Title: Shattered
By: Klyukaizer
Disclaimer: Meia and Nathan are the names I created for Ken's parents… they're not the original names.
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Ken waited patiently for Davis to arrive; somehow… he had the hope that Davis wouldn't lie to him this time. "Ken!" He heard his name and faced up to see the boy he was waiting for, running to him.
"You're late by 3 seconds!" Ken scolded in a joking manner. "Do I run that slowly?" Davis smiled.
"Yes, you do!" Ken laughed, "Let's get inside!"
All the while on the game, Davis would glance at Ken to see him staring into the field blankly. He knew something was bothering the genius… but didn't bother asking. He was too preoccupied at his own problems.
"What?!" Davis exclaimed, "Force? I'll force it out of him? How? Challenging him in a manhandle fight? I'm definitely going to lose, Ms. Inoue!" Davis yelled.
"That's not what I meant, Psychopathic Motomiya! Get him drunk!" Yolei explained.
"Drunk, huh! That's lame!" Davis crossed his arms. "You've got any more ideas?" Yolei asked while smiling evilly, "Place this in his drink while he's looking away!" Yolei handed Davis a small bottle.
"It contains Dad's strongest liquor! A normal kid who drinks at least this much will be drunk before you know it!"
"Yolei… I think this is pretty unfair for Ken's part… we're just playing around with his feelings!" Davis said nervously.
"Well… he did it to us before!" Yolei fought back. "Then doesn't make us any different from him!" Davis argued. "Look! We're just asking him his feelings about us, okay? We're not going to ask his inner most secret!"
"I can't do it!" Davis muttered. "What?" Ken looked at his friend, "Can't do what?"
"Umm… it's nothing!" Davis smiled anxiously and changed the subject, "Are you enjoying the game?"
"Yeah! I love this team so much! That's how I got my nickname!" Ken shared. "Really?" Davis asked. "Yeah! My team mates started calling me that when I first joined the Soccer Team at school… new comers were to endure hard training and it was only me who was able to join among the new trainees then." Ken blushed and scratched his cheek.
"Wow! Now I know!" Davis gasped, "H- hey, Ken!"
"Yeah?" Ken smiled. "There's a café everyone is talking about here in Odaiba… they said that they've got the best cream shakes! You wanna try 'em out?" Davis asked. "Sure!" Ken nodded. "Great!" Davis smiled back as they continued watching the game.
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"Wow! Did you see James hit that ball hard to the goal?" Davis asked as he jumped up and down. "Yeah! And did you see William block that ball? Everyone thought he wouldn't make it! But he did! It was so amazing, ne?" Ken asked. Davis nodded.
"Davis?"
"Hai?" Davis quickly looked at the dark-haired boy. "Thank you so much for inviting me to this game!" Ken gave his best smile. Davis smiled back, "It's my pleasure!"
Both of the friends looked at each other and smiled. "So, how about that cream soda?"
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"This tastes really good!" Ken exclaimed when he took a sip out of his cream soda. "Yeah… it does…" Davis muttered sadly. "Davis? What's wrong?" Ken asked.
"Umm… Ken?"
"Yeah?" Ken placed both his hands on the table. "What would happen… if you accidentally… spilled your secrets?" Davis asked. "Well… if that would happen to me… hmm…" Davis listened intently. "I don't know what would I do…" Ken said sadly, "But… it will pass someday!" Ken smiled back.
"Why? Did it happen to you?" Ken blinked. Davis quickly nodded in relief, "Umm… sort of!" Davis lied, "Don't be preoccupied by that problem, Davis!" Ken advised and Davis nodded silently.
"Cheers!" Davis grinned sadly as he raised his glass. Ken did the same and they both drank up.
"Excuse me for a while… I need to go to the washroom!" Ken said as he stood up.
"Do you want more of the Cream Soda?" Davis asked and Ken nodded, "Sure!"
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Davis looked at the genius silently as Ken sipped the last of his Cream Soda from the straw. He was really nervous this time and beads of sweat appeared from his face. Ken hiccupped as he cupped his mouth, "Excuse me!" Ken smiled.
Davis was looking now at his palms as it started to sweat too. "Davis, are you okay?" Ken asked wearily. "Umm… yeah, Ken! Everything's fine!" Davis smiled anxiously. "Let's go home, ne?" Davis asked he stood up. Ken stood up as well but then fell back to his seat.
"I- I don't feel so good!" Ken said as he grasped his head, "Must've had too much of that Cream Soda!" He chuckled. "Let's go home, Ken!" Davis pulled the boy but Ken didn't budge. "No! Let me (hick) go, Davis!" Ken snapped.
