Satoshi has not cursed one bit...he is very mild mannered in that sense and only curses when need be...
Dai's eyes opened weakly around one in the morning. He looked over at Satoshi and realized he had only dozed off a short time before. His body winced and accidently woke Satoshi.
"Dai? You okay?" He sounded sleepy.
"Im fine, Satoshi. Just go back to sleep." Satoshi shook his head but Dai put his hand over his eyes making him close his eyes. "Just go back to sleep Satoshi. Well talk later about what happened."
"Alright." Said said sleepily.
Satoshi curled up a bit and put both hands below him letting Dai lay by himself. Dai stroked Satoshi's hair a few times as he fell asleep then laid there quietly.
An hour later Dai got up out of the bed after hearing an odd sound out in the hall.He stepped out in the hall, closing the door behind him and was immediatly hit in the back of the head almost knocked out. Dai spun around and looked right into the eyes of..
"M-mom?"
"I was never your mother." She said as she punched Dai in the gut.
Dai grunted the pain away and back up from his mother who stalked after him. "Why? Why are you doing this?"
"You did this to me. You were not the son I wanted."
Dai kept backing down the hall and almost fell down the stairs. He looked back at the stairs, forgetting his mother for a second, before he was punched in the stomach again. The balance Dai had was precarious and the punch sent him reeling backwards, careening down the stairs.
Dai's body slammed into the railing and was kicked further down by Emiko. The process continued on all the way down the stairs, each kick harder than the last. At one point Dai could have sworn he heard ribs crack and break.
At the bottom of the stairs Dai was crumpled in a ball. "You were my ruin. My sanity left as you came. You ruined my life. You are a monster a demon. You are a waste of life."
His breath was coming in quick gasps before he passed out. He felt his body roughly moved as he fell further into the darkness then felt nothing else.
Satoshi tried to wake up when he heard thumping on the stairs but his eyes were droopy and extremly heavy. He told himself he would lay there for a minute then get up and check what the noise was. He wouldnt get up.
Krad had heard the thumping noise and had gotten as far as putting his feet on the floor in the process of finding out then everything went blank for him too.
Dai woke up in Satoshi's living room on the floor. The sun was filtering through the window making it almost nine, causing him think it was all a dream, a nightmare.
It wouldnt be so.
"So you've woken finally, you filth." Emiko said from the couch.
He heard her get up off the couch and walk towards him. She crouched down beside him and grabbed a fist full of hair jerking his head back to look at her.
"Are you scared?"
"No. I just wish I had my old mother back. The one that loved me."
"I never loved you. I faked it to you. You never meant anything to me. the only reason you were kept was for Dark." She threw his head down where it slammed into the floor.
"What did you do to my friends?" Dai said as he lifted his head.
"I didnt tell you to lift your head." She almost screeched, slamming his head even more forcefully to the floor.
"I asked you a question. What did you do to my friends?"
"How dare you disrespect me!" She grabbed another handful of hair and slammed his face into the floor so hard, Dai's nose began to bleed. "If you must know I knocked them out. They wont wake up for HOURS. You wont be saved by them."
She stood up and kicked Dai in the ribs forcefully and Dai heard a cracking noise. His gasp spurred Emiko on and she kept kicking him. Soon all Dai could do was tuck into a ball and try to cover up his vital organs.
'Dai!' Darks mental call came through to Dai.
'D-Dark!'
'Dai! Whats wrong? Never mind that for now. Its all over the news! Emiko escaped last night! No one knows where she is.'
No response would come from Dai. Emiko had kicked him into unconsciousness.
It was around noon when Dai came to again and his hands were tied together and since the circulation was gone from them it had to have been more than an hour when they were tied. His feet were also tied the same way.
"About time you woke up." Emiko's voice came from close by, but Dai didnt want to open his eyes. "The longer you fake unconsciousness the longer this goes."
Dai's eyes opened cautiously and he wished he hadnt opened them. When he opened his eyes, Emiko had sprayed pepper spray in them.
Dai's scream echoed through the unconscious house. "Why?"
"There is no reason for you to live."
Emiko began to lash Dais bare back with...something like very whip-like. His pained screams echoed through the house but he knew no one could help him right now.
After a while, when Dai's back was bleeding from the lashings and was unbound, Emiko picked up a hot object, what Dai believed was a lighter and leaned towards him.
Satoshi was awakened when a blood curdling scream errupted in the house. His head shot up from the bed and he stood up immediatly, forgetting the dizzyness of his low blood sugar.
He was met on the stairs on the way down with Krad with just as scared look on his face. They made it to the bottom of the stairs in record breaking time and stopped when another chillingly pain filled scream errupted from Satoshi's living room.
"Krad do you think...?"
"We have to go see."
They tip toed dow the hall making no noise even after a third scream errupted. When they reached the living room they didnt expect to see the whitest snow colored carpet covered in blood.
Satoshi pulled Krad back from sight for a second. "You take down Emiko and Ill get Dai out of there and to a room and lock the door. After I get him safe Ill call for police and an ambulance."
Krad nodded and went around the corner. "Emiko!"
Her grimace was surprising. "That gas should have kept you two out for another hour."
Krad ran for her making her back away from Dai. As she backed up and Krad went for her Satoshi ran in to pick Dai up.
"You." She pointed at Satoshi. "His punishment isnt done."
