Chapter 37

Turn For The Worst

Daisuke walked around the boat looking around, but all she saw so far were happily couples with their arms lovingly around each other.

'I wish Satoshi and I could be like that.'

The red head thought as she blushed, imaging Satoshi with his arms around her, her head resting agents his chest watching the ocean sway. She may be a legendary thief, but was still a teenaged girl in love with someone.

Snapping out of it she shook her head and slapped her cheeks to focus.

'No! I have to see if he's all right!'

Daisuke scolded her self, she had been worried about him ever since she saw him collapse on the beach, and she had seen him briefly when he got on the boat. She wanted to see him and be with him, silently wishing to be like all the other couples on the boat.

She turned a corner, she saw blue out of the corner of her eye, but as soon as she turned her head, it was gone.

'I thought it was him.'

Frowning she continued down the corridor looking for the blue haired Hikari.

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Satoshi breathed a sigh of relief, as he saw Daisuke walk away. Amazingly he had avoided the red head for around half an hour already, with much difficulty.

He had seen her clearly before he boarded. She was wearing a white dress with spaghetti straps held in place by sliver crosses, the dress went down to her knees, where white flats adorned her feet, and her hair was up in a high ponytail, some hair out to frame her face.

'Heh. Running away from a thief? How pitiful.'

Satoshi heard from inside his mind, clenching his teeth.

'Shut up Krad!'

He thought back to the white demon, when a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder. Jumping slightly in surprise, he turned to face who had approached him and was relived yet disappointed that it was the older Niwa sibling.

"Satoshi Hikari."

Dawn growled out the younger boy's name, staring him down.

"Dawn Niwa."

Satoshi called his name coolly. Not worried since he was avoiding his sister, so he wouldn't have a reason to threaten him, and that he would not endanger the girl he cared so deeply for.

"I want some answers from you."

Dawn mumbled out, making the younger boy raise his eyebrow in confusion. The older boy looked him in the eye as he asked him a question.

"Do you know why Daisuke became Dark?"

He asked the bluenet, who looked at the Niwa confused.

"I have no idea."

Satoshi told him, as he wonder that himself.

Dark had always appeared in every Niwa generation before, in the first born child, be they male or female, only Daisuke's mother had not been a tamer.

Dawn grit his teeth, thinking Satoshi was playing dumb, and really knew why his little sister had become Dark and not him. He had only learned why a few days ago, and his hate for the Hikari's increased.

"She's-"

"Hiwatari!"

Dawn was saying before someone shouted. Turning around, Dawn saw Riku's twin sister, who's name he couldn't recall.

She came trotting down the hallway towards them, looking at Satoshi angrily. She stopped a foot away from them, hands on her hips.

Dressed in a pink/purple strapless top, dark blue skinny jean with 1 inch black heals, straped to her feet.

"Hiwatari-san! Daisuke had been looking all over for you!"

She scolded the blue haired boy, who stepped back, worried about getting close to the red head. He could feel Krad smirking within him.

"I'm sorry but I have other things to do."

Satoshi told her quickly as he turned away, but she was not going to take no for an answer. She looked to Dawn, whom she smiled at. Dawn blushed and looked away, rubbing the back on his head shyly.

Only this morning did Risa find out about her sister's boyfriend, Dawn Niwa. It was only because Risa had gone to get a green tea from the coffee shop when she saw the two kissing.

"Dawn-kun could you-"

"NO!"

Dawn barked out. He glared at the younger Harada at the suggestion that he help the Hikari get together with his little sister.

"But why?"

Risa whined, surprised by the older Niwa's response. Dawn just fold his arms over his chest.

"Because I said so."

He proclaimed proudly, looking down the way the Hikari had disappeared to.

"That guy isn't good for Dai-chan."

He narrowed his eyes as he imaged a closed coffin, Emiko crying in his father's arms, as well as Daisuke's friends as they buried his little sister, or what's left of her. Dawn gritted his teeth till he could taste his own blood, and his fists clenched, nails drawing blood from his palms.

"He could kill her."

"What was that!?"

Risa asked, surprised and horrified by what she thought he had said.

"It's... Nothing."

