Complete Opposites

Chapter Nineteen: Experimental Lab

Dark blinked when he pulled away from the other, "I expected something to happen…you know…like those TV shows where everything's undone and they all live happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera."

The blonde nodded blankly, "Yea, me too. I hate those shows…"

"Well anyways, happy anniversary!"

"You too."

"Let's go home."

Krad nodded again, "'Kay."

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That night, the redhead sighed, tapping his pencil against his jaw, his mind was going crazy. "Dai-chan? What's wrong with you?"

Red eyes looked up, "Dark! You're home! How'd it go?"

He grinned, "Awesome, as expected of Dark Mousy."

Daisuke smiled before looking back down at the blank piece of paper in front of him, he continued smiling rather blankly, "Congratulations then."

The thief looked at the redhead and gave a slight frown, "Something's bothering my dearest tamer and seeing that you woke up just to answer my question the other night, I'll make an effort to help you out in your time of need, I mean seeing that I'm a nice guy who doesn't like being in debt in any way and stuff. What's wrong?"

The redhead scratched the back of his head awkwardly, "Well…the thing is…uhh…I have a question for you."

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The question:

How do you tell someone you're crazy about them?

Caution:

When proceeding with procedures, make sure to have gloves and goggles on at all time incase someone were to sneeze or sharp things were to be thrown around. Dangerous and/or dirty things may also have to be picked up off the floor. Ice pack may be necessary also. And a watch. And a sandwich. And a pencil and eraser. Write that down.

Method 1:

Give them a love letter, or better yet, 'accidentally' have one lying around and have him 'incidentally' find itand read it. Confession without having to confess, not to their face anyways.

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Blue eyes blinked when the doorbell rang, "Sato, go get that!"

"Women…" He sighed and rolled his eyes, the blonde was in the showers, yet again. Apparently, being human affected how often she needed to wash her hair. Before, Krad never had the need to. Now, at least two showers a day.

But regardless to what he thought at the moment, he went to answer the door. He blinked again when he saw no one there, don't tell me this is some sorta prank…Then his eyes drifted downwards to the ground and saw a blank envelope lying around with his name on it. Hello…what's this?

He picked it up.

And then he opened it.

And then he took the letter out.

And then he looked around.

And he saw no one.

And he didn't see Dark and Daisuke watching him from afar.

The blue haired boy unfolded the paper and read it out loud to himself, "Hiwatari Satoshi, I less-than-three you…what?"

"I think that's a heart."

He looked up at the blonde who had her hair down that day, "Hm?"

Krad took the letter out of his hands and read it, "Hiwatari Satoshi, I heart you."

Dark whispered, "Wow, Krad really does look like his sister or something. A very pretty sister…"

Daisuke nodded in agreement, "She does…"

Satoshi scratched the back of his head, "Okay…does it say who it's from?"

The blonde looked at the letter, "Nope."

"Oh…probably just some random girl then."

Krad gave a shrug, "Let's go back in, I'm hungry."

"Yea."

After the door closed, Dark stared at the redhead, "You forgot to put your name on it?"

Daisuke looked over and defended himself, "Well you were rushing me and I forgot!"

"You forgot to put your name on it? I can't believe you!"

Method 1- Failure.

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Method 2: Spread the word around to everyone but him. With any luck, it'll reach his ears. Gossip, a powerful weapon when used properly.

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Takeshi laughed when he heard the news and decided to prance about the class singing an annoying song called 'I-know-who-has-a-crush-on-you'. Fortunately unfortunately, someone decided to chuck a textbook in his face to shut him up so he could go back to sleep, the person…Hiwatari Satoshi.

The thief sighed from outside the door, beside him was Daisuke, "Well that couldn't have gone any better…I mean out of all the people in the class why him? No one ever listens to him."

Daisuke shrugged, "I don't know, it just ended up being Saehara somehow."

"Like every other time."

"Yea…"

Method 2- Failure.

