Disclaimer: You can read, can't you? This says "disclaimer" and I am claiming that I don't own my favorite anime...

Daisuke's POV:

"Bye Mom! See you in a week!" I yelled across the busy airport to her, just as I joined the rest of my class as we stood in line to get on the plane. I could tell that she was crying, like really upset to see me go, but on the way here, she was lecturing me in a strict tone on how to be careful, and if I saw any suspicious (or interesting looking) art works, to make sure to send out a warning letter. Yep, just a usual vacation for me, despite the fact that I didn't know where we were actually going, and it was starting to get kind of annoying, but I guess I'll just have to find out.

"All I can tell you is that you guys have got a LONG plane ride to get through!" I heard Dark snicker, wait, did already forget his end of the bargain I agreed to? He was suppose to stop making idiotic comments!

"Dark! I already told you we had a deal, although, I don't really see what you would want with..."

"I have my reasons!" He quickly retorted back, just as I joined my class as we all boarded the plane, and it was pretty crowed, so I decided, that it was time to concentrate on finding my seat, and not worrying about what Dark had to say right now, because really, he shouldn't be talking, because, I had a feeling that Dark could be able to hold up on a promise.

"8C, 8C.." I mumbled to myself as I walked down the aisles, and I was starting to get the feeling that I was hopelessly lost, maybe if I could find a flight attendant, but as I kept scanning the right aisles, I couldn't find my seat at all, was I suppose to look in the left aisles now?

"Looking for your seat, Daisuke?" I heard an all to familiar voice sarcastically ask, as I turned around, just to see Shizuku sitting down in one of the left aisles. She was pointing to the seat next to her, which, as I got a closer look, was of course, labeled 8C. I kinda felt like an idiot, but just kept smiling, and started to shyly laugh.

"Uh, thanks, I guess I just didn't see it before..." I told her, as I reached upward to place my bag in the overhead storage, and I looked back at her just to see her smiling, and pulled out a light novel from a small bag that she had on her lap.

"I know, you walked past your seat three times already, it was actually kinda funny..." She said, not really bothering to make eye contact, although, I could just barely see her looking at me, as if to catch any sudden reaction.

"But then, why didn't you stop me the first time?" I asked her as I sat down, but instead of answering right away, she turned to the next page in the book, although for some reason, I had this feeling she wasn't actually reading it.

"Wasn't sure if you were actually looking for you seat, but then I noticed that you looked really confused the third time..." She retorted blandly. I guess that answer was just a way of saying that watching me being lost was assuming. Before I could say anything else, I could hear the instruction for all the passengers to buckle their seat belts, and to prepare for take off. At which point, Shizuku and I both placed and fastened the black belts across our waists. Although it didn't make her take her eyes off the book in her hand.

"What are you reading?" I asked her, causing her to look up, and there wasn't much interest on her face.

"Just some fantasy book that I picked up from the library, not really sure what it's about..."

"Then why would you choose that book?" I asked, slightly confused by her decision. If I were to pick to read, I would certainly want to know at least vaguely what the story line would be about, otherwise, how would you know wether you would be interested in it?

"You know, just because you don't know what it's about, doesn't mean that it won't be of interest to you." She started to say, as she looked out the window, since she was in the window seat, and slightly leaning over to see out of it too, I could see that were rising up from the ground. But Shizuku quickly snapped her head back to looking at me.

"Also, sometimes, I find the summaries of books misleading. If you just read the description of the book, you would really know if it is any good or not until you open it and take a look." She said with a smile once again spread across her face.

"So you just read randomly chosen books all the time?" I asked her, I realized that the subject was a bit bland, but it did count as a conversation, didn't it? And she probably has interest in the subject herself.

"No, only for the fantasy genre, but I do try to avoid ones that involve vampires and werewolves..." She said with a sigh, while she had started to eye the back of the hardcover book, and judging from the kind of reaction she had on her face after she looking at it for a couple seconds, I think I had a pretty good idea what her "randomly chosen" book was about.

"Is it about vampires?" I asked her as she was putting it back into her bag, earning a small glare in return.

"Maybe..." She told me a small smirk on her face, and started to search for something else in her bag. I was guessing she had a back up book in case she didn't find the first one interesting. But instead, she pulled out something flat, and silver, which I soon recognized to be an mp3 player. Hm, I never knew that Shizuku was interested in music, but hey, isn't everybody these days? After a second, she started to sense that I was looking at her while she was getting out a pair of ear buds, resulting in another small smile from her.

"These long trips can get boring sometimes..." She told me, and I guess she would be the expert on that, since like she said in the past, she used to move from place to place all the time. And hopefully, the key words in the sentence are used to.

