Through the Oddest Circumstance
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon
Chapter 9: Never to Shed Another Tear
Pairings: Mimato, Takari, Jenruki, Kouzumi, Kouyako, Taiora, mild Takumi and Ryo/ OC
Takari-san: I'm in major writer's block in this fic since my only inspiration left is Frontier which only every Friday… Sad to say, they have replaced Digimon 02 in Saturday mornings and since Tamers was done did not repeat anymore… and for 01 well, if 02 is gone then it must be too, right? SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE!
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"This mission has gone haywire... I can't go on. I became too close with someone here..." Takuya looked away.
"I see... I don't blame you for it but you are always welcome back..."
"Arigato..." Takuya murmured when...
"YOU TRAITOR! YOU WERE JUST SPYING ON US!?!" a voice shouted making Takuya turn around to find Kouji enraged.
"Wait... I can explain..." Takuya said softly.
"You can't cover it... I saw it with my very own eyes."
"We're under ATTACK!" a voice from outside shouted.
"You did this..." Kouji said bitterly.
"No... I didn't do anything..." Takuya dropped the patch...
"Takuya? Are you there? Takuya!"
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"YOU BASTARD! How could you? We trusted you… Izumi trusted you…" Kouji said before running of to the battleground.
"Matte ne!" Takuya shouted, "I didn't think… I wasn't the one…"
'Will they accept me when they find out I was a spy? Can I still be their comrade? Is it really impossible? Will Izumi… will she hate me?' Takuya thought in despair, 'Should I let go of my short yet precious memories with her? Will I just forget her? Will I never again think this way of her face, her lips, her eyes, her skin, her clothing, he attitude, her?'
'I will never forget her… dakedo… she'll hate me. She would hate the fact that I lied… lied to everyone… Everyone will hate me. So this means… I have only one chance left. Though I may not be her comrade… at least I would be able to see her, even if it means she'll hate me more.' Takuya thought picking up the patch that fell to the ground.
"Ryo…"
"Takuya, is that you? What happened?"
"Don't worry about it. I decided, am I still welcome there in your army?"
"Of course…"
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Crumpling his blonde hair, Takeru woke up from the cot he slept on that night. Still half-asleep, he looked around to find Hikari shivering in fear beside him…
"Hikari? Hikari? Nani? What's wrong?" asked Takeru snapping out from his half-asleep state rushing to the side of his beloved.
"Taichi… he's outside… he… he… wants to get me." Hikari finished sending Takeru into a mild shock.
"What? Why didn't you say so? Why didn't you wake me up?" I said as gently as I could.
"Sora… she told me she was the one who was going to do this…" Hikari managed to say. Having her brother want to send her to the people who had evil intentions on her and she hated was indeed frightening.
"She can't… We saw how she reacted last time, remember last night?" Takeru told Hikari trying to soothe her by stroking her hair gently.
She nodded slowly - Sora still had feelings for her brother, she wouldn't be able to fight him well. As for Taichi, who knows how he felt?
"I must help them; Hikari stay here… Call for me if you're in trouble, okay?" Takeru said making Hikari whom stood up to follow him outside sit back down.
"Hai…" she followed, "Takeru, be careful out there…"
"Of course…" he smiled giving Hikari a quick kiss.
Rushing out, Takeru soon found himself outside where flames destroyed most of the area. The smoke filled the place but it soon cleared to find the two said warriors, panting. One, Sora on top of the tree with her bow and arrows; Two, Taichi who was on the ground barely standing up, supported by the huge sword he had.
At first look, it seemed as if Sora was winning but as Takeru watched for a while… Sora began to jump down from the tree - no, she was falling.
"You shouldn't have gone against the kingdom Sora… I did everything so our honor was to be brought back yet you and Hikari rebel." Takeru heard Taichi mutter as he ran in the top speed of his dagger that gave him this skill to do so.
"Sora!" Takeru shouted as just in time he caught her and laid her gently to the ground.
"Takeru… stop him - he is planning to use Hikari and give her to the kingdom." Sora said weakly.
"I understand." Takeru said as he stood up to face Taichi, "I challenge you to spar with me." He looked at Taichi directly in the eyes; his usually cheerful and happy eyes turned into a menacing deadly gaze.
