all washed up." She said.
Satoshi smiled gratefully at her and took them.
Suddenly Yumi's pocket started ringing. She pulled out a cell phone and opened it, "Hello?…Yes ok…right away." Then she hung up, "Sorry Sato I hate to come and run but I have to go, mom wants me to help her catalog some items for the new Central museum." She apologized.
"I understand have fun." Satoshi said smiling.
Yumi waved and left.
Satoshi spent the rest of the day resting because he couldn't shake the feeling of exhaustion that was over him. "Stupid homicidal blond." He muttered to himself multiple times through the day.
Sunday Satoshi decided that it was time for some spring cleaning. He was tired of Yumi always cleaning up when she came over and he had to admit it his apartment was a mess.
He decided to start with cleaning out his closet. He reached up to the top shelf and pulled down a box. When he opened it he found the Rutile of Grief that Shadow had given him.
"I should really return this to the museum Dark stole it from." He said to himself as he placed it in his pocket, "Though I'm surprised Krad never tried to use it again, he must have forgotten that I got it…"
Tonight I will steal the Juniper painting
At 8pm tonight.
Dark.
Dark silently slipped in through a window into the museum. He slipped past two guards and headed down the hall. The entrance to the room with Juniper was protected by another two guards and Dark sent Wiz to distract them. (Wiz=With. Wiz is the spelling used in the manga so that's how I'm spelling it here.)
He ran over to them and "Kywwed" cutely. Both looked down and their attention was immediately locked onto the cute bunny. "Aww how cute he is." One said kneeling down to pet him. The other kneeled down also to pet Wiz who relished in the affection.
They were distracted long enough for Dark to get by. He snuck into the room and then strolled up to the painting.
It was of a large Juniper tree that when looked at closely resembled a woman in a long flowing earthy dress. Her hands were folded together as if praying and her head was bowed with eyes closed.
Just as Dark picked up the painting Satoshi stepped out from behind a close statue.
"Uh oh." Dark said spotting the commander and turned running off in the opposite direction of Satoshi.
"No you don't Dark." Satoshi said and ran after him.
Dark tripped over a lump in the carpet and fell, "No not the painting!" Dark yelped and managed to turn in the air while holding the painting up so he wouldn't crush it.
Satoshi grabbed the painting as he jumped over the fallen thief and rolled into his landing.
When Dark stood up he spotted something glinting on the ground by Satoshi, "Now what could that be?" he asked himself.
Satoshi looked down in alarm, 'The ring!' he thought spotting the rutile, 'It must have fallen out of my pocket when I grabbed the painting.'
Satoshi reached for it just as Dark realized what it was and lunged for it.
Dark got to the ring first and grabbed it, "I never expected you to be carrying this around again Commander." He smirked.
"I was planning on returning it to the museum you stole it from." Satoshi said glaring at the thief.
"Right." Dark said, his voice dripping sarcasm.
Satoshi thought for a second, "You know instead of arguing with you I think I'm going to try something." he said.
"What's he doing Dark?" Daisuke asked.
"No idea but whatever it is it can't be good." Dark replied.
"What is it you want Master Satoshi?" Krad asked.
"I haven't even said anything yet." Satoshi said surprised.
"Your getting easier to read lately." Krad shrugged, "Now what is it?"
"As much as I enjoy arguing with your other half you do it much better." Satoshi said, "So would you like to have a go at arguing with him? I don't want him keeping that ring." He was trying this as part of his 'get along with Krad' plan.
"It would be my pleasure Master Satoshi." Krad purred.
Suddenly Satoshi doubled over in pain and turned into Krad.
"Oh great, so you're his plan?" Dark said crossing his arms.
Krad rolled his eyes, "You know what I want Mousey." He said pulling out a white feather.
"And you know your not getting it." Dark said pulling out a feather of his own.
The two started fighting and five minutes later they were outside tearing up everything in sight as they continued to fight.
Suddenly Shadow broke into the middle of their fighting causing Dark to drop the rutile he had just gained possession of.
"Stop it both of you!" Shadow snapped grabbing the falling ring.
