Dark Kiss

Chapter 3: Love And Death

It was dark outside, about midnight as Taichi and Hikari had fallen asleep by now, peacefully, calmly, and in the warmth of their own home.
Just then, the window slowly opened, quietly as if trying not to wake the two, Vamdemon floating inside the room, gently stepping onto the floor and carefully walking towards the beds that kept the siblings.
Vamdemon stared down at the bottom bunk where Taichi lied asleep, staring at his peaceful expression, he leaned down to get a closer look of Taichi's face, his heart beating faster the closer he got.

"How could I have fallen for this man? My enemy, he's not the most graceful person that's for certain, but somehow... I can't seem to stop thinking about him"

Vamdemon thought to himself as he sat down on the side of the bed, staring down at this siren of his, watching him breathe gently in his sleep.
As Vamdemon stared down at Taichi, he couldn't help but want to be closer to him, leaning down slowly towards Taichi's face, closing his eyes and parting his lips slightly, ready to steal a kiss from him...

"Mmn..." Vamdemon jolted back quickly as he heard Hikari mumbling on the top bunk "mmnn... hm?"
Hikari had woken up, believing she sensed someone in the room with them, she looked at the window which was open, the curtains blowing in the breeze, immediately she looked over the bunk to check on her brother, he was sleeping soundly as usual "Was someone... here?"

"That was too close..." Vamdemon huffed in disappointment, now standing on top of the apartment complex "Curses... I forgot his sister is very aware of her surroundings... although I didn't think she would also be at night while asleep"

Vamdemon stared down from the top of the building, thinking about how close he was to Taichi, how he had almost... Vamdemon covered his mouth, averting his eyes slightly "This isn't good..."

Morning came as Taichi got up with a big stretch and yawn, it was the weekend, no school, which Taichi was always ready for when it came to starting his day, however as he placed his hand on the end of his bed he noticed that it was warm, but just slightly, in fact a little dent as if someone were sitting there, it was too big to be his sisters, he stared at it for a moment before brushing it off.

Taichi got up and dressed, walking out of the room and sitting at the dinner table noticing breakfast was already made by his mother. As Taichi grabbed a piece of toast, taking a bite out of it, he noticed Hikari looked a little troubled, swallowing his bread before talking, he tilted his head slightly "Hey, Hikari"

Hikari looked up at Taichi "Huh?" she shook her worries away before responding "Hey big brother, what's up?"
Taichi took another bite of his toast, chewing, then swallowing another piece "Why do you look so upset?"

Hikari averted her eyes slightly, looking at the floor, then the living room, until she finally looked back at her brother again "The window was open last night, I sensed a presence, like someone was in the room with us"

Taichi stopped himself before he took another bite of his toast, slowly putting it down and lifting an eyebrow "A presence? Someone came into our room through the window?"
Taichi recalled the warm dent on his bed, which means that said person was there right next to him while he was asleep, it kind of gave him chills thinking about it, who could it have been?

"I noticed a dent on my bed this morning, as if someone was sitting there, it's still a little warm too so I know it wasn't too long ago" Taichi continued "Maybe..."

Taichi then got an idea, he wanted to be sure of it even though he was a little worried about the end result "Hey Hikari"

"Yes big brother?" Hikari replied, a little curious

Taichi stood up from the table as he looked over at Tailmon, sleeping on the couch "I need to borrow Tailmon for a second"
Hikari blinked "What for?"

"You'll see" Taichi assured as he walked towards Tailmon, gently shaking her to wake her up, doing so Tailmon opened her eyes slightly and slowly looked at Taichi "Taichi? What is it?"
Taichi gave her a serious expression "I need to ask you a favour, could you step into our bedroom and sniff around?"

Tailmon's eyes opened up completely, losing her drowsy expression "Sniff around?" she had a feeling he was worried about Vamdemon again, nodding she got off the couch and walked towards their bedroom, Taichi opening the door for her.
It didn't take long, not even a few seconds for Tailmon to smell the scent of Vamdemon in their room, her ears perking up straight and her eyes widening "Vamdemon was here!?"