"I think it is." Satoshi said as he picked Dai up and ran off.
Satoshi ran to the opposite end of the house and locked himself and Dai into a study that was rarely used. He put Dai down on the floor and checked his body for injuries.
Dai moaned and opened his eyes. "Sa-satoshi?" He hoped it was him.
"Yeah, its me."
"It hurts."
"I know. Just lay still. I need to see how much damage she put you through."
"Forget about me call the police."
Satoshi nodded reluctantly. "Ill be fast."
'Dark?' Even in his mind his voice was weak.
'Dai? Daisuke?!' Darks voice sounded relieved. 'Why didnt you answer me before?'
Dai passed the memory, just a bit of it to Dark. 'Dark, thats only part of it. Thats why you didnt hear from me.'
'Are you okay now? Are you safe?'
'Yeah. Satoshi saved me. He got Krad to distract her and he came in and got me away from her. She even knocked them out.'
'Ill be there soon, Dai.'
'No. Ill probably be brought to the hospital. Ill get Satoshi to call you.'
'Alright, but be careful, Dai.'
'I know Dark, I know.' They ended their connection.
"Dai?" Satoshi asked.
"Talkin to Dark."
"Alright. I called the police and an ambulance. Both will be here in less than five minutes. Will you allow me to see your wounds?"
"I guess so, but please, Satoshi, dont be disgusted with me."
"Dai," Satoshi's voice nearly broke with sadness. "I would never be disgusted with you."
Dai rolled on his side where his back was to Satoshi and Satoshi gasped at the sight of his back. Dai's back looked like ribbons!
On Dai's chest, right where any low shirt would show skin, was a disgusting blistering blood red burn mark.
"Dai?"
"Lighter. Over and over." Satoshi realized that was what woke him and Krad.
"Does it hurt much?"
"Not as much as my ribs."
"Can you lay on your back so I can see your ribs? I know it will hurt."
Dai laid back without a complaint and let Satoshi's eyes roam over his ribs. Even from looking at them, Satoshi knew Dai had more than one broken or fractured.
By one that afternoon Dai was sitting in a hospital, in the ER getting his ribs set and getting all of his wounds wrapped up.
By two Dai was in a room, wrapped in many places with white gauze. A knock came on Dai's door, then a head appeared.
"Satoshi, why are you afraid to come in?"
"I was afraid of how much pain you would be in. Even in my own house I couldnt protect you." He had a depressed look on his face.
"Satoshi," Dai shook his head and sat up, pushing himself off the bed. "You were unconscious. You couldnt do anything."
Satoshi looked up at Dai and gasped. "How?"
"How what?"
"The doctor said you wouldnt be able to walk for a while because of how many broken ribs and the pain."
"I just deal with pain better than others. Especially when you have a fifteen year old trying to capture you everytime you take a night time stroll." He chuckled. "Im used to being in pain. Physical emotional Im used to it now."
"Im sorry, Dai."
"Dont worry. Did they get her back?"
"Yeah. The hearing is still tomorrow."
Dai nodded. He wouldnt expect anything less.
"Are you hurt at all Satoshi?" Dai asked as he looked at his own bandaged arm.
The bandage went from his left wrist to elbow. Another bandage was wrapped from his neck to waist, covering the ugly burn mark on his chest, broken ribs, cuts on his back and bruises on his neck. A third gauze bandage was around his right palm and wrist where the palm had a deep cut in it and the bruise on his wrist.
"No. No Im not, Dai. Im just worried about you. None of us expected this to happen and both Krad and I feel responsible for it."
"Dont. I should have fought back instead of just let it happen. Its like when I was six again."
"What happened?" Satoshi asked.
"You know how I freaked when you asked about my scar?"
"Yeah. What about it?"
"I got it around the same time as the memory Dark found. Yeah I know he found it. He had muttered about it for some time after finding it. I added two and two together." Satoshi sat beside Dai waiting for him to explain.
"So what did happen?"
(My muse has left me!!!!! I dont know what to put! Here comes my really weird creative-ness!)
Dai sighed, clasping his hands and staring at them before starting the story. "It was about a week before my grandpa's birthday, and mo-Emiko had had a bad day at work...well actually she got fired. To say the least I was very excitable from school. She was wrapping grandpa's gifts and I kept bouncing around her, bothering her to no end. After about half an hour of it she finally snapped. The next thing I remember is a sharp pain in my side. I was laying on the ground with an open pair of scissors in my side. She had been so angry at my cheerfulness and innocence she twisted them around a bit before closing them. Through all of that the scissors were in my side and when she closed them she tore threw my skin. When I woke up hours later I was in a hospital, under the pretence I had fallen on something and did it to myself." Dai had to take a breath.
After Dai had begun the story he had a glazed look in his eyes like he was right back when it happened. Even when he discribed the pain he flinched visibly.
"Are you o...?" Satoshi asked.
"Let me finish. Its painful enough to go through once, but twice is even harder." Another deep breath and Dai continued. "She had almost pinctured my lung and even forced me to continue on in gym. Of course it was the week we were doing our mile so everyday when I came home it would be blistered and chaffed. She would just laugh in my face and since I would say just one sentence that it hurt at all that week..." Another breath. "For a week she would pour scalding water on the wound to 'show me what pain really was.' I would always wait for everyone to leave the locker room before changing until it became a scar. Since she did pour the scalding water on me I had burns across my chest and stomach."
