"ACK!" D is playing a game of checkers with Daisuke, they both look up as I run quickly, covering my head on the way.
"What was that about?" Daisuke points behind D so she turns only to sigh as A comes with an axe, chasing me.
"M-chan's been working on a long-one shot."
"Ohhh...that would also explain why she wasn't working on this."
"DAISUKE! HELP ME!" Daisuke just plugs his ears as I pass by them again, crying.
"Oh sigh...M-chan doesn't own DNAngel, and please enjoy."
"WHY DO YOU ALL HATE ME?"
"GET BACK HERE M-CHAN!"
Hello, Clone of Me
XI.
UGH! How embarrassing! Daisuke could only think, a dark blush consuming his face as they had finally landed and he needed to go to the bathroom. Towa, Risa, and Menou had found out about his "growth" stages and cooed at him cutely in the embarrassing him as they declared it out to the world that Daisuke had his first erection. (A/N: Don't look at me that way! I watch comedy central! That word is perfectly legal!) It was just so...embarrassing! Daisuke held his head as he made it to the mirror within the bathroom, staring at his very red face. Daisuke sighed then looked around in the foreign bathroom, recognizing that it wasn't that different then back home.
"Hey Daisuke, you okay?" Ah, here was Dark. Daisuke smiled up at him but then froze as memories of his dream passed his mind. NONONONONONO! It was wrong, besides Daisuke loved Satoshi!
"I'm fine," Daisuke said quietly, turning back to the mirror to stare at his reflection. A shudder treaded itself across Daisuke's spine as he could feel his wing begging to be let out after being cramped into a shirt for so long. Dark noticed this (as the wing was threatening to break out from the shirt to be free) and stood in front of the bathroom door, blockading it from anyone entering it. "Thanks Dark." Daisuke said, taking his shirt off quickly so his wing could breath. The two occupants of the bathroom stared as the wingspread out, bursting out as feathers fell to the floor tiles of the bathroom. Daisuke sighed, the pain didn't reside there any longer, and his wing wasn't complaining.
"..." Dark narrowed his gaze, staring quietly at the wing, that was very strange..."Daisuke, do you think your wing has grown?" Daisuke looked over at Dark, a curious look upon his face,
"Do I think it's grown?" Daisuke repeated to make sure that was what the question Dark had asked. Dark simply nodded and Daisuke looked at his wing. One thing you should know about Daisuke's wings, they didn't start out too long or the type of an arch-angel, they were actually pretty small if you were comparing them to those type of wings. When they started out, they started from his shoulder and ended up near his waist, but now..."I think so..." Daisuke said softly, noticing some new strange feathers at the end of his long wing, feathers that were more of a dark blue then black.
"Daisuke as soon as we get to a safe place, I'm going to have to exam those feathers." Daisuke nodded timidly, a bit confused on the new feathers but said nothing as his wing cooed and flouted around, waiting patiently to back to its cage for awhile.
Daisuke Daisuke spared a quick glance to the new figure behind him, not at all afraid or unexpecting of the figure. Dark started to walk out and Daisuke followed him after putting his shirt on, bracing himself for his wings to complain once again. Daisuke replied back in his mind,
'Yes?'
Hiwatari...is not doing well... Daisuke froze for a second, but continued after Dark, making up an excuse as his brother told him to hurry up.
'What do you mean?' The figure that was behind him was now striding aside, matching each of Daisuke's steps with ease.
...He is...suffering... Daisuke was getting tired of this and the colors sensed this, and Daisuke couldn't help but smile as the figure besides him yelled as it was hit with another force.
Quit going around circles Tones!
Ow! God damn it! You're still the damnest mean hiter Colors! Daisuke sighed and looked at the two besides him, looking like he was looking at a souvenir shop. Both figures looked very feminine, yet also boyish (Kinda like a Fushighi Yugi style if you could imagine). The one addressed as Tones had long shining white hair that was tied in three strange braids that had an angelic pendant in each ribbon, the eyes were a cold silver shade, and though it was wearing rather girly clothing so one would usually assume it was a girl, though a very lack of chest for a tall being such as herself could be male. The other one known as Colors had short spiky hair that resembled the colors of rainbows in every string in its hair, it had brilliant purple eyes and was wearing a slim body of armor (Daisuke didn't know why, but it was probably because Colors was very paranoid). Colors was more obvious of being a man with the leather armor but his face was very pretty...
'Please tell me what's going on.' Daisuke begged in his mind as Dark passed through Tones ("How Rude!") and grabbed Daisuke's hand to lead him around the airport and back to the family. The two strange entities chased after him, frowning slightly as they thought on how to tell Daisuke about Satoshi's current situation.
The only thing we can truly tell you Dai-chan, Tones gave Colors an exaggerated disgusted look as Colors said this Is that you need to find him quickly.
'How is Krad-kun?' Both of them froze, not expecting that question at all. Tones threw Colors a questioning glance and Colors simply mouthed to the very feminine person that he'd tell her later. Tones then sighed and folded her arms, her light purple satin T-shirt brushing against her arms,
He is not doing well either.
'I thought so.' Daisuke smiled a sad smile and glanced up at Dark, the man had actually lost his way, and not able to understand the map they had for the airport. Daisuke had to point where the terminal and exit and they continued their journey.
Why the curiosity, Dai-chan? Again with the look, Colors would have to talk to her later.
'...' Daisuke just gave a mysterious smile and straight back into reality, ignoring the two as they were greeted by the family, and the teasings of Risa, Towa, Menou, and the now-joining Takai.
...I think...we have a bond... Tones blinked curiously then stared back at Daisuke and grinned happily,
For once Colors-chan, I think you're right. Tones then clapped, looking very determined, We have to go give Satoshi-sama some company!
I thought he didn't believe in us.
He doesn't. Tones pouted at Colors, who rose his eyebrows as the female-looking entity as she placed her arms around his arm, But he's still alone until Daisuke comes and gets him.
Ohhh, I see...
Ladies first. Colors scoffed and shook his head as they disappeared into a mysterious light, traveling more then likely to Satoshi-sama
"Satoshi-sama?" Rio tilted her head a bit as the other wasn't eating. Rio had begged her mother and father if she could have breakfast with the angel and they agreed after many bribes. Rio was concerned, though she didn't show it very much physically, she was still feeling the foreign feeling of being worried. Rio Hiwatari knew what happened the night before, it was blatantly obvious with the stitches on Satoshi's neck and his blank eyes, but now the boy was basically refusing to eat! Rio smiled a bit as he saw her mouth at her as though he could still speak.
What? Of course, Rio didn't understand what he was saying, having never really paid attention to what someone's lips could form to ask a simple question. But she assumed and hoped that she was going to say the correct thing
"Aren't you hungry?" Rio frowned as Satoshi quickly shook his head. Now that was a brunch of crap and she knew it, the boy had not ate since Krad force-feed him (which was entertaining as she watched from afar) yesterday morning. Rio frowned and picked up Satoshi's plate and threw it straight at his face. Satoshi was bizarred by this act as the harsh plate made a loud clang throughout the empty eating room. The plate soon fell to his lap and he stared stunned at the girl, "HAHA! I know some of that slipped in your mouth!" Crazy girl! She was worse then Takai (Though Takai had a reason since she didn't really know better)! Satoshi frowned but for some strange reason he couldn't help but smile inwardly. This girl was still a little girl after all...He wiped his face and placed the contents in his hand into Rio's hair. "ACK!" Rio yelled, also surprised from the out-of-character moment of Satoshi Hiwatari. "Ohhh...you're going to get it!" Rio yelled at him, grabbing her own contents and threw it in Satoshi's face, though he easily dodged and there was still the sickening sound of it hitting someone. "Ah...Krad-niichan!" Rio paled as a slop of oatmeal dripped from Krad's face.
"..." Krad gave a contained disgusted look as he swiped away the oatmeal and let it drip to the ground, raising his eye slightly, "What's going on here?" Rio blushed and looked down shamely, like a child getting caught in the act of stealing a cookie from the cookie jar.
