Dark Kiss

Chapter 2: Scent

Taichi finally reached home as he opened the door, stepped inside, then closed it behind him. Hikari wasn't home yet, perhaps hanging out with Takeru for now, which was a relief, he didn't want her to see him like this.
Taichi made his way to his room, closed the door and finally dropped the cape Vamdemon gave him on the floor before taking his school uniform top off and staring at it with a grumbled expression "How am I going to explain this to the principal? I need another uniform but..."

Taichi then tossed his school top aside letting out a long disappointed sigh.
Taichi then reached into his dresser to put on an informal outfit to replace the uniform "Still... I have to tell the others what happened, they'll probably be as confused as I was"

Taichi then picked up his phone, texting his friends to ask for them to come see him at his house, so he could explain to them about what he experienced today with Vamdemon.
After texting them he placed his phone back down on the dresser, soon enough afterwards, hearing Hikari walk through the door "I'm home!"

Hikari called out as she entered the doorway "This isn't going to be easy to explain..."
Taichi thought to himself as he walked out into the living area "Oh, welcome back, big brother"
Hikari gave Taichi a big smile as she greeted him, Taichi stared at her before scratching the back of his head awkwardly, not sure to how to tell her what happened, after all they share a room so she's going to see the cape in there on the floor, and most likely ask a lot of questions that Taichi wasn't sure if he could even answer properly.

"What's wrong, Taichi?" Hikari caught on quickly to her brother's awkward behaviour as Taichi stared at her, placing his hands in his pockets and huffing a sigh "Don't go into our room yet, wait for everyone else to show up, I just texted them so we could talk"

Hikari blinked curiously at Taichi as she slowly looked at the closed door to their room, then back at him again "Is there something in there? Something bad?"
she asked as her expression was now that of concern.
Taichi nodded, answering her question "Everyone is quite familiar with what's in there"

Just then the doorbell rang, both of them looking at the door before Hikari looked back at Taichi and nodded "I'll get it"
Hikari answered the door, noticing that their friends were all there "Oh, welcome everyone, come on in"

As everyone stepped inside Yamato approached Taichi with some concern "You called us here so it must be important, what's wrong?"
Taichi looked around at everyone, trying to figure out how to explain this, he thought he should start with the cape and his uniform. Taichi walked towards his bedroom door and opened it before picking up the cape and his uniform, then bringing them both out "This is what I wanted to talk to everyone about"

Taichi unfolded the cape to show that it was Vamdemon's cape, everyone gasping at the sight "You mean... he's back?"
Sora questioned with concern, Koushiro had other questions however "How did you manage to get his cape?"

This was the part Taichi was going to have trouble explaining, he didn't know what to say, but like how he explained by simply showing the cape, he would do so with his uniform as well.
Taichi placed the cape on a nearby chair before unfolding his uniform this time, everyone's eyes widening even more so this time, Yamato being the first to speak up "You were attacked? by Vamdemon?"

Taichi stared down at his uniform, his eyelids slightly lowered "Yeah, he attacked me... or well... he tried to"
Mimi gave a sigh of relief "So you were able to fight him off with Agumon right?"
Taichi shook his head before looking up at his friends again "No, Agumon wasn't with me"

Confusion overcame everyone as they stared at each other, Jo being next to speak up "Then... how did you manage to escape?"
Taichi put down his uniform before picking up the cape from the chair, staring at it "I'm not entirely sure myself... He tried to assault me, but... for some reason... it seemed like he was struggling with himself, like he couldn't bare to hurt me"

Taichi looked around at everyone again, noticing their confused expressions, he was feeling just as confused as they did however "I don't know why... he seemed desperate to hurt me but... something made him stop..."
Taichi then opened the cape fully to look at all of it "He tore my uniform open as he assaulted me, but... he couldn't bring himself to harm me, he took off his cape and covered me with it, as if he wanted to make sure I wouldn't have to walk home with my shirt torn open"

Everyone was quiet, even more confused and not quite sure what to say "Then" Mimi spoke first "He did something nice for you after... trying to do something horrible... Do you think that maybe he's struggling with himself because he wants to remain a bad Digimon but somehow something inside him wants him to be good?"

Yamato placed his fist near his chin in a thinking manner "He's trying to be evil... but can't bring himself to remain evil..."
"What does this mean then?" Sora asked as she turned towards Yamato, hoping for an answer.
Koushiro's mind was boggled as well, trying to think of a reason, but couldn't quite come up with anything without more answers "Taichi, if Vamdemon is around in our world he obviously came here to cause harm, but if he can't do that, then something is holding him back and we have to find out what that is"

Takeru tilted his head in curiousity "What would we do if we found out what the reason is?"
Koushiro looked at Takeru "Maybe, whatever is holding him back, could help us turn other evil Digimon to good as well, it would be very useful"
Hikari stared at the cape for a long time, somehow something told her it wasn't that easy as Koushiro expected it to be, but which thought did she wish was wrong?

