I'm sorry that this is a long wait. Busy busy busy as always, but at least I have time to update this. I'm on summer vacation and I probably might be too lazy to update, but I'll do the best I can to update. This is my thought; I think that I like my first Another Thief? Better than this one. Don't listen to me; I'm just speaking on what I'm thinking.

Heh heh… For the past week, I couldn't post anything because I posted a chat. That's why I couldn't post anything. I know that I'm not gonna post a chat anymore.

Chapter 13: Surprising

"Wow, today was slow!" Kazuko said to Satoshi as they were walking back.

"This was our first day rehearsing. I could expect that this day is slow."

"Yeah, but the scenes that Takeshi and the other girls wanted to see the most were the scenes with you and Risa."

"Why, are you jealous?" Satoshi said with a smirk.

"Whatever; you wish I was jealous!"

They laughed and then Satoshi asked, "So, are you going to the museum tonight?"

"Yeah, I haven't gone there for a while, I mean, trying to chase him."

"Alright then, see you there."

Kazuko got on her bike when they got to Satoshi's apartment and she rode away.

Satoshi waited at the Narik Museum and when he looked at the monitor, he saw that the Talisman of Fire was still there. Just then, the camera blacked out and the police were fumbling to get the camera back online. When they did, they didn't see the room where the talisman was, they saw a note that wrote,

"You'll never catch me, no matter how hard you try, Dark."

The police went over to the room where the talisman was and, as they expected, they found that the Talisman of Fire was gone. Dark went on the roof and then Kazuko came from the side and passed him while she was getting the talisman out of Dark's hand. She hopped down to the trees on the side and she hopped down to the ground after. She ran from the museum, but Dark easily caught up to her when he called Wiz and flew down. He grabbed her shoulders from behind to stop her from running. She almost fell when Dark stopped her, but then he caught her as she was falling backwards. Dark grabbed the Talisman from her hands and said,

"I'll take that."

He took his hand off and Kazuko and was about to fly away until he wrapped her arms around his neck. Dark was still flying, but not as well as he always does. Kazuko stayed on his back until he landed far away from the museum.

"Well, I haven't seen you in a while," Dark said.

"Yes, that's true. I just wanted to see you again. Now, I have to go now, I have to wake up early."

"Are you just making up excuses?"

"No, I'm just saying that because I feel like it. I'll see you later, Dark."

"Allen…I think you should give Miss Amy a chance," Kazuko said acting as Suki.

"Why's that?"

"She looks really desperate. I don't mind if you try to go with her for a while."

"How can you say something like that? Sometimes I don't understand what you mean."

"Allen, all I'm saying is that you should go out with her just for a couple of days at most. She looked as if she really likes you."

"But, I love you, Amy. It wouldn't seem right if I went out with some other person."

"Our parents and friends told us to try to see other people for a while so I wouldn't be so 'clingy' to you and so you wouldn't be so 'protective' of me. So I think that this is a good time to do this, don't you agree, Allen?"

Satoshi looked at Kazuko for a while and then sighed, "Fine, you win."

Kazuko smiled and hugged Satoshi.

"Alright good!" Takeshi said, "It's good, Satoshi, you're getting better with your acting skills. Chisato, you're a natural! Have you acted before?"

"Yes, I have. I like acting. I always act."

"Well then, keep up the good work."

"Thank you."

For the second time, Satoshi and Kazuko were on cleaning duty again after school. Kazuko was cleaning the desks when she heard Satoshi recite his line,

"What can I do? If I go out with her, I don't want to lose you, but then Amy will always annoy me. You already know that I cannot put up with that for quite some time. I don't always want to go to you for answers, but I guess I have to. It's sad, isn't it?"

"No, it doesn't sound sad, Allen," Kazuko started saying catching up to where Satoshi was. He looked surprised because he was looking another way; he turned around and looked at her, "I don't know about you, but it's okay with me when you do that."

"Yeah, but, me go to my girlfriend for help? What if your not here one time and I need you?"

They came closer to each other and they kissed for that part of the play.

"Oh!" Kazuko said.

"What is it?"

"We….we should go back to cleaning. This is our job after all."