"I was making Satoshi-sama eat Krad-niichan." Rio blushed, and scorned herself for sounding so childish but was only surprised as Krad sat next to Satoshi, sighing lightly.
"I see, Satoshi-sama," Satoshi raised his head to stare at Krad, "As much as I know how much you love being fed by me, that doesn't mean you should starve yourself for my attention." Rio blinked, confused by her older half-brother as Satoshi seemed to growl at this. Strange. Satoshi got up and started to mouth something and from his stance, Satoshi was really angry. Rio couldn't help but smile a bit as she saw more of who Satoshi was, and it somehow kind of made her feel happy...that was so strange!
"Krad-niichan..." Rio addressed him casually, blushing in a very frustrated way, feeling so much like a little kid, "I would like to confirm some rumors that have been going around." Krad rose an eyebrow and nodded at her to continue, so she did with a very hesitant breath, "I heard that you and Satoshi-sama were going to be transferred to another part of the government labs...is that true?" Krad stared, then flicked his hair casually, staring away from her,
"Mother would never let it happen." Rio smiled, having found the truth about the rumors all around the quieted lab...but...why did Krad sound so tired?
"Is there something wrong?" Rio asked, curiously at the different tones, for some reason a strange warmth was enveloping her heart. This was very strange, why and how was she feeling such a weird way? Perhaps she could ask her father later...Krad looked down at her and actually smiled, patting her head. Rio frowned at this, she wasn't...that...short...
"No, there's nothing wrong...however, you seem to be going through some changes." Krad smirked, lazily placing one eye down as though he was winking at the girl. Rio blinked slightly and a dark frustrated blush found its way to her face,
"I don't know what you're talking about!" She protested, knocking Krad's hand away from her, and pouting at Krad, quickly getting up from her seat and moving out of the room. Satoshi rose one eyebrow quietly and mouthed to Krad,
What was that about?
Krad grinned at Satoshi, and just leaned against the blunette. Satoshi did nothing to move away from Krad's strange kind of embrace, Krad knew why too...and was inwardly glad for it that Satoshi's condition wasn't worsening, and they were working on a cure for Satoshi.
"The same thing that keeps happening to you, you keep growing up my Satoshi-sama." Satoshi glared a bit as Krad held him closer, placing his chin on Satoshi's very blue hair. Satoshi still didn't move though as his wings splitted a bit and moved foreword so Krad could comfortably hold the teenager. "Satoshi-sama, I love you, I hope you know that." Satoshi's gaze waried, as an attempt to sigh came from his mouth. Satoshi became tense as he remembered how frustrating this was, he couldn't even make a sound from his mouth!
Thank you Krad...
Satoshi still muttered though, feeling tired against the warm contact of Krad. Krad was all he had, and he kept misunderstanding the older man who was just trying his best to comfort him...A flash of memories passed through Satoshi's unending eyes and all he could do was pinch his glasses in impatience, mouthing a few more choice words as Krad just held him. This warmth...it was so nice to feel...Satoshi couldn't believe that it was beside him the entire time...Satoshi couldn't help but put his cold gaze into an awkward smile.
I love you too.
"Hyup!" A loud cry came as one ruby-brunette-haired girl jumped from the many roofs of the city. Though she was very small for her five years of age, she was still very graceful, especially as she almost slipped. She gained balance easily and jumped to the next rooftop nearby. Emiko Niwa sighed, brushing back her short hair with a pout, "Rio-san said she would come pick me up..." Emiko sighed and plopped down, staring up to the almost full moon, wondering what would happen to her older brother and friends. A shy smile came to Emiko's face as she remembered of what happened about two years ago.
Two years ago she was found in a cold blanket, dripping full of water that came from the sky and she had also looked like she may have drowned earlier. But in truth it had been raining very harshly earlier that morning. It was cold, but she didn't really realize it, having lived with cold conditions for the short time she had been alive. Abandonment, for some reason she felt that nobody care and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to find her...after running away from that...that...thing.
"Eh?" Emiko blinked, if that was her name, she didn't really remember, she had taken many hits to the head earlier. When Emiko looked up she saw another little girl, she was holding a short umbrella that she used to prevent the rain coming in to her skin.
"...?" Emiko tilted her head as the other girl had done the same,
"What are you doing out here?" Emiko blinked slightly, confused on what these words meant. Emiko had never head many words in her life, just a few known cuss words, but even then she didn't understand them. Emiko tried opening her mouth and replied back,
"What are you doing out here?" The other girl seemed stunned for a second, then giggled slightly,
"I asked you first, silly!" Emiko was about to speak again but there was an overlooking figure that shadowed the two easily,
"Rio, what are you doing?" Rio? That was this girl's name? Rio looked up to the man with a small innocent smile, it kind of made Emiko slightly uneasy,
"Daddy, I've found a friend!" ...A...friend...? What did these words mean? Rio's father smiled a bit, but then his eyes narrowed slightly as he took his daughter away. Emiko stared...helpless and she didn't know what she could possibly say for this, she had no knowledge whatsoever. They were disappearing, no.
"W-wa...wait...I don't-" They disappeared slowly, their slow clomps of footsteps echoing in the area, Emiko started to feel something dripping from her eyes. Ah...water! No, please, no more water! "I don't want to be alone!" She called out to them, struggling to stand up with the thick blanket still clinging to her, "I...I," She fell, tears still pouring as much as she hated them, her legs were shot. "PLEASE! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!" Emiko begged, wondering where these strange words came to mouth, but the overbearing darkness that was holding herself within her chest. It was terrible! They disappeared from her sight and Emiko racked out tears, her injuries straining her small body even more. Emiko sniffed as she felt the coldness of the cries of the heavens upon her damp hair once again but then the sound of a loud pitter-patter came and she looked up alarmed.
"Mommy says its okay if you come to stay with us!" Emiko stared, her eyes brightening a bit with more tears as she hugged Rio's legs as that was all the strength she had.
"Thank you! Thank you!"
It wasn't until they took her in and told her clearly who she was that she understood what happened to her and why. She was the half-sister of the legendary Dark Mousy and what she had gone through was known as child abuse and she was known as a guest within the household. Emiko wasn't quite sure what this had meant but she enjoyed the company of Rio and kept herself within check as the Hiwatari family seemed to have found her abilities in grace.
A smile came to Emiko as she rested quietly against the roof-tops but then a slight frown came as she looked down, spotting a familiar person,
"Oye! What are you up to this time?" Emiko scorned down to the man who was also scouring the rooftops. The man looked up at her with slight sad eyes,
"Hello Emiko-chan." A dark blush spread to Emiko's face as she scorned the man slightly,
"Don't call me that! What are you doing here anyway?"
"Oh you know, a little thieving here and there, helping ending a war, you know the regular stuff." Emiko frowned and jumped down to the older man, holding her arms slightly as it was getting colder around.
"What do you mean?" Emiko asked, a little confused as the man brushed back his spiky hair.
"Do you remember the tale of the Colors and Tones that I told you a long time ago?" Emiko nodded shortly, jumping up slightly at the man offered his hand to help the girl jump a five-foot drop so they could walk in the streets of the town once again.
"Yes, but what does that have anything to with a war?" The man laughed slightly, just shaking his head easily, and giving the younger girl a reassuring smile,
"Don't worry about it Emiko-chan, you'll find out later...well Rio-chan should be coming soon anyway, it's taking her so long because they have to find an inconspicuous way of picking you up." Emiko sighed, knowing that as the truth then yelled as the man jumped off and away,
"HEY! KOSUKE! YOU GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" Kosuke laughed at her and continued jumping away, smiling a very genuine and gentle smile, as he continued down the pathway to hide himself from Emiko as the young girl chased after him with a frustrated blush.
Dark growled once again, overly frustrated as he was alone with Daisuke in a hotel room, the two not feeling well enough to go transfer yen into dollar bills and eat out. Dark had just gone through teaching Daisuke the more...embarrassing part of growing up and a blush came to Dark's mind. He had discussed it in such an immature way that it embarrassed him just so much!
