Daisuke was having a strange dream. His dreams were usually strange, but this one was strange in particular.

He dreamt that Risa was cooking lots and lots of food for him. She was cooking so much that their oven blew up. Then she brought him a cake and he ate the whole thing. Perhaps the strangest part of the dream was that the cake was actually edible. Risa cooking something good… only in dreams.

Daisuke awoke in a room. Everything was white. In fact, it was so white that it almost blinded him. Even Wiz, who was sitting on his feet, matched the rest of the room. Then he noticed Risa was in the room, too; he wondered why he hadn't seen her before, considering she wasn't wearing any white.

"Risa? Where are we?" he asked, sitting up. Then he realized the sides of his bed had metal poles. 'Ah. This must be a hospital.'

"Oh! Daisuke, you're awake!" Risa shrieked, ignoring the question that Daisuke fortunately answered on his own. "I was very worried about you!"

"Yeah, yeah. Seriously, what did you want?" Daisuke asked flatly.

Risa looked slightly offended at first, but then burst into a grin. "Okay, what I really wanted to know is if you know where Dark went."

Daisuke sighed. "I don't know. Why do you care about Dark so much?"

Risa laughed. Daisuke blinked and Risa stopped. "Oh, you're serious. I'm a rabid fan girl. It's what I do. It's like my hobby." She looked at her nails. "Shoot, one's broken… I knew I shouldn't have thrown my nail file at that weird, pink-haired ninja girl."

Meanwhile, Satoshi was waking up in a room nearby. Likewise, Riku was waiting for him to get up. Satoshi was sleeping too deeply to dream; after all, he hadn't had a full night's sleep since he was like five.

"Hey, you're finally awake," Riku said as he finally got up. "I've been waiting for several hours. And you never came back to the yacht!" she yelled, her teeth suddenly pointed like a chipmunk's.

"I'm sorry. But I found your sister and the other girls," Satoshi said groggily. "I hunger for something. Is there by any chance food?"

Riku laughed weakly. "There was, but I kind of ate it during the five hours I waited for you to wake up. Hospitals make good apple sauce."

"Ah… I see." Something dawned on him. "Ah… the unicorn; we never got rid of it."

"Oh, don't worry about that dude. The unicorn actually wasn't causing the problem," Riku said. "It was a guy unicorn and his name was Moklinthorsnipperhoven, except I called him Moklin, and he stopped this fight between-"

"By any chance did you maltreat your head?" Satoshi inquired.

Riku blinked; before Satoshi explained what he meant, she shouted, "Wait, that was a vocab word… Hang on, almost got it… HEY! I'M NOT CRAZY!" She shouted. "It all happened, I swear!" She pointed at him. "You! You had wings and were flying and everything! You were fighting Dark! It was crazy! Except… you looked different."

"I think you might have ruptured your-"

"I didn't rupture my anything!" Riku yelled, looking evil. She shook her head. "I give up. Boys are so stubborn. Especially name-forgetting, blue-haired ones!" She stuck out her tongue and walked off.

"Krad, what were thinking last night?" Satoshi growled.

'I was thinking that I tricked you. Again.'

"You're awful."

'Thank you! I love you too!'

"We'll talk about this later," Satoshi mumbled as a confused nurse stared at him, holding some sleeping pills in her hand.

"I think I'll go get some more of these…" she stammered, rushing off in a nervous streak.

The next day, Daisuke was back at school.

'Dark, seriously, you have to talk to me sometime! I'm still really confused about what happened.'

'Just don't go near Satoshi and I'll be fine.'

'But why?'

'WATCH OUT!'

Daisuke accidentally walked into someone and papers classically flew everywhere.

'What's wrong with you?!' Dark yelled in his head. 'How many times have I told you not to think and walk at the same time?!'

"Shut up…" Daisuke said.

"Beg your pardon?" a very confused and slightly angry girl said.

Daisuke realized who he'd walked into. It was the most popular girl in school, Ayaka Hatori. Even though Daisuke usually didn't care who was popular and who wasn't, he knew who she was by a convenient button on her shirt that said, 'Hi, I'm Ayaka Hatori, the most popular girl in school'.

"Oh… sorry about that," he said, gathering up his books.

"Whatever, Weirdlo," the girl said before walking off.

Daisuke shrugged and walked on. He was only forty percent desperate for a girlfriend, but he still didn't care if his female classmates talked to him.

Satoshi was still in the hospital. After forcibly taking twelve sleeping pills and one tranquilization shot, then coming back to his senses, he realized that he probably shouldn't talk to himself. He didn't feel like taking over the recommended dose of medicine anymore.

'Krad, I want to talk to you now.'

'Have you decided to stop thinking about tap-dancing leprechauns?' Krad said with an obnoxiously pleased voice.

'What are you rambling on about?'

'You said some strange things in your sleep. It was quite amusing.'

Satoshi returned to the current subject. 'You acted stupid again to fool me.'

'Heh, heh… indeed.'

'Risa-'

'Riku.'

'Ah. Touché. I mean, Riku told me that the unicorn did not capture those girls. By any chance do you know?'

'Yes… and I suppose now is as good a time as any to reveal my evil plan.'

Satoshi sighed heavily. 'What is with you and evil plans? First you tricked me into selling my dog on the Black Market and now you've...?'

'Taken those girls. It was not said strange unicorn.'

Satoshi talked allowed this time. "But… how-?"

'I transformed into Krad while you were searching endlessly to find your way out of that mansion of yours without you noticing and taking them. Then I blamed it on a stupid unicorn I found wandering around in the Himalayas.'

'There's unicorns there?'

'They run wild.'

'Really, I had no idea.'

'Yes, beautiful white ones-'

'We're getting off-topic.'

'Yes, well, that's my evil plan.'

"You've got to be kidding. Why this again?" Satoshi growled as he realized another nurse had entered the room.

"Okay, I think it's time for another dose," she said nervously. Satoshi sighed, ready to sleep for another fifteen hours.

"Dude! Guess what I heard!" Takeshi rushed up to Daisuke, eager to share his new bit of juicy gossip.

"What is it?" Daisuke asked, sighing.

"That really popular girl, Akaya, has a new boyfriend!" Takeshi shouted, mega-squealing like Risa.

Daisuke narrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "And why do I care about this?"

"Because she wrote it all over her notebook, which you stole," Takeshi said, jabbing a finger at him acusingly.

"I didn't steal it. I bumped into her today and I must have grabbed hers by mistake." Daisuke shrugged.

"And since when does your notebook-" Takeshi held it up- "have flowers covering it and "I love Donis A." written all over it?"

"Donis A… I've never heard of him," Daisuke said.

"Well, he's the new kid, so for once it's not really your fault," Takeshi said. "Me, being a big gossip-lover, I know all this."

"I should really give this back. What a stupid mistake."

"How many times have I told you not to think and walk at the same time?" Takeshi shook his head. "Oh, there's Akaya. Go give it back to her."

Akaya was walking next to her new boyfriend, Donis. 'That's strange. He looks very familiar.'

Suddenly, it dawned on Daisuke where he'd seen him before…