A.C.: Midterms are over whoo!
Disclaimer: I still don't own Digimon
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The waters whisper against his skin promising things great and old but above all acceptance for who he is.
He travels through the waters never getting anywhere, seeing beneath the beneath without realizing what he is looking at. He wonders if time flows in this place for nothing had changed since he came and went and come back again. He feels the gold sand beneath his talons, sees the black grains and the pale gray sky that looks like a mirror at the right angle.
There is a tower there he hasn't seen before, a tower that proclaims the powers of a self-made emperor of the digital realm.
No one really cares; it does not affect them in any way or shape.
They see the efforts of a fool trying to claim what he cannot.
For there is only one master of the Dark Ocean and he shall not be a mere human...
The digi-core upon his brow pulses a bloody red.
He grins briefly before slinking away into the deep waters once more.
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Taichi drinks his third cup of coke.
Jyou yawns and covers it up with a hand.
Koushiro was fiddling with his laptop.
"Sorry I'm late!!"
Sora pushes Tai over and slumps down on her seat panting. She pulls her sports bag onto her lap and orders a drink.
Tai cannot take it any longer.
"Alright Koushiro you called us all out here, what's going on?!"
"Taichi, sit down!" Jyou hisses, tugging on the goggle-head's sleeve.
Everyone in the café turns to look at them.
Taichi sits down blushing at a particularly hard glare from the shop's owner.
"Well I see our fearless leader hasn't changed a bit."
A familiar blonde saunters up to the group.
Koushiro looks up and grins.
"Yamato?!"
"Oh my gosh it is really you!"
"Waitaminute, who's Yamato?"
Everyone face-faults.
The blonde takes off his shades.
Tai's eyes bulge.
"Holy... Matt?!"
Tai's cup goes flying into the air as Taichi launches himself into a tackle-hug.
"Hey watch the hair!"
"You're back! When the hell did you get back?!"
A shadow looms over them.
The brunette junior notices the still silence.
The shopkeeper is tapping his feet against the coke riddled floor.
"Ahem."
-x-
They couldn't act until they knew what they were doing.
They had no idea what they were doing.
There assailant was an old Lynxmon, blind and arthritic with advanced age. His fur was of faded saffron, his violet stripes a drab gray. A mark of courage was stamped on his hindquarters but really, what was so courageous about attacking the innocent?
The chosen scrambled to his knees, his squalling partner tucked firmly in his arms.
His hat flew off his head and the attacking Digimon played with it for a while, biting at the warm scent of the boy lingering upon the green cloth before tossing it away.
The blonde lets out a scream when their attacker pins him by his legs.
The exposed skin is immediately burnt.
It peels off to reveal raw nerves and pink flesh. It looks and smells like cooked meat.
Patamon struggles out from beneath the boy and launches his assault.
The Lynxmon swats him away easily and pins him to the ground with one enormous paw. The orange-red flame drips onto the goldenrod fur and burns it into deep brown. The blonde watches in horror, helpless under the feral Digmon's blind gaze.
'Lethimgolethimgolethimgo!!!'
The Lynxmon throws Patamon in the air, mouth agape to receive him when the forces of gravity called back to the young rookie.
The frantically boy throws the digi-egg at the Lynxmon's face.
The golden not-egg disappears into the red-lined throat along with Patamon.
Feathers he thinks,
Piles and piles of rainbow feathers floating in the air.
Ripples of silver fill his vision.
And a pair of sea-colored eyes too large and innocent looking to be his own stormy blue.
It might have just been Gennai.
He really doesn't remember a thing after that.
-x-
"He's sick. He's been like that ever since we got back. It's like the time you told me about your little sister Tai. I don't know what happened then and now. Something went wrong, I don't want to say it but something really went wrong. It's like he's not all there you know? I can help but feel... what if we left something important behind back there?"
-x-
"The digi-port is open."
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He leans against the rim of the toilet. His breath comes out in short bursts of nothings as he hiccups and bows over the toilet bowl once more.
In a rush of stinging acid, his uneaten lunch floats on top of the water in the toilet.
Takeru shakily flushes the toilet.
He sees himself in the mirror, wide-eyed and pinched looking.
The skin is stretched too tightly over his face.
He can no longer tell who he is supposed to be.
He opens the bathroom door a little and immediately closes it when the warm scent of soup and reheated meat floats in.
His hair sticks to his neck as he throws up again.
He wipes his lips and rests his head against the seat.
He imagines, as the water flushes down, a familiar face and gray waves.
He realizes he can't do a thing about it.
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"Had a nice day boys?"
"It was ok." Yamato shrugs nonchalantly.
Takeru wishes he could be like that.
So graceful looking without a hint of effort on the other's part,
He could have watched Yamato forever.
"What about you Teeks? How was your first day of school?"
"Oh it was ok." Takeru frowns debating whether or not to talk more.
Yamato catches the look.
"And...?"
Takeru shrugs helplessly
How can you explain things that are wrong when there were no ways to fix them?
He would keep silent... for now.
"The food was disgusting."
Yamato laughs.
-x-
He can lie that he hadn't expected it
He can like that he doesn't notice the others grow distant around him
He can lie about the malicious smile a girl gives him before pushing him against the door
But he looks sad, feels sad, and can't lie about it when his brother asks.
Yamato looks sad and rubs circles into his back.
They both feel sad now.
It's a sad story.
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A.C.: well I feel sad now... -sneeze-
Uhh, where does Lynxmon's crest of courage go?
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SilverWhiteDragon- I feel sad that Hitsugaya no longer appears in the manga chapters -weeps- there's no point in watching bleach if there's not Hitsugaya :(
Heh, thanks for the revies xd