Okay, Halloween got me distracted for the whole month. No biggie. Still a filler… that's my only excuse to anyone's question of what's gonna happen next.

Ira Nordiana (guest): Yes, I would love it if you could draw all this out. Visuals are better and I really do hope I can see what you've made. (YAY! ITS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE DRAWN! Im over the moon with this).

Ahem, Lets Start the show shall we?

Chap. 36, Reporting

He hadn't thought about it. It was absolutely normal for guys to take showers after gym. It was perfectly normal for guys to get in the showers before changing…can this be stressed anymore than needed? It had dawned on Daisuke rather slowly and once the idea of being naked with Dark alone in the Men's locker room, he had felt very conscious of himself and the young man before him.

He wondered why he hadn't felt this way before when Dark had appeared to him in the bathroom the other day. As he saw Dark start to take his shirt off, Daisuke's thoughts had started to spiral out of control and before he could go any further on with the flashy images in his head, he blurted out his concerns.

"I REALLY don't think I should go shower!" Daisuke shouted as he shut his eyes, making Dark look back at him un-phased. Getting his arms out of his shirt and standing up straight, Dark continued looking at the red head.

He had half a mind to just grab the boy by the shoulders, give him a kiss and just say "Is this what friends do Daisuke?" just to prove here and now that it would be perfectly fine to join him in the same stall. Clearly the red head isn't ready for such a move on him so Dark went for the latter.

The young man place his hand on the boy's shoulder, making Dai look up at him, and smiled.

"What are you thinking? We worked up a sweat out there. If anything, you need the showers more than I do!" Dark snickered. Daisuke's face practically illuminated red as he turned from embarrassed to being upset from the teasing.

"Are you saying I stink?" Daisuke asked, his brows furrowed at the question. Dark chuckled. Teasing the boy was an alternative to bonding with him, too, he thought. It was an alright alternative to what he had wanted to do.

Dark grinned at the red head, not giving a word out or even a nod. This made Daisuke stand his ground, realizing that it was just the older male teasing him and nothing more. He knew he shouldn't give in to Dark's teasing. Daisuke turned his body to the side and crossed his arms, his eyelids drooping half way at the obvious provocation.

"Oh ha ha, very funny Dark. I'm not falling for that." Dai said. Dark smirked at this, his amethyst eyes danced as he recomposed himself and waved his hand in front of his face, also not facing the boy.

"Pew ew! What IS that smell?!" Dark said, raising his voice for exaggeration. At the corner of his eye, he saw how Daisuke simmered. Dark saw how the boy's dead panned face was facing his direction. The boy now definitely show that he didn't like the tease.

"Cut it out Dark…" was all Daisuk said in a slight bitter tone.

"Oh man, Dai, you seriously need the showers!" Dark exaggerated again.

"Dark, I mean it, cut it out" Daisuke said, this time in a stern voice as he moved his body, facing Dark now.

"I don't know why but a certain someone really– ha ha ha!" Dark laughed as he ran away from Daisuke. He dodged the red head, took off his pants (leaving his boxers on), and headed straight for one of the wide stalls where the showers were. In a swift movement, he turned the knob for the water to come down, turned his body around and caught a surprised Daisuke as the boy slammed into the other, landing on the tiled floor of the showers. Successfully both getting wet.

Dai could feel the vibrations on Dark's chest as he looked up at the teen, seeing him chuckling from the landing. The drops of water was starting to cascade down his hair and lashes, making the short illusion of looking through a veil of water. He remembered why he was there in the first place. With his brows furrowed again, Daisuke continued looking at the other with a slight pout to his cheeks. How could Dark not catch that look and feel himself try to tense up.

He wanted to hug the red head but held himself back.

'One step at a time…' Dark thought as he loosened up and looked at Dai.

"And now your wet" said Dark, amusement back in his eyes as fast as it went. Daisuke's face lowered down on Dark's chest a bit, trying to show now more than before that he didn't exactly like it. Yet, he had to admit to himself, it felt kinda fun being with the older male. It was fun ever since he met him. It was strange and dangerous, yet fun. It was an odd feeling that Daisuke wasn't completely used to now. He finally learned how to feel comfortable with the strange events surrounding Dark and the girl he met along with him.

Yet, Dai could never get used to Dark's antics. He tried something new.

Daisuke's bangs covered his eyes as he slowly lifted himself up. The amusement from Dark's eyes was gone by the time Daisuke was on his knees and hands.

"Daisuke?" Dark asked as he looked at the boy, not knowing what's going on.

"Hey, Dark?" Daisuke whispered, making Dark look at him questioningly.

"Yeah?"

"Are you ticklish?" Daisuke looked at Dark now with a witty smirk on his face, completely unlike him. It added to the small, uneasy feeling Dark was getting from the red head.

"No?" Dark half questioned. Since he could remember, no one had ever tickled him, so he wouldn't know. Just as those words left his mouth, however, Daisuke placed his fingers into the older male's sides and started to wiggle them around. Dark laughed as he saw this. Well, now he knew he wasn't ticklish but this was a great way to find out.