Satoshi reached over and gripped Dai's hand. "It's over now. She'll be locked away, unable to hurt you anymore. I wont let you to get hurt again. You never deserved this, this pain."
"Thanks Satoshi." Dai's eyes held a relieved look. "Speaking of my family, where's Dark?"
Satoshi almost smacked himself in the head. "I forgot to call him. Sorry Dai. Ill call him n..." Satoshi stopped talking when Dai leaned his head on Satoshi's shoulder. "Dai?"
"Im glad you're here, Satoshi." Dai smiled a bit. "If you weren't I dont know what would happen to me. Thanks for being my anchor in this time of turmoil."
"Im just glad I could help Dai. Glad I can help. I really am." He wrapped his right arm around Dai's shoulders. "Take a rest now. When you wake up Dark'll be here."
Dai yawned, still leaning on Satoshi. "Okay, thanks." He snuggled a bit closer to Satoshi to get comfortable.
Within five minutes Dai was asleep on Satoshi, who was combing his fingers through Dai's hair. "Like an angel. Broken but innocent. With a bit of time, you'll be whole again, Dai." He whispered.
Satoshi texted Dai's phone that thankfully Dark had on his posession, telling him where Dai was, what room, and when to come by to see him.
The replied text was a bit surprising to Satoshi. His eyes widened as he read through it.
Oy Creepy Bastard. Ill give you one hour to tell Dai how you feel. No Ill give you until the hearing tomorrow to tell him. If you dont tell him Ill show him the little notebook I 'accidently' slipped from your pocket last heist. The notebook spilling your secrets about liking him and having some pretty wild thoughts about him. I would never thing you would have THOSE thoughts. Man you actually ARE human. Congratulations. Dont do anything to Dai that I wouldnt approve...like well you get the hint. Remember hes still hurt so dont jump him. DARK
"You're an idiot Dark." Right after saying that he felt an odd breeze coming through the open window.
"I certainly am not, commander."
"Hes asleep. Do be quiet."
That was when Dark saw the sleeping Dai on Satoshi's shoulder. "Oops. How is he?"
"Hes better. I think it helped him to get the memory of the scar on his hip off his mind. He knew you found that memory." Satoshi was whispering and was about to get up.
Dark held up a hand stopping Satoshi. "Stay. I think he likes you right there. Giving him...dreams." Satoshi rolled his eyes. "But to be serious, I think he needs your presence with him right now. Whenever he was beaten and abused he was alone. I believe he needs a friendly presence beside him for a while." Dark whispered.
Satoshi nodded. "I hate how someone so...angelic...was hurt so much."
"And yet he kept that angelic quality and innocence through out it all. That takes a lot to be able to do." (Holy shit Im finally typing w/o looking...yeah Im still havin trouble but i could never do it b4...yay me!)
"Lets let him sleep for now."
"Ill go explain to Kraddykins how Dai is then go to his grandfathers house. Ill talk to Kosuke but he seems kind of neutral in all of it."
Satoshi nodded. "Be back as soon as you can because I told Dai you'd be back when he woke up."
"I will." Dark winked at Satoshi. "You're looking a bit tired yourself. Maybe you should take a little nap." Another wink and Dark was off.
"Pervy, yaoi loving, child raping, stalking theif." Satoshi muttered as Dark flapped out the window shouting back.
"I heard that."
Dai moaned and scooched closer to Satoshi. One of his ruby-like eyes slowly opened.
"Mmm Satoshi?" His other eye opened.
"Yeah, Dai?"
"You look tired."
"I am a little bit. Im more worried about you."
"Im fine. You should sleep some, since you look like you could fall over and be asleep."
Satoshi laughed a little at the thought. "I guess I could fall over and sleep."
Dai smiled before grabbing Satoshi's arm, pulling him down with him. Both were laying on the bed, Satoshi laying on his back and Dai...
Satoshi gasped. "Dai?"
"What? You're comfy." He said as he got his head comfy-ier on Satoshi's chest. "Comfier than the hard bed."
Satoshi smirked. "If you say so. Now who wants to cuddle with who?"
Dai 'humph'-ed and was about to move his head off Satoshi's chest. Satoshi's hand that had been around Dai's shoulders when they were sitting was now around Dai's waist, below the broken ribs, holding him down.
"You're not moving anywhere." Satoshi mumbled into the top of Dai's head. "This way I can tell if you wake up or something."
"Over protective." Dai mumbled sleepily as his eyes slid shut.
Dai's head fell over to lay even more on Satoshi's chest as he scooched even closer to the other teen. The red heads right arm came up and rested on Satoshi's chest right beside his head.
"Sleep tight, Dai." Satoshi said, still mumbling into the red spikes.
"You too, Satoshi, and you better sleep too. No more staying awake to watch over me. Theres doctors and nurses to do that."
"Alright, if it makes you happy."
"Yup."
Ten minutes later both Dai and Satoshi were sleeping and didnt notice the newly perverted blond angel glide into the room with a smile.
"Aww..." He whispered. "How cute. Almost, just ALMOST, like they were a couple."
He smiled evilly (Not like 'lemme kill you' evil like he used to have. More like a 'OOOO I have a plan' evil). After silently walking over to the pair one the bed his smile widened even more.