She hovered gently in the air in front of the other two angels. "Nobody is getting this back until you two learn to get along." She said.
"Shadow did you come just to ruin our fun?" Krad asked angry that his fight with the thief had been interrupted.
"No I also came to tell Dark that Emiko says he should have been home 20 minutes ago and I quote, 'If it takes him that long to steal a painting then he'll have to go through training all over again'." Shadow said shrugging.
"Oh please no." Daisuke shuddered at the thought of re-doing all of his mothers training, she was bound to have added some new things too, the other day he had overheard his dad asking Emiko why in the world she needed 6 gallons of liquid nitrogen. And even Dark couldn't come up with a reason for that.
Dark shuddered visibly at Daisuke's thoughts and said, "Ireallyhave to go but, thanks for a good fight." He nodded to Krad and flew off hurriedly.
Krad almost chased Dark just to make him a little later than he already was but Shadow stopped him by saying, "Well do you want this or not?" and held out the ring.
Krad lunged for it but Shadow flew out of the way laughing and headed away from Krad.
"Grr." He growled and followed her.
They flew over the city and finally into the woods where Shadow ducked and weaved as Krad threw lightning at her. She finally stopped at the cliff face Yumi had shown Satoshi.
Krad landed close to the trees not wanting to test the sturdiness of the rock on the face.
As Shadow turned to face him she changed into Yumi.
"What's this about?" he asked confused because he couldn't sense Shadow.
"Sorry for tricking you, but I had to have some way of getting you here. And I wasn't sure if you would just chase me." Yumi said. She hated lying to people, even if they were psychopaths who wanted her dead…
"Where's Shadow?" Krad asked a little ticked at being tricked.
"Probably watching Dark get chewed out by Emiko." Yumi shrugged. She and Shadow had split earlier that day so Yumi could get some practice in as being Shadow. (and as a refresher because its been a while since other chapters, Yumi and Shadow can spilt because it would help with the quests for Dark and Krad.)
"So what is it that you want?" Krad asked angry that he had been dragged away from his fight just to argue with Satoshi's infuriating friend.
"After that stunt you pulled the other night with the Bracelet of Amok I decided that I need to teach you a lesson." Yumi said putting her hands on her hips.
"Oh and would that be you telling me that I have to be more aware of what I'm doing and I should treat other's how I want to be treated?" Krad said sarcastically.
"No the lesson isn't going to be that easy." Yumi shook her finger like a teacher and smiled. She closed her eyes and concentrated. When she opened them again they were glowing white. Suddenly Krad's body started to glow the same white light and his hair shortened while turning blue. Soon instead of Krad standing in front of Yumi it was Satoshi…well almost. His eyes were still gold and he looked really really pissed.
"What did you do to me?!" Krad growled.
Yumi's eyes became normal again and she smiled, "Simple I switched you and Satoshi. My power not only gives me the ability to split you but to switch you too." She said smugly, "Oh and until my lesson is over you cant get your form back no matter how hard you try." She said.
Krad had been busy trying to change Satoshi's body back into his own. He growled at Yumi, "Fine! So what's your point." He snapped crossing his arms angrily.
Satoshi was chuckling from the back of Krad's mind, "Well this should be interesting." He said.
"That comes with the lesson. Now come on." Yumi said as she started to walk back towards the forest.
"You can't just leave me like this!" Krad said.
"Well if you mean leave you all alone no, I'm not. I'm planning on leaving you over at Daisuke's house." Yumi told him. As she reached where Krad was standing she stopped there.
"I am not staying at that rotten thief's house!" Krad said through gritted teeth as he re-crossed his arms in defiance.
"You'll be fine over there and with any luck Daisuke will be in control most of the time and not Dark." Yumi said.
"I, am, not, going." Krad said enunciating each word as he said it.
Yumi sighed, "Krad your going even if I have to drag you the whole way there." She said.
Half an hour later Yumi rang the doorbell at Daisuke's house with one hand still holding on to Krad's ear.
