Author's Note: Hi everybody, I'm back again! Considerably soon too; yes, I knew I wouldn't let procrastination get the better of me this time! To start off, I'm going to answer a question proposed to me to all of you. I think that sometimes I forget that you guys can't see into my head and read all my strange little thoughts, so I sit here assuming you know what I know when you obviously shouldn't. So I'm going to explain the clock thing.

Krad was the one to set up the clock so that it would reach zero when the moon was no longer at its highest point, so the spell would have been completed by that point and in my theory, Krad and Satoshi would have already been split up, leaving Satoshi in the chains and Krad free with his new body. The clock counted down to when it would reel the chains back in so that Satoshi wouldn't be able to get to the harp instead to try to cast a spell that would help him against Krad. So when it reached zero, it pulled Satoshi back into the corner. Where now he is helplessly watching Krad take over Daisuke. So Krad needed the chains around him while he worked his plan to action so that they would be around Satoshi later after the spell was cast. This clock mechanism allowed this.

Another thing I think I could have explained more that I only realized about while rereading the last chapter before writing this one, was the lack of guards. I might bring it up in the story, maybe even in this chapter, but incase I forget, or it doesn't work out, here. So Kei Hiwatari commands Krad, considerably as he refers to him as his subordinate living within Satoshi. So he can permit Krad to do things in which the police will be given some excuse by Kei not to get involved. So in my thought process, Krad didn't want any guards in the museum because he didn't want them to stumble upon him or his acts. Remember that he planned on killing Satoshi after they were to split, wouldn't be so good if some officer came in or heard the murder happening. So Krad left all the officers outside, hoping that they might have delayed Dark a little bit so that he could do his deeds. But he obviously knew they wouldn't catch Dark. Which was going to help him, because I theorized that he would have made it appear as though Dark was the one who murdered their commander, and then Krad would be off scot-free to wreak havoc.

I'm sorry, those were both really long, I think I may be over thinking everything when I'm writing this. Which is why I suck at writing it, and it takes so long. And I just, ah, ugh, erg, I apologize. So after all of that, I give you chapter #8. Plus, I'm just going to warn you now, I'm not starting off right after the end of chapter #7, but more so right before it ended, with Satoshi's POV. Enjoy! Coming back to write this little note in here after finishing the chapter, got a friend to read it before uploading and they thought I should give a heads up for this, me being an idiot seeing it as nothing didn't think of doing this, soo…

WARNING: Chapter contains slight gore, and swearing, reader discretion is advised. (haha that felt cool to write, anyways, get back to the chapter from my lameness!)

Chapter #8: Satoshi

"I guess that makes me feel a bit better then.. So what happened? Did the spell work? What happened to Krad?"

"I'm not sure, and speaking of which, what happened to Dark?"

"Huh?"

"Well you've transformed back as well. Did you mean to?"

"Hmm.. Well now that you mention it…" he drifted off. A light beeping sound started to come from the clock; 5 seconds and counting. Daisuke is probably deep in thought finding Dark. Oh no, he looks horrified, did something happen with Dark?

"Niwa?! What's the matter?!" He instantly looks up at me panic sewed into his expression.

"Satoshi, it's-" Pain starts to edge across his face, but why? Then I see it, it was only for a split second, but Niwa's eyes went golden, that same gold that's always glaring at me, haunting me. Krad. Daisuke then let out a cry and fell to his knees. How could this be happening?

"Niwa!" I reach one hand out for him as I try to make my way up and over, but then the beeping stopped with one last stretched out tune. Zero. Not a second later, and sparks flew from where the chains lead into the metal box with the clock on it; the chains linked to my wrists started to reel back in. I'm getting pulled backwards; I fall hard to the ground and am quickly dragged into the far corner. I quickly tried to get up and started tugging at the chains trying to get them to loosen, but to no avail.. "No! Leave him alone! He doesn't deserve this, I'm the one you want, just leave him be!"

"Hiwa—AHH!" Feathers start to fall, the first ones to shed, soaked crimson with Daisuke's blood. I pull harder on the chains with all of my will to the point that the cool metal starts to dig into my skin. Little droplets of blood start to form and fall to the floor. But it doesn't matter, especially after Daisuke screams with pain and falls even more, just holding himself up with his hands shaking with pain and exhaustion. No, no, no, no, no, no!