Krad moved Dai and Satoshi around a little bit before covering them with a sheet and walking to the window with a smile, waiting for Darks return.
An hour and a half later Dark returned, looking angry, then smiled after seeing Krad already in the room.
"You'll never guess what I did." Krad whispered happily. "And you'll never guess what they did."
Dark walked over to the bed and lifted the sheet slightly. "No clue. They still have their clothes on."
Krad rolled his eyes. "And everyone calls me a perv. All I did was move them slightly and look how they ended up."
Both Krad and Dark studied the two on the beds position. Satoshi was now on his left side with Dai almost spooned infront of him. Both of Satoshi's arms were wrapped around Dai's waist, right below the ribs, and Dai's hands were entangled in Satoshi's. Dark and Krad looked at the lump that was the sleeping teens feet, their legs were entangled together tihgtly.
Satoshi's head was on Dai's left shoulder and Dai's head rested on Satoshi's. "All I did was scoot them closer when they were laying on their backs. They did all of that."
"Its cute." Dark said. "Maybe they'll finally admit they like each other."
"Who knows. Satoshi-sama is thick headed."
"And Dai is embaressed easily. How about this: We make a little matchmaker game next week?"
"I agree." Krad and Dark shook hands.
A groan came from the two on the bad and Satoshi's blue eyes opened seeing little more than red locks of hair. He was about to start freaking out but Dark spoke.
"If you move, Creepy Bastard, you'll wake Dai. If I were you Id stay still. Our deal of you telling him is off. He doesnt need that right now." Dark had forgotten to whisper.
Dai groaned and opened his red eyes to look at Dark. "Hey, Dark."
That was about when he realized there was 1) arms around his waist 2) something...legs...entangled with his 3) he was holding...hands...tightly 4) there was warm breath on his neck 5) he swore he saw...blue...hair for a second.
Dai's eyes widened severly when he realized the answer to all five things he realized was Satoshi! "Ack! Satoshi!"
He almost rolled out of the bed if Satoshi hadnt tightened his arms slightly to stop him. "If you keep doing that, you'll hurt yourself even more."
Satoshi untangled themselves and sat up, rubbing his face where his glasses usually sat. "Satoshi-sama?"
"Eh?"
"Whats wrong?"
"Migraine. Nothing to worry about."
He winced when Dark moved and light went straight to his eyes. "You look kind of peaky, Creepy Bastard."
"Dark." Dai sounded very commanding. "Stop that."
Dark rolled his eyes and walked over to Dai, to see how bad his wounds were. "Take the shirt off Dai. I want to see how bad she hurt you."
"Im fine Dark."
"Shirt. Off. Now."
Dai sighed and pulled his shirt off slowly as to not hurt himself. He looked a bit like a mummy with all the gauze bandages around him.
"My back is going to look a bit worse Dark. Dont worry if you see blood."
Oh, yeah, nice warning, especially since the whole back of the gauze was tinted red from the blood.
"Good thing you did warn me Dai or I would have killed Crappy Bastard over here." He jerked a thumb over his shoulder.
"Dark, Im getting tired of you calling me that." Satoshi said as he stood up. "I dont sit here and call you names, now do I?"
"Well no but you are the one who tried to capture me...how many times was it Dai?"
"Five fourty eight. Roughly once every two days." Dai said leaning forward where his elbows rested on his legs.
"So how'd you remember that?" Krad asked.
"You were out seventy two of those times Krad, and Satoshi you werent at sixteen of them. The police was dumb enought o fall for the same trick ninety four times before figuring out it was Dark in an officers outfit. We were fighting the artifacts twenty seven times"
"And why do you remember that Dai?" Dark asked.
"Every night after you fell asleep I pulled out a notebook and wrote down everything about the theft. I kept the smallest detail in it. The number of police, the times Wiz almost got caught, the number of times we were seen by the press in a night, when Risa came to see you, how many times you, Satoshi, adjusted your galsses in anger, the amout of times Dark and I had to jump from a roof, the number of times it rained. I kept it all." He shrugged. "It kept me away from real life for just a bit longer. In my mind it was like living a story and I didnt want to come back just yet even if I didnt do anything in the story."
"Dai," Dark said. "You were always there to warn me of danger and, thankfully, helped me stay out of danger."
"You kept him from falling in my clutches many times."
"Kept him from being handcuffed many times too."
Dai shrugged. "Whatever. What time is it?"
"Four...uh..." Dark said
"Four twenty-nine." Satoshi supplied.
"Four thirty." Dark said.
"Twenty- nine."
"Thirty."
"Twenty-nine."
"So Krad, do you think they'll do that this often?"
"Probably."
Dai rolled his eyes.
"Twenty nine." Satoshi said
"Thirty." Dark almost yelled
"Thirty." Satoshi said half an hour later
"Shut it! It's twenty nine." Dark yelled.
"Told you it was." Satoshi said with a smirk.
"Dude, you just totally used reverse psychology on me! You cant do that to a phantom theif!"
"I just did."
"Oh brother." Dai and Krad said.
Dark and Sato turned towards the other two. "What?" They both said.
"You two just argued for half an hour about if it was four twenty-nine or thirty. Well, Its five now." Krad said.
