-Kuori-
After Miyuki left the house I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. When I saw them kiss my heart shattered into a thousand prices. Walking in on Taisuke and Miyuki kissing…’I should have expected it. Miyuki loves him; I should just stay out of it. As myself and as Zero.’ I thought and slowly got out of bed and went back to the basement. I found a necklace with wings; I remembered stealing this necklace a year ago. I couldn’t remember what its abilities were but I figured it was worth a shot. I clutched it in my right hand and went back up stairs. It was getting dark outside but I didn’t want to take any chances of Taisuke or Miyuki coming over and barging in into my room so I went to the bathroom and locked the door.
I set it on the sink and pricked my finger then held it over the pendent that was on the chain. “Awaken Kaito, I release you from sealed prison.” I muttered then the blood dripped from my finger and onto the charm. A small purple glow surrounded the wings then quickly faded. Put the necklace on around my neck then looked at my self in the mirror. I couldn’t go as myself or Zero to Paris. “What am I going to do?” I muttered I didn’t want to change my height or body structure so I decided to keep that. “What if I grow my hair out a bit?” I asked myself and did just that. I stopped when my bangs were pretty much at my mouth and the back of my hair was a bit between my shoulder blade but it was still messy. I darkened my eye color to a deep blue. “I look like an older version of myself.” I laughed a little bit. But I liked it so I decided that I was going to stick with it and I went to bed. I had to at least get some sleep before I went to Paris.
I decided that I was going to leave in the morning. I knew that Taisuke and Miyuki were going to be leaving tonight and that they were probably at the airport now so there was no point in calling Miyuki or Tai to say have fun. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
~*~
I woke up with my bangs in my eyes. ‘I didn’t change back when I fell asleep.’ I thought brushing some of them behind my ear. “Well that’s good to know.” I muttered and stretched and looked at the clock. It was three in the morning. That wasn’t too bad I went to bed around eight last night. So I got up and got changed into my black cargo pants and my under armor then I threw a t-shirt over my under armor. I made sure that I had everything else in my bag and put the necklace back on and tucked it under my shirt. Then I went around the house to make sure that everything was turned off. I grabbed my keys and locked the door as I shut it behind me. I taped the charm that was on the necklace then black wings popped up on my back. I was able to move them like they were my own. From tip to tip they seemed to be about fifteen feet. I took off and considering that they were magic I was flying much faster then what a commercial airplane could fly. I don’t know how fast I got there due to the time change between France and America. It was a six-hour time difference. So with France time I got there at 9 in the morning.
I dropped into an ally-way and the wings disappeared. I ran my fingers through my hair a couple of times trying to get the snarls out then I walked out of the ally and towards the museum that I could see that I wasn’t to far away from. I paid to get in and started walking around. My parents didn’t tell me which artifact I was looking for so I had to search of the magical presence of the thing. It was nowhere on the first floor which was kind of disappointing. That would have made of an exciting time to try and get the artifact if it was on the first floor. So I went up the stairs and the magic hit me like a rock just hit me in the face. I knew that I was close so I followed it and stopped in front of a glass rose. I felt a tap on my shoulder so I turned around
“I thought that…” It was Miyuki.
My heart starting pounding ‘Please don’t recognize me.’ I thought.
“Oh I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else…” A blush formed across her face and she looked away “Wow this is really embarrassing…I-I’m just going to go.” She said and quickly walked back to Taisuke and they kept walking.
I turned and sighed in relief 'Problem averted. Maybe I should have changed my hair color to a burnet instead of keeping the same hair color.’ I thought and continued walking around to look at the other artworks and making sure that started to get the layout of the building and all of the escape routs. I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I pulled it out and unlocked it. I saw that it was a text form Miyuki. I figured that I might as well open it to see what she said.
You’ll never guess what I just saw.
I rolled my eyes and clicked reply then slid my phone open so I could text a response. What Zero in broad day light?
No, someone that looked like you, but with longer hair and darker eyes. He looked like an older version of you.
Did you talk to him?
Well um…
You really thought it was me didn’t you?