"I accept. In saving her, you went against the monarchy as well." Taichi glared at him bitterly. He then looked at Sora and back to him again, "Whoever you are."
"I don't care about the monarchy." Takeru fixed his hair that the air had wrecked as he ran to save Sora.
Taichi's eyes widened, "How could you talk about the kingdom like that!?!"
"Because I can," Takeru smirked but his menacing gaze still unchanging.
"Gaki! You monster!" Tai yelled.
"No, I'm not a monster; I'm Takeru Takaishi, neighborhood thief." He replied.
"That's the same as a monster." Taichi retorted as he took his sword from the ground.
"No Taichi, you're the monster." Takeru replied, pulling out two of his largest knives. (They already look like two swords, mind you ^___^)
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"What's happening? Report to me what's going on immediately." Kouji barked - his temper still hadn't lessened due to the fact that all he could think about was Izumi and Takuya at the moment.
"Kouji-san, he just attacked out nowhere. He seems to be doing it for the mere fun of it." One of the lower ranking thieves informed Kouji.
"What?" Kouji said… For sure I would've thought that this was regarding the princesses but just for the fun? Who is this? Wait… mere fun of what? It must be one of the maniacal Death Knights… Damn, Takuya must've told them we were vulnerable now.
"Kouji, what are doing? Blanking out like that is spooky for a man like you." Yamato asked him. He must've come in the long time he was thinking.
"Iie, it's nothing." Kouji said. I will tell them about Takuya later. This is more important. "Where are the others?"
"Koushiro went on earlier with Izumi and Mimi. They are fighting this lone guy already, they must've won but I just like to make sure."
"Where are your brothers and the other princesses?" Kouji asked as they both ran to where Mimi, Izumi and Izzy were.
"Takeru is still not back. Miyako is at the ship due to Koushiro's strict orders. And Jenrya and Ruki must've gone ahead too. Takuya's nowhere to be found though…" Yamato grinned.
"I see… who cares about T-" His words were cut of when they arrived seeing Mimi, Ruki, Izumi and Koushiro tied up in vines while Jenrya was weakly standing thanks to his cross bade which was providing the support to stand, at least.
"Ototo… what happened?" Yamato rushed to his brother's side but still eyeing Mimi in the others.
"The dwarf, he may look small that darn midget but he controls earth. It makes him strong." Jenrya managed to say before collapsing.
"Dwarf? Midget? What is he talking about?" Kouji looked at Yamato questioningly.
"I don't know… but I have a feeling we're about to find out." Yamato said quietly pointing to the short shadow that seemed to be emerging from the vines that were opening up for him.
"He's just a kid." Sneered Kouji as a smiling face of a brown-haired emerald-eyed boy who was short for his age emerged from the vines carrying what seemingly was a hammer, now Yamato understood the dwarf part.
"Never underestimate an opponent, Kouji." Yamato commented as he went to his battle stance.
"I know that. I've been trained and born to be a warrior."
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"Water and Ice, CONSUME HIM!" Takeru shouted as he put the two daggers into an x-shape and a mixture of water and ice was summoned, the pressure hitting the fire-wielder.
"I can swim, kid." Taichi laughed as he twirled his huge sword, flames emitting from it to evaporate the water and melt the ice.
"Who said anything about swimming?" Takeru laughed as he vanished from his position and appeared at the back of Taichi thrusting him with the ice dagger.
"I'm not ignorant to see you speed, kid." Taichi glared at him as he was about to hit Takeru when Takeru vanished again.
"Yeah, but you still can't match up with it." Takeru taunted as he was now on top of the tree acting as if he was the 'Cheshire Cat' in Alice in Wonderland.
"Maybe so, but this can hit anything as long as here!' Taichi said raising his sword to do a deadly move that was used on Sora a while ago.
"Nope, you lose…" Takeru appearing on top of him, kicking the sword out of his hand and lightly tapping Taichi's head with the water sword.
"Why didn't you kill me?"
"Why should I kill you?"
"Aren't thieves supposed to do that?"
