Complete Opposites

Chapter Fourteen: Family Troubles

"You two? You're our 'parents'?"

Dark grinned, "Better believe it, son. Actually, sons, no wait, make that son and a half."

Daisuke pouted, "What's that supposed to mean?"

The thief ignored him, "Wait, no, creepy son and a half, yea, there we go." Satoshi glared at him, "Hey Krad darling, I thought of what to name our creepy son and a half!"

The blonde raised a brow, "And what have you thought of this time?"

"Our half a son shall be…Keba!"

"What? You're calling me a piece of fuzz? Dark!"

"That's dad to you, and our creepy son shall be…Fugu!" Then he toppled over in laughter at the ridiculous names he'd given the boys.

Krad raised a hand to cover her mouth in hopes that Satoshi wouldn't see her laughing, that plan went down the drain without a second thought, she couldn't imagine her tamer being called a puffer fish, and the very thought of it made her laugh even harder, making it impossible to cover up.

Satoshi was about to yell something but he was interrupted by the teacher, "Now class, you should all be with your families now." Blue eyes glared at his laughing 'parents' then at the teacher, "Before I let you out for lunch with your families, you and your family," Daisuke silently counted off how many times he used the world 'family', "will have 5 minutes to talk. Consider it a family bonding time."

The class was filled with chattering while the four, with Dark and Krad joining in since they were finally able to refrain from their laughing fits, watched each other silently. Golden eyes looked at the three rather strangely wile Dark simply grinned. Satoshi was about to threaten his 'dad' when the teacher interrupted them yet again, "Well, now that you and your family have had time to 'bond' a little, tell me something embarrassing about one or two of your family members and I'll let your family go to lunch. Come on families, you can do this. Betray each other! Spill the beans!"

Dark immediately spoke up, "Daisuke's got motherly skills!"

"Dark!"

"And he slept with a teddy bear until he was nine!"

Ruby eyes widened, then the redhead crossed his arms, "Dark's got a mermaid fetish!"

Then Dark glared, "At least I don't have a creep fetish!"

Then Satoshi joined in, "At least my girlfriend isn't half a fish!"

Then Krad, "Well you're the one who takes half an hour to wake up, not to mention you like the enemy!"

"So do you!"

The bickering continued while the rest of the families began to 'ooooooo' and 'aaaaaaa' at the insults and comments thrown back and forth between the four. Soon Dark and Krad began to bicker, "You're afraid of mimes!"

"Ooooooooooo…"

"Well you were beaten by a little kid!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaa…"

"Well you needed girl lessons!"

"Ooohhhhhh…"

"Shut up!" And everyone did.

Dark grinned, "Well that was fun, but, I'm getting hungry so me, my beautiful wife and son and a half shall be leaving now."

There was an 'awwwww what a loving family' impression for a moment before Dark decided to drag his son and a half out of the room by the collars half choking both of them.

The teacher paused, "Yes, I can see your family made good use of the family bonding time, your family may go." They were already gone.

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"This is awesome! Now you guys have to obey my every command!"

Satoshi's eyes narrowed, "And what makes you think that'll happen?"

"Because I'm your dad! The dad means father which means the head of the family! Therefore I am the head of the family!"

"You're an idiot!"

Daisuke frowned, "I hate to interrupt you little bonding session but we have to go to rehearsal…"

Krad blinked, "You two are in the play too?"

The redhead nodded, "I'm the queen and Hiwatari-"

"Fugu!"

"Erm…Fugu-kun's the king."

Dark paused and gagged on an imaginary piece of something, "Who's the princess?"

"Harada-san I think."

Krad's eyes narrowed at the name, the thief blinked, "Which one? You keep saying Harada-san this, Harada-san that and I'm left assuming whether you're talking about Riku-chan or Risa-chan. And it's getting really annoying since half the time I end up wrong and being wrong just bugs me."

"Uh…Riku-san, her sister's the sea witch."

The blonde's eyes widened then she crossed her arms, "What? I have to beg to her to turn me into a human? I refuse!"

