Chapter 3: The Divine Lady Prefecture:
Part two
Ryu walked home along with his 3 best friends, Jake, Miguel, and Haru. Yes, it was his birthday and he invited his friends to come over. His sister went somewhere with his mom and won't be coming back until tomorrow night. Everyone that day was so tensed! His mom, dad, and grandparents didn't even say goodbye to him and Hollie, nor greeted him a happy birthday. What's going on with these people's lives?
"So, what's up man?" Jake started, trying to break the silence as they walk to the Niwa mansion.
"Nothing. Yo! Mind your own business!" Ryu replied.
"Hey! You know that girl Camille? She's hot!" Miguel said, confessing that he has found another target to hit on.
"Oy! this is your 15th girl to hit on! Still no reply? Wow..." Ryu said.
"So? I don't see you coming up to one anyways? Guess your sister's guarding you hard!" Miguel stated.
"Naw... she could care less. I'm usually the one who chase 'em out." Ryu said.
"Why can't you leave your sister alone dude? She needs space," Haru finally spoke.
"You like her, OOooohhh," Jake said.
"YOU DO?" Ryu said, shocked.
"Why? I think she's cute and smart. Hey, I'm your friend! You trust me, don't ya?" Haru asked, trying to get permission to ask Hollie.
"Yo, in order to ask her out, you have to prove yourself worthy. If you pass Ryu, then your up for her dad!" Jake said.
"Don't worry, Ryu's tougher than his dad! More likely his mom you've gotta put up with."
"Yo, I heard from Camille's friend's friend that someone's trying to hit on her," Miguel reported.
"Yeah? So? Can we stop talking about Hollie? Why not talk about me?" Ryu said.
"You suck!" the three said in unison.
The four amigos then stopped talking and after reaching the gate, Ryu spotted something and quickly stopped his friends from opening the gate any further.
"You know what? I have a project to finish... why don't you guys head home and we'll see each other tomorrow at the party," Ryu called out. 'It's for your own lives dudes,' he thought.
"What! That's not fair man! We've been planning all week for this day!" Haru complained.
"Alright... but I have something to do today. I'll call y'all when I'm done.. Around 9?" Ryu said, comprimising with his friends.
"Alright dude.. I still have to pack for this sleepover anyways. See ya at 9-10 pm!" Jake said. He knows when Ryu's really intense and knows when to give him space. Well, it's mostly because he also has something in his schedule until 9-10 pm.
"Thanks Jako!" Ryu said as he watched his friends go back to their own houses.
"Man, and I'm really looking forward to see Hollie today," Haru complained, some 8 blocks away from the house.
"I heard that! She ain't home until tomorrow's party!" Ryu yelled back.
"Sharp hearing!"
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'Now getting into business..' he thought as he took rubber gloves to touch the handle.
He touched the botton beside the handle and pushed it. Straight away, a secret door opened so he can get over the other side of the gate. He's not risking his life to get shocked with 4 thousand wats! He quickly ran inside before it shut. He was jumping over holes and secret traps in the ground, swinging over trees to escape the wrath of the monkeys and almost lost his life when he almost tripped over the pond to see 6-7 pirhanas about to chomp his head off.
He was also on top of the rooftop to find the safest way to get in, and was also prepared to open secret passageways. He was at a higher level at science so when it comes to bombs, he knows how to unplug them. Too bad Hollie wasn't around to help him. He wasn't good at math to calculate the movement of each arrows darting his way. All he can do is depend on his ability and lady luck.
OWW! He yelled when one arrow struck in his arm. Blood poured out as he took it and on he continue to get inside.
Dozens of robots are his next match. He outsmarted some of them, took parts from others and the others, he fed them to the piranhas which of course, broke their teeth from biting metals.
When all's done, he finally reached the door... and
"Ahh! Its hot!" he shouted and quickly fan it out.
So, he kicked down the door.
"Ahh! Why did you kick the door, son?" Daisuke demanded when he heard the loud boom!
"I couldn't get in!" Ryu argued.
"Ryu-darling! You passed one of my hardest test! Congratulations!" Emiko suddenly called, hugging her grandson airtight.
"Mom! RYU! Look at the messed you guys did!" Daisuke complained.
"Wow... good job Ryu!" Emiko complimented, looking at the artwork he did. Piranhas were scattered all over the floor, robot parts everywhere, the mokeys are all caged with banana peels all over, arrows sticking in different areas and holes are found.
"Who did this?" Kosuke asked.
"Emiko-sama did," the maid answer.
"Yep!" Emiko said, proud of what happened to her secret traps.
"Wow, you must be stronger than dad, grandma! how'd you got the piranhas in the pond?" Ryu asked, pretty impressed with his grandma.
