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Fandoms: Digimon Adventure 02
Title: Lying Hearts
Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Word Count: chapter 1: 1,058||story: 4,384
Genre: Romance, Angst||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, section I12, a multichap with exactly 10 chapters; Written for the Halloween Trick of Treat (Advent), Day #17, reveal a hidden identity; Written for the What-If Challenge: What if the Kaiser's personality was Ken's real personality?; One Ship Boot Camp, #50, embrace
Notes: For the purposes of this story, please note the following: Ken's true personality is that of the Digimon Kaiser. No Dark Spore involved at all. The Chosen have fought Ken since they were eleven years old, with matters grinding down to a quasi-stalemate for a multitude of reasons over the last couple of years. It's been six years since this began. Therefore, Miyako is eighteen, Ken, Daisuke, Takeru, and Hikari are seventeen, and Iori is fifteen. There are other points that are different, but those will be addressed in the story itself.
Summary: After long days of fighting the Digimon Kaiser, Daisuke just wants to relax in his boyfriend's arms. That's not so much to ask, is it?


Daisuke couldn't remember what it was like to have air in his lungs. All he could do was shake his head until his hair stung the sides of his face. One word choked in his throat until he managed to force it out between bitter lips.

"No!"

The Kaiser – Ken – the Kaiser only looked amused. "I thought that's what you'd say. But yes."

It had to be a joke. Some kind of prank that Ken had somehow arranged to play on him. But he looked so comfortable in the Kaiser's uniform, as if he'd worn it every day for years… and the way that he moved was exactly like the Kaiser, and Daisuke couldn't believe that he hadn't noticed. He'd never seen the Kaiser's eyes, but Ken's hair was the exact same shade of blue; it was just styled differently.

"What… you… I…" Daisuke wanted to be coherent. He just didn't know how many more. His heart beat faster and faster and angry tears stung at his eyes. He tried not to let them fall; he wanted be angry more than he wanted anything else, but he couldn't let himself cry. He had to be strong. He wanted to remember that he was a prisoner of his enemy and he couldn't always count on the Kaiser to release him…

But his enemy was his boyfriend and Daisuke couldn't keep himself from shaking even in his chains.

"How...why?" At least those made some sort of sense, even if he didn't know if he wanted the answers.

The Kaiser looked far more amused than the questions warranted in Daisuke's opinion. "You think I'm going to give you my life story? All you need to know is this: do you remember how we first met?"

Daisuke managed to nod. It had been at that soccer game when they were kids, the one where he'd managed to block Ken from getting a goal. It hadn't won them the game, but he'd done something no one else had by that. Ken had even seemed impressed back then.

The Kaiser stepped closer. Daisuke wriggled back, not that he had a lot of 'back' to wiggle to. "It started the. I decided I wouldn't rest until I had humiliated you in the most intense way that I could manage. I had some very interesting ideas back then, but I decided to take my time with it." One hand slid up to rest against the side of Daisuke's face. "I suppose you could say that I've accomplished that now. After all, you've found out that for the last few years, you've been dating your worst enemy." Ken licked his lips and stared into Daisuke's eyes. "But trust me, I'm not just going to send you back to your other friends."

Daisuke tried to pull away but Ken's hand now tightened, keeping his head in place. "I'm not humiliated!" What he was, was angry. There was a difference.

Ken leaned in closer. Daisuke's heart wrenched. He'd seen his boyfriend this close so many times and his first instinct was to lean up for a kiss. But even as he started to do so, he reminded himself of what was going on and yanked away again: or tried. Ken did not allow it. He set his lips against Daisuke's and murmured softly, "But don't think that you knowing this is going to mean I'll give you up. I decided a long time ago that once my humiliation plan was complete, I would still keep you. You belong to me now, Daisuke."

His hand slipped behind Daisuke's head, keeping it firmly in one place as he pressed his lips harder against Daisuke's in a mockery of a kiss.

"No!" Daisuke yanked his head back as hard as he could, not caring that he smacked it against the wall. "No, Ken!" He hissed in pain as Ken's hand now closed around his throat, those warm amethyst eyes now glinting hard with anger.

"I see you don't understand yet. I said it already: you are mine. I could have killed you all those years ago. I know you, Daisuke. You would've given up your life in a second for your friends. You still would. But death was too good for you then and now I don't want to kill you." His fingers tightened a little more and Daisuke wondered if Ken realized that choking him would count as 'killing him'. "I do want you to understand your place now."

Daisuke tried to say something else but he couldn't get his breathing together. What little air he had was focused on living instead of talking.

"Do you understand why I said you would serve me? Because you will. Because you have no choice." Ken's lips remained so close to Daisuke's that the redhead could feel the breath on his own. "Do you really think that you could fight me now?"

"Of course!" Daisuke spat the words out without thinking. But even as he said them, he started to wonder. He knew that he needed to. He knew that he wanted to. But could he do it?

I have to. It sounded so noble to say and it felt so right to think, but to do?

He was not surprised to see one of the Kaiser's smirks on his lips. His stomach churned a little to see it on Ken's face, though. It wasn't right. Not at all.

"I think we'll put this to the test, then."

What? Daisuke did not like the sound of that. He liked it even less when the Kaiser reached up and touched the manacles that kept him to the wall. They slithered downward, releasing him from the wall itself but his wrists remained chained together, with the chains winding forward to form a sort of leash that rested in Ken's hands now.

"Come along. I have an interesting little experiment in mind that will show you exactly where you stand in the scheme of things now."

Daisuke liked the sound of this even less than he had before. He stumbled along after the Kaiser, his mind still spinning from everything that Ken told him. He wanted to believe this was nothing more than a dream, but the more time passed, the more he became convinced it was a nightmare, the kind that he couldn't wake up from.

To Be Continued

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