Chapter Two: Off Wiz His Head
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DNANGEL OR ITS CHARACTERS.
By: Couy-Chan/C.J.Y.
04-00-2005
AN: Sorry for the short first chapter! I didn't notice how short it was until I uploaded it! Thank you all for your reviews--it was wonderful to see that people are actually reading my work! Thank you all!
Please enjoy.
Krad stretched. Five till 5:00 am. The blonde looked at the small creamy orange-colored building. It had two short, wide windows and a brightly painted sign saying 'The Rainbow's Gold'. Satoshi ran over and glommed onto his elder brother's leg.
"It's dark out here." The blue-haired boy whispered, glancing around in all directions. It was still very dim. The streetlights barely shone through the thick fog hanging over the ground.
"Yeah, I guess." Krad shrugged and headed to the building's fat little door. Inside was a short hallway with two doors, one on the left and one on the right. There were bright children's paintings adorning the walls on both sides and a red and brown tiled floor met their feet. How weird. The gold-eyed man walked to the door on the left. Next to it hung a sign that said 'Daycare Center'. Krad cautiously opened the door and peeked in.
"Good morning!" Piped a short young lady from behind a bright yellow desk. "Are you Krad Hickory?" Krad cringed and stepped inside, dragging Satoshi after.
"That's HIKARI." He corrected.
The lady nodded happily and came over to kneel beside Satoshi. "And you must be Satoshi, then." The blue-eyed boy nodded shyly. "Well! Make yourself at home while I have your father fill out a form." She stood and smiled at Krad and went back behind the desk, handing the tall blonde two papers stapled together.
"I'm his older bother, not his father." Krad pointed out, taking the papers. The lady nodded. Krad spotted a bench and sat down to fill out the questions he answered almost every week. Name, job, phone number, child's name and any other information they might need in an emergency. Suddenly he heard a soft voice across the room.
"Hi…" Krad paused and glanced up, spotting a tiny red-head seating himself beside Satoshi. He had large red-brown eyes and the most angelic smile Krad had ever seen. The kid smiled at Satoshi and continued, "What's your name?"
Satoshi stared at him, "My name's Satoshi." The other little boy smiled again, hugging a white animal plushy of some kind tightly in his arms.
"I'm Daisuke!"
Krad's little brother nodded.
"Do you like bunny rabbits?"
Satoushi shrugged, "They're okay."
The little red-head giggled. "I love bunnies! See," he held out the doll he had. It was a fuzzy white rabbit with floppy ears and tiny feet. "This's Wiz! He's my bunny!"
Satoshi examined it for a moment before saying quietly, "It's cute." Daisuke nodded happily and scooted closer to Satoshi.
"Do you wanna be friends?" He asked cutely, leaning forward and smiling. Satoshi nodded.
"Sure."
"Yay!" The little boy threw his arms up, startling the other and gave him a big hug. "Thanks so much!"
Krad blinked in surprise as the toddlers begin to talk quietly. Cute kid, but, geez! What time did he get here! Krad stood up and went to the desk, asking the short lady, "When did that boy get here? It's 5:10 AM for crying out loud! Do people have no life or just not want him around?"
"He gets here at 4:45 AM and is here until 9:30 PM four days a week." She answered, smiling. Krad gave her a weird look and finished the papers, giving them back to her.
"I need to talk to Satoshi for a second." The woman nodded and Krad called Satoshi over. "Oh, and if there's any trouble whatsoever, call me." He and Satoshi stepped out the door.
"What is it?" The blue-haired boy asked softly, looking at the floor closely.
"Listen to me carefully, Satoshi." The little boy glanced up, knowing when Krad said his name, he meant business. "Read my lips: you get into a fight today and you don't get dinner." Satoshi stared.
"But what if it's their fa-" Krad waved a hand.
"Okay, so you only get a third of your dinner. And you better behave yourself!" He loomed over Satoshi. "DO you UNDERSTAND ME?" The toddler nodded quickly. "Good." The blonde man patted Satoshi's head, "Then go and have fun, I'll see you tonight." He watched the blue-toned boy go back inside before he turned and headed to work.
