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Chapter: 5/12
Characters: Krad, Satoshi
Pairing: Krad/Satoshi; mentioned Dark/Satoshi

Complete One-X Playlist: YouTube deleted my first account, which had the playlist on it… Now it's lost and I'm too lazy to put it back up. Sorry folks. nn;; Just look it up on YouTube though. Someone else should have a One-X playlist up.

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I walk alone
Think of home
Memories of long ago
No one knows I lost my soul long ago

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on.MY.own

Krad watched with hate-filled eyes as Daisuke's retreating back disappeared behind a thicket of trees that lead back to the cement trail of the park, where they had taken to conducting their 'frequent activities.' He could tell from Daisuke's performance during their latest romp that the redhead just wasn't interested. Beneath each cry of pain and every gasp of pleasure was a hollow emptiness that totally killed Krad's mood. It wasn't as though he cared about the younger one's inner turmoil – but it was the cause of Daisuke's turmoil that made Krad bubble with fury.

"Satoshi," the blonde hissed under his breath, overstepping a lovely patch of bloodstained grass. "That is his fault."

Who did the little weakling think he was, distracting his toy from him? Satoshi was nothing but a sorry excuse for a tamer who couldn't keep the enemy's tongue out of his mouth long enough to see that he really had no reason to continue living after he and Krad had been separated.

Krad sighed idly, placing his hands into the pockets of his brilliantly white pants as he strolled out into the city. With absolutely nothing left to entertain him, the blonde angel was already on the prowl for a new target to manipulate.

And what a coincidence it was for him when he saw none other than the blue-haired vessel he had once inhabited briskly walking through the streets as though in search for something.

Flashing no one in particular a frighteningly pleased smirk, Krad surged forward in a blur of white and yellow, shadowing the rapid blunette's every step. With the help of his own natural stealth, the blonde followed his ex-tamer for another block before spotting his chance –

A dark alley sandwiched between two closed stores.

As soon as Satoshi's foot stepped near the threshold of the alley, Krad catapulted himself forward. With his momentum and the strength powered into his ambush, he was able to send the foolish teen flying several feet into the alley, which – to Krad's delight – had no exit. Where one would have been, had it existed, was a tall brick wall.

Chuckling madly, Krad walked forward, his shadow stretching forebodingly over Satoshi's fallen body. "Satoshi-sama," he greeted calmly, his hands stuffed coolly in his pockets, as though he had not just barreled the other to the floor.

"Please." Clearing his throat as he peeled himself off the gravel, Satoshi sat up. "Spare me the honorific you so obviously don't mean."

"What do you mean, Satoshi-sama?" Krad wondered with perfectly voiced confusion.

Satoshi pulled himself onto steady feet, a scowl already forming on his face. "Krad, I'm serious. Shut up. I don't need any of your shit right now."

"And why not?"

Satoshi nearly tugged at his hair in irritation. "Do I need to explain myself to you? Must I elucidate each and every thing I do and why? Just get out of my face. I have better places I could be."

"Like where? In the arms of Dark?"

Satoshi rolled his eyes. "Yes, Krad," he drawled scornfully, "in the arms of Dark."

Krad shook his head, as though he was disappointed in his ex-tamer. "Poor, poor Satoshi. Mislead and strung along; and yet, he still follows after the thief as though he were a savior."

"What are you talking about?" Satoshi demanded.

"What I'm talking about, Satoshi-sama, is Dark's infidelity to you."

"Infidelity? There is no infidelity. He loves me." Satoshi knew he was falling into a trap.

He of all people, Krad's vessel and prisoner for many years, would know one of the blonde's mind traps.

"Has he ever said that? That he loved you, that is." Krad smirked. He knew Dark would never utter those three words to anyone. Dark was not the type of person to.

He of all people, Dark's other half for centuries on end, would know how the angel's mind and love life worked.

"Well… No. But it was…implied." Oh how the mighty have fallen! Could Satoshi sound any more stupid in front of his tormentor? Inwardly, he was punching himself.

"'Implied'?" Krad's laughter helped Satoshi's mood no more than his taunting did. "Satoshi, Satoshi. Dark implies a lot of things. Love isn't one of them. You, by now, after all his flirtatious heists and meetings with you while he still inhabited Daisuke's body, should have known that."

Not catching the fact that Daisuke's first name had been thrown in there, Satoshi blinked. Perhaps Krad was right…

"He doesn't know what love is. Dark doesn't know anything."

Satoshi snarled, "And you do?"

Krad approached his tense ex-tamer slowly, and to his own surprise, Satoshi didn't shy away. "Yes. I do. I've told you many, many times. I love you."

That was when Satoshi snapped. His right arm lashed out at Krad, who was too fast for him, as he was with Dark. "Let me go, Krad," he sighed, the aggression in his eyes greatly hidden by his calm voice.

Krad smirked, his fingers wrapped tightly around Satoshi's forearm. "You're the one who lashed out at me, Satoshi-sama. I have every right to bind you. If I were to let you go, what would reassure me that I'd be safe from your barbaric hands?"

"Nothing," Satoshi growled, "because you're not!"

"Now now, that's not placating me at all." Krad's tone was mocking.

"Damn it, Krad! Why did you…" Satoshi's eyes flitted down to the ground, his head echoing with the words Dark had never told him. "Why did you have to say that?"

