A/N: Hi… Is anyone mad at me for waiting so long to update (as usual)? I mean… Two months? Ack! So sorry! I hope this poorly written chapter is good enough to appease you. On with the story!

The Chase

Jeanne was a cautious girl. Dark had to give her that. She went a mile before ducking into a building. She would have lost any pursuers on the ground but Dark had a bird's eye view and watched her as she snuck out the back exit. After that however, she wasn't done.

She veered into the woods off to the left obviously trusting someone to be smart enough to know about the other way out she had taken and anticipate it. Dark thought she was overestimating the people after her but then again, what did he know?

The problem came when she got to the thicker part of the woods ('Why do people put woods in the middle of cities? I mean, what the hell are they thinking? What purpose could the annoying trees possibly have?' Dark ranted mentally. Daisuke answered with only a sigh.) and he couldn't see her from above. She was faster than him on the ground or else he would have just gone right into the woods. He would lose her if he did nothing and with the only option to not lose her immediately, she would outrun him. It was a lose-lose situation.

What Dark was not aware of was that Jeanne had crafted it to be so. She knew he flew and found his inactivity at the heist to be suspicious. The first time she had looked over her shoulder, having felt eyes on her back since the heist, she saw him flying above her. She would have missed him had it not been for the fact she knew that he could fly. Damn Dark. She was going to have to put more effort into escaping tonight.

She had tried to outrun him but saw it was useless when he was flying. Jeanne had seen a building she knew had two exit and ducked into it, hoping to confuse him and escape. No luck. He just kept on flying after her. Then she thought of a place he couldn't follow her flying. It had worked. From her perch in a tree, she saw him hovering through the branches and then he began to fly off.

Annoyed that all that work had amounted to nothing, she followed him. She had obviously overestimated his intelligence because he did not even notice her running on the ground trying to keep pace with him. If she wasn't in shape, she was fairly certain that she would have collapsed by now. Her breathing was labored and she really felt like cursing because he look preoccupied and not at all tired.

Ugh! For doing this to her, she should be able to strangle him! It didn't matter that he had no clue how incensed he was making the girl. In fact, that fueled her anger even more. How could he not notice her by now, the unobservant oaf? Baka kaitou! Ahou Dark!

While she was busy mentally cursing his name, she barely noticed he was beginning to head towards the ground. When she did, she simply started to flat out sprint. She barely made it to the street in time to see which house's roof he had dropped onto. She watched as he casually opened the balcony door and pulled something small out of his pocket. Some type of paper or a picture? He didn't look at it as he closed the balcony door and curtains. She waited for a few more seconds until she decided he wasn't coming out again. She walked for a while until she was just outside of town and then transformed back into Maron. Then, she pulled out her cell phone and called Chiaki begging him for a ride back home because she was not going back to her house walking right now.

A little while later, an expensive looking car pulled up in front of the girl. She disappeared inside and it drove off, leaving no evidence that it, or the girl, had been there at all that night.

Almost like… ghosts. If you ever mention such an occurrence at a certain gymnastics club, two of the girls there will chuckle as if they know something you don't. Their names? Well, that's their secret. After all, the best secrets are ones kept between best friends.

Especially if one of those friends if a thief and the other is the daughter of a detective.

Secrets are very nice if kept in the right company.

However, one secret is about to get told to ears that were never meant to hear it. It's will soon become a secret between thieves.

Because we all trust thieves to keep secrets.

Right?

A/N: Well, it is summer vacation! Yes! So I can maybe update more. Not so much in July but still more often than I have right now. Sorry this is shorter than last time but I just wanted to write it. I might add in more detail later.

Also… I kind of forgot where I was headed with this. I remember only the next few parts mainly so until I remember only expect until a certain point which I cannot tell you. *Look At Last Sentence* … *Sarcasm* That was informative, wasn't it?

Also, I haven't said this yet but remember that I am 13 years old and I don't have a beta reader.

My birthday is coming up though! It is June 19th for anyone who cares!

Please review! Reviews make me think people are reading this and therefore, I want to update faster. Wishing me a "Happy Birthday" in your review wouldn't go amiss either.

Ja ne!~J. DCF

Date Posted: June 11, 2010