"Easy! Just buy them and asked them to deliver it over the pond!" she replied.
Emiko then called the cleaning crew to clean up before anyone around the neighbour noticed. After an hour, the house was looking normal as ever.
Ryu ran up to his room to get his bruises and scrapes clean. Looking up to the pictures around his walls, he suddenly felt a hot sensation. The more he stared at the specific person, the more he started to change. Suddenly...
'What happened?' he thought to himself as he quickly ran to the mirror.
"DAD!" he yelled.
He rushed down to get some explanation. Maybe it was one of the tricks his grandmother pulled?
"Alright! Explain!" he yelled.
Daisuke, Emiko and Kosuke looked at their handsome child. Well, Emiko did, but Daisuke ran off to hide himself and Kosuke just doesn't have a clue what was going on.
"Daisuke, get yer butt here! Aww.. honey, you look so handsome," she cooed, as the young new Dark raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"Umm.. ok. I guess I'll explain. You see Ryu, a curse runs through the Niwa family. One of the sons of the Niwa family is chosen to become Dark and steal certain artifacts, when they turn 14. You remember the legend of Dark? Well, that is you right now. That's why mom trained you to her fullest. Your first task is today, since you are ready," Daisuke explained to his only son and was also cautious so he won't have a hard feeling about this like he had when he turned 14.
"Cool!" was all Ryu said, throwing off everyone.
"Are you alright?" Daisuke asked, really shocked to see the first impression of his son.
"What more can I ask? I've always wanted to go stealing off museums after hearing the legend of Dark," he said, "Oh! I look hot!"
"See! If only Daisuke was like that when he was your age," Emiko sighed.
"By the way, what about Hollie?" Ryu asked, eager to show off to his sister.
"Ahh.. that's the problem. I don't want you to tell Hollie about this. She might be offended that girls in the Niwa family are not selected to be Dark," Emiko explained, remembering her childhood.
"Kyu!" Wizu said.
"Oh, this is Wizu! You will be needing him when you are out. He can fly you to the museums and also copy your form. He can't swim though," Kosuke explained, holding out a bunny with ears the length of his whole body.
"Awesome! Hello, Wizu!" Ryu greeted.
"Oh yeah! How do I return back to myself?" Ryu asked.
"By stealing the Divine Lady," Emiko explained.
"Alright! Let's go Wizu, fly!" Ryu commanded the little bunny after dressing to more appropriate clothing.
Wizu then transformed into giant raven wings and Ryu jumped off the balcony. Emiko was then starring in the open sky as Daisuke and Kosuke looked at the ground. "You ok?" they asked.
"How da hell do you fly!" Ryu complained.
"You flap you wings up and down!" they both called in unison.
"ohh.. alright! Flap up and down Wizu!"
After 15 minutes, he finally took off. He was flying over the full moon that was covered behind a veil of dark clouds when he spotted three people on a balcony.
"Woah, I could've sworn I saw my sister there for a second!" He thought and continued to move forward. He has an appointment at 8 and need to be home before 9.
Flying toward the museum his grandmother told him to go, he spotted about hundreds of reporters all starring at him. He then moved to the nearest window to search for this divine lady. He needed to get back to his original form before his friends can spot him, and turn him over to the police.
Running around the museum, he saw 10 police men ready to capture him at the sight of him. He hid in the darkest corner to set up a plan. Where all the police men we go, up the valley gold we know he sang in his head, remembering the tiny rhyming tunes he and his sister made when they were young. Atlast, he spotted where most of the police men are located after hacking with the video system.
He ran towards the room with Wizu on his shoulder. He knocked one out and stole his uniform so he can blend in and get inside without much hassle. When all are going well ( he made Wizu transform to Dark so he can go and chase the rest of the police men out), he found himself trapped in the corner.
"Well, well, well... if it isn't the famous phantom thief, Dark," someone called.
"Do I know you?" Dark said, in the conscience of Ryu.
"I'm sorry for being rude. My name is Satoshi," he informed. Ryu, or Dark saw a man with light blue hair and glasses. Ryu quickly realized him.
"Unc-" he was about to say uncle Satoshi until someone from his head called out to him, saying don't do so.
Ryu felt the same sensation as he did and before he knew it, someone had completely taken over him.
"Well, if it isn't Satoshi," Dark smirked. This time, it's really Dark Mousy who's speaking.
"You're back to steal more hardwork of the artists?" Satoshi asked.
"Hmm? No.. really.. you think?" Dark sarcastically said. He quickly and secretly stuffed in the small canvas in the back pack and when he got the chance, he ran off the window. Wizu had transformed into black wings once again and they both flew off.