Dawn told her, as he just shook his head and left the shocked girl. Once he was out of ear shot Risa talked to her self

"Hiwatari could…"

She gulped as a shiver ran up her spine with fear.

"Kill Daisuke?"

A Week Later

Dark had sent out a notice that she was going to steal the 'Angels' Wedding Rings' at midnight. Daisuke was actually looking forward to it, because she had not seen Satoshi, at all since the trip to the island.

'It's all right Daisuke. He's not dead yet.'

Dark told her distracted tamer as the red head opened the lock that sealed the roof from the starters that went down into the building.

'I hope your right.'

She said to the thief as she slipped in, as quite as a shadow into the museum.

It was dark; there was no moon, only the clear sky with small twinkling stares in the clear night sky. Daisuke was herself, and not in Dark's from because she wanted to talk with Satoshi. She wanted him to see her and not the thief that was within her.

Her crimson red hair was tied in a bun at the back of her head, some out to frame her face as her red eyes seemed to glow in the dark. She wore a black sleeveless, turtle top, a black skirt that reached her knees with slits on the sides up to her mid thy, and black 1 inch heel sandals that she had just learned to master.

Neither the pitch black darkness, nor the heels, hinders the young thief as she slipped past guards easily. It was as if they couldn't see her, even with the color of her hair and eyes. Daisuke could always see just fine in the dark, she didn't know why but chalked it up to her training.

Slipping threw the doors that led to where the 'Angels' Wedding Rings' were displayed. Sticking to the shadows as the lights form above shined on the two rings in a small blue velvet box together.

One was a simple gold band with two black feathers that formed a heart, it seemed like it was big enough to fit on a man's finger. The other was like the first but with a platinum band and the feathers were white.

Daisuke looked at them and blushed.

'The rings can grant happiness to the couple that wears them...'

She closed her eyes as she thought of Satoshi. Remembering the little bear he had given her for Valentines Day, and the kiss she had given him. Her cheeks turned pink and her heart picked up it's pace.

'but only if their love is true and pure...'

She was thinking as she remembered the information he had given her on how to retrieve Dark from the inside of the mirror. How close they had been for that moment, she had kissed him as part of his reward and to satisfy her craving to kiss him. Her heart was beating agents her chest as her face went a darker shade of pink.

'Will they work for the lovers.'

She thought as she looked down at herself, or rather, at Dark's body. She looked around the room, but saw noting but the rings, its display, and darkness.

"He's not here."

Daisuke voiced out loud, she didn't know how she knew, but she knew Satoshi wasn't guarding the rings.

High power lights suddenly came on, blaring down on the former red head. Blocking the sudden change in lighting with her arms, she heard an older male's voice.

"DARK! YOUR UNDER ARREST!!!"

Commissioners Office

Satoshi was uneasy in his father's office. Dressed in a plain red t-shirt under a black jacket with a golden cross on the back, black pants, and shoes. His blue eyes were narrowed behind his glasses as he looked at the back of his father's chair.

"What is it that you want from me, Father?"

Satoshi asked, adding venom when he said father. He didn't like the things his father had made him do with in the last week.

Withdraw from school, since he didn't need it anyway, drop all contact with anyone from the school, teachers or students, move back into the Hikari manction, he hated that it held every art tool imaginable, and resign a special commander for capturing Dark, which did not sit with him well.

Satoshi's father was smiling as he looked out the window of his office, at the nearly pitch black sky. His eyes covered by a glared by some unknown light, in a light blue suit and red tie. He did not answer his son; he let out a soft chuckle.

"Tell me Satoshi."

Mr. Hikari spoke to his son, turning around; he pulled something out of one of his desk. A magazine, not just any magazine, but the magazine that every teenaged girl could not live with out, Trendy Mag.

"Why was this in your bathroom?"

He asked, looking at his son for a reaction to the discovery of the magazine. The magazine that had quite a few pitchers of a red head that his son seemed to be very close to... to close.

Satoshi said nothing as he hid his shock well. Not letting his father know why he had that girl trash magazine in the first place, let alone what it was doing in his bathroom.

When Mr. Hikari got no response, his smile fell a bit.

"I understand son."

