Soooo sorry for not updating! I know this is gonna sound horrid, but I sorta forgot I had written this... I mean, I know it's my story, but I forgot I hadn't started a new chapter! I've been working on my Naruto fics, in honor of, well, * sob, * a horrible thing that happened that made me cry! It was, it was just horribly sad! So in honor of his passing * breaks down * I have been working on them. And my One Piece, just because some people's messaged me about updating, and all I could think was, " I send those messages to people I'm disappointed in!" Obviously I was crushed. But grateful that someone cared * cough. *

Chapter 7: Sneaking Around.

Sneak sneak sneak.

Walking stealthily through the trees, Dai watched the two maidens bathing. It was strange. He could see them, all their sultry looks, all their evil grins and smirks, and even as he saw this, as they bathed, he noticed their innocence and joy, as they relaxed in the cool bay.

He was surprised to find himself in this place again, especially considering where he had appeared.

He had gone to bed right after dinner that night, hopes of new discoveries in that place flouting through his head.

The moment his head had hit the pillow, he had fallen unconscious.

Waking in the Weird World, as he fondly called it, he was surprised to be by a lake again. Only this wasn't the lake from before. This lake was big, beautiful, blossoming, everything the other lake had not been. This lake had trees of many kinds, growing fruits of many flavors. The water shined in the moon light, but even that did not disguise its clearness. It was very wide, and bean shaped, a smaller island in the middle. It was an oasis in all the terrible desert.

Dai continued to watch as the beings swam around, their skin glistening from the moon light. They seemed like mermaids, though they posed neither tails, nor scales .

He could feel the lump in his throat. He tried to swallow it soundlessly, but that didn't really work out.

With incredible speed, the women snapped their heads back, saw him, and swam to him.

"What are you doing here?" The one named Riku hissed.

"I...I...I don't know!" He answered truthfully.

"Right." Risa said sarcastically, clearly unbelieving. "Now, speak truth boy, or we shall punish you." She said with a snarl.

"I-I am!" He didn't know what else to say.

"Weren't you just staring at us?" Riku looked deadly, though her voice was calm.

He looked down, ashamed. "Y-yes."

"Then you know what you're doing!" Riku glared into his skull.

"I-I..." He walked right into that, and now he didn't know how to get out.

But then he was. He was sucked from the place, into its very earth, so it seemed.

He awoke in gasps, the memory of the demons hissing at him as he disappeared, down into nothing, fresh in his mind.

"Oi! Daisuke!" He heard his mother yell. "Get down here, it's time for breakfast!"

"I'm coming!" He yelled shakily.

"Well, hurry, your brother is already down here!" She yelled sternly.

Shocked at the idea of Satoshi being up before him, he looked at his bed side table. His clock read 7:45 a.m.

He fell in a tangle of sheets, as he practically flung himself from his bed.

He was gonna be late for school!

Pulling himself from the his sheet cocoon, Dai finally got himself dressed and ready for school.

Unfortunately this meant he missed breakfast.

"I'm hungry!" Satoshi rolled his eyes.

"Maybe if you hadn't over slept, you wouldn't be, dobe." He laughed.

Dai instantly sobered at the thought of his dreams. This didn't go unnoticed by Satoshi, who raised an inquisitive brow.

"I had a weird dream last night." Dai mumbled down to his shoes. Satoshi looked suspicious.

"There were two girls again. Bathing in an oasis. What do you think it means?" Satoshi began to laugh. He was in full blown radical giggles within seconds.

"What's so funny?"

"Oh, man that was funny!"

"What?"

"Dude, we may be twins, but we have nothing in common!"

"What's that supposed to mean Teme!"

"Dude, you're just getting hormones! Finally! That was just a wet dream."

"Huh?"

"Dear Kami! It's that bad, eh?"

"What the hell are you going on about?" Daisuke was loosing his patience.

"A wet dream is a dream about a woman, or a man if you prefer..." He wiggled his eyebrows and received a not so light punch. "Ouch! Any way." Glaring at his younger (by 6 and a half minutes!) brother he continued. "Said person," He put emphasis on the last word. "Is usually in a compromising position, that you find seriously attractive. In short you jizz in your pants dude."

"Ew!" Dai looked at Satoshi with a new loss of respect. He was disgusted to say the least. How could anyone think like that? Sure he liked girls and everything, but that was just exploitation!

"Don't look so grossed out, after all, you're one of us now." Dai looked confused. "The Pussy Pleasers! Beard growers! Baby Gravy spewers! MEN!" He finished grandly. How he could be so proud while he spoke so lewdly, Dai would never know.

"Shut up ass hole. It wasn't like that any way." He shook his had. He was never going to get his brother to understand. Satoshi wasn't interested in anything outside of his own little world after all.