"Say what? That I love you?"

"Krad!"

"Well I do. You are mine. You have been ever since your birth into the Hikari family."

"You sound like an incestuous brother." Satoshi deadpanned, the humor in his sentence about as bland as his tone.

Krad was unimpressed. "I've said it many a time. When we shared the same body. Every moment I had alone with you, I would profess that single phrase. I love you. You would drive me away. I love you. You would pine for Daisuke's friendship. I love you. You would yell and scold and glare and push. I love you."

"You never meant it, that's why I brushed it off so easily." Satoshi, caught up in such a heated discussion, didn't notice the loosening of Krad's fingers around his arm.

"I never meant it? Never meant it? Every time my wings would wrap around you, every time my hands would caress your face – I love you. Fool. That's what you are to reject me. I love you."

"Look at that. Look at how it slips from your lips, as though you're telling the weather. It's not something that should just…come out. It should take… It should put you in utter turmoil to finally say."

"No, it shouldn't. I say it, because I have the dignity to. Maybe the way you believe in is only the way you believe in because that's how Dark works. But on the contrary – he's not in 'utter turmoil.' He just plain doesn't care."

"Don't say that about him," Satoshi growled.

"What about me, Satoshi-sama? I can't talk about him, but you can talk about me? Talk about how you hate me and how I lie to you?" Krad's hands were slowly crawling down Satoshi's body, down to his waist, where his strong arms encircled him.

"G…get off me, Krad." Satoshi's stomach clenched tensely. He hadn't been held like this in a long time.

"But I'm not lying to you," Krad continued, pulling their bodies together so that their fronts met in an intimate embrace.

Satoshi was silent, which seemed like a positive sign to Krad.

Krad nuzzled Satoshi's neck, surprisingly gentle. "Satoshi-sama… May I…kiss you?"

Satoshi froze. "I…I have Dark, though."

Krad tightened the hug. "Haven't you heard anything I've said? I love you, much much more than he ever will. You are my other half. We belong together."

Satoshi stared down at the ground. "…One kiss, Krad."

Krad was surprised by Satoshi's answer, wholly thinking that the blunette had much more self control than that. But he couldn't blame him, because Krad knew he was once hell of a manipulator. Slowly, he tilted the other's chin up so that he had better access to those sweet, hesitant lips.

When the kiss came, Krad felt nothing. Their lips moved in sync, their hands wandered freely, their tongues danced perfectly, and the heat was there; but as he knew he would, Krad was unmoved.

In fact, he was feeling a little ripped off. And so, some damage was sure to ensue.

"I told Dark you weren't good enough for him," Krad declared once they had broken apart.

Satoshi licked his lips to rid them of Krad's saliva. "You and Dark still talk?"

"Yes." Absently, Krad ran his fingertips up and down Satoshi's slim back, causing the other to shiver slightly. "Among…other things."

"'Other things'?" Satoshi's eyes narrowed. His hands found themselves on Krad's chest, pushing away slightly to look him in the eye.

"Hm. Well oops," Krad added, his eyes dancing gleefully. "You weren't supposed to know that."

Satoshi shook himself out of Krad's arms, his soft eyes already hardening in rage.

"Well, if it's consolation to you at all, you're the better kisser."

"And so you two've kissed?" Satoshi demanded.

"Um…" Krad was inwardly grinning.

"And how long ago was this?"

"A week ago, prolly…"

"A week ago? Well damn. I guess that's why he's been acting so weird around me! 'Cause he's been sneaking around with you! That bastard!" Satoshi sneered vehemently.

"Well again, if it's any consolation, I like you better," Krad voiced in helpfully, his cheerful tone not helping Satoshi at all.

"Well that sure helps me," Satoshi snarled. "While you tell me that, Dark's probably setting up your next date. God, why didn't I see this coming? It's Dark, for god's sake! Of course this would be coming! And here I was, thinking he was different…"

Krad nodded. "That's right, that's right. He's a dirty scumbag, he is."

"You! You need to shut up. 'I love you, I love you.' BS, that's what it is. Go to hell Krad. Because of you, my life is already there!" Satoshi whirled around, stomping out of the alley with only one destination in mind: wherever Dark was – to kick the dark angel's ass.

"Well then… I'll meet it there then," Krad decided coolly, his statement heard only by himself. Once he was sure Satoshi was far enough that the wind wouldn't carry his words down to him, Krad voiced his thoughts.

"I'm actually pretty surprised he believed everything I said. For someone who hates me so much, for someone I had put through so much harm, he's quite the obedient puppy… Looks like I hadn't punished him enough back when he was my vessel… Is that all it took? A simple 'I love you'? Well then…" Krad chuckled.

"It's just too bad I was lying through all of it."

Krad sent the empty alley one last scathing look before continuing on his stroll down the street.

It didn't quite matter that he was all alone.

As long as he was raising hell for all those who had wronged him in the past, then he was perfectly fine with being on his own.

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Lie too much
She said that she's had enough
Am I too much?
She said that she's had enough

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Killah: Wow. I really suck. Seriously. Gaaahhh... I took way too long to finish this chapter… I'm such an ass. /crawls into a hole and dies/ …By the way, I want to thank Violet Garnets and KousukeAsazuki, whose recent reviews have helped kick my ass back into writing gear for this particular fic. Thanks guys. /glomp/