"My bishounen and I found a body in the woods to the west of Sea Crest city…"

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"You know something?" I leaned over to whisper to Kakashi.

"What's that, Danny-chan?" He replied, watching the hustle and bustle of the clearing around us.

"One day, just a little while after I bought my motorcycle, someone hit me at a crossroads. It smashed my bike up and broke my arm, gave me one hell of a road rash too… and our emergency services people took three times this long just to get to me… and I was right down the road… It's sad, but I guess otaku just make better everything, ne?" I grinned, reminiscing.

"You broke your arm?" He asked after indulging me with a crescent eyed smile.

"Yea, in three places. They had to put pins in it and everything," I said, taking off my jacket and showing him the long bright pink scar on my arm. "They said I was lucky to get feeling in it at all after the accident. When mom let me take a soak in her tub, it's got those water jets yanno, that supposedly help you relax? Yea…I definitely would have traded away all feeling in my arm at that point." I laughed, rubbing my thumb over the scar as I remembered mom's face, when she found me screaming in the bathroom, unable to even move because it hurt so badly. She had thought the water jets might help me relax, but my arm was right over top of one when they turned on, she wouldn't believe me that it wasn't her fault, that we wouldn't have known it would happen like that.

"Ma'am?" We were both pulled out of our little conversation by the Dark Mousy Bishounen who stood before us with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Yes sir?" I said.

He motioned for me to follow him, so that's just what I did. When Kakashi fell in line behind me, Dark stopped, turning to face us. "Just the trainer, Kakashi san." He said, not a trace of a smile on his face.

"Where she goes I go." He said simply, stepping closer to loom over my shoulder at him.

"I said, just the trainer." Dark bit out, glaring at the scarecrow. Kakashi didn't say a word, just placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Kashi, it's cool. I think the ANBU want you anyway, I can handle myself." I smiled disarmingly at the Dark, the hand behind my back flashing the kunai Iruka had given me at Kakashi before slipping it back up my sleeve. With that, Kakashi shrugged, turning to walk away as if he didn't want to argue with me.

"We just need to ask you a few questions miss." Dark said, almost sounding apologetic, as he led me over to one of the fallen logs the BWES personnel were using as seats.

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After Kakashi, Iruka and I had all made our rounds with the Bishi World Emergency Services team and the ANBU, answering all the questions that they asked and dealing with Kakashi's protective streak, they headed off to take a look at the other campsite, and we settled back down to relax and eat something.

"That was….pleasant…"I said carefully, not sure how to really come out and say 'wow, those ANBU are some jacked up psycho scary freaks.'

Iruka chuckled, apparently understanding what I was getting at. "They can be intimidating, but that is the whole reason behind their existence Danny-san." He said gently, adjusting his son in his arms.

"I guess." I said, stoking the campfire back to a blaze. Kakashi was rummaging around in one of the capsule fridges, pulling out some ramen for us, and the remaining soup mush for Iruka Chan to eat.

We sat in silence for the few minutes it took to warm our food, and then slurping sounds filled the clearing as Iruka and I enjoyed our food, as Kakashi had cleared his bowl is .02 seconds flat, and was feeding Chibi Iruka.

"So…" Iruka broke the silence first, setting his bowl aside and looking over at Kakashi and his son.

"What's up Iruka san?" I prompted him when he spoke no more. He fidgeted, poking his fingers together.

"I was wondering… well, what you were planning to do now?" He asked, looking at the ground.

"Well, we were heading west towards the next city when all of this happened." I said, pulling out my dex. After a few minutes of trying to figure out how Violet and Lia had managed to get maps out of this blasted things, I gave up, chucking it at Kakashi in mock disgust.

"You are hopeless, Danny chan. . . I've only known you two days and I've already got that figured out." Kakashi groaned, shaking his head at me as he brought up the map in no time.

"Shut it, Kashi…you get to be the keeper of the dex from now on, I'm full of epic fail when it comes to that thing." I grinned.

"It's just like that phone of yours." He reasoned, holding the dex out to me.

"Nu-huh…it hates me." I protested, scooting away from the dex like it was a disease.

This little random act of stupidity got Iruka to laugh, which had been my goal, so I smiled, packing up the bowls and trash from our lunch.

"You can keep the hoodie," I said, gesturing to the sweatshirt I had bundled Chibi Iruka in to keep him warm, "I have others, and his blanket was filthy."

Iruka tucked one of the draw strings back into the hood of the sweatshirt, and looked up. "Actually, I was wondering if I could come with you. If you don't mind of course," He said quietly, "ruka is due to grow any time now, and I don't really have any desire to go back home. With my Sakura chan gone there's nobody there to hold me back."

"Are you…sure?" I asked, eying him cautiously. "I can release you. I only caught you so you wouldn't kill us. You aren't required to stay with us."

"But I want to. Honestly. You're a good trainer, from what I can see, and I'd like to stay." He argued, eyes wide with his conviction.

"Well... I guess. But what about Chibi Iruka? Doesn't he need, I dunno…clothes? And actually baby food? And toys and stuff?" I asked curiously.

"Well, like I said, he should be evolving into a full grown Chibi soon, he should have already, but the trauma of the past few days has probably delayed it some. And we're only a day's hike away from the next city." He said, pointing towards the west with his free hand.

"Danny chan," Kakashi whispered discreetly, leaning in to rest his chin nearly on my shoulder, "He doesn't want to go home. How would you feel to go back to a place where every last inch reminded you of what you've lost?" I covered my hand with my mouth, and nodded.

"Alright. Let's go find the ANBU and Police, and make sure they don't need us anymore, so we can head out."

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Bishi-dex

Dark Mousy – Dark Mousy, Also known as Phantom Thief Dark, is a D. character. Dark is a selfish Bishounen who covets anything he considers to be good art. Darks are very protective of their trainers, and love to flirt. He is an alter ego of Daisuke Niwa. In the wild, trainers can find 'live' Darks, who do not switch between forms, but are actually just Darks, or they can find Niwa males that may have inherited the Mousy spirit.

A.N.

I am so sorry I haven't updated in so long. I was laid off my last job, and was job hunting for the past few months. Urgh, joy of joys. But I've picked this up again, and have the next few chapters already typed up, so expect them to be posted by next week. Also, if anyone is interested in being my beta reader I would be super grateful. I try to make sure everything is good, but I know I miss things.

Once again, if you'd like to be a trainer, please send me an email at sontsunami 06 aol .com without all the spaces, and let me know the name, appearance, age, how long in the bishi world, what bishis and how they interact. Please don't leave that info in a review, as the last time I wrote a story that let people create their own characters, it was removed because reviews aren't supposed to be used like that I guess.

Ja ne,

Tsunami