Jade-san: I hate myself. I was really slow with this wasn't I? --, I got stuck. And lazy. I wrote the first two thirds of this in my note-book, the other third I typed up wile sitting here…

Jin: SHE WAS LAZY! The slumber party was fun though! Jessica and Hikari-Aoi drove Jade-san insane! They went to bed at 12:30 A.M. then Jessica and Hikari-Aoi woke her up at before 3:30 and never let her go to sleep! –bounces around with his pixie stick-

Jade-san: Yeah, I am currently typing this on two hours sleep! So I hope this is okay!

Chapter Seven: Calculations and a Flashback

"I don't like buses." Krad stated with venom in his voice, the large, loud, and fidgety crowd had pressed him up against the window and to all outside the window… He… Appeared to be making weird faces at them... He attempted to switch places with someone else but they knew the perils of a window spot. "Darn!" he grumbled to himself, cursing buses in all their existence. At least this time he had looped his hair in a coil around his arm before getting on.

Daisuke on the other hand, seemed to be in a similar predicament but at least he was semi-comfortably nestled in a windowed corner facing into the crowd!

Not to far away in the same bus Dark and Satoshi were clinging to dear life on the ropes that fell down from the bus's ceiling bickering on who was going to trade places with who. Being in Krad's position didn't seem so good…

"Well I'm NOT!" Dark shouted, "YOU go trade with Krad!" their bickering escalated in volume.

"No! YOU go trade with Daisuke-chan!" Satoshi roared right back, a hand keeping his hat from falling off. He was very near baring his fangs at the object of his annoyance.

"At least he's got a corner!" Dark paused a moment, handing his hand rung to Satoshi he shouted; "Fine! I will!" and shoved his way through he both got jabbed by people's elbows and hit them with his own too.

Daisuke, seeing that Dark was making his way over tried to move some people out of the way too. Wincing slightly Dark favored one of his sides, the victim of a brutal elbow jab.

"Trade. You can hang out with Creepy Boy now," he jabbed his thumb in Satoshi's direction where he was waving his hand to be seen. He really hadn't needed to do so though, he was sticking out like a sore thumb in the winter hat of his.

"Hey, Hikari-kun—" Daisuke started only to be cut off by the man in question.

"Satoshi. Call me Satoshi, Daisuke-chan," he smiled, baring one fang but not in a bad way.

He nodded a little flustered, "Okay, Satoshi-kun? How long until we get to Dark and Krad's house? Will we be there soon?" he made it to a spot right next to Satoshi's shoulder after a bit of work.

"Nani? …Oh," he somehow managed to look at his watch in the cramped space. "Uh… We have fifteen minutes of torture left ahead of us I do believe," he answered, somewhat annoyed before looking Daisuke in the face. "Anything else?" he asked as he put a hand on his shoulder, wishing he would get up the nerve to pull him closer.

"I… I just wanted to thank you. F-for helping. Since your one of 'those' and all," he let Satoshi pull him closer, feeling oddly warm, relaxed, and protected while he was around him. How on earth could Satoshi have been born a demon?

"I don't care… I don't like being one of 'them'. I'd much rather be an Angel and I'd much rather be around you than one of my own kind on any day." He nearly added, 'If I can help you I am happy,' but refrained from doing so. He rested his chin on Daisuke's head and wrapped his arm around his small shoulders.

Shrilly the bus squeaked to a stop once again pushing them forward a few steps and finally ground to a stop freeing Krad from his human-body-made prison. He furiously pushed himself forward as several people got off and over to Darks side, needless to say, there were a lot of unhappy people in his wake.

"I am NEVER riding a bus again!" he harrumphed, getting jostled into Dark. Sending a poisonous glare at the culprit he turned his attention back to Dark.

Dark on the other hand sent a glare at both Krad and the pusher, the pusher for pushing and Krad for letting himself get pushed.

"Our stop is next!" they heard Satoshi holler just loud enough to be heard by the two beings.

"I'm WALKING!" Krad shouted, immediately heading for the exit and dragging his soul mate along behind him. "I can WALK faster than this bus can move!" The expression on his face backed up his statement and everyone pressed to the walls as to let him pass. Satoshi and Daisuke heard Dark yell as he was roughly dragged down the stairs before realizing that they were being left behind and hurried after.

"Wait for us!" Daisuke had nearly dragged Satoshi down the same stairs trying to catch up, nearly falling down as he tripped in the process.

"I HATE traffic!" Krad shouted as he drug Dark down the sidewalk by the back of his shirt, Dark was busy going through his 'I'm free!' routine, waving his arms about widely and in such a manner that had anyone come close he probably would have accidentally brained them.

