Walk On The Dark Side: Finale
[A/N:
Oh gods, you finally get to learn the bad guy's identity! And it's third person POV, for simplicity's
sake.]
[Disclaimer:
Don't own.]
The thunder crashed and lightning cut
through the air. The hours were slowly
slipping away, and still, the assassin had no lead of where their target was.
In the rainy darkness of the night, the
assassin checked a watch around their wrist. "Eleven." they sighed, "Just eleven hours to find him and bring him
forwards." The assassin gave a quick
tug to their trenchcoat and swiftly started towards the next area their target
might be.
Kido Jyou sat in a warm chair at his
favorite bookstore. He rested his head
upon his fist and slowly read a passage from the book. Jyou sniggered; the manga he was reading was
exceptionally funny, in a perverted way. The door opened and Jyou looked up. It was a fairly large store, so he couldn't see who it was.
The assassin stealthily entered the
bookstore—and then cursed the cheerful bell on the door.
"Koban wa." the young storekeeper
said. The assassin merely nodded, not
wanting their target to hear their voice. The storekeeper said nothing else, but allowed the assassin to go about
their business.
Jyou twisted and craned his neck,
trying to see who had just come into the store. Someone stepped heavily into one aisle, and Jyou finally saw
them. It was a strangely tall person
with red and green hair. They wore a
black trenchcoat, and sunglasses. "Strange." the doctor thought, checking his watch, "Wearing sunglasses
at this hour?"
The assassin picked up a small, horror
fiction novel and flipped through it. They paused on a page and traced their finger down on the paper, pausing
as if they were reading. Carefully, the
assassin looked from the corner of their eye towards the small cluster of
chairs the store had.
Target found.
Jyou ignored the person and went back
to his manga. But he glanced up once
and paused; was the person staring at him? He shook his head and returned to his manga once more.
Something then rippled through
him. Fear and apprehension. He turned a page slowly and kept his eyes on
the pages, unwilling to show the assassin his minor fear. He knew exactly who the person standing in
the aisle was. Jyou's black eyes darted
back to the person quickly; they weren't looking at him.
He looked back at the manga and sighed
inwardly. Jyou knew this was to
come. He knew that some type of weapon,
two maybe, were hidden under that trenchcoat. The assassin had come for him—but not to kill him, no matter how much
they wished to.
With a low, fake groan, Jyou stood up
and stretched, rising up on his toes from the stretch. He strode out with confidence, quickly
shoving the manga back into place as he went.
The assassin watched their target
leave. Not wanting to trail too far
behind, the assassin clapped the book shut and walked from the store.
"Strange." Jyou murmured, "Why isn't
she coming after me?"
The assassin hastily stuffed the bell
into a pocket. That damned thing wasn't
going to give away her presence. The
storekeeper was going to be wondering who cut the bell from his door later on.
Jyou walked along normally. Large amounts of people were out that night,
despite the particularly nasty weather. He streamed through the large flow of people without a second of
hesitation, without ever glancing behind himself.
The assassin strode normally through
the veritable sea of people. They could
just make out their target's blue-black hair, despite the darkness the rain
created. Suddenly, he turned into an
alleyway. The assassin cursed quietly;
he had spotted her in the store.
Jyou darted into the alleyway, striding
a few meters into it. With a strange
grin, he pulled a small remote-like item from his jacket pocket.
The assassin glanced from side to side
behind their sunglasses. No one
honestly cared that they were going into an alleyway, and so, the assassin
walked into the alley.
"Hello, Shinji."
The assassin paused—and Shazaki Shinji
glared out through her sunglasses at Jyou.
"You sick twisted son-of-a—" she
began. Jyou cut her off with a 'tsk'
and a wave of his finger. "Such
language for a respectable teacher!" Jyou smiled at her.
"How could you do that to Hikari?"
Shinji said in no less than a hiss, "You of all people!" "I wanted a challenge." Jyou replied in a
very calm voice, "Now, I want a challenge from you." Shinji tensed—he wouldn't try to rape her, would he? He had no chance against her…
In pure instinct, Shinji had brushed
aside her trenchcoat and grabbed the custom-made weapon from her pocket. She pointed it at Jyou with deadly aim.
