"Addicted"
This is dedicated to Digimon Fan for asking for a Kensuke or Daiken one shot. And yes, I am getting terrible at coming up with new title names. I hope everyone likes it.
There was one thing Ken had planned ever since he had first seen the mahogany haired girl on his monitors when she came to the Digital World and made her blue dragon digivolve, even though it shouldn't had been possible.
He had planned on making her his.
He had used Drimogemon to capture her and had her chained to the side of a cliff, watching her sleep, looking so peaceful and sweet.
Then, when she woke up, she looked just so adorable with that startled look on her face that he had to bite his lip to keep from laughing, but when he spoke, she glared up at him, knowing that he was close to laughing at her.
He loved the way this fire seemed to light up her chocolate brown eyes whenever they were about to battle.
Daisuke groaned as her eyes fluttered open, then she gasped in shock when she saw that she wasn't with her friends, but she was handcuffed to a wall of a canyon.
"Oh great! Was I sleep walking again? Where am I?" she asked.
"You're just hanging out." came a teasing voice from above her.
Daisuke looked up with a glare to see a dark figure standing above her.
"Oh, ha ha. Very funny, I'm busting a gut. Who are you?" she asked as her eyes focussed to see a boy dressed in a blue jumpsuit with a blue cape outlined in yellow and had wild plum colored hair.
She wasn't able to see his eyes because they were hidden by these yellow and purple glasses.
"I'm your worst nightmare come to life. Frankly, I was rather disappointed I was able to capture you so easily." he said.
"Are you the digimon Emperor?" she asked.
"Speaking." he said, mockingly.
"But you're a kid like the rest of us!"
"I'm nothing like you, because if I were, then I'd be the one hanging from a cliff. Which reminds me..."
He snapped his fingers and a wall on the other side opened up and revealed a captured Veemon.
"Veemon!" she cried, worried.
"Daisuke! Hey, great view isn't it?" he said, trying to lighten the mood.
"I haven't had time to look! Quick, armour digivolve!" Daisuke cried.
"Uh, just one problem. Aren't you going to need these to pull off that little trick?" the Emperor laughed holding her digivice and D-terminal.
"Give me back my digivice and let Veemon go! He has nothing to do with this!" she said.
"Yeah right. You've both been trespassing in my garden without my permission. And as your punishment, you'll be forced to watch Veemon become my slave." The Emperor said.
Then, a dark ring appeared and slowly made its way over to the blue dragon, who looked determined to not show any fear, while Daisuke was in a panic.
"No, please, don't!" she begged.
"Ha! You'll never get me to become your slave. You might as well destroy me now and get it over with!" Veemon said with a confident smile.
"As you wish." the Emperor said.
"Hey, take it easy! I was just kiddin'. Come on, old buddy, don't you know a good joke when you hear one? You know, a little comedy to lighten the mood. Haha, funny guy Veemon, huh?" the dragon said with a nervous smile.
"Veemon..." Daisuke said sadly with tears in her eyes.
"I don't hear you laughing now, Veemon." The Emperor said.
"Leave him alone!" Daisuke shouted as the ring got closer.
"Tempest Wing!" someone cried.
Two bright lights shot out and destroyed the dark ring.
"Daisuke, hold on!" Yolei cried, ridding the back of a flying digimon.
"Save Veemon!" Daisuke cried.
The wall behind the blue dragon began to crumble and a yellow digimon came through, carrying Veemon.
"Sorry to burst in on you like this!" he said.
"You could've knocked." Veemon joked.
The Emperor turned and was about to leave, but stopped when he saw a white cat was standing there.
"This litter box isn't big enough for the both of us." She said as Wormmon jumped in front of his master to protect him.
Gatomon then went to attack the Emperor, but Wormmon got in the way, getting hit back into his master, making his human drop the female leader's D-3 and D-terminal and the other girl with lavender hair got them.
"Thank you!" she called up in a teasing tone.
"You're useless!" the Emperor said to the green and purple caterpillar.
"Here kitty!" the Emperor said as he used his whip to grab Gatomon and then used it to fling her over the side of the cliff.
