Animegoil- Cadell grins at your fear don't worry, more will be known when Krad tells his side of the story

Leoth-Cries with you, but I had to make it dramatic

Lenora-Agreed, but it's all your fault, sends Krad after you

Venoz- Glad of it! .

Silvery Kitsune- I'd love the link to the other fiction! I write fiction like ones I'd like to see,

Pink3Butterfly- All will be revealed when Krad tells his side of the story!

xXLil Yu JahXx-Well then! Another happy customer, Turns to FF.net do I get employee of the month? FF.net: Nope, Dark and Krad do, Me: WHY?!?! FF.net- Because they do all the fan-service!

Fatalis- Don't worry, Krad will stop with the femme stuff, but he is the seme.

SilverTear- author looks left, then right "CUPCAKES!" she screams. Krad: MINE! COMFORT FOOD! eats all cupcakes

MusiqMistress- Thanks! I'd be more than happy to oblige!

Mutou Yasu- Thanks! I figured psychologically, rape meant sense. Krad's need to control Satoshi to prove he's in control even though he knows he's the stronger of the two, his need to keep his rage on a target, Dark, his general coldness, isolation. You see I figure the abused either stay the abused, get out of it, or become abusers themselves. I thought he needed a reason too.

CH8- Of pain and drowning sorrows with pretty faces

Daisuke's mouth was still open when Satoshi opened his blue eyes. It occurred to him that it would have been cute if only the look hadn't been filled with horror. He sighed and sat up, thinking he knew the reason for this particular look.

"It's okay Daisuke, it looks like Dark and Krad just…Got together last night…" he said with a sigh.

Daisuke took in a shuddering breath. "Oh god."

He blinked twice being immediately well assured that the aforementioned was not the problem. "What is it Daisuke?" he asked with knitted brows.

"…Dark told me…The story of how they were created…And…the… the reason he and Krad have been fighting…"

Satoshi frowned. "What do you mean?"

Daisuke flushed, clearly upset as tears came to his eyes. "I think…I think it's not my place to say. You're going to have to ask Krad…"

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Satoshi was sitting in class frowning t Daisuke's tense shoulders. After stuffing an individually wrapped Danish into his back pack, he'd waited by the door for Satoshi and him to walk to school together, along the way, they'd been quiet.

Now they were in class without having said a word to each other and Daisuke was sitting tensely, knitting his hands and staring at the clock every five minutes.

"Krad."

No answer.

"Krad!"

Suddenly something landed on Daisuke's desk and Satoshi and him both jumped in their seats, Satoshi cursing as his knees hit the top of his desk. The teacher glared at him. "What was that Mr. Hikari?"

"Uh- Um-" Satoshi sputtered as Daisuke sunk into his seat turning various shades of red. "I hit my knees on my desk!" he explained.

Immediately several other boys piped up professing to have the same problem with their desks sending the classroom into chaos as Daisuke spied a heart shaped note on his desk.

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The moment Satoshi had spied the love letter his glare had turned viciously on Eriko who actually had the good grace to look shocked before scowling and shaking her head. After that small exchange Eriko almost chortled.

Surely Satoshi didn't think that no one else would notice the pretty little red head! He himself received love letters all the time!

"Look at that Cadell, he thinks I sent the love letter!"

"Amusing, but no. And it's a damned good thing. Can't have you transforming all over the place like those boys," replied Cadell sounding genuinely amused, but sad at the same time. "We're making our move tonight."

"…I know." said Eriko sadly. "I know."

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At one point in her life, Eriko might have envied Daisuke's naiveté, or Satoshi's confidence. But now she knew, to complete her task she had to be herself. Weak.

"Why…why does it have to be this way Eriko?"

"…Because of things that happened long before you were born…They let their loneliness manifest into something as powerful as me. What do you think happened to their hate?"

"Eriko!" called a familiar voice. She gasped and spun around. "Eriko!"

"Drem!" she murmured.

"Eriko!" he said grabbing her upper arms as he panted and tried to regain his breath, "I've been running after you since you left building D! I just heard the news!"

A chill entered her eyes. "That my parents disinherited me?"

"No! That you were coming here…To be honest…I've been trying to call you since your parents…you know," he muttered uncomfortably.

"I suppose you heard it on the news." she said brushing off his hands and going to peer out the window.

