-Hello, I'm back, and I am still in shock that it's already chapter 8! Wow! I can't believe it!! Well, here's the next chapter, so read, enjoy, and review! Oh, and please… just a warning, there's some kissing in here.

-I have seen the future and it's like the present… only longer…-Dan Quiensberry

Dark Mousy grinned to himself as he grabbed the Nile Key, the large ornate necklace sitting in his palm firmly. These guards were pathetic, and with no Satoshi (meaning no KRAD) this was a piece of cake, no fun. Daisuke on the other had, was thanking every God he could think of that Satoshi was off somewhere in America, for reasons he did not know, but he knew it probably wasn't good for him.

"Feh, this is too easy, it's boring," Dark muttered to himself, walking away from the case, when he heard someone laugh.

He spun around. Was it possible he had missed a guard? His and Daisuke's though were jumbling together, when the mystery laugher stepped out into the light.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the Phantom Thief Dark…" her voice was soft, and made Dark shudder, it was like hearing something move in a room you knew was empty. He didn't like it.

There was the slight sound of her feet hitting the marble floor, and she stepped out into the shaft of moonlight streaming in from the skylight above.

She was tall, and very well proportioned, making Dark very, very happy. She wore a short black short, and a loosely buttoned black shirt, it's sleeves rolled up to revealed black gloves. Her feet wore black boots that reached to her knees, with too many buckles to count running up the leg. Her hair was short, and a deep blood red. It was cut just above her ears, and gave her the impression of a very pretty punk. A pair of black shades was perched precariously on the edge of her nose, revealing gold colored eyes. Something red and fluffy twitched behind her.

"I though I'd never get to see you," she replied, moving toward him slowly, with amazing grace, forward back into the shadows.

"Well, it looks like the police finally got some hot police women," Dark replied, cocky as ever.

"Oh, I'm not with the police," she replied, laughing again, her voice echoing against the walls.

"Then what are you doing here?" he asked, now very curious.

"I am here to tell you that you didn't steal the Nile Key," she replied simply, smirking at him, her eyes gazing at him over the rims of her shades.

"What?!?" he looked in his hand, and there was the Nile Key. " I think you got that wrong, it's right here," he replied, grinning back at her, oozing smugness.

"Ah, so naïve… reaveal," as soon as she whispered the last word, he felt the object in his handchange form. He looked down, shocked. What now lay in his hand was a cheap pair of paste pearls.

"WHAT?!!?" he demanded, looking at her with shock on his face. His eyes widened to see that the girl was now holding the necklace; it dripped off one long finger.

"Who are you!?!" he demanded, glaring at her, quite upset that he, the phantom thief, had been stolen from. But then again, can you blame him??

"Me, call me Kitsune, the fox thief!" she laughed, throwing one hand up in the air. When she did so, he noticed she had large fox ears, perched on her head; they had been hidden thanks to the small shafts of darkness that penetrated the eerie moonlight. Dark guessed the fluffy thing behind her was a fox tail, too.

"What…." He was cut off as she cried something out, and disappeared, leaving a small note on the floor, and the last bit of her voice, echoing around the room.

"I'm leaving you a gift," the echo replied to him, and suddenly, every one of the alarms was set off. Dark's mind was racing as he fled, making it out just in time. He could see the silhouette of Kitsune against the moonlight, and he groaned.

Dark alighted upon a small brick wall as he sat down, glaring at the wall, Wiz still attached to his back.

'Who was that?' Daisuke asked, worry in his voice.

"I don't know…" he replied moaning. This had never happened. He had been stolen from! That wasn't supposed to happen!

'She said her name was Kitsune,' Daisuke muttered, mainly to himself.

"Well, is the little phantom thief sad??" a voice said behind him, he turned around to see her, Kitsune. She was sitting in the branches of a nearby tree, grinning at him, her shades held loosely in one hand. Her tail swayed below her from the branches.

"What?" Dark asked, still in state of slightly numb shock.

"You were unable to steal the Nile Key, because of little ol' me right?" she asked, grinning at him cockily.

"Well, I am not entirely ready to admit defeat," Dark replied, standing up, shrugging his shoulders at her.

"Well, then, what do propose that you do? I have what you need, and I feel no urge to give it to you," she replied simply, grinning at him with fox like incisors.

"I am going to do this," he replied, and he was in no time in front of the fox eared girl, and then, he kissed her.

Her face was that of shock, her golden eyes growing round in surprise, but as his soft lips were not going anywhere, she kissed him back, glad that he was warm. She wasn't. He pulled away slowly, and was back at the wall. Kitsune had dropped her glasses, and a deep blush was still evident on her face. There was no sound for a moment besides her glasses shattering against the ground

"What… What was that for!?!" she yelled, now angry, until she realized just what was missing. The Nile Key.

"Looking for this?" he replied smugly as she patted herself down. Her head snapped up, and shock graced her face again as she saw the Nile Key.

"You… You… You foul, loathing…." She was at lost for words, glaring at him.

"Well, I've got to go, but please, don't take this personally, it's just business," he replied, flying past her. But he didn't get very far.

She quickly grabbed him, pulling his face close to hers, and this time, Dark was shock, as her soft lips brushed his gently.

"Hm,?" Dark looked at her once she pulled away, and she grinned.

"Well, my little thief, go, and just remember, one day, you will be stolen from, are you ready?" she asked, whispering in his ear. He grinned back at her, and flew off, calling back to her, "Yeah, but it's never going to happen! Ha!!" and he disappeared into the night, leaving Kitsune sitting in the tree, her face still holding a blush.

Soon, Daisuke was about to hand his mother the Nile Key when, as he looked at it, it seemed to melt into a small scroll of paper. He opened it up, and it read quite simply:

Dear Dark, Nothing personal, it's just business, right?? – Love, Kitsune

And in her room, Midorai was leaning against the open window, her face flushed, and she looked at the door of the room upon hearing Daisuke cry out in shock….

-What do you think? Didn't really like this chapter, but please tell me what you think! Thanks!! See ya in chapter 9