Under the light of a simple desk lamp, Ken flipped to a blank page, picked up a pen and began to write.
| It's been a while since I've written, hasn't it? Looking back in this journal, I realized that so much has happened since the last time I wrote three years ago. Hikari gave you to me as a gift and told me to write everything down so I'd never forget all the things that have happened, and to remind myself that I'm not alone anymore. Somehow, I lost track of you. And then I found you the other day in one of the few boxes I didn't open after I moved at the end of college.
Yamato and Tai got married two years ago. It was a beautiful wedding, and the two of them looked really nice in their wedding kimonos. I felt really bad for the priest though, because Tai wore his usual hairstyle and it kept on threatening to poke the priest in the face. Some things just never change. The Ishida-Yagami family acquired a new addition not long after that. Tai and Yamato really wanted a little girl, so they tried one of those new in-vitro procedures that injects the DNA of people into an empty egg cell. So little Hana-chan is one half Tai and one half Yamato. Sora volunteered to be the surrogate mother for Tai and Yamato's baby girl. We all joke about how pretty she's going to look when she's older, since she's got the prettiest bishounen daddy and a really handsome papa. And how she's going to break every boy's heart by being the toughest tomboy on the block and by being the best soccer player in all of Japan. So far, the first part is coming true, we'll have to wait and see about the second part. Surprisingly, the girl is already acting like Sora. If Tai and Yamato think they have their hands full dealing with her attitude now, wait until she gets older. Maybe some of Sora's personality rubbed off on Hana-chan when she was carrying the little one. To this day, Daisuke continues to be my best friend. We finally patch things up after not talking to each other for almost two months that fateful summer, and we're probably stronger friends now than we were before the whole thing started. That's saying a lot since the only reason we could Jogress shinka together was because our minds and hearts were so synchronized with each other. Daisuke got married this year to Michiko, a girl he met at a dinner party his senior year in college. I can't help but feel a twinge of jealously, but at the same time, he deserves to be happy. And I'm happy for him as well because he finally found someone he loves and cares for so much. Me, well, I'm going to be married to Miyako in five months. She's finally fulfilling a dream she's had since she was twelve and I was still the Kaiser. A lot has happened since my college days, and Miyako has helped me through it all. But despite all that, I know that even today, my heart still belongs to Daisuke. Miyako knows this, but she still insists on marrying me. The lines are blurry these days, and I often wonder to myself if my romantic love has changed into a brotherly love of sorts - like the way I used to feel about my brother, Osamu, before my dark side took over and he passed away; like that sort of love where you just care so much about the other person, it's hard to tell what it is anymore. It's unfair to Miyako that I'm in love with someone else, but she seems to be so sure of herself and so understanding that I can't argue with her. I don't know why I still haven't gotten over him, but all I know is that I will do everything in my power to make him happy no matter what. Boku no taisetsu na hito dakara. December 31, 20xx |
Ken closed the book, tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and whispered into the night.
"I love you, Daisuke, forever."
Owari...
Notes:
-I decided that Tai would probably keep his hair long until he actually got a real job, so thus, the hair joke.
-Ever wonder why I chose Miyako over Hikari? No, not cause I needed Aquilamon for the plot :P cause I tried to somewhat stay in cannon. Sides, she's the one with the thing for Ken, not Hikari.
-"Boku no taisetsu na hito dakara." = Because he is the most important person in my life. (lit.: Because he is my important person.)
Ken still loves Daisuke in the end, but is it a brotherly love for one who is like a brother, or is it still a romantic love that never completely left him? I leave the interpretation of what exactly Ken means up to the reader. ^_^
Well, thanks for taking the time to read this set of extensive notes. I hope you've enjoyed the fic. Any other questions, comments, or criticisms can be sent to akaisakura@hotmail.com.