disclaimer: Yeah yeah,
blar. we all know I dun own Digimon.
a/n: Wow, I got a lot of
reviews after putting the first chapter up! Do to the insistent demand of the
next chapter, I immediately got to work on this. ^o^ Thanks for the
inspiration! This chapter is for all those who reviewed when I released the
first chapter!
To Win Your Heart
Chapter 2
Poromon continued to look at Miyako with intense eyes.
Miyako became irritated at being stared at for the past hour, and if Poromon
continued to look at her like that, she was sure that there would be two little
holes in the back of her head.
"Stop staring!" she snapped. Poromon yipped and
looked the other way. "I hate when people stare at me."
"But I'm not a people," Poromon declared, and
only received the same glare that could freeze ice over again. Miyako sighed
loudly and landed on her back on her bed, making Poromon bounce a few times.
"You're so grouchy lately!"
"Oh, well, excuse me! It's my nature, duh."
Miyako pulled the covers over her head. "Stop talking to me! I'm trying to
think!" That was the truth. She had to think. About all the events that
occured not long ago when Ken was the Kaizer. How he caused so much chaos, the
destruction of so many that were innocent...her blood boiled at the thoughts,
the memories of the ordeals, scarred forever in her heart and mind. Yet, only
her heart had forgiven Ken. Her mind didn't. She was lost and confused. How
could one forgive, yet the other not? How could she forgive Ken, yet feel so
bitter to even be near him?
***
Ken sat up in his bed, grasping the collar of his shirt as
he gasped for air. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, then slid out of his
shirt, which was soaking. Dropping it on the floor beside the bed, he slipped
down and headed towards the computer. Touching the monitor with his fingers, he
felt something wet slide down his cheeks. "Why...why me?"
He sank to his knees, crying silently, burying his face in
his hands, the same question running through his mind, and the horrific
memories coming in a mad rush. He suddenly stood up, grabbing the Digivice
sitting by the keyboard and pointed it to the screen. "I can't take it
anymore."
***
Ken continued to wander around the Digiworld, without a
clue of why here was really there in the first place. When he opened the gate,
he wanted to escape the real world, the nightmares that haunted him. But
looking around, it seemed as if they had all became a reality.
Out of nowhere, waves crashed upon his feet, and with a
sudden jerk of his head, he looked down and started to shake. "Stop
it...please, no more!" he pleaded, but the water continued to circle his
feet, and slowly rise. He began to panic as he remembered this all too well. He
was running, but getting nowhere. It was beginning to be a task to lift his
feet from the water, as they grabbed his ankles and legs.
"Stop it! I said stop! Why are you still doing this to
me?! I don't wanna be the way I was anymore, so leave me alone!" Then he
let out a piercing scream as he was drug under the water.
***
Hikari looked around, hearing the sudden scream, and ran in
the direction from wence it came. "Hey! Who's there? Ken, is that you?
Please answer me!"
She stopped, looking around. "Ken! Are you there?
Where are you?" She looked down and gasped. "Oh no...not this
again...Takeru, they're after me again! Please, help me!" she cried as the
water surrounded her, pulling her. "Stop! Why do you still want me?"
Hikari screamed when she saw the hand shoot out from the
water and grab her leg. She slipped in the water and fell, finding it was
suddenly deep and she could no longer stand. She came up for air, and saw Ken
struggling in the water beside her. "Ken!"
"Hikari, it's gonna get us...it's gonna get us both
this time!"
"Get us both...?"
"The darkness knows we're very feeble right now...I
don't have any right to get away, but you do. Hurry, escape before it's too
late!"
She paused. If he's so willing to save me, then it's
obvious he's a different person...not that same cruel person he used to be.
"No! We'll go together!"
"What?" he cried as she grabbed his arm and
watched her start pulling him while swimming. "What are you doing? I told
you to go! My life has no meaning now if I can't have friends!"
"You're fully capable of making friends, but you think
that no one will accept you because of who you used to be. Think of now, not
the past. I'll be your friend, and you can always count on me!"
Fully capable...? If that's true, then how come Miyako
hates me so much? he thought to himself, his heart crushing at the thought of
Miyako stomping on his dreams.
"Ken, something's pulling me! It won't let go of
me!" Hikari wailed as she suddenly let Ken go to pry her leg free. He saw
her gradually sink in the water, and he grabbed her arms and began to pull her
up. "Stay afloat!" he shouted, and dove under water to help her. When
he found her captivated leg, he shivered when he felt long, web like fingers
tightly grasping.
