For Digimon Flash 014 - prompt: haunting


52. Dead in the Dark

Taiki has never walked down a street alone in his life.

There's always a ghost or two at his heels, always whispering, laughing, warning. He pauses a little too long when he asks questions, he listens for a second over without responding, he is a strange, strange boy.

His mother doesn't care, and no one knows why. Is he too self-reliant? Is he just too polite to be refused? Or is he too strange to fix? No one knows, no one is sure, not even her, but then she doesn't exactly seem to mind having a strange child.

He has good grades, but perhaps it's fine.

But Taiki himself is certain he is fine. Until he goes to the Digital World and then he is assuredly not fine. (Where are the ghosts? Where are the dead? Why is the world so silent?) He meets Nene and he is slightly fine. He meets Kiriha and he is not fine.

This is not fine. But he will make it fine. But that's a story for another day.