"Did you get laid or something?" D asks, staring at me as I continue to jump around with flowers surrounding the background,
"She's just happy to have come up with another idea for another chapter." Daisuke explains to D, sweatdropping as more flowers surround everywhere. D stares darkly, twitching,
"Don't make me drag A-sama in here, M-chan." I straighten immediately and Daisuke laughs at me,
"I don't own DNAngel!"
III.
Daisuke watched Dark fiddle around with some kind of glove. Daisuke however wasn't just watching patiently, he was sitting on his chair, tilting it backwards and forewords like a little child waiting to do something that involved them running around.
"Otou..." Daisuke whined impatient, tilting his body and placing his chin on the table, pouting up at his 'father'. Dark wasn't disturbed from his latest experiment, twisting the glove around to make the components that he had put inside of it completely wired.
"In a minute Daisuke," Dark commented, looking inside the glove then smirking slightly as he put a screwdriver to touch a small button placed at the index finger. The glove glowed green for one second before going back into 'safe-mode'. Dark grinned, placing the glove on his hand and stood up. Daisuke followed him, still impatiently twiddling with his feet. Dark walked outside and looked for any witness, (which there weren't, thank God) and pointed the glove towards the sky.
BOOOM!
Daisuke and Dark stared at the large ball they made in the sky that had exploded to look like a nuclear bomb.
"...Otou...why did you make such a thing?" Dark smirked, turning to Daisuke and turned the glove off from the earlier button,
"Well to protect us from whenever we go hunting again, that Hikari could have worse traps in his hands, and I don't trust any of my fans." Daisuke sighed, rolling his eyes for a second but then remembered his mission at hand.
"Dark! May I pleeeease go to Hiwatari-sama's house?" Daisuke begged, placing his hands together rubbing them in front of Dark for his approval.
"Hiwatari-sama?" Dark rose one eyebrow, "I've never any of them, have I?"
"...No..."
"Then the answer's no." Daisuke sighed, pouting a bit before understanding Dark's overprotectiveness and just marched up to his own room...slamming it especially loud for Dark to hear. Dark sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Ah so Hiwatari is that kid's last name?" Dark almost jumped again, as he always had found himself caught by surprise in his own house but this time by Takeshi who was sucking on a straw connected to a fast-food drink.
"Hiwatari is Daisuke's special friend?" Takeshi grinned at Dark and he found himself wanting to be in another part of the house but then Takeshi took out a few photos.
"The blunette." Dark nodded and went through the pictures.
The first picture was simply that of a class picture, Daisuke was surrounded by kids (which Dark smirked at, knowing Daisuke was the kind of boy who was popular) while the blunette was leaning against him, both boys avoiding fans of either gender. Dark looked closely to stare at the blunette, though he seemed disdained at the moment, Dark felt a protective clench in his heart. Growling to himself he moved to the second picture.
The second picture had Daisuke sitting at a desk with a concentrated look on his face, sitting next to him, pointing things out was the Hiwatari again (which Dark twitched again) but this time the blunette was smiling a bit, but the smile seemed fake to Dark so he discarded the card and went to the third.
The third picture they were on a running track, dressed in the school gym clothes. Daisuke was smiling in a big smile, his hands on Hiwatari's own to help the tired boy sprint a bit more around the track. Dark sighed, not really wanted to see any more of these, they kept making him feel weird.
The forth and last picture...Dark looked down at the picture, then at Takeshi, then at the picture again and with a dark tone he asked,
"This was photoshopped right?" Takeshi blinked then looked at the current photo and he yelped, grabbing it quickly from Dark's hands, which was trembling with the other photos in it. "What. the. hell. were. you. thinking?"
"Towa wanted it, and man she helped Menou get pregnant, how am I supposed to say no to her?" Dark glared over at Takeshi and Takeshi twitched, and found himself screaming in pain as Dark laid his hands on him.
Daisuke sighed within his room, leaning against his pillow carelessly, thinking silently to himself for a few moments.
"Oh right! I forgot!" Daisuke jumped, as he was going to sulk a little longer but he had to call Satoshi to let the blunette know he couldn't come, as soon as Daisuke dialed for the phone he heard the ringing and the click of the phone being picked up,
"Hiwatari-residence, Satoshi Hiwatari speaking, how may I help you? No, Krad, get off!" Daisuke tilted one of his eyebrows as Dark would do but left it out of the discussion,
"Hiwatari-kun, it's me, Daisuke."