Hearing the laugh, Daisuke continued, now enjoying himself as he made his way up and down the sides.

Now it was hilarious how the red head continued his fruitless attempt to torture Dark. It made him feel strangely warm, despite the somewhat cold water showering them both. No, it wasn't only the warmth, it was the feeling of his heart swelling. He'd know about it, that feeling, yet he wasn't familiar to it. Dark shrugged the feeling off and was about to tell Daisuke to stop when said boy reached out to Dark's neck and tried to tickle the teen there. As soon as he began tickling Dark there, Daisuke's wrists were taken and he found himself somehow pinned under the teen's body on the floor. He definitely noticed how fluid the motion was. Dai felt like he practically flowed to the floor.

Dark made sure his movements were swift and precise enough to not hurt the boy under him. His hair had flipped in the process and with the water coming down on his head, the longest of his hair tips had barely touched Dai's face. The red head stared up at Dark, blinking away sudden small drops of water going around his eyes.

There was something about Dark's eyes that were entrancing. As if he could make magic come about with just by looking into his amethyst eyes. Yet Dai felt something more than that, but he couldn't put it to words. He just felt stuck there, unable tear his gaze from Dark's.

Finally, though, he realized what he had done before he was pinned to the floor and furiously blushed.

Dark took the hint rather quickly, stood up and lent a hand to Daisuke.

"Come on, you, we need to meet up with the others." Dark said, now trying to calm the red head from earlier. Timidly, Daisuke accepted his hand and was hauled up. Dark grinned and ran to the last stall all the way on the other side of the room. It was a whole row of them and they had taken one of the middle stalls just now. Puzzled, Daisuke peaked from the stall he was in and looked at where Dark was waving from.

"I'll take this one. Let's see who can take a shower the fastest" said Dark, yelling from where he stood. This completely took Daisuke's mind off of what just happened, he saw, as the boy smiled while shaking his head. He combed his hair with a passing of his hand over his head and jogged back to the locker where he left his things; bringing along droplets of water.

"Dark, you forgot your towel!" Dai hollered as he got both of their towels.

"I'll just go to the lockers in my birthday suit. It's not like someone doesn't want to see me in all my glory." Dark said, adding in an exaggerated, narcissistic tone.

Dai couldn't help but scoff as his first thought that came to mind was of girls from their class trying to take a peek at Dark's body…

And then he immediately blocked that image out of his already bright red head.

'What is wrong with me?!' Daisuke screamed in his thoughts, now going back to the stall they used, almost forgetting the towels cradled in his arms. He jumped as he felt the water wake him up, ran back out and threw Dark's half wet towel into the stall, successfully landing on Dark's head.

"Hey!"

"Sorry!" Daisuke shouted back as he quickly took off all his clothing, leaving his towel on the door. Dark took the towel off his head and let it hang on the large door. He stared at it while hearing Daisuke fumble with the soap. Since he had powers, he could cheat his way out of a lot of things. He still planned on looking like a lady this weekend but he'd do it his way.

Dark was definitely curious on how Dai would 'court' him to a date. Then there was that whole chemistry between them now. He wasn't sure if Daisuke noticed it yet but they had been getting along very well. Only time would tell, and their date, on how their little relationship would go. He just hoped he didn't slip in an obvious hints that he liked Dai. Otherwise he would see a very confused and panicked red head.

He almost slipped with that kiss in his home and now, he had a feeling that he'd need Daisuke again for that. If it wasn't obvious the first time he purposely kissed him that he liked him then the second time may prove it to the little guy.

Yes, he ruled out the very first time he kissed Daisuke. He didn't do it with a clear mind.

He was woken up from his thoughts when he heard Dai slip and fall in the showers. He couldn't help it, he laughed.

With Hiroko & Hitomi

"I swear to you, this poltergeist has made it to my blacklist with that stunt he pulled" Hiroko said as she walked through the semi-empty hallway, heading to the cafeteria in the high school building. Hitomi walked beside her, adjusting the strap on her backpack.

"I am not a poltergeist. I'm just a simple spirit" said Argentine, who was now floating above the girls, laying down on his back with his fingers intertwined on his stomach. He seemed to be thinking about something yet he pipped up as soon as he heard the word 'poltergeist'. Hitomi looked up at him now. It was her first time being close to a ghost, now that she thought about it.

"I think he probably thought you were bored enough to see a prank on the teacher, Hiroko." Hitomi said, now looking forward as they made a turn; getting closer to the cafeteria. To this, Hiroko huffed.

"I have made it through life getting bored and not dying out of it. I don't need him messing my time at school, thank you very much." Hiroko said.

"Why do you have a problem with me? Every time I do something, you get mad." Argentine asked, repositioning himself and now laying on his stomach, floating beside Hiroko. Said girl turned her head, her brows were immediately frowning, her lips in a thin line.

"I don't know you. You're a ghost that comes out of nowhere and attaches to me all of the sudden. Best part, I first meet you when I wake up at a mansion where they abducted me! How do I know if your not just oppressing everyone here and trying to mess me up just for kicks?" Hiroko said.