"Ow you can let go now." Krad winced as he tried for what seemed like the millionth time to get Yumi to release his ear.
Yumi ignored Krad's comment as she continued to hold on to his ear
Satoshi was laughing hysterically, "You should have just gone with her in the first place Krad." He said.
"Shut up you brat." Krad mumbled back at him.
The door opened to reveal Emiko, "Yumi! How good to see you! What are you here for?" she asked energetically.
"I have a favor to ask you." She said.
"Whatever it is I'm sure I'd be happy to help." Emiko said.
'I'm not too sure you'd say that if you knew what I was going to ask…' Yumi thought mentally sweat dropping. "I need you to take care of him for a while." She said and dragged a very unwilling Krad into view.
"Satoshi?" Emiko asked confused.
"No he's actually Krad, I'm trying to teach him a lesson." Yumi explained.
"Well why can't he stay at Satoshi's apartment." Emiko asked.
"First of all he has no idea what to do for most everyday things, second he will have to act like Satoshi and he also has no idea how to do that and third of all do you really think its safe letting Krad run around freely as Satoshi, Chief Commander of Dark Countermeasures?" Yumi asked.
This time it was Emiko's turn to sweat drop and she shivered at the thought of what Krad could do in a position like that.
"Besides I cant keep him at my house, my parent's would flip." She said.
Emiko looked thoughtful, "You wont even have to watch him all day, he'll be in school most of it." Yumi said sure that would clinch it for her.
"School! No one said anything about going to school! Its bad enough I have to stay at Mousy's house!" Krad wined.
"Well I don't think anyone else would object to having him over here, and it might do him some good in the end so I guess we'll take him." Emiko said relishing the thought of Krad having to attend school.
"Thank you so much Emiko!" Yumi said smiling brightly and let go of Krad's ear.
"Finally." He muttered and massaged his aching ear.
"Well come on in." Emiko said pulling him inside.
"Bye! Have fun!" Yumi said and left.
After closing the front door Emiko said, "Let me show you to the guest room." And headed upstairs.
She lead Krad down a hallway to the last room on the left. "Here's the guest room." She said opening the door. "Make yourself comfortable while I go tell the others you're here." She said and turned to leave then turned again, "Oh and if I catch you not here when I get back I'll hunt you down and skin you alive, I don't care what Yumi says." She said, smiled, and left.
Krad shuddered and decided to look around the room. Directly across from where he stood was a window set high into the wall. Underneath it was a desk with a chair. On the left wall was a closed door that was probably a closet and on the right wall was a good sized bed with a chest at the foot of it.
Krad headed over to the closet and opened it up. It was empty.
"What!!!!" someone downstairs yelled out in surprise and anger.
"That sounded like Dark…" Krad said. He thought about hiding in the closet but scratched the idea at the thought of Emiko's threat.
He heard footsteps running up the steps and soon they reached his room. The door burst open to revile a furious Dark standing there. His features softened when he saw Krad (as Satoshi)
Emiko, Kosuke, and Daiki came up behind him.
"Emiko I think you need to get your eyes checked this is Satoshi not Krad." Dark said.
"Umm Dark I'm not sure look at his eyes." Daisuke pointed out.
"Hmm?" Dark said then took a closer look at Krad's eyes. Suddenly he burst out laughing. "Wow! That's some strong magic! How did you manage to get stuck as Satoshi, Krad?" he said through bursts of laughter.
"It's not my fault that brat Yumi did this to me." Krad growled.
"Wait! Yumi did this to you?" Dark asked and busted out laughing again, "Man! It would have been bad enough if it was your fault but a girl! Wow that's rich!"
"That's it Mousey! You die." Krad said loosing his temper. He held out his hand and tried to shoot lightning at Dark but all he got was a spark. "What?" Krad looked down at his hand disbelieving.
"It looks like their powers got switched too." Kosuke noted.
By this time Dark was rolling on the floor with laughter.
"I may not be able to fry you but that doesn't mean I cant kill you." Krad said glaring down at Dark.