Yolei then got Daisuke down as Gatomon was flung over the ledge and the goggle headed girl caught the white cat as the Emperor called out Snimon, Drimogemon and Mojyamon.
"Here you go." Yolei said, handing the girl her stuff.
"Thanks a lot, Yolei. Now it's time for a little pay back. What do you say, Veemon?" Daisuke said turning to her partner.
"Yeah!" Veemon said eagerly.
"DIGI ARMOUR ENERGIZE!"
"Veemon armour digivolve too...Flamedramon: the fire of Courage!"
"Let's show them what armour digimon can do against the slaves of the Emperor!" Flamedramon said.
The armour digimon fought the digimon and freed them all as the Emperor and Wormmon made their getaway.
Ken sighed as he leaned back against the tree that stood outside his school, letting the memories flood over him.
It's been three years since he was the Emperor and he was a better person after everything that had happened.
Daisuke was a huge part of that.
He knew that he had wanted her to be with him, even when he was evil.
She had stuck by his side after she had given him his humanity back and helped the others to learn to accept him.
Ken stepped out of the taxi that he had taken to get to the soccer game then looked over to the field, ignoring his annoying fan girls and got the surprise of his life when he saw his enemies all there.
He was even more surprised to see Daisuke dressed in the red and white uniform that Odaiba was known for, looking at him in awe and also with that same challenging fire that he loved.
Ken and Daisuke stared into each other's eyes, lavender meeting chocolate for a minute, feeling like an eternity to them as they got lost in each other, but the plum haired boy turned away from it first as he made his way down to the field where his teammates were waiting on him, smiling.
"Hey Ken, glad you could make it." his coach said.
"Sorry I'm a little late coach, I had something to do first." Ken smirked.
"Don't worry about it. I'm just glad you found the time for us at all. Can I put you in now?" the coach asked.
"Sure." Ken nodded; walking out onto the field where he met the female Digidestind he was obsessed with.
"You must be Ken. It's nice to meet you, I'm Daisuke." The mahogany girl said with a sweet smile.
Ken gave grin as he glanced over to where the girl's friends were all cheering for her.
"Go Daisuke!" TK yelled.
"You can do it." Kari said.
"Some nice friends you got there, Daisuke." he complimented.
She gave him a startled look as she recognized his voice.
Then, the referee blew the whistle and Ken started getting into the game, running past the girl, his side gently brushing against hers, causing her to shiver at the touch as he stole the ball and quickly kicked it into the net.
Daisuke shook off the shock at the brief touch to turn and look on in surprise at how easily Ken had managed to score that goal.
"Houston, we have a problem." She said.
During the entire game, Ken had out maneuvered the female leader, making sure to tease her by touching her briefly each time he passed her.
He may have teased her a bit too much, because when the final part of the game, he was running with the ball, preparing to make the final goal, but was stopped by the girl pulling a sliding block, surprising him as she accidentally nicked his leg on her cleats and made him trip.
The two got up as the Tamachi team was declared the winners, the girl in red being praised by her teammates, which were all male, by her smart thinking.
The boy in green walked over to his team, frowning at how he had been made a fool of by his enemy and also the fact that she was being covered with other boys.
"Hey, Ken!" he stopped and turned around, masking his expression when he saw Daisuke was running over to him with concern written clearly on her face.
"Is your leg all right? Sorry about that tackle, I guess I caught you off guard." She apologized softly as she looked down at the bit of blood seeping through his blue sock.
"That's ok, I hardly felt it. Too busy thinking about scouring goals I guess." Ken said with a smile, stunning himself when he found that it was a real smile that he was giving, not one that he always had now a day; those were fake.
"That was quite impressive. Perhaps we'll meet on the battle field again. Until next time, my worthy adversary." He said holding his hand out to her.
She looked at it, a bit confused by his words, but then broke into a cheerful smile and accepted his hand, her smaller, warmer hand feeling so right in his cooler and larger one.
"Yeah, sure." She said with a small chuckle.