With that a nurse walked in. "Oh hello, dears. Im sorry to interrupt but its Daisukes dinner time and if you would like, the cafeteria is open for you to eat."
The three nodded and left to eat. "Bye Dai." They said.
"Bye guys."
"Those three are odd people." The nurse said fondly to Dai.
"I know but their my friends. They really are nice and caring though."
"I bet they are, dearie." She ruffled Dai's hair fondly. "You you eat while I watch your friends for a little while."
Dai nodded and began eating. Ater getting through his mashed potatoes the door to Dai's room opened cautiously.
"Dad?" Dai was a bit scared, timid, of his parents now.
"H-hey, Dai."
"Why are you here?"
"I came to see my son."
"You didnt care when mom beat me. Why care now?"
(Im watching Star Wars episode erm...4 so my creative-ness is going to be weird...sorry.)
"I was worried the whole time. Fear kept me still. Believe me Dai, I wanted to help, I just didnt know how."
"Dad, did you know she beat me when I was little?"
"What?"
"Thats an obvious no."
"When did all of this happen?"
"The first real time she hurt me was when I was six. It was off and on after that until a couple days ago. All of this came from today."
Kosuke winced at the thought of hearing Dai was abused when he was around. "Im sorry, Dai. Why didnt you tell me?"
"I didnt tell anyone. I didnt even tell Dark." Dai said putting his tray on the table beside his bed. "No one knew."
"And yet they do."
"Because they were there when I was abused. You ignored it."
"I did not , young man."
"Im tired of excuses dad. Satoshi, Dark, and Krad have been th..."
"KRAD! He is our family's enemy!"
"You live in the past dad. Hes changed now. You were there when it happened. Dark gave him a potion to make him normal. He wont hurt me anymore."
"And what if the potion wears off?"
"Dark can keep him under control."
"WACHOO!" Krad sneezed then rubbed his nose vigorously.
"People are talking about you. Ones dissin you, the sneeze, and the itchy nose is someone is talking nicely about you." Dark said as he finished his meal.
"Oh, really? Who do you think?"
"Dai and somebody, probably." Satoshi said. "Since there isnt many people who know about you. Emiko is in an insane asylum, Daichii doesnt want anything to do with you and Dark, and Kosuke."
Dark stood up quickly. "Dai and Kosuke." He began walking for the door. "Im going to check on him."
Satoshi and Krad stood up too. "We're coming too. Who knows what Kosuke can do."
Dark nodded as the three almost trotted off.
The door to Dai's room was pried open quietly by Dark when he heard yelling.
"...That fallen 'Angel' is a demon," Kosuke said angel sarcastically. "He's a no good, murderous, evil, conniving, son of a ..."
"Dad he helped save me from Emiko. Why do you say everything that has to do with Hikari's are evil?"
"They are. They have been trying to capture Dark for four centuries. Why would I not hate them?"
"Satoshi befriended me and Krad has changed."
"To hell with Darks potion. He is evil no matter what. It doesnt matter if he was given a potion or not he is a Hikari! They both are! Neither can be trusted!"
"Whatever."
"Dont you 'whatever' me young man!"
"Ive been through enough today, dad."
"You'll sit through a bit more while you learn how to treat your father."
"Kosuke. I think Dai has had enough." Dark said from the doorway in a very protective manner.
"I come to see my son and you decide to tell me how to treat him? Im not Emiko in the way to abuse a child but I know that my son should treat me with more respect."
"Kosuke," Krad said, stepping out from behind Dark. "I believe Dai has had enough arguements for today. If you would like to stay I believe it would be better if you didnt argue with him."
Kosuke growled at Krad. "Daisuke, I would recommend you telling your 'friends' to keep out of your family business."
"Dad it is just like if Takeshi was here. It doesnt matter who my friends are. Dark and I are seperate people now. I can have whatever friends I want now."
"Ill except that but I wont accept the fact you befriended the Hikari's. Be glad Im more mild mannered than your mother."
"She disowned me. To me she isnt my mother anymore."
"Hmmm. Yes. To me you're still my little baby Dai but I dont like your choice of friends. When they turn on you dont come to me crying. Men dont cry and I dont want to see you crying. I hate to sound like the bad guy, but you need to know these things Dai. When you testify tomorrow, Ill be there. The judge has called 'them' to testify against her too."
"Alright dad."
"I'd better go. Daichii wants to talk to me about Emiko." Kosuke nodded to Dai and headed for the door.
"Bye, dad."
Kosuke left without another word and not looking at the other three in the room. When he was gone Dai's shoulders slumped and his face drooped, making him look a lot older and tired.
"Dai?" Dark asked as Dai looked up from putting his elbows on his legs.
"Huh? Sorry, Dark. Im just really worried and scared about tomorrow." He rested his face completly in his hands.
Dai heard someones footsteps come closer to him and the bed depressed some under the unknown weight. He smelt a minty scent almost a peppermint smell but with an underlying scent of vanilla.
A corner of Dai's mouth twitched upwards when he reconized the familiar scent. "Satoshi."
"How'd you know it was him?" Dark asked.
Dai looked up at Dark. "Only one person has that scent. A mix between peppermint and vanilla, yet another touch of something I cant place."
"Then what do I smell like, Dai?"
"That sounds so dumb Dark." Dai said laughing.
"Well?"
"What? I dont go around smelling everyone like a dog."