Yes
Lmao
It wasn’t funny
Your face got really red didn’t it?
shut up
No because I think it’s funny
You’re such a jerk
Yea, but I’m your jerk
Well I should probably let you go
Alright then talk to you later
Love you
Love you too I closed my phone and stuck it back in my pocket. After I went through the rest of the museum then left. I was starting to get hungry and I had some time to kill so I went to a little café that wasn’t too far away from the museum. I ordered a triple berry smoothie and a sandwich then sat down at one of the high tables that had three chairs at it. I figured that would be better from taking up a booth.
“Hey you were in the museum.” I heard Miyuki say and I turned to look at her with a lazy expression on my face.
“So we meet again.” I smiled at her lightly.
“I didn’t ask you last time but what’s your name?” She asked.
“My name is Drake Harper.” I completely made up right on the spot.
“So are you from the States?” She asked sitting with me and Taisuke came over with their drinks and some food.
“Yes, I’m just visiting some family for a while.” I said leaning back in my chair and slipping my hand into my pocket to turn off my phone just in case. “So what about you two?” I asked.
“Oh we’re here sight seeing.” Taisuke stated.
“I heard that The Infamous Zero is coming here to steal something tonight.” I smirked moving some hair out of my eyes.
“Really?” Miyuki said with excitement.
“That’s the real reason why you two are here isn’t it?” I asked and Taisuke glared at me and I laughed a little. “Don’t worry you two aren’t the only ones, I’m sure that there are a lot of others here that want to see Zero too.”
“Are you going to go and see him too?” Miyuki asked with excitement in her voice.
I shook my head. “Na, I’m not into celebrities that much.” I smiled “But if you were inviting me to come thanks anyways.”
“Well we should get going Mi.” Tai stated.
“Mi, that’s a cute nickname.” I said.
“My best friend calls me that all the time. Well bye.” She waved and followed Tai out the door of the café.
I weaved my fingers together and rested my chin on top of them. ‘So I just have to start a little bit earlier tonight.’ I thought.
After a bit longer of sitting there I got up and walked around until it dusk then I hid in an ally and changed into Zero shifted my clothes that I was wearing earlier into my bag and tapped the charm to summon the wings again then I took off into the sky and towards the museum. I got to the museum right as the camera crews were getting there and the crowd was forming. ‘Perfect timing.’ I thought and swooped onto the roof and hid the wings again. “Time to get to work.” I muttered and ran to the door that led to the stair well.
Everything seemed to be running smoothly when I cracked the code on the security system. I quickly grabbed the Cascading Heart and made a run for it. When I hit the staircase the alarms started to go off. “Damn it.” I grumbled and started skipping every other step to get up to the roof faster.
I got up to the roof and there weren’t any helicopters around yet but there were spotlights. “I have to get out of here.” I muttered to myself and went to tap the charm.
“Zero.” I heard Miyuki say and I stopped short and turned around.
“Mi-Miyuki?” I said trying to sound shocked that she was there. “What are you doing here?” I asked backing up towards the edge of the building. I knew that Tai had to be around here somewhere.
“I could ask you the same question.” She said.
“This is my job.” I told her. “Now get out of here or you’re going to get hurt.”
“Really and who’s going to hurt me?” She asked then I heard a shot go off and I couldn’t move in time the bullet hit me in the for arm and I dropped the Cascading Heart and it shattered on the rooftop. A huge cloud of pink smoke formed around me and I started coughing. I heard another shot go off and this time it hit my leg I had to get out of there so I tap the charm and pushed off the ground and flew into the night sky and took off as fast as I could. “Damn it…” I muttered as I held on to my arm and I could feel my leg was bleeding pretty bad. “Isn’t there a super speed mode on this or something?” I grumbled and I just started over the ocean. It felt like it took forever just to get back over land then I have to fly to my hometown, which after getting over land didn’t seem like it took too long.
It was still dark when I got to my house. Stumbling into the house and tapped the charm to make the wings disappear and went into the bathroom. My first priority was how bad I got hit with the bullets. I figured that they just grazed me. When I got my shirt off to look at my arm I was right that one wasn’t that bad and it had already stopped bleeding so I just cleaned off the blood and put a bandage over it then came the one on my calf. I pulled up my pants to see how bad it was and my socks were pretty much soaked in blood from it but the bleeding had stopped but still it was a deep wound and it was going to take a while for it to heal. ‘What is the effects of the Cascading Heart?’ I thought as I finished wrapping my leg then I went into my room while it was still dark and just went to sleep.
