Kokoro No Hantai
Contradictions Of The Heart
Disclaimer: Chrnoskitty/KittenOfTime does not own D.N.Angel
Fic dedicated to Shimmering Solitude, my first reviewer! And an awesome fanfictionress if I do say so myself!
Chapter Three
Author's note: Ok, it seems that I've confused Lady Samurai, and probably a few others who are too lazy to review, so here's an explanation...Now, did you think I'd give it to you? If you said nope then you're semi-correct, I'm gonna take advantage of Krad-kun's 'situation' and write it chapter form! So read, and don't forget to review on your way out!
"Ane... I'm staying with aniki,... Kay?"
"Hai, Dark-kun, I'm sorry to leave but I do have classes to teach, call me if there's any change. You will won't you?"
"Hai... Ane... Have a nice day... See ya..."
Alone... He was completely alone. Well, not entirley, Ototo was with him. Yet that wasn't much. He was still alone, the only one who stayed on the street when the days of torrential rains came. The only one who had no where to go. He only had himself, and his two-year old brother. They were the only ones to have the Gods' tears beat upon their bodies, the other victims were that without feelings, inanimate objects, the buildings.
"Ototo, you'll catch cold, here, take my cloak.", a five-year old Krad said, uneven shoulder-length flaxen hair falling into his golden eyes as he handed his younger brother his tattered and graying cloak, revealing a tattered tunic, a few sizes too large, hanging loosley exposing pale flesh and the young boys' ribs.
"/sniffle/ Wha' 'bout choo, Aniki/sniffle/ Won't choo catche col' too? Ah-ah-AHCOO!", Dark sniffled, nearly sneezing directly in his brothers' face.
"Nah, I'll be fine. You need it far more than I.", Krad bragged, tying the cloak around his younger brother. "Now, let's find a dryer place to sleep tonight. C'mon.", He said as he dragged his little brother through the streets.
"Finally we've found a place that the gangs haven't claimed yet. Let's enjoy it while it lasts, eh, Ototo?", Krad asked the sleeping figure in his arms gently, he had gotten tired after about two hours of searching and Krad had agreed to carry him. "Ah, well, I don't expect you've heard me, ah, well, goodnight, Ototo.", Krad said as he laid down gently next to Dark on the decaying stoneware floor, and going into a light sleep. , Krad asked the sleeping figure in his arms gently, he had gotten tired after about two hours of searching and Krad had agreed to carry him. ", Krad said as he laid down gently next to Dark on the decaying stoneware floor, and going into a light sleep.
He was sick. Very sick. The streets and buildings kept swimming in and out of view, and he couldn't walk more than three steps without stumbling and landing in the dirt road. Dark had stopped asking him if he was alright days ago, when it was clear that he wasn't and their was nothing they could do but keep on moving. At first Dark had taken this oppurtunity to disobey his brother as much he could, but then realising that even though his brother wasn't in full health he would do whatever was required to pay for his mistakes, from cleaning entire houses to taking a beating for him, he had decided to behave.
He stumbled into person after person, everything too blurry for him to see. He was swaying on his feet and he felt dizzy even with his eyes closed. Finally he fell to the ground, his body no longer able to bear the stress.
She had been watching the blonde and his violet-haired companion since the day that she and her fellows had arrived in this uncharted village. When she had first seen them they were running from a fruit stand with an apple each. They had looked mal-nourished then, and the blonde still seemed the frailer of the two. Only a few days ago had she found out that the two were brothers, and that was when the elder was taking the punishment for the violet-haired ones' misdeeds. Upon seeing the blonde fall she had immediatley dropped the tomato she had been examining, causing it to explode as it colided with the parched ground. She ran to his side, aggrivated that none of the other people where giving his figure a passing glance, they just walked around him.
"Oh, sir! Sir? Are you alright?",she asked frantically, hugging him against her chest. She was startled when someone pked her in the back. HARD.
When the lady turned around he was startled by her eyes, not by their colour, light, light brown, wheat-like, but by the sincerety wavering in them and her pure aura. It was obvious in the way they wavered, on the verge of tears, that moved and scared him at the same time. He wasn't like aniki, he hadn't seen the evils of the world, his heart was still pure. "W-w-w-what are... Y-y-y-you g-gonna... D-d-do w-w-with... A-a-an-aniki...?", Dark asked, his voice wavering, preparing to attack her if her eyes were lying to him.
