A SHOT IN THE DARK

Chapter One: Café au Lait with Two Sugars

Pairing: DarkxDaisuke

A.N Just a quick explanation about the title, Shot in the Dark is a type of coffee. It consists of a shot of espresso in a regular-sized coffee cup, which is then filled with drip coffee. But you don't have to look too much into it. Since, the main setting for this fic is a café; I named the chapters after types of coffee.

I do not own any D.N Angel characters.

"Why do I have to do this!?" Daisuke screamed in protest as his twin sister, Shiori, plonked a girl's wig on his head. The wig was the same colour as his hair, a dark rich red, but was slightly longer than his own. A white maid's headpiece was attached to the top. His face was also caked with make-up, from foundation to lipstick.

His sister had recently broken her leg while riding a bicycle. This incident had led to Daisuke uncovering Shiori's secret part time job as a waitress at the local Maid Café.

"Why do I have to dress as a girl and substitute for you?!"

"The café is really popular. No matter how many of us are working, it's still not enough. We are already short staffed today. After all, we're twins and we look the same. Just stop complaining and put a smile on your face."

Shiori quickly made last adjustments to Daisuke's make up as some had rubbed off during Daisuke's struggle.

"But I'm a boy! Why not hire a substitute GIRL?! Why do I have to dress like you?! What do I do if someone recognises me?!"

"Don't worry. The manager already agreed on this."

"What if someone from school…" Daisuke said still resisting but was cut off but the sound of a ringing bell.

"Quick, get out there! The customers are here!"

Shiori shoved her brother out from the staff room and into the view of the public.

"Good luck!"

Shiori quickly ran out of the café leaving Daisuke with the rest of the waitresses at the door, welcoming the customers.

Daisuke knew that it was inevitable that he would eventually meet someone he knew. He just hoped that it would be in the distant future.

Another jingle of the front door bell saw the entrance of a group of three boys.

"Master. Welcome home."

Daisuke joined in on the chorus of girls welcoming the three in with a curtsy, plastering a fake smile on his face.

Speak of the devil…

The three boys were wearing the same black uniform that Daisuke wears to school every day. Luckily, he didn't know any of them personally, but one face did catch Daisuke's eye. His shining dark purple hair and radiant amethyst eyes sparked a memory buried in the back of his mind.

Shit. Isn't that Dark Mousy from my class? Shit! Shit!! Shit!!!

Daisuke muttered several other curses under his breath.

"Do you know him?" whispered a fellow waitress who happened to be nearby.

"Yea, he's in my class." Daisuke whispered back.

I've never spoken to him before, but he'll know it's me for sure.

"Hey, Miu, can you attend to table five?! Thanks!"

The head waitress screamed in Daisuke's direction.

Miu?

Daisuke looked down at the heart shaped name tag on his maid apron. In giant bold letters was the name Miu.

What kind of name is Miu? You mean the waitresses here have aliases?

Daisuke sighed as it looked around the cafe for table five.

Just my luck.

Table five just happened to be the table that Dark was sitting at. Daisuke approached the table with caution.

If he hasn't recognised me already, he definitely will now.

Daisuke gulped as he smiled at his customers, ready to ask for their orders.

I just have to take this carefully and calmly. Get this over with as quick as possible.

Following the script given to him by his sister, he asked for their orders.

"Master, would you like something to drink or something to eat?" he said in the best girl voice he could pull off.

Please don't recognise me. Please don't recognise me. Please don't recognise me.

"Excuse me, Miu-san is it? This is our first time here. We saw the advertisement on T.V and were curious, so we came to check it out..."

The boy on the left kept talking as Daisuke zoned out, realising that Dark was staring into his eyes.

Not good!

The boy on the right realised that the two of them were staring at each other and interrupted his friend.

"You won't believe it this guy here was forced into coming here." He pointed at Dark sitting next to him, who now had a clueless look on his face. "He can't tell girls apart. He reckons they all look the same. That's why he doesn't have a girlfriend. Funny isn't it?" He chuckled to lighten the mood.

Can't tell girls apart? I'm dressed as a girl right now so he probably can't recognise me. Yes!

Daisuke relaxed and laughed with the boy.

"So you can't tell me apart from other girls here?"

"Ahh.. yea. Since it's my first time meeting you, I think it'll be a bit hard to..."

Dark trailed off, seeming a little ashamed.

"That's ok. So I can take your orders?"

Daisuke resumed his smiles.

"Oh yea. I'll have a Cafe au Lait with two sugars please."

"One piece of strawberry cheesecake please, Miu-san."

Dark took one more look at the menu and pointed down upon the Cafe latte.

"One cafe latte please."

Daisuke wrote down their orders and skipped off to the kitchen.

Just minutes later, he returned with all three orders, softly placing down the cheesecake and the cafe au lait.

There was a simple reason why Daisuke never wanted to work at a cafe.

Being his usual clumsy self, the cafe latte was placed onto the table in a rather awkward away, and tipped over spilling its contents over the table.

"I'm so sorry! Are you ok? I'll bring you another after I finish cleaning up."

Daisuke grabbed a napkin out of the front pocket of his apron to start wiping up his mess. At the same time Dark also grabbed a napkin and started cleaning up as well.

"I'm ok. It's fine. Let me help."

When Daisuke leant down to start wiping, Dark and his eyes met for a short few seconds as he stared into Dark's luminous dark purple eyes and Dark stared back at his ruby eyes. He suddenly broke the stare and cleaned up the last bit of cafe latte on the table.

"I'll be right back with a new cafe latte for you."

Daisuke rushed off before Dark could see his face that was slowly turning a light rose pink colour.

TRIVIA:
Since Daisuke doesn't actually have a twin sister, I just made up a character. The same character Shiori can be found in my other DarkxDaisuke fanfic called "Only the Ring Finger Knows the Truth".

CREDITS: Idea from Goshujinsama ni Kiwotsukete, chapter one.

Reviews: Greatly appreciated. "Reviews are like drugs, the more you have the happier you are." Thank you for reading.