THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO FROZENMAGICFIRE WHO I PROMISED THIS WOULD BE UP THIS MONTH!(November)(And is also my very talented Beta-Reader, THANK YOU Jessi-chan!)

Kokoro No Hantai
Chapter 6

Last Time:
"DARK AND KRAD BOTH CAUGHT FEVERS?"

Now:
"Yeah, so I'm afraid we'll have to postpone your training." Az said, her voice sounding as though she was really disappointed by this revelation-yet her eyes shining with worry about her brothers. Their friends as well, who, in her view were thrown unjustly into an unjust war.

"Kisei-sensei, may I come with you to your home to visit them?" Satoshi asked politely. Trying to make it sound as though he was genuinely worried for both of them; when in actuality it was only for Krad. Of course Az already knew of Sato's infatuation-it was hard not to-and readily agreed.

"Sure, that sounds like a great idea, Daisuke, you should come too. I'm positive Dark would love to see you." She said-with the emphasis on love-she mentally added.

Daisuke nodded, as did Satoshi, dumb found, and began walking after her.

Kisei Residence:
Az led them to the left side of the lavender painted single duplex with seven-foot lilac bushes towering in the front yard-competing for height against the redwood trees. Daisuke and Satoshi followed along silently without a sound.

They lived only three houses away from the school-no wonder Kisei-sensei didn't own any mode of transportation besides her feet!

"Their rooms are upstairs. Dark has the black door and Krad has the white door. Simple enough, ne? You go on up while I fix up the tea--I'll bring it to you four when it's ready!" Az said airily, waving the two off.

Satoshi followed Daisuke up the stairs wordlessly.

Once in front of their close friends'/crushes' respective doors they nodded to each other before entering.

Dark's Room:
Daisuke walked into Dark's room and was immediately hit by the Dark-ness of it all. The walls painted a deep, bright blue; pine dressers with many dents and scrapes; ivy-bordered mirror that had definitely seen better days; photographs lining the walls; magazines, open textbooks and half-finished homework littered the warm dusty gray threadbare carpet. In a far-off corner of the room by a window adorned by moss-green curtains stood a bed. Through the sheer black curtains that surrounded it Daisuke could make out the sleeping form of what he thought-and severely hoped-was Dark. Settling down on the floor, the young red-headed Niwa decided to wait for the amethyst-eyed teen to wake up.
Krad's Room:
Satoshi entered the room silently; so as to not wake his seraphic lover if he was asleep. The walls were lined with mahogany bookshelves that reached the ceiling; Some were organized and others were just haphazard-the occupants of these shelves ranged from magical artifacts, textbooks to photographs and sketch books. The bluenette really wanted to look through them, but being one who respected privacy the most amongst all else he refrained.

A light cough alerted himself to the other side of the room, where Krad was slowly waking up on a mattress covered by a silk, cream-coloured down comforter. He sat up slowly, blinking a couple of times as he pushed his untied golden hair out of his way.

Satoshi simply stared, he looked so...normal sitting there, his hair a mess and sporting a wrinkled-waded out tee-shirt.

"Hello...Sato-chan..." He said, his voice cracked and dry from disuse; It made Satoshi wince to hear it, but nodded politely.

"Just checking up on you. How do you feel?" The bluenette inquired...

Chrnoskitty: I wrote this all in my notebook during the summer; Why so so long for an update, then? I'm lazy and hate to transfer stuff from paper to type, and my muse has officially left me-But I know exactly where this is going. Quite a few of you reviewers will not be happy with me when I am finished-But don't worry;There's already a vague concept of a sequel in the works. Now, feed a hungry authress with reviews or make her nice and warm and toasty with flames. Oh, and Until Shimmering Solitude is un-swamped with homework(You can tell me in a review) It will temporarily be a one-beta person team-Also, my computer hates MS word--So tranfer your files to Wordpad before sendiing them. thank you and sorry to be such a pain!

FrozenMagicFire's Notes: lol, shay-chan's swamped with hw again? That sucks...I'm currently being an ass and not writing while I'm playing an MMORPG called Maple Story. XD, I bet most or some of you know it. And if you're a reader of mine too, I'M SRRY! DON'T KILL ME! I'M CURRENTLY WORKING ON HENTAI DANSHIKOU! I'll try to finish it by...December XD...(holds up a shield as her readers try to kill her...yet again) ttyl sam-chan, if I'm not dead yet...

Reviewer Replies:

Lady Elbereth Tealrose
I know, won't she be proud of you. Thanks for reviewing, it means alot! And sorry...Not much(if any) Japanese in my stories now, bleh. Please review again.

Frozen Magic Fire
High school is fun! I rank 30 out of 179 people in my classes XD And again, Thank you for being such an awesome beta!