Complete Opposites

Chapter Six: Recruiters!

He tried to wake him, really he did, but it was no use. The stupid lump refused to budge. So he was forced to take drastic measures and call for back up. The phone rang, it didn't beep or get one of those really cool ring tones, it rang. And Satoshi picked it up, there was still a bit left before school started, "Yes?"

"Hiwatari-kun?"

"Niwa?"

"Hiwatari-kun?"

"Yea…" Apparently, neither of them were exactly awake yet.

"Dark won't wake up, do you think you and Krad can come over and help me? Please?"

That was unexpected, "Uh…sure…"

"Thank you! See you in a bit!"

Satoshi headed upstairs, very cautiously remembering the other day's incident. He knocked on the door and was answered with a, "Yes? Come in."

He stepped inside, Krad was smoothing out her uniform, "Niwa needs us to go over and wake Dark up."

"Hn." Waking Dark up wasn't exactly a priority for Krad but she was going to have to go either way, "I'll be ready in a second."

And then, for the first time in Satoshi's life, he saw his curse as feminine aside for her appearance. It scared him terribly.

Awhile later the two ventured to the Niwa household, Daisuke opened the door with a sigh of relief, "Thank god you're here! I tried everything and he wouldn't ever budge!"

"So now we're using Krad as our secret weapon."

"I suppose you could put it that way…"

So Krad, a.k.a. their secret weapon, went straight to her task and headed up the stairs and into Dark's room. There was the thief lying face down on the bed, still sleeping like a pig. How anyone could breathe with this mouth and nose against a pillow, no one knew. "Dark?" She asked softly, she received no answer so she walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, "Dark…wake up." Not so much as a stir, so she shook his by the shoulders, "Come on, wake up already!"

Nothing. She tugged on his arm, then his hair but none of the above worked, so she began to formulate a plan to get the thief to wake up. Then an idea flashed into her mind, of course! Bribery! Now what would be something that Dark couldn't resist? Ahh…obviously… "Dark…if you wake up I'll let you tie my hair…" There was sign of life, "I'll even let you come over tomorrow and do the same thing…" There was a stir. Krad sighed, the greedy, greedy thief…

"Hurry up! We're going to be late!"

Half desperate, she said without thinking, "Come on, wake up and I'll even wear that skirt you were talking about yesterday, just hurry up or we're going to be late."

At the magic words, Dark sat up, grin on his face. Krad stared in disbelief, the thief was all dressed and ready to go, he smirked, "Actually, I just wanted the skirt part but I wouldn't mind playing with your hair. Remember, you promised to wear it!" Krad couldn't believe it, it had been a set up! Dark just kept on grinning. A couple minutes later the two went downstairs, Dark still smirking happily while Krad was stuck in pigtails yet again, this time they were decorated and tied with red ribbons, "Don't worry, tomorrow, I'll do something different with your hair."

Krad groaned, "Dark Mousy, you're an ass."

"Hey! My ass is damn nice!"

The blonde mentally slapped herself and headed out the door.

"Today is sign up day," The teacher paused, "what are you still doing here? Out! Get out of my classroom! Now! OUT!"

The students skittered out of the class, Akio smiled and headed up to Krad, "Hikari-chan, shall I show you around and tell you what we have to offer?"

Krad gave a little nod and was off, Dark growled, everyone had to sign up for at least one thing, bowling? Too…slow…Soccer? Possibly. Basketball? No, he'd feel like a midget. Curling? The thief laughed at the thought. Martial arts? That'd be interesting but he couldn't really risk getting his delicate bone structure ruined, not while he still had art to steal. There was cheerleading, but that was for girls and that's exactly where Akio was leading the blonde to.

Before Krad could get a word out, the people in charge of the cheerleading squad pulled her into a changing room and when she came out, she was in a cheerleading outfit. It was red and white like the colors of their school and she was given pompoms. The leader people nodded as though she just came onto the stage for an audition, "Go on, let's see what you've got."