"Ah, Niwa...KRAD!" Daisuke laughed on the other end as he heard a loud yelp from something he imagined Satoshi kicked. "So, are you coming over soon?"
"I'm sorry, I can't. My father won't allow me because he's never seen you or any of your parents before." Satoshi paused on the other line,
"That would make sense, Niwa I'll come over okay? What's your address?" Daisuke brightened a lot more, smiling at his end and giving Satoshi the address. "Okay, I'll be there soon...I'll be bringing my brother if that's okay."
"No problem Hiwatari-san!"
"Okay Niwa." Daisuke hanged up and felt himself jumping up and down in excitement, oh! Daisuke ran out of his room and ran down the stairs and somehow wretched Takeshi from Dark's grasp,
"Takeshi-kun, we're going to have guests tonight! Can you please cook something really good?" Daisuke begged the cook, who was rubbing his head in pain.
"Guests?" Dark asked, twitching at the younger and Daisuke nodded casually, not saying anything else.
"Hiwatari-kun and his older brother!" Daisuke replied back, making sure he was facing Takeshi as he said this.
"But you didn't ask for my permission."
"Sure I did, you need to see them in order for me to go over to his house...so you will be seeing Satoshi and his older brother!" Dark stared at Daisuke for a second then growled,
"Only a son of a thief could figure out that loop-hole." Daisuke grinned confidently, then went back to begging Takeshi, who just laughed at his hurried behavior.
"No." Krad frowned a bit at Satoshi as the other stared at his choice of a wardrobe,
"Why not?"
"..." Satoshi rose one eyebrow, trying very hard to decide whether or not Krad was being serious, then took a few more seconds and sighed, contemplating how to answer him. "...You look like a male prostitute." Krad grinned and Satoshi twitched as Krad decided to jump on him, both falling to the bed,
"Only for you Satoshi-sama."
"Yes, I rather you did not do it for me at all, besides we'll never get Niwa over here if you go off scaring his family." Krad blinked once carelessly, brushing his bang out of the way, still on top of Satoshi, then he nodded,
"You're right." Krad got up and started to strip out of his...err...second skin,
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Satoshi cried out as Krad turned to him with no top, grinning brightly,
"I'm changing of course, why, do you want a strip show?" Krad smirked and Satoshi kicked him out of his room, locking his door immediately and Krad cackled evilly (in a funny awkward way) on the other side. Satoshi sighed, leaning against his doorway, then looking through the contents of his room.
"..." Satoshi looked through all of his clothes quietly, though usually one wouldn't be able to tell if he was frustrated it was apparent for once with his eyebrows inclined down with a small scowl upon his face. "...I have...nothing to wear..." Satoshi simply said, staring down at the uniforms, the suits and fancy clothing. Satoshi had no 'relaxing' clothes, of which he was sure Daisuke would like him to wear over. There was an almost too loud knock on the other side of Satoshi's door, and Satoshi twitched only once. Satoshi glared at the door then sighed, giving in his pride, "Krad-niichan?" Satoshi even added, cringing as he heard the cheerful voice on the other end,
"Yes Satoshi-sama?"
"Do you have anything I can wear over to Niwa's?" There was a long pause on the other side of the door, but Satoshi was positive he could hear the smirk crossing Krad's face.
"Well of course I do Satoshi-sama, I have many, many things you could wear to the Niwa's home."
"That won't make me look like a prostitute?" Krad gave a chuckle on the other side, and nodded despite Satoshi couldn't see it,
"I promise."
"..." Satoshi unlocked the door and glared at Krad with a dark frown, Krad just gave Satoshi the same sadistic grin he always gave the other. Satoshi sighed and followed Krad towards his own room, frowning silently as he stared at what Krad had changed into.
"Looking at me Satoshi-sama? I know it's so hard to keep your eyes off of me." Satoshi twitched, giving into Krad's ego to let him think he was what he thought. Krad was wearing a comfortable white short with rather tight white jeans, which had chains protruding from the back pockets (why, Satoshi would never want to know). Satoshi blinked as he looked at all that Krad had offered him, surprised to find rather...comely clothes.
