No matter how much I wish, this game will never be mine! T-T

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Peeking into Ciro's room, Keia stared with large eyes that only a ten year old could possess. The then sixteen year old sat dyeing his hair once more, only with bright flashes of shining cobalt in the blue. One eye that was not hidden beneath a bang glanced up to catch the small girl stand there, smiling lightly when she jumped with a surprised yelp and dive behind the wall.

"Kei-chan...come on, I won't bite..."

Blinking lightly, the young girl padded onto her brother's super poof carpet, the green strands pushing up between her toes and in her hands she clutched a beaten up stuffed bear. "C-Cio-san, why do you dye your hair?"

With a soft smile, Ciro soon had his baby sister sitting in his lap, an arm wrapped securely around her shoulders while small hands clung to the soft bear. "Because... It's fun to be different, I guess. Do you want one?"

Keia's eyes lite up immensely as she watched Ciro laugh and pull open a drawer.

"My little baby sister, what am I going to do with you?" Soon a box was in his hand and the little tool was being prepared in the coloration. "You're too cute for Onee-sama, you know that? One day, a man is gonna swoop you away from me and I'll be without my little sister."

"Nuh uh!" Keia cried out staring at her brother with wide eyes. At her age, him and Hareu were her everything. "Nuh uh, nuh uh! Boys are icky! I would never leave big brother for an icky boy!"

A deep laugh escaped Ciro's throat while he ran the brush carefully through Keia's hair, making one large, neon purple streak through her shoulder length bangs. "Oh sweet little baby sister... You say this now, you say this now..."

Keia pouted lightly before glancing over to the wall that had Ciro's bed resting against. Resting there, was a small wanted poster with a devil grinning man with snow silver hair and flashing green eyes. "Big Brother? Who's that?"

Dark honey eyes glanced over to where Keia's small hand pointed and he let out a small, if not disgusted sounding noise. "That? ...That is Steiner...The self proclaimed "Phantom Thief". If you ever see him Kei...run, run and never look back at him."

She nodded with a puffed out face that always drew laughter from her brother. "Hai hai! As Big Brother says! He's a bad guy and Big Brother will get him!"

Laughing, Ciro nodded readjusting Keia upon his knee. "Yep, one day...one of these days my little sister..."

Well, so much for THAT advice, Ciro! Now she was standing face to face with the infamous "Phantom Thief", his smirking figure no more than 10 to 15 away from her on the bridge.

There was a house back there...actually two... or I could run into one of those green houses...

"Hello there."

Keia flinched into reality at the tone of his voice. How dare he speak to her so formally and with such a weird voice. She had always pictured him with a fairly light voice from his feminine looking portrait. But then again, there was always the ones that are just meant to surprise you.

"I'm sorry, did I frighten you? I do believe that you were calling for assistance though."

Backing up a step, Keia snarled lightly under her breath and spun around to make a running start off to the houses back down towards the mountain path. However, he was there to greet her with that smirk, now just inches from touching her with arms folded across his chest.

"My my, how rude... After you call for my assistance, you then run away from me without such a mentioning of a name?" His eyes flashed in mock sadness beneath silver bangs. "I am truly hurt, princess..."

"Don't call me that!" Keia screamed at him. How DARE he call her that, only her father could call her that.

"Sorry again, princess. But until I have a name, that is your name."

"Get the hell away from me..."

Clicking his tongue, Steiner waved a hand, mocking a parent in punishing a child. "Now now, is that any way to speak to a gentleman of my standards? ...plus..." Keia gasped as he was soon behind her, merely inches above her neck with his lips. "They always call for me to come back. They always scream my name out before the nights end and die for me to return..."

Keia gagged internally, was he conceded, or what? But a small shudder could not help but shoot up her spine when he gave her that detail. What kind of screaming, why would they be screaming for him. What the hell did the sicko do to his victims.

"Alas though, princess... I must take my leave. Send my blessing to your family...especially the ever gracious benefactor..."

A gasp ripped from Keia's throat as a weight was lifted from around her neck, Steiner soon having her necklace in his hand's possession.

"Good night, princess! And do try not to stray out in the nights anymore!" With a friendly wave, he ran off, back down the same path he had come from before into the darkness of the night.

"Steiner! Come back here and give that back!!" Her screaming seemed horse into the night as his laughter rang out in the trees.

"I told you, they always scream for me!"

Growling, Keia left her bag where it lay and kicked off her sandals, bolting off after the man in charge of stealing her prized necklace. All the while, she grumbled profanities beneath her breath and swore upon her grandmother's grave that he would pay for his actions, the conceited bastard.

Bare feet slapped against the cold dirt path as Keia pounded after the thief. "Give me that back damn you!"

"Hurry and catch me then princess!"

Keia growled darkly as she spun around a corner, almost skidding to a stop as she came to a dull blue coloration hanging in the air. Small mushrooms around her glowed in the florescent color and all illuminated the man before her. In his hand, her necklace dangled with the odd flashing of the light as it spun above his face with a sneering smile.

"Princess, princess. Such a pretty jewel, but how much will it fare me..." He laughed darkly tilting his head to take a new angle on the jewelry.

"Give that back you bastard!" Wind threw her hair back as legs pounded beneath her, trampling leaves as she ran forwards toward Steiner. Reaching out her hand, she went to snatch the present from his grasp.

Fingers just grazed the glass heart before she plummeted forward head first into the pond.

If anyone had called her, Keia never heard it from the splashing of water and the rushing of cold spring water seeping into her skin. Shock over took and blackness swam in.

Keia never heard the splash above as she slowly sank down to the silt depths.