Dark gawked and nearly tripped over air. Krad was blushing like mad, "W-what?"

"Let's hear your cheer."

"……………" The blonde had nothing in mind, what were they trying to do to her? "Errr…"

"Well?"

It pissed her off when they looked at her accusingly and started to talk among themselves, how dare they mock her!.? Krad sucked in as much as air as her lungs could hold and yelled hoping to get everything over with so she could go crawl into a hole and die. She rolled her pompoms, "Give me a B! Give me an I! Put that all together and what does that spell?" Thank god for Satoshi and the television or else she wouldn't know what to do at all.

"Bi!"

Krad waved, "Bye!" Then ran off to get changed. A very short yet effective cheer.

There was a moment of silence in the room, Dark growled, Akio was going down. But on the other hand, Krad looked really cute in that cheerleader's outfit, but then again, Akio put her up to it, but then again…the leaders were talking among themselves, "That was really short…"

"But she didn't spell bye like other people would…she used B and an I…amazing..."

Dark rolled his eyes, gods they were idiots. He ran off to meet her at the front of the change room, "You did well."

Krad jumped, "That was humiliating! Remind me to kill that guy."

"Wait in line, you're third."

"Third?"

The girl, the one she had learned how to pout from was bashingAkio on the head, "How could you do that to the new kid? She's clearly distressed! How can you take advantage of the poor girl! You wrench! Monkey wrench! Wretched wretched monkey wrench! I'm not showing up tonight!"

The thief and hunter just stared as the girl continued pounding the boy, "B-but Hazuki-chan! I just thought she'd make a fine cheerleader!"

"And I wouldn't have!.? Well I'll never! You know what? I'm not seeing you tonight or ever! I never want to see you again Nakamura Akio! Get out of my sight! NOW!"

Krad vaguely wondered if it was her fault. Then a hand covered her view, huffing, she looked up, "What, Dark?"

"I'd rather you not learn anything else to use against me, that's all."

No sooner spoken, they were surrounded by a group of people, actually…not group, a mob of people both girls and boys asking both Dark and Krad questions. "Hikari-chan! That was excellent!"

"Dark-san! What are you going to join? I want to join with you!"

"Krad-chan! You'll make it in for sure!"

"Did you ever consider joining soccer?"

"Basketball!"

"Bowling!"

"Tennis!"

"Hikari-san, I'm jealous! You're so good at cheerleading!"

"Join football!"

"No! Ballet!"

The pair stood there, too baffled to move or speak, then someone cleared his throat, well it could've been a girl with a really deep voice, but still…assuming that it was a guy speaking, he said, "Whoa! Hold it! These are new students so don't try and force them to join clubs! Why don't we give them a chance to think about it then chose at the end of the day or tomorrow?"

Everyone left at once with an unsatisfied mumble. Everyone except a couple girls who, to both Dark and Krad saw as 'preppy', sadly, a couple of them approached them, then the rest of them followed. Almost as though rehearsed, they split into two groups and half went to Dark while the other to the blonde. Krad blinked, one of the preppy girls, possibly their leader spoke up, "Like, oh, like, my, like god! You were like, so like, cool! Like ohmygod! You are like so going to like get in!"

That seem to start the others off, Krad just bit her lip as they all spoke to her at once, "Like oh, like, my, like, god! How do you like get your like hair like so like straight?"

"Oh my god! I like absolutely like love that like ribbon in like your hair!"

"Like oh my like god! Is Dark like your boyfriend or something like he's like gorgeous!"

Golden eyes looked over to the thief desperately, "Who are you?"

The so called leader spoke up again, "We're like the like cheerleader squad! Which you're like going to like soon be like joining like us! Like oh my like god! I like can't like wait!" She squealed, at that moment, Krad was very sure that she wouldn't be joining the cheerleading club. "Like you like so have to like join!"