"Daisuke, are you sure you're okay?" Dark towered over Daisuke for a second, staring quietly as the boy stayed laid on his stomach. Daisuke moaned and moved a bit to face Dark, their eyes met quietly and blushes spread to their cheeks for unknown reasons,
"Yeah, I'm fine, I just don't feel like eating."
"You haven't eaten in three days though!" Dark moaned, surprising Daisuke by jumping into the bed next to him, "I'm not going to have to force-feed you, am I?" Dark stared over at Daisuke and blinked slightly as the other was blushing darkly...it wasn't until a few seconds when the thought pattern penetrated Dark's skull. He yelled slightly and started to shake his hands about, "That's not what I meant of course! I-I um..." Dark stopped voicing his opinion as he looked down at Daisuke, weird feelings spread through his chest. Dark was a little frustrated, why was he acting like an awkward teenager on their first date? after all, he knew Daisuke all of the younger one's life, and Daisuke basically felt like another piece of him but...ah what was Dark thinking? Ah but whatever, right?
"Dark...you had dreams when you were growing up right?"
"Ah...you mean...those kind of dreams." Daisuke nodded very slowly, a blush overcoming his face awkwardly as he avoided Dark's stare. Dark nodded and laid back down against the wall, uncomfortable on how the beds were set but it wasn't so bad when Daisuke was next to him...AUGH! There he went again! It's not like thought Daisuke was attractive in...that way! No way! Daisuke was cute! No wait! That's not what he meant either! AUGH!
'Awww, how cute. Dark's finally confronting his feelings about Daisuke. How adorable'
'Who the heck are you?'
'You...err...well, kind of. Call me the Demon Subconscious.' Dark fumbled with his mind for a second then sighed as an exaggeration,
'Please tell me there's an 'Angel' Subconscious.'
'You do know that this is not an Inuyasha fanfic!''AHA! So you DO like Daisuke!'
'I'm not talking to you anymore.'
'Yeah, it's bad enough being in love with Krad, but not Daisuke! You pedophile!'
'I thought you were a part of me!'
'I'm not the pedophile!'
'...' Dark stared at Daisuke, who was also staring at him with semi-wide eyes. What? It wasn't like Daisuke heard what was going in the deep recess of his mind! (A/N: A Dark in denial is a funny thing) Daisuke then continued his sentence as though waiting for some magical look from Dark,
"Um...what does it mean...ah...nevermind." Daisuke trailed off and moved a bit as he was slipping from the blankets and getting nearer to Dark. Dark sighed a bit and got off from his spot on Daisuke's mattress, making the boy slip up from the sudden weight change,
"Alright, but you know Daisuke, you can tell me whatever you want to..." Dark then noticed Daisuke didn't have his wing out as it was brushing against Daisuke's tight shirt, "Why aren't your-" Dark trailed as Daisuke quickly pointed to a camera on the walls of the room. Dark narrowed his eyes softly and with a slight hold of his hand, he clicked unto the button of the gloves he held and blew the camera up. Daisuke sighed as the slight debris fell with an electronic mess but made no real mess and took his shirt off to give the freedom his wings asked for.
"Um...Dark..." Daisuke started, looking up to the older man as he started to clean up the mess he made,
"Yeah?" Daisuke smiled and took the blankets, brushing them slightly against his lips with a slight blush,
"Thank you." Dark faced Daisuke and smiled as the redhead laid back down, sleeping for the time being. Dark stood up and kissed Daisuke on the forehead once again,
"You're welcome, my little angel."
'You are such a romantic.'
'Shut up.'
"So how's the research coming Takeshi?" Towa asked, tilting her head slightly as Risa took a sip from her soda. Takeshi sighed, brushing back his strange hair as Takai grabbed the strange bit that held up, cutely bubbling with a squeal.
"Not so good actually. While the government of America is pretty open, they don't even seem to know much about the truth. There have been no records of an illegal transition of immigrants within the area."
"Well maybe they were born here, so they wouldn't need any green-cards." Risa sipped her soda again as Takeshi yelled as his daughter pulled bits of his hair. Risa giggled, grinning,
"Careful Saehara, she's in the hair-pulling stages."
"Careful Harada, I might launch her on you." Takeshi glared back as they were thrown into an immature glaring match as Menou and Towa sighed.
"This is a serious matter here!" Towa shouted, standing up and attracting the looks of many people, only for them to turn away and ignore her.
"To-to, sit down or I'll have to hurt you." Menou threatened slightly as she fed Takai a piece of the pepperoni from a rather cheesy, greasy, pizza. Takai giggled and ate it happily as Towa sat down, looking depressed as her fun was spoiled. Risa sipped her soda once again, holding herself up as she stared over at Takashi a tad-bit uneasily,
"Something wrong?" Risa shook her head, a frown coming to her face,
"No, nothing is wrong at all."
"Well alright then, Takeshi would you be able to find any funding of any illegal activities?"
"I'll try, doubt I'll find something interesting. America is always full of crimes like that."
"Beautiful." Towa muttered, holding her face as she took a bite from the pizza once again. The whole group nodded and slightly smiled at each other and continued as though they were a normal family.
"You've been hanging around them a lot more often." Risa blinked over at her sister as Riku grinned down at her slightly. Risa was a bit puzzled by Riku's change in attitude but nodded numbly, grinning slightly,
"Yeah, I know."
"Why?" Riku questioned slightly, hoping to hear the correct answer she wanted from her sister mouth. Risa shrugged, leaning against the crystal that contained her sister. Well that was as good of an answer as any, Riku rolled her eyes and leaned against her crystal again.
"Hey Riku..." Riku picked herself up a bit as Risa had a tone that was a bit curious, so she continued, "When was the first time you smelled death as an immortal?" Riku slightly froze at that question, why was Risa asking such a morbid question? Riku looked away for a second, thinking of the first time and she frowned darkly.
"Our first time restarting."
"I thought so." Risa's head dunked down a bit and Riku tilted her head in question, then slowly understood. Before, for the thousands of years they had been awake as immortals. she was always ignorant to the other powerful senses around her. Depression, suicide, gray, anger, people yelling thoughts to themselves so loud that it would make you collapse under mental strain, and death. Riku was always the one who sensed this, her immortal lives always hurt so much because she would hear every strain of life. It was always terrible thing to live in those conditions, but what made her keep going was Risa and her ignorance.
"So how have you been doing?" Riku asked otherwise, though knew the answers as she could feel the tense air outside of the crystal. A shudder escaped down her back as a small smile appeared, Risa was at least caring for what happened to people around her now...that was good...right?
"Takeshi is going to die soon." Riku frowned as she heard Risa's resonated sigh throughout the room.
"Oh? How?" Risa looked up for a second, her eyes becoming hazy and dark, an automatic voice placed as she opened her mouth,
"Takeshi has a disease, a disease the doctors won't tell him what it's about and he hasn't told his wife or friends. He will die in 2.7 days with a 76." Risa's eyes became active again as tears started to pour down, "Stupid Saehara." Riku smiled a saddened smile,
"They need to know."
"Yeah, Dark could come up with a cure."
"No...they need to know so they don't feel angry about his death. They deserve to know because they are his family." Risa looked up to Riku, a foreign expression on the younger Harada as she stood up timidly. "How is Hiwatari?" Risa froze, clenching her teeth in anger,
"They keep tormenting him...the evil bastards. I hope we find them soon." Risa growled in determination, holding her first angrily to the sky as she started to walk off, "I'll give them ALL a piece of my mind! Especially that...that...bitch!" Riku couldn't help but laugh out loud as her little sister exited the area. A rare smile since she entered the crystal came to her face,
"Yeah, you go Risa!" She shouted, despite she knew the only way her twin could hear was if their psychic connection was open again. "She's doing so much better...maybe I was wrong...maybe this time we will finally catch up."
Silence, deep and utter silence...is what Dark wished he had as he covered his ears with Daisuke's pillow as the screaming family wide awake and wanting to go sight-seeing. Hadn't they already seen enough? And it was bad enough with the city being so damn loud! Dark growled once again as he held the pillow tighter to his ears, answering mumbled replies to all their questions. Lucky Daisuke, sometimes the boy could just sleep through stampeding elephants.
