Jade-san: Hello! Man I was slow with this… Sorry, I was going to post this two days ago but I had a friend coming over to spend the night then in turn I spent the night over at her house. Hooray! Because I helped cart around bricks I got a Triple Frappe! Oh, and do you know what is really annoying to deal with when writing? Having to move a quart of wood and having guys in the room with you working on the plumbing which I am summing up to drilling holes in walls.

Aisurei is made up of the two words "aisu" (ice) and "rei" (rei has five different definitions that I know of and I have heard it translated as "spirit") so that is correct and "don" does mean (coveting), though I was using the translation of (dull; slow; stupid; and dull-brained) so TamiaEternity is correct! The picture of them is nearly finished and I will put a link to its address in both my profile and in my next chapter when it is completely done. I really like it, even if Krad is a little off and Satoshi no-longer wears glasses… His hair is longer too… Oh well, you'll know what I mean when I show it to you.

By the way, Aisurei is the twin of the boy who was hidden in the shadows watching them (he is a lot older than he appears) and Don Hikari is Satoshi's 'father'. Hikari-sama works for Aisurei-sama; he's second in command even if he isn't treated that way.

Japanese Words:

Asahi-morning sun
Aisurei-(essentially Ice-Spirit like TamiaEternity said)
Don-dull; slow; stupid; or dull-brained
Higure-twilightsunsetdusk; evening;
Iie-no
Nani-what
Shiage-end; finishing touches; or being finished
Hai-yes
Hiketsu-secret; mysteries; or key
Hizeme-torture with fire; or attack by fire

Chapter Six: The Third Key

Satoshi woke up to someone poking him repeatedly, and I mean repeatedly. Someonehad beenpoking him forthe whole half-hour! "Ehn?" he asked unintelligibly, focusing on Darks face.

"Whoa Krad! You were right! It does take him forever to wake up!" he poked Satoshi again for good measure and had to scramble back before Satoshi took off his whole arm with his claws.

"Don baka!" Krad exclaimed, whapping Dark upside the head with the book he had brought in to read while Dark was acting foolish. He would rather not admit it but he had been worried about Dark in that moment.

"Where?" asked Satoshi, blinking and looking around.

"Nani?"

"Dad?" he asked.

"…" Dark fell over.

"…" Krad sweatdropped.

"I think he's still asleep guys…" Daisuke spoke up from his position on the bed next to the boy.

"Iie, I don't think so… I wonder why he said that though…" he paused a moment, "Satoshi-sama? Omelet or Bread?"

"Bread," he muttered, running his hand through his nearly shoulder length blue hair and swinging his legs over the edge of the bed and into the fluffy green carpet before standing up and wandering out the door and into the bathroom.

Satoshi slammed the door behind him and turned the faucet on full blast, ignoring the empty mirror in front of him. He didn't even want to think about his father, the one who had sent him on the mission to kill the Angel in the room he had just left. He pulled a green wash cloth out of a drawer and held it under the water before proceeding to wash his face, scrubbing thoroughly; it's not like he cold look in the mirror to check what he looked like.

Today they would be going after the Third Key. He wondered if it would be just as easy to get this Key, the others had been easy to get from his standards, he had thought it would be ten times harder!

Satoshi headed back to the room to find it vacated, all the others were in the kitchen. After a short hunt he came away from the room with a light blue shirt on and some white pants he guessed to be some of Krad's. He left his cape folded on his bed with his katana laid on top.

"Shiage," he mumbled as he walked into the kitchen and caught a piece of bread. Sitting down in a chair next to Daisuke he watched him studying maps. "Let's try here first," Daisuke made a point on the map with a red sharpie, "It's closest. If it's not there then we will have to try here…" he took a bite of the omelet he was eating.

"I have the bus routes and times!" Dark exclaimed, running in and skirting around the stove where Krad was cooking. His mere presence would probably cause it to explode!

He slapped the papers on the table and sat in a chair, rocking it back onto its rear two legs. "I don't see why we can't just fly there. It would be quickest and easiest." He groaned aloud, complaining for the third time that morning.

"… Bus?" Satoshi asked, trying to think of quicker ways.