His hair is already growing and fading from red, to orange, to yellow; his treacherous blonde locks. The wings appear to be fully out. They are a solid crimson, they remind me of my stained wings. Suddenly the massive red wings start to deepen into a black colour, jet black, Dark. They start to glow and morph into white, Krad. After all these transitions take place, Daisuke gives in and falls to the floor.

"No! Daisuke you can't give up! Don't let into him! God dammit Daisuke, can you hear me?! Daisuke?!" I scream not caring that my voice is breaking like the rest of my heart. Suddenly one of Daisuke's hands reaches towards me, I continue to tug on the chains. Tears start to burn my eyes and trickle down my cheeks leaving trails of my pain. His hand falls back to the floor, and his eyes close. I light starts to engulf him, dammit, what I am supposed to do?! My vision goes purple for a moment. Across the room, the light fades and Krad rests in his place.

Krad starts to stand up brushing himself off. He looks towards me, and starts to cluck his tongue, tsking me, waving his outstretched finger side to side. "Now, now, Master Satoshi. You know there was nothing you could do, so why the senseless self-harm to your wrists, you've started to make quite the mess on the lovely museum floor."

"You Bastard!" I start to run forward and get pulled back by the chains again to which lands me on the floor. "You know more than anyone I don't care about my well-being!"

"Ah yes, the only one you care for is the wing master, which I have now taken. How does it make you feel? Knowing how helpless you were? He was much weaker than you to take over, I was shocked, I thought Dark Mousy might have taught him some restraint."

"Stop it!"

"Oh come now. Don't you want to hear? How much pain was searing through his very being? The burn that melted his mind? His unscathed skin tearing apart to leave more than just his body scarred? And what, could you, do?"

"Shut-up!" I slam a fist to the floor into the small sticky puddle of my own blood.

"I think I'm going to have fun with the Niwa. You weren't very much fun anymore after you started to show no emotions, I've missed your pained screams. He will make a nice replacement, don't worry, I won't kill him just yet."

"I said shut-up Krad!" he smiled at me with his sadistic grin, I can't let Daisuke go through what I had to.

-Daisuke?-

'Dark?'

-Satoshi?! What the hell is going on here?-

'I don't know for sure, but somehow we've all switched.'

-Yeah, I got that much captain obvious.-

"You know," Krad says as he bends over and picks up the harp and sets it on the pedestal, "I've been wondering, if I get the wing master, does Dark get you?"

-Satoshi, run, now!-

'I can't! Remember?!'

-Well we need to get out of here before he..-

"I'll take that as a yes.. Well, if it isn't my lucky day, I get the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. I can wait another month till the next full moon to retry the spell, and mess with my new tamer until then. But for now.." Krad pulled out a feather and stroked its spine, then met my eyes. "You, die."

-Satoshi, change into me!-

'What? I don't know how to force a change, Krad was always-'

-Nevermind Krad, who do you truly love?!-

'Wh-what? How does that?' At a time like this, how could he bring up such things?!

-Nevermind, I'll find it myself!-

Krad is making his way over slowly, knowing him, he'll want to enjoy this moment. Dark, if you have a plan you better use it fast! Ahg, what, what is this feeling? This strange burning, is this what it's like to transform into Dark? It's not painful like Krad, it's more like a butterfly feeling, like a tickle. I feel the change happen as we switch, and not a moment too soon.

"Ah, Dark Mousy, so I was correct."

"Well you were right about one thing, we have swithced, but no one's dying here." Dark quickly got us out of the hand cuffs, and dodged Krad's attack.

-Did you really have to tug so hard? My wrists are killing me now-

'Sorry, I was trying to save Daisuke, what were you doing?'

-Touché commander- Dark then threw his own black feather at Krad and a blue smoke engulfed him. He then ran across the room and hid behind a pillar.

'So what's the plan?'

-Umm, working on it..-

'You mean you don't have one yet?'

-Hey, look here pal, I just got out and into this fight!-

'And you have nothing at all in mind?'

"Still up to your cheap tricks it seems!" Krad shouts across the room as the smoke disappears.

-Not really-

'Terrific'

-Can I use magic if needed?-

'You're asking for permission?'