Kazuko took a nap after school at her house, and when she and Satoshi were walking to his apartment, he said that Dark is going to steal the Wind Talisman from the Aletsirk museum.

"Hm, sounds like Dark isn't wasting anytime stealing."

"So do you know about the four talismans and the staff?"

"No, I just noticed that he stole two talismans."

"It is said that the person holding all four will become powerful if they have the staff to go with it."

"It seems very cliché, but I guess it's real. I have to see it for myself."

Kazuko woke up a half an hour later before Dark was supposed to go to the museum and she dressed into her thief clothes. She met with Dark on the roof and she jumped down when Dark opened the window. She took the talisman and ran out of the room evading the guards who were trying to catch her. They were chasing after her, but then she was too fast for them. Dark didn't bother to jump down when he saw the guards coming. Instead, he caught up with Kazuko from outside of the building and grabbed her,

"Hey Dark, let go of me!" Kazuko said.

"Not yet."

"I need to talk to you."

"Sigh…fine."

They landed in an alleyway and they stayed quiet for a little bit to see if any guards followed them.

"How's you condition?" Dark asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, have you changed into Neda in a while?"

"No, I don't think I have. I think that that's going to be the first and last time Neda will ever come out."

"Are you sure, because you'll never know?"

"Yes, I'll make sure that she'll never come out. I've also read what will happen to me if she keeps on coming out, though."

"Why? What will happen?"

"If she keeps on coming out, she'll take over my body. There's only one way to stop that a couple of seconds before that, and that is to commit suicide."

"…"

"Yes, that was my expression too…Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go now."

"Wait, Kazuko, I'm not done yet."

"I'm sorry, but it's going to have to wait another time. I'm sorry; I have some thinking to do."

"…Alright then."

The next day, they school paper came out and Kazuko and Satoshi were both surprised to see what they saw.

"Hiwatari is taken!" Kazuko yelled.

The paper had a picture of them kissing yesterday when they were cleaning up. Kazuko's hands were clenching the paper and the newspaper started to get wrinkled. The girls looked at Kazuko who now looked enraged and out for Takeshi's blood. Takeshi came in a while after and Kazuko through the newspaper at his face. He scraped the newspaper from his face and saw that Kazuko was walking up to him and then she grabbed his collar.

"Takeshi!"

"H-Hey, Chisato! What's the matter?"

"This!" she said shoving the newspaper in front of his face.

"Oh that? Yeah, I just took that picture yesterday."

Takeshi covered up his mouth with his hands after he said that. Kazuko then had a raised eyebrow and looked a little furious. She let Takeshi go and then she went back to her happy mood.

"Well, it's no use getting mad at you. Now that everyone knows, there's nothing else to do."

Takeshi stood in his spot even after Kazuko let go of him. He came back to his senses and he started telling the whole class to rehearse after that.

"I knew it! I knew that Chisato had something with Satoshi!"

"Still, I'm really jealous that she got her before us, and she hasn't even been here for a whole year!"

"You know, we need our revenge. We need to make her jealous."

"That's a good idea! There's a scene in the end when Amy and Allen have a quick kiss. Let's go there!"

"Yeah! Takeshi, we want to rehearse this part."

"I'm sorry, Amy. I like you, but I don't like you the way that I do with Suki."

"…I get it…when I was with you, I actually felt how it was to be in love."

"That's good that you know. Not all stories have happy endings. I hope that you can find someone that you can love besides me."

"I hope so too, Allen. I can see you around the neighborhood still, right?"

"Of course you can, I live here."

"Haha…yeah that's true. There's one thing that I'm sad about though, when I was briefly going out with you."

"And what's that?"

"I'm sad that I never kissed you."

"Well, I do have a girlfriend…don't take this the other way…" Satoshi looked at the script and looked at Takeshi, "Am I supposed to do this?"

"Yes! Do it! Do it!" yelled the girls.

"…"

Risa had a beet red face. Satoshi shrugged his shoulders, looked at Risa and Risa looked at him. Satoshi kissed Risa, but only for a second. The girls screamed with excitement, and Kazuko looked surprised.

End of Chapter 13