Satoshi smirked, "Come on mother dear, we're going to be late for the first practice."

And so, the son dragged his mother to rehearsal while the father dragged his half a son into the room, "Who's directing this? I hope it's not-"

"You're late!"

There stood Keiji, looking pissed, along with Takeshi and Funabashi beside him, Dark sighed, "And I was having such a great day too…"

Takeshi looked at the clock and frowned, "My parents set a curfew for me so can we hurry up? I don't want to be grounded by my 'parents'"

The other two nodded, "Same here, quite a shame really…"

Krad blinked, wondering what the bloody hell was going on. "What are you people standing around for?"

Dark raised a brow, "What are we supposed to do, or be doing?"

Keiji nodded, his eyes held a suspicious look, "Well, Dark and not Kaitou Dark I presume," The thief rolled his eyes, "We'll be acting out the first scene where Hikari-chan, our little mermaid, and her sisters are happily enjoying their time under the sea and she goes to her treasure-trove and blah blah blah, we added more dialogues in, incase you were wondering."

Well, they weren't wondering anymore.

Scripts were passed around and when everyone had a copy, the 'sisters' shoved Krad into the front of the room but before they could start practice, Takeshi came in, "Behold! The prettiest mermaid sister of all!"

There was a pause, then the guys turned away in disgust while the girls squealed in disapproval at the thought of him in a mermaid costumes. Keiji sighed, "Get out of there and let's practice!"

And so, the narrator began, "It was a beautiful day and deep down near the bottom of the sea, a little mermaid who went by the name of Krad swam happily along with her many sisters."

The girls nodded, "Isn't today a beautiful, littlest sister?"

Isn't that a rhetorical question? The narrator just said…Krad looked down at her script and replied monotonically, "But of course, big sister, congratulations, today is your birthday…uhh…you can finally travel to the surface. Giggle."

"Stop! What was wrong with that?" The blonde shrugged, while Keiji slapped a rolled up script against the desk, "Hikari-chan! You need more expression! More…passion!"

"My passion flew out the window a couple weeks ago." Along with my gender.

"Well…just try to be more…expressive and zealous."

And so, the script continued, "Yes well, you'll be able to join us soon in serenading the humans! And when we get one to fall in love with us, we'll become immortal! Our wise old grandmother said so!"

The narrator added a little narrative…thingy, "Krad had always been fascinated by human beings and couldn't wait till her next birthday when she'd finally be old enough to go to the surface and watch them and serenade them with her song."

Krad continued with her indifferent voice, "Yes but why can't we stay with the human I don't like the idea of having them fall in love with us then dying for it why can't we live together forever, why oh why? Why oh why oh why oh why?" She would've continued if she didn't have to flip the page.

"Oh littlest sister dearest, you're too kind hearted. Don't worry your pretty little golden head about it, after all, your birthday is coming soon."

The narrator came in again, "She'd often collect their treasure which had ended up in the ocean for one reason or another, she hid a cave-full of them, away from her father, the king of the sea. For he held no love for the land creatures."

Then Dark spoke up out of boredom, "Later that day, blah blah blah, in the little mermaid's cave filled with human goods."

They kept repeating themselves, the blonde noted, looking down at her script she continued, "I do not understand why my father, the king of the sea, does not like humans. They fascinate me so." Well now, they couldn't have made it anymore obvious with the number of times they had repeated particular sentences. "One day I will make him understand that humans aren't as bad as he thinks" Krad snorted, and her dying at the end of the play was going to help…

The director looked at his watch, "Hell with it, let's finish the ship scene too."

He nodded to the narrator, "Finally, on her birthday, she took the opportunity to go above the surface to watch the humans which had intrigued her so."

Krad cleared her throat while Satoshi shot her a dubious look, "At last, I will finally be able to watch the humans that have fascinated me so for just ever so long."

"Meanwhile, on the boat…"

Dark picked up his script while Takeshi, one of the servant folk read his line, "Ho! It looks like a storm's coming in my lord."