"Come on guys! Leave Dark alone! It's time we go to bed anyway, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow!"
"This time change sucks!" Takeshi yelled as he quickly got into bed, Menou following after him as she helped little Takai in the same bed with Risa, immediately Takai gripped Risa's hair and didn't earn a complain from the older girl (except of course when she teared pieces of it out, Risa yelled so loud it wasn't funny).
"Good night everyone!" Towa shouted as she jumped on her own separate bed, sighing happily as she comforted herself against the warm blankets. Dark waited for the complete and utter silence within the darkness before he got up, stretching a bit. It had been awhile, but he needed to go out to the black market. Although he knew Takashi could easily do this in the morning, Dark would have to check with the Japanese quadrant. Dark looked around quietly then whispered,
"With! With!" There was a slight sound as the white rabbit flier came tumbling from the darkness out from Dark's backpack and Dark was surprised to find Krad's shapeshifter as well following him. "Wiz? What are you doing here?" Dark demanded as though he would get an answer as he picked up both fliers. The dark shapeshifter just made the same 'Kyuu' sound that With always made and stared up to Dark with dark blue eyes. Dark sighed and moved outside the room quietly, looking back only once as both rabbits placed themselves upon Dark's shoulders, his gaze softened slightly as he stared at Daisuke and quietly shut the door. It didn't take Dark long before he was out, both shapeshifters taking one wing upon his shoulder, the usual black that With turned into and the strange white that Wiz would.
"Hahahahaha!" Laughter spread as Dark landed down to an open door-window as infectious laughter continued to spread throughout the room. Dark smirk slightly as he leaned against the wooden spread, staring at the laughing figures.
"Oh you're just so charming!"
"Have you really met the mysterious Phantom Thief Dark?" Dark blinked as he heard his name spoken from the gentle giggles of a woman. The dealer he wanted to talk to was surrounded with woman, drinking champagne and wine, and as annoyed as Dark was he couldn't find him alone, it was still an amusing thought to see what was his own latest gossip.
"Oh yes, I'm a chief supplier of how he gets to one place to the other!" Dark rolled his eyes, true he had given him the components of making With, but that not really mean he was being truthful.
"Oh wow! That's amazing!" Once again Dark rolled his eyes and mused himself with images of Daisuke, Krad, and even Satoshi, all three in the morning...yeah, Krad and Satoshi were always wonderful to bug...kehehehehe...
"Yeah...so, would you girls like to see my equipment." Dark sighed, and jumped down, surprising the small room full of people, both shapeshifters transforming back into their flier forms and stared around the room with wide-eyes.
"Hey, how are you doing?" Everyone gapped, even the long-time dealer, especially when Dark charmingly pushed his hair back. "Hey, Kazuki, I need to talk to you for a bit." The dealer growled, then sighed,
"Sorry ladies, I'm afraid we'll have to save this moment for another time." The two women stared with wide-eyes as Kazuki pushed them out with a very regretful. Dark smirked a bit,
"Still trying to get a woman in your bed every night, eh, Kazuki?"
"Shut up, whatcha need Dark?"
"Info." Dark sat down, and With jumped down, sniffing around as though looking for food. Wiz followed With with a slightly curious look as Dark stared at the bottles of wine.
"Oh really?" Kazuki replied with a gruff voice, wondering around the house, searching for something. "What kind of info?" Dark grinned as the much older man pulled out a cigarette and lighter,
"The American Science Government, I was wondering if they did any transferring recently." Kazuki blew some smoke, folding his arms slightly as he stared over at Dark.
"I don't know Dark, that'll take awhile to get." Dark narrowed his gaze slightly and kicked With as the rabbit-like animal started to chew at the ends of an old forgotten piece of toast,
"How long?" Kazuki looked up, blowing a bit more spoke as he frowned, staring at the ceiling. Kazuki kept pausing the and room was completely was silent,
"Two days." Dark smirked a bit and stood up. With kyuued and moaned as he jumped on Dark's shoulder while Wiz took the other,
"Alright, I'll be back in two more days."
"Hey Dark." Dark blinked, looking at Kazuki as the old man grinned,
"What?"
"Daisuke's getting the age that he's really cute...just don't do anything I wouldn't do, remember, he isn't legal until he's sixteen." Dark stared at Kazuki with wide-eyes and a frustrated blush couldn't help but wonder to his face,
"I'M NOT LIKE YOU!" Dark yelled, flying away in a huffy mood, making Kazuki laugh as he flew away.
Satoshi, for once in his life, couldn't help but stare in a very dull way as two spirits spun around him, yelling at each other on the top of their lungs...and he was the only one who could see them. Oh yeah, that was going to convince him he was completely sane!
STOP IT! Satoshi yelled them but to no avail, they continued growling at each other and hitting each other. Satoshi was getting exhausted just looking at them, how annoying! They were FAR worse then Dark and Krad put together in the morning! Satoshi stared for a few more seconds, then looked away, deciding staring at walls would be much more fun. A few minutes of frustrating noises of an argument went by and Satoshi just attempted to sigh, deciding it would be best just to listen to his mind and sink into a strange position sleeping. It wasn't until Satoshi hit the wall he was staring at when Colors and Tones stopped arguing.
"See, I told you it would work!" Colors sighed, holding his head a bit in a headache,
"It seems you were right...but I found it completely annoying..." Tones scoffed Colors off and moved towards Satoshi with a very loving smile, "Kind of sad that he doesn't accept you like Daisuke does..." Tones frowned darkly at the mention and just sighed, nodding slowly.
"I know..." She replied softly, placing Satoshi slowly down as she gritted her teeth in concentration, flinching as she lifted the soft sheets of the blanket to cover Satoshi.
"Hey, don't strain yourself!" Colors said, getting closer to the girl, as she fell to the ground from the lack of energy that she used, "You should have let me do it, because Satoshi-sama doesn't accept you, you don't have the powers from the organisms in him!" Colors explained a little, helping her up as she continued to lean against him.
"I know. I know...I just...wanted to do something, you know...to prove that I'm still here. It's unbelievable that I'm here in a spirit form, the last time we've been in these forms have been over centuries!" Colors smiled and leaned a bit against the other slightly,
"I know. It has been a really long time, I'm glad that we're alive again. You know...we have to give our best." Tones nodded in a very determined way, then looked very weakened again, sighing as she continued to lean against Colors.
"Good night Satoshi-sama. Sweet Dreams" Colors smirked at this and Tones actually had the strength to elbow him in the stomach, "Not those kind of dreams! Pervert! You still haven't changed!" She yelled at him, getting a strange determination to face him angrily. Colors laughed then stared down at her and Tones blushed slightly as he stared with the weird exotic eyes,
"True, but you've always loved that part of me, no?" He gripped her jaw and Tones blushed as they were put into a sweet kiss.
A growl of frustration actually escaped from Krad as his gazed furrowed foreword. Loud clicking of a keyboard and the neon glow of a computer surrounded the room as Krad pushed back part of his blonde hair, looking very frustrated, mainly at himself as he clenched his arm tightly. His skin clenched on him as Krad found the relaxing sign of white against his peach skin. A loud sigh overcame the older blonde as he found the strange sensation of staring at his skin.
Nearly broke, yet no where near an actual piercing to see the fascinating blood dripping out from his own admitted scar. Krad did not cut or anything that would permanently self-mutilate him, but Krad was one that enjoyed being on the edge every once in awhile. Krad enjoyed the fear of his own skin breaking and pain dripping into his subconscious when he caused it to himself. Pain from outer forces though...
Krad growled again as he pushed his hair once again, sighing as he stared at the new files taken on Satoshi's blood. They had been taken a day before, his blood type in itself didn't change, but...Krad narrowed his gaze slightly, it was...like Satoshi's blood was...mutating. This, Krad did not know how to explain at all, even in the simple 'fantasy' sense that he kept sensing from the magic coming around the limited area. Krad sighed, turning in his turnable chair and stared at the inventions.