Ken looked up at the school as the students were piling out of it, watching as the groups got together and some couples too.
He smiled fondly at them, hoping that the reason he was standing there would hurry up and come out to see him.
He went back to waiting, letting his mind get lost in his memories.
"Digimon Emperor what have you done? Where are my friends?" Daisuke demanded after her friends had been sucked down into the sand below them.
"Your friends as you call them are here with me. Come and see for yourself if you dare!" the Emperor's voice called out smugly.
Daisuke and Veemon ran across the sand and found their friends all tied up with the Emperor standing on the cliff by them.
"Let my friends go! What have you done with them?" Daisuke yelled angrily.
The Emperor smirked as he saw that familiar fire burning in her eyes.
"Take a look! Your friends are at my mercy and so are you." He mocked.
"Daisuke save yourself!" Kari yelled.
"Run! You can still get away!" TK agreed.
"Don't take your eyes off the Emperor!" Cody yelled.
"What are you waiting for? Save me!" cried Yolei.
"Don't worry, I'll think of something!" Daisuke yelled out to them.
"Not so fast, your time is running short. Oops your time is up." The Emperor mocked her as his newest minion Deltamon appeared, looking very ferocious.
"What luck that you all happened to drop by seeing as he needs to be fed. Haha! Beg if you want my mercy….'Please, Master, spare my friends'." He said.
The female leader swallowed her pride.
"…Please, Master, spare my friends." Daisuke said softly.
"What? I can't hear you." The Emperor teased wanting to hear her say it again making the mahogany haired girl and dragon glare up at him.
"Please, Master, spare my friends." She said louder.
Ken mentally winced as he remembered how he had made her get down on her hands and knees and beg him to spare her friends and she had gotten back at him when he was turned good.
"As you can see Deltamon only has three mouths but there are four children. You may have one of them back." the Emperor said stunning her.
"I-I can't c-choose. T-they're all my friends." She stuttered as she looked at her friends all hanging there where Deltamon was, ready to eat them.
She couldn't do it.
She refused to choose between her friends.
"Time's up!" the Emperor said.
"I'm not choosing. Take me instead!" she called making Veemon turn to her in shock while the Emperor smirked in satisfaction, thinking of all the things he could do with her as his slave.
"You think you can satisfy his hunger? Very well." He said, not being serious about having her being eaten.
Deltamon was about to go over and capture the girl, but the ground beneath him collapsed as Digmon appeared.
"Surprise!" he said.
"Daisuke!" the girl and her dragon turned around to see that her friends were all fine as they flew over to them.
"That was a mean trick!" growled TK as the copies of the Digidestinds turned into Bakemon with glowed red eyes and control rings on them.
"Eww! Gross!" Yolei gasped.
"What are those?" Cody asked.
"Those are Bakemon." TK explained.
"He made the Bakemon look like our friends." Veemon said mad that he had upset his partner.
"You…jerk! Veemon, get him!" Daisuke said as the dragon armour digivolved into Flamedramon.
The Emperor glared down at them, about to give out the order for the attack, but he was cut off when he felt himself getting pushed back.
He looked up into chocolate eyes as the two humans slid down the cliff.
"How dare you do that to me! Who do you think you are?" the girl yelled at him.
"It's not my fault you were so easy to play with." He said as they hit the ground.
They rolled away from each other.
"But you're a kid just like me. How can you be so cold?" She asked.
"I'm nothing like you!" he snarled as he lashed out his whip at her.
"Good bye!" he said as she was about to dodge, but was stopped when someone caught the whip.
"Hello." Flamedramon said making his human smile at him.
Flamedramon then jumped up and helped the others destroy the dark ring on Deltamon, making everyone cheer.
"I can't believe the same person made me act like a fool twice two days in a row." The Emperor snarled.
Daisuke looked at him curiously, wondering what he had meant by that and then she saw that he had a cut on his leg, blood seeping through.
"How did you get that?" she asked and then gasped as she suddenly felt sick to her stomach as she came to a conclusion.
"No way. You're…" she trailed off as she looked at him with hurt eyes.
