'No! Hell no!' I thought to myself as my eyes fell upon the person next to Ms. Mizuno. I couldn't believe my eyes. As he spotted my and his gaze started to pierce into me, I kept asking myself the same questions. 'Isn't he supposed to be in the Digital World? What's he doing here? Oh, why me?!'
It was Ken! I suddenly felt weak, like I was gonna pass out. My body started to tremble, although everyone in the room, save for my fellow digidestined and Ken himself, seemed oblivious to that fact. All I could think was that this was gonna be a long day. "Class, this is Ken Ichijouji. But, I'm sure that you all probably already now that. He will be one of the ones observing today. I hope you will all make him feel welcome," Ms. Mizuno continued, completely unaware of the state I was now in.
I jumped slightly as I felt a light hand on my shoulder. I turned my head to see Kari staring straight at me. "Don't worry," she assured me, "We are not gonna leave you alone even a second today."
I breathed a small sigh of relief. "Thanks."
"No prob."
After Ms. Mizuno was finished with the introduction, she directed Ken to an empty desk that she'd brought in and, unfortunately, put right beside me. 'Shit!' was all I could think as he sat down and smiled at me. That smile may have looked friendly to everyone else, but to the other digidestined and I, it was definitely a threat!
I could feel his eyes on me, boring into me the entire day, although I tried to ignore it. My friends all said that they'd stay with me, and sure enough, they never left my sight the whole time. Pretty soon, it was lunchtime. Oh, this was gonna be interesting. I can tell you that much right now.
The others and I all sat down at our usual table. Ken pulled up a chair and sat in between Davis and me. Before anyone began eating or anything, pretty much everyone at the table besides myself shot Ken a warning glare as if to say, "You'd better not try anything while we're here". Then, the usual conversations began.
Crys? ...Crys? ...Crys!" Yolei yelled, trying to get my attention. I'd been reading and, trust me, when that happens, it's kinda hard to get my attention.
I closed the book and came back to reality. "Yeah?" I asked her as I took a big drink of my Yoohoo bottle.
"Pudding!"
At that word, I spit out the drink in my mouth and cracked up laughing. (Me: Pudding! Hahahaha! "She said 'pu' and then 'dding'!" Pudding! Hahahaha! …What? …So, I happen to think pudding is a funny word. So sue me. …What?! …Stop staring at me like that! Will you just read already?!)
Everyone else started laughing at that and Ken was looking at us all like we were completely insane. As soon as I got over my laughing fit, I threw a balled-up napkin at Yolei, which hit her square in the head. "Hey!" was all she said as she threw it back. Pretty soon, we were throwing the thing back and forth like we were playing a game of Catch or Hot Potato. After about 30 seconds of that, the napkin flew over and hit Ken in the face. When that happened, everyone else looked at each other for a second. Then, we just started to laugh our heads off. Let me tell you, Ken did not look amused, though.
As soon as I got over my laughing fit, I looked at him. "Dude," I said to him, "being the Emperor must really take a toll on your sense of humor." Ken gave me a look at though he wanted to kill me, which probably wasn't too incredibly far from the truth. He reached into his backpack, took out a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote something down on the piece of paper. Then, he folded it up and put it in front of me. I took the paper up in my hand and opened it, reading what it said.
"You betrayed me …and I don't accept betrayal…Goodbye, little girl."
My eyes went wide when I saw that. I'd all but forgotten about that in the time since I'd first seen the message. I began to tremble and could feel Ken's gaze on my face. I looked at him; he was smiling at me wickedly. Pretty soon, though, Davis had gotten up from his original spot at the table and had sat down between Ken and me. Then, Kari, who'd been sitting next to me the entire time, put a reassuring arm around my shoulder.
That small encounter left me a little shaken, I must say. Throughout the rest of the day, my friends wouldn't let Ken within three feet of me. I tried to avoid his gaze for the rest of the day as well, but found it hard in my next period class. My language arts teacher, Ms. Meioh (and yes, Meioh as in Trista Meioh, also from Sailor Moon. Again, I just couldn't resist), gave us a small project to do in class; one of those stupid little "getting to know a person around you better" project.
The whole concept was that we had to be paired up with another person in the room and fill out a paper with some questions on it, for instance, "what's your favorite food" type of questions. Pretty much everyone groaned in disappointment at that one. And to top it all off, Ms. Meioh decided that she was gonna pick our partners for us. So, she went down the list, pairing everyone off. Much to Kari's dismay, she got paired up with Davis. And TK and Cody got paired up.
When she finally called my name, I silently prayed that she wasn't gonna pair me with who I knew in the back of my mind that she would. "Crystal, since our guest today is here to see you, why don't you pair up with him on this; give our Mr. Ichijouji here something to do."
I nodded my head at her decision but cursed under my breath. So, we got our papers and started work on the project. About half-way through, though, Ken wrote down the answer to the question I'd just told him and then put the pencil down and stared at me intensely. 'Oh no, this is bad,' I thought to myself as I stared back at him, trying not to show any fear, which was starting to build up inside of me. "Yes?" I got up the nerve to ask him.
He paused slightly before answering my question with one of his own. "Crystal, what makes you think that you can just betray me and get away with it? I mean, you should know me well enough by now to know that I simply cannot allow for such treachery." His steady, expressionless gaze suddenly took on a slight hint of a certain emotion. What was that emotion, you ask? Anger. That's what it was…Anger.
Although I was slightly intimidated by this, I knew that he could do nothing to me there and got up the courage to answer mockingly, "Well, I'm succeeding so far, aren't I? I think that's all the encouragement I need to keep fighting you off. Wouldn't you say so, Pretty Boy?" I ended my statement with a pleased smile at his expression. No longer had it only a slight hint of anger hidden within it. He looked downright pissed now! He didn't say anything to me for the rest of the day; he only gave me really nasty looks whenever I acknowledged him.
Finally, the school day ended and we were finally outta there for the weekend. Everyone else and I all walked to the park, where we usually all went for about half an hour after school. On the way there, I was startled when someone shoved past me roughly, slipping something into my hand as he went by. I looked at the person and found that it was Ken, but he walked away quickly before anyone could say anything to him. After he was out of sight, I looked at what he'd put into my hand. Again, it was that same note…
"You betrayed me …and I don't accept betrayal…Goodbye, little girl."
At seeing it, I simply glared toward where I'd last seen him. He was trying to get control of me. I knew it and sure as hell wasn't about to let that happen…
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A/N: (Looks at the expression the Digimon Emperor is giving her.) No, wait. Let me guess…I'm evil, right?
Digimon Emperor: …Yeah. Yeah, you are.
Isn't it great?
Digimon Emperor: Yeah, great. (Under his breath) About as great as a toothache.
(Eyes glow red for about a second) What was that?
Digimon Emperor: 0o Nothing! Nothing at all!
(Angel look) Thought so…
Digimon Emperor: (Under his breath) Boy, if I could get that book away from that little brat I'd—
(Demon roar)
Digimon Emperor: —Tell her what a wonderful little angel she is. (Cheezy smile)
(Angel look, smiles sweetly) Buh-bye everyone. Chapter 17 is coming soon!