It was no where impressive as Dark's lab, but they seemed to be trying to mimic the dark-haired man's genius, but Krad smirked a bit, seeing that they continued to get failures. Krad held his head slightly, a bit curious if Daisuke seemed to also be mutating, the only proof Krad could get if Daisuke was doing well was locked up and sealed in an airtight security not even his mother would be able to get through.
'Hm...' Krad couldn't help but wonder, his head staring up to the cold ceiling, as he quietly queried to himself, 'Why am I so worried about Daisuke?' True, the charming red-head and buried a place in Krad's heart as Dark and Satoshi had, but the strange thing was that Krad did not seem to mind at all. When Krad had first met Daisuke, he thought the redhead was the source of all the things that had gone wrong in their childhood, Dark slowly forgetting him completely, Satoshi's infatuation with the cheery redhead, and other things that Krad no real reason to blame Daisuke in the first place.
But then...then he started to get to know the boy a lot better, got to see the smiles that erupted from his face as the entire family had fun from the entire day.
Family.
This was basically a foreign word to Krad, what was really a family? What people saw now a day's as family was the people who gave you birth, or cared for you while you were growing up. But really...Krad cared for himself most of the time he was growing up, and not just himself, but Satoshi as well. The ten years alone they had spent alone, they never even thought of being considered as a family to each other, but...
Dark had changed that as usual. Krad couldn't help but smile as a fond memory of when he and Dark met, Dark had the power to change anything with a single word...something he passed upon Daisuke, no doubt. Family...Memories of laughing, cherished warmed moments that was followed with hugs and teasing kisses...a family...Krad couldn't help but smile to himself as he thought of the happiness that came from the short three years of living with the 'Niwa' family...Krad folded his hands silently and couldn't help but continue smile the bittersweet smile.
"Seems like I have enough room in my heart for even more people..."
Daisuke stood, his eyes wide in fear and terror as he stared at the waging war...why was he seeing this? Why was there so much pain and sorrow? Why? For once Daisuke wouldn't have minded if even dream Dark bothered him from this nightmare. So much pain, betrayal, it all hurt so much...why was this happening?
"Daisuke." Daisuke looked up from the mass of blood and terror to see a savior walking through the ill-gotten terror of the blood bath. Daisuke stared with wide eyes as Riku Harada continued walking through the evil and as she stepped the grass behind her would recover. Riku stopped six feet away from Daisuke, looking quite strained.
"Riku-san?" Daisuke asked, tears welling up in his eyes as Riku also seemed to come close to doing the same.
"Daisuke...this will probably happen soon. A war between governments, countries, human beings and super natural beings, not born of normal circumstances." Riku looked over to the evil dark skies as they started to drip water down, daring to bother the two.
"A war...?" Daisuke frowned and stared blankly as the terrorizing screams spread everywhere, crying for mercy or victory, it shook Daisuke to the core.
"It's a choice." Daisuke furrowed his gaze slightly over at Riku in slight confusion, "A choice that's up to you and Hiwatari-kun...only you two can stop this from possibly happening."
"So you've come to warn me?" Riku blinked from Daisuke's soft tone, and Riku was stunned as a change overtook the entire area, the sky cleared up and grass grew over all of the bodies, the blood faded and it was just a large garden. Riku stared and then looked slowly at Daisuke and was surprised what she saw, "A warning...thank you Riku-" Daisuke trailed off of his sentence as Riku started to step back in fear, "What's wrong?"
"Don't..." Riku struggled, feeling her soul in pain as she tried to get away, but each step she took back caused more and more pain. Riku fell to the ground and stared up at Daisuke as the redhead stared back with soft confusing eyes, "The angel of death..." Riku stared widely, her eyes fading into a colorless brown as her soul disappeared from the dream,
"Riku-san!" Daisuke tried to walk foreword but frowned as he could now do nothing. Daisuke stared quietly at the garden then looked down at himself, freezing as he saw black swirls surrounding the palms of his hands while more black swirls of tattoos surrounded his arm and up. Daisuke stared, his hands shaking mildly then he dropped to the ground, "Angel of...death?"
Daisuke woke up, his eyes wide for a second as he threw himself open. Daisuke surveyed his surroundings very quickly then looked up his long sleeves to see no change in the slightly turning pale skin. Daisuke sighed and looked around once again, to calm his nerves. Unfortunately it did the exact opposite, he saw bodies, deaths to come...Takashi was deathly pale and there were large green spots growing all over him, Takai was bleeding through the blanket, Menou had a noose around her neck as though choice of suicide. Daisuke tore his gaze away, freezing as he looked over at Towa's forming corpse...wings...ah...no...Daisuke held himself quietly, staring down at his blanket then was alarmed as someone touched his shoulders,
"Daisuke, what's wrong?" Dark...Oh god. Daisuke slowly looked up in terror, expecting horrible things, but the visions had passed. "Daisuke?" Dark asked, his face tilting slightly in fear from Daisuke's frozen face.
"Ah...Dark..." Daisuke muttered simply, frowning slightly as he noticed his wing treading foreword slightly. Dark frowned a bit and touched Daisuke's forehead and frowned even more,
"You have a fever, lie down." Daisuke shook his head immediately and Dark frowned again then sighed, helping Daisuke out from the bed. Dark stared as Daisuke's feathers dripped with him as he got up with a slight creek from the bed. Dark couldn't help but continue to frown as he observed more feathers on Daisuke's wing.
"They don't have onsen in America, do they Dark?" Dark frowned slightly then nodded timidly as Daisuke shook. As much as Dark wanted to know WHY Daisuke needed an onsen so badly, Dark had to get Daisuke somewhere...quick!
"Hey Daisuke, why don't we go out tonight?" Daisuke blinked, unaware of what Dark meant but Dark stood slightly tall and Daisuke blinked as With and Wiz jumped on Dark's shoulders, "Why don't we see...if you can fly?" Daisuke stared, entranced by the shape-shifter wings that came from Dark and in all of their brilliant majesty.
"...Dark..." Daisuke muttered and his eyes glazed over slightly as Dark took him to outside the balcony, With and Wiz flapping slightly making feathers spread out slightly throughout the room. Daisuke stared quietly then walked with Dark and spread his own wing proudly and jumped onto the platform and stared down at Dark proudly, "Let's fly!" Dark stared with slight surprise then grinned slightly, ready for anything to happen with Daisuke.
"Yeah." Daisuke grinned and found the satisfying feeling of jumping into the air and surprised to find that even with one wing, it had enough power to hold his weight through the flying winds. Dark grinned as Daisuke swirled around the air, enjoying himself cheerfully. Dark stared as Daisuke dunked in and out and around the whole city of lights, his eyes shining happily and so Dark smiled after, following quickly after the redhead, both laughing as the strange fresh air brushed into their systems.
What a strange feeling
Satoshi spoke, Rio and Krad were there to stare as he looked away from them, looking at a very limited light that peered through a small window.
"Satoshi-sama?" Krad asked, knowing very well that Satoshi heard him but the two continued to stare as Satoshi stood up and blocked the view of the small sun with just his head as he stared at the disconcerting light. As much as it made his eyes hurt, it strangely made him feel better.
"What's wrong with Satoshi, Krad-niichan?" Krad almost smiled at the girl, who was actually acting like a little girl around them, that was kind of cute when Krad thought about it. After all, she was just also a pawn in the grand scheme of his mother's plans...
"He probably needs to go outside...Satoshi-sama has never not been outside for so long." Krad sipped at his coffee, his eyes saddening a bit as Satoshi leaned against the sun, tilting his head slightly to bask in what little warmth came from the window.
"Wow, really?" Rio asked curiously, blinking slightly as she took a bite out of some space-age food with a spork.
"Yes, I didn't want him to be contained in a corner like I was." Rio's spork slightly fell out of her mouth when she heard these words and she stared at her half-brother with a slightly confused look.
"So you guys had a blast, did you?"
"Yes." Krad grinned and turned away to stare at Satoshi. It took a few moments of staring at the blunette before even more laughter spread across the rec-room, "Oh, look! He's fallen asleep!"
