Title: Sanctus

Title: Sanctus

Author: Leviathan Cross

Category: Digimon/Romance/Drama/Humor

Warnings: Shonen ai (Daiken and some Taito). This means Boy x Boy relationships if this bothers you steer clear.  There are also a couple of OC's.

Summary:  25 years after Season 02 nothing has changed in the digital world causing slight panic.  But when a digidestined from Ken's past comes back to past she brings with her what could be the beginning of the end. WARNING YAOI Daiken! And some possible Taito later on.

Rated: R

Disclaimers: I do not own Digimon or any of their characters.  No money has exchanged hands in the making of this story.

I also do not own the  song "Sanctus" it was written by  "Black Lily Sisters" and was originally used as a song in the Angel Sanctuary OAV's

The characters "Yuriko Hateshi" and "Kazemon" and all his forms are of my own creation and are not to be used without explicit permission of the author AKA ME!

Sanctus By Leviathan Cross

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Prologue:

Yuriko Hateshi woke with the same feeling of unease that she had for 25 years.  She looked around the area for her friend and mentor Ran. Seeing him nowhere in sight she decided that he had gone off into the woods to get some the fire.  The small bundle of white scales that slept contently by her side snuggled deeper into the warmth of blanket beneath it. Yuriko smiled down at the digimon as the wind blew through her short sea foam locks lifting them away from her forehead.  She walked silently away from their campsite and to the edge of the lake that was before them. 

After splashing her face with some cool water she studied her reflection for wrinkles or signs of age.  Not even crow's feet were present.  She frowned as she began to swirl the water in a circle.  The liquid in circle shimmered with an unnatural metallic lilac and turquoise colour before the reflection changed to one of a small household. 

The mother had long murky purple hair and wore a pair of wire-rimmed glasses.  The father a handsome man in his mid thirties had about chin length black hair with hints of indigo in it.  He smiled at the children that resembled the two but the smile did not reach his eyes.  A vail of sadness could be seen hiding in the depth of the man's eyes.  Yes there was love in this relationship.

Just the wrong kind.

Yuriko's frown deepened and she swirled the water once again to that of a maroon-hair man serving costumers in his restaurant.  A fake smile plastered on his face, as he made small talk with the man on the other side of the counter. 

Yuriko's anger and sadness grew as she went from image to image of the digidestined of Japan.  It was all wrong, why was she the only one to see this?

"Hey what are you up to?" a voice called her out of her thoughts. 

She sat up from her position lying on her stomach on the sand to face Ran who was carrying a load of wood.  He was a handsome man with short dark brown hair that fell messily into his dark blue eyes.  His appearance also did deceive those to the truth about his age. While Ran only looked to be in his early twenties he was truly hundreds of years old.  But then again being an apprentice of Gennai and a Digimon in his own way promised him eternal youth but Yuriko on the other hand… 

"Just looking…" she sighed.

"At what?" he inquired as he stepped to the edge of the water and looked at the image of a couple in their late thirties eating silently at the table.  The man had blonde hair and blue eyes that once use to sparkle with life, but now was subdued and dull.   The woman also had dulled eyes but hers were a deep brown and her hair was a reddish-brown.

"Oh no, not this again…" Ran moaned.

" What do you mean: Not this again?" she snapped back jumping to her feet.

" You've been harping about those digidestined for years."

"Well maybe you should start listening to me! Everything is wrong! Can't you feel it? Hell! Don't you see it? Ran look at me, how do I look?" she challenged him.

Ran sighed and humored her by playing along as he looked at her young features, " You look wonderful as usual."

"Exactly! Does this look like the face of a Forty-four year old?  I don't look a day over twenty! I haven't aged in twenty-five years, doesn't that strike you as a bit odd?"

He shook his head, " Yuriko maybe since you've been in the digital world for so long that you've gained the ability of eternal youth."

" No! What about the first ten years I spent here? I aged then, how come I don't now? And what about the digimon? When was the last time you saw any digimon digivolve?" she once again challenged him.

This statement stopped Ran in his tracks. " To… to tell you the truth I can't remember."

Yuriko sighed as she ran a hand through the turquoise locks of her hair, " This is what I've been talking about and I think that it was this group of children that caused this imbalance."

" What imbalance?" a sleepy voice asked.

Yuriko turned to small serpent-like dragon that had turn his pleading blue eyes onto her. " I'm talking about the fact that you can't digivolve into Tempestmon, Kazemon."

"Oh…" the digimon obviously didn't know what to say.

"I've got to go back and change this," she sighed glancing back at the pond that had once held the images of the Japanese digidestined.

"You can't do that! What about the children that are a result of these marriages? What happens to them when you go back to fix whatever is supposedly wrong?  You of all people should know that one small change can effect thousands of lives!" Ran burst in obviously enraged at the idea.

"Is this what this is all about?… Listen I understand your concern for them but there are things about my world that you don't understand.  Just like in the digital world our world has its own way of reformatting… well if you believe in it.  We call it reincarnation those children are just one interpretation of what those souls could be.  They will be born one day. Just maybe not in those bodies."

" So you can just so easily dismiss them like that?"

" Hey! Guys calm down!" the little digimon tried to draw their attention away from their anger.

"What about you!?" Yuriko shot back completely ignoring Kazemon. "Those digidestined went through hell and back in order to bring peace to both worlds only tossed aside when their usefulness is over?  Don't they deserve some sort of happiness?" Yuriko found herself pleading with the older man.

Ran once again sighed in irritation, " What you mean is that you want your surrogate little-brother to have happiness."

Yuriko sank down onto the sands facing away from the source of her aggravation.  Her eyes watered slightly as she watched the sun rise. " He probably doesn't even remember me…"

"Yuriko…" Ran began.

"Probably for the best," she cut him off. " I mean what did I do to help him when he was really in trouble? I stood by and let it happen. What the hell was the matter with me?!"

"You couldn't have done anything then… but … but you could do something now…" Ran softly replied with his head bowed.

"What do you mean?"

"If this means so much to you then … then go…" he forced himself to say.

"You won't be mad?" she inquired.

Ran tightened his hands into fists and grit his teeth. "I told you to go, didn't I!?!"

Yuriko slowly walked over to the young man who still had his head bowed, his thick bangs obscuring his watering eyes.  In a move that shocked both of them she gave him a quick peck on the cheek. " Arigato…" she whispered before calling to her digimon.

"Come on Kazemon." She then took a small necklace that was hiding under her tank top. The necklace held a turquoise crest that had a symbol that looked very much like an hourglass.

" Where are we going?" the little dragon asked.

" Nowhere really, but we're going to a different time… to see the other digidestined," she explained as she clutched the crest close to her heart as a bright sea-green light appeared in the shape of a doorway behind her. The two figures then turned to face it.

" We're going to see Ken-chan aren't we?" the digimon couldn't contain its excitement.

" Yes we are," Yuriko replied before looking over her shoulder at Ran. " So I ah… I guess I'll see you around," she stuttered.

" Yeah, I guess so…" he looked up trying his best to smile for her.

With one last look back Yuriko Hateshi, the digidestined of Time and Change stepped through the doorway with Kazemon right at her heels, leaving Ran with only his thoughts as company.

"If only you knew…"

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