Sorry for the long wait! I forgot about this story! –sweatdrops-

Disclaimer- do you think I own DNAngel? I don't think so…

Riku's POV

That stupid mistake I made keeps ringing in my head.

"I'm sorry, but I don't. I only think of you as a friend and nothing more. I hope you'll forgive me."

It just won't stop. It's not my fault I had to do it.

"I'm sorry, but I don't. I only think of you as a friend and nothing more. I hope you'll forgive me."

The more I fight, the more it shouts back. In fact, I really do like you Daisuke. I really did want you to like me. I didn't expect it to happen so fast, I always thought you liked me only as a friend. Of course, we've been best friends for about 5 years now so it had to happen sooner or later. To tell you the truth…

"I need to know, do you like me back?"

At that moment, I was sure my heart would stop beating. I could die happy knowing he felt the same. Then, that error had to come my way. Those words were never suppose to come out of my mouth but I had to. When I first met you, all I saw in the crimson eyes of yours was just pure sorrow and darkness.

It's the first day of school for this small brunette girl. She was shy around the people she never met at all, however she noticed a boy around her age sitting in a bench under a tree. He is staring only at the flowers that are being swayed by the cold autumn wind. She sat next to the redhead and the boy didn't even bother to look at her.

"Hi there!" The brunette said. "I hope I'm not annoying you but I'm new here. My name is Harada Riku! What's yours?" It's a pity that she didn't know this boy all too well. "I said, it's nice to meet you!" She shouted a little louder. At first, Riku thought that this petite child was being mean to her and she couldn't allow herself to be picked on. "Hey, just because I'm new here doesn't mean you have a right to tease me! I'm not afraid to take you on!" There was still no comment. The Riku in present day knows how to deal with problems like these, but back then the 9 year old girl could be as vulgar as she can be. So, she decided to punch him across the face. However, the redhead grabbed her fist in time before it impacts his face.

Then the boy looked at her. The girl's eyes widen to see what lies behind the boy's crystal tears. Now she knows why he didn't response back to her, he had been crying. "I'm so sorry!" She shouted as she draws her hand back. "I thought you were one of those bullies that picks on people non-stop!"

He sighed. "It's okay…" The boy got up from his seat. "To answer your question from before, my name is Niwa Daisuke. Say, didn't I talk to you a while ago?"

"No, I think you're confusing me with my twin sister, Risa."

From that point on I wanted to be Daisuke's friend now and forever. He's such a lonely person. Now I know what you're thinking if he's such a lonely person why did you reject him? There's a reason why I said those horrible words. I didn't want him to suffer. If I became his girlfriend, would I only cause more damage then there should be? I have seen what couples can do to each other; to their lover. Just like Krad and Satoshi. I don't want the same thing to happen. I felt something warm sliding down my cheeks and down my neck. I rubbed my right eye. I couldn't help but cry a little to myself.

I sighed while leaning against the wall of the lobby. What's taking my sister so long? The minutes on my wristwatch slowly went by. Finally what seemed to be about 30 minutes later, I saw Risa running toward me.

I sighed once again. "What took you so long? You do know that mom's probably going to kill us for not giving her a good reason why we're late."

My younger twin patted me on my shoulders. "Relax, Riku. You're just too tense!" I didn't like the look on Risa's face. Well, duh. Risa still has a crush on Dark so putting them together in a room…alone. Oh my gosh!!

Suddenly I came into realization. How could I have been so blind? My eyes widen. "Um…sis, you…didn't happen to…I mean…" I could feel my face starting to heat up, if I ever let Dark or anyone else besides Risa see me like this, I will never hear the end of it. "Did you and Dark…do…you know…" There, I finally said it.

She gave me a weird look then gasp. "Get your mind out of the gutter! My sister's a pervert! My sister's a pervert! HENTAI!!" She yelled out before she saw the flames in the background with me death glaring at her. "Can't you take a joke? Anyway, no I didn't do you-know-what. I'm saving that until marriage!"

"If you can…" I mumbled under my breath. "But what were you doing with Dark for so long anyway?" Maybe I shouldn't have said that because I saw my sister starting to grin like the cat from Alice in Wonderland.

She giggled. "Do you really want to know? I'll let you on a little secret."

(Daisuke's POV)

The party for my grandma is over. This mansion feels like it's separating itself from the world, allowing the time to go much slower then it should be. Maybe because last night, I had to sleep on the couch of the living room since a lot of people are staying at this place and there's no room for me. I also remember last night that my mom and couple of people were really drunk. Now that I think about it, I think I was drunk with soda. I couldn't help but grin stupidly at myself for doing so. I got out of my sleeping place and went to look for something to eat for breakfast. Then I saw the time on the oven near the fridge. It is 6:30. The party lasted until 3:00 am or something and I only got 3 hours of sleep? Oh well. Then I saw a familiar blond coming my way. I smiled at her. "Hey Freedert, you got insomnia too?"

She smiled back. "Yes and no. I actually stayed up all night taking care of obaa-san only to fall asleep about an hour ago. She couldn't sleep either."

I I grabbed the milk carton, pouring it in a glass cup. "I see."

"Oh yea! I almost forgot! Speaking of which, you do know that you do have a room right?"

I looked at her with a weird expression as I drank the white liquid. "Huh?"

"You didn't know? Last night, I told you that it was getting late and you should really be going up to your room. Then you just laid on the couch snoring quite loudly. I guess you were probably too drunk off soda to not even care where you slept."

Note to self; never EVER get drunk off soda ever again unless I want to get myself humiliated. "I see…"

"Your room is on the 3rd level and it should be the second door to your left."

