Pairing: Kenkeru/Takeken

Status: One Shot/Completed

Summary: Ken would like to understand how to be kind. Takeru makes him learn.

Disclaimer: Don't own it.

Timeline End of the anime.

Kindness

What is kindness?

I often ask myself that question whenever I stare at my crest.

Why, of all people, it is me who receive it?

I am absolutely sure that there are a lot of people who deserve it more than me. However, no matter how long I stay up thinking about it, I couldn't give an answer that would satisfy me.

I then asked you, The Bearer of Hope.

You answer the question that made me sleepless so easily.

"Kindness is the desire within us to help other people who need it, whether physically or emotionally. We acted upon our desire and wouldn't ask for anything in return. But, it is something difficult to be done," you laughed somewhere in between gentleness and youthfulness.

The answer satisfies me but I found out that I never really experience it. Until one night, when all of us –new and old digidestinied- camped out. I shared a camp with you.

That night, in your sleep you cried silently, you back that faced me was tense. It probably was just my eyes but I could see dark shadows around you, threatening to eat you up from inside.

So now I know, this is what you've been fighting all the time. And you bear it with smile in the daylight and tears at night. And for the first time, I feel kindness within me rise. I want to ease your burden.

You, Takeru, made me learn how to be kind.

-OWARI-