"Unbelievable." Satoshi muttered, which Krad ignored, sitting down at his desk to type a computer placed high upon a desk, with a very high speed (though nothing close to Satoshi's own speed if Satoshi wanted). Krad looked at the files pinpointed on the computer, five unknown people were on the screen, and when I say unknown, the pictures were of a black humanoid figuring with a large white question mark upon it. Krad leaned on his hands, smiling at the unknown figures with soft eyes,
"So we've finally found them..." Krad's eyes traced over to Satoshi's, which seem to have been alert and tense. "The government will finally fund us, and with Niwa's components..." Satoshi shuddered as Krad gave a rather insane grin. Don't get the blunette wrong, he was never scared of the older blonde, but the thoughts of what the other could imply...that was always frightening, and especially since he was doing it for his sake. Satoshi scoffed and picked up a black sweater with a hoody on it. "Hmm...need some help?" Krad asked and Satoshi leapt away from him, only to find himself backed into a wall.
"Leave me alone Krad." Satoshi demanded softly as Krad held him against the wall. Krad seemed to give a fake look of thought for the other and shrugged,
"I think I'd rather help you." Satoshi growled, growing aggravated and tried to push the stronger off, which he didn't comply with that order. "Satoshi-sama, let me help you..." Krad purred into Satoshi's ear, which gave a shudder in reply as Krad snaked one of his hands up Satoshi's back, touching the spine which made Satoshi give an almost loud yell but was muffled by his uniform top being pulled off. Satoshi couldn't help but glare as he continued to get molested by Krad, watching the other touch his back, his wings.
"I can put on a shirt by myself, thank you." Satoshi glared at Krad, who frowned as Satoshi hadn't given in yet. It was a ritual between them a bit, but more of Satoshi's weak point and Krad manipulating it. Satoshi couldn't stand being touched in the three columns in his back, it would make him insensitive to his surroundings, making him much weaker then usual and somehow activating the low blood pressure Satoshi had, but that always wore out after a good thirty minutes.
"Hm...you've gotten much stronger." Krad noted quietly, letting Satoshi push through him to put on the hoody by himself.
"So what if I have?" Satoshi asked back coldly, finally placing the hoody on correctly (having gotten in it by backwards in accident).
"Yup, Niwa truly is...what would they say?" Krad thought about it for a second, "Your other half." Satoshi looked away, sighing as he knew Krad was right. Satoshi stiffened as Krad hugged the other from behind, nibbling on Satoshi's ears,
"..." Satoshi continued to look away and Krad was almost worried by the lack of response (as nibbling on Satoshi's ears seemed to be a tickle spot) but didn't concern him too much.
"Don't worry Satoshi-sama, I promise it won't hurt your Niwa-kun..." Krad crawled himself to whisper in a deadly tone to Satoshi's ears and the word he heard made him very sad for some reason he wasn't so sure about, "much."
"Daisuke, stop poking at Takeshi's food." Menou commented, already having eaten a large portion of the delicious not often cooked meal, staring as Daisuke tried to make it seem perfect.
"Aw, you're just so adorable Daisuke, you're just trying to make a good impression for Hiwatari-kun's older brother, aren't you?" Daisuke couldn't help but blush as Towa hugged him tightly, and he just nodded in response.
"Humph." Dark quietly stared, frowning and continuing to think to himself that he really didn't want the Hiwataris over, but it would be exceedingly rude to decline them now, especially since Takeshi had prepared such a huge meal...
Why am I even feeling this jealous? I wonder if it's something a father would feel before giving their daughter for a date...
Dark sighed at the foreign feelings building up inside of him but he smiled slightly as Daisuke had finally stopped toying with the food.
Ding-Dong
Daisuke froze for a long second, then disappeared out of everyone's sight, probably already at the door. Dark smirked at Daisuke's inhuman speed and casually walked up to the door. Daisuke had already pulled the door open but was looking down blushing, as was the blunette, though his blushing wasn't as apparent as Daisuke's. Dark stared over at the person right besides Satoshi and rose one eyebrow,
"Ah, you must be Hiwatari's brother, I'm Dark Niwa." Dark had reached his destination, (placing a hand on Daisuke's shoulder protectively) and reached one of his hands out in mock, "And you?" The golden-haired stranger smirked, grabbing Dark's hand,
"I'm Krad Hiwatari." Dark noticed that Krad's grip was a lot stronger then his own, but didn't even seem to be trying to strain his show boasting. Dark took a second to glare at the blunette when noticed something else...oh...so THAT'S why the boys were blushing.