"It's common sense Dark! I'm not supposed to be seen by humans and winged people aren't supposed to exist here on the Mortal Plane!" Daisuke exclamed thinking it was common sense, after all, it had been drilled into his head for a few hundred years.

"Why not!"

"Orders. There are the two Immortal planes, where the Angel's are and where the Demons are. The two Immortal planes are called "Heaven and Hell". The main difference between the two planes is that in "Hell" the Demons can actually be killed and Angels cannot. Everyone can end up in "Heaven" if they try."

"Why is Hell called an Immortal Plane if the Demons can be killed?" Krad asked curious dispite himself. Heset down a plate in front of Dark andtook a seat for himself.

"It's because if you give them a life threatening wound and they get away they will survive. You have to see them die to actually know they are dead, if you don't see them die they will live." Daisuke explained, sounding as if he were reciting what he knew from a book, in reality, he really was reciting it from a book. A bookhe had read in Heaven.

"EYOUCH!" Krad hollered in pain as someone new pulled on his hair, he was really starting to think that Dark's little suggestion that he tie his hair about his waist was a good one. He glared at the perpetrator with a look that could have earned him the nick-name "Homicidal-Blonde" all over again.

"KEEP IT DOWN BACK THERE!" the driver shouted, echoed by a couple of the passengers.

Dark had a smirk plastered on his face that clearly stated "I told you so!" while Satoshi just looked mildly amused. Daisuke on the other hand was starting to look worried, whether for the passengers or Krad's sake we may never know.

The bus squeaked to a stop causing Dark to stumble and Daisuketo fall out of his seatwhile the driver shouted out the stops name at the top of his lungs, "Hiketsu! All off for Hiketsu!" Luckily Hiketsu happened to be their stop.

"FREEDOM AT LAST!" Dark shouted dramatically a few minutes later as the bus pulled away, earning himself several odd looks from the remaining passengers and some couples walking in the street.

Satoshi ran his hand through the hair he could reach underneath his hood, he had bought it at the first stop after they had got on the bus; it was frankly irritating to have people continually asking what make-up effects or surgeries he had gone through to get his ears pointed like "that". He was even more irritated when he had found out that the bus had left without him, but, being a vampire, he had managed to run to the next stop before the bus even got there.

In vain Daisuke was looking around trying to pinpoint the direction in which the aura of the Key came, it seemed he had been right when he had decidedto take this direction first, seeing as he was now close enough to no longer pinpoint the direction in which the Key was closest.

"Dai-chan! The cemetery is in that direction," Satoshi pointed down the road, "Unless I am pointing to a private graveyard of course," he caught Daisuke by the hand and smiled, causing Daisuke to blush a shade that rivaled his hair. Satoshi had to fight down the urge to kiss him then and there.

After walking for nearly an hour they neared a sign the dictated that it was a cemetery called the "Eternal Sun".

"You two must be Satoshi Hikari and Daisuke Niwa… Am I correct?" There happened to be a boy sitting on the sign, he had sandy blond hair and his eyes were blood red where his twins were ice blue, and whereas his brothers skin was pale his was tan. "Greetings, I am Hizeme," this was all said stoically but as he waited for the quartet to say something his face broke out into a sadistic grin.

"You look like Aisurei." Satoshi finally said, breaking the silence with the simple comment. This was BAD! He couldn't help but realize that equally simple fact.

Hizeme's insane laughter echoed across the area, earning a few odd looks from passing humans who were entering the Eternal Sun Cemetery.

(AN: at the current moment I can actually see the dust in the air! -talking about what the plumbers are doing- And I'm getting up and away from the computer every two minutes to help move the wood! -I have been timing that by my computers clock-)
A feeling of foreboding washed over everybody in the vicinity, out of the corner of his eyes he saw a group of girls leaving and dragging one along because as they said, the were getting a bad "feeling".

"Let us take this inside the gates shall we? We all would much rather the human populations not know of "Demons'" existence, it makes everything so much more… Easy I guess you would say…" He jumped off the sign leaving a singed mark where he had been sitting and dead grass in the areas he walked. "Coming?" he asked, mock innocently, "You know you have to come anyway…" he walked through the gates without checking to see if they followed.