"Uh oh." Dark said snapping out of his laughter. He jumped up before Krad could squish him and he hid behind Emiko. "Eeep! Emiko save me I think he's going to tear my heart out with his bare hands." Dark said.
Emiko stepped away from Dark, "I don't think I should Dark, you did antagonize him." She said.
Before Dark had time to find shelter Krad pounced on his other half and they both went flying to the floor.
"Umm Emiko, shouldn't we stop them?" Kosuke asked hesitantly.
"No, they'll eventually get tired of killing each other." Emiko said, "Now come help me finish dinner." She headed back down the stairs.
20 minutes later a very tired and beaten up Dark and Krad walked into the dining room where they practically fell into their chairs.
"Pay up Dad." Emiko said to Daiki.
Daiki mumbled something about stupid arc-enemies fighting for too long and pulled out his wallet. He counted out some money and handed it to Emiko.
"Thank you." She said smugly, "I hope this teaches you never to bet against me when it comes to childish squabbles."
Dark stared at her in disbelief as Emiko put the money in her pocket, "You bet on how long we would fight?!"
"Well why not?" Emiko said innocently.
"Emiko. That hurts, that really hurts." Dark said trying his best to sound injured at her cold-heartedness.
"Well it served you right Dark, you should be more polite to our guest no matter how much you hate him outside of the house." Emiko said, "Now take Krad upstairs and both of you get cleaned up. I will not have dirty people eating at my table."
"Emiko!" Dark said surprised and a little indignant.
"No if's, and's, or but's Dark. Go upstairs and get cleaned up or there's no dinner." Emiko commanded, "Oh and Dark?" Emiko said in a lighter tone, "Find something more comfortable for Krad to wear, I need to get his uniform clean for tomorrow."
Dark muttered a reply and led Krad upstairs. He dropped him off at one of the two bathrooms and unceremoniously dumped a handful of cloths in Krad's arms then left to clean up in the other.
Dark came in first and sat down. He was dressed in a black turtleneck and dark jeans. He had a bandage on one of his cheeks where Krad had scratched it.
When Krad came down he was wearing (remember your suppose to picture Satoshi in this) a white jacket over a black tee shirt. The jacket had black piping down the arms and on the back stitched in black also, was a winged crown over a halo. His pants were faded and torn jeans.
"You look so good!!" Emiko chirped when she spotted him.
Krad felt weird at the comment because normally he didn't care what people thought about his appearance but for some reason he liked the complement, 'Must be another stupid effect of being stuck like this.' He thought to himself. "Umm, thanks." He told Emiko as he sat down.
Dinner was quite as Krad tried to adjust to everything. After dinner Emiko had him help in the kitchen. Then after an almost fight between Krad and Dark Emiko had to shoo them both to bed reminding them they had school in the morning.
The next morning Dark peered into Krad's room to make sure the angel gone tamer was still asleep and then snuck in carrying a large object by his side. He stood over Krad and poured out the bucket of ice cold water all over his sleeping victim.
"Ahh!!!" Krad yelped suddenly as the cold water hit him. He jumped out of the bed faster than anyone could have imagined and immediately fell into a fighting position as he looked around the room in confusion.
Meanwhile Dark was once again laughing hysterically at Krad.
Finally Krad's sleepy head put two and two together and he glared at the thief, "I am going to kill you." He said simply.
Dark immediately stopped his laughter and started running. Krad chased after him picking up the first thing that came into his hands which happened to be the pail Dark had dropped.
On the steps Krad managed to catch up with Dark enough to smack his back with the pail a few times which caused Dark to decide to jump over the guard rail to get away from Krad and the traitorous pail. Krad followed him and chased the thief into the kitchen where Emiko stopped them by literally pulling the two apart.
"Dark I'd let Krad continue to beat you up but both Daisuke and Krad have school soon and I can't have Daisuke going to school looking like a tornado hit him." Emiko said and sent Krad upstairs.
"Why would you let him beat me up, I thought you cared about me, Emiko." Dark said after Krad had gone.
