Daisuke pressed his face up against the glass. "Ooh...pretty..."

/Where are we again/

"Uh...dunno." Daisuke scratched his head and looked around. "Oh, look! That sign says G...Goo...Gooay..."

/...I think it's read GOA./

"Oh..." he squinted at it. "Are you sure?"

/ ...why was I cursed with such a stupid host?/

"HEY!" The redhead glared at himself for the third or fourth time this story. "I resent that!"

"Who are you?" asked a voice. Daisuke turned around and gasped. "HIWATARI-KUN!" He ran up to hug him but the other boy shoved him away. "What is wrong with you?"

"I...I..." The young kaito host sobbed. "YOU HATE ME! WAAAAHHH!"

The forementioned other dude covered his ears. "Shut up!"

Immediately Daisuke quieted, as if he no longer had a voice or something. He blinked at the boy in front of him, and said, "...when did you dye your hair?"

The other blinked back at him. "What?"

"Your hair," he replied, moving closer and playing with said hair. "It's...it's...all white-ish!" The younger closer examined his face. "And your eyes! They're red! Did you get contacts?"

"Let go of me!" exclaimed deformed-satoshi-looking-person. "Have you gone insane? Who the hell are you?"

Daisuke took a step back. "Huh?" His eyes started to get all watery. "You mean...I mean so little to you...that you don't even recognize me?"

Hiead (can I just start calling him hiead yet?) just stared at him stupidly like the younger was retarded. "Listen, Candidate, it's obvious you're new here. If our paths ever happen to cross again, stay out of my way and I wont hurt you."

Daisuke looked at him funny. "Hiwatari-kun, what are you talking about?"

It was Hiead's turn for a funny face. "Hiwa-what? Don't presume you know me. My name is Hiead. HIEEEEAD, you dumbass."

The Niwa put his hands out in front of him. "Wait a minute wait a minute. You're...not Hiwatari-kun?"

Hiead shakes his head slowly like he's trying to teach a retarded person.

"Your name is HIEAD?"

A slow retarded-ish nod. "Goood, you're learning. Now, your name is? Do you remember that?"

"Uh, my name is Daisuke. DAAAIISUKEE."

Raised eyebrow. "Riiight..." Hiead left the confused redhead, and continued on his way to the dormatory, where the instructor told him to go look for 85 and 88. 'ME. How dare precious time be taken from my training to look for those fags.'

"...wait! How do I leave?" The younger called out to the retreating form.

He paused, and without turning he said, "You're kidding, right? What do you mean 'leave'? If you didn't want to be a candidate, you shouldn't have come here. We can't stop off at a random colony when crybabies like you wanna go home."

Then as an afterthought, he said, "I suppose the only way to leave would be to flunk out."

"I...have NO idea what you're saying and am gunna leave now." The tamer nodded as if in reply to himself and walked down the hall the way Hiead had come. Garnet eyes studied the boy as he walked off, muttering, "...what an idiot."

aeaeae

Daisuke found himself wandering for a little bit until he came upon two boys one with green hair, the other brown hair seemingly hard at work.

Uh, cooking something, it looked like.

The redhead merrily skipped over to them, swinging his black bag that I mentioned only once two chapters ago, and chirped, "Hi!"

Roose and Zero (I'm just gunna say their names) froze and slowly turned, relaxing slightly as it was someone they didn't know, or better yet- someone that didn't know them.

"Um, hi!" They said in unison, slightly less enthusiastic than Daisuke's greeting. "Uh, we're busy right now, but uh, we'll catch you later okay?" Zero said, trying to usher him away. Daisuke wouldn't have it though.

"Whatcha doooin'?" He asked, attempting to sneak a peak but failing.

"Um! Um! Nothing!" Roose said nervously. But the fourteen-year-old redhead, that kinda looked like the fourteen-year-old green haired person, could easily see past him because he is a master thief (or the host to one) and could slide past the horrible attempt to block him from the smoldering pot. "No way! Is that-!"

"NO!" Zero and Roose defensively shouted in unison.

Daisuke clapped his hands. "It's a love potion!"

"NO IT'S NOT!"

"No? Then what is it?"

"Uh! Soup!" said Zero quickly.

"So that means I can have a taste?" Daisuke went to grab a spoon when Zero interrupted, "NO! Uh, I mean, it's not done!"

