Author: Be gone eviiil writer's block!! YAGH!!!! *Brings out Arbormon killing stick!! *

.:: Kouji's POV ::.

"Hate to say I told you so.."

"Shut up Kouichi.." I muttered back to him.

I was carrying an unconscious Takuya back when I bumped into Duskmon, AKA Kouichi, my pretend brother.

He just stared at me. "You know you shouldn't have brought him here.." he told me in an AS-A-MATTER-OF-FACTLLY voice.

"Well, you know as well as I do I couldn't have let him die!!"

"The others could have easily taken care of him until he healed.."

"Junpei and Tomoki went off in search of some kid or whatever and Izumi was too hurt to take care of him, and it's all because of me!!!!" I yelled back at him.

Duskmon stood there.

"Can you help me with Takuya?" I asked Kouichi.

He stared at me.

"With what?"

I smacked my head. "Do you like to annoy me?" I asked him, aggravated. He shrugged. "Just a habit I guess.." I rolled my eyes. "Such a big help.." I said sarcastically.

Duskmon didn't say anything.

"You still mad at me?" he asked, walking towards me. I shot a look at him, then turned back to Takuya.

"….Okay. You were right. I didn't have a choice.." I told him,

"I'm sorry.."

.:: Kouichi's POV ::.

I kneeled down beside my brother and Takuya. "We should wait a few-" I started when Takuya started to gain conscious.

"I… where am I? Anyone…there?" Takuya then tried to open his eyes.

"Shit! Kouichi!" Kouji cursed. I then did the first thing that came to my mind.

"CLONK!"

Takuya was instantly out cold. Kouji stared at me, wide eyed and shocked.

"Now why did you do that to him?" he asked. I shrugged.

"All I did was hit him on the head with my hand.." I replied innocently. Kouji groaned and slapped his head. "Great job.."

I sighed as the sun set once again. 'Another day of light in pure hell gone again..'

I thought as my twin and me both devolved.

"Now can you help me with him?" Kouji asked me in an annoyed tone. I shrugged and lifted Takuya's feet, while Kouji picked up his head and upper body.

We carried him back to the clearing Kouji and I was always at, the same place we first met.

"I'm going to go find some firewood. Can you stay with Takuya, Kouichi?" He asked.

"Sure!"

~*~*~

A half hour later had passed when Kouji returned with some sticks. "Sorry I took so long. There wasn't much wood anywhere." He told me, dropping the sticks he gathered near our makeshift fire pit.

I glanced at Takuya, who was still unconscious. I lifted Takuya's hat to look at the damage I did to it. A black bruise was on his head.  " Okay…… maybe I did hit him a little too hard." I said.

Kouji smiled at me, sat down and stared at Takuya. I took Takuya's hat and goggles off his head so Kouji could see the huge gash I had given Takuya.

Kouji laughed a little. I turned to look at him.

'Is he always this nice to his friends?' I thought while studying his face.

He got some of the sticks he gathered and put them into the fire pit. Kouji then started to rub the sticks together. "Shimatta,," he cursed as the sticks broke. He turned to me.

"Kouichi, can you go get some meat apples?" he asked. I blinked and stared blankly at him.

"Meat…apples?"

Kouji smiled. "I forgot, you never had meat apples before." I shrugged.

"Guess not.."

"Okay, they kinda look like regular apples, but paler." He told me. I nodded.

"And if you see any, don't eat them raw, okay?" Kouji warned me. I nodded and went off to go find the "meat apples"

~*~*~

"Apples…. Apples.." I said while looking in the trees. I then spotted some.

"Are these meat apples?" I asked myself, when I heard a rustle from behind me. I shot my head to look in the direction of the noise.

Nothing.

I sweatdropped. 'I'm imagining things…. I gotta get these apples..'  I thought as I reached up to grab some of them.

'Can't even reach the darned apples…. What more can't I do?'

I struggled some more to reach them, then gave up and fell back onto the ground.

'This is going well..'

Tomoki's POV

We ran back to where Izumi was. She was there, sitting on her knees, crying.

"Izumi-chan, what's wrong?" Junpei asked, going over to her. "N-Nothing.." she muffled out of her crying.

"What happened to Takuya-oniichan?" I asked, also running over to her.  "He-he took him.." Izumi uttered.

"Who?" Junpei asked.

"Oou…."

"Who?"

"Ooukamimon.."

We both gasped. "Why did he take Takuya-oniichan?" I asked.

"He told me that he was going to take care of him.." she said, "So I gave Takuya to him.."

"Why though?" Junpei asked.

"I don't know… I love Takuya.."

Author: goooomen for the short chapter, jest lazy!! Have fun!