The boys were wearing two different things, Daisuke was wearing something one would wear at a dinner party, as though expecting Satoshi to wear the same, but Satoshi had also taken in account of expecting what Daisuke may wear, so they were both embarrassed of what they were wearing in front of each other. It would have been cute, if Dark wasn't so sick of the Hiwataris already.
"Oh...um, please come in!" Daisuke blustered out nervously, and Dark could see he was shaking just a bit. Krad nodded at red-head and gently guided Satoshi in, which the other unwillingly gave in. "Hiwatari-kun...ummm...do you want to come upstairs for a while? I'm sure there's still something Tak-my father," Dark sighed in relief to himself as the stage was set, "needs to cook a few more things, so we could just wait a bit..." Daisuke stuttered with his sentence a bit, but Satoshi nodded in agreement and moved to where Daisuke lead him.
"Hm, nice place you have here." Dark blinked to hear something else from the blonde. Dark stared for a few moments, something about him seemed too familiar, but Dark discarded that thought quickly,
"Yeah, we got lucky." Dark simply said, grinning.
"How old are you?" Dark was almost thrown off by that question but the other seemed incessant,
"I'm twenty, why?"
"Oh just curious if we were of the same age..." Krad smirked, "I'm twenty-one." Dark twitched as he could hear the tone of superiority over the mocking tone. Dark seethed in one breath before nodding calmly,
"Ah well that's nice, shall we go introduce you to our father and mother?" Krad nodded but Dark thought he saw a laughing glimmer through Krad's eyes.
"I'm so embarrassed." Daisuke admitted to his friend, the blush somehow straying off of his face. Satoshi just nodded and blinked as Daisuke took off the business top,
"...?" Daisuke blinked and rubbed the back of his head,
"Sorry, it's just I'm kind of happy you know my secret...I don't have to worry, so I took off my shirt without thinking." Daisuke laughed nervously, not quite sure of what Satoshi's reaction would be. Satoshi just nodded and stared at the creases in Daisuke's back.
"Niwa." Daisuke looked away from the closet to look at Satoshi as had been silently requested, "Does...your brother ever touch your back?" Daisuke blinked a bit then shook his head,
"No, he only does either by mistake or when he needs to confirm something." Satoshi stared, almost jealous of Daisuke, but kept shut otherwise.
"I see..." Satoshi stood up from Daisuke's bed and with his curiosity overwhelming him, touched the blades of Daisuke's shoulders. Daisuke froze as the weirdest sensation ran through his blood, the feeling of both overwhelming heat and soothing coolness. "How does that feel?" Satoshi questioned softly and Daisuke blushed as he heard the blunette's voice so close to him...so...close...
"Weird." Daisuke replied softly, looking at Satoshi carefully and Satoshi nodded, "Why?"
"No real reason..." Satoshi lied easily, staring into Daisuke's red orbs.
"Okay." Daisuke replied just as coolly, his eyes becoming half-lidded as he grew tired for some odd reason, Satoshi recognized the look and guided the other to his bed,
"Oyasumi Niwa."
"O...Oya...sumi...Sat..." Daisuke had fallen asleep before he could fully finish the sentence. Satoshi couldn't help but give himself a pat on the back, so there was something else they shared after all. The same weakness in the blades, but Daisuke must have been telling the truth about his 'brother' never touching him there, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen asleep after being touched there so softly in a caring caress. Satoshi frowned a bit about that thought and covered the redhead with another smile. But any sign of emotion disappeared as soon as Satoshi walked out of the room,
"Daisuke fell asleep," Satoshi quietly said, seeing Dark right in front of the door, suspecting that the two had spent too much time in the room.
"? He did?"
"Yes." Dark shivered quietly to himself as he stared down at the emotionless boy, how could someone so young look that way? Satoshi was much worse then his older brother (which they had got into an argument of...many...many things).
"Right, well I guess we could feed Daisuke later." Satoshi nodded quietly, and walked past Dark and as soon as Satoshi was out of sight, Dark made positive that it was Daisuke who had truly fallen asleep.
"I'm so sorry Hiwatari-kun." Daisuke bowed to the blunette awkwardly, showing how much he was sorry to his friend for falling asleep out of nowhere.
"It's fine Niwa, I understand." Daisuke gave Satoshi his most innocent smile and Satoshi happily (though quietly) admired it.
