Heka: Hi it's me again! So sorry that it took so long to update… hahaha anyway, this is the last chapter, and it's going to be quite a long one so yeah, have fun reading it!

To moioioi, Satoshi collapses over in pain because Krad is dying to come out! He doesn't make an appearance though, poor Krad…

Night of White: Chapter IV

Riku turned around from the view of the sea to catch a very odd view in her room. Apparently Dark was slowly being strangled to death by her sister. She rolled her eyes.

'Risa, you're suffocating him,' she replied as she walked towards the inseparable pair. Dark was still wincing slightly as Risa continued to cling onto him.

'No… let me just hold him some more…'

'If you do, he'll die of oxygen deprivation, sister,' Riku muttered. Sighing, she reached out and started to pry her sister's hands from Dark's waist. Risa had a surprisingly strong grip for someone who wasn't very good at sports.

'Risa… if you don't let Dark go now, he'll die! He's going purple!' Riku snapped.

Risa finally let Dark go. Dark started gasping for air, taking deep breaths.

'Yeah, Dark-san… now I see how scary she can be…' Daisuke smiled weakly.

'Yeah, no wonder you're no good for her, she could kill you!' he laughed back at the boy mentally.

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'So, erm… can we see the artefact you took today?' Risa asked cautiously, after releasing Dark from her grasp, seating him on her bed and ending it off with her bouncing onto the bed itself to continue to scare him with her vivid staring. Riku was by the study table, shaking her head slightly, before remembering her manners and asking whether he would like a drink. She had gone down to get it, after Dark had agreed to one, with Risa entertaining him with her ardent admiration with himself.

'Dark-san… always the egoistic one…' Daisuke sighed.

'Daisuke…' Dark started and laughed. 'What, jealous?'

'I give up.'

'And no, Risa, I can't allow you to see it,' Dark said firmly. Risa whined.

'But Dark-san…'she started. 'It was so pretty, when shown on the television, couldn't you let me see it just this once?'

Daisuke did some quick thinking on his part. 'Harada-san's not here right? So I suppose we can show Risa, but once Harada-san returns, we must keep it, else it'll glow…'

'You don't want Harada-san to know of your love?' Dark smirked. 'Poor Daisuke…'

'Shut up.'

'Oh here you go, Risa.' Dark dug into his pocket and showed her the Pendant. Risa's eyes glowed as she picked it up and placed it around her neck. 'Woooww… it's so gorgeous…'

Dark rolled his eyes mentally.

The door clicked open.

'Hey…Risa, I've got the drinks…'

'Dark-san, she's here! Grab it quick!' Daisuke yelled in Dark's head. Dark winced.

'Relax…'he smiled as he swiped the necklace from Risa's neck and slipped it into his pocket again. However the necklace had started to glow and the twins, unfortunately, noticed it.

'Ne, what's that?' Riku queried.

Dark, for once in his entire lifetime, was flustered.

'It's the…'

'It's the pendant from today!' Risa squealed. Riku, strangely, was intrigued.

'Can I see it?'

'Busted.' Both Daisuke and Dark moaned in his head. 'We just have to show her then...' Daisuke sighed. 'Think up of something quick.'

Riku was handed the pendant by an excitable Risa. The pendant glowed even more fiercely as she examined it, turning it around and around.

'Why is it glowing?'

'Oh… it glows in the presence of girls!' Dark grinned even as Daisuke groaned about the stupidity of the thought.

'You're so brilliant, you think up of one…' Dark snapped, in spite.

'No…' Risa started, thinking. 'The reporter said that this pendant glows to help lovers recognise each other…'

'Damn,' Dark muttered. Sometimes, Risa can be so…

'Not so,' Daisuke remarked. 'Too smart.'

'Hai…' Dark was forced to agree.

Riku was starting to get nervous. 'Why is it glowing in my hands? Risa you take it… I don't have a lover…' she coloured slightly.

Risa purred at the chance to recognise her true love. Taking the pendant, she was quickly disappointed when the pendant became dark and lifeless in her hands. Thrusting it to Dark, she quickly became furious when the pendant started to glow again in his hands. Riku blushed even more when she saw this.

'Well… we know who the lovers are now, do we?' she cried. 'Dark-san and Riku! Riku, I can't believe you…'

'But… you know I hate him! Stinking pervert!' she sniped. Dark had his own say too.

