Hi, takuya here.
Hey, it's not just you any more, I'm here as well!
Tak: sorry Little Miss Fire Feet.
Bgato: hey, I told you not to call me that.
Tak: ok, keep your fur on ()strokes muse().
Bgato: I want to tell the readers about the great way I get you to write.
Tak: ok, but if you do I get to call you Little Miss Fire Feet.
Bgato: ok, but only once.
Tak: deal.
Bgato: I tie Tak to her computer chair and put a bit of music on and only let her go after I am happy that she has done enough.
Tak: you wouldn't believe how well it works, I got two chapters finished in two days thanks to my Little Miss Fire Feet.
Bgato: ok, lets move on to the chapter.
Tak: first a little reminder of how the last chapter ended…
()last chapter()
" Don't touch me!" growled Davis.
" whatt!" stuttered Ken in a shocked tone.
" I don't need your help, or anyone else's…….but I guess I should thank you for saving me. I always repay my debuts." Davis growled again.
" I didn't do it so you'd owe me, you know." Ken couldn't shout for fear of waking someone up, but he still put the same amount of force in his words.
Tak: and now the last chapter of the fic .
Bgato: or as I call it, a.k.a the happy chapter
Chapter 7
" Come on Davis, don't be like this, just listen to me." asked Ken softly as he walked closer.
" Go away, you clearly said that you didn't want to be with me so just leave." muttered Davis sadly.
" It's not like that Davis, just listen to me, that's all I'm asking." asked Ken softy as he sat down in front of him.
" Then what is it like then, tell me." asked Davis with bitterness clear in his words.
" You feel that don't you, I know you do 'cause I feel it as well." said Ken as he lightly touched Davis' check so that he could feel his heart.
" Don't touch me." Davis said softly.
" Why?" asked Ken as he continued to stroke Davis' cheek.
" I haven't felt it in so long." muttered Davis as he made no to attempt to pull away from Ken's touch.
" I know, and I'm so very sorry for that." Ken said softy as he continued to let their link do the work for him.
" Maybe if I don't feel it for long enough my feelings for you will go away and I can go back to liking Kari, or maybe Ash from this point, she was kind of cute." Davis said, just as softly but with great sadness.
" Davis, I'm so very sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you, I just didn't want to lose our friendship." Ken said still softly, but his voice was now filled with sadness as well.
" To late." muttered Davis. The way he talked was like he didn't care but he still didn't move away from Ken's soft touch on his cheek.
" Davis please, you're the most important person in the world to me, and you know I do things before I think about them, like nearly getting pneumonia while searching for you in the digiworld." said Ken, who didn't miss how Davis looked at him from the corner of his eye.
" Why couldn't you have just taken the chance that I was telling the truth then?" asked Davis softly with the sadness back.
" I don't know, I just made a mistake, that's all. Isn't that what it means to be human? You make mistakes and you learn from them." said Ken.
" Maybe, but I've already had one heart break, why should I try for another?" asked Davis, his voice a mix of sadness and bitterness.
" You told me before didn't." asked Ken, unsure.
" What?" asked Davis, sounding very confused.
" Before we got to the computer room, you told me, didn't you?" asked Ken, sounding just as confused as Davis looked.
" We were sitting, talking like this, but you were Daisy, but she wasn't acting like herself she was acting like you, well of course she would she is you, but also not…. Ahh! This is so confusing." muttered Ken as he put both hands to his head and shook it to try and make the information clearer.
' He remembers, well kind of, but I thought he said that you couldn't remember things from your subconscious, but I did kind of as well so if when you're unconscious you can remember things from your subconscious and conscious then maybe you can remember things from your subconscious when your awake.' thought Davis as he watched Ken.
"Its ok Ken, you don't have to remember." said Davis softly as he touched Ken's hand.
" Yes I do, I know that once I remember everything will be fine, that every thing between us will be ok again." said Ken as he continued to shake his head.
' Maybe it's our link that is helping him remember that night.' thought Davis as he watched Ken continue to do some thing that he himself said you couldn't do.
" Ken it's not important, what happened in the past isn't important. What's important is what's happing now." Davis said softy.
Ken stopped trying to remember when he realised that Davis had just said some thing nice and was acting like himself again.
" Are you sure?" asked Ken.
" Positive." said Davis as he moved his hand away.
" So is there any hope for our friendship?" asked Ken quietly.
" I don't know about that." said Davis.
" Please Davis, you forgave me for all the terrible things I did to millions of digimon, why cant you just forgive me for this one thing as well?" pleaded Ken as tears started to run down his face.
' For a genius he really can miss the obvious.'
" Why have friendship, when you can have love?" whispered Davis as he put his hand on Ken's cheek and started to wipe away his tears.
" So does this mean you forgive me?" asked Ken hopefully.
" Of course it does." said Davis, giving a smile.
" I'm glad of that." said Ken as he also smiled.
" Anyway, I didn't dump my rock star boyfriend for nothing you know." said Davis in an almost serious tone.
" Davis! How could you say such a thing?" said Ken looking almost hurt as he pushed Davis away a bit.
