Yatta, this fic is still going. Sadly I keep getting writers block, something we all hate by the way (FH dodges giant mallets held by reader's), see what I mean. Anyway, on with the story.
Twisted Destiny
By: Firehedgehog
Chapter Eight- opening of the heart
Takato took a deep breath as he stepped out of the school, ever since lunchtime and that weird dream he had been having a pounding headache. Slowly he rubbed his temples to alleviate the pain, thankfully the pain ebbed enough for him to think clearly.
He was still not sure on how to speak to the Tamers; they weren't actually on a friendly level. He would actually love to avoid them completely, but... he had to figure out his dream.
To his surprise one of the other tamers had transferred to the school today, Rika... well the one he had accidentally kissed.
With a sigh he leaned against the cold cement of the school wall, he watched with almost emotionless eyes as children ran laughing from the school.
'Innocence, something I lost long ago' he thought sadly, on that fateful day when he was five his innocence had been ripped away by the brutal murders of his parents.
'Nothing can make me forget the pain' he thought with a slight shiver, with a sigh he closed his eyes wishing the day were over.
'So tired' he thought, not even realizing it he fell asleep.
"Ohhh," Guilmon and Veemon said their eyes wide, at the moment the dragon digimon duo were in the park. The reason for this reaction, right in front for the bushes they were in was the hotdog man.
It was at that moment that both of their stomachs rumbled in slight hunger.
"Do you think Takato would be mad if we got some grub to eat at the park?" Veemon asked the larger rookie, Guilmon tilted his head in a cute and Child Like way.
"I don't think Takatomon will be too mad," Guilmon said, he blinked as his stomach grumbled a bit louder this time.
"Okay dokey, lets get food," Guilmon said cheerfully, Veemon smirked and rubbed his paw/hands together gleefully.
"Operation hotdog has now begun," Veemon said happily his eyes twinkling.
"Veemon," Guilmon said, veemon looked up at the mostly crimson digimon.
"Yeah," he said.
"What's an operation?" Guilmon asked in a totally clueless voice, Veemon face faulted in surprise.
"You're running out of time," a voice said.
Startled Takato spun around his dream space, standing there was a worried looking Davis.
"Davis... how can I get there... I don't know how and I still have to talk to the other tamers?" Takato asked confusing showing in his voce, the goggle boy sighed and leaned against a wall that had suddenly appeared just behind him.
"I wish I knew how to get you to my dimension Takato but I don't, as to talking to the Tamers do your best and try to be nice. Try not to scare them off and all," Davis said with a wicked grin, Takato sent him a death glare that could of rivals Herro's from the Gundam wing anime.
"Ha ha," Takato said dryly, Davis smirked a bit at the crimson eyed boy.
"All in a days work," he said with a bow, the goggled boy then leaned against the wall again.
"Davis?" Takato finally said, Davis looked at him and blinked.
"Yeah Takato?" Davis asked; Takato frowned.
"Where did that wall come from?" Takato asked pointing to the said wall Davis was leaning about, Davis blinked then scratched the back of his neck in the fashion of all goggleheads.
"To tell the truth I have no idea," Davis said sheepishly, Takato was about to say something else when something cold and very wet brought him back to reality.
Terriermon laughed as Takato woke up with a gasp and a shiver, in the rookie digimons paws was a glass that was still dripping freezing cold water.
Takato looked at the glass then the digimon holding it, crimson eyes closed to dangerous slits.
"I'm dead right," Terriermon said, Takato nodded anger clear on his soaked face.
"Yup," Takato said getting up, Terriermon gave a nervous grin before running for his life.
'Oh great, looks like Takato's faster in this life' was Terriermosn thought, then he tripped and Takato descended onto him.
"Revenge is mine," Takato said to the poor rookie digimon he had in his grasp, at a time like this Takato would usually be thinking of ways to delete the digimon that had gotten in his way... but a different idea came to him this time.
"Tickle attack," Takato shouted, he then descended fingers ready to torture his prisoner.