She was surprised, In all her years, not one person had spoken to her like that, then this young'un comes up and is about to cry, yet his voice wavering and demanding an answer at the same time. "Nothing, I just want to help. You're his younger brother, right? Where do you two live? I'll carry him there for you.", She offered, smiling gently.
"We live nowheres, ma'am.", The violet-haired, amethyst-eyed boy answered. She was sure that he wasn't lying, 'What would his motive be for doing that?', she questioned herself.
"Well, then I suppose I'll take you to my place. Follow me.", She said as she geltly lifted the fallen flaxen-haired boy. She let out a small gasp of surprise when she had him resting in her arms, he weighed no more than two of her thickest comforters folded atop one another, possibly a bit less.
"What is it?", The violet-haired boy asked worridley.
"He's just so-light. Anyways, what's your name? Mines Azalea, Azalea Kisei. Or just 'Az' for short.", Azalea asked, she really needed to stop referring to him as 'the violet-haired one.' It was begginning to irratate her.
"Umm... It's Dark. And Anikis' is Krad.", Dark replied, seeing no harm in telling her since Krad wouldn't be able to hear him so he wouldn't get scolded.
"Dark-kun, Krad-kun, Those are quite the interesting names, quite different from what most people are.", Az commented, "Normally it's a name like 'Jake' or 'Dean'."
Dark laughed, "Now those are weird names. Aniki says I shouldn't give our names out, but he can' hear me. Aniki also says that under no circumstanses should we give our last names out, 'cause the last time he did he nearly died... But how am I 'sposed ta tell anyone when I dunneven know it."
"You don't know your own last name?"
"No, he says Kaa-san said before she died that he was to tell me when I'm five, just two more years."
"You're three, Dark-kun? Then how old's Krad-kun?"
"Five... I think...", Dark trailed off, awed by the house in front of him. Az couldn't see why, it was obly the same decaying sandstone that every house in the village was made of.
"Well, I don't technically live here, but seeing as it's a staff summer vaction, I'm here temporarily.", Az commented with a dry chuckle as she went in.
She had walked directly to the infirmarary, Krad in her arms, Dark a footstep behind her. It had taken the blonde a month and a half to recover, even then, though, he wasn't back to his usual self. Sometimes Dark would wake up in the middle of the night to his deep hacking coughs that echoed through the halls, sending shivers through his spine and worries in head about what would happen to him if the blonde didn't last the night. After that Krad had always been considerably physically weaker than Dark, and Dark weaker in the arts. A sharp cough and a mumbling sound from the bed beside him starled him, making him turn glaring to face the intruder. His face softened, though, when he was greeted by the sight of his brothers' half-open golden eyes looking dazedly at him.
"Ow... An old dog still has teeth, y'know.", Krad joked softly, putting a hand on his forehead, using his other to gently push his body into a sitting posistion.
"Well, you didn't have to go and block it, now did you?", Dark asked tartly. "I could have handled it on my own."
"Like I was going to stand by and watch my only family get attacked?"
"Well, how do you think I feel?"
"Like 'that was too rash a desicion', 'your body can't take that sort of abuse', yaddayaddablahblahbla. The usual lecture-type thingy on how you fee-Ow... Bad headache... Oh, Gods... That's a ringer...", He trailed off, closing his eyes and willing the pain to dull.
"Oi... Aniki, are you all right?", Dark asked, further argument forgotten.
"Yea-shh... I will be... Ittai...", Krad mumbled, hunching over and burrying his head in his hands.
"Here.", Dark said as he handed Krad a pill.
"Umm... Arigatou?", He replied blankly as he took the pill in his hand.
Dark smirked, "Be thankful it's not a needle.", he said maniacly.
"NEEDLE? OH GODS NO!", Krad yelped, head jerking up abrubtly, and back down slowly, "Ittai..."
"Heh, sorry aniki.", Dark apologized, grinning sheepishly.
"Ah... it's alright. Guess I should swallow this, hn?"
"Yeah... It'd probably be best to. Unless you like having a headache. Here.", Dark joked lightly as he handed Krad a glass of water. The blonde took it without hesitation, taking a sip before putting the pill in his mouth along with another sip. He tilted his head back and waited for the pill to slide to the back of his throat. A graveyard silence ensued, until it was broken by the sound of Krads' swallowing.
"I think the worst is over now."