" Chill Ken, I was just joking." said Davis still smiling.
" Well it wasn't funny." said Ken as he looked away.
" Come on Ken, it was just a joke, anyway why would I want a boyfriend and a best friend when I can have my best friend as my boyfriend?" said Davis as he tried to get Ken to look at him.
" You know, you're really annoying sometimes." said Ken.
"But you love me anyway." said Davis.
" I'm happy that all this mess has been sorted, but I should go now." said Ken as he stood up.
" Don't go, Ken. What if when I wake up I think this was all a dream? Or maybe it is, and if it is I don't want it to end yet." pleaded Davis as he grabbed Ken's wrist to stop him moving.
" Earlier I was wounding why I put this on, it just seemed to be the first thing to hand, but now I think that maybe I knew this was going to happen." said Ken as he undid the zip on his jacket and started to slip it off.
To start with it look just like one of Ken's normal tops until the jacket was completely off, that's when Davis saw that the top Ken was wearing underneath only had one sleeve. Not that big a deal, right? It is fashionable to only have one sleeve now a days, but the way the edges around the shoulder where the sleeve should be was all frayed and messy… you could tell that the sleeve had been ripped off.
" You remember last time I wore this top?" Ken asked softy as he sat back down.
" It was when, and then I, and then you…" Davis never finished any of the sentences he started.
" Yeah, I was wearing this top on the day I saved your life." said Ken as he summed up every thing Davis had tried to say. He looked at Davis' wrist, which was still near his cheek.
" Yeah, I guess it's a bit weird to wear gloves to bed, but I didn't want anyone coming in and seeing the bandages." said Davis, answering Ken's unasked question when he saw the way Ken was looking at the gloves.
" Yeah, I was wondering about them." said Ken.
" So how did Chibimon get you to come here anyway?" asked Davis as he looked over at his partner.
" I don't really know, it just happened, it all seemed to be just this one thing and then 'seeing how you've done it then why don't you do this as well', and then 'well you've come this far why not just do this as well'." said Ken.
" So tell me exactly what happened then." asked Davis.
" Well demiveemon came to my balcony, at first I thought you had come as well but you weren't there and Chibimon told me he came alone."
" How did he get there?" interrupted Davis.
" He said that he digivoled and flew over."
" That would explain why the window is open." Davis interrupted again.
" Are you going to let me tell you this or not?" asked Ken, looking a little bit miffed.
" Oops, sorry." muttered Davis.
" As I was saying, he came to see me and we just talked about every thing, we both thought of you being a girl to mean we would be losing our partners, and then you losing your memory, it hurt so much when I found that out, but that's not the point at the moment, Demiveemon came to talk to me about why I had been acting the way I had, and I told him that I didn't want to lose you. I thought that maybe it was left over from bring a girl and we'd be a couple and then after a bit you would stop liking me and go after a girl. I just wouldn't be able to take that, so I thought that I would wait and see what happened but the pain just got worse. Demiveemon told me what you were planning on doing so I told him I'd come and see you in a few days to sort this out. I thought that was the end, so I took him back out to my balcony so he could digivole and fly home before you found that he was gone but he couldn't digivole, so because I didn't want Wormmon to get stuck in the same way I came with him, but when I got here demiveemon some how got me to come in just to see you, but when I saw how much pain you seemed to be in I couldn't help but…" explained Ken as he ran his finger over Davis' forehead like he had when he was sleeping.
" demiveemon really is something. Sometimes he acts like an innocent little child, but other times he's like so wise and smart its like he's a total different digimon." mused Davis as he looked over at his partner sleeping on his bed.
" He's just like you, Davis." Ken said softly as he started to stroke his cheek.
" You have been taking care of yourself, haven't you Davis?" asked Ken.
" I know I should have, but I didn't want to break the last thing we did as friends, the last thing you did for me." muttered Davis as he removed his gloves to reveal the bandages with the bow still in it to hold it.
" Davis you're so silly sometimes, you should have taken it off. It could be cutting of your circulation, your wrists as a guy are a bit bigger than when you were a girl." said Ken, but he didn't really look mad.
" I know, it's just that every time I went to unwrap it I would see that little bow and it just felt like if I undid it I would be destroying the last little bit of our friend ship." whispered Davis as a few tears slipped down his cheeks.
" Oh Davis, my Davis, I'm so very sorry for shattering the innocence of the one I love so much, the most important person in my life." said Ken softly as he pulled Davis in to a hug.
" Ken don't leave me again, please don't leave me alone again." cried Davis as he clung to Ken as if he would disappear if he let go.
" Never again, I'll never leave you again my dai-chan, we'll be together forever, just you and me for eternity." whispered Ken as he held Davis just as tight.
" And demiveemon and Wormmon, can't forget them now, can we?" said Davis, looking up at Ken.
" Of course not, they're part of us any way. Now come on, I'm taking you to the bathroom and we're going to undo those bandages, and I'll
clean that cut of yours. Then I'm going to tie it back up with another little bow cause you like them so much." said Ken as he stood up and pulled Davis with him.
' If this is a dream, then don't let me wake up, not yet' thought Davis as he let Ken lead him to the bathroom.
