Digimon

Forbidden Love

Sorrow

Takato ran widely as he skidded through the different alleys and streets, his heart was throbbing and his face had gone a ghostly pale.

Takato had been running for at least twenty minutes and wasn't planning on taking a break until he found Rika, the visions of his other self hurting her was too painful to even think about.

"ExTakato couldn't have got to her yet; I hope…, it takes at least half an hour to get from the park to her house, there no way he could have made there" Takato rationally thought.

He swerved around the last corner and fell in sight of the final high street. Takato ran with a faint bit of hope, he still had a chance to get to her before he did.

"I can't believe I actually met my dark side. I didn't expect myself to look so lizard like, man…it gives the creep just to even think about him being me" Takato shuddered as his evil counterpart haunted his mind.

"What's even weirder is that red rose showed me the truth, I found the light thanks to it…maybe Gallantmon gave me this for more than he lead on to be…" he said as he starred at the blood coloured flower.

"He told me that it was only a lead, but a crucial part in the war with the darkness…What does he mean by a lead! This doesn't show me anything, and the darkness, couldn't he have given me a better description" Takato said as he head hurt from too much thinking.

He came to the tiniest bit of road left before her house, but Takato's legs gave in with exhaustion, he fell to the dusty road and let himself regain feeling into his half dead legs and try and get at least a quarter of oxygen back through his lungs.

"Damn it (pant)…I hate being human...(pant)…sometimes" Takato said as his lungs screamed in pain. Takato wished he was back in the old days with his friends and he was in the digital world, and he and Gallantmon were one being.

Painful as it may be to admit, Takato liked the trill of being a hero, he liked being more powerful than others, sometimes he wished and dreamed he was a super hero, even with his digimon, he liked to above them.

"Hey…I haven't had shot and drawing imaginary heroes in ages, that always lifted my spirits, maybe I should give it a shot when I get back home…being a hero, it's one of the things I truly wish that I could become, being a silver-knight on a white stallion…coming for Rika…my true love" Takato said dreamily.

Then he suddenly remembered he was in a race against time with his other self and leapt off the ground and continued running down the road.

Takato ran for other slow five minutes before halting outside an entrance to a nearby wood that drifted off from the city. The reason being that there was a perfectly alright, perfectly safe, perfectly unharmed and perfectly sexy Rika sitting on a bench starring into the underbelly of the wood.

"She's not harmed, whatsoever? Didn't ExTakato hurt her in anyway? Thank you!" Takato prayed as a smile appeared on his face but soon turned to a serious frown as he looked around the area.

"Better keep vigilant in case he comes back, in the mean time I better talk to her…she's so beautiful…yikes! Take it easy Takato, lose your cool and it's game over for me and Rika!" Takato thought.

Takato came to the side of the bench t she the object of his desires, Rika was wearing a thin red trench coat that seemed a little over sized for her, she was also starring into space with a warm smile on her face.

"Must have been that asshole Ryo who gave her that coat, damn I hate that guy for stealing her away from me" Takato thought spitefully.

Without further delay he tapped the girl on the shoulder, causing a slight startle from her before giving him a friendly smile.

"Hey Takato! Haven't seen you around lately" Rika said as she motioned for him to sit down next to her.

"Yeah...I've been doing some stuff around at home…anyway how have you been doing these last few weeks" Takato asked cheerfully.

"Oh you know me…challenging people to a digimon card game match…having dinner with Ryo…that's about it really" Rika said as she flustered a deep red at the mention of her boyfriends name.

Takato contained the berserk volcano that was just itching to blow it's top and let out a million reasons why Takato hated Ryo.

"Contain the pain…contain the jealousy…contain the spite…contain the sorrow…" Takato breathed easily as he put on a dram award winning smile.

"That's good. So you and Ryo are really quite the couple huh?" Takato said.

"Yep. We-re taking slow at the moment, just dinner, going on a few dates...and…other things…" Rika said as she giggled slightly.

"What, like sleeping with the guy!" Takato thought, getting more furious by the second, but he cooled his jets and nodded.

"So Takato, you found a girl yet?" Rika asked sweetly. Takato looked a little out of it, he wished she hadn't asked that, his heart couldn't take it if he lied, but still…

"Well…I do…like…well…love one girl" Takato said as he gripped his knees.

"Aw that's so sweet. What's her name" The dreaded question was asked and Takato didn't have an answer, only the truth that would leave him in more pain than if he lied.

Takato looked at the ground, the colour rising to his cheeks, a small puddle bowed before him near his feet, his reflection clear as the summer sky, in it he saw a teenager who was currently scared out of his wit.

"Takato?" Rika asked as she looked at the silent boy.

Takato's eyes were fixed on his reflection, the colour was a pale blue, one colour of which began to change to a powdery black.

"No. Not now…please don't let him come…" Takato thought as his dreaded other self appeared, though he was only clear to Takato, not anyone else.

"Go ahead my other, tell her the truth, she'll scream and you'll never win her heart, or lie and see if you can keep up on the build up of lies you weave, ether way I still enjoy your suffering…you sorrow is simply delicious." he spoke as his forked tongue spat out at him from below.

Takato felt his body go through a panic attack, he looked at ExTakato and felt the darkness close in on him. The anguish and pain drowning him in their rivers of blackness.

Just then he looked at the shining red rose that seemed to be a torch in the pitch black of his heart, the rose gave him that similar confidence and he made his decision.

"Takato, are you okay" Rika asked again, this time he faced her with teary eyes but a smile.

"Yeah I'm fine Rika, anyway the girl I love is…" Takato stood up and moved slightly nearer, causing Rika to glimpse up in confusion. Takato moved his hand to the side of he waist which caused a sudden rush through him and Rika.

"Takato-" Rika was short off from a response for the reason that Takato had pressed his lips via hers, Takato shut his eyes and the red rose began to shine. He quickly parted and he looked lovingly through her eyes, Rika didn't have time to think for the next moment Takato had vanished from sight and she was left in the lone wilderness.

"What just happened…" Rika said as she touched her lips which tingled from a slight bit of pleasure.

Takato had ran faster than he had ever ran before, he had kissed Rika but only for about a second and then had ran off back to his house, he was alone in his room, sitting down and facing the ceiling with the rose in his hand. Maybe he didn't understand things yet but for a reason beyond explanation he new his life had taken a new direction.

"Looks like your more than you appear to be…" Takato smiled at the rose which seemed to smile back.

He sat there for the majority of the morning as the world outside was like a sea, a sea that he would surely drown him, for that the world sometimes felt like you were drowning in sorrow…