"To teach you a lesson Dark, Krad is our guest and he should be treated that way. I don't care how much you and he have fought in the past you need to be nicer to him now. I told Yumi that we would take care of him and we will." Emiko told him matter-o-factly.
"But you hate him." Dark said.
"He is still a guest Dark." Emiko told him, "Besides, if we get to know him maybe he will change." She said hopefully.
"Right like that will ever happen." Dark muttered and returned control to Daisuke.
After Daisuke went upstairs the doorbell rang and Emiko opened it.
Yumi was standing there smiling, "Good morning Emiko." She said brightly.
"Morning Yumi the boys are still getting ready." Emiko said and let Yumi in.
After a while the two came downstairs dressed and ready for class.
"Hello Yumi." Daisuke said when he spotted her.
"Morning Daisuke." Yumi smiled and turned to Krad, "How's my favorite blond gone bluenett doing this morning?" she asked him teasingly.
Krad glared at her in reply.
"Aww come on Krad things can't be that bad." She said.
"They can." He stated.
"Dark's been needling Krad since you left him here." Daisuke whispered to Yumi.
"Ohh." She whispered back in realization.
"Can we just get going?" Krad asked impatient.
The group left the house and headed towards the school.
"Remember Krad you have to act like Satoshi in school you can't just growl at everybody and expect to make it through school." Yumi said as they were walking down the street.
"Wonderful." Krad muttered.
"Oh and you'll have to use Satoshi's voice too." Daisuke said.
"Like this?" Krad said after a moment, his voice had changed to Satoshi's.
"Perfect!" Yumi smiled.
Krad's school day was anything but perfect, in math class he was yelled at by Satoshi for not completing the problems correctly, science class got him covered in a weird green goo, and in cooking his cookies came out looking deformed and like a three year old had thrown them up. In his final class of the day, P.E, Dark ended up pelting him and the teacher with doge balls. (If you want to see Krad's full day at school go read School Days)
Krad breathed a sigh of relief when school finally ended.
"Being me isn't so easy is it?" Satoshi chuckled.
"Don't tell me you watched the whole day." Krad said irked.
"Of course, what else is there to do?" Satoshi asked.
"I can't wait to see you when you try to be me." Krad mumbled.
"Hey Krad," Daisuke said hesitantly. He and Krad were on their way back to Daisuke's house.
"Yes?" Krad snapped still irritated by Satoshi.
"Don't be so mean to Niwa, it's not like he did anything to you." Satoshi chided.
"Shut up brat." Krad said and returned his attention outwards to what Daisuke was saying.
"I'm really sorry about that dodge ball thing. Dark just sort of took control." He said nervously rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't worry about it." Krad shrugged and Daisuke relaxed, "I'll just get him back later." Krad smiled already thinking about what he could do to the thief.
The rest of the week passed rather uneventfully excluding the numerous fights between Krad and Dark and school got better for Krad as he got more practice at it.
Friday after school Daisuke had to let Krad go in the house before him because he had to tell Yumi's parents she would be a while after school.
When Krad went in he took off his shoes and laid them by the other ones in the hall. As he stood up an ax fell in a swoop not two inches away from his face. He hurriedly stepped back against the door and saw the hall was now filled with swinging axes, "What do his parents put him through?" Krad asked mystified.
"Now I think I understand why Dark headed home in such a hurry the other night…"Satoshi said as surprised as Krad.
Krad proceeded through the swinging axes very carefully, and once he reached the end of them the floor started to fall out from under his feet. Krad sprinted down the hallway trying to keep ahead of the falling floor while avoiding the arrows that had suddenly started shooting at him.
"You know those arrows are probably poisoned." Satoshi pointed out.
"Not helping." Krad snapped at him.
He turned a corner and slipped on a banana peel. As he was getting up Krad heard a rumbaing from behind him, "Please no." he whispered and looked behind him, a large bolder was rolling towards him and picking up speed as it went.
"For crying out loud! I'm not Indiana Jones!!" he said and ran off in the opposite direction of the rock.
As he ran through an entry way Krad turned to see the rock get stuck in the doorway and then fall through a hole that opened up beneath it. After the rock was safely out of sight Krad turned to face the door he had come up to. It was decorated with, "congratulations" signs.