"Damn," Terriermon said eyes wide, Takato only grinned evilly as the tickle torture session began... this would teach the digimon not to do that again.
Henry looked left; he looked right.
No rabbit digimon in sight.
This wasn't good.
It usually meant a prank was on the way.
"Please don't tell me rabbitmon is about to prank us again," an annoyed voice said, Henry sighed and turned to look at the owner of the voice.
There stood Rika hands on her hips, a look he recognized in her eyes. He wondered idly how she had gotten her mother to switch her to this school, and today was her first day here.
If his partner pranked her, Terriermon was data... or at least she would try to delete him till the rabbit digimon passed out from exhaustion.
"Do not worry," a voice said, Henry jumped slightly started at the new voice.
He turned again to give a small glare, there stood Renamon, why did she always just have to appear like that.
The fox digimon was smirking, he really hoped his partner hadn't done something stupid... again.
"What do you mean, why shouldn't I worry?" Henry asked, the fox motioned them to follow her.
Curious the two followed the golden fox, soon to their surprise they heard... laughing.
"Laughing?" Henry asked, curious he looked around a cluster of bushes.
And face faulted like they did in a anime.
There on the ground was Terriermon trapped, the one trapping him was Takato and the crimson-eyed boy was tickling the rabbit digimon.
"Ha ha ha... come on Takato, Momentai... mercy... uncle," Terriermon laughed out from all the tickling, Henry sweatdropped as Takatos grin grew more evil and the tickling went up a notch.
"Nice," Rika smirked as she came to stand beside him; of course he should have realized Rika would approve of Takato's way to torture his partner.
'Everyone's against my partner' Henry thought with a sigh, he guessed he should stop Takato before his partner actually passed out from laughing so hard.
"I better stop him, or I'll never hear the end of it from Suzy when I get home," Henry said, actually he didn't want to hear his sisters complaints that Terriermon was too tired to play tea party.
He his a shrudder at the thought of the dreaded tea party, once a long time ago he had been dragged into it... he had nightmares for weeks... Terriermon could do it instead so he wouldn't have too.
"Wait a few minutes, I want to see him sweat some more," Rika smirked, Henry sighed seeing that Renamon was also giving the same smirk.
"Sorry, but I need him to stay conscious," Henry sad, with that he walked out of the bushes and into Takato's sight.
Takato noticed him at once and let go of Terriermon, the digimon quickly rushed into the bushes and the safety they promised... mind you he still wasn't safe from Renamon or Rika... but that was another story.
"Thanks for not killing him," Henry said then winced: that sounded stupid he knew.
'That was so lame, he'll think your stupid and lame and you'll never get him to trust you' Henry thought to himself angrily, but to his surprise Takato chuckled.
"Heh, just teaching the fur ball not to play pranks on me... right Terriermon," Takato said smirking, in the bushes Terriermon eeped.
"I don't want to even know," Henry replied, since he had become partnered with the rabbit digimon he had heard of way too many pranks his partner had caused.
"Good," Takato said, then turning away began to walk away.
It was then that Henry realized something, the dark clothed boy was soaked... everything was wet. The air was also getting chilly; in fact it looked like it was going to rain soon.
'So he soaked Takato somehow' Henry thought, then an idea came to him... maybe a way to actually have a real conversation with Takato... someone he had been a friend to in the other timeline.
"Wait your soaked and its my fault in a way, why don't you stop at my place and change into something else, my place is nearby. If you don't have other clothing on you, you can borrow something of mine and return it later," Henry said, to his surprise and happiness Takato stopped and turned a slight frown n his face.
"I don't know..." Takato said, at that moment they both heard Terriermon yell something about evil people who tickled.
"It will also make Terriermon really nervous, after all you might get a chance to tickle him again," Henry said with a small smile, Takato stared at him and Henry relaxed as a he saw a small smile come to Takato face.
"I might as well, I'll catch a cold in these wet clothing before I get home," Takato said quietly.
"Follow me then, do you have any clothing to change into?" Henry asked, Takato shook his head no.