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Method 3: Suck it up and confess. Sounds painful but it's fast and easy unless there's a 'talk' afterwards...

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"H-Hiwatari-kun…"

Blue eyes looked over, he was very busy reading his book, but clearly he could make time if it was to talk to Daisuke. "Yes?"

"I-I…"

He rose a questioning brow, "Yes…?"

The redhead could feel his face burning, "Ummm…I…"

"…what's wrong?"

"I…" Without finishing it, he ran off.

Satoshi stared at the empty space where the boy stood but a second ago before turning back to his book, "Alright then…"

"Did you tell him?" Dark looked at the boy with a frown.

"No…"

"Come on! How hard could it be? All you do is say 'I like you'! Yell it! Scream it! Mumble it! Just say it one way or another! Is that so hard?"

"Yes!"

The thief was rubbing his temples now, "I'm surprised how much patience he has…"

Ruby eyes looked up at the other, "I'm surprised at how much patience you have."

"Oh it's running out real quick…"

Method 3- Failure

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Method 4: Email, what other use is therefor modern technology if not to confess?

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His computer let out a jolly little tune. Golden eyes stared at it curiously, slowly, she turned her head away from the screen to call the other, "Satoshi! Your computer's singing!"

"What? I'm cooking!"

"I said your computer's singing!"

"Oh, it's an email, my god Krad, computers don't sing! Read what it says!"

Krad looked at the screen and read with much difficulty…

Dearest Hiwa-Sato-chan! 3

♥♥♥I LUV YOU!♥♥♥ EVER SINCE I 1st SAW YOU IVE ♥ YOU SOOOO MUCH! ITS ♥ AT 1st SIGHT! ♥♥♥ YOU NOE WUT? I ♥ YOU! ILL ♥ YOU FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER!♥♥♥ ILL CYA AROUND!♥♥♥ BIBI!♥♥♥

Love, love!
Niwa Daisuke ♥

The blonde stared at the hearts filled email, "…I can't decipher it, maybe it's written in some sort of code…but I think someone's trying to impersonate your little lover to catch your attention."

Satoshi stepped out of the kitchen and headed towards the computer and stared at it, "…I think you're right, maybe we should tell them…go call them."

"Why me?"

"Because I'm cooking."

Krad sighed and picked up the phone, Dark picked up, happy from his newest method of using modern technology to send confessions to random creepy kids, "Hello?"

"Dark?"

"Honey-bun! Dearest Kraddy-kins! My eternal sunshine!"

She stared at the phone, "What?"

"Why are you calling?"

"…someone's impersonating the half a son that lives with you and is sending freakishly hearty letters that makes the computer sing to Satoshi."

By this time, Dark had the speakerphones on so the redhead could listen, he blinked, maybe things weren't exactly going according to his plan. "I…see…I'll tell him that, bye darling!" He hung up.

"Dark…exactly what'd you write?"

He laughed, "…you don't need to know."

Method 4- Failure

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Method 5: Play telephone, both childish and fun! Not to mention it'll get the job done! Probably.

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It went from: "Hey! Did you hear? Niwa likes Hiwatari!"

To: "Hey! Did you hear? Niwa hikes with Hiwatari!"

To: "Hey! Did you hear? Niwa wants to hike with you…I think."

To: "Hey! Did you hear? Niwa hikes for food!"

To: "Hey! Did you hear? Niwa has to hike around for food!"

That's when Dark stepped in and interfered, after all, no one wanted their crush to think they had to go and hike for food. Who knew what kind of creeps could be laying around the trails waiting for someone to go and hike for food before they could go harass them about money and such.

And so, with Dark's never ending skills of interfering, the message turned out right, but with the wrong person.

Takeshi hopped around in front of the blue haired boy, "Hey! Did you hear?"

Satoshi looked up with a bored look on his face, "What?" He gave the look of hurry-up-and-speak-before-I-become-impatient-and-drag-your-entrails-around-and-decorate-the-class-with-it-as-a-warning-to-others.