"C'mon Dai. You've been around me enough to know."
"Fine. Yes, Dark, I know what you smell like now."
"And?"
"I have to tell you?"
"Why not?"
"Fine, fine." Dai rolled his eyes. "Violet, and blackberry. The type of scent you smell in the wilds."
"Describes Dark well. Uncouth, disrespectful, and vulgar." Satoshi said.
"And beastly." Krad said laughing.
"What! Even you, Krad, are against me."
"Heh. Too bad for you."
Dai rolled his eyes before he felt an arm around his shoulders. "You okay, Dai?"
"Yeah. Like I said just worried."
"It'll be fine. Dark, Krad, and I will be there. Plus your father will be there."
"I know. Thanks for being there for me."
"Just glad Ive been able to help. Do I really smell like that, by the way?"
Dai smiled. "Yeah. I feel really funny saying this but it calms me. Your particular scent, does. You've been around me so much lately in this crazy hectic time that its been the only thing consistant."
Satoshi gave Dai's shoulders a little squeeze. "It's okay, Dai. When you said what my scent was I tried to think of what your particular one was."
Dark and Krad were at almost yelling level about something. "And my particular scent?"
"Strawberry, cinammon, and something else I cant put my finger on." Dai nodded as he leaned agsinst Satoshi's shoulder.
"Penguins cant fly, Krad, nor can chickens."
"Then why do they have wings?"
"Because they're in the bird family." Dark practically yelled.
"All birds fly and so penguins and chickens should fly."
Dark was about to argue back when all four heard a loud crashing wave of thunder vault across the sky. The power flickered on and off for a few seconds before a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky.
"Ah shit!" Krad yelled, cutting of any reply from Dark.
"What? What is it?" Dark asked as Krad stared avidly at Satoshi.
Dai was sitting there leaning on Satoshi one second and the next Satoshi had tightened his whole body up in complete fear. His arm that was around Dai's shoulders was almost hurting him it was so tight and his eyes were wide in fear.
"Satoshi? Come on, snap out of it." Dai said. "You're okay. See you're fine."
"Krad, why is he like this?" Dark asked.
"I came to him on a night like this. He was so terrified of my presence, he ran out into the storm and almost froze to death from being soaked through and through. I had to take over and drag him home, which wasnt easy with him yelling in my head I was 'A curse to be rid of even if I have to freeze to death,' were his exact words."
"Its okay, Satoshi." Dai whispered in the other boys ear. "You're fine, see. Its okay. You're okay. Sssh. See you're fine. Sssh."
Dai wrapped an arm around Satoshi's waist after flinching from the pull on his broken ribs. He was slowly rocking the blue haired boy back and forth in calming motions and realized his whole life no one cared enough to do that.
"Will he be okay, Krad? He seems out of it."
"It'll take a while but he'll be fine."
The power flickered again and went off. They four heard a generator turn on then remembered that it was only for the ICU patients, the rest of the hospital would be in darkness for a while. A collective sigh came from Dark, Krad, and Dai as they sat in the dark room.
"Anyone know what time it is?" Dai asked.
Dark pulled out Dai's phone. "Its about six thirty."
"Course." Dai said in the dark. "Its going to be dark in less than an hour and Im not allowed to leave my room. Dark go down to the reception desk and ask when the lights will be back on. Krad go to the help desk and ask for flashlights or any light. Please go? I dont want Satoshi to be left in the dark for long."
"I wouldnt have him in me." Dark said.
"Idiot." Krad said angrilly. "You know what he meant."
"Please Dark?"
"Alright Dai. Ill go." Both Dark and Krad left the room simultaniously.
"Satoshi? Satoshi will you at least respond? Come on Satoshi, just let me know you're okay."
Satoshi winced a little bit at the whisper in his ear. His body tightened up a bit more in fear.
"Satoshi," Dai shook his friend a bit more. "Please answer me. Just grunt if you understand me."
"D-Dai? Daisuke?" Satoshi's voice was a bit scared sounding.
"Its okay, Sato. You're fine. See you're okay." Dai was rocking Satoshi back and forth again.
"I hate storms."
"I know. Krad told us. How are you feeling?"
"Yeah. J-just shaky, is all."
Dai squeezed Satoshi's shoulders a bit more then flinched. "Ugh. That wasnt the best idea."
"You okay, Dai?" Satoshi was so worried his stutter of fear was gone.
"Yeah. I just ugh hurt my ribs again."
Satoshi pulled out of Dai's embrace to look at him eye to eye. "Let me see your ribs, Dai."
"Im fine Satoshi. I just pushed on them is all."
'Im just thanking my lucky stars the thunder isnt as loud, but its still dark so he cant see much anyway.'
"Dai, are you sure?"
"Yeah.Im more worried about you right now."
"The...well... The thunder actually... well... it..."
"The thunder is all you really remember from that night you ran when Krad first came. Since thats all you can remember you fear it, dont you?"
"Yeah."
"How old were you?"
"About five."
"Why? Why did Krad come so early?"
"In the Hikari family you know there is someone else in your DNA usually since you're born but Krad didnt try to take over until I was five."
"Im sorry." Dai said as Satoshi relaxed a bit more. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah. The storms one of the spring storms here. A few thunders and then..." The rain begain in torrents, blocking out the remaning light they had. "The rain comes like it has no end."
