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Chapter 3:
Light By Angelis Raye Kamura

When I heard the alarm go off, I tried to reach for it, but then my mind finally caught up to me and realized that Daisuke was still on top of me. After I realized that, I found that he was under the bed sheets with me and when I managed to lift them, I saw that the only thing both of us were wearing was our boxers. I imeaditly flushed, then tried to get the red-head to wake up.

"Daisuke, it's time to get up! Daisuke!" I yelled as my last resort, after nudging him a couple times.

"Ne, Satoshi...? What is it?" the boy yawned, then sat up next to me.

"I needed to turn the alarm off, but as you can see, it turned off by itself." I smiled, trying to get closer to the boy again, because of the colder surrondings.. "Daijoubu?" I asked him, as I itertwined myself in him.

"Of course not, Satoshi-chan," He cracked a grin. "It took me about 15 minutes to get you out of your uniform. I never knew that your skin was so soft.... You're very nice to me Satoshi-chan. Arigato." As soon as I had been done with getting comfterable, his lips touched mine, and I felt a certain peace within myself at last.

"Daisuke? Why do you call me that? I don't understand why you don't just call me by my name," I asked as he started to get out of the single bed. "plus, I just got comfterable. Why do you ahve to get up?" I paused for a minute. "And why did you take off my clothes anyway?" I got out of the bed myself, and followed him and saw that he was going down stairs.

"Eh, Satoshi-chan? You can call me Dai-chan. That's what my family calls me and... what Dark used to call me." He stopped for a moment, and a single tear fell.

"Daisuke!" I rushed to him, and held him in my arms, trying to calm him. He apparently was wanting the same comfort that Dark had given him very much. Once I started to caress him, he was at ease, and stopped crying. "Tell me... what's wrong? Why don't you respond to Harada-san the same was as you do with me?" I questioned him, desperatly wanting to help him in any way that I could.

"Satoshi-chan..." he looked up at me. "I respond to you differently because you're a guy... and Harada-san isn't, I guess."

"Dai-chan," I tried out the new name, and I thought that it sounded good enough to call him that from now on. "Dai-chan, why do you respond to a guy, not a girl?"

"Dark was a man, and treated me with just a much respect as you do, and you're about the same height as Dark, and you have a deeper voice like him too." He shrugged, and something shone in his eyes that I had never seen before. It felt odd, being compared to Dark in that way, but as long as Daisuke was happy, it didn't matter.

"Dai-chan, I'll always try to be here for you. I'll do what ever it taked to keep you happy. I'll love you forever Daisuke... forever."

After summer break, it was time to get ready for school. Daisuke told me his parents were willing to adopt and let me live with them after hearing what happened over the break. I was happy that at least someone in the world besides Daisuke cared about me. I was now considered as a part of their family, even though, by blood I wasn't. Another thing was that Daisuke's parents didn't mind that he and I shared the same room as him. I was surprised by what they were doing for me considered who I was. Harada-san found out soon enough about the different circumstances and was very furious about that subject matter.

"Niwa-kun!! How could you?!" She yelled. I cringed, while sitting next to Daisuke as the girl yelled at him from about a yard away.

"Harada-san, I told you why I wanted to break up with you, and I know that you understood what I had said-"

"But you just had to go off with a GUY! That's insane! I bet your parents absolutly hate that kind of thing!"

"Daijoubu. Can I speak?" Harada-san nodded, frustrated but consiteratly. "Dai-chan's," Harada cringed, "only with leaving you because you never cared about the absence of Dark-san, but tied to make Daisuke never think about him again. Doing so, you made him feel like that part of him was insignifigant, and unworthy of your attention."

"Oh, and I'm betting that you do!" She added sarcastically.

"I do care about Daisuke's well-being very much. Daisuke has also saved my life, and I owe my life to him, through and through. I know what it's like to have someone close to you, then diappear to never return to you again. And by the way you act, you obviously have not had such an experiance, and fail to relate on those matters." I paused to let it all sink in. "I am now a part of the Niwa family, and I beleive that you have no say in that what-so-ever."

She turned, glared at me, then strutted off, and as she did other girls surrounded her, asking about what had happened, hoping to hear all the gossip. As Daisuke wraped his arms around me as we sat on the bench, I saw some of the girls glance over and make some odd coment about it.

"Satoshi..." Daisuke wispered, as he started running his fingers through my hair. "Your hair is so soft; it's a pitty it's so short."

I audomatically flushed as he did so, not expecting such a comment. But, then I thought about it, and it did make sence: the girls would consider me "too femine to ask out", or things alike that and therefore, give up on me. Why not? If Daisuke's asking, why deny him of something that I really do not care about? "Alright... I thought I was due for a hair cut since I hadn't all summer, but I won't after your notification. That's all right?"

He nodded rapidly, and a rather large grin spread across his face.

After a surprise party for my birthday (Daisuke probably told them), we headed up to the room we shared to get some rest.

"Dark..." Came a voice that I recognised. "Dark..." it called again. I opened my eyes, looking directly into Daisuke's ruby eyes.

"Daisuke!" I jumped. He smiled as he started to stroke my hair. Why did Daisuke call me Dark? I looked into the mirror across the room. "Na...ni...?"

I shot up in the middle of the bed, gasping for breath. I looked at the red-head next to me, and let out a long breath. I moved closer to the boy, trying to forget that odd dream. I almost feel asleep, but my consious woke me again and I didn't do anything the rest of the night, but watch Daisuke breath in and out, until the alarm clock went off. His eyes closed tighter, and tried to snuggle into the bed more, trying to deny that it was morning. Slowly, he let them open, admitting defeat by the alarm. When his eyes opened, he was looking directly into mine, then he smiled.

"Ohyo, Daisuke," I smile back, leaning forward to give him a kiss--

"Daisuek! Daisuke!!" Emiko rushed in, exclaiming. "Daisuke! Someone's stolen all of Dark's stolen things! It's gone! It's ALL GONE!!" The boy panicked as his mother left the room and started to rush around getting ready for school silently; very uncharacteristic of him.

"Dai-chan?" I asked, confused about what was going on. "What's wrong?"

He turned to me, and I saw tears shining in his eyes, ready to spill over.

Tsuzukeru ni Imasu...

If you don't know, Arigato means "thank you" and "Daijoubu" means "Does it matter" or "is it all right?" or even "Excuse me". I'm trying to use as much Japanese as possible so that I gradually learn the language. I hope that you liked it. There are only 3 more chapters left... yes, I write everything out before I type it, because I know that people get themselves stuck in hole, just writing on the fly.

Koibito, I hope you like this story so far. I got it confused for a second with my other fic, Devil and Angel, and thought I was going to have to write in a yaoi scene... but nope! Didn't have to! I need to get used to writting and drawing them though, because of my story on Xanga..... I want to dedicate this to you as well, because of your kind favour to me by dedicating that whole story to me... That was so cute.... My mom and Step-dad are out for "Date-night" tonight, so I get to TYPE!!! Yeaa! I couldn't believe how long it took me though....

I'll have the next chapter up soon! Or maybe it's already poted... I dunno. I might be able to type Sunday, because of my mom has to work, and Jim's going camping.... Depends, because it's fall break here in Scottsdale, AZ! It's still too damn hot here!!!!!!