-Well yeah, I'm not a total asshole. Magic is a great strain on a human body, I won't use it unless needed, and if you give consent-

'It's not like it's mattered before, use all the magic you'd like if it saves Niwa'

"Found you Mousy!" Krad is face to face with us now, he takes a glowing feather and makes the motion that he's going to stab us while reciting an incantation.

"Too slow Krad!" Dark holds up a feather and a rolling blue flame appears towards Krad, he uses his feather to absorb the blow as Dark runs as away again to another part in the room.

"Is that all you're good at Dark?! Running away?!" He really is getting angry.

'Are you toying with him?'

-What do you mean?-

'That magic was practically nothing at all!'

-Well sorry, I guess that's something you and Dai have in common, you can both be inconsiderate sometimes-

'I don't want you to hold back, this isn't working towards getting Daisuke back!'

-Well, you're right about that.. I've got it!-

"Wiz!"

'Are you trying to get us killed? You just gave away our position!' Then out of nowhere, the little white rabbit came running up to us, it jumped into the air and transformed into Dark's wings and attached to our back. So this is what Daisuke meant about Wiz being his familiar.. Just as we started to rise into the air, we fell back down again. The wings detached and fell back to the floor as the rabbit. It looked up at us growling with its hair on point.

"Wiz, what's the matter?" Dark whispered to the pet, he knelt down and reached his hand out to it and it just growled more and swung its paw at him.

'Well, what're we going to do?'

-I'm not sure, Wiz has never disobeyed me before, I think it's you.. But that should only happen to you because of Krad..-

'Well it's happening now, and Krad knows where we are. Don't you have your own wings?'

-I do, but I..-

'Then use them! I told you, don't hold back.'

-If you're sure, I'm sorry.-

Now here was a familiar sensation. Since Dark isn't harvesting magic up at the same time, it doesn't hurt as much as it usually does with Krad, but it still hurts. A pain I've grown more accustomed to. But something was weird with the wings, now that I look at them, they're white fading to black. Dark seemed to notice and get puzzled too right before Krad engaged us again.We both took flight at one another, but he got the advantage and pinned us to the wall with some knife-like feathers.

"No more games Dark, after centuries of you plaguing my life, it ends here!"

'Darkkk?'

-I've got it!-

"You sure you want to do that Krad?" Dark said with a smile on his face, a smile? Why are you happy all of a sudden?

"Of course, nothing would please me more." Krad held up one of his glowing feathers and licked it slowly across its smooth edge.

"Well, okay then, go right ahead, I'm not stopping you." Dark what the hell are you- "But at least I'll return, my friend, and you won't."

"What on earth are you talking about now thief?" Yes, what are you talking about Dark?

"Well, I would explain how you're really about to kill yourself and free me.. But if nothing could please you more.." Dark then shrugged, "Then by all means, do it quickly." Dark then closed his eyes, calmly waiting. What is he getting at? Either way it seems to be helping us, we're both still alive.

"Explain yourself Mousy, how would I be killing myself and freeing you? And no tricks, I know when you utter a lie to me."

"You're telling me you haven't noticed it then?"

"Noticed what?! Stop trying my patience!"

"Our wings you dumbass! Didn't you notice anything different about them right after they grew?" Krad looked as if he was deep in thought about it looking from one wing to the next. He then looked back to us glaring.

"No, what about our wings?" He held the still glowing feather up to our throat.

"Whenever mine grew just now, they came out white then went to black."

"Yes, and you're point is?"

"Well, yours were black before they went white."

"It makes sense for it to happen to both, yes, now get on with it!"

"Well, our wings still came out as our original colours for our tamers. This means that we are still connected by our genes. That means if you kill little Hiwatari here, you are killing the one and only heir to the Hikari blood line, meaning you, my friend, won't be able to ever return. However, I still have several Niwas left."

Krad began to lower the feather down and away from us. It actually worked.

"So what do you propose then Mousy?"

"I think we should remain calm, you should let us down and give us back Daisuke for starters.." Krad then growled and the feather started to glow more. "I wasn't finished." Krad then released us from the pinning feathers. Dark rubbed all the stabbed areas to try to relieve some of the pain.

"Continue then.."

"His family has lots of history books, maybe we could find out exactly what the hell you did to mess up, and how to reverse it. But we can't have you as you, Daisuke is their son, they trust him. You? Not so much.."

"You want me to live with all of you crazy people for a month? Ha, don't be so droll."

