Here comes the darkness,

Watch as it curls around you,

Watch as it covers your world.

Part Seven

"You're actually really quiet tonight, Kaito." Shinichi frowned as he turned to the other teen as they made their way into the kitchen. Kaito showing up destroyed any hope of sleep in his own bed that he was planing after initially waking up to the phone call. "What's wrong?" Kaito looked weird to him, standing completely still, no usually spunky twitching as he planned something. Kuroba Kaito was always moving, always planning, something must be terribly wrong. He watched the other lick his lips before looking up at him, Shinichi felt his stomach drop at the crazed look in Kaito's eyes, the eyes themselves was a strange red color, the indigo-purple that Kaito's eyes usually were, almost glowed from the red color surrounding them.

The temperature in the room seemed to increase as Kaito's smile widen, then a two-tone voice purred out to him. "Kudou Shinichi, I've been wanting to meet you."

"What are you talking about, Kaito?" Shinichi backed off as an almost violent look crossed Kaito's face.

Kaito twisted his neck, making a weird cracking noise before cracking it back to look at Shinichi, "You're so smart, unfortunately for me you are such an non-believer of the supernatural. Luckily for me, this one here has been exposed to the supernatural enough to believe. I've been waiting for the right time to come to you. Did you like my present?"

Shinichi slowly slide towards the knife drawer in his kitchen keeping a constant watch on the being in front of him. Had Kaito cracked or something? The Kaito he knew would never kill anyone, let alone have done such torturous acts that were done on the victim's body. "You're saying that you are not Kaito? That you killed that person this morning for me? You left me that note?" His hand touched the drawer handle, slowly tugging it opened.

"Why yes, I'm not Kuroba Kaito. To much cheeriness for me. I wanted to let you know I was coming." Kaito tilted his head, making another cracking sound as he moved towards Shinichi. The looks of disgust that passed Shinichi's face every time he talked amused him greatly, that's not quite what he wanted, "I wouldn't attempt anything, Kudou Shinichi. This body does still belong to Kuroba Kaito and he can feel everything that happens. He's not doing so well right now either, been putting up quite the fight, I have to say."

Shinichi clenched his teeth and made to get a knife out despite the warning that was given. "Honestly, Mortals." The two-tone voice laughed, then some kind of force sent Shinichi flying towards the other side of the room. "Here, I thought you were interesting, still you go after the knife. That's almost classic horror movie move you know." He watched for a couple seconds as Shinichi struggled to against the force, gasping for breathe. "Now do you believe me?"

Shinichi nodded slowly as the pressure eased up, allowing him to breath more freely. He could feel the adrenaline pumping through his vines as the hot/cold feel of the room made him break out in a cold sweat and shivering fear. This wasn't anything he's dealt with before, and it wasn't anything he's ever believed in. "Then what...are you..? Why?" Shinichi glared out at the possible thing that held his friend's body as a puppet.

"I'm Sammael, I'm one of the greater demons from where I'm from." It said in a mock version of Kaito's cheerfulness, smiling at Shinichi. "You have interested me and caught my attention with your unusual belief in humankind. Not even this one believes quite like you do. Close, but not your level of belief. It actually almost makes me sick sometimes watching you solve your little murder mysteries, always being right, then justifying it in your mind. Telling yourself that one day, no one will kill each other. That the world is a better place with one less murder."

It laughed again as it moved closer to Shinichi, who at each step the demon made towards him, slid against the wall towards the kitchen doorway. "Shinichi, Shinichi, Where do you think you're going? Aren't you interested in my kind? Don't I intrigue you enough?" It laughed again as it sent Shinichi flying out of the kitchen and towards the foyer stairs.

"Stop throwing me around!" Shinichi growled as he attempted to get up only to be thrown up the stairs, making the demon laugh at his cry of pain as he cracked his head against the wall.

"Maybe if I feel like it~!" It laughed as it walked up the stairs slowly, finally giving Shinichi a chance to get up on his own. "But I have more interests here, and maybe a deal."

"A deal?" Shinichi glared down the creature in front of him as it reached out to touch his bruised cheek.

"Yeah, I don't have any interest in this one. You, on the other hand, I have plenty of interest in. I want you, when it's time to go, to come to me. I'll leave this one as if nothing has ever happened. Make it all disappear, dead person and all. Kuroba Kaito won't remember a thing, the suffering his mother's going through will only be a horrible nightmare." It moved close to his ear, whispering in the horrible two-tones, " Do you understand, Shinichi-kun? You'd come to me in hell, for all of eternity. Watching over the worse you mortals give to my kind and me."

"You'd let Kaito go and fix everything?" Shinichi whispered.

"And all you have to do is say 'yes', to me." It grinned as Shinichi looked into the creature's eyes.