"I love you!" It was obvious by now that his intelligence was below zero. He continued grinning like an idiot, not having the slightest clue what he'd just said. Very loudly.

Satoshi dropped his pencil in shock and stared. The rest of the classroom was staring too. Dark and Daisuke were staring from the doorway, the thief hunched over and clutched his stomach trying not to laugh too hard.

Krad walked by and rose a brow at the thief, "I'm not going to ask…"

Method 5- Failure

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Method 6: Use a real telephone. Quick, snappy and efficient. Hanging up is an option for once.

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It was the night of the play and all the actors were dressed. All the seats were filled up, eager eyes fell onto the stage, awaiting the red curtains to be pulled away. They read over the brochure again, reading over the storyline, the characters and credits. Why? Because they had nothing better to do while sitting there.

Krad sighed, "I don't want to do this…"

"You'll do fine, mermaids can't drown."

"Oh yes they can."

The thief rose a brow, "What are you talking about? You can't drown a fish!"

"Yes you can! You just hold their gills closed and they'll die!"

"You two, stop it! You're on in two!"

The blonde bit her lip, "Why me?"

Dark grinned, "If you keep complaining, you won't be able to hold your breath under water."

"Piece of lard…" she sighed again and took a dive into the tank.

The curtains raised, the crowd cheered and the tank rose so that the audience could see the contents, a little mermaid and friends. Not drowning. Yet. The mermaids gathered and pretended to talk while the narrator started.

"Deep down near the bottom of the sea, there was a little mermaid…"

Krad continued to hold her breath, only a bit more then I can breathe… "I wish I could venture to the surface!" It took all her efforts not to gag at the narrator who was trying to mimic her voice.

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Finally, she took a deep breath, the curtains were lowered again so they could set up the props so that Dark could start his drowning scene. Let him drown. That was her first thought, but then she thought about it more, I'll still have to get his body out of the water wouldn't I? Damn it.

As soon as she heard the crowd cheering, the narrator went off again, "Finally, on her birthday, she took the opportunity to go above the surface to watch the humans which had intrigued her so. It was a stormy night, Krad heard a distressed call from one of the ships she had been watching." She mentally braced herself for the 'heavy labor' she was going to have to do in a moment. She was going to have to swim across the tank to 'rescue' Dark.

Dark had fallen into the water and the crowd gave a gasp, not a very convincing gasp, but a gasp nonetheless. Krad held back a sigh and swam over, dragging him out just as the aquarium tank lowered so that the top was ground level. She managed to fling him onto the stage where the yellow paper…supposedly sand was.

"As fast as she could, she brought him ashore onto the sand where he laid motionless. The little mermaid bit her lip worriedly," she grumbled under her breath and chewed on her lower lip, what's the point? They can't see me! She looked down and could see the 'unconscious' Dark trying to hold down his laughter. "then leaned in until their lips met and she breathed into him." Taking a deep breath, she did as the narrator said, except for the breathing part since Dark might've ended up choking or something.

Wide blue eyes watched from the side, "Krad did that…willingly?"

"Apparently…"

"…do you think they're blackmailing her-again?"

Daisuke shrugged, "Who knows…" They watched the thief unwillingly turn away to 'cough and sputter'.

"…she decided to leave but found herself unable to as she was mesmerized by the beauty of the prince." The younger two had to refrain themselves from laughing.

"Dark-sama! Dark-sama!" The thief sat up and looked to his companions, "Are you alright Dark-sama?"

By this time Krad had 'sighed and quietly slipped back into the water', her head still poking out of the water though, she 'watched from afar as people went and rescued the prince.' "I-I could've sworn…I saw a golden angel…" Dark let out, he bit his tongue to stop himself fromcoughing at the sight of a certain mermaid rolling her eyes at them.