"Then we'll just have to find something for you to change into," Henry replied to mostly silent boy, after they walked in silence to Henry's home.
Behind them followed Terriermon, Rika and Renamon all curious of where this would lead.
Hopefully, to the friendship they had all known in the original timeline.
"Do you think we lost him," Veemon puffed out exhausted. Guilmon peeked his head out of their hiding spot, and looked around curious.
"No we lost the funny man who yelled a lot," Guilmon said, veemon sighed in relief.
"Good, never knew a human could chase someone for hours," Veemon said sitting down on the ground, Guilmon shrugged and also sat down.
"Takatomon says that a lot of people are weird, that must be a weird mon," Guilmon said cheerfully, Veemon sighed and realized that he would have to break his friend of that habit of calling humans mon.
But it was always funny to see Guilmon call Takato well Takatomon.
"Ah hah, found you little demons," a voice growled, both digimon sweatdropped and turned.
Standing there was a now sweaty hotdog vender man, his eyes were a bit wild from chasing the two all over Shinjuku.
In face, the hotdog vender man they had stolen hotdogs from earlier.
All his hotdogs....
"Um... bye," Veemon said, with that the two of them ran as fast as they could almost like the hounds of hell were at there heels.
Well a hotdog guy was, but since it looked like he had steam coming from his ears it was pretty much the same.
Takato sighed as Henry mother left the room, he frowned when he saw no lock on the door... hopefully no one would walk in while he was changing.
Thankfully the rabbit digimon tamer had found some clothing that wouldn't look to bad, a blue long sleeve turtleneck T-shirt, gray pants, thankfully the rest of his clothing was dry so he wouldn't have to ask for anything embarrassing or go commando. (At this point firehedgehog breaks out laughing at mental image).
Quickly he pulled of his wet clothing; he eyed the many old scars on his body... would he never be free of them.
'Who knows' Takato thought.
He stood there for a moment in deep thought, why had he accepted Henry's offer. He could have just caught the bus for home, but he hadn't.
'Why did I?' he thought with a sigh, he closed his eyes briefly trying to figure it out.
'Could it be because of the other timeline, the one I can hardly remember. We friends in it I think, could that be why the Tamer's are always trying to make friends with me?' Takato thought confused, he sighed again and picked up the shirt Henry was lending him for now.
At that moment the door opened, Takato spun around and stared into shocked eyes.
He had entered his room by mistake, he had forgotten that his mother let the other boy change in his bedroom.
He stared; he couldn't help but stare.
Of all things, Henry had not expected this.
Takato stood in front of him in only his boxers and shorts, but that wasn't what had startled him.
It was the scars, oh so many scars.
Takato just seemed to stare at him, Henry saw shock, anger, confusion, and rejection... or more accurately fear of it.
Some of Takato's lone wolf attitude seemed to make sense now, the scars would make the once goggleheads life hard... so many people would be disgusted by them and leave.
'To be so alone, how many friends has he lost because of those scars' Henry thought disbelief, he shivered a bit eternally for many of those scars looked as if giant claws and fangs had ripped across Takato's body along time ago... maybe even a few weapons.
"Well" Takato said in a soft tone, Henry blinked startled... in this timeline he had never heard Takato speak so softly... so sad and lonely.
"Well what?" he asked.
"You going to scream, faint, call me names and hate me like the others," Takato said clenching his fists angrily, Henry blinked.
'So this is one of the reasons Takato is so bitter, his so called friends had abandoned him when they found out about his scars.
"No, there just scars... it doesn't say anything about you or who you are," Henry said, that seemed to be the right answer for Takato for the crimson eyed boy smiled softly.
"Thanks," Takato said.
"Your welcome," Henry replied.
"Um Henry?" Takato suddenly said.
"Yeah Takato?" he asked curious.
"Could you leave, I would like to get changed still," Takato said dryly, Henry blinked and blushed embarrassed. Quickly he rushed from the room and closed the door behind him; he almost didn't hear the amused laughter from Takato.
Henry stood there for a moment and smiled, he then slowly began to walk to the living room where he knew Rika, Renamon and Terriermon would be waiting.
