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Chapter 16: Stand In Your Way
Kiku stood in front of the chapel that Taichi was going to get married in. Her heart was pounding, and every part of her body just wanted to explode. She wanted to cry, she wanted to scream, but she couldn't. All she could do was just stand there, like an idiot.
As she stood, she felt a hand on her shoulder. A familiar hand, one that once brought her comfort, but now, it only caused her pain. She turned and met the eyes of Taichi, only, his eyes weren't happy, they were empty...
"Taichi-san, what's wrong?" Kiku asked.
"Nothing is wrong. I knew that Sora would tell you," Taichi said. "That's what I was counting on. You see, Sakura and I agree that I shouldn't have any more connection to the Digital World, so here."
Taichi handed Kiku his Digi-vice. Kiku stood there, dumbfounded, for a few moments. Here was Taichi, the leader of the Chosen Children, and he was giving up everything for some stupid woman in a short skirt. Kiku held Taichi's Digi-vice tight, and looked up at him.
"You don't want to give up the Digital World," she whispered. "And I know you don't want to give up Agumon. That Digimon means everything to you."
"Used to mean everything to me," Taichi said as he began to walk away.
Kiku just stood there, holding the Digi-vice like an idiot. As she stood there, she gripped the Digi-vice harder, then walked into the church. As she entered, she soon found all the other Chosen Children, sitting and waiting for the wedding to proceed. Kiku walked over to one of the back walls and stood there in the shadows. Her necklace began to glow.
I know you wanna say good bye
You know that's gonna make me cry
It doesn't even matter why
I want you to stay
The music began to play, and the wedding began. Kiku slowly made her way to the altar after everyone was in their place. Hikari noticed this and elbowed Sora, who in turn nudged Koushiro, until all the Chosen Children (Taichi excluded) were aware of Kiku's presence.
And you know that time will tell,
If you're meant for someone else
But I don't think so there's no way
Someone will love you like me
And if you go there you'll see
"If anyone has any reason that these two should not be married, may they speak now or forever hold their peace," the priest said.
Kiku ran up to the altar and stood between Taichi and Sakura. Her heart was racing, and she felt as though she were doing the concert all over again.
"I have a good reason," she said.
The priest eyed her, obviously unaware that anyone really wanted to stop a wedding in the first place.
"Well," the priest urged. "What is it?"
Kiku turned to face Taichi, her eyes glassed over with tears that she didn't want to cry, and in her hands was Taichi's Digi-vice.
"Taichi-san," she began.
"Oh please!" Sakura interrupted. "Taichi doesn't want to listen to you!"
"Taichi-san," Kiku said again. "There's no way that someone could love you like me, and if you marry her, then you'll really see that. If Sakura is really what you want, if she's what you've been looking for, if she's worth losing everything we could have...If that's what you want, then I'm going to stand in your way. I love you, even though I know that I'm not supposed to. I wish you that you would just love me like you know you want to, like we both wanted you to..."
If that's really what you want,
If that's really what you've been looking for
If it's worth losing all we had before today
Well, if that's what you want
I'm going to stand in your way
Kiku trailed off and looked up at Taichi. Nervously, she handed him his Digi-vice.
"Taichi, come back to me and Agumon. We miss you, a lot."
Taichi looked over at Sakura who was glaring. He gave Kiku one last sympathetic glance before he threw his Digi-vice on the ground and stomped on it until it was shattered into a million pieces. Sakura grinned, and Kiku glared.
"If that's really what you want," Kiku said, her voice ice.
The crystal around Kiku's neck began to glow, and she turned to Sakura. With a grin that wasn't meant to be on the Guardian's face, Kiku raised her hand, and with the hand, Sakura went up. At that moment, the double doors to the church opened.
"Good bye," Kiku said before waving her hand toward the doors.
Sakura's face went blank as she was thrown out of the church. Taichi ran after her, only to find the doors shut and lock themselves in his face. The priest ran over to a corner of the church, holding his rosary and Bible.
Gonna make you, oh my, love me like
You used to every single night
There's so much more that I could do
Maybe I didn't show you enough, but I'm not giving up
Kiku bent down and picked up the pieces of Taichi's Digi-vice. She walked over to Taichi and grabbed one of his hands, then put a now complete Digi-vice in it. Taichi blinked.
"What are you doing?" he demanded. "I told you..."
If that's really what you want,
If that's really what you've been looking for
If it's worth losing all we had before today
Well, if that's what you want
I'm going to stand in your way
"And I told you that I was going to stand in your way," Kiku said.
Without warning, Kiku threw one of her hands back, and behind her a portal to the Digital World appeared. Out of the portal, Agumon came. He began to run over to Taichi, but ended up stopping at Kiku.
"Taichi. I can give you a million reasons to stay, but in reality, you only need one to go, don't you?"
Gonna scream, gonna shout
Gonna hold my heart out
I will not let you go quietly
Put a lock on the door,
baby then you'll be sure
That you're wrong, and you don't want to fight me anymore
Everyone was now looking at Taichi. Their eyes studied him. Taichi kept his eyes on Kiku, who had now walked back up to the altar. She put a hand on the priest's shoulder, and talked softly to him.
If that's really what you want,
If that's really what you've been looking for
If it's worth losing all we had before today
Well, if that's what you want
I'm going to stand in your way
Taichi ran over to Kiku and just stared at her, unable to come up with any words to describe how he was feeling. Taking this the wrong way, Kiku walked calmly out of the church, every door flying open behind her.
"Taichi! Follow her!" the Chosen Children exclaimed.
So you wanna say good bye
You know that's gonna make me cry
I'm gonna stand in your way
Gonna stand in your way...
A/N: Okay, that's it. ^^ Maybe I should do one more chapter, what do you think?