The day had been perfectly normal; not many people had asked Krad to locate books for them. The dumb people must have stayed home today. Krad snickered to himself, checking his watch for the hundredth time that day. It was 7:43, 17 minutes until he could head home. There had been no calls about Satoshi, He might make it today. Krad silently prayed his little brother would behave and maybe, just maybe, he wouldn't get into a fight.
Krad kept checking his watch over and over. 7:44…7:45…7:46…7:47…7:48…7:49…7:4- His cell phone rang, making him drop the arm load of books he was carrying in the hurry to answer it. "Hello?"
He realized his prayers were in vain, as the daycare lady's voice began on the other end of the line. "Um, you said to call if there was any trouble, sir."
Krad cringed and begin to think of ways to punish his little blue-haired brother while saying, "Well, what is it?"
"Um…" There was a pause. "I think you better come and see."
Hang him from the roof, tie him up and throw him in the back of a dump truck! Strangle him! Make him starve for a week! Krad cursed as he got out of the car and stomped across the lawn and into the tiny building, slamming the door so hard that it almost fell off of its hinges. He wrenched the daycare center's door open, storming inside. Satoshi was sitting on the bench near the door, sobbing into his hands. Krad's anger washed away as the little boy looked up at him, fear and guilt showing across his face.
"You should have that monster caged!" Krad jumped slightly at this and turned to noticed a tall, thin woman standing there, a little brunette girl with high pigtails clinging to one of her legs. "He's an animal!" She continued.
"He's also a kid." Krad said, crossing his arms and looking down at his brother. "What happened?" Satoshi just sobbed harder, pulling his feet up on the bench and turning away from them. Krad sighed.
"Answer, you little brat!" The lady yelled, glaring at Satoshi.
"Don't you dare yell at him!" Krad snapped, leering at her. "He isn't your child!"
"I don't care whose child he is! He ripped out two handfuls of my daughter's hair! I demand an apology!"
"You won't get one until I've heard what happened from him!"
"Um, excuse me…"
Krad blinked at the small voice that spoke up. It's that boy from this morning! What was his name…?
Said boy was standing behind the woman and her daughter, rubbing his toe into the floor. "I-it was my fault, not his." The little boy continued. "Anna wouldn't give my bunny back so Satoshi tried to make her and she bit him-"
"Anna would never do that! He's lying!" The little girl's mother snapped to Krad.
The tiny red-head's eyes filled with tears and he sniffled, "No I'm n-not!"
"Little brat! You're on his side, aren't you!" The lady snarled, turning her scowl to the tiny toddler, who started crying. The blonde man felt like strangling 'Anna's' mother.
"Back off." Krad said, he saw Satoshi flinch at his 'one-more-word-and-I've-had-it' tone and knelt next to the little red-eyed boy. "Calm down and tell me what happened." He said, forcing a soothing voice.
"B-b-but she'll y-yell at me again!" He pointed to the woman, who now was quietly fuming. Daisuke took a deep breath, calming a little, "When Satoshi tried to yank her off he accidentally pulled out some of her hair! And then…" He sobbed and pointed to Anna. "S-she murdered my bunny!" The little boy grabbed Krad's shoulder and buried his face into the blonde's shirt, sobbing harder. Krad glared up at the thin woman. "And then she blamed him!" Daisuke pointed to Satoshi, who nodded.
"I don't believe a word of it!" The lady huffed.
Krad stood up and the red-head hugged onto his leg. "Well, I do."
"I demand you apologize for hurting my daughter!"
"I think that she owes them an apology!"
"You're going to believe two snot-nosed little brats!"
"What are you doing?" Krad asked, putting his hands on his hips.
Anna's mother started sputtering with fury and dragged her daughter out the door, snarling behind her, "My daughter is not a snot-nosed brat!"
Krad fanned himself, That nasty bitch, He glared at the door. I hope she gets hit by a moving van! Feeling small eyes watching him, Krad turned to his little brother. Satoshi gave him a hurt look, shivering.
"D-do I still get dinner?" He asked quietly.
