AN: Ken's POV. Hehe, I've been posting like mad, but that's okay because I've been writing like mad also. Read, Review, Whatever… Kay? Also, I'm becoming a fan of Kekaris, if you have one, I'd love to read it
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon (yet, there's always that one in elevnty jillion, twentyten, gazillion, seventyeleven chane that I might.
AN. Here's the next chapter; enjoy. Dedicated to Bridget, 'cause she said she'd read it and she's my best friend, and Leigh is not supposed to be me, never has been based on me, but it'd be fun to get as close to Ken as she did.
-Story-
That crazy girl, if she's gone and gotten herself killed… I think I would KILL her. Kill her? Could I? She's too… innocent? No, maybe a little untried? No, neither of them is right. She's just too hurt. Maybe if I hadn't gotten mad, if Miroku hadn't walked in… Perhaps Amai was right and there were feelings between him and Leigh? No. Amai can't be correct. He was, after all, partially a genius. He'd know if he felt anything for her.
Then why did I let her kiss me? Half his mind wanted to know. The other half insisted he had no clue and hadn't meant to flirt with her, that half conveniently forgot that it enjoyed the feeling of her so close, and that he had her smell, something like coconuts, probably her shampoo, memorized. The rational half was denying everything. The half he had partially locked away in his heart. The part that knew what Leigh was going through. Maybe he had to get in touch with those feelings again to get in touch with Leigh.
"All right, Miroku, we need to go find her. Amai, you should stay here in case she comes back while we are away."
"You can't get rid of me that easily, Ichijouji!"
"I can dream, can't I?" He countered, glaring as he picked up a black backpack. He used it for a while when he was the Emperor, in the Digi-world, and now he wanted to get in touch with that side of himself. He slipped in to some black pants and a black T-shirt. He put on a black leather jacket that had been his brother Sam's and walked in to the living room, where Miroku and Amai were waiting. Amai had on a pair of plain blue Jeans, a T-shirt that said flirt and a light blue jacket over it. She had on a small mini backpack, and her digimon was in her arms. Miroku wore blue Jeans, a white T-shirt, and a letterman's jacket. He lettered in track and basketball.
Miroku looked about as ready to enter the Digi-world as Ken, unlike Amai who looked ready for a stroll in the park. "She's probably not going to be happy to see us. I think she was this wicked tyrant before I took over. If she is the tyrant I am thinking of, she's already got the Digi-world more guarded then I ever did."
"Why do you think she's a tyrant?" Miroku asked.
"Amai, you care to present the evidence?"
"She is a leader, born and growing. She is a tactical wizard, as I found out playing her in Chess. She's afraid of the dark, now. I remember when we were little and she wasn't. It's a new thing, and I'm sure it has something to do with Ken, taking over and all that. She was often gone, and nobody could find her. While Ken was around, she could always be found. She mentioned Anomon Island, a little. That's where one of the Tyrant's castle was, when it was around. She's also very interested in Ken, and what it was like to be a ruler."
"So you are going on instincts, right?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah, I guess." She admitted, smiling as he nodded gravely then said, very enthusiastically "All right! We're going on an adventure!"
"Not so fast!" A voice declared from Ken's doorway.
"TK!" Ken said, surprised to see his best friend.
"Hey, you are trying to leave the great TK behind?"
"Hey TK. I hear Kari and Davis got together?" Miroku asked.
"Yeah." Amai was almost laughing, because she knew why Kari was going out with Davis, to make TK jealous.
"You've got an e-mail, Ken." Wormmon said, in his slow voice.
"An e-mail?" He was surprised to be getting mail. Nobody sent him anything! It was from Leigh.
Dear Kenny,
I am almost sad for what I am about to do. I have taken over the Digi-world, and am going to kidnap who ever enters my world. I know from you that there is more to ruling then telling people what to do. If you want to try and save me, you can do your best. I guess this is a warning, but also a bit of a challenge. I don't know what to do, surprise you, or try to warn you away. Come save me, or let me go through with this. I want to rule; I was born for it. I don't know why I am sending this. Maybe I care more about you than you do me…
Love? Hate? Whatever…
Leigh.
Leigh wanted Ken to go to the Digi-world? Leigh wanted him to save him? Perhaps that's what was wrong. He hadn't tried to save her before. He had only thought about himself.
"How selfish was I? I didn't even try and see if she was whom I suspected. I didn't try and even think about it. It was all about me. Me. Ken. I caused this again. Again I ruined everything. Maybe if I never told her about owning the stars, about sitting at the edge of the world watching the sun set. Maybe that inspired her. I know it made me think.
She was too much like me to be in my shoes. And here I laced them and tied them for her. She loved my attention, but was it ever me she loved? Was it ever me she wanted? No. Maybe all she wanted was ideas. Maybe I never came in to it at all? But the kiss…" Ken was mumbling to his self when TK walked in.
"Let me guess, buddy, she kissed you and you are freaking out. You scared her, and she fled to the digital world. Also, I think probably that she is some evil tyrant and is taking over and needs to be stopped."
"That's correct!" He said, unwillingly allowing him to be right.
"So we got to go save the day. If it were Kari, I'd be there in a second."
"Maybe I should be there too." Ken said, thinking he would be lonely without his best friend. Best friend or girlfriend? More like girlfriend. "How did you know about the Digi world?"
"I am psychic." TK said, smilling like an idiot.
"No you aren't. Wizzardmon is."
"Wizzardmon?!" TK remembered hearing about that digimon. He was a close friend of Gatomon's, before he died. "He's dead!"
"No, he's alive. He was on the brink of death, but he is okay now. He's in the Digi world, waiting for something."
"Something?" TK asked.
"Someone. I think it was a legendary queen. Supposedly there was once a human ruler of the Digi world, and he was a great king. He had a daughter, and she lived in the real world. She became queen, but when she gave birth to a son, she was exiled from the Digi world. Her son was ruler, and he has been dead for fifty years! Well, she had a daughter in the real world, which, though dead, had a daughter. That daughter is alive, and her little girl is said to be the next Digi-queen. It's against the Digimon's rules to kill her, and because she knows the code to the Digi world, nobody would ever resist her either."
"How do you know so much?" TK asked.
"I talked to all the Digimon when I was ruler. They respected me, or died. I guess Wizzardmon spilled his guts to me because he had to protect the princess."
"Oh dear, so we have a princess, a tyrant, a digimon everyone thinks is dead, and we are all going to chase them around for FUN?"
"I guess so." Ken nodded.
Author Note:
Me: That better?
Ken: You brought TK in!
Me: You needed your best friend there!
Ken: Leigh's my best friend.
Leigh: More like your girl friend, Kenny.
Ken: Ahh. Kenny? How long has it been since you called me that? Sitting in my dark tower surrounded by giant guards, smiling as I conversed with you. I was evil back then, but you didn't care. There's a big tip off something's wrong with a girl.
Leigh: I loved you.
Ken: Oh? And the feeling was what, mutual? Reciprocated? I don't think so.
Leigh: I think so.
Ken: Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn't.
Me: Ummm, this could lead to a fight! I think I'll step outside and uhhh… work on chapter four! Later!