"If you want to fix this, then better settle in pal! And trust me, we wouldn't like it any more than you would. For now, let's call a truce. You won't harm my tamer, I won't harm yours. And no hurting our own. Deal?" Dark outstretched our hand towards Krad.

Krad eyed Dark's hand, he glared harder at him then back to the hand. Then reluctantly grasped it and shook on the truce.

"There now, was that so hard you baby?"

"Watch your tongue Dark."

"And Daisuke?" A glow then emitted from Krad after he closed his eyes and Daisuke shifted back and began to fall forward.

'Daisuke!'

-I've got him- Dark then caught the still unconscious redhead whose wings went back to black. –Hmm. Why haven't his wings receded yet?-

'Whenever I first had my wings they stayed for a long time even after Krad changed back. I then got a really bad fever and-' Dark rested our hand on Daisuke's forehead.

-He's burning up! We have to get him home stat!-

"Wiz, meet us back at the house!" The little white rabbit came out from hiding behind a pillar and transformed into the black wings and flew down the hall.

Dark then picked up Daisuke minding his wings and we took off in the direction of the closest exit. Wiz must be really fast, we haven't caught up to him yet. In the distance I can see the Niwa house. We fly down to the front door and enter and run down the hall to the main door and knock. I can hear some voices on the other side and footsteps when suddenly the door opens.

As it opens Emiko is standing there with her eyes closed looking really worried, but now relieved. "Oh Dai, I'm so glad you made it back okay, we were so worried with how late it was getting and Wiz coming back alone!" She then opened her eyes after Dark let out a pained noise and looked to Daisuke in his arms with his tattered, bloody shirt, matching our own.

"Well, we almost made it out okay.."

"Huh? Dark? What happened, why are you split from Daisuke?"

"It's a long story, but we need to rest him somewhere quick, he's burning up with a fever."

"Oh no! My Daisuke! Hang in there sweetie!" She brushed back his bangs to feel his temperature. "Kosuke, Towa, help!" No sooner had she shouted their names, they were there.

"What happened?!" The two asked in unison.

"I'm not sure, all I know is we need to get this fever under control now!"

"Yes mam!" said Towa, "I'll go get a cold towel ready, and start on some soup." She ran off towards the kitchen.

"I'll take it from here Dark." Kosuke said gently taking Daisuke from our arms.

"Thanks, now I can finally-" Dark then changed back to give me control. In the process we both fell to the ground at how worn out we were. Then everybody just stopped at stared at me in shock.

"He told you..It was a long story.." I used the wall for balance as I began to stand again.

"Satoshi?! Are you okay?!" Kosuke looked to me worriedly.

"I'm fine, it's Daisuke you should be worrying about. Not me."

"Of course we'll worry about you. But you are right, I should be going." He then turned and headed to the stairs leading to Daisuke's room. We follow behind, me taking a bit longer than Emiko, and Towa was still in the kitchen.

"Where should we put him?" Kosuke asked Emiko. She looked up at his bed, then back to them.

"I don't think his wings will fit on his bed," I say entering the room, "It would probably be best to put him on the carpet for now." Kosuke looked to Emiko, she nodded in agreement so he began to set him down.

"Not like that." I say walking over and kneeling next to Kosuke.

"Huh?"

"That will be painful for his wings, and will also cut off their circulation." I say as I take his wings and fold them a better way. "This is a position I found most comforting myself with my wings."

"Speaking of his wings.. Why does he have them?" Emiko spoke up from behind us walking to the other side of Daisuke and kneeling too. I look up and catch her nervous expression.

"I'm sorry miss Niwa, but I think you already have your answer."

"So it's true, you've switched.. Which means that-"

"Yes, Krad has taken over Daisuke.."

"My poor baby boy!" Tears start to overflow her eyes as she picks up Daisuke's limp hand and rubs the backside against her cheek. "How did this happen?"

"Dark said it might be better to explain it later on."

I see her pained look after I mention Dark. "Okay, til' later then. For now let's get you cleaned up and taken care of too. I'll also help Towa with the soup." She then stands up and wipes her eyes dry as Towa enters the room.

"Here we are, a cool wet towel." She goes to hand the towel to me since I'm the closest still kneeling, I reach up and accept it from her. "Oh Master Satoshi! Your wrists!" Just then everybody looks to my wrists as I place the towel down on Niwa's forehead. Some blood still fresh around them, not completely closed over in some spots either.