The blonde winced when the narrator attempted to mimic her voice again, on the brighter note, I'll be losing my voice soon, and I'll get to mime things out…she looked over at Risa, the 'sea witch' and 'pleaded' for feet. The desperado scene…the worse scene in the whole play, they should get someone who's actually desperate for this…

When her wish was granted and the warning of, "Go now, before you die without reaching the surface. When you reach the surface, people will soon see you as the fairest of the land." She grunted inwardly at the sea witch's cackling and watched the tank and curtains get lowered again, she climbed out of the water and took her fishtail off, ran off to her change room to get the 'dress' on.

Satoshi looked over as the blonde headed past him, "You have twenty seconds, hurry up."

"Shut up!" She yelled back and slammed the door close.

"Krad's temper really hasn't changed…"

Daisuke shook his head, "It hasn't, has it?"

"Nope, by the way, you were trying to say the other day…"

"It was nothing! I was saying nothing which I was saying nothing about!"

He blinked, a twinge of disappointment hit him, on the funny bone, he rubbed his elbow, "Oh…okay…"

By this time Krad had jumped back into the water, waiting for the curtains to be raised so she could swim up and climb out of the tank yet again. She broke through the surface and gave a gasp, climbing onto the surface, this is so embarrassing…she sat on the ledge and kicked the water about with her feet, staring at them like an idiot, I'm really pale…

"You!" The blonde looked over to see Prince Dark jogging just ever so quickly towards her, she let her mouth hang open slightly as an attempt to speak, it was convincing enough. "It's you! The golden angel that saved me…are you not?"

She looked at him and mouthed the words, are you retarded?

"…she merely blinked and watched him offer a hand to help her get up." Dark rose a brow at the silent insult and offered her a hand, she took it and got up. He was suddenly reminded of rehearsal when she 'fell'. Unfortunately, instead of falling towards him, she leaned back towards the pool and with a 'take this!' then they both fell in. Luckily, she stuck with the script this time and fell into him instead of the pool.

Krad gave a soft muffled, "Ow…" and pulled herself away from him and 'took an experimental step forward.'

"The mermaid was delighted as she walked and jumped about." I refuse to jump about. She thought with a frown as she walked around, hating herself. She forced a crooked smile, eye twitching just ever so slightly.

Dark laughed, laughed according to the script, laughed at what Krad had to do, laughed at how Daisuke still couldn't tell Satoshi, laughed at just about everything he could. "Fair maiden, would you be so kind as to grace me with your name?" It wasn't worded like that on the script but he decided to make it better, more…Dark-like.

The blonde stopped walking around and looked at him, she opened her mouth. "Krad opened her mouth, but again, not a single sound came out. She couldn't help but feel terribly saddened inside. She tried to mouth the words, hoping that Dark would guess the right name." She rolled her eyes, terribly saddened…pfft, golden eyes looked over and mouthed the word crap. In her mind that's what the whole play was, crap.

"Kray? Kuralle? Krad?"

Krad shook her head happily at the last name, why she shook her head, she didn't understand, maybe mermaids shook their heads for yes and nodded for no. Either way Dark 'understood' and brought her back 'home' where Daisuke and Satoshi were waiting on their high and mighty thrones…highly decorated plastic chairs.

"Soon she found herself dressed in the finest silk while following the prince around the castle…" Stupid 'finest silk', so difficult to walk in. She tromped around in the heavy heels and almost tripped every now and then creating a very convincing performance. Much to her distress. They had put about a million layers of make up on her face, my face feels heavy…and she had a relatively heavy dress on and heavy shoes. So all in all, she was and felt very heavy.

She was introduced to Dark's 'parents' which was really amusing, not only was Daisuke in a dress, suffering just like she had to, but Dark's 'parents' were shorter than him, not to mention they were younger than him by who knows how many years. "Mother…Father…" She could tell he was having troubles addressing them as such, "I found her on the beach, may I keep her?" What was she? A pet? And all around the 'palace' were slaves and servants that 'sang' which was actually some tape-recorded running background music of random opera songs.

