Shadowed Memories
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Chapter 4: Believe in the Darkness
The last thing he remembered was a searing pain, then calling out to Dark. He thought he saw the smiling Thief, and heard his voice, but maybe it was from the pain. He saw his own body changing, into that of one he knew. Dark's.
Dark stretched hard. Oh god, it was great to be alive.
"I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" he shouted, as if announcing his existence to the world. His wild purple hair was back, the thieving outfit, sharp handsome looks that could make every, well almost, every woman swoon on their feet, everything. Too bad his cocky attitude was back too.
'Dark! Are you there?'he called out, hoping he would get an answer.
'Of course I am, Daisuke! Weren't you listening?' was the cocky reply he got. Daisuke sighed in relief. Finally they could go home.
'About time you found where the last feather was. I thought I was a goner there because of you!'
Instantly infuriated, Daisuke was about to answer back before he remembered something else more important.
'To-to! Dark, is To-to alright?' Daisuke asked frantically, his little redhead going berserk with worry. 'You've got to save her, Dark! I promised her we'll take her home!'
"Ok, ok Daisuke." He replied, noticing the unconscious woman. "Chill, I got things under control."
He knelt down beside her, and sat there for a moment, as if considering.
"Well, she did fetch me from the sea when I dropped in," he murmured, almost to himself. "And she had to good talk to me too. So I think I owe her one."
'Oh no. He's not going to what I think he is…is he?' thought Daisuke in concern, knowing all too well the Thief's demeanour.
Dark bent down to the sleeping woman and kissed her.
'OH NO! HE DID! HE DID IT!' Daisuke screamed mentally, grabbing his head in his hands before going off to the back of Dark's mind to sulk. 'How could he? How could he just kiss To-to like that!'
Dark winced slightly, as he pulled away, a hand to the side of his head. Man, Daisuke could scream really loud for such a shrimpy boy. 'Hey! Who are you calling shrimpy! You are the one who kissed her! And I went through all that trouble just to save you, To-to too, and you kiss a sleeping woman!' Dark frowned, that ringing noise was really going to give him a headache. Why did Daisuke's voice have to be so echoic?
"Don't worry Daisuke." He grinned in a way that made the boy shake with terror. "She likes it. All of them do!"
"Womanizer! Riku didn't like it!" Daisuke pointed out, a bit too crudely for Dark's liking. "People are REALLY going to hate you for being a womanizer one day!"
The grin turned into a smirk. "What, you like that word now Dai?"
One could almost see the redhead cross his arms and give an annoyed look. "We should have just left you alone here…" he mumbled, not really meaning it though, of course.
Their, err-hem, conversation was interrupted by a stirring and a slight groaning noise from To-to. She looked up, and found her self staring into deep amethyst orbs, and immediately blushed a deep red.
"Princess Towa, good to see you awake." He addressed her graciously. "And thankyou for your favours for me, this is a good way to repay you, I believe."
The blush deepened, if possible, and Towa suddenly transformed into he little bird form, twittering excitedly. "To think I've been awaken by a kiss from the great Kaitou Dark himself! Oh my!" she flapped around hyper-actively for a minute before a black gloved hand picked her up and she was eye level with Dark.
"Aren't you a funny little thing?" he chuckled amusingly. He placed her on his head where she snuggled down, still blushing madly. 'So Daisuke finally realised where the last feather is.' She thought. She had already known, of course, but could not tell him. 'And Dark…he knows now where he truly belongs. And he knows that Daisuke and all the Niwa's truly are important to him, or why else would the feather been where it was?' She smiled, remembering Dark's last contribution to their conversation in his prison.
'If Daisuke finds it in its correct place, I'll come back. If not, then I know I have no place there.'
'At least all works out now.' She sighed contently.
"Hey To-to! Don't use up all your energy ok? I only gave you a bit of mine."
He stretched once more before getting serious.
"Ok! Let's get out of this fantasy world!" he raised his arm. "WIZ! COME TO ME!"