Hikari began to shout for her, hoping to someone get help
from at least one of the Digidestined. She suddenly felt her leg being
released, and she waited for Ken to surface. "Ken...?"
"Hikari!"
She turned around to see Takeru stopping where the water
and sand met, with Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori right behind. "Are you
ok?" he shouted.
"I'm fine, but Ken...!" She felt the fingers
tighten around her left calf and pull her under.
"Hikari!" Takeru ran into the water, pulling free
from Daisuke's grasp. He swam, trying to find her. "Hikari!"
She grabbed Takeru's leg, to let him know she was there,
but as she was continuing to be dragged deeper into the water, she ended up
taking him with her.
"H-Hey!" Takeru shouted as he went under. Then he
felt her let his leg go and he went back to the surface. "Great...how are
we gonna get her?"
Miyako punched Daisuke on the shoulder. "What?!"
he snarled and looked at her. She looked pissed. "Are you all so
stupid?!"
"What do you mean by that?! Hikari's in trouble, and
I'm going to get her!" Miyako grabbed his arm as he took off running to
help Takeru. "NOW WHAT?!"
"Hikari mentioned Ken's name before she was dragged
under, so doesn't that mean anything to you all?!"
"Good grief, Miyako, get over it! Quit treating Ken
like he's some outcast!"
"He is an outcast! No one would ever be so cruel like
him as to treat Digimon as his slaves and watch them kill each other like it's
the first spectator sport in Rome!"
"I don't listen to your analogies, so shut up and help
Hikari!"
Miyako did so, but was still seething at how everyone took
the Ken situation so lightly. Ken is a dirty double crossing...scumbag! she
thought angrily.
Hikari came back up, and they all grabbed her. She gasped
and coughed, clinging tightly onto Takeru as they took her to dry land. Takeru
rubbed her back as she continued coughing. "Ken...he's still out
there."
"Ken...?" Takeru asked.
"I knew it! He's behind it all still! I knew we
couldn't trust him!" Miyako blurted, jumping to her feet angrily.
"None of you would listen to me! Now who's right?!"
"You're wrong!" Hikari looked at Miyako. "He
tried to save me! Why do you hate him so much?!"
"He tried to save you...?"
"Yes! You don't believe me? We have to go back out
there and save him!"
"No one has the access to go under water as well as
Iori," Daisuke said, looking over at the little kid who remained silent.
"You think I'd go in there to save someone who was
ever so cruel?" Iori replied. Takeru looked harshly at him. "Look, he
tried saving Hikari, and it's only right to repay someone. You can't keep
hating him forever."
"Yes, we can! He'll never change! This may be another
one of his sick-minded plots!" Miyako shouted.
Hikari stood up and faced her. "Just because you hate
him, doesn't mean we can't help him! I don't care if you aren't with me! I'm
going to repay him for his kind deed!"
Miyako watched angrily as Hikari and the others, even Iori,
ran to help Ken. "No one ever listens to me!" she muttered angrily.
Just as they were about to dive in to find Ken, he was
thrown out of the water and landed beside Miyako with a loud thud. Miyako
stared wide-eyed at him as he gagged and spit up water. "K-Ken!" she
squeaked as she backed up a couple of steps.
She watched as the others surrounded him, asking if he was
ok and thanking him for trying to save Hikari. She was frozen as she watched
them all continue to help him and watched them help him up. Ken looked at her
and her heart flipped.
"Even now, do you still hate me?" he asked.
She tried to find her tongue to speak. She wanted to answer
no, because she knew that he was different, but she was hit with a flash of
memories that she tried to erase, and her brows furrowed and her lips turned
into a frown. "Of course! I could never forgive you for your sins!"
His eyes expressed pure sorrow, as he looked at her.
"Oh...I see. Then I guess not everyone can forgive someone."
Miyako stood there, watching him slowly walk away with the
others, the pained look still on his face to hear Miyako admit she still hated
him. As they disappeared, she fell to her knees and cried. "Why did I tell
him that I hated him?! Why can't I just forgive him and go on like the others?
Why am I always hurting people?" She continued to sit there and cry,
wondering why she was the way she was.
A/N: Urg...that has to be
an incredibly BORING chapter...I can't believe I actually wrote the whole
thing. -.- To all ones I'm dedicating this chapter to, please forgive me. I
will write a better chapter next time! I think it was due to the boring parts
at the beginning...action is always my thing, and the beginning is
just...stuff. Yeah. ^^;