The two were always known to sit by each other, so it was no surprise when they were paired up for an assignment, but it was an assignment they would have to also do outside of class.
"Ah..." Daisuke almost commented but Satoshi shushed him quietly as the lesson continued. "This is bad...I'm not too sure if anyone really wants you over Hiwatari-kun," Daisuke admitted, hearing bad things from nearly everyone (most Dark though) last night, but Daisuke knew that Satoshi never meant to be like that and they had to be over exaggerating.
"That's fine Niwa, I'm sure they'll let you over to my house now." Daisuke blinked once then grinned,
"That's right, I almost forgot! That's good Hiwatari-san!" Satoshi nodded as Daisuke ran off to a pay phone to call his older brother for permission. Satoshi stood near by, warding off anyone else who demanded the pay phone immediately. There was a long conversation (which made Satoshi had to fork up quite a bit of yen) and most of it had constant shouting on the other side of the phone, then Dark had finally agreed to it. Daisuke hung up the phone and gave Satoshi a dazzling smile, which Satoshi nodded to.
"Come on, my house isn't that far from here." Daisuke blinked and tilted his head a bit,
"Shouldn't you call your brother or father first Hiwatari-kun?" Satoshi shook his head,
"My father's always out and my brother is never surprised by anything." Daisuke spoke a silent 'oh' and followed faithfully behind Satoshi as the whole campus watched the two boys walk off. The much older girls and their little sisters commented many 'kawaii-desu' as they stared at the two cutest ten-year-old boys walking together.
"Hm, what do you think we should write down at a few ideas?" Daisuke questioned, staring at the instruction sheet as they walked on to get to Satoshi's home.
"We'll think about it when we get there, okay?" Satoshi relieved the boy of the instruction sheet, giving Daisuke a soft stare to calm the boy.
"Alright Hiwatari-san." Daisuke blinked as they turned into a huge garden and was shocked by the beauty he was surrounded by, but was even more shocked when his older brother tackled Satoshi to the ground. Daisuke watched as they wrestled, Satoshi was obviously outclassed but Daisuke couldn't help but feel a little childish and join in the tackling game. The game was finished in a manner of minutes and Satoshi victoriously noted that Krad was no match for both his own and Daisuke's efforts as the older was underneath both of them. "Gomen Nasai Krad-kun." Daisuke apologized and Krad just smirked back as the both of the younger got off of him.
"That's fine," Krad got up, brushing up the oncoming stains for his white clothes from forcing Satoshi on the ground. "What are you doing here though?" Daisuke looked down nervously, not exactly sure on how to answer back to the older,
"He's here to help on a project that the teacher gave to us, it was an assignment that we had to get together to finish." Krad smiled but Daisuke felt himself shudder at the smile, it didn't look natural to him for some really odd reason.
"I see, well come on Niwa." Daisuke blinked and followed the two inside their mansion, Daisuke would have been surprised if the school he had already gone too were mostly for those who had money.
"You have such a beautiful garden," Daisuke noted, giving one quick stare back at the beautiful greens surrounding the front yard.
"Yes, well we have someone to take care of it." Krad commented, sounding almost bored but Daisuke shrugged it off quietly as they had made it through the mansion. Daisuke stared at all the designs of the area, amazed on how beautiful it seemed, statues covered nearly every corner and there was at least one painting on all the walls.
"Wow, who did all of these?"
"The Hikari clan," Krad smirked at Daisuke's interest, though mistaking it as a thief's interest instead of its beauty.
"Hikari?" Daisuke questioned, recognizing that name somewhere, but he wasn't too sure. Krad nodded and Satoshi stared silently, letting the older tell his tale,
"The Hikari clan are made of many artists, no matter what they seemed to have the talent for it and to live they would make at least one piece of art throughout their generation, the Hiwatari clan bought all of these pieces." Daisuke continued to stare, fascinated to see more pieces of art, clay models, sculpted masterpieces and so many things that caught his eye.
"They're all beautiful..." Daisuke gapped.
"Do you really think they're beautiful?" Satoshi asked, looking at all the pieces of art with a somewhat disdained look,
"Yeah...it's amazing that they could follow their own style even after different generations...and look at the colors, the Hikari clan were geniuses with art..."