Taichi's worries were confirmed "I knew it" he mumbled, Hikari overhearing as she rushed towards the two "Vamdemon came into our room last night?"
Taichi stared at the dent on his bed, his eyes narrowing slightly in concern "He was sitting there... on my bed... next to me"

Tailmon walked towards it, the scent of Vamdemon getting stronger as she approached it, there was no mistake, it was Vamdemon "Why is this..."
Suddenly Tailmon's expression went from serious to worry "It can't be that..."
Tailmon quickly turned to Taichi, staring at him, and him, staring back, wondering what she has to say.

Tailmon's serious expression returned again "Taichi, I think Vamdemon is... I think he's following you"
Taichi's eyebrows rose up in surprise "He's following me? But why?"

Tailmon placed her paw on her chin to think about it "I don't know"
she then turned to look at the window, staring at it for a moment, her eyes narrowing, then staring back at Taichi "Be on your guard at all times, Taichi, I don't know what he's up to, but with him, it can never be good"

Taichi's expression became serious as well, hearing that now he has to be cautious at all times since Vamdemon has been following him, he wished he knew why, he needed to know what kind of danger he was in, he needed to better prepare himself.

Watching the city people walk by, going about their day from above the apartment complex, Vamdemon stood there thinking about Taichi, of all people for his heart to skip a beat to it was that doof, his spunky attitude, his big grin... but whenever he needed to be, he was always brave, prepared, ready to become serious, Vamdemon didn't feel like both sides could coexist but somehow, Taichi managed to make it happen.
Vamdemon then heard a sound off in the distance, looking up he noticed a giant sphere in the sky, as if a Digimon was about to break free from it, he knew this would mean that the chosens would start fighting it off, which means Taichi would be there.

Just as Vamdemon thought of this he heard Taichi yell "Hikari look! It's a giant digital sphere!"
Hikari responded "A Digimon is going to come out of it! We have to hurry and get there!"

"I'll call the others, you get going!" Taichi ordered as Hikari then ran off with Tailmon, Vamdemon watching Taichi text his friends before running off towards the Digimon as well. Vamdemon didn't want to interfere, but something told him that he would be needed there, urgently. He couldn't shake off the feeling, but doing as his subconscious told him too he got up and quickly flew towards the digital sphere "Why am I doing this? Have I really changed because of Taichi?"

Despite not having an answer he hurried towards the sphere and noticed that it had just cracked open, revealing the Digimon inside, an Okuwamon, Vamdemon smirked at this "He won't be too hard to take down"

After a while the chosens had all shown up to attack the Okuwamon "Come on Gabumon!" Yamato shouted "Agumon you too!" followed Taichi, both of them having their Digimon evolve into ultimate forms.
Vamdemon watched from above as Wargremon and Metalgarurumon attacked Okuwamon, his friend's Digimon also joining into the fight as they had evolved into Ultimate as well.

Okuwamon was putting up a good fight it seemed, this Okuwamon seemed stronger than normal somehow.
Okuwamon then blasted a power orb at the chosens causing them to fall back from the blow, but Taichi and Yamato were first the quickly get back up "Get him Wargreymon!" Taichi shouted his demand at his partner, Wargreymon powering up an attack before tossing it at Okuwamon.

Okuwamon however dodged the attack before targeting at Taichi and firing another blast, "Taichi!" Wargreymon shouted as he tried to reach Taichi in time, Taichi then covering himself, bracing for the blow, his friends all calling out to him as well.

Finally the blast hit, but Taichi didn't feel a thing, he opened his eyes slowly only to see that Vamdemon was there! blocking the blast with his cape!
"Va-Vamdemon!?" he shouted in complete shock.
As the blast had dissipated, Vamdemon placed his cape behind him again, staring up at Okuwamon, everyone's jaw dropped at the sight of Vamdemon saving Taichi's life "Vamdemon just..." Sora spoke in disbelief "Saved Taichi..." Yamato continued for her.

Taichi stared up at Vamdemon in similar disbelief "What... Why did you?"

Vamdemon turned slightly to look back at Taichi, his eyes narrowing slightly, before turning to face Okuwamon again, then, flying towards it, all the while Okuwamon charged towards Vamdemon.
Taichi stood back up on his feet as he watched Vamdemon fight the Digimon for them, not believing what his eyes were showing him.

