"Hum?" Takeru tilted his head at Mizumi's voice.
"You smell like a horse..." the girl said smiling weakly, confused as she was in that very moment.
"Oh!" Takeru gasped alarmed, his cheeks flushing with shame, "Sorry. It comes with the change." The boy explained shrugging shyly.
"No, I don't mind it, I just found it funny." Mizumi said with a bright smile, glancing at Takeru with a light in her eyes he had never seen before.
"Lets go out, I think the danger is over." Takeru said with a smile, placing a hand on her shoulder and beggining to walk away.
The two pushed open a rather large and heavy wooden door. After various shrieks, they were able to open a gap large enough for the two to fit through. The garden in which they appeared was beautiful. The trees were naked, and their trunks were silver and black from the cold. Various blue pine trees stood here and there, and were starting to be decorated with colourful lights and funny looking balls. The wind blew, and although the day was gray, it was refreshing. Mizumi closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling of her hair being ruffled gently by the wind's caring hands.
"This is beautiful!" she exclaimed, stepping on the stone floor and dancing around the small bushes.
"Do you like this false sensation of normality?" Takeru said with a gentle smile, taking a peek around knowing it was a common passing place.
"It is refreshing escaping reality fro time to time, Takeru sempai." Mizumi said with a gentle smile, taking a strand of red hair out of her eyes.
"Call me Tk." The boy said with a smile, placing her fisherman hat deeper in his head.
"All right, Tk." Mizumi said with a gentle smile, while Takeru's eyes glimmered brightly.
"This place is one of the few I know where electronic can't harm us." Takeru commented, staring around.
"Yes. By the way." Mizumi said calmly, approaching the boy with an innocent expression in her face.
"Hum?" Takeru's attention was called, and his crystal blue eyes were focusing on Mizumi.
"What you did today was impressive. How did you manage it?" Mizumi was staring at Takeru with bright eyes.
"Oh, that. Well, you can do it too, with practice, just the same as your normal attack." The boy said with a smile, scratching the back of his neck.
"Why do we become this... creatures?" Mizumi inquired curiously, motioning with her gaze up and down Takeru's body in a way it made him blush.
"W... well." Takeru stuttered, ruffling his golden hair, "we are half digital, and have some relation with the Digital World, so, the same as our attack, we inherit some Digimon traces." He explained looking at the sky, relaxing visibly, then motioned to explain what Digimon and the Digital World were.
"I know all about that. My father told me when I was a child." Mizumi said smiling with nostalgia.
"Yeah, well, Izzy would explain this things better than me. I was never the brainy type." Takeru explained with a goofy smile.
"Tk. Do you still love her?" Mizumi inquired suddenly, looking down and leftways sadly.
"What?" Takeru was taken off guard by that sudden question.
"I asked if you still love Kari." Mizumi looked tense upon repeating the question. "Why? Why does it hurt so much asking him something so vanal?" Mizumi thought.
"Well, I loved her for a long time, and as you might know, it's hard to forget deep love." Takeru said casually, staring at the grey ceiling.
"No, please, no. Don't say that." Mizumi found herself thinking desperately, as her eyes raised to stare at Takeru's distracted face.
"But Hikari managed to change completely my love for her into sadness and anger. She betrayed us, let herself be tempted by the sweet hands of darkness, and raised her weapons against us. Most important of all, she would be able to destroy her daughter without any second thoughts." Takeru's voice was furious at those thoughts, and his eyebrows narrowed angrily at the sky.
"I'm so sorry, Take... Tk." Mizumi said holding his hand gently.
"Mizumi... why did you ask?" the boy asked as his blue eyes looked down to focus into her black ones.
"Why did I ask?" Mizumi thought as a faint blush began to crawl up her cheeks, "I'm not sure, why would I care if Ta... Tk still loved Kari? Well, obviously I care because he is my friend, and I worry about him. But is there more to it?" the girl thought, not staring at him at all.
"Mizzy?" Takeru said suddenly, making Mizumi tense abruptly, and stare at Takeru as if he came from another planet.
"Don't call me Mizzy, please. My father used to call me that." Mizumi said looking at the floor and rubbing the stones with the point of her boot.
"Mizumi, I'm sorry." Takeru placed both hands on the woman's shoulders, "But Izzy is alive!" he said brightly, looking into Mizumi's eyes sincerely.
"What?" Mizumi said weakly, looking up to meet the boy's blue eyes. There was truth written in them, and a joy that made him glow.
"He is a Digi for the Alpha group. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, but I had to make sure you were comfotable with yourself, and ready to understand." Takeru said looking gently, and lovingly at Mizumi.
"Oh... Tk." Mizumi's lips broke into a vast smile, and tears began to fall down her cheeks in rivers.
The girl stared at Takeru for several second, happy like she had never been, and more grateful than ever. Sure, she had been a bit annoyed at not knowing this before. Inmediatly, though, she had forgiven the boy as she saw his gentle eyes, and the caring she sensed in him. Mizumi embraced him tightly, and felt him shudder for a moment, before returning the hug with delicacy.
"Thank you..." Mizumi said resting her head on his chest.
A rather violent gust of wind blew abruptly, all of a sudden. Takeru's fisherman hat was blown away from his head by such gust of air, which still persisted with some interest. As Takeru extended his hand in a futile attempt to hold the retreating hat, Mizumi turned to see the white thing rolling across the ground playfully. Without second thoughts she ripped her arms off Takeru's body and trotted towards the hat, fishing it with ease.
"She is beautiful..." gasped Takeru upon seeing the woman's face being framed by her dancing, flaming hair, and her black eyes smiling at him.
Upon catching the hat, Mizumi turned around to face Takeru. The boy's golden hair was being ruffled wildly about. The slightly long strands crowned his head, making his look more childish and innocent than he had been to Mizumi. It was the first time Mizumi saw him without his faithful hat, and she realized he was more handsome she had ever thought. The way his hair was brushed, without a single order, wild and savage, gave him a boyish look. Mizumi never knew what came over her that moment, but she felt like she had never felt before.
"I love you!" she yelled over the wind, smiling at Takeru and placing her hands over her skirt, which was flapping wildly.
Takeru gasped, tensing completely as he heard Mizumi's words being blown at him. The moment was glorious, a time for themselves, for their truth and their reality. It wouldn't last long, as their gift and their curse were to shatter their wonderful world.
To Be Continued...
AN: Well, there comes something else about the story. Like it? No? I am truly enjoying it, and I'm trying to finish all my stories, more exactly Origins in Darkness, this one, and probably The Last Wizard. Anyways, I've got really good ideas for this story, but I think the end is rather predictable. Anyways, please, review and tell me what you think about this. If you don't want to review, worse for you since I'll never get to know you, and I'll never check your stories. I do that, really. I'm that curious. Well, thank you to all reviewers.