I just remembered that I hadn't brought anything to occupy myself with over the flight, and well, that must have been a stupid move on my part, because now I would have nothing to do for, how long was this plane ride again?

"About three hours I guess, at least Shizuku was smart, unlike you." Dark told me, and I couldn't help but roll my eyes, I should of known that he wouldn't completely leave me be on the trip, although, I kinda had to admit that he was right this time.

"Well, too late now, what do you think I should do?" I asked, doubting that I would actually get a useful answer out of him.

"Just do what I do most of the day!" He said in a cheerful tone, like he had been using lately, unless we were taking about something serious, although, whenever he was talking about something serious recently, it made me feel kinda uncomfortable, mostly because of what the topic was usually about.

"I think it would be kind of hard to annoy myself for the entire ride." I told him, mostly, I was being truthful, but I have to admit I was getting back at him a little from all of his unnecessary banter he threw at me.

"Actually, I was going to say that you should sleep, just like I do in all of your classes, but hey, I'm not going to judge you." He instructed me, before going silent, and my best guess was that he was probably already out. Sometimes, I wish I could just fall asleep whenever I wanted, but in order to do that, I would probably have Dark in control of my body, but I wasn't going to take that risk just to get some rest.

Sighing, I tried laying back, and got into a somewhat comfortable position, and before I knew it, I had found what I had been looking for, the sweet sense of being unconscious.

"Attention all passengers, we will be descending very shortly." I heard the overhead speaker say, right before I started to shift around in my seat, wait, did I sleep through the entire ride? I guess I could count that as a good thing.

As I lazily opened my eyes, everything seemed kind of foggy to me, but that make just be because my eyes haven't adjusted to the bright light yet. Like when you've been sleeping for a long time, and then you open your eyes to the bright sunlight, and your natural reaction is to shut you eyes again. But, I forced them open, and the first thing I saw was Shizuku looking out the window, well, her back was faced to me, so I was guessing she was looking out the window, with her mp3 player still in her hand.

Did she stay up this entire time? I asked myself, because I knew that I would never be able to do that, even if I did bring something along with me to occupy myself. But then again, like she's said before, she does travel a lot, so she would probably be used to it by now.

"Hey, Shizuku, we're landing soon." I told her, because I could see that she was still listening to music, but she didn't move, or give any sign that she had heard me.

Maybe she has her music too high... I thought, but even if it was, wouldn't I hear it too? That happens sometimes on the bus, when some people turn their music up too loud and you start to hear it too. I kinda found it annoying when it happened, but it's just one of those things you have to live with. But now, I couldn't hear any noise coming from it, so wouldn't she be able to hear me?

"Shizuku?" I said, a little concerned, and slightly shook her shoulder, but she still didn't move, and was very limp. At this point, I was leaning over in my seat to see her face, and when I did, I saw that her eyes were still closed, and her breathing was soft and even. She had fallen asleep in a sort of unusual position though, the position itself wasn't strange, but considering she pretty much out cold in that position, it was a bit peculiar.

She looked exactly like she did before I fell asleep, her elbow was on the arm of the chair closest to the window, and her head was supported by her chin being placed in her hand, like she was staring out the window.

"She looks even cuter asleep, and I didn't even think that was possible!" Dark said, surprising a little bit by the sudden out burst, but I quickly got over it, although I didn't really like the idea of him staring at Shizuku while she was sleeping, so I turned to the other side.

"Ah, don't be like that Daisuke! Besides, don't you have to wake her up?" He told me, and even if I hated to admit it, he had a point. She would have to wake up to get off the plane, and since I'm the one sitting next to her, I guess that means that I'm the one who should do it.

"Shizuku, wake up..." I quietly said, and started to lightly shake her shoulder in attempt to wake her, but I had no luck, so I started to start pushing her a little more roughly, although not by much.

"Come on, you have to wake up!" I said one more time, since I was starting to get a little agitated, but tried to keep calm head. Although, after what seemed to be forever, (which was probably only a couple of seconds) she started to stir in the plane seat, which just resulted in her switching from facing the window, to moving to the other side of the chair, now facing me, and her eyes leisurely opened.

When she actually sat up, she still only looked half awake, and she had glazed-over eyes, like she had been brainwashed in her sleep. Not necessarily a fantastic thing, but it was better than he being asleep, at least, I hoped it was.

"Um, Shizuku? Are you feeling okay?" I asked in a concern tone, and I was just expecting her to just nod instead of actually speaking and words.

"Shì, tóng xué.."(1) She mumbled, although I'm not completely sure if she was speaking another language, just speaking gibberish, or I just couldn't hear what she said correctly. But, she removed her earbuds, and placed her belongings in her bag like everything was normal.