"Honestly, have you never read the story 'Robin Hood'?"
"What's that?"
"Is everything your parents taught you about fighting?"
"I guess… we were orphaned anyway."
"That's too bad, I was orphaned too but we were taken in by thieves. That's too bad you weren't able to enjoy your childhood."
"No one's to blame."
"Never thought it was the monarchy?"
"The monarchy is always good!"
"Nothing is always… except love."
"I guess you thieves aren't all bad. You spared my life."
"As I say, read Robin Hood and nothing is always."
"You're a funny man…"
Their conversation was son ended when they heard an earsplitting scream.
"HIKARI!" Takeru shouted running forward to save 'his' Hikari when a menacing laughter filled the area – it came from a man as old as Takeru; he seemed more mature though and he held Hikari whose face was filled with fear.
"Taichi… because you lost and made friends with that… That lowly… thief," A man said pointing towards Takeru, "I now consider you a rebel as well and your price to pay is your sister."
"No… don't" Sora said weakly still suffering from her injuries.
"Humph… worthless onna" Daisuke muttered as he soon vanished with the shouting Hikari.
"HIKARI! NO, COME back…" Takeru said hopelessly, falling down to the ground in defeat. Though he won his battle, he still lost Hikari.
"Tell me… What have I done…?'" Taichi said doing the same routine as Takeru did.
"You were an idiot." A voice said making Taichi turn around.
"Sora, will you ever forgive me?" Taichi said looking at her lovingly.
"Maybe… but not now" Sora said as Taichi's face that lit up darkened again.
"You love that thief, right?" Taichi said pointing to Takeru as finally who finally snapped out of his trance.
"What are you talking about? I'm courting your sister," Takeru grinned helping the two of them up, "I know a place to get help, don't worry… we also have some matters to settle with you knights anyway."
"I'm no longer a knight…" Taichi began, "And now I see that I was wrong – that I was really an idiot. I will do anything to get Hikari back."
"Ha… I thought you were going to overreact when I said I was courting your sister but I guess it's alright, huh?" Takeru said grinning; not noticing Sora who was giving him signals.
"You're… COURTING my sister?" Taichi turned around his eyes twitching.
"Uh… yeah…" Takeru backed away knowing Taichi might get dangerous.
"Guys, settle down. We must go to this help you're talking about, Takeru." Sora said trying to calm them down.
"Okay… let's go to Yamato." Takeru said slowly.
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"I'll set them free." Yamato said looking at me determinedly, "Fight him."
"I understand… don't worry about it." Kouji said as Yamato pretended to charge at the boy but running of to the others cutting vines violently. Sadly, his attempts had no avail for the vines kept growing.
"Yamato… it would be better if you run…" whispered a weak Mimi.
"Iie, I would always be there for you. You might not know it… but you're really special to me." Yamato smiled in his charming, handsome and boyish way.
"Yamato…" Mimi said even in all the chaos and problems going on; blood rushed to her cheeks.
"Don't worry, I'll find a way."
Kouji looked away from the 'too sweet' couple and focused himself on the enemy. Even without the power of light, he defeated countless foes… Why should he be worried now?
Maybe because some of the strongest warriors you know were beaten by him…
'Iie… I won't lose.' Kouji thought, "I will not look like a fool no more!' He pulled out his katana and by his swift movement he prepared to slash the young boy.
"Too weak… You are cocky, not using elemental power against me…" replied the boy softly as a barrier seemed to be protecting him.
"I don't care! I will beat you!" Kouji shouted trying his best to slash the force open.
"Such brute force shall not hurt me – for earth is the most brute force there is." The boy told him in his same clam voice as the ground bellow Kouji began to shake.
"A worthless man like you can never beat the powers of the earth." The boy said as a huge boulder from the ground seemingly followed his movement of his mallet.
"Nothing is impossible…" Kouji said standing there unmoving, "I know I can do anything…"
"Kouji, DON'T!" A voice shouted as Kouji turned around to look for a while to find Izumi whose face glistened with tears.
"I can do anything… just as long as I have the will to." Kouji said and he glowed with an unknown light and as the boulder was about to collide with him it was broken into tiny shards.
