Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, and I currently need some fluff damnit!
Silence now welcomed me. All the memories slowly found an end there, and I finally found myself waking and it was strange. A warm body was pressed against my right side, and I've never felt more at peace than I did right now. My pain was dull, and if I had not known what had happened I would not even know I had any injuries. My eyes make small movements, as I open eyes. Bright light greets me from a window, along with a sweet face rested on my chest. Takuya slept quietly against me, and I was mildly surprised that my arms were still wrapped around his waist. What was even more so surprising than this, was that we were back in Destiny Walls, in my room. Although on our quest we weren't gone very long, home never seemed so far away, but here I am back here. When did this happen? I must have been out the entire journey… perhaps even longer.
Looking around my room, I see the navy curtains have been drawn to let in sunlight. My bed is clean, with its usual sheets on it. The rest of the room is rather blank, except for a few random furnishings and objects placed around. I didn't exactly have the most entertaining room, but I liked it simple, it was rather easy to keep neat that way. The servants always got onto us that neatness was the quickest route to true responsibility. I think that adventure of ours was quicker, and give a small smile at the thought. Well, it should have been, seeing as we did defeat Cherubi, if that didn't make us responsible then we most certainly are some hopeless people.
"Nnnmm… Ohayo…" A voice yawned, and I looked down to see that at some point I must have disturbed Takuya's rest. He looked up back at me and we stared at each other for awhile. I'm too tired to worry about anything, so what the hell? I'll just stare… besides he doesn't seem to mind either.
"How long have we been asleep?" I yawn myself, still rather sleepy.
"You… you've been asleep for around three weeks. Or at least that's what the others told me, I regained consciousness around a week ago." Takuya explains and stretches best one could before looking back up at me then flicked me on the nose. I react by blinking with mild surprise and cock a brow at him. "And as I've said before you have one hell of a vice grip." He chuckles and I just shrug his comment off. Meh… so what I wouldn't let go of him while I was out of it. I'm not entirely up yet so nothing can bother me.
"Lovely." I say and yawn yet again, trying to wake myself up. Takuya tilts his head, and looks at me for a moment. "Yes?" He turns a little red and cuddles up closer to me.
"Aishiteru…" I hear him murmur, and look down. He has his face buried against me, but I can make a large bet he's blushing his head off right now. Smiling I run my fingers through his hair, and get his attention.
"Your not alone on that one." I smile, and peck him on the lips. "Were you unconscious when I helped you out of Cherubi or something?" I ask, and he blushes more.
"I thought that was a dream." Takuya murmurs and I can't but help laugh.
"Well it wasn't." I say, and pull him closer to me. Snuggling against me, we lay there just letting everything sink in. Closing my eyes, I sigh contentedly enjoying all of this.
"Kouji-chan…" Takuya murmurs. I give him a 'hmm' to let him know I'm listening and he sighs gently. "You haven't finished that story yet." He whispers and I let out a laugh, knowing he's so very right.
"I suppose I should finish it, ne?" I say and grin when he nods his head gently. "Where did I leave off? Oh yah, he was starting to feel remorse for how he had treated his life-long friend. When he went to apologize, he saw a few people attacking his old friend, and not taking kindly to this he kicked their asses. The two made up, and discovered they each loved one another. They ignored his mother's protests, and the two lived happily ever after. There, the short version is complete." I chuckle when Takuya rolls his eyes at me and pokes me in the stomach. "Hey!"
"You're a horrible story-teller, you do realize this?" Takuya asked, and his reply is a shrug. I poke him back in his stomach, for doing so to me, and somehow our little poking fest ended up in me tickling Takuya until he started to get tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. I eventually stopped, and waited for him to get better control. "You that story…" He gasps. "It doesn't ever say what the other persons gender was." Tilting my head in thought, I realize he's right. It does not matter though, because personally I was happy. Hey, I finally did carry out one of my thoughts, I did tell Takuya my feelings after our quest was finished.
"Takuya… I got a question for you now." It was something that I've always wondered in my spare time, though lately I haven't thought about it. He looks at me, waiting to hear what it is. "You know… when we first defeated Jack, you said you didn't want to go free. Why?" He looks at me for a moment, then sighs. I think he knew I was going to ask this eventually, and re-positioned himself so that he's now lying on top of me.
"I was scared." Takuya explains, and rests his head. Probably was rather uncomfortable lying in the same position for so long, I can't really blame him. "Now I don't want to because I like being yours." He says, and a smile grazes his lips. I look down at him, and brush a few strands away from his face.
"Whatever suits you best love." I whisper, and reach and kiss him deeply. He responds and moves closer to me, and I didn't ever want to stop but we had to for two reasons. One, we were running out of air, and two we got interrupted.
"How cute." A familiar voice says mockingly. We pull apart and while Takuya blushes I just shrug the persons comment off. Yamaki walks inside, and I am both surprised and curious that he is here. Smirking Yamaki sits down in a chair nearby us, and folds his hands under his chin. That smirk playing on his lips, like when we were back in Diga Town. "You both seemed to have gotten plenty of rest, that's good to hear." He says politely, then frowns. Bad news…
"Come in to tell us bad news?" I ask and raise a brow. Yamaki chuckles and shakes his head no.