"Wow, he must be really tired." Krad laughed and Rio stared slightly, he was actually laughing...it was a very strange sound to hear, coming from the brother she barely knew she had.
"Yes, he must be. Well I should take him to a bed, sleeping against a wall won't do any good for Satoshi-sama's stature." Rio watched Krad get up then spoke quietly,
"Wait...just...a few more minutes...he actually looks...happy." Rio blushed as she said something that didn't really make any sense, especially to her. Krad looked down at the young girl and nodded, but taking Satoshi to lean against him as they both basked in the warmth of the sunlight. Rio stared, and felt strange foreign feelings surrounding in her belly, clenching on her tightly. And the only thing she could think when she stared at them was...she felt a strange kind of happiness from them...
One Day Later
"Riiioooo" Emiko begged, holding unto the older's arm sadly, as she pouted at her. "You took so long to get me and now you want to go play with your brother?" Rio blushed at Emiko's choice of words then nodded slightly,
"But you can come play too! Krad-niichan and Satoshi-kun are great!" Emiko stared blankly at her friend then smiled a bit,
"That's wonderful Rio-san!" The two hugged each other for a moment, grinning at each other happily but then separated as a tall figure stomped down from the hall and past them. For a second Kei Hiwatari stopped and looked down at his daughter and friend with a slightly confused look,
"Ah Emiko, I see you've made it back, good to have you aboard."
"Yes, thank you sir!" Emiko addressed sharply back, saluting the father with stern eyes. Rio almost giggled, but knew that wouldn't be a wise idea.
"I trust that everything is well?" Kei questioned slightly, acting up parental warmth and Emiko nodded timidly, staring quietly at the older man. Kei then nodded back to her and walked away, after a few seconds both girls sighed at the same time.
"Hm? Rio-san?" Emiko questioned slightly and Rio blushed a bit,
"Ah, it's nothing. I just...haven't liked father much lately. I know it's stupid because he raised me...but..." Emiko nodded slightly then sighed,
"So when are we going to play with your brothers?"
"Ah! That's right! Let's go!" Rio said in a determined way and grabbed Emiko, walking and dragging her cleverly as the two went into the rec-room, only to be stopped by a certain blonde kissing a certain blunette. Blushes overconsumed the girls, despite they were young, and they were mature enough to know that this was not a moment to interrupt. So they tried to creak out but they both froze as Satoshi broke Krad's incessant kiss and stared straight at the girls.
"Meep." They both muttered cutely, trying to hide behind each other but failing terribly since they were about the same height.
"Ah. Rio!" Rio whimpered slightly, her blush still consuming her face as Krad walked to her, "How are you faring little sister? And you must be Emiko." Emiko glared at Rio, who shrugged slightly as Emiko nodded almost shyly. For some reason she felt odd being underneath the fiery stare of Satoshi and the warming gaze of Krad, so these were Rio's half-brothers? They did seem and look a bit like her...so maybe they aren't bad. Emiko wasn't too sure because she had only spent one real night with them, and then they seemed very suspicious.
"Yup, my best friend! So what's today's agenda?" Rio asked, smiling cheerfully. Krad smiled a bit then looked around as though he was going to play a naughty trick,
"We're going outside today." Rio stared with wide-eyes and Emiko blinked, even Satoshi seemed a little surprised by this, "The fresh air will do all of us some good, besides, if I remember correctly there's a quiet park not too far from here."
"Park?" Rio and Emiko questioned, their eyebrows going up slightly in confusion of the word. Krad grinned and grabbed Satoshi slightly, grinning down at the two still.
"That's right a park. Come Satoshi-sama." Satoshi rolled his eyes slightly but his eyes glittered against his glasses as Satoshi was led by Krad. Rio and Emiko charged after, kind of afraid of what could possibly happen, and yet excited at the prospect.
"Krad-niichan, how are we going to get out?" Krad seemed to stop and Satoshi stared at him, confused by his attitude. Krad just grinned back though,
"Well by just walking out of course." The three stared at him with semi-bizarred eyes and Satoshi attempted a scream as Krad dragged him off. How strange, if you were a normal scientist around the labs, you would have viewed a happy blonde adult, running at top speed while carrying a blunette that looked like he was screaming very loudly but nothing was coming out, and then the most bizarre thing followed afterwards on the blunette's legs were two yelling children as they were being shaked along with the blunette. If you were just a normal scientist around there, you would blink twice, come up with a hypothesis and then conclude, you were insane and just walk away.
"How...did we just do that?" Rio asked, looking at Krad with semi-wide eyes, twitching slightly as she caught her breath. Emiko was slightly dizzy while Satoshi was yelling as angrily as he could at Krad, his wings bristling up with him as they entered outside in a desert.
"Ah, to be outside again!" Krad ignored the question and all three stared, bizarred by the insane Krad. Krad turned to the three as Satoshi started to wave his arms around angrily, looking like he was saying some very important lecture but it didn't faze Krad one bit as he took Satoshi's waving hand and started to walk through the sweltering heat.
"We should have brought some water with us." Emiko dazed out a bit, noticing how unbearably hot it was in the desert.
"Yeah..." Rio moaned with Emiko, wiping part of her bangs as she slouched down, walking a bit more steps under the sweating sun.
"It's not that bad, we've only walked a few blocks." Krad said lightly as he helped the illusion of Satoshi's wings looking like they were just from the sun.
"Well it's not going to be fun to walk into an abandoned park!" Rio complained a bit, embarrassed as she slowly realized that she sounded childish.
"You'll like it." Krad promised, smiling back at the girls as Satoshi just looked down calmly, not expecting anything special. A few more blocks of aching sun and the children were surprised to see a small fountain, squirting out pleasantly clean water, while there were surprisingly fresh trees blooming all around the small park for shade, different types of slides for toddlers and a ten feet high kind of slide, and it looks unbelievably beautiful, like it wasn't really there at all.
"How is this possible?" Rio jumped to stare at the entire park underneath the cooling of shade from a tree. Satoshi also seemed to be a little curious on how a little ecosystem such as this could work. Emiko jumped in to play on the slides, squealing as she performed little gymnasts moves to climb up on the slide. Krad stared at Emiko but pulled Satoshi under the shade of another tree, where there was, remarkably, grass.
"Do you like this place, Satoshi-sama?" Krad asked kindly, sitting against the tree and made Satoshi lean against him, which the younger didn't seem to mind too much.It's...nice... Satoshi replied slowly, looking tired but at the same time pretty happy. Rio stared at the semi-happy angel and her older brother, really, those two were so odd...
"Rio-san! Come jump on the slide with me!" ...Well not as insane as Emiko. This was actually a kind gesture now that Rio thought about it, inwardly she wondered why Krad was doing such a gesture...but it obviously had to do with Satoshi-sama. He looked very peaceful against Krad's shoulder as the older held him quietly.
"Hey girls, are you hungry?" Krad shouted to the girls suddenly, of which both girls didn't expect at all but jumped eagerly at the chance for food. Though thought it really weird since Krad was not carrying any baskets or something of the sort to carry the food.
"Where's the food?" Emiko spouted out the question that Rio wanted to ask as the two gathered around the two older men. Satoshi seemed unmoved as Krad flicked in the air two strange pills and snapped a bit, surprising the girls as two big baskets came falling with a poof. They stared at the invention and looked into the baskets, both grinning to find food they liked a lot.
"Did you make this Krad-niichan?" Rio asked, biting into a sandwich that was already prepared within the basket.
"Sadly no, this was an entertaining invention by Dark." Krad replied, biting into a juicy green apple, smiling slightly from the bitter taste of it. Satoshi didn't eat, as usual from what Rio was used to.
"Dark?" Emiko asked, blinking slowly. She had met her brother the night of the dining, and he seemed really nice...but, there was something that Emiko wasn't so sure of, something she didn't want to be involved about him. Which was kind of strange, when she really thought about it. Silence consumed the small picnic and Krad nodded, a grin slowly consumed the men as they thought about the dark-haired kaitou.