"Finally." Krad said relived and reached for the doorknob.
"Yeeeoooooow!!!" Daisuke heard Krad's scream as he walked in the front door. He took off his shoes and proceeded through the house unbothered. When he reached the door to the living room it was hanging open and he went in to see his grandfather sitting on the couch reading the newspaper with Kosuke sitting next to him. Emiko was at the kitchen sink filling up a bowl with ice water and Krad was at the table holding his had which was wrapped in a cloth.
"What happened?" Daisuke asked and turned to close the door.
"No Daisuke don't touch that knob!" Kosuke said suddenly.
"Why?" Daisuke asked turning to face them again.
"Because it's evil." Krad hissed.
"Don't mind him, Krad's just fuming because he got caught in all the traps I set." Emiko said as she gently took the cloth off of Krad's hand and placed it in the bowl of water.
"Mom!" Daisuke said embarrassed, "I thought you didn't set the traps on weekends!"
"Well I was expecting you to come in first." Emiko said.
"I'm really sorry you had to go through that Krad." Daisuke apologized.
"Tell that to my hand." Krad muttered.
"You didn't get electrocuted did you?" Daisuke asked worried.
"No the stupid knob was super heated." Krad said lifting his hand to show Daisuke.
"Ouch." Daisuke winced and stepped forward to move further into the room but he tripped and fell backwards, his hand landing on the doorknob for support.
"Maybe superheating the doorknob wasn't such a good idea after all." Emiko said as she put Daisuke's hand in a bowl of water. He was now seated next to Krad at the table looking terribly embarrassed with himself.
"Now how is Dark supposed to steal the Crown of Ancients tonight?" Daisuke said despairingly.
"Mousey had a heist planned for tonight?" Krad asked surprised that he could live in the same house as Dark and still not know when the thief was planning to steal something.
"Yes and we already sent out the warning letter and everything." Kosuke said.
"Why are you all talking like Dark's not going to show tonight?" Emiko asked as she went through a cupboard filled with what looked like jars of medicine.
"Um because I don't think my hand will be any good for a few days at least." Daisuke said.
"That should be no problem for Dark." Emiko said still searching.
"You have too much faith in him." Krad said.
"No, I have faith in his magic…Ah ha! Here it is." Emiko said finally pulling out a jar of what looked like cream.
"What's that?" Daisuke asked.
"It's a cream Dark helped me with a while back." Emiko said taking the top off the jar.
Daiki put down his newspaper, "Originally it just soothed burns but Dark supercharged it so that it would actually heal them." He said and then continued to read.
Emiko pulled Daisuke's hand out of the water and he winced as she put the cream on it. Almost immediately the burn healed and Daisuke's hand looked, and felt like new.
"Now yours." Emiko said to Krad and pulled out his hand and started to put the cream on it.
Afterward Krad looked at his hand in wonder, "I had no idea that our magic's could be used to improve medicine." He said.
"It's amazing the things your magic can do when you use it properly." Emiko said putting the cream away.
Krad didn't have time to ponder his magic because Emiko stood both him and Daisuke up, "Now I want both of you to go upstairs and get ready." She said.
"For what?" Krad asked bewildered. (It seems he already forgot that Dark was going to be stealing a crown…)
"Because you both have work tonight, or have you forgotten that your still Satoshi and have to act like him?" Emiko said.
Daisuke pulled Krad toward the stairs, "Its better to just do what she says before she gets mad and pushes us upstairs." He said.
Daisuke changed into Dark's usual black top with the white stripe going down the middle and matching black thieving pants. And Krad changed into a pair of black pants and a red tee shirt.
Yumi showed up at the front door soon after the two had finished changing.
Krad opened the door and looked at Yumi in surprise, "Why are you here?" he asked.
"I thought you could use some help tonight, but if you don't think you'll need help playing the part in front of all the officers then I can just go…" Yumi said crossing her arms.