"No, actually I came in to see if you were awake yet. Kouichi's been rather impatient in talking to you again, he wishes to apologize." Yamaki explains, and I feel a smile tug at my lips. Go figures he would wish to apologize, and I don't see why he should though. What happened most certainly wasn't his fault, but yet he still felt horrible about it. "Besides that we were wondering when you would, poor Takuya hasn't been able to walk ever since he got up. You have one powerful grip when you don't want to let go of something." He teased, while I just shrugged. "No no, I'm not even sure if I should tell you the bad news. It must wait for when all six of you are ready, as it's pointless telling you separately." Yamaki sighed, and got up. "Enjoy yourselves, I leave you now to tell everyone the good news." He starts to get up.
"And that is?" I ask, needing to lighten the mood a little. Yamaki turns to me, and smiles.
"That you're alive and Takuya can walk now." Yamaki chuckles as he leaves at my annoyed expression. Takuya shakes his head with a grin, and pokes me in the chest.
"That reminds me, I really would like to get up now." Takuya says and I raise a brow.
"Really now? Well for siding with Yamaki over me I won't let you." I grin and stick my tongue out at him. He pouts and makes an annoyed sound.
"But I want to walk!" Takuya whines, making me laugh. "Fine, if I'm stuck in bed with you might as well make the most of it." He sighs, and our lips lock again, not before though yet again we're interrupted.
"Sorry to disturb!" A boy yelps and a large sweat drop rolls down his face. I sigh and pull away, with Takuya trying his hardest to not laugh at my face. I just want to kiss him damnit, is that so wrong!? His eyes are all black, and he has white hair. He wears pants with a huge pocket on one side, and a magenta vest. He held many elfish features, especially the ears. "Ah, uhm I heard you were awake, I didn't quite expect to interrupting anything." He apologizes and I just wave him off on that. Whatever..,
"It's fine." I say, though it sounds a bit irritated. Takuya offers me a sympathetic look, and I wait for the person to introduce himself. A loud crash is heard, and another man walks in, taller than the first, his ears were like a rabbit and his eyes were either closed or squinted. He wore baggy pants kept around his waist by string, and he had on a loose over shirt.
"Boku, where are we?" He asked, and the first got an irritated look, then snapped the man's pants. Okay, I won't ask. Don't want to.
"Destiny Walls you baffoon!" Boku growls, then turns to us. "I heard you were the one who officially defeated Cherubi Kouji-han." He explains.
"And…?" I ask, not really caring right now. Really, I'd prefer to not remember but everyone seems to remind me.
"We were wondering that perhaps in the future we may provide you with some sort of assistance." Boku says with a smile. "Oh, and also I would like to write a book on your experiences, from each and every one of your point of views." He added hastily. I raised one brow in question at him, and all that he had was an eager expression that I would say yes.
"What's his name?" I ask, rather then answer, wanting to know more about these two.
"I'm Nahmon, but you can call me Baffoon, Boku does all the time." The taller of the two replied, and wore a stupid grin. I blinked, not entirely sure just what to make of it.
"Well, okay then." I say, still blinking, as does Takuya. We just stare at them for the longest time; slowly making them sweat with nervousness. Boku shook while Nahmon (I don't want to call him Baffoon) spaced off, and began to mutter something about food.
"Well… so would you allow us too?" Boku finally said, not being to take any more of the 'tension'. Personally I was just staring at them, but Boku seemed to be getting rather nervous over there.
"Did you ask the others?" Takuya questioned them, and Boku sighed.
"Yes, the blonde. Izumi is her name correct? Well, she threatened our lives saying that if we disturbed Junpei ever again she'll rip our heads off. During this time I decided my preferences is to remain alive so we waited for you to get up." Boku explained, and I can relate. Izumi is very dangerous…
"Well, we'll discuss it with the others and let you know later." I sigh. Boku, satisfied leaves with Nahmon following, who walked into the door. We blinked at them as they left then exchanged worried glances.
"They most certainly aren't coming with us if there is a next time." I tell him, and he nods his head in agreement. I let go of him, and he gets up with me following carefully. I hadn't walked in a long time it seems, and my legs agree with me. We stand shakily, then grin at each other. Just like that time after we defeated Rana, we could barely walk. Suddenly we burst into laughter with each other, catching the attention of my brother who was walking by.
"What's so funny?" Kouichi asks, giving us confused looks. When our laughter died down, I just shake my head.
"Good to see you again brother." I say with a smile. Kouichi looks away a little and I walk over to him, then threw my arm over his shoulders and wink at him. "Everything is back to normal, ne? Stop worrying." I say, and laugh at his shocked expression, which slowly turned into a curious look.
"You've changed Kouji. Have you been possessed?" Kouichi asks, and I face-fault. Blinking down at me, my twin then glances to Takuya whom shrugs.
"Iie!" I say and then start to chase my twin around my room, with Takuya sweat-dropping as he watched us goof around. It felt so good to no longer have the heavy weight of responsibility off your shoulders. So good in fact, I decided to act way out of character and just have fun for once in a very long time.
