I'm SOOOOOOO sorry for taking so effing long! School was killing me near the end and I got sick…then I went on vacation…I'm sorry I kept everyone waiting! Since its summer now I should be able to get a few more chapters done a little faster I'm SOOOOO sorry! And for all those who 'reviewed' begging me to continue (I know there were a few there, right?) thank you for kicking me to do so! It does help, and im very sorry for taking so long!

So, summary so far: Ayame has the luck to turn into Dark, and Yume unfortunately turns into Krad. Both are unsuspecting, and both hate it. Ayame is annoyed that every time she even thinks of her crushes name, Dark takes over. Yume, however, is now realizing that her trigger is Dark. She also finds this…revolting…the fact she likes her cousin's counterpart. So Yume is now flipping out with the uber annoying voice in her head, (belonging to none other than our favorite homicidal blonde angel) Ayame is flipping out over everything, and Satoshi is just plain freaking out over the fact that his daughter just turned into his worst nightmare, quite literally.

Yay awkward relationships!

No, I don't own DNAngel, but Ayame and Yume are mine, as are a few others.

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"Daddy…whats going on…?" Yume was utterly confused and scared, and in pain as well. There was a voice taunting her, begging for release, but instinct told her to keep it at bay.

"This wasn't supposed to happen…it wasn't supposed to be like this!" Satoshi spoke, hugging Yume tight. He had an odd mix of fear, sadness, and pure anger in his voice. No! It wasn't supposed to be like this at all. They were supposed to be gone, he and Dark, we didn't need to worry about this. This is what I've dreaded happening ever since Risa said she wanted children. This is what wasn't meant to happen to our daughter. I was so relieved to have a girl, and now she is forced to deal with the Hikari fate as well, no. No. This will not ruin another life again! This will not hurt my child!

I should have ended it back then…

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The party ended very early. Satoshi had gone outside and told everyone that due to Yume's sudden illness, (sudden stomach virus of some sort, they said) the party had to be canceled, and within about 20 minutes everyone was gone. Yume was still freaking out, with due cause. Ayame felt like everything was all her fault; Yume's problems, the party, everything.

After the party cleared out, and most of the stuff was cleaned up, Yume and Ayame were brought to the living room for a history lesson, among other things. Daisuke and Satoshi felt that they needed to know everything, and they did. Everything about their past, about Dark and Krad, and they needed to figure out just what went wrong with the curse, why their daughters had it when it had been a male thing in the past.

"I must say, Ayame, I am a little jealous," Emiko said, attempting to lighten the mood.

"Mom, please," Daisuke didn't want her to start.

"What? It's true. When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a boy so I could become the great phantom thief Dark."

"Mom, you really aren't helping," Daisuke said sternly. He usually didn't use a tone like that with his sometimes-childish mother, but now was an exception. The current situation didn't allow Daisuke to have his normally dismissing demeanor with her.

Ayame and Yume sat at opposite ends of the sofa, and Risa was next to her daughter. Risa had her arm around Yume's shoulders in an attempt to comfort her distressed daughter—Yume had been sobbing earlier, though she had calmed down a bit while Daisuke told the tale of the past. Satoshi, ever the quiet one, had been filling in small parts from his side of the story and other little details Daisuke may have left out. Well, that is, until Daisuke hit a strange spot.

"One thing you girls will have to learn quickly is your trigger. Your trigger will start the transformation and force your bodies to change into your counterparts." Daisuke explained.

"It can be controlled to an extent, though not for long. You may be able to hold them off for a few minutes—just enough time for you to get out of sight. You don't want anyone to see you change, unless its one of us. Since we know it's not that bad, but you don't want anyone else to know about your…condition," Satoshi added.

"What exactly are the triggers?" Yume asked sheepishly.

"Love."

Yume and Ayame stared oddly at their fathers when both Daisuke and Satoshi spoke at the same time.

"Love?" Yume asked blankly, a million things running through her mind. Love? LOVE? Then why did I change when I saw Dark? I don't love him…do I? Eww NO! He's technically my cousin! Gross! No way. No, this has to be some sort of nightmare or something.

"Yes, love. You know what I mean. I don't have to explain that one, do I?" Satoshi said quickly, realizing just what he may have exposed. He then noticed a strange look coming from his brother-in-law and hoped Daisuke wouldn't ask about anything right here in front of their family. Ayame and Yume blushed a little, and neither noticed the slight blush of embarrassment on either of their father's faces. (Well, Daisuke's was more of surprise, and Satoshi's was more of embarrassment from letting something like that slip.)

"So…that means whenever we see or think of the person we love we will change?" Ayame wanted a little more clarity here. "And we can change if we want to?"

"Though I can't see why I would want to…" Yume muttered.

"Yes, that's pretty much it," Daisuke said. "Be cautious of your triggers. Sometimes, if the emotion is strong enough, even thinking about them can make you change. Be careful with that."

After a few seconds of silence, it was Satoshi who spoke. "Perhaps you two should stay away from eachother for a few days, until we can get this situation figured out a little more."

"Daddy…that would be really hard. We have class together!"

"Ooh, and what about the fair tomorrow? Can we still go to that? We've been planning it for a while now," Ayame pouted.

"What about your triggers? If they are there too you have a great risk of changing, right? That wouldn't be good. We don't need a battle being fought there. Or anywhere for that matter. We just don't need you girls fighting at all." Riku piped in as she came back from the kitchen. She was carrying a small tray with a few glasses on it, one for everyone.