Vamdemon threw an attack at Okuwamon first before it could strike "Bloody Steam!" he shouted as he continuously whipped at Okuwamon, causing the creature to flinch in pain but not for too long, as it attempted to try a counter attack.

Vamdemon caught this attempt ahead of time, throwing another attack "Dead Scream!" immediately he paralyzed his foe, before finally taking the final blow and finishing it off, making the monster disappear completely.
The chosens all stared in awe at what they just witnessed, they couldn't believe everything that just happened, especially Tailmon.

With the battle ending, Vamdemon turned to look at Taichi, both of them exchanging sight of each other, Taichi still staring at him in disbelief, Vamdemon, staring with a stern expression.
Vamdemon felt he was no longer needed for now, with that in mind he flew somewhere far off, Taichi watching him take off after saving him and his team "What the hell... just happened?" Yamato questioned as he approached Taichi, Taichi looking at Yamato, just as confused "I have no idea"

"Taichi!" Wargreymon was Agumon again as he ran up to Taichi and hugged his leg "Agumon, I'm glad you're alright"

Koushiro ran up towards Taichi along with the rest of the group "That took me completely off gaurd" he said "Perhaps he has begun to actually care about us?"

Tailmon was beginning to put two and two together, she couldn't believe what she saw, she couldn't believe even more what she thought was going on "Vamdemon could have died protecting Taichi, he wouldn't have done something like this for no reason..."

Koushiro looked at Tailmon "You mean... he has a motive then?"

Tailmon stared up at everyone, knowing this information is probably going to blow them away "Vamdemon would only protect someone... if he was..."
Everyone stared at Tailmon waiting for her answer "If he was what?"

Taichi urged her as she turned to look at him "Unless he actually cared about that person..." she approached Taichi a bit more "Taichi, this isn't a simple kind of care he feels, him not being able to hurt you, giving you his cape despite it being his only way of having a shield, a risky move in fact, unless he trusted that person, him entering your room last night to sit on your bedside, probably staring at you... then just now... protecting you from Okuwamon"

Koushiro's eyebrows rose up in complete shock as his eyes widened as well "Wait! then that means...!"

Tailmon turned towards Koushiro "Exactly!" then turning towards Taichi again "I think Vamdemon has fallen in love with Taichi"

Everyone stared for a while in complete shock, their eyes all wide and mouths drooped, feeling extremely pale all at the same time before finally they all shouted at once "WHAAAAT!?"
Taichi couldn't even begin to express how he feels now, Vamdemon was in love with him!? "But... He's a Digimon! and... an evil one!" Taichi tried to counter argue "I don't think it matters to him whether you're a human and he's a Digimon, it seems he tried to hurt you because he felt these feelings, probably when he came here and saw you, because he tried to rid himself of these feelings" Tailmon argued back.

Mimi blinked before stepping in "Then that means... He's really fallen in love with Taichi very badly"
Yamato gave Taichi a look of sympathy and concern "That must suck"
Taichi then placed his hand over his forehead "Ahhg! What am I supposed to do about this!?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Koushiro suggested, Taichi frowning at him "Of course not!"
Koushiro cleared his throat before proceeding "Well, get him to openly accept being around you, possibly even getting close with him"
"HUH!?" Everyone shouted in shock at what Koushiro was even suggesting "What are you saying!?" Sora spoke first, Koushiro sighing "Because... Now that Vamdemon has a weakness for Taichi, held be easier to handle, in fact he's powerful so that would be great for us, we can get him on our side"

Mimi then smiled awkwardly "Wo-wouldn't that mean that Taichi would have to accept Vamdemon's feelings for him though?"
Koushiro shook his head "Not entirely, he can allow Vamdemon to be around him more often, since he's not a threat to him anymore, he doesn't have to accept or return his feelings, but he can at least convince him to help us"

Tailmon's expression was now of disappointment "He won't accept that so easily, if you want him to help us he'll want to get something out of it in return, what could Taichi possibly give him other than return his feelings?"

Everyone stared down at the ground, not sure they could think of anything that could be of interest to Vamdemon without risking some kind of conformity from Taichi.

"This is a complete mess..." Taichi muttered to himself, wondering, what should he do now? Now that he knows what Vamdemon has been up to, knowing why he's been acting the way he has.

(Author's note: hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed Chapter 3! more to come soon enough so stay updated!)