Argentine looked back at her, surprised at first on how she attacked him with words but his face slowly deadpanned. Couldn't she feel that he himself was too weak to 'oppress' anyone?

Hiroko briskly walked away from him. Hitomi followed, unaffected by the display of the two.

Guess not… Argentine thought to himself. As he tried to catch up to the girls, he over heard someone talking from one of the stair cases they passed by.

"You'll catch her next time, Saehara." One voice said.

"I only saw her walking around the gym today. I never seen someone like that and I know everyone in the campus. Everyone." Another said, seeming to be Saehara.

"Yeah, you make that pretty obvious with that camera of yours. I think your journalism is out the window this time."

There was a moment of silence and then, "Whatever…I know I haven't seen her before so I'll just snoop around and see who she is."

"Will you then stop calling her 'your beauty' all the time?"

"It suits her! She's so beautiful"

A grunt was then heard followed by footsteps going up the stairs.

"Hey, wait!" Saehara yelled as a boy with spiky blonde hair emerged from the staircase. The boy looked in front of him and blinked.

"What the…?" the boy muttered. Saehara ran up to his side, a little puzzled at the other boy's sudden pause on the stairs.

"What's up?" Saehara asked. The boy pointed out to the hallway in front of them both.

"Mist?" was all he said as cold air showed wafting in the air.

In the Cafeteria

Dark rolled an apple from one arm to the other and popped it up in the air, only to land right in his hand.

Daisuke took a pork cutlet and egg bowl that the lunch lady just made and continued down the line; Ignoring the violet haired guy next to him. Dark stopped his antics and stared at Dai, not liking the lack of attention. He was, in his way, trying to apologize.

"Daisuke" Dark called and Dai made a mental note to stop giving him attention whenever his name was called. He normally never gives the cold shoulder to anyone but he felt like he should and could with Dark. The taller one of the two seemingly pouted as he saw Dai pick up miso soup.

"You should get the hamburg rice bowl, it looks good." Dark said as he looked at the fore mentioned dish.

"Why aren't – "Daisuke quickly closed his mouth and turned further away from the teen.

'I almost asked him why he wasn't eating himself. I gotta pay attention more often and not fall for any misleads.' Daisuke thought as he made his way towards the cashier. As soon as he felt for his pockets to see where his money was, he realized he hadn't any on him due to the fact that he'd been unconscious for a week. Meaning no allowance money. By instinct, he looked back at the lady who was at the register and then at Dark.

That smirk was back on the teen's face, as Dai is now so used to it being there, and waved a wallet in the air.

"Forgot your money, didn't you?" Dark asked. It was more like a statement but he didn't need to hint out that something had gone on since a week ago. Besides, he knew he automatically won in getting Daisuke's attention and so was acting accordingly.

Daisuke frowned, noticing the 'victory' gleam in Dark's eyes. He then sighed and nodded. Dark paid the lady, adding in his apple on Dai's tray, and they both headed to a random table that was close to the outside.

It had continued raining, in a steady pace now, and they were right next to the blue doors leading outside onto the campus; which meant that they had to be pretty quiet with any supernatural business that they would talk about.

Dai looked about the huge room, looking for any familiar faces. Some were from his class and others were from neighboring classes. The cafeteria, from what he could see, was similar looking to the one from the middle school. Beige walls, 2 blue striped lines on the bases from floor to ceiling, and where all the food was stationed was where the entrance doors to the building was. The circular tables where white with the rims being blue, along with the plastic chairs. Everything similar, only in a blue version. He wondered why not black or yellow like their uniforms.

"Hey, Daisuke?" Dark said and reached out to the boy's shoulder. Daisuke was flung back to the memory of when he first saw the enormous violet wings in the mansion. The way he was held as a second kiss was stolen from him in the name of helping the other out. Dai looked back at the teen. Dark looked somewhat serious as he stared back at the red head.

"I'm sorry about what happened in the showers. Forgive me?" Dark asked, strangely enough, showing his version of puppy dog eyes. A little taken back by the question and the sudden images in his head, Daisuke blushed a little and turned away, trying to hide his face.

"Sure, I forgive you" was all the red head said, not being able to see Dark's expression. The taller teen's gaze lingered as he examined what he just saw. Reading all that was obvious. Finally, though, Dark smiled and let go of the boy's shoulder; in time to see the girls getting their trays and walking over to the table. It startled Daisuke once the two sat at the table.

"So, it looks like there was nothing going on in our day. What about you guys?" Hiroko said, peeved still at what happened in her last class and only showing a bit of it now. Argentine was nowhere to be found so she assumed the spirit went somewhere else.

"Oh, you know, had to slay a mythical lion weeks ago and so that means I'm supposed to fight against Midgard's mythical snake Jormungand this week. Come on, Hiro-chan – " Hiroko's eye twitched at the pronunciation of this " – if you don't feel anything then I don't either." Dark said, enjoying the little teasing he was able to do here.

