Jade: November 15, 2005 :grabs ax and chainsaw: THE NEXT PERSON WHO KEEPS ME FROM THIS STORY WILL BE BEHEADED! +Clears throat+ I was having a little trouble getting an inspiration on this then about four and a half weeks ago I got a very good one… :MUST. RESIST. URGE. TO. TAKE. CHAINSAW. TO. PILES. OF. HOMEWORK.: I have 8 classes… all A's so far… must say it takes a lot of work…
Jade:December 17, 2005: Has killed everyone in sight. :Yay: Break is here! I have TIME!
Jin:No, Jade does not own DNAngel, though she does randomly kidnap the characters!
Chapter Nine: Nani?
The trees creaked quietly and a swift soft breeze fluttered through the cemetery, a soft moon glowed above. He crept up on the unsuspecting couple silently, not wanting his victims alerted to his presence. With a maniacal grin he crept closer to the two on the bench, the soft rustling of his clothes was all there was to hear.
"BOO!" he shouted as loud as he possibly could causing the two curled against each other to start and slide off the bench into a crumpled heap in the soft wet emerald green grass. Oh what a hilarious sight to behold.
"DARK MOUSY!" Daisuke hollered, echoed by a slightly quieter Satoshi Hikari.
It only took a second. Dark barely had time to react before he was being chased by a severely adrenalin pumped Vampire. The chase didn't even last the whole minute. Dark soon found himself pinned by the Vampire, his hands held in place above his head and Satoshi straddling his waist.
Satoshi stared. Dark looked upwards at Satoshi's angular face, his heart beating a mile a minute. A minute passed. Dark started to calm down. Satoshi blinked blearily and slowly released Dark's hands to slowly rub his eyes. "'Ut 'ime 's 't?" he asked slur, his blood pressure catching up to him. A sigh escaped everyone present.
"Hmm… Thought he was a goner for that one myself…" Krad spoke out from no-where, or rather, in the air, he dropped down to the ground beside the Angel and busied himself to laughing at Dark's decidedly deserved misfortune.
"Help… Please…?" Dark gasped from under the blue boy. Clawing at the grass with his long fingers he tried still to get away.
A scathing glare was sent in his general direction from the red-head and Krad had just dissolved into another fit of laughter. It wasn't every day that you get to see a petulant Dark getting sat on.
A few minutes later Dark had managed to push the Vampire off and started grumbling about Satoshi's low blood pressure and how irritating it was.
"Let's go home, okay Krad-san?" Daisuke spoke as he securely wrapped his arms around Satoshi before somehow managing to lift him onto his back. He took a step forward and nearly slipped on the grass underfoot. A moment later he regained his footing looking highly sheepish, it was everyday that you got to see that! Never was any less cute to the observer though.
(AN: I KNOW he can do this, he did it in the ninth book and he was only fourteen then… You saw the height difference!)
Daisuke left them to catch up with only the mangled and often completely unintelligible mutterings of the Demon. "Pretty… Hey, Satoshi? Is that the Sirius Constellation?" he asked, his footsteps tapping against the concrete underfoot. The starry expanse was spread out before him. And at the rate he was going, it would be gone before he reached the house.
"Uganank…" Satoshi made a weird noncommittal grunting sound deep back in his throat that spurred a giggle from the Angel. A gust of wind blew by stirring the night and ruffling their hair. Satoshi groaned and shifted in Daisuke's hold, wrapping one arm closer around the Angels neck and letting the other dangle free as he buried his head in Daisuke's shoulder. "…Warm…" he mumbled almost inaudibly, electing another giggle from the red head.
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"How are we going to do this!" Daisuke wailed, banging his head on the tabletop in pure frustration. He was getting irritated and his action was creating a domino effect on the others.
"I know you're aggravated, but," Krad grabbed the collar of his shirt, "knock that off!"
"But I feel hopeless! How on earth are we going to get in there? It'd be impossible!" He wailed loudly, the tone was starting to grate on their nerves.
Satoshi frowned, looking a little apprehensive at his friend's antics.
"Why are you getting so worked up about this?" Krad couldn't help but ask the red-head who was now burying his head in his arms on the counter top. Daisuke's behavior about the placement of the next Key was really annoying him. Really, he couldn't see any reason for it.
A mournful muffled moan escaped his lips. This would not do! "It's in a Demon populated area…" he lifted her head off the table slightly and just let it drop again. Most definitely not good, "It's in area that is guarded from Angels… Hunter Angels to be exact…" He hit the tabletop with his fist.
"Which means?" Dark entered the conversation, watching Daisuke with interest. Another thumping sound was heard.
"That means I would not be able to get in at all. I'm classified as a Hunter Angel," he sighed audibly, he tried pulling up one of his sleeves but it wouldn't go up far enough, resulting in, to Satoshi's silent delight, him taking off the shirt all together. With yet another sigh he tossed the shirt on the ground, revealing his finely toned upper-body. He pointed out his right upper arm to show everyone an armband that no-one had previously noticed.
The gold band was fitted to the size of his arm in that area with spiraled borders and a blue and red swirled stone placed in the metal facing outward. On one side a silver bat wing stretched and on the other a finely detailed feathered wing resided.