'I don't like her, why would I like her, cute as she is, but she's too fiery for me…' he laughed.

'Baka!' Riku scolded. 'Don't you dare insult me!'

'Well you're the one insulting me first, who said I was a stinking pervert…' Dark teased.

'Risa…' Riku started, as Risa turned on her heel and left the room. 'Risa!'

'I'll go after her,' Dark muttered, holding Riku back, when she started to chase Risa. 'She'd want to hear from me, not you.' Riku looked up at him and then nodded as he zipped out of the room.

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Lovers…

Risa could not believe it as she ran out of her room. Riku and Dark-san? Her Dark-san? How could she?

She turned and started down the stairs. Away… she thought, away from both of them…

'Risa!' Dark thundered as he crashed out of Risa's room.

Daisuke was currently beating himself up at the back of Dark's head, so for once, Dark didn't have a second opinion in an issue.

Dark leapt over the landing and onto the stairs, in front of Risa, who stopped dead, her tears flowing freely now.

'Risa, it isn't what you think it is! We both hate each other, you know it!' he said firmly. 'You trust the Pendant too easily, Risa!'

'Dark-san…' she sobbed and clung onto him, crying wildly.

'Oh great…' Dark muttered to himself as he held to a weeping Risa.

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Riku bit her lip, alone in the room. She can't have loved Dark now can she… but the kiss… he never said that he liked her now, did he? She remembered seeing Daisuke's face… or at least, something like an echo of Daisuke's face, blushing after the kiss.

'But Daisuke and Dark are completely different!' she exclaimed to herself in the room.

The door creaked open again. Dark was carrying a snoozing Risa, who held onto him tightly. Riku nearly laughed at the incredibility of the situation. Here was Dark, the great Phantom Thief, reduced to babysitting her younger sister!

She ran to help him put Risa onto her own bed. Dark winked at her.

'Well, I guess I better be going now right? Now that the hostess is asleep…' he grinned.

Riku had no reply to this; Risa did arrange everything. 'Yeah, I guess so.'

'Walk me to the balcony?'

'Umm, sure,' Riku, unable to say anything else at the sudden request, nodded.

The two stood, with Dark looking up at the night sky in the balcony as Riku stood at the edge of the bedroom just before the tiles started.

Dark turned to face her, smiling. 'Well, today was certainly interesting, I'll say.'

Riku nodded and looked down, quieter than usual. Dark strolled towards her and tilted her head to face his.

'What's up? Where's the usual feisty Harada-san I know?'

'Nani?!' Riku removed his hand from her chin in record time while taking a step backwards. 'There's nothing wrong with me!'

'That's more like it,' Dark smiled. 'Now I don't like you in that way but I won't deny that someone else does…'

'Dark!' Daisuke snapped, alert for any mischief.

'Don't worry punk, I won't say much,' Dark reassured Daisuke in his head, talking to Riku again, he said, 'See you, Harada-san, and goodnight… oh yes, before I forget…'

He bent down, took her hand, and kissed it lightly. Riku immediately retracted it, looking horrified, a complete contrast from Dark's confident smirk.

'What are you thinking of?' she murmured.

'Ja ne, Harada-san,' Dark whispered into her ear before taking off in a whirlwind of black feathers, leaving a very confused Riku at the balcony.

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'Daaaarrrkkk!!!!' Daisuke's wail echoed in his head as they gained more height.

'What, Daisuke? I handled it well, no?' Dark laughed.

'What were you thinking of?!' Daisuke moaned. Dark laughed harder.

'Ne, Harada-san said the same thing!' he cackled as he flapped off to the Niwa residence, oblivious to Daisuke's protesting cries of going back to apologise.

There were many things that Dark, the great Phantom Thief, liked. And a challenging woman is one of his favourites.

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So, that's the End! Haha it was really nice of everyone to review, all 11 of you! Haha, okay some reviewed twice… but that doesn't count. :P

I really love you guys, thanks for reviewing on my little short story! I'll try to work hard on full blown Dark/Riku stories now, cause actually I wanted this to be a full blown Dark/Riku but it came out like that… still I feel that this is better than any full blown I would have written 'cause in the entire series there wasn't really that much hinting of Dark/Riku so….

Okay I'm talking way too much now. Still, please! Review! Or I'll send the happy/evil Krad from my other story, Statuette of Carmelle after you!

Read that story as well. Review if you want to.

Love, heka!