Clearing her throat in annoyance, she looked at Dark again "You haven't seen Krad either?"

"Last time I've seen him was at the mansion when he nicely swung by and picked up the old man." Replied Dark, now taking the apple from Dai's tray looking at it in a bored fashion and biting into it .

"Really? Hmmm," Hiroko said, now placing a hand on her chin, "he must be occupied with that guy then."

"Yeah, probably doing his bidding. I wouldn't be shocked to see dead people out in the streets soon." Dark said nonchalantly. Only Hitomi and Dai were eating their food silently as they both listened to what the two said. So much for being secretive. They weren't even bothering with whispering the information out.

"There wouldn't be dead people out on the streets…" said Dai, quietly moving his food around.

Dark looked back at him, his voice softer in tone, "You just saw an angel, Dai. Are you going to tell me you don't believe that anything is possible?"

Daisuke looked back at him, surprised he had called himself an angel. He didn't believe Krad could be but those were the only angels he had seen. "I guess your right, but still, the dead? Like in the movies?"

"Anything can happen. Wizz is a shape shifter, you should have died by the attack that Krad did in the hallways but you didn't. I saved you. I'm some being that not even Dark knows! Heck, I have a ghost on my back! I don't know about you but that seems like a huge amount of prove to see that a bunch of zombies walking around." Hiroko said. Daisuke looked back at his food, thinking of what he had gone through himself.

"This would mean that we don't have to go to school and continue classes, so I'm hoping for as much." Hitomi said, eating away as if unaffected by what they were talking about. Hiroko laughed.

"Don't even pray for that. We are better off in battling out test grades than zombies. There's always that one fact that you'll eventually get bitten." Hiroko stated, amused.

"Bitten? Vampires do that, too." Dark mentioned, also amused.

"Vampires and Zombies, oh my!~" Hiroko said, in a sing song voice. They laughed.

"Alright, well, since we have nothing to report here it's safe to assume that we can continue with our boring lives for today." Hitomi said, already seeing that they were getting off track. Hiroko nodded, figuring that they should probably continue with what they were talking about before.

"If anything, though, we should be on alert. In case something swings on by and does it's usual mayhem." Dark advised. They all agreed.

"Hey, Dark?" said Daisuke. The other turned, munching on his half-eaten apple.

"Hm?"

"Why are you only eating an apple?"

"Oh, 'cause I'm not hungry." Dark simply said. The other looked at him incredulously.

"You played a lot in gym. You gotta eat more than that." Daisuke said. Dark frowned.

"I don't feel hungry…" Dark repeated.

"Eat something more." Daisuke said.

"No" Dark said, his brows frowning. He had been leaning on his right hand and he was tempted to turn the other cheek. Hiroko caught Daisuke's eye and motioned for him to pick up his chopsticks and force the food onto the other. He got the hint and took a bit of his rice.

"Here, eat this." Dai said, his face deadpanned. Dark looked at him questioningly, not expecting the offer of food in such a way. He stopped leaning on his hand and reached for the chopsticks but Dai held onto them firmly.

"No, just eat it."

Dark's eyes widened. Without another word, Dark accepted and took in the bit of rice.

'Never thought he'd feed me here…' Dark thought, looking all bored as he chewed on the rice.

"That wasn't so bad, now was it?" Hiroko said, a smug look on her face. Dark looked back at her, for a moment, showing her an expression that made her stay quiet. He turned to Dai, now seeing a piece of pork between the chopsticks. Dark groaned. It wasn't the best place to do that but he accepted it gladly. He just wasn't showing it.

With Satoshi

Waking up slowly, Satoshi let his eyes stay closed, observing all the sounds around him. He felt surprisingly peaceful and comfortable at the moment and for once he took advantage of said moment. From what he could tell, his fever had lowered down, a window was open which rustled the curtains inside the room and most probably Risa was sleeping on his right arm; unless that was a really heavy bag that he's feeling there.

Satoshi, reluctantly, opened his eyes and looked down to where his numbing arm lay. Indeed, there was a certain Risa Harada laying her head on his arm. Frowning, Satoshi sat up, slightly tugging his own arm up with him. The brunette laid still on his arm. Normally, he would have woken her up, abruptly, too. Yet he didn't want to. He didn't see the point in doing that. Strangely enough, he didn't mind her being there.

He looked around, seeing that the nurse had not come. His things were on the nurse's table, his glasses neatly on top of his glasses. He normally didn't need glasses but he adjusted just fine with and without them.

Looking down, he saw that the small towel was on his stomach. He removed that before it could soak the sheets through. He couldn't help but let his mind wander off.

He couldn't see his mother.

He was held captive the moment he found out his mother was somewhere in the mansion.

To top it all off, he was straight and he was being forced to give his whole soul's energy to a brainwashed fallen angel.

That is, if he even was one. All he knew was that the guy was being controlled by the old man Hachirou.