"That's right. None other than Ken Ichijouji." He said taking off his glasses to reveal his face to her and the other Digidestinds.
He then took his leave, but couldn't help to feel his heart clench painfully when he saw the look of pure heartbreak and betrayal on Daisuke's face as he left.
There were plenty of more run ins with the Digidestinds after that and Ken couldn't help but feel truly awful when he saw the anger that burned deeply in Daisuke's whenever she saw him.
But that's what it was.
There was always anger…but never hate and that made him wonder why she could never hate him for all of the things he had done.
After the he was saved from the evil of being the Emperor and he had gotten Wormmon back, Ken was just walking home from a normal day at school, where all the teachers and students were surprised to see that he was falling behind in his studies and sports.
He had figured that all that advanced natural talent came from when he was the Emperor and he was happy that it was slipping away.
While he was walking home, he did not expect to see a certain mahogany haired girl standing on the bridge waiting for him with a cheerful smile in place on her lips.
"Ken!" she called.
He looked at her in shock.
"Hey!" she waved, smiling.
"So what brings you all the way out here? Did you come to remind me I'd been a bad boy?" he asked.
"Come on, Ken. You've done some pretty rotten things, but you're not an evil person." she said.
"I'm not?" he asked surprised.
"Nope. The person who designed the school's lunch menu, now that's an evil person." She joked with a small laugh, hoping to lighten the mood, but after a few awkward second of silence, she stopped.
"That was a joke, Ken." She said.
"Sorry, I guess I haven't really been in a joking mood lately." He said.
"That's OK." She said.
"Look, I have an idea. Why don't you come with me? You can meet my friends and tell them you're sorry." She said with a confident smile.
"But why? They hate me!" he said.
"They don't hate you, Ken. They just don't understand you! I know you're sorry for what you've done, but they don't." she said.
"What makes you so special?" he asked.
"I never said I was special. I just think you're better than you're giving yourself credit for." She said making his heart soar at how much faith she had in him.
"I'm not sure." He said feeling conflicted.
"Look, the Digital World's been pretty freaky lately. We need your help! After all, you're one of us Digidestinds." She said making him gasp and look at her for the first time since they had moved to the lake below the bridge to speak.
"Me? A Digidestind?" he asked making her nod enthusiastically.
"That's right. Just one big happy family!" she smiled.
"I don't know. Thanks Daisuke. I appreciate you being honest with me, but it just won't work. I can't join you." He said shocking her.
"What? What do you mean?" she asked him.
"I just can't. Sorry." he said, leaving.
"Ken, where're you going?" she called.
"Come on, Ken! We can be your friends! Don't turn your back on us! Please!" she called.
Then there was the time where things really changed them both.
"Do you have your Crest?" Daisuke asked running over to him.
Ken held out his hand showing it to her.
"Great, hand it over." she said reaching out her hand, but the child of Kindness closed his hand over it.
"What do you think you're doing, Daisuke?" Ken asked.
"Saving the world!" she said.
The base behind them let off another explosion.
"This is my responsibility. I don't want anyone else to get hurt because of me!" Ken said.
Stingmon flew in overhead.
"I can take this from here." he said.
He was about to get hit by Ookawamon, but Ex-Veemon helped him.
"Are you nuts? He's an Ultimate!" Ex-Veemon said.
"So? I'll do this alone." Stingmon said.
"What are you trying to do? Get yourself killed?" Daisuke yelled at Ken.
"That's a genius move!" she quipped sarcastically.
Ken's head was hung down, his shame, guilt and hatred for himself shown on his face.
"It's my base, my Crest and my fault. No one else is going to die for my mistakes! Understand?" Ken demanded.
"We know the risks." Daisuke said gently.
"Have you forgotten? I was the Digimon Emperor! I was a monster!" Ken began to shake from his emotions.
"And I am as guilty as Ken. I didn't stop him!" Stingmon said.
"You two need to chill." Ex-Veemon said.
"The only way I'll feel like a human again instead of a monster is to erase all trace of my evil. To fix things. And the only way to do that is with my own hands!" Ken said fists clenched.