This made me wonder. The final level of this place is really gloomy and creepy. It's filled with candles and dark, graphic looking paintings, so why would she give me such a room? I did what she told me and went up to the stairs. Once again, the paintings started to creep me out a little but I guess I got used to it after being here before. When I got to my room, my eyes widened. It was completely different, contrasting to the creepy element outside this door. Practically everything in this room was pure white. Another question came into my head. Why does she have a room like this? Then something caught my eye. It appeared to be a cloth that was covering a painting. Feeling curious, I took the cloth off only to see a painting of a snowy landscape and nothing else.

"Good morning, Obaa-san." I said.

"Good morning to you to Daisuke." Her voice was somewhat weary. "I see you found Kosuke's room. Do you like it?"

I didn't want to tell her that the white is messing with my eyes a bit. "It's pretty, it matches the snow painting."

She sighed while sitting on the bed. "You know, this room was made specifically for the painting. Your father wanted to see how the world would be like if everything were nothing but white. I guess he failed because it gets tiring seeing the same color everyday. He was around your age when he made that painting."

"Oh."

There was an awkward silence, I didn't know what to say and I suppose she didn't either. In any case, I was the one who spoke first.

"Do you hate kaa-san?"

Grandma gave me an interesting look. "What?"

"I know she did some inappropriate things in the past before she met my dad but still…do you?"

Another sigh came out of her mouth. "Is this why you were crying in the bathroom yesterday? You thought I hated your mom?"

"I guess you can say that." I lied. I didn't want her to know that her grandchild was some suicidal wreck when I was younger.

"Well…" Obaa-san stressed that word. "I didn't approve your dad's marriage to a streetwalker but yes I will admit it, I did hate her."

I gazed down at the floor. I guess that explains why she was so hard on my mom when father died. "Oh."

"I thought you would be some weird looking child too."

A smirk twitched at my lips as I sat down beside my grandma.

"To tell you the truth, I put so much pressure on your mom because she wasn't the perfect daughter-in-law that I had imaged. I tried correcting everything about her but it only left your mom in pieces. When I found out your father died protecting you, a cascade of tears streamed from my eyes and I had to blame the death on someone else."

"So you chose my mom?"

Yes. When your mother wakes up, tell her that I'm sorry for the past 18 years of marriage." Obaa-san left the room and probably went downstairs or something. She's getting old and I guess she didn't want that guilt inside her anymore.

I looked around the room and smiled. "This can probably help me on a science project…"

(Freedert's POV)

Obaa-san came down the stairs looking quite sad. "Good morning Freedert, I was wondering when you would come back upstairs."

"Don't worry, I will." I said. "Are you okay?"

"Yea, I'll be fine, just want to be alone for a bit." She took her daily morning pills and went back to her room.

I hope she's all right, I hate to see people in a bad mood especially with people close to me. Hopefully she didn't have trouble talking to my cousin. They should talk more often, grandma is a really nice person deep down. Plus, for a 79-year-old, she's quite healthy. Suddenly, I heard a loud yet somewhat faint noise. I quickly ran upstairs to see Obaa-san lying near the stairway on the first floor. I panicked, really panicked.

"Oh my god, oh my god!!" I franticly cried.

Daisuke came down the stairs and directly closed my mouth with his hand before I make anymore noise.

"Calm down Freedert, just calm down. Everything will be okay." He said softly.

I checked for her pulse but I couldn't feel anything on her wrist. "Do you think…is she?" I wanted to cry but Satoshi came out of his room asking what was going on.

"GRANDMOTHER IS DEAD!" I screamed on the top of my lungs. How could this be happening? She was just fine a couple of minutes ago!

Soon after that, about everyone in first floor was awake. A lot of people panicked as well not knowing what to do. Eventually a person called the emergency hotline. The ambulance took grandma to the nearest hospital.

"Heart attack." I suddenly said while sitting in front of the porch with Daisuke and Satoshi while everyone else was in the house still having no idea what to do. "That's the only reason why she could have died."

"She could have taken too many pills." Satoshi commented. "It's not unlikely for a women her age to be taking pills."

Daisuke sighed. "I don't know, but there is one thing I do know."

"What is that?" Satoshi and me said.

"She told me what happened in the past, I think that's the only thing that kept her going. She waited for Otou-san's family to come to her one day so she could die in peace." He smirked. "At least that's what I think."

"Probably…" I said.

Daisuke looking at the sky, Satoshi is staring at what is in front of him, trees, and I can't seem to look at one thing without dazing off. Must be the lack of sleep.

Daisuke said something. "Say, what did happen between you and Krad? I'm just curious."

"Daisuke!" I hissed. "He just broke up with him, you can't expect him to say something that hurts him. You are just plain rude!" That's one of the qualities I hate about myself, sometimes I say things without thinking even if it offends people. Maybe I'm just cranky. "Sorry…"

"It's okay." He said. "I just got rejected by a girl, who happens to be one of my best friends."

"We're all in need of help when it comes to relationships. The boy I like has a crush on someone else. I don't know if he knows that I even exist."

The three of us just sighed, sitting on the porch moping about the effect of relationships. Woe is we. Satoshi opened his mouth to say something.

"Krad broke up with me because he thought I was flirting with Risa."

Risa? Who is she?

"Why would he think that? He knows that you would never do that."

What's going on?

"I think she's plotting something." The redhead continued talking.

"Daisuke, Satoshi what is going on? I feel completely left out."

"It's a long story."

"I got time."

Both of the males sighed getting ready for a long talk.

Sorry if it's really short, I wrote this at nearly 4:30am in the morning with insomnia. Thanks to Kuramasdarkside for editing this! I.O.U.!