Satoshi shook the thoughts out of his head. He had such a nice wake up call just now. He shouldn't ruin it. He glanced at the clock on the wall and he felt his own shoulders slouch. It was the middle of lunch time. He looked back down at the sleeping girl, her hair almost covered her face as it had cascaded around her shoulders. The bag pack had fallen off her lap and laid practically under the bed. From all this, he could tell she was quite the heavy sleeper. Satoshi sighed, knowing he had to put some sort of effort into waking the girl up. With his free hand, he shook Risa's left shoulder gently.

"Harada…Harada…" Satoshi whispered. It was all he could do so as to not be rough. Back at the mansion, before Dark and the rest came by, he used to wake Krad up with a kick or a good punch on the shoulder. He showed as much animosity as he could just to not be touched so…passionately, but it never worked. Krad seemed to be some strange masochist and he disliked the situation greatly.

Yet this was a girl that he had no reason to be rough with. With the secret talent that he has at acting, he played many things off nicely. Including pretending to not know how Hiroko got out of her cage. This time, he tried harder at waking Harada up. He pressed a little more his hand onto her shoulder and shook her a little more.

Nothing. She moved her head instead.

This was starting to get annoying. How else would he wake her up?

'Honestly, my whole arm is going to sleep…' Satoshi thought, annoyed at how his methods aren't waking Risa up. He heaved a heavy sigh and closed his eyes. He leaned forward and shook the girl gently again.

"Risa….Risa wake up or you'll be late for lunch…" Satoshi said, in the most softest tone he could talk in. Yes, he knew that this was very very odd of him to do, but he wanted to try. Try something different and new from his usual life. The life he was now forced to live through just to get his mother out of harm's way.

Risa woke up with a start and looked back at Satoshi. His eyes had softened a little and the corners of his mouth rose just a little upwards. He saw that she had a bit of hair at the corner of her mouth and an imprint of her clothing from laying on it on her cheek on the opposite side. She looked like a regular kind of girl and he was strangely happy to see something normal after all the supernatural stuff that has happened.

"Finally your awake." Satoshi said, and to this, Risa stayed motionless; just looking at him in surprise.

'Was that him? Did that prince-like voice come from him?' Risa thought as she looked at him. And then he proceeded with his usual attitude. He looked back at his arm and rubbed it a little.

"You got my arm numb." Accused Satoshi. Risa's eyebrows furrowed.

'Couldn't be.' Risa thought.

"Sorry…" muttered Risa as she sat straight, her gaze turned away from him. He looked at her for a while, thinking of how easy it was to push her away with the right words to say. Of how uneasy it was to do the same with the people he lived with. He quickly threw those thoughts to the back of his head.

"You don't have to stay here all day…" he began, debating whether or not to point out why she was here in the first place or not.

"I just wanted to help…" Risa muttered. She wasn't sure if admitting that was okay or not. She honestly thought he would just kick her out now. A long period of silence stretched between them before either one could speak again. Satoshi tried something new.

"Thank you…"

Risa's head whirled to face him, her expression surprised again.

"But I think you need something to eat"

Risa's shoulder's slumped. She was half expecting him to do something amazing next. Her stomach growled on cue and her cheeks reddened as she slowly hugged her abdomen.

"You also need to finish classes" Satoshi said, hiding a smile under his monotone voice. Best not to embarrass her and make any enemies, including a girl with a built in battery, a capability to make others feel her wrath in some way or another, and that happens to be a classmate two seats away from him. There was enough serious matters to handle to just fiddle with nonsense in school. His only temporary sanctuary.

"I guess I can go for the afternoon classes…maybe I'll get you some notes…" Risa said, reluctant to stand up. Unlike other times, this one didn't feel like he was kicking her out and away from him. Not that he only did that to her. She'd seen it with practically everyone. Some even blamed it on that he was a know-it-all that thought of others as pesky insects or that he was above them all and did not need to talk to anyone for thinking of himself as perfect.

She knew and yet she didn't know the truth. It was always speculation that he wasn't really like that and yet…

Satoshi nodded and reached down for the bag pack with his now fully awake arm. "Here you go"

Risa took it slowly. He was really being civil with her and it kinda caught her off guard.

"Thank you…" said Risa, she then made her way to the exit and looked back.

"I'm not moving from here. You go and take your lunch. I'm not exactly hungry." Satoshi said, he didn't know why he put out excuses exactly but he didn't have a slight feeling she would have come back just to give him something to eat. Risa nodded once, understanding and not arguing with the guy proved best method for her. Though now, she wasn't sure on what to say now that she left. She opted for not saying anything.

Once Risa closed the door, awkwardly too, Satoshi let himself land on the bed and stare at the clear light blue ceiling; leaving himself drift with his thoughts.

Afternoon: Hiroko & Argentine

"Class dismissed"

"Rise!"

"Bow!"

'Its finally the end of the daaaaaaay~' Hiroko thought as she stretched her arms up in the air.

"Do we get to go back to the mansion?" Argentine asked as he hovered over Hiroko's head. He had been picking up on all the things he missed through the girl's classes.

