Disclaimer: La la la I do not own Digimon…
It was a swirl… a swirl that made no sense to me. A swirl of dark and light, and as it becomes corrupted the darkness consumes the remaining light. For some reason though, this light does not fight back, it does not wish too. It's as if the light itself wants to be consumed by hatred, ignorance, and destruction. Soon everything falls before me and I stand there, showing no sign of reaction whatsoever. My mind is a blank emptiness, much how I feel right now. Looking up, stars begin to wink in and are smothered by the sky. A voice calls from behind, and I slowly turn to see the owner. Kouichi. He smiles brightly as he runs up to me, eagerness all over his face. Like it used to. He finally reaches me and says something with cheeriness, though I hear no words and only know it's cheery for one reason. This was the night he was kidnapped. Saying nothing in reply, I look back to the stars, and I feel him frowning at me.
He is yelling at me, screaming to gain my attention. If only he knew this was nothing but a memory, that he is not the real Kouichi. That the real one is being either held prisoner by Cherubi or is allowing false darkness to control his once pure sweet soul. I ignore the stabbing feeling that I felt when this did happen, when I was told, that I should have done something but did not. As before mentioned, this is nothing but a memory, something that happened in the past, and has nothing to do with the present as it currently is now. I am probably lying unconscious, with either Takuya the same or nearby waiting for me to get up. He probably won't leave my side, then again… he might. If he is waiting, then he does care about what happens to me, and is probably worrying himself sick. Or just waiting because he thinks he has to. I'm not sure, right now there's not but a world of doubt and confusion in my mind, as it is no longer clear to me who the true enemy is. Is it Cherubi? Lucemon? Or… can it be… something more? A darkness even greater than either… and what if…
Deciding I mustn't stay in this pit of darkness any longer (it's making me edgy), I swim through it. It's not like when facing Rana and her deadly water trying to drown us. Instead, this water can only drown you if you let it, and I'm not ready to be pulled under by foolish thoughts that I have no began to neither check up on to see if it's valid nor see if it even exists. Going faster towards something, lighter than it's surrounding, it all becomes a giant mass of light as I get closer to it. It's all so very… intricate. A sound bounces around it, it's so very familiar, a noise I have only heard when I was very young… very… very young. Just as I was coming to I think I saw something… unusual. It looked like a half-man, half-human and he was very… beautiful.
"Uhhnnm…" I groaned as my eyes fluttered open. I had a dream but I couldn't remember for the life of me just what it was about. Attempting to get up an aching pain screams up my arms and a yelp escapes my mouth and I thud back down onto the ground. "…" I make no comment about how much that hurt, no way no how will I do such a horrid thing.
"It's good to see you're awake." Takuya's voice calls out. Looking around I spot him not too far away smiling as he sets up a small fire. "You really shouldn't move, your hurt pretty badly." He adds on before standing up and walking over. After a few seconds, all of my previous memories come toppling into my head once again. Rana. Fight. Ouch. Rana. Ow. Oww. Hand. OWW!
"What happened exactly? All I can recall is defeating Rana." I murmur, not daring to admit that I also too recall a great deal of pain. I have my pride you know I'm not about to ever give that up.
"I'm not entirely sure either, I kind of…" Takuya titled his head trying to find the exact words. "Wasn't really conscious of my surroundings. I do know Rana nearly drowned us twice though, and that you're hurt." He finished, and smiled back at me again, then frowned. "Don't use your right hand by the way, it's not exactly usable right now." He informed me. Raising a brow I carefully move my right arm to put my right hand in front of my face. It was bandaged by some cloth, and it was shaking. Oh damn I remember now. Shuddering at when I first felt something slice through my palm, I placed it back down again trying to get rid of the memory, silently thankful I didn't see that happen. Now I have to fight with my left hand… nothing wrong with that right?
"Well isn't this wonderful." I growl, and begin to glare at the sky. Evil… yes the sky is mean. I don't know how or why but I need something to blame and it's the only thing I see right now. Besides that I don't think I could ever blame Takuya.
