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Warning: a murder-attempt, a theft, a murder, an angel, a twisted author and a mother's howling.
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:…: Satoshi to Krad
:…: Krad to Satoshi
(…) Dai to Dark
((…)) Dark to Dai
Oro?
Chapter III: The angel wonders.
Krad watched as the girl walked slowly into the darkness that mostly surrounded this place. When she was engulfed by the night and he could not see nor hear her he descended and landed on a place about ten to twenty meters away from where she had hidden the gem.
'Who would have thought of that?'
The boy had fallen asleep near the end of the…hmm… shall we say 'party'?... and he had taken over. But no one had noticed anything°.
Well no one except the Wing Master, but that's only because he had given himself away…
Flashback.
30 minutes before the 'party' ended had he and the Wing Master ended up, alone, in the garden to cool off; the house was overfilled with dancing and partying teens. He had been dragged out here by the other boy for 'some air' as he put it. Not for he could argue with that, the house was a roaring hell-hole with music on highest volume, total lack of any oxygen and partying teens holding suspicious-looking bottles that any self-respecting entity over 400 years should shun like the plague°°…
Outside one could still hear the music, but the volume was much better, one could at least hear one self think. A cool night breeze blew in the trees and Krad enjoyed to get rid of the dry taste of party-steam he had tasted since that Saehara-boy's machine had decided to co-operate with its owners wishes. He swallowed big gulps of fresh air. The other boy in the garden giggled and moved in a way that only tipsy people does. On the other hand, he wasn't surprised several guests had spiked almost everything that was drinkable; he even suspected that the fishes in Fukuda-sans sibling's aquarium had got some booze°°°…
"Wow, what a party." The redhead beamed to him.
"Hn." The boy caught his interest when he suddenly became serious and started to scratch his neck. He turned slightly so he had the possibility to defend himself if Dark should take over, although he doubt it, not even Dark would let his host drink if he thought there were any danger nearby°°°°.
"Err…yes…well, Hiwatari-kun there's… there's something I…" The boy fidgeted and sighed. "There's something I have to tell you…" his voice was low, almost whispering.
"Yes?" The red eyes became glazed for a couple of seconds, probably the thief that was wondering what he was going to say.
"I…I…" The Wing Master looked so nervous; it was hilarious to watch him. Krad almost smiled. Suddenly the redhead blurted out: "Is your …other half asleep?"
"Yes." There was no need to lie about that. Satoshi-sama was deep asleep without nightmares caused by a blond demon. Maybe not the exact person Niwa wanted to be asleep but…smiling he repeted: "Yes, he's asleep."
The boy exhaled noisily. "Good. I wanted to give you a head's up…Dark is…" The boy fidgeted even more.
"Dark is going to do what? Steal something?"
A blushing face nodded ferociously.
"Hnh…what? Ah, let me guess… the necklace?"
Another nod.
"Hmm." Krad smiled. "When?"
"Tomorrow… at the evening, at the bank."
"Hmm." Krad emptied his glass with orange juice.
"It's…just so you will be prepared to… if… I mean, if, when Krad…" He drifted of, looked away and scratched his nape, being all nervous…
Krad couldn't help that the smile lingered on his lips. He looked down into the empty glass and said, deliberately slowly: "Oh, I wouldn't worry about me…"
The jolt that passed through the young thief's body and the gasp were signs that the boy now knew exactly who he was talking to. He continued in the same slow tempo looking straight into those panic-filled eyes. "Maybe Satoshi-sama is of a different opinion when he wakes up, but I doubt it. The Hikari-family has given away that art-piece, so it's now up for the Fukuda-family to protect it."
The boy in front of him was actually shivering slightly, what a pity that he couldn't take his real form and… but no, he had to act like Satoshi-sama, for some reasons he wouldn't tell himself.
"Krad." His counterpart hissed through the boy.
"Yes. Now you'll have to excuse me, but my glass is empty." And with a last smile he left the boy behind.
He hadn't taken many steps before Fukuda caught him, filling up his glass, flirting with who she thought was Satoshi-sama. That girl really needed a lesson, whatever his Everything said…
When the 'party' finally had ended (and really the last bit had just been strange…) had Krad walked of to a peaceful place, a hushed, shaded garden, and shifted into his real body. It had felt so nice to stretch his wings. The cool air of the night blew through feathers and strands of golden hair taking away the smell of smoke°°°°° and sweat that always permeates the clothes and hair after a party and replaced it with a smell of lilacs, peons, birch, grass and something Krad couldn't place. It felt truly wonderful, standing on the roof of the sleeping house that the garden belong to, with no crazy girl or irritating thief… just him and the distant stars, not even the boy was bothering him. Without Krad even realizing it, he smiled while gazing up into the dark sky and he waited together with the thin white moon.
Waited until he was sure that there was no one lingering behind with that girl, he flew down and landed on the spot there he had stand just a hour before with a red-eyed boy. He walked up to the open door and the rest was easy, the girl practically threw herself at him. Take a stranglehold on her until she lost consciousness was enough to teach her that you shouldn't flirt with everyone you laid your eyes on. He had even stayed behind to hear her take a few deep breaths to be sure she would survive before he had flown up to a neighboring roof, unsure what he should do with the freedom he had gain this night.
However only minutes after he had left the house with the girl had this other girl entered the house. He was surprised to see this second girl, she should be home sleeping by now… and he was even more surprised by her actions…
Back to reality.
So, here he was, standing on a stone a meter over the ground°°°°°°, in the middle of the night, wondering over that he should do. The old police, Saehara, would probably alert Satoshi-sama the moment he found out that a Hikari-piece had disappeared from the scene of the crime… Gift or not, if it was a Hikari-piece than the old bonehead alerted the poor teen.
Krad sort of understood this; the old man was after all totally useless when it came to catch thieves…or a thief… But then again, this wasn't Dark's work, it was, what's her name again?
Hmm, it really was peaceful here too. He liked places like this. Places where the moon shine over the ground, the stars twinkle without being forced to compete with streetlamps and neon-signs. The wind that smelt of flowers, grass and carried distant odors from the city, cleaned his feathers, hair and clothes even more. After a moment or two a thought ran silently into his mind.
Maybe he could do that?
'Yes, he'll do that."
He spread his wings once again and the dark sky embraced the white demon into its shadows.
° Because he had not transformed…he still 'wore' Satoshi's body.
°° beside any entity named Dark… at least if you trust Krad in these matters…
°°° in the best case they only had got an empty beer-bottle…
°°°° Like a Krad that is not supervised for example. Like the danger Krad offer when he is on the same party as Dai when Dai and Dark are tipsy and if Satoshi is sleeping…
°°°°° I've already told you that there were no grownups…
°°°°°° The stone reached a meter up in the air from where it penetrated the ground, it did not fly around one meter above the ground…
DD: What have Krad in mind? Thanks to everyone that has reviewed, hugs to you. In the next chapter will Satoshi be alarted, Takeshi will be hysterical together with almost the whole school and WHO is the girl?