Once in the bathroom Ken started to fill the sink with water, then turned around to undo the bandages on Davis' wrist. Once it was done Ken looked at the cut. It was still there but it was nearly healed. After the sink was filled Ken took a cloth, dipped it in the water and started to clean the cut on Davis' wrist like he had last time.
After the bandages were taken off Davis bit down on his lip then a bit later realised a little whimper.
" Did I hurt you Davis?" asked Ken, sounding concerned.
" My hand hurts a lot." whispered Davis.
" I thought this might happen, this proves that the bandages were on too tight. It's called pins and needles-" started Ken.
" Yeah, that what it feels like, like the inside of my hand is being pricked by pins and needles and it really hurts."
" As I was saying, you only get this when the blood circulation to a part of the body is blocked for a prolonged amount of time and when the source is removed everything comes back in a rush which includes the neurons which make you feel things." said Ken as he started to rub his hand.
"What happens if the pressure is not removed for a very long time, then?" asked Davis.
" After a long time the area-in your case your hand-would turn black, then all your skin and flesh would start to peel off and in the end you would have to have it cut off." explained Ken as he went back to cleaning Davis cut.
" What? That doesn't sound very good." said Davis.
" I know, that's why it's good that we took the bandages off before that happened." explained Ken as he continued to clean the cut.
" This is just like the last time our friendship was starting to come apart." said Ken.
" But that was only for about an hour, this time it was nearly two weeks." said Davis softly.
" It wasn't just that bit. I came to see when you played football, and when you were playing you acted just like you used to, but that time you left earlier I came over to see you and ask what was wrong, and Kari told me that you had gone on that date with Matt. At first I thought it was funny 'cause he was practically begging for a date with a guy he doesn't get on with very well, so I tried coming back a few time but you were always out. I could feel you slipping away but every time I came to see you to try and stop it Kari came up with some sort of excuse to stop you seeing me. After a bit I just stopped trying. I knew that as long as she kept the act up you would be fine and I think Kari was a little bit jealous of me at the time which is why I just left her alone." said Ken.
"Why would Kari be jealous of you?" asked Davis.
" Well, you remember before how you give her so much attention and would do anything for her and anything for her to notice you, but then after we became friends you stopped all that. So when you became a girl and had to stay with her, she got a lot of your attention and I think she wanted to keep it that way, but when you started to give your attention to some one else, she tried to get you back so you would give your attention to her, but we got in all this mess which ended up like this, but you were a girl then." explained Ken as he finished cleaning Davis' wrist and started to tie the bandage back around his wrist, then finished it with another bow.
" I'm sorry, Ken." whispered Davis.
" Davis, what on earth do you have to do sorry about?" asked Ken softly.
" I got angry at you when I know I shouldn't have, but when you had seemed to have gone back on your word, then I got really mad when you finally came over, and I nearly made the biggest mistake of my life." whispered Davis as he learned on Ken's chest.
" It's partly my fault as well, I told you first and I should have known that my best friend would never lie to me." whispered Ken as he ran his fingers thought Davis' hair.
Both boys stayed like this for a bit, until Ken pushed Davis away a bit so he could look at him.
" This is for all the pain it caused." whispered Ken as he kissed Davis' wrist right over where the cut would be.
"This is for all the pain I put you though." Ken whispered again as he kissed Davis on his right cheek.
" This is for all the torture I put you though." Ken said, still whispering as he kissed Davis' other cheek.
" And this is just for you." said Ken in the same whisper as before as he kissed Davis lightly on his lips.
" Love you, Ken." whispered Davis.
" I know you do, Davis. Now come on, you're partly dead on your feet. Let's get you back to bed." said Ken as he led Davis back to his room.
" But I don't want you to go yet. What if it still just a dream?" whispered Davis, looking and sounding half asleep.
" Oh yeah, that's where we got to before, wasn't it?" said Ken as he helped Davis put his gloves back on.
" You promised me that you wouldn't leave." said Davis as he clung to Ken's hand so he couldn't leave.
" Last time I wore this top I saved your life, now I'm going to save your heart." said Ken as he ripped the other sleeve off his top and tied it loosely around Davis other wrist. After this Davis gave Ken a look as if he was mad.
" It not like I need a top with only one sleeve on it, and my mum was probably going to throw it out any way." said Ken as he sat on the bed next to Davis.
" But what was the point of it?" asked Davis.
" Davis, you can be so silly sometimes." said Ken as he ruffed Davis' hair.
" You keep asking if this is a dream, so with that tried around your wrist in the morning you'll see it and know it really happened." said Ken.
" Why didn't I think of that?" asked Davis
" Because you're already half asleep." answered Ken.
" Sounds about right." said Davis as he gave a yawn.
" So you get some sleep now, I'll see you in the morning." said Ken as he stood up so Davis could lie down.
" But it is morning." said Davis, looking at the clock next to his bed which read 3.30am.
" Davis, stop being pedantic." said Ken as he put his jacket back on.
" What does "pedantic" mean?" asked Davis.
" It means being stubborn just for the sake of it," said Ken.
