End chapter. End first fic on Fanfiction. The last chapter that will make it complete. End game
Okay I'll stop now! Disclaimer: man, I haven't done one in so long...I don't own D N Angel for it is copyrighted by Yukiru-sensei. Um...that's it...
Oh, sorry, just a personal note. Damn, four updates! I'm on fire! (Wait, ahhh!! Burning!!)
Chapter 20: Return
"Bye, mom!" called a red-haired boy we were all familiar with. As he strolled down the steps of his front yard, he stopped and hesitated. Emiko looked through the window to see her son walking to school like she always did, but this time she also ran out to investigate.
"Dark…?" Dark's eyes fluttered open, revealing the violet eyes color. He slowly, and painfully tried to get up, but fell down. Daisuke and Emiko rushed to help the sore thief up.
"Daisuke…?" he asked, his mind still dazed. "Daisuke? Wait, no, Kimi--!"
"Kimi?" Daisuke repeated the name in thought as he helped his mother pull Dark into the house.
"Dark, what happened to you? And why do you have your own body now? Where's Krad?" Emiko just bombarded him with questions that concerned her. To-To walked in and stared in shock at Dark's return. She helped the thief get to a couch and then fetched him something to drink. Daisuke stared as the thief lay on the satin red couch, his eyes closed and his chest heaving. He seemed to have fallen asleep again.'Dark came back? Does this mean Krad's…?' Realizing what time it was, he rushed out the door and towards school frantically.
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Daisuke walked out of his school's doors at the end of the day and spotted a certain pastel blue haired boy with glasses walking away.
"Satoshi!" he called, trying to grab the boy's attention. Satoshi turned to see Daisuke coming towards him. He stared at him as the redhead stopped abruptly in front of him.
"What, Daisuke?"
"Did you see Krad?"
"What do you mean? Krad's sealed away."
"But Dark appeared on our doorstep today, so shouldn't Krad?"
"Dark what?!" Satoshi was attentive now.
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Night approached and Dark awoke. Emiko, Daisuke, To-To, and Kosuke stared at him as if they were tiny, eager children wanting a story, but they were also concerned for his well-being.
"Daisuke, Emiko, Kosuke, To-To…," he said, reciting their names.
"What happened to you?" Daisuke asked, his red eyes full of concentration. "To-To said she didn't feel you coming back. And I thought you were sealed and gone already."
"Are you saying you don't want me back?!" Dark yelled at him.
"Now, guys, let's not get into a fight…," Kosuke told them, trying to calm them down. "Now, Dark, tell us what happened and how you got the body you have now." Dark sighed, letting his purple hair fall onto his face.
"It started when Krad and I were sealed…" And thus, Dark unwove his tale of his stay in the strange world where he had met Kimi, Resha, and Sukimaru. He told of the Toki no Miramoru Kamayu, the ninja attacks, and memory replay. Then he told about Krad and how he went berserk in his true form, leading to his death. He then told the hardest part of where a friend had to leave him…
Daisuke's mind came to be filled more about Dark and some of his past. He then noticed that when Dark told of a friend leaving he seemed…sad…and pained in a way. Dark turned his head away from the others as he finished his story. Kosuke looked at To-To with questioning eyes.
"To-To, have you ever heard of this world?"
"Only once, but that was with the Hikari." Dark got up and went to the hallway, walking up the stairs, and finally entering Daisuke's room. He flopped down onto the bottom bunk of the redhead's bunk bed. Daisuke followed him, sitting at a chair at a work desk.
"Dark, something bugs you, what is it?"
"Nothing," Dark lied, rolling onto his side to conceal his eyes from Daisuke. Daisuke frowned, seeing Dark's ignorance.
"Did you like this Kimi person?" Dark didn't answer. He did not want to answer such a personal question to Daisuke. The doorbell rang and Emiko ran to get the door. She opened it to find nothing there but a single package with their address on it and no returning address. Puzzledand confused, she took it up to Daisuke's roomand opened the door.
"Dark, you have a package," she informed, holding it up for him to see.
"From who?" Daisuke asked.
"I don't know. There's no address, and no name. I'm surprised somebody found out you're still here, Dark," she told him, handing the package. Dark sat up and opened it, taking away Styrofoam chips. Emiko and Daisuke crowded around him to see what the box held. He at last grabbed whatever it was that was contained in the box for him, and pulled out the "Mirror of Life".
"What is it? It looks like a mirror," Emiko pointed out.
"It is a mirror, mom," Daisuke confirmed. "But what's with the gems?"
"It's the 'Mirror of Life'. It's an artwork," Dark told them. He blinked at the mirror's refraction against the ceiling lights and looked upon it again, this time seeing the image of a sleeping Kimi. He blinked again and rubbed his eyes, wondering if it was a hallucination.
"Something wrong, Dark?" Daisuke inquired.
"No, nothing," Dark answered.
"You know, if it's an artwork then we should seal it, just in case something goes wrong and it gets out." The brown-haired woman attempted to grab the artwork from Dark's hands, but Dark pulled it out of her range quickly.
"No, let me keep it. I don't think it will do any harm. I'm sure of it."
"Are you sure?" Daisuke asked curiously.
"Yeah," confirmed Dark. Without any other questions, Emiko left the room to cook dinner while Daisuke came down to help and eat some dinner. Dark sat in the bed, looking at the mirror and its strange carvings and gems.
"Kimi…I guess we did meet again…," he told the mirror, looking at it. Somewhere, he felt the presence of a girl smile at him cheerfully, nodding.
No matter how far we are we will always remember each other and meet again one day…
Dang, too clichéd. But I've run out of ideas so this is it for this chapter. Later people, cause this story is done!