"Are you sure you're feeling alright?" I inquired, but when I looked into her eyes again, they seemed to be back to their normal, crystal blue state, I guess she got over that pretty quick.

"Oh yeah, fine. Just, when I first wake up, I'm not well, fully awake, but I get over it after a minute." She said, and a small grin was across her face, like nothing had happened. "Why, did I say something weird?"

"No, I don't think so..." I informed her, and I felt a sudden movement like the whole plane had been situated in another angle, when I saw after looking out the window, we were shifting toward the ground, since I noticed that we were now landing, and outside, it was slightly snowing. I wonder where we are?

"I believe we're in Sapporo(2), which is actually pretty far up north in Japan compared to Azumano..." She explained to me, as if she had been reading my mind. As I felt the small impact as the plane came in contact with the ground.

It felt like a bumpy landing, but when the plane stopped jerking up and down, I looked over at Shizuku, who was holding her head with a pained look on her face.

"Shizuku! Did you hit your head on something?" I slightly demanded, while taking hold of both of the shoulders, so she could balance herself out, but she didn't look so full of life, and was slightly pale, what was wrong with her?

"I-I'm fine..." She murmured after a second, although, she didn't look as great as she claimed.

"Are you sure? Do you need to see a doctor or something?"

"No, I'm alright, trust me." I heard her reassure, as she started to stand up, just like the other passengers had already done, and I knew that I wouldn't want to be late to catch up with the rest of the class...

"I just get some migraines sometimes, so don't worry about it!" Shizuku cheerfully added, reaching upward into the overhead compartment where I had previously placed my bag before I had sat down. And after a second of streching up as high as it looked she could possibly reach, she handed me my own bag, and carried what I presumed to be her own.

"Thanks." I told her, and put on a very broad smile on my own face. "So, you ready to have some fun?" I quizzed her, as we both started striding off of the plane, catching a glimpse of Riku and a couple of other of our classmates.

"Yeah, you have no idea how much I'm looking forward to this week!" She exclaimed, as we both advanced towards the rest of them, Shizuku walking ahead of me, since she was just a bit faster, that, and my bag was slightly slowing me down.

I think that the only one that's more excited about this trip than me would be her... I thought to myself, because she seemed overjoyed at the thought of this week, and it even looked like something had changed in her smile, although I didn't have the slightest idea what it was.

Dark's POV:

Migraines, huh? I thought about for a moment, although I knew Daisuke couldn't hear my thoughts like I could his, so I knew he wouldn't really understand everything I had suspicions about. But the main one was why Shizuku had practically collapsed on the plane, because I had a feeling that wasn't any normal headache.

When Daisuke touched her, the magic I sensed being released form her was crazy! I pondered, wondering if my theory had been right all along, although deep down, I had been hoping it wasn't. Well, there was only one guarantee way to figure it out, and I would have to do it myself.

"Hey, Daisuke..."

"Yeah, what is it?" He quickly responded, even though I could tell he was kind of eager to stop talking to me, and get back to Shizuku, Riku, and a bunch other girls that were supposedly in his class as well. But I wouldn't blame him, I would rather be talking to a bunch of girls than him any day.

"I've decided when I want you to play up your half of the agreement." I directed him, but barely wanted to let him in on my full plan, at least, not just yet.

"Oh, great..." He replied, and I couldn't help but snicker, even just a little at his reaction.

Trust me Dai, you barely know the half of it.

(1) I'm not completely sure about this translation, but I know for a fact that "tóng xué" means "classmate", and I think that "Shì" means "yes", that's what I want it to mean, but I'm not sure. Basically, it's suppose to mean "Yes, classmate" in Chinese.

(2) The northern-most fairly large city in Japan, which is on the island of Hokkaido, but Sapporo is supposedly not nearly as cold as the rest of the island. (It's amazing what you'll find when you google something)

A/N: Please, if you have a heart, read this note to the very bottom. On Monday, February 21, a boy that I knew passed away. I may write on how there might be pain in suffering in this world, but life is a gift, and death is something that should not be toyed with. None of my friends or I want to believe this is true, because he was such a fun loving, energetic, and colorful person who could make everybody smile. You may hear about deaths in news, but when it happens to someone you know, it's just hard to bear. I wish that I could see him one more time, because, even if he wasn't my best friend, he was still as kind to me as he was to everyone else, and I will always appreciate that.
Please don't comment on this note, but do give him a moment of silence, because he does deserve that. God bless Jabu Summers, and hope that he is in a better place.

My next update will be March 5th, and that's a promise.