Okay fine Jade Cade; you were right when you said the whole summer theory didn't work. But hey it's only been a month right….right: gets informed that it has in fact been over a month, by our lovely Dai:…oh well uhhh heh, I am shamed. I'm a horrible author! Please forgive me readers! I love you all I really do! I give you all plushies and cookies, and my favorite strawberry Pocky. Oh and also a newly updated chapter.

…. Thank you anyone who may review or read this. I'm also updating my other story tonight, and possibly starting my own original creation on here it is!

Prince Of Thieves

The only sound that ran through the room was the soft thunk of the green apple Daisuke once had in his hand. All thoughts seems to flee from the redhead as he just stood there and stared at the purple haired boy in font of him. Dark gave a small smirk at the look on the boy's face, and chose to step forward towards the boy.

" I see your doing well, thief." The prince said as he passed the boy and went to lean on the windowsill that the boy was previously sitting on. Purple eyes glanced back at the redheaded boy who was still just standing in the middle of the room, no doubt with the same expression.

And that he was. A barrage of thoughts seemed to hit the boy at once and make him lose all his senses. Currently invading his head was the knowledge that the Royal Prince Dark was now standing in his make shift home, and now knew where he lived. Not to mention he knew his name as well. But Daisuke had honestly thought he'd never see the Prince again, so what did a name matter?

Apparently a lot… the only thing he could see as a positive thing was that the boy only knew his first name and not his last. If the Prince had found out that one of the infamous Niwa family was still living, then he'd be hunted down for sure. The Niwa's were killed for a reason, though Daisuke knew the reason was false, purely set-up by the rivaling Hiwatari family.

" Why did you follow me?" Daisuke finally managed to ask after what seemed like an eternity of thinking. He was planning on just running out the door, but his Mothers locket with the Niwa family crest was still in his room. If he left it, he'd be found out for sure.

" I was curious, no real reason, just looking for something to occupy time." Dark gave a shrug, even though the boy before him couldn't see it.

Dai was furious. Here he was worrying that the prince was going to turn him in again. But the brat was only bored! And decided to further torment him worse than he had previously.

" Its your fault ya know. For being a thief you sure are easy to spot with that red hair of yours." Continued the Prince. "That's what really gave you away, and why I decided to follow you here."

The younger boy turned around sharply and glared at the Prince with tears brimming in his ruby eyes. " What do you want from me?" the question came out in a hiss and caused the Prince's eyes to widen a bit at the tone.

His expression seemed to fade to his trademark smirk again and he just shrugged it off like nothing, and then continued taunting the redhead in front of him. " Ohh nothing really, I just think your interesting to watch is all." If possible, this seemed to make Daisuke even angrier.

Through clenched teeth Daisuke managed to try and address the Prince so he could get a useful answer, "Well what are you planning to do now, I'm sure you must be bored." The small thief sighed and glared at the invading Prince and added on a final note " are you planning on getting me arrested again?"

"Heh, as much fun as it sounds to have you all tied up in a little cage again, I'm afraid not." Dark said with a flick of his hair. He gazed at the boy in front of him again, searching for that fire that sparks his life. " I really have no interest in turning you in, you passed the test I wanted, and now I just wish to observe my findings."

"Findings? What test dammit! I'm not some science project!" Dai shouted loudly with a huff. He stomped his foot ad turned around and started to walk into his room. He went to his makeshift bed and grabbed the locket and chain from under his pile of clothes he called his pillow, and preceded to throw his belongings into his worn backpack.

Amethyst orbs followed the little redhead around the small floor of the building while he seemed to be packing for a lite trip. Dark slid off the windowsill and walked a bit towards the middle of the room. "Where ya goin, Dai?" asked the Prince curiously.

"I'm leaving. And don't call me that." Was Daisukes' blunt reply. This didn't seem to phase the Prince a bit with its harshness. " Where to? And why cant I call you 'Dai'?" countered Dark in a curious manner.

" I need to find a new home now since I don't really need you to go home and blab where I live to one of your guards." The younger paused and sighed, then continued. " And the only person who was allowed to call me by that name, died a long time ago. I don't let just anyone use it. Happy now?" Daisuke finished in a sarcastically cheerful tone.

Dark seemed to frown at this, he didn't seem to realized that by coming here the poor boy would have to move to another place. He also felt bad on top of the knowledge that someone close to the redhead had died. Dark had never lost anyone important to him, so he sympathized with anyone who had to go through such things.

When Dai next looked at the Royal standing in the middle of the room he saw a look that he hadn't seen on Dark before. It was…. sorrow? Not that he cared, but he somehow did feel bad for making the older boy look so sad. Unfortunately for Daisuke, he has a heart that's too big for him, so he started to feel rather guilty. " Agh! What is it now? Cant you just pick a mood and stay with it?" the thief finished exasperated.

Dark suddenly felt rather shy towards the boy, he knew he wanted to help him, he just didn't know how to ask. "Would you…I mean, would you umm.." Dark stumbled over his words for the first time in his life, and realized he didn't like the feeling. Daisuke stood there impatiently tapping his foot, he leaned forward a bit to hear the boy, but nothing came.

" Would I, what? Dark spit it out already." Finally not being able to keep in the question the Prince blurted out the last thing Daisuke expected from him. "Would you let me take care of you?" with that said, silence filled the air.