With a loud 'kyuuu' and a flurry of black feathers, Wiz became the wings of Dark and they flew up, out of the mirror. Dark smiled at Wiz.
"Good to see you're still flying free, Wiz," He remembered his prison all too well. 'And I wish this mirror would never contain another soul.' He thought to himself, but Daisuke still heard every word, although he remained quiet.
They exited the mirror, not looking back at the world inside. The world turned black, before seemingly shattering into large pieces of glass. It would remain like that until its next occupant, until it found the next desire of the dweller and captured it, turning it into reality.
Dark knew this, and prayed that the time would never come. For you never know how strong the darkness of your heart is until you're lost in it yourself.
"Oops! Back to you Daisuke!"
'What' "DO YOU MEAN!" Daisuke shouted, suddenly finding himself in control and falling into the choppy sea.
Dark grinned from inside his mind. 'I mean, I'm exhausted and need my beauty sleep so you have to take over.'
"All you're going to do is watch me and laugh!" he spluttered, doggy paddling furiously. Beside him, Wiz and To-to were flailing about hopelessly, both, well, let's just say that water is not their best friend.
Daisuke picked them up onto his head, and set out for the shore, which luckily was not too far from where they were. 'At least Dark did something right by falling closer to shore. His judgement isn't that bad, I suppose.' He thought dryly, something he was not, as he swam closer.
'Hey! What do you mean by that!' Dark shouted in his mind, comically angry.
Daisuke winced. 'Do you mind? I'm trying not to drown and kill one innocent boy, a bunny and a live art piece here!' he thought.
'What about me!' Dark whined. 'I'm going to die too if you die…'
'One: You're not innocent. Two: you're still going to live on in the next male.'
'Yeah, but if there is no father, there can't be a next male.' Dark pointed out smugly.
'Then all the better for us.' Thought Daisuke calmly, imagining a picture of Dark drowning in the sea.
'Damn!' he swore, realising the word trap he put himself in. 'Hey look…is that Risa?'
'Huh? It is! What's she doing here?' asked Daisuke mentally. Risa was not too far ahead of him, on a small patch of land not even big enough to be rightfully called an island. She was unconscious, and the water was steadily rising. It was already up to her hips…
Daisuke quickly swam over, and picked her up. Somehow, he managed to swim all the way back to shore, with the weight of another wet person, a wet bunny (they're really heavy when they're wet, noticed?), a wet bird, his own clothes wet and dragging him down, and a dry spirit thing in his head teasing him about getting the girl on his own. Dark only shut up when Daisuke pointed out that he would transform if he continued and then Dark would be stuck with the job.
Once, during the trip, Risa had opened her eyes slightly, due to the movement. She looked up at him, dazed, and whispered something before fainting again. Daisuke felt his heart pound, but only slightly. After all, Riku was his Sacred Maiden now.
They collapsed on the shore, all panting heavily (except for Dark and Risa of course), and Daisuke wondered briefly what to do. Wiz shook himself dry, To-to transformed back into her human form and looked around her, noticing Satoshi coming their way. His blue eyes widened at the sight of them all on the beach, and he made his way over coolly.
"What-?"
"Satoshi! What are you doing here?"
"We're looking for elder and younger Harada. Obviously that's one problem off." Satoshi replied calmly, raising an eyebrow at them all. "So…Dark is back?" he asked, almost conversationally.
Daisuke winced from the loud voice in his head. 'LIKE HELL I'M BACK! WHAT DID HE EXPECT! WHEN HE PUT ME IN THERE HE KNEW I WOULDN'T STAY IN THERE!'
"Uh, yes…unfortunately." Daisuke replied, wringing the water out of his hair, which had darkened due to the water, therefore the wringing causing it to return to its normal fiery red.
'What does that mean! Dai, whose side are you on?' Dark whined, while simultaneously giving glares in the Commander's direction.
"Wait a minute…Riku's missing!" exclaimed Daisuke, suddenly fully hearing Satoshi's words.
"Yes…"
Before he finished, Daisuke was already dashing off, calling out an excuse of 'going to find her.' Towa cupped her hands, and called out to Daisuke. "She's in the woods! Riku's in the woods!'