" Please Ken, don't go, I don't want to be alone again." begged Davis.
" I'll stay until you're asleep Davis, and anyway, the sooner you go to sleep the sooner you'll be awake and we can do something together." said Ken.
" That's sort of the thing I would say." said Davis softly.
" Well it's also the best way to pass the time, 'cause when you're asleep you have no conscious knowledge of time." said Ken.
" Sure, whatever you say Ken." said Davis softly.
The next thing Ken heard was Davis' light snoring.
" Good night dai-chan, sweet dreams." whispered Ken as he kissed Davis on the forehead and walked back to the window where Wormmon had fallen asleep waiting for him.
" Hey Wormmon, wake up, it's time to go." whispered Ken so he wouldn't wake Davis up.
" Just five more minutes Ken-chan." muttered Wormmon.
" Wormmon, you can sleep when we get home. Now wake up." said Ken.
" I'm awake." muttered Wormmon as he rolled over and fell off the window ledge.
" Come on Wormmon, digivole and let's get home." said Ken as he picked up his partner and opened the window.
Just like demiveemon had done, Wormmon concentrated then when he was sure that his digivolution had started jumped through the window. A few moments later stingmon was back at the window, waiting for Ken. After also jumping out the window and being caught by stingmon Ken made sure the window was closed before they left, and on the way back stingmon decided to let Ken in on some thing he had noticed.
" You do know you were tricked right?" asked stingmon.
" What are you talking about, stingmon?" asked Ken.
" You fell for the cute act. Do you really think that demiveemon came all that way just to talk to you? And the whole 'not being able to digivole' bit, what about the partners of the older digidestined? They live in the digiworld and can still digivole. You'll just have to admit it, he pulled one over on you." stingmon explained.
" Why that scheming, conniving, manipulative little digimon, the next time I see him, I'm going to…" Ken muttered to himself.
" You know Ken, there is a saying in the digiworld which I think might be appropriate in this case," said stingmon.
" Well it's not like I can go anywhere, so why not tell me?" said Ken.
" Ok, it goes like this-you can always trust a dishonest mon to be dishonest, honestly, it's the honest one you've got to look out for, because you never know when they're going to do something incredibly stupid…or cunning," explained stingmon.
" So what you're saying is that it's the innocent ones you have to look out for?" asked Ken.
" Got it in one Ken, innocence is one of the best weapons out there, and if you know how to use it then no one will even know they've been hit," said stingmon.
" I got tricked by a baby digimon…." muttered Ken to himself.
Meanwhile, as this was all going on, Davis was caught in yet another dream.
" AN: last song of the fiction is eternal flame by bangles, which I don't own, but unlike the other song this one is just going to be a background song so if you see any thing written like this then you know its from the song
()()Davis' pov ()()
I'm in the same white void I've been in every night for 6 days. I walk calmly forward this time, I have time to think and look around. Ken's up ahead looking like he always does when I'm here, but I'm not going to run this time, maybe if I walk then when I get to the barrier it won't be there. Sounds like a good idea to me, but after a few minutes another thought came to me, what if Ken thinks I don't want to be with him 'cause I'm taking so long to get there? No, he can't leave, not after everything he said tonight! I started to run, I couldn't help it I just had to get to him. When I neared the part where I normally hit the barrier I took a few more steps, bracing myself to hit it, but I never did. I feel forward a few more steps then I did hit some thing solid but soft, and as I look up I see the deep but soft violet eyes of the one I had been trying to reach for a long time.
Close your eyes
Gimme your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
" Ken, is it really you?" I whispered softly, I know it was stupid but it was the only thing I could thing of.
" Who else did you think it was?" asked Ken in the voice I love so much.
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming, is this burning at eternal flame
" I thought you were just a physical manifestation of my innermost desires," I answered, sounding very meaningful.
" Look at my dai-chan sounding all intelligent," said Ken softly as he ran his fingers thought my hair.
I believe it? ment to be, darling
Watch you when you are sleeping
is it meant to be
" Well I got bored and you can only beat your partner so many times at video games before it gets boring, so I read a few books on the mind and the meaning of dreams," I told Ken, I had missed him so much.
" What ever made you want to read those?" asked Ken as he continued to run his fingers though my hair.
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming or
Is this burning at eternal flame
" Well after I left and got everything sorted with June I asked the others if they wanted to do anything, but Kari and TK were enjoying some alone time, Yolei was still mad that I didn't spend any time with her as a girl, I never really did get on with Cody very much and Tai was, like, always busy, so I just played games with Demiveemon but after the first few days it became kind of boring just beating him all the time, then I kept getting distracted and then he kept beating me."
" How did Demiveemon keep beating you?" asked Ken as we both sat down and he pulled me into his lap.
Say my name
Sunshines through the rain
Oh, life so lonely and then
" Well to start with I would beat him but then I started to think about how it was no challenge to play with him and that you were more of a challenge and also more fun to beat, but that meant I would start to think about how much I missed you and by the time I remembered I was playing with Demiveemon I had already lost."
" But wouldn't reading remind you more of me then your video games?" asked Ken.
