Disclaimer: I own nothing involved in this story unless I invented it myself. This is written for fun, not for profit. All forms of feedback eagerly accepted. Concrit is loved the most, but everything is welcome.
Fandom: Digimon Adventure 02
Author: Higuchimon
Series Title: Bitter Bargain||Story Title: Give Me You
Characters: Ken, Daisuke||Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Word Count: chapter: 1,687||story: 1,687||Chapters: 1/5
Genre: Drama||Rated: R
Challenge: Diversity Writing, section H09, multichap with exactly 5 chapters; One Pairing Boot Camp, #07, request; Word Count Set Boot Camp, #28, 8,373 words
Notes: This is an AU similar to Lying Hearts in which the Chosen are now older and have fought the Kaiser for years without any clear victory; Ken's true personality is also closer to that of the Kaiser than anything else.
Summary: Daisuke wakes up to find the Digimon Kaiser seated by his bed. And the rest of the day doesn't get any better from there.
Daisuke rolled over, wrapped one arm around his pillow, and breathed in a deep, happy sigh. He loved mornings like this, where he didn't have to wake up for anything or anyone. They didn't come around all that often. He'd have to wake up later; they were going to the Digital World to try to take down more of the Kaiser's Towers, but later wasn't now.
But that didn't explain the odd, unnerving feeling that someone was watching him. His first instinct was his partner, but Chibimon didn't stare at him in a way that would make fear crawl up his spine – if he'd been a chocolate cupcake that would've been a different story – and anyway, Chibimon needed to spend this weekend in the Digital World.
He shifted. Along with the feeling of being watched, which he had grown rather used to during the years of their war against the Kaiser, a feeling of someone else being in the room slowly wound its way through him.
Still just a bit more asleep than awake, he started to wriggle around, determined to give Takeru or whoever it was that invaded his room without permission a good piece of his mind.
He met cold, but highly amused, violet eyes, and the words dried up in his mouth from shock alone.
"What are you doing in here?" He managed a question, even as he started to sit up, eyes flicking around for his D-3.
Oh. There it was. Over on the desk. Next to where the Kaiser sat.
Today wasn't getting off to a very good start.
The side of that thin, perpetually unamused mouth twitched. It wasn't a smile, but it gave off the impression of Kaiser – Ichijouji Ken – being amused anyway. After all of these years, Daisuke knew fairly well how to interpret most of those expressions.
"Waiting for you to wake up. I've devoted valuable hours when I could be working towards you today, Motomiya. I expect a proper recompense for them."
Daisuke blinked, rubbed his eyes, and gave serious thought to just closing his eyes and going back to sleep. He was obviously still dreaming, so why not?
He started to do so when the Kaiser's hand flashed out and wrapped around his wrist in a painful grip.
"You're staying awake," he growled, eyes not moving away from Daisuke. "I have a bargain for you and if you value your friends and your partner in the slightest, then you'll go along with it." Again that slash of movement that wasn't a smile but meant something made Kaiser happy.
Daisuke didn't like Kaiser being happy. It generally meant someone somewhere ended up in horrible pain of some kind.
"I'm going to have a shower, then," he decided. Maybe once he met some hot water he could think clearly enough to figure out whatever plans the Kaiser had and stop them. His usual tactics of bull straight ahead and damn the consequences probably weren't going to work on whatever it was. Probably. He'd rely on that if nothing else worked.
"Of course." Kaiser didn't move and Daisuke couldn't say that he'd expected him to. He retained that hint of amusement, especially as Daisuke realized all he had on right now were his boxers.
Well, not like I've got anything to be ashamed of. Daisuke threw off the blanket and scrambled to his feet, pointedly not looking at the Kaiser looking at him.
Five minutes and a blast of hot water to the face later, Daisuke slammed his way back into his room, dripping wet, clad only in a towel, and eyes wide with absolute confusion and rage.
"What are you doing in my room? How'd you even get in here?"
Kaiser's lips twitched a fraction as he rose up to his feet. "Get your clothes on and we'll discuss that."
Daisuke kept on staring, shaking in rage at the very thought – let alone the reality – of his personal private space having been invaded by his mortal enemy. There wasn't a great deal else that he could do, though.
He hadn't entirely ruled out rushing the other into the wall and keeping him there somehow until he could call the rest of the Chosen. Perhaps something of that showed in his eyes, as the Kaiser bent a stern look on him.
"As I said, the safety of your friends and your partner depends on you listening to me. And you're not going to listen if you're standing there half-naked." His eyes roved up and down Daisuke. "Not that the view isn't lovely."