"Yeah, Dark." Rio frowned a bit and looked slowly at Emiko, who seemed to be trembling a bit, as though she was very curious but was too afraid to speak...so Rio did her friend the favor as Emiko would usually,
"What is Dark-san like?" Rio asked, a very determined look spread across her face as Krad seemed a bit surprised by this question. Of course that surprise disappeared as Krad looked up into the tree,
"Dark is...definitely not what you would expect. He's adventurous, protective, very determined...and I guess he's a bit childish if you think about it." Satoshi looked away, covering his mouth as though he looked like he wanted to laugh, which he probably was underneath his hand but the sound didn't come out.
"Is he...a good person?" Emiko asked quietly, looking at Krad with sparkling eyes, her breath caught up in her throat. Krad grinned slightly and patted Emiko,
"Yes, he is a very good person." Hope couldn't help but sparkle in Emiko's heart for some strange reason, as they continued to eat their picnic in silence and enjoyed the sunshine of the outside.
A cough came from Takashi's mouth, as he shivered slightly through the somehow cold streets of the evening. Really, the sun set down so early, how annoying. Takashi coughed again and Menou looked at him with a worried look,
"Are you okay honey?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Takashi smiled simply, feeling a little bad for lying to his wife, but they had a job to do. Currently he and his wife were surveying the area, seeing if it had its own little black-market, as it had been rumored back in Japan. Strangely Dark and Daisuke were around, flying and keeping guard while Risa and Towa was taking care of his bundle of joy back at the motel.
"Well if you're sure." Menou smiled and gave Takashi a kiss on the cheek as she cuddled against him for warmth. Takashi grinned, happy of his current situation, even if he was terminally sick. Even though he was given such horrible news, Takashi refused to quit, he would fight as long as he could and he would fight to protect the ones he loved. "Are you sure there's nothing wrong?" Menou asked again, frowning at him. Takashi laughed,
"I'm sure, thanks Menou." He gave a kiss to her on the forehead as they continued to walk through the cold streets. Menou sighed, not at all sure if her husband was telling the truth...but she knew she couldn't do anything about it sadly.
"Daisuke's been doing better," Menou grinned as the two continued through the dirty streets as people gave them dirty looks.
"Yeah, I'm glad."
"Oh, so you were worried about him, were you?"
"Of course I was, if Dark didn't have us, they would have perished long ago."
"Sad but true." Menou giggled and then bursted out laughing as Takashi was hit by a rock in the back of his head, probably by Dark in the air.
"Ow, god damn it." Takashi muttered, rubbing the back of his head angrily, looking up to the sky as though expecting Dark to come out and give him a raspberry.
"It's your fault for starting it, silly." Menou grinned slightly at him then froze, staring off into the distance as they had came across a street full of coat-covered bums. Menou couldn't help but get closer to Takashi as the other was used to seeing such a sad sight. It took awhile to reach the place, but they had made it...now all Takashi had to do was speak in English correctly. A few minutes passed as Menou watched her husband attempt to talk English...and failed terribly, especially when the bum threw a can at Takashi's head.
"OUCH! YOU MOTHER-" Menou covered his mouth and lead him away, sighing as they started to head back to the motel. Well this was a dead-end, if Takashi couldn't find anything, then it was really no hope for this area.
"Have any luck?" Towa asked as the married couple stepped into the room and Daisuke with Dark flew in from the balcony.
"Afraid not, but no worries, we should have some info tomorrow from Japan." Dark simply replied, sitting down on the bed he shared with Daisuke. Daisuke stared around the room quietly,
"Where's Risa-san?" Daisuke asked, as he walked further into the room, avoiding everyone's gaze.
"She went out to get some ice." Towa answered simply, though also looking away, avoiding anyone who stared over at her.
"Well that's good to know at least." Dark grinned slightly then fumbled against the bed, sighing loudly in exhaustion, despite it really should have been Daisuke in the position, after using his own wing. Daisuke nodded with a slight frown and jumped on the bed to get comfortable,
"So we wait until tomorrow?"
"Yeah, there's nothing much else we can do." Dark groaned, burying his head in his pillow,
"Why don't you guys go out to eat?" Daisuke suggested, smiling softly at all of them.
"Oh, you won't be coming with us again, Daisuke?" Daisuke shook his head,
"No, I think I'll get some rest." Daisuke laughed as a worried look covered Towa and Menou's faces, "Don't worry, I'll have a big breakfast tomorrow, okay?" The two women nodded and Takashi moaned as Menou kicked him from his bed and they prepared themselves and waited for Risa.
"Perhaps we'll meet her downstairs, she's a hopeless girl sometimes."
"True, true." Menou replied back as Towa had commented, so they walked out of the room and downstairs to meet up with Risa and eat out as they promised Daisuke. Daisuke sat in the bed silently, his eyes slightly glazed over angrily as he stood up to stare from the balcony.
"I thought you said you were tired." Dark commented back from the bed. Daisuke sighed, that was very untrue. Every time he closed his eyes he had a vision of deaths, like he was some kind of grim reaper...God forbid. Daisuke actually brushed part of his hair back, flinching as he felt the strange scar he had received three years ago.
"I just...I don't want to fall asleep." Daisuke simply replied, knowing Dark wasn't appreciating the unwelcome silence. It was the truth, every time Daisuke could feel it...even when he blinked, he could feel the morbid feeling of taking someone, who was screaming and saying they were too young, or they still had something to do within the world...it scared Daisuke. It scared him so much...Daisuke was surprised when Dark placed a hand around his shoulder,
"I see, anything you need to talk about?" Daisuke debated inside of himself, well of course he needed to talk about it. But was it normal? Did every teenager feel the feeling of taking someone's life with a monotone lack of caring at all what he or she begged or how they begged? Did teenagers have the curse of calling themselves loudly and angrily as an angel of death? Was it NORMAL?
"Nah, I'll be fine later," Dark shrugged at Daisuke's reply and Daisuke tensed up a bit as Dark gave him a slight hug,
"Alright, but if you need to talk to someone, you know I'm here."
"Yeah, I do know, thank you niichan." Daisuke smiled slightly, it was nice to know that there was someone there...Dark moved back to the bed and Daisuke was left alone to stare at the darkening lights around the entire city.
Daisuke wasn't alarmed when the whole family came stumbling back in, and back to sleep just as quickly as they came in. Daisuke feared to look at them at all, his shoulders tensed though as he turned carefully around. The somehow overbearing stench of death met his nose and he started to shake, nearly gagging himself to stop breathing from the terrible smell. All of them...dead. Oh God...no...nonononononono! Daisuke repeated loudly into his head and surprised himself as his feet took gentle steps into the room. Daisuke started screaming at himself, demanding his body to stop as the possessed stopped right in front of Takashi. Daisuke froze as he saw the dead body vision but it was also melding with the harshly breathing Takashi. What was wrong with him? Takashi seemed to be gripping the blanket harshly, his eyebrows all knotted up in pain as he kept breathing harshly.
"How sad." Daisuke heard himself say...but that wasn't really him! Why was this happening...and oh god, that smell, it kept coming back stronger and stronger. The possessed part of Daisuke held his hand over Takashi, letting it flout awhile, letting it quietly reach Takashi's energies. Daisuke started to shake, he shook so much in his mind even his body was shaking with trembling volume. No wait...what was he doing? Daisuke continued to gag in fear and became very non-composed as Takashi's breathing started to slow down. Daisuke shook again as he stared at his body spreading energy all around. This wasn't the energy he received often from Colors, but...a different more frightening and scary energy. Oh God...what was this?
"NO!" Daisuke shouted to himself, but found it only came from his mouth quietly, what was going on? Why was...Oh no, stop it! Stop it now! Daisuke kept trembling, sadly and slowly getting used to the gagging smell of the dead as the energy continued to spread all over Takashi. Daisuke demanded himself to stop whatever he was doing, but the pleas stopped as Daisuke's hand crushed into a fist and Takashi's breathing stopped completely. Daisuke stared, his wing filled with the dark new energy, but...he had...no...Daisuke had regained control and he stared over Takashi's dead body.