"No thanks…"

She put on a way overly exaggerated pout, "Like no way! You like so have to like join! I like demand you to!" She called over to her fellow preppy friends, "Don't you like want to be like us? Actually some of them are like not in like cheerleading ya know, they're just like, our friends ya know like they would've made it but yea…"

Her fellow friends came along dragging Dark along, "Like convince her to like join! You're like her boyfriend!"

One of the girls squealed, "Like oh my like god! You're like so lucky! You like have like the cutest like boyfriend, ever!"

Krad was pushed forward into the thief, "Like tell her to like join!"

The blonde stared at Dark pleadingly, silently mouthing, no oh gods no Dark, please don't, please, please, please don't make me join. The thief looked just as terrified as she did, "I'll think about it, we still have until the end of school…"

The girls left with a pout, "You'll like so regret like not like joining us when you like don't join us which like you won't since you'll like be like joining us like anyways!"

Krad blinked, "That was…freaky…"

"Don't you dare join the cheerleading club, I'd rather lose the image of you in a cheerleading outfit than you becoming like that."

"I wouldn't have joined even if you tried to force me-wait…lose the image of me in a cheerleading outfit?"

"Huh? I didn't say anything!"

"You twit!" The blonde stalked off to class with the thief following her apologizing again.

That day, several times when Krad looked out the window, she saw different signs made from different things from different teams and activities for the same reason. To recruit. There was a huge JOIN TENNIS sign made from tennis balls and rackets. BASKETBALL and SOCCER made from basketballs and soccer balls along with shoes and jerseys. CURLING made from curling stones and brushes. She sighed and concentrated on the lesson in front of her.

At lunch, the first thing that happened was a boy, not just any boy, a geek. He approached Krad and stopped her just by standing there, in front of her. He inhaled through his braces and teeth before pulling out an inhaler and took a couple puffs, adjusted his glasses which had tape wrapped around the rims, he cleared his throat. Krad raised a brow, the boy was wearing a tucked in shirt, a knitted vest with a pocket protector in his breast pocket, his pants were rolled up hideously and socks were pulled way up. He had a bowl cut, long nose and small wiggly ears. He inhaled again, "You, the queen of my heart who is stronger than any knight of bishop in the world. Would you consider joining the chess club? Together we can pawn all the other unworthy castles and pawns and become the king and queen of chess!" He gave a strange little laugh at his corny chess joke, pulled out his puffer and inhaled again.

"…no thanks?" Krad really didn't know what to say to such a…nerdy figure.

The nerdling gasped and inhaled again, "A girl has actually spoken to me!" He took out his puffer and inhaled several times like a drug or something.

The blonde felt like running away. Then someone came along, "What's going on here?" She turned around, it was Dark, she silently sent her thanks to god. "Who's this guy Krad?"

The nerd fell onto his knees dramatically, but the dramatic effect was ruined when he took another puff from his inhaler then screamed amazingly high-pitched, "Noooooo! My queen has already be checked and mated with a king! And I shall forever remain a knight…" Inhale, inhale.

Dark just stared at him, "…what did he just say?"

"I don't…know…"

"Hey let's go each lunch."

The blonde shrugged, "Alright, I'll go get my lunch."

Once Krad was gone, Dark frowned and crossed his arms, "You were hitting on her weren't you?"

"You would have to use a bishop to check me before I tell thou a word!"

The thief didn't understand a word the boy said, "How about, you tell me right now and I miraculously stop my fist from checking you?"

"I just wanted her to join the chess club that's all! No flirting! Nope, didn't flirt! I swear! I did no such thing as flirting!" He confessed quite quickly before inhaling again. One would consider the possibility of overdosing on inhalants…

"Good, she's mine, got it?" The nerd nodded very quickly like a bobble head.

"Let's go." Krad blinked, looking at the boy who was still on the ground nodding, "What happened here? He reminds me of a bobble head…"

"Nothing, let's go eat, I'm hungry."