Come and ease the pain
I don't wanna lose this feeling
Say my name
" Well they did kind of but with books you have to pay attention to it so it meant I couldn't think of any thing else," I explained as I cuddled closer to him.
" And I bet my little dai-chan was curious about what's been happing here, haven't you?" asked Ken as he pulled me closer.
Sunshines through the rain
Oh, life so lonely and then
Come and ease the pain
I don't wanna lose this feeling
" That as well, but I really wanted to know why I couldn't reach you before," I said as I clung to Ken-I didn't want him to go this time.
" As strange as it might sound, you did this," said Ken as he went back to stoking my hair.
Close your eyes
Give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating
" Huh?" I asked as I gave him a questioning look.
" Well as you said, you tired not to think about me 'cause that caused you pain, so your mind blocked off anything to do with me which includes your dreams, but that made it worse. In simple it was a mind block, but now everything's sorted between us it was no longer there," explained Ken.
Do you understand do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming or is this burning at eternal flame
Close your eyes
" So it's just you and me now, you're not going to leave again, are you?" I begged.
" Davis, much as I would like to spend forever like this, we can't," said Ken softly.
Give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand do you feel the same
" Why not? I don't want it to end, I just want to be with you," I whispered softly as I tightened my hold on him.
" Davis, we're in a dream here, and if we stayed here then we'd never see our partners again, we wouldn't see anything or any one again and we'd get hooked up to tons of machines and they'd do all sorts of things to us to try and get us awake," explained Ken.
Am I only dreaming or is this burning at eternal flame
Close your eyes
Give me your hand, darling
" Yeah, I guess you're right. I wasn't thinking straight, and any way when we're awake we can spend all our time together, then we can come here and spend even more time together."
" Dai-chan, I'm sorry to tell you but this is not going to last forever, I think that this might even be the last one," said Ken sadly.
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming at eternal flame
" What? But I don't want it to be the last one! I like this. Please can't you do something?" I begged, giving him my best chibi eyes.
" Dai-chan, I can't do anything about this, I don't even know how it happens, I just know it happens. So I could save you in every way a person could be saved, Davis you're a really strong person, intelligent when it comes to life and you never give up until you have what you want, but some how when you became a girl that all changed, you needed a force point to anchor your life to and I guess I was it," explained Ken.
" Yeah, I guess that makes sense," I muttered.
" Dai-chan, you can still dream about me but my consciousness wont be here, I'll be having my own dreams," said Ken.
" So ken-chan, about these dreams of yours, you going to tell me about them?" I asked in my cutest voice.
" Maybe later dai-chan, but for now I'm just so glad you're back, I missed you so much," said Ken softly as tears started to run down his cheeks.
" Aw, ken-chan, there's no need to cry. Everything's ok now with us, we're together again," I said softly and tried to calm Ken as I wiped away his tears.
" I know, it's just all got a bit much…I was having to do so many things that I am normally not very good at and I had to do them all alone," Ken said softly as he rested his head on my shoulder.
" I know you did," I said just as softly as I ran my hand up and down his back to try and comfort him.
" I'm not good at being strong or brave or always positive, I'm just not," muttered Ken as he continued to cry despite my best efforts to calm him down.
"I know, it was like he had switched personalities," I said softly as I moved on to running my finger though his hair to try and calm him down.
" And I didn't take it very well, I got angry at the other digidestined when there were only trying to help," muttered Ken into my top.
" Come on Ken, I'm sure the others will understand."
" You remember the bruises TK had on his check the day you turned back?" asked Ken.
" Yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?"
" I was the one who gave it to him, he came to see you back when you were in hospital and he started on about hope and how to never give up, but that just made me mad 'cause I was the only one who was doing anything to help…so I hit him," muttered Ken.
" Ken-chan that's nothing to really worry about, we all do things that we wouldn't normally when we're under pressure. Tai told me about a time when he was in the digiworld and Kari was sick, and he went a bit over board and ended up hitting Izzy."
" What! Really?" asked Ken as he looked up at me.
"Yeah, he told me about it after I had finished beating TK up," I said with a smile.
" But you should have seen some of the looks they gave me," continued Ken as he put his head back on my shoulder.
" What sort of looks?" I asked as we switched places so that Ken was now in my lap.
" The sort of looks they gave me when I was the emperor. I was trying to be strong for you but when I was they would start acting like I was the emperor again," whispered Ken as I tightened my hold on him. He had been there to comfort me tons of times these past few weeks when I really needed him, now it was my turn to comfort him.
" Ken, have you ever heard the phrase, ' you have to have a little darkness, it helps the light show up better'?"
" No, I haven't come across that one before," said Ken.
" Well basically what it means is that having a bit of darkness in you shows just how bright your light can be," I explained to Ken.
" I still don't understand what that means," asked Ken.
" Ken, what it means is that because you had a dark past when you gave it up everyone could see how good you really were," I told Ken as I kissed his tear stained cheek.
" But I think I might have destroyed any chances of ever being friends with the other digidestined," said Ken softly.