Dai smiled a little bit. "If you say so."
Satoshi smiled in response and wrapped his arm back around Dai's shoulders. "Its my turn to say Im glad you were here."
"And my turn to say I glad I could be. I really am Satoshi. You know, you and I have been through a lot together just this past week. I hope that through this week we've become a lot closer."
"We have, Dai. Not only have we stopped using our last names to talk to each other but we've also broken some barriers we had up. Thanks to you I might get over this irrational fear and I have helped you with your family crisis."
"Yeah." Dai's arm snaked back around Satoshi's waist. "We'd better stick together after this. If we dont, I dont know what kind of friends we are."
Satoshi nodded and rested his head on Dai's shoulder as Dai rested his head on the top of Satoshi's.
Dark walked back into the room half an hour later with a funky smirk on his face and stopped dead in his tracks. His mouth gaped open at the sight before him.
'YES!' He pumped his hands in the air in a silent victory dance. 'They look like a couple now. They're eyes are closed and holding each other with arms wrapped around each other, caringly. One head rested ontop of another. Leaning against each other as if protecting each other. AWEEEEE! Kay so Creepy Bastard was right. So what if I like yaoi?'
'Dark.'
'Yeah Dai?'
'Stop fan girl screeching.'
'Wha!'
'Yeah I heard your squealing. Not sure what you were squealing about but you were.'
'So what?'
'Just shut up.'
'Fine.' Dark huffed as he sat down in a chair by the window.
'Thanks.'
'Eh.'
Another fourty minutes passed before Krad came back looking very...peeky
"Krad?" Dark said looking at the other angel as he walked in the room. "What the hell happened? You're clothes are torn your face is red..."
"Man those stupid nurses are dangerous. They jumped me and..." His eyes went wider as he thought about it before shivering. "They're like lions to fresh meat!"
"The hell you two almost yellin about?" Dai asked as his eyes opened.
"I agree." Satoshi said as Dai leaned against him some more. "The two of us were just fine until...well one of you came in and started yelling."
"That was Krad." Both Dai and Dark said.
"Well what would you do if you had half a dozen nurses jump you and tear your shirt to shreds..." Krad said as Satoshi and Dai looked at his shirt.
"Uh...Krad." Dai said quietly. "You have like two tears on your shirt."
"Ur...heh." Krad winced. "They were still crazy!"
Satoshi rolled his yes and rubbed his temples. "Breathe Krad."
"And theres another reason you cant be the thief. Theres the publicity and the fact its HIKARI artwork most of the time."
Dai closed his eyes and listened to the two argue.
"You were the one who..."
"I what? I didnt do anything this time."
"You werent the one who sent me that time. It was Daisuke who made me go into that hell hole. Yes it was you, oh yes it was. Grrrr." Krad growled at Dai as he stalked forward.
Dai sat up and looked Krad in the eye. "What are you going to do to me, Krad." He wasnt scared. "Poke me slap me pinch me? Ill give you a free punch. Punch me, right here." He pointed at his shoulder. "Go ahead do it."
Krad stopped. "You arent even afraid of me anymore."
"I havent for a long time, Krad. Ive come to accept Ill die one day and so I wasnt afraid to face off against you. There is no reason to fear you. Why fear you when there are millions of other humans I can fear?"
"Im no normal human."
"Neither is Dark and I never feared him." Dai shrugged. "At one point you did create so much terror in me I couldnt transform but that was long ago."
"Im proud of you Dai." Dark said smiling at his counter part, then noticed the barely touched meal. "Why didnt you finish eating?"
"I was distracted."
"Kosuke?"
"Yeah."
"Is it still warm enough for you to eat it?" Dark asked.
"I dont know. Im not hungry anymore." Dai looked apoligetically to Dark.
"Dai, you need to eat. You're hurt and need the nutrients." Dark said sounding like an adult.
"Dark, Im not hungry. Im too worried and stressed about tomorrow to eat."
Dark shook his head in defeat. "You make me worry too much, Dai."
"Sorry Dark."
Krad elbowed Dark. "hes a suck up." He whispered.
Dai's eye twitched in a very anime agitated look. "Krad, you know I heard that?"
Krad gave a 'im pretending to be innocent' look to Dai.
No one spoke for a few seconds, not knowing what to say. "So..." Dark finally said.
"You're an idiot." Dai and Satoshi said, before Dai laughed.
"Ack. Dai. That hurts. That really hurt me." He pretended to be hit in the heart.
"You'd be a good actor, Dark." Satoshi said with a twitch
"Well thank you."
"That wasnt a compliment, Dark." Satoshi was getting tired of his idiocy.
"Oh." Krad laughed. "That hurt too!"
"Darky! Ill make it all better!" With that KRad chased Dark around the room with Dark saying things like 'not Here', 'Its inappropriate infront of them', and 'Agurah meforueah,' as he was tackled.
"Satoshi?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think they'll ever be...normal acting?"
"No, but thats not saying much if you look at us."
"Yeah. You are a genius, police commander and out to get Dark."
"And you are the clumsy teen on the class rep committee and thief." Satoshi said.
"Am I THAT clumsy?"
"Im afraid so, but you have gotten better. Back when you were fourteen, almost everytime I saw you, you were always falling over."
Dai shrugged. "Ive gotten used to it all now so I dont realize Im that clumsy anymore."