Daisuke nodded, calling out his thanks, before charging off again, heart pounding frantically. 'So that image I saw in the mirror was true.' He thought vaguely.
Satoshi watched him go, before turning his attention back to the brunette. She was sitting up now, looking around. She noticed him and immediately blushed, wondering what happened.
"S-satoshi, did you rescue me?"
"No. Someone else did. I just found you here. I saw someone with dark hair run off when I got here though." He half-lied. Well, technically it was true because Daisuke's hair had been a maroon colour due to the night and the water.
Risa instantly sighed in relief. She was glad it wasn't Satoshi; he really wasn't her type of guy.
"It was Dark! I know it must have been Dark because I woke up before, and saw him carrying me in the sea!"
Satoshi raised an eyebrow at her passion for Dark; he could see how hard it could be to be Daisuke sometimes.
They just remained there awkwardly for a moment, each waiting for the other to say something. Satoshi sure wasn't opening his mouth, and Risa was getting more and more annoyed by his icy attitude. Relief came to them soon when they heard a familiar voice calling to them.
"Hey! Satoshi! Risa! There you are!" Takeshi yelled, waving his arm madly.
He caught up with them, panting hard. "Hey Satoshi, where did you find her?"
Before Satoshi could say anything to prove Takeshi wrong, Risa jumped in.
"He just found me here! Dark was the one who rescued me from the island I was stuck on!" she beamed at the thought of being saved by her crush.
Takeshi looked at Satoshi, who shrugged, and looked back at Risa, scratching his head.
"Well, it might have been him. Seeing as he did announce stealing an artefact on this very island, he might have noticed you and brought you back." He reasoned doubtfully.
"By the way, Satoshi, any sign of Daisuke yet?"
"Yes. He was on the beach before. He's gone to look for elder Harada."
"Good!" Takeshi clapped his hands ecstatically. "We'll keep looking for her too! Take Risa back to the hotel before the teachers notice ok Satoshi!" he called, already running off.
"Riku's missing? And Daisuke was here before?" Risa asked incredulously.
Satoshi nodded. "Risa, you go back to the hotel first. I've got to do something here."
"Ok!" Risa immediately jumped up and ran off. She was glad to be out of the 'Ice Prince's' presence.
Satoshi watched her run off, before turning his attention back to To-to whom no-one had noticed, surprisingly.
The sharp ocean winds whipped around them, blowing their hair and clothes into a mess. She bowed at him formally. "I thank your Hikari ancestors for creating me, but I would like to go back with Daisuke!" she chirped excitedly.
He nodded. "You already have free will; that was proven when you chose to help him. Anyway," he looked out at the sea. "All Hikari artworks seem destined to end up with the Niwa's."
Towa nodded and went off, leaving Satoshi to stare out at the stormy sea.
'So he's back.' Thought Satoshi. He could never seem to capture Dark permanently.
Later that evening…
"So everyone's been found?" asked Takeshi loudly to his surrounding classmates. A loud chorus of 'yes' greeted him and he sat back down, grinning cheekily. "I told you we didn't need to get the adults involved!"
"Get involved with what, Saehara!"
Takeshi gulped audibly at the sight of the leering teacher bearing down over him, glasses flashing dangerously. Everyone laughed, even the teacher, as Takeshi struggled to make some feeble excuse that was acceptable.
Daisuke smiled and slipped out of the room, quietly so nobody noticed him. He had found Riku in the woods earlier, as To-to had said. He went back to his room, where To-to the bird and Wiz the bunny were fighting, err-hem, playing with each other in a, uh, slightly violent way. They were arguing over who knows what and would have probably gone on forever had Daisuke not stepped in and separated the two who were still glaring angrily at each other. He laughed and lifted To-to to eye level.
"Now, now To-to, birds don't fight with bunnies."
To-to gave him an indignant glower and promptly pecked him on the nose.
"Ow!" he cried, dropping the twittering bird. "Be quiet Dark!" he ordered the laughing Thief, trying to maintain his dignity, which was hard since he looked like Rudolph the Red-nose reindeer, which Dark was quick to point out.
