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Castles In the Sky- Chp.2 Innocent Until Proven Guilty

"What the hell are you talking about Kouichi! You know that I mean this and-hey! Are you even listening to me!" I yelled. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with him. He just sat there looking down.

"Kouichi! Hey, HEY!" I said pushing him lightly. This was really starting to piss me off. He only moved a little to the side when I pushed him. He was still in his daze. "Kouichi! Hello! What is wrong with you!" I screamed this time. He wouldn't answer me...he just sat there...I was actually scared. He looked up at me after I screamed at him with an expressionless face. He didn't seem like the same Kouichi from earlier on today. And he wasn't.


I looked up at Koji. I couldn't feel anything. I didn't want to feel anything. I was tired of my doubts. I was tired of feeling like everyone was just feeling sorry for me. I was so, so tired. So I gave up.

I succumbed to the pleading arms of Mother darkness. I didn't fight it, I didn't try to still be myself. I just let it take me in completely and finally let me rest.

He was back.


I suddenly felt very afraid of my brother before me. He wasn't the same. He wasn't the Kouichi that I have grown to know and trust. He was that monster again. He was that thing that I would give anything to kill.

He was my enemy.

"Kouichi..." I reached out to touch him, only to have my hand slapped viciously away. He starred at me with the coldest eyes I have ever seen. Kouichi then stood up, and looked down at me.

"I never needed you." he whispered and then digivovled straight into Velgemon, and flew away.


YOU have no say in anything, Kouichi.

ok.

YOU may not and will not stop me.

yes.

YOU are nothing without me. Be respectful.

of course.

Each and every creature that dares to challenge us, deserves to die.

...yes.

THEY should die.


I stayed where I was for a while after Kouichi left. I did nothing to stop him. I didn't want to help him. I just let him leave. I let him become the creature he was. Later on, I finally stood up and went back to camp.

I sat down in front of our dying fire and just gazed at the famished flame. What was I going to do? How I am going to tell everyone what happened? How-

"A penny for your thoughts?" my questions were slammed to a halt by hand on my shoulder. I turned and looked up to see Takuya, in his serious face. This was rare.

"Hey." I said as he went and sat down across from me.

"Can't sleep?" he asked leaning back onto his hands.

"Yeah." I said closing my eyes and sighing. Time for interrogation from the one and only Captain Obvious.

"Hmm."

"You?" I asked looking around at all the other sleeping bodies.

"You woke me up."

I blinked and looked over at Takuya who was starring at me hard, "How did I do that?"

"You think too loud." He said grinning.

"What!" I asked already annoyed.

"Yeah, you think too loud. When you brood like that, it just screams, 'WAKE UP AND COMFORT ME!' " he said with his grin turning into a full blown 'Takuya Super Charm Smile of Idiocy.'

"WHAT!" I yelled and grabbed the closest thing near me, (which was J.P.'s shoe) and chucked it at his concrete head.

"Ahhh! Ok! EWWW! TRUCE! I surrender." he said grabbing a stick and waving it around with and invisible white cloth.

I laughed, leave it to Takuya to get your mind off of things. Maybe I could tell him first.

"Takuya?"

"Hmm?"

"Kouichi is gone." I said, knowing that he would understand what I meant. He could be smart when he needed too. He wasn't the 'leader' for nothing.

Takuya gave a surprised look, and took a glance at everyone else around him, coming up short on one sleeping person. He took a moment before answering me, "What happened?"

I sighed and looked away. "I dunno."

I heard a rustle and then felt Takuya's fist make contact with my face, "What the hell!" I yelled and swung back at him.

"Don't bullshit. Tell me. Don't tell me something and then say 'Never mind.' That bugs me like crazy!" he said crossing his arms across his chest.

"But I said 'I dunno.' "

"Same difference. Now, tell me what happened."


I can't really remember all that happened while he took over. I just sat there and watched. None of it really registering into my mind. It was just so much easier to ignore everything that was going on around me. I felt like a little doll, just sitting there, with no life in my eyes.

Kouichi.

My mind registered and I looked up at the warrior of darkness. His mighty wings spread wide, and his eyes starred right through me. His sharp needle-like beak, inches away from my neck.

We are going to find them.

I looked down to only have it lifted up by a soft hand. The hand belonged to another me. I stood there looking at my other self with a smug look, on my other me's face. My eyes widened at the sight. The other me suddenly pushed me to the ground and kicked me roughly in the stomach.

Now.


"And your sure that was it?" Takuya asked looking at me with his rare serious face.

"Yeah." I told him everything. From when we were sitting together, to what he said, and when and how he left.

"It wasn't just your fault, I think." He said unexpectedly.

"What? What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well, it is your fault...in a way. But it was our fault too. I think...maybe he wasn't completely purified. I dunno. What do you think?" he said looking over at me.

I looked down at my hands, and then to the now dead fire. How was he not fully purified? Was it something we did? "I have no idea. But we need to find him. Like, now."

"Do you really think we need to look for him? When he'll probably come to us, for a different reason?"


D: hi hi! . uh...yeah I like 'She Wants Revenge' it makes me write crazy stuff. R&R.

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