Prodigy

by cam94509

Ken wants to have it both ways. Get the benefits he would have had with the dark spore, but not the costs. Can he earn with hard work what he nearly lost his soul for? And can he earn the love of the girl of his dreams, and more to the point, keep it?

1. Teaser

Prodigy:

Teaser:

A/N: this is actually relatively late in the story. Why were Ken's teammates kicking him, and why is Yolie so angry? You'll have to read the story to find out… If I ever get that far into the story.

My clothes were muddy. My side hurt like hell where my teammates had kicked me repeatedly. And then Yolie walked up to me.

Was I finally saved? I stood up, anticipating that she would at least forgive me, if not condemn the reaction of my teammates.

But I found that, once again, my feet were out from under me again. I fell to the grass again, and I realized that I wasn't forgiven. She offered me a hand up, and I accepted it, confused.

And then she kicked my legs out from under me again.

"This is the way you've treated me, and everyone else, Ken Ichi Joji. Me, in particular. Always promising that you're through lying to me, and then, just once I accept your hand up from the grass you've put me on, you trip me again with a lie or some other misdeed. Its over, Ken."

The pain in my side now was nothing at all. Even the worst pains I'd felt when I had been trying to make myself the prodigy again in sports and other physical activities, as well as mentally, although that had hurt far less, were nothing.

Didn't she know? I had worked so hard… For her! It wasn't fair.

It wasn't right.