"It's nothing, just me being too useless to get out of my own hand cuffs."

"We'll get something for that right now," Kosuke says with a smile getting up himself too, "You wait right here."

All three leave the room; Towa and Emiko on their way to the kitchen, and Kosuke to get a first aid kit. A moment later Kosuke returns with a small white box and a bucket with water and a cloth in it.

"How's about we start by removing your shirt huh?" he sets his belongings down in front of the couch and patted the seat next to him. I turn away hiding what might be the start of a blush and look back at Daisuke. "It's okay, I won't bite, I just want to help you. Dai will be fine for now, he's a strong boy. Now come on, don't be shy."

I stand up and start to unbutton my shirt as I walk over and take a seat next to him. He really is just trying to be nice and help me. I discard my shirt to the side. He reaches into the bucket and pulls out the cloth and wrings it through a few times. He then starts to wash my hands and arms to rid them of all the blood and dirt.

"You know, I'd like to thank you for saving my son and bringing him home to us."

"Thanks, but really, all your appreciation should go to Dark, not me."

"It could, but I think you deserve a little thank-you as well. It's not every day I see Dark using his own wings and using this much magic."

"But, how do you..?"

"I've seen these wounds many times, maybe not the wings, that was just a given. But through the rutile I gave Daisuke, I know these marks from use of magic." He holds out his arms, I didn't notice all the scars he had before. "And this was just from little bits of magic, I can only imagine what you've gone through.. And now Daisuke too. The rutile no longer seems to be working through all of this." He looks sorrowfully at me then at Daisuke. Is this what it's like to have a real father who cares?

"For me, it's okay, I was born with Krad, but not for Daisuke." I too then look to the redhead.

"Thank-you for being a good friend to my son. Only you two can understand one another fully. I'm glad that you care for him so much."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I don't care for anyone or anything. That's the rule when it comes to being Krad's tamer."

"Ah, I suppose that's so. But if so, then why stay for dinner? Why help Dark get him back to us? Why help in putting the cloth on his head to cool him? Why did you stay here in his room? It's okay to have feelings and to have Krad. It's only normal as a human to do so. Don't try to keep yourself from the world, when the world is what can free you."

"What.?"

"I'm just rambling now really. You should know he cares for you though, whether you do the same back or not. He was really worried about you earlier after you left, and during dinner too, when you had your little incident." How did he know about that? Nobody other than Daisuke knew.. "I had told him earlier to invite you over for the weekend if he had seen you tonight, I guess you don't have a choice now."

He continues to put bandages over my wounds after cleaning them. He wrings the cloth one last time, there's quite a lot of my blood in the bucket. He walks over to Daisuke's drawer and takes out some pyjamas and a new shirt for me. I thank him for his kindness.

"If you need anything else, just ask okay?" he says with a smile. "You can sleep where ever you like, it is pretty late after all. You should get some rest too."

Just as he's about to leave I stop him. "Um, wait.." He turns back to me, "I want to give you this." He looks puzzled at me until I pick up Daisuke's sketch pad sitting on the arm and write down a list and tear it out and hand it to him.

"What's this?"

"It's the ingredients for the soup I had when I first had this sickness take over me when Krad arrived. Towa might want it, it's been passed down through our family for years for this very thing."

"Thank-you Satoshi."

"Anything..to help a friend." He smiles at my words as he takes my note and heads down the stair case.

-It's been quite some time since I've seen that recipe. I guess it got lost in our half of the Black Wings because of Wiz.-

'Well, it was never lost in ours. I don't think I'd still be here if it wasn't for it. Where did Wiz even come from?'

-It's funny you asked, nobody ever really does, and he's been in the family for a couple of centuries now.-

'So none of them know?'

-Nope, not a single one, I'm kind of shocked now that I think about it.-

'So do you remember? Or can you not tell me by some family rule about secrets?'

-There's no such things, but yes, I can tell you. It all started back with the first tamers. They felt the pain of the wings growth back then and thought they shouldn't have to live with it. Though both families were rivals, Krad's tamer protested that no human should have to endure that pain. So when it came down to it, this creation of the Hikaris were made for both Krad and I. The Hikari's made a new artwork, two mirror halves of the same piece. Wiz and Shawk.-

'Shawk? And they were made by the Hikaris?'