Krad sighed, the heaviness of the dress and everything was getting to her. Dark looked over and took her hand, smiling supposedly sympathetically, "You shall stay by my side forever, my mute little angel." He decided against using words like 'stupid' or 'dumb' or anything of the such incase the blonde decided to get even later.

And so they spent 'a lot' of time together, which was equivalent to two minutes of the play. Then night came and she sat beside the tank, bored out of her mind, she watched the heads of her 'sisters' and her 'father' pop out of the water, they all stared at her. She stared back wordlessly, soon the mermaids swam over and 'whispered their love and care for her', she on the other hand just sat there and watched them. This is stupid, how am I the 'little' mermaid? I'm older than all of them!

She returned to the 'castle' scene where the 'prince that she grew to love more fondly' was waiting for her. How does one do the 'don't you love me best' expression? Golden eyes blinked and looked up, it would've been easier to simply grab the other's collar and shake some sense into him. Stupid script. Anyways, she looked up, to the…more perverted audience it must've looked something like 'screw me! Screw me!', in reality it was most of a 'screw you! Screw you!' look.

Dark, never one to follow the script, not the exactly script anyways, pulled the mermaid into an embrace, "You are dearest to me, little angel." He looked out into the audience in a very angsty way, causing several female audience members to faint on the spot. "You remind me so much of that angel that had rescued me last time, she's the only one I could love. But you, you're just like her and I find myself forgetting about her whenever you're around. Good fortunes have sent you to me and I'll never let you go."

So he hadn't remembered the lines as they'd been written down but it still worked, so no one complained, except for Krad who was still in the embrace, who was too shocked at the moment to struggle, he actually remembered the lines? Wow… "He does not know it was me that saved him…he probably thinks we'll never meet again but here I am standing beside him…" She rolled her eyes after the curtains dropped, why do they have to voice out my thoughts?

"Kraddy-kins!"

"Hn?"

The two watched the boat get lowered onto the pool, it wasn't a very big boat but big enough to fit them in. "Wanna make a bet?"

She tromped over to the boat and looked back, "What kind of bet?"

"I bet that the creep and Dai-chan will be together by the end of the play."

"Why?"

"Because I have a foolproof plan of course."

Krad smirked as she stepped into the boat, having to lift her dress up a bit to stop from tripping, "Oh this I've got to see."

"You look like such a damsel right now."

"Shut up brat prince."

"Curtains. And try not to shove me into the water again…"

"I can't promise anything."

She smirked at him but remained silent as the lights flashed on once more. Standing by the ledge of the boat, she sighed, "You're don't fear the sea, do you?" She shook her head, only an idiot who didn't know how to swim and went on a boat anyways and fell overboard and needed to be rescued by a mermaid would be afraid of the sea. Namely Dark Mousy. The said person sighed behind her and held golden strands of hair in his hand, "I do not wish to marry this princess of a distant land…if possible I'd rather marry you."

She turned around with a raised brow, not that anyone other than Dark could see, he continued, "But I cannot deny my…parents' wishes…" The two suppressed their grins at the mention of parents, he tucked her hair behind her ear and kissed her.

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Meanwhile, in his changing room, Satoshi removed his kingly plastic crown with plastic jewels adorned on it and set it on the desk. He looked over and blinked, it was a paper cup. A paper cup with a sign next to it saying 'Hiwatari-kun, please pick up.' He rose a brow and picked it up, "…hello?"

He put it to is ear, eyes trailing the string that the cup was attached to, he got up and began to follow it. "Hiwatari-kun?" He paused, it was Daisuke.

"Niwa?"

"Yea…umm…about the other day…and all those other times you found strange things from me…" Satoshi blinked and walked into the hallway, the cup still pressed against his ear. "What I was trying to say was…I like you-" Daisuke looked up, he'd been hiding around the corner while making his confession and suddenly, standing there, was Satoshi. He gave a weak smile, "H-Hiwatari-kun! I was just talking to…you."