"Take care of me? Dark you cant be serious. You can hardly take care of yourself, let alone someone else. Besides could you imagine the controversy that would bring? People don't want to hear that the Royal Prince Dark has taken in a thieving orphan into the palace to live with him." The younger seemed to be wise beyond his years and this saddened Dark further.

"I just want to help you Daisuke. Nobody will find out that you used to be a thief; we can say you're a Royal, you already look like one. We can say that your visi.." Daisuke interrupted the prince with a growl. "I'm not pretending to be some Royal so you don't have to pity me from outside the palace gates, Dark!" the younger boy didn't mean to yell at the Prince, but he just didn't understand that he could never be found out by the other Royals that he was a Niwa.

Dark seemed to take the comment pretty well, but he refused to give up on the boy quite yet. "Okay Daisuke, I'm sorry. Just can I please take you back to the palace for some medical treatment? The cut your rabbit friend gave you needs to be cleaned, it looks like its getting worse." As a last attempt Dark hoped that it would work, he could convince the boy to stay with him later.

Normally Dai would have told the Prince to go screw off, but the cut did seem to be getting worse, and he didn't need that while trying to find a new home. Plus it looked like the Prince really wanted to help him, whether or not it was just as a good deed for the Royal to feel accomplished, or he genuinely cared was still undecided. But hey, he might even get him and Wiz a free meal out of the deal too.

"Alright Dark, you got a deal. I still don't know what you get out of this, but I'm grateful for your offer. Hope ya let animals in that pretty palace of yours." Giving a wink to the purple haired beauty, Daisuke put his hand out to seal the deal. Dark smiled and they shook hands.

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The walk to the palace was pretty uneventful, Dark had gotten back to his usual talkative self and babbled on for a bit while Daisuke listened. Wiz was asleep on the top of the young thief's head, this was a sign that Dark was a good person. Wiz has always been able to tell if a person was out to hurt him or Dai, so this put the redhead at ease a bit while walking there.

The plan for getting Dai into the palace was fairly simple. He would wait outside the palace wall, hiding from the nightly patrol, while Dark went in and threw a rope over the wall for the boy to climb up.

Yeah well that was about 20 minutes ago that Dark went inside, and Daisuke was getting a bit impatient. He had to practically throw himself in a bush as not to be noticed by a guard that passed by. He almost got caught again when his stomach gave a loud growl as he took his place in the foliage again, probably punishment for dropping the apple and leaving it in the old house.

Having bumped into is Father on the way outside to the palace garden, Dark was getting an ear full for leaving the palace once again. The old man just kept going and going and… "Dark! Pay attention when I'm yelling at you boy." Was what finally broke the Princes thoughts. "Huh? Oh sorry Father, I was just umm...thinking of a proper punishment for myself." The look on the Kings face was priceless shock.

"You were what?" came the suspicious reply of the King while raising a brow at the odd behavior of his only son. "Yes, well I was thinking that since I've snuck out twice this week, that equals about two days of solitary confinement in my room." Dark tried his best to hide the smirk he wore while saying this. The King bought it completely.

"Great my boy, I'm glad your finally taking on a responsible attitude. And you give yourself a fitting consequence to go with your actions as well. I knew I raised you right." The king finished with a small laugh while patting his son on the back, he soon agreed to the two days and told the Prince he could only come out to get food and bring it back. Exactly what the Prince wanted.

It had gotten quite dark outside and Daisuke was about to leave when he heard Prince Dark yell over the wall. He'd gotten the rope and thrown it over while he was perched at the top of the wall. He'd gotten pretty good at the wall climbing by now and he didn't even fall off. Dai put Wiz in his backpack so he wouldn't fall off his head and get left outside, then grabbed the rope.

"Okay I'm ready! Hurry up before someone comes." The redhead said while pulling on the rope a bit. "Alrite, watch out when you come up." Added the prince before he jumped down on the palace side of the wall with the rope's end in his hands. Ass soon as he jumped down, the redhead was pulled up to the top of the wall with ease.

The younger boy jumped down and landed perfectly, unlike Dark who had landed on his butt. "You okay Dark?" Dai asked with a smile and a small laugh while the Prince growled a bit and rubbed the sore area.

This was only the first step of the plan though, Daisuke still needed to get back to Darks room without being spotted. Luckily for the thief, he was used to getting up into high places with only the things around him to assist. He took Dark's rope and found a decent sized stick. The tied the rope to the center of the stick and threw it up to Dark's balcony.

With the stick wedged in between two of the railings, the rope pulled taut and Daisuke was able to climb his way up and wait for Dark to come in through the Palace. He had a distinct feeling though, that he'd be staying here longer than intended.

TBC…

Mew: thanks for reading if ya got this far. I'm going to start writing the next chapter to this when I get done updating X3

Daisuke: Don't worry everyone, Dark and me are going to make sure that she updates waaaay sooner for you all.

Dark: Yes, we don't usually turn to violence, but I think Mew needs a little motivation.

Daisuke: umm Dark, your not going to hurt her are you?

Mew:gulp:runs behind Daisuke:

Dark: well not if she updates within the next week I wont. :holds up giant rolled up newspaper:

Mew: AGHHHHHH no not paper, I hate the stuff. Don't touch me with it! Dark go away, Daisuke heeeelp!

Daisuke: well there ya go, I guess she'll be updating within the week, so stay tuned to Prince Of Thieves!