"My, my." Jyou snickered, "Do we have a
strange liking for the guns from 'Trigun'?" Shinji blinked. What in the
gods' name was 'Trigun'? She merely
tightened her one-handed hold on the black revolver-like gun.
"Kido, you're coming with me." she said
slowly, making sure not to shout, "I'm making sure that you don't do that to
someone else." Jyou smirked, and then
the sound of a button being pressed reached Shinji's ears.
In a flash, the two had vanished.
Shinji opened her eyes and was
instantly grateful for the sunglasses she wore. It was bright as day—it probably was day—in the place Jyou had
somehow transported them to.
"I thought a nice little duel in the
Digital World might be nice." Jyou smirked. He pulled a normal pistol from a holster at his side. Shinji raised her own weapon again.
Various digimon raised their heads as
loud bangs erupted from the forestry a few kilometers off.
Shinji rolled behind a tree and panted,
rapidly reloading her gun. How in the
gods' name did Jyou become adept at gunplay? She glanced slowly around the tree, and then quickly ducked back as
three shots shattered some of the tree, right around where her head used to be.
"Boo."
Shinji turned rapidly, but was too
late. Jyou had been hiding behind a
tree beside her, firing his gun with fish-line, and aiming another at
Shinji. She was able to leap up
slightly, but the bullet still hit her.
Shinji fell back to the
blood-splattered grass of the Digital World, clutching her right thigh. Jyou walked up to her and knelt down. He pressed the barrel of the second gun
against Shinji's forehead, but she refused to show any fear.
"No…" Jyou said slowly, "I think I'll
let you die a slow, painful death. No
one knows where you are, of course, and you'll bleed to death before you reach
any gates. Ta-ta!" He ran over to get his first gun, and then
vanished in another flash of light.
"'Tousan, where's Okaasan?" Vahn asked,
staring out a window. Vandemon didn't
reply, deep in concentration. His
partner had refused point-blank to allow him to come with her to find the
person who had raped Hikari.
"'Tousan?" Vahn murmured softly. The two-year-old boy slid down from the
window-seat and walked to his father. "'Tousan?" Vahn asked once more.
Suddenly, Vandemon leapt up and out of
the chair he was in. He bent low and
scooped up his son, sinking down into his shadow.
Sora looked up from her book as the
doorbell chimed. She slid the bookmark
into place and walked to the door. "Hai—" she began, but stopped. What in the world was Vandemon-san doing at her and Koushiro's
apartment?
"Sora, I need you to watch over Vahn
for the night." the Perfect digimon said rapidly, "Can you do that?" "Uh, sure, I guess." Sora blinked in shock,
"Why?" "I don't have time to explain,
unfortunately." Vandemon replied, "Vahn, be good for Sora-san and Koushiro-san,
all right?" "Hai." Vahn gave his father
a smile.
Sora held Vahn's hand and guided him
inside, staring out the door as Vandemon vanished into the shadows. She grew worried, but then put on a cheerful
façade. Sora had no clue as to what
Shinji-san would do to her if Vahn got scared about the whole incident.
Taichi stared down at the sleeping face
of his sister. She had finally fallen
asleep around two in the morning, but Taichi was too tense to sleep at
all. The Chosen Child of Courage
trembled with fury. Someone other than
Hikari knew who had hurt her. He was
guessing that it happened to be a very tall person that happened to be one of
Hikari's senseis. Gods, when he found
the little bastard who injured Hikari, he would make them pay.
Takeru slowly opened his eyes and
glanced at the clock. "Patamon, move!"
he whispered, plucking his partner digimon from the clock. Six AM. Takeru let out a great sigh and sat up, still holding his sleeping
friend. "Let's go see if Shinji caught
him yet." he said to no one in particular.
"…And there are still no clues as to
who sexually assaulted Yagami Hikari." a news reporter said. Takeru blinked at his Okaasan, who was
wide-awake.
"Takeru!" she visibly jumped when she
saw him, "I wasn't going to wake you till later." "I couldn't sleep." the young man said in reply. "Sou." his Okaasan sighed, "I suppose that I
couldn't sleep either if I had to go to a trial about something like this."