Daisuke sighed, and gave up. It was no use against two chittering art pieces and one clueless bunny. He lay down on his bed, though far from sleep, and propped a mirror on his legs. Inside the mirror, instead of his own reflection, was Dark.
He glared at the Kaitou who was still sniggering madly.
"Now shut up! If it wasn't for me and To-to, you would still be inside that mirror!"
Dark grinned lazily at him. "Yeah and if I hadn't come out, you would still be seizing in pain!"
Daisuke's face flushed with anger. "Well, it's your fault for not coming out earlier! What were you doing anyway?"
Dark instantly sobered up and looked away, not wanting to remember what happened in there.
Daisuke grasped the mirror tightly and shook it a bit.
"Dark? Dark?"
The image in the mirror faded, leaving only a bewildered redhead. He sighed and put the mirror aside, knowing better than to question the Thief when he didn't want to answer. He would tell him when he wanted to. Although, come to think of it, most of the time he didn't find out in the end anyway.
To-to hopped up to him and regarded him with small black eyes.
"Leave him be for now Daisuke! Its rather unpleasant, the situation he was in." piped the tiny bird.
Daisuke sighed again and lay back on his pillow. "Yeah, I know. But still, I'm curious."
Meanwhile, back in the room, Riku had just escaped from the crowd of sympathisers who were obviously sympathising with her over her little adventure. She distantly heard another one wonder out loud how Daisuke had known that Riku was in the woods. Riku paused, because she too was rather curious.
"Maybe he used magic!" joked one of the girls in that crowd.
"Nah, it's a lovers' thing." Another one stated off-handedly. "You know how those two are like with each other. Lovers' instinct, you see?"
All the other girls agreed and giggled at the thought of Daisuke and Riku together, while said girl blushed and headed off, looking for Daisuke. She couldn't find him anywhere, so took to asking around.
"'Scuse, have you seen Daisuke anywhere?"
"Nope sorry."
"Oh…ok."
"Have you seen Daisuke anywhere?"
"Uh…no. Checked in the lobby of this hotel yet? He does like art pieces."
"Thanks, but…he said those ones weren't very interesting to him."
Riku continued like this for a good 10 minutes or so, until she decided to go to Takeshi, whom she normally hated going anywhere near.
"Hey! Takeshi! Seen Daisuke anywhere!" she yelled over the din of the crowd.
He looked over to her. "Oh Daisuke? He said he was going out for a little walk on the beach and would be back soon."
Riku beamed. "Thanks! I'm going out too ok?"
"Sure!" he nodded, flashing a snide grin. "Just don't get lost again. And, oh, you owe me one now!"
Riku didn't hear the last bit as she was already out the room and pulling on a jacket. She hurried outside and ran towards the beach. When she reached there, she looked up and down the stretch of the beach, but sighed in disappointment, as it lacked the one whom she was looking for. She was about to head back when she noticed a set of footprints on the beach. She squinted, as it was getting quite dark, and could make out the direction they were heading in. Sure they were Daisuke's, she followed them to a cliff overhanging the sea, where a tall white lighthouse stood.
Riku looked up and instantly brightened up when she noticed a bright blob of red leaning against the rail. Wishing to surprise him, she quietly sneaked over to the door and entered the dark building, swiftly dashing up the stairs. When she reached the door to the top, she grinned quietly to herself and opened the door a slight bit. She peeked outside, and her grin grew broader as she saw Daisuke sketching a picture in his trusty sketchpad. She couldn't see the picture, but seeing as he occasionally glanced up at the fading sky, she guessed it was of the sunset.
Riku saw him sigh slightly, as he closed the book, and just stood there for a moment, allowing the sharp sea breeze to blow his spiky hair into an even messier mess. She watched as he leaned back, and walked around the side of the lighthouse and out of her view. Her grin turned into a small smile, and she tiptoed out to surprise him. 'Good, now he can't see me come out to surprise him!' she thought, creeping around the side.
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