"No I defiantly need the help, I just didn't think you would actually come over to help…" Krad said. He still couldn't figure out why this girl was so intent on helping him. Almost all they ever did was fight with each other and yet she still showed up to help him out, and was stern in the belief that she could change him.
"Krad I'd like to think you know me better than that by now." Yumi said and sighed.
Emiko came out of the kitchen drying a plate, "Oh hello Yumi, here to pick up Krad?" she asked.
"Yes I am." Yumi smiled, "I wouldn't want him to be late."
"Well just make sure he survives the night." Emiko said.
"I will." Yumi said and pushed Krad out the front door and closed it there was a muffled "Hey!" from behind it.
"Uh, Emiko?" Yumi said once Krad was safely out of hearing range.
"Yes?" Emiko asked.
"Krad may spend the night at my house tonight." She said.
"I understand, be careful." Emiko said and waved.
"What was that for?!" Krad snapped as Yumi came out after him.
"We had to discuss big kid talk." Yumi told him and wouldn't discuss the topic any further no matter how much Krad badgered her.
Yumi and Krad eventually reached an old castle that had been renovated into a museum.
"Hello detective Sehera." Yumi said cheerfully as she got the detectives attention.
He turned to face her and Krad, "Commander your late." He stated, "And I see you've brought your friend as well." He added turning his gaze to Yumi.
She waved mischievously, "Don't blame Satoshi for being late sir, I wanted to stop for a snack." She said. Yumi had insisted they get something to eat since she had picked Krad up before he had had a chance to eat.
The detective grunted and handed Satoshi a piece of paper:
I will steal the Crown of Ancients
Tonight at 9.
Dark.
"We have cameras installed throughout the castle as well as on the outside. And I have stationed men at all the entrances and exits. We also checked an old blueprint of the castle and found a series of underground tunnels that lead up to it. I have men at and in all of them, there's no way he can make it in." Sehera said smugly.
"Do any of the tunnels open up into the castle?" Krad asked automatically switching his voice to Satoshi's wondering how old the blueprints were that they had found.
"No sir we checked." Sehera answered.
'Not old enough I guess.' Krad thought to himself, 'They missed the only one that actually comes into the castle…' "Good then we should have no trouble catching him tonight shall we?" he said letting the mistake slide, now he would be able to get Dark back for that dodge ball stunt…
Yumi noticed the inspector studying Krad's eyes, "Did you notice, sir. Satoshi got contacts." She pointed out cheerfully.
Krad wondered why she was being so cheerful towards the commander. "It's because it gets on his nerves." Satoshi told him.
"When did you start listening in on my thoughts?" Krad asked.
"I couldn't help it; it was like you broadcasted the thought over loudspeakers." Satoshi shrugged.
"I did notice." The commander replied to Yumi, "But you should be focused on what's going on around you and not unimportant things like a new pair of contacts if you ever hope to do well in the detective business." He said.
"On the contrary detective, things like contacts can come in handy when you're dealing with a master of disguise like Dark." Yumi pointed out, "If I remember correctly one time Dark actually did disguise himself as Satoshi and the only difference between the two was the eye color." Yumi said. (FYI: That happened in the manga and not the anime)
"She has you there." Krad said as a slight smile crossed his features. 'I think I actually might like her personality.' He thought.
The time passed quickly as they checked and re-checked to make sure everyone was at their stations and all the equipment was functioning properly.
Krad left Yumi in charge of the camera room and headed to the third floor where the crown was being held.
The room he entered looked like it had been a ball room and there were displays set up all over the place. Many of the cases were full of an assortment of things but the crown was all by itself in a case, it was gold and studded with a series of emeralds, rubies, and sapphires all arranged in a complicated pattern around the large diamond that was set in the center.
Krad walked over to it and looked down at the crown with a rare expression of care coming over his features, "I remember when Rino Hikairi created you." He said to it.
"Then you know why I have to seal it." Dark said coming out from under a nearby rug.
"It hasn't harmed anyone since the accident." Krad said whirling to face him all traces of kindness on his face had vanished.
"Because he hasn't awakened since then, we can't take any chances Krad." Dark said.
