As soon as Dark opened the door to his excessively large house Daisuke was there to greet him, Wiz sitting like a parrot on the boy's shoulder. "Hi Dark!" He was all smiles and light and closed the door behind the thief. It almost made him forget about what had happened between him and Krad. Speaking of which…
" Hey, Daisuke… I gotta go wash out my mouth for a minute." He promptly walked over to the sink and started gargling and spitting, but that cream-and-lemon taste still wouldn't come out. "Bleeeech! Ptoo! Blaaaarrrghhh…" Daisuke watched him with interest, his quick ears flicking up and around in response to Dark's odd noises.
"Did you eat something bad?" Dark turned off the water and rubbed his mouth with a hand towel, "Something like that…" then turned back to the fox and said softly, "So…Krad is your other half." As if to verify he took the artwork out of his black jacket and placed it gently on the granite counter. Daisuke's ears slicked so far down they almost disappeared and Dark covered it with his jacket "Hey, if you don't want to look at it…" Daisuke shook his head and stroked Wiz "No it's fine." And Dark hesitated, and then uncovered it slowly. It was of two small animals, a fox and a cat, the fox rearing over the cat aggressively and the cat hanging low to the ground in defense, his hackles raised. "Holy crap…" Dark said softly just as Daisuke reiterated the plaque that had been on their piece for the last hundred years,
"-The cat is made entirely of the largest ruby ever discovered in the mines of eastern Japan and the fox of white opal of similar origin. Their eyes are also stone, the pupils' obsidian and their iris's of pure gold…" He clasped his hands together. "Erm, that's what the plaque said anyway." Dark ran his tan fingers over the spikes of red hackles and murmured "Its beautiful." making Daisuke blush a little. "Um…" The Phantom smacked himself on the side of the head, "Crap! I forgot to get another one to give to Emiko!" and snatched up his coat, almost making it out the door before Daisuke jumped ahead of him, wrapping his arms around the thief's shoulders. "Dark, wait!"
He froze and winced, a corner of his mouth pulling down. "Ok, ouch…" Daisuke waited as his heart pounded like an acorn in his chest- he wasn't used to being this close to anyone and especially not throwing himself at anyone but…The rain pounded into his back and he said softly "I didn't want you to get-" He paused, then unwrapped his arms "Ouch…?" and looked down at his nails. Blood. Daisuke'd never really had a chance to cut his nails and so they'd gotten long, clear and clean and gone right through the fabric of Dark's shirt. "I…I'm so sorry!" He crouched down on the ground in front of him and his long tail curled up fearfully underneath him.
He held his hands up to his chest tightly and began to cry right in front of him, his big round eyes filling with tears, and Dark knelt down next to him, unsure of what to do. "Dai, it's ok…" Dark reached out to him and Daisuke trembled and said again, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I don't want to hurt you…I don't!" and flinched away as Dark's hand got closer. "You gotta trust that I would never hurt you on purpose either, Daisuke."
The redhead looked up at him, then scooted over to him and laid his head gently against Dark's chest, quivering for a moment before finally relaxing. "You're…not mad?" The phantom wrapped one arm around Daisuke's small soaked shoulders and guided him back inside the house, shutting the door and leaning against the rain, trying not to let his pain show. He could feel hot little rivulets and knew it must be worse than he thought. "No. Of course not. Now could you maybe get some gauze out of the pantry for me?" Daisuke let himself be held for a few moments longer and then nodded and walked over, rummaging around and bringing it back to him. Dark tried to take off his shirt but paused halfway through and gritted his teeth in pain. "Dammit…" Daisuke sat back on his haunches and asked softly,
"Um, do you want me to…?" Dark managed a grin. "That depends… Did you trim your nails yet?" Daisuke colored and his ears slicked out to both sides shamefully. "Yes…" He had while fetching the gauze, and reached around Dark from behind, his soft hands gently tugging his shirt up. The thief colored severely and bent his head down so Daisuke could get the shirt over his head, then held it close to him and muttered, "Thanks." as Daisuke examined the wounds in his back. Each was about two inches long and consisted of four tiny points, nestled between Dark's caramel colored shoulders and his spine. Seeing those there, red and still bleeding made his eyes water once more and he laid his face down on Dark's upper back, his breath hitching in his throat. "Dark, who didn't you tell me they were so… so bad…?" Dark began to retort
"They're not… Daisuke, what are you doing?" then changed his comment as he felt a kind of thrumming up near his neck. Daisuke was purring, the vibration in his neck going into Dark's body and weirdly enough, calming him. "You said to trust you, right?" He somehow said through the strong purring and continued,
"Well, you should trust me too. When I get hurt, this really helps." His tail curled around itself happily and he wrapped his arms gently around Dark's body. "Alright…" The thief knew that it had just been an accident, and besides, being held by him was reeeallly nice. Besides, it certainly couldn't do any harm. As Dai's strong vibrating passed through him he began to realize that he was feeling better- He could hardly feel the sting of the wounds at all, and in fact was getting a little sleepy. Well, actually, really sleepy… Daisuke continued to purr for a few more minutes, then lifted his head, unwrapped his arms and started wrapping the gauze around the Phantom's upper torso carefully. " Dark? Did that help at all?" Dark jerked in surprise at the feeling of Daisuke's skin but hid it quickly,
"Huh? Oh, yeah… Actually I feel kinda sleepy…" Daisuke smiled, tried to get his hands to stop shaking( He still felt sick abut hurting his new master, his kind new master…)and finished the wrapping, tying it off artistically with a small bow. "Good. There, all done."
He thumped his tail happily against the floor, then noticed Dark's head was suddenly lolling forward, and that the rest of his body had gone completely slack…
Daisuke just barely caught him and let him down gently against the tiles, "Dark? DARK?" shaking his shoulder, his great mass of crimson hair falling into innocent eyes.
"DARK!"
Oh noes!