-Yes, Shawk was a black rabbit with blue eyes, almost identical to Wiz. When he transformed, he morphed into Krad's white wings. Each rabbit was made to follow each family's beliefs, so that's why Wiz hates Krad, and Shawk hated me. It seemed fair, they were linked to us individually. -

'So what happened to Shawk?' Dark then made a soft sigh.

-Well, unfortunately, when they were giving the artwork its life, they messed up one little detail. One that didn't really bug me at all. But boy, did it ruffle Krad's feathers.-

'What was it?'

-They got the colours of the rabbits mixed up. I am always the darkness, and Krad is always the light. But when we were each presented with our familiars, they were opposite to us. They still transformed properly though, so I didn't see the big idea.-

'But Krad did..'

-Yep.. He couldn't stand his little fur ball, neglected him, threw him around. He always claimed that the feeling of his own wings felt much better too. One day, Shawk just stopped coming to whenever Krad and I were against each other. I never saw him again, and it sends chills down my spine imagining what might have happened to him at the hands of Krad.-

Wiz then came into Daisuke's room and hopped up on his chest and started nuzzling him making soft kyu noises. "I'm sorry you lost your other half." He then hopped off and came over and leaped into my lap. I then began to stroke his fur gently.

-I'm shocked, you're the first Hikari Wiz has ever eased up to. It really means a lot to him for you to apologize. I wish that Shawk was still around so that you wouldn't have to feel that pain though.-

'It would be nice.. But can I ask you something personally? And don't feel the need to lie, I won't care what your answer is..'

-Sure, shoot.-

'Do you agree with Krad? Does using your own wings feel better?'

-Ah, I could feel that question rattling around in your thoughts. To be honest, it does. The feeling of letting our wings out feels truly amazing. It's like having a really good stretch after a long, stiff nap. As much as I'd hate to admit it to you and how sorry I feel, when you told me to use my own wings, I had a small feel of relief and joy.-

'It's okay, there's no need to feel bad about it. The plan worked in the end didn't it? We got Niwa back, and we made it out alive. Plus, it has been years for you right?'

-That it has. Ever since the creation of Shawk and Wiz, there have only been a handful of times over the decades that I was forced to use my wings.-

'I'm glad because of it, for Daisuke.'

-Yeah, he's a really good kid. I feel terrible for what happened tonight.-

'I'm more to blame than you, don't feel so bad.'

-Well, I suppose that's true.- He gives a joking look to me. I shoot a thanks-for-trying-to-cheer-me-up glance back at him.

-The fact that you show self-blame and feel this way proves you care for Daisuke, so why did you lie to Kosuke?-

'It wasn't necessarily a lie, I can't care for anything because of Krad. You should know.'

-I know that that's what they raise you all to believe, but he was right.-

'About what exactly?'

-You shouldn't fear the world when it's what can set you free.-

'I don't get what that means though!'

-So Daisuke was right, you have absolutely no idea about the sacred maidens. Figures they wouldn't pass that down in the Hikari line.-

'Daisuke had mentioned something about that. What is it?'

-To rid yourselves of your curses after turning 14, there is one way to do it. And it's the same with what causes the transformations to occur.-

'And what's that?'

-Love.-

'Love? What..?'

-When each of you turned 14, your genes triggered me and Krad. But the way to cause the transformation is this, the one you love. Your sacred maiden. If you're around her, think about her, or speak to her too much, or just enough. We change. For Daisuke, it was that Harada twin, Risa. She shut him down, completely friend-zoned. So he is still stuck with me.-

'So that's how it works? But then how does that get rid of the curse?'

-To get rid of it, you need to get returned love from the one you love. So by you concentrating so hard on not having feelings or caring to stop the changes, you're also stopping your chance from just freeing yourself of the curse altogether. A tricky game if you ask me. Same goes for Krad and myself to trigger our changes.-

'So after all this time, there was a way to send Krad away..? But it's impossible for me, I was raised not to even think about love.'

-You may have been raised that way, but trust me, it's just human nature.-

'What are you talking about?'

-I'm talking about how much of an idiot you are. Gosh, you are so in denial too. I'm saying that you still fell in love, despite all your efforts. But props to you for doing such a good job from restraining.-

'I don't know what you're talking about! I have never loved anyone, nobody has ever loved me! I will be stuck with this curse.. Nothing can change this.'

