Chapter 2 – Krad's Necklace

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Authors Note: Thanks a lot for the reviews! Meh, more of Krad in this chapter, Satoshi in the next, unless I put the two chapters together! Kinda long though… many thanks to all of the reviewers. The Review Thanks are at the bottom of the page!

Chapter Two – Krad's Necklace
"Yeah, Riku is gonna be absent for a while. Yeah. Bye," she said, hanging up the phone. She sighed. Everyone is asking about Riku… it's so annoying. I wonder when she is going to back anyway..?

The doctors hadn't given them a specific date, just a 'Maybe for a week.' Riku's mom had reluctantly agreed.

"Riku…"

I can't stand being here! Riku thought, buring her face into the pillow. She sighed and turned over on the hospital bed, her hand to her head. I wonder what his name is… she said, looking once again at the blonde haired boy.

Usually he would fall asleep or just stare blankly at the wall, not minding Riku at all. She still never got a chance to say 'thank you' because of what happened. He was pretty much always asleep when she wanted to tell him.

She quickly pretended to be asleep when the blonde got up, scanning the room to see if anyone was there. Concluding, he got up. Riku traced his steps, and knew that he was right by her hospital bed. Don't.. make any sudden movements.

She flinched when a cold hand touched her cheek. "Blind fool.." she last heard before she heard the footsteps go away from her bed and the door slam.

Riku immediately shot up from he position in the bed. She felt her cheek, feeling the warmth spread back to it. What was that about? She looked over at the drawer next to Krad's bed and noticed a necklace. (Nope, not his comb.) Did he leave this?

She looked out the hospital door's window to see if they would stop him, but they just sat there. Then something strange struck her.

Doesn't he have a broken leg?

She saw that he was walking just fine, and shrugged, forgetting it.

Riku did as Krad did – since the Azumono Hospital wasn't gonna do anything about her leaving. She shuddered as she walked through the cold, trying to get warm. It was unusually cold – though winter had just ended.

She rang the doorbell, jus predicting Risa Harada's reaction. You snuck out! She thought to herself, knowing that was the kind of thing Risa would say. She just hoped her mom wouldn't open the door.

Just as she thought, Risa opened the door with that reaction, "You snuck out!"

Riku rolled her eyes. "Chill, Risa! I can just stay in bed here."

"Mom's gonna freak."

"So?"

Risa was the one to roll her eyes this time and backed away so Riku could get in. "What's that boy's name?" she immediately asked, closing the door.

"What boy?"

"Satoshi's brother."

"Oh. His name is Krad Hiwatari, he goes to…" Risa said, obviously wanting to tell a life story.

"I JUST WANT to know his NAME."

"Oh."

Riku went to her room, fishing out the cross necklace. It was black, with diamonds and angelic language in scripted in it. She attempted reading them, and sighed.

"Geez…"

She flinched as the necklace burned her skin for a split second. She shook her hand and dropped the necklace, looking at her crossed shaped burn. "Crap.."

"Ouch…"

Krad hung on to the bridge for support, noticing that the pain came rushing back to his leg. She then lifted his hand for the cross shaped necklace, then noticed it wasn't there. At the hospital…?

He sighed, knowing that it would take a while to get there, but his house was right across the street. He cursed to himself and made the decision that Satoshi would go get it for him.

"Riku, Rin told me that you need to go to the track today. There's a test today," Risa said bluntly.

"WHHHATT? I just HAD a almost-death experience. C'mon Now." She said to her sister, sighing. "Rin's gonna end up making me feel sore at the end of the day…"

Risa then looked up at Riku sheepishly. "Hey Riku… I was wondering… why were you crying?" she said.

Riku immediately turned around. "How do you know I was crying!" She said, making Risa back up a little.

"When you blacked out, you wee crying."

"Well… it's nothing… I just… said something to Daisuke." She focused on her hand, remembering the shock.

Risa giddily jumped up. "He said yes..! Right?"

Riku shook her head. He wants you… she thought to herself.

"Well, I'll see you later."

"Bye," Riku said.

Is it just me, or is 9 laps a bit TOO much just for missing 2 days!

Riku kept a steady pace, definitely not out of breath yet, but it was a but too much. "We all did 3 laps," she heard Rin say next to her. "Plus it's good exercise."

"Whatever…"

"Riku, watch out!"

Riku, dazing off, fell on the ground. She looked at her scraped knee, and noticed it was bleeding. She flashback of the car coming at her came once again. Why am I imagining this? She quickly blinked as the scrape disappeared in a flash of light.

"Weren't you bleeding?" Rin asked her.

"I thought so…"

Authors Note: Meh… Next chapter up soon, OK? In case you don't notice, the necklace actually did something to Riku… OK! Satoshi definitely in the next chapter.

Next: Krad attacks Riku! (Wow.) Dark ants the necklace back. (YES!) And Riku discovers the necklace's secret.

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