Haunted
Ninth Haunting:
Krad opened his eyes slowly, damn it was uncomfortable being wet, he groaned.
"Krad! You're alive!"
His vision focused, his eyes widened and he jumped back against the wall in shock, then he saw Dark and relaxed a bit.
"I don't know about you, but having an axe being swung around in my face makes me nervous, dead or not."
Dark looked at the axe in his hand, "Opps, my bad." He set the axe down, "It was the only source of light I had, you're alive...I think..."
"...I am?"
"Aren't you?"
The blonde looked at his hands, "I guess I am...can you tell me why there's a glowing axe at my feet?"
"Hnnn..."
The two looked over, Satoshi was stirring, "Hey look, he's alive too."
"Well wouldn't you know it, too arrogant to die I see."
"Hnnn...urusai."
"Somehow it doesn't surprise me that even after a near death experience his attitude is still the same."
Dark grinned, "Yup, same old creepy boy...that's kinda like you too, you always seem to stay calm no matter what situation you're in, it's almost scary."
The blue haired boy glared at the two, "What are you two doing here? And wasn't that axe embedded in that chair in the study?"
Dark snorted, "Oh yea, that's the thanks we get for getting up in the middle of the night, run here just to save your butt."
"I didn't ask you to."
"You think I wanted to save you?"
"Hey Dark..."
"Yea?"
"What happened to the Kuro-kaze thing anyways?"
"Umm....I heard a crash then ran downstairs to see you being choked to death by that thing and when I got close to it, it umm...kind of just like disappeared."
"I see..."
"What did that thing do to you?"
"...I saw Hiroki and Kyou's deaths, it was disgusting, there was a lot of...blood."
"Huh?"
"I don't know how but it's like I went to the past or something and saw it happen, and everything felt so real too." Krad shuddered and wrapped an arm around himself remembering what the demon had shown him.
Satoshi spoke up, "Ahem, incase you didn't notice, you're wet, you're in my house, and I don't know what time it is but get out...and give me that axe back."
When the blue haired boy touched the axe, it glowed brighter and then disappeared leaving a floating blue pendant floating, "Alright...what, the, hell..."
"Take it and get up. By the way...that chair kind of...disintegrated when I took the axe out..."
"What the hell!? You maimed my chair!? And now the axe is gone and all I'm left with is this...this...thing!?"
Dark nodded, "Uh huh, right, whatever, you're coming with us to Dai-chan's house."
"What!?"
"Dark's right, this is obviously not a safe place anymore, therefore you'll have to come with us."
"No!"
"Too late for that, Krad..."
The blonde nodded and they each took an arm and dragged the boy into the pouring rain outside.
"Getting some fresh air would do you good."
"I'm getting wet."
"We're already wet so wouldn't you know it? You have to join us!"
"My uniform's still at home."
"No problem! Dai-chan can lend you his spare."
"What time is it?"
"How should I know, you two dragged me out before I could see the clock."
Krad shrugged, "Oh well, might as wait until we get back, we might not get any sleep again."
"Again!?"
"That's what I just said."
"You think we can sleep in class?"
"Nah, the teacher's planning to make us rehearse the play, we were suppose to start like a month ago or something now we only have a week left so he's desperate."
"Damn...oh well, I wonder what kind of dress they got you, Juliet."
"Shut up Romeo."
"You lovebirds really have to stop giving each other gay nicknames."
"What it's-"
"A play we have to do!"
"We didn't get a choice you-"
"Damn creepy boy!"
"Stop talking like twins."
"We-"
"Aren't!"
"Dark just keeps on cutting me off!"
Dark grinned sheepishly, "It's fun though."
Krad huffed, "Quiet you..."
By the time they got back, Emiko was waiting inside, arms crossed and she had that evil glint in her eyes.
"And where were you two?"
"Saving his butt." The two replied.
"You missed out on sleep, there's only an hour or two left and you need to get cleaned up. Satoshi! Come upstairs Dai-chan's clothes will fit you perfectly! Krad, after you dry off go make lunch."
"I'll be taking a shower." Dark declared and ran upstairs.
"...whatever." Krad yawned and headed upstairs after his friend.
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Dark yawned and stretched, "That was nice. Hey Krad-"
He stopped when he saw Krad asleep on the bed, he changed his clothes, his blonde hair everywhere. 'He must be exhausted...'