"Is it true?"

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"It was you wasn't it? You were the golden angel who saved me from the brink of death that day! I can't believe I never noticed! And here you've been…always tolerant and patient with me…forgive me my little angel…"

Krad quickly hugged him to hide her chuckling, her shoulders were shaking with laughter, which appeared to be tears to everyone else. Very, very touching moment. People in the audience were crying already, people like Towa and Emiko. Dark gave her a pat on the back, the curtains fell and lights turned off, it was time for the night scene.

"Emotional little thing aren't you?"

"Retarded little prince aren't you?" She stopped laughing so she could breathe properly again, she smirked and shoved the thief away, "Get off the stage, it's the knifing scene."

"Curtain!"

Dark jumped off the boat and ran to the side. He had a grin plastered on his face, "Let's just hope she doesn't start laughing again…"

Krad was handed the knife by her 'sisters', "We've given our hair to the sea witch for this. This knife is very sharp." It took all her efforts not to laugh…again. "You must pierce the prince's heart tonight…"

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"Is it true?"

Red eyes blinked, he nodded, "Yea…I'm crazy about you…sorry, forget I said anything."

"Daisuke…"

"Eh?" He looked at being the other who actually called him by his first name for once, "Yes?"

"I like you too." He gave the redhead a kiss on the cheek.

Daisuke blushed and pulled out a necklace, he smiled, "Look at what I found in Dark's secret stash of shiny things!"

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They had to put artificial tears in her eyes since she couldn't cry no matter how hard she tried, and crying from laughing too hard didn't count. So anyways, she stood in their bedroom where Risa was sleeping in Dark's arms, her eyes narrowed and she held the knife over Dark's chest. To stab or not to stab…she mused to herself as the artificial tears began to actually sting her eyes creating even more tears. Painful, painful tears. My eyes hurt…

"I'm sorry…I'm sorry, I love you too much to do this…" She sighed and chucked the knife into water and food coloring almost immediately appeared. The blonde looked at the sleeping prince as the lighting began turning on.

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"What does it do?"

"No idea but there's two pieces, you want one?"

"Sure. Do they fit together or something?"

Daisuke smiled and shrugged, "Who knows? Let's try."

The two put the pieces together and blinked.

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As she looked back, the lighting was completely on by now, and much to her surprise she actually was disappearing, she could feel her mind connection being reconnected, she smiled and waved, "Bye bye Dark."

And sensing the blonde disappearing, Dark sat up completely ruining the ending of the script, "Krad!" The blonde watched him and smirked, disappearing completely. The thief jumped out of the bed and ran around, looking for the blonde, "She's…gone?"

"…he realized he was never going to see the angel ever again…" With that said, the violet-haired male disappeared as well. The narrator stared and quickly improvised, "brokenhearted, the prince soon disappeared after, it's said that he and his angel have finally been reunited but no one knows for sure…"

The audience cheered or cried, whichever they were actually doing at the moment, the curtains closed again/Whoo! Back in Dai-chan's head again! Wait…that means that Krad's…/

Daisuke sighed at the very gleeful voice in his head, "Hiwatari-kun…"

"Krad's back."

((You sound displeased.))

"Dark too."

/Ask him if Kraddy-kins turned back./

"Did Krad-"

"Yea, he's a he again."

/Tell him to stop reading your mind which is technically me talking./

The redhead ignored him, "I guess it's finally over."

/Not yet Dai-chan, we still have minor things to clean up…/

Method 6- Success

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Nya

And so Dark and Krad are back in their tamer's body with only a couple things left to clean up. Did you really think that I'd let Krad change back before having him/her perform? XP I'm mean like that. One more chapter to go before I finish another fic :O the rare occasion, so rare that if you blink, you'll miss it.