Seeing the Tsukaimon run through the Thriller Ruins made his fingers twitch. Koh ignored it. Damn, it was tempting to go after them. It had been an urge for weeks now. It would round out his fighters, as least until he could find someone better.
But he couldn't think that anymore. He was a Light Fang now, not Julia's pet cat, not the Tamer Union spy. He was Koh of Light Fang, and the Puttimon he was training meant more than the Kuramon he had wanted to keep. So he went against every instinct that said jump in and kill and went towards heal, or kill with speed. It was like eating gluten if you had an allergy. The more angel dust he inhaled, the more dizzy he got by the end of the day and not even his Tamer Home could get all of it out of his clothes.
It didn't help that Puttimon was always so devoted to him, always poking at him and sitting in his lap and taking his strength like it was meant for him. It wasn't fair. He wasn't supposed to like this job.
But he did. He liked Glare and he liked his Digimon and he liked his new friends and the brightness of Sunshine City. It was so much easier to see.
He just, he couldn't be good.
The looks he got from his friends when he played a bit dirty, or covered his eyes at the afternoon sun, or when he could avoid everyone in Thriller Ruins like it was nothing, they were a bad sign. That meant they were getting suspicious.
He tried to stop. He couldn't. No matter how many Digimon he scanned or training fights he won, he was still different. He still couldn't stop. It just felt right.
Glare knew. He had to know. The way he looked at Koh told him how see through he really was. It wasn't fair. If he knew, then he ought to let him do what he wanted, say it was a new fighting technique against the Night Claw. Learn their ways.
But he never came forward and Koh knew he was too chicken to admit it himself. So he went along with the game, along with the easygoing cheer that was Light Fang until war broke out.
Then he met her, and his hackles rose.
A/N: Goodness, that outing took a while. Anyway, please read and review! If you have not read Abstracts, you really may not need to but you ought to to get the gist of the backdrop. Sort of.
Challenges: Pairing Diversity Boot Camp prompt 1 'tension', Gameverse Boot Camp prompt 13 'judicious', what-if challenge, 28 Days of Love day 17: write about a gameverse ship, Diversity Writing Challenge H22. write a fic that is T rated, and Jigsaw Puzzle challenge number 8.