Dark shook the blonde gently, "Hey Krad, wake up...mou...Krad... wake up already!"
Krad sat up absentmindedly and rubbed his eyes and yawned, "What?"
"It's your turn."
"I bet you used up all the hot water."
"I did not!"
"Hn." The blonde got off the bed and dragged his feet out the door.
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"It's not fair...Daisuke's the only one that gets sleep..."
"Hn..."
"Urusai..."
The four of them proceeded to school, and another day of mayhem and chaos.
"Alright! Today we'll be working on the play non-stop! And as an addition I'm giving two tickets to Romeo and Juliet so they can bond or something."
The teacher held two tickets in his hands, Dark snorted, "He probably asked what's-her-face sensei out and got rejected so now he's giving it to us."
The teacher's jaw dropped, his face turned red and he let out a long line of swear words, some even Dark hadn't heard of, Krad raised a brow while Draw stared at the teacher, "Whoa..."
"Do you want the tickets or not Dark!?"
"Yes sir!" Dark saluted to the teacher.
"Okay! You have to go today since they expire today now practice!" The teacher roared trying to hide the twitch that was developing around his eye.
Everyone squealed and shoved Dark into the room across the hall and told him to change into his costume. Krad sighed, he eyed Kaze carefully and when he was satisfied he looked at the script and read silently to himself, he was surprised with what he found in the first scene.
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
I do bite my thumb, sir.
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
No.
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir."
'What-the-hell, do you bite your thumb, what kind of traumatized person was Shakespeare?'
Dark came back in the room dressed in black, a black shirt, black jeans if not leather pants, not olden times at all, Krad raised a brow, Romeo and Juliet in modern time? Then maybe he wouldn't have to wear a dress after all, happy, happy thoughts.
"Didn't Romeo wear tights?"
"Not in this play, tights are just gross so we're going with this instead, he has another costume but we wanted to try this one first."
"I see..."
"Krad-kun?"
"Yea?"
"It's your turn!"
"Huh?"
A couple of students came and dragged Krad out of the room ignoring his protests, in the classroom Dark could hear Krad's shouts of protests.
"What!? You want me to wear that!? No way in hell! No, no, no, no, no! You can't make me!!! Huh? Kuso! Let go of me!"
A moment later, "Gah!"
Dark sweatdropped, "What are they doing to him? I've never heard Krad say so much to someone else before."
Kaze stepped next to him, "Probably trying to get the sleeve on, it's the most unique part of the dress, poor Krad..."
Dark glared at the long haired boy, "And who are you suppose to be playing?"
"Paris."
"Wha? You're a country?"
Kaze sighed, "I'm Juliet's fiancé, and Paris is a city, not a country, dumbass."
"Psh...wait...what!? Fiancé!? But-"
"No they never got married because she was in love with Romeo."
"...I get to kill you right?"
"Yea, at the end I think."
Dark liked the idea of that, he shrugged and waited for Krad.
A moment later the vice president entered the room with a big triumphal smile on her face, "Presenting, Juliet Capulet."
Krad stepped into the room, blushing furiously, he was in a long white dress that gleamed under the lights, his pale shoulders exposed, his arms covered in long white sleeves, only the bottom bit of the sleeves were attached to the dress, Krad had slim shoulders Dark noted, and his hair was loose, overall he was very, very, very pretty, in fact, he was too pretty for words. Dark gawked, his brain refused to function properly along with the other boys in the class, the girls squealed wildly and started crowding the poor Juliet in distress.
"Krad-kun! You look so pretty in that!"
"White's really your color!"
"You look so cool! I'm jealous!"
Krad tried to walk through the crowd towards Dark but ended up tripping and falling, into Dark's waiting arms, that seemed to get his brain working again.
"K-Krad!"
"Yea, it's me, can you help me stand?"
"Huh? You don't usually trip like that."
"It's these stupid shoes, how am I suppose to walk in them!?"
Dark looked at the blonde's feet, there were white high, high heels on, "They look...painful."
"More then you know, hey, can I take them off for awhile? They're killing my feet and I think I'm going to need them."
The vice president stared at him in horror, "Absolutely not Juliet! You need to get use to these!"
"But-"
"No buts do you understand!? Your feet will survive."