"Bad guy." Daisuke said bluntly, starting after anyway.

"Hai…" the other three said in unison, following too and wondering what they were getting them selves into.

The grass and trees around them erupted in flames and the maniacal laughter could be heard as the one who caused it vanished behind another tree or building or monument. This had been going on for near an hour and Satoshi and Co. were quite sick of it, he was already to the point of baring his fangs at every attack and Daisuke was fighting fire with fire. His blood red waves of crimson light/water/-and now that he's angry enough-fire were cutting through the trees without leaving a mark. He was quite badly singed, the only reason he didn't have about a million first, second, third, and fourth degree burns was because he was relying on the knowledge he had from his previous life as an expert Art Thief.

The attacks were starting to wear them down and they were intensifying, becoming more and more deadly with every passing minute, to miss dodging one attack now could mean being burnt to a cinder or, since Hizeme had added throwing knives to the mix it could mean getting a knife in the heart!

"Dark!" Krad yelled, afraid for a moment, he sent a golden energy ball at Hizeme only to miss by an inch.

"I'm okay, it missed," he muttered referring to the knife that he had just barely dodged; a thin like of blood was appearing on his neck. He wiped the sweat and blood off with the back of his hand hissing slightly. How could they get that bastard!

Slicing his katana down Satoshi made a pathway through the fire with freezing cold air. Running through the flames, as fast as his legs would allow he was pretty much a very dangerous blur of blue.

"Satoshi get to the cross!" one of three shouted out, he wasn't sure which one though.

Satoshi feigned to the left of an attack leaving a deep gash in Hizeme's side and a shocked expression on his face as he passed, headed straight for the cross, a smirk came to his face as he saw Hizeme clutching his side, he had just enough time to register the venomous look on his face before Satoshi touched the cross and was pulled into the "world" the Guardian of the Key stayed in.

"Satoshi Hikari?" a boy asked, his long blond hair was pulled back into a braid and looped around his neck. His voice was quiet and melodious, he was wearing a thin long sleeved red hooded shirt and rust colored cargo pants. He grinned, "Good afternoon, I am Asahi, looking for this? I was watching your Quartet! Rough time you're having isn't it?"

"Hai to all three. I have a question though. How many Keys are there? I would like to know, would you mind telling me?" he asked politely, pushing some of his dark blue hair behind his ear and looking the Guardian straight in the eyes. He was really hoping that he would get an answer and thankfully his prayers were answered.

"Of course I can tell you!" he raised his eyebrows, "Why wouldn't I?" He pulled out the Key, this time with a Garnet as the center stone, "There are seven of these in all, I take this is your third?" at Satoshi's nod a soft smile split his face, "Great!" He tossed Satoshi the Key, "Tell Higure I said hi!" he waved and everything disappeared leaving Satoshi standing in front of the cross holding the key.

"He's gone Hikari-kun! He left when you went in for the Key!" Daisuke exclaimed, startling poor Satoshi and locking him in a giant hug that pinned his arms to his sides.

"Hey! You two love birds!" Dark called causing the two in question to blush darkly but Daisuke didn't let go. "Let's go back! We have it now right?" he was sitting on the ground and Krad was wrapping something around his neck.

Satoshi on spur of the moment dropped a light kiss on Daisuke's lips and was quite relieved to find that he didn't pull away but instead tried to return it. He grabbed both of Daisuke's hands, in one deposited the Key, and in the other he placed his slightly bigger hand. While still a bright red he pulled a slightly stunned Daisuke after, down the winding streets and back to the bus stop, after all, it was still daylight.

Jade: I'm sorry, I know, it took me five days to post this! I'm sorry! I will try to update again soon! I wasn't expecting to be busy so many nights… I only work on stories at night time so I apologize for that too, it's the only time I am creative. So? How do you like this chapter? I actually like it quite a bit, PLEASE review! Reviews make me so happy! Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy! I like being happy! Why aren't I happy more often?

Jin: I think I know why! -Jin gives death hug- Its because you get scary! You get even more insane than usual!

Jade: Isn't that good? Sane isn't normal...

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