He flew off and landed at a balcony to take a rest and see if anyone had followed him. Before he can move an inch, a girl who's at the age of 12 was starring at him, shocked and ready to scream. He quickly ran to her and put his hand at her mouth before she can make anymore trouble for him.
"Shh! Be quite!" Dark whispered, trying to calm a worming girl trying to get off of him. She bit him later on and ran to the edge of the balcony. If she needed to escape, she can jump off and call for help if she survive the 10 feet distance.
"Perverted crow! This ain't the demon world!" she whispered menacingly. This is a bad person and if she handled him wrong, her life might be put in a risk.
"So?" he asked as he was suddenly on top of her in the edge of the balcony railing.
Thinking that it's his only chance to capture the girl's conscience for a couple of second, he was about to kiss her and flew off but to his luck, he was slapped hard across the face.
"Get out of here before I call the security!" she yelled.
Riku then came to see what was the commotion and the moment she spotted Dark, she was half shock, half happy, half doesn't know what she was thinking.
Dark also stared at her for a couple of minutes and then realized what was happening. He fell off the balcony and flew off before he transforms back to Ryu.
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"I will never steal another thing ever again!" Ryu yelled, storming around, dripping with muddy water. He fell in the mud water when Dark couldn't handle of thinking about Riku any longer. Wizu was of course, knocked out unconscious.
"Luckily, the painting didn't get ruined," Emiko said as she observed the stolen good.
"Grandma! I got the painting back! Don't make me transform into him again," he whined as he clutched his grandmother's legs like a 5 year old kid.
"You can't!" Daisuke said.
"You lied, old geezer! You said when I get the divine lady-" Ryu said but was cut off.
"Sorry darling. But as long as you have a liking for this girl, then you will always have to transform to Dark. That's what we call the Divine Lady or Sacred Maiden in another term," Emiko explained, remembering the same thing that happened to Daisuke when Daichi, Ryu's great-grandpa, told the same thing to Daisuke.
Ryu looked at the picture of a girl. She has long hair and blue eyes. He remembered that the girl's name was Ericka or something like that in his class.
"I don't have a crush on that girl," Ryu whispered.
"You don't? Then what's it doing behind your pillow?" Emiko asked.
"I unno. I think Jake and the rest gave me her picture to fall in love with her or something. I didn't though. She doesn't interest me," Ryu explained.
"Do you have someone you feel affection though?" Emiko asked. This info was very important.
"My beloved girl? haha! None so far!" he laughed then realized something.
"Wait, if I don't like anyone, then how am I suppose to get rid of this curse?" he asked.
"I didn't know how you turned into Dark in the first place if you didn't have any affection for anyone," Emiko stood wondering.
"You see, Dark appears when his host has an affection on someone. His trigger is love," Daisuke explained, remembering Riku and Risa when they were young.
"Well, I unno," Ryu said as he moved on to get himself a shower and call his fellas to come over and start their sleep over. He wished that his house were safe enough and that he doesn't transform into Dark in between.
"You hear that? I don't want anyone seeing me as you" he thought, hoping that Dark understood him.
That night, he and his friends were having fun, celebrating his 14th birthday. He was kind of out once in awhile, thinking about how he should live his life without ending up in jail. 'If dad made it through, maybe I can too' he thought.
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"I wonder how he triggered Dark," Emiko asked, having a tiny meeting with the family.
"I don't know. But one thing I can say, Dark transformed back after he saw me," Riku said on the phone.
"What! Dark still has an affection on my wife? Wait until I get him.." Daisuke muttered.
"How's Hollie?" Kosuke asked.
"She's alright now. She suddenly had a high fever after Dark appeared infront of her, though." Riku explained.
"That kid always have high fever when her heart reaches the maximum heartbeat," Emiko said.
"That's why Ryu's studying science at a higher level so he can cure his sister before she receive a heart attack," Daisuke whispered.
"Sigh, just hope that nothing happens tomorrow that is out of the world," Riku said and hanged up.
IMPORTANT
I'm going to rename the story to "Butterfly's Kiss". So, you guys should start to remember the title before you start wondering where this story ended up. I'll rename the story after chapter 4 has been placed.
Mickiz Notes:
Chapter 3 complete! Yay! Now I'm drawing Dark, and the rest of my characters. And then I'm going to design my website for you to see.
Next Chapter:
"Great! Half of my family is against me!"
"Ryu! You finally remember!"
"I'm Misha Hinoto"
"My shadow... why is it a butterfly?"
Chapter 4: Butterfly's Realm
Disclaimer: I don't own D.N Angel. It's made by Yukiru Sugisaki and been licensed by Tokyopop and ADVfilms.
Claimer: Ryu and Hollie Niwa, Sephen and Stephen Hiwatari and friends of Ryu: Jake, Miguel and Haru.
Yours truly,
Mickiz