"Well…No…" he admitted embarrassed. "I didn't know until you didn't show up at band practice… And when I went inside to call you…My mom told me,"

She looked at him in surprise and Cadell looked too. A spark formed and she shook her head. "I'm sorry I missed band practice."

"No!" protested Drem. "How could you be expected to come under the circumstances? With your parents and all…To be honest…I've known you were here since yesterday…And you've seen my uniform. You knew I was here, and you never tried to find me…I was a little hurt," he admitted.

Eriko's mouth fell open again. "I-"

"It's a good thing I came to find you!" he said with a boyish grin. "I can understand if you say no, but are you coming to practice tonight?"

"No!"

"Yes!" said Eriko.

"Great!"

"Sonofa-"

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"Interesting," thought Krad as Satoshi peered out of the library. "It appears Cadell might have a weakness yet."

"So do we."

"What?"

"…Daisuke woke up this morning…Upset."

"…The wing master is a liability, but Dark-"

"Daisuke told me Dark told him something about your past together. Something clearly very distressing. I was wondering if that could effect our current situation."

"…How much did Dark tell him?" asked the blonde sharply- more hostile than Satoshi had actually ever heard him before. "Well? Does the little red head pity me now?" he snapped. "What about you! Do you pity me now?"

Satoshi frowned. "If I feel anything for you Krad, I assure it will never be pity. Daisuke told me nothing. In fact, he hasn't said so much as a word to me since this morning when he reassured me it wasn't his place to say,"

"…Then Dark told him." murmured Krad hollowly.

Suddenly Satoshi could tell how angry Krad was and he gripped his chest trying to ignore the dizziness that the pain of transformation was putting him through.

"Not here. Not now. Please…"

Krad, despite his rage, heard his host's plea. True, he didn't care at first, his host was his to do what he pleased with, but with Cadell running around he couldn't have his host exhausted. Still infuriated he retreated to a corner of Satoshi's mind where he intended to fume until he had a chance to severely reprimand his enemy for the humiliation.

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"Idiot."

Eriko sighed.

"Dumbass!"

Eriko tried to pay attention to the board.

"Listen to me now or I'll take the body right in front of the entire class!" snapped Cadell.

"You were insulting me, I didn't think it merited a response,"

"You'd learn well to respond. We're not here to toy around with artifacts like those two! We're here to prevent a great evil from overthrowing the earth!"

"Has anyone ever told you that you sound like a video game?"

Eriko turned her attention to the trig once again, only to be surprised when she stood up- but not of her free will. "Teacher," her voice came out cordially despite her immense confusion at why her body was disobeying her in the first place. "I feel ill, may I go to the nurse's?"

"Um…Of course Yukiko-san,"

With that, Eriko's body walked out of the classroom.

Satoshi watched with cold and pitying eyes. He knew what it was like to have your other form take over the functions of your body against your will. It had become apparent to him that despite a front she put up, Eriko had no idea what she was mixed up in.

But he couldn't afford to pity her.

He probed his mind for any sign of Krad so he could speak to him about Cadell taking Eriko's body but Krad was apparently still furious because all he could find was the foreboding sense that always came over him when Krad was angry. He sighed. He never would have thought he wanted to talk to either the thief or the homicidal blonde, but now that gym class was nearing he knew he had to do exactly that.

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"Ummm…Satoshi…" murmured Daisuke nervously. They'd been walking to their gym class when Satoshi had grabbed his arm and pulled them into a janitor's closet for no apparent reason. "Satoshi, we're going to be late!" he protested. Well…Other than that, being in close vicinity to the other boy put him in danger of transforming. In fact, it put both of them in danger of transforming and he didn't know how he would deal with Krad just about now.

"We're going to be absent," corrected Satoshi.

Before Daisuke could protest he pinned the other boy against the wall and kissed him passionately running his hand along his hip bone causing goose bumps to rise on his entire body. He barely pulled away as Daisuke transformed into Dark. Dark pulled back and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand glaring. "Look. Do us all a favor and warn him before you do that, I mean no offense, but it's just creepy to transform and be kissing someone!"

"I needed him to transform, and I figured this was faster than convincing him." replied Satoshi crossing his arms. It was awkward after all this time chasing the thief to have to ask him a favor in a janitor's closet.