"Why do I have to wear this dress anyways?"
"It was either this or a miniskirt, you have one or two other costumes for other scenes."
"...why me..."
"Because you're Juliet."
"I didn't ask to be."
"No talking back to the director!"
"Okay! Okay!"
"Alright! Let's skim along to the more important scenes! The dancing scene, Romeo, Juliet, others on the stage!"
"What stage?"
"The front of the classroom!"
Dark looked at Krad, "Hey, do you know how to dance?"
"No, do you?"
Dark shook his head, they all turned to the vice president, "Ummm...okay...I say we skip that scene for now and go to the garden scene...I'll get something tomorrow..."
"...huh?"
"Krad-kun! Read!"
Krad looked at the script, "It's Dark's line..."
"Whatever, Romeo, read."
"Okay...whoa...that's a long line, can we skip this one?"
The vice president sighed, "Fine, fine, Juliet."
Krad raised a brow and read the line, "...ay me."
Dark looked at the script, "That's all she says!? Errr...
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
What the hell does all this crap mean...it's so cheesy..."
The vice president glared at him and cleared the throat, "Juliet..."
"Uhh...O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet..."
Krad rolled his eyes, he didn't get why they had to dress up when they were just reading the damn corny script, his conclusion was that Shakespeare had way too much free time and was possibly a nerd, no, he was definitely a nerd.
"Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?" Dark yawned.
Krad read ahead and looked up, "We're never going to get through the scene before lunch, there's way too much lines...I don't get any of this and yet I'm suppose to read all this?"
"Yes! Fine! Have it your way! Dark you have to at least know how they kissed..."
"Yea...I think I do..."
Dark walked up to Krad and dipped him, the blonde blushed, "Dark! What the hell are you doing!?"
The director fumed, "That's not how you kiss! You're suppose to all cheesy and romantic about it! Not dipping her like...like some...Spanish movie! They were madly in love! Romeo was in love with this other girl but forgot all about her when he saw Juliet, that's how lovey dovey they were! You better get it right or we'll be in here practicing during lunch!"
"Uh huh...and when do I get to dip someone?"
"...next play! Just do this right!"
Dark mumbled, "There better be..."
He walked up to Krad and wrapped his arms around the blonde's waist and pulled him so close that their noses touched, Krad's golden eyes blinked and stared into violet.
"Kiss already!" The people in the background went wild demanding that they kiss immediately, nope, no pressure at all.
Dark could feel Kaze's cold glare drilling through his back, he felt like laughing and being all immature about it, he got to kiss Krad and Kaze didn't, victory tasted sweet, or at least it was about to, maybe it'd even taste like vanilla, "Wait a sec! Juliet! Arms around Romeo, now! ...not like that, around the neck! You're hopeless..."
Krad moved hesitantly, soon they looked like they were making out or something, people cheered and applauded causing the two to blush, "Lookin' good!"
"Get a room you two!"
"It's getting hot in here!"
The director nodded in approval with a wide grin on her face, "Okay! You can kiss now!"
Dark mumbled, "Since when did we need permission to kiss?"
"Here you do! Come one! Kiss away! Kiss I say!"
"Fine!" Dark leaned forward and kissed the blonde, Krad was in shock at first but then he hugged Dark a bit closer, the violet-eyed boy savored every moment of it, victory tasted like vanilla, maybe even French vanilla, after awhile he ended the kiss and whirled around unconsciously licking his lips for the lingering vanilla taste, "Are you happy now!?"
The blonde looked at his aching feet and blushed, the vice president grinned, "Absolutely! That was perfect! Oh...it's lunch time...alright! Get out of your costumes and we'll continue after!"
"Yea! Lunch! Hurry up Juliet I'm starving!"
"I'm trying! This stupid dress...hey Dark come here a moment..."
Dark walked to where Krad was, "What?"
The barefooted blonde gestured at his sleeves, "Help me get the sleeves off, I don't want them to rip them or something and it's kind of stuck..."
"Kay...and how do I get the sleeve off? I've never worn a dress before you know..."
Krad snorted, "Uhhh...I think you're suppose to unzip the zipper first...how the hell should I know!?"
"You're the one who's wearing it! Didn't you put the damn dress on!?"
"Not the sleeves!"
Finally, after a few attempts Krad got back into his uniform, he stretched, "It's nice to be in shoes again."