-You honestly believe that? Hah. How do you think Krad forced the change? How do you think I did? We're in your head with you, we know your thoughts like you know ours. When we were back at the museum, I had to search quickly to find who you truly loved, and since you lack loving many things, it wasn't too hard to find..-

'Shut-up! I love no one, and no one will ever love me!' I pick up the couch pillow next to me and crush my face into it.

-You're wrong Satoshi. Why don't you just admit it?-

'Because, be-because..'

-Because what?-

'It's not right!' Now I feel the tears burning.

-And what's not right about it?-

'It's not accepted! Nobody would ever understand or accept me for loving a-a..'

-A boy?-

'Yes.. Do you know how out-casted I'd be? I'd probably be rejected at my job as the commander, they'd tease me like-'

-Like Krad always has..-

'Yes..'

-I see, so that's what this is all about..-

'Aren't you going to laugh it up too? Make fun of me?' Softly I think, 'Torture me for being so stupid and weak..'

-No.-

'W-what?'

-I said no. I don't care who or what you love. It's still love isn't it? So what if you like him? It shouldn't make a difference to anyone else! The only one it should matter to, is you commander. Let the world set you free, let love set you free.-

'But you said so yourself, to break the curse, we need to get that love returned. It will never happen.'

-You don't know that for sure. You haven't even tried to make a move on your feelings yourself.-

'That's because I know it would be foolish to, I know he'd never feel the same way.'

-Hn, don't hold your breath. I know what he thinks too, or at least I did until now. I know that I've teased him about you liking him, but he's never believed me, and I wasn't 100% sure that you did. Well until now. He's confused himself on his own feelings. I know that he cares for you, deeply. He see's things in you that others, including myself, don't.-

'Really?' I now lift my face away from the pillow and look down at where it soaked in my tears. Why have I been crying so much today?

-Yep, just think about the other day in swim class. He didn't know what was happening then, I didn't either, but I can say this, I don't think it was any Harada who made that change happen Mr. CPR.-

Now my face is burning from underneath and I know for sure that a blush has appeared. I look at Daisuke as he slightly tosses in his sleep. I stand up and make my way back over next to Daisuke.

-I accept that you love him. And I'm sure his family will love him no matter what. And his Dad is already warmed up to you.-

I brush his hair out of his eyes and readjust the towel. His eyes flutter for a second, "Thank-you….Sato-shi.." His head then turns away and he continues to sleep on. I find myself smiling to myself.

"You're welcome Niwa.."

'And I love you..'

-See? Now was that so hard to admit?-

'Oh be quite Dark.'

-Haha, will do! I think it's time to rest now. I'm glad we had this chat Satoshi, I guess I'm finally getting to see the real you that only Daisuke knows. I hope that we can become good friends in this time connected. But hopefully that won't be for too much longer. No offense!-

'None taken, well good night Dark.'

-Goodnight commander.-

I lean back and rest against the bottom of the couch, "Good night Daisuke." I then let out a small yawn and drifted off into my first sleep without Krad in a very long time.

Author's Note: So there you have it! A bit of a longer chapter, I feel as though I just crammed so much info into that chapter. But I didn't know where else to put it. And Satoshi showed more emotion than his usual regular self. I could almost hear the CinemaSins narrator saying 'and roll credits' when I put the my stained wings part, and several other things in, haha. By the way, the name Wiz, I know it's pronounced With, but when writing I didn't know how to spell it to make it less confusing, so I looked it up, and apparently there are three common correct spellings: Wiz, With, or Wyth, so I picked the first. And award for longest author's note ever, am I right? Haha, yeah sorry about that! And now for my shout outs to my reviewers! Thank-you Yoitemichealis, Gamma Cavy, VioletterWriter, and Minerva Star Shine. Love feedback guys, don't be shy! Hope you liked it! And I know I mentioned possibly doing a holiday themed chapter or two to a few of you, but I'm not sure if they'll be a go yet, because plotwise I'd need to find a way to make it fit into the story and make sense, and I did get this idea for how I want to end my story, and I'm not sure if what I planned for the holiday themed chapters will flow with that right. I also feel like many people will strangle me if I end it that way too, so who knows really! Decisions, decisions.. Anyways… thanks for reading guys! Tell me what you think?!