The thief scoffed, "A little rain shant stop us."

Takeshi raised a brow, "Your mind seems to be else where my lord, the storm is coming in quite quickly, what's on your mind."

"Ah, I was simply thinking of someone I'd like to meet one day, long golden hair and beautiful eyes…an angel you might say."

"Indeed that'd be a nice experience, but brace yourself for the storm."

Krad bit back a laugh, leave it to Dark to act like an idiot in the face of death. "I wonder what it'd be like to kiss her, the softest lips man has ever known and a beautiful voice that could sing for hours nonstop." Then BAM came the storm, Krad inwardly snickered.

The thief was standing in front of her now with a smirk on his face, then he kissed her, in front of people, in public, "What are you doing?"

"Softest lips man has ever known! I wanted to see if it was true!"

"This is a play!"

"But plays usually contain some facts in them!"

"No they don't! They're stupid and they're fictional!"

"But there are things that apply!"

"Like what?"

"Like your lips!"

Boy had she walked into that one… "Shut up Dark!"

Dark grinned, "Aha! So you're not denying it!"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"You're not denying that you have the softest lips ever known to man!"

"Wha-" And smooch, another kiss was stolen. Krad blushed and backed up, then left the room with her 'children' by their collars. Then Dark followed, skipping out the door.

Keiji shrugged, "We'll continue this tomorrow I guess…"

"Saga!"

The director looked over at the door to find two older students glaring at him, "Oh hey mom and dad."

"We have to leave! It's past your school curfew! Let's go!"

"Yes dad."

Then he left obidiently, which needless to say, shocked everyone.

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Outside the classroom, Dark was leisurely strolling after a very flustered Krad, "Calm down Krad, it was only a kiss or two."

"Dark-san!"

The family paused, blinked, then continued walking, the thief sighed, "My god…we're starting to hear things now…"

"Dark-san!"

Dark smacked his head, "There it is again…are these halls echoing or something?"

"Dark-san!"

Then bam! Someone ran into Krad who fell over onto Dark who fell onto Daisuke who fell over to Satoshi. The result: a big mess on the floor, in a solid way, not liquid, solid. Krad groaned and tried to get up but Dark had wrapped his arms around her and watched her with a smirk, "Mine now."

"Stop it and get off me."

"Looks like you'll have to get the person on you to get off first."

Krad looked over to find Risa half hugging her, she half screamed, "Get off me!"

The brunette winced and looked down to find a blonde being hugged by both her and Dark looking rather angry, she got up hastily, "Ew! You're not Dark-san!"

"That'd be when hell freezes over." She tried to get up again, "Dark…you can let go now, she's off of me."

"Still mine." He spoke in a singsong tone.

Krad huffed, "If you don't get off me the other two will die and we're going to fail this project and those two won't be alive to see their grades."

The thief let go of the blonde who stood up, then he got up himself and looked down, there laid Daisuke and Satoshi looking rather dazed, "May they rest in peace…"

"Dark-san!"

The thief looked over, "Oh! It was you I heard! I thought it was some sort of echo that was still echoing from last week or something…"

"Dark-san, meet my parents!"

Dark raised a brow as he looked over at the other two, "You two! Akio and…and…you!"

Hazuki frowned and crossed her arms, "I want a divorce! And I'm taking one of the kids with me!"

"But this is a project…"

The girl merely frowned and looked away, "Come on Riku-chan, we're leaving your good for nothing father."

Riku just blinked, "Aren't you guys staying at our house?"

Hazuki pouted, "Fine…be mean to your mother."

"Dark-san! This is my family! I bet they'll approve of you!"

The thief raised his eyebrow again as he looked over from Krad to Akio, "…nice family…"

Akio gave a rueful smile and removed the girl from the thief's sleeve, "Risa-chan…Dark-san is married, I mean he's got a wife and two kids!"

Krad frowned at the mention of her so called kids who were still semi-unconscious on the floor, she decided to stay out of this and kneeled down in beside the other two and gave them a poke. "So what? It's simply because we're not allowed to be partnered up with people outside our class or else Dark-san would've been with me! Isn't that right?"