"You're drunk, Ken!" Davis scolded. "All because of a Cream Soda? (Hick) Impossible!" Ken argued as he waved Davis's hand away. Davis grumbled and laid Ken's arm around his shoulder and lifted him to his feet, "I'm taking you home!"
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On the way back to Ken's house, Davis didn't have the guts to ask Ken about his feelings or secrets.
/"I don't know what would I do…" Ken said sadly, "But… it will pass someday!" Ken smiled back/ He remembered the indigo's sad expression… he didn't want something to happen to Ken.
"Hey… Davis!" Ken called. "So you're awake! Is there anything you want?" Davis asked.
"Have you lost… someone important… in your life?"
Davis eyes widened. 'He's still drunk!' Davis cursed. "No… why is that?"
"I had…" Ken chuckled, "I lost my brother… because I killed him!" Ken laughed which made Davis raise an eyebrow, "No, you didn't!"
"Oh… yes, I did!" Ken insisted, "I was 6 at that time… Osamu-niisan died in a car accident!" Davis didn't answer. "Sometimes I wish that it was me in his place… like the time when I came back to the Real World!" Ken giggled. "People wanted me to be like my brother… And I really envy him! He's smart! He's handsome! And he's loved!"
"Ken… stop it!" Davis murmured, but Ken kept on going, "That's why… I wished for him to disappear! Which he did! And then… I became a monster! I didn't even knew what I was doing is wrong! I thought it was all a game… I thought my brother was a game! I thought he would just start again from the beginning and have full life points again!" Ken's chuckle became into a loud laugh.
"You're stupid, Ken!" Ken said to himself as tears swelled up from his eyes, "And now… you don't have a brother anymore!" Ken's tears flooded from his eyes as yelps of laughter escaped from his mouth. "That's enough…" Davis silenced the genius boy, "I've heard enough!" Davis tried to keep his tears within him.
Ken was silent for a while and then started, "Can I be your friend, Davis?"
"Eh?" Davis wondered. "I never had one in my life… Well, I used to have one… but now he's gone!" Ken said sadly, "He saved my life!"
"I am always your friend, Ken! Remember that! Yolei, Kari, TK, and Cody too!"
"Oh no! They're not my friends! Friends don't get mad at each other! And they're mad at me!" Ken laughed. "Ken! You're starting to creep me out!" Davis said as he pulled Ken away and shook him by the shoulders.
"Am I?" Ken laughed. His laughter stopped when he felt like vomiting. He lowered his head and got it all out on Davis jacket. "Ken!" Davis shrieked as the genius fell into his arms and rested his head on the goggle-boy's shoulder. "I'm worthless… I just wanted it all to end!" Ken whispered as he smiled at Davis, finally closing his eyes.
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"He was miserable!" Davis yelled in front of all the young Digidestines, "Did you know how much pain inside of him? And you still wanted the truth?"
"Hey! It's not my fault that he's like that from the start!" Yolei argued. "But you made it worst by letting him spill it out! And what's worst is… he didn't have a clue of what he's saying because he was drunk!" Davis pointed out to the bearer of Love and Sincerity.
Yolei didn't argue to that as she looked away, "I just wanted to know… if he really wants to be friends with us!" Davis stomped away from the group and left them with guilt. He came back and looked at each of his friends' faces, "Yes! He wants to be! But because of your exaggerating attitudes… he doesn't want to anymore!"
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Wide, purple eyes opened as it shimmered with the brightness of the sun's rays. Ken slowly got up and yawned. "O- ow!" He gasped in pain as he held his head tight. 'That's right… Davis and I went out last night! But… how did I get home?' He thought as he looked around his room.
"I must've fallen asleep after drinking some Cream Soda!" He yawned again. He suddenly jumped when he heard a beeping noise. It was his digivice! "W- Wormmon?" He gasped happily and got out of bed.
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"Digiport! Open!" He yelled. He was instantly transported into a village with numerous eggs surrounding the whole place. "Welcome to Primary Village!" A Digimon popped out of the ground and Ken looked at it closely.
"Hey! You're the Digimon Emperor!" The Digimon yelled. "N- No! I used to be but I'm not anymore!" Ken tried to explain but Digimons popped out from the ground as well and started throwing hairy balls at him. "S- Stop it!"
"Get away from here!"
"I know I had done some terrible things to you!" Ken said, "Please! Give me a chance to make it up to all of you!"
"NO! Get out of our village!"