" Ken, some of the strongest people amongst us are the ones that have gone in to the darkness and come out the other side, and if they can't see that then it's their loss," I told Ken as I wiped away more of his tears.
" That's what you told me one of the first times when I was upset," said Ken.
" And it's still true."
" Yeah, I guess," muttered Ken as he went back to learning on me.
We stay liked that for what seemed like a long time, until;
" I guess I'll see you in the morning, then," Ken said softly,
" What, are you going?" I asked.
" Davis, look at me," said Ken. I did as he asked but when I did I could see straight though him. I kept looking at him, he was still there but he seemed to have gone see though.
" What's happening to you, Ken?" I asked, sounding very shocked and a bit scared.
" Davis, it's happening to you to," replied Ken.
And he was right, I looked at my hand and I could see right though it.
" Ken, what's happening?" I asked, sounding very scared-well you would too if you saw yourself disappearing.
" Don't worry Davis, we're just waking up, that's all it is," said Ken calmly as he placed his hand on my cheek, which I felt even though Ken had faded to practically nothing.
" This never happened before."
" There's a first time for everything, dai-chan," said Ken softly as he continued to fade.
" See you later then, ken-chan."
"Sure, dai-chan," said Ken as he learned in and kissed me on the lips before completely disappearing.
Ok, I'm definitely going to have to add that to my creepy things list, seeing my best friend disappear right before my eyes has to be right up there with becoming a girl and finding numemon it a vending machine.…as I'm making my mental notes on my list, the scene around me was fading in to blackness.
The next thing I noticed was the material of my pillow as it brushed against my cheek.
I opened my eyes slowly and wait for them to come in to focus, but my room was just as I had left it.
" Maybe it was all a dream," I whispered to myself.
()() Normal pov ()()
As Davis pushed himself up off his bed, he pulled his arm out from under his pillow and stared at the grey pieces of material still wrapped around his wrist.
" So it wasn't a dream then," whispered Davis again as a smile spread across his face and he stroked the material lovingly.
" Demiveemon, wake up," said Davis as he started to poke his partner.
" Just a little bit longer, Davis," muttered Demiveemon as he rolled over.
" Come on Demiveemon, wake," Davis said again as he continued to poke his partner awake.
" Davis, leave me alone, I want to sleep," muttered Demiveemon as he again tried to move away from being poked.
" But I don't want you to sleep, I want you to be up and having fun with me," said Davis, still trying to wake his partner.
" Davis, what did you do last night?" asked Demiveemon.
" I was sleeping?" answered Davis, sounding very confused.
" Well I spent it flying over to a different town and coercing your best friend to come talk to you, so I think I should get a lie in," said Demiveemon.
" Ok then, if that's what you want," answered Davis as he looked in his closet for some thing to wear.
Before changing clothes, Davis pulled a shoe box from the back of his closet and opened it. Inside was, amongst other things, his broken goggles and the rose necklace. He put the sleeve in, then closed it and returned it to its place before getting dressed in his brown shorts, white top and, of course, his gloves and goggles, then walked out into the hall where he found June coming out of her room also.
" Hey, my beloved sister, how are you on this beautiful day?" asked Davis as he started to spin her around with him.
(An: I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea here, I think the idea of people being in love with any member of their own family is totally sick and in fact I'm feeling quite sick just writing this bit out, the above sentence was only brother/sisterly love!)
" Hey Davis, you seem happy today," answered June.
" Well how can I not be happy when the world is so perfect?" said Davis. At this point he noticed how red June's eyes were.
" June, what's wrong? Come on, tell your little brother all about it," asked Davis.
" It's nothing really Davis, but you would be a bit upset if you found out that the guy you fancied for, like, 3 whole years turned out to be gay!" said June as Davis' new found happiness was rubbing off on her.
" What! Matt, gay?" asked Davis with his mouth hanging open and looking totally shocked.
" I would have thought you would have known, he's dating one of your best friends," said June.
" WHAT! He's dating Tai!" shouted Davis as his legs gave in and he fell to the ground.
" I thought you would have known, you knew nearly everything about Matt a week or 2 ago."
" Wait a minute, back up a sec," muttered Davis.
" You're telling me…that Matt's gay," asked Davis.
" Yes," answered June, looking down at her brother.
" And that he's dating…Tai," Davis asked again.
" Yes," replied June.
" Who is also gay."
" Of course, Matt wouldn't be dating him if he was straight, and Tai wouldn't ever think of dating him if he was straight," June told her brother, who was still in a state of shock.
" Silly baby brother, I hardly even know them and even I know they're dating," said June as she ruffed his hair and she walked past in to the kitchen.
" How on earth did you find out?" asked Davis, watching his sister walk to the kitchen.
" The fact that I practically saw them making out might have some thing to do with it," said June as she came out of the kitchen with a cookie.
" What! When?" asked Davis, still in shock.
" You remember that day you got back from staying with Ken and made me look all pretty so I could try and get Matt as my boyfriend? Well I went over there and they both answered the door and started to do all sorts of unmentionable things when I was standing there," said June as he went back in to her room.
