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Contains yaoi or male x male relationships, and mature themes; you have been warned. Constructive criticism is welcome but flames will be ignored.

This is my first fan fiction ever, so read and review please ^^; look out for rating changes

Chapter 1-

Always there are the light and the dark; the dark which attempts to consume and the light which banishes the dark. Twin forces caught eternally in war, but it is on this war they live for without one the other loses meaning. For who among those forever in blackness cares what light is? Who among those who have never seen night thinks of darkness? You see no one would even contemplate an absence of light if there was always light, nor would one think of a force to drive away the dark if they had lived forever in blackness. It is only when one has both the dark and light that one can truly understand the necessity of their conflict and to philosophize about their meaning. Once one side overcomes the other both will cease to exist.

He was having a nightmare. He tossed and turned and screamed in his sleep. Cold sweat beaded on his skin and he clawed at the sheets. When he woke up he never looked rested, during the day he was skittish and irritable. Wormmon was beginning to worry about his Ken. The other digi-destined were too. "Is something bothering you Ken?" asked Hikari one day after school when she had noticed Ken sleeping in class. That was something he never did. They sat down on the school steps Ken began speaking "I've been having these nightmares Hikari." Ken saw the look of concern on the girl's face and quickly said "I'm sure it's nothing though. I'm just overworked I guess. No need to worry Hikari" and he smiled. "Well if you say so. Just be sure to tell someone if it gets worse. Why don't you come to the park with us? Takeru, Yamatto, Sora, Taichi, and I are having a picnic tomorrow." She said. "Of course Hikari! I'd be glad to. By the way I know Daisuke has a soccer trip but why isn't everyone else coming?" Hikari thought for a moment before answering "well you know Jou is studying abroad still, Koushiro is in Colorado, Miyako is visiting Mimi in New York, and Iori has a kendo match that day." She stood up and grabbed her backpack "I guess I'll see you then Ken, I have to get home before Tai calls the SWAT team." She hurried off down the road shouting back "and don't forget Wormmon!"

Being invited to the picnic made him feel better and he knew wormmon would enjoy playing with the other digimon. I guess I should be getting home Ken thought. He only lived a few blocks away and about three blocks from his house he saw Takeru going into a flower shop. Ken's curiosity rose and he peaked into the window of the shop. Takeru was looking at bouquets of pink and white roses, apparently trying to decide between two different styles. Now why would Takeru be buying roses? Ken thought. Takeru finally chose one and paid for it then was turning around to leave, Ken didn't want to be seen spying so he quickly hid in an alley next to the flower shop. Ken watched Takeru Walk with his roses until he turned a corner and he could no longer be seen. Ken continued on his way home trying to think of who Takeru would be buying roses for, he supposed they were for Hikari, everyone knew Takeru had a thing for her and everyone knew pink was her favorite color. Ken found himself wishing he was in Hikari's position. Why couldn't Takeru get roses for him? That stopped him in his tracks. Ken was jealous that Hikari got roses from Takeru? No, that couldn't be right. No matter how he turned it over in his head that was the only thing he came up with. Ken promptly tried to think of something else

In front of his apartment door Ken stood, ready to put his key into the lock when the apartment door opened and hit him in the face. "Oh I'm sorry Kenny. Let me help you up." His mother was going to go grocery shopping and Ken had had the misfortune of trying to get in while she was trying to leave. "Thank you. I'm okay mama." Ken said once he had gotten back on his feet. hurried down the stairs telling her son to put some ice on his head and that she would only be an hour. Ken closed his apartment door and went straight to his room to see wormmon. The little insect was lying on ken's bed using his little claws to flip through a novel. Ken had never noticed Wormmon do anything like that but he supposed that digimon had to do something while the kids were busy or at school. "Hey wormmon, Hikari invited us to a picnic tomorrow in the park." Ken told the little green digimon. Wormmon scuttled over and hopped into Ken's arms "that's great Ken." The insect thought for a moment "we should bring something. Hmmm, I know! I'll make some potato salad." And he scuttled off in the direction of the kitchen.

Ken had absolutely no idea how a creature like wormmon (with his little claws and small stature) would go about making potato salad, but he'd seen the digimon do seemingly impossible things before. He had the oddest image of wormmon using his silk for pulleys and levers. Of course the digimon was wearing a yellow hard hat, and holding a clip board like the leader of a construction project. Ken laughed at his own imagination before considering. "Wormmon mama will be back in an hour. Don't go nuts!" he could hear Wormmon's soft laughter from the kitchen which brought another smile to the boy's face.

Ken sat down to do his homework and after doing a couple of worksheets got stumped on a problem. He looked in his backpack and realized that he had forgotten his textbook in his locker at school. He checked his watch, he'd have to convince a janitor to let him in but Ken Ichijoji couldn't not do his homework. That was just unthinkable. He hurried to the school, found a janitor to let him in then got his textbook. Before he knew it he was already going up the steps of his apartment building but something made him drop his textbook. On his doorstep was the same bouquet of pink and white roses that he had seen Takeru buying with a little white tag that read "Ken"