'For dinner, yeah. Not for the night…hey wait a sec…Who says your coming too?' Hiroko thought, now looking up at him.

"I'm not? But I'm attached to you –"

'Not my problem. Your not my captive so you are free to go wherever you want. And I thought mediums had it rough…' Hiroko thought as she took her things, placed them in her bag and left the classroom, walking briskly as she did so. Argentine followed suit, now walking in sync with her.

"Are you always this cold?" Argentine asked, paused and then said, "Are you Bipolar?"

Hiroko stopped at the foot of the stairs and turned fully towards him.

"Look, I don't know what's your situation but that doesn't mean that you can bother me like that whenever you like. No, I'm not that cold and no, I'm not Bipolar either. I just think that you should just not waste your time here and instead go where your needed." Hiroko said, placing an index finger on Argentine's chest and prodding him whenever she mentioned cold or bipolar.

She turned on her heel and jogged down the steps to the first floor. Argentine looked back, astonished at the explosive personality he was faced with. He quickly followed once he recovered, noticing some of the students looking back at where Hiroko was and whispering to each other or to themselves. Once he caught up to Hiroko, he was about to float straight to her when he noticed Saehara at the hedges on the side of the building outside, close to where Hiroko was walking to. His mischievous side kicked in, not at all by his permission, mind you. It was more of an impulse.

"Wanna learn about ghosts?" Argentine said, zooming by Hiroko before she could say anything.

Pulling her skirt back down from the wind the spirit created, Hiroko looked about and couldn't see where he went.

"Argentine?" Hiroko called out, whispering as she didn't want anyone to overhear her. Her little confrontation with him was forgotten.

Argentine went into the boy in the hedges and immediately found out why Saehara was there in the first place. He remembered of the two boys talking about a girl. It was like pulling out a file on the guy and seeing everything he's ever said, thought or done. Its funny how only demons could posses people and know completely everything about them in a second.

He moved Saehara's body, getting out of the hedges and spun around once, displaying himself controlling the boy.

"See?" Saehara said.

Hiroko looked at him with wide eyes.

"I..I see…I can see you and at the same time I can see him." Hiroko stuttered. She hadn't been witnessed to a possession before, especially not one demonstrated to her.

Argentine smiled inwardly. It was good to know that some of her old powers were coming back now that he was no longer half of the seal that prevented her from showing any power.

"Hiroko?" Menou called out from the window nearby. The other two looked up at her and she smiled.

"Ah, please wait down there. I'll join you in a second." Menou said before Hiroko could put a word in, again.

"This should be fun…" Saehara said, making the brunette look at him, her eyes glowering at him.

"You better not do anything funny…" Hiroko warned. Saehara only raised his hands, showing he had nothing up his sleeves. Menou walked out of the doors soon enough, placing her hands on her knees and trying to catch her breath. Her hair cascaded down from her medium sized bow making up her ponytail to the long ends of her hair, reaching all around her. Finally, she looked up with an apologetic smile.

"Sorry about that. I was actually wanting to know if anything happened today. It seems I have to stay a little longer and I may not get home till everyone has gone to their own beds." Menou explained.

"Oh, well, um, no, nothing has happened but if anything, you should watch out for yourself and warn us if you see anything." Advised Hiroko. 'I sound like a cop…'

Saehara chuckled, making Hiroko and Menou look at him. She almost forgot about Argentine possessing him.

"Oh, and you are – if you don't mind me asking?" Menou asked, now straightening herself up.

"I'll tell you in a minute." Saehara said and pointed at where he was. "Could you stand here for a second?"

Menou, a little confused at the request, complied. Seeing that there was nothing bad about it, she did so without question. Hiroko just watched, seeing if he was going to do anything weird. Argentine moved Saehara's body to the hedges, turned and threw himself at Menou while getting out of Saehara right before landing on the blonde. They both heard her yelp before she landed on the ground. Saehara immediately took hold of his consciousness, now looking around before looking down at where he was.

Hiroko looked back at the floating ghost, incredulous at what he had done just now.

"Argentine!"

"It's alright. Its what he wanted" Argentine said. They both looked back at the two on the brick stoned ground.

"Hiroko-Senpai?" Saehara questioned as he first saw the brunette then down where he was. One moment, Saehara found out where the beautiful blonde girl was, the next thing he knew, he found himself laying on the ground with the same girl underneath him. He scrambled to his knees and checked on Menou in a frantic manner.

"Are you alright? Did I hurt you? Are you hurt anywhere?" Saehara asked, taking her hand and looking around her as she sat on one of her calf. She fixed herself up before responding to Saehara.

"I'm in fine, don't worry about me" Menou said, smiling at the boy as she smoothed out her skirt. "If wasn't such a bad fall."

Relieved, Saehara hurried himself to stand first and lift the girl up. Once she stood up, she looked down at him and they both separated from the close proximity they were in. Argentine floated back to Hiroko's side and crossed his arms, smirking at her. She harrumphed and looked at the two in front of her.

Clearing his throat, Saehara turned to her and smiled "My name is Takeshi Saehara, nice to finally meet you" he gasped, "I mean, its good to meet you!"