"Possibly, how long was I out?"
"Two days, and half of today."
"So, it's the lunch hour now, we could meet up with Sato-kun and Dai-chan."
"If you're up to it."
"Well, I'll never know if I don't try."
"Don't mock me, aniki."
He tossed the white linens aside and slowly got off of the infirmarary bed. He was shaky at first, but as he got used to it his stride got straighter and less wobbly. After sbout ten minutes or so of walking around they decided that Krad was stong enough to walk around. They left the bedroom of the infirmarary to the lobby, on the ay out Krad stopped at the reception desk to talk to the receptionist.
"Heya, Mia-chan, looks like you've won the bet yet again, I owe you a shopping spree this weekend.", He joked, leaning over the counter to look at the emerald-eyed, obsidian-haired petite Italian woman.
"Krad... honestly, that was a joke. Anyways, I don't need anything.", She replied playfully, looking up from her computer that she had been reading fanfics on and not doing the filing she had been asked to.
"Aw, C'mon, there's gotta be something you want at the mall this weekend. It'll be weird to go there without you."
"Sorry. Thanks for the offer, but I've got a date, with my boyfriend."
"Well, so do I!"
"Really?"
"I'm gonna ask... First we've gotta get to lunch!"
"Good luck with that."
"Whose the luc--", Krad never got to finish as an impatient Dark dragged him out of the office muttering something that sounded like, "Kuso, I'll miss Dai-chan if I had let him stay any longer." This comment made Krad look at his brother and grin evily, Dark gulped, that maniacle smile always meant the blonde was up to something. "What is it?...", He asked cautiously, making the blondes' grin deepen.
"So, when's the wedding?"
"Wha-KRAD! I AM NOT DATING DAISUKE! HE'S JUST MY FRIEND!"
Daisuke cringed, Dark's shouts could be heard throughout the lunchroom. "Niwa? Are you alright?", Satoshi calmly asked the red-head. "Yeah... Hiwatari-kun... It's just... Dark-kuns' so loud..."
"HEYA DAI-CHAN! I Need you to clear things up with aniki, he's got it in his head that we're together. Isn't that absurd!", Dark yelled in the red heads ear, Krad about five feet behind him smirking to himself. Daisuke blushed a strawberry-red colour, almost matching his wayward hair. He lowered his Amber coloured eyes to the ground and asked softly, "And... Um... Where would Krad-kun get that idea... Dark-kun?"
Dark looked shocked, "He's insane?"
That made Daisuke break down into a fit of laughter. Satoshi, deciding he had enough of the two idiots went to the other side of the table to sit next to the blonde who was half asleep, head in his folded arms on the table. "Hikari... Wake up...", Satoshi said as he gently shook the blonde.
"Hn?... Go 'way..."
"Hikaris, you do know that Mousy will bring you back to the infirmarary if he catches you dozing off over here, luckly he's trying to get Niwa to remember how to breathe."
"Hn... You're right...", Krad said as he slowly sat up. "Wow... Dai-chan's face is redder than his hair, what on Earth did Ototo say?"
"He questioned your sanity, or lack of."
"Hn? That's ni-HEY!", Krad yelped as someone tugged on a lock of his hair. "JESEUS! WHAT THE HECK DO YOU WANT?", He yelled turning rapidly as the offender tugged again.
"Umm... Hikari-san, Kisei-sensei says she wants to see you, Mousy-san, Hiwatari-san and Niwa-san in the secondary office right away.", A tall silver-haired, rose-petal-pink eyed girl squeaked.
"So you pulled my hair? What happened to "Excuse me.", or just poking on the shoulder? Did you really have to pull my hair-Gods, that hurt! Oh, and please tell Ane that we'll be there shortly.", Krad said, tone demanding.
Ok, Ck here! I'm looking for a beta-reader for this fanfic, if you would like to have the job send me an email or tell me in a review. Or both.
Kute Anime Kitty
2005-04-26
ch 2, signed: Poor Dark and Krad. Nakamura is a jerk. I'll be waiting for the next chapie
CK: Aww... Nakamua really isn't that bad, he just didn't have his happy pills yesterday... or ever, okay so he could be a little nicer, but I wouldn't count on it. (Unless someone provides me with the drugs that'll alter his personality for a little while) And here is the not-so-long awaited third chappie. Rejoice! My longest for this story yet!