"Let me know if you can walk for the most part on your own, okay?" I hear him say, and feel my eyebrow twitch. I'm not that hurt, I can walk by myself! Without help. Perhaps a little help getting up is required, but beyond that I don't think I need it.
"I can already." I growl, and slowly position my left arm to push me up and gently place my right arm on my stomach. If there was one thing that always got me, it was I didn't need help on such little things as walking. Well, unless my legs were broken without my knowledge, but I'm sure Takuya would have mentioned that.
"No, Kouji don't! Here, let me help you up, okay?" He yelps and starts to come over to help me. I got it, geeze!
"I'm fine!" I hiss at him and he stops, looking a bit hurt. I know he wants to help but it's not like I'm a weakling who can't even pick himself up after a fight! Clenching my teeth, I ignore the pain of my arm as I push myself up. Now I sit there, wincing slightly in pain and ignoring Takuya's worried look. Again gritting my teeth, I start to get up, only to convulse in pain and plop right back down again on my butt. Feeling my legs shake still, I grit my teeth in growing anger.
"…You sure?" Takuya asked, his voice so full of worry. Right now though I could care less, as I felt both embarrassed and angry. Embarrassed Takuya saw that and angry because I could not get up like I wanted to.
"I'm fine." I answer a bit harshly, but ignore it. Sighing, Takuya waits for me to get up, the worry never leaving his face though. I attempt to get up yet again, only to fail in the same manner. This goes on for many more minutes, as neither my pride nor my determination seems to give way. Finally though seeing I could not get up fully without help, I release a defeated and rather unhappy sigh. "…help." I mutter in an inaudible voice, saying the word with a glare, as I don't like asking for it unless we're in a fight and I'm overly numbered and powered.
"Okay." Takuya says softly. I probably made him feel bad for denying him to help me, and now that I think about it again he always did seem to enjoy giving any sort of help. Bending down, he wrapped his right arm around my waist, just under my left arm, not daring to even mess with my right. Slowly he started to stand and I felt my body lean in against him for support. My legs started to shake under me, and I couldn't quite understand why this was. Of course, right when I was about to be standing the worst possible thing happened: Takuya sneezed. Both our legs gave out from under us and we tumbled down together. "Gomen…" He whispers, and bit of shame in his voice.
"It's okay." I mutter, trying to not sound like I was holding it grudgedly against him. I really wasn't, though I was starting to get agitated with him for no reason. Then again, I was already angry out myself and from what the others told me in the past I have a tendency to lash out at people when I am. "Let's try again." I sigh.
"Oh… kay hang on a minute please though." Takuya replies, and he sneezes again. And again. And a lot more after that. I raise a brow at his sneezing fit and wait for him to finish before putting in any input.
"Now, are you okay?" I ask, and my reward is that he laughs at me. I like his laugh… I should make him laugh more often. You know, give him reasons to be happy.
"I'm not entirely sure." Takuya chuckles, and we try again; this time succeeding. My body wavers for a moment and I place my good hand on Takuya's shoulders for support, ignoring the dizzying sensation in my head. I felt rather light-headed. "Can you walk on your own?" I shake my head lightly, not wanting to Takuya to worry over me and because I want to see him smile. Wait… wait… ah there we go. Now, we slowly make our way back to the others, with Takuya's occasional sneezes and my sudden collapses, we made a great team didn't we?
A/N: *Staring at chapter* Well… that was bad. Then again I did not put much effort into it… and I lost my idea for it. o0;; It was supposed to be Takuya's POV but then I forgot how it would go, and Kouji's was the only idea I had. -_- That is sad… Tomorrow I solemnly promise though more effort will go into this! And I shall try to toss in some Takouji! ^o^ Oh, and I cannot wait to see the picture when your done Rebecca! Yes, e-mail is fine but I don't know if it'll show... been having problems with it lately.