' Note to self, warn TK and Cody that the odds of them staying straight are against them. I could warn Kari and Yolei…but they were the ones who dressed me in bright pink shorts. But at least if they ended up fancying each other then they would have some one to talk to about fashion' Davis mentally noted, as two pairs whose partners had fused together had ended up in love, so it could happened to the others.
Some time later in the day, Ken returned to the Motomiya apartment, this time though using the normal method. After being let in by June, who was showing a classic case of Motomiya happiness and telling Ken where to find her brother, get back to what ever she was doing before, Ken reached Davis' room knocked, then entered. After he had opened the door Davis had pulled him in and started to spin Ken just like he had June earlier.
" Ken-Chan, you're finally here!" Davis said cheerily as he continued to spin Ken around with him.
" Dai-chan, I'm happy that you're back to what counts as normal, but can we stop spinning? I'm getting dizzy," asked Ken.
" Sure we can, Ken-chan," said Davis as he stopped spinning and instead pulled Ken into a hug.
" Davis, I was only gone for the night," said Ken, not that he was complaining of all the attention but it was just a bit of a shock.
" Oh, really? I thought we hadn't spent any real time together in over a week," said Davis softly as he remembered how boring it had been without Ken.
" It's really hard to be happy and manic when I don't have someone like you to be happy for," said Davis as he let Ken go a bit so he could give him a light kiss.
" Same here Davis, it's hard to feel happy when you're not already smiling," said Ken.
" Oh, I just remembered, I'm getting a gift together for my newest friend Ash, you remember I told you about her before, but I'll explain everything when I get back. So can you give me a hand?" asked Davis.
" Sure dai-chan, any thing for you," said Ken as he started to help Davis.
Some time later, Davis was out side the door of his newest friend, which hadn't been that hard to find.
'Let's just hope she remembers me, or its going to be very embarrassing trying to explain it,' Davis thought as he knocked on the door.
A few moments later the door was opened to reveal a girl with a slim figure, black hair which was held in two ponytails by dark blue bobbles, her pale skin standing out against her black top and trousers. Crimson eyes the colour of blood stared at Davis in a way that was making his run cold.
" What do you want?" asked the girl, in a voice as cold as her look.
"I came to see Ashleigh, is she here?" asked Davis, trying not to sound scared.
" And you are?" she asked.
" I'm a friend of her, I wanted to talk to her," Davis said again.
" Lots of people say they're friends with Ashleigh. How do I know you really are?" the girl asked again.
" 'Cause she gave me this, which is how I knew where to find her," said Davis as he showed her the card Ash had given him.
" Ok then, I guess you could see her," said the girl as she walked back in to the apartment.
" I'm Liz Helstrøm, but my friends call me Lizy," said Lizy as she turned around to look at Davis, but as she did a gold pendent caught the light.
" Is that a tag and crest?" asked Davis.
" Yeah it is if you must know, it's the crest of waiting," said Lizy as they came to a split in the hall. To the right the door was open, to the left was closed.
" Ash, some guy is here to see you," said Lizy as she left though the door on the left.
Davis walked in the room Lizy had pointed out that Ash was in, and she was sitting on an armchair with her leg still in plaster, hair tired back and wearing a white top with a pink heart on it and black shorts.
" Hi Ash, you may not remember me but you really helped me out a few weeks ago and I just wanted to stop by with a little some thing for you, and not only did you help me but your power coincidentally helped a lot of my friends as well," said Davis. He could tell by the look Ash was giving him that she didn't remember, but was trying to.
" It's what I'm best at really, which is why I got my crest I guess," said Ash.
" Well here, I got you this," said Davis as he handed over the white rose he had brought. She took it looking totally shocked.
" Wouldn't you know they don't grow in black? Kind of stupid looking for something that doesn't exist," said Davis off handedly, but Ash still looked too shocked to do anything.
" I wouldn't expect you to remember me, I looked really different back then and you probably only saw me like this for about a minute," said Davis as he smiled. Then a look of realisation dawned on Ash's face as something went click in her mind.
" Davis?" said Ash, remembering the name from when she was in hospital.
" The one and only," said Davis.
" You're right, you do look different, you ditched the ponytail," said Ash as she remembered how long his hair had been when he was a girl.
" And every thing pink," Davis added.
" Yeah, I noticed that as well," said Ash.
" Well as I said before, by helping me with your powers you helped some of the others as well, so I got them to help with making another gift for you," said Davis as he handed over something that looked like a small book.
" What is it? Asked Ash.
" Why don't you open it and find out?" said Davis.
As Davis had suggested, Ash opened the book, which turned out to be more of a photo album with the first picture being of Ken, and some thing was written on it.
" You got me a signed picture of Ken Ichijouji," asked Ash, sounding surprised.
" I didn't get you a signed picture, I just got the picture, it was Ken's idea to get the other digidestined to put a little some thing on their picture. Any way, you said I knew a lot of famous people and what's the point in having famous friends if you can't use it once in a while?" said Davis.
" So who did you get to join in?" asked Ash.
" I think it was just Ken, Tai, Matt, TK, which is Matt's brother, and Kari who is Tai's sister, Izzy, he was the one who came to see me when I was in hospital after Ken left, Joe who's not famous yet but I'm sure he will be, and a picture of me at the back just for the sake of it," said Davis.