"Oh…Why?" asked Dark curiously.

"I want to know what happened."

"…I can't be the one to tell you, I haven't got the right,"

Satoshi barely kept himself from cursing Dark and the red head who seemed to, despite their differences, share a stubborn streak. "Damn it! Whatever it is it's got Krad supremely pissed and hiding in the corner of my mind waiting for an opportunity to make himself feel better and I'm sure we all know how that will turn out!" he snapped.

Dark frowned at Satoshi's hands and took one of them in his own. Satoshi was about to jerk his hand back when Dark forced his palm open revealing four little red crescent moon marks that his nails had put in his palm. Dark glared at them disapprovingly.

"Look…I think we're going to need to come to terms. That is if you and Daisuke intend to continue coexisting, and if me and Krad can manage to coexist. The fact of the matter is, you're very important to Daisuke and I don't want you hurt. I know this is putting you under a lot of stress. You know half the story and you think if you know it all then you can fix the situation, because you're a very creepy little control freak."

Satoshi narrowed his eyes at Dark. "So mature."

"But," continued Dark, "That seems to be what Daisuke likes about you. I'd like to tell you, but I think it's for Krad to do so and not me. If he's sulking right now, then eventually he'll come around and explain it to you,"

Satoshi wanted to insist, but Dark's last statement was so pained it almost seemed like a plea. He stared into Dark's eyes and the thief stared back unwilling to let down his guard. Satoshi smiled coolly. "We're alike in a few aspects…You and I…"

"Yeah," said Dark as he began to transform, "But I'm a lot hotter."

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"You did that on purpose!" snapped Daisuke blushing as he became himself again.

Satoshi smiled at the little redhead's outburst. "Yes."

"Bu- I-" sputtered Daisuke. He finally turned away. "I need to get to class."

"Didn't I say we were missing class?"

"…What?"

"Dark said if I warned you I was going to kiss you, you'd be less likely to transform,"

"Satoshi!" said Daisuke shocked. "We're in a janitor's closet!"

Satoshi smiled and wrapped his arms around the little red head. "Yes, if we transform I think it'll make us even with Dark and Krad for making us wake up in so many strange situations."

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Daisuke entered science looking more than mildly flushed and Satoshi entered looking- in his way- more than mildly smug, though only Daisuke could tell. Eriko could have, were she looking at him. She was more than mildly angry at Cadell for her little show of power and they were arguing within her mind at that very moment.

"If I don't show up at practice he'll just interfere more! Just let me go and he'll be out of the way!" she pleaded.

"Dark's going after the vase tonight. This is going to be the easiest way to get Krad and him in the same spot." replied Cadell coolly. "I upheld my end of the deal. I'd appreciate it if you'd consider there's things more important than your little boyfriend."

"Look, Dark goes after the vase at two o-clock tonight right?"

"Right."

"Practice is at eight. We can make it work."

"I'm responsible if they-"

"Please."

"…Stop it."

Eriko bit her lower lip and tried to stop thinking about it, unfortunately she couldn't and she could feel Cadell growing steadily angrier.

"…Fine. But any problems after this, and you're going to start working on my terms. All of them."

Eriko suddenly snapped up with a smile. She was so concentrated on it that she didn't even notice the strange change in her aura. Or that of the Hikari.

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Krad was furious. After finally burying most of that memory Dark had unearthed it again. He knew what he had to do, if he wanted to be reasonable and keep them all alive considering this Cadell running around. He didn't want to be reasonable.

That's why when Satoshi and Daisuke entered the apartment he immediately transformed without any warning to Satoshi who let out a cry of pain as the wings burst out of his back and he transformed into the blonde ice demon.

Daisuke yelped and jumped back but Krad roughly grabbed his wrist. "Don't transform!" he hissed.

Daisuke's mouth opened and closed in a way that said he was once again too frightened to transform. "Kr- Krad I didn't tell-"

"I know you didn't!" snapped Krad. "I have something to tell you and Satoshi, and I don't want to see that bastard thief's face while I say it. If I so much as see your eyes flicker violet I'm putting you through that wall behind you!"

Daisuke swallowed before nodding. "Tell me Krad. I'm listening."

Krad quickly scanned his mind to make sure Satoshi was too before he began. "This is my side of the story."