Menou laughed an airy laugh and introduced herself. "I'm the new aid in the middle school, Ms. Kurashina Menou. Please call me Kurashina, if you will."

Saehara's shoulders slumped a bit, thinking that he wouldn't be able to call her by her first name anyway. He'd probably have a hard time, due to the embarrassment – and then it hits him.

"Wait, you're an aid?" asked Saehara, feeling a little detached from reality.

"That's right." Menou said, her blindingly good nature smile still on her face.

"As in your practically a teacher?" he asked again, dumbfounded.

"Well, I suppose so…" Menou said, feeling unsure as this IS an undercover look.

"But…." Saehara looked at her up and down, making her feel conscious. "but you don't look like one. You look like a high school student, if anything."

Menou looked down at her shoes, feeling her own smile crumble slowly. She knew that time stopped for her. She knew she was practically immortal like that and that most women wouldn't have minded the young look. Then again, most women didn't have her situation. If It weren't for Dark, she would have been jobless. Her young looks didn't get her the jobs she would have liked. High schools, some of them, demanded that students don't work and in turn some jobs didn't accept students.

She was lucky she had Dark's seal of approval. A special recommendation to certain jobs. Working at the school was one of them. But the problem that her and all the other maids were affected by the fight against the demon and angel and their time stopped in a most peculiar and fragile way.

Her body was to remain with what it had since that day on.

Hiroko looked at her worriedly now, thinking that that little comment could have gotten to her. Argentine patted the brunette on the shoulder, making her look up at him. He gave her a knowing look and let his hand rest on her shoulder as they continued looking in silence.

"I know, I get that all the time." Menou began, "but I can assure you that I am a teacher's aid." She looked up at him, "and I may look young but I'm certainly old enough for the job."

"…Your 30?" Saehara dared ask.

"What?! No! I'm not that old!" Menou exclaimed, freaking out that anyone, anyone would think that she would be that old.

"I see teacher's aids around that age so –"

"There are younger aids than that!" Menou exclaimed again.

Hiroko let out a breath that she didn't think she was holding and smiled, glad that the two were getting along nicely. She moved towards them when she felt a slight tug in her head. It was weird. It was the feeling of a string being pulled. She stopped and touched the left side of her head.

Again. There it was again. This time it accompanied it with flashes of pictures. Of children.

A boy with raven hair holding a colorful ball in his hands.

Argentine looking all sad and lonely.

A girl in the mirror with red hair.

A man that looked a lot like Daisuke yet wasn't.

Another man with a mustache and glasses.

And just as quickly as her visions came, they left. It made her instantly feel heavy. Hiroko fell on her knees, wincing as she felt the stone cut easily her knees. Argentine looked down at her in surprise, as well as the other two that were in front. They all moved to pick her up and she tried to get her surroundings straight as a ringing sound in her head began, dizziness followed suit.

"Hiroko – I mean, Ms. Asakura, are you having a headache? Are you feeling faint or dizzy?" Menou asked, grabbing hold of her right arm and pulling her up, Saehara to the left was doing the same gesture.

"I – I'm fine. I think…I think I'm feeling a little dizzy." Hiroko said. Argentine went into her head to see what was wrong with her mind. What he found was not what he'd thought he would find. Something small, like a rip of some sort. No, it wasn't like that.

It was like seeing a black room, dark with no lights, and finding it within seconds that it had lights in the distance of an unknown origin, and ribbons of different shapes and colors thrown all over the abyss-like floor. The frosty view he always saw when looking to the outside world was still there but other than the place and view, nothing else was the same as he saw it before. It was strange but not freaky.

He predicted that pretty soon it'll get even more weird. He walked about and picked up a ribbon, a red short one, and found himself seeing a vision of a little girl with red long hair, smiling at him inthe vision. He shook his head and dropped the ribbon, stepping back as he did so.

'So it's starting at this end, too? She's going to start remembering all the things we made her forget…' Argentine thought to himself, now looking grimly at the red ribbon. 'And with that, all her powers will come at her in full force…'

Outside of Hiroko's head, Menou and Saehara walked with her to the entrance of the trolley.

"Are you sure you don't want to go to the nurse's and lie down?" Menou asked.

"I'm sure. I'd rather go straight to the mansion than stay all afternoon at school…no hard feelings, Takeshi…" Hiroko said, looking from the corner of her eye at Saehara.

"Okay, your sounding way too polite by using my last name there. This is serious, huh?" Saehara half joked. He hadn't exactly known the girl but with his snooping abilities for gossip let him know a little about her.

"Oh haha…I can be nice whenever I want to…" Hiroko mocked weakly. "I'll be fine, though. I never fainted in my entire life and I never will. Besides, I'm not feeling dizzy anymore."

She boarded the trolley and sat to the nearest seat. "If you see Dark, tell him I went to the mansion early." She said to Menou.

"I will" said Menou.

"We will" said Saehara.