" Thanks a lot, Davis," said Ash, smiling and opening the album again, and starting to read what the other digidestined had written.
'Thanks for helping to save my dai-chan, I don't know what I would have done with out him, and Davis also said that you helped him with the matter of his heart which as you might be able to tell I'm so very great full for, it's a pity we never met, Ken Ichijouji,'
" What's that weird symbol?" asked Ash as she finished reading what Ken put.
" I told you a lot of my friends have crests, that's the symbol for Ken's crest of kindness," said Davis.
" Oh, it's pretty," said Ash as she turned to the next picture, which was Tai's.
' Ken and Davis tell me that you really helped them, and by helping Davis you helped me and my sister, I hear you like soccer maybe we could play together some time, Tai Kamiya.
" Wow, I can't believe that super star soccer player Tai Kamiya would want to play with me," whispered Ash.
" Well every one has to start some where," said Davis.
'My Tai-chan said you helped him and so did TK so thanks, oh and by the way just to let you know you might have tons of rabid fan girls after you, after they find out that you're the reason I'm no longer dating girls, Matt Ishida'
" What, Matt's gay?" asked Ash, just as shocked as Davis had been when he found out.
" Yeah, I was kind of shocked when I found out as well, but I guess going from dating a girl who used to be a guy to dating a guy who's always been a guy isn't that big a step, and best friends make best boyfriends," said Davis, thinking over how things had worked out.
' I don't know what you said to Davis, but what ever it was it was great, I mean he stopped bugging me 'cause I spend so much time with Kari and stopped bugging Kari to spend time with him, thanks, you managed to do in a few days what we've been trying to do since we met him, Takeru Takaishi, TK.
" He doesn't know your dating your best friends?" asked Ash.
" If he doesn't know that his brother is dating his best friend, then how would he know that some one he doesn't like is dating his best friend?" answered Davis simply.
' Even if it was nice to have another girl digidestined on the team I'm glad Davis is back, and it's thanks to you that me and TK can now have some private time, what ever you did that means he leaves us alone, thanks, Kari Kamiya.
" I can see where the idea for all the pink came from," said Ash as she finished reading Kari's entry.
" And I actually volunteered for some of it," muttered Davis as he shrived at the memory.
'Prodigits another digidestined and with a crest as well, I really want to meet you so we can talk about how you became a digidestined and so I can add your data to my digidestined database, call soon, my number's on the back, Izzy Izumi.
" Is he always like that?" asked Ash.
" For as long I've known him," replied Davis.
'You did what none of us could do, you looked at some one and didn't see who they should be or who they could be but only who they were and help him to see it as well, Joe kido.'
" Hey, this guy is cute, do you know if he's single?" Ash asked.
" I don't know if he's single but you won't be the first to fall for him," answered Davis.
'You were right, some changes can be good and I'm glad they happened, I got to see my life in a different perspective and got things done that I might never had done other wise, if it wasn't for you then I might never have known the truth about the secret in my heart, I know the gifts I brought for you are meagre, but if there's anything I can do for you in life don't hesitate to come to me right away and I will do any thing I can to help, forever in your debt, Davis Motomiya, and darn proud of it.'
" Davis you didn't have to do any thing for me, I was glad to help you in any way I could," said Ash, smiling.
" I know, but I wanted to do some thing to show how I appreciate it," said Davis.
" Well thanks for the gifts, they're great," said Ash.
" Well I'm sorry to say but I have to go now, I'm glad that we can still be good friends when I'm like this. Give me a call when you get your cast off as well, we could have a two on two game of soccer, you and Tai against me and Ken. On the subject of Ken, I have to go, he will be waiting and I promised to spend some time with him today," said Davis as he got up.
" Bye Davis, it really was nice meeting you again, or for the first time, how ever you want to look at it," said Ash, she would have seen him to the door but she couldn't get up.
" See ya around," was the last thing Davis said before leaving.
" So what did she think of the gifts you got her?" Ken asked Davis when they were alone in his room talking about the whole thing from a different point of view.
" She really liked them," said Davis as he leaned into Ken's embrace more.
" Well, it looks like everyone's happy now. Doesn't it feel like a really happy ending to one of the freakiest things that will ever happen in our lives?" said Ken softly.
"Ken, there's a lot of life yet for freaky things to happen in, but yes it does seem like a happy ending, like some one has been controlling us though this whole thing, some all powerful omnipitent being has been controlling our every thought, word and action the entire time," said Davis, looking up at Ken.
" You say such silly things some times, dai-chan," said Ken softly.
THE END!
Takuya: that's it, it's over, no more story ()()cries()().
Bgato: how about a moral for this story?
Takuya: ok, how about; if your going to torture your favourite character for only 160 pages, make sure it has a nice ending.
Bagto: come on, I know you can think of a better one.
Takuya: ok, how about this one; love sees no boundaries and conquers all.
Bagto: better now get some sleep, its 2:40 in the morning.
Takuya: ok, and with out the aid of caffeine, that's will power for you.
