AN: People!! Read this chapter and die. I just had nowhere to put this, me typing it on a library computer, so I uploaded it to keep it safe. Don't read it yet, tis not finished!

Within a Dream:

Chapter 7

Ken opened the door of his apartment. It was dark, and quiet inside, all the lights being shut off, like he left them. He looked around tenatively.

"Brad?"

He didn't feel anyone's presence, and he walksed further into the living room. A lamp turned on, near the door, and he jumped. A lithe, short figure was standing in a doorway, with his arms crossed, looking at Ken. He looked closer, his eyes still adjusting to the light. It was Nagi.

"Nagi, what are you.."

He stopped himself as the boy's expression registered. Anger.

"What..."

"Listen. Brad dropped me off here and told me to wait for you. That the pearls would be missing. I'm not very happy about this situation. I would appreciate if you would just shut up, not ask questions, and get in the car. I'm too young to drive, or I might have done it without you."

His voice was cool, tension lurking beneath the surface of those large dark eyes, but not surfacing, no. He was being surprisingly level headed about the situation, by his own estimation. In reality he wanted to kill Ken, and slap Brad for not seeing this coming. Or maybe he did. In any case, he had a superiority complex. Sometimes Nagi thought it got to his head and made his decisions a bit rash. Just because he was a lot older then the rest of them. Just because his gift was instrumental. He wasn't the only one with power. Nagi had been the organizing force behind Schwarz before he had showed up. And now he seemed to gloat over the power he had over the younger boy's actions.

But all that had been tolerable. Then he brings Ken into the picture, an outsider. Ken didn't have a paticular use to them. None that he could see, at least. And entrusts him with gaurding a set of microweapons.