Daisuke blinked once or twice, then turned a deep crimson and darted back into the bathroom. He didn't say that. He didn't say that at all.
Daisuke normally didn't think at his best until he'd had breakfast of some kind. So once he had himself sorted out and dressed, he marched right into the kitchen and started to fiddle around with what he could find there. Today he was on his own; Jun was spending the weekend with Shuu off doing fairy tale research or whatever it was they did when they were off together and his parents were off either visiting relatives or friends or going to a festival of some kind. He couldn't remember which one they'd said they were going to do.
Ultimately, what mattered was that he was alone, with the Kaiser, who'd somehow gotten into the apartment without anyone noticing him. He'd even gotten into Daisuke's bedroom, which made it even worse.
"You could make enough for a guest," the Kaiser's voice came from behind him. Daisuke tensed at the sound.
"You're not a guest. You're an invader." Daisuke didn't turn to look, but kept on assembling breakfast. He deliberately made enough just for himself, then headed over to the counter between the living room and the kitchen.
Kaiser's hand came down on his wrist again, not quite as hard as before, but enough so that Daisuke noticed.
"I shouldn't have to remind you of what I said." His voice remained soft and dangerous. Before Daisuke could question anything else, his enemy set a tablet down on the counter and flicked the screen with one slender figure. An image of the Digital World appeared, showing a group of familiar Digimon: all those of the Chosen.
They were going to stay there together to scout out some of the Kaiser's troops and see where we could best hit without getting hit back. No one thought anything of it; the territory they'd chosen to rest in didn't have any spires at all in it, and they could sleep in shifts to make sure they didn't get ambushed. It wasn't at all the first time this happened and it wouldn't be the last, either, Daisuke guessed.
With another tap of the Kaiser's fingers the view widened and tiny glimmers of red showed up in areas covered by shadows. Daisuke shook his head immediately.
"There aren't any spires there. You can't have any of your slaves there." Things could not change overnight, not like that, not in this war.
The Kaiser only smiled and changed the scene again. This time it moved in on one of the tall trees, mostly hidden by other trees and bushes. It took a few seconds for Daisuke to focus properly and realize that the tree wasn't a tree at all, but a spire covered up by other trees.
"You'd be surprised at what can be built with enough willpower behind it. But I think that's enough for now." He cleared the screen with another gesture. "Now, make me breakfast, then we're going to have a talk about what you're going to do for me."
Daisuke shook his head as fast as he could without his head actually flying off his neck. "I'm not going to do anything for you!"
No sooner had the words fallen from his lips than he wanted to take them back, recalling in sudden vivid fear what he'd just seen. The Kaiser had their partners all surrounded: his partner surrounded.
But now the Kaiser gave another of those odd not quite smiles. "I suppose it would be more accurate to say what you're going to do with me. But we can get into details after breakfast." He gave a small wave of one hand and Daisuke hissed, every instinct that he owned telling him that he should just ram Kaiser into the wall and force him to move his troops away from their partners.
What he did instead was go into the kitchen and start making another round of breakfast. He could feel Kaiser's gaze on his back and it took all he had to stop himself from going for another shower. He'd work through this. He absolutely would.
Finally he brought over breakfast and Kaiser started eating at once. Daisuke picked at his own food, not as hungry as he'd been before, and finally gave up on trying out his stock of patience.
"What is it that you want?" Whatever it was, he wasn't going to do it. Breakfast was one thing. Not screaming at the top of his lungs that Kaiser was there was another thing. Neither of those things could measure up to what Kaiser could want from him.
Kaiser, however, simply finished his breakfast before he gave Daisuke a firm, cool, appreciative look.
"I think it's time that we stopped fooling around on certain matters, Motomiya Daisuke."
Daisuke's stomach dropped out of his body. He stared, nothing coherent coming out of his mouth. What in any number of worlds was the Kaiser talking about? He started to ask something on that vein, but the words never came.
Kaiser leaned closer, grabbed hold of Daisuke's collar, and pulled him close. For even more reasons, nothing came out of Daisuke's mouth, which made it that much easier for the Kaiser to kiss him.
"We're going to get very close, Daisuke. I have such plans for you. For both of us. Cancel anything you thought you were doing today. Today, you're mine." Quick, harsh, brilliant smile. "And for a number of days after this, too."
To Be Continued
Note: Thank you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed the chapter. Please let me know what you thought of it if at all possible.