"Wormmon!" Ken yelled and an egg farther away suddenly glowed pink, which caught his attention. "Wormmon! Ken smiled and ran to it. He knelt down beside it and grabbed it tightly. The egg instantly turned into a small green Digimon. "Minomon!" Ken smiled happily.
"KEN!"
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"A lot of good things happened while you were away, Minomon!" Ken explained as he plopped onto his bed. "Really? Like what?" Minomon asked. "Davis and I are finally friends!" Ken smiled innocently. "Really? That's great, Ken!" Minomon jumped into his master's lap. Ken smiled back and looked at Minomon, somehow… he had this strange feeling that everything isn't so perfect yet!
The both of the friends jumped when they heard a beep from
the D-Terminal, "It's probably Davis…" Ken smiled and got out of bed.
/Ken… I need to see you right now! I've got something important to say! Meet
me at Tamachi Park again… same place!/
Ken raised an eyebrow and looked at his partner Digimon. "I got to go out for a while, Minomon!"
"Can't I go with you, Ken?" Minomon asked. "I'm sorry, my friend, but this is between human and human! No offense!" Ken laughed. "That's okay, Ken!" Minomon smiled.
"I'm really sorry, Minomon… I'll bring some snacks when I get home!" Ken said as he closed the door behind him.
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"You wanted to see me, Davis?" Ken smiled as he arrived. Davis was sitting in the bench sadly while swaying his legs forward and backward. "I've got some confessions to make!" Davis said.
"Confessions?" Ken questioned as he sat beside the boy.
"Remember last night… after you drank your 2nd glass of that Cream Soda?" Davis asked. Ken recalled and nodded, "That's the last thing I remembered about last night, Davis! What happened to me after that, anyway?" Ken asked.
"Umm… you were sort of… Drunk!" Davis muttered. "What?" Ken gasped, "But… Soda doesn't have liquor! Or… does that Cream Soda have?" Ken laughed. Davis didn't laugh with him, which made Ken feel uneasy. Davis handed the genius a small bottle and Ken looked at it for a while.
"What is it?" Ken asked.
"It's Yolei's Dad's strongest liquor!" Davis said, "You see Ken… Yolei forced me to do it… She wanted me to place some of this liquor inside your soda. And when you went away, I placed some inside your drink. That's why you got drunk!"
Ken's eyes widened. He can't believe Davis was playing with him all along as if he was a toy. "It's a practical joke, right?" Ken started trembling as he gripped the bottle tightly, "What was your purpose, Davis? Why did you do it?" Ken's voice was now in an angry tone like the Digimon Kaizer's.
"Yolei wanted me t-…"
"STOP USING HER NAME!" Ken yelled. "I asked you some questions… about your feelings about us!" Davis answered quickly, trembling as well. "You told me about the death of your brother…" Davis murmured which made Ken's heart skip a beat.
"…And how you wanted to disappear like he did!" Davis looked away as Ken slowly stood up and backed away, preparing to run. His face showed horror and fear as tears flood out from his eyes.
/"What would happen… if you accidentally… spilled your secrets?"/ He remembered Davis ask him. "Ken…" Davis softly said as Davis approached the 'Rocket'. "How dare you…" Ken muttered, the horrified expression still present in his face.
"HOW DARE YOU!" He said and slapped Davis hard on the face. "How dare you toy with my emotions!" Ken yelled as a rain of tears escaped his eyes. "I hate you, Davis! I HATE YOU!" And with that, he turned to run but was cut off when the other Digidestines appeared right in front of his eyes.
"Please don't blame it all on Davis, Ken! It was my fault! I forced him to!" Yolei stepped up but Ken shrugged her off with an angry look with all the tears running down from his eyes.
"How would you feel if you were in my place?" Ken yelled as he threw the small bottle by Yolei's feet and it blasted into thousands of pieces of the broken glass. Finally, he ran away and never turned back.
This time… he didn't have second thoughts. He didn't want to be part of the team anymore. Because his faith for them had blasted away like the thousand pieces of the broken bottle did.
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Ken came running back home and slammed the door behind him when he arrived inside their apartment. "Ken, honey! Would you like some-" Meia stopped when she saw tears glimmering from his son's eyes, when Ken ran past her. "Ken?"
Ken ran to his room to find Minomon turn into Wormmon. Wormmon turned and saw Ken. "Ken, did you bring me some-" He was cut off when his master embraced him tightly. "K- Ken!" Ken sobbed loudly as his eyes were covered from the shadows of his bedroom. "Ken…" Wormmon softly said, "Ken, you have to tell me what's wrong… I want to help you!"