Daisuke smirked and for the first time in the whole fic actually seemed smart. "Just admit you're making a love potion. I wont tell anybody. See? I have my own!" Once again removing the green jug for all to view. "Uh, don't mind the color, it's just Snot."

The two candidates took a step back from the weird little boy.

Then Roose had a spark of smartness too. "Wait...you have one? Why? Who for?"

Daisuke got all dreamy-like, "Oh, my love...Hiwatari Satoshi..." he snapped out of it, "How about you guys?"

Scarily, Roose and Zero's faces turned equally dreamy-like. "Yamagi-kun!" "Hiead-kun!"

Daisuke blinked. "Hiead? You mean the guy who looks like Hiwatari-kun?"

Zero blinked too. "Looks like who?" Roose, having no reason to snap out of it, continued to stare into space and started wandering around the room without realizing it.

"I saw him in the hall and I almost thought it was Satoshi-kun (a/n: riiight, almost) he looks so much like him."

Zero got this really scary look on his now shadow-covered face. "You STAY AWAY from my HIEAD! He's MY HIEAD!"

"B-but..." Daisuke started waving his arms frantically in front of him and stepped back a bit. "But I don't want your Hiead!"

"OH, so now my Hiead's not GOOD ENOUGH for you?"

"I...I didn't say-"

"What, do you think th-"

"IIITAAAIII!"

Daisuke who was cowering and Zero who was interrogating turned to face Roose who was lying on the ground. "What the hell...?"

"ITAI! It hurts!"

"What hurts? What'd you do?"

Roose sat up on the floor with his legs crossed, but glanced down with a shade of an embarrassed red covering his face. "...I ran into the wall..."

There was a five-second moment of silence between the three as this was processed, and was almost immediately answered with extremely loud and uncontrollable laughter that nearly had them rolling on the floor themselves. ((a/n: think the elder demon lords laughing at Raenef in the first volume of DD. "Uh...how dare you...admonish me...vermin?" XD))

"What the hell is all this noise?"

They all paused in mid-laugh (Roose-kun in mid-cry ;-;) and looked up at the owner of the familiar voice.

"Hiead!"

87 leaned against the open doorframe and glared at the other two candidates. "Azuma's looking for you morons. You're making us miss fighting with the PRO-INGs."

"Shit!" Zero cursed, "Sorry! Damn, that's today?"

/...what the heck's a proing?/

Roose looked nervous and kinda scared, "Oh no, the PRO-ING matches are today? Right now?"

"No shit, sherlock. Didn't I just say that? Now hurry your asses up before I get pissed!" Hiead snapped.

"Damnit Hiead," Zero growled back, "we just forgot, okay! Would it kill you to just be nice for once?"

Smirk, "Kitto."

"Well, maybe it's time we changed that!" And with that, Zero dipped a bottle into the pot and all but shoved it down Hiead's throat.

"No, it's not done! We don't know what side effects it could cause!"

But it was too late. Just seconds after the crimson-eyed boy swallowed the vile liquid, he fell to the ground.

Roose: "OH MY GOD YOU KILLED HIM!"

Daisuke: "YOU WHAT?"

Zero: "NO THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!"

Hiead: "...stop yelling..."

Roose: "..."

Daisuke: "..."

Zero: "...WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?"

Groggily Hiead gets to his feet. "What're you all staring at...?" He freezes and his eyes widen. "Is...is that my voice?"

The three are staring bug-eyed O.O and speechless at Hiead. Okay, maybe not speechless.

"Is it just me or does Hiead have an extremely high squeaky voice?"

"...um...it's not just you..."

"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU PUT IN THAT SOUP?" Hiead shrieked in his new voice, picking up Zero by the front of his shirt. Despite his look, the added voice made him far less intimidating.

Daisuke stopped being surprised and started laughing inanely again, "You sound funny! Like a chipmunk!" XD

Hiead dropped Zero and lifted Daisuke up threateningly, "You'll sound funny too when I'm finished with you, brat!"

"Nuh uh uh, no fighting on the GOA," Zero teased, grinning devilishly and wagging a finger.

"Fuck that!" Hiead answered, and pounced on Zero. They commenced fighting as usual.

Daisuke slipped away with Roose close behind. "I'm, uh, gunna go to class now, I guess," Roose mumbled and ran down the hall in the other direction.

"I guess we should leave now, then?" The redhead asked the thief. His mind's eye saw a shrug of shoulders and he took that as a yes.

He wandered down random halls for a while until he just collapsed to the ground and wailed, "Everything looks the same...!"