"An art connoisseur?" Krad questioned, one eyebrow raised up in amusement. Daisuke blushed a bit,
"Not really, I take a few lessons in Art and I'm in the art club, so I just like looking at other pieces, it doesn't matter to me too much, as long as they're there. I can tell...most of the pieces were filled with so much love and effort." Daisuke's eyes wondered around, a smile was fit upon his face almost childishly but Krad and Satoshi couldn't help but stare at the boy wonder in amazement as he wondered down the halls.
The two followed the younger as he met a large painting of two boys in it. Krad glared at the painting quietly as Daisuke stared at the two boys in the painting. They only seemed to be the same age as he, one had a great big grin on his face with very messy dark red hair while the other had a somewhat tough smile with very almost white hair, if not for the tints of blonde streaking through the edges of the boys hair. The boys were embracing each other with one arm around each other, and staring right at the painter. Daisuke stared at it for a long time..."Krad-kun, is this boy you?" Daisuke asked politely, touching the painting to where the boy was. Krad blinked, surprised that Daisuke could tell.
"Yes, that was me a long time ago."
"Who's this beside you?" Daisuke's hand wondered to the other boy, staring at the crimson eyes and red hair that Daisuke shared with the mysterious boy in the picture.
"An old friend I lost track of."
"..." Daisuke stared at the painting, lost within memories that the painting seemed to give. To a normal eye, that's all it was, a photograph basically but Daisuke could tell there was much chaos in the background with the many mixings of warm and cool colors, blending together to make it look like an autumn day but to Daisuke it was chaos, waiting to come out and break up the two the colors were behind.
"Run Daisuke! RUN!"
Daisuke put his hand off of the painting, staring at it quietly with a serious face but then turned to Satoshi, ignoring the painting,
"Neh, we should probably get started on our project, right?" Satoshi stared at Daisuke sternly, seeing that the boy's attitude changed a bit, but from this painting? Daisuke moved past Satoshi for a second and Satoshi spotted fear in Daisuke's eyes.
"Who painted this Krad?"
"My mother."
"And where is your piece of art?" Krad smirked and looked at Satoshi with a confident face,
"Why he's always been with you Satoshi-sama, my own piece of art." Satoshi growled and turned away from Krad, walking to Daisuke and Krad sighed, throwing his bang backwards once again and looked at the painting, "Is that right...Dark?" The painting gave no response, except for a shift of colors that answered Krad's question.
"Okay so I want the rabbit to go through the hole."
"But then that would make it seem like a spin-off from Alice in Wonderland."
"Well no one has problems from original remakes."
"Except the teacher."
"Well let's just say we thought up the idea from remembering the plot of Alice in Wonderland, but change the story completely?"
"And how are we going to do that?"
Currentely Daisuke and Satoshi were sitting down on Satoshi's carpet floor, arguing on their assignment, more precisely a story that would be suitable for children. It was to help encourage little children's imaginations and give to children who were a lot less unfortunate then the children in their school, so they were to make a little book that little children could read and be inspired by.
"Okay fine, let's forget the rabbit." Satoshi smirked victoriously and Daisuke sighed against the bed, "We really need to come up with a few ideas though, sensei would be angry otherwise." Satoshi nodded, twitching at the thought. Silence consumed the room. Daisuke leaned foreword, looking over their blank rough drafts, frowning slightly. "Colors?" Daisuke looked at Satoshi, who shrugged,
"Sounds better then nothing, now what kind of idea could colors give."
"...Well we could say what most of their basic meanings mean."
"What? Don't look at me that way Hiwatari-kun." Satoshi just gave Daisuke an awkward smile, being silent otherwise, letting the redhead do his works on the basis since he knew more about colors then Satoshi did.
"Hm, it's a bit late...why don't you stay over?" Satoshi asked as he looked at the clock, five till eight. Daisuke also stared at the clock,
"Yeah, I probably should call niichan," Daisuke laughed nervously, getting up and moving out to find the phone. Satoshi rolled his eyes slightly, staring over at the phone he held in his own room (under Krad's influence) and waited for a Daisuke for a few moments.
Time ticked by and Satoshi twitched uncomfortably, what was Daisuke so long? As time made itself apparent the clock ticked to a direct eight twenty-five. Where had the time gone? Satoshi worried beneath his skin, standing up calmly to wonder around the household. Satoshi first went to he thought had most influence in Daisuke's disappearance,
"Krad."
"Hm?" Krad looked from his computer screen, tilting his seat backward to leer at Satoshi, "What's wrong?"
