A/N: Written for the Digimon Flash Bingo, #768 - Kanbara Takuya.
There's a Lack of Scars to Disprove the Dream
'It was a dream,' Kouji deadpanned.
'It wasn't,' Takuya protested. 'I didn't get these scars in a dream, you know.' Except Barbamon had healed the scars up and there was nothing to show. 'And that kid Taichi wasn't a dream. I don't know a Taichi.'
'I don't know a kid who looks almost like me either,' the boy returned, and the others blinked at that.
'You have dreams like that?' Tomoki asked.
Kouji just shrugged.
'Aren't dopplegangers bad luck?' Izumi sounded more curious than concerned though. And Kouji just shrugged again. He didn't seem to put much stock in the situation either.
Something tickled Takuya's mind, but he couldn't grasp the thought so he just went back to the original topic. 'He didn't look a thing like me...except maybe the goggles. But they were rounded...'
'But helping digimon digivolve?' Junpei asked. 'They do that well enough themselves.'
'I thought that too, but it was more than that.' Takuya waved a hand, as though the action could explain better than his words.
Kouji rolled his eyes. 'And all this happened in the time it took for us to blink...which also happened to happen together.'
Takuya opened his mouth to argue, but Junpei (perhaps unintentionally) cut him across: 'Those are pretty poor odds...'
'But it wasn't a dream...' Except his argument was getting weaker and weaker, even to his own ears. Even the cuts and bumps he'd gotten from his battle were fading in mind - and there were no bandages nor scars to prove they were even there. 'I guess it doesn't matter.' He'd learnt something important anyway.