What if those stories turned out to be true?
The words swirled around in her head for a second until it finally registered in her head. Her lips formed into a grin. "You just think I'm an idiot huh?" she asked, taking a step back, thinking that her brother was some psychopath. Keisuke shook his head.
"No Kai, it's true, I know…by experience…" he looked down to the ground as if grieving for a loss. Kai shook her head again.
"Don't talk like that Keisuke, you sound schizophrenic," she said, reaching into her pocket for her cell phone. "I-I'll just call mom and d-"
"No! I'm telling the truth Kai!" he yelled. "If you call mom and dad we might be in trouble!" he shouted, desperate. Kai thoroughly freaked out now, stepped back again, bumping into someone. Eyes glassy, she turned out to face a familiar blue-headed boy.
Shin blinked, looking at Kai,"Are you okay?" Seeing Kai like this was, well weird. 'What happened to the competitive, bouncy Kai?' he thought. Kai was just about to say something until she heard her phone ringing.
She automatically flipped it open,"H-hello? Mom?" she took a few steps away from both boys, wiping away some tears.
"Kai? Where are you? Is Keisuke with you?" she asked, her voice casual.
"Um, we're at the park, we were walking home until…" she trailed off, looking into Keisuke's pleading eyes.
"Don't worry we already know." her mom said, still casual. Kai blinked.
"What? What do you-"
"Just come home quick, we need to talk to both of you." and with that, she hung up. 'Geez, what a short conversation…' she thought. Kai sighed and flipped her phone shut.
She walked over to Keisuke and Shin," Sorry but we have to go. Why are you here?" she asked curious. Shin smiled.
"I live near here so I was just walking home," he said. Kai's face turned from curious to puzzled. "What do you mean? I thought you took your big limo home," she said, adding a nice dash of sarcasm to it. Shin looked up as if he was thinking, "Well, I just…came here for a walk that's all. Well, see you guys on Monday!" he waved and started on his way home, leaving Kai and Keisuke in the park.
'That was close…'
Riku tapped her stop-watch and grunted. "What is taking them so long, Daisuke? They got in three mi-"
Shink!
BA-DUM!
The door slowly opened and Keisuke entered, after him Kai popped out. Both had glum looks upon their faces. "Did you really have to put swinging blades and walls that close in on you in are so-called obstacle course?" Keisuke asked, as he slumped onto the couch tiredly. Kai tripped on the rug and fell face first on the floor. "Fm, mmfing eef gemf oom ng eef offa oo ish?" Kai said, her words muffled by the rug.
Riku raised a brow, "What did you say?" she said, putting the stop-watch on the kitchen table. Kai got up, ignoring Keisuke and Daisuke's sorry attempt's to hide their laughter.
"I said, 'Yeah, I mean, we get home, and we gotta do this'?" Kai had crawled onto the couch, beside Keisuke. Daisuke got out from the kitchen and sighed.
"Well, be glad because that the last time you're going to do that," he said, sitting on the reclining chair in front of the TV. Kai and Keisuke looked up at their dad as if he were a saint. Daisuke looked at Keisuke," Because you've already proved yourself by stealing the Sacred Maiden."
Shiori sat in her room, writing in her journal.
Today was a good day because I actually went out with friends. Dad was a bit skeptical for a while but finally let Shin and I go. Kai (the twin sister of Keisuke) kept beating Shin at video games. I've never seen a girl so good at video games…
Keisuke is so nice, he bought pizza for us, no matter how many times I told him not to. He looked at little red when I tripped and he caught me. Believe me I was blushing too.
When I saw Shin smile while Kai was dragging him here and there, I asked Keisuke if he had ever been in love-that when he left. Then we had to leave too, because at 7pm-
Shiori shut her journal and put it in her drawer when she saw the door open. "Um, who is it?" she asked, aware that it was too late already. Shin popped up behind the door,"May I come in?" Shiori smiled and nodded. Shin walked in and sat on her bed.
"So, how do you like being a Chief?" he asked. Shiori shrugged, "I hate watching the security cameras while that reporter guy is shouting in my ear…" she said, massaging her temples with her index fingers. Shin chuckled," I'll talk to him about that." Shiori looked at Shin," So did you capture-"
"No, I think it'd be fun to play around with him," Shin said, a grin forming from his lips.
"So it's true…." Keisuke asked, staring at his dad. Daisuke nodded, Kai looked at her dad and then Keisuke, she was really confused, she was confused and had questions, yet she kept quiet. Daisuke and Riku had explained to Keisuke and Kai that when a Niwa boy turns fourteen, Dark emerges. They said that he was some kind of alter ego and he only comes out when the tamer's love is near them.
"Keisuke, whose voice did you hear when you were transforming into Dark?" Riku asked him, she was leaning on the front door. An image of Shiori, showed up in his mind, Keisuke shook his head. Kai grinned and wrapped her arms around Keisuke, hugging him. "Awww, Keisuke loves Shiori!" she squealed. Keisuke's face turned as red as his hair, Kai fell onto the floor laughing.
"So she's the sacred maiden…" Riku said, looking at Daisuke. After beating up Kai, for the first time in his life, Keisuke looked up at his mom, "What do you mean mom?" Kai rubbed the back of her head and got up," Sacred Butler?"
"Maiden," Daisuke corrected her. Keisuke and Kai gave him puzzled looks, "What?" they asked in unison. Riku slapped her forehead, 'They're my children?' she thought.
"The Sacred Maidens are the ones who trigger the transformations," Daisuke said and then looked at Keisuke again, "if Shiori is the one that turns you into Dark…"
"Kai is that one that turned Dark back into…" Keisuke tailed off and he looked at Kai, as well as Daisuke and Riku,
Kai looked at everyone, "Why is everyone looking at me!" Keisuke frowned, "Poor Kai…I feel sad for you, Dark likes y-"
Kai slowly turned her head to face Keisuke and her lips slowly parted, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"