"Krad-kun!"
"Huh?"
"Don't tie up your hair yet! There's still after lunch!"
"I don't have to change again right?"
"...fine but just keep your hair down!"
"...why?"
"Just because I said so! I am the boss here!"
They headed up to the door to the roof and sat down, "That was hell...my feet hurt..."
Krad paused for a moment, then continued complaining, "...the director's evil..."
"For all we know she might make us do a French kiss next time."
"Tongue me and die, it's bad enough I have to wear a dress."
"You looked so pretty in the dress though!"
A voice interrupted him, "Who's cross-dressing now?"
"Creepy boy!"
"What? I'm not the person who's wearing a dress..."
"That's more like Dai-chan and Krad's job."
"...leave Niwa out of this...Hikari's a girl?"
"Man...you're protective over Dai-chan aren't you?"
Satoshi and Daisuke blushed, "Urusai bakayarou."
"You really should learn to respect your elders."
"...what elders?"
"You little brat! Just you wait...I'll smite you! Smite you I say!"
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After lunch they went back to class and practiced the first killing scene where Dark killed Juliet's cousin Tybalt, and he killed him with glee. Finally getting it right, they were dismissed, the two headed for the amusement park, Dark dragged Krad onto the rollercoaster which went up and down and then a couple of loops in a row. When they got off they had to hold onto the railing for support, they were wet and feeling sick.
"Tell me again why we went on this ride..."
"It seemed like fun when we got here."
"Uh huh...and what else do you see as fun at the moment?"
"...those shooting games over there...something that I can stay on the ground doing, and under cover too."
The two made their way through the crowd, "Step right up and try your luck at knocking beer bottles over!"
"Wana try it?"
"Hn..."
Dark put some money in front of the guy and got a couple of baseballs in return, "You get a stuffed animal for every group of three you knock over. Good luck."
"Is it rigged?"
"Nope."
"..." Dark picked up the baseball and threw it at the bottles knocking two off, leaving one standing, he frowned and threw the second one knocking the final bottle, the man grunted and handed Dark a big fluffy white stuffed cat. Krad stepped up and threw the last baseball knocking over all three at a time, the person whistled and passed him a big black mouse, Krad looked at Dark's stuffed cat, he liked that one more, sure the mouse was...cute...but still, Dark's violet eyes looked at the big mouse in the object of his affection's arms, trade, what he wouldn't do for a trade.
"...you wanna trade?"
Krad nodded, they switched, each had a content look on their faces, "...so...where to now?"
"Somewhere dry please."
"How bout the mirror house?"
Krad shrugged, "But I thought it closed down last week."
"Who knows, no closed sign, we're allowed in."
"I'm not sure..."
Dark sighed and pushed the blonde in, there was no lineup and the door was opened sounded like a nice place to him, to be able to admirer himself in endless mirrors, and stare at the blonde without him noticing. Oh the fun it was going to be, after a few steps into the sea of mirrors, the door slammed shut.
Krad simply stated, "We're locked in and now horrible, horrible things will happen to us."
Dark sighed again, "Alright, alright, you're always right, you're always too calm for your own good too, just don't say I told you so."
"I'll save that for after we get out."
"Great...just great..."
Krad shushed him by placing a finger on his lips, he pointed to the further mirrors, there were red eyes coming towards them at a steady pace, grin in place. Dark's eyes widened as he tightened his hold on the stuffed mouse, they had to reach the end of the mirror maze, fast.
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Nya Chapter dedication for Senna58, happy birthday!!! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Yes and FINALLY! we get to the kissing scene )
Hakudoshi-chan-Sorry nya I always seem to get you confuse don't I? Krad's still alive, don't worry.
Seena58-Happy birthday!!! Sorry if this is like later or something over there, I forgot to take the time difference into account nya
Staryday-Cliffies are fun...for me anyways P
silvertears-Chocolate!!! Yay! One of my many addictions! Thankies nya! Sorry bout the underscore...
GloomyBumblebee-I know! All the good stories are still incomplete! ( There are alot of fics I can recommend, I'll email you or something k?
darksaphire-Kissy, kissy, kissy!!!! XD I couldn't wait for the kissing scene nya P
Fox Fire-Those Dodos were...interesting, Krad's not dead!!! No doom on me! Yay! P