Alrighty! It's the 25th chapter and I'm a little pumped up. Are you?

Let's start the show!

Chapter 25: Kidnapped

With Mio

"Master Krad, I have spotted the fallen angels. What would you like me to do?" Hio asked as she waited for the answer over the cell phone.

"Get the girl and come back." Krad commanded and then paused, remembering something. "Did you get what I asked for?"

"Yes sir."

"Good, you can use some of the energy in capturing her. She does put up a fight."

"Yes Master Krad."

Without further delay, the call was ended and Mio got out of a clothing store where she left the corpse of the shop owner.

Across the street, she could see Hitomi running after Hiroko. She followed suit.

With Dark & Daisuke

As dessert came to the two boys, Daisuke couldn't help but to think of all that had happened so far. He was definitely curious as to what was going on between Dark and Krad and how things seemed to come out of a movie. So far, he had a feeling that they weren't going to explain anything to him until they were all grouped up again and staying in a secure place. For now, he just had to be patient about it.

On a different note, he did wanted to know how Dark received the injuries he go before coming to the roof top with Krad and Hiroko.

"Dark?" Daisuke began, eyeing at the Amethyst eyed boy as he looked up at him.

"Hm?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what is it?" Dark said as he wiped his mouth with a napkin.

So elegant… Daisuke thought before he proceeded questioning him.

"How did you get all those injuries up on the roof top yesterday?"

"Oh, that," Dark managed to say, averting his eyes from Daisuke's gaze for a second. "I get those injuries when I was fighting an ancient Greek lion."

Dark was still having second thoughts of telling Daisuke about Hiroko's and his ordeal. He was really getting attached to him which isn't a good idea seeing as their enemy can use anything against them just to kill Hiroko.

"What?" Daisuke exclaimed, not believing what he just heard.

"Relax, you didn't see it once you came up on the roof, right?" Dark said, leaning back on his chair.

"Besides, I can also recover from injuries like that just like Hiroko, so I'm fine." Dark said, pausing as he still saw Daisuke's stern look.

"Don't worry, I can take care of myself. Trust me." Dark finished, gaining Daisuke's relieved sigh. Dark continued looking at Dai, not taking his thoughts of him seriously until now.

"What's the matter? Scared that I'll die?" Dark asked, grateful for being cared for but still wanting more from the red head.

"Ah…no, it's not that…" Daisuke awkwardly said. Now was his turn to avert his eyes from Dark's gaze. He noticed how much he cared for Dark but being in a problem where it may be possible for even an angel to die didn't settle well with him.

"It's not like you can die, right?" Daisuke said, hoping that the answer would be a good of good news to him. Dark's smile slowly disappeared, making Dai's heart sink and the feel of fear bury itself in his stomach.

"Daisuke," Dark began, daring his hand to touch Daisuke's hand. A small tint of blush rose up onto Dai's cheeks.

"Not everything lasts forever." Dark continued.

Dark's hand squeezed Dai's hand, seeing Daisuke's gaze lower down to his hands.

"I can't promise you that I won't die but," Dark paused, making Daisuke look back at him. "I will promise you that I will try to live, and you'll be the first to know."

Stunned, Daisuke kept looking at Dark until he felt Dark's hand leaving his.

A quick thought came to Daisuke's mind, one that he himself was startled with.

'When did you start becoming serious about me?'

His mind repeated the promise Dark just did to him just a moment ago. He now sensed that between Dark and him there may have been a much stronger bond of what he could think of as, friendship. For some reason, he couldn't put his finger on it but he let the feeling of being promised to slide away.

Looking back at his plate, he found that there was only one piece of strawberry cheese cake left.

"Hey!" Daisuke protested, snapping his glare to the perpetrator.

"Dark!"

"Hm?"

"Why did you eat all my cake?"

"I didn't eat your cake. You have no proof." Dark smirked, happy to pick on the red head's nerves.

"Oh yeah? Then how come there's a small piece of it on your cheek?" Daisuke asked, pointing at Dark's cheek.

Dark touched the piece of cake that was left on his cheek, looked at Daisuke and put it in his mouth.

"Delicious." Dark commented, smirking again as he saw Daisuke's face turn beat red. "You really do have good tastes."

Daisuke just gawked at him, not knowing what to say. Girls from other tables had seen Dark's performance and Dai's reaction and squealed.

This day is just getting better and better… thought Dai. He sunk into his chair, his face still red.

Hiroko & Hitomi

"Hiroko, where are you going?" Hitomi asked, thinking that they were going to a nearby hair salon.

"I'm going to the salon I know." Hiroko replied, strutting down the side walk. She still had the bags in her hands.