Jyou walked into his apartment,
stretching with a loud groan. Tonight
had been especially fun. He slammed the
door shut and slipped out of his muddy shoes, heading for his nice warm bed.
Shinji stumbled and fell against a
tree, clutching her right thigh. Blood
dripped down through the makeshift bandage around her leg and she cringed. "K'so…" she panted, trying to remain
conscious, "I can't walk anymore…"
Vahn lay awake. Something was truly very wrong. His 'Tousan wouldn't have him stay over at
Koushiro-san and Sora-san's home for any reason, except if Okaasan was in
trouble. It had never happened until
now. "Okaasan…" the two-year-old
murmured. He closed his eyes and
wondered what to do. "I want to help
Okaasan." he finally decided.
Shinji slowly dragged her numb leg
along, trying to move at all. Suddenly:
"Okaasan!"
Shinji opened her eyes and tried to
keep them focused. "V-Vahn-kun?" the
twenty-four-year-old woman murmured, "How in the world did you get here?" Vahn merely shook his head and hugged his
Okaasan hard. Shinji put her hand atop
Vahn's head, wondering what was going on. Vahn pulled away and said something, but Shinji was already passing out.
"This trial will now commence." the
bailiff called out, "Judge Mikashi residing." A woman of thirty walked to the board and sat down. The people in the courtroom sat down as
well, and the trail began.
"Yagami Hikari, do you have anyone to
accuse of sexually assaulting you?" Mikashi-san asked. Hikari was silent; she hadn't spoken since
arriving at the hospital the day before.
"Hikari-chan, say something!" Takeru
whispered. Hikari remained silent, but
looked about the room and a tear glistened in her eye. He was here…
"Ma'am!" Takeru leapt to his feet and
bowed, "Please, I know who did this to Hikari!" "Speak." Mikashi-san waved her hand.
Jyou's jaw dropped. No, that idiot assassin woman was too
secretive, she wouldn't tell anyone else…
"Kido Jyou!" Takeru pointed a finger at
Jyou angrily, "He did this to her!"
Oh shit.
"Yagami-chan, is this true?"
Mikashi-san looked towards Hikari. Hikari's face lit up in joy. Her
sensei hadn't kept the secret, but told it to the perfect person.
"Hai!" she replied happily, "Kido
Jyou!" "Well, Kido-san, what do have to
say to this?" Mikashi-san looked to Jyou.
"DAMN YOU!" Jyou shouted. He turned and ran for the double doors,
staring over his shoulder to keep an eye on the bailiff.
"Ah. Ah. Ah."
Jyou stopped immediately when he felt
the press of a gun barrel against his head. Oh double shit.
"Shinji-san!" Sora jumped. Oh gods, she had lost Vahn during the night,
Shinji was going to—was that Vahn hugging Shinji's leg?
"Well, end of the line." Shinji
grinned, her free hand against the back of Vahn's head. Jyou growled angrily and snarled, "How did
you get back here?" He was even more
shocked that her leg had healed.
Shinji's eye twitched in amusement and
she pointed at Vahn. "Ask him." she
smirked. "Don't forget me." Vandemon
rounded a corner and grinned. "I hate
you." Jyou sneered.
The bailiff ran forwards and snapped
the handcuffs closed around Jyou's wrists. Jyou was led off with no resistance, but a dark sneer.
Shinji sighed and flicked the safety
back on, patting Vahn lightly.
"SHINJI-SAN!"
Suddenly, Hikari had tackled her
teacher in a bear hug. "Itai…" Shinji
groaned slightly. "Arigato, arigato,
arigato!" Hikari squeezed tighter. Shinji turned an interesting shade of blue.
Takeru laughed as his girlfriend ran to
him and hugged him tight as well.
-Epilogue-
Kido Jyou was sentenced for life for sexual assault and attempted murder.
Yagami Hikari and Takaishi Takeru
continued their relationship, as all test results came back negative. No child, no serious damage to Hikari.
However, the reason Jyou became
dark-hearted remains unknown…
Perhaps…I will tell you someday.