"Alright…"

The nerd just watched them turn around and depart. He shook his fist, "That big brute must have forced her to go out with him! Fear not lovely damsel! I shall rescue you from the demon king!" He would've continued but he ran out of breath and had to inhale yet again.

On the way to their tamers' class, they had to stop several times because people kept going up to them and telling them in very suggestive voices to join teams or which teams were the best. When they finally reached the redhead's class they had stopped yet again, Dark's stomach was growling at him, he had an urge to punch it and tell it shut up but self-abuse didn't appeal to him. "Dark-san!"

Krad sighed, "This better be the last interruption…"

"Risa-chan…" The thief was growing less enthusiastic by the second.

"Have you chosen what you're joining yet?"

"No…"

"Oh? Why not?" She turned and glared at Krad, "Did she tell you not to join the clubs that you liked?"

"No! None of that sort! I just didn't see anything interesting!"

Risa huffed, very unsatisfied, Krad sighed, she really wasn't used to hunger. Actually she preferred not having to eat, hunger made her feel lightheaded. "Uhh Dark?"

The thief looked over, "Yea Dai-chan?"

"Krad looks like she's about to faint from hunger."

The thief looked over, indeed she did, her eyes were half closed and looking very unstable. "Krad?"

"Hn?"

"Come on let's go eat."

The blonde tried to take a step, she really did, but her feet wouldn't support her and she ended up having to lean on Dark's shoulder for support, "I hate this…"

Satoshi watched the two walk up, if he didn't know each other he would've said that they were actually an item since Dark had his arm around her waist to stop the blonde from dropping. And Krad had her arm on his shoulder and rested her head on her hand. But Satoshi knew better and felt a sudden urge to take pictures and sell them back to Dark later. Too bad he didn't have a camera on him.

On the roof, Dark set the blonde down and she looked like she fell asleep resting on her head on his shoulder, "Mou…come on Krad, don't go to sleep! You have to eat before you actually faint! I didn't think you'd be this frail!"

"Hnnn…"

"Fine, fine, I'll feed you." Daisuke took another mouthful of his lunch and watched the thief feed the hunter while grumbling even though it was obvious that he was enjoying every moment of it. "Open up." Krad opened her mouth, Dark inserted the food, she closed her mouth and chewed. "There ya go, that wasn't so hard was it?"

Krad's eyes opened, she sat up droopily and blinked a couple times. "Nnn…Dark? Are you done talking to that girl?"

"Centuries ago, what time period are you from?"

"I dunno…"

Apparently the sleepy effects didn't rub off yet, "Well, eat up before you collapse again."

"I collapsed?"

"You were going to. You couldn't even walk on your own."

The blonde blinked again, "I couldn't walk?"

Satoshi sighed from the sidelines, "That couldn't be the curse that was in my body…"

Daisuke gave him a questioning look, "She isn't, for one, she's a girl and she's not in your body."

"Thank you for telling me what I already know."

The redhead smiled, "Anytime."

It was the end of the day, the four had just stepped outside when they were mobbed by the mob they were mobbed with in the morning when the mob mobbed them. So the mob mobbed them again and began to scream and shout the same things the mob in the morning had screamed and shouted when they mobbed the pair.

"Join tennis!"

"Art!"

"Chess!"

"Like join like the cheerleading like club!"

"Basketball!"

"No! That's stupid! Join the swim team!"

They were surrounded, no way out until the guy from that morning came and stopped the mob yet again just like in the morning, "Stop! They have already decided to join the modeling club!"

Surprisingly yet, no one opposed. Dark and Krad blinked, "Modeling club?"

"Wait…there's a modeling club?" The soccer captain asked.

"We do now! And you two, new kids, are our new models! The club starts tomorrow! Don't try to find me, I'll find you!"

