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Shi-chan: This is it for tonight, minna. ^^;;
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In Your Shoes
Part 5
~By Shimegami-chan
Warnings: Kenyako...
Music: "Don't You See," Dragonball GT
Important Note!
Getting shorter and shorter...
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'Sadness-Colored Sandglass,' a Kensuke, (Also Digimon) chapter 12 updated on May 26. Thanks minna-san!
That's right, now is the true beginning
Let's go together
There was a long moment of silence in which Daisuke and Wormmon stared at each other, the former with a glare and the latter with apprehensive guilt. Ichijouji Toshiko, completely oblivious, quick finished his ice cream and grinned at the two boys. "Shall I leave you with your friend, Ken? I guess we're finished our days' errands..."
"Uh...sure, Papa." Wormmon gulped in fear and shot a look at Daisuke. The goggle boy surely wouldn't attack him in broad daylight, right? Wormmon wasn't sure. Daisuke gave him a venomous grin. Wormmon shrank back.
Toshiko rose and handed Ken money to find his way home before waving politely and disappearing. "Be home for supper, Ken!"
"Okay!" Wormmon choked, pushing his chair furthur away from the table.
Daisuke leaned over it and leered at the indigo-haired child. "Well, what do we have here? The Kaiser running around pretending to be normal? I thought you ran away from home, Ken."
The frightened digimon couldn't think of a single thing to say.
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Ichijouji Ken himself had run out of things to say. He couldn't have a crush on Inoue Miyako. He COULD NOT.
So why was every glance, every touch from her electric?
The way she moved, the way she spoke, the way she nonchalantly flipped her hair over her shoulder...everything he saw entranced Ken more. He didn't understand it. Nothing made sense!
And then, to top it all off, Miyako decided to have A Talk with him.
"Wormmon," she began hesitantly, "Have you ever thought about why Ken is evil?"
"What?" Ken replied, shocked.
"You know. Why he tortures digimon, tries to kill us repeatedly, kicks you around..."
Ken hadn't even managed to grasp how exactly he ended up in Wormmon's digital body. Digimon weren't real, right? Just part of his computer program. Did that mean that his body had dissolved into data-bits too? Ken didn't like the idea of that.
Then again, Miyako's own digimon was in the real world too. How did that work? Shouldn't it have evaporated as easily as his Kaiser's robes did when he stepped through the computer?
This was somewhere he had to tread carefully, Ken decided. Miyako could have information on how he could get back into his body, if she knew where to find the real Wormmon. "Ken-chan...beleives that hurting digimon are no big deal, because the computer will just remake them."
"Re-make? You mean in Primary Village?" Miyako asked, confused. "But he's still killing them, they're just being reborn."
"No, no." Ken defended his own concepts in an attempt to save face for Miayko. "It's not killing. They're not real."
"Of course they are!" Miayko cried. "You mean he doesn't know that!? Digimon are as real as you or I--and that's a horrible analogy! He doesn't think you exist, or what?"
"Well..." None of Ken's carefully thought-out theories were making sense now. "Not outside of the digital world, I don't...at least...that's what Ken-chan thinks."
Miyako rolled her eyes. "That dolt! I guess he's never stopped to wonder why our digimon are always in the real world."
It hit Ken like a ton of bricks. Digimon...real? Hadn't he created the whole digital world from Sam's computer? It didn't make sense! The device had come out of the computer, and then Ken and Ryo had gone to the digital world, and then...
...and Ken had met Wormmon, and then there was the accident...
The little worm had taken care of Ken for three days--while they were walking some sort of sharp object had been embedded in his neck, and Ken was in tremendous amounts of pain. Everything after that...was hazy...
"He took care of me!" Ken gasped aloud. "We stayed in the real world, and he took care of me!"
"What are you talking about?" Miyako asked.
"Oh, God..." Ken buried his face in his pincers. His heart felt like it had been crushed as memories began flooding back to him. The Dark Seed. Ryo. Wormmon staying by his side as his fever went up, and up, and up...Sam's death...the funeral...and the Digital World.
"Oh, God..." he repeated, suddenly hating himself. "It was all real..."
//Wormmon, I'm sorry.
I'm coming to find you.//
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Shi-chan: Yatta! Another chapter! ^_^