Title: Cloudy Night

Author: loveoftheblue

Genre: Action/ Adventure

Chapter Three: Barred

As Dark followed Satoshi out the door of the museum, reporters crowded around him, suffocating him… no end in sight…

"Let me through," Satoshi calmly said, his bitingly sharp voice immediately making everyone scramble out of his way, "I have a job to do. You will get your questions answered later. Good night." And with this last phrase, he led the still crying Dark down to his waiting car (a/n Yes he has a car. But it's his chaperone who drives it.), and lightly pushed the morose phantom thief into the back, then slid in after him.

Dark…, Daisuke softly called, Dark… please snap out of it… if not for your sake, then for my sake, and Mom and Dad's. Dark, you aren't really content with losing are you? Are you really going to just sit back and accept this? …please…

There are you happy?Satoshi bitterly snapped at Krad, who stood in a darkened spot, with a distinctly worried look on his face, I've finally caught him. The famous Phantom Thief Dark Mousy. Generations after generations of feuding and curses, hundreds and hundreds of artwork stolen, three centuries of bitter rivalry, ended. Why aren't you satisfied? Haven't you always been the one to goad me on? To force me to come back to this job day after day, week after week, month after month? And now that I've finally achieved what Hiwatari thinks is my only destiny, you mad at me? Why? Tell me why.

Daisuke… leave me alone…please… I'm not in the mood for this… for years I've tried to keep this bottled inside myself…, Dark caught himself, unwilling to share the secretthat he had kept for so many years, so many decades and centuries, I'll tell you later, for now, please leave me alone… I need to think in privacy. And with that, Dark erected his mental barriers and shut out Daisuke's pleads.

Dark! Daaarrrrkkkk! Please don't do this! Please! Daisuke couldn't stand seeing his friend in pain. Sobbing, he sat outside the impregnable walls of Dark's mental fortress, quietly, he whispered to himself, I can't stand to see my friends in pain… especially not Dark. Why is he blocking me out? He's never been like this before… it's as if something inside of him is tearing him inside-out. And I can't do anything to help him with it. He showed no sign that he was ever unhappy with his life so why now? It hurts Dark… it hurts…

Dark looked defeated on the outside. He stared out of the side window, eyes focused on the stars and the moon, seeing, yet, strangely, unseeing. Unbidden tears slowly welled out his eyes, pooled by the corners, then slowly slipped out and cascaded down his pearly cheeks. His face had become a mask of tears, yet it seemed as if it was not he producing them, just lying under them, so deep was his sorrow…

Satoshi also seemed to be in a dilemma. He stared at the back of the seat in front of him, his eyes glazed over, as if the world around him did not exist. His face was a mix of confusion, anger, and also, surprisingly, sadness. It was as if his life had come to an end and he no longer had any reason to live because he had completed his service. The will of his family to catch Dark. And he had done it.

Hesitantly, Krad began to speak to Satoshi. Satoshi, there is something I need to tell you. Please, understand that I have kept this secret locked in myself for so many years that it hurts to let anyone else know. I've tried so hard to deny it. I just can't take the weight of it anymore --

Satoshi was irked by the deep velvety voice that interrupted his thoughts, and he showed it. What is it? Spit it out and then leave me alone!

Slightly daunted by his tone of voice, Krad paused for a moment, then gathered his courage and began to speak agin. Satoshi-sama, please don't hate me… Dark is --

Inside his head, Dark finally let his mental barriers fade away, and then slowly turned to Daisuke. Daisuke… I'm sorry… for everything…for forcing you into a pathetic life of running and hiding. I have made my decision. Daisuke, Krad is --

Then, simultaneously, Krad and Dark both said, -- is my brother…!

A/n: Gomen! Gomen gomen gomen gomen gomen! I am very sorry it took me so long to update! To those of you who were actually waiting for my fic, I AM SOOOOOO SORRRRRYYYYYY PLEEEEEASE FORGIVE MEEEEEEEE! ( it's Ritchan from Furuba!) So here! I left you with a cliff-hanger! Dark and Krad are brothers! Aren't you surprised? And forget that I ever suggested yaoi. My friends nearly murdered me for that, as you can tell from the death threat I received in a review… anyway, if you reviewed, my replies are below . Love to all reviewers! Plz r&r See Ya!

Dark Mousy 0- Yes! Go Neopets! I am sorry that I didn't have time to give you a preview, so I will let you read the next chapter after this early. OK? And I had to change my username for neopets cuz I lost my password and my other email went invalid. Bleeeechh. So now my username is loveoftheblue. Aren't I odd?

Les Scribbles- thank you for your encouragement and praise! Not like cough cough someone else cough Rimi-chan cough what does glomp mean…?

The Shadow's Light- thank you! If you liked this, wait till you see what I have in store for you… mwuhahahahaaaa!

chrnoskitty- thank you for reviewing me! I would put in yaoi, but as you can probably see from one of my reviews, I fear for my life… (I can just see her now… standing next to me with a BIGGGG knife in her hands…)

kyoluva731- no, Rimi-chan you may NOT read my fics before I post them because you would rip my head off. And you aren't allowed to kill me online, at school, or anywhere else. And the name is Plum-chan. PLUM-CHAN! Not "(person's name blocked out for personal reasons)." And whaddaya mean Dark's not sexy! And I asked for CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM not random flaming. I think that's all. See Ya!

phantomthiefdarkmousy- YES! Satoshi rocks my socks! Boo yah! Saaatttoooooo! EEEEEEEKKKKKKK! I think I'm gonna die…

YumYum-chan- wheeee! Satoshiiii! How could you be so cruel as to threaten me with pictures of Satoshi? big teary eyes I have gone absolutely insane! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (okay plum-chan calm down…) And as for your request in the other review, sure! Why not? But beware…