"Am I once again… Can I actually use it?" Kouji said looking at himself. He glanced at his left arm – the symbol on it seemed to be glowing again, unlike the grayness it had when he couldn't use it. His left arm could be used again!
"I don't what just happened… demo… I don't think I'll let that happen again…" Iori said thoughtfully as another boulder made its way to Kouji.
"No… I'll make sure that'll never happen again." Kouji said silently as the rock in front of him split in half with no contact with his sword even.
"W-What happened?" the boy said dumbfounded, looking at Kouji who was approaching him with shock.
"You seem to know how to use you power well… Dakedo… you are still a child, you don't have the heart of the killer." Kouji looked at Iori, "And I have."
"Kouji… as you said he's just a child! Don't kill him!" shouted Yamato who just broke the others free.
"You said it yourself, Yamato. Don't look down on your opponent." Kouji turned around for a moment.
Iori still stood straight. "I wouldn't mind at all… for I still have a trump card…"
"Stop, Iori. I order you." A man on top of a cliff ordered.
"Who is it?" Kouji barked as Iori seemed to vanish to where the man was.
The man and seemingly 3 others jumped down from the cliff…
"I am Ryo Akiyama. I am the strongest warrior of the army." The man said with pride; emerging from the shadows.
"I am Megumi Kurogane… his partner in crime." another one grinned who was a woman that just emerged from the shadows.
"I am Tomoki Himi… and I am their third-wheel…" laughed a young boy who entered as well.
'Such coldness… I feel such coldness from these three…' thought Yamato as he watched them closely.
"Lastly… I know you know me… I am Takuya Kanbara… the spy of this army." Takuya appeared making all of them shocked.
"T-Takuya?" Izumi managed to say as Kouji approached her.
"What? Shocked? Don't worry… I bet you would see more of us soon." Takuya laughed evilly.
"YOU BASTARD!" Kouji shouted.
"My, my… such words from a guy like you…" Takuya said ignoring Izumi who collapsed to the ground in tears. Was it really I who made her cry?
"You're a traitor…" Yamato said bitterly.
"I was never a part of you guys from the start…" Takuya replied coldly.
"Nevertheless, it's nice to finally see you face to face…" Ryo grinned, "It's nice to see you too… Ruki-chan."
"Ryo-nii-chan…" Ruki managed to say, her cheeks red.
Jenrya glared at Ryo… 'So he is the one… He's the one who Ruki likes. I admit he is charming, dakedo… a man as cold as that? Why did Ruki fall for him?'
"You're sure to see more of us… right Tomoki, Megumi, Takuya?" Ryo said as the three nodded before they all vanished.
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Kouji carried Izumi on his back while they were on their way to the ship. His shirt was nonetheless, getting wet due to the continuous sobbing of the girl.
"Stop crying Izumi; he doesn't deserve your tears." Kouji said gently.
"Demo… he became… even in this short time… He became close to my heart." Izumi managed to say then sobbed again.
Kouji bit his lip but managed to reply, "He is a traitor… he doesn't deserve it still…"
"But, I can't help it… I felt like I loved him." Cried Izumi as Kouji let her down.
"He doesn't deserve what you feel for him… Izumi… and now that I have my powers back. I promise; I'll never let you shed another tear." Kouji smiled gently, wiping a tear from Izumi's eyes.
"Kouji-kun…" Izumi said silently.
"Don't talk anymore, just get on…" Kouji said gesturing for Izumi to ride on his back again.
"Hai…" Izumi said; cheeks red.
Tsuzuku
Takari-san: Sorry if I have to cut it here… I'll put the Kouyako and Mimato part up the next chapter which is strictly Mimato with just a bit of Kouyako.
Preview:
Chapter 10: Special
The aftermath of meeting with Ryo, Mimi ponders on what Yamato says after the battle 'You are special to me' and decides to ask our little Yamato. After again sweet moments between the two Takeru disturbs them with Taichi and Sora with him. Koushiro comes back to find Miyako missing and goes on and searches for her.
Takari-san: Sorry I didn't fulfill all the things I said would appear in this chapter but it was getting long and it's our test week and my fic marathon… Gomen…