Krad nodded, rolling his eyes. "Yes, you still get dinner." He sat down on the bench next to Satoshi. "Did she really bite you?" The blue-haired held up his left hand for Krad to see; it had red tooth marks down the side of his palm.
"Oh that little…" Krad thought twice about cursing in front of Satoshi. The little boy followed his example far too often. "Hang on. Hey," Krad walked to the main desk, "Do you have a first-aid kit at hand?" Berty, as her name tag said, nodded and went to get it.
Krad noticed Daisuke as he came over and sat beside Satoshi. The little boy was still crying about something. Oh, that's right. His bunny… "I'm sorry your bunny got killed."
The little boy looked over at him and started crying harder.
Krad cringed, Okay, that didn't work.
Berty came back and handed him the first-aid kit. "Here you are, sir."
"Thanks." Krad took it and sat down to bandage Satoshi's hand. When finished, he turned to Daisuke. "Are you alright?"
Daisuke sobbed and nodded, "Y-yeah… But she beheaded my bunny!" He wailed and covered his face.
Krad sigh in exasperation. Despite his attempts at stomping it out, he still had a soft spot for kids. "Okay, okay." He came over and knelt in front of the little boy. "Where's Mr. Bun-buns?" The little boy hopped down and ran over, picking something up off of the floor. He held them up to Krad, sobbing again. Krad took the bunny's head and rear end, leaning down to listen to them. What should I do? Let's see, maybe.. Krad acted surprised, sitting up and looking at Daisuke.
The red-head cocked his head, asking slowly, "What is it?"
"He still has a pulse!" Krad exclaimed. Daisuke leaned down to listen but Krad quickly added, "He has to have surgery!" He stood and leaned over the front desk. "Miss, do you have a needle and some white thread?"
Berty smiled and dug some out, happily handing it to Krad. "Here!"
"Thanks." Krad went back over and sat next to Daisuke, sitting the bunny parts on his lap. He carefully threaded the needle and tied a knot on the end, and was about to start sewing when Daisuke grabbed his arm.
"You have to numb him first! He doesn't like needles!"
Krad stared at him, Keen kid. He popped the pen off his shirt and held it up like a needle. "I happen to have a magic numbing pen!" Satoshi leaned forward around the tiny red-head to watch as well. "Cover his eyes so he won't be scared." Krad instructed. Daisuke did so and Krad poked both pieces of the doll. "Okay, now you two go play until his surgery is over."
Both boys nodded and got up. Daisuke paused and patted the doll's head, saying softly, "It'll be okay." He then trailed off behind Satoshi. Krad rubbed his head; he wasn't exactly wonderful at sewing. Sighing, he set to work, stabbing himself every other stitch.
AN: Look! It's another Chapter! WAI! I would like to thank ALL of you for reviews and here, hands out giant gummy worms Enjoy! Yesterday I finished a Satoshi plushy about 8 inches tall! He's so cute! I just need to make Dark, Krad and Daisuke! (and maybe Takeshi-kun and Riku-chan) AND I SWARE Dark WILL be in the NEXT CHAPTER!
And a message for Dark Moon Sabbath! Please update Dark Shadows soon! throws popcorn.
Everyone, please: WRITE!
Outtakes:
Number One:
"I'm Daisuke!"
Krad's little brother nodded.
"Do you like bunny rabbits?"
Satoushi looks confused andwhips out a pocket dictionary, "Rabbit: Small burrowing rodent with soft fur and long ears."
The red-head blinked at him, "What's that?"
Satoshi shoved the book away into hammer space, forcing a smile, "Erm, nothing."
Number Two:
Krad carefully threaded the needle and tied a knot on the end, and was about to start sewing when Daisuke grabbed his arm.
"You have to numb him first! He doesn't like needles!"
Krad smiled evilly, "He doesn't?" Pops out giant needle and a tarp.
Daisuke stares, "W-what's the t-tarp for?"
"The blood." Krad stated matter-of-factly. The little re-head suddenly passes out, floping over backwards.
"Wimp." Krad snorted.
I'll try to update every five days or so until later chapters.