The two said in unison. They looked at each other and Saehara gave her a confused look. Menou recovered quickly. "I meant 'we' "

A few other students boarded the trolley as well. Soon there would be a ton of the schools' population there. Hiroko felt her head heavy as her eyelids drooped.

"Get some rest Asakura, We'll see each other tomorrow in the auditorium." Saehara said, putting his hands in his pockets and seeing the brunette through the glass windows. The doors started to close there.

"Yeah, I will." Said Hiroko, fighting sleep that would eventually win her. And off the trolley went, down the hill and to the town.

With Dark & Daisuke

"Hey Niwa," a petite girl with raven hair came up to Dai hugging a thin book. Daisuke gave his full attention to the girl as he placed in his bag the last of his homework.

"Oh, Kirikawa, hello."

"You have cleaning duty tomorrow. I remembered to tell you just as you asked, so do a good job again at cleaning." Kirikawa said, shying away after she said it. Daisuke looked at her confusedly.

'Why did she say that?' He thought, clasping his bag shut and carrying it out with him from his classroom. 'Maybe it has to do something with Dark…wait…Dark….'

Daisuke stopped in the middle of the hallway, now thinking.

'She acted all shy around me too…what the heck DID he do while I was away?'

He shook his head and looked out of one of the nearby windows.

'First thing's first. Gotta check on Hiwatari and see if he's feeling alright.' Daisuke thought as he made his way to the infirmary of the middle school. Before he could go in, though, he heard his name being called from afar. He turned, now realizing that it was Dark yelling out to him from the other side of the hallway. His red eyes went wide at the range he was able to hear the other.

"DAISUKE!" Dark called once more, jogging a little towards the boy. Dai blushed as he saw a few students' attention on them. Once Dark made it to Dai's side, the red head took his hand and lead him away from the path he was heading to and went up a flight of stairs.

"Could you please not call out my name. People start looking and– "

"There's nothing wrong with that." Dark said innocently.

"Its embarrassing! People call each other by their last names, you know?" Dai informed as they made it to the roof. He led Dark out into the open and closed the doors behind him.

"And your making a big deal out of this now?" Dark asked, playing off a confused look. Daisuke stopped and slumped over, sighing.

"It was just their stares that got to me. Sorry." Daisuke apologized. Dark got closer and patted his back.

"That's okay, Dai. Your not the first that gets bothered by stares." Dark began, and Daisuke looked up at him questioningly, "You actually took it very well compared to Hiro-chan."

"Really? Hiroko-Senpai gets bothered by the staring more than I do?" Daisuke asked, allowing the formalities to come by as well as allowing an arm around his shoulders.

"More than how you reacted to them? Sure. But there's always a solution to things like this." Dark said and took his arm off the boy's shoulder.

"Oh really? And what's that?"

"This." Dark said as he demonstrated his solution, grabbing his hand and pulling the red head from the roof to the floor they were at before. Daisuke was starting to feel uncomfortable and wanted to pull away but Dark held firmly. Mind you, he did not hold the boy's hand not as if to crush it.

'And since I remember the other students saying what happened earlier today, I know exactly where Daisuke was heading off to. Gotta give him credit, he's pretty self-less when he can be.' Dark thought as he headed straight to the infirmary. Daisuke struggling to get his hand away.

"Dark, what are you doing?" Dai asked, feeling close to freaking out just to get his hand freed. Dark turned and showed their hands together.

"This was the solution with Hiroko." He simply said and continued down another flight of stairs.

"Ehh?! THIS was the solution?!" Daisuke exclaimed, thinking that Hiroko was probably embarrassed beyond belief by this. He felt the same way.

"Yeah, and you'll also join me all the way to the mansion for some dinner, too" Dark said, not looking at the boy and his cheeks tinted slightly pink from the last thing he said. He actually wanted to ask the boy but seeing as he didn't have the time, he ended up ordering the boy instead.

There was no other reply back and the red head soon felt himself relax, then slouching as he followed the other through winding staircases.

'This is probably like when there are bossy girlfriends and they make you do whatever they want….' Then Daisuke's eyes widened, 'Wait, where did I get that?! Why did I just compare Dark to a girl? A girlfriend?! Maybe I didn't get enough sleep…' he thought, knowing how ironic that last thought sounded to him.

He trudged along, following Dark all the way to the infirmary.

End of Chapter? Well, I honestly wanted it longer but its already 18 pages in Microsoft. I swear this was going to be 50 pages or something when I looked at my notes and back. YES, I made notes. Finally all in order for this story.

I have a feeling that I'm going bad at this but just bear with me if that's the case. Or just tell me. *sniffle*

More fillers soon…yes, I'll call them fillers cause none of the big stuff will happen just yet. Also, still not sure how Towa will fit into all this but I'll put her in here, too, somewhere…speaking of characters being added here, 'Kirikawa' is a made up and not so important character. You may discard her.

Aaaand sorry if the characters may be ooc. I don't think I noticed but I have a feeling… Just tell me, will you? Please?

Anyways, thank you for reading and (if you did) reviewing~ Have a good night/day!