"What? Why? We should at least go to one where it's close by the boys." Hitomi exclaimed, looking behind for anyone suspicious. Hiroko stopped walking and looked back at Hitomi, her face showing annoyance.

"So, in other words, you want to pry in to their business and have a good time?"

"It's not like that. Don't you feel it? There's something around here with great power." Hitomi said.

"And you're getting all that from when I rescued you? The wings on your back?" Hiroko asked, one of her eyebrows jerked up.

"Yeah, I guess." Hitomi said, unsure of how to explain the feeling she's having. Hiroko looked troubled.

If I can't feel anything that she's feeling then-

Hiroko's thoughts were interrupted as a sudden blast of light hit the two girls like a ton of bricks. They were thrown at opposite sides on the concrete floor as the smoke and debris from the impact cleared up. In the middle was a faint light orb and in it was Mio Hio. In her somewhat revealing white clothing, she quickly got out of the orb and onto the floor. Her eyes were dim, making her look serious and possibly even depressed.

Hiroko tried to get up first, feeling like the pain from the bruises and slight concussion from the fall was better that falling unconscious. Immediately, she felt a hand grasping her neck and lifting her up in the air. Hiroko opened her eyes to see who the culprit was.

"Mio Hio?" Hiroko gasped out, unable to get the girl's hand off of her neck. Mio just cocked her head to the side, seeing Hiroko turn a shade of blue.

"You remember me, huh?" Mio asked, already knowing the answer. Hiroko just kept struggling against Mio's grip. Mio leaned forward and closed in on Hiroko's ear.

"The little girl you changed into a meaningless thing on the day you left Heaven has grown up quite a bit now and is living a miserable life because of you. Do you remember that day?" Mio whispered, her voice sounding venomous.

"I…don't know…what you're…talking…about…" Hiroko said as her vision got blurry and finally, she fainted. Mio scuffed at the reply, thinking that Hiroko may not have been thinking right due to the lack of oxygen in her brain. She went back to her orb of light and dumped Hiroko beside her feet.

Hitomi now waking up from being unconscious on the ground, got up and saw Mio getting ready to leave. She threw whatever she could find on the ground at Mio. Blue sparks lit up at where a bag of clothes hit the ord. The bag dropped, the front of it was burned. Hitomi watched hopelessly as Mio and Hiroko were lifted up in the air and disappeared in a cloud of fog.

As if time had stopped for that moment, Hitomi felt the incoming stares at her and the bags of clothes that lay on the ground. Hitomi picked up the stuff quickly and ran towards the café the boys were at.

With Krad

Krad was now up and out of bed, covering himself with a robe as he looked out into the clear blue sky. It was somewhat chilly still as the day went by but he didn't mind staying outside.

A knock was heard at the door and he told the person to come inside.

Satoshi Hiwatari came inside, his glasses hiding his expression.

"You called?" Hiwatari asked, his voice was serious yet cold.

"I need more energy." Krad replied. His back was still facing Hiwatari. Satoshi bit his lip, not wanting to do what Krad demanded. After a moment of silence Krad turned around and looked at Satoshi. His eyes were serious.

"Are you denying me?"

Satoshi stayed silent a bit longer, knowing that he couldn't back away for certain reasons. "…No…"

Reluctantly, he got closer to Krad. Krad lifted Satoshi's chin to see his face and removed his glasses.

"Good." And so Krad plunged in and took the boys lips onto his. His arms began to wander around the boy's body and embraced him in the end. Satoshi just let his arms go limb as he felt Krad deepening the kiss. It wasn't something he liked to do but having someone try and threatened your own mother to be killed wasn't an option.

Krad's wings came out, showing that he was full of the energy he needed. Yet he still continued. Satoshi noticed this and started to push Krad back.

"Stop it!" Satoshi said, succeeding into pushing Krad away. He tried rubbing off the feel of the kiss with the sleeve of his arm, viciously.

Krad smirked at the boy, licking his lips.

"You're such a good boy." Krad commented, sounding sarcastic at the same time.

"You're disgusting." Satoshi said, sporting an angry expression at Krad.

"You'll get to grow attached to me, all in due time." Krad said and then walked passed the boy and left the room.

Satoshi was left alone in the dark, cold room and kept hating ever second of the white angel and any other angel, but especially the white angel named Krad.

*looks around and then covers herself as to not be seen* If there's something you hate I'm really, really sorry! But hey,, on the upside, Satoshi hates this, too. So yeah, win/win? No? Ok . …

Um, sorry about the delay, I should really stop promising…. I thought that I would finish by sat. But it was too short so I tried to think of more.