AuthorsNote: Yay another chapter; sorry it took so long, this week has been so stressfull. I started the new semester and these classes give A-LOT of homwork, practically everynight. So I will update when I can, it will mostly take me about a week everychapter, at most two but that will be rare. OK enough of that enjoy!

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Satoshi opened his weary eyes; he attempted to look around but everything was a blur, he realized he was on the floor of his apartment. He attempted to rise but the killer pain in his back prevented him from doing so. He couldn't remember anything; Krad had blocked him from seeing anything, all he knew was Krad had gotten out and done something .What scared him most was he had no clue what it was Krad had done. He knew the sadistic angel had planned something. He groaned as he forced himself to get up; the pain shocked through him, his joints were stiff, his body was tense.

He stood up slowly so as not to cause too much discomfort. He looked down at his watch; it was 7:45 school was going to start in five minutes. He had to get to class and make sure nothing had happened to Daisuke. Krad…if you did anything to him…he began to make his way up the stairs to his bedroom so he could change. I swear you will regret it.

The school bell rang; Daisuke was actually there on time for once, his mother unfortunately had driven him that morning. Not a word had been spoken between them since the previous night; Emiko was still fuming, and Daisuke was still hurt by her words. He walked into class looking glum again; he was looking forward to talking about it with Satoshi. He didn't care what his mother said; she couldn't stop him from seeing him while at school. However he was disappointed to find; when he stepped in the classroom, that Satoshi was not there yet.

He sighed sadly and went to sit at his desk; there he waited impatiently until the bell rang. There was still no Satoshi in sight. Why…out of all the days, he's gone today? When I need him most. Daisuke let his head hit the desk and he remained there until his teacher asked him a question; which he had no answer for. There was about fifteen minutes left in class when the door opened suddenly; and Satoshi stepped inside panting somewhat, apparently he had been running down the halls.

"Mr. Hiwatari…you're…late…"

"I apologize…my alarm went off late." He was out of breath as he spoke.

"Well, please take your seat." Satoshi nodded and walked to his desk and sat down wincing slightly as he did. He was relieved to see Daisuke was alright, but he looked like something was on his mind. This was a shocker for not only the class but their teacher as well; Satoshi had never been known to be late to class, and he had been absent once. The rest of class went on until the bell rang; Daisuke took that opportunity to speak with Satoshi; before their next class.

"Satoshi I need to talk to you during lunch."

"Yeah…I have to tell you something too." He slowly stood up; trying his best not to wince, he didn't was the redhead to worry about him.

"Are…you alright?" Daisuke asked.

"I'm a little sore…I'll explain later." He sighed. "You better get to class." Daisuke nodded and reluctantly walked away from him.

At lunch Daisuke met up with Satoshi in his usual spot; on the rooftop, he found him sitting down with his knees pulled up to his chest, by Satoshi's usual manner Daisuke knew there was something wrong. He sat down next to him.

"Satoshi…what happened?" Daisuke asked; he wanted to get this part out of the way before having to tell him about the fight with his mother.

"Krad." Satoshi answered simply.

"What did he do to you?"

"He just transformed after you left; but that's not the problem." He sighed. "I don't know what he did."

"You have no idea?" The redhead questioned. The bluenette just shook his head.

"…I was so scared that he had…done something to you." He looked up at Daisuke; the young redhead had never seen such compassion in someone's eyes, especially Satoshi's. He took the teen's hand to help reassure him.

"I'm fine Satoshi." Daisuke soothed.

"So…besides that; what did you need to talk to me about?" Satoshi changed the subject; he wasn't comfortable talking about what had happened with Krad.
"My mom…she knew that I lied; she knows I was at your house, she found the picture you gave me." He began to rant. "She hates me now because of what I am!"

"Daisuke…we talked about this yesterday."

"I know; but it's even worse this time!" The redhead exclaimed. "If she hates me now…how do you think she feels about you?" He sighed sadly; things were getting so complicated. "I don't know why it has to be so hard for and me. Why can't everyone be happy that we are happy?" Satoshi didn't have much of a response to that; truthfully he felt the same way about things. He didn't understand why everything had suddenly gone so downhill after they had decided to date. It was as if the Niwa, Hikari curse also incorporated bad luck. "You know." Daisuke continued. "I wish you and I could just leave together; just leave this school go out and spend some time with each other."

"Why don't we?" Satoshi asked.

"Huh?"

"We could leave right now and go somewhere." The bluenette suggested.

"But…Towa is picking me up after school; if I didn't come home with her my mom would kill me!"

Satoshi shrugged. "It was just an idea." He paused. "I mean you just said you wished you could leave."

"I do…" The redhead sighed sadly. Everything was so confusing; he just wanted to be with Satoshi but so many things prevented him.

"I'm sure Towa would cover for you."

"Well she did give me the cookies that made me go to your house last night; she owes me a favor."

"So…you want to go?" Satoshi asked.

Daisuke hesitated a moment. "Yeah sure…lets go!" Daisuke stood up and helped Satoshi stand so it wouldn't hurt him as much. They left the rooftop and headed down to the school courtyard, there were no school monitors out there so they were able to ditch easily. They went down to the nearest park and walked around; just enjoying each other's company. For the first time they could just be with one another; no worries about being caught, no time limits. That was the first day of their frequent school skipping.

-two weeks later-

The teens skipped out on their third day of skipping school, they didn't see one another very often due to Daisuke's mother's strict rules. They saw one another during lunch and class but other than that they had practically no contact with each other. Daisuke had gotten impatient the past few days and had to be with Satoshi longer than just an hour and a half per day. His mother still wasn't speaking to him; and Towa had taken to driving him to and from school, luckily as he predicted Towa never mentioned the days Daisuke was absent. She usually told Emiko that she and Daisuke had decided to go shopping.