"You arent. Most of the time now you just space out."
"Oops. I dont mean to do that."
"Dont worry. Even Saehara hasnt realized you're out there more often than not. He hasnt even realized you pay no attention when he talks."
Dai ruffled the back of his long hair. "Actually...I NEVER paid attention to him. I would seriously just said uh-huh and yeah to whatever he said."
"Nice bluff."
"Thanks."
"I could also say you had a nice bluff going on with the elder Harada." Satoshi was smirking as Dark kept trying to fight Krad off of him.
"How long have you known I was forcing it?"
"Since you two began dating." Dai nodded.
(The -before a " is the intercom just letting you know...heh...fore warning.)
-"Attention all visitors. The roads nearby have begun to flood and we would please like for all of you to stay the night here. The weather has forcated this storm to comtinue through the night. If sometime you can come to the main desk we can give you blankets or rooms to stay in. Thank you."-
Dark pushed Krad off of him. "Looks like we're stuck here with you Dai."
"Great. No, I repeat NO...activities...between you two." Dai growled at Dark and Krad.
"Fine." Krad said reluctantly.
"Krad, you are in a hospital. Cant you take a Dark obsession break for a night?" Satoshi asked as he stood up off of Dai's bed.
"Fine. It'll be hard though."
Dark rolled his eyes behind Krads back. "Krad go get us some blankets."
"Hell no. The nurses will be all over!"
Dark sighed and rolled his eyes again. "Fine. Krad you can sleep in that bed." He pointed to the furthest bed. "Ill sleep in the one next to you and Satoshi you can sleep in the one beside Dai. If anything happens to Dai and I can blame you and then kill you for it." A smile spread across Darks face.
"I can handle myself, Dark. If anyrthing did happen to me Id come back and haunt you." Dai said laughing as the other three walked to their beds. "Man I feel all alone." He pouted.
"Dai, were in the same room." Dark said as Krad pulled his bed closer to Darks. "Looks like Krads lonly too. That means you, Satoshi needs to keep Dai company."
Satoshi shook his head at Dark. "Whatever." He pulled his bed close to Dai's though.
When everyone got the beds settled it was about eight thirty and all four sat there ontop of their beds talking until about ten.
Satoshi's bed was only about six inches from Dai's bed so if Dai needed anything he could reach over and shake Satoshi. Dark laughed at the excuse to be close. He and Krad didnt deny their attraction. Their beds were touching where it was like one large bed.
"Time to hit the sack, Dai." Dark said. "Courts at twelve thirty. We should be up and out there by twelve."
"Kay, Dark. Night, Dark. Night Krad. Night, Satoshi. The power still hasnt come on. heh. Whatever."
"Night, Dai." Dark said as he curled up with Krad.
"Night, Daisuke." Krad murmered as satoshi sat on his bed.
After yawning Satoshi layed down. "Night, Dai." He whispered where only Dai could hear. "Sleep tight. See you tomorrow."
Dai just sat there on his bed watching the others fall asleep. 'Stupid wounds. Hurts to lay in any position. Doctors told me no laying on my stomach or back and it hurts too mush on my sides. GURR.' He thought angrilly to himself as he heard Dark and Krads deep breathing of sleep.
After a few minutes, he looked over at Satoshi, who he hadnt heard fall asleep, and saw the others eyes were open and watching him. He jumpoed slightly, seeing the blue eyes watching him.
"You're still awake?" Dai asked quietly, not wanting Satoshi to realize he couldnt lay down.
"Waiting for you." Was the simple quiet reply.
"Well, that'll be a while, then, because Im not that tired yet."
"Sitting up will keep you awake."
"Ill be fine. Ill follow you in a few."
"You wont lay down because you cant, can you?" Satoshi asked as he sat up.
Dai's shoulders slumped. "You caught me."
Satoshi clambered over onto Dai's bed and leaned against the headboard with his legs around Dai's cross legged form. "Come here." Dai raised an eye brow. "Just come here." He patted the bed right infront of him.
Dai climbed up to the spot and sat, facing away from Satoshi, as to not let him see his blush. He felt Satoshi gently wrap his arms around the smaller waist of the injured red head, lightly pulling him back to lean against his chest.
"This way should be less pain for your back." Satoshi said as Dai leaned more fully against him, almost laying down. "Is it?"
Dai nodded and scooched around slightly to get comfier. "Thanks Satoshi."
Satoshi smiled as Dai clasped a hand around his. "Its nothing."
Dai felt Satoshi's chin drop onto his and he felt the blunettes breathing become slightly more regular.
"Night Satoshi."
"Night, Dai." Satoshi murmered in Dai's hair.
They fell asleep like that within a couple minutes as the storm outside kept dropping golf ball sized pellets.
One man, still awake during the rain walked out of his house with a golf club. "Look honey," He said to himself. "I get to golf in our own yard!"
With that the man swung his club hitting the pellets of rain until the wee hours of the morning, to which he returned to bed and his wife.
I have no clue as to why I added that last bit but it came to me and I didnt want to leave it out...since its 3:20 A.M of the day Harry Potter 7 came out to bookstores (7-21-07)
Thanks for reading guys. I plan on writing one more chapter for this story then maybe a sequel to it but thats up to you guys to tell me if you want me to. . Love you guys!
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