"I… don't want to be… a Digidestined!" Ken cursed. Ken's tears flooded faster as Wormmon used his 'legs' to wipe his master's tears away. He held 2 of his legs and placed each one at Ken's cheeks.
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"Ken?" Meia Ichijouji came inside her son's room and brought with her a tray of food. "Ken, are you sure you're not hungry?" Meia asked.
Meia placed the tray of food unto the table and approached Ken. She found her son hugging himself on the corner, still sobbing. Meia didn't hesitate and did what any mother would do; she brought her son in a tight and warm embrace and allowed him to cry on her shoulders.
"You've been crying for hours now… it's not like it's the end of the world, is it?" Meia whispered into her son's ear as she nuzzled Ken's hair. For a while, she felt Ken's sobbing worsen as he buried closer to his mother. "Please, Ken… please, stop it!" Meia pleaded as her tears too, came out from her eyes, "It hurts me so much to see you like this!"
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"I wonder… what Ken is doing now?" Davis asked himself as he stared off at the sky. He had his hands behind his head and he was sprawled his back on the soccer fields. "Excuse me… are you Davis Motomiya?" A lady suddenly popped out of Davis's vision.
"Umm… yeah!" Davis nodded and sat upright to face a woman with brown hair. "H- Have I seen you before?" Davis pointed.
"Maybe you have…" The woman smiled, "I'm Meia Ichijouji… Ken's mother!"
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"I need your help!" Meia frowned, "As much as I want to be angry with you… I have to put that aside now! I have never met any of Ken's friends who could hurt him this much! Usually, he is immune to this kind of feeling but you're the first one to ever really reach that pain inside his heart!"
Davis looked at his palms and clutched them tightly. They turned white and Davis closed his eyes heavily, "I'm really sorry, Mrs. Ichijouji!"
"Apologies won't get you anywhere!" Meia Ichijouji snapped as Davis raised his head and looked at the woman. "I want you snap him out of this mess! You're the only one who could do it!"
"B- but… he hates me! I can't even talk to him!" Davis blurted but Meia just smiled. "If he really hated you then he wouldn't have shed tears for you!" Meia said which made Davis's eyes widened, "Please… go to him! He needs you right now!"
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Ken felt as if he was drained from his fears and sadness. But he never felt good about it… he knew so well that he will never be the same again. 'They're using me… all of them are just the same! The same scums of the Earth!'
"Ken…" A 10-legged creature came from under his bed. "Ken… please don't cry anymore!" Wormmon pleaded. Ken felt his lips twitched as he gave out a fake smile. Tears burned his eyes again as he faced the window of his balcony. "Wormmon?"
"Yes, Ken?" Wormmon perked. "Am I- Am I… important?" Ken asked as another set of tears flooded down his eyes again. "Of course you are, Ken! You will always be!" Wormmon yelled. "I don't know…" Ken sighed, "It hurts to be important…"
"The people who care for me… are sad whenever I'm sad!" Ken cried, "And it makes me even more sad! It's- it's just like a cycle! I don't understand!" Ken circled into a ball and clutched his head.
Ken felt weary and tired from all the sobbing; it has been precisely 6 hours he had been endlessly crying. Ken heard footsteps from outside his door and stopped sobbing. He looked up to see a maroon-haired boy opening the door of his room.
"D- Davis!"
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Ken stared at the boy for a moment, his tears shining from the light of the sun. "Ken!" Davis said nervously and tried to hug the genius but ended up being pushed away. "Don't touch me!" Ken yelled as he stood up. "Ken, let me explai-"
"You don't need to explain! Cause I don't want to hear it!" Ken's voice started to tremble as his knees buckled. "I'm tired of listening," he muttered as he fell on the floor again.
Ken felt warm hands beside both of his cheeks, brushing the tears from his eyes away. Ken closed his eyes heavily and tried to shake them away, but the hands were to strong for him to brush off.
"Ken… you're really a great friend! And I'm not using you…" Davis softly said. "We just… wanted to know the truth… maybe we should've waited for you to say it to us!"
Ken's eyes opened and stared back at the goggle-boy. "I guess… you weren't ready yet!" Davis had a hint of sadness in his eyes, "I'm really sorry, Ken! I really want to be friends with you…" Davis embraced the indigo-haired boy with force, knowing that Ken won't share the embrace with him back. To his surprise, Ken hugged back. "Thank you, Davis!" Ken whispered and fell asleep on the goggle-boy's shoulders.
And outside the room of the genius, was his mother standing by the door. "I want to thank you too… Davis!"
'Thank you for saving my son…'/Owari/