He told Satoshi who just looked at him, wondering what he was going to say, and fearing it at the same time.

"Every young man does it."

Mr. Hikari flipped open the magazine to the most frequently viewed page, the center fold. Smirking as it showed a young red head in a white tube top, a bow tied at the front, a ruffled mini skirt that rested a little below her belly button, and white 1 inch heeled sandals, keeling on the white sandy beach near the ocean.

Satoshi gulped, as he could feel his heart beat quicken at the photo of the red head. It had made him turn into Krad a number of times but he could regain control before Krad could take advantage of it.

"It's this girl, Daisuke Niwa. She's Dark."

Mr. Hikari looked up at his son with an evil look in his eyes. Satoshi could tell that his father had discovered her secret, he tried to show no reaction but what his father said caught him off guard.

"And your... trigger."

His eyes widen as his father smirked at his son's reaction, a low chuckle coming form the older male.

"That's why you were so close to her."

Mr. Hiwatari said as he stood up in his chair, the glare back on his glasses.

"You failed to capture her, because you fell for her little charm didn't you."

A frown adorned the man's face as he looked down at his son, who glared back at him. Mr. Hiwatari said his next few words coldly, pulling out something from his desk again.

"You are of no use to me."

Niwa House, Daisuke's Room

The red head clasped on her, now dressed in her night clothes for bed which was a pink night dress, ending just above her naval, with spaghetti straps hemmed with white lace, and magenta short shorts.

Her pet 'rabbit', Wiz, had been lunched a few inches off the bed when his owner clasped on the bed. He looked at her sadden, disappointed face with worry.

"Kyuu?"

He asked her, but she couldn't under stand him, only her 'cousin', Dawn Niwa, could so Daisuke just closed her eyes as her arms encircled her pillow.

'He wasn't there.'

She thought sadly as she missed the blue haired Hikari, that she had fallen in love with. Her alter ego, The Great Phantom Thief, Dark, spoke to her.

'Don't worry Daisuke. I'm sure he's just fine, where ever he is.'

Dark tried to confer her tamer, who just pulled out a sliver chain necklace from her neck to look at two rings. The 'Angels' Wedding Rings' that she had stolen just an hour ago from the police force, led by Detective Shehara. It had been very easy to trick them, and get away without Satoshi guiding them.

Daisuke sat up off her bed as an idea popped into her head, Dark had heard the thought and smiled at the red heads idea.

Getting up, off her bed, Daisuke uncovered a painting she had been working on for Dark. Ever since she had found out what had happened between the Phantom Thief and Krad, the reason the Niwas stole from the Hikaris, and the reason for the curse.

Only her and her grandfather, Daiki Niwa knew the full story behind it. Her cousin Dawn, her mother and father only knew bits of the full story.

Wearing a paint splatter apron over her sleepwear, picking up some thin brushes and paint she added to the painting. (Here's a description for those who didn't read my Father's Day special.)

It was of a wedding, Dark was the bride, dressed in a BLACK off the shoulders wedding dress, a cluster of yellow roses wrapped in white in her hands. Her hair done up in a bun, with a black vale draping behind her, down to the middle of her back. Light lavender eye shadow and clear gloss on her full lips that were set in a big smile.

The groom, wore a white tuxedo, with white gloves, his right hand on the small of Dark's back, holding her closer to him, a smile graced his lips as his long blond hair was held in a high pony tail. His golden cat eyes giving away that the groom was indeed, Krad.

Stepping back, she admired the new addition to her painting. She had added the 'Angels' Wedding Rings' to their left hand ring fingers. The black and gold ring on Kard's hand and the white and platinum one on Dark's.

Dark was touched that her tamer would paint something so beautiful.

'Your skill can rival a Hikari's Daisuke.'

The thief told the red head as she untied the apron and put it back in its place before she got into bed.

Daisuke smiled sadly as she pulled the covers up to her shoulders, Wiz sleeping a few inches away.

'Thank you. Dark.'

She thanked the thief as she let the darkness of sleep consume her.

That was chapter 37! Hope you enjoyed it enough to leave a review, I've been feeling a little alone lately with all the commotion of graduation.

Class of 2010!

YYA4 out!