Lady Samurai
2005-04-25
ch 2, signed: Just how many siblings does Dark have? When does Daisuke come in? Are you going to give Daisuke a horrible childhood? I'm always so mean to him...
CK: Gods, you ask a heck of a lot of questions. Hopefully this clears things up a tad bit, but since I didn't get to say what I needed to heres an explanation for you: At first Dark called Kisei, 'Kaa-san', but when Az saw that Krad didn't approve of that she decided he could decide what to call her, so he decided to call her 'Ane', or elder sister because that's what she's like, she's not the parental type. And only Krad's related to Dark... Hmm, I beleive Dai-chan got his name first typed up in this chappie, if he didn't appear, then remind me and I'll try to make it a sure thing for next chappie.
Lady Elbereth Tealrose
2005-04-26
ch 2, signed Ooh... interesting... me likee. Please update! I can't wait for more! Haha. It's very interesting. Although I know all the Japanese you have used, it's still a rickety transition for me to read english and japanese alternating, so I would prefer if you stuck to one language, although sometimes even I can't help but add some Japanese words once in a while! Haha. If you feel more comfortable having the Japanese in it though, that's fine - after all I need to get used to reading it anyway. So forget I ever suggested it, deal? Haha.
Um... just some suggestions on formatting. Make sure you get all the commas and periods placed correctly. That's actually one of my pet peeves - when someone spells something wrong or uses grammar I'm not used to. I'M SO WEIRD! HAHA. So just be careful. You don't need to double up on them.
Okee, that's my review! Haha. Thanks so much for your fic! It's fantabulous! making up words
always,
el Shimmering Solitude
Ck: Ohh, Another new face! Welcome, Welcome. Thank you for adding me to your favorites authors listand in response to your comment: Get Used to Japanese in sentances, Seeing as I barely write anything without out, Hai?(Besides, reading it in context is an even better way to master it) Hee... "Fantabulous", I likeies, I beleive I may use it!... Without your permission. And I'm looking for a Beta-reader to correct that, kay, so I want to have one by chapter five... and one of my pet peeves is seeing this word typed up: "Yucky." C'MON YOU BAKAS! GET A GOD-DAMNED THESAURUS! and another is chat-room slang in a review, and entire chapters written in bold or italics... Hmm... What do you mean by"Thanks for your fic"? It's mine...I don't recall giving it away...It can't possibly be good enough for people to say "Thank you for posting it"...I know they're saying: "Ahhh...Shit. Chrnoskitty has posted another piece of crap again, Why doesn't that woman do something other than torture the fanfiction universe?"... I know you say that, peeperoonie did when I wrote CC fanfics... stupid woman shouldda cut me some slack- You can't expect a newbie to have the best grammar...Oh, I'm ranting, forget I said that. Kay?
2005-04-26
ch 2, Shimmering SolitudeHee wel for ur cookie i'll give u this! hands over krad plushie and a hands over dark plush Whee! One is for thanks and the other is for doin a gud job so far
Ck: AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! PLUSHIES! PLUSHIES/Huggles the death out of the plushies/ Thank you, you honestly think it's good? Well, then, here you go/Hands sShimmering Solitude a Daisuke plushie and a hand-drawn picture of Dark/ Come again soon!
Authors' comments on chappie: You may have noticed some errors in some of the speech patterns, or just typos in general while they're talking, I beleive most of those should be there. Yeesh, yet another story where Mia-chan appears, she's a receptionist just like in 'Initiation by Sakura blossoms', but she has a modified version of her younger personality from 'We All Have To Say Goodbye...Someday', how many more will she enter before I'm sick of her? Also, as mentioned before I am looking for a Beta-reader for this fanfic, you will get credit in every chapter that you proof, so please think about it. ? It seems to me the idiots learned how to use the review button, but here's a recap ion case you forgot, Four Reviews this chap or the next won't get posted!. Kay? So, y'see that lil' toolbar window at the bottom left-hand corner of the page that says 'submit review' and the little 'Go' button next to it? Click on it, and a pop-up window should appear, and if it doesn't click the 'go' button again while holding down the 'CTRL' button. I allow anonmyous reviewers so there's nothing keeping your lazy butts from reviewing-SO REVIEW NOW!
New Vocab:
Baka: Idiot/stupid/dumb
Kaa-san: Mom/ shortened form of Oka-san.
Kuso- Damn/ Shortened form of Chikuso