Daisuke simply moved back outside to the balcony, closing the door connecting to it and started to scream out to the entire world in pain, anger, and over consuming sadness.
Daisuke had stayed outside the entire night, his eyes not being able to sleep and when morning came, he was more alerted to a loud scream of terror. Daisuke didn't have the heart to open the door as more bitter tears dripped from his face, this was his fault...oh God, how could have this happened? Why didn't he have the will power to control whatever force that was? The door was opened and Menou came out, screaming and crying out to the world as Daisuke had earlier. After heart-racking sobs that reached even down below Menou turned to Daisuke, alarming tears continued to fall,
"Daisuke...did anyone come in last night? I-i..." Menou sobbed again, holding herself as though in fear of anything coming to grip her and shake her. Menou started to hyperventilate but the younger didn't blame her as he left her alone to cry out in the fresh air. Daisuke stared as Risa held Takai with tears pouring from her eyes, the three-year-old didn't seem to know what was going on, but had started to cry as well because her mother was crying. Dark was standing over the sleeping body of Takashi while Towa was sitting down, her face buried in between her hands.
"How could have this happened?" Dark muttered carelessly and Daisuke felt torn with the words, fear building up as he saw how easily he took Takashi's life..."TAKASHI! ANSWER ME!" Dark screamed angrily, not forgiving the man for dying, and at the edge of Dark's eyes they began to water. His oldest, best friend was...dead. It...it wasn't possible! Takashi wasn't even that old! How was it possible?
"Dark..." Towa sniffed, staring at him as Dark kicked the bed angrily, even managed to move the mattress with his anger.
"How...why?" Dark demanded, continuing to relieve his stress against the mattress, much to afraid to touch the body. Risa stared at all of them, Menou was taking it the hardest of course...why hadn't she told them? Was it really because of those happy faces that they were together and thought it would be that way forever preventing her? Yeah...that probably was it...and now...Riku was right, they were all taking it angrily and sadly. Riku opened her mouth and started to speak,
"Takashi died because of-"
"Me." Heads whipped to stare at Daisuke who was staring at his hands, which were trembling as much as his entire body was. "It's because of me Takashi died..." Daisuke sobbed and looked up, his teeth gritted tightly as his hands turned into fists. "I...I was awake...I...I don't know how I did it...but Dark...Oh God, I'm so sorry!" Daisuke confessed, holding himself as Menou had been holding herself earlier. Daisuke continued to shake as everyone stared at Daisuke with wide-eyes. "I didn't want to! But I couldn't stop myself! I'm so sorry!" Daisuke fell to the ground on his knees, trying very hard not to close his eyes so he wouldn't witness the death he caused...the deaths he kept seeing, Daisuke didn't want any of it! This was terrible!
"..." The entire group stared at Daisuke, alarmed as the boy kept shaking. Dark was the first to do any action. He kneeled right besides Daisuke and stared at the boy...he really meant it. Had Daisuke really killed Takashi though? Dark sighed and hugged Daisuke into his chest as the boy racked tears against his shirt, muffling the sounds of terror with the shirt. "Don't worry Daisuke...you didn't kill Takashi."
"Yeah, there's no way you would do such a thing!" Risa put in, smiling as she held Takai closely. Risa's smile seemed really fake.
"I did though. I did." Daisuke continued confessing, waiting for any punishment, but he knew that his sin could never be truly forgiven, nor could he do anything to ever repent. Dark's eyes saddened as Daisuke continued to cling to him, confessing all of it was his fault. Dark held Daisuke close, trying to whisper to the boy that it wasn't his fault...really...it wasn't...
And behind the scenes, watching their every move...Colors and Tones held themselves, truly scarred and surprised to find this scene.
Colors...why is...this wasn't supposed to happen! Tones cried to him, holding him tightly with shaking hands. Colors seemed to be as stunned as Tones, and they both just stayed there, watching the crying Daisuke, the mourning wife, the regretful goddess, the bird-like girl crying, the sad and confused child and last but not least, the adult Dark. THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! Tones screamed at the top of her lungs as though demanding an answer from Colors. Colors nodded and held Tones silently,
I know Tones, I know
"WHOO! Finally! The longest and most depressing chapter! Go me! Plot and character development, I feel proud of myself, really!" There is a very dark silence from my side of the table, "Ahem! Anyway!" I twitch slightly, blushing, "I've seen episode 1-4 of DNAngel the anime. The voices annoy the hell out of me, I mean, Kevin Corn as Daisuke? Corny is more like it! AGH! Daisuke's voice is nothing like I would have liked to imagine it...though I do enjoy Dark's voice, Vigo is the voice actor...oh yes...That is very droolisious." I cough slightly as A punches me. "But I've found the way to say Daisuke's name in real life, I had been pronouncing his name wrong the whole time, I've been saying Die-sue-que (Try to sound out the syllables!) but the real pronunciation was "Dies-kay" so I was totally blown away, and the anime is just so much more different then the volumes! I get so confuzzled! But...it's worth it, this one scene in episode four, Daisuke is having a dream about Risa feeding him a bento and Daisuke glomps on her and says "You know, I'll never let you go now." And at first it's Risa's voice and she says, "That's good." Her voice completely changes to Satoshi's and so does her body and Satoshi-kun says, "Because I'll never let go either." Daisuke wakes up and I am cracking my butt off and my sister is screaming about Satoshi being so gay, and Daisuke is like, "Why did I dream of Hiwatari-kun?" And Dark (with that undeniable sexy voice of Vigo) comes to say, "Aha! You're in denial!" "What?" "Face it, you're in love with Hiwatari-kun!" "That's nonsense! Why would I be in love with Hiwatari-kun?" Of course I noticed that Daisuke wasn't really protesting if he was or was not in love." I snicker evilly and happily and continue, "And so Daisuke does a lot of action and falls back to his bed while Dark (VIGO /Swoon/) says, "Oo, looks like I struck a nerve!" Daisuke sighs and Dark replies back, "Hey, I'm not judging, just saying!" Yes...that episode is my most favorite, because there's also Satoshi development...but the weirdest thing is, is that Krad comes then. It's ridiculously early in my opinion...but it's all-good. Many implications in the anime, it's almost worse then the manga."
"Are you finished?"
"...Can I swoon about Vigo doing Dark's voice?"
"On your own time." A threatens angrily. D senses the anger and grins,
"To the reviews!"
Akira
"I know, the most horrible thing. Oh and you're right about Risa's voice being annoying, her English voice sucks and while her Japanese voice isn't that much better...but I prefer it over Ayeka's stubborn evil voice! AUGH!" I hold my head as the voice pounds my head, "Anyway, thank you!"
Les Scribbles
"Pathetic review? No, not actually, I'm afraid you are always the one giving me the best reviews...especially since they ask important questions that help me think over the plot." I nod confidently and grin again, "Eh? Dial tone? Well I never thought of it that way, but very interesting...Also I agree that it was very sweet story, yes Rio is very odd but you can see more character development in this chapter." I frown a bit, thinking of my horrible OC mother, "No, despite the implications the only thing Krad's mother did was child abuse with a strange mind arming the fuel to the beatings. That moment with Satoshi wasn't actually Satoshi for that moment, it was Krad and how Krad would act if he was in Satoshi's form in those memories." I frown again, thinking even more, "Well Daisuke wasn't really referring to himself then...but now that I think about it, it could have been very possible." A twitches, hitting me furiously, "And yes, stupid mother and vocal-cordless fate! Darn it to heck!" I then blush shamely, "The dream was actually supposed to be a sign that Daisuke is growing up...because he is a boy (more or less)." I think about it for a second, "And perhaps I was in a smutty mood, but I don't remember." A hits me angrily once again as I grin, "Well I hope you liked this chapter just as much!"
"So that's all?"
"Well...I would like to thank ALL the people who put me on their favorites list. 20 people, that is very honoring! So without further adieu!"
Thank you!
To.
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THANK YOU!
"You done now?"
"Yes...until I reach the 100th review mark."
"God Forbid."
"Shut up A."
"R&R!" D smiles, waving her hand as A and I continue to argue.