"Risa-chan, dear, he's a married man!"

"Yea! I'm married with a son and a half!"

"But Dark-san!"

By this time Riku decided to join Krad in staring at the semi-unconscious boys, "I still say she's a lezzie."

"Why's that? She's fawning over Dark."

"Hm? I guess it's just my way of thinking…but be careful…"

Her words were stuck in the blonde's brain, when Dark was finally free to leave while Akio dragged his daughter away, Krad was still thinking about what Riku had said, be careful…Be careful of what? It made her paranoid.

Daisuke rubbed his head, "That hurt…"

Satoshi looked indifferent, well as indifferent as he could get with his hair messed up and a bump on his head, he was right about the soon-to-be-dead part, he glared at the thief, "One day…I will kill you, father dearest."

Dark grinned and gave him a lazy pat on the head, "That's my boy, creepy as ever!"

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That night, at the Niwa household, Krad laid awake in the guestroom, staring at the ceiling, the short haired girl's words still imprinted in her mind, it was like an annoying conscience only not so…conscience-y. Be careful…be careful…I still think she's a lezzie…be careful…do chickens drink milk? Be careful…

Finally, after much twitching of the eye, the blonde managed to fall asleep, but her 'sweet dreams' must've taken a wrong turn or went to Satoshi's house instead since Mr. Nightmare came along instead.

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"Dark-san!"

Krad growled and crossed her arms, it was getting really annoying now, then out of a bright light, Risa came running along rather dramatically. Dark appeared beside her, "Here she comes…"

The blonde arched a brow, "Yup…"

"She just never gives up does she?"

"Nope…"

"Maybe there's a hidden objective behind this…"

Krad shrugged as the two watched the brunette advance rather slowly due to the dramatic-ness. "This is going to take awhile…"

"Yup…"

Then Risa arrived, stopping to catch her breath, "Dark-san I…"

Dark raised a brow, "Yea?"

"I…"

"You what?"

"I…"

The same process happened for quite awhile, Krad yawned and twirled a piece of her hair, "You what Risa-chan?"

"I…I can't be with you anymore!"

Dark blinked, "Were we ever together?"

Risa ignored him, "I, I found someone else! I've never loved you! The one I truly love is…" Dark and Krad exchanged a strange look, both silently agreeing that the girl was insane and was to be put into an asylum. "Krad-san!"

Golden eyes widened as the girl wrapped her arms around her waist, "What?"

"I love you Krad-san! I always have! But I was blinded by Dark-san's sexiness! Now we'll be lovers and live together forever and ever and love each other and-"

Krad woke up screaming.

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Nya

Happy birthday Seena58! Again...I haven't the slightest clue about the time zone stuff..anyways, you'd get a chance to read it today right? XD If not...enjoy anyways and happy birthday! -a bit too early over here- Is Risa really a lezzie? o.O Mr Nightmare has no mercy XD Yea..Keba litterally means fuzz or fluff and Fugu is a puffer fish, there's other stuff, but I'm not gonna explain those because I'm lazy and useless and my back hurts XD

And umm yea, there was a semi-family thingy in the seance, the eggs are dead >.>;; kinda sad but oh well...I drew on these eggs once...and one of them rolled off the table and cracked its head on the ground XD Shiza! There shall be more fluff to come:D Because Daisuke's in this fic and he's been renamed and -goes on ranting- enjoy!

Thanks to: monchi, Hakudoshi-chan, Ballad of the Iris, Sawamura333, catseyes77, Shado-Fyre, ShadowIcePrinsses, hittocerebattosai, Kyuseisha no Hikari, Kouseki Yume, Koway Oceshia, Everto Angelus, Kaimei, dimonyo-anghel, blackmagic111090, SeLeNa MoUsY, Makurayami Ookami, Seena58 (happy birthday!), Frozen Magic Fire, Koichiro, 0.o K-chan, blood-fire-dragon, UnIQuE Not Weird.