Complete Opposites

Chapter Seventeen: The Power of Shakespeare

"You expect me to go swimming in that? In this!?" She hopped around a bit and balanced herself on her fishy tail.

"Yup."

"I'll drown! I need both legs to swim!"

"Nonsense! Fish don't have legs!"

"Well fish don't need to breathe!"

Keiji smirked, "Exactly! That's the way to be thinking! Think fish!"

"Think dead!"

"Think mermaid!"

"Think dead person in stupid costume drowning to death in big fish tank."

"Krad, my dear mermaid princess, you can do this."

"But I can't-"

"Too bad." He gave a push and shoved the mermaid into the water-filled tank.

Golden eyes widened as she fell into the water, a minute later emerging to the surface, "Holy crap! What'd you do that for?" It was tiring, not having both feet to kick.

"You're doing fine! Add in the drowning prince!"

Dark blinked, "What!?"

Then he got shoved in too.

But not before dragging someone in with him.

Who in turn dragged someone else with him.

And Krad being the graceful mermaid that she was, freaked out and swam away to avoid having someone land on her. Violet eyes blinked as he fell into the water and broke through the surface a second later, "Wet clothes are not comfortable! Especially not leather!"

"Try swimming with a fish tail…" The blonde muttered, "Where the hell is the shore I'm supposed to drag him on?"

The director paused as he began to tread water, "Oh yea…so that's what we forgot…"

The other two in the water paused, Dark looked around, "How are we supposed to get out? There aren't any ladders around…"

Keiji laughed and snapped, "Oh yea! That's the other thing we forgot…"

Krad frowned, "Why are you laughing?" The lines, two boys and a mermaid drowns in big fish tank ran through her mind.

"Because it's funny."

The thief looked at the mermaid, "Look on the bright side, this is good exercise!"

Her frown deepened as she swam over and smacked him on the head, "If I wanted exercise I would've gotten a treadmill." Pause. "Actually, no I wouldn't have, but either way, I don't need the exercise. Why would I? …unless…are you calling me fat?"

Daisuke started laughing while Dark stared at the blonde in shock, "Did…that just come from your mouth? The great Hikari Krad, homicidal blonde extraordinaire, crazy hunter, killer of Dark the undefeatable, super ultra sexy thief, the one who tries to…uhhh the one who taunts the creep and actually scares him, did those very words that I swear I just heard come out of hi-he-h…her mouth?"

Then he was held underwater by a very spiteful looking mermaid, "I'll kill you!"

Bubbles came out instead of words.

"Don't worry mom! We're getting a ladder. You can let dad go now…I think he's dying."

"That's fine. Don't worry about it."

Daisuke laughed again while Satoshi raised a brow, "Are you really that eager to perform mouth to mouth with him?"

Krad let go and swam over to where they were lowering the ladder, "How am I supposed to get up with this fish tail on?"

The thief swam past her, "This is where the drowning thief comes in." He climbed out and pulled the mermaid up. Then they withdrew the ladder. "Are we missing anything?" The rest of the crew shook their heads, Dark shrugged, "Well then, let's go get changed hm?"

The rest of the crew nodded the agreements and left, then and only then did Keiji emerge from the water, "Nothing like a good swim…where did everyone go?"

And floating past him, on his back, was Takeshi.

"Oh crap…"

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"Well that was hell…"

"Don't be so pessimistic Kraddy-kins. You make a wonderful mermaid!"

"Yea mom, I never thought the little mermaid would have it in her."

"Qu-" Suddenly a figure came rushing towards them, and from their angle, it looked like it was rushing towards the redhead so like any good mother, with a "Lookout!" Krad frowned and shoved him a little…right into the path of the running figure's who scooped him off and carried him off, "…opps…"

Then Dark started laughing while Satoshi just looked stunned, "Did Niwa just get kidnapped!?"

The blonde nodded, "It looks that way doesn't it?"

"You shoved him!"

Krad gave a shrug, "I had his best interest in mind."

"But he got taken away!"

"Yea…that was pretty unexpected wasn't it?"

Satoshi gave a growl of frustration before running after the figure, "You're all useless!"

Krad looked over at the laughing thief, "You hear that? You're useless. Your tamer just got kidnapped and you're here laughing."

"I can't help it! It was just hilarious! Your face! And the creep's! So shocked…so funny!"

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Red eyes blinked, "Huh? Who are you people?"

"Huh? You fool! You got the wrong person! Turn back! I wanted the queen not a pawn!"

"…yes sir."

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As Satoshi ran, the figure reappeared and as it zoomed past him, dropping a redhead off in his arms, "Sorry, wrong person."

Blue eyes blinked, "Niwa?"

"Hiwatari-kun?"

"…weren't you just kidnapped?"

"Yes…were you about to go and rescue me?"

"…yes…"

Daisuke smiled and hugged the blue haired boy, "Hiwatari-kun! You're my hero!"

Satoshi's face turned red when he realized what he had just said and how the redhead reacted to it. His heart felt like it was going to explode out of sheer happiness and while it exploded, fireworks shot up. Happy, happy day.

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"Do you think the creep caught up?"

"To who? The kidnapper? Of course not! He's not that fast of a runner, the only time he runs fast is when he's chasing you."

Dark raised a brow, "Really? He seemed to be running faster after Dai-chan than he did when he was chasing me…"

Krad blinked, "Well wouldn't you know it…chasing you must be second to chasing after Niwa."