'Takato don't give up on friendship, I'm your friend... you just haven't realized it yet' Henry thought as he walked, for slowly and surely he was chipping away at the wall Takato had placed around himself in this timeline.
Today he had started; who knew what tomorrow would bring.
"Well?" Rika asked as he entered the living, he plopped down in the couch before answering.
"I walked in while he was changing," Henry said in an embarrassed voice, Rika smirked feeling a good teasing ground to use.
"And I bet you liked it big boy," Rika teased, she watched in amusement as Henry went even redder.
"No no, you have totally the wrong idea!" he shouted embarrassed, he swung his arms in total denial... she knew it was the truth though.
"Why, I never knew," a voice said also in a teasing voice, startled they all turned... Henry covered his face with his hands... it was as red as a tomato by now.
"This is not happening," Henry groaned, for standing there was Takato grinning evilly at Henry.
"Awww... is Henry upset," Rika taunted, terriermon snickered.
Takato smirked and sat down on an empty chair, Rika blinked... she had thought that Takato would leave all the way.
"So... talking about Henry's bedroom adventure?" Takato asked raising an eyebrow, Henry groaned again and Terriermons grin grew wider.
"Oh yes, do tell," Rika said nodding, she so wanted to hear this.
"Well now that," he waited until they were leaning in to hear the rest of the sentence. "Is a secret!"
There was a mass face fault from the group even Henry, Rika's eye twitched a bit... apparently Takato was a slayers fan in this timeline.
"Takato," Rika growled as she got up from the ground, he sweatdropped as she sent the evil glare of death towards him.
"Um... it was a joke," he said nervously, she had to smile slightly at the response... that so sounded like the old gogglehead she had known.
"I'll let you live this time," she said with a smirk, mass sound of air being released by everyone but Renamon and herself.
'Going to have to watch myself, they all thought I would kill him' she thought, after all she would never get Takato back to the way she wanted with him running away or acting so cold towards them all.
"Actually, he just walked in on me by mistake and was surprised and all," Takato said softly in a far off way, this got them all looking at him.
'He's actually talking to us, not glaring and talking coldly to us' Rika thought in surprise, looking at Henry she saw a sad look on his face.
"You don't have to tell,' Henry said, Takato smiled sadly and shook his head.
"No it's time I guess, you saw them... and I guess I should tell you all why I hate digimon so much and all," Takato said, he became silent.
"Take your time," this surprisingly came from Renamon.
"Heh, might as well show you part of it at least," Takato said, he stood up and started to remove his shirt.
Rika had to force herself not to think several hentai things as he removed it, but her eyes widened as she finally realized why he always his most of his body.
Scars... scars everywhere... not one place was clear of it.
And worst of all, it looked like 20 digimon had decided they had tried to eat him for dinner or try to kill him.
Takato quickly put on the borrowed shirt; he waited for revulsion, hatred, disgust... the remarks he always had gotten before. But none came, he didn't expect any from Henry, the tamer had already seen them earlier.
Finally he turned, he saw no revulsion... but all looked a bit shocked. Even Henry who must have gotten a better look at them then before.
"They... they look like digimon made them," Rika said in a shocked voice, no one said anything for a few moments.
"But they did, they did this to me when I was five... I had quite a lot more scars but the hospital removed them... as you can guess it was a lot worse then it looked," he said with a sneer, he couldn't help the sneer as he remembered the day he had gotten the scars.
"How..." Renamon asked simply.
"Heh... I don't know much. But on my fifth birthday a group of digimon crashed into the digital world, they killed everyone in my block and came to my place last. They made me watch them torture and kill my parents... then they started on," he sneered angrily, not at them this time but at the digimon in the past.
"I was the only survivor, how I lived is a mystery... if that was a good thing I lived I still don't know," he said coldly, he waited for pity but for some reason didn't feel or see any directed towards him.
"Let's go kill those bastard digimon then, lets go hunt them down," Rika said suddenly, Terriermon and Renamon agreed... Henry started to try to convince everyone this was a bad idea.