"We eat and drink to the defeat of Lord Cherubi, and the safe return of every single one of our young Legendary Warriors." Lord Seraphi, Tomoki's father, said with a raised wineglass. We all raise our glasses in agreement, then dug in. Food food food!!!
"Somebody was hungry." Lady Ophani, Tomoki's mother, said with a bright smile. I nod my head, and continued to chow down happily. There were tons of people who had attended the feast today, in celebration that each and every one of us was truly alive and well, and that the threat of Cherubi was distinguished. Earlier we even had a ceremony, in which the entire land came and watched all six of us receive honors for our service. Shortly after there was a large service held for every last soul lost in the time of darkness. Though not until after all the guests leave did Yamaki tell the bad news.
"I know it has only been a short time since you have all gotten a chance to relax, and feel free." Yamaki said, a serious tone inside his voice. None of us liked where this was going, and personally I think all of us were dreading what we may here. He looked at all of us gravely. "When you were on your way to defeat Cherubi, you had left two friends behind correct? A few days ago we got word from John, and he looked both weary and weak. Right now we have some doctors trying to keep him alive, but from what we were told, Lucemon had killed his friend David." We were all silent.
"…So that's who that man is." Lady Ophani murmured, and put a thoughtful finger on her chin. She and Lord Seraphi were here too, as they were the rulers of Destiny Walls. Yamaki nodded his head, though not much, the grave look still on his face.
"I would not be here right now, if I had a place to stay either. You see, Lucemon had attacked Diga Town and well… not very many of your friends you made there are left either." Yamaki said, and growled. "I knew many of them… and it's a horrible thing for them all to suffer." Again, we were all silent, letting this horror sink in. Lucemon… was returning. "This is not even the worst of news, you know Jack from Trader's Village? Well Kouji, he's looking for you."
I flopped onto my bed, our conversation with Yamaki still fresh. I felt the bed lower from someone else's weight, and immediately knew who it was. Takuya wrapped his arms around me and nuzzled my neck. It was up to us now to defeat Lucemon, but how could we kill something not even the Legendary Warriors could do before us? And in the beginning there were Ten of them! "Kouji." I hear him whisper, and my muscles relax. In his own way Takuya managed to get me to lose tension, but a great deal of me was still worried. Jack was looking for me, and more or less to probably and try and get Takuya back. This was very unsettling news for me, especially the fact that we had to worry about both Lucemon and him. Damn man… couldn't he get some other profession? For example, take up art?!
Getting Takuya to move I rolled over and placed the palm of my hand on his cheek. Again we just looked at each other, sharing words that did not exist. Smiling, I pulled him in for a short kiss and got on top of him. Giving each other long exchanges of sweet kisses, and holding one another tightly, after awhile we both stopped and I moved off him before pulling him against me. Snuggling up, we lay there, neither finding sleep. It's a bit silly, one would think we could easily find sleep in a regular bed but, after all the information Yamaki had given us, it was a bit complicated.
"Kouji… we'll get through this." Takuya whispers to me, and I hold him only tighter. In time I had grown so horribly attached to him, and I don't think that would ever be changed. He was my one love forever and my one alone.
"I know." I whisper back, and grab his hand with my own and give it a gentle squeeze. "No matter what happens we'll get through this together." I continue, and I know that Takuya is smiling, and he squeezes back. I know what I feel is as sure as the sun rising and setting, no matter where you are. This was like a dream, a dream that was real. Though my mind could not be playing tricks on me, another awake person could only provide everything I felt I was wide-awake, as was Takuya. "I'll always love you." I say into the brown hair, and hear a quiet 'Me too' from Takuya. So much reassurance from such a sleepy reply.
"You know, with how the moonlight reflects off you, you like much like an angel." Takuya says, a bit shyly. I laugh, and hug him tighter to me, somehow.
"If you say so, but I think that would be you." I say, and can see a faint trace of a small blush on his face, which he shakes. I know this would lead to a silly little argument, so I instead say something else. "You know, perhaps it's a good thing Jack is chasing after us now, wanna know why? We don't have to come to him to get your brother back." And Takuya laughs, and looks up at me.
"You don't forget much do you?" Takuya queries me.
"Only when it comes to you." I reply, and kiss the top of his head. Sighing contentedly, I finally feel sleep coming. Probably because I have the knowledge someone I love dearly is with me, or perhaps it's the beating of Takuya's heart I faintly hear. People told me I had great hearing, so I suppose they're right. You know, if I didn't know any better I'd say I heard that sound before… so sweet… so lulling… so loving. And meant for me.
A/N: *_* …Fluff… Takouji fluff… sequel's plot is set up… final chappy done… me happy. This also me longest story… x_x Kill Takuya? Me no do that! Yet... Now excuse me, I have to daydream about Takouji and plan my next story idea. Oh, and a special thanks to Rebecca Lyn, KellyQ, dragi, Paige Minamoto, and ejgHorseLady for reviewing, you guys rule! Thank you so much for reading this horrible story and reviewing! Oh, and cannot wait to see the picture Rebecca!! ^_~