"Awww…that's degrading…"

"Get used to it you whiner." Suddenly the figure appeared, golden eyes blinked, "Isn't that…the thing that kidnapped our half a son?"

"I think it is…hey you just said our-" It ran past them, they watched it, then it made a U-turn and began running back, this time scooping up the blonde and running down the street, disappearing from sight. Dark blinked for several seconds before realizing what had happened, "What…the…hell, you're going to die whoever you are!"

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Daisuke smiled, "Thank you Hiwatari-kun…"

"Umm…anytime?"

Then the figure ran past them. "…was that…"

"Yea that was the person who kidnapped you."

"Was that Krad in his arm?"

"What? …oh wow, who would've thought?"

"Yea…"

Then Dark appeared, "Where the hell did that asshole go?"

Satoshi pointed to down the street, "There's really only one way he could've gone…"

"Quiet you! Argh…" He grumbled as he continued running.

Red eyes blinked, "Krad got kidnapped…"

"Yes."

"Whoever kidnapped her…"

"Is going to die."

Daisuke laughed, "I feel sorry for them."

"Them?"

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Krad looked up at her kidnapper who had her in one of his arms, then she looked over to find another figure in the other arm, "You again?"

Inhale… "Hello my queen."

"What is this?"

The geek inhaled again, "You see…since I couldn't have you, notwhile that brute was around, I decided to…"

"Kidnap me?"

"Yes that's right, I kidnapped you." Inhale, "I've never felt so much excitement in my life."

Krad rolled her eyes, goosebumps creeping up her arm slowly but surely, "You've got to be the worse kidnapper in the world."

He gave a slight frown and fixed his glasses, "I'm sorry, I'm doing my best." Inhale, "I'm under very difficult circumstances here. The pressure is almost numbing."

"The kidnapper has to carry you…"

"Surely you didn't expect me to run this distance let alone at such a high speed."

At the rate he was inhaling, he would've inhaled over fifty times before he ran across the street. The blonde sighed and crossed her arms, "Where are we going?"

"Since I cannot take you to my house, I shall settle for second best…the library."

This caused Krad to choke on this air, "The library?"

"Oh yes…the holy sanctuary where that brute cannot follow, the literature repels him."

Not even she could argue with the logic behind that sentence.

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Dark cursed as he stood in front of the building, the very one he swore he'd never enter unless forced to or during the utmost need to. An emergency…like the one he was facing. He inhaled deeply before walking into the literature filled place. The horror of it all.

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After dismissing his kidnapper and carrier, he turned his attention to the blonde, with a book in his hands, "Now my queen…shall I serenade you with quotes of Shakespeare?"

"…you're not serious…"

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"This is the only place they could've gone…"

"The library? Dark?" Suddenly the thief came running out of the building with the blonde in his arms, Satoshi stared, "Well…who would've thought…"

Dark let out his breath as he reached outside, "Fresh air! I swear that book place is filled with toxic fumes!"

"That 'book place' is called a library if you must know."

"No I don't have to know if you must know."

Then suddenly there was a terrible…horrible, no good very bad wheezy yell, inhaling every other second coming from the doorway to the 'book place'. "I cannot believe the librarian would exile me from my own sanctuary, it is unheard of. This is all because of that brute and his yelling inside the sanctuary…yes that brute…that evil brute will pay…"

They then watched the poor boy pass out in front of his 'holy sanctuary' due to lack of air and the fact that he spoke over twenty words without inhaling from his inhaler.

Daisuke blinked, "What happened in there anyways?"

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"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

I do bite my thumb, sir.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"

Krad was covering her ears which felt like they were going to start bleeding very soon as the boy continued his reading of 'Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene I'. Suddenly there was a very loud, "Krad!"

The boy stopped reading immediately, like a rat that picked up on something, he stared at the end of the aisle until Dark showed up. "Dark?"

"There you are!"

He closed his eyes and began chanting, "The power of Shakespearecompels you, the power of Shakespeare compels you…"

Amethyst eyes looked at the other male skeptically, "Is he for real? Am I supposed to be going all 'oh my god it burns' and stuff?"

"Be gone foul brute from the school. The power of Shakespearecompels you!" Then he chucked the book at the thief.

Dark caught it and let go of it immediately as though it burnt him, "You little runt…you're going to die! …after we get out of here. Come on Krad." With that said, he scooped the blonde up and ran outside. "Dark Mousy, away!"

"Get back here you brute!" Inhale, "how dare you intrude on my sanctuary and kidnap my queen! I bite my thumb at you, sir!"

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"And then we came out here and yea…"

Satoshi raised a brow, "What a story…maybe we should call an ambulance now…"

The four of them looked over to the boy on the ground, Dark shrugged, "Don't worry about it, the library has it covered, let's go home already."

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Later that night…

"Hey Dai…Dai-chan…yo!"

Ruby eyes opened tiredly and looked up, "Hn? What?"

"Can I ask you something?"

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Nya

Yeaaaaaaa! Off hiatus! Happy happy happy, maybe slightly sugarhigh but happy none the less. Summer break's finally here, with any luck and whatever other factors there may be I'll be updating mucho :D Anyways, back to typing! Enjoy XD And happy summer! I'll be finishing off and starting new fics, hopefully soon :) The power of homework and exams compels you:O