"Sure it wasn't." Satoshi smiled poking his twin teasingly. "And my abs don't sparkle in the sun." He laughed sarcastically. Dai looked down at his brother's slight build. He sweat dropped. Why even bother.

They arrived with time to spare.

"Satoshi-kun!" Ah crap. Satoshi turned to his inevitable fate.

"Hi Misa." He said nervously.

"Why didn't you call me last night?" She pouted.

"I was, er, busy." He covered.

"Not with another girl?" She looked so frightened, he sighed.

"No, not with another girl." He lied. Daisuke frowned. His brother was such a player, and he knew it hurt the girls Satoshi was with, but when he saw his brother lying to them, it struck a nerve.

"Well, okay then." She smiled. "Want to meet up tonight then?" She looked hopefully up at the bespectacled ladies man.

"Sure, why not?" He smiled, but Dai could tell it was only for Misa's benefit.

The warning bell rung, and Misa swiftly left to her first class.

"You shouldn't lie to them like that, it's cruel." Daisuke's voice was clipped and displeased.

"Whatever, they shouldn't expect so much from me, I am a player after all." Hearing the confession, said so casually, made Daisuke's ears prick, and his rage went skyrocketing. How was it okay for his borther to act this way?

He had to get his rage out! It was consuming him. He promptly punched his locker.

"I'm going to class." He grumbled.

Satoshi frowned. He looked at the locker. It had a dent way beyond normal, and Satoshi knew why. He sighed in defeat. He was going to have to skip class, his education for a day wasn't worth his brother's life forever.

Walking out of the building, he looked both ways. He flipped open his cell, and began to dial.

"Mushi mushi?"

"Gi-chan?" He asked the voice.

"Oh Satoshi-kun, why the sudden call? Eh, shouldn't you be in class?" Suspicion coated his grandfather's voice.

"It's important, it's about Daisuke."

His grandfather immediately took on a serious tone. "What's going on?"

"He finally made the transfer, but he's having trouble." He sighed as he prepared his next words. "Dad wont help him. Gi-chan, he, he branded him with a memory curse." He knew how severe it was to say these things over the phone, but they had to talk fast and act fast, or something terrible could happen.

"I understand, I'm on my way."

"So am I." They hung up, and Satoshi started up. He walked purposefully towards an ally, and swiftly ducked into it. Making sure the coast was clear, he removed his shirt. Saying the words he'd memorized over the months, he began to feel the familiarly delicious pain around his shoulder blades.

He cried out in agony as the first of the cracking began. It started slow, but the swift growth soon sped up in pace. Satoshi fell to the ground, knocked off balance. He managed to look up through the haze of pain, and smiled faintly as he realized the worst was nearly over. He gasped audibly as the skeletal wings finally popped into their final place. Now all that was left was the feathers.

When he first saw them grow, he had laughed. It was comical to even think about! The sprouted up like little bits of cotton at first, but as time went on, the feathers began to grow smoothly and swiftly. They grew long and white out of the webbing on the wings.

He stood, slightly out of breath with his large white wings half spread behind him. He stretched them out a little, wincing in pleasure-pain as they unfurled for the first time in weeks.

Satoshi sighed, as his wings reached their full span. His sigh soon turned to a groan as he realized how compacted the space was, it would be difficult to fly out from the ally itself.

Ever so slowly, he attempted to flap his massive wings. Unsurprisingly, they barley had enough room to blow wind at cardboard boxes.

He crept over to the ally exit, the opposite side of his entrance. He saw no one, and it was pretty close to the edge of town, he reasoned.

Taking a deep breath, and one last look about, he made his slow exit, and got ready to take off. With three huge flaps, he was sky born, and speeding. His wings were powerful, and easily equaled two of his human body in span. He was like a jet in the air, his weight, and wing span giving him easy acceleration.

Arriving at his destination, he was quickly greeted, and then flanked by two men. The three walked into a massive building. They rode an elevator down 5 floors, before walking into a large circular room with an odd septigon shaped table in the center. He looked gravely at the people all sitting around the table, his eyes locking briefly with his grandfather's. He addressed the room stonily and seriously.

"Ladies and gentleman, we have much to discuss."

Meanwhile...

Daisuke couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't figure it out. It was as if his brain had exploded at the sight if his older brother flying with giant white wings from an ally way.

"AH!" He screamed in what could only be described as terrifying confusion.

HA! I wanted to get to 2,000 words and I got to 2001! No joke! Well, I hope you liked, it, sorry it took soooo loooong! I got stuck like right after I started it. He didn't know how to get himself out, and neither did I! Update any way yes? No? Yes...?