This story was inspired by a saying that my roommate said when she got into an arguement with her friend. Her friend was saying how thiefs were too cunning for thier own good sometimes, and that started a heated debate with plenty of facts and rambles which I can't remember. They got onto the topic of who could catch a thief better, which is when she gave me the idea for this fanfic. I hope that you like it. The phrase was, "It takes a thief to catch a thief."

Summary of what's already happened: A new thief has come to town, as well as some new students. The theif is stealing Dark's spotlight, so what's he going to do? Take drastic measures of course!

Disclaimer: I do not own DNAngel or any of it's characters. I do have ownership of my character and the seemingly there plot.

Warnings: I don't think that there will be anything worth warning... Though I did slightly rearrange the seating in the classroom.

you know the drill, but in case you don't,

"speech"

'thought'

time slip/change

p.s. I will not be using -kuns, -chans, or any other distinguishing subtitles because they confuse and befuddle me.

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Daisuke rushes into the classroom and into his seat, just in time. The bell rings after he sits down, and he lets out a sigh in relief. His mother had kept him in the house while she ranted about how the new thief in town was stealing the things she wanted, and it hadn't helped when Dark started shouting his agreement in Daisuke's head. He was lucky that he had glanced at the clock when he did, otherwise he might of been late to school.

The door to the classroom opens, and the room goes quiet. The teacher enters and all say the regulartory good morning. The teacher looks towards the still open door, which makes the class look as well. A girl is standing there, hovering at the sudden attention.

"Please come in and introduce yourself," the teacher (I'm sorry to say that I don't really pay attention to the gender and names of teachers, so it is an it and shall be called teacher) calls to her.

She timidly walks to the front of the class and looks at all of them in turn. She bows her head slightly.

"H-hello. My name is Luna Annett," she says with her eyes glued to the floor.

"Very good. You can take the seat between Satoshi and Daisuke, would you two indicate yourselves?"

Daisuke and Satoshi stand and Luna makes her way to the seat between them. They all sit at the same time. The teacher begins the lesson and things settle down back to as close to normal at it got. Daisuke's eyes flicker to Luna, taking in her appearance. She has waist long dark-brown hair, pure blue eyes, and she's wearing the girls school uniform.

'Not a bad body either,' comes the now memorized voice of Dark Mousey.

'Could you please not be your perverted self for once?' Daisuke thinks back to him.

'Come on, you know you were thinking the same.'

'Was not!'

'All bickering aside, have you noticed?'

'Noticed what?'

'Her eyes. They're piercing and untrusting, like they know more than we ever will.'

He had noticed, but he ignores Dark in favor of paying attention to the teacher. The day passes slowly, and near the time for the last bell Dark once again stirs within Daisuke's mind. Daisuke knows what's coming, though he has his doubts on the subject.

'We're going through with the plan," Darks states firmly.

'I know. I just don't think he'll agree.' Daisuke thinks.

'It's worth a shot, I'm getting tired of not having the spotlight.'

Daisuke sighs and watches the clock. The bell finally rings and the students rush out of the building, but Daisuke walks to a certain room that he knows the person he needs to talk to is in. He opens the door and steps inside.

"What business do you have here?" comes a neutral voice from the corner of the room.

"Hello Satoshi."

Satoshi turns and looks at Daisuke with some curiousity on his face. Daisuke looks back with determination.

"We wish to speak to you," Daiskue states.

Satoshi just blinks and sits down.

"You have my attention."

"We want to make a short-term truce with you; you don't try to catch Dark until the next time he steals something, and we help you with a problem that pesters us both."

"...Alright."

"Good."

Daisuke closes his eyes, he and Dark had planned this carefully. To emphisize how important and serious this is, he transforms into Dark in front of Satoshi, with causes a raised eyebrow. Dark takes over and keeps the conversation going.

"The new thief in town is getting on my nerves, and since you're having worse luck with him than with me I decided that we should work together for a short period of time to rid ourselves of this little problem," states Dark.

"Very well, he has already left another notice on his next target. How do you propose to pull this off?" questions Satoshi.

"We'll come as Daisuke and give you plans for traps in the building. Set the object in a room that has only one accessible entrance. When everything is set up, I'll come out and you and me will wait in the room for him."

"Come with the plans to Vailien Museum around 7:30 p.m. He said that he'd be there around 10:00, so that should give us plenty of time."

Dark nods and turns back into Daisuke. He walks to the door and looks back to Satoshi.

"See you," he says before walking down the hall and out of the building.

Satoshi stays there for awhile smirking. He had known that Dark would get fed up with the new thief, but he would've never guessed that he would come to him like that.

6:10 p.m. at the Vailien Museum

Daisuke walks through the halls of the museum with the plans stashed in the backpack he is wearing, looking for Satoshi. He finds him directing some officers to posts away from a certain hallway. Once the police are out of sight, Daisuke walks over and taps Satoshi on the shoulder. He tuns to Daisuke and smiles slightly, then nods towards a room down the hall that he had been keeping others away from. They enter the room and Daisuke looks around, it's a simple dome room that doesn't have windows or a ventilation system. No trapdoors or other doors either, the door they had entered through is a heavy screened door and the only airway. He nods his approval and sees a pedistol in the middle of the room, a puzzle box is on it.

"That would be Geromie's Box. It was made by a man named Geromie Anazaki, nobody could figure him or the box out," Satoshi says after noticing where Daisuke's attention had wandered.

"Is that what he's after? A stupid box?" Daisuke says, echoing what Dark is yelling in his mind.

"Actually, it's what's inside the box that he wants." states Satoshi.

"Alrighty then, let's move on to putting up these traps."

It takes them almost all of the remaining time to properly rig up the traps, and when they're done Satoshi gives the officers their orders and he and Daisuke once again enter the back room. Daisuke lets Dark take over and he and Satoshi wait in the darker parts of the room for the thief.

'Tonight that newbie goes down!' thinks Dark.

'Just don't get carried away,' Daisuke reminds him.

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That's all for now. I'll write more later. I have a million things to do right now, so review and I'll see you later!