Takato; sweatdropped.
"I think I like you better not as the ice queen," he said, in his mind he could remember the image of her from the few memories of the other timeline.
Everyone paused hearing this, he blinked... had he said something wrong.
"But I was never the ice queen in this timeline," Rika said turning to him, he wanted to hit himself remembering she had different nicknames in this timeline.
"Um... opps," he said sweatdropping, Rika jumped him before he could escape... and tied him to a chair with a skipping rope that looked like it belonged to Henry's sister.
"Someone's keeping secrets," she said, he gulped in fear... she was scary.
"Um... I remember some of an old timeline," he whispered fearfully. He didn't know why but he couldn't act like he normally did at this time, something about her glare just scared him at the moment... he had a feeling that once she was out of sight he would go back to normal.
'Please don't tell me I have a crush on her' he begged himself, he had a feeling someone was laughing at him.
Elsewhere a certain robed individual and a weird unknown figure sneezed as they manipulated reality.
"Talk now," Rika said, the others had also surrounded him smirking for they weren't in Rika's grips at the moment.
At the evil look in his eyes he began to quickly tell all he remembered of the old timeline, it wasn't much... and he saw quite a few hurt looks because he didn't remember much.
'I wonder what I don't remember, were we friends?' he thought confused, hopefully e would remember because it looked like the tamers remembered all the old timeline... how he didn't know.
"Your still not telling us something are you?" Henry asked softly, Takato nodded... by this point Rika had thankfully untied him.
"The last part has even more confused, its connected to veemon in fact," Takato said, he then began to tell them about Veemons past and the fact that the Digimon cartoon was a real dimension... and the fact they needed to go there.
They all blinked.
"Are you sure you're not sick?" Rika asked, Takato scowled... he should have known not to trust them.
"He is telling the truth Rika," Renamon said suddenly, they all looked at the vulpine digimon who looked serious... even Terriermon looked serious.
"It's not a very known fact but what happened in the cartoon actually happened in another dimension. Another real world you could say connected to Azulongmons quadrant," Renamon said, Rika's eyes narrowed.
"And I wasn't told this why?" she asked sharply.
"Because I didn't think it would affect you, very few can cross quadrants... mainly the sovereigns and a few powerful or rare type digimon... like veemon. You might not realize it but like in the cartoon, there is only one veemon in existence," Renamon said, Henry gave a low whistle.
"That's amazing, but how do we get there... looks lie Azulongmon's realm will need our help?" henry asked, both digimon sighed.
"Neither of us know, and from what you told us neither do Veemon or Guilmon... we'll have to figure it out soon," Terriermon said.
"By the way, where is your partners Takato?" Henry asked, the crimson eyed teen sighed.
"Getting into trouble probably," Takato said dryly.
In fact the two had finally escaped a totally angry hotdog man, the two relaxed on Takato's bed.
"Well that sucked," veemon said as he tried to ignore how sore he was from running all day.
"ZZZZzzz," Guilmon said fast asleep.
"Wow, I wish I could fall asleep so fast," the blue dragon said. Closing his eyes he joined Guilmon ion la la land.
"I should get going," Takato said looking at his watch.
"Do you have to, we were finally having civilized conversations," Henry asked with a frown, Takato nodded.
"Yeah, I promised my guardian to pick something up for supper... and I need to check up on Veemon and Guilmon," Takato said getting up.
"I see, see you around Takato," terriermon said, Takato was almost out the door when Rika asked him something.
"By the way, who's your guardian?" she asked, Takato blinked and answered just before the front door shut.
"Oh, that would be Yamai," he said to there shock, then he was gone.
TBC
Next Chapter: Takato and the tamers search for a way to the quadrant that the 02 season takes place. Takato slowly is making friends with the tamers who are helping him get over his grief and hate of what happened when he was little.
Yeah, this chapter is finally out; I had such bad writer's block for it. But I made it fun, serious and lots of other things. I'm finally bring thins story to what I was trying to do.
Ja Ne