Satoshi could almost feel a blush coming but crushed it down almost ruthlessly.
"This is a device used to tell Hunters from the others so they can be quickly called to help in the event of a crisis or," he paused a moment and shook his head sadly, "it's used to track a Corrupted Hunter, an Angel who has been corrupted by all the power that their position holds." He frowned; Corrupted Angels were never a pretty sight, no, not physically. Physically their beauty usually surpassed a regular Angel's, bordering on a High Angels level of grace, but really. They really gave off an ugly aura.
It took a moment for what he was saying to sink in.
"What!" Dark couldn't help but to exclaim, the implications of what Daisuke was saying finally set in.
"They have a device that tracks Hunter Angels. If any intrude in the territory they are set through with an extremely high voltage electrical shock." Lifting his shirt off the floor he pulled it back on, still talking whilst doing so, "The shock would be enough to put me out of commission for at least a month or two."
"So you can't go." Satoshi deadpanned, all outward appearances appearing stoic. This wasn't good. It really wasn't good. "Which compound is it in?" he was quite irritated to find that he had not known of such a place.
Daisuke leaned over and buried his head in Satoshi's shoulder. "The one in Cybele…" his voice was muffled, and he was most definitely not noticing the effect he was having on the poor Vampire.
"So… How big it the complex?" Krad asked, leaning back against the wall and uncrossing his arms in order to pet Padfoot for a moment. He was wondering if it was small enough for Satoshi to locate on his own, though he didn't voice it.
No such luck. "Its about fifty square miles. All I know is that they built the compound around the Key so it should be near the center." His voice was still being muffled so he got up to get a glass of water, leaving a slightly disgruntled Vampire behind. He had really liked the contact! Changing his mind he started sifting through the refrigerator and was delighted to find some Cranberry-Raspberry juice.
A silence stretched for several minutes before Daisuke spoke again, "I don't know why but I am getting the feeling that the Key won't be on ground level… I have learned to trust instincts. It's usually a little help from above." He smiled, one of his common smiles that always seemed to raise everyone's spirits, even if it was just a little. "Actually… Now that I think of it, I remember reading something in my studies about a Demon Complex that had underground tunnels and towers… Maybe it could be that one?"
"Are you smart?" Dark couldn't help but ask, albeit quite rudely. He couldn't help but remember how hopeless he had been in school whilst they had been sharing one body. Dark smirked and leaned back in his chair.
Krad took that moment to knock him out and on to the tiled floor.
Dark yelped indignantly while Daisuke answered, "Yes actually," he grinned at Darks jumbled form, "I am top in almost all my classes, I had to be to get this job I have." He poked Dark with his toe, where he had frozen from the shock. Imagine that! Daisuke's smart! "I actually had time to study."
Satoshi actually had to repress a snicker to Darks expression.
After Daisuke rinsed out the glass and put it in the drainer and went to walk past the Vampire, who it seemed had been lying in wait. Grabbing the Fiery Angel he dragged him down into his lap. After the now tomatoized red head was settled he gave him a sound kiss. "Mine." He said, earning an incredulous look from Dark.
"Was he always this possessive Krad?" he asked, receiving a grin from the blond in question, taking that as a "yes" he spoke up again grinning devilishly, "Boys, boys, boys! Not in front of the poor innocent child!" he gestured at the happily grinning pooch.
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"I still don't see how you can call that canine a 'child'. It's no puppy." Satoshi mumbled, beating his wings harder and faster. There was a nice cloud cover that night and he was blending into the darkness quite well. There were no stars to speak of and the moon was mostly hidden from view. With a slight smile he twisted through the air, it really was exhilarating to be cutting and gliding through the winds. Thank above, or below, that he had been given wings.
Satoshi was thinking of Daisuke, he had had a crush on an Angel before but it had been nothing like the one he had for Daisuke. Her name had been Hinanta, they hadn't really had much of a relationship beside just being best friends. She had always wondered how he had managed to be a Vampire, she didn't think he belonged there. She had been going to ask the high council to let him enter Heaven but the wars had come before she could. He wondered if she had woken up yet.
Twisting in the air he waited for Dark and Krad to catch up, playing with a strap on the leather jacket he was wearing in the meantime. God he was fidgety for no reason today! There wasn't much going on out side at this time of night in this area, just the sound of his leathery wings and the occasional sound of a car alarm or horn from far below him.
"Are we there yet!" He heard Dark yell from a little ways away. Rolling his eyes the Vampire took off again.
Jade: First off to anyone wondering, yes, "blearily" IS a word! I've been told for YEARS that it wasn't a word! It means fuzzily, hazily, groggily, sleepily, unfocusedly, and drowsily! My computer says so, so NYAA! :sticks out tongue:
Oh, and peoples… If you want me to update again I MUST have 15 reviews. On my longest chapter and BEST one I LOST 1/3 of my reviewers! NOT FAIR!
As always anonymous reviews are always accepted. I know that this one is a little short but if I had added more it would have been too long… For my tastes any way.
Jin: EEP! The Frozen Rain it coming! The Frozen Rain is coming! HIDE!