"Fighting?" Yume said quietly. "I still don't understand why we would fight and just why it would be so bad." Somewhere in the back of her mind she heard that weird laughter again, as if it was mocking her.

Satoshi took a deep breath. His daughter was rather dense at times, wasn't she? "Look, Krad was nearly impossible to control for me, and it will probably be harder for you for quite a few reasons. Krad and Dark have this endless battle going on, and there is no stopping them. Krad would do almost anything to kill Dark. He would probably let himself die if he knew he could come back again after destroying Dark."

"That's harsh. What do you mean 'come back', though?" Ayame asked.

"The way they just did. You know the story; I know Daisuke told them a lot. When we were 14 we both changed into the very same Dark and Krad you do now. The only difference is we were ready for it. We were trained and we expected the change—" Satoshi was cut off by Daisuke.

"Well, I was trained, I guess, but I sure wasn't ready for it!" Daisuke glared at his mother. They never told me about Dark. I had to find that out for myself. That day was one of the worst days of my childhood."

"Come on, Dad, it couldn't have been that bad. What did he do? Steal your girlfriend?" Ayame giggled at the though. Dark probably would do that too. Maybe it was good that he was a guy.

"No, he only won the heart of the girl I liked at the time," As he said this, Risa blushed a little and looked toward the floor. "Not only that but I felt rather rejected that day to begin with."

"Lets stop this talk of the past for now," Satoshi said, seeming slightly troubled by a distant memory. That's right, he thought, it's not a memory I enjoy, my first change. It was the day that made my life utter hell.

"So…can we still go to the fair? If we kept away from our triggers, would it be safe then?" Ayame asked, hoping that she and Yume could still go to the fair. They went every year together, and this was going to be the first year they were being allowed to go without their parents, though Ayame worried that that fact may soon change.

-What about you-know-who?- Dark asked, being nice for once and not saying Kohaku's name.

-He said he wouldn't be there this year, so I think it's safe for me.-

Daisuke and Satoshi exchanged slightly worried looks, as did the twins, but they were all thinking the same thing. The fathers nodded to eachother, and regardless of the worried mothers, the girls were free to go.

"If anything happens come home right away. Even if it means splitting up, got it? We can't have a battle there, and I don't want either of you getting hurt, and I don't want either of you hurting anyone else." Daisuke warned. It was risky, but he could trust the girls and he knew he could trust Dark to do that much. Krad on the other hand…Satoshi would have to deal with that half of the problem.

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Soon after the family meeting, each went their separate way. Daisuke and Riku took Ayame home, where she stayed up late that night thinking about the day's happenings and trying not to think of Kohaku. She didn't feel like changing again, not tonight.

Yume, on the other hand, was still confused and more than a little worried. She sat at the desk in her room writing in her diary what had happened, all the while the voice of her nightmare sat in the back of her mind taunting her, still begging to be let out. After deciding that the diary entry was futile, she laid her head in her arms on the desk and sobbed a little, her tears forming a small puddle beneath her. Krad felt stronger now, and Yume was scared. If what her dad said was true, he could probably get out anytime now, unless she stayed strong. But how was she supposed to be strong when everything she knew about herself seemed to come undone?

There was a soft knock at her door and she wiped the tears away from her eyes and said, "Come in." Satoshi entered, a solemn look on his face. He sat down on the bed and looked toward the floor for a second before eyeing his daughter.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I shouldn't have accepted his disappearance so easily back then. I truly thought he was gone."

"Is there anything we can do to make him go away?" Tears welled up in Yume's eyes again.

"Stop crying," Satoshi said as he wiped one of her tears away. "It won't help. Not much will, I'm afraid. The only thing I can tell you to do is to close your heart and hide your emotions. It's the only thing that helped me back then, and not much else will help you. If you feel him trying to get out, imagine chains holding him back, keep him as deep in your mind as you possibly can, and don't let him feel any weakness. Krad feeds on your emotions and feels them as strongly as you do. If he feels you being depressed or sad or weakened at all he will try to take advantage of it. Try not to feel any form of love." Yume looked at her father wide-eyed. "He hates that the most. He wants to make your life miserable by destroying everything you have come to cherish. If you open your heart and allow him to know what you love the most, he will try to take it away. I know this is going to be very hard for you, but it is the only thing that can help you."

He almost had tears in his eyes. Sadness, pain, all these normal things he had allowed himself to feel since Krad had been sealed took over, as they would any normal person. All these things that were normal for people to feel on a daily basis, things he had come to learn in the time since he went away, all these things he was now telling his beloved daughter to shut out.

Satoshi was also starting to realize just why he was slightly happy that his only child, the heir to the Hikari name, had decided she didn't like art at an early age.

He left Yume alone after a few silent minutes and a 'goodnight', hoping she was strong enough to deal with the pain to come.

Yume sat awake for a long time that night, silently hoping the angelic demon she was holding would get easier to contain. If it didn't get any easier soon, she feared she would lose all control of herself…and her other self. Tears came down her face once again, regardless of how hard she tried to hold them back, and she quietly cried herself to sleep.

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Ok, kinda long chapter I think, but well worth it since ive taken SO long to get this one up. After graduation and vacation and finals and all that crap, I now have some time so hopefully I will get some more done soon. I have ideas of what is coming next, so no more writer's block for me right now!

Review if you wish, I know this one was rather weird. A little too serious too, I think. Next chapter will have our favorite boys in strange positions (and clothing), some embarrassing situations, and a lot of interesting occurrences.

Something else I plan to do: A who likes who chart. Something to clearly define a few relationships in this fic, because of the normal DNAngel nuttiness, and me it is sure to get weird.