"You're going to kill him." Krad argued defensively.
"He killed someone Krad." Dark snapped.
"He was a child!(the artwork) He didn't know any better!" Krad growled.
"It could happen again and you know it." Dark stated.
"No I don't Dark, how can we know if we don't give him another chance. Not all the Hikairi artworks are evil; you know that better than anyone." Krad said.
In the camera room Yumi let a smile cross her face, "May I give him a hint Shadow?" she asked.
"Be my guest." Shadow smiled with a chuckle.
Yumi hit a button that would isolate the room Krad and Dark were in letting her voice only go into that room then picked up the microphone. "Who are you to talk about giving other's a chance Krad? Weren't you the one who told me that it's pointless to give the hopeless a chance?" she accused.
Krad's eyes widened then he shook his head, "It doesn't matter! He's not hopeless! None of the Hikairi artworks are!"
"How can you say that when you don't believe people deserve a chance? The artworks you defend so much have hearts and souls, the same as people. To say people don't deserve a chance means the artworks don't deserve one either." Yumi said knowing she had hit a chord in Krad.
Dark took advantage of Yumi's distraction and grabbed the crown and began to sneak back out of the castle.
Krad was stunned by Yumi's words and didn't notice Dark's actions until Yumi pointed it out, "Oh and Dark is stealing the crown by the way."
Krad spun around and tackled Dark before he could get any further with the crown. As they fell the crown also fell out of Dark's grasp and out of reach of either of them. Dark shoved off of him and sat up.
Krad rolled over and sat up as well.
"Why haven't you let Satoshi take over yet?" Dark asked conversationally.
"Because I'm supposed to be Satoshi and this is his job." Krad said giving Dark a duh look.
"I know that but you get out often enough that it makes this your job too. Besides I've had so much fun watching you be Satoshi that I want to see what he does as you." Dark said.
"He has a point Krad." Satoshi said, "Besides I think it would be fun to be you for a while."
"No way, you don't even know how to take control properly." Krad said.
"That should be easy enough, just go take a look at Yumi and you'll turn right into me." Satoshi muttered to himself.
"What was that?" Krad asked.
"Oh nothing," Satoshi said, "I think I could handle changing into you." He said getting back on the subject.
"Fine then Mr.-Know-It-All go ahead and try." Krad said and crossed his arms.
Truthfully Satoshi was clueless about how to switch places with Krad. He knew Krad did it by pushing his presence over his own and then shoving Satoshi's consciousness to the back of their mind, but he didn't want to be like Krad, as much as he hated his curse he never wanted to put anyone through that. He thought for a while then came up with an idea, 'Maybe I can just move my consciousness around his…' he thought.
Suddenly Krad doubled over gripping his side, "Satoshi what are you…" he tried to ask. 'It's like a fire tearing through me.' Krad thought cringing in pain.
Satoshi had tried his idea and suddenly found himself not in control of his actions, it was like a weird instinct had taken over that he could do nothing about. "Stop it!" he told himself futilely as he tried to stop himself from forcing Krad back, 'I don't want it this way!' He thought.
Krad cried out in pain as he felt his back splitting from the wings that were now sprouting, 'Is this really what I put him through every time?' he thought to himself before falling into a welcome darkness.
And that's chapter 9!! Yhay cliffy!! Once again I am super sorry for the extremely long wait for this chapter!! You have no idea what kind of problems I had with this one… Just picture having to figure out what scenes to put in and what to take out then working on wording, writing Krad as Satoshi is much more difficult than it sounds…and finally whenever you sit down to type the fic you immediately got called away for something. But it's finally finished! And I almost have chapter 10 on paper so I'm hoping to get it out quick. Once again if you want to see Satoshi and Shadows date (from the beginning of the chappie) then put a request for it in a pm or review and if I get enough people who want it I'll post it as a extra chapter in here. Also please tell me if you think my writing has gotten any better since I first started this fic, I like to think so but you can never be sure. Thanks again so much for sticking with me! R&R as always!
Dawn's out.