Taichi folded the cape and held onto it "Let's head out to Koushiro's place, he'll be able to figure it out better at his home" everyone nodded in agreement before they all walked towards the door and before long, headed outside.

Vamdemon watched as the sun was going down, sitting on the roof of a building, nowhere too high up however, since fall was approaching the sun was setting earlier than it normally does. He stared up at the sky, constantly thinking to himself about why he did what he did, why he helped Taichi out instead of hurting him, he already knew but he still didn't want to admit it.
Vamdemon's hair blew gently in the breeze as some leaves flew past him, he continued to think about Taichi, his face, his body he had a glimpse of, but could it be possible? Is it possible for a Digimon to fall in love... with a human?

Vamdemon leaned back slightly, crossing his legs while he continued to sit on the small building's rooftop "What is wrong with me?" he questioned to himself, trying to make some kind of understanding of the situation.

"Yeah that does sound very much unlike him, to give you his cape like that"

Vamdemon's widened slightly as he heard Sora's voice, looking towards the direction it came from he saw the group of chosens now walking outside, talking to each other. Looking at Taichi he noticed he was holding his cape, his mind told him to go get his cape back as an excuse to be near Taichi even if for a moment, but could he with Taichi's friends all around him like this?

Vamdemon soon didn't care, he flew off towards them without another thought and before long landed in front of all of them, making them gasp in surprise "Va-Vamdemon!" Sora exclaimed as they all stared at Vamdemon, before changing their stances into defensive.
Vamdemon didn't hesitate to walk towards Taichi, making him back up a bit, however Vamdemon reached for his cape and snatched it out of Taichi's arms, making Taichi blink in slight confusion as he stared at Vamdemon, putting his cape back on him, then flying off somewhere far away.

The gang didn't know what to think just now, what they just witnessed as they all remained silent before slowly looking at each other, their expressions remaining confused "He just... came back to get his cape?"

Koushiro began pondering this event "Interesting, he didn't attack us, he just wanted his cape back"
Yamato looked at Taichi who was still a bit dumbfounded by what happened "Taichi, I'm starting to think you were right, he doesn't seem to want to hurt us this time"

Taichi blinked a couple more times before setting his arms down to his sides again "Yeah..."

Vamdemon landed on another building, this time higher up out of view to sit down on it and watch Taichi and the others continue to walk off to wherever they were now headed. Vamdemon took hold of his cape in his hands, staring at it "I gave my own cape to Taichi, am I a fool for doing so?"

Vamdemon brought the cape to his face, closed his eyes and sniffed Taichi's sent "Taichi..."
However it wasn't long for him to snap back to reality and toss his cape back behind him, feeling a little disgusted that he actually wanted to smell Taichi's scent on it "This is stupid! What the hell am I thinking!?"

Once again Vamdemon tried to deny his new feelings for Taichi, but now that his cape had Taichi's scent on it, it was much harder for him to forget about it "I made a terrible mistake..."
Vamdemon uttered to himself, feeling slightly defeated but still irritated by his own decisions.

As the gang arrived at Koushiro's place, he walked towards his computer station, turn the set on and began looking up information of any kind he could find.
"Hey Koushiro, maybe the Digimon might know what's happening" Takeru suggested, Koushiro responding shortly after "That's the plan, I'm going to bring the Digimon hear so we can figure this out"

Soon enough Koushiro brought up the screen on the TV, importing the Digimon there. As the Digimon arrived they all one by one jumped out of the screen to greet their partners "Taichi!"

Agumon was first to call out as he jumped up at Taichi, hugging him, Taichi smiling and returning the hug "Hey Agumon!"
Tailmon went over towards Taichi and sniffed him, Taichi stared at her as she sniffed him before she looked up at him, concern on her face "You smell like Vamdemon"

Taichi put Agumon back down before sitting down on a nearby couch "I know, I'll explain everything to you, we were hoping we'd get some answers from you"

After a short while of Taichi explaining what happened, Tailmon stared at Taichi with disbelief "He was nice to you? He even gave you his cape?"
Taichi nodded "Yeah, we don't know why he couldn't bring himself to hurt me, but he simply couldn't"

Tailmon was also very much confused, she tried to think hard about it but couldn't come up with anything "This kind of behaviour is very odd for Vamdemon"

Mimi was next to sit down across from Taichi, looking at Tailmon "So... you don't know what could have changed in Vamdemon?"
Tailmon shook her head, her expression upset "I'm not sure, even for me this behaviour is odd coming from Vamdemon, he's usually very sadistic and cruel"

Taichi stared down at his legs as he leaned back against the couch, pressing himself against it "What on earth is going on?"

(Author's note: Hey! We are at chapter 2 now! It seems everyone is getting desperate, including if not especially Vamdemon! See you in the next chapter!)