"Where's Niwa?" Krad stared quietly at Satoshi,
"What do you mean?"
"Where is Niwa?" Satoshi demanded a little louder this time, panicking within his usual cool exterior.
"Wasn't he with you?"
"WHERE IS HE KRAD?"
"Satoshi-sama, calm down, I do not know where your precious Niwa is." Satoshi calmed down just a bit, having the time to have examined Krad's room, which nothing had been moved around since the last time he had been here and Krad were to drag Daisuke through here, he knew that Daisuke would have struggled with something which would fling out the balance of the room. "Now what happened?"
"He went down to call his brother."
"Down?"
"Downstairs, he didn't see my phone." The two looked at each other silently, one with cold calculating eyes that were panicking and the second with focused yet confused eyes.
"I wonder..." Krad turned back to his computer as Satoshi walked up to behind him to stare at the glaring gaze the computer gave to the dark room as Krad typed at a fury to see the hardrive download that Krad had uploaded for sight for his whole house.
"There." Satoshi pointed at an image that popped up on the computer, it was in black and white but there was no mistaking Satoshi, it was Daisuke walking down the hall of paintings. Satoshi looked down to see a time period when this was taken and his eyes widened, "7:55".
"What's wrong?" Krad recognized the look of surprise on Satoshi's face, the blunette just nodded, pointing quietly at the time,
"He left precisely from my room at eight fifty-five."
"Precisely?"
"Yes." Krad stared at the image for a second then clicked on it as the image of Daisuke disappeared from their sight,
"So it seems that Niwa has some sort quick gene in him," Krad clicked down to the images of the hall and this time there was Daisuke again, but Satoshi got a clear look into his eyes and saw that the hump hidden within his shirt was growing bigger. Satoshi frowned and saw the time "7:56" and growled, moving away not having time to mess with pictures. Krad stared at the hurried boy, and quickly followed after him, curious of the new discovery of the Niwa.
The halls became deadly to Satoshi as soon as he stepped near them, he collapsed, gasping in pain with surprise and uncertainty. Krad blinked, also in surprise, not feeling the same effect as Satoshi,
"Satoshi-sama?"
"Gah..." Satoshi gasped, feeling something move within his spine, brushing against the bones and making Satoshi sensitive to his surroundings. Krad picked up Satoshi (bridal style XD) and continued through the hall (Satoshi had managed to demand that much before struggling against Krad's grasp) as they walked down the hall. Krad wasn't quite sure but he had a clue on why the hall was effecting Satoshi so much.
Satoshi was a clone of Krad, there was no doubt to that but his body was growing so faulty because of the development all over Satoshi's body, the magic that filled this hall was trying to protect itself from the foreign magic all around, and because of Niwa's second entrance into the hall, it must have turned the hall hostile to any beings with anything...unnatural about them.
"Shhh..." Krad purred to the hurt one, holding him tighter to himself, watching Satoshi struggle between his pride and anger throughout his body. The paintings were truly reacting so horribly, Krad really wished he knew why it was so harsh of a punishment. Krad had reached his destination and as he thought, Daisuke was standing in front of the painting Krad's mother had painted.
"Dais...uke!" Satoshi struggled saying and Daisuke turned to both of them and Satoshi panicked inside, seeing blood pour over Daisuke's head and around his eyes, dripping on the rich carpet. Krad glared, glad that he always had a type of protection with him as supported Satoshi with one hand and held the other hand to protect the two. Niwa's eyes were so blank, the hump in his back was growing bigger,
"NO!" Krad yelled as the paintings colors threw themselves out of their paintings, leaving only blank canvases and forming a large colored sphere right above Daisuke, threatening Krad and daring him to make another move.
"Hehehe"
Krad threw his head around to spot who had made the giggle, it was Daisuke for his mouth hadn't thrown open...the magic all around being so chaotic,
"A ghost." Krad realized as Satoshi yelled as a sudden emerge of pain came rushing throughout all of his body. Krad growled and had to place Satoshi down, which the ball threw colors that did enough damage to go straight through Krad's body. Krad had managed to stay up though, glaring at the colors and spreading his arms open, little gold fingers appeared out of nowhere as it seemed as the colored ball through another barrage. Krad counter-attacked with an even larger ball that formed through all the gold mechanics. The room exploded with light, shape shifting to darkness as it had blown the electronics all around the area.