The other two followed behind in the little parade thinking of exactly where they held their feelings for each other, similar thoughts for drastically different people, no?

Shortly later Krad was being tackled by Padfoot, his dog, and poor Krad once again got the creature thinking something was wrong with his master; once again it was trying to glue itself to him… Without… The glue…

"Here!" Dark flipped a red sharpie across the kitchen of his lovely two story home at Daisuke's forehead, expecting to hear a small thunk, but instead of the expected noise he got a clatter as it hit his white walls instead. Krad yelled a couple times about his walls yet, nonetheless a full blown pen-flicking war commenced.

Daisuke had a protractor, a ruler, pen, pencil, and a compass in hand and the map laid out flat on the table. Seven marks were on the map in a circle shape. Daisuke was behaving like he had a migraine, "So, we've been here, here, and here." He made three green marks on the map in the shape of an equilateral triangle, "Seeing as our next Key is in this direction," he made an arrow in pencil, "So… Our next Key should be here EXACTLY." He made a circle around a red "X" with his pencil still clutched in his hand.

"But… This other one…" He pointed at a location beside the one they were talking about, "Is closer, why aren't we going there first? Do they have to be done in a circular path?"

"Niwa-kun!" A woman called cheerfully, her white wings folded up tight against her back and her honey-like brown eyes sparkled warmly but soon looked startled, "Aah! Niwa-kun! What happened?" She pulled the teary eyed boy into her lap in one swift motion.

"Akeru-san!" Daisuke buried his head in the crook between her neck and shoulder. "I-it was some of the other Angels…" He sniffed a bit and pulled away to rub his ruby eyes; Akeru-san was one of his teachers and very like a mother to him. "They were bullying me about my wings again!"

Akeru fingered a bruise she saw on his cheek, "Did they do this?" he winced and nodded. She scowled; something that rarely crossed her bright face, "I don't see how they got into Heaven! You are special!" She stroked his ruby red feathers that seemed almost to be on fire.

"Why am I the only one without white wings?" he asked blatantly, scowling, even though he already knew the answer.

"Because you are one of the fore-told ones, you are supposed to save Heaven. The Fire Winged and the Ice Winged are supposed to save Heaven by working together to gather all they Keys." She encased him in a loving motherly bear hug, "I'll give you a few tips, one, the Keys will always be in a circle, no matter how many times you go around while finding them remember you need to find them in a certain order, and two," she handed him a small box, "God isn't your only love in the after life, you haven't gotten your soul mate yet. Don't be afraid to fall in love."

"Uh-huh…" he nodded and got up, today was the day he would leave on his mission, "I'll see you again! Soon! I promise!"

"Find the Ice Angel, I have a feeling he's on Earth." She waved slowly, her eyes soft as she watched him mold his beautiful red wings into his back and step backwards into a mirror between the three worlds, watching her the whole way.

"I'll get the Keys. Don't worry…" the water-glass rippled over his skin obscuring his body from view.

"Yes," he said, remembering his last day there, "Have I already found the Ice Angel?" he asked himself drawing confused glances from his companions.

"Nani?" Satoshi asked, bewildered and was echoed by the other two in their little quartet.

"Nothing," he smiled, "I was just remembering something and yes, they do need to be in a certain order, this one," he tapped a mark with the top of his pen, "Is the seventh, see? It's in the center. I was told there was one in the center…" he leaned back in his chair and looked up into Satoshi's beautiful cobalt blue eyes, getting a good view of the tips of his fangs and noticing how long his eyelashes were and… Daisuke couldn't help it, he started to giggle; he was getting a good view up Satoshi's nose too!

Satoshi quirked an eyebrow, confused as from where the laughter was coming. All he knew was that Daisuke had been studying his features and then he started laughing. WHAT could be so funny about him!

"I can see up your nose!" he exclaimed as if that solved all the woes of the world. His grin flashed his pearly white teeth.

"…Okay…" he could only think of how it would only be Daisuke who could find amusement in that. Leaning down so close that he could feel Daisuke's breath against his skin he put his face just mere inches from Daisuke's. "Now you can't!" Amusement lined his brightening voice. When had his voice become so cheerful?

Daisuke pouted, crossing his slender arms and thinking to himself, 'yeah, I think I've found him, I wonder if he really likes me.'

Jade-san: OKAY! ATTENTION! I want to know, who do you want kidnapped?

1. Daisuke

2. Satoshi

3. Krad or

4. Dark

Choose 1, 2, 3, or 4. when you review! Anonymous reviews are accepted!