"But Ken..." Daisuke trailed off worried.
"He still has nightmares. Horrible ones! But then, mine are worse." Stingmon said.
"It doesn't matter what happens to me as long as I can accomplish my goal!" Ken said feeling confident in his words.
"ENOUGH!"
Daisuke slapped the child of Kindness across the face, shocking him by her anger.
"What are you talking about? I'm not gonna let you do this, get it?" she yelled looking scared for him and mad that he would so easily give his life away.
"What about the people who care about? And your digimon? How do you think they'll feel if you just disappeared?" she asked making him look at her in wonder as he thought it all over.
"Don't give up. LIVE. That's the only thing you can do to make up for it all is to live and fight." She said.
"Daisuke is right. I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I know that throwing your life away won't solve anything." Ex-Veemon said making Stingmon think about this.
"Hmm. I guess you're right. We really haven't been thinking this through." He said.
"So what are you gonna do about it now, huh?" Daisuke asked.
"But…Daisuke…" Ken trailed off unsure of what to say as he took in her words.
"Just don't give up. Because your parents and partner aren't the only ones who will miss you." She said with tears shining in her chocolate eyes making his eyes widen at that.
"Daisuke…"
Just then, there was a teal glow that came from both their pockets, so they pulled out their D-3s to see that they were shining with that same light.
They both then heard and felt two hearts beating and looked at each other as they realised that it was their hearts that they could feel and hear.
Their digimon were soon covered in that very light and it made them transform into an Ultimate level digimon named Paildramon and he easily took down Ookuwamon while they ran inside to shut down the base.
"Ken!" a voice cried out, snapping the plum haired boy out of his memories.
He looked over to the side and smiled lovingly when the source that had triggered his memories ran over to him and threw herself into his arms.
"Hey." Daisuke said.
"Hello." Ken said.
"You weren't waiting too long, were you? Because if you were, then it was all TJ's fault. I'm tellin' ya, that guy doesn't know when to shut up. He was freaking out over his date with some girl, I just told him to go ask Yolei for advice." The mahogany haired girl said as she pulled out of the embrace and allowed her boyfriend to lock arms with her as they began walking.
"That may not have been a good idea. Remember when I asked Yolei for help on asking you out?" Ken asked making them both grimace at the thought.
"That was so cheesy. I would have been fine if you had just come out and said it. Roses and chocolates and chick flicks? Not all girls are into that type of stuff." Daisuke said as they walked to her apartment to spend the rest of the evening together.
"It helped me, though. It made you come up to me, straighten me out and just tell me how you feel." The child of Kindness said as he gazed down at her lovingly.
She looked up at him with that fire he loved to see and she used her other hand to grab the collar of his school shirt.
"You're lucky I even bothered." She said as she pulled him down to her and their lips met.
He smiled into the kiss as he pulled her soft, warm body closer to his, feeling their hearts beating together as one as they melted into each other.
There were people who were staring at the couple, mainly because they thought they saw a pretty teal light flickering around them, but mostly it was just an old couple that were touched by the sight of the young ones that were so in love and enjoying their lives.
Ken and Daisuke pulled away, both smiling with flushed cheeks.
"We should get going. We don't want to miss the monster movie marathon you wanted to see." The young man said.
"Try not to freak so much when we watch 'Ginger Snaps', OK?" the chocolate eyed girl teased as she took her lover's hand and started leading him back to her house.
"I didn't freak." He said pouting.
"You freaked." She said.
"I did-"he was cut off as she quickly turned around and kissed his lips, silencing his protest.
"Yes you were and it's adorable that you try to act all brave for me. Besides, I like it when you freak." She said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and teasingly brought her lips closer to his, but didn't allow them touch, her sweet warm breath making him grip her hips in anticipation.
"It gives us a chance to be closer." She whispered with a smirk as she then pulled away and ran.
Ken blinked twice in surprise, then cursed his playful girlfriend before he chased after her.
Daisuke had always been his obsession, but he was happily addicted.
The end.