"Hehehe..."
Krad frowned at the voice, but the colors disappeared, he knew well, but what about the ghost? Krad stumbled with one of his gold fingers and a small little light appeared from the very helpful mechanics.
"Hiwatari-kun?" Krad focused the light over to his precious to see Niwa worrying over him, his eyes were no longer blank but the blood was still dripping but Daisuke didn't seem to notice.
"Niwa." Krad stared jealously as Satoshi looked up to Daisuke and Krad twitched with more jealously as Satoshi gave Daisuke a struggled smile,
"Hiwatari-kun...what happened?" Daisuke asked, "I...I don't remember anything asides from leaving your room." Satoshi stared quietly at Daisuke and Krad frowned, staring around to look at the paintings. All of the paintings were blank...except for one, the blessed one made by Krad's own mother. Krad growled as he heard a very loud barrage of knocking,
"Niwa, clean yourself up, I have a feeling that's your brother." Krad quickly demanded and at first Daisuke didn't' know what he meant but yelped as he felt his own forehead and he swiped away the blood and brushed his hair down as much as possible to cover it. Krad helped Satoshi up, who declined it at first but found he could move at all and Krad stared back to the painting and he heard the same giggling,
"Hehehe."
Damn ghost.
When they made it to the front and opened the door, Dark had came in, barraging Daisuke and holding him protectively and asking him questions. Daisuke answered cheerfully and said the stay was fun. Dark gave two quick long glares at both Krad and Satoshi,
"I'll see you tomorrow, right Hiwatari-kun?" Daisuke commented. Tomorrow? What would tomorrow hold? Satoshi had half the mind just to stay home because of the overwhelming pain he was experiencing, that and he would have to find out what the deal was with that hall...Satoshi knew Krad held some answers and he would help Krad out into figuring the whole mystery, so why?
"Yeah, see you tomorrow," Daisuke and Dark moved out and under a whispered breath Satoshi muttered, "Daisuke..."
There is a long round of silence throughout the whole room, "Holy crap."
"I know, I didn't attend it to be that long."
"I think you didn't attend to do that in the first place."
"...Oh you're right." I blink, staring at the story with wide eyes. "What I originally tended to do with this chapter was make it a short funny skit...but it turned out to be a revealing of-" I'm stopped by A-sama, who glares at me,
"Now M-chan, you don't want to reveal to your fans what the future part of the story is going to be about, do you?" I shake my head no and she smiles, letting me go. I shake and shudder,
"To the reviews!"
Lady Samurai
"Well in a way, he does. Kind of, see Satoshi doesn't really like the relationship that Krad keeps pushing him into. Also since Satoshi is created of Krad's genes, it would be called that of incest...right no anyway, I have plans later..." I chuckle evilly.
Les Scribbles
"OH MY GOD! M-CHAN FAINTED!"
"What? Why?"
"It's the author of Fragile! That's why!"
"...Well then how are we going to give this review?"
"M-chan left me a note." Daisuke points it out, holding up the script of what I wanted to say,
"How did she do that?"
"She must have predicted she would have fainted, so she wrote a note for the reviews."
"...Oh..."
"Ahem, here's what the note says, M-chan is greatly honored to have been reviewed by you (since she loves your fic so much, she's just so lazy and doesn't want to say anything embarrassing on how much she loves the story)." A coughs a bit then looks back at the note, "She is very happy that you enjoyed the few parts with the characters and is just as happy that you liked how she made the characters, she was afraid of making them too OOC, anyway M-chan thanks you so much for reviewing her story, it inspired her..." A looks back at the story, "Oh heavens did it inspire her..."
White Phoenix Eternal
Dark twitches but stares at my body, chuckling evilly and A rolls her eyes, "M-chan says you may have a Krad clone," she hands one that looks similar to Satoshi, "And is glad that you enjoyed the last chapter. Hopefully you enjoyed this one too...and she is very pleased that she can do whatever she wants to Dark because he had hit her quite a few times awhile back."
"Hey, there's a difference between hit on, and hitting!"
"Right."
"Is she still fainted?"
"She's so weak." D shrugs,
"Well hope you enjoyed this chapter!"
Translation Notes:
Oyasumi: Goodnight
Kawaii-desu: Very very cute.
Gomen Nasai: One of the proper ways of saying "I'm sorry"