The two went down to the park again; that was their usual spot, it was close by and gave them some privacy. Satoshi stopped and sat down on a bench that overlooked a small pond; there were some ducks swimming around with little ducklings. Daisuke saw this and sat down to admire them.

"Aww aren't they cute!" He beamed.

"They sure are."

Daisuke smiled and scooted closer to Satoshi. "I'm so happy when I'm with you."

"I am too." He smirked.

"But it's not enough…just an hour a half a day." He rested his head on Satoshi's shoulder. "I can't call you; can't see you, all because of my mom."

"Does your dad know yet?"

"No…he's still out of town; we never know when he'll be back, or where he goes." The redhead explained.

"I see." Satoshi was silent a moment. "but we should make the best of the time we do get to spend together." With that Satoshi lifted Daisuke's head off his should to look at him; closing his eyes he gave the small teen a light peck. Daisuke immediately responded by placing his lips on Satoshi's, he felt the taller teen's hands cupping his face. They made out on that bench in the park; things had started to get heavy; Daisuke had willingly opened his mouth to allow Satoshi's tongue entrance, when Satoshi's cell phone began to ring.

They broke away a bit startled by the sudden noisy interruption. "Shit." Satoshi reached into his pants pocket and pulled out the little flip phone, he examined the number and answered it. "Yes sir?" Daisuke sat back and quietly listened to the one end of the conversation. "What do you mean? Now?" Satoshi appeared irritated. "I'm right in the middle of…" He kept getting interrupted. "Yes I am…I can't leave…why? …No would you listen...Yes…Yes…No I…Ok….OK!...Right…" He hung up and placed the phone back in his pocket.

"Who was it?" Daisuke asked.

"My Stepfather… he's back in town and wants to see me right away."

"Oh…" The redhead sounded disappointed.

"I'm so sorry but I have to go, he thinks I'm still in class." He stood up to leave, but before going he leaned down and kissed Daisuke on the cheek. "I'll see you later."

"Bye Satoshi."

"Bye…" Satoshi stood and began to make his way out of the park. Daisuke remained on the bench for a few minutes, then got up himself and headed back to school, there was no place else that he could go to. Besides going home but his mother would know he had skipped and that would mean the possibility of being with Satoshi. It wasn't worth the risk of her finding out and hating him even more, if that was possible.

Satoshi had called his limo driver and was picked up at the park; he was driven down to the museum where he was to meet his stepfather. He was not looking forward to the meeting; every time he would be questioned on his progress of capturing Dark, and why he hadn't accomplished his goal. Truth be told he didn't care about capturing the thief anymore; he was for once in his life happy, and intended to keep it that way. He approached the door to the main office and paused; this was not going to be a friendly meeting, reluctantly he opened the door and entered.

"Ah Satoshi my son." His stepfather greeted with a false warmth. He was seated in a chair at his desk; his elbows resting on the top, his chin on his interlocked fingers.

"You wanted to see me." he stated just waiting to get it over with.

"Come here please." Satoshi obeyed and approached the desk; he spotted a folder laying nearby. "Do you know what is in here?" He tapped the folder.

"No sir."

"Why don't we take a look." He opened it up and Satoshi's jaw dropped. There were pictures, of him and Daisuke at the park. His stepfather flipped through them; their were photos of them kissing, touching, hugging, he even had the photos they had taken of each other the night Daisuke snuck over.

"Where did you get those?" Satoshi asked bitterly.

"They were in your camera; I was given a tip that I may find something interesting in there." The man smirked. "So why don't you tell me what's going on."

"There is nothing to tell."

"What is this?" He pointed to the photos. "Fraternizing with your enemy!"

"Daisuke is not my enemy; it's Dark and frankly there is no point to trying to capture him."

"What?" His stepfather asked, his anger was rising. "Dark is stealing this museums artwork; you have any idea how much it is worth?"

"Well ever try thinking why he does it? Maybe it is for a good cause; we just don't see it." Satoshi defended.

"You are not backing out now; you have him all you have to do is arrest him."

"No…I would never do that! You know what!" Satoshi pulled out his badge and tossed it on the desk. "I quit!" He turned around to leave.

"Stop Satoshi! I wouldn't want to do that if I were you." He called to his adopted son.

Satoshi stopped and looked back; there was obvious hate in his eyes. "Why not?"

"You wouldn't want something happening to your dear little Niwa." He said almost so sweetly it was sickening.

"You wouldn't!" Satoshi glared at him hatefully.

"Oh I would." He smirked foully. "You quit then I will take things into control…and I cannot guarantee that Niwa's safety."

"…You bastard!" Satoshi fully turned around clenching his fists in anger. "You can't do this!"

"Yes I can and I will; you better arrest that boy the next time you are with him…or else…I guarantee you, he will be hurt." He threatened.

"I can't do that!"

"Then I suggest." He narrowed his eyes. "That you stay away from him…and concentrate on Dark." Satoshi didn't know how to respond; he couldn't imagine Daisuke getting hurt but he didn't want to be away from him either. If it meant the boy's protection he had only one choice.

"…I'll do it…but only to protect Daisuke." He mumbled quietly; the anger that was burning in him was nearly too much.

"That's a good boy…now get out of here." Satoshi hesitated a moment then walked up and picked up his badge. He glared at the man that he had called father then turned to leave. "Oh and one more thing…if you do meet with that boy I will find out. I have someone that will notify me." He smirked. Satoshi felt sickened by being in his very presence, he left and slammed the door behind him. He felt for the first time in years the sting of tears forming in his eyes.

"Krad…I fucking hate you!"

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AuthorsNote: things just keep getting worse and worse for our little boys...er...teen boys...hope you enjoy it. Will update asap!