And with that, he was gone, and their club and recruiting problems ended. Everyone was gone, leaving the four behind, Satoshi was first to recover from his shock, "Well that was interesting…let's go home."

No one disagreed and they all headed towards home. Dark grinned, "Hey Krad."

"What?"

"Don't forget, I still get to tie up your hair tomorrow, and you have to wear that skirt."

The blonde groaned.

"Oh yea, Dark."

"Yea Dai-chan?"

"You have a job tonight."

Nya

How's that? I love stereotyping people into categories. Preppy girls, wussy geeks XD Cheerleading Krad amused me to no end :P

Les Scribbles- Dark won't stop until he gets what he wants! Krad's learned how to use being a girl to her advantage XD Pouting can take you places :P

White Phoenix Eternal- I can see if :P Just imagine Krad in pigtails looking down and having pouty lips. XD Old habits die hard, Dark ticks Krad off, the feeling's mutual, I don't think homicidal blondes pout XP

dimonyo-anghel- Oooo...a treehouse XD I'd want one! But it'd have to be big so I don't have to be all stuffed inside, and I don't think any of the trees around my house could support that o.O I'd end up dying in a very tragic treehouse accident XD

Hakudoshi-chan- Hmmm...knowing Risa which I sort of do...not really but sort of...she'll probably do something...sooner or later XD But what? I know the answer to that but do you? o.O

Mysterious Kaitou- Yea! It's to hide her bisexuality and possibly lesbianism XD How's your camera? I still have mine in front of me :P Braided hair:D I'll see what I can do XP

Anukis-san- Three cheers for a pouting Krad :) I'm glad I make you laugh XD I'm so proud of myself, I love humour and I don't know why X3

Chibi-Kagome-456- I think alot of people think that way XD Krad's better off as a girl, a very pretty girl :) I was getting impatient, it's about time someone turned Kraddy-kins in to a girl XP

icestar2007- DaixSat? Don't worry, I'll kick in a couple scenes with Daisuke and Satoshi along and together soon XD Half up half down? I tie my hair like that :P I'll get it in! Just keep reading! XD It'll come up soon!

golden-flame4- Oh the possibities XP Krad's hair is so...playable XD I wish my hair was longer, Krad-lengthed hair! XD But then again, I'd have a really hard time trying to brush my hair o.o maybe not :P

negolataknofelet- Krad was naturally feminine XP It fits...her :P Long hair, slim figure...long eyelashes, I actually thought Krad was a girl when I first saw him XP

Shado-Fyre- Hmmm...that'd be interesting XD Krad back to normal only more pouty! Krad's pretty while being both a guy and girl X3 Pouting only adds to the feminine cuteness :P

M36NU7- If you pout correctly you can get people to do just about whatever you want XD It was about time Krad took advantage of her feminine charms XD

Ailin- You're not alone, I love dressing Krad up in different outfits XP You might have noticed with the cheerleading outfit, I always wondered what she'd be like if she tried out for cheerleading XP

Shimmering Solitude- Poor defenseless little Krad :P Defenseless and Krad don't really seem to mix XP She has amazing persuasive skills too XD

Dark Moon Sabbath- I agree, hair styles aren't the easiest things to describe, they're better as visual aid XP If I was a guy...which I am not, I'd think she was cute too X3

Seena58- I don't really have dresses either XD Yea! A school dance! I'm so going to add something like that in :D Thanks for giving me ideas! XD I've seen birds crash into windows, there wasa beatle crawling on the other side o.O

chrnoskitty- I love braiding things, especially hair, it not only kills time but they're really pretty to look at! XD I'll get braids in one way or another!

Manami Nakaoki- Glad you like it:) Here's an update with Krad cheerleading! XD She spells bye with B and I!

Angelic Heart- Don't worry, you're not the only who's screaming for me to update, I'm screaming at myself